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THIS WEEK As the conversations continue daily about the fate of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, we look to our neighbor to the east this week, where they are discussing their own history—and future (p. 19). Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, attempted to change the narrative of Monument Avenue, which features statues of five Confederate leaders, by adding a sixth statue honoring Richmond native and African-American Arthur Ashe in 1996—six decades after the last monument had been erected. In July, a statue of Maggie Walker, the first female bank owner in the U.S., was unveiled in the Jackson Ward neighborhood, and a commemoration of emancipation is planned for Brown’s Island in 2019.

As Charlottesville still battles with the legality of moving its Confederate statues, talk has turned to adding new memorials and providing more historical context to existing ones, including erecting the enslaved laborers memorial at UVA, as well as a proposed lynching memorial near Jackson Park and a sculpture in front of the Jefferson School to remember the razed Vinegar Hill neighborhood.

Whether Lee and Jackson go, there’s a clear push for adding to our historical narrative and shaping future conversations about our city.—Jessica Luck Think you’ve got the goods? C-VILLE Weekly has launched its first Made in C’ville contest for Charlottesville- and Albemarle-based makers in three categories: Home & Craft, Style and Food & Drink. Deadline to enter is Friday, October 20. Go to c-ville.com/madeincville2017 for details.

NEWS 9 10 Tim Heaphy defends hate rally investigation.

11 Tyler Magill on his recovery and letter to UVA prez.

12 Former CHS teacher faces more child porn charges.

13 New experts say Jens Soering should be pardoned.

15 Yes, Virginia

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Capital venture After violence here, Richmond wrestles with what to do about its Confederate statues.

ARTS 31 35 Calendar Listings 37 Extra: Joan Shelley joins forces with Jeff Tweedy.

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There are several pages of my deposition hearing that were not introduced at this hearing. I see the stats here against Andrew, it doesn’t look positive on him; however as I testified it wasn’t him I heard say the derogatory words toward any race. The officers/supervisors I did hear those words from are still there. I did speak up when I heard negative comments, but quickly became a target by fellow officers. I reached a point of self preservation as I have a family and did not want anything to happen to them. I can’t prove my experiences, I didn’t record conversations, now I wish I had. I left that place 5 years ago for many reasons and have been better off since. I can’t defend Andrew other than sharing my personal experience of working with him. I saw him as hard working, intelligent, and definitely a defender of citizens in Albemarle County. Please keep an open mind and let our justice system work this out.

The reporter who wrote this story didn’t make any attempt to contact me, I was also not informed anything from the deposition hearing would be used at trial. I contemplated remaining silent, I didn’t want and still do not wish to have any of this attention. I just felt strongly that you our community should know that ACPD, has many great people and officers who are and will continue to do the right thing. I only hope that the internal atmosphere/culture that I witnessed has changed. Although during my 15 years as a police officer I made mistakes, over all I am very proud of my past career and am truly fulfilled to know I did help people. I know in my heart and soul that daily I tried to do the right thing. If we all had a time machine, we could change certain things from the past, or had I know them what I know now. I have and continue to stand up to bullying, I don’t condone nor support any racist behavior, and am sickened by the events of August 12th.

We can make changes each day in our own lives and the lives around us.

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—Candidate Kenneth Jackson on recent City Council disorder at a September 27 forum

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Alleged face-puncher arrested Dennis Mothersbaugh, the bald and bearded Indiana man seen socking a man in the side of the head and striking a woman in the face in a cellphone video of the Unite the Right rally, was charged with assault and battery, arrested September 28 and extradited to Virginia. He has been charged at least twice before for threatening black men, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Fred and Cindy Warmbier, parents of the UVA student who was detained in North Korea, medevaced to America a year later and died shortly after, said on CNN September 26 that their son, Otto, showed clear signs of torture, and that it looked like pliers had been used on his bottom teeth. But a Hamilton County, Ohio, coroner said there were no obvious signs of torture and his teeth showed no trauma.

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Pam Moran retires The Albemarle County Public Schools superintendent since 2006, and the secondlongest serving in the division’s history, will retire this June with accomplishments that include being Virginia’s superintendent of the year in 2015. Deputy superintendent Matthew Haas will succeed her.

UVA rapes, stalking, hate crimes increase In its recently published Fire Safety and Security Report, UVA offered no commentary on its uptick in several categories of incidents, including the six times as many hate crimes reported in 2016 as in the previous year.

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hen City Manager Maurice Jones introduced the man hired to investigate the events of Charlottesville’s summer of hate, he listed former U.S. attorney Tim Heaphy’s “critical eye,” his experience with law enforcement and investigations, and then he described the city as “partnering” with Heaphy.

Heaphy immediately took some trouble to distance himself from the perception that he’s a partner working in the city’s pocket to sweep under the rug missteps that led to a fatality and multiple injuries August 12.

“I don’t think that’s a fair characterization,” he said. “I think we were hired to look critically at the city.” The investigation, which will include the city’s handling of the July 8 KKK rally and the first assembly of tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists May 12, will not be a “whitewash to affirm decisions that were made or meant to point a finger at any individual,” he said.

Instead, he promised an “arm’s length investigation” that would “objectively assess” what happened. “I don’t really see the city as a partner,” he said.

The decision to hire Heaphy and his $545-an-hour firm, Hunton & Williams, has brought some criticism, including from several speakers during public comment.

“It’s been 51 days since a murder here,” said Don Gathers, who chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials

Tim Heaphy vowed an objective assessment of the city’s handling of white supremacists over the summer, and acknowledged there are doubters of his ability to be unbiased.

and Public Spaces. “It’s been 51 days since the hounds from hell marched on our city.”

If necessary, he said, the people would call on its own review board.

Gathers also urged the city to do away with the Pledge of Allegiance that begins every City Council meeting. “Please no longer ask us to start these proceedings with a Pledge of Allegiance to a flag or a

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Bro, who is not a Charlottesville resident, urged the city to consider naming more streets for African-American leaders who have made an impact, including Laura Robinson, who taught before and during segregation and who died earlier this year at 103.—Lisa Provence

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Meme-able Magill August icon recovers, keeps fighting back

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“I don’t really see the city as a partner.”

UVA library systems employee Tyler Magill says he hopes UVA president-elect James Ryan “weighs things a little more carefully” than outgoing President Teresa Sullivan.

UVA president-elect James Ryan will take her place next year. “I would just hope that Mr. Ryan would weigh things a little bit more carefully,” Magill says.

An iconic photo from the weekend of the Unite the Right rally shows Magill rushing event organizer Jason Kessler with his hands in the air at Kessler’s August 13 attempted press conference.

Laughing, Magill says the photo shows him “being really big,” but in reality, he knew there was a sniper atop a building overlooking Kessler’s conference, and he wanted to approach the white nationalist while showing he wasn’t armed.

The library worker calls himself a “tourist” in the mess of alt-right protesters and counterprotesters, and says he doesn’t belong to any activist group.

He’s not a “shining example,” of how to confront white supremacy, but he tries to be, he says.

“We all need to try every day and not expect to get any reward for it,” he says. “The reward is in the doing.”

And for plenty of people, the terror of that weekend isn’t over. Magill says he’s been in “therapy up to [his] eyeballs.”

“Now I’m another middle-aged white person wearing sweat pants just walking down the street not doing much,” he says.

“There’s plenty of people out there who still feel like it’s August 12 all the time.”

“Shell-shocked, not thinking, I ran down to join them, only hoping to be a witness, and hoping that even if [the white supremacists] were prepared to hurt, to kill 30 people, perhaps they wouldn’t kill 31.”

TYLER MAGILL, IN A WIDELY READ LETTER TO UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TERESA SULLIVAN

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A GoFundMe page has raised about $130,000 for his expenses, but Magill says he has good insurance through UVA and knows of other victims from that deadly weekend who need more help than he does.

That’s why, in his letter to Sullivan, he called for the university to pay off those victims’ bills in full.

“These people’s lives are in shambles because the University failed to take action on Friday night,” he wrote in his letter. “The University emboldened the fascists with [its] lack of action, and set the stage for the 12th.

The University must acknowledge its complicity and make amends.”

Sullivan asked Magill to sit in the president’s box at Scott Stadium for the September 24 Concert for Charlottesville, championed by the Dave Matthews Band. That’s where he passed her the letter, which he says is set to be published soon in the Washington Post.

“You will be leaving and that is for the best,” he wrote. He says he hasn’t received a response—and isn’t expecting to.

While lying in bed, Magill says, “As much as I can, I sympathize with the problems that a modern university president has—so much of their job isn’t the classic university president job, so much of it is just raising money,” he says. Despite her own personal beliefs, she has to cater her statements to “a fairly conservative, if not reactionary, donor base,” he adds.

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The investigation is “not strictly did police do a good job,” said Heaphy. “It’s much broader than that.”

Investigators are poring over thousands of documents, photos and videos, have established a tip line and have conducted 60 interviews so far, said Heaphy. “We’re trying our best to get a comprehensive report.”

He also acknowledged the lack of “universal acceptance” because of his own background and the “skepticism” of city government. “We’ve worked hard to disabuse people of that perception,” he said.

Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy asked the big questions that remain unanswered at this point: Why was Fourth Street, where Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of other injured when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters, open? Was there a standdown order for police, and why were protesters allowed to carry shields and weapons?

Those are “not simple answers,” said Heaphy, and he said he preferred to give a full narrative based on verifiable facts, which he anticipates could come by Thanksgiving or December.

He said there would be no legal prohibition preventing the release of the information.

Councilor Kathy Galvin urged a speedy release of the report. “I think the public is so hungry for news, it would be incumbent upon us to share it as quickly as possible,” she said, and not hold it for even “a single day.”

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uring the August weekend that scarred Charlottesville, one man was in the thick of the major events, and became both a casualty and a meme of resistance to hate.

That man was Tyler Magill: a UVA alum, longtime WTJU DJ once known as the Velvet Facilitator and a local fixture in the community.

Before hundreds of white supremacists wielding tiki torches marched across UVA Grounds August 11, Magill, a UVA library system employee with access to Alderman, went there to observe the events—and became way more involved than he planned.

When the alt-righters, in town a day early for the Unite the Right rally, began encircling about 30 counterprotesters at the university’s Thomas Jefferson statue on that Friday evening, Magill says he joined the minority, mostly made up of young people, though he didn’t know any of them.

“Shell-shocked, not thinking, I ran down to join them, only hoping to be a witness, and hoping that even if [the white supremacists] were prepared to hurt, to kill 30 people, perhaps they wouldn’t kill 31,” he wrote in a widely read letter to university President Teresa Sullivan, who has been criticized for her handling of the neo-Nazi rally.

As the counterprotesters were surrounded by white-polo-shirted men with fash haircuts, Magill says they were doused with a liquid, and at some point, he was whacked in the neck with a tiki torch.

Four days later, he became thick-tongued, his reflexes slowed and he lost about half of the vision in his right eye—signs he was having a stroke, believed to be the result of blunt force trauma to his carotid artery.

