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Arts DEVO: Bird is the word

June 8, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

May 12, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

April 6, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

March 10, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

February 3, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

January 4, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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 […]

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Arts DEVO: 2021 DEVO Awards

December 2, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

After a year off, the tradition continues! This is the 14th edition of Art DEVO’s annual local arts and culture awards ceremony. The envelopes, please … Best at making the best of things: The virtual […]

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Arts DEVO: Feeling blue

November 4, 2021 Jason Cassidy 1

Arts DEVO is super impressed with the new First Street Theatre performance space in downtown Chico. The folks from Chico’s California Regional Theatre put in a lot of work and money and have completely remodeled […]

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Arts DEVO: Totally cool

October 7, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

DEVOtions (version 10.8 – the cooldown) The week this paper hits the street, the highest temperature in the immediate forecast for Chico is 79 degrees. The low is 43. Just typing those words soothes Arts […]

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Arts DEVO: Change

September 2, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

Under the shade of a plum tree sits a long wooden table with laptops and paper notebooks strewn about its weathered cedar planks. This is the bird’s-eye view of the Chico News & Review’s pandemic-era […]

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Arts DEVO: Booster shot needed

August 17, 2021 Jason Cassidy 1

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. I mean, of course you’ve heard it before. Maybe just stop me before I even get started? Can we just stop, like an action-movie hero being chased […]

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Arts DEVO: Soon …

July 23, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

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 […]

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Arts DEVO: Just a normal column

June 1, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

Ahhh … This is nice. As Arts DEVO sits down to write this column, his mug is filled with coffee and his list—the source, the sauce, the juice that powers the Energy Dome—is filled with […]

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Arts DEVO: Bring back the arts

May 6, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the clubs, theaters, bars and galleries last year, Arts DEVO’s world disappeared. For 17 years, my self-imposed job description was: own the local arts scene. I poured […]

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Arts DEVO: Art in your feed

April 21, 2021 Jason Cassidy 0

With Chico State’s galleries shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly everyone has been deprived of experiencing student works in person this school year. In response, the university’s Art Department has taken the show […]

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