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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 Feeling like you belong somewhere—whether it’s where you grew up 10 Was UVA alum forced and have lived all your life or a place you moved to as an adult—is a to recant racial profiling claim? key component to happiness. But what about when that stability shifts, 12 No health insurance needed to see this when the place you knew no longer exists? When the people you relied Crozet doc. on don’t live there, and nobody waves to you from adjacent porches?

13 Planning commission denies group home The 10th and Page neighborhood, bordered by Preston Avenue to expansion.

15 Meet New Dominion the north and just south of West Main Street, has seen a change over Bookshop’s new owner. the years. Longtime residents say the predominantly African-American FEATURE 18 neighborhood is not the one they remember from their youth, when everyone knew each other. Today, as more white middle-class families buy houses and move in, legacy residents say the culture of the area is changing, that people are keeping to themselves more, which creates divisions. In this week’s feature (p.18), we dive into the past and How 10th and Page is present of the neighborhood by talking with longtime residents as well dealing with a massive tide of gentrification. as newer arrivals about what they envision for 10th and Page’s future.

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And so it begins...

City Council gave the go-ahead November 20 for a civilian review board to look at complaints against the Charlottesville Police Department or its officers.

Through a public records request, the Chronicle of Higher Education obtained nearly 3,000 documents from the University of Virginia before, during and after the notorious August 11 tiki-torch march through Grounds. “Together, the emails shed light on the mentality of a university administration and a campus police force that were caught off guard by a throng of white supremacists who used one of the nation’s premier public institutions as the staging ground for a demonstration reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the worst days of the Ku Klux Klan,” writes reporter Jack Stripling in his November 20 article.

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The Cassandra figure. Captain Donald McGee with university police warned his supervisors August 8 that there could be a repeat of the tiki-torch march held in May and the Rotunda and Lawn might be targeted because white nationalist Richard Spencer is a UVA alum.

Cookie Smith mourns Sage Smith, her grandchild, who’s been missing for five years.

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Five years ago, just before Thanksgiving, Sage Smith headed to West Main to meet Erik McFadden and was never seen again.

Earlier this year, Charlottesville police declared the case a homicide and named McFadden a person of interest. Smith’s grandmother, Cookie Smith, told the Daily Progress she’s tired of candlelight vigils and was organizing a sock drive for the homeless.

If charcoal grills are allowed... McGee noted that the torches were a fire hazard, but university police were

who said UVA knew since 3pm and that she “went to the top.”

Blame the victims. Sullivan was famously videoed chastising a student for not telling the administration what the Unite the Righters’ plans were.

“Don’t expect us to be reading the alt-right websites,” said the president.

But student and faculty warnings appeared unheeded.

We’ve got this covered. University Police Chief Mike Gibson expressed confidence that the upcoming situation was under control when offered assistance from the city and county police, which kept officers nearby on standby. When the march started, one lone UVA officer was spotted on the Lawn.

Call the first lady. Religious studies prof Jalane Schmidt heard chatter about a march Friday afternoon, but fearing she wouldn’t be taken seriously because she’s an activist, she notified Mayor Mike Signer’s wife, Emily Blout, an assistant media studies professor,

Eli Mosley lied? The Unite the Right security guy, Identity Evropa’s Mosley, told UVA police the group assembling at Nameless Field was smaller than he expected, would march up University Avenue and not through Grounds—and would pick up its trash.

“In my 47 years of association with the University, this was the worst thing I have seen unfold on the Lawn and at the Rotunda. Nothing else even comes close.”

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The apparently bogus UVA White Student Union posted a screed on Facebook that’s almost exactly the same as one posted for hoax organizations in 2015 at more than 30 schools, including UC Berkeley, Penn State and NYU. UVA says the owner of the page is likely not a UVA community member, and the White Student Union is not an official school organization, the Cav Daily reports.

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hen we last heard from Johnathan Perkins, it was 2011. In the six years since, the University of Virginia School of Law alumnus has reached milestones in his career, and currently works as an associate attorney in Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel.

But today he also struggles with personal conflicts that haunt him.

April 1, 2011: Perkins says he was confronted by UVA police officers on Wertland Street around 2am, and he asserted in a Virginia Law Weekly letter to the editor, published April 22, 2011, that the two officers racially profiled him.

May 2011: Perkins recanted his claim and redacted his letter. Almost everyone around him, from peers to professors, saw him as a “liar.”

Today: Perkins is coming forward with an allegation—that it was the FBI who pressured him to recant his story and to deny the ordeal happened.

“I have been living with this for six years,” says Perkins. “I was told to not speak of this for forever, if possible, but at the minimum for five years [due to] a statute of limitations.”

He says his lawyer at the time, Lloyd Snook, emphasized this. Despite never filing a formal complaint against the UVA Police Department, Perkins alleges the U.S. attorney took his letter seriously enough to “threaten charges...and a devastating investigation.”

Former U.S. attorney Tim Heaphy declined to comment on the case.

On May 5, 2011, Perkins says he received a phone call. FBI Special Agent Robert Hilland left a voicemail, requesting he call back to “speak soon.” Perkins left his study room and found the agent in the law school parking lot, near Perkins’ vehicle, he says. Hilland allegedly led Perkins back into the school,

where they entered one of the law school meeting rooms, and shut the door. According to Perkins, two UVA police lieutenants were there: Melissa Fielding, now a captain, and Lieutenant Michael Blakey.

Laurel Sakai, a classmate and friend of Perkins, had been studying with him and was there during his first phone call. “I recognized the caller ID as a D.C. number and told him to answer it,” she says. “When I heard he had to go meet the agent, I said he shouldn’t go alone. I saw the officers in the hallway waiting for the meeting to start.”

For the following two hours, Perkins says Hilland interrogated him. “They never asked for my side of the story. They never questioned me about the police officers who searched me. I was the subject of the interrogation, not the officers.”

Perkins says Hilland slid him a blank piece of paper and had him write his own recantation. “I wrote the first sentence and Hilland chuckled. Then he dictated the rest to me.”

Perkins provides a document he says is his recantation that’s signed by Hilland and Blakey as witnesses, but not by Fielding.

Hilland did not respond to a request for comment, and the FBI did not confirm his involvement. UVA declined to comment.

“When [I finally] talked to him, he said he ‘just signed a letter saying none of it happened,’” says Sakai. “His demeanor seemed strange, and I don’t think he comprehended the extent of what had happened.”

“I feel...foolish now, [because] I know this is a pretty common practice; he executed a textbook interrogation,” says Perkins, who was a third-year law student at the time.

Hilland had “implied that telling him what he wanted to hear was the easiest way to ‘make it all go away.’ He laid out a series of consequences, mentioned charges,” says Perkins. He says the charges were never made explicitly clear.

“As a practicing attorney now, I can imagine or assume what charges they had in mind, but at the time, the agent...threatened to interrogate my mother, sisters, classmates, professors, future employers, neighbors— and I imagined them going through all of this and agreed to sign the recantation instead, to stop it from happening,” he says.

UVA released a press statement the following day, revealing the university police had closed its investigation.

“What I noticed later was, the statement even says they relied on outside agencies.

They never directly say ‘the FBI.’ Almost nobody knows they are the reason for my recantation,” says Perkins.

The statement also noted that police reviewed dispatch records, personnel rosters, police radio tapes, interview and surveillance videos from university cameras as well as privately owned businesses.

“The student cooperated with the investigation,” Chief Michael Gibson said in the statement, “but details and facts of his story came into question as the investigation un-

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UVA Law alum Johnathan Perkins now says the FBI made him recant his claim of being racially profiled by UVA police in 2011.

folded. Yesterday, he told us that the incident had never occurred.”

After facing backlash from the university and classmates, and garnering negative attention in the media nationwide, Perkins says he felt isolated, but determined to complete his final year of law school.

Because he faced charges from the UVA Honor Committee, Perkins’ degree was withheld until after his July 17 trial, which lasted from 9am until nearly 11pm. He says all 12 jurors grilled him and the witnesses, including Lieutenant Blakey.

Blakey talked about “how bad my letter made them look,” says Perkins. “They wanted...that bad press to end.”

Perkins provides a document he says is a May 17, 2011, statement Blakey made as an Honor Committee witness that says Perkins’ description of one of the officers who stopped him kept changing and was inconsistent with the officers who were on duty that night.

Jurors were made aware of the FBI interrogation, and Perkins was ultimately acquitted and granted his degree.

The experience, Perkins says, inspired him to go into law surrounding higher education, “after being shepherded through the system…this process, and student issues... became important to me.”

The recantation “has been my life’s biggest regret,” he says. “It almost ruined my whole life. Knowing what I know now, I would’ve left, and not gone in that room.”

Perkins’ emotions catch up to him. “I just hope now that people will see the full story and understand the FBI’s involvement in this,” he says. “I feel horrible that the public nature of my story led people to think that people of color fabricate tales of police conduct. People of color suffered because of this, and I want people to believe in us when we say we experience these issues. It happens every day. This has changed the whole trajectory of my life.”

“I have been living with this for six years. I was told to not speak of this for forever, if possible, but at the minimum for five years [due to] a statute of limitations.” JOHNATHAN PERKINS

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Radical care Doctors ditch insurance

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aura McLaughlin still remembers the day in January 2015 she heard about a revolutionary way to practice medicine—like doctors used to do decades ago. Now she spends as much time as she needs with patients, who can come see her as often as they like at a reasonable cost.

A key component: She doesn’t take health insurance at her two-year-old medical practice in Crozet. The model is called direct primary care, and it’s spreading across the country, with four such practices now in Charlottesville and Albemarle, where, incidentally, people who don’t qualify for Affordable Care Act subsidies are facing the highest premiums in the country.

McLaughlin compares it to a gym membership. Patients sign up and pay between $15 and $60 a month, and use it as often as they like.

What it’s not, she stresses, is health insurance. “We don’t consider ourselves substitutes for insurance,” she says. But for those who have high-deductible health insurance that makes them balk at doctors’ visits they’ll have to pay for out-of-pocket, direct primary care can be a more affordable alternative, she says.

And by not having to spend 40 cents of every dollar she takes in to cover overhead for dealing with health insurance companies, “I’m able to keep costs low,” she says.

“From a physician standpoint, it allows doctors to be doctors and focus on patients.”

Her Blue Ridge Family Medical Practice offers lower rates for lab tests, and “I can help people navigate the [prescription drug] system” to find generics or the best local pharmacy prices, she says.

