HOUSE Grammar Grouch If I had to learn to read today, I would be illiterate. Like most of you, I learned to read and write a lifetime ago. I’ve been a teacher, author, columnist, songwriter and I even wrote letters in cursive when stamps only had presidents on them. However... If you held a leaky BI...

Rockbox is undergoing a facelift at the moment. The walls have been repainted, the old rock-and-roll themed memorabilia is gone. Soon, new art will go up and the outdoor window decals will come down. The venue’s new owner Landon Miller said he wants the new iteration of Rockbox Theater to better ref...

HOUSE Do you have a recording of your parents’ voices? I recently followed a story of a radio DJ trying to track down any recording of his late father’s voice. It turned into a quest worthy of the Holy Grail. His last sample was on a phone answering machine, which was accidently erased in an office ...

HOUSE Once you’ve reached midlife, you are the least stupid you have ever been or ever will be. That’s why every person who has passed that milestone ...

The second annual Fredericksburg Book Festival brought over 1,000 people to town for a day of thoughtful discussion, reading, poetry writing and celeb...

HOUSE Some wily entrepreneur in the Old West understood marketing. This coffee bean supplier wanted to make his beans stand out among the grizzled cow...