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A M E SS A G E F O R O UR C O M MU NIT Y Charlottesvillians, Here’s to 2024; a new year filled with promise and possibility.

The 12th Annual Tom Tom Festival is just months away; a hometown tradition and celebration of music, art, and ideas where we shake off winter and chart new paths. Whether it’s meeting new friends, engaging with inspiring leaders and thinkers, or taking a moment to learn about our community in new ways, the Festival is a special moment for Charlottesville.

Tom Tom, which means “Tomorrow Tomorrow,” is an invitation to connect and dream a brighter future as a community. It’s also a time to open up our doors and invite the rest of the world to come experience a moment when Charlottesville’s colors shine true.

This letter continues a tradition started after COVID, a message to the Community in the new year about the intentionality behind Tom Tom, and what we hope to achieve in the year to come. As the founder of the event, I see the Festival as an ever evolving and alive conversation. It takes new and exciting and spectacular directions each year. So I hope this letter invites you in.

The power of TOGETHER

It’s also a statement for how we build the Festival, as an imaginative act of co-creation with the community throughout the year.

What a Festival Can Do. A Festival is a moment in our civic imagination when we hit pause on the normal day-to-day. We have conversations we normally don’t have, with people we may not often talk to.

Last year, the Tom Tom Festival brought 22,000 people together. It happened in barbershops, public parks, tech incubators, libraries, art galleries, and theaters as well as civic centers and the local jail.

An awful lot of Tom Tom is meant to be fun, exciting and culturally rich. But an equal emphasis is on the topics like criminal justice reform, entrepreneurship, technology, governance, education, and spirituality. These are the concerns of a society that are difficult, sometimes thorny, and have real impact.

The beauty of a Festival is that there might be a moment when hard conversations become a little easier to have, because we are neighbors and friends first.

TOGETHER. It is both a challenge and an aspiration for our community.

Can a Festival help build the trust and connection that will allow Charlottesville to flourish?

Let’s Co-Create the Festival.

Tom Tom is not the driver of the conversation. It is the platform. The Festival is like a community potluck, where Tom Tom has set the table, and everyone in the community can bring a dish.

Tell Charlottesville’s story through your unique vantage point. Host an event that reflects your unique offering to our community. That’s the invitation.

Co-creating is essential, because it anchors engagement throughout the city, and it puts ownership squarely in the hands of the visionaries and leaders who are shaping our community.

Get Involved.

Ultimately, our community thrives when the engaged citizens -- like you!

-- lean in and commit to building the relational and civic capital to fuel the future.

If you’ve got a new initiative you’d like to showcase, or a workshop, talk, concert, performance or open house to contribute; bring it to the party!

Applications to our Community Partner Program close January 31.

Public Interest Meetings will continue in January and February to spark conversations and get ideas brewing for the Festival. Come learn more and get involved.

This April, amidst the fun, connection, and synchronicity, we’ll join forces, work collaboratively, bridge divides, and start to dream some new dreams for our hometown.

A lot can happen in our community: TOGETHER. Sincerely, Paul Beyer, Founder

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TOGETHER is optimistic. Connection and mutual understanding are possible across class, race, and life experience.

If we build relationships, a deep sense of belonging can be nourished here in Charlottesville.That said,TOGETHER is also very hard. We are individuals with

As individuals, as a community, and even as a democracy, it sometimes appears that we are growing more lonely, more isolated, and more polarized. Is there anything we can do to halt this, and turn the tide? Can we expand beyond our default ways of thinking, and increase understanding?

Naturally, Tom Tom’s planning conversation has been happening for months. Already there are over 50 community partners hosting events at the Festival. These are partners like the Tai Chi Center, LoveNoEgo Foundation, The Tonsler League, United Way, the Botanical Garden, Prolyfyck Run Crew, and IX Art Park. Our TOGETHER Conference is similarly curated by dozens of community stakeholders who set the agenda.

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Tom Tom’s 12th Annual theme is TOGETHER. It’s a statement of our community’s interconnection and shared future, and unifies all the talks, conferences, workshops, meditations, concerts, mixers, performances and dance parties.

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THIS WEEK Hello, Charlottesville! Thank you for reading C-VILLE Weekly. So many elements of Charlottesville are emblematic of the city, but its vibrant food and drink scene is a defining one. There are endless opportunities to eat well in this town, from the restaurants, cafés, breweries, and bakeries dotted all over the map, to the familiar food trucks that pull up to community events. Charlottesville’s various eateries are also, of course, meeting places, study spots, and date-night destinations—but for the people who keep them running, they’re something bigger.

Wilson Richey was one of those people, a key player in the local restaurant industry and a well-respected community member. Richey, who died in December, is memorialized this week by writer Shea Gibbs, who spoke with the prolific business owner’s friends and colleagues to paint a portrait of the late restaurateur (p. 20). Through this posthumous profile, Gibbs offers insight into how Richey treated the people around him, what inspired him, and the ideas he sought to bring to each new business.

What does a community do when it suddenly loses someone who’s had as wide an influence as Will Richey? Of course, we try to pick up the pieces (and it seems like Richey left them all in good order). But we also try to make sense of the person’s impact, the wide reach of their actions, and the endurance of their imagination. For those who knew Richey and those who were familiar with his restaurants, I hope this story accomplishes a fraction of that.—Richard DiCicco

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NEWS IN BRIEF Crash course An 82-year-old driver smashed into the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles customer service center on Abbey Road on the morning of January 22, leaving a large hole where some corner windows once stood. Albemarle County Police and Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and reportedly treated a DMV customer for minor injuries, according to CBS19.

Police have charged the driver with reckless driving in a parking lot. The customer service center reopened the following day.

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group of Charlottesville homeowners filed suit on January 16 to stop implementation of the city’s new zoning ordinance next month.

In the court filing, local law firm Flora Petit asserts that the zoning ordinance is invalid because it exceeds the powers afforded to the city by the Virginia General Assembly, fails to give “reasonable consideration” to infrastructure impacts, and harms the plaintiffs. The suit also accuses City Council of “misleading” the public about “the scope of the changes” brought by the ordinance.

Several of the complainants assert that they purchased properties due to their locations in “low-density neighborhoods,” and argue they would be harmed by an increase in tax assessments.

The plaintiffs in the suit are nine Charlottesville residents who predominantly live in the Barracks-Rugby neighborhood, all with home assessments over $750,000, according to reporting by The Daily Progress.

The zoning ordinance was passed unanimously by Charlottesville City Council in December as part of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. While proponents of the ordinance argue it would improve access to affordable housing by increasing density, opponents cite concerns including upzoning, potential traffic, and infrastructure impacts.

The suit could put a stop to not only the zoning ordinance, but the entire Comprehensive Plan.

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According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, the project will make several improvements to traffic flow and safety in the area. Changes include constructing a pedestrian bridge over Route 29, building a signalized pedestrian crossing and reworking traffic patterns at the intersection of Route 29 and Hydraulic Road, and changing the intersection of Hillsdale and Hydraulic Road into a roundabout.

Previous plans to adapt the intersection of Route 29 and Angus Road into a Continuous Green-T configuration were scrapped following a May 2022 public hearing.

Construction will take place overnight between 9pm and 6am and start with median and drainage work. Drivers should look out for workers in and around the roadway during the construction window and potential lane, shoulder, and turn lane closures.

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A January 21 report from The Daily Progress claims the decades-old family run grocery store is “in trouble,” citing empty shelves, dwindling staff numbers, and declining traffic. But community members have expressed concern over the state of Reid’s since last October, when several shelves sat unstocked for weeks, prompting the store to put up a sign that reassured customers it was not closing down. A GoFundMe has been created to help keep the store open, raising over $10,000 so far.

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chairman, and I have consistently fought for our conservative principles.”

“I trust the folks in the 5th District to get it right,” he says. “I expect that they will renominate me and elect me again in November.”

Despite Good’s confidence in his conservatism, the congressman has recently come under fire from both moderate and far-right Republicans.

Republican critics of Good include Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Trump Campaign Manager Chris LaCivita.

In a text message published by Cardinal News, LaCivita said, “Bob Good won’t be electable when we get done with him.”

When asked for a response to LaCivita’s comment, Good told C-VILLE he “never met that gentleman” and would not directly respond to questions about his communications with the Trump campaign.

Antagonism from the Trump campaign may spell major trouble for Good this primary season, according to Kyle Kondik,

managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ newsletter.

Though Good has now endorsed the former president, his earlier backing of DeSantis may continue to incite criticisms from the Trump campaign. “Trump and his allies are not exactly known for burying the hatchet,” says Kondik.

Trump endorsed Good in 2022, and while the former president has not come out in favor of a candidate in the 2024 contest for Virginia’s 5th District, Good’s campaign website claims a Trump endorsement.

“Most primary challengers have no shot,” Kondik says. “McGuire is a real challenger with real support, and Good has made some enemies within his party.”

While Trump has not formally endorsed McGuire, LaCivita’s comment is an indicator to Kondik that “there will be an aggressive campaign waged on McGuire’s behalf against Good.”

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lection season is in full swing for Rep. Bob Good, who’s faced barbs from his challenger, substantial intra-party criticism, and an all-but-declaration-of-war from the Trump campaign. But despite these hurdles, Good says he is confident the constituents of Virginia’s 5th District will “get it right” in the June primary.

The two-term incumbent faces a primary challenge from state Sen. John McGuire, who has criticized Good for his endorsement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over former president Donald Trump. Though Good endorsed Trump following DeSantis’ decision to drop out of the race, McGuire remains critical.

“Bob Good has come groveling back to Trump in order to save his own hide— friends, don’t trust him,” wrote McGuire in a January 21 post on Twitter/X. “He’ll stab Trump in the back again the first chance he gets. Never Trumper Bob Good is only good for Joe Biden, not for the patriots of Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.”

McGuire has also called Good a RINO (Republican in Name Only) on several occasions, regardless of the congressman’s position as chair of the Freedom Caucus.

In an interview with C-VILLE, Good denied McGuire’s characterizations. “He is lying for political purposes, he thinks it gives him some kind of advantage to say that, but I think everybody sees through what he’s doing,” Good says. “Everybody knows that I’m one of the most, if not the most, conservative member of Congress. There’s a reason why the most conservative caucus in the House of Representatives elected me as their

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Political ads targeting Good are already rolling out, including one from the Virginians for Conservative Leadership Political Action Committee. The group questions Good’s loyalty to Trump in its video, and further criticizes the congressman for focusing on “political theater” over the needs of constituents on its website nogoodbob.com.

“That PAC is neither conservative, or … from Virginia,” says Good. “If you’re trying to be deceptive and dishonest and try to smear someone, then you use a name for yourself that might convey a different impression than what the truth really is.”

Virginians for Conservative Leadership has a mailing address in Hudson, Wisconsin, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission. C-VILLE could not independently confirm the PAC’s political leanings.

For all of the animosity between McGuire and Good, the two Republicans have overlapping political platforms. Both candidates oppose abortion and gun control laws, and support Christian principles on their campaign websites. The most notable distinction between the candidates’ campaign websites is the level of detail on policy issues. McGuire is more vague, referencing a support for “conservative values” and “Christian conservative values,” while Good outlines his views on immigration and the economy, among other issues.

Regardless of who wins the nomination, Kondik says Republicans will most likely win the 5th District seat in the general election. “Virginia’s 5th District is not overwhelmingly Republican,” he says, “but it is Republican enough that any GOP nominee should be fine in November.”

Early in-person voting in Virginia’s congressional primaries will begin on May 3 at local registrars’ offices, with Primary Election Day on June 18.

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n January 22, Charlottesville City Council reconvened after winter weather postponed its regularly scheduled session. One topic of discussion was alternative fuel sources for Charlottesville Area Transit, which must move away from diesel vehicles in order to meet the city’s goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

A presentation given by consultant group Kimley Horn examined the viability of three alternative fuel options for the city transit system: renewable natural gas buses, batteryelectric buses, and hydrogen-fuel cell electric buses. Each presents different challenges and benefits in reaching both the city’s longand short-term emissions goals.

