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The Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) received great news this week, according to LZ Nunn of the City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (CASE), who also serves as COOL’s executive director. COOL and its local partners were awarded a $30,000 grant from the Mass Cultural Council Adams Arts Program for the Discover Lowell…
Read More »What’s the equivalent of shell-shock for snow-ver-the-top white stuff? Snow fatigue? On the other hand a lawyer friend of mine is giddy about ski prospects in Vermont for the next many weeks. I’ve always admired the people in seasonal businesses, like fried dough at Hampton Beach, clam shacks on the…
Read More »By 8 pm yesterday, the Lowell public schools and UMass Lowell had been canceled, so part of the typical drama of a snow storm was gone. The Registry of Deeds and courts in Lowell will open at 11 am today in accordance to this notice on the Trial Court’s website:…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares contrasting views of North Common Village in the snow
Read More »The following entry is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, “Shards”. So I saw THE FIGHTER recently. Not a bad movie. Not a great movie, by any means, but not bad. I think the movie would have had more teeth if it had gone whole hog and admitted…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Obama’s SOFU address was a good speech, not a great one. There were moments that were inspirational, but there were also moments that were, dare I say it, boring. In all, however, he was setting the right…
Read More »Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter . . . Once regarded skeptically by the experts, seasonal affective disorder is now well…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, Sen. John Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote about Egypt and the post-Mubarak scenario. Read his guest column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured out into the snow to capture these pictures of City Hall
Read More »Judith Dickerman-Nelson of Lowell and Vermont has three prose poems about the Cambodian refugee experience in the online journal Blue Lake Review. Read them here, and support the journal if you appreciate the work.
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