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The abrupt March 20 resignation of former UVA women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle, 54, for a family matter was because she has to take her 6-year-old daughter, Ngoty, back to Senegal to finalize her adoption, a process that could take months—or years, the Washington Post reports.

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Eyes in the sky Charlottesville will install seven security cameras in a four-block area near City Hall and the Market Street Garage for $54,000. The cameras will not be monitored in real time and images will be stored for 30 days. Former police chief Tim Longo first called for 30 cameras on the mall in 2007, but cost and privacy concerns stymied them.

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Everyone was ordered out of City Council chambers when the April 2 meeting spiraled out of control following public comments from Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler and Confederate statue shroudrippers Brian Lambert and Chris Wayne. In a closed session, councilors sought legal advice on dealing with disruptive attendees, such as Tanesha Hudson, who is beside the police officer (above) and who continued to interrupt councilors during a discussion about West2nd. “Tanesha, we’re going to have to move you out,” threatened Mayor Nikuyah Walker. [See more on p. 11.]

Chef Geoff Tracy sues the Virginia ABC for restrictions that prohibit publicizing the price of drink specials at his Tysons Corner restaurants—although he can do so at his Maryland and D.C. restaurants.

Friendly with the feds “Crying Nazi” Christopher Cantwell, who faces charges from the summer’s tiki torch march on Grounds, has written recent blog posts titled “I Am A Federal Informant” and “Why I’m Talking to the

Feds,” detailing his quest for revenge on anti-fascist groups. Adds Cantwell, “Maybe the feds fuck me over. It’s a distinct possibility. But I’m DEFINITELY getting fucked by Charlottesville.”

Pound o’ meth When Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement officers arrested Ersy Alejandro Hernandez on March 23 on an outstanding warrant for sexual battery, they found 458 grams of meth and 28 grams of coke on him, valued at $15,275 and $1,250, respectively. He was charged with possession with intent to distribute more than 10 grams of meth.

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Albemarle County officials have long preached a doctrine of interconnectivity, but a vision of trail biking and walking is more than just a prayer. The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, which won nearly $500,000 for the project from VDOT in 2016, has revealed its first look at a “trail hub” that would connect multiple current and future pathways near 5th Street Station—the county’s newest shopping center anchored by Wegmans. The trail system will be located to the east of Fifth Street Extended and north of Interstate 64, with the newly acquired Biscuit Run Park to the south. The Rivanna Trail to the city’s Azalea Park will border the west. Local architecture firm Land Planning & Design Associates Inc. has had a heavy hand in designing the project. “LPDA is enthusiastic about this project, which combines pedestrian connectivity, placemaking, amenity design and recreation planning,” says manager Jessica Mauzy. “[It’s] a key building block in the alternative transportation network in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.”

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Billionaire West Virginia Governor Jim Justice is in arrears on property taxes he owes in Albemarle County to the tune of $148,000. Justice bought 4,500 acres in southeastern Albemarle in 2010 from MeadWestvaco for $23.75 million. Justice reportedly has stiffed West Virginia and Kentucky on taxes as well.

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nizer Jason Kessler, called City Councilor Wes Bellamy to the witness stand to testify about news@c-ville.com the community’s perception of rally goers. The attorney asked why the alt-right conast week, an attorney defending an verged on Charlottesville that day, and if it alt-right client subpoenaed a rewas about taking down Confederate war porter as a witness. This week, the memorials. same lawyer called a city councilor to court “I don’t think it’s just the statues, I think to support his motion that Daniel Borden, it’s their white ideology,” the councilor said. charged with malicious wounding, cannot Bellamy said Charlottesville residents get a fair trial in Charlottesville have routinely called Unite the Right parMike Hallahan represents Borden, an ticipants “white supremacists” and “Nazis,” Ohio man who was 18 years old and known but when asked if all locals feel that way, the for his swastika drawings and Nazi salutes councilor replied that he can’t speak for in high school when he came to Charlotmore than 40,000 people. tesville for the Unite the Right rally, accordAs Bellamy hobbled away from the witing to Cincinnati’s local NBC affiliate ness box on crutches due to a basketball WLWT and the Cincinnati Enquirer. injury, he stopped to whisper something in Borden is one of four men charged in the Borden’s ear and patted him on the chest. Market Street Parking Garage beatdown of Borden nodded his head. DeAndre Harris, who also was charged with The defense attorney had planned to call malicious wounding but was acquitted in former councilor Kristin Szakos to the Charlottesville General District Court stand, but reported that she’s out of the March 16. country. He entered into evidence a FaceIn Charlottesville Circuit Court March book post she wrote several months ago, 29, Hallahan said the city has shown an “abwhen she said it’s interesting solute sheer bias” against rally that “Nazis” want to move their participants by pursuing chargtrials out of the city where they es against them but not proscommitted their alleged crimes. ecuting people for jaywalking “We are not their people,” she or blocking Fourth Street at the wrote. time of the car attack in which Hallahan also said the local a white supremacist rammed media coverage of Unite the his car into a crowd of people, Right has been biased and not killing Heather Heyer and ina single positive article has been juring many others. written about it. Hallahan, who subpoenaed “These are not opinion piecthis reporter in a perjury case against Unite the Right orga- Daniel Borden C’VILLE POLICE es,” said Assistant Common-

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came to court in a gray-and-white-striped jail jumpsuit, with of the trial, Woodard will have the opportunity to examine a brown beard and long, braided ponytail, was involved. and interview potential jurors, and motion to strike from Charlottesville residents aren’t able to be impartial about the jury pool individuals he deems unfit. whether he should be found guilty of malicious wounding, Judge Rick Moore agreed that Woodard could seat an said the attorney. impartial jury, but took the motion under advisement to There’s also the potential for “sleeper activists,” he consider the parking issue. He also denied a defense mosaid—a phrase that Unite the Right organizer Jason Kestion to exclude evidence. sler’s attorney, Mike Hallahan, also used in a motion to The evidence in question was a surveillance video of change the venue of Kessler’s perjury trial. These people, the attack, which plays at 15 frames per second, while all the lawyers say, would intentionally try to be seated on the other known videos that will be admitted during the trial jury to convict the defendants. are 30 frames per second. Woodard said he no longer pays attention to what’s Woodard opened his argument on that motion in an reported in local media about his clients. unusual way. In his initial statement, he only “I had to stop reading [it] because my eyes voiced every other word to the judge, or half crossed,” he said. the sentence. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney NinaHe said a video that plays at 15 frames per Alice Antony agreed with Woodard that jurors second shows only half of what happened parking in the garage on Market Street could and would be misleading to a jury, as it was be problematic, but said the defense’s argumisleading to the judge when Woodard spoke ment that seating a jury would be difficult is every other word of a sentence. irrelevant. “You didn’t mislead me,” said Moore. “I “It’s not whether seating the jury will be difjust didn’t know what you were saying.” ficult, it’s whether the court can seat an imparGoodwin’s two-day jury trial is scheduled to Jacob Goodwin C’VILLE POLICE begin April 30.—Samantha Baars tial jury,” she said. During the voir dire portion

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wealth’s Attorney Nina-Alice Antony. “They are fact-based.” She argued that the judge should not grant Borden’s motion to move his trial, but take it under advisement until the prosecutor and defense attempt to seat an impartial jury in June. Average jury pools include about 40 to 60 individuals, but 150 are being summoned for this one, she said. Just as the attorney for Jacob Goodwin, another accused Harris assailant, did the day before, Hallahan alluded to “sleeper activ-

ists” who would intentionally try to sit on the jury to convict Borden. The defendant’s dad shook his head vigorously. Borden has been in jail since August, and Hallahan also asked for a bond hearing, which Judge Rick Moore denied because it was not on the docket. A separate date will be set for that, but Borden’s father, a retired commanding officer and combat pilot in the U.S. Air Force, testified that he’s willing to take his son home to Ohio until the trial. A woman later identified as Borden’s father’s lifelong companion could be heard whispering that Harris didn’t spend a night in jail because he’s black. Moore took the change of venue motion under advisement until after the court has attempted to seat an unbiased jury.

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much it’s going to help, then I’m making a mistake by pursuing it,” Mallek says. Jack Brown, a member of the Rivanna Conservation Alliance for 15 years and current chair of its public affairs committee, says a city stormwater utility fee has been collected twice annually since 2014. “Albemarle has even a greater need than Charlottesville did,” he says, because, for a long time, the county has had less regulation and oversight of stormwater infrastructure. The fee will pay for long-needed repairs, connections and improvements to the sys-

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tems of culverts and pipes that carry stormwater off individual properties and into common resources, like the Rivanna River, he adds. “Calling this a ‘rain tax’ appeals to antitax advocates and libertarians,” says Brown. “But policy should arise out of facts, not from appeals to fuzzy ideology.” A new group with a website called No Rain Tax Albemarle has emerged, and its name is plastered on electronic flyers that claim the proposed fee will case a “HUGE, expensive government bureaucracy that will never go away.” After repeated messages from C-VILLE, the group’s organizers remain unidentified—a fact that concerns some locals. Says Dunlora resident Caroline Polk, “Unless the people running it are willing to come forward and put their names on the site and where the funding comes from, I would be very suspicious and treat this not as reasoned argument against the fee, but just knee-jerk anti-tax hysteria.” The Board of Supervisors will meet April 11 for a work session on the proposed fee.

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mentalists. But they’d prefer if the stormwater fee was funded by the general fund, instead of by “taxing the backbone of this county.” The initial impetus for the program was to comply with a state Department of Environmental Quality mandate to prevent runoff from reaching the Chesapeake Bay and improve local drainage systems, Mallek says. County officials have been discussing the fee since 2014, when they agreed to put 0.7 cents of each dollar collected in real estate tax toward a water resources protection program. Mallek says that fund is at about $1.2 million now. The supervisor originally supported the fee because properties with more impermeable substances would be charged more, which is not possible when drawing from the general fund, but says she’s having second thoughts after about 125 people, including Fox, showed up at the March meeting. “If the process is so complicated that I can’t explain it to people and tell them how

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Talking points Dan Rather, whose six-decades-long journalism career included 24 years as anchor of “CBS Evening News,” is serving as a keynote speaker at the Tom Tom Founders Festival (April 9-15) on the topic of “What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism.” Slate magazine senior editor Dahlia Lithwick will serve as moderator of Rather’s April 12 talk.

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Baby boomers grew up with news correspondent Dan Rather covering the civil rights movement, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War. They raised families while Rather anchored the “CBS Evening News,” a coveted position he took in 1981 and held for 24 years. Now a whole new generation knows Rather from YouTube’s The Young Turks, cable television and his active Facebook page, which has 2.5 million fans. Like the Energizer Bunny, Rather, 86, keeps on going. Last year he published What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, and he’s headed to Charlottesville to serve as a keynote speaker for the Tom Tom Founders Festival on April 12. He spoke to C-VILLE Weekly by phone from New York, and gave us the scoop on civil rights then and now, fake news—and the dirt on Walter Cronkite.—Lisa Provence

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“When it’s done well, journalism matters. It counts. It can make a difference. In journalism one can have a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself and that can be quite satisfying.” channel with all news all the time. Whereas when this event happened last year, the cable channels were all hours, day and night, around-the-clock coverage. That did not exist in the early 1960s. The other thing that struck me was that there’s a lot more analysis and commentary than there was in the 1960s. When the evening news expanded to a half hour, which I think was in 1963, an event like this may have gotten four, five, six minutes, but that didn’t allow for very much, if any, analysis and commentary, whereas when this event happened last year, in addition to straight ahead, on-scene, just showing the pictures, you had analysis and commentary.

You’ve done quite a bit of civil rights coverage during your career. How does what’s happening now differ from what you saw during the ’60s? When I covered the civil rights movement on a dayto-day basis in 1962 and 1963, it was in not its earliest stages, but still in its early stages. That was a long time ago. Here we are near the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Different day, different time, different demographic makeup of the country, so one has to be a little careful in comparing eras, but there are some similarities. And one is the vestiges of the Ku Klux Klan. What we’re dealing with as a country and a community, what people were dealing with in the events of August 12, this is the remnants of the old Klan. As an organization the Klan is not nearly as strong as it was in the early ’60s. On the other hand, the neo-Nazi—I hate to call it a movement, which I don’t think it actually is— but neo-Nazism is much more public now and has more people who are willing to identify as neoNazis publicly show their face than was the case in the ’60s. One of the things I was thinking about when this all happened last summer: Sometime in the late ’70s there was an incident in Skokie, Illinois, in which a group of neo-Nazis paraded in the streets. The president [Jimmy Carter] or certainly members of his administration roundly denounced them. They were dealt with swiftly and roundly condemned by practically all aspects of decent society. Now you contrast that with what’s different now. In the case of Charlottesville, the president, unfortunately, and I think it’s very unfortunate, tried to do some false equivalence between the neo-Nazis and the peaceful protesters who were there. So it’s a big difference. I would say the biggest difference between now and the 1960s, number one, there’s been a dramatic change in the demographics of the country. Immigration laws changed in 1965 with immigration reform and since that time there’s been considerably more immigration and it’s much more diverse. The other difference is the Klan was much stronger in the 1960s throughout the South. If you were watching the news coverage of the rally here, did anything stand out to you about how the event was covered or did it seem like familiar times? One thing is, there was a lot more of it. In the postdigital age, the internet age, there are many more television channels, not to mention other reporters on scene. When I was covering the civil rights movement, CBS News was the only television news organization that was regularly covering it. That doesn’t tell you much because in those days there were only two other national news organizations, and that was NBC and ABC, and NBC was a little slow off the mark in covering civil rights. In the early ’60s there was no such thing as a television

While we’re touching on newscasts in the early ’60s, is there anything you can tell us about Walter Cronkite that people would be surprised to know? Do you have any dirt on Walter Cronkite that you can reveal now? [Laughs.] Well of course I do. I knew him very well. They might be surprised to know he had a tremendous sense of humor, which he rarely, if ever, showed on the air. He liked to tell stories, some a little too long and not as funny as he thought they were, but he was a good storyteller and yarn spinner. He loved a good joke, most of them clean but not all of them. He was a very good dancer. Loved to dance. He went to a party and probably danced with every woman in the same area code. In August 1963, Dan Rather was appointed chief of CBS’ Southern bureau in New Orleans, but he happened to be in Dallas the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Three days later, Rather described on-air what happened, but he came under fire for incorrectly reporting that Kennedy’s head fell forward after the second shot instead of backward, as seen on video footage. Nonetheless, Rather’s reporting during the mourning period for Kennedy earned him the CBS White House correspondent position in 1964.

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C-VILLE: What were you thinking when you were seeing what was going on with the Unite the Right rally here last summer? Rather: Obviously I was appalled by what happened when it became clear how it was developing organically, which is to say, neo-Nazis and others in protest against the protesters. So I wasn’t surprised what happened. I was surprised at the president’s incendiary remarks in the wake of it. That shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did. Obviously with a person being killed, it was a tragedy for the victim and her family; it was a tragedy for the community and a tragedy for the country.

Given the often-cited “print is dead” mentality, why should anyone consider embarking on a career in journalism at this point? There’s a whole list of reasons not to go into journalism, not the least of which is its notoriously low pay, particularly in the lower ranks of journalism. I recognize that a lot of people, including myself, have eventually gotten in positions where it pays well and, in some cases, very well. But your question was why should anyone go into journalism. One, when it’s done well, journalism matters. It counts. It can make a difference. In journalism one can have a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself and that can be quite satisfying. Also, journalism is kind of a constant graduate school of learning. You can’t do journalism and try to do it well without a sense of feeling you’re in a constant graduate school—you’re learning all the time. You learn what happens at the police station after midnight. You learn what happens at the charity hospital. You learn what happens at the zoning

hearings at city council. You’re just constantly learning. This is broadening and deepening for one as a person. Three, if you have a passion for it, even if you’re a local reporter, much less a globe-trotting reporter, there’s a sense of adventure with journalism. You’re learning all the time, you’re broadening and deepening yourself. You have experiences most people don’t have, access to places a lot of people don’t have, so there is the sense of adventure with it. Journalism is also an ideal place for anyone who is idealistic, and so for all those reasons it can be a great career. However, I say that it can only be a good career for someone who has a real passion going. Journalism is one of those crafts or professions where you have to burn with a hot, hard flame if you’re going to do it well. Now, there are other professions in which that’s true, but there are many professions that you can go into, you go to work at 9 and leave at 5 and you don’t carry it with you. Therefore you don’t have to have a particularly deep passion for it. Journalism you have to really want to do it. You have to be consumed by a desire to do it, almost something close to, if not an outright obsession. What advice would you give aspiring young journalists? I’m not sure I’m the person to give advice to anybody, having made every mistake in the book at least two or three times. If pressed to do so, I would say, number one, if you’re interested, by all means get into it but understand you have to have a passion to do it. Number two, commit and keep saying to yourself that you are not going to lose your idealism. Number three is you have to learn to write and write well, and in most circumstances, write pretty quickly. Writing is the bedrock of the press, whether one is going into electronic journalism, television, radio or whatever. You have to commit yourself to a lifetime of being ever-improving as a writer. Writing is the absolutely essential core to becoming a journalist. One of the reasons is in order to write even reasonably well, you have to think, and writing encourages analytical thinking, challenging almost everything, skeptical—never cynical. For example, you’re covering the city council meeting. You have to say, this is what the mayor says and this is what council man or woman so-and-so says. Now let me get busy and telephone and wear out some shoe leather and find out what’s really going on. Journalists are being called out for fake news. How do you respond to that when it’s being widely fired out at mainstream news organizations? First of all, I recognize—and I hope that enough other people recognize—that this accusation is most often put forth by people who seek their own partisan, political or ideological advantage. They’re trying to do two things. One, they’re trying to undermine responsible journalism and the second thing they’re trying to do is exploit it. There’s always been fake news around. But this slogan of “fake news,” much of it is calling anything with which you disagree, no matter how factual it is, fake news. My general reaction to these accusations of fake news is A), not to worry too much about it and just do the work. Just do the damn work and let it speak for itself. And the second is that, as a journalist, as the football coaches say, you are what your record is.

“I’m not sure I’m the person to give advice to anybody, having made every mistake in the book at least two or three times.”

CBS’ Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite cover the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City. The Democratic candidates were future president Jimmy Carter and vice president Walter Mondale.

Dan Rather says he loves that he’s found a new audience on Facebook, where he posts almost daily to his 2.5 million fans.

that’s how it came to be and we fairly quickly found an audience, which amazed me and still amazes me. Thank God and whatever other forces are responsible that it happened because I’m just having a terrific time. I get up every morning and can’t wait to get out of bed and find out what’s happening and where there’s a story and chase it.

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How has Facebook changed your life? Frankly it gave me a whole new lease on journalistic life. I’m very grateful for that. I’m 86 years old, in my 87th year, and to be able to work full-time and then some and to have found an audience, including an audience that is made up of people much younger than myself, is sort of stunning and satisfying. I’m enjoying myself. I can’t remember a time when I enjoyed work any more than I do now. It continues to amaze me that I came to social media, including Facebook, very late. Frankly, I thought that I was probably past the point I could engage in it, so I didn’t take to it right away. At my company News and Guts, which is a small news operation, younger members of my staff came to me and said, look, if you want to stay anywhere close to relevant, if you’re going to have a voice, it’s not a choice, it’s imperative. You just have to go to social media. And I said, well, I don’t think that’s true, but to hell with it, if you think so, well, we’ll try it. And

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If news consumers think of it in those terms, then while there’s certainly something to worry about with these charges of fake news, I’m not going to worry about it very much. What I’m going to do is go out and try to do the work and let the work stand for itself.

In 1996, Dan Rather traveled to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro, the infamous dictator who ruled the island nation for more than three decades, for an hour-long CBS report.

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For good and bad and in between, you are what your record is and you have a record, and to anybody who says what you’re doing is fake news, just put the record out and that’s probably the best you can do. In my own case, I am what my record is, and my record is not unblemished. It’s not perfect. Nobody can do journalism perfectly and we do make mistakes and it is important when you’ve made a mistake to acknowledge it and pull yourself up and try to go on. But when it isn’t true you also have to stand and face the furnace and stand up for your work. I will say this about all these accusations of fake news: I think that most people, overwhelmingly most people—and this has been my experience with audiences—most people have pretty good common sense. Most Americans are very good at separating brass tacks from bullshine. I tend not to be all that worried about these accusations of fake news. Because of the internet and how dissemination of news has changed, there’s so many more opportunities for people to scream fake news to undercut traditional journalism. I don’t like the phrase mainstream journalism. What the hell does that mean? But traditional journalism can be practiced very responsibly in the four main areas, which are straight news, which is you gather the facts, and then analysis, that’s number two. You can know all the facts and still not know the truth because you have to connect the dots. So analysis is taking the facts and trying to connect the facts, and analyze them. Then you have commentary. Commentary is not necessarily analysis. It might include it, but commentary is sort of, this is what I’m thinking. And then the fourth area is editorial. Editorial is different from the others. An editorial recommends a course of action: Vote for Mary and not for Jim. Or vote for the bond issue. When you recommend a course of action, that’s an editorial. I think the public could use a little refresher course so that when they watch something or read something, they can say to themselves, now is this straight news reporting or is it analysis or is it a combination of straight news reporting and analysis? Or is it just commentary or does it recommend a course of action and is therefore an editorial?

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The force and fearlessness of art takes center stage with Shenandoah Fringe Festival’s diverse lineup of film, theater, music, puppetry and more. Local and national artists unite with the declaration, “We can be students and painters and refugees and baristas and mothers and mimes and waitresses and vaudevillians all in one without invalidating the others.” JMU grad Valerie David presents her one-woman show, The Pink Hulk, based on her experience battling two separate bouts of cancer by immersing herself in performance, and girding her perspective through a superhero approach. $10-90, times vary. Downtown Staunton. shenfringe@gmail.com.

