CULINARY ADVENTURE Travel guides in the 1970s directed motorists to restaurants for steaks, chops and prime ribs, but real American food was beginning to be found in places serving well-made stews and perfect pies. Diners could enjoy German chocolate cake, barbecue and Gulf shrimp. Pecan pie, peach ...

FULL HOUSE My recent column about my one-hitwonder song “Rocky Mountain Oysters” caused an unexpected and unmerited surge in interest about my songwriting career. While attending a recent dance hall night, several fans requested that I sing “The Fredericksburg Phone Book Polka.” Okay... one person d...

Iloved Tarzan as a kid. I read the books and comics that featured him, watched the movies, TV series and animated episodes he ruled, and became him in...

Hollywood is really struggling right now. With writers and actors both on strike, the current and future landscape of moviemaking is screeching to a h...

The Zonta Club of Fredericksburg (ZCF) presented recent Tivy High School graduate Araceli Coker her “hat trick” of Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA...