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By Bill Fleck, author of the Rondo-nominated book CHANEY’S BABY, availablehere. Check out other articles on my Rondo-nominated website by clicking here. Did you know? Two-time Rondo-Award winning filmmaker Thomas Hamilton is in the process of making THE CHANEYS: HOLLYWOOD’S HORROR DYNASTY, which is inspired by my book, CHANEY’S BABY. (I’m also a producer on the film.) If you’d like to support the project, click here and see what’s going on.

In 2007, during the height of the wine blogging craze when fools, friends, and fanatics of wine rushed to make their bid to become the next big voice in wine, Jeff Siegel launched a blog dedicated to “wine that most of us drink – cheap wine.” THE WINE CURMUDGEON was born. In February 2024 The Wine Curmudgeon will come to an end as Jeff stops publishing—after more than 4,700 posts and articles.

The release of new court documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein yesterday “provided little, if any, new fodder for conspiracy theorists who remain fixated on Mr. Epstein’s dealings more than four years after his death,” according to the New York Times. The documents, the Times claimed, reinforced what the public already knew, namely that pedophile financier Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell made young and often underage women available for sex to powerful men.

On this Christmas Eve, 2023, I wanted to write something different from my usual - “Elegies of Lost Things.” It feels a little off-topic, but I wanted to celebrate Emmanuel, “God with Us” this silent night. While thinking I was off-topic, it hit me. At one time, I was a lost thing. Maybe that is why I enjoy searching for lost things. For once I was lost, but now I am found.

Meet the Mess By Jen Lancaster & Karyn Bosnak Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to MEET THE MESS! Bestselling authors Jen Lancaster & Karyn Bosnak dive into the latest headlines and hot topics to give you a fresh and entertaining take on current events and life in general. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauxzaWYp5uRqMGmvg%3D%3D

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIs it enough that I tried to do no harm? I drank the milk before it spoiled, biked to work, held doors. When I crushed the occasional spider, I felt mostly sorry. In the city, nature was hard to follow, incognito in crevices along the river, but who can tell a flower from a weed? I met the not-knowing, & it bloomed in me like a seed.

Believer By Jenn Morson Jenn Morson is a writer and investigative journalist. Her reporting has focused on the clergy abuse crisis, specifically on issues present at her alma mater, Franciscan University. She also writes about other topics which move her to speak up. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauxzaekqKqjpLs%3D

The fourteenth season of The Real Housewives of New York is three episodes deep, and Jenna Lyons, the show’s most surprising cast member, could not be more satisfying to watch. She is the reason many of us are embracing this season, which has an entirely new cast after the messy thirteenth season produced low ratings. Fashion fans will remember Jenna from the heyday of Michelle Obama-era J. Crew. She was the creative director from 2010 to 2017, though she started working there in 1990.

Jennifer Lopez — actress, singer, inventor of the nude glossy lip — is making a skincare line. Considering the amount of time I think about skincare and the amount of time I think about celebrities, it feels a little improbable that I care so little for celebrity skin… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ooZ6mnp6zpr6MpaapnapisKK6zairZqWRoLJuucRmp66s