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Tony Sampas captures Kearney Square by night
Read More »Book Review: The Climate War
To call The Climate War “a riveting tale,” as the cover quotes Bill Clinton as saying, would be an understatement. There have been many books written about current events in the past few years that deserve a large amount of praise, but Eric Pooley’s is the first to talk about…
Read More »December 14, 2010 City Council Meeting
I found myself in front of the TV at 6:30 pm and decided to watch the city council meeting. Here’s what I witnessed: Councilor Caulfield moved to suspend the rules to discuss the city’s response to Sunday’s ice storm. It was a civil discussion with a lot of detail about…
Read More »Immaculate Conception Church
Tony Sampas photographs the Immaculate Conception Church in Lowell by night
Read More »Six Golden Globe Nominations for “The Fighter”
Actresses Amy Adams and Melissa Leo attend the Cinema Society & Men’s Health screening of “The Fighter” To Benefit The Cinema School at SVA Theater. Made-in Lowell movie “The Fighter” garnered six Golden Globe nominations as announced this morning. The awards to be presented on January 17 are often the…
Read More »Jeopardy’s Lastest Challenge
Scene from “Desk Set” – Spencer Tracy/ Katherine Hepburn movie from 1957. As an almost daily viewer of the iconic game show “Jeopardy” – I have mixed feelings about the lastest announcement of upcoming contestants. According to an Associated Press story, two of the best and most successful past champions –…
Read More »Wahlberg and Bale from “The Fighter” on SI Cover
Marl Walhberg and Christian Bale on Sports Illustrated Cover From People Magazine about “actors as fighters” from Lowell-made movie “The Fighter” on the cover of Sports Illustrated : Mark Wahlberg not only received glowing reviews for his undertstated performance as the real-life junior welterweight Mickey Ward in The Fighter, but he…
Read More »No Room for Mass Film Office Chief
December 14, 2010
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Marie
Posted in Current Events, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell, Politics, Culture
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Come January, 2011 with a reorganization of the Massachusetts Film Office – Executive Director Nick Paleologos will be out of a job. In the new year, the state’s film office will be administered through the state Office of Travel and Tourism. As noted in the Globe earlier this month – the office of Housing…
Read More »Shards of the Season by Jack Neary
The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. Check it out too. Songs of the Season I will listen to until they’re over, regardless of whether I am parked in front of my house and it’s freezing: White Christmas – Bing Crosby Jingle Bell Rock…
Read More »Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
December 14, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics, Culture, Current Events
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Lowell Gallery owner and all around good guy Guy Lefebvre sent me this nugget from an old Lowell newspaper. Some of the party platform planks have flopped and flipped through the years, but the rhetoric remains modern. This is from 1834, when Lowell was still a town, two years before…
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