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Hot Art Market in Lowell; Creative Economy Shows Strength
LZ Nunn of the City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events reports that the art market in Lowell is surprisingly strong even as the Great Recession holds back the economy in general. Lowell has hundreds of artists of all kinds. Each one is a small business even if that’s…
Read More »Lowell’s Micky Ward Part of Long-term Brain Study
The Arturo Gatti – Micky Ward fight trilogy took place in 2002 and 2003. On WBUR’s “HubBub” Benjamin Swasey writes today of Lowell fighter Micky Ward and his participation in a long-term study conducted by BU’s Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Eventually Ward will donate both…
Read More »Civil War Stamps
In the early 1960s, I was following my father’s lead and collecting stamps. I wasn’t obsessive about it, but I enjoyed the hobby for a while, particularly as the stamps were small windows onto history and geography. During the centennial of the Civil War (1961-65), the US Postal Service issued…
Read More »Whitman and Lincoln
The NYTimes online has an ongoing series about the Civil War, started in anticipation of the 2011 anniversary year when we will see lots of attention being paid to the beginning of the Civil War. This blog has already moved in that direction. Today’s entry at the NYT site is…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle on “Beasley’s Christmas Party”
Nancye Tuttle traveled to the Merrimack Repertory Theatre the other day to see and enjoy Beasley’s Christmas Party which is showing at the MRT only through this Sunday. Nancye liked the play very much, writing on her website that “Beasley’s Christmas Party is sweet, sentimental and a perfect alternative to…
Read More »Six Golden Globe Nominations for “The Fighter”
Actresses Amy Adams and Melissa Leo attend the Cinema Society & Men’s Health screening of “The Fighter” To Benefit The Cinema School at SVA Theater. Made-in Lowell movie “The Fighter” garnered six Golden Globe nominations as announced this morning. The awards to be presented on January 17 are often the…
Read More »Jeopardy’s Lastest Challenge
Scene from “Desk Set” – Spencer Tracy/ Katherine Hepburn movie from 1957. As an almost daily viewer of the iconic game show “Jeopardy” – I have mixed feelings about the lastest announcement of upcoming contestants. According to an Associated Press story, two of the best and most successful past champions –…
Read More »Wahlberg and Bale from “The Fighter” on SI Cover
Marl Walhberg and Christian Bale on Sports Illustrated Cover From People Magazine about “actors as fighters” from Lowell-made movie “The Fighter” on the cover of Sports Illustrated : Mark Wahlberg not only received glowing reviews for his undertstated performance as the real-life junior welterweight Mickey Ward in The Fighter, but he…
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