Councilors dismissed natural gas buses because of limitations on the emissions reductions, but both battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel cell buses appealed to them because they have zero tailpipe emissions.

Battery-electric vehicles seemed to be more appealing, though, thanks to the comparative maturity of the technology and the definitive access to the fuel source.

Trade-offs of battery-electric buses could include a need for a large fleet, the cost of implementation, and potential issues with range. While hydrogen-fuel cell electric buses were deemed more resilient by consultants, concerns were raised about the high cost of deployment given the lack of reliable fuel supply.

Costs for the project are anticipated to be high, with battery-electric and hydrogenfuel cell electric buses both roughly double

the cost of diesel vehicles. Grant money could potentially reduce costs for the city, depending on the option pursued, but total costs are hard to predict due to the everevolving nature of the alternative fuel technologies and potential changes to grant availability, based on the White House’s future occupant.

At the end of the presentation, consultants recommended the city pursue a pilot program using both battery-electric buses and hydrogen-fuel cell electric buses before selecting a final alternative source for Charlottesville buses. The recommended timeline for the pilot program includes adding two battery-electric buses to the CAT fleet in 2025 and three hydrogen-fuel cell electric buses in 2028, with the potential for a full fleet of zero emission buses by 2040.

While CAT officials seemed enthusiastic about going ahead with a pilot of both battery-electric buses and hydrogen-fuel cell electric buses, councilors were not convinced that moving forward with a technology as new as hydrogen-fuel cells was the best course of action. Both battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel cell buses employ batteries, but are differentiated by how they are charged.

“I have concerns about putting all of our eggs in one basket,” said CAT Director of Transit Garland Williams about his support for a pilot program exploring both alternative fuel types. “Transit works well when it’s fast, frequent, reliable, safe. We’re trying to make sure we do our due diligence.”

Rather than immediately decide on next steps in the pilot program, City Manager Sam Sanders suggested councilors hold a work session next month. “You need time with this in my opinion,” he said.

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creases were smaller in Rivanna and White Hall, with figures of 2.64 percent and 2.48 percent, respectively.

Lynch can also break the data down via land classification. The 23,093 parcels designated in the Comprehensive Plan as Urban Residential increased an average of 4.49 percent and the 17,540 classified as “Other Residential up to 20 acres” increased by 4.28 percent. The 1,387 properties listed as Commercial/Industrial went up 3.09 percent.

Actual numbers will vary depending on unique circumstances.

“The majority of the properties are going to experience a negative 5 to a positive 5 percent change,” Lynch says. “An additional 32 percent will increase a 5 percent to 15 percent increase.”

Six percent are in excess of 15 percent.

But why the increase? Lynch says one possible explanation is that construction of new homes has not kept up with demand.

Data from the county’s Community Development reports the issuance of a total of 408 certificates of occupancy in 2015, a number that climbed to 1,143 in 2020 before dropping back to 779 in 2022.

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lbemarle County is reporting another increase in average property values for 2024, but its not as high as in the past two years.

“This year what we’re looking at is a 4.07 percent overall increase to the tax base based on the reassessment,” says Peter Lynch, Albemarle’s assessor.

Albemarle switched to annual assessments in 2009, which means 15 years of data to sift through. Average values declined the first five years, with a decrease of 2.3 percent in 2013. Percentage changes have been positive ever since, with highs of 8.4 percent in 2022, and 13.46 percent in 2023. This year’s values are on a par with 2019, when 4 percent was at the time a record-setting increase.

“Luckily this year, at least to me, it makes our job a little easier when those increases aren’t so high as they were the last couple of years,” Lynch says.

Lynch explained to the Board of Supervisors how his staff audits the sales that are based on valid fair-market transactions. Invalid ones do not contribute to the calculations, such as the county’s $58 million purchase of 462 acres around Rivanna Station.

An example of a valid transaction is the December 19, 2023, purchase of a fourbedroom house on Shiffletts Mill Road in the White Hall District for $1.3 million. That was 26.58 percent above the 2023 assessment.

That transaction was one of 1,856 valid market sales in 2023, down from a high of 2,389 in 2021. In all, there are 37,419 taxable properties in Albemarle as of the end of the year.

Assessments were up highest in the 348 parcels of land in the Town of Scottsville, which had a 10.31 percent average increase.

The Scottsville Magisterial District is next with the 7,034 parcels having an average increase of 6.98 percent. The average in-

“This year what we’re looking at is a 4.07 percent overall increase to the tax base based on the reassessment.”

The chart above shows 2024’s average Albemarle County property value increases.

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BY SHEA GIBBS Alicia Walsh-Noel met Wilson Richey under difficult circumstances. She was part of the team opening Brasserie Saison in 2017, and it was a cutthroat crew.  “Upper management was a toxic boys’ club,” Walsh-Noel says. “The restaurant industry can be a very cruel place, and Wilson was someone that really stood up for just the smallest person in the group.”  Over Brasserie’s first year and a half or so—the now-closed restaurant’s golden era by all accounts—Walsh-Noel fought against other partners to keep her job. Some of the boys’ club wanted her fired. Richey did not. “He always had my back,” she says. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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As the situation became untenable, Richey offered Walsh-Noel other positions in his multiple restaurants. It was a managerial tactic he was known for: going to bat for people, moving them around until he found the right place for them to thrive.

Walsh-Noel was inclined to take one of the jobs. Her health insurance was through Richey’s restaurant group, Ten Course Hospitality, and she was pregnant. She had been doing marketing and communications for Brasserie, so in what she calls a “moment of survival,” she asked Richey if she could do PR for the group. He agreed immediately, and Walsh-Noel’s firm, Do Me A Flavor, was born.

Wilson “Will” Richey died in a single-car accident at 1:21am on December 12. The Albemarle County Police Department reports that first responders were dispatched to the 1300 block of Owensville Road at the time, and 47-year-old Richey was pronounced dead. Reports indicate the prolific restaurateur was not wearing a seatbelt while driving home from one of his restaurants, Duner’s, when his vehicle entered a skid and crashed into an embankment. He left two children, a large extended family, numerous friends, and restaurant connections throughout the region.

In the six weeks since Richey’s death, the Charlottesville food community has come out in force to support the man who has been called their “Captain,” “the most beautiful soul of a poet you would ever know,” “the sharpest restaurant eye around,” and “a character from a Wes Anderson movie.” But what will be Richey’s lasting impact? In the process of owning or consulting on more than a dozen restaurants while leading Ten Course, the entrepreneur impacted hundreds of folks in the community.

“When rock stars die, sometimes you ask, ‘When is the last time they produced anything good?’” says Tavola co-owner Michael Keaveny, who met with Richey often to talk shop. “But with Wilson, he had all these concepts. What we are losing is this creative, open mind where anything was possible.

We’re losing those concepts that were swirling in his head and his amazing ability to bring them to fruition.”

The early years

Architect Stephanie Williams met Richey, like so many others, over a wine glass. The two oenophiles were part of a blind tasting group, became close friends, and hatched a plan to work together.

“He came over to my house and said, ‘I have this crazy idea,’” Williams says. “Little did I know it would be the first of many crazy ideas.”

The idea was to create a sort of approachable but high-end wine club, a place to drink great vino among friends in leatherback chairs surrounded by dark-grain wood and a rustic, old-world aesthetic. The result was the lasting Wine Guild of Charlottesville.

For nearly two decades, the bottle shop/bar/ club has brought fine wines both imported and domestic to Charlottesvillians.

During the succeeding years, Williams’ relationship with Richey grew and changed.

As a friend, he became one of her closest.

As an architect, she worked on design for The Alley Light, Richey’s groundbreaking French small-plates destination, and various other projects, and eventually joined the

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team that would launch Ten Course’s Högwaller Brewing in 2023.

Richey’s interest in wine grew and changed over the years as well. Virginia winemaker Jake Busching, who became one of Richey’s closest friends around the fire pits for which the restaurateur was well known, says his pal “wasn’t a big advocate for Virginia wines.” But while Burgundy remained Richey’s true love of the wine world, he came around as local wines improved with time.

It was an outlook that Busching says Richey brought to all his projects. “The two of us had a common no-time-for-bullshit philosophy on living,” Busching says. “I think that is what people saw: He had all this positive energy, but he never glossed it over with anything. He saw things for what they were and spoke his mind.”

Today, the Wine Guild is operated by another close Richey consort, Will Curley. Cur-

ley, “the other Will,” moved to Charlottesville from Chicago by way of Richmond in 2016.

His wife, Priscilla, went to work for the Keavenys (Tami Keaveny is a C-VILLE editor) at Tavola, and mentioned her husband was looking for a job as a waiter. Michael Keaveny hooked Curley up with Richey, the two men bonded over a certain intoxicating beverage, and Curley was slated for a position in the soon-to-open Brasserie Saison.

While he waited for the new restaurant to clear its final hurdles, Curley did odd jobs around the Ten Course portfolio. He bar-backed at The Whiskey Jar. He hosted during lunch at the Bebedero. And he got to know Richey.

“He and I really clicked over a love of good service,” Curley says. “He was the best at ambience and setting the vibe. His ideas were all backed by these massive Pinterest boards.

He knew exactly what he wanted a place to feel like and look like and taste like.”

Growing up

If any single concrete symbol is most connected to Richey, it’s fire. It comes up in conversation with nearly everyone who knew him well. According to Williams, “it was rare for Will not to have a fire.”

“There were many evenings in our early relationship sitting around a fire pit,” the designer says. ”Almost all meals would retire to the fire. If there was a restaurant where Will could have a fire, he did.” At The Alley Light, Richey installed a fireplace for gathering. At Café Frank, a Scandinavian stove offered fire’s respite. He cooked over live fires outdoors as often as he could.

It was around a fire that Richey, along with Busching, came to know Eddie Karoliussen, a real estate agent who helped expand the Ten Course restaurant empire. Busching and Karoliussen came together almost weekly at Richey’s fire pit, where they discussed life’s

Clockwise from top left: Will Richey helped found The Wine Guild of Charlottesville in 2008. Richey learned to make Revolutionary Soup in 1998 before purchasing the business in 2005. Friends gathered at Högwaller Brewing for a taste of Ode to a Nightingale, the Richey tribute beer, whose artwork was created by Will Smith (pictured).

A Bebedero co-owner, Hawkins hopes to continue Richey’s love of hospitality at the downtown restaurant. Richey’s death “was a devastating loss—he was a good friend of mine beside being my partner—but all his businesses were put together with talented people,” Hawkins says. “Wilson was kind of the backbone, but he was more the wise mind behind things. He wasn’t necessarily always there working.”

The Future

The restaurants in Richey’s circle aren’t likely to crumble after his death. Hawkins isn’t the only colleague who reckons the restaurateur put the right infrastructure in place to ensure continued excellence at Revolutionary Soup, the Wine Guild, The Whiskey Jar, The Bebedero, Duner’s, and the newest Ten Course restaurant, Högwaller Brewing—not to mention the many spots for which Ten Course offered

consulting or formerly held ownership stakes, such as The Alley Light, Café Frank, and The Pie Chest.

Richey’s brother, Brett, declined comment on the estate but is reportedly handling the restaurant portfolio, in addition to having created a crowdfunding campaign to support his brother’s two children.

Karoliussen says Richey’s latest restaurant, the beer and smashburger concept known as Högwaller Brewing, may have been the one with the most enduring legacy, ripe for an expansion model. But that, like the many unrealized concepts tumbling around Richey’s one-of-a-kind mind, will likely never happen.

“Will was the glue that held everything together, and I can’t imagine another Will out there,” Karoliussen says. “So, with Ten Course, to be honest, I don’t know what is going to happen. Our number-one goal is to take care of the children and do what is

best for them, and Brett is such an incredibly smart person that he will do everything possible to make all of that work.”

So many other people impacted by Richey will likewise continue to make it work: Curly at the Wine Guild, Williams and her design firm, Hawkins at The Bebedero, employees and acquaintances innumerable. For Walsh-Noel, whose PR firm has seen its roster of clients reach as many as 19 over the five years she’s been in business, the job may be more difficult. And personal.

“I never studied to wake up one day to be the PR person for a dead man,” she says.

