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THIS WEEK When someone says the word cohousing, many automatically think (or at least NEWS 9 10 Petition seeks to have majority I did) of a single dwelling, typically a large house, with several people living of city councilors removed. under that one roof. You imagine this group eats, sleeps, works and plays 12 Are council meetings more civil under new mayor? together, requiring an intricate system of rules and regulations that allows 13 Harassment charge dismissed everyone to live in harmony. against Jason Kessler. As outlined in this week’s feature (p. 14), the term cohousing certainly 13 KKK protester pleads guilty to misdemeanor. centers on harmonious living, but the reality is vastly different from the image described above. In Charlottesville, Crozet and Nelson County, three coFEATURE 14 housing developments are in the works. The one closest to completion, Emerson Commons, consists of 26 single dwellings encircling a car-free community with parking on the outskirts, as well as a shared common house, community workshop, garden, playground, swimming pool and nature trails. The developer of the project, Peter Lazar, is also president of a national coCohousing developments bring housing association and has lived in cohousing for more than 12 years. He community-based lifestyles to cites the close relationships between young and old as one of the main reasons Charlottesville area. for living this way, but notes it’s not for everyone. If you don’t look forward to weekly potlucks and the opportunity to share your skills for the greater ARTS 19 21 Calendar Listings good of the community, it’s best to stick with what you know.—Jessica Luck
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■ SB360 would allow localities to ban firearms at permitted events. ■ SB385 limits handgun purchases to one a month. ■ SB444 allows localities to remove war memorials, and it died in Senate committee on party line vote 7-6 January 16. House Minority Leader David Toscano has a similar bill in the House of Delegates. ■ SB245 prohibits conversion therapy for LGBTQ youths. ■ SB665, carried by state Senator Creigh Deeds, adds Charlottesville and Albemarle to the list to localities where it’s unlawful to carry certain firearms in public places. ■ SB744 makes not wearing a seatbelt a primary offense and requires backseat passengers to be belted. Currently police can’t pull over a driver for being seatbelt-less and can only ticket if they observe another primary violation.
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which current owner Jaffray Woodriff pledged to donate to a business venture that would create a new ice rink in a different location. Woodriff ’s Taliaferro Junction LLC bought the property in early 2017 for $5.7 million, and the arena, as well as the building that houses Escafé, are all coming down to make way for a tech center. That won’t happen until the Board of Architectural Review approves the site plan, probably not before this summer, according to city planner Brian Haluska. Details are not final on what will happen with the solar panels, according to a Woodriff spokesperson. The solar panel loan was controversial at the time, says Brown. “I don’t think there were any real losers. It wasn’t an Omni bailout deal.” That’s a reference to the city pumping $11 million in taxpayer funds to the hotel in the ’80s and secretly forgiving the loans in closed executive sessions a decade later. Says Brown, “I’d assume [the panels] will be thrown in the garbage.”
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t’s extraordinarily hard to remove an elected official from office in Virginia, especially if she hasn’t been convicted of smoking pot, sexual battery or a hate crime, the offenses spelled out in state code. Nonetheless, for the second time in a year, petitioners are trying to remove a city councilor—or in this case, three city councilors. Rise Charlottesville launched its recall last fall of all five councilors then in office. And although Kristin Szakos did not seek reelection and Bob Fenwick lost his seat in the primary, those former councilors are still on the ouster roster along with Mike Signer, Kathy Galvin and Wes Bellamy, the latter of whom whites-righter Jason Kessler unsuccessfully targeted for removal last year because of offensive tweets Bellamy made before he was in office. Newly elected Mayor Nikuyah Walker and Vice-Mayor Heather Hill are not included in the petitions. At a November 17 City Council meeting, Rise founder Pat Napoleon, a former teacher, cited “failed leadership, misguided action along with no action that brought this city to its knees, along with a resulting death” for wanting those on the dais gone. Among council’s misguided actions, she lists hiring commissions and ignoring their findings, changing the name of the former Lee and Jackson parks, and Bellamy’s “hurling insults from the dais” at David Rhodes, whom Bellamy famously admonished to get his hat “and take that compromise with you.” Says Napoleon, “This was disgusting.” Napoleon says she’s gotten “hundreds and hundreds” of signatures, and that was before a daylong event to gather more January 19 at Riverside Lunch. County resident Richard Lloyd is helping Napoleon. “When we started, we found a large component of people unhappy with Charlottesville City Council,” he says. When a group got serious about the recall, “all of a sudden people started throwing money at us.”
Lloyd declines to say how much money— other than sums ranging from $5 to $500— nor will he say exactly how many signatures. State code calls for signatures of 10 percent of the total number of votes cast in the last election for the officeholder a petitioner wants removed. That was the stumbling block for Kessler, who fell short of the 1,580 signatures—10 percent of the 15,798 votes cast in the 2015 election— special prosecutor Mike Doucette said were required. “We want to blow past all that,” says Lloyd. Before he was elected Greene County commonwealth’s attorney in November, Matthew Hardin represented Rise and drew up the group’s complaints against the councilors. He urged the petitioners to get more signatures than needed to “show how many people are concerned.” Hardin thinks Rise has a “very good chance” to prevail by “making the case about malfeasance.” He says, “It is quite clear they were violating state law by voting to remove” the Confederate monuments. “I felt this was government run amok.” While in private practice, Hardin says he was always a “government accountability lawyer.” And it’s not the first time he’s gone after a local official. In 2015 he sued thenAlbemarle commonwealth’s attorney Denise Lunsford because she said it would take $3,200 to respond to a Freedom of Information case. Jessica Phillips, who represented former Albemarle supervisor Chris Dumler when a Scottsville District constituent petitioned to have him removed from office after he pleaded guilty to sexual battery in 2013, says, “My understanding is mine is the only one that ever went to trial.”
“I felt this was government run amok.” Greene Commonwealth’s Attorney Matthew Hardin, who represented Rise before he was elected to office last fall
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More petitions to remove city councilors
Pat Napoleon, founder of Rise Chalottesville, announced in November the group was circulating petitions to oust all five city councilors in office at the time. The group is continuing its campaign (excluding the two newest councilors), and held a signature-collecting event January 19 at Riverside Lunch.
Says Phillips, “It’s not easy” to get rid of an elected official. Petitioners “have to show the person falls into an enumerated category and was convicted of a crime.” For the broader category called out in the statute of “neglect of duty, misuse of office or incompetence in the performance of duties” that have a “material adverse effect upon the conduct of the office,” Phillips says, “That’s very nebulous. The person determining that is a judge. What qualifies as misuse of office?” In the Dumler case, witnesses testified about his job performance, but the majority of the evidence, says Phillips, showed “he did his job. There was no evidence he misused his office.” She says she doesn’t know the substance of the claims Rise Charlottesville is making
about City Council, but “I know it’s going to be very difficult.” Napoleon says she has no time limit for turning in the signatures to petition the court to remove Signer, Galvin and Bellamy. Galvin declined to comment and Bellamy did not return a phone call from C-VILLE. “This just smells like more politics to me, from some organizers who aren’t even city residents,” says Signer. “Our job is to stay focused on our public’s business, like when we recently created over 200 new units of affordable housing, and when we sued the paramilitary groups who invaded our town to prevent them from ever coming here again.” “I want things to get better,” says Napoleon. “There’s a whole lot to mend here. I’d like to see them listen better.”
