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Once Upon a Time There Was a Golden Age of Scandinavian Cinema – or Was There? By Malcolm Sharps Malcolm Sharps recalls the films that first drew him to cinema and had an impact on him that no later films could ever have. The importance you allot to those things…
Read More »Sunday, June 18: 12:00 pm Mass in French honoring St. Jean Baptiste. (French/English worship aid provided.) At Immaculate Conception Church, 144 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, MA. Light refreshments and naming of the Greater-Lowell Franco-American of the Year will follow in downstairs church hall. (Stair-free access on Fayette St. for upper-church…
Read More »NOT QUITE READY: A BOSTON STORY A short story of youthful dreaming By Jerry Bisantz Copyright 2023 I must start with this confession: I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. You know Buffalo, right? Butt of a million and a half jokes. Here’s my favorite about my favorite football…
Read More »SCHEDULE NOTE. I’ll be reading poems in the famous Moses Greeley Parker Lectures series on Saturday, April 29, AT 12 NOON (NOT 2 PM), at the Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, next to Lowell City Hall. The menu will include oldies and new work from books like “Union River”…
Read More »Back on March 21, 2023, Louise Peloquin reported on the upheaval in French football, with the coach of the women’s team being dismissed shortly before the start of the World Cup. Today, Louise brings news that the team may have hired its new coach: The French women’s national soccer team…
Read More »Simon Warner, our occasional contributor from England, wrote this review of the book, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground by Steven Taylor (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003) when the book was first published. The review first appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, November…
Read More »Jack Kerouac was born in the Centralville neighborhood in Lowell on March 12, 1922. He pictures his birth in his novel Doctor Sax, one of his “Lowell books.” He would be 101 years old today. His hometown pulled out all the stops last year for a Centennial celebration with a…
Read More »About a week ago, the Boston Globe published an excellent article about street hockey culture in Massachusetts as influenced by red-hot Bruins’ teams going back to the Orr-Esposito Era. Matt Porter of the Globe wondered if the surging B’s of today will pump up street hockey for this generation of…
Read More »The Elusive Nature of British Punk By Malcolm Sharps You say you wan’ a revolution. Well, you know, we all wanna change the world. …
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