“What I will remember about Wilson was that he was always doing these ridiculously quaint things. When we were opening Brasserie, he was always walking around with this wooden mallard for no reason. He would stroll down the mall in his little professor outfit, holding the mallard. He was just delightful.”

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Reflecting on Richey’s business strategy, Karoliussen says his friend always wanted to own the buildings in which he ran restaurants.

It was a key part of his go-to market strategy: Own the space, install experienced people to run the concept, launch, guide, move on to the next project. Sometimes, Karoliussen was still researching spaces when Richey had turned his eye to another project.

“He loved to create—that was truly his passion,” Karoliussen says. “And he would always find the right people.”

In March 2016, when Richey and Ten Course partner Josh Zanoff (who passed away in 2022) opened The Bebedero, a Mexican cantina striving for true authenticity, he recruited former Whiskey Jar bartender River Hawkins to run the drinks program. Hawkins was fresh off a year-long stay in Mexico, and brought a deep understanding of agave-based spirits like mezcal and tequila.

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Glen Shelton Band. Mainstream and traditional country. Free, 7pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. prnbrewery.com Josh Mayo and Alex Bragg. Acoustic night. Free, 6pm. Högwaller Brewing, 1518 E. High St. hogwallerbrewing.com The Legwarmers. ‘80s tributes. $22–25, 9pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Theocles Herrin. Enjoy live tunes with your wine, cider, and beer. Free, 5pm.

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

classes Day Off Camp: Stone Age Secrets. Kids 4 through 8 explore the ancient past. $60, 9am. Virginia Discovery Museum, 524 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. vadm.org Day Off Mini Camp. Drop off your first through fifth grade student for a morning of arts and crafts. $75, 9am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste C. scrappy elephant.com Paint & Sip: Winter Forest. Paint, sip, and repeat. $35, 6pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraftcider.com

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Little Naturalist Program. Introduce your kids to nature and get them started exploring the trails. Free, 10am. Ivy Creek Natural Area and Historic River View Farm, 1780 Earlysville Rd. ivycreekfoundation.org

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!—in Conversation with Henry Hoke. The authors discuss Akbar’s debut novel. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

Community MLK Celebration

with Nathaniel Lee, Trombone

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

Tickets

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Trivia Night. Put your thinking caps on and win prizes. Free, 6:15pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraft cider.com

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SuperFly Run Club. Run around the city, then enjoy $5 pints and raffles. Free, 6pm.

SuperFly Brewing Co., 943 Preston Ave. superflybrewing.com

Sunday, February 11

Community MLK Celebration. Rev. Dr. William Joseph Barber II gives the keynote speech. Free, 6pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

Lisa Carter & Jack Roy with The Wavelength. Deep blues. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com

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The Greatest Showman Sing-along. The blockbuster musical becomes an interactive party. $15, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Saturday 1/27 music Brisk Band. ‘90s and aughts tributes. Free, 7pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. prnbrewery.com Cleidsner Bell All Star Band. With Rusty Speidel, Paul Rosner, Paul Bell, and Michael Clem. $10, 7pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. batesvillemarket.com C’ville Jazz Congregation. Performing jazz standards in a new duo configuration. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarlecider works.com Man Overboard! Will Overman & John Baumann. Country Americana. $15–48, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Sue Harlow. Americana folk. Free, 1pm.

Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Tara Mills Band. Original folk and roots. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Three Notch’d Road Presents Clarinet Quintet: Mozart’s Viennese Heritage. Celebrating Mozart’s birthday weekend. Free–$30, 7:30pm.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 7599 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Greenwood. tnrbaroque.org

dance Ballroom Dance. USA Dance Charlottesville leads a class and social dance. $5–10, 7pm. The Center, 540 Belvedere Blvd. usa dancecville.org Elevate. DJ Bristol, DJ Improvize, and DJ Cadence support The Blue Ridge area food bank with a dance party. Free, 10pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. 234-4436

Raised by Wolves—with Leah Naomi Green and Kaveh Akbar. The authors read from their essays in Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology. Free, 10am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com Spellbound Poetry Slam. Led by Michelle Dodd. Free, 8pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 306 E. Main St. thebridgepai.org Storytime. Readings of recent favorites and classics. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

classes

Paint the Northern Lights in Watercolor.

Learn the watercolor wet-on-wet technique. $30, 2pm. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste C. scrappyelephant.com

Phuong-Duyên Hai Nguyên weaves hope and healing

Sunday 1/28 music Music Bingo. Listen to songs and win gift card prizes. Free, 2pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarm andwinery.com The Record Company. Performing the Roll With It Tour. $22–25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

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t wasn’t creating the artwork that challenged fiber artist Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn as she prepared for New City Arts’ January 2024 SOUP competition. It was the audience.

“I’m terrified of public speaking,” she says.

“I’m terrified of being perceived by others in general, and ideally I’d like to stay in a corner and make things in relative peace and quiet.”

In the process of competing at SOUP, a semi-annual community dinner series to create a crowdfunded grant for a Charlottesville-area artist, Nguyễn faced her public-speaking fears. With the support of friends and speaking coaches, and lots of practice, she delivered her pitch—for a new installation, her largest yet—and took home $4,235, SOUP’s biggest grant to date.

The common thread throughout Nguyễn’s fiber constructions is a geometry that lends structure and evokes resilience in the pieces.

Some are gauzy, drapey nets of thread and cloth, both fragile and strong, and other collections, like “Constructions,” displayed at the Welcome Gallery in 2020, provoke the mind with fuzzy abstract sculptures that pop with imaginative colors, objects, and textures.

A 2015 UVA graduate, Nguyễn started out pre-med, but left with a B.A. in studio arts and art history. “I walked into my first chem class, eyes glazed over the syllabus, and realized I’d rather go outside and draw,” she says.

Art provided Nguyễn a sense of place and familiarity, something that was some-

Three Notch’d Road Presents Clarinet Quintet: Mozart’s Viennese Heritage. See listing for Saturday, January 27. Free–$30, 4pm. Grace Episcopal Church, 5607 Gordonsville Rd., Keswick. tnrbaroque.org Ty Burkhardt. A solo acoustic performance.

Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

dance BRIMS Ceol and Ceili. Irish music and dance. $5–10 suggested donation, 3pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. blueridgeirishmusic.org

classes Paint & Sip: Cardinal Love. Paint, sip, and repeat. $35, 2pm. Tasting Room and Taphouse at Mount Ida Reserve, 5600 Moonlight Dr., Scottsville. catelynkelseydesigns.com

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Silent Book Club. Grab a drink and read in quiet camaraderie. Free, 12:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

Monday 1/29 music Vincent Zorn. A lively blend of rumba guitar.

Free, 6:30pm. South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. vincentzorn.com

Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn sews up a big win at SOUP. The fiber artist’s grant will support a new installation opening on Friday May 3 at Welcome Gallery.

times hard to find as an immigrant from Vietnam who arrived in the United States as a teenager. Wanting to fit in, but finding herself stuck between cultures, she says she turned to art to carve out her own space and find comfort.

Her fiber installations are a road map to solace, and finding it, whether in a physical place or inside ourselves. “My work is ultimately about home—what it takes to build/ rebuild a home, to process the loss of and longing for a homeland, to build a life while yearning to belong,” she says. “As much as my work speaks to loss and longing, I want it to also convey hope and healing. And that’s why I sew because I think of sewing as a tender and healing act.”

words Profs & Pints: How Pirates Changed the World. With UVA associate professor of history Joshua M. White. $13, 5:30pm. Graduate Charlottesville, 1309 W. Main St. profsandpints.ticketleap.com Storytime. Songs, movement, bubbles, and stories. Included with admission, 10:30am.

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

Tuesday 1/30 music Joseph. Oregon-bred indie-pop. $29–129, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Vincent Zorn. Olé! Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 201 W. Main St. thebebedero.com

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Farmers Market at Ix. Enjoy a range of products, from produce and meat to fresh baked goods and art. Free, 9am. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

Three Notch’d Run Club. Log some miles and enjoy a $5 post-run beer. Free, 6pm.

Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery, 520 Second St. SE. threenotchdbrewing.com

“Nowhere” by Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn

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Make a HEART. Make a heart in this Valentine’s Day themed class. $25, 10am. The Scrappy Elephant, 1745 Allied St., Ste C. scrappyelephant.com

The Greatest Showman Sing-along. See listing for Friday, January 26. $15, noon, 3:30 and 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

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Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Meet and Greet. Meet some native animal ambassadors. Free, 1:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

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Connecting points

Met Live in HD: Carmen. English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut. $20– 26, 1pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

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Waste Not, Want Not. UVA assistant professor JT Bachman shares how he and his students have reprocessed waste into new building material prototypes and long-lasting functional objects. Free, noon. Campbell Hall Corner Gallery, UVA Grounds. arch.virginia.edu

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Addiction and identity Debut fiction from poet Kaveh Akbar searches for true self in sobriety

By Sarah Lawson arts@c-ville.com

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Like the character he crafted in Cyrus, Akbar was born in Tehran and is a writer in recovery. Iranian American identity and addiction are central themes across his two collections of poetry and a chapbook titled Portrait of the Alcoholic. Some of the poems in these collections lay groundwork for Martyr!—anecdotes and phrasings repeated and reworked, the creative process of the writer re-shaping the stories of his life, rethinking the meanings that can be inferred on the page. A more abstracted version of this can also be seen in the zine (available at martyrzine. com) that Akbar made to accompany the novel.

For Cyrus, the shift in his status quo comes when he decides to write a book about martyrs as a way to pursue his interest and reinvigorate his own creative process. He soon embarks on a journey to meet Orkideh, a dying Persian artist, whose final exhibit is an Abramović-esque installation in which she talks to museumgoers about death. Enmeshed with Cyrus’ pilgrimage are stories told from the points of view of family and friends, as well as sections of Cyrus’ draft manuscript and dream sequences, including

Kaveh Akbar will read from and discuss Martyr! with Henry Hoke in a free event at New Dominion Bookshop on January 26.

If you or someone you know is experiencing substance use issues, Region Ten offers resources and support services that may be able to help. Learn more at regionten.org.

Clarinet Quintet Mozart’s Viennese Heritage

Celebrate Mozart’s Birthday weekend with his Clarinet Quintet, K.581 (1789) alongside one of his clarinet quartets and a string quartet by Josef Haydn (Opus 76) performed on period instruments.

Clarinetist Dominic Giardino, violinists Aisslinn Nosky & Fiona Hughes, violist Natalie Kress, & cellist Benjamin Wyatt.

Nosky “offered Haydn at his most virile, most persuasive, but also his most playful…”

—San Diego Union-Tribune

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oet Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr!, explores themes of addiction and sobriety, grief and grace, trauma and love. Rich with Daedalian prose, this semi-autobiographical bildungsroman tells the story of Cyrus Shams, a young Iranian American poet and recovering alcoholic.

Born in Iran but currently living in an Indiana college town, Cyrus is drifting, purposeless, and largely unattached. A couple of years into sobriety, he is struggling to learn how to live and write again.

The high-highs and the low-lows mostly disappeared when he quit drinking, but the poet wrestles with understanding what remains, what meaning his life holds. His days are loosely constructed around a few people. He is removed from the world, mourning his isolation while also nursing it.

This apartness is rooted in his family history.

Akbar weaves his own with Cyrus’ experiences to create an intricate tapestry of a narrative. Cyrus grew up in the U.S., with his father moving from Iran to escape the grief of losing his mother, who died when her flight to Dubai was accidentally shot down. As a novelist, Akbar skillfully fuses fiction with history, modeling this aspect of the story on the real-life tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, a commercial airliner that was mistakenly attacked by the USS Vincennes in 1988. The book grapples with what it means, politically and personally, that this kind of tragedy can kill hundreds of people, leaving others—like Cyrus—forever traumatized, and yet be largely unremembered by many Americans.

