metro area: boston / cambridge / quincy, MA-NH
paradise rock club
from u2 posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
U2's live album Live from Boston 1981 was recorded at the Paradise Rock Club (at the time the Paradise Theater) on March 6, 1981 during their Boy Tour.
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from louis c.k., sarah silverman, adam sandler posted in television by nevereatshreddedwheat
I don't know if you can call the open mic night at Stitches in Boston legendary, but it is where Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Adam Sandler and many other aspiring comics got on stage for the very first time in the 80s. Amateurs were given five minutes. Louis C.K. bombed and left the stage after a minute and half, but Sarah Silverman has said her set the first time up 'was pretty successful.'
The comedy club used to be located in the front room (currently the Paradise Lounge) of the Paradise Rock Club.
jack & stella kerouac center for american studies
from jack kerouac, the beats posted in literature by pete_nice
Founded in 2005 with financial support from Kerouac Estate Executor John Sampas, the Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies has the stated purpose of strengthening "the interdisciplinary study of American culture by facilitating ties between the fields of English, history, philosophy, cultural studies, art, music, sociology, and economics."
The center serves as the home for the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence program, the Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, Kerouac Scholarships and the New England Poetry Conference.
jack kerouac’s birthplace
from jack kerouac posted in literature by speedy_dee
Jean-Louis "Jack" Kérouac was born in the second story apartment of this house on March 12, 1922 "at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” (from Doctor Sax, published 1959).
His parents were French Canadians, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque, of St-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup in the province of Quebec, Canada. Jack spoke French exclusively until he was seven years old.
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from jack kerouac posted in literature by speedy_dee
The Patrick J. Morgan Cultural Center was opened in 1989 in a former corporate boarding house for women that worked in the textile mills of Lowell. The center is dedicated to telling "the human story of Lowell" through community-sponsored exhibits, projects and programs.
On permanent display in the Mill Girls and Immigrants Exhibit is Jack Kerouac's typewriter, some of his camping/traveling gear, and his well-worn backpack.
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