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9 Area residents hold vigils for Palestinians.

11 Renovated Alderman Library opens this month.

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Arraignment On January 9, Tajuan Allen of Albemarle County will be arraigned in Charlottesville Circuit Court on second-degree murder charges in connection with an incident that occurred on November 5, 2020. Allen was more recently in the headlines when he and another man were charged in connection with a December 8 assault at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. The 25-year-old remains in custody, and faces charges of aggravated malicious wounding in connection with the assault.

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Rocky road The University of Virginia men’s basketball team closed out 2023 on a low note, losing 54-76 at Notre Dame. Prior to the December 30 game, Notre Dame was ranked last in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The loss to the Fighting Irish is the latest in a rough patch for the Cavaliers, whose other two defeats this season (to Wisconsin and Memphis) were also by more than 20 points.

Losing to an underdog team is bad enough, but the Hoos 22-point trouncing in Indiana has raised early doubts about the Cavs’ conference and tournament chances. Even after its upset victory over Virginia, Notre Dame had a lackluster 6-7 record at press time, and is ranked 10th in the ACC. “We’ve all got to come together and find ways, but it’s going to take a real connected, unified effort,” said UVA Coach Tony Bennett at a post-game press conference. “We’ll get back to work … we’re 1-1 in the league and hopefully we can regroup and fight and get back to it.”

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Taking office Charlottesville’s newest City Councilor Natalie Oschrin, who on January 2 replaced Leah Puryear as the only woman on council, said on X/Twitter that she has “an unbelievable amount of gratitude for the voters, volunteers, election officers, clerks, councilors, city staff, activists, neighbors, strangers, classmates, teachers, friends, and my family, who all helped make this candidacy successful.” Puryear, who was appointed to council after Sena Magill abruptly resigned at the beginning of last year, said then that she would not seek another term.

of the new code, he said, “we have to get started, and this is a good start.”

“As positive and big as the change I think is, we have to have the humility to recognize that we’re not going to know every impact,” said Councilor Michael Payne. “There’s going to be a lot of things that we don’t foresee about multiple elements of it, and I think it’s important to just have the humility to acknowledge that and be ready to respond to that in the coming years.”

Despite City Council’s cautious optimism about the ordinance, critics remain frustrated. One detractor at the meeting was former councilor Kevin Lynch, who voiced his displeasure with the approval of “probably the most radical upzoning plan in the country.”

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Locals act on Gaza conflict Ongoing area vigils held to support Palestinians

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“For me this is a daily show of solidarity,” says one attendee of the Charlottesville-area vigils. “What’s important is that we show people we’re still out there and remind people that this is still happening.”

Crane says their presence every day is helping those who feel the same way know that they are not alone, one of his primary motivations for holding the vigil.

“The way that I know that, is people do things like pull over and hand us a tray of muffins, or bring us coffee,” Crane says. “A very elderly woman came with a box full of pastries from Albemarle Baking Company, and she handed them out to us.”

But there are also the hecklers.

“The number-one reaction, far outstripping every other reaction, is apathy,” Crane says. “It’s just people who barely look at us or look and look away. Number two is positive, and there are a lot of positive reactions.

And a distant third is negative, people who flip us off or yell.”

Sixty-one percent of Americans support a permanent ceasefire in the region, according to a poll conducted by Data for Progress and published December 5. The poll found that 74 percent of those surveyed support sending food, water, and medical aid to the people of Gaza. 49 percent support sending military aid to Israel, while 38 percent oppose it.

Though the U.S. has long been a staunch ally of Israel, President Joe Biden said the country was losing international support by its “indiscriminate bombing” of the area.

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Yet the U.S. has vetoed three U.N. resolutions calling for an immediate end to hostilities in the region. Fifth District Representative Bob Good expressed “unequivocal

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From Crane’s vantage, however, the vast majority of people are in favor of peace.

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s the number of Palestinian lives lost from the conflict in Gaza climbs to over 20,000, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, voices addressing the crisis are louder than ever.

Local activist Jason Crane is one of them.

Since October 24, Crane has held a vigil every weekday morning on the corner of Rugby Road and Rugby Avenue in observance of the loss of Palestinian life. Like hundreds of thousands of Americans, Crane wanted to acknowledge the unfolding crisis in the region, so, with a homemade sign reading “Stop Genocide, Free Palestine,” he walked to the busiest street corner accessible to him, and made it a daily ritual.

Crane says for the first week or two, he held the vigil alone. Then someone saw one of his daily posts on Instagram and joined him the next morning. A neighbor who saw him while driving by decided to stop and participate as well. Crane says there are now about 50 people who attend off and on. On November 9, a similar vigil gathered in front of the Northrop Grumman building on Route 29, and has continued from 4 to 5pm every Friday.

According to the Crowd Counting Consortium, a public service project that tracks non-violent protests, the majority of demonstrations in the United States expressed solidarity with Israel in the first 10 days following the October 7 attack by Hamas, with 270 recorded compared with nearly 200 in support of Palestine. But as the war continued, the nation saw a massive surge of support for Palestine. On November 28, CCC recorded 1,869 events showing solidarity for Palestine compared to 433 in support of Israel since October 7.

“The belief that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza appears to be an important factor in the growth of this movement,” writes Jay Ulfelder, program director of Harvard’s Nonviolent Action Lab, on the CCC blog.

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The Alderman Library project, which cost more than $100 million, included renovating 100,000 square feet of the original structure and a 130,000 square-foot addition.