Though he still has a small blind spot and little energy from the August 15 health crisis, he says he’s grateful to be recovering as quickly as he has.

“I have no right to be alive, certainly not to be ambulatory in full possession of all of my faculties,” says Magill on a recent afternoon in which he had just returned from getting a CAT scan and was resting in bed.

“But I’m coming out of this relatively unscathed,” he adds.

Doctors haven’t recommended when he should return to work, he says, but the university allows him six months of short-term disability leave, and he’s used six weeks so far.

He says his job at the library is fairly physical, and he can only do about an hour of light activity right now before he requires rest.

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country that shows no allegiance to us.” He ended his comments with a drop to both knees with both fists raised.

Heaphy stressed that he was not the sole investigator, and said he was leading a team of four lawyers, other professionals and a separate law enforcement group of consultants. “It’s not me doing this, it’s me supervising a team,” he said.

The investigation is not just looking at law enforcement and police response, and it will also examine the permitting process, interagency coordination, internal and external communications and the relationship between council and staff.

That became an issue when Mayor Mike Signer was not allowed into the command center August 12, and on Facebook and in a leaked memo, he pointed the finger at Jones and police Chief Al Thomas. Jones responded that Signer threatened to fire both him and Thomas during the height of the crisis.

Signer was subsequently reprimanded by his colleagues on City Council, who reminded him in the city’s form of government, the mayor is one among five equals and the city manager is the CEO.

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One had a 9-year-old girl and the video U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Hoppe found focused on her vagina. Another had a probable cause to move the case to a grand 12-year-old girl performing oral sex on her jury after the former Charlottesville High same-aged boyfriend, and police say the environmental sciences teacher, 57, waived girl is known in the National Center for his right to a preliminary hearing.

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There were also nonsexual phoFederal public defender Antos taken of the girl before the drea Harris appeared in court more graphic images, according with Wellbeloved-Stone, and to the affidavit. she did not seek his release on Wellbeloved-Stone appeared bond. He’s been held in Albe- Rick Wellbeloved-Stone marle-Charlottesville Region- was a popular environmen- in Charlottesville General Disal Jail since his arrest July 27. tal science teacher whose trict Court September 28, where classes were in demand at He came to law enforce- Charlottesville High School. the prosecution dropped one count of child porn possession. ment’s attention in an online CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE

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“We need solidarity—not just unity—in the wake of August 12,” says Schyler Cunningham, one of three event organizers who met during the March Against White Supremacy last month, when a group of activists walked from Charlottesville to the nation’s capital. Back home, their first efforts to memorialize African-Americans were erased from the Free Speech wall, so Cunningham and about a dozen volunteers covered what they renamed the Solidarity Wall September 28 with the names of 1,500 black men and women killed in the United States by acts of police brutality since 2013. The event ended with a quiet reading of each name.—Samantha Baars

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Haysom’s body was found with an unidentified fingerprint; neither Elizabeth Haysom’s prints nor Mr. Soering’s prints matched.”

Harding’s theory is that the couple’s daughter, Elizabeth, whose uncommon type B blood was found at the scene and who has claimed her mother sexually abused her, had the motive for the savage slayings and used either an emotional or a drug connection to entice the unknown accomplices.

“This case is truly overwhelming,” Hudson told the room of reporters, and Harding, who has clocked more than 400 hours on the case, agreed it would be impossible to boil down years of research into an hour-long press conference.

Representatives from ABC’s “20/20” were present, and Harding says they’re working on a documentary, expected to air in November, that he hopes will encompass all of the evidence that supports his theory that Soering is innocent.

Harding said the “20/20” doc, along with a supplemental letter he sent to the governor September 13, could pressure McAuliffe to pardon Soering before he leaves office in January.

“As of today, the Bedford County authorities refuse to make any attempt to identify and locate the two men who left their DNA at the crime scene,” Harding wrote. “That leaves two likely killers free to roam Virginia and possibly commit other offenses. ...Derek and Nancy Haysom and their families have never received justice, because two killers have escaped prosecution for 32 years. If a pardon for Mr. Soering becomes the first step toward arresting and convicting the two murderers, you will finally give the victims and their loved ones what they deserve.”

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nationally recognized DNA expert says his conclusions provide further evidence that convicted murderer and former UVA student Jens Soering, who was charged with the 1985 murders of his girlfriend’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom, could be innocent— and that two killers who were involved are still at large.

Forensic scientist Thomas McClintock, who is a Liberty University professor and founder of DNA Diagnostics Inc., reviewed DNA test results done in September 2009.

Such testing was not available in 1990, when Soering went to trial.

McClintock focused primarily on three blood-spattered samples—a piece of Formica kitchen countertop, the front door and its threshold—from the Bedford County residence where Soering is accused of repeatedly stabbing the Haysoms and slitting their throats.

“Does Jens Soering’s DNA profile match any of those?” McClintock asked a room full of local and national reporters at City Space on the Downtown Mall September 27. “They absolutely do not.”

In a report dated September 21, he stated that the blood came from at least one male contributor and doesn’t match Soering or Derek Haysom’s genetic makeup.

Albemarle Sheriff Chip Harding, a longtime advocate of Soering’s innocence who asked Governor Terry McAuliffe to pardon him more than a year ago, called the press conference to announce new details that support his claim.

McClintock insists his is an unbiased, scientific review. “I don’t have a dog in this race,” he says. “I’m just looking at the data.”

Richard Hudson, a retired detective sergeant who investigated major crimes for the Charlottesville Police Department for more than 25 years, has also joined the cause.

In a September 12 letter to Governor McAuliffe, he writes, “I am a conservative Republican and I don’t generally think releasing criminals from the penitentiary is a good idea. I am persuaded, however, that Mr. Soering could not be convicted today on the evidence, science and analysis that has now been developed.”

Hudson spent more than 250 hours reviewing the case, and echoes that there is no genetic evidence that connects Soering to the bloody scene at the Haysom home.

“The scientific evidence now demonstrates that two unknown men left their blood at the crime scene,” he wrote. “A shot glass was found on a table near where Derek

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ow did Richard Stuart, trustee of the Westmoreland County Volunteer Fire Department since 1999, father of three and 2014 Virginia chapter winner of the American Academy of Pediatrics Child Advocate Award, earn the attention of two United Nations special rapporteurs concerned with the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly? As Virginia state senator for the 28th District, the Republican introduced a bill during the 2017 legislative session that was “incompatible with human rights laws and would unduly restrict the possibility for individuals to freely exercise their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and peaceful assembly.”

Yes, Virginia, the august body of the UN itself is worried about your right to assemble—and the rights of citizens in 17 additional states where restrictions on free speech or assembly were either proposed or passed. Stuart’s bill, which was defeated 14-26 with not a single Democrat supporting it, in the words of last spring’s UN report would have “dramatically increased penalties for protesters engaged in assemblies considered ‘unlawful.’”

Specifically, failure to disperse after an assembly is declared unlawful would have moved up to a Class 1 misdemeanor from Class 3 under Stuart’s bill. About SB1055 the UN rapporteurs concluded, “any law that would chill protesting also threatens the right to freedom of expression.”

That means the two protesters arrested for failure to disperse after Charlottesville’s July 8 KKK rally and the August 12 Unite the Right convergence would be facing up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 rather than the current maximum $500 fine with no jail time.

Addressed to the United States’ permanent mission to the UN, the report asks what measures the federal government intends to ensure state legislation accords with international standards of free expression and assembly. If that wasn’t a rhetorical question six months ago when the report was filed, it surely is now.

Ask Jemele Hill or Colin Kaepernick about the Trump administration’s position on free expression. Or, closer to home, recall the lies uttered by the president himself to discredit the August 12 counterprotesters. What’s the Department of Justice going to do to uphold freedom of expression and assembly at the state level, UN? I’ll bet very little.

Which means you’ve got to fend for yourself, Old Dominion. Don’t wait for Jeff Sessions to stand up for your rights and don’t expect a UN intervention. Richmond’s new legislative session begins on January 10, 2018, with committee meetings scheduled between now and then. Pay attention to what’s being drafted and passed through those committees using the General Assembly website. Respond, resist and get a permit before you protest.

Speaking of the mirthless U.S. attorney general, the Code Pink activist whose conviction for laughing during Sessions’ confirmation hearing in January was overturned, will be back in court next month.

Desiree Fairooz, of Loudoun County, refused a plea deal and is scheduled for retrial on November 13, according to her Twitter feed. (“I still cannot believe the government refuses to drop this,” she tweeted.

“Vindictive!”)

It’s quaint, if nothing else, to think of the UN raising the question of how free speech and free assembly will be protected on the federal level, while the government goes out of its way to punish a 61-year-old activist for chortling. Quaint, maybe even ironic, but it’s definitely not a laughing matter.

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History vs. heritage Richmond’s monument history begins with the Robert E. Lee statue, conceived after Lee’s death in 1870. The 61-foot statue with four granite pillars and a marble base was erected in 1890 after funding from private sources fell through.

The General Assembly passed an act to create a Governor’s Board to lead the commemoration efforts, and the $52,000 statue was slated for Monument Avenue to increase property values, according to the Virginia Historical Society. It was erected by black laborers and dedicated in front of 100,000 to 150,000 people.

Two other Confederate monuments, those of General J.E.B Stuart and the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, were erected within four days of each other in 1907.

General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s statue was unveiled in 1919, and the statue of Confederate States Navy commander Matthew Fontaine Maury was erected in 1929.

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Richmond, Virginia, was once the powerhouse of the South as the largest capital of the Confederate States of America.

Today, one of the city’s most affluent streets, Monument Avenue, is home to five statues commemorating Civil War leadership—and one statue added more than 60 years after to honor Richmond native and tennis hero Arthur Ashe. The city faces big questions as its mayor, Levar Stoney, recently reversed course on his support of removing and/or relocating the Confederate statues. The commission he formed to study the city’s monuments and the act of contextualization is on hiatus until October following a September protest around Richmond’s Lee statue. In looking toward Charlottesville, where protests have erupted because City Council voted to move the statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, are there any concrete answers on how to confront a past filled with slavery and racism in creating a solid future?

In September, demonstrators with the RVA No-Hate Counterprotest gathered at Richmond’s Maggie Walker statue and marched down Monument Avenue, past the General J.E.B. Stuart statue above, to the General Robert E. Lee statue, where a pro-Confederate rally that brought fewer than a dozen supporters was held.

According to a list of data of public spaces and symbols dedicated to the Confederacy, approximately a quarter of those spaces in Virginia and across the country, including schools, streets, monuments, plaques and other memorabilia, were dedicated between 1900 and 1918. This time period aligns with the Jim Crow law era of the South and the Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” ruling in 1896, which all stemmed from a Louisiana law that separated blacks and whites on railroads in 1890: the same year Robert E. Lee made his memorialized appearance in Richmond.

