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C-VILLE Weekly is Charlottesville’s leading newspaper. Founded in 1989, it’s been the area’s local source for informative (and informed) stories in news, arts, and living for more than 26 years.

The annual illuminated art exhibition “Let There Be Light” is spreading out across the city this year. Publicity photo A few months ago, James Yates awoke from a nightmare.He was hosting “Let There Be Light”—the same luminesce-focused art exhibit he has helmed for the past 13 years at Piedmont Virginia Community College—but there was a problem. “Nobody was wearing masks, and everybody was crowding together,” he says.

Pastry chef Rachel DeJong’s mixed berry pie is a sweet option at The Workshop Coffee & Wine Shop at The Wool Factory. Supplied photo Rachel De Jong has traveled the world and rubbed elbows with its best chefs. She earned her diplôme de pâtisserie from Le Cordon Bleu École de Cuisine in Paris. She learned hospitality from The Inn at Little Washington’s Patrick O’Connell.