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“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old Charlottesville resident, lived by those words, her friends and family say, adding that she was also a champion for equality for all. Last Saturday Heather died by those words when a car driven by a white nationalist mowed down a group of peaceful protesters walking on Fourth Street. Several vigils have taken place at the site of the attack, near the intersection of Fourth and Water streets. Messages to Heather continue to appear on the sidewalk, and in cards and notes left on the bed of flowers that gets larger every day. Our citizens want to let Heather know they are outraged, that they will continue to fight for good, that their children will know her name. “Today we are all Heather,” a message written in green chalk says. August 12 is a day that will forever be in our memories, a part of our history. The world watched as members of alt-right groups—white nationalists, racists, neo-Nazis—filed into our city and marched down our streets with helmets, shields, guns, knives. They were armed for battle. But they didn’t account for our strength. Our citizens stood up to them, unafraid of the consequences. We surrounded Emancipation Park on Saturday, chanting messages of love and unity, holding banners denouncing hate, beating drums to drown out the white nationalists’ vile words. On Sunday morning, Tracie Daniels, a pastor and the principal at Jackson-Via Elementary School, gave the sermon at First Baptist Church on West Main Street. “We’re stronger than we look. We’re stronger than we look,” she repeated. Later that day, the Unite the Right rally organizer—area resident Jason Kessler—stood at a podium in front of City Hall, surrounded by hundreds of outraged citizens. Whatever message he had couldn’t be heard as the crowd yelled “Say her name!” over and over. Her name is Heather, and her message—our message—is clear: Hate has no home here.—Jessica Luck
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United we stand As Charlottesville begins to heal after a chaotic and violent alt-right rally that turned deadly when a car plowed into a crowd of peaceful protesters, this issue of C-VILLE documents what happened on the streets of our city during the weekend of August 11-13.
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MAILBAG Make them pay If the alt-right wants another permit to demonstrate in Charlottesville, why not charge a fee of about $75,000 to $100,000? The KKK rally cost city taxpayers almost 60 grand, and this last weekend will cost even more. If the city is accused of price gouging, it can always argue that’s just business and that’s the fair market value. I realize that’s also extreme, but why should we citizens have to pay for this? Steve Jones Charlottesville
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The fight for what is right The civil war clash between factions that occurred last weekend in Charlottesville was no surprise attack. A wide-eyed fight of titans happened in my town, make no mistake. The front line was drawn on the Downtown Mall. I went toe to toe with American terrorism, where normally there is ice cream, neighbors strolling and local musicians filling the air. I was in the chaos and skirmishes where open-carry militias with neo-Nazi idealism were brandishing against townspeople, priests, hippies and millennials. I yelled in the face of a man with an AK47 in his hand, a hand gun on his hip and a sheathed knife across his chest. I yelled, “I am a Jew! This is my town! Go home! Go home!” He walked with his fellow warrior types, a few hundred of them there to protect an old Confederate statue. They sweated as they tried to move up the avenue to take the hill that was Lee Park. They slowly walked in groups of 20, in full militia dress in different parts of town. A group of Black Lives Matter had a confrontation with them in a parking lot across from a few closed restaurants. There was fearless yelling, a water bottle was thrown, brothers next to brothers stood shoulder to shoulder. I saw the sweat and truth, good and evil going eye to eye. A police line came up and slowly, crossed and we all followed or walked away. There was a parade of people with solidarity posters, wearing T-shirts and red bandannas, they came south from the old Jackson Park, marched past a closed bakery onto the Downtown Mall to Water Street then turned east. The smell of pepper and vinegar in the air, old and young making their voices heard, “This is my town! Go home! This is my town!” They turned up Fourth Street past a family in a minivan waiting as the people went by. There was a second car in line as the marchers continued to sing together up to the mall. Our angels got distracted here as something flew up in the air; all hell broke loose and the chanting became screams. The crowd turned like a school of fish, like a swarm of starlings toward us. There were a hundred people running, then they stopped, and the screams became worried yells for help. People next to me stood on their toes to bear witness to what just happened. A young woman in tears lay against the wall. Her friend had carried her, she asked for water, both wide-eyed and scared. Others made their way to the shade, sitting, staring in shock, talking in low mumbled voices. Street medics were on the scene attending, bandaging, water was being handed out. The
first ambulance arrived, a second and the fire truck, all with lights and sirens made their way through, stretchers and medical bags brought out, the clergy helping those among us. My city changed here, trash and sticks lay in the gutter, barricades with yellow tape all around. The mall, parks, sidewalks were empty and in the sun of an August afternoon downtown Charlottesville was left like a war zone. Small groups walked quietly, police stood in the shade, reporters checked their phones, no militia around and the Tshirts with red bandannas walked back to their homes. My group and I walked away peacefully. My town had changed. My Charlottesville will sweep up the debris and find a way to bandage what is left. Racism is ugly and hate is worse. No one can fix this and I have no answers. We have to meditate and pray for peace and at times we have to work, yell and sweat for what is right. Alan Box Levine Charlottesville
Some blame rests with city leaders The City Council bears some blame for the weekend violence. Their dithering and indecisiveness about the fate of the Lee statue have provided a rallying point for the alt-right. Ida Simmons Charlottesville
We all will be replaced As a liberal, Jew, feminist, pro-immigrant granddaughter of immigrants, I’d never have thought I had anything in common with Richard Spencer. But then I read his motto in your interview: “We will not be replaced.”
I remember saying the same thing, a long time ago. At age 4, I saw people I loved die for the first time. “Why do people die?” I asked my father. “We have to make room for new people,” he said. “New families with new babies will live in this house someday.” “No!” I said. “They can’t! It’s our house!” I remember the sense of panic at the thought of getting replaced by strangers. I still don’t like it, though eventually I stopped fighting, because it was pointless. In other words, I grew up. The fact is everything and everyone gets replaced. People die, populations change. In the ’70s, Miami Beach was filled with old Jewish people like my grandparents, immigrants from Eastern Europe. You not only heard Yiddish on the streets, but the hotel where we stayed had a light switch labeled not “on” and “off,” but “open” and “closed.” “Open the light,” my grandmother used to say. I miss those people and the way they spoke. But nothing lasts forever. Spanish signs replace Yiddish ones; it’s how the world works. As our country’s population changes and we (hopefully) get wiser, Charlottesville and other cities are re-examining the history of white domination. Richard Spencer and his Nazi pals don’t like that. They think that because their preferred group holds a privileged position now, it should always remain so: twas ever thus. But twas never thus, especially in the land now called the United States of America. When Leif Erikson got here, he did not find white Southerners, any more than a Florida filled with old Jews. White supremacists think if they make enough of a fuss and get others to join them, they can turn back time. But they cannot. They will be replaced, not because they are white or mean-spirited, but because we all get replaced, one day, like it or not. Cora Schenberg Charlottesville
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It was the day that kept getting worse. The weekend from hell. Like many of you, C-VILLE Weekly is still processing Saturday’s violation from ill-intentioned visitors with antiquated notions who now believe it’s okay to say in broad daylight what they’ve only uttered in the nether regions of the internet. The Unite the Right rally left three people dead and countless injured, both physically and psychologically. We, too, share the sorrow, despair and disgust from being slimed by hate. But here’s one thing we know: Despite the murder, the assaults and the terror inflicted upon this community, Charlottesville said no to hate. And the world, it turns out, has our back. We sent six reporters and two photographers out to document the August 12 rally at Emancipation Park, the community events taking place around it and the weekend of infamy. Here’s a timeline of what we saw and what we felt. Because this is our town.
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Members of the clergy link arms with counterprotesters in front of Emancipation Park Saturday, as alt-right groups of white nationalists arrive in waves.
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Friday, August 11 Noon: A federal judge hears arguments in Jason Kessler’s lawsuit against the city for its decision to move the Unite the Right rally from its original location in Emancipation Park to McIntire Park. ACLU Virginia and the Rutherford Institute represent Kessler. 12:36pm: Albemarle police respond to a report of gun-brandishing men in the Walmart parking lot on Route 29. Daily Progress reporter Chris Suarez tweets that about 30 people are there, and that Unite the Right speaker/ Radical Agenda radio host Chris Cantwell was open carrying with a gun in his back waistband. Perfectly legal, say Albemarle police. © ZACH D ROBERTS/NURPHOTO VIA ZUMA PRESS
4:30pm: City officials hold a press conference. Police Chief Al Thomas says this could be one of the largest demonstrations the city has experienced, and that 1,000 law enforcement and emergency responders will be on hand. Says Thomas, “The biggest mistake I could make” is to apply the same operational tactics tomorrow as at the KKK rally July 8. “This is a different event.” 5pm: Arguments wrap up in the injunction hearing.
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9:30-ish pm: Judge Glen Conrad issues an injunction that allows Jason Kessler to hold his Unite the Right rally in Emancipation Park. Conrad says the city’s disparate treatment of Kessler and its allowing permits for counter demonstrations in McGuffey and Justice parks suggest the permit revocation decision was content based. 9:38pm: On the heels of his court victory, Kessler joins hundreds of alt-righters who light tiki torches at Nameless Field and march through UVA Grounds and the Lawn, chanting, “You will not replace us.” They’re met at the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of the Rotunda by a small group of counterprotesters with a banner that says “VA students act against white supremacy.” 9:56pm: Once the service at St. Paul’s ends, the clergy asks everyone in attendance to leave with a friend out the back doors and
On Friday, August 11, hundreds of white nationalists march with tiki torches from UVA’s Nameless Field to the statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda, where they use pepper spray and their torches as weapons on waiting protesters.
had received dozens of threats from people who’d like to “slit my throat” and “crush my skull.” Gorcenski files charges the next day against Unite the Right speaker/open gun carrier Chris Cantwell, and she says a photograph clearly shows him spraying the
not the front, which faces University Avenue, in full view of the Rotunda. 10pm: Everyone at St. Paul’s is asked to return to their seats. They remain in the church for another hour, until the white supremacists with torches have left. 10:16pm: Local activist Emily Gorcenski livestreams the procession until the marchers surrounded the statue; her stream abruptly ends and she’s pepper-sprayed. She says she had anticipated the torchbearers to line up in front of the Rotunda for a photoop, and when they encircled the statue instead, she thought, “Okay, this is bad.” A brawl breaks out and some use their torches to club counterprotesters. 10:21pm: Daily Progress reporter Allison Wrabel tweets that the police are at the Rotunda. After Gorcenski washes her eyes with water, she says she then saw about a dozen police officers lined up. One person is arrested and several injured, including one University of Virginia Police Department officer, according to UVA. “I went home and packed up and went to a safe house,” Gorcenski says, because she
anti-racists. She notes that while the media was aware of the march and publicized it on Twitter, “The police should have known.” Gorcenski did not take part in counter demonstrations on Saturday. “I saw everything I needed to see Friday night as to who these people were,” she says.
Saturday, August 12 12:54am: It’s quiet in front of the Rotunda. Extinguished tiki torches stick out of the tops of trash cans near University Avenue and the Rotunda Free Trolley stop. 1:01am: Senator Orrin Hatch tweets: “Their tiki torches may be fueled by citronella but their ideas are fueled by hate, & have no place in civil society.” EZE AMOS
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8pm: Hundreds of people pack into St. Paul’s Memorial Church on University Avenue for an interfaith prayer service to “shore up people’s courage to participate,” says Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, who attended the service with her 12-year-old daughter. So many people attended that St. Paul’s reaches its legal capacity and has to turn people away at the doors.
Deacon Don Gathers welcomes Cornel West to the altar at First Baptist Church on West Main Street, the site of a sunrise service on Saturday, August 12.
6:04am: Reverend Osagyefo Sekou leads the congregation at a sunrise service at First Baptist Church on West Main Street in singing “This Little Light Of Mine” as people file in. Dozens of clergy members of many faiths, from Charlottesville and elsewhere, sit toward the front.
