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South Shore native Erica McDermott tells “The Patriot Ledger” that she “really, really” wants her Ward “sistahs” to win the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene! If you saw The Fighter you’ll remember the scene when Micky’s sisters took-on his girlfriend Charlene – brawling on her front porch. McDermott…
Read More »To paraphrase old Walt Whitman writing about “great poets” and repeating a little something that I use at public events, I want to give a shout out to the readers, hundreds of ’em, thousands of ’em, who visit this publication again and again. You complete the loop. Today was a…
Read More »The great Minnesota Twins teams of the mid-1960’s were favorites of mine as epic opponents of the Red Sox. Tony Oliva, Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Cesar Tovar, Ted Uhlaender, Jim Perry, Rich Rollins, and the rest. Rod Carew joined…
Read More »Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
Read More »While the weather certainly hasn’t been conducive to baseball, we are well into the second month of the season. This past Sunday, the Boston Globe travel section did a feature on minor league baseball in New England. I was surprised to find that there are ten minor league baseball teams…
Read More »Don’t miss the book release party for three new books from Loom Press by writers with strong Lowell connections who have created books with strong Lowell content. The event is Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, at O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. Everyone…
Read More »I met John Kerry in Lowell when I was 18 years old, almost 40 years ago. He was running for Congress, and we know how that turned out. Nevertheless, I was impressed then, and I still like what I see most of the time. If someone is going to represent…
Read More »Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th President of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An eminent historian of the Civil War and the American South, Faust delivered the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities earlier this month. The annual lecture, sponsored…
Read More »This is a baseball card that I never owned. Somehow, this one never showed up in a five-cent package of cards when I was 11 years old. The 1965 Topps baseball card series is my favorite for several reasons : the Red Sox line-up of heroes of that time, the design,…
Read More »In a season of commencement speeches, here’s a memorable bit of speechifying from the world of movies: Network Actor Peter Finch in the film “Network,” a role for which he won an Oscar.
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