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THIS WEEK The first time I met Kelly Cox, she was sitting on a green exercise ball with a baby in each arm. She bounced both babies on her knees while two moms in front of her held their yoga poses. Cox, co-owner of Bend Yoga, offers classes for moms from pregnancy to post-birth, as well as support groups that center on topics such as postpartum depression and breastfeeding. Cox, also a doula who helps mothers throughout the birthing process, aims to connect women with resources in the area–whether with single practitioners or classes at hospitals— so they don’t feel so alone in their journey.

In this week’s feature (p. 21), you’ll meet moms who are striving to juggle it all: multiple children, returning to work after having a baby and finding time for a few quiet moments to recharge. Many of them say they benefit from support groups—whether informal or formal— to share their concerns and advice with. Cox likens this to when children were raised in communities—and these support systems were built into our daily lives. “It takes a village to raise the village,” she says.—Jessica Luck

NEWS 9 12 Jury recommends 10 years for Harris assaulter.

13 A second guilty verdict for garage beatdown.

14 C’ville delegation gets warm welcome in Ghana.

14 Rob Jiranek abruptly ousted as Progress publisher.

17 Opinion: United Way should look like those it serves.

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Strong like mom Local women sound off on the necessity of resources for new mothers.

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“The group made it clear that the apartments aren’t for UVA students.” Goodness, they don’t like UVA students? Jealous? I guess they don’t like folks on the right or even the middle. I bet that if they take a close look at themselfs that they wouldn’t like what they’d see there!!!

Mason Pickett “Between now and the grand opening, the Six Hundred West Main team will do 600 hours of community service.” That seems like much too light a sentence for this crime.

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An imperial wizard of Baltimore’s Confederate White Knights of the KKK, who was charged with firing a gun within 1,000 feet of a school at the Unite the Right rally, pleaded no contest May 5, just one day before his trial was scheduled to begin. Richard Preston was aiming his gun at Corey Long, who pointed a homemade flamethrower at the Klansman in a photo that went viral.

That’s advice from Dave Dixon, the safety and compliance supervisor of the Buckingham Branch Railroad, who notes the national increase of railroad crossing fatalities this year.

One of them happened here. An Amtrak carrying GOP congressmen smashed into a garbage truck on Crozet train tracks in January, killing 28-year-old truck passenger Christopher Foley.

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Sage Smith episode Charlottesville police are still looking for leads in the homicide of Smith, who was last seen November 20, 2012. The disappearance is the subject of an episode on the Investigation Discovery channel show “Disappeared.”

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Misidentified racist A Huffington Post Instagram account called @huffpostasianvoices posted a photo of UVA’s Larry Sabato along with a story called, “GOP Senate Candidate: ‘Chinaperson’ Isn’t Racist,” referring to

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perceived threat, which protects him from being convicted of malicious wounding. news@c-ville.com For that specific charge, a prosecutor must show an attempt to kill, maim or disable, Charlottesville jury decided May or evidence of ill will or spite, according to 1 that a man from Ward, Arkanthe attorneys. sas, who took part in a brutal “They want you to convict this man bebeatdown of a local black man in the Marcause he’s a white man and DeAndre’s a black ket Street Parking Garage on August 12, man,” Woodard said to the jury. Goodwin’s was guilty of malicious wounding, potenparents and a handful of other supporters, tially setting the bar for two other assailincluding Unite the Right organizer Jason ants accused of the same crime in the same Kessler, were present for the two-day trial. incident, and who are set to go on trial in So were community members who have the very near future. (See p. 13 for the veraggressively praised Harris for his fight dict in Alex Ramos’ trial.) against white supremacy that day in AuIn videos from the Unite the Right rally gust, and who demanded that Platania that have been viewed tens of thousands drop a malicious wounding charge that of times, Jacob Goodwin can be seen wearHarris initially received after the event, ing all black tactical gear, a helmet, goggles where he allegedly hit a man in the head and two pins—one that said “88,” or code with the Maglite moments before he was for “Heil Hitler,” and one with the logo of beaten to the ground. the Traditionalist Worker Party—and carHarris’ charge was amended to assault rying a shield when kicking DeAndre Harand he was acquitted in Charlottesville ris multiple times among a throng of General District Court in other white supremacists.

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Jurors were visibly disturbed Woodard argued that while while watching the footage. his client was wearing armor, “He has yet to express any the Maglite and towel Harris regret for his actions that day,” carried were the real weapons, said Commonwealth’s Attorand that the man beaten to ney Joe Platania, when asking the ground by white supremthe jury to consider a jail senacists was the true aggressor. tence recommendation. “And “Body armor’s a defensive I would submit he has none.” thing,” said Woodard. “NoThe man identified as a selfbody ever got beaten to death described white rights activist in an NBC documentary sat Jacob Goodwin C’VILLE PD with body armor.” in court wearing a suit and tie and with a long, brown braided ponytail. During his testimony, he said he thought he was being attacked by Harris, and he was using his feet to defend himself.

“To be honest, I was terrified,” he said, adding that he thought he’d be sent to the hospital “terribly hurt,” or that he might even “perish.”

The jury of nine women and three men didn’t buy it, and they recommended giving Goodwin a 10-year sentence with perhaps some time suspended, a $25,000 fine and empathy training. Judge Rick Moore set an official sentencing for August 23.

Goodwin’s mother had her head in her hands when defense attorney Elmer Woodard wrapped up his closing argument, in which he insisted that Goodwin was legally allowed to defend himself from a

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Guilty again Ramos second person convicted in garage assault And while the defense attorney argued several times that Harris’ most significant injuries, such as the head laceration that required eight stitches, were a result of the other men involved and not Goodwin, NinaAlice Antony, an assistant commonwealth’s attorney, said they were acting in concert.

“Each person is responsible, not just for his specific action, but the action of the group,” she said, adding that concert of action can happen in an instant, even between people who are unknown to each other.

“You don’t have to have a handshake agreement before that.”

The three other men charged with malicious wounding in the parking garage beatdown are Alex Ramos, Daniel Borden and Tyler Watkins Davis.

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n the second trial of the week for the brutal August 12 attack on DeAndre Harris, a jury deliberated 35 minutes before entering a second guilty verdict May 3 for an out-of-towner here for the Unite the Right rally.

Georgia resident Alex Michael Ramos, 34, sat expressionless through most of the twoday trial for his charge of malicious wounding. And in the sparsely filled courtroom, he did not appear to have family members or supporters present, although at closing arguments, Hannah Zarski, the woman whose offer to house Ramos a judge rebuffed during a bond hearing, showed up, and Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler sat in a

Woodardisms This Blairs, Virginia, attorney was largely unknown in the Charlottesville area until he began representing a bevy of white supremacists with Unite the Right-related charges, including Jacob Goodwin, “Crying Nazi” Chris Cantwell and Richard Preston, the KKK leader charged

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Detective Declan Hickey was gathering intelligence from news and social media on the third floor of the Charlottesville Police Department August 12 and saw from a surveillance camera the attack on Harris. A former combat paramedic, Hickey found Harris “covered in blood” and looking confused.

Hickey testified that he started investigating the attack and C’VILLE PD identified Ramos from social media and working with local law enforcement in Georgia.

“We stomped some ass,” Ramos posted on Facebook. “Getting some was fucking fun.”

Ramos was arrested August 28. During cross-examination from Ramos’ attorney, Jake Joyce, Hickey said Ramos seemed remorseful when the detective interviewed him.

Joyce did not call any witnesses, and Judge Rick Moore denied Joyce’s motion to strike the malicious wounding charge. Joyce argued that one punch is not sufficient to establish malice, but Moore said four people were beating Harris on the ground when Ramos joined in. “It really is malice to hit someone on the ground,” said the judge.

“Out in the fresh air and sunshine, he could just have walked away,” said Moore.

In his closing argument, Joyce tried to convince the jury Ramos, who goes by Michael, was not guilty of malicious wounding.

“Michael threw one punch. He had no weapon. That is a classic assault and battery.”

But ultimately the jury believed Antony’s story of “a man who joined a violent attack on a defenseless, unarmed man.” She reminded the jurors, “We saw him sprinting toward the garage, so eager to get in, he catapults himself into the fray.”

The jury took a bit longer to come up with a sentence for Ramos than it did in finding him guilty, and returned with a recommendation of six years in prison. Ramos will be sentenced August 23.

At one point during closing arguments, Harris left as Antony was describing the attack and Ramos “winding up” his arm and hitting Harris at the same time whitehelmeted Borden slams him with a twoby-four.

Afterward, Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania noted the “emotional toll” the trials and testimony are taking on Harris, but added, “He’s a resilient young man.”

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with firing his gun on August 12. Now Elmer Woodard is one of the most talked-about defenders in town. Here’s what he had to say at Goodwin’s May 1 trial: ”Gravity applies to DeAndre just like it applies to you and me.”—on why Harris didn’t fall down, but rather stood up after Goodwin kicked him so hard that he lifted off the ground, according to the prosecutor “Why DeAndre, you have upset me.”—on what Goodwin would have said if he truly felt anger, and was acting out of malice “Is it concert of action to stand in the Hardee’s line together?”—on how people who don’t know each other can act together and share similar views ”If it’s raining, you put on a raincoat. If there’s fighting, you put on a helmet.”—on why Goodwin was wearing tactical gear and a helmet

back corner for most of the trial.

