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Speaking of Canada Day, bbc.com today has a Travel article about the cultural district in downtown Montreal, which covers one square kilometer and is home to 80 cultural venues and hosts 40 festivals each year. The Montreal Jazz Festival that draws hundreds of thousands of people is on this weekend.…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office: UMass Lowell strengthened its reputation as a hot-spot for creative economy research in the state when all of its proposals seeking funding from the UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiative were approved this spring. Faculty from UMass Lowell scored big in the 2011 round of Creative Economy…
Read More »My nephew Philip Marion is a writer, illustrator, and practitioner in other media. He invented a comics universe called “Spoon & Packet” that he describes as “a miniature parable fora larger world”— Meet Spoon and Packet, the unlikely duo whose rebellious spirits cause them to journey from a 1950’s diner through Hell…
Read More »Today is Canada Day! Canada Day is celebrated on July 1st across the country. July 1st marks the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada. While celebrations complete with fireworks, parades, fairs, folkfests, concerts, athletic events…
Read More »Here’s another softball poem from the vault. This one was first published in the literary journal “Kennebec” at the University of Maine, Augusta. I spent many summer days in Maine during the 1970s and ’80s, visiting a friend who lived near Ellsworth. I brought this poem to a writing workshop…
Read More »I wrote this sketch several years ago just after the Fourth of July. The Cassini-Huygens space probe, according to Wikipedia, “entered into orbit around Saturn in July 2004,” and it is expected to transmit data about Saturn and its moons until 2017. In January 2005, the vehicle landed on the…
Read More »The recent rather positive statement from FERC – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – about ENEL’s $6 million proposed bladder dam project for the Pawtucket Dam was detailed in a Lowell Sun story by Jen Myers followed by a soft “let everyone sit down and talk” editorial. The letter has…
Read More »The state’s Division of Health Care Finance & Policy (DHCFP) is holding a series of presentations, speeches and panel discussions this week in regards to health care cost trends reports and cost containment efforts. Globe staff writer Liz Kowalczyk covered yesterday’s healthcare costs hearing and is reporting that some hospital…
Read More »Last week, one day around suppertime I was walking our family’s Boston Terrier on the South Common and I had what I can only describe as a sense memory. The strong sun, bright sky, dry air, grass underfoot, and voices bouncing through the park made me think that the evening was perfect…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer Maureen Dowd smooches Gov. Andrew Cuomo big-time for what he did. Read her column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
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