WHY CHARLOTTESVILLE? When it comes to white nationalism hot spots, a place like Charlottesville, where 80 percent of voters chose Hillary Clinton in last November’s presidential election, seemed unlikely to top the list. Sure, our City Council voted in April to sell the statue of General Robert E. Lee, which angered members of the alt-right, but we certainly weren’t the first place in the country that decided to take down a Confederate statue—monuments in New Orleans, St. Louis, Louisville, Kentucky, and Austin, Texas, have been removed, and they are talking about doing the same thing in Richmond, Houston and Lexington, Kentucky. But something happened here that hasn’t occurred in those cities: Saturday’s deadly Unite the Right rally marked the third time since May that Charlottesville was thrust into the national spotlight courtesy of white nationalists who gathered in our town to protest the removal of the Lee statue.
On May 13, a group led by University of Virginia graduate Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right,” converged here for a tiki-torch demonstration in Lee Park (recently renamed Emancipation Park), where protesters chanted “we will not be replaced” and “blood and soil,” a Nazi rallying cry. One of that event’s participants was local resident Jason Kessler, who made a name for himself late last year when he unearthed unsavory tweets made several years ago by Charlottesville Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy. Kessler, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “a lonely dissenter in the Capital of the Resistance,” mounted an unsuccessful campaign to remove Bellamy from office, and when that failed, he turned his energy toward organizing the August 12 rally, calling May’s headline-grabbing torch-wielding demonstration “a fantastic first event.”
As a lead-up to Saturday’s protest, about 50 North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the KKK, clad in robes and carrying Confederate flags, came to town July 8 and gathered in Justice Park, where they yelled “white power.” The demonstrators were met by more than 1,000 counterprotesters, who surrounded the park and drowned out the KKK with shouts of “racists go home.” Spencer has promised to be back, saying, “We are going to make Charlottesville the center of the universe. We are going to come back here often. Your head’s going to spin how many times we’re going to be back down.” Kessler, also a UVA alum, promised “bigger and bigger events in Charlottesville.” After Saturday’s violence and chaos, which culminated in three deaths and dozens of injuries, let’s hope they change their minds.— Susan Sorensen
6:10am: Deacon Don Gathers asks for everyone in attendance to pray for an end to oppression, tyranny and “400 years of misdeeds.” Members of the congregation bow their heads.
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6:11am: Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy stands up and says, “When you walk today, know you are not alone. You are among family.” 6:16am: Reverend Traci Blackmon walks down the aisle toward the altar to standing applause. She repeats twice: “This is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it.” She mentions the Friday night scene at St. Paul’s, when white supremacists marched with torches on the church. “What has it come to when people march on the church?” Blackmon asks.
6:37am: “I don’t know about you, but I am who I am because somebody loved me,” West says. “We are who we are because somebody loves us.” West talks about injustice, stigmatization and terrorism. He says we’re here to fight spiritual blackout, which has been going on in America for 400 years, and warns about the dangers of thinking that American babies are more important than Pakistani babies, Canadian babies—and then at that, only certain American babies.
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6:31am: Cornel West (philosopher, political activist, social critic and member of the Democratic Socialists of America) walks to the altar to standing applause.
Protest groups, including Black Lives Matter, marched to Emancipation Park. United Church of Christ parked its mobile wagon filled with food, water and supplies close to the front line.
6:47am: “I didn’t come to Charlottesville to run my mouth. I came to go to jail!” says West. “This is not a time for [sunshine] protesters. This is a time for love warriors.” 6:55am: Reverend Winnie Varghese from New York walks to the altar and says, “The whole world watches you today.” A few minutes later, she tells the congregation that people all over the world are praying for Charlottesville, and that is a powerful thing.
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7:24am: Reverend Sekou tells the congregation that something is happening at the Jefferson School, and people are heading over to “hold space” for a bit. People begin whispering in the pews; nerves are palpable.
9:18am: C-VILLE photographer Eze Amos is clobbered by a man wearing a Hitler Tshirt. Virginia State Police initially tell Amos they can’t do anything about it because they didn’t see it. Minutes later, they approach him and ask for a statement. 9:23am: Members of white supremacist group Vanguard America can be heard chanting “blood and soil” in the distance. Wearing helmets, white or black polos and khakis, the flag- and shield-wielding men march into Emancipation Park, where they change their tune to “You will not replace us.”
10am: League of the South members carrying white shields are lined up inside the barricade at Emancipation Park. 10:02am: Members of Virginia Students United have organized a musical protest against white supremacy/fascism/Nazis/KKK. Participants gather at the Bridge PAI with vuvuzelas, drums, cymbals, colanders and spoons, a saxophone, a trumpet, a trombone and a washboard, as well as a dog food bowl and a small pipe. One person brings a bucket and a piece of lumber, another brings a tambourine. There’s a gong and instruments to share. Someone mentions that wearing sunglasses can help prevent doxxing. A helicopter hovers overhead. Across the street, a few Belmont residents relax on lounge chairs on a front porch. 10:16am: An alt-right woman in Army fatigues shouts, “We do love!” 10:20am: Former U.S. congressman and recent gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello says he’s home again for what’s become a summer tradition: protesting hate. 10:20am: Three state police officers wearing yellow vests escort a man away in handcuffs. 10:22am: Anti-fascist demonstrators carrying a “Fascist scum” banner arrive at Emancipation Park. And they’re angry. 10:26am: Alt-righters chant, “You…will not…replace us!” as clergy link arms in front of Emancipation Park. 10:27am: Chants of either “You will not replace us” or “Jews will not replace us”—it’s difficult to hear—from the right compete with “Nazi scum, your time has come” from the left. 10:29am: A Kekistan flag carrier who says he’s against “identitarian politics” is confronted by a protester. “How am I racist? Explain to me how I’m a racist,” the flag carrier CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
7:45am: Jason Kessler issues a statement calling for peace, and for those who “can’t even stand to hear us speak without resorting to violence to express themselves somewhere else.”
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8:20am: Counterprotesters gather at McGuffey Park and chant, “No hate, no fear, white supremacy not welcome here.”
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8:52am: The clergy walks in silence down West Main from First Baptist to the Jefferson School.
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8:44am: A police motorcade drives across University Avenue, headed toward West Main. Two police cars have their lights and sirens on, one in front of and one behind two buses—one powder blue and one white.
9am: Arm-in-arm, clergy members, including Cornel West, march solemnly down West Market Street. As they arrive at Emancipation Park, already lined with militia, they kneel before the heavily armed men and women in full military attire and begin to sing “This Little Light of Mine.”
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7:23am: Clergy are asked to assemble for their silent march down West Main Street toward the Jefferson School and on to McGuffey Park. It’s a peaceful protest, Gathers says. “Be safe. Be mindful. Be vigilant. Look out for the brother and sister beside you.”
There were a lot of loaded guns in plain view in Charlottesville on Saturday—and many of the people carrying them weren’t law enforcement officials. Governor Terry McAuliffe told the New York Times Sunday morning that “80 percent of the people here had semiautomatic weapons. ...You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army...[they] had better equipment than our state police had.” We know Virginia generally allows open carry without a permit for those 18 years and older, but after what we witnessed on our streets August 12, we wanted a few more specifics. According to Section 18.2-287.4 of the Virginia Code, you’re not allowed to carry, in public, a rifle or pistol with a 20-round or larger magazine. Silencers and folding stocks are out, too. Also illegal: shotguns that carry more than seven rounds. But here’s the legal twist: these rules apply only to the state’s biggest cities: Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, and to Northern Virginia cities and counties such as Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun, but not to Charlottesville and Albemarle County. In other words, it seems to be the Wild West ’round these parts.—Susan Sorensen
9:56am: “We’re here to keep the peace in 11 case they can’t. And unfortunately they can’t,” says a member of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia, which came to defend the First Amendment and Constitution, according to leader Christian Yingling, not because they’re sympathetic to white supremacists.
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says before the protester attempts to grab the flag out of his hands. “Don’t touch my shit!” the flag waver shouts during the scuffle. A Charlottesville policeman jumps the barricade from the parking lot on Market Street to intervene and pulls out his baton as he separates the two. 10:31am: “We don’t want a white state. We say no to racist hate,” is being chanted. 10:33am: A Black Lives Matter group walking with a banner that says “White racists afraid again…Smash white supremacy!” and signs, including “Cops and Klan go hand in hand” and “Jobs! Not racism!,” marches toward the park on Market Street. “What do we do? Stand up, fight back!” they chant.
10:37am: Alt-righters march into Emancipation Park from the sidewalk in front of the Central Library. As the group pauses, Dan Harrison, pastor at Church of the Covenant in Lynchburg, offers water and orange Gatorade to the group. One man says, “Thank you, sir,” as he takes a bottle of water.
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10:34am: The few dozen people gathered at The Bridge practice chants and decide their favorites are “No Nazis, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.,” “Fist up/Fight back” and “The people united can never be defeated.” They decide to scratch a “Whose streets? Our streets!” calland-response chant because the white nationalists at the torch rally chanted it the previous night.
Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler, middle, arrives at the rally escorted by other alt-righters.
10:38am: More anti-fascists arrive on Market Street in front of the park carrying a banner that says, “Make fascists afraid again.” Altright response from park: “Fuck you, faggots.”
much of the street; a Charlottesville police officer sits in the driver’s seat. 11am: Shield-carrying Traditionalist Worker partiers arrive, also on the east side of Emancipation Park where police do not allow them to enter. And oh look, the National Socialist Movement, aka neo-Nazis, makes it to the same wrong entrance to the park, swastika flags in tow.
10:39am: Another group of counterprotesters links arms on the steps leading to Emancipation Park and sings “This Little Light of Mine.” “Stop protecting Nazis!” someone shouts.
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11:02am: The musical protest group chants “Shut it down! Shut it down!” to the beat of a drum as it arrives in front of the Central Library.
Armed members of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia say they came to “keep the peace.”
11:06am: “Fuck black lives” says someone among the alt-right through a bullhorn.
11:10am: A drone hovers beside the Paramount Theater.
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10:55am: Riot police assemble on a side street. A Standard Produce truck blocks
11:08am: As water bottles are being hurled across Market Street, the scent of pepper spray is in the air.
A Nazi sympathizer arrives at the rally.
11:11am: Riot police move along the side of Central Library, opposite the park.
11:14am: As one of the white supremacist groups nears Emancipation Park, it walks through the group of musicians. A counterprotester gets close to one of the white supremacists, yells and points a finger at his face. The white supremacist swings his flagpole at her and strikes her. A few of the musicians intercede. 11:18am: Lots of stick-carrying alt-righters are unable to get inside the barricade on the east side of the park. 11:22am: “Watch out for piss bottles, bro!” a man in a black helmet says. 11:25am: A swastika-tattooed man from Charlotte, North Carolina, says he was hit with bear spray, “the worst.” An image C-VILLE tweets later racks up more than 8 million views. 11:27am: The crackling sound of a taser is heard at the edge of Emancipation Park near the stairs. 11:28am: “I’m gonna find a rock,” says one tall young alt-right man. He bends over and reaches under a bush, finds pieces of broken branches and flings them at the protesters before raising his middle finger. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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11:07am: “You two, shields on the stairs,” an alt-right man calls out. “Shields, shields, shields up front!” other alt-right people are yelling. “Let’s go, shields up! Shields forward!” Some of the men with shields wear motorcycle helmets or improvised body armor. Water bottles and other small debris are being thrown from protesters at the alt-right, and some are thrown back.
10:45am: Someone from Unite the Right hurls urine-scented brown liquid that hits reporters, including C-VILLE’s Lisa Provence, the Daily Progress’ Lauren Berg and the New York Times’ Sheryl Stolberg. The Progress recounts that other reporters deliberately are pepper sprayed. 10:50ish am: Shouts of “Fuck you, Kessler” indicate the rally organizer has arrived.
11:04am: The Daily Shoah podcaster Mike Enoch can’t get into the rally, and must go around.
11:13am: More pepper spray and tear gas as the neo-Nazis converge with anti-fascists— antifas—on Market Street.
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10:44am: The Virginia Students United group starts to play its instruments and chant, “No Nazis, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.” as they walk over the Belmont Bridge, toward Justice and Emancipation parks. Some carry signs. People in cars honk their horns and hold up their fists in support. Devin Willis, one of the organizers of the musical protest, says, “This student march is coming out of the kindness of students’ hearts.”
