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Inside New Bedford’s Orpheum Theater
The faces along the Orpheum Theater’s facade hang like silent sentinels from another era in the city’s south end along Route 18. The building – along with a handful of…
Read MoreMember Spotlight: Mark Collins
We first crossed paths with Mark Collins at the Providence Entrepreneurs Meetup and at the South Coast WordPress Meetup here at Groundwork! It wasn’t until after Mark joined the Groundwork team…
Read MoreBookfest Author Courtney Morgan on Creativity and Sexuality
“I see the creative process as very connected to the body, and particularly to sexuality—the drive to procreate, create, make—I see and experience the creative and the sexual impulse(s) as very interconnected.”
Read MoreNew Bedford Guide goes cold turkey
As everyone – outside of North Korea – knows by now, the Internet caused a massive change in the way we consume news. Legacy media – like newspapers and even…
Read More#tags and the City of New Bedford
An innovative project website called #tagsandthecity examines Instagram usage for clues into peoples’ behavior. It’s centered around transportation but monitors shopping and dining as well as travelling habits. From the website:…
Read MoreMeet Mark Phelan: Artist behind “Mental Mapping”
Can you describe “Mental Mapping (is heavy lifting)” to us? Mental Mapping is a group of paintings and drawings that I have been working on since I finished grad school…
Read MoreCoworking Abroad: Startup Weekend in the Azores
This year I was lucky enough to be one of the 15 Business undergrad and graduate students selected to participate in an International Entrepreneurship class. This class was special. It…
Read MoreNew Bedford’s “Boardwalk”
In a previous life, when I helped promote or put together literary events in New Jersey, one of the stand-out days was when author Junot Diaz came to town for a…
Read MoreThe Write Moves in New Bedford
“I was chatting with Alison Wells about putting a poetry event on in April and I had an idea of maybe trying to get one going on the Saturday evening…
Read MoreNailing it on Union Street
I don’t know what the beer will be like and ditto for the burgers. But, after taking a walk by at dusk one evening last week, I do know one…
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