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Central Street by night
A view of Central Street in the evening, by Tony Sampas.
Read More »UMass Trustee Chair Resigned Today
December 8, 2010
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Marie
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According to the Associated Press as reported on WBUR.org – Robert Manning – Chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees resigned his position today. The chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees has resigned after Gov. Deval Patrick weighed in on the search for a new system president.…
Read More »Capuano Has Obama Concerns
In a FOX News interview posted at HuffingtonPost.com, Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano (D) expressed his frustration with President Obama: In an interview with Fox News in which he compared the recent negotiations process to a car sale, with Republicans being the salesmen and Obama the hapless buyer unwilling to get tough…
Read More »Lowell’s Quinlan Shows at Whistler House
December 8, 2010
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Marie
Posted in Greater Lowell, History, Lowell, Culture, Current Events
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June Wulff of the Boston Globe tells us today that “you can go home again” as she notes that Joe Quinlan has done just that with his photo exhibit currently showing for the month of December at Lowell’s Whistler House Museum of Art. There are two shows at the Whistler…
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Scott Brown gets it right on “don’t ask, don’t tell” by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After the Senate takes up tax and spending issues, Senator Scott Brown now says he will vote to repeal the military’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy, which effectively bars gays from serving. The change of heart comes in…
Read More »The Globe reviews “The Fighter”
Ty Burr’s review of “The Fighter” appears in today’s Globe. He says Christian Bale as Dickie Ecklund and Melissa Leo as Mickey Ward’s mom are both outstanding, although he gives high marks to the rest of the cast. He also says that the film is “so good, so engrossing, for…
Read More »Lowell’s Mickey Ward – To the Brink and Back
From Ward’s official website http://officialmickyward.com/biography Leaving “The Fighter” movie reviews for now, take a look as Ron Borges does in today’s Boston Herald at Micky Ward “the fighter” struggling to find himself back in 1991 and who then goes on to new heights in boxing by 2000: On Oct. 15,…
Read More »Johnny Depp in Lowell, Mass., 1991
Prompted by Dick’s post about the Johnny Depp interview in Vanity Fair magazine, I’ll share this account of his visit in 1991. I spent the better part of a day and evening with him and John Sampas. I waited a long time before publishing anything about the experience because I was…
Read More »John Lennon (1940-1980)
Tomorrow, December 8, marks 30 years since the death of John Lennon. Yoko Ono remembers the quiet hours in this piece from the NYTimes. In another NYT essay, Ray Davies of Kinks fame recalls the inspiration that John and The Beatles were for him.
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