THE ALLEGED CASES AGAINST SIGNER, BELLAMY AND GALVIN Rise Charlottesville’s petitions cite alleged misuse of office for each of the councilors. Here’s what the petitioners consider misuse of office.
Mike Signer
Wes Bellamy
Kathy Galvin
• Repeated disrespect for his role and its limited collaborative powers
• Repeatedly has shown disrespect to citizens attempting to exercise their First Amendment rights
• Failed to uphold the City Charter by allowing Signer to overstep his role as mayor
• Public inability to work with City Manager Maurice Jones and former police chief Al Thomas
• Spoke disparagingly to David Rhodes and told him to take his hat “and that compromise with you”
• Unilaterally making statements and public declarations without authority from City Council
• “Flagrantly” violated rules of order at council meetings and interrupted a meeting with “racially charged salutes”
• Because of her inaction, the city was governed by “an elected official who needed to be accompanied by minders” to prevent unlawful activity
• Entered into an agreement with council and can’t meet with senior city staff without another councilor present because of unilateral actions • The agreement diminishes his ability to function effectively and diminishes the office and city
• Violated the state’s closed meeting law August 2 • Repeatedly voiced support for the destruction and covering of Confederate memorials in violation of state code
• Disregarded state code in supporting removal of Confederate memorials and covering them in tarps • Formulated her position on the war memorials based on the Beatitudes, not state law
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Climate change All quiet (and civil) on the council front By Lisa Provence lisa@c-ville.com
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In the first meeting since new councilors Nikuyah Walker and Heather Hill were elected mayor and vice-mayor, respectively, the normally disruptive crowd kept things civil, unlike the first City Council meeting of the year on January 2 when audience members held up signs and jeered throughout.
Hingeley watched the most recent meeting from California, and says, “I don’t know that one meeting is a trend.” Councilors discussed changes to the public comment section of the meeting, which has been a sore point since former mayor Mike Signer implemented changes two years ago that included online signup—and which led to a court ruling of
One of those would be former public defender Jim Hingeley, about whom Slaughter says, “Nobody’s done more in trying to help with criminal justice than Jim.” He was greeted with catcalls and interruptions when he made a plea for civility January 2, and described the tactics as the “hecklers veto” and “intimidation by an angry mob,” which brought further jeers.
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he second City Council meeting of the new year on January 16 was markedly different from council meetings of the past year: no interruptions, no yelling and no profanities, behavior that suspended 2018’s first meeting two weeks ago. Newly elected Vice-Mayor Heather Hill ran the meeting in the absence of Mayor Nikuyah Walker, who was ill after she appeared on “The View” in New York the day before. Several speakers promised continued incivility, but refrained from the disruptions of the recent past. When former mayor Kay Slaughter said, “All citizens who speak should be respected” and “not subject to heckling, jeering and profanity,” she was not booed as were speakers asking for the same at the last meeting— although some hissing has been reported. “I don’t think anyone should be subjected to crowd bullying when they are presenting their ideas,” she said, noting that some of those who were jeered “had served the city well.”
unconstitutionality for banning group defamation. Hingeley attributed the less-heated meeting to “possibly the fact council has made it clear they’re going to make changes to their public comment format that had people holding back from their normal disruptions.” In September, after the deadly white nationalist and neo-Nazi invasion of Charlottesville when council chambers were out of control, then vice-mayor Wes Bellamy declared that “white supremacy masks itself through politeness.” “Does that mean the Ku Klux Klan is civil?” asks Hingeley. “That’s nonsense.” He offers a definition of civility from Wikipedia, which also says the word comes from the Latin for “citizen”: “The notion of positively constructive civility suggests robust, even passionate engagement is found in respect of differing views.” The irony, he says, is that the biggest disruptors want to have white supremacy addressed, but “yelling about it the loudest and taking time away from policy leaders is not the way to make progress.” Hingeley also says he doesn’t like the inequality in the way City Council enforces its
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KESSLER HARASSMENT CHARGE DROPPED A charge against white-rights provocateur Jason Kessler for posting online the address of activist Emily Gorcenski was dismissed January 18. “The victim brought information to us that made her believe Mr. Kessler was not the person who posted information about her,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina Antony. She said the case remains under investigation. Outside the courthouse, Kessler said, “This is just the latest in a series of unsubstantiated political prosecutions meant to drag my name through the mud.” Gorcenski said she’d experienced “an extreme amount of internet harassment from white nationalists,” including doxing, death threats and a swatting incident in which police were called to her home with a false report that someone was brandishing a gun. Kansas resident Andrew Finch, 28, was killed December 28 when a call about a fake hostage situation was made to police in Wichita.
“The fact some of these perpetrators are willing to participate in violent harassment without concealing their identities shows how brazen these white supremacists are in continuing to terrorize Charlottesville,” said Gorcenski. “Online harassment is not mere trolling,” she continued. “It is not harmless, but a serious and potentially violent concern that affects all people in the community.” Kessler will be back in court January 30 with a motion to move his perjury trial on the basis he’s unable to get a fair trial in Albemarle County.—Lisa Provence
GUILTY PLEA, DROPPED CHARGES FOR ANOTHER KKK RALLY PROTESTER A woman arrested on three charges, including felony assault of a law enforcement officer at the July 8 KKK rally, has pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor. Jordan Romeo was protesting the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in
Justice Park when she allegedly assaulted a city cop and City Council critic John Heyden. She was also charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, to which the 28-year-old Roanoke resident pleaded guilty in Charlottesville General District Court on January 19. “Despite the commonwealth’s expected evidence in this case, the arresting officer that was assaulted agreed with a sentence involving an alternative to incarceration,” said a press release from Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania released that day. Prosecutor Nina-Alice Antony said in court that the officer agreed to nolle prosequi the felony assault charge in exchange for Romeo’s guilty plea of disorderly conduct. At the request of Heyden, who “would like to put the matter behind him,” the misdemeanor assault charge was also dismissed. Romeo was sentenced to 105 days in jail, with all suspended on the condition that she complete 80 hours of community service and stay on good behavior for two years. “Allegations of assaultive behavior directed towards law enforcement officers engaged in the lawful performance of their duties are extremely significant events and will be investigated and prosecuted as the serious offenses that they are,” said Platania in the statement.—Samantha Baars
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ow many cohousers can fit in an igloo? When the snow falls in an intentional community like Peter Lazar’s, the whole neighborhood suits up in their warmest wardrobe and heads outside. It was last winter when the residents of Shadowlake Village in Blacksburg built a mammoth igloo and challenged themselves to see how many neighbors they could stuff inside. “Spoiler alert,” says Lazar, a 12.5-year resident of the cohousing development about 150 miles outside of Charlottesville. “The answer is 30.” Like a multitude of America’s top trends, this one started abroad. The first cohousing development was built in Denmark in 1972 for 27 families, and the concept has been gaining momentum in the United States ever since. A reported 165 communities have been established from Alaska to Maine, with four of them—including Shadowlake Village—right here in Virginia. An additional 10 cohousing communities are under development in the state, with EcoVillage Charlottesville in the very early stages of incubation in our backyard—and Lazar is at the helm of a second one that’s also pretty close to home. The 50-year-old cohouser, and president of the Cohousing Association of
