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Top Tickets — Colt Ford, Mad Iguanas, The Ambassador, Tui, Tuesday Tunes finale

Details: 9:30 p.m. Martin’s Downtown, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, bit.ly/RanfordAlmondFB Party in Elmwood: Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot Beach music man Lowder sings, plays trumpet and hits percussion. Details: 5:30 p.m. Elmwood Park, Roanoke. $5, 12-younger free. downtownroanoke.org, garylowdermusic.com Dog Rocket Blues Band Originals and covers from way back. Details: 6 p.m. Fork in the Alley/Fork in Front, Roanoke. Free. 982-3675, forkinthealley.com, facebook.com/thedogrocketbluesband FRIDAY With Eric Wayne Band Country rapper and singer Ford keeps working the road. Catch the video for his “When Country Comes Back” at youtu.be/tBrMjkbg43M. Details: 6:15 p.m. Dr Pepper Park, Roanoke. $39 pit, $20 general admission, $99 VIP skybox. drpepperpark.com, coltford.com, facebook.com/EricWayneBand

Editorial: 8 questions for the redistricting commission

Virginia’s redistricting commission comes to Southwest Virginia today — at least virtually. Today is the day set aside for an online hearing to listen to what people in Southwest Virginia think about how congressional and legislative lines should be redrawn when the census numbers come out. Coming up Aug. 3 is an in-person hearing in Richmond for “central Virginia,” and on Aug. 5 there’s one for “the valley region.” Seeing as how the commission now doesn’t include any representatives from west of Forest, this hearing may be the only way people in Southwest Virginia have any official say at all (whether that “say” gets heeded is, of course, an entirely different matter).

CASEY: Christiansburg councilwoman gets the apology she deserves

C hristiansburg Councilwoman Johana Hicks is seeking an apology from other members of town council who in June voted to formally reprimand her. Unfortunately, all the other council members appear to be on extended respites to Deep State enclaves such as Aspen, Colorado, Sun Valley, Idaho, and Kennebunkport, Maine. For your information, that’s where good old boys gather to secretly plot against norm-busting, rabble-rousing populists. In a spirit of helpfulness and sarcasm (and because I’m an ace letter writer) I’ve drafted a response on behalf of Hicks’s vacationing colleagues. nnn Dear Councilwoman Hicks, Please consider this letter a pungent apology for the slings and arrows you’ve endured during your 18-month tenure on the Christiansburg Town Council. We are so sorry!

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