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Hello, Charlottesville.

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Thank you for reading C-VILLE Weekly.

Best of C-VILLE is on stands today, and in it, more than 350 winners and runners-up you say make Charlottesville great. I’ve been in charge of the magazine for more than a decade, ideating and writing stories, editing copy, working with the art director on elaborate photo shoots. And while I know it draws some side eye (it’s a popularity contest! It’s pay-to-play [an accusation that makes me especially angry because it implies there’s some group of cigarwielding sycophants deciding who wins and loses as a sales ticker lights up in the back of a smoky room, when in fact it’s just me, sitting at my computer correcting misspelled business names on the ballot]! It’s a money grab [well, yeah, it’s one way that we, y’know, stay in business]!), year after year it still makes me feel proud to live here.

Another thing that makes me feel proud? The subject of this week’s cover story (p.22): UVA football. Author Julia Stumbaugh previews the upcoming season in terms I confess I don’t necessarily understand (she’s a professional sports writer; I am not), but for which I can feel the excitement. These young men work incredibly hard and are full of hope for what the season might bring. I don’t know enough about football to tell you whether that hope is warranted. But I do know about rooting for your home team—the restaurant, bartender, bookstore, band, yoga instructor, nonprofit, whatever, that you’ll defend to the death.

That’s what Best of C-VILLE is about. Not declaring once and for all what is objectively “best,” but giving 40-some-thousand people a chance to say: I love this thing. I’m glad it’s here. I hope it never goes away.

Go Hoos. And congratulations to all 350-plus Best of C-VILLE winners!

This week’s contributors

Julia Stumbaugh has worked with C-VILLE since 2017. She developed her love for writing while growing up in Albemarle County, and her passion for sports journalism while attending William & Mary.

Read her work on page 22.

Sarah Golibart Gorman is a writer and educator. Her food journey began in a peach orchard, sparking a respect for growers and a love of flavor. Gorman contributes to Garden & Gun, The Harrisonburg Citizen, JMU’s Madison Magazine, and Edible Blue Ridge. She also develops recipes and stars in cooking videos for Shenandoah Valley Orchards. Read her work on page 35.

Let’s take this online

Readers say the darndest things! Here are a few comments that caught our eye on our social media feeds this week.

Join the conversation on Facebook (facebook.com/cville.weekly) and Instagram (@cvilleweekly).

On “Fears behind the fables,” the August 19 cover story, a Q&A with bestselling author Alix E. Harrow “This is so cool! I absolutely rave about The Everlasting (it topped most of SJMs work for me!!) and never knew she was from the same ” town I am!!!

Sarah Dutnell, Facebook “Omg I had no idea she lived here!!! I’m obsessed!

I just finished The Everlasting and now I’m reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January.” @kylieamberbee, Instagram

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15 The Mark clears one more construction hurdle.

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LISA MOLINARO After 40 years of making a difference as an educator, it’s time for your next chapter.

“Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.”

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isa Molinaro brought Rita Pierson’s words to life by selflessly giving her time, heart, and resources so that every child and family she encountered felt seen, heard, and championed.

She carried that commitment throughout her four-decade career as a teacher, reading coach, assistant principal, principal, and preschool coordinator.

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Even today, former students and colleagues stop us when they hear our last name, eager to share how she changed their lives and the lasting impact she had on them.

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This August, Albemarle County Public Schools will lose one of the best to ever walk its halls when Lisa retires. As she closes this chapter, we hope her legacy and impact will live on through the many lives she has touched.

If you see Lisa out and about—whether you were taught by her, worked alongside her, or have never met her—we hope you’ll take a moment to thank her for making our schools, our community, and the world a better place.

Thank you for being an inspiration to us and to so many others. We are incredibly proud of you and love you more than words can say.

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Since 2019, UVA’s spending on charity care has risen more than 40 percent, to $110 million.

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an, 48, moved from the Midwest to Charlottesville to get treatment for a rare, often painful genetic ailment at the University of Virginia hospital.

“I’m in the process of getting disability,” he says, speaking anonymously. “I have limited capacity for work. I’m still working, but it’s very part-time.”

In his efforts to obtain life-changing care, he’s getting help from a surprising source.

“UVA is covering all of my medical bills,” he says, “because right now I don’t have insurance. In medication alone, that’s more than $1,000 a month.” Dan was one of the nearly 20,000 patients in fiscal 2026 who paid less—or nothing at all—for care through UVA’s charity and indigent care programs.

In 2019, UVA Health drew nationwide scorn when reporting from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed its rapacious, life-wrecking pursuit of unpaid hospital bills. Chastened by the bad press, the hospital system dropped many of its collection efforts, instead helping more patients cover the cost of care.

Seven years later, UVA’s ongoing support of charity care could prove more crucial than ever, as cuts to social safety nets threaten to increase health care burdens for individuals and hospitals alike.

“As a state institution and a safety-net hospital, UVA Health is here to serve all patients, regardless of ability to pay,” says Eric Swensen, UVA Health’s public information officer.

UVA joins many other Virginia hospitals in providing charitable care. In 2024, the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association reported that hospitals spent $457 million statewide helping patients who otherwise couldn’t afford care.

In FY26, Swensen says UVA picked up the tab for 19,487 patients. Bills for those enrolled in the hospital system’s indigent care program are reimbursed via state funding.

But the university pays for the rest, who occupy what UVA refers to as its charity care program, out of its revenues from insurers and other paying patients.

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UVA Health provided patients in need with $455 million worth of charity care in FY 2026.

In FY19, UVA provided $253 million worth of indigent and charity care. By FY26, that figure had risen to $455 million. The health system’s costs grew more than 40 percent in the same period, from $77 million to $110 million.

“Since 2019, we have not filed any lawsuits against patients for not making payments for their care,” Swensen says. Where it once dragged tenants through court and dredged their savings to collect, UVA Health now offers a stronger financial assistance program that covers more people, and is easier to find and enroll in.

According to the hospital system’s guidelines, uninsured patients with $50,000 or less in assets and income below a given threshold—$31,920 a year for individuals, or $66,000 for a family of four—are eligible for a 100 percent discount on their care. Even individuals making up to $63,840, or families of four with incomes as high as $132,000, are eligible for at least a partial discount.

The hospital system has embraced a host of measures to match patients in need with programs that can cover their care, help those patients avoid surprise bills, and pay

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down what they owe affordably, without interest or harm to their credit scores.

