Pioneer of abstract expressionism Jackson Pollock had Butte County roots By Ken Magri He was an alcoholic, described as “a wild person” by his friend painter Robert Motherwell. He could be warm, cold, volatile and […]
By Bob Grimm BFFs Brad Pitt and George Clooney join forces again for Wolfs, a relatively good time for those who choose to partake. That, of course, is easier to do if you are an […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson “I’m really interested in the point where you sort of turned to history,” journalist Evan Ratliff asked Erik Larson during a 2015 interview, probing why the two writers no longer shared […]
By Ken Magri During the autumn months there are plenty of big activities in Chico that folks can attend, like the ARTober Fest, the Art and Wine Walk and 45th annual Concours d’Elegance. But we […]
By Mikhail Zinshteyn for CalMatters California State University is anticipating state spending cuts next summer of nearly $400 million and a delay in promised state support of more than $250 million. The projected budget gap […]
Mitenbuler’s third nonfiction outing is stellar, bringing an eccentric personality back from the veil By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s getting hard to predict what path Reid Mitenbuler will take his writing down from one tome […]
Man reportedly asleep at the wheel takes out bus stop, starts fire By Ken Magri Last Saturday afternoon around 5:00 pm, I was standing at a food truck on Cohasset and Christi ordering tacos when […]
By Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters State Sen. Dave Min admonished a fellow legislator recently for talking about his bill during an open hearing, saying lawmakers were forbidden from negotiating amendments to legislation in public view. […]
By Bob Grimm While it boasts a fun, sinister performance from James McAvoy, Speak No Evil is yet another watered-down remake of a superior foreign film. The 2022 Danish version of Speak No Evil stands as one of the […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson California prison authorities walked into the state capital over the summer hoping to get praise for adjustments they made to High Desert Prison in Lassen County, Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent […]
Activists question whether the state would protect marginalized communities if the EPA is stripped of its watchdog powers. By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & […]
Can one of California’s oldest movie palaces be restored? By Ken Magri A local group wants to raise $1,000.000 to turn Chico’s historic El Rey Theater, which went up for sale last March, into a […]
By Jeanne Kuang for CalMatters Californians will get cash and food assistance on more secure cards early next year — about six months later than promised, prolonging a massive recent theft wave that has been […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Fall is a season for lingering on the past – for heightening our sense of the history all around us. Twenty miles north of Chico, there is place where lasting legacies […]
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 […]
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