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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 The Virginia Film Festival, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this Reactions to proposed year, strives to not only bring thought-provoking movies and celebrated 11 Shenandoah National Park fee hike. artists to town, but it seeks to create a dialogue. This year’s Race in 13 Peaceable Farm owner America series, in a partnership with James Madison’s Montpelier, will found guilty of animal cruelty. show two documentaries: Spike Lee’s 4 Little Girls about four African14 Judge socks it to August 12 American children who were killed when their Alabama church was face-punchers. 15 Bond denied for man who bombed in 1964, and An Outrage, which centers on the history of assaulted Deandre Harris. lynching in the South. The conversation on race, racism and violence in America is unfortunately just as necessary today as it was then. FEATURE 20 Other film festival highlights (p. 20) include Freak Show, Trudie Styler’s directorial debut, based on a young adult novel about a transgender teen; a shot-by-shot look at the romantic noir classic Harold and Maude (one of my favorite movies); and a discussion with a Pixar animation scientist on why the studio can’t make characters Virginia Film Festival look too human. Tickets for the more than 150 films and panel celebrates new and old movies discussions are available at virginiafilmfestival.org and box offices from a variety of cultures. around town, including Violet Crown Cinema.—Jessica Luck
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While another tragic mass shooting made headlines over the weekend, some Charlottesville institutions are putting forth their best effort to make this city bulletproof. Twelve days before a man who was booted out of the Air Force for domestic violence dressed in all-black tactical gear and shot up a First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 and injuring 20 others, about a dozen signs prohibiting all weapons appeared at every entry point on the University of Virginia Lawn. UVA spokesperson Anthony de Bruyn did not respond to multiple interview requests about the warnings, but other local entities that ban firearms were willing to discuss their decisions. Charlottesville Parking Center officials posted “No Guns” signs in the Water Street Parking Garage in the immediate aftermath of the August 12 Unite the Right rally, according to general manager and former mayor Dave Norris. “We were concerned when we saw dozens of heavily-armed neoNazis using the garage as a staging area on the morning of August 12 and had no grounds to ask them to leave, and received no response from law enforcement when we reported this activity to them,” says
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Norris. “Now that the signs are in place, we are better equipped to manage situations like this in the future.” As for the sticker on Rapture’s door that bans firearms, owner Mike Rodi says it was largely in response to the summer’s “hate rallies,” when KKK and Unite the Right protesters “made it clear that they would take advantage of Virginia’s open carry laws and come armed.” The owner of the Downtown Mall restaurant says businesses near the epicenter of the deadly rally “used every tool at their disposal to keep racist troublemakers out,” and signage was part of that. On August 12, many businesses also posted dress code signs banning hate symbols. Rapture has long had a no-gun policy, says Rodi. “Guns and booze don’t mix.” Other businesses posted no-gun signs before this summer. In late 2015, shoppers in Whole Foods became upset when they spotted a man packing heat in the produce section. Though Virginia is an open-carry state, Whole Foods’ corporate policy bans all weapons, and a sign declaring so was posted on its door by January 2016.
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Charlottesville’s legendary civil rights leader Eugene Williams turned 90 November 6, and Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy presented him with a proclamation declaring the day Eugene Williams Day at a birthday celebration November 4 at the Boar’s Head Inn. As president of the local NAACP chapter in the 1950s, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate but equal schools didn’t cut it, Williams recruited plaintiffs to sue the Charlottesville School Board. In 1980, Williams convinced his wife, Lorraine, brother Albert and sister-inlaw Emma to sink their life savings into Dogwood Housing to provide affordable housing to families throughout the city, bucking the trend of housing the poor in projects. And the proclamation declares, “Eugene Williams has served as a symbolic conscience of Charlottesville for what is right and fair for all people and for bridging the diverse parts of the Charlottesville community.”
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n Orange County woman will remain out on bond as she appeals a conviction of 25 counts of animal cruelty in what some have called the worst case of its scope they’ve ever seen. When police arrested Anne Shumate Williams, the owner of a nonprofit horse rescue called Peaceable Farm, on October 19, 2015, they found a haunting combination of dead and gravely ill horses, cats, dogs and chickens on her Liberty Mills Road property. On October 31, the first day of her twoday trial, prosecutors entered as evidence a deputy’s body cam video taken inside the home on the property. The video showed inches of feces, garbage and unidentifiable bones and the house brimming with animals—both living and dead. Two dead cats were curled up in the bathtub and one hung lifeless in a bedroom closet. Two dogs were locked in side-by-side kennels with no food or water, and only one of them was alive. The odor was so noxious that deputies needed respirators to enter the house, testified Orange County Sheriff ’s Office Lieutenant Brad Darnell, who arrived at the property with the initial search warrant. He said his first priority was to distribute food and water to the significant number of outside animals that had no access to either. “They were counting on her for the basics they needed to live and she kept them starving,” said prosecutor Kelsey Bolin. “This is no shelter. This is a place where disease can spread, run rampant, and [the animals] have no way out.” Witnesses gave graphic testimonies about the suffering of the nine horses, 10 cats, five dogs and chickens. More than 100 animals lived on the farm.
In closing arguments, the commonwealth reiterated some of the most gruesome points, including an emaciated gray mare covered in maggots and horses with skin rot and so little bone marrow that the diagnostic center couldn’t test it. A horse named Blondie, who physically couldn’t stand, suffered heart murmurs that developed as the animal’s system was forced to cannibalize its own heart muscle. Psychologist Jennifer Rasmussen testified that Williams was suffering from moderate to severe clinical depression at the time of her October 2015 arrest, which impaired her judgment and problem solving skills. She said Williams also has narcissistic and avoidant personality traits, resulting in a negative self image and disinterest in social interactions. In her communication with the defendant, Rasmussen said Williams was remorseful, cried multiple times and was devastated that she could have done that to animals. She said she was unable to see how terribly the animals were suffering at the time. Williams expressed her interest in moving to a small town in Virginia to hybridize and raise daylilies, and she fears ever owning an animal again, according to Rasmussen’s testimony. Judge Claiborne Stokes Jr. found Williams guilty of 22 class one misdemeanors and three lesser charges of class four misdemeanors. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail and given a $300 fine, and because the charges are misdemeanors, Williams could serve only nine months. Though she’s appealing the animal cruelty charges, Williams is also scheduled to appear in Orange Circuit Court on December 7 for 13 felony counts of embezzlement related to the alleged misuse of Peaceable Farm funds.
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Park. That charge was dropped for her and for eight other counterprotesters who lisa@c-ville.com linked arms to prevent the entrance of the Loyal White Knights into the park. wo men who were charged with Bills described being outside Emancipapunching two women in the face tion Park August 12 to take a stand against at unrelated August 12 Unite the hate and racism at an event where MothersRight rally events entered guilty pleas Nobaugh “intended evil.” She said she was vember 3 in Charlottesville General Dis“blinded and tumbling backward” when he trict Court, and one with a history of aspunched her. Now, with strangers, “my heart sault who was sentenced to eight months races and my mouth goes dry,” and she in jail is appealing the conviction. doesn’t feel safe in her home, she testified. Dennis Mothersbaugh, 37, of North VerMothersbaugh’s attorney, J.D. Beard, non, Indiana, was seen in a widely circuasked Bills if she was wearing a mask, and lated video clocking Kendall Bills in the face she said no, although the video of the inas the crowd of white supremacists and cident shows what looks like a black surgineo-Nazis dispersed from Emancipation cal mask over her mouth. She also testified Park. Mothersbaugh, bald with a ginger that she could have been shouting, “Nazis goatee, came out of the park and swung at go home.” a man in a white T-shirt, went on to strike While conceding that his client’s behavBills and was ushered out of the area by ior was “completely inappropriate,” Beard men carrying League of the South shields. pointed out that before the assault, people He was arrested September 28 in Indiana from outside the park had been throwing and charged with misdemeanor assault. bottles of urine and feces into the park, as In a courtroom filled with Bills supportwell as using pepper spray. ers, including former congressman Tom Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Perriello, his mom, Linda, musician Jamie Nina Antony told Judge Bob Downer that Dyer, Congregate C’ville’s Brittany CaineMothersbaugh’s “violent, exConley and other friends of her tremely hard punch” to a womphilanthropist parents, Mian elevates the crime. “This is chael Bills and Sonjia Smith, not even by a long shot his first Mothersbaugh entered a guilty violence,” she added, tallying plea for assaulting her, with the five other assaults, some of stipulation no further chargwhich had happened in othes be filed. er states. Earlier in the week on Oc“This is a pattern of behavtober 30, Bills was in the same ior with Mr. Mothersbaugh, courtroom facing a charge of who goes to other communiobstructing free passage at ties to inflict violence,” with the July 8 KKK rally at Justice Dennis Mothersbaugh
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In a statement, Bills says in the three months since “racists were permitted to terrorize our town,” she is the “only survivor who has seen any measure of justice.” She also called upon the city to drop charges against “anti-racist advocates who defended our city.” Her attorney, David Franzen, and Beard had not returned phone calls about the appeal at press time. Earlier in court, Jacob L. Smith, 21, from Louisa, pleaded guilty to punching Hill reporter Taylor Lorenz, who was filming on Fourth Street when a Dodge Challenger plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters. Smith screamed at Lorenz to stop filming, according to her video, and then allegedly slugged her and knocked her phone out of her hand. Downer sentenced him to 270 days, all of which were suspended, and ordered anger management classes and 80 hours of community service.
