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A dangerous roadway When it comes to installing safety features on public land, it often seems

Fracking ban ensures our future rack-Free Butte County’s steering committee wishes to Fvoting commend the members of the Board of Supervisors for 4-1 last April to craft an ordinance banning fracking in

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We all must be diligent in protecting our county’s most valuable resource— water. A recent report by the California Water Resources Control Board discusses the contamination of previously clean Kern County aquifers due to improper waste water disposal from nine injection wells, so we know the threat is real.

Meanwhile, the number of contamination reports within California continues to grow, raising great concern of this continued trend.

We also must protect the health, safety and welfare of our county’s residents.

Fracking poses significant public health risks. These risks have been welldocumented by New York’s recent scientific health studies, convincing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking in that state.

Preventative action is the best policy in protecting the public’s health. The use of vaccinations to protect ourselves from diseases and quarantine procedures to protect our agriculture industry from perilous insects and diseases are wellknown. The Board of Supervisors must take a preventative approach to the dan-

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gers of fracking.

Butte County counsel has completed an ordinance prohibiting fracking in Butte County at the supervisors’ request. This is a carefully drafted ordinance that should be implemented. It is our county’s best approach to preventing harm to our water, economy and citizens’ health. We implore the members of the five-person panel—Larry Wahl, Maureen Kirk, Doug Teeter, Bill Connelly and Steve Lambert—to support the ordinance.

Frack-Free Butte County gathered more than 10,000 signatures from Butte County residents who favor a ban on fracking. This is a clear statement from the supervisors’ constituents. They expect protections for our region’s precious water resources. They expect their representatives to stand up to political pressure from corporate interests.

If the supervisors do not pass this prohibition, Frack-Free Butte County will continue our campaign to pass our citizens’ initiative to ban fracking and vigilantly support candidates who will protect our precious water.

The supervisors are expected to vote on the ordinance at their meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 10, so now is the time for citizens to make their voices heard. For more info on Frack-Free Butte County visit www.frack freebuttecounty.org and www.facebook.com/ frackfreebuttecounty. Ω

like it takes a tragedy to make that happen. We hope that’s not the case for the section of road in front of the Work Training Center in Chico.

That nonprofit workplace—which serves and employs local individuals with physical and developmental disabilities—is smack dab in the middle of Fair Street, a four-lane stretch that runs between East 20th Street and East Park Avenue. The street is a notorious cut-through, and because of that, vehicles tend to speed, posing a danger to the WTC’s staff members and clients, who go back and forth between its facilities on either side.

Work Training Center has been at that location since the ’70s, back when Chico was smaller, sleepier, and cars didn’t fly down the street at speeds well in excess of the 35 mph limit. Today, those at the WTC have two choices for crossing the road: walking about a quarter mile without contiguous sidewalks to one of the nearest stoplights or taking their chances and heading straight across the busy street.

Both options are unsafe, which is why the center has been advocating for a nearby crosswalk. Those requests, which go back several years, have fallen of deaf ears. But advocates have been ramping them up again recently (see Tom Gascoyne’s report on page 9).

Chico’s director of Public Works, Ruben Martinez, says a crosswalk in front of the center Work Training Center has been would create a false sense of security for those attempting to cross at that location since the ’70s, the street. Another option he floated is a three-way stop at 23rd and back when Chico was smaller, Fair streets, but considering the sleepier, and cars didn’t fly costs he mentioned, we have a feeling the city will bury it. Mardown the street at speeds well tinez says he’s invited the WTC to join a city committee that focuses in excess of the 35 mph limit. on Americans with Disabilities issues. That’s a good start, but given this is not a new issue, it sounds a lot to us like passing the buck.

We’re not engineers, but it’s clear to us that Fair Street needs some sort of safety crossing, whether it’s a stop sign or one of those crosswalks with light features, such as the ones running along Nord Avenue that allow Chico State students to traverse that busy roadway. We know there are many other spots in town that could use help, too, but starting with one that protects a vulnerable population ought to be a priority. Ω

Fracking vote a no-brainer If water is life, as the saying goes, then the members of the Butte County

Board of Supervisors need to do everything they can to protect our local supply of this precious natural commodity. After all, we cannot live without it. Moreover, much of our local economy—think farming and ranching—relies on an ample supply of clean water.

Those are some of the reasons these local officials must ban hydraulic fracturing—or fracking. It poses a very real danger to our water supply— the Tuscan Aquifer, our main source of drinking water.

Back in April, by a 4-to-1 vote, the board directed its legal counsel to craft a local ordinance banning the practice, and on Tuesday, Feb. 10, its members will vote on that proposed prohibition. There’s a large contingent of locals—led by the group Frack-Free Butte County—who want to see this happen, as demonstrated by the successful gathering of signatures to put the issue to a public vote. But as the group’s leaders have acknowledged, the county’s ordinance is stronger.

With that in mind, the supervisors should hold fast and place the community’s interests above all others. Fracking does not belong here. Ω

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by Melissa Daugherty melissad@newsreview.com

Email, weirdness and baby Oh, technology. The CN&R’s network provider went down Monday evening, and as of this paper’s deadline Wednesday morning, I could neither receive nor send emails. That means when things are up and running again I’ll likely have somewhere in the range of 1,500 to 2,500 messages to go through. How terrific.

March 1 is my eight-year anniversary with the CN&R, and I’ve had the same email address the entire time. It seems like I’m on everybody and their sister’s list. Each day, I get hundreds upon hundreds of press releases, everything from the announcement of new books to political news. Most of the messages have no relevance to our community, and go straight into the trash folder. And then there’s spam—lots of it. It’s a huge time-suck.

The sheer volume, about 900 messages daily, requires me to dedicate way too much time dealing only with email. Even if I spent only 20 seconds per message, I’d still spend five hours sifting through it all. Because of this, I’ve become a deleting machine of sorts. I try to, in a second or two, determine whether something is or is not junk, and then move on. I’ve found this triage necessary, especially on deadline, when spare moments are few.

Chances are pretty good I’ve deleted some messages that shouldn’t have hit the round file. If that includes any from you, dear reader, my apologies.

Weirdness. My husband and I drove down to Merced late afternoon Friday to spend the night and celebrate my sweet Italian grandfather’s 91st birthday at a luncheon on Saturday at Merced’s Elks Lodge. There, various family members had parts in the bash attended by about 100 people. My mom, who busted out her college theater chops, did a comedy routine dressed as Maxine, the cranky greeting-card heroine. Her musician cousins, who’d traveled up from the San Luis Obispo area, regaled everyone with some 1940s numbers. My cousin, a Bay Area attorney, played the straight man—as the emcee.

And I—as hard as this may be to imagine—dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and sang “Happy Birthday” to Grandpa in my best sultry voice. The getup involved a blond wig, gold dress, some strategic padding and a glass of wine beforehand.

More weirdness. That pretty much prepared me for Saturday evening and the CN&R’s Keep Chico Weird Talent Show, our second such event. It was wild, weird and once again sold out. Most of the contestants blew me away and reinforced how fortunate I am to live in such a creative community—one that largely embraces its quirky citizens. I’m glad this newspaper is able to help celebrate that diversity.

Baby! Last but not least, I want to give a shout out to my friends Mark Lore and Alexis Harmon, who welcomed their first child, Carl Harmon Lore, into the world on Super Bowl Sunday. Why should you care? Well, Mark is CN&R’s former arts editor who still regularly writes for this publication.

Alexis is a teacher who was an intern here years ago.

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‘How refreshing’ Re “Notes from a Fox junkie” (Letters, by Hugh Rhodes, Jan. 29): Fox News junkie, how refreshing to find someone in this scary neighborhood with common sense! Most of the people in Butte County are pulled around by their “bull ring”—they lose sight of differing opinions.

How rude to think that we “Tea Party Patriots” may have an education and/or an opinion.

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Re “Tricked out of revenue” (Letters, by Barry Johnson, Jan. 29): Barry Johnson wrongly suggested that it’s only about the TOT. In 2001, Wayne Cook took the initiative and primary risk to convert an abandoned pigeon roost of downtown blight into a successful hotel. Investing $8.4 million and years of hard work: the historic Hotel Diamond. The hotel is certainly among the largest private capital investments and historic building renovations in our downtown in many decades.

Among its many attributes, the Hotel Diamond and restaurant now annually produce over $75,000 in sales taxes, $60,000 in property taxes, $220,000 in city occupancy tax, and payroll of over $870,000. The hotel also produces very significant, quality foot traffic, contributing immensely to the health of downtown Chico businesses and economy.

Now Cook proposes to invest $3-$4 million more for an additional 15-16 rooms in the historic Morehead Building at Fourth and Broadway with a proportional positive influence on the economic factors above. To make this investment viable, all six voting members of the council found that the benefits outweighed the potential loss of $5,000-$8,000 in annual parking meter revenue.

Mr. Johnson’s letter spoke of partisan lines, whereas the six-to-zero council decision showed no such thing, just economic common sense.

MARK SORENSEN Chico

Editor’s note: Mr. Sorensen is the mayor of Chico.

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Weed out the early retirees Re “Show us the conservatism” (Editorial, Jan. 29): There also seems to be another pattern at play in police and fire employee salaries and benefits.

Chico recently saw another of a long line of police chiefs retire early.

The CN&R has done a great job of highlighting this trend— search the paper’s website to see the long list. Moving up in the ranks and serving for a few years seems to be a great way to pad your retirement. Benefits for you and your spouse are increased greatly by serving a few years at the higher pay rate.

I would suggest that the City Council members look at this trend and what it costs over 20 years and look into contracts that would require service for five years to increase your lifetime retirement benefits to the higher pay rate. This might end the early retirements for family concerns.

MATTHEW MARTIN Chico

Where’s the evidence, PG&E? Re “Bad move, PG&E” (Editorial, Jan. 29) PG&E should be forced to present credible, scientific evidence before a public forum in defense of its decision to cut trees.

In a time in which California is experiencing perhaps its worst drought in history, cutting valuable old-growth trees makes no sense.

Instead of passively giving PG&E the authority to cut down trees, communities like Chico should be investigating ways to develop local control over energy sources, developing clean energy, and moving away from the dirty energy provided by the PG&E monopolistic model. We should be looking at the success that Germany, and recently, the state of Nebraska, are having with local energy control and development of clean energy resources. Germany has localized energy and communities are able to supply themselves with enough energy to meet their needs plus sell energy back to the grid for profit.

The money that PG&E uses for tree removal comes from the enormous profits the company makes through outrageous rates it is allowed to charge to provide us with dirty energy. It think it is time for communities to fight back and resist tree cutting, and begin questioning PG&E decisions that affect local communities.

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“I guess we can distract ourselves from the dark fact that we are witnessing the brutalization of human beings.”

—Patrick Newman

Brainwashing, brutalization Personally, I’m more sickened by the Super Bowl every year. Avoiding the phenomenon is becoming increasingly difficult—the monster permeates every aspect of American life. It’s morphed into an entire week of mindless, drooling fixation.

We live in a culture depraved to the point where commercial art— the art of deception in combination with the science of mind manipulation—is now treasured above all other art. People genuinely anticipate watching Super Bowl ads.

But how much energy is devoted to examining the way this “art” is used to brainwash consumers into perennially craving more stuff?

More specifically: think Budweiser is spending billions because it wants a 12-year-old boy to have a warm feeling about a puppy—or a warm feeling about alcohol consumption?

Big names in football are now saying they wouldn’t want their sons to play. But, the more we know about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the more garish the halftime shows become. With enough manic-magic and videogame-type theatrics, I guess we can distract ourselves from the dark fact that we are witnessing the brutalization of human beings.

Ever wonder why the games are labeled with Roman numerals?

Study Caligula—every empire has a beginning, middle and end.

PATRICK NEWMAN Chico

Look to the individual Re “The good in godlessness” (Guest comment, by George Gold, Jan. 22): Thank you, CN&R, for promoting free speech, one of the greatest strengths of modern American society, by printing a wide variety of opinions, stories, editorials, etc.

If Sean Morgan and Andrew Coolidge deliberately chose to insult Mr. Gold by not attending his invocation, then, as officials elected to represent all the citizens of Chico, they should deliver a public apology to all the offended parties and citizens. All elected/appointed officials should

respect freedom of expression.

However, while there is sectarian violence across our world, that violence is committed by individuals, and the vast majority of people of faith live in peace and harmony with their neighbors. Unfortunately, acts of violence, because of their shocking nature, always seem to make headlines, while regular and random acts of kindness are too infrequently reported.

There are/were many examples of atheistic societies in history, but I would not even think of judging every citizen in those countries by the acts of their leaders, nor judge a whole group of people by the senseless acts of a few. People are individuals, and all our rights as human beings should be respected and protected at all times. Let us as individuals make this a better world for all.

TOM MOLINA Paradise

‘Cut them some slack’ I have to offer some thoughts about the frequent criticism about the Chico school board. As a former school board member in another community, it may be natural to point fingers at the board, but would you blame the tickettaker at the theater for a bad movie? While few would disagree that the Chico Unified School District is in need of significant improvement, most boards have little impact on results.

The board inherited a horrible situation and the district has been in free fall for many years. But the board can’t be expected to shoulder the blame. The owner of the football team doesn’t stand on the sidelines and call the plays. The owner hires the coach and holds him accountable. If your district office administration is as inept as everyone says, my guess is that the board knows it, too. Most superintendents last only four years and either move on or are encouraged to leave by the board. Cut them some slack.

ANDY MAHONEY Magalia

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COUNTY SUED OVER MEASURE A

A lawsuit has been filed to overturn Measure A, the local ordinance enacted by Butte County voters in November to restrict the physical size of medical marijuana gardens.

The lawsuit was filed in Butte County Superior Court on Tuesday (Feb. 3) by San Rafael attorney Scot Candell, who is representing Donald Ehrsam, Raymond Sperry and Gina Endler of Oroville and Douglas Gunning of Berry Creek. Candell told the CN&R by phone that Measure A “violates the spirit of [California’s] Compassionate Use Act—that everyone can get their medicine, and everyone is treated equally.”

The lawsuit seeks an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the ordinance.

WILDCAT LACROSSE SUSPENDED

Both the men’s and women’s Chico State lacrosse teams have been suspended for violating the university’s alcohol policy for club sports organizations.

A letter sent to club officers and coaches on Monday (Feb. 2) announced the teams are barred from competition and business functions for the remainder of the spring semester. The suspensions are due to parties held by the teams on Jan. 10 and 16, during which alcohol was available in violation of the university’s Sport Club Program’s Code of Conduct Contract, which prohibits drugs and alcohol at club functions.