11:03am: “Form up here!” calls an alt-right man along the stairs into Emancipation Park. “We’re facing right, stand here,” says another man with a shield to several others. A man in a black T-shirt and helmet, holding a shield, says, “Tell them to stop the pepper spray!” Drums are pounding in the background.
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10:40am: A group of white nationalists arrives at the southeast corner of Emancipation Park across from the Central Library and is not allowed to enter there. Instead, they must run the gauntlet of opposition on Market Street to enter the park on the southwest side at Second Street across from Hill and Wood Funeral Home. A single Black Lives Matter protester denounces them through a megaphone. Robert “Azzmador” Ray, who’s with the Daily Stormer, tells the woman to “put on a fucking burka” and calls her a “sharia whore.” Before he’s out of earshot, Ray tacks on, “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
11:12am: A procession of alt-righters enters Emancipation Park. “Incoming!” someone yells. A man stumbles into the park and collapses at the top of the stairs, in obvious agony. His face is covered in some sort of substance. C-VILLE reporter Jackson Landers reaches out to give him water. Another man tells Landers, “Hold my flag.” “I can’t hold your flag,” says Landers, who gives him water. “It’s my right eye!” says the man, who turns out to be Chris Cantwell, the person who allegedly pepper sprayed protesters at Friday’s UVA torch procession, and has advocated the use of chemical weapons against liberals.
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Violent clashes between white nationalist groups and counterprotesters erupt on Market Street. arrests—six—compared with the 23 people charged July 8. “Police obviously didn’t do their job,” says John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute, which joined the ACLU of Virginia in representing Kessler in his suit against the city for its change of venue. “They didn’t separate the sides.” Thomas says there was a plan to keep the factions separate by having the alt-rights enter through the back of Emancipation Park. “They did not follow that,” he says. Alt-right attendees like Richard Spencer complained of having to run a “gauntlet” of counterprotesters, and Kessler said police did not do their job in protecting the people at his rally—at least before he was drowned out and chased by angry citizens at a press conference Sunday, when he had to run to the police for protection. Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller told the New York Times, “It may have looked like a lot of our folks
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A month ago during the July 8 KKK rally, police were accused of overreacting and escalating things when they deployed tear gas on protesters at an event that was already breaking up. At the August 12 Unite the Right rally, they faced the opposite complaint: That they stood and watched assaults take place. Civil rights attorney Jeff Fogel was on Market Street after the rally was declared an unlawful assembly, and he says there were no police in sight. “When fistfights broke out, state police did nothing,” he says. “I was a little surprised they made a decision to let all hell break loose.” Throughout the weekend, people noted a number of occasions when the police were absent: the altercation in front of the Rotunda following the tikitorch procession through UVA on Friday night. The assaults that took place on Market Street Saturday morning before Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency. And the brutal attack of Dre Harris by white nationalists in the Market Street Parking Garage beside the Charlottesville police station. At an August 14 press conference, Police Chief Al Thomas disputed assertions that officers were ordered to not intervene. “Throughout the entire weekend, the Virginia State Police and Charlottesville police intervened to break up fights and altercations between those at the rally site, and that began Friday night,” said Thomas. In many of the conflicts, someone was attacked and the attacker disappeared into the crowd, says Thomas. On Saturday alone, police received 250 calls for service at the rally, and state police treated 36 injured people. And he says the department is still getting calls about assaults and civil rights violations that occurred over the weekend. The city has established a tipline and people can report incidents by emailing cvillerally@charlottesville.org or calling 970-3280. City police and City Manager Maurice Jones said August 7 that they could not ensure the safety of Emancipation Park and used that as the basis for issuing rally organizer Jason Kessler a permit for McIntire Park, a change that was blocked in federal court the evening before the rally. “We had a very large footprint to cover,” said Thomas. At press briefings before August 12, Thomas said he’d learned a number of lessons from the KKK rally, and that the Unite the Right protest was an entirely different beast. He also said there would be close to 1,000 law enforcement and emergency responders on hand. Perhaps that’s why many wonder why this event was so much more violent than the KKK rally, with so many fewer
Virginia State Police in bright yellow vests were stationed around Emancipation Park.
were standing around” because of the sheer number of officers on the scene, but “there were other troopers and law enforcement officers who were responding to incidents as they arose.” Activist Emily Gorcenski livestreamed the tiki-torch procession through UVA Grounds Friday night, and was perplexed by the paucity of police at the event that ended with a brawl when white nationalists, vastly outnumbering a small number of protesters, surrounded them at the Thomas Jefferson statue in front to the Rotunda on University Avenue. “The media showed up,” says Gorcenski. “If journalists knew and the event was publicized on Twitter, the police should have shown up.” She says she did see police after she washed the pepper spray out of her eyes, and UVA says one officer was among those injured. University Police Chief Michael Gibson did not return a call from C-VILLE. Gorcenski was not in the immediate rally area August 12, but says she saw from a distance “police using tactics for crowd dispersal with slow marches down the street that were very deliberate” efforts to calmly control the crowd. “I thought police had significantly improved their tactics since July 8, when they did their job poorly,” says Gorcenski, referring to the “unnecessary deployment of chemical agents.” While tear gas was in the air August 12, Charlottesville police say it did not come from them. Former New York cop and prosecutor Eugene O’Donnell, now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says, “I think it’s unfair to do a wholesale
condemnation of police. It’s a fallacy that by police acting emphatically, that automatically makes things better.” There’s no “magic book” that tells police what to do, and “police wrestle with this all the time,” he says. Bigger cities are better equipped to handle situations such as the one Charlottesville faced because they do it all the time and “the more you do it, the better you get,” says O’Donnell. And while the vast majority of protests are peaceful, he says Charlottesville was hit with a “double whammy” because it’s a department that doesn’t handle a lot of violent demonstrations and “the people who came were intent on causing trouble.” Says O’Donnell, “Police really do feel any action you take, you’re subjected to much less criticism for not acting than acting.”—Lisa Provence
ARRESTED AUGUST 12 Troy Dunigan, 21, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for disorderly conduct for throwing something into the crowd. Jacob L. Smith, 21, of Louisa, Virginia, for misdemeanor assault and battery for allegedly punching a reporter from The Hill in the face. James M. O’Brien, 44, of Gainesville, Florida, for carrying a concealed handgun. David Parrott, 35, of Paoli, Indiana, for failure to disperse in a riot. Steven Balcaitis, 36, of York, South Carolina, for assault and battery for allegedly choking a woman in McIntire Park. James Alex Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, for second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and hit and run.
Chief Thomas said there would be close to 1,000 law enforcement and emergency responders on hand.
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11:29am: A thick white cloud of tear gas wafts in. People cough and cover their faces. The gas emanates from the left-wing, and drifts toward the alt-right. 11:31am: “Shields!” calls someone from the alt-right. More coughing, and some type of gas or spray comes into the park. 11:32am: White nationalists call for a medic. A man in a League of the South T-shirt who looks like its leader Michael Hill watches as a compatriot is doused with water. Counterprotesters on Market Street are affected by tear gas as well. 11:33am: “I don’t see hate over here on my side, I see hate over there,” says a black-clad alt-right man holding a megaphone and a flag pole.
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11:28am: Virginia State Police request that Governor Terry McAuliffe declare a state of emergency, which he does. “It is now clear that public safety cannot be safeguarded without additional powers, and that the mostly out-of-state protesters have come to Virginia to endanger our citizens and property,” he says in a statement. “I am disgusted by the hatred, bigotry and violence these protesters have brought to our state over the past 24 hours.
Market Street, in front of Emancipation Park, was the scene of several fights between white nationalist and counterprotest groups.
says a state of emergency has been declared. The place is pretty quiet—there are bottles of water and boxes of snacks out. Some people sit on picnic tables; a DJ plays but there will be live music and other performances later, from local musicians like Keith Morris. Scott-Jones says, “As an artist, I have to manage the amount of negativity that comes into my life. I wanted to find another way to resist. I wanted to create something beautiful and positive in contrast to the hate that’s going on a few streets away.”
11:34am: Two women on Market Street chant, “Where are the police? Where is our protection?” 11:37am: Police make the first declaration that the gathering is an unlawful assembly and the area must be cleared as water bottles sail through the air. A woman in the street shouts, “The violent ones are these fascist pigs, am I right?”
11:39am: A thin line of dozens of alt-righters has formed along the edge of the park, some with shields up, others holding long poles. 11:40am: A tear gas canister of unknown origin goes off in the street. A protester picks it up and throws it at the alt-righters in the park. Seconds later, it is thrown back at the protesters.
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11:39am: Police continue to order the altwhites out of Emancipation Park and into the street filled with counterprotesters.
11:41am: Riot police line up on the Downtown Mall.
A member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, is injured during a clash with white nationalists on Second Street NE.
11:40am: An all-black clad antifa spits at white nationalists carrying Confederate flags. Another with a wooden stick hits the shield of a white nationalist, who points the tip of the flag at the assailant and runs toward him. 11:40am: Leslie Scott-Jones welcomes people to the Art in Action event on the Champion brewery patio. She receives a text that
11:43am: Street fighting breaks out as white nationalists and neo-Nazis file onto Market Street. Counterprotesters’ sticks and alt-righters’ flags are being used to pummel. CNN shows a C-VILLE Weekly box being hurled on the corner of First and Market streets. 11:47am: Virginia State Police in riot gear line up on the north side of Emancipation Park. Fighting continues around the park. 11:52am: City Manager Maurice Jones and interim Albemarle County Executive Doug Walker issue a declaration of local emergency, which allows them to request additional resources, according to a joint statement.
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11:59am: A man in a white shirt runs toward the police barricades by the library, pursued by several people yelling, “Get out you little bastard!”
White nationalists chased Dre Harris, a member of Black Lives Matter, into the Market Street Parking Garage and beat him with pieces of the wooden barricades they tore down.
11:59am: A member of the militia tells a group of counterprotesters on the sidewalk, “You know what you also have as American citizens? The right to protect yourself. Let
12:11pm: Wounded Black Lives Matter member Dre Harris, whose face and white shirt is smeared with blood, is taken to the porch of NBC29 across from the garage by his friends. “Fuck Charlottesville police!” someone shouts at the group of officers stationed in front of the police department. 12:16pm: Riot gear-clad police enter the garage to escort alt-righters out. 12:17pm: “Where’s the fucking ambulance?!” shouts one of Harris’ friends to the police officers. Harris suffers a concussion, an ulnar fracture, and receives eight staples in his head, according to a GoFundMe page established in his behalf. As of August 14, it has raised more than $106,000. 12:18pm: A group of people, mostly men, heavily armed and wearing camouflage, walk quickly down Water Street. A reporter gets pushed into a wall near the Southern Environmental Law Center window as they rush by. One CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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11:59am: Emancipation Park is almost entirely cleared out before the Unite the Right rally’s scheduled noon start time.
12:08pm: “We knew it was going to be a riot, fellas, stand strong!” shouts an alt-righter after the group exits the garage, coughing from pepper spray. An antifa approaches from the left side and hits an older man who is bleeding and clutching the side of his face and also carrying a Confederate flag. As the man falls to the ground, someone yells, “I just saw a Nazi go down!” County police officers, standing in front of the Charlottesville Police Department headquarters, approach to help the man up.
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11:54am: Some of the alt-righters still inside the park, including Richard Spencer, push up against the state police line and get doused—twice—with a chemical agent. The melee in the street continues, as does the spraying of tear gas. Police continue to order, “This has been declared an unlawful assembly. You must leave immediately or you will be arrested.”
12:02pm: Alt-right attendees march east on Market Street toward the parking garage, where many of them have parked the large white vans carrying Richard Spencer, David Enoch and former KKK imperial wizard David Duke. They’re followed by members of Black Lives Matter and antifas. When they reach the parking garage, the white nationalists chase Black Lives Matter member Dre Harris and his friends into the garage, and tear down the wooden barricades to use them as weapons. Harris lies on the ground and tries to cover his head as he is beaten.
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11:38am: As white nationalists attempt to move through anti-racists, they are walled up against a police car parked at the intersection of Market and Second streets. There is shoving among both groups as the alt-righters reverse course toward Market and enter Emancipation Park.
