Philip Potempa

Last Monday, Sept. 2, wasn’t just the date of the Labor Day holiday. It also holds the designation status of “World Coconut Day.”

With a more than 30-year radio broadcasting career — 28 of those years based in Valparaiso — media personality Steve Zana was a known name, recognizable voice and noted identity....

Chicago attorney Jim Nagle is a visionary for preserving history. Originally from Elmhurst, Illinois, Nagle is also a real estate developer who has been watching the latest transformation of downtown...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed "The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical" for the 2014 world premiere staged at Theatre at the Center at The Center for...

My wise, wizened late family friend Irene Jakubowski, who would have celebrated her 102nd birthday on this Sunday, Aug. 25, said it best when she referred to the attractive menu...

NWI Symphony's 2024-25 concert season brings back Broadway, and movie music of John Williams.

When I’m asked to sometimes lead a panel discussion or roam an audience with a handheld microphone to field questions from an audience, I good-naturedly refer to myself as a...

Valparaiso City Council President Robert Cotton and council constituents devoted more than 90 minutes of further point and counterpoint dialogue with one another and Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas about the...

It’s a question posed to me by readers so often. And the prized answer has nothing to do with a recipe.