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NEWS 9 The city’s skyline is changing, that’s for 11 A different sort of mother’s sure. Last week I had a conversation with bond. someone who grew up in Charlottesville, 12 Should Jeff Fogel have recused himself? but rarely drove down I-64. She missed 14 Playing it safe at local the groundbreaking for 5th Street Station, schools. and when she finally drove by once it was 16 Who should pay Wes Bellamy’s legal fees? complete, she couldn’t believe how different 16 City gets serious about that part of town looked. And that area is climate change. still growing. In this week’s feature (p. 21), we outline 15 development projects that have broken ground or will begin FEATURE 21 soon. Three of them are near 5th Street Station, together bringing more than 400 new units to that side of town. But the West Main corridor has been the poster child for change, with a streetscape project recently receiving design approval from City Council, and three luxury student apartments—The Standard will be six Inside the construction projects that will change our current stories—built by fall 2018. Blue Moon Diner is closed for a year as the landscape. 65,000-square-foot Six Hundred West Main apartment complex goes up ARTS 31 behind it, and the Autograph Hotel, on track to be completed this year, 33 Calendar Listings will be Marriott’s third on that street.—Jessica Luck

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No one is going to call it “Emancipation Park”. A name change might be fine, but what a really poor choice they have made. Why are three or four people allowed to suddenly start making sweeping changes to our town? Angel B. Torres

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Plus the germans took down the Nazi statues after the war. Was taking down Nazi statues part of the nazi plan too? No, of course not. Put them suckers in a museum, let the people learn history there and don’t let these monuments to racism stand. Pheel Cogdiss

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Extremism begets extremism. When you allow extremism to decide for the city you grow the problem further. There appears a complete lack of leadership direction and only acquiescing to the lowest common denominator. Which raises the question. Who is stirring people up into an emotional frenzy? Those who have sold Charlottesville out by pandering to extremists will have only memories left of civility and respectful discourse. It’s strange that Mr. Kessler took the heat for this by simply wanting to bring common sense to the table. Any time the uneducated overthrow and run roughshod through city government this is what you get. While those who could bring order to this chaos have given up the ship. Ronald Amon Why stop here? Charlottesville’s beloved Mr.Jefferson was a slave owner. I believe he was even cheating his wife with one of his slaves. Disgraceful! Maybe we should erase all mention and images of him too? Bruce Collier

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announces North Korea’s June 13 release of UVA student Otto Warmbier, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016 for allegedly stealing a propagandarelated banner while visiting the country, according to the Associated Press. The Washington Post reports he’s been in a coma since his trial.

Unsolicited advice The Rutherford Institute’s John Whitehead advises Charlottesville Police, as it deals with confrontations over the Robert E. Lee statue and the upcoming KKK rally, to avoid “heavy-handed, militarized, shock-and-awe tactics,” and suggests instead that cops shake protesters’ hands and thank them for exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Along with mosquitoes and ticks, other bites to avoid this summer are from snakes. The good news is, only two of Virginia’s three venomous species—the timber rattlesnake and northern copperhead—are found in the Charlottesville area, while the eastern cottonmouth hangs in the southeastern part of the state. And according to the Centers for Disease Control, only about five people a year die from snakebites in the United States. Unfortunately for some harmless snakes, their resemblance to the copperhead makes them targets for jittery humans. Fry’s Spring was in an uproar recently when a non-venomous species mistaken for a copperhead was killed. Michael Salotti, president of the Virginia Herpetological Society, advises, “A good rule to use for copperheads is their pattern resembles Hershey’s Kisses on their sides.” If bitten by a venomous snake, remove jewelry in case of swelling and seek medical attention, he says. There’s no need to try to capture the snake because the same antivenin works for all the state’s native species. And if you encounter a snake, Salotti says, “The best advice is to leave the snake alone.” Snakes are not aggressive and are quite beneficial to the ecosystem, he adds. And the eastern kingsnake will eat copperheads, although the majority of the 18 species documented in Albemarle County are ophiophagous—that’s Greek for “snake eating.”

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Charlottesville native son and venture capitalist James B. Murray Jr., former Columbia Capital partner of Senator Mark Warner, was elected vice rector by UVA’s Board of Visitors and will take the rector-in-waiting position July 1, when Frank M. “Rusty” Connor III begins a two-year term as rector. Murray served as William & Mary’s rector in the ’90s.

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Protesters showed up at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail on Mother’s Day.

lottesville,” he says. “Serial rapists, serial murderers. [Jesse Matthew], people wouldn’t have thought that he was a danger to society until he was caught. But when we look back on things he had done and things we think he has done, would you want him back out on the street?” Kumer also thinks that Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s judges and prosecutors are already working to prevent the jail from being used as a debtors’ prison. Charlottesville allows most of those arrested to be released on a signature bond without putting up any money, says Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania. “We do not use secured bonds in this community

as a general rule,” he says. “Poor people in jail because they can’t post bond—it is rare.” “That we don’t have a lot of people sitting here who can’t afford to pay bonds shows that our local judges and commonwealth’s attorneys, what discretion they do have, they are using it to ensure that people who don’t need to be in jail aren’t in jail,” Kumer says. “If more speeders, businessmen, got held in jail for two weeks, you’d have a [state level] policy change,” Williamson says. “But because it is people who have very little voice and who are very worried about risking everything they have if they raise their voice, it’s up to people like me to do a little noise-making.”

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his past Mother’s Day, a new political organization found an unusual way of observing the holiday: By standing in front of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail holding signs in support of certain classes of incarcerated women. The group, Southerners On New Ground, is a national group working to establish a local chapter. SONG wrote in a press release, “In Charlottesville, too many black women are being denied bond. Even though we have raised the money to bail out local black mamas, they are being forced to stay in jail while they await their trial due to overly harsh prosecutors and Virginia’s unfair presumptions against bond.” It turns out that isn’t quite true at the local jail. According to Superintendent Martin Kumer, there were a total of 30 women being held in the jail at the time of the demonstration. “At that time we didn’t have anyone who could be released [if a bond was paid],” Kumer says. “That’s not surprising. Any time we do those reports like that we might have five to 10 people in the whole jail—men and women out of 453 as of right now—who if they posted bond could be released.” When a suspect is arrested and charged with a crime, there are three types of decisions a judge can make: Release the suspect on her own recognizance without paying any money; set bail and require her to come up with cash for freedom until her trial date; or decide the suspect is either a flight risk or a danger to others and keep her in jail. According to local SONG organizer Lyndsey Beutin, the group doesn’t have any evi-

