Article Archives: Boomerang

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

It’s in my jeans

February 6, 2025 | by Paula Nicewanger

You know, nowadays we all take wearing jeans for granted. You have your cute tight ones that make you look hip and then the ragged ones you only wear to work in the garden. You have your fat jeans and your skinny jeans and the ones you hope someday you … 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

Door Gunner

November 7, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

First Published May 31, 2013 “Door gunning. They’re losing helicopters and they need door gunners.” — Philip Roth, The Human Stain I am a pool player who has played in organized leagues for years. I know little about the players with whom I shoot because we seldom have conversations that … Read More