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The university’s main library is currently named after UVA’s president from 1905 to 1931, Edwin Alderman. Proponents of renaming the library say Alderman should not be honored, given his staunch support of the pseudoscience of eugenics and white supremacy during his time as university president. A 2018 president’s commission report examining slavery at the UVA noted Alderman’s aim to make the university a “leading eugenics research center.”

“The topic of renaming the library is expected to appear in the March 2024 Board of Visitors meeting materials for discussion,” says Glover. She did not say whether new signage referring to the building as Alderman Library was created during the renovation process.

While the Board of Visitors was slated to take up renaming the library in December, it pushed consideration of the name change to March 2024. At press time, the Board of Visitors had not responded to a request for comment.

The university is not expected to hold any special events related to the reopening prior to April’s official opening.

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he University of Virginia will reopen Alderman Library on January 8 after nearly four years of renovations. As work continues on the project during the spring semester, the UVA Board of Visitors will also consider renaming the university’s main library ahead of the official grand opening in April.

Since closing in March 2020, Alderman Library has undergone extensive renovations to improve the buildings’ safety, accessibility, and amenities. New features include the secondary entrance on University Avenue, two study courts, and more natural lighting.

“We are eager to welcome the UVA community back to the newly renovated library,” says UVA Deputy Spokesperson Bethanie Glover. “Library visitors can expect more study spaces, better accessibility, more natural light, a student-run café, and more following the reopening.”

Glover says the university is opening the building now to allow the Class of 2024 the opportunity to use Alderman before graduation. Most elements of the library will be accessible in January, but the book and material relocation process will continue throughout spring. More than a million books will be moved by library workers in what is expected to be a six-month process.

Beyond book relocation, another crucial item is still up in the air: the library’s name.

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not a single-family detached house. This is a building within a neighborhood of single-family detached homes.”

The new zoning ordinance will cap the building width at 175 feet, and Warner says a new design will need to incorporate some sort of a break in the structure to avoid it becoming too monolithic.

Planning Commissioner Carl Schwarz also sits on the BAR, and he pointed out that the original design may not fit under the new zoning.

“The setbacks on this project are significantly greater than would be allowed by what I believe our new zoning code is going to permit,” Schwarz says.

Schwarz wanted to know how much leeway the BAR might have in granting greater setbacks. Werner says some of the ramifications of the new zoning will come out as individual projects are reviewed.

“Now that they’ve approved the ordinance, staff kind of got to the point where we said, ‘Let’s see what they approve and then we’ll go back in and become experts on it,’” Werner says.

The BAR review also allows a conduit for neighborhood feedback to be taken into consideration. Chair Breck Gastinger read the comments from people who wanted more information on how the project would improve pedestrian connectivity in the area. He also added his own comment.

“I think it could be appropriate to add height on East High Street if that is desired,” Gastinger says. “Having more height variation across that facade would break down the mass.” That additional height would be allowed by-right under the Node Mixed Use 10 zoning that is now codified in the approved zoning ordinance.

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One day later, Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review held a preliminary review of one project for which a site plan had been submitted in midNovember. That’s after the August 18 cut off, as recommended by staff and agreed upon by council, so it will be reviewed under the new rules.

The site plan by Two Street Studios shows a five-story building with 192 residential units constructed in what is now a surface parking lot for the building that formerly housed Martha Jefferson Hospital. An internal garage will supply spaces for both the new homes and the converted office building.

The property at 915 E. High St. is in one of the city’s historic conservation districts. That will continue to give the BAR a role to play in shaping future buildings.

“The design guidelines would say new construction should be at the prevailing height,” says Jeff Werner, the city’s preservation planner. “That would suggest two stories.”

However the guidelines would also allow the BAR to issue a certificate of appropriateness for a structure to be 200 percent of the prevailing height.

“The new zoning, once everything gets put in place, would allow a 10-story building at this site,” Werner says. “It’s

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We have made the planet inhospitable to human life.” That’s what the lead researcher in Project Censored’s number one story last year said. He wasn’t talking about the climate catastrophe. He was talking about so-called “forever chemicals,” per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, linked to prostate, kidney ,and testicular cancer and additional health risks, and the study he led found unsafe levels in rainwater worldwide.

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Even though this story received some corporate media attention—in USA Today and on the Discovery Channel—the starkly shocking bottom line clearly didn’t come through to the general public. Have you heard it before? Has it been the subject of any conversation you’ve had? No? Well, that, my friend, is the very essence of what Project Censored’s signature list is all about—exposing the suppression (active or passive) of vitally important information from the public, which renders the public unable to act in the way that a healthy democratic public is supposed to. They’ve been doing it since Carl Jensen began it with a single college class in 1976, inspired in part by the way the Watergate story got this same sort of treatment until well after the election cycle it was part of.

2. Hiring of former CIA employees and ex-Israeli agents “blurs line” between big tech and big brother

1. “Forever chemicals” in rainwater a global threat to human health

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Rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” Morgan McFall-Johnsen reported in Insider in August 2022, summing up the results of a global study of so-called “forever chemicals,” polyfluoroalkyl substances, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers from Stockholm University and the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics at ETH Zurich concluded that “in many areas inhabited by humans,” PFAS contamination levels in rainwater, surface water, and soil “often greatly exceed” the strictest international guidelines for acceptable levels of perfluoroalkyl acids.

They’re called “forever chemicals” because they take so long to break down, “allowing them to build up in people, animals, and environments,” Insider reported. Project Censored notes, “Prior research has linked these chemicals to prostate, kidney, and testicular cancer and additional health risks, including developmental delays in children, decreased fertility in women and men, reduced vaccine efficacy, and high cholesterol.”

