Drinking Like Mad Men: Old-School Cocktail Recipes
Mix like it's 1966 Letting go is hard to do, but as we prepare for the final seven episodes of Mad Men, launching at 9pm Sunday April 5 on AMC,...
Lowell Diner Cars: Breakfast Served With a Side of History
Take a nostalgia trip at the city's three iconic greasy spoons.
Lowell Cemetery
By Richard P. Howe, Jr. Shedd Mausoleum Cemeteries in colonial America were ominous places. Graves were clumped together and markers were...
Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War (Part III)
A Riot in Baltimore By Richard P. Howe Jr. Massachusetts State House mural At the top of the stairs leading to the third floor rotunda of the...
Beat Master
Decades after helping put the hip in Boston's Hip Hop scene, Lowell's D-Tension is as funny and relevant as ever By C. J. Berg “I needed...
To Lowell with Love
Post-it campaign transforms blighted storefront into a colorful wall of art It started with a simple message, written on a Post-it and stuck to...
Lowell Finalist in Google’s Model Your Town Competition
The Eiffel Tower in Paris. The Gherkin in London. And now, the Aiken Street Bridge in Lowell? That’s right. Lowell landmarks have arrived on a...
Delivering Spring to Your Doorstep
Florist brings bloom back downtown Outside 96 Merrimack Street, the sky is gray and dreary. But walk into Joanna Hall’s shop and the heady...
Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974 (Light in the Attic)
By David Perry Anyone around in the late 1960s and early ‘70s more than likely felt the hum of deep racial tension. Living in the U.S. sometimes...
All that Jazz
Through music and memory, David Amram helps keep Kerouac’s flame alive By David Perry It is a friendship of the purest sort. And it does not...