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Arts DEVO: Loverboy and the Goose

November 3, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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’

October 5, 2022 Jason Cassidy 5

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

August 31, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

August 2, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

July 7, 2022 Jason Cassidy 0

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

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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