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Arlo Guthrie Marking 50th Anniversary of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ With Concert in Lowell

Matthew McDonald

Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie is marking the 50th anniversary of his most famous song and the movie it inspired with a concert tour that includes Lowell.

"Alice's Restaurant Massacree," a memorable 19-minute song recounting how a 1965 Thanksgiving Day littering incident in Stockbridge, Massachusetts helped Guthrie out of a jam a little later in life, was released in 1967 and led to a movie called Alice's Restaurant in 1969.

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‘Gender Justice’ Activist Addresses UMass Students

Matthew McDonald

Jackson Katz, a 1982 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who says he was the first male student to minor in women's studies, spoke about the need for men to combat sexist attitudes during a talk at the Old Chapel on the UMass campus.

A woman who lives in the town of Montague brought her 13-year-old son to try to get him interested in women's issues, according to the Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at UMass.

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