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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 Ah, the crazy things we do for love. My college boyfriend had moved 10 West2nd decision’s effect to New York City from Missouri to take a summer internship, and my on other downtown developers. parents forbade me from visiting him (something about wanting me to 11 Crozet road connectors save money). So, I did what any good only child would do: I put the would lessen traffic snarls.

12 Group says it’s okay to plane tickets on my roommate’s credit card and we flew to NYC for a restrict private militia. long weekend. Our first stop was a store we didn’t have in our small 13 Should city release car attack videotapes? college town, and we spent hours browsing. As I stood in line to pay for my large haul, I spotted two familiar faces in front of me: my parents’ FEATURE 17 next-door neighbors. Somehow, we were standing a few feet apart in the exact same store at the exact same time, 850 miles from my tiny hometown in Kentucky. So, I did what any person in love would do: I put down my loot, scrambled underneath the security ropes and ran out of the store to make sure my parents never knew my whereabouts. C-VILLE readers responses to the phrase “Love made me...”

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Dominion Energy is coming under fire with legislation and a new PAC that donates to legislators who forego contributions from the electric monopoly. Clean Virginia Project, chaired by local investor Michael Bills, will contribute to delegates and senators in the General Assembly who eschew Dominion donations. Former congressman Tom Perriello has joined the effort.

Tinsley takes a break Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley announced he would not be joining the band on its 2018 tour, tweeting that he was “worn out” and needed to spend more time with his family.

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Why did the salamander cross the road? Ah, this one’s easy: To get to the other side. It takes a warm, wet winter night for more than 1,000 spotted salamanders to start their 100-yard migration, crossing Rio Mills and Polo Grounds roads from their forested homes to their vernal pool breeding grounds.

Because navigating across the busy roads often ends badly for the local yellow polka-dotted amphibians, they no longer have to do it alone. Each year, a team of dozens of community members are on standby, waiting for Devin Floyd, founder of the Center for Urban Habitats and Blue Ridge Discovery Center in Charlottesville, to send out an alert that the critters are on their way.

This year’s migration started the night of February 10, and regular salamander rescuer and Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Chair Ann Mallek was there to help by picking up 10 of 46 amphibians on the side of Rio Mills and hand-delivering them across February 10 salamander stats: Polo Grounds Road.

“They were cold and slow until they rested on our hands, then quickly warmed 46 salamanders up for their last sprint to the vernal pools,” she says.

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West2nd smackdown Council rejects permit despite meeting city requirements

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hen Mayor Nikuyah Walker chaired her first City Council meeting February 5, citizens got to see how previously out-of-control meetings would be run under a new regime—and learned that the heckling continues both for councilors and for the West2nd developer seeking a special use permit that was rejected for reasons that had little to do with city code.

When Keith Woodard won a bid in 2014 to build a mixed-use building on a city-owned Water Street parking lot that would house the City Market, parking, retail and residential, he had the blessings of City Council for his innovative design. Four years later, costs soared and he retooled the project, adding 28 luxury units and another floor, which required the special use permit. He also offered to build affordable housing units on Harris Street.

Of all developers in town, Woodard has the best track record on affordable housing. When he bought Dogwood Housing in 2007 from local mixed-income housing icon Eugene Williams, he promised to maintain the affordability of most of the units—and has done so.

So it was odd that Woodard would be the one asked to jump through higher hoops by Councilor Wes Bellamy and receive jeers from the Greek chorus in attendance as he sought approval to increase

density for West2nd.

That Woodard offered to build affordable units on Harris Street instead of contributing to the Affordable Housing Fund, as most developers do, is unusual. And he said he’d exceed the city’s requirement of 16 units kept below market rate for 4.7 years. When councilors said they wanted a longer term, he said he’d make eight units affordable for 10 years.

Bellamy badgered him to up the number of affordable units. “Why couldn’t all 16 units be affordable for 20 years?” asked Bellamy.

“The project still has to be financially feasible,” explained Woodard, eliciting a big sigh from Bellamy.

Woodard pointed out that he could have put the amount required—$316,000—into the Affordable Housing Fund, “which maybe we should have stuck with that,” and that keeping eight units affordable for 10 years was already challenging at an estimated cost of $474,000.

Bellamy said he was perplexed that Woodard said it wouldn’t be financially feasible “when some would say you’ve made a lot of money in this city and because you’ve already made so much money maybe you can give some back.” That was greeted by whoops from some attendees.

And when Bellamy asked Woodard how much money he was going to make from West2nd, Deputy City Attorney Lisa Robertson advised councilors to “focus on the land use issues” for a zoning application.

“That was a silly question,” says Eugene Williams. “[Bellamy] doesn’t have the facts

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ON THE ROAD TO COMPLETION Kevin McDermott, transportation planner for Albemarle County, says two more road projects are pending from funds the county gave community councils at the end of 2017.

Crozet earmarked its share for: • Sidewalks, curbs, gutters and regrading and repaving the Crozet Square area. New parking will be angled.

• Safety improvements, including a sidewalk in front of the Starr Hill Brewery.

Barnes Lumber site. His business has put up about $1.9 million so the county could file for matching VDOT funds for an east-west connector road. Funds may be awarded by late spring.

If a go, Phase 1 road funds would become available in July, Stoner says. Design would start immediately, followed by construction in one to one and a half years, according to McDermott.

The roads would extend from Library Avenue to High Street and then back to Crozet Square, Stoner says. Later the connector might extend as a new Crozet “main street” that would go east to Parkside Village and possibly beyond, he says.

Mallek says that because Crozet Square is an important town entrance with historic shopping, “everybody has a great stake in making sure that traffic moves successfully and that we get the rest of the connector finished. Then traffic could move west seamlessly, and we can take out the backup that happens sometimes under the [Crozet Avenue] trestle.”

Emilia Puie in Parkside Village says that she is hoping the east-west connector to downtown will happen soon. Her family moved from nearby Myrtle Avenue to get more sidewalks. “We love walking and we love Crozet’s downtown,” she says. “When the children are older they could go there by themselves.”

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An east-west connector road in Crozet will extend from Library Avenue to Western Ridge subdivision, while Eastern Avenue would run north-south and connect Route 240 to Route 250.

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fire along Old Three Notch’d Road caused a rush hour roadblock February 1 on one of Crozet’s main thoroughfares: Three Notch’d Road, aka Route 240. Instead of being able to drive to downtown Crozet, drivers had to make a U-turn, return to U.S. 250 and make a right, then another right onto Crozet Avenue/ Route 240, only to be part of a massive backup at the light and four-way stop near the railway trestle at Crozet Square.

High-density growth area Crozet surely has the homes, but roadways have lagged behind. Will 2018 be the year several road projects begin in earnest?

“I think we’re one disaster away from being a critical need even more than it is now,” says realtor and Crozet resident Jim Duncan.

Some neighborhoods, like Parkside Village, Brookwood and Westhall, can only get in through Tabor Street, and that’s a concern for residents who “are afraid they can’t get out,” says Duncan.

“We’ve worked hard for the past 10 years, so it would be great to finally take some steps,” says Ann Mallek, chair of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors and representative of the White Hall District, which includes Crozet, where two connector road projects are in the works.

One would connect Route 240 to Route 250 through Park Ridge Drive and the Cory Farm subdivision.

The proposed Eastern Avenue Connector, which runs north-south, still has two major portions that need to be constructed, says Kevin McDermott, transportation planner for Albemarle County.

