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THIS WEEK Two answers we’ve been waiting for finally hit our inboxes: former U.S. attorney Tim Heaphy’s take on the city’s preparation for and handling of this summer’s white supremacist rallies, as well as whether Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler’s permits for an anniversary rally on August 11 and 12 of next year would be approved.

Heaphy’s report came under scrutiny at last week’s City Council meeting as public comments were largely directed at its finger pointing at two city employees: Police Chief Al Thomas and City Manager Maurice Jones. In this week’s feature (p. 16), we give both men the chance to respond to the 207-page report’s findings. We also checked in with other community leaders and activists, and asked them to parse the results.

Although the overwhelming answer seems to be the report “got it right,” the real question is: What does that mean for our future? How will we handle other rallies and protests?

The city’s decision to deny Kessler’s anniversary permits (p. 9) brought a sigh of relief, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of chaos, turmoil and uncertainty.—Jessica Luck

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Under fire City leaders and activists react to Tim Heaphy’s 207-page independent review.

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In Kessler’s blog post where he announced his plans for a Unite the Right redo, he said he had an arsenal of lawyers prepared to fight back if city officials didn’t grant his application—and he fully expected them not to.

“The initial permit decision is bogus,” Kessler writes on Twitter. “The rationale they give for denying it almost makes it seem like they want me to win. See you guys in court!”

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Restaurateur Will Richey was spotted adding some Christmas decorations to light poles last week.

Will Richey, owner of Revolutionary Soup, The Whiskey Jar and other downtown eateries, is really into the holiday spirit. And he’d like the Downtown Mall to look a bit more festive.

“The entire downtown business group and all the merchants are in shock at the lack of decorations and the half-hearted effort,” he says.

He points to the garlands with lights that don’t work wrapped around light poles, the redribbonless wreaths and the “lovely tree” beside the fountain with orange construction barricades in front. “The city requires us to put up black metal [fencing],” he says. “Why don’t they? It looks like garbage.”

Richey—with the help of the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville and city staff—is taking matters into his own hands and plans a future winter wonderland, with the block in front of Splendora’s as a model for decking the mall for the holidays.

He was up on a ladder last week installing colored lights on the nonfunctioning garlands.

“The city has not officially endorsed this,” he admits, but he sees it as “fulfilling what they originally intended.”

Says Richey, “We’ve had a hard summer, we’ve had a hard year.” He believes if Charlottesville went all out, it could be a holiday tourist destination. And he’ll be “working even harder to get something beautiful up next year.”

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Harris could face misdemeanor The man who was brutally beaten August 12 and was accused of felony malicious wounding could see his charge reduced to a misdemeanor, according to the Daily Progress. Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman filed a motion to amend Deandre Harris’ charge to misdemeanor assault.

same weekend, and their permits were denied because they present a danger to public safety, don’t align with the parks’ time constraints and the applicants did not specify how they would take responsibility for their rally attendees, according to Jones.

At the bottom of each denial, Jones wrote that applicants should be advised that future permits will be reviewed under the city’s standard operating procedures for demonstrations and special events in effect when the applications are received. The city manager is expected to go before City Council on

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Jason Kessler’s permit for an anniversary Unite the Right rally was denied Monday.

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inutes before a decision was due, City Manager Maurice Jones denied several special event permits for rallies and counterrallies proposed on the weekend of August 12 in Emancipation, Justice and McGuffey parks—ground zero for the summer’s Unite the Right rally that left three people dead and countless wounded.

The first application was filed by local right-winger Jason Kessler for a “Back to Charlottesville” rally on the one-year anniversary of Unite the Right. He touted the event as a protest “against government civil rights abuse and failure to follow security plans for political dissidents,” in his application filed November 27.

In the city manager’s denial of Kessler’s application, he wrote, “The applicant requests that police keep ‘opposing sides’ separate and that police ‘leave’ a ‘clear path into [the] event without threat of violence,’ but [the] city does not have the ability to determine or sort individuals according to what ‘side’ they are on and…[can’t] guarantee that event participants will be free of any ‘threat to violence.’”

Another denied permit was filed by Brian Lambert, an acquaintance of Kessler’s, who hoped to host “Donald Trump Appreciation Weekend” in neighboring parks during the Back to Charlottesville rally.

Curry School professor and activist Walt Heinecke, City Councilor Bob Fenwick and photographer M.A. Shurtleff also requested to hold counter events in the parks over the

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either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” wrote Herodotus, an ancient Greek philosopher, in what later became the U.S. Postal Service’s unofficial credo.

“That obviously doesn’t stand true in Charlottesville these days,” says Bentivar resident Bill Lawrence.

In May, C-VILLE wrote about a mail mess, as tips poured in that downtown businesses and residents in several neighborhoods were going days without service.

When a USPS spokesperson said one career letter carrier had retired and two other em-

ployees were out on requested leave, we thought we’d found the answer.

But it wasn’t long before further reports of missing mail hit our inboxes, and we’ve been collecting them ever since.

In November, Lawrence says he went at least three days with no mail delivery or pickup—which wasn’t good for the business he runs from his house.

Lawrence, who channeled his own frustrations into launching a poll about mail delivery satisfaction on a neighborhood website called Nextdoor, says missing packages and parcels have been an issue for his neighborhood and beyond.

But at least one neighboring household, he says, has had the opposite problem—a carrier recently dropped off a fat stack of mail, which included letters to people in entirely different neighborhoods, the Bentivar resident says with a hearty laugh.

A post office representative reportedly told Lawrence that his carrier had taken the entire month of November off, which he says could explain some of the issues.

“It seems, at least in my immediate neighborhood, to have resolved itself,” he says, but adds that he’s aware that people living in other areas of the city haven’t had the same luck.

About a year ago, Rosemont resident Charles Kendig started noticing that his mail was being dropped off later and later, with a couple 11pm delivery times over the summer, and at least twice, he received no mail at all.

“In one case, I was waiting for a check to be delivered,” he says.

When he recently had his mail stopped, he says it never restarted and his mailbox stayed empty. Kendig went to the main post office on Route 29 to pick it up himself.

On Saturday, December 16, Charlottesville’s main post office located at 1155 Seminole Trail will stay open until 4pm as part of an extended holiday hours promotion.

“Staffing there is unacceptable,” Kendig says. “Last time I was there, only two people were working the [eight] stations and 20plus people were waiting in line.”

But “to be fair,” Kendig adds, over the weekend when Charlottesville saw its first snow of the winter, his mail arrived by 3pm.

“That would work for me every day,” he says.

Postmaster Cloteal Farmer, who now manages all local postal operations, was sworn in to office less than a month ago. It’s Kendig’s hope that she’ll help straighten out the mess.

Farmer did not respond to an interview request.

“The Postal Service is continuing to meet the peak holiday demand. We have planned for this holiday season all year long, which includes hiring seasonal workers,” says Baltimore-based USPS spokesperson Freda Sauter. “We continually review our staffing and scheduling and make necessary adjustments in order to enhance our services, not just for the holidays, but throughout the year.”

But locals who are longing for their regularly scheduled mail delivery aren’t buying it.

Says Kendig, “This is understandable during the holiday season, but not during the normal year.”

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he former UVA police officer who killed his mentally ill son while defending his family last year won’t serve any additional jail time, an Albemarle County judge ruled December 5.

On November 9, 2016, then-84-year-old Donald Short shot his 47-year-old son, Matthew, in the leg and abdomen after Matthew started a violent fight with Short’s other son, Edward.

During the investigation, the elder Short told a detective that Matthew abused drugs and had been acting strange lately, so the former cop started carrying a gun with him for protection. Matthew had also tried to kill his brother before, Short said, so when the two were fighting and Edward was struggling to take Matthew to the ground, their father said he shot Matthew to immobilize him.

Matthew died three days later.

“My father didn’t shoot to kill Matthew,” testified Laura LaRose, the daughter of the 85-year-old, who entered an Alford plea to an involuntary manslaughter charge in August, admitting there was enough evidence to convict him, though he didn’t feel guilty of the crime.

LaRose continued, “[Short] tried to keep [Matthew] from hurting himself or someone else. Punishing my father would only accentuate the suffering for all of us.”

Emotions ran high in the courtroom as LaRose spoke of her familiarity with Matthew’s struggles, of the highs and lows of his mental health and his self-medication with “street drugs.”

Before his death, police were called to the Short residence three other times because Matthew was being violent, accord-

ing to a statement of facts provided by the commonwealth’s attorney’s office.

The document also said that on the day of the shooting, residents of an apartment on Burgoyne Road called the police when a group of people, including Matthew, allegedly attempted to break into their apartment.

A female resident told police said she had gotten into an argument with “Crazy Matt” about drugs on November 7. He threatened her with an ax and said he’d “be back.”

He kept his promise. When he came back two days later, she said Matthew charged the door while saying he was “coming in by the hair of [his] chinny chin chin,” and holding a yellow and black ax and some rope.

The resident told police she knew Matthew, and that he “talked about killing people, talk[ed] to the lord, could see the devil and would go into a corner of a room, look up and say, ‘Do y’all see that?’” according to the statement of facts.

On the day of Short’s sentencing, his family filled the courtroom in support. Judge Cheryl Higgins called the incident a tragedy and said it’s time for them to begin to heal.

She sentenced Short to five years of jail time, with all but 10 days suspended, which he already served during the investigation.

Outside the courthouse, defense attorney Holly Vradenburgh asked reporters to respect the family and called for resources for people dealing with mental illness in loved ones.

“Their grief over the loss of Matthew was compounded by Don Short being arrested and charged with his murder,” she read from a statement. “This 84-year-old man who spent over 50 years of his life in law enforcement sat in a jail cell alone when he learned he had killed his son while protecting his other son.”

Donald Short will serve no extra jail time for shooting and killing his 47-year-old mentally ill son who attacked his other son in November 2016.

