Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Guitar me
There are two way Arts DEVO plays guitar: Like this … … or this: From my point of view, the two aren’t so disparate. I’m a fairly primitive player, and each approach lends itself to […]
Month: July 2020
Camp Fire
Paradise premiere
This Friday (July 31), Rebuilding Paradise, the Camp Fire documentary by Ron Howard will be officially released, both online and in select theaters. The Academy Award-winning director—who has relatives who used to live in Paradise—spent […]
Arts & Culture
Parking lot cafe
In 2018, Eileen Humiston and Rylan Morabito decided to take a risk and pulled the trigger on buying an old coffee truck they found on a Redding Craigslist ad. The truck was a fixer-upper built […]
News
Two more coronavirus deaths in Butte County
Two new local COVID-19 deaths were announced by Butte County Public Health this morning (July 27). The total number of deaths in Butte County attributed to the disease is now seven. According to a press […]
Local Government
Another local voice
A new organization has just joined the political landscape in Chico. Stand up for Chico, a local political action committee, announced its presence today (July 23) with a blunt opening on its website: “The City […]
News
Fifteen Minutes: Patrick Hardy, disaster preparedness expert
With his new app, Disaster Hawk, Sacramento-based disaster preparedness expert Patrick Hardy aims to make disaster planning less confounding for families, small businesses and just about anybody. As COVID-19 numbers continue to rise, Hardy provides advice […]
News
Closures and online classes loom for Butte County as fifth COVID death announced
With coronavirus cases multiplying, including the fifth death attributed to the virus, Butte County Public Health announced today (July 20) that the county likely will face added restrictions from the state. In a news release, […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: Should kids go back to school next month?
Asked in downtown Chico. Mackenzie TealbaristaI get both sides of it because my sister wants to see her friends and everything, but I think that at this point it’s more important for the health of […]
Arts & Culture
Buffet to-go
During a recently bygone time, I could take the healthiest vegetables from below a sneeze guard, combine them in ungodly ways and bury them under enough blue cheese to make a so-called “salad” capable of […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: These days
Art will find a way. The doors of California’s art spaces are once again locked. COVID-19 case numbers in the state (including Butte County) have continued to rise unabated, so Gov. Gavin Newsom was forced […]
News
Roughing it during the pandemic
With the exception of mandatory face coverings, arguably the most visible impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Chico is the presence of dozens of long-term encampments in the city’s parks and along its waterways. The […]
News
Anatomy of a surge forestalled
In early spring, health officials and providers across California braced for a flood of coronavirus patients. Spread of the disease elsewhere—such as New York, with hospitals and morgues overwhelmed—led epidemiologists to forecast a surge in […]
Arts & Culture
Notes from the scene
It has been months since Arts DEVO has had too much to write about in this column. But in this week after the CN&R put out its first print edition in more than three months, […]
News
A fourth coronavirus death, and an interim health official for Butte County
Butte County is sharing a public health officer with two other counties as the Public Health Department seeks a replacement for Dr. Andy Miller. Public Health Director Danette York told the Chico News & Review […]
Arts & Culture
Interplanetary disco
We are all individual planets. At least it feels that way right now for many of us as we spin in orbit around the COVID-19 at the center of our lives and long for communing […]