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Kendall Wallace of the Sun kindly mentioned in today’s Saturday Chat column the progress being made by the Greater Lowell Music Theatre, another piece of Lowell’s creative-economy puzzle that has been put in place. There are audience niches yet to fill, as the GLMT experience demonstrates: 1,200 people in two…
Read More »In the past few years at the Lowell Summer Music Series at Boarding House Park, I have been struck by the superlative musicianship of the artists presented by the organizers, Lowell National Historical Park and the Lowell Festival Foundation. Night after night the featured artists and their bands demonstrate the…
Read More »The media coverage of family friction involving the owners of the Market Basket supermarket empire sent me back in the Time Tunnel to the mid-1960s, maybe 1965, when the Ford Mustang was the sports car of the moment (the model had been unveiled at the 1964 World’s Fair in New…
Read More »Jack Neary is one of our contributing writers at rh.com. We cross-post his blog entries, but he hasn’t been blogging a lot because he has been busy inventing a regional music theatre group, among other things. This past weekend, more than 1,200 people attended two outstanding performances of “Guys and…
Read More »The game today is in the bottom of the tenth inning in Oakland. No matter how today’s contest turns out, the Red Sox have had a productive first half of the season. Few of us in Red Sox Nation expected them to be in such a strong position at the…
Read More »Paul McCartney read aloud a sign down front in the crowd that summed up the situation nicely: “Macca-holics: There Is No Cure.” First, I will post Sarah Rodman’s exuberant Boston Globe review of Tuesday night’s concert at Fenway Park, and then will offer my thoughts. Web photo by Barry Chin…
Read More »The Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its Tanglewood season this past week, and my wife and I were lucky enough to attend Sunday’s performance by the Pops Orchestra with a special guest, Country music star Vince Gill. We had not been to a concert in the Berkshires for about 20 years,…
Read More »Reporter Joel Kost in today’s Sun newspaper puts some gas in the tank of a long-time effort to get the US Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp in honor of author Jack Kerouac. One of this blog’s loyal readers, Dean Contover, has been leading the stamp charge for about…
Read More »OK, after 21 years living in the same house with the same yard and the same tall trees, a new scourge has appeared: squirrels getting under the hood of our cars and chewing the electrical wires that make the engine start and the car go forward. Twice in a week…
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