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The Globe has a front-page story today about MoJo, a start-up apparel manufacturer based in Lowell that pays above the minimum wage and provides quality benefits to its employees, including free day care (the company’s name is a combination of “Moms” and “Jobs”). Because of that last item, most of…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of the stained glass windows at the Eliot Presbyterian Church
Read More »The Mobile Pantry of the Merrimack Valley Food Bank provides good food, health info, and social contact for Greater Lowell residents, “many of whom are single elderly women, living alone, economically challenged, and have long term disabilities.” The Mobile Pantry serves more than 320 people, each month bringing 35 pounds of…
Read More »NYTimes columnist Bob Herbert keeps beating the drum for his fellow Americans who are suffering most in this stubborn economic downturn. Today, he cites letters written to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by people whose lives and faith in the “system” are shaken. Read his thoughts here, and get the…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle calls “The Exceptionals” which is at the MRT through March 6, “Funny, poignant, heart-breaking, disturbing” and says it’s a play that shouldn’t be missed. Here’s the setting: Set in the office and waiting room of a prestigious sperm bank, we meet two moms – Gwen and Allie –…
Read More »Despite this morning’s snow, all indications are that spring is just around the corner. Once the nice weather arrives, you might want to check out Lowell’s Public Art Collection which is scattered throughout downtown. It’s fitting that a city with the motto “Art is the Handmaid of Human Good” have…
Read More »George DeLuca of cometolowell.com says get your Jack-hats on for the Kerouac party coming in March, which is previewed in a recent radio interview with grandmaster musician Dave Amram: “There’s a David Amram interview on ‘Blues and Beyond’ radio with Dick Lourie, both of whom will be playing at ‘Jack’s…
Read More »Coffee is my beverage of choice. I drink it black with no sugar, a habit I picked up in the army decades ago. At home, I make do with Maxwell House French Roast brewed in a Black and Decker single cup device, but the end product there lags far behind…
Read More »Dana Gioia, poet and former boss of the National Endowment for the Arts, many years ago wrote a book titled “Does Poetry Matter?” The inside back page essay in yesterday’s NYTimes Book Review by Robyn Cresswell (poetry editor of The Paris Review) had this to say about “Egypt: The Cultural…
Read More »Snowing. It is snowing. It’s snowing. I don’t have to say, “It’s snowing out,” because it snows out, not in. You’d never say, “It’s snowing in.” The snow snows like the rain rains. Snowing means snowflakes falling. Have you ever seen or heard those many words for “snow” that Eskimos are…
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