The most recent statue to go up in the Monument Avenue median is that of African-American tennis star and Richmonder Arthur Ashe. It was erected in 1996, 67 years after Maury’s statue.

Ashe is the only African-American memorialized on the grassy lawn, and according to the Monument Avenue Commission, the addition sparked heated conversations beginning in 1993 about the appropriateness of him being remembered just down the street from five prominent Confederate leaders.

Conversations about the morality of the monuments and talks of removing them catapulted into the public eye again in 2015 when Black Lives Matter was spray painted onto the Jefferson Davis monument. Richmond police arrested Joseph Weindl, after they found him starting to spray paint “loser” on the monument the following night. FastRICHMOND CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

MONUMENT AVENUE TIMELINE The 61-foot statue of General Robert E. Lee was the first memorial erected on Monument Avenue in 1890. It was conceived after Lee’s death in 1870.

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The base was vandalized with pine tar in late August 2017.

Jefferson Davis Conceived 10 days after the death of the president of the Confederacy on December 21, 1889, the monument was erected four days after Stuart. Its original location was slated to be Monroe Park, then Broad Street. It was erected on Monument Avenue at the former Civil War Star Fort site after remaining funding was raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The monument was spray painted with “Black Lives Matter” in 2015 and is a gathering site for pro-monument supporters and counterprotesters.

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson The 37-foot-tall monument was erected right after World

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by Mary Anna Jackson, the general’s widow, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The 1919 unveiling was attended by high-profile faces such as then-Virginia governor Westmoreland Davis, the Jackson family and Robert E. Lee’s grandson. School children, Virginia Military Institute cadets and Virginia National Guardsmen also attended.

Matthew Fontaine Maury The inspiration for the allegorical monument of the Confederate Naval officer came from a Richmonder who saw Maury memorialized in Hamburg, Germany, and suggested the city to do the same. Confederate sympathizer Katherine Stiles lobbied the public with pamphlets of her memories of the Civil War. The General Assembly contributed

$10,000; the City of Richmond $10,000; Virginia school children $2,000 and the United Daughters of the Confederacy $5,000. It was completed and dedicated in 1929.

Arthur Ashe The nationally acclaimed tennis star and Richmonder was memorialized in 1996.

Spearheaded by the Arthur Ashe Monument Committee after his death in 1993, the sculpture by Paul DiPasquale was discussed with Ashe in 1992. Ashe is the only African-American honored on Monument Avenue, and this was not without controversy.

Some welcomed the statue, and others questioned his presence among Confederate leadership, which is an ongoing discussion.

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General J.E.B. Stuart A resolution by City Council kickstarted the monument after Stuart’s death. It was erected May 30, 1907, at the intersection of Monument Avenue and Lombardy Street.

Its original planned location

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Robert E. Lee The 61-foot monument was conceived after the general’s death in 1870, and erected May 29, 1890. The original location was to be Hollywood Cemetery, but Lee was moved to Monument Avenue to increase real estate value and tax revenue. The General Assembly passed legislation to combine funding efforts, totaling $52,000. The statue was erected by African-American laborers and dedicated in front of 100,000 to 150,000 people.

The neighborhood was called the Lee District until 1907. It was the base for a pro-Confederate rally September 16.

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studies professor and historian at University of Virginia, says McIntire originally described his donation as “works of art.”

Like many opponents of removing the statues, Weber is also concerned that the rule of law is being eroded in favor of “interest groups.”

“If our elected officials exercise their political will in violation of that law, we are in danger of losing America,” he says.

Nonetheless, Weber says that his current position is dictated by his interpretation of the current laws. If the law changed, his opinion might, too.

“There are deeper grievances,” he said.

“A statue is just a symbol, not where the real grievances lie. It’s a diversion now.”

History lessons Charlottesville’s culture of placing importance on history creates both common ground and significant differences of opinion. For some, the statues themselves represent history that should be respected.

For others, the statues represent a crucial opportunity to discuss where historic narratives have been incomplete.

As executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Andrea Douglas is dedicated to sparking conversations about the history of Charlottesville. Unlike Weber, she believes that the statues should be placed in a museum, both to signify their value as tools for understanding history and to remove them from public spaces where they serve as symbols that no longer appropriately convey Charlottesville’s values.

“What I find difficult about the conversation here is that people believe that history is not ongoing,” Douglas says. “If we believed that we could not change history, then we would be all sitting around here drinking tea under British rule.”

Margaret O’Bryant is the librarian and head of reference resources at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.

Although the violent events of August 12 are still rippling through the community,

Talk of creating a memorial to the enslaved laborers at UVA began in 2011, when a student group proposed a tribute to those who were forced to work at UVA for the first four decades of the university’s history. After winning support from the administration, the memorial is slated for completion in time for UVA’s bicentennial in 2019.

O’Bryant feels that the statues were not directly responsible.

“I don’t think that the decisions made without our community [and] beyond our community should control what our community [decides],” she says.

One solution she has considered takes inspiration from the now-defunct Piedmont Council for the Arts’ Art in Place campaign, with temporary installations honoring notable community members, including those who have been historically overlooked. Controversial statues would only be on display for a short time, while popular statues could potentially become permanent fixtures, she says.

In 2016, City Council convened a Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, which met for six months and ultimately recommended the city move both Confederate statues of Lee and Jackson or keep them in place and provide context (both Douglas and O’Bryant served on the commission).

Schmidt provided historical context and background to the group.

In her research from the digital archives maintained by the Virginia Foundation for Humanities, she learned that the narrative of Confederate defeat known by most

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lthough they are now shrouded, Charlottesville’s statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson remain at the center of a larger debate over the role monuments and memorials play in Charlottesville.

The events of August 12 added renewed urgency to conversations about how Charlottesville’s landscape commemorates its history and represents its values—and how the tension between old ways of life and new ways of thinking can be channeled into productive dialogue. As the legal battle over whether the Confederate statues can stay marches on, plans to bring new memorials to Charlottesville offer a glimpse of what the city’s landscape may increasingly look like in the future.

The two Confederate statues were donated to the community by Paul Goodloe McIntire, whose presence continues to permeate Charlottesville through an annual award given out by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, as well as at both the business school and amphitheater, which bear his name, on the University of Virginia’s Grounds.

Despite these positive contributions, McIntire’s decision to commission statues of two Confederate generals who did not visit Charlottesville during the Civil War came during a time of racial terrorism waged against black communities in the South. Although he built parks intended for the city’s black community, McIntire also intended for the parks to remain segregated. Like Thomas Jefferson, he was a product of his time, complicating the current debate over the statues’ meaning.

Part of the legal battle over whether the statues can be removed hinges on whether they are considered war memorials or works of art.

Charles “Buddy” Weber arrived in Charlottesville as an undergraduate at UVA in 1964, and returned for law school in 1993.

Twenty years later, he ran for City Council as a Republican and has been involved in public life ever since.

As a veteran of the Navy, Weber worries that removing statues of war figures could become a precedent for removing other statues commemorating unpopular wars such as Vietnam. The idea that Confederate statues are protected war memorials is at the heart of the Monument Fund’s lawsuit, led

by Weber, against the city, regarding its February vote to move the Robert E. Lee statue.

But with scars from August 12 still fresh, the legality of that decision is still being debated. In 1998, the General Assembly passed a law restricting the movement of war memorials. That statute, along with the original law against removing war memorials passed in 1904, is currently under scrutiny, with Attorney General Mark Herring recently advising that the 1998 statute cannot be applied retroactively.

But some are not convinced that the Confederate statues can be considered war memorials. Jalane Schmidt, a religious

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Charlottesville residents—that unlike the Virginia Military Institute or the University of Mississippi, the University of Virginia was spared in a gentlemanly and peaceful agreement—was missing some crucial elements. As she delved deeper, she says a different image of that time began to emerge.

When the Union Army reclaimed Charlottesville and Albemarle County in 1865, more than 50 percent of the population was African-American, the vast majority still enslaved. The 1860 Census showed that 13,916 enslaved African-Americans, as well as 606 free African-Americans, lived in Albemarle County, and those numbers held true throughout the Civil War. By comparison, just more than 12,000 members of the county’s population were white.

As the Civil War ravaged the United States, racial tensions flared in Charlottesville. Between 1862 and 1864, nearly 1,000 enslaved African-Americans were forced into the Confederate effort, and in the days leading up to the Confederate surrender on March 3, 1865, Schmidt found primary sources in which university faculty paternalistically complained that their “misguided, wretched” slaves were escaping to freedom and taking livestock for the United States forces.

“When you rearticulate these conversations, you create multiple ways of entering a dialogue about America and how Charlottesville was founded,” says Douglas, who points out that the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in 1863, two years before Charlottesville was retaken by the United States Army.

“Did it free enslaved people?” asks Douglas. “No, they freed themselves. If you give people agency, it’s not the same narrative.”

Adding to the narrative In 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative plans to open a Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial will feature individual floating concrete columns commemorating each victim of more than 4,000 lynchings in America between 1877 and 1950. A duplicate column will be prepared for placement in the county where the lynching occurred, and Albermarle is one of those 800 counties.

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forward to the past few months when, between vandalism, such as pine tar thrown on the J.E.B Stuart monument, and demonstrations, such as regular pro-Confederate flaggers around the monuments, Stoney set out to take control of the Monument Avenue conversation. (The latest spotlight on the monuments was the September 16 pro-Confederate rally that brought fewer than a dozen pro-Confederates, who were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters. There were seven arrests and no injuries reported.) Stoney formed the Monument Avenue Commission, a group of historians, artists, authors, professors and public leaders, to discuss how to add context to the monuments, including discussing adding more monuments to the grassy median.

“Monument Avenue was a real estate development that began with the Lee statue...and it succeeded—as a development venture and in fabricating the Lost Cause ideology as truth,” Stoney said in his first commission statement. “In fact, it was nostalgia masquerading as history.”

The commission held its first public meeting August 9, and commentary from the community lasted for two hours.

Opinions ran the gamut, from supporting contextualization to removing the statues to leaving them in place with no additions. Speakers were met with heckling and shouting for having different viewpoints.

The second commission meeting, originally set for September 13, was postponed until October due to safety concerns, after the events of August 12 in Charlottesville.

This impacted Stoney’s goals for the commission, and he reversed his opinion on removing or relocating the statues, effective August 16, according to a press release. Jim Nolan, the mayor’s press secretary, said the next public meeting will be a work session to plan for future community engagement, and there will be no public comment.

Future efforts A recent push to pass a resolution to remove all of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue by 9th District City Councilman Michael Jones was assigned to the Land Use Committee September 25, but he says he does not yet have the support of his colleagues. Jones says he will not “play the political game” of convincing the council to vote yes, but he will continue his cause.

“We can’t be afraid to have a conversation about this,” Jones says. “Since it’s been so volatile, there’s a greater conversation that needs to be had.”

Dr. Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University professor of history, says he favors the removal of the statues.

