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We watch the news about Detroit at rh.com because of our abiding interest in the future of cities. With all the bad stuff people have heard about Detroit, today’s report in the NYTimes about young entrepreneurs (“creatives,” as some people call them) moving into Detroit and getting the city moving is…
Read More »Celebrate the Fourth of July in Lowell at the Sampas Pavilion on the north bank of the Merrimack River. Here’s the schedule of music and fireworks.
Read More »Coming to the Sampas Pavilion on the Vandenberg Esplanade along the Merrimack River in Lowell on Saturday, August 13: The Merrimack Valley Jazz Festival. Read all about it on weshareacommonthread.org
Read More »Speaking of Canada Day, bbc.com today has a Travel article about the cultural district in downtown Montreal, which covers one square kilometer and is home to 80 cultural venues and hosts 40 festivals each year. The Montreal Jazz Festival that draws hundreds of thousands of people is on this weekend.…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office: UMass Lowell strengthened its reputation as a hot-spot for creative economy research in the state when all of its proposals seeking funding from the UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiative were approved this spring. Faculty from UMass Lowell scored big in the 2011 round of Creative Economy…
Read More »My nephew Philip Marion is a writer, illustrator, and practitioner in other media. He invented a comics universe called “Spoon & Packet” that he describes as “a miniature parable fora larger world”— Meet Spoon and Packet, the unlikely duo whose rebellious spirits cause them to journey from a 1950’s diner through Hell…
Read More »This video speaks for itself…Yes, that’s LeLacheur Park in Lowell.
Read More »Today is Canada Day! Canada Day is celebrated on July 1st across the country. July 1st marks the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada. While celebrations complete with fireworks, parades, fairs, folkfests, concerts, athletic events…
Read More »Freshening up the stripes, by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Here’s another softball poem from the vault. This one was first published in the literary journal “Kennebec” at the University of Maine, Augusta. I spent many summer days in Maine during the 1970s and ’80s, visiting a friend who lived near Ellsworth. I brought this poem to a writing workshop…
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