Arts & Culture
The opening curtain
This feature is a part of the Chico News & Review’s Bring Back the Arts campaign, a weekly interview series featuring the leaders of Butte County arts and music venues discussing their efforts to recover […]
Out of time
Dianna Franklyn gets wistful when she talks about her old home in Concow. “I was a collector of many fine things,” she said. Franklyn, who’s 73, went on to describe the coin collection she inherited [...]
This feature is a part of the Chico News & Review’s Bring Back the Arts campaign, a weekly interview series featuring the leaders of Butte County arts and music venues discussing their efforts to recover [...]- When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the clubs, theaters, bars and galleries last year, Arts DEVO’s world disappeared. For 17 years, my self-imposed job description was: own the local arts scene. I poured [...]
- The Chico History Museum re-opened to the public last Saturday (May 1) after being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the current exhibits is a piece of recently resurfaced [...]
- North State Symphony premieres To the Fore, its final show of the 2020-21 season, on May 6, and the press release boasts that the concert “includes our largest chamber music ensemble of the season.” When [...]
- While driving north toward Oroville for a Feather River salmon fishing trip in August of 2003, a voluminous tree beside Highway 70 caught my eye. “A fig tree!” I called from the backseat of my [...]
Caroline Burkett: The majority of the City Council had better come up with humane, workable solutions. They have shamed all of us… 
Randy Chase: If you could get the Bootlickers and the SnootLickers to find three inches of common ground and proceed on a… 
Bruce McLean: Thank you Evan for providing an overview of the Council meeting we were unable to follow. Let’s hope that Mayor… 
Jim Glomb: Thanks Alistair for including us in your passion. And thanks for sharing that jammy one with me. Jim 
Jesse Dizard: Thank you for sharing your indignation. Racist xenophobia is learned, and it can be unlearned. Pointing it out when we… 
