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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 The process of designing—or redesigning—a park was foreign to me.

11 Area health care premiums I never considered how much research, planning and digging into an area’s are highest in nation. history goes in to what we see today.

11 A very good day for VA Dems—and Nikuyah Walker.

In this week’s feature (p. 21), we asked local landscape architects to walk 13 West2nd’s altered plans raise us through their process when they take on a project, and to share their concerns.

15 Judge throws out two charges thoughts on Emancipation and Justice parks. Their approach, which includes against Chris Cantwell. talking with community members about what they envision, is just as important—if not more important—than the final design, they say. Making FEATURE 21 sure everyone feels like they were heard and had a voice in the decisionmaking process means a broader sense of community from the start.

Speaking of community, our residents made their collective voice heard when Nikuyah Walker, the first independent elected to City Council since 1948, was the top vote-getter on election day (p. 11)—she Designers weigh in on how held onto the lead from the beginning, when the first precinct numbers to make over Emancipation were reported. Democrat Heather Hill edged out former Charlottesville and Justice parks.

City School Board Chair Amy Laufer by 55 votes to take the second ARTS 31 open seat. The two women will replace outgoing councilors Bob Fenwick 33 Calendar Listings and Kristin Szakos when they’re sworn in on January 1.—Jessica Luck 33 Tunes: Album reviews

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The article “Secret history: Is the Charlottesville historical society a thing of the past?” [October 25-31] by John Last should have been on the opinion(ated) page as it does not qualify as a news article.

Starting off the article by referring to Steven Meeks as an “amateur historian” immediately reveals that Mr. Last has an ax to grind. Calling someone an amateur who has spent his life researching local history and doing a darned good job of sharing his knowledge with the public is simply a tactic to try to demean the person’s accomplishments.

If Steven is paid to run the ACHS, then he is definitely not an amateur (someone who engages in a pursuit on an unpaid basis). If he isn’t paid, he is still not an amateur as he has written and sold books about local history. The fact is that Steven Meeks has worked as a local-history expert for decades now, which means he IS a professional historian.

As someone who has personally witnessed the shameful and undignified behavior of a board member who commandeered a public meeting to complain about Steven Meeks—preventing the invited speaker from giving his presentation on time and thus causing some audience members to miss part of it—I have to say that childish board members seem more likely to be the cause of ACHS problems than Steven.

And isn’t it equally childish for a UVA prof to make a stink about KKK robes when the historical society had made an agreement with the owner of the robes not to disclose the person’s name? How ridiculous! And why on earth should anyone expect the historical society to comment on the events of August 12?!

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‘Price hike: National park users asked to pay up’ The fact is they are placing access to the parks out of reasonable price range.

I am sure this is not what Teddy Roosevelt had in mind when he created them. I am sure as well massive timber havests for company profits and oil drilling along with other raping of the resourses was not what he had in mind either. Trump has all those theings on his agenda and his appointees are nothing but the purveryors of that destruction. I mean why stop at the air and water? Destroy it all.

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Emmet Street revival

Developer Alan Taylor promises people are “really going to like” the two restaurants and two retail stores going in at Emmet Street Station.

Expect an announcement soon, he says.

C-VILLE Weekly contributors Jackson Landers and Natalie Jacobsen, who made the documentary, Charlottesville: Our Streets, sued Charlottesville Police, Virginia State Police and the state Office of Public Safety after those orgs refused to turn over August 12 safety plans. More than a dozen attorneys representing the government showed up in court November 7, and the judge ruled the reporters must refile and sue the city, not the police department.

Big spill The Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority released an extra 109 million gallons from the South Fork Rivanna in August before issuing a drought watch October 3, followed by mandatory water restrictions about a week later, according to Allison Wrabel in the Daily Progress. The reservoir is full but the restrictions are still in place.

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Activist group the Unity Coalition is circulating a petition to have Emancipation Park renamed—again. “How can we reunite this community when the name of a park is related to slavery,” says petition author Mary Carey. She calls the former Lee Park’s new name “insulting, disrespectful, hurtful, heartless, thoughtless, inhumane” and “mean-spirited,” adding that it “shows a lack of care for the people of color.”

lane, allowing two dedicated left-turn Barracks lanes on each side of intersection, which means left-turners can go at the same time.

Emmet Street Station is part of a redevelopment revival taking place on the entrance corridor. Across the street at the increasingly derelict Meadowbrook Shopping Center, the former Carriage House, Tavern and ALC Copies are slated for demolition to make way for a CVS. Farther north, at 1248 Emmet St., Zaxby’s restaurant with a drivethrough window is going up at the site that was once Lord Hardwicke’s.

And a car wash at 1300 Emmet St. on the other side of Cook Out is well underway.

knitters covered the lesser-known Confederate soldier statue in front of Albemarle County general district and circuit courts with a knitted swath of kudzu on the morning of “Crying Nazi” Chris Cantwell’s November 9 appearance, noting in a press release that the plant “grows on things that are abandoned and no longer relevant.”

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Shopping Center, Federal Realty, across the street “were getting all trademarky on me, so we changed the name,” says Taylor.

The under-an-acre lot will house two restaurants and two retail stores, all around 2,500 square feet. One of the restaurants could be announced any day now, says Taylor, but he refuses to give any hints. “Everyone’s really going to like the tenant lineup,” he says.

And with three electric car-charging stations powered by solar panels, the corner could be a magnet for Tesla owners by next summer.

Other drivers should notice better flow through the Barracks-Emmet intersection. The developers gave the city a strip of land that will afford an extra

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The vacant lot on the corner of Barracks Road and Emmet Street that once housed an Exxon station is finally seeing signs of life. Coran Capshaw’s Riverbend Development purchased the corner at 1200 Emmet St. for $2.1 million in April, a slightly better price than the $2.25 million Chevy Chase Bank paid for the corner in January 2008, just as the real estate market was beginning to crumble.

The site had a “bunch of challenges,” says Riverbend’s Alan Taylor, including a number of easements and a complicated site plan.

Originally dubbed Barracks Row, a one-story, 11,000-square-foot retail center will go by Emmet Street Station. The owners of Barracks Road

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Garrett ran on a platform last year of repealing the Affordable Care Act because insurance premiums were too expensive, and he says President Barrack Obama acknowledged “real problems” with the ACA. The second American Health Care Act would have reduced premiums—if it had passed in the Senate, says Garrett. Premiums of $36,000 a year are “ridiculous,” he says.

“We need to keep doing our job.”

House Minority Leader David Toscano says he’s heard from many constituents faced with unaffordable health care. “Some people are under the misguided viewpoint that the Affordable Care Act is responsible,” he says. “In fact, it’s the Trump administration undermining the market.”

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Sara Stovall and her husband, Stephen Barling, are looking at health insurance premiums pushing $3,000 a month for their family of four.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Sign-up in the health marketplace lasts 45 days—half of previous years—and ends December 15.

Advertising has been eliminated, and healthcare.gov is seeing 12-hour maintenance shutdowns every Sunday during the open enrollment period, says insurance counselor Heather Rowland.

In Charlottesville, where the median household income was around $64,000 and the median per capita income is $34,000, according to a U.S. Census 2016 survey, many people will be eligible for affordable health care insurance, at least for 2018.

The self-employed have been hardest hit. Some are looking at hiring employees to qualify for group insurance. Other options include short-term insurance, which does not cover pre-existing conditions, and the Christian cost-sharing ministry Medi-Share, which is not insurance but is exempt under the ACA’s individual mandate.

earners still qualify for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, at least for 2018, according to Rowland.

Stovall found that if her family made under $98,000, she could get an insurance plan for $10 a month.

But she warns of a caveat with the nonsliding scale. If you earn $1 over those subsidy-eligible limits of $98K, you owe the full $36,000 cost.

“A lot of people could get stuck by not knowing that,” she says. “That could be devastating.”

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INDEPENDENT UPSET: DEMS CRUSH EVERYWHERE— EXCEPT CHARLOTTESVILLE seat on City Council since 1948. Also unprecedented: It’s the first time two African-Americans will serve on council when she joins Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy on the dais in January.

Walker’s supporters gathered at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, where she led from the first precinct report.

“She’s the first Charlottesville native in decades to serve on council,” former mayor Dave Norris, a Walker supporter, points out. “She’s someone who’s actually experienced some of the issues facing council.”

Her victory “is a rebuke to the dirty tactics of the anonymous source,” adds Norris, referring to the November 4 Daily Progress story prompted by an unnamed city official who suggested Walker’s “aggressive” communication style would make it difficult for her to work with other councilors and city staff.

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Election night 2017 in Charlottesville had quite a different feel from 2016. Democrats swept statewide offices, with Ralph Northam winning the governor’s race by an even wider margin—9 percent—than pundits had predicted.

And no one saw it coming that Dems would dislodge the hefty 66-34 Republican majority in the House of Delegates, and, depending on recounts, Charlottesville’s own David Toscano could end up house majority leader.

The unprecedented evening continued in Charlottesville, where Nikuyah Walker bucked the Democratic groundswell and became the first independent to win a

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or many families, an income of $100,000 pretty much means they’re living the American dream. And for many families, that dream came crashing down when they saw what their health care premiums are going to be for 2018.

For Sara Stovall, premiums for her family of four will go from $940 a month to nearly $3,000 a month—$36,000 for the year.

Eden Henderson’s premiums for her family of three jumped 225 percent to $2,600 a month.

And John Harris, former Carlyle Group CFO, says the $1,629 a month silver plan he’s currently paying for his family of four with Anthem will cost $5,395 a month— nearly $65,000 for the year—for the same plan next year with Optima. For laughs he calculated a gold plan. That totals nearly $97,000 a year.