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hen we last heard from the owner of Blue Moon Diner in May, she said she was closing the West Main Street institution for renovations until early 2018. Now, as the new year is upon us, Laura Galgano says it could be fall before the lights come back on at the beloved home of the huevos bluemoonos.

Not surprisingly, diner regulars are upset.

“The diner is Charlottesville’s living room,” says Dolly Joseph, who has worked as a hostess during weekend brunch at Blue Moon for the past couple years. When her mom came to town last week, the former employee says they talked about how much they missed Blue Moon for its affordable food and good company. “The diner was where I knew I could always find a familiar face,” she adds.

Joseph, Galgano and Ellen Krag run a nonprofit called Building Experiences, and Joseph says the diner is their homebase for mentoring young adults. While Rapture on the Downtown Mall has served them well as a temporary location, the team is eager to go back home, she says.

“All my favorite people are waiting for the diner to open again so we can see each other for Wednesdays with Jim Waive, or a weekend brunch or a study group with BE,” says Joseph.

Likewise, local country-blues-rock musician Susan Munson says she misses her regular gigs at the diner.

“I was so bummed when it closed,” Munson says. “I don’t play as much now during the week, just mainly on the weekends. It actually became one of my favorite places to play, even though it was a tight fit.”

Galgano, who has held several Blue Moon pop-up brunches since the diner closed, says its reopening is “somewhat” dependent on the construction of a sixstory mixed-use apartment complex going up behind it, which is also taking longer than expected.

“We have had several approval delays that, quite frankly, are the boring parts of complex development,” says developer Jeff Levien. His team anticipates that construction on the project called Six Hundred West Main will begin next spring, and will be completed by mid-2019.

The apartment complex “merges two historically significant street-front buildings with new construction in the form of a mixed-use, distinctly modern, luxury rental residence,” Levien says in a press release. “It is being purposefully integrated into the most vital, diverse and connected neighborhood in Charlottesville.”

The 65,000-square-foot building will have 53 studio, one- and two-bedroom spaces for rent, with private terraces, eightfoot windows, high ceilings and a “meditative courtyard,” according to the release. It’ll also have retail spaces, and Levien says he may lease some offices above Blue Moon.

The developer describes his project as “upscale, without having lost its edge,” and says it’s the “creative result of the old economy raising itself up with new favor to become an urbane playground.”

He compares it to composing a song, where the team is the band and the music is the building they’ve created.

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Tim Heaphy presented his independent review to City Council December 4.

The community reacts to the Heaphy report BY LISA PROVENCE

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ollowing the tragic climax of Charlottesville’s summer of hate on August 12, City Manager Maurice Jones ordered an independent review of the city’s handling of the July 8 KKK rally and the Unite the Right rally that left Heather Heyer dead and dozens injured when a neo-Nazi plowed into a crowd on Fourth Street.

He hired former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy, now with legal powerhouse Hunton & Williams, to do an external, objective review with a “critical eye.”

Immediately the criticism began: that Heaphy solicited the job because he emailed Mayor Mike Signer about doing an investigation, that as a former prosecutor he’d be sympathetic toward police, that his $545-an-hour fee was too much, even capped at $100,000. da warning of their rights not to incriminate themselves. Mitchell did not respond to a phone call from C-VILLE. Most of the report’s critics say despite not agreeing with everything in it—particularly as it pertains to them—overall its findings are sound.

Now that we’ve had a little time to digest the 207-page independent review, C-VILLE checked in with city councilors, Thomas, Heaphy, a former police chief and activists to get their reactions to what it laid out.

Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler did not get back to us.

other localities to follow—”unless it’s a scapegoating.”

Under FOIA, both ongoing investigations and personnel matters are exemptions government often uses to withhold information.

Maurice Jones did not do that in this case, and that’s why it’s so unusual, says Martingayle. But if it’s “used as a weapon of any kind,” he warns, people will refuse to cooperate in the future.

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The outgoing councilor, who called for the removal of Confederate statues years before the idea gained traction, says she’s read Heaphy’s report twice, and believes it does the three things Jones asked for: fact finding of what happened when and where, make a valued assessment of what went right and what went wrong and make recommendations.

“What we asked [Heaphy] to do, he did,” she says.

She’s not perturbed by allegations of inaccuracies because the scope of the assignment was so huge. “I don’t know who could have done it better,” she says.

The allegations about Thomas are “concerning,” she says, but “Mr. Heaphy at the end of the report didn’t find any evidence police had done anything out of malice.”

As for complaints about the $350,000 legal bill, she says, “I think they earned their pay.”

She urges people who haven’t read the report to do so, although acknowledges doing so is “retraumatizing.”

Szakos says it’s important not to “rush to judgment,” and to be deliberate moving forward. “It was a community crisis.”

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If anyone came off looking bad in the report, it was Thomas. His attorney, Kevin Martingayle, called on behalf of the chief, whom he says has a “mixed reaction” to the report.

“There are a lot of erroneous statements,” says Martingayle.

However, Thomas agrees with the report’s goal, stated in its preface, of leading to a more unified Charlottesville, according to his attorney. “He’s 100 percent on board with that,” says Martingayle.

Thomas did not condone allowing the street combat August 12 to continue to declare an unlawful assembly, says Martingayle, despite those assertions by two of his staffers who were there: Captain Wendy Lewis and Thomas’ assistant, Emily Lantz.

“It didn’t happen,” says the attorney. What he believes occurred was that in the command center, there was a “very serious discussion” about whether there was enough fighting and illegal activity going on to declare an unlawful assembly. He points out that there was civil liability and a court order to consider before trying to shut down a free speech event.

“The chief has a completely different recollection of that,” he says of Lewis’ and Lantz’s accounts.

Nor was the declaration of an unlawful assembly the plan, says Martingayle, but there was an expectation there could be violence. “That doesn’t mean that’s the plan in advance,” he says. Thomas “was truly in an impossible situation.”

As for Heaphy’s conclusion that city police feared “retribution for criticism,” Martingayle says Thomas can’t say how people on his staff feel, and he did not threaten critics, but “there’s always a fear for anyone who criticizes the boss.”

Martingayle says Charlottesville’s hiring of an outside, independent attorney to do a “top to bottom review” of an unprecedented event with tragic consequences and then releasing the unedited report is in itself unprecedented, and could become a model for

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Bellamy has become a target himself after leading the March 2016 charge to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee, which many believe put Charlottesville in the crosshairs for white nationalists and neo-Nazis.

And City Council worsened the upcoming alt-right invasion with its last-minute interjection into operational affairs by pressuring Jones to move the rally to McIntire Park, despite legal advice that such a move would not pass constitutional muster, Heaphy reports.

At City Council December 4, Bellamy said, “I’m sorry. We let you all down. I think it’s important we acknowledge that.”

To C-VILLE, he says, “I’m not throwing anyone under the bus.”

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Attorney Jeff Fogel filed a suit on behalf of five citizens, including UVA Professor Walt Heinecke and longtime activist Joy Johnson, alleging Jones didn’t have the authority to hire Heaphy.

And when Heaphy presented his findings in a December 1 press conference and to City Council December 4 that city government failed to protect constitutional rights and public safety, predictably, complaints about the findings ensued, as well as about the photo on the cover of the report—a black officer with hooded Klansmen in the background—and Hunton & Williams’ $350,000 bill.

City police came under fire for its planning, communication and lack of unity of command on August 12, as did the Virginia State Police, which sent 600 officers here but used its own, unshared operational plan and its own radio channel, making it impossible for city police to directly communicate with their state police brethren.

The report alleges Chief Al Thomas said in the midst of street brawling, “Let them fight a little while” because it makes it easier to declare an unlawful assembly. It also claims Thomas inaccurately said he ordered the use of tear gas at the KKK rally—he denied a state police request and Deputy Chief Gary Pleasants ordered the tear gas without Thomas’ knowledge—because he had to work with them at the upcoming Unite the Right rally.

During the course of the review, the report says Thomas and his top command deleted texts and that he used a personal email account to sidestep Freedom of Information Act requests. Heaphy contends Thomas tried to limit the information his officers discussed and that he tried to find out what they told Heaphy, requiring Jones to step in and tell police officers to not discuss their statements.

Worse, reports Heaphy, “Chief Thomas’ attempts to influence our review illustrate a deeper issue within CPD—a fear of retribution for criticism.”

Thomas’ Virginia Beach attorney, former Virginia State Bar Association president Kevin Martingayle, denies that Thomas “did anything to mislead anyone or anything that made the [August 12] situation worse.”

Three of the city police’s top officers— Captain David Shifflett, Captain Victor Mitchell and Pleasants—wrote Jones about inaccuracies in the report.

Mitchell took issue with Heaphy’s interview, which he described as a “blitz attack.”

He said because police officers were compelled to cooperate, it was an “investigation not a review,” and the city employees should have been given the equivalent of a Miran-

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City Councilor Bob Fenwick compares the brawling on Market Street August 12 to what one sees at a hockey match.

Councilor Bob Fenwick

Among them, police training and experience. “I thought those two areas looked weak.”

Planning: “not good.”

Execution: “poor.”

Says Bowen, “I’m not in any way criticizing the police officer on the ground. If I was sitting in a chief ’s position, I’d be very concerned about administration.”

Police always have to have more than one plan, he says, because “at the first shot, all plans go out the window.” Communications have to be clear and precise, he says. “That doesn’t seem to have been there on the 12th.”

The report’s allegations about Thomas are concerning, he says. “I don’t know whether it was true.”

Bowen says he hired Captain Mitchell, who complained about Heaphy’s “blitz attack.” Says the former chief, “My reading is he was anticipating a totally different kind of report,” with suggestions on what to do the next time such an event occurred.

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The Charlottesville Police Department chief for 23 years took office in 1971 when antiVietnam War protests were sweeping the country, and he recalls training he took at Fort Gordon in Georgia. “We did nothing but crowd control and demonstrations,” he says. The training was “invaluable” and he wonders if anyone with the current force now has that training.

