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Hello, Charlottesville! I’m pleased to introduce this week’s paper, which highlights the 35th annual Virginia Film Festival, hosted right here in our city. Several writers, who look at a variety of films, directors, and actors showcased in this year’s fest, contributed to the feature (p. 18). Movies start screening soon after C-VILLE hits stands, so I hope you’ll carry a copy of the paper with you as a companion piece.

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This is my first year attending the VAFF, and I’m excited to see Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Corsage, and She Said during the week. I’ve been to a handful of film festivals before—my old favorite being Richmond’s French Film Festival, which I highly recommend—but the Virginia film fest frankly seems like a more spectacular event than any I’ve attended. Or maybe I’m just star-struck by the celebrity presence!

I’ve always been fascinated by film. It’s a magical medium, one that is still so remarkably young. That some of the classics of the artform are just turning 100 years old is a testament to its youthfulness. To watch a contemporary movie is to encounter an artistic thesis: This is how you tell a story today. And, surely, there is another director or cinematographer or editor out there who disagrees, who will set out to present their own thesis. Film is a constant conversation, and a festival lets us see that dialogue crackle in real time.—Richard DiCicco

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IN BRIEF

Shooter arrested

Marcel Darell Washington, a Charlotte, North Carolina, resident, was arrested in Tennessee on October 28 for shooting Devonn J. Wilson at Lucky Blue’s Bar on the Downtown Mall on October 23. Wilson died of his wounds at the hospital. Two bystand ers were also shot during the incident, and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Washington was charged with the seconddegree murder of Wilson and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, according to an October 31 Charlottesville Police De partment press release.

Hate crime solved

The Albemarle County Police Department arrested Shane Dennis, a county resident, on October 24 for placing a noose around the neck of the Homer statue at the University of Virginia on September 7. Dennis was charged with violating a state code that prohibits dis playing a noose “on the property of another [or] public place with intent to intimidate.”

The University Police Department served Dennis, who has no known prior relationship with the university, a No Trespass Order. Po lice also suspect Dennis is responsible for leaving two masks, a “civil peace flag,” a Chris tian cross, and an envelope containing a let ter—which claimed the statue “glorifies pe dophilia”—near the statue on October 22, according to The Cavalier Daily.

Local publisher killed by girlfriend

Shawna Marie Natalie Murphy was arrested on October 25 for the mur der of her boyfriend, Matthew Sean Farrell, at his home.

Shortly before 8:30am, Albemarle Coun ty police and fire rescue responded to a domestic disturbance report on the 2100 block of Stony Point Road. When officers arrived, they found Farrell dead from a gun shot wound.

Murphy, 38, was charged with seconddegree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. She had dated and lived with Farrell, 53, for several years, re ports The Daily Progress.

The ACPD did not publicize the victim’s identity until October 27. “A need for ad ditional resources was determined … due to explosive materials found at the scene. These materials posed no threat to the pub lic,” read a press release.

Farrell, who grew up near Farmville, moved to Charlottesville in 1990 after col lege and a brief stint in the military. It was here where he became a locally beloved publisher, writer, and connoisseur of the arts—or, as he told C-VILLE in a 2011 in terview, “an arts person, a fop, and a dandy.”

In 1991, Farrell, who earned a master’s degree in philosophy, founded Hypocrite Press, which published works by “local writers who are writing about Charlottes ville,” he told C-VILLE. His published books include street to forest: a scattered guide for the charlottesville unresidenced, described by Farrell as a guidebook con taining tips, commentary, and entertain ment “for local homeless street persons, slackers, and train-hobo kids.” After pub

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lishing street to forest in 2010, Farrell handed out 100 free copies of the book, which involved around 30 local collabora tors, to people experiencing homelessness downtown, and took no profits from it.

Policy delayed

On October 27, the state education depart ment delayed implementation of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed transgender student policy an additional 30 days, citing public comments claiming the measure violates state law, reports The Washington Post. The department will respond to those comments, and may suggest changes to the controversial policy.

Cyndi Richardson, a longtime peer support specialist for On Our Own, received a commendation from state Senator Creigh Deeds that honored her efforts assisting people living with mental illness and substance abuse disorder. During the October 26 ceremony, Deeds also congratulated Richardson on receiving the Dr. Fred Frese People with Mental Illness Lived Experience of the Year award from Crisis Intervention Team International, which helps those with mental illness and substance abuse disorder access treatment, instead of being placed in the criminal justice system.

Richardson said that serving people is her “purpose” in life during Deed’s visit.

“If I can make you feel better about yourself, just about these five minutes that we are talking, then it’ll give you time to focus on you and make better choices,” said Richardson, recognizing her own mental health recovery journey. “It’ll give you a chance to go, ‘Maybe I can’ ... [and] that hopelessness that you have may go away for a minute. Then, the chase begins. I’m going to chase that feeling again.”

Richardson has worked with OOO for over a decade, leading many CIT trainings. She is also a caseworker for People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry.

“I have no intention of retiring,” said Richardson. “I love what I do.”

— cyclist Kenyon Barnes, filing a police report on October 25 against a driver who knocked him off his bike and injured him on East High Street on October 18

Cyndi Richardson with state Senator Creigh Deeds.

In 1992, Farrell also opened an art gallery called Galerie Oktoberfaust inside the Jef ferson Theater, and created a cable televi sion variety show called “Let’s Get Lost,” reports the Progress.

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Shane Dennis was arrested for placing a noose around the neck of the UVA Homer statue.

Matthew Sean Farrell, a local publisher, writer, and connoisseur of the arts, was killed on October 25. His girlfriend was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Face to face

Good and Throneburg square off in forum

By Brielle Entzminger reporter@c-ville.com

Republican Representative Bob Good and his 5th District Demo cratic challenger Josh Throneburg met for their first and only forum on Octo ber 26 at Hampden-Sydney College—after Good refused or ignored multiple debate requests from Throneburg. The two candi dates shared their starkly different positions on a string of hot-button national and in ternational issues, including student loan debt, border security, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and climate change. However, the forum’s questions—provided to moderator Mark Spain of WSET by students at the col lege—did not cover local issues, like broad band expansion and affordable housing.

Throneburg, an ordained minister and small business owner, kicked off the onehour event by delving into his Republican past. He identified as a conservative until his late 20s, when he “found that oftentimes the things in [his] faith [were] being played out in the Democratic Party.”

Good, a self-proclaimed biblical conser vative, railed against the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden during his opening statement—and throughout the entirety of the forum. He claimed the party has not improved anything in the country under Biden and his congressional majority, citing a national increase in crime, gas prices, and inflation. He accused Democrats of “declar ing war on America [and] the Constitution.”

Throneburg argued that Good defied the Constitution when he voted against certify ing the 2020 election results. “I think faith fulness to our Constitution means that when the voters elect someone, that we listen to the voters,” he said.

To bring down college costs, Good advo cated for cutting subsidies—“the federal gov ernment ought to get out of education,” he said. He also denounced Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, “a transfer scheme” that

only benefits “the wealthy elite.” Throneburg admitted he wished Biden had addressed the student loan crisis with a systemic solution, such as by lowering all loan interest rates. He also expressed support for expanding Pell Grants and making community college free.

Good has sponsored 37 pieces of legisla tion so far during his first term, focusing largely on national issues like border secu rity. (None of his bills have made it out of committee.) Last week, the Republican re iterated his support for finishing the border wall, increasing border patrol funding, and implementing E-verify everywhere, among other Trump immigration policies. He ac cused Biden of allowing “an invasion” of undocumented immigrants—5 million have entered the country since the president took office, Good claimed. According to a report by factcheck.org, apprehensions of people trying to enter the country illegally through the Southwest border increased by 336 per cent from July 2021 to 2022, compared with former president Donald Trump’s last year in office—however, apprehensions cannot be used to adequately determine the number

of undocumented immigrants in the coun try, and many people who are apprehended are turned around, or later deported.

“We have a very real immigration problem,” agreed Throneburg, vowing to support im migration reforms, like expanding guest worker visa programs.

Addressing the $31 trillion national debt, Good lambasted Democrats for spending government funds “recklessly” during the pandemic, which he referred to as the “Chi na virus situation.” He vowed to vote against any spending that does not “secure the bor der,” “return us to American energy,” and “limit COVID vaccine mandates.” Throneburg argued that both parties have a “spending problem”—Trump added an equal amount to the national deficit as former president Barack Obama did, but in only four years.

As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, Throneburg, who believes the U.S. has a “re sponsibility” to “stand up for democracy,” said he would vote in favor of additional aid to Ukraine. If China takes military action against Taiwan, he would support “a coor dinated response” with U.S. allies.

Good has voted against most of the $66 billion that Congress has given Ukraine since the war began in February. The U.S. should not spend more money on Ukraine, or give aid to Taiwan if it’s invaded, he said, citing the growing national debt.

Stressing the urgency of the climate crisis, Throneburg pushed for investments in re newable energy and green jobs. “This dis honest demonization of fossil fuels and petroleum energy needs to stop,” said Good.

During the final 20 minutes of the forum, when the candidates could ask each other questions, Throneburg questioned the con gressman’s vote against awarding Congres sional Gold Medals to the police officers who protected lawmakers during the Janu ary 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Good called the medal a Democratic “political stunt,” and said he voted for a different bill, “without a political agenda,” that honored the officers.

When asked about gender-affirming care for transgender children, Throneburg pledged to look to medical professionals— and not politicians—for guidance on the issue. And in regard to vaccine mandates, he expressed his support for “personal free dom,” but criticized Good for encouraging students to defy mask mandates.

Closing out the event, Good touted his voting record’s alignment with his conserva tive platform, and the work he’s done for constituents. “[My office] resolved over 3,000 cases … and recovered over $14 mil lion that was owed to citizens of the 5th District by the federal government,” he said.

Throneburg pointed out that abortion rights were not discussed during a forum at an all-men’s college—“we can do better than that,” he said. If elected, he promised to work on everyone’s behalf.

“If you want someone who’s going to fight about culture wars, I think this is your can didate,” said Throneburg, motioning to Good. “If you want someone who is just going to fight for you, I would love to have your vote on November 8.”

Republican Representative Bob Good and his 5th District Democratic challenger Josh Throneburg avoided discussing local issues at their October 26 Hampden-Sydney College forum.

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Promoting unity

UVA police host community workshop

By Lauren Dalban news@c-ville.com

The University Police Department and National Organization of Black Law Enforcement hosted a procedural justice workshop, titled Policing With Our Community, at UVA on October 26. The event provided insight into not only the ways in which police departments could improve their relationship with the communities they serve, but also foster trust and loyalty within their internal struc ture. UPD officers and staff, two former FBI agents, and many university students and professors attended the free gathering.

Former UNC-Chapel Hill police chief David Perry, a speaker for NOBLE, de scribed the ways in which police officers have come “together all over the country to advance their partnership with com munities.” He explained 21st-century polic ing and how it is driven by procedural justice—“it helps the root system grow,” he said. Through examples taken from various facets of college and police life, he demon strated the importance of transparency and impartiality when it comes to the imple mentation of policies.

NOBLE’s Robert Stewart, who worked for the Washington, D.C., police department for nearly two decades, provided attendees with a better understanding of the day-to-day operations of a police department, stressing that “cliques” within police departments can obscure accountability for officers. He as serted that this problem is not just limited to white-dominated police departments.

“We had Black chiefs who promoted their friends and couldn’t discipline them,” Stew art said.

Stewart also emphasized the importance of educating police officers before they pick up their badge and gun. He suggested that a solution to constant police understaffing could be to have unarmed trainee officers address and write up non-violent crime re ports, such as robberies and road acci dents—75 to 80 percent of all crime reports do not require being armed. This way, train ees could do the “simple stuff” before deal ing with any violent crime offenses, he said.

It takes five years for new police officers to become fully educated in their profes sion, explained Stewart, stressing the im portance of “tactical soundness” on the job, and the problems with the current promo tion system within police departments. The

best officers, he insisted, are often taken out of patrol to be trained in specialized units—positions that have very little inter action with the public.