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no expectation that anything will happen to him, she said. Antony asked Downer to send a strong message to those who think they can come here and behave violently with no repercussions. She requested a sentence of 12 months—the maximum for a Class 1 misdemeanor—with six months suspended. But Downer, who has seen a seemingly unending stream of protesters and counterprotesters through his court from the summer of hate, went even further in demanding accountability. He said the “vicious punch” caused great harm to the victim and to the community, and Charlottesville is now “synonymous with violence and racism.” He ordered Mothersbaugh to pay a $2,500 fine—again, the maximum for a Class 1 misdemeanor—with $1,000 suspended. And he sentenced Mothersbaugh to 360 days in jail, with 120 suspended, along with anger management classes.
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Judge Rick Moore slightly Assistant Commonshook his head as he wealth’s Attorney Nina watched a video that Antony described the showed Alex Michael August 12 scene in which Ramos assaulting Deandre Harris was on the ground Harris in the Market Street “in the fetal position” Garage August 12—and being beaten by four men then he denied an appeal when Ramos, who was to release Ramos on bond, not part of that group, despite an associate of sprinted into the garage, Unite the Right organizer jumped over people who Alex Michael Ramos Jason Kessler offering to were watching the attack house the Georgia man. to possibly kick and then hit Harris. It was Ramos’ third unsuccessful She also showed Moore a Facebook attempt at securing bond since he post Ramos made after August 12. turned himself in August 28 in Forsyth, “He’s bragging about it,” she said. Georgia, on a felonious assault charge, Joyce acknowledged that his client and the Charlottesville Circuit Court struck one punch “in an insanely judge cited the violence of the attack heated situation,” but stressed that and Ramos’ lack of ties to the area. Ramos had no criminal history and “I’ve been in this job a long time,” now has a place to live with a said Moore. The video “is one of the “sympathetic family.” most disturbing things I’ve seen.” “He didn’t have a record and it Attorney John Joyce sought to didn’t keep him from doing what he assuage the court’s concerns about a did on the video,” said Moore. “It’s lack of local ties with a plan to house quite alarming.” Ramos with a new friend in Fluvanna, Calling the assault “gruesome,” who Ramos met through Kessler. Moore said, “You can’t manufacture Ramos testified that he’d known the local ties to the community by saying, woman a few weeks and had spoken to ‘Stay at my house.’” her a number of times on the phone. Moore said Ramos was an The woman testified that she’d unreasonable risk to others and there called people in Georgia who knew was a reasonable risk that he wouldn’t Ramos before considering letting a appear in court. total stranger live in her house with “I’ve not seen any remorse at all,” her husband and kids, and was said the judge, who quoted Ramos’ post reassured that “he has no criminal August 12 Facebook post: “We stomped record,” she said. ass. It was fucking fun. VICTORY!!!” She also told the judge she’d seen “He’s really not regretful,” observed the video from multiple directions and Moore in denying the appeal. Ramos’ was not concerned about the alleged next court appearance is December assault. 14.—Lisa Provence
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The Virginia Film Festival, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year from November 9-12, chose a topic at the forefront of many people’s minds—both locally and nationally—with its Race in America series. A collaboration with James Madison’s Montpelier, the series features notable filmmaker Spike Lee, who will screen his documentary 4 Little Girls. And from a frame-by-frame analysis of Harold and Maude, to Trudie Styler’s directorial debut about a transgender teen, to co-director Lynn Novick’s decade of research with Ken Burns for “The Vietnam War,” this year’s discussion guests ensure that viewers will see movies in a whole new light.
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Spike Lee’s video short I Can’t Breathe interweaves footage of Eric Garner (top) being pinned to the ground by police and put in a chokehold, which led to his death in 2014, with Radio Raheem (bottom) being choked to death by police in Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing.
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s events that transpired in Charlottesville inform the national conversation on the politics of race and resistance, the Virginia Film Festival has placed the subject at the center of this year’s programming. And the Race in America series features some of the best filmmaking on the subject. Attending this year’s festival will be veteran filmmaker Spike Lee, who will present his documentary 4 Little Girls and video short I Can’t Breathe. A Q&A with Lee and University of Virginia professor Maurice Wallace will precede the films. Viewing the collected works of Spike Lee reveals three decades of a fiercely talented technician using all means available to speak the truth in its purest form to anyone who will listen, and shout it at those who won’t. Though the notion that he is intentionally provocative has taken root in the public’s collective opinion of Lee, a deeper reading of his work suggests that he places equal value on the content, style and craftsmanship of his films, but uses them as platforms to elevate the underlying message or fundamental truth of the story on a higher level. Often, those messages are uncomfortable ones that require direct confrontation, whether in the form of Samuel L. Jackson demanding we “cool that shit out” following a montage of internal racism made external in Do the Right Thing, or the rippedfrom-the-headlines commentary of last year’s audacious Chi-Raq. It’s not just that Lee demands to be heard, it’s that he demands you listen to and recognize the truth. In 1997, Lee released his first documentary, 4 Little Girls. The film tells the story of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, in which four young African-American girls—Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair— were killed by white supremacists at their church in Birmingham, Alabama. Though known Klansmen were held and questioned, there were no charges filed and the FBI closed the case, until it was reopened in 1977 and subsequently in 2000. The brutality and senseless loss of life is considered a turning point in the Civil Rights movement, and the next year saw the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Though an explicitly political message can be drawn from it, Lee dedicates much of the film to the personalities and families of the girls who lost their lives. Lee garnered praise and an Academy Award nomination for the documentary, and contemporary critics sometimes commented that it was perceived as a departure for the director in both style and tone. Interviewers from the time of its release asked about the film’s political message, to which Lee would politely offer that it was to learn more about these four girls, that there was no specific call to action. Indeed, the film sees Lee in the role of observer rather than auteur. The politics are inherent in the story and the event had large societal and legal repercussions, all of which are thoroughly examined, but in his commitment to truth, Lee has no agenda in exploring this topic beyond making the audience come to know who these girls were, whose future the world never witnessed.
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Lee had initially wanted to make the film as a student, but would not do so without the participation of Chris McNair, father of Carol. Both understood that the time was not yet right—Lee was still a budding filmmaker, and McNair was not yet ready to open that chapter of his life to the world. Lee will also be presenting I Can’t Breathe, a video short that interweaves footage of Radio Raheem’s fate in Do the Right Thing and Eric Garner being pinned to the ground by police, despite his pleas for medical attention, which would lead directly to his death. The video is a stark reminder that though cell phone camera technology is new, the tragedies that they record are not. Do the Right Thing itself is partially based on real events, what’s known as the 1986 Howard Beach incident. Though the film is fictional, its depiction of racism and police violence is as truthful as on-the-ground footage. Safer films may take home the trophies instead of Lee’s, only to be forgotten, but a Spike Lee Joint endures because it isn’t what we want to see, it’s what we need to hear.—Kristofer Jenson
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arold and Maude producer Chuck Mulvehill and director Hal Ashby met during post-production work on The Landlord (1970), and eventually became partners in the company DF Films (Dumb Fuck). Mulvehill says when the story of Harold and Maude came his way, “My first reaction to the script was ‘It’s weird.’ Hal’s take was that there was humor and humanity and that’s what we went for.” Mulvehill is joined at the film festival by Ashby biographer Nick Dawson for a discussion of Harold and Maude in a shot-by-shot breakdown of the filmmaking. Here’s a peek at what to expect, according to Mulvehill: 1. Shot: High POV of Harold and Maude sitting among a multitude of white tombstones in the National Cemetery. Comment: As filmmakers, this shot signified to us the sadness and futility of war (one of the film’s themes). Sadly, if filmed today, 46 years later, it would have to be a higher, wider shot. 2. Shot: Morning-after scene with Harold blowing bubbles and Maude asleep (with a contented look on her face?). Comment: Oddly, while this was pitched as a love story, the studio never thought it was a love story. They were not down with the idea that the relationship might actually be consummated.
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3. Shot: At the burial site at the cemetery. The last shot of Maude exiting with her bright raincoat and yellow umbrella in contrast to the somber funeral garb of the other mourners.
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Comment: It was by design to wardrobe Maude in bright colors in contrast to the drabness around her. Maude’s yellow umbrella stands out as a splash of color in comparison to the somber tones and dress of the other mourners. There is a continuing theme of color contrasts that permeate the film emphasizing Maude’s zest for life and disregard for convention. 4. Shot: Harold hanging. Comment: This (contrasting) color palette theme was used for Harold’s makeup as well. When we first meet Harold his makeup is very pale and as the film and the relationship with Maude progresses his color (makeup) becomes more normal in tone. These choices created quite a bit of consternation with the studio who when watching dailies panicked as they were sure we didn’t know what we were doing. It was at this time that Hal stopped taking their phone calls, which only added to their angst. 5. Shot: Freeze frame of the Jaguar/hearse as it goes over the cliff. Comment: This was the worst cut of the film. It was a compromise as the high-speed camera, that would have given us a slow motion shot, broke down midway through the shot and we didn’t have the money to recreate the moment. This was filmed on the last day of shooting and we were over schedule. The compromise is the cheesy freezeframe that was ultimately used.