The fictionalized version of this trauma is at the root of the questions that Cyrus chases through the pages of Martyr!: What makes a death—and, in turn, a life—meaningful and who gets to interpret that meaning. “My mom died for nothing… She had to share her death with three hundred other people,” Cyrus reflects. “My dad died anonymously after spending decades cleaning chicken shit on some corporate farm. I want my life—my death—to matter more than that.” And so Cyrus becomes obsessed with martyrdom, historically but also as a way of indulging his own thanatotic temptations.

one in which Orkideh cuts off fingers to buy Bruegel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” hinting at the sacrifices made for art, for poetry.

Through these structural elements, Akbar creates a dynamic experience of past and present while also setting up a Socratic dialogue of sorts, as the character’s contributions combine to explore the acts of care that give life meaning when we share and hold each other’s stories as modes of healing and love.

There is inquiry into the roles people play, the performances we offer, even to those we care about, protecting them from ourselves—which is also to say, preventing the possibility for true connection.

In a flashback, Cyrus’s AA sponsor Gabe offers the advice, “Quit things in the order they’re killing you.” This is shared to help Cyrus address more serious addictions before attempting to quit smoking, but it also implies less visible dependencies on beliefs that can also kill us from within. Cyrus discovers that sobriety does not heal him but rather uncovers things he spent years dissociating from, mindsets that prove to be as difficult to kick as any substance. Substance use had been his core coping method, and Martyr! explores the ethics of self-pity, the narcissism of addiction, and what comes after.

Cyrus begins to reexamine the beliefs he has held about the world and himself, to rebuild trust, and to share his life with others.

In this nimble debut, Akbar avoids the pitfalls of a hero’s journey in which a character ends up at sobriety, choosing instead to examine the opportunities for grace and transformation within a life of sobriety. He chronicles how Cyrus spends his time, how he finds redemption in his ongoing recovery process, and how he understands himself in the world. In the end, Cyrus’ quest leads him to an increased capacity for self-reflection, accountability, and love. He is no longer able to blame fate or family for his life’s ordeals, while neither wanting to let go of that life so easily nor hold it too close within himself.

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THE HOW TO’S MAKE THE MOST OF THESE SEVEN DELICIOUS DAYS! The very first C-VILLE Restaurant Week had foodies buzzing and tables filling up faster than a top chef can slice a ripe tomato. Ditto for this one in winter 2024. Getting in on the fun is easy–but it requires a little planning.

Here’s how.

STEP 1:

Mark your calendar for Monday, January 29th Sunday, February 4th

STEP 2:

Peruse the menus from the participating restaurants to decide which ones suit your fancy. With so many participating, you can’t visit one every night!

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Call each restaurant directly to make your reservation, and mention that you’re coming in specifically for Restaurant Week. Reservations are first-come, first-served and chefs report that interest has been running high, so don’t tarry.

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Show up on time, and make sure you’re dressed to make your mama proud, since some of the participating establishments have dress codes.

STEP 5:

Make sure you order off the special “Restaurant Week” menu, as some of the participating restaurants will also offer their regular—i.e. more expensive— menu. (Everyone will be dismayed, and you might end up washing dishes, if you order the $65 flaming surf and turf that’s not part of the special prix fixe menu.)

STEP 6:

Savor your meal, and when paying your bill, please remember that drinks, tax and tips are not included.

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RESTAURANT WEEK | 2024 APPETIZERS Edamame Seaweed Salad Kani Salad Shanghai Spring Roll Salt & Pepper Calamari Ahi Tuna Chip Gyoza Shumai Duck/Pork Bao MAKI ROLL Your choice of one classic Maki Roll!

Soft drink included!

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MAIN Hibachi Chicken / Hibachi Vegetable Choice of Ramen Choice of Specialty Roll

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Bistro Steak Frites: grilled flat iron steak, garlic butter, grilled asparagus, parmesan truffle fries (+$5)

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Bread Pudding: bourbon marinated banana,

Acrobat Pinot Gris $11

walnuts, caramel, vanilla ice cream

Eos Pinot Noir $9

Rockslide Brownie Sundae: warm triple chocolate-caramel-pecan brownie, vanilla ice cream

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$30 wine pairing pick one of each potato and leek soup hazelnut, honey

2021 chablis - chateau de fleys - france

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apple, duck sausage, belgian endive 2020 garnacha - vina galana - spain

cured sardines

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2020 muscadet - loire valley - france

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roast duck

calvados, apple, potato

2021 cabernet sauvignon - red hills - california

trout

celery root, farro, sweet potato 2022 albarino - vina cartin - spain

tagliatelle

pumpkin cream, leeks, truffle

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2021 chardonnay - santa lucia highlands - california

chocolate torte carrot cake

cava - sant marcal - spain *meat and fish served undercooked may increase your risk of foodborne illness

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R E S TAU R A N T W E E K JAN 29 – FEB 4, 2024 EXCLUDING SUNDAY PRIX FIXE, $35/PERSON

FIRST Roasted Golden Beets chermoula, almonds, honey goat cheese | V / GF / CN

Gyro Chicken Dumplings tirokafteri, tzatziki, pickled onion, herbs

Tuna Carpaccio* crispy rice ball, salsa macha | GF / CN

MAIN Braised Pork Cheek Ragout bucatini, shaved parmesan, herbs

Spice Rubbed Salmon roasted cauliflower purée, confit onion, golden raisin, swiss chard | GF

Marsala Mushroom Toast grilled artichoke, baby arugula, pistou | V

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DESSERT Sweet Potato Pear Spice Cake pepita brittle, chai caramel | GF / V

Compressed Cantaloupe honey vanilla labneh, brown sugar, oat crumble, basil | GF / V

Chocolate Graham Cracker Ice Cream marshmallow fluff | V

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Restaurant Week January 2024, $35 STARTER CHARGRILLED OYSTERS Half dozen oysters, French bread, garlic butter, parmesan cheese.

GUMBO Deep brown roux, chicken, sausage, onions and celery.

Slow cooked for over four hours and served with rice.

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PIEROGIES IN TRUFFLE SAUCE Homemade garlic mash pierogies, kale, tomatoes, porcini truffle crème sauce.

KALE GOAT CHEESE SALAD Organic kale, spring mix, carrots, almonds, tomatoes, balsamic vinaigrette, pickled onions.

MAIN JAMBALAYA Pulled chicken, celery, andouille sausage, peppers. Served with rice.

SALMON WITH ROSEMARY LEMON BUTTER Pan seared salmon, walnut spinach mushroom risotto.

BASIL PESTO PENNE Tomatoes, onions, cremini mushrooms.

Served with creamy basil garlic sauce.

VEGAN PIE Cauliflower, zucchini, eggplant, cremini mushrooms, red potatoes, organic kale, phyllo dough, caramelized onions.

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FIRST COURSE • arancini: crispy fried risotto, fresh mozz, chunky tomato sauce

• apple + pear salad: mesclun + frisee greens, candied pecans, blue cheese, honey balsamic vinaigrette

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• hot artichoke + spinach dip: mozz, roasted garlic, tortilla chips

SECOND COURSE • fire + smoke pasta: grilled chicken, fire + smoke sauce, asparagus, edamame, garlic butter, pecorino romano, fettuccine • mediterananian fusion pizza: crushed tomatoes, mozz, italian sausage, spinach, spanish onions + garlic puree • bbq baby back ribs: 18-hour pork ribs, cornbread, coleslaw

THIRD COURSE • cheesecake: new york style, whipped cream, strawberry • classic brownie: chocolate brownies, vanilla ice cream, salted chocolate sauce

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• chocolate chip bread pudding: generous portion of chocolate and love, smothered with banana and maple goodness

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Please choose one cheese fondue. Served with artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping.

Choose one cheese fondue Classic Alpine RESTAURANT WEEK 2024 MENU RESTAURANT WEEK 2024 MENU

Green Goddess Cheddar

Please choose one cheese fondue. Served artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggiesRaclette, for dipping.

Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Fontina, White Wine, fromwith our dinner menu.

Beer, Garlic, Green Goddess, Black Garlic, Nutmeg Green Goddess Choose one cheese fondue Classic Alpine Pepper Cheddar Please choose one cheese fondue. Served with artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping.

Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, White Wine, from our dinner menu.

Please choose Black one cheese fondue. Served with artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping.

Beer, Garlic, Green Goddess, Garlic, Nutmeg Green Goddess Cheddar Choose one cheese fondue Classic Alpine Pepper Green Goddess Cheddar Choose one cheese fondue Classic Alpine Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, White Wine, from our dinner menu.

Please choose Black one cheese fondue. Served with artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping.

Beer, Cheddar, Garlic, Green Goddess, Garlic, Nutmeg White Wine, Aged Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, from our dinner menu.

Our selection of premium cured meats, artisan crackers and accompaniments.

Pepper Beer, Garlic, Green Goddess, Black Garlic, Nutmeg Green Goddess Cheddar Choose one$14.95 cheese fondue Classic Alpine Please choose one cheese fondue. Served with artisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping.

Pepper Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, White Wine, from our dinner menu.

Our selection of premium cured one meats, artisan crackers Beer, Garlic, Green Goddess, Black Garlic, Nutmeg Green Goddess Cheddar Choose cheese fondueand accompaniments.

Classic Alpine $14.95 Pepper Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, White Wine, from our dinner menu.

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Beer, Garlic, Green Goddess, Black Garlic, Nutmeg Our selection offondue. premium cured meats, and accompaniments.

Please choose oneAll cheese Served with artisanartisan breads and seasonal fruit and veggies for dipping. entrées include seasonal vegetables andcrackers signature dipping sauces.

Pepper $14.95 Our selection of premium cured meats, artisan crackers and accompaniments.

Bourbon Bacon Cheddar Choose one$14.95 cheese fondue Lover’s Delight Eat Your Veggies

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Aged Cheddar, Emmenthaler, Lager Gruyère, Raclette, Fontina, White Wine, from dinner menu.

All entrées include seasonal vegetables and signature dipping sauces.

Herb-crusted Chicken Zucchini Our selection of premium curedour meats, artisan crackers and accompaniments.

Beer, Bacon, Dry Mustard, Garlic, Garlic, Nutmeg • Brown Sugar Bourbon Rub Steak Asparagus $14.95 Eat Worcestershire, Bourbon Lover’s • AtlanticDelight Salmon MiniYour SweetVeggies Peppers All Mushroom entrées include seasonal vegetables and crackers signature dipping sauces.

Our Wild selection of premium cured meats, artisan and accompaniments.

Ravioli Impossible™ Polpettes Herb-crusted Chicken Zucchini $14.95 All entrées include seasonal vegetables and signature dipping sauces.

Wild Mushroom Ravioli • BrownLover’s Sugar Bourbon Rub Steak Asparagus Delight Eat Your Veggies • Atlantic Salmon Mini Sweet Peppers Lover’s Delight Eat Your Veggies Herb-crusted Chicken Zucchini Wild Ravioli Impossible™ Polpettes AllMushroom entrées include seasonal dipping sauces.

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Atlantic Salmon Mini Asparagus Sweet Peppers • Brown •Sugar Bourbon Rub Steak Lover’s Delight Eat Your Veggies 13.49 per plate Wild Mushroom Ravioli Impossible™ entrées•Salmon include and signature dipping sauces.

•AllAtlantic Mini Sweet Peppers Add aseasonal lobster vegetables tail to your entrée.

14.99 • Polpettes Herb-crusted Chicken Zucchini Wild Mushroom Ravioli Wild Mushroom Ravioli Impossible™ Polpettes • BrownLover’s Sugar Bourbon Rub Steak Asparagus Delight Eat Mushroom Your Veggies Wild Ravioli • Atlantic Salmon Mini Sweet Peppers Herb-crusted Zucchini • Chicken Add a lobster tail to your entrée. 14.99 • Wild Mushroom Ravioli Impossible™ Polpettes • Brown Sugar Bourbon Rub Steak Asparagus All entrées include seasonal vegetables and signature dipping sauces.

Our entrées can be prepared with any of the premium cooking stylesPeppers listed below.

Wild Ravioli • Atlantic Salmon MiniMushroom Sweet • Add a lobster tail to your entrée.

14.99 • Polpettes Wild Mushroom Ravioli Impossible™ The Vegetarian Bourguignonne Choice Cuts Combination Coq au Vin Mojo Cast Iron Grill • Add a lobster tail to your entrée.

