August 2011 - Page 16 of 16

‘We Got Him’

August 1, 2011 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2012, Current Events 1 Comment

There’s a lot of turmoil today among liberals, progressives, Democrats, or whatever label fits for people who are more inclined to like and support President Obama than not. Maybe it’s time to step back. I just read Nicholas Schmidle’s account in The New Yorker of the raid in Pakistan that put an…

Debo Band and Fendika

August 1, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 3 Comments

I second the emotion of the Globe’s Stuart Munro when he writes in today’s review of the Lowell Folk Festival that he was “bowled over” by the surprising performances of the Boston-based Debo Band with guest singers and dancers from Fendika of Ethiopia. Yesterday afternoon at the Dance Pavilion off Dutton Street, Debo…

August

August 1, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Poetry 3 Comments

“Are you he who would assume a place to teach or to be a poet here in the States? The place is august, the terms obdurate.” —Walt Whitman

Lowell Folk Festival – Reviews Are In

August 1, 2011 by Marie Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell 1 Comment

In today’s Boston Globe writer Stuart Munro puts the 2011 Lowell Folk Festival in a nutshell when he says: ” …the hallmark of the festival is musical diversity, because that’s what they strive to produce… With diversity comes surprise: It’s hard to leave Lowell without having been bowled over by…

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