During the question and answer portion of the workshop, C-VILLE questioned UPD Chief Tim Longo about the department’s lack of transparency in the early days of its investigation into the September 7 Homer statue hate crime, during which Albemarle County resident Shane Dennis placed a noose, a weapon used to lynch Black people for centuries, around the neck of the Cen tral Grounds statue. In the weeks following the discovery of the noose, student groups learned that the perpetrator left documents at the foot of the statue. Though UPD con firmed that the perpetrator had left items, police provided no further details, sparking widespread student protest. The university administration did not reveal until Septem ber 22 that one of the documents contained the words “TICK TOCK.”

Longo pushed back against this criticism, explaining his initial decision to keep the contents of the document private. “We keep information private that only the suspect would know. We need to be sure that they can only know that information if they were involved [in the crime],” he explained.

He argued that there must be a balance between being transparent with the com munity without compromising the integ rity of the investigation.

Closing out the event, officers shared their stories of enjoying their decades of service, and encouraged the Charlottesville community to “come to the table” with local police departments to foster a great er sense of trust and accountability.

“We had Black chiefs who promoted their friends and couldn’t discipline them.”

ROBERT STEWART, NOBLE

University of Virginia Police Chief Tim Longo was among those who answered questions at the recent procedural justice workshop held at UVA.

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Virginia Film Festival

Now in its 35th year, the Virginia Film Festival continues to bring stellar guests, panel discussions, and the opportunity for film-lovers from Charlottesville and beyond to attend exclusive movie screenings.

Virginia native Jamie Sisley will receive the Governor Gerald L. Baliles Founder’s Award at the November 4 screening of Stay Awake, his movie about a family’s struggles with a mother’s addiction.

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ith a prime-time Vir ginia film fest screen ing at the Paramount Theater, the movie Stay Awake has made long time Charlottesville resident Jamie Sisley an indie-festival dar ling again.

Sisley first pro duced Stay Awake, which chronicles a family’s struggles with a mother’s addiction, in 2015 as an awardwinning short. After securing Best Narra tive Short honors at the Slamdance Film Festival, the picture went on to be nominated for another award at the acclaimed Berlin International Film Festival.

Now, Sisley is back with a full-length version of the movie, a semi-auto biographical story drawing on the UVA grad’s childhood in Chantilly and Leesburg near the well-known drug trafficking corridor along Interstate 81.

But, as Sisley considers the geographic touchpoints that have made him who he is today, he focuses not on his more rural place of birth and early life, but rather on Charlottesville.

“I did most of my growing up in Charlottesville,” he says. “I have an almost obnoxious affinity for my home state … and the Virginia Film Festival was such an education for me. It brought films and people to contextualize those films in a way that really opened my mind.”

While earning his business degree from the McIntire School of Commerce, Sisley heard a Red Light Management rep was speaking at James Madison University. He skipped class, drove to Harrisonburg, and sat in a JMU class room as Randy Reed talked about what it meant to be an artist manager. He asked Reed if he could join the agency as an intern. He got the gig.

Sisley says his time at Red Light started it all—his desire to work in the arts, his understanding of the way business and creativity could mingle, how artists could find their voice, and what it meant to be the kind of leader he’d have to be to someday sit in the director’s chair.

“Red Light was probably the greatest and luckiest opportunity I’ve ever gotten,” Sisley says. “It was a master class in business, but it was more than that.

Coran [Capshaw] really brought the best out of me, and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how he did that and trying to replicate it on set.”

While working at Red Light, Sisley began watch ing movies in bunches—titles by Fellini and Berg man and Carlos Reygadas. He bought a book about directing by Nick Proferes. He teamed up with an other local filmmaker, Miguel Martinez, and applied for a PBS grant to make a documentary. Against all odds, Sisley and Martinez won the funding.

Next for Sisley was film school at Columbia University. While in New York, he also worked on his funded documentary, Farewell Ferris Wheel, which followed Mexican migrants in the U.S. carnival industry. Absorbing theory in the classroom while shooting and budgeting for the doc was like “going to film school twice,” he says.

Sisley released the 14-minute version of Stay Awake as his capstone grad school project in 2015, and Farewell Ferris Wheel in 2016 after seven years of production.

It was on Stay Awake’s first festival circuit run that Sisley decided to write and direct a full-length. So many people approached him to talk about their own issues with addiction—and their family members’ issues.

“I didn’t want to make another film about addiction,” Sisley says. “It takes a lot out of you from the writing side.” But make it, he did.

Stay Awake is different from most addict pics because it focuses on the caregiver, Sisley says. The angle has resonated—both with star talent and critics. Chrissy Metz of “This Is Us” fame took on the role of the mother battling addiction, and the film made it back to the Berlin festival for its world premiere, this time being nominated for four awards. It won two of them. Variety called Stay Awake “especially resonant,” and IndieWire said it was a “sensitive drama [that] illustrates a key truth about addiction: It doesn’t only affect one person, but sucks everyone around into its vortex.” With some reservations, the reviewer went on: “It’s an earnest look at the collateral damage surrounding addiction.”

In addition to Metz, Wyatt Oleff headlines the Stay Awake cast as Ethan, one of two brothers trying desperately to handle their mother’s drug use.

“Stay Awake was an unforgettable experience with an excellent cast and crew who bonded together like a real family,” Oleff says about working with Sisley. “Such a great team to tell such an important and impactful story, and there’s not one thing about it that I would’ve changed.”

Oleff had a major role in the two-part 2017 adaptation of the Stephen King novel It and a minor role in Guardians of the Galaxy. Fin Argus, a multi-talent artist whose biggest role was on Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” rounds out the cast as Derek, the film’s second dogged brother.

At the screening, Sisley will receive another honor, the festival’s own Governor Gerald L. Baliles Founder’s Award, which recognizes “excel lence in Virginia filmmaking and honors an exceptional filmmaker who has roots in Virginia or prominently spotlights Commonwealth locales, history, and culture.” Discussion of Stay Awake will follow, featuring Metz and Oleff in addition to Sisley. USA Today’s Brian Truitt will moderate.

The post-screening discussion is certain to hit on addiction, still a sig nificant and growing problem in the commonwealth. Opioid overdoses in Virginia increased by one-third from 2019 to 2022, as measured by emergency department visits.

Sisley hopes his film humanizes the folks who struggle. “In the vast majority of the films I saw growing up … addicts were demonized,” he says. The filmmaker says he still has so much love for his mother, who is doing well handling her own addiction. But the battle continues. “She would be the first to say that it is a daily struggle,” Sisley says. “I don’t think you’re ever cured of addiction.”—Shea Gibbs

Filmmaker Jamie Sisley hits the mark with unique look at drug addiction

Stay Awake, starring Fin Argus and Wyatt Oleff, screens at the Paramount Theater on November 4.

he first use of a black panther in the Black power movement didn’t start in Oakland, California. The symbol came from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, where 80 percent of the population was Black and none were registered to vote, a place nicknamed “Bloody Lowndes.”

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, the latest film from noted documentary filmmaker Sam

Pollard and co-director Geeta Gandbhir, tells the story of the community’s grassroots organization that, with the help of the Student Nonviolent Co ordinating Committee, worked to get Black citizens not only the right to vote, but to hold power in a community that had long shut them out.

“It’s an unknown story that deserves to be told,” says Pollard in a phone interview from his home in Baltimore. “Most people think the high point of the civil rights movement was the march from Selma to Montgomery. They forget what SNCC was doing after that period.”

The march went through Lowndes County in Alabama’s Black Belt, where SNCC members, including Stokely Carmichael, connected with people there and realized they needed support.

“It was called ‘Bloody Lowndes,’” says Pollard, “because Black people who tried to vote were either turned away at the polls or murdered.”

Black citizens formed the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and ran their own can didates. Each political party in Alabama had to have a logo for voters who couldn’t read, and the Lowndes party used the black panther as its sym bol on the ballot.

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The film uses a trove of footage unearthed by archivist Lizzy McGlynn, with whom Pollard had worked on his 2020 film MLK/FBI. “She found materials that even surprised me, knowing it was a story that hadn’t been told,” says Pollard.

Members of SNCC lived there for over a yearand-a-half at a time when it was dangerous to be Black and to be walking on the road at night. The commitment of the community and SNCC impressed Pollard.

Many of those original activists are interviewed in the film. “To have the people who were there on the ground day-to-day, fighting the good fight, is what makes the documentary, in my opinion, stand out, what makes it special,” he says.

Pollard has produced, directed, and edited doz ens of films, some with Spike Lee, who was his colleague at New York University and who calls him a “master filmmaker.” He edited Lee’s Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues, and 4 Little Girls, which received an Academy Award nomination in 1998.

The International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award in 2020, and the Virginia Film Festival will bestow its Chronicler Award upon Pollard at the November 6 screening.

Pollard laughs when asked about his favor ite films, but lists 4 Little Girls, MLK/FBI, and Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, as movies that “speak to me about the importance of the African American experience.”

Stokely Carmichael called for Black power after James Meredith was shot in Mississippi in 1966.

“Any time I hear those things from films I’ve done, it’s always invigorating and exciting and makes one thoughtful about the process of what it means to be an American, and how complicated America is,” says Pollard. “It has a lot of baggage.”—Lisa Provence

‘BLOODY LOWNDES’

Little-known story of the path to Black power

Sam Pollard will participate in a discussion of his film, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, at the November 6 Vinegar Hill Theatre screening.

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A FORCE IN HER FIELD

oyce Chopra, known for her documen tary, television, and filmmaking career, recounts her experi ences in a new noholds-barred mem oir, Lady Director: Adventures in Holly wood, Television and Beyond. But it wasn’t until she read her book’s promo blurbs that Chopra says she understood she had completed “a history of how hard it was for women to ever get a chance to make fiction films.”

Lady Director makes it clear that Chopra, a Charlottesville resident, always had the people skills and the business sense needed for a success ful artistic life. As a bored 21-year-old graduate

of Brandeis University, she opened Club 47 in Boston for jazz aficionados, but soon an unknown Bob Dylan was playing there, and Joan Baez was singing on Wednesdays for $10 a ticket.

In her book, Chopra talks about casting her 1985 feature debut, Smooth Talk, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She cast Treat Williams as the malicious hunk Arnold Friend, but struggled to find someone to play the young female lead. A friend suggested a neighbor’s daughter, the gifted teen actor Laura Dern, result ing in a performance that propelled Dern’s career.

Chopra and her husband, playwright and screenwriter Tom Cole, asked a different neigh bor, James Taylor, if he’d give them the rights to his song “Handyman” for two scenes in which Dern and screen mom Mary Kay Place dance. Taylor asked if he could write music for the film.

Other vivid anecdotes in Lady Director include being bullied in an editing room (but not assault ed) by lecherous producer Harvey Weinstein, as well as details of other toxic Hollywood behe

moths’ behavior, including Oscar winners. When producers in Paris grabbed her up and down, “It was considered annoying but normal,” she says.

Hollywood’s aggressors do destroy people, such as Marilyn Monroe in Chopra’s TV miniseries “Blonde” (not the Blonde currently on Netflix), but the director was more interested in portraying the lives of typical young women, like in her short, bittersweet documentary Girls at 12

Chopra’s own path was easier with Cole, who as sisted greatly once their daughter was born. When it was suggested that Chopra make a documentary about her pregnancy and childbirth, her reaction was that it was “the most narcissistic thing imagin able.” But she did, and the film, Joyce at 34, captures tough decisions, exhaustion, and the beauty and bedevilment of another lifeform altering a body.

Fast forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, when that adult daughter, a UVA dean, made a new creative suggestion: Write a book about your life. (Her daughter is the reason Chopra moved to Charlottesville, a few years after Cole died in 2009.) The director pulled out a familiar argument when she said, “Writing a memoir is narcissistic!” But restless without film work, she wrote one sentence, and finally some more. Memoirist Honor Moore showed the work to an agent who contacted San Francisco’s City Lights Books, a well-known publisher of the Beat writers.