It’s difficult to pin down why Charlottesville and Albemarle, Fluvanna and Greene counties have seen the largest jumps in the country—234 percent for a 40-year-old ineligible for subsidies, compared to a 17 percent to 35 percent increase nationally, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

JABA insurance counselor Heather Rowland puts the blame squarely on the Trump administration for destabilizing the market by stopping federal cost-sharing reduction payments, which subsidize lower deductibles, copays and out-of-pocket maximums, and for threatening to end the individual mandate that requires everyone to have insurance, which caused insurers to fear they’d be stuck with older and sicker buyers.

As a result, companies like Anthem and Aetna, which used to be in Albemarle, pulled out, while the sole remaining insurer, Optima, sharply raised its premiums to cover the riskier pool.

Rowland also believes the constant refrain of “repeal and replace” further destabilized the market. Fifth District Congressman Tom

dents but give an option to an estimated 70 percent who would qualify for subsidies,” says Optima spokesperson Kelsea Smith in an email. “We chose to cover as many people as we could.”

As for why Charlottesville and Albemarle premiums skyrocketed to the highest in the country, says Smith, “First and foremost, we understand residents’ frustration. We knew these rates would be difficult for some.

We wish the circumstances were different, but to leave everyone without an option was not acceptable and goes against our not-forprofit mission.”

Among the factors she lists: The health insurance exchange has not worked as originally envisioned. Younger, healthier patients have not gotten insurance to offset the costs of older, sicker citizens. And without other insurance companies here, “all the risk of covering this more expensive patient base was left on the shoulders of Optima,” she says.

Sentara owns both Optima and the former Martha Jefferson Hospital. Despite having two hospitals, Smith says an academic medical center like UVA is more expensive than other hospitals.

When Stovall logged onto healthcare.gov November 1 and saw the lowest rate she could get was nearly $3K a month, “It was so absurd my husband and I laughed,” she says. “This is a $36,000 a year plan with a $12,000 deductible. How can anyone see that as remotely reasonable?”

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“People say if you make more, you should pay more,” she says. “I agree. But you assume it’s reasonable. It doesn’t mean we can pay one-third of our income. That’s double our mortgage.”

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n 2014, the city had a public competition for plans to develop the municipal parking lot that was the longtime home to City Market. Keith Woodard won, and three years later, West2nd, his bold mixed-use project that will house the market, has gone back to the drawing board.

Last month, Woodard announced a new development team, architect and additional 28 residential units to the project to make it financially feasible, and some locals are wondering, what the heck?

“Since the project was first presented in 2014, construction costs have risen substantially,” making it “financially unfeasible as originally designed,” said Woodard in a letter to people who reserved $400,000 to $1 million condos in West2nd when they went on the market in 2016.

The original $50 million project contained 68 condos, 55,000 square feet of office space and 9,000 square feet of retail, along with space for 115 City Market vendors and 262 parking spaces.

The new $85 million project will offer 96 residential units, roughly the same office, retail and City Market spaces, and 254 parking spaces on the half acre lot.

“We’re converting one floor of office and event space to residential,” says Woodard.

“And we’re inserting one other floor.” The latest version will have nine floors above ground and be within the city’s 101-foot height limit, he says.

“This is completely unfair,” says architect Bill Atwood, who was not one of the four bidders in 2014. In comments to City Council, he contends the delays and revamping are not fair to the other companies that originally submitted proposals.

“This is a heads-up about a real concern this project wasn’t viable from the get-go and won a competition based on a pipe dream,” he says in a statement to City Council. He also questions the marketing of luxury condos downtown at a time when affordable and workforce housing are on the forefront.

Atwood, whose Waterhouse building holds two empty top floors and neighbors the future West2nd, says that if Woodard has bought the parking lot, “there’s not much we can do.”

As it turns out, Woodard has not purchased the parking lot, which is under contract for $2.4 million, and will close once the permits are in place, which he anticipates will happen by next summer.

The revised West2nd will need a special use permit and go back to the Planning Commission and City Council. Chris Engel, the city’s director of economic development, sees this as no big deal.

Nor does he seem concerned about the delays in construction. “It’s a difficult market to build in,” he says. “[Woodard] had to sharpen his pencil. This makes it more viable in the long run.” Engel believes the office space is needed downtown and “will go quickly.”

And with 50 percent of the original 68 condos leased, Woodard says there’s still a high demand for luxury living.

Allen de Olazarra with Equitable Real Estate bid on the project three years ago.

He says, “We were prepared to commence the project immediately and we would have done so.”

And when he learned Woodard had not purchased the lot, he says, “For sure it should go back to public bid. I thought it was already sold.”

Latest estimated completion date: mid 2020.

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between Hill and Walker. Instead, Hill edged Laufer by 55 votes in what were extremely close margins between the three frontrunners.

“Heather worked her tail off,” says Norris. “Whenever someone criticized Heather, she would sit down and talk to them. She personally hit up every street in Charlottesville.”

The election “played out in a different way than I expected,” says Hill. “This year has been unprecedented, and there was no doubt in my mind this election was going to be unprecedented. I’m really excited to be part of this change.”

One big change for Walker: As a city employee with parks and rec, she will be her own boss as a councilor—sort of. State code on conflicts of interest says an elected official may keep her job with a government agency provided employment began before election to the governing body.

Surrounded by her son, two daughters and mother on stage at the Jefferson School, Walker said, “It’s hard growing up black in Charlottesville. I only ran because of [the late vice-mayor] Holly Edwards. She told me if I ran, I’d win.”

And she acknowledged the broad grassroots support she had, with contributions ranging from $5 to $10,000.

She urged her supporters to hold onto the “we” and stay engaged. “It’s not a temporary thing.”

Walker’s win “breaks up the total Democratic control on council,” says UVA Center for Politics’ Geoffrey Skelley. “It’s meaningful in the aftermath of all the terrible things that happened in Charlottesville” with the monument debate and neo-Nazi invasion, which some put at the feet of City Council.

“Walker was offering something different,” he says. “It’s a reaction locally when Democrats were crushing it everywhere else. It’s a reaction to local issues that have become national issues.”

In Albemarle County, the Samuel Miller District was the only contested Board of Supervisors race, and incumbent Liz Palmer handily beat Republican challenger John Lowry with 68 percent of the vote.

Statewide, Skelley had anticipated a narrower race between Northam and Ed Gillespie. Northam’s win was the largest margin for a Democratic candidate since 1985, when Gerald Baliles won, says Skelley.

Voter turnout was up 15 percent over the last governor’s race in 2013, and in places like Charlottesville, it was up 31 percent. That increase “has got to be looked at as a response to President Trump,” says Skelley.

Democrat Justin Fairfax won the lieutenant governor’s race, and became the second African-American to hold that position, which Doug Wilder won in 1985. Incumbent Attorney General Mark Herring held on to his seat and gave Democrats a sweep in statewide offices.

Before the election, Skelley predicted Democrats might pick up seats in the high single digits in the House of Delegates. Several close races will face recounts, and if the Dems win, it’s possible they could have their first majority in the house since 2000.

Almost all the Democratic gains came from the 15 districts that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016, says Skelley. “It’s not like they’re winning a bunch of red seats.”

A couple of Latina delegates, an African-American veteran, Dawn Adams, the first openly lesbian delegate, and Danica Roem, the first transgender legislator in the country, will change the makeup of the mostly white male House, says Skelley.

No one was predicting an unseating of Albemarle’s three GOP incumbents—Steve Landes, Matt Fariss and Rob Bell—who held on to their seats.

And for House Minority Leader Toscano, who was unopposed, the evening was particularly enjoyable. “I must admit I never really thought we could do it all this cycle,” he says. “I thought we’d pick up some seats.”

Currently the Dems have 49 seats, he says, and both sides are calling for recounts in a handful of races. He’s not speculating on what will happen if his party takes the majority—and he could potentially be elected speaker. “First we have to count all the votes,” he says.

However, even if the Democrats don’t hold a majority, with a 49-51 split, “immediately we’ll get a lot more representation on committees. Immediately we’ll make strategic alliances with Republicans to pass legislation,” says Toscano.

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wo of three felony charges were thrown out in a more than six-hourlong preliminary hearing November 9 for “Crying Nazi” Chris Cantwell, the New Hampshire man accused of pepper spraying multiple people at the violent August 11 tiki-torch march across the University of Virginia.

Hundreds of white supremacists were in town that weekend for homegrown whitesrighter Jason Kessler’s Unite the Right rally, which left three people dead and many injured in its aftermath.

In Cantwell’s case, an Albemarle General District Court judge is allowing one count of illegal use of tear gas to go before the grand jury, after he said Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Tracci was unable to prove that the two victims who brought the charges against Cantwell were actually sprayed by the shock jock, who continues to broadcast his show, “Radical Agenda,” from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

His supporters, known for their fashy haircuts, white polos and khakis, coordinated new outfits this time. About a dozen of them lined the courtroom’s benches wearing black, some dressed head-to-toe in the color.

While Tracci claimed the inmate maliciously used pepper spray during the tikitorch march, Cantwell himself, who appeared in a gray-and-white-striped jail jumpsuit and handcuffs, called it self defense.

“I said I would not attend the UVA demonstration unless we were coordinating with law enforcement,” he told Judge William Barkley during his testimony, but when there were no cops there to “protect [white nationalists] from the counterprotesters,” he said he had no choice but to

take matters into his own hands. And he came to Charlottesville prepared to do so.

He brought with him an AR-15, an AK47, a Ruger LC9, a Glock, a folding knife and what he called the “now infamous can of pepper spray,” to name a few of the weapons he rattled off. He had a couple of ballistic vests with him, too, he said.

“I was hoping very much to avoid violence,” testified the white nationalist, who said he didn’t bring any of the firearms out on the night of August 11 because he was told that the university is a gun-free zone.

Alleged victims Emily Gorcenski and Kristopher Goad testified against Cantwell, describing being sprayed with a caustic substance and losing their vision, but the latter said video footage Tracci recently showed him had a man with a dragon tattoo—not Cantwell—macing him at least once.