“I thought it was a good report,” he says of the review. “It was a very comprehensive report and [Heaphy] addressed the areas I was concerned with.”

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Such public scrutiny “is a new thing for him,” observes Bowen. “Police should be used to criticism. Acknowledge it and move on.”

As for Fenwick’s contention the report is a whitewash, says Bowen, “I don’t know what he’s talking about. If it said everything was hunky-dory, that would be a whitewash.”

Bowen says if he had to contend with an influx of alt-righters primed for violence, “I would have asked for all the assistance I could get” from other departments around the nation that had experience with such encounters, including paying airfare to get an advisor here.

He questions the city’s decision to have officers in street uniforms for a softer appearance after criticism about riot-clad state troopers at the KKK rally. The report notes that cops had to leave the area around Emancipation Park at the height of fighting to put on special equipment that some of them had never tried on before.

“They should have been properly attired to begin with,” he says. “All you had to do was to look at those [demonstrators and counterprotesters] to know you’re going to have a fight.”

He debunks the notion that if officers are standing around in dress blues, everyone will be respectful. “That’s naiveté,” he says.

“That’s lame.”

Bowen says he “couldn’t believe” the decision to clear the park, pushing altrighters and anti-racists together. “If I saw something like that, I’d feel like I’d been a failure. The whole goal is to keep things from happening.”

The former chief doesn’t believe City Council should mete out any discipline “until it can get control of its own chamber.”

Bowen is clear about where his sympathies lie, “My heart goes out to the guy standing on the street.”

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Fenwick, who also leaves council at the end of the year, does not find Heaphy’s report an objective review of August 12. “I don’t agree with it at all,” he says. “The general thrust is not correct.” The report was “onesided” and focused on what city police and City Council did wrong, he says.

Citing his background in the Vietnam War, along with his observation of events that day from the vantage point of the bus shelter on Market Street across from Emancipation Park, he says, before noon “I had a very clear perception Charlottesville had won,” and successfully fended off the white nationalist invasion.

Fenwick also disagrees with Heaphy’s assessment that poor planning was a factor in the tragic turn of events. “I wrote a big part of the invasion plan for Cambodia,” he says, which “disintegrated before we hit the ground.”

The plan was constantly changing, he says.

“I was very satisfied with the planning.”

Nor does he find a problem with city police not intervening unless someone was going to be seriously injured. He compares the punches being thrown that he witnessed to what one sees at a hockey match. “To characterize what happened in front of me as violent clashes is inaccurate,” he says.

The ones who should be blamed for not intervening are the state police, says Fenwick.

“They’re the people who stared right through people when they asked for help,” and who did nothing when Richard Preston fired a gun in the crowd, he says.

Fenwick wants to know who gave the order for state police to go “off plan” the day of the rally with an operational plan not shared with city police until a left-behind copy was found after the rally. “It changed everything,” he says. “In a situation as dangerous as we thought it was, we need to know who gave that order.”

Fenwick believes Heaphy used “every opportunity to slam” Thomas, and he offers another explanation for Thomas’ alleged let-’em-fight statement: to cut tension in a tense situation in the command center.

“We ought to be talking about recovery,” says Fenwick. “This report puts us right back into the soup. We’ve been traumatized.”

And for Fenwick, there’s no doubt where blame belongs for the violence of August 12. “Jason Kessler is the responsible party,” he says.

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City Manager Maurice Jones and approve Heinecke’s permit for a “unity, justice and love festival” instead of the white nationalist’s second demonstration. The city announced Monday it had denied Heinecke’s permits as well.

“I just can’t believe this guy had the gall to apply for a permit after he brought a bunch of terrorists and murderers to town,” says Heinecke.

“We are carefully reviewing [Kessler’s] application and will respond to it accordingly,” Jones said during the interview and before the permit denial. “Previous actions taken by the applicant and people associated with him will be considered as part of our review process.”

Jones says the city is also offering additional training for law enforcement to make sure officers have the tools to effectively manage tense, large-scale events in the future.

If the community had its way, the homegrown white nationalist’s permit would have been denied faster than he applied for it. Charlottesville residents have a hard time keeping quiet about the things that matter to them, hence the frequent disruptions at City Council meetings since August 12.

At the December 4 meeting where Heaphy presented his independent review, and attendees lambasted him as he flipped through his PowerPoint, North Downtown resident Russ Linden used his two minutes of speaking time during the meeting’s public hearing portion to call for a series of community forums where people could discuss the report’s contents with civility.

Jones says a community group has been working to coordinate something similar for months, and will soon reach out to broader Charlottesville to launch the dialogue sessions, which will allow residents to address issues raised in Heaphy’s report and develop “action ideas” for solving them.

At the same council meeting, Jones said the city needs to rebuild the community’s confidence in its elected officials.

“But as Mr. Heaphy pointed out in the review, our community is fractured in some areas and we need to address those divisions,” he adds.

Issues such as racial equity and equal opportunity are critically important to Charlottesville, Jones says, and over the past few years, the city has invested a good amount of time and resources to address affordable housing, access to well-paying jobs and the criminal justice system.

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about putting a Nazi invasion on the backs of two African-Americans.”

Unlike most local activists who refused to talk to Heaphy, Gorcenski sat down with him for an hour and a half.

What she finds frustrating about the report is that it “minimizes the work and preparation of activists leading up to the event to warn the city. We presented many threats of violence.”

And Gorcenski does not agree with all of Heaphy’s conclusions, such as the one she describes as, “Let’s throw more police at the problem.”

The report on the whole, says Gorcenski, is accurate. “I don’t think it was a deliberate attempt to smear police. I don’t believe it was a deliberate attempt to exculpate the city.”

Gorcenski’s recommendation: “I think we need an investigation into the alt-right.”

It’s perhaps the most weighted question that lingers after August 12, but if you ask City Manager Maurice Jones, he’ll tell you that Charlottesville isn’t wasting any time.

“We’ve already taken many steps to help move us forward,” he says, rattling off a list of directives, including the city’s involvement in a lawsuit to stop the militia and white supremacist groups from coming back, re-examining open-flame laws and pursuing a state code change to add “burning torches with the intent to intimidate” to the cross-burning code section.

He’ll also present changes in the city’s policy for permitting events, such as prohibiting certain items from demonstrations, for City Council’s consideration on December 18.

The independent review conducted by former U.S. attorney Tim Heaphy and his arsenal of attorneys at the Hunton & Williams law firm was another important step in moving forward, Jones adds.

“Despite my objections to a few items in the report, I believe it was truly independent and, through its recommendations, gives us a roadmap for improving our preparedness for future events or rallies,” he says.

The city manager’s qualms with Heaphy’s $350,000 report? “I do believe some of the findings failed to acknowledge the unprecedented nature of the events of August 12,” he says, especially some of the legal and logistical issues related to banning flagpoles, sticks and other objects that can be used as weapons from demonstrations.

While Heaphy and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe have said non-firearm weaponry could have been banned at Unite the Right, Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman’s pre-rally advice to the city was reportedly that they cannot. Chapman did not return a call from C-VILLE Weekly. Jones says City Attorney Craig Brown is working with outside counsel to determine exactly what this conflict of opinion means for Charlottesville during future events.

And though Heaphy said in his review that the free speech rights of the neo-Nazi groups weren’t protected because their rally was declared an unlawful assembly before it was actually scheduled to begin, Jones says that declaration “was not the result of bad planning on the part of the city, but occurred because many of those very same people were intent on committing violence in our streets.”

As we’re sure you’ve heard time and time again, everyone has a right to free speech protected under the First Amendment, even if their words are vile and unfathomable, and previously only existed in the darkest corners of the internet.

For this reason, governments can’t really regulate speech at special events, like the Unite the Right rally where attendees openly wore swastikas, chanted that Jews would not replace them and that black lives don’t matter.

However, the Governor’s Task Force on Public Safety Preparedness and Response to Civil Unrest reports that localities may regulate activities at those events, so long as their regulations are content-neutral. These regulations “must advance a significant governmental interest,” such as maintaining public order and safety, which is his basis for allowing the restriction of weapons.

Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler had applied for a permit for an anniversary rally next August 11 and 12—which he called “Back to Charlottesville”— but the city announced December 11 it had denied them.

UVA Curry School professor and community activist Walt Heinecke, who held counterdemonstrations in McGuffey and Justice parks last August 12, had applied for six permits for the same days as Kessler’s proposed 2018 rallies, with four in the aforementioned parks for counterprotest if the city had approved Kessler’s application, and two in Emancipation Park to give the city an opportunity to do the “right and moral thing,”

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Local police are an “undisciplined, unconstrained organization that does not listen to the community,” opines the local activist, who live-streamed the August 11 torchcarrying neo-Nazis’ march through UVA Grounds and filed charges against Chris Cantwell for pepper spraying her.

Gorcenski has “mixed feelings” about the report, but says it confirms a lot of her recollections about the events. “To see that on the record is very comforting,” she says.

“It was good to have answers about why Fourth Street was open,” she says. “It was good to see answers on paper.”

Gorcenski would like to see more specific recommendations about police senior commanders Mitchell, Lewis and Pleasants for “those officers’ failures in leadership.” In particular, she calls out Pleasants, who “went outside the chain of command” and ordered the use of tear gas July 8 at the KKK rally “in a fit of machismo.”

Chief Thomas “needs to be held accountable,” she says, while acknowledging, “I have a lot of uneasiness that the failure was his and Maurice Jones’ alone, and am uneasy

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Militias say they came to Charlottesville to help keep the peace and protect First Amendment rights, but their heavily armed presence also alarmed local citizens, particularly when one group neared Friendship Court.

Some of what happened on August 12 could have been avoided, according to a statewide report released December 6 from the Governor’s Task Force on Public Safety Preparedness and Response to Civil Unrest. It says Charlottesville officials didn’t take permitting advice from high-ranking state officials, and they placed no restrictions on Unite the Right participants.

