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When I was a kid, I went to a summer dance camp. One morning, I

noticed the instructor had written “improv” on the daily schedule and, ever the helpful know-it-all (and future editor), I marched over to the whiteboard to make a correction. “Improve” needed an “e.” Reader, it did not. We were doing improv. In my defense, I was (and still am!) much more comfortable correcting things than improvising them. I’d taken dance for years—ballet, jazz, modern— but the idea that someone might turn on music and expect me to just… move? Horrifying. Give me choreography! Give me counts! Give me something I can get right. I thought about that while reading CM Turner’s cover story (p. 20) about ORH Dance, Charlottesville’s relatively new professional modern dance

company. Founded by dancer and choreographer Olivia Rivard Hill in 2025, ORH gives professional dancers a place to train, create, collaborate, and perform.

Christine Phelan Kueter, a native Midwesterner, has worked in book publishing, as a newspaper reporter and columnist, and as a writer and editor in higher education. A correspondent for WVTF/Radio IQ since 2020, her monthly series, “Meet Virginia,” aired on Virginia Public Radio in 2024. Read her work on page 9.

Collaboration is key. The company has performed alongside visual art and among large-scale botanical photographs outdoors, and is planning a 2027 program with live flute. Rather than simply putting dance on a stage, ORH is interested in what happens when one art form bumps up against another. Near the end of the story, Hill describes performance as “a demand of pure presence.” Her dancers train, she says, “not to do the steps perfectly necessarily, but to practice pure presence.” As a 12-year-old, I would have hated that idea, but I love it now. Then, I wanted the steps. I wanted to know what came next. (And, apparently, I wanted to copy edit the schedule.) I’m still not sure you could get me to improvise a dance in front of anyone. But at least now I understand the assignment.

CM Turner brings nearly 20 years of experience working in galleries, museums, studios, and schools to bear in his efforts to expand appreciation for and understanding of contemporary art and culture. His work has been published by AEQAI, Report Magazine, and Undermain. Read his work on page 20.

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NEWS Antoine Sims, who grew up next door to Greenwood Chemical Company, remembers a waste lagoon near the plant. “It was a green that I could not describe,” he says.

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f you’re cruising Interstate 64 on Afton Mountain near the lower scenic overlook, or traveling U.S. Route 250 west of Charlottesville, and you spot three carved wooden bears frolicking in a roadside field, you’re pretty close to what’s left of the Greenwood Chemical Company. Now the Superfund site is expected to be auctioned off, more than 40 years after a chemical explosion killed four men, shuttered the plant, and traumatized the tiny community of Newtown, down the road from Greenwood. Antoine Sims grew up on Summer Rest Lane, right next door. He remembers scouting for Christmas trees with his mom near the plant and seeing a waste lagoon there. “It was a green that I could not describe,” SUPPLIED PHOTO

says Sims, who lives in Ivy. “And it looked oily, and was thick. I remember seeing fish just kind of floating, and there being dead animals floating in there, too. Then the barrels. Maybe three or four that were just up out of it. “That water color, I would never forget, just because, in my head, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, wow. I don’t know water was that color.’” The plant’s history long predates Sims, now 47 and a father of two. Cockerville Chemicals opened its doors in Newtown in 1947. It was owned by DuPont chemist F.O. “Neil” Cockerville, who blew off a thumb and part of his leg doing experiments in the cottage he shared with his wife, Eloise, about a mile down the road. Cockerville, sick with acute bronchitis he blamed on his work, sold the company for

$10 to Clarence Hustrulid in the late 1960s, who renamed it Greenwood Chemical Company. Through the 1980s, the plant had seven to 12 employees who made sprays for fruit trees, chemicals for developing photos and metal plates, and pharmaceutical agents. Accidents there were common. According to Daily Progress accounts, a foreman died of burns sustained in a 1966 fire that erupted when toluene vapors ignited. Two more workers perished in explosions in the 1970s. A pair of plant workers were injured in 1981, and in 1983, a boiling container of ethyl acetate started a fire that leveled a building and caused $20,000 in damage. Emergency responders dreaded getting calls from the plant. As a kid, Sims recalls explosions, “like a low rumble, like large C-VILLE.COM

ammunition,” he says, subsequent smoke, and, sometimes, stuff falling from the sky. “When the wind would catch, it was silvery metallic-looking stuff that would fall from the sky into yards, on cars, on people’s houses,” says Sims. “There was talk of that, and kind of, just, like, ‘You kind of want to get that off of your car or whatever because you just don’t know what that is. It probably isn’t something we want on our cars or in our yards so don’t touch.’” By 1984, Al Cereghino Jr. became Greenwood Chemical’s last president, a job he’d keep for seven months. It was already humid on April 18, 1985, about 3:30pm, when an electrical spark ignited several gallons of hot liquid toluene, CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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setting four men inside the plant alight. Three died within hours of the blast: John Harper and Maurrie Clark of Afton, and Keith Wood of Waynesboro. The fourth, Charles Ward, of Staunton, lingered 11 more days after being transferred to Norfolk General Hospital with burns across most of his body. He died of sepsis April 29. That day, Sims and the other kids heard the bus driver’s radio crackle with news of the accident. They could see black smoke above the treeline as they trundled past the old Greenwood School. Sims spotted his late mom, Janet, tending victims whose skin had “melted” before he was whisked away by a neighbor. The school bus had to retrace its path because Newtown Road was blocked by emergency vehicles. The dead men left behind four wives and nine children. One day after Ward died, Cereghino announced in little more than a whisper at a community meeting that the plant would close. But the site had to be cleaned up, a job that fell to the EPA. By 1987, hundreds of chemical drums and gas cylinders had been carted away. Chemical lagoons were drained, filled with fresh dirt, and capped, and loads of rubble got trucked out. By 1990, EPA officials excavated 15,000 tons of toxic soil, and shipped it off in train cars to Utah to be disposed of. It would be 14 more years before the last of the abandoned chemicals at the site—everything from benzene, arsenic, and cyanide to TCE, toluene, and naphthalene—were finally removed. The EPA’s groundwater treatment system began filtering contaminated water from the property’s 11 wells in 2001. It’s still running today. Treated water gets discharged into nearby West Creek, which feeds the Mechums River, a Rivanna tributary and municipal water source. In 2012, the EPA passed the reins to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, which pays a Richmond firm more than $520,000 a year to oversee day-to-day operations.

