This column is part of the CN&R’s Oct. 6 Election Issue. For more stories on the 2022 general election click here. In preparation for this Election Issue, CN&R Contributing Editor Evan Tuchinsky and I sat […]
Bone Gruel, Mummified Mice, The Grassy Knoll, Living Karaoke Band, You Poor Devil, Stickmen, Booze, Verves, Sin Twister, Danny Cohen’s Near Death Experience, Lonesome Cowboys, Incredible Diamonds, John LaPado Band, The Trousers, Vibrio, Sexotics, Resistors, […]
One hour is all it took for the Chico City Council to take care of business during the last session of the summer (Sept. 20). Back on their bimonthly rotation after a monthly summertime schedule, […]
As one of the editors who has been privvy to the spreadsheets of Best of Chico tabulations for many years, I can tell you there is a lot of love from the community for a […]
If life is a cabaret, then yeah, sure, just go to the theater. Everything is beautiful in there—even the band! Taste that wine! Blow your horn! Headlined by Chico State’s production of Cabaret, this fall’s […]
Movies and music, and movie music I have no recollection of how I came into a copy of Escape From Noise, S.F. experimental band Negativland’s 1987 damaged-pop sound collage, but I know that repeated listenings […]
Before the Board of Supervisors heard proposals for Butte County’s allotment of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, Chairman Bill Connelly expressed some reservations. “I’m worried about spending every bit of the money,” he said […]
I am finally back at the editor’s laptop after a planned three-week break that turned to into four weeks thanks to finally running out of luck in dodging COVID-19. On the eve of our flight […]
The No Hotel in California Park community group got the results it hoped for when the Chico Planning Commission voted 3-2 (with two absent) to deny the use permit application for the TownePlace Suites project. […]
Chico has lost two of its former vice mayors in short succession. Jim Walker died on June 18 at the age of 64 after a months-long struggle with brain cancer. One month later, on July […]
That smell The last of my gardenia flowers has just gone brown. In late spring, there is a sweet spot in the middle of my backyard where the gardenia and jasmine fragrances mingle, and to […]
Arts DEVO was on vacation during the production of this month’s print edition of the CN&R. Enjoy this seasonally appropriate compilation of column snippets from the archives (originally published in the June 20, 2019, edition). […]
You’d never catch her dead disheveled/ She wore her buttons brassed and beveled/ Air host, Continental … Houston bound That’s how you start an album. Those scene-setting opening lines from the song “Race the Sun,” […]
One recent morning, I was on my usual bleary-eyed shuffle through Lower Bidwell Park for the dog’s first constitutional of the day. I nursed my coffee, the good girl did her business, and we looped […]
Without music festivals, it has been difficult for many Northern Californians to mark the passage of time. As schools let out and the sun heats up this part of the state, fun-seekers are accustomed to […]
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