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Local filmmaker Lori Shinseki has spent the last six years making a film about the aftereffects of a psychological study that purposefully separated multiple sets of twins in the 1960s and tracked their development as they were adopted, then reared in separate homes. The secret study took place in New York and it’s difficult to know, Shinseki says, whether all of the twins were orphaned or their mothers were young and unwed, and perhaps manipulated into giving up their children. One reason there are so many questions is that the files are locked at Columbia University until 2021 and at Yale University until 2066. The lead researchers were psychiatrists Viola Bernard, then director of Columbia University’s Division of Community and Social Psychiatry, and Peter Neubauer, a child psychiatrist. The adoptive parents were never told they were adopting a separated twin, believing they were participating in an adoption study, not a twin study. The documentary tells “the story through [the twins’] eyes,” says Shinseki. “Because they were never given a voice. This film is an opportunity for them to speak and be heard in a way that they never were before.” ABC’s “20/20” intends to air a segment on the film by the end of this year.—Raennah Lorne
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Oddly, while this was pitched as a love story, the studio never thought it was a love story. They were not down with the idea that the relationship might actually be consummated.
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ony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios, wants students to know that the math and science they must learn in school really is helpful. It’s applicable in their activities, games and movies, and DeRose is holding a master class during the Virginia Film Festival to drive home this point. Joining him will be Earl Mark of the UVA School of Architecture and Sara Maloni of the UVA Department of Mathematics, who respec-
tively have published research into digital animation and forms of geometry. The purpose of the seminar is to “show how various math and science concepts are used in making a Pixar film,” DeRose says. “We’ll pull back the covers to show some of the techniques and disciplines that we use to bring our characters to life and tell our stories.” Tony DeRose joined Pixar just as the first Toy Story movie was about to premiere. For
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The Ruination of Lovell Coleman Director Ross McDermott met Lovell Coleman in Charlottesville 10 years ago when he saw the then octogenarian putting a new roof on his house by himself. Coleman, now on the cusp of 94, has been playing the fiddle since at least age 14, when he joined a popular band called The Virginia Vagabonds in 1937. McDermott says, “He comes from a self-made generation where even owning an instrument was a privilege.” The documentary’s title comes from something Coleman’s father said when his son would stay out all night playing with the band: “That fiddle’s going to be the ruination of Lovell.” Lovell responds in the film, “I’m so glad I was able to be ruined.” Another musical component in the film, McDermott says, is that for the last 15 years Coleman has been playing his fiddle at nursing homes, often for people younger than himself. “He’s just so youthful, so a lot of what the film touches on is the importance of healthy aging,” McDermott says. “But also the impact that music can have, especially for senior citizens and those with dementia.” McDermott, who worked for the Charlottesville Mural Project for six years before becoming a filmmaker, says, “This guy is so unique. Besides the life he’s lived, he’s just a good human. I try to make things that are of a positive nature, showing the good of humans. ...I think we need to be reminded of people who have lived simple lives but also good lives.”—Raennah Lorne
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o tell the full story of Vietnam along all of its harrowing dimensions, the producers of an epic new film series about the war required 10 years of research, more than 100 personal interviews and a healthy dose of humility. “I personally have been obsessed with the Vietnam War for most of my adult life,” says Lynn Novick, who co-directed “The Vietnam War,” a 10-episode, 18-hour documentary, with longtime collaborator Ken Burns. “But it was still humbling and exhilarating to find out how little we really knew about it.” The conflict, spanning the terms of five U.S. presidents and killing 58,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese, was so sprawling and divisive that even those who were immersed in it—soldiers, protesters and leaders alike—have struggled to make sense of what happened or to find common ground with other points of view. Many chose to bury the memories and move on. Fifty years hence, Novick and her team made creative choices aiming to fill the gaps in the war’s oft-distorted narratives, beginning with the voices they included in the film. In addition to hearing from Americans impacted by the war, Novick made four trips to Vietnam to interview military and civilian Vietnamese from both the north and south. Taking the time to establish trust and a connection with her subjects is a hallmark of Novick’s technique. “They dealt with the same emotions as our soldiers,” she says. “They had leaders who were imperfect at best, and were all trying to survive a horrific event. It’s like going through the looking glass and looking at ourselves from the way they saw us.” In a similar vein, the film features interviews with ordinary Americans and their families rather than “famous” decisionmakers and celebrities such as Henry Kissinger or Jane Fonda. “They’ve had their say, many times over,” says Novick. “We wanted to hear from people that you didn’t know and hadn’t heard from, and who maybe didn’t have a legacy to protect.” The daunting task of sifting through hundreds of thousands of photographs and huge quantities of newsreel footage, audio recordings, music and photos fell to a small team
Lynn Novick appears on Thursday to discuss “The Vietnam War” documentary series, which she co-directed with Ken Burns.
of meticulous researchers and producers in New York. “Everything had to be collected, digitized and put into a database so we knew what we had when we needed it,” says Novick. Marc Selverstone and Ken Hughes of the Miller Center at UVA provided vital guidance and legwork in finding key bits of presidential audio from their archives. Popular songs by artists from Bob Dylan to the Beatles, inserted in the timeline precisely when they were first released, imbue the film with authenticity and tension. “A lot of these compositions and recordings are national treasures, and the artists wanted assurances that they would be used in their historic context in a meaningful way.” Among the most important tracks was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Ohio,” released just after the Kent State protest shootings and never before licensed, which took a year of negotiations with producers to secure. To give the film its deft cohesion, Novick and Burns orchestrated every episode along with their writer Geoffrey Ward and producer Sarah Botstein. “Little by little we have to put our arms around the entire show and try to wrestle it to the ground piece by piece,” says Novick. “We have to boil it down to make it into a watchable film, and it’s a long process that takes many years.” Now, finally, the film has reached its ultimate audience: the people who lived through the war and others who wish to learn from
it. In Charlottesville, even as local veterans debate how the documentary covered issues such as the valor of combat troops, the U.S. media’s skewed portrayal of important battles and the deep impact of PTSD on returning soldiers, they agree on its potential to enlighten older and, especially younger, generations of Americans. “I think it’s a good thing to revisit at this point,” says retired Marine Colonel James T. O’Kelley Jr., who commanded forces for three years in Vietnam. “I see cities burning overseas, and it feels like we haven’t learned what we should have.” Army veteran Tom Oakley says the film revived intensely personal memories, but also provided some healing. “Coming home was the hardest part because of the way we were treated,” says Oakley. He was moved by an apology from a protester in one episode of the film. Bruce Eades was drafted into the Marine Corps and learned to speak Vietnamese before being sent to the war zone, where he survived the Tet Offensive. Now serving as commander of the American Legion Post in Keswick, Eades says the film has given him a measure of hope. “Maybe it’s not too late for us to learn from the war,” he says. “Maybe something like this can unify us. I think we need today’s young people to learn from history, to lift us up, to save us.”—Lisa Martin
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Charlottesville: Our Streets In the aftermath of the weekend of August 12 in Charlottesville, dozens of filmmakers, photographers and journalists collaborated on Charlottesville: Our Streets. “Our mission was to stay objective,” says director Brian Wimer. “As documentarians we listened...what we heard became the narrative—one which was in many ways unexpected. Someone with the clergy told us about singing in the street and seeing one of the militia members mouth the words, ‘thank you.’ When we interviewed the militia, one of its members told us the exact same story, unsolicited. That kind of personalized corroboration of the nuances and paradoxes revealed many of the unspoken truths of the day.” The filmmakers interviewed people present in the streets of Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rally. “Not everyone agrees in the film,” says Wimer. “Nor will everyone in the audience. But I hope people can watch the film with an open mind and use it to spur dialogue across the aisle on multiple issues...”—Raennah Lorne
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Deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress, Luxo Jr. (1986), a two-minute animated film, was a game changer because of its inaugural use of procedural animation, shadow maps and its ability to convey emotion. Originally intended as a way to demonstrate computer graphic capabilities, the short was the first CGI movie to earn an Academy Award nomination, and the lamp has became a mascot for Pixar Animation Studios.
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more than 20 years he was charged with researching problems that needed to be solved so that the worldwide leader in animated films could improve its movies and their emotional impact on audiences. “Just to see a character on the screen requires a lot of different formulas, and the branches of mathematics, computer science and art have to come together,” DeRose says. Pixar does much work on improving visuals in the area of physical simulation programs, such as the motion of clothing, water and smoke or the bulging and stretching of muscles. The studio creates animated characters that are stylized and lifelike, but that do not aim to appear precisely as human, DeRose explains. Special effects in movies with actors, however, have a different challenge when they attempt to create a passable human on the screen, DeRose notes. He gave a hypothetical example of the Star Wars franchise trying to generate a new Carrie Fisher through computer graphics. “Because humans are so used to looking at other humans, we are attuned to the slightest subtleties,” he says. “It is very hard to create a virtual character that is indistinguishable from the human. It ends up being creepy.” DeRose and colleagues call that quality of creepiness, when you don’t quite get to the real human, the “uncanny valley.” Asked about virtual reality as it is now, he says it is analogous to the computer graphics field in the mid-1980s. Back then, “we had the feeling computer graphics would be good for science and engineering visualization purposes, but we really hadn’t demonstrated that it could be used for emotional storytelling.” Then in 1986 came John Lasseter, who used computer graphics to make the bouncing lamp and ball movie called Luxo Jr. “Virtual reality hasn’t had its Luxo Jr. moment yet,” DeRose explains. In recent months, DeRose has taken on a new role in education and outreach for Pixar. The programs include Pixar in a Box for those interested in exploring and creating, the Young Makers Program and a 10,000-squarefoot traveling science exhibition. The payoff is enthusiasm that becomes a vocation. In leading research at Pixar, DeRose realized how satisfying it can be “to study mathematics and computer science to create software programs to give to artists to turn into something that everyone on the planet might enjoy.” “Mathematicians rarely get that kind of exposure,” DeRose says. “It’s a chance to touch everyone’s lives.”—Mary Jane Gore
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(2017 Estonia/Netherlands/Poland) If you’re seeking an exotic flick offering a tale of young love and deathly mystical black humor, November is all you. Based on a novel, this 19th-century Estonian folktale should in-
The Lodger
trigue horror fans and art house snobs alike. Director Rainer Sarnet employs a rich grayscale that fills the screen with painterly swaths of threatening forests, moonlit hills, ancient churches and cozy, fire-warm hovels inhabited by filthy faced villagers. This setting is ideal for the film’s supernatural element: impoverished farmers using demonic forces to conjure soulless servants. Unrequited love and the doom of winter lay the icy groundwork for this captivating Tribeca Film Festival winner. With English subtitles.
