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Thank you for reading C-VILLE Weekly. In the Google Doc where we edited this week’s cover story (p.18), author Nathan Alderman, Copy Editor Susan Sorensen, and I all highlighted the same two paragraphs of the interview with sci-fi/ fantasy writer Alix E. Harrow: “I think what I was thinking about in that story in particular was the thing you get to do when everyone knows the story, and you know how it ends, and you know what happens once you start climbing the steps. Which I think mirrors the reality of what we are doing when we fall in love with someone. Every love story ends the same way, right? We know that at one point, you’re going to look behind you, and there’s going to be no one there. But I think where the love story lives is in that climb, right? It’s in trying anyway.” This week Nathan got to talk shop about storytelling with one of Charlottesville’s best-known novelists and, in the process, came away with a piece full of moments like this one, wherein someone has put to words a thing you knew but had never quite been able to say. AI is getting increasingly good at producing copy that sounds like it came from a human, but things like this—or poetry or, hell, a funny (original!) post on social media—give me hope. There’s a difference between mimicking insight and actually having one. It’s a good reminder that, when we read, we shouldn’t just look for words. We should look for a person on the other side of them.

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Nathan Alderman, C-VILLE’s senior news reporter, is a writer, editor, and Oxford comma enthusiast. He volunteers for civic causes, folds a lot of laundry, and adores his spouse and his large, loud, hungry children. He’s written for Macworld magazine and The Motley Fool, among others. Read his work on page 18.

Shea Gibbs is president of public relations and marketing firm Gibbs Communications and has been a working journalist for more than two decades. Gibbs’ work has appeared in trade and consumer publications across the country and internationally. Read his work on page 31.

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On “Muddied waters,” an August 12 news story on a Stanley Martin development in Fry’s Spring “yes. im a builder for 20 years. you don’t have to destroy the land, just take the damn time to do things right. Pay attention and build a better city, not just pillage the land.” Alexander Tennenbaum, Facebook “Developers should be required to replace the amount of biomass or carbon the original trees sequestered. Otherwise they just wipe out 2-acre+ lots of old-growth, plunk down a few 3-5 gallon Dogwoods near the curb, and move onto destroying the next “vacant” lot full of old trees.” @mmaggior, Instagram

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“Thank for you shining this light into this dark spot on the soul of Greene County. Smith and the BOS are a disgrace. Their lawless behavior is going to result in lawsuits against the county, and hardworking residents will have to foot the bill. We’re tired of the cruelty, chaos, and corruption.” Melanie Rightsideofhistory, Facebook

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Cold comfort Hugo nominee Alix E. Harrow on the timeless potency of fairy tales. NEWS 9 9

RAMONA & THE HOLY SMOKES W/ REBECCA PORTER Doors 5:30 PM - Music 6:30 PM

A closer look at our area’s data centers. 11 How the city’s using its capital spending fund. 13 Real Estate: Latest on Spring Valley’s 525 new apartments and homes.

CULTURE 27 28 Critical Condition: Dominic Fike brings his eclectic style to the Pavilion.

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The University of Virginia has three existing data centers in Charlottesville, including the Carruthers Data Center, which was built more than a decade ago.

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espite the high concentration of data centers in the Commonwealth, Charlottesville has few actual or proposed sites—no matter how you define “data center.” Virginia has a lot of data centers, with 371 operating and more than 800 proposed as of August 2026, per Cleanview estimates. None are in Charlottesville or Albemarle. Other sources, using different criteria for what constitutes a data center, list a handful of local sites (including datacentermap.com, which notes four within city limits). The term “data center” has become shorthand for massive sites, sometimes city-sized, providing the energy-hungry computing power that enables AI. But the phrase has been around since at least the ’90s, and traditionally refers to a site of any size housing servers and other computing equipment. Current sites in Charlottesville, like the University of Virginia’s data center on Old Ivy Road, are more in line with the traditional definition of “data center.” Larger sites can be found in the surrounding counties, namely Louisa, which has major campuses currently under construction for EdgeCore and Amazon Web Services. For scale, there are 1,000 watts in a kilowatt, 1 million watts in a megawatt, and 1 billion watts per gigawatt. The average American household consumes 10,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The planned EdgeCore campus in Louisa has a capacity of approximately 1.1 gigawatts, or 1,100,000 kilowatts. “The sort of epicenter for data center development, not just in Virginia, but really across the entire planet, has been in Northern 10

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Virginia,” says Morgan Butler, a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. Northern Virginia has an expansive fiber optic network, proximity to Washington, D.C., and a smattering of relatively affordable power and suburban land, all of which attract data center developers. The Charlottesville area lacks all those features. Still, it’s not the only reason Butler thinks data center developers may be looking elsewhere. “The county has taken a very responsible approach to data center development by requiring that any data centers above 40,000 square feet go through a special exception process, meaning … there has to be a public process,” he says. “I think a lot of data centers are looking to go where they can get the cheapest land and get approval as quickly as possible, and really sidestep community concerns as much as they can. And Albemarle County has set up a process that doesn’t allow the public to be sidestepped like that.” Neither Cleanview nor datacentermap.com list any current or proposed sites in Albemarle County. The latest data center proposed in Charlottesville is UVA’s Fontaine Data Center, which has a planned initial capacity of 4 megawatts and the ability to scale up to 16 megawatts. The project will open for bids in Q4 of 2026, with current cost projections coming in at $102 million. “The Fontaine Computing and Innovation Center will provide the infrastructure that the university needs to keep up with advancing computational hardware and aging existing hardware,” says Bethanie Glover, UVA deputy spokesperson. “Where we primarily used to see research computing usage from material science, computational chemistry, aerospace, and other classical engineering fields, there C-VILLE.COM

has been an increasing adoption of computation across all areas of study. … This increasing demand is already beginning to strain our existing capacity, and the new center will both let us catch back up, as well as give us room to grow as this trend continues.”

According to Glover, research supported by the expanded computational power includes everything from medical research into the spread of disease to the generation of “‘Digital Twins’ to predict the real-world outcomes of interventions for everything from buildings to humans.” While UVA is taking a more sustainable and innovative approach to power at the Fontaine site, that’s not the case for all data centers. Moreover, the impacts of hyperscale centers, like the EdgeCore campus in Louisa, can extend beyond the physical environment into the community itself. Recent moves by Gov. Abigail Spanberger to prevent power companies from passing on the costs of data center construction to consumers are promising, but Butler is still waiting to see how enforcement plays out. For now, the SELC is encouraging communities to consider the factors within their control when it comes to data center proposals: responsible zoning ordinances, requiring transparency, and prohibiting nondisclosure agreements with data center companies where possible. “Data centers that get built should have to adhere to a set of strong environmental standards in terms of using clean energy, being energy efficient, limiting their water consumption, limiting their noise, and other important safeguards,” he says. “Ensur[ing] that you know any data centers that do get built are minimizing their negative impact on both the environment C and the people who live nearby.”

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No bail At an August 13 hearing, the Albemarle Circuit Court ruled that Michael Swiney must remain in custody without bail. Swiney, a former social emotional learning coach for Albemarle County Public Schools, faces 11 felony counts, including multiple charges of aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties. More details about the allegations against Swiney emerged during the hearing, with prosecutors saying the former SEL coach sexually abused four girls under the age of 13 between August 2024 and January 2026. Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawton Tufts also called the “trustworthiness” of ACPS into question, and referred to the district’s handling of Title IX reports against Swiney. ACPS responded to Tufts’ statement in an August 17 letter to Commonwealth’s Attorney James Hingeley, rebutting the claims. Swiney’s attorney, Christopher Leibig, called for the defendant to be released to home confinement on $50,000 bond. Under the terms proposed by the defense, Swiney would be barred from any contact with children other than his own, who are 10 and 3 years old. Judge Cheryl Higgins denied the request for bail and ordered Swiney be held without bond at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. His next court appearance is set for September 18 at 9:30am.—Catie Ratliff

Money moves At its August 17 meeting, Charlottesville City Council passed a resolution pledging $3 million to the Salvation Army’s Center of Hope Capital Campaign. The measure was the largest in a series of appropriations made at the session, with other big-ticket items passed as part of the consent agenda. Highlights include an additional $204,017 for the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, and a $2 million allocation from the Charlottesville City Schools contingency fund for the FY27 school year.—CR

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Sale of cul-de-sac near UVA nets Charlottesville another $750k for capital spending fund BY SEAN TUBBS

Charlottesville paid $6.3 million for 2000 Holiday Dr. last year, one of several recent expenditures made possible by the city’s capital contingency fund.

s the value of real estate in Charlottesville continues to go up, so does the city’s ability to generate a surplus based on increased assessments. These extra funds are allocated to contingency funds, including a $15.8 million transfer at the end of Fiscal Year 2023, $22.4 million at the end of FY24, and $8.5 million for FY25. That has allowed City Council to make several high-profile purchases, such as $6.3 million last October for 2000 Holiday Dr., which will be converted to a service center and emergency shelter for the unhoused, and $1.5 million to fix damages in

