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A relaxed rapport: Brad Pitt and George Clooney make Apple TV+’s ‘Wolfs’ breezy fun

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 […]


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Countdown to carnage: Erik Larson’s new book ‘Demon of Unrest’ is a haunting reflection on the momentum of violence

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 […]


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Chico’s tiny gems: Three local activities that deserve more attention

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 […]


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Cal State campuses brace for ‘severe consequences’ as budget gap looms

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 […]


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A deadly allure of Arctic light meets sunshine and California dreams in the book ‘Wanderlust’

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 […]


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A wild Saturday afternoon near a Chico taco stand

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 […]


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California Legislature’s unwritten rule: negotiate in secret with lobbyists, not in public

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. […]


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Watered down horror: The American remake of ‘Speak No Evil’ wastes a sinister performance by James McAvoy

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 […]


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In Lassen County and other places, Department of Corrections comes under renewed fire for handling of staff misconduct allegations

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 […]


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Would environmental justice in California survive a second Trump White House? Doubtful.

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 & […]


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A renewed effort to save Chico’s El Rey Theater

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 […]


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More secure EBT cards are coming to California. Here’s when they’ll go out

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 […]


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Chico-area winemaker keeps reaching for vino heaven while surrounded by monks

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 […]


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Trial by Fire: Butte County’s Park Fire is the latest example of how climate change and wild burns are testing us

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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What California lawmakers did to regulate artificial intelligence

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 […]


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