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(2017 U.S.) UVA art professor, accomplished sculptor, painter and filmmaker Kevin Everson returns to 16mm in this documentary chronicling Election Day 2016 in Charlottesville. Though he produced multiple shorts since his last longform film (the eight-hour Park Lanes 2015), Tonsler Park adds to a prolific output, which often aims to capture the daily lives of AfricanAmericans. Here, he exposes the shortcomings of a democratic system that fails those it proposes to empower. Everson will be on hand for a discussion with fellow director Claudrena Harold.
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The Lodger (1927 U.K.) Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock plays with themes that haunted his entire oeuvre in this early career crime thriller about a serial killer who has it in for London’s blonde women. A suspicious landlady believes her new tenant to be The Avenger, the lethal lunatic. Though longer cuts of this spine-chilling silent exist, catch this showing for live music performed by Matthew Marshall and the Reel Music Trio, and an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz.
1945 (1927 Hungary) In an ironic twist on the World War II/Holocaust theme, two Orthodox Jewish men show up in rural Hungary to drive fear into the hearts of the guilt-ridden townspeople. Fittingly realized by Ferenc Török in a nuanced monochrome that feels both historically respectful yet contemporary, 1945 shows the nefarious power of guilt and the unending aftermath of carrying out evil deeds. Forced to face their recent sins that only came to a close months earlier, the entire Hungarian town becomes unnerved by their actions, com-
The Immigrant
pounded with a thorough dread of revenge by the Jewish strangers: real and imagined, financial and spiritual.
The Immigrant (1917 U.S.) Comic icon Charlie Chaplin stars in and directs this short, which is celebrating its centennial anniversary. The mustachioed protagonist gets into trouble through good ol’ problematic misunderstandings both on his way to and after his arrival in America. Two other Chaplin shorts from 1917 also highlight the schedule: Easy Street, about a vagabond-turned-cop, and The Adventurer, featuring Chaplin reprising his tramp role to bust out of jail, become a hero and then ruin an elegant affair. Ben Mankiewicz again serves up the intro, and Matthew Marshall and the Reel Music Trio supply the soundtrack.—CM Gorey
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Enjoli Moon, founder and director of Richmond’s Afrikana Independent Film Festival, says she founded the event to “create a platform that shows cinematic works of people of color with a special focus on the global black experience.” This AIFF will showcase five short films from their second annual festival in September. The Tale of Four, directed by Gabourey Sidibe of Precious fame, tells the story of four women in one day, inspired by Nina Simone’s “Four Women.” #donttouchmyhairRVA, directed by Chaz Barracks, explores “what it means to establish your autonomy as a black person who identifies as a woman in this world,” Curiosity, directed by Brittney Sankofa, is an experimental film about a woman and her journey with love. The Colored Hospital, directed by Terrance Daye, “gives us a look into the spectrum of emotions of black male experience,” Moon says. And Quiet Girl, directed by Evita Castine, is an experimental “peek into the mind” of one black woman. “Each of [the films] tells their own distinct story,” Moon says, “but there is a connective tissue that makes them relevant to each other and relevant to the people who watch it, whether they’re people of color or otherwise.”—Raennah Lorne
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n a world where digital theaters project billions of colors in subtle gradations that mimic all the hues of real life, choosing to watch—or produce—a black and white film may be taken as a small act of defiance. For movies shot after the advent of color film, the choice of black and white is often the territory of auteurs motivated by their own reasons for telling their stories in the stark monochrome palette. Classic blockbusters have relied on the colorless approach to spur diverse results. Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) and Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994) used the medium’s immediate ability for retro recall and comic effect, while Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) used its presumed blunt seriousness to lampoon the apocalyptic threat of war. Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic Schindler’s List (1993) and French director Michel Hazanavicius’s sensation The Artist (2011) used the medium to critical accolades, earning Academy Awards for Best Picture. With such highly regarded works in black and white, it should come as no surprise that the Virginia Film Festival has a selection of old, new, foreign and domestic films that accurately convey a range of emotion from sorrow and silliness, to drama and terror.
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in his decision to run against the scripturequoting Lynette (Abigail Breslin) for homecoming queen. Although Freak Show the novel was written a decade ago, its topics are more relevant than ever. Styler placed the film’s narrative squarely in the present day as Lynette touts a familiar slogan on her campaign trail: Make America Great Again. “Trump was not president when we shot the movie. He was running as a Republican candidate and nobody thought that he stood a chance because his rhetoric was an abomination and he can barely get to the end of a sentence. But this mantra, when he ran out of steam, that he came up with constantly and still does, ‘Let’s Make America Great Again,’ we were talking and saying, ‘You know, it’s such a good line for the mean, Bible-thumping, short-on-ideas-but-bigon-rhetoric Lynette. Let’s have her say that,’” Styler says. “When we screened the movie... at NewFest in New York and that line [came] up, there was this groan coming from the audience. And we thought it was going to sort of like be imbued with some humor, but it wasn’t. It was imbued with a lot of
Billy Bloom is the vibrant transgender protagonist at the heart of Freak Show, which tackles the realities of high school bullying and addresses the violence and bigotry aimed at LGBTQ communities today.
sadness, actually. It was sort of like it was the groan of the collective going like, ‘What a situation we’re in.’ It went quite dark.” While Freak Show does a lot of heavy lifting, it has no shortage of comedy, and its focus on inclusivity is a welcome and necessary addition to the canon of coming-of-age
teen flicks. In order to appropriately relay the message of the film, Styler recruited LGBTQ artists and activists to contribute. Boy George and Perfume Genius provide the soundtrack to the movie’s most prominent scenes, and Midler and Laverne Cox round out the cast. “I did a knowing wink to the audience that these are not only great actresses— Bette and Laverne—but they’re great activists as well, and these themes really resonate in human life in 2017, and these women have helped redress some of these issues in a very meaningful way,” Styler says. “I’d like to think that it’s some kind of call to action in a non-preachy way, this little movie that I hope can engage high schoolers to have dialogue and provoke discussion about how things are at schools. And I hope that we can start to, as Billy says, start a new tradition in school right now. Let it be about tolerance and inclusivity and create a community of supporting each other. I know that might sound idealistic, but...the age that I am, I’d really love to see before I die, a world that is just much more tolerant.”—Desiré Moses
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Light House Studio provides youth filmmaking workshops year-round, and during the film festival, the non-profit is screening a program of students’ shorts. The documentary Hijab, was made by Charlottesville High School students during an after-school program, Keep It Reel. Deanna Gould, executive director of LHS, describes it as “powerful.” Gould says that most of the works were written, cast, produced and filmed during a one-to-two-week period. The participants have some assistance from mentors who are knowledgeable in filmmaking, but largely they work independently. Another film by students, Black Girlhood: Access & Assets, screens on Friday at Newcomb Hall. This film was selected to showcase before the evening’s feature film, Tell Them We Are Rising. Two films from the Adrenaline Project, a 72-hour film festival in Charlottesville that took place prior to VFF, will screen on Sunday. A musical called Out of Stock, which picked up an Audience Award, and Surf & Turf, a romantic comedy that picked up a Juror’s Award.—Anita Overcash
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n The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde writes: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” It’s one of many mantras employed by self-prescribed “trans-visionary gender obliviator” Billy Bloom, the vibrant protagonist at the heart of Freak Show, an adaptation of James St. James’ 2007 YA novel of the same name, and the directorial debut of longtime actress and producer Trudie Styler. Freak Show tackles the realities of high school bullying and addresses the violence and bigotry aimed at LGBTQ communities today. “The themes of this film speak to a very imperfect world that we live in where bullying exists and [where] people from all creeds, colors, genders are not allowed to live the lives that they were born to express and be themselves,” says Styler. When 17-year-old Bloom (Alex Lawther) is plucked from the world of “grace, glamor and Gucci” that he enjoys with his mother (Bette Midler) in Connecticut and forced to live with his estranged father in the South, he is tormented by peers in his new high school. His father (Larry Pine) is hardly understanding, advising him that “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” and his unlikely friend, popular football star Flip Kelly, echoes the same sentiment. Bloom heeds this advice, but is still met with disdain at school. “Even though he’s complied with his costuming for school à la Flip, you know, ‘Less fabulous, a little more Wrangler,’ of course that doesn’t work because Billy is fabulous on the inside as well as the out and what does that mean? He’s just Billy and he longs to be Billy and accepted to be Billy Bloom— and he’s not,” explains Styler. “So the bullying continues irrespective of the apparel as it does in our world. When you’re targeted, it doesn’t matter what you say if you try to comply. When you’re out, you’re out: You’re a loser. You’re branded and life can become intolerable. And we’ve seen in real life some terrible situations of our teenagers being driven to despair and suicide. And this is a real thing.” But the more Bloom is ridiculed, the more he is driven to live his truth. His quest for the truth within himself and others culminates
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THROUGH 11/9
CHASING DREAMS
GIGGLE MEET
Theresa M. Davis directs Seven Guitars, the 1940s installment of August Wilson’s Century Cycle, which is centered around blues guitarist Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, who leaves jail looking for his next hit record and the hope of repairing his relationship with his former girlfriend, Vera. The realism in Wilson’s lyrical script intimately relates the strife and camaraderie of the African-American experience in the setting of a Pittsburgh Hill District backyard. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. $8-14, times vary. 924-3376.