City Hall caused by a water leak in the summer of 2023. Other Council-approved uses of the Capital Improvement Program contingency fund include $1.1 million to improve pedestrian infrastructure on Emmet Street near Holiday Drive, $390,000 to help residents of Southwood afford higher rents at new units, and $1.5 million for two studies requested by the Department of Neighborhood Development Services. As of August 3, the contingency fund had a balance of just under $12 million and City Manager Sam Sanders told Council the same

day that some of that money is being set aside for future property acquisitions. Whether Charlottesville will have another surplus won’t be known until December when the books are closed out for FY26, but another three-quarters of a million dollars will be added to the fund sometime next month. Last December, Council agreed to a request from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation to close a public cul-de-sac off of Maury Avenue to provide it more options for its future. The private entity built its headquarters in 2009 at the site of a former fraternity house and has been purchasing nearby property ever since. It slowly became the only property owner with access to Clarke Court and petitioned for its closure. Council agreed on a 3-2 vote, with the minority members concerned about giving up public right of way. The city has lost five public parking spaces but will continue to have access to utility easements. As a result, the fund will get an additional $750,000 after a second reading in September. This year, the city made a $750,000 payment to the nonprofit SupportWorks Housing to help fill a deficit in its financing for an 80-unit supportive housing facility under construction on U.S. 29. The city’s ability to generate surpluses stems from a dramatic increase in value over the years. In 2016, the total taxable value in Charlottesville was $5.95 billion. That has more than doubled to $12.16 billion in 2026. During that time, revenue from real property taxes increased $56.5 million in 2016 to $120.4 million in 2026. The tax rate has increased from 95 cents per $100 of assessed C value to 99 cents per $100.

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All the news you missed last week (in one sentence or less) In remembrance Local activists mark nine years since the August 12, 2017, Unite the Right white supremacist attack on Charlottesville and the murder of Heather Heyer. Stunning blow Tornadoes, a distinct possibility, thankfully do not materialize in a heavy storm that sweeps through Charlottesville August 14, felling trees and leaving thousands without power. Liver die? UVA study finds that between 2000 and 2024, calls to poison control for liver injuries rose 400 percent, with—no surprise—overusing acetaminophen or alcohol as the prime culprits. Onboarding Through August 21, the Albemarle County School Board is taking applications from the community to replace departing at-large member Allison Spillman. Chip in Register while you can for limited slots to safely dispose of electronics and other e-waste September 12 with the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority; sign up at rivannasolidwaste.org. TRISTAN WILLIAMS

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Greystar’s new Spring Valley development will bring 525 rental units to 35 acres off Old Ivy Road.

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hen the Board of Supervisors approved Greystar Development’s request to rezone 36 acres of land just to the west of the University of Virginia’s North Grounds, there was no mention of what the area would be called after 525 new units were built. At some point between March 2023 and now, marketing officials came up with the name Spring Valley for the general area for two branded communities. Construction began in September 2025 on 336 apartments units in five buildings as well as 189 singlefamily homes and town homes. “Ideally positioned off Old Ivy Road, the residential community of Spring Valley plants you in the heart of Charlottesville living,” reads Greystar’s website. “Within Spring Valley, you can live at The Bennett for vibrant apartment living or The Dean for an idyllic townhome and single-family home experience.” There is no known prior association with that name for this location in Albemarle, though there is an orchard of that name further to the west. Until the 35.4 acres were graded, the wooded landscape along U.S. 29/250 provided a rural passage for the Rivanna Trail. That pathway will now travel through a more urban environment. One-bedroom units at The Bennett range between a base rent of $1,960 and $2,385 a month before utilities. Two-bedrooms will lease for between $2,780 a month and $3,230 a month. The largest three-bedroom unit will set you back $3,775 per rental period. None of the units in the Dean are for sale and listed rents for three-bedroom units there range from $3,733 to $4,065 a month. This is the first development in Albemarle County for Greystar, the largest SUPPLIED PHOTO

manager of apartments in the United States with over 1 million units under its administration, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. The company is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Housing Rights Initiative in July alleging that Greystar violated fair housing laws in several states for not renting to households with federal housing vouchers. Virginia is not one of those states. The rezoning came despite opposition from residents of the Bellair neighborhood concerned about the additional traffic the development would bring to an already congested area. The eastern end of Old Ivy Road is constrained by a narrow railway underpass and the western end is snarled during peak periods. The area is not served by regular transit services. The developer agreed to contribute up to $750,000 in off-site improvements, and studies were conducted to identify solutions to relieve congestion. One project currently under review by the Virginia Department of Transportation would add an extra lane to the on-ramp from Old Ivy Road to the U.S 29/250 bypass. The cost estimate for that project has increased from $13.9 million to $20.6 million, according to VDOT. The future residents of Spring Valley will one day be joined by future residents of Ivy Gardens, a 440-unit apartment complex now owned by the University of Virginia Foundation. In 2020, the Office of the Architect commissioned the firm Perkins&Will to develop a master plan to redevelop the site with 770 residences, 46,000 square feet of academic space, and 69,500 square feet of commercial space. So far those plans have C not moved forward.

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Charlottesville-based Alix E. Harrow’s latest fantastical novel, 2025’s timetraveling The Everlasting, is in the running for a prestigious Hugo Award for best novel. (The winner will be announced on August 30.) “I mostly totally disassociate from things like awards,” Harrow says, “but talking about books that I really like, that I can really check in for.” For C-VILLE’s most recent twoperson book club, Harrow—who’s fractured a few fairy tales in her own work—recommended acclaimed writer Kelly Link’s 2023 collection of fresh takes on timeless stories, White Cat, Black Dog. Alternately tender and terrifying, sinister and sweet, Link’s reimaginings of stories like “Hansel & Gretel” or “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” span the depths of Hell, the outer reaches of space, and the liminal limbo of airport hotels. (Our discussion contains spoilers for some of these stories’ surprise twists.) We talked with Harrow about what makes fairy tales so timelessly potent, and how she weaves together the extraordinary and the everyday in her own work. “I just think it’s very funny that we’ve reduced fairy tales to being something for women and children,” she says, “when they’re not very comforting at all.” Nathan Alderman: Why did you suggest we talk about this book? What was it about it that grabbed your attention? Alix E. Harrow: I’m going to zoom out a little bit, because any book club with me comes with bonus books, unfortunately. But I have also been reading a collection of Ursula Le Guin’s essays from 1979 called The Language of the Night, and there’s a lot about craft and how she sees fantasy as a genre. She

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Author Alix E. Harrow and C-VILLE’s senior news reporter talk about the power of fairy tales BY NATHAN ALDERMAN keeps returning to this idea over and over again that fantasy has this unique ability to communicate the unspeakable, unconscious things about human life, to communicate these deep human truths using untruths, and they offer us this way out of our own social, emotional realities to something truer. And she uses, just very casually, this example of Hansel and Gretel as this thing where, like, in the real world, a good little girl would never push an old woman into an oven, and if she did, she wouldn’t be a hero, right? That’s an insane, almost psychotic premise. But in this world that is constructed by the fairy tale, it is true that there are false temptations, that there are villains who look like little old ladies, that it will take bravery and cleverness and potentially violence to survive the world as a little girl. That’s all true, and it’s this deeper truth that we don’t have other ways of saying. And to be fair, Le Guin is also hella mean in these essays. She’s such a wonderful critic, but I’m also sometimes relieved [that] she was not writing in the same time that I was writing. And she talks about how few fantasy authors are actually writing in what she calls the language of dreams, or the language of myth. When I ask myself who is writing in that language today, it is Kelly Link for me. It always has been. So this collection is one of the most important to me. And I also spent the last year writing a bunch of new stories, which was hard and interesting, and this collection was kind of like my best teacher. What did it teach you? I think the efficiency and the bravery with which she faces a retelling. She’s so unafraid to have the narrator be very present and loud, and to be driving the story completely. When you read a Kelly Link story, you feel like you are climbing on a train, and it is going where the tracks are taking it. And I think that authority and fearlessness, and efficiency, is just so impressive to me.

As I read the book, all of these stories are about how change is inevitable, and also something to fear. Change and death are the same in a lot of these stories. They’re all full of people running away from death, but only ever buying time. What did you take away from the book? How do you view change in your own life and in your fiction? Is it something to be feared, or embraced, or both? See, this is what I was talking about with the language of myth. [Link] is talking about these important cycles through what seems like absurd things, like a cat that transforms into a wife, or a man named Prince Hat. All of these things that feel absurd are actually deeply true. I feel like most fairy tales are, on one level or another, transformation tales. I think that’s because this is one of the things that we have to accustom ourselves to as people and can’t: our own sort of inevitable transformations, from child to adult, from wife to mother to widow. We just have these transformations built into our lives, and we’re always trying to make sense of them. There’s a class of folk stories called a transformation chase, and it’s where a man or a woman, usually a woman, has to hold on to their spouse as they change into a series of animals, usually dangerous or scary things. I always love a transformation moment in a story because it feels like it gets at both the romance necessary to hold on to someone even as they change, and the terror of it. It’s terrifying to be married to someone for long enough for them to change into all of these things. And I just think it’s very funny that we’ve reduced fairy tales to being something for women and children, when they’re not very comforting at all.