“PFAS were now ‘so persistent’ and ubiquitous that they will never disappear from the planet,” lead researcher Ian Cousins told Agence France-Presse. “We have made the planet inhospitable to human life by irreversibly contaminating it now so that nothing is clean anymore. And to the point that it’s not clean enough to be safe,” he said, adding that “We have crossed a planetary boundary,” a paradigm for evaluating Earth’s capacity to absorb harmful impacts of human activity.

The “good news” is that PFAS levels aren’t increasing in the environment. “What’s changed is the guidelines,” he said. “They’ve gone down millions of times since the early 2000s, because we’ve learned more about the toxicity of these substances.”

All the more reason the second strand of this story is important: “The same month,” Project Censored writes, “researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, published a study in the Annals of Global Health using internal industry documents to show that the companies responsible for ‘forever chemicals’ have known for decades that these substances pose significant threats to human health and the environment.”

There’s been limited corporate media coverage that rainwater isn’t safe to drink—specifically from USA Today, the Discovery Channel, and Medical News Today. But the general public clearly hasn’t heard the news. However, there’s been more coverage of the series of lawsuits developing in response to PFAS. But the big-picture story surrounding them remains shockingly missing.

“Google—one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world—is filled with ex-CIA agents,” Alan MacLeod reported for MintPress News in July 2022. “An inordinate number of these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees on its screens and in its search results.”

“Chief amongst these is the trust and safety department, whose staff, in the words of the Google trust and safety vice president Kristie Canegallo, ‘[d]ecide what content is allowed on our platform’—in other words, setting the rules of the internet, determining what billions see and what they do not see.”

And more broadly, “a former CIA employee is working in almost every department at Google,” Project Censored noted.

But Google isn’t alone. Nor is the CIA. “Former employees of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies now hold senior positions at Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants,” Project Censored wrote. A second report focused on employees from Israel’s Unit 8200, its equivalent of the CIA, which is “infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population,” MacLeod wrote. Using LinkedIn, he identified hundreds of such individuals from both agencies, providing specific information about dozens of them.

“The problem with former CIA agents becoming the arbiters of what is true and what is false and what should be promoted and what should be deleted is that they cut their teeth at a notorious organization whose job it was to inject lies and false information into the public discourse to further the goals of the national security state,” MacLeod wrote, citing the 1983 testimony of former CIA task force head John Stockwell, author of In Search of Enemies, in which he described the dissemination of propaganda as a “major function” of the agency.

“I had propagandists all over the world,” Stockwell wrote, adding, “We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists [to the media]… We ran [faked] photographs that made almost every newspaper in the country … We didn’t know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast.”

“None of this means that all or even any of the individuals are moles—or even anything but model employees today,” MacLeod noted later. But the sheer number of them “certainly causes concern.”

Reinforcing that concern is big tech’s history. “As journalist Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation found, the CIA and the NSA were bankrolling Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin’s research—work that would later produce Google,” MacLeod wrote. “Not only that but, in Ahmed’s words, ‘senior U.S. intelligence representatives, including a CIA official, oversaw the evolution of Google in this pre-launch phase, all the way until the company was ready to be officially founded.’”

This fits neatly within the larger framework of Silicon Valley’s origin as a supplier of defense department technology.

“A May 2022 review found no major newspaper coverage of Big Tech companies hiring former U.S. or Israeli intelligence officers as employees,” Project Censored noted. “The most prominent U.S. newspapers have not covered Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other big tech companies hiring former U.S. and Israeli intelligence officers.” Individual cases may make the news. But the overall systemic pattern remains a story censored by mainstream silence.

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3. Toxic chemicals continue to go unregulated in the United States

The United States is “a global laggard in chemical regulation,” ProPublica reported in December 2022, a result of chemical industry influence and acquiescence by the Environmental Protection Agency over a period of decades, according to reporters Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner, and Kathleen McGrory. A headline example: asbestos, one of the most widely-recognized toxic substances, is still legal in the U.S., more than 30 years after the EPA tried to have it banned.

“Through interviews with environmental experts and analysis of a half century’s worth of legislation, lawsuits, EPA documents, oral histories, chemical databases, and regulatory records, ProPublica uncovered the longstanding institutional failure to protect Americans from toxic chemicals,” Project Censored reported. ProPublica identified five main reasons for failure: 1. The chemical industry helped write the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act. A top EPA official “joked the law was ‘written by industry’ and should have been named after the DuPont executive who went over the text line by line,” ProPublica reported. The law “allowed more than 60,000 chemicals to stay on the market without a review of their health risks” and required the EPA to always choose the “least burdensome” regulations. “These two words would doom American chemical regulation for decades.”

2. Following early failures, the EPA lost its resolve. In 1989, after 10 years of work, the EPA was banning asbestos. But companies that used asbestos sued and won in 1991, based on a court ruling they’d failed to prove it was the “least burdensome” option. However, “the judge did provide a road map for future bans, which would require the agency to do an analysis of other regulatory options … to prove they wouldn’t be adequate,” but rather than follow through, the EPA simply gave up.

3. Chemicals are considered innocent until proven guilty. For decades, the U.S. and E.U. used a “risk-based” approach to regulation, requiring the government to prove a chemical poses unreasonable health risks before restricting it—which can take years. In 2007, the E.U. switched to a “hazard-based” approach, putting the burden on companies when there’s evidence of significant harm. As a result, ProPublica explained, “the E.U. has successfully banned or restricted more than a thousand chemicals.” A similar approach was proposed in the U.S. in 2005 by New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, but it was soundly defeated.

