What happening this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with this week’s highlights of what’s on tap at all the local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar […]
What concerts, plays, art shows and other events are coming this week? Chico News & Review has you covered with these weekly highlights of what’s happening at all the local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance […]
In the first weeks of 2023 (“Fundamental Cinema“), I wrote that EO, Jerzy Skolimowski’s poetic masterpiece with a donkey as its central character, was already on my Top Ten list for the year that had […]
Acie “Twitch” Schiff is no shrinking violet, nor is she a stranger to the stage. As a seasoned actor, writer, punk musician, concert promoter and out-and-proud trans person, she is usually unfazed by self-expression, or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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