The northern piece may break ground soon. “The private developers of the Foothills-Daly development are responsible for making a connection onto Park Ridge Drive and onto Route 240,” McDermott says, and they have submitted all of the required applications.

To the south, a bridge that is needed to cross Lickinghole Creek to complete the connector road “is the sticking point and has been for many years,” says David Stoner, a member of the Crozet Community Advisory Committee. “It’s such an expensive proposition that it hasn’t risen to the top of the county’s list of projects to be funded.”

The southern-portion work is No. 12 on the county’s priority list of road projects, McDermott explains. “Because other priorities are already under way, No. 12 will be a priority in the next year,” he says.

Once the county identifies funds to place into the capital improvement plan, design

work will begin, maybe within a year, he says. The county would likely apply for a revenue-sharing grant with the state to get the southern piece of the connector started.

“You’re probably looking at two to three years out for construction if everything works well,” says McDermott.

Just ahead of the Eastern Avenue connector is the Library Avenue extension at No. 11.

Developer Frank Stoner (no relation to David Stoner) owns Crozet New Town Associates and its construction arm, Milestone Partners, which will develop the former

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and he doesn’t know how much [Woodard] had to spend.”

When councilors voted 3-2 to deny the permit, the hecklers applauded. “Those young people know nothing about investing,” says Williams. “That just bothers me to know we had three councilors who wanted to accommodate the audience more than actually trying to make this feasible for both sides.”

Bellamy, Walker and Heather Hill voted against the special use permit. ”It’s not all right to vote against it without explaining specifically what the developer needs to do,” says Williams. He opines that it would have been wiser to say what they wanted and table the vote.

Williams also criticizes Kathy Galvin and Mike Signer’s yes votes and says they seemed more concerned about downtown businesses than low-income residents.

Others have concerns about the Monday night performance, and the word “extortion” has been bandied about.

“If I’m a developer and read those [news] accounts, a red flare has gone up,” says attorney Fred Payne, who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against City Council for its vote to remove Confederate statues. “Why would I want to invest in this town?”

With the vote to deny the permit, “You can see the degree to which City Council is out of control,” says Payne. “I have a feeling if this were litigated, the city would probably lose.”

He adds, “I don’t think this City Council understands there are limits on what they can do.”

Part of the problem Woodard faces is that four councilors were not around when the city bid out the project in 2014. Galvin was, and at the meeting she said, “The demand was that the City Market be downtown on that city parking lot. It was not affordable housing.” The project has moved along “based on criteria the city gave this developer.”

Galvin also said the special use permit meets the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance, and the project would add 80 people living on the mall and 100 jobs in the face of increasing competition to downtown businesses, as well as increase city revenue from the parking lot from $6,500 a year to $945,000 a year. “That’s huge,” she said.

For Bellamy, the message to developers is, “This council will prioritize affordable housing.” He says he appreciates Woodard’s efforts and understands that he met city requirements. “We still have discretion,” says Bellamy. “I hope we can still work together.”

Hill was more concerned about the City Market. “I’m not convinced the market will thrive there,” she said. She says she’s not “anti development,” but suggests “we ultimately may not be able to accommodate the market on this specific site.”

Woodard says he doesn’t think City Council’s vote to deny the permit was about increased density. “We’re looking at alternate paths to go forward,” he says.

Litigation is not an option at this point, but he says he does need a decision soon because people have reserved condos in West2nd. And he’s put $2 million into underground utilities, as well as four years of effort.

“We’re trying to work things out,” he says.

“I’m trying to be positive.”

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ew research shows that all 50 states can legally restrict private militia and paramilitary activity at events such as the summer’s deadly Unite the Right rally, according to the University of Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

The legal organization, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of the city last October against 25 groups and individuals that allegedly engaged in unlawful militia-like activity on August 12, claims the independent militiamen and women, many with AR-15s slung over their shoulders, made tensions boil at the rally.

In its litigation, ICAP aims to prohibit the defendants from returning to Virginia to engage in the type of behavior seen over the summer, and during a February 8 press conference, senior litigator Mary McCord announced a set of new tools every state can use.

“Violent conduct is not protected by the First Amendment,” she said.

Aside from independent groups such as the Pennsylvania and New York light foot militias present at Unite the Right, McCord says several of the white supremacist groups also fall into that category because of their “militaristic battle behavior,” combat-type helmets and reliance on bats, batons, clubs, sticks and reinforced flag poles for protection.

But perhaps this could have been prevented due to already existing clauses, statutes and prohibitions, which could be used proactively to impose restrictions during an event’s permitting process to reduce the possibility of violence while protecting the right to free speech and peaceable assembly.

“All in all, what this research found is that all 50 states have one of these,” McCord said.

On October 28, the League of the South —a white nationalist group named in ICAP’s lawsuit—planned two White Lives Matter rallies in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Adam Tucker, an assistant city attorney for Murfreesboro, said the folks at ICAP immediately reached out with suggestions for restrictions the locality could impose to prohibit violent paramilitary activity like that seen in Charlottesville.

Tucker said city officials were able to write a prohibition of paramilitary activity into the rally’s permit, and on the day of the planned rallies, though members of the league showed up at their first planned rally in Shelbyville, they canceled the second one, calling it a “lawsuit trap” on Twitter.

Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection says all states have the power to prevent militia-like activity.

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n a widely viewed YouTube video, a Fairfax man says he’s able to disprove information disseminated by the Charlottesville Police Department about the fatal car attack on August 12.

Now William Evans is on a mission to find two videos shown publicly in a December 14 court hearing that could help him understand what happened that day, and he claims the city has unlawfully refused to show them to him.

James Alex Fields is charged with driving a silver Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counterprotesters at the Unite the Right rally, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring more than a dozen others. His car rear-ended a second sedan, which then smashed into a minivan, according to a press release published by the city and on the CPD’s Facebook page on August 13.

“The minivan had slowed for a crowd of people crossing through the intersection,” the press release says. But Evans says otherwise. And he has made several YouTube videos about the events that transpired that day.

In one called “NEW VIDEO from Charlottesville: the Grassy Knoll Film,” a nod to the conspiracy-theory-prone assassination of John F. Kennedy, Evans shows video evidence from an undisclosed source that the maroon van was stopped at the scene of the crash about five minutes before the fatal attack.

“You tell me whether that van slowed for a crowd of pedestrians or whether that van parked there deliberately,” he says in the video, while positioned in front of two bookcases overflowing with literature and wearing a light blue polo shirt. “The answer is obvious. The Charlottesville Police Department has an obligation to clarify this mistake and to investigate that maroon

van, to investigate why it was parked there and to investigate the people in it.”

But Evans never explicitly states his own theory.

For this and other questions he’s raised on his YouTube channel, SonofNewo, Evans has filed a motion seeking a court order under the Freedom of Information Act that the city of Charlottesville and Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania unseal the videos shown in an open courtroom at Fields’ December 14 preliminary hearing, and make them available to the public.

“The precedent is pretty clear across the entire country, both in the Supreme Court and in federal courts and in the state courts that statutes like this, when you show something like this to a portion of the public in a public setting, at that point you don’t have the right as a government entity to withhold it from anybody else who asks for it,” says Evans.

However, Alan Gernhardt at the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council says the videos could fall under FOIA’s criminal investigative files exemption, especially if they were shown at a preliminary hearing.

“They’re not actually introduced into the court file,” he says. “It’s a discretionary release showing it for the preliminary hearing but not actually releasing it to the public.”

