My Morning Jacket Rings in 2009 at Madison Square Garden

To welcome the New Year and a new era My Morning Jacket held a celebratory and nearly sold-out concert in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The event was a seminal moment for the Kentucky band who, after forming a little over a decade before, found themselves headlining in one of the most prominent venues in the county.

Ravens clip ‘Hawks

A season of disappointment continued for the River Hawks women’s basketball team,who suffered a 62-58 loss against the visiting Franklin Pierce Ravens Saturday at the Costello Athletic Center. Junior guard Megan Berry led the ‘Hawks with 12 points, and sisters Johannah and Jennifer Leedham of the Ravens led all scorers with 21 and 18 points respectively.

FIFA ’09 screams it from the 30 yard mark

Overseas, the FA Cup is bringing England’s top soccer clubs together for an awe inspiring tournament of terrific play and even more electric culture. At home, FIFA ’09 for the Xbox 360 is looking to bring the very same experience to soccer fans on couches all across the world and it succeeds.

Netflix comes to the XBOX360

You have a pretty girl coming over at 7 and nothing to do, who ya gonna call? Blockbuster?

“So tell us really, how much do you love terrorism?”

After an exhausting 13-hour flight from Paris, all Chris Whitman wanted to do was return home with his family.

The joyful reunion the UMass Lowell senior hoped for never happened. Just moments after getting off the plane, Whitman was brought into a secured inspection room at Logan Airport where he was held without contact to his parents for over five hours.

M2D2 Makes Way For Medical Devices

Move aside R2, there is a new program in town. The UMass Lowell-UMass Worcester Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) is an initiative that helps entrepreneurs turn their medical device ideas into a reality. Since the start of the program in 2007 the Center has assisted twenty-three start-up companies and entrepreneurs.

‘Hawks thump Franklin Pierce to rack up 12th straight win

Junior forward Victor Colon had 20 points and 11 boards, and the River Hawks recorded their 12th straight victory with a 66-49 win over the Franklin Pierce Ravens Saturday at the Costello Athletic Center.

The Bucket - The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra

The Faceless – Planetary Duality

In any genre, the sophomore slump is an epidemic. Creating a follow up equal or even better than the debut is seemingly an impossible task.

University Avenue Bridge (finally) reopens for traffic

The residents of Lowell heaved a sigh of relief when the Textile Memorial Bridge, better known as the University Avenue bridge reopened on January 5. The 113-year-old bridge, which carries 16,000 vehicles per day over the Merrimack River was closed on August 25.