For those calling the shots in Virginia cities where largescale events are happening, here’s what Governor Terry McAuliffe and his safety squad recommend: A threshold for requiring a permit Localities that don’t have permitting procedures (and apparently there are some) should.

police or first responders, required for each tier, and is currently in use in Blacksburg and Henrico and Loudoun counties.

Determine capacity Localities should set maximum capacity limits for public spaces, which allow governments to allocate sufficient resources to ensure public safety and order. The report recommends allowing one person per 11 square feet, so a 1,000-square-foot space could hold about 90 people.

Enforce weapons restrictions Though localities can’t legally ban guns in Virginia, they can and should prohibit other types of weapons at permitted events.

Flamethrowers, anyone?

Tiered application permits Localities may create a system that requires a permit based on the size of the event (i.e. tier one is for events with 1-50 attendees, tier two is for 51-99, tier three is for 100-250, etc). This simplifies the process by requiring certain criteria, such as number of

Public safety officers Localities should consider requiring a permit holder to provide private security, though this could be a large expense and is seen as a free speech deterrent.

Time restrictions Localities should determine when particular spaces will be open to the public, and enforce those rules for all events.

AND ANOTHER THING Governor Terry McAuliffe also goes after the gun-loving General Assembly’s sacred rule that Virginians may opencarry firearms wherever they’d like in the Old Dominion.

In the task force report, McAuliffe proposes a change in code to allow localities to outlaw guns and ammunition in public spaces during permitted events, or events that should require a permit.

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big pat on the back for providing unlimited resources to Charlottesville, including more than 600 officers.

Heaphy’s report paints a different picture, and notes that on August 12, state police announced it was going “off plan,” and would not enter large unruly crowds to make arrests. And the radio systems between city and state police still could not communicate with each other, despite knowing that after the July 8 Klan rally.

“The fact that the agency with the largest commitment of personnel did not share its operational plan with the agency that maintained overall command at the event is a stunning failure to align mission and ensure mutual understanding,” says the report.

Flaherty, head of the VSP, would not allow Heaphy to interview anyone other than himself for the investigation.

In a statement, Flaherty expresses appreciation for Heaphy’s review and says the state police is finishing its own. “Thorough reviews and evaluations of public safety plan-

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Tim Heaphy Heaphy says he’s not surprised by the reactions to the report. “A lot of people over the course of the review were distrusting the process, city government, the police department. Because I have a law enforcement background, people were resistant.”

Some people took coaxing to talk, and while he didn’t get everyone he wanted, he says he got a good crossview. “I heard a lot of anger at the system, a lot of hurt and pain,” he says. “We see that at City Council every Monday night. It’s not fair to tar me with that.”

The events of this year were the “latest manifestation of disconnect between those who govern and those who are governed,” he says.

And despite the complaints lobbed during City Council meetings, the response Heaphy has heard has been “overwhelmingly positive.”

He shrugs off being called an “ambulance chaser.”

“It doesn’t bother me because it’s from people who don’t know me,” and is not “credible,” he says. The ability to provide a review for the city “is what I do for a living.

And I live in this community.”

Hunton & Williams billed more than $1.5 million for the review it charged Charlottesville $350,000 for, he says. “We took a huge loss. I’m not a very good ambulance chaser.”

He doesn’t back away from Captain Mitchell’s complaint about how he was interviewed.

“There’s no question I asked hard questions” of the police command staff, especially after being given different facts from people on the force.

“It wasn’t a witch hunt,” he says. “It was an effort to be fair.”

Another Mitchell complaint was that he didn’t hear Thomas in the command center say to let protesters fight to make it easier to declare an unlawful assembly. “The fact he didn’t hear it is irrelevant,” says Heaphy. “I had two separate witnesses. It felt like it was consistent with the plan—we’re going to declare an unlawful assembly.”

Says Heaphy, “Government has to do everything to protect free speech.”

The resistance he got from the police department he compares to the concept “consciousness of guilt.” For example, fleeing police could be seen as evidence of guilt, he explains.

Heaphy sees a “consciousness of fault among Chief Thomas and the command staff,” and that’s why Thomas “tried to put a positive gloss on it.”

And for all the complaints about his review, he says, “In general, they don’t touch the core findings. We may have gotten some things unintentionally wrong, but they’re not questioning the core findings. We got the big picture.

“It was accurate. I stand by it.”

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In November, Albemarle County’s commonwealth’s attorney and the Reverend Alvin Edwards published an editorial in the Daily Progress calling for an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the August events.

Any attorney representing the city, “a central actor in—and named civil party to— what took place is not equipped to provide the credible and independent investigation to which our community and country are entitled,” Tracci wrote.

After reading the report, Tracci says in an email, “While Heaphy’s report contains important conclusions, including broadening the intent standard for the criminal prohibition on the use of open flames to threaten or intimidate, my view that an independent, bipartisan commission would inspire greater public confidence in its conclusions has not changed.”

ning, response and management of significant incidents are invaluable in helping a law enforcement agency assess what has happened and successfully prepare for the future,” he says.

He notes the unprecedented nature of the August 12 event that drew people “from both the extreme right and the extreme left” intent on provoking violence.

“In that kind of volatile and rapidly evolving environment, it is difficult for any one police plan to account for every possible circumstance and resulting scenario,” he says. “For that reason, police plans must be adaptive in nature so as to empower the on-scene police agency(s) with the flexibility needed for immediate decision-making and sufficient deployment of resources.”

Flaherty, through VSP spokesperson Corinne Geller, refused to answer further questions.

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Civil rights attorney Fogel is suing the city for its hiring of Heaphy, and now that he’s read the report, Fogel contends it contains information the city knew all along. “The report is unnecessary and the city could have done its own,” he says.

“The reason it was interesting to us was because we didn’t know the facts,” he says.

“The city did. It’s amazing the police department didn’t do its own analysis.”

Fogel thinks the report goes easy on Mayor Mike Signer and Jones, who is director of public safety for the city. “In [Heaphy’s] initial letter soliciting employment, he praised both Signer and Jones for their leadership,” he says. “Does he want to take that back?

Since he went pretty lightly on Maurice Jones and Signer for his $350,000, it raises the question, why wasn’t he more sharply critical?”

Most bothersome about the report for Fogel is what he says is a lack of analysis of the city’s declaration of an unlawful assembly July 8 following the KKK rally. “Calling people names is not an unlawful assembly,” he says. “One officer was kicked in the groin.

That’s assault, not unlawful assembly.”

He takes aim at “Gary Pleasants going around declaring an unlawful assembly,” while acknowledging he has a personal history with Pleasants, who okayed Fogel’s 12:30am arrest earlier this year.

And Fogel says the story of why tear gas was released outside the chain of command “is totally bizarre. [Pleasants] did it because he wanted to.”

Fogel says that while he’s not happy with either the city manager or the police chief, “I can’t not be sympathetic to Thomas and Jones. It’s clear Thomas is being undermined by his own staff. You cannot make two black men be the scapegoats.”

Mitchell’s complaint about Heaphy’s method of interrogation is “ironic,” says Fogel. “They do that to citizens. But they want to be treated with kid gloves.”

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Director Michael Slon conducts the 90-member strong Oratorio Society of Virginia for Christmas at The Paramount. Composed of some the area’s finest vocalists, the chorus performs English carols and traditional Spanish holiday compositions, as well as J.A.C. Redford’s Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Celebration.

Choirs from local high schools join in, and an audience sing-along rounds out the night. $25-49, 2:30 and 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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Charlottesville’s Second Draw has declared a new style of acoustic rock it calls “bluejam.” Founded in a raw, energetic style, somewhere between country and jam rock, the group’s self-proclaimed genre blends driving guitar with bluegrass instruments including mandolin, banjo and accordion. The desire to break new ground is evident on SD’s debut album, White Dog, which takes its title from the name given to the first runoff from the still. $10, 6pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 First St. 977-5590.

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Americana stalwarts Robin and Linda Williams play two nights at The Front Porch.

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Charlottesville Ballet’s The Nutcracker is a skillfully choreographed, engaging take on tradition for all ages. The story begins when Clara receives a wooden nutcracker as a holiday gift, and it comes to life along with other toys that accompany her on a journey through an enchanted land filled with dancing dolls and evil mice, guided by Tchaikovsky’s euphoric, familiar score. $20-45, 1 and 4:30pm.

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

Legendary duo Robin and Linda Williams (below, left) have played Americana music scene for longer than the genre has existed. Their musical beginnings trace to North Carolina, where Linda was a school teacher and Robin played full-time on the coffeehouse scene. Connecting through “a robust blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country,” the husband-and-wife musicians have been regulars on Minnesota Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion” since 1976, releasing more than 20 albums and touring extensively, with no sign of stopping anytime soon. $22-25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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Michael Wagner and Friends. Americana artist with a unique ukulele-playing style that explores both its melodic and percussive sounds. Free, 9pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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

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

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Bill Sanderson. Get the night started right with some local tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Bob Bennetta. Local jazz icon tickles the ivories in a chill setting. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Bobby Midnight Band. Funk and disco rock four-piece with an original sound. Free, 6pm.

Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Timeless. The best of the 1960s and ‘70s. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

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Boogie Kings. Host Tracy Straight joins the house band for a night of fun music. $15, 7pm.

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

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.

Choose Your Own Adventure. A rotating cast of rock wizards and funk preachers fabricate new and unexpected grooves around every turn. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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. (540) 885-5588.

Thursday 12/14 Memphis Blues. Bluesing it up on the James.

Free, 6:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

Nick and Steve Pollack. Father-son duo plays some tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Studebaker Huck. High-energy rock ‘n’ roll band with a catchy sound formed from a mixture of blues, punk rock, folk and grunge.

With Front Porch Revival. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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.