dence for the claim that a high number of black and/or LGBT women are being held without bond in the local jail. Roberta Williamson, a long-time local activist for poor people charged with crimes (she’s not formally affiliated with SONG), believes the bail system has turned into a modern form of debtors’ prison and should be reformed. “For some people, putting up bail means not paying rent, not buying food, not buying an inhaler for a kid. It puts people in a horrible position,” Williamson says. “Now, if someone has murdered someone that’s one thing. If someone has been picked up because they are driving when they are sober after they’ve lost their license for driving while intoxicated, they’re going to go to jail. ...One person that I know was picked up on her way to pick up her sick son. ...On the other hand, wealthy people I know who have lost their license can use Uber.” Nationwide, a movement is growing to eliminate bail money entirely. Even Kumer spoke in support of that idea. “Studies have shown that people who get released on cash bonds or released on no cash bond, there’s no difference in terms of who shows up for court,” Kumer says. “It really doesn’t matter.” The 30 women who were being held on Mother’s Day had been denied bail due to the particulars of their cases, he says. Not because they didn’t have enough money. There are those who pose a danger who should not be out on bond, Kumer explains, sitting in his office in the same building on Avon Street where now-convicted serial killer Jesse Matthew was held pending trial. “I mean let’s face it, we have had some pretty heinous crimes come through Char-

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Out of court Draego rebukes Fogel for not recusing himself By Lisa Provence lisa@c-ville.com

oe Draego was in court June 8 for a charge that he assaulted Showing Up for Racial Justice activist Sara Tansey when he retrieved a phone she allegedly snatched from white-protest organizer Jason Kessler back in February. The court hearing was pretty routine, but afterward, Draego accused Tansey’s lawyer—commonwealth’s attorney candidate Jeff Fogel —of not acting “in a principled manner” by representing Tansey and yet yelling last week at Miller’s at Kessler, who filed the complaint against Tansey. Fogel should have recused himself after that, says Draego. “Jeff has called Jason a ‘crybaby.’ The fact he was [at Miller’s] hollering at Jason may have violated ethical standards.” Draego says his lawyer is reviewing the video to see if Fogel acted appropriately and if not, he will ask to have him removed from the case. In the small world that is Charlottesville, Fogel represented Draego last year when Draego sued City Council for its public comment procedures after he was dragged out of council chambers for calling Muslims “monstrous maniacs.” Draego complimented Fogel for a brief he wrote in the case, and a federal judge ruled council’s rules were unconstitutional. Before the ruling, Fogel asked to be removed as Draego’s attorney. The June 8 hearing in Charlottesville General District Court was to continue the Draego/Tansey cases until a new special prosecutor can be found. Fluvanna Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeff Haislip had been assigned that task, but had to step aside after he talked to Tansey without her lawyer. “The court did not advise him Ms. Tansey was represented by counsel,” said Fogel outside the courthouse.

That’s where Draego chastised Fogel for harassing Kessler while representing a party in the case. Draego also admonished Fogel for not speaking out against SURJ’s in-your-face tactics, and pointed out that when Kessler associate Caleb Norris got in Fogel’s face two weeks ago at Miller’s, Fogel pushed him away, resulting in Fogel being charged with assault. “Why doesn’t he come out and say no one should do that?” asks Draego. Fogel, who was endorsed by SURJ, says, “I have seen Kessler going around in that same fashion. I don’t tell my clients what to do.” He adds, “People in SURJ have stood up with principled action for African-American community members.” Kessler also attended the hearing. He was involved in another confrontation with SURJ the night before on the Down-

“People in SURJ have stood up with principled action for African-American community members.” JEFF FOGEL

town Mall. He says some of his friends were eating at Miller’s and “SURJ mobbed us again. They kept harassing them.” Kessler was banned from Miller’s after the June 1 shout fest, and was outside its patio. Draego says he will be at the upcoming Ku Klux Klan rally July 8 “to protest them coming here. I stand against racism.” He suggested he and Fogel respond together about the KKK coming to Charlottesville, but seemed unconvinced that would happen. “We can all protest without violence,” says Draego. “That’s how it’s supposed to work.” Draego and Tansey’s next court date is June 23.

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ne thing Judge Richard Moore and Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy’s attorney agreed upon: “If it was possible under the law, and there was one person who should pay on this meritless claim, it would be Jason Kessler,” said Pam Starsia, who represented Bellamy when Kessler petitioned to remove him from office for offensive tweets Bellamy made before taking office. Kessler’s petition was thrown out March 8 after Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Doucette determined it had an insufficient number of valid signatures. Starsia is seeking $7,588 in legal fees for nearly 30 hours of work at $250 an hour for representing Bellamy, and she had a court hearing June 6 about her bill. She cited state code that allows public officials to seek attorney’s fees in cases that are “dismissed in favor of the respondent,” and she said the statute was important public policy because it allows elected of-

ficials to fulfill their duties without intimidation and the distraction of unsubstantiated removal proceedings. Doucette didn’t disagree with Starsia on the public policy aspect, but he did on whether Bellamy was the prevailing party in a nonsuit. “We would submit that since there was no judgment in favor of the respondent—”and because Kessler could refile his petition—there is no provision to provide attorney fees in nonsuits, he said. Starsia argued that the nonsuit was indeed in Bellamy’s favor, and to not award his legal fees “undermines the purpose of the statute.” Moore said at least three times in Charlottesville Circuit Court June 6 that if he could assess Kessler for attorney fees, he would. “Mr. Kessler gets a free ride and the city is held responsible,” Moore said. That protection for petition filers “encourages reckless behavior if he doesn’t have to pay,” he added. Moore said he would read other court rulings before making a ruling.

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Still resisting, mayor makes climate calls On the heels of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Accord, Mayor Mike Signer announced June 6 that he has joined the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify their sources. This is an effort, he says, to continue resisting. “Resistance has come to mean many things to many different people in this community,” said Signer at the press conference. In the wake of Trump’s first week in office, the mayor held a rally to declare Charlottesville a “Capital of the Resistance.” But in the realm of environmental sustainability, Signer says it means the city “can and will take matters into our own hands.” Rising sea levels are a key indicator of climate change. Though Charlottesville is landlocked (and Signer noted that the Fry’s Spring Beach Club is likely the closest thing the city has to an ocean), he says City Council will soon adopt a resolution to continue combating the effects of global warming. “Today, we reaffirm our commitment to taking actions to reduce climate pollution, and we will continue to stand with cities and other leaders throughout the nation and the world to advance action in accordance with the Paris Agreement,” he says. “We know that climate

change is a real and significant threat that requires local and global action, and we are prepared to demonstrate that action in Charlottesville.” At the press conference, Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy said climate change is “not only affecting the low of the low, but the high of high.” He chose not to refer to the president by name, and said “Number 45” is trying his darndest to limit “equity and access,” which Bellamy said he will continue “to fight for...on this issue and the rest of our issues moving forward.” Kristel Riddervold, the city’s environmental sustainability manager since 2002, noted that Charlottesville has an official climate protection program. She rattled off a list of achievements, including publishing the first community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report in 2008, installing eight solar panel systems on municipal buildings and establishing a goal of 30 percent reduction of those greenhouse gases by 2050 in the comprehensive plan. Councilor Kathy Galvin homed in on the three main emitters of greenhouse gases in the city, which are cars, coal and buildings, and noted that plans to increase the tree canopy by 400 percent on West Main Street should reduce some of the damage. “The details are where you find the good lord or the devil,” she said.—Samantha Baars

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t’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and while we’re celebrating that, C-VILLE decided to take a look at construction projects underway that will change the way the city looks—and in some cases, inconvenience us mightily during the coming months. These are projects visibly in the works. And they won’t come cheap. Among the upcoming residential efforts, “affordable housing” will not be a phrase used to describe them.

