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Fred Ross’ Organizing Legacy: A new documentary about Cesar Chavez’s mentor offers lessons for activists in dark times
March 20, 2025 0
By Gabriel Thompson, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. The new documentary American Agitators looks at the life and legacy of Fred Ross Sr., one of the most influential [...]
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A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? March 20-26
March 19, 2025 0
What’s happening this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendarfor all of the listings in Butte County. The Normal [...]
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Chico grapples with an eleven-year sentence for torching History
March 18, 2025 4
What state law and Chico residents say about the Bidwell Mansion arsonist’s sentence By Ken Magri On March 5, the man who burned Chico’s historic Bidwell Mansion to a cinder-shell received an 11-year sentence in state prison. Kevin Alexander Carlson, [...]
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Fund to build student housing at Feather River College and other campuses runs dry — leaving community colleges in the lurch
March 18, 2025 0
By Adam Echelman for CalMatters Heading into his first semester this fall at Feather River College, Conor Robinson considered camping in a tent after struggling to find a 1-bedroom apartment he could afford. Larissa Griffith found free housing her first [...]
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Odes of March: Some post-Oscars tributes to pleasures and surprises from the past year
March 17, 2025 0
By Juan-Carlos Selznick Anora, directed by Sean Baker, USA. In a way, the “movie year” here at the Stream & Dream Lounge sometimes extends into March of the following year and on up through the night of the Oscars. And [...]

Cuts from Celtic survivors: A hard-drinkin’ playlist to put Ireland on your mind and in your glass
March 13, 2025 0
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Dublin novelist Frank Delaney wrote, “I liken Ireland to whiskey in a glass – a cone of amber, a self-contained passage of time, a place apart, reaching out to the [...]
‘Thirsty Ghosts’ is the latest from an Irish novelist living in Northern California and rises to a literary Tour de force
March 13, 2025 0
By Scott Thomas Anderson When a people endure generations of invasion and oppression – when they’re forced against an ethnic washboard with its residue splashes on for centuries – the art of storytelling becomes more [...]
What’s going on? March 13-19
March 12, 2025 0
What’s happening this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all of the [...]
The Chico Housing Action Team is creating imaginative ways to help those living outdoors
March 11, 2025 0
Nonprofit to host important fundraiser on Easter Sunday By Ken Magri Chico resident Jake Smith stood before a camera in 2022 while trying to hold back a gush of tears. After collecting himself, he finally [...]
Firings at Forest Service raise alarm over corporate takeover of public lands
March 11, 2025 0
Employees warn that recent dismissals could weaken protections for public lands as the new administration selects a former timber executive to head the agency. By Jeremy Lindenfeld, Capital & Main This story is produced by [...]

Clone confusion: Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ is a jumbled mess of interesting ideas
March 10, 2025 0
By Bob Grimm Director Bong Joon Ho follows up his 2019 Oscar triumph Parasite with an often-delayed weirdo of a movie in Mickey 17, a sometimes-funny sci-fi mess that feels like a bunch of ideas that never quite [...]
‘The walk of a dead man.’ Will dark hour stories eventually come to Chico?
March 6, 2025 0
By Scott Thomas Anderson “I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.”– ‘Double Indemnity’Robert Strom, Chico’s ‘Detective of Film Noir,’ is an author, playwright and film expert whose historic [...]
The war over Burgernomics in California and beyond
March 6, 2025 0
Researchers refute fast food industry’s apocalyptic predictions about raising the minimum wage. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. When California’s [...]
What’s going on? March 6-March 12
March 5, 2025 0
What’s happening this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendarfor all of the listings [...]
Streetalk: What should be done with the Bidwell Mansion site?
March 5, 2025 0
Asked at Chico Saturday Farmer’s Market Lisa CarsonTeacherI have mixed feelings about Bidwell Mansion being rebuilt because I know we can’t bring it back to its original form. As a child, I loved visiting it, [...]

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Fred Ross’ Organizing Legacy: A new documentary about Cesar Chavez’s mentor offers lessons for activists in dark times

A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? March 20-26

Chico grapples with an eleven-year sentence for torching History

Fund to build student housing at Feather River College and other campuses runs dry — leaving community colleges in the lurch

Odes of March: Some post-Oscars tributes to pleasures and surprises from the past year

Cuts from Celtic survivors: A hard-drinkin’ playlist to put Ireland on your mind and in your glass

‘Thirsty Ghosts’ is the latest from an Irish novelist living in Northern California and rises to a literary Tour de force

What’s going on? March 13-19

The Chico Housing Action Team is creating imaginative ways to help those living outdoors

Firings at Forest Service raise alarm over corporate takeover of public lands

Clone confusion: Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ is a jumbled mess of interesting ideas

‘The walk of a dead man.’ Will dark hour stories eventually come to Chico?

The war over Burgernomics in California and beyond

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Streetalk: What should be done with the Bidwell Mansion site?

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