AFP Podcasts
Street Knowledge is hosted by Chris Graham, the award-winning editor of The Augusta Free Press (Waynesboro, Va.), with episodes highlighting local news, Virginia and national politics, arts and culture, mental health, sports and professional wrestling.
Episodes
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Chris Farina, in 2016, began work on a new project with the working title “Death Becomes You,” with the idea of tackling what is very much a taboo subject: death.
For obvious reasons, we don’t like talking about it – death – because, while it’s inevitable, it’s, you know, it’s death, the end.
The film, as he envisioned it, at the outset, w...
Baltimore Orioles fans are going to be upset at the news of the trade of former #1 overall pick Adley Rutschman to AL East rival Boston, and that the O’s didn’t get back any big-league talent in return.
No need to fret: this one’s actually a good deal.
The Stafford County man who died by suicide on Sunday while in custody at the Rappahannock Regional Jail never had a chance.
“He said, ‘Sissy, I didn’t do this, but men don’t beat rape charges. I’m going to die in jail,’” said Elizabeth Self, whose brother, Christopher Lee Franklin, 40, was awaiting an Aug. 19 jury trial on charges related to the ...
Not the oligarchs, surprisingly. The obscenely wealthy are nothing new; their obscenity dates back to the ancients.
It's MAGA voters, the far, far, far, far, far left, and elected Democrats who don't want to rock the boat - who are afraid to stand up, and so, give up.
Those people piss me the eff off.
#democrats #maga #politics
There’s an alternate universe, in which the Virginia Supreme Court follows the law instead of trying to write it, in which Adam Dunigan is running for a congressional nomination in a district that represents Augusta County.
The Marine Corps and CIA veteran is now focused on pulling an upset in the Eighth District, where the incumbent is Don Beyer, a Democrat seeking a sev...
The 30-win UVA Basketball team had one second-round pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, in Ugonna Onyenso, the backup center.
Ryan Odom can squeeze value out of the talent, I tell you.
I break down how Onyenso fits at the next level, and the impact of new NCAA eligibility rules on UVA Hoops, here in the pod.
We’re all tired of the headlines about the latest nonsense coming out of DC, and while we can’t change how we got here – 2016, 2020, 2024 – we can change things going forward.
It’s not enough to snark online, to your spouse, among friends.
I’m not the biggest fan of just going to rallies with signs, though if that helps you vent off some steam, by all means.
The 2026 midterms are four months and ...
The right at 175,000 Social Security recipients in the Sixth District in Virginia could vote en masse for the party that has a plan for saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032, and in so doing, get us moving toward saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032.
We all know that won’t happen.
Sixty percent or more of that population will still vote for the MAGA incumbent, Ben Cline, whose bright idea is to ra...
This time last year, UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom was introducing a bunch of strangers to each other, and trying to convince them, and everybody else, that they could get Virginia Basketball back to where it had been not that long ago.
Heading into his second summer as the head coach, Odom is building on a 30-win season, and it’s looking like he’s put together a roster for next season that … might be an improve...
It was odd that Waynesboro and Staunton were each able to maintain their local daily newspapers for so long, given the realities of the media market, but we couldn’t keep the good thing going forever, it seems.
The News Virginian, based in Waynesboro, let go its final remaining full-time news reporter earlier this year, and now The News Leader, based in Staunton, appears to be licensing out its local content to its competitor...
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is no more, replaced by an infomercial, but AFP editor Crystal Graham is keeping the spirit alive.
Crystal engaged fellow editor Chris Graham in a game of 15 questions, ripped straight from the 15 questions that Colbert would often lob at celebrity guests.
How do our local Z list celebrities fare?
A situation similar to what we just saw play out with UVA Lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany could be in the works with the coach at UVA Men’s Golf, Bowen Sargent.
Sargent’s contract expires at the end of the academic sports year, on June 30, and word around the clubhouse is, the first offer on the table for an extension comes with his salary flat from what he signed for in 2022 – i.e., no raise.
Massive bipartisan majorities voted to pass the Affordable Medicine Act that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is signaling today that she plans to veto.
State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, one of the authors of the legislation, which would create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board to review prescription drug prices and set payment ceilings on what certain state-regulated health plans can pay, said ...
A Virginia man who used a MAGA social media platform linked to a former Trump aide to threaten Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and former Trump FBI Director Christopher Wray, among many others, is, for now, at least, facing 30 months in prison.
Who knows, Frank Lucio Carillo, 68, of Winchester, could end up being in line for some of that sweet Trump slush ...
Will the real Abigail Spanberger please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?
The one who ran for governor last year didn’t end up being the one who took the oath of office; that’s all we know now.
We found this out this week, with her gutting of paid family and medical leave, and her veto of collective bargaining for public-sector employees.
This is what Democrats do when they get elected; they forget who put the...
We eventually get around to breaking down the latest addition to the UVA Basketball rotation on our podcast, but first.
Gotta start with how UVA Athletics is stonewalling me on the status of assistant swim team coach Gary Taylor, who is in Year 2 of a probation handed down in 2025 for emotional abuse of athletes at two other schools and a local YMCA.
After going into detail on Gary Taylor, we talk UVA hoops, how much it will cost t...
We don’t want to be stuck with Ben Cline just because the feckless MAGA congressman was successful spending other people’s millions to convince four MAGAs on the Supreme Court of Virginia to overturn the April 21 referendum.
Want to know more about Ben Cline than you ever knew before?
Wrong question; you don’t want to know any more about Ben Cline than you have to.
The Insane Cline Po...
Everybody has a breaking point. I got to mine today cleaning out the comment section on AFP on two of my recent UVA Basketball articles.
Seems that a lot of folks want fanzine coverage of their favorite team.
This ain’t the place to get your coverage, then.
Want to know what a guy who has been covering the program for 30 years really thinks?
That’s all I can do.
I apologize in advance for the language.
Actually, nah.
UVA Athletics is going to give us a chance to wine and dine our clients on the field at Scott Stadium this fall.
The cost: $2,500 minimum.
I’m going to hold out for something bigger, which I explain on this week’s rundown of what’s making news in UVA sports.
Also, if you could, tell everybody you know to click on the YouTube version – I want to beat the viewer number for Seth Davis and Andy Katz for their re...
Rob Tracinski, running for the Democratic Party nomination in the new Sixth District, is – and hear me out on this – a former Tea Party guy.
I know, a lot of y’all area already turned off, but.
Hear him out, is all I’ll say here.
Tracinski joined me today for what I’ll call good political conversation, since I don’t think of myself as an interviewer.
We talked about his former Tea Party-ness, and...
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