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One of our regular readers, Allegra Williams, is the city’s neighborhood planner and was the manager of last June’s Innovative Cities Conference. She attended a conference on cities in Brazil earlier this year and heard urban specialist Jaime Lerner (architect, urban planner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and a former…
Read More »I’m starting to see some early indicators of a turnaround in real estate in the Greater Lowell region. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it may not be the beginning of the end of the housing slump, but it could very well be the end of the beginning. Here at the end…
Read More »The Lowell SUN is reporting on breaking news that UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan has asked to have his name removed from the list of candidates being considered to replace Jack Wilson as president of the University of Massachusetts system. University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan has dropped out…
Read More »The Boston Globe is reporting today on its breaking news Business Updates that DiagnosisONE has moved its headquarters from Nashua, N.H., to the CrossPoint Towers in Lowell. …The opening of a larger headquarters office is the latest example of DiagnosisONE’s aggressive growth plans as the company expands its operations to…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured out to the Francis Gatehouse to photograph the ingenious gate designed by James B Francis that saved downtown Lowell from flooding on several occasions.
Read More »Coming up Thursday, and through this weekend, the Middlesex Community College Theatre Department will perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This wonderful tragedy revolves around Macbeth’s desire to become king of Scotland and the murderous acts this ambition drives him to. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday December 2 and 3 at…
Read More »Lowell’s John Schneider has played a key role in advancing the Gateway Cities initiative at the MassINC think tank. Read more about the work here and scroll down on the page to see the link to Sunday’s Globe editorial about Gateway Cities. This is the first in a series about Gateway Cities. Lowell is mentioned…
Read More »UMASS LOWELL, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES ARTISTIC MANIFESTATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE Symposium Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA 01854 Saturday, December 11, 2010 Program Moderator and Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History, Chair, Department of Cultural Studies, UMass Lowell 9:00-9:30, Coffee and Greetings 9:45–10:15,…
Read More »This coming Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 8 pm, Image Theater will present its sixth annual “Keep Your Kids at Home Naughty Readings” at The Old Court at the corner of Central and Middle Street in downtown Lowell. Organizers describe this event as “seven original ‘adult only’ plays that go…
Read More »Author Jay Atkinson of Methuen and the world has a new book of short stories: “Tauvernier Street.” In today’s Globe and on boston.com reviewer Joseph Peschel rates the collection a good read, especially the stories that evoke Merrimack Valley life in our time, from the 1960s to the present day.…
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