Other projects are lining up for the future, including the demolition of the Main Street Arena next summer to construct tech hub Taliaferro Junction. And you can say you learned it here first: It’s pronounced “tolliver.” Get your hard hats and earplugs ready for the summer of mud. And snap those “before” pictures now, because by 2067, you won’t see the landscape we currently inhabit.

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Downtown Fairfield Inn and Suites Ridge Street and Cherry Avenue Owner: Virginia Hotel Properties LP Number of rooms: 119 Development status: Completed by second quarter of 2018. When the 2.9-acre parcel on the corner of Ridge Street and Cherry Avenue was rezoned for mixed use in 2009, neighbors didn’t necessarily foresee a hotel as the commercial component of the project. And when developer Charlie Armstrong pitched a Fairfield Inn and Suites sans residential portion in 2015, the project temporarily ground to a halt until Southern Development came back with a residential component. Southern Development sold part of the property to Keystone Hotel Management, which is developing the hotel and will manage the property for Marriott. The construction of the 100-plus-room hotel, with underground parking, is well underway. Marriott VP Dave Medis says to look for its opening in the second quarter of 2018. And there’s still a residential portion to come. Management Services Corporation has BAR approval for a 27-unit upscale apartment project.

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Developer: John Dewberry Number of rooms: 112 Development status: Board of Architectural Review meeting June 20; structural integrity report due July 1. Charlottesville’s most prominent eyesore is on the Downtown Mall, where it has been in skeletal disarray since construction ceased in 2009. But it has seen signs of life this year. When developer John Dewberry purchased the Landmark Hotel for $6.25 million in 2012, his conversion of a Charleston, South Carolina, federal building into a five-star hotel was ahead of Charlottesville on his construction to-do list. The Dewberry Charleston opened last summer, he scored incentives from the city earlier this year, and the next hurdle is the Board of Architectural Review June 20. Oh wait, there’s yet another hurdle— and we’re not talking about the 75 spaces the city promised Dewberry in the litigation-prone Water Street Parking Garage. A structural integrity report is due July 1 to determine whether the

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When Bank of America announced it was closing shop in its vintage 1916 building on the Downtown Mall last year, it left a banking void—for about five minutes. Another financial institute, Citizen & Farmers Bank, will occupy an 850-square-foot suite in the structure and is expected to

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open in July, but banking will be a minority activity in the historic building. The 60,000-square-foot property spreads a couple of doors down, and includes C-VILLE Weekly’s home. The soaring bank lobby is slated to become a steakhouse. Pantheon Restaurants LLC, the people behind Lampo Neapolitan Pizzeria, has leased 9,000 square feet for a restaurant, according to Loren Mendosa. Construction has not begun there, although Mendosa notes that Lampo was nominated for best steakhouse in Best of C-VILLE 2017. Another 25,000 square feet have been leased by CVL Society. Partners in the development haven’t announced details publicly, but the project will include executive offices and other areas designed to support downtown Charlottesville’s start-up scene with co-working, business incubation and accelerator space.

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Baywood is a development company that does only hotels, senior VP Vik Patel told C-VILLE last year, and the Coran Capshaw-owned former Portico Church location’s “proximity to the Downtown Mall attracted us to this site,” Patel said. Home2 Suites by Hilton are extended-stay hotels with a “boutique-y feel,” according to Patel. Although the hotel will have a fitness center and indoor pool, it won’t have a restaurant or a bar.

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the metered parking lot that used to house City Market, and the space will still serve as the permanent home of the uber popular Saturday shopping destination. When the market is not in session, the half-acre lot will be used for other events. Developer Keith Woodard calls West2nd’s 65 condos, which will range from $400,000 to more than $1 million, “very deluxe” and says every room will have a spectacular view of the city. The complex is scheduled to open by summer 2019. It will also include retail and office spaces, a restaurant and a bakery/café.

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Developer: Carr City Centers Number of rooms: 150 Development status: Completed in fourth quarter of 2017. We feel like we’re getting into that pattern of “remember where Studio Arts used to be?” That’s where the latest luxury boutique hotel is going, another Marriott venture—the hotel chain’s third on West Main. The 10-story Autograph got underway after SunTrust Bank signed off on a $25.8 million loan to Carr City Centers last summer, according to Virginia Business. Whether it will be finished by the end of the year, well, we’re still waiting to hear from Carr City Centers.

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Development status: Set for construction this summer.

Number of rooms: 78-80; four floors off West Main Street and five off Commerce Street

Development status: Targeted completion before school starts in 2018.

This 65,000-square-foot apartment complex will house a mix of studio and one- and two-bedroom units with parking underneath the building. Design-wise, developer Jeff Levien looks to Oakhart Social, a restaurant across the street from his site, which used the building’s historic character in its design aesthetic by featuring the space’s original exposed brick walls and showcasing both “old and new,” he says. Architect Jeff Dreyfus is also on the job. The building will incorporate two historic structures: the Hartnagle-Witt House and the Hawkins-Perry House, which are more easily recognizable as Blue Moon Diner and a small convenience store.

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Local builders Martin Horn Inc. and Evergreen Home Builders offer different floor plans and customized home interiors, including options for all-brick interiors, dramatic open stair systems from the first to third floors and steel bathtubs. Ten of 12 lots in the first phase have already sold, with six of the homes in phase two hitting the market in late summer or early fall. The three-plus-bedroom homes with two-car garages range from 3,200 square feet to more than 3,700 square feet depending on finished space and rooftop access. Phase one prices range from $899,000 to $1.1 million. “There is no one buyer profile,” says Lindsay Milby, an associate broker with Loring Woodriff Real Estate Associates. “Young families, single professionals and empty nesters are attracted to the concept. They like the idea of a brand new, easy-to-maintain custom home walkable to downtown.”

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This new hotel will be modeled after the original 75-room, four-floor Quirk Hotel and art gallery in Richmond. It will incorporate two historic structures, including Paxton Place, a home built in 1824, on a site where architect Bill Atwood was unable to get his sixstory office building off the ground. Owners Katie and Ted Ukrop— members of the family that operated the Ukrop’s Food Group and upscale grocery chain in Richmond—“will combine inspiration and passion from the Richmond location with the culture and creativity of the new Charlottesville home for a unique and welcoming concept,” according to a press release.