Even for those who have seen videos before of the beatdown in the Market Street Parking Garage it was hard to watch, and a couple of the jurors glared at Ramos after they were shown footage of him, clad in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap and white wifebeater, running into the garage and Alex Ramos throwing a punch at Harris, who already was on the ground and being beaten by four other men.

For Harris, 20, his testimony May 2 made the third day in a row he took the stand. He previously testified April 30 and May 1 in the malicious wounding trial of Jacob Goodwin, 23, who came from Ward, Arkansas, to take part in the rally (see story on p. 12). A jury found Goodwin guilty, and two other men charged in the attack—Daniel Borden and Tyler “Boonie Hat” Davis—have trials this summer.

Harris, a teacher’s aide who worked last summer as a YMCA camp counselor, described going to the Unite the Right rally with his brother and several others that he didn’t really know, including Corey Long.

A girl dressed in black gave him a mask, and a man gave him a Maglite, he said.

After the rally in Emancipation Park was declared an unlawful assembly and the white supremacists and neo-Nazis were funneled onto Market Street where counterprotesters were massed, Harris and his party walked east on Market trading barbs with the ralliers.

Harris said he was in front of his group when he turned and saw what appeared to him to be “an alt-right guy driving his flag into Corey.”

What Harris didn’t see, said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina Antony, was Long run up to League of the South member Harry Crews and attempt to grab his flag.

“I ran up with the flashlight,” said Harris. “I hit the pole to break up the altercation.” Harris was found not guilty of assault March 16.

He was immediately sprayed with a chemical substance, ran and fell down, he said. “I get up and try to run and I fall again,” he said as jurors watched a video of the incident. “I was just trying to get away.”

Nurse practitioner Evan Pryse treated Harris at Sentara Martha Jefferson after he’d taken a shower for chemical decontamination. Harris had eight staples for the gash in his scalp and had difficulty forming sentences, said Pryse, which he thought could be the result of a concussion.

Harris also suffered a fractured left forearm, which Pryce said in the medical world is known as a “nightstick injury,” and typically occurs when one raises an arm to block a blow.

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or the last week, a delegation of more than 50 Charlottesville residents has immersed itself in the sights, sounds and culture of Winneba, Ghana, one of C’ville’s sister cities. Dave Norris, the city’s former mayor and organizer of the trip, has led five excursions to Winneba since establishing the connection in 2009 when he was in office. The primary goal of the trip, whose participants include Mayor Nikuyah Walker, Niya Bates, Monticello’s public historian of slavery and African-American life, and First Baptist Church Deacon Don Gathers, among others, is to explore the origins of slavery at one of the main transit points of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Day 1 When they arrived in Ghana May 1, the group was greeted by Nana Ghartey, one of the original founders of the sister city partnership and a current Charlottesville resident, who is acting as a liaison between the delegation and Winneba representatives. He and others presented Walker with a ceremonial purple, white and gold flower bouquet in the sweltering humidity at the airport.

Outside of City Hall, clustered in a sliver of shade protecting them from the peak heat of the afternoon, the Winneba council, dressed in bright, traditional clothing, sang, danced and praised gods to protect the delegation for the week. They also secured success for everyone’s individual missions by “pouring libations to the gods, to invoke the

spirits of elders—you will leave Winneba praising its name,” said the lead councilman.

Day 2 The Charlottesville delegation’s second day connected the sister cities in Town Hall and University of Education chambers. Mayor of Winneba, John Bartholomew Ninson, and heads of various municipal departments exchanged words of welcome and sisterhood gifts.

Many delegates stood up to share observations of Winneba society, while others spoke of the struggles at home. Others talked about their gratitude for having the opportunity to explore the land of their ancestors.

Parliamentary leader Alexander AfenyoMarkin described Winneba as “a place of hospitality and opportunity; in a land where people have traditionally survived on their own strengths, we see synergy between those who come together...that is why a sisterhood between Charlottesville and Winneba is critical and important for the development and further progress.”

On Day 3 the delegation visited Cape Coast, a town developed by Portugal and Britain in the early part of the transatlantic slave trade. The day ended with a difficult tour of Cape Coast Castle, where as many as 1,000 people were crammed into a room, sometimes for up to three months. Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker (below) receives a ceremonial flower bouquet on arrival to Winneba, Ghana.

house soldiers, a market for imported goods and an auction site of enslaved people. The architecture of Cape Coast Castle is starkly different from the surrounding villages and cities. The white paint is streaked with black, the facade scraped away by the sea air. Canons still point toward the town.

The sea constantly roars, dimmed by the thickness of walls down in the dungeons.

The darkness there hides the time of day, and the air flow is so low that after a few minutes one feels close to suffocation or heat stroke.

Only 30 people are on this tour, standing in one of the dungeons; during the slave trade, as many as 1,000 people were crammed in the room, sometimes for up to three months.

During discussions afterward, many shared raw feelings about what they witnessed and learned during the day. They said there is more to dive into—and so much to bring back to Charlottesville.

Day 3 The first site visited was the Assin Manso River, known as “Slave River.” All enslaved individuals who had been kidnapped, captured and shackled, were marched from surrounding countries through Ghana, along this path that leads to one of the slave castles, where people were imprisoned before being sold into the transatlantic slave trade. The river was the final place the enslaved were able to step in fresh water, something now referred to as the “last bath.”

In the evening, the bus traveled through Cape Coast, a town developed by Portugal and Britain in the early part of the slave trade as a port for their ships, a place to

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Rob Jiranek out as Daily Progress publisher A little more than two years ago, former C-VILLE Weekly co-owner Rob Jiranek was named publisher of the Daily Progress. Last week, the announcement of a new publisher and Jiranek’s abrupt departure “to pursue other opportunities” caught many at the Progress by surprise.

“I don’t have any comment,” said BH Media Regional Vice President Terry Jamerson when she was reached in Roanoke, where she’s publisher of the Roanoke Times, and asked about how long the management change had been in the works. “I don’t think it would be appropriate.”

Jamerson directed a reporter to the press release on the Progress website, which names Peter Yates, a Woodberry Forest grad like Jiranek, as the new publisher.

Yates started his career at the Progress 33 years ago, and since 2000 has been the editor and general manager of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg. He was also president

of the Page Shenandoah Newspaper Corporation. The sale of the family-owned News-Record and the Winchester Star to Ogden Newspapers was announced in March.

Jiranek was a co-owner of C-VILLE from 1995 to 2006.

He left for the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, where he was vice president of sales and strategic planning. There, he introduced monetization of content in 2007, but sponsorships for news seemed to fall through after editors objected and other media outlets reported on the breaching of the traditionally impermeable wall between editorial and advertising.

Earlier this year at the Progress, the wall between advertising and news came down—literally—at its Rio Road office.

Jiranek, like most newspaper publishers, was dealing with dwindling circulation, which had dropped from 21,274

in 2012 to 14,693 in 2016. Last year, the Progress, which is owned by Warren Buffett’s BH Media, laid off three employees.

It’s also seen three editors during Jiranek’s brief tenure.

Nick Mathews, who also left to pursue other opportunities, served as editor for 14 months through July 2016 and is now FOIA officer at UVA. He was succeeded by Wes Hester, who lasted about as long and also went to UVA as its deputy spokesperson. Aaron Richardson was named editor in January.—Lisa Provence

Earlier this year at the Progress, the wall between advertising and news came down—literally —at its Rio Road office.

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he impending retirement of Cathy Train, the long-time president of the United Way of the Thomas Jefferson Area, presents an important opportunity for one of the region’s most prominent philanthropies to better meet the needs of the community and embody what it claims is one of its core values: striving to be a model of diversity and inclusion.

For more than 70 years, the local United Way has provided millions of dollars to help everyone from families in need of housing to working mothers in need of child care.

Undoubtedly, many of the people who benefit from these programs are minorities. But a review of the makeup of the United Way shows a startlingly small number of people involved in its decisions who actually look like the people in the communities it serves.

That raises questions as to whether the United Way is providing services as effectively as it could, whether it provides only lip service to its stated ideal of diversity— and whether the organization is worth the philanthropic investment that thousands of local residents make each year.

Its board of directors, for example, has a total of 58 members. But only eight percent of them—that’s five people—are identifiable as minorities.

Just as alarming is the makeup of the organization’s paid staff. While relatively small with only eight people, its website shows that every single employee of the United Way is a white female—just like Train, who has been running the organization since 1988.

Those numbers are exactly what happens when organizations—even those with the best of intentions—become hidebound, blind to their own biases and keep no measure of accountability for themselves when it comes to diversity.

United Way is certainly not the only nonprofit impacting minority communities that is lily white. A survey conducted last year by Battalia Winston, an executive search firm, found that nearly 90 percent of all nonprofit and foundation directors in America were white.

But that has not stopped other United Way chapters from employing people of color. Minorities make up 38 percent of the United Way staff in Richmond, 35 per-

cent in Lynchburg and 16 percent of the staffs in Harrisonburg and Roanoke.

Tiziana Dearing, co-director of the Center for Social Innovation at Boston College, told the Nonprofit Quarterly that when people of color are kept out of the decision-making roles of nonprofits, “we miss assets they value in the community, run the risk of failing to understand what quality is to those whom organizations seek to support, and under leverage passion for change.”

