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Galleries and exhibitions listings

Abundant Life 201 E. Main St., Suite Q (Above Zocalo). Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9-11am; Monday and Thursday, 1-5pm; Tuesday and Wednesday, 1-6pm. 979-5433. Through June 30: “Going with the Flow,” watercolors by Leslie Allyn.

Albemarle County Courthouse 501 E. Jeffer-son Court Sq. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 804-362-3792. Through July 31: Central Virginia Watercolor Guild Members Awards Show.

Anderson and Strudwick 414 E. Market St., Second floor. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 293-8181. Through June 30: “Folk Tails,” prints and paintings by Kate Hamel.

Angelo 220 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. Mon-day-Saturday, 11am-6pm. 971-9256. Through June 30: “China: People of the Heartland,” photographs by Sharon Beckman-Brindley.

Artifacts 109 S. First St. Monday-Friday 11am- 6pm. Saturday 10am-6pm. 244-3559. Through June 30: An exhibition of drawings by Gillie.

Art Upstairs 316 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5pm. 923-3900. Through June 30: “Postscript,” ceramics and paintings by Liliana Italiano.

Blue Ridge Beads and Glass 1724 Allied St. Monday-Saturday, 10:30am-5:30pm. 293-2876. Through June 30: Art glass and paintings by Jerry O’Dell.

Boutique Boutique 411 E. Main St., Down-town Mall. Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. 293-8400. Through July 6: “French Impressions,” works by Michele Regine.

BozArt Gallery 211 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. Wednes-day-Thursday, noon-6pm; Friday-Saturday, noon- 9pm; Sunday 1-4pm. 296-3919. Through July 2: “Faces, Places and Glazes,” paintings and tiles by Maya van Dyck.

Café Cubano 112 W. Main St., York Place, Downtown Mall. Monday-Tuesday, 6:30am-5pm; Wednesday-Saturday, 6:30am-10pm; Sunday 8am-5pm. 971-8743. Through June 30: “Last Yarn Spun,” craft sculpture by Joan Noelker.

C & O 515 E. Water St. Sunday-Thursday, 5:30-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 5:30-11pm. 971-7044. Through July 2: “On the Line,” spring paintings by Meg West.

Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library Clark Hall, McCormick Road. Monday-Thursday, 8am-2am; Friday, 8am-9pm; Sat-urday 10am-6pm; Sunday 10am-2am. 924-7200. Through January 2007: “Exquisite History: The Land of Wandering,” prints by the Printmakers Left, artists and poets from UVA’s printmaking programs.

Charlottesville Community Design Center 101 E. Main St. Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm. 984-2232. “ARTivism,” green design exhibition.

County Office Building Second Floor Lobby 401 McIntire Road. Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. 295-2486. Through August 31: Charlottesville-Albemarle Art Association presents photographs by Charles Battig and paintings by Coy Roy.

Creature Gallery 824 Hinton Ave. Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm. 284-1800. Through June 30: “Habitat and Inhabitant,” and wildlife babies and their mothers, wildlife photography by Hal Brindley.

Fellini’s #9 200 W. Market St. Tuesday-Sunday, 5-10pm. 979-4279. Through June 30: Oil paint-ings by Amy Mayotte.

Fifth Floor Gallery at Keller Williams 300 Preston Ave., Suite 500, Commonwealth Build-ing, Downtown Mall. Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm. 220-2200. Through June 30: Photography by Jenn Henderson and oil paintings by Ruth Lancaster.

Finn & Thatcher Children’s Emporium 4405 Ivy Commons. Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm; Saturday 10am-5pm. 293-3004. Through June 30: “Jay Jay’s Works,” colored glass etching in a 16th century technique by John J. Carow.

The Gallery at Fifth and Water Henderson & Everett, P.C. and Stoneking/von Storch Architects, 107 Fifth St. SE. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 979-9825. Through June 26: “Into the Realm of Color,” watercolors by Alegria Barbara Strauss.

Glo 225 E. Main St. Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday 1-5pm. 295-7432. Through June 30: New oil paintings on canvas by Christian Peri.

Home 126D Garrett St. Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. 293-1362. Through June 30: Con-temporary abstract paintings by David Boley.