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of them yells, “We gotta go. Go, go, go, go, go!” as they run by. A man yells at them, “Fascists get out of my town!” At this, two of the camoclad men turn around and point their assault weapons at him. The butt of one of the guns pushes up against C-VILLE Weekly reporter Erin O’Hare’s chest for about two seconds, until they lower their arms and keep running down Water Street, toward the Pavilion. A woman sitting on the ground outside the law center says she came here to be a nurse with the militia—the aforementioned heavily armed individuals—“to keep the peace on both sides.” She says the militia are working with cops to “keep the peace,” and that “anyone with camo and guns is militia.” Most violence has come from the left, she says, “but there’s violence from both sides. I promise you that.” She says the militia is a “constitutional group,” the Three Percent.
12:42pm: Two members of the clergy— Melanie Mullins and Winnie Varghese—plus David Walsh, a Princeton graduate student who researches far-right politics, sit on the low brick wall at the entrance to the Jefferson School. A group of white supremacists carrying flags walks up Fourth Street NW; they cross the street and walk through the Staples parking lot, when they see the threesome sitting on the brick wall. “That’s the power of the collar,” says Varghese, who came to Charlottesville in answer to Elaine Thomas’ nationwide call to clergy. “It’s really moving to me that people came to stand with us. It feels less isolating. These are international movements for freedom. ...This is a historic day for this. These guys crossed the street to not have to deal with us.” 1pm: Unite the Right attendees regroup at McIntire Park, where the city had wanted Kessler to hold his event. Eli Mosley, who told the Cavalier Daily he’s “command soldier
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1pm: President Donald Trump weighs in on Twitter: “We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!” 1:17pm: “When the sun goes down I’m going to beat the shit out of one of these guys,” says an anti-racist in the middle of a group of counterprotesters and white nationalists gathered at the surface lot across from the Water Street parking garage. State police in riot gear form a line behind them. Another wave of state police waits on First Street.
James Alex Fields Jr. was photographed walking with Vanguard America members during the Unite the Right rally.
1:20pm: Artist Sarah Jones sits on the floor near the door of Pearl Island/VU Noodles at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, surrounded by paint and brushes. She’s been working on a mural for about a month now, and the image is a composite of images of the three cultures of the three chefs cooking in the space: Puerto Rican, Haitian and Vietnamese. 1:25pm: As three vehicles carrying white nationalists attempt to exit the elevated parking lot on Water Street, counterprotesters surround the SUV in the back of the line, throwing water bottles at the windows and kicking
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12:40pm: A large group of counterprotesters have again gathered in Justice Park, but to their dismay, so has a line of riot cops. They scream at the police and chant, “This is what democracy looks like!” until the police, as a unit, leave the scene. The group cheers.
major of the alt-right,” is heard on the phone saying if he’s not allowed back into Emancipation Park to pick up “our stuff, I will send 200 men with guns to come get them.” A few anti-racists challenge a guy wearing knight’s armor. “Don’t talk to the animals,” says one of his compatriots. Many out-of-state attendees are leaving and heading home. When one is asked where he’s from, he replies, “The internet.” His friend says they’re from Philadelphia, and the circumspect male offers up that he’s six hours from Charlottesville. Chandler Potter, from central New Jersey, wears a Confederate cap and offers a reporter a bottle of water. He says when he tried to leave downtown, he was attacked by “about 20 people” when he tried to get to his vehicle. Rally organizers, he says, “should have had a contingency plan.” The turn of events shows “a great amount of fear,” says Potter. “They did not want us here.” Despite the rally not taking place, “It was a great victory,” he says.
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Two days after he plowed into a group of peaceful counterprotesters with his car, white nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. appeared via webcam in Charlottesville General District Court Monday morning. The Maumee, Ohio, man, 20, is charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and a hit-and-run for driving his Dodge Challenger down Fourth Street in the aftermath of the August 12 Unite the Right rally. He struck about two dozen people, killing 32-year-old local activist Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. Fields told Judge Robert Downer he couldn’t afford his own attorney and was appointed Charles “Buddy” Weber, who also represented rally organizer Jason Kessler earlier this year in a misdemeanor assault conviction for punching a man on the Downtown Mall while collecting signatures for his remove-Vice-MayorWes-Bellamy-from-office petition. Fields’ face appeared on the courtroom’s TV screen from the local jail for several minutes before the judge entered the courtroom. He kept his head down. Photos from the rally show Fields standing with members of Vanguard America, but the white supremacist group disavowed any association with him. Fields’ former high school social studies teacher, Derek Weimer, told CNN that Fields had “outlandish, very radical beliefs,” when he taught him at Randall K. Cooper High School in Union, Kentucky. “It was quite clear he had some really extreme views and maybe a little bit of anger behind them,” Weimer told the
Atlanta-based station. “He really bought into this white supremacist thing. He was very big into Nazism. He really had a fondness for Adolf Hitler.” And the Washington Post reports that in 2010, his mother, Samantha Bloom, said he struck her in the head, put his hands over her mouth and threatened to beat her after she told him to stop playing video games. She said he was taking medication to control his temper. In another instance in October 2011, Bloom, who uses a wheelchair, allegedly called 911 to say her son was threatening her and she didn’t feel in control of the situation, according to the Post. The next month, an unknown caller asked police to come to the house because Bloom wanted Fields to be assessed at the hospital, but was too afraid to take him. The caller said he had just spit in her face and stood behind her with a 12-inch knife the night before. After Fields’ August 14 court appearance, Traditionalist Worker Party founder Matthew Heimbach, who was scheduled to speak at the Unite the Right rally, defended him outside the courthouse. “We have seen the pictures and the video of bats coming at that vehicle as a 20-year-old man feared for his life,” Heimbach said. “[Counterprotesters] came prepared for war. They tried to kill us.” And moments earlier, “The nationalist community defended ourselves against thugs in a battle that was brought by this city that wanted a bloodbath.” Fields’ next court appearance is scheduled for August 25.—Samantha Baars
it. The driver almost runs into the car in front of him while trying to escape protesters, who run after them down the street. 1:33pm: Neo-Nazis with the National Socialist Movement march down Water Street. “Go home!” yells a driver from a passing car. “We are home!” a neo-Nazi responds. “No you’re not!” the driver counters. 1:37pm: Anti-racists walk down Water Street from the same direction the NSM men came from minutes earlier. “No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist U.S.A.!” they chant. 1:38pm: At McIntire Park, Eli Mosley warns the hundred or so who are gathered there that a state of emergency has been declared, which means they “can’t have weapons” and should leave the park in the next 10 to 20 minutes. But first, attendees hear headliner Richard Spencer describe his ordeal of police dousing him with a chemical agent—twice. “I have never in my life been so outraged by my government,” he says. He decries the lack of police protection at Emancipation Park. “As I was coming in, these antifa communists assaulted us,” he says. Local police wouldn’t let him get to the platform to speak, which was behind the barrier, he says. “We have a permit.” When recounting his confrontation with the state police, Spencer says, “They looked like stormtroopers. They were in effect pushing us out of Lee Park toward the communists.” Adds Spencer, “I was standing my ground. Then I was maced in the face and in the chest by police.” No one helped him,
he says, and police “forced us into a gauntlet.” He’s received death threats, he says, adding “They were endangering us.” With parting shots at Mayor Mike Signer, who is Jewish, and Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy, who is black, Spencer promises, “We are going to be back here.” 1:38pm: “Black Lives Matter!” shouts a large group of counterprotesters carrying signs, banners and homemade drums walking down Water Street. The group turns north onto Fourth Street. 1:40pm: James Alex Fields Jr., 20, an Ohio man and alleged Nazi romanticizer, drives a Dodge Challenger into about two dozen demonstrators on Fourth Street, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring 19 others. He backs up over at least one person and speeds away. The crowd is in hysterics, and several bloodied people wait in the street for medical attention. “Somebody call a fucking ambulance,” a man screams while running away from the scene. Lost shoes and belongings are scattered everywhere. On his last day of work at the Daily Progress, photographer Ryan Kelly, 30, captures an image of the Dodge Challenger as it plows into the crowd. The picture goes viral, with the Washington Post dubbing it, “The photo from Charlottesville that will define this moment in American history.” Kelly, who had been with the paper four years, tells the Columbia Journalism Review that if the car had come 20 seconds earlier, he would have been in the middle of the street with his back to it and not on the sidewalk, where he was when it sped by.
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1:50pm: Protesters hold a large “Against White Supremacy” sign up to give some of the victims and people helping them privacy.
1:52pm: David Duke and Mike Enoch share a few words with their supporters at McIntire Park. Enoch rails against “white genocide” and the police “getting jerky.” He says, “We love white people. That’s why we’re here.” Says Duke, “I believe today in Charlottesville is the first step in making a realization of what Trump alluded to in his campaign. This is the first step in taking America back.” Duke, too, promises to be back in Charlottesville. CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
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2:02pm: Heena Reiter leads an Envisioning Peace event at Common Ground. She asks everyone in a circle to say their name and declare what they say “yes” to. People say: respect, unity, peace, peace, peace, kindness, acceptance, love, harmony, to the power of peace, to preserving and carrying on after today, compassion for the “other,” justice and hope.
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4:10pm: “We are here today to be witnesses. There are people who will not believe that this is our reality in 2017. So it was important that peaceful people [show up],” says Emmetri Beane of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in the Jefferson School parking lot. 4:51pm: A Virginia State Police helicopter crashes in the woods near Old Farm Road in the Bellair neighborhood. Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, of Midlothian, and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who would have turned 41 August 13, of Quinton, die at the scene.
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Around 5pm: President Donald Trump says he’s been closely following events in Charlottesville. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” he says. “On many sides.”
Just before 5pm Saturday, August 12, a Virginia State Police helicopter that had been part of the day’s surveillance crashed in the woods near Old Farm Road in the Bellair neighborhood. Both men on board, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and trooper-pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died at the scene. No details about the cause of the crash have been released.
5:01pm: The Art in Action event, co-sponsored by Black Lives Matter Charlottesville and Champion Brewing Company and held at the brewery, is shut down for security reasons. 5:05pm: Speaking to a small gathering of people at the McGuffey Park People’s Action for Racial Justice event, hosted by Together Cville and the Center for Peace and Justice, Bob McGowan says, “It will take a long time to process the events we’ve experienced.” He says, “Our work going forward” is to “exorcise the demons of white supremacy that are in our lives...we need to live with each other in peace, dignity and respect.”
The 48-year-old Virginia State Police officer of 23 years joined the aviation unit in 1999 and was promoted to be its commander last February. He was an avid mountain biker living in Midlothian with a wife and two sons. Governor Terry McAuliffe says he was very close to Cullen, who flew the governor and his family across the commonwealth for more than three and a half years. “This is a devastating loss for their families, the Virginia State Police and the entire commonwealth,” McAuliffe said at a press conference. “These heroes were a part of our family and we are simply heartbroken.”
5:13pm: Nathan Moore, of Together Cville, says he’s been to many protests, but “this is the first where someone died.” Purple and yellow mums and some faux lilies, purchased that day from Don’s Florist on Ridge Street, are passed around in memory of the person who lost her life in the car accident [Heather Heyer’s name has not yet been released]. Antifa from againstfascism.org pass out flowers and invite people in the park to lay them together in a circle. A woman named Barbie kneels in the grass, lights 20 white pillar votive candles purchased that afternoon from the Dollar
Trooper-pilot Berke M.M. Bates Bates, who transferred to the Virginia State Police aviation unit in July, died the day before his 41st birthday. In his 13 years of service with the department, he was a former member of the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and part of Governor McAuliffe’s executive protection team for the past three years. Bates, who lived in Quinton, played and coached hockey for the Richmond Generals, and is survived by his wife and twin son and daughter. “The job he always wanted all his life was to fly for a state police group. He was selected for it about a month ago,” his father, Robert Bates, told the Daily News. “I just want everyone to know how great of a cop he was.”