One of the most popular syndicated radio shows in America is helmed by Bobby Bones (left), something that country music fans have known for years. The Arkansas native is funny, honest and unscripted—Bones once got Taylor Swift to offer dating advice to his show’s intern and do a reading from the Titanic movie script. Since 2013, his self-deprecating humor and candor about his personal life have accompanied the morning drive for millions of fans across the U.S., and now he’s dishing it live in a stand-up format on the Red Hoodie Comedy Tour. $33, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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Before War & Treaty’s Michael Trotter Jr. was a touring musician, he was a soldier in Iraq. There among the brutalities of war, in a dictator’s palace, Trotter taught himself to play on a piano believed to have belonged to Saddam Hussein. It was in this extraordinary setting that he wrote his first song, which he played at the funeral of his captain, and went on to play it at military funerals for the next three years. Upon leaving the service, Trotter met performer Tanya Blount, fell in love, got married and began a musical collaboration that’s resulted in the release of the duo’s first EP, Down to the River. $15, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

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UVA Drama takes on satire, politics, capitalism and social justice as man’s desire to pee in private leads to revolution in the Broadway smash Urinetown. When a water shortage occurs, a lockdown on toilet flushing requires citizens to use paid public facilities, but not everyone can afford the fee to pee. A hero emerges, and leads a rebellion against the evil corporation that’s controlling the commodes, until finally the people are allowed “to pee whenever they like, as much as they like, for as long as they like and with whomever they like.” $10-16, times vary. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

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Kirtan. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

Mountain Barrel House, 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington. 263-4002.

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Classical Guitar Concert. Music and Arts store representative Greg Brown plays classical guitar. $10, 7pm. The Haven, 112 W. Market St. 973-1234.

Erin Lunsford and Sally Rose. Two of Charlottesville’s musical power divas play a set. No cover, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Face Made For Radio. Bluegrass, blues and folk multi-instrumentalist Jason Ring heads this trio with Catherine Monnes and Chris Dammann. 21-plus. No cover, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Faster Than Walking. Playing American bluegrass. No cover, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

LG & Friends. Lesly Gourdet, known around town for laying down tasteful bass lines in Blue Ridge Blues Band and The Porch Cats, brings a group of friends together for blues, jazz, R&B and a little rock. No cover, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Sammy Horn. Pianist tickles the ivories. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Sings and Swings. Koda Kerl of Chamomile & Whiskey brings some friends on stage for some swingin’ tunes. No cover, 6pm. The Shebeen Pub & Braai, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. 296-3185. The War & Treaty. Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount play roots, folk, gospel and soul inspired by darkness and despair that ultimately finds a higher spiritual purpose. $15, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Timeless Generation. Playing easy listening tunes from the 1960s and ‘70s. No cover, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Tony Camm & The Funk Allstars. Party band covers George Clinton, Parliament and Funkadelic, and plays funky originals, too. 21-plus. No cover, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

dance Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory bachata lesson before a social dance to a hot, eclectic Latin mix. Free, 8pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. 207-2355. SwingCville’s Lindy Hop 1. SwingCville’s weekly lesson series will have you doing the Lindy hop by the end of the month. $30, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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New Music Ensemble. Ranging from playful and anarchic to lush and meditative, this concert will feature several works by ensemble members, as well as works by James Tenney, Michael James Olson and Jordan Noble. Free, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Make the Cut DJ Battle. Denzy from the Block hosts while DJs battle it out on the ones and twos. Part of the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest. $10, 8pm. La Patrona Mexican Restaurant, 917 Preston Ave., Ste. B. 529-8279.

Rugged Arts: All Women’s Edition. Destinee Wright hosts Rugged Arts’ first all-female hip-hop showcase featuring Littlebird, Mrs. America, Bonnie Cash, Juice and Legendary Goddess, with DJ Tova on the ones and twos. Part of the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest. $5, 9pm. Music Resource Center, 105 Ridge St. 979-5478.

Owen Stroud. Austin native presents original songs against a backdrop of country-folk sensibilities and rock rhythms, with a grateful nod to soulful piano ballads and Texas two-step. $5, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with influences ranging from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz, American punk gospel and Cambodian surf rock. No cover, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. No cover, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

Tyler Dick Band. Singer-songwriter rocks out with friends. No cover, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

stage Big Blue Door First Friday Improv. Winter performance groups Feminine Hijinks and Bunch deliver freshly baked improv comedy, with a special appearance by The Administration. $5, 7pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973. Bobby Bones Red Hoodie Comedy Tour. Channeling humor, honesty and hard work, Bones has built the largest nationally syndicated morning show in country radio. With musical guest Brandon Ray. $33, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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stage Urinetown. See listing for Wednesday, April 4. $10-16, 8pm. Culbreth Theatre, UVA. 924-3376. West Side Story. This production of the seminal musical inspired by Romeo & Juliet evolves into a show infused with hallmarks of modern times and a nod to the Broadway original. $10, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

words MFA Reading. UVA creative writing students Sean Shearer and Piers Gelly read from their work. Free, 8pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Friday 4/6 music An Evening with Bigfoot County. Six musicians pay tribute to the Grateful Dead. $710, 8:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Bob Bennetta. Local pianist plays a dinnertime set. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Chickenhead Blues Band. Upbeat boogiewoogie and rhythm and blues dance band. No cover, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Colter Wall. Prairie-born songwriter from Saskatchewan pairs baritone vocals with oldsoul songwriting in the vein of Townes Van Zandt and Emmylou Harris. With The Local Honeys. $15-17, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

502 Fossils. Locals play an energetic set. No cover, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Curtis Prince and The Clairvoyants. All original, serious rock ‘n’ roll band heavily influenced by Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Whiskeytown. No cover, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Bea Troxel. Poetic, pretty, serious and sincere contemporary folk. With Scott Grim and

Eli Cook. Local bluesman plays a set for Friday Cheers night. No cover, 6pm. Blue

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Karaoke Night. DJ Ricky Morris and Party Masters invite you to show off your vocal chops. No cover, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpk., Crozet. 823-4878.

UVA’s World Voice Day Concert. Local singer-songwriters Genna Matthew and Mariana Bell perform to promote vocal health awareness. No cover, 6pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good. UVA Darden School of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka discusses how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies. Free, 5pm. OpenGrounds, 1400 University Ave. 243-4889.

Giovanni. Charlottesville singer-songwriter plays an intimate, acoustic set of haunting classical guitar and brutally direct lyrics. $5 suggested donation, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.

Tender Mercies: Black Voices Spring Concert. UVA gospel choir celebrates community, mercy, love and kindness in its final concert of the year. $5, 6:30pm. Newcomb Theater, UVA.

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An Oral History of Charlottesville Hip-Hop. UVA music professor A.D. Carson moderates a discussion on the history of local hiphop. Part of the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest. Free, 7pm. Music Library, Old Cabell Hall, UVA. facebook.com/NinePillarsFest.

Maria DeHart, MANIIK, palice, and Susan Grochmal. Some of Charlottesville’s up-andcoming femme acts transport you to another world with cosmic sounds ranging from hiphop to drone pop. $7, 8:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Rob Cheatham. Americana country artist plays tracks from his new album, Villains and Ghosts. No cover, 6pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020.

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Urinetown. Chaos ensues when a local ban on private toilets forces people to use public facilities run by a profit-seeking company. $1016, 8pm. Culbreth Theatre, UVA. 924-3376.

Free Bridge Quintet. UVA’s official faculty jazz group celebrates jazz composition as a driving force behind the continuing importance of jazz in American music. Free-$15, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Red & The Romantics. Blending vintage folk and Americana music. 21-plus. No cover, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Josh Mayo’s Open Mic. Singer-songwriter hosts and plays this all-ages any-talent open mic where collaboration is encouraged. No cover, 8pm. 1221 Market St., 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713.

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Her song “Pain” is about an accident in which she was hit by an SUV while crossing the street. Juice didn’t feel the impact; she remembers waking up on the ground, a paramedic telling her not to move while snapping a brace around her neck. She gets chills when she recites the song. “It’s my heart pouring out in the lyrics, over a beat,” she says, adding that as a woman— and especially as a black woman—she’s very aware of the message she puts out into the world. “Even if we live what [men] have lived and talk about, it’s different, because we are [women],” says Juice, adding that everything from what women say to the way they carry themselves is watched, and often scrutinized closely.

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“I’m hoping that this show will inspire a sense of sisterhood for the hip-hop heads in the community who are woman-identifying, and hopefully inspire other women artists to continue their work and participate in events such as this.” DESTINEE WRIGHT

etc. Count Me In. Documentary film follows the stories of ordinary Chicagoans who design their own democracy through participatory budgeting, a process that gives citizens say over local public projects and monies. Free, 6:30pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. 293-6992. Helvetica. This feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global culture looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Free, 5:30pm. Open Grounds, 1400 University Ave. 243-4889.

Saturday 4/7 music Cherry Red. Playing the songs of The Rolling Stones. 21-plus. No cover, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Cry Cry Cry. Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell and Dar Williams resume their folk-pop collaboration. $33-45, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. Delta Junction. With a solid foundation in stripped-down blues from the Mississippi Delta, this band breathes new life into traditional arrangements. No cover, 6:30pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notched Rd., Crozet. 823-5671. Jimmy O. Longtime guitarist and singer plays a set. No cover, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Jim Waive. Charlottesville’s favorite country gentleman plays honky-tonk tunes. No cover, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Karaoke. Get on stage and belt one out. No cover, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Kinetic Sound Presents: Synesthesia. Ready yourself for an introduction to a brilliant world of color via instrumental music that’ll inspire exploration of the senses. Free, 1pm. Newcomb Theater, UVA. 924-3376. Matthew O’Donnell. Acoustic, intimate coffee shop show with a local Irish musician. $5 suggested donation, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120. Missy Raines. With a smoky and seductive alto, this seven-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year heads up The New Hip quartet featuring mandolin, guitars, bass, drums and percussion. Part of the Prism Coffeehouse series. $16-18, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. Mojo Pie. Susan Munson and Frank Bechter play classic rock-infused tunes. No cover, 5pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 2228 Lake Albemarle Rd. 326-2374. Patrick Tocci. Playing everything from country to folk to classic rock. No cover, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

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ast April, A’nija Johnson walked into the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center auditorium ready to speak her truth at the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest’s freshman class competition. Wearing a floor-length skirt, a Tasmanian Devil “I need coffee” T-shirt and a pair of sunglasses, the local high schooler found herself in a room full of peers ready to take the mic—all of them boys. “What are you doing in here?” asked one. “You’ll see,” she told him. By the end of the competition, Johnson, who goes by the moniker Legendary Goddess, had impressed the judges enough to nab second place. The self-described “girly-girl” loves proving that she can rap—and about everything, from broken friendships to sexual violence. Legendary Goddess takes the mic on Thursday at the all-female Rugged Arts hip-hop showcase at the Music Resource Center as part of the weeklong Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Festival. The Rugged Arts series began in summer 2013, but organizers Cullen “Fellowman” Wade and Remy St. Clair are confident that this showcase is the first of its kind in Charlottesville, featuring five female artists (Legendary Goddess, MrsAmerica, Juice, Littlebird and Bonnie Cash), a female DJ (DJ Tova) and a female host (Destinee Wright). “Hip-hop has a reputation for its misogyny and its disregard for women’s agency,” says Wright. “This showcase is a sort of reclamation. I’m hoping that this show will inspire a sense of sisterhood for the hip-hop heads in the community who are woman-identifying, and hopefully inspire other women artists to continue their work and participate in events such as this.” It’s rare to see a woman on stage at a hiphop show, says Lamicka “MrsAmerica” Adams. She suspects it’s because many women put their music on the backburner as they build a career, raise a family and take care of elderly family members. So, to shine a spotlight on female artists, “I think it’s really dope,” she says. MrsAmerica was going through a lot when she wrote her 2017 album, Pain and Pageant—she was pregnant with her third child while taking care of her father, who was dying of cancer. MrsAmerica’s husband encouraged her to write, to put her thoughts to music. She thought, “How can I focus on music at a time like this?” But the more she wrote, the better she felt. “It’s music that would lift me up when I was going through” hell, she says, and she hopes it’ll motivate others, too. Sierra “Juice” Stanton shares many of MrsAmerica’s reasons for making music. “I only write about what I know, what I’ve been through, what I go through, what I’m preparing for,” says Juice.