Evans says the accounts of the videos that he’s read from Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler and reporters from the New York Times and the Washington Post, who were present at the December hearing, are contradictory.

Platania declined to comment on the record about why he and Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina Antony motioned to withdraw the two videos from Fields’ case file.

“I have been served with the petitions and expect the Charlottesville Circuit Court to set the matter for a hearing that I plan to be present for,” he says.

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Introducing C-BIZ, C-VILLE’s quarterly business magazine for working folk—from the ground floor to the corner office.

Each issue, we’ll take national conversations and zoom in to see how they’re playing out locally. You’ll meet the city’s movers and shakers and hear what they have to say about running a business in Charlottesville, Albemarle and, in some cases, beyond. No one is off limits. It’s all of our business.

Love made me watch ‘‘Game of Thrones.’’

MICAELA CAMERON

Sell a house I’d bought only the year before, get married a second time and move to C’ville without a job...and not regret any of it!

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HEART We’ve all been there: the good, bad and crazy things we do for love

Love is patient, love is kind...or is it: Love tried my patience, love made me kind of wish I’d never swiped right on Tinder? In honor of the day when Cupid is known to strike (with some direct hits and some tragic misses), we conducted an unscientific reader survey in which we asked you to complete the phrase “Love made me...” From romances that made you travel the distance—thousands of miles in some cases— to those that made you thankful that you’re single, the main theme in everyone’s answers: Love makes us who we are. We’ll drink to that.

Love made me learn how to downhill ski.

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Love made me...move cross-country to C’ville. @PETESRAVEN/INSTAGRAM

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Love made me decide to be polyamorous.

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Steal a bunch of flowers from my school’s garden to give to my crush in elementary school.

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A better person.

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Broke and crazy.

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Love made me very different than I’d thought I’d be.

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Love made me have a picnic in a sewer.

Move to Charlottesville while my fiancé is at Darden!

Move to another city.

Then when my fatherin-law passed away it made me move back so my husband could take care of his mother.

What a wild ride!

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LOVE MADE ME...

Love made me spend part of my winter in Detroit.

That was a few years ago. Now I’m older, wiser and warmer.

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Smoke pot.

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So happy ^_^ And over 15 years later, even happier!

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Who I am today.

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Love made me love someone who didn’t love me back...

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Blind love made me elope in Lake Tahoe, sell my great house, buy a catamaran, break through an icy river in November and sail off to the Bahamas with a charming but completely selfcentered rogue. It was right after September 11 and all I can say is I guess my guard was down and my heart was broken.

The eight-month voyage was full of misadventures and fun and beauty and tears and grandeur and pain. As soon as we landed at Gangplank Marina in Washington, D.C., I kicked him off the boat, went to the magistrate and got a divorce ($84!

Best expenditure of the year!). Then I proceeded to live happily on my boat there for three years. Was it worth it? Yes! CHARLOTTE DRUMMOND/FACEBOOK

Happy...for a while... <3 LAURA FRANCES CONRADI/FACEBOOK

Love made me move across the ocean with a 6-week-old to keep our family together.

(It was either love or hormones...) ;-)

Love made me cook plenty of meals.

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Go on a bicycle tour.

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Move 5.5 hours from home.

Sleep like a baby...

Priceless moment.

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Love made me.

CAITLIN PETERSON

Single and happy to be so!

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Spend 19 months dealing with USCIS [U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services].

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Leave a city I was comfortable in and move back to my hometown. A place where I really didn’t have a good start. It was the love of/for my daughter that prompted me to move her closer to her maternal family, and it made me rethink my relationship with my family. In the end, love won, and we all are happily together these days!

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Move to C’ville!

Love made me find a new life in Charlottesville <3

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LOVE MADE ME...

Love made me want to buy a boombox to hold outside someone’s window. I forgot that it is the 21st century and I couldn’t find one cheap enough.

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Love made [my husband] read Jane Austen! And love made him quit smoking!

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Itchy.

Love made me buy a bunch of nice gifts and plan a trip to the Bahamas.

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Love made me get married, have children and trust God. BECKY MCALLISTER

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Love made me drive thousands of miles.

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Love made me realize that true peace and happiness comes from within, and not from the affirmation and affection of others.

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Love made me able to Love made me end a have an excuse to see relationship to get the Alvin Ailey dance involved in a better one. company.

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CHRIS STAPLES

Love made me learn how to let go of my fears.

JULIE DESPERES

Stay in Harrisonburg another two years, adopt cats, change my whole world and write a thesis.

Love made me move 1,100 miles to be with a man I’ve been married to for 12 years now. Love made me find my life’s path and a home in Charlottesville.

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Marry a man I met at the mall!

Crazy!

Almost move away from Charlottesville?!?!!

Wha???

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Forget who I am.

Adopt A LOT of dogs!

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Love made me ask my doctor about Cialis.

Love made me put my spouse ahead of myself every day.

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BREAK IT DOWN African-American culture in 1920s NewYork City is discerned through the poetry of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay, seen through the eyes of painter and muralist Aaron Douglas, and told through the voice of art historian David Driskell in Of Ebony Embers:Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance. These iconic figures form an ensemble that reprises the role of a Harlem jazz band while playing full-out tributes to Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus. $12-15, 7:30pm.V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox can be summed up in three words: musical time travel. The group, founded by pianist and arranger Bradlee in 2009, takes listeners on a journey across decades, playing songs from the modern era—everything from the party pop of Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga to the minimalist rock of Radiohead—and rearranging them, while keeping the familiar lyrics, and adding a vintage twist.

Imagine Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” played on...an upright bass, or Lorde’s “Royals” as a ballad sung by a sad clown. $40-160, 8pm.

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A variety of techniques, budgets and effects come together at the 19th annual Animations Show of Shows. The festival traverses themes of societal trends and modern anxieties with 16 screenings including The Burden, a quirky stop-motion short about how being trapped in a routine life makes the apocalypse seem liberating, and Everything, “a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything’s point of view,” narrated by Alan Watts. $9, 7:30pm. Violet Crown Cinema, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 529-3000.

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Asher McGlothlin perfectly captures the spirit of his childhood in the Appalachian Mountains, as well as the leap from teenager to adulthood, on his January 2018 debut EP Bardo, which takes its name from the Buddhist term describing the halfway place between death and rebirth. Able to be both chaotic and delightful, McGlothlin takes on this beautiful unbalance in the diversity of his six songs, touching on happy and sad, upbeat and downtrodden, accompanied by rich vocals and soulful instrumentation. $7, 6pm.

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ARTS THIS WEEK

music Jim Waive’s Valentine’s Day. Cowboy hatclad troubadour intent on revisiting a time gone by with honky tonk songs from the heart. $5 suggested donation, 5pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.

Matty Metcalfe. Accomplished pianist takes to the keys for a relaxing evening. Free, 6pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Of Good Nature. Indie rock and reggae fivepiece with a unique progressive instrumental sound. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Red & The Romantics. Band plays imaginative tunes for Valentine’s Day. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

The Lil Smokies. Traditional bluegrass quintet plays romantic melodies for you and yours. With Gallatin Canyon. $12-14, 6pm.

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

dance Bachata Fusion. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory bachata lesson before DJ Butchata spins an eclectic Latin mix for a social dance. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

stage Marie Antoinette. Mary Baldwin University’s production of David Adjmi’s political and social satire. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

Top Girls. Caryl Churchill’s groundbreaking theatrical exploration of the challenges women face in defining their own lives, strength and resilience. This is a pay what you can performance, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

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Thursday 2/15 music Asher McGlothlin. Singer-songwriter captures the essence of what it’s like to come of age in the Appalachian Mountains. With Boomer and Moose. $7, 6pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Irish Songbirds. Kevin Donleavy leads a group of musicians in authentic Irish tunes.

Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Skip Haga and Company. A skilled keyboardist and some friends liven up the evening. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with influences ranging from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Zoso. The ultimate Led Zeppelin experience that authentically captures this golden age of music. With Breakers. $15-17, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall.245-4948.

Marie Antoinette. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, 301 Deming Drive, Deming Fine Arts Center, Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

Top Girls. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $20-25, 7:30pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Third Fridays Improv Workshop. Learn to think fast, improve focus and listening skills and tap into creativity to build on the many possibilities that emerge in theatrical improvisation. Free, 6pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

words Bobby Elliott and Juan Suarez. University of Virginia MFA candidates read from their work. Free, 8pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Top Girls. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Welcome to the Music Library: An Evening of Short Plays. Students in Doug Grissom’s playwriting class drew inspiration for a class project from the Music Library. Part of the Making Noise series. Free, 6pm. Music Library, Old Cabell Hall. 243-8433.

Friday 2/16 music Barbara Martin. Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter mixes original songs with blues and jazz from the ‘20s and ‘30s. $7-9, 7:30pm.

Rockfish Valley Community Center Lounge, 190 Rockfish School Ln., Afton. 361-0100.

words Guion Pratt and Lina M. Ferreira C.-V. Reading. Guion Pratt, a poet, songwriter and composer, and writer Lina M. Ferreira C.-V. read from their work. Part of the Charlottesville Reading Series. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Bob Bennetta. Local jazz pianist creates a chill atmosphere. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

BRIMS Traditional Ensemble. Authentic Irish music from local musicians. Free, 8:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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Coco. Following his dreams of becoming an accomplished musician, young Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead, where his adventures begin. Free, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Brittney Wagner. Guitarist and singer playing honest music ranging from blues to bluegrass. Suggested donation $5, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.

Crewe d’Bayou. Be prepared to get funky and groove to a fun N’awlins vibe. Free, 5:30pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Saturday 2/17 music Charlottesville Symphony: Brahms’ Second. Local musicians play the most overtly optimistic of Brahms’ symphonies. $10-45, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Curtis Prince and Clairvoyants. Get the night started right with some tunes from local acts. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

David Tewksbury Band. Inspired by art rock, jazz fusion and R&B. With Matthew McAllister Band. $7, 6pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Eli Cook. Celebrated local blues guitarist and songwriter plays a set. $10, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston.

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Evan Mook. Jazz virtuoso slides onto the piano bench for the evening. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Gallatin Canyon. Virginia-based bluegrass band specializes in its own refreshing brand of bluegrass-roots music. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

Gunners N’ Roses. Six UVA Law students in touch with their inner rock stars perform the music of Guns N’ Roses. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Lord Nelson. Rural rock ‘n’ roll from a Virginia five-piece. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

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DJ Frank Rivera. Spinning a mixture of club and EDM music as well as Top 40 hits. 21plus. $5, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Groove Fetish. Five-piece band with driving rhythms, seductive melodies and incredible solos. With Galaxy Dynamite and Strange Machines. $7-10, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Keller Williams. Singer-songwriter blends elements of bluegrass folk, alt-rock and jazz into a varied and unique sound. $25-28, 8pm.

The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Marie Anderson. Singer-songwriter plays a little bit of everything. 21-plus. Free, 7pm.

Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Mojo Pie. Original acoustic tunes ranging from folk to blues to rock. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville.

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Pierce Edens. Songwriter blends Appalachian roots with grungy rock ‘n’ roll. 21-plus.

Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Rock and Worship Roadshow. The Roadshow returns with amazing acts including For King & Country, Matthew West, Natalie Grant, Bethel Music and Zach Williams. $10, 7pm. John Paul Jones Arena, 295 Massie Rd. 243-4960.

The Hard Modes. Jazz sextet combines original arrangements with the varied sounds of game music. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

dance Contra Dance. Enjoy traditional, easy dances for all ages and experience levels. Free$10, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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The Currys. Acoustic trio with tight vocal harmonies and elements of country, bluegrass, blues and rock in its folk-driven set.

Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Marie Antoinette. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $7-12, 7:30pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

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Nick and Steve Pollock. Father-son duo plays acoustic tunes, classic and contemporary. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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John Edgar Wideman Reading. Award-winning fiction writer currently in residency at UVA reads from his work. Free, 5pm. Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA. 924-3025.

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Saturday 2/17 Maria DeHart. Dreamy, acoustic folk. Suggested donation $5, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.

Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance. This homage to Harlem jazz includes music by jazz greats Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus. $15, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Porch Dogs. Rock, pop, county, Americana —everything but disco. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Ragged Mountain String Band. Traditional old-time music from Appalachia, suitable for dancing or just listening. Free, 7pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. 823-5671.

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Free Idea plays Magnolia House on February 15. The group also records all of its practices and performances and posts many of them to the band’s SoundCloud page.

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Free Idea trades the rules for psychedelic nirvana

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blank canvas. That’s what Marie Landragin sees in her mind’s eye when she’s about to play guitar with Free Idea. Just before the first note rings out, she sees a frame, some material, potential for the space to become anything. When the music starts, she says, it begins painting forms, “and there’s color, and very often, I see it as a landscape” that develops as she and her bandmates build out a patiently meandering psychedelic rock set.

Usually that landscape has a lot of water, perhaps a lake, and as Landragin listens and plays, she sees stones tossed into the lake, ripples appearing and expanding across the surface. Sometimes there’s a storm coming.

Other times, she sees a cave, with crystals dripping from the ceiling.

Every time Free Idea plays, Landragin sees a different landscape, because not one guitar lick, chord progression, bass line or drum fill is composed ahead of time. Everything is spontaneous.

It’s the kind of music that Landragin yearned to play after years of playing psychpop-rock songs with Borrowed Beams of Light, and very intricate, highly composed songs with heavy rock/metal band Corsair. She wanted to play music that had no rules...but that was also palatable and interesting.

So Landragin asked musicians she knew to be both experienced and adventurous to give the no-rules music thing a go. Guitarist Brian Knox and bassist Will Evans were up for the challenge, as was drummer Greg Sloan. “When you don’t say ‘yes,’ you miss out on a lot,” says Sloan, who wasn’t about

to miss out on this seemingly unusual combination of musicians.

Landragin’s a metalhead, while Knox (of Naked Gods) has an electrified Americanafolk bent; Evans is a jazz-bred art rock guy (Voterfrog, Whatever Brains), while Sloan has played in a slew of garage-rock-leaning bands (Big Air, Dwight Howard Johnson, The Ha-RANG!, DEN and currently, Sweet Tooth). “It doesn’t even seem like it should work,” Sloan says. But it does.

The result is pretty psychedelic, combining familiar sounds from the whole rock spectrum, plus folk, jazz, blues, electronic and pop, all in a constant state of flux. The sound is free to go where it will—because the music doesn’t adhere to the typical rock song structure. There are no melodies, no choruses, no verses; there’s no song at all.

But don’t mistake Free Idea, a band that jams, for a jam band. Bands like Phish and the Grateful Dead compose verses, choruses and bridges that they expand on the fly in anticipated spots. Free Idea is entirely improvised,...but it’s not like jazz where musicians riff on a melody or root structure that they move away from and return to.