Cantwell’s attorney, Elmer Woodard, asked Goad multiple times why he did not leave the demonstration when he noticed things were getting out of hand. At this point on August 11, Goad, along with about 25 other counterprotesters, were encircled by about 300 chanting, torchwielding white nationalists.

“I did not have an option to leave,” Goad said. “I was surrounded 360 degrees by hundreds of people.” To that, the attorney said, “You could have said excuse me, couldn’t you?”

The room erupted in laughter. And it did again, when Woodard suggested that perhaps it was the smoke from the tiki torches instead of mace that caused the victim’s faces to burn, or “maybe it was the citronella candles,” he said.

Along with dropping two of Cantwell’s charges, Barkley also did not extend Gorcenski’s protective order against Cantwell, and said his bond prohibited him from contacting the woman, whom Woodard called an “antifa operative.”

Woodard’s assistant played Gorcenski’s own video footage, in which the attorney later pointed out that if she was pepper sprayed, she never audibly seemed to react to it. “She’s quiet as a mouse, which I’m pretty sure everyone in this room wishes I would be.”

Also present in the courtroom was Vice News’ Elle Reeve, who followed and interviewed Cantwell throughout the August 12 weekend, Kessler, who appeared in court a week ago to amend his bond on a perjury charge so he could take a job in Ohio, and Unite the Right organizer Eli Mosley.

Some of the white nationalists in town may have found their cars towed when they left the courthouse. Sources say the church where they parked had the vehicles removed.

Cantwell, who has been incarcerated since he turned himself in August 24, is expected to request bond November 13.

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“If we could take a vision and actually paint with it —paint with emotions and intent—we would do it.”

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What should a public park contain? Swings and slides, shaded benches, a grassy picnic spot? Should there be gestures toward the region’s history, ecology and culture? Could a park be a place of encounter, of healing? By Lisa Martin

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In June, following their decision to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from park grounds, city councilors issued a Request for Proposals to redesign the recently renamed Emancipation and Justice parks. That RFP was withdrawn on August 25 following the tragic August 12 white nationalist rally, but City Council decided last week to issue a new RFP under a twophased approach.

In the first phase, the city calls for a wideranging community discussion about the purpose and character of the downtown public spaces, in an effort to fully incorporate residents’ values and intentions into the process. While an ongoing court challenge delays the removal of the Confederate statues, designers are also tasked with adding elements to the parks that would “reinterpret” the statues while they are still in place, to provide a more complete and honest narrative of Charlottesville’s past.

Phase I is slated to take a year to complete.

Phase II (under a separate RFP to begin when the statues’ fate has been determined), will create new comprehensive designs for both parks.

Unlike the landscape surrounding a private residence or office building, “a park is a public space that belongs to everyone, and a lot of meaning is embedded in it because of that,” says Joe Celentano, principal with VMDO Architects, whose offices overlook Emancipation Park. Landscape architects think deeply about the interactions between people and their environment, and are acutely aware of the ways public spaces affect communities.

The city’s initial RFP frustrated many local designers with its condensed start-tofinish time frame (18 months), limited financial commitment ($1 million) and scant articulation of vision or values for the project. Some have suggested that a three-year process might be more appropriate, particularly for allowing a collaborative discussion among the city’s residents.

“The first months to perhaps a year will be about healing and listening,” says Thomas Woltz, principal with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, “the second year about design and the third year about construction. If you storm in with a design, if the pace is too fast, it will fail.”

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“This is an old earth, and so often, stories of oppression or the taking of land go unrecognized or, at worst, hidden under our feet. Landscape is remarkably powerful at hiding and erasing history.”

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councilors on the new RFP, agrees. “Those sites mean something now that they didn’t last May, and we’re not at a place yet where we know how we want to react to that,” she says.

Expert designers—perhaps everywhere, but particularly in Charlottesville—are careful not to presume a vision for the parks.

The key, they insist, is the process.

“Vision is not made on an island; it’s made on a foundation of values,” says VMDO senior associate Andres Pacheco. “So the first question is, what are the values of the city and its residents?” Though an unambiguous expression of those values in an RFP could be a jumping-off point, Pacheco’s colleague Celentano wonders if the two might have to proceed hand in hand. “Maybe the design of the parks has to be about helping to clarify what are our values.”

The city’s plan envisions a public engagement phase run by the design firm that is awarded the contract. The team should include designers with expertise in landscape architecture, the history of the American South, social equity and urban design, as well as a facilitator who is trained to draw out opinions, to weigh the louder and softer voices and make sense of the raw emotions—a sort of community-wide therapist.

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Ground rules Emancipation Park (formerly Lee Park) sits on one acre of land on a square downtown block, next door to the Central Library. Philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire donated the land for the original Lee Park in 1917 (and for the 0.4-acre Jackson Park in 1918), and commissioned large memorial sculptures of Confederate generals to be placed there in honor of his parents. (His father, George, had served as Charlottesville’s mayor during the Civil War.) Other than a few replanted trees and shrubs, not much has changed in the parks since 1920.

Far from a blank slate, Charlottesville’s downtown parks are imbued with a histo-

ry—both remote and recent—that will freight every step of the redesign process.

Before work can begin in earnest, several legal and administrative processes will have to play out. Although City Council voted earlier this year to remove the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues from the two parks (at an estimated cost of $300,000 each), their fate is currently in limbo until a court decides whether a Virginia law that prohibits localities from disturbing memorials to war veterans applies in this case.

Adding to the set of obstacles for removal is the fact that both statues are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and, as the first public park established in the city, Emancipation Park is likely eligible for the same honor. These designations mean the sites must undergo a compliance review before they can be changed, explains local landscape architect and historic preservation expert Liz Sargent. “Someone with the Virginia State Historic Preservation Office is going to have to determine whether the existing historic fabric can retain its value if the statue is moved or if the park’s landscape is significantly changed.”

On top of that, the original donation of the land for Justice Park came with strings attached. McIntire stipulated in the deed transferring the land to the city that it must be named “Jackson Park,” that it remain a park and that no structures other than the Jackson statue be built there, including other monuments. Legal challenges may be posed one after another by groups opposed to altering the parks, further delaying any future design phase.

From a purely aesthetic perspective, UVA professor Meyer points out the statues are quite large for such small spaces. “But even if you take the statue out of Emancipation Park, it’s still not a successful space,” she says.

“It’s lifted up above the street, which limits visibility across, so just entering may make people feel uncomfortable. Also, instead of buildings on all sides, the open parking lot [on East Market Street] creates a problem of closure.” As well, the park is not currently barrier free, with sets of stairs on three sides limiting universal access.

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1. Local landscape architect Gregg Bleam worked with Bushman Dreyfus Architects to refresh and beautify Booker T. Washington Park, Charlottesville’s first African-American park. 2. Nelson Byrd Woltz designed Citygarden, a three-acre park in the heart of downtown St. Louis that celebrates the cultural and natural histories of the city and its environs. 3. Charlottesville landscape architect Nancy Takahashi worked in tandem with VMDO to create Scottsville’s Canal Basin Square, an interpretive park that chronicles the inextricable connection of Scottsville to the James River.

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WHAT IF, like the Freedom of Speech Wall at the end of the mall, one element of the design is nothing until someone does something to engender dialogue, like, for instance, an empty stage.

Local architectural historian Louis Nelson points to UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers as an ongoing project whose design team carefully cultivated many different community voices. “That’s an example of an intensive, highly engaged collaborative process that fundamentally changed the design, messaging, content and location of that memorial,” says Nelson. “To try to walk in on the front end with a design already on paper would have been a catastrophe.”

Just as important, says Woltz, are the stories of a place. NBW begins its projects with a deep dive into the ecology, history and culture of a site to find what makes it unique. “This is an old earth,” he says, “and so often, stories of oppression or the taking of land go unrecognized or, at worst, hidden under our feet. Landscape is remarkably powerful at hiding and erasing history.”

With a deliberate process of discovery, a park’s design can represent unique stories that only its native soil can tell.

“The designers can collect the clues and make refinements,” says Pacheco. “But we all as citizens have to figure out whether this is about history or the future, is it about grieving or about celebrating, is it a center or is it a space? It’s going to be challenging.

“Maybe the most beautiful thing about the project, then, is actually the process, not the product,” he says. “I can imagine the process being the heart of it.”

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Confederate monuments aside, there is a growing awareness among architects and geographers of a simple and sobering concept called “racialized topography,” evident in the ways cities have historically developed. “The parks are racialized not just because of the statues, but also because of their elevation,” says Meyer. “High places are dry and have good views and tend to be white places in the American South. The parks are in a place where they read as privileged, and those things are not going to be changed by just taking away a statue and putting in a fountain.”

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Ever the optimists, landscape architects try to wrap all of these considerations into their quest to create something both beautiful and affecting. Frederick Law Olmsted, father of American landscape architecture and designer of Central Park in New York City, said, “A park is a work of art, designed to produce certain effects upon the minds of men,” an idea that inspires Meyer and her colleagues.

“We know from neuroscience that immersion in nature does affect your brain,” she says, “and so parks can become centering places of memory, or of personal experience.”

“There are essential human needs that a park can supply—shade, fragrance, prospect (as one looks out across one’s city), places of quiet gathering or larger civic engagement, contact with plants, color, water,” says Woltz. “Beyond these, if we can make the ecologic and cultural histories of a place evident to the public, then the design can help to build a strong bond between people and the place they live.”

At once down-to-earth and starry-eyed, like visionaries with protractors, landscape designers tend to dream big. “What if you could look four years into the future at the park’s opening ceremony, what would you want to see?” asks Celentano. “People of all races supporting what’s been done, celebrating something that brings people together, right? So, we have to back it up from there.”

Meyer sees value in separating the commemoration issues from how to make the park a good social space. “Instead of thinking of it as something empty waiting for a thing to be put there, it could be more of a place of encounter, and that may start with how you design a bench or a seat,” she says.