4. The EPA mostly regulates chemicals one by one. In 2016, a new law amended the TSCA to cut the “least burdensome” language, and created a schedule “where a small list of high-priority chemicals would be reviewed every few years; in 2016, the first 10 were selected, including asbestos,” ProPublica reported. “The EPA would then have about three years to assess the chemicals and another two years to finalize regulations on them.” But six years later, “the agency is behind on all such rules. So far, it has only proposed one ban, on asbestos, and the agency told ProPublica it would still be almost a year before that is finalized.” Industry fights the process at every step. “Meanwhile, the E.U. has authored a new plan to regulate chemicals even faster by targeting large groups of dangerous substances,” which “would lead to bans of another 5,000 chemicals by 2030.”

5. The EPA employs industry-friendly scientists as regulators. “The EPA has a long history of hiring scientists and top officials from the companies they are supposed to regulate, allowing industry to sway the agency’s science from the inside,” ProPublica wrote. A prime example is Todd Stedeford. “A lawyer and toxicologist, Stedeford has been hired by the EPA on three separate occasions,” ProPublica noted. “During his two most recent periods of employment at the agency—from 2011 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2021—he was hired by corporate employers who use or manufacture chemicals the EPA regulates.”

“A handful of corporate outlets have reported on the EPA’s slowness to regulate certain toxic chemicals,” Project Censored noted, citing stories in The Washington Post and The New York Times. “However, none have highlighted the systemic failures wrought by the EPA and the chemical industry.”

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4. Stalkerware could be used to incriminate people violating abortion bans

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“The forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading certifier and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci, and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a new investigation,” The Guardian reported on January 23, as part of a joint nine month reporting project with SourceMaterial, and Die Zeit. “The analysis raises questions over the credits bought by a number of internationally renowned companies— some of them have labeled their products ‘carbon neutral’, or have told their consumers they can fly, buy new clothes or eat certain foods without making the climate crisis worse.”

“About 90 percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions,” Project Censored summed up. Verra, “has issued more than one billion metric tons worth of carbon offsets, certifies three-fourths of all voluntary carbon offsets.” While “Verra claimed to have certified 94.9 million credits” the actual benefits “amounted to a much more modest 5.5 million credits.” This was based on an analysis of “the only three scientific studies to use robust, scientifically sound methods to assess the impact of carbon offsets on deforestation,” Project Censored explained.

“The journalists also consulted with indigenous communities, industry insiders, and scientists.”

“The studies used different methods and time periods, looked at different ranges of projects, and the researchers said no modeling approach is ever perfect,” The Guardian wrote.

“However, the data showed broad agreement on the lack of effectiveness of the projects compared with the Verra-approved predictions.”

Specifically, “The investigation of twenty-nine Verra rainforest offset projects found that twenty-one had no climate benefit, seven had significantly less climate benefit than claimed (by margins of 52 to 98 percent less benefit than claimed), while one project yielded 80 percent more climate benefit than claimed. Overall, the study concluded that 94 percent of the credits approved by these projects were ‘worthless’ and never should have been approved.”

“Another study conducted by a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge found that in thirty-two of the forty forest offset projects investigated, the claims concerning forest protection and emission reductions were overstated by an average of 400 percent,” Project Censored reported. “Despite claims that these thirty-two projects together protected an area of rainforest the size of Italy, they only protected an area the size of Venice.”

While Verra criticized the studies’ methods and conclusions, an outside expert, Oxford ecoscience professor Yadvinder Singh Malhi, had two Ph.D. students check for errors, and they found none. “I wish it were otherwise, but this report is pretty compelling,” he told The Guardian.

“Rainforest protection credits are the most common type on the market at the moment.

And it’s exploding, so these findings really matter,” said Barbara Haya, director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, who’s researched carbon credits for 20 years. “But these problems are not just limited to this credit type. These problems exist with nearly every kind of credit,” she told The Guardian. “We need an alternative process. The offset market is broken.”

“There is simply nobody in the market who has a genuine interest to say when something goes wrong,” Lambert Schneider, a researcher at the Öko-Institut in Berlin told SourceMaterial.

“The investigations by The Guardian, Die Zeit, and SourceMaterial appear to have made a difference. In March 2023, Verra announced that it would phase out its flawed rainforest offset program by mid-2025,” Project Censored reported. But they could only find one brief mention of the joint investigation in major U.S. newspapers: a Chicago Tribune op-ed. ©Random Lengths News 2023

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Stalkerware—consisting of up to 200 surveillance apps and services that provide secret access to people’s phones for a monthly fee—“could become a significant legal threat to people seeking abortions, according to a pair of articles published in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion,” Project Censored reports.

“Abortion medication is safe. But now that Roe is overturned, your data isn’t,” Rae Hodge wrote for the tech news site CNET just two days after the Dobbs decision. “Already, the digital trails of abortion seekers can become criminal evidence against them in some states where abortion[s] were previously prosecuted. And the legal dangers may extend to abortion seekers in even more states.” The next month, writing for Slate, University of Virginia law professor Danielle Keats Citron warned that “surveillance accomplished by individual privacy invaders will be a gold mine for prosecutors targeting both medical workers and pregnant people seeking abortions.”

Invaders only need a few minutes to access phones and passwords. “Once installed, cyberstalking apps silently record and upload phones’ activities to their servers,” Citron explained. “They enable privacy invaders to see our photos, videos, texts, calls, voice mails, searches, social media activities, locations—nothing is out of reach. From anywhere, individuals can activate a phone’s mic to listen to conversations within 15 feet of the phone,” even “conversations that pregnant people have with their health care providers—nurses, doctors, and insurance company employees,” she warned. As a result, Hodge cautioned, “Those who aid abortion seekers could be charged as accomplices in some cases,” under some state laws.

