By Henri Bourride “Hey, Siri…good food and nice drink in Chico, California.” “Okay, I found a good ice rink in Chico, California.” Henri was totally lost. For the most part he’s has been thrilled with […]
By Bob Grimm I’ve said this annually as of late: Hey, this past year was not awesome for movies. Hollywood is still scrambled up from those strikes and the confinement-causing viruses that threw the industry […]
By Bob Grimm Director Robert Eggers keeps rolling with Nosferatu, a long-gestating take on the classic vampire tale. This film is not only one of the year’s best horror films, but one of the greatest genre […]
Four Chico State alumni reminisce about the mid-1970s By Ken Magri with Julie Grovhoug, Gail Patrice and Richard Biernacki “Take care of your memories, for you cannot relive them.” –Bob Dylan About 50 years ago […]
By Bob Grimm The movie surrounding him is merely decent—but Timothee Chalamet is so incredible as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown that he elevates the film. Under the direction of James Mangold (Walk the Line), Chalamet […]
By Henri Bourride The holidays have always been bitterdouce for Henri, though I suppose that’s not unusual, given the complicated natures of families and human relationships, as well as the tension between a solemn, spiritual […]
By Samin Vafaee “One of the most intelligent professors I’ve ever met.” “Really cares about his students and wants them to succeed.” Not everyone in academia likes RateYourProfessor.com, but the site speaks volumes about the […]
By Odin Rasco A newly-opened business is looking to bring a novel perspective to Chico’s thriving beer scene by giving lagers some long-deserved limelight. Driven to share their collective decades of passion for craft beer […]
By Henri Bouride Sacre bleu! Dix ans? Can it really be ten years since Henri left Chico for the Big Pomme. Alas. Miss Marilyn has left us for that perfect poodle-friendly bistro in the sky, […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson The first time I arrived at Rolling Hills Casino, Mount Shasta was covered in snow and gleaming like an alabaster altar against an endless blue expanse of the horizon. Andrew Alejandre, […]
Bullies and misfits usually end up getting what’s coming to them, and when it happens, ‘poetic justice’ has certainly prevailed. By David A. Kulczyk By the early 1880s, Chico was a bustling city of dirt […]
A CN&R writer hoofs it around downtown with a Butte County native whose vision is brightening the walls of his hometown By Helen Harlan It’s the Friday after the election and I’m in the Catalyst […]
Photographs by Ken Magri
The city’s arts commission is busy creating opportunities for visual artists By Ken Magri The Chico Arts Commission, or CAC, is looking for artists, ideas and money for several projects intended to revitalize the city’s […]
By Bob Grimm It’s already been seventeen years since David Fincher released his supremely well-done Zodiac, starring Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal as a combination of detectives and reporters trying to track down […]
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