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Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
Read More »Thanks to Globe reporters Courtney Hollands and Nicole Cammorata for suggestions for last-minute Halloween costumes in today’s Boston Globe Calendar. Unfortunately, the photo was not included online. You have to see the hard copy of the paper for the full effect—the yoga mat is worn like a serape and marked…
Read More »www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
Read More »Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library acquiring a massive archive of papers from author and performer Maya Angelou. The story prompted me to recall Maya Angelou’s visit to Lowell in 1989 as a guest of Middlesex Community College. Following is…
Read More »“All the President’s Men” is one of my favorite movies, and I believe the dynamic duo of “Woodstein” should be remembered with a statue on the mall in Washington, DC, some day, but I’m not a fan of the Washington insider books that Bob Woodward has been churning out for…
Read More »A regular reader sent along these photos of Butler’s Toothpick, a navigation aid at the mouth of the Merrimack River. The photographer’s email follows. I must admit, I’ve never heard of this before but I’ll have to check it out next time I’m in the vicinity. I thought you might…
Read More »Locally, we know how touchy the subject of public art can be. Over the years various public art installations in Lowell and environs while generally praised have sometimes raised eyebrows and caused comments. When a certain 1980s City Councilor saw a model for a bronze sculpture proposed for downtown, he said it…
Read More »Renowned author and illustrator David Macaulay may be a distinguished winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” Fellowship and the Caldecott Medal for children’s literature, but today he came across more like an inspiring junior high-school teacher (he did that for one year) rather than some artist-god who came down…
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