Now that Chopra’s book is out, the accomplished yet modest director asks how she might get follow ers on Instagram. Make a note to follow her when her Insta and other feeds go live.—Mary Jane Gore

Director Joyce Chopra tells all in her memoir

Joyce Chopra will be interviewed by Paul Wagner following a screening of Smooth Talk at the Virginia Film Festival on November 4 at Violet Crown Cinema. The filmmaker and author will read from Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond at New Dominion Bookshop on November 11.

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Virginia Film Festival

FIVE DOCUMENTARIES THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU

Descendant

THE UNITED STATES OUTLAWED INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE IN 1808, BUT MORE THAN A HALF century later a ship called the Cotilda smuggled a group of enslaved Africans into Mobile, Alabama. The expedition was illegally chartered by a plantation owner named Timothy Meaher, who ordered the Cotilda be burned and sunk to hide all evidence of his crime.

Now, most of the descendants of the Cotilda have settled in Africatown, a small community just north of Mobile. Margaret Brown’s documentary, Descendant, follows residents of Africatown as they come together to search for the Clotilda, reclaim their ancestors’ narrative, and demand accountability. A discussion with subject Kern Jackson and moderator Robert Daniels follows the screening. November 5, Violet Crown Cinema

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

DESPITE THE ONGOING MOVEMENT TO REMOVE THE USE OF HARMFUL AND EXPLOITATIVE stereotypes of Native Americans from the sporting world, appropriation of Native American culture still runs rampant. While teams like the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians made tardy name changes, others, like the Chicago Blackhawks and the Atlanta Braves, cling to their reductive imagery.

In Imagining the Indian, directors Ben West and Aviva Kempner chronicle the movement to end the use of Native American logos, mascots, slurs, and names. A discussion with Kempner, documentary subject Rhonda LeValdo, and moderator Adriana Greci Green accompanies the screening. November 6, Violet Crown Cinema

Dani’s Twins

IN THE MIDST OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, DANI IZZIE BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST QUADRIPLEGICS to give birth to twins. Dani’s Twins follows the Madison County resident as she navigates her unique pregnancy, grapples with biases faced by women with disabilities, gives birth to her children at UVA Medical Center, and begins the journey of parenthood.

A discussion with producer Angie Gentile, subjects Dani and Rudy Izzie, and Dr. Robert Fuller is moderated by Eric Swensen, and accompanies the screening. The documentary will be presented with open captions, and on-stage presentations will include ASL interpretation. November 3, Culbreth Theatre

Hazing

Eternal Spring

FILMMAKER BYRON HURT EXPLORES THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF HAZING WITH SENSITIVITY AND care in his new documentary. “As a filmmaker who is a fraternity member (I am a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated) and someone who has been hazed and has hazed young men, I feel uniquely qualified to make this film,” says Hurt.

Hurt examines the sometimes-deadly practice from all sides, conducting heartfelt interviews with survivors and families who’ve lost loved ones, while also delving into issues of systemic racism, toxic masculinity, and groupthink culture. Hurt will discuss the film with subject James Vivenzio and moderator Angie Miles. November 4, Vinegar Hill Theatre

WHIMSICAL, EXHILARATING, AND OMINOUS, ETERNAL SPRING IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE DOC. TOLD through alternating present-day footage, first-person recounts, and 3D animation, the official Oscar-selected flick follows comic book illustrator Daxiong, a member of outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. In an attempt to counter the government’s narrative about its spiritual practice, Falun Gong hijacks a state TV station, forcing Daxiong to flee the country. Now, 20 years later, Daxiong sets out to retrace the events of the hijacking through his artwork, but finds his views challenged by another surviving hijacker. November 5, Violet Crown Cinema —Maeve Hayden

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‘DAMAGED BUT SPECIAL’

First-time filmmakers journey down the James River

ustin Black grew up on the James River and didn’t realize some peo ple thought it was “dis gusting,” including two friends he met at the University of Virginia.

Years later, the three paddled 250 miles down the James—and made a documentary. Black, Will Gemma, and Dietrich Teschner had never made a film before. What they had done was paddle parts of the James with two other friends. The five decided to embark in three camera-laden canoes from the headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Cowpasture and Jackson rivers converge.

In the course of the 13-day journey to Rich mond, they were threatened with a gun, lost a boat, and endured soaking rain. And they saw the best—and the worst—of the James River.

The result is Headwaters Down with three codirectors. Black, a musician, did the soundtrack, Gemma, who studied poetry at UVA, narrates, and Teschner, an actor, is the film’s editor.

“We had no budget,” says Black. “We had our own cameras. We had boats. Everybody paid their own way.”

Local documentarian Paul Wagner will moder ate the November 6 Headwaters screening panel. “What struck me and I found so pleasurable is when you get to the credits and you realize the guys who are in it filmed it, edited it, did the sound,” he says. “I just love this idea of adventuring down the river and into documentary filmmaking.”

“We didn’t know it was going to be a feature film,” says Black. “We did a ton of research, but we didn’t know things were going to happen.”

In hindsight, the encounter with the possibly drug-crazed gun-toting guy who didn’t want to share camping space on an island was a gift, says Black. “We had a climax in Act 1.”

The James River was once considered one of the most polluted waterways in America. Its health has improved, but it still faces peril, from Dominion Energy power plants, excessive damming that makes 25 miles of the river unnavigable, and both industrial and agricultural runoff. As recently as July 2022, the Virginia Department of Health issued a recreational water advisory to refrain from swimming, wading, tubing, and whitewater kayaking after a ruptured pipe allowed 300,000 gallons of raw, undiluted sew age to reach parts of the James.

The crew started in the crystal-clear water of the Cowpasture River—until it converged with the Jackson River and turned black. A paper mill on the Jackson is allowed to discharge certain dyes, says Black. “But it’s really jarring to see the change and 12 miles of blackish-brown water.”

Tires have been tossed into the James apparently for as long as the rubber has hit the road. The James River Association has removed thousands, says Black, but they still litter a section of the upper river.

Yet there’s also the great blue heron, the catchof-a-lifetime musky, the historic Kanawha Canal and the beauty of floating down a river. “What comes through thematically is their joy in navi gating the river and how important it is to pre serve it,” says Wagner.

The screening at Culbreth Theatre is a “full circle moment” for the three friends to return to UVA 11 years after their graduation, he says. “We’re guest lecturing on the power of storytell ing and the environment.”

And they’re planning a sequel and traveled from Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay in June to com plete the entire 348 miles of the James.

“A big part of this is to encourage people to take their own adventures in their own backyards,” says Black. —Lisa Provence

EVOKING THE VISION

Oscar-winning production designer gets Virginia Film Fest award

YOU DON’T FORGET EUGENIO CABALLERO’S production designs. There’s the other worldly Pan’s Labyrinth, for which he won an Academy Award. There’s the black-andwhite Mexico City in Roma, for which he was nominated for another Oscar. And his most recent efforts in director Alejandro Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths will be screened at this year’s Virginia Film Festival.

Caballero will also be presented with the film fest’s first Craft Award, which recog nizes a distinguished and outstanding practitioner of behind-the-scenes craft.

A production designer is “the artist hired to create everything you see in the environment that the actors inhabit on screen,” explains film critic Carlos Aguilar, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wrap, and who is the festival’s first critic-in-residence.

“I think [Caballero] is an incredible artist with a talent for creating worlds that either existed in the past or that are sort of fantastical,” says Aguilar.

Caballero has worked with Mexico’s three most renowned directors: Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Iñárritu.

Aguilar’s review of Bardo for The Wrap describes Caballero as “a magician dexterous at turning places long frozen in the directors’ unreliable memory tangible once more for the screen.”

Says Aguilar, “In Roma, he basically brought to life the Mexico City of the ’70s and Alfonso Cuarón’s childhood home.” In Pan’s Labyrinth, “he built the magical world Guillermo had envisioned that is really striking.”

Pan’s Labyrinth had “very strict rules with colors and shapes,” says Caballero in a podcast called Decorating Pages. The filmmaker chose a cold palette for the reality of Franco’s Spain, and a warm palette for the fantasy “that’s supposed to be scary, but at the end it’s a refuge or shelter for this girl,” he says. The furniture was built to be a little bigger. “We really wanted to change the scale.”

Aguilar notes Caballero’s “incredible attention to detail in painstakingly bringing to life these worlds. In Roma, making it seem organic and natural, not artificial, is part of the magic he does.”—Lisa Provence

Eugenio Caballero will discuss his work with Carlos Aguilar following a screening of Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths at Culbreth Theatre on November 5.

Justin Black will participate in a discussion of his film, Headwaters Down, which screens on November 6 at Culbreth Theatre.

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BUILDING BRIDGES

Dustin Lance Black retraces his past in Mama’s Boy

“This is my mom’s story more than mine,” he says, “and I feel like the lessons that I learned from her are vital now—are even more necessary now than when she shared these lessons with me when she was still around.”

from Black’s memoir Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas, Bouzereau follows him as they retrace his experiences growing up gay among strict Mormons in Texas. There, homosexuality was considered venal, and he was terrified to reveal his true self. Meanwhile, Black’s resilient mother bravely lived with polio. Mama’s Boy explores how his coming out to her revealed her extraordinary gift for compassion.

An Instagram DM from Bouzereau concern ing Black’s book led to their collaboration. Black was already aware of Bouzereau from his filmrelated documentaries, and was “very interested” in working with him. As they became acquainted, Black discovered that “to know Laurent is to love Laurent. … It’s easy to trust him. And I do feel that that trust was well placed.”

Despite her background, Black’s mother not only accepted her son’s sexual orientation, but his friends’, as well. He was moved, he says, “to see how a conservative military Mormon woman showed the courage back in the ’90s to share space with a bunch of my queer friends … who she had been taught her whole life were immoral and illegal and hellbound. … And [show] the curiosity to listen. And we found common ground.”

Eventually, he recalls, she “challenged me to do the same in the other direction. And it’s not easy. … But what you find is you can build a bridge because you still do, for the most part, have more in common than what the 24-hour news channels and the newspapers would claim.”

riter/director/producer Dustin Lance Black’s films and television work—including his Academy Award-winning Milk script—are fre quently outspoken about LGBTQ+ issues. The Mormon Church also resurfaces throughout his work, as in the hit FX series “Under the Banner of Heaven.” The two topics merge in director Laurent Bouzereau’s new documentary Mama’s Boy, which focuses on Black and his late mother, Anne. And they’re more deeply personal than ever.

Black, 48, half-jokingly calls the film “This Is Your Life and Mostly the Painful Bits.” Working

Black wrote his memoir “from the safety of my home now as a grown man,” he points out. But fac ing his tough childhood memories on camera— particularly where they occurred—was another matter. “I would imagine many a therapist would say it’s incredibly bad therapy,” he says.

Black stresses that he deliberately didn’t write, produce, or direct Mama’s Boy: “I hate it when I watch documentaries and then at the end it says ‘directed by’ or ‘produced by’ the person who was just featured because then you don’t necessarily trust it.”

Black hopes the film will encourage greater civility and humaneness, especially in the current climate of intense political polarization. “Perhaps we can just learn to live and let live a little bit more,” he says. “That’s the way we’ve kept the country together for nearly a quarter of a millen nium. Are we going to make it any further? Not if we keep on like this.”

Looking back, Black says, “Everything I do in my activism is for that next generation so they don’t have to grow up having their adolescence spoiled by homophobia. … Frankly, we’ve already lived our youth. We’ve already survived those years, thank God.

“It’s really not for us, is it? It’s all for that next generation. That’s why we do it.”

—Justin Humphreys

Dustin Lance Black appears at From Page to Screen: Screen writer’s Panel on November 5 at the Code Building’s Irving Theater, and for a Q&A at the screening of Mama’s Boy at the Culbreth Theatre on November 6.

