Author Archives: Emilie-Noelle Provost
Good Eats: Prelude
Tucked behind a Dunkin’ Donuts on an unassuming stretch of Route 97 in Methuen sits Prelude, the new restaurant venture of Methuen native and former “The Next Food Network Star” contestant Tommy Grella and his business partner, Andy Tucker.
We arrived at 7 p.m. on a Thursday, pleasantly surprised by the sophisticated, earth-toned décor and snazzy [...]
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HEALTH – Sole Mates
With a Little Effort, Pretty, Healthy Feet Can Be Yours.
Talking about feet makes a lot of folks feel silly. After all, a body part that’s the subject of the children’s rhyme “This Little Piggy” can be hard to take seriously.
And while having a lighthearted attitude about our feet is surely OK, as anyone who’s ever [...]
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Cafe Azteca – A Slice of Old Mexico
( Editor’s Note: Café Azteca was reviewed in the July/August ’09 issue – read it here. )
Seventeen years ago, after having worked in many Mexican restaurants in the area, Antonio Guerrero, along with his wife, Mary, opened Café Azteca on Common Street in Lawrence. Their cozy, old-world-style café was meant to be a remedy for [...]
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Lowell’s Iraqi Refugees
Since its founding in the early 1820s, Lowell has been a city of immigrants. From the French-Canadians who left Quebec’s farmland in droves seeking a better life in the city’s 19th century textile miles, to the thousands of Cambodians who came in the 1980s to escape the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, Lowell has throughout [...]
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Celebrating the Season: A Holiday Event Calendar
No time of year inspires music, theater and art quite like the holidays. We’re fortunate in the Merrimack Valley to be home to one of the best arts scenes in New England with world-class venues like the Rogers Center for the Arts, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and numerous small [...]
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Community Spotlight: Team Mickey Ward Charities
Not long after his 2003 retirement from professional boxing, “Irish” Micky Ward, local sports celebrity and the subject of the 2010 Oscar-winning film, “The Fighter,” began looking for a way to give something back to his most dedicated supporters: the people of greater Lowell. Though the city had rebounded, both socially and economically, in the years since [...]
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Good Eats: Surf Restaurant
Seafood restaurants are common in New England, and the Merrimack Valley certainly has its share. Too often, however, there isn’t much to distinguish between the clam chowder and the baked haddock served from one establishment to the next.
Even the quality seafood places tend from time to time to set themselves adrift on the placid seas [...]
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Wild in the City – Lowell’s Whitewater Rafting
Early on a gray, misty morning in mid-April I set out in an inflatable raft for an untamed, soaking ride down the Concord River in Lowell. Surprising even to locals like me, whitewater rafting on the Concord is the real deal, complete with class III and IV rapids (wetsuit required), verdant foliage and an abundance [...]
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Spotlight on the Arts – Andover Choral Society
Perhaps one of the best kept secrets in the region’s performing arts scene, the Andover Choral Society (ACS) has been bringing professional quality music to the Merrimack Valley for more than 80 years. Founded in 1930 by Andover native J. Everett Collins, a musician and teacher for whom the town’s Collins Center for the Performing [...]
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