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The site of the former Republic Plaza, which was demolished over the winter, is mostly red dirt now, but when it’s complete, it will rise 70' with six stories. The high-end student apartments—the third such project on West Main—has some calling the street West Grounds. Athens, Georgia-based Landmark Properties specializes in deluxe student housing, and it suffered a delay in completing a complex at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville last fall, leaving about 600 students homeless at the beginning of the semester, according to the UT Daily Beacon.

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“We are actively negotiating with multiple great tenants that could be part of the future of the property,” writes John Pritzlaff, vice president of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, in an email. “Plans have not been finalized as of yet, so we do not have any defined commencement date for construction.” Seminole Square still has Marshalls, and Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery will be opening in the former Office Depot space. “It’s a great location,” says Mitchell. And once Hillsdale is complete, he predicts more people will turn north at Whole Foods, opening new opportunities for commercial real estate.

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Like most public road projects around here, the Hillsdale Connector has been talked about for decades—since the late 1980s, as far as we can tell. That’s why it’s somewhat shocking to learn that a completion date—October 30—is in sight. The finished Hillsdale Drive will join East Rio Road with Hydraulic Road at Whole Foods, and provide a parallel way to head north without having to venture onto Route 29. The last, southern section of Hillsdale already wends behind Homewood Suites, circles a roundabout at Zan Road and has torn through the north wing of Seminole Square Shopping Center, where it took out 6,700 square feet of commercial real estate and about 60 parking spaces, according to Great Eastern Management’s David Mitchell. Great Eastern, which owns the shopping center, is trying to get permission to build retaining walls behind the north wing to add employee parking and delivery access, as well as reorient “the look of the building and the flow,” says Mitchell. “We’re going to build walkways and bike paths behind and around the shopping center,” he says. “We’re not just sitting there looking at our building cut in half.” Besides the construction that’s hit Seminole Square since late last year, the center does have another gaping hole, figu-

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When rock band Trees on Fire went on hiatus a few years ago, not only did the local scene lose a source of rhythmic, groove-driven innovation, but a passionate voice in the fight for protecting the environment was disbanded. The group is reuniting to head up a new family-friendly music festival that includes the Greg Howard/John D’earth/Darrell Rose Trio, Quiet Fire, Lua, Willie DE, JJ von Briesen, Bobby St. Ours and more in a benefit for the Charlottesville Waldorf School. $10-15, under 16 free, noon. Charlottesville Waldorf School, 120 Waldorf School Rd. 973-4946.

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Her Crooked Heart. Join Rachel Ries on her journey to expand her sound and sail on past the confines of being a singer-songwriter. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

African Drumming Troupe. Master instructor Darrell Rose and his group of 8- to 10-year-old drummers performs traditional African rhythms. Free, noon. Downtown Mall. 293-6789. Bluegrass Jam. Jam session with musicians Jack Dunlap, Malia Furtado, Matty Metcalfe, Gabe Robey and Hank Wells. Free, 5pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789. Eli Cook. Eli Cook performs a blend of contemporary and old-school blues and rock. Free, 4pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789. Jazz Collective #9. Enjoy bop, swing, Latin, funky soul jazz and a chill vibe. Free, 6:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Jazz Jam with John D’earth. John D’earth and Dhara Goradia join up with local musicians for a jam session. Free, 4:30pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789. Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713. The Head and the Heart with Natalie Prass. Featuring a new narrative album, the show benefits Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. $36, 6pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910. Women’s Flash Mob with Devon Sproule. Use your voice to speak up against injustices and join Devon Sproule as she leads a group performance of the song “I Can’t Keep Quiet.” Free, 12:30pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789.

dance Charlottesville Ballet Academy. Children and professional company dancers present mixed works from classical repertory, including scenes from the ballet Le Corsaire. Free, 3:30pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789.

Latin Dancing. Local studio The Dance Spot showcases the cha cha, rumba, salsa and tango. Free, 1pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789. Swing 101 Lessons and Social Dance. Learn some dance skills with SwingCville. Free, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

stage Peter and the Starcatcher. The richly imaginative story of how Neverland and Peter Pan came to life. $21-47, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to the magical land of Oz. Free, 10am. Violet Crown, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. (512) 495-9600.

music Concert for Alzheimer’s. An event to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association of Virginia, featuring David Tewksbury, Brianna & Matthew, Bobblehead, Paulo Emilio Frano, Curtis Prince and The Clairvoyants. $10, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Franz Ferdinand. The Grammy-nominated British band performs. $25-28, 8:30pm. The

stage Big Blue Door Improv Night. Charlottesville’s only longform improv comedy show features a changing roster of groups and styles. $7, 7pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973. Much Ado About Nothing. While the villainous Don John devises a scheme to shatter the nuptials of Claudio and Hero, the young lovers conspire to trick Beatrice and Benedick into admitting their much-denied love. $21-47, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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Juneteenth 2017 Celebration. A two-day event featuring ceremonies, tours and live music. Free, 6pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

Saturday 6/17 music Bomar and Ritter. A folk duo known for their special blend of vocal harmony, intricate guitar arrangements and easygoing stage manner. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

Karaoke Night. Featuring DJ Ricky Morris. Free, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-4878. Playdate. Pop music that ventures into the dark unknown. $10, 7:30pm. Gorilla Theater, 1717 Allied St., Suite B. 547-7986. Randy Johnston 3 with Jonah Kane-West. Guitar and bass combined for a great jazz performance. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Sons of Ichibei with Alfred and Dogfuck. A local rapper duo dedicated to your destruction, decomposition and subsequent rebirth. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

Community Day. Food and music for the entire family. Free, noon. Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8 Blue Ridge Pkwy., Lyndhurst. (540) 943-4716.

Tequila Mockingbird. Funk, psychedelic rock, jazz and bluegrass that always moves your feet. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Evan Mook. Classical and jazz piano that provides an elegant and romantic ambience. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Tom Proutt and John Rimel. Extraordinary instrumentalists and songwriters take the stage. $7, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660.

Glass Betty. A genre-bending rock band. 21-plus. Free, 9pm. Heritage on Main, 309 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 946-6166.

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2017 Brewer’s Ball. An evening celebrating Charlottesville’s finest craft beer, food, views and people. Free, 7pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.com. Eyes on Art Tour. Engaging people with Alzheimer’s in meaningful discussions about art. Reservations required. Free, 2:30pm. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.