University officials learned of the parties while investigating the Jan. 16 death of Nick Castellanos, 18, a freshman lacrosse player who was attempting to cross the intersection of Walnut and West Fifth streets on a red light and was fatally injured by a passing motorist. Joe Wills, the university’s director of public affairs, confirmed that Castellanos attended the lacrosse party that night, but couldn’t say whether his death was alcohol-related.

KIDDIE PORN BUST

Mark McLeod Wygant, a South Lake Tahoe fire captain and director and trainer for California Emergency Response Training in Chico, was arrested Jan. 29 on suspicion of child pornography. According to a press release from the city of South Lake Tahoe, Wygant, 44, was placed on paid administrative leave pending a criminal investigation.

Wygant (pictured) appeared in federal court on Friday (Jan. 30) in Sacramento. An affidavit from FBI special agent Glenn G. Norling details the investigation, which began when a flash drive containing more than 5,000 images and 50 videos of child pornography was found in a locker in a South Lake Tahoe fire station. The content includes girls estimated to be between 4 and 13 years old, and several videos involve a South Lake Tahoe girl whom Wygant knows personally.

During an FBI interview, Wygant admitted purchasing spy cameras and placing them in the victim’s residence to record her getting out of the shower, and estimated he had around 100 videos of her—the most recent of which was recorded about a month ago.

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An unflattering angle Historical Chico photo prompts online furor here’s an unmistakable rose tint shading most Tgroup of the memories shared by the Facebook “You Know You’re From Chico When,”

where members post recollections of bygone businesses, remark on historical photos and openly pine for the by halcyon days of yesteryear.

Ken Smith But an image posted to the forum on Sunday (Feb. 1—the kens@ newsreview.com first day of Black History Month) challenged some users’ Norman Rockwellian visions of our local past. The black-and-white photo, taken circa 1920, shows a man in a white hooded robe standing next to a Ku Klux Klan float, parading down Chico’s Main Street.

Dayton Sayer, who posted the photo, said he is a life-long history lover who’s lived in Chico since he was 4 years old. He’s also a frequent poster to the Chico-centric Facebook group, which was founded by Jim Secola in 2010 and currently has more than 9,000 members (they also have “reunions” each year, with the fourth installment in September 2014 drawing an estimated 1,200 people).

Sayer, who asserted he is not racist, said he scours Chico State’s online photo collections for pictures that start conversations. They often prompt memories and lead to first-hand stories from others about the people or places in the photographs.

“When I happened upon those Ku Klux Klan parade photos, my jaw just dropped,” Sayer said, noting the picture—and another of the hate group’s procession—is from the John Nopel Col-

lection of historical photographs, hosted online by Chico State’s Meriam Library.

“I had no idea about that dark, dirty secret in Chico’s past, and thought if I found it interesting then other people might, too,” he said. “I had no idea what it would open up. It seems like everyone had some type of strong reaction to share.”

The picture received more than 200 comments in a few short hours, with some demanding it be taken down because they were personally offended or because they believed it misrepresented the local community. Others approved of the post, arguing that it’s important to acknowledge and learn from the uglier aspects of history.

“We can’t just sweep our history under the rug or bury our heads in the sand like ostriches,” Sayer said. “It’s something that needs to be discussed.”

In this instance, the discourse was not all polite. Sayer said he received sometimes crude personal messages from about 10 people accusing him of everything from glorifying racism to recruiting for the KKK. The photo and accompanying comments

were removed Monday, with founder Secola posting the following: “This has been this group’s policy for years: Please do NOT post negative or inflammatory topics on this page. There is enough neg-

ativity to go around and we don’t need it here. If you don’t agree then leave the group. Please refrain from political, religious, inflammatory topics or using profane language. Failure to do so will result in your post or comment being deleted and if a continuous problem you may be banned from the page.”

Sayer said he understands the decision but was a little disappointed. “I guess it had run its course, but I think it started a good conversation, and I really enjoyed probably 60 percent of the comments people made. But some people’s immaturity overpowered that.”

A cursory Internet search for “KKK in Chico” leads to a first-person account of a the KKK’s local presence in the 1920s as well as a brief lesson in local black history, courtesy of the Virtual Museum of the city of San Francisco (www.sfmuseum.org).

Thomas C. Fleming was a renowned journalist who kept working until just months before his death, at age 99, in 2006. Born in 1907, he moved to Chico in 1919 and attended Chico High School and Chico State College. Fleming founded The Reporter in San Francisco in 1944, which eventually became the Sun-Reporter and remains the largest black newspaper west of the Mississippi.

Fleming was perhaps best known for his column “Reflections on Black History.” In a 1998 entry titled “The Klan

This photo of the Ku Klux Klan marching in Chico circa 1920 spurred angry comments and accusations on a Chico Facebook group.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN NOPEL COLLECTION AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPT., MERIAM LIBRARY, CHICO STATE

Marches in California,” he recalls living here when the town’s black population numbered about 65 and “Chico offered no job opportunities for black men” aspiring to be anything other than “farmhands or bootblacks.”

Fleming wrote: “I had heard vaguely about the Klan from the old folks, and suffered from the delusion that they were active only in the Southern states. I was very wrong, for about three years later they marched down the main street of Chico. It was publicized in the paper before it happened.

“Chico had a round auditorium called the Hippodrome, which was used as an indoor skating rink. I think the Klansmen used it for their gathering, following their march.

“I had no occasion to go downtown that day, and I didn’t feel I wanted to watch the bastards anyway. My stepfather, Moses Moseley, was so mad that he sat out on the porch with a loaded .30 caliber rifle and I sat beside him with a loaded 25-20, plus we both had loaded shotguns. I don’t know until today whether either of us would have fired if the Klansmen had decided to march on the street where our house was located.”

Chico State history professor Michael Magliari offered some more perspective on the photo, locally and nationally.

“The KKK was incredibly powerful in the 1920s, not just in the South but all over the United States,” he explained, noting the group’s membership peaked at about 5 million that decade, and that in some California cities—such as Anaheim and La Habra—the hate group seized control of city councils and entire police forces. Even California’s governor from 1923 to 1927, Friend Richardson, was suspected of being a Klansman, and “definitely had the backing of the KKK,” Magliari said.

“Back then, the KKK was also known as being anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant as much as it was for being antiblack,” he said. “They cast a wide net then, and it’s not surprising they found a clavern of supporters here.

“If you look at Chico’s racial history, there’s sadly a lot of intolerance there in the 19th and early 20th centuries, starting with the Native Americans and continuing with anti-black, anti-immigrant and anti-Chinese agitation and policies.”

Magliari said he personally would have sided with those who wanted to keep the photo up: “Like it or not, that picture is part of the historical record.

No matter how many times you remove it, you can’t pretend it never happened.” Ω

WTC: Waiting to cross Work Training Center wants a crosswalk installed on busy Fair Street he Work Training Center, a nonprofit agency that serves those with Tsouth developmental and physical disabilities, straddles Fair Street in Chico where it has facilities on either side of the busy four-lane

road. With such a setup, a number of its clients have to cross the street on a daily basis, but the only existing pedestrian crosswalks are about a quarter-mile walk to intersections to the north (East 20th Street) or to the south (East Park Avenue).

WTC, which has been located on Fair Street since the mid-1970s, has lobbied unsuccessfully in recent years to try to get a more conveniently located crossing for its clients and employees, who receive services and work in offices and businesses on each side of the street.

That effort has increased in the last year or so, but apparently without gaining much support from the city. The only current assistance crossing the street are signs near the WTC buildings that say “SLOW Pedestrian Crossing.”

Last October, Wes Olson, who serves as the chairman for the WTC’s client council, sent a letter to the Chico City Council members and candidates, alerting them to the situation. It was a follow-up to a letter sent in June to then-Mayor Mary Goloff, which Olson said received no response.

“Crossing Fair Street continues to be difficult and dangerous, especially for those of us with disabilities,” the letter reads, noting that the street is “really busy” and that a crosswalk “would remind drivers and give staff and clients of the Work Training Center a safe way to cross the street.

“We again urge you to take action to correct this dangerous situation before someone is injured or killed,” the letter concludes.

(Olson said two council candidates responded to the letter. Forough Molina, who was not elected, said she had passed the matter onto the local Independent Living Services of Northern California and Andrew Coolidge said he would get back in contact if elected, which he was. Olson said he has yet to hear back from Coolidge.)

“We have multiple facilities that we interact with on a daily basis,” said Devon Saul, a recently hired WTC employee who is confined to a wheelchair. “It’s tough going from here to across the street when there’s no crosswalk and no sidewalk and I use a wheelchair.”

Saul, who came to the WTC about a month ago, said he personally has to cross the street at least a couple times a week.

“It’s very interesting going from here to across the street,” he said.

“I have to be in the lane where the cars travel because there is no sidewalk and then there’s no place for me to safely cross. While I’m

Michelle Ely, director of client services for the Work Training Center, is joined by Devon Saul (center), a recent WTC client, and Wes Olson, the WTC client council representative.

PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

traveling maybe 50 yards from door to door, I’m sitting there thinking there is a legitimate chance I’m going to get hit by a car on my way just to do my job.”

He said he approached Michelle Ely, director of client services, early on regarding the need for both a crosswalk and a sidewalk for the clients. This was not news to her.

Ely said at any given time the facility employs between 200 and 250 people and serves between 450 and 700 clients and that there are at least 20 to 30 street crossings a day.

Olson said he’s almost been hit at least three times in the five years he’s been with the WTC. “It’s crazy trying to get across,” he said. “The speed limit is 35 mph, but people don’t want to go 35—they want to go at least 50.”

Ely said that Ruben Martinez, the city’s director of Public Works, attended the WTC’s most recent client-council meeting and told them he had looked into the matter but had concerns about a mid-block crosswalk.

“He said there might be a perception that they were safe when they weren’t because drivers aren’t looking for something right there,” she said. “His other concern was that it will cost a lot of money because only one part of our street has a sidewalk and there is a large portion that doesn’t. Any time that you put in a crosswalk you have to improve both sides of the street and it has to meet up with ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] requirements.”

Martinez said the situation is complex.

“Our take is that the crosswalk would be in the middle of a big commercial street and that is inherently dangerous,” he told the CN&R. “Putting a crosswalk there could create a false sense of security.”

One option, he said, would be to put a crosswalk where 23rd Street connects with Fair Street, creating The great age divide a three-way intersection much closer than walking all the way to East Park Avenue.

A recent Pew Research Center poll aimed at discerning Americans’ views on “Traffic studies would need to be conducted to childhood vaccinations reveals that much of the divide is based on age more discover what the best avenue would be,” he said. than gender or ethnicity. The majority of adults (68 percent) said vaccines “I saw a letter from several years ago that the 23rd should be required for children and that parents should not have a choice in the matter. But when broken down by age group, the survey found that only 59 perStreet [crossing] is really the preferred option. But cent of those ages 18-29 felt that way, as opposed to 64 percent of those 30-49, with the requirements the city would be under, it 75 percent of 50- to 64-year-olds and 79 percent of those 65 and older. The same would be extremely expensive—a couple hundred poll was divided by men (67 percent) and women (70 percent) as well as different thousand dollars.” ethnic groups—whites (68 percent), blacks (66 percent) and Hispanics (75 perHe said he has invited WTC reps to join the city’s cent).

ADA committee.

“We are updating our 2009 transition plan and I think making sure their conversation is part of that is the best thing we can do right now.”

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History lesson Understanding America’s crisis in policing Herron has been both a prosecutor Aof undré and a trial lawyer, as well as a professor law and a civil-rights activist. She also has

more people are killed here than in any other developed nation.” A recent article in the Economist magazine stated that police officers in the United States kill one person every day, she said.

It’s all about the dominant white culture exercising control, Herron insisted. People of color, she pointed out, account for 30 percent of the population, but 60 percent of those in prison. African Americans are 14 percent of drug users, but 37 percent of those convicted of drug crimes, and they get hit with longer sentences.

appeared in documentary films about the death penalty (she’s actively opposed) and is—dig it—a stand-up comedian on the side.

“I’m not going to tell any jokes tonight,” she warned a large group gathered in Chico State’s Bell Memorial Union Friday (Jan. 30) for the annual meeting of the Chico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, “because I’m not getting paid.”

Instead Herron, the keynote speaker at the event, gave a remarkable history lesson as a way of “trying to find a useful, meaningful way to talk about the crisis in policing” as manifested in the police killings of two unarmed black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and the assassinations of two New York City police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.

Her lecture seemed tailored especially to the large number of students attending. They were members of the student branch of the ACLU, the Wildcat Civil Liberties Union. Herron said she Aundré Herron is shown here with Luis Tiznado, director of the was gratified to see so many student-run Wildcat Civil Liberties Union. Unlike the (much older) young people standing up for members of the Chico chapter of the ACLU, they are a racially and ethcivil liberties. nically diverse group, which Herron took as a hopeful sign.

Echoing the philosopher PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER George Santayana, who famously said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat So what to do? Herron asked. She had it,” she said we needed to understand “the several suggestions. lessons of history, to look through the prism • First, we must recognize that police of history, to understand what’s going on work is dangerous and difficult and importoday.” tant. And the police must acknowledge that There was a time, she said, not so long their job is to serve and protect. It’s a symbiago, when a black man or youth was lynched otic relationship, and the police are not above every day in this country. “The killing of the law. “We have to work together.” people of color with impunity … is part of • We need comprehensive criminal-justhis country’s DNA … It’s no accident that tice reform, and we need to stop overpolicwe’re not seeing police shootings of rich ing. “Eric Garner should not lose his life over white men.” selling cigarettes.”

The deaths of Officers Liu and Ramos at • The police need to get behind gun conthe hands of a deranged man speak to the trol and use their political muscle to ban failure of our mental-health system, she said. weapons of war from the streets.

“If the mere fact of wearing a uniform is suf• The police need more mental-health ficient to lead to deaths, we’re in trouble as a training to be able to recognize mental illness country.” and know how to respond. By the same And if those in uniform can cause the token, cops on patrol need regular respite death of a man doing no more than selling from their demanding and sometimes dispirloose cigarettes, as happened to Garner, it’s iting jobs. really bad, she added.

• They must be required to wear body The militarization of domestic police cams and expected to tape every encounter. forces so evident in the media coverage of • The review of officer-involved shootthe Ferguson protests in the wake of Michael ings should be taken from the police and Brown’s death, along with the proliferation given to disinterested parties. of commando-style SWAT teams that are Most important, we all must treat each being used for tasks as mundane as serving other with dignity and compassion, Herron warrants and low-level drug busts, suggests said. “You might be through with history, but that “we are in danger of becoming a police history isn’t through with you.” state,” Herron warned.