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nience of being able to come in without a long wait, she says, and some employers and school systems add direct primary care as part of employee benefits.

“Even if you don’t have insurance, it’s a way to get health care,” says Delegate Steve Landes, who carried a bill the past two years in the General Assembly that specifies direct primary care is not insurance—after insurers complained the doctor-patient agreements should be regulated like insurance.

Carolyn Engelhard is a health policy expert at UVA, and she has a few concerns about the direct primary care model. “I worry that people think it’s insurance and it isn’t,” she says. “If they end up in the hospital with a major illness, they wouldn’t be covered.”

She also worries about accountability for solo practices not connected to a larger health care system. Doctors within a system must show they’re meeting qualitycare metrics and best practices, and insurers attach payment to guidelines being followed, she says.

“Dr. McLaughlin is a wonderful doctor,” says Engelhard. “She’s connected to other doctors in the community.” But for other standalone direct primary care practices, there’s “no oversight,” she says.

And when it’s necessary to refer a patient to a specialist, a doctor who is affiliated with Sentara or UVA talks to the specialist, she says. Direct primary care “fragments an already fragmented health care system.”

McLaughlin, who worked for UVA for nine years before venturing on to her own practice, says making referrals works much the same as it did when she worked in a traditional practice, only now she has more time to research specialists and costs, and to discuss patients with the specialists.

For the solo practitioner, there’s been no looking back. “This model of care,” she says, “allows me to be the kind of family doctor I always wanted to be.”

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worried about increasing the number of girls in the home, she says she withdrew the application. “We just felt like time would help them understand what the experience of being our neighbor would be like. Fifteen years later, I feel like we’ve been a really great neighbor.”

Regardless, the planning commission unanimously voted to recommend that City Council deny Gloeckner’s permit.

“I don’t question the intent or the goodwill of the program,” said planning commissioner Corey Clayborne at the meeting. “The part that I’m struggling with is when we’re assessing the impacts, whether it’s parking or whether it’s noise, we’ve heard the public testimonies that have come before us and have read multiple emails and documents, and I’m really struggling to see how this benefits the public necessity.”

Gloeckner will go before City Council with her request later this year.

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hen the owner of a Park Street group home for at-risk adolescents went before the Board of Architectural Review November 21 to request permission to increase the number of teens allowed to live in the house, the board opted not to make a recommendation.

“It was out of our purview,” says BAR member Carl Schwarz. “There’s no negative effect on the historic district, but it’s not something we could recommend for or against.”

Twenty years ago, Kara Gloeckner started the Structured Therapeutic Adolescent Residential Service program in Charlottesville. Five years in, she moved some of the STARS operation into its current location at 517 Park St., where the organization’s administrative offices are housed and eight girls rest their heads each night.

The home, built in 1984, was originally designed to house 16 mentally disabled adults, says Gloeckner, who interned there at that time. Allowing that many girls to live there would be fulfilling its intended use, she says, and replacing the offices with bedrooms would make for a more home-like environment and alleviate parking stress.

Gloeckner’s original special use permit request doubled the number of girls living there, but after a community meeting at which most residents were adamantly opposed to having 16 troubled teenagers living in the same home in their neighborhood, she asked the City Planning Commission November 14 for permission to house 12.

“With more girls, there is more negative energy for them to feed off of,” local teacher Jennifer Ferguson said before the planning commission. “The proposed expansion is harmful to a group of girls who need undivided, individualized and committed attention even more than the average teenage girl.”

Gloeckner says she’s aware of community concern. When she first asked for the permit in 2001, because neighbors were

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ew Dominion Bookshop owner Carol Troxell’s sudden death in January sent shock waves through Charlottesville’s literary community—and left some wondering what would become of the downtown institution.

Established in 1924, one of the oldest businesses on the mall is now in the hands of a new generation. Charlottesville native Julia Kudravetz signed the papers November 15 to buy the bookshop, but it didn’t happen the way she might have imagined.

She left Charlottesville for higher education, and returned with an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins, where she taught future neurosurgeons “how to write a sonnet,” she says.

Growing up, Kudravetz, 37, a self-described “mall rat,” was a fixture downtown, where her mother was a founding member of McGuffey Art Center and her father had a law office. “This was always a place I felt most centered,” she says.

At Piedmont Virginia Community College she taught freshman composition, and at William Monroe High School in Greene County, her students learned how to write a five-paragraph essay. She co-founded the Charlottesville Reading Series at the Bridge, and that led in early 2016 to doing social media for Troxell, whose shop was still hand-writing receipts.

“I had talked to her,” says Kudravetz, about some day acquiring the business, but “not in any serious way, because it was hard to imagine the store without Carol.”

“Julia seems meant to take New Dominion Bookshop to its next manifestation,”

says writer Jane Barnes. “She knows Charlottesville having grown up here. She has lots of youthful energy, an offbeat sense of humor, a racing brain. She’s ready to try new things.”

Barnes lists Kudravetz scheduling unexpected combinations in the reading series, which has moved to New Dominion, staging Donna Lucey’s reading at Common House “amid exotic cocktails” and playing ’20s jazz great Bix Beiderbecke as background music for Brendan Wolfe’s book signing.

Kudravetz realizes that implementing her vision has to be done “slowly and thoughtfully,” she says. The cash register has been updated with a Square credit card reader, she added cordless phones so staffers could walk around the store, and she’s got Vibethink designing a new website that’s scheduled to launch this week.

And she wants to have more events, particularly for children and young adult readers.

It turns out her experience as an educator has been invaluable for running a bookstore. “Everything’s easier than teaching public school,” she says. Even on the hardest days in the store, “my grumpiest customer is not worse than a 15-year-old having a meltdown.”

Kudravetz is aware there are a lot of stakeholders—and an intense loyalty to the shop. A customer came in recently with a list and ordered hundreds of dollars of books. “It’s never going to be cheaper than ordering from Amazon,” she says. “We offer something different.”

She wants the feeling of the store to stay the same: “thoughtful, comfortable, alive.”

But there will be some changes, she warns: “There’s going to be a lot more poetry.”

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A new page The predominantly African-American area of 10th and Page is seeing an influx of white neighbors By Jordy Yager

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Market price In 2004, when Brian Haluska was hired as a city planner, Charlottesville’s housing market was booming. Young white middleupper-income folks were buying, renovating and selling houses in Belmont left and right.

“Once the housing stock in downtown Belmont had been flipped over, and it was all $300,000, the buying opportunities were gone, so where are they going next?” says Haluska. Starr Hill was already in flux, as was Fifeville. Haluska oversees the city’s planning of 10th and Page, and recalls that the low cost of houses there put the neighborhood in the spotlight. But there was a problem: Many houses were in disrepair.

John Gaines, lifelong Charlottesville resident and former principal of the Jefferson School, was president in the late 1990s of the neighborhood association for 10th and Page, where he was raised. “At that time there were a lot of dilapidated houses in this area,” says Gaines, who lives in his childhood home on Ninth Street NW. “There was a lot of drug dealing going on right on this street.

I’d get out of my car when I’d come [home] from work, and guys asked me, ‘You want anything?’ There were a lot of shootings and killings that occurred in this area.” In the mid to late ’90s, Gaines saw the Piedmont Housing Alliance rehabilitate rundown houses in Belmont, so he asked the nonprofit to do the same in 10th and Page.

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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Tate Huffman has just returned from the gym to his home in Fifeville, a neighborhood that, for most of its history, has been predominantly African-American. “It is definitely shifting,” says Huffman, sitting at his kitchen table. “In the seven years we’ve lived here, I’ve seen a lot of gentrification.” Against the advice of his brother, who called Fifeville “sketchy” after moving to Charlottesville to work at UVA, Huffman and his wife, Faith Levine, who are white, bought the house in 2010. “I like the location more than anything,” he says.

Huffman grew up poor in West Virginia, he says, and used government grants for college in Utah and a chiropractic degree in Oregon.

He owns a chiropractic business in Belmont, while his wife works as a dance instructor.

Two years ago, the couple bought their second home, this time on Page Street, across the street from Jones. And, as residents are increasingly doing, they rented it for added income on Airbnb, where they wrote the following description: “The neighborhood of 10th & Page is predominantly black, lower-middle class with a quickly shifting demographic of 20-30 something middle class professional and grad students

(aka it is in the process of gentrification, I 19 am obviously contributing to that by renting my place on Airbnb). Physically the neighborhood is a mix of rundown houses and newly built/remodeled. My end of the street is not that pretty, nor is my house from the outside (inside is clean, comfortable, generally quiet, and spacious).”

Jones and several of her longtime neighbors were “livid” when they saw the description. Jones took to Facebook and replied: “As a life-long resident of Page Street, I am very offended by this description. Page Street has had its issues, just like any other neighborhood, but to purchase a house and use it for an Airbnb, and describe the neighborhood in this derogatory manner, hurts.

Maybe the owner should have purchased in a different neighborhood.”

Huffman and Levine hadn’t realized they had offended their neighbors, and have since changed the wording and stopped by Jones’ house to apologize. She wasn’t home, but she says she appreciates the gesture. While Huffman and Levine are two of only a few Airbnb renters in 10th and Page, their arrival followed nearly a decade of upper-middleincome white families moving in. “Growing up, everybody knew everybody,” Jones says.

“But now you don’t know who’s where.”

Huffman says he and his friends grapple with being gentrifiers. “It is tough,” he says.

“In a way we feel like we’re doing a disservice, but at the same time…I really feel like it’s a mixed bag, I do. There was a time when this neighborhood was extremely unsafe.” He pauses, trying to choose his words carefully.

“Yeah, I do feel guilty about gentrification of course, but I also–it’s that whole thing: If I don’t do it, is somebody else going to?”

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haron Jones’ childhood home no longer exists.

It was in an area of Charlottesville called Gospel Hill, which also no longer exists. “My two brothers and I were born there,” says Jones, who was born in 1962. Around that time the rapidly expanding University of Virginia bought the dozen or so houses in the predominantly African-American neighborhood, and bulldozed them. The UVA Hospital stands in its place now. The family moved less than a half mile away to Page Street, one of the only areas in the city where white people did not use racial ordinances, neighborhood covenants and zoning laws to prevent them from living there. The neighborhood, known as 10th and Page, is the city’s largest continual African-American community.