Friday 6/16 music Billy and the Backbeats. Featuring Billy Brockman, Gary Burnette and Larry Sappington. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094. Bob Bennetta. Intimate jazz piano. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. BRIMS Traditional Ensemble. A performance from the Blue Ridge Irish Music School. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Jaewar & Vibe Riot EP Release. A bluesy funk reggae rock sound that bridges the gaps between several musical genres. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Leslie’s Bday Bash. Featuring music by DJ Flatline. 21-plus. Free-$10, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Love Canon. Not so much covering the music of the ’80s as much as kidnapping it and taking it on a bluegrass-tinged joyride. $1550, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. The Jauntee with The Blenders and Tequila Mockingbird. Live improvisation, set list variety and musical exploration makes every psychedelic show different from the last. $8-10, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. The Judy Chops. High-energy Americana with elements of swing, blues, rock-a-billy, classic country and soul. Free, 5:30pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910. Uncle Billy. Playing covers of the greats as well as original music. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Cafe, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464.

GET LISTED The C-VILLE Weekly arts calendar submission process allows arts community partners to enter events directly into the calendar via computer log-in. Please contact us by e-mail at arts@c-ville.com to request account information. DEADLINE INFO: Events must be entered into the online calendar system by 5pm on Tuesday, one week prior to publication. We list events that are art-related or have entertainment value and are open to the public. We do not guarantee event listings in print and we typically don’t include faith-based, environmental, medical or instructional events that are outside the realm of art.

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Will Leggett and Friends. Will Leggett of The Weedeaters rustles up some friends for a special show. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with melodies that range from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Peter and the Starcatcher. See listing for Wednesday, June 14. $29-57, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Horsefang, Druglord and Wild Rose. Stoner instrumental metal with heavy guitar distortion and bass that you’ll feel through your whole body. $8, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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Jazz Hip-Hop Fusion and Break Dancing. Albemarle High School’s A3House artist Anthony Hoang performs live saxophone layered through a digital looping station with breakdancer Collin Adams. Free, 1:30pm. Downtown Mall. 293-6789.

Southwater. Acoustic bluegrass, blues and folk. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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stage Much Ado About Nothing. See listing for Thursday, June 15. $29-59, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. Peter and the Starcatcher. See listing for Wednesday, June 14. $29-54, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. The Wizard of Oz. Compass Creative Dramatics presents the story of accidental traveler Dorothy Gale, who finds herself immersed in a mysterious adventure. Free, 11am. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

words Writing Love. This seminar is for prose writers who are looking to make vivid the feelings—joyful and otherwise—of love. $65, 9am. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922. Writing Nature. This seminar will explore the ways poets can use and have used the natural world as a guide, a prompt, an antagonist and an inspiration. $65, 10am. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922.

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Charlottesville’s Kendall Street Company vies for a bid to Lockn’ Festival in the final round of the Rockn’ to Lockn’ competition on June 17 at Infinity Downs. The band faces Mighty Joshua, FeelFree, Virginia Man, Sun-Dried Opossum and Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos.

jazzy funk peppered with big horn-lines reminiscent of a soulful New Orleans second line. Last year, FeelFree performed as a finalist in FloydFest’s Fandango competition, but came up short in the final voting round, Pfeiffer says. This year, he and his crew want the chance to “leave it all on the stage at Lockn’.” “Lockn’ is the gatekeeper,” says Kristian Lietzan, lead vocalist for the Fredericksburg-based poppy folk band Virginia Man. “It’s the thing that would send all of our careers to the next level, like maybe as a full-time job, which still sounds insane in my head.” Virginia Man’s 2016 single, “Paper Shields,” has nearly 250,000 listens on Spotify. The group recorded the tune from a dining room, after removing tables and chairs, hanging palettes and setting up dozens of pillows for sound. The resulting track mixes heavy percussion with electric guitar, banjo riffs and crisp lyrics. “We’re looking forward to playing a bigger stage,” says Virginia Man songwriter and keyboardist Jacob Keller. “I think the most people we’ve ever played for is 600, and Lockn’ is like 40,000.” After playing 100 shows annually for a decade, rock group Sun-Dried Opossum is no stranger to big crowds. Based in Lynd-

hurst, the band played FloydFest and opened for The Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and more. Guitarist and vocalist Steve Sutton says the band stepped back in recent years to “let everybody regroup,” focusing on improving show quality and musical skills. “We’ve been together a long time and would really like this opportunity [to play at Lockn’],” Sutton says. “Even if we don’t make it, the support we’ve had from our fans has been incredible and makes us love them even more.” Though Sutton would rather play with musicians than compete against them, he’s thrilled to make the Rockn’ to Lockn’ bill with “monster guitar player” Anthony Rosano and contemporary blues rock band Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos. Vocalist and guitarist Rosano says the band has paid dues for years, playing everywhere from small dives to a festival stages and opening for acts such as G. Love and Train. “A show like Lockn’ could really help put us over the top by exposing our stuff to the world,” Rosano says. “That and I am a huge Gov’t Mule fan,” (the band is on the Lockn’ bill). “It’s our favorite festival. Every band is really deserving,” Kendall Street Company’s Roy says. “We’re going to the festival either way.”

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uring his first year at UVA, Louis Smith felt homesick. He missed his hometown, Virginia Beach, and places like Kendall Street, a beach access road where Smith and friends lit bonfires and watched fireworks. Fast forward five years, and Smith, still in Charlottesville, feels right at home. While studying music at the University of Virginia, he started Kendall Street Company, the alternative rock jam band in which he sings lead vocals and plays guitar alongside musicians he met at UVA. “The name Kendall Street Company represents a home place and good people. It’s kind of here for me now,” Smith says. Over the course of the past few years, the band performed at venues ranging from private events to sorority and fraternity parties, before headlining Fridays after Five. Electric guitarist Ben Laderberg recalls one gig at a VCU sorority that featured a giant bucket of crab dip. The band released its first full-length album, Earth Turns, in 2016 and is just finishing recording Space for Days. As the group’s popularity has grown, Laderberg says he’s still getting used to people recognizing him in the grocery store. Backup vocalist and bassist Brian Roy says everyone is excited and nervous to go on tour this month, but ready to face any gig ranging from “fun,” to “strange,” to “disastrous.” In songs like “Cars,” it’s clear the band can jam: silky guitars bounce between head-bobbing percussion and saxophone crescendos to Smith’s smooth vocals. After making it to the final round of the fourth annual Rockn’ to Lockn’, a competition showcasing Virginia bands, Kendall Street Company heads to Infinity Downs, where Mighty Joshua, FeelFree, Virginia Man, Sun-Dried Opossum and Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos join the bill on Saturday, June 17, and fan votes will determine three winning bands. Each receives $500 and an opening performance slot at Lockn’ in August. Richmond-based reggae act Mighty Joshua is honored to “be mentioned in the same sentence” as Lockn’, says frontman Joshua Achalam. In 2015 and 2016, the Virginia Reggae Awards named Mighty Joshua Virginia’s reggae ambassador. He says few are familiar with the state’s “rich” reggae culture, and he promises an empowering, reflective and high-energy experience. “We come with an energy and message that is very much needed,” says Achalam. D.C.-area band FeelFree also draws inspiration from reggae. FeelFree vocalist, guitarist and trombonist Andrew Pfeiffer, drummer Bryan Frank, guitarist and vocalist Evan Hulehan started jamming as middle schoolers in 2004. The band’s sound is laid-back

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stage Much Ado About Nothing. See listing for Thursday, June 15. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Monday 6/19 music Bluegrass Jam. Join the bluegrass jam. $5, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St., 242-7012.

