C-VILLE Weekly | July 5 - 11, 2023

Students and UVA respond to SCOTUS decision to strike down affirmative action PAGE 11

"Law & Order" actor takes on leading role in Virginia Theatre Festival's Cabaret PAGE 33

Skating through

THE DAILY GRIND

Skateboarding in the city is as popular as ever

the day one trick at a time TRISTAN WILLIAMS

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• 40 years of age or older

Saturday, July 22 & October 21, 2023

Sentara Martha Jefferson Outpatient Care Center 595 Martha Jefferson Drive, Charlottesville

• Schedule your screening mammogram before your first COVID-19 vaccine dose or at least 4 weeks after any vaccine dose.

• Please do not bring small children

If you are unable to attend one of the Saturday events and still need a mammogram, please contact our Breast Health Nurse: Jessica Cooper, RN at 434-654-4483.

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Hello, Charlottesville! Thank you for reading C-VILLE Weekly. I didn’t really skateboard as a kid, but I did have a skateboard. It was small—child-sized—and it had Pokémon graphics of Pikachu and Ash Ketchum all over it. I probably got it more for my love of Pokémon than any desire to learn how to skate. At some point, I got embarrassed by the cartoony design and hid the board away. I eventually rekindled my passion for Pokémon, but my days as a skateboarder never came to pass. This week’s feature (p. 21) might change that, though.

7.5.23

Sydney Halleman takes a 900-degree tour of Charlottesville’s skateboarding scene and introduces us to skaters young and old who are tearing up the city’s skate park (and handrails, and curbs). The story has tales of big jumps, bigger ramps, and Billy Graham’s son. It’s full of great anecdotes and bits of local history that offer a window into a world you might not know much about. And if you do know something about it, I hope you’ll share your stories about wheeling around town with us.

Are you ever too old to learn to skateboard? Because it looks like a ton of fun (the skating part, not the falling down part). Maybe somewhere in the garage is my old Pokémon board, waiting under dust and wrapped in cobwebs, dreaming of a second chance. But I doubt a kids’ board would do me much good!—Richard

DiCicco

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Pipe it down

Fighting back against the fast-tracked approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Southern Environmental Law Center is representing the Wilderness Society in opposition to U.S. Department of Justice and Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC efforts to toss out a pending challenge to the pipeline. Approval of the MVP was included in the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which suspends the limit on federal debt through January 1, 2025.

Picking fights

On June 29, Charlottesville “sign guy” Mason Pickett was convicted of assault following an incident on the Corner. During the trial, Torrance Malone testified that after a heated verbal exchange with Pickett, the man grabbed her aggressively when she tried to move his sign out of her way. Pickett was sentenced to 20 days in custody, but was released on a $2,500 bond while he appeals the decision.

Airing it out

Charlottesville air quality once again took a turn for the worse last week, thanks to Canadian wildfire smoke. The diminished air quality will likely continue intermittently for the rest of the summer, due to the particularly harsh wildfire season Canada is currently experiencing. According to the CDC, individuals in areas with unhealthy air or pre-existing conditions should watch for symptoms of acute smoke exposure, including: headache, eye irritations, trouble breathing, coughing, wheezing, chest pain, palpitations, and fatigue. To monitor local air quality, visit the Air Quality Index at airnow.gov.

Selecting seats

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed four new members to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. The new BOV appointees—Paul Harris, Paul Manning, John Nau III, and Rachel Sheridan—were announced in the governor’s most recent slate of appointments June 28.

Three of the four individuals are major contributors to the governor’s political efforts.

The largest of the contributors is Nau, who gave a combined $300,000 to Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign and his Spirit of Virginia PAC. The UVA alum previously served on the BOV from 2011 to 2015, and is currently the chair and CEO of Texas-based Silver Eagle Beverages. Nau is a major Republican contributor who’s donated more than $900,000 to GOP candidates in Virginia since 1999, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.

Both Manning and Sheridan also contributed to Youngkin’s campaign for governor, giving $240,000 and $25,000, respectively. While not a Virginia alum himself, Manning lives in Charlottesville and has frequently worked with the university, most notably on the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology. Sheridan is a double-Hoo, with a bachelor’s and law degree from UVA, and is the vice president of the Virginia Athletics Foundation.

Harris—the lone appointee who has not contributed a substantial amount to

Coming full circle

Youngkin or his PAC—is the executive vice president and chief sustainability and compliance officer at Huntington Ingalls Industries. Although he now lives in Richmond, Harris was born in Charlottesville and represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican from 1998 to 2002.

In a statement to VPM News, Youngkin spokesperson Macaulay Porter said, “The governor has appointed experienced and dedicated professionals willing to utilize their professional expertise to deliver on our higher education priorities of affordability, academic excellence, and free speech.”

After more than two years, the newly renovated Crescent Halls is reopening its doors to residents.

During construction, the 105-unit public housing project was updated extensively to better meet the needs of tenants, who are mostly elderly and people with disabilities. Some of the updates include new HVAC units, community rooms, a nursing clinic, outdoor patios, and free high-speed internet. Residents advocated for the renovations for years prior to the project breaking ground in 2021, and were heavily involved in the planning process.

While the redevelopment was originally meant to be completed without displacement, a massive water leak forced occupants to move out temporarily. The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority is now moving tenants back into the building floor by floor, after a longer-than-expected construction period.

Although the reopening of Crescent Halls is a step toward alleviating Charlottesville’s ongoing housing crisis, demand for affordable housing continues to significantly outpace availability.

More than 900 people are currently on the waitlist for housing at Crescent Halls.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s latest round of appointments put big donors into power at UVA, VCU, and Virginia Tech.

“I think the most important thing that I do during this time is just keep my head down and continue working hard. The second I sign a contract, it’s back to work.”

—Former UVA basketball player Ty Jerome before becoming a restricted free agent for the Golden State Warriors

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Give it away now

Virginia Free Farm supplies food to those in need

By Matt Dhillon

Amyrose Foll is fond of quoting the statistic that the human brain can process 1,500 words of speech per minute. And she does her best to pack in each one.

The farmer, food sovereignty activist, lecturer, and founder of Virginia Free Farm has more projects than can fit into the hours of the day—except that she does fit them in, each in its own plot like a garden patch.

The garden plots on her property are numerous, too. There are turkeys, chickens, ducklings, geese, and baby goats in her backyard. Sweet corn, beans, peas, melons, and grains grow in a plot. Some fields are for produce, others for seeds. There’s a food forest that provides pawpaws, persimmons, and maple syrup. There are pigs and goats rotating in behind collards and kale, and a patch with dozens of chickens.

“We call it poultry for the people,” Foll says. People donate the chickens and ducks they can’t keep. Mostly, it’s roosters. “So they bring them here. Everything here has been donated. [Volunteers] will come and help us process like 40, 50 birds at a time. We give away hundreds of roosters because they come every weekend. Sometimes there’ll be like 200 birds in there holding, waiting to get butchered.”

Last year, Virginia Free Farm grew 113,000 pounds of food. “For context, 13,000 pounds is the weight of an African elephant,” Foll says. All of that food was given away.

Foll was a commercial farmer for over a decade until 2017, when she started giving everything away. At the time, most of her income came from her sign and print company, and she could see the food insecurity in her area.

“[Louisa] County has twice the state average of poverty and food insecurity,” Foll says.

The only grocery store in the area didn’t have healthy food options, and the food bank was inaccessible to those who needed it most. Often, she would drive door to door delivering fresh produce, connecting with people on Facebook and Instagram.

As a farmer, Foll says, “I always had extra. If you ask any farmer that does farmers’ markets or even a local grocery store, there’s always extra, and it’s a perishable product. A lot of them will feed it to their animals or compost it. So instead of throwing anything away, I just started giving it away, to the point where my neighbors and friends were like, ‘Jesus Christ, no more eggs and zucchini.’”

Foll, who is Penobscot and Abenaki on her father’s side and grew up near the res-

ervation, identifies with an ethic of sharing wealth rather than hoarding it.

“I feel like food should be a human right,” Foll says. “Instead, organic or local food has become a new mode of conspicuous consumption for the wealthy.”

Halfway through her first year of giving away food, her idea started attracting attention.

“I had just random people coming to me, messaging me asking to help,” she says. “I didn’t ask anybody to do anything, they all came to me and they were like, ‘I love this idea, let’s do it.’”

Farms, community gardens, and collectives in central Virginia, and some farther away, wanted to help grow or distribute free food. Foll found she had a movement on her hands.

“I’ve got an army of badass people that just want to feed people that came to me, and I didn’t even ask them to do it,” she says. “That’s really heartening.”

Virginia Free Farm’s network of farms and gardens includes plots in Rappahannock, Monacan Nation, tribal reservations, Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, Newport News, and Blacksburg. Each one serves a different community. Foll’s origi-

nal home farm primarily serves the undocumented community and refugee families of Richmond and Charlottesville.

“I’ll grow molokhia, a lot of Turkish eggplants, Syrian and Turkish melons, and okra because we want to be able to provide things for our families that are familiar to them,” Foll says. “You can’t get molokhia anywhere, and they get so happy when they see something that they recognize that’s like home.”

Foll worries about what the refugee women she works with are going to do when their federal assistance runs out and they are left to fend for themselves in an unfamiliar place where they may not speak the language. She remembers how hard it was when she moved to the area as a single mother with no support system and sons to feed. She would have liked to have had help when she needed it, and she knows the difference a stable meal can make to someone who is struggling.

And while Virginia Free Farm prioritizes giving food to marginalized communities that suffer the most from food insecurity, Foll’s primary motivation is that she wants to feed people. “I just like taking care of people,” she says. “It makes me really, really happy.”

“Instead of throwing anything away, I just started giving it away, to the point where my neighbors and friends were like, ‘Jesus Christ, no more eggs and zucchini.’” AMYROSE FOLL

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Unaffirmed

UVA students respond to SCOTUS striking down affirmative action

By Richard DiCicco

The Supreme Court shook the academic world June 29 when it ruled that the use of affirmative action at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina was unconstitutional. The court was starkly split along ideological lines in both cases.

Students at the University of Virginia who support race-conscious admissions policies had long anticipated the court’s verdict, and had spoken out ahead of the decision. Abdallah Maher Aljerjawi wrote an open letter to the student body, urging his peers to unite and protect affirmative action.

“Affirmative action is a core aspect of holistic admissions as it cares about the experiences shaping students,” writes Aljerjawi, a third-year nursing student. “Yet, simultaneously, the Supreme Court contradicts it by failing to recognize that nothing could shape an individual more profoundly than their own race.”

In his letter, Aljerjawi reflects on his immigration to the U.S. from Gaza, and the hurdles he’s subsequently faced in his life, education, and career.

“Though I have only been in America for five short years since I immigrated, I can confidently assert that being a minority in America presents a web of intricate and intertwined challenges,” he writes. “Obstacles in every facet of life, including racism, economic hardships, language barriers, and the ever-present fear of racial profiling during routine traffic stops— all of which compound. How can we turn a blind eye to race’s role when it is so rooted in these experiences?”

Fellow third-year Syrell Grier says even though he was anticipating the court would reject affirmative action, it still came as a shock to him and his fellow students.