Now, as Charlottesville faces a city-wide housing crisis, 10th and Page is reckoning with a massive tide of gentrification. A 2016 comprehensive housing analysis by Robert Charles Lesser & Co. found that Charlottesville’s upper-income earners are buying houses at lower prices than they can afford, preventing middle-income people from buying those same houses. It creates a trickle-down effect, where middle-income earners buy houses that lower-income residents can afford, leaving the lowest income earners with few housing options.

Over the last decade, dozens of white middle- and upper-income people have bought homes and property in 10th and Page. Many erect fences around their yards, tack on expensive additions or tear down houses entirely and build anew, driving up property assessments and taxes. Longtime residents say the culture of 10th and Page is also changing, and that their new neighbors keep to themselves more, creating divisions where before there was a shared sense of community. And for some African-Americans who have lived most of their lives here, the echoes of a notso-distant past, when white people told black residents where to live, are very present. That history has largely been ignored and forgotten, leaving behind much of the nuance that helps explain why the city is the way it is—and the future that is possible.

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City planner Harland Bartholomew prepared a housing report on Charlottesville for the City Planning Commission in 1957 that made the case for urban renewal, including redeveloping the Vinegar Hill, Starr Hill and 10th and Page neighborhoods.

Solla-Yates also attended UVA and now works for the Nature Conservancy. Lately, he’s been tracing how zoning policies established by Charlottesville’s white government were used to cut off African-Americans. (For example, in the 1950s the city government widened Preston Avenue to allow more traffic, splitting the largely African-American neighborhoods of Rose Hill and 10th and Page in two.) Solla-Yates unearthed the 1957 report that first makes the case for urban renewal, and found the City Council minutes from 1974 that closed the road connecting 10th and Page to the east—Vinegar Hill, the Jefferson School and downtown. Around this time, on the west side, the end of Page Street was cut off as well, where before it connected to the predominantly white neighborhoods of John Street and 14th Street NW. Solla-Yates sits on the 10th and Page Community Development Block Grant task

James Bryant and Sharon Jones, both longtime 10th and Page residents, sit on the Community Development Block Grant task force, which funnels small pools of federal money into neighborhood infrastructure. Jones and Bryant say the neighborhood is not the same one they lived in growing up, when you knew and interacted with your neighbors.

force, which funnels small pools of federal money into neighborhood infrastructure, such as new sidewalks. Solla-Yates sees that a lot of white families have moved in recently, but thinks it could be a potential force for good, a force for dismantling white supremacist zoning structures. “My theory is that if we have a certain amount of white people talking and angry, we can fight for social justice,” he says. “I’m angry about segregation. I’m angry about urban renewal.

I’m angry that we’ve been intentionally segregated from the rest of the community. I’m angry that we’re underserved on infrastructure. I’m angry that we don’t have any trees.

That’s all on purpose.”

A history of uprooting Many in the city now point to mixed income housing as the potential solution to Charlottesville’s housing crisis. This follows several decades of studies showing that concentrations of poverty in neighborhoods lead to vastly disproportionate rates of crime, violence, drug use, health disparities, infant mortality rates, malnourishment and nearly every other key aspect of life.

Sharon Jones remembers the ’80s and ’90s quite well. It was a scary time, she says. The 10th and Page neighborhood had been labeled a Stay Out of Drug Area and she worried her oldest son would get caught up in the drug dealing and violence. “She was always at the door when I went outside,” recalls her son, Rickquan Jones. “I couldn’t go past the corner.” Rickquan is currently getting his master’s in sport and recreation management at George Mason University. His mom was part of a neighborhood coalition that CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

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people moving in for that change to occur.

“It’s not like we haven’t spoken up for ourselves over the years,” says Bryant. “It’s that, for the city, this wasn’t a priority neighborhood. I can remember a time when people wouldn’t even touch 10th and Page.”

In 2008, Lyle Solla-Yates and his wife bought their house on 10th Street NW. It was a PHA home, first sold to a young woman in 2006 whose parents ran a winery in Nelson County. “When we looked at this house, a lot of people told us, ‘You can’t live there, it’s not safe’,” recalls Solla-Yates, who is white. “And I think there was a lot of veiled racism in that.”

He says he thinks it used to be a crack house before PHA took it over. The house next door was as well. That house sold in 2006 for $224,900. Five years later, a Texan bought it, after making $15.1 billion on the sale of an oil company. Solla-Yates says it was for the oil baron’s son, who was attending UVA.

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of PHA, says that 71 percent of them were sold, using subsidies, to people earning an average of $28,925 a year (about 52 percent of the area median income at the time), while the rest were sold at full-market rates.

Fifty-six percent of the homebuyers were people of color, says Mathon.

Gaines says he thinks it was good for the neighborhood, though he acknowledges some residents were upset. “A lot of people hollered because they felt people in the neighborhood couldn’t afford them, which probably was true in some cases,” he says. Jones was one of them. “When PHA said they were going to purchase the houses and build low to moderate income, I got excited,” she says.

“Because I’m thinking, somebody from Garrett will move in, somebody from Prospect, somebody who works and makes a low to moderate income, they’ll be able to own their own home. But that’s not what happened.”

While PHA’s project was underway, something else did happen, Haluska says. The city’s housing market boomed, and PHA sold some of the more central houses in 10th and Page at market rates to middle-upperincome white people. “By the time they had been built, already things had shifted,” says Haluska. “And now suddenly it was, okay, PHA just put a bunch of white people in 10th and Page neighborhood, and is this the beginning of a trend?”

The new PHA houses were intended “to attract a mix of incomes back to the neighborhood” and increase net asset growth for longtime residents, according to a PHA project booklet. Since then, neighborhood home assessments have risen, as have the number of white homebuyers. One new house on Ninth Street NW was just assessed at $769,300. The older house directly next to it, built in 1900, was assessed at $202,691.

Another new house built on 10 1/2 Street NW was assessed at $422,000; the house next to it was assessed at $178,970.

Jones says increasing property assessments wouldn’t be so bad if she could afford to use her home as collateral to borrow against. But she can’t, and her property taxes keep increasing. “My biggest fear is that the property taxes are going to price us out,” says Jones. “We’ll lose our house, and then where do we go?” Gaines too has been hit.

“Come next month, I’m going to have to shell out $1,400 to the city for property tax,” he says. The city offers tax relief for the permanently disabled and those over the age of 65, but only if they earn less than $50,000 a year and have a net worth below $125,000.

Longtime 10th and Page resident James Bryant says there’s another, more subtle, change occurring. “As white families move into the neighborhood they put up fences around their property,” says Bryant, who moved into his house on 10th Street NW in 1981. “To me, when you put a fence up, it says, ‘I don’t want to be bothered.’ To me, that’s a barrier.” Bryant says it makes him feel like a stranger in his own neighborhood. Most of the original houses in the area have front porches. Bryant and many others remember the old days when neighbors sat on porches and talked across their yards. “Neighbors knew each other,” he says. “But with the new folks coming in, they don’t introduce themselves.”

Bryant and Jones remember the days too when crime spiked in the neighborhood, and they’re thankful things have become safer again. But they note that it took white

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Council in 1912 that made it illegal for black residents to live in white neighborhoods, and vice versa, while also requiring home builders to state the race of the intended occupant in their permit applications, writes Karen Water-Wicks in 2014 in the Magazine of Albemarle County History.

Income and opportunity The current situation in 10th and Page is different, of course. Longtime AfricanAmerican residents are selling their homes willingly to young white buyers. They’re not being strong armed, or pushed out in an overt fashion. Rather, there’s a deeper, more systemic, factor at play—one in which race and economics intersect.

In 1994, Gloria Beard bought her Page Street house, where she raised her three sons. When she started as a patient care assistant at UVA in 1978, she earned $3.09 an hour. When she retired as a certified phlebotomist in 2004, she says she earned $12 an hour. Adjusted for inflation, that’s a $3-an-hour raise over the course of 25 years.

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LEFT: Lyle Solla-Yates and his wife moved into the 10th and Page neighborhood in 2008, after purchasing a Piedmont Housing Alliance-renovated home. Solla-Yates has been tracing the zoning policies Charlottesville’s government has historically used to segregate African-American neighborhoods. RIGHT: Wallace and Antoinette Dowell have preserved six affordable housing units in the 10th and Page neighborhood, directly across the street from their Tenth Street Bed and Breakfast.

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Every week for more than 20 years, Jones has been part of a group of local African-Americans and University of Virginia students that tutors young children, many from low-income families, at Zion Union Baptist Church on Preston Avenue. In the face of centuries of discrimination, education is often seen as the greatest tool for economic mobility.

Jones’ family has gone to Zion Union Baptist, originally located in Vinegar Hill, for generations. The destruction of Vinegar Hill uprooted more than 600 renters and homeowners, along with 29 African-American businesses, which had a collective income of $1.6 million in 1959, according to the book Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia by James Saunders and Renae Shackelford. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the equivalent of $13.6 million today. “The all-white downtown businessmen association were complaining that they were losing customers to the negro businesses on Vinegar Hill,” says Richard Johnson, who lives in 10th and Page, where he

grew up. “They basically told City Council, if you don’t do something about this, we’re going to do something about you.”

“It destroyed black people’s pride,” recalls Eugene Williams, 90, who was recently honored by City Council for his civil rights work, especially around affordable housing.

Vinegar Hill is the most well-known example of the city’s white government moving African-Americans, but it is not the first.

In the late 1930s, the city razed AfricanAmerican homes and an Episcopal church on the north side of Vinegar Hill. In its place, it built Lane High School, where white people prevented African-Americans from attending until 1959; the school shut down for months beforehand in protest.

Twenty years earlier, in 1919, many African-Americans were forced to move from McKee Row, a collection of downtown row houses sold to the white city government so it could clear them and build a park where, less than two years later, it placed a large statue of confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

This was two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1917 Buchanan v. Warley decision, which effectively overturned an ordinance approved by Charlottesville’s white City

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attempted to take back 10th and Page. “We marched through the streets chanting and letting the drug dealers know we’re not going to let you take over,” she recalls.

The city’s crime spiked during this time, as did the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans. In 1992, the Daily Progress published a year-long, six-part investigative series that found three out of four people convicted of a felony from 1989 to 1991 were black. The series pointed to two causes: the racially targeted crack-cocaine sentencing disparities, and a lack of adequate legal representation for people in poverty. The investigation led to the creation in 1998 of a public defender’s office in Charlottesville, which had not existed.