In the most devastating blow of the Unite the Right rally, a local activist and paralegal lost her life to a white supremacist in a Dodge Challenger. Heather Heyer, 32, is remembered by many as sweet and funny with impeccable wit. “She always had a very strong sense of right and wrong. She always, even as a child, was very caught up in what she believed to be fair,” Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, tells NPR. “Somehow, I almost feel that this is what she was born to be, is a focal point for change.” Heyer’s profile picture on Facebook appears next to a banner that says, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention,” and friends say she was quick to denounce any injustice. She grew up in Ruckersville, was a graduate of William Monroe High School and attended Piedmont Virginia Community College in 2007. Heyer worked as a paralegal with the Miller Law Group, and also at Cafe Caturra. “She was really caring about people,” says Larry Miller, her boss at the law firm. “We just celebrated five years of her working here. It was a struggle to get her to take time off because she knew people needed her here.” Miller also describes Heyer as “humble” because “she didn’t know she was as good as she was.” He recently took her to lunch to celebrate her anniversary and told her how happy he was she was part of the firm’s family. “She cried,” he says. “It’s been really tough coming into the office because her chair hasn’t been touched, her desk hasn’t been touched,” says Miller. “It’s been devastating.” As Charlottesville grieves, many have lit candles and laid flowers and keepsakes on Fourth Street, in the spot where Heyer and many others were peacefully assembling when hit by the car. A sign that lies on the road reads, “Yesterday, my baby son took his first steps. Yesterday, as our sweet town was brought to its knees, a new generation found its feet. We will teach him to walk the right path, and to always stand for what is right. Just as these brave souls who were injured and killed standing up for what’s right. We will teach him that love always wins.” Bro told HuffPost that she wants her daughter’s death “to be a rallying cry for justice.” At a press conference August 14, Chief Al Thomas said Fourth Street would remain closed indefinitely. “It was a tragic, tragic day,” he said. “I think she’d be shocked to know we’re hearing from all over the world,” says Miller. “Some say she’s become the face of this whole thing.” A memorial for Heyer will be held at 11am August 16 at the Paramount Theater.— Samantha Baars
Tree and places them in a circle around the mound of flowers. 5:29pm: “Remember what you saw. Remember what you felt when you looked those people in the eye,” says Montae Taylor, president of Old Dominion University’s chapter of the NAACP. 5:52pm: The Downtown Mall feels eerily quiet as businesses have closed, and alt-righters and counterprotesters have left. 6pm: Governor Terry McAuliffe, City Manager Maurice Jones, Mayor Mike Signer and
Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas hold a press conference at the county office building. McAuliffe tells the “white supremacists and Nazis who came into Charlottesville today: Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth.” Signer says the hatred, intolerance and bigotry, including the torchlight march on the Lawn, are brought by outsiders whose ideas “belong on the trash heap of history.” Says Jones, “Hate came to our town today in a way that we had feared but we had never really let ourselves imagine would.”
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1:54pm: Interior doors to the Jefferson School are locked with wire. Someone walks in through the Common Ground door and says, “Bad things are happening.”
Richard Spencer tells a group of alt-righters that went to McIntire Park after Saturday’s Unite the Right rally in Emancipation Park was declared an unlawful assembly that he is outraged by assaults from antifas. Alt-righters clashed with counterprotesters at McIntire as well.
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On Sunday, August 13, hundreds of people gathered at the memorial on Fourth and Water streets to honor Heather Heyer. Below: Marcus Martin, a friend of Heyer’s who broke his leg after pushing his fiancé, Marissa Blair, out of the way of the oncoming car, attends the vigil with other friends of Heyer’s.
sore,” the man says. “It’s been awhile since I’ve had a beat down.”
7:23pm: A Shebeen server, dressed entirely in black, walks outside, sobbing. She gasps for air, sits down on the smoker parked near the restaurant’s entrance and turns her head to the sky, still crying. Mascara runs down her face as tears drip from her brown eyes. She tells a C-VILLE reporter that her friend died today, and she had to find that out on Facebook. Hands shaking, she’s barely able to light a cigarette with a hot pink BIC lighter. She succeeds, then tries to call her mother. A Black Lives Matter 757 activist hands her a flier for a vigil at UVA’s Rotunda later in the evening. When she finally gets through to her mother, she howls between sobs, “Mom. Heather’s dead. Heather’s gone. She’s gone. She’s gone.”
10:03am: UVA students begin painting a green-and-white sign on Beta Bridge that will read: “Hate has no place here. We choose love.”
10:31am: Politicians arrive at the church, and they’re ushered into a reserved pew a few rows from the front. The group includes Mayor Signer and his wife, Emily Blout; Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam; Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring; Delegate David Toscano; Governor McAuliffe and Vice-Mayor Bellamy.
9:12pm: President Trump sends out another tweet: “Condolences to the family of the young woman killed today, and best regards to all of those injured, in Charlottesville, Virginia. So sad!” Late Saturday night: The FBI and the Department of Justice open a civil rights investigation into the deadly car crash that killed Heather Heyer.
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State and local dignitaries, including Governor Terry McAuliffe and Delegate David Toscano, attended the Sunday morning worship service at First Baptist Church on West Main Street.
10:57am: Elder Boyd stands at the altar and expresses, for the second time, his pleasure with McAuliffe’s statement “against bigotry and hatred,” and echoes the governor’s words: “Go home!” Then, Boyd turns his attention to other matters, including donations of baby supplies, visits to shut-ins and Bible study. 11:01am: Deacon Don Gathers greets firsttime visitors to First Baptist and asks the media, who are sitting in pews toward the back and standing up in the balconies, to remember that this is the church’s weekly worship service and to respect the house. He invites them to return in the future. “We’ve got to come about healing. There will be scars left in this community for many years,” says Gathers, adding that the only way to heal together is in unity, in Christ.
11:21am: McAuliffe, Toscano, Northam, Herring, Bellamy and the Signers leave. Most media leave with them—back pews and secondstory balconies are suddenly nearly empty. This sends murmurs through the congregation. Later in the day, deacon Don Gathers notes that they left right before the offering. 11:42am: Tracie Daniels, a pastor and principal of Jackson-Via Elementary School, comes to the altar to preach. She reads from Joshua CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
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10:44am: Angelee Godbold leads the congregation in “Glory to His Name.” McAuliffe bounces and claps his hands along with the music. Camera shutters click between the notes.
11:12am: The congregation applauds as McAuliffe approaches the altar. He asks for a moment of silence for the three people who died on Saturday, and says that the helicopter crash was “personal,” because Jay Cullen was his pilot for three years and Berke Bates was part of his protection unit. The “white supremacists and neo-Nazis... they came here to hurt, no question about it,” McAuliffe says. He suggests they not only “go home,” but “get out of the United States. Your ‘patriotism’ is a disgrace to the men and women who wear the cloth of this country.” Says the visibly moved governor, “We don’t like you, we don’t want you. Never come back.” McAuliffe admits, “I’m more fired up than I’ve ever been! We stand on the shoulders of so many Americans...who fought against hate and bigotry.” He mentions Barbara Johns, the high school student who led her classmates in a strike to protest inferior conditions in April 1951 at Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward County.
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10:37am: “Turn to your neighbor and tell them, ‘I love you,’” Elder J. Boyd instructs everyone at First Baptist. “What you saw yesterday was not Charlottesville. There are good people here in Charlottesville...we work together.” He says that when people say “Virginia is for lovers,” it’s not about intimate love, but about brotherly love and compassion.
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10:21am: In advance of the regular 10:30am worship service at First Baptist Church on West Main Street, deacon Kathy Matthew leads everyone who’s already there in prayer. Camera shutters click as the group stands in a circle, holding hands. Someone murmurs, “God is good. God. Is. Good.”
8:15pm: Charlottesville City Council grants Chief Thomas expanded powers, which include the authority to enact a curfew.
Around 1am: A local who asks that his name not be used is walking home in the Belmont area when a truck stops behind him. “A person pushed me to the ground and then stomped my face into the pavement,” he says. “These guys were in the back ready to pounce.” He says when he notifies police, an officer says there had been reports of other attacks from a similar vehicle. “I’m a little
11:04am: The First Baptist congregation applauds as Northam comes to the altar to speak. He says his message to white supremacists and Nazis is, “You’re not welcome here in Charlottesville. Go home!” As a physician, he’s held a lot of babies, and “when you look into a baby’s eyes, you don’t see the hatred, the bigotry that we saw here yesterday...They learn it from somewhere.”
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1:9: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” “We’re stronger than we look,” she begins her sermon, and she invokes Martin Luther King Jr. 1:03pm: A plein air artist stands under a silver umbrella in a gravel lot on Garrett Street, working on a painting of the pink warehouse. 2pm: Jason Kessler begins speaking into a cluster of microphones in front of a broad semicircle of cameras, journalists and hundreds of onlookers and protesters in front of City Hall. His voice is completely drowned out by angry voices that call him a murderer, among other things. He has a wide radius of space of about 15 feet around where he is standing.
2:05pm: Reporter Hawes Spencer follows Hausman’s example and begins to inch closer with his voice recorder. 2:05pm: Chants of “Shame on you!” begin and continue for a full minute.
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Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler is pursued by an angry mob after he attempts to hold a press conference in front of City Hall on Sunday. Kessler had to be protected by police after someone hit him.
2:06pm: A black-clad male protester with both middle fingers raised at Kessler trails behind Spencer. Half a dozen people follow suit, encircling Kessler. Activist Jeff Winder takes a swing at Kessler, who turns and runs through the shrubbery toward the street. Winder later tells the New York Times, “Jason Kessler has been bringing hate to our town for months and has been endangering the lives of people of color and endangering other lives in my community.” A woman catches up with the fleeing Kessler and tackles him into the bushes. Another protester pulls at his jacket. Police descend on the scene and hustle Kessler into the station. A line of uniformed state troopers forms to block anyone from moving toward the parking lot in front of the City Hall Annex. They are reinforced by riot-clad officers. Around the corner, on the side street to the police parking garages, members of a state police SWAT team carrying M4 assault rifles line up and block access from the Downtown Mall. An armored vehicle is parked in the street behind them.
2:21pm: One of the snipers standing on top of the Downtown Transit Center gives the other sniper a pat on the back.
2:33pm: Carl Dix, civil rights leader and co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org, takes the bullhorn. He says the Nazi/white supremacist attitude comes from the Trump/Pence ad-
2:56pm: Robert K. Litzenberger, 47, of Charlottesville, is arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for spitting on Kessler as he fled the press conference. 2:57pm: A woman using a bullhorn tells Charlottesville cops standing around a police car on Sixth Street,“If you want to be for us, you have to be for us.” 3:12pm: A man walks through the crowd blasting N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police.” 3:44pm: Two young men push a baby carriage full of bottles of water around. They offer water to the crowd, to police, to the press. 3:45pm: A woman encourages everyone to go out and vote and put six black men and women on Charlottesville City Council. The next speaker says, with a hint of despair, “Charlottesville will never have six black men and women on City Council.” 4:01pm: At the Fourth Street memorial site for Heather Heyer, a woman writes, “You are my HERO Heather. Thank you for being the FIRE FOR CHANGE! C’ville strong!” in chalk at the memorial. 4:05pm: Someone has added the word “hate” underneath the stop sign at the memorial. On the wayfinding sign on the side of the brick building, “Hate has no place here” is written in colorful paper block letters that cover some graffiti. Chalk messages on the ground include “Today we are all Heather” and “Charlottesville will stay outraged for you.” Marigolds formed in the shape of a heart occupy
4:21pm: A group of about 30 people form a semi-circle and hold hands at the memorial. 4:26pm: About a dozen people, many wearing Serve C’ville T-shirts, pass out water and granola bars to the crowd. 4:34pm: A collective of six clergy members from various denominations kneel in front of the memorial and offer prayers for Heyer, Cullen, Bates and their families and friends. 4:36pm: A man with two small children in a stroller walks by the vigil. One of the children babbles and the dad hushes him, saying, “We have to be respectful right now.” A moment later, a group of young people walk away from the vigil and one sarcastically says, “Yeah, we’re gonna pray the Nazis away.” 4:55pm: A New York Times photojournalist asks local musician Keith Morris for a cigarette. Morris hands him an American Spirit as the reporter says he came to Charlottesville “to see the face of fascism” for himself. 4:56pm: A smell of incense wafts through the crowd at the memorial. It’s traced to two men sitting cross-legged on the sidewalk in meditation. One sports a fox tail and ears. A sign tells people to add a pinch of cedar to the coal to “release what energy needs releasing.” 5:20pm: A woman holding a “Free hugs” sign on the Downtown Mall says she can’t even remember how many people she’s hugged today. “Dozens. Dozens.” 5:36pm: “This Land is Your Land,” by Woody Guthrie, plays over the sound system at Rapture. 5:57pm: The mobile jazz cart man hands out purple and pink carnations to people eating dinner and walking on the mall. 6pm: The vigil for Heather Heyer continues into the night as hundreds of people gather around the memorial on Fourth Street to sing hymns, hug one another and remember the 32-year-old woman who was killed. “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention” read purple shirts worn by Heyer’s friends.
