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Sitting among thousands of people at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell tonight, witnessing Bob Dylan and his band lifting up the audience with powerful renditions of his songs, I had a thought: Dylan is like Moxie. In performance, he has become a completely singular mixture for which you either have the taste…
Read More »A friend called my attention to an editorial in today’s Globe, noting a Lowell connection. Whatever your take on the editorial about the history of philanthropy for arts, culture, education and other civic charity in Boston and beyond, it was nice to have the name of the Behrakis family noted among the 25,000…
Read More »Tony Sampas shows us a close-up of Lowell City Hall
Read More »The Springfield Republican’s online site has an instant review of Bob Dylan’s performance at UMass Amherst last night. Read the review here. There may be tickets left for tonight’s show in Lowell. Check the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell website.
Read More »Here’s my account of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue performance in the Costello Gymnasium of the University of Lowell on November 2, 1975—PM Dylan was excellent in Lowell last night. Baez was superb in Lowell last night. The Rolling Thunder Revue was really something in Lowell last night. Dylan, the singing poet…
Read More »Jim Peters sent along the following essay about the challenges that face a city manager in Lowell: I was in Chelmsford most of this week for some period of time and one thing I noticed was their trash pickup. They do not have to cram into their one can: trash…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »David Wade of Boston’s WBZ-TV filed a report on what some are calling “a crisis in the making.” It’s all about fuel assistance. As the temperature falls and winter comes on, people face the likelihood of a reduced amount of money available for fuel assistance compared to this past year. …
Read More »Dorchester-native Mark Wahlberg is featured this Sunday night on “60 Minutes.” The segment runs just days before the Massachusetts premier of his movie “The Fighter” based on Lowell’s own Irish Micky Ward. While a Globe “Celebrity News” item puts the focus on his Dorchester roots, word has it that Lowell plays…
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