A generation earlier, in the 1960s, Charlottesville’s white city government pushed to create a housing authority in the city to not only raze Vinegar Hill, one of the largest hubs of African-American life, but to also place the city’s new public housing site in 10th and Page, concentrating one of the largest pockets of poverty in a mixed-income, predominantly African-American neighborhood. White city residents successfully lobbied to block it from their neighborhoods.

James Bryant’s family was one of the first to move into the Westhaven public housing project. While it improved some families’ living conditions, most African-Americans opposed it. In 1999, Christopher Combs writes in the Magazine of Albemarle County History: “Blacks increasingly expressed their concerns that public housing represented an attempt by city planners to create ghettos and continue the practice of residentially segregated housing.” A white public housing project was also proposed at the time, Combs writes, but the city opted instead to subsidize poor white families in private housing throughout the city, thereby deconcentrating their poverty. Years later, Bryant served for three years as a commissioner on the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority. “The whole concept of public housing was transitional housing in the ’60s,” he says.

“It wasn’t meant to be permanent.”

White people too voiced opposition to public housing’s creation in the area, Combs writes, because it could have increased the number of African-Americans at the allwhite Venable elementary school. Today, while children in the surrounding 10th and Page neighborhood walk to Venable, children who live in Westhaven ride a bus across town to Burnley-Moran, an elementary school

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Stony Point Design/Build LLC purchased the 5.7-acre plot on the north end of 10th and Page, the site of the old Monticello Dairy building, for $11.9 million earlier this year, with plans to build a 50-to-80-foot-tall structure housing 200 to 300 multi-family units, some of which Stony Point General Manager Chris Henry (left) says will be “affordable.”

used for residential purposes only and that it shall not be owned or occupied by other than persons of the Caucasian race, family servants and servants quarters excepted.”

These racial covenants existed in North Downtown, Locust Grove, Belmont, Fry’s Spring, Jefferson Park Avenue, Johnson Village and Rugby Hills.

In the decades following Emancipation, African-Americans had a number of their own neighborhoods as well, until the city began using eminent-domain, zoning policies and urban renewal to push them out. In 1930, about 50 percent of African-Americans owned homes in Charlottesville, the same percentage as white families, according to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

But over the last 80 years, that has decreased, and now about 27 percent of African-Americans own homes, while white home ownership in the city remains at 50 percent.

Over the last several years, two giant student housing structures have been built along West Main Street, along the neighborhood’s south side, with a third currently under construction. They add nearly 900 units to the city’s housing market, but none is affordable for families making less than $50,000.

it’s just unfair. The deck was stacked. You get a deal of cards in life, and many people in this neighborhood got no high cards.”

Caplin first started by securing a loan to fix up the house of an African-American man who worked for his family. The man had an existing loan at 30 percent interest and he was set to default, which would have cost him his house. “I said, ‘This is not happening; I’m going to be the guy who fixes this,” says Caplin, who got a loan from his father and saved the man’s house. Caplin looked around the neighborhood and saw an increasing number of boarded-up houses. “Why isn’t anybody paying attention?” he wondered. One by one, he started buying houses, fixing them up and renting them through word-of-mouth. In the beginning, Caplin says, realtors wouldn’t even take a listing in the neighborhood. “They would scoff at the idea of having their sign in this neighborhood,” he says.

Caplin says he’s keeping his profit margin small and reinvesting earnings into property maintenance, which more developers and landlords could do. “It gets into [the] ethical question of how much profit is reasonable,” he says. “How much can you live with? Are you happy making 5 percent? Or do you feel you have to make 20 percent?” Caplin mostly hires neighborhood residents to do the work on the houses, he says. But no matter how many properties he buys—and he is heavily leveraged—he knows he can’t get them all.

Often, when considering a new tenant, Caplin will seek the input of lifelong locals like Jones, who says, if not for Caplin, “everything would be bought, remodeled and sold for $300,000 to $400,000. He’s keeping affordable housing in the neighborhood.

“If I hadn’t bought my house when I bought it, and if the lot didn’t belong to my grandmother who died and then passed it down to my dad, and if they hadn’t given me the lot, God knows where I would be,” Jones says. “Because I couldn’t afford to buy a house in Charlottesville anywhere now.”

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Now, all eyes are on the north end of 10th and Page after the old Monticello Dairy building and the surrounding 5.7-acre plot was sold earlier this year for $11.9 million.

Chris Henry is the general manager for developer, Stony Point Design/Build, LLC, and says it aims to build a 50-to-80-foot-tall structure for 200 to 300 new multi-family units, some of which will be “affordable.”

Henry says he wants to work with residents to find a common ground for the new structure. “We’re going to butt heads on some things, not everybody’s going to get what they want, including me,” says Henry. “But at the end of the day, it’s going to be a better process.” Henry’s company commissioned the design of a walking green space in the center of Preston Avenue that, he says, could help bring the communities of Rose Hill and 10th and Page back together.

City planner Brian Haluska says this project comes as Charlottesville is breaking free from its old ways of developing neighborhoods. “Planning is beginning to focus a lot on people who have traditionally been left out of the process—marginalized groups that our processes are very much geared towards not serving or not notifying,” says Haluska.

“They’ve been designed historically for people who have resources and can engage in that process. How do you reimagine these processes so everybody can be included?”

Jeremy Caplin, however, is worried that the added housing will tilt the market. For the last 30 years, he’s quietly bought nearly 70 houses in 10th and Page, and offered deeply affordable rentals to extremely lowincome residents. His lowest rent is $200 a month, he says, and his highest is $990 a month for a five-bedroom house. He estimates the majority of his renters are AfricanAmerican. “I try to preserve what’s left of the black culture in this neighborhood and to preserve these houses,” says Caplin. “This crowd never got any respect or any financial breaks or any help. I’ve had a lot of breaks, a lot of help. I see how the world works, and

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(In 2015, with inflation, Beard would have earned $15.14 an hour; the national average for a phlebotomist in 2015 was $15.21 an hour.) Beard worked two additional parttime jobs on weekends to support her family, all of whom have now moved.

“Do you know this town ran all my kids away?” says Beard. “Many young people, this is their home. My kids left because there’s no jobs. Who wants to work at UVA when they don’t give you a sufficient raise? That’s not even fair. People who were born here leave because there’s no money to be made.”

In Charlottesville, from 2011-2015, the median household income for white families was $56,756. For African-American families it was $32,816. That’s a $23,940 gap, according to the Weldon Cooper Center. “Nine out of 10 of my classmates who graduated in the class of ’73, who are African-American, moved and never came back to Charlottesville,” says Richard Johnson, a 10th and Page native. “They couldn’t get a job after they graduated. I’m talking about lawyers, doctors, dentists, preachers, teachers, business people. White people wouldn’t hire them.”

A recent study on income mobility by Stanford economist Raj Chetty and Harvard economist Nathaniel Hendren found that Charlottesville ranks near the bottom, at 2,700 out of 2,885 jurisdictions, meaning that if you’re born poor in Charlottesville, you are very likely to remain poor, and that there are 2,699 other cities and counties where you’re more likely to gain wealth.

The consequences of these realities also play out in numbers. According to Weldon Cooper, over the last 115 years, the number of white people in Charlottesville has grown by 28,053, while the black population has grown by just 6,060. In 1900, there were 3,834 white people (60 percent) and 2,613 black people (40 percent) in Charlottesville. In 2015, there were 31,887 white people (80 percent), and 8,673 (20 percent) black people.

Much of life in Charlottesville has been designed for and by white people, say many African-Americans. This plays a large role in why African-Americans are selling their homes when the elder generation passes away.

This past September, the Federal Reserve Board found the median net worth of white families in 2016 was $171,000. For AfricanAmericans, the median net worth was $17,600. A closer look at the statistics reveals that home ownership has proven to be the No. 1 way, outside of employment, that families increase their net worth. “There is a very deep national and institutional history of racial discrimination and disenfranchisement that has made it far more difficult for families of color to build wealth through home ownership specifically,” says PHA Executive Director Sunshine Mathon in an email.

Before his parents owned it, the brick house John Gaines, 80, grew up in was owned by a white policeman, and Gaines remembers another white policeman living across the street as well. The neighborhood was transitioning at that time from being racially mixed to becoming predominantly African-American, in large part because it was one of the few neighborhoods where white people did not prevent them from living there. It was the height of Jim Crow, and racial segregation was rampant.

Many of the city’s housing deeds at that time contained the clause: “This property is sold subject to the restriction that it shall be

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CHRISTMAS KICKS Returning for the sixth installment of his annual Christmas tour, Robert Earl Keen has always had a special place for the holidays in his Americana-infused heart. Since 1984, Keen has crafted 19 albums, among them his holiday fan-favorite, Merry Christmas from the Family.

He pours his energy, hilarious anecdotes and incredible music into a magical merry performance full of elves, sugarplums and maybe a cow or two. The result is the alt-country equivalent of eggnog: a concoction full of smooth Christmas cheer, with a honky-tonk kick. $28.50-43.50, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Tenor sax player Kamasi Washington pushes genre boundaries with his Epic jazz set on Thursday.

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JAZZ DAZZLED Kamasi Washington has played alongside some of the biggest names in hip-hop, funk, jazz and soul—Lauryn Hill, Nas, Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, Thundercat and Raphael Saadiq among them. But after turning heads with his playing and arrangements on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015, and releasing his three-disc, three-hour debut album (aptly titled The Epic) that same year, the tenor saxophonist emerged as a big name in his own right. Washington’s “music is very much of jazz, but the context he and his collaborators have created sits slightly outside of it,” says Pitchfork. $27.50-30, 8:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4980.

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Everyone loves the classic holiday stories, but, let’s be honest, we’ve seen it all—Christmas past, present and future. Instead of choosing one, the creators of Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) perform every yuletide tale they can muster, flying through costumes and carols, while managing to mix in international holiday traditions and seasonal icons from various eras. $21-44, times vary. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 851-1733.

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After leaving the popular Celtic folk band Solas, John Doyle was in high demand on the music scene. Brought up in a musical family, Doyle gained prominence through his signature sound on guitar as well as his heartfelt vocals and commanding performances. His Irish heritage is evident in his writing, which focuses on the stories of immigrants through the last century. $20-25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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

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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.

stage Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some). See listing for Wednesday, November 29. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Haus of Belle Drag Show. Drag queens, kings and femme fatales perform at this inclusive and entertaining show. $10, 6:30pm.

