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- July 3, 2024
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A Special Fourth of July Column Comes Thursday Morning

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 […]

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- June 17, 2024
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How to Drag a Body and Other Fun Facts

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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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- June 1, 2024
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The Kids Guide to Humor Columns

Blue bathing suits? Sleepy Joe? Donald Trump as Robert Redford in the Natural? Must be Drew Time! As I grow older, my memory has started to fade. I can remember the blue bathing suit my wife was wearing at the pool the first time I met her nearly 25 years ago, but I’ll be damned […]

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- April 27, 2024
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ANGRY LIKE JAGGER

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 […]

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- April 27, 2024
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Sunday Books & Culture for April 28, 2024

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. […]

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- April 6, 2024
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‘Never’ says Moore

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 […]

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- March 23, 2024
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It’s Drew Time!

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, […]

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- March 17, 2024
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Sunday Books

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 […]

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- March 3, 2024
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The Smiths (do not) go to Washington

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 […]

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The News That Moved Us This Past Week

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 […]

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