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Accompanied by world-class guitarist Shane Fontayne and occasional vocals by Amy Correia, the masterful Marc Cohn lifted up the full-house audience at Boarding House Park with his stellar compositions like “Walking in Memphis,” “Silver Thunderbird,” and “True Companion” as well as beautifully rendered covers of a handful of hits from 1970…
Read More »Here’s another state election summary. I try to add a new one every few days but it will be a long time until our state election pages catch up with the 45 years of city election results we maintain on our Elections page. Here’s what happened in the 2000 state…
Read More »For all those alums and devotees of Boston College, Holy Cross, Fordham, Canisius, Georgetown, St. Mary’s of Halifax, Wheeling Jesuit University (to which Fr. Jim Fleming, S.J. of Lowell has just been assigned) and the many other Jesuit colleges and universities – a reminder that today July 31st is the feast day of…
Read More »From the Massachusetts Cultural Council: “Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill into law yesterday that allows communities to create state-sponsored cultural districts to stimulate new arts and cultural activity and attract creative businesses. The law directs the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) to create a new program that designates local districts…
Read More »Huge show last night with Indigo Girls. Can you say “the” Indigo Girls? I have a memory that they say “Indigo Girls,” not “the” for some reason. Can anyone clarify? Indigo dye was used to dye cloth blue in the Lowell mills. Anyway… huge show last night. The blankets and…
Read More »Because one of the Caritas Christi hospitals – Holy Family Hospital in Methuen – serves a good portion of the Merrimack Valley population I have posted a number of times about the impending take-over of this non-profit by the equity firm – Cerebus. On the blog Health Care for All –…
Read More »Here’s the sixth in my weekly compilations of Twitter “tweets” from Charles Cowley’s “Illustrated History of Lowell.” I think I missed posting this one when I went on vacation. July 13 – In 1793 the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal began work on the canal that ran from Chelmsford to…
Read More »From left, State Senator Jack Harrington, City Councilor Sam Pollard, City Councilor Ray Gilbride, Mayor Ed Early, unidentified (little help?), City Councilor Tom O’Donnell, City Councilor Dick Howe Sr. – photo from 1966-67 city council term
Read More »Prof. Bill Berkowitz of the UMass Lowell master’s program in Community Social Psychology is affiliated with the online Community Tool Box based at the University of Kansas. He sent this message to colleagues on campus and in the city: And now that some of the dust from the Innovative Cities conference…
Read More »Read a review of the new documentary film “Enemies of the People” about the genocide in Cambodia perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Thet Sambath, left, and Nuon Chea in “Enemies of the People.”
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