The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

dance Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa leads an introductory bachata lesson before a social dance featuring music by DJ Butchata. $5-8, 8pm.

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

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

stage Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some). Hold on tight as you take a tinsel-covered roller coaster ride bursting with laughter, carols and joy, and prepare to leave with more holiday spirit than you can carry. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Double Feature. It all ends here, the epic final showdown between good and evil in this final installment of the Harry Potter series. $15, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

words Compassion for the World. Mark Doty, a distinguished writer, gives the last of three lectures in a series, Being in Common: Three Lectures on the Poetics of Compassion.

Free, 5pm. Newcomb Hall Ballroom, UVA. 924-3601.

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Bob Bennetta. Piano virtuoso plays relaxing jazz. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Thursday 11/30 music Christmas with Annie Moses. Beloved holiday classics from many genres to unify audiences, young and old, classical connoisseurs and roots enthusiasts, jazz aficionados and bluegrass buffs. $30, 7pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

Kamasi Washington. A torchbearer for progressive, improvisational music, mixing hiphop, classical, R&B and jazz. $27-30, 7:30pm.

The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Koda and Marie. Members of Chamomile & Whiskey play a stripped-down set. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Sunshine Nights. Americana indie-folk from Brooklyn. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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.

The Mike Dillon Band. Combining styles and years of experience, this five-piece makes a noise that is entirely unique. 21-plus. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Taking you there Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black (Anti-Records) I haven’t been checking out the Jeff TweedyMavis Staples collaborations of the last few years—apparently, I have been a fool. If All I Was Was Black is a nearly-miraculous alchemy of Staples’ gospel-soul and everything Tweedy throws at her. The swampy opener “Little Bit” includes a Byrds-y raga flavor in the bridge and skronky guitar solos; the title track sounds a little like Staples fronting Crazy Horse; and twitchy Velvets-y guitar noise flutters in and out of “No Time For Crying.” Somehow, it’s all of a glorious piece.

Of course, Staples’ mastery over her voice is complete, as seen when she effortlessly downshifts to match Tweedy as he brings his laid-back rasp to “Ain’t No Doubt About It.” Staples’ galvanic force provides something like sustenance in these trying times, and this album delivers it, deliciously.

Sharon Jones Soul of a Woman (Daptone) This final Sharon Jones album, recorded while Jones faced down a grim pancreatic cancer diagnosis, is an exultant triumph.

Jones didn’t turn to downtempo reflection—Soul of a Woman is taut and intense, and her vocal performance is endlessly in-

ventive and inspired on standout cuts like the preemptive breakup song “Pass Me By.” As usual, the Dap-Kings’ meticulous revisionism is a little distracting—I find myself thinking what they’re thinking instead of feeling what they’re doing—but nobody does retro-soul better or more flexibly, from Sunday-morning joy (“Come And Be a Winner”) to hot-buttered psychedelic soul (“You Got to Forgive Him”) to nimble, jazzy funk (“Matter of Time”). Soul of a Woman is a thrilling testament by one of the finest and most beloved singers of our time.

America Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973 (Omnivore) For anyone who enjoyed “Ventura Highway” and “Horse With No Name” the first thousand times but subsequently discarded America on the light rock trash heap, this terrific collection might come as a revelation. I speak from experience—as the opening “Riverside” sparkled like a country-rock version of Big Star’s “Watch the Sunrise,” my first thought was “Oh great, so now I like America?” But why resist these Air Force brats who met in England and were barely out of high school when they stormed the charts? These demos prove there was more depth to the band than its hits—but speak-

ing of, the trio’s effortless vocal blend is on display in an a cappella version of “Horse With No Name,” and the early take of “Ventura Highway,” featuring Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine, straight cooks.

R.E.M. Automatic for the People 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Craft Recordings) Following the shiny happy Out of Time, Automatic for the People was dubbed “the death album” for thematic preoccupations and general murk, the songs nearly drowning in John Paul Jones’ swirling string arrangements. Automatic has since been recognized as a classic, perhaps the last great R.E.M. record (I’m actually a Monster fan but we won’t get into that). Added features here are an oft-bootlegged live set—from a Greenpeace benefit at Athens, Georgia’s venerated 40 Watt club—and 20 tantalizing, previously unreleased demos. Few of the demos are outtakes; sadly, most are thin sketches of album tracks that mostly demonstrate producer Scott Litt’s prowess in fashioning the formidable finished works. Turns out that the live set is the more welcome bonus, a loose and fun show in an intimate hometurf setting.­—Nick Rubin

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

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Every One of Us. Civil rights icon and public theologian Ruby Sales talks with Charles Marsh, professor of religious studies at UVA, about race, spirituality and public life. Free, 6pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

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Candlelight Concerts: Ceremony of Carols. Step into the wonder and the celebration of the season with the Virginia Women’s Chorus and harp accompaniment. $717, 8pm. University Chapel, UVA. virginia womenschorus.org.

Faster Than Walking. American bluegrass for your listening pleasure. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Femme Funk. Harli and the House of Juniper, Susan Munson, Kate Bollinger and Soju Blue play sets to benefit Charlottesville’s Shelter for Help in Emergency. $8, 8pm.

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

Gold Connections. Guitar-driven indie rock.

With Mo Lowda and Morning Teleportation. $10, 6:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

GypsyTown. Soulful acoustic covers and original tunes. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford.

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Improvisation Workshop. Apratim Majumdar and Amit Chatterjee demonstrate how to improvise with different melodies and rhythms in concert. Free, 4pm. Old Cabell Hall 107, UVA. 924-3052.

John Doyle. Master guitarist, singer and songwriter performs a low-key set. $20-25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Kap Slap. This DJ and producer just wants you to dance. $20-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

245-4948.

A Christmas Story: The Musical. 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.

Junie B. Jones. A musical all about the beloved children’s book series. $7, 9:30am.

Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

Sweet Charity. Persistently optimistic and unfailingly upbeat, an indomitable dance hall dreamer carves out a place in her world where she is seen, heard and valued on her own terms. $25-30, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

words Book Release: Living in a Mindful Universe. Dr. Eben Alexander and Karen Newell sign copies of their new book. Free, 6pm. Barnes & Noble, Barracks Road Shopping Center,1035 Emmet St. N. 984-0461.

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Holiday Craft Fair. Shop for handmade and artisan gifts in a quiet setting. Free, 8:30am.

North Branch School, 221 Mickens Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8450.

The Grand Illumination and A Christmas Story. A community event for all, including the lighting of the community tree and a screening of a classic holiday film. Free, 5:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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Moniker. Indie rock band layers deep baritone vocals over top of crunching guitars and danceable beats. With Isabella VanKesteren and Tom Sobolik. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

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Overdog. A healthy dose of classic rock, blues and reggae with Grateful Dead influences in a tasty concoction of bona fide, foot-stomping numbers. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Broadway in Charlottesville. Some of Broadway’s brightest stars perform a benefit concert. $125, 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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The December 2nd concert is sponsored by

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Jam, sing along or just listen to music from local talent. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St. 286-7837.

Candlelight Concerts: A Ceremony of Carols. See listing for Friday, December 1. $7-17, 1pm. University Chapel, UVA. virginiawomenschorus.org.

Tea Time Recitals. UVA students present a varied menu of musical delights. Free, 1pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Curtis Prince and Clairvoyants. Two acts ready to rock the night away. Free, 7pm.

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

The Chickenhead Blues Band. Band plays boogie-woogie and upbeat R&B tunes. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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The Gladstones. Straight-up, old-school rock ‘n’ roll. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

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Time Sawyer. An entertaining show with heartfelt lyrics and a grassroots feel. 21plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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A Season of Light. John McCarthy directs a series of choral arrangements of beloved holiday songs. Free, 4pm. Crozet Baptist Church, 5804 St. George Ave., Crozet. 823-5171.

Virginia Glee Club Christmas Concert.

Singing unique renditions of yuletide favorites and brightening winter nights with the season’s bounty of beautiful music. $5-15, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

dance Fall Dance Concert. UVA students, faculty and guest choreographers perform inventive and inspiring dances. $5-7, 8pm. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. 924-3376.

stage A Christmas Carol. Marley, the three Christmas ghosts, the Cratchits and Tiny Tim are all back to take Scrooge on the ride of his money-grubbing life. $21-60, 7:30pm.

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Jim Waive. No-pick honky-tonk tunes. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

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

John Kelly. Singer-songwriter with a soulful style informed and inspired by a variety of artists. Free, noon. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. (540) 923-4206.

LG and Friends. Bassist Lesly Gourdet brings a group of friends together for blues, jazz, R&B and a little rock ‘n’ roll. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Luchadora. Appalachian surf trio. Free, 10pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Nelson County Community Orchestra. Holiday jubilee featuring selections from Christmas favorites such as Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah. Free, 7pm.

Rodes United Methodist Church, 286 Avon Rd., Afton. nelsoncco.org.

Reciprocity: A Radioactive Music Event.

A festival featuring a plethora of musical acts from Piedmont Virginia Community College, all in support of the radiography program. $10, 6pm. Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Rob Cheatham Trio. Serious rock and altcountry. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Sammy Horn. Talented pianist tickles the ivories in a chill setting. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Strings of India. A concert featuring internationally acclaimed sarodist Apratim Majumdar with Amit Chatterjee on tabla. Free, 7pm.

McLeod Hall Auditorium, UVA School of Nursing, 202 Jeanette Lancaster Way. 924-3376.

The Glamorous Masquerade Ball. Grab your mask and dress your best for this ball featuring music by DJs 252 and Warren O’Neal. 21-plus. $10, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

The Southern Belles. A high-octane mix of funky Southern psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll. With The Jauntee. $10-12, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

UVA Chamber Music Ensemble. Adam Carter directs several groups of student musicians who perform works they’ve perfected over the course of the fall semester. Free, 3:30pm. Brooks Hall, UVA. 924-3052.

Fall Dance Concert. See listing for Friday, December 1. $5-7, 2pm and 8pm. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA. 924-3376.

stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Friday, December 1. $21-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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he next time you use the Water Street and Second Street crosswalk, look in the Live Arts window. There’s a light on in the lobby—the theater’s ghost light. It’s small and casts yellow light from a transparent glass shade, and, according to superstition, keeps ghosts from haunting the theater after everyone leaves. Ever concerned with actors breaking legs, theaters have historically left ghost lights on for practical reasons, too. Live Arts’ Producing Artistic Director Bree Luck says empty theaters can be “treacherous,” and she’s seen more than one person fall off a darkened stage.