“In Central Park, some of the benches are

WHAT IF we were to excavate in Emancipation Park and submerge a portion of the Lee statue underground. ...There could be a subterranean museum, and a garden terrace on top, so we would leave the statue on site but reclaim the public space.

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quite long, so you sit down next to strangers.

We could try to imagine this as a place where you could encounter people not like you in a way that’s dignified and comfortable, eye to eye.”

Even within the small city block of Emancipation Park, designers’ imaginations take flight. What if the entire space was a children’s playground, inviting kids of all races and backgrounds to simply play together?

What if it was a lush garden, planted with native species of flowers, grasses and trees?

What if Emancipation Park was linked with Justice Park and other sites along a larger constellation of historic places, forming a trail through the city?

“If we could take a vision and actually paint with it—paint with emotions and intent—we would do it,” says Pacheco. “The job of an architect is to fine tune and strengthen the vision with whatever built materials come to this park. If it’s about healing, or playing, or unity, every detail in the park should point to that.”

And while the idea of the community arriving at a consensus on a particular design is appealing, the steps along the way may be more important.

“The goal,” says Celentano, “is to have a very elaborate and inclusive and complete process so that people agree on what the vision is, and feel that their voices have been heard. Only then can the ultimate design be satisfying, because it honors the vision.”

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When the designers at Bushman Dreyfus Architects decided to launch a public design competition earlier this year, they originally thought that Emancipation Park would be a nice location to start asking some questions about public art and community identity. “[The park] was our initial site but then, of course, events overtook us all,” says BDA principal Jeff Bushman. “So we shifted our focus to Vinegar Hill Park, a small site at the west end of the downtown pedestrian mall.”

The competition, dubbed The BDA Prize, seeks proposals for a work of public art that will “embody the values and aspirations of a diverse community.” Against the backdrop of the gentrification of neighboring Vinegar Hill 50 years ago, the competition poses questions about how best to express true narratives about our shared history, society and culture. Entries should be submitted on a 30-by-40-inch poster, and BDA welcomes anyone who wishes to participate. Regardless of material, media or form, proposals must be focused on finding common ground and “as such, they are aspirational.”

The idea is to generate discussion on several fronts, says Bushman. “What in the public realm can we somehow agree is representative of us as a community? We may never all agree, and it would be boring if we did, but what we have to do is be able to talk to each other.” Another set of questions touches on who is the decider. “It could be good to have a discussion about who gets to decide what our public monuments are, and how that works,” he says. “Is it Mr. McIntire? If so, why him?”

The firm hopes to host panel discussions and other public events at the Jefferson School in the spring to encourage an open dialogue about the entries.

“We plan to hold this competition every year,” says Bushman, “though it will be harder in future years to identify an issue that is accessible to everybody, like this one is.”

Due by February 2, 2018, entries will be judged by a jury of five cultural and design leaders, and monetary prizes will be awarded. Learn more at bdaprize. bdarchitects.com.

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Classic Virginia brick home with slate roof, privately situated on 121 acres, adjoining easement property and 502-acre Mint Springs Park at Blue Ridge Mtns. Garage apartment and manager’s house. Great vineyard or grazing property! www.alicentfarm.com MLS#559536 $1,975,000 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076

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To put the big into The Miho Hazama Big Band, Tokyo-born, NewYork-based jazz innovator Hazama assembled an 18-piece tribute to her idol Thelonious Monk in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The accomplished composer, arranger, conductor and pianist was selected as one of DownBeat magazine’s 25 for the Future in 2016, and her star power is evident in the musical company she keeps—Joshua Redman, Stefon Harris, Steve Wilson and Gil Goldstein have all worked with her recently. $10-25, 7pm. Unity of Charlottesville, 2825 Hydraulic Rd. 249-6191.

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In a small town in the heart of Japan, 13-year-old Hiroya Tsukamoto discovered the banjo and taught himself to play bluegrass tunes for his dad, who was a fan of traditional Appalachian music. He went on to master the guitar, and in 1999 Tsukamoto won a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, which brought him to the U.S., where he’s been making records that “convey honesty and nature,” and touring ever since. Rochester City Newspaper says Tsukamoto’s “brand of fingerstyle guitar is so intricate, and so blazingly fast at the same time.” $13-15, 6:30pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

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Is there anything left to be said about life, death, food, money and love? Local folk-punk band The Can-Do Attitude thinks there’s always something new and delightfully weird to discover, making its case with tracks like “Popcorn” (“One day we’ll hit an asteroid and all of the corn will be popped / One day we’ll hit an asteroid and all of the doors will unlock”). And as a bonus, all four band members have TV credits, including an appearance on “Jeopardy!” and “Make Me A Supermodel.” $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Billie Piper has earned critical raves, an Olivier award for Best Actress, and she’s performed two sold-out runs at London’s Young Vic in the lead role of Yerma, written by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca in 1934 and reimagined by director Simon Stone. The power of the biological clock looms large in this modernized version, set in the present day and broadcast by the National Theatre Live in HD series. $10.50-14.50, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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Annual Culpeper Downtown Holiday Open House Sunday, November 19, 2017 Noon - 5PM | Community Tree Lighting at 5:15PM Culpeper Downtown welcomes you with warmth and hospitality: Unique Specialty Shops | Convenience Shopping Downtown | Great In-Store Specials Decorations of the Holiday Season | Trolley Rides | Horse & Carriage Rides | A Little Magic Miniature Horses Wagon Rides | Culpeper Center Open House | Giving Locally for the Holidays Live Holiday Music from EVHS and CCHS bands | Carolers | Jewell Tone Music performances Dance Performances by Marie School of Ballet | Holiday Inspired Refreshments Arts & Culture Center in Culpeper - 2nd Annual Best of Piedmont Exhibit Culpeper Garden Club Wreaths & Centerpieces | Photos with Santa & Mrs. Claus Children’s Story Time by Culpeper County Library | Windmore Gingerbread House making workshop Museum of Culpeper History Open House | Live Music | Visit Santa’s Mailbox Crafts for kids | Blue Ridge Art League “The Art of Giving” | Carols by Theatrical Arts Out of Time Teachers at the Burgandine House celebrating the History of Thanksgiving in Virginia - period food & games

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ARTS THIS WEEK Wednesday 11/15 music Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory bachata lesson before DJ Butchata plays 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 leads a trio of musicians that brings a fresh sound to modern jazz, fusion and world music. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

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MFA Reading Series. UVA creative writing students Michael Dhyne and Adam Roux read from their work. Free, 8pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

HMS Pinafore. Mary Baldwin University Theatre mounts this production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s tale of love among members of different social classes aboard a saucy ship. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hogwarts is abuzz with excitement for the upcoming Triwizard Tournament, but a dark and dangerous tide is rising in this fourth installment in the Harry Potter series. $10, 7pm.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

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.

Raphael. The first film adaptation of the life and work of Raphael Sanzio, one of the most famous artists in the world. $10, 7:30pm.

The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Thursday 11/16 Bennie Dodd. Bluegrass and country tunes sure to get your boots stomping. Free, 6:30pm.

Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

LUA. A blend of original and traditional Mexican and Appalachian tunes plus songs from the Atlantic basin. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Skip Haga. Catchy rock with polished keyboard for your listening pleasure. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with influences that range from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker SpiderBeetleBee (Drag City) I came down hard on Ryley Walker’s voice on his last solo record, openly wishing for an instrumental affair—and whoa, I had no idea he had such a project up and running already. SpiderBeetleBee is the second album of acoustic guitar duets by Walker and the insanely versatile Bill MacKay, and though it’s sophisticated, it’s blessedly unpretentious.

The baroque Americana of “The Grand Old Trout” sets the general tone, and the closing “Dragonfly” makes for an apt bookend with guitars buoyed by deep cello swells courtesy of the Chicago Symphony’s Katinka Kleijn.

In between, the tracks wander agreeably.

“Pretty Weeds Revisited” features lovely runs evoking Jerry Garcia circa 1969, while on the more experimental “Naturita,” McKay and Walker follow a spacious, tinkling introduction with a raga-like breakdown (a tabla actually enters—and integrates nicely—on the brief “I Heard Them Singing”). SpiderBeetleBee is an assured, ranging keeper.

Anna St. Louis First Songs (Woodsist) Aptly named, First Songs is the somewhat tentative but enticing debut of Kansas City native Anna St. Louis, who accompanies herself on guitar and keeps things sparse; a

faintly humming organ and hushed tambourine are characteristic accents, and the full band that appears on some tracks mostly adds volume rather than sharing the spotlight. Retro gimmicks such as occasional country-honk vocalisms and a tack piano trotted out on “Evermore” are regrettable and unnecessary, since St. Louis’ voice, which lands halfway between Patsy Cline and Hope Sandoval, is charismatic enough to support the songs. The good news is that the songs are mostly worth supporting, and the album gets stronger down the stretch, beginning with the only real curveball, the squiggly keyboard instrumental, “Stray,” which rolls into the wistful “Sun” and the concluding Piedmont blues-styled “Fire.”

Patrick Cowley Afternooners (Dark Entries) Rochester native Patrick Cowley moved to San Francisco to attend college in 1971, studying synthesizers before linking up with Sylvester to produce the latter’s perennial smash, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” and releasing his own dance floor hits “Menergy” and “Megatron Man.” In 1981, Cowley was misdiagnosed with food poisoning; he had contracted HIV, and succumbed to AIDS the following year. From 1979 to 1982, Cowley had also supplied soundtracks for the gay porn produced by John Coletti at L.A.’s Fox Studio, and Afternooners is the

third and final offering in this Dark Entries series of that music. It is gloriously cheesy, steamy electro disco with titles cribbed from the film loops: “Cycle Tuff,” “Hot Beach,” “Big Shot.” Afternooners might provide a bridge from Giorgio Moroder to Human League, but perhaps even better to hear it as a monument to its own moment.