“You come to expect it with this Supreme Court now,” he says. “It’s sad and heartbreaking.”

Grier, an economics major, Jefferson and Echols Scholar, and founder of the Black Economic Empowerment Society, believes he was likely a beneficiary of affirmative action in his application to UVA.

“I came from a high school in Woodbridge, Virginia, called Gar-Field High School, and it’s majority low-income, so a lot of kids just don’t really branch out for those amazing opportunities like they should,” he says.

Grier notes that, though he did well academically at Gar-Field, having access to the support and opportunities available at UVA helped make him a better student.

“If I were to go to an institution that’s not as high ranking, I might not have had those same resources and been able to sprout and develop into the person I am today. That’s the benefit of having affirmative action in place.”

The Supreme Court’s decision has also affected prospective students. Ammar Aljerjawr, a high school junior from Houston, Texas, was eyeing UVA as his top pick for college and visited Grounds in June. He’s worried that, without race-conscious admissions policies in place, the challenges he’s faced as a Palestinian immigrant may not be considered in his application. Taking down affirmative action “will make my [acceptance] chances lower,” he says, “and will make me work twice as hard or three times as hard to just be the same level as others.”

Although UVA has not made a formal decision on how to handle a post-affirmative action admissions process, President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom delivered a joint statement in which they declared they will “of course continue to follow the law. We will also continue to do everything within our legal authority to recruit and admit a class of students who are diverse across every possible dimension and to make every student feel welcome and included here at UVA.”

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“The Supreme Court … [fails] to recognize that nothing could shape an individual more profoundly than their own race.”

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UVA’s future home-building boom?

University hopes to build more affordable (and student) housing

By Sean Tubbs

It has been more than three years

since the University of Virginia launched an initiative to help build between a thousand and 1,500 affordable housing units. Three sites have been selected, and the next step is to announce the nonprofit developers that will design and build new homes for households below certain income levels.

“We are really close but we’re not quite at the finish line yet,” says Colette Sheehy, UVA’s senior vice president for operations and state government relations.

The project is an outcome of President Jim Ryan’s Council on UVA-Community Partnerships, and will first see development on two sites owned by either UVA or its real estate foundation. These are at 10th and Wertland streets in the heart of Charlottesville, and the Piedmont housing site on Fontaine Avenue.

The North Fork Discovery Park has been identified as the third site, but planning there will not begin until after the UVA Foundation goes through the rezoning process in Albemarle County. That request is on hold.

The Piedmont Housing Alliance has been invited to submit proposals to develop each site. The nonprofits Community Housing Partners and Enterprise Community Partners are also in the running for Piedmont, and AHC Inc. and Preservation of Affordable Housing are hopeful to be the developers of Wertland and 10th.

UVA will only contribute land to the project, leaving financing to the selected developer.

“The partnership terms and the agreements will hold the developer accountable for creating high-quality developments that will be affordable and well maintained,” reads the initiative’s website.

Meanwhile, the university is also hoping to build more residences for secondyear students, and has set aside $7 million for planning and design.

Where will the new student housing go?

Exact locations haven’t been determined, but the draft of UVA’s next master plan designates six “residential mixed-use redevelopment zones,” including Ivy Gardens, Midmont, and south of Scott Stadium.

Another of these zones is south of the Buckingham Branch railroad that divides Charlottesville.

UVA paid $8.73 million in August 2016 for 2.63 acres of land at the intersection of Grove Street and Roosevelt Brown Boulevard.

A matrix in the draft Grounds Framework Plan states that housing is the primary use at that location. Anything built there would not be subject to Charlottesville’s zoning code.

Stacey Hall on West Main is adjacent to the 10th and Wertland site, but is not included in the affordable housing initiative. The draft framework plan designates this as an Academic MixedUse Redevelopment zone, with housing listed as a potential primary use.

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One potential location for new affordable housing is this Wertland and 10th streets site. Stacey Hall is not included within the scope of the project.

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Large parcel convenient to Charlottesville and UVA. Exceptional Blue Ridge views, farm house (in need of restoration). Under VOF easement but with divisions into already predetermined parcels. MLS#585228 $4,400,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

RED HILL

10 miles from Charlottesville. 283 acres, mostly wooded, old farm, some pastures, trails, creeks and river frontage, adjoins Walnut Creek Park. NOT IN EASEMENT, lots of possibilities! MLS#634310 $1,995,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

GREENTREES

94+ acres 20 minutes from Charlottesville. Originally part of a 188-acre tract, two parcels may be purchased separately or together, with 2 developmental rights each. Mostly maturing pine and very long public road frontage. MLS#635861

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FAIRWAY DRIVE

Wonderful 3.5 acre waterfront parcel behind renowned Keswick Hall in the gated and picturesque Keswick Estate. Bring your own architect and builder. Located 5 miles from Martha Jefferson Hospital and 10 miles from UVA. MLS#641712 $540,000 Court Nexsen, 646.660.0700

EDNAM FOREST

Wonderfully large 1.5+ acre building lot in Ednam Forest. Build your dream home on this elevated, wooded lot located in a single family community, minutes from UVA and within walking distance to Boar’s Head Resort. MLS#598537 $289,500 Steve McLean, 434.981.186

GIBSON’S HOLLOW

Ivy area! A 249 + acre hidden, private Arcadia controlling its own little valley up to the mountain ridge top building sites. Multiple parcels and subdivision rights make it a conservation easement candidate. MLS#634183 $3,250,000 Tim Michel, 434.960.1124 or Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

LYNX

Great building lot in Ivy! Over 2.5 acres less than 6 miles to Charlottesville and UVA. Your future dream home could sit on this beautiful, wooded land, the perfect combination of country and city access. Murray Elementary School District. MLS#634897 $165,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

CROZET AREA

Beautiful building lot -3.3 acres, fronting on a quiet paved county road. Land is mostly in pasture, some woods, creek and elevated homesite with panoramic views of mountains, pond, and surrounding pastoral area. Less than a mile to Harris Teeter at Crozet.

MLS#636349 $450,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

SOUTHWIND ESTATES

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By Sydney Halleman

he sun hangs high over the horizon on a recent summer morning at McIntire Park, and Stephen Delli Priscoli is trying to defy gravity.

A slight pivot of the legs, a subtle manipulation of friction. It’s not hard to imagine Isaac Newton discussing the forces that pull a skater down to his board. Delli Priscoli jumps, twists, and lands the trick, called a tre flip because of the board’s three consecutive rotations.

He grins. “I’ve been working on that all week.”

Joined by a handful of other skateboarders at the Charlottesville Skate Park at 8 in the morning, Delli Priscoli is part of a wave of skaters who, fueled by an amalgamation of factors including the COVID-19 pandemic, construction of the $2 million skate park, and increased visibility from competitions like the Olympics and X-Games, are creating a thriving skateboarding culture in the city. Driven stir-crazy by school and workplace closures during the pandemic, many people picked up new outdoor activities, including skateboarding. Skateboarders in the city cut across demographic groups: On any given day at the park you’re likely to see teenagers, graying adults, parents and children, and young professionals riding skateboards or

BMX bikes across the park’s obstacles.

Charlottesville provides unique incentives for interested skaters, including the skate park. Opened in 2019, the park is a social and economic engine that draws skaters from across the East Coast, says Matt Moffett, manager of the city park. In addition to being a co-owner of Cville Skates, Moffett was a professional skateboarder for almost 20 years.

Construction of the skate park itself isn’t the only way the city is subsidizing the sport. Moffett reckons he is one of a few skate park managers in the country. In addition to funding his position, which falls under the Parks & Recreation Department, the city employs maintenance staff to keep the skate park meticulously clean. Graffiti at this skate park? Nope.

“It would be in shambles if not for that,” the manager says. “There’s damage in skate parks. That’s just the nature of them.”

The skate park’s vision, and the current skating renaissance, has been decades in the making.

Duane Brown, a Charlottesville skating activist, began petitioning the city for a skate park in the 1970s. As a child, Brown would travel to the skate park in Richmond as often as possible. Eventually, at the behest of a mentor, Brown joined a bid to petition the city for construction of a hybrid private-public skate park.

“My first experience of City Council—I was 14 or something,” Brown says. “[We] got completely shot down.”

It was the first, but not the last, of Brown’s efforts. In the late ’90s, a successful push by skating activist Daria Brezinski secured a space for skateboarders in the unused and dilapidated tennis courts nestled beside the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad on McIntire Road.

Downsides of the new location included its proximity to a creek, which would often flood the courts, plus two-inch wide cracks that dotted the ground, Brown says. Undeterred, skateboarders found ways around the haphazard environment.

“We’d find an old handrail somewhere that wasn’t being used and, like, literally hammer it into those cracks and use that as a rail to skate on,” Brown says. “The odd thing was, every now and then I guess, the city would get a little freaked out about the things that we built, and they would come out and take it all away. But they still allowed us to skate there.”

One feature of the old skate park involved a “really big ramp” that Brown built on behalf of Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, who came to University Hall in 1998 to host a crusade, or fundamentalist preaching event. To appeal to the young crowds at the university, Graham flew in a professional skateboarder-turned-preacher. Graham also asked Brown to build a skateboard ramp. After the event ended, he told Brown he could keep the ramp. Brown called the former Parks & Recreation director, Johnny Ellen, and said he would donate the ramp to the city if it promised not to tow it away. Ellen agreed, but wanted to take a look first.

“I’ll never forget, I saw him walking to it and his face lit up,” Brown says. “He was like really stoked about the whole thing

from the very start. So that kind of legitimized the whole endeavor, once we had that big ramp there.”

The tennis court arrangement lasted about eight years before construction on the 250 bypass forced the courts to shut down. With no dedicated place to skate, Brown reinvigorated his activism, forming a volunteer skate park committee, with the goal of keeping in close contact with the city’s Parks & Rec officials. In addition to educating local government leaders about skateboarding, the committee gave input on the design of a potential new park.

The temporary skate park would move one more time, to the parking lot of the former golf course at McIntire Park, before plans for a permanent skate park moved forward. Years passed as budget and approval processes hit snags. The skating community wavered. “We are losing skaters,” a facilities manager told The Daily Progress in 2016.

With some grant funding from the Tony Hawk Foundation, a final budget was drawn up, and construction for the park moved forward. The two-acre park opened in April 2019, and features two layers of skating areas,

including rails, stairs, and deep bowls built by Dreamland Skateparks.

“Those guys are, in my opinion, one of the best skate park builders out there,” Moffett says.

The skate park opening also included the reveal of a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, which had long been in development. The final product connected the skate park to a small parking lot and the Brooks Family YMCA.

But the skate park ran over budget and the city had to scrap plans to include flood lights. Eventually, the skateboarding community raised the money to install the flood lights themselves.

Now, skateboarders can enjoy the park during daylight and twilight hours. The city also promotes the sport by offering private skateboarding lessons and hosting summer skating camps for young children and teens. On a typical summer week, Alex Mikes, a camp volunteer and skate park committee member, says the camps can cater to around 20 to 30 kids on weekday mornings, and provide a relatively affordable way for young skateboarders to enter the sport. Camp participants have a “huge range of abilities,” Mikes says. For campgoers who are too

“They’re born skating here. People just keep getting better.”