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Blues Jam. A jam session hosted by Bill Adams. $5, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012. Bob Huntington. A theatrical performance of everything from The Beatles to Gordon Lightfoot. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Karaoke with Jen Dville. Calling all future pop stars. 21-plus. Free, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Municipal Band of Charlottesville. The soundtrack of our community since 1922 returns for its 95th season of summer concerts. Free, 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Travis Elliott. Songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

etc. Babes in Artland with Emily Lazaro. Bring your child and join an educator and fellow parents for lively wconversation about works of art on view. Free, 10am. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.

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y fascination with the Underground Railroad began in elementary school,” says photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales in an email. “It was part of our school curriculum and I remember just being amazed that people had to go through this long journey in order to be free.” Michna-Bales, now based in Texas, grew up in the Midwest amid the unmarked paths of the Underground Railroad. In March, her book, Through Darkness to Light, the culmination of 10 years’ worth of research and photographic documentation, was published. Twelve photographs from the collection, which imagines a possible route of nearly 1,400 miles from Louisiana to Canada, are now on display at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. As the book and exhibition title suggest, these landscape photographs are dominated by darkness. This darkness invites closer examination of the scenes in what almost becomes an immersive experience, if such a thing is possible in two dimensions. The sensation is further enhanced by the descriptive narration of the tour guides in the JSAAHC’s Trailblazer program, a partnership with the City of Promise that trains local students to give exhibition tours. One such guide is Bria Williams, a Washington, D.C., college student who is home for the summer. Conducting a recent tour, she draws attention to the light. While minimal until the journey’s end, it is visible in nearly every photograph. Standing in front of a photograph titled “The River Jordan,” Williams reminds visitors that if you’re a runaway slave you may not have access to a boat or know how to swim and says, “You’ve come so far already. Are you going to quit now?” “We know nighttime was important to keep freedom-seekers unseen,” writes Michna-Bales. “I was aiming—as close as possible—for a first-person viewpoint. Light and dark draw you into a scene, and I tried to use that to highlight areas that I thought were important.” She sensed the force of history in these spaces as an almost physical weight as she tried to capture them. “I felt this most strongly in the South at the plantations,” says Michna-Bales. “It is almost as if history is wrapped around you like a blanket trying to make you understand all that has occurred on this given spot.” Michna-Bales also became hyperaware “being out in rural locations in the middle of the night tapped into all of the senses. ...The sounds were all-encompassing and

Jeanine Michna-Bales’ exhibition “Through Darkness to Light” is on view at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center through June 30.

CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH! June 16 ■ Talk by historian Anthony Cohen, founder of The Menare Foundation and the Button Farm Living History Center in Germantown, Maryland. Cohen traveled 1,200 miles from Maryland to Ontario in 1996, exploring the Underground Railroad. ■ Libation Ceremony: A West African tradition that acknowledges the ancestors. ■ Tribute to Local Elders: “It’s a good opportunity to really consider those people that worked to underpin the African-American community,” says African American Heritage Center Director Andrea Douglas.

June 17 ■ Jamal Millner Trio: Local musician plays various genres including jazz, funk and rock. ■ Yolanda Coles-Jones: Area singer, photographer and blogger performs her music. ■ Nikuyah Walker: Candidate for Charlottesville City Council performs her spoken word poetry. ■ Other performances include Big Lean, Nay Michelle, Kese, Yolanda Muhammad, BCBA Dance Team and DJ Flatline.

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mesmerizing, from the cicadas to coyotes baying in the distance, to thunderclaps from a storm and the sound of rain pelting the ground and the leaves. I came away from the project in awe of what these people went through for their freedom,” she says. In the process, Michna-Bales also learned about white abolitionists who helped in the effort. “Out of this dark history, we see a diverse group of people working together to try to end the injustice of slavery,” says Michna-Bales, “thus creating America’s first civil rights movement. I hope that we can all use this part of our history and learn from it to help us navigate our way through the present into the future.” On June 16 and 17, the JSAAHC will celebrate Juneteenth. The holiday, observed in 45 states, marks the day—June 19, 1865—on which the last enslaved people in the United States received word that slavery had been abolished. Andrea Douglas, director of the heritage center, says the “Through Darkness to Light” exhibition “really kind of dovetails with this notion of the implications of Juneteenth.” Celebrants come to Charlottesville and the surrounding counties, too, Douglas says, “because this is one of the few sites, the few communities, that actually celebrates Juneteenth.” While Juneteenth has been celebrated in Charlottesville for 17 years, this is only its second year at the Jefferson School. “We’ve kind of joined a network of communities,” Douglas says. “Many of them are sort of like family reunions, a calling of people back to the community, back to the place of their origin. And what’s most important about having it here at the Jefferson School is that, while we’re not the beginning, we’re certainly part of the origin story.”

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Sheryl Crow. See the nine-time Grammy winner perform live, with proceeds going to the Charlottesville Free Clinic. $40-71, 7pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.

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Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell teamed up with Miriam Gordon-Stewart’s Victory Hall Opera for Drugsong, an original creative work that offers an opera within a play.

within plays, plays within operas, and even operas within operas. But an opera within a play is something new, and it’s unusual to have opera singers act in the play as well as

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sing in the opera—Gordon-Stewart is “pretty sure” that’s a first. Audiences should arrive to Drugsong with an open and curious mind—you don’t need to have read Mann’s novel or seen Wagner’s opera to know what’s going on. Just be willing to give yourself over to a sort of intoxication that only performance can provide.