A 1985 chemical plant explosion in Greenwood killed four men. Albemarle County recently filed a lawsuit seeking back taxes, asking anyone with a claim on the 33-acre property to speak by October 30 or forever hold their peace.

Only after the EPA started its cleanup in the late 1980s, did Sims and his family start drinking bottled water. “At that point, there was movement around the area again,” says Sims. “There was the tearing down of the old building, building a new building [the water treatment plant], then there was the communication with the church about the water, and there began to be talk about it, kind of like, ‘Hey, you might not want to drink the water, if you don’t have filters on your water tank.’” In the early ’90s, Sims’ mom received notices tucked under the door from the EPA with water test results. “At one point, I asked her, ‘Mom, what is this?’” recalls Sims. “And she was like, ‘This is the paper that lets us know what they’ve done over there, and water testing to let us know what the levels are.’ I still didn’t understand, until she said, ‘Contamination.’

Then it was like, ‘Oh, contamination levels.’ As in, if there is some.” Sims left Summer Rest Lane in the early 2000s. His mom did, too, but not before sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disorder, claimed one of her lungs and put her on oxygen. She was in her 40s. Sims was in his early 30s, and had just welcomed his second child, when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in his kidney. He’d need a transplant, which he got a few years later. Sims also has vitiligo, an autoimmune condition that affects his skin’s pigment. That’s gotten better with the new kidney, he says, but he’ll take prednisone for the rest of his life. “I honestly do think that there’s something along with whatever chemicals they were using there that has had an effect on a lot of us,” says Sims, whose brother has developed sarcoidosis in his eye. “And those

of us that were down from that chemical plant. Definitely.” Nearby residents’ well water is still monitored by DEQ each year. So far, it’s clear. The site’s been waiting behind a chain-link fence for the last nearly half century for whatever’s next. The parcel, assessed by Albemarle County for $100, hasn’t paid its tax bill in eons, according to Jennifer Matheny, the county’s chief of revenue administration. Whoever buys it at auction would have to cover that bill and some legal fees at a minimum. That means the 33 acres could sell for between $8,000 and $9,000. “We mainly want to get an ownership of someone who pays the taxes and exists, instead of it being kind of in this limbo, which is really what it’s in right now,” says Matheny. “Someone may be able to do something with that property, even if it’s trails or something, but we want to bring it back into the community and get it back on the tax rolls.” Whoever purchases the land at auction won’t be able to build a house or live there, as there’s no potable water. Any new structures that get built must work around the, still running, wastewater treatment facility. New buildings would also need special vapor barriers and below-slab piping to minimize soil disruptions. Sims thinks the county or state should keep the tortured land. “You’re not going to clean the chemicals out of that land,” says Sims. “There’s no way you got all of it. There’s people’s properties that probably got this stuff in the ground, and you [the EPA and DEQ] never went there to check for it. I think the government should be responsible for that property, until . . . forever.” But there is evidence the pollution plume is shrinking. The chain-link at its perimeter is heavy with greenery, insects, and birds. Watch the fence long enough, and a deer will tiptoe by. Soon, it may be up to someone new to imagine a future for the parcel with stunning Blue Ridge and Rockfish Valley views and a terrible past.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS Unwinding Tapestry Third owner to take over West Main boutique hotel BY SEAN TUBBS

construction boom in the 2010s resulted in a new generation of larger buildings on West Main Street that responded to calls for a more active roadway with places for people to live and visitors to stay. That included a 10-story hotel with 150 rooms at 1106 W. Main St., which has operated as The Draftsman under Marriott’s Autograph Collection since opening in late September 2018. A Marriott Residence Inn opened at the intersection of West Main Street and Ridge-McIntire Road in March 2016. Between the two, in the 500 block, is a third hotel that will soon have its third owner in less than 10 years and will be branded as part of a larger hotel chain. When the owners of Richmond’s Quirk boutique hotel submitted plans in the summer of 2016 for a second location in Charlottesville, the city’s zoning restricted them to a fourstory building with an outdoor area on the roof. The Board of Architectural Review had recently indicated they would not approve the demolition of any historic houses along the road. The Quirk Charlottesville opened in the spring of 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic plunged many industries—including tourism—into their worst years in decades. The sector rebounded and in April 2024, Blue Suede Hospitality LLC purchased the property for $24 million, and rebranded it as The Doyle. The property will soon change hands once again: Ross Hotel Partners announced a pending acquisition and eventual rebranding. “We will be embarking on a renovation to convert the hotel into a Hilton Tapestry boutique hotel,” wrote Francis J. “Butch” Ross in an October 2 email obtained by C-VILLE.

The former Quirk Charlottesville, currently The Doyle, will be converted into a Hilton Tapestry, according to an email from the owner of Ross Hotel Partners.

So far the City of Charlottesville has not recorded any transactions for the property but the acquisition of The Doyle is listed as pending on the company’s website, as well as three other properties in North Carolina and Georgia. Ross is a veteran hotel developer who has been involved with more than $1.25 million in acquisitions, according to a biography. Other Tapestry hotels in the state include the Highlander in Radford and Virginia Beach’s The Founders Inn and Spa. Overnight visits to hotels in the Charlottesville area are down slightly in 2026 compared to recent years, according to data tracked by the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau. Hotels in both localities had an occupancy rate of about 65 percent in June, the lowest rate in four years. The newest hotel in the area is the 214-room Virginia Guesthouse, a mile and a half to the west of The Doyle in UVA’s Emmet-Ivy Corridor. The area will lose another legacy hotel as Brick Lane Properties follows through with plans to convert the Holiday Inn on Emmet Street into a 191-unit apartment building with 133 income-restricted units. Another stalled hotel project is at the site of the former Excel Inn at 140 Emmet St. That structure was rendered uninhabitable by a fire in May 2017. The owners persuaded City Council to approve a special use permit in October 2018 for the seven-story 72-room Gallery Court Hotel, but the project has not yet moved forward. The remnants of the motel were demolished in the spring of 2023 and the site is now being used for construction staging.