This ghost light also serves a more contemporary function. It illuminates Live Arts’ participation in The Ghostlight Project—a national network of individuals in the theater community who came together on January 19, 2017, the night before the presidential inauguration, to pledge their commitment to support and advocate for vulnerable communities. Live Arts was invited to join The Ghostlight Project by Moisés Kaufman, founder of Tectonic Theater Project, National Medal of Arts recipient and co-writer of The Laramie Project.

“Lighting our ghost light was just the first step in our process of being truly inclusive. It isn’t enough to say people are safe here,” Luck says. “It isn’t enough to make gender-sensitive bathroom signs. ...We needed to look at the work we were doing from a broader perspective.”

Joining the project inspired Luck and the Live Arts team to begin a season-long series of roundtable discussions on diversity, inclusivity and community.

“Our discussions may be uncomfortable, or difficult to grasp,” says Luck. “We may struggle through anger, and brush up against bruises that we didn’t even know existed. But in the end, we want to make our corner of the world stronger, to give our community members a greater voice, and to help us all feel a little less alone in this day and age.”

Last year, Luck approached local activist, writer and theater professional Leslie ScottJones for help in initiating the conversations on diversity. Scott-Jones says this summer’s white supremacist rallies—which occurred a month before Jitney, an all-black play ScottJones directed at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center—added urgency to the first discussion, held at Live Arts on October 15.

“If you’re not going to have black directors and producers involved in the process

Leslie Scott-Jones and Brad Stoller joined Bree Luck (center) in October for the first in a seasonlong series of discussions on diversity, inclusivity and community as part of the theater’s participation in The Ghostlight Project.

of creating these stories, then you shouldn’t do black theater,” Scott-Jones says. “You don’t understand the story. People in community theater get stymied when talking about inclusion because they think it has to be on the stage. The way to be more inclusive is to attack it from behind the stage first, and to build a group of artists that sees the world differently.”

Like Scott-Jones, Brad Stoller attended the first roundtable discussion and has a long history with Live Arts. Thirty years ago, Stoller participated in the production of Sam Shephard’s A Lie of the Mind at Charlottesville High School’s black box theater—the production that led to the creation of Live Arts. He remembers one rehearsal where John D’earth introduced 19-year-old Dave Matthews, who was so nervous he clung to nearby stage equipment. Stoller agrees with Scott-Jones that change begins behind the curtain.

“We need to include people of color in aspects of direction and design,” says Stoller, who teaches theater arts at PVCC. “We can do plays where people of color act, but that’s a one-off thing. We have to really commit

to having people of color be in leadership roles.”

In Live Arts’ next roundtable discussion in mid-January, Stoller wants his fellow theater professionals to make a public commitment to diversity. He and Luck think an interesting challenge would be to have all Charlottesville theaters refuse to present any piece written by a white man.

“It would force us to find the plenty of other material out there, rather than falling back on people who are well-known—who are white men,” says Stoller. “And the fear of not selling tickets, or this isn’t my audience?

I don’t have the patience for it anymore.”

On Friday, Live Arts presents Sweet Charity, a musical that features a strong female protagonist. After several recent musicals with male leads, Luck says the Live Arts team was ready for a change.

“Charity embodies a pick-yourself-up-byyour-bootstraps mentality that feels pretty familiar to our community right now,” Luck says. “We may get knocked down, but we’ll keep forging ahead, we’ll keep dancing, and even when the odds are against us, we will still fight for love.”

“If you’re not going to have black directors and producers involved in the process of creating these stories, then you shouldn’t do black theater.”

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Willie DE Band. A nationally touring young artist based in central Virginia blends folk, blues and a dash of jazz to create a fresh, original sound. Randall Pharr and Stuart Gunter join him for this performance. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

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Steep Canyon Rangers. Effortlessly walking the line between festival favorite and sophisticated string orchestra. With Larry Keel. $25-28, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Family Holiday Concert. The Charlottesville Symphony and UVA’s University Singers sing holiday favorites at this annual community concert. $10-45, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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Saturday 12/2 A Christmas Story: The Musical. See listing for Friday, December 1. $14-16, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some). See listing for Wednesday, November 29. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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Berto Sales and Miles Pearce. Latin guitar duo. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Bill Adams. Unique fingerstyle guitar arrangements of blues and old-time music.

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

Family Holiday Concert. See listing for Saturday, December 2. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Greg Howard and Angela Kelly. Chapman Stick player and flutist play from their holiday album, The Holly and the Ivy. Free, 7pm.

C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

Holidays with the Hoos. Start a new December tradition by celebrating the holiday season with the 320-member Cavalier Marching Band and surprise guests. $10-12, 3pm. John Paul Jones Arena, 295 Massie Rd. 243-4960.

Earlysville Winter Arts and Craft Show.

Artisans present their latest crafts and artwork at this annual event. Free, 9am.

Earlysville Fire House, 283 Reas Ford Rd., Earlysville. 973-8862.

Mariana Bell. Acoustic folk-rock that tells stories from many perspectives. With Bahlmann Abbot. $12-15, 6:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Free Union Artisans Open House. Eleven local artisans present their newest work for your holiday gift giving. Free, 10am. Free Union Country School, 4220 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 978-1700.

Holiday Open House at Innisfree Village.

Check out crafts and other gifts from Innisfree’s weavery, woodshop, pottery, bakery and gardens. Free, 10am. Innisfree Village, 5505 Walnut Level Rd., Crozet. 823-5400.

The Little White Party. Raise awareness for World AIDS Day at this party full of merriment, libations, entertainment and more.

115 Second St. SE. 209-677-7430.

Sunlit Chapel, Salon & Spa aeatre Room and so much more!

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Craft and Vendor Fair. Peruse holiday gifts made by local artisans. Free, 9am. Monticello High School, 1400 Independence Way. 244-3100.

PVCC Pottery Club Sale. Includes hundreds of handmade mugs, bowls, vases, plates, casseroles, pitchers and works of art. Free, 9am. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Chef Prepared Meals Restaurant Style Dining Coffee & Ice Cream Shop

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Nelson County Community Orchestra.

See listing for Saturday, December 2. Free, 4pm. Rockfish Valley Community Center Pavilion, 190 Rockfish School Ln., Afton. nelsoncco.org.

Open Mic. Musicians, singers, writers, music-lovers and listeners come to enjoy a true listening room full of inspired songwriters and musicians. Free, 5:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Phil West. Powerful, emotive vocals accompanied by percussive finger-style guitar and a foot-triggered backbeat. Free, 2pm.

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

PVCC Chorus Holiday Concert. An afternoon of holiday choral music. Free, 3pm.

V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

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Disarming ideology

Short stories spark discussion of guns in American culture

By Raennah Lorne arts@c-ville.com

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“The loud debate about rights and restrictions was obscuring the larger conversation...”

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and fiction in particular, can help people think about these things in a different way.”

There’s something mysterious about the short story form, she says, that helps bring the reader “to a larger consciousness,” and a collection of such stories offers a wide range of experiences. “The idea,” McAfee says, “was to take people into 19 different worlds and look at 19 different ways of using a gun.” As they write in the introduction, the stories vary from “tender to violent, from chilling to hilarious. Love stories, war stories, coming-of-age stories and revenge stories, they occur in landscapes familiar or ordinary, distant or dystopian.”

Five years after they began their project, mass shootings continue to happen. On October 1, the day of the book’s publication, 58 people were killed by a mass shooter at a concert in Las Vegas. The editors hope the anthology will help readers find common ground. “Almost nobody in the U.S. thinks that these shootings are the price of freedom,” says McAfee.

Based on what they’ve witnessed on their book tour so far, the anthology is accomplishing what they had hoped, sparking significant discussion. “As people think about their own experience with guns they move beyond ideological divisions and talk about what they really mean,” McAfee says. “And what they really mean is the starting place.

In a way they’re like statues and flags. They are objects but they’re also symbols. They mean different things to different people.

But there are ways to talk about symbols that don’t involve dissension and violence.”

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eirdra McAfee and BettyJoyce Nash first met 10 years ago as teacher and student (respectively) in a creative writing class in Richmond, where they both lived at the time. Nash, a journalist who had recently turned to fiction, was surprised when a gun turned up in a story she was writing. “My palms got sweaty, my mouth got dry,” she says, “and I realized it’s a powerful metaphor and I had to be very careful with it.” This sparked a conversation between Nash and McAfee about how difficult guns are to handle, even in literature.

“They’re so powerful as metaphors and meaningful as objects that you have to be careful about how you introduce them and use them in the story,” McAfee says. “If you throw them in in the beginning, people are transfixed by them. If you pull them out at the last minute, you stop the story and the gun isn’t as useful if you’d introduced it more skillfully.”

Nash eventually enrolled in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, where she wrote her thesis on the role of guns in fiction. Her adviser, Pinckney Benedict, said to her, “If you’re an American writer, you’re going to have a character eventually pick up a gun.”

Indeed, it was the ubiquity of guns in American culture that fascinated Nash and McAfee. American language, McAfee points out, is steeped in its metaphor, with such expressions as: “He took his best shot” and “Someone shot him down.”

The two writers became “interested in [guns] from a literary standpoint,” McAfee says, and decided to build an anthology around them. They solicited stories, such as one from Benedict and another from

Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx. Others came to them in response to a nationwide call for stories. The editors used a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to sift through submissions and find “the best contemporary stories,” McAfee says. The result, published last month, is Lock and Load: Armed Fiction.

Their work on the anthology began shortly after the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012. “We thought, we have to talk about this,” McAfee says. “The loud debate about rights and restrictions was obscuring the larger conversation about how do we as a nation feel about guns and how do we understand them.” Nash, who relocated to Charlottesville that same year, says both she and McAfee believe that “art,

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Sunday 12/3 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.

The Pollocks. Psychedelic Southern rock.

Free, 3pm. Starr Hill Brewery, 5391 Three Notched Rd., Crozet. 823-5671.

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.

Undergraduate Composers New Music Concert. New music for flute, clarinet and piano by undergraduate student composers at UVA. Free, 7:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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dance Salsa Sunday. 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.

stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Friday, December 1. $21-60, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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A Christmas Story: The Musical. See listing for Friday, December 1. $14-16, 2:30pm.