One step the area United Way might be tempted to take to respond to these numbers is to bring more minorities on to its non-paid board, while continuing its apparent comfort in hiring only certain types of people (quite comfortable: The president’s job pays more than $170,000 including benefits, according to its IRS forms).

But that move would only be window dressing.

Our local United Way should embrace its ideals and show in its actions—more than just in its words—that diversity counts, particularly in Charlottesville, and particularly in these times. Selecting a minority candidate as its next president would give the group stronger credibility within the communities it most serves, and allow it to move more confidently toward ensuring the well-being of the children and families most in need.

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and post-delivery classes, the women talk about how hormones can affect a person, and the struggles around breastfeeding—from the difficulties of teaching a baby to latch on to finding an hour and a half during the work day to pump.

“I think empowering women, especially in the time we’re in, is the most important thing we can do,” Cox says.

Shaking things up After Amanda Ames had her first child in April 2015, she started Googling topics about going back to work. She was shocked that she came up with almost nothing. There were plenty of books about pregnancy and raising a child, but few resources for working moms and the issues they might face when returning from maternity leave. About a year later, Ames saw a comment thread in a local Facebook group for moms.

Someone asked about resources for working moms, and everyone had the same answer: Nobody is talking about this.

Of course, Ames, an associate attorney with Womble Bond Dickinson, says she realized why no one was writing about this: Working moms were just too busy. So, she developed an idea for a website called Project Work Mom, similar to Humans of New York. Ames asked friends to share their stories—a paragraph about their day—along with a photo.

When her first daughter was born, Chen was a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, Austin. She shared an office with a male colleague, and brought in a screen so she could pump at her desk. But the biggest hurdle was keeping her pumped milk cold until she got home. If the bus was late, it “would get pretty dicey with how long my ice pack was going to last.” Chen also remembers having to travel to a conference when her first baby was 6 months old. She was going to be gone for five days and had to pump enough milk to last for the duration. She was worried if she would have enough milk, and knew they’d be down to the last 8 ounces by the time she returned.

“I’ve known friends who pumped in equipment closets or a specific stall in a bathroom,” Chen says. “It takes time and you’re supposed to make up that time—that’s why moms get discouraged with pumping. I know a lot of women don’t have that luxury, especially hourly workers.”

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A lack of affordable child care—especially during nontraditional work hours of second and third shifts—is a common concern for the women Irvin’s staff helps. They must rely on their outside network for help, which could include family members or neighbors.

“We’re expecting women to do it all, and there’s similar but different pressures on guys, but still there’s this pressure to do it all, have it all, instead of pressure on society to be structured in a way that provides the support so people can do bits and pieces of it all in a sustainable and enjoyable way,” says Abby Palko, director of the Maxine Platzer Women’s Center at UVA. Donna Chen, an assistant engineering professor at UVA, found out she was pregnant with her second child shortly after moving to Charlottesville from Austin, Texas, in 2015.

Being in a male-dominated industry, Chen didn’t have a peer network to ask for recommendations about OB/GYNs, preschools and other family necessities, so she turned to Facebook.

She became a member of several local mom groups, because she knew, after starting her own moms neighborhood group in Texas, that having a pipeline to area resources is key in a family’s success. And the Facebook groups double as support systems, much like Sister Circle, aimed at African-American women at the Women’s Initiative, or the yoga class for moms and babies at Bend Yoga. And other programs exist throughout our community, like the Becoming a Working Mom class held a few weeks ago through the UVA Health System and ReadyKids. They provide a safe space to ask questions and get honest answers, and to know you’re not alone.

“So much is by word of mouth, and there’s a lot of pressure to keep motherhood hidden,” Chen says. “In the beginning it’s graphic, it’s not real pretty. People don’t want to talk about that phase in their life when they’re wearing diapers because they’re basically healing down there. There’s a lack of open information out there, which is why these Facebook groups exist. It’s shocking to me why we can’t talk about this beyond the moms groups.”

Kelly Cox, who opened Bend Yoga seven years ago and previously worked as a mental health counselor for women, says our society doesn’t address issues moms face, especially mental health issues like postpartum depression. In her pre-

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few days after the photos circulated—on news stations, in print stories and Facebook feeds—the comments turned from what HRH the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was wearing (a long-sleeved red dress with a lacy white Peter Pan collar reminiscent of what Princess Diana wore after son Harry’s birth) to how she was wearing a dress and heels with perfectly coiffed hair just a few hours after giving birth to her third child.

“That’s insane,” says Robin Truxel, owner of truPilates and an advocate for helping moms become stronger before and after pregnancy, about the Instagram-obsessed culture in which we live. Truxel herself has two children, ages 3 and 16 months.

Society has certainly played into the notion of the superhero mom. Not only is she the center of a family, she’s often returning to work soon after a baby’s birth—sometimes out of necessity, because the United States is the only industrialized nation without federally mandated paid maternity leave—and still learning to navigate a new world. Once a child is born, his mom has to shed her former self and start to navigate under a new identity, one that can feel false and is filled with anxieties: finding affordable child care and leaving her baby for the first time, what her rights are in asking her employer for a private room to pump breast milk three times a day and—no biggie—how to keep a tiny human alive.

In this constant ticker tape of thoughts, a mom’s attention is generally turned outward. But local health care professionals say it’s imperative that moms learn to take a deep breath and focus on their own thoughts, feelings and needs, because a healthy mom means a healthy baby—and a healthy family.

“Being a mom is your greatest happiness and your greatest stress,” says Elizabeth Irvin, executive director of the Women’s Initiative, which provides mental health counseling, social support and education offerings to women regardless of their ability to pay. Irvin, a mom herself to two boys ages 5 and 10, says, “You’re a mom until the day you die. It doesn’t matter how old your children are. The need for support just changes and grows as your child’s development changes and grows.”

Systemic issues in our societal structure that isolate the family unit into taking care of itself are huge, says Irvin, who claims that doing it alone in a low-income household is an “impossibility. There have to be other people involved to just get through a day.”

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Donna Chen, an assistant engineering professor at UVA, says being a working mom to children Audrey, 4, and Cora, 1, with husband Mike Frink sometimes requires creative child care solutions, like sharing a nanny with another family.

Kelly Cox, co-owner of Bend Yoga, not only offers classes for pregnant and new moms (and their babies!), but connects clients with other parenting resources in town.

“Being a mom is your greatest happiness and your greatest stress. You’re a mom until the day you die. It doesn’t matter how old your children are. The need for support just changes and grows as your child’s development changes and grows.” ELIZABETH IRVIN

Creating communities Getting in the door is one hurdle for moms, especially working moms, who come to the Women’s Initiative to discuss parenthood stresses. But beyond that, it’s hard for women to discuss their own struggles: They frame their concerns around their children. Elizabeth Irvin, a licensed clinical social worker, says part of the nonprofit’s work is to help moms realize it’s okay to direct some of their care and worry toward themselves because in the end they’re serving their children.

Cultural systems also come into play, says Ingrid Ramos, a therapist and coordinator of the Latina program at the organization. She says that in Latino culture, being a mom is largely seen as central to women’s lives. Another factor in seeking help is a lack of a support system, especially for immigrants from other countries who moved here with their husband and children but no other family members.

“It creates an imbalance where they are focused on what they have to do, not what they need,” Ramos says. “But once they’ve found us they tend to enjoy it. ‘Oh, I’ve found some relief. I can take this hour for myself.’”

When the Women’s Initiative launched the Sister Circle in October 2015, program coordinator Shelly Wood says they had no idea how many people would show up. She was excited they had a huge showing of 25 people (the eight- to 10-week sessions that occur on an ongoing basis are now capped at 10 to 12 people), which validated their feeling that there was a need for this in the community. Some of the issues discussed in the group include a wish for more physicians and OB/GYNs of color, the stigma of mental health and reaching out for help, more affordable child care along with nontraditional hours, more leave from work and more activities for families of color in Charlottesville.

Wood has an 11-year-old daughter and says she wishes there had been a support group like the one she runs when her daughter was young, so she could have connected with other mothers her age and more resources.

“I wanted to stay home but there was that guilt of going back to work,” she says. “Thank god grandma was our babysitter, but a lot of people don’t have that as an option.”

Another main topic of discussion is stereotypes black mothers feel they have to combat, that when someone seems them walking down the street with their child, it’s assumed she’s a single mother or on welfare.

“We just wanted to be thought of as mothers like everybody else.”

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while her husband took care of the kids. The result of her efforts, she hopes, is that she releases something out into the world that flourishes. That she has birthed something that will continue to grow as lessons are learned, as life becomes hard and puts pressure on.

“The idea of the reach (readers in 50 states and 10 countries) is why I thought it was important,” Shoffner says. “To share these personal stories and impact as many people as we can is really valuable.”

Shoffner’s essay on being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when her second son was 4 months old won second place in the 2017 Women’s Initiative Challenge Into Change writing contest. While she was playing on the floor with him one day, one of her arms was weak. She attributed it to carrying him around all the time. But, a few days later, she couldn’t see well out of one eye. Today she says her health comes in waves: There are good days and bad days. But she says that’s why it’s even more important for her to continue working, to continue producing a magazine—to show her sons that they can overcome struggles.

“I don’t feel successful because I don’t feel done,” she says.

“There’s so much left to do.”

