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Macbeth @ Middlesex Community College

Coming up Thursday, and through this weekend, the Middlesex Community College Theatre Department will perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This wonderful tragedy revolves around Macbeth’s desire to become king of Scotland and the murderous acts this ambition drives him to. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday December 2 and 3 at…

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Wells, Maine and Sheriff DiPaola

I spent last weekend, including Thanksgiving, in Wells, Maine. You can just image my shock when told that Sheriff Jim DiPaola committed suicide in Wells Friday night. When I heard the news I immediately checked the Internet and discovered DiPaola spent his last moments in Lafayette’s Ledgeview Ocean Resort. The…

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Deval Patrick: Basking in the afterglow of election victory is sweet but short by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Nearly a year ago, I used the word “circling the drain” in writing about Deval Patrick’s inauspicious prospects for reelection. I’m not the only one whose premature assessments proved wrong. Patrick turned around his campaign. And, in the…

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Bob Dylan @ Tsongas Center

Bob Dylan in Lowell on November 20 (Saturday night) performing “Like A Rolling Stone”. What a great song, but this isn’t the way I remember it. Anyway…Dylan’s place in musical history is unmistakable. This video was taken by Citizen Journalist fflbrgst.

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