The biggest news of the day may be for Lowellites. (Lowellians?) In the Lowell Sun, Nancye Tuttle reports on repairs needed at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. And Rachel R. Briere says not to believe reports of a production start on a movie of native son Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Jack Thomas has a terrific feature in the Globe this morning, sitting down at Wally's with 93-year-old James Guilford to talk about the history of jazz in the city and about cutting the hair of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and many many more. ... Odetta and Emmylou Harris had to cancel out of the Newport Folk Fest over the weekend, but in her Globe recap, Joan Anderman makes it sound as if the biggest disappointment was the Pixies' much-discussed acoustic set, which she calls "neither radical nor especially memorable." Elvis Costello fit the event better, it seems.
Both Names & Faces and the Herald's Inside Track write up Sunday's starry benefit screening of Mark Wahlberg's "Four Brothers" in Boston. The Track talks to Wahlberg about "Entourage" and his hassles with the real-life version; Names notes the irony of onetime badboy Wahlberg, "who used to terrorize black kids on the mean streets of Savin Hill," being in a film by "Boyz in the Hood" director John Singleton.
And sometime Franklin County resident Bill Cosby left 'em laughing at the Cape Cod Melody Tent over the weekend, Nick Zaino reports in the Globe.
I did not know that Herman Melville's thinking about "Moby Dick" was crystallized on a mountain hike with Nathaniel Hawthorne. But in the Berkshire Eagle, Benning W. De La Mater takes us along with a group of locals re-creating the event. ... Also in the Eagle, Andrew L. Pincus reviews a performance of Mozart at Tanglewood.
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