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When MIT student Catherine D’ignazio found herself pumping on the floor of a bathroom stall after her third child was born, she told herself there had to be a better way. That led to D’ignazio, now a professor at Emerson College, to cofound the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon in 2014, a conference dedicated to improving the breast pump device and breast pumping conditions for women. When Ames was preparing to return to work this February after the birth of her son, she came across the second iteration of the breast pump hackathon, which this year included a family leave policy summit. She submitted an application and was one of 100 participants from all over the world who was invited to the MIT Media Lab the last weekend in April to create products and apps to improve quality of life for moms.

App developers, moms and product designers all partnered on ideas that ranged from a mindfulness-based app to identify postpartum depression (Ames’ group), a baby-feeding kit for people in disaster areas and a fabric shelf that can hang around a mom’s neck or on the back of a bathroom door so she doesn’t have to set her breast pump on a toilet.

Ames says this conference differed from the first in that it sought to include women of all backgrounds, so that “we’re not just designing for the 1 percent.”

“We talked a lot about equity in design,” she says. “That was something eye-opening and something that once I thought about it seemed so obvious: Women need to be designing products and apps and processes for women. And we need to bring in more women of color, LGBTQ families, single moms, low-wage workers.”

Although Ames’ group’s app that tracks a mom’s mood over time and gives them mindfulness tools to lessen the effects of postpartum depression didn’t win the hackathon, she says she’d still like to see it developed. And her goal with Project Work Mom, which has morphed largely into a Facebook page, is to connect people with resources, as well as connect people to each other so they can see there are lots of ways to approach motherhood. It’s not one-size-fits-all.

“I wanted to convey there’s no right way to do this, which is important when you’re feeling overwhelmed,” Ames says.

After the events of August 12, Bellamy Shoffner, mom to two boys ages 6 and 3, wrote an essay on Medium.com titled, “What Really Happened in Charlottesville.” In the months following the Unite the Right rally, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she could–and should–be doing more. She wanted to effect change.

“It’s very important for me to do everything I can to make my children’s future better,” she says. “They’re just on the wrong side of statistics: They’re boys and they’re black. And there’s not a lot of hope for them. I almost feel like I don’t have an option, you know?”

Shoffner, who created her first eight-page newspaper when she was 16, did what came naturally: She wrote, and she read other authors’ work. She kept feeling the pull of wanting to offer something tangible, thus she created the online quarterly magazine Hold the Line. The first issue, published in December, is geared to parents and focuses on racial and social justice issues. And its articles offer solutions: How to talk to your children about race, why self-care is important for the family unit.

Shoffner, who served as the editor, art director and page designer, says she didn’t know what the end product would be until it was finished—much like you wonder if your baby will look like you: Does it have Shoffner’s eyes? Her nose? What it does have is Shoffner’s voice. She not only wrote a piece titled “When Color is Clear” about growing up African-American in a predominantly white suburbs in Delaware, but she edited and designed every page of the 110-page issue, no small feat for a mom of two young boys who also works part-time for Virginia Humanities.

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Rossi says her pregnancy was fairly easy— she felt great and kept to her workouts until Braxton Hicks contractions at 23 weeks turned her normal six-days-a-week routine into walks with the dog and yoga. After her son was born, Rossi noticed some pressure in her pelvic area but attributed it to having just pushed out a 7-pound baby. This being her first baby, she didn’t know what to expect, what was normal.

At her six-week post-delivery checkup— standard for new moms—Rossi was diagnosed with a rectocele—which is basically a hernia in the pelvic area. That diagnosis means Rossi can no longer lift anything heavier than 10 pounds, and Kayden hit that mark two months after his birth. This means Rossi’s husband, Reed Dibler, has to wake up every time the baby cries in order to place him in his mother’s arms. And at work, Rossi has to ask for help during the more physically demanding parts of her job. Not only was Rossi adjusting to new motherhood, she was adjusting to the realization that she may not be able to pick up her son when he’s 2. Surgery is an option, though it could complicate future pregnancies, and Rossi’s doctors say the birth injury could go away on its own—though it could come and go.

“I would say it’s more of an emotional trauma than a physical one,” Rossi says. “You want to be able to hold your baby and feel like a strong mom. I’m not able to exercise, do my job fully and not able to be the mom I want to be, honestly.”

Although not diagnosed with postpartum Bellamy Shoffner, mom to Cade, 6, and Cyrus, 3, with husband, depression, Rossi says she experienced a fourCharles, publishes an online quarterly magazine for parents that discusses topics such as social justice and race. week period in January, about six months after the birth, when she struggled emotionally. She had been going to weekly physical therapy sessions to treat her injury, in conjunction with a weekly pilates session with TruxEach year, Palko’s staff at the Women’s Center welcomes el to work on strengthening her pelvic floor. When Rossi had 30 interns from all areas of study: law, public policy, nonto miss a few sessions, she realized how much she had been profits, marketing, to help with a variety of tasks, ranging relying on Truxel not just for physical but emotional support. from a legal clinic to an online journal. The students take After Rossi gave birth, she says moms she didn’t know a class in both the fall and spring semester that discusses well, women she knew from working in the same industry, mothering and parenting topics. Palko leads the spring reached out to check on her. They offered daily support and session, which this year looked at topics such as doula shared stories of their own struggles. Rossi says she was services, reproductive justice and the women’s place in the surprised to hear that people she had previously thought of work world and challenges women face when building a as strong and with no issues were going through some of career. She says she’s excited to see a lot of “really smart, the same things. Today she pays that forward within her own dedicated and super thoughtful students” teaming up with circle, and makes sure to check in with new moms so they Women’s Center staff to discuss the big picture of parentknow they’re not alone. ing issues and how a number of problems are interrelated: the climate, economy, access to resources and services.

“There’s an understanding that there’s a constellation of things that need to be addressed,” she says.

The mom of an 11-year-old daughter, she says she sees a shift moving in the right direction. primary caregiver for children Sweden that has a “use it or “There’s a couple of different conversations going on that during the first few months of lose” policy for paid paternity will hopefully lead to better understanding of what effective their lives, this sets up a system leave for both moms and dads, parenting looks like and better support for people doing it,” where moms remain the primary with single parents getting both she says. caregiver even after returning to blocks of time. Palko also points Shelly Wood says she she’s also seeing a shift—“a tiny, slow shift but definitely a shift”—in her clients at the Women’s work. Chen says she and her to systemic issues such as lack of Initiative. She says as more spaces such as the yoga for womhusband each take a half day affordable child care, unequal en of color class are offered, it’s opening up places to “help when one of their children is sick. access to health care and an ourselves.”

She says no one questions her increase in maternal mortality “More spaces mean more available opportunities that can reason for being absent, but her rates in the U.S. NPR and only help destigmatize that it’s okay to reach out for help, husband has had to explain that ProPublica released results of a it’s okay to have these feeling of feeling stressed as a mother.” his wife was teaching during that study last year that revealed the At Bend Yoga there’s a “family tree” on one wall that featime and he needed to be at United States has the worst rate tures a tree with a green leaf with the name of each mother home with his sick child. of maternal deaths in the develand baby that are part of the community.

UVA’s Abby Palko says the lack oped world: 26.4 per 100,000 “I think we’re so individualized until this process of pregof paid maternity leave in the U.S. births compared with 9.2 in the nancy happens,” Cox says. “It takes a village to raise the is “horrific.” She points to U.K. and 3.8 in Finland. village.”

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The federal Family and Medical Leave Act allows full-time employees in companies with 50 or more employees up to 12 weeks of medical leave, but few families can afford to take up to three months off (with no federal paid leave, compensation varies by company).

According to a 2012 study by the Department of Labor, 42 percent of all FMLA leave in the United States is 10 days or fewer.

Donna Chen says the push on a national level for federal standards for paid maternity leave should center on parental leave. Because moms generally become the

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The new moms group at the Women’s Initiative is in its second year. Irvin says all working moms face some of the same challenges, and can benefit from finding others going through similar struggles.

“Mothering is an experience shared by most women at some point in their lives,” she says. “Can we be authentic about the joys and struggles of this journey? Because that’s where women tend to get the most support—natural support circles.”

The first thing Bend Yoga’s Cox tells a mom is that she’s not going to help her get her pre-baby body back, but she is going to make her stronger to help care for the baby.

“I understand wanting to feel powerful in your body again or feel stronger,” she says.

Cox, also a doula who helps moms with the birthing process, says the current trend toward having a natural birth—with no epidural—causes anxiety for some mothers.

“I think anyone who leaves the hospital after giving birth, whether it’s abdominally or vaginally, and doesn’t feel like a total badass…it’s the coolest thing you’re ever going to do,” she says.

TruPilates’ Truxel echoes that sentiment and says she works with moms from the first trimester to several weeks postpartum when moms want to start working out again. Truxel uses a three-prong approach to get the body in proper alignment, with focus on correct breathing and strengthening the pelvic floor to prevent injuries when moms resume their normal activities.

“I look at moms like you’re an elite athlete and need to rehab,” she says. “You wouldn’t hike Mount Everest if you’ve only been walking around the block.”

Truxel says she struggled with postpartum depression after the birth of both of her children, as well as anxiety attacks with her second child. She says although doctors often screen for postpartum depression at a mom’s first checkup, she says the moms she works with say they often start struggling four or five months after giving birth, when they’ve gone back to work and have to juggle getting dinner on the table, picking up kids from daycare, etc.