ALEX MIKES, SKATE CAMP VOLUNTEER AND SKATE PARK COMMITTEE MEMBER

ANDREW SHURTLEFF

Longtime Charlottesville skateboarding activist Duane Brown began petitioning the city for a skate park in the 1970s.

young to mount a board, Mikes gives them water guns and balloons.

Together, the skate park and summer camps have generated skating enthusiasm and spawned a new generation of young Charlottesville skateboarders, many of whom frequented the park during the coronavirus pandemic, when schools pivoted to virtual learning. (The skate park was so busy during 2020 that the city threatened to shut it down to avoid transmission of the virus, but skaters successfully lobbied to keep it open.)

“Even 20 years ago, it’s crazy how much better they are,” Mikes says of the current skateboarding generation. “They’re born skating here. People just keep getting better.”

One up-and-comer, 13-year old Hunter Bougis, started skating when he was 4. On a typical afternoon, he can be spotted in the park bowls, occasionally making videos or commenting on those taken by other skaters. In one video shot, Bougis jumps on a ledge, as a Jay Love song plays in the background.

Another skateboarder, Zephyr Chatowsky, the 12-year-old daughter of Moffett, recalls heading to the park with a group of friends and occasionally tuning into online school directly from the park during the pandemic.

“I started doing it more because there wasn’t much to do,” she says.

Zephyr is among a growing group of girls who entered the sport over the last few years,

says Jeneene Chatowsky, Zephyr’s mother and co-owner of Cville Skates.

The local skateboarding scene differs from Florida and Rhode Island, where Chatowsky grew up skateboarding, and where she would sometimes be one of a few female skateboarders in the area.

“Now to see these girls ripping in the Olympics, I think there was a lot of work to lead to this,” Chatowsky says.

Located in McIntire Plaza, Cville Skates grew out of a project that Chatowsky completed for her master’s degree, when she was required to create a brand. The shop originally started as an online platform before securing its first physical location inside a building co-occupied by High Tor Gear Exchange, an outdoor gear and clothing consignment store. Eventually, Cville Skates moved into a different space, behind High Tor.

Chatowsky and Moffett imagine Cville Skates as a community hub for a growing group of skateboarders. Besides selling boards and merchandise, the shop hosts art shows with local high schools and has rotating music shows for underground bands in Charlottesville.

In addition to more girls, Chatowsky sees more parents interested in skating, and credits that to Charlottesville’s family-friendly culture.

“To see more moms out there skating with their kids,” Chatowsky says. “That’s pretty powerful.”

Cinema Skateshop, located on the Downtown Mall, is another community center for skateboarders. The shop’s owner, Louis Handler, has been making skating videos since he was a teenager, and a reel of videos plays on a widescreen TV inside the store. Handler grew up in town and remembers the McIntire tennis courts. He thinks the skate park’s construction was inevitable given the interest from the skateboarding community.

Handler still makes videos, showcasing some skateboarders on Cinema’s Instagram. In them, an eagle-eyed viewer can spot a few Charlottesville landmarks. Along with skateboards, the shop also sells skating apparel and caters to the community’s interest in fashion and art.

Cinema’s clients also include street skaters, who focus on grinds and flat-ground tricks on the built urban environments beyond the skate park. Even though the skate park is open, street skating still draws plenty of skateboarders. Charlottesville’s downtown layout and preference for colonial architecture make the area attractive to street skaters, Handler says.

“The brick feels cool, there are good places to skate aesthetically,” he says.

Brown himself is no stranger to street skating. Before the skate park was built, he used to skate in a drainage ditch by a parking lot near University Hall, and he sought out cement formations around town that provided a good riding surface.

As they rise and decline in popularity, features from skating’s stylistic offshoots— bowl, street, and ramp skating—appear in modern skate parks, according to Brown.

Back at the Charlottesville Skate Park, a group of skateboarders including Delli Priscoli, Mikes, and Bougis stand in a single-file line, gearing up to tackle one of those features. The sky is clear, and after a rest for Gatorade, they push off and fly.

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Louis Handler’s Cinema Skateshop, located on the Downtown Mall, is a community center for skateboarders.

Jeneene Chatowsky (left) initially opened her skate shop inside Erin James’ High Tor Gear Exchange. Cville Skates has since moved to a different space, behind High Tor in McIntire Plaza.

Managing Vineyards in the Face of Wildfires: Lessons from California and Assessing the Impact of Canadian Wildfire Smoke on Virginia Wine Grapes

Justin Falco, Winemaker | Owner & Operator of Montifalco Vineyard, Ruckersville, VA

Vineyard management is a complex and delicate process, especially when facing challenges such as wildfires and the potential impact of smoke on wine grapes. I moved to Virginia from California and so naturally winery guests will ask me if the wildfire smoke from our northern neighbor is impacting our grapes so I thought I’d write something to share. This short article explores my experiences as a vineyard owner on both coasts who has dealt with wildfires in California and my thoughts into the considerations surrounding the potential effects of Canadian wildfire smoke on wine grapes in Virginia. California has experienced devastating wildfires in recent years. These natural disasters can have a significant impact on grape growing, affecting overall vineyard health, grape quality, and ultimately, the resulting wine.

Yes, the smoke from a wildfire, if it drifts over your vineyard, regardless of where it originates, can indeed lead to the common term I’ve talked about all to often with west coast colleagues, “smoke taint.” I honestly never thought I’d be discussing it here in Virginia but here we are. The smoke contains volatile phenols, or flavor compounds (I call them BBQ bits to help lighten the mood), which can be absorbed by the grapevines and bind to sugars within the grapes to form glycosides. At this stage, they don't affect the flavor or aroma of the grape, but during the fermentation process, these compounds can break apart, releasing the smoky, ashy flavors associated with smoke taint.

Fortunately the level of these compounds in the air was not present long enough to impact Virginia’s vineyards, and the rain helped as well, or so I hope. As veraison begins (the later ripening stage when skin pigment changes from green to yellow in white wine grapes and to purple in red wine grapes), the skins are much more susceptable to absorbing the volatile phenols. We’re not at veraison yet, so based on what I have worked with in my Central Valley CA vineyard, I believe the likelihood of Canadian wildfire smoke directly affecting Virginia's vineyards is low, but if wildfires continue to spread and the smoke remains for a longer period of time, we will need our Virginia Vineyard Managers and Winemakers to become even more vigilant, monitoring air quality and weather conditions. Precautionary measures can include early harvesting, implementing techniques to reduce smoke compound absorption like canopy management methods, certain sprays, special winemaking practices and closely working with experts in viticulture and enology around the globe to evaluate the impact on wine quality. There is no silver grape.

I welcome you to visit me at Montifalco Vineyard if you’d like to have a more in depth chat! Your friend & Winemaker, Justin

WINE DOWN

WHAT’S DELISH AT LOCAL WINERIES?

CHISWELL FARM WINERY 2022 Sauvignon Blanc

Newly released is our 2022 Sauvignon Blanc! Bright and zippy, this wine has a crisp and clean palate to help beat the summer heat. Enjoy notes of lychee, grapefruit, star fruit, and kiwi while sipping in one of our Adirondack chairs overlooking the vineyard. Pair with a seafood boil, grilled chicken, or strawberry shortcake!

With a glass of one of our award winning wines, enjoy the beautiful scenery from our lawn, or a cozy chair inside, where you’ll discover a variety of inviting spaces. There are many options for outdoor seating, including rocking chairs on the covered porch and dining tables on the lawn for small groups. You’re also welcome to bring your own folding chairs and blankets to sit further out on the hill. All seating is first-come, first-served. Ages 21+, no dogs or other pets permitted on the property. For a family-friendly experience, visit our wine shops at Chiles Peach Orchard or Carter Mountain Orchard. Make sure to check out our exciting events calendar online to stay up-to-date on all things happening at Chiswell!

Wine is currently available by the glass, flight, or bottle. We have a full menu of seasonal boards, paninis, small bites and snacks to pair well with any of our wines (outside food is not permitted). Wine sales stop 30 minutes prior to closing.

Fridays - Summer Sundowns with live music, special food & wine menus, and sunsets!

Sundays - Brunch featuring mimosas with juices from our farmgrown fruit.

July 23rd - Corks & Collage Series (advanced ticket purchase required)

Hours: Wed-Sun 11 am – 5:30 pm 430 Greenwood Rd, Greenwood, VA 22943 434.252.2947 • www.chilesfamilyorchards.com/chiswell

53RD WINERY AND VINEYARD

2022 Rosé Trio

This is our fourth vintage of our 100% Chambourcin Gentle Press and Barrel Aged Roses.  The exciting 2022 Gentle Press Rose has aromas of strawberries, cherries and watermelon. With just a hint of natural sweetness combined with a pleasant acidity, this wine is a perfect wine with friends on a lazy afternoon.  The food friendly 2022 Barrel Aged Rose (6 months in neutral oak) pairs well with salmon, crab, chicken, ham and shrimp salad sandwiches.  For those looking for a more traditional style Rose we offer our second vintage of our popular Quintessential Rose. Provence styled made of 100% estate grown cabernet franc with aromas of strawberries and cherries.  Great on its own or with light cheeses.  All three pair well with friends!

A few notes from winegrower and owner, Dave Drillock:

If you are planning a visit, come for the wine and enjoy the chill. We are down to earth and love to share our enthusiasm for wine. We just revel in what we do, growing, making and selling wine! Open 7 days a week, 11am to 5pm, we offer our 100% Virginia wine by the bottle, glass, flight or tasting. Enjoy your visit at our meadow-like setting in rural

Louisa County. We offer wellspaced indoor and outdoor seating and customers are welcome to bring their own picnic baskets, chairs and blankets. Children and pets are welcome, but pets must always remain outside of buildings and on a leash. Our friendly staff focuses on serving quality wine at a great escape! For more information, visit our website, www.53rdwinery.com.

July 8th – Live music by Billy Brockman (12:30-4:30 pm)

July 14th – Friday Night Vibes with a Purpose with live music by Luke Bobbitt & The Crocodilians and food from Simply Trending

Catering

July 15-16th- Wine Club

Weekend! With live music and food trucks available all weekend long.

Open 7 days a week, 11 am – 5 pm

13372 Shannon Hill Rd Louisa, VA 23093 (540) 894-5474 • 53rdwinery.com

CASTLE HILL FARM CIDERY

Cider Mosa’s with our Featured Burrata

Enjoy our perfect option for brunch- our Cider Mosa on these warm weekends and afternoons! Pair with our featured burrata with fresh fig, peach, grilled bread, blackberry, mint, and a balsamic glaze

KESWICK VINEYARDS VERITAS VINEYARDS AND WINERY

Visiting Castle Hill Cider

Our expansive cider barn features a variety of ample seating including Adirondack chairs overlooking the rolling countryside and lake; farm tables for larger parties; as well as bistro seating and cozy couches for smaller groups. Inside the Tasting Room, you’ll find bistro seating and a roaring fireplace. Outdoors, there are a variety of options including patio and firepit seating available year-round (weather permitting), and plenty of green space to walk the grounds or throw a football. Come check out our new food and cider cocktail menu!