“Yes, we need to understand the Civil War and its role in reshaping the nation, but we shouldn’t do that to the exclusion of other critical historical events and people who weren’t white, male, [or] took part in military engagements,” Smithers said. He also said that the timing of the erection of the statues—the time of Jim Crow laws, lynching and when Civil War soldiers were dying—contributed to the Lost Cause mentality and “Northern aggression.” According to a report from Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Monuments Work Group from 2016, 168 war memorials currently stand in Virginia, with 81 percent dedicated to the Confederate participants in the Civil War. “In other words, Confederate monuments represent a conscious effort to rewrite American history, replacing it with the fictions of Southern heritage and the cultural and political myths of the Lost Cause,” Smithers says.

Contextualization, Smithers says, won’t work—because of the monuments’ location in Richmond’s busiest areas plaques won’t be sufficient. Relocating them to cemeteries, he says, would be a more appropriate place for their purpose of memorializing the Confederacy.

In addition, new memorials are being placed throughout the city. Richmond native Maggie Walker, the first female bank owner in the United States and a civil rights activist, was memorialized in July in Jackson Ward, a historically AfricanAmerican neighborhood. She was welcomed warmly by the community as an example of resilience, and Stoney said at the unveiling event that it was his favorite monument in the city.

The latest tribute slated for Richmond in 2019, as voted on by the state’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission, is the commemoration of emancipation memorial featuring 10 prominent African-Americans, which will be erected on Brown’s Island. It will memorialize Nat Turner, the leader of a violent slave rebellion in southern Virginia, and Gabriel Prosser, who unsuccessfully attempted to lead a slave revolt in Richmond, as well as Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Dred Scott, William Harvey Carney, John Mercer Langston, Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker, Lucy F. Simms, Rosa Dixon Bowser and John Mitchell Jr. The General Assembly has earmarked $500,000 for that statue, with the remaining $300,000 coming from private donations.

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ulty and community members who discuss ways in which UVA’s history with slavery and segregation can be addressed and repair harms associated with that legacy. In recent years, he has seen change sparked

by President Teresa Sullivan’s four-year-old Commission on Slavery and the University, which has recently renewed research into UVA’s history of slavery and eugenics.

In September, Dukes (who also served on the Blue Ribbon Commission) presented City Council with the idea of a lynching memorial, and points out that the lynching occurred at a demographic tipping point in Albemarle history.

“After 1890, blacks were no longer the majority here,” says Dukes, in part due to the rash of lynchings and other forms of racial terror that erupted across the South.

On July 12, 1898, John Henry James, an African-American Charlottesville resident, was accused of rape and arrested. While he was being transported to the Charlottesville jail, a mob of approximately 150 people seized him from the train that was carrying him.

The scene quickly escalated into violence. Without a trial to determine his guilt or innocence, James was hanged to death from a tree near the Ivy Depot. As was customary at the time, his body was also mutilated by more than 40 gunshots and his clothing and body parts were distributed among the crowd as souvenirs.

In 2015, the Equal Justice Initiative released a landmark report on the national history of lynching. The study uncovered more than 4,000 lynchings that occurred between 1877 and 1950, adding several hundred events to the existing historical record.

In 2018, EJI plans to open a museum and memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, to create a space for the public to interact with their findings. The Memorial to Peace and Justice will be constructed on six acres, with individual floating concrete columns commemorating each lynching victim.

For each column within the memorial, a duplicate column will be prepared for placement in the county where the lynching occurred. Albemarle is among 800 counties that were the sites of violent lynchings during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.

A petition on Change.org is nearing 50 percent support for a lynching memorial to be placed near the courthouse, which currently hosts the Stonewall Jackson statue, providing additional historical context as a counter narrative to Lost Cause mythology.

An additional marker could be placed near Ivy Depot, where the lynching occurred.

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additional markers adding context to specific locations including taverns, hotels and commercial buildings. The text that will be on display is currently being finalized, with the goal of installing the new markers as early in 2018 as possible.

Additionally, Charlottesville’s Historic Resources Committee is working to create a new marker for Court Square that will identify the location of the auction block where enslaved men and women were once sold. The marker currently on display was previously built into the side of a building that once housed a 19thcentury auction house, until the building’s owners had it relocated to an inconspicuous spot in the sidewalk.

“People have objected that it’s not prominent enough,” says O’Bryant. “Even people looking for it don’t always find it.”

Although there is no official date for the auction block marker’s installation, the new marker will provide more information than the current plaque. The Historic Resources Committee also plans to install the new marker vertically and closer to eye level to increase its visibility.

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snowdrops that will flower during Black History Month and potentially flowers that will bloom in time for Liberation and Emancipation Day on March 3.

In addition to the memorial for enslaved laborers, the Jefferson School is currently working to fund a new sculpture to commemorate Vinegar Hill, a historic African-American neighborhood that the city razed in 1965.

“The Jefferson School [can be viewed] as a monument itself, and the two [will] stand together as a true conversation about the community that was Vinegar Hill,” Douglas says.

The effort to commemorate Vinegar Hill began in 2011. A jury of historians, artists and writers, including Carmenita Higginbotham, Sarah Tanguy and Frank Walker, searched for a sculptor who could bring both a keen historic sensibility and an understanding of Charlottesville to the project.

Eventually, the jury selected Melvin Edwards, an award-winning artist known for both his installations at internationally known institutions including the Whitney and the Venice Biennale, as well as his public art projects, which have previously been featured at public housing and university sites.

For Douglas, Edwards’ iconic statue ensures that Charlottesville’s AfricanAmerican community will be included in national conversations for years to come.

After a series of meetings with the area’s black community, Edwards designed a sculpture specifically for the site near the Jefferson School. The proposed sculpture will be made of welded steel featuring both geometric shapes and more recognizable symbols including chains. Its modern, abstract form is designed to resist easy explanation.

“You can actually stand inside of it,” Douglas says. “There’s a relationship to your body; you can be surrounded by the metaphor of this object.”

This represents a radical departure from the design of the Confederate statues,

which can be only be approached from a point of view of veneration, she says.

These new memorials offer hope to members of the Charlottesville community who would like to see conversations about the city’s history expand.

“The arc is definitely moving strongly toward more honesty, more complete histories, and more understanding the need to overcome white supremacy,” says Dukes. “To be pessimistic is to be cynical, and to be cynical is to be complicit. I choose to look to ways many people are changing, so it’s not too hard to be optimistic.”

As the Vinegar Hill statue awaits complete funding, it raises broader questions about how statues and memorials are funded in Charlottesville. Part of the debate over whether the city has the legal right to remove the Confederate statues hinges on the fact that they were originally the result of a private donation, rather than public funding.

Although the Blue Ribbon Commission directed some funding to the Vinegar Hill sculpture, its position on private property and the fact that the jury process was not held publicly through City Council suppressed the amount of funding.

“If we got the money in 2012 or 2013 it may have been able to change the conversation,” Douglas says. “Had it begun and been more robust earlier, would the community be more prepared for the conversations we are engaged in now?”

Despite Edwards’ dialogue with Charlottesville’s African-American community, Douglas was clear that not everyone agrees about the final design. Nonetheless, these interactive memorials will provide new entry points into discussions of race, history and culture, offering Charlottesville new opportunities to debate and define its story.

“The only good thing of the events this summer is people are paying much more attention to our history,” says Dukes.— Michelle Delgado

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Beyond signs and statues, Charlottesville has other options for sparking conversations about the city’s history. This spring marked the first celebration of Liberation and Emancipation Day, commemorating March 3, 1865, when the city was surrendered to the United States Union Army.

Following the surrender, as the United States army razed a textile mill (in the neighborhood that would later be named Woolen Mills) and destroyed a nearby bridge, Albemarle County was awash with jubilation as formerly enslaved AfricanAmericans celebrated their freedom.

“They said things like, ‘I prayed and prayed that you would arrive, and now you’re here. Glory to god!’” says Schmidt, recalling primary sources from the VFH archive.

Schmidt’s academic work has focused on the importance of festivals and celebrations in culture.

“Festivals are a way to remember history, celebrate it and mark our values,” she says. “What better way to mark our values than to celebrate with these 14,000 people?”

The celebration was especially striking given that in 2015, the city moved to end Lee-Jackson Day, an annual state holiday celebrating the two Confederate generals whose statues are at the heart of the debate in Charlottesville.

“Take that to its logical conclusion,” Schmidt says. “You’ve already said that they’re not worthy of being celebrated.”

The festivities were centered around a church service at the University Chapel, which was the site where the surrender

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took place, and continued with a parade to the Jefferson School.

Douglas remembers approximately 150 to 200 members of the community arriving at the Jefferson School. She was struck by the mood, which she says set an appropriate tone for community conversations about history and race.

“It was celebratory as much as it was an informative moment,” Douglas says.

Moving forward, the holiday, which arose from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, is expected to become part of the annual calendar.

Echoing Liberation and Emancipation Day’s ability to engage the community, Charlottesville will soon gain two new memorials that will be interactive and designed to drive conversations about race and history forward, rather than serving as venerations of specific historic figures.

In 2011, a student group called for a new memorial to commemorate enslaved laborers who were forced to work at UVA for the first four decades of its history. After winning support from the administration and a long search for an appropriate design, a plan for the Freedom Ring memorial has been chosen and it is slated for completion in time for UVA’s bicentennial in 2019.

The design features a circular granite structure designed to echo broken shackles. Stretching 80 feet in diameter, it will create a natural gathering place on the grassy stretch between the Corner and the Rotunda alongside University Avenue.

The structure will be inscribed with all known names of enslaved university workers, as well as marks to signify those who are unnamed in public record, with a rough-hewn exterior that will recall the physical and psychological scars left by slavery.

The landscaping has also been given careful thought and symbolism. A water feature will echo the Middle Passage (referring to the transportation of Africans on densely packed ships across the Atlantic), while also suggesting liberation. Finally, the landscaping will feature plants set to bloom during significant times, with blue

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FIRING IT UP From her beginnings in the church choir, Patti LaBelle’s soulful vocals have showcased blues, gospel, jazz and funk that have catapulted her to a singing career of more than 50 years. The Detroit native has expanded her talents to include baking and barbecue sauce, but the energy she brings to the stage remains, and her powerfully emotive voice continues to captivate audiences everywhere. $49.75-150, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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On a fall day in 1817, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison met in a field to place a cornerstone on land that is now University of Virginia’s Lawn. Two hundred years later to the day, Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. and R&B singer Andra Day will perform, along with more than 900 students and faculty members, to kick off the UVA bicentennial, a celebration that continues through final exercises in May 2019. State-of-the-art technology from Paintscaping Inc. will transform the Rotunda into a storytelling canvas through projection mapping of UVA’s history. Free (tickets needed), 7pm. UVA Lawn. bicentennial. virginia.edu/launch-weekend. PUBLICITY PHOTO

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Inspired, versatile and entirely unique: These are among the words that have been used to describe the Boston-based act Della Mae. Steeped with timeless lyrics and rootsy influences, the multi-instrumental group creates original music that draws on both traditional and avant-garde styles. With a desire to focus on their personal lives and solo work, the foursome took a hiatus last year with a promise to make a few special appearances in 2017—and it seems that the equalityminded Festy Experience was a compelling date to ink in their calendars. $25-174, free to age 12, 7pm.