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SATURDAY 11/5

CIRQUE NOIR

Haunting, hopeful, and striking, No Home but Ropes and Stakes is an original one-act play written and directed by Charlottesville High School senior Stella Gunn. Set in the 1930s, the atmospheric play follows an intriguing group of performers as they navigate the dark underbelly of a magnificent yet derelict circus. Eddie the Clown narrates as characters like the Dancer and the Strong Man search for acceptance and autonomy while grappling with social prejudices and structures of oppression. $6, 7:30pm. Charlottesville High School’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center, 1400 Melbourne Rd. theatrechs.weebly.com

11/5

SUGAR RUSH

Sunflower Bean’s third album, Headful of Sugar, is a psychedelic head rush made to be played loud with the windows down. Laden with catchy basslines, punk energy, and vocals that alternate between gritty and divine, the record marks a new freedom for the indie rock trio. “We weren’t precious about anything, there was a gleeful anarchy,” says guitarist Nick Kivlen about the album’s production. That chaotic energy paid off on songs like “Who Put You Up to This?” and “Roll the Dice,” a loud, careening indictment of capitalism and the so-called American dream. $15-18, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 First St. S. thesoutherncville.com

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SATURDAY 11/5

DOUBLE DOWN AND GET UP

Local musicians Michael Clem and Andy Thacker team up for an afternoon of bluegrass and folk jams. Clem, known for his songwriting and multi-instrument talent, is also a member of Eddie From Ohio, has his own trio, and hits the stage with a number of other bands. Clem’s recent solo release, Rivannarama, features five new songs written and recorded during pandemic downtime. Virtuoso mandolinist Thacker can be found teaching at The Front Porch, performing in a variety of side projects, and traveling with Love Canon, his band that plays ’80s and ’90s pop tunes adapted to bluegrass instrumentation. Free, 1pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

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CULTURE THIS WEEK

Wednesday 11/2 music

Beleza Duo. Funkalicious samba soul. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers . With Sun ny War. $15-18, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesouthern cville.com

The Wavelength. A midweek music boost. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskey jarcville.com

etc.

Crafty Date Night. Enjoy a complimentary beverage with every craft purchase. Free, 6pm. Pikasso Swig Craft Bar, 333 Second St. SE. pikassoswig.com

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. Explore the only museum in the U.S. de voted to Indigenous Australian art. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aborig inal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Gojira Celebrate Godzilla’s 68th birthday Presented in Japanese with English subti tles. $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Virginia Film Festival. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival. Prices, times, locations vary. virginiafilmfestival.org

Thursday 11/3 music

Berto and Vincent. A night of wild gypsy rumba and Latin guitar. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

stage

VHSL One-Act Competition. Local high schools compete with original one-act plays and performances. Free, 4pm. Monticello High School, 1400 Independence Way. monticellodrama@gmail.com

words

Fowzia Karimi. Fowzia Karimi, UVA Rea Visiting Writer in fiction, reads from her work. Free, 5pm. Minor Hall 125, UVA Grounds. creativewriting.virginia.edu

MFA Reading Series. Fiction and poetry students from the University of Virginia’s MFA program in creative writing read from their work. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Book shop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

etc.

Arts From Underground. Artmaking, drinks, and karaoke inside The Looking Glass. Free, 7pm. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. See listing for Wednesday, November 2. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Wor rell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

The “Cav Futures Show” Live. Lo Davis and Luke Neer host this live radio show that features interviews with UVA studentathletes, a social media livestream, and in-person photo and autograph opportu nities. Free, 7pm. Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. cavalierfutures.com

Virginia Film Festival. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival. Prices, times, locations vary. virginiafilmfestival.org

Friday 11/4 music

Cavalier Marching Band: Hits from Broad way. An open dress rehearsal for the half time show “Hits from Broadway.” Free, 6:30pm. Carr’s Hill Field, UVA Grounds. music.virginia.edu

Day of the Dead All Stars. With Andy Tichenor’s Almost Acoustic. $10-12, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

UVA Jazz Ensemble: PLAY IT FORWARD! Featuring the music of JoVia Armstrong and guest violinist, Leslie Deshazor. Free-$10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds. music. virginia.edu

FarAway. Live music, wine, and food from the Eastwood food truck. Free, 5pm. East wood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

Penny & Sparrow. With Special Guest An nika Bennett. $25-30, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

Rachel Baiman. The Americana songwrit er and multi-instrumentalist has emerged as a fearless voice of the American female experience. $18-20, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.org

Tara Mills Band. An original blend of folk, bluegrass, and Americana. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

words

Shadwell Speaker Series. Featuring sci ence evangelist Ainissa Ramirez. Free, 6pm. Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 112 Clarke Ct. jeffersonscholars.org

Friday Night Writes: A Reading Series for Emerging Writers. An evening of emerging writers performing their short stories, po etry, and music. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

classes

Kizomba Fridays. A bi-monthly social in Kizomba and related dance. Free, 8pm. Ashtanga Yoga of Charlottesville, 906 Monti cello Rd. core4kizomba@gmail.com

Paint & Sip. Learn how to paint “Sunset Over C’ville” and sip some cider. $35, 5pm. Castle Hill Cider, 6065 Turkey Sag Rd., Keswick. catelynkelseydesigns.com

outside

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze & Fall Fes tival. Get lost in this five-acre corn maze. Free-$12, all day. Blue Ridge Mountain Maze, 165 Old Ridge Rd., Lovingston. blueridgemountainmaze.com

Playdates at the Playscape. BYO buddies and snacks and enjoy nature play. $20, 9:30am. Wildrock, 6600 Blackwells Hollow Rd., Crozet. wildrock.org

etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. See listing for Wednesday, November 2. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Wor rell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Virginia Film Festival. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival. Prices, times, locations vary. virginiafilmfestival.org

Saturday 11/5 music

Keller Williams. Celebrating the 20th anni versary of Laugh, with Dave Watts and Tye North. $28-30, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jefferson theater.com

Berto and Vincent. Turn up the heat. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Michael Clem and Andy Thacker. Michael Clem pairs up with Love Canon mandolinist Andy Thacker. Free, 1pm. Glass House Win ery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glass housewinery.com

Sunflower Bean. With Good Dog Nigel. $1518, 8:30pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

The Wavelength. Late-night tunes and whiskey. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com

stage

No Home but Ropes and Stakes An origi nal one-act play from CHS senior Stella Gunn. $6, 7:30pm. Charlottesville High School, 1400 Melbourne Rd.

words

Artists in Conversation.Exhibiting artist Megan Marlatt and fellow artist and friend, Akemi Ohira in conversation. Free, 11am. Second Street Gallery, 115 Second St. SE. secondstreetgallery.org

Brian Teare: The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. In conversation with Irène Mathieu and Ben Martin. Free, 4pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Down town Mall. ndbookshop.com

Storytime. Featuring recent storybooks and classics kids know and love. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Down town Mall. ndbookshop.com

outside

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze & Fall Fes tival. See listing for Friday, November 4. Free-$12, all day. Blue Ridge Mountain Maze, 165 Old Ridge Rd., Lovingston. blueridgemountainmaze.com

Farmers Market at Ix. Over 60 local vendors with produce, prepared foods, artisan goods, and more. Free, 8am. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

Fifeville Trail Opening. Join local communi ty leaders to celebrate the opening of the Fifeville Trail, which creates new connections between Tonsler Park and surrounding neigh borhoods. Free, 10am. Tonsler Park, 500 Cherry Ave. pecva.org

Greenbrier Neighborhood Arts and Crafts Sale and Stroll. View and buy a large variety of beautiful art, woodcrafts, toys, papercrafts, crystal jewelry, and many other handmade objects. Free, 10am. Greenbrier Neighbor hood, 1412 Kenwood Ln.

Playdates at the Playscape. See listing for Friday, November 4. $20, 9:30am. Wil drock, 6600 Blackwells Hollow Rd., Crozet. wildrock.org etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. See listing for Wednesday, November 2. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Wor rell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Day of the Dead Celebration. Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a Danza Tecuanes mask making demonstration, children’s activities, luminary crafting, food, and more. Free, 4:30pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. mcguffeyartcenter.com

Dog Video Fest 2022. A 75-minute reel of the best, funniest, most touching, and sur prising canine vids, with proceeds benefiting the Charlottesville-Albemarle ASPCA. $10.75, 1pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Virginia Film Festival. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival. Prices, times, locations vary. virginiafilmfestival.org

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Bell is back

Local music scene fixture Mariana Bell is creating again after painful loss

By Shea Gibbs arts@c-ville.com

Mariana Bell had a divergent pandemic ex perience from most musicians. Ask any songwriter, or any creative person for that matter, and most will say they experienced heightened inspiration during the C-word era. Not Bell.

And she’s okay with that. That’s her journey.

A longtime singer-songwriter who’s now a mother of two small children, Bell found she didn’t have the time or energy to retreat into an introspective world of music production in 2020. And she didn’t have the experience or inclination to clamber aboard the web-streaming craze that fueled so many others.

“I went to school for performance,” Bell says. “The inter action between an audience and a performer is a palpable, visceral thing.” She did a few shows at The Front Porch that got the livestream treatment, but it didn’t “feed her.”

Bell longed for the joy of in-studio and onstage collab oration. By late last year, she was ready to emerge from her self-imposed choral-cocoon, and as a result 2022 has been a “creative boom time.” Her eighth studio album, Still Not Sleeping, will drop on November 4, and Bell and her band will play a live Front Porch show on November 6 to celebrate the record, a more mature effort than any thing she’s attempted before.

“It is probably less edgy and a little more satisfying to listen to—if that is the word. I’m a little less angst-rid den,” she says. “I was less working from a place of, ‘What do I have to say,’ and more, ‘What do I want to hear— what do I need to hear?’”

Bell wasn’t without reason for angst. In the lead up to recording Still Not Sleeping, her close friend and fellow musician Derek Carter moved to Charlottesville, having spent years on the Los Angeles and Nashville music scenes. The two planned to work with a nearly matching group of studio players, some imported from L.A., and record albums in parallel.

It was a heady time for Bell, rekindling her love for music making and reuniting with folks she had spent years with on the West Coast—not to mention her close confidant Carter.

Then, tragedy. In March of this year, just before the two songwriters would both begin recording records, Carter died.

Bell was crushed. She considered her options. Give up on the project—to which Carter had been such a critical party—or move forward. She talked to the band, some of whom were days from boarding planes to Charlottesville. In the end, so much had been set in motion that everyone agreed it made sense to lay down Still Not Sleeping

The record, however, would be dramatically affected. “We all loved [Derek] dearly, and we didn’t know what else to do,” Bell says. “We wanted to honor him in some way.”

The resulting album, dedicated to Carter’s memory, isn’t a funeral dirge; it’s oftentimes lighthearted and fun. Mostly, the vocals and instrumentation are soaring, hopeful. Sure, Still Not Sleeping dips into melancholy here and there, but according to Bell, mourning loss wasn’t the goal.

“I don’t think trauma goes away—sadness and disap pointment and the whole life journey—but I think that processing them as an artist grows differently,” she says. “I no longer feel I need the listener to suffer with me. Hopefully, there is a way to process grief that can allow for beauty and depth without making the problem or the trauma someone else’s.”

Being back in the studio and collaborating with other musicians was a cathartic recovery process for Bell. Working with new co-producer Eddie Jackson, she made her latest record in a more collaborative way than anything she’d done before—with almost no instruments tracked individually and everything produced in concert.

Joining Bell in the studio were drummer Jordan West (Grace Potter), bassist Kurtis Keber (Grace Potter), guitarist Rusty Speidel (Mary Chapin Carpenter), guitarist Zach Ross, violinist Molly Rogers (Hans Zimmer), trumpeter JJ Kirkpatrick (Phoebe Bridgers), and keyboardist Ty Bailie (Katy Perry). Emi ly Herndon and Speidel co-wrote some of the songs. At The Front Porch, fans can ex pect to see Aly Snider and John Kokola of We Are Star Chil dren and James McLaughlin, along with Herndon and Spe idel. Genna Matthews will join as a special guest.