—ROBERT SPEER “And yet despite all this weaponry … robertspeer@newsreview.com

he blighted block of East 11th Tattracts Street, a micro-slum of sorts that squatters, hard-drug users

and crime to an otherwise placid residential neighborhood in south Chico, was the central discussion during the Chico City Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday (Feb. 3).

The properties include a quartet of dilapidated houses adjacent to Little Chico Creek and the warehouse on the corner of Park Avenue and East 11th Street—the site of the old Taylor’s Drive-In and a gas station. As Vice Mayor Sean Morgan put it on Tuesday, the corner “looks like it came from Detroit.”

Previous efforts to address the blight got complicated. If state funding hadn’t dried up following the Great Recession, a deal would have transferred ownership of all the properties from Hal LLC, led by local businessman David Halimi, to the city. In 2010, the city used state-sourced redevelopment agency (RDA) funding to purchase a pair of the homes and begin the process of purchasing the other two, along with the warehouse property. The deal was contingent upon whether the city received a state grant to clean up contamination left by underground gas tanks.

However, after the city completed the $200,000 cleanup, the state dissolved redevelopment agencies in early 2012—before escrow closed—and two of the houses and the warehouse reverted back to Hal LLC, creating a patchwork of publicly and privately owned structures that have since fallen further into disrepair.

On Tuesday, Habitat for Humanity presented the council

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Debbie Smith, mother of the late Matthew Carrington, takes part in a candlelight vigil that marched through the campus neighborhood to the downtown City Plaza Monday, Feb. 2, marking the 10th anniversary of Carrington’s death due to a fraternity hazing ritual.

Smith has helped create a nonprofit group called the AHA! Movement (Anti-Hazing Awareness) to bring to light the dangers of the rituals often used during initiation into a fraternity. Learn more about the organization at facebook.com/ahamovement.

with a proposal to purchase the two city-owned houses—at 168 and 178 E. 11th St.—and demolish them to build new homes for lowincome families. In addition to the sale, the council was asked to approve a $35,000 Community Development Block Grant and a $120,000 loan for the project.

According to City Housing Manager Marie Demers, the total property value is $78,100, a cost that will eventually be transferred to the future homeowners.

“We’re looking forward to working on this project, and specifically working in this particular neighborhood,” said Nicole Bateman, executive director of Habitat for Humanity in Butte County. “We see it really does need to be revitalized.”

The council voted unanimously to approve the deal.

At Morgan’s request, the council also discussed the blighted Taylor’s Drive-In site. Hal LLC maintains it has been unable to sell the corner property for a profit, Morgan said, under the area’s current mixed residential zoning (the RDA had intended to use the site for lowincome housing). Morgan suggested rezoning the area to community commercial, thereby increasing appeal to potential developers.

Councilwoman Ann Schwab argued that the city has already done enough for Hal LLC by facilitating the costly environmental cleanup.

“I’m not opposed to the property owner coming to us and asking us for a rezone, but I think the city has given quite a lot to this property owner,” she said.

Mayor Mark Sorensen pointed

In other City Council news, the

1078 Gallery and Buffalo Wild Wings—a full-service sports bar and restaurant set for construction on East Avenue—received approval to serve alcohol.

The 1078, along with many other previously city-funded arts organizations, is seeking a steady source of revenue through beer sales in light of a lack of financial support from the city. Buffalo Wild Wings, on the other hand, said it would have pulled out of construction entirely had it not received approval, said retired Police Lt. George Laver, who presented the staff report.

Councilwoman Ritter argued that the city has been sending mixed messages on alcohol licensing, pointing out that both businesses are in census tracts already oversaturated with alcohol licenses, according to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

“I’m confused about the direction we’re moving as a city,” Ritter said. “We’re saying alcohol is a problem, these undue concentrations are a problem, but we continue to make recommendations [for approval].”

The council voted 5-2, with Schwab and Ritter dissenting in both instances, to approve the licenses.

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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out that a state grant, not city funding, allowed for the gas-tank cleanup, though he shares Schwab’s concern that “the city has spent a great deal of money cleaning up this property, at state expense.”

The council voted 4-3, with Schwab and Councilmembers Tami Ritter and Randall Stone dissenting, to place the rezoning proposal on a future meeting’s agenda.

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Sherri Scott sets up a plethora of mushrooms for dyeing at a recent workshop at Chico State.

Dyeing with mushrooms: All in a day’s workshop

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Ofarmers of local weavers, fiber artists and sheep congregated in Chico State’s n a recent Saturday morning, a group

Herbarium to explore the magic of fungi.

Sherri Scott, local farmer and GRUB Education Programs member, led the workshop, which outlined the importance of an increasingly popular practice—using mushrooms and lichens for sustainable dyeing.

“I first got into mushroom hunting in the late ’90s, when I was living in San Francisco,” Scott said. “On a whim, I went out on what they called a ‘foray’ with a group. It was magical. There were so many shapes and colors of mushrooms hiding everywhere. I started doing it around here, and began collecting mushrooms and playing around with dyes. Then, with Chico Cloth, my interests became more focused.”

A project affiliated with the Mount Lassen Fiber Guild, Chico Cloth’s mission is to create fabrics made from regional fiber sources, with the eventual goal of creating a completely “Chico” linen, made exclusively from Chico-grown plant materials. As the project grew, finding environmentally friendly dyes became an important part of the process.

“We all know that commercial clothes are dyed with a lot of chemicals, and it’s not sustainable,” Scott said.

In recent years, the movement to

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challenge traditional clothing production and dyeing practices has gained popularity.

Organizations like Greenpeace have brought attention to the toxic methods via their Detox My Fashion campaign. Since 2011 they’ve been encouraging some of the world’s most famous brands to create toxic-free clothing in the hopes of reducing heath problems and water pollution, which Scott said result from unsustainable dyeing techniques.

But mushrooms are more than a nontoxic alternative method for dyeing.

“Because it’s just the fruit of the organism you’re using, it’s a very sustainable source of dye,” Scott explained. “With lichens, you’re using the whole organism, so it’s important to harvest only what has fallen from the trees.”

During her workshop, Scott experimented with seven types of mushrooms and one lichen to test the various dyeing options. “There are a lot of variables that affect the dye—from temperature, to the maturity of the organism, to the mordants used.” Mordants, she explained, are salts used to bring out the colors in a dye and some are quite toxic, while others are considered safe. For her workshop, she used alum (generally used to brighten colors) and iron (mostly to darken), which are the two most commonly used mordants.

When it came time to create the dyes, the participants had a busy morning ahead of them. In all, the process took about 4 1/2 hours.

So how do you dye with mushrooms?

First, the mordants were dissolved in water,

simmered with the fiber that would eventually be dyed. Scott brought four fibers to experiment with: silk, wool, cotton and linen.

Next, the mushroom dye bath was created by cooking the fungi in water for roughly an hour, before dyeing the fibers in the bath.

What results is an array of color options as seen from Scott’s workshop, from beige hues to yellows and even bright pinks, produced by the Hypomyces lactifluorum, also known as the “lobster mushroom.”

Miriam C. Rice and her book, Mushrooms for Color. “She kind of started the craze, and most of that was around Sonoma County and the Scandinavian countries, and now there are worldwide symposiums on fiber and fungus.” Scott joked that it would have been fun to go to last year’s gathering, but it’s location in Estonia made it a little difficult to get to.

For other mushroom guide books, Scott recommends two from author David Arora: All That the Rain Promises and More and Mushrooms Demystified, which fans affectionately refer to as the bible of mushroom guides.

With recent winter weather conditions, mushroom growth was especially impressive, bringing more attention to the important natural resource. “There was a boom in mushrooms for a while. Everything’s drying up now, but for a while we were getting a lot of rain, and it wasn’t too cold, and mushrooms were becoming part of people’s consciousness.” While Scott has no workshops on her calendar for the immediate future, the fungi enthusiast is happy to swap stories and talk future events with anyone interested. Contact her at sherri@grubchico.org for more information. □

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While some of the mushrooms used in her

workshop aren’t native to Chico, she says a few can be found around the area. “The Western Jack O’Lanterns can be found around the foothills; they attack dying oak trees. They’re dark golden orange, and they can actually glow in the dark—hence the name.” Wolf lichen, which produce shades of yellow from the dye process, are also found around Butte County.

Scott usually searches for fungi treasures around Butte and Plumas counties, but she finds that coastal areas are the best spots for finding mushrooms; Fort Bragg is one of her favorite spots. But mushroom hunters don’t have free rein everywhere.

“Depending on the year and the area, the Forest Service may require permits. They’re often free, but you need to be registered as a commercial hunter, which is someone who harvests edible mushrooms to sell.”

While it’s unknown exactly when the practice of dyeing with mushrooms began, popularity rose in the 1970s, when experts began publishing their findings, such as

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Citizen Marne Marne Bass is a man who loves Chico and spreading the word about its wonderful qualities through videos. This past November, the 61-year-old bookkeeper, paralegal and videographer started Citizen Television, or CTV, a nonprofit that broadcasts his videos showcasing everything “Chico,” from satire and street fights to live local bands and astrology readings.

At last count Bass, who’s been making videos since the early 1980s, had created, edited and uploaded over 2,400 of his videos. Those, along with local videos he finds online, can be seen on cable TV in Yreka and Mount Shasta, as well as in the Oregon cities of Ashland and Medford. View a select few online at Citizn.net or the entire library at YouTube.com/MarneBass.

How did you start Citizen TV? I produced my friend Kozmic Kev’s astrology show for 153 weeks when Chico had a local public access channel. After Chico dropped public access TV I started my own channel. My first video had me showing how to debone a turkey, which has gotten over 100,000 views.

What’s the overall purpose of Citizen Television?

The core concept is to stop our society from going to hell in a handbasket. We’re constantly assaulted by negative self-images of being undesirable, weak or

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New restaurants and expansions have dominated this column space recently, but over the last few weeks there have been a few noteworthy closures in Chico.

Johnnie’s Restaurant and Bar, located in downtown’s Hotel Diamond, closed its doors mid-January, with the expectation of a new restaurant and bar heading into that space in a few months.

The owners of Annie’s Asian Grill also announced in mid-January that they will cease serving those delicious Korean tacos via their mobile food business. They closed the brick-and-mortar restaurant on Ninth Street a few years back.

All the Best Video is among the list of closures as well, though the video rental store is only shuttering its Walnut Street location. The Cohasset store will stay open.

alone, unless we buy the right hygienic products or bigger TVs. My solution is to build Chico up as a community and spread it to the world. People don’t realize that Chico is a really compelling place with a rich culture. I also want to help others make their knowledge and opinions available to everyone.

What types of videos do you show?

Our daily schedule features a jazz clinic at 7 a.m., “Kozmic Kev’s Planetary Cursader” at noon and 6 p.m., with local music acts and Chico scene videos interspersed.

We also show local videos made by other Chicoans featuring fist fights in the park, cops busting gang-bangers, and old bands like Mother Hips and Electric Circus.

My alter-ego, “Dick Witman,” is the antagonistic, conservative morning host who hates dopesmoking hippies and says things

Do you have assistants?

Yes, my helpers are mainly the performers and fans of the jazz band I play bass in, called the Miami Rogue Roosters. We play at Has Beans café on Humbolt Avenue the first and third Sunday of each month, and at various music festivals.

What’s in the works for Citizn.net?

We’re working on a Saturday morning kids show featuring cartoons, puppets and computer graphics that PBS in Redding is interested in acquiring. Others in production are a kid-oriented show called The Friendly Mermaid, a Mystery Science 3000 takeoff, The Hypnoswami and the Saturday farmers’ market.

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Going to the dogs For all of you dog lovers out there, I have an update to my most recent column. Michael Thomas of Tres Hombres followed up with me after I wrote about the new state law that allows dogs on restaurant patios. The long and narrow configuration of the Tres patio doesn’t lend itself to allowing dogs beyond service animals, but the Broadway restaurant has found its own way to share its pro-pooch position. Tres Hombres has teamed up with Partida Tequila in a fundraiser for the Butte Humane Society. All you have to do is drink margaritas.

For every case of Partida tequila sold through the month of February, a donation will be made to BHS. The goal is to raise $1,000.

Thomas mentioned that, in addition to the fundraiser, through the month of February, Tres Hombres is holding a Dog Day Afternoon photo contest. Each week, a winner will be chosen from submitted photos with the winning pup receiving a bone from Northern Star Mills and the owners snagging a dinner for two.

Check out the details on Tres Hombres’ Facebook page. My pup Conner prefers to spend his afternoons bundled up on the couch (that’s him pictured) so I’m guessing we won’t be frontrunners for the competition.

Premier parking The city of Chico municipal parking lot near City Hall has undergone a subtle, yet significant change. The signs announcing the preferential parking for City Council members nearest the entrance were recently removed, so those spaces are now open to the general public.

City Manager Mark Orme said the shifting of the spaces to general parking provides the public—oftentimes business owners—a small convenience for doing business with the city. Next time you have to take out a business license or apply for a building permit, take advantage of this prime parking.

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HEALTHLINES Ceara Adlam, telemedicine coordinator at Feather River Hospital, believes that telemedicine “is where the future is going.”

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Butte County health officials are warning of a local gonorrhea epidemic. Nearly 300 cases of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection were reported in 2014—double what was reported the year before. About 40 percent of cases were in people 25 years old or younger, according to a Butte County Public Health press release.

Gonorrhea is spread through oral, vaginal and anal sex, and an infected individual may not show signs or symptoms, which include a burning sensation while urinating or abnormal genital pain or discharge. If gone untreated, the STD can cause serious health problems, such as sterility. However, gonorrhea can be cured with antibiotics, noted Butte County Public Health Officer Dr. Mark Lundberg.

For more information on the infection, or to make an appointment for free or low-cost STD testing at a county health clinic, call 891-2731 in Chico or 538-7341 in Oroville.

E-CIGS “NOT SAFE”

Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health, recently declared that electronic cigarettes are “a growing threat that needs to be addressed.”

State health officials are ramping up a new public education campaign to warn Californians of the dangers of using the cigarette substitutes known as vapes, vaporizers or vape pens, according to The Sacramento Bee. A CDPH report released on Jan. 28 found at least 10 chemicals in e-cigarettes known to cause cancer or birth defects. The report also found that, while e-cigarettes are widely marketed for smoking cessation on TV and radio—where tobacco ads are banned—“there is no scientific evidence that e-cigarettes help smokers successfully quit traditional cigarettes.”