That extra help couldn’t come at a better time. In July, Virginia saw more than 67,400 fewer people enroll in health insurance plans through its state-run Affordable Care Act exchange compared to the previous year. In April, the director of the state’s health care exchange called the 33,000 Virginians who ditched their coverage from January through March the biggest first-quarter drop he’d ever seen. And he predicted more people would drop coverage after Republicans in Congress, including 5th District Rep. John McGuire, refused to continue providing tax credits that made those plans more affordable. A July press release from the exchange estimated that 100,000 fewer Virginians would be covered under ACA plans by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association reported last month that emergency room visits by uninsured patients rose 8 percent in 2025. And it predicts $31 billion in funding cuts to hospitals over the next decade, after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a new rule that reduces Medicaid payments even more sharply than the bill that McGuire and other Republicans passed in 2025.

UVA says it can’t foresee how those changes will affect its patients or its own funding.

“It is likely that more patients will seek financial assistance beginning in January,” Swensen says. “Our finance team closely monitors these changes and factors these types of changes into UVA Health’s budget planning so that we can continue to serve all patients.”

“One of UVA Health’s goals is that no Virginian—whatever their financial status may be—should have to leave the Commonwealth to receive the care they need,” he says.

Charity care from UVA is “a massive relief for me, because I don’t have the money,” Dan says. “I’m almost two years into the process of applying for disability. … Just knowing that health care that I absolutely need isn’t going to be a barrier economiC cally is a huge relief.”

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Easy to say In a social media letter to Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders, 5th District Rep. John McGuire called on the city to delay the opening of the Holiday Drive emergency shelter.

The congressman raised concerns about the impact on businesses in the area and the physical condition of the building, but gave no alternatives for housing people currently living in encampments along the Rivanna Trail near Free Bridge. The city is working to open the emergency shelter on September 1, the deadline it set for clearing the encampment sites because of safety and environmental concerns.

“The fundamental question is whether the City has fully assessed the potential public-safety and economic impacts of placing a large number of individuals at this location and whether sufficient safeguards and resources will be in place from day one,” reads an excerpt from McGuire’s letter. “Local businesses should not be expected to bear the additional costs of private security surveillance, or other measures.”

While the letter was shared on the representative’s social media accounts on August 22, and is dated August 20, Sanders reportedly has not received any official communication from McGuire about the emergency shelter.

“I have not received the letter, so we have not provided a response yet,” says Sanders. “I believe it was posted through social media, and that is not official communication for me.”

The city says it has responded directly to concerns from business owners in the area, and has a safety plan in place.

“We are absolutely fully prepared to address anything that might happen here,” says Sanders. “Our coordinated effort has … put together the most comprehensive set of services that we can in this building, and local providers have been a part of that conversation with us. We look forward to being able to open this facility, something that the city has needed for a very long time.”—Catie Ratliff

Stamped approval

Seven-story student housing building in Fifeville clears administrative hurdle BY SEAN TUBBS

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proposal to build a seven-story building in Fifeville moved closer toward construction on August 20 when Charlottesville city staff approved a key document required for the project to proceed.

“This Development Plan shall be valid for a period of five years from the date of approval or until August 20, 2031,” wrote city planner Carrie Rainey in a letter to the Timmons Group, the civil engineering firm that developed schematics for what will be called The Mark.

Landmark Properties of Athens, Georgia, has an option to buy five properties off of Seventh Street SW, just south of the eastwest tracks owned by the Virginia Passenger Railway Authority. Engineers working for the company filed plans in October 2025 for a building with 180 units allowed under a new zoning code that went into effect in February 2024.

Staff in the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services denied the plan several times, but such an action is a routine part of the review process as developers work to address technical concerns. The city only allows four review cycles, but Deputy City Manager James Freas granted an additional review after a meeting with project engineers on August 6 because the required changes were minor.

The five properties are all within the Residential Mixed Use 5 district, which allows unlimited residential density. The prior designation for the land was Cherry Avenue Corridor, a mixed-use zone created in 2003 that also enabled density at the location. The primary difference is that under the old rules, City Council would have had

Proposed seven-story Fifeville building The Mark is closer to becoming a reality after city staff approved a key document required for the project to move forward.

to approve a special use permit, something that required a public hearing.

That step was eliminated during the Cville Plans Together initiative that saw creation of an Affordable Housing Plan in March 2021, as well as an update of the Comprehensive Plan later that year. The latter included a Future Land Use Map that called for this land to be “higher intensity residential.”

The same map designated land across Seventh Street NW as General Residential (Sensitive Communities), which called for protections to discourage displacement.

When the new zoning was developed, the “sensitive” areas were all put in the Residential Neighborhood A district that has the least development rights in the city.

Last December, the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review denied a Certificate of Appropriateness needed to incorporate two protected structures from the 19th century into the project. The developers appealed to the City Council and a 3-2 majority overruled the BAR.

The 2024 zoning code requires developers to hold a community meeting to take feedback on transportation-related issues. That meeting was held on June 24 and provided an opportunity for opponents of the project to express their greater concern, but no actions were required as a result.

Those opposed to the project also tried to persuade the Board of Zoning Appeals to overturn a determination that The Mark qualified as “student housing” under the zoning code because it is within a half-mile of the eastern edge of central Grounds. The BZA voted 3-2 to uphold that opinion.

The student housing designation allows Landmark Properties to avoid building units required to be affordable. Instead, the developer will pay a fee of $4,491,797, according to an affordable housing certification made as part of the development plan. This document also states there will be nine one-bedroom units, 13 two-bedroom units, 20 three-bedroom units, 66 four-bedroom units, 55 fivebedroom units, and 18 six-bedroom units. C

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All the news you missed last week (in one sentence or less) Landmark ruling Fed up with a Downtown Mall eyesore, Charlottesville tells the owner of the abandoned 201 E. Water St. property he has 60 days to submit a detailed plan for what he’ll do with the unfinished hotel, with the threat of city action behind it. In tents Despite recent severe storms, the Rivanna encampment and its residents come through with minor damage to tents and no injuries, city officials say. Barr raised Joshua Barr is Charlottesville’s new chief prosperity officer, working with the Civilian Police Oversight Board and its Office of Human Rights, among other agencies and groups. Officer down Charlottesville Police are investigating the death of K-9 officer Blue, found unresponsive inside his human handler’s vehicle at his home in Greene County; one 2024 study found that after gunfire, heatstroke was the second most common cause of death for American police dogs. Passing notes After a local prosecutor criticizes the Albemarle County School Board at alleged sex offender Michael Swiney’s bail hearing, the board rebuts that critique in a public letter, eliciting another letter defending the attorney’s remarks from Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Hingeley.

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eveloper Nicole Scro is working on several projects across the City of Charlottesville that take advantage of higher residential density allowed by the zoning code adopted in late 2023. One of them is a 13-unit development on two parcels, separated by a narrow strip of cityowned land, on Palatine Avenue in Belmont.

On August 17, Scro appeared before Council to ask it to give her the land so it could be used as a private alley to provide access to the new housing. The land is currently what is known as a paper street, because the city never built an expected roadway. Scro said other portions of this paper street were vacated a quarter century ago.

