I just watched a wonderful documentary on PBS about the offical photographer of President Obama, Pete Souza, whose work was captured by a National Geographic Society team for about a year, culminating in the passage of the health care reform bill last spring. The program offers a look inside the…
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Regular reader and contributor Patty Coffey sent this from the Sun’s breaking news site. Get the Sun if you value the reporting: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_16702259 LOWELL — Roll out the red carpet. After weeks of negotiations, Lowell has landed a premiere showing of the highly anticipated Micky Ward biopic The Fighter on…
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The Globe and boston.com are running a series that’s a lot of fun. Chad Finn is presenting his favorite Topps baseball cards a five-pack at a time in synch with Topps’ 60th anniversary effort to identify its top 60 cards since 1952. See installment two today, and click the first…
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I was out with our family’s Boston Terrier this morning, kicking through the leaves on the South Common, and thought of this poem. Here’s an exerpt from New Hampshire poet Donald Hall’s poem “Kicking the Leaves.” Click here to read the entire poem.—PM Kicking the Leaves (an excerpt) . .…
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Warning: This is a little gross by absolutely hilarious… Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
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Tony Sampas shows us two of the incredible stained glass windows in our city’s Pollard Memorial Library UPDATE: Tony sent along the following information about these two windows From the Pollard’ website: “Altogether a creditable building” boasted a local newspaper when Lowell’s Memorial Building opened in 1893… A disastrous fire…
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Today is known as the busiest travel day of the year. I’m thankful that my journey, such as it is, will be by automobile and not by airplane. All the recent furor about enhanced pre-boarding searches at airports leaves me frustrated. Just eleven months ago, on Christmas Day 2009, 23-year…
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While I am a supporter of the Governor and at the risk of being reminded that I’m also a Marty Meehan supporter – let me say that I’m not happy about the Governor waving-off Marty Meehan as a candidate for the University of Massachusetts Presidency because he served as an…
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The bombshell revelation in the Sunday Globe that Middlesex County Sheriff Jim DiPaola would resign on January 6, 2011 after just winning reelection on November 2, 2010 has already prompted several posts (Here by Marie and here by me). With so many unanswered questions, much more will undoubtedly be written.…
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In addition to the David Amram 80th birthday tribute on Dec. 9, UMass Lowell has several concerts in the next two weeks that are free and open to the public. The Durgin and Fisher venues are wheelchair accessible. “Classical String Music” with UMass Lowell students directed by Mark Berger. Dec. 1, 7.30…
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