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2:28pm: Organizers visiting from Chicago with the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, offer a bullhorn to those who wish to speak outside the post office on Sixth Street. One man growls his message to Nazis: “Go. Home.” He mentions Heather Heyer, Jay Cullen and Berke Bates, and says, “This has gone too far” as he holds back tears.
2:55pm: “If it were black folks with tiki torches...the police would have beat them down to the ground,” a woman says through the bullhorn. “Yes, baby! Say it, baby!” someone yells. “I just want this shit to stop,” says another woman, mentioning Freddie Gray and other victims of police brutality.
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2:08pm: Chants turn to “Nazis go home!” A man dressed in Chad fashion—a white polo shirt and black pants, with an undercut hairstyle—slinks along the side of City Hall with a camera bag and says, “You will not replace us.” A neon yellow sign in the crowd reads, “Heather’s blood is on your hands.”
ministration. He mentions the Holocaust and says, “Don’t tell me that can’t happen in this country. It is up to us to end this nightmare for this country and our planet.” He urges everyone to vote in local and state elections.
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Support for the city following Saturday’s deadly Unite the Right rally has poured in from all over the world, including hundreds of Solidarity with Charlottesville events that were held nationwide on Sunday and Monday. Many of the vigils honored the life of Heather Heyer, the local woman who was killed by a man who drove his car into peaceful counterprotesters Saturday afternoon. Other gatherings were put together to speak out against hate groups and push for the removal of Confederate monuments. During a Monday evening “emergency protest” in Durham, North Carolina, a crowd tied a rope around the neck of a 15-foot uniformed Confederate soldier statue that has stood in front of the old Durham County Courthouse since 1924, and pulled it off its pedestal. In Portland, Maine, 400 citizens gathered Sunday in Monument Square to protest white supremacy, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and President Donald Trump, while hundreds in Los Angeles rallied on the steps of City Hall to denounce white nationalism before taking to the streets and chanting “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.” Protesters have also marched to Trump Tower in New York, demanding the president more strongly condemn what happened in Charlottesville August 12. Closer to home, people gathered Sunday evening on Fourth Street, where a memorial for Heyer continues to grow, and sang “Amazing Grace” and prayed near piles of flowers that have been laid in the area where she was killed.—Susan Sorensen
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8. Choir reminds singers that there are no shortcuts to excellence. 9. Choir teaches the importance of careful preparation in reaching goals. 10. Choir develops a sense of culture and sophistication. 11. Choir provides the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment in music. 12. Choir trains participants to be future supporters of the arts. 13. Choir provides a healthy cultural and creatively artistic balance in these days of heavily data-based education. 14. Choir conveys that leadership, demeanor, and good attitude make a significant contribution to the success of a group. 15. Choir reminds us of the positive, exciting impact a dedicated group can make beyond that which is possible for an individual. 16. Choir can be a college “hook” in the application process, showing well-balanced experience and education.
WHO Grades 1 - 8 (ages 6 - 14) regardless of musical training WHEN Grades 3 - 8 from 5:30pm - 7pm pick a day | Monday in Crozet or Thursday in Charlottesville | Grades 1 & 2 from 5pm - 6:30pm Thursday in Charlottesville WHERE Crozet – Mondays – Crozet United Methodist Church Charlottesville – Thursdays - Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church NOTE: we are NOT associated with any church
HOW Sign up for a 15 minute interview Monday August 28th in Crozet or Thursday August 31st in Charlottesville NOTE: both locations have times available from 4pm - 8pm
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Saturday 8/19 Helpful hands Dina Maccabee leads a triple bill at the Tea Bazaar on Saturday.
Small bills and big attitudes are the welcome norm for Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestling competitions, where the “arm wrasslin’ and acting foolish” pairs up with a local charity for a raucous balance of competition, camp and community support. Proceeds from this match go to Brave Souls on Fire, which provides expression through spoken word gigs for citizens affected by mental illness. $8-30, 8pm. Champion Brewing Company, 324 S. Sixth St. 295-2739.
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Just marvelous
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band return to the Pavilion on Wednesday.
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is no small venture—the 13-piece group backs Lovett on everything from violin to guitar to trombone, swinging through jazz and pickin’ out country with a variety of crowd-pleasers. With 14 records and almost four decades of touring, the four-time Grammy winner continues to define his own musical niche. $35-49, 7pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.
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You might know Stan Lee from his countless cameos in blockbuster Marvel movies or from the familiar characters he created (Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the X-Men and SpiderMan, to name a few). But you’ll really get to know the iconic comic book writer by watching Extraordinary: Stan Lee, a nostalgic look at his life, broadcast live from the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles and hosted by Chris Hardwick. $10-12, 9pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
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Improvisation on viola, atmospheric cello and lush acoustics fill a unique bill of songwriters: Touring veteran Dina Maccabee (violinist, violist and vocalist) loops depth, space and complexity into the songs from her new album, The World is in the Work. Cellist, vocalist and composer Janel Leppin applies extensive classical training to her diverse collaborations and solo work, with more than 25 studio albums to her credit. And Juliana Daugherty, a member of both Nettles and The Hill and Wood, performs an alluring set of acoustic songs. $7, 9pm. All ages. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.
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6:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.
music Jason Burke. Sunset music from Jason Burke. Free, 5:30pm. Keswick Vineyards, 1575 Keswick Winery Dr., Keswick. 244-3341.
LUA. A band that works as a cultural pollinator, bridging together musical styles from different continents, countries and centuries. Free, 6pm. Stinson Vineyards, 4744 Sugar Hollow Rd., Crozet. 823-7300.
Jazz Collective #9. Enjoy bop, swing, Latin, funky soul jazz and the chill vibe of Fellini’s #9. Free, 6:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Juniors Last Stand. Acoustic with a lil twist. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Singer, composer, actor and four-time Grammy winner Lyle Lovett fuses elements of Americana, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a swingin’ concert. $35-49, 6pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910. Nathan West. Swing to some tunes from Nathan West of The Pollocks. Free, 5pm. The Shebeen Pub & Braai, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. 296-3185. Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713. Uncle Billy. Fun local music that puts a spin on countless favorites, from classic rock to country to modern hits. Free, 6pm. Three Notch’d Brewing Company, 946 Grady Ave. 293-0610. Universal Sigh. A melodic, jazz fusion highenergy rock show. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
stage Much Ado About Nothing. While the villainous Don John devises a scheme to shatter the nuptials of Claudio and Hero, the young lovers conspire to trick Beatrice and Benedick into admitting their love. $21-49, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
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Shrek. After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back. Free, 10:30am. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St. 529-3000.
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Nick and Stephen Pollock. Nick Pollock and his dad, Stephen, are two cool dudes playing tunes together. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Friday 8/18
Night at the Museum with Chamomile and Whiskey. See exhibits after hours, featuring live tunes from Charlottesville’s own Chamomile and Whiskey. $5, 5pm. KlugeRuhe Aboriginal Art Collection, 400 Worrell Dr. 244-0234.
‘90s Dance Party. It’s Flashback Friday with your favorite old school hits from the ‘90s and early 2000s. 21-plus. Free, 9:30pm. Heritage on Main, 309 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 946-6166.
Music Feeds Us Benefit Concert. Music Feeds Us, led by Artistic Director Fitz Gary, will present a string quartet concert to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Donations encouraged. Free, 7:30pm. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 Rugby Rd. 963-4690.
Red Lokust with Spider Lilies, Null Device and Tragic Impulse. Industrial music, electro goth rock, buoyant electronic pop and club-friendly EBM, respectively. $10, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Scott Ward. Live music on the patio. Free, 5pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. The Michael Elswick Gathering. Jazz ensemble with melodies that range from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
stage Big Blue Door Improv Night. Charlottesville’s only longform improv comedy show presents The Administration, Big Blue Door’s faculty performance group. Free, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. Peter and the Starcatcher. Embrace the endless possibilities of imagination in this action-packed coming-of-age prequel to Peter Pan. $21-49, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
words Eyes on Art Tour. A program to engage people with Alzheimer’s in meaningful discussions about art. Reservations required. Free, 2:30pm. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.
etc. Alphaville. Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi adventure about a man on a mission to eliminate the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. $9, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St. 529-3000.
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Best of C-VILLE Party 2017. Come celebrate the best people, places and things in Charlottesville and beyond at the grooviest party of the year, featuring music from Soul Transit, Derek Tobler and Mobile DJ & Emcee. 21-plus. $60, 7pm. Brooks Family YMCA, 151 McIntire Park Dr. c-villetickets.com. Big Mama Shakes. A Southern Americana rock band that wants nothing more than to push the envelope. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Bob Bennetta. Fine music from a professional jazz pianist. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Boys & Girls Club Benefit Concert. The Corduroy Charitable Trust puts on a concert to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Central Virginia. Erin and the Wildfire and Nick Faulconer headline. $5-20, 8pm. Corduroy Farm, 14103 Louisa Rd. corduroycharitabletrust.com. BRIMS Traditional Ensemble. Irish song and dance. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. DJ 2 Low. DJ 2 Low mixes it up. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. Fultones to the Max. Max and Fulton entertain with harmonica, guitar, vocals and lots of humor. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Future Pre-Concert Bash with Dripset Freaky. Bash features Lil Freaky performing his new single “Dripset ft. Future” and music by DJ Millz and DJ Flatlinelay. 21-plus. $15-25, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Killer Deluxe. This dynamic duo has been producing and songwriting together since their groundbreaking modern-rock quartet of the
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Pickin’ & Grinnin’ Open Music Jam. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Settle Down Jack. Settle Down Jack is a group of musicians, singers and songwriters that delivers an eclectic mix of music ranging from rock to pop to jazz to R&B. 21-plus. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. The Lone Rangers and Highway To Rock Band Minds Eye. Stacy’s Music presents The Lone Rangers on their mission to save their world from boring with a deep catalog of hits from the ‘70s all the way to today. $10, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Uncle Billy. Acoustic on the patio. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Cafe, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464.
stage Love’s Labour’s Lost. The King of Navarre and his three “schoolmates” are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and her three ladies in this exuberant romantic comedy. $29-57, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. The Charlottesville Reading Series. An outdoor summer performance by acclaimed artists, featuring Adam Nemett, Lilly Bechtel, Brian Wahl and Erika Howsare. Free, 7pm. The Garage, 250 N. First St. thegaragecville. com. The Haus of Belle featuring Nicole Paige Brooks. Your favorite local drag show welcomes the star of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season two, Nicole Paige Brooks, of Atlanta, Georgia, to the stage. $15, 6:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
Saturday 8/19 music 2017 Virginia Craft Brewers Fest. Live music at Virginia’s largest craft beer festival. $25110, 1pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St SE. Adar with Erin Lunsford. Compelling songs and charismatic performances from a deep well of originals and soulful covers. Free, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. CONTINUED ON PAGE 29
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Koda Kerl. Koda Kerl of Chamomile and Whiskey performs a solo set. Free, 6pm. Blue Mountain Barrel House, 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington. 263-4002.
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Bluegrass with Bennie Dodd. Authentic bluegrass with the Bennie Dodd Band. Free,
late ‘90s, Earth To Andy. Free, 5:30pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.
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Moonrise Kingdom. The Maverick Cinema series presents an ode to young lovers from that patriarch of elegant quirk, Wes Anderson. $10, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 375 Merchant Walk Sq., 5th Street Station. 326-5056.
Eyes Without a Face. A brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance, at a horrifying price. $9, noon. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St. 529-3000.