Castle Hill Cider welcomes all guests! We offer non-alcoholic beverage options and a delicious food menu. Well-behaved dogs on a leash are also welcome both indoors and outside. Dogs must remain leashed and with their owners at all times.

Thursdays - Live Music from 5-8 with Travis Elliott and Friends!

Sundays – Live music every Sunday! Check our calendar for the weekend lineup.

July 8th - Flower Workshop with Aisling Flower Farm (advanced ticket purchase required)

July 21st- Christmas in July benefit for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with live music and food trucks!

Hours:

Thursday 1-8pm

Friday 1-7pm

Saturday 11am-5pm Sunday 11am-5pm

6065 Turkey Sag Rd. Keswick, VA 22947 Tasting Room Text/Call: 434.365.9429 www.castlehillcider.com

CROSSKEYS WINERY

Letizia

Letizia is made from 100% Chambourcin which was picked, processed and fermented specifically for sparkling wine. Chambourcin’s great acidity and fruit flavors are well suited to sparkling rosé; and unique to Letizia is the ripeness at which the grapes are picked. The riper fruit yields bright raspberry aromas along with notes pineapple and guava. Refreshing acidity is balanced by natural residual sugar, which further contributes to tropical fruit flavors on the palate. Vividly pink, vigorously bubbly, and vibrantly fruity.

CrossKeys Vineyards is a family owned and operated winery located in the heart of beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Our approach is to grow, by hand, the highest

quality fruit using careful canopy management and yield balance to achieve 100% estate-grown wines that are truly expressive of the varietal and soils here at CrossKeys. Our first vines were planted in 2001 and we have only grown since then. Our 125-acre estate currently houses more than 30 acres of vines with plans for more planting in the future. We currently grow 12 varietals of grapes all used to produce our one of a kind award-winning wines. We offer wine tastings throughout the day. Our knowledgeable tasting room associates will guide you through tasting our wines whether you are a novice or a seasoned veteran. We love large groups and want to make sure your experience at CrossKeys Vineyards is extraordinary. We request that large groups call the vineyard 48 hours in advance to set up a reserved group tasting. The group will have a reserved table, staffing, and a cheese plate included with price.

Mon-Thurs - Winery Tours (by reservation only) at 12:30 pm

Sundays - Brunch with live music!

Fridays- Finally Friday! With light fare and plenty of wine from our bistro.

July 8th - Salsa Night!

(advanced ticket purchase required)

July 29th - First Annual Oyster Festival with live music, local oysters, and plenty of wine!

Open Daily from 11- 7pm

6011 E Timber Ridge Rd, Mt Crawford, VA 22841

(540) 234-0505

https://crosskeysvineyards.com/

DUCARD VINEYARDS

2022 Pet gNat

Fun, with fizz! This Pétillant Naturel, a wilder version of sparkling wine, is crisp, refreshing, full of citrus notes, and yeasty. We’ve given the name a tongue-incheek twist and are sure it’s going to be a summertime favorite!

Live music every weekend! Including a special Christmas in July concert July 22nd! Also available are our new Wine Education & Exploration Classes starting July 16th. We also have started Massage Above the Vines: a chance to relax among the vines at DuCard Vineyards with fresh air, views of the hills, and bodywork tailored to relax and release. Check out our website for more details and info!

Weekends - Live music all weekend long! Check out our lineup on our website! Open daily – Mon-Thurs. 12-5 pm Fri. 12-9 pm Sat/Sun. 12-6 pm

Weekends (Fri-Sun) - Live music Friday-Sunday all month long. Check out our website for details and the musical artist lineup!

40 Gibson Hollow Ln • Etlan, VA 22719 (540) 923-4206 www.ducardvineyards.com

HARK VINEYARDS

2022 Ené

Just in time for summer, we’re proud to announce the release of our first non-alcoholic wine. Perhaps a first for the Monticello Wine Trail? Made from 100% estate

grown Vidal Blanc, the 2022 Ené features the same zesty citrus and floral notes as our popular Virginia Verde. Enjoy it on its own, or as a freshly-made lime spritzer available upon request in our tasting room.

Visiting Hark:

Hark Vineyards is a family-owned winery focused on the belief that beautiful views and delicious wine can bring people together. Children and well-behaved four-legged friends are welcome. We welcome — and encourage — you to bring a picnic and enjoy the experience our estate offers.  Some picnic foods such as cheese, charcuterie, jams, crackers, and chocolate are available for purchase. Food trucks and live music most Saturdays from March-November; check our website and social media for details. Our grapes love it here. We think you will, too.

Upcoming events

July 8th: Crustworthy Pizza + Matthew O’Donnell Music

July 15th: FARMacy Food Truck

Hours

Friday – Sunday / 12 noon – 6pm 434-964-9463 (WINE) 1465 Davis Shop Rd, Earlysville, VA 22936 www.harkvineyards.com

HORTON VINEYARDS

Red, White, and PinkBubbly!

Suil white sparkling wine is made from 100% Viognier done in the traditional methode Champagnoise, with notes of green apple. Erotes is our rosé sparkling made of 100% Touriga Nacional with flavors of fresh summer berries, and a crisp finish. Knots and Shuttles is our first red sparkling made from Tannat grapes, with deep red fruit flavors and a dry effervescent finish.

New: Team Building Events! Horton will work with your organization to create a unique Wine Experience for your next team building event! Build your work team’s bonds by creating your own wine, bottling and labeling it together. There are different tiers of the experience to completely customize your day. Inquire by calling 540-832-7440 or email info@ hortonwine.com.

WE ARE HIRING!

Want to work in a fun and unique industry? Come visit us at Horton! We’re looking for tasting room staff to help make memorable

experiences for our guests, build our local wine club, and so much more. Give us a call or email for more information: info@ hortonwine.com

Open Daily from 10 am – 5 pm

6399 Spotswood Trail, Gordonsville, Virginia (540) 832-7440 • www.hortonwine.com

KESWICK VINEYARDS

2021 Cha rdonnay

The nose is quite pronounced with an abundance of wet rock, slate, chalk, and stone fruit character. With aeration the wine shows a touch more tropical tones, but this is a focused and mineral driven wine. The palate is dry with bracing initial acidity before stone and mineral characters come to the fore. Vibrant flavors of green apple, meyer lemon with crystalline acidity and just a touch of baking spices and doughy bread on the palate.

Tasting Room Hours

We look forward to continuing to

serve all of our wonderful guests this winter during our daily hours of 10am-5pm (last pour at 4:45). We offer first come, first served seating under our tent or open seating in our outdoor courtyard. Wine is available by the flight, glass and bottle at our inside or outside service bars, with bar service inside on the weekends! A selection of pre-packaged meats, cheeses, crackers, and spreads are available for purchase as well as our new food truck which is currently open Wednesday- Sunday from 12p-4p

Bring the family or friends and enjoy live music every Saturday from 124p or play a fun 9 hole of miniature golf on our new course!

Every other WednesdayWine Down Wednesday with live music from 5-8:30, check out our website for updates on who’s playing!

July 19th- Karaoke at Keswick!

1575 Keswick Winery Drive Keswick, Virginia 22947

Tasting Room: (434) 244-3341 ext 105 tastingroom@keswickvineyards.com www.keswickvineyards.com

REVALATION VINEYARDS

2022 Quatre Blancs

Just released. A wonderful white blend made from Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Vidal Blanc. A well-balanced wine full of brightness with notes of apricot, papaya, green hazelnut, toasted brioche, lemon and rose petal. Perfect for a summer picnic or a night at home! Savor it as a part of our tasting flights or by the bottle.

July Hours: Friday 12pm to Sunset; Saturday 12pm to 6pm; Monday + Sunday 12pm to 5pm

July 7th - Join us for our Book World meets Wine World Series from 4:30-7:30pm with local author, Alan Saltman, discussing his novel, No Peace with Hitler.

VERITAS VINEYARDS AND WINERY

2022 Rosé

Picnic perfect, our rosé bursts with strawberry, lively freshness of watermelon, and mouthwatering acidity. The 2022 Rosé is a sure sign that spring has arrived! The pure fruit flavors in the aroma are inviting and fresh and their intensity is unwavering through the finish. This rosé is very food friendly and is the little black dress of pink wines, as it will pair well with almost any dish.

What’s on at Veritas!

August 12th:  Final Starry Nights of the summer ft. The Significant Others. Use code CVILLEWEEKLY to get $10 off general admission tickets.

July 8th - 629 Firehouse food truck from 12:30 to 5:30 pm.

July 15th - Yoga at the Vineyard will take place from 10-11 am with Instructor Briana (Registration required via our website or Tock page)

July 15th - Arts & Vines @ Revalation. We will be continuing our monthly weekend artist popups at the vineyard. Stop by the vineyard and enjoy a bottle of wine while perusing handcrafted goods from local vendors.

July 16th - Closed for a wine-club event.

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August 25th:  Supper Series ft. Jean Paul Bourgeois - Join us for an evening on the bayou with flavors of Louisiana from this Cajun chef. Enjoy a cocktail hour presented by MADESOUTH and hang out in the Moore & Giles Lounge. Sponsored by Quirk!

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CULTURE

TUESDAY 7/11

BLUE STATE

Seattle-based sextet The Head and the Heart conveys a spectrum of emotion on its fifth studio album, Every Shade of Blue. The record’s 16 songs showcase the band’s sonic evolution, infusing catchy pop into its signature indie-folk sound, from the highs of “Tiebreaker” to the anthemic swell of “Virginia (Wind in the Night).” The record’s popularity earned the group multiple performances on national television, including “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and the championship banner drop for the Seattle Sounders. With Illiterate Light, Landon Elliott, and Deau Eyes. $50, 7pm. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown

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SATURDAY 7/8

GAZING AND GRAZING

Enjoy moonlight tunes and sunset views at Starry Nights, Veritas’ outdoor concert series. Set up your tents and blankets, stock up on local wine, and head to the stage, where the Wil Gravatt Band performs high-energy country and Western honky-tonk. Pack your own picnic, or grab tickets for a seated three-course plated dinner, or choose from the full buffet, prepared by the Veritas chefs. Free–$25. Veritas Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com

SATURDAY 7/8

HISTORY LESSONS

The Indie Short Film Series returns with a new slate of screenings, including Annette Bank’s, Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders. Set in 1967, the 30-minute documentary remembers America’s first EMT service, composed solely of Black men and women from Pittsburgh. Banks and other filmmakers will discuss their work during a post-screening panel discussion, then audience members can cast their ballot for the Audience Choice Award. $20, 7pm. Vinegar Hill Theatre 220 Market St. lighthousestudio.org

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CULTURE THIS WEEK

Wednesday 7/5 music

Berto and Matt. Latin guitar night. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Cville Band: Patriots and Princesses. Performing classics alongside Disney favorites. Free, 5pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. cvilleband.org

Jim Waive. Classic country tunes from the man with a velvet voice and impressive beard. Free, 7pm. Blue Moon Diner, 606 W. Main St. bluemoondiner.net

Karaoke. Have a drink—it will sound better! Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Open Mic Night. Charlottesville’s longestrunning open mic night. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. 234-4436

Wavelength Trio with Hollie Johnson. Vintage rock and jazzy, bluesy vibrations. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskey jarcville.com

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Pictures & Pages. An arts-related storytime with Gordon Avenue children’s librarian Glynis Welte. Free, 11am. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu

classes

The Art of Cocktails. An afternoon of mixology, education, and, most importantly, tasting. $25, 4pm. Quirk Hotel, 499 W. Main St. quirkhotels.com etc.

