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Locate the Easter eggs of life

During this part of my life, it’s not uncommon for me to die. There are quite a few days where I die. I don’t mean that I officially die, and now...

01.04.2024 10

NY Daily News

Colin Fleming

A Valentine’s Day query: How love really works

There’s an episode of “Cheers” where the boys in the bar are discussing the worst way to die. Cliff suggests something like sliding down a...

15.02.2024 9

NY Daily News

Colin Fleming

60 Years Later: How The Beatles Met the Moment on Ed Sullivan

In the days before everyone cut their cable because no one had cable yet, there were these things called networks. Only a handful of these networks...

09.02.2024 100

The Daily Beast

Colin Fleming

Why I Still Believe in Santa Claus

Just prior to Christmas in 1823, a poem called “A Visit from St. Nicholas” appeared in the Troy Sentinel, sans attribution. The author, perhaps...

24.12.2023 5

Time

Colin Fleming

You’ll Never See John Lennon’s Death the Same After This

On Dec. 8, 1960, John Lennon found himself having a bad go of it. He was making his way back alone from Hamburg to England, by boat and train,...

06.12.2023 5

The Daily Beast

Colin Fleming

Confessions of a Thanksgiving misfit

There was a time when Thanksgiving might have been the most beloved holiday in this country, and not the mere speedbump it is now on the calendar...

24.11.2023 8

NY Daily News

Colin Fleming

Letters: Why I’m grateful to live in Chicago

Editor’s note: In the spirit of Thanksgiving, our readers wrote to us to share what they’re grateful for. We are publishing their many letters...

22.11.2023 2

Chicago Tribune

Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming: Here’s why I’m such a fan of Peppermint Patty’s energy in ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’

As a die-hard “Peanuts” aficionado and someone who rates the philosophical musings of Linus at the level of Michel de Montaigne, I’ll be the...

22.11.2023 4

Chicago Tribune

Colin Fleming

The Beatles Should Have Let ‘Now and Then’ Be

During their actual time together as a recording unit—a period lasting only seven years—the Beatles were never a band who had to manufacture a...

03.11.2023 4

The Daily Beast

Colin Fleming

This old-time radio show is the scariest thing you could listen to on Halloween

The “Haunted Trail” opens in Coal Township, Pa. When are you most scared? It’s when your imagination is running away with you, right? If I were...

31.10.2023 4

San Francisco Chronicle

Colin Fleming

The Most Awesome, Crypt-Rocking, Scariest Ghost Stories for Halloween: Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and More

Ghosts stories provide some of the richest reading experiences, because there’s seldom a time I’m not in the mood for one. I ramp up my ghost...

30.10.2023 3

The Daily Beast

Colin Fleming

You’ve Never Heard the Beatles Quite Like This

There are gigs that are storied for the music that was played at them and there are gigs that are storied for their stories. And sometimes there are...

18.09.2023 40

The Daily Beast

Colin Fleming

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