Left In Lowell

Here’s today’s podcast of my interview this morning with Glenn Ruga, who has founded a new website, socialdocumentary.net. The site is a place for documentary photographers from all around the world to create series of exhibits, allowing them to tell the stories of their subjects.

(Just full disclosure, Glenn is a business colleague of mine and a fellow web designer with whom I work.)

And check out the site, there’s some really amazing photos there!

 TOL Interview with Glenn Ruga, SocialDocumentary.net [10:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s today’s interview with Paul Marion. We talked about Monday’s F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture (open to the public, being held at 7 p.m. at the F. Bradford Morse Federal Building on Merrimack Street).

 Thinking Out Loud - 11/7/08 Interview with Paul Marion [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today on TOL, we’ll be talking to Paul Marion, Executive Director for Outreach at UMass Lowell, about this year’s F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture taking place on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the F. Bradford Morse Federal Building on Merrimack Street. The guest lecturer this year is Prof. Padraig O’Malley of UMass Boston, who will talk about his efforts on reconciliation in Iraq and his history working for peace.

The event is open to the public, and is free.

Join us at 10am, either at 91.5FM or streaming online live.

Today on TOL, Charlotte and I will be bringing in some of our favorite poetry in honor of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival being held in Lowell this weekend. So join us for our reading and chat about poetry! On WUML at 10am, 91.5FM or stream it live on the web.

Update: You can now listen to the archive, click “play” below. Besides reading poetry from some of the participants in this weekend’s Poetry Festival, I also brought a few other faves, and actually did read one of my own as well.

 Thinking Out Loud - Celebration of Poetry [15:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today on TOL, Jim Arciero stopped by to talk about his candidacy for Second Middlesex state Rep (Westford, Littleton, and part of Chelmsford). You can listen to the archive here.

 Thinking Out Loud - Interview with 2nd Middlesex Democratic state Rep candidate Jim Arciero [13:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tomorrow on TOL, we’ll talk to Democratic nominee for 2nd Middlesex state Rep Jim Arciero. We’ll cover all the usual topics that voters are talking about.

You can listen live on WUML 91.5FM or via the webcast.

This is last Friday’s Thinking Out Loud, if you happened to miss it. We had Margaret from JackieDoherty.org in to just talk politics - and of course, the economy took up the entire time.

Anyway, even in the short space between Friday and today, I’ve learned so much more about this crisis, but it definitely was an interesting conversation.

 TOL 9/19/2008 - Chat with Margaret from JackieDoherty.org [14:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today on TOL, we’ll be talking to Margaret of JackieDoherty.org. We’ll be chatting about politics in general, from local to national. You can listen live at 10am on WUML 91.5FM or on the web.

Next week, barring scheduling conflicts, we’ll have Democratic nominee Jim Arciero, candidate for State Rep for the 2nd Middlesex District (Westford area), in to talk about his campaign and what he would want to accomplish should he win on Nov 4th.

Today on TOL, we’ll be talking to City Manager Bernie Lynch. A lot is going on in the city and we’ll try to jam in as many questions as possible.

You can listen live at 10am on WUML 91.5FM, or stream it at WUML’s website.

Hopefully my voice holds out…anyway, our special guest tomorrow is Suzz Cromwell, who is working on the Massachusetts Poetry Festival being held in Lowell from October 10 through 12. I am really looking forward to learning more about this upcoming event, and I hope you join us! You can listen from 10-11am on WUML 91.5FM, or stream it live.