We are giving our staff the day off to celebrate America’s independence with their families and loved ones. What does the Fourth of July mean to our friends across the pond? Tomorrow morning, popular humorist Drew Gallagher puts that question to a Brit visiting Fredericksburg for Traitors Day (otherwise known here as Independence Day). It’s […]
Mr. Jagger, Mr. Do, and Mr. Drew. Yeah, it’s Drew Time! It seems as though people are getting angrier. Even the Rolling Stones most recent single was titled “Angry.” Mick Jagger’s inability to get satisfaction has finally erupted into full-blown rage and it only took 59 years! Situations that once elicited nothing more than a […]
This week’s reviews include unusual Victorian history in Deanna Raybourn’s “A Grave Robbery” and maps for the Tolkien superfan in Brian Sibley’s “The Maps of Middle Earth.” A GRAVE ROBBERY by Deanna Raybourn Published by Berkley (March 12, 2024)Hardcover $28.00Audiobook $17.72 Reviewed by Penny A Parrish I learned something new when I read this book. […]
It’s Drew Time! – You’d think an unpaid humorist wouldn’t work all that hard, but alas, poor Drew is worn-out and turning to AI and Christopher Moore to bail him out. By Drew GallagherHUMORIST I have noticed a few concerning trends lately when it comes to writing, and, in fairness, I think I am working […]
This week, Drew’s shilling for the Card Seller, begging readers to buy the Editor scotch, bemoaning Katie Britt’s speechwriter, and writing one-act plays. Confused? Just read it. A House of Cards: Downtown Edition By Drew Gallagher Twelve score and eight years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, […]
This week’s reviews include a new dimension to Lady Macbeth in All Our Yesterdays and the tragic lives of Ella and Alix Romanov in The Romanov Brides. ALL OUR YESTERDAYSby Joel H. Morris Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons (March 12, 2024)Hardcover $22.00Audiobook $16.38 Reviewed by Drew Gallagher Lady Macbeth gets a bad rap. All it […]
By Drew GallagherHUMORIST As the 2024 election cycle drunkenly careens toward November, the Trump campaign has pissed off another musician by co-opting a song for his rallies. We can now add Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr to a list of musicians who have demanded that Trump cease and desist in using their music. The current list […]
by Martin DavisEDITOR-IN-CHIEF The week just past saw a Black History Month poetry read-in at James Monroe High School, a new interview with Republican congressional candidate Terrice Todd, a MWHC op-ed, a brewing political controversy in King George, and a FOIA request gone bad in Spotsylvania. In addition, our best-read commentary looked at school board […]
How to Drag a Body and Other Fun Facts
It’s Drew Time! A few weeks ago, I was wandering the streets of downtown Culpeper, destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, looking for an angry fix, when I stumbled upon a store called Le Monkey House. (In actuality, I was killing time before a high school track meet and was fully clothed, but Ginsberg sounded […]
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