It’s all about the cars! The big NASCAR races are but the current focus of aficinados of the sport -although for the first time ever the opening of the Daytona 500 was rescheduled due to the heavy rain and dangerous conditions down in Daytona, Florida yesterday. It’s really a pageant, a festival – if…
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This coming Saturday, March 3 from 10 am to noon, there will be a Tweet-Up at Lowell Telecommunications Corp, 246 Market Street, right next to the Lowell National Park Visitors Center. The event is informal and unstructured and will benefit everyone ranging from the person who has no idea what…
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See www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org for the full schedule of activities from March 5 to March 12, organized as a weeklong tribute to the Lowell cultural powerhouse Jean-Louis Kerouac (1922–1969). UMass Lowell is involved with several events including a special screening of the film “Lowell Blues” with the director Henry Ferrini on Monday, March…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. I really like George and his colleagues at my local post office. They’re helpful and friendly, and seem to know the local residents. They’re an important part of the local neighborhood scene. A lot of…
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Somebody once said that Lowell is a “little big city,” and that character is due in part to the spectrum of activities on any given day: small to large, low to high, basic to extravagant, local to global, traditional to experimental, common to cosmic — you get the idea. Yesterday…
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“Delightful” is not a word that gets much use in my vocabulary, but it’s the one I’ll use to describe “Daddy Long Legs” which I saw Thursday night at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Set in the first decade of the twentieth century, it’s the story of Jerusha Abbott who, when…
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I just noticed the following video appear on the Howl in Lowell YouTube page. Here’s the explanation from there: [The below] was playing on screen at last night’s (Fri. 2/24/12) alternative party in the Zorba Room at the Olympia Restaurant. We think it’s a great HOWL out! See the full…
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It’s still a ways off, but mark your calendars: Food Trucks are coming to Lowell. The Lowell Food Truck Festival will take place on the grounds of UMass Lowell’s Tsongas Center on Saturday, September 8, 2012 from noon to 4 pm. Trucks serving food from grilled cheese sandwiches (above) to…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If the four GOP candidates were running for legislator-in-chief, Rick Santorum would have won last Wednesday’s debate. But they are not, and, coming off three caucus and one primary victories plus a surge in the polls, former Pennsylvania…
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