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he landscape of downtown Char lottesville’s north western edge is forever changed after demolition crews removed a commercial shopping center at 218 W. Market St. to make way for a 156-room hotel to serve the area’s booming tourism trade. There is also a new future for 206 W. Market St., a prop erty that until recently housed Common House, a private social club. That ven ture suddenly went out of business in April after a dis pute between club operators and the building’s owner. Using an entity called 206 West Market LLC, the new The new owner of the Common House building is moving owner paid $2.15 million for ahead with renovations, converting the second floor for a commercial tenant. the property, which is about 8 percent below the 2026 assessment. The vations, estimated at $300,000, to convert previous owner, Biarritz LLC, paid the second floor of the building for a com $930,000 in January 2014. A request for mercial office tenant. According to the comment was not returned by press time. building permit applications, no changes John Pritzlaff, executive vice president will be made to the first floor or the roof of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, con deck. The BAR will need to approve a new firmed in an email that the new owner does front entrance and window replacements. not have a previous connection to Common The BAR has twice granted a Certificate House. At one point Common House oper of Appropriateness for the demolition of ated similar social clubs in Richmond, New 210 W. Market, which housed Brown’s Lock Orleans, and Chattanooga, but all three are & Safe for decades until the business ceased now under new management. operations earlier this year. Cavalier Hos The structure at 206 W. Market is a 1913 pitality LLC, the developer of the future two-story commercial building with a roof hotel, purchased 210 W. Market in January top deck, and was for a time known as the for just over $1 million and the property is Mentor Lodge, which was an important currently being used for parking. social venue in the Vinegar Hill commu Meanwhile, the remaining assets of nity. The original founders of Common Common House are being sold at an on House convinced City Council in early 2016 line auction this month with pickup in to approve a special use permit for the club. Fredericksburg. Top-dollar Items include Under the city’s new zoning, the 0.1-acre a high-end espresso machine, a larger lot is in the Downtown Mixed Use zoning Chesterfield sectional sofa, and a Baldwin district, allowing for up to 13 stories if there upright piano. is enough affordable housing in the project At least one of the displaced businesses to qualify for additional height. However, the of the shopping center at 218 W. Market Board of Architectural Review would have to St. has relocated. The Artful Lodger approve demolition and would also play some opened its doors this past July in a repur role in establishing the maximum height if posed auto parts showroom on Richmond the property were to be redeveloped. Road in Fluvanna County. Others, like the For the immediate future, the new Livery Stable, join Common House as part owner of 206 is moving ahead with reno of Charlottesville’s past. SUPPLIED PHOTO

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ORH Dance operates out of Studio 20 in the historic McGuffey Art Center, where it holds multiple performances each season.

harlottesville’s performing arts scene is rich and varied, with ballet, opera, and theater offering audiences classic works and contemporary programs. But until recently, the city lacked a professional modern dance company. Founded in 2025, ORH Dance opens its second season later this month with a pair of performances exploring light, shadow, and movement on October 29 and 30 at Phaeton Gallery. Shifting Pieces will feature new choreographed works in collaboration with company dancer and visual artist Audrey Knabe’s kinetic paper sculptures, in an example of interdisciplinary exchange that has become a hallmark of ORH Dance. TRISTAN WILLIAMS

First steps Founded by Olivia Rivard Hill, a professional dancer, movement teacher, and choreographer, ORH Dance is the result of dedication meeting interest. “Charlottesville is already a city that supports the arts. After moving here—almost a decade ago—it didn’t take me long to find local performing arts organizations, theaters, and people,” Rivard Hill says. “What I did find lacking was an established modern dance company that I could easily insert myself into.” As she spent more time in Charlottesville, it became evident to Rivard Hill that there were more people like her who were looking for a concrete avenue to access and maintain a modern dance practice, including the pursuit of public performance. This pushed her to move forward with founding the professional company. “Potency and consistency of practice—in whatever your art form is—is going to bring it to the next level,” says Rivard Hill. “And because most of what I’m interested in doing is group performance work and not just solo work, it requires a group of people being together more than here and there, in a way that we can both train together, and create together.” But beyond the creative drive of providing a platform for artistic

expression and collaboration, the company model needed to also serve as a structure to support working artists financially. “Although every artist does their art because they want to, it is important that we don’t confuse dedication, passion, and drive with inferred volunteerism,” Rivard Hill asserts. Liz Sumpter, ORH Dance’s artistic advisor, agrees. “I think having a professional company elevates the understanding that dance artists, who have invested much of their lives and livelihood developing their skills, deserve to be compensated,” she says. “It is no small task for a new dance company to set this as a goal, but ORH Dance is committed to acknowledging its dancers’ dedication to this art form.” ORH Dance operates under fiscal sponsorship with Fractured Atlas, a New York-based nonprofit aiming to make the journey from inspiration to living practice more accessible and equitable for artists and creatives. This arrangement allows the company to receive tax-deductible donations alongside revenue generated by ticket sales. “Ongoing support in smaller amounts that feels drawn from a collective of supporters is really helpful because it’s a reminder that what we’re doing is for everyone, and not just for the few who can support us financially as the driving support,” Rivard Hill says. Community support C-VILLE.COM

helps ensure the artists are compensated for their efforts. “Dancers should not have to pay for their training if they’re going to be expected to be at a professional level,” adds Rivard Hill, who is also adamant that dancers should be paid for their rehearsal hours, and not solely through performance stipends. “Donations are paramount to keeping those two things possible,” she says. Company dancer Aqura Nicholson is grateful for the support and opportunities provided by ORH Dance. “We have company members who are lawyers, mothers, physical therapists, entrepreneurs, while also being professional dancers,” she says. “It’s important for that representation to exist, where you can live in a small town, have a career, and dance professionally, create, grow, and stay connected to this part of yourself. You don’t have to give it up just because your life took another path.”