Bell, who grew up in Charlottesville, lived in Los An geles and New York, and has been back home for the past seven years, feels she’s learned enough about music after eight albums simply to be herself. On Still Not Sleeping, that means being as “cheesy as possible” when it feels right, shifting among vintage ’70s, pop, folk, and country vibes and “letting go of any preciousness” about genre. “I kind of cringe when I hear that it sounds country, but that’s okay,” Bell says. “We just leaned into it without try ing too hard to define it.”

And of course, being herself meant processing the death of someone close, a feeling she’d never before had to confront. It meant saying goodbye, dealing with unan swered questions, and asking herself what she could have done differently.

“I was just trying to be really present and take it one day at a time,” Bell says. “And the more I’ve gotten back into making music, the more I want to keep it going.”

“Hopefully, there is a way to process grief that can allow for beauty and depth without making the problem or the trauma someone else’s.”

Mariana Bell will celebrate the release of Still Not Sleeping at The Front Porch on Sunday, November 6.

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Bell’s eighth studio album drops on November 4.

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Sunday 11/6

music

BrassFest 2022. The day culminates with a re cital featuring Amy McCabe, Robert Rearden, and Matthew Guilford. Free, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds. music.virginia.edu

Eastern Exotic: Slavic, Romanian & Hungarian. Three Notch’d Road opens its 2022-23 season, The Four Corners of Europe. $10-80, 4pm. Grace Episcopal Church, 5607 Gordonsville Rd., Keswick. tnrbaroque.org

Mariana Bell. The Charlottesville native returns for her album release show. $20-25, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.org

UVA Flute Ensemble. Celebrating music written by Christopher Caliendo, Ian Clarke, Gabriel Fauré, Jennifer Higdon, Mike Mow er, J.J. Quantz, and Jay Unger. Free, 1pm. The Rotunda Dome Room, UVA Grounds. music.virginia.edu

Willie DE. Solo acoustic tunes. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

classes

Paint & Sip. Learn to paint “Rainy Fall Drive.” $35, 1pm. Hazy Mountain Vineyards & Brewery, 8736 Dick Woods Rd., Afton. catelynkelseydesigns.com

outside

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze & Fall Fes tival. See listing for Friday, November 4. Free-$12, all day. Blue Ridge Mountain Maze, 165 Old Ridge Rd., Lovingston. blueridgemountainmaze.com

etc.

Casablanca Brunch. Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the iconic romance. $10, 12:30pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. See listing for Wednesday, November 2. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Wor rell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Mezcal Art Pairing. Sample mezcal and tequila, view the art inspired by the spirit, and converse with the artists. $30, 6pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Virginia Film Festival. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Virginia Film Festival. Prices, times, locations vary. virginiafilmfestival.org

Monday 11/7 music

Baby Jo’s. Tunes from the seven-piece, New Orleans-inspired boogie and blues band. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com

Berto & Vincent. Rumba rumba. Free, 7pm. South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. southandcentralgrill.com Gin & Jazz. Brian Caputo Trio performs in the hotel lobby bar. Free, 5:30pm. Oakhurst Hall, 122 Oakhurst Cir. oakhurstinn.com

Jazz Connection. The quartet plays stan dards and originals, with occasional guest performers. Free, 5pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notched Rd., Crozet. starrhill.com

words

Storytelling, Film, and Design. Join film maker and UVA School of Architecture alumna Din Blankenship for a conversation about her journey from architect to pro fessional filmmaker and producer. Free, 5pm. Campbell Hall 153, UVA Grounds. arch.virginia.edu

Tuesday 11/8 music

Vincent Zorn. Olé. Free, 7pm. The Bebede ro, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. the bebedero.com

outside

Playdates at the Playscape. See Friday list ing, November 4. $20, 9:30am. Wildrock, 6600 Blackwells Hollow Rd., Crozet. wildrock.org

etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art. See listing for Wednesday, November 2. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Family Game Night. Enjoy dinner, refresh ing cocktails, mocktails, and beers, and play a variety of games for all ages, includ ing corn hole, jumbo Jenga, cards, and more. Free, 5pm. Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. dairymarketcville.com

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. Useless knowledge means everything at this authentic homegrown trivia quiz. Free, 8pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. firefly cville.com

Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock’s classic shocker about the danger of talking to strangers. $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Reading the body

Brian Tare examines chronic illness through poetry in reissue

By Sarah Lawson arts@c-ville.com

Thanks to the tireless work of disability justice activists, as well as an increased attention to chronic conditions that the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates, discussions around disabilities and chronic illness are more present in mainstream culture than at any other time in recent history. Artists, poets, and other writ ers have also contributed heavily to this awareness, including celebrated Charlottesville-based poet Bri an Teare, whose book The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven is a newly reissued examination of his relationships with these topics.

The Empty Form is a gorgeous collection of ekphrastic poetry—that is, poems influenced by works of visual art—drawing inspiration from the writings and grid paintings of Agnes Martin, and exploring Teare’s own experiences of misdiagnoses and chronic illness, as well as the harms perpetrat ed by the American medical-industrial complex.

Teare began writing the poems in this collection in 2009, while coping with an undiagnosed chronic illness and finding comfort in Martin’s work. He writes in the book’s preface, “These poems set my life in relation to my long encounter with her paint ing, drawing, writing, and the metaphysics she ar gued was implicit in them.” With this expanded re issue of the book—now including an interview by Declan Gould that shares Teare’s perspectives on COVID-19, capitalism, and contemporary disabili ty poetics, among other topics—Teare hopes the poems will find a broader audience, reaching “those with chronic conditions and those who are caregiv ing, those who love Agnes Martin, and those who are simply hungry for poems with an adventurous sense of beauty.”

The poems in this collection are experimental in nature, each creating their own unique grid on the page as words and typographic symbols are posi tioned to provide visual meaning atop the linguis tic, their angles echoing Martin’s best-known paint ings—and titled with references to, and quotes from, Martin’s work. Teare asks readers to examine the embodied life, to question ideas of normativity and definitions of healing, and to trouble the divide between sickness and health. “Most readers uncon

sciously expect texts to be like able bodies—legible, unified, meaningful in predictable ways—and I wanted to frustrate that unconscious expectation in poems about disability,” says Teare in response to Gould. “In the end, I hope the self-consciousness of not knowing how to proceed makes a reader aware that chronic illness and disability frequently de mand a long and profound confrontation with not knowing, a confrontation that permanently chang es what it means to know.”

This question of legibility is also probed in poems such as “One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like the memory of perfection,” in which Teare writes:

the doctors treat my body only as the site of disorder the way it’s easy to think meaning arises from words as though a body or lyric doesn’t begin outside itself

In part, The Empty Form is a book about the ways in which language can fall short, as Teare also recalls to Gould that “I found undiagnosed illness to be both wordlessly corporeal and hyper-discursive, a paradox the poems often try to enact. For many years, my sense of self was often subsumed by

Teare’s newly reissued book explores the poet’s experiences with misdiagnoses and chronic illness.

chronic pain, cognitive fog, and other symptoms, and yet, as a patient, I was constantly called upon by Western allopathic medicine to narrate myself … I believed my suffering would end if we could just find the right words to describe my illness.” This sensa tion is also echoed in the poem, “Any mistake in the scale and it doesn’t work out. It’s pretty hard because it’s such a small picture.,” where Teare writes:

the problem with illness is I think there might be a way to be ill that would free me from suffering the way correctly placed needles calm symptoms

As a poet, Teare has published six critically ac claimed books, including Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lamb da Literary Award. He is also an associate professor at UVA and runs Albion Books, a one-man poetry micropress that specializes in limited-edition chap books and broadsides, among other printed matter. Still a relatively recent transplant to the area, Teare explains that, “During the three years I’ve been in Charlottesville, first Dr. Daniel Becker and Dr. Ben Martin, and then Dr. Martin and Dr. Irène Mathieu have invited me to be in dialogue with members of the medical community about poetry, narrative medicine, and the medical humanities more broadly. After many years of disappointing and alienating experiences as an uninsured and low-income patient, and after many years of writ ing about chronic illness and medicalization, I found that these dialogues allowed me to do new kinds of thinking and feeling about being a patient and a person with chronic conditions.”

Teare adds, “I hope hearing the poems and being a part of our conversation afterward will also allow local readers a similar opportunity: to think and feel in new ways about poetic language, chronic conditions, and care. I also hope my work gives people permission to write from what I call the non-narrative experience of illness: the ephemeral feeling-states of pain, discomfort, and dysphoria that are intrinsic to chronic conditions, but which are hard to put into words, and even harder for medicine to acknowledge and validate.”

Brian Teare will read from The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven on November 5 at New Dominion Bookshop, where UVA’s Dr. Ben Martin and Dr. Irène Mathieu also join the conversation during the free event.

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November Exhibitions

Artisans Studio Tour Various locations around central Virginia. Tour the work shops of over 30 artisans. November 12-13.

The Bebedero 201 W. Main St. “Art Inspired by the Spirit.” Local artists created original art based on their experiences with mezcal and tequila. $30, November 6, 6pm.

The Center at Belvedere 540 Belvedere Blvd. A small works exhibit featuring over 30 artists, including Meredith Bennett, Joan Griffin, and Judith Ely. Through December 19. Reception November 8, 4pm. First Fridays opening.

Corner Gallery Campbell Hall, UVA Grounds. “Edankraal en Route: Reviving an African American Space of Cultural Exchange in Seg regated Lynchburg,” projects by UVA faculty, students, and area middle school students inspired by Harlem Renaissance poet, Anne Bethel Spencer. Through November 30. Re ception November 10, 5pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd. “Small Graces” features photography by Bill Mauzy. Through November 30.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Walks with Col or,” works from ceramic artist Trina Player. First Fridays opening.

Elmaleh Gallery Campbell Hall, UVA Grounds. “Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes,” from ur banist Chris Reed and photographer Mike Belleme. Through November 18.

The Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd., UVA Grounds. “Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photog raphy,” “Earthly Exemplars: The Art of Buddhist Disciples and Teachers in Asia,” and other exhibitions.

Jefferson School African American Heri tage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Of Anoth er Canon: African American Outsider Art,” includes works from 11 African American artists. Through January 7.

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. “Perspectives on Place,” works by Richard Crozier and David Hawkins. Opens November 18.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Smith Gallery, “Visions of the Rain forest,” mixed-media paintings by Domi nique Astruc Anderson. In the First Floor Hallway, “Mindscapes, Landscapes, and Insights” by Lisa Macchi, and “Do the Trees Speak Back to the Wind” by Lindsay Dia mond and Jeannine Regan. In the Second Floor Hallway, “Everything Paper,” a Mc Guffey member group exhibition. The Hol iday Member’s Show and Shop opens No vember 22. First Fridays openings.

McIntire Connaughton Gallery Rouss and Robertson Halls, UVA Grounds. “From Wa ter and Wheels to Abstracted Ideals,” acryl ic and oil on canvas by Eric Cross and Stan Sweeney. Through December 9.

Phaeton Gallery 114 Old Preston Ave. Kris topher Castle’s “Curriculum Vitae” explores Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village at the University of Virginia through a series of paintings. Through December 2.

PVCC Gallery V. Earl Dickinson Building, 501 College Dr. Through September 9, the Annual Student Exhibition. Opening Sep tember 23, the Annual Faculty Exhibition and a retrospective of works from PVCC’s “The Fall Line” literary magazine. Through November 9.

Quirk Gallery 499 W. Main St. “Conversa tions,” recent individual mixed-media works by Mary Scurlock and Diego Sanchez, as well as nine works that are the result of months of collaboration between the two artists. Through December 11.

Random Row Brewery 608 Preston Ave. A. “Three Decades,” mixed-media collage from Ellen Moore Osborne.