14.99 • Wild Mushroom Ravioli Chicken Asparagus Canola Oil, Panko, SesameOurHerb-crusted Burgundy Mushrooms, Garlic, Tabletop Grilling entrées can beWine, prepared with any of the Caribbean-Inspired, premium cooking styles listed below.

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Shrimp Wild Mushroom Sacchetti Canola Oil, Panko, SesameOur entrées Burgundy Mushrooms, Garlic, Tabletop Grilling Our entrées can be prepared with any of the premium cooking styles listed below.

Featured Zucchini Tempura Batter Scallions, Garlic Cilantro, Citrus •Ravioli Add lobster tail to your entrée.

14.99 • Bourguignonne Coq auaVin Mojo Cast Iron Grill Vegetable Polpettes Bourguignonne Coq au Mushrooms, Vin Mojo Cast Iron Grill Canola Oil, Panko, Sesame Burgundy Wine, Caribbean-Inspired, Garlic, Tabletop Grilling can beWine, prepared with any of the Caribbean-Inspired, premium cooking styles listed below.

Tempura Batter Scallions, Garlic Cilantro, Citrus Canola Oil, Panko, SesameOur entrées Burgundy Mushrooms, Garlic, Tabletop Grilling Tempura Batter Scallions, Garlic Cilantro, Citrus Served with a variety ofCoq sweet treats chocolate fondue per cooktop.

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Candy Served Bar with a variety of sweet Choose one chocolate fondue Crème Brûlée treats and fresh fruits. Choose one chocolate fondue per cooktop.

Canola Oil, Panko, Sesame Burgundy Wine, Mushrooms, Caribbean-Inspired, Garlic, Tabletop Grilling The creamy flavor of milk chocolate, The buttery flavor of white chocolate is to complete your meal.

Tempura Batter Scallions, Garlic Cilantro, Citrus caramel and crunchy peanutOur butter are can be prepared mixed with crème caramel, topped with entrées withdessert any of the premium cooking styles listed below.

See our menu for allone the chocolate with a variety treats and fresh fruits. Choose fondue per cooktop.

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Puffs, Macarons, blondies, Cheesecake ® Please choose one chocolate fondue.Cream Enjoy fresh strawberries, bananas, pineapple, marshmallow treats, Baileys Irish Cream. caramel and crunchy peanut butter are mixed with crème caramel, topped with $35 per person $3.50 Each | $9.50 For All Three See our dessert menu for all the pound cake and brownie for dipping with your choice of the following chocolate fondues.

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Bananas Choose one chocolate fondue Berries & Cream $3.50Puffs, Each |per $9.50 ForCheesecake All Three Cream Macarons, $35 person The buttery flavor of white chocolate is Wildberry purée and mascarpone toTax complete your meal. $3.50 Each | $9.50 For All Three and gratuity not included. melted with bananas & dulce de leche, cheese are melted with the rich flavor of See our dessert menu for all the Cream Puffs, Macarons, Cheesecake and flambéed. dark chocolate. $35 per person decadent details. $3.50 | $9.50 For All Three TaxEach and gratuity not included. $35 per person

$8 Specialty Cocktails

$8 Specialty Cocktails

20% offgratuity Bottles of Wine Tax and not included.

Cream Puffs, Macarons, Cheesecake $3.50 Each | $9.50 For All Three

$35 Sangria Pitchers

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20% Bottles of Wine $35 Sangria Pitchers $35Charlottesville, per person 501 E Water St, VA 22902 Cream Puffs, Macarons, Cheesecake Tax and gratuity not included.

(434) 244-3463 •Bottles meltingpot.com $8 Specialty Cocktails 20% inform off of Pot Wine Sangria 7.25 per plate Before placing your order, please a Melting team member if a$35 person in your Pitchers party has a food allergy. $8 Specialty Cocktails 20% off Bottles of Wineof certain ingredients. $35 Sangria Pitchers *Our fondue-style service may result in the undercooking Consuming raw or undercooked Before placing your order, please inform a Melting Pot team member if a person in your party has a food allergy.

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APPETIZERS Fried Green Tomatoes

Goat Cheese Salad

NOLA Style BBQ Shrimp

whipped pimento cheese, baby arugula, pickled red onion, balsamic redux, basil oil | GF

mixed greens, fresh goat cheese, grilled pears, crisp apples, red grapes, candied walnuts, creamy red wine vinaigrette | GF, V*

sweet shrimp sautéed with worcestershire-crystal hot sauce spiked butter sauce, crispy grit cake, grilled baguette | GF*

ENTREES Southern Style Beef Stew

Smoked House Made Vegan Kielbasa

slow braised burner’s beef, mushrooms, carrots, sweet onions, green peas, tomatoes, crispy new potatoes, rich beef gravy | GF, DF

vegan kielbasa, brown sugar baked beans, cole slaw, gluten free corn muffins, molasses bbq sauce (contains dried mushrooms) | GF, V

Buttermilk Fried Chicken Leg Quarter

Blackened Wild Caught Catfish

garlic mashed potatoes, braised collard greens, hot honey drizzle

creole rice pilaf, garlic green beans, creole mustard cream sauce, | GF

DESSERTS Apple-Almond Crisp

house made vanilla pudding, vanilla wafers,

coconut milk-vanilla bean ice cream | GF, V

fresh bananas, whipped cream, salted caramel • *consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness • GF: Gluten Free GF*: Can Be Made Gluten Free DF: Dairy Free V: Vegan V*: Can Be Made Vegan • a 20% gratuity may be added to parties of 6 or more

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SERVED FROM 5 P.M. TO 10 P.M. DAILY

CHOOSE ONE A LITTLE BIGGER

SMALL PLATES CRAB CAKES Roasted shallot remoulade

PRIME STEAK FRITES* Chimichurri, tarragon aioli, confit vegetables, fries

GRILLED WINGS Maple, harissa

STRIPED BASS Roasted fennel, beurre rouge

CHEESE BOARD Meadow Creek Farm cheeses, Preservation Society fig spread, bread

SHRIMP Grits, ham, tomato, Cajun spices, parmesan cheese

C VA SAUSAGES H House spicy beer mustard, pickles, bread O O SOUPS & SALADS S SOUP OF THE DAY E

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CONSERVATORY BURGER* 6oz beef patty, pimento cheese, crispy country ham, house pickles, challah bun, fries SUB BEYOND BURGER

CAESAR Caesar dressing, tomatoes, parmesan, croutons

FLATBREAD DU JOUR Changes on a whim

AHI TUNA NIÇOISE* Greens, egg, confit tomato, tapenade vinaigrette, herb potatoes, string beans

CHOOSE ONE

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GEARHART’S FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE Salted caramel, citrus, berries, chocolate bark

SHARES TRUFFLE ROASTED FINGERLING POTATOES

VIRGINIA PIE Seasonal selection, serves two-ish

ROASTED SWEET POTATOES Local honey MAC & CHEESE Applewood-smoked bacon

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Gluten-friendly bread available upon request. *Consuming raw or undercooked meats / poultry / seafood / shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness. Please notify us of any food allergies.

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Soulful Mediterranean Cuisine in historic downtown Charlottesville, VA

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FIRSt COURSE Classic Caesar Salad: romaine hearts, garlic croutons, Parmigiano Reggiano Mixed Lettuces Salad: grapes, red onion, toasted almonds, Manchego cheese, Sherry vinaigrette Classic Minestrone Soup: white beans, ditalini pasta, fennel, Parmigiano Reggiano, basil oil 18 Month Prosciutto di Parma Bruschetta: fresh mozzarella, basil oil, grilled ABC baguette Orzo’s Hummus: chickpeas, tahini, lemon, olive oil & garlic, served with ABC baguette

MAIN COURSE Spaghetti Pomodoro: tomato, garlic, basil, Parmigiano, olive oil Peasant Beef & Pork Bolognese: rigatoni pasta, pomodoro, chili flakes, cream Red Wine Risotto: roasted local Sharondale mushrooms, “cacio e pepe” butter Grilled Marinated Pork Tenderloin: black lentils, dried cherry mostarda, smoked paprika aioli Peppercorn Crusted NY Sirloin Steak (Add $7): duck fat potatoes, caramelized onions, Vermouth-mushroom sauce Fish of the Night (Add $7): root vegetable cioppino, smoked tomatoes, PEI mussels, Atlantic squid

DESSERT

RESTAURANT WEEK MENU Three Courses starting at $35.00 plus drinks, tax and service

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Semisweet Chocolate Pot de Crème: whipped cream, shaved chocolate Spanish Olive Oil & Rosemary Cake: lemon curd, whipped cream Classic Tiramisu: espresso soaked lady fingers, Kahlua Mascarpone, cocoa powder Vanilla Bean Gelato: chocolate chip espresso cookie

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FIRST COURSE: Shrimp Cocktail: lemon, bourbon cocktail sauce Fried Green Tomatoes: corn salsa,, chipotle aoli, dressed arugula Skillet Cornbread: honey, cracked black pepper, chives, whipped butter

SECOND COURSE: Shrimp & Grits: cheesy grits, andouille sausage, smoked bacon, cajun cream Chicken and Waffles: 4 pcs fried chicken thighs, cheddar waffles, bourbon maple syrup spinach, mushrooms add blackened or grilled salmon +10

THIRD COURSE: Banana Bread Pudding Creme Brulee

SUGGESTED WINES Acrobat Pinot Gris $11 Ruffino Prosecco $10

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Smoked Sausage Link, Smoked Pulled Pork, House BBQ Sauce

Shrimp & Grits Creole Cream Reduction, Bell Peppers, Onions, Leeks

Cream Spinach with Sweet Potato Gnocchi THIRD COURSE Bread Pudding with Maple Vanilla Sauce Pecan Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream Bourbon Apple Pie Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream BEERS OR SHOTS FOR THE KITCHEN - $20 Show your appreciation for our hardworking kitchen staff with a round of after-work beers or shots

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Vorspeisen & Suppen Winter Spinach Salat

w/ almonds, grape tomatoes, egg & candied bacon in pomegranate vinaigrette

Zwiebel Suppe

house recipe hearty onion soup, topped w/ croutons, mozzarella & Gruyere cheese

Kleinehaxen

crispy mini-pork shanks w/ brandied sugar beet glaze over Bavarian slaw

Sauerkraut Balls

w/ corned beef, potatoes, Sauerkraut & a zesty dipping sauce

Hauptspeisen Slow Roasted Ribeye

w/ scalloped potatoes & Münchener horseradish gravy

Venison Medaillons

flamed in black peppercorn cognac cream sauce, served over sweet potato mousse

Bacon-wrapped Pork Tenderloin

stuffed w/ Debreziner sausage, served w/ Dunkel Bier sauce

Flounder Schnitzel w/ lemon curry aioli

Nutella Chocolate Torte layered cake w/ chocolate ganache

Lemon Curd Cheesecake w/ fresh berries

Frankfurter Kranz

German buttercream cake sprinkled w/ Krokant

Pretzel Bread Pudding w/ Jack Daniels whiskey sauce

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FIRST COURSE

BEBEDERO NACHOS

Tortilla chips, Bebedero queso, black beans, pickled veggies, cotija cheese, cilantro. Choice of Suadero, chorizo, chicken tinga, cauliflower, or crispy exotic mushrooms

CAULIFLOWER WINGS

Tossed in salsa Valentina, cilantro dressing, pickled red onions, cilantro

CEVICHE AL MEZCAL*

White fish, calamari, red peppers, dried chile, serrano, cucumber, shallot, cilantro.

SECOND COURSE SHRIMP AND GRITS

Gumbo shrimp, morita cheesy grits, smoked pico salsa

SALMON RISOTTO (MEXICAN STYLE) Rice, shiitake mushrooms, Chihuahua cheese, shallots, garlic, oregano, mezcal, pico de gallo, Manchego grated cheese

ENCHILADAS SUIZAS

Stuffed with spicy shredded chicken and cheese.