Various artists Even a Tree Can Shed Tears (Light in the Attic) To call Even a Tree Can Shed Tears the year’s best early-’70s Japanese folk rock compilation is an unkind joke—it’s a thoroughly enchanting collection of songs previously unavailable stateside. Reissue stalwart Light in the Attic provides its usual exquisite packaging—reproducing all 19 original album covers (many are spellbinding); printing lyrics in Japanese and English; and including a pair of helpful, contextualizing essays.

There’s a lot of personnel crossover, and the compilation hangs together well; though tracks like “Zeni No Kouryouryoku Ni Tsuite” (“The Power of Money”) dip a toe into acid rock, most songs hew to the hushed side. The lyrics throughout are personal, but instead of solipsistic confessionals, they’re oblique and inventive. Even a Tree Can Shed Tears makes me want to know more about it all, and isn’t that what you want in an introduction?—Nick Rubin

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Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema. Fred Kuwornu’s documentary uncovers the experiences and struggles of Africans and African-Americans in the history of Italian cinema. Free, 5:30pm. UVA, Nau Hall, 1550 Jefferson Park Ave. 924-7159.

Henry VI, Part 3. In Shakespeare’s brilliant, brutal and innovative play, England’s royal cousins play a deadly game of thrones. $2160, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). A modern, hilarious take on Shakespeare’s entire oeuvre. $5-8, 7:30pm.

Western Albemarle High School, 5941 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-8700.

Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged.

Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713.

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LYAO Comedy: Joe List. New York-based comedian, writer and actor brings his own style of hilarity to the Laugh Your Ass Off comedy showcase stage. $15-18, 6pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Open Mic. Neal Goodloe plays this open mic where all are welcome to show their talent.

Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Raucous Auction. Among other recent projects, the Virginia Arts of the Book Center showcases Pack of Lies, a playing card deck on the history and phenomenology of untruths. $20, 5:30pm. Virginia Arts of the Book Center, 2125 Ivy Rd. 924-3296.

The Weedeaters. Local string band plays a wide range of music including blues, bluegrass, old-time and swing. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

HMS Pinafore. See listing for Wednesday, November 15. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

Electric Kif. Cosmic funk, rock, soul and jazz band with undeniable spunk. With Lemon City Trio. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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ARTS FEEDBACK Thursday 11/16 There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, But We will Defend a Culture’s Resources. French philosopher, Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien discusses the tendency throughout the world to clamor for cultural identity. Free, 5pm. Minor Hall Room 125, UVA. 924-7453.

The Ruination of Lovell Coleman. Ross McDermott’s documentary short tells the story of a Charlottesville-based, 93-year-old fiddle player. Free, 7pm. Belmont Baptist Church, 830 Monticello Ave. 296-7111.

Friday 11/17 music Bob Bennetta. Expert jazz pianist adds to a chill vibe. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Bully. Nashville-born rock band with a brand new album ready for the stage. With Aye Nako. $15-17, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Chee. South African bass legend puts his own spin on progressive bass music. With Moniker, Mr. Jennings, Tre Justice and be.IN B2B dutch. $10, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

DJ 2 Low. Experienced DJ mixes the night up. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

DJ Dean Grooves. Spinning your favorite throwback tracks, EDM, pop, reggaeton, rap and more. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Hip-Hop vs. Reggae Pt. 2. DJ Double U and DJ Mudduck provide the music while Jamar and Seme host. $10, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Jon Spear Band. According to this band, live music is better. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Marshall Artz. A distinctive original blend of Americana, folk and blues forged together in a powerful acoustic style. Free, 7pm.

Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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The Exterminating Angel

By Erin O’Hare arts@c-ville.com

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Susan Munson has been playing music in central Virginia for more than 20 years. She celebrates her latest release, Halfway to Anywhere, on Friday.

Fight” on the radio, with frontwoman Brittany Howard belting out the song’s refrain, “I don’t wanna fight no more” over and over until her exhaustion is clear. Inspired, Munson came up with the first line of her own song: “Brittany Howard, she’s tired of fighting, and baby, so am I.” From there, it developed quickly, Munson says, into a song about rising above anger and pain by getting back to your roots and talking out whatever’s bugging you...it’s about smoking the metaphorical peace pipe.

Prompt or no prompt, Munson is constantly inspired by the things she experiences and the people she encounters. She wrote “Chasing Dragons” after seeing New Orleans-based jam band Galactic at the Jefferson, and “Second Line” after visiting New Orleans in the wake of her friend’s father’s death to see a brass band parade on Easter weekend.

“Red-Headed Man” budded at a Haiti benefit show at The Ante Room, when Munson’s tall, red-headed friend, Meg, asked someone to waltz to a song with her. Munson remembers the song, performed by Ante Room bartender Luke Smith, included a lyric about the lights at the truck stop. Inspired by the whole scene, Munson jotted down some notes and when she got home began working on a song called “Red-Headed Meg,” but “man” was easier to sing than “Meg,” and the song turned into a story about a man watching Meg dance to Smith’s song. Munson later found out that Smith, who died

unexpectedly in January 2017, performed at the Haiti benefit after another artist had dropped off the bill, so it was only by chance that she got the song. “It’s bizarre!” Munson exclaims, and it’s beautiful. It’s why she can’t stop writing songs.

At her album release show at Durty Nelly’s on November 17, Munson will play a good chunk of songs from Halfway to Anywhere, but she’ll play some even fresher ones, too, like one that works rapper Kendrick Lamar and funk bassist Thundercat—two of Munson’s daughter’s favorite artists—into the lyrics and makes a case for music as a great equalizer in our lives.

Susan Munson Durty Nelly’s Pub November 17

“She listens to Kendrick, thinks his words are magical / I just don’t see it myself, but to each his own,” the song begins. “She also listens to Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and The Dead. / Thundercat has got his claws in too, I must admit his bass lines / Walk on through my mind when I’m riding... / Catching riffs so we can all sing along,” Munson sings.

The idea of music as a unifying force is a hallmark of Munson’s, it’s where her songs come from and it’s what her songs put out into the world.

“I just have all these songs that keep coming and coming. I keep writing all this stuff; I just want to get it out.”

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hen Susan Munson was a kid growing up in Charlottesville, any time she had something to tell somebody, she’d write them a poem.

She’d give it to them too, either hand-delivering the written verse or reading it to them herself.

It was the earliest manifestation of Munson’s songwriting impulse, which has her writing more songs than she can record— she has a new 13-song album out, Halfway to Anywhere, and she says there are “at least 50 more” songs ready to go, ones that didn’t make it onto the new album or her 2015 solo debut, Promise on the Moonrise.

“I just have all these songs that keep coming and coming. I keep writing all this stuff; I just want to get it out,” Munson says of her 1960s and ’70s-esque country-blues-rock sound. She’s always ready to embrace inspiration, carrying around a handheld recorder to capture lyrics and melodies when they occur (which is usually when she’s driving).

Munson picked up the guitar at 21, when she was participating in a songwriters’ circle.

Initially, she’d just sing one of her songs while other musicians tried to interpret what she was hearing in her mind. “Is it like this?” they’d ask, picking out a chord progression.

“No, it’s like this,” Munson would say again and again, until she decided to learn guitar so she could play the melodies and chords on her own.

Munson might be in more bands than any other musician in the Charlottesville area. In addition to recording and releasing solo material, she currently plays in Jeebus, a self-described “slightly off-kilter rockin’ swing grass alt-country shuffle”; Mojo Pie; Oh Wow Boy! and Mama Tried, an offshoot of another of Munson’s bands, Alligator, widely regarded as one of Virginia’s best Grateful Dead tribute bands for going on two decades. She’s played just about every stage in town, too, from regular gigs at Durty Nelly’s Pub, Blue Moon Diner and local wineries, to one-offs at The Southern Café and Music Hall, the Jefferson Theater and the Sprint Pavilion.

Munson’s a regular at the weekly songwriter nights at The Local in Belmont, where host Michael Clem gives participants a prompt to work from—a number of tracks on Halfway to Anywhere came from these sessions Munson says. The opener, “Peace Pipe,” was in response to Clem asking, “Write a song with a famous person’s name in the first line.” One night, while driving home from a Mojo Pie gig she’d played with longtime collaborator Frank Bechter, Munson heard Alabama Shakes’ “Don’t Wanna

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Hiroya Tsukamoto. Japanese DADGAD guitar master. Part of the Prism Coffeehouse series. $13-15, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

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Holiday Concerts Michael Slon, Conductor John D’earth, Trumpet Soloist Jolly, joyous and not-to-be-missed!

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Friday 11/17 Mojo Pie. Get the night started right with some tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Pickin’ and Grinnin.’ Play, sing along or just listen to music from local talent. Free, 7pm.

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

The Can-Do Attitude. Charlottesville folkpunk revivalists release an album. With Pantherburn. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

The Michael Clem Trio. Veteran bassist and songwriter is joined by Thomas Gunn on upright bass and Rusty Speidel on guitar. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

dance Friday Night Contra Dance. Traditional American contra dancing to live music and expert calling. Free-$10, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Hot in Here 2000s Dance Party. DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion indulge your musical guilty pleasures in a ridiculously fun night. $10, 9pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

stage A Christmas Story: The Musical. In a new musical adaptation of the beloved Christmas movie classic, a bespectacled boy named Ralphie has one wish for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB Gun. $10, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

An Evening of Kafka and Stevenson. The Castle and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, presented together as two one-act plays. $10, 8pm. Albemarle High School, 2775 Hydraulic Rd. 975-9300.

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HMS Pinafore. See listing for Wednesday, November 15. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Col-

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lins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Drive, Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

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.

Seven Guitars. August Wilson’s play is set in 1948 Pittsburgh, where blues guitarist Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton desperately tries to rebound from serving jail time and find his way to Chicago, hoping to make a new hit record. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

words Third Fridays Improv Workshop. Learn to think fast, improve focus and listening skills, and tap into creativity to build on the many possibilities that emerge in theatrical improvisation. Free, 6pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

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Dunkirk. In May 1940, trapped on the beaches with their backs to the sea, British and Allied troops face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. Free, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Ornament Workshop. Glass artist Chip Hall teaches a glass ornament-blowing workshop. $30, 3pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 977-7284.