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to approach alternative modes of presentation, and to lean into new creative partnerships. In its inaugural 2025–26 season, ORH Dance held several performances there, establishing its identity as a new entity within Charlottesville’s performing arts scene. Being housed within the historic art center means the company is in close proximity to practicing visual artists, and interdisciplinary exchange has become a defining feature of the company’s creative approach. “Already in dance, there is an inherent relationship with other art, whether it be music, costuming, props and scenery, and of course inspiration for dance pieces,” says Rivard Hill. “I have always been interested in how the presentation of dance can be expanded beyond the scope of concert dance, and even more so in communication with other art forms.” This interest led to an engagement with visual artist Grace Little, whose mixed media exhibition Ordinary Ways occupied McGuffey’s Sarah B. Smith Gallery from January 2 to February 1, 2026. The resulting piece, titled The Invitation, was a single-night, site-specific performance that Rivard Hill describes as more of a response than a conversation, where a theme and atmosphere were already established by Little’s installation, and ORH Dance focused on performing movements that reflected those conditions. ORH Dance isn’t centered on concert performances, where works are choreographed, rehearsed, and presented for the stage in a traditional theater setting. Unlike classical ballet, which often leans into narrative-driven productions, the modern dance company places an emphasis on concept. This means exploring ideas and expressing emotion through physical movement in ways that elicit a different kind of connection with the audience—where inference, interpretation, and sensuous experience are elevated. In May, ORH Dance performed PRIMAVERA at The Gallery at Folly Farm in Crozet, a piece inspired by the Renaissance painting La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli. The concept behind the Rivard Hill-choreographed work intrigued art advisor and curator Susanna W. Gold, who envisioned hosting a multidisciplinary arts event at her non-traditional exhibition space. Gold planned an exhibition that would correspond with the performance, programming a springtime show titled Botanicals: Intimate Portraits, featuring an exterior installation of largescale botanical photographs by Michiganbased artist Laurie Tennent. ORH Dance presented the piece outdoors, in close proximity to the art installation, on a beautiful spring evening where the natural setting reflected the vernal themes of both the visual and performing art. “Any time one branch of art intersects with another is an opportunity for each to amplify the other for a richer experience of both,” Gold says. “Watching the dancers perform outside next to the botanical photographs helped enliven the movements and gestures of the petals, stems, and leaves of

As a professional modern dance company, ORH Dance provides a platform for artistic expression and collaboration, while offering paid opportunities for performers.

the flowers in the photos, just as the thoughtful arrangement of color, line, and contrast in the photographic compositions paralleled the careful choreographies of the dance. Bringing these together can demonstrate the relatedness of different forms of art, and ideally, bring new experiences to viewers.” Flutist Cari Shipp, founder of the classical benefit concert series SONOSYNTHESIS, will perform with ORH Dance during the spring 2027 program MOVE. She echoes Gold’s assertion about the benefits of interdisciplinary engagement. “Cross-disciplinary collaboration highlights a deeper means of connection that impacts not only artists but their audiences,” she says. “Knowing the pieces I’m preparing for this concert will be choreographed and danced to by members of ORH Dance is an invitation to know these works on an even deeper level.”

Performing presence When we talk about the performing arts in the mediated age, with the bent toward comprehensive streaming libraries and on-demand content, ephemerality becomes an important aspect of live performance. The fleeting nature of in-person experiences facilitates a more engaged and embodied kind of viewing because of the immediacy and temporality of the work. Within a saturated corporate-media landscape that is constantly vying for viewers’ attention—even as its content is produced with the acknowledgment that it will be consumed through a

second screen—the kind of work ORH Dance engages in calls back to presence. Both for the artist and the audience. This kind of work reinforces the symbiosis of the artist-audience relationship. Artists can’t perform in a vacuum and audiences need something real and affective to connect to. Engaging with this kind of creative expression is vital to our sense of community and human experience. This is one of the primary reasons Rivard Hill is so passionate about the professional company model. When artists have the time and means to focus on building works from the ground up, they become intimately familiar with their artistry, and that familiarity imparts a depth that transcends the technicality of the medium or even the competency of the creative practitioner. “I think there’s a lot that’s not communicated that the audience feels when whoever is presenting whatever type of work is really dialed into it. And that just takes time,” Rivard Hill says. “Performance, to me, is a demand of pure presence. As dancers, we train our bodies in class not to do the steps perfectly necessarily, but to practice pure presence. And that’s what brings it to performance.” Performing in non-traditional spaces creates a heightened awareness of the audience and for the audience experience in general, for both viewer and performer. With ORH Dance, presenting its work in the studio at McGuffey, or within visual arts venues with limited capacity, creates a sense of intimacy and connection between artist and audience, one that facilitates critical engagement with new ideas and experiences. The invitation

to approach this kind of creative exchange, and the open reception of such an invitation, reveals a generative and expansive cultural ecosystem. “ORH expands what professional dance can look like in the performing arts community, not being predominantly ballet or connected to a dance school,” company dancer Nicholson says. “Having a professional company rooted in modern dance gives both dancers and audiences another way to experience the art form, and I think that kind of variety is really important to a strong arts community.” The overlapping of art and community is also an aspect of the performing arts experience flutist Shipp is keyed into. “As part of McGuffey, ORH Dance is visible to the community in an important way,” she says. “Their understanding of the importance of maintaining the highest standard for their art while fostering community connection and education is what enables them and other artists to exist professionally at a time when even the most successful performing arts organizations are struggling.” “Interestingly, there were attendees who came primarily to see the dance, and there were those who came primarily to see the art exhibition, so I was happy to have a diverse audience,” Gold says of ORH Dance’s May performance of PRIMAVERA at her gallery. “But conversations I had with guests during the event tended not to focus on one experience or the other, but rather, on the relationships between dance and image, which seemed to be a new experience for many.”

