by Mitch Albom | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
An iPhone 5C is about 5 inches high and a third of an inch thick. Yet inside that small device now swirls a critical debate over our privacy. The iPhone in question belonged to Syed Farook, who, last December, along with his wife, shot and killed 14 people and wounded...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Sometimes police tapes can be misleading. Not this one. Sometimes suspects demand force. Not this one. Sometimes a cop has a really good reason. Not this one.The videotape of James Blake being arrested in New York City this past week leaves nothing to the imagination....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 1, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
How big is this planet? Here’s how big. On one side, we pass laws to ensure gay couples can marry. On the other side, a wife is sentenced to death for refusing to denounce her religion.Right now, Meriam Ibrahim, 27, sits in a Sudanese prison, nursing a newborn...
by Mitch Albom | May 11, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Two teens were beating up on each other. It looked like a barroom brawl. Their bodies hurled around the room. Furniture flew. Onlookers screamed.Except this wasn’t a barroom. It was a classroom. At Detroit’s Pershing High School. And the first responder...
by Mitch Albom | May 4, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Now that Donald Sterling has been banned, fined and condemned – the proper, if ugly, conclusion, in my mind – we should discuss how it happened. Most of us don’t need to worry about angry mistresses, Department of Justice investigations,...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 27, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It’s prom season, and that means one thing: finding a hot celebrity to go with you.No longer is it enough to ask the cute girl you have been looking at in chemistry class, or the boy who smiles at you every day in homeroom.Now it’s Kate Upton. Or Justin Bieber. Or...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Mar 25, 2014 | Films, News
Warner Bros has acquired film rights to the Mitch Albom’s bestselling novel, The First Phone Call From Heaven. Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan will produce as Chantal Nong and Cate Adams will oversee for Warner Bros. This marks his first feature deal. It was...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 23, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
“By all means dress in ridiculous togs, exchange rings and kisses … but call it a wedding … with nothing theological about it – and leave marriage to those who still believe in its sanctity.”- Brian SewellI did a London radio show two...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 23, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A lump of goal. An empty stocking. Meaningful football just took the rest of the year off in Detroit. In a game Sunday that, for a while, nobody seemed to want, the New York Giants finally looked at the Ford Field scoreboard, saw a fourth down in overtime, and...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 10, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Every New Year’s Eve, Jim Leyland’s family gathers in his childhood home and participates in a tradition. The males in the family, from grandparents down to grandkids, take a piece of bread and a piece of coal, go out the back door – “which...
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