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This is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate built by King Nebuchadnezzar II at the entrance to Babylon about 600 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born. You can’t see it in Iraq these days, but there’s a version in a German museum that was built in the 1930s from remains…
Read More »With more polls showing the public sympathizes with the general goals of the “Occupy” movement, Charles Blow of the NYTimes today takes a cultural cut at the activity to try to figure out why this thing isn’t going away quickly. He suggests that it has attained that mysterious quality of…
Read More »A swimmer from Harvard trains at Walden Pond in Concord for Olympic competition. Read Karen Crouse’s long profile of Alex Meyer in the NYTimes, and get the paper if you want more.
Read More »J Jack Kerouac, His Life Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922, “at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” (Doctor Sax) and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47. Kerouac’s first seventeen years were those…
Read More »Update on “The Fighter 2” – In today’s Boston Herald “Inside Track” there’s a report that a break-up in the personal relationship of “The Fighter” producer and star Mark Wahlberg and its director David O. Russell may put the anticipated sequel on the ropes. The “Track” reports the Lowell’s Mickey…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe, senior writer Frank Phillips offers another scenario for redistricting the current ten congressional districts down to nine. While recent chatter had Stephen Lynch (Ninth District) and newbie Bill Keating (Tenth District) going head to head, the latest speculation has western Massachusetts veteran Congressman John Olver’s far-reaching…
Read More »“Lowell Morning” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »The proposed redistricting map that was released the the legislature’s Joint Committee on Redistricting this afternoon left the three state representative seats in Lowell almost entirely intact. In fact, the only change I could see from the current district occurred in the 16th Middlesex, now represented by Tom Golden. The…
Read More »The following is the second in my series of posts about the canals of Lowell. The first described the Pawtucket Canal. The Proprietors of Middlesex Canal received its charter as a Massachusetts corporation on June 22, 1793, just a year after the incorporation of the group that would build the…
Read More »The figures beneath Debussy depict his two best-known works: “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Pelleas et Melisande.” This 1987 sculpture is located on the South Campus of UMass Lowell near Durgin Concert Hall for the Performing Arts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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