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Living Madly: A Cup of Kindness By Emilie-Noelle Provost You’ve probably seen the homemade signs hanging in stores and restaurants, the ones imploring customers to treat their workers kindly. As public-facing employees, waitstaff, store clerks, and baristas have borne the lion’s share of abuse dished out by belligerent consumers over…
Read More »Charlie Gargiulo’s Lowell memoir, Legends of Little Canada, was recently reviewed in Beat Scene magazine, a UK print publication the covers the Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, et al). Here’s the review, reposted with permission of Beat Scene: Reading this new book one gets the feeling it has been…
Read More »Please welcome our newest contributor, Rich Grady: The Measure of Love By Rich Grady My wife, Lauren, and I grew up in the same town – Braintree, MA – with many of the same friends. We were planning to make the rounds of family and friends in other parts of…
Read More »For those of us longing for a Lowell City Council meeting that shared a strategic vision for the city rather than debating which pothole to fill next, Christmas came early this year when Mayor Dan Rourke, at last Tuesday’s council meeting, briefed the council and everyone else on a strategic…
Read More »This past Saturday I visited Western Avenue Studios, which is the largest collection of artists in a single place east of the Mississippi River. The quality of the art on display and for sale was amazing. There was something for every taste and price range. Western Ave will be open…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee is a well-researched account of France from the reign of Napoleon III through the end of his empire, the Franco-Prussian War he had provoked, the radical socialist…
Read More »Paul in Paris By Louise Peloquin Beatles fans, this is for you and is dedicated to the late Malcolm Sharps of Liverpool. The 2023 edition of The Lowell Review devoted an entire section to the Beatles. Charlie Gargiulo’s “Legends of Little Canada” also evokes their magic. (1) The memories shared…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Sorry, folks, but I just don’t buy the argument that it was fine for Joe Biden to have pardoned son Hunter not just for the tax evasion and gun charges for which he was convicted but for…
Read More »In last Sunday’s newsletter, I mentioned a Lowell Sun report that the city of Lowell had imposed a $300 per day fine on the Eliot Church for failing to clear trash from its property. As I predicted, the matter came up at Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting. Councilors self-righteously criticized…
Read More »Notre Dame Inauguration New Flash By Louise Peloquin Barely 24 hours before the ceremony, The Archdiocese of Paris and the Élysée Palace (France’s “White House”) announced that the weather has flipped the December 7th Notre Dame inauguration ceremony set to welcome over 50 heads of state. Several of the main…
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