If laughter is the best medicine, then consider Herron’s Entertainment Comedy Night a health class from out of town. Composed of emerging comedians from New York City, these missionaries of hilarity dish out gut-busting tropes that are certain to heal frowny face outbreaks. Bent Theatre partners in the mad merriment by adding local standup to the bill. $10-15, 8pm. Gorilla Theater, 1717 Allied Ln. 547-7986.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
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Describing themselves as “Tennessee’s Americana apostles,” the phenomena that is Boy Named Banjo breaks out on an Eastern U.S. tour. Since 2011, the five members of the Americana and roots act have been developing their sound, weaving numerous instruments, including guitar, harmonica, mandolin, drums, upright bass and (of course) banjo, with sweet, five-part harmonies. $15-17, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4980.
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You know that rock band. The one you can recognize immediately because of its iconic style and utter uniqueness? Well, you may be surprised to hear that if you trace that sound back through the years, you’ll likely find Native American influences at its roots. Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana bring this oftenoverlooked topic to life in their documentary, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World, which explores the impact of American Indian style on rock ’n’ roll music. $10, 4:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 924-3376.
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Kevin Minor as Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton in UVA Drama’s Seven Guitars.
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music Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa teaches a beginner lesson before a social dance with music from DJ Butchata. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Dhara Goradia and Friends. Bassist and composer leads a local trio that brings a fresh new sound to modern jazz, fusion and world music. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763. Juniper’s Lark. A saucy evening of song and banter, with original tunes influenced by sassy swing, jazz and blues. With special guest Justin Storer. Free, 7pm. Escafé, 215 W. Water St. 295-8668. Larissa and The Lusionistics. Inspired by ‘90s alt-grunge, this four-piece group brings indie and Pixies-esque rock ‘n’ roll to your ears. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. 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. The Deslondes. Five-piece R&B and country band from New Orleans. With Twain. $15-18, 6:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
A Delicate Balance. See listing for Wednesday, November 8. $20-25, 7:30pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177. 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 much-denied love. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
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ilyAIMY. Percussive eclectic acoustic rockfolk mayhem. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. LUA. A blend of original and traditional Mexican and Appalachian tunes. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.
Telemetry. Experimental performers push the boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Free, 8pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669. The Dawn Drapes. Deep grooves, smart hooks and thoughtful vocal harmonies shine through, rounding out a full and balanced sound in each shimmering song. $7, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
Pickin’ and Grinnin.’ Open instrumental and vocal jam. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. The Ragnarockers. Funky, jazzy blu-pop for the masses’ inevitable crashes. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.
Comedy Night. Liz Carrnage hosts five acts full of laughs. Free, 8pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. Herron’s Entertainment Comedy Night. Emerging comedians from New York dish out gut-busting tropes certain to heal frowny face outbreaks. $10-15, 8pm. Gorilla Theater, 1717 Allied Ln. 547-7986. HMS Pinafore. Mary Baldwin University Theatre mounts this production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s tale of love among members of different social classes aboard a saucy ship. $7-12, 7:30pm. Deming Fine Arts Center, Fletcher Collins Theatre, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189. Peter and the Starcatcher. See listing for Wednesday, November 8. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. Seven Guitars. See listing for Thursday, November 9. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA. 924-3376.
words Marcelo Wanderley Colloquium. Professor explores and explains new interfaces for musical expression. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3052.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. A dark force haunts the halls of Hogwarts in this second installment of the Harry Potter series. $10, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056. Thirtieth Annual Virginia Film Festival. A celebration of the magic of the screen, showcasing new and old films from various cultures, with many other activities and attractions. Various times and locations. virginia filmfestival.org.
Friday 11/10 music 101.3 Jamz Birthday Bash. DJ Infamous, DJ Smirnoff Ice, DJ FlatlineLay, Radio Bug, VA DOE and 100 Proof Gogo Band provide the music for this radio station celebration. 21-plus. $10, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Bob Bennetta. Jazz pianist tickles the ivories in a chill setting. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Boy Named Banjo. Americana group boasts international attention and a new EP. With Kendall Street Company. $15-18, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. Chamber Singers Fall Concert. Select ensemble performs a wide variety of music for chamber choir ranging from early music to contemporary compositions. $10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. David Massengill. Telling stories through American folk music. $20, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. DJ 2 Low. Mixing it up. $5, 9:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. DJ Tova. Versatile DJ spins hip-hop, R&B, 1980s and ‘90s hits and club music until close. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
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Nick and Steve Pollack. Father-son acoustic duo brings chill tunes for your listening pleasure. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
Oh Wow Boy! Upbeat, fun and quirky covers of obscure 1950s and ‘60s hits. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.
A Delicate Balance. See listing for Wednesday, November 8. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.
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Memphis Blues. Get bluesy on the James. Free, 6:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.
Matthew Willner and Enemies. Local guitarist plays with a rotating lineup of musicians. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.
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Aquatic Lasso. Jam rock from over the mountain. With The Blenders. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
Kinetic Sound Presents: Notes. Just as writers have ideas they want to convey to their readers, musicians have ideas they share through their music; listen for the thoughts and feelings within the notes. Free, 8pm. UVA Chapel, McCormick Rd.
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Kendall Street Company. A six-piece rock band known for its immensely energetic and unpredictable live performances. $8-10, 9:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
Seven Guitars. August Wilson’s play is set in 1948 Pittsburgh, where blues guitarist Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton desperately tries to rebound from serving jail time and find his way to Chicago, hoping to make a new hit record. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA. 924-3376.
Yngwie Malmsteen. Neo-classical metal shredding from a Swedish guitar virtuoso. $37-40, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.
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Jon Spear Band. Unique and memorable blues tunes. $5, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St., 242-7012.
One Mic. Stand up and be heard or sit back and listen. Free, 7pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.
Timeless. Get the night started right with some good tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
Peter and the Starcatcher. Embrace the endless possibilities of imagination and adventure in this action-packed coming-of-age prequel to Peter Pan. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
Harli and The House of Juniper. Local band celebrates the release of its first demo. With Strawberry Moon, Benjamin Freedman and Maire Lee. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.
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Jesse Ball. The author of 14 books, most recently the novel How To Set a Fire and Why, Ball’s prize-winning works of absurdity have been published in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. Free, 5pm. University of Virginia Bookstore, 400 Emmet St. S. 924-3721.
A Delicate Balance. Edward Albee’s play uses sharp, musical dialogue and painful interplay to explore the shattering effects of fear on our everyday lives. Pay what you can, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.
Gladstones. Old school rock ‘n’ roll covers and originals. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble influenced by hard bop, New Orleans-style jazz, punk gospel and surf rock. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
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Friday 11/10 Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out? Multimedia presentation introduces audiences to a host of colorful characters, dives deep into complex litigation, highlights the pros and cons of copyright law and makes a strong case that the origins of one of the most wellknown pop hooks of all time comes from an unlikely source. Free, 6pm. OpenGrounds Corner Studio, 1400 University Ave. 243-4889.
Saturday 11/11 music Adar. Soulful band draws from a deep well of originals and new takes on covers. 21plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. An Lar. Fine Irish music from a host of fine Irish musicians. Free, 5pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Chris Jones and the Night Drivers. Elegant, yet driven, bluegrass. Part of the Prism Coffeehouse series. $14-16, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. Colly. Synth-rich quintet from Cincinnati. With Static Collector and Greyhaven. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947. Craig Dodson. Country-western roots and classic rock. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. DJ Groovematic. Get down to moombahton mixes. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Elizabeth Wise. Bluesy acoustic with unique flare. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Eric Franzen. Local pianist shows his skill on the keys. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Jazz Ensemble. Arrangements from the entire spectrum of jazz history. Free-$10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Jimmy Overton. Local talent takes the stage to offer his unique style of tunes. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.