the United States, is using his experience at Shadowlake to model a six-acre neighborhood in Crozet called Emerson Commons, where 26 residences will encircle a car-free community with parking on its outskirts and shared spaces including a common house, a community workshop, garden, playground, swimming pool and a network of nature trails. Each home will have solar panels installed on its roof. In this community, as well as all other cohousing establishments, homeowners have independent incomes and private lives, but neighbors come together to manage shared spaces and activities such as weekly meals, meetings and work days, where members are responsible for the upkeep of the community. Emerson Common’s legal structure is that of a condo association. Because there’s no management company and the neighbors manage the property themselves, members will pay a low monthly fee that covers non-management items such as snow and trash removal and maintenance on the common house. It’s not the area’s first attempt at cohousing. The Charlottesville Cohousing Association tried to build a similar
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neighborhood in 1997, but abandoned the project in 2002. According to Lazar, a comparable project by Blue Ridge Cohousing—on the same plot of land as Emerson Commons—crashed with the stock market in 2009, though 19 of its 26 homes had presold. While there’s a long list of reasons cohousers are now choosing to live a more community-based lifestyle, Lazar says one of the most attractive features of a place like Shadowlake Village or Emerson Commons is building personal relationships with folks of all ages—a practice that is often lost in today’s society. “When my daughters were too little to build snow forts, I’d build them with the older kids,” he says. “They’d ring our doorbell and ask, ‘Can Peter come out to play?’” Lazar and his wife, Molly, have 15and 13-year-old daughters named Mia and Ava, who had never spent more than a night or two apart until the oldest went to London with her grandparents about four years ago. “Knowing that her little sister would miss her, Mia emailed the adults in the neighborhood, and asked if any of them would hang out with Ava after school,” Lazar says, and about a dozen people who responded spent the days baking bread, teaching kung fu, reading
poetry and building a fort in the woods with the little Lazar. “Both the adults and Ava loved it. It was a chance for adult neighbors—some who didn’t have kids of their own—to get to know Ava a little better and vice versa.” And now, the Northern Virginia transplant says his daughters have friends at Shadowlake from ages 2 to 82. “We wanted our kids to be able to grow up in a sort of ’70s- or ’80s-era neighborhood where they knew everyone and could roam freely with friends,” he adds. A few of the families who’ve paid their deposits and plan to move into Emerson Commons later this year share similar sentiments. Mary and Brian Combs, who live in downtown Crozet, have claimed one of three single-family detached homes (there are also duplexes, triplexes and other attached styles) at the cohousing community under development about three quarters of a mile away from their current residence. “We’re both from very large families, but neither live here,” says Mary at a Tuesday evening community meal in January at the Emerson Commons clubhouse. Their toddler son, Harrison, bangs tiny, shiny pots and pans together at a miniature play kitchen while CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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the smell of a broccoli-and-quinoa dish that’s being prepared a few rooms away permeates the air. She adds, “It was just strange, especially when Harrison came along in 2015, to not have a big extended family to help raise him. Since we couldn’t move our families here, moving into a cohousing community was the next best thing.” Though none of the homes in the neighborhood—except for the shared common house—are fully constructed yet, the Combs family is anticipating an August move-in date. “[Harrison is] going to be the same age as about five or six other kids that are already members here, so he’s going to have all of these cousins, essentially, that he’s going to grow up with, which kind of mimics the experience my husband and I had growing up,” says Mary. Her husband, Brian, admits to initial reservations about moving to the community, but says he’s learned that cohousing isn’t all community gardens and shared meals, as some people probably imagine. “There’s a little bit of a code here,” he says. “If you’re not in your backyard or on the porch or something like that, it sort of means you want your space.” At Emerson Commons, the backyards will face mountains and wooded areas, and Lazar says “privacy is more than half of what it’s all about.” “I would say there’s actually more privacy here than at a new urbanist community where there are many houses close together,” Lazar adds. About 15 adults and several children have come out for the weekly meal at the Emerson
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At Emerson Commons in Crozet, 26 homes will encircle a car-free community with parking on its outskirts and shared spaces including a common house, a community workshop, garden, playground, swimming pool and a network of nature trails.
Commons clubhouse, where one member prepares an entrée and another brings a salad and a dessert. Prospective members are invited to share dinner, learn more about the inner workings of the community and get to know one another. Aside from the local area, current members will be moving from D.C., Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg, Christiansburg, Boston and Mississippi. A gaggle of young kids whiz up the common house’s interior staircase as a baby pecks on the piano next to it. Tonight’s chef, Cathey Polly, pokes her head into the room where Harrison, the mini chef, is cooking a tomato on his play stove, and sings, “Dinner is served!”
“Having little ones around is truly a plus for me,” says Polly, a 67-year-old who is also scheduled to move into her home at Emerson Commons by the end of the summer. All homes are set to be completed by March 2019. The future resident says she always prepares a vegetarian dish when it’s her turn to cook the weekly meal to suit the diets of a majority of her eventual neighbors. She also says most of them prefer to live an eco-friendly lifestyle and some have promised to teach her the way around a community garden this year. “I haven’t gardened in years, so I’m really looking forward to that,” she says. “It’s really exciting in my stage of life to be learning new things.”
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1. EcoVillage Planned for completion: TBD Number of residences: TBD Size: 6.35 acres Address: 480 Rio Rd. E, Charlottesville
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3. Buck Creek Village Planned for completion: Late 2018 or early 2019 Number of residences: 10 Size: 50 acres Available lots: 1 Address: 524 Buck Creek Ln., Faber
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Lynn Heath made a special dessert tonight for 9-year-old Ezra’s birthday. You can tell the cupcakes baked into ice cream cones are good because there’s icing smeared across the faces of several little ones in the dining room. For Heath, who’s a year older than Polly, moving to Emerson Commons is about aging in a place where she’s not too timid to ask or do favors for her neighbors. “It’s really nothing to do a favor,” says Heath, “but statistically, people have very few people that they feel they can ask a favor of. In the 1950s, they had one or two people they felt they could ask a favor of and now people are really down to zero.” In a traditional neighborhood, Heath says someone who asks to borrow a stick of butter might feel required to then gift a loaf of banana bread in return. “We always have to make things equal, and I just think [in cohousing] some of that anxiety disappears.” Not far from Crozet, another cohousing project is on the horizon in bucolic Nelson County—and this one’s just for seniors. It’s called Buck Creek Village, situated on a hilltop that overlooks a valley in Faber, just four miles south of the Albemarle County border. Here, construction is scheduled to begin in April on 10 homes that will sit on two-acre lots. The houses will be connected by a path that also leads to the community’s common house. Members will jointly own a 30-acre parcel of woods and open hillside. Not surprisingly, a main proponent behind this project is Gordon Walker, who retired from his 29-year role as CEO of the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, better known as JABA, in 2013. Walker now serves as president of Buck Creek LLC, the developer of the community. He explains why some older members of the local community saw a need for this type of development aimed specifically at their age group: “The cost of assisted living in nursing homes is beyond the reach of most of us. Oftentimes, the baby boomers are looking for options their parents didn’t have. In our view, cohousing is one of those.” In a 2017 Society of Certified Senior Advisers journal, Walker wrote that senior citizens are looking for innovation, freedom from
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COHOUSING Cohousing is defined as an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space, where members have independent incomes and private lives, but neighbors collaboratively plan and manage community activities and spaces. As defined by the Cohousing Association of the United States, most cohousing developments have common characteristics:
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■ Neighbors commit to being part of a community for everyone’s mutual benefit. ■ Design features and neighborhood size (typically 20 to 40 homes) promote frequent interaction and close relationships.
