Now that we know the identity of the suicide-gunman - Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak - from Thursday’s mass shooting at Northern Illinois University, it answers the "who" question of what happened. And we already know the "where," "how," "what," and "when" aspects of his evil act, taking the lives of [...]
In my newspaper column today, found online at http://www.post-trib.com/news/davich/index.html, I shared notes about a few couples I noticed in public - at a bar, in the grocery store, etc. - and how they treated each other when they figured no one was watching. I wrote this Cupid's Day column [...]
In my newspaper column today, found online at http://www.post-trib.com/news/davich/index.html, I shared notes about a few couples I noticed in public - at a bar, in the grocery store, etc. - and how they treated each other when they figured no one was watching. I wrote this Cupid's Day column [...]
Soul singer Natalie Cole, the 58-year-old daughter of legendary crooner Nat King Cole, echoed the feelings of many music fans Monday by saying drugged-out, screwed-up, singer-songstress Amy Winehouse shouldn't have hauled in so many Grammys at Sunday's ceremony.
"I don't think she should have won," Cole said in an [...]
A lot of reader comments I receive via cyberspace never make it to print or into this blog.
They're either too inflammatory for public consumption, too lengthy for space considerations in the newspaper, or just too wacky, off-base, or irrelevant for either forum. So they get deleted, forwarded to [...]
It's 4 p.m. in the Post-Tribune newsroom as deadline approaches for daily stories.
For the past few hours, the past few days, the past few years, the past few decades, it's the same routine here and, I'm sure, at every other newspaper.
Reporters, columnists, editors, photographers and other editorial [...]
So I limp in to the Family Express gas station after playing Thursday night tennis at The Courts of Northwest Indiana in Valparaiso.
My weekly ritual after playing 90 minutes of sweaty, no-Gatorade tennis is to quench my thirst by - what else? - eating chocolate donuts. And Family [...]
I expected it. I deserved it. I got it.
After my Sunday column ran on the BMV's decision to tighten a legal loophole allowing thousands of Lake and Porter county motorists to detour around strict emission mandates and the costly repairs often needed to comply to state law - [...]
Last week I wrote a column on Valparaiso University men's basketball "super fans," six super-charged students who show up for each home game dressed in unique outfits.
One game they dressed in bikinis for Hawaiian Night. Another game they dressed as ninjas. For the game before holiday break they [...]
OK, be honest,who had Heath Ledger in the Celebrity Death Pool?
Not me, not you, and surely not the obituary writers, I'll bet.
Oh sure there's an obit already penned for Britney Spears, the AP recently revealed. Not too surprising, even at age 26, huh? And surely there have [...]
So there I was late Saturday night chatting it up with Eddie, his wife, Lisa, and her friend, Nancy, at the End Zone Bar & Grill in downtown Hobart. I just met them a few minutes earlier but it felt like we were old buds. They even offered to buy [...]
The old guy wore an oversized parka, heavy boots, thick gloves, earmuffs, and a scarf.
He kept staring my way as I ate dinner at my favorite Mexican food joint in Portage.
I knew he had something to say to me, besides chastising me for wearing only shorts [...]
I was born in Gary.
I was raised in Gary.
And I left Gary - at age 18.
I hear similar tales of not-so-daring escape from so many readers when I write about my hometown. The only wording that changes is their age when they left: 12 years old, 23 [...]
Exhibit evidence #412 that Forbes Magazine and none of its editors, writers, or employees have ever been to Gary was revealed Friday as the corporate media giant publicly announced that Northwest Indiana’s largest city was deemed 39 out of 100 U.S. metro areas for its annual list, “Best Cities for [...]
The older lady stood about 15 feet away from me in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store.
As I reached to grab a frozen pizza from the shelf, the lady exploded with the loudest sneeze I ever heard.
Aaaaaahhhhh-ccchhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Sniffle sniffle, snot snot, wipe wipe.
It was [...]
"He's at the back door... he's trying to get in... I'm in the bedroom... He's in the house... I got a weapon... Hurry please... I'm scared... I'm going to shoot... He's turning the door now... Stop it!... Just stop it!... Oh my God... Oh my God!"
This is [...]
False. False. False. And, uh, false.
That’s all that needs to be said regarding another red, white and untrue “patriotic” e-mail that’s spreading like wildfire in cyberspace about U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The e-mail, forwarded to me Monday by a skeptical reader, claimed that Obama is a radical Muslim [...]
Before we move on to other more worthy issues, or at least more interesting, I promised to announce the recipient of that $25 gas card for, well, you know. The reader's name is Carrie L., of Chesterton, who had no problem infiltrating the aforementioned "town without a welcome mat."
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Think quick! Which Northwest Indiana community is the most scenic and picturesque this time of year? Yes, without
a doubt it’s a must-see destination point in the region that welcomes out-of-town visitors like old family. That’s right,
it’s the lovely town of Dune Acres, which doesn't want you [...]
