Projection of experimental video on a four-story smokestack is going to be the primary focus in the kickoff of ARTventures, a new public art and festival summer series launched by a Revolving Museum collaboration with organizations across Lowell, Mass.

At the Commercial Street Fishery, chef Justin Lyonnais has changed the menu three times in the past year.

Driven by freshness, availability and his whim. But changing the menu is tough to do when a designer and printer need to get involved every time.

If I were doing my Saturday morning radio program on (plug, plug) WGAM (1250 and 900 AM) this morning and counting down the biggest stories from a rather interesting week, here?s what they would be:

Patriots on the Move over the Weekend: The whole In Bill We Trust thing got a workout last off-season when Willie McGinest, Deion Branch, David Givens and Adam V walked. While it all made big-picture fiscal sense it hurt in the short run. Ironically Vinatieri?s departure hurt the least, although it is worth noting he was money in the bank in helping the archrival Colts become Super Bowl champs. Not having McGinest hurt when Junior Seau went down and wide receiver was a problem all year.

We all know the problems with laptops.

The cheap ones are huge and underpowered, and the ones that are truly portable come with mondo price tags. Take along a power cord and a mouse in a carrying case and you?ve probably doubled the weight of your supposed ?ultraportable? notebook computer.

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