Participation Developer Peter Lazar (right) consults with prospective members at a Tuesday night community meal in the Emerson Commons clubhouse. Five homes in the 26-residence neighborhood are still up for grabs.
Shared values ■ Neighborhoods are designed for privacy as well as community. ■ Communities typically adopt green approaches to living, and support residents in actualizing shared values.
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Cathey Polly serves up the broccoli-and-quinoa dish she prepared for the weekly shared meal at Emerson Commons.
Mary and Brian Combs come from big families, but they’re both far away. The couple is looking forward to giving their son, Harrison, the same kind of experience at Emerson Commons.
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But take it from the president of the national Cohousing Association: It’s not for everyone. The type of person who does really well in cohousing is someone who’s easy-going, gets along with others, is seeking a balance of community and privacy and values relationships over winning, according to Lazar. “I see this a little bit differently than some part of our society, especially politics, where winning is the most important thing,” he says. “It’s about each other, and working together to solve things.”
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Two intentional communities are already established in Louisa, but don’t call them cohousing. While one—founded in 1967 with about 100 current members—is one of the largest and longest-enduring communes in North America, the other went fully operational just last fall. Both are income-sharing and use an economic model to sustain themselves, which is a major difference between the original intentional community and cohousing. At Twin Oaks, making and selling hammocks has been the primary business since the community’s inception in the late ’60s, but its tofu and other soy products have recently become popular. Among other ventures, the members also dabble in book indexing and farming organic open-pollinated and heirloom vegetable seeds. The entire community shares about 15 public computers and fewer than 20 vehicles. Members of Living Energy Farm, founded by ex-Twin Oaker Alexis Zeigler, grow food for the community, and sell seeds wholesale for income. With a few recent departures, only the owner’s family and a few interns who come and go currently live on the farm. They’ve stuck it out through recent cold spells by using only solar heat they’ve created and harnessed themselves. Living Energy’s aim is to create a modern lifestyle off the grid without any fossil fuel.
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isolation and assurances of personal safety in their quest to age in place. Buck Creek Village aims to address each of those facets. “Nowadays, we’re seeing some really interesting technological advances being made that create means by which you can monitor people in their homes,” he says, and adds that those developing the village are looking into floor monitors that could notify a designated person if a resident were to fall, or temperature monitors that could send alerts if a member left his oven on or his refrigerator open. While homeowners are responsible for the design and construction of their own houses, each space will be arranged to meet livability standards for seniors, which means that homes won’t have stairs leading up to them and the master bedrooms and bathrooms will be located on the first floor if a resident chooses to build her abode with multiple levels. Buck Creek is situated near the Blue Ridge Medical Center and three doctor’s offices, and it’s only about 40 minutes from UVA Health System. Walker says he’s investigating opportunities for telemedicine at the common house and if all goes as planned, physicians with the local medical center will also visit the community on a regular schedule. Like at Emerson Commons and other cohousing developments, the residents of Buck Creek will share the responsibility of running the village—and resident jobs will range from making meals and shopping to taking care of the community’s chickens. “Just because we’re older, we still have assets,” Walker says. “I would say everybody who’s moving in is healthy enough to somehow contribute to the well-being of their neighbors. We try to debunk the myth that anybody who’s old can’t contribute anymore.” Aside from the “dynamite views,” Walker says other exciting features of the 50-acre community include a proposed music room in the common house, hiking trails and the possibility of a solar farm to make their own electricity. For Walker, the three things most inspiring about moving to Buck Creek are “being with friends, better preparing for our future as we grow older and living in Nelson County.”
■ Decision-making is participatory and often based on consensus. ■ Self-management empowers residents, builds community and saves money.
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From the ambient, simplistic beats of her track “high,” to the steady, head-bobbing chord progression of her latest cut “nightmare weekend,” local talent Maria DeHart’s music is as varied and unique as the town she plays in. DeHart takes the stage to celebrate the release of her new EP, Fade, with the help of fellow C’ville musicians Gio, Noah Zeidman and J. Perla. Free, 9pm. Trash House, 1411 Gordon Ave.
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Open Mic. Host Neal Goodloe gives you a chance to show off your musical chops. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. 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.
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Phil Gibbs and Corey Axt. Soulful acoustic troubadour pulls some friends on stage for a night of rowdy fun. 21-plus. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Ruth B. Up-and-coming pop singer-songwriter with a dazzling musical style. $15-17, 5:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Sammy Horn. Local jazz pianist handles the keys with ease. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. The Jazz Connection. Rotating cohort of local jazz musicians playing jazz standards, blues, Latin-inspired and funk-driven tunes that’ll have your toes tapping. Free, 6pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. 823-5671.
etc. Jesse Gilbert. Video artist begins his UVA residency with a demonstration and public talk about his creative process. Free, 7pm. Campbell Hall 153, UVA School of Architecture. 924-3715. Paramount Theater Tour. Learn about the theater’s beginnings in 1931, and its long legacy of community involvement from the Great Depression to the present. Free, noon and 5:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
Thursday 1/25 music Impulse Festival Student Jam Session. Students are invited to improvise and collaborate across musical styles and genres. Free, 9pm. 1515 University Ave. 924-3715. New Year New Vibes Hip-Hop Showcase Pt. 2. Glitterati Global, Viral, Gauge, Waasi, Joey Bags and Roc Rizzy perform. $10, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with influences ranging from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. The Weedeaters. Local string band plays blues, bluegrass, old-time and swing. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.
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Wadada Leo Smith and Jesse Gilbert: Preview and Technique Talk. Acclaimed trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser, Smith, and interdisciplinary artist, Gilbert, discuss creativity as part of the Impulse Festival at UVA. Free, 7pm. Campbell Hall 153, UVA School of Architecture. 924-3715.
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Poppin’ off Camila Cabello Camila (Sony) I don’t exactly follow Fifth Harmony, and I missed the controversy surrounding Camila Cabello’s split with the group. Hope I’m not supposed to hate her because this is just great pop—glossy but not oversaturated—“All These Years” and “Real Friends” are even borderline minimal. And Cabello is a compelling, versatile performer worth bringing out in the mix. She lazily lurches through the hit single “Havana,” and belts it out on the Skrillex-produced wonky reggaeton “She Wants Control,” but also turns her voice into something thin and weird in the middle of the love-is-thedrug epic “Never Be the Same,” and drops an arresting wordless vocal break on heartache ballad “Consequences.” None of thes 11 songs on Camila hits the four-minute mark, and the album cruises by, especially on the sunny “Inside Out” and the nimble “Into It.” The force is strong with this one.