Ruffin Hall Gallery 179 Culbreth Rd., UVA Grounds. “Breaking Water,” the collabo rative work of Calista Lyon and Carmen Winant examines the profound psycho logical impact of ecological breakdown. Through December 9.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the Main Gallery, “Mummers,” a series of paintings and large sculptural big head masks inspired by the theme carnival by

Megan Marlatt. In the Dové Gallery, “The Ceremony of Innocence,” paintings by Los Angeles-based surrealist artist Deirdre Sul livan-Beeman. Through November 18.

Studio Ix 969 Second St. SE. “About Face: Pt.1 Siren Eyes,” digital portraits by 12-yearold, self-taught artist Samari Jones. Through November 27. Artist talk and happy hour, November 17, 5pm. First Fridays opening.

Visible Records 1740 Broadway St. “Any Person I Have Robbed Was Judged By Me,” a solo show of photography by Sebastien Boncy. Through December 2.

Megan Marlatt at Second Street Gallery

Samari Jones at Studio Ix

Richard Guy Wilson at Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Judith Ely at The Center at Belvedere

Ellen Moore Osborne at Random Row Brewery

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SPECIAL GUESTS

DEVOTION BREAKTHROUGH STAR AWARD: JONATHAN MAJORS

THURSDAY, NOV. 3 | 7:30 PM

THE PARAMOUNT THEATER TICKETS: $20

Set in the Korean War, Devotion captures the tale of the U.S. Navy’s first Black aviator, Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors), and his dedicated wingman Tom Hudner. Discussion with actor Jonathan Majors, moderated by Tyler Coates (The Hollywood Reporter)

Presented by Truist STAY AWAKE

SPECIAL GUEST: CHRISSY METZ + GOVERNOR GERALD L. BALILES FOUNDER’S AWARD: JAMIE SISLEY

FRIDAY, NOV. 4 | 8:00 PM

THE PARAMOUNT THEATER TICKETS: $20

Two brothers navigate teenage life while dealing with their mother's prescription drug addiction. Discussion with director Jamie Sisley, actor Chrissy Metz, and actor Wyatt Ole , moderated by Brian Truitt (USA Today) Presented by UVA Health

FAMILY CENTERPIECE FILM MY FATHER’S DRAGON SCREENWRITING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: MEG LEFAUVE

SATURDAY, NOV. 5 | 10:00 AM

THE PARAMOUNT THEATER TICKETS: $10, $5 CHILD

An animated fable based on the beloved children’s book. Discussion with director Nora Twomey, producer Julie Lynn, screenwriter Meg LeFauve, and supervising sound editor Zach Seivers moderated by Carlos Aguilar (LA Times, The Wrap, AV Club)

Presented by UVA Arts: supported by the O ce of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts Supported by Nest Realty

TRIBUTE TO JUDITH IVEY

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. Discussion with actor Judith Ivey, moderated by Jenny Wales (UVA) Presented by The Paramount Theater

November 2 –8, 2022 c-ville.com

35TH ANNUAL VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL NOV 2-6. VIEW ALL 100+ FILMS AND EVENTS AND TICKET INFORMATION

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 5:00 PM | CULBRETH THEATRE | TICKETS: $14

SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 5:00 PM | VINEGAR HILL THEATRE | TICKETS: $14

Dani’s Twins follows the pregnancy and early parenting life of Dani Izzie, a Virginia resident who became one of the first quadriplegics to give birth to twins in 2020. Her unique pregnancy not only put her at risk for an array of serious medical risks, it also forced her to grapple with intense biases faced by women with disabilities. Discussion with producer Angie Gentile, subjects Dani Izzie, Rudy Izzie, and Dr. Robert Fuller, moderated (UVA Health)

Presented by UVA Health

KARAOKE | WITH ACTOR SASSON GABAY THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 8:30 PM | VIOLET CROWN 5 | TICKETS: $14

A comedy about a married middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbor, a charismatic bachelor who has karaoke evenings at his apartment. Discussion with actor Sasson Gabay and director Moshe Rosenthal, moderated by Harry Chotiner (VAFF)

Supported by WTJU 91.1 FM

Clarkston, Georgia, is a small rural town reminiscent of a United Nations refugee camp. People from all corners of the world live here, seeking safety and opportunity for a better life in America. Clarkston is also home to Chris Buckley, a military veteran and former Klansman harboring a hatred for Muslims since 9/11. Chris is forced to face his prejudice when contacted by Dr. Heval Kelli, a Kurdish cardiologist with a mission to challenge the looming presence of white nationalism threatening his community. Discussion with Directors Din Blankenship and Erin Bernhardt, and Executive Producer Katie Couric, moderated by Stephen Mull (UVA)

Presenting partners include UVA School of Architecture and Welcoming Greater Charlottesville Supported by VMDO and UVA Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS CRAFT AWARD: EUGENIO CABALLERO SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 7:00 PM | CULBRETH THEATRE | TICKETS: $14 A nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey, chronicling the story of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, and the folly of his memories as well as the past of his country. Discussion with production designer Eugenio Caballero, moderated by Carlos Aguilar (LA Times, The Wrap, AV Club)

A PREVIEW OF THE 35TH ANNUAL VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL NOV 2-6. VIEW ALL 100+ FILMS AND EVENTS AND TICKET INFORMATION AT VIRGINIAFILMFESTIVAL.ORG

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MAMA’S BOY | CHANGEMAKER AWARD: DUSTIN LANCE BLACK

NOV. 6, 11:00 AM

CULBRETH THEATRE | TICKETS: $12

The true story of Oscar-Winning Screenwriter and Director Dustin Lance Black (Milk) and his mother, Anne—a conservative Mormon woman from the American South, who contracted polio as a child, forcing her to endure brutal surgeries and leaving her reliant on braces and crutches for the rest of her life. Discussion with Dustin Lance Black, moderated by Bilal Qureshi (NPR)

Supported by UVA Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

THE INSPECTION | TRIBUTE TO RAÚ L CASTILLO SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 2:30 PM | CULBRETH THEATRE | TICKETS: $12

Elegance Bratton’s remarkable debut, inspired by the filmmaker’s own life story, follows a man (Jeremy Pope) who joins the Marine Corps after being thrown out of his mother’s home at 16 for being gay and living for years in housing precarity. Discussion with actor Raúl Castillo, moderated by Carlos Aguilar (LA Times, The Wrap, AV Club)

Supported by Verizon

LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER CHRONICLER AWARD - SAM POLLARD

SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 4:30 PM | VINEGAR HILL THEATRE | TICKETS: $12

Charts e orts to organize disenfranchised Black voters in rural Alabama in 1965 in the wake of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Connects voter suppression from the ’60s to today’s political landscape. Discussion with director Sam Pollard, moderated by Robert Daniels (IndieWire)

Presented by United Way of Greater Charlottesville Supported by UVA Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 5:30 PM | CULBRETH THEATRE | TICKETS: $14

Once considered the most polluted waterway in the United States, the James River is no stranger to the manmade damages inflicted to commoditize natural resources. Told through the lens of five friends, this adventure-filled documentary captures a 250-mile journey down the James River to the group’s hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Discussion with directors and subjects Will Gemma, Dietrich Teschner, and Justin Black, moderated by Paul Wagner (UVA)

Presented by Southern Environmental Law Center Supported by UVA O ce for Sustainability

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Saturday, Nov. 5 Irving Theatre, CODE Building

Supported by The Je erson Trust and Violet Crown Cinema

10:00 AM | From Page to Screen Screenwriter’s Panel

Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) in conversation with VAFF Board Member and screenwriter/director/producer John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side).

12:00 PM | The Power of Media, Storytelling, and The Muppets of Sesame Street

Featuring Sesame Workshop President Sherrie Westin, moderated by Marshall Persinger (VAFF Board)

Supported by VPM

2:00 PM | Making It Film Industry Career Panel

Featuring Erin Bernhardt, Lyle Friedman, and Jamie Sisley, moderated by Scot Safon (VAFF Board)

FREE PANEL DISCUSSIONS HOW TO

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All screening and event venues are accessible via ramp or elevators, o er wheelchair areas for viewing performances, and have accessible restrooms. Additionally, we strive to be accessible to all our patrons. Select films o er closed captions or open captions, and we also o er ASL interpretation at select in-person discussions. Also, all foreign-language films are presented with English subtitles, but not all films with subtitles are fully captioned. For more information, visit virginiafilmfestival.org/accessibility.

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Silent Cal

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ACROSS

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,

then you ____”: James Baldwin

Tab

“Beavis and Butt-head” spin-off

Hankering

Singer Redding

They’re dragged and dropped

Messed (up)

Cr ystal-filled rock

Company originally called Vacation Rentals by Owner

Tuskegee ____ (World War II regiment)

Pairing of actor Diesel with philosopher Thomas?

Steered clear of

“____ the ramparts ... “

Bonobo, e.g.

The brilliant friend in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”

Carpenter ’s tool

Headed up law enforcement?

Lizard: Prefix

“____ pronounce you ...”

Palindromic Turkish title

Food writer/TV personality ____ Drummond

Cr y from a jealous girlfriend, perhaps

Temperament held by a recurring James Bond character?

“This is a tough call”

Ski resort near Salt Lake City

“The Discovery of India” writer

Nickname for U.S. president #30 ... or a hint to understanding the answers to 17-, 22-, 33- and 49-Across

Third-stringers

Tommie of the “Miracle Mets”

Giga : billion :: ____ : billionth

Recovers

‘Do for a while

Bring (out)

Document arian Burns who’s the brother of Ken

Agricultural giant found ed in Hawaii in 1851

A good bowl of ____ will always make me happy”: Anthony Bourdain

“Middlemarch” author

They’re found in canals

Scheduled to arrive

Uno y dos

Crucifix inscription

Villa-studded Italian lake

Bremner of “Trainspotting” and “Wonder Woman”

Easy as pie

Reproductive cell

Tennis great Gibson

Yell

Great regard

“Knives Out” director Johnson

Lesson from Aesop

Satchel who pitched in the majors at age 59

Weaken

Big bang letters

Matchbox toy

“That’s ____-brainer”

Offering for a developer

By Rob Brezsny

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For decades, the Canadian city of Sudbury hosted a robust mining indus try. Deposits of nickel sulphide ore spawned a booming business. But these riches also brought terrible pollution. Sudbury’s native vegetation was devastated. The land was stained with foul air produced by the smelting process. An effort to re-green the area began in the 1970s. Today, the air is among the clean est in the province of Ontario. In the spirit of this transformation, I invite you to embark on a personal reclamation project. Now is a fa vorable time to detoxify and purify any parts of your life that have been spoiled or sullied.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The literal meaning of the ancient Greek word aigílips is “devoid of goats.” It refers to a place that is so high and steep not even sure-footed goats can climb it. There aren’t many of those places. Simi larly, there are very few metaphorical peaks that a determined Capricorn can’t reach. One of your specialties is the power to master seemingly improbable and impassable heights. But here’s an unexpected twist in your destiny: In the coming months, your forte will be a talent for going very far down and in. Your agility at ascending, for a change, will be useful in descending—for exploring the depths. Now is a good time to get started!

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Evolved Aquarians are of ten blessed with unprecedented friendships and free-spirited intimacy and innovative alliances. People who align themselves with you may enjoy experimental collaborations they never imagined before engaging with you. They might be surprised at the creative potentials unleashed in them because of their synergy with you. In the coming weeks and months, you will have even more power than usual to generate such liaisons and connec tions. You might want to make a copy of this horoscope and use it as your calling card or business card.

Scorpio

also had a discerning view of this faculty. She wrote, “I began to understand that there were times when I must question my intu ition and separate it from my anxieties or fears. I must think, observe, question, seek facts and not trust blindly to my intuition.” I admire her caution. And I suspect it was one reason her intuition was so potent. Your assignment, Pisces, is to apply her approach to your relationship with your intuition. The coming months will be a time when you can supercharge this key aspect of your intelli gence and make it work for you better than it ever has before.