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Two heads are better than one...but how about eight? The award-winning, record-smashing Zac Brown Band proves that strength does come in numbers. Blending rock energy with country style, the group is tearing through the U.S. on the Welcome Home tour, following the release of its latest album of the same name. The new tracks are chock-full of rhythmic, twangy guitar riffs, infectious fiddling and soul-felt lyrics, sure to keep this modern octet on stages for the “Long Haul.”

With special guest Darrell Scott. $29.75-648, 7pm. John Paul Jones Arena, 295 Massie Rd. 243-4960.

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October 6, 2017 we will gather to launch one of the most momentous occasions in the life of

this University: our bicentennial. We will partner with University Arts to present an evening of performances and celebrations that commemorate the first 200 years and envision the next 200 years here at the University of Virginia. This is a historical moment for our University and we hope you will join us that evening.

Special performances by: Andra Day • Leslie Odom Jr. • Goo Goo Dolls • A.D. Carson • Black Voices Gospel Choir • Cavalier Marching Band • Greg Howard • Joseph Mills • Katie Couric • Martha Graham Dance Company • Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir of Charlottesville • MICE • Monacan Indian Nation’s Tribal Council • New Dominions • Rita Dove • Susan Gaeta • The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia • The Ingramettes • UVA Jazz Ensemble • University Singers • UVA African Music and Dance Ensemble • Virginia Belles • Virginia Gentlemen • Virginia Women’s Chorus + MANY MORE

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music Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory lesson before DJ Buchata spins an eclectic Latin mix for a social dance. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Dhara Goradia and Friends. Bassist and composer Dhara Goradia leads a trio of local musicians that brings a fresh new sound to modern jazz, fusion and world music. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Haybaby. Sludge pop from Brooklyn, followed by swirling psych from Sic Tic and electric dream candy from Sweet Tooth.

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

Jazz Collective #9. Bop, swing, Latin and funky soul jazz with a chill vibe. Free, 6:30pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Open Mic. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713.

Stan Hamrick. Acoustic Americana brings back tunes from vintage jukeboxes. Free, 7pm. Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie, 3586 Monacan Trail Rd., North Garden. 245-0000.

The Ragnarockers. Funky, jazzy blu-pop for the masses. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

stage Love’s Labour’s Lost. The King of Navarre and his three “schoolmates” are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and her three ladies. $21-60, 7:30pm.

American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

WE ARE PUSSY RIOT OR EVERYTHING IS P.R. A recounting of the story of three members of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, who were hunted down and put on trial when their protest video went viral. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

Xanadu: The Glow-Along. The ultimate ‘80s musical fantasy becomes an interactive party with plenty of franchised glitz and surprises. Free, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 375 Merchant Walk Square, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

Thursday 10/5 music 502 Fossils. Get the night started with live, local tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Radim Zenkl and Danny Knicely. Mandolin masters to the max. $15-18, 8:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Stephen Stills and Judy Collins. Two folk icons celebrate the golden anniversary of their formative time together. $30-70, 6pm.

Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.

The Festy Experience. Annual music, arts, food and beer festival. $37-174, camping

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The Chickenhead Blues Band. Charlottesville’s premier boogie-woogie, upbeat rhythm and blues dance band. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Three actors, 37 plays, 90 minutes. Hilarity guaranteed. 13-plus. $1015, 8pm. Gorilla Theater, 1717 Allied Ln., Ste. 2B. 547-7986.

The Legwarmers. The Legwarmers don’t just remember the ‘80s...the group relives the ‘80s. Free, 9pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Much Ado About Nothing. While the villainous Don John devises a scheme to shatter the nuptials of Claudio and Hero, the young lovers conspire to trick Beatrice and Benedick into admitting their love. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Festy Experience. See listing for Thursday, October 5. $37-174, camping and parking passes not included in ticket price. All day. Infinity Downs, 1510 Diggs Mountain Rd., Arrington. thefesty.com.

WE ARE PUSSY RIOT OR EVERYTHING IS P.R. See listing for Wednesday, October 4. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

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First Friday Improv. Long-form improv comedy for all. $5, 7pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. bigbluedoor.org.

Ian McLean. Australian art historian gives a talk, “Indigenous art: Can it be contemporary art without already being modern?”

Free, 6pm. Second Street Gallery, 115 Second St. SE. 977-7284.

Henry VI, Part 3. In Shakespeare’s brilliant, brutal and innovative play, England’s royal cousins play a deadly game of thrones. Free, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

MFA Reading Series. UVA creative writing students Valencia Robin Grice and Juan Suarez read from their work. Free, 8pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Paula Poundstone. This comic’s audiences are left complaining of sore cheeks from bouts of laughter. $33-37, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Saturday 10/7 music All Black Affair. Wear your best all-black attire for this jam with DJ Double U. 21-plus. $5-10, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Banditos. Band appropriates punk and rock ‘n’ roll elements. $10-12, 9pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

BIG. See listing for Friday, October 6. Free, 6:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Diseased Earth. A death metal collective, followed by original metalcore from Cut The Architect’s Hand and thrash groove metal from Blödhren. $7, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Eli Cook. Celebrated blues musician plays from his new album, High-Dollar Gospel. $7, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660.

The Sally Rose Band and Lauren Hoffman and the Secret Storm. A glitter rock alternative rock double-header for WTJU and IX Art Park’s Freefall concert series. Free, 5pm.

IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. 924-0885.

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Backstory Live: Who Speaks for America?

Using Thomas Jefferson’s founding of UVA as a starting point, historians weave together the founder’s ideas about the role of an educated citizenry in a democracy. Free, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Friday 10/6 music Abbey Road Unplugged. Beatles tribute band has mastered the sound of the Liverpudlians that forever changed the musical landscape. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

BIG. Acoustic rock and blues covers and originals. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Bob Bennetta. Longtime pianist has a classic jazz style. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen. Duo plays vibrantly colored, richly textured tunes. $20, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

Faster Than Walking. American bluegrass ready to liven up the night. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St, 202-8387.

Gina Sobel. Great tunes in a chill atmosphere.

Free, 5pm. Wegmans Food Market, 100 Wegmans Way, 5th Street Station. 529-3200.

Gladstones. Old-school rock ‘n’ roll from local talents. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Greg Ward. A one-man reggae band. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Cafe, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464.

Kendall Street Company. Six-piece rock band known for its energetic and unpredictable style. $10, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Matthew Willner and Enemies. Local guitarist plays with a rotating lineup of musicians.

21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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LUA. Dave Berzonsky, Estela Knott and Matty Metcalfe play Mexilachian music, a blend of original and traditional Mexican and Appalachian tunes from the Atlantic basin.

Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’ Open Music Jam. Play and sing along to local talent. Free, 7pm.

James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

UVA Bicentennial. A series of performances, lectures, events and more kick off UVA’s bicentennial celebration. Various times and locations. bicentennial.virginia.edu.

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Lolita. Three-piece rock band releases its Counting Contrails EP. With Eli Cook Band, The Chuggernauts and Mark Coffman. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Expertly weaving together various jazz styles. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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Oginalii. Psychedelic sludge rock followed by blues with attitude from Shagwüf and calculated proto-punk from Breakers. $8, 7pm.

The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

and parking passes not included in ticket price. All day. Infinity Downs, 1510 Diggs Mountain Rd., Arrington. thefesty.com.

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Jim Waive. Country gentleman blends honkytonk and blues with beloved standards.

Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

Joan Shelley with James Elkington. Inspired folk duo with a unique sound. $10, 5:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

John D’earth. American post-bop and hard bop jazz trumpeter. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

LG and Friends. Bassist Lesly Gourdet gathers a group for blues, jazz, R & B and a little rock ‘n’ roll. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm.

The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Mama Tried. High-energy versions of vintage Grateful Dead tunes and originals in the spirit of the Dead. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Sammy Horne. Classic cocktail pianist. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

The Festy Experience. See listing for Thursday, October 5. $37-174, camping and parking passes not included in ticket price. All day. Infinity Downs, 1510 Diggs Mountain Road, Arrington. thefesty.com.

The Pollocks. Songs reflecting life with all the sickness, breakups, jealousy and hangovers that come with it. Free, 5pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 2228 Lake Albemarle Rd. 326-2374.

The Ragnarockers. See listing for Wednesday, October 4. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford.

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Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on love and spaceships, both badly in need of repair. Free, 2pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. (540) 923-4206.

stage Much Ado About Nothing. See listing for Thursday, October 5. $29-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Peter and the Starcatcher. Embrace the endless possibilities of imagination in this action-packed coming-of-age prequel to Peter Pan. Free, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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Virginia Barbecue. Joseph R. Haynes, award-winning competition barbecue cook and author of Virginia Barbecue: A History, and BBQ Exchange’s Craig Hartman talk ‘cue (and offer a little to taste). Free, noon. James Madison’s Montpelier, 11350 Constitution Hwy., Montpelier Station. (540) 672-2728.

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inger-songwriter Joan Shelley describes her latest self-titled album as being like an oil painting with minimal brush strokes. “I think of it as doing the most with the least,” says Shelley. “It’s trying to do something subtly, but by being able to see the gestures. I don’t like to overwork it.”

The album, released in May, is a follow-up to 2015’s Over and Even. It is also an exploration of new musical terrain for Shelley, who performs at the Southern on October 7.

Following a 2014 tour with the quirky folk singer Michael Hurley, and after many listens to the song “Hog of the Forsaken” from his Long Journey album, Shelley decided to pick up the fiddle. She wanted her voice to cling to the fiddle the way Hurley’s does. The alternative to her usual guitar medium required her to take a week’s worth of fiddle classes. But in the end, Shelley went back to her comfort zone.

“I had to perform a few times with the fiddle and it was so new and so hard. Also, the more nervous you are, the worse it is,” she says.- “When I picked up the guitar again it was a huge liberation just to be familiar with it again.”

To shake things up, Shelley pushed herself to tinker with new tuning techniques, and continued to pursue complementary elements between her voice and the guitar.

She and longtime collaborator/guitarist Nathan Salsburg approached Jeff Tweedy, frontman for Wilco, to see if he’d be interested in producing the album. Along with guitarist James Elkington, they headed to The Loft, Wilco’s studio in Chicago, to begin recording in December of last year.

During that time, Tweedy’s son, Spencer, was introduced to the group and offered to play drums on some of the songs. All of the songs on the album that contain drums, with the exception of “Pull Me Up One More Time,” were recorded on the first take—partly due to limited time and partly due to luck.

“The first take where everyone was a little bit unfamiliar was the most magical because everyone was on the edge of their seat,” says Shelley, who was both captivated and challenged while working with a producer for the first time.