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

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Follow a ballet adventure as Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit, which she follows down a rabbit hole, where events become curiouser and curiouser. $10-14, 1pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

words The Very Persistent Pirate. CJ and Maddy Green read from their recently published children’s book. Free, 1pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

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Robert Earl Keen’s Fam-O-Lee Back to the Country Jamboree Show. Living Americana legend plays a holiday show. $28-43, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979.1333.

UVA Wind Ensemble. William Pease directs 52 of UVA’s most outstanding brass, woodwind and percussion players. Free, 7pm. Hunter Smith Band Building at UVA, 180 Culbreth Rd. 924-3052.

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From Here to Eternity. An Army barracks in Hawaii is filled with love, lust and drama in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. Part of the Monday at the Movies Series. Pay what you will, 2pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

Tuesday 12/5 music Bob Huntington. Local musician lets listeners indulge in his expertise. Free, 6pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Extinction Level Event. With lots of lowend, crushing riffs, this is headbanging music. With Blödhren. $8-10, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Karaoke Night. If you’ve got vocal chops, let’s hear ‘em. 21-plus. Free, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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.

Messiah Sing-In. Sing along to Handel’s Messiah at this annual UVA tradition. $5-10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Traditional Irish Session. Local Irish musicians come together for a night of fun.

Free, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, December 3. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Friday, December 1. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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Annual Holiday Artisan Bazaar. Find just what you’re looking for this holiday season: pottery, jewelry, textiles, wood turning, ironworks, paintings, wine, cheese and more from local artisans. Free, noon. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Free Union Artisans Open House. See listing for Saturday, December 2. 10am. Free Union Country School, 4220 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 978-1700.

Monday 12/4 music Christmas Benefit Concert. Musicians from across the valley perform to benefit the Hospice of the Shenandoah. Free, 7pm.

Waynesboro Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1700 Lyndhurst Rd., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9452.

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Waynesboro Choral Society. Local chorus sings holiday music to benefit the Salvation Army. Free, 7pm. Main Street United Methodist Church, 601 W. Main St., Waynesboro. waynesborochoralsociety.homestead. com.

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

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Tears and joy Pixar’s Coco is an emotional, musical triumph

Central Virginia’s Early Music Vocal Ensemble

directed by Megan Sharp

O Magnum Mysterium: A Spanish Renaissance Christmas Friday, December 8, 2017 7:30 pm St. Paul's Memorial Church 1700 University Avenue Charlottesville Saturday, December 9, 2017 3:30 pm Emmanuel Episcopal Church 7599 Rockfish Gap Turnpike Greenwood

The story of Coco plays out around the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, and stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Noel Ubach and Renée Victor.

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ing food and artifacts left for them as part of Dia de los Muertos celebrations. Miguel then has to return to the land of the living before sunrise while also procuring the blessing of his family to pursue music.

Any story involving the memory of loved ones is ripe for emotional exploration, and the fear of being forgotten is possibly more terrifying than death itself.

Coco is a terrific celebration of the culture it represents, featuring an A-list cast of

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Mexican and Mexican-American performers (Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Renée Victor and Edward James Olmos).

It condenses the meaning of the holiday then fully embodies it with its story and visuals, without oversimplifying or essentializing. The film follows a few predictable beats, though even the most cynical observer will not be able to resist the power of its emotional resolution. With Coco, Pixar continues to prove that no idea is off-limits to a good storyteller.

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efore you ask, yes, you will cry at Coco. No matter how many Pixar movies you’ve seen, no matter how much tolerance you’ve built up to their brand of touching sincerity, and no matter how far into this particular outing you get without shedding a tear, you will have a small puddle at the bottom of your 3-D glasses by the time the movie ends.

Coco is Pixar’s newest effort of injecting magic emotion into every conceivable idea, from inanimate objects (Toy Story, Cars) to creatures in your closet (Monsters, Inc.) to even emotions themselves (Inside Out).

Everything we create as humans, and attach meaning to, is fair game, as it should be. A toy is nothing without part of you believing that it’s real, monsters are figments of our overactive imaginations and culminations of our anxieties, and emotions with no human vessel cease to exist. As Pixar’s stories become increasingly abstract and unpredictable, their astounding success appears to be rooted in a keen understanding of why we have emotions at all. Pixar simply taps into the narratives we, as individuals

and a society, have already created for ourselves, leaving the studio to simply remind us why they matter.

The story follows Miguel, a young boy in a small Mexican town who comes from a tight-knit family that has dedicated itself to the art of shoemaking for four generations. Miguel is a talented musician, but he keeps his guitar in a secret room along with pictures and videotapes of his favorite musician, Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel hides his skill and passion because the whole reason the family began shoemaking was as a rejection of music after Miguel’s great-grandfather left to pursue a life in music—singing and playing instruments has been forbidden ever since.

Miguel comes to believe that de la Cruz, the superstar himself, is that very same great-grandfather who left, and that it is his duty to his ancestor to pursue music. So, on Dia de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead, when families honor their members who have passed on—Miguel, against his family’s wishes, goes to borrow de la Cruz’s guitar to compete in a music competition. The guitar is in the singer’s tomb, and when he picks it up, he is transported to a place where the dead actually walk among the living, collect-

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FF Angelo Jewelry 220 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. An exhibition of Cass Kawecki’s recent watercolor and mixed-media paintings of Italy, exploring architecture, seascapes and memory. 5:30-7:30pm.

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of work by Jane Angelhart, Jenifer Ansardi, Fax Ayres, Hallie Farley, Alex Gould, Jennifer Paxton and Peter Willard.

December 1

FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. Eighth annual Gift Forest, featuring holiday gifts from more than 75 artists, designers and makers from all over Virginia. Open 11am-7pm weekdays, 10am-6pm weekends and 10am-4pm Christmas Eve. FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Various and Sundry Items,” featuring oil paintings of iconic objects on scrap metal by Michael Fitts, and fantastical hybrid characters made from scrap material by Aggie Zed. 5-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “Memories from our Home Country,” a world art exhibit. 5:30-7:30pm.

Create Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. An exhibition of work by the Fiber and Stitch Art Collective, which uses fiber and thread in a variety of ways to create two- and three-dimensional works.

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Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Our Big Dream: Creating the Dandelion Seed’s Story & Art,” highlighting the creative process behind Cris Arbo and Joseph Patrick Anthony’s children’s books, The Dandelion Seed and The Dandelion Seed’s Big Dream. December 9, 3-5pm.

Ivy Naté’s large installation of stuffed animals of various shapes and sizes is featured in “Drawn to Charlottesville,” a show on view this month at Second Street Gallery.

“Every artist starts with something inside themselves that feels true to them,” says sculptor and installation artist Ivy Naté. “I’m not sure what came first for me...balancing chaos and order, or reinventing the obvious.”

“I feel lucky that at times I am able to take some abstract shit in my head, interpret it and project it,” she says. Some artists work it out through song, through words, paint or clay. Naté works it out through stuffed animals.

For her large installations (the one she’s installed at Second Street Gallery this month is 13.3 feet long and 8.6 feet tall), she gathers stuffed animals of various shapes, sizes and personality that have been donated or discarded, and groups them together by color to create a massive wall hanging of furry, neon-colored, big-eyed nostalgia that Naté hopes will take viewers back to happier times, or to a past that has not yet been resolved.

Strawberry Shortcake, sock monkeys, Miss Piggy, Paddington Bear— they’re all there, with Minions, Bart Simpson, a nameless green seal and a plush banana with eyes on its peel. Naté likes the idea of giving these discarded toys a “chance at a new life and bringing a fresh perspective on what most considered garbage.”

But what really intrigues her is why some stuffed animals become beloved friends and keepers of childhood secrets (inanimate furry family members, or IFFMs, as Naté calls them), while others don’t even have the tags removed before they’re handed down, given, or even thrown, away.

What is it, she wonders, that makes people connect? —Erin O’Hare

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Magical Patterns with Wood,” featuring patterned and ornamented wooden jewel boxes, backgammon sets, chess boards, decorated serving boards and marquetry pictures by Dave Heller. 6-8pm.

FF Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Aspen Series,” featuring oil paintings of aspens and landscapes by Melissa Malone. 5-7pm.

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Shari Boraz at Shenandoah Valley Art Center

Judith Ely at Northside Library

ARTS GALLERIES Farfield Farm & Center for Georgical Jubilism 40 Farfields Ln. “Mysterium Georgicus: The Inter-Dimensional Plow,” a multimedia installation by Masha Vasilkovsky and Ruah Edelstein, an artist duo known as Lumen Animae.

FF Firefly 1304 E. Market St. An exhibition of watercolor and charcoal abstractions by Emma Brodeur. 5-8pm.

The Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd. “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966,” an exhibition that examines the critical role Kootz played in establishing modern American art as an international force (through December 17); “Oriforme”

by Jean Arp; and in the Joanne B. Robinson Object Study Gallery, a set of objects including Chinese bronzes, ceramics and sculpture, ancient Mediterranean coins, African masks and figures and more.

The Gallery at Ebb & Flow 71 River Rd., Faber. “En Plein Air,” an exhibition of plein air landscape paintings by V-Anne Evans.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Karma,” featuring work by Lisa Beane that addresses privileged racism.

FF Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave. “[transekt],” an exhibition of aerosol and acrylic works on cradled birch panel by Monty Montgomery. 6-9pm.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “New Paintings and Works on Paper,” featuring work by Dean Dass.

FF Malleable Studios 1304 E. Market St., Suites T and U. “New Work,” featuring jewelry by Mia van Beek, Tavia Brown, Nancy Hopkins and Rebecca Phalen, and paintings by Karen Eide and Martha Saunders. 5-8pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Drawn to Charlottesville: A Group Exhibition of 12 Local Artists,” featuring work

by Bolanle Adeboye, Chris Danger, Brielle DuFlon, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Clay Witt and other artists who moved to Charlottesville from elsewhere. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Subversive/ Domestic Textile and Fiber,” featuring cutting-edge textile and fiber pieces by American and Canadian artists; in the Members’ Gallery is “Small Works,” a show featuring work in a variety of media by SVAC member artists. December 9, 6-8pm.

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FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Please Don’t Ask It Can’t Be Explained,” an exhibition of new collage works by Lisa A. Ryan. 5-7pm.