Harrisonburg artist Littlebird is a self-described “100-pound white girl with blonde hair, a tomboy” clad in beat-up Timberland boots and cargo pants, who says she was initially “pretty intimidated” to start performing her rhymes, in part because she’s not what people typically see in their mind’s eye when they think of a rapper. “Princess Peach on fleek temperamental / Insecurities plaguing my mental / When ya thin as a pencil / Criticism ain’t gentle / Couple that with the fact / Folks been judgmental,” Littlebird spits in one of her songs. She likes to talk about universal experiences such as love and relationships of all kinds, but she’s keen to point out that there’s substance and feeling underneath the surface. Long before DJ Tova Roth had DJ equipment, she made mixtapes with a tape deck and a radio. As a teenager in California in the early 1990s, she listened religiously to hip-hop and often drove an hour and a half to Los Angeles where well-known DJs sold their mixtapes. She’d listen to them over and over, noting the artists’ moves so that she could mimic them— and rival them—once she got her own gear. “I want the industry to realize that girls can bring the heat, and that we’re up for any challenge,” says Legendary Goddess, the high schooler who brought down the house at the Jefferson School just a year ago. And a hip-hop showcase spotlighting a group of talented women is a great place to start. “We’re making history,” says Juice. “This is major.”

Saving Hip-Hop: Documenting, Curating and Archiving a Global Cultural Movement. Martha Diaz, award-winning community organizer, social entrepreneur, media producer, archivist, curator mentor and educator who currently directs the Hip-Hop Association, gives a talk. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall 107, UVA. 924-3052.

Organizers are confident that Thursday’s all-female Rugged Arts showcase is the first of its kind in Charlottesville, featuring a female host, a female DJ and five female artists, including Sierra “Juice” Stanton (pictured). “I only write about what I know, what I’ve been through, what I go through, what I’m preparing for,” says Juice.

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Susie & The Pistols. Americana rhythmand-blues band dedicated to making music that feels good and sounds great. No cover, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001. The Virginia Gentlemen. UVA a cappella group performs a 65th anniversary concert, singing everything from modern pop to famous cultural ballads. $10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

dance The Hooligans. UVA breakdancing team hosts a friendly competition of poppin’ and lockin’ with the occasional hip-hop cypher. Free-$10, 12:30pm. Newcomb Hall Ballroom, UVA. 924-3601.

stage 900 Gallons. Artist-activist Nicole GurgelSeefeldt performs a solo show in which she examines how to reckon with legacies of whiteness and white supremacy. Free, 8pm. Helms Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376. Butchertown Burlesque. Step back in time and begin the beguine with a vintage classic burlesque featuring musical guest Ducky Shincracker. No photography allowed. 18plus. $15-25, 9pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Urinetown. See listing for Wednesday, April 4. $10-16, 2pm. Culbreth Theatre, UVA. 924-3376.

words Finding Your Voice and Structuring Your Nonfiction Work In Progress. Learn how to give voice to your memoir or essay by examining the effectiveness of your voice and your narrative arc. $45, 1pm. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922. From Rebel Yell to Revolution. Joel Gardner gives a talk on his memoir, From Rebel Yell to Revolution: My Four Years at UVA 19661970. Free, 4pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Native American Student Union Pow Wow. Annual event celebrates Indigenous culture, music, dancing and art, featuring appearances by Yapatoko, Turtle Clan, Louis Campbell, Dennis Zotigh and Rick Kelly. Free, 11am. South Lawn, UVA. bmw7mz@virginia.edu.

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Bill Edmunds. Guitarist sets the mood for the evening. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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ry Cry Cry is back together, but not for long. A collaboration between established folk singers Dar Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky, the harmony-based trio formed two decades ago to release one album before members went their separate ways to focus on individual careers. The project mostly sat dormant until last summer, when an invitation to perform at the lauded Clearwater Festival in New York brought the three artists back together. Now they’re on a 12-show spring tour, which stops at the Jefferson Theater on Saturday night, but, according to Williams during a recent phone interview, it’s likely one of the last opportunities to see the trio combine their voices on stage. “I don’t think we’re going to do this again,” she says. “We love performing, and we love rehearsing, but we just couldn’t commit to making a full-length album this time. It seemed like a miracle enough that we were able to come back together.” News of the short-lived reunion will be a bummer to longtime fans who’ve been hoping for more. The group’s one album, a self-titled effort released back in 1998, is a cult favorite in folk circles. The set of mostly covers found the singers delivering some of their favorite songs by other artists with intricately layered vocal arrangements. Starting with a take on the R.E.M. hit “Fall on Me,” the album goes on to bring sophisticated harmonies, both gentle and soaring, to songs by Robert Earl Keen, Julie Miller

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and Greg Brown, as well as lesser-known songwriters like Canadian James Keelaghan. During the comeback shows, the group members have been leaning on songs from their one record, as well as selections from their own solo catalogs. They’ve also found time to add some different material to the repertoire. Back in February, the trio digitally released a recently recorded emotive version of the Jump Little Children ballad “Cathedrals.” “The first thought is, ‘Do we have anything to bring to the song?,’” Williams says, when Cry Cry Cry choses tracks to sing. “Then there’s just something about adding harmony to a song that’s beautifully written. When you add harmony you show that the song has its own beauty, apart from its original performer, that can grow. That’s an exciting thing, because you don’t know if it will work until you’re doing it. The more you sing together, the better it goes.” Individually, all three members of Cry Cry Cry are prolific singer-songwriters. Wil-

Cry Cry Cry featuring Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell makes a stop at the Jefferson on Saturday. The folk supergroup says this is its last outing together.

liams has released nine full-length albums ting the group to sing Gordon Lightfoot’s dating back to the early 1990s. Last fall she “If You Could Read My Mind,” the first song also published a book, What I Found in a she ever learned on guitar. Thousand Towns, about the community-driv“Live performance of music is so much en resurgence of small cities. Kaplansky, once of what my life is about, and I’ve had career a staple of the New York City folk scene in high points on stage with Richard and Lucy,” Williams says. “We can be singing together Greenwich Village, has released half a dozen albums and collaborated with Shawn Colvin without looking at each other with the exact and Nanci Griffith. Shindell, whose tunes same timing and the exact same phrasing. have been recorded by Joan Baez, is known During the tightrope walk of trying to find for writing vivid story-based songs that he those things together, we’ve had magic modelivers in the first person as different charments where everything lines up perfectly.” acters. Williams says Shindell’s diligent work Because the landscape of the music inethic deserves credit for the unique dynamics dustry is much different now than it was of Cry Cry Cry’s song arrangements. when the group made its debut, pursuing a “Richard will go into his studio with his second album was deemed unfeasible. They’re planning to release a few more songs guitar and emerge at the end of the day not realizing that it got dark outside,” she says. “Music is a really deep “Then there’s just something language for him, so there are a lot about adding harmony to a of subtleties that he pulls out in the song that’s beautifully written. way that he arranges things.” The trio’s initial formation was When you add harmony you spontaneous; while touring togeth- show that the song has its own er more than two decades ago, Williams and Shindell started singing beauty, apart from its original duets during sound checks. After performer, that can grow.” realizing they had vocal chemistry, DAR WILLIAMS they decided to bring Shindell’s frequent collaborator, Kaplansky, into the mix. from some recent short recording sessions The mission of the group has always been and tour though the middle of the month. to shine a new light on songs the members Although Williams seems pretty certain this mutually admire through three-part haris the end, she won’t entirely close the door on monies, and Williams believes the singers Cry Cry Cry. “Nothing teaches you never say have a special connection that can be hard never like coming together 20 years later, but to find. One of her favorite memories is getthis is it for the foreseeable future.”

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ARTS THE WORKS Sunday 4/8 Jason Lyman and Mitch Sams. Local jazz duo plays a set. No cover, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001. Jazz Small Groups. Playing from a diverse repertoire of jazz styles by such greats as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, among many others, as well as original compositions by both faculty and students. Free, 7pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Julianna Lee. UVA percussion student performs for her distinguished major recital. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. King Golden Banshee. The right amount of raucous colors traditional Irish music. Free, 5:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Nine Pillars Hip-Hop Block Party. Featuring performances by Illville Crew, XL the Truth, J-Willz, Keese, Sondai, Quin Bookz, Waasi, Shad Gill, Lee Bangah and other local hip-hop artists. Part of the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest. Free, 3pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St SE. facebook.com/NinePillarsFest. Patrick and Aaron Olwell and Friends. Playing fine renditions of traditional tunes in an energetic and eclectic Irish jam session. No cover, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Songwriting Workshop. Doug and Telisha Williams of Wild Ponies will help you write your first song, or take your songwriting from good to great. $20, 3pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012. Travis Elliott. Singer and guitarist takes on everything from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Verbs & Vibes. Remy St. Clair hosts this open mic with legendary local hip-hop artist Double A1K on the turntables. Part of the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Cultural Fest. $5, noon. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669.

