July 18, 2023 This One’s Served Over-Hard – A Trip to the World’s Largest Concrete Egg “You guys wanna go see the egg?” I asked as we pointed our car south on Indiana 19 from Etna Green, all part of…
June 28, 2023 New local history book tells story of fired South Bend newspaper reporter who had the last laugh The following is an excerpt from Aaron Helman’s new Michiana history book, Ride the Jack Rabbit: More of the People, Places, and Events that Made…
June 14, 2023 Everybody is somebody at the U.S. Open The golf world watched in rapt attention this past May at the PGA Championship as club pro Michael Block snuck through the cutline and…
February 16, 2023 I read Bill Moor’s new book and liked it As you’ve probably seen by now, esteemed Moorandmore captain Bill Moor is preparing to release his new book during the next few weeks. As…
October 17, 2022 Mine is not the face you associate with an eating disorder I remember when I looked down at the scale and saw the number “127” looking back at me, the lowest my weight had been in…
August 23, 2022 I got Covid too, and I didn’t care for it After spending a weekend wedged uncomfortably beneath a pair of uncooperative sinks and hacksawing through a collection of antique plumbing fixtures, the Monday morning…
August 4, 2022 100 years ago, Studebaker reached the peak of its powers, or did it? It was August 1922 when Albert Erskine made an announcement that sounded too good to be true, and in retrospect, maybe it was. The…
July 24, 2022 Why I spent the past six weeks researching a single Babe Ruth home run My eyes were blurry and fuzzy, courtesy of a four-hour binge session in the microfilm room, a byproduct of a bizarre obsession I’d developed…
July 14, 2022 An environmental dispatch from Singapore, Michigan The trip from South Bend to Singapore might be a little different than you’d expect. It’s a lot of highway, followed by a cruise…
June 23, 2022 This Story Ends with a Naked, Famous Poet This story is going to end with a naked, famous poet; but it’s going to begin with a wedge of fine Italian cheese that…
June 15, 2022 The curious tale behind South Bend’s bridge to nowhere Deep in the back pocket of South Bend’s City Cemetery, behind rows of well-manicured stones that bear many of the same names as the…