It’s not just abortion, she explained, “Your phone’s data, your social media accounts, your browsing and geolocation history, and your ISP’s detailed records of your internet activity may all be used as evidence if you face state criminal or civil charges for a miscarriage.”

“Often marketed as a tool to monitor children’s online safety or as device trackers, stalkerware is technically illegal to sell for the purpose of monitoring adults,” Project Censored noted, but that’s hardly a deterrent. “Stalkerware and other forms of electronic surveillance have been closely associated with domestic violence and sexual assault, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence,” Citron noted.

In addition, Hodge explained, “third-party data brokers sell sensitive geolocation data— culled through a vast web of personal tracking tech found in apps, browsers, and devices— to law enforcement without oversight.” And “abortion bounty hunter” provisions, adopted by states like Texas and Oklahoma, add a financial incentive. “Given the inexpensive cost of readily available stores of personal data and how easily they can be de-anonymized, savvy informants could use the information to identify abortion seekers and turn a profit,” she noted.

“The law’s response to intimate privacy violations is inadequate, lacking a clear conception of what intimate privacy is, why its violation is wrongful, and how it inflicts serious harm upon individuals, groups, and society,” Citron explained. “Until federal regulations and legislation establish a set of digital privacy laws, abortion seekers are caught in the position of having to create their own patchwork of digital defenses, from often complicated and expensive privacy tools,” Hodge warned. While the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act is still “slowly inching through Congress” it “is widely thought toothless,” she wrote.

The Joe Biden administration has proposed a new rule protecting “certain health data from being used to prosecute both clinicians and patients,” STAT reported in May 2023, but the current draft only applies “in states where abortion is legal.”

“Corporate news outlets have paid some attention to the use of digital data in abortionrelated prosecutions,” Project Censored reports. While there have been stories about postRoe digital privacy, “none have focused specifically on how stalkerware could potentially be used in criminal investigations of suspected abortions.”

5. Certified rainforest carbon offsets mostly “worthless”

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STEP RIGHT UP Michael Clem (left) has been entertaining local audiences with his solo, duo, trio, and ensemble configurations for over 15 years. Known for his multi-instrument talent and membership in Eddie From Ohio, Clem celebrates the release of his third full-length record, Circus Brawl, with a special solo set. The album’s nine songs span bluegrass to roots rock, and continue Clem’s tradition of celebrating musical connections with features from Andy Thacker, Charlie Bell, Malia Furtado, and more. $20–25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.org

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Vincent Zorn is always ready to rumba.

The Charlottesville-based musician performs almost daily as a soloist and with his duo, Berto & Vincent. Zorn’s unique percussive style draws inspiration from gypsy culture in southern France and from time spent in Spain, Turkey, and Mexico, incorporating a variety of strumming styles, rhythms, and taps. Free, times vary. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, and South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. vincentzorn.com

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Karaoke. A weekly song party hosted by Jen DeVille. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Matt Johnson. The local singer-songwriter performs live. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

The Wavelength. A midweek music boost.

Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com

Music Bingo. See listing for Thursday, January 4. Free, 2pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

Vincent Zorn. Lively gypsy rumba. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Tara Mills. Mountain Americana. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

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Showgirls. When you’re looking for fame in Vegas, there’s always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you. $10, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

classes Paint & Sip: Snowy Sunset. Paint, sip, and repeat. $35, 1pm. Hazy Mountain Vineyards & Brewery, 8736 Dick Woods Rd., Afton. catelynkelseydesigns.com

Thursday 1/4 music Music Bingo. Listen to your favorite tunes and win gift card prizes for the winners. Free, 6pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Vincent Zorn. See listing for Wednesday, January 3. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

classes Toddler Art Time. C-Street Preschool teacher Minou leads little ones through singing, storytime, and artmaking. $12, 10am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. scrappyelephant.com

outside Veritas Illuminated. A half-mile walking trail with twinkling light installations, tunnels, and more. $10–15, 5:15pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com Winter Wander. An illuminated lakeside stroll. $10–20, times vary. Boar’s Head Resort, 200 Ednam Dr. winterwander.com

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Friday 1/5 music Ark of Mark. Genre-blending music, from alternative rock to folk and jazz fusion. $10– 12, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Don’t Look Up. Americana music deeply rooted in the blues. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com HWDI. Live music with a side of ‘cue. Free, 8pm. Ace Biscuit & Barbeque, 600 Concord Ave. @acebiscuitandbarbecue Jim Howe Trio at Offbeat Roadhouse.

Jazz improv. Free, 8pm. The Stage at WTJU, 2244 Ivy Rd. wtju.net

Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

dance Silent Disco. Dance to your own tune with a pair of multi-channel wireless headphones. $10–15, 5:30pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet,. prnbrewery.com

outside First Fridays Cruiser Bicycle Ride. Take a cruise on your bicycle to a local brewery.

Free, 6pm. Endeavor Cycles, 2208 B Fontaine Ave. endeavorcycles.com Veritas Illuminated. See listing for Thursday, January 4. $10–15, 5:15pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com Winter Wander. See listing for Thursday, January 4. $10–20, times vary. Boar’s Head Resort, 200 Ednam Dr. winter wander.com

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Cidery Cinema: Mamma Mia Singalong.

Grab light bites, movie snacks, and cider and enjoy a screening in the orchard room. $10, 6pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Meet & Greet. Meet some animal ambassadors.

