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Arts DEVO: Au revoir, band leader
Just before the CN&R print deadline, I got word about the passing of beloved local musician Alan Rigg. He died in the early morning of Feb. 25 at Enloe Medical Center. He was 69. Rigg […]
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Arts DEVO: Music League pro
You appreciate music? You challenging me!? We are right in the middle of the season, and things are starting to get pretty intense. As a professional Music League player, sharp focus and decisive action is […]
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Arts DEVO: Goodbye to our friends
It has been a challenging holiday season for the greater Chico family. In just one month, the community has lost so many of its guiding lights. The word is just getting out about the passing […]
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Arts DEVO: 2022 DEVO Awards
Welcome to the 15th edition of Art DEVO’s annual local arts and culture awards ceremony. Theenvelopes, please … Best news: The scene is back How good did it feel to order that first pint or […]
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Arts DEVO: Loverboy and the Goose
Turn me loose Dolphin shorts, checkerboard muscle shirt, Walkman loaded with Loverboy cassette. Arts DEVO was ready for his paper route, delivering copies of the Redding Record Searchlight by bike as rock-’n’-roll worlds bloomed in […]
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Arts DEVO: ‘Chico’s drummer’
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, […]
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Arts DEVO: Movies + music, plus two goodbyes
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 […]
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Arts DEVO: Rockin’ to summer; fall into arts
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 […]
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Arts DEVO: At the speed of summer
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). […]
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Arts DEVO: Bird is the word
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,” […]
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Arts DEVO: The view from the balcony
The starting point for this column is art, and for 16 years now, I’ve tried to find it wherever I could—most often somewhere in our little corner of Nor Cal—and then share it with readers […]
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Arts DEVO: Staging a comeback
This column is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. Over the three-plus decades Arts DEVO has been watching and playing live music in Chico, local venues have come […]
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Arts DEVO: Unpause
Press play … now? Dude, Arts DEVO’s band has a show! It has been more than two years since Viking Skate Country has played out. I am so stoked to be rehearsing. And I finally […]
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Arts DEVO: Last call
To scroll back through the photos of fliers, performers and people at shows on the Facebook page for the Maltese Bar & Venue is to see the recent history of Chico flash before your eyes. […]
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Arts DEVO: Dads
Band dad Last month, Butte County’s music scene lost one of its giants, Don DiBono, who died on Dec. 7. He was 74. In the December issue of the CN&R, this column featured a tribute […]