“We have company members who are lawyers, mothers, physical therapists, entrepreneurs, while also being professional dancers. It’s important for that representation to exist.” AQURA NICHOLSON TRISTAN WILLIAMS

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Danny Beirne. A killer act fraught with fun, fearless rock ‘n’ roll, boogie-woogie, and more— supporting your favorite local charity and musicians. Free, 7pm. Maya Restaurant, 633 W. Main St. maya-restaurant.com Jon Nolan & Good Co. Americana music. With Jesse’s House. Free, 7:30pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Sharif. Folk, soft rock, and indie-blues on the veranda. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com “Weird Al” Yankovic: The Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour. The parody legend brings his full-production multimedia comedy rock show back to the concert stage. Prices vary, 7:30pm. John Paul Jones Arena, 295 Massie Rd. johnpaul jonesarena.com

American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. americanshakespearecenter.com

words Visiting Artist Lecture: Roksana Pirouzmand. Pirouzmand explores the body within material and ecological systems, working across clay, steel, water, sound, erosion, and corrosion. Free, 6:30pm. Campbell Hall, Room 160, 110 Bayly Dr. art.as.virginia.edu

classes AFK Repair Café: We Love Lamp. Focusing on introductory electrical repair via an appliance that everyone uses, needs, and occasionally breaks: lamps and lights. Free, 4pm. UVA Edgar Shannon Library: Room 330, 160 McCormick Rd. library. virginia.edu Crochet for Beginners. Learn to crochet. No experience necessary, all materials provided. Ages 12+. $35, 10:30am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

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Argentine Tango Lessons. Community-run classes with a relaxed atmosphere and welcoming vibe. $15, 8pm. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. charlottesvilletango.com

Hardware Hills Music Bingo Night. Sip, sing, stomp, and win great prizes. Free, 6:30pm. Hardware Hills Vineyard, 5199 W. River Rd., Scottsville. hardwarehills.com

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Vision’s Thursday Night Trivia. Test your knowledge with themed trivia from tellAplay Entertainment. Free, 7pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

Bent Theatre Comedy Presents: Zombies! An Improvised Musical. Heather Winslow hosts a show where every scene takes place after the apocalypse and most of them come with a song. Costumes highly encouraged. Free, 7pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com Witch. The Devil comes to the quiet village of Edmonton with a bargain to strike. $40–75, 7:30pm.

Friday 10/9 music Bob Bennetta Trio. Live jazz. Free, 6:30pm. Afghan Kabob House, 200 Market St. afghan kabob-house.com

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THE WITCH IS BACK Just in time for spooky season, another wicked thing this way comes—or at least comes to the American Shakespeare Center. Not to be confused with Robert Eggers’ 2015 dark comedy film debut, The Witch retells the 1621 play The Witch of Edmonton with echoes of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Devil, played by K.P. Powell, tries to snatch the soul of outcast Elizabeth Sawyer (Sara J. Griffin), but beguiles the townspeople who condemned her. $35–75, times vary. Blackfriars Playhouse, 105 S. Market St., Staunton. americanshakespearecenter.com 32

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CRITICAL CONDITION CULTURE Dave Goodrich. Blues, rock, pop, Motown, and original music. Free, 5pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com

Josh Mayo. A one-of-a-kind voice to cure whatever ails you. Free, 9:30pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com

Horsehead x Uncle Bengine and the Restraining Orders. An evening of Virginia-based rock ‘n’ roll. Free, 8:30pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com

Little Birdies. Husband-and-wife duo Malcolm Pulley and Alex Butterfield fill the air with a celebration of Appalachian style bluegrass, country, folk, and gospel music. Free, 5pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Josh Mayo. One of the best musical performers in town. Free, 6pm. Högwaller Brewing, 1518 E. High St. hogwallerbrewing.com Let Her Fly: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dolly Parton. Benefiting the Imagination Library. Hosted by Rebecca Porter, featuring regional favorites. $25, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Mo Lowda & The Humble: Tailing the Ghost Tour. Self-produced indie rock band hailing from Philadelphia. $34, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com The Greenhorns. Seven-piece band blends New Orleans funk, jump blues, R&B, and a little jazz. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. The Honey Dewdrops. Electro-acoustic duo pushes the boundaries of experimental folk sound. $30–35, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.com Wonderley. Playing a mixture of your favorite covers, new and old, from many different genres. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

dance Boot Scoot Square Dance Party. Big Silo plays driving old-time favorites and teaches you how to move to the music. No experience necessary. Beginners and all ages welcome. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

stage Witch. See listing for Thursday, October 8. $40–75, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. americanshakespearecenter.com

Morgan Wade. One of the most compelling storytellers in contemporary country and roots music. $36, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Paxton Henderson. Local guitarist and singersongwriter. Free, 12:30pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmand winery.com Scuffletown. Multi-instrumental offerings grounded by a smooth voice. Free, 6pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com Smokin’ Trout. Steeped in Americana and influenced by folk, bluegrass, rock, blues, country, country rock, and Celtic music. Free, 2pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. ducardvineyards.com

stage The Southern Drag Show. Returning for Halloween with Darling Nikki and Jackie of All Trades at the helm, joined by Paris Brooks-Bonet, Javon Love, and Saniya Chanel Iman. Ages 16+. $19, 9pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com The Tempest. Embark for a brave new world and discover a story where magic fills the air, power shifts hands, and by the end, love and forgiveness take center stage. $40–75, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. american shakespearecenter.com Witch. See listing for Thursday, October 9. $40–75, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. americanshakespearecenter.com

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Author Event: Carolyn Schuyler. Schuyler speaks about her new book, Everyday Ecotherapy: Nature Connection Practices for Where We Live, Learn, Work, and Play. A conversation with Dorothe Bach follows. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

Author Event: Duston Spear. Spear reads from her debut novel, Bird Girl, followed by a conversation with Liza Nash Taylor. Free, 4pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

