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Lowell Smokestacks conclude
Tony Sampas wraps up his photo essay on the smokestacks of Lowell with two more views.
Read More »Texting ban begins today
Keep your smart phones out of sight starting today; the Commonwealth’s new ban on using electronic devices to send or receive messages while behind the wheel goes into effect today. I suspect that the police will be especially vigilant and aggressive in enforcing the law which is a “primary offense”…
Read More »Kerouac Literary Festival Today
Kerouac Literary Festival, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 3.30 pm, Listen to novelist and physicist Alan Lightman (“Einstein’s Dreams”) read from his new work. Alumni Hall, UMass Lowell, North Campus, One University Ave. Free and open to the public. 4.00 pm, See “Lowell Blues,” Henry Ferrini’s poetic film based on Kerouac’s novel…
Read More »“The Tenth Inning” by Ken Burns
Ken Burns’ latest film, “The Tenth Inning”, just got over on Channel 2. The four-hour program, shown over the past two nights, was an extension of “Baseball” the 1994 Burns program that covered baseball from the beginning. The highlight of tonight’s show, of course, was the Red Sox historic victory…
Read More »Why a Kerouac Center for Creativity?
Creativity isn’t confined to the arts. The arts are a proven means to cultivate creativity, but the creative impulse shows up everywhere in life—and we need it across all disciplines. The city of Lowell is here because someone imagined industry on a larger scale. People moved here because they imagined…
Read More »Lowell Creative Economy Census
I grabbed this from the City Manager’s website. My definition of the creative economy is broader than some other people’s. This survey is aimed particularly at the cultural community because COOL wants to document that sector as thoroughly as possible. But if you consider yourself part of the creative-innovative-imaginative sector,…
Read More »More Lowell Smokestacks
Tony Sampas shares photos of a smokestack in the Acre (above) and one repurposed as a cell phone antenna (below)
Read More »The other Tea Party Perry by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Dallas, TX- Eyes in Massachusetts are on Tea Party candidate, former police officer, Jeff Perry, who is giving Democrat Bill Keating a run for his money in the 10th Congressional district. There’s another Perry in Texas, also trying…
Read More »Auditor’s Debate on NECN
I watched the Auditor’s debate last night between Democrat Suzanne Bump and Republican Mary Connaughton on NECN’s Broadside, hosted by Jim Braude. Normally, I don’t post anything this long…but I was amazed by what I considered to be a strange (I’m lost for a better word) performance by Connaughton. She…
Read More »Does your kitchen pass inspection?
It seems that we are constantly bombarded with news that innocuous items in the food supply may pose a threat to our health: tainted eggs, tainted peanut butter, tainted tomatoes, tainted spinach – those are only the ones I remember. Our industrial-style food supply chain certainly creates risks, but what…
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