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Kiz Carter and Juke Jackson. Traditional and contemporary blues music. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Ragged Mountain String Band. High-energy old-time fiddle and banjo tunes. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Rattlebag. Playing music that ranges from rock to blues to alt-country and almost everything in between. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Ryan Kinder. Country-pop singer-songwriter. $12-15, 6:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Stan Hamrick. Classic acoustic Americana in the broadest sense. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Supervixen. A throwback thrill ride through the best of 1990s girl rock. Free, 9pm. Heritage on Main, 309 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 946-6166. The Pollocks. Local psychedelic rock. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001. Vincent Zorn. Gypsy guitarist and world traveler. Free, 7:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.
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Charlottesville Ballet’s UpFront Salute! Intimate performance includes the restaging of audience favorite “A Letter To My Love” by Rainey Lacey Jarrell, as well as other new contemporary works. $15-25, 4pm. Charlottesville Ballet, 1885 Seminole Trl., Ste. 203. 973-2555. Exploring Salsa: Latin Dance and Percussion. Workshop offers a general understanding of the culture of Latin social dance and music. $15-18, 4pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012. Latin Dance Party. DJ Primo and Mindy Acosta provide the music for this dance party. 21-plus. $10, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
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HMS Pinafore. See listing for Friday, November 10. $7-12, 7:30pm. Deming Fine Arts Center, Fletcher Collins Theatre, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.
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Magical Realism. In this workshop, take a brief look at some examples of magical realism, and then let your imagination run wild. $65, 1pm. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922.
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Much Ado About Nothing. See listing for Thursday, November 9. $21-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
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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. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
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Fulton Ave. No-frills metal band tears through straightforward riffs, a crushing rhythm section, haunting melodies and lyrics that scream far past obscene. With One Slack Mind and Novarium. $10, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
Kat & the Travelers. Originals, swing, vintage jazz, blues and boogie. Free, 2pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. (540) 923-4206.
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Saturday 11/11 etc. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. A deranged killer escaped from the wizard prison and is bent on killing Harry in this third installment of the Harry Potter series. $10, noon. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.
Punk rock just comes natural to Little Graves By Erin O’Hare arts@c-ville.com
CDs that will collect dust in a box in the closet. Local live shows, though, those they Thirtieth Annual Virginia Film Festival. can get behind. See listing for Thursday, November 9. Various “When I look at a poster of a show I’ve times and locations. virginiafilmfestival.org. played, I always feel good about that,” Otis says. “I like watching people just go off at our shows,” says Whittaker. The 30th Virginia Film Festival kicks At this point the trio wonders out off on Thursday, November 9. Check out this loud: When did it become good show year’s schedule at virginiafilmfestival.org so etiquette for audiences to just stand you don’t miss a single spotlight screening there? To stand still and not move around (The Lears), celebrity visitor (hello, Spike Lee) to the music. or party. See you at the movies! “Bands want you to dance at shows. Every band,” says Otis. “We’re not asking you to cha-cha,” Whittaker says. Just move—and be moved. music Playing music is typically more competBaroque Orchestra Fall Concert. UVA oritive when you’re younger, and not neceschestra’s bringing Baroque back. Free-$10, sarily for the better, says Soler. It’s too much 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. about having the right gear, about recording Byron and Billie Massie. Roots and Americana tunes. Free, 4pm. James River Brewand selling albums and getting on bills at ery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. the right venues; too much about getting Greg Ward. Reggae guitarist, vocalist and into a better, bigger band and hitting certain producer gives love and positive vibes. Free, milestones of perceived success. “But now 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union I’m doing it for me,” he says. Rd., Free Union. 975-0094. Plus, Soler wants his kids to know that a King Golden Banshee. The right amount of person isn’t defined by her job, or by his raucous colors traditional Irish music. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market home life, but by a constellation of things St. 202-8387. connected to form one interesting, rich life. Patrick and Aaron Olwell and Friends. An Too often, “I think people just hang it up,” energetic and eclectic Irish jam session. Otis says of musicians who feel they haven’t Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 reached a certain measure of success by the Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. time they’re in their 30s. If they’re playing Randy Johnston and Jonah Kane-West. shows at Charlottesville’s Magnolia House Guitar, voice and organ combo plays a wide variety of music, from blues to jazz to great or The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative American standard songs, rockabilly and couninstead of, say, Sentrum Scene in Norway or try. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main Vorst Nationaal in Belgium, many may ask, St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763. “What’s the fucking point?” Renee Ruth Duo. Singer-songwriter with broad “The point,” says Otis before taking aninfluences performs with a new-groove dance other sip of beer, “is that it’s fun.” band. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461
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Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. 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. UVA Flute Ensemble Fall Recital. Student musicians perform a variety of arrangements. Free, 1pm. University of Virginia Rotunda Dome Room, 1826 University Ave. 924-7969.
dance Salsa Sunday. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory lesson before DJ Butchata and DJ “O” Con Sabor play an eclectic Latin mix for a social dance. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
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uis Soler bought his first guitar for $30. It was a pawn shop find, “the worst possible guitar,” he says while nursing a pint of beer at Champion Brewing Company on Halloween eve. “Metallica,” “Slayer” and other metal band names were scratched into the guitar’s paint, says Soler, prompting throaty laughter from his Little Graves bandmates Geoff Otis (drums) and Les Whittaker (bass). That it was a shitty guitar didn’t matter much to the teenage Soler; it wasn’t about getting good at guitar anyway. It was the 1990s, and while all of his buddies were into emulating their heroes and shredding scales and arpeggios up and down the necks of their guitars, Soler was just about making noise. After decades of playing in various bands, the guitarist for local noise-punk act Little Graves doesn’t listen to much guitar music, So, what does he listen to? “Mostly just field recordings of birds,” Otis quips. Soler laughs and admits that Otis isn’t wrong. If Soler is spontaneously moved by the sound of a bird chirping, he’ll record it and incorporate it into a Little Graves song. Noise punk...with nature samples? Just bear with us for a moment. Soler, Otis and Whittaker came to be Little Graves through a combination of answering Craigslist ads and chance meetings at Live Arts parties. All three gravitated toward “weird” music as teens, punk and proto-punk, metal and experimental composers, and became interested in exploring this blend of influences together. They write songs “by committing,” says Otis—committing to a particular riff and
turning it over and over, inside out and upside-down to see what they can get out of it. Usually what results is a structured song that vibrates with the spontaneous, organic chaos of the field recordings. Because Little Graves doesn’t have a vocalist delivering a lyrical message, the samples can help clue the audience in to what the band is going for. Everyone takes the emotional, sonic journey together, but each person has his own individual experience of that journey, says Soler. “We’re not interested in being analyzed or emotionally manipulative,” says Otis. “We want you to add your own feeling to these songs; all music should be personal in this really specific way in that the audience should be challenged to add their own meaning to it.” “It doesn’t have to be anything, it just has to make you feel something,” Whittaker adds to slow nods of agreement from Otis and Soler as they take contemplative sips of their beers. Another thing Little Graves isn’t particularly interested in is recording its music. “There are so many ingredients in live music that are so tied to when exactly you’re doing it that the payoff is so unique every time you play that song,” Otis says. “...when you get to play it for other people, it’s this sort of indescribable reward.” For all of their philosophizing, the members of Little Graves have no grand illusions about the purpose of their band. “The thing is, we’re...three...dads,” says Otis, prompting giggles from Soler and Whittaker. They have jobs and families and aren’t living the rockstar lifestyle (not that they never entertained the idea). They’d rather hang out with their kids in the yard than ride all over the country in a van or record a bunch of
The members of Little Graves, Luis Solar, Geoff Otis and Les Whittaker, take listeners on an emotional journey through noise-punk instrumentals strewn with samples of field recordings. Little Graves plays Magnolia House on Saturday at 7pm.
Henry VI, Part 3. In Shakespeare’s brilliant, brutal and innovative play, England’s royal cousins play a deadly game of thrones. $2160, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. HMS Pinafore. See listing for Friday, November 10. $7-12, 2pm. Deming Fine Arts Center, Fletcher Collins Theatre, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189. Seven Guitars. See listing for Thursday, November 9. $8-14, 2pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA. 924-3376.
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Monday 11/13 music ATM Unit featuring Jonah Kane-West. An organ wizard meets a bass warrior for an adventurous romp. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Metcalfe/Pearce Tango Project. Expanding the horizons of traditional Argentine tango music through innovative approaches and stylistic reimaginings. Free, 6pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.
etc. The Maltese Falcon. In this noir classic, a detective gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman. Free, 2pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.
Tuesday 11/14 music Bob Huntington. Seasoned pianist provides a smooth dinnertime vibe. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Charles Owens Trio. Smooth jazz that washes over one’s ears and soul. Free, 7:30pm. Zocalo, 201 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-4944.
Hippo Campus. Tectonic indie-rock. With Remo Drive. $18-20, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. Karaoke Night. Calling all wannabe pop stars. 21-plus. Free, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Latin Guitar Night. Mellow Latin classical guitar tunes. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763. Traditional Irish Session. Great Irish music for all. Free, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.
