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Here’s my account of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue performance in the Costello Gymnasium of the University of Lowell on November 2, 1975—PM Dylan was excellent in Lowell last night. Baez was superb in Lowell last night. The Rolling Thunder Revue was really something in Lowell last night. Dylan, the singing poet…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
Read More »AOL Science has a link to stunning photographs being made by astronaut Douglas Wheelock on the International Space Station during his five-month stay. He sends them via Twitter. Here’s the link.
Read More »For details about the December 11 all-day symposium, “Artistic Manifestations in Architecture,” at the Whistler House Museum of Art, visit the Whistler House Museum’s website here. The line-up of speakers includes scholars and architects from Wellesley College, MIT, University of Lincoln in the UK, Roger Williams University, National Park Service, and…
Read More »“Back Central in Black & White, Inside & Out” Photographs by Joe Quinlan Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell On exhibit November 20 through December 30, 2010 Reception: Saturday, Nov. 20, 2 pm — 4 pm A year or so ago, I decided to trace the steps…
Read More ». . . nobody is clear about what sort of country America is going to be in 2030 or 2050. Nobody has quite defined America’s coming economic identity. In thinking about this question, it probably helps to start at the beginning. Five hundred years ago, agriculture was the major economic…
Read More »In today’s Globe, columnist James Carroll asks a relevant question, “Why are outsiders in?”—but he doesn’t really answer. His case in point is the new leader of New York City public schools chosen by Mayor Bloomberg. Read the opinion piece here, and get the Globe if you want more.
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