BØRNS Blue Madonna (Interscope) BØRNS’ 2015 single “Electric Love” received a gushing ’gram from Princess Swift, and pretty soon the dude from western Michigan was sponsored by Gucci, profiled in Vogue
and appointed Men’s Fashion Week ambassador. And lest we lose sight, his music was not bad! Blue Madonna sounds like a smash, full of glittering melodies and charismatic falsetto, and tracks like the glammy, Roxyish “Faded Heart” are kind of irresistibly rousing. But the general effect becomes one of fashionable poses from a bankable property, a mainstream millennial update of Rufus Wainwright—which is to say saner and more boring. By the time the peacock plays the jilted lover, complaining about his girl “throwing me that shade like I’m not cool enough,” he’s shown himself to be nothing but cool. BØRNS plays the Anthem in D.C. on February 13.
Reptaliens FM-2030 (Captured Tracks) Reptaliens’ Cole and Bambi Browning are in love y’all. They met, got married and started recording within six months, and Cole’s testaments to their ego-melting oneness are endearing: “Sometimes I’ll come home from work and she’ll have a masterpiece finished and perfectly crafted,” though none of the songs “really seem completely Bambi’s or mine. We do everything together.” Awww. FM-2030 certainly sounds like an idyllic home project, recorded as slanted
early-morning sunbeams light up the teakettle steam. Bambi’s lilting voice suits the vaguely tropical indie soft rock, light on guitars and heavy on piano and cheesy-cute keyboards. Reptaliens play the National in Richmond on February 18.
Shopping The Official Body (FatCat) The cover of The Official Body is an alligator floating on amazingly clear water, its shadow appearing on the lagoon floor. Except it’s not a lagoon, it’s a pool, and the alligator is inflatable. The menacing yet mirthful image seems apt for Shopping. The London trio whips up killer dancepunk grooves that recall Gang of Four and ESG, and The Official Body deals in heavy themes. But there’s a positivity that cuts through, even when drummer Andrew Milk takes the mic, dourly intoning one-note melodies on “The Hype” and “Discover.” (It must be added that he is a slamming drummer, and when he speeds up on “Overtime” and “My Dad’s a Dancer,” it can’t be called a mistake—it’s awesome.) Guitarist Rachel Aggs is the far more engaging and appealing singer, her affable bark grounding “Asking for a Friend” and “New Values.” Check out Shopping at D.C.’s Union Stage on March 9.—Nick Rubin
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David Hockney at The Royal Academy of Arts. Documentary film features intimate interviews with Britain’s most popular artist, focusing on two of his most successful blockbuster exhibitions. $10-14, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
Battle of the Bands. Nonstop show packed with local talent of all shapes, sizes and genres. $10-15, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Bob Bennetta. Local jazz virtuoso tickles the ivories. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Buddy Mondlock. Poetic songs with guitar accompaniment. With Mike Lindauer. $20, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. DJ XSV. Local cutting-edge DJ and producer. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Grace Dawson. Intimate, acoustic coffee shopstyle performance with Charlottesville songwriter Grace Dawson. With Chloë Ester. $5, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120. Impulse Festival: Origins. UVA Baroque Orchestra and UVA Jazz small group are joined by guest musicians as part of the Impulse Festival. Free, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Irish Matthew Sing-along. Versatile Downtown Mall denizen plays many instruments for sing-along-ready shanties. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Karen Jonas. Virginia-based country singer-songwriter. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Koda Kerl and The Drunken All Stars. Whiskey-tinged Americana rock. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Maria DeHart. Local musician celebrates the release of her EP. With J Perla, Gio and Noah Zeidman. Free, 9pm. Trash House, 1411 Gordon Ave. Marshall Artz. A distinctive original blend of Americana, folk and blues forged together in a powerful acoustic style. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.
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The Wood Brothers. Sophisticated American folk band navigates the joys and challenges of life through song. With The Stray Birds. $25-28, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.
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Clay Bones. Tracing rock ‘n’ roll back to its roots in early country and bluegrass. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.
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very day since Donald J. Trump became the Republican presidential nominee on July 21, 2016, local artist Warren Craghead has drawn him, or someone in his administration. Now six months’ worth of Craghead’s daily drawings have been published in a collection titled Trump Trump, Volume 1: Nomination to Inauguration. “I thought when I started it that I would be drawing until November of 2016,” Craghead says. “And then when he won I decided to keep going, drawing every day, pairing a grotesque portrait with quotes from him.” Now 18 months into the project, Craghead hasn’t grown weary of drawing President Trump. “I like drawing him,” Craghead says. “There are days I feel like I can’t keep up with the stuff he says or the stuff his administration does. But I never feel like I don’t want to draw him. I know that sounds crazy.” In his daily practice, Craghead says, the aesthetic deepens and grows. It has become a way to document not only the things Trump says but also the policy changes he makes. Craghead says he’s doing this “to preach to the choir because that’s who a preacher should preach to first.” He wants to tell those resisting Trump, “You’re right to resist. This isn’t normal.” And then there are Trump’s supporters. “I wanted to make it uncomfortable for people who were holding their noses and voting for him,” Craghead says. “You can’t look away from the racist things he says and enables. ...I want to make it difficult for people to stay on the Trump train.” Trained as a fine artist with an MFA in painting, Craghead says, “I really resisted being a cartoonist for a long time.” For about 20 years he drew a little-known genre called poetry comics, doing both the writing and drawing himself. But with the Arab Spring that began in 2010, Craghead was moved to “use my drawing skills to look at and talk about things that matter to me in a social way.” After Bashar al-Assad gassed a Syrian neighborhood, he looked at photographs and drew them, “making myself witness it even though I’m from very far away and in this privileged place,” says Craghead. For the last three years he has also made it a daily practice to draw images of the Armenian genocide of 100 years ago. He says these different kinds of political drawings attempt to “elicit empathy or make people really see what’s happened.” “It is different for me to go on the offense,” he says of drawing Trump. His focus on the president grew out of two other political cartoon projects, Ladyh8rs, which focuses on misogynist public figures, and USAh8rs, which focuses on anti-American
public figures. “I started those projects because I felt like there are a lot of people who get away with stuff, especially at the state government level, and no one knows who they are and what they do, so I started drawing horrible pictures of them.”
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Over the last 18 months, his feeling toward Trump has evolved. “When the year first started I really just hated what he stood for and the things he said.” Now, Craghead says, “I have a deeper kind of loathing for his politics and the people around him, but I’ve also found some sympathy.” While the caricature genre may seem an unlikely route to discovering someone’s humanity, studying President Trump every day has done this for Craghead. “I think that he’s a very sad person in a lot of ways,” Craghead says. “I think he’s hollow inside. I think he knows that he’s hated and it bothers him. Of course we’re all along on this ride with him so it’s sad for all of us.” And Craghead is quick to add “that doesn’t excuse who he is.” “It’s like a King Lear kind of thing except we’re all in the crosshairs of his rage,” says Craghead. “I have sympathy for him on one level, but on others I don’t because he’s actively hurting people.” As for the future of the project, Craghead says, “I’m going to draw him until he’s not president anymore. I feel pretty committed to that now because I’ve lasted this long.” The second volume, which covers the first year of the presidency, will be released this fall.
