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We lead off today’s O-Bits with a story about a trio of murder suspects who escaped from a Texas jail…only to be apprehended less than an hour later, when they stopped at…
Thinking of our East Coast friends, who are digging out from under their second snowstorm in as many weeks. Today’s storm features something with the especially scary name of “Thunder Snow,” which…
We’ve all seen those “100 Places You Must See Before You Die” stories. They’re fine, as far as travel porn goes—I hear Damascus is lovely this time of year—but at the Obit…
We know most of you are probably more concerned with decorating the Christmas tree and the Alabama election, or just remembering it’s the first night of Hanukah and wondering where you stowed…
Sonny Murray, a challenging drummer of prodigious talents, died on December 8th, according to Pitchfork. A pioneer of the free jazz movement, Murray played on classic albums by Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler,…
Among those who passed to the other side from our planet on December 11 are: Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), the soul musician who brought us such songs as “You…
Eight nights of Hanukah. Vera Ward Hall tells us it’s the last month of the year. Counting the days ’til Christmas. Anyway you celebrate it, numbers matter during the holiday season. This…
We get it. We really do. And of course O-Bits is interested in Day Of The Dead: Bloodline. That it’s a Bulgarian-American co-production with a Spanish director certainly piques our interest. But,…
With urban farmer’s markets flourishing, the trend of farm-to-table restaurants, which treat farmers like celebrities, putting their names on menus, and the hipster fetish with anything “artisanal,” you’d think that family farms…
O-Bits has not been a regular at shul for quite some time. If we’re being honest, not since my Bar Mitzvah. I still have the inscribed Union of American Hebrew Congregations Bible, and…
If our innocence was stripped when John Kennedy was killed in 1963, that scar was reopened on December 8, 1980. I remembered November 22, 1963 as well as April 4 and June…
Yesterday, we published a fake story about a Michigan morgue; today we’re running real news that’s even worse: truth once again proves worse than fiction. Our real story, from the Central Michigan…
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