Best of Chico
Best of Chico 2022
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Best of Chico, the Chico News & Review’s greatest show of the year, is back in town! The big tent is pitched, and the annual celebration of the most […]
Month: August 2022
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Best of Chico 2022: Goods & Services
Ag/Growing Supplies FIRST Place: Northern Star Mills510 Esplanade, 342-7661See Best Feed Store/Farm Supply.SECOND Place: Chico Ag Mart1334 Park Ave, 809-2367THIRD Place: Tractor Supply Co.2475 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy, 897-0669 Antiques Store FIRST Place: […]
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Best of Chico 2022: Food & Drinks
Asian Cuisine FIRST Place: Ginger’s Restaurant2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 100, 345-8862Huge portions of Chinese restaurant standards, served by an attentive staff, make Ginger’s a local go-to spot. Fast and friendly service during the pandemic has […]
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Best of Chico 2022: Nightlife & The Arts
Art Space FIRST Place: 1078 Gallery1710 Park Ave., 630-7522The 1078 Gallery’s community-building efforts seem to have hit full-stride in the post-lockdown era. By partnering at the Park Avenue space with Equilateral Coffee and Harvests & […]
News
Best of Chico 2022: Health & Wellness
Acupuncture Clinic FIRST Place: Chico Community Acupuncture1815 Mangrove Ave., 345-5300Open since 2010, Chico Community Acupuncture has been a Best of Chico fixture. It’s a nonprofit and part of a national cooperative, People’s Organization of Community […]
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Best of Chico 2022: Community
Charitable Cause FIRST Place: Butte Humane Society13391 Garner Lane, 343-7917Butte Humane Society has focused on providing humanitarian care to dogs, cats and other animals since 1911. The nonprofit offers a wide variety of services, including […]
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Best of Chico 2022: Editors’ Picks
Best Artistic use of Natural Resources A Midsummer Night’s Dream Staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the edge of a meadow at Bidwell Park’s Cedar Grove for the return of Shakespeare in the Park was […]
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Best of Chico 2022: Ed Picks – “Best bites”
Al pastor, Crazy Taco1205 Park Ave.For at least two decades, my greatest Chico food craving has been the al pastor from Crazy Taco, the walk-up taqueria connected to Duke’s Bottle Shop. During times of peak […]
Opinions
Editor’s Note: Y’all are the ‘Best’
As one of the editors who has been privvy to the spreadsheets of Best of Chico tabulations for many years, I can tell you there is a lot of love from the community for a […]
Opinions
Editorial: Council ballot moves don’t measure up
City officials got word in mid-August that the federal government would grant $12.4 million to Chico for disaster recovery from the Camp Fire. Those funds, for infrastructure projects, follow $22.1 million in COVID stimulus money […]
Arts & Culture
Leave your troubles outside
If life is a cabaret, then yeah, sure, just go to the theater. Everything is beautiful in there—even the band! Taste that wine! Blow your horn! Headlined by Chico State’s production of Cabaret, this fall’s […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Movies + music, plus two goodbyes
Movies and music, and movie music I have no recollection of how I came into a copy of Escape From Noise, S.F. experimental band Negativland’s 1987 damaged-pop sound collage, but I know that repeated listenings […]
Arts & Culture
Infinity mirrors
In 1996, French auteur Olivier Assayas made a feature film called Irma Vep with a cat-suited Maggie Cheung starring in the title role. It was a comic drama about the making of a “remake” of […]
News
University enrollment down
Dipping to the lowest level in at least 20 years, fall enrollment at Chico State was 13,850 at the start of the semester. In the past two decades, the university’s enrollment has ranged between 15,500 […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Obstacles
Over the past three weeks, my son has been convalescing at home from surgery on his foot and leg. We’d go stir crazy if we were stuck in the house all day, so we use […]