Arts & Culture
Back to the boards
The Chico theater scene has kind of settled into a groove after being so disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, one that includes many of the usual suspects making their way through our area in the […]
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Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Yodel-ay-bleep-bloop
This column is Arts DEVO’s happy place—standing in the middle of the local arts scene, taking in a wide view of the comings and goings of local and visiting creators and painting a picture of […]
Arts & Culture
The year in cinema and streaming
Stream & Dream Lounge highlights, flash points and turn-ons for another difficult year, 2023. An abundance of cinematic pleasures, magic moments, and roving correspondences in these challenging times calls for an abundance of year-end best-ofs. […]
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Arts DEVO: 2023 DEVO Awards
Welcome to the 16th edition of Art DEVO’s annual local arts and culture awards. The envelopes, please … The Hope Award: Chikoko’s Gravity In advance of the Oct. 21 fashion/art show at Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, […]
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Family style
Unless a patron with the name happens to stop by, you won’t find anyone named Maria at Tres Maria’s. But, when the doors are open, you will be warmly greeted by co-owner Sonia Montes, who […]
Music
Strengthening the signal
What is Art?—a weekly event held Thursday nights at Idea Fab Labs (IFL) Chico—is a far cry from your typical coffee shop or bar open mic. The stage on which it is held occupies one […]
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Season’s streaming
Some recent highlights from the Stream & Dream Lounge: The Killer (Netflix) David Fincher’s new film, with Michael Fassbender playing a high-priced professional assassin, strikes me as one of the very best films of the […]
News
Burger surprise
There is an interesting phenomena known as “multiple discovery,” which describes how different peoples—though separated by oceans, continents and thousands of miles—tend to stumble upon the same, groundbreaking advancements independently of one another: things like […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Show people
She is a showgirl Over the past few years, Lola Yang has quietly become one of the busier artists in Chico. She’s had two solo exhibits of paintings on the walls of the Naked Lounge, […]
Arts & Culture
Bite-size cinema
With all due respect to major films with marathon running times—e.g. Oppenheimer (180 minutes), or Killers of the Flower Moon (206 minutes), quite a lot of recent viewing pleasure at the Stream & Dream Lounge […]
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‘As rocking as possible’
By David James Youngdavidjamesyoung.com This article was originally published by Scenestr magazine at scenestr.com.au. When Doug Martsch put together a new line-up of Built To Spill toward the end of 2019, he certainly couldn’t have […]
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Open season for art
If last year the Butte County arts scene was still a little cautious about gathering in public, this fall it appears as though the pandemic jitters are all gone. Looking at the calendar ahead, it […]
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Studio magic
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Objectively, the annual Open Studios Art Tour is Chico’s biggest visual arts event of the year. What […]
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Season of the witches
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Given the month in which the event falls, one could be forgiven for mistaking the “Witch’s Market,” […]
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The pull to create
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. What does gravity feel like? Sound like? Behave like? These are questions that the Chikoko arts collective […]