Hotcakes Barracks Road Shopping Center. Monday-Saturday, 9am-8pm; Sunday 10am-6pm. 295-6037. Through June 20: “Charlottesville Seasons…,” photography by Jan Seale and Bob Brandenburger.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr., Peter Jefferson Place. Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 244-0234. Through August 19: “Mysterious Beauty: Edward L. Ruhe’s Vision of Australian Aboriginal Art;” Through August 23: “Manta Wiru (Beautiful Land): Paintings from Amata.”

La Galeria 218 W. Market St. Monday-Friday, 11am-5:30pm; Saturday 11am-3pm. 293-7003. Through June 30: “Live Artist Demon-stration,” watercolors by Richard Gross.

Lee Alter Studios 109 E. Jefferson St. 760-9658. Call for viewing.

Les Yeux du Monde 115 S. First St. Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm. 973-5566. Through July 8: “Mystery: The Leaves Series,” paintings by Jan Aronson.

Lush Life 309 E. Water St. Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm. 979-0002. Rotating local and national exhibitions. Call for information.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 1-5pm. 295-7973. Through July 2: “100% Organic,” recent paintings by Ann Therese Verkerke, “In the Wake of Katrina,” paintings by Lindsay Michie Eades, “Cultivated Paintings and Print Collages,” works by Janet Grahame, “Places of Refuge,” watercolors by Jeannine Regan and “From the Inside Out,” drawings and painted ceramics by inmates at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

Migration: A Gallery 119 Fifth St. SE. Tues-day-Saturday, 11am-6pm; First Fridays, 11am-8:30pm; Sunday and Monday by appointment. 293-2200. Through August 31: “Elemental Harmonies,” paintings by Suzanne Howes-Stevens and metal work by Jim Martin.

Mono Loco 200 W. Water St. Monday-Friday, 11:30am-10pm; Saturday 5:30-10pm; Sunday 11:30am-9pm. 979-0688. Through June 30: “Sand in the Eyes,” collaborative artwork with contributions from 26 artists.

Mudhouse 213 W. Main St. Tuesday-Saturday, 7am-11pm; Sunday 8am-8pm; Monday 7am-8pm. 984-6833. Through July 3: “At the gates of Paradise,” works in plaster, cement and mosaic by Nini Baeckstrom.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St. Monday-Wednesday and Saturday, 9:30am-5:30pm; Thursday-Friday, 9:30am-8pm; Sunday noon-5pm. 295-2552. Through June 30: “Edinburgh, Buskers and Other Scottish Scenes,” oil paintings by Rick Watson.

Sage Moon Gallery 420 E. Main St., Down-town Mall. Monday 11am-7pm; Tuesday-Thurs-day, 11am-9pm. 977-9997. Through June 30: “Na-ture’s Meditation,” mixed media by Gwyn Kohr.

Second Street Gallery City Center for Con-temporary Arts, Second Street SE and Water Street. Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm. 977-7284. Through August 12: “Love Letter Invi-tational,” a multimedia installation with works on the theme of love by local writers and artists in the May Dove Gallery. Includes contributions from Gregory Orr, John Casey, Paul Curreri, Rita Dove and the Printmakers Left.

Senior Center, Inc. 1180 Pepsi Pl., Robey Room A. Monday, 8:30am-4:30pm; Tuesday-Thursday, 8:30am-8:30pm; Friday 8:30am-4:30pm; Sunday 2-6pm. 974-7756. Through June 30: Oil paintings by Sue Sencer.

Sevenoaks Pathwork Center 403 Pathwork Way, Madison. 540-948-6544. Through June 28: “Mother-Daughter Art Show,” paintings by Alegria Barbara Strauss and the late Margaret Strauss.

Sidetracks 218 W. Water St. Monday-Sat-urday, 10am-6pm; Sunday 1-5pm. 295-3080. Through June 30: “Drawn from Music,” music-inspired drawings by Laura Lee Gulledge.

Spruce Creek Gallery 1368 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-1859. Through July 3: Woodworker’s Show featuring works by John Casteen, Michael Dowell, Brent Taylor, Fred Williamson and others.