Topped with jalapeño Creme, Oaxaca cheese, pickled red onions, cortina, crema

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THIRD COURSE TRES LECHES

Sponge cake with strawberries soaked in a mixture of condensed milk, evaporated milk, and cream, crispy cookie crumbs

CHURROS

Cajeta filled churros, whipped cream, topped with kahlua-beailes rum sauce, crispy cookie crumbs

225 West Main St. Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-234-3763 www.thebebedero.com

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JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE WALNUT PESTO

SHAVED BRUSSELS SPROUTS SUNFLOWER SEEDS, POMEGRANATE, BALSAMIC VINEGAR

SECOND COURSE CHOICE OF

BONE MARROW OXTAIL MARMALADE, TART APPLE-PARSLEY PERSILLADE, PICKLED MUSTARD SEED, GRILLED BREAD

SHRIMP COCKTAIL TOMATILLO COCKTAIL SAUCE, LIME

THIRD COURSE CHOICE OF

DUCK RAGU PAPPARDELLE, PARMIGIANO-REGGIANO

VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN TROUT CHICKEN ROULADE MUSHROOM DUXELLES, COGNAC SAUCE

FOURTH COURSE CHOICE OF

*consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions.

540 MASSIE RD, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22903 (434) 365-2590

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HUCKLEBERRY BREAD PUDDING CHOCOLATE CHUNK SKILLET SEASONAL SORBET (GF /DF /V)

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WARM GRAIN SALAD, ROMESCO, ALMONDS

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$45 WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK STARTERS CARROT COCONUT BISQUE (vegan | gluten-free)

CLASSIC CAESAR SALAD hearts of romaine, croutons, parmesan, tomato, pickled red onion (vegetarian)

PROVOLONE STUFFED MEATBALL in warm marinara sauce

OCTOPUS CARPACCIO pistachio gremolata, crispy shoestring potatoes, aioli (gluten-free | contains nuts)

OLD SCHOOL CALAMARI fried crispy, julienne vegetables, honey soy vinaigrette

MAINS CALABRIAN CHILI SHRIMP RAVIOLI braised fennel, saffron white wine cream

SHORT RIB STROGANOFF over mushroom tortellini

MUSHROOM TOMATO RAGOUT creamy polenta, pistachio gremolata, parmesan (vegetarian | vegan available | gluten-free | contains nuts)

LASAGNA BOLOGNESE homemade pasta, pork ragú, chopped meatballs

EGGPLANT PARMESAN spicy spaghetti marinara, herbed ricotta

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DESSERT APPLE CRUMBLE PIE à la mode with vanilla ice cream

COOKIE BROWNIE chocolate chip cookie/brownie lovechild, à la mode with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce

PASSIONFRUIT CRÉME BRÛLÉE (gluten-free)

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PEANUT BUTTER PRETZEL CHEESECAKE (contains nuts)

$45 incudes three courses before beverage selections, tax, and gratuity.

Please no split meals or substitutions.

Do inform your server of any allergies prior to ordering.

Book your table through Resy beginning January 22nd Sunday-Thursday 5- 9 PM Friday & Saturday 5-10 PM bizoudowntown.com 434.977.1818

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CHOOSE 1 FROM 전식EACH COURSE Dakkkochi Marinated Chicken Skewers Dakkkochi Dakkkochi with Onion, Marinated Marinated Pepper, and Chicken Skewers Chicken Skewers Pineapple. with Onion, with Onion, Pepper, and Dakkkochi Pepper, and Pineapple.

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Kimchi Jeon Spicy kimchi Spicy kimchi pancakes pancakes

Kimchi Jeon Spicy kimchi pancakes

SECOND gochujang 구이 sauce, SECOND green SOY BEAN PASTE STEWonions, AND A BOWL OF RICE SECOND 구이 cabbage, and fish 구이 Chadolbaki* YangNyum SOY BEAN PASTE STEW AND A BOWL OF RICE Galbi* cake SOY BEAN PASTE STEW AND A BOWL OF RICE Fatty Beef Brisket Marinated Beef Short Rib Chadolbaki* Chadolbaki*

NeukBeef Gan Sal* Fatty Brisket Fatty Beef Brisket Rib Fingers Neuk Gan Sal* Neuk Gan Sal* Rib Fingers Rib Fingers

YangNyum Galbi* YangNyum Galbi*

Galbi JuMuLuk* Marinated Beef Short Rib Marinated Beef Short Rib Marinated Prime Rib

SECOND Galbi JuMuLuk* Galbi JuMuLuk* Prime Rib 구이 Marinated Marinated Prime Rib

Palmier, Vanilla Ice Cream, YakGwa YakGwa Sugar Powder, Raspberries Korean Traditional Neuk Gan Sal* Style Korean Traditional Style Palmier, Vanilla Ice Cream, Rib Fingers Palmier, Vanilla Ice Cream, Sugar Powder, Raspberries Sugar Powder, Raspberries

CinnamonJungGwa Powder, Vanilla Ice JungGwa Cream, Candied Ginger, PoachedGalbi KabochaJuMuLuk* Squash, Poached Kabocha Squash, Pumpkin Seeds Cinnamon Powder, Vanilla Ice Marinated Prime Cinnamon Powder, Vanilla Ice Rib Cream, Candied Ginger, Cream, Candied Ginger, Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds

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2075 434-442-4488 후식 2075 BOND BOND ST. ST. WWW.BULPANBBQ.COM. WWW.BULPANBBQ.COM. 434-442-4488

-PLEASE LIMIT PAYMENTS TO THREE PER PARTYKabocha Squash, Korean Traditional Style Poached -ITEMS MARKED WITH * MAY BE SERVED RAW OR UNDERCOOKED. -20%Cream, GRATUTITY WILL BE ADDEDCinnamon TO ALL CHECKPowder, Vanilla Ice Palmier,CONSUMING Vanilla Ice RAW OR UNDERCOOKED MEAT, TO POULTY, SEAFOOD, EGGS -20% GRATUTITY WILL BE ADDED ALL CHECK -PLEASE LIMIT PAYMENTS TO THREE PER PARTY MAY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF TO FOODBORNED ILLNESS, -PLEASE LIMIT PAYMENTS THREE Cream, PER PARTY Sugar Powder, Raspberries Candied Ginger, -ITEMS MARKED WITH * MAY BE SERVED RAW OR UNDERCOOKED. -ITEMS MARKED WITH * MAY BE SERVED RAW OR UNDERCOOKED. CONSUMING RAW OR UNDERCOOKED MEAT, POULTY, Pumpkin SEAFOOD, EGGS Seeds CONSUMING RAW OR UNDERCOOKED MEAT, POULTY, SEAFOOD, EGGS MAY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF FOODBORNED ILLNESS, MAY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF FOODBORNED ILLNESS, BOND ST. STE 180 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22901 • 434-442-4488 • BULPANBBQ.COM

2075 BOND ST. WWW.BULPANBBQ.COM. 434-442-4488

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THIRD SOY BEAN PASTE STEW 후식AND A BOWL OF RICE THIRD THIRD 후식 Chadolbaki* YangNyum Galbi* 후식 YakGwa JungGwa Fatty Beef Brisket Marinated Beef Short Rib Korean Traditional Style Poached Kabocha Squash,

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HOURS: Monday-Sunday Aperitif Hour: 4pm to 6pm Dinner: 5pm to 10pm

317 E Main St. www.cafefrankcville.com 434 825-9496

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FIRST COURSE PEAR AND ARUGALA SALAD Bosc Pear, Arugula, Blue Cheese, Candied Pecans, Saba

FRENCH GREEN LENTIL SOUP Bacon, Fermented Mirepoix, Potato, Parsley

MUSHROOM AND MEYER LEMON RISOTTO Shitake, Oyster, Cremini Mushrooms, Spinach, Fried Shallots Crumb, Sage

SECOND COURSE TURNIP PICATTA Warm Kale Salad, Walnuts, Cranberry, Asian Pear, Herb Spätzle, Caper Beurre Blanc

TROUT ALMONDINE Celery Root Puree, Wilted Spinach, Lemon Gel, Buttermilk Almond Broth, Almond Crumble Topping

ROASTED PORKLION Braised Red Wine Cabbage, Butternut Squash Gratin,

DESSERTS VANILLA POACHED BOSC PEAR Mille-Feuille, Chocolate Ganache, Almond Semifreddo

DARK CHOCOLATE LAVA CAKE Whipped Cream, Caramel Sauce, Peanut Butter Ice Cream

CITRUS ETON MESS Meyer Lemon Curd, Kumquat Marmalade, Whipped Cream, Meringue, Caramalized Quince

For reservations please call: 434-971-1800 or online at www.the-clifton.com/1799

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farm winery • craft brewery • kitchen

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charlottesville restaurant week $45

choice of

butternut squash soup

lemon creme fraiche, candied pecans, chives, ginger cinnamon dust

crawfish bisque

crawfish, smoked tomato, sherry

winter parafait

whipped butternut squash yogurt, nut crumble, shaved local apples, candied cranberries, local honey

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oysters

fire roasted oysters on the half shell, blue cheese butter, crispy tasso

shrimp & tasso

jumbo shrimp, trinity vegetables, pepper jelly, lemon butter sauce, crispy house made tasso

fried tomato crab salad

cornmeal dusted fried green tomato, jumbo lump crab, ragivote, arugula, corn, avocado, jalapeno tomato relish

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jerk pork belly

crispy jerk pork belly, coconut rice & peas, mango pineapple relish

espresso rubbed short ribs farro, ginger boy choy, guajillo gremolata

mushroom tagliatelle

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porcini infused pasta, mushroom demi, roasted tomato, black truffle ricotta, reggiano

dessert

add on option

candied pecan bread pudding

custard style bread pudding, toasted meringue, pecan praline

cookies & cream cheesecake vanilla bean whipped cream, oreo crust

sweet potato beignets

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hickory brandy syrup, powdered sugar, toasted pistachio

the tasting room & taphouse at mount ida reserve 434-286-4282 | info@mountidareserve.com www.mountidareserve.com 5931 blenheim road charlottesville, virginia 22902

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$45 Restaurant Week Menu FIRST COURSE Q SALAD Arugula, Black Kale, Blood Orange, Candied Pecans, Shaved Jicama,

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Executive Chef Chuck Adcock

Chevre, Pink Peppercorn Vinaigrette

SALMON RILLETTE Pernod, Smoked Paprika, Grilled Sourdough

DUCK CONFIT Warm Haricot Verts & Tomato Salad

MAIN COURSE DUCK Pan Roasted Breast, Blood Orange, Spinach, Almond

CASSOULET Braised Pork Cheek, Beans, Wild Boad Cranberry Sausage, Hot Italian Sausage

SMOKED LINGUINI Little Neck Clams, White Wine, Shallot

DESSERT PECAN PIE Vanilla Ice Cream

POTS DE CREME

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QUIRK HOTEL CHARLOTTESVILLE • 499 W MAIN ST, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

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C-VILLE RESTAURANT WEEK TAC O S D O R A D O S hand-made white corn tortillas, chicken, carrots, onions, peppers, topped with cabbage, chimol, and roasted tomato sauce B E E T SA L A D roasted beets, candied pecans, goat cheese, mixed greens, lemon vinaigrette,

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P E S C A D O E N TO M ATA D O 4oz grilled fish of the day, rustic roasted tomatos, chiltepe, fried shallots (vegetarian option available) P O L LO C O N TA JA DA S honduran-style grilled chicken, aderezo, chimol, fried green banana, T I R A D E A SA D O smoked braised short rib, cipollini onions, carrots, mustard bordelaise

P I STAC H I O C A K E cream cheese icing, blackberry filling, blackberry C H O C O L AT E T R E S LECHES CAKE berry compote, espresso chocolate sauce

SOUTH AND CENTRAL

Phone: (434) 202-1945 Website: southandcentralgrill.com Hours: Mon - Thurs: 5pm - 9pm Fri - Sat: 5pm - 10pm

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BUTTER LETTUCE SALAD macerated shallot vinaigrette & roquefort

CLASSIC BOUILLABAISSE traditional accompaniments

BANANA TARTE w/ scoop shop ice cream

BISON AU POIVRE herb spätzle & braised cabbage

MARINATED BEETS pistachios, wheat berries, sorrel ARCTIC CHAR TARTARE yuzu, avocado & wonton chips