“That’s the beauty of Free Idea: It’s all new simultaneously,” says Landragin. The music is created in the moment.

Ask them to recreate something they played 20 minutes ago, or even 30 seconds ago, and it’s a no-go. “We couldn’t even if we tried,” says Evans.

There are a few parameters, though: The band plays straight through whatever set length a venue gives it (17 minutes, 35 minutes), usually with a Knox-created visual abstraction projected on a screen behind the group and timed to the set length. When it ends, it’s time to wrap up and say goodbye.

A lot of cool things happen in this vulnerable artistic space where musicians cast off insecurity and hesitation in service of moving music forward in time and space via the act of listening closely to one another, says Landragin, adding that “if you play with someone long enough, you start to read each other, feel each other.”

Guitarists Knox and Landragin sometimes arrive at the same note at the same time, from two seemingly different sonic places. Other times, Knox will play a note that really sticks out, a note Landragin wouldn’t have dared to play. But when Knox plays it, she considers what he’s hearing and why; usually, Landragin will begin to hear Knox’s angle and comes around to it herself, maybe for 30 seconds, maybe for two minutes, before they float off on separate trajectories once again.

And, yes, certain things have happened more than once: Sloan has ad-libbed some of the same lyrics in two performances, and Evans has a “Wooly Bully”/”Louie Louie”-esque bass progression he defaults to on the rare occasion when it seems like the band is out of ideas.

If you think that Free Idea plays cacophonous weirdo music that’s hard to listen to if you’re not dropping acid or tripping on shrooms, you’re wrong. The music manages to sound composed (and approachable and interesting) without being composed at all—that’s difficult to achieve and it doesn’t work with every combination of musicians, says Landragin.

But when it works, it’s sublime, and “kind of addictive in a way,” says Landragin of how Free Idea fills the blank canvases of her mind’s eye. “It’s a really beautiful state to be in.”

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox.

Imagine wandering into a nightclub somewhere on the outskirts of time, a classic jukebox in the corner playing timeless music with oddly familiar modern lyrics, from Miley Cyrus to Radiohead. $40-160, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Serene Green. Rockabilly band nods to Johnny Cash while staying true to its downhome roots. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Stan Hamrick. Acoustic guitar at its finest.

Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

The Bonnie and Clyde Affair. Costume party featuring music from DJ Chuck 804, Mz Kitti, Kasara & Dea and Eric Jones. 21plus. $15-25, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

The Legwarmers. Don’t just remember the ‘80s. Relive them with a tribute to the world’s most hedonistic decade. $16-18, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Top Girls. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Sunday 2/18 music Bayou Faux Pas. Cajun music to get you moving. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Bob Williamson. Local piano man plays dinner music for your listening pleasure. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Charlie Hunter Trio with Silvana Estrada.

Melodic leads and swinging rhythms joined with stunning guitar riffs. With Silvana Estrada. $20-23, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Charlottesville Symphony: Brahms’ Second. See listing for Saturday, February 17. $20-45, 3:30pm. Monticello High School, 1400 Independence Way. 244-3100.

Irish Matthew Sing-along. Versatile Downtown Mall denizen plays many instruments for sing-along-ready shanties. Free, 5:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

John Howard. With guitar or mandolin in hand and the sustain of harmonica, songwriter brings life to lyrics that tend to tell the story of a once drifter. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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Michael Clem and Thomas Gunn. Guitarand bass-swapping duo explores Americana through covers and gut-wrenching originals that pull at the heartstrings whilst tickling the funny bone. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

Morgan Maddox. Local singer-songwriter and master of both the six- and 12-string guitar plays country and Southern rock. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

Salsa Sunday. Edwin Roa teaches an introductory salsa lesson before DJ Butchata spins an eclectic Latin mix for a social dance. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Tara Mills and Jimmy Stelling. Original mountain Americana. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

The Sound Machine Band. Playing Motown, modern, funk and jazz. Free, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21-plus.

Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

stage Marginalia. Matt Boehler’s staged song cycle for three voices, clarinet, cello and percussion as performed by Victory Hall Opera. $30, 8pm. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, UVA. 227-9978.

Marie Antoinette. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $7-12, 2pm. Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Fine Arts Center, 301 Deming Dr., Staunton. (540) 887-7189.

Top Girls. See listing for Wednesday, February 14. $20-25, 2pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

music ATM Unit featuring Jonah Kane-West. An organ wizard and a bass warrior meet for an epic adventure. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Red & The Romantics. A blend of vintage folk and Americana music. Free, 7pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Tuesday 2/20 music Karaoke Night. Bust out your best vocal performance. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, February 18. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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Animation Show of Shows. Sixteen exceptional and inspiring animated shorts from around the world. Part of The Virginia Film Festival’s Virginia Film Festival at Violet Crown series. $9, 7:30pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. (512) 495-9600.

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magine the thousands of hands that have held the spine of a library book, the fingers that have turned the pages.

Imagine the moments in history that have intersected with the text through the lives of its readers.

Beginning in 2015 and ending in June of 2017, a project called Book Traces @ UVA sought to catalog minutia in 19th- and 20th-century library books that may have been overlooked—notes that readers wrote in the margins, and objects, such as pressed flowers, they left tucked between the leaves.

Now, composer Matt Boehler has sifted through their findings and written a song cycle about them called Marginalia, to be performed by Victory Hall Opera. If you’re not familiar with song cycles, Boehler describes them as “a collection of songs that are linked thematically,” and adds, “The concept album is the modern version.” Running about 50 minutes long and scored for three vocalists and three instrumentalists, Marginalia is a dialogue among readers throughout the shelf lives of various books.

In one such dialogue, Boehler draws on marginalia documented from two separate books. In Poems and Ballads by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a reader named Jane Chapman Slaughter wrote to a lost former lover, “Our readings together were in this book.”

And in a Dutch translation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Enoch Arden, an inscription by one James R. reminds the recipient, Thomas Randolph Price, they “read it together” in the original English. Boehler was amazed by the parallel. “It’s something that is really beautiful and coincidental,” he says.

Kristin Jensen, project manager at the UVA Library, writes in an email, “In a way, Book Traces is a reaction to the mass digitization of print materials, which is one of the most important developments in the library world in recent years. Digital collections are great for sharing and searching texts, but

Composer Matt Boehler combed through the notes from UVA’s Book Traces project to create Marginalia for Victory Hall Opera. The song cycle will be performed in the McGregor Room of Alderman Library on February 18.

ginalia Jensen and co-principal investigator Andrew Stouffer found, Boehler likens to “tiny shards and scraps. It’s like this landscape covered in glass and it’s my job to make a narrative mosaic out of it,” he says.

One of the challenges was finding material that could stand on its own, without the context of the book in which it was written.

“I wanted things that leapt off the page of their own accord and didn’t “Part of the legacy of the University need something outside to reference them,” he says. of Virginia and its library are the books that make up collections of wealthy white slave- theThe Book Traces project genowners. To not acknowledge that erally date from 1820-1923. at this point in time would be at best They aren’t rare enough to be physically protected coptone-deaf.” MATT BOEHLER ies and aren’t new enough Book Traces is all about taking a deep dive to be part of the general collection. Due to into physical books and bringing out these this designation, many of the books in Book hidden histories of how people in the past Traces happen to overlap with the Civil War. interacted with their reading material.”