“All of the pedestrian and vehicular and whatever access you would like is going to be preserved,” Scro said. “Another point is that that’s an unimproved alley, but if anyone were to improve it, we would preserve that connection.”

Two meeting attendees asked Council to deny the request. Anne Lassere said she understands Charlottesville needs more housing, but worried it would set a precedent to hand over the land to the developer. Councilor Lloyd Snook said in recent years the city has been less willing to give public property over to developers for free.

“If we sell it, by my calculations, if it’s 132 feet long and 22 feet wide, and the land is being sold at the same rate as adjoining property is assessed on a per-square-foot basis for the land, that would be about $60,528,” Snook said.

In the summer of 2022, Council was asked to convey a 20-foot strip of right-ofway in Fifeville but a vote was upheld by former City Councilor Sena Magill. She wanted a halt on such transfers until there was a specific policy in place. The item was deferred multiple times that summer and fall but a vote was never taken.

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sliver of land in the 600 block of West Main Street for $119,108. A public hearing was held on August 21 that year. The majority of Council members supported selling the land but several people asked them to hold on to it at a subsequent meeting. The sale did not take place.

At the August 17 discussion on the Belmont paper street, Snook said the policy should be that the city does not give away land.

John Maddux has been city attorney since May 2025, succeeding Jacob Stroman who was on the job for less than a year before retiring after administrative leave.

Maddux said this was the first time an alley vacation had come up during his term.

“We do have a 2019 street alley closure policy,” Maddux said. “There’s a process that requires negotiation through the city attorney’s office. There’s a lot of stuff with this that I’m not prepared right at this moment to say what does and does not apply from standing right here.”

Civil engineer Kelsey Schlein said she has been working with Scro on the project for the past 18 months and said there had been no mention of being required to pay for the land.

“That is not a policy that’s in place,” Schlein said. “We have checked every single box. We nearly have a fully approved site plan. We couldn’t get before you without spending tens of thousands, many tens of thousands of dollars, nearly $100,000 on surveying and engineering.”

Councilor Jen Fleisher said she wants a policy in place for the future but was willing to proceed with vacating this particular location.

“I’m ready to go forward with giving up the alley and get the project going per the request,” Fleisher said. “But I would want— from here on in—this to be clarified.”

Council voted 4 to 1 to approve Scro’s request, with Snook the lone dissenting C vote.

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niversity of Virginia football enters this season with college football playoff hopes.

The Cavaliers took a historic step forward in 2025, their fourth season under Head Coach Tony Elliott, by tying a program record with 10 wins on their way to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

A win over Duke in the conference title game would have earned Virginia the right to represent the ACC in the expanded 12-team national playoff.

Instead, Duke won. The Hoos had to settle for setting the program’s new single-season record of 11 wins by finishing off the season with a Gator Bowl victory over Missouri.

Elliott is looking to build on that with a push for the ACC title this fall.

“Every one of these young men prayed to be in a position where there are expectations,” Elliott says. “They’ve also been the young men that have elevated the floor and created those expectations.

“So, now you’ve got to embrace them. And the way that you embrace them is you just stay true to who you are, right? You minimize the distractions. You don’t pay attention to it and don’t look in the rearview mirror. You focus on what’s ahead.”

Looking toward the future means focusing on a different team than the one that made UVA history last year. Key starters, including almost half the offense and starting quarterback Chandler Morris, departed the program last spring.

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Running back Peyton Lewis arrived on Grounds in January after transferring from the University of Tennessee, where he appeared in 23 games, averaged 4.7 yards per carry, and scored 10 touchdowns.

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Quarterback Beau Pribula started 10 games last year at the University of Missouri. He was 7-3, and finished the season with 1,941 yards passing and 11 touchdowns.

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Jekail Middlebrook transferred to UVA from Middle Tennessee, where the running back led the team in rushing with a career-best 752 yards and four touchdowns last season.

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What’s

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Navigating the transfer portal was a new experience not just for Virginia General Manager Justin Speros, but for every football program in the NCAA this offseason.

College football transitioned from two portal windows in December and April to a single two-week stretch in January, during which higher-profile players are often looking to join winning programs.

For this first time in the Elliott era, UVA could count itself among those winners.

As Speros puts it, Virginia was part of some “heavyweight battles” for top recruits.

One of these battles involved former Missouri quarterback Beau Pribula, who was reportedly targeted by Tennessee before he committed to the Cavaliers in January.

Pribula, who started his college career with two years at Penn State, most recently led Missouri to a 6-1 start before a left ankle injury derailed his junior season.

When asked what drew him to Charlottes­ ville for his senior year, he says it was the Cavs’ recent success.

“ACC runner-ups, bowl game champs,” Pribula says. “A lot of my decision is based off of that, just the upward trajectory of

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the program and the way Coach E. runs the program.”

Pribula is part of the Cavaliers’ response to losing players responsible for 45 percent of last season’s offensive production, according to the ACC Network.

In total, Virginia acquired 31 transfers, many of whom bring extensive college experience to Charlottesville. That includes quarterback Eli Holstein, who will back up Pribula after making 14 career starts for Pitt.

Running back Jekail Middlebrook, who recorded 752 rushing yards for Middle Tennessee State last season, could take over a backfield, also staffed by Tennessee transfer Peyton Lewis.

The Hoos’ new wide receiver room features Rico Flores Jr. (UCLA), Da’Shawn Martin (Kent State), and Jacquon Gibson (Massachusetts), who combined for almost 1,400 receiving yards last season.

The portal also reshaped the defense.

Cornerbacks Omillio Agard (Wisconsin) and Jacobie Henderson (Rutgers) are expected to join safety Brandyn Hillman (Michigan) in UVA’s secondary. Rounding out the defensive line are Ezekiel Larry (Yale), Matthew Fobbs-White (Baylor), and Darrion Henry-Young (Coastal Carolina).

Ahead of fall camp, Speros said he felt the Cavaliers’ success last season proves the program maintains its identity despite a large transfer class.

After all, Morris transferred from North Texas to Virginia months before he quarterbacked the Cavaliers to within two scores of an ACC championship last season.

“I think the public perception is that when you build a team with transfers, they’re going to be one-year mercenaries, and they’re not going to have any attachment emotionally to the university, and they’re just going to be hired people to come in and play,” Speros says. “That’s just not the case.

That’s not reality in the building.

“I mean, Chandler Morris. If you ask Chandler Morris where he went to school, he’s going to tell you Virginia. That’s the special part about the type of experience that they had last year.”

Virginia also brought in more than a dozen high school players, including four-star linebacker Derek Uran, who flipped his commitment from Cincinnati last summer.

Elliott feels the Cavaliers have gotten stronger in the offseason. At an recent press conference, he said the team is “faster at linebacker. We’re longer. We’re more ath-

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letic at linebacker.” Elliott believes the Dline looks more intimidating on the field.