The Music Man Robert Preston and Shirley Jones star in the rousing screen adaptation of the Broadway smash. $10, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Trivia. Show off your trivia knowledge and win prizes, including gift cards, merch, and free drinks. Free, 7pm. Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. dairymarketcville.com

Wind Down Wednesdays. Unwind with acoustic music and a stunning view of the sunset. Free, 6pm. Carter Mountain Orchard, 1435 Carters Mountain Trl. chiles familyorchards.com

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Film Discussion w/ 4 Time Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker, Annette Banks, Director and Producer of Freedom House Ambulance.

Annette is a filmmaker on staff at WQED, a Pittsburgh PBS Affiliate and will be present at the screening event to speak about the film.

Friday 7/7 music

Beleza Trio. Dance the night away. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. pottersrcaftcider.com

Chickenhead Blues Band. Boogie-woogie, upbeat, rhythm, and blues. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. 234-4436

Dropping Julia. A late-night set full of Jersey sass and Virginia charm. Free, 9:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Fridays After Five: BJP’z World of Music. With Jordan Harmon & The Humble Brags. Free, 5:30pm. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. tingpavilion.com

Red Sammy at Offbeat Roadhouse. Slowburn Americana folk rock music. Free, 8pm. The Stage at WTJU, 2244 Ivy Rd. wtju.net stage

Cabaret Wilkommen to the Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb classic, presented by Virginia Theatre Festival. $15–35, 7:30pm. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA Grounds. virginiatheatre festival.org

words

Friday Night Writes: A Reading Series for Emerging Writers. Featuring short stories, poetry, and music. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

etc.

Ix Flix Summer Film Series: Sister Act Stock up on food from local food trucks, drinks, and enjoy an outdoor screening. Free, 9pm. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

Saturday 7/8 music

Berto. Unique fingerpicking and contagious energy. Free, 11am. Tavern & Grocery, 333 W. Main St. tavernandgrocery.com

Conley Ray & The Joneses. Scoot your boot over for honky-tonk night. $10, 7pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com

Thursday 7/6 music

Berto & Vincent. Good times and tunes. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

classes

Junior Jam: Bugs & Butterflies. Music educator Joia Wood leads kids in an interactive session. $3 per kid, 10am. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com

Paint & Sip. Create a one-of-a-kind acrylic painting through step-by-step instruction. $35, 7pm. Pikasso Swig Craft Bar, 333 Second St. SE. pikassoswig.com

etc.

Improv Comedy. Laughs, cider, and tacos with Bent Theatre. Free, 7pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potters craftcider.com

Thursday Evening Sunset Series. Bring lawn chairs and blankets, and enjoy live music by Wavelength, food trucks, drinks, and a stunning view of the sunset. $10, 6pm. Carter Mountain Orchard, 1435 Carters Mountain Trl. chilesfamilyorchards.com

Gimme Gimme Disco. A DJ-based dance party playing all your favorite ABBA hits and more. $15-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jefferson theater.com

Hard Swimmin’ Fish. Award-winning wines and twisted vintage roots music. Free, 5pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshouse winery.com

Josh Mayo and The House Sauce. A night of rock ‘n’ roll originals and classic covers. Free, 10:30pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Starry Nights. Sip on wine and enjoy music under the stars from Wil Gravatt Band. $15-78, 6pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. veritaswines.com

Vincent Zorn. Performing at the Saturday Summer Music Series. Free, 1pm. Mount Ida Reserve, 5931 Blenheim Rd. mountida reserve.com

stage

Cabaret See listing for Friday, July 7. $15–35, 7:30pm. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA Grounds. virginiatheatre festival.org

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Jeannette Walls: Hang the Moon—in conversation with Liza Nash Taylor. Walls will share her new historical fiction novel, Hang the Moon. Free, 7pm. CODE Building, Irving Theater, 225 W. Water St. ndbookshop.com

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

classes

Aisling Flower Farm Floral Workshop. Design a beautiful bouquet while sipping cider. $60, noon. Castle Hill Cider, 6065 Turkey Sag Rd., Keswick. castlehillcider.com

Creating and Working from Outlines in Fiction. Explore how to create outlines for your stories, and how outlining can help you stay motivated. $60-65, 10:30am. Online. writerhouse.org

Encaustic Painting Workshop. Paint with pigmented, molten wax. $155, 10am. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. kareneide.com

Intro to Metal Jewelry Basics. Make a finished, wearable piece of jewelry. $155, 10am. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. charlenecross.com

outside

Historic Tree Walk. View the seasonal changes of Highland’s mature trees during this hour-long walk with guide Sharon Hiner. $12, 9:30am. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. highland.org

etc.

Charlottesville City Market. Shop seasonal local produce, homemade baked goods, authentic cultural foods, wares from artisans of various disciplines, and more. Free, 9am. Charlottesville City Market, 100 Water St. E. charlottesville.gov

Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor

A screening of Eduardo Montes-Bradley’s documentary film. Free (registration requested), 1pm. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. highland.org

Indie Short Film Series. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Annette Banks presents her film, Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders, and other short films. $20, 7pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. lighthousestudio.org

Sunday 7/9

music

John Kelly. Acoustic sounds. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Second Sunday Bluegrass Jam. All levels, ages, and instruments welcome. Free, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com

The Jazz Connection. Jazz quartet playing standards and originals with occasional guest performers. Free, 6pm. Kardinal Hall, 722 Preston Ave. kardinalhall.com

stage

Cabaret See listing for Friday, July 7. $15–35, 2pm. Culbreth Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd., UVA Grounds. virginiatheatrefestival.org

words

Speaker Series: The Sacred Self, Fulfillment Through Passions. A dialogue with guests from the arts and more on how they discovered a sense of the sacred through their passions. Free, 11am. Park Street Christian Church, 1200 Park St. parkstreetchristianchurch.com

An embarrassment of riches

Jeannette Walls pairs fact with fiction in Hang the Moon

By Lisa Provence arts@c-ville.com

Jeannette Walls had an embarrassing childhood. For a storyteller, that’s gold. She parlayed growing up with colorful, irresponsible parents—creative optimists who didn’t always provide for their children’s basic needs, like food or shelter—into The Glass Castle, her 2005 memoir that has been a New York Times bestseller for nine years.

“I had a happy childhood,” insists Walls, who now lives on a 320-acre farm in Orange. “You couldn’t pay me to go through it again.”

The Glass Castle, which sold 7 million copies in North America alone, has been translated into 35 languages and was made into a 2017 movie starring Woody Harrelson, has a devoted fan base and has become so iconic that we have to ask Walls if she ever gets tired of talking about her childhood.

“No,” says Walls. “I think it’s really not about me anymore. People are trying to figure out their own stories. People carry around so much shame or anger.”

Walls was a gossip columnist working for magazines and television in New York, and had never told anyone about living with her three siblings in a three-room house with no running water in West Virginia, about being so poor and hungry that she scrounged through trash cans for food in high school, or about her alcoholic father stealing the piggy bank that held the kids’ escape money.

One day John Taylor, a colleague at New York magazine who later became her husband, said something about Walls didn’t add up, and when he asked her about her childhood, “I always changed the subject,” she says. When she finally told him, he said, “That would make an incredible book.”

“He thought I was exaggerating,” says Walls, “until he met my mother.”

Walls describes her storytelling parents as “fabulists,” and she was thrilled when she discovered journalism and “that I could earn a salary for telling the truth.” After The Glass Castle, people started telling her their experiences, and she couldn’t go back to the snark of gossip writing. She and Taylor moved to Virginia.

While fiction initially didn’t attract Walls, she plunged into it and her latest book, Hang the Moon, tells the story of a young woman trying to manage—and expand— her father’s bootlegging operations in Prohibition-era Virginia.

“I love transitional periods,” says Walls. The 1920s, with cars, electricity, and women’s suffrage, was such a time, moving isolated rural societies into more contact with the outside world.

“I was fascinated with Prohibition,” she says, “and with a father who was a raging alcoholic,

I wanted to live through this time when you couldn’t drink.” But such efforts have unintended consequences, and for moonshiners, what had been a cash crop became illegal.

“Outlaw. Rumrunner. Bootlegger. Blockader,” thinks Hang the Moon’s heroine, Sallie Kincaid. “I don’t forget for one second what we are doing is illegal, but legal and illegal and right and wrong don’t always line up. Ask a former slave. Plenty of them still around. Sometimes the so-called law is nothing but the haves telling the have-nots to stay in their place.”

Walls relied on newspapers for much of her research. “These moonshiners weren’t keeping diaries,” she notes. She learned that Franklin County, Virginia, was dubbed the “wettest county in the world,” with an estimated 99 percent of the population involved in the business, including the sheriff. She wondered, how was this operation run? “I spent way too long researching, but I didn’t want to put anything in the book that couldn’t happen.”

Walls also wanted to explore what it was like to be a woman in a man’s business, and Elizabeth I and her oft-married father, Henry VIII, provided a template.

“My mother and father fought over Elizabeth,” recalls Walls. “My father adored her and called her a ‘tough-ass broad.’”

Walls was reading a biography of Elizabeth with ”cousins marrying each other, people killing each other,” and thought, “They’re kind of like white trash, aren’t they?”

Transporting the powerful, murderous Tudors to 1920s Virginia had Elizabethan experts thinking it was a fabulous idea—and friends with their eyes glazed over, says Walls. Ultimately she had to make the story her own, and she assures readers they don’t need to know about Elizabeth’s rise to power to read Hang the Moon

The book is also a story about family, and “how we take on these roles that are assigned to us,” says Walls. “It’s the story of a woman underestimated because of the circumstances of her birth.”

Family continues to remain important to Walls, and she moved her artist/hoarder mother—whom she once observed dumpster diving in New York as Walls rode by in a cab—into a cottage on her farm. “I was able to love my mother more as an adult than as a child, when I expected her to take care of me,” she says.

“I still found her maddening,” says Walls, listing the 18 typewriters and 75 cameras she found cleaning out her mother’s cottage after she died in August 2021. “But she found such joy in life.”

Appraising her parents is no longer a matter of forgiveness for Walls. “It’s acceptance.” She and her siblings had their father, Rex Walls, disinterred and reburied alongside Rose Mary Walls on their daughter’s farm. And she inherited some of her parents’ optimism. “Life is so dang good,” she says. “It’s so ridiculously beautiful.”

Jeanette Walls will be in Charlottesville on July 8 at the Irving Theater for a reading and conversation.

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Sunday 7/9

classes

Paint & Sip: Sunset Lake. Paint, sip, and repeat. $35, 2pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. catelynkelsey designs.com

etc.