“Especially where we are now in our hisBook Traces has, in turn, been digitized, tory at this very moment, looking at this and this digital collection gave Boehler, who marginalia is an interesting experience,” does not live in Charlottesville, access to the Boehler says. “You feel almost like you’re in material. “It was a long process of sifting an in-between space, seeing something at through information and deciding what once nostalgic and horrifying. Part of the needed to be said,” he says. Most of the marlegacy of the University of Virginia and its

library are the collections of wealthy white slave-owners. To not acknowledge that at this point in time would be at best tonedeaf,” says Boehler.

In line with all VHO performances, the song cycle will be performed in an unconventional space. In this case, the elegant McGregor Room at the Alderman Library provides the perfect backdrop. “It is my hope that people will experience this piece as if voices are coming out of the stacks and out of the books, that it is immersive in that way,” says Boehler. “I hope it gives the audience the feeling of being between the past and the present.”

Boehler credits the work of the Book Traces team in documenting and preserving the marginalia that inspired his composition.

“The Book Traces project finds that the book is more than just its text,” he says. “It also gains meaning from the hands that held it. And metaphorically that extends to the lives of individuals. Our lives are enriched with meaning through the presence of those around us.” He hopes that this is something the audience will garner from the performance: “to have enough presence to listen and to bear witness.”

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Ragged Mountain String Band. See listing for Saturday, February 17. Free, 7pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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Bob Huntington. Hear everything from Gordon Lightfoot to The Beatles. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

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Jon Spear Band. Some of central Virginia’s finest blues musicians collaborate for a set.

Free, 3:30pm. Starr Hill Brewery Tap Room, 5391 Three Notch’d Rd. Crozet. 823-5671.

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Fax Ayres’ contemporary, playful and sometimes unsettling photography is captured in “Still” at Chroma Projects through February 28. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Perfectly ‘Still’ The light and dark interplay of Fax Ayres’ imagery

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o we continue to have time to admire the still life? In a world where disposable and looping ultra-high resolution video pops from the phones in our pockets, the composed scenes of the genre require more from our attention.

The art form that originated with painting centuries ago has been criticized for nearly as long for lacking meaning.

That issue doesn’t weigh heavily on the striking and irreal photographs of Fax Ayres in his exhibition “Still” at Chroma Projects.

Ayres says that his works aim to suggest “something enigmatic—larger and sometimes darker, than the things themselves.”

But whatever connotations the artist intends, they take a back seat to his studied creation process and his methodical craftsmanship.

Taking the works at face value, it’s difficult to discern if they are paintings, photos or a mixed media that lands somewhere in between. That’s their charm. Ayres states that it’s his intention to “merge the aesthetics of photography and painting,” and by that measure he succeeds greatly. Light and dark interplay with the pooled and smeared profundity of oil paint, while uneven surfaces of tree bark and stone are rendered in what could be hyperrealistic brushwork or the result of a smartly angled lens.

His still lifes are the result of moving from a rather straightforward and even illumination of his subjects to a darkened studio where he reshoots portions of the same scene in separate and experimental captures. Reassembling the pictures in Photoshop, he creates an altogether novel view. “When I’m doing these individual component shots, it often feels like I am applying the light to the object the way you might apply paint to a canvas,” Ayres says.

No one can question the painterly quality of the works. They look like rich photographs that originate from a more luxurious place than the latest photo filtering app.

But here comes that age-old consideration: What does it all mean?

The still lifes are culled from Ayres’ children’s rooms, his wife’s stuff and his own found objects. Amidst rudimentary machines and stone slabs, gourds and action figures stand in forced interaction on the stages of Ayres’ interior universe.

Flirting with surrealist touchstones like clock faces and eggs found in Salvador Dalí’s most famous pieces, the photos tinker with weight and hints of narrative.

“Gourd #1” floats miraculously above a scale, while the plants of “Gourd #2” are engaged in a desirous or antagonistic choreography. The next installment appears more decorative, like a minimalist Thanksgiving display in a house high on upcycled wood.

“The Parlous Egg” and “The Egg Laboratory” reveal a dry comic sensibility, while other photos draw on the interplay of familiar figures like Marge Simpson, Batman, and Winnie the Pooh embroiled in contentious or hazardous situations from a child’s playtime. The exterior night photographs “Birch Grove, Onteora” and “Old Pool Gate, Onteora” make use of the painterly composite technique to spectacular results; freed from the studio trappings and any expectation of narrative, the quiet of nature presents a sublime and unsettling beauty that is truly still.

Perhaps the trompe l’oeil in Ayers’ work is not that his images trick the viewer into thinking that the objects are actually occupying space within the confines of the print, but that the subjects could have been real when he snapped the picture, despite the wealth of evidence to the contrary.

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here are certain musicians whose style is so unique that any snippet of their music is immediately identifiable. Multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams is one of those artists. A staple on the jam scene and the festival circuit for nearly 25 years, Williams has created a singular sound, which he dubs “acoustic dance music.”

Although he wields an acoustic guitar, Williams packs a punch, laying down a beat and building layer after layer with a looping pedal, vocals and a setup that’s included everything from a bass guitar on a stand to a drum machine. His DIY ethic is bound together by one guiding principle: have fun.

“I take having fun very seriously and if I can’t enjoy myself, I can’t really expect myself to entertain anybody, so I think it starts with me having fun,” says Williams.

Lighthearted and playful, he’s music’s Peter Pan, accenting his songs with whistling in the same way that Pan wields the flute.

But amidst all the whimsy, Williams’ backbone is his masterful playing. He’s taken part in countless collaborations with the likes of Larry and Jenny Keel, The Travelin’

McCourys, The String Cheese Incident and a co-headlining tour with fingerpicking master Leo Kottke.

Williams described his first show with Kottke as a test run, which took place at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville in 2016. From there, they embarked on a 25date run. “The first couple of weekends, he had his own car and we had our own car, but then the last several weekends we were actually in the van together,” says Williams.

“Just being around him is surreal in the sense that he’s one of my idols.”

Around that time, Williams began to resuscitate an old project that he had started in 2011 but never finished—an album without looping.

“Out of all the records I have, there’s nothing that’s just one guitar, one microphone. ...I wanted to have something that was representative of what I was doing on that Leo Kottke tour,” says Williams.

The album—titled RAW—came out in January 2017 and includes a track titled “Thanks, Leo,” dedicated to Kottke. But Williams didn’t stop there. He released an additional album with a full band on the same day. Titled SYNC, it’s another offering with his KWahtro lineup.

“I would record my guitar and vocal track to a clip track...and then I would send that to Rodney Holmes, the drummer,” explains Williams. “And then he would send it off to Danton [Boller] the bass player... and Danton would lay his duty upon it and we’d figure out a time for Gibb Droll [guitar] to come to the studio with us to put on his part.” Although the group recorded piecemeal, the result “kind of sounded like four guys playing in the same room at the same time and it sounded like it was in sync, so hence the name,” says Williams.

When Williams brings his solo act to the Jefferson Theater on Friday, he says the audience can expect a mixture of RAW material and looping. Looking ahead, he’ll return this summer to play FloydFest with a new Hillbenders project: PettyGrass—a bluegrass tribute to Tom Petty whose songs Williams calls “powerful, yet so simple and so easy to connect with and sing along to.”

But Williams is not done yet. He promises another milestone is on the horizon: his first instrumental record.

And he won’t take all the credit for his abundant output. It’s the fans, he says, that keep this machine turning.

“I have the projects because I’m allowed to have them,” Williams says. “It’s because people are coming to see them and ask for them back that they remain. And if they didn’t, those projects wouldn’t be around.”

