Arts & Culture
Body of artwork
Sailors famously love ’em; nowadays, so do soccer moms. Walk into a coffee-house, and you’re likely to find a barista with more art on one arm than the average biker gang. You might even find […]
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Sprouting anew
Of the many colorful buildings lining Park Avenue in South Chico, the 1078 Gallery—with its vibrant orange exterior, sky-blue trim and florid exterior murals—is among the most vibrant. Throughout this month, the building’s colorful interior […]
Arts & Culture
Looking ahead
This feature is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. Arts have long been entwined with the identity of Chico—theaters, museums, troupes, musicians, artists and patrons weaving a rich […]
Arts & Culture
‘Arts in the wild’
This feature is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. Imagine an evening spent watching steampunks and sprites frolicking among the trees at Bidwell Park’s Cedar Grove; or how […]
Arts & Culture
Arts & Music Issue: Recreating the scene
In 2019, Californians for the Arts successfully campaigned the state Senate to have April designated as Arts, Culture and Creativity Month. The resolution points out that the creative economy contributes more than $400 billion to […]
Arts & Culture
‘Sisko Lives!’
This feature is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. When family and friends of David Sisk put out a call for work created by the Chico artist to […]
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Visual storyteller
This feature is part of a CN&R special report: Entrepreneurs 2022: Reinvention. COVID-19—and the controversy around masking—inspired Nicole Coffield to create a collage, an image of a 1960s couple sharing beers and pizza while masked […]
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Cafe crawl
Art tour: -Daycamp Coffee, 1925 Market Place, Ste. 150, daycampcoffee.com-Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St., nakedloungechico.com-Tin Roof Bakery & Cafe, 627 Broadway Ste. 170, tinroofbakeryandcafe.com
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Entertainment, charity & cheer
Community events Toys-for-Tots Toy DriveDec. 2-3, Drop off a new unwrapped toy to one of this year’s locations: Concours Elite, Deer Creek Broadcasting, Two Men & a Truck, Wittmeier Auto Center, Chico Marketplace, or Express […]
Arts & Culture
Art speaks
A closeup of an eye is projected large onto one of the gallery’s white walls as two fingers enter the video’s frame to pinch then pull the long eyelashes from their lids. It’s part of […]
Arts & Culture
Staging a comeback
The following Q&A is part of the CN&R’s Bring Back the Arts campaign, an interview series featuring artists and leaders of Butte County arts and music venues discussing their efforts to recover from the coronavirus […]
Arts & Culture
DIY together
Chico suffered many cultural losses during the pandemic, and among the most mourned in activist and artistic circles was the closure of Blackbird. Though ostensibly an anarchist bookstore that served coffee, the little yellow Victorian […]
Arts DEVO
Arts DEVO: Soon …
Bring back the arts, and the directors, and the punks, and the notebook with the handwritten open-mic poem, and the sound people, and the guest curator, and the guy who sweeps up the broken glass […]
Arts & Culture
Painting hope
Iris Natividad had never painted before, but she knew that she had to try for her late partner, Andrew Downer. She picked up a paint brush on June 5, dipped it in yellow paint, and […]
Arts & Culture
‘Inside out’
This feature is a part of the Chico News & Review’s Bring Back the Arts campaign, a weekly interview series featuring the leaders of Butte County arts and music venues discussing their efforts to recover […]