Signed copies of Warren Craghead’s Trump Trump, Volume 1: Nomination to Inauguration are available at Telegraph Art & Comics.
ARTS PREVIEW Friday 1/26 Nirmal Bajekal and Mayuresh Abhyankar Colloquium. Hindustani classical vocalist and guest tabla player perform as part of the Impulse Festival. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall 107, UVA. 924-3052. Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Play, sing along or just listen to music from local talent. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. The Wildmans. Acoustic string band with a heart for mountain music tradition. With the Mike Mitchell Trio. $15-18, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012. Timi Ryalls. Get the night started right with some local tunes. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
dance Nasty. Back to School Dance Party. Featuring your favorite funky jams from the 1970s to now. $7-10, 10pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.
stage Improv Comedy Night. Improv so fresh and organic it’s literally grown right in front of you, from your own suggested seeds. $10, 8pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669. The Haus of Belle Drag Show. Drag queens, kings and femme fatales—this show has it all. $15, 8:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
etc. Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language: Earth. Wadada Leo Smith gives a talk at the opening reception for his exhibition of unique Ankhrasmation musical scores. Free, 6pm. AfricanAmerican Heritage Center at The Jefferson School, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.
Saturday 1/27 music Digital Ethos. Top-notch sound from the world of bass music. With Ethan Glass, Omni Galactic and Just Add Water. 21-plus. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. DJ Groovematic. Get your groove on. 21plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Dori Freeman. Bluegrass with a distinct Appalachian twang. Part of the Prism Coffeehouse Series. $12-14, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.
Gabriel Planas. Talented pianist creates a relaxing atmosphere for your evening. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Genosha. Brutal hardcore anthems praising passion and integrity and lamenting the lack thereof. With Flood The Asylum, Cut The Architect’s Hand, Optimus Prime and The Chuggernauts. $5, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Impulse Festival: Conversations. UVA’s New Music Ensemble and EcoSono Ensemble are joined by the group AZUL in this concert that’s part of the Impulse Festival. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24
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eralded as a pioneering figure in the field of music for more than five decades, composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith’s artistic vision knows no bounds. Throughout his prolific career— which boasts upwards of 50 albums—Smith has delved deep into the power of sound, language and even color, to discover what art can tell us about ourselves and our relationships with the world around us. Smith is visiting Charlottesville for the first time, joined by his Golden Quintet, comprised of pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Pheeroan akLaff, cellist Ashley Walters and video artist Jesse Gilbert. The group will participate in workshops, public talks, a gallery exhibition and a performance at Old Cabell Hall as part of the Impulse Festival, where Smith’s acclaimed six movement suite, America’s National Parks (released in 2016), will be performed. After watching Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Smith began conducting his own research—and while his National Parks begins with Yellowstone and includes other sites like Yosemite—he goes further, fleshing out the concept of a national park by incorporating cultural figures and touchstones outside of the official landscapes. “Ken Burns made his documentary around the idea of natural cathedrals and a natural religion and he kind of canonized all those early guys involved in discovery,” says Smith. “I wasn’t interested in that. I wanted to make a national park that could be defined on the same ground as our national parks are defined, but I wanted to expand it. ...I made Dr. Eileen Southern— who wrote a very comprehensive book on African-American music—I made her a national park, like a national literary park. So the idea of a national park becomes far greater than just the common geographical grounds that are allocated for common use.” Smith also sanctioned the Mississippi River. “I was born 28 miles east of the Mississippi River in a town called Leland, Mississippi, and I crossed that bridge often,” says Smith. “Most of the most dramatic stories about the Mississippi came in relationship to conflict of race and rights and privileges. African-Americans were often dumped in that river because it [is] one of the longest rivers in the world. And so I saw it as a memorial river that concealed and revealed at the same time, because whatever is dumped...ends up popping up somewhere up coast and people are going to find out what’s in it.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and trumpeter Leo Wadada Smith appears with his Golden Quintet at Old Cabell Hall in Impulse Festival Concert #4 on Saturday.
Smith’s focus on the importance of history and culture is what led to his inclusion of New Orleans. “New Orleans...produced the first authentic American music,” he says. “So right there, that’s enough to claim it as such, but also it’s the birthplace of very important artists. [After] John Lennon and The Beatles, Louis Armstrong was the second most known person on Earth. That’s an important icon. You’ve got Joseph Oliver; a ton of people who actually cultivated music philosophy that eventually would spread throughout the United States. And as a way of understanding how the world works, it became the most known music on the planet.” The music Smith is referring to is commonly known as jazz. But, he explains, the term jazz is a misnomer. “[It] was erroneously named jazz. It should have been named like the participants named it; they called it creative music,” says Smith. “But because no one respects African-American views, it was misnamed by writers and music buffs and journalists and people like that and also the industry, you know, they had to classify it and so they accepted that name. But that early music that they called jazz should be called creative music. No one
“I wanted to make a national park that could be defined on the same ground as our national parks are defined, but I wanted to expand it.”
at that time during the formation of that music was calling it jazz.” While America’s National Parks was named album of the year in NPR’s Jazz Critics Poll, and Smith was honored as artist of the year in the 2016 JazzTimes’ Critics Poll, he does not consider his music to be jazz. Like the early innovators, he prefers the term creative music. “Creative music means that any artist that puts some of their own self, that is their own consciousness, their own ideas, into the performance—though they didn’t create the work—they simply supplied their ideas to it, they are co-creating that work as well,” Smith says. “And the other definition is that if that music has a 5 percent composition form and a 15 or 20 percent improvisational form— which, I don’t even use that word any more, but I’m using that word to describe it—then that piece of work is termed creative music.” Charlottesville will experience the ever-changing beauty of creative music firsthand at Saturday’s performance. “America’s National Parks has 30 pages of written material and it takes 90 minutes thereabouts to perform all six suites...and of course it’s going to be entirely different when the musicians respond to it in a live situation,” explains Smith. “They have the opportunity to experience the audience, to experience the resonance quality of the building that they’re playing in, and the excitement of recreating the National Parks—a new version of it that no one has ever heard.”
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Gallatin Canyon. Traditional bluegrass joined by rebooted tunes from country and classic rock. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.
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Double Time Steak. A jazz-rock project out of Harrisonburg. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.
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Craig Dodson. A blend of country-western roots and classic rock. Free, 5pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.
