Left In Lowell

Don’t forget, tomorrow will be a great day to come to Western Avenue Studio’s First Saturday open studios event! The fourth floor is also putting on a great show - 4Ever Blue, a presentation of blue artworks from our floor (and it looks great!). And yes, I got my painting done on time, so it’s premiering at the show! So stop by, we have refreshments (first come first serve!) and see our new gallery on the fourth, then peruse to your heart’s content on three full floors of artist studios!

See the great piece the Sun did on the new space and our show here.

According to a story on the Lowell Sun’s web site, Bob Hatem of the tennis-court controversy issue, is considering suing the City. In the article, Mr. Hatem is quoted as saying “… unless the permits are rescinded, he will seek a legal opinion, at his own expense, and sue the city himself if need be.”

Mr. Hatem made those comments last night when he appeared on the newspaper’s radio show, News Talk Live. (I would link to it but they got the April 5th show’s URL assigned to the May 3rd show).

He is the second person, who has recently stated that they might take legal action against you, me and the other +100,000 residents of Lowell. Last week, I heard on the radio an unidentified caller tell Mayor Bill Martin that if the City Council no longer recites the Lord’s Prayer, he will sue.

Once upon a time people used to take it to the streets, now they take it to the courts. What happened to the days when advocates debated, campaigned, educated, organized and used the ballot box to bring about changes?

Today we’ll be talking to MA-05 candidate Barry Finegold. You can listen on 91.5FM or stream it live.

And I hadn’t linked to it yet, but last week’s interview was with Western Ave Studio owner, Karl Frey of Vespera. Western Ave is in the process of asking for an Artist Overlay District extension for our building; we also talk about Karl’s other projects and about sustainable development.