By Ken Magri By now, Northern Californians must be getting numb to it. If it’s summer, the mountains are burning. More and more small town citizens have to sweat out evacuation scares while city dwellers […]
By Khari Johnson for CalMatters California legislators just sent Gov. Gavin Newsom more than a dozen bills regulating artificial intelligence, testing for threats to critical infrastructure, curbing the use of algorithms on children, limiting the […]
By Bob Grimm Seeing Michael Keaton back as “the ghost with the most” does provide an initial rush, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a sequel that tries to do too much, and it unravels with an unpleasantly frantic […]
By Casey Rafter In a rising drone shot, the crystal-clear shimmer of Lake Tahoe expands, revealing stones and silt far below the surface of its unearthly blue water. Such views continue to beckon to travelers […]
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? By Scott Thomas Anderson “I wasn’t sure how I felt about it,” Linda […]
By Bob Grimm Oh, those chimpanzees. They’re so cute for the first part of their lives—until they want to rip people’s faces off because they’re super-disgusted with being confined in cages by clueless owners throwing […]
What’s happening this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all of the […]
By Stephanie Olvido There are more public libraries in the U.S. than McDonald’s restaurants: 17,278 libraries to about 14,000 stores of the fast food chain. California alone boasts 1,127 libraries, with its capital city hosting […]
The candidate has kept her climate policy vague so far, but her record as a prosecutor gives climate activists hope. By Marcus Baram, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit […]
By Bob Grimm Zoë Kravitz makes a watchable—and appropriately unpleasant—directorial debut with Blink Twice, a caustic and vicious social satire that gives Channing Tatum a massive showcase. The movie doesn’t completely hold together and unravels a […]
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