Transient Crafters 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. Monday-Thursday and Saturday, 10am-6pm; Friday 10am-9pm; Sunday noon-6pm. 972-9500. Through June 30: “Cantique Jewelry,” creations in stone by Claire McIlvain.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church 717 Rug-by Rd. Sunday-Friday, 9am-2pm. 293-8179. Through June 30: Acrylic and watercolor paintings by Matalie Griffin Rivard Dean.

UVA Art Museum 155 Rugby Rd. Tuesday-Sunday, 1-5pm. 924-3592. Through August 20: “Humanism and Enigma,” oil paintings by Honoré Sharrer in the main gallery. Through August 6: “Art/Not Art,” oceanic art and artifacts. Free to students and museum members, all others $3.

UVA Small Special Collections Library, Mc-Cormick Rd. adjacent to Alderman Library. Main exhibit gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 9am-1pm. 243-1776. Check library hours at www.lib.virginia.edu/hours. Through September: “The Style of Power: Building a New Nation,” with works drawn from the Library’s Special Collections, the UVA Art Museum, Monticello and Mount Vernon. Free.

UVA Main Hospital Lobby 1300 Jefferson Park Ave. Monday-Sunday, 7am-11pm. 924-5527. Through July 17: “Observation in Paint,” oils by Joan Ranzini.

White Orchid 420 W. Main St. Monday-Sun-day, 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm. 297-4400. Through August 31: “Photographs of Vietnam” by Georgia Barbour.

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Snack attack

Dear Kareem: Ace was only too happy to sink his teeth into your question. Though he is known for getting most of his refined sugars from cocktail mixers, Ace can’t help but give in to his cravings for frosted foodstuffs from time to time. So, rolling up his sleeves, Ace dug right into a heaping plate of truth.
    The outlet in question—which closed last July—was home to both Hostess and Wonder Bread products. A little sleuthing revealed that the two brands actually belong to the same company, Interstate Bakeries Corporation. From here, Ace caught wind of a long tale of layoffs and corporate shakeups that precipitated the closing of the outlet on Route 29.
    Some years ago, the parent company IBC looked golden on the outside. Cracking it open, however, revealed a gooey mass of hemorrhaging profits and dire financial straits. Faced with declining profits, the company declared bankruptcy in 2004. People retired from the board of directors. New management was brought in.
    And there were closings. Lots of closings. Bakery outlets all over the country got the axe—stores in more than half a dozen states, from Washington to Virginia. Hundreds of people lost their jobs, according to company statements.
    Was the closing of the 29N location part of this larger corporate restructuring? “The store was most likely underperforming,” said IBC spokesperson Maya Pogoda, who Ace reached at corporate headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.
    So there you have it, Kareem—it looks like you’re going to have to pay full price for your Twinkies from now on. But at least you won’t have to go completely without—Pogoda was quick to assure Ace that Twinkies, and the entire line of Hostess and Wonder products, are still readily available on grocery store shelves.
    But a word to the wise, Kareem: you might want to rethink that entire snack-cake obsession. Ace recently caught wind of a local lawsuit filed by Natalie Cairns, a Greene County woman who claims to have had a teeth-rattling run-in with a Hostess Holiday Fruit Cake she bought on Valentine’s Day 2005. Seems that her delicious frosted treat was actually harboring a secret toy surprise in the form of one rock-hard cherry pit. (Wow—you mean they actually use real fruit in these things?) According to her lawsuit, this wayward stone caused a whopping $75,000 in dental damage, mental anguish, pain and suffering, and she’s chomping mad about it. So enjoy your prepackaged confections if you must, Kareem, but please remember: Bite carefully. As Ms. Cairns laments in her lawsuit, woe be to those who don’t recognize “the inherent dangers of eating a fruit cake.”

You can ask Ace yourself. Intrepid investigative reporter Ace Atkins has been chasing readers’ leads for 18 years. If you have a question for Ace, e-mail it to ace@c-ville.com.