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ARTS FEEDBACK Saturday 8/19 Chamomile and Whiskey. An eclectic sound blending Americana and Southern rock with Irish, gypsy and old-time music for a raging live performance. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001. Concert to End Cannabis Prohibition with Positive Collective and Righteous Friendz. Concertgoers will be able to sign petitions or letters while listening to a bluesy, jazzy, upbeat show. $10, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
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101 Dalmatians Kids. A kids’ show featuring all your favorite tunes, from Cruella De Vil to Kanine Krunchies, in a classic Disney story. $5-10, 3pm. DMR Studio, 1117 E. Market St., Ste. L. 203-6314.
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followed by a fun dance. $5-10, 8pm. Ivy Creek United Methodist Church Social Hall, 674 Woodlands Rd. 882-4664.
Much Ado About Nothing. See listing for Wednesday, August 16. $29-59, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
Dina Maccabee with Janel Leppin and Juliana Daugherty. Dina Maccabee’s solo viola and voice talent comes with poignant songwriting and a keen gift for hooking audiences. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.
Peter and the Starcatcher. See listing for Thursday, August 17. $29-57, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
Duck Brothers. DJ Ducksauce and DJ Ducktape scratch, slash, cut and juggle their unique funk, hip-hop and dance rock in onthe-spot mixes. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestling competition. CLAW teams up with Brave Souls on Fire, a local charity helping citizens with mental illness. Champion Brewery, 324 S. Sixth St. 295-2739.
Evan Mook. Equally well-versed in classical and jazz piano, Evan Mook provides an elegant, romantic ambience. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Glass Betty. A genre-bending rock band from the Shenandoah Valley. 21-plus. Free, 9pm. Heritage on Main, 309 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 946-6166. Greg Duncan. Music from an emerging artist and freelance Chicagoan jazz trumpet player. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Help Me Helen with Michael Coleman and Ray Buckner. Debra Guy and Help Me Helen headline a show that also features singer-songwriter Michael Coleman and Lynchburg rocker Ray Buckner. $7, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660.
Guided Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. A tour of the only museum in the world that is exclusively dedicated to indigenous Australian art. Free, 10:30am. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, 400 Worrell Dr. 244-0234. Private Spaces. The first public exhibition by local photographer Yolonda Coles-Jones. Free, 10am-3pm. Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.
Sunday 8/20 music Brackish Water Jamboree. Live music on the lawn. Free, 2:30pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020. Grant Frazier. A 19-year-old singer-songwriter based out of northern Virginia. 21-plus. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.
Live Music at Keswick Vineyards. Enjoy food trucks and live music. Free, noon. Keswick Vineyards, 1575 Keswick Winery Dr., Keswick. 244-3341.
Grassy Ridge. Bring a blanket or chair to this free mountain music concert. Free, 2pm. Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8 Blue Ridge Parkway, Lyndhurst. (540) 943-4716.
Marc Broussard. Marc Broussard and his father, Ted, play some live tunes. $85, 6pm. The Inn at Willow Grove, 14079 Plantation Way, Orange. (540) 317-1206.
Hops & Hymns. Enjoy singing your favorite hymns with friends while sipping on brew. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.
Mask Off After Party. Hosted By Denzy From Da Block, featuring music by DJ Purple Haze and DJ Flatlinelay. 21-plus. Free, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
Jazz Rascals. Join Ken Nelson and The Jazz Rascals for a real Cajun jazz afternoon. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Settle Down Jack. A group of musicians, singers and songwriters delivers an eclectic mix of music ranging from rock to pop to jazz to R&B. 21-plus. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.
Sue Harlow. Americana and folk from a singer-songwriter whose haunting vocals delve into the depths of what makes people real. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.
The Lone Rangers. The Lone Rangers play some pop. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.
Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
Two Buzzards. Enjoy live music with the sunset. Free, 5pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 2228 Lake Albemarle Rd. 326-2374. West African Drum Circle. Come join the weekly drum circle. $5, 11am. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.
dance Charlottesville Swing Dance Society Monthly Dance. A day of dance workshops
dance Salsa Sundays. The Charlottesville Salsa Club presents an introductory dance lesson followed by a dance party. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. CONTINUED ON PAGE 33
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here was an apple going bad on Adar Seligman-McComas’ desk. But it had been a week of writer’s block and listlessness, and she wasn’t hungry right then. She’d eat it later, she told herself. Over the course of the month, she watched that unwanted apple slowly rot. Then one morning, Seligman-McComas woke up gripped with a thought: “I don’t want that to be me. I don’t want to be the apple.” And so the song “The Other Fruit” was born. The frontwoman of the band Adar, Seligman-McComas finds inspiration in even the most mundane of muses. Her songs draw on everything from feeling okay with being alone to the anguish of a breakup to, well, fruit. “Music has made me feel like the things I’m experiencing are things I’m not experiencing alone,” says Seligman-McComas, remembering a time, around age 17, when she listened to Radiohead’s In Rainbows on repeat. Her own music imparts this catharsis in a sweet indie-girl voice reminiscent of Regina Spektor, backed by soulful music that has made grown men in the crowd at Miller’s cry. Seligman-McComas takes advantage of the emotional connection between performer and audience, using it as a platform. “I’ve had a lot of opportunities,” she says. “I feel it’s the responsibility of the bands in this town to make people feel safe and welcome no matter what ethnic or religious background.” She and her band put together a free unity concert at Rapture in July as an
escape from the increasingly sour debate surrounding the Robert E. Lee statue downtown. “This town feels very liberal to me, but it’s a blue dot in a mass of red,” says Seligman-McComas. “I feel like it’s our responsibility to stand in solidarity.” Adar is coming up on its one-year anniversary as a band. In that year, the group has released an EP (The Rapids) and played locally, everywhere from museums to music festivals to a long list of bars. For Seligman-McComas, who likes singing even more than she likes eating chocolate (“And I really love chocolate,” she laughs), the journey has been a fun one. She’s hoping to get Adar onto the festival circuit for 2018, eyeing a new website, a wider touring range and maybe new music. Even as it looks to grow, the band maintains its roots in the Charlottesville music scene, which Seligman-McComas describes as impressively supportive of local bands. In her journey from being a 12-year-old recording songs on an MP3 recorder to fronting a Rockn’ to Lockn’ semifinalist band, Seligman-McComas has worked with other familiar local names, including Gina Sobel, Koda Kerl (of Chamomile and Whiskey) and Erin Lunsford. In fact, Lunsford will open Adar’s upcoming show at the Southern on August 19 with an acoustic set. In the headlining slot, Seligman-McComas is excited to perform for an attentive audience at the Southern, where the mood will likely be introspective. “It will be less upbeat, and a little more quiet,” she says. “But it’s not gonna be seated, because we always get funky.”
“I’ve had a lot of opportunities. I feel it’s the responsibility of the bands in this town to make people feel safe and welcome no matter what ethnic or religious background.” ADAR SELIGMAN-MCCOMAS
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Koda Kerl and Marie Borgman. Americana, Irish, gypsy and old-time sounds, all delivered with punk rock ferocity. Free, 3:30pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.
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Second Opinion. Fast-paced saxophone solos and ‘70s-era rock ‘n’ roll in the style of Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen. Free, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-4878.
Since releasing The Rapids EP in March, Adar frontwoman Adar Seligman-McComas has been on a trajectory that includes a headline gig at the Southern on Saturday.
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Her Checkered Past. Join Anne O’Brien and Frank Bechter by the hearth for live music that will warm your heart. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.
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Back on track Finding inspiration in the past By Desiré Moses arts@c-ville.com
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he old adage “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” rings particularly true in 2017. You don’t have to search hard to find parallels between the current sociopolitical landscape and the one that served as a catalyst for the counterculture movement of the 1960s. This observation wasn’t lost on the members of Portugal. The Man when it came to recording their eighth full-length record, Woodstock. The follow-up to 2013’s Evil Friends was released earlier this summer, and its namesake is a nod to frontman and co-founder John Gourley’s dad. While struggling to find a sense of cohesion for a batch of songs the band had been working on, Gourley went home to Wasilla, Alaska. That’s when Gourley’s dad stepped in, wanting to know what was taking so long to finish the project. (Spending a few years on a record is a lifetime for a group whose output boasted one album per year from 2006 to 2013.) Guitarist Eric Howk (who grew up with co-founders Gourley and Zach Carothers in Wasilla) says Gourley’s dad put the group back on track. “[John’s dad] builds houses. He takes his tools, he goes out there and he puts it up,” Howk explains. “So he’s like, ‘Don’t you go into a room, bring your instruments, write some songs and record them?’ Which is what we ended up having to do.” Around the same time, Gourley’s dad found his original ticket stub to the 1969 Woodstock music festival buried in the bottom of a toolbox. The relic inspired the band to scrap everything they had been working on and start fresh, with the sounds and philosophies of Woodstock as a touchstone. “You name your album Woodstock; you start with the name and suddenly you’ve got a theme and that theme was sort of this new age of consciousness that we’re working with, and similarities to what led up to 1969 being, you know, Richard Nixon in the White House, McCarthyism, fear on a
political level and just the sort of anxiety that ran through the country and seeing similarities of what’s going on today and just seeing people opening up their eyes and looking around,” Howk says. “And that’s all we’re trying to do, too. We’re shining a light and putting our hands up a little bit and saying, ‘This is bullshit; a lot of things going on are not okay.’” Woodstock’s first single, “Feel It Still,” is bass-laden, pop-infused dynamite, honed to perfection with retro flourishes and Gourley’s falsetto. It’s become Portugal. The Man’s biggest hit to date, peaking at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. The accompanying interactive video makes good on the band’s desire to bring about social awareness—viewers can click on “tools of resistance,” hidden throughout, including a direct-dial to the White House, custom protest posters and donation links for Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. “There’s no political agenda behind it; it’s more of a humanist sort of thing,” Howk explains. “... things like racial equality, gender equality, equal pay, clean water. These aren’t things that should be put to a vote. These are things that should just show our progress as a society and should just exist.” Not only does Woodstock take up the mantle of music and social consciousness, but it also reflects the wide array of sounds featured on a festival bill. “The sonic palette that we’re working with on this record, we actually wanted it to sound like a festival, where you’ve got, you know, Major Lazer on one end and Kings of Leon on the other end, and you’re just walking through,” Howk says. “We wanted it to sound like a CD booklet, you know, whatever you had in your first car growing up. You had those like, 64 CDs; you’ve got Motown and old soul and funk and then you’ve got Missy Elliot and Outkast and everything in-between that. We wanted it to be accessible but we also wanted it to be pretty diverse and I think we nailed it.”
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harlottesville is a cozy little city. Most of the time, we know our neighbors—enough to recognize their kids or their pets, maybe catch snippets about their lives at work or play. But what if the guy down the street turned out to be the commander of an invading fleet of warships? Or the girl next door is actually the leader of an entire army? It sounds fantastical, but few of us know where authority comes from—or if we could spot it in street clothes. Local artist Blake Hurt explores this human propensity to fill in the blanks by creating portraits not with photorealistic accuracy but with an assembly of unexpected artifacts and symbols. In this way, he renders family, friends and familiar members of the Charlottesville community wholly new. His current show includes two bodies of work in two separate galleries. The PCA Gallery features “Steampunk Ink Collages,” a collection of large-scale digital portraits, while Chroma Projects is exhibiting “August Persons,” a collection of watercolor portraits laced with outrageous crowns, hats and other whimsical toppers. When he creates his mosaic-like digital portraits, Hurt uses a computer program to deconstruct and rebuild faces with components that reflect the accomplishments or interests of his subjects. In the past, his digital works included a portrait of Char-
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lottesville’s former mayor Satyendra Huja blended from a street map of the city, and a portrait composed from visual soundwave renderings from an audio recording of a friend’s voice. In “Steampunk Ink Collages,” he took inspiration from Modern Locomotive Construction, an early 19th-century engineering book that is chock-full of technical illustrations of locomotive machinery and design. Hurt used these hand-drawn illustrations as facial components, overlaying and combining them to reveal the sitter of each portrait. Hurt explains in his artist’s statement, “The recognition of the whole is controlled by where the viewer of the picture stands. If you stand close to one of the digital pictures, you see only the individual drawings; if you stand far away, you see the image of the face.” In “August Persons,” Hurt creates faces using the more traditional dashes and blots of watercolor paints—then takes it up a notch. Hurt knew he wanted to elevate the conversation around his watercolor portraits from a comparison of strict likeness to actual content. Inspired by a picture of the marriage ceremony of Czar and Czarina Nicholas and Alexandra, he began adding crowns to his subjects, hoping that “rather than asking if it was a good likeness, people would ask, ‘Who is this person that has such a big hat?’” Hurt’s hats are composed from elements of his 19th-century engineering drawings but echo the remarkable range of real-life headgear worn through the ages. “I think of these hats as regalia, signatories of authority, a long history of accumulated power,” Hurt says. “You wear them because they have meaning. Your great-grandfather defeated some country, and that doodad on the right is the finger of the defeated foe.” Think, he suggests, of the guards in front of Buckingham Palace. “They’ve got columns of hair two feet high with doodads on the front. These hats are signifiers of position, of membership to an elite group.” Hurt considered writing a backstory for each of his subjects in “August Persons,” since most visitors will not recognize his portraits. But in the end, he decided to let the headgear speak for itself. “It’s not that these people have unusual authority, but it could be,” Hurt says. “These portraits are starting points for imagination. They’re a reflection of how ordinary people can show up in extraordinary circumstances.”