Saturday 11/18 music Charlottesville Symphony: The Americans. Playing works written by four American composers—two inspired by Thomas Jefferson and two written in the shadow of World War II. $8-45, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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Choose Your Own Adventure. Gina Sobel leads a rotating cast of rock wizards and funk preachers, fabricating new and unexpected grooves around every turn. 21-plus.

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

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Eli Cook Band. Blues singer-songwriter plays with a collection of musicians. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Gabriel Planas. Jazz piano as smooth as waves rolling on a beach. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Gangplank Road. Lyrically rich originals interwoven with complementary covers ranging from rock and country to alternative and Americana, with the occasional instrumental thrown in for good measure. Free, 4pm.

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

Greg Duncan Quartet. The very best jazz songs from yesteryear. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Gypsy Town Band. Acoustic, harmonic and soulful tunes. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

James Painter Experience. Shenandoah Valley trio specializing in classic blues rock.

Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Miles Pearce and Loren Oppenheimer. Classically trained Flamenco guitar player accompanied by percussionist and tabla player.

Free, 2pm. Hardywood Pilot Brewery and Taproom, 1000 W. Main St. 234-3386.

NO BS! Brass Band. Modern funk with New Orleans spirit. $16-18, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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Peter Ryan and Friends. Unplugged rock, folk, country and blues from the 1950s to the present. Free, 8:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Smoke Signals. Post-hardcore melodic metal. With Time Nothing. $8, 7:30pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Willie DE. Nationally touring young artist who was born and raised in central Virginia.

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

Woodshine. A magical gathering of unsuspecting musicians who met in the mountains of North Carolina. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

stage A Christmas Story: The Musical. See listing for Friday, November 17.$14-16, 8pm.

Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

Henry VI, Part 3. See listing for Thursday, November 16. $20-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

HMS Pinafore. See listing for Wednesday, November 15. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

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magine you live in Manhattan on West 78th Street and your neighbor is a dinosaur. The problem is, no one believes you. This is the premise for Bolivar, Sean Rubin’s debut graphic novel in which a large gray dinosaur living in New York speaks English, reads the New Yorker, orders corned beef sandwiches and visits museums, while everyone fails to notice him. That is, everyone except for an 8-yearold girl named Sybil.

Rubin, who grew up in New York, and moved to Charlottesville in 2014, says the idea for the story began with a gray, plastic dinosaur toy he had as a kid. Rubin’s cousin, photographer Edward Addeo, whom Rubin calls Uncle Eddie, “thought this thing was a riot.” Eddie named the dinosaur Bolivar and made up stories about his adventures. One day, in Eddie’s telling of it, Bolivar became the mayor of New York.

Then a teenager, Rubin was inspired to write what he thought would be a short children’s book, “mostly for the edification of my family.” What began as a Kafkaesque tale became a sort of ode to the oddities of New York. “The amount of things you see [in New York City] in a given day that you can’t quite process is really quite extraordinary,” he says. “I’ve always been charmed by that in some ways.” So he asked himself, “If there was a dinosaur living in Manhattan, what would be the entire context around that?”

After leaving New York, Rubin fleshed out the book during an artist residency at The Haven. (The residency program closed in 2015.) By the end of his residency, he had a first chapter with color illustrations and an outline for the rest of the book. The finished illustrations are incredibly detailed, and convey a great affection for New York.

Throughout the book it is a kind of game to try to spot Bolivar—his tail disappearing around a corner, his reptilian hands holding a newspaper—as bustling New Yorkers fail to notice what readers, and Sybil, do.

When Sybil tries to convince her mother, teacher and classmates that Bolivar exists, she is met with skepticism. A lot of her character, Rubin says, stemmed from his own “frustrations of trying to establish a creative career.”

But in the process of developing her character, she became an ordinary child. “Most children, I think, have a lot of difficulty getting adults to take them seriously,” says Rubin.

The tension in the story arises from the fact that the “two main characters have diametric motivations. Sybil wants to be understood and accepted. But she’s very conspicuous,” he says. Meanwhile, Bolivar “doesn’t want the pain and responsibility of notoriety.” When the attempt to fight an unjust parking ticket leads Bolivar to the mayor’s office, his anonymity slips away and he and Sybil must deal with the ramifications.

The book is dedicated to Uncle Eddie, Rubin says, to acknowledge “the fact that this came out of an imaginative world that he laid the first foundations of.” Even more than that, having a professional artist as a role model had a huge impact on Rubin. “It meant when you were like, ‘Hey, I want to do this,’ it wasn’t like, ‘You’re going to starve in an attic,’” he says. In fact, Rubin started illustrating at age 13 after meeting Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall fantasy novels, at a book signing. He showed Jacques some of his drawings and Jacques invited him to submit artwork for his website.

That led to Rubin doing cover illustrations for audiobooks and interior illustrations for two books in the Redwall series, as well as for David Petersen’s Mouse Guard comic book series.

“If you want to do this kind of work, someone has to be okay with it,” Rubin says.

For that, he thanks his parents, his wife and, of course, Uncle Eddie.

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Butchertown Burlesque Series. Deanna Danger Productions presents a vintage classic burlesque, nightlife experience to whisk showgoers away to a night of decadent celebration. $15-20, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

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An Evening of Kafka and Stevenson. See listing for Friday, November 17. $10, 8pm.

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Scorpios vs. Everybody. Blackmarket (The Party Killa) hosts this holiday kickoff party with music by DJ Flatlinelay. 21-plus. $10, 10:30pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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Saturday 11/18 Love’s Labour’s Lost. See listing for Wednesday, November 15. $21-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Seven Guitars. See listing for Friday, November 17. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

Veterans’ Story Theater. Improvisational performance uses music, movement and drama to invite veterans and non-veterans to share stories of how the military has affected their lives, and then watch as those stories are distilled and recreated on stage.

Free, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

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Charlottesville Book Fair. From an awardwinning biography of Charlottesville’s most famous resident to children’s stories by local favorites, this fair has a book for every reader. Free, 10am. CitySpace, 100 Fifth St. NE. 971-2787.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The rebellion begins as the world grapples with the reality of Lord Voldemort’s resurrection in this fifth installment of the famed Harry Potter series. $10, 12pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

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Ornament Workshop. See listing for Friday, November 17. $30, 3pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 977-7284.

Met Live: The Exterminating Angel. A surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. $18-25, 12:55pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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music Calie Garrett and Gary Green. Souful piano and harmonica joined by sweetly blended vocals. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Charlottesville Symphony: The Americans.

See listing for Saturday, November 18. $1045, 3:30pm. Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center, 1400 Melbourne Rd. 979-9532.

Gangplank Road. See listing for Saturday, November 18. Free, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Jazz Small Groups. Directed by UVA music faculty Pete Spaar, Jeff Decker and Mike Rosensky, the Jazz Small Groups range in size from quartets to octets and vary in

skill-level from beginner-intermediate to advanced. Free, 7pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

MidLife Crisis. Longtime acoustic trio plays oldies, bluegrass and folk. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville.

286-7837.

Miho Hazama Big Band. Tokyo-born composer, arranger and pianist is one of New York’s most astounding young talents, and she’s assembled an 18-piece band as a tribute to her idol, Thelonious Monk. $20, 7pm.

Unity Church, 2825 Hydraulic Rd. 978-1062.

Randy Johnston and Jonah Kane-West.

Guitar, voice and organ combo plays a wide variety of music, from blues to jazz to great American standard songs, rockabilly and country. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Salsa Sundays. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory bachata lesson before DJ Butchata plays an eclectic Latin mix for a social dance. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Stan Hamrick. Classic acoustic Americana in the broadest sense. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Tara Mills and Jimmy Stelling. An original blend of folk, bluegrass and Americana.

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

Tidewater Classical Guitar Orchestra.

Group with a wide-ranging repertoire plays everything from South American music to classical compositions, all performed with precision on classical, soprano and baritone guitars. $12, 3pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21-plus.

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

stage An Evening of Kafka and Stevenson. See listing for Friday, November 17. $10, 3pm.

Albemarle High School, 2775 Hydraulic Rd. 975-9300.

HMS Pinafore. See listing for Wednesday, November 15. $7-12, 2pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

Peter and the Starcatcher. Embrace the endless possibilities of imagination in this action-packed coming-of-age prequel to Peter Pan. $21-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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Ralphie’s refrain A Christmas Story sings out at Four County Players

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hether you fell in love with the leg lamp, the pink bunny suit or the double-dog-dare to lick a frozen flagpole, you can’t help but wait in excited anticipation for A Christmas Story to hit the holiday airwaves.

The story of Ralphie, an eager schoolboy on a desperate quest to get the most magical Christmas gift of all, hit the big screen in 1983 as a motion picture written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark.

Nearly 30 years later, the cult classic has been reimagined for the stage. A Christmas Story: The Musical features music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, whose recent work includes Dear Evan Hansen and La La Land. And now that the number of cool days and colorful tree leaves have caught up with PSL promos, Four County Players is bringing the holiday season to Charlottesville.

Directed and choreographed by Geri Carlson Sauls, the play echoes the story you know and love (with a few theatrical twists, of course) through song and dance. In advance of the show, C-VILLE Weekly caught up with Ralphie himself.—Elizabeth Derby

MAD PROPS The leg lamp arrives in A Christmas Story when Ralphie’s old man wins a major award in a contest. A battle over keeping it ensues between his parents, and the wacky lamp has become an iconic movie prop inspiring reproduction frenzies, Halloween costumes and civic traditions—Cleveland incorporated it into the city’s holiday decor on its Central Tower, and Northport, Long Island, gathers annually for the lighting of the lamp by its mayor. Author Jean Shepherd was inspired by a Nehi soda advertisement, and included the leg lamp in a series of short stories, originally published in Playboy Magazine, that went on to form the script for 1983’s A Christmas Story.

