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In today’s NYTimes, columnist Tim Egan offers a eulogy for Clarence Clemons and tells what it meant for him to see a black guy and a white guy making music together. Read his essay here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Mediabistro.com reports that Penguin Books’ new app for Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road” is selling well and ranked at #4 on Apple’s iPad apps list. Read the news bulletin here.
Read More »I’m thinking about stories this morning, when media waves around here are dominated by reports about the capture of criminal Whitey Bulger near Los Angeles. What about all the people whose lives are entwined with this man’s almost stranger-than-fiction life story? Consider the trail of death and destruction he dragged behind…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day – June 23, 1831 – the Legislature granted the Massachusetts Horticultural Society permission to purchase land to establish an experimental garden and a rural cemetery.This decision led to the creation of the landmark Mt. Auburn Cemetery – the first large-scale designed landscape open…
Read More »Just Monday the FBI announced it was changing its tactics in the hunt for mob boss Whitey Bulger who “was” on the lam for 16 years.The FBI decided to focusing on finding the fugitives girlfriend to lead them to Bulger. I guess it worked… In my opinion there was much…
Read More »While the trial of former House Speaker Sal DiMasi last week came to a close, the jury verdict did not signal an end to the apparently wide-ranging investigation that led to that trial. Yesterday, the Globe reported that DiMasi’s convicted co-defendant, Richard McDonough, had, according to the Globe story which…
Read More »The Lowell Small Business Assistance center is now publishing a monthly Newsletter. Highlighted this month is a new microloan program: This month the Center announced the Lowell Small Business Assistance Center Microloan Fund program. We are very excited to be able to offer financial resources to entrepreneurs while also serving…
Read More »On June 22, 1975 Universal Studios released the classic movie “Jaws”. Directed by a young Steven Speilberg, movie critics consider Jaws one of the best movies ever made. The movie stars Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as Quint and Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper. Even today, 36…
Read More »I can’t dance for “beans”. In fact I’ve always suspected that’s one of the reasons I liked Michael Jackson so much. He could do better anyone else in the world, what I couldn’t do at all, dance. If you are into creative dance you’ve got to watch this video. Its…
Read More »On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights’’ – an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services–known as G.I.s–for their efforts in World War II. Edith Nourse…
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