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Nancye Tuttle calls “The Exceptionals” which is at the MRT through March 6, “Funny, poignant, heart-breaking, disturbing” and says it’s a play that shouldn’t be missed. Here’s the setting: Set in the office and waiting room of a prestigious sperm bank, we meet two moms – Gwen and Allie –…
Read More »Despite this morning’s snow, all indications are that spring is just around the corner. Once the nice weather arrives, you might want to check out Lowell’s Public Art Collection which is scattered throughout downtown. It’s fitting that a city with the motto “Art is the Handmaid of Human Good” have…
Read More »George DeLuca of cometolowell.com says get your Jack-hats on for the Kerouac party coming in March, which is previewed in a recent radio interview with grandmaster musician Dave Amram: “There’s a David Amram interview on ‘Blues and Beyond’ radio with Dick Lourie, both of whom will be playing at ‘Jack’s…
Read More »Coffee is my beverage of choice. I drink it black with no sugar, a habit I picked up in the army decades ago. At home, I make do with Maxwell House French Roast brewed in a Black and Decker single cup device, but the end product there lags far behind…
Read More »Dana Gioia, poet and former boss of the National Endowment for the Arts, many years ago wrote a book titled “Does Poetry Matter?” The inside back page essay in yesterday’s NYTimes Book Review by Robyn Cresswell (poetry editor of The Paris Review) had this to say about “Egypt: The Cultural…
Read More »Sarah George Bagley (1806 – 1884) Sarah Bagley – Lowell mill girl, writer, labor activist – was born in New Hampshire on April 19, 1806. Historian Tom Dublin writes of Sarah Bagley – “she was one of the most important labor leaders in New England during the 1840s. An outspoken advocate of shorter…
Read More »When the pee-wee hockey players poured onto the ice after the first period at the Tsongas Center last night, they looked like bees swarming the face-off circle. There must have been 12 on each side, which made it tough to eject the puck from the scrum that shifted from one…
Read More »Salem, Mass., has a new marketing logo and slogan. Read the boston.com article here, and get the Globe if you want more.
Read More »Thanks to Cliff Krieger for doing a post about Twitter. Since Cliff mentions me as one who tweets, my intended comment grew into a post of its own: As I said in a comment to Paul’s recent post about blogging, history teaches us that new technology becomes available to us…
Read More »Last year, Harvard undergraduates organized the first Harvard Thinks Big, an opportunity for ten professors from different departments to give talks on a subject they care about. The event was based on the famous TED Talks and was a great success. Harvard Thinks Big 2 was held last Thursday. While…
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