An American Werewolf in London Where Wolf author Rob Saucedo hosts the 1981 favorite about a backpacking trip gone horribly wrong. $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Jaws Movie Party. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster gets the Movie Party treatment. $13, 4pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

She’s the Man Brunch. Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum shake up Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in this teen bromance/romance. $10, 11:15am. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Monday 7/10

music

Berto & Vincent. Fiesta. Free, 7pm. South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. south andcentralgrill.com

Gin & Jazz. The Brian Caputo Trio performs in the Château Lobby Bar. Free, 5:30pm. Oakhurst Inn, 100 Oakhurst Cir. oakhurstinn.com

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Storytime. Storytelling, songs, movement, and bubbles. Free, 10:30am. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. vadm.org

etc.

War of the Worlds Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning battle martians in Steven Spielberg’s take on the H.G. Wells tale. $5, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Tuesday 7/11

music

Batesville Sessions: Louis Smith and Ryan Wood. The Kendal Street Company musicians perform live. Free, 7:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com

The Head and the Heart. With Illiterate Light, Landon Elliot, and Deau Eyes. $50, 7pm. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. tingpavilion.com

Thunder Music Karaoke. Show off your singing skills or just enjoy the show. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. 234-4436

Vincent Zorn. Olé. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Vinyl Night. BYO record to play and get $1 off pints. Free, 4pm. Starr Hill Brewery, Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. dairymarket cville.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

etc.

Family Game Night. Games for all ages, including corn hole, Jenga, and board games. Free, 5pm. Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. dairymarketcville.com

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. Teams of two to six people play for prizes and bragging rights. Free, 8pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com

CULTURE THE WORKS

Scene of the crime

“Law & Order” actor Ainsley Seiger leads VTF’s Cabaret

By Julia Stumbaugh arts@c-ville.com

In the midst of preparations for the Virginia Theatre Festival’s production of Cabaret, lead actor Ainsley Seiger missed a few rehearsals to fly to Monaco for the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

That’s the cost of staging a play led by an actor with a regular role on NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” And it’s a price director and choreographer Matthew Steffens is more than willing to pay to direct Seiger, an actor he and Virginia Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Wales have worked with since she was 14 years old.

“We really wanted Ainsley because we know what she brings to the table,” Steffens says. “It not only feels like a performance that is in the late 1920s in Berlin, but also something that could be in Charlottesville on a Friday night down at the mall.”

In Cabaret, American writer Clifford Bradshaw (Keith Rubin) visits Berlin while working on a novel. There, he meets mercurial English nightclub performer Sally Bowles (Seiger), who is both manic and tragic, dominating every scene she is in. Meanwhile, behind the flash of song and dance, the growing specter of Nazism looms.

Steffens calls Sally a “tornado.” Seiger describes her as “unhinged.”

“Even when we did our first readthrough at the table … I couldn’t stop moving around in my seat,” Seiger says. “There’s something about her that just begs to move. She wants to be in a different place at any given moment.”

It’s difficult to think of a character more dissimilar to NYPD detective Jet Slootmaekers, the stoic, introverted tech specialist Seiger has played on “Law & Order: Organized Crime” since early 2021.

“That’s been fun to play with, the huge dichotomy between someone who is quite small, someone who is learning how to take up space, like Jet … versus Sally, who I don’t think cares about any of that,” Seiger says. “She walks into the room, and it’s her room now.”

In front of the “Law & Order” cameras, Seiger shares Jet’s emotions with the audience through the minutiae of a pursed lip or a quick downward glance. Those nuances become impossible when she is trying to convey happiness and heartbreak to the last row of the Culbreth Theatre.

For Seiger, a theater kid since middle school, it’s freeing to return to a live performance.

“That was a bit of a learning curve for me, learning to exist within the frame of the camera. You really are bound by where that goes and where it takes you,” Seiger says of her TV work. “There’s a lot more freedom of expression physically on a stage, because you want to take up the entire space.”

Seiger’s theater career began in earnest after her sophomore year in high school, when she arrived at UNC Chapel Hill for a summer theater conservatory. There, Steffens and Wales were holding auditions for Hairspray.

Seiger won the role of Amber Von Tussle and found two mentors.

“They were really the first people to ever take me seriously as a performer and an artist that weren’t my parents,” Seiger says. “They were a very formative part of my development as an artist. As the years have gone on, that creative relationship has just deepened.”

During Seiger’s sophomore year at the UNC School of the Arts, Steffens reached out to her about joining the Virginia Theatre Festival for the 2018 production of A Chorus Line. Seiger describes it as her first “truly professional show.”

“I felt like I learned so much from that, and I’m drawing so much on that experience just being back here,” she says.

In Seiger’s return to the Virginia Theatre Festival stage, Steffens and Wales still see the talent they first spotted a decade ago. “I can give her a very broad direction, and I know that she’s going to play in the sandbox

with me,” Steffens says. “It allows me, as a director, to just direct freely.”

They’re also noticing the new confidence of a professional used to high-pressure television takes that, unlike theater, do not allow for do-overs the next night.

“I’ve been dreaming along with her, for her, for the amount of time that I’ve known her,” Wales says. “And now to have seen her transition into a fully professional career outside of school, and to come back and have a chance to work with her again—not to be cliché, but it’s like a dream come true.”

Seiger is not the only cast member leaving New York for a Cabaret summer in Charlottesville. Steffens (Into the Woods) and music director Justin Ramos (Moulin Rouge) were both recently working on Broadway, as well as cast members Janet Dickinson as Fraulein Schneider (Anastasia and How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and David Mattar Merten as Emcee (Afterglow, an off-Broadway hit.)

“It’s gratifying, because I think that there is something special about Charlottesville, and about the Virginia Theatre Festival,” says Wales. “These are people who want to return to our community.”

“She walks into the room, and it’s her room now.” AINSLEY SEIGER

Cabaret opens July 7 at the Culbreth Theatre.

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July exhibitions

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library 2450 Old Ivy Rd. Permanent exhibitions include “Flowerdew Hundred: Unearthing Virginia’s History” and “Declaring Independence: Creating and Recreating America’s Document.” Botanical Fare 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Familiar Scenes: Recent Landscapes in Oil” by Randy Baskerville. Through September 4.

The Bridge PAI 306 E. Main St. Open studios with member artists of The Underground.

Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. “Symbiotic Tango,” collaborative works by Beatrix Ost and Michelle Gagliano. Through July.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Sweet Stitches,” bags and accessories by Cathy Coulter, and “Virginia Countryside,” paintings by Michelle Nevarr. Through July. Meet the artists July 8.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Modern in Silhouette,” paper cuttings by Wendy Schultz Wubbels. Through July. First Fridays openings.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd., UVA Grounds. Exhibitions include “Look Three Ways: Maya Painted Pottery,” “Processing Abstraction,” and “N’Dakinna Landscapes Acknowledged.”

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA 400 Worrell Dr. “Performing Country,” an exhibition highlighting never-before-seen works, and other permanent exhibitions.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Organic Matter,” new work by Monica Angle, Heather Beardsley, Michelle Gagliano, and Kris Iden. Opens July 8. Through August 27.

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. “Colors of the World,” watercolor paintings by Karen Knierim. Through August.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Smith Gallery, “Flotsam, Discarded Materials Transformed,” an immersive installation of oceanic artwork by L. Michelle Geiger. In the hallway galleries, the summer members show. Through August 13. First Fridays celebration.

New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “Soft Spot” features work by 2022-23 New City Arts Fellows Aidyn Mancenido, Audrey Parks, Eileen Johnson, Kia Wassener, Rachel Austin. Through July 28. First Fridays opening.

Phaeton Gallery 114 Old Preston Ave. “New Works,” loosely rendered oil paintings of nature and water by Jackie Moore Watson. Through July 15.

PVCC Gallery V. Earl Dickinson Building, 501 College Dr. In the North and South galleries, the 2023 Student Exhibition. Through September 4.

Quirk Gallery 499 W. Main St. “Trial & Error,” mixed-media works by Frank Phillips. “Ephemeral Spring,” a group

show curated by Jessica Breed, featuring area artists. “House on Fire,” glass works by Kiara Pelissier and her team. Dates vary.

Random Row Brewing Co. 608 Preston Ave. #A. “Near and Far: Scenes from Virginia and Tennessee,” oil paintings by Randy Baskerville. Through August 30.

The Scrappy Elephant 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. Reclaimed yarn works by Gryphon Corpus. Through August 1. First Fridays opening.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “Ditto” showcases collaborative works by Tobiah Mundt and Sarah Boyts Yoder. In the Dové gallery, “Echoes in the Deep Blue,” a solo exhibition of new work by Sahara Clemons. Through July 21.

Studio Ix 969 Second St. SE. “Artvolution: Transformations in Paper, Passion, and Paint,” works in a mélange of styles by Kweisi Morris. Through July 30. First Fridays opening.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville 717 Rugby Rd. “Conversing with the Universe,” works by Linda Nacamulli. Through August.

Vault Virginia 300 E. Main St. “Frederick Nichols: Wilderness Reassembled,” large-scale silkscreens.

Visible Records 1740 Broadway St. “Entre Nos,” a group exhibition featuring works by artists in the undoc+ spectrum, curated by Erika Hirugami. Through August 19.

Wendy Schultz Wubbels at C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery

Jackie Moore Watson at Phaeton Gallery

Randy Baskerville at Random Row Brewing Co.

Kweisi Morris at Studio Ix

Sahara Clemons at Second Street Gallery Frederick Nichols at Vault Virginia

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16. Film character’s name whose letters appear in the surname of Daisy Ridley

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21. “Blame It ___” (1984 film set in Brazil)

22. Home of Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

23. ... for all you Shakespeare fans

27. “Scram!”

29. It’s north of Afr.

30. They’re often broken before breakfast

31. Instrument with stops

34. Baseball execs

37. Ginger ___

38. ... for all you Charlotte BrontÎ fans

40. L.L. Bean competitor

41. High-____ monitor

42. Mr. T’s crew

43. Prank caller to Moe’s Tavern

44. From ____ Z

45. Opposite of passive

47. ... for all you Virginia Woolf fans

53. ____ sci (college course)

54. Linguine sauce

55. Feeling :-(

58. ... for all you Margaret Mitchell fans

62. Dossier letters

63. Cabinet dept. with a windmill on its seal

64. “Reservoir Dogs” character

65. Blog feed inits.

66. Grammy winner Erykah

67. Items at a haberdasher y

DOWN

1. One of Yellowstone’s

2.2+ million

2. Simon ____

3. Ships’ quarters

4. “What’s your ____?” (question to a guest en route)

5. California wine region

6. Where Nemo was found in “Finding Nemo”

7. “West Side Story” heroine

8. ‘60s-’70s Mets st ar ____ Jones

9. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, according to the Oxford English Dict.

10. Fraternity letter

11. Main event in “The Crucible”

12. Actress Anne of “Donnie Brasco”

13. Check out

18. Expert

19. Sullen

24. Pained cries

25. Treasured

26. LGBT Pride Month

27. Reverse, e.g.

28. Look at creepily

31. Whole

32. Stephen of “V for Vendetta”

33. Weight-ing room?

34. Farm structure

35. “____ Griffin’s Crosswords” (2007-2008 show)

36. Place

38. Canc˙n kitty

39. “What business is ____ yours?”