Free, 3pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The journey begins, presented in an extended version. $10, 6pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Michael Hirsch & Tess Fisher. The Richmond country scenesters take over the stage. Free, 8pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com

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Musical Suspects / Ezra Hamilton. Performing funk, soul, and R&B. Free, 9pm.

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

An Evening with Michael Clem. Performing his new album, Circus Brawl. $20–25, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.org

Sue Harlow. Enjoy live tunes with your wine, cider, and beer. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

David Bowie’s 77th Birthday Party. Featuring The Jean Jeanies return. $12–40, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

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Melissa Hansen. A blend of blues, pop, country, and soul. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

Friday Night Writes. Emerging writers perform their short stories, poetry, and music.

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Porch Dogs. Rock, pop, oldies, country, and more. Free, 1pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

Jurassic Park. Long-extinct predators are brought back as amusement park attractions—what’s the worst that could happen? $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

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Tara Mills Band. Inspired by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the rich musical traditions tied to them. $10, 7pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com

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Storytime. Readings of recent favorites and classics. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

Club Create. A series of afterschool art classes for third through fifth graders. $200, 4:45pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. scrappyelephant.com

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Club Create Junior. Arts and crafts for kids in kindergarten through second grade. $200, 3:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. scrappyelephant.com

Felt Floral Workshop. Make felt florals and foliage with Emma. $35, 12:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. scrappyelephant.com Lost in the Woods. Create your own forest of light and shadow with Clay Witt. $15–20, 11am. Second Street Gallery, 115 Second St. SE. secondstreetgallery.org Modern Calligraphy. Introductory course on calligraphy. $20, 11am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. scrappyelephant.com

Vincent Zorn. Live rumba guitar. Free, 6:30pm. South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. southandcentralgrill.com

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AI: Artificial Intelligence. David is a highly sophisticated robot who longs to be a “real boy” in Steven Spielberg’s moody drama, inspired by an uncompleted Stanley Kubrick project. $5, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

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Foraging Awe: A Guided Walking Tour. Immerse yourself in nature by engaging your surroundings as if a piece of art. Free, 11am.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu

Josh Mayo and The House Sauce. Live late-night music. Free, 9:45pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Veritas Illuminated. See listing for Thursday, January 4. $10–15, 5:15pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com

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The Kook Report featuring Big Blue Door Improvisors. A night of longform improv comedy about eccentric, strange, and bizarre friends and family. $10, 8pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd., Ste. 3. bigbluedoor.org The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. See listing for Friday, January 5. $10, 11:15am. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com Met Live in HD: Nabucco. Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic staging of biblical proportions. $20–26, 1pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

Vincent Zorn. See listing for Wednesday, January 3. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero. com

classes Paint & Sip: Frosted Pines. Create your own winter-themed masterpiece. $35, 6pm. Starr Hill Downtown, Dairy Market. catelynkelseydesigns.com

outside Three Notch’d Run Club. Log some miles and enjoy a $5 post-run beer. Free, 6pm.

Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery, 520 Second St. SE. threenotchdbrewing.com

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The Iron Giant. A little boy makes a great big friend from outer space in this classic animated fable. $7, 6pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

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Neon Culture Brewing elevates beer and builds community

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How Will We Get It?

Keep an eye on Corey Hoffman’s socials (@neonculturebrewing) for details on the upcoming tasting room at Murphy & Rude Malting Co.

The Charlottesville Democrats are gearing up for the 2024 election, organizing at the precinct level and electing officers; help us in the fight to save our democracy!

Saturday, Jan. 6 at 1pm Carver Recreation Center, 233 4th St NW

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Enjoy music and drinks/snacks, meet new people, & sign up to VOLUNTEER in 2024!

2-4pm Voting

Precinct Rep and Officer elections You must arrive before 2pm to vote!

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Any City of Charlottesville resident who’s a registered voter, supports the Democratic Party, and is willing to do a bit of organizing work to help us win in November (especially newcomers!).

More info: www.cvilledems.org

Email cvilledemschair@gmail.com with questions or if you’re interested but can’t attend.

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COREY HOFFMAN

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While many breweries today embrace a classic style, Neon Culture brings a different vibe into the local beerscape—one that embraces experimentation, unconventional ingredients, and welcomes seasoned hop-heads and beer newbies alike.

“I think of all my brews as mixtapes,” says Hoffman, who is inspired by ’80s and ’90s aesthetics, including bright colors, vintage technology, and music. “We always have one or two beers that are on the normal side, and then there’s at least one with that Neon Culture vibe that’s a little different.”

Hoffman’s previous brews include Appetite for Inclusion, a hazy IPA made with Richmond homebrewer Rusty Barrel, HAZELWHAT?!, an imperial stout with hazelnuts, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans, and Summer at the Dreamhouse, a wheat beer that blends nostalgia with current pop culture and notes of grilled pineapples, mangoes, and habanero.

All of Neon Culture’s beers are brewed at and released in collaboration with Decipher Brewing, as Hoffman slowly works toward opening his own brewery. The next step in his journey—a small taproom and tasting bar in Murphy & Rude Malting Co.’s expanding space—is coming sometime this year.

“I’m not in a rush,” says Hoffman, who is embracing every step of the process. “I’m trying to make a new culture around here.”

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ll roads flow back to beer for Corey Hoffman, founder and head brewer at Neon Culture Brewing, a small-but-mighty start-up with big plans and singular suds.

Hoffman’s history with beer as a drinker includes—like many of us—college-age encounters involving red Solo cups, pingpong balls, and cold cans sipped at a bar.

That all changed in 2017 when Hoffman’s brother asked a simple question that launched a career: Have you ever heard of homebrewing?