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Saturday 1/27 Impulse Festival: Meditations. Deeply focused guitar, violin and piano trio performs as part of the Impulse Festival. Free, noon. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Jon Lindberg and Ashley Walters. Improvisation workshop led by two string musicians as part of the Impulse Festival at UVA. Free, 9:30am. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Jason Burke Band. Students of the music of the 1960s and ‘70s mix rock, blues, country and soul. With Thomas Gunn. $10-12, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Johnny B and The Goodes. Soulful blues from longtime musicians. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Musical Awareness of Natural Law. Musicians are welcome to bring their instruments to this lecture/demonstration/workshop with Golden Quintet bassist John Lindberg. Free, 9:30am. Old Cabell Hall 107, UVA. 924-3052. Patrick Zampetti. Acoustic tunes from a singer-songwriter. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
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dance Rice and Red Beans Routine. Kyle Kelley teaches a brand new, high-energy jazz routine that’s perfect for the novice and experienced alike. $25, 6:30pm. The Dance Spot, 109 Second St. SE, third floor. 242-5365.
etc. Tosca. Met Live in HD screening of Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production that offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of a jealous prima donna. $18-25, 12:55pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333. Wadada Leo Smith and The Golden Quintet. Multimedia creation weaves together music and imagery from America’s National Parks. Part of the Impulse Festival at UVA. Free, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.
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The 21st Century Cellist. Musicians are welcome to bring their instruments to this workshop/lecture/demonstration with cellist Ashley Walters. Free, 10:30am. Old Cabell Hall 107, UVA. 924-3052.
Acoustic Open Mic. Sign up to perform two acoustic songs or up to 10 minutes of comedy or spoken word. Free, 5pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.
The Robert Jospé Express Trio. Charlottesville area’s premier jazz artists brought together to create an eclectic mix of classic jazz compositions and styles. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.
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Wett’s Bday Bash: Litty Again Affair. DJ G-Frank provides the party music. 21-plus. $10, 10:30pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
Porch Dogs. Rock, pop, country, Americana... everything but disco. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.
The Gladstones. Anything and everything from country to dance, rock to pop. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
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Tunes in the Hood. Irish tunes for your listening pleasure. Free, 5pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.
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itting in the living room of his mom’s house, Malcolm “Waasi� Wills, wearing a retro Looney Tunes T-shirt under a letterman sweater, leans over and lights a stick of incense. As a wisp of smoke curls into the air, Waasi waves it around, blending it into the afternoon light. “I almost cried when I got on stage,� he says, recalling the details of his show at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar on January 5. More than 100 people filled the room to watch him perform tracks from his debut full-length album, Betterdaze. In the crowd were family, friends and fellow rappers—including his former teacher Cullen “Fellowman� Wade and Betterdaze producer and engineer Finn Downey—along with complete strangers. When his set ended around midnight, the same time the album was released digitally, Waasi pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, went to his SoundCloud page and pushed the release button to a room full of whoops. After the show, Waasi says he yelled, screamed, laughed—he’d experienced a moment of reassurance: Music is a passion worth following. Waasi, now 20, began writing poetry in middle school. He says he was “big into it,� but he was shy, so he kept his love for rhyming a secret until he and his friends started rapping during lunch at Albemarle High School while fellow students kept the beat, thumping on the tables. He switched to Monticello High School for his junior year and recorded a song in the school’s studio. It gathered more than 30,000 listens on SoundCloud, and he started thinking he could go far with his rhymes.
Betterdaze is an honest peek into the life of a Charlottesville-raised young man on the precipice of adulthood. The album’s eight tracks talk about dating, about losing family members and friends, about feeling adrift in the world after high school and reconciling that feeling with your hopes and dreams. Waasi creates with an awareness of the music industry’s effect on youth culture. He hates to see 14-year-olds popping Xanax or worse—because of something a rapper says in a song. When he writes he considers who might hear his music and what he wants to say to them is: “Be honest, be authentic. Speak your own truth.� On the track “1 2 3,� he spits: “I see my own friends hatin’ but I’ma just use that shit as motivation/ So I’ma go get to the bag no complaining,/ ’Cause I’m trying to move my shit out of the basement.� And when he makes it big? Fancy car, big house? Maybe, he says, but first he’ll pay off his mom’s house, buy her a new one if she wants. Waasi dreams of opening a school that encourages creativity and real-world knowledge, full of teachers like Wade, David Glover and Madeline Michel at Monticello High, who fostered his creative energy. He imagines it’d be like the Music Resource Center, but for adults too, he says, speaking it into existence. These are big dreams for a 20-year-old guy sitting in a chair in his mom’s living room on his day off from work. But he’s just released his first album; there’s a wide road before him that he’s seen for years, and he has finally pulled onto it. “That’s what [Betterdaze is] really all about,� says Waasi, swirling another curl of incense smoke around. “It’s like life is just starting.�
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Sunday 1/28 Keys N Krates. Canadian electronic band with a scrutinized set and penchant for musical perfectionism. $20-22, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.
A dazzling finale for Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
King Golden Banshee. Traditional Irish music that’s just the right amount of raucous. Free, 5:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Renee Ruth. Singer-songwriter with broad influences performs with a new-groove dance band. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Rivanna String Quartet. Experienced orchestra group performs two masterworks by Ludwig van Beethoven that span his compositional output. Free-$15, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Travis Elliot and Tucker Rogers. Singer-songwriters plays catchy pop, alternative, a little folk, rock and Americana. Free, 3:30pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. 823-5671. Zuzu’s Hot 5. Part Louis Armstrong, part flapper, this band transports you to the streets of New Orleans for a Mardi Gras brunch. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Salsa Sunday. Spice up your dance moves with a lesson before busting a move at the longest-running Latin dance party in Virginia. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.
etc. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Personal Portrait. Film presents the previously unseen interview of Martin Luther King Jr. by legendary interviewer Arnold Michaelis. Free, 1pm. Newcomb Hall Theater, UVA. 924-6675.
Monday 1/29 stage The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The Motley Shakespeare Players, the MFA company of Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and performance program, brings to life Francis Beaumont’s play in a Renaissance-style production where the players follow original Elizabethan rehearsal conditions. Free, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
music Bob Huntington. Hear everything from Gordon Lightfoot to The Beatles. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Travis Elliott. Singer-songwriter takes on subjects from spaceships to souls, all in need of repair. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
stage The Knight of the Burning Pestle. See listing for Monday, January 29. Free, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.
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he world of Paul Thomas Anderson is one in which the mundane, everyday lives of its characters are already riveting before something positively insane happens. Look at his most recent films—had There Will Be Blood only been about the hunt for oil against a beautifully bleak landscape, you would still have a terrific character study framed within the classic American struggle between faith and industry...but then it happens. Inherent Vice has a story that is constantly spiraling out of control, but every second is remarkable for how it carries the filmic acid trip to a crescendo; even if nothing were wrapped up, it would have been a worthwhile experience. With Phantom Thread, Anderson explores the life of a celebrated dressmaker in 1950s London whose genius is only matched by his obstinance in maintaining his routine, though he is seemingly unaware of his own predictability. If this were four hours of making dresses and being an especially snooty kind of grumpy at breakfast, it would already be one of the best films of the year. Better yet, it has PTA’s delicate yet firm direction, Jonny Greenwood’s score that is the best of his career, and utterly genius performances by
Daniel Day-Lewis (who has said this is his final film), Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps. Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, whose dresses are worn by high society. He is very sensitive and fussy, with mood shifts that are as dependable as they are impenetrable. He cycles through girlfriends who are drawn in by his charm and elegance, yet cannot handle his most difficult aspects. His sister, Cyril (Manville), has functioned as his handler and business partner for so long that she is the only one able to tolerate and guide these episodes. Reynolds meets Alma (Krieps), a waitress, while on holiday in the country and she comes to occupy a unique place in his life, somewhere between girlfriend, muse and assistant. However, as Reynolds rotates through his attitude cycle, he is only ever ready for one. Where it goes from there is best left unsaid, and this is where discussing Phantom Thread becomes tricky. If there were a twist, we could find a way to dance around it to leave you
If this were four hours of making dresses and being an especially snooty kind of grumpy at breakfast, it would already be one of the best films of the year.
guessing, but there is no twist in the classic sense. It would be more accurate to say that the film carries you to places you might not expect so naturally that you don’t notice. When it gets where it’s going, you realize you’ve been headed there the whole time, and in the part of your brain that would process the shock of a twist, you’ll find only delight.