See A Christmas Story: The Musical, with Matty Ward as Ralphie, at Four County Players through December 17.

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Ralphie: Hi. It’s good to see you outside the usual...

Where I’m used to seeing you. So how old are you?

I am 9 years old.

What is your favorite subject in school?

My favorite subject in school is writing, because I get to write about my BB gun that I really want.

It’s a Red Ryder BB gun.

Why do you want it?

Because I can keep my homestead free of villains, and I can show Black Bart who’s boss.

What do you think you will be when you grow up?

I think that I would be a fireman, because I could protect people and use awesome tools, and I could just be such a great hero.

Well, good for you. That’s very brave.

What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not in school?

I love hanging out with my friends. Flick and Schwartz are my best buds, and we love to hang out

What else should I know about you?

Sometimes in school, when school’s getting a little boring, I like to daydream, and sometimes that gets me in trouble. But I am still a great student.

One time, we were supposed to be writing our Christmas themes, and I was writing about my BB gun, and I was off in a daydream, and then Miss Shields, my teacher, was yelling at me and that was not good.

But you’re still a good student?

Yes. And you think you’re a good enough student that you’ll get whatever you want for Christmas?

Yes, I think I will.

Awesome. Alright, well. Thanks, Ralphie.

Yes, thank you.

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In control Bully frontwoman talks audio engineering, screaming and Losing

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here’s something Alicia Bognanno of the Nashville-based grunge-pop act Bully wants to get off her chest.

Her latest album, Losing, released on October 20 via Sub Pop, is not a breakup record.

“I want to scream that to the top of my lungs,” says Bognanno, who easily could.

The 27-year-old singer/songwriter/audio engineer/producer frequently screams lamenting lyrics in unison with raw grungy guitar chords and alternative screeching melodies in Bully.

Although she did go through a break up with the band’s former drummer, Stewart Copeland (not to be confused with the former drummer for The Police, who shares the same name), she notes that songs from the album were written under different circumstances, each one having its own story and influence.

The album, a follow-up to the band’s 2015 debut, Feels Like, was recorded at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago.

Bognanno became familiar with Albini— who produced work by grunge acts like Nirvana and Pixies—and his studio when she did an internship there. But Albini hasn’t produced any of Bully’s records. Instead, producer is one of the many hats that Bognanno, who graduated with a degree in audio engineering at Middle Tennessee State University, insists on wearing.

Bognanno believes that in the future it could be beneficial to use an outside producer for a different perspective. “I just honestly think I have control issues,” she says, all the while insisting that she is open to the idea of taking off the producer hat.

Bognanno took her first audio engineering class when she was just 17 years old. As a teen growing up in Rosemount, Minnesota, it became her outlet to the music world: “I wanted to be involved with music for as long as I can remember and I felt like that [audio engineering] was the first opportunity that was presented to me where I felt like I could get into it,” she says.

Had a former teacher not connected her with the program, she probably would have skipped college altogether. “I knew that [audio engineering] was what I wanted to do,” she says.

While in college, Bognanno picked up the guitar and started writing songs. Her internship with Albini increased her knowledge of microphones and professionalism in the studio—she was able to witness producers and engineers while they worked with clients. But when she had free time, Bognanno experienced the real intern perks: dabbling with her own music and the programming tools in the studio.

Like Albini, she prefers analog recording and mixing to digital. “It’s a different way of going about things,” says Bognanno. “It’s interesting to take the analog route in such a digital world.”

Musically influenced by Kim Deal, Pixies, The Breeders, Land of Talk and Courtney Barnett, Bognanno says her vocal development came through listening to others and DIY practice.

“In college I became more familiar with unconventional vocalists,” says Bognanno.

“I think that opened up a lot of doors for me because I feel like I don’t sound like Christina Aguilera when I sing.”

There was no Screaming 101 class for Bognanno to enroll in for the development of her voice.

“There’s no telling if I am doing it in a safe way or not,” she says. “I’m probably not. I’m most likely damaging my vocal chords, but I’m not going to think about it too much. There are just certain moments where it just feels more appropriate to scream than it does to sing. That was always the aftermath of songwriting for me.”

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Sunday 11/19 Seven Guitars. See listing for Friday, November 17. $8-14, 2pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

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Ornament Workshop. See listing for Friday, November 17. $30, 3pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 977-7284.

National Theatre Live: Yerma. In Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s powerful masterpiece, a young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a baby. $10-14, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Monday 11/20 music ATM Unit featuring Jonah Kane-West. An organ wizard meets a bass warrior for an adventurous romp. 21-plus. Free, 10pm.

Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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Metcalfe/Pearce Tango Project. Expanding the horizons of traditional Argentine tango music through innovative approaches and stylistic re-imaginings. Free, 6pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Compassion for Others. The second installment of Mark Doty’s series Being-in-Common: Three Lectures on the Poetics of Compassion. Free, 5pm. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at UVA, 160 McCormick Rd. 924-3025.

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Tuesday 11/21 music Bob Huntington. Dinnertime piano. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Karaoke Night. Calling all wannabe pop stars with vocal chops. 21-plus. Free, 8pm.

Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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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.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, November 19. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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The Fralin Downtown Film Series: National Gallery. Frederick Wiseman’s film takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. $9, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. (512) 495-9600.

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hile attempting a brief vacation from being the world’s greatest detective, Inspector Hercule Poirot has been reading the hell out of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. With every page, he cackles in delight, a reaction likely based as much on the opportunity to let someone else tell the stories as on the book itself.

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express should be enjoyed the same way. It’s no disservice to call the film a trifle, a steady genre exercise with gorgeous visuals, a terrific sense of style and memorable performances from reliable A-listers, plus star-making turns from lesser-known actors. It’s elegant, fun, full of good humor and totally disposable, as most good whodunits are.

These may sound like negative criticisms, but a mystery story that places the emphasis on piecing it all together is always a self-contained endeavor, knocking down the dominoes intentionally placed by the author.

Once you know the resolution, there’s not much point in repeating the experience.

This to Hitchcock was the key difference between mystery and suspense; in suspense stories, we know the thief/murderer/etc. in

advance, so the tension comes in the form of watching people outmaneuver one another. If you’re placing the focus on resolution rather than tension, you need to be comfortable with a single-serving narrative and make the diversion a fun one, which director Branagh does expertly.

The film, based on Agatha Christie’s most famous novel, follows Poirot (Branagh) as he works to solve the most vexing crime of his storied career. The eccentric Belgian finds himself on the titular train between cases, when a murder takes place in his car in the middle of the night. A sudden avalanche derails the train, so it is up to Poirot to solve the crime before the rescue crew arrives.

The victim, Ratchett (Johnny Depp) was certainly an unpleasant and even cruel man, but no single motive or alibi completely adds up, and the evidence found at the scene appears artificially placed to throw off the investigation. Even the act itself is unusual, as Ratchett was stabbed 12 times with no apparent pattern or consistency in handedness or strength.

Watching Poirot work in his usual manner is great fun, but Branagh’s performance truly shines when his character’s normal tactics fail, forcing him to improvise. We learn his personal philosophy, what it is that

makes him a legend, and see the man behind the mustache. It’s a terrific take on a role that could have easily fallen into caricature.

The ensemble cast is also flawless—Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley—and Michelle Pfeiffer continues her wonderful return to the spotlight. Josh Gad delivers his

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second great performance of the year (the first in Marshall), and Leslie Odom, Jr. will become a household name in due time.

If you’re familiar with either the source material or the adaptations, there won’t be any surprises, but the real reason to see it is the depth it brings to Poirot. For everyone else, just about the only bad thing there is to say is that though it looks gorgeous, people look insufficiently cold in what is supposed to be an exterior, interrupting the immersion momentarily. That’s it, the only drawback. See it, bring the family aged 13 and up so hopefully they’ll make one of the several sequels they tease.

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Traditional Irish Session. Great people play great traditional music. Free, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St., 202-8387.

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in Murder on the Orient Express, in which he delivers a captivating performance as the formidable Inspector Hercule Poirot.

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan. After boxer Joe Pendleton dies too early in a plane crash on the way to a championship fight, an overeager angel sends him back to earth in the body of a murdered playboy. Pay what you will, 2pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W Main St, Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

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According to a post on Sugar Shack Charlottesville’s Facebook page, the reason the build-out is taking so long is that an expanded patio is being added to the 1001 W. Main St. space because this Sugar Shack location will also include owner and donut aficionado Ian Kelley’s other project: Luther Burger. It’s the second Sugar Shack to include a Luther Burger (the other is in North Chesterfield), which promises beef, turkey and veggie burgers served on buns made from Sugar Shack donut dough, and, according to the Facebook post, “the best waffle fries in your life.”

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Chef Curtis Shaver’s Sandwich Lab has been a bit elusive as of late. For those unfamiliar with Sandwich Lab, we’ll get you up to speed: In 2014, Shaver, executive chef at Hamiltons’ at First & Main, put together a oncea-month, one-day only, delightfullyover-the-top sandwich available for lunchtime pickup at the Downtown Mall restaurant.

Although the sandwiches regularly sold out, Sandwich Lab’s frequency has waned.

Vegan and gluten-free baked goods Fans of Shaver’s sammies, get ready Courtenay Taylor and Derek Mansfield recently opened Tilman’s, gluttons have probably already heard a Downtown Mall cheese, wine and charcuterie-focused shop, to rejoice, because come spring 2018, of Moon Maiden’s Delights, which also offers sandwiches, salads and desserts.