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A John Waters Christmas. An unforgettable night of holiday mischief with The Pope of Trash. $32-117, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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Sweet Charity. See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $25-30, 7:30pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

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Open eagle’s eye Open Mike Eagle Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello) Chicago’s late-but-beautiful bloomer Open Mike Eagle moved to L.A. in his mid-20s, joining underground hip-hop collective Project Blowed and founding the trio Thirsty Fish before releasing his solo debut in 2010. Since then he’s authored an NIH study on the cognitive effects of freestyle rapping (!) and successfully pitched a music/ talk show pilot on Comedy Central (!!) while keeping up a regular release schedule.

Eagle’s relaxed, melodic flow and gauzy, lofi electronic backing tracks gradually earned notice, and Brick Body Kids Still Daydream should propel Eagle onto the A-list of leftfield rap artists. Eagle’s an immensely appealing emcee, never losing beneficence even while dropping bitter pills about internet sickness on “TLDR,” urban renewal on “My Auntie’s Building” (is City Council listening?) and the state of the nation on “Happy Wasteland Day.”

Chris Stapleton From a Room: Volume 2 (Universal) The new Chris Stapleton album is welcome news for fans of hot new country who also love congratulating themselves for embrac-

ing someone “authentic.” The son of a Kentucky coal miner, Stapleton played bluegrass with The SteelDrivers and paid Nashville dues writing hits for Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan before releasing his restrained Grammy-winning debut, Traveller, in 2015.

Stapleton continued to eschew studio excess on From a Room: Volume 1 and does so again here, and that’s good. Bringing soul, country-rock and honky-tonk into the brew is also good, and as expected, the Nashville cats backing up Stapleton are unimpeachable. If only Stapleton didn’t try so hard to put it over—his voice is flat and sullen, bent on imposing intensity on all occasions. You sure Hank done it this way?

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Kid (Western Vinyl) After seeing Jurassic Park, a friend of mine joked that the animatronic dinosaurs seemed more real than the actors. This echoed in my head as I listened to The Kid by synthesizer genius Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Smith creates swirling, spiraling, happily bubbling stews of sound—and then her vocals come in muffled, detached and mechanical-sounding, like a hologram transmitting from a sad planet. The lyrical themes, ironically, include human expression and connection—not that you

can pick up much without training your ears on the misty messenger. But The Kid gets two big thumbs up on the glittering instrumentals—the whimsical landscape of “I Am a Thought,” the genial interlude “I Am Consumed” and mostly, “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am,” on which Smith conjures a mesmerizing electronic menagerie.

Chief Keef Dedication (Glo Gang/RBC) Dedication is either the first official album or the fifth mixtape that Chicago’s Chief Keef has released in 2017, aiming to return him to the glory days of his 2012 debut, Finally Rich. Through incarcerations, lawsuits, and feuds with Lupe Fiasco and Migos, Keef has stuck to his script, that being dealing dope, spending millions and [having sex with] your mama. Cartoonish, but Keef helped create the cartoon, so he’s got a claim, and his slurring delivery has its charms. The backing tracks are ominous and claustrophobic, and feel like spiraling down an endless parking deck—an exception is the subdued, floating “Come On Now” featuring Lil Yachty, rising star of a new school who nevertheless ends his verse “I’m finally rich like that n**** Chief Keef.” Amoral to the story.—Nick Rubin

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

Matt Horn and the Musical Suspects.

Trumpet player and singer-songwriter fronts a band that reflects influences ranging from Dizzy Gillespie to The Police, Led Zeppelin and Charlie Parker. 21-plus. Free, 10pm.

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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.

Harli and the House of Juniper. An eclectic blend of alt-rock. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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An Evening with Robin and Linda Williams. A rowdy mixture of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country. $22-25, 8pm.

The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

A Wild & Risqué Family Christmas. Disco Risqué and Erin & The Wildfire hijack holiday favorites. $10, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Phil Gibbs and Friends. Soulful acoustic troubadour Phil Gibbs grabs some friends for a night of fun. 21-plus. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Sweet Charity. A persistently optimistic and unfailingly upbeat, indomitable dancehall dreamer carves out a place in her world where she is seen, heard and valued on her own terms. Pay what you can, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

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ocal author and historian Andi Cumbo-Floyd came of age on the Bremo Plantations in Fluvanna County. In central Virginia, “there are plantations everywhere, but we don’t call them that,” says Cumbo-Floyd. “We call them farms or estates.” While she knew “people had been enslaved there,” she says she “didn’t really have an awareness of what that meant.” A college course on Native American cultures opened her eyes. “Suddenly I was aware I had not learned a lot about American history,” she says.

Eager to know more, Cumbo-Floyd took a summer job as an assistant for an anthropologist researching the medical conditions of enslaved people, which allowed her access to UVA’s vast collection of the Cocke family papers—the same Cocke family that established Bremo Plantations in 1808. “It started me on the road,” Cumbo-Floyd says.

On this path, her curiosity intertwined with her love of the written word. She went on to study writing and to teach composition, but when her mother’s health declined, Cumbo-Floyd returned to Bremo Plantations to care for her.

After her mother passed away, Cumbo-Floyd’s father made her a generous offer. She could live with him, all expenses paid, for one year and write a book. “I was able to live at a place where people were enslaved, research at UVA and walk the land where they had been,” Cumbo-Floyd says.

Her father had been the manager of the land for more than 20 years by that point, and he was able to point out its history, such as where the slave quarters had been. Cumbo-Floyd spent her year there getting reacquainted with the physical space, learning the history and healing from the loss of her mother.

The result was a work of creative nonfiction, The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home, published in 2013. But Cumbo-Floyd learned in the process of writing it, “There are real limits to [creative nonfiction] in writing the history of enslaved people. There’s not a lot of data.”

For this reason, she turned next to historical fiction, and also to a young adult readership. The exploration of Bremo Plantations as a teenager manifested as a (thus far) two-part young adult fiction series called The Steele Secrets, which centers on protagonist Mary Steele, who has the supernatural ability to materialize in unexpected places and to see ghosts.

In the first book, which was published in 2015 and shares the series title, Mary finds herself in a cemetery where she uncovers the hidden history of her town. In the second book, Charlotte and the Twelve, published last year, Mary materializes at a Rosenwald School—historically significant schools constructed for African-American children in the South from 1917 to 1932 as part of a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. In the story, Mary meets the ghost of a teacher named Charlotte, as well as her 12 deceased students, and learns they were murdered. “It turns out it was a racially related crime that has present-day ramifications in 2017, when the book is set,” Cumbo-Floyd says.

Her book’s relevance to current discussions about history and racism in Charlottesville isn’t lost on Cumbo-Floyd.

She still hasn’t processed the white supremacist rallies and violence of the summer, but, she says, “In relation to my work it just reminds me that...as hard as it is to write these stories, it’s really important.” Further, says Cumbo-Floyd, “I’m privileged to be able to write these stories through my education and my white skin. I want to be sure I honor that and do it justice.”

Andi Cumbo-Floyd will read from her book, Charlotte and the Twelve, at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center on December 16.

Friday 12/15 MIRA Early Music Ensemble. Local choir presents a garland of medieval and Renaissance motets and carols for the Christmas season. Free, 7:30pm. Holy Comforter Catholic Church, 208 E. Jefferson St. 295-7185.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville.

286-7837.

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.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!). See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $21-60, 5pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Sweet Charity. See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $25-30, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Porch Dogs. Rock, pop, county, Americana and everything but disco. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac Tribute.

Wear your ugliest sweater and get your holiday rock on with this tribute. $12-15, 7pm.

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

Bobbleheads. Jam the evening away. With Mojo Pie. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

‘Tis The Season Twerk Off. Hosted by Sweetlick and MzKitty, with music by DJ Flatlinelay. 21-plus. $15, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Thursday, December 14. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Bro Patrol. A combination of high-energy and hilarious cover songs from the depths of your cassette mixtapes. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Cast Shadows. Film noir cabaret featuring toy piano, accordion and various stringed instruments mixed with clever lyrics. With CJ Boyd and Silas Frayser. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

Christmas at The Paramount. The Oratorio Society of Virginia performs holiday favorites. $10-49, 2:30 and 7:30pm. Paramount Theatre, 215 E. Main St. 979-1333.

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Contra Dance. If you can walk in circles and know your left from your right, put on your dancing shoes. Free-$10, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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Saturday 12/16 CoolBlue Quartet. Swing, jazz, blues and tango. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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DJ Tova. Versatile and trusted DJ is ready to get down. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Lisa Ryan’s striking collages deserve a close-up

Eddie From Ohio. A unique blend of vocals and acoustic instrumentation that finds the perfect balance between folk and alternative. $25-104, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Rapunzel’s Christmas Holiday Party. Fifteen groups perform at the annual fundraising gala for this local music hot spot. $10, 8pm.

Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660.

Sagittarius Saturday. Featuring Seductive Sounds and DJ Noyze. 21-plus. $10, 10pm.

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

Second Draw. Blues jam music from the mountains. With Keith Morris & The Crooked Numbers. $10, 6pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

The Brian Graham Band. A tasty blend of blues, rock and reggae with a twist of funk.

Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

The Gladstones. Four-piece rock ‘n’ roll outfit plays old-school jams. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Zuzu’s Hot 5. Six-piece jazz group plays a sweet mixture of tunes that transports listeners back in time to the golden age of New Orleans. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

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Holiday Swing Dance. Kristin Wenger teaches a lesson before leading an all-out swing dance. $13-25, 6pm. Ivy Creek United Methodist Church Social Hall, 674 Woodlands Rd. 882-4664.

stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Thursday, December 14. $21-60, 2 and 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

A Christmas Story: The Musical. See listing for Friday, December 15. $14-16, 8pm.

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

Sweet Charity. See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $25-30, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

words Poetry Reading. Heather Derr-Smith and Amy Woolard read from their latest work.

Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

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pieces and don’t want to lose them,” she says.

Her archive functions as an inspirational resource; she knows what she has and will look for new cuttings that are similar.