Shadwell Speaker Series. Featuring Arthur Brooks and Ester Munt-Brooks on what makes for a fulfilling life. Followed by a Q&A moderated by Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project. Free, 6pm. Darden School of Business: Abbott Auditorium, 100 Darden Blvd. darden.virginia.edu

classes Slow Stitch Sanctuary. A welcoming, open stitch circle for slow stitchers and hand‐sewers/stitchers of all types and levels. Free, noon. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

Saturday 10/10 music Bunch O’Mugs. A trio led by Jason Burke, featuring Rick Olivarez and Marc Lipson. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Don’t Look Up. Blending traditional Chicago and Delta blues with a vintage rock ‘n’ roll sound. Free, 5:30pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com Honey x Hustle. An evening of alt-rock. Free, 7pm. SuperFly Brewing Co., 943 Preston Ave. superflybrewing.com SUPPLIED PHOTO

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 Embroidered Felt Black Cat. Sew a cozy kitty just in time for Halloween, and get creative with embroidered details. Basic hand-sewing experience preferred. Ages 12+. $40, 1:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com Fabric Mosaics: Create Your Own Kinusaiga Art. Craft a 9x9-inch art panel from foam board and fabric scraps—turning leftover textiles into something beautiful. Ages 16+. $30, 10am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com Reimagining Our Food, Water, and Environment: A Start-up Journey. Bryan Berger discusses the increasing exposure to PFAS, microplastics, and chemicals in everyday life and the work toward harm reduction. Free, 10am. Virginia Guesthouse, Grand Ballroom, 2017 Ivy Rd. engagement.virginia.edu

etc. Charlottesville City Market. Explore fresh produce, local foods, and handmade goods from 100+

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f you’ve followed his career, you undermental rambling geared toward delighting stand how difficult it is to say which of general audiences. Armisen is well-versed in the language of Fred Armisen’s characters qualifies as his signature role. Between his tenure on musicians, having paid his dues behind the “Saturday Night Live” and the skit show kit with Chicago post-hardcore outfit Trench“Portlandia” alone, he’s created so many rimouth and working with Blue Man Group in diculous personas who have come to life with his earlier years. And while he may be foridiosyncratic twitching and easily identifiable ever remembered for skits like 2010’s dead-on shtikelach that it overshadows Armisen, the classic Punk Band Reunion at the Wedding featuring his destructive rage-filled frontman person. But as opposed to appearing live as British punk vocalist Ian Rubbish or feminist of fictional hardcore act Crisis of Conforbookstore owner Candace, he’ll continue his mity, he legitimately has more than enough jovial exploration at the intersection of muof what professional noodlers call “chops.” The reason for his current production— sic and humor with his touring show, Comedy for Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome. one that he has been touring for a few years That’s not to say he’ll be on stage as his now—still trumpets the ongoing happy collision of his two lifelong passions. Conceiv“true self” by any stretch. Clips from past performances tell us you can expect impresably an outgrowth of his Netflix special sions of people in musical situations: band “Standup for Drummers” (2018), which then members, audience oddballs attending conwent on to become a Grammy-winning alcerts, and the like. As the name of the show bum the following year, he can play guitar, implies, some material will likely skew a he can sing, and he can do quite a bit. So even if some jokes go over your head, if touch in the direction of inside baseball you’ve laughed at any of his suited for real-ass musicos, antics before, the majority of but the sum total offers an The Jefferson the punchlines will land right egalitarian mix of stand-up, Theater physical comedy, and instru- Wednesday, 10/7 where they should.—CM Gorey

CAUTION: The writer’s unrestrained cynicism and unresolved issues shape the writing of this opinion column. Results may vary. area vendors. Free, 9am. Charlottesville City Market, 100 Water St. E. charlottesville.gov

Sunday 10/11

Critters at the Quarry. The Wildlife Center of Virginia brings animal ambassadors to teach about native species. Free, 10am. Piedmont Discovery Center’s Quarry Gardens, 1643 Salem Rd., Schuyler. quarrygardensatschuyler.org

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Indie short Film Series Installment. A curated lineup of 7–11 exceptional domestic and international short films created by talented emerging and established filmmakers. $20, 7pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. lighthousestudio.org Paramount On Screen: Pan’s Labyrinth. An Academy Award-winning dark fantasy from visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro set in 1944 Spain. $11, 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

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Jo and Ray Enke. Acoustic folk and Americana music, including originals and familiar favorites. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com Patrick & Aaron Olwell and Friends. An energetic and eclectic Irish music jam session. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com Robert Jospé Quartet. Distinguished American drummer and educator known for his versatile style and contributions to jazz and world music leads a seasoned group of players. Free, 1pm. Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm, 1135 Clan Chisholm Ln., Earlysville. chisholmvineyards.com The Big Music Thing. A knock-down, blow-out, full-bore concert and fundraiser to help beloved local musician Gary Hawthorne cover the costs of cancer treatment. Free, 5pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com WTJU Vinyl Takeover. A Sunday funday with your favorite WTJU Radio DJs spinning tracks on wax. Free, 1pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

dance A Taste of Ireland—The Irish Music and Dance Sensation. Laugh, cry, and jig into the night with a production that is Celtic, for this generation. $48–119, 4pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

stage Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A haunting stage adaptation of the novel that defined Gothic Horror. $40–75, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. americanshakespeare center.com

words U Ask, UVA Answers: The Future of Food with Bryan Berger. UVA researchers talk about their work and take questions from the audience. Free, 2pm. Central Library, 201 E. Market St. jmrl.org

classes Bluegrass Banjo Jamming: A Survival Skills Workshop with Bill Evans. Hands-on workshop designed for high-beginner through intermediate bluegrass banjo players who want practical skills they can immediately put to use. $62, 2pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. front porchcville.com Bluegrass Harmony Singing: A Crash Course Workshop with Bill Evans. For anyone who sings—or wants to sing—this workshop is a welcoming introduction to the exciting world of bluegrass harmony. No prior experience is necessary. $31, noon. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. frontporchcville.com Knit and Learn with UVA Environmental Sciences Graduate Students. Graduate students speak about their research while participants work on projects inspired by the lecture subjects. Free, 2pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

etc. Mountaintop Montessori Fall Fest. Featuring face painting, crafts, a book sale, pumpkin decorating, games, inflatables, a treat trot, and more. Free, 1pm. Mountaintop Montessori, 440 Pinnacle Place. mountaintopmontessori.org