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Skeptical of “global warming skeptics”

Since you chose to give some credibility to the opinions of UVA Professor Patrick Michaels by interviewing him as part of your article on global warming [“Al Gore Heats Up,” June 6], I thought your readers should be aware of Professor Michaels’ questionable motives and methods. The following quotes are from an article by a fellow academician, Paul Krugman, in the New York Times, May 29, 2006.
    “Dr. James Hansen was one of the first climate scientists to say publicly that global warming was underway.
    “…soon after Dr. Hansen’s 1988 testimony [at a congressional hearing], energy companies be-gan a campaign to create doubt about global warming, in spite of the increasingly overwhelming evidence. And in the late 1990s, climate skeptics began a smear campaign against Dr. Hansen himself.
    “Leading the charge was Patrick Michaels, a professor at the University of Vir-ginia who has received substantial financial support from the energy industry. In Senate testimony, and then in numerous presentations, Dr. Michaels claimed that the actual pace of global warming was falling far short of Dr. Hansen’s predictions. As evidence, he presented a chart supposedly tak-en from a 1988 paper written by Dr. Han-sen and others, which showed a curve of rising temperatures considerably steeper than the trend that has actually taken place.
    “In fact, the chart Dr. Michaels showed was a fraud—that is, it wasn’t what Dr. Hansen actually predicted. The original paper showed a range of possibilities, and the actual rise in temperature has fallen squarely in the middle of that range. So how did Dr. Michaels make it seem as if Dr. Hansen’s prediction was wildly off? Why, he erased all the lower curves, leaving only the curve that the original paper described as being ‘on the high side of reality.’“
    Does the honor system apply to the faculty at the University of Virginia, or just the students?

David RePass
Charlottesville

The editor replies: UVA’s honor code does not apply to faculty, only students.

CORRECTIONS

In two stories in last week’s Government News [The Week, June 13], Albemarle County Board of Super-visors member David Slutzky’s last name was misspelled.

In the June issue of ABODE, a photo caption on page
25 implied that the house pictured could be a stu-dent rental. In fact, it is owner-occupied. We regret any confusion.

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Pitter patter

Q: Ace, baby darling, we all know you’re a hopeless romantic. So tell us true: Is there such a thing as love at first sight?—Luv Shaq

A: Shaq, baby darling, Ace is many things (daring, suave, terribly, terribly handsome), but Ace is not hopeless. Otherwise, what you say is right: Ace always tells you true, even when he’s vexed by questions like yours, questions to which all gentlefolk know the answer! Did you sleep through sophomore English class? Did you miss that whole thing about Romeo and Juliet? Let Ace refresh your memory. Romeo sees Juliet from across the dance floor and—bam!—he knows she’s the one. Knows it’s that kind of I-could-kill-your-cousin-I-love-you-so-much kind of way.

   Still, Ace understands he shouldn’t be so harsh. Lots of people ignore the classics. So Shaq, Ace refers you to a modern-day example culled from the pages of Ace’s personal bible, The Star. (And by “culled,” Ace means he has no idea if any of the following is technically true, but it should be if it’s not.) It was a snowy day in 1991 when a 13-year-old Ashton Kutcher first laid eyes on the lovely Demi Moore. Turning to his middle-school companion as they sat in the dark watching La Moore prance around in blonde curls as she, a clairvoyant, tries to fix everybody’s business in The Butcher’s Wife, Ashton declared, “Dude! She is way cool even if she is 14 years older than me. One day I’ll be her boytoy/babysitter. It’ll be beautiful, man, and just to keep that lipo-ed booty coming my way I’ll sit through those Kaballah classes or whatever they’re called with all the other kept dudes. Sweet! Maybe if I play it right, I can get to hang out with Guy Ritchie.”

   To which Ashton’s buddy said, “Who’s Guy Ritchie?”

   But Ace digresses.

   Ace comes down squarely on the side of “yes, there is such a thing as love at first sight.” But always one to check his facts, Ace went to the experts. One bloke on the Downtown Mall told Ace that love at first sight is indeed real, but sometimes your vision ain’t exactly 20/20. Put on your specs and Miss Inevitable looks more like Miss Stake. Then there was the gal who said love at first sight is really lust at first sight—which also has its place (the back room at the Tea House, the K-Mart parking lot, etc.).

   However the deck is finally cut, whether your love is instant or slow-growing, Ace reminds you, Shaq, that anything worth keeping is worth keeping well. When at last you do find the love of your life, treat her or him—Ace doesn’t want to assume here!—with tenderness and plenty of fresh fruit (use your imagination). But don’t take it to the point where you’re knifing your hunny’s relation. It didn’t work out so well for R and J.