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Maureen’s ‘I Love NY’ . . . & Its Gov.
In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer Maureen Dowd smooches Gov. Andrew Cuomo big-time for what he did. Read her column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »City Stable/Senior Center
Lowell Senior Center, formerly the City Stable, at 276 Broadway – by Tony Sampas
Read More »Depp-Corn-Four
Popcorn, that is. The movies. “Pirates,” specifically. The likely conclusion to the highly entertaining and profitable quartet of films from Disney’s fun factory, with an assist from Jerry Bruckheimer. This past Sunday, my wife and I went to the cinema at the Methuen Loop to see Johnny Depp in “Pirates of…
Read More »Boston from the Hollywood View
The capture of James “Whitey” Bulger is the talk of the town. In today’s Boston Globe, writer Don Aucoin reminds us of the books, movies and television shows inspired by the actual and mythic Whitey Bulger. The Boston mystique of “everybody knows your name” evolved into the ruthless, Nicholson-esque imagery.…
Read More »“Dark Tide” by Stephen Puleo
Next Thursday (July 7) at 6:30 pm, the Pollard Memorial Library nonfiction book club will meet in the library’s Community Room to discuss “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919” by Stephen Puleo. The book has been around for a while – it was published in 2003 –…
Read More »“The Fighter” Follow-up
In today’s Boston Herald’s there’s a staff “off the wire” report that Mark Wahlberg is keeping fit and in training for the sequel to “The Fighter.” MARK WAHLBERG is already training to film “The Fighter 2.” “Before I made the first one I knew that the second one was in…
Read More »Much desired troop withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t be all happy endings by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Be sure to check it out too. Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan will likely result in tragic outcomes, especially for women and children. But keeping U.S. forces there to prevent those problems would take many years, an…
Read More »July 4 Parade Chelmsford 1970
Nostalgia is the theme in this video of the July 4 parade in Chelmsford in 1970. This video was originally posted by johnstonleonard
Read More »Over the Top at Globe
Can I say that the Globe has gone a bit goofy with its Whitey-mania coverage? I admit that I boosted the instant commentary by James Carroll and Kevin Cullen two days ago when the story hit like a safe on a mouse. That was good writing. But they are pushing…
Read More »He’s Ba-aack: Clinton Turns to Job Creation at Home
June 27, 2011
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I’ve been waiting for somebody to do something like this–bring the people with money together and get them to pledge to hire more people to do things that need to be done. Ole Bill is bringing his Clinton Global Initiative to Chicago to do just that. Read all about it…
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