(She laughs.) First of all, I didn’t know you were going to be doing bonus reading—I’m sorry—to read my stories, too. I love that story very, very much, because I read the original story, a lot of different versions of it, when I was a kid. “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” was one of my favorites, and if you don’t know it, it’s where there’s a white bear that comes to a young woman and asks to marry her. They get married. She’s whisked off to a palace, and he’s like, “I’m going to visit you every evening, but in total darkness. And if you light a candle or see my face, deal’s off.” Obviously, she breaks the rule, and then the rest of the story is her quest to rescue him from the curse that he’s under. It is, to me, a story that I loved when I was young, because it’s a girl getting to do the heroic quest things to save the guy, which [was] rare enough at the time that I loved it a lot. But it is now, to me, much more about the fundamental mystery of another person, even one that you love a lot, and the insanity of spending your entire life with that mystery in close proximity. I think maybe Orpheus retellings are that way, too. They’re about just the tragedy of what it is to love another person, which is that love is not enough to keep them next to you, and it is literally all that you have. Why did you choose to give your story at least the possibility of a hopeful ending? And why do you think Link ends her story instead with a victory turned sour? What’s different from what you wanted to say about life and people with your story, and what you think Link wanted to convey with hers? CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

In “Prince Hat Underground,” the protagonist descends into the underworld to retrieve a lost love. It reminded me of your story, “The Long Way Up,” which also plays off the Orpheus myth in ways that I found really clever. Why do you think that kind of story keeps tugging at us down the centuries as human beings?

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An Alix Harrow PRIMER Besides The Everlasting, Harrow’s novels include:

The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) A lonely young woman in a sprawling house finds a mysterious book whose story changes her life.

The Once and Future Witches (2020) Three estranged sisters from the backwoods unleash power both magical and political when they meet again amid a growing suffragette movement.

Fractured Fables (2021 and 2022) Fairy tales get a multiversal makeover, as a “fairy-tale fixer” shakes up the events of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

Starling House (2023) An orphaned young woman in rural Kentucky discovers mysteries and danger within the creepy old mansion of her long-dead favorite author.

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I see now that I made a really big tactical error in getting my stories compared directly with Link’s. That was an accident. I’m in trouble now. I think what I was thinking about in that story in particular was the thing you get to do when everyone knows the story, and you know how it ends, and you know what happens once you start climbing the steps. Which I think mirrors the reality of what we are doing when we fall in love with someone. Every love story ends the same way, right? We know that at one point, you’re going to look behind you, and there’s going to be no one there. But I think where the love story lives is in that climb, right? It’s in trying anyway. I think there’s something sort of similar in “Prince Hat Underground,” in that [the protagonist] has this somewhat faithless, somewhat feckless man that he loves, and he follows him to Hell, and he even knows his time with him is limited, and it’s worth it anyway. If you don’t have that sour note, then it loses all its weight. I think the cat in that story says the thesis, which is, “We all want things that would be better not to want. We pursue them anyway.” Another thing I liked about your story “The Long Way Up” is how the truth of what it was and how it worked kind of crept up on me. When I figured out, “Oh, she’s telling this kind of story,” it was both a surprise, but it also felt wonderfully inevitable. [Link’s] “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear” works this way as well. It’s like a magic trick. It shouts the surprise twist at you in the middle, but it gets you to ignore it until the trap snaps shut. When you’re constructing a story like that, how do you make it work? How do you misdirect the reader’s attention right up until the moment you want them to pay it? Isn’t that story so great? That’s the one I would choose out of this [book] to teach if I were teaching. It rewards that line reading so well, because it sneaks up on you. I think it’s brilliant. It sneaks up on you while it’s shouting, “Hey, this is what I’m about! I’m going to make the metaphor explicit!” I think that’s part of the magic of it. I think her biggest trick is that she gives you what feels like extremely straightforward and honest narration. It’s blunt sentences that are telling you exactly what this person is doing and what they’re feeling and what they’re thinking, and that seem to sum up their whole life. Like, “She had always feared change.” And you have the impression that you have the full picture. You’re like, “I’m dealing with a real straight shooter here,” and it’s not true at all. And I think literally her tone is one of her best tricks for pulling that trap.

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And when you’re writing something where you want to surprise the audience, what techniques do you try to use? I don’t think it’s very far off from how magic tricks are supposed to work, where it’s mostly misdirection. You are doing something that could be very visible if they looked at your other hand, but you’re distracting them with, maybe, the pacing of a romance story. You’re putting in things that are very flashy that are happening in the plot. And you’re, the whole time, hopefully, building this other story, too. And you can’t have it be a total surprise, because those don’t work. It’s amazing how much a real twist feels totally like cheating to a reader, where it actually can’t come out of nowhere. You have to have been seeding it the whole way along. Yet another thing I liked about “The Long Way Up” was how you wove together the mundane and the fantastical. What’s the value to you in placing those two elements side by side in fiction? I do think that’s what fairy tales and fantasy are for. We are constantly retelling these stories to make sense of our

lives now, in the present moment. That’s what they’ve always done, [they’ve] been ways for people to make sense of things like sex and marriage and childbirth and death and all these huge things that we have to deal with. So when we take them and we put them in contemporary terms, we’re doing the thing that that story has been built for from the beginning of time. When you have Prince Hat, the son of Hell, as a wandering husband, or when you have the villainous king in “The White Cat’s Divorce” translated to a billionaire, that literally just makes logical sense to us. I would say, too, that fairy tales—we have this idea of them happening in this fixed sort of murky nostalgic past, but that’s been manufactured since the beginning, too. There’s no such thing as an original fairy tale. When the Grimms were collecting them, they were doing it for the function of creating a meldedtogether German national identity in a moment when there really wasn’t one. When the Victorians retold them, they were doing it to manufacture moral fables to raise little girls and little boys who would be good empire-builders. When Disney retold them, you’re inventing a nostalgic corporate childhood that you

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can profit on for generations, right? We’re constantly retelling them for our own ends. Ideally, we as individual artists get to do it in more personal, creative ways. When you’re writing about fantastical worlds, how and when do you decide to bring elements of down-to-earth reality into them? What helps you to figure out the right balance to strike between the fantastical and the grounded? I think that’s one of the big tricks, right? A lot of that gets worked out in editing, where I’m like, “That note doesn’t actually work in the story I’m ultimately telling.” I think I often choose by what feels funny, and I don’t think that’s actually a bad metric to go by. I think we have a sense of humor based on surprise, but also, “Oh, that makes sense to me.” When you do something that amuses you, that’s a pretty good thread to follow. Fairy tales, both in Link’s stories and just generally, are built on repetition and rules and the tension from wondering whether and when those rules are going to be broken, and what’s going to happen when they are. You’ve riffed on fairy tales in your own work. Why do you think that structure of a story is so universally satisfying across different times and cultures? And for you as a writer, what makes it a fun framework to play around in? I don’t know if there’s any actual story narratives that are truly universal in an anthropological sense. But there are ones that are broadly shared in our culture today because we’ve retold them and repurposed them so many times, and that familiarity is what I like to play with.

And the fact that they have rules makes them so, so valuable if you’re writing short fiction, I think, in particular. In short fiction, you have such limited territory that you’re trying to make the reader do a lot of the work for you in their own minds, in terms of scenesetting and background and assumptions. When you say the word “castle” or “king” or “witch,” it has so much implication behind it, and so many other narratives come into play for you, that you immediately have their assumptions to play with. I think it’s an efficiency thing in some ways, and also this great gift, where as soon as [the reader has] an expectation, you have the ability to fulfill or subvert it. What is your favorite story from White Cat, Black Dog, and why? And this may not be the same thing, but what story haunts you the most from it? My favorite story is “The Lady and the Fox.” I’m a simple person. I’m a romantic. You can sue me, but as much as I almost want it to be “Prince Hat Underground”—because I love that bittersweet kind of aching note at the end—I also love a transformation chase scene in folklore, and I love the simple childlike wonder of that story. The one that haunts me, though, is probably “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear.” I think the implication of violence at the very end is so well done, and the double meaning of it. I’m going to spoil it for no one who’s read it, but I think she says something like, she might get blood on the seat. And she’s just gotten her period, but she’s also a werewolf, and so that lingering uncertainty of what’s about to happen in that plane is wonderful.

Your output’s split pretty evenly between short stories and novels. What kind of an itch does writing a short story scratch for you? And what can you do with a more compact narrative that you just can’t do with a novel? I think the biggest problem for me is that I’m just a really, really slow writer, and often with a novel, I’m aiming towards this one scene or moment or payoff that I think is worth it. But it’s going to take me two years to get there. And with short fiction, you have this totally different timeline, and the possibility of reaching this one payoff moment in a reasonable time frame for me. I also think it lets me experiment a lot with style and tone and voice and setting in ways that I wouldn’t maybe risk in a two-yearlong project. I find new things and I get to try out new things in short fiction in a way that keeps me very interested in the process of writing.

that in a book-length work at this point, but it was so fun to see what I could do with that.