43. Texter’s “Oh, just remembered ...”

44. Female friend, in France

45. Inhaler user ’s malady

46. Pigeons or doves

47. Kind of test for a baby

48. Corner pieces, in chess

49. Bones next to humeri

50. Chose

51. So-called “architect of India”

52. Jokey suffix with most

56. “What are you, some kind of ____?”

57. Discord on the far left and far right?

59. Entanglement

60. “How Easy Is That?” cookbook writer Garten

61. Pugilist’s org.

ANSWERS 6/28/23

By Rob Brezsny Leo

(July 23-Aug. 22): Maybe you wished you cared more deeply about a certain situation. Your lack of empathy and passion may feel like a hole in your soul. If so, I have good news. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to find the missing power; to tap into the warm, wet feelings that could motivate your quest for greater connection. Here’s a good way to begin the process: Forget everything you think you know about the situation with which you want more engagement. Arrive at an empty, still point that enables you to observe the situation as if you were seeing it for the first time.

Virgo

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are in an astrological phase when you’ll be wise to wrangle with puzzles and enigmas. Whether or not you come up with crisp solutions isn’t as crucial as your earnest efforts to limber up your mind. For best results, don’t worry and sweat about it; have fun! Now I’ll provide a sample riddle to get you in the mood. It’s adapted from a text by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace. You are standing before two identical closed doors, one leading to grime and confusion, the other to revelation and joy. Before the doors stand two figures: an angel who always tells the truth and a demon who always lies. But they look alike, and you may ask only one question to help you choose what door to take. What do you do? (Possible answer: Ask either character what the other would say if you asked which door to take, then open the opposite door.)

Libra

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I found a study that concluded just 6.1 percent of online horoscopes provide legitimate predictions about the future. Furthermore, the research indicated, 62.3 percent of them consist of bland, generic pabulum of no value to the recipient. I disagree with these assessments. Chani Nicholas, Michael Lutin, Susan Miller, and Jessica Shepherd are a few of many regular horoscope writers whose work I find interesting. My own astrological oracles are useful, too. And by the way, how can anyone have the hubris to decide which horoscopes are helpful and which are not? This thing we do is a highly subjective art, not an objective science. In the spirit of my comments here, Libra, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to declare your independence from socalled experts and authorities who tell you

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Cancer

(June 21-July 22): I wrote my horoscope column for over 10 years before it began to get widely syndicated. What changed? I became a better writer and oracle, for one thing. My tenacity was inexhaustible. I was always striving to improve my craft, even when the rewards were meager. Another important factor in my eventual success was my persistence in marketing. I did a lot of hard work to ensure the right publications knew about me. I suspect, fellow Cancerian, that 2024 is likely to bring you a comparable breakthrough in a labor of love you have been cultivating for a long time. And the coming months of 2023 will be key in setting the stage for that breakthrough.

they know what’s valid and worthwhile for you. Here’s your motto: “I’m the authoritative boss of my own truth.”

Scorpio

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Is it a fact that our bodies are made of stardust? Absolutely true, says planetary scientist Dr. Ashley King. Nearly all the elements comprising our flesh, nerves, bones, and blood were originally forged in at least one star, maybe more. Some of the stuff we are made of lived a very long time in a star that eventually exploded: a supernova. Here’s another amazing revelation about you: You are composed of atoms that have existed for almost 14 billion years. I bring these startling realities to your attention, Scorpio, in honor of the most expansive phase of your astrological cycle. You have a mandate to deepen and broaden and enlarge your understanding of who you are and where you came from.

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I foresee that August will be a time of experiments and explorations. Life will be in a generous mood toward you, tempting and teasing you with opportunities from beyond your circle of expectations. But let’s not get carried away until it makes cosmic sense to get carried away. I don’t want to urge you to embrace wild hope prematurely. Between now and the end of July, I advise you to enjoy sensible gambles and measured adventures. It’s okay to go deep and be rigorous, but save the full intensity for later.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is there a crucial half-conscious question lurking in the underside of your mind? A smoldering doubt or muffled perplexity that’s important for you to address? I suspect there is. Now it’s time to coax it up to the surface of your awareness so you may

deal with it forthrightly. You must not let it smolder there in its hiding place. Here’s the good news, Capricorn: If you bring the dilemma or confusion or worry into the full light of your consciousness, it will ultimately lead you to unexpected treasure. Be brave!

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Larry McMurtry’s novel Duane’s Depressed, the life of the main character has come to a standstill. He no longer enjoys his job. The fates of his kids are too complicated for him to know how to respond. He has a lot of feelings but has little skill in expressing them. At a loss for how to change his circumstances, he takes a small and basic step: He stops driving his pickup truck and instead walks everywhere he needs to go. Your current stasis is nowhere near as dire as Duane’s, Aquarius. But I do recommend you consider his approach to initiating transformation: Start small and basic.

Pisces

(Feb. 19-March 20): Author K. V. Patel writes, “As children, we laugh fully with the whole body. We laugh with everything we have.” In the coming weeks, Pisces, I would love for you to regularly indulge in just that: total delight and release. Furthermore, I predict you will be more able than usual to summon uproarious life-affirming amusement from the depths of your enchanted soul. Further furthermore, I believe you will have more reasons than ever before to throw your head back and unleash your entire self in rippling bursts of healing hysterical hilarity. To get started, practice chuckling, giggling, and chortling for one minute right now.

Aries

(March 21-April 19): Genius physicist Albert Einstein said, “The formulation of a problem

is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from new angles, requires creative imagination and makes real advances.” What he said here applies to our personal dilemmas, too. When we figure out the right questions to ask, we are more than halfway toward a clear resolution. This is always true, of course, but it will be an especially crucial principle for you in the coming weeks.

Taurus

(April 20-May 20): “Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” So said Taurus biologist and anthropologist Thomas Huxley. I don’t think you will have to be quite so forceful as that in the coming weeks. But I hope you’re willing to further your education by rebelling against what you already know. And I hope you will be boisterously skeptical about conventional wisdom and trendy ideas. Have fun cultivating a feisty approach to learning! The more time you spend exploring beyond the borders of your familiar world, the better.

Gemini

(May 21-June 20): Hooray and hallelujah! You’ve been experimenting with the perks of being pragmatic and well-grounded. You have been extra intent on translating your ideals into effective actions. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen you so dedicated to enjoying the simple pleasures. I love that you’re investigating the wonders of being as down-toearth as you dare. Congratulations! Keep doing this honorable work.

Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, (877) 873-4888

A different kind of festival - QuinkFair

Can you imagine a change that would make you more of who you wanted to be?

More happy, clever, sexy or wise?

QuinkFair is a camping event July 20 thru the morning of July 24 in Louisa county with the elements of a festival: engaging workshops, gifted musicians, interactive art, ecstatic dance and artistic effigies.

QuinkFair also asks you the big questions in a fun and fulfilling way. We provide healthy, tasty food. Adult tickets $160, youth 6-17 $80, 5 and under free. Some scholarship and work exchange options available.

Held in Louisa County, 541-505-0803

Visit www.quink.fun for more info and ticket

LEGALS

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ALBEMARLE COUNTY

ROSALYN FRITH PRESTON, et al. Petitioners, v. Case No.: CL23-383

T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC., and BENEFICIARIES OF THE ROSLYN JOY FRITH TRUST, IF ANY, Parties Unknown Respondents.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to establish title in the Estate of Roslyn Joy Frith, deceased, to certain assets held by T. Rowe Price Services, Inc. titled to the “Roslyn Joy Frith Trust.” The Amended Petition filed herein states that there are or may be persons, whose names are unknown, interested in the assets which are the subject matter of this proceeding as beneficiaries of the Roslyn Joy Frith Trust, and such persons are named as makes such persons Respondents by the general description of “parties unknown.”

It is accordingly hereby ORDERED that each of said beneficiaries of the Roslyn Joy Frith Trust, if any, appear on or before August 4, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. and do whatever is necessary to protect their interest in said matter.

It is further ORDERED that this Order of Publication be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in the C-VILLE Weekly, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Albemarle.

ENTERED: 6/14/2023

Cheryl V. Higgins Judge

Free Union Country School seeks

Early Childhood Assistant Teacher

Free Union Country School (preschool-fifth grade), a dynamic school near Charlottesville, seeks an Assistant Teacher who will work collaboratively with classroom teachers to inspire in every student a confidence in themselves as unique, one-of-a-kind learners, and to provide a foundation for continued, successful education in school and out.

To apply, please consult the full position description at https://shorturl.at/eLM27

MID-LEVEL TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity. Our commitment to social equity includes the recognition that our mission is best advanced by the contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture. Our primary client, either directly or indirectly, is the federal government, which expects all Skeo staff members to maintain and provide neutral, non-advocacy technical assistance and support.

We are seeking a versatile, team- and detail-oriented Technical Associate to join Skeo on a full-time basis, with full-time options ranging from 30 to 40 hours per week. Location is flexible, but reliable internet connection and being within two hours of a major airport are required. Prospective hires must be willing to travel an average of 2-10 days per month at various locations throughout the U.S.

This position will entail technical research, writing and analysis associated with health and environmental impacts of contamination at hazardous waste sites. In addition to strong writing and research skills, ideal candidates will have a background in environmental sciences, teaching, technical writing or other relevant fields. Candidates should demonstrate they are detail-oriented, highly responsive, capable of managing projects and tasks including overseeing others in work, and capable of supporting several projects at one time.

All staff are expected to reflect Skeo’s operating principles: dignity, respect, compassion, integrity and accountability. Applicants should be able to multi-task, work effectively on a team, maintain a positive attitude and have excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

•Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences, environmental engineering, hydrogeology or other relevant fields.

•At least three years of experience performing research and analysis of technical information related to the environmental field.

•Two to three years of experience managing projects or overseeing activities that translate to project management.

•Strong writing and communication skills with an ability and interest in communicating technical information to a lay audience in plain language, both in writing and verbally.

•Willingness to support a range of projects, including projects outside of primary expertise.

•Willingness to travel at various locations throughout the United States.

•Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

•Master’s degree in environmental science, policy, engineering or other related field.

•Experience with the Superfund cleanup process (removal actions, site investigation, remedy selection, remedy implementation).

•Experience presenting technical information to community groups and diverse audiences, including for potentially contentious situations virtually and in-person.

•Working knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological processes that control the transport, migration and potential impacts of hazardous waste (e.g., in soil, air, groundwater, surface water, and/or sediments) to human health and the environment.

•Project management experience.

•Meeting facilitation skills.

Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by 14th, 2023, or until position is filled, here: https:// www.skeo.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

MIDDLE-LEVEL TO SENIOR-LEVEL TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity. Our commitment to social equity includes the recognition that our mission is best advanced by the contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture. Our primary client, either directly or indirectly, is the federal government, which expects all Skeo staff members to maintain and provide neutral, non-advocacy technical assistance and support.

We are seeking a team- and detail-oriented Middle-Level to Senior-Level Technical Associate to join Skeo on a full-time basis, with full-time options ranging from 30 to 40 hours per week. Location is flexible, but reliable internet connection and being within two hours of a major airport are required. This position will entail providing technical research, writing and analysis associated with health and environmental impacts of contamination at Superfund and other contaminated sites. Candidates should be comfortable presenting technical information in front of small or large groups of diverse communities. Prospective hires must be willing to travel an average of 2-10 days per month at various locations throughout the U.S.