“That’s something that’s not talked about,” Truxel says. “Is there shame associated with that, or women don’t realize it when they’re in it? ...I don’t know what the answer is, [but what’s important is] support and just normalizing that this is really hard, as opposed to everything having to be perfect and amazing.”

Kelly Rossi remembers the moment she felt sure about becoming a mom: When her son smiled for the first time at 8 weeks old. Growing up, Rossi, associate director of sports nutrition for 10 athletic teams at UVA, went back and forth on whether she wanted to have children, and says that feeling persisted even after her son’s birth—up until that smile.

“I love when I come home at night and see him crawling over to hug me, feeling the love,” she says.

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Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo plays and hosts an open mic night where talents abound. No cover, 8pm. 1221 Market St., 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713.

The Mother Hips. Evocative storytelling in the form of gritty California rock ‘n’ roll. With Leon III. $15-18, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Tune-Yards. Vibrant indie-pop with international elements. With My Brightest Diamond. $22-25, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

stage Hand to God. Jason, a painfully shy, mildmannered kid joins his mother Margery’s Christian Puppet Ministry and creates an alter ego in the form of a diabolically funny puppet named Tyrone. The show contains explicit, sexual and sacrilegious content by both humans and puppets. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Poetry Reading. Poets Lindsay Turner and Lauren Alleyne read from their work. Free, 6pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

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Breakers. Playing a combination of indie-rock, garage and alternative music. With Studebaker Huck and Orion and the Melted Crayons. $5, 8pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

Nick and Steve Pollock. Father-son duo plays straight-up, old-school rock ‘n’ roll. No cover, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Shakey Graves. A one-man Americana show, mixing influences of blues, folk and rock ‘n’ roll. With And The Kids. $25-27, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with influences ranging from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz, American punk, gospel and Cambodian surf rock. No cover, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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Hand to God. See listing for Wednesday, May 9. $20-25, 7:30pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

The Living Room. The improv comedy show that’s more fun than putting your feet up on the coffee table. $5, 7pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. bigbluedoor.org.

words Small Inventions: The Artists’ Books of Charles Hobson. Artist discusses his work, which uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. Free, 6pm. Jefferson School City Center, 233 Fourth St. NW.

Friday 5/11 music Bob Bennetta. Local jazz virtuoso tickles the ivories. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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TUNES Domenico Lancellotti

various atmospherics. Everything is

1970s solo acoustic guitar-picking

Blues du Richmond is a casually

set at gently swaying tempos and

firmament. Neither as flashy as

cool collection of ragtime, free jazz

The Good is a Big God (Luaka Bop)

comes nestled in gauzy reverb—

Leo Kottke nor as deeply soulful as

and points between, with covers of

“Tillbakablick” (“Flashback”), a

John Fahey, and with occasional,

“Maple Leaf Rag” and Abdullah

breakup revisitation sung in English,

unceremonious vocals, Baker

Ibrahim’s “Little Boy,” along with

One of the most creative interpret-

is the only misstep on an otherwise

sounds like your cool cousin who

spacey explorations on originals like

ers of traditional Brazilian pop,

gorgeous, hypnotic album.

loosens up the family gathering,

“Allah, Perhaps” and the ingenious

slowly getting weirder until the

hybrid “Homage to Leadbelly.”—

squares quietly leave the room. Les

Nick Rubin

Lancellotti puts an odd foot forward on The Good is a Big God with the before correcting course and finding

Panic Blooms (Rad Cult)

clavinet-laden postcard from some

The sad monks of the Pennsylvania

Italian beach circa 1970. Most of

hinterlands stay the vintage-synth-

The Good is a Big God feels like the

and-vocoder course they set on 2007’s

artist at sunlit play, despite a rogue

Dandelion Gum, though things sound

discotheque jam or two—Lancellot-

slackened up. Panic Blooms, the

ti’s guileless, nearly shy vocals

group’s first album in six years, was

perfectly convey ruminations on an

apparently sparked by Trump’s

enchanted world where spiders

election, though BMSR always

kiss fingers and everyone appears

sounded alienated; in any case, the

to be paired up and lounging on a

obscured vocals don’t inspire

bed. “Insatiable” is a timeless

righteous sing-alongs. The title track

carefree bossa nova; harp-and-

leads off, sounding like Chris Stamey’s

keyboard closer “Terra” is an

“Something Came Over Me”

exquisite lullaby.

performed by lethargic mutants, and

Linda Sjöquist Residing in Sweden, Venezuelan expat Linda Sjöquist released one of my fave records of 2013 as La Cancioneira, and a few years later I’m thrilled to find her not only

Should-be single “Mr. No One” brings a welcome melodic reprieve, but in general, prepare your black hoodie, black jeans, black sneakers ensemble for BMSR’s show on May 31 at the Black Cat (natch!) in D.C.

Duck Baker

say dreamy and melancholy, her

Les Blues Du Richmond: Demos & Outtakes 19731979 (Tompkins Square)

languid childlike vocals draping easy

Richmond-raised Duck Baker

melodies over acoustic guitars plus

occupies an odd little place in the

making new music, but sounding pretty much the same—which is to

“Black art not bad art” is the full album title, and it’s the rallying call throughout this EP by 22-year-old Chicago activist/musician Ric Wilson, who came to attention as a high schooler with “If I Was White.” He comes from the same Young Chicago Authors program that helped launch Chance the Rapper and Jamila Woods, and gets help from Evanston’s Kweku Collins on the excellent “Sinner,” which has an easy D’Angelo funk roll but comes off more playful.

Recalling fellow Chicagoan Open Mike Eagle, Wilson proves real talk doesn’t have to sound dire, and Banba’s relentlessly clear-skied atmosphere also reflects Wilson’s repping of Chicago’s famous Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. Bless.

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pretty much setting the tone.

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plodding incantation “Voltar Se”

Black Moth Super Rainbow

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Friday 5/11 Bobby Midnight Band. A funky disco-rock group that’ll get you moving. No cover, 6pm.

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

Cherry Red. Authentic sounds from the greatest era of rock ‘n’ roll. No cover, 8pm.

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

Faux Ferocious. A night of punk, psych, garage and Halloween-esque tunes. With True Spirit, The Attachments and Naomi Alligator. $5, 8pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

Fridays After Five: Sarah White. Not quite country, not quite rock, not quite folk, but poignant and unique all the same. With Small Town Rodeo. Free, 5:30pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.

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Gold Connections. Timeless rock ‘n’ roll steeped in the worn warmth of folk and blues. With Sorority Boy and Illiterate Light. $10, 8:30pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

North Mississippi Allstars. Southern rock with a bluesy, funky vibe. $20, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. No cover, 7pm.

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

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Avenue Q. A laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of Princeton, a recent college grad who discovers that his newly found neighborhood is far from normal. For mature audiences only. $10, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

Saturday 5/12 music An Lar. Fine Irish music from a host of fine Irish musicians. No cover, 5pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Ani DiFranco. Singer-songwriter/activist/ poet/DIY feminist is back on stage, pushing boundaries as usual. $35-40, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4980.

Blue Ridge Chamber Orchestra. Richard Baritaud conducts the orchestra’s spring concert, featuring pieces from Vivaldi, Mozart, Borodin and Holst. $5, 3pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 120 W. High St. 293-2347.

Craig Dodson. Blending country Western, roots and classic rock. No cover, 5pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville.

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Eric Franzen. A local piano virtuoso slides onto the bench for the evening. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Gina Sobel. A genre chameleon and multiinstrumentalist brings jazz, funk and rock together into a singular sound. No cover, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

The Sally Rose Band. Doo-wop-inspired honky-tonk rock. No cover, 6pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton.

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Hoochi Coochi. A night of musical diversity with R&B, strings and roots music. With Bobblehead and The Weedeaters. $5, 8pm.

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

English Country Dance. Take an introductory lesson before a social dance to live mu-

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The Gina Clowes Project. Traditional music modalities, with the limitations removed.

Part of the Prism Coffeehouse series. $1315, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

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sic. $5-8, 8pm. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 851 Owensville Rd. 589-6264.

Jimmy O. Acoustic artist inspired by classic pop hits. No cover, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

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Matthew O’Donnell. Multi-instrumentalist plays Irish folk to engage his audience with high energy and pure talent. No cover, 7:30pm.

Wayland’s Crossing Tavern, 1015 Heathercroft Cir., Ste. 400, Crozet. 205-4669.

Taking comfort Yessirov lets the songs out on new EP

Michael Cvetanovich and Friends. Playing folk and bluegrass music. No cover, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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Mother’s Day Music Festival. Harli Saxon, Tandem Middle School’s rock and jazz bands, Patient 0, John D’earth and Friends, Bent Mountain Trio, Kendall Street Company and other acts play this outdoor music festival. $10, 2pm. Tandem Friends School, 279 Tandem Ln. 296-1303.

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South Canal Street. Country rock, classic hits and soul tunes. No cover, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-4878.

The Pollocks. Local rock staple plays its greatest hits and new material. No cover, 6:30pm.

The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

dance Albemarle Ballet Theatre’s Spring Dance Gala. Local dance company performs classics such as The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Le Corsaire. $14-18, 1pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

stage Antoine Scott. TJ Ferguson hosts one of the biggest names in comedy, who brings his gutbusting humor to town with support from Cindy Perez. $18, 8pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

Avenue Q. See listing for Friday, May 11. $1516, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

words Care and Feeding of Compelling Characters. In this writing workshop, learn techniques for drawing round characters that will attract and keep the interest of readers. $65, 9:30am.

WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922.

Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest. A reading and book launch with contributors Daniel Hamilton and Sierra Bellows, introduced by editor D. Seth Horton. Free, 6pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669.

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More than 100 jury-selected fine art and craft exhibitors show and sell their work. Free-$7, 10am. Claudius Crozet Park, 1075 Claudius Crozet Park, Crozet. 205-4380.

Family Art JAMs: Individual Identities.

Combining age-appropriate museum exhibition tours with hands-on art activities for kids. Free, 10am. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.

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WHAT’S THAT NAME? Jeff Gregerson had his musical moniker Yessirov before he had any songs to release under the name. Yessirov is a very minor character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and Gregerson describes him as “a disgraced military officer whose life has fallen apart.”

In the book, the man introduces himself as “Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov, sir, former captain in the Russian infantry, sir, disgraced by his vices but still a captain. I should have said Captain Yessirov instead of Snegiryov, because it’s only in the second half of my life that I’ve started saying ‘Yessir.’

‘Yessir’ is acquired in humiliation,” and “unwillingly, God knows. I never used to say it, all my life I never used to say ‘sir.’ Suddenly I fell down and got up full of ‘sirs.’ It’s the work of a higher power.”

Gregerson found the character compelling, and liked the way Yessirov sounded, to boot.

the Telemetry Experimental Music Series at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative Saturday night.

He’ll sing, play guitar and use various electronic synthesizers and a drum machine to widen the scope of the song even more.

That song in particular, Gregerson says, gets at what he’s trying to do with Yessirov. The phrase “small comfort” can mean something small that is

“It’s okay to acknowledge that this is your only life.

Do what you can to make it better for yourself and those around you.” comforting, and it can also mean that something is but a small (i.e., not full) piece of comfort. It’s a nod to the importance of taking care of oneself, says Gregerson, before stating what sounds like his manifesto: “It’s okay to acknowledge that this is your only life. Do what you can to make it better for yourself and those around you. And that can look like whatever you want it to be.”

Gregerson hopes people might listen to the three expansive songs on Yessirov’s Small Comfort during life’s meditative moments and find something small, or comforting, or both, to connect with.

There’s certainly plenty of opportunity to do so.

Says Gregerson, “Nothing would make me happier than to hear someone say, ‘I listened to your music on a walk in nature,’ or ‘I listened on a long drive and it hit home.’”

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15th Annual Charlottesville Festival of Cultures. Celebrate the cultural diversity of our community with music, dance, song and storytelling. Free, 10am. Booker T. Washington Park, Preston Ave. festivalofcultures.org.

Jeff Gregerson performs as Yessirov on Saturday at the Bridge PAI’s Telemetry Experimental Music Series.

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Storytime. Readings of the newest storybooks, to the classics kids know and love. Free, 11am and 1pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

f a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

This is something that Jeff Gregerson has thought a lot about as he’s made music throughout his life. Gregerson, 33, played first in high school rock and jam bands, and more recently as one half of the Charlottesville-based electronic cello folk act Wes Swing, named for the project’s cellist.

All the while, he’s been writing his own material but keeping it mostly to himself. Sure, plenty of musicians make music for their own ears, but Gregerson kept wondering if his music was the tree falling in the forest with no other audience to hear it. Would it make a sound?

In March, Gregerson, under the moniker Yessirov, released his official solo debut, a three-song EP titled Small Comfort, and began performing live shows of the material.

“It feels weird to have an official debut right now,” says Gregerson, because he doesn’t feel like a new face or an unfamiliar presence in Charlottesville music.

“My whole lifetime of songwriting was available to choose from,” says Gregerson, who laughs when he says he hopes it won’t take him another 33 years to put out three more Yessirov songs.

Small Comfort has been an exercise in learning how and when to let his music go out into the world—to let his tree fall in the proverbial forest where someone is guaranteed to hear it.

When Gregerson composes for Yessirov, he eschews song structures and aims to create a mood, an ambience, to describe an emotion via sound.

Lyrics, if there are any, come last, and Gregerson typically choses words not for their meaning (he’s not into sending a message with individual songs), but based on how they sound. In a song he plays in live sets but hasn’t recorded yet, every line ends in an “m” sound so that he can hum the “mmm”s. And with the words he does choose, he rarely repeats them (unless they are chanted or looped).

Gregerson says that one thing he’s learned from playing in Wes Swing is that “a song can be anything you want it to be,” and so he likes “to follow the course of a song like a river—wherever it goes.”

Which is perhaps why it’s taken him so long to finish and release the three songs on Small Comfort.

He could work on a song forever, he says, constantly evolving it into new phases, new moods. At some point during the production of the EP, though, he began to understand that he had to loosen his grip on his open-ended songs and release them into the world, conscious of their flaws but also of their strength and beauty, knowing that once they’re out there, they can’t be pulled back in. But he hasn’t let them go entirely.

On the recordings, Gregerson wrote the songs, sang and played guitar, bass and piano; Nora Horn provided vocals, Swing played cello and violin, and Josh Roberts played drums and some electronics and also produced the record. But recently, Gregerson has reworked the seven-and-a-half-minute title track, “Small Comfort,” into a 30-minute continuous electronic piece that he’ll perform solo at

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Butchertown Burlesque. Don your dapper hats and dancin’ shoes and join in the revelry, because this Deanna Danger juke joint is a hoppin’ through jazz, blues and swing from Virginia-grown artists.18-plus. $15-25, 9pm.

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

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Saturday 5/12 Harry Potter Escape Room. In this Harry Potter-themed mystery escape room, a forgetful Hogwarts professor has given you and your friends detention. Will you escape using your wits and magic, or will you be trapped forever? Free, 10:15am. Northside Library, 705 W. Rio Rd. 973-7893.

Love and Bananas. A director and a team of elephant rescuers embark on a daring mission to save a partially blind elephant. $12, 7:30pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

Luisa Miller. An encore broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s rarely performed heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. $18-25, 12:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Notting Hill. A London bookstore owner’s humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when a famous American actress appears in his shop. $5-7, 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

The Front Porch Block Party and Music Sale.

A celebration of local music, with live performances and a wide array of vinyl records and instruments for sale. Free entry, noon. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Sunday 5/13 music Aurelio Voltaire. A collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek tunes and bawdy songs about Star Trek. With Spider Lilies and DJ Angel Metro. $10-15, 9pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Bill Edmunds. Local guitarist picks and strums the night away. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Eggs Benefit 2018. Hear live jazz music while supporting the Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA. No cover, 11am. Brasserie Saison, 111 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-7027.

King Golden Banshee. The right amount of raucous colors traditional Irish music. No cover, 5:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Latin American Baroque: Music from New Spain. See listing for Saturday, May 12. $20, 3pm. First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St. 296-7131.

Patrick and Aaron Olwell and Friends. An energetic and eclectic Irish jam session. No cover, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., N. Garden. 297-2326.

The Ragged Mountain String Band. Oldtime Appalachian tunes and songs with modern-day appeal and sensibility. No cover, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Travis Elliott. An alt-pop sound with a folkrock feeling. 21-plus. No cover, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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By Erin O’Hare arts@c-ville.com

P

erched on a wooden stool inside her McGuffey Art Center studio, Megan Elizabeth “Mae” Read looks around the room at her sketches—a roughly defined nude male figure, a sequence of grayscale charcoal portraits including one of a little girl with butterfly face paint—clustered together near the floor.

“You know,” she says before taking a pause, “if you stare long enough at anyone, you can fall in love with them. They’re just so beautiful.”

But viewers who venture to McGuffey’s Sarah B. Smith Gallery this month to see “Megan Elizabeth Read: Recent Works in Oil,” should know that it won’t take long to fall in love with her hyperrealist work, and the longer they stare, the deeper they’ll fall.

Read, 36, has made art off and on since she was a sensitive kid living on the edge of a North Garden cow farm and self-soothing with a sketchbook. She drew often in her Waldorf School classes and as a teenager took painting lessons from local artist Karen Shea Silverman. But that’s the extent of her formal training.

Art is therapeutic for Read; she says it’s how she copes with her states of mind, with whatever’s floating around in her subconscious. She’ll envision an image, and by the time she’s done drawing or painting it, she begins to understand the symbolism and what she worked out emotionally and mentally in the image. She works mostly from photographs and sometimes (but not always) uses herself as a model.

The series of paintings on view at McGuffey builds on themes from last year’s “Drawings Old and New” show at the downtown Mudhouse. A number of Read’s earlier charcoal drawings—which look like black and white photographs at first glance—leave the figure unfinished, or obscured. One drawing shows a woman seated on the ground, nude except for a necklace, a pair of Nike track shoes and a piece of fabric covering her head and face; one of her arms is unrendered, negative space against a black background, something Read calls an expression of “feeling like an incomplete human.”

Leaving part of the drawing unrendered is also a nod to what Read says is the pleasurable, rather mysterious process of transforming charcoal and paper into what appears to be flesh and fabric. Read achieves this same effect in her paintings. “Becoming” depicts a woman half-wrapped in an aubergine robe, eyes covered with an Adidas terrycloth sweatband, holding an onion in one hand, and “Furling” features the same woman’s head and face draped in gauzy fabric. Some areas are in black and white, while others are fully colored in.