FF Telegraph Art & Comics 211 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Picture Show,” featuring ink and crayon originals and digital prints by Todd Webb. 5-7pm.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. A show of plein air watercolor paintings by Janet Pearlman; and “This is Charlottesville,” a photographic and story-based project by Sarah Cramer Shields. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Transient Places” oil on canvas by Kristen Hemrich. 5-7:30pm.

FF The Women’s Initiative 1101 E. High St. A group multimedia exhibit featuring work from Terry Coffey, Julia Kindred and Carol Kirkham Martin of the BozART Fine Art Collective. 1-4pm.

FF Yellow Cardinal Gallery 301 E. Market St. “Postcards from Italy,” featuring petite watercolors by Jane Goodman, and an exhibit of oil paintings by Goodman and Elizabeth Dudley. 4:30-7pm.

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Northside Library 705 Rio Rd. W. “Abstract Landscapes‒Somewhere You May Live,” acrylic paintings with collage by Judith Ely.

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CAVA, a fast-casual Mediterranean chain restaurant, will open a Charlottesville location in summer 2018. It’s one of two restaurants planned for Emmet Street Station.

Located at 1200 Emmet Street N. (across from the Barracks Road Shopping Center, in the empty lot that once held an Exxon station), Emmet Street Station is currently under construction.

Downtown Mall denizens may have noticed that the popular Catch the Chef food cart took a recent hiatus from the Third Street SE/Downtown Mall junction (it was back on Monday), and that’s because Catch the Chef has grown into full-fledged food truck zipping to a different location daily. Check the truck’s Facebook page for more info.

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Get into the holiday spirit by donning a provided Santa suit (for adults) or elf ears (for children) before running or walking to raise funds for Arc of the Piedmont. Free-$20 registration, 9:30am-noon. Race starts and ends at the Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. arc pva.org

This community event includes musical performances, kids crafts, a visit from Santa, a free movie screening and the main event—the lighting of a tree decked out in more than 20,000 LED bulbs. Don’t forget to bring your Toy Lift Charities donations. Free, 5:30pm. Central Place, the Downtown Mall. charlottesville. org

The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, University Singers and trumpeter John D’earth join forces for family holiday concerts conducted by Michael Slon. $10-45, 8pm Saturday and 3:30pm Sunday. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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The restaurant, owned by Uzzwal Khadka (who also owns Taste of India located at 310 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall), promises fast, fresh, authentic food. Kebabish offers a wide range of dishes, including chicken, lamb and vegetable gyros (a gyro is a dish made from meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie and sliced and wrapped in pita with tomato, onion and tzatziki sauce); mo-mo, a spiced chicken dumpling that’s a popular street food in Tibet and Nepal; and shawarma, curry dishes, churrascaria kebabs and filets, fried noodles, fried rices and more. There’s also the “lovely meat ball” appetizer, a dish of chicken or lamb that, according to a member of our art department, is “kind of like a falafel, but with meat in it.”

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know that unfinished task you have half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing. To gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an ideal world, your work and your character would speak for themselves. You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and appreciation you deserve.

You wouldn’t have to devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next 10 months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won’t be so important.

Your work and character will speak for themselves with more vigor and clarity than they have before.

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Aries (March 21-April 19): I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks. I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges. And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is love?” asks philosopher Richard Smoley. “It’s come to have a greeting-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time, ‘loving’ someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person has some concrete need or irritates us.” One of your key assignments in the next 10 months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul. You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature, robust love.

skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however. It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): You were born with the potential to give the world specific gifts— benefits and blessings that are unique to you.

One of those gifts has been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems. But the good news is that in the coming months, this gift will finally be ripe. You’ll know how to deal crisply with the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on. Here’s your homework: Get clear about what this gift is and what you will have to do to offer it in its fullness.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): Happy unbirthday, Gemini! You’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. That means you’re free to experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes to help you celebrate. 1. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” —George Bernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.” —W. Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which

are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): I suggest that you take a piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary fantasies in their proper place.

And what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish risks.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book Life: The Odds, Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215-to-1.

They’re 60,000-to-1 that you’ll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you’ll date a model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than usual. That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic creators and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done work to transmute their own darkness.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What might you do to take better care of yourself in 2018, Virgo?

According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here’s a good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what makes your

body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting. Here’s another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an ideal time to get this project underway.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks.

1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness. 4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire. You won’t fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero. The monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And you’ll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely!

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How clinical trials benefit you. At UVA, clinical trials are taking place every day. Because of this, UVA is an environment of care where learning, discovery and innovation flourish. And it is our patients — today and in the future — who reap the rewards, whether or not they participate in a trial. Please call the trial coordinator to enroll confidentially or for additional information.

High Voltage Electrician Facilities Management (FM) at the University of Virginia seeks a High Voltage Electrician.

The High Voltage Electrician supports Facilities Management's goal of providing a consistent, cost effective and the control of safe working conditions for Facilities Management. The incumbent inspects, maintains, tests, repairs, operates, troubleshoots and replaces all 4,160V and 12,470 V apparatus at all buildings and substation sites. This includes, but is not limited to, switching high voltage and preparing the switching procedures. Maintenance of high voltage equipment includes switches, circuit breakers, transformers, relays, distribution lines, cables, and cable terminations.

The successful candidate will have a high school diploma or equivalent. A minimum of 4 years' experience in the electrical field is required. A Journeyman’s Electrical License or higher and valid driver’s license are also required.

To view the posting and required/preferred qualifications and to apply for this position, please visit UVA.’s website at https://jobs. virginia.edu and search for position number 06675. Review of applications will be on going, with the position open until filled.

Anticipated hiring range for minimally qualified applicants is $43,000 - $48,000 and based on qualifications.

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The University of Virginia Foundation is inviting applications for our Marketing & Relationships Manager position, responsible for marketing the UVA Research Parks and promoting research/academic relationships between the University and the private sector. The Marketing & Relationships Manager is also charged with developing and maintaining positive working relationships with Park tenants, University faculty and staff, and community leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Develop and implement detailed marketing plans geared to attract local, regional, national and international companies/organizations to UVA’s research parks.

• Market and promote the Parks to UVA faculty, administrators, and their corresponding corporate contacts.

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Are you passionate about applying your skills to ensure the greatest quality of life possible for fellow community members in need?

If so The Arc urges you to consider opportunities within our organization. Our mission is to ensure full community inclusion and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the provision of high quality services and advocacy. Our vision is to remain the leading provider of services and advocacy for that deserving population. If you share these values we urge you to consider the following career opportunities:

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To see a full listing of all of our positions, and to learn more about what The Arc is doing to support our community, please visit our web site at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/ In addition to offering a challenging and rewarding experience The Arc also offers competitive compensation, paid training, and for full time staff an attractive benefits package which includes health, dental and vision insurance, as well as life and long-term disability insurance, among other offerings.

We encourage you to apply on-line at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/ job-vacancies/. You are also welcome to visit our offices at 509 Park Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 to apply in person, or fax them to 434-977-7864. The Arc of the Piedmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have an undergraduate degree with a minimum of 3-5 years work experience in real estate, economic development, marketing, or science and technology.

The University of Virginia Foundation offers a professional work environment. Benefits include health, dental, 403(b) retirement savings account, paid time off and educational tuition reimbursement.

In order to be considered for this position, please submit your cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to the Human Resource Department at UVAF-HR@uvafoundation.com or by US mail to: UVAF-HR University of Virginia Foundation P.O. Box 400218 Charlottesville, VA 22904

The University of Virginia Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We regret that the volume of applications we receive does not allow us to contact all candidates. Only candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted by a Hiring Manager.

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Design Electric, Inc. is rapidly expanding to meet customer demand. Presently we are in need of additional assistance in all field departments.

Positions include: Electrical Foreman, Journeymen Electricians, Electrician’s Helpers, Controls Technicians, and Electrical Service Technicians.

Previous commericial and industrial electrical experience is vital for consideration.

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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 What do you get the person who has everything?

My faves: 1) Donate to a local charity, 2) Create a gift basket of local foods/beverages and 3) Organize an outing (dinner and a show, lunch and museum tickets, etc.).

Scotch.

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Wine, spirits, salted caramels.

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Time together doing their favorite thing! Each day is precious, and memories are forever.

Something thoughtful and sentimental.

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Tickets to the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, or any of the other theaters in the area!

Experiences, encounters, artwork (by pets or family members), donations to charity, time, a handmade photo album, a handwritten letter.

An experience.

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I’ve donated to the CharlottesvilleAlbemarle SPCA in people’s names before, and had a gift card sent to them notifying them. Also, consumables are always good. Gift baskets from iGourmet are great. Also, I’ve printed out funny coupon books for things like foot rubs for my husband! Who doesn’t like a foot rub?

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Heifer International. I bet you don’t have a goat in an African village.

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It might depend on their age. I like to send my mom a threemonth bouquet-of-themonth package.

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Donate to their favorite charity, in their honor.

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Lottery tickets.

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Dinner out.

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A donation to the Free Clinic, an incredibly helpful organization.

A gift certificate to a local entrepreneur’s shop or for a service that they haven’t [had].

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Something handmade or homemade.

We take that special person to Palladio and spend time together.

Any special restaurant/ vineyard will do. Time is priceless.

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BULK

Golden Temple Granola $2.99/lb (SRP $4.39)

Organic Medjool Dates $6.99/lb (SRP $8.99/lb)

Organic Raw Almonds $9.99/lb ($14.99/lb)

OUR STANDARDS

25% Off

Green Mountain Gringo Salsa 16 oz $3.99 (SRP $6.29)

Organic Yukon Gold & Red Potatoes $1.49/lb

Organic Jona Gold Apple $1.99/lb

15 oz $3.99 (SRP $6.29)

Woodstock Organic Frozen Vegetables

PRODUCE

ALL OF OUR PRODUCE IS NON-GMO NO HYDROGENATED OILS ALL OUR CHEESE IS ANIMAL RENNET FREE NO PRESERVATIVES OR ARTIFICIAL COLORING NONE OF OUR PRODUCTS CONTAIN HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

Local Forrest Green Farm Baby Spinach $6.99/lb

HEALTH & BODY CARE Now Brand Essential Oils 20% Off

All Banyan Botanicals 20% Off

Dr. Bronner’s Bar Soaps $3.29 (5oz. Reg. $4.49)

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