“The Tenth Inning” by Ken Burns

Ken Burns’ latest film, “The Tenth Inning”, just got over on Channel 2. The four-hour program, shown over the past two nights, was an extension of “Baseball” the 1994 Burns program that covered baseball from the beginning. The highlight of tonight’s show, of course, was the Red Sox historic victory…

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Lowell Creative Economy Census

I grabbed this from the City Manager’s website.  My definition of the creative economy is broader than some other people’s. This survey is aimed particularly at the cultural community because COOL wants to document that sector as thoroughly as possible. But if you consider yourself part of the creative-innovative-imaginative sector,…

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Auditor’s Debate on NECN

I watched the Auditor’s debate last night between Democrat Suzanne Bump and Republican Mary Connaughton on NECN’s Broadside, hosted by Jim Braude. Normally, I don’t post anything this long…but I was amazed by what I considered to be a strange (I’m lost for a better word) performance by Connaughton. She…

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Does your kitchen pass inspection?

It seems that we are constantly bombarded with news that innocuous items in the food supply may pose a threat to our health: tainted eggs, tainted peanut butter, tainted tomatoes, tainted spinach – those are only the ones I remember. Our industrial-style food supply chain certainly creates risks, but what…

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“Bandstand Days” by Nancye Tuttle

With some prompting by Dean Johnson of 980 WCAP, Nancye Tuttle recalls her relationship with American Bandstand on Nancye’s World. Here’s what Nancye wrote: Listening to Dean Johnson interview Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon today on WCAP took me back to my teen years when I was an American Bandstand fanatic…

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