What is the most recent new thing you’ve tried out in a piece of short fiction, and how did it work out for you? The most recent thing I tried was kind of a structural experiment. The story is written as the draft of a pulp story submitted to a magazine, and the other character is the editor in the margins. This is not something that my publisher loved laying out in print, but they did it for me, and I’m really, really glad. It’s a series of exchanges, and what the editor realizes is the story is actually written about her, and that the writer is someone who knows her, and so there’s interaction between the two the whole way. I would not try

I like to write, and the authors that I admire most inspire envy. What does Kelly Link do in her writing that you wish you could do in yours? I already talked about the narrator’s presence and the kind of authority that she brings to the page. … I think she’s very, very, very funny in unexpected ways. I think she has a certain frankness about sex and romance that I really admire, because I don’t think that many authors, particularly in genre, are doing this sort of literary, funny, but also still sometimes quite hot middle ground. It’s not romance genre. It’s not strictly literary. But it takes it seriously, and with a light hand at the same time. I C really admire that.

Oh man, I really want to read that story now. So, in the acknowledgments of her book, Link writes that it was partly inspired by her consideration of the role that fairy tales play in her own work. In your fiction, do you feel like there’s a common thread or theme that goes through everything you’ve done? If I have another theme, I think it’s broad, but … I had my master’s in history, and I had this really good history professor who talked about how good historical writing is not about the past. It’s about change that happened in the past or change over time. And I do think that’s the basic structure, as I understand a story. You begin in one place and you end in another. It’s tracking these profound changes in a short space of time.

Fantastic competition

Every year, the World Science Fiction Convention—Worldcon for short—presents the Hugo Awards for outstanding accomplishments in science fiction and fantasy. Named for pioneering editor Hugo Gernsback, the Hugos are the science fiction equivalent of the Oscars. This year, contenders for the Hugo for Best Novel are:

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett The second in a mystery series starring a blindfolded detective and her neverforgets-anything sidekick in an empire beset by skyscrapersized monsters.

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The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Shroud by Adrian

A struggling historian gets sent back in time to meet the storied hero he idolizes, only to discover that he’s far more entangled in her legend than he ever realized.

Seven exemplary candidates are vying to replace the current Emperor. One of them just got murdered. Now the emperor’s chief scholar must solve the case before the candidates’ trials end.

A novel-within-a-novel about a misfit Nigerian writer who deals with a series of personal setbacks by penning an outer-space robot epic that has ripple effects she never imagined.

The supercompetent head of an English school for young magicians—no, not that one—confronts an ancient demon trying to breach the school’s defenses.

Stranded on a lightless, lethal moon, a pair of scientists struggle to escape its deadly environment—and survive the alien species that live there.

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Happy August to All! We hope your summer is going well. We have released our 2024 Shannon Hill Red. A blend of 50% Cabernet Franc and 50% Petit Verdot. Notes of black raspberry, cherry and fresh violet with a soft mineral finish. It will go well with barbecued beef and red-sauced Italian dishes! Medium bodied with supple tannins. We are working through our vineyards, and most varieties have recovered well from the April freeze which makes us hopeful for this year’s harvest, even though it will be lower than expected. And as always in farming, we look forward to next year! We hope to see you at the winery. Our wines are not from a recipe. But in cooperation with nature, our wines are built on elegance and nuance through our winemaker’s knowledge and intuition. We are a winery that just wants to be a winery. And if that is not enough, you’ll meet our friendly and wine enthusiastic, tasting room staff! What’s happening at Fifty-Third Winery and Vineyard in August Saturday, August 22 Live Music Tammi Kamin 1-4 p.m. Acoustic, melodic singer-songwriter blending heartfelt lyricism with organic instrumentation. An easy afternoon with 53rd wine. Saturday August 29 Live Music: Danny Kensy 1-4 p.m. nationally touring country artist and songwriter based in Richmond who is on the rise in the Country music industry. Cheers!

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2023 TANA Chardonnay This vineyard designated Chardonnay comes from our TANA vineyard and exhibits a lovely bouquet of pineapple and distinct mineral characteristics. It exhibits a vibrant acidity with a hint of oak and a weighty finish. Pairs well with food. Produced in a Mâcon style and aged 5 months in French oak. Gold medal winner at 2026 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition & named VinePair’s 30 Best Chardonnays for 2026. We are open 7 days a week throughout the month of August with live music every weekend.

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Visit our website and our social media pages for the most up to date listings of our upcoming live music and events! Saturdays & Sundays- Live music every Saturday and Sunday through the month! Come to DuCard for the afternoon with family and friends and enjoy a variety of live music (no cover). Bring a picnic or select some local fare from our lite noshing menu to pair with our awardwinning wine for a fun afternoon in our amazing mountain setting.

Open Daily Mon-Thurs 12-5 Fri 12-9 Sat/Sun 12-6 Second Sat each month 12-9 40 Gibson Hollow Ln Etlan, VA 22719 (540) 923-4206 www.ducardvineyards.com

EARLY MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS At Early Mountain, our world class wines are featured in a restaurant grounded in the same sense of place. Reserve your table for indoor or outdoor seating and enjoy our latest releases alongside an à la carte menu or seasonal wine-paired prix fixe. The Meadow is open for the season! We’re offering a casual picnic-style menu, paired with wines by the bottle, glass, or flight. No reservation needed, weather dependent. Tasting Room Hours Thursday–Monday: 11:00 AM–5:30 PM Fridays: 11:00 AM–8:00PM Closed Tuesday and Wednesday Upcoming Events & Experiences Friday Dinner Hours & Chef’s

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Table - Fridays | 5:30–8:00 PM Enjoy dinner at Early Mountain every Friday! Later evenings invite you to enjoy seasonal dishes on the patio or in the Tasting Room as the sun sets. The Chef’s Table experience offers an intimate, seven-course menu An Evening with Chef Patrick O’Connell Sunday, September 13, 2026 | 4:00 PM Enjoy a rare in-depth fireside interview with Chef O’Connell, just days before the official release of his memoir. Following the conversation, guests are invited to the terrace for a reception with Eun Yang and Chef O’Connell, featuring Early Mountain wines and passed hors d’oeuvres. Each guest will receive a signed copy of his new memoir - Main, Middle & Gay. Scan to plan your visit.

6109 Wolftown-Hood Rd, Madison, VA 22727 (540) 948-9005 www.earlymountain.com

EASTWOOD FARM AND WINERY Summer and Fall at the Winery From Oyster Fridays to Eastwood After Dark, there are a lot of ways to kick back and enjoy the last days of Summer at Eastwood. In August we are bringing back two favorite events – Eastwood’s Sangria and Summer Maker’s Market on Sunday August 23rd, featuring a pop-up with Erica Cavanaugh’s fresh take on sangria cocktails and live music and Crab Feast on Saturday August 29th, featuring Salty Bottom Blue (and live music all day) and don’t miss the Rose & Bubbles Showcase under the sailcloth tent on August 30th (details below). Eastwood has a large indoor air-conditioned space and, other than Thursday night porch nights, all music will be indoors. Upcoming at the Winery: Virginia Oyster & Wine Celebration | Every Friday Enjoy our Virginia Oyster & Wine Celebration every Friday night this Spring! The oysters are prepared by Salty Bottom Blue. Enjoy them in a relaxed, fun atmosphere with live

music from 5-8pm on the stage in our tasting room. Porch Nights | Every Thursday (NEW!) There’s something about a porch at golden hour that makes the world slow down in the best possible way. At Eastwood Farm and Winery, we’re leaning into that feeling all season long with Porch Nights — our weekly Thursday gathering featuring outdoor live music and an easygoing atmosphere. Grab a seat on our covered veranda or at one of our many picnic tables, relax with the sparkly lights overhead, fireflies in the fields, and a glass of porch-sipping wine in hand - join us for your new favorite Thursday tradition. Bring the family, the dog, a few friends, or just yourself. No reservations, no cover — just good music, good company, and spring evenings done right. Wine Slushies are Back! Cheers to the beautiful weather with a refreshing wine slushie:) Music Bingo | Sunday, August 30th; September 20th| 2-4PM (open 12-5PM) Everyone loves singing along with their favorite songs and who doesn’t love a competitive game of Bingo? Music Bingo brings together the best of both worlds for a high energy game that is fun for everyone. Simply listen to the music, match the songs to the titles on your music bingo cards, and win great prizes! Paint & Sip | Sunday, August 30th; September 20th from 122PM (open 12-5PM) Grab a glass of wine (or your favorite drink!) and let your creativity flow in our relaxed and fun Paint & Sip classes. Whether you’re an experienced artist or a first-time painter, the talented instructors of Blue Ridge Brushes will walk you through the painting process as you create your own masterpiece. Ticketed Event - Reserve Your Spot On Our Website Sangria Sunday and Maker’s Market| Sunday, August 23rd 12-5PM Join us for our house-made Sangria (one day only) with a pop up featuring Erica Cavanaugh from Honeysuckle Creek Farm and her fresh take on Sangria cocktails, as well as a local maker’s market where you are sure to find some creative treasures. Live Music: Paxton Henderson 1-4PM Crab Feast | Saturday, August 29th 12-4PM (open 12-8PM). Nothing says Summer quite like a Crab Feast! Salty Bottom Blue will be serving up Blue Crab and Oysters, both raw and grilled (from 1-4PM) in addition to Eastwood’s regular menu, including the

