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Legado del helado
At 23 years old, Marco Arreguin manages four ice cream shops in Chico and one in Yuba City. La Flor de Michoacán Paletería y Neveria is his family’s business, which started in 2012 with one […]
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Arts DEVO: Three day weekend?
We live in this naturally beautiful place where creative exploration and having a good time can become a way of life. The Butcher Shop, for me, is the ultimate celebration of that, where Chico’s extended […]
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Arts DEVO: Raining frogs
And then the smoke rolled in. Is it possible to add the wildfire and presidential election seasons to the flaming pile of 2020 and still come out on the other end sane? I feel like […]
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Arts DEVO: Push play
Is Chico on pause? It might feel like nothing is happening, and that there’s nothing new to report beyond infection rates (1,321 confirmed coronavirus cases in Butte County as of Aug. 14) and the tally […]
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Art of lockdown
Lately, Michael Bone has felt lucky, sort of. Like so many of us, the well-known local musician is sheltering in place and working from home—teaching music and art, now online only, to his students from […]
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Curtain call
A black plywood casket sat in the space once occupied by the Blue Room Theatre’s main stage, surrounded by the room’s figurative viscera: detached lighting rigs, speakers and piles of coiled-up cables. The unintentional stage […]
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Arts Devo: Be kind
Our neighbors One evening last week, I was driving down Orient Street near downtown Chico and saw a fully nude woman walking down the middle of the road toward me. She looked disoriented, had some […]
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‘We’ll give it our best shot’
In these many weeks of sheltering in place, with movie-going and -viewing being a matter of streaming in place, I’ve found that while “the movies” in general matter a good deal less to me, the […]
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Arts DEVO: Guitar me
There are two way Arts DEVO plays guitar: Like this … … or this: From my point of view, the two aren’t so disparate. I’m a fairly primitive player, and each approach lends itself to […]
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Parking lot cafe
In 2018, Eileen Humiston and Rylan Morabito decided to take a risk and pulled the trigger on buying an old coffee truck they found on a Redding Craigslist ad. The truck was a fixer-upper built […]
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Buffet to-go
During a recently bygone time, I could take the healthiest vegetables from below a sneeze guard, combine them in ungodly ways and bury them under enough blue cheese to make a so-called “salad” capable of […]
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Arts DEVO: These days
Art will find a way. The doors of California’s art spaces are once again locked. COVID-19 case numbers in the state (including Butte County) have continued to rise unabated, so Gov. Gavin Newsom was forced […]
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Notes from the scene
It has been months since Arts DEVO has had too much to write about in this column. But in this week after the CN&R put out its first print edition in more than three months, […]
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Interplanetary disco
We are all individual planets. At least it feels that way right now for many of us as we spin in orbit around the COVID-19 at the center of our lives and long for communing […]
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Cheesecake queen
More than 10 years ago, Dawn McGaffick stumbled upon her mom’s old Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cookbook. The Chico native decided to give the classic pumpkin cheesecake recipe a shot, and by fateful accident she […]