“I’m used to working with an immediate circle of friends, but for this I was in a new city and a new environment, working with new professionals,” says Shelley, admitting she had to face her vulnerabilities. “Sometimes it felt like a pop quiz and I didn’t want to mess up.”

The album opens with “We’d Be Home,” a solemn track that sets the scene with subtle acoustics that glisten on the folk canvas. Much of the album addresses love, relationships and expectations.

JEFF TWEEDY STUDIO GURU

Joan Shelley teamed up with producer Jeff Tweedy to release her self-titled album about love, life and horses. She performs at The Southern Café and Music Hall on Saturday.

Jeff Tweedy, best known as Wilco’s frontman and the co-founder of Uncle Tupelo, has put his studio expertise behind several successful acts including Mavis Staples, Richard Thompson, White Denim and Bob Dylan. Tweedy won a Best Americana Grammy for You Are Not Alone, his 2010 collaboration with Staples.

“It’s about new love and watching yourself in that moment when you feel like you can change everything about yourself, but suddenly being selfaware of that chemical dose of love.” Shelley says.

But there’s a different influence on the album’s final track, “Isn’t That Enough.” For this song, Shelley, who grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, with a mother who cared for several horses, looked to her childhood backyard. She sings “I’ve watched the foal roll in clover and steam in cold.” “[That line] is about seeing an animal come into life and leave,” says Shelley. “It’s a blessing for me being raised that way because it helps you understand the world. We only get one shot at it.

Horses are so beautiful and such noble creatures.”

On the same song she also addresses the pageantry of the Kentucky Derby. “Getting ready is more intense and more about identity and presentation,” says Shelley. “The meaning comes in getting ready for this thing because the actual race is 60 seconds or whatever and then it’s finished.”

Shelley, by contrast, is just getting started.

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Seminar shows rising poets how to step out of their comfort zone. $30, 11am. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922.

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WE ARE PUSSY RIOT OR EVERYTHING IS P.R. See listing for Wednesday, October 4. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

Joan Shelley masters the art of fret finger work

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Zac Brown Band. One of country music’s most heralded touring acts. With special guest Darrell Scott; Caroline Jones opens. $29.75-79.25. 7pm. John Paul Jones Arena, 295 Massie Rd. 243-4960.

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Ghost and Mystery Walking Tour. Follow this true story from the night of the murder to the outcome of the trial. Free-$15, 8pm.

Tell Me About It Tours, 112 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 760-0525.

Kathryn Erskine empowers young readers through two new books

Norma. Live broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of this classic opera set in Gaul during the Roman occupation. $1825, 12:55pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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UVA Bicentennial. See listing for Friday, October 6. Various times and locations. bicentennial.virginia.edu.

Sunday 10/8 music Beleza. Talented musicians united by musical interests including samba, funk, soul, blues, bossa, jazz and Spanish flamenco.

Free, 3:30pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Blues and psychedelic rock band out of northern California. Free, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Front Porch Singer-Songwriter Bash w/ Matthew Mozingo. Young singer-songwriter leads a jam. Free, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Gibby Dannon Experience. A Johnny Sportcoat and The Casuals reunion. Free, 4pm.

Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Jason Burke Trio. Music informed by 1960s and ‘70s American and British rock ‘n’ roll.

Free, 2:30pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020.

King Golden Banshee. The right amount of raucous infuses traditional Irish music.

Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Jazz Rascals. Upbeat, lively Dixieland, New Orleans-style jazz and blues for brunch. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Patrick and Aaron Olwell and Friends.

Energetic and eclectic Irish jam session with renditions of traditional tunes. Free, 2:30pm.

Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

Patti LaBelle. Famed vocalist brings more than 50 years of experience to the stage. $49150, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Sammy Horne. See listing for Saturday, October 7. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

The Weedeaters. Fiddlers play a knee-slapping good-time mix of old-time bluegrass, folk and progressive bluegrass. $10-15, noon. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. (540) 923-4206.

The Yawpers. Delta blues drenched with punk rock energy. $12-14, 7pm. The South-

through the voice of Julian. Something he considers in the novel is the possibility that, as he was being born and his grandfather was dying, they passed each other in the cosmos and his grandfather communicated with him. The jacket of the book, which features a marshmallow aflame in a starlit sky, references one of the things his grandfather told him: “Don’t burn your marshmallows!”

But there’s another reason for the marshmallow. “I’ve learned to put in food that I like so that when I go visit some place and they want to put out the food in the book, it’s something I like to eat,” Erskine laughs.

“I learned that with Mockingbird,” she says of her 2010 National Book Award winner.

“I really don’t like gummy worms.” And that’s okay, too.

MAMA AFRICA An opponent of Apartheid, singer Miriam Makeba was exiled from her native South Africa in 1960 when her passport was revoked. With the help of Harry Belafonte she came to the United States and continued her career. She won a Grammy in 1965, traveled with Paul Simon’s Graceland tour in the ’80s and starred in Sarafina! with Whoopi Goldberg in the ’90s.

Through the years she resided in France, Guinea and Belgium, and finally returned to Johannesburg in 1990. ern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

romp. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Saturday, October 7. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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Latin Guitar Night. Miles Pearce and Humberto Sales play mellow Latin classical guitar tunes. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

dance Salsa Sunday. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory salsa lesson before the social dance begins. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

stage Love’s Labour’s Lost. See listing for Wednesday, October 4. $25-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

(540) 885-5588.

Sami Rintala. Finnish architect and artist gives a talk, “From Architecture without Architects to Architects without Architecture.”

Free, 5pm. Campbell 153, UVA School of Architecture, 110 Bayly Dr. 924-3715.

Tuesday 10/10 music Bob Huntington. Hear everything from the Beatles to Gordon Lightfoot. Free, 6pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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Disparager. Unwavering metal followed by brutal hardcore from Genosha, post-metal from Marron and hardcore from local duo Time Nothing. $8, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

ATM Unit with Jonah Kane-West. An organ wizard and a bass warrior take a musical

Karaoke with Jen Dville. Bring out your vocal chops for a night of fun. 21-plus. Free,

Monday 10/9

Rob Williams. Acoustic Americana for your listening pleasure. Free, 7pm. The Lodge at Old Trail, 330 Claremont Ln., Crozet. 823-9100.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Saturday, October 7. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

words What Violence Has Torn Apart. Poets Rita Dove and Mark Doty discuss how poetry can cross the lines of race, gender, class and sexual identity, and what obstacles can get in the way. Free, 6pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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The Festy Experience. See listing for Thursday, October 5. $37-174, camping and parking passes not included in ticket price. All day. Infinity Downs, 1510 Diggs Mountain Road, Arrington. thefesty.com.

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Guitar-and-organ duo plays a wide variety of music, from blues to jazz to great American standards, rockabilly and more. Free, 6:30pm.

The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

when people said you didn’t.” Erskine purposefully chose a picture book format to arts@c-ville.com chronicle Makeba’s life of combatting injustice because, she says, “I really wanted to athryn Erskine has lived in the make it approachable to kids. I wanted Netherlands, Israel, South Africa, young kids to feel empowered—sort of like Scotland and Newfoundland, but I did as a kid—that you do have a voice and she has called Charlottesville home for the last that your voice and your song is important 14 years. This month marks the release of Erand powerful.” skine’s first picture book, Mama Africa! How In The Incredible Magic of Being, Erskine Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, strives to connect young readers to own their and her sixth middle-grade novel, The Increddistinct voice. In the case of 9-year-old proible Magic of Being. Though written in two tagonist Julian, that voice may be a nerdy one, different genres and originating on two difand that’s just fine. The novel follows Julian ferent continents, the books manifest a uniand his family as they move from Washingfying intention: to empower young people. ton, D.C., to Maine, and Julian thrills at the Erskine first learned of singer and civil idea of exploring the universe through his rights activist Miriam Makeba, the subject telescope without the interference of light of Mama Africa!, a picture book biography, pollution. “I think kids are smart and curious while living in South Africa as the daughter and I want them to know that’s okay,” Erskine of an American diplomat. “That’s the first says. “It’s a great thing to be curious, even if country I remember as being home,” Erskine people make fun of you. Just keep going besays of her 5-year-old self. When she began cause there will be people who appreciate school, she thought all of the native South that and you will get so much out of life if African children must be sick because she you live it the way you want and find out as only saw white children attending her school. much as you can.”

“That’s when my mom had to An inquisitive child herself, explain apartheid to me,” she reErskine says she often didn’t vercalls. “I knew my mother didn’t balize her questions “because I like it but that she was powerthought people would think I less. And that was a really scary was too weird.” But now she thought because at that age you says, “It’s okay to just come right expect parents to be able to fix out and talk about parallel unieverything.” verses and how you might have One thing her mother could a separate family in another unido was play the banned music verse, or you might have friends of Miriam Makeba. Erskine says, Kathryn Erskine will “It was just a great sense of em- discuss her new books at that cross over that barrier.”

These are the kinds of quespowerment that as a girl or a Over the Moon Bookstore woman you had a voice even in Crozet on October 22. tions she allows herself to ask

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irecting team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris continue their streak of slyly subversive, yet totally engaging, films with Battle of the Sexes, an insightful, exciting and unexpectedly hilarious recounting of the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

Like all Dayton-Faris outings, it breathes new life into familiar tropes while cleverly dismantling them: the family road trip comedy of Little Miss Sunshine that’s full of people who will never reach their full potential. The dream-girl fantasy of Ruby Sparks, where magical powers are creepy, not hilarious. And now, the historical sports movie where neither athleticism nor social progress is a metaphor for the other, but is valued in its own right.

Battle of the Sexes tells the story of how the famed match came to be. We meet King (Emma Stone) as she confronts representatives of the United States Lawn Tennis Association over pay inequality between men and women, despite equal ticket sales. King and publisher and sponsor Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman) launch their own tour featuring the shining stars of women’s tennis. Meanwhile, Riggs (Steve Carell) is a 55-year-old former world champion whose talent is only outshined by his insatiable need to hustle, gamble and find the edge in any potential competition. Riggs and his cigar-chomping chauvinist buddies take notice of the up-and-coming women’s tournament, and see dollar signs. Riggs then pulls every string—and lures every potential sponsor—with a massive spectacle: men versus women, who is better on the court?

Emma Stone and Steve Carell take sides in Battle of the Sexes, a comedic accounting of the famous tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

and the film ends with an acknowledgment that there are many more struggles to come, though that does not diminish this one.

In addition to the film’s look, intelligence and nailing the tricky tone, the cast of Battle of the Sexes is truly excellent. Stone, already on a hot streak of great performances, delivers a layered, thoughtful portrayal of King, filled with emotion, ambition and good humor. Carell’s take on Riggs, interestingly, is not that of a fiery, explicitly hateful misogynist, though he certainly feels comfortable in their presence. He is a clown, a largerthan-life personality who never passes up a chance to profit on a hot gambling tip or a

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Tennis is the battleground in the struggle for women’s liberation in this story, but Battle of the Sexes does not fall into the trap of putting the stakes aside for an exciting conclusion.