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delicious crab dip. Top it off with a glass of Viognier or Blanc de Blancs. Live Music All Day! Heidi Riddell from 12:30-3:30PM and F.O.G. from 5-8PM Rosé and Bubbles Showcase| Sunday, August 30th 12-2:30PM (at the Tent and Terraces) (General Admission $40) Join us for an afternoon celebrating the wines of summer with rosé, sparkling wine, food trucks and beautiful views. This ticketed tasting event showcases wines from six Virginia wineries—all crafting their wines at the Virginia Wine Collective, Eastwood’s new collaborative production facility and tasting room in downtown Charlottesville—for an unforgettable afternoon of sipping and discovery. Ticketed Event - Reserve Your Spot On Website Labor Day Weekend | Thursday, Sept. 3 through Monday, Sept. 7 Summer’s not over yet! Celebrate the long weekend with oysters, wine, live music and the first weekend of the Oktoberfest Food Truck! Thursday 9/3 Porch Nights: Meisha Herron Friday 9/4 Oysters and Live Music: Salty Bottom Blue Oysters and Far Away 5-8PM Saturday, 9/5 Live Music All Day: Drew LeBlanc 12:30 to 3:30 PM and Transatlantic Invasion 5-8PM. Sunday 9/6 Live Music: John Benjamin 1-4PM Monday 9/7: Open 12-5PM Oktoberfest (every Saturday and Sunday September 5 - October 31) Every Saturday and Sunday this Fall, Eastwood is bringing you all the cozy, festive vibes with a lineup of flavor, fun, and celebration featuring delicious food truck specials, raffles, live music and traditional Oktoberfest beer. And the fun doesn’t stop after the weekend. You can enjoy a special Oktoberfest menu in the tasting room every day of the week featuring Germaninspired delights, including our Flammkuchen, Bacon Maple Pecan Brie and loaded potato soup seven days a week. Check out our website for full food truck and tasting room menus. Chamber Music Festival| September 16th at 7:30 (doors open at 6:00 PM for food and beverage purchases) Presented in partnership with Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. As evening settles over the winery, this concert offers an inviting journey through the sound world of American composers. With light fare and beverages available for purchase beforehand beginning at 6:00pm, the experience combines conviviality and contemplation— beautiful music unfolding in a cozy space designed for listening and August 19 – 25, 2026

lingering. Ticketed Event - Reserve Your Spot On Website Musicians: Raphael Bell, Jennifer Frautschi, Judith Gordon, Simone Porter, Raman Ramakrishnan, Dov Scheindlin, Tim Summers MUSIC AT EASTWOOD! Join us for the popular Porch Nights every Thursday with live music on the veranda and Eastwood After Dark on Saturdays featuring upbeat, danceable music from 5-8pm (in addition to our more mellow Saturday afternoon music program). Eastwood also hosts a range of live performances by talented local and regional musicians every Friday night and Sunday afternoons. See the Winery Calendar on our website for details. Every Thursday (open 12-8PM): Porch Nights Live Music on the Veranda 5-8PM Every Friday (open 12-8 PM): Live Music and Virginia Oyster & Wine Celebration, every Friday 5-8PM Every Saturday (open 12-8 PM): Live Music 12:30-3:30PM + Eastwood After Dark with Live Music 5-8PM Every Sunday (open 12-5 PM): Live Music or Music Bingo (See the Winery Calendar on our website for details.) Also Open Monday through Wednesday 12-5 PM and Thursday 12-8PM What about the kids? Kids can share in the experience with their own juice tasting flights and cheese boards! OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Winery Hours: Sunday-Wednesday (125 PM); Thursday-Saturday (12-8 PM) We look forward to welcoming you to our tasting room, seven days a week. Join us for award-winning wines, beer, and cider, as well as a delicious lunch/dinner menu. Escape to Virginia Wine Country, only five miles from Downtown Charlottesville. Open year-round, seven days a week. Pet friendly and large groups are welcome. Ample indoor and outdoor seating. Rt 20 near the intersection with Avon Extended (5 mi from Downtown Mall) Charlottesville, VA 22902 (434) 264-6727 www.eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

KESWICK VINEYARDS August at Keswick Vineyards! Summer is in full swing, and there’s no better place to soak it all in than Keswick Vineyards! August

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brings sunny vineyard views, warm evenings, and plenty of opportunities to sip, savor, and relax with friends and family. Open 7 Days a Week Join us all week long! Enjoy extended hours every Wednesday evening during Wine Down Wednesday from 5:30–8:30 PM, featuring live music, delicious food, and your favorite Keswick wines. Live Music Every Saturday | 12–4 PM Spend your Saturdays enjoying great wine, live local music, and beautiful vineyard views. Barrel & Board Food Truck | Wednesday–Sunday | 12 PM– Close Enjoy handcrafted bites perfectly paired with your favorite wines. Last food orders taken 30 minutes before closing. Make the Most of Summer Whether you’re planning a relaxing afternoon, gathering with friends, or discovering a new favorite wine, August is the perfect time to visit Keswick Vineyards. Virginia’s Most Rewarding Wine Club Exclusive benefits. Incredible discounts. Special events. If you haven’t joined yet, now is the perfect time! Become a member and enjoy everything our wine club has to offer.

earthy, savory midpalate. Gentle waves of toasted French oak lend soft vanilla and a whisper of baking spice, while fine-grained tannins and a lingering blackpepper finish give structure and length. Rich and complex now, this Petit Verdot will continue to develop gracefully over the next decade.

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Friday Sundowner’s Free Music Series- every Friday from 5:308:30pm, May through October. Friday night we love to create a family friendly atmosphere, supporting local up and coming musicians from all over Virginia, offering a full food menu, and our award winning wines while enjoying the beautiful sunset over our western facing vines and music from our talented artists.

August is the perfect time to savor the sweet flavors of summer, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a glass of Prince Michel Vineyard & Winery’s 2025 Viognier. Nestled in the heart of Virginia Wine Country and proudly womanowned, Prince Michel combines generations of winemaking tradition with genuine hospitality, creating the perfect destination to relax, reconnect, and enjoy the season.

Sundays Blues and Jazz-1:004:00pm every Sunday, May through October, featuring the best local Jazz and blues musicians, the perfect way finish the weekend relaxing on our patio with wine and great company. The schedule for the month of July: 7/24-5:30-8:30pm- Jacob Paul Allen 7/26-1:00-4:00pm- Bruce Middle 7/31- 5:30-8:30pm- Matt Tyrrell

This month, we’re featuring our 2025 Viognier, an elegant, aromatic white wine that beautifully captures the essence of late summer. Bursting with vibrant aromas of ripe apricot, juicy peach, and delicate floral notes, this beautifully balanced wine delivers a rich, silky mouthfeel while remaining crisp and refreshing. The finish lingers with bright citrus and luscious stone fruit flavors, making

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Celebrate the last full month of summer with us—we can’t wait to raise a glass with you this August! Hours: Open 7 Days a Week Sunday–Tuesday & Thursday | 10 AM–5 PM Wednesday | 10 AM–8:30 PM Friday–Saturday | 10 AM–6 PM Food, flights, and open bottle service end 30 minutes prior to closing daily 1575 Keswick Winery Drive Keswick, Virginia 22947 Tasting Room: (434) 244-3341 ext 105 tastingroom@keswickvineyards.com www.keswickvineyards.com

MERRIE MILL FARM AND VINEYARD 2024 Reserve Petit Verdot We’re thrilled to present our 2024 Petit Verdot — a bold red that thrives in Virginia’s unique climate and soils. This exceptional vintage received special treatment: over a year of French oak barrel aging followed by additional bottle rest to marry the flavors. On the nose and palate, it opens with concentrated dark stewed fruits — black cherry and plum — that segue into an C-VILLE.COM

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every sip as inviting as the next. In honor of National Peach Month, our Viognier is the perfect companion to the season’s freshest flavors. Pair it with fresh peaches and creamy burrata, grilled chicken or fish topped with peach salsa, roasted chicken, grilled shrimp, or even a classic peach cobbler for dessert. Its bright fruit character and refreshing finish make it equally at home at backyard cookouts, elegant dinners, or relaxing evenings on the patio. Beyond the bottle, Prince Michel offers more than exceptional wines. Enjoy guided tastings, breathtaking vineyard views, delicious dining, and craft beer at Tap 29 Brew Pub. Whether you’re visiting for a casual afternoon or celebrating a special occasion, every experience is designed to create lasting memories. Celebrate National Peach Month all August long with our 2025 Viognier, the Prince Michel Wine of the Month. Available for $24.99 per 750 mL bottle, Club Members save 20% and Non-Members save 15% throughout August 1–31 Upcoming Events & Weekly Specials Live Music every Friday–Sunday (lineup available on our website)

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Trivia every Monday, 6:00–7:30 p.m.