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Let’s put aside that Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) is less of a master of kinky sex and more of an emotionally distant control freak who describes his turn-ons so dryly with such gratuitous jargon that it sounds like he’s trying to recite a Wikipedia entry from memory. Who wanted this? Who likes this? There is nothing notable about this story or these characters outside of their sex lives, which have turned into an afterthought. There wasn’t much to the sex when

it was there, at least not since the first half of the first movie, when director Sam Taylor-Johnson and star Johnson seemed to enjoy squeezing whatever quality and fun they could from the source material. Not Dornan, though. Everything about him and his performance has been wrong since the beginning, from his apparent confusion about the character’s relationship to sex to the strange way he moves his mouth to conceal his accent. Maybe he can be good, but while Johnson turned the empty vessel of Steele from the books into a curious adventure seeker who knows this is silly but does it anyway, Dornan does the opposite by finding ways to make Grey even emptier.

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Escafé’s Water Street location has been a popular nightlife spot for everyone from the LGBTQ community to bachelorette parties.

license for what had become known as a gay bar was a challenge in the 1990s, particularly because then-governor George Allen was a vocal opponent of gay rights (a Washington Post article from 2015 says that Allen’s views have since evolved).

Eastern Standard was all about “the philosophy of the people involved. It wasn’t a scene thing, it was just how we felt; we parlayed ourselves into good service and other people embraced it,” Concannon says.

Zellmer, who moved to Charlottesville from Rochester, New York, in the mid-1980s, says he and Sibbald went to dinner often at the gay-friendly Eastern Standard, where they met other regulars who quickly became

friends. Remembering those Friday nights brings a smile to Zellmer’s face. “It was something we looked forward to every week,” he says.

It seems to Zellmer that the necessity for a gay bar in Charlottesville has faded over time, as prejudice against LGBTQ folks “has lessened.” But it’s still an important spot for people in that community, he says.

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The Eastern Standard/Escafé story begins on the Downtown Mall, at 227 W. Main St., where The Whiskey Jar is today. Concannon and Smith took over Eastern Standard in June 1992, and after renovations, reopened it in December 1992. The restaurant had the reputation of switching from bistro to gay bar at 10pm, Concannon says, and it suited his and Smith’s vision for the place—they wanted to welcome all people.

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n the evening of Friday, February 5, artist Bob Anderson stands in the middle of Escafé, identifying the many people in the Escafé Opera murals that his wife, Dominique, painted for the restaurant in 1997 and added to in 2015.

There’s the Andersons’ daughter, Adriana, a former server at the restaurant, and the Andersons’ two sons. Also included are artist and socialite Beatrix Ost, pianist Bob Bennetta, photographer Brian Schornberg, the forearm of Doug Smith, or maybe Sean Concannon, the restaurant owners who’d commissioned the paintings but were hesitant to be represented themselves. Playing the lute in one scene is a man named Ned, whose granddaughter had come into the restaurant a few years after his death wanting to see her grandfather immortalized in paint.

Warm, dim light bounces off the restaurant’s orange walls, and Bob turns around and gestures to a man behind him. “Do you recognize him?” he asks, pointing to Stuart “Stu” Zellmer, who’s sitting near the back of the restaurant, sipping a drink with friends.

Zellmer is in the mural panel over the kitchen, painted next to his partner of 36 years, Gary Sibbald, who died from emphysema a few years ago, Anderson explains.

People push tables together to talk closely about their memories of Escafé and its predecessor, Eastern Standard. Spirits are high, but there’s a trace of melancholy in the air. Escafé, a longtime hub of Charlottesville’s LGBTQ community and a popular nightlife spot, will close its doors after service on Saturday, February 17.

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he weathered farm bell stationed outside the restaurant is a bellwether for what you’ll find inside: farm-to-table Southern cuisine. Ryan Hubbard, co-owner of Red Food Hub Co. and the Dinsmore Boutique Inn, has combined his love of preserving the past with his passion for new Southern cuisine into Farm Bell Kitchen.

The restaurant is located in the brick building (constructed by Thomas Jefferson’s master carpenter, James Dinsmore) across from UVA Children’s Hospital on West Main Street. According to Hubbard, the very same bricks that were used in the Rotunda form the walls of Farm Bell Kitchen (Dinsmore also helped build several buildings at UVA and James Madison’s Montpelier).

Beyond maintaining its historical legacy, Farm Bell Kitchen is dedicated to serving Southern cuisine with ingredients from local producers. The name came to Hubbard from the farm bell now outside the restaurant that he found in a Southwest Virginia salvage yard.

“It’s emblematic of our new Southern cuisine and our farm-to-table approach,” he says.

Farm Bell Kitchen will be open for lunch and breakfast daily, and periodically serve supper (note: not dinner), and brunch on the weekends. If you find yourself in the area, remember for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for those who are hungry.

roasted coffees, the organic Limu Dabsessa ($24 for 12 ounces of beans). The beans, which are roasted in the Charlottesville area, come from Yidnekachew Dabessa’s eponymous coffee plantation in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, where Dabessa, an experienced coffee farmer and entrepreneur, has expanded his small coffee farm into a large-scale operation over the course of a decade.

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Todd Howard, who has owned Escafé since 2008, is proud that the bar/restaurant has served as a safe space for a variety of people, including the LGBTQ community, the under-21 crowd and the clergy during the Unite the Right rally.

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to moonstones to tarot cards. “I’ve loved it. And I’m really sad that it’s over. On Friday, you could really look forward to being there,” she says.

Concannon and Smith left Charlottesville for Portland, Oregon (where they owned a spot called West Café for 11 years), in 2005 and sold the Eastern Standard space to Mark Brown and Todd Howard. Howard took over as sole owner of Escafé (i.e., Eastern Standard Café) in October 2008, intending to keep the inclusive environment, but on a slightly different tangent.

One of Howard’s more controversial choices was to open the place to the under-21 crowd, with the intention to “mother hen” them and ensure they had a safe place to discover themselves, Howard says.

Escafé moved from the Downtown Mall to 215 Water St. in January 2012, and the demographic has changed a bit over time.

Visit on a weekend and you’d be hardpressed not to find a bachelorette party or a group of sorority girls on the dance floor.

Howard is particularly proud of how the place has served not just the LGBTQ community, but the Charlottesville nonprofit community and, most recently, the clergy, who used Escafé as a safe space during the Unite the Right white supremacist rally on August 12.

“It’s not just a rainbow flag in front,” says Charles Casavant, a longtime patron and investor who first visited Escafé in the 1990s after reading about it in the Damron (a gay- and lesbian-friendly travel resource) when he moved to town. He once asked Howard: “Are you running a business or a mission?” Howard replied, “both.”

Howard invited songwriter Brady Earnhart to host Uncovered, a monthly songwriters showcase and open mic, at Escafé starting in 2015. Earnhart says that Howard “has always looked for ways to bring top-notch Charlottesville music and audiences together,” and when the series relocates to Tin Whistle Irish Pub come April, it won’t be the same.

“The obvious thing Escafé added to Charlottesville was an openly gay bar, though that liberality spread to include a

range of people who felt more at home there than anywhere else,” Earnhart says. “It was striking to sit on the patio on a Friday night and hear one group of people speaking Arabic, another Spanish, another talking about what it was like to come out of the closet, another about politics, another just about who’s wearing what…it was a broadly and effortlessly diverse crowd.

“I can’t imagine downtown without Escafé,” he says. “Unfortunately, I won’t have to for long.”

