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‘The Fighter’ Reviewed in The New Yorker
Read the mezza-mezza review in The New Yorker here, and get the magazine if you want more.
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Six Guys Walk Into a Bookstore
First, how about that Tony Sampas photograph of Central Street decked out for the holidays? Now—Dave Daniel, Dave Robinson, Steve Edington, Jay Atkinson, Steve O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway Jr., (no, not him), and your correspondent here will be talking books, selling books, signing books, and whistling jingle bells in the Gregorian…
Read More »Central Street by night
A view of Central Street in the evening, by Tony Sampas.
Read More »UMass Trustee Chair Resigned Today
December 8, 2010
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Marie
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According to the Associated Press as reported on WBUR.org – Robert Manning – Chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees resigned his position today. The chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees has resigned after Gov. Deval Patrick weighed in on the search for a new system president.…
Read More »Lowell’s Quinlan Shows at Whistler House
December 8, 2010
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Marie
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June Wulff of the Boston Globe tells us today that “you can go home again” as she notes that Joe Quinlan has done just that with his photo exhibit currently showing for the month of December at Lowell’s Whistler House Museum of Art. There are two shows at the Whistler…
Read More »The Globe reviews “The Fighter”
Ty Burr’s review of “The Fighter” appears in today’s Globe. He says Christian Bale as Dickie Ecklund and Melissa Leo as Mickey Ward’s mom are both outstanding, although he gives high marks to the rest of the cast. He also says that the film is “so good, so engrossing, for…
Read More »Lowell’s Mickey Ward – To the Brink and Back
From Ward’s official website http://officialmickyward.com/biography Leaving “The Fighter” movie reviews for now, take a look as Ron Borges does in today’s Boston Herald at Micky Ward “the fighter” struggling to find himself back in 1991 and who then goes on to new heights in boxing by 2000: On Oct. 15,…
Read More »Johnny Depp in Lowell, Mass., 1991
Prompted by Dick’s post about the Johnny Depp interview in Vanity Fair magazine, I’ll share this account of his visit in 1991. I spent the better part of a day and evening with him and John Sampas. I waited a long time before publishing anything about the experience because I was…
Read More »John Lennon (1940-1980)
Tomorrow, December 8, marks 30 years since the death of John Lennon. Yoko Ono remembers the quiet hours in this piece from the NYTimes. In another NYT essay, Ray Davies of Kinks fame recalls the inspiration that John and The Beatles were for him.
Read More »Pearl Harbor Day in Lowell, Massachusetts
Area veterans, elected officials and students from the Hellenic Academy gathered at the Hall of Flags of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this morning for a remembrance ceremony on this, the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The following video features the students from the Hellenic Academy singing…
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