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Tuesday Beer & Wings Specials Happy Hour every Thursday, 3:00– 5:00 p.m. Open 7 days a week starting at 11:00 a.m. 154 Winery Lane, Leon, VA 22725 (540) 547-3707 www.princemichel.com A Woman-Owned Business

VIRGINIA WINE COLLECTIVE Expanded Hours, Wine, Beer and Pizza Join us at Eastwood Farm and Winery’s new production facility and downtown bar and lounge featuring a pizza shop menu, beer on tap, and winemaker wine flights. The Collective is now open every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 5-10PM with revamped loft and shuffleboard. Upcoming at the Collective: Winemaker Pop-Ups | Select Fridays 6-8PM (Open 5-10PM) Enjoy free samples and tour the facility with some of our independent winemakers on Fridays! Check out events on our website: (https:// eastwoodfarmandwinery.com/ virginia-wine-collective/) and Facebook page as we will be adding

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September 4th: Harvest Nights September 11th: Harvest Nights September 18th: Harvest Nights September 25th: Harvest Nights Winemaker Karaoke | Every Other Wednesday, August 19, September 2nd, 16th & 30th from 7-9PM (karaoke is only upstairs; downstairs bar and dining room still open as usual 5-10PM) Join us up in the loft at the Collective every other Wednesday evening. No cover required. Paint & Sip | Thursday September 24th (6-8PM) (Open 5-10PM) Grab a glass of wine (or your favorite drink!) and let your creativity flow in this relaxed and fun class. Whether you’re an experienced artist or a first-time painter, the talented instructors of Blue Ridge Brushes will walk you through the painting process as you create your own masterpiece. Ticketed Events Reserve Your Spot On the Virginia Wine Collective Facebook Page or the Eastwood Website. Mahjong with Mountain Mahj: Open Play | Thursday, August 20th, September 17th 6-8:30PM

(open 5-10PM) Details to be announced On the Virginia Wine Collective Facebook Page and the Eastwood Website or contact gabrielle@ eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Harvest Viewing Days at the Collective (Wednesday-Friday 5-10PM). Viewing opportunities start sometime in late August (as soon as the grapes start rolling in!). We are bringing harvest to downtown Charlottesville and are located on Avon Street at the 4-way stop for Wegmans! In addition to the glass viewing area upstairs, we will be roping off a small area on the production floor so that you can walk out to view the action. Anytime is a great time to visit the Collective this Summer and Fall. Email Gabrielle@ eastwoodfarmandwinery.com if you have questions. Production Tours and Guided Tastings We look forward to welcoming guests to the Virginia Wine Collective for tours and guided tastings. Please email our Wine Collective Coordinator, Gabrielle Thomas, if you would like to schedule a tour or guided tasting. She may be reached at gabrielle@ eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

reservation for your group? Reach out to mary@eastwoodfarmandwinery. com to book. About the Collective Eastwood designed the Virginia Wine Collective to include nine winemaker suites and an incubator alongside the main production area. The suites provide a space where independent winemakers can anchor a license and make their wines. The Collective has been designed to reduce the costs associated with independent winemaking, and thereby support further innovation and talent in the Monticello AVA. Over 21 Policy You must be over 21 to visit the bar, lounge and dining room at the Collective. Current Winery Hours Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 5-10PM 1585 Avon Street Extended Charlottesville, VA 22902 (434) 264-6727 https://eastwoodfarmandwinery.com/ virginia-wine-collective/

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2026-27 Season The Firebird Friday, September 25* Sunday, September 27

David Sariti, violin RAVEL “Five O’clock Foxtrot” from L’enfant et les sortilèges LIGETI Atmosphères VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite

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Benjamin Rous, violin BACH Violin Concerto in D minor HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

Love, Beethoven Saturday, February 13 Sunday, February 14*

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UVA University Singers MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute UVA CONCERTO COMPETITION WINNER DELIUS “Pale amber sunlight falls across” SCHUMANN Nachtlied GJEILO “The Spheres (Kyrie)” from Sunrise Mass RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

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JOY DESCENSION Oxford, Mississippi’s Happy Landing fell into the scene in 2020, quickly earning festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Summerfest. Working to spread a new wave of Americana music rooted in Southern rock, punk, and folk peppered with poppy inflections, the five-piece outfit’s smooth sound is anchored by solid instrumentation and superb vocals. The ability to blend distinct voices in unison and hit tight harmonies adds a rousing, anthematic quality that makes singing along with the band an easy task. $25, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com SUPPLIED PHOTO

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Gina Sobel. Award-winning songwriter and composer brings together elements of funk, jazz, and American folk music into a fresh and compelling sound. Free, 5pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com

Dominic Fike. Floridian singer-songwriter mixes bedroom pop intimacy with arena rock bravado and hip-hop sensibility. $73, 7:30pm. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. tingpavilion.com

Jaewar & Vibe Riot x Waasi & The Pocket Presence. A night of funk, groove, and hip-hop with two dynamic artists you won’t forget. $22, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

Happy Landing. Pioneering a new wave of music blended from the roots of Southern rock, punk, and folk. $25, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

John Kelly. Singer-songwriter with more than two decades of solo acoustic performing experience. Free, 4:30pm. Fallen Tree Vineyard and Farm, 4593 Clark Rd., Crozet. fallentreevineyard.com

The Wavelength. Vintage rock, blues, and original tunes for your mid-week music boost. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com

Kiz Carter Trio. Soulful tunes including originals and surprising rock covers, along with some blues. Free, 5pm. Brewing Tree Beer Company, 9278 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Afton. brewingtreebeer.com

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Midnight Buzz. Catchy covers and originals from local faves. Free, 8pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com

Holly’s Open Mic Night. Mic check to all musicians, poets, and everyone in between. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St.

Mike Miz. Songwriter and guitarist originally from the Wyoming Valley of Northeast Pennsylvania. Free, 5pm. Bottle House, 608 W. Main St. bottlehouse.net

classes Book Bedazzle Craft Night. No experience necessary. BYO book or item to be bedazzled. All other materials included. $30, 6pm. Blue Ridge Brushes Studio, 1110 E. Market St. #13h. blueridgebrushes.com

etc. Dürty Karaoke. Belt out your favorite tunes. Free, 8:30pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Fund the Fight: Board Game Night. Hang out, play board games, and support the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund. Free, 6pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com Rapture Karaoke. Hosted by Thunder Music. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Thursday 8/20 music Baby Jo’s. Boogie-woogie takes on classics with a full horn section, groovy rhythm, shredding guitars, washboards, and the Queen of Boogie. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com Berto Sales & Vincent Zorn. Lively flamenco rumba. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com Songwriter’s Open Mic. A space for all levels, styles, and ages. Sets limited to one original song per performer. Amps and mics provided. Free, 7pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com Ty Burkhardt. Fingerstyle guitarist creates the sound of an entire band on the veranda. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Uncle Pen. Historically accurate bluegrass. Free, 7pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com

classes Paint + Sip: Sunset Lake. Paint the supplied design in a step-by-step format. No experience necessary, all materials and first drink included. $44–49, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpk., Crozet. prnbrewery.com

etc. Paramount On Screen: National Theatre Live in HD—Les Liaisons Dangereuses. A striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. $14–20, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

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t’s difficult to say if Dominic Fike’s outThere’s also a vitality that comes with what put is the inevitable result of our mulpasses for actual instruments like clean guiticultural musical monoculture (an tars, deep bass foundations, and in-the-pockoxymoronic irony for sure) or if he and his et drums. All of this to say that his aesthetic team’s creative choices are attempting to hovers effortlessly between a kind of gassedcontribute to its continued dominance. out slackerism and a hyped-up MC exiting a While he could very well be from Los Angevery expensive automobile, supported by unexpected production decisions and curious les, New York, or maybe even Atlanta, Fike, a product of a fractured childhood and drug lyrical turns that make for an engaging listen. addiction, is from Florida’s Gulf Coast. With a guitar style that is clearly influGuess he’s turned it around since he signed enced by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (though to Columbia Records, guested on a single by much less annoying), Fike pirouettes from Jennie from Blackpink, and contributed a rapping through autotune to stepping back track to the Spider-Man: Across the Spiderfor a pretty string section on “Açai Bowl.” Verse soundtrack. Seeing that “Babydoll” from his first demo mixtape has topped more than 1.6 billion Despite whatever off-screen issues have arisen, success hasn’t revealed anything shy streams on Spotify—when it’s only a very of virtuosity. Fike’s smooth voice slides out punk rock one minute and 37 seconds long— from between stop-start grooves that like to adds to the impressive feats of audio that pop on and off, as if a fidgety robot engineer raise the initial question: Are we, TikTok-ers can’t keep its metallic fingers from hitting included, more accepting of artistic variation mute buttons on different instrument tracks. that draws on any and all genres in the same He rolls between tuneful vocals with easy song, or are we just living in a post-genre range and backs into quickly knitworld? Either way, Fike is unented rap verses without any hic- Ting Pavilion cumbered by the past—his or cups to speak of. ours.—CM Gorey Wednesday 8/19

CAUTION: The writer’s unrestrained cynicism and unresolved issues shape the writing of this opinion column. Results may vary. Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. Like an escape room but at a winery. Crack codes and unravel riddles while sampling Charlottesville’s best wine, beer, and cider. Play when you want and go at your own pace. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Friday 8/21 music Beleza Duo. Funkalicious samba soul music. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com Bob Bennetta Trio. Live jazz. Free, 6:30pm. Afghan Kabob House, 200 Market St. afghan kabob-house.com