Additionally, Chapman recently released an advisory to physicians in the state urging them to tell patients that e-cigarettes are particularly harmful for teenagers and pregnant women.

“From all the evidence we have so far, e-cigarettes are not as harmful as conventional cigarettes, but e-cigarettes are not harmless,” Chapman said. “They are not safe.”

TOO YOUNG FOR PUFFIN’

A bill authored by state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) would, if passed, raise the legal minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old.

SB 151 is an effort to curb tobacco use among California’s teenagers—about 21,300 of whom start smoking each year, said Kimberly Amazeen, vice president for the American Lung Association in California.

If SB 151 is passed, California would become the first state in the nation to raise the minimum smoking age to 21, according to California Healthline. However, the legislation is sure to face strong opposition from the tobacco industry, as a similar bill failed on the Senate floor in 2002.

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The doctor will screen you now Telemedicine may be the wave of the future, but it’s yet to catch on locally by

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or many patients in the North State who Ftimes need specialized health care, long wait have become all too familiar. Often

they’re faced with long drives to metro medical centers or with local appointments scheduled weeks or months out.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to most, Feather River Hospital has specialists available—ready and able to see patients insured by Blue Shield, even under Covered California plans. Feather River’s Canyon View Clinic in Paradise has a room dedicated to people who need to see, well, you name it—a cardiologist, dermatologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, hematologist/oncologist, pulmonologist, rheumatologist, infectious disease doctor, orthopedic surgeon or neuro-spine surgeon.

And soon, the list of specialties will expand to endocrinology, radiation oncology, urology, pain management, psychiatry and stroke care, as will the number of eligible patients once Feather River completes its process with Medi-Cal. Thing is, you won’t find these physicians physically at the clinic; they’re part of a telemedicine network through Adventist Health, the hospital’s parent organization. With a technological interface and the assistance of an in-person professional, though, the doctors are able to treat patients as if they’re with them in person.

“It’s very exciting to offer this level of care to our community,” said Eden Davis, Feather River’s community and media relations coordinator. “We struggle with

access to specialty care, being a rural community. This brings it all home.”

Adventist Health and Blue Shield announced the program’s launch last March. Yet, as of this issue’s deadline, Feather River had not seen a single telemedicine patient since establishing the service in December 2013.

Unlike at other locations in the AH Telehealth Network—11 total, including Paradise—telemedicine locally remains an untapped resource.

“It just makes me so upset when people aren’t getting care, the care they need,” said Ceara Adlam, telemedicine coordinator at Feather River. “Now they can, and I cannot wait until we get credentialed with Medi-Cal. We’re a Rural Health Clinic, and 90 percent if not more of our population has Medi-Cal for insurance….

“I feel like this is where the future is going, with telemedicine, and there’s a lot of opportunity to see the specialist you need to see. I just find it so interesting and amazing for patients and what we can do

for them around here now.”

Technological advances make telemedicine possible by allowing for instantaneous videoconferencing via broadband Internet, with high-resolution imaging and highdefinition audio.

The doctor just needs a computer with the right webcam, monitor and speakers hooked up to a secure, restricted network for privacy. On its end, the clinic uses a more complex machine with two flat screens, a stethoscope, an otoscope, a vital signs monitor and an exam camera.

That camera, which can be operated remotely by the physician, can zoom in at up to 50-times magnification to capture, for example, skin lesions or zoom out enough to show walking gait or range of motion. From that, the machine can record 60 seconds of footage, portions of which may be selected for inclusion in the patient’s electronic health record.

There’s a strong interpersonal connection as well.

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“I look at it as [becoming] the robot to the doctor,” Adlam said.

“They tell us exactly what they want us to do. We call it being the doctor’s hands.”

Dr. Arbi Ohanian is one such doctor. A neurologist who works in a 10-physician practice in Pasadena, he’s participated in telemedicine since 2006.

“Once you really start using the equipment, you do start feeling like you’re there in the room with the patient,” he said. “We can’t physically touch the patient, but the facilitator there can, so it really has been an amazing experience where we can log into a remote facility and actually provide care as if we we’re there… Speaking from a neurologist’s standpoint, I think most of the things you can do in your office you can do through telemedicine.

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Love in the DigitaL age the learning curve is steep when it comes to modern-day romance navigating the world of romance these days has become easier in some ways. initiating a date—or a hook-up—through Facebook or via text and apps cuts out the awkwardness and intimidation of face-to-face contact. Tinder is the new match.com in an increasingly computerized world, for example. moreover, since it reveals someone’s interested in somebody else only if that person is interested back, it eliminates the rejection factor entirely.

Sounds great, right?

Then again, there’s a lot to be said for meeting someone the old-fashioned way.

You know, through friends, at a party or, heck, at a bar.

That’s because chemistry is harder to gauge over a keyboard, through an online profile and conversation on a cellphone. Welcome to love in the digital age. We’re still figuring it all out, too.

by

Ernesto Rivera

L

eo Shelby-Dunn had been talking to someone on Grindr for about a month when he decided to invite him over to his place. It was uncommon to invite a stranger over to his home so soon, as he usually likes to set up a first meeting in a public space. They both had a lot in common, though, and Shelby-Dunn thought, “I’m just going to go for it.” He leaned in for a kiss, but he didn’t like where the night went from there.

“He was into all this crazy, kinky shit,” Shelby-Dunn said. “I was like, ‘Whoa, you did not mention this at all.’ I’m not vanilla, but I’m definitely not rocky road.”

Shelby-Dunn is one of the 5 million users of Grindr, a location-based dating app specifically for men, that scrolls through profiles of gay, bisexual and transgender men looking for everything from serious relationships to casual hook-ups to friendships.

That app and Tinder, another locationbased dating app primarily used by straight singles, are becoming increasingly popular as a way to find relationships. Both have similarities: they’re free, they use a phone’s location to find people in the area, and they accommodate small profiles for users to communicate what they’re looking for.

Profiles consist of photos, short descriptions and physical characteristics such as height and body type.

What they cannot do, just like online dating sites, is give a true and full sense of who the person on the other phone is and whether the chemistry will be there when the face-to-face occurs.

In other words, it’s user beware.

Shelby-Dunn, a 26-year-old Chico State history major, knows this first-hand. He’s been using Grindr for about three years and said he’s had both positive and negative experiences.

“It’s a mixed bag,” he said. “Sometimes I get, like, these really trashy perverts and sometimes I meet really cool people that I end up becoming friends with. That’s what I really like to use the app for.”

GRINDR Dating and hookup apps give a whole new feel to romance

Indeed, in Shelby-Dunn’s experience, there is a wide spectrum of Grindr users.

There are people who want to skip the dating part and go straight to sex. On the other hand, there are people who want a serious relationship and those who use it primarily to make friends.

“I end up meeting them and becoming friends instead of screwing around,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, it’s gotten me laid before and it probably will again in the future.”

Some of the local users Shelby-Dunn encounters are what he calls “blank tiles”— people who don’t upload a profile picture and don’t reveal personal information about themselves other than weight, height and ethnicity.

“They don’t have a picture because they’re really nervous, and they’re using it to be secretive,” he said. “Part of it is because they’re not out of the closet, but the more significant part of it is that they just haven’t learned to accept themselves in their community.”

The more ubiquitous Tinder, which as of last fall had an estimated 1.2 billion profiles, includes that of a single, 25-yearold restaurant server and recent Chico State graduate, who asked to remain anonymous for this story. She started using the app back in November not only because it was easily accessible and free,

“There’s a very consumer mentality in our culture. I think Tinder taps into that. There’s a fresh supply. If you both don’t like each other, there are other people who will.”

—Dr. Liahna Gordon, Chico State sociology professor

but also because she was curious as to what she could find.

“The concept worked for me,” she said. “Tinder cuts out the bullshit. You’re single, I’m single, let’s talk.”

She joined Tinder to look for long-term, serious relationships and has been using it for dating but did admit the app has a stigma that it’s only for hooking up.

“Some girls are very open and you can tell they’re just trying to hook up,” she said. “That’s fine for them, but that’s not how I’m using it.”

Tinder requires users to sign up using their Facebook account. Once an account is created, users choose their profile, add a small description of themselves and what they’re looking for. Then they can start choosing people they’re interested in.

The app claims it will never post anything on Facebook, but it does take plenty of information. Tinder pulls your photos from Facebook so you can choose a profile picture. It also grabs your friends list and your interests to show users what they may have in common with their matches.

Once users start browsing through profiles, they can either swipe right to “like” someone or swipe left to move on to the next person. Once two people have said they like each other, the app prompts a screen saying “It’s a Match!” and allows the users to start chatting through the app’s instant messenger. Unlike Tinder, Grindr doesn’t use a match system. It gives you a constant feed of thumbnails of people in your area. There is no wall between users,

and anyone can strike up a conversation at any time.

That anonymous Tinder user has gone on a few first dates through the app, but only a couple of them resulted in second or third dates. She’s still hopeful that she’ll find a match on Tinder that will turn into something meaningful. If not, she’ll stop using it and explore other options. There are only so many users she can swipe left before she’s run out of profiles.

Dr. Liahna Gordon, a sociology professor at Chico State who has been teaching sexuality classes for 20 years, said she has a sense that mostly younger people are flocking to use dating apps because they’re easy to set up and quick to use.

“Part of its appeal is that it’s a constant supply of new people,” she said. “It means there are a lot of possibilities. If you’re meeting people in person, you’re limited to the number of new contacts you have.”

In some ways, these apps are like shopping, she said.

“There’s a very consumer mentality in our culture,” she said. “I think Tinder taps into that. There’s a fresh supply. If you both don’t like each other, there are other people who will.”

While Gordon sees the many positives of Tinder, like a decreased likelihood of rejection, she admits that the app has a lot of negatives, too.

“It reinforces our cultural notion of what is attraction,” she said. “You get much less—not none—but much less of a sense of them as a person outside of their physical appearance. That’s part of why it’s a younger audience who’s using it because, culturally, older people are not seen as attractive.”

There are a lot of real-world experiences an app like Tinder won’t give users, Gordon added.

“There’s something in face-to-face interaction that doesn’t come across in a photo,” she said. “There’s body language, the way somebody looks at you, the tone of their voice. There is a wider range of things you may get in a 10-second interaction that you won’t get in a photo, especially a posed photo.”

Another problem with the focus on visual attractiveness is that it promotes the idea that people who are most conventionally attractive are also the best in bed, Gordon said.

“In my experiences, it’s fairly the opposite,” she said. “The most conventionally attractive people I’ve slept with are not the people who have knocked my socks off.”

While Gordon said there is no data or research about dating apps just yet, a lot of previous research on relationships and online dating can apply to them.

“Many of the women who have hookups are using them hoping that they turn into relationships,” she said. “Many men who have hook-ups do not want them to Ω turn into relationships.” more ROMANCE continued on page 20

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Luv u How texting has transformed flirting, dating and romance

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Rachel Bush

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he first thing I did when exploring how texting culture is affecting dating and relationships was text my friends for input on the subject. I wasn’t trying to be “meta.” It just seemed like the easiest way to reach out to people—and it was. Almost immediately, replies came in the form of little red bubble notifications, making intermittent “ding” sounds on my iPhone. It’s that easy, incredibly fast form of communication that has us all addicted.

So it’s no surprise that texting has made a major impact on dating in the 21st century. This is both comforting and horrifying. Comforting because, let’s face it, sometimes it’s just easier to make plans or converse without the pressures of faceto-face—or voice-to-voice—interaction.

For that same reason, it’s disconcerting that it’s seeped into the dating discourse.

As the most effortless form of communication, texting often makes us approach the early stages of dating with nonchalance.

“We’re texting” has become somewhat of a new relationship status, a description my friends and I have used for a potentially budding romance. Well, great, you’re texting, but are you hanging out? As my friend Theresa put it: “Texting is better than doing nothing, but it’s not better than anything besides that.”

And because texting doesn’t offer the nuances of facial expression, verbal tone or

body language, we’re often tempted to use it as a cheap way to avoid confrontation.

Liam Kyle Sullivan, former Internet star of the YouTube video “Shoes,” parodied the idea with his music video “Text Message Break-Up,” which features swarms of angry girls singing to a fictional boyfriend who used his phone to cut ties. Curious as to whether this was a real-life way to break up with someone, I asked my friends, most of whom had trouble recalling any such experience, which reassured my faith in humanity.

But one friend, Brianna, was quick to offer personal stories.

“All of my relationship experiences have been pretty casual, so breaking up was, too,” she said. As such, she’s used

“I once made the mistake of giving a stranger my real phone number after mild flirting on a bus. The only form of communication I received after that? Dick pics.” texting to end various flings. “Once I texted, ‘Hey, I don’t think this is working out, we should break up,’ and he texted me back, ‘OK, chill’ with a cat picture.” Tact at its finest.

While I’ve never personally used texting for something as dramatic as a breakup, it’s still been a part of all of

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my dating experiences. I use it as my primary method for making date plans, and it’s also played a significant role in the flirting stage. With the popularity of emoticons, we now have endless options to tease affectionately, without even using words. I use emoticons often, although I still haven’t figured out that winky face.

Depending on who is sending (or receiving) the message, it’s either taken as a playful gesture, or a hint of romance. The ambiguity stresses me out.

Of course, flirting via text isn’t always just innocent exchanges of cartoon faces.

With the fairly recent phenomenon of “sexting,” people send romantic partners sexually explicit messages or photos.

“I think it adds an exciting element to long-distance relationships,” my friend Kara suggested. “And it doesn’t carry the same verbal resistance as video chatting or phone calls.”

But folks, sext wisely. I once made the mistake of giving a stranger my real phone number after mild flirting on a bus. The only form of communication I received after that? Dick pics. I’m not sure I even remembered his name, but even so, I got closeups of his penis on my phone. There’s a time and place for sexting—and that wasn’t either.

Sure, it’s bittersweet to think about the significance texting plays in modern romance. Instead of sending each other love letters like our grandparents used to, we use our thumbs to push out a few words on a tiny keyboard. But it’s here to stay, so we might as well embrace it.

I’m not saying it will ever be the best way to a gal’s (or guy’s) heart. If there’s real affection behind it, though getting a little smiley or wink face every once in a while isn’t so bad, as long as we see those same Ω expressions in person, too.

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Breaking up is hard(er) to do Social media has made it more difficult than ever to call it quits

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he first time I contacted a girl because I had a crush on her was in third grade. Her name was Jenny, and she had long, golden hair. I think that’s what I liked about her, or maybe it was just because she didn’t pick her nose. At some point in our budding romance I passed her a note professing my affection—“I like you.” That’s all I remember of this inaugural crush.

