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Inbox: “Lowell Folk Festival Celebrates Many Tastes of Local Ethnic Cuisines”

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 11, 2022 Filed Under: Eats

"Along with music from around the world, the festival will feature moderated cooking demonstrations plus stands offering traditional foods July 29-31 in Downtown Lowell"

Filed Under: Eats Tagged With: eats, festivals, Lowell, Music

Chris Porter On Lowell’s The Town and The City Festival’s Dedication To Local

Written by DELANEY BEAUDOIN Posted April 4, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

“Artists and creatives have been making this place a lot more interesting” 

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: arts, Lowell, Music

MUSIC NOTES: BONG PARTIES + HOME VIDEOS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews

“Our overall vision for the ‘Morning Coffee’ video was to combine spheres of creativity and good fun. Nothing real dramatic; we were shooting to make something humorous and light as well as visually stimulating."

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews Tagged With: Boston music, cannabis, cannabis music, DJ Slim, Lowell, Sprezzatura, Wax On

SPECIAL FEATURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL

Written by Posted August 18, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: abuse, addiction, AIDS, Boston, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., feature, features, fentanyl, fight, Healthcare, Heroin, long read, longform, longreads, Lowell, Lynn, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Prostitution

MARCELA CRUZ AND THE R&B GRIND OF A LOWELL NATIVE IN BOSTON

Written by MORGAN HUME Posted February 5, 2019 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

“I just want to sing,” Cruz says. “But I have come to realize that we don’t live in a world now where you can just focus on creating and be able to make a living off of that. The business side is just as important.”

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: Boston, Lowell, Marcela Cruz, Music, R&B

WHEEL OF TUNES: MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted December 17, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

For our recurring series, the heavy alt-rockers talk signed Pinkerton vinyl, loud sneezes, and impulsive grocery purchases.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: A Black Mile to the Surface, alt-rock, Andy Hull, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Indie Rock, Interview, Lowell, Manchester Orchestra, Music, The Front Bottoms, Tsongas Center, Wheel of Tunes

DESTINY SCHENECTADY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 16, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

Since I’ve come to admire these resilient urban hamlets in the past decade or so, I have also grown disgusted with the attitudes that people often have about these places.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: Gateway Cities, Lowell, Schenectady

GUEST OP-ED: LAWRENCE AND THE NORTHERN FRONT

Written by JOE D'AMORE Posted January 17, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

I know a homeless person who was told by a Beverly police officer to “go to Lynn.” In fact, he was even offered a one-way ride there. I met a couple from Saugus who lived under the Casey Bridge last summer. I asked them, “Why are you here?” They told me, “We are users but are trying to get back on our feet. The cops in Saugus wouldn’t let us stay camped out in the woods.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: #mapoli, Beverly, Homeless, homelessness, Lowell, Lynn, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, Merrimack valley Hope Mission

THE GENTRIFICATION OF WEED (OR THE YEAR I DITCHED MY MASS MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD)

Written by D-TENSION Posted December 18, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo

I will no longer participate in the gentrification of weed after my card expires in February, and I apologize for wanting something so badly that it took me so long to see what was going on. I just wanted a good night’s sleep, man. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: cannabis, Commonwealth, D-Tension, Lowell, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, MMA, weed

AMAZON OCTAGON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 10, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational

 

At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more municipalities nationwide—for the dubious “honor” ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Abington, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Billerica, Boston, bribe, capitalism, corporation, criticism, deal, Fall River, General Electric, Giveaway, Haverhill, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Lawrence, Lowell, Massachusetts, Methuen, multinational, New Bedford, North Andover, public, Revere, Rockland, SOMERVILLE, Springfield, subcontracting, taxes, Tewksbury, Weymouth, Worcester

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