Ryan begins her working process by flipping through magazines. Figuring out what catches her attention is a mental and visual exercise. Her approach is much more granular than a typical magazine consumer’s as she zeroes in on details like a shadow on a face, a hue or a texture—in sourcing her raw materials, she repeatedly uses the word “hunt,” and it’s clearly a major part of the process. “I might have a slight idea of what

I want, but the minute I start hunting, every magazine page I flip through is a potential option,” says Ryan. “I’ll hunt around and then I’ll decide, okay, I want something green. Do I want greenery—like a leaf? Do I want it to be recognizable, or is it just a swath of green. What color green? Do I want a bright green, or a dull green? That’s where the formal considerations come in. That’s the fun part for me—when I have an idea of where I’m going, but there’s still enough room for play.” Building up her collages piecemeal is a process of discovery. Each new addition of color, form and image is a response to what was put down before.

“Form and Shadow” looks like a watercolor or stain painting, and it’s not until you get really close to it that you see its petal-like shapes are composed of a series of magazine clippings of women’s cleavages. Using something as loaded as women’s breasts carries with it the frisson of sex and it might have skewed it too far in that direction, had it not been done so subtly, and with such strong composition.

Across the room, “Won’t Obey” features a blocky U shape and showcases Ryan’s interest in making collages that look like structures or that have a kinetic potential. She cut the shape from an image of fur and this imparts a wonderful textural quality to the work. “Is-

land Issue,” one of a handful of Ryan’s works that contain a word, has a Precisionist vibe with its reductive composition and smoke stack-like element. In “Not a Shadow, but a Threat” Ryan uses a neutral palette of grays and browns that’s striking and sophisticated with a vintage feel. The folds and arms give the piece a graceful, gestural quality. There’s something ominous about the shrouded figure that is underscored by the title.

Ryan began her creative career as a poet and refers to her collages as visual poetry. “I have loved poetry and written poetry all my life,” she says. But when she “stumbled into collage,” it was “something that felt natural and seemed to flow out of me effortlessly, and has been so gratifying.”

Thanks to her presence on Instagram, Ryan’s work has been discovered. She has produced collages for Esquire, The Mockingbird and Paste Quarterly, and was featured in Collage Collective Co.’s 2016 publication, Green. In 2015, she was commissioned

by YouTube to produce portraits of 15 of the site’s most popular stars for an in-house publication, and the project was an education of sorts. “One thing I’ve learned is that when a client selects you, they do so because they like your style,” Ryan says. “You need to give them what they want, but you also need be true to yourself.”

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Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!). See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $21-60, 5pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton.

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Divas of Comedy. Stiletto headlines this show of funnywomen performing in-yourface. $15-20, 8pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

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see like an artist and think like a designer,” says Lisa Ryan about her stylish collages, on view in “Please Don’t Ask It Can’t Be Explained” at Studio IX. Unlike most collage artists, Ryan focuses on formal considerations, rather than narrative. Her work is fresh with an almost total lack of the whimsy that is present in so much of the oeuvre.

“I do find a lot of mainstream collage with that super surrealism just a little too easy and overdone,” Ryan says. “I want my work to be formally pleasing and able to hold up to a good painting.”

With collage you get two levels of perception. There’s the finished image and then there are the individual parts that compose it. Ryan plays with this adeptly, producing interesting juxtapositions of color, texture and shape. In “Tilda,” she used different body parts—arms and legs—to compose the cheek. From a distance, it reads as uniform flesh; it’s only when you get up close that you discover it is a composite.

Sourcing her clippings from vintage and modern magazines, all but five of the 23 works on exhibit use the former. The colors and images in these have a distinctive antique appearance, although the works themselves are unquestionably contemporary.

Ryan maintains an archive of paper cuttings carefully organized by category in plastic sleeves within an architect’s flat file.

She laughingly admits that her relationship to these is akin to a hoarder’s but says possessing the collection makes her feel safe in that she knows she has a ready supply of images to draw from—yet she rarely does.

Instead Ryan cuts fresh pieces for each collage. “It’s as if I’ve fallen in love with the

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Charlottesville Ballet’s The Nutcracker. A young girl named Clara receives a magical wooden nutcracker as a holiday gift and embarks on an adventure through enchanting lands. $20-75, 1pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

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music Bayou Faux Pas. Cajun music to get your feet moving. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Central Virginia Blues Society Electric Jam. A rotating cast of talented musicians from Central Virginia goes electric. Free, 3pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. 823-5671.

Fulltones to the Max. Duo plays rhythm and blues, straight blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

Kat Somers. Compositions incorporate acoustic alternative folk, indie and acoustic alternative pop. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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Nic and Jo. Folk tunes and originals with strong harmonies, melodic guitar strumming and washboard beats. Free, 1:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Nick Berkin. Pianist-composer-singer-lyricist-arranger plays a late-night set. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Tara Mills and Jimmy Stelling. An original blend of folk, bluegrass and Americana. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

The Wailin’ Jennys. Three distinct voices together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. $27-148, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

dance Charlottesville Ballet’s The Nutcracker.

See listing for Saturday, December 16. $2075, 2 and 5:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Making Spirits Bright. Staunton-based Valley Dance Theatre students perform ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip-hop and more. $16-18, 2 and 7pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

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ohn Waters is a man of many names.

Dubbed the Prince of Puke, the People’s Pervert and the Pope of Trash, among others, the legendary filmmaker has made a career out of his personal brand of quirky, twisted humor. Although best known for bringing Hairspray to the big screen along with cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby and Serial Mom, Waters is a prolific storyteller who’s published numerous books and essays. In fact, “Why I Love Christmas,” an essay he wrote for National Lampoon in 1985 and reprinted in his book, Crackpot, in 2003, became the impetus for another one of his signature storytelling projects: A John Waters Christmas. It’s an annual standup comedy show that tackles the Christmas industry with raunchy glee in a way that only Waters can.

“There’s a skeleton of it in a way that’s the same [each year], like presents I want for Christmas,” Waters says. “That makes me be able to talk about anything. [The show] always addresses fashion, politics, drugs, despair, presents, how to act at Christmas, how to get through it, how to love it, how to hate it and how to not let it defeat you.”

While the Baltimore native’s material ebbs and flows based on current events, he doesn’t feel as though any particular subject matter is off limits. If anything, he sees humor as the path to common ground.

“Certainly I have humor about gay rights and everything,” he explains. “But I think I’m actually completely politically correct throughout the whole thing if you really wanna know the truth. No one ever gets mad because I’m not mean about it and I invite the other side to make us laugh because I think that’s the only way you’re going to change anyone’s opinion. I’m not a separatist.”

It’s a philosophy that he employs during the Q&A session at the end of every one of

his Christmas shows, which will come to the Paramount Theater on Thursday as part of an 18-stop tour.

“In every town so far, I say, ‘Look, I’m not a separatist, there must be someone in the audience who voted for Trump,’” Waters says. “‘So when you come up at the question and answer session, will you please say something funny against us and everybody will cheer you.’”

Waters’ show is chock-full of advice on how to juggle the holidays, including how to deal with politically divisive relatives.

“Wear a whistle and anytime anybody talks about politics, blow the whistle and eventually everybody’ll start laughing,” he recommends.

And how to find the perfect Christmas gift for that special someone?

“I think that you should have a Christmas where everyone purposefully tries to get the other person the gift they would hate the most and then leave your Christmas tree to fall over or decorate it with parking tickets,” Waters says. “Just do everything kind of in reverse and then you’d have fun.”

The same goes for the Christmas standards that overtake the radio every year. “I like Christmas music. I wish Chet Baker had a junkie jazz Christmas album like, Baby I’m Jonesing Outside and it was all jazz music for junkies nodding out while they’re singing Christmas carols.”

As the king of Christmas deviancy, Waters has no shortage of these anecdotes. Even his favorite personal Christmas memories are laden with mischief.

“I used to have this guy that I was friends with, and I thought it was the most romantic date. We would go after Christmas when all the people put their dead Christmas trees in the alley and he would set them on fire and he would put a video camera up on the hood of his car and we’d drive through them and it was fun!”

During one reoccurring bit in his Christmas show, Waters delves into what he wants for Christmas. When trying to recall the best present he’s ever received, a particular childhood Christmas comes to mind.

“There’s a picture of me in my family album when I was about 12 years old and I have a puppet I got because I was a puppeteer at children’s birthday parties and in the other hand I’m holding The Genius of Ray Charles album,” says Waters. “I’m sure that I asked my mother for that. They didn’t just give me that. So I think that was exciting to be listening to Ray Charles when you were a 12-year-old white boy in Baltimore.”

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Earlier this year, Waters joined the ranks of musicians by releasing his own vinyl via Jack White’s Third Man Records. “I just like the idea of having a record that looks like what my parents’ record collection looked like,” he says. “[Plus] my street cred went up with the young people who collect vinyl.”

The spoken word album features Waters reciting his infamous commencement speech that he first delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. During a highlight, he advises that contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before. “Think about it, Warhol in one minute put abstract expressionists out of business with a soup can the same way that the Beatles ended Motown,” he muses.

Waters knows a thing or two about wreckage. After all, he’s spent half a century cultivating a legacy based on disrupting social and cultural norms. He’s always one step ahead—just waiting for everyone else to catch up.

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Fresh off a performance at Carnegie Hall, the choir presents its annual holiday program, Candelight Processional. Free, 3pm.

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Sunday 12/17 Salsa Sunday. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory bachata lesson before a social dance to an eclectic Latin mix. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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stage A Christmas Carol. See listing for Thursday, December 14. $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 15. $14-16, 2:30pm.

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

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!). See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $21-60, 5pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Sweet Charity. See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $25-30, 2pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

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Monday 12/18 music Karaoke Night. Take turns belting out your favorite tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

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A Christmas Carol. Follow along on Scrooge’s adventure through the past, present and future, as he learns the true meaning of family and Christmas. Part of the Monday at the Movies series. Free, 2pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

Tuesday 12/19 music Bob Huntington. Piano virtuoso plays mellow jazz for a relaxing evening atmosphere.

Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Latin Guitar Night. Mellow Latin classical guitar tunes. Free, 6:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 234-3763.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, December 17. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

stage Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!). See listing for Wednesday, December 13. $21-60, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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ot many people are able to fail their way to success, to turn what ought to have been their most humiliating defeat into fame and profit. Then again, Tommy Wiseau is not most people. A perplexing mix of sincerity and complete mystery, Wiseau gained notoriety as the writer, director, producer and star of what is widely considered the Citizen Kane of bad movies, The Room.

Released in 2003, The Room is a full-throated examination of betrayal committed by friends and loved ones against an unsuspecting man whose only sin was trusting too much—just executed with no understanding of what makes for good filmmaking or even a semi-logical narrative, with gargantuan plot holes, strange characters with stranger relationships to one another and baffling artistic decisions that would leave even the least savvy filmgoer scratching his head. To watch The Room is to marvel at a grown person of presumably sound mind making really bad decisions, while remaining confident and oblivious to how it’s going. It’s not just a beautiful trainwreck, it’s like watching an engineer who sees the same wreck approaching but somehow doesn’t know he is supposed to prevent it, and it’s that remarkable naiveté that separates it from other bad movies.

Naturally, the making of such a spectacle is an interesting story in its own right, as

chronicled in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, adapted from the memoir of the same name written by Wiseau’s friend and co-star in The Room, Greg Sestero. The film focuses on the friendship between Wiseau (James Franco) and Sestero (Dave Franco), which began in a San Francisco acting class. Timid yet driven, Sestero is drawn to Wiseau’s fearlessness in his performances (even if they’re never particularly good), and the two form a bond over their shared dream of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The pair move to Los Angeles to find their destiny, and eventually decide to make their own movie to spite Sestero’s unresponsive agents and Wiseau’s judgmental reception.

Along the way, we come to know Wiseau, or at least as much as he will let us. Clearly of Eastern European origin, he claims to be from New Orleans (which he can hardly even pronounce). He is cagey about his age, and though he barely seems to work, he is somehow a multimillionaire with apartments in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. He waltzes into directing, financially overprepared, having bought all his own equipment and hired experienced professionals with enough budget to film well past the original schedule, yet is logistically, artistically and emotionally out to sea at all times.

The Disaster Artist does an excellent job of humanizing a figure that could easily have been a target for nonstop mockery—as the real Wiseau was in screenings across the country. Wiseau did not suddenly emerge this way, his personality and quirks were

forged over a life of what appears to be insecurity and real trauma. That would explain the unmotivated anguish of The Room; the raw nerve in him is real, even if he lacks the craft to express it. He is clearly jealous of the young, handsome, all-American Sestero, becoming embittered when he finds a girlfriend, threatening their life together as roommates. Wiseau even sabotages a real opportunity for Sestero because it would mean taking a day off of production.

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As a director, Franco has examined Hollywood myths before, recreating the supposedly too-explicit footage edited from Cruising in Interior. Leather Bar. But as a filmmaker, he shows new maturity with The Disaster Artist by placing characters and emotional relationships first and jokes second. His performance is astonishingly committed, at times hilarious and hideous. It is at times distracting that Dave resembles his brother in a non-relative role, but the two work off of one another so well it eventually ceases to matter.

It will help if you’ve seen The Room before The Disaster Artist, but as long as you believe that this man and movie are real—difficult though it may be—you will find it’s an engaging and entertaining experience.

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Traditional Irish Session. Local Irish musicians collaborate for an exciting evening of music. Free, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St., 202-8387.

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Karaoke with Jen Dville. If you’ve got vocal chops, let’s hear ‘em! 21-plus. Free, 8pm.

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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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Reality bites Tips for managing a teething puppy

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Call me Cooley (that’s my name).

I’m a big teddy bear who is looking for a gentle friend to help me transition to an indoor/outdoor lifestyle. Let’s be adventure buddies.

My name is Arabella and everyone says I’m the sweetest. I’d like to find a loving, affectionate home where I can flourish, purr and lounge around all day.

Hi! I’m Lullaby and, like my name, I’m quiet and shy and can be easily startled. But I love being around people. Give me soft pets and I’m yours forever.

A puppy’s need to gnaw can lead to punctures on shoes, furniture and fingers during the first few months. Most dogs have their adult teeth by 16 weeks.

forcement now can lay the groundwork for proper behavior later, and it will prevent this from becoming a problem into adulthood.

Blood and destruction aside, teething usually goes smoothly. The roots of the baby teeth dissolve as the adult teeth push in behind them, and the crowns simply fall away. But in some dogs, especially smaller breeds, this process fails. Some baby teeth may keep their roots and persist alongside their own replacements. It’s important that these stubborn holdouts be extracted promptly by a veterinarian to avoid permanent damage to the adult tooth.

Apart from evolutionary whim, it can be hard to imagine why dogs and cats really need baby teeth. It hardly seems worth growing a whole set of pearly whites just to have them replaced a few short months later. And I’m even less certain of why they seem custom designed to snag on sweaters and puncture human skin. Teething can be a frustrating phase, but with some patience, a bit of training and a few boxes of Band-Aids, it’ll be over soon enough.

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After children participate in holiday cookie decorating and arts and crafts, they can enjoy some swim time with Santa Claus. Dinner and a photo is included in the price; RSVP required. $15 members; $25 nonmembers, 5-8pm. Brooks Family YMCA, 151 McIntire Park Dr. 974-9622.

Wednesday, December 13 Mrs. Claus and her friends invite kids of all ages to enjoy singing, storytelling, craftmaking and more. Advance tickets required. $10, 4-6pm. Omni Hotel Charlottesville, 212 Ridge McIntire Rd. virginiagingerbread christmas.com

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Saturday, December 16 Join in the wassailing fun, which traditionally involves singing songs and imbibing hot mulled cider, to ensure a good apple harvest the following year. Potter’s will offer 10 ciders on tap as well as a hot, spiced, fortified cider. Free entry, noon-7pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 4699 Catterton Rd., Free Union. potterscraftcider.com

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The good news is that these painful days will pass. Just like people, dogs and cats get a starter set of baby teeth. And for some reason, they are much sharper than the adult teeth that will eventually replace them. There’s some variation depending on size and breed, but you can expect those nasty little things to start falling out around 16 weeks of age. You might find a few lying around for the Tooth Fairy, but they’re just as likely to be swallowed up first, and I’ve never had a patient suffer indigestion from it.

Unfortunately, teething isn’t going to happen overnight. It takes about two months, and in the meantime, his insufferable chewing is likely to worsen. It is important to keep valuable items well out of reach, and to bar any access to dangerous things like electrical wires. Assume that if your puppy can reach it, he will chew it. Topical deterrents like Bitter Apple can be spritzed in trouble areas for additional peace of mind, but they aren’t foolproof by any means, so proper physical barriers are ideal.

As for the problem of chewing on people, the goal is to focus on positive reinforcement of good behavior rather than punishment of bad behavior. Try to distract him with a loud “ouch!,” offer up a proper chew toy instead of your thumb and praise him for munching on that instead. Don’t be disheartened if it doesn’t turn things around right away. The teething impulse is strong, and you’ll likely be fighting this battle until the process finally ends. But consistent en-

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trung with holiday lights and equipped with an espresso machine and other warm drink-making accoutrements, a 1974 cherry red Citroën H Van parked inside Main Street Market will start serving early-morning beverages and snacks this week.

Coffee expert and Feast! employee Sara Goldsmith will be running the show, selling locally roasted coffees and coffee drinks, lemon ginger honey soothers, lavender London fog steamers, bone broths and mulled apple cider made from local fruit.

There will be snacks, too, such as cheese toast, cinnamon toast, local hard-boiled eggs, cinnamon honey Greek yogurt and fresh fruit. Before joining the Feast! team, Goldsmith managed and consulted for boutique cafés in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Open at 7:30am daily, Monday through Saturday, the van will close in mid to late afternoon. Goldsmith says she eventually hopes to be open on Sundays, too.

Feast! specialty food shop owners Kate Collier and Eric Gertner own the van, which will be parked permanently across from Feast! at 418 W. Main St. They say that the van was originally built to sell artisan cheese at farmers markets in Bordeaux, France—the large glass case in the front of the it was created specifically for housing and displaying cheese, Goldsmith says.

Baja Bean Co. owner Ron Morse opened the first Baja Bean in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1989, and it was so small it didn’t even have seating, Morse recalls. He brought the restaurant to the UVA Corner in 1992, then opened the 29 North location 12 years ago.

The Corner Baja Bean, once a popular spot for karaoke, closed in May 2013, and though Morse owns two other Baja Beans, one on West Beverley Street in Staunton and another in Richmond’s Fan District, he says the closing of the last Charlottesville location “is pretty depressing.”

“It’s not financially working out anymore,” says Morse of the restaurant, which has about 10 employees, some of them longtime Baja Bean employees, and business has declined over the years as 29 North has been built up. Now that places like Hollymead Town Center and The Shops at Stonefield have “lots of decent restaurants,” says Morse, people aren’t making the drive further down the road.

Both the Richmond and Staunton Baja Beans will remain open, and Morse has two more restaurants in Richmond (Station 2, a burger joint; and Postbellum, a chefdriven new American cuisine spot), plus two others in the works.

Morse, who has raised his family in Charlottesville, says that he loves the energy of the city and is sad to leave the market, particularly because of the community relationships the restaurant has forged.

Over the years, Baja Bean has sponsored recreational sports teams, charity golf tournaments for Camp Holiday Trails, fundraisers and burrito days at local schools, and has catered events for many others.

Morse says he would rather hand over the place to “an angel” instead of closing it altogether, but despite the holiday season, that angel hasn’t yet appeared.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Humans have used petroleum as a fuel since ancient times. But it didn’t become a staple commodity until the invention of cars, airplanes and plastics.