All staff are expected to reflect Skeo’s operating principles: dignity, respect, compassion, integrity and accountability. Applicants should be able to multi-task, work effectively on a team, maintain a positive attitude and have excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

•Master’s degree or Ph.D. in environmental science, environmental engineering or other relatedfield.

•At least five years of experience performing research and analysis of technical informationrelated to the environmental field.

•Strong writing and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information toa lay audience in plain language, both in writing and verbally.

•Experience and interest in working with community, tribal and/or environmental groups ontechnical issues related to site cleanup.

•Willingness to support a range of projects, including projects outside of primary expertise.

•Willingness to travel an average of 2-10 days a month.

•Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

•Experience presenting technical information to community groups and diverse audiences,including for potentially contentious situations virtually and in-person.

•Expertise in hydrogeology, hydrology, or other areas that facilitate the understanding ofcontaminant transport in the environment.

•Expertise in human or environmental risk assessment.

•Expertise with environmental sampling methods, site characterization and cleanup technologies.

•Experience with the Superfund cleanup process (removal actions, site investigation, remedyselection, remedy implementation).

•Experience with RCRA or other federal or state environmental cleanup programs.

•Strong project management skills.

•Meeting facilitation skills.

•Experience working with and supporting diverse communities.

•Experience providing culturally-responsive support.

Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by Friday, July 14th, 2023, or until position is filled, here: https://www.skeo.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE – MID LEVEL

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity.

We are seeking a versatile, team-oriented mid-level Data and Information Management Associate to join Skeo on a full-time basis, with full-time options ranging from 30 to 40 hours per week. Location is flexible, but reliable internet connection and being within two hours of an airport are required. This position will entail supporting and managing a wide range of data-oriented projects related to the cleanup and development of contaminated properties, including: designing and implementing data collection, analysis, management, and reporting projects, and conducting and overseeing economics research and writing projects. Our primary client, either directly or indirectly, is the federal government, which expects all Skeo staff members to maintain and provide neutral, non-advocacy technical assistance and support. Prospective hires must be willing to occasionally travel to various locations throughout the U.S.

All staff are expected to reflect Skeo’s operating principles: dignity, respect, compassion, integrity, and accountability. Applicants should be able to multi-task, work effectively on a team, support multiple managers, maintain a positive attitude and have excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in resource economics, data management, environmental sciences, GIS, or other relevant fields.

• Two to three years of experience managing projects or overseeing activities that translate to project management.

• Strong project management skills with ability to cultivate project teams and train team members with varying levels of experience.

• Strong data management skills.

• Strong online research and data analysis skills.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

• Willingness to learn new subject matter and support a range of projects, including projects outside of primary expertise.

• Strong writing and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information clearly to a lay audience through written materials and presentations.

• Willing to travel occasionally within the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programmatic or field experience with the EPA Superfund removal or remedial cleanup process.

• Experience with ArcGIS Pro, InDesign.

Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by Friday, July 14th, 2023, or until position is filled, here: https://www.skeo.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

REUSE ECONOMICS ASSOCIATE

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity.

We are seeking a versatile, team-oriented Associate to join Skeo on a full-time basis, with full-time options ranging from 30 to 40 hours per week. Location is flexible, but reliable internet connection and being within two hours of an airport are required. This position will primarily support Superfund reuse economics projects, which include a broad range of work that highlights the economic benefits associated with the cleanup and reuse of remediated Superfund sites. The position will entail supporting a wide range of data-oriented research projects, including: data collection and analysis, implementing quality assurance and quality control procedures for data-related projects, and conducting and overseeing economic research and writing projects. Our primary client, either directly or indirectly, is the federal government, which expects all Skeo staff members to maintain and provide neutral, non-advocacy technical assistance and support. Prospective hires must be willing to occasionally travel to various locations throughout the U.S.

All staff are expected to reflect Skeo’s operating principles: dignity, respect, compassion, integrity, and accountability. Applicants should be able to multi-task, work effectively on a team, support multiple managers, maintain a positive attitude and have excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in resource economics, environmental sciences or other relevant fields.

• One to two years of professional experience related to the fields of study listed above.

• Strong research and data analysis skills.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Willingness to learn new subject matter and support a range of projects, including projects outside of primary expertise.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

• Strong writing and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information clearly to a lay audience through written materials and presentations.

• Willing to travel occasionally within the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programmatic or field experience with the EPA Superfund removal or remedial cleanup process.

• Willingness to manage projects.

• Experience with InDesign, ArcGIS Pro.

Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by Friday, July 14th, 2023, or until position is filled, here: https://www.skeo.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

POSITION FOR SENIOR-LEVEL ASSOCIATE

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity. Our commitment to social equity includes the recognition that our mission is best advanced by the contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture. Our primary client, either directly or indirectly, is the federal government, which expects all Skeo staff members to maintain and provide neutral, non-advocacy technical assistance and support.

We are seeking a team- and detail-oriented Senior-Level Associate to join Skeo on a full-time basis, with full-time options ranging from 30 to 40 hours per week. Location is flexible, but reliable internet connection and being within two hours of a major airport are required. This position will entail using and leveraging the applicant’s familiarity working with or for federal, state, or local agencies, particularly related to community engagement and analysis in community revitalization, cleanup or development of properties. Skeo expects applicants at the Senior-Level to contribute to, structure, manage, and grow bodies of work, most of which are related to EPA cleanup programs (e.g., Superfund, Brownfields, Clean Water Act).

Candidates should be comfortable interfacing with clients, managing projects, programs, or other bodies of work, and supporting and mentoring less senior support staff. Skeo expects candidates to be comfortable working with diverse communities, some of which experience significant environmental justice concerns. Prospective hires must be willing to travel an average of 2-10 days per month at various locations throughout the U.S.

All staff are expected to reflect Skeo’s operating principles: dignity, respect, compassion, integrity and accountability. Applicants should be able to multi-task, effectively lead project teams, contribute substantively to a wide range of projects, maintain a positive attitude, follow government contracting expectations, comfortably reinforce corporate goals and policies with less senior staff, and have excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

• No less than a bachelor’s degree in planning, landscape architecture, public policy, natural resource management, public administration or similar.

• Approximately 10-15 years of experience in a relevant field, through a combination of work and/or post-bachelor studies.

• No less than five years of experience leading project teams or programs with a demonstrated ability to effectively and competently manage projects and project teams.

• Strong communication, facilitation, and writing skills, especially related to the development of planning-oriented documents.

• Ability to professionally and productively interface with clients, corporate leadership, subcontractors, and staff.

• Confidence and willingness to support, oversee, or nurture a range of projects, including projects outside of primary expertise.

• Familiarity working with or for federal, state, or local agencies, particularly related to cleanup or development of properties.

• Willingness to travel an average of 2-10 days a month.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic planning related to projects, programs, or organizations. Ability to perform strategic planning projects for clients.

• Experience working with or for Superfund or Brownfield programs.

• Familiarity with government contracting.

• Proficiency with Adobe, ArcGIS and/or ArcPro.

Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by Friday, July 14th, 2023 or until position is filled, here: https://www.skeo.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

RESEARCH, GIS, DATA ENTRY/ANALYSIS AND WRITING INTERN

Skeo Solutions is an employee-focused consulting firm providing innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to complex and pressing issues in environmental stewardship, social equity and economic opportunity.

Skeo seeks to provide up to two part-time intern job opportunities for motivated, energetic and earnest person(s) with an undergraduate degree or pursuing an undergraduate degree to join their team for the fall semester. Selected interns will be paid at the rate of $25 per hour. Interested candidates are eligible for consideration for a spring and summer internships, pending job availability, and performance.

Candidates should demonstrate they are detail-oriented, highly responsive and capable of supporting several projects at one time. Ideal candidates will have experience performing GIS-related tasks or have demonstrable expertise or skills related to researching and entering data. Interns should be receptive to receiving training that enables them to perform work required for this position. Interns will be asked to support a broad range of Skeo work, which may include (but is not limited to) GIS tasks, online research, writing, and data collection and analysis. Interns may work with several different managers, on different types of projects to develop their skill sets.

Required Qualifications:

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in environmental sciences, GIS, economics, technical writing or related field.

• GIS experience in the form of classwork and/or GIS-related projects and/or data entry expertise or experience.

• Strong online research and writing skills.

• Experience collecting and analyzing data or other information.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.

• Professional communication skills.

• Ability to multi-task and work effectively on a team.

• Willingness to work on multiple projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with graphic design and Adobe Creative Suite. Please submit required application materials, which include a cover letter and resume, by Friday, July 14th, 2023, or until position is filled, here: https://www.skeo.com/about-us/ employment-opportunities/. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Decisions will be made based on resumes, performance on exercises, and recommendations. We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as transgender individual), religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, citizenship, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We’re hiring!

C-VILLE Weekly is looking for a development reporter for our Real Estate Weekly section!

The development reporter is responsible for writing a 500- to 600-word column in each week’s issue of C-VILLE. This column updates our readership with important news about Charlottesville’s real estate development, zoning ordinances, the housing market, and other issues related to property and land management in and around the area. In addition to providing the expected elements of a news article, such as a headline and subhead, each week the reporter will source a photo to illustrate the column along with a caption and photo credit.

This opportunity is remote, and the reporter is not required to work in the newsroom, but residence in Charlottesville or a surrounding county is preferred.

The development reporter is paid by the story at the established C-VILLE freelance rate.

An ideal candidate will have journalism, blogging, or magazine writing experience, knowledge of the region and the real estate market, and a strong written voice.

If you think you’re a good fit for the position, please send your resume and 3 writing samples to editor-in-chief Richard DiCicco at editor@c-ville.com.

The University of Virginia seeks an IT Analyst Sr, Business Intelligence Developer in Charlottesville, VA to design, create, and maintain BI reports & tools in support of education & research ops. Reqs MS in Comp Sci, Info Sys, Comp Eng, or related + 0 yrs or BS in Comp Sci, Info Sys, Comp Eng or related + 2 yrs. Experience may be gained concurrent to attainment of grad degree. Remote work permitted. To apply email resume to Troy Dunaway at dunaway@law. virginia.edu and reference IT Analyst Sr, Business Intelligence Developer job opening.

We’re eager to hear from candidates who share our passion for serving the community for the following position.

Direct Support Professionals

Full-time, Part-time, PRN $15-$17 per hour

To see a complete job description for each please visit the careers page of our website. arcpva.org/careers

Offering competitive compensation, paid training, andfor full time staff - an attractive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and more

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No mo styro

The next time you grab takeout from Ace Biscuit & Barbecue, you won’t be enjoying your beef brisket and baby back ribs from a styrofoam container. The recently resurrected BBQ joint is officially styrofoam free, years ahead of the mandated date set by Virginia lawmakers. Restaurants with 20 or more locations must be styrofoam free by 2028, and small businesses have until 2030. Ace employee Jackson Gitchell is pictured here with the restaurant’s new, more environmentally friendly to-go containers.