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Last evening the Angkor Dance Troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary with the world premiere of Apsara Dancing Stones, an interpretive dance that combined traditional Khmer dance with contemporary elements. The 900 plus people who filled the Lowell Memorial Auditorium saw a fantastic show.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced it will no longer endorse political candidates, except in some rare undefined instances. What a travesty! Let’s face it. A newspaper or television station’s endorsement of a candidate probably has little impact…
Read More »I have been reading essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, specifically his treatise on History, which he denies the existence of, but he does mention that Biographies are real. He compares man to mosquitoes, leaves, and other forms of life. He argues that all history is subjective because it is formulated…
Read More »Brickhouse Wrestling and Fitness, Lee Street, Lowell MA. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Whatever your economic “religion”, you are probably losing faith. There is cause for great doubt whether you are a fiscal conservative, a…
Read More »So according to John Sununu…Colin Powell supports Barack Obama for “race” reasons? I wonder, does he support Mitt Romney for the same reason?
Read More »My father, Marcel R. Marion, was an enthusiastic observer of American politics and world affairs. He never ran for anything except union steward when he worked in a textile mill in Lowell in the 1940s. He was a wool sorter, meaning he classified types and quailty of wool by examining…
Read More »This is from Bob Dylan’s memoir “Chronicles: Volume One” (2004). Thanks to Jim Cook for the tip. We know all these guys by one name: Dylan, Bono, Kerouac, . . . and Cook. . “One night, Bono, the singer from U2, was over for dinner with some other friends. Spending…
Read More »More often than not, lunch for me is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so when I caught sight of a “peanut butter” in a front-page headline of yesterday’s New York Times food section, I went right to the story. But the “and” following this story’s peanut butter was not…
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