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Tidwell, like “the unending conundrum for women who want to be mothers, wives, artists or who decide they won’t want to be one of those things, and what that means.” Drugsong also explores addiction and escapism, how modern addictions make it difficult “to face discomfort, to take action, to know what action to take,” Hoyt Tidwell says. And it looks closely at the artist’s role in society— is the artist genius? Indulgent? How can we know the difference? “These people are trying to get out of a very deteriorating world,” says Hoyt Tidwell, a world that is “only about a hair more absurd than our own world” right now. Hoyt Tidwell and Gordon-Stewart aren’t sure there’s been anything like Drugsong before now—there are occurrences of plays

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mysterious woman named Iz arrives at a sanatorium-cum-medical spa, completely mute. She’s brought in by her husband who explains that one night, while putting their son down to sleep, Iz stopped singing mid-lullaby and hasn’t uttered a word since. Everyone at the sanatorium/spa finds Iz—and her silence—compelling. So begins Drugsong, theater and performance artist Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell’s latest work, an opera within a play created in collaboration with Victory Hall Opera. Drugsong was inspired by Thomas Mann’s 1903 novella Tristan—which references Richard Wagner’s classic 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde—and is meant, like all VHO productions, “to give people new avenues, new doorways into opera,” says the group’s co-founder, artistic director and soprano Miriam Gordon-Stewart, who plays the role of Iz. “It’s not very often that opera is featured in literature in a...way that seems to hint at

its power,” says Gordon-Stewart, and that idea was something that the opera wanted to explore on stage. Gordon-Stewart and Victory Hall music director Brenda Patterson saw Hoyt Tidwell’s NO WAKE last spring and were captivated by the play’s surreal world and operatic nature (despite the fact that the actors were silent, Gordon-Stewart notes). The Victory Hall team commissioned a Mann-inspired piece from Hoyt Tidwell with a single parameter: Include a specific, 35-minute extended scene from Wagner’s opera. Hoyt Tidwell built Drugsong around the opera scene, which is the second of the play’s three acts, and says she relied heavily on Mann’s story while also incorporating elements of the Celtic legend that originated the story centuries ago. She also gave more depth to some of the more secondary characters. In Drugsong, a poet named Tristan (played by internationally known heldentenor Corey Bix) is completely taken with Iz, writing verse for her despite the fact that she’s married. One day, while left alone, Tristan and Iz discover Wagner’s score to Tristan und Isolde and have what Gordon-Stewart describes as “a transcendent experience” while singing the score. That entire experience is orchestrated by the Nurse (Kara McLane-Burke) who arranges for both Tristan and Iz to drink a concoction that, in the Celtic legend and the Wagner opera, is a love potion the two characters take accidentally. In older versions of the story, the nurse character feels guilt over what inadvertently happens between Tristan and Isolde, but in Drugsong, the nurse is directly responsible for the interaction between Tristan and Iz and her feelings about the whole thing are quite complex. What happens after Tristan and Iz take the concoction and enter into the extended opera scene, we won’t say. But many of the themes at work in those canonical versions of the story hold relevance today, says Hoyt

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tain, analyze and destroy it. Yes, this is the same Jekyll who turns into the monstrous Hyde, and one of the best scenes in The Mummy is based on that fact. It’s so much fun, in fact, that it ought to have been its own movie, because when Kurtzman finally brings things back to the main plot, it ends up being a disappointment. They are so eager to get this franchise off the ground that Ahmanet ends up with an extended cameo in a movie where she is the main villain. This brings us to Cruise as Nick, a man with no personality or motivation, whose sole characteristic is that he is played by Tom Cruise. He is ostensibly an adventure seeker, a fact that is dropped after the first scene. His

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Although Reason head brewer Mark Fulton loves making and drinking IPAs, he wanted to tap into an underserved segment of the local beer market by offering beers with an ABV lower than 5 percent.

plans to offer cold-brew coffee served on nitro, like Guinness stout. One potential roadblock to trying these new beers: finding the place. Reason is located in a large industrial building hidden behind the Guadalajara restaurant on 29 North (official address is 1180 Seminole Trl., Suite 290). There isn’t another brewery close to Reason’s out-of-the-way location. Even so, is

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harlottesville’s newest brewery will open without an IPA. That is not a typo. Mark Fulton, head brewer at Reason Brewery, has four beers planned for the July opening, and none of them will be a standard-issue bitter palate bomb or even have an ABV of more than 5 percent. Reason’s reason for avoiding IPAs is to stake out an identity sharply different from the other local breweries in a field that is starting to feel a bit crowded. “These other breweries are already doing an excellent job of making IPAs and double IPAs,” Fulton says. “I like making them, I like drinking them, but it felt like an opportunity to identify an under-served segment of the craft beer market.” Fulton grew up in Charlottesville but moved to establish himself as a successful brewer at other people’s breweries. He left the top job at Maine Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, to come home and partner with high school friends J. Patrick Adair and Jeff Raileanu, and open a brewery and taproom. His flagship beer will be a blonde ale that clocks in at only 4 percent ABV. It is mild with a hint of floral aroma from a touch of cascades hops, and it has a smooth finish from the restrained use of oats and wheat with Hallertauer hops. It is clean and sparse with no room for error on the brewer’s part. The slightest problem with temperature or contamination would wreck this thing, which speaks to Fulton’s skill. Can a super-calm beer with an ABV lower than Keith Richards’ sweat succeed as a flag-

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Henley’s Orchard Pluck nectarines and more than a dozen varieties of peaches. 2192 Holly Hill Farm, Crozet. 823-7848. Hill Top Berry Farm and Winery Blackberries galore—picking starts in July. 2800 Berry Hill Rd., Nellysford. 361-1266.

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We’ll cheers to that On Monday, June 5, the 2017 Virginia Craft Brewers Guild announced the winners of this year’s Virginia Craft Beer Cup: Among the 356 beers entered for judging in 24 categories, five local breweries earned accolades for their brews. South Street Brewery’s Virginia Lager took first place in the International Lager and Strong European Beer category; its Astrognomer brew took third in the IPA category. Three Notch’d Brewing Company’s Blackwall Porter placed second in the Scottish and Irish Ale category; its No Veto Brown placed third in the Brown British Ale category. Pro Re Nata Brewing Company took third place in the Historical, Alternative and American Wild Ale category with its Go Johnny Gose. Wild Wolf Brewing Company placed third in the Fruit Beer category with its Area 151. And Stable Craft Brewing’s Britchin Brown Ale took second in the Amber and Brown American Beer category.

