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George Harrison Bio-Film by Scorsese: First Trailer
Here’s the first trailer promoting the new documentary film about George Harrison by Martin Scorcese, due for broadcast on HBO in early October.
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Lowell-Linked Good News Story Goes National
In the Weddings/Celebrations section of the Sunday NYTimes yesterday, Boston-based NYT writer Kate Zezima reported on the recent wedding in Watertown of Chanda Ouk and Matthew Wolf. Web photo by Jody Hilton courtesy of NYTimes
Read More »E.J. Says to Prez: ‘Go Big’
August 22, 2011
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PaulM
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In his new column, opinion writer E. J. Dionne, native of Southeastern Mass., urges President Obama to roll out a BIG Plan for jobs and real economic recovery that reaches everyone up and down the socio-economic ladder. Read his column here, which I picked up from the Washington Post, a…
Read More »Dickens Bicentenary in 2012
On Facebook, I received a notice about the people at Penguin Books saying they are re-reading all of Charles Dickens’ books in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of his birth next year. 2012 also marks an anniversary of Dickens’ visit to Lowell, which he wrote about in “American Notes.” UMass Lowell,…
Read More »Farewell, Nick A. Mastas, 100 Years Old
There’s an extraordinary obituary in the SUN today, a capsule history of 100 years in the life of Nick Mastas of Lowell. Read the obit here, and get the SUN if you want more. He was born in the back of a buggy, fought as a Ranger in WWII, and worked…
Read More »‘Floatplanes on the Merrimack’ by Richard Marion
“Floatplanes on the Merrimack” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »‘Regatta Cut-Up’
“Regatta Cut-Up” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 For more, www.richardmarion.net
Read More »‘Theeeeey’rrrrrre heeeeeerrrrre!’
Here’s the latest POTUS vacation dispatch from the Vineyard by our faithful, far-flung correspondent, Ray LaPorte. Air Force One flew over Vineyard Haven harbor last evening on a glide path to Otis Air Base. Its shimmering light-blue hull and contrails in the fading sun at 10,000 feet signaled that within…
Read More »Allan Sloan’s Economy Rant
Check out this rant by Allan Sloan of Fortune from cnn.com I spent July on family leave, not writing columns, and watching with increasing horror as market-illiterate know-nothings, abetted by the craven leaders of the Republican Party (from which I’m about to resign) and the unspeakable ineptness of Obama and…
Read More »rh.com Embedded Scribe Files 1st Vineyard POTUS Dispatch
One of our occasional contributors who tracks money, politics, sports, pop culture, Lowelliana, and his own dreamlife (a la Jean-Louis K.) is on special assignment for rh.com while the First Family tries to get a moment of tranquility on “the Island.” Our man on the scene Ray LaPorte from Pawtucketville Nation will file regular posts…
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