A little more than 30 years ago, I worked in a newsroom with a guy who didn't like me. I knew this because friends there were kind enough to share with me some of his comments. As I didn't happen to care for him either,…
Around lunchtime Saturday, I was walking home from a branch library. I had earphones in and was listening to the radio. It was an "On the Media" discussion of how NPR can defend itself against charges that it has a liberal agenda. Pretty interesting. I…
This is Gary, from 'thirtysomething." www.tvlistings.zap2it.com
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...when TV broadcasts of college football games included showing the marching bands at halftime?
www.sepiachord.com The show's third season kicked off with a memorable treatment of the insanity of war. The episode, "Two", starred a pre-"Bewitched" Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson. They are surviving soldiers from opposite sides of a devastating conflict. It aired for the first time on…
So you went online and found the contact info for an old friend -- someone you haven't talked to in years. Do you take the next step? Better read Saturday's Slice first.
Back in the day, when a reporter and a photographer wanted to silently communicate to one another that an event they were attending did not merit coverage, they had to write a note and surreptitiously show it to the colleague. Often, you couldn't really say…
Slice reader Dave Spilker saw the column item about local place names that could have been the names of eccentric characters in old TV westerns. And he took it from there. "There are a few old towns, sidings, and 'jerkwaters' on the Milwaukee railbed right-of-way…
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This email from a woman named Debbie arrived a couple of days ago. "Hello, Paul Turner. "I stumbled across 'The Slice', and had to write, since you mentioned growing up in Burlington, VT. "Are you the Paul Turner who camped at Papoose Pond? I think…
www.velvetonthepage.blogspot.com Are they in the Big Sky Conference?
Labor groups at a few big city newspapers occasionally went on strike, sometimes shutting down the daily in question. Have you (or your family) ever been a subscriber to a paper that stopped coming because of labor strife? What did you do after the presses…
Belmont High of Dayton, Ohio, in 1964. I was just a little kid at the time. But my significantly older brother and sister went to a high school (Fairborn) that was one of Belmont's early victims that season. I attended many of the games, including…
Would it have been impossible to enjoy this remarkable HBO series from a few years ago? www.tvchannelsfree.com What if you really, really love gritty Old West stories? Maybe there aren't many people with low tolerance for swearing who get HBO.
I'll start with this. www.closetfatchick.com
Two or three years ago, an engaging fellow at the Magner Sanborn advertising/brand design agency invited me to stop by their downtown Spokane offices sometime. I haven't done it yet. But I am still planning to take him up on the offer. (I checked and…
It's just a question of how quickly. http://info.ncagr.com
This sort of thing happens all the time. www.sacomics.blogspot.com
www.oshkoshbeer.blogspot.com OK, not really But as the gentleman in question is known by an astonishing number of people around here, I will simply assume that you know who I am talking about. Actually, I'm hoping he'll come work for me at one of my new…
A reader called and asked what happened to KREM's Katie Utehs. I said I didn't know. He waited for me to say I would look into it. I offered no such assurances. A little while later, he called back. He said he had gone online…
I've read that quite a few radio stations across the country refused to play this song about a white girl who tells her black boyfriend she can't see him anymore. It came out in 1967, but Janis Ian wrote it several years earlier, when she…
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Today's Slice question: A Shakespearean play based on life in Spokane would be called what? www.housmans.com
You can find yourself looking at photos of Albi, France. Don't think WSU ever played any home games there. www.medievalists.net
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