“At the time I was looking for something to pour myself into,” says Hoffman. “I was trying to get out of my mom’s house, as all millennials try to do after you’re there way longer than you’re supposed to be, so I bought this [homebrewing] kit on a whim.”

Hoffman’s first beer was pretty undrinkable, but the experience inspired him to start researching and learning more about what goes into brewing beer. As he delved deeper into the worlds of homebrewing and beermaking, it became abundantly clear to him just how white the brewing industry is.

“When I started homebrewing I quickly realized there weren’t a lot of people that looked like me that were doing what I was doing,” Hoffman says. “I wondered in my mind, why don’t Black people like this beer? Why don’t I see a lot of Black homebrewers? It’s not that they don’t like it, it’s just that either you’re not exposed to it, or maybe the price point is too high, but mostly that it’s very intimidating walking into spaces when you don’t know anything about them.”

“That was the catalyst for me starting my own thing,” Hoffman says. “I wanted to share what I was doing with people, but at the same time I wanted to change the perception of what craft beer is—who it’s for and what it’s about.”

So Hoffman launched Neon Culture, a grassroots, community-organized brewery that keeps inclusivity, community, and collaboration at the heart of its mission. It’s also the first Black-owned brewery in Charlottesville.

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A legendary underground rock star gets a second legacy at WTJU

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In honor of musician and poet David Berman, WTJU’s first dedicated endowment, The David Berman Memorial Fund, will be earmarked to support student experiences at both WTJU and WXTJ.

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But when asked about her time with the poet and singer-songwriter, the first story that comes to Wright’s mind is set in the university’s library. The two aspiring musicians were studying one day when Berman decided to use the library’s suggestion board. “How would you improve the library?” the board queried. “More bass,” Berman answered.

Several days later, library staff responded: “We’re more ‘trout’ people.”

“David saw that and said, ‘My work here is done,’” Wright says. “He could really be a very funny person.”

Since Berman’s suicide in 2019, the media has focused much on the former Silver Jews frontman’s demons. He was a reclusive loner, they report, tormented by self doubt and addiction.

Back at UVA, though, Wright remembers how communal the budding lyricist’s energy was. WTJU was a fraternity/sorority for their friends, she says, and the group’s creativity worked in pure synergy.

It’s that sort of synergy that WTJU will try to perpetuate with its recently announced David Berman Memorial Fund, the station’s first dedicated endowment.

According to WTJU General Manager Nathan Moore, the fund will be earmarked to support student experiences at both WTJU and WXTJ—much like those transformative programs Berman and his friends enjoyed in the late ’80s.

“Our mission is to bring people together through excellent music conversation,”

Moore says. “We’ve been doing that for decades and decades.”

During his time at UVA and WTJU, Berman crafted the logophilic artistic approach that made him and the Silver Jews—founded alongside Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich of Pavement fame—influential for years to come. Berman was always as much a poet as a songwriter, painstakingly crafting lyrics for the Silver Jews, and later Purple Mountains, that reflected humanity’s greatest weaknesses and insecurities. His one collected work of verse, Actual Air, drew perhaps even more acclaim than did his song lyrics, with many critics praising the poetry’s blunt wit and absurdist take on American life.

When UVA alumnus Andy Stepanian approached Moore about starting an endowment, they agreed a fund in Berman’s name would be a perfect fit. “As a student, I tuned in to WTJU because it was always a place to hear alternative music,” Stepanian says. “I still have cassette tapes of some WTJU programs I recorded back in the early ’90s.”

Stepanian and his wife Liz provided the seed gift to start the memorial fund, but Moore says the station wants the legacy to go further. Additional donations, which the Stepanians will match through the end of summer 2024, will be required to maintain the program.

In the past, WTJU’s summer student internships have mostly been unpaid, something Moore says is inequitable—reserved for those who can afford to forgo income for three months. Indeed, many publicly funded radio stations, including NPR, have done away with their internship programs, citing their high cost.

With further donations, Moore says WTJU can continue to provide the kind of

experience that let Berman, Wright, and their friends nurture their creativity, engage in the arts, tell stories, and learn the technical side of the music and radio business.

“It’s a privilege that can launch people into fantastic lives and careers,” Moore says. “This will help us grow the program and sustain it and perhaps expand it.”

Before he died, Berman was planning a Purple Mountains tour. Wright had tickets to see the band in Philadelphia. She emailed Berman to let him know she’d be there, and he responded with a promise not to do what he always did after shows: disappear. The next day, she heard the news of his death.

“I remember writing at the time that we lost the best and brightest in our group,” Wright says. “I think he had been fighting for years, and the strain of the upcoming tour was too much.”

Moore says he didn’t know Berman when he was alive, but he’s a fan of his music, lyrics, and voice. And he’s gotten to know more about him by meeting friends like Wright. The portrait is one that so many have come to know—the outsider, the disrupter, the sometime anarchist. But it’s also a portrait of an artist who embraced both people and creativity in all their forms.

“I used to listen to his show. I would come hang out sometimes, and we all kind of fed off of each others’ musical interests,” Wright says. “The media would try to build him up as this sort of brooding poet, and in actuality, it was about having his tribe around him. I just feel lucky that I was in the right time and place in history to have met David. I miss him all the time, but I’m glad his memory is being kept alive and that this is going to help young people in music.”

Andy Stepanian and his wife Liz provided the seed gift to start the memorial fund, but Nathan Moore says the station wants the legacy to go further.