Several years and girlfriends later, I encountered Tracy in the first class of my first year in college. It was 1991. She sat in front of me and had long, curly red hair.

That alone was enough to get my attention, but she was beautiful, all around. By chance, she also worked at a coffee shop near campus that I frequented and one night, early in the semester, I stopped in and struck up a conversation. For the next three years we dated intermittently but she was never into me as much as I was into her. Thankfully, I never did anything too annoyingly navel-gazing, other than pen some bad love songs. In fact, early into my infatuation, I remember telling myself to redirect toward my courses the energy I was expending on my love-induced existential angst. About a year into the heartbreak, I started getting straight A’s.

That’s not the only upside to the story, though, for Tracy also introduced me to the Internet as a means of communication. It was 1993. She told me we could “talk” via our computers and a dial-up connection. One evening we both signed into a chat roomtype platform and started sending messages.

I was tentative in my assertions toward her, given the imbalance of the relationship. I remember at one point writing that I felt strongly for her. I then stared at those words on the screen for what felt like an eternity, waiting for a response. When it finally came, she gently replied that the chemistry was not there for her. No matter. I was a college kid brimming with the arrogance of youth, and I remained smitten. The “relationship” ended when she moved away after college, with the boyfriend whom she had been seeing the whole time I was in pursuit.

So I have been around long enough to experience a sea change in romantic

connectivity: from passing paper notes to chatting on a nascent Internet, to the ubiquitous online communications of today.

Now, in the quest for a potential mate, you can join a dating site and do preliminary research on numerous prospects before ever reaching out to any of them. You can scan their images for physical attraction, peruse their descriptions for mutual lifestyle connections, and even watch for quirks in their photographs or writings that hint at a deeper, mystical chemistry. Once you’ve identified a good prospect (or many), you can email them, and if they reply, you can be assured that at least they’re interested enough in you to do that. From there, you can continue to email, or text, and deepen your connection, all before you even meet in person. Thus, when you do meet face-toface, you are well ahead of the game.

I have younger friends who I occasionally regale with “when I was your age” dating stories. How it used to be that if you met a potential mate somewhere and you did not get their phone number, your only hope was to run into them again someplace else. How twists of fate were therefore much more crucial. How today, if you meet someone and you get their name, you likely can make an online connection with relative ease. I would have gotten laid a lot more in my younger years if I’d had Facebook, I lament to them.

But a recent relationship has me rethinking my envy of romance in the Internet age.

I met Maria in a conventional way, at a party of a mutual friend. She was funny, smart, and physically attractive enough, but I did not think about her romantically at that point.

A few days later, I received a Facebook friendship request from her and in the next few weeks, she would occasionally like one of my photos or briefly comment on one of my posts—just enough to remind me of our online friendship. Eventually, she sent me a message asking if I would be interested in meeting for a drink. I replied with my cellphone number, which led to a few drinks one night at a bar. We again hit it off, but we parted that evening with only a hug.

I received a text from her early the next day. “Good morning,” she wrote, “what’s on your schedule?” I replied with my humdrum workday plans, and she replied with hers.

Over the next week or so she would text every morning, and we would carry on an exchange throughout the day and evening.

I also explored her Facebook page. Thus,

when we did meet in person at a restaurant for our second “real date” I felt I knew her well.

Consummating the relationship after dinner at my place was the next logical step. We were now a couple, especially to her.

With all the background communications via texting and the Internet, this was perhaps the easiest entrance into a relationship that I had ever had. Except there was one nagging problem: from the start, I wasn’t sure I was that into her. Just like Tracy with me, the chemistry felt off with Maria. Maybe it was the differences in our tastes and outlooks. Maybe it was physical. For whatever reason, the longer we dated, the more my feelings for her lessened. After several months together, I decided that the fairest thing for both of us would be for me to break up with her.

I wanted to mitigate any emotional distress that she might experience from the breakup, so I began to slowly pull away.

I would decline every third or so time she wanted to meet, citing previous commitments. When she would text I would wait to reply, keeping my answers short. In general,

With all the background communications via texting and the internet, this was perhaps the easiest entrance into a relationship that i had ever had.

I stopped initiating contact with her, be it texts or sex. This is a tried and true method to begin a breakup. Ideally, the breakee senses the aim of the breaker and in a preemptive strike ends the relationship.

Before the Internet and smartphones, this gradual pulling away was easier to do.

When the main means of non-face-to-face communication was land-line phones, you simply did not answer calls. If your insignificant other left you messages, you would ignore them. When you finally did talk with them you could always come up with a valid excuse. You were out running errands or listening to music in headphones or taking a nap or simply away from the phone. When caller ID became available it was even better, because you could now screen the calls and

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pick up if it was someone else.

With Maria, the more I pulled away, the more she would text or call my smartphone, which she knew I always had with me.

Without the excuses facilitated by land lines, I would always reply. Not responding made me feel guilty in a way that I never felt when I didn’t answer a land line (again likely due to the paucity of excuses). One morning, I decided that for both of our sakes this had to stop. So I didn’t reply to any of the texts she sent me that day, nor the next few days after that. She tried to contact me through Facebook, but I ignored those messages, as well. I don’t know if she knew that I was intentionally avoiding her or not, but when I finally did answer, she acted like nothing had changed.

I thought about how to best end it with her. A text? An email message? In the end, I deemed these modern-day “Dear John” letters weasel ways to break up. All the Internet searches I conducted on “how to break up with your girlfriend” agreed.

Instead, they counseled that I “man up” and meet her face-to-face. So I met her at a coffee shop one afternoon. We had a nice chat and as we left, I pulled her aside to an isolated corner of the building and told her it wasn’t working for me. She didn’t show much emotion, only nodding occasionally, seemingly in a daze. I’m not sure how upset she was over the breakup. We are still friends on Facebook, although I haven’t heard from her since.

My latest girlfriend/break-up experience demonstrates to me that regardless of all the new technology, there are still certain universal truths about romance. No matter how much or how often you can stay in contact, or how much you learn about someone via their Facebook page, if the chemistry isn’t there, it’s not going to work.

And when you realize it’s not working, even though you can send a breakup text or email, the only honorable thing to do is to end it face-to-face.

The only question I have now is, do I Ω unfriend Maria on Facebook?

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Arts & Culture Monster maker

On the set of his new film, The Spaceman, with Josh Funk and his monsters.

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Local musician Josh Funk trades in his guitar for stop-motion creatures

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uitting a day job to dedicate more time

to one’s craft seems like nothing more than a dream to many artists, but for Chicoan Josh Funk, it is his new reality.

Three months ago, he ditched a job selling by cellphones for AT&T to Rachel Bush focus on his art ... and to play around with pupPREVIEW: pets.

Screening of The The puppets are part Spaceman and Wormholes of Funk’s latest artistic (followed by Q&A venture, stop-motion with director animation and filmmakJosh Funk) ing. For years, music Feb. 21, 1 p.m. & has been Funk’s creative Feb. 22, 6 p.m., at the Pageant drug of choice. He Theatre. played with Chico Cost: $5 bands Spencer and Farewell Letter and also Pageant Theatre made a name for him351 E. Sixth St. www.pageant self locally, releasing chico.com five CDs as a solo artist.

But eventually, in 2012, the pull to create visual works beat out the need to write songs.

“I was doing solo album stuff for a while, but started phasing out. Stopmotion was something I always wanted to do. I bought an armature and worked on it every day after work.” Roughly a year and $1,500 later, he finished Wormholes, a surreal three-minute stop-motion short featuring a clay man being chased across colorfully strange dimensions by a Tim Burton-esque worm creature. The short was accepted into a couple of film festivals—in the UK and Austria—as well as Chico’s Shortz! Film Fest and last weekend’s Keep Chico Weird Talent Show.

(You can now watch it on his website, www.joshfunk.com.)

And he’s just finished his second film, The Spaceman, a live-action meets stopmotion short that will premiere at the Pageant Theatre Feb. 21-22. The film features a young man who travels to an alien planet to dispose of a mysterious object, encountering a monster along the way.

Funk graduated from Chico State in 2007

with a degree in electronic arts. He also does a lot of 2-D works (freelance illustration projects, graphic design and film editing are his main sources of income right now), and his website features many of his pieces, which range from trippy monster designs to illustrations for a graphic-novel 22

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Art Receptions FRAGILE STRUCTURES: A reception for artist Monika Meler and her work examining fragility, the impermanence of memory, and nostalgia through prints, collages, and paper-cut works. Th, 2/5, 5-7pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Music TODD SNIDER: Nashville folk singer-songwriter tells humorous stories of life on the road through song with special guest Reed Foehl. Th, 2/5, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

Theater THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB: A story about five women in a comedy

collaboration with local magician Wayne Houchin. While both his electronic and arts experience translated to his film endeavors, he still needed a lot of training and practice. “I used a lot of YouTube tutorials and trial and error to figure stuff out, like special effects and compositing characters.” He also familiarized himself with the necessary design software— Aftereffects, DragonFrame animation, and Final Cut editing—to polish and finish his projects.

Inspired heavily by the works of Jim Henson and Tim Burton, Funk has difficulty pinpointing his signature aesthetic.

“I’ve always tried to categorize my style as an artist, because it felt better for my brain, but it’s hard. I’m drawn to dark subject matters but keeping it fairly light and quirky.”

Dark but quirky is the perfect description of his Spaceman puppets, designed by Funk but crafted by UK puppet-maker Richard Whillock, whom Funk found via Etsy. The furry black-and-white-tentacled creatures have huge teeth and are creepy, yet cute. “Picking them up from the post office and finally seeing them was so cool.

He knew exactly how I wanted them to look.”

To make The Spaceman, Funk relied heavily on borrowed equipment and sup-

port from friends and family, including his younger brother, Jordan, who stars. “I told him, ‘Pretend you’re Bruce Willis, but all the movie could afford was cardboard for sets.’”

Those cardboard sets are more impressive than they sound. Tucked away in Funk’s studio, the collection of props— some miniature and some full-size—are intricately handmade, including the spaceship that once took up the whole room.

The most alluring set is the 8-foot-tall miniature forest used for a puppet battle scene. Crafted from PVC pipes, insulated foam, fake moss and leaves, the lush landscape was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised $6,000 to help him finish making the film.

For the live-action portions, Funk and crew found woodsy spots to match the forested replica, including Bidwell Park, Forest Ranch and Fern Canyon outside Arcata.

With The Spaceman done, Funk looks forward to its release, and trying to get it into film festivals. He also admits that the transition to a career in art has been a good one. “What I’ve discovered is that making $100 doing something you love is so much better than making $500 doing something you hate. You just have to have faith that it’ll work out.” Ω

about friendships that last forever. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 2/14, Su, 2pm through 2/15. Opens 2/1. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

MARY POPPINS: The famous Disney musical comes to the CTC

stage. Th-Sa, 7:30pm;, Su, 2pm through 3/1. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

OKLAHOMA!: The famous Broadway musical telling the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. Th-Su through 2/15.$15.50-$18.50. California Regional Theater Training and Education Center, 3851 Morrow Ln. 7, (800) 722-4522.

FRAGILE STRUCTURES RECEPTION Tonight, Feb. 5 1078 Gallery

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FINE ARTS artists displaying their work and local musicians playing their music. Su, 2/8, 1-5pm. Free.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Music BILL EVANS’ BANJO IN AMERICA: Part of the Chico Bluegrass Concert Series benefiting the CBA’s Youth Academy. Su, 2/8, 7-9pm. $10-$15.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., (530) 343-1497.

Theater THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATER: SWAN LAKE Saturday, Feb. 7 Laxson Auditorium

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Special Events MERRY STANDISH COMEDY: Aaron Standish and Liz Merry host a comedy event with stand-up, sketch comedy, fake topical news reports, and songs from piano man Roland Allen, plus The Wild Oakies sketch troupe from Red Bluff will be performing classic bits. F, 2/6, 8pm. $10$12. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

RALPHIE MAY: National comedian with four plat-

inum-selling comedy albums under his belt. F, 2/6, 8:30pm. $25. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

Theater THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

MARY POPPINS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

OKLAHOMA!: See Thursday. California Regional Theater Training and Education Center, 3851 Morrow Ln. 7, (800) 722-4522.

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Music, and other live performances throughout the evening. Sa, 2/7, 8pm. $5. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE: SWAN LAKE: Under the direction of Elena Radchenko the company performs the Russian folktale of star-crossed lovers Prince Siegfried and Swan Queen Odette. Sa, 2/7, 7:30pm. $10-$44.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Art Receptions EARLY VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY: After 11 years of exhibitions, talks, paint-outs, and workshops the Art Guild is throwing one last party in honor of the gallery. Sa, 2/7, 1-3pm. Free.

Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 8791821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

MARY POPPINS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

OKLAHOMA!: See Thursday. California Regional Theater Training and Education Center, 3851 Morrow Ln. 7, (800) 722-4522.

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Music LOGIC: Maryland rapper and Visonary Records/Def Jam artist visits. Support from DJ Rhetorik and Michael Christmas. M, 2/9, 8pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

ROY ROGERS: A Big Room blues favorite, Roy

Theater THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

MARY POPPINS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

OKLAHOMA!: See Thursday. California Regional Theater Training and Education Center, 3851 Morrow Ln. 7, (800) 722-4522.

Rogers and The Delta Rhythm Kings, plus fiddle master Carlos Reyes. M, 2/9, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom

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Art 100TH MONKEY COMMUNITY CAFE: Faces of

Flower Children: Bringing Back Peace and Love, artist Rod Caudill showcases mixedmedia Collage. Through 2/28. Free. 642 West Fifth St., (530) 343-0704.

1078 GALLERY: Fragile Structures, artist Monika Meler examines fragility, the impermanence of memory, and nostalgia through prints, collages, and paper-cut works. 2/53/7. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Snowgoose Wildlife Art

Exhibit, an all-media, juried exhibition that showcases artists whose subjects include wildlife and habitat along the Pacific Flyway, North and South. Through 2/7. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: Print Show, Chico State Print Club hosts a print exhibition/fundraiser.

2/9-2/23. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 8985331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: The Untamed, new works from artist Jessica Sid. 2/52/19. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Member Showcase, showcasing all-media works from members of the Art Center. Through 2/6. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Ceramic art by Northern California artist touched by cancer, Tedo Best. Through 4/16. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: New Work

New Artist II, the national print competition solo exhibition from award winner Kathy Aoki. Through 2/21. Chico State, (530) 8984476, www.theturner.org.

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY:

Telling Stories, photos from Tehema County Photo Club. 2/6-2/28. 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: My Favorite

Things, local artists showcase their work.