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The Fralin recollects the influence of Samuel Kootz By Erin O’Hare arts@c-ville.com
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t’s a bit chilly in the air-conditioned exhibition room at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, but the temperature isn’t what’s giving Rebecca Schoenthal goosebumps. It’s the art. Specifically, it’s William Baziotes’ cooltoned, blue-hued “Night Form” and Adolph Gottlieb’s earth-toned pictograph, “The Sorceress,” hanging on a Fralin gallery wall, together for the first time since 1947. “Individually, they’re phenomenal works,” says Schoenthal, a mid-century American art expert and curator of exhibitions at The Fralin, explaining that Gottlieb’s pictograph series in particular was crucial to the advent of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which put American art on the map in the 20th century. Together, the two works open a portal to the past, to September 1947, when UVA alumnus and lawyer-turned-crime-novelistturned-art-critic-turned-art-dealer Samuel Kootz mounted an exhibition titled “Women” at his eponymous art gallery. “Women” was revolutionary in many ways, from the show’s subject matter to its catalog, for which Kootz enlisted writers like William Carlos Williams and Charles Baudelaire to respond to the paintings on view. Much of what Kootz did throughout his career was revolutionary, and “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 19451966,” the exhibition currently on view at The Fralin through December 17, aims to shake up the art historical narrative by
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ing or drawing—as a mode of creation that could lead to the exploration of new forms. These artists, along with like-minded artists Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, cultivated the Abstract Expressionist movement. Dealers like Kootz are often left out of the art historical narrative, Schoenthal says, and Kootz had a long career that hasn’t been very well-studied. She hopes “Dealer’s Choice” will prompt scholars to study not just Kootz, but the dealer-artist relationship, says Schoenthal. “I want future scholars to see this and come up with all the millions of exhibitions that could spin off...to run with all the work that can be done, because it’s so rich.” A dealer can “sometimes give collectors this nudge, and the collector becomes so important that it has this whole aftereffect,” Schoenthal says. Take, for example, the painting that started it all: Davis’ “Barber Shop.” Neuberger, a stockbroker and art collector with bold taste, bought it from Kootz in 1942 for $250. Neuberger liked the piece and bought another piece from Kootz, then another and another, eventually amassing one of the largest, most significant modern American art collections —with Kootz’s help. Neuberger later left his collection to the State University of New York at Purchase to establish the Neuberger Museum of Art, the 10th-largest university art museum in the United States. Visitors to the museum—artists, art history students and scholars—find inspiration in the art, which then shows up in their own paintings or scholarly papers. The Kootz effect is tangible. “I know we’ve had some pretty amazing things in the past,” Schoenthal says of The Fralin’s exhibitions, but not since the museum exhibited Bartolo di Fredi’s “The Adoration of the Magi,” a 14th-century Sienese altarpiece, in 2012 has Schoenthal been truly in awe of an exhibition. World-class institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art lent “really significant” works to The Fralin for this show, Schoenthal says, and Kootz’s wife even loaned some from her own collection. “I am still dumbfounded that these paintings are here,” Schoenthal says, slowly shaking her head and looking at the Gottlieb and Baziotes with wide eyes, as though the paintings will disappear if she blinks. “It blows my mind.”
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Mark Doty: Compassion for Animals. The 2017 Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at UVA gives the first of three lectures in a series, Being-in-Common: Three Lectures on the Poetics of Compassion. Free, 5pm. Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at UVA, 160 McCormick Rd., UVA. 924-3025.
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“Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966,” is on view at The Fralin Museum through December 17.
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Charlottesville Municipal Band. Classical, popular and jazz selections as well as music from Broadway and the silver screen, featuring guest vocalists Rebecca Ewing and Dan Barrale, as well as trombonist Robert Graham. $50, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World. Documentary film explores the influence of American Indian style on rock ‘n’ roll music. $10, 4:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 924-3376.
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ónde está México? It isn’t south of the Rio Grande as you would assume. It also isn’t on Carlton Avenue in Woolen Mills, underneath the Aquí es México restaurant sign—at least not anymore. Aquí es México, known for its authentic Mexican and Central American flavor, is now Cactus restaurant. New owner Castulo Gaipan (who owns the small Cactus restaurant in the Sonoco gas station on Fifth Street) plans on crafting a different, but still authentic, menu soon. Additionally, Cactus will feature a bakery run by the previous owner of Aquí Es México, which will provide a large variety of Mexican breads that will be sold both in bulk and by the slice.
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This compilation of Light House Studio students’ work includes narrative, animation and documentary films. A discussion with the young filmmakers follows. Arrive 15 to 30 minutes early to find a seat. Free, 5:30pm. Violet Crown Cinema, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. virginiafilmfestival.org
After enjoying Brut and canapés in the Octagon Cellar, move into the Piedmont Arcades for a four-course truffle dinner and wine pairing. The dinner is prepared in conjunction with Dr. Jeff Long and his truffle dog, Este. $170, 7pm. Barboursville Vineyards, 17655 Winery Rd., Barboursville. RSVP required. (540) 832-7848.
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Before working in the Brasserie Saison kitchen, Murray was chef at The Whiskey Jar. “He has a great mind for updating classic Belgian fare with modern touches,” Curley says. And Perry “has worked for seemingly every great chef in town,” he says, including Tucker Yoder at Timbercreek Market’s Back 40, Angelo Vangelopolous at the Ivy Inn, Ben Thompson at the nowshuttered Rock Barn and John Haywood at the also-shuttered OXO; Perry also served as head of Harvest Moon Catering for some time. As C-VILLE’s At The Table columnist C. Simon Davidson noted last month on his The Charlottesville 29 blog, Andrew Silver, who co-founded Zocalo with Ivan Rekosh and Peter Castiglione in 2002, is moving on to a job with Roots Natural Kitchen (which he and Rekosh helped launch in 2015). Davidson notes that for now, Silver’s focus will be on Roots’ new catering space in the former St. Maarten Cafe on Elliewood Avenue, a sort of blueprint for future Roots locations. Don’t worry, though, Zocalo and Rekosh aren’t Tyler Teass going anywhere. JOHN ROBINSON
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Melissa Palombi’s new UVA-themed cookbook asks the provocative question that’s surely on everyone’s mind: Who’s in the kitchen? While the answer is usually assumed to be Dinah and an unspecified stranger, this new cookbook sheds light on the age-old mystery. In this case, the “Hoo” in the kitchen is an impressive collection of UVA folks from all over the country. Featuring such personal recipes as local caterer Jack Smith’s famous butternut squash soup and jambalaya, as well as UVA’s vice provost for the arts and Virginia Film Festival executive director Jody Kielbasa’s pierogies with blueberry sauce, Hoos in the Kitchen proves to be an eclectic mix of dishes inspired by those who’ve worn orange and blue—personally and professionally. As is obligatory with anything UVA-related, there’s a Thomas Jefferson recipe...for hot chocolate. Palombi says she didn’t want to make just any old cookbook, but rather “a profile of faces and stories [that] people might not know from the UVA extended community.” The book is out this week, for those looking to have a more cavalier attitude about cooking.
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ourteen years ago, the pumpkin spice latte crashed into our lives when Starbucks introduced it into its seasonal lineup. And this beverage has gone from a niche fall drink to being ubiquitous enough to warrant its own acronym: PSL. Pumpkin spice fever has become something of an epidemic, and its sheer popularity has inspired a litany of products. Not only is there pumpkin spice vodka, lip balm and soap, but there are even pumpkin spice dog treats. This drink has firmly cemented itself into our seasonal culinary tradition, like turkey on Thanksgiving or eggnog on Christmas. To fully dissect this trend, I visited the people it affects most: baristas. September is officially the beginning of PSL season, but requests for iced pumpkin spice lattes aren’t uncommon in the summer—nearly every barista I talked with said she currently receives a couple queries about the drink daily. However, none of the baristas I interviewed was fanatic about the drink themselves. Many of them confessed they had never had one; they weren’t intrigued by the prospect of pumpkins in coffee. Heather Thompson, a barista at Splendora’s Gelato Cafe, says, “I enjoy pumpkin as a food, not a beverage.” All of the baristas I talked with at Milli Coffee
Roasters said they’d rather eat a pumpkin pie from The Pie Chest than drink anything pumpkin flavored. But to truly understand the pumpkin spice phenomenon, I went straight to the source, and talked with Bri Boyd, a barista at a Starbucks located on UVA’s Grounds. According to her, most pumpkin spice latte-ordering customers are repeat customers: “Some people will order one every day,” she says. She estimates that roughly three out of every 10 customers in the autumn order pumpkin spice lattes, a vastly different figure than other local coffee shops like Grit Coffee and Java Java, which report they only sell a few daily. Essentially, Starbucks created a product that is mostly desirable due to its limited availability. Our positive associations with the season create an innate sense of nostalgia, and nostalgia is an incredible marketing tool. Sure, there are undoubtedly many people who sincerely love PSLs, in all of their cinnamon-and-clove goodness, but there is also a whole continent full of people who like Vegemite; food tastes are just as subjective as tastes in art or music. Nick Leichtentritt, owner of Milli Coffee Roasters, views the whole phenomenon with a dash of optimism. “I like the idea of doing things seasonally,” he says. “Our palates change with the season, and if people like pumpkin spice lattes, then we’ll make them well.”
