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More than 300 people gathered yesterday at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center for the launch of the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, an effort to foster a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Merrimack Valley. I confess that I’m finding it hard to get a good feel for this…
Read More »As a big fan of NYC native Melissa Leo – since back in the “Homicide: Life on the Streets” days, this review of “The Fighter” by Patriot Ledger’s Al Alexander strikes a positive cord. While he has a mistaken “fact” or two – all the sisters didn’t play themselves –…
Read More »From left: Mark Wahlberg, “Irish’’ Micky Ward, and director David O. Russell at last night’s screening of “The Fighter’’ in Hingham. (Bill Brett for The Boston Globe) Globe A&E writers Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein note some reactions to “The Fighter” shown last night in a Hingham charity preview. The buzz…
Read More »I traveled to Conte Forum on the campus of Boston College last night to watch the Boston College Eagles play the Providence College Friars in basketball (me – Providence, class of 1980). The first half was a BC blowout with the Eagles up by as many as 20, ending the…
Read More »June Wulff of the Boston Globe tells us today that “you can go home again” as she notes that Joe Quinlan has done just that with his photo exhibit currently showing for the month of December at Lowell’s Whistler House Museum of Art. There are two shows at the Whistler…
Read More »From Ward’s official website http://officialmickyward.com/biography Leaving “The Fighter” movie reviews for now, take a look as Ron Borges does in today’s Boston Herald at Micky Ward “the fighter” struggling to find himself back in 1991 and who then goes on to new heights in boxing by 2000: On Oct. 15,…
Read More »After a series of late nights and early mornings, I decided to skip last night’s Patriots’ game. But at 8:20 pm, I found myself still at my computer so I flicked on the TV and decided to watch the first half. The Pats looked terrific and were way out ahead,…
Read More »I spent $40 this morning to fill up with regular gas at about $3 per gallon at the XtraMart on Gorham Street, near the courthouse. Humorist Lewis Black might say, What the F#&*%! Did I miss a new oil embargo, or did China buy up all the crude last week for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. People who knew Jim DiPaola say he was a nice guy, very gregarious. It’s hard to succeed in politics if you’re not. Others say he cared about other people, was loyal to his employees and committed to providing…
Read More »Visitors to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum at the Lowell National Historical Park become fully acquainted with the struggle by workers a century ago to win the rights and protections that culminated in the thriving and dominant middle class of the post World War Two era. Beginning in 1980, however,…
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