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I just heard that this coming Monday night (August 16) at 7 pm at Lowell High School’s Little Theater, First Middlesex State Senate Democratic candidates Chris Doherty and Eileen Donoghue will face off in a debate sponsored by local radio station WCAP. With only four weeks to go to the…
Read More »I’m not the first to say this is a powerful book. Filkins won awards from the National Book Critics Circle and NYTimes Book Review. It was a best-seller in hardcover. I lent my first copy to someone, and it went into the book-loan twilight zone, which is why I bought…
Read More »UMass Lowell’s Frank Talty provided the following details about the archaeological project in the Acre. Frank is director of academic programs in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He’s been instrumental in shaping the project in collaboration with administrators and faculty at Queens College in Belfast. Following is an excerpt from…
Read More »Please check out Nancye’s World, the newest addition to Lowell’s thriving blogosphere. Nancye Tuttle, longtime arts and lifestyle reporter at the Lowell Sun, will use Nancye’s World to report on arts, entertainment, cultural happenings and all that is interesting in Lowell, the Merrimack Valley, Boston and beyond.
Read More »The following entry is cross posted from Jack Neary’s own Blog, Shards. So much has been written over the past few days about my friend–our friend, everybody’s friend–former State Rep Ed LeLacheur and his boundless enthusiasm for life and service, that nothing I can contribute here can really add much…
Read More »The front page of “The Arts” section in the NYTimes has an article about the long and winding road to the cinema screen for the mostly Lowell-filmed Micky Ward bio-pic “The Fighter,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the boxer, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams, among others. The nationwide release date is…
Read More »Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…
Read More »People are reading about Lowell’s Irish-American roots all over New England this morning. The UMass Lowell/Queens University of Northern Ireland archaeological project on the grounds of St. Patrick Church in the Acre earned major coverage in the Boston Globe today (bottom of Page One). I was on a National Park canal tour…
Read More »Sixty two years ago today the iconic TV show Candid Camera first aired on ABC. Few people (or at least me anyway) remember that Candid Camera actually began as a radio show called Candid Microphone. In June of 1947 Candid Microphone hit the airwaves with a bang. Its quick success prompted…
Read More »Joseph Stiglitz is one of the great economists of our time, a reputation that was secured even before he accurately predicted the financial collapse and its magnitude. He is a professor at Columbia University and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. But perhaps more importantly, he is a…
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