“It feels magical, that these simple materials can start looking like the thing itself,” Read says.

“Becoming“ is one of the astoundingly realistic works on display in “Megan Elizabeth Read: Recent Works in Oil,” at McGuffey through May 27.

She points out that while her work is hyperrealism, she glosses over (or leaves out entirely) plenty of details—body hair, skin texture, pores. She chooses to obscure eyes and faces with fabrics and positioning; the whole person is never completely visible. It’s a “building up” to reality and not reality itself, she says.

What Read chooses to leave out is as significant as what she chooses to include, begging a close look at the subject while also denying the viewer ultimate closeness. Her paintings balance on the precipice of extraordinary intimacy, stopping just shy of the kind of closeness that makes Read—and most of us—uncomfortable. They represent, Read says, both a craving for and fear of vulnerability and being seen.

Read painted a number of objects for the McGuffey show as well—the many-layered, bitter onion that the woman holds in “Becoming” swathed in the fabric from “Furling”; a tiny, delicate indigo bunting bird and a subsequent painting of its severed wings and twine; the aubergine robe; her own baby cup—that possess the same amount of intimacy as her paintings of people. Everyone has an item they’d carry across the country and back, the items they’d be heartbroken

to lose. These are Read’s, and they conjure the viewer’s own.

It’s evidence of how the most ordinary things are often the most dramatic, filled with meaning simply because of their proliferation in our everyday lives. “Layers,” the painting of the brown-skinned onion hanging in white gauzy fabric nailed into a dark gray wall, appears to Read as just that: an onion, in fabric, on a wall. One viewer told her it reminded them of a testicle; another saw a breast.

That tender connection, whether it’s vocalized in the gallery or kept quiet, is exciting to Read. “I feel like I can share that with them, and as someone who doesn’t feel super-connected to people a lot of the time, it’s a nice thing” to feel, she says.

Read says her work is “representative of my trying to figure out how to be in the world, my struggle with figuring out who I am.

There’s a level of empathy that you start feeling for people when you spend that much time looking at them, that I was hoping I would be able to get for myself,” she says.

And while she hasn’t exactly fallen in love with herself yet, she’s getting there. “There’s a level of empathy I feel for myself that I didn’t [feel] before, for sure,” she says.

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Music Feeds Us Concert. A string quartet plays a concert to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. While the concert is free, food and monetary donations are requested. Free, 7pm. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 Rugby Rd. 963-4690.

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FIRE. Genre-defying a cappella chorus sings sacred music, Appalachian hymns, Brahms, Mendelssohn and more. Free, 3:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 101 E. Jefferson St. 296-6193.

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Sunday 5/13 stage Avenue Q. See listing for Friday, May 11. $15-16, 2:30pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

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The Gruffalo Live on Stage. Join Mouse on an adventure through the deep dark woods as he avoids danger by telling stories of the terrifying Gruffalo. $10-42, 4pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Monday 5/14 music Rising Appalachia. Songs and stories steeped in folk music tradition. $20-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Tuesday 5/15 music Bill Sanderson. Acoustic tunes from a local musician. No cover, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Bob Huntington. Hear everything from Gordon Lightfoot to The Beatles. No cover, 6pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Karaoke Night. All future pop stars are encouraged to show off their vocal chops with host Jen Dville. 21-plus. No cover, 8pm.

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Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, May 13. No cover, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Vance Joy. Australian indie-folk with a fun, pop vibe. With Alice Merton. $45, 7pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St. 245-4910.

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Keep the Change. In this unlikely and endearing love story, two adults with autism meet in a support group and embark on a relationship neither could have predicted. Part of the VFF at Violet Crown series. $9, 7:30pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. (512) 495-9600.

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t’s easy to reduce your identity to before and after you have children when your whole life feels like one long haze of sleepless nights and diaper changes. But what happened to the person who came before? Do they cease to be? How do you reconcile who you’ve become with who you were when your whole life was ahead of you?

That’s the central question of Tully, the new Diablo Cody-Jason Reitman team-up starring Charlize Theron as a conflicted mother. We meet Marlo (Theron) and her husband Drew (Ron Livingston) when she is pregnant with their third child. Her oldest daughter is 8 and feeling the plague of self-doubt, and her 6-year-old son suffers from an undiagnosed emotional disorder that no one wants to directly address (euphemisms like “quirky” abound in meetings with his principal).

Within a week of Marlo’s delivery date, two significant things happen: She randomly encounters Violet, her former roommate and possible romantic partner from what we learn later were her wilder days in Brooklyn (the knowing glances speak volumes). Then at a dinner with her wealthy brother, he offers to pay for a night nanny who will care for the newborn overnight so the parents can get some sleep. Marlo rejects the idea

initially, but the exhaustion of it all catches up with her and she employs Tully (Mackenzie Davis).

Tully is a godsend, allowing Marlo to rest and have the energy to be a genuinely engaged parent. More than that, Marlo sees much of herself in Tully, and their relationship quickly turns personal. Why this happens and where it goes from there are best left unsaid, but rest assured there are no cheap love triangles, no unnecessary soap opera dramatics. Everything here is substantial, and even if you predict what many are calling a “twist,” the emotional payoff loses none of its resonance.

Much of the early discussion surrounding Tully has been from mental health specialists noting the similarity between Marlo’s experience and an underdiagnosed condition called postpartum psychosis. The comparison is presented as a negative one, that the film inaccurately represents the symptoms and what sufferers experience. To fully ex-

Charlize Theron continues to astound, and her chemistry with Mackenzie Davis may be the best on-screen partnership of the year.

plore this idea would mean revealing key plot twists of the film, but it is worth considering. Cody’s metaphorical framework does not seem to have been intended as a direct exploration of PPP, but a representation of the conversations that most people would like to have with their former selves. This is not a sanitized depiction of mental illness

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as we often see from people seeking Oscars for their bravery, when all they did was avoid the more difficult questions. Marlo’s journey is real, and the fact that it mirrors that of someone with PPP is unfortunate.

More could have been done to differentiate the two, but there’s too much valuable stuff here to write off.

Theron continues to astound, and her chemistry with Davis may be the best onscreen partnership of the year. The depictions of the highs and lows of parenthood are remarkable and possibly unprecedented in a mainstream film. There’s a bravery to Tully’s subject matter that will captivate you even before you learn where it is all headed, and it is easily one of the year’s best films.

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All The President’s Men. In this Hollywood telling of a true story, two Washington Post reporters uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon’s resignation. A Q&A with journalists Jamelle Bouie and Jordy Yager will follow the screening. $10, 7pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. 293-6992.

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Bird Talk. The Virginia Center for the Book marks the centennial anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act by producing for its members’ project a book featuring images and calls of Virginia birds. Free, 6pm. Jefferson School City Center, 233 Fourth St. NW.

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Traditional Irish Session. Irish musicians come together for a night of Irish music. No cover, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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A joyously bonkers Mexican horror film that’s jam-packed with lo-fi practical effects, a troll throwing fireballs and a Cocktail poster with Tom Cruise on it. $1, 9pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 5th St. Station. 326-5056.

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1650 Harris Creek Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 www.firstcolonywinery.com (434) 979-7105

Sunday May 13 | Wine and Chocolate pairing Join us in the Pavilion from 1-4pm as the folks from Altus Chocolates in Lynchburg pair each of 5 wines with a special chocolate. $15 per person. No reservations, no parties more than 6. Tastings on the ½ hour intervals.

Regular wine tasting flights also available in the Tasting House.

Viognier Release Party | Thurs, May 17th at 6:30pm As we celebrate the release of our 2017 Amazing Grace Viognier, we’d like you to join us for a tasting of both our 2016 and 2017 vintages. Learn from our winemaker why each enjoys their own unique personality. Admission is free.

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17655 Winery Road Barboursville, VA 22923 bbvwine.com (540) 832-3824 Timely Springtime excitement — Vermentino Reserve 2016, with 6 Gold Medals from the Virginia Governor’s Cup, Atlantic Seaboard, and San Diego International competitions and three others, has just entered our Tasting Rooms. Also, Library 1821 is now offering tastings on Mondays, 11:00 to 5:00pm, in addition to established Friday-Sunday hours.

Palladio Restaurant has just published our new Spring Menu at bbvwine.com and is accepting reservations for Lunch, Wednesday through Sunday, and Dinner, Friday and Saturday. (540) 832-7848

Cardinal Point Winery 9423 Batesville Road Afton, VA 22920 cardinalpointwinery.com 540.456.8400 Get your tickets now for the first ever Spring Oyster Roast! May 26 and 27th come enjoy oysters served raw, steamed, fried, and stewed, along with crabcakes hot off the griddle, all from our friends at Rappahannock Oyster Co. Music all day long both days! More details at www.cardinalpointwinery.com/events.php

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Father’s Day Pig Roast & BBQ Bonanza Sun, June 17th at 1:00pm Anderson’s Catering will do a proper pig roast at the winery, and the activities will really start ramping up when Jason Burke and his band start rocking at 1pm.

Food will be available around 2pm. Advance tickets: $25/adult $12.50/child 12 and under. Day-of tickets: $30/adult $15/child 12 and under

Keswick Vineyards 1575 Keswick Winery Drive Keswick, VA 22947 keswickvineyards.com (434) 244-3341 Saturday, May 12th | Music by Jon Spear will be playing in the courtyard from 12 to 3pm and Spice Sea Gourmet serving up her delicious, gourmet seafoodinspired food for lunch.