During fall camp, Elliott wondered whether these newcomers could establish a bond by Week 0.

“I think physically, when you look at us, we’re different and improved,” Elliott says.

“Now, the question is, collectively, when it’s time to go play, do we have the chemistry, the communication, the cohesion, to be able to go and executive at a high level like we did last year?”

That cohesion could be further tested if college athletics moves forward with a Colorado court’s preliminary injunction ruling that some players from the 2022 high school class might be able to return for a fifth college season.

UVA football announced shortly afterward that Jacob Holmes and Cazeem Moore, both members of last season’s defensive line, would be returning for preseason activities.

The biggest challenge in adapting to that potential change so close to the season, Elliott says, will be quickly integrating players into a roster that has already undergone the bulk of offseason training without them.

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What’s the same

UVA’s roster has undergone significantly more change than its coaching staff.

Speros noted this summer that Elliott is still working alongside nine of the same 11 position coaches he started out with in 2022.

“These guys have a very short time frame to maximize their college career, three to five years,” Speros says about players. “And what they can’t have during those three to five years is instability and change at position coach, coordinator, head coach, strength staff.

“We have great stability not only in our coaching staff, but in our administration as well, which really creates a great environment for players to ultimately do what they want to do most: develop.”

The coaching staff isn’t the only constant for the Cavaliers amid all the turnover this offseason.

Offensive linemen McKale Boley and Noah Josey are returning for a fifth and sixth season, respectively. Both Boley and Josey have stuck around since the Hoos’ back-to-back three-win seasons in Elliott’s first two wins as head coach.

“I think it definitely motivates us, because guys see that we’re trending in the right direction,” Boley says. “And for guys who have been here since 2022, like me and Josey, guys that have literally been through the change, through the 3-7, 3-9, 5-7 to 11 wins—it’s just inspiring to see that everything we’re doing is paying off.”

Kicker Will Bettridge and punter Daniel Sparks will return for their fifth seasons with the program, something Elliott says will be “crucial” to the Cavs’ success.

“It takes a little bit of pressure off the offense and the defense to have to be perfect, so you can be a little bit more aggressive, and then being a little bit more aggressive can maybe result in some more turnovers,” Elliott says.

Some players are hoping to take on a larger role in their return. That includes offensive linemen Makilan Thomas and Monroe Mills, who are both back after missing last season due to injury.

Other players preparing to return from season-ending injuries are linebacker Kam Robinson, running back Xavier Brown, and tight end Dakota Twitty.

Robinson is expected to lead a linebacker room also staffed by returner Maddox Marcellus. Twitty will provide another target for Pribula alongside wide receiver Kam Courtney, who is looking to take a step forward in his sophomore season.

Defensive lineman Fisher Camac is back after impressing with a 2.5-sack outing against Duke during last year’s regular season. Ethan Minter and Corey Costner could anchor the defensive backfield, while Donavon Platt, Jason Hammond, and Anthony Britton are returning to the defensive line.

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Returning linebacker Kam Robinson, who’s recovering from a torn ACL, is hopeful he’ll be ready to play in the August 29 season opener against North Carolina State.

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Xavier Brown, a fifth-year running back who suffered a season-ending torn ACL last year, was named to the national Comeback Player of the Year Award preseason watch list.

In addition to these players, UVA hopes fans too will return to Charlottesville.

Average attendance at Scott Stadium has almost doubled over Elliott’s tenure. Thousands of fans rushed the field after a September win against Florida State. November’s rivalry game against Virginia Tech drew the program’s largest crowd since 2011.

Pribula, who played last season for a team averaging more than 57,000 fans per home game, is hoping that trend continues for the Cavaliers’ season-opener against N.C. State on Saturday.

“Any time you can be at home and have a stadium that’s rocking, it just makes it so much harder for opposing teams,” Pribula said at ACC Football Kickoff.

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Virginia’s playoff hopes ended last December after turnovers and missed tackles made the difference in a 27-20 ACC title game loss to Duke.

Adding Pribula to the offense might now drive some improvements on defense.

Defensive Coordinator John Rudzinski says he thinks scrimmaging against the new Cavs quarterback has made camp more challenging.

“He makes us really, really good on defense, because he’ll stress us,” Rudzinski says about Pribula. “He’ll come into the meeting room or come on the truck, go, ‘Hey, Rud, just FYI, your corner’s doing this, your safety’s doing this, and I know this call’s coming.’ That’s good for me as a coordinator to know.”

Meanwhile, Offensive Coordinator Des Kitchings is looking for Pribula to help his own unit advance down the field within two downs next season.

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“Kind of a double-edged sword, right?

We were pretty good on third-down conversions, but we were also one of the top teams in the country in third-down attempts,” Kitchings says about the 20252026 season. “So, we’ve got to do better.”

UVA ranked among the top 30 teams in the country in total offense while stunning multiple opponents with late-game comebacks last season. This year, Virginia will look to make fewer comebacks necessary.

“For us to take the next step as a program is about what’s going to be our winning edges, how can we gain these next inches?” Kitchings says. “We talked about, as you climb the mountaintop, the air gets thinner. So the details, the precision, and everything you do becomes more magnified.”

“I think physically, when you look at us, we’re different and improved. Now, the question is, collectively, when it’s time to go play, do we have the chemistry, the communication, the cohesion, to be able to go and executive at a high level like we did last year?” Tony Elliott

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What’s to come

Elliott started out the season by handing out the rings the 2025 team earned with last December’s bowl win.

“The first three years, we won 11 games,” Elliott says. “There was no postseason, there were no rings, there was nothing.

“Well, this year, we’ve got a bowl ring. … I’m giving out bowl rings, and I don’t have rings for guys that weren’t there. Now I’ve got to spin that as, ‘Hey, this is a reward for last year and motivation for you guys to get us one next year.’”

Motivational moments like these are something Elliott says he has been preparing for since those three-win seasons early in his UVA tenure.

“I’ve been talking about this moment from day one. And I know a lot of people thought I was crazy, right?”

Elliott says. “Even the folks that were joining the staff were like, ‘Man, what are you talking about? We haven’t done anything. How are you talking about handling success?’

“Well, that’s the hardest part. Everybody’s going to be hungry to go chase success. It’s when you’ve had success, how do you maintain that hunger?”

Elliott feels the current Cavaliers are the “deepest roster we’ve had” in terms of physicality, but said as of camp it remained to be seen if the group has that drive.

Robinson, for his part, is already convinced he could be making his return from injury to the strongest team of his five-year tenure as a Hoo. “I think this team might be better than last year,” Robinson says. “We’re trying to prove something to the country, that we can do it twice in a row. This Virginia train C is going to keep rolling.”