2/6-2/28. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Art and Technology, technology-based art works that engage audiences through integrated forms of video, gaming media, sculpture and experience with the work of artists Derek Larson, Hye Yeon Nam, and collaborators S.L. clark and Sonya Belakhlef of Babycastles. Through 2/27. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Call for Artists DIVERSITY ART EXHIBIT: The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is looking for submissions for its annual diversity exhibit. Email or call for more info. Through 2/21. Free. Kendall Hall, W First St and Normal Ave., (530) 898-4605.

Museums CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our

Home, Here We Remain, presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people, focusing on the tribe’s heritage and history and using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy.

Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming

- Land, Water, People, and Science, explore North State agriculture. Eat Well, Play Well, discover nutrition, fitness, and the science of health. Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm.

5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 8771919.

Music WYNONNA & FRIENDS: STORIES & SONGS: Join

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Wynonna Judd as she tells stories through song with her three-piece. Tu, 2/10, 7:30pm. $50-$60. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

SUN

Special Events MIXED MEDIA MIXER: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective and Energy Plant Arts bring their monthly celebration of art and culture with local

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

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Special Events MASQUEERADE BALL: Stonewall Alliance of Chico hosts a ball honoring their 25 years of service.

Come dressed in 1990s fashion or your celebratory finest. Enjoy painted masks by Gypsy Mountain Face & Body Painting, DJ by Allen’s

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RALPHIE MAY Friday, Feb. 6 El Rey Theatre

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PARTY LIKE IT’S 1990 To celebrate 25 years of serving the local LGBTQ community, the Stonewall Alliance of Chico is pulling out all the stops for 2015’s annual Masqueerade Ball. In addition to masks, revelers are encouraged to dress like it’s 1990, so it’s a great opportunity to don the old MC Hammer pants EDITOR’S PICK and brush up on the Running Man and the Roger Rabbit.

The festivities include dancing to DJs and live performances of all sorts throughout the evening, as well as painted masks by Gypsy Mountain Face & Body Painting. The ball will be held Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Chico Women’s Club.

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sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave., (530) 321-5607.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

Brazil and West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 345-6324.

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FILE NAME DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with RAPE CRISIS INTERV. & PREV. the elements. F, 6-8pm. $6-$12 sliding scale.

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Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 532-1989.

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative dance session. F, 7:15pm. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Suite 150, (530) 3420100.

FARMERS’ MARKET: SATURDAY: Chico’s weekly community gathering, with fresh produce, crafts, baked goods and more. Sa, 7:30am1pm. Municipal Parking Lot No. 1, Second & Wall Streets.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Call for location, (530) 518-8422.

HOW TO PAINT YOUR ANIMAL IN COLORED PENCIL: A six week class using colored pencils, and your favorite animal subjects as reference. Tu through 2/24. $10 per session. Paradise Art Center, 5564 Almond St. in Paradise, (530) 8777402.

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come. No partner needed. F, 7:30pm. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: Learn about the CSU Chico Human Identifiction Lab and its role in Northern California and how real forensic anthropologists assist in the resolution of criminal and missing person’s cases. Su, 2/8, 4-5pm. Free.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.csuchico.edu/anthmuseum.

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The Pita Pit, 240 Broadway St. downtown Chico, 899-2847.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Used book sale. Every other Sa, 10am-3pm.

Prices vary. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

PLANNING YOUR SPRING CROPS: Learn about when to start certain vegetables in the greenhouse and when to plant outside. Learn techniques for germination, and garden care.

Sa, 2/7, 10am-2pm. Fresh start Youth Farm, 42 County Center Dr. in Oroville.

SAFE SPACE: A winter program to provide emergency shelter for people in need within our community. Ongoing. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 893-9078, www.chico-peace.org.

INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY Sunday, Feb. 8 Chico Women’s Club SEE COMMUNITY

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $10-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524, www.chicorec.com.

SOUNDS OF THE VALLEY CHORUS: Female singers welcome to sing in four-part, barbershopstyle harmony. Call for more info. W, 7pm.

Marigold Elementary School, 2446 Marigold Ave., (530) 343-5183.

SQUARE-DANCE CLUB: Square-dancing classes for beginners and advanced-level dancers.

Call for more info. Th, 7-10pm. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1962.

STUDENT MARKET: The Organic Vegetable Project returns with local and seasonal produce, a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetable starts. Located in the BMU Courtyard. Th, 11am-2pm. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 8984696, www.aschico.com.

TAX PREPERATION SERVICES: Chico State and Delta Zeta Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi are partnering with the IRS to provide free tax preparation services for families who earned less than $53,000 last year. Call or email for more information on documents to bring. Sa & Su, 10am-3:30pm through 2/21. Free. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-4696, www.aschico.com.

TOASTMASTERS: Improve communication and leadership skills through public speaking and networking. Th, 12:15pm. Free. Cal Northern School Of Law, 1395 Ridgewood Dr., (530) 8916900.

WALK IN THE PARK: Stonewall Alliance Chico’s dog-friendly, 3-mile walk in Bidwell Park.

Second Su of every month. One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park.

WELLNESS RECOVERY ACTION PLAN CLASS: An eight week course on learning to live with mental illness. F, 10am through 2/27. Free.

Iversen Center, 492 Rio Lindo Ave.

WORLD DANCE: Prepares youth to perform line, circle and partner dances from around the world. No partner needed. Th, 6pm. $20 (for a family of 4). Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

WORLD DANCE CLASS: Learn line, circle and couple dances from around the world. Youth and adult class offered. Scholarships available via instructor. No partner needed. Th, 6-7 & 7-8:30pm. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 566-6711.

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental-health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm.

Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. in Paradise, 872-7085.

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That title, for example, may seem to signal a shoot ’em up of some sort, but by Juan-Carlos while there are indeed some gangsters Selznick and some guns in this movie, gunplay is pretty far down on its list of ingredients for action and drama. Moreover, it’s a long ways away from conventional cops-and-robbers tales.

Written and directed by J. C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year is film drama of an exceptional sort. It has outstandA Most ing performances in its two lead roles Violent Year and in a half dozen supporting parts.

Ends tonight, Feb. 5. Starring The story has its mafia connections, but Oscar Isaac, its main concerns are with people Jessica Chastain angling for business success in territory and David where the lines between good business Oyelowo. practices and organized crime often are Directed by J.C. Chandor. blurred.

An immigrant entrepreneur and forCinemark 14.

Rated R. mer truck driver named Abel Morales (an excellent Oscar Isaac) and his wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain in full femme fatale mode), are trying to expand their New York City trucking business. Persons unknown and/or local rivals are hijacking their tankers, roughing up their drivers, and sabotaging their loan-heavy finances. A politically ambitious assistant district attorney (David Oyelowo, Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma) is coming after their business records.

Abel knows his way around (as does Anna, who is a mob boss’ daughter), but he is also intent on keeping guns and violence out of his work. His struggle to find the “most right” way of doing things while making a series of increasingly desperate choices becomes the central fascination in Chandor’s drama. Ω

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Foxcatcher is a three-character drama done with

exceptional sharpness and power. Based on actual events from the 1980s, it portrays the tragic entanglement of two Olympic wrestlers, the brothers Dave and Mark Schultz, with an immensely wealthy and very peculiar scion of the du Pont dynasty.

As scripted by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, the story is a kind of case study in which a toxic brew of privileged wealth, facile patriotism, twisted family ties, and repressed sexuality engulfs all three. Director Bennett Miller gets finely nuanced performances out of the three principal actors—Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz, Mark Ruffalo as older brother Dave, and a heavily made-up Steve Carell as the bizarre John E. du Pont.

To their credit, Miller and company draw no easy conclusions from all these hot-button issues.

Carell’s du Pont might seem an obviously suitable case for treatment, but one of the film’s ironies has to do with the ways in which various beneficiaries of his wealth and power turn a blind eye to his increasingly creepy eccentricities.

Carell’s performance is judiciously eccentric as well, and all three of the principals use deft touches of stylized exaggeration in their physical bearing.

Bennett works out a visual theme-and-variation on motifs of physical contact from the early wrestling action, and that diverse succession of moments— men touching, grabbing, embracing, wrestling, getting a grip—becomes a particularly rich and complex element of the unfolding drama. Ω

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Paddington

A film adaptation of the popular children’s book series (and equally popular stuffed toy) that mixes live-action with CGI to tell the story of the anthropomorphic Peruvian bear who finds his way to London and into the hearts of the Brown family. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

A space opera by Matrix creators Andy and Lana Wachowski starring Mila Kunis as an unsuspecting Earthling caught up in a battle for control of the planet and Channing Tatum as an interplanetary warrior helping her fight against an evil tyrant. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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A faith-based flick about a father’s efforts to bring his daughter back to Christianity after her experiences in a college biology class make her question her beliefs on the origin of life. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Seventh Son

A fantasy film starring Ben Barnes as the “seventh son of the seventh son,” apprentice to the Spook (Jeff Bridges) and a fighter of evil spirits who faces off against the powerful Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

The characters of the popular TV series gets transformed into CGI versions of their cartoon selves as they enter the live-action world to track down their stolen Krabby Patty recipe. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Issues of race and class are at the fore in this story about a white widower (Kevin Costner) raising a mixed-race granddaughter whose mother (his daughter) died while giving birth. He is struggling with grief while battling with the family of the little girl’s drug-addicted biological father, who are pursing custody. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Boy Next Door

A sex thriller with Jennifer Lopez. … Oh, you need more than that? OK, J-Lo plays a hotteacher/divorcee who hooks up with her new hottie neighbor (Ryan Guzman), and things start to get hot, and then crazy. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Found-footage-style sci-fi thriller about a group of friends who, after finding plans for a time machine, build one and soon find out that changing the past can have unforeseen consequences on the present. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

A 3-D animated feature about the misadventures of a lovable collection of elves, fairies, imps and goblins. Adapted from a story by George Lucas that was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and starring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming and Maya Rudolph. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The Wedding Ringer

Kevin Hart plays Jimmy Callahan, a best man for hire who faces his toughest challenge in concocting a grand charade for one very socially challenged groom (Josh Gad). Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Reese Witherspoon delivers a tough, smart performance in what for her is a somewhat atypical role. Jean-Marc Vallée’s film version of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir of her transformative adventure in the wilderness holds her star power at something like arm’s length and builds a close-up sense of its protagonist through a combination of cinematic elements, including flashes of a kind of stream-of-consciousness editing.

Even in the occasional emotional eruption, Witherspoon maintains a calm intensity, and Vallée’s film matches that with the cool, rough beauty of its cinematography. Here the central characterization is a matter not only of what she says and does and sees, but also of the tentatively implied insights of those memory flashes and other fleeting associations. Much of the film is a straightahead account of the physical challenges of Cheryl’s arduous journey, with her spiritual revitalization portrayed partly through the cumulative effect of small, quietly telling moments and partly through deceptively casual gradations in Witherspoon’s performance. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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See review this issue. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S. Belgian writer/director Erik Van Looy’s English-language remake of his own 2008 thriller about five married men and the loft they share for meeting their mistresses. Mystery and paranoia ensue when the men discover a woman’s murdered body in the loft. Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

American Sniper

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new toys and tools. Four such artists are featured in an interactive exhibit, Art + Tech, by at Chico State that’s as perplexing robert Speer as it is intriguing and, at times, even moving. r ober tspeer@ newsrev iew.c om None of the artists are from Chico. One, Hye Yeon Nam, is from South Korea, though she has lived in this country for five years, most review recently in Baton Rouge, where Art + Tech shows through Feb. 27 at the she teaches at Louisiana State University Art Gallery. University. Derek G. Larson teaches at Georgia Southern University, and University Art Stephen Lawrence Clark and Sonya Gallery Trinity Hall 100 Belakhlef are from New York City, Chico State where they are members of the 12-person artistic collective known as Babycastles. All of the artists have exhibited widely.

This is a complex show and, with all of its electronic equipment, expensive to transport and mount. It’s here because Chico State’s Nanhee Kim, who teaches communication design and was the lead curator for the exhibit, obtained a National Endowment for the Arts grant to underwrite it.

It’s the first NEA exhibition grant Chico State has received in a decade, Cameron Kelly, interim curator of the UAG, told me.

The most accessible of the pieces is Nam’s “Self Portrait” (2006), a set of four short videos projected simultaneously that show her doing everyday things—pouring orange juice, walking, eating a meal and eating a plate of cherry tomatoes. In each, though, she faces obstacles—her cup has a hole in it, her shoes have long metal plates attached; her chair is tipped forward; and her spoon is oddly shaped, making it hard to eat the tomatoes.

She is seeking, she writes on her website, “to portray the difficulty of living in this ‘room’ that is America. ‘Self-Portrait’ is an attempt to literally represent my psychological and bodily displacement as a means of representing the experience of immigration to non-immigrants.”

Another of Nam’s pieces, “Please Smile” (2011), is similarly engaging. It’s a set of five robotic arms in a horizontal row on the wall that, as she writes, “change their gestures depending on a viewer’s facial expressions.” The piece incorporates a microcontroller, a camera, a computer, five external power supplies and five plastic skeleton arms, each with four motors. When someone steps in front of the arms, the fingers point at him or her. If the person smiles, the five arms lift up and wave their hands.

My first reaction was that the hands were kinda creepy. But when I smiled and they lifted and waved, I felt mildly joyful, such is the nature of friendly waves, even from a machine.

Clark and Belakhlef’s “Automatiñata,” like most of Babycastles’ work, is an artistic play on video games. This particular game is an interactive race whose players (up to three) tap on handmade piñatalike forms containing accelerometers connected electronically to racing figures on a large monitor. I liked the playfulness of the piece and its juxtaposition of piñatas, which ask to be violently broken, and the sedentary violence associated with video games.

Unfortunately, the game didn’t work well. I couldn’t control the racers by tapping the piñata, and neither could Kelly. Of course, I’m no good at video games, either.

Larson is in some ways the most traditional of this group of artists, if only because he creates colorful painterly images. But he does so using technology: laser cutters to create jigsawed metal screens on which he projects moving images, some objective, most not, and bright colors created with a computer.

What’s interesting is the way he’s designed the projections to fit on the screens, which are anything but regular in shape.

In one piece, “Summer of Hate,” the screen is mounted on a wall but about a half-foot away from it. The projections are designed to fill the screen but also to spill over onto the wall, creating a 3-D effect that is mesmerizing.

Viewers will enjoy trying to decide what they find most intriguing about Larson’s work, the complexity of the technology or the images he has produced.