Nobody in the room on this Friday night can give a single favorite memory of Escafé; ask them for one, and three or four stories tumble out.

Schornberg, the young photographer in the Escafé Opera 2015 mural, has many fond memories, from visiting the bar with four of his five sisters (the youngest isn’t yet 21 and will miss out on what’s become a Schornberg sibling 21st birthday tradition) to buying rounds of drinks for friends, having “some of the strangest nights of [his] life” and running, along with his fiancée, from their Belmont home to Escafé on New Year’s Eve because it’s where Schornberg “has always been” at the stroke of midnight on a new year.

“This place is so much more than a bar,” says Schornberg. “It’s friendship. I’m just one of hundreds of people” that Escafé has been a home for, he says.

Casavant agrees. “Home is the best word [for the place],” he says, his voice catching before he adds, “I will miss it a great deal.”

Howard says when he first heard of the impending demolition, he hoped to move Escafé to a new location, root it, then pass it on to someone who could nurture it for another 10 years. But he couldn’t find the right spot; he believes it’s “the universe’s way of telling me to move on.”

As the evening winds down, Casavant, sitting at a two-top table, twists the stem of his martini glass between his thumb and forefinger. “There’s something about a bar that’s awfully close to an altar,” he says. “It may be blessed or not, but it still has that feeling of, ‘I met you here, and I appreciate that. You blessed my life because you were here, if only for a moment.’”

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Now that you have finally paid off one of your debts to the past, you can start window-shopping for the future’s best offers. The coming days will be a transition time as you vacate the power spot you’ve outgrown and ramble out to reconnoiter potential new power spots. So bid your crisp farewells to waning traditions, lost causes, ghostly temptations and the dead weight of people’s expectations. Then start preparing a vigorous first impression to present to promising allies out there in the frontier.

Aries (March 21-April 19): At 12,388 feet, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest peak. If you’re in good shape, you can reach the top in seven hours.

The return trip can be done in half the time—if you’re cautious. The loose rocks on the steep trail are more likely to knock you off your feet on the way down than on the way up. I suspect this is an apt metaphor for you in the coming weeks, Aries. Your necessary descent may be deceptively challenging.

So make haste slowly! Your power animals are the rabbit and the snail.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a few short jaunts through the air in a flying machine they called the Wright Flyer. It was a germinal step in a process that ultimately led to your ability to travel 600mph while sitting in a chair 30,000 feet above the earth. Less than 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ breakthrough, American astronauts landed a space capsule on the moon. They had with them a patch of fabric from the left wing of the Flyer. I expect that during the coming weeks you will be climaxing a long-running process that deserves a comparable ritual.

Revisit the early stages of the work that enabled you to be where you are now.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The posh magazine Tatler came up with a list of fashionable new names for parents who want to ensure their babies get a swanky start in life. Since you Aquarians are in a phase when you can generate good fortune by rebranding yourself or remaking your image, I figure you might be interested in using one of these monikers as a nickname or alias. At the very least, hearing them could whet your imagination to come up with your own ideas. Here are Tatler’s chic avant-garde names for girls: Czar-Czar, Debonaire, Estonia, Figgy, Gethsemane, Power and Queenie. Here are some boys’ names: Barclay, Euripides, Gustav, Innsbruck, Ra, Uxorious, Wigbert and Zebedee. crux of the issue is this: How shall we define the nature of a planet? But for the people of New Mexico, the question has been resolved.

State legislators there formally voted to regard Pluto as a planet. They didn’t accept the demotion. I encourage you to be inspired by their example, Gemini. Whenever there are good arguments from opposing sides about important matters, trust your gut feelings. Stand up for your preferred version of the story.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Ray Bradbury’s dystopian bestseller Fahrenheit 451 was among the most successful of the 27 novels he wrote.

It won numerous awards and has been adapted into films, plays and graphic novels. Bradbury wrote the original version of the story in nine days, using a typewriter he rented for 20 cents per hour. When his publisher urged him to double the manuscript’s length, he spent another nine days doing so. According to my reading of the planetary configurations, you Cancerians now have a similar potential to be surprisingly efficient and economical as you work on an interesting creation or breakthrough—especially if you mix a lot of play and delight into your labors.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Poet Louise Glück has characterized herself as “afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments.” If there is anything in you that even partially fits that description, I have good news: In the coming weeks, you’re likely to feel blessed by longing rather than afflicted by it. The foreseeable future will also be prime time for you to increase your motivation and capacity to form durable attachments. Take full advantage of this fertile grace period!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 2004, a man named Jerry Lynn tied a battery-operated alarm clock to a string and dangled it down a vent in his house. He was hoping that when the alarm sounded, he would get a sense of the best place to drill a hole in his wall to run a wire for his TV. But the knot he’d made wasn’t perfect, and the clock slipped off and plunged into an inaccessible spot behind the wall. Then, every night for 13 years, the alarm rang for a minute. The battery was unusually strong! A few months ago, Lynn decided to end the mild but constant irritation. Calling on the help of duct specialists, he retrieved the persistent clock. With this story as your inspiration, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you Virgos to finally put an end to your equivalent of the maddening alarm clock.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Was Napoléon Bonaparte an oppressor or liberator? The answer is both.

His work in the world hurt a lot of people and helped a lot of people. One of his more magnanimous escapades transpired in June 1798, when he and his naval forces invaded the island of Malta. During his six-day stay, he released political prisoners, abolished slavery, granted religious freedom to Jews, opened 15 schools, established the right to free speech and shut down the Inquisition. What do his heroics have to do with you? I don’t want to exaggerate, but I expect that you, too, now have the power to unleash a blizzard of benevolence in your sphere. Do it in your own style, of course, not Napoléon’s.

for now, Scorpio. You have pursued a gradual, steady approach to ripening, and soon it will pay off in the form of big bright blooms. Congratulations on having the faith to keep plugging away in the dark! I applaud your determination to be dogged and persistent about following your intuition even though few people have appreciated what you were doing.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The growth you can and should foster in the coming weeks will be stimulated by quirky and unexpected prods.

To get you started, here are a few such prods.

1. What’s your hidden or dormant talent, and what could you do to awaken and mobilize it?

2. What’s something you’re afraid of but might be able to turn into a resource? 3. If you were a different gender for a week, what would you do and what would your life be like? 4. Visualize a dream you’d like to have while you’re asleep tonight. 5. If you could transform anything about yourself, what would it be?

6. Imagine you’ve won a free vacation to anywhere you want. Where would you go?

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may think you have uncovered the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re just a bit more than halfway there. In order to get the rest of the goods, you’ll have to ignore your itch to be done with the search.

You’ll have to be unattached to being right and smart and authoritative. So please cultivate patience. Be expansive and magnanimous as you dig deeper. For best results, align yourself with poet Richard Siken’s definition: “The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet.”

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit,” said French playwright Molière. I’m going to make that your motto

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The Object of this suit is to: approve the foster care plan of Albemarle County Department of Social Services with the goal of adoption and the petition to terminate the residual parental rights of Johnnie L. Bottenfield in the child born to him and Jennifer A. Fitzgerald on February 6, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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The Object of this suit is to: approve the foster care plan of Albemarle County Department of Social Services with the goal of adoption and the petition to terminate the residual parental rights of Johnnie L. Bottenfield in the child born to him and Jennifer A. Fitzgerald on May 3, 2004, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Johnnie L. Bottenfield appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interest on or before March 27, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Johnnie L. Bottenfield appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interest on or before March 27, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

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