Saturday, May 20 | A special evening with Beth Williams and Epiphany. 6-8 pm. $5 Cover charge. Coming from Armenia for a US tour, Beth returns 17655 Winery Road Barboursville, VA An 22923 to Charlottesville where she spent her• high school years. amazing talented • (540)“A832-3824 family trio performing bbvwine.com here at the vineyard. trio with its roots in folk, world, indie rock, and improvisation playing music from all Epiphany Records’ ensembles” For more information visit: http://epiphanyrecords.com/epiphany-3/ 9423 Batesville Road • Afton, VA 22920 cardinalpointwinery.com • (540) 456-8400

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17655 Winery Road • on Barboursville, VA 22923 Music On The Deck | Join us for live music the covered deck at the winery on the first bbvwine.com • (540) 832-3824 Saturday and last Sunday of each month, 2–5p.m. Tins4Tunes Concert | June 17 Kick off our summer concert series with us to benefit our local food pantries! We are excited to welcome Blue Mountain Brewery to our beverage lineup this 9423 Batesville • Afton, 22920 year. As always, Cardinal Point wines will Road be available by theVA bottle or by the glass. Don’t forget cardinalpointwinery.com • (540) your donation for the local food bank! 5–9p.m. Second Draw456-8400 Food Truck: SpicSea Gourmet Admission: $10.00 for adults at the door, Music On The Deck | Join us for live music on the covered deck at the winery on the $5.00 if you bring at least one non-perishable food donation for our local food pantry. first Saturday and last Sunday of each month, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

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MOTHER’S DAY AT CARDINAL POINT | Mom’s get a complimentary tasting, some savory treats, and a Cardinal Point wine glass to take home. 6109 Wolftown-Hood Madison, VA 22727 11:00 toRd. 5:30 pm earlymountain.com • (540) 948-9005

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Family Fun | June 17-18 Cerebrate the special man in your life with an entire weekend of family fun. Early Mountain wine and food, Three Notch’d beer 6109 Wolftown-Hood Rd. Madison, VA 22727 and live music from Gallatin Canyon, The Judy Chops, Chamomile & Whiskey earlymountain.com • (540) 948-9005 Acoustic, and Ragged Mountain String Band. Tickets at earlymountain.com. Mother’s Day at Early Mountain | May 14 Come celebrate Mother’s Day with Early Mountain on Sunday, May 14, for a lovely family centered day with breathtaking1575 views,Keswick a delicious brunch menu and our fabulous Virginia wine. Winery Drive • Keswick, VA 22947

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(434) 244-3341 Josh Walker | keswickvineyards.com May 27 Join us at Early•Mountain Vineyards for a spring afternoon filled with music and wine! Enjoy our beautiful tasting room and Music by Matt Johnson | June 17 Matt Johnson will be playing from mountain live music, our wonderful delicious food 12–3pm andviews, Two Brothers Southwestern Grillwine foodselection truck willand be here serving their from Tex-Mex the kitchen. fantastic cuisine

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Music by Jason Burke | June 24 Jason Burke will be playing in the courtyard from 12–3pm and Pomme To Go serving up hot french inspired lunch. 1575 Keswick Winery Drive • Keswick, VA 22947 Reds, Whites & BluegrassFree live music! | July244-3341 4 Join us to celebrate with keswickvineyards.com • (434) music by East of Afton and plenty of food from Pomme to Go, Saturday, MaySpice 13 | Music Jon Spear DaraBrothers! will be playing Sea Gourmet and& Two 12–4pmin the courtyard from 12 to 3pm and Pomme To Go serving up hot french inspired lunch.

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Saturday May 20 | Music Greg Ward will be playing from 12 to 3pm and Pomme Go serving up •hot french inspiredVA lunch. 2218 Lake To Albemarle Road Charlottesville, 22901 knightsgambitvineyard.com • (434) 566-1168

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Open Friday – Sunday with music the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month. 2218 Lake Albemarle Road • Charlottesville, VA 22901 Two Buzzards from the Buzzard Hollow •Boys | June 17 playing on the knightsgambitvineyard.com (434) 566-1168 Mountainview deck 5–8pm We are open Friday - Sunday with music the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month. Enjoy a glass of wine on our Mountain view deck

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May 20 | Rob •Cheatham 5-8 pm 1040 Owensville Road Charlottesville, VA 22901 meriwethersprings.com • (434) 270-4299

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Sunday Summer concert series | June 18 | Tasting Room opens at noon. 1040Music Owensville Road • Charlottesville, VA 22901 3–6pm. Food offered by Cote-Rotie. meriwethersprings.com • (434) 270-4299

Stone Mountain Vineyards

Meriwether Springs Vineyard starts its Summer concert series June 11th with Skyline Station (Classic rock).Mountain Tasting room opens at noon with the band playing 1376 Wyatt Road • Dyke VA 22935 3-6. Tasting stonemountainvineyards.com room and live music continues•every Sunday from(9463) 12-6. Come visit 434.990.WINE us at 1040 Owensville Road and check our Facebook page for updates. Tasting Room Hours 11am–6pm, Thur-Mon.

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Paulo Franco Live Music | June 17 | 1–4pm 9264 Shop Road • Afton, 22920with live music Father’s Day | JuneCritzers 18 Enjoy Father’s Day on the VA mountain www.valleyroadwines.com (540) 456-6350 by Ney Mello from• 1–5pm. Pat Anderson Live Music | June 24 | 1–4pm

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Critzer Family Farm Strawberries and cherries are ripe now; blackberries and raspberries will be ready mid-July. They also sell ice cream made with fruit from the farm. 9388 Critzers Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 465-4772.

Seamans’ Orchard Strawberries, cherries and blueberries… perfect for pie-making! 415 Dark Hollow Rd., Roseland. 277-8130.

aftonmountainvineyards.com • (540) 456-8667 234 Vineyard Lane • Afton, VA 22920 One of Virginia’s first farm wineries, featuring award-winning aftonmountainvineyards.com • (540) 456-8667dry wines. Our of beautiful tasting roomwineries, is surrounded by vineyards and mountain views. One Virginia’s first farm featuring award-winning dry wines. Our beautiful tasting room is surrounded by vineyards and mountain views. Afton After Hours with Jimmy O. | June 24 Music 6-8:30pm. $5 coverofcharge; children 18 free. available from Mother’s Day | Release the Gewurz! Forunder one day onlyFood on the tasting list, 106toStreet Food truckand andsome Claudia’s Catering. Rain or shine.Available bring Mom pick up a rose delicious Gewurztraminer. Bring your lawnonly chairafter or a5/14. blanket. for purchase

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Chiles Peach Orchard Go for strawberries and peaches in June. Later in the summer, they’ll have apricots, plums and veggies picked and ready for buying. 1351 Greenwood Rd., Crozet. 823-1583.

Middle Fork Farm Strawberry fields forever. 3840 Branch Rd., Scottsville. 589-0810.

Afton Mountain Vineyards 234 Vineyard Lane • Afton, VA 22920 Afton Mountain Vineyards

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e’re halfway through June, which means fruit harvest season has begun, and that means now is the time to do our best impression of the very hungry caterpillar. You know the story: A tiny caterpillar eats through fruit after fruit (and a piece of cake, an ice cream cone, a pickle, etc.) on his journey to becoming a big, beautiful butterfly. But rather than nibble tiny holes in a series of tissue-paper fruit illustrations, we suggest you select your own very real, delicious fruits and berries from one of the many pick-your-own spots in the area. And savor every juicy bite. Pick-your-own hours often change day to day, depending on the weather and the crop, so always call ahead before you make the drive.

Market at Grelen Pick your own blueberries, or buy prepicked strawberries, cherries and peaches from other local farmers. 15091 Yager Rd., Somerset. (540) 672-7268.

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