Phantom Thread R, 130 minutes Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Violet Crown Cinemas Spoiler warnings don’t exactly apply, but this film is best experienced as freshly as possible. What can be said is that every aspect of the filmmaking is done with impeccable taste and humor. It is far funnier than you might expect; every laugh in the film is earned, and never at the expense of its own integrity. Day-Lewis is dazzling and Manville is a delight, but the revelation here is Krieps as Alma. She is largely unknown outside of Europe, but the interplay between her and Day-Lewis is astonishing, appearing effortless but almost certainly was anything but. Though we can’t exactly tell you why, Phantom Thread is one of the best films of 2017. See it now so you’re not left wondering what all the fuss is about at the Oscars.
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Phantom Thread has Oscar buzz in multiple categories including Daniel Day-Lewis’ so-announced final leading role and the original score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
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Young Marx. Broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London, this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, set in 1850, finds Europe’s most-feared terrorist hiding in Dean Street, Soho. $10-14, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.
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are $95 and can be purchased online). The Old Mill Room has been “the grand dame of dining rooms in Charlottesville” for decades, says Ford, and with this prix-fixe dinner, he wanted to pay homage to the restaurant’s history. Ford and other resort staff gathered old Old Mill Room menus, including the very first menu from 1965, and researched how various dishes would have been served at the time. Ford, who grew up on the Florida/Georgia coast, says he’s especially excited about cooking a stuffed prawn dish that was a menu staple for almost a decade.
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Travis Burgess is the new head chef at Bang!, but he’s no stranger to the Asian tapas restaurant: He started working there 10 years ago, when he was 14, washing dishes. And if his last name sounds familiar, that’s because Travis is the son of Bang! coowner Tim Burgess. Travis took over the kitchen at Bang! earlier this month, and he’s changed about half the menu, which is still Asian tapas, still priced between $4 and $14 per small plate, and still heavy on the veggies. He’s kept longtime Bang! favorites like the kale tortellini and the goat cheese dumplings, and
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Crafter Russell Hubert teaches a class on how to spin wool using the traditional drop spindle method. Participants will learn how wool is processed from fleece to yarn using early 19th-century techniques. $10, 11am-noon. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. RSVP to 293-8000.
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series of weekly tasting events that will run through March. The first in the series, a wine-and-cheese pairing, costs $30 (paid in advance), and will take place at the shop at 6:30pm on Wednesday, January 24. Tilman’s co-owner Derek Mansfield says future tastings will include a wine-and-chocolate and cider-and-cheese pairing, among others. According to a note posted on the door of The Nook, the diner is closed until February. And windows are brown-papered up, so we can’t see what’s going on in there. On Tuesday, January 30, wine journalist, critic and teacher Steven Spurrier, who helped legitimize the California wine scene in the 1970s, will host a five-course wine dinner at Veritas Vineyard & Winery in Afton. Each course will be paired with a Spurrier-selected wine, and he plans to share plenty of stories from his 50 years in the industry. Tickets for the dinner are $165, and can be purchased at the Virginia Wine Academy’s website.
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replaced some less-ordered dishes with new ones, including carrots cooked in a castiron pan and topped with cashew cream sauce and nori seasoning and an egg noodle and charred eggplant plate. There’s also a dish that Tim thought up: a vegan pastrami-style sandwich made with beets and turmeric sauerkraut. Travis, who cooked at Trummer’s On Main in Clifton before moving to Charleston, South Carolina, to cook at upscale bistro-style Southern food restaurant Fig, most recently worked as a bread baker at Butcher & Bee in Charleston. And in his quest to incorporate bread into an Asian menu, he’s introduced three kinds of steam buns to Bang!: fried chicken, beef shoulder and king oyster mushroom with broccoli kimchi.
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fter a special dinner service on Wednesday, January 31, the Old Mill Room at the Boar’s Head Inn will close for a major renovation, the first since the restaurant opened in 1965. The old wooden beams and hardwood floors will remain, says Boar’s Head Resort marketing and communications manager Joe Hanning, but the rest of the space will undergo a redesign, complete with new seating and a modern atmosphere inspired by the existing Old Mill Room, says Hanning. New design elements will include a glassbacked bar between the current restaurant and bistro spaces. Renovations will begin February 1 and should wrap up in September of this year, says Hanning, but guests at the inn won’t be without an on-site restaurant: There are two other recently renovated places to eat, Racquet’s Restaurant inside the fitness club, and the Birdwood Grill near the golf course. And while the new restaurant will look a bit different, the revised menu “won’t be too farfetched from what it is now,” Hanning says—it’ll still be fine dining. Executive chef Dale Ford, who has been with the Boar’s Head Inn since December 2016, has planned a special farewell dinner, Feast of Five Forks, for January 31 (tickets
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only 9 percent of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible. You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top. This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91 percent mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding. That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91 percent of anything or anyone you choose to explore.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.
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(April 20-May 20): In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than 5 months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): In my ideal world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.
We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum— as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): Psychology pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Between now and March 21, you will be invited, encouraged and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would
transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In December, mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40 percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the late 1980s, Budweiser used a bull terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called Evie. To earn money, Evie, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor her memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your real self—to the max.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The giant panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy
gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met—not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re the star of the movie that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.
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Q&A What brings you to the Downtown Mall: restaurants, retail shops, special events or something else?
Watching high-quality doggos while dining al fresco. JENNIFER CARTWRIGHT/FACEBOOK
Don’t overlook the trees.
GREAT restaurants and the Caspari store!
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Saturday morning at the City Market, and Pie Chest dates with my boyfriend.
Tuel Jewelers, Timberlake drugstore, Spectacle Shop.
Bashir’s, lunch with a friend, Java Java and how can you resist the glorious day.
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My cousin owns a coffee shop down here...and I’m looking for a book called The Long Way.
The loud clapping man. He is my personal Jesus.
To visit the scenic Landmark Hotel. Oh, wait...
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There is really no reason to go to the Downtown Mall. Growing up there was an A&N, a Woolworths with a lunch counter, a Roses. There’s nothing there that services the gen pop of this city or county. Shit, bring back the Foot Locker. @SEVENHUNDREDV14/TWITTER
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Local camaraderie— can’t walk down the mall without running into someone. SKYCLAD AERIAL/FACEBOOK
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