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a courtesy to your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway? Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius. You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the coming months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world. Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to. The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be The Year of Maximum Social Impact. And it all starts soon.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m falling in love with the way you have been falling in love with
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Remember the time, all those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky? I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets. Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on Earth. exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further. Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all. Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”
Aries (March 21-April 19): Adriana Martinez and Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying a more complete unification for 67 years. At last, when they were 82, they celebrated their wedding and pledged their vows to each other. Are there comparable situations in your life, Aries? The coming months will be a favorable time to make deeper commitments. At least some of your reasons for harboring ambivalence will become irrelevant. You’ll grow in your ability to thrive on the creative challenges that come from intriguing collaborations and highly focused togetherness.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): I had pimples when I was a teenager. They’re gone now, although I still have a few pockmarks on my face as souvenirs. In retrospect, I feel gratitude for them. They ensured that in my early years of dating and seeking romance, I would never be able to attract women solely on the basis of my physical appearance. I was compelled to cultivate a wide variety of masculine wiles. I swear that at least half of my motivation to get smarter and become a good listener came from my desire for love. Do you have comparable stories to tell, Taurus? Now is an excellent time to give thanks for what once may have seemed to be a liability or problem.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): The next two weeks will be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were 4 years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew? What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”
Cancer (June 21-July 22): “Things to say when in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.” I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost your physical health, your emotional wealth and your spiritual resilience.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you working on solving the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your long-term goals? I honestly don’t know
the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them. Everything good that can unfold for you in 2018 will require you to focus on what matters most—and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Every one of us experiences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a partner in loneliness: a person you pray or sing with whenever either of you feels bereft. 4. Write messages to your future self or past self. 5. Communicate with animals.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The drive for absolute perfection could undermine your ability to create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t make that mistake in the coming weeks. Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best. You don’t have to hit the bull’s-eye with every arrow you shoot—or even any arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.
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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The punk ethic is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious,” so says author Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour—inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punk-plushippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.
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Are you passionate about applying Relations your skills to ensure the greatDirector of Development & Community est quality of life possible for fellow community members in need? Are you passionate about applying your skills to ensure the greatest quality If so The Arc urges you to consider opportunities within our organiof life possible for your fellow community members in need? If so The Arc zation. mission is to ensure full community inclusion is hiring for a Our Director of Development & Community Relations. This person and participation of people with intellectual and developmental is responsible for designing, implementing and leading a comprehensive disabilities mission-based relations, fundraising and membership campaign. through public the provision of high quality services and advocacy. Our Responsibilities include identifying, cultivating and stewarding contributory vision is to remain the leading provider of services and advocacy relationships with individuals, foundations, corporations and government for that deserving population. If you share these values we urge sources. Will also work closely with, and provide leadership to, the you to consider the following career opportunities: Development and Community Relations Committee to secure funding, conduct major gift campaigns, further public awareness of The Arc, and implement special projects. Serves as primary media contact for the organization and works strategically to devise and implement proactive media outreach efforts DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS and marketing strategies to increase awareness of the agency. Responsibilities (Full Part Charlottesville and Crozet.) also include oversightand of our web time, site as well as the leveraging of social media.
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Repeated or prolonged seizures may be lifethreatening emergencies. Patients presenting to the UVA Emergency Department with seizures that do not stop after first-line drugs will be given one of three drugs commonly used to treat continuing seizures. The purpose of the study is to see which of the drugs works best. This is a public disclosure notice. Patients may opt out of study participation or may discontinue being in the study at any time. For full information go to www.esett.org. Principal Investigator: J. Stephen Huff, MD.
Still experiencing symptoms of depression after taking medication? If so, please consider participating in our medical research study comparing three FDA-approved antidepressant treatments. Participation requires at least 8 clinic visits over 8-12 weeks. To participate you must be 18-80 years old, be currently experiencing a depressive episode, and have had inadequate relief from at least 2 antidepressants in this episode. Compensation is provided. Principal Investigator: David V. Hamilton, MD.
Seeking healthy volunteers or those with COPD, cystic fibrosis, or history of smoking or radiation therapy treatments (ages 12-85) for an MRI study of how air moves in the lungs. The study involves inhaled hyperpolarized xenon and/or helium gas, spirometry, 6-minute-walk test, electrocardiogram, physical exam, chest CT and finger stick, depending on your qualifications. Study requires 1-3 visits of 2-3 hours each. All study related tests provided free. Compensation is provided. Principal Investigator: Michael Shim, MD.
UVA Center for Psychiatric Clinical Research 434.243.4631 | psychresearch@virginia.edu IRB #19805
UVA Radiology Research 434.243.6074 | rrd8w@virginia.edu IRB-HSR #16215
How clinical trials benefit you. At UVA, clinical trials are taking place every day. Because of this, UVA is an environment of care where learning, discovery and innovation flourish. And it is our patients — today and in the future — who reap the rewards, whether or not they participate in a trial. Please call the trial coordinator to enroll confidentially or for additional information.
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The Reproductive Medicine & Surgery Center of Virginia is looking for young women interested in helping couples who are unable to conceive using their own eggs. To be an anonymous egg donor, we need applicants who are: • Between 21 years - 31 years old • In good general health
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• Within normal weight range • Non-smoker For more information and an application, please con-tact Stephanie Barrix, R.N., IVF/Egg Donor Coordinator @ stephanie.barrix@rmscva.com or call 434.654.8537.Also, visit our website www.rmscva.com
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JUDICIAL SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES
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Pursuant to Decrees of Sale, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale pursuant to Section 58.1-3965 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia, on the 11th day of December, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., at 1 Main Street, Madison, Virginia 22727, on the front steps of the Courthouse of the Circuit Court of the County of Madison, Virginia, the following described properties for payment of delinquent taxes:
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PROPERTY OWNER
Thelma Bibbs, et al Tax Map Parcel No. 62 14A & 62 14B
APPRAISED VALUE
$57,000.00
Terms of Sale: CASH. Ten Per Cent (10%) bidder’s cash deposit of the sales price will be required, with balance due 14 days from entry of Decree Confirming Sale. Property to be conveyed by Special Warranty of Title, free and clear of all liens except 2017 real estate taxes, which will be prorated. Sale subject to confirmation by the Circuit Court of Madison County. Property is sold AS IS. The Special Commissioner makes no representation as to the properties actual acreage, boundaries, access, suitability for development, or any other representation of any kind. _____________________________________________ Signed: Sean D. Gregg, Special Commissioner For information: Refer to tax maps available for inspection in Clerk’s Office of Madison County Circuit Court. This is a communication from a debt collector. Any and all information we receive shall be used for the purpose of collecting the debt. For further information contact:
Sean D. Gregg The Law Offices of Sean D. Gregg, PLC 111 East Main Street P.O. Box 1300 Orange, Virginia 22960 540-672-7070
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a better life, a better community Case Manager/Mental Health Seeking individual with initiative to join a team of compassionate professionals. The case manager will provide services to adults with a primary diagnosis of serious mental illness. Our goal is to promote recovery and foster independence with each individual we serve. The incumbent assesses each consumer’s strengths and needs, and develops an individual service plan to include linking to needed services and resources, monitoring, and coordinating services. Serves as a liaison with consumers, families, and service providers. Bachelor’s degree in human services field and one years’ related work experience required. Must meet certification as Qualified Mental Health Professional – Adult ( QMHP – Adult) as set forth by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Valid VA driver’s license and good DMV driving record required. $40,036.37 annually.
Program Manager II/ Family Treatment Court Coordinator, 80% The incumbent is responsible for overseeing the collaboration among partner agencies in serving individuals jointly involved in substance abuse treatment and the child welfare system. The coordinator serves as a liaison between providers, agencies, participants and the court related to treatment, and to the development and implementation of program policies, procedures and functions. Minimum bachelor degree in human service field and demonstrated experience with child welfare and substance abuse treatment preferred. Position is 32 hours per week with potential for full time. $42,630.72 annually.
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PLANNING YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY? Whether you need a takeaway tray of sandwiches, a seated dinner for 30 or a cocktail party and hors d’oeuvres for 80, we have options that will make your next holiday party a night to remember.
THE WHISKEY JAR Rent part or entire restaurant
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Q&A Which celebrity would you like to see at next year’s Virginia Film Festival? Katie Couric is a must at all Virginia Film Festivals. [While] she was out interviewing people on August 12, I was home concerned about the possible violence, [which] sadly I’m so did happen proud of the people who went out that day. DEE CLAUDIO ZARPELON/ FACEBOOK
Robert Redford. A really classic film star. And show The Horse Whisperer because it’s an awesome film. PATRICIA BODEN/FACEBOOK
Kenny F. Powers. STEVE FOX/FACEBOOK
Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon.
Neal Gamby.
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Sandra Bullock.
David Lynch.
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Robert Duvall. ROSANNE BELLAS/FACEBOOK
Jim Carrey. R.J. POGGIOLI
Shah Rukh Khan.
Meg Ryan.
Guillermo del Toro!
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Johnny Depp.
Funny you should ask...I was just thinking how interesting it would be to have the cast of The Outsiders reunited, especially Diane Lane and Matt Dillon given that both of them have had very interesting careers thus far. No idea if there’s a significant anniversary of the film coming up, but I think that reunion would be very cool.
Tom Selleck.
Terry Kiser. JUSTIN BEIGHTS/FACEBOOK
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DANNY MCBRIDE!!!!! HANDS DOWN!!!!!!! JULIE KNOTTS-FINCHMAN/ FACEBOOK
Meryl Streep.
Ex-president Donald Trump.
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Next week’s question: How satisfied are you with the City Council election results? Send your answers to question@c-ville.com, or respond via Twitter @cvillenews_desk (#cvillequestion), Instagram @cvilleweekly or on our Facebook page facebook.com/cville.weekly. The best responses will run in next week’s paper. Have a question of your own you’d like to ask? Let us know.
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