Home • Chico News & Review

Arts & Culture
Well-done depravity: ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ is good, but it’s so brutal and realistic you’ll only watch it once
April 3, 2025 0
By Bob Grimm Oh, lordy, The Rule of Jenny Pen is a nasty one—a dark, dreary, filthy, get-to-the-core-of-real-life terror nasty one. This is a movie that declares, unapologetically, that getting old and helpless sucks major ass. This is not a typical horror-genre movie. [...]
Arts & Culture

A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? April 3–9
April 2, 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 listings in Butte County. The [...]
Arts & Culture
Chico State to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner for annual Book in Common event
April 1, 2025 0
Héctor Tobar’s fascinating life and impactful writing will be the centerpiece of a lively night on campus that the public can buy tickets to By Helen Harlan When Chico State Assistant Professor of History Dr. Gloria Lopez kicks off a [...]
News
Stay hungry: School kids learn the ABCs of chaos
April 1, 2025 0
Trump’s penny pinching and immigrant hunting reach rural classrooms. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Federal funding comprises just a fraction of the [...]
Arts & Culture
The Asparagus Effect
March 31, 2025 0
Organic green asparagus from Saeturn Farms at Chico’s Farmers Market, March 29. Also find purple variety from Vang’s Family Farm. Photo by Henri Bourride Henri divulges the details and some cooking tips for this springtime vegetable By Henri Bourride I [...]

In a changing world, BaT Comics keeps the doorways of escapism open and intriguing for Chico
March 27, 2025 1
By Odin Rasco From the days when Iron Man was best known as a comic book hero to the utter domination of Marvel Studios on the media landscape, BaT Comics & Games has served as [...]
Porky and Daffy are back: A fun, new Looney Tunes movie is in theaters—and nobody seems to care
March 27, 2025 8
By Bob Grimm There’s a new Looney Tunes movie playing in theaters. There’s a good chance you didn’t know that. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is the first fully animated, original [...]
A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? March 27-April 2
March 26, 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 [...]
Chico targeted in mail theft spree up and down the valley
March 25, 2025 3
Cluster mailbox break-ins repeatedly victimize residents from Butte County to the Capital City By Ken Magri Cluster mailboxes are those group postal boxes one sees in apartment complexes and along sidewalks in newer residential neighborhoods. [...]
CN&R looks at the governor’s indie media reinvention of himself and the problem with pretending to be unafraid
March 25, 2025 0
An editorial by Chico News & Review The five most frightening words that could ever be uttered have finally sounded across the universe. Gavin. Newsom. Has. A. Podcast. In all seriousness, any question of whether California’s governor [...]

What do You Think? Streetalk: What type of cuisine/restaurant is missing in Chico?
March 24, 2025 2
Asked in downtown Chico Michael HawkinsPolitical ActivistI don’t know if there’s a market for it but an Irish restaurant would be in order I think. We don’t have such a thing in the U.S.— not [...]
The Foilies 2025
March 20, 2025 0
Recognize the Worst in Government Transparency. By Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey, Beryl Lipton, Michael Morisy, Dillon Bergin, and Kelly Kauffman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Art by Hannah Diaz The public’s right to access government [...]
Fred Ross’ Organizing Legacy: A new documentary about Cesar Chavez’s mentor offers lessons for activists in dark times
March 20, 2025 1
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., [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Chico News & Review

Philanthropy in the abyss: Why we need to give when things fall apart

Well-done depravity: ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ is good, but it’s so brutal and realistic you’ll only watch it once

A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? April 3–9

Chico State to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner for annual Book in Common event

Stay hungry: School kids learn the ABCs of chaos

The Asparagus Effect

In a changing world, BaT Comics keeps the doorways of escapism open and intriguing for Chico

Porky and Daffy are back: A fun, new Looney Tunes movie is in theaters—and nobody seems to care

A Weekly Preview of Butte County Arts, Music and Fun What’s going on? March 27-April 2

Chico targeted in mail theft spree up and down the valley

CN&R looks at the governor’s indie media reinvention of himself and the problem with pretending to be unafraid

What do You Think? Streetalk: What type of cuisine/restaurant is missing in Chico?

The Foilies 2025

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

Calendar of Events

Thank you to our supporters

Candace Thompson

Anonymous

Linda Calbreath

News

Chico State to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner for annual Book in Common event

Arts & Culture

Well-done depravity: ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ is good, but it’s so brutal and realistic you’ll only watch it once

Opinions

Philanthropy in the abyss: Why we need to give when things fall apart