Opinions
Second & Flume: Thanks, Roger
Twenty years ago this month, I graduated from Chico State and started my first journalism job. It was an internship at the Enterprise-Record, where I joined a team of nine news reporters. There was Ari, […]
Month: May 2023
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Guest Comment: Gun culture
The other day I woke up with a Carpenters moldy-oldy ear-worming through my brain: We’ve only just begun … Except the words were something like “we only just be guns” because it was the day […]
Arts & Culture
Art in the machine
At first glance, the rows of square, ceramic tiles laid out across two tables inside Idea fab Labs (IFL) look fairly similar: saturated, black-and-white designs vaguely resembling asymmetrical Rorschach images. A closer look, however, revealed […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Amish Rake Fight, et al.
If you’ve ever played music in a group with others you’ve made the band-names list. Perhaps, like Arts DEVO, you are a little obsessive about such things and you save that list and continually add […]
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Editor’s note: Let’s do our Best work
Wait a minute. It’s not already Best of Chico time again, is it? The Chico News & Review’s annual celebration of all of Chico’s good stuff is back. Voting started May 3, the day this […]
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Editorial: The double-edged sword of AI in journalism
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a popular topic in the field of journalism. While it can bring numerous benefits, it can also have negative impacts if not implemented appropriately. One of the most significant positive […]
Arts & Culture
Tutti Frutti and a Cannes nominee
France In this Palme d’Or-nominated French production from 2021, offbeat auteur Bruno Dumont constructs a puzzling, ironically attractive portrait of a TV star, a celebrity newscaster named France de Meurs (strikingly played here by French […]
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Streetalk: What are you planting in your garden?
Asked in downtown Chico. Stephanie Roseuniversity employee Right now? Green beans, zuchinni and maybe some tomatoes [in my] back yard—up in Paradise. Claire Renarphotographer/student Well, I rent and my back yard’s a mess. We do […]
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Letters to the editor: May 2, 2023
Charity with justice Re: Editor’s Note: “Commitment” (By Jason Cassidy, April 6, 2023) Editor Jason Cassidy lauds the Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT) program and quotes founder Bob Trausch: “If you see a problem, you […]
Arts & Culture