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Lowell native Mehmed Ali has been serving with the US State Department in Iraq for the past few years. Last Saturday, the Sun published a photograph with caption noting that Ali had recently received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy in Baghdad. According to the…
Read More »This year’s Lowell City Council race is attracting substantial interest in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Post recently ran a big story about the race with special emphasis on the two Cambodian-American candidates, Van Pech and Vesna Nuon both running for the city council. The article features an interview with Pech…
Read More »There’s a lot of turmoil today among liberals, progressives, Democrats, or whatever label fits for people who are more inclined to like and support President Obama than not. Maybe it’s time to step back. I just read Nicholas Schmidle’s account in The New Yorker of the raid in Pakistan that put an…
Read More »I second the emotion of the Globe’s Stuart Munro when he writes in today’s review of the Lowell Folk Festival that he was “bowled over” by the surprising performances of the Boston-based Debo Band with guest singers and dancers from Fendika of Ethiopia. Yesterday afternoon at the Dance Pavilion off Dutton Street, Debo…
Read More »“Are you he who would assume a place to teach or to be a poet here in the States? The place is august, the terms obdurate.” —Walt Whitman
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe writer Stuart Munro puts the 2011 Lowell Folk Festival in a nutshell when he says: ” …the hallmark of the festival is musical diversity, because that’s what they strive to produce… With diversity comes surprise: It’s hard to leave Lowell without having been bowled over by…
Read More »One of the three Quebe Sisters (Grace) with bass player Drew Phelps, photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »James M. Shannon – President, National Fire Prevention Association / Former Member of Congress (Democrat 5-MA) / Former Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts “The Column” in today’s SUN tells us that the people in charge at Steward Healthcare Systems expressed their displeasure at recent negative comments made by James M.…
Read More »Weather-wise, this was one of the nicest Folk Festival days I recall. Not a cloud in the sky and the warmth of the sun was tempered by a cooling breeze. It was crowded and most folks seemed to congregate at the respective stages. All that I visited were crowded (Bill…
Read More »My writing colleague Jack McDonough, an occasional contributor to this blog, would say this about last night: “Rain failed to dampen the spirits” of the festival-goers as the 25th annual Lowell Folk Festival rolled through downtown with its cargo of bright music, savory foods, hand-shaped craft objects, bins of joy,…
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