Arts & Culture
Open season for art
If last year the Butte County arts scene was still a little cautious about gathering in public, this fall it appears as though the pandemic jitters are all gone. Looking at the calendar ahead, it […]
Month: October 2023
Arts & Culture
Studio magic
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Objectively, the annual Open Studios Art Tour is Chico’s biggest visual arts event of the year. What […]
Arts & Culture
Season of the witches
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Given the month in which the event falls, one could be forgiven for mistaking the “Witch’s Market,” […]
Arts & Culture
The pull to create
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. What does gravity feel like? Sound like? Behave like? These are questions that the Chikoko arts collective […]
Arts & Culture
Roots music
On Sept. 22, Sanjay Dev celebrated 30 years of programming his world-renown reggae show, “Devastation Sounds,” on KZFR, 90.1 FM. After three decades on the air, he’d planned for 2023 to be his last year. […]
Arts & Culture
Spooky, sexy, spectacular
This story is part of the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. In decades past, Halloween had a more fleeting presence in America, appearing for one exciting moment before vanishing just as quickly … like a […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Fall
I moved to the North State in the late-’90s, but somehow I still haven’t acclimated to the heat. Every summer, I count down the days till fall and obsessively check the seven-day forecast. But I […]
Opinions
Editorial: Congressional waste
Like the majority of Americans who believe climate change poses an existential threat to the United States, we cringed when we saw a recent viral clip of Rep. Doug LaMalfa making a fool out of […]
Opinions
Editor’s Note: Wake me up when September ends
Last month, one of those “Your Memories” posts showed up on my Facebook feed. It was a picture of me with my band, Viking Skate Country, sharing the stage at the Sierra Nevada Big Room […]
Arts & Culture
West by midwest
What new films have made their way through the Stream & Dream Lounge recently? War Pony In generally lively fashion, War Pony functions variously—as an offbeat modern western, as a fractured and darkly picaresque coming-of-age […]
Opinions
Streetalk: What’s your personal motto?
Asked in downtown Chico. Megan Kurtzuniversity employee Be nice, eat good food and have fun. It’s from the philosophy of leisure. Austin Mcclaineconstruction project engineer Always do more than people ask you to. Anna Diertuemefelstudent […]
Opinions
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 4, 2023
Gratitude and empathy Re: Editorial: “Another Paradise Burns” (Sept. 7, 2023) The editorial is much appreciated for your sensitivity to those of us who survived the Nov. 8, 2018, fire in Paradise. Many of us […]
News
Final environmental impact report on Delta Tunnel slated for release in ‘late 2023’
By Dan Bacher In a recent announcement, the California Department of Water Resources, or DWR, said that it is “still on track” to issue a Final Environmental Impact Report for its embattled Delta Conveyance Project […]