Many sports films with social dimensions coax you into confusing a victory on the court/field with a world victory, leaving many threads dangling as you bask in the afterglow of seeing the bigots eat dirt, but Battle of the Sexes is much more intelligent than that. King’s sexuality is a key component of the narrative— though married to a man, she begins dating her hairdresser who joins them on tour—and it’s something she can never go public with.

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First Fridays October 6 Annie Gould Gallery 121 S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of work from more than a dozen regional and out-ofstate artists.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Blue Ridge and Beyond,” a show of work from six plein air painters. October 14, 6pm.

FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Parlor of Horrors,” Matthew Gatto’s tribute to the golden age of Hollywood horror films. 5pm.

stained glass by Lynn Windsor

FF Central Library 201 E. Market St. “World Art Exhibit,” featuring work by refugees resettled in Charlottesville. 5-7pm.

First Fridays reception October 6, 6–8 PM

FF Chroma Projects 418 E. Main St. “Purity,” somewhat autobiographical, complementary and contrasting color-field paintings

by Jim Henry. 6-8pm.

FF City Clay 700 Harris St., Ste. 104 City Clay members show and celebration of the new studio space. 5:30-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “Made In Charlottesville,” a photo exhibit celebrating businesses making products locally. 5:30-7:30pm.

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Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “It’s the Little Things,” featuring Kathleen Mistry’s jewelry work inspired by memories of nature’s fleeting moments.

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C’ville Coffee 1301 Harris St. “Everything Acrylic,” a collection of impasto palette knife paintings by Caroll Mallin.

FF The Garage 100 E. Jefferson St. An exhibition featuring work by sculptor and film artist Sandy Williams IV. 5-7pm.

FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Land Patterns,” paintings by Susan Mcalister inspired by a love of the land and an admiration for abstract painter Cy Twombly.

1-5pm. Opening reception Oct. 5, 5-7pm.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Les Desmoiselles,” an exhibit of Bob Anderson’s large-scale drawings. In the Lower Hall Galleries North and South, “All Rise: The Artist’s Voice in Contemporary Activism,” a group show exploring the role of the artist in intersectional activism. In the Upper Hall Galleries North and South, “Innisfree Village,” work by artists from a lifesharing community for adults with disabilities. 5:30-7:30pm.

Neal Guma Fine Art 105 Third St. NE. An exhibition featuring Elger Esser, Chris McCaw, Sally Mann and William Wylie.

Northside Library 705 Rio Rd. W. “Fall Favorites,” a multimedia group art exhibit featuring the work of Kelly Oakes, Richard Bednar and Carol Kirkham Martin of the BozART Fine Art Collective.

Piedmont Virginia Community College V. Earl Dickinson Building 501 College Dr. In the North Gallery, “Fish Out of Water,” paintings by Lisa Parker Hyatt. In the South Gallery, “Metadata,” a mixed-media exhibition by Laura Parsons, L. Staiger, Mara Sprafkin and James Yates.

Random Row Brewery 608 Preston Ave. “Waterscapes,” featuring watermedia paintings by Matalie Deane.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “My Body is a Grave,” a selection of large-scale paintings and works on paper

by Paul Brainard that explores themes of mortality, virtual reality and consumer culture; and “Solve et Coagula,” an exhibit debuting the abstract expressionist-style work of Peter Benedetti. 5:30-7:30pm.

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FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “Nouveau Willow,” featuring Lynn Windsor’s stained glass meditations on life cycles. 6-8pm.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Karma,” featuring work by Lisa Beane. October 14, 6pm.

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Recalling the lush greens of spring and brilliant color of fall, Ann’s paintings evoke memories of crisp air, the smell of fallen leaves and jumping over river rocks.

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Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Germination,” a mixedmedia exhibition featuring the work of Staunton’s Beverley Street Studio School.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “La Vie en Rose,” Parisian lifestyle photographs by Abby Grace. 6-8pm.

The Women’s Initiative 1101 E. High St. A group multimedia exhibit featuring work from Terry Coffey, Julia Kindred and Carol Kirkham Martin of the BozART Fine Art Collective.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church 717 Rugby Rd. “Water Like Memory,” featuring paintings of water by Susan Willis Brodie.

Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2125 Ivy Rd. “Passato Prossimo,” Lyall Harris’ collaborative exhibition made from objects and ephemera of nostalgia donated by more than 40 people. October 4, 4pm.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. An exhibit of landscape photography by Jamie Payne. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Improbable Figures,” collage on paper works

by Lisa Ryan. 5-7:30pm.

White Hall Vineyard 5282 Sugar Ridge Rd., Crozet. A show featuring the work of Randy Baskerville and Carol Kirkham Martin, artists from the BozART Fine Art Collective. Oct. 7 and 8, 11am-5pm.

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

When Georgia Webb draws, she tends to draw things that are close to her—her mother, Ali, her grandpa Jim or her friend Sidney. She draws her favorite cartoon characters, iconic items like Spam cans, and often reinterprets famous paintings, such as Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” in her own distinct black line-and-marker style.

A selection of Webb’s drawings is on view in the Upper Hall Gallery of the McGuffey Art Center this month, as part of an exhibition of work by artists from Innisfree Village, a local lifesharing community for adults with intellectual disabilities, or as McGuffey resident artist and show curator Christopher Headings prefers to say, a group of “friends who make great art.”

The show also includes sculptural stuffed animals made by Innisfree artists, and a series of trains in the snow drawn by artist Willy G. using pencil, colored pencil, pen and deliberate dots of white acrylic paint. Willy, who has been making art for a while and is a frequent visitor to First Fridays openings all over town, used to create the maquettes for Daggett Grigg Architects.

The mission of the McGuffey Arts Association is to support artists dedicated to practicing their art and to passing on the creative spirit, Headings says, and this show is well within that mission. Plus, he adds, “my goal is for people to not have a preconceived notion of [these artists], and to see this work for what it is—it’s art.”—Erin O’Hare

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FF WVTF/Radio IQ 216 W. Water St. “Subtleties of Nature,” featuring work by Nancy Jane Dodge inspired by the covert hideaways of the natural world. 5-7pm.

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FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Forget Your Perfect Offering,” a mixed-media exhibit by Sarah Boyts Yoder that explores her search for a space to situate anger, frustration, hope and despair. 5-7pm.

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Lunch spot haven On Wednesday, September 20, The Haven hosted its first weekly home-cooked lunch for members of the Charlottesville community, serving a meal that included a cheese plate or spinach salad, meatloaf or vegetarian lentil loaf, roasted herb potatoes, broccoli with lemon-butter sauce, homemade peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.

About 26 people showed up for the inaugural meal, says Diana Boeke, The Haven’s director of community engagement, who notes they can accommodate up to 40 people for each lunch. Home cooks and regular shelter guests, who prepared and served the meals to customers, “were very excited and making sure they made everyone feel at home,” Boeke says, noting that for many at-

public lunches. The kitchen managers already plan and prepare breakfasts for more than 60 people, 365 days a year.

The home-cooked lunches are served from noon to 1:30pm every Wednesday and give members of the Charlottesville community, including guests of the day shelter (who are not asked to pay the $10 donation for the meal), the chance to get to know one another.

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Laura Galgano, owner of Blue Moon Diner, hopes to have brunch pop-ups in the Snowing in Space Lab on West Main Street about every other month.

tendees, it was their first time in the day shelter. “The big round tables that seat up to eight mean that you’ll meet new people, so even people that came alone became part of the community there.”

The menu will change each week (the September 27 lunch included salad, chili, cornbread and a strawberries and cream dessert), and Boeke says The Haven hopes to find a few other home cooks—perhaps people from other countries who could share specialty dishes—to help with the

Frank Paris III, who closed his downtown ramen and donut shop Miso Sweet in August, is now executive chef at Heirloom, the rooftop restaurant and bar at the Graduate Charlottesville hotel at 1309 W. Main St. on the UVA Corner. Paris has updated the restaurant’s menu to include small plates such as Kennebec fries with Virginia ham, Mornay sauce and bread and butter pickles, and kofta kebab beef skewers with charred shishito peppers, yogurt sauce and grilled naan; and large plates like trout with butter beans, heirloom tomato, mustard greens and almond brown butter.

C-VILLE’s At the Table columnist C. Simon Davidson reports on his Charlottesville 29 blog that after a yearlong stint cooking at the Michelin-starred Inn at Little Washington, chef Jose de Brito is back in town as chef de cuisine of Fleurie, located at 108 Third St. NE, and consultant to the Downtown Mall’s Petit Pois. The former Alley Light head chef and former chef-owner of Ciboulette, which inhabited a space in the Main Street Market building years ago, told Davidson he’s ready to cook French food again, which he says is his specialty.

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“Blue Moon has always been more than just a diner, and using the pop-ups as a way to check in with each other, and keep that notion of community at the fore, is very important to us.” LAURA GALGANO, BLUE MOON DINER OWNER

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lthough Blue Moon Diner is closed during construction of 600 West Main, the six-story mixed-use building going up behind the restaurant, that hasn’t stopped owner Laura Galgano from serving her customers.

“I am a social being, and quite simply, [I] want to know what folks are up to, how their lives are and what new and fun things they’ve gotten to try,” Galgano says. It’s a reason why, in August and September, she and a few other Blue Moon staffers hosted Blue Moon pop-up brunches in Snowing In Space Coffee’s Space Lab at 705 W. Main St., serving a limited menu of biscuits and sausage gravy, pancakes and a variation on a grits bowl.

At the first pop-up on August 19, just a week after the deadly August 12 white supremacist rally, Galgano realized how much she missed her regulars. That day, there was “lots of hugging, and ‘Where were you?,’ ‘So glad you’re safe,’ etc.,” says Galgano. “Blue Moon has always been more than just a diner, and using the pop-ups as a way to check in with each other, and keep that notion of community at the fore, is very important to us.”

During one of the September pop-ups, Galgano saw four orders of pancakes for two people, and she stuck her head out of the kitchen to make sure there hadn’t been a mistake. But when she did, she saw two Charlottesville Derby Dames, Blue Moon regulars who’d come in to load up on the beloved diner staple after a training work-

out. “One of the skaters was housesitting for two other skaters, and planned to leave them each their own serving of pancakes to enjoy on their return,” says Galgano.

It’s been a treat for the Snowing In Space folks, too. “We are huge fans of Blue Moon Diner ourselves,” says the coffee spot’s manager Julia Minnerly, “and being able to offer such a community favorite was a big hit.”

Galgano says that more Blue Moon popup brunches will happen soon; the details haven’t been hammered out quite yet, but she hopes to have one every other month or so.

“I like that we’re just down the street, in the same neighborhood, and partnering with a newer business,” Galgano says. “These kinds of collaborations help to continue the sense of community that Blue Moon so values: We all succeed together.”

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On fall display The search for a great pumpkin beer yields few options

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Brasserie Saison is celebrating the season with German beers that eschew the traditional less-than-desirable Oktoberfest offerings from Munich, instead pouring dark, heavy American lagers that taste “far better than the real thing.”