Wednesday, May 16th | Wine Down Wednesday with music by Tara Mills from 5:30 - 8pm and Spice Sea Gourmet serving up some seafood inspired dinner!

Saturday, May 19th | Music by Billy Brockman will be playing in the courtyard from 12 to 3pm and Eat to the Beat Foodtruck that offers a wide range of rotating, fresh, mto menu items such as burgers, sliders, salads will be serving lunch!

Knights Gambit Vineyard 2218 Lake Albemarle Road Charlottesville, VA 22901 knightsgambitvineyard.com (434) 566-1168

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May 19th | Kenton Shelley and John Whitlow

Sunset Soriée every Friday | 6-9pm $5 per car band cover May 11 | Tara Mills & Jimmy Stelling with 106 Street Food May 18 | Michael Coleman and Blue Mountain Grill May 25 | Kai & Friends (of Lord Nelson) with Côte Rôtie Food Truck May 13 | Mother’s Day French Jazz with Paulien and Côte Rôtie Food Truck, 2-5pm May 20 | Songwriter Open Mic Night, 7-9pm, $5 per car band cover

Early Mountain Vineyards 6109 Wolftown-Hood Road Madison, VA 22727 earlymountain.com (540) 948-9005 May 11th | Sparkling Brunch @ Sprint Pavilion Taste of Monticello Wine Trail Festival visit sprintpavilion. com for tickets (add on to Grand Tasting Ticket) May 12th | Taste of Monticello Wine Trail “Grand Tasting” @ Sprint Pavilion visit sprintpavilion.com for tickets

Join us for Sunset Saturdays on our mountain view deck with live local music from 5-8pm every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month!

Lovingston Winery 885 Freshwater Cove Lane Lovingston, VA 22949 lovingstonwinery.com (434) 263-8467 Thursday, May 10 th | 6:30pm Join winemaker Riaan Rossouw and the Lovingston family at Forked On Main in Orange for a 3-course wine and food pairing dinner as part of the Monticello Wine Trail Festival.

Tickets are $49.95/person. Limited seating, so please call the restaurant at 540-308- 7660 for reservations.

Stone Mountain Vineyard 1376 Wyatt Mountain Road Dyke VA 22935 434.990.WINE (9463) stonemountainvineyards.com Veteran Owned and Operated Hours: Thurs 12-6 pm, Friday - Sunday 11-7pm, Monday 12-6 pm May 12th | 2-5 pm Mercy Trail May 13th | 2-5 pm Mathew McAlister May 19th | 2-5 pm Mathew Mills May 20th | 2-5 pm Michael Coleman

May 13 | Mother’s Day Treat your mom with a special brunch menu. Visit OpenTable to secure your reservation now!

May 26th | 2-5 pm Morgan Dean

New Hours Begin April 2nd Tasting Room is Open 11-6 (closed Tuesday). Visit earlymountain.com for a full overview of live music and events.

Join us on May 21st at the Taste of Monticello Wine Trail event in Charlottesville at Sprint Pavilion.

May 27th | 2-5 pm Paulo Franco May 28th | 2-4 pm South Canal Street

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Food on the fly Firefly restaurant has opened a food truck, Firefly on the Fly. It can be found around town on the regular at Moxie Hair Salon, the Custom Ink office and Silver Lining Day Spa for weekday lunches, and on weekends at Craft Cville events at IX Art Park, as well as Random Row Brewery, Reason Beer, Castle Hill Cider and other local breweries, cideries and wineries. The menu includes burgers—hamburgers, No Bull veggie burgers, wild Alaskan salmon burgers—and a pulled pork sandwich, all for around $10, and a small variety of salads.

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La Guadalupana offers 13 varieties of Venezuelan arepas, which are grilled corn cakes stuffed with fillings such as shredded beef, chicken salad and vegetarian options.

shine and Belmont Farm Distillery out of Culpeper, as well as an appearance by Chuck McCauley, who makes small batches of bourbon whiskey out of his licensed home distillery.

And while Know Good Beer & Bourbon is focused on knowing good booze, it’s about doing a bit of good in the world, too: Part of the festival proceeds go to the Ronald McDonald House charity, which supports programs focused on the health and wellbeing of children.

Devils Backbone gets into the spirits Devils Backbone Brewing Company has opened a distillery, Devils Backbone

Distilling Co., adjacent to the company’s brewpub in Roseland. Mountain Cane Silver Rum is the distillery’s first release, with spirits such as Nelly’s Apple Brandy and Virginia Pine Gin to follow in the near future.

New chef at Wintergreen The Devils Grill Restaurant at Devils Knob in Wintergreen has opened for the season under the direction of a new chef, Edwin M. Schölly. Schölly, who most recently was executive chef at Baltimore Eagle restaurant in Maryland, was a guest chef at the White House for 24 years. He won a James Beard Award in 2011 and was named German Master Chef of the Year in 1996.

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The 15th annual Festival of Cultures features a day of performances, cultural exhibits, crafts and food, with more than 25 nationalities represented. Free admission, 10am-4pm.

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Brewers and brewing teams from local joints like Champion Brewing Company, Three Notch’d Brewing Company, South Street Brewery, Reason Beer, Devils Backbone Brewing Company and others, will be on hand to both serve and describe their beverages for guests. Festival founder Drew Craft is convinced that this personal aspect is what’s kept the festival going for five years, outlasting another, similar local event, Top of the Hops.

And the festival now includes distilleries, too, with appearances by local makers Vitae Spirits, Virginia Distillery Company and Silverback Distillery, plus Chesapeake Bay Distillery, Richmond-based Belle Isle Moon-

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grilled corn cake opened up to make a pocket. Crunchy on the outside, moist on the inside. Filled with deliciousness.

This is how La Guadalupana, the Mexican grocery and deli at 221 Carlton Rd., describes its arepas, the latest addition to its deli menu. (It’s not just you; our mouths are watering, too.)

The grilled corn cakes are a culinary staple in both Colombia and Venezuela, though each country (and, really, each region of each country) prepares its arepas a bit differently. Colombian arepas tend to have a more pronounced sweet corn flavor profile and are typically eaten for breakfast, whereas Venezuelan arepas are more like sandwiches—fluffy corn cakes stuffed with all sorts of fillings.

La Guadalupana’s arepas are of the Venezuelan persuasion, says co-owner Veronica Torres, whose husband, Johan, is Venezuelan.

As more and more Venezuelans seek asylum in the United States in hopes of escaping the violence and the economic and political strife that continues to worsen in the South American country, the Torreses thought it would be a good idea to introduce Charlottesville to this kind of cuisine. To their knowledge, La Guadalupana is the only area restaurant offering arepas right now (and you can get them delivered via UberEats).

There are 13 different arepas on the menu, including the carne mechada (shredded beef), the reina pepiada (chicken salad with avocado), pabellón (shredded beef, queso fresco, beans and sweet plantains) and a couple of different vegetarian options, all for $6.99. But for fans of La Guadalupana’s authentic Mexican cuisine prepared by a chef from Veracruz, Mexico, there’s no need

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By Rob Brezsny

Gemini (May 21-June 20): It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who, in my opinion, would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity. Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom? I hope and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure! Be voracious for joy! Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths!

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do. They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself.

They will be excited and they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul. They will draw inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on planet Earth.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned 20th-century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as the editor of Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love.

I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn—also known as Father Time—is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today.

A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes. In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it! And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off.

As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken aback, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic.

Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said. “Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded. Flaunt their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.” “Okay!” I said.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about.

It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand on behalf of compassionate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has authorized you to be a winsome agent of change.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated that he was inspired to create this

surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip No. 1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you. Tip No. 2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached.

Tip No. 3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them.

Aries (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.

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The Southern Environmental Law Center is seeking another talented writer with professional experience and excellent editing, time- and project-management, and people skills to join our successful development and marketing team. Core responsibilities include crafting proposals and reports that fund our impressive law and policy work.

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In this study, women will apply the investigational gel containing a type of tamoxifen or a placebo gel to both breasts once per day for 52 weeks. We will analyze your breast density at an annual screening mammogram prior to participating in the study and again the following year at your annual screening mammogram. Women will have the option to continue with open-label (not placebo) use of the tamoxifen gel for an additional year, if they choose.

Study participants must be female, healthy, age 35 to 75 years, and have dense breast tissue on mammography. You may not participate if you are pregnant or lactating, have prior history of cancer (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer), have had a surgical breast biopsy in the last three years, a breast needle biopsy in the last year, have had prior reduction or augmentation breast surgery, have active liver disease or thromboembolic disorder, or are taking estrogen containing contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

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Pursuant to Virginia Code Section 8.01-316 A .1. b., it is hereby ORDERED that the defendant appear on or before the 28th day of June, 2018 at 1pm in the in the Clerk’s office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect his interest.

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Kid Zone of includes bounce house, obstacle course, fields and campus, and back to PVCC. the areas academic success, healthy slide.and Sponsored by: Family Event - with music and food! lifestyles, and and character leadership.

Blue Ridge Mountains Runners walkers welcome!

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Rotary Club Blue Ridge Mountains Runners and walkers welcome!

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Sponsorships, Race Details & Registration Four legged friends welcome! - Bring your Pet Sponsorships, Details Registration (on a leash) to Race run the race -&Participate or Spectate!

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