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his week, New York-based artist Ed Woodham brings his Art in Odd Places festival to Charlottesville in a two-day, intensely collaborative event with the theme of “matter.” Sponsored by the UVA Studio Arts Board, the mission of AiOP, Woodham writes in the program guide, “is to engage and activate the everyday places in our lives. In creative, unexpected and sometimes unusual ways we claim our shared rights to public spaces, while also making sure to question, subvert and occasionally shake up the socio-political status quo that regulates it.” Woodham, who takes AiOP to various cities across the country, says, “It’s important for me being an outsider to be very mindful.” During numerous visits to Charlottesville, he has met with and listened to residents, UVA students, community leaders and artists. In past AiOP festivals Woodham has mostly brought in outside artists, but with AiOP MATTER, “the focus here is that there’s so much good work going on in Charlottesville that has been going on for years.” Consequently, the festival features 16 local artists, three regional artists and nine national and international artists. Woodham says the events of August 11 and 12 last year framed a narrow view of Charlottesville that he wanted to reframe by showcasing local artists “doing really innovative, change-making work.” Local artists Leslie Scott-Jones and Brandon Lee have designed re-enactments for the festival in a work titled “Historical Matters,” which tells “the story of how the other half lived...our ancestors, the names of those Hoo are largely responsible for the building and upkeep of the university,” Scott-Jones and Lee write. Re-enactments on UVA Grounds will portray the lives of enslaved persons who built the university, as well as the first black students. On the second day of the festival, their work will celebrate Queen Charlotte, Charlottesville’s namesake, a descendant of Margarita de Castro e Souza, a black member of the Portuguese royal family. In a procession led by the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps, Queen Charlotte will travel in a carriage from the Rotunda to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, before meeting the city’s mayor on the Downtown Mall. The procession will include the Monacan Indian Nation and historical interpreters representing enslaved persons and soldiers from various American war efforts.

Pedro Lasch’s “Fire and Ice,” performed on April 1 at the Main Street Arena, recontextualized fire from tiki-torch invasion to positive force. It’s part of Art in Odd Places: MATTER, which continues April 5 on UVA Grounds and April 6 on the Downtown Mall.

Local performance artist Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell will contribute a work titled “Please Move Along, Nothing to See Here.” Four performers atop a pedestal will recreate Charlottesville’s statues of Robert E. Lee and George Rogers Clark in an animatronic-style human tableaux with songs and dialogue. “This short performance will take place every half-hour at both [festival] locations and promises to be entertaining and absurd, and ultimately raw and personal,” says Tidwell. “I am interested in the juxtaposition of women of color portraying colonizing war ‘heroes.’ I think this is going to be an effective device to allow the audience to have a more visceral understanding of what is hidden or invisible in our community—from the geologic features to the erasure of documentation related to enslaved people at UVA and Native Americans here, to the misrepresentation of history solidified in the statues.” National artist Pedro Lasch, a professor at Duke University, applied both a concep-

tual and literal interpretation of the theme of matter. His April 1 performance at the Main Street Arena was the last public event held there before the building’s scheduled demolition. “Fire and Ice” recontextualized fire from tiki-torch invasion to positive force. “Early on,” he says, “I knew I wanted to do something related to the tension and tragic incident of last fall but I did not want to be heavy-handed about it.” Before he came to Charlottesville, he considered a project involving fire and ice and knew he wanted to honor the life of Heather Heyer. When he arrived, he ambled down the pedestrian mall at night, and the arched windows of the Main Street Arena revealed figure skaters spinning on the ice and the idea sparked. The final act for the installation included hundreds of votive candles placed in the center of the rink with an invitation to the public to skate around them. “It’s celebratory for both Heather Heyer and the building,” says Lasch.

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Wild Ponies. The Nashville-based Wild Ponies have always looked to southwest Virginia—where bandmates Doug and Telisha Williams were both born and raised—for inspiration. $12-15, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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Sunday 4/8 stage Holding These Stories: Artfully Excavating Legacies of Whiteness. Artist-activist in residency at UVA teaches a workshop. Free, 1pm. Drama Building 115C, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA. kh26c@virginia.edu. Shenandoah Fringe Festival. Artists from all over converge for two days of theater, film, music and puppetry. $10-90, times vary. Downtown Staunton. shenfringe@gmail.com. West Side Story. See listing for Thursday, April 5. $10, 2:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

music Erin Lunsford. Charlottesville songbird plays a solo set. No cover, 6pm. South Street Brewery, 106 W. South St. 293-6550. Garrett Mendelow. Percussionist performs with pianist Peter Klimo, together playing works from Chris Cerrone, Vincent Ho and others. Free, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376. Red & The Romantics. See listing for Friday, April 6. No cover, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

stage Shenandoah Fringe Festival. See listing for Sunday, April 8. $10-90, times vary. Downtown Staunton. shenfringe@gmail.com.

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etc. Carrie. In Stephen King’s tale of teenage revenge, Carrie is just like other girls, if other girls had telekinetic powers. $10, 7pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. 293-6992.

Ready Player One turns brain games mindless By Kristofer Jenson arts@c-ville.com

efore we get into just how much Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One misses the mark, it’s worth noting that its badness has nothing to do with video games and the people who enjoy them. Critics often come down harder on movies about subcultures they disapprove of or simply haven’t taken the time to understand, which will no doubt happen here. There are good stories to be found in the world of gaming, and liking or disliking games should not be used as a defining character trait. What kills Ready Player One is twofold. On the one hand, there are the same sorts of problems that would kill any movie: dead-end narrative, uninteresting and often unlikable hero, dangling plot and thematic threads and a pervasive feeling of who cares? that permeates every puzzle, action sequence, pop culture reference and character interaction. On the other hand is its posturing as the most mainstream representation of what games mean to those who play them, when in fact it’s not much more than a series of overwrought references and lifeless cameos from games and movies applied in a way that perpetuates the idea that there is a right way to watch movies and play games. For what is supposedly a statement of pride in gaming culture, it’s surprisingly exclusionary and paints a picture of itself that is not particularly flattering. The story follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a kid (or teen, or adult, who’s to say?)

who, like most of the people in the world at this point, spends most of his time inside a virtual universe known as the Oasis, the creation of legendary game designer James Halliday (Mark Rylance, easily the film’s highlight). After Halliday’s death, he sends out a living will in which he reveals that he has hidden an Easter egg in the Oasis, which can be found after discovering three keys, the location of which are described in mysterious riddles. Whoever finds the egg first will inherit his share of the Oasis, valued in the trillions. Detailed dissection of the minutiae of Halliday’s life and interests becomes a worldwide obsession in order to better understand the clues, which is convenient since everybody in 2045 apparently has the same encyclopedic fixation on pop culture from the 1970s through the 1990s. Wade—in the form of his avatar, Parzival—and his friends find themselves in a race against evil corporation IOI and its CEO, Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), to solve the mystery of Halliday’s egg hunt, which all boils down to things like who knows more about The Shining.

With so many chaotic cameos and references that have nothing to do with each other, it’s like Finnegans Wake of the game world, if James Joyce pounded Monster Energy instead of booze.

Based on the book by Ernest Cline, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn, Spielberg’s take on the story is little more than impossibly layered references that don’t aspire to more than a grunting acknowledgment by those familiar with it. The Iron Giant is great and all, and its presence is not inherently bad, but pop culture knowledge should not be an obstacle to

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liking or even understanding what is going on. With so many chaotic cameos and references that have nothing to do with each other, it’s like Finnegans Wake of the game world, if James Joyce pounded Monster Energy instead of booze. Spielberg has been on a massive hot streak for almost a decade, making some of his most interesting, thought-provoking work 40 years into an already storied career. Yet it seems that the closer he feels to the subject matter, the less empowered he feels to take it somewhere interesting. There was a deadend Jaws joke in the appropriately forgotten 1941, which is echoed here with a Jurassic Park gag. It would still be a bad movie even if it weren’t patting itself on the back for its knowledge of what movie or game came out what year and what the best way to consume it is, but the fact that it has no idea what to do with it all makes a pointless exercise into a headache-inducing one.

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Feminine Likeness. Fralin Museum curatorial fellow Jennifer Camp gives a talk on the current exhibition “Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 18091950.” Free, noon. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.

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Bob Huntington. Pianist plays everything from Gordon Lightfoot to The Beatles. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Caitlyn Smith. With her new album, this songwriter creates a true portrait of an artist as a young woman. With Andrea Davidson. $1517, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Karaoke with Jen Dville. Jen Dville hosts this event where future pop stars are encouraged to show off their chops. 21-plus. No cover, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Ragged Mountain String Band. Playing oldtime Appalachian tunes and songs with modern-day appeal and sensibility. No cover, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, April 8. No cover, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Tuesday Evening Concert Series: Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio. Three young musicians join forces to perform Schubert, Brahms and Ravel. $5-39, 7:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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First Fridays April 6 FF Angelo Jewelry 220 E. Main St. “Striation Series: Brazilian Tides & North Shore Waters,” featuring intimate drawings and mosaic mirrors by Eileen Butler. 5:30-7:30pm. Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of works by Morganne Ashlie, Jennie Carr, Susan Graeber, Louise Greer and Valerie Sargent. Through April 8.

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Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “The Delight is in the Surprise,” featuring paintings of White Hall landscapes and animals by Christen Yates. Opens April 14. FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Who Is Your RGB Self?,” an exhibition by Golara Haghtalab that uses paintings, poems, sculpture and interactive installations to create a fresh perspective on visual self-recognition. 5:30-9:30pm. Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “Welcome Spring!,” a multimedia group show of work by Buck Mountain Episcopal Church artists. Opens April 11.

John Cleese takes the stage for a one-night-only performance developed specifically for Charlottesville. Cleese, who brought us the humor of Monty Python, the “minister of the silly walk,” and who helped shape British and American television, is coming to town to benefit the research of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies (UVADOPS.ORG).

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “Our Town, Our Eyes: McGuffey Artists Consider Charlottesville,” featuring work about Charlottesville from the perspective of 10 McGuffey Art Center member artists. 5:30-7:30pm. Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “A Mighty Little Town,” featuring Oana Moore’s photographs of Crozet and the Western Albemarle area. Opens April 14. FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Finding Time,” an exhibition of work by tinkering guru and clockmaker Allan Young. 6-8pm. FF C’ville Coffee 1301 Harris St. An exhibition of oil paintings by Caroline Planting. 4:30-6pm.

Charlottesville Senior Center 491 Hillsdale Dr. “Local Scenes,” a multimedia group show featuring the work of the BozART Fine Art Collective.

Darden Art Gallery Alumni Lounge UVA Darden School of Business Camp Library, 100 Darden Blvd. “Lexicon of Landscapes,” featuring work from Michelle Gagliano’s VMFA fellowship exhibition.

The Charlottesville Women’s Initiative 1101 E. High St. “Halcyon Explored,” featuring works from the Fiber and Stitch Collective artists. Opens April 8.

FF Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. An exhibition of gold and black abstract paintings by Juan Manuel Granados. 5-7pm.

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FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Submerged,” a visual and auditory sub-aquatic collaboration between photographer Alexandria Searls and sound designer Morgan McLeod. 5-7pm.

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FF Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. An exhibition of posters on public art and community submitted by 80 artists from 10 countries for the 2018 Bushman Dreyfus Architects Prize. 5-7pm.

Maryanna Williams at Moon Maiden’s Delights

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. “Conversations in Wood & Paint,” featuring new work from sculptor Alan Box Levine and multimedia artist Jennifer Esser. Opens April 14.