American Oktoberfest beers, including Brasserie Saison’s, are often dark, heavy lagers that taste far better than the real thing.

Taking the free trolley up West Main Street, we visited Hardywood’s new-ish outpost near the Corner.

Lora Gess, our bartender, poured us tastes of Hardywood’s Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale. Diehm and I gleefully prepared to hate it as much as we each hate all things pumpkin spice.

“A lot of people have really misconstrued pumpkin-flavored everything because of what it is,” explains Gess in defense of her employer’s pumpkin ale. “It’s a pumpkin-

“It’s a pumpkin-spice-latte-kind-of-society these days. But [this beer is] fresh, it’s mild. You get a pumpkin flavor but not a fake pumpkin flavor.” HARDYWOOD’S LORA GESS

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Hardywood Pilot Brewery & Taproom’s Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale is a delightful departure from the pumpkin spice-laden beers typical of the genre. Reason Brewery’s fall offering is a black lager that’s hopped like a pale ale but has a rich flavor thanks to dark malt.

spice-latte-kind-of-society these days. But [this beer is] fresh, it’s mild. You get a pumpkin flavor but not a fake pumpkin flavor.”

And she was right. Somehow, Hardywood made a pumpkin beer that wasn’t awful. In fact, it was great.

It starts life as a traditional farmhouse saison to which Hardywood adds fresh pumpkin—not canned, not frozen—fresh.

Instead of an insipid blend of pie-inspired spices, the notes of spice come from the flavor profile of the malts and esters produced by the yeast. Hardywood has brewed a masterful pumpkin beer that took us by surprise and almost made us stop talking trash about pumpkin beer.

Almost.

As the sun went down, we wound up back downtown at South Street Brewery. Finally, we found the holy grail we’d been looking for all day: Twisted Gourd, described by our bartender as a pumpkin chai beer.

“This is a pumpkin spice beer,” Diehm observes with his first sip. “I think if someone was looking for a pumpkin beer, this is where to go get it. It’s South Street, so it’s always a good solid beer. And it’s got pumpkin, so I hate it. But if this is what you are looking for, it’s a solid pumpkin beer. It’s the most honest pumpkin beer I’ve had.”

“This is cloying,” I respond as I taste it.

“It’s terrible. But it’s so true to what it is.”

If you like pumpkin spice lattes, you’re gonna love this beer. But if you don’t, South Street has you covered with several other fine autumn beers, including Soft-Serv (tastes like chocolate soft-serve ice cream) and a barrelaged version of their classic Satan’s Pony.

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hat makes for a good fall beer?

Extra body? Darker malt? Pumpkin spice? Every brewer and brewery in Charlottesville has their own ideas about this. So I grabbed a friend and visited five local breweries to see what their takes on fall beers are—and whether they shied away from the polarizing pumpkin beer.

At Reason Brewery up Route 29, I ordered a pumpkin beer. “We don’t have one,” responded Mark Fulton, one of Reason’s founders.

Good. I think pumpkin beer is usually terrible. And what Reason is offering for fall is a black lager, with a heft perfect for cooler weather. It’s on tap at the brewery and they intend to begin distributing it by the end of October. Hopped like a pale ale, the malt is dark but the ABV is still only around 5 percent.

“I personally am a dark beer fan,” Fulton said. “I think a lot of people sort of relate a darker beer with the cooler weather.”

Our next stop was Champion to taste its annual pumpkin beer called Kicking and Screaming—so named because the brewers had to be dragged kicking and screaming into making a pumpkin beer. But this year, they apparently kicked their way out of it, because the pumpkin beer has now been deep-sixed.

Good.

Sean Chandler, our bartender, presented us with three samples of proposed fall beers from Champion. Biere de Garde, Fruit Casket (a double IPA) and Pacecar Porter.

The Biere de Garde was an instant winner: dark, spicy, richly blanketing the entire palate.

“My war is on pumpkin spice, not on spice or pumpkins,” says Jeff Diehm, whom I once again dragooned (he also helped determine the best grocery store bar in “Store credit: What’s the best grocery store bar in town?, August 2-8, 2017) into tasting beer with me.

“I’d call it a very good after-dinner beer. It’s pretty spicy, and I think I would slip into something darker to close my evening.”

Champion’s Fruit Casket was a surprise.

A double IPA brewed with agave that comes across neither as an IPA nor as gimmicky as it sounds. Big, full, less hoppy than you’d expect. This is what you want to sit around a bonfire with.

The Pacecar Porter is simultaneously dark and bright tasting. An unusual sharpness to the hops on top of a classic moderate porter.

Moving along to Three Notch’d Brewing’s new location at the IX Art Park, the first

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thing we noticed was that this place is pretty different from Three Notch’d’s first tasting location on Grady Avenue. The new place has a full-service kitchen, and executive chef Patrick Carroll focuses on local, sustainable ingredients and uses Three Notch’d’s craft beers and sodas in the food whenever possible.

The brewery’s Apple Crumb Amber Ale will be released soon, but it wasn’t available yet for us to taste. One of our bartenders made a face at the mention of pumpkin beer and didn’t even want to discuss it. What was available in an autumn mode was a Blue Toad Harvest Cider. It screamed cinnamon, but in a good way. You could put it on the table for Thanksgiving dinner and pair it with turkey and stuffing. We drank it alongside a shared platter of poutine, which featured fork-tender beef and fried cheese curds with onions and gravy covering a plate of fries. The perfect food to turn to halfway through a five-stop brewery crawl.

At Brasserie Saison, the Belgian restaurant and brewery on the Downtown Mall, a curious map of Europe was suggested by Munich-themed Oktoberfest banners and seasonal German beers offered alongside the classic Belgian offerings of steamed mussels and saison.

Manager Wil Smith served us tastes of the Oktoberfest beer and wouldn’t be baited into talking trash about pumpkin beers (which, fortunately, they aren’t making).

Traditional Oktoberfest beers in Munich are kind of crappy. In fact, that’s the whole point of them. Oktoberfest is a sloppy, drunken, week-long booze fest where a celebration of the palate isn’t exactly the point.

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward Island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched more than 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Intensify is one of your words of power these days. So are fortify, reinforce and buttress. Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.

Aries (March 21-April 19): You wouldn’t expect a 5-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Picasso’s “Guernica” or sing Puccini’s opera, La Boheme. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault your companions and you for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose

area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership. I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency. Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness?

Taurus (April 20-May 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity. Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): “If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13,” so said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity.

Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that angel will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-Amer-

ican Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina—a distance of about 19,000 miles—except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rain forest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian—a gray area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next 10 months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the coming six weeks will be quite favorable for formulating your plans and planting your seeds.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In my opinion, you’re not quite ready to launch full-tilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an Under Construction sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.

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WRITING/EDITING Development and Marketing Writer The Southern Environmental Law Center is seeking a skilled,versatile writer to join our successful, fastpaced, collaborative fundraising and marketing team togenerate copy for an array of strategically customized print and digital materialsóeverything fromfoundation proposals and reports, to website and news feed posts, to newsletters and handouts, tospecial event invitations and advertising copy. Located in SELCís Charlottesville HQ, this positionworks in close partnership with our 70+

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Foundation Writer The Southern Environmental Law Center is seeking an experienced professional with excellent writing skills, time- and projectmanagement skills, a collaborative approach, and strong interest in environmental issues to write proposals and reports to the foundations, families, and individuals who fund our impressive law and policy work. Located in SELC’s Charlottesville HQ, this is a central position working in close partnership with our founder/CEO, 70+ attorneys, and fundraisers to help shape and articulate this organization’s law and policy goals, action plans, and benchmarks through powerful, polished, customized packages that engage, educate, and inspire our generous supporters. SELC’s development/marketing department is a fun, interesting, satisfying place to work—fast-paced, coordinated, successful, and deeply integrated with SELC’s environmental protection mission. Learn more at SouthernEnvironment.org. Strong academic and work credentials and at least 5 years of

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Attention Clinical Professionals — Experienced and New Grads Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital will be holding a Clinical Job Fair on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 from 3:00 p.m.—6:0 p.m. at Piedmont Virginia Community College (North Mall Meeting Room). Representatives will be on-site to provide information to RN’s, LPN’s, Surgical Techs, Nursing Care Partners.

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As the health plan under Sentara Healthcare, Optima Health is focused on its mission to “improve health every day.” As a result, we are seeking an experienced health and wellness Master’s Level Degreed Health Educator or Master’s Level Degreed RN with strong coordination, programming design and management skills to service our community in a dynamic way in the role as a Health Educator. This is a FULL- TIME benefited position and an ideal opportunity for an educator with a minimum 5yrs experience in health education and wellness programs to be utilized in the UVA/Charlottesville community. Because this is a new partnership the selected candidate will have superb organization skills and sizeable flexibility with his or her availability. This position is responsible for the planning, scheduling, implementing, oversight and management of health screenings, education and health promotion events, individual and group education and trainings to promote core health improvement programs to include but not limited to: smoking cessation, adult immunizations, heart health, cancer prevention and detection and wise selfcare. This position will also coordinate our support team to staff events and teach classes on behalf of the department likewise.

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Anonymous Egg Donors Needed The Reproductive Medicine & Surgery Center of Virginia is looking for young women interested in helping couples who are unable to conceive using their own eggs.

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Region Ten Community Services Board provides mental health, intellectual disability, crisis, and substance abuse services for adults and children living in the City of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna, Louisa, and Nelson.

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Q&A Does contextualizing Confederate monuments really work?

Does contextualizing work for Auschwitz or should it be torn down?

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If they are on an actual battlefield where the memorialized fought a battle. That acre of ground downtown was not a battlefield and Lee and Jackson never fought here.

Do people calling for this think that the concern the community has is people don’t realize what these dudes on horses did or who they are?

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Worth a shot, learn from the past. @MALLYDOBB/TWITTER

You can get all the context you want by reading a few books.

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Only if people know the true history and not some myth like the Lost Cause.

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If only we could solve the problem of racism and hate through something as easy as removing the statues. #NothingHardIsSolvedEasily

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It’s better just to remove them. Otherwise we end up arguing about the context. Why memorialize traitors?

How will we know till we try? Hurts nothing to add something.

Could later be taken down in the unlikely case it is detrimental.

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Nope. No one reads anymore.

It could...worth a shot anyway.

Contextualizing could be as simple as the installation of statues of all the men and women Lee held enslaved, or tortured, and of all the U.S. soldiers whom his treasonous armies killed on the battlefield as per his order, NEXT TO HIS DAMNED STATUE. That would be appropriate and damning enough.

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Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Shadwell Society cordially invite you to the Shadwell Society Speaker Series:

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JONATHAN HAIDT

WHY IS IT HAPPENING AND HOW CAN WE REVERSE IT? The Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and the New York Times best-selling author of Jefferson Scholars Foundation The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided

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Tickets are free, but limited to 4 per person.

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