This date in Slice history (1996)

Slice answers: Lots of people, we’re told, refer to the Lilac City as “The Can.”

And we’ve decided that it would be a good name for a TV show. Or a hair style. Or better yet, a newspaper column.

“Hey, did you read in ‘The Can’ that some old lady in Hillyard brushes her cat twice a day?”

“You don’t say.”