Alexandria Searls at Chroma Projects

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Playing with Light,” paintings by Nan Rothwell and Junko Ono Rothwell in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Even Odds and Ends,” featuring wall reliefs con-

FF Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. #150. An exhibition of mixed-media works by Peter Sacco. 6-8pm. FF Moon Maiden’s Delights 112 W. Main St. “Moths: From the Archives” by Maryanna Williams, featuring slightly fantastical renderings of moths. 5-7pm. FF Music Resource Center 105 Ridge St. “New Works,” a collection of paintings by Kevin Miller. 5-7pm. New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “The Art of Ken Nagakui,” featuring oil paintings and wood-fired stoneware by Ken Nagakui. 5-7:30pm.

lages by Erik Benson; in the Dové Gallery, “Mom Brain,” featuring graphite paintings by Melissa Cooke Benson. 5:30-7:30pm. Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. An exhibition of work by landscape artist Kevin H. Adams. Opens April 7. FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Colors and Shapes,” featuring works in acrylic by Chris Lombard. 6-8pm. FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “How Did I Get Here?,” Ada Trillo’s photographic portrait series documenting the exploitation of women in the prostitution industry. 5-7pm. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Mechanics of the Mind,” featuring paintings by Blake Hurt. FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Coexist: A Prayer Flag Project,” an interactive exhibition by Jum Jirapan. 5:30-7:30pm.

Northside Library 705 Rio Rd. W. “Perspectives in Black and White,” featuring six photographic images by Seth Silverstein.

FF WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. An exhibition of watercolor paintings by Karyn Gunther Smith. 5-7pm.

Piedmont Virginia Community College V. Earl Dickinson Building 501 College Dr. An exhibition of graphic design, ceramics, sculpture, painting and more by PVCC students. Opens April 20.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Visage,” featuring drawings and paintings by Frank Walker and Jae Jae Johnson. 5-7:30pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “Monument,” an exhibition of landscape/cityscape paint col-

FF First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

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FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Expressions in Black and White,” featuring work by Suzanne Tanner Chitwood, David Hawkins, Ivy Naté and Nick Watson. 1-5pm.

structed from clay by Scott Supraner, in the Lower Hall South Gallery; “Gathering,” a selection of old and new paintings by Cynthia Burke, in the Lower Hall North Gallery; “Free Pile,” works of art made from the materials in McGuffey’s free pile that once had other lives and uses, in the Upper Hall North and South Galleries. 5:30-7:30pm.

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FF Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave. “Creatures and Creation: A Passage Around Saint Soleil,” an exhibition of oil and acrylic works on canvas by Eriveau Prospere, Mackenly Darius, Marshal Edward and Richard Nesly. 6-9pm.

“Visage,” on view at the New City Arts Welcome Gallery this month, features the work of portrait artists Frank Walker and his nephew Jae Jae Johnson.

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The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 1809-1950,” featuring works from The Fralin Museum of Art collection; “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb,” an exhibit of works from one of the original Abstract Expressionists; “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture and Design”; “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

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“Nobody understands an artist like another artist,” says local portrait artist Frank Walker. And so Walker, who has drawn all his life—first imitating the figures in Sgt. Rock comic books and later working in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers graphics department, earning a BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and working for a number of years as a medical illustrator at the University of Virginia Hospital—loves to talk art with other artists. “People relate to artists as being quirky or crazy, but we’re not,” says Walker. “We just think in other dimensions.” Walker had talked art with his late sculptor brother, so when Walker’s wife introduced him to her nephew, self-taught portrait artist Jae Jae Johnson, he found a new confidant in art. For the last decade or so, Walker and Johnson have shared the ideas and techniques that shape their distinct portraiture styles. Walker works mostly with pencils and graphite, whereas Johnson uses copic markers to create grayscale-with-pops-of-color portraits that viewers often mistake for watercolor paintings. “Visage,” on view at New City Arts Welcome Gallery this month, is their first joint show, and Johnson’s first public show. While their styles are different, both are drawn to portraiture for similar reasons. Johnson says that for him it requires a certain sense of caring, love and attention for the subject, to the point where it’s often difficult to part with his drawings. According to Walker, “People’s faces, and their eyes, especially, tell a story. I’ve always believed that they eyes are the window to the soul. So when I look at people, and I look in their eyes, I [see] their character.”—Erin O’Hare

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ing.” She says that the same atmosphere and service that customers have come to expect at The Villa will move with the business, and there will be a few additions to the menu. The Villa’s final day in its current location will be Memorial Day, and the Beachleys expect the new location to open in June.

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he Yard food hall at 5th Street Station is gearing up to open in May, in the building next to Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Jeff Garrison, the project’s lead, says he wanted to “create an active community-engaged area...a great area to hang out.” And so The Yard put extra emphasis on seating, including a shaded outdoor patio and complimentary WiFi. Additionally, if Garrison can obtain a coveted festival liquor license for the space, drinks can be openly carried between the businesses, which is beneficial because The Yard could also serve as an entertainment venue. As for the food half of the hall, The Yard already has leases from Basil Mediterranean Bistro & Wine Bar, Extreme Pizza and Chim, an Asian street food restaurant. While the first restaurants are going to be opening this May, The Yard will continue to add more options.

Best of the South In Southern Living magazine’s 2018 Best of the South poll, Charlottesville was named the eighth best food town in the region (food cities are in a different category). In that same poll, Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton was named the best brewery in Virginia.

And in Garden & Gun magazine’s Southern Craft Brewery bracket, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, whose flagship is in Richmond but operates a pilot brewery and taproom in Charlottesville, made it to the final matchup out of a field of 32 breweries, to take on Scofflaw Brewing Company of Atlanta for the championship. Hardywood was named the bracket winner on Tuesday.

Losing a gem Pearl’s Bake Shoppe, known around town for its vegan cupcake offerings, among other sweet treats, closed its Charlottesville location on March 24. According to infor-

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Another closing Water Street Restaurant—or, chef Brice Cunningham’s rebranded Tempo—closed after service on March 31. The eatery, which served upscale casual French and American cuisine, opened in September 2016.

Brunch game just got stronger In a March 12 Facebook post, Kung Fu Tea Charlottesville at 1001 W. Main St. announced that it will soon begin serving dim sum (and judging by the hundreds of comments and shares on the post, folks are excited about it). For those unfamiliar with dim sum, it’s a style of Chinese (usually Cantonese) cuisine served with tea for a brunch-type meal. The bite-sized portions of food—think steamed buns, steamed vegetables, slow-roasted meats, congee soups and even dessert dim sum such as egg tarts—are served on small plates or nestled inside little steam baskets.

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In the last few weeks, a Facebook page called Quality Pie has popped up and begun sharing photos of baked goods, as well as both interior and exterior shots of the former Spudnuts donut shop on Avon Street in Belmont. It appears as though the bakery is the work of former Mas Tapas chef Tomas Rahal.

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Back in December, we reported that The Villa Diner would be moving to a new location in town, as its current home at 129 Emmet St. N will soon be demolished when the University of Virginia begins to develop the land at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road later this year. Now we can report that The Villa’s moving down the road, into the former location of the Royal Indian Restaurant at 1250 Emmet St. N, adjacent to the new Zaxby’s. Villa Diner co-owner Jenifer Beachley describes the relocation as “terrifyingly excit-

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Cheese it In the spring issue of Knife & Fork (on stands now!), we take a hard (and soft and crumbly...) look at local dairy, from a Crozet monastery making the greatest gouda you’ll ever try to a pimento spread you might want to slather on everything. Plus, you’ll find: An interview with local chef Antwon Brinson. The reason strawberries are the season’s best bounty. Gabriele Rausse wining about our area terroir. And more!

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Make it at home Junction’s Alec Spidalieri says he first heard of the brown butter-washing technique at Belmont neighbor Tavola, when its former bar manager, Christian Johnson, put a brown butter-washed bourbon drink on the menu. After trying it, Spidalieri said to himself, “I gotta do this sometime.” Although he says the recipe for the Rum Communion looks intimidating, it’s more of a passive process where you let ingredients sit for a long time. His words of wisdom: “Don’t burn the butter. Pull it off the heat when it starts to turn caramel brown.”

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2 oz. brown butter-washed Pusser’s British Navy Rum (Blue Label) 1 oz. grilled pineapple cordial .75 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice Add all ingredients to shaker, add ice, shake aggressively until well-chilled. Double-strain into a chilled coupe/ cocktail glass. Garnish with a floating lime wheel.

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s I walk through the doors of Junction, bar manager Alec Spidalieri beckons me to the upstairs area, adjacent to the kitchen. He’s got something cooking that he can’t leave for very long. In fact, one of the ingredients he’s making is the brown butter-washed rum for the Rum Communion, the winning cocktail in C-VILLE’s inaugural Hooch Dreams bracket contest. When Spidalieri heard that the daiquiristyle drink had taken the top spot, he was surprised. He knew Junction was up against Lost Saint in the first round, and says he honestly thought they’d get knocked out early by the West Main bar. But, if you’ve

followed our cocktail bracket matchups online or on social media, you know why we had to name this drink the winner. The judges’ comments consistently praised the Rum Communion for its sweet yet tart notes, butterscotch undertones and creamy mouthfeel. The daiquiri is one of Spidalieri’s favorite drinks—“I love rum,” he says—as it represents the holy trinity of the Caribbean: rum, lime and sugar. It may sound simple, but it’s more than the sum of its parts. And the possibilities of riffing off those three main ingredients to create new and seasonal drinks is endless, he says. The idea for the Rum Communion was born out of an online recipe for a rum cake; Spidalieri knew the pineapple and brown butter elements could be shaken up and turned into a cocktail. Even though the drink is one of the most time-consuming to make in his repertoire (see below for the full recipe), Spidalieri says he doesn’t mind. And his attention to detail is evident, from the list of hundreds of potential cocktail names he keeps on his phone, to his near-constant rotation of homemade shrubs, syrups and cordials he has brewing and steeping. The laid-back black T-shirt-andjeans-wearing bartender swears most of his job involves moving boxes around (he mentions his love of spreadsheets at least twice during our interview), but his passion for creating a great drinking experience is obvious.

WINNING WORDS In the final round of our cocktail bracket, the Rum Communion squared off against Tavola’s Alpha & Omega. “As a small child, I was once found under the Thanksgiving table scooping handfuls of sugar directly from the bag into my mouth, so it’s safe to say I don’t shy away from a little sweetness. And while, yes, Junction’s Rum Communion is more dessert-y than some of the other cocktails in our booze bracket —that brown butter-washed rum! that pineapple!—it’s full and creamy and smooth enough for multiple glasses. Don’t stop until you’re under the table.” —Caite White, Knife & Fork editor

“It’s a hobby,” he says. “It doesn’t feel like a job.” When he was conceptualizing the restaurant’s new spring menu, he toyed with replacing the Rum Communion with another daiquiri, but—don’t worry—he kept it as one of the restaurant’s staple drinks. He says he might add another daiquiri on the summer menu, because, really, can you have too many well-balanced drinks that for a brief moment make you think you’re lying on a warm beach next to turquoise water? We don’t think so. “That’s my job—helping people unwind every day,” Spidalieri says. “It’s really a pleasure to do that for a living: Give people happy juice in glasses.”