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etc. Life Is Beautiful. In 1930s Italy, an openminded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, where the father imagines a game in order to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. $5-7, 2pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
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Bluegrass Jam. Join in for a bluegrass jam. Free, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012. Portugal. The Man with The Dig. Feel-good, poppy psychedelic rock. $33-37, 6pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.
Tuesday 8/22 music Blues Jam. See listing for Monday, August 21. Free, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.
Karaoke with Jen Dville. Calling all future pop stars. 21-plus. Free, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Traditional Irish Session. Lots of musicians and great Irish music. Free, 8:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, August 20. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
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series has become home for set designers, creature creators and more to let their imaginations run wild. There’s only so much you can do with a doll, but if there’s an enormous demon inhabiting that doll with the ability to manifest itself, now we’re talking. Then, the dumb-looking toy becomes a foreshadowing tool rather than the thing that is supposed to be scary in itself, giving director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) more creative license than one might typically expect in a big-studio horror sequel. The story finds the tiniest sliver left unexplained by the previous Annabelle—we learned how the doll was let loose on the world, but not how it was first crafted, then possessed. We meet small-town toymaker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife, Esther (Miranda Otto). Samuel creates the prototype of the Annabelle doll, and advance orders are through the roof. He had only made one, though, when the couple’s daughter is killed in a tragic accident. Twelve years later, Samuel and Esther allow their home to be used by the church to house orphaned girls, including best friends Janice (Talitha Bateman) and Linda (Lulu Wilson). In the years between, Esther has suffered an accident that leaves her bedridden, while Samuel is extremely protective of his wife and his daughter’s memory—the
latter’s room is locked and entry is forbidden. Soon, a voice from the room beckons to Janice, and terror ensues. Though it runs a touch on the long side, there’s quite a bit to enjoy about Annabelle: Creation. The mood is suitably spooky, the visuals are slyly complex, and the cast of all ages is thoroughly charming with excellent chemistry. There are no huge scares as in The
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Conjuring (the less said about The Conjuring 2, the better), and in Annabelle, Sandberg masterfully plays with the audience’s instinct for anticipation. Even when the payoff isn’t terribly frightening, arriving there is always a ride. Without giving anything away, at one point a character exclaims after witnessing something odd, “What was that?” The amazing reply: “Who cares. Run!” That is exactly the type of movie this is—self-aware but never self-parodying—and it’s well worth your time.
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regarding specific genetic abnormalities. I’m simply not convinced that they yield information that couldn’t be gleaned from an old-fashioned eyeballing. If it kind of looks like a boxer, it’s probably part boxer. That’s not to say that other kinds of genetic testing don’t have their place. For example, collies frequently carry a mutation in a gene called MDR1 that alters the way their bodies process certain drugs. This information may affect my choices in caring for that patient. But I can easily test for that specific mutation, so there’s no need to agonize over what percent collie the dog is. For the time being, DNA breed testing is more of a novelty than a useful medical diagnostic. And that’s completely fine. There’s nothing wrong with having some fun with science, so long as people know what they’re buying. These kits can be interesting gifts for the mutt-lover in your life. But as a veterinarian, I expect it’ll be a long time before I start adding any of that information to my patients’ charts. Dr. Mike Fietz is a small-animal veterinarian at Georgetown Veterinary Hospital. He received his veterinary degree from Cornell University in 2003 and has lived in Charlottesville since.
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he’s such a delightful dog, and you were lucky to find her at the shelter that day. But what exactly is she? Her cheese-curl tail evokes a shiba inu. Those droopy ears are all spaniel. And only a schnauzer could have gifted her those magnificent eyebrows. Everyone who meets her spots another breed in the hodgepodge. Thanks to the miracle of DNA testing, you don’t need to guess anymore. Or, at least, that’s the pitch. You can just buy these kits online. You swab around your dog’s mouth, drop it in the post and you’re sent a precise numerical breakdown of everything she is and isn’t. But is it true? It may surprise you to hear that, yes, it is actually true. Or at least the basic science of it is. These tests work by screening for thousands of subtle genetic mutations (properly called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) that are statistically prevalent in particular breeds. I should emphasize that these SNPs aren’t otherwise important. They are not genes, and they are not directly responsible for any of the traits that define a breed. They are merely markers—unique chance errors that popped up long ago when these breeds were forged by human selection, and
they have persisted in those lines to this day. They don’t do a whole lot, but if you find one, you can say with confidence that one dog is descended from another. The question isn’t whether the theory is sound, but whether it works in practice. And I’m afraid this is where things get murky. In my own experience, the results are inconsistent, ranging from “well that makes perfect sense” to “seriously?” And that renders it a bit pointless. If the results fit our expectations, we pat ourselves on the back for being as clever as geneticists. If they don’t, we exchange skeptical glances and ponder the wasted money. It’s not that the tests are nonsense. They’re legitimate, but the technology is still young. As databases swell with discoveries of new SNPs, and as statistical models are accordingly updated, we’ll certainly see accuracy improve. If we imagine a day in the future where these tests are more reliable, would there finally be a use for them? It’s still unclear. Does it really help to know that your dog is 6 percent shih tzu and 17 percent saluki? The manufacturers say yes, contending that every breed has its list of common problems, and that forewarned is forearmed. But remember that these tests aren’t looking for functioning genes, which limits their predictive value
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Salt Artisan Market, the sandwich shop in the old rock store on Thomas Jefferson Parkway, closed for good on Sunday, August 6. In a letter handed out to customers and friends, owners Barrett Hightower and Rani Morris (the brain behind sandwiches like the lamb-fennel bratwurst with harissa-roasted tomatoes, balsamic caramelized onions and arugula) credit their four-plus years in business to dedicated customers, local farmers and small producers. When Reverend Ann Willms, rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Simeon (located across the street from Salt), told her parish the shop would be closing that day, she says the congregation collectively sighed. With Salt, Hightower and Morris “cultivated a lively and authentic neighborhood sensibility. They have been a meeting spot, a place to regroup and refuel, a place to linger with friends over creative local fare,” says Willms. “They will indeed be missed on our corner.”
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The restaurant is almost self-serve, says Roth: Walk up to a kiosk or use the smartphone app to place your order, and a waiter will bring it to your table. But back to the beer. This production facility triples Three Notch’d’s distribution capacity, and the company plans to expand its distribution to other spots in Virginia and surrounding states. This means adding somewhere between 90 and 100 new jobs. Three Notch’d hosts the Virginia Craft Brewers Festival on Saturday at IX, but the restaurant won’t be open until late August.
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Patrons are encouraged to make donations to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. New this year, there will be a FREE raffle drawing for dinner at Aromas Cafe, and dinner for two at Fleurie! Musicians: Jinjoo Cho and Eric Wong, violins Fitz Gary, viola Madeline Fayette, cello
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1892, workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of this month, it is still under construction. Renovation has been— and continues to be—extensive. At one point, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away on behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them—with gifts and heartfelt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love someone, set them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to. not bore God” and “Thou shall not bore thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s a definition of fantasizing, as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’—imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.
(Feb. 19-March 20): You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.
Aries (March 21-April 19): “To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard. This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion—never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life. Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well-thought-out and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”
Taurus (April 20-May 20): Congratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I
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Gemini (May 21-June 20): The coming days would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”
Cancer (June 21-July 22): Your education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.
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V. JEAN ALEXANDER, et al, Defendants AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above styled suite is to obtain partition of real property located in the County of Albemarle, Virginia. The property that is the subject to this action was conveyed to Annie Thompkins by Deed from P.M. Jones and Sallie M. Jones dates April 19, 1900 in the Clerk’s Office of this court in the Deed Book 136, page 231. The property that is the subject to this action is described as all that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the County of Albemarle, Virginia, situated on State Route 712 (Plank Road) containing 5.637 acres, more or less, as shown on a survey of S.L. Key Incorporated Land Surveyors & Planners, dated May 18, 2007, attached to the Motion for Judgment as Exhibit A (hereinafter the “Property”). And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the following Defendants are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Jean Alexander, 212 Dean Park Road, Jackson, GA 30233; Zebedee Whindleton, Jr., 3106 Bradley Circle, Marina CA 93933-3303; Nolan Saylor, 1006 Maple Avenue, Rockville, MD 20851; James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; M. Harriet Saylor c/o James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; Lucille Saylor, 105 Barbourville Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32301; Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Brenda Lee Robinson Gibbons, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Anna Marlene Robinson-Withersty, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, Mckeesport, PA 15132.
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I ask for this: William M. Marshall P.O. Box 1068 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 VSB #17726 Phone: 434-295-7113 FAX: 434-977-2874
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And it further appearing from the affidavit filed according to law that the Plaintiff has used due diligence to ascertain all of the owners of the property but has been unable to do so and that there are or may be persons unknown who claim an interest in property, namely the heirs, devisees, successors and/or assigns in and to the title and interest of Annie Thompkins it is therefore ORDERED that the above non-residents and any persons claiming an interest in the property which is the subject to this action appear on or before the 5th day of October , 2017, at 9 A.M., in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests.
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Q&A What acts of kindness and love did you witness this weekend? My friends and I were walking up Locust toward downtown. A woman who was struggling with something in her car said, “Excuse me. Do you know anything about installing car seats?” We don’t have children, but we stopped and gave her a hand. A few minutes later, one of my friends was able to get the seat installed and we were on our way. Nothing earthshattering here. Someone asked for help and we stopped to help. That’s one of the things that I love most about our town, and that’s the moment when I knew in my heart that all of the bad that happened this weekend will never define who we are and that all of the kindnesses that we share with each other does.
Friends from around the world checking on me and my family.
We had a great puppy at Animal Connection who was more than willing to share his love.
I got the best free hug from a stranger on the Downtown Mall on Sunday afternoon.
People walking past police barricades and streets closed to traffic in order to work, play music and eat brunch at all of the open restaurants on Sunday on the downtown pedestrian mall. The area quickly filled with neighbors and friends. Some of us musicians thought carefully about what was the best music to cheer people. I saw dancing. People looked each other in the eyes, hugged, wept and shared stories.
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A number of my friends and followers on social media reached out to ensure I was safe...many know this to be my home and have sent me love.
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I heard Wegmans stepped up in a big way.
Friends and neighbors gathered to help clean up McIntire Park Saturday evening. BECKY VENTEICHER/FACEBOOK
Strangers were risking their safety in the fray on Saturday offering cold water and homemade food, just to show basic human goodness among the violence.
The sunrise service Saturday morning at First Baptist, people singing together, preaching nothing but love and peace, blessing the people about to march on the front lines and put their personal safety at risk for the greater good.
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One of the drivers delivering Nazis on Second Street NE leaned out and complimented my dog even though I was taking pics of the Nazis in helmets with staffs and shields. GARY BERRY/FACEBOOK
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