Shaver will be making sandwiches whose sprouted-grain, gluten-free for a sandwich joint-cum-bike repair shop, and vegan cakes and pastries, such as combine cooking and riding, and the timing Peloton Station, at 114 10th St. NW, in cranberry pear rolls with carob frosting seemed right, Vogler says. These sorts of bike the former Cville Classic Cars space. (In a and berry garnish and salty maple-glazed cafés have popped up in European cities and bike race, the peloton is the main pack of coconut brownies, are sold at City Market, in places like Asheville, North Carolina, and riders who save energy by riding close to Rebecca’s Natural Foods and Java Java. the Peloton Station partners think Charlotother riders to reduce drag.) Peloton Station, But for those who aren’t familiar with the tesville’s ready for one, too. which Shaver is opening in partnership with bakery, now you’ve been introduced, and In addition to chef sandwiches and beer, Hamiltons’ owner Bill Hamilton and managat a most convenient time: Moon MaidPeloton Station will offer happy hour tuneing partner Greg Vogler, is intended as a space en’s Delights has opened a brick-andups, repair clinics, community builds and a for cycling enthusiasts to grab a bite to eat mortar location on the Downtown Mall, chill atmosphere for bikers and non-bikers and a beer after a ride, and even have their in York Place. Owner and baker Sidney alike. Shaver says that some Sandwich Lab bike repaired while they wait.

Hall recently moved to town and says the favorites will be on the Peloton Station menu, Shaver, a former part-time bike mechanbakery has helped her get to know the and, just in case you were wondering, no, ic and riding enthusiast, has long wanted to community.

Sandwich Lab probably isn’t gone forever.

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Children and their parents can see Monticello’s Archaeology Lab close up, work with artifacts and learn how archaeologists piece together history. $12 adults, $9 children ages 7-11, 10am-noon. Monticello, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. monticello. org

Restaurants, breweries and retailers join together for a beer garden hosted by Brasserie Saison, an open-air street fair and holiday open houses at businesses. Proceeds benefit Unity C’ville, a nonprofit dedicated to racial and economic justice. No cover charge, 2-6pm, Downtown Mall.

The fifth annual rake-a-thon raises funds and awareness for affordable housing in the community.

Proceeds go toward the building of Harmony Ridge, a mixed-income neighborhood featuring 14 homes, 10 of which are Habitat homes. 9:30am, various locations.

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This race honors the life and accomplishments of Kelly Watt, who died in 2005 at age 18. Proceeds go to the Kelly Watt Memorial Scholarship Fund, awarded annually to an Albemarle High School athlete.

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They’re hoping to take the intimidation factor down a few notches, though, with Tilman’s, their cheese shop and wine bar that opened last week on the Downtown Mall.

Mansfield and Taylor met while working at Relay Foods, and as the company wound down in preparation for its merger with Door to Door Organics earlier this year, the two colleagues started talking about what it would be like to hang their own shingle here in Charlottesville. Tilman’s, named for the popular department store that occupied the building in the 1930s, is the result of those conversations and months of planning.

Wine, cheese and charcuterie are the focus at Tilman’s, which offers a variety of composed cheese and charcuterie boards available to eat at the marble-topped bar, perhaps with one of the nine wines offered by the glass or a pint of beer on tap. Customers can sample a cheese before they buy, and knowledgeable staff is happy to answer questions, make recommendations and sub different cheeses in and out if you’re not a fan of blue or goat. There are sandwiches (like the prosciutto and fig, and Italian pork) and salads, too, and desserts such as chocolate cake with merlot and chocolate ganache, and a goat cheese tartlet with roasted pistachios and honey. The shop also has a retail element offering about 40 different bottles of wine, cheese to go, boxes of crackers, baguettes, containers of Found. Market Co. shortbreads (bee sting and salted rosemary among them), Blanchard’s coffees, jars of chutney, specialty snacks and more. Taylor’s pimento cheese recipe, which Mansfield says

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will be familiar to Relay Foods customers, makes an appearance on the menu as well.

Mansfield says he wants Tilman’s, which is open from 11am to 9pm Monday through Saturday, and from 10am to 5pm Sundays, to be a welcoming spot, the kind of place where people can come in with a book or laptop and hang out for a few hours.

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45. Come to a close the film 2. Off-road wheels, briefly 47. Havens who sang at 21. Drunk motorist’s of3. Beats Electronics Woodstock fense, briefly cofounder Dr. ____ 48. Romeo’s last words 22. Part of a tuba’s sound 4. “Star Wars” character 49. “The Crimes of Love” 23. USA ____ ____ Binks author Marquis ____ 26. They may make your 5. The mi. in Mile-High City 50. “You should hair stand on end 6. Like purple hair know better!”

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8. Name on green-and60. “Dear old” person 33. Knee-slapper yellow soda cans 61. “The Greatest” 34. Relative of -ists 9. St. Francis’ home 62. Great deal 35. Tupperware contents, 10. Back muscle, to perhaps ... or this puz63. Apt rhyme of “squeak” weightlifters zle’s theme 11. Heaped together 39. Home buyer’s debt: Abbr.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a free throw. While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it, but before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succinct nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Rose’s opus.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”—Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, in 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”—Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.”—19th-century composer Tchaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.”—filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you. worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

Aries (March 21-April 19): “Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools and with the wrong people.

But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been.

In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): I predict that during the next 10 months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Here are some tips to keep in mind as you get started. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions.

So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems.

2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you?

Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialogue that sounds something

like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no...a tender revelation or a radical revolution...a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon—but I’m not sure which. Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces?

Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide. I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide.

What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this Earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next 10 months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly

and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself with devotion and ingenuity?”

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles.

1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs.

5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next 10 months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

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Are you passionate about applying your skills to ensure the greatest quality If so The Arc urges you to consider opportunities within our organiof life possible for your fellow community members in need? If so The Arc zation. mission is to ensure full community inclusion is hiring for a Our Director of Development & Community Relations. This person and participation people implementing with intellectual and developmental is responsible forof designing, and leading a comprehensive disabilities mission-based relations, fundraising and membership campaign. through public the provision of high quality services and advocacy. Our Responsibilities include identifying, cultivating and stewarding contributory vision is to remain the leading provider of services and advocacy relationships with individuals, foundations, corporations and government for that deserving population. If you share these values we urge sources. Will also work closely with, and provide leadership to, the you to consider the following career opportunities: Development and Community Relations Committee to secure funding, conduct major gift campaigns, further public awareness of The Arc, and implement special projects. Serves as primary media contact for the organization and works strategically to devise and implement proactive media outreach efforts DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS and marketing strategies to increase awareness of the agency. Responsibilities (Full and Part Charlottesville and Crozet.) also include oversight of our web time, site as well as the leveraging of social media.

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.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in the field ofplease communications, The Arc is doing to support our community, visit our web site at marketing, non-profit management and/or business; at least two years of http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/ leadership experience in non-profit marketing or public relations,experience development,The Arc In addition to offering a challenging and rewarding donor relations fundraising using diversified development, also offersand/or competitive compensation, paidfund training, and for full time staff as well as documented success in securing gifts from donors, foundations an attractive benefits package which includes health, dental and vision and government sources. This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to insurance, as well as life and long-term disability insurance, among other the Executive Director. Compensation to be negotiated, commensurate with offerings. qualifications and experience.

Region Ten is one of the largest employers in the Charlottesville area with over 600 employees. With our array of services, opportunities exist for direct care staff, social workers, nurses, clinicians, counselors, teachers, administrative staff, and others looking to make a valuable contribution to their community and work in the human services field.

We more encourage to apply on-line at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/ To learn about ouryou agency and mission please visit us at http:// job-vacancies/. You Qualified are alsocandidates welcomeare to encouraged visit our offices at 509 Park thearcofthepiedmont.org/. to submit Street to apply509 in Park person, a cover letterCharlottesville, and resume to TheVA Arc22902 of the Piedmont Street or fax them to 434-977-7864.

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SECOND HALF 2017 TAXES DUE on Tuesday, DECEMBER 5TH, 2017 Personal Property and Real Estate tax bills for the SECOND half of 2017 have been mailed. If you have any questions regarding your original bill or any subsequent mailing from the Finance Department, contact the Finance Department at (434) 296-5851 or albemarlecountyfinance@albemarle.org so that we can provide any necessary assistance. Please also contact us immediately and before the deadline if you have not received your Personal Property or Real Estate tax bill(s), or if you have a vehicle, trailer, boat, airplane or any other taxable property located in Albemarle County that is not listed on your bill. If you have your account information you may also view, print, and pay your bill online. We encourage you to pay using our convenient online payment system.

To avoid incurring a $10 or 10% late payment penalty, whichever is greater, payments must be either: (1) paid online at www.albemarlecountytaxes.org/taxes by 11:59 P.M. ET on December 5th, 2017; (2) postmarked by December 5th, 2017; (3) paid by telephone at 1-866-820-5450, (4) or delivered in person to the Finance Office before the close of business on Thursday, December 5th, 2017 or by 11:59 P.M. ET if using the County’s New Automated Tax Payment Kiosk. Otherwise, late payment penalty is effective the following day (December 6th) and interest at a rate of 10% per annum also begins to accrue the following month.

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Q&A How satisfied are you with the City Council election results?

Charlottesville deserves the leadership they voted for.

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Can’t go wrong with more females in government.

Very happy. Nikuyah Walker’s convincing election— in the face of tremendous odds and an 11th-hour, racist hit piece from our local paper—signals an awakening to deeply rooted problems of injustice and inequality in our community. This result should encourage all of us to get more involved and work to make Charlottesville actually live up to the hype it’s been enjoying for the past 25 years.

Thrilled. Nikuyah Walker is a dedicated public servant representing voices in Charlottesville that are crucial but to whom we rarely listen. @LBAKER1313/TWITTER

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100% satisfied.

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I would say satisfied.

Looks to me like the two candidates who worked the hardest won. These women were everywhere and gave it all they had.

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I hope nobody ever decides to protest City Council while Walker’s on it. At least AHIP will shape up.

So excited an independent won!! She was a great candidate and I’m happy she did!!

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