WINTER SQUASH RISOTTO beurre noisette & crispy sage

CHOCOLATE-PORCINI FLOURLESS TORTE FORBIDDEN RICE PUDDING w/ mango

PHEASANT TORTELLINI parmesan foam

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PRIVATE EVENT SPACES AVAILABLE 333 WEST MAIN STREET, DOWNTOWN CHARLOTTESVILLE P: (434)293-7403 WWW.TAVERNANDGROCERY.COM

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TONIC

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Tonic’s signature pickles, preserves, and spreads (V, L)

Grilled Romaine + Radicchio Salad

cured sweet peppers, sorghum mollasses, pecorino toscano (V, L)

Creamy Potato Soup

smoked onion jam and croutons (V)

Second Course Roasted Eggplant

pistachio, pomegranate, cashew yogurt, beet + lentil salad, cilantro (V+)

Smoked Salmon Flatbread dill creme fraiche, pickled onions, egg

Winter Citrus Toast

ricotta salata, Grilled VA Sourdough, citrus, pickled fresno chilis, balsamic reduction (V, L)

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Slow Cooked Pork Belly

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roasted cauliflower, mustard greens, sour cherries (GF)

Tonic Fried Chicken herbed hot honey, Sea Island red peas, collard greens

Crispy Oyster Mushrooms + Grits cornmeal crusted oyster mushrooms, butternut squash grits, shaved Brussels sprouts, chimichuri (V+, L)

Botany in a Glass Flight Arctic G+T

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Citadelle gin, grapefruit, lime, Navy Hill tonic (L)

Cirrus vodka, green peppercorn syrup, peppermint tea, lemon, soda (L)

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Come help us kick off Restaurant Week at the Devils Backbone Backyard! Grab a beer and enter our raffle to win a $50 gift card to one of our participating restaurants! There will be up to 5 winners chosen from the attendees. Like wine? The Wine Guild of Charlottesville has graciously donated a 1-year Guild membership to to be raffled off as well!

Want to put in more than one raffle ticket? Bring a donation for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank for an extra entry! Each donation valued over $15 will receive an extra entry into the raffle. Donations may be cash, check, or shelf-stable packaged goods.

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53RD VINEYARD & WINERY

53RD WINERY AND VINEYARD 2021 Two Springs Red Vinifera Blend A few notes from winegrower and owner, Dave Drillock: Susan and I had spent over two years looking for a farm where we could bring our horses and donkeys and grow winegrapes.

We settled on a property in 2013 on the border of Albemarle and Greene County which is in the Monticello AVA. The first 8,000 of 24,000 vines were planted in 2014. The 12-acre vineyard is at an elevation of 800-1100 feet with excellent water drainage and sun exposure and more rock than we care to think about. It also has two mountain fed springs running through it at 600-700 feet which helps with cold air drainage.

Our 2021Two Springs red blend is made with grapes from this site; 56% Cabernet Franc, 26% Merlot, 17% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Two Springs is medium bodied with bright acidity and velvety tannins with notes of cherries, strawberries, raspberries and violets. Aged for 20 months in French and American oak, you can enjoy the wine now through 2029.

Besides remarkable wines, there are several reasons to visit Fifty-Third Winery and Vineyard this month. January highlights include: On Saturday, January 13th you don’t want to miss Cousins Maine Lobster Truck.

Also on the 13th, we have scheduled our popular “Taste the Future” session with yours truly, Dave Drillock, for a special tank and barrel tasting of wines soon to be bottled. On Saturday, January 27th, we have our next “Tasting Education” session with Jake Busching. Jake has worked in the Virginia wine industry for 26 years in all facets of consulting, growing and making wine. He brings a unique perspective to the VA wine Industry, and you will be tasting three of Jakes wines and three of our unreleased wines. We are looking forward to a great dialogue with Jake and our guests. Check our website, www.53rdwinery.com for the full list and to sign up for the above sessions.

So come for the wine and enjoy your visit to our meadow-like setting in rural Louisa County.

We are down to earth and love to share our enthusiasm with customers about our wine.

Open 7 days a week, 11am to 5pm. Customers are welcome to bring their own picnic baskets, chairs and blankets. In colder weather customers enjoy our tasting room or enclosed heated pavilion. Children and pets are welcome, but pets must remain on a leash and except for service dogs, outside of buildings. We look forward to seeing you at the winery!

January 27th: Tasting Series with Jake Busching (advanced ticket purchase required) February 3rd: Music for the Soul February 10th: Barrel Tasting with owner Dave Drillock (advanced ticket purchase required!)

February 14th: Sweetheart Boxes for Valentine’s day by Sauce Catering Open 7 days a week, 11 am – 5 pm Sat/Sun. 12-6 pm 13372 Shannon Hill Rd Louisa, VA 23093 (540) 894-5474 • 53rdwinery.com.

DUCARD VINEYARDS 2021 Cabernet Franc The bright and beautiful characteristics of pure Cabernet Franc shine in this Bourgueilstyle wine. Fermented and aged completely in stainless steel, this unoaked wine exhibits a floral nose, red fruits and fresh sweet herbs. This wine is perfect with beef stews and other hearty, wintery, meaty dishes.

February 11, 11:30am – 1pm We invite you to enjoy a lovely Valentine’s Sunday Brunch catered by Chef Mark Gresge of l’etoile Catering of Charlottesville and featuring the beautiful harp music of Vicky Lee. Each of the

four courses will be paired with a DuCard wine of our choice. Menu to follow soon. The beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains serve as your scenic backdrop for this elegant date with your loved one.

Weekends- Live music all weekend long! Check out our lineup on our website!

Open daily Mon-Thurs. 12-5 pm Fri. 12-9 pm Sat/Sun. 12-6 pm

calendar on website for specifics) What about the kids?

Kids can share in the experience with their own juice tasting flights and cheese boards!

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Winery Hours: WednesdaySaturday (12-8 PM); Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (12-5 PM) Pet friendly and large groups are welcome. Ample indoor and outdoor seating.

Rt 20 near the intersection with Avon Extended (5 mi from Downtown Mall) Charlottesville, VA 22902 (434) 264-6727 www.eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

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

KESWICK VINEYARDS

EASTWOOD FARM AND WINERY

2021 Trevillian Red Dark and inky in color with dark ruby edges, the nose is quite expressive with initially flavors of red berry fruit, turning darker with aeration and warmth. The lovely acidity to the wine, helps express the fruit characteristics. There are additional flavors of black tea, violet, spicy, and black pepperperfect for colder January nights!

WINTER AT THE WINERY Baby, it’s warm inside! We look forward to welcoming you to our cozy tasting room just five miles from the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville all winter long.

New at the Winery: Join us for Eastwood After Dark featuring upbeat, danceable music every Saturday night this winter.

Eastwood will also be hosting Live Music every Thursday and Friday, (all day on Saturdays), along with many special events this season.

Join us for the second Tasting Bar Takeover with Head Winemaker Jake Busching on January 19th and the popular Galentine’s Market on February 11th.

WEEKLY MUSIC SERIES Every Thursday: Live Music 5-8, $5 Glasses of Wine, Beer & Cider + Chip Pairings With Beer Flights All Day Every Friday: Live Music 5-8

Every Sundays: Music Bingo or Paint & Sip OTHER EVENTS & SPECIALS Mondays-Fridays: Lunch Specials Wednesday: Chef Tasting Series, Paint & Sip; 10% off bottles (see

February 10th- Be Mine with Wine, Wine and Dessert Pairing! (reservations required) Hours: Monday- Sunday from 10 am – 5 pm 1575 Keswick Winery Drive Keswick, Virginia 22947 Tasting Room: (434) 244-3341 ext 105 tastingroom@keswickvineyards.com www.keswickvineyards.com

MONTIFALCO VINEYARD 2021 Montifalco Vineyard Estate Meritage Red Meritage is a term used in the United States to describe red and white Bordeaux-style wines that are produced outside of the Bordeaux region in France. The term “Meritage” is a blend of “merit” and “heritage,” and it was coined by the Meritage Association in the late 1980s to promote and distinguish high quality Bordeaux style wines made in the United States. Our 2021 Estate Meritage is a harmonious blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Our winemaker, Justin Falco, offers his tasting notes but we welcome you to come and discover your own! Notes of floral and spice, blackberry, cassis, and plum flavors, along with notes of cedar, tobacco and a small hint of mint.

Enjoy our super cozy outdoor lounges and seating areas with firepits, tower heaters, wind protection, cushions, and blankets.

We also have seating in our Tasting Gallery and Barrel Room where you can enjoy our rotating collection of antique art and curiosities. We

Visit montifalcovineyard.com, text 434-989-9115, email info@ montifalco.com Adults 21+ Visitors up to 6 guests: no reservation needed to visit our farm winery 2 time Double Gold winner at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the largest US competition of American wines 1800 Fray Rd, Ruckersville, VA 22968 (434) 989-9115 montifalcovineyard.com

REVALATION VINEYARDS Verjus Dry January? We have you covered! Revalation Vineyards’ verjus is the perfect mocktail ingredient. This non-alcoholic juice produced by pressing grapes early in the season has a fresh, tart and sweet flavor. It makes an excellent spritzer or can be drunk neat. It also adds zest to sauces, dressings and marinades, without overpowering other delicate aromas in the dish.

Visit www.revalationvineyards.com for recipes.

January Hours: Friday 12pm to Sunset; Saturday 12pm to 6pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm; Monday and Thursday by reservation only.

Until February 29th - Exhibition of art pieces by Anna Marie DeMio Dowen.

January 13th & 27th - Yoga @ The Vineyard will take place 10:30-11:30am with Instructor Briana (Registration required via our website). Continue the relaxation after class with a glass of wine or a verjus spritzer.

January 25th - Sip & Learn: Wayne Cain’s presentation, The Art of Stained Glass, will will start at 6:00pm. Come and mingle at 5:30pm!

January 26th - Book Club @ The Vineyard starting at 6pm: The Fraud

by Zadie Smith.

February 2nd - Book World Meets Wine World at 5:30pm: Author Alix E. Harrow will present her book Starling House.

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Every Saturday: Live Music 1-4, Eastwood After Dark with Live Music 5-8

Bring the family or friends and enjoy live music every Saturday

Saturdays – Live Music! Check out our website for the lineup and more details.

are open by walk-in or reservation 63 Thursday through Monday Noon-5.

Final walk-in seating is 30 minutes prior to closing at which time we offer wine by the glass and bottles to go. We look forward to welcoming you to our farm winery!

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Enjoy making your own s’mores around our fire pits with a mug of hot mulled wine. Or, stay inside and enjoy live music with a seasonal flatbread or fondue. Eastwood has award-winning wines, on tap beers and ciders, and great lunch and dinner menus all week. We also have juice flights and cheese boards for the kids. Open yearround, seven days a week.

We look forward to continuing to serve all of our wonderful guests this winter during our daily hours of 10am-5pm (last pour at 4:45).

We offer first come, first served seating under our tent or open seating in our outdoor courtyard.

Wine is available by the flight, glass and bottle at our inside or outside service bars, with bar service inside on the weekends! A selection of pre-packaged meats, cheeses, crackers, and spreads are available for purchase as well as our new food truck which is currently open Wednesday- Sunday from 12p-4p.

Our winter tent is up and heated for you to enjoy as well!

from 12 - 4p or play a fun 9 hole of miniature golf on our new course!

(Weather permitting)ew course!

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Libra Pisces

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My hitchhiking adven(Feb. 19–March 20): In honor of this pivotal tures are finished. They were fun while I was time in your life story, I offer four proyoung, but I don’t foresee myself ever again nouncements. 1. You can now be released trying to snag a free ride from a stranger in from a history that has repeated itself too a passing car. Here’s a key lesson I learned often. To expedite this happy shift, indulge from hitchhiking: Position myself in a place in a big cry and laugh about how boring that that’s near a good spot for a car to stop. Make repeated history has become. 2. You can it easy for a potential benefactor to offer me finish paying off your karmic debt to someaone ride.you Let’s apply thisChange principle to yourtolife, hurt.