Aries (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I encourage you to work as hard as you have ever worked. Work smart, too. Work with flair and aplomb and relish. You now have a surprisingly fertile opportunity to reinvent how you do your work and how you feel about your work. To take maximum advan tage of this potential breakthrough, you should inspire yourself to give more of your heart and soul to your work than you have previously imagined possible. (PS: By “work,” I mean your job and any crucial activity that is both challenging and rewarding.)

Taurus

(April 20-May 20): Here’s my weird sugges tion, Taurus. Just for now, only for a week or two, experiment with dreaming about what you want but can’t have. And just for now,

FREE WILL

Gemini

(May 21-June 20): Your most successful times in life usually come when all your various selves are involved. During these interludes, none of them is neglected or shunted to the outskirts. In my astrological opinion, you will be wise to ensure this scenario is in full play during the coming weeks. In fact, I recom mend you throw a big unity party and invite all your various sub-personalities to come as they are. Have outrageous fun acting out the festivities. Set out a place mat and nametag on a table for each participant. Move around from seat to seat and speak from the heart on behalf of each one. Later, discuss a project you could all participate in creating.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22): A Cancerian reader named Joost Joring explained to me how he culti vates the art of being the best Cancerian he can be. He said, “I shape my psyche into a fortress, and I make people feel privileged when they are allowed inside. If I must some times instruct my allies to stay outside for a while, to camp out by the drawbridge as I work out my problems, I make sure they know they can still love me—and that I still love them.” I appreciate Joost’s perspective. As a Cancerian myself, I can attest to its value. But I will also note that in the coming weeks, you will reap some nice benefits from having less of a fortress mentality. In my astrological opinion, it’s party time!

because you’re in a recharging phase. Your deep reserves of fertility and power are regen erating. That’s a good thing! Don’t make the error of thinking it’s a sign of reduced vitali ty. Don’t overreact with a flurry of worry.

Virgo

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Siegfried Sassoon became renowned for the poetry he wrote about being a soldier in World War I. Having witnessed carnage firsthand, he became adept at focusing on what was tru ly important. “As long as I can go on living a rich inner life,” he wrote, “I have no cause for complaint, and I welcome anything which helps me to simplify my life, which seems to be more and more a process of eliminating inessentials!” I suggest we make Sassoon your inspirational role model for the next three weeks. What inessentials can you eliminate? What could you do to en hance your appreciation for all the everyday miracles that life offers you?

Libra

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You Libras have a talent that I consider a superpower: You can re move yourself from the heart of the chaos and deliver astute insights about how to tame the chaos. I like that about you. I have personally benefited from it on numerous occasions. But for the next few weeks, I will ask you to try something different. I’ll en courage you to put an emphasis on practical action, however imperfect it might be, more

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured,” said author Martha Beck. “Without it, we wouldn’t even know what it means to be brave.” I love that quote—and I especially love it as a guiding meditation for you Scorpios right now. We usually think of fear as an unambiguously bad thing, a drain of our precious life force. But I suspect that for you, it will turn out to be useful in the coming days. You’re going to find a way to transmute fear into boldness, bravery, and even badassery.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE

RE: THE ESTATE OF LORENE KNIGHT SHIFFLETT

AMENDED SHOW CAUSE ORDER AGAINST DISTRIBUTION

It is ordered that the creditors of, and all other persons interested in the above estate show cause, if they can, on the 24th day of January, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. before this Court at its courtroom, against payment and delivery of the estate to the distributees without requiring refunding bonds.

Entered this 13th day of October, 2022

Cheryl Higgins Judge

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE

RE: ESTATE OF PATRICIA A. HERRING

AMENDED SHOW CAUSE ORDER AGAINST DISTRIBUTION

It is ordered that the creditors of, and all other persons interested in the above estate show cause, if they can, on the 24th day of January, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. before this Court at its courtroom, against payment and delivery of the estate to the distributees without requiring refunding bonds.

Entered this 13th day of October, 2022

Cheryl Higgins Judge

FORECLOSURE SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION

23.99 Acre Vacant Lot Albemarle County Tax Map No. 01900-00-00-029G2

SALE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022 AT 11:00 A.M.

AT THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 501 E. JEFFERSON STREET, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902

In execution of a Credit Line Deed of Trust, being dated September 14, 2010, and recorded on September 15, 2010, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court in Albemarle County, Virginia (the “Clerk’s Office”), in Deed Book 3928, page 487, and re-recorded on November 4, 2010, to add the legal description in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 3953, page 452 (together, the “Deed of Trust”), the undersigned as Trustee under said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale at public auction the parcel of real estate listed below:

ALL that certain lot or parcel of land containing 23.99 acres, more or less, located on the south side of State Route 664 approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Earlysville, in the White Hall District of Albemarle County, Virginia, shown and described as Revised Parcel B2 on a plat by Roger W. Ray & Assoc., Inc., dated Sept. 4, 1998, entitled “Plat showing Parcels W, X, Y, and Z,” a copy of which is recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Albemarle County, Virginia in Deed Book 1779, pages 42 and 43. Reference to said plat is hereby made for a more particular description of the property herein conveyed.

BEING the same property conveyed to David N. Gaines by deed from David N. Gaines, Elizabeth C. Gaines, Leslie Ann Gaines, and Richard V. Gaines, III dated August 26, 2010, and recorded September 15, 2010, in the abovereferenced Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 3928, page 479. (the “Property”)

TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit of the greater of $10,000 or 10% of the winning bid, shall be paid at the sale by cashier’s check made payable to Bidder (to be assigned to Trustee if Bidder is successful), with the balance upon delivery of a trustee’s deed within 30 days of sale. If the initial deposit is less than 10% of the winning bid, then the successful bidder’s deposit MUST be increased to 10% of the winning bid by cashier’s check or wired funds within three (3) business days. Settlement shall be held within 30 days after the date of sale unless otherwise postponed at the sole discretion of the Trustee. Sale is subject to the covenants, conditions, restrictions, rights of way, and easements, if any, contained in the deeds and other documents forming the chain of title to the Property. The Property is sold “AS IS, WHERE IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS” and “WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES.”

TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT. The deposit shall be applied to the credit of successful bidder at settlement; or, in the event of failure to complete settlement within the time set forth after the date of sale, in accordance with the terms of sale, the deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of sale, including Trustee’s fee, and the Property shall be resold at the cost and expense of the defaulting Purchaser. Risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be borne by successful bidder from the time of auctioneer’s strikedown at the sale. Purchaser shall pay all settlement fees, title examination charges, title insurance premiums, and recording costs. Current real estate property taxes will be prorated at closing as of date of sale. Rollback taxes, if any, will be the responsibility of the Purchaser.

THE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE RIGHT: (i) to waive the deposit requirements; (ii) to extend the period of time within which the Purchaser is to make full settlement; (iii) to withdraw the Property from sale at any time prior to the termination of the bidding; (iv) to keep the bidding open for any length of time; (v) to reject all bids; and (vi) to postpone or continue this sale from time to time, such notices of postponement or setting over shall be in a manner deemed reasonable by the Trustee. Announcements made on day of sale take precedence over all other advertised terms and conditions.

Employees, directors and officers of Farm Credit of the Virginias, ACA, and their immediate family and companies in which they have an interest are not eligible under federal regulations to purchase the Property at foreclosure.

FOR INFORMATION SEE: www.fplegal.com/foreclosures

Flora Pettit PC, Trustee Nancy R. Schlichting 530 E. Main Street P. O. Box 2057 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (434) 220-6113 lmg@fplegal.com

November 28, 2022 c-ville.com

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Commonwealth of Virginia VA. CODE § 8.01-316

Albemarle County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Commonwealth of Virginia, in re: C.M.G. The object of this suit is to: Terminate the parental rights in C.M.G. (dob 10/12/17) and approve a foster care plan with adoption goal.

It is ORDERED that the X defendant Francesca Guandalini appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before January 18, 2023.

8/26/2022 David M. Barredo

DATE JUDGE

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Commonwealth of Virginia VA. CODE § 8.01-316

Albemarle County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Commonwealth of Virginia, in re: E.M.G.

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the parental rights in E.M.G. (dob 10/10/18) and approve a foster care plan with adoption goal.

It is ORDERED that the X defendant Francesca Guandalini appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before January 18, 2023.

8/26/2022 David M. Barredo

DATE JUDGE

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GREENFIELDS FARM

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HATTON RIDGE FARM

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WILLOWFIELDS FARM

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FRAYS MILL

Mostly wooded preservation tract of 81.39 acres next to Frays Mill Subdivision in highly desirable Northern Albemarle. This beautiful gently rolling land has a great, private homesite with Blue Ridge Mountain views, and creek on property. MLS#608509 $995,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

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120-acre Albemarle County estate featuring a 5-bedroom manor home with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Rivanna Reservoir frontage. Close proximity to the city limits and Charlottesville-Albemarle airport! MLS#625402

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Stunning mountain views available on this attractive 14± acre property, possessing lovely streams and woods. This parcel is only 1.5 miles from Route 151 Brew Trail, with easy access to Wintergreen, Charlottesville & UVA. MLS#629702 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250 or Robert Mellen, 434.996.7386

820 CONDO

Well-designed corner condo consisting of exceptionally bright great room with high ceilings, fully-equipped kitchen, ample space for both relaxed living and dining, 1-BR, 1-BA, and inviting private balcony/terrace. Views of the Downtown skyline and mountains. MLS#634496 $285,000 C. Dammann, 434.981.1250

SOUTHWIND ESTATES

3 parcels with commanding Blue Ridge Mtn. views, level building sites 15 minutes from Charlottesville. Sites have been perked, have wells, and ready for your dream home. MLS#632482 $375,000 (7.8 acres), MLS#632490 $275,000 (2.4 acres), MLS#632487 $175,000 (2.0 acres), Court Nexsen, 646.660.070

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Fantastic building lot with just under 7 acres adjacent to Trump Winery! A brick, heated conservatory and greenhouse, with bath, is located on the lot which was once used to provide fresh flowers to the Kluge estate. MLS#635939 $645,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

Unique 88-acre property with 4-bedroom home. Property includes two-car garage, storage shed/ shop and 3760-square foot multipurpose building. Beautiful mountain and lake views just 4 miles from Charlottesville. MLS#635483 $1,275,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

5-acre lot with mature hardwoods. Great opportunity to build with no HOA. Private building site amongst beautiful woods. Located between Free Union and Earlysville but so convenient to Charlottesville and UVA. MLS#621177 $140,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

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Storybook Crozet: Living the Good Life

“It’s

Crozet is the perfect setting for a se ries spanning decades. Fortunately, reallife murders are rare and none of them have been solved by Brown’s “tiger cat born somewhere in Albemarle County.” Crozet’s story is the evolution of a com munity that grew up in the afternoon shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Twelve miles west of Charlottesville and 21 miles east of Staunton, Crozet residents enjoy breathtaking views, a compact urban setting rich in comforts and amenities, mostly still surrounded by a bucolic quilt of farmland, vineyards, meadows, and forests.

While runaway sprawl is curtailed by Albemarle County’s land use policies, there have been some growing pains to get Crozet where it is today and where it’s headed tomorrow.

Growing, Growing, Grown?

Once ancestral lands of the Monacan Indian Nation, this area became part of the Ficklin-Wayland Farm, originally cultivating tobacco before adding fruit orchards and livestock. Wayland lived in the home named Pleasant Green and expanded it to accommodate boarders and travelers along the Three Notched and Buck Mountain Roads bordering his farm.

According to historian Phil James’ Secrets of the Blue Ridge, one of those Pleas ant Green boarders was Colonel Claudius Crozet, an engineer surveying land for the Blue Ridge Railroad and Tunnel. In 1870 Wayland’s Crossing was renamed Crozet.

The Waylands sold parcels from their

BY CARLA HUCKABEE

estate to develop downtown Crozet’s business district. Today’s Square re tains much of its character and charm nearly 150 years later, but the Waylands wouldn’t recognize the rest of Crozet.