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(Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Singer-songwriter Tori Amos says she’s sure she was burned for being a witch in a previous lifetime. I suspect most of us had past incarnations in which we were punished simply for being our beautiful selves. I bring this up, Aquarius, because I think 2024 will be a favorable time to get some healing from any ancient hurt like that. You will have a series of experiences that could help you recover from the illusion that being faithful to your truth is somehow wrong. Life will conspire with you to help you reclaim more of the full audacity to be your gorgeous, genuine self.

Pisces

(Feb. 19–March 20): I believe 2024 will be one of the best years ever for your education.

Your willingness and eagerness to learn will be at a peak. Your knack for attracting inspirational teachers will be excellent. It’s likely you will be exceptionally curious and open to good influences. My advice is to be alert for lessons not just from obvious sources of wisdom and revelation, but also from unexpected founts. Don’t be too sure you know where revelations and illumination might come from.

Aries

(March 21–April 19): The plan I will propose in this horoscope is for temporary use. I’m not recommending you stick to it for all of 2024, but just for the next 15 to 18 days. If you do, I believe it will set you up for beautiful success in the coming months. Here’s my idea: Embark on a free-form extravaganza of playing and having fun. Just for now, set aside your ambition. Don’t worry about improving yourself and producing results. Simply enjoy a phase of suspending inhibitions, creatively messing around, having nothing to prove, and being motivated by the quest for joy.

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Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I am against sex education in schools because sex is more fun when it’s dirty and sinful.” So said Capricorn author Florence King. I reject and rebel against that perverse declaration—and encourage you to disavow it, too, in 2024. In my astrological opinion, the coming months will be a favorable time to learn everything about sex and eros that you don’t already know. I hope you will dive deep as you gather a rich array of teachings about how to enjoy the art of making love more than ever before. (Consider consulting tantric manuals like Margo Anand’s The Art of Sexual Magic: Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life.)

rainbow will be a potent and regular symbol for you Bulls in 2024—more than ever before. That means you will have increased reasons to entertain hope and more power to find beauty. On occasion, there may even be very good luck at the metaphorical rainbow’s end. If you’re an LGBTQIA2S+ Taurus, be on high alert for breakthroughs in your ability to get the appreciation you deserve.

Gemini

(May 21–June 20): As one of your inspirational stories for 2024, I offer this tale from singer-songwriter Tom Waits: “Once upon a time, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. They grew next to each other. Every day, the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and say, ‘You’re crooked. You’ve always been crooked, and you’ll continue to be crooked. But look at me! I’m tall, and I’m straight.’ Then one day, lumberjacks came to the forest and looked around. The manager in charge said, ‘Cut all the straight trees.’

And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.” (PS: Here’s more from Gemini writer Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant.”

Cancer

(June 21–July 22): Japanese artist Hokusai developed a fascination for his country’s iconic Mount Fuji. In his 70s, he produced a series of woodblock prints titled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Later, he added three books of prints collectively called One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. Some art historians say his obsession stemmed from the legend that the mountain was home to the secret of immortality. The coming year will be a fine time for you Cancerians to celebrate and concentrate on your own Mount Fuji-like passion. Sometime soon, identify what it is, and start making plans to commune with it intensely.

Leo

(July 23–Aug. 22): If you will ever in your life go viral—that is, create or do something that suddenly becomes widely known and influential—I bet it will be in 2024. Even if you don’t produce TikTok videos seen by 10 million people, you are at least likely to become more visible in your local community or field of endeavor. Of course, I would prefer that your fame and clout spread because of the good deeds you do, not the weird deeds. So I urge you to cultivate high integrity and a wildly generous spirit in the coming months.

Be a role model who inspires and uplifts.

Virgo

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22): I expect 2024 to be a free-spirited, wide-ranging, big-vision type of year for you, dear Virgo. I predict you will feel an abundance of urges to travel, roam, and explore. You will be more excited than anxious about the prospect of leaving your comfort zone, and you will have a special fondness for getting your mind expanded by interesting encounters. That doesn’t mean you will avoid all awkwardness and confusion. Some of that stuff will happen, though it will usually evolve into educational adventures. And the extra good news is that wandering out in nature will provide even more inspiration and healing than usual. Treasure this quote from conservationist Rachel Carson: “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure: the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.

Libra

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I am pleased to inform you that a visit to hell will not be on your itinerary in 2024. You may be invited to take a few excursions into the realm that depth psychologists call the underworld, but that’s

a good thing. There you will be able to hunt for treasures that have been hidden and uncover secrets that will illuminate your epic, months-long quest for wholeness. It may sometimes be dark and shadowy down there below, but almost always dark and shadowy in ways that will lead you to healing. (I will reiterate what I implied above: The underworld is not hell.)

Scorpio

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope that working hard on togetherness will be a fun project for you in the coming months. To do it well, you must outgrow some habitual ways of doing friendship and intimacy. You will have to be imaginative and ingenious. Are you willing to believe that you do not yet know all there is to know about being a fantastic ally and partner? Are you ready to approach the arts of collaboration and cooperation as if enhancing your skills is the most important thing you can do? For the sake of your best selfish goals, be a brilliant teammate in 2024.

Sagittarius

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Each of us is a complex, kaleidoscopic work of art, whether or not we consciously approach our destiny in that spirit. Every day, we use our creative imagination to craft new elements of the masterpiece known as the story of our life. Leos come by this fun project naturally, but you Sagittarians also have great potential to embrace it with glee and panache. I trust you will be especially keen on enjoying this sacred work in 2024. And right now, today and in the coming weeks, will be an excellent time to ramp up the scintillating drama.

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It is ORDERED that Kristen Williams, Robert Carrington and Unknown father appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before March 5, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.

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