Coffee is another source of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent centuries.

The first European coffee shop appeared in Rome in 1645. Today there are more than 25,000 Starbucks on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you will experience an analogous development. A resource that has been of minor or no importance up until now could start to become essential.

Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not totally certain that events in 2018 will lift you to the big time or the major league. But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now.

Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care? In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously.

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(Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865, England’s Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain Everest, borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. Familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. Reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. Look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense and the masks.

Aries (March 21-April 19): According to a Sufi

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At one point in his career, the mythical Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of 12 strenuous labors. Many of them were glamorous adventures: engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to procure golden apples that conferred immortality when eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting task: cleaning up the dung of 1,000 oxen, whose stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to have resemblances to Hercules’ 12 labors. aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic.

If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up! Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): I undertook a diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout.

I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please!

Gemini (May 21-June 20): Have you ever been wounded by a person you cared for deeply?

Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work.

You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it,” so said Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles. Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, you will have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage.

1. Make plans to move into your dream home, or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home. 2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3. Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks. 4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5. Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow.

6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. Boost and give thanks for the people, animals and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Deuces are wild. Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you

to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The reptilian part of your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive, and provides you with the aggressiveness and power you need to fulfill your agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful giveand-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture.

The neocortex part of your gray matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you.

You may be as smart as you have ever been.

How will you use your enhanced savvy?

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The classical composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

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Region Ten Community Services Board Accounting Technician Financial Access Specialist The Financial Access Specialist performs several functions essential to the efficient and proper billing of Region Ten services. The central tasks are conducting insurance eligibility checks, monitoring the accuracy of consumers’ financial interviews completed throughout the entire agency and, as needed, making corrections to the other staffs’ work. These tasks require a thorough knowledge of insurance and billing processes, a sharp eye for detail, and the ability to work with large sets of data, frequently in Microsoft Excel. Additionally, the Specialist uses this knowledge while interacting with consumers who inquire about billing statements and staff who need guidance/ training on a variety of insurance-related issues. Requirements: Three years of health care reimbursement experience. Knowledge of third-party billing, computerized accounts receivable system, account reconciliation. Excellent verbal and written communication. $30,079.92 annually.

Clinician II / Clinician III Fluvanna, Outpatient Provide individual and group counseling services for substance abuse and mental health disorders for adults and children in the Palmyra office of Region Ten. Other services may include educational groups, case management services, and mental health supportive services. Must be comfortable serving a diverse group of clients including those who are ex-offenders or are difficult to engage in services. The position requires a Master’s degree and licensed or registered within 6 months of hire. Full time position with occasional early evening hours.

Clinician II: Must be licensure eligible in Virginia or registered within 6 months of hire. $44,040.00 annually.

Clinician III: Must be licensed (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LCP, and Psychiatric CNS-BC) in Virginia. Salary negotiable starting at $48,444.00 annually for full time.

Visit our jobs section at www.regionten.org

or contact Susan Good at 434-972-1898 for details.

City of Charlottesville The City of Charlottesville is accepting applications for full-time and temporary positions.

The City employs administrative, professional, technical, public safety, recreational, and skilled and trades workers who are dedicated to public service in this exceptional city.

Be part of our team, make a difference and have a career in your community!

For a list of current opportunities and for directions on how to apply, visit:

www.charlottesville.org/jobs Questions? Contact the HR Office: 434-970-3490 The City of Charlottesville is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity at all levels of its workforce. .

HVAC positions - Multiple Openings Facilities Management (FM) at the University of Virginia seeks multiple HVAC professionals!

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Senior HVAC Assistant Mechanic OR the HVAC Mechanic:

• Receptionist-Part time • Activities Assistant-Full Time • Registered Medication AideFull time • Personal Care Aide-Full time

• Environmental Services (housekeeping aide)-Full Time • Licensed Practical NurseFull time • Dietary AideTemporary Full Time

If you are committed to providing the highest level of care and services to our residents, consider a position at Mountainside Senior Living.

Commitment and compassion are what drives our team to work every day to exceed the expectations of our residents.

At Mountainside, we strive to create an environment of respect, compassion and belonging for everyone.

To apply, mail resume to Annette Jarvis, or apply in person at 1220 Crozet Avenue, Crozet, VA 22932.

Follow us on Facebook Mountainside Senior Living is dedicated to providing the highest quality of services adn care in a compassionate home-like environment. Supporting ALL of our community is what we are, what we do, and what we stand for.

To view and apply for this position, visit https://jobs.virginia.edu and search for US Position number 06767. To ensure consideration, please submit your application as soon as possible.

-HVAC Assistant Mechanic: supports HVAC Mechanics with HVAC repairs, cleans job sites, trains on more advanced installations and emergency repairs, and follows all customer service and safety protocols. A high school diploma is required with some experience in HVAC installation and repair.

-HVAC Mechanic: services, overhauls and repairs a variety of equipment including water fountains (coolers), ice machines, refrigerators, freezers, and walk in boxes in support of zone maintenance. A high school diploma is required along with at least four years of experience in the HVAC trade.

Candidates MUST have the HVAC journey- man license.

HVAC Installation and Repair Technician Senior: To view and apply for this position, visit https://jobs.virginia.edu and search for US Position number 06517. To ensure consideration, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Performs skilled repair, maintenance, and installation of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Establishes schedules for preventive maintenance of equipment. Provides technical guidance and trains lower level mechanics and/or apprentices. Takes periodic readings of indicators and gauges, valves, motors, and other devices in order to maintain functioning equipment and keep records.

Review drawings of new constructions for Hospital Engineer and makes recommendations and provides feedback on HVAC specifications.

The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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Clinical Trials Stretch Your Dining Dollar and Support HOP! Dining Around the Area books go on sale November 1

NAFLD or NASH Study

Breastfeeding Study

Seeking men and women, ages 21-75, diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) to determine if the drug AZD4017 reduces liver fat and liver fibrosis in people with NAFLD or NASH as compared to placebo.

The study will involve up to 8 visits to the UVA Clinical Research Units. All tests and drugs will be paid for by the study. Compensation is up to $1,200. Principal Investigator: Rita Basu, MD.

Researchers seek healthy, lactating mothers with young infants (1 to 6 months). The purpose is to compare an infant changing table and a personal breastfeeding monitor that measure breast milk intake. Participants use the devices at home for 1 week and complete a brief survey. Two brief UVA Health System visits include device training and return of the devices at the end of the study. Compensation is a $25 gift card. Principal Investigator: Joann McDermid, MD.

UVA Endocrinology Rita Basu, MD | 434.924.5183 IRB-HSR #20155

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A free entrée, or a sizeable entrée allowance, with the purchase an entrée of equal or greater value at many great local restaurants

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To order, visit https://hopva.org/dining-around-the-area-coupon-book/ or call 434-972-3568

Compensation for a completed egg donation cycle is $4,500.

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of Virginia is looking for young women interested in helping couples who are unable to conceive using their own eggs.

To be an anonymous egg donor, we need applicants who are: • Between 21 years - 31 years old • In good general health • Within normal weight range

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Relevant and rewarding work? Check. Relaxed yet ambitious company culture? Absolutely.

Want to be a dream maker yourself? Let’s talk. worldstrides.com/careers

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Jobs are out. Journeys are in.

Dream makers wanted Can travel change people’s lives? You bet! At WorldStrides, we’re dream makers. We take students around the globe, to connect with new worlds and bring home big new ideas.

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• Non-smoker For more information and an application, please con-tact Stephanie Barrix, R.N., IVF/Egg Donor Coordinator @ stephanie.barrix@rmscva.com or call 434.654.8537.Also, visit our website www.rmscva.com

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Q&A Should there be any repercussions for city staff after the findings of the independent report on August 12?

They should all sit down and get a plan for future events.

SUSAN SCHIFFER

Yes. They had plenty of intel suggesting the Nazis were coming to kill and intimidate, and did nothing but hand wring until it was way too late. Obviously no one is responsible for Heather Heyer’s murder other than the terrorist who ran her over, but the city has no excuse for not acting sooner.

PHEEL COGDISS/FACEBOOK

Unquestionably. They failed to listen to their constituents, outside advice, and have not taken decisive action in the months since. We don’t need further evidence or reports.

Before they leave office, they must also act to hold the state police and governor accountable as well.

Going “off-plan” caused lives to be lost.

Yes. They should start with being humble.

ALLYSON JOHNS/FACEBOOK

Yes. Replace them all, fine them all for being implicit in all of this and in three deaths, fine them for hurting C’ville businesses and tourism and make them take the bags off of our statues.

BRADFORD KARL SLOCUM/ FACEBOOK

BRENDA NECKERMAN/FACEBOOK

They should select a blue-ribbon panel to spend a year and $100K assessing what went wrong and decide what to do about it.

Because that’s worked sooo well before.

Yes. They failed the city twice. Not only did their comments serve as a catalyst for August 12, they didn’t plan, equip, prepare or protect us from the known violence that ensued.

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MOLLY ROSSBERG/FACEBOOK

First off, there should be a real investigation with people under oath and a citizen review board to oversee. Yes, of course they need to be held accountable. @DON_CHUMP/TWITTER

There ought not to be any repercussions...they weren’t equipped for it.

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Next week’s question: What are some of your family’s holiday traditions?

Send your answers to question@c-ville.com, or respond via Twitter @cvillenews_desk (#cvillequestion), Instagram @cvilleweekly or on our Facebook page facebook.com/cville.weekly. The best responses will run in next week’s paper. Have a question of your own you’d like to ask? Let us know.

The Salvation Army Family Store Discount Days Thursday thru Monday: Select clothing items 4/$1.00

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We Pick up your Good Reusable Furniture

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Pets don’t keep normal hours. Neither should your vet.

Best Veterinarian

Open 8am – 8pm, Seven Days A Week Walk-ins Welcome • General Wellness • Boarding

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