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 […]
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 […]
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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