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Skin pineapple and cut into planks. Grill evenly on two sides, about four minutes on each side; there should be a good char. Combine with all remaining ingredients in a bowl and let macerate for three hours (with salt and sugar covering everything). Blend with an immersion blender on its high setting and then fine strain, pressing against the strainer with the back of a spoon to extract all the liquid. Store in a clean container and keep refrigerated. Should keep for a month or more.

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1 pineapple 1 tsp. salt 1 tbs. citric acid 3 cups sugar 1 cup dry white wine 1 oz. vodka (to further fortify) Yield: about 1 quart

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Slice the butter into smaller cubes and add to a medium-sized sauce pan. Heat butter at low heat, then turn up to medium heat when it is all melted. Whisk the butter continuously and keep over heat until it browns (should take about 10 minutes), being careful not to let it burn or boil over. Remove from heat. When the butter stops steaming, add rum, while whisking rapidly for 20 seconds to homogenize. (After this point, stop stirring the mixture; you don’t want it to break.) Let the pot sit out for two hours at room temperature, then put it in the freezer overnight. Once it’s frozen, separate the layer of butter fat that has frozen at the top (it’ll be a disk shape) and discard or repurpose. Fine-strain the remaining liquid and put back into the original bottle. Doesn’t hurt to keep it refrigerated, and give it a nice shake before use. Warning: You will lose about 15 percent of the original amount of rum in this process.

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Breakfast Joints Bluegrass Grill and Bakery Unpretentious breakfast and lunch spot, beloved by local weekenders. Cash and check only. Glass Building, Second Street. 295-9700. $. Cavalier Diner Breakfast all day long, plus burgers, subs and Italian standbys like lasagna. 1403 Emmet St. 977-1619. $. Farm Bell Kitchen New-Southern cuisine with local farm-to-table ingredients. 1209 W. Main St. 205-1538. $$. International House of Pancakes Standard breakfast fare. Long lines on the weekends. Rio Hill Shopping Center. 964-0830. $. Sam’s Kitchen All-day breakfast, plus American and French dishes at this local institution. 1863 Seminole Trail. 964-9488. $. The Pigeon Hole Cozy all-day breakfast spot with fresh-squeezed juices and stone-ground grits. 11 Elliewood Ave. 977-4711. $. The Villa American breakfast all day. Inside, the look is classic greasy spoon, but the booths are oh-so-comfy. 129 N. Emmet St. 296-9977. $. The Well House Cafe Coffee, tea, smoothies and pastries. 118 10 1/2 St. NW. 973-0002. $.

puppies, pie and pickles. 102 Martinsburg Ave., Gordonsville. (540) 832-0227. $. Blue Ridge Pig For connoisseurs of barbecue, the Pig is the place. The quintessential downhome spot. No credit cards. Rte. 151, Nellysford. 361-1170. $. Boylan Heights Burger spot and popular bar serves organic Virginia beef and other local and organic fare. 102 14th St. 984-5707. $. Brother’s Bar & Grill The same barbecue folks have loved for years. 2104 Angus Rd. 293-6333. $. Buck Island BBQ Pulled pork, spare ribs, fried chicken and a 20-ingredient house sauce. All the fixins’, too. 4842 Richmond Rd., Keswick. 8720259. $. Burger Bach New Zealand-inspired gastropub. The Shops at Stonefield, 328-2812. $$. Chicken Coop Chicken, barbecue and a variety of sandwiches. Located in the Nelson Food Mart. 40 Front St., Lovingston. 263-7818. $. Citizen Burger Bar Gourmet burgers with highquality meat, plus a large collection of beers— many of them Virginian. 212 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-9944. $$. Doodle’s Diner Country cookin’ from breakfast to burgers. 1305 Long St. 295-7550. $. Five Guys Two locations for local carnivores. Barracks Road Shopping Center, 975-GUYS; Hollymead Town Center, 963-GUYS. $.

Lazy Parrot Backyard BBQ Serving up a wide array of barbecue classics. Pantops Shopping Center. 244-0723. $/$$. Lumpkins Classic burgers, salads, fried chicken and foot-long hotdogs. 1075 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3690. $. Luv’n Oven Gizzards, livers, fries and shakes. 162 Village Sq., Scottsville. 286-3828. $. Martin’s Grill Delicious hamburgers, veggie burgers and fries in a family-friendly atmosphere. 3449 Seminole Trail, in the Forest Lakes Shopping Center. 974-9955. $. Me2 Market and Eatery Delish barbecue and fresh baked treats just 3.5 miles east of Monticello. Sandwiches, soups and sides, too. 2243 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. 297-2201. $. Mel’s Café Southern soul-soothing food. A longtime favorite on West Main. 719 W. Main St. 9718819. $. Mission BBQ Pulled turkey, pork and chicken, plus racks by the bone. The Shops at Stonefield. 260-7740. $. Moe’s Original BBQ Alabama-style pulled pork smoked in-house. 2119 Ivy Rd. 244-7427. $. Moose’s by the Creek American favorites, plus mounted moose antlers for photo ops. 1710 Monticello Rd. 977-4150. $. Nelly’s Roadhouse American and Mexican menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 2815 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-1400. $$.

Waffle House Smothered, covered, scrambled and fried. It’s breakfast ’round the clock. 1162 Fifth St. SW, 296-5010; 495 Premier Cir. on 29N, 975-5860. $.

Fox’s Café Daily specials, burgers, dogs and dinners, all served homestyle and wallet-friendly. 403 Avon St. 293-2844. $.

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Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint Classic burgers, daily specials and bras on the chandelier. 109 Second St. SE. 244-0073. $.

Otto’s All-American faves and daily specials at your service. Order at the counter and sit outside if it’s warm. 325 Four Leaf Ln., Crozet. 823-4200. $.

Jak’n Jil The working man’s Bodo’s: foot-longs and fries. Also, hearty breakfast fare. No credit cards. ATM on site. 1404 E. High St. 293-7213. $.

Paulie’s Pig Out First barbecue joint on the way to Wintergreen. 7376 Rockfish Valley Hwy. 3612001. $.

Korner Restaurant This greasy spoon offers all the usual suspects. Daily lunch special. 415 Ninth St. SW. 977-9535. $.

Pig N’ Steak Pig…and steak. Barbecue is cooked “the old-fashioned way,” with wood for 16 hours. 313 Washington St., Madison. (540) 948-3130. $.

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Holly’s Deli & Pub Southern food, live music and beer. 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713. $.

Olive’s Grill Food for the working man. Most items under $10. 8839 Seminole Trail, Ruckersville. 990-2634. $.

Red Hub Food Co. Quality catering and barbecue —plus a 10-seat lunch counter. 202 10th St. NW. 975-2271. $. Riverside Lunch Legendary burgers and fries. The secret? First they smash it, then they cook it. 1429 Hazel St. 971-3546. $. Riverside North Notable burgers and fries on 29N. Sunday morning buffet, too. Forest Lakes Shopping Center. 979-1000. $. Sam’s Hot Dog Stand Get three dogs, fries and a drink for only $8.20. 5786 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. 205-4438. $. Smoked Kitchen and Tap Beloved food truckturned-restaurant in Crozet’s Piedmont Place. 2025 Library Ave., Crozet. 205-4881. $. The Colleen Drive-In On Route 29, look for the huge ice cream cone! 4105 Thomas Nelson Hwy., Arrington. 263-5343. $. The Wolf’s Fixins Barbecue Barbecue, burgers and beer. 344 Stoneridge Dr. N, Ruckersville. 2421551. $. Timberlake’s Old-fashioned soda fountain, sandwiches galore, burgers and dogs way back behind cosmetics and shampoo. 322 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-9155. $. Tip Top Breakfast, lunch and dinner with Italian and Greek specials. 1420 Richmond Rd., on Pantops Mountain. 244-3424. $. Wayside Takeout & Catering Come by for chicken livers, famous Old Virginia fried chicken and barbecue sandwiches. 2203 Jefferson Park Ave. 977-5000. $. White Spot Burgers with tradition at this popular Corner spot. Try a Gus burger (a fried egg on a cheeseburger). 1407 University Ave. 295-9899. $. Wild Wing Café Sports bar features wings and beer, plus pastimes like live music, karaoke, trivia and poker. In the Amtrak station. 820 W. Main St. 979-WING. $/$$. Wings Over Charlottesville Wing delivery spot that encourages patrons to eat like a caveman. 2029 Ivy Rd. 964-9464. $$. CONTINUED ON PAGE 43

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Back 40 Locally sourced, inventive dishes and cocktails. 722 Preston Ave. #103. 202-8052. $$. Bistro 1834 Located beside the Old Mill Room Restaurant, the menu has a variety of lighter fare. The Boar’s Head, 200 Ednam Dr. 972-2230. $$$. Bizou Upscale down-home cookin’ with fresh fish, pork and beef dishes. Try the grilled banana bread à la mode. 119 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-1818. $$. Brasserie Saison Downtown Mall brewery with Franco-Belgian cuisine. 111 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-7027. $$. Burton’s Grill Contemporary American menu with stylish ambience. Don’t skip out on the cocktails. The Shops at Stonefield. 977-1111. $$. Clifton Inn Historic inn with a redone kitchen, dining room and bar. Sit at the chef’s table and watch the action. 1296 Clifton Inn Dr. 971-1800. $$. Commonwealth Restaurant & Skybar Swanky Downtown restaurant with inventive entrées, a late-night menu and a rooftop bar. 422 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-7728. $$$. Court Square Tavern English tavern with 130plus varieties of bottled beer. Hearty pub food: bratwurst, Reubens, shepherd’s pie. 500 Court Square. 296-6111. $$. Duner’s Artful entrées and fine desserts on a rotating menu. Conservative decor with a small, carefully crafted menu. 250W in Ivy. 293-8352. $$$. Fig Bistro & Bar Mediterranean and New Orleans-inspired dishes with house-made ingredients like sausage and pork kielbasa. 1331 W. Main St. 995-5047. $. Hamiltons’ at First & Main Imaginative American cuisine, award-winning wine list and superb vegetarian. 101 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 2956649. $$$. Ivy Inn Daily menu of modern American cuisine in an 18th century tollhouse. Perfect for a romantic date. Reservations highly recommended. 2244 Old Ivy Rd. 977-1222. $$$. Maya Upscale Southern cuisine. Pleasant patio seating outside, sleek mod inside. Reservations encouraged. 633 W. Main St. 979-6292. $$.

Mermaid Express Mochas to smoothies. Inside PVCC. No phone. $.