The appeal of living near the Blue Ridge and Albemarle County’s designa tion as a growth area has spurred tre mendous expansion. In 2000, Crozet’s population hovered around 3,000. And by 2022, it had reached 9,956.

Growth will continue, and many residents worry about losing Crozet’s small-town vibe. Perhaps they identify with Rita Mae Brown’s narrator, seeing the influx of new residents as “… the diamond-encrusted ‘come-here’ set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways.”

But the purpose of the Crozet Master Plan is to encourage density to efficiently deliver services and infrastructure, such as the Crozet Library, the Downtown Crozet streetscape project, and invest ments in The Square, and community parks.

REALTOR® David Farrell, with Mountain Area Nest Realty, understands how long-time residents feel. “It’s hard to find a place you love and watch it change. But people need great places to live, and this is one of them. It’s not realistic for recent newcomers to say, ‘now that I’m here, all growth should stop.’ We just need to manage it in a way that makes Crozet even better.”

Everything But the Donuts

As the Crozet Master Plan adapts to new realities, people continue to flock there. Before it commanded enough gravitas on its own, many people moved to Crozet to be near Charlottesville.

Such was the case with Terri Miya moto and her husband in 2014. Upon retiring they wanted to relocate from New Jersey to “somewhere along the Blue

Ridge Mountains.” Of the towns they explored, they liked Charlottesville the best. Crozet had one of two area homes on the market with one-level living.

Miyamoto reports, “I liked the vibe from Crozet and it was near enough to Charlottesville, which is what I really wanted. Today my trips to Charlottesville are much less frequent. Most everything we want is right here in Crozet.”

Plopped on the edge of wine country, Crozet lays claim to Grace Estate, King Family, and Stinson wineries. The Chiles orchard and cidery and Pro Re Nata and Starr Hill breweries are also nearby at tractions. In 2006, Starr Hill moved from Charlottesville to the vacated Morton Frozen Foods building that shuttered in 2000, laying off 600 employees.

Morning beverage fans choose from Grit Coffee, Mudhouse Crozet, or a homegrown shop that just changed hands, reopening as The Yellow Mug. Wherever you are in Crozet, you’re not far from a unique dining experience. In only 3.7 square miles, Crozet serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner better than most larger towns.

Smoked Kitchen & Tap, well-known as a Charlottesville food truck barbe cue vendor, anchors Piedmont Place in downtown Crozet. The mixed-use build ing completed in 2016 brought luxury apartments, a marketplace, and a rooftop event space to town.

Old Trail is home to Restoration, serving American casual or elegant fare at the golf club. Enjoy wine pairing din ners, special events, outdoor dining, and spectacular mountain views. Near the Old Trail Drive hub, choose from Coco nut Thai Kitchen, Mi Rancho Mexican Crozet, and others.

Near the Square you’ll find pizza lov ers at Crozet Pizza, pub fare and a place to hang out at Fardowners, and specialty breakfast platters, burgers, sandwiches

and salads at the Whistle Stop Grill.

Unique storefronts and services abound in Crozet. Think of it as a great small town, before big box stores ar rived. Count on Crozet Hardware to have whatever you’re looking for. Even if you can’t find it, Jeff Brickhead and his crew know exactly where every specialty item is tucked away. Brickhead bought the hardware store after working there for 41 years, believing in Crozet’s bright future.

Another unique retail operation, Blue bird and Co. is a combination bookstore, clothing, and gift shop. The new Crozet Grow Shop is just what home gardeners were missing.

The 20-acre Barnes Lumber property downtown will become a new Crozet Square. With major road and building construction required, the complex will include a lighted promenade with out door dining and retail storefronts. A performing and art space will be promi nent and much of the business space will be flexible.

Developer Frank Stoner is targeting “early summer 2023 to be pushing dirt.” He has commitments from two hoteliers, one a small boutique, the other a selfserve condo hotel.

Restaurants, services, and shops open and thrive if there are people to support them. Miyamato says, “Crozet doesn’t need to be preserved in amber. We still have room to grow. I would love a donut shop on Three Notched Road, but we need enough people to support that donut shop. If you want amenities, you need people.”

Hiking and Biking Central Crozet either attracts—or turns resi dents into—outdoors fans.

Hikers and cyclists, golfers and stroll ers, Crozet has room for everyone. With Shenandoah National Park next door, strenuous hikes and lazy strolls come easy.

autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia—a time for golden days, crisp nights… and murder.”

So opens Book 16 of The New York Times bestselling Mrs. Murphy Mystery series by Afton’s acclaimed author, Rita Mae Brown.

And the Crozet Trails Crew is bringing trails as close to your door as possible. Instead of lamenting what’s missing, the Crew brings it into existence. Their work on multi-use trails throughout Crozet connects neighborhoods to parks and greenspaces at an enviable pace.

Miyamato says “We are close to hav ing a totally bikable community. The county has easements connecting neigh borhoods and it’s in the Master Plan. We can make this happen.”

One high-profile trail will connect the 22-acre Claudius Crozet Park west to the Square and east to Lickinghole Basin. The park includes athletic fields, tennis and pickleball courts, a walking trail, dog park, a fishing pond, and a pool as part of the aquatics and fitness center operated by ACAC Fitness and Wellness. Plans are in the works to replace the pool bubble with a permanent building and expanded indoor facilities.

West of town, Mint Springs Valley Park offers three lakes, an extensive net work of hiking trails, and an artificial beach for summer swimming. To the east, stocked Beaver Creek Lake welcomes electric-powered boats and watercraft. Most dry days find cyclists pedaling the quiet back roads around Crozet. One popular scenic ride is out Sugar Hollow Road towards Shenandoah Na tional Park.

Peter Aaron lives in the Glenbrook neighborhood and says, “Crozet is a wonderful place—rural enough to be away from the density of Charlottesville and close to less-traveled roads and the

Blue Ridge. I can ride right out from my driveway and not encounter much traffic and reach quiet roads without having to drive there. It’s wonderful.”

Golfers enjoy the Old Trail Golf Club. The 18-hole championship golf course with practice facilities and a full-service clubhouse also welcomes youth with in structional programming and junior tees.

New Construction Still Rules

“There is still room for Crozet to grow,” says Farrell, “but we are running out of land that is easy to build on, other than the reserved phases of some older neighborhoods—like Pleasant Green. The first phase of Pleasant Green sold out almost instantly. Phase Two just opened.”

Stanley Martin Homes has town homes in Pleasant Green under $400,000 and single-family homes starting from $549,900. Rooftop terraces, finished lofts, gourmet kitchens, and designer finishes, coupled with a community clubhouse and other amenities make this a highly desirable neighborhood.

Southern Development also has town homes available in Old Trail from the low $500s. Sales Manager Sara Hoagland says, “Sales are brisk so don’t wait. Buyers love to be able to do some customiza tion, and the fact that our homes are 100 percent Pearl Certified locks in the value of the home’s energy efficiency.”

REALTOR® Kate Colvin, with How ard Hanna Roy Wheeler Realty, says “Craig Builders has two buildings of attached villas in Block 7 of Old Trail. The homes overlook a pond with dra

matic mountain views in the background. These are ready to customize with late 2023 deliverables.”

“Glenbrook is also opening up some new construction,” says Farrell. Green wood Homes offers townhomes from $399,900 and single-family homes from the upper $500,000s. Three-bedroom villas are also available from $469,900.

Other pockets for future construction include Old Dominion Village along Route 240, which was approved for 110 townhomes and single-family homes on 24 acres.

Farrell says, “Montclair is another pro posed development. If it moves forward, that’s 150 more homes.

“Buyers can find existing homes on the market in Crozet, but inventory is low, and prices are high. Third-quarter numbers show we are cooling off both in year-over-year numbers and one quarter to the next. Million-dollar homes used to come on the market occasionally in Crozet; now they’re common.”

Model Growth

It’s not even classified as a town, but Crozet can model how a town should grow—dense, confined, with non-car transportation options, and meeting many of the daily needs of residents.

Jaunt’s Crozet CONNECT is the week day commuter service bringing riders from Crozet to UVA and Downtown Charlottesville. It’s a great start, but any one driving Route 250 during commuter hours knows ridership could improve.

Another potential link is the proposed Three Notched Trail shared-use path

between Charlottesville and Crozet to the Blue Ridge Tunnel in Afton. Albemarle County recently received a $2 million planning award to keep the project mov ing forward.

“We wrote to [Transportation Secre tary] Pete Buttigieg and got $2 million!” says Miyamoto.

She does her part, working on the Crozet Trail Crew, riding her electric bike for recreation and transportation, and seeing the big picture.

“I score Crozet high on my ‘Old Lady Quality of Life Metric.’ I can ride my electric bike to 10 wineries. Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyard is my limit, taking my whole battery charge to get there and back to Crozet. Last year I put more miles on my ebike than I did on my 15-yearold Honda.

“We must address climate change as something we can impact. Swapping gas cars for electric vehicles won’t be enough. We need to have and use public trans portation, and for public transportation to work we need density.

“The best thing about Crozet is in five minutes on my bike, I can be out in the country—mooing at the cows and neighing at the horses. We must allow more density.”

If so, that donut shop may yet open on Three Notched Road. And perhaps it will be the backdrop for Brown’s 31st book in the Mrs. Murphy Mysteries, set in Crozet and due to be published next spring.

Carla Huckabee writes about high-performing real estate.

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An Albemarle County native with over 35 years of experience in the real estate industry!

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One of a kind personalized service and one of the most referred agents in the Charlottesville area

CRS, SFR, SRES, Associate Broker 434.981.1421 anitadunbar1@gmail.com

WORKMAN COURT, FLUVANNA

HARRISON STREET, SCOTTSVILLE

Hilltop House - Delightful, walkable community of Scottsville. Charming vintage 4 BR cape with apartment, 2 story detached masonry studio and separate city lot. New appliances. 3 full

In excellent condition and move in ready. Brand new

seam roof on both buildings, with natural gas fireplace,

and porch garden, fenced yard, multi-level decks

terraced gardens overlooking the town. Private parking.

MLS # 628406 $425,000

MLS # 632112 $449,900

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JAMES RIVER ROAD

RECREATIONAL PARADISE

Absolutely private and pristine deep water lake of 50+/- acres, with (2) miles of shoreline, in Nelson County, surrounded by nearly 800 acres of commercial pine forest, designed for staggered harvests into perpetuity. An incredibly rare recreational paradise. A new lake home, with quality appointments at waters edge, a boat house with (2) lifts and a large steel storage building to house toys and equipment. Internet and generator are in place. Nearly 7 miles of interior roads and trails with mountain views. Includes access to nearby James River!

MLS # 632112 $4,400,000

FREDERICKSBURG

PLANK

Autumn Harvest Sale

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BULK

PRODUCE

Organic Regular Rolled Oats $2.49/lb (SRP $2.99)

GROCERY

HEALTH & BODYCARE

Organic Yellow Onions $1.79/lb

Organic Evaporated Cane Juice $2.99/lb (SRP $3.49)

Green & Black Chocolate Bars $4.19 (SRP $5.29)

Organic Acorn & Butternut Squash $1.89/lb

Organic Walnuts $9.99/lb (SRP $14.99)

Organic Canned Pumpkin 15 oz $3.99 (SRP $4.79)

Source Naturals & Planetary Herbal Supplements 15% Off Boiron Homeopathic Remedies 15% Off

Organic Yams $2.39/lb

Organic Dried Cranberries (Juice Sweetened) $11.99/lb (SRP $14.99)

Muir Glen Pasta Sauce 25.5 oz $4.99 (SRP $6.19)

Wild Carrot Face & Body Care 15% Off

Organic Celery $2.39 each

Organic Pecan Halves $15.99/lb (SRP $19.99)

MONDAY - FRIDAY 8 AM - 8 PM STORE HOURS: SATURDAY 9 AM - 6 PM SUNDAY 10 AM - 6 PM

Tofurky Vegetarian Roasts 25 oz $18.99 (SRP $23.99)

Nubian Heritage Body Care 15% Off