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Vol. 41, Issue 10 • November 2, 2017 OPINION Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Hollow gesture on opioids Ask any American with a loved one who has struggled with opioid addiction

GUEST COMMENT

boorish bullying men who “lack impulse control,” Tguysandlikefamous Donald Trump, the current Pussy-Grabberhe news of late has come laden with tales of rich

I used to be unable to resist the impulse to drink to excess on most weekends. I am currently a Type-2 diabetic, and yet when I see a cookie that in-Chief; Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood babe triggers the impulse to eat it, chances are I’m going magnet; and TV news journalist to succumb to that impulse.

Mark Halperin, accused by Until recently, I had at least an average libido, several women and when it came to appreciating [I]t never of being entirely female pulchritude, I probably scored too free with his somewhere above average. But it occurred to hands. never occurred to me to grab or me to grab As appalling grope strangers, nor did the idea that as such behavior flashing my privates at them would or grope is, I am a little enhance my appeal. strangers ... perplexed by Which leaves me struggling to by how it is being understand guys like Weinstein or Jaime O’Neill described. A lack Halperin for giving expression, repeatedly, to such The author is a of impulse control? Really? crude and criminal behavior. Did these guys think retired community I was never very good at such boorish bullying would enhance their allure? college instructor. impulse control, but I never had Did they think that groping women whose names the impulse to grope or fondle they may not even have known was a seduction a woman I was not romantically involved with no technique that stood even a remote chance of matter how alluring she might have been, or how success? Did they think exposing themselves was love-starved I may have been. Had I had such an going to be an instant turn-on to the targets of their impulse, I can’t say for sure I would have resisted ardor? acting on it, so I feel grateful for never having had to Mom never taught me not to fondle strangers. It battle such misdirected and inappropriate impulses. wasn’t necessary. Nor should it have been. Ω

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and you’ll likely hear a plea for help for an epidemic that tears apart families, and in too many instances, ends lives. To wit, according to federal data, more than 60,000 U.S. citizens succumbed to narcotic drug overdoses in 2016. That’s an average of 175 Americans per day, making it the leading cause of death in the nation for those younger than 50.

In response to those startling figures, the Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently addressed the issue by declaring it a public health emergency. Trump’s older brother died at age 43 of complications brought on by alcoholism, so he is familiar with the repercussions of addiction. During a ceremony at the White House, POTUS spoke to how opioid abuse plagues the young and old, rich and poor.

But here’s the thing: The declaration rings hollow, because it does not trigger any additional federal funding to combat the crisis.

Indeed, as reported in this week’s Healthlines (see “An uphill battle,”

by Evan Tuchinsky), just $57,000 resides in a public health emergency fund. That’s despite the president’s promise months ago to do something about the issue—namely, to label the nation’s opioid crisis “a national emergency.” Doing so by signing a formal declaration is precisely the type of action that would justify the allocation of federal resources needed to substantively mitigate the epidemic.

The president’s inaction is especially cold comfort to residents of the North State, including Butte County, where, as Tuchinsky reports on page 12, the populace grapples with a prescription rate nearly triple of that found at the national level. Moreover, there are fewer options here for those seeking treatment. While the medical professionals at the local Public Health Department are conducting yeoman’s work to address the issue, only a commitment of a significant amount of new federal monies can pay for desperately needed addiction treatment and recovery programs, among other things.

Short of that, the epidemic will continue unabated. Ω

The diluted news It seems fitting that this past week indictments would come down and

details come out regarding Paul Manafort’s alleged collusion with Russia and other wrongdoings—including conspiracy against the United States.

After all, hasn’t President Trump, for whom Manafort served as campaign manager, told us all along to look the other way, that there was nothing worth talking about regarding Russia—indeed, that it was “fake news”?

It’s fitting because this week the CN&R’s cover story is all about the “junk food news” diet we’ve been on for the past year or so. That refers mostly to television news, the article explains, as that’s the main source of news for most people in this day and age. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the medium and its reliance on ratings, “quality information becomes secondary to entertainment value.” All that entertainment serves to distract us from what’s actually going on, the stories that really matter.

A case in point: On Monday morning, as news of a grand jury’s indictment of Manafort and his associate Rick Gates was making round-the-clock news on most outlets, Fox News, which is notoriously pro-Trump, stressed the message that it had nothing to do with the president. Ample screen time was given to those, like Trump mouthpiece Kellyanne Conway, who brought the issue, inexplicably, back to Hillary Clinton.

This week, too, CNN issued a report based on interviews with anonymous Fox News employees who expressed embarrassment at their network’s coverage. One of them went so far to say, “This kind of coverage does the viewer a huge disservice and further divides the country.” We agree. We should expect more. Ω

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by Melissa Daugherty m e l i s s a d @ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m

Season of giving About a week before Halloween, CN&R Managing Editor Meredith J. Cooper and I ran some errands to pick up a few items for our annual Best of Chico bash, a celebration for the winners of that beloved contest.

Due to the occasion’s proximity to the holiday each year, we liven things up by making it a costume party. This time around, the theme was Mardi Gras. I ended up buying a mask and some beads from a couple of dollar stores and bedazzling myself by way of an old prom dress that was collecting dust in my closet—sequins were big in the Bay Area in the 1990s, so I got by on the cheap.

Like a true journalist, I wasn’t motivated to shop for the accessories until deadline pressure started setting in. What I noticed at the stores is that they had already cleared out the majority of the Halloween merchandise to make way for the other upcoming holidays, but mostly Christmas.

Indeed, as we put this issue to bed on the morning of Nov. 1, we’re heading into prime holiday season. It’s a hectic time of year for everyone, and we at the corner of Second and Flume streets are no exception. We’re planning out issues months in advance, while trying to stay on top of what’s happening in our community day by day.

Also at the forefront of my mind during this seasonal shift is the drop in temperature and the fact that there are many folks in Chico who don’t have a home of their own. Several organizations are working to help provide a warm and dry place for the homeless members of our community to rest their heads, but this week I want to give a shout out to the Chico Homeless Action Team, aka CHAT. Among other projects, that all-volunteer group works with local churches to operate the Safe Space Winter Shelter. The organization has a couple of fundraising events planned this month for that cause, including a big bash at the Chico Women’s Club dubbed Funksgiving III, a show featuring live music and a DJ. For more info, go to www.facebook.com/chicosafespace or chicohousingactionteam.org. There, you’ll also find information about volunteering at the temporