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 […]
Music
Arts & Culture
Sound of transformation
This feature is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. When Chloe Brandii is pissed off, she’ll either kick the hell out of a sparring bag or write a […]
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
On a throwback track
Before Melissa Etheridge became a Grammy-winning rock star, an Oscar-winning songwriter (for An Inconvenient Truth) and an icon among both cancer survivors and the LGBTQ community, she was a teen with a dream in rural […]
News
Stage is set
This feature is part of a CN&R special report: Entrepreneurs 2022: Reinvention. Brandon Squyres has a deep connection to Naked Lounge. He cherishes memories of nights out front of the downtown space when he couldn’t […]
Arts & Culture
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 […]
Arts & Culture
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
Delivered by song
Bodies – AFI The pandemic has been a nonstop conundrum for the music industry, with politics, supply-chain disruption and a decimated live-music scene making the past year-plus very unpredictable. From that chaos, however, the bands […]
Arts & Culture
The storyteller returns
Before his current tour kicked off in June, Todd Snider hadn’t played live music in public since March 8, 2020. The 14 months that the coronovirus kept him off the road was the longest the […]
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
Back to ‘the hustle’
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 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
Light up the marquee
This feature is a part of the Chico News & Review’s Bring Back the Arts campaign, an interview series featuring the leaders of Butte County arts and music venues discussing their efforts to recover from […]
Arts & Culture
Return of nightlife?
This feature is part of the CN&R’s June 2021 Business Issue. Archer Lombardi kicked off 2020 ready for big changes. After nearly a decade dedicated to establishing The Maltese as one of Chico’s cornerstone bars […]
Arts & Culture
Chico Summer Jams
The song of the summer is, at its best, a great unifier, marking a point in time that all Americans all share—from anthems about waterfalls that we endeavored not to chase, to jams on old […]