How? yourself enLibra.

I advise you to eliminate any obstacles sure you won’t ever act that way again.

3. You that with who you wounded getting what can could better interfere forgive those you you want.

Make it easy for potential beneif you forgive yourself for being vulnerable factors to 4. beEvery generous themof to them. timeand youkind. divestHelp yourself see precisely what it is you need. an illusion, you will clearly see how others’

Virgo 20-Feb. 18): “All good writing is swimming under water and holding Aquarius (Jan. your breath,” wrote author F. Scott Fitzgerald. I’d like to expand that

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Virgo writer Caskie Stinnett lived on Hamloaf, a small island off the coast of Maine.

He exulted in the fact that it looked “the same as it did a thousand years ago.” Many of the stories he

metaphor and apply it to you, Aquarius. I propose that your best thinking and decision-making in the coming weeks will be like swimming under water while holding your breath. What I mean and wrote about those experiences. “I travel a lot,” he said. “I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” is that you’ll get the best results by doing what feels unnatural. You will get yourself in the right You Virgos will make me happy in the coming weeks if you cultivate a similar duality: deepening and mood if you bravely go down below the surface and into the depths and feel your way around. published in newspapers featured this cherished home ground. But he also wandered all over the world

refining your love for your home and locale, even as you refuse to let your life be disrupted by routine.

about your destiny resembling an ancient tuous downpour that turns the river into myth, a revered fairy tale, a thousand-page a torrential surge? Personally, I encourage novel, or an epic film, you will get your wish. you to opt for the misty rain model. In the long run, you will be glad for its gentle, manageable (June 21–Julyoverflow.

22): “Life as we live it is unac-

Cancer illusions have been affecting you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In your history of togethAries companied by signposts,” wrote author Aquarius erness, how lucky and skillful you been Holly Hickler. I disagree with her assess(March 21–April 19): Arieshave author Dani inShapiro synergizing love andsixfriendship?

Have has published novels, three bestthe people you adored also been good budselling memoirs, and a host of articles in dies? you enjoyed excellent sex with majorHave magazines.

She co-founded a writer’s people you like and respect?

Accordingand to conference, teaches at top universities, my analysis of the astrological omens, these does a regular podcast. We can conclude will themes in the months. shebe is crucial successful.

Here’s hercoming secret: She feels I that hopesummoning you will risecourage to newisheights and penmore important etrate to newconfident. depths ofTaking affectionate lust, than being bold action spicy companionship, and playful sensualto accomplish what you want is more crucial ity.

Thecultivating coming weeks will be a good time than self-assurance.

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ship. Be intensely intent on basking in a sometimes unsure of what the hell he means. nurturing glow that welcomes you and loves He once wrote, “I am no one. I don’t know how you exactly as you are—and makes you feel to feel, how to think, how to love. I am a chardeeply at home in the world. acter in an unwritten novel.” And yet Pessoa expressed himself with great verve and had a wide array of interests. propose you look to (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a Iset of famous experihim as an inspirational role model in the comments, physiologist Ivan Pavlov taught dogs inghave weeks, Gemini. Be as intriguingly parato an automatic response to a particular doxical yourang dare.

Have funproviding being unfathstimulus.asHe a bell while the omable. your kaleidoscopic nature. dogs withCelebrate food they loved.

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dogs began salivating with hunger simply when they heard the bell, even though no food (June 21-JulyEver 22):since, “Rather than love, was offered.

“Pavlov’s dogs”than has money, than fame, give me truth. ” Cancerian been a phrase that refers to the ease with author Henry David Thoreaunatures said that.can I don’t which animals’ instinctual be necessarily agree.

Many of us might conditioned. I can’t help but wonder prefer what love tohave truth.

Plus, there’s the had inconvenient would happened if Pavlov used cats fact thatofifdogs we don’t enough money to instead for hishave research.

Would felines meet our basic needs, it’s hard to make truth have submitted to such scientific shenanigans? priority.

The good news is that I don’t Ia doubt it. These ruminations are my way beof lieve you will have to make a tough urging you to be more like a cat than a choice dog in between love and Resist truth anytime You the coming weeks. efforts tosoon. train you, can have them both!

There may also be more tame you, or manipulate you into compliance. money available than usual. And if so, you won’t have to forgo love and truth to get it.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before poet Louise Glück published her first book, Firstborn, it was (July.

23-Aug. 22): Before she When got married, Leo rejected by 28 publishers. it finally musician Tori Amos told the men she dated, emerged, she suffered from writer’s block.

“You havebook to accept that I like cream.

Her next didn’t appear untilice eight yearsI know it shows up onHer my hips, if you can’t after the first one. third but book arrived accept that,later, thenand leave. away.required It is non-nefive years herGo fourth angotiable. ” I years. endorse her going! approach your the use other five Slow Butforhere’s in the coming weeks.

It’s always crucial to happy ending: By the time she died at age avoid apologizing for who you really are, but 80, she had published 21 books and won the it’s especially the coming Pulitzer Prize critical and the in Nobel Prize forweeks.

LiterAnd the good news is that you now have the ature. By my astrological reckoning, you are powerattoa become in this now phase, ineven yourmore ownresolute development, commitment. can dramatically bolster comparable to You the time after Glück’s fourth your to love and celebrate your aubook:capacity well-primed, fully geared up, and ready thentic exactly as you are. to makeself robust progress.

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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to your the Bible’s book ment, especially in regard to upcoming offuture.

Matthew, Jesus thought it was difficult for Although you may not encounter wealthy people to get into heaven.

If they literal markers bearing information to guide wanted to improve their chances, he said they you, you will encounter metaphorical sigshould sell their possessions and give to the nals that are clear and strong. Be alert for poor.

Jesus mightThey not agree curthem,SoCancerian. mightwith notmy match rent for you. I’m herewhat to tellsignposts you that youroracle expectations about every now and then, cultivating spiritual should be, though. So expand your concepts riches wellappear. with pursuing material of howdovetails they might riches. And now is such a time for you, Aquarius. Can you generate money by seeking enlightenment or doing work?

Mightcalled your (July 23–Aug. 22): God’s I wrote a book increased wealth enable you to better serve Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How people in need?

Should you plan a pilgrimage the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower to a sacred sanctuary Among that will its inspire you to You with Blessings. main mesraise income? all the above, sages:your There’s high Consider value in cultivating an and dreamthat up actively other possibilities, too.best in attitude looks for the life and regards problems as potential opportunities. When I was working on the (Feb. 20): Piscean Art book,19-March no one needed to hearauthor this advice Kleiner teaches the art of writing to more than me! Even now, I still have a long non-writers.

He says this: 1.

Tell your lisway to go before mastering the outlook I teners the image you want them see first. call “crafty optimism. ” I am stilltosubject to 2.dark Give them one that encapsuthoughts andparagraph worried feelings—even lates yourI know most important points.

3. Ask though the majority of them are yourself, tune on dothe you want your irrational“What or not based truth of what’s audience to be when they leave?” happening.

Inhumming other words, I am earnestly 4.trying Provide a paragraph that sums up allbeen the to learn the very themes I have audience needs to know but is not intercalled to teach. What’s the equivalent in esting enough to putis at beginning. your life, Leo? Now anthe excellent time toI am offering youskill Kleiner’s ideas, Pisces, to upgrade your at expressing abilities feed your power to tell stories. and understandings youinteresting wish everyone had.

Now is an excellent time to take inventory of how you communicate and make any (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): 1951, filmmaker Akira enhancements thatInwill boost your impact Kurosawa madeWhy a movie adapted and influence. not aspire to from be asThe enIdiot, a novel by his favorite author Fyodor tertaining as possible?

Dostoevsky. Kurosawa was not yet as famous and influential as we would later become.

That’s why he agreed to his studio’s demand (March 21-April 19): Aries photographer to cut 99 minutes from his original 265-minWynn Bullock had a simple, effective way of ute version. But this turned out to be a bad dealing with his problems and suffering. He idea. Viewers of the film had a hard time unsaid, “Whenever I have foundstory. myself stuck derstanding the chopped-up Most of in the ways I relate to things, I return to the critics’ reviews were negative. I bring this nature. is my principal teacher, and I try to your It attention, Virgo, with two intentions: to open my whole being to what it has say.”

1. I encourage you to do minor editing ontoyour Ilabor highly recommend you experiment with of love. 2. But don’t agree to anything his in the coming weeks.

You did. are likeapproach the extensive revisions that Kurosawa primed to develop a more intimate bond with the flora and fauna in your locale. Mysterious shifts now in your deep (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Iunfolding have selected a poem for psyche are making it likely you can discover you to tape on your refrigerator door for the new of soulful in Zen natnext sources eight weeks.

It’s bynourishment 13th-century ural those you’re familiar with. poetplaces—even Wu–Men. He wrote: “Ten thousand Now is the best time to in hug trees, spy flowers in spring, theever moon autumn, /a omens in theinclouds, converse ravens, cool breeze summer, snow inwith winter. / If dance in the mud, makeby loveunnecessary in the grass. your mind isn’t and clouded things, this is the best season of your life.” My wish for you, Libra—which is also my pre(April 20): Creativity expert diction20-May for you—is that you will haveRoger extra von Oech says businesspeople tend to be less power to empty your mind of unnecessary successful as they because bethings. More than mature ever, you will bethey acutely come fixated on solving rather than content to focus on theproblems few essentials that recognizing opportunities. course, it’s appeal to your wild heart andOf tender soul. possible to do both—untangle problems and be alert for opportunities—and I’d love you to do that in the21): coming weeks. Whether or (Oct. 23-Nov. Psychologist Carl Jung not you’re a businessperson, don’t let movyour wrote, “Motherlove is one of the most skill at decoding riddles distractofyou ing and unforgettable memories ourfrom lives, tuning into the new that and will the mysterious rootpossibilities of all growth come floating intothat view. change; the love means homecoming, shelter, and the long silence from which everything begins and in which everything (May 20):yourself Geminiinauthor Fernando ends.”21-June To place rapt alignment Pessoa wrote cosmic books rhythms, and articles underyou 75 with current Scorpio, aliases. was an essayist, literary critic, transwill doHe whatever’s necessary to get a strong lator, publisher, philosopher, and oneIfofyour the dose of the blessing Jung described. great poets of the language.

A conown mother isn’tPortuguese available or is insufficient summate chameleon, he constantly for this profound immersion, findcontraother dicted himself and changed mind.woman Whenmaternal sources.

Borrowhis a wise ever read him, I’m highlyinentertained but elderI or immerse yourself Goddess wor-

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Are there ever times (April Throughout history, there when we deserve freedom to feel and has never been atotal culture without religious, express ourand voracious longings?

I say yes.

I mythical, supernatural beliefs.

The vast believe we of should all enjoy periodic of majority the world’s people havephases believed indulgence—chapters ourthat livesmean whenit’swe in magic and divinity.of Does all have the sacred duty, tuneit truethe andright, real? even Of course not. But nortodoes into thethat fullnone rangeofofitour quest forreal. fulfillment. mean is true and Ultra-raIntionalists my astrological estimation, Sagittarius, who dismiss the spiritual lifeyou are are beginning such a Everything time now. Please enjoy possessed by hubris.

I’ve said here itistoprelude the max!

Here’s a tip: For best to my oracle for you: Someresults, of the never impose urges on events in theyour nextprimal three weeks willanyone; be the never allies into giving you what resultmanipulate of magic and divinity.

Your homework you for.which Instead, longings is toyearn discern arelet andyour which aren’t. be beautiful, radiant, magnetic beacons that attract potential collaborators.

(May 21–June 20): Several wise people have assured me that the pursuit of wealth, pow(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): a Malagasy prover, popularity, andHere’s happiness isn’t as importerb: like the misty rainIfthat ant “Our as the love questisfor meaningfulness. you falls butstory floods the river.” rich, Do you feel softly your life is interesting, and want kind of love, Capricorn?This Or will do full ofthat purpose, you are successful. you that a more be imagine a featured theme forboisterous you in theversion coming would be Gemini. more interesting—like tempesmonths, If you have ever afantasized

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