Monday 10/12 music Ramona Martinez. Local favorite serenades with her signature mix of country western and mariachi. Free, 5:30pm. The Fitzroy, 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. thefitzroycville.com Vision’s Open Mic Mondays. Bring your chops and get down. Free, 7pm. Vision BBQ & Catering, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. visionbbqcville.com

words Book Talk: Jonathan Boyarin. Boyarin discusses his recent translation of anecdotes collected in Funny, Strange, and Serious Stories of Yiddishland’s Jews. A Q&A and book signing follows. Registration required. Free, 5:30pm. UVA Bookstore Mezzanine, 400 Emmet St. S. jewishstudies.as.virginia.edu

classes AFK Repair Café: Jewelry Repair 101. Learn how to replace clasps on bracelets and necklaces, and replace earwires on earrings. Free, 4pm. UVA Edgar Shannon Library: Room 330, 160 McCormick Rd. library.virginia.edu

etc. Trivia on Tap. General knowledge trivia with special themed days on the third Monday of the month. Hosted by the amazing Olivia. Free, 7pm. Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery, 520 Second St. SE. threenotchdbrewing.com

Tuesday 10/13 music BRIMS. Blue Ridge Irish Music School open jam. Free, 6:30pm. Dürty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. durtynellyscharlottesville.com Rapture Open Mic Night. Hosted by The Open Mic Music Exchange/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

words Plot Twisters Teen Book Club. Join other teens for an hour of snacks and lively book discussion. For teens ages 11–18. Registration required. October book: Mirage by Somaiya Daud. Free, 5pm. Central Library, 201 E. Market St. jmrl.org

classes Fiber Arts Fan Club. For the crocheters, knitters, felters, embroiderers, needleworkers, tatters, quilters among us. Bring your current work in progress and get crafty. Free, 6:30pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

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Needle Felted Mushrooms for Beginners. Make soft and colorful mushroom decorations using a specialized barbed needle to sculpt beautiful dyed wool. Ages 11+. $35, 11:30am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

Geeks Who Drink Trivia. Good trivia, good times. Teams of two to six people compete to win prizes like gift certificates and pint glasses, plus bragging rights. Free, 7pm. Firefly, 1304 E. Market St. fireflycville.com

Needle Felted Opossums. Make a soft little possum figure using a specialized notched needle to sculpt dyed wool. Beginning and returning students welcome. Ages 12+. $40, 2pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St. scrappyelephant.com

School’s Out Hangout. For teens ages 11–18 who want something to do when city or county schools are closed. Drop in throughout the day for games, crafts, and activities. Free, all day. Central Library, 201 E. Market St. jmrl.org

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In Duston Spear’s Bird Girl, a reclusive painter is thrust into the spotlight BY LISA PROVENCE

uston Spear couldn’t wait to get out of Richmond, and left the day after she graduated high school. Her mother always told her she could be a writer. Instead, Spear opted for Parsons School of Design and a career as an artist, living in Soho for 30 years. Now she’s circled back to writing with her first novel, Bird Girl, about a young female artist navigating the nowtrendy New York City neighborhood in the ’70s. Writing a book at 75 is “gutsy or crazy,” says Spear. “I’m not sure which.” Spear has exhibited widely, including at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her art and writing are “colliding right now,” she says. “I hope it’s a good thing.” Like Spear, Bird Girl protagonist Rebekah Hunnicutt is from Virginia and spent a lot of time in the Tidewater area with her grandparents. Rebekah also attended Parsons, and moved into a former Soho factory with a poser named Prospero Brown, who was enjoying his 15 minutes of fame while tapping into Rebekah’s ideas and talent. In the novel, a podcast 40 years later reveals Rebekah’s role as muse and victim in an art-world scandal. Rebekah and Spear both ended up in Western Massachusetts near Amherst, the setting for five colleges, and both are teachers. “Auto narrative fiction is so popular right now,” says Spear. “It’s kind of another way to slip a memoir in. This is based on the armature of a memoir, but I wasn’t happy with a memoir because one, I’m not famous, so who cares, and two, it’s really hard to end a memoir.” Other considerations for fiction: Some of the people in her real life are still alive. “I like my memories of Soho so much,” she explains. “You knew you were in a fascinating place. This was a rare moment, this tip of Manhattan occupied by artists and creative people.” Soho landlords welcomed tenants who would pay “to live in rat-infested factories that caught fire enough times to be dubbed C-VILLE.COM

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Hell’s Hundred Acres, spaces impossible to heat, impossible to keep clean, shrouded in pollution,” Spear writes in Bird Girl. The area was populated by Soho artists “with their black, only black, all-black attire, the Beatnik costume pasted onto a fresh crop of art school grads with paperweight diplomas.” Spear lived on Broome Street, where eight lanes of traffic narrowed to two. “It was carcinogenic out the wazoo,” she notes. Her 14-foot windows filled with black smoke from trucks barreling to the Holland Tunnel. “That hasn’t changed.” The difficulty of being a female artist is not new, and some art dealers in the ’70s held firm to their refusal to show women’s work. Unlike Rebekah the Bird Girl, who painted in a basement for decades before finally showing her art, Spear has a lengthy CV of exhibits, panels, awards, and teaching. “I’m trying to push the idea of the long practice because I’m trying to have a long practice in my life and to keep making art in different genres,” she says. “I’m a strong advocate for a woman to continue to create in her later years.” October 7 – 13, 2026

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY FOR FUN By Rob Brezsny

Scorpio

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every Thursday night, I haul my trash bin out to the street so the collectors can empty it the following morning. Most weeks it’s three-quarters full. But now and then I produce an unusually large haul of debris. On those occasions, I have to turn into a one-person compaction crew: I grab a low-hanging branch of the persimmon tree, hoist myself up, drop down feetfirst into the can, and bounce around to squash everything enough to squeeze in the overflow. Consider this my audition to be your role model, Scorpio. According to my reading of the celestial weather, it’s time for you to consolidate and discard at least half a year’s accumulation of obsolete clutter— both the invisible emotional kind and the tangible stuff filling your space.

