Thanks to Dave Perry for posting this scoop on Facebook this morning. The source is deadlinehollywood.com. In the works is another movie based on a novel by UMass Lowell writing professor Andre Dubus III: “EXCLUSIVE: James Franco, whose film As I Lay Dying screens in competition at Cannes next month, has locked in his next…
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US Sen. Kelly Ayotte has to go. The focus is on her now that she voted against gun safety legislation. I say, Pour it on and get her out of there. Here’s her lame defense of a vote against a bill that would help ensure women are treated fairly in…
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“Dillon’s, East Merrimack Street” by Richard Marion, 1978 Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group is sponsoring a Franco-American Festival on Saturday, May 4,in Gershlot (the parking lot at Gershom and University Ave). The purpose of this neighborhood get together is to celebrate the rich Franco-American heritage of our neighborhood. This will be an opportunity to hear from and learn…
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Congratulations and thank you to the many people of all ages who helped build community gardens and cleaned up neighborhoods on a beautiful spring Saturday. I visited the garden-making sites in the Acre, where dozens of volunteers were banging together planting beds, hauling loads of fresh loam, clearing weeds and…
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“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion, Copyright (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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“… The Boston & Maine system, and the N.Y., N.H., & H. Railroad run into and through the city, connecting it in every conceivable direction with the commerce of the world. The city is but 26 miles from Boston, and the trolley lines aid the steam roads in reaching the…
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Web photo courtesy of WGBH 1. On Morning Joe today, Kenneth Feinberg, who has become the guru of victim compensation after unspeakable carnage, commented on the extraordinary charitable impulse of people, Americans and persons from outside the country. He said 50,000 people have contributed to the One Fund for victims…
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Hearing the place-name Kyrgyzstan related to the family journey of the Tsarnaev brothers who attacked Boston made me think of a post I’d written a couple of years ago. I went into the vault to find it, and am re-running it here as an echo from the past and another…
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