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Completing a 24-0 undefeated season, the UMass Lowell field hockey team today beat Shippensburg 1-0 to win the NCAA Championship in Kentucky. They are the Division II National Champs. Read the UMass Lowell Athletics Dept. report on the game here. Web photo courtesy of UMass Lowell Athletics
Read More »This morning’s bloggers’ meet-up at Top Donut in Centralville exceeded my expectations. People arrived before 9 a.m., and the crowd grew to about 50, according to Dick’s count. It was a high spirited bunch of writers, readers, photographers, designers, and comment-makers. People stayed until almost 11.30 a.m., well past the…
Read More »Next week will mark 30 years since the death of John Lennon, so it’s worth reflecting on the lasting goodness of his legacy as an artist and the endurance of The Beatles’ music. T-Mobile in April 2009 organized a meet-up/flash mob in Trafalgar Square, London, for a “Hey Jude” sing-along. People were told it…
Read More »One of our regular readers forwarded this notice about a poetry benefit event in Cambridge. Some of the poets involved have read recently in Lowell at the Kerouac Literary Festival and Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Sales of the anthology will support the work of Partners in Health in Haiti, which was…
Read More »NYTimes op-ed contributor Timothy Egan sizes up the memoirs of author/political commentator Christopher Hitchens and musician Keith Richards. Read his column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Combined choirs and volunteer singers will present Handel’s “Messiah,” ending with the “Hallelujah” chorus, tonight at 7.30 pm in Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder Street, UMass Lowell South Campus. Free and open to the public. Parking available in the lot at Wilder and Broadway. Don’t miss this. A brief, informal,…
Read More »In my post of 11/29 about the Celebrate Giving philanthropy event of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, set for 12/6, I listed the many Philanthropist Level Sponsors of the event but somehow missed acknowledging the prime event sponsor, Enterprise Bank (EB). My apology to the folks at Enterprise Bank and…
Read More »With a win over Stonehill College in Kentucky today, the women field hockey players of UMass Lowell earned a place in the national championship game on Saturday. Get the details on today’s game and info on the championship game coming up here courtesy of UMass Lowell Athletics. UML’s Katie Enaire…
Read More »Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Or should I say nothing new about what we think we know under the sun? Remember when Carl Sagan used to say “billions and billions” in his unmistakable voice? Scientists from Yale and Harvard now say there are three times as many…
Read More »Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, this week wrote about wealthy Americans who are saying they are more than willing to pay their fair share of taxes, and a little more if needed. Read her column in The Washington Post here, and get The Nation if you want more. I picked…
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