Steve Nicewanger’s Story Archive

Gene and I Co-Starred at Hinkle

March 6, 2025 | by Steve Nicewanger

This was first published on April 7, 2010. Butler’s dream season and run for the NCAA championship has harkened back to the legendary 1954 Milan Miracle when the Little Giants won the State Basketball Championship with Bobby Plump and the rest of the Milan immortals. Bobby has been on National … Read More

When the Oscar Sings

January 30, 2025 | by Steve Nicewanger

This column first appeared in Feb. 2014 What do the songs “Let the River Run,” “Things Have Changed,” “ It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp,” “Last Dance,” “It Might as Well be Spring, and “It Goes Like It Goes” all have in common? Well, friends and neighbors, they all … Read More

Nostalgia TV – Everything Old is New Again

January 16, 2025 | by Steve Nicewanger

First Published 3/29/13 The article you are about to read is true, only the facts have been dramatized to protect the innocent . . . and make it more readable. I watched Robert Redford as the Angel of Death the other night. He was 26 years old. About two weeks … Read More

“The Greatest Gift” became “It’s a Wonderful Life”

December 19, 2024 | by Steve Nicewanger

First published 11/26/11 This is the time of year that the holiday classic film It’s a Wonderful Life starts appearing on television. It’s a Christmas tradition and the story of George Bailey realizing his true value as a human being has resonated with viewers since it’s release in 1946. We … Read More

A Role I Was Born to Play

December 5, 2024 | by Steve Nicewanger

First published Nov. 24, 2017 I have a Facebook buddy named Gay Lyons. Gay and I go way back. We went to kindergarten together and continued through grade school, junior high and high school at Arlington. After graduation I lost track of Gay for a very long time, but through … Read More