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ancient navigators sometimes crossed vast stretches of sea by studying the swells beneath their boats. Their bodies were instruments of perception that enabled them to feel the subtle wave patterns generated by winds and distant islands. Your intuition has a similar sensitivity these days, Sagittarius. I hope you will trust it: what your whole being senses before your rational mind assembles the evidence. I call this fully embodied intelligence. It deserves a key role in your decision-making.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve never been a fan of Capricorn poet Kahlil Gibran. The ideas he expressed seem commonplace and sentimental to me. But his book The Prophet is an all-time bestseller translated into more than 100 languages. Millions of readers have adored and benefited from his words, and he’s acclaimed as a literary hero in his native Lebanon. So who cares what I think! I’ll just shut up and appreciate the fact that he worked hard and published a lot. His disciplined, painstaking efforts have been widely inspirational. Let’s make him your role model for the coming months. I think you’re primed to create enduring offerings that nourish people’s souls.

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Think of an aspect of your life that you have always wished you could change but have assumed or feared you could never change. What if, sometime soon, you try to change it, but this time you do it with playful lightheartedness? You resolve to feel zero stress and have as much fun as possible as you try to shift how this problem works. You decide you will use your imagination to dream up unprecedented and even outrageous ways to break your trance and invite sweet liberation to swoop in.

Pisces

(Feb. 19-March 20): Geologists tell us that over time, rocks really do get transformed

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(Sept. 23-Oct.22): Periodically, you have the cosmic right to receive precisely what you need. Life is duty-bound to deliver a close approximation of full satisfaction. I LIBRA believe now is one of those times. So please be bold and articulate about naming the specific blessings you require. Write them down, speak them aloud, and pray for them—not as a demand, but as a hearty invitation. Then, for a while, live as if all of creation is indeed honor-bound to respond accordingly, adjusting its behavior so it’s in harmony under sustained pressure. Their material gets reorganized into denser, more stable stuff. This is an apt metaphor for you, dear Pisces. You’re under pressure right now, and it may feel intense. But what if it’s actually reconfiguring you? Maybe the constraints are what you need to make you more focused, more essential, and more real. Not all pressure is bad, and this is proof. Ask yourself: What is this pressure making possible that freedom couldn’t create? Let yourself be reorganized.

Aries

(March 21-April 19): “Dear Oracle: My secret terror is being ordinary. I need to be special, and lately I’m worried I’m just average and unremarkable. That thought is repugnant to me! Can you offer any advice?—Afraid of Average.” Dear Afraid: The pressure to be extraordinary is exhausting because it’s the wrong goal. Your birthright and your life assignment aren’t about being special in the sense of better-than. You’re simply meant to be vividly, generously, amazingly yourself. In the coming weeks, I invite you to trade the anxious hunt for superiority for the warm, throbbing joy of full self-expression. Shine because it feels fantastic, not to outrank anyone.

Taurus

(April 20-May 20): Ravens sometimes hide food while pretending to conceal it elsewhere, especially if another raven is observing. They’re strategic and imaginative and aware of how they’re perceived. With their social intelligence as inspiration, I will encourage you to think more consciously about the stories you’re broadcasting. Which precious projects will flourish better if pro-

tected from premature scrutiny? Do you have any in-progress blooms that really should continue to incubate before being revealed? Discernment isn’t deception. P.S.: Conversely, there may be a part of you that deserves greater visibility.

Gemini

(May 21-June 21): The Taurus philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote that life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward. You Geminis are naturally inclined to resist that advice. Many of you analyze experiences while they’re still unfolding. Can I coax you to try a different approach in the coming weeks? As usual, you may be tempted to figure everything out immediately. But the most useful clarity won’t arrive until later, as you survey what has occurred and recognize patterns you couldn’t see in real time. So try to stay curious rather than overly diagnostic. Keep gathering impressions, stories, and clues. Allow events to transpire like chapters in a book whose ending you haven’t reached yet.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22): The Germans have a word, Sehnsucht, for a feeling that my English language can’t quite convey: a deep, sweet, aching longing for something you can’t name. It may be a faraway home you’ve never visited or a wholeness you seem to remember without ever having had it. Most people treat this yearning as a problem to be fixed or numbed. But I think it’s sacred information, Cancerian, and you’re especially fluent in it right now. Don’t rush to resolve the ache or explain it away. Instead, follow it like a scent. What is your Sehnsucht pointing toward? Let C-VILLE.COM

it lead you toward the beauty and meaning your soul is homesick for.

Leo

(July 23-Aug.22): Botanists know that climbing vines have a simple approach. They keep extending their sensitive tendrils until they discover something sturdy enough to support upward growth. Their progress depends on continual experimentation. I love it when you imitate this style of intelligence, Leo, which I think will be especially useful and successful during the coming weeks. So instead of demanding guarantees before beginning a new endeavor, offer exploratory feelers. Ask friendly questions. Test prototypes. The right support system probably already exists, but may not reveal itself until you reach toward it.

Virgo

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of my favorite Virgos works in a museum cleaning centuries-old paintings with exquisite patience. She uses tiny swabs and gentle solvents to lift away layers of darkened varnish and grime. She’s an expert at making the original colors emerge so vividly that the painting looks newly made. But her work demands artful restraint. If she presses too hard or applies the wrong solvent, she could destroy the very thing she means to reveal. This approach can be your specialty in the coming weeks, Virgo. I hope you will attend to valuables that have been obscured by accumulated grime, like old habits, stale assumptions, and other people’s projections. Your task is to gently lift it all away and let the C true colors shine. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text mes-

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