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Westford Chorus Sings @ Spinners Game
“The Westford Chorus and Friends sing the National Anthem before the Lowell Spinners game” This video was originally posted by Emily Mastandrea
Read More »Helping the President in New Hampshire
According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »Gaming the games: the real olympic spirit by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. One of my favorite childhood stories was the tale of Phidippides, the man who in 500 BC ran from Marathon to Athens, delivered the good news of a victory over Persia, and dropped dead from exhaustion. As the story goes,…
Read More »UML Emerging Technology Center
UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center by night from University Crossing. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Music and Theatre in the Greater Merrimack Valley.
Last Thursday and again tonight I was in the audience for local musical theater. Last week it was the Lexington Youth Theatre group’s performance of The Wizard of Oz at the Grace Chapel – tonight it was The Greater Lowell Music Threatre performance of The Music Man in Concert. The…
Read More »THE MUSIC MAN Opens Tonight at Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell
Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
Read More »Steve Kornacki of Salon and MSNBC visits Lowell
Steve Kornacki (center) with cameraman John-Carlos Estrada and NBCUniversal Senior Producer Brian Nerkowski. Steve is senior political writer at Salon.com and co-hosts of the Cycle on MSNBC paying a visit to UMass Lowell Libraries Special Collections at the Center for Lowell History to examine documents and artifacts from the Paul…
Read More »A rebuff to Romney’s remarks on “cultural differences”
While in Israel earlier this week, Mitt Romney stated to considerable controversy that the great disparity in income between Israelis and Palestinians was attributable to “cultural differences.” As books that informed his opinion on this he cited “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David S. Landes and “Guns, Germs…
Read More »Three strikes to improve public policy: the legislative process works by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Be sure to check it out too. Governor Patrick’s decision to sign the crime bill, the passage of a health cost containment bill, and a renewable energy boost are three healthy signs that the legislative process works. Never…
Read More »Two Full Moons in August
Take a walk outside tonight to see the first of two full moons in August. The second Full Moon of the month will occur on August 31 and is known as a Blue Moon. Of course a Blue Moon is not really blue, rather it is the second of two…
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