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General admission tickets get you standing-room entry to this popular event, while VIP packages offer a selection of seating options with up-close-and-personal viewing. Limited on-site parking is available at additional cost. $10–35, 8pm. Random Row Brewing Co., 608 Preston Ave. # A. randomrowbrewing.ticketspice.com/slumberclaw-2026 TRISTAN WILLIAMS

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Running on real food

Fitness advocate creates his own plantbased energy bar BY SARAH GOLIBART GORMAN

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ean Simmons digs into his lunch, the same oat bowl he’s been making for more than a decade. The bowl that inspired RVPBar, his line of plant-based energy bars. If his Instagram videos of flipping tractor tires aren’t proof enough, Simmons takes his fitness seriously. He’s cut like an ultrarunner or pro boxer, two sports that happen to be on his athletic resume.

His lunch is simple: oats, peanut butter, chia seeds, honey, and an apple. Whole foods to fuel his day, whether he’s setting up at one of three area farmers markets, installing carpet at his side job, or running a 106K (which he did in Bali in May—more on that later).

You could say a series of injuries have guided Simmons. Days before his professional boxing debut, he broke a rib while sparring. Recovering on the couch, he discovered ultrarunning and Spartan races.

Later, while lifting a heavy carpet at work, he suffered a major pelvic injury, prompting him to take a closer look at his nutrition.

Simmons ate a vegan diet for about a year and a half, but today he maintains a mostly plant-based diet. “Through that healing journey and years of research, I found out the truth about real nutrition versus artificial stuff,” he says. When he couldn’t find a clean energy bar to fuel his workouts, he decided to make his own. During the pandemic, Simmons experimented with recipes until he landed on three date-based bars—peanut butter, coconut, and oats—and officially launched RVPBar in 2024.

Created and produced in Charlottesville, the Real Vegan Performance brand was built around Simmons’ belief that foods with simple, plant-based ingredients can provide quality protein and nutrients. Take the peanut butter and coconut bars, which use rosemary extract as a natural preservative.

There’s no rosemary flavor, but the unexpected ingredient is an example of Simmons’ commitment to keeping the bars as close to whole foods as possible.

Soft, chewy, and tender, the snack is similar to Larabar, but contains less sugar and is conveniently sized for life on the move.

The peanut butter bar has PB&J vibes and the coconut bar could pass for dessert. While the oat bar is comparatively drier and more straightforward, it’s a favorite among runners and cyclists who need high-carb, low-fat fuel for their workouts. Simmons ate nearly 32

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Wednesday 8/26 music Mood Ring: Queer and Trans Open Mic Night.

Share your original music. Mic, speakers, and keyboard provided. Please bring your other instruments. Free, 7pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com The Wavelength. Vintage rock for your mid-week music boost. With special guest David Drubin on drums. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com Winyah x Penelope Road. South Carolina fivepiece plays indie rock with southern swagger, while the Georgia-based group brings old-school soul-pop sounds. $33–39, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

stage Holly’s Open Mic Night. Mic check to all musicians, poets, and everyone in between. Free, 9pm.

Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St.

classes Watercolor Card-Making Workshop. Featuring demos, practice, and design exploration. No experience necessary, all materials included. $33, 6pm.

Blue Ridge Brushes Studio, 1110 E. Market St. #13h. blueridgebrushes.com

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Dürty Karaoke. Belt out your favorites. Free, 8:30pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Rapture Karaoke. Hosted by Thunder Music. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

Charlottesville native Sean Simmons created the RVPBar when searching for an energy bar that was clean, plant-based, and nutritious.

15 of them during his recent 106K. “For a long run like that, your body can possibly have issues with fat, with not being able to process it,” he says.

Simmons is an athletically competitive guy, but his biggest opponent is the food industry. He’s particularly frustrated by ingredients that sound wholesome but can be difficult for consumers to understand. For example, the FDA defines natural flavors as “substances derived from animals or plants,” though these flavors are often complex mixtures that can contain more than 100 plant or animal-derived chemicals, including solvents, emulsifiers, and preservatives. “I know what they’re doing is wrong,” Simmons says.

“It’s just that the majority of people don’t realize that they’re being lied to.”

He stresses the importance of knowing exactly what’s behind ingredient labels.

Someone may struggle to identify the source of a health issue, Simmons says, “but it’s in their pantry with an item labeled ‘clean,’ but it contains these mysterious natural flavors.”

You can find RVPBar online, at farmers markets in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg, at UVA dining locations, and at an expanding list of vendors throughout the Blue Ridge, Richmond, and Washington, D.C., areas.

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Women’s Equality Day Open House. Learn about civic actions you can take today while enjoying trivia games, prizes, teatime refreshments, and socializing with friends. Free, 5pm. Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, 200 Second St. NE. albemarlehistory.org

Thursday 8/27 music Abbie Callahan. Nashville-based singer-songwriter whose emotionally honest storytelling and sweeping vocals have quickly made her a standout in modern country and Americana. $19, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Berto Sales & Vincent Zorn. Lively flamenco rumba. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com Brian Franke. Solo singer-songwriter stylings on the veranda. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Larry & Joe. Bilingual folk duo explores Venezuelan and Appalachian traditions. $25–30, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.com Mink’s Miracle Medicine x Rebecca Porter.

Honky-tonk time. Free, 7pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com West 22nd: Places To Be Tour. SOLD OUT—An Austin-based rock band formed by friends who met at the University of Texas with a singular mission: become the next great rock band. 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

classes Bug Catcher Workshop. Build your own bug catcher and test it out by catching insects in the garden. Ages 8+. Free, 6pm. Botanical Garden of the Piedmont, 950 Melbourne Rd. piedmontgarden.org Paint + Sip Night. Paint a special design in a stepby-step format, no experience necessary. All materials provided. $38, 6:30pm. Hardware Hills Vineyard, 5199 W. River Rd., Scottsville. hardwarehills.com

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Trivia Night with Mike & Miranda. Play alone, or bring a team of up to six and let the good times roll with five rounds of brain-teasing trivia. Free, 6:15pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com Trivia & Tunes. Music-themed trivia night hosted by musician and entertainer Rachael Karpo. Free, 5pm. Chiswell Farm & Winery, 430 Greenwood Rd., Greenwood. chilesfamilyorchards.com Vision’s Trivia. Test your knowledge with themed trivia from tellAplay Entertainment. Free, 7pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. Like an escape room but at a winery. Crack codes and unravel riddles while sampling Charlottesville’s best wine, beer, and cider.

Play when you want and go at your own pace. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Friday 8/28 music Acoustic Aubrey. Covers of classic R&B, jazz, acoustic rock, and more. Free, 5pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com Bob Bennetta Trio. Live jazz. Free, 6:30pm. Afghan Kabob House, 200 Market St. afghankabob-house.com Chickenhead Blues Band. New Orleans boogiewoogie, upbeat, rhythm and blues sounds. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com Cumberland Road. A tribute to ’90s country. Anthems you know by heart, played the way you remember. $23, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Danger Birds. Indie rockers from RVA. Free, 8pm.

Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Emily Ann Roberts. SOLD OUT—They say the path to the grandest stage is paved with relentless practice, and Emily Ann Roberts embodies this mantra. 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Fridays After Five: Dreamsicle the Band. Jamming Jimmy Buffett tribute. With Michael and the Misdemeanors. Free, 5:30pm. Ting Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. tingpavilion.com Gone Country. Where the line dancing, honky-tonk sound of Brooks & Dunn meets the smooth melodies of Alan Jackson. $10, 7pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. prnbrewery.com John Kelly. Soulful acoustic artist. Free, 5pm.

Bottle House, 608 W. Main St. bottlehouse.net Joy Blaster Brass Band at Offbeat Roadhouse.

Taking you all the way downtown—from downtown Charlottesville to the streets of New Orleans. Free, 8pm. The Stage at WTJU, 2244 Ivy Rd. wtju.net The Musical Suspects. Matt Horn and his all-star line up of monster funk players keeps the party moving. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com The Wavelength. Vintage rock, blues, and original tunes at this Sundowner Concert series. Free, 5:30pm. Merrie Mill Farm & Vineyard, 594 Merrie Mill Farm, Keswick. merriemillfarm.com Tina & Her Pony. Indie Appalachian folk. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

dance Signature DJ Dance Party. ’70s and ’80s tracks to get you moving. Dress the era and wear your dancing shoes. Free, 6pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com SUPPLIED PHOTO

TO-DO LIST CULTURE stage Dear Evan Hansen. A deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical for anyone who’s ever felt alone in a crowded room. $25–40, 7:30pm.

Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd. Ste. 3. venturestagecompany.org

words Author Event: Rachel Beanland. Beanland reads from her new novel, The Half Life. A conversation with author Bruce Holsinger follows. Free, 7pm.

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

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Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 27. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Saturday 8/29 music Adam’s Plastic Pond. Local rock ‘n’ roll. Free, 8pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Bent String Band. Proficient in bluegrass, folk, swing, and original music. Free, 5pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com F.O.G.. Music for dancing. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com GootGenuG. Hot jazz fusion. Free, 6pm. The Birdcage at Mockingbird, 421 Monticello Rd. mockingbird-cville.com Half Dead. This band plays Grateful Dead tunes.

Free, 6pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com Heidi Riddell. Songwriter and storyteller. Free, 12:30pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Jelly Street Jazz. Low-down dirty blues, straightahead ballads, and hard-swinging jazz. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com Jimmy O. Guitarist with a unique style of classic rock, oldies, and a rockin’ country mix. Free, 2pm.

DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com Mariana Bell. Bold, playful, and unmistakably alive on stage, singer-songwriter Bell brings big-hair energy and even bigger heart. $25, 7:30pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

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Moontower Band. A collective of musicians from the foothills of Virginia specializing in jamming classic blues covers with a modern rock vibe. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com Poisonous Crue: Motley Crue & Poison Tribute. A tribute band dedicated to reviving the explosive energy of the ’80s rock scene. Free, 7pm.

Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. prnbrewery.com Scarlet Fever. Catch the fever with a diverse selection of popular songs, from timeless rock to party hits. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com The Calling. The Platinum selling band, with hits around the world, blasted out of the gate in 2001 to critical and commercial acclaim. $38, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

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LUA PROJECT October 2

CHARLOTTESVILLE BALLET November 7

GALLERY OPENING November 20

The Inclinators. Bringing a mix of rock, neosoul, and Americana tunes. Free, 6pm. Patch Brewing Co, 10721 Gordon Ave., Gordonsville. patchbrewingco.com

dance End of Summer Bash. One more dance party throw down before the end of the summer, with DJ Double U, VA Doe, and DJ Runway. $10–20, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

stage Dear Evan Hansen. See listing for Friday, August 28. $25–40, 3pm and 7:30pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd. Ste. 3. venturestagecompany.org

words Author Event: Devon Walker-Figueroa and Caleb Nolen Poetry Reading. Walker-Figueroa reads from her latest work, and Nolen reads from his debut poetry collection. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. newdominionbookshop.com New Dominion Storytime. Readings from recent storybooks and the classics kids know and love.

Rain or shine. All ages welcome. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. newdominionbookshop.com

classes (Feminine) Rage In the Woods. Women weren’t meant to carry the weight of the world alone. Come make some art, break stuff, drum, scream in the forest, laugh, and let it all go. $50– 75, 6pm. Mountainside Arts, 2413 Old Lynchburg Rd. mountainsideartscville.com CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

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LET THERE BE LIGHT December 11

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FOR THE REST OF Y’ALL Best of C-VILLE expands the celebration of Charlottesville’s excellence with Bestival 2026. This brand-new community festival offers opportunities to engage with local businesses while enjoying amazing food and entertainment. Stop by an “ask-the-expert” table for some sage advice on a variety of topics. Get down to the sounds of tracks on wax spun by WTJU DJs. Join a drum circle, and get your photo taken in a pop-up portrait session with readers’ pick for best family photographer. No matter your interests, there’s plenty to see and do in support of the superlative scene that is C-VILLE. Free, 10am. Third Street SE, Downtown Mall. c-ville.com

pvcc.edu/performingarts I 434.961.5376 PVCC does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age in its programs and activities. Learn more at pvcc.edu/nondiscrimination.

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David Wimbish & Jesse James DeConto. SOLD OUT—Acclaimed singer-songwriters hit the road together for the first time. 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.com

Bestival. Best of C-VILLE is hitting the bricks with a new community celebration of everything that makes Charlottesville the best. Free, 10am. Third Street SE. c-ville.com

Midnight Buzz Duo. A special acoustic performance filled with classic rock favorites. Free, 2pm.

Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Charlottesville City Market. Explore fresh produce, local foods, and handmade goods from 100+ area vendors. Free, 9am. Charlottesville City Market, 100 Water St. E. charlottesville.gov

Mike Burris & Rusty Speidel. Local favorites play laid-back tunes. Free, 2pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

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Heart2Heart Festival. Feel the rhythm and feed your soul at a family festival filled with live music, step teams, food, local vendors, prizes, family fun, and wellness resources. $20, 1pm. Rockfish Valley Community Center, 190 Rockfish School Ln., Afton. h2hwellness.org Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 27. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Sunday 8/30 music Dave Goodrich. Rock-based repertoire including jazz, blues, and other popular genres. Free, 2pm.

DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com

Robert Jospé Quartet. Jazz and world music.

Free, 1pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com

classes Collage and Stitch: Multimedia Art on Paper.