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Harper In The Heist, Daniel Silva once again wraps a taut thriller around his favorite character, Gabriel Allon, a renowned art restorer who secretly is an Israeli spymaster and sometime assassin. When a good friend is charged with the grisly murder of a former British spy turned stolen-art trafficker, Allon can save him only by tracking down the real killers and, in the bargain, finding one of the world’s most famous stolen paintings, Caravaggio’s late masterwork “Nativity With St. Francis and St. Lawrence,” stolen in 1969. Things take on new and disturbing meaning when Allon discovers that the dead man’s primary client, and the likely holder of the Nativity, is the brutal dictator of Syria. He’s unnamed in the story, but he’s clearly Bashar al-Assad, and he’s collecting stolen masterpieces to build up his wealth as a hedge against losing power. Allon devises a brilliant but risky scheme to retrieve the painting; he and his crew of Israeli commandos are assisted by a young Syrian woman who survived the 1982 massacre in Hama and welcomes the opportunity to avenge the deaths of her family members. It’s a genre novel, but also exceptionally well written and researched, and Silva’s characters are nuanced and nicely drawn.

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The combat system borrows from the Arkham series that had Batman building attack combos to unlock special moves granted from a progressive skill tree. It was great fun in Arkham and it’s a blast in Middle Earth as Talion’s hit radius, targeting and timed attacks are all slightly more forgiving. This allows players to have a little more fun setting up combos and finishing off enemies in cool, creative ways. The enemies themselves are innovative, with the Nemesis system promoting and strengthening select Uruks—think mini-bosses— based on encounters with Talion and other Uruks. Players will largely move about the map tracking and killing the mini-bosses, keeping travel through the open world fluid and natural. A recipient of numerous game of the year awards, Middle Earth is one fighting game to rule them all.

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The Grip Oceaán B3SCI Records Oliver Cean—aka Oceaán—is proving once again that his music is a genre unto itself. A blend of dubstep, electronica, hip-hop, soul and dance music, The Grip also reminds us that once in a blue moon, an EP does more than simply whet our appetites for a bigger release. If you like your dance tracks to go heavy on the beats and 1980s-era video-game sound bites, then the eclectic “Veritas” will be your track; and if you’ve dreamed about hearing heavenly synth pop artfully combined with hiphop rhythms, then “At Your Feet” is your jam. The title track is a musical mindjob because of its unusual time signature and its gradual build into a full-blown dance number, and when this song is compared with the supremely chilled down-tempo track “Candour” it makes the power of each song more striking because of their differences. The UK-based producer scores a hit with The Grip for daring to explore any avenue that interests him, and curiously, the subtle presence of dubstep throughout makes the EP a lot more cohesive than you would expect from this often jarring genre.

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ear Henri: A friend recently gave me a small plastic DSpain. box of saffron threads that he brought back from Can you tell me what it is and what I should do

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Sincerely, Mark H. Dear Mark, Saffron is a product of the crocus plant, whose stigmas, the threads, are hand-harvested and then dried over the embers of a by dying fire. About 100,000 of the Henri Bourride threads—each flower has just henri@ three—make a pound of saffron, newsreview.com which retails here in the States for $70-$80 an ounce.

While experts disagree on where the best saffron comes from—my favorite supplier swears by Iranian saffron—all agree that the brighter and redder the better and that the best Spanish saffron comes from the La Mancha region. They also agree that powdered saffron, while convenient, is vastly inferior.

Saffron is used in many Mediterranean-style dishes—and even used to make tea—but it’s most often associated with paella, the traditional Spanish dish made with rice, seafood, chicken, pork and vegetables.

In fact, most chefs will tell you that the only ingredient absolutely essential to paella—except for the rice—is saffron, which gives the rice its golden hue and distinctive flavor.

Best known in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Valencia and Barcelona, paella is served throughout the Iberian Peninsula, often after an antipasto plate and before the main course. However, it’s filling enough—and contains enough different ingredients— that it can easily be a meal in itself, although a light salad complements it nicely.

A well-cooked paella is a work of art. The chef often brings it to the table and holds it up for all to see, usually earning a round of applause. While it’s traditionally cooked outside over an open fire, you can also cook it on a kettle barbecue or gas grill or inside on the stove. Ideally, you’d have access to a specially designed paella pan—large (13 to 18 inches in diameter), with sloped sides and two loop handles, although any large skillet will work. Best to cook paella while sipping a glass of Torres Sangre de Toro or Gloria Ferrer Blanc de Blancs and listening to Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain.

This recipe is a variation of the traditional Barcelona paella. Other common ingredients include string beans, white beans, snails, rabbit, pork ribs, scallops, lobster and veal.

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Good luck, Mark. Sincerely, Henri Paella Barcelonesa 1/3 cup olive oil 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 each, green and red bell peppers, sliced 1 onion, sliced 2 tomatoes, cubed 1/2 chicken, cut into chunks 12 pork sausages 12 mussels 12 clams 1/2 lb. each, squid, cut into rings; large shrimp; cod or similar whitefish 3 cups small- or medium-grain rice pinch of saffron (six or eight threads) 6 canned artichoke hearts, halved 1/2 cup of peas 1 lemon, cut in wedges

Heat olive oil in large skillet and sauté garlic. Add chicken and sausages and cook until brown. Remove.

Add peppers and onions and sauté until soft. Add tomatoes and cook until reduced. Mix well and add the browned chicken and sausages and stir in the rice, continuing to cook for about five minutes.

Clean clams and mussels and boil in separate pan until shells open. Dissolve saffron in a half-cup of warm water. Add (to the paella) the squid, whitefish, peas, seven cups boiling water and the water with saffron in it. Stir well. Take the clams and mussels from water and remove a half shell from each one. Push each mussel, clam and artichoke partway into mixture (don’t stir), lay the shrimp on top of mixture (don’t stir), and cook for another 20 minutes or until rice is done. Garnish with lemon wedges. Ω

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THURSDAY 2/5—WEDNESDAY 2|11 FIRST FRIDAY SOLO SHOWS: Sets from Pat Hull, Matthew Weiner (Bogg, Broken Bones) and Jeremy Gerrard (The Rugs). F, 2/6, 4:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to share

high mountain drifter sings American folk. Country/folk singer songwriter Dave Mulligan opens. Th, 2/5, 9pm. $10.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

CHICO UNPLUGGED: SOTA Productions presents a weekly acoustic songwriting competition with each performer

HAPPY HOUR: Michael Bone. Th, 2/5, 69pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Join John Seid, Larry Peterson and Eric Peter as they play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 2/5, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

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DOUG STEIN & FRIENDS Saturday, February 7

Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

6FRIDAY ARGENTAVIS: Crust core, plus garage punk from Khaos Assault and death grind from Chemical Burn. F, 2/6, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672.

BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

playing two songs vying for a chance to win an opportunity to record at Chico State. Th, 6pm through 2/20.

Opens 2/5. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 891-1639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with traditional Irish music by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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AGNOSTIC HYMNS AND STONER FABLES

In the song “Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Males,” Todd Snider proudly declares himself—among other things—a “tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’, pot-smokin’, porn-watchin’ lazy-ass hippie.”

Like much of the work from the man Rolling Stone called “America’s sharpest musical storyteller,” the song is simultaneously hilarious and biting in a way few other singer/songwriters manage to pull off. Snider will appear at the Sierra Nevada Big Room tonight, Thursday, Feb. 5.

Standish and Liz Merry host a comedy event with stand-up, sketch comedy, fake topical news reports, and songs from piano man Roland Allen, plus The Wild Oakies sketch troupe from Red Bluff will be performing classic bits. F, 2/6, 8pm. $10-$12. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

RALPHIE MAY: National comedian with four platinum-selling comedy albums under his belt. F, 2/6, 8:30pm. $25. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

THE RECKONING: Bluegrass interpretations of the Gratful Dead, with special guest John Michael Sun. F, 2/6, 9pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway,

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WAKE OF THE DEAD: Dead cover band. F,

Worldcoast, Nsmokiee, DMT, and DJ Trillson. Sa, 2/7, 8pm. $3. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 4-6pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

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from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, wwwmyspace.com/theitaliangarden.

the Chico Bluegrass Concert Series benefiting the CBA’s Youth Academy.

Su, 2/8, 7-9pm. $10-$15. Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., (530) 343-1497.

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KEEP CHICO REAL Arts DEVO wouldn’t say an experimental musician, or

a painter, or a performance artist tumbling out of a giant vagina, or a drag queen, or a businesswoman who ditches her pantsuit for one night and pours herself into fishnets and a leather corset, or a pissed off artist shouting expletives across the scorched landscape of an effed-up world, or a sculptor who uses mayonnaise as a medium is weird.

(Instead I’d say, “Those are my people!”)

But it is true that often those who bring something new, or challenging, or appear different or as deviating from the norm are marginalized and made to feel weird at best, and are knocked down and oppressed at worst.

Obviously the point of all this Keep Chico Weird stuff is not to look at a group of people and say, “Weird!” The point is to say, “Let’s all be whoever we want!”

And to nurture an environment where Kyle Bowen everyone is welcome and feels safe to PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT be themselves. And to throw the rules out the window and embrace what would be called “weird” as the norm we are striving for, which is really what makes Chico the colorful, stimulating, rich and rewarding community that we love.

With all that said, this past week saw Chico at its most beautiful. The Keep Chico Weird Art Show at 1078 Gallery was a rich, expressive explosion of creativity.

(Congratulations to Best of Show winner Victor Porter for his “So I Says to the Guy” sculpture—made from old Chico News & Review papers!) And the Keep Chico “So I Says to the Guy” Weird Talent Show at the El Rey Theatre was PHOTO BY JAMIE DEGARMO a wild, sweaty, action-packed night of unbridled fun. (Congratulations to comedian/storyteller Kyle Bowen for taking first place!) The CN&R is so grateful to the artists, the fans, and everyone who helped make the shows such wild successes.

It’s humbling and very inspiring. Nice work, Chico. Weird is good!

MORE GOOD NEWS Raise a glass to the 1078 Gallery (no, really, you can,

Yard art

it’s legal now). At its meeting on Tuesday, the Chico City Council approved 1078’s application for a permanent alcohol license! Selling beer at the gallery’s arts events equals more money for arts events at the gallery. The system works!

And City Council, Chico thanks you!

MORE WEIRD ART I love to be surprised, especially by art that appears when I least expect it ... and by items in the grocery store that are put away in the wrong place. If you know of any surprise art installations around town (like the mysterious sculpture in the ivy pictured), send Arts DEVO an email, and if you see any surprise art in the grocery store (like this cucumber shoved into the ice of a WinCo seafood display), join my new Facebook group, “I Changed My Mind,” and share your pics.

Sea cucumber?

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1979,

Monty Python comedian John Cleese helped direct a four-night extravaganza, The Secret Policeman’s Ball. It was a benefit to raise money for the humanrights organization Amnesty International. The musicians known as Sting, Bono and Peter Gabriel later testified that the show was a key factor in igniting their social activism. I see the potential of a comparable stimulus in your near future, Aries. Imminent developments could amp up your passion for a good cause that transcends your immediate self-interests.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the

film Kill Bill: Volume 1, Taurus actress Uma Thurman plays a martial artist who has exceptional skill at wielding a samurai sword. At one point, her sword maker evaluates her reflexes by hurling a baseball in her direction. With a masterful swoop, she slices the ball in half before it reaches her. I suggest you seek out similar tests in the coming days, Taurus.

Check up on the current status of your top skills. Are any of them rusty? Should you update them? Are they still of maximum practical use to you? Do whatever’s necessary to ensure they are as strong and sharp as ever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French

impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint the rock formations near the beach at Étretrat, a village in Normandy.

During the summer of 1886, he worked serially on six separate canvases, moving from one to another throughout his work day to capture the light and shadow as they changed with the weather and the position of the sun. He focused intently on one painting at a time. He didn’t have a brush in each hand and one in his mouth, simultaneously applying paint to various canvases. His specific approach to multitasking would generate good results for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. (P.S. The other kind of multitasking—where you do several different things at the same time—will yield mostly mediocre results.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In

1849, author Edgar Allen Poe died in his hometown of Baltimore. A century later, a mysterious admirer began a new tradition. Every January 19, on the anniversary of Poe’s birth, this cloaked visitor appeared at his grave in the early morning hours, and left behind three roses and a bottle of cognac. I invite you, Cancerian, to initiate a comparable ritual.

Can you imagine paying periodic tribute to an important influence in your own life—someone who has given you much and touched you deeply? Don’t do it for nostalgia’s sake, but rather as a way to affirm that the gifts you’ve received from this evocative influence will continue to evolve within you. Keep them ever-fresh.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “What happens

to a dream deferred?” asked Langston Hughes in his poem “Harlem.” “Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— / And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? / Or crust and sugar over— / like a syrupy sweet?” As your soul’s cheerleader and coach, Leo, I hope you won’t explore the answer to Hughes’ questions. If you have a dream, don’t defer it. If you have been deferring your dream, take at least one dramatic step to stop deferring it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author

John Creasey struggled in his early efforts at getting published. For a time he had to support himself with jobs as a salesman and clerk. Before his first book was published, he had gathered 743 rejection slips. Eventually, though, he broke through and achieved monumental success. He wrote more than 550 novels, several of which were made into movies.

He won two prestigious awards and sold 80 million books. I’m not promising that your own frustrations will ultimately pave the way for a prodigious triumph like his.

But in the coming months, I do expect significant progress toward a gritty accomplishment. For best results, work for your own satisfaction more than for the approval of others.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Hall-of-Fame basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon had a signature set of fancy moves that were collectively known as the Dream Shake.

It consisted of numerous spins and fakes that could be combined in various ways to outfox his opponents and score points.

The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to work on your equivalent of the Dream Shake, Libra. You’re at the peak of your ability to figure out how to coordinate and synergize your several talents.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1837,

Victoria became Queen of England following the death of her uncle, King William IV. She was 18 years old. Her first royal act was to move her bed out of the room she had long shared with her meddling, overbearing mother. I propose that you use this as one of your guiding metaphors in the immediate future. Even if your parents are saints, and even if you haven’t lived with them for years, I suspect you would benefit by upgrading your independence from their influence. Are you still a bit inhibited by the nagging of their voices in your head? Does your desire to avoid hurting them thwart you from rising to a higher level of authority and authenticity? Be a good-natured rebel.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In

the baseball film The Natural, the hero Roy Hobbs has a special bat he calls “Wonderboy.” Carved out of a tree that was split by a lightning bolt, it seems to give Hobbs an extraordinary skill at hitting a baseball. There’s a similar theme at work in the Australian musical instrument known as the didgeridoo. It’s created from a eucalyptus tree whose inner wood has been eaten away by termites.

Both Wonderboy and the didgeridoo are the results of natural forces that could be seen as adverse but that are actually useful. Is there a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn? I’m guessing there is. If you have not yet discovered what it is, now is a good time to do so.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In

1753, Benjamin Franklin published helpful instructions on how to avoid being struck by lightning during stormy weather. Wear a lightning rod in your hat, he said, and attach it to a long, thin metal ribbon that trails behind you as you walk. In response to his article, a fashion fad erupted. Taking his advice, fancy ladies in Europe actually wore such hats. From a metaphorical perspective, it would make sense for you Aquarians to don similar headwear in the coming weeks. Bolts of inspiration will be arriving on a regular basis. To ensure you are able to integrate and use them— not just be titillated and agitated—you will have to be well-grounded.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DOCTOR OF MOTORS at 2405 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

DR. AUTO, INC. 2405 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed:JOHN LUGO, PRESIDENT Dated: January 7, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000019 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SERRANOS MEXICAN GRILL at 645 5th Street Suite 110 Chico, CA 95928.

MARIO CRISPIN 3549 Esplanade Spc #223 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARIO CRISPIN Dated: December 31, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001565 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AFFORDABLE HOME AND RENTAL REPAIR at 2883 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

DAVID SCHWERING 2883 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAVID SCHWERING Dated: December 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001524 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name PRO NAILS AND SPA at 1950 East 20th Street #A 102 Chico, CA 95928.

BINH T TRAN 1950 East 20th Street Suite #A 102 Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BINH Dated: January 8, 2015 FBN Number 2014-0000572 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUICKSILVER COURIER SERVICE at 2196 Ruskin St Unit 1 Chico, CA 95926.

JORDAN MICHAEL ADAMS 2196 Ruskin St Unit 1 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JORDAN ADAMS Dated: December 22, 2014 FBN NUmber: 2014-0001541 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRO NAILS AND SPA at 1950 East 20th Street #A102 Chico, CA 95928.

THONG NGUYEN 1290 Notre Dame Blvd Apt 69 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: THONG NGUYEN Dated: January 8, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000027 Published: January 15,22,29, February 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HOLLY PINES MINI STORAGE at 6428 Hollywood Road Magalia, CA 95954.

JAMES BOISSERANC 14788 Del Oro Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES BOISSERANC Dated: December 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001539 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HARDWOOD FURNISHINGS at 14419 Vine St Magalia, CA 95954.

JAMES BOISSERANC 14788 Del Oro Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES BOISSERANC Dated: December 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001540 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSIINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INTERNATIONAL HOMESTAY CALIFORNIA at 2112 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

TONI YOUNG 2112 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TONI YOUNG Dated: January 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000031 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO BUSINESS NETWORK ASSOCIATION at 1208 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

VERN DOUGLAS BROUGHTON 352 East 8th Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VERN BROUGHTON Dated: January 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000010

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CRYSTAL ROOM, QUACKERS, QUACKERS FIRE GRILL AND BAR at 968 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT STEPHEN MOWRY 3 Crusader Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT S. MOWRY Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000069 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN ENERGY PRODUCTS at 2954 Hwy 32 Ste 1300 Chico, CA 95973.

MIKE GROSBERG Two Ilahee Ln #44 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: November 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001372 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE LANTERN at 642 W. 5th Street Chico, CA 95926.

QUYEN NGUYEN 767 Bridlewood Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: QUYEN NGUYEN Dated: December 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001509 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RESTAURANT REVAMP at 1511 Manzanita Ave Chico, CA 95926.

PAUL LAVERY 2 Bel Aire Circle Chico, CA 95926.

SHANNON LAVERY 2 Bel Aire Circle Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: PAUL LAVERY Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000113 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CONSUMER PRODUCT BRANDING at 320 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

JASON C ROBERSON 320 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON ROBERSON Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000117 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTHERN VALLEY APPLIANCE at 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

JASON GREEN 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON GREEN Dated: December 30, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001564 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BOEGER MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR at 1240 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

CHASE ROBERT BOEGER 1240 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHASE BOEGER Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000115 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE REPO DEPO at 6431 Upper Palermo Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

KEVIN LEE 6431 Upper Palermo Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

EDGAR SANTANA 517 El Verano Ave Corning, CA 96021.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: KEVIN LEE Dated: January 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000014 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as APPLE BLOSSOM BABY at 1372 Longfellow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

DARCI CROSSIN 1405 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DARCI CROSSIN Dated: December 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001558 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GREEN CONSTRUCTION SERVICE, IGREEN, at 180 Erma Court #150 Chico, CA 95928.

GREEN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INCORPORATED 180 Erma Court #150 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID GREEN,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ECO IN CHICO at 1803 Mangrove Ave. Suite D Chico, CA 95926.

DARCI RENEA CROSSIN 1405 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DARCI CROSSIN Dated: December 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2013-0000734 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY FINANCIAL SERVICES at 2585 Ceanothus Ste 178 Chico, CA 95973.

VINCENT FINANCIAL GROUP INC 2611 Forest Ave Ste 120 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DANIEL THOMAS VINCENT, PRESIDENT Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000066 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VINE HAIR STUDIO at 1324 Mangrove Ave Suite 104 Chico, CA 95926.

AMY LECHNER 1603 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMY LECHNER Dated: January 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000089 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name THE VINE HAIR STUDIO at 1324 Mangrove Avenue Ste 104 Chico, CA 95926.

DANIELLE GREER 10 Alameda Park Circle Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIELLE GREER Dated: January 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2014-0001016 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

The following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.

Unit 219: CANDACE CARBY (6x15) Unit 277: JAN LEONARD (6X12) Unit 303: JAN LEONARD (5X10) Unit 087ACC: KOURTNEY M. MAUPIN (5x5) Unit 318: NICOLE TAYLOR (12x15) Unit 160ACC: SHIRLEY POWELL (12X12) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: February 14, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: January 29, February 5, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ORRIN LOUIS REAGER aka O.L. REAGER To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ORRIN LOUIS REAGER aka O.L. REAGER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARLEE P. STANDARD in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MARLEE P. STANDARD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 26, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and le-­ gal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: MARLEE P. STANDARD 280 Incline Ave Oroville, CA 95966.

Case Number: PR41292 Dated: January 26, 2015 Published: January 29, February 5,12, 2015

Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 24, 2014 Case Number: 163584 Published: January 22,29 February 5,12, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HEATHER D. PETERSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KALYN DAWN CORDS Proposed name: KALYN DAWN PETERSON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 25, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTY LAGER “CHRISTY HARDEN” Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KARMA ANN BOLING Proposed name: KARMA ANN LAGER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 25, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: January 26, 2015 Case Number: 163680 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

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DENNIS CLAY NORTON 567 E. Lassen Ave. #217 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DENNIS NORTON Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000067 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

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LOVE’S REAL ESTATE Energy

If your heat and air unit starts to cough and sputter, you need to know about a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, which will require you to buy an upgraded unit at more expense than you might have thought.

But, according to the Department of Energy, which made the law, you will save money in the long run.

The overall intent is to save the environment.

The Department of Energy sets energyefficiency standards for air-conditioning and heating equipment, measured as the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER), a number displayed on the bright yellow Energy Guide sticker on the side of air conditioners, heat pumps and other equipment.

The higher the SEER rating, the higher the efficiency in operating the unit. An older unit might be an 8 or a 10 SEER. In 2006 the requirement was set at 13 SEER, and now the Department of Energy has raised the bar higher, depending on the region of the United States you live in.

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California is in the “southwest region” and we are held to the toughest standards because we are considered a “hot-dry” region. Air conditioners installed in homes in California must have at least a 14 SEER rating. The same

Opponents of the Department of Energy’s rules say the cost of replacement requirements is unfair and hidden.

A contractor said, “These new AC units are bigger than existing ones. People will be angry when they find out they cost a lot more than expected, and you have to remodel just to fit the thing in.”

The contractor said changing the SEER number from 13 to 14 isn’t worth it. “This is a tiny change in efficiency, but it’s a huge cost to the public.”

The Department of Energy has a different view. They say the standards will save enough electricity over 30 years to run 8.7 million typical U.S. homes for one year. The furnace standards will save enough gas over 30 years to heat 62 million typical U.S. homes for one year. Carbon dioxide emissions, attributed to global warming, will be cut by an amount equal to the emissions of 25 million cars over one year. They also say the dollar savings for consumers will reach about $18.7 billion.

However it shakes out, it’s probably time to eyeball that yellow sticker on the heat and air unit, and get an idea of the fun to come when it starts to wheeze.

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2600 Cohasset Road. Property is zoned for commercial use in front portion which is approx. 7,650 sq ft for office or residential. Back portion is zoned R1 & approx 56,350 sq ft of vacant land. Would be ideal for residential or mini storage.

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

Butte Valley

$450,000.00

3/ 2

2050

1082 E 5th Ave

Chico

$239,000.00

3/ 1.5

1387

41 Blackstone Ct

Chico

$420,000.00

3/ 2

2417

1260 Ravenshoe Way

Chico

$238,500.00

4/ 2.5

1532

270 Via Mission Dr

Chico

$320,000.00

3/ 2

1845

1457 Eaton Rd

Chico

$234,000.00

3/ 2

1248

3192 Sawyers Bar Ln

Chico

$317,000.00

4/ 3

2541

2044 Humboldt Rd

Chico

$228,000.00

2/ 1

786

199 Via Mission Dr

Chico

$315,000.00

3/ 2

1648

1019 Clotilde Way

Chico

$227,000.00

3/ 2

1493

1780 Hooker Oak Ave

Chico

$300,000.00

3/ 1.5

1860

991 Flying V St

Chico

$216,000.00

2/ 2

1039

13 Picual Ct

Chico

$299,000.00

3/ 2

1739

299 E 6th Ave

Chico

$175,000.00

2/ 1

900

995 Flying V St

Chico

$290,000.00

2/ 1

1027

4180 Timtam Ln

Concow

$140,000.00

3/ 1

672

79 Herlax Cir

Chico

$265,000.00

4/ 2

1575

2429 Durham Dayton Hwy

Durham

$327,000.00

3/ 2

2123

4484 Myvalli Dr

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$399,000.00

View, Butte Creek Canyon, 3,114 sq ft, 4bd/4ba, 1.75 acres $590,000 G sq ft home DIN2.16 Butte Creek, 6.23 acs on creek, PEN $499,900 Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $438,900 18 acres, forest, 1,550 sq ft home, cash only $225,000

Senior Mobile, 720 sq ft, 2bd/2ba, small yard. $10,000 Cal Townhouse, 2bd/2ba, 1,452 sq ft, in ground pool & hot tub $269,900 Country 4bd/2ba, 2,255 sq ft, huge shop, .64 of an acre $330,000 Super nice 4bd 2.5ba 1,661 sq ft. $289,900

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of January 19, 2014 – January 23, 2015.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

649 Township Rd

ADDRESS

Gridley

$450,000.00

2/ 1.5

1930

11 Nikki Ct

Oroville

$226,500.00

3/ 2

1676

622 Richards Ave

Gridley

$190,000.00

3/ 1

1031

711 California St

Gridley

$135,000.00

3/ 1

1156

180 Fairhill Dr

Oroville

$221,000.00

3/ 3

2207

13602 Andover Dr

Magalia

$209,000.00

3/ 2.5

1970

3295 Foothill Blvd

Oroville

$174,000.00

3/ 2

1153

13653 W Park Dr

Magalia

$150,000.00

4/ 2

1900

665 Yuba Ave

Oroville

$145,000.00

2/ 2

1440

14088 Drexel Dr

Magalia

$113,000.00

2/ 2

1116

6385 Cumberland Rd

Magalia

$110,000.00

2/ 2

1380

2603 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$125,000.00

3/ 1.5

1352

14151 Wycliff Way

Magalia

$110,000.00

3/ 2

1372

5175 Royal Canyon Ln

Paradise

$315,000.00

3/ 2.5

2252

6270 Woodman Dr

Oroville

$250,000.00

3/ 2.5

2147

729 Aster Ln

Paradise

$287,000.00

3/ 2

1770

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4156 Spyglass Road (X St: Garner Ln) 5 Bd / 3 Ba 3,110 Sq. Ft. $593,000 Kim Finlan 518-8453

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 2 Crabapple Court (X St: Glenwood) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba 2,795 Sq. Ft. $523,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sat. 11-1

1041 Dias Dr (X St: Cecelia/ W. 11th Ave) 4 Bd / 4 Ba 3685 Sq.Ft. $438,500 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

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Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4

2647 Lakewest (X St: Idyllwild) 3 Bd / 2 Ba 1821 Sq.Ft. $325,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4

43 Titleist Way (X St: Delaney Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba 1653 Sq.Ft. $315,000 Kathy Kelly 570-7403 Keating Murphy 707-363-1872 Anita Miller 321-1174

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8 Rosemary Cir ( X St: Verbena) 4 Bd / 2 Ba 1920 Sq.Ft. $312,999 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

Sun. 11-1

6230 Johnson Dr (X St: Norwood) 3 Bd / 3 Ba 2019 Sq.Ft. $302,500 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

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154 Secluded Oaks (X St: 8th St/ Earl) 4 Bd / 2 Ba 2177 Sq.Ft. $425,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

4 Alameda Park Circle (X St: California Park Drive) 2 Bd / 2 Ba 1,452 Sq. Ft. $269,900 John Wallace 514-2405 Brandon Siewert 828-4597

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Sat. 11-1

3030 Calistoga Dr (X St: Amber Grove Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba 1961 Sq.Ft. $379,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902 Jenn Stelle 515-6801 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

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132 Commonwealth Ct (X St: Patriot) 4 Bd / 2 Ba 1707 Sq.Ft. $373,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

5522 California (X St: Jackson ) 3 Bd / 2 Ba 1204 Sq.Ft. $180,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227

Sat. 11-1

1253 Hemlock Street (X St: 12th Street) 2 Bd / 1 Ba 801 Sq. Ft. $174,900 Carolyn Fejes 966-4457

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1850 Mosure Ln. 3/bd 2/ba 1,603 SqFt $249,900 Chari Bullock 872-6818

Sat 11-1

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2380 Cassandra Dr. 3/Bd 3/Ba 2,606 SqFt $539,000 Chari Bullock 872-6818

1376 Humboldt Ave (X St: Bartlett) 2 Bd / 1 Ba 1040 Sq.Ft. $177,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat.11-1, 2-4

9270 Stanford Lane (X St: Durham Dayton Hwy), Durham 3 Bd / 1 Ba 1,187 Sq. Ft. $175,000 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329

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