Arts & Culture
Canceled by COVID
When Smokey the Groove hit the stage for its May 23 performance at Lost on Main, it had been the first gig in more than two months. Not just the first gig for the local […]
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Thank you!
This newspaper is in your hands because of you. You gave money in a shutdown economy during a global pandemic … to a broke newspaper! You gave money to Arts DEVO, literally. I still have […]
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Trial by wood fire
Mulberry Station Brewing Co. Roland Allen and Alan Gross had just two days to celebrate clearing the final hurdles to opening their new brewery/pizzeria. “We passed all our inspections literally 48 hours before the coronavirus […]
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Bring that beat back
As his name suggests, Arts DEVO has a beat that he covers for the Chico News & Review. Pre-COVID-19, my notebook of story ideas and potential column fodder was always a mess of scribbles and […]
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Setting the stage
As California moves further into stage 3 of the Resilience Roadmap for reopening businesses closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, workplaces in the arts and entertainment sector are now being included in the conversation. […]
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‘Carny prozac’
Sometimes when Arts DEVO sits down at the keyboard, this column just writes itself, especially when I copy and paste the words from somewhere else: Silver Dollar Fair Food Drive-thru Menu: Corn Dog……………………………..$5Giant Corn dog………………….. […]
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Flip the script
When the Blue Room Theatre opened Stuff ’n’ Things on March 12, California had just announced the cancellation of sporting events, part of the first wave of the state-mandated shutdown in response to the coronavirus. […]
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Good to-go
Are they open? That’s been the twenty-dollar question for Butte County residents as they stare into the refrigerator wondering whether or not their favorite grill or taqueria can save them from another night of leftovers. […]
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‘Momma! I’m through’
This was going to be one of those quarantine-fatigue columns where Arts DEVO whines about life in times of pandemic and how all I can muster this week is a slideshow of images and words […]
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Challenge: Autobiographical
Arts DEVO has been tempted. The “10 albums that impacted my life” or “10 albums that influenced my taste in music” challenges making the rounds on social media are just the sort of navel-gazing escapism […]
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Explorers-in-place
Like so many cultural resources in Butte County, the Gateway Science Museum remains closed indefinitely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But before they turned out all the lights, the staff populated the website with […]
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Diving into the livestream
I own a lot of music. I’ve managed to turn this goofy obsession into gigs as a record store clerk, a music journalist and, for more than decade, a DJ around Portland, Ore. (OK, it’s […]
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Save me, art scene!
Arts DEVO is a slave to the internet right now. I’m just trying to stay connected to people as I shelter in place, but with that comes being connected to all the anti-science, anti-mask, anti-human-decency […]
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Streaming cinema
Even before the shelter-in-place shutdown, I hadn’t been inside a movie theater much at all in 2020. Part of the reason for that was simply that I was seeing quite a lot of really good […]