Learn tips and tricks for collaging on cardstock, along with backstitch and running stitch techniques to add to your composition with embroidery thread. All materials provided. Ages 12+. $25, 2:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com Felt Lavender. Make beautiful sprigs of lavender out of felt and florist supplies with the help of hot glue guns. Ages 16+. $35, 11:30am.

The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappy elephant.com

SATURDAY 8/29

BELL OF THE BALL Australian-born, Charlottesville-raised Mariana Bell brings throwback vibes to the album release party for her latest record, Give It a Go!.

Channeling the big hair and big feelings of the late ’80s and early ’90s, Bell offers a sonic time capsule of poppy sounds and cinematic influences to induce nostalgia. Carrying relatable narratives couched in expressive vocals with catchy hooks, Bell invites listeners to bring the energy of youth into the experience of adulthood. Houston Ross and Jay Pun perform in support. $25.90, 7:30pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

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Oil Painting for Everybody: Animal Edition.

Learn oil painting in an approachable and organized format. All levels welcome. $45, 2pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com Paint + Sip: Sunflower Mason Jar. Paint the supplied design in a step-by-step format. No experience necessary, all materials included. $40, noon.

Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. blueridgebrushes.com

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Music Bingo. Listen to your favorite music, match the songs to the titles on your music bingo cards, and win great prizes. Free, 2pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwood farmandwinery.com Paramount On Screen: Once. A modern-day musical about a struggling Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant who spend an eventful week writing, rehearsing, and recording songs that tell their unique love story. $11, 2pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net Thad’s Pinball Wizard Challenge. Charity pinball tournament honoring Thad Seeberger. Cash prizes for winners. $25, 12:30pm. Decades Arcade, 418 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. decadesarcade.com Vineyard Puzzle Hunt. See listing for Thursday, August 27. $15, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. puzzledbee.com

Monday 8/31 music Ramona Martinez. Local favorite serenades with a mix of country western and mariachi. Free, 5:30pm.

The Fitzroy, 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. thefitzroycville.com Vision’s Open Mic Monday. Bring your chops and get down. Free, 7pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

words Fall Faculty Reading. Featuring professors Anna Beecher and Sumita Chakraborty. Free, 5pm. UVA Bryan Hall 229A, Cabell Dr. creativewriting. virginia.edu VDM Storytime. A magical storytime adventure where the pages come alive and imagination knows no bounds. Free with museum admission, 10:30am.

Virginia Discovery Museum, 524 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. vadm.org

Tuesday 9/1 music Rapture Open Mic Night. Hosted by The Open Mic Music Exchange and Nicole Giordano. Free, 9:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com Tuesday Jazz with Jeff Massanari. A cast of great players joins the guitar virtuoso. Free, 6:30pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

stage Vision’s Comedy Open Mic Tuesday. Sharpen your set, or just hang out for the laughs. Free, 7:30pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

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Geeks Who Drink Trivia. Teams of two to six compete to win prizes like gift certificates and pint glasses. Free, 7pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com SUPPLIED PHOTOS

Self-discovery in Sardinia How Rachel Beanland’s childhood home in Italy influenced her latest novel BY SARAH LAWSON

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ramed by one woman’s story of selfdiscovery amidst geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Italy in the 1970s, The Half Life is the latest historical fiction novel by Richmond-based author Rachel Beanland. Beanland is also the author of The House Is on Fire and Florence Adler Swims Forever, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and recently shared a few thoughts about her new book.

C-VILLE: The Half Life largely takes place on La Maddalena, an island in Sardinia, where you lived with your family in the 1980s, when your father was a U.S. Navy officer stationed there. Did the research for this book influence your understanding of childhood experiences?

Rachel Beanland: Definitely. My experiences living in La Maddalena as a kid were all positive. I ate a lot of focaccia and gelato, played in the piazzas, learned to swim in crystal clear water, and helped my mom make homemade pesto with pine nuts we’d gathered on the nearby island of Caprera.

I returned to La Maddalena for the first time in 2019, and it was after that visit that I began reading more about the island and the U.S. Navy’s presence there. The first U.S. submarine tender arrived in La Maddalena in late 1972. ... A submarine tender repairs and resupplies nuclear-powered submarines, and while a case could be made for La Maddalena being a central location to conduct this work, it was also strategically advantageous to have Americans in Sardinia because there was real concern that Sardinia—not to mention all of Italy—would go communist in the next election.

Many Sardinians, particularly those who were members of the Italian Communist Party, were outraged to be living alongside Americans and their nuclear-powered submarines, and this led to a period of unrest.

As I read more about the protests and political maneuvering that followed, I came to understand that life on the island during the Cold War had actually been a lot more layered than I realized, and that the landscape of my childhood would make the setting for a great novel.

Your debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, was also deeply rooted in your own family history. How did that research compare to your process for The Half Life?

Every book is so different. Florence Adler Swims Forever was set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, which meant there were very few people I could talk to who remembered life as it was then. I interviewed my grandparents about their own childhoods (and the story of the real Florence Lowenthal’s drowning) shortly before they died, but much of my research had to be through other means. With my second novel, The House Is on Fire, which is set in 1811, there was absolutely no one I could talk to, so I spent a lot of time in the archives. But with The Half Life, I benefited from being able to call up people who had been stationed in La Maddalena in the 1970s. Some of their stories were wild, and … I really tried to write a novel that authentically spoke to the experience of serving in La Maddalena at that time. I also read a ton and traveled to La Maddalena on two separate occasions. Both those trips helped me better understand the island and its culture.

Set in the 1970s, The Half Life engages with political history in a way that is accessible for readers while still grappling with complex questions related to U.S. imperialism, environmental impacts of the military-industrial complex, and intersections of faith and gender equity.

Why was it important to you to include these themes in ways that highlight the issues without necessarily pointing to a tidy resolution?

As a novelist, I never want to preach. I want to give you a story, populated with characters you come to care about, and then let you think through the repercussions of their actions and the actions of those around them.

One of the reasons historical fiction is such a pleasure to read is because history repeats itself. Nothing’s really new. So, without laying anything on too thick, I can write about the proliferation of U.S. military bases abroad or politics or environmental pollution in the 1970s, and readers will inevitably make connections to the here and now.

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Rachel Beanland will read from and discuss The Half Life at New Dominion Bookshop on August 28.

In the acknowledgments of The Half Life, you write, “I have felt my father’s absence with each book I’ve written, but never more so than with this one.” What role do you see grief playing in your work?

My father has been gone for 16 years now, which is still hard for me to believe. His death changed me in so many ways, but one of the most important things it did was open my eyes to the nature of grief. Before his death I might have foolishly assumed that grief was something to be gotten over, but now I realize that it’s with you all the time and that it changes how you think about big stuff like the passage of time, the self, and the world around you. All these years later, I can acknowledge that I’m grateful his death allowed me to better understand people’s suffering. When I write, it’s that understanding that allows me to get at my characters’ humanity.