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Boot Scoot Square Dance Party. Big Silo plays driving old-time favorites to teach you how to move to the music. No experience necessary. Beginners and all ages welcome. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

classes Paint Class: City Silhouette. Paint the supplied design in a step-by-step format, no experience necessary. All materials provided. 50 percent of profits from ticket sales go toward the RAQC. $54, 7pm. Blue Ridge Brushes Studio, 1110 E. Market St. #13h. blueridgebrushes.com Watercolor Happy Hour. An open painting session without a structured lesson. All materials provided, all levels welcome. Ages 15+. $25, 5:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

words CreativeMornings Charlottesville. A monthly breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Free, 8:30am. Charlottesville. creative mornings.com

etc. Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 20. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Saturday 8/22 music Bring Out Yer Dead. A tribute to the timeless magic of the Grateful Dead. $27, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Ivan Orr. Soul, funk, and jazz at one of C’ville’s newest music venues. $10, 9pm. Chimm, 365 Merchant Walk Square. chimmtaste.com Leroy Burks & The Voodoo Whiskey Band. Renowned for electrifying honky-tonk performances, delivering the ultimate tribute to country music. Free, 7pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. prnbrewery.com LockJaw Classic Rock. Crowd-pleasing classic rock and blues. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Michael Tice. Classically trained guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer brings relaxing vibes. Free, 12:30pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com SUPPLIED PHOTO

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STELLAR COMBINATION Stars and Sparkles offers an opportunity to engage in amateur astronomy alongside an out-of-this-world tasting. Present Company Wine debuts its Rosé Pét Nat and provides a selection of light bites to enhance an evening of stargazing led by professional astronomers. Enjoy views of the night sky through a century-old 26-inch refracting telescope while feeding your cosmic curiosity, and refined palate. Ages 21+, rain or shine. $30, 9pm. Leander McCormick Observatory, 600 McCormick Rd. drinkpresentcompany.com Mojo Pie. Susan Munson and Frank Bechter perform in the orchard. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

The Wavelength Trio. Vintage rock favorites along with blues and original tunes. Free, 2:30pm. Fallen Tree Vineyard and Farm, 4593 Clark Rd., Crozet. fallentreevineyard.com

Rick Goodling and Friends. A dynamic, soulful blend of Americana, country, and rock. Free, 5pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

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Rivanna Roots: Ramona & The Holy Smokes. A new generation of honky-tonk music down by the river. With Rebecca Porter. $17–20, 6:30pm. Rivanna River Company, 1520 E. High St. frontporchcville.org Smokin’ Trout. Sounds steeped in Americana, influenced by folk, bluegrass, rock, blues, country, country rock, and Celtic music. Free, 2pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com Sneaky Miles. Indie folk from New Hampshire. Free, 8pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Starry Nights. Relax under the stars and dance the night away to music from Hipshack. $25–125, 5:30pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com Steve & The Instigators. Blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and soul originals and covers. With Sean Hodge. Free, 9:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com The Inclinators. A mix of rock, neo-soul, and Americana tunes. Free, 4pm. Hark Vineyards, 1465 Davis Shop Rd., Earlysville. harkvineyards.com The Pollocks. Featuring Jason Pollock, Thomas Gunn, Maryline Meyer, Nathan West, and Randy Mendicino. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com The Shacktones. Blues and blues-rock mixed with Americana, country, and roots-rock. Free, 6pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com

Big Blue Door. An end-of-summer farewell to the performers of One Per Customer and Cork Royale and their 14th season, while looking ahead to next season. $10, 7pm. Cardinal Point Winery, 9423 Batesville Rd., Afton. bigbluedoor.org The Southern Drag Show! Serving a lineup that’s hotter than your group chat after midnight. Hosted by Darling Nikki and Cheddah, with Velvet Love, You’Neek Nu’York, and Milka Magnesia. Free, 9pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

words New Dominion Storytime. Readings from recent storybooks and the classics kids know and love. Rain or shine. All ages welcome. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. newdominionbookshop.com

classes Craftivism and Indivisible Interest Meeting. A sassy sign workshop with an intro to the local antifascist, pro-democracy organization. Use beads, glitter, and sewing notions to create whimsical art with an important message. Ages 15+. $10, 12:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com Making Miniatures 101: Mini Kitchens. Learn the basics of making miniature furniture, decor, and household items out of everyday materials. This month: kitchen counters and appliances. Ages 16+. $30, 3pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 SUPPLIED PHOTO

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Mending Workshop: Repairing Holes. Learn how to repair holes in clothes with visible or invisible mending techniques. Ages 15+. $20, 10am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

etc. Charlottesville City Market. Explore fresh produce, local foods, and handmade goods from 100+ area vendors. Free, 9am. Charlottesville City Market, 100 Water St. E. charlottesville.gov Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 20. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

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Monday 8/24 music Ramona Martinez. Local favorite serenades with her signature mix of country western and mariachi. Free, 5:30pm. The Fitzroy, 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. thefitzroycville.com Vision’s Open Mic Mondays. Bring your chops and get down. Free, 7pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

words VDM Storytime. A magical storytime adventure where the pages come alive and imagination knows no bounds. Free with museum admission, 10:30am. Virginia Discovery Museum, 524 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. vadm.org

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FarAway. Singer-songwriter couple Brian Franke and Sara Davenport offer folky, pop-rock sounds, highlighting amazing harmonies. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Annie Stirling. Up-and-coming indie-folk singersongwriter. Free, 7pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com

Kirsten Haze. A variety of folk, alt-country, rootsrock, country-blues, and a hint of jazz and swing. Free, 2pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com Michael Elswick Gathering. A Sunday session featuring jazz, blues, Latin, swing, ballads and, of course, Cambodian surf rock. Free, 1pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com

classes Upcycled Journal Making and Beginning Book Binding. Put together a journal using up-cycled items such as fabric, paper, cardboard, and string in this intro to bookbinding. Ages 12+. $45, 1pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

etc. Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 20. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

music Open Jam with Jeff Massanari & Friends. Bring your instrument and jam out with the core players. Free, 6:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com Rapture Open Mic Night. Hosted by The Open Mic Music Exchange and Nicole Giordano. Free, 9:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

etc. Beer & Board Games. A casual evening of a little friendly competition. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com Geeks Who Drink Trivia. Good trivia, good times. Teams of two to six people compete to win prizes like gift certificates and pint glasses, plus bragging rights. Free, 7pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com Vision’s Comedy Open Mic Tuesdays. Sharpen your set or just hang out for the laughs. Free, 7:30pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

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HOT WEATHER MUSIC Rivanna Roots matches the scorching summer temps with piping-hot honky-tonk from Ramona & the Holy Smokes. The band channels country and western styles of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s into contemporary tracks that push classic Southern sounds into new territory, led by Ramona Martinez’s powerful vocals and catchy lyrics. Guam-born, Virginia-raised Rebecca Porter opens the evening with unflinchingly personal songs that amplify voices often left out of the country canon. Rain or shine. $17–20, 6:30pm. Rivanna River Company, 1520 E. High St. frontporchcville.org

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UVA professor explores sound’s effects at Staunton Music Festival BY SHEA GIBBS

imbre is an elusive sonic attribute. UVA professor Leah Reid has devoted her career to pinning it down. Reid, who’ll host a meet-the-composer event at the Staunton Music Festival, says timbre is “the combination of how sounds are built up … and how they evolve and interact over time.” But as she notes in a research literature review, “there is no simple, objective, or single-dimensional scale that describes” timbre. Reid’s response? Design a multi-dimensional timbre model using three cubes—one focused on frequency, another to account for noise-to-pitch ratio, and a third to understand a sound’s “brightness and darkness.” It’s all spelled out in what is known as Reid’s Compositional Timbre Space, which the researcher first introduced in her doctoral thesis at Stanford University in 2013. “My admiration for many different composers and perceptual studies kind of led into my creating this model,” she says. “I’m deeply inspired by the sounds that surround us in our everyday life.” Reid’s work is far from strictly academic. As an active composer, every piece she creates is intended to explore timbre. In “La Ballata,” she draws on the acoustic rhythms of a poem. In “Reverie,” she slowly cobbles together simple music box sounds over the course of 10 minutes, building to a melodic crescendo. And in “Crossed Wires,” which recently won the 2026 LunART Festival Call for Scores and was a finalist in the Society for Electroacoustic Music of the Czech Republic’s Musica Nova Competition, Reid explores sounds associated with telephones in a composition commissioned by Piedmont Duo. The Duo, comprising Ayn Baliya and I-Jen Fang, will perform “Crossed Wires” as part of Reid’s Staunton Music Festival engagement. Listeners will hear amplified viola, percussion, and other electronic music elements as the work explores communication media past and present through telephonic clicks and beeps, dial tones, smartphone haptics, busy signals, fax machine bleeps, and even customer service interactions and hold music. Reid, who grew up in the home of artists before being classically trained as a string performer and opera singer, does most of her performing in the studio these days. But she will hold forth in a conversation during the music festival, discussing her recent C-VILLE.COM

Composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator, Leah Reid appears at Staunton Music Festival’s summer event, which runs from August 14–23, beginning on August 19. A schedule of her performances can be found at stauntonmusicfestival.org.

work, the science of merging acoustic and electronic sounds, and more. “It will be a little bit about my background, my process,” Reid says. “Growing up, I was constantly finding inspiration in the sound around me. Those moments, those everyday sounds and how things combine—that is what I really enjoy digging into. There’s so much sound that surrounds us in this world.” As an assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Music, Reid teaches acoustic and electronic music composition to students ranging from undergrads to Ph.D. candidates. She also helps organize a concert each year for students, bringing in professional musicians to flesh out their compositions. At the Staunton Music Festival, Reid’s work will be featured in two other sessions along with the meet-the-composer event— a micro-opera and the other to be performed by a percussion quartet. “I’m more of a traditional composer in that I love the relationship of handing my work to other performers and seeing them C bring it to life,” she says. August 19 – 25, 2026

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Religious offshoot Winter hrs. in Oregon ___ curls (arm exercises) Most populous Hawaiian island “___ House” (1982 Madness hit) 15. Mr. Schwarzenegger 16. Thing that comes before another, in olden days (you may know the -or version better) 18. Estonia’s neighbor to the south 19. Keyboard symbols forming a heart emoticon (or a shortcut to the emoji) 21. Zombie who directs and sings 22. Wedding vow words 23. “___ bien, gracias” 24. League where you may see a stick shift? 27. Apple device that researchers taught parrots to video-call other parrots with 29. “Go ahead” gesture 30. New World monkey in the Amazon Rainforest (found in AQUA KARINA) 33. Direct deposit pymt. 36. Way to form a heart with your fingers (popularized by K-pop stars) 40. Plate-smashing exclamation 41. Not as restrictive 42. Sprinted 43. “___ Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” 45. Volleyball defense specialist 47. Type of company not to be confused with an LLC 48. Stiffened water, to Stefan or Werner? 51. Express despair, maybe 52. Numerical way to make a heart along a line of symmetry

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Virgo

(Aug. 22-Sept. 22): I am nursing a hopeful dream that you will give yourself a fun surprise or two in the coming days—maybe even more than two. Not necessarily the most expensive delights, but those that would inspire your nervous system to relax and your spirit to celebrate. Possible options: a few hours of free time with no obligations, a hike where you adore and praise the sky, a conversation you’ve been craving, a daring yes, or a long-overdue no. Or how about finally starting a fun project you keep postponing, or setting down a burden you’ve been carrying for too long? You might ask yourself: “If someone who loved me dearly were in charge of my rhythm, what would they arrange for me?”

Libra

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The first maps of Antarctica contained blank spaces labeled simply “unexplored.” Cartographers didn’t pretend to know what wasn’t yet revealed. This was a gift to future trailblazers, who didn’t have to overcome the confusion of false certainties. You could benefit from adopting a similar practice. Instead of explaining every mystery with confident opinions, designate a few regions of your inner world as magnificently unexplored. Your willingness to say “I don’t know yet” will be a fertile form of wisdom. The unanswered questions will be better allies than premature conclusions.

Scorpio

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In architecture, the keystone is the central, wedge-shaped stone positioned at the top of an arch. It’s often the last piece placed, and it’s what holds everything together. If it’s removed, the entire structure collapses. But the keystone itself is held in place by the pressure of the other stones. I love the fact that it’s both the most crucial piece and yet totally dependent on everything else. This is an excellent metaphor for you right now. You’re like a keystone: holding everything together and also being held by everything. Please accept my personal thanks for accomplishing the amazing feat of being both powerful and vulnerable! The structure needs you, and you need the structure. P.S.: Don’t overestimate your independence or underestimate your importance.

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t reorganize your junk drawers anytime soon, Sagittarius. Please? Refrain from scrubbing the oven, organizing your kitchen cupboards, and untangling old extension cords. I’m begging you to believe me when I urge to allocate your energy toward the most interesting and important matters. The cosmic indicators are unambiguous. You will be happiest and most successful if you: 1. Dare 36

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(July 23-Aug.22): In traditional textile making, the selvage is the strong edge that holds the fabric together and keeps it from unraveling. It’s braided more tightly than the rest so it can do its guarding work. I think that’s a helpful metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Leo. Your main weave is LEO pretty gorgeous, but the edges aren’t sufficiently taut. What should you do, practically speaking? For starters, create firm boundaries around your work time, your rest, and your availability to others’ demands. to access secret wisdom you’ve been hiding from yourself. 2. Immerse yourself in almost too much beauty and truth. 3. Let your imagination run wild as you visualize future scenarios that thrill you even if they’re also a bit unnerving.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Grand Canyon in Arizona is 277 miles long, as wide as 18 miles, and a mile deep in some places. Through persistent erosion for millions of years, the Colorado River carved it. This massive creative project happened entirely through subtraction, not addition. I suggest you regard it as one of your role models in the coming months, Capricorn. Your goal is to wear away resistance and eliminate what’s unnecessary. The magnificence you produce will be very gradual and incremental.

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In engineering, redundancy refers to the practice of building multiple layers of support into a system so that if one part falters, others keep functioning. Airplanes and spacecraft rely on this principle for safety. I urge you to adopt a similar strategy in the coming weeks. By creating backup plans or additional reinforcement, you can move forward with more daring and flair, which I highly recommend. Artful preparation will strengthen your ability to experiment and improvise.

Pisces

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layers meet, and they’re often rich in biodiversity. I propose that we use these areas as metaphors for your power spots, Pisces. You tend to thrive in thresholds and boundaries, where edges meet and overlap. That will be especially true in the coming weeks. To court good fortune and sweet delight, you should hang out at the borders where diverse influences mingle.

Aries

(March 21-April 19): Consider this your official alert that you’re close to getting too much of a good thing. To safeguard the lovely momentum you’ve built lately, be vigilant that genuine abundance doesn’t bloat into plain old overload. Say no to becoming indentured to your own brilliant ideas. Don’t let your victories drag you into depletion. Steer clear of grand gestures of generosity that are driven mostly by the urge to dazzle onlookers. You really can keep every delicious reward you’ve earned, dear Aries, as long as you begin installing some graceful new boundaries right now.

Taurus

(April 20-May 20): In 1925, Taurus astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. Famous astrophysicists of that era rejected her conclusions because she contradicted the prevailing theories. Nevertheless, she persisted in her claims and was eventually proved correct by other experts. Sound familiar, Taurus? If it doesn’t yet, I expect it will soon. Naysayers may insist you’re wrong when you know and I know you’re right. My advice: Be faithful to the truths you’ve directly observed even if they don’t match consensus reality. Your understandings are valid even if they’re inconvenient.

Gemini

(May 21-June 21): You’re ready and able to commune intimately with the hidden source of power that fuels your life. Hallelujah! But first, acknowledge a humbling truth: You’re not entirely sure what that source is. You’ve made assumptions, of course. You’ve told yourself stories about where your vitality comes from: your work, your relationships, your creative projects, your spiritual practices. And while these channels do transmit energy, they’re tributaries of the ultimate spring. In the coming weeks, you’ll have exciting opportunities to trace these streams back to their headwaters. Start this way: Be alert for mini-breakthroughs when you feel unexpectedly energized or mysteriously restored.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22): The GPS system requires Einstein’s theory of relativity to work correctly. Satellites in orbit experience time slightly differently than we do on Earth’s surface. Without accounting for that time dilation, your phone would be off by 6.8 miles every day. Moral of the story: The practical requires the theoretical and the mundane needs the cosmic. I bring this to your attention as a useful metaphor, Cancerian. I suspect you’ve been trying to solve ground-level problems with ground-level thinking. But your current challenges require you to factor in some relativity: to recognize that different parts of your life are operating in different timeframes, under different rules. What works in one context doesn’t necessarily work in another. In the coming weeks, refrain from trying to apply universal solutions. Calibrate for context. C Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, (877) 873-4888

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The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for an Industry Farm Winery to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages license. Stephanie Vogtman-Say, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be Submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION Case No. JJ041916-07-00; 08-00; 09-00 VA. CODE § 1-211.1; 8.01-316, -317, 20-104 Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Community

Charlottesville Dept. of Social Services v. Unknown Father and Tayqaundra Johnson (a.k.a. Tayquandra Johnson)

& MISC.

The object of this suit is to terminate the residual parental rights of Unknown Father and Tayqaundra Johnson (a.k.a. Tayquandra Johnson) of a girl child (Z.H.) born to Tayquandra Johnson on December 7, 2022.

Notices

It is ORDERED that Unknown Father and Tayqaundra Johnson (a.k.a. Tayquandra Johnson), appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before October 16, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. 7/22/26 DATE

Areshini Pather JUDGE

SPECIAL PANTS LLC

TRADING AS: SPEEDS PUBLIC 111 East Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902

The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Retail On- and Off-Premises Wine and Beer license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Peter Griesar, Proprietor NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be Submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

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