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Antje Duvekot (web photo courtesy of overtheline.com) Poet and folksinger Antje Duvekot, winner of the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act of the Year, will perform in the Urban Village Artist Series (UVAS) at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival on Friday, Oct. 1, at 8.30 pm at the Old…
Read More »Tom Perrotta Notable fiction writers Ann Hood (“The Red Thread”), Tom Perrotta (“Little Children”), Anita Shreve (“A Change of Altitude”), and Andre Dubus III (“The Garden of Last Days”) will talk about “Art and Commerce” at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival…
Read More »News Release from Preservation Massachusetts, Old City Hall, 45 School Street, Boston, MA 02108, 617-723-3383, www.preservationmass.org Contact: Jim Igoe or Erin Kelly, 617-723-3383 PAWTUCKET DAM LISTED AMONGST MASSACHUSETTS’ MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC RESOURCES: Landmark 19th Century Dam Facing Irreversible Damage in Proposed Hydroelectric Project “The Pawtucket Dam in Lowell has been…
Read More »From AOL News, here’s a summary of six items related to the new health care reform legislation that are set to take effect in about a week. Read the news item here.
Read More »Lowell’s own Roger Brunelle, who invented the guided tours of Kerouac’s literary sites in Lowell, will lead several tours during the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, including “Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night” on Friday, Oct. 1, at 6.30 pm. Explore many of the locations written about…
Read More »Alan Lightman of MIT, the author of the best-selling “Einstein’s Dreams” and other works will read from “Mr. g: A Novel about the Creation” on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 3.30 pm, in Alumni Hall, One University Avenue, on the North Campus of UMass Lowell. Last May, Lightman received an honorary…
Read More »I was in Boston yesterday for the fall meeting of the Governor’s Creative Economy Council. I’ll report on that in a later post, but want to mention that I passed by the Museum of Fine Arts and saw the red cloths covering the newly inscribed stones on either side of…
Read More »No, this is not Brew’d Awakening on Market Street on a Thursday night. It’s Syria. The NTimes online today has a lead story on a literary freedom outpost in Damascas, where poets and writers stand up and speak freely at the House of Poetry, where the posters on the wall…
Read More »Acclaimed author Russell Banks will talk about Jack Kerouac and read from his own fiction on Thursday, Sept. 30, 7 pm, at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. His novels include “Continental Drift,” “Affliction,” “Cloudsplitter,” and “The Reserve.” A book-signing will follow. Admission is free for students and seniors;…
Read More »The NYTimes today reports that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg may become an important factor in the mid-term election coming in November. He is backing candidates from both major parties whom he believes are sensible persons capable of compromise in the interest of solving problems and moving the nation forward. Read…
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