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By Rob Brezsny

Libra

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Some of my most useful revelations arrive in the dark. Once, while hiking in a wooded canyon at dusk, I lost the trail and had to feel my way forward by the sound of the creek. In that blind descent, an insight about a personal riddle I’d been pon‑ dering for months appeared unbidden, as if it had been waiting in the shadows for me.

As I followed the stream bank to safety, I celebrated by singing Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” The moral of the story is that some lessons can be best learned by going down: into the body, into confusing feelings, into the rich compost of mysteries we may be hesitant to explore. How about you, Libra?

In my professional opinion, your next piv‑ otal breakthroughs are lurking in the fertile darkness rather than the brilliant heights. I hope you’re brave enough to descend. The treasure is buried, as treasure often is.

Scorpio

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1912, Scorpio meteo‑ rologist Alfred Wegener proposed the the‑ ory of continental drift. It’s the idea that Earth’s continents were once joined in a single supercontinent and have gradually drifted apart to their present positions over millions of years. Most scientists initially rejected his hypothesis because he couldn’t explain how the movement occurred. He didn’t live long enough to receive vindica‑ tion, but decades later, his novel hypothesis was fully accepted. I’m pleased to report that your wait will be far shorter, Scorpio. Please keep your faith in the novel ideas and percep‑ tions that others don’t understand yet. The world’s almost ready for your innovations.

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is a kind of lightning called a “sprite.” It’s a ghostly red discharge that blossoms high above thunderstorms. I suspect you may soon experience your own personal versions of this wonder. Fleeting insights may appear in unexpected places.

Emotionally rich revelations could arrive out of nowhere. Because the moments could pass quickly, it will be crucial to notice them when they arrive. They could stimulate ma‑ jor shifts in your understanding. Keep your perceptive powers highly attuned.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Fertility clinics store frozen human embryos. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, they are suspended in a long, chilly pause, awaiting instructions from the people who created them. This accumulation of potential life on hold makes me think of you. If you would thaw and reclaim the ne‑ glected, untouched regions of your own imagination, you would become an even more formidable generator of focused cre‑ ative power. The encouraging news is that the coming weeks will be an unusually favor‑ able phase to expedite this process.

(Aug. 23-Sept.22): The coming months could be a legendary turning point you will celebrate in the future: a pivotal time when you finally outsmart an old adversary and untangle a knotted inheritance, clearing the way to pursue your true calling with VIRGO undiluted devotion. Or, on the other hand, the days ahead could be another round in the long saga of “almost”: a decisive phase when you avoid a challenge that has been begging for your full brilliance, leaving your future without shining clues for how to further decode the ancient riddle. Which destiny will you accomplish, dear Virgo? Will you answer the call to adventure? Or ignore it until it fades away?

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some earthquakes unleash energy in violent bursts, but others are in‑ cremental commotions that unfold gradu‑ ally over days or even weeks. The way they reorganize the Earth’s crust is kinder and gentler. Let’s regard these slow quakes as an apt metaphor for the initially disruptive but ultimately constructive transformations underway in your beautiful life, Aquarius.

You may not see spectacular evidence that change is percolating, but I guarantee that it is. Old structures are in a transitional phase of subtle disarray, creating conditions for new dispensations you can’t imagine yet.

My prediction: The rearrangement of your landscape will be healing.

Pisces

(Feb. 19-March 20): The Sargasso Sea is the only sea on Earth without a land boundary.

It’s defined entirely by four strong Atlantic Ocean currents that circle it. Its edges aren’t solid walls but slowly shifting rivers of water.

I think this anomalous body of water is al‑ ways a vivid symbol of your world, Pisces, and even more so these days. Your boundar‑ ies are currents, not coastlines. You hold your shape through movement, not through rigid definition. This is more challenging to maintain than solid borders, but it’s also a great potential strength. Use it with aplomb!

Aries

(March 21-April 19): On the sci‑fi TV show “Stargate SG‑1,” benevolent aliens known as the Asgard visit Earth to seek assistance from a secret U.S. government team. The ultra-advanced, hyper-intelligent Asgard

have been unable to defeat their great nem‑ esis, another alien species called the Rep‑ licators. Their hope is that their primitive partners, the humans, might stumble onto some basic, straightforward answer that their own sophisticated minds can’t see.

The gamble pays off. One of Earth’s leading physicists, who’s a naive amateur by Asgard standards, devises a rough, unsophisticated strategy that works wonderfully. Treat this as your parable, Aries: Put your faith in simple, uncluttered approaches, and don’t underestimate “beginner-level” fixes.

Taurus

(April 20-May 20): During one of my visits to the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, I encountered a prankster named Mother Very Superior. This nonbi‑ nary performer was dressed like a nun and wore a prominent chastity belt. Wielding a toy whip, they gently lashed me on my shoulders and prayed over me, saying, “I absolve you of all your sins. Therefore, you are now free to commit a raucous slew of new sins.” I hope you get a similar dispen‑ sation, Taurus. To be fully available for the rollicking delights you’re eligible for, it would be wise to reduce your karmic debt.

Gemini

(May 21-June 21): Archaeologists studying ancient Roman shipwrecks found that sail‑ ors deliberately made their vessels heavier by stowing rocks in the hull. This reduced the profitability of their voyages, since it reduced their cargo capacity. On the other hand, it meant they wouldn’t capsize dur‑ ing storms. An excellent trade-off! Let’s use this scenario as a metaphor for your C-VILLE.COM

life right now, Gemini. I’m going to suggest that you will benefit from adding more ballast. Seemingly burdensome elements could keep you steady if conditions be‑ come unruly. Consider this: Not everything heavy is holding you back. Some of it’s keeping you strong and stable.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22): During the Baroque era, Cancerian artist Artemisia Gentileschi painted powerful biblical and historical women who killed tyrants and delivered their people from violent domination. By channeling her creative passion into figures of righteous fury, she transformed her per‑ sonal trauma into psychological power. I invite you to be inspired by Gentileschi as you reconfigure your own story in the com‑ ing weeks, Cancerian. Wouldn’t it be fun and potent to transform the way you imag‑ ine both the past and future plot threads of your destiny?

Leo

(July 23-Aug.22): In traditional sourdough bak‑ ing, a small portion of fermented dough called a starter is saved and refreshed regularly. Some bakeries maintain the same lineage for years.

The starter is a living culture of wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria that feed on flour and water, producing acids and gases that leaven the dough and create bread with complex flavor, aroma, and texture. Let’s use this as a metaphor for your life, Leo. What long-running resource can you use to help create situations that will empower you to thrive in interesting ways C during the coming months?

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