Coffee Places with Kitchens Atlas Coffee Get a cup of coffee or an espresso roasted by Shenandoah Joe at this Fontaine coffee spot. 2206B Fontaine Ave. 970-1700. $. Baine’s Books & Coffee Books, music, film, pottery, musical instruments, food and, of course, coffee. 485 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3577. $. C’ville Coffee Co. Well-established café, with a kids’ corner and library to keep wee ones entertained. 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. $. Calvino Café Espresso, panini and smoothies, plus breakfast on Sundays. In the Main Street Market. 293-5696. $. Carpe Café Breakfast, lunch and snacks inside Studio IX. 969 Second St. SE. 260-3803. $. Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins Coffee America runs on, plus marble-frosted, creme-filled and seasonal donuts. 305 Rivanna Plaza Dr., Suite 101, 244-9998. $. Greenberry’s Java and specialty drinks, plus fresh baked goods. Wi-Fi available. Barracks Road Shopping Center, 984-0200; in Alderman Library on UVA grounds, 243-8961. $. Grit Coffee People, coffee, food, space, design and work: That’s the focus at Grit. 110 Old Trail Dr., Crozet, 205-4253; 112 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 971-8743; 989 Second St. SE, no phone; 19 Elliewood Ave., 293-4412; The Shops at Stonefield, 284-8461. $. Java Java All fair-trade organic coffee all the time. Smoothies and a lunch menu, too. Comfy seating, warm atmosphere, Wi-Fi. 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-0020. $. La Taza Cuban pressed sandwiches, soups and salads. Live music often. 407B Monticello Rd.,

Milli Coffee Roasters Espresso drinks, chai and hot chocolate. 400 Preston Ave., Suite 150, 2822659, 977-0443. $. Mudhouse Locally roasted, heavy-duty coffee, fresh juices and pastries. Free Wi-Fi. 213 W. Main St., 984-6833; The Square, Crozet, 823-2240; also to-go in the Bellair Market, 977-0222, and Mulberry Station, 245-0163. $. Paradox Pastry Retro-urban-vibed bakery and dessert café with a large selection of baked goods. 313 Second St., in the Glass Building. 245-2253. $. Rapunzel’s Coffee, books and music; chill out in Lovingston. Live music, too. 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660. $. Shark Mountain Coffee Roastery, coffee shop, chocolatier. 621 Nash Dr. (540) 327-1564. $. Sheepdog Coffee Grab-and-go coffee spot inside the Graduate Charlottesville hotel. 1309 W. Main St. 295-4333. $. Shenandoah Joe Local roaster with a coffee bar and pastries. 945 Preston Ave., 295-4563; 2214 Ivy Rd., 923-4563. $. Snowing in Space Coffee Co. Nitro brew coffee plus light snacks to tamper your caffeine buzz. 705 W. Main St. 228-1120. $. Starbucks Multiple locations for all your corporate coffee needs. 1601 University Ave., 9701058; Rivanna Ridge Shopping Center, 295-4996; 1520 Seminole Trail, 973-5298; Hollymead Town Center, 975-6005. Location without phone in Fashion Square Mall. $. The Corner Cup Fresh Trager Brothers coffee and espresso, plus pastries and muffins. 1325 W. Main St. 293-7905. $. Trager Brothers Coffee See the roastery in action and sample some of the fresh roasted coffee while you’re there. 486 Front St., Lovingston. 263-8916. $.

Michael’s Bistro Mucho microbrews and an artful menu. Excellent drinking atmosphere. View the Rotunda from the balcony. Second floor of 1427 University Ave. 977-3697. $$. Oakhart Social Seasonal Atlantic coast food for sharing. 511 W. Main St. 995-5449. $$. Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards The Farm Table & Wine Bar at this North Garden vineyard is as big a draw as its beautiful setting. 5022 Plank Rd., North Garden. 202-8063. $$. Red Pump Kitchen Tuscan-inspired restaurant with chic, rustic décor. 401 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-6040. $$. Restoration Indoor and outdoor dining at this new spot at Old Trail Golf Course. Comfort food, craft brews and mountain views. 5494 Golf Dr., Crozet. 823-1841. $$. Southern Crescent Cajun and Creole fare in Belmont. 814 Hinton Ave. 284-5101. $$. Tastings Combo wine shop and eatery has woodgrilled entrées and the biggest wine list in town. 502 E. Market St. 293-3663. $$. Tavern & Grocery Inspired tavern fare from chicken sandwiches to banh mi. 333 W. Main St. 2937403. $. The Alley Light Intimate small-plate spot above Revolutionary Soup. Look for the, ahem, alley light. 108 Second St. SW. 296-5003. $$. The Fitzroy Restaurant and bar in a swanky setting. 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-1223. $$. The Local Belmont neighborhood spot with unusual twists on local, organic ingredients. 824 Hinton Ave. 984-9749. $$. The Melting Pot It’s a fon-do! This meltedcheese franchise features warmers built into the tables and a huge wine selection. 501 E. Water St. 244-3463. $$$. Zocalo Flavorful high-end, Latin-inspired cuisine with a full bar. 201 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-4944. $$.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20): Are you an evolving Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social media post be “The Smart Art of Compromise” or “The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness”? I’m hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the coming weeks will be pivotal in your longterm ability to animate your highest self and avoid lapsing into your mediocre self.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): If you fly in a passenger jet from New York to London, the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on January 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. With the wind’s extra push, several flights completed the trip in five hours and 20 minutes. I suspect you’ll have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You’ll feel like the wind is at your back.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Actor Keanu Reeves’ career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film Speed. It was the first time he had been a headliner in a big-budget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, Speed 2. Instead he toured with his grunge band, Dogstar, and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu’s, but in other ways doesn’t. You shouldn’t automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.

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Aries year-old author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his 30s, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. The film production company Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an animated pornographic movie. Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary, by giving you this heads-up, I’m hoping you’ll be scrupulous and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new project—so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail on to the next stages. orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days and another embarked on a long-postponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you’re considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How sexy is it possible for you to be? I’m referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version. I’m alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap into your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life’s mission. However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It’s the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my analysis of the cosmic omens, your impact is rising. You’re gaining influence. More people are tuning in to what you have to offer. And yet your stress levels also seem to be increasing. Why is that? Do you assume that having more power requires you to endure higher tension? Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried is the price of being more responsible? If so, banish that nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express your growing clout is to relax into it.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The immediate future will challenge you to revisit several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, welcome

these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1. Your control over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the degree that you stop focusing on what you don’t want. 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos will be invincible if you’re not engrossed in blaming others.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m about to say things that sound extraordinary. And it’s possible that they are in fact a bit overblown. But even if that’s the case, I trust that there is a core of truth in them. So rejoice in their oracular radiance. First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you’re more likely than usual to find it or generate it. Second, if you have fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your favor than they’ve been in a long time.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The French government defines books as an “essential good,” along with water, bread and electricity. Would you add anything to that list of life’s basics? Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep? Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your “essential goods,” I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Buckingham Palace is the home and office of the queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837. But in earlier times, the site served other purposes. The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of “debauchery.” Before that, the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms turned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Carolyn Forché is a role model for how to leave one’s comfort zone. In her early career, she earned writing degrees at placid universities near her childhood home in the American Midwest. Her first book mined material about her family; its first poem is addressed to her grandmother. But then she relocated to El Salvador, where she served as a human rights advocate during that country’s civil war. Later she lived and wrote in Lebanon at the height of its political strife. Her drive to expand her range of experience invigorated her poetry and widened her audience. Would you consider drawing inspiration from Forché in the coming weeks and months, Pisces? I don’t necessarily recommend quite so dramatic a departure for you, but even a mild version will be well rewarded. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: Real Astrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.

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A full-time, 12-month position (starting salary $60-65K), this nurse will develop trusting relationships with public housing residents, work to provide care and make positive contributions to the community. S/he should be responsive, flexible, a team-player, and creative, serving as a consultant and counselor for residents’ health-related concerns, a resource for referrals for their health needs, and an educator champion for healthy lifestyle choices. The nurse in this position will be allied with community practice partners (including physicians and other non-profit agencies) and be visible and actively engaged, be consistent and reliable, and provide all clinical services and supports to residents in a committed, respectful, compassionate way. As a clinical instructor and a member of UVA Nursing’s top-ranked faculty, this nurse will spend 20 percent of his/her time instructing nursing students, and 70 percent of his/her time offering support and guidance as the lead clinic agent embedded in the public housing complex. Ten percent of his/her time will be spent in activities that develop his/her professional standing and credentials. To apply, visit jobs.virginia.edu and search for posting #0622800, complete a candidate profile, attach a cover letter and your curriculum vitae. A wonderful opportunity to serve, teach, and learn in one of Charlottesville’s healthiest work environments. Join us!

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UVA School of Nursing seeks a master’s educated Community Health Nurse to guide and mentor nursing students’ work, work closely with a low-income public housing community, and be the connective tissue between UVA, the complex residents’ health and wellness needs and a champion of population health. April 4-10, 2018, c-ville.com

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Adults 18 – 65 years with and without type 1 diabetes are needed for a research study to learn how the body processes glucagon, a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar levels. Study involves a 4-hour screening visit and one overnight stay. Overnight visit includes vascular catheters through the groin placed by radiologist, urinary catheter, and blood draws. Compensation: up to $1200. Principal Investigator: Ananda Basu MD.

Men and women, ages 30-75, with and without type 2 diabetes are needed to study how sugar is used by the body after meals at different times. Participation involves a screening visit and three 12-hour study visits at the UVA Clinical Research Unit that includes frequent blood draws. Participants will be provided meals. All tests and meals will be paid for by the study. Compensation is up to $1,000. Principal Investigator: Rita Basu, MD.

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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. UVA Center for Psychiatric Clinical Research 434.243.4631 | psychresearch@virginia.edu IRB #19805

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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Immediate Openings Little Keswick School is a private, therapeutic, residential school serving boys, ages 9-18 years old who have learning disabilities and emotional challenges. Little Keswick School is an award winning program located in central Virginia, six miles east of Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, and near the Blue Ridge Mountains. We are best known for our history of success using a nurturing approach to help unique students grow and develop. We take pride in helping our students experience success, but also in nurturing the growth of our staff as people and professionals. The Residential Program seeks energetic, engaging applicants who have a passion for helping children experience personal growth. The Residential program offers students a setting to practice and learn interpersonal and life skills. Counselors are responsible for building therapeutic relationships, teaching Social Thinking© skills, planning engaging leisure activities, and supporting in life space counseling. The ideal applicant is a blended-professional who is organized, who can attend to details, who enjoys being physically active, and who can use inter-personal skills in supporting others. Experience working with adolescents is required. Benefits of working for Little Keswick School include: • Hands-on experience working with students having a wide range of social and emotional needs • Opportunities to consult with Educators and Psychologists on a daily basis • Participation in weekly professional development meetings • Implementing an innovative and proven behavioral intervention program • Being part of a Nationally Recognized, Award-Winning program • Mandt certification • Medical, dental, life insurance, tuition assistance • Profit sharing plan & 401 K • $35,000 – 39,000 for full time with benefits based on experience Contact: Marc Columbus P.O. Box 24 Keswick, VA 22947 Phone: 434-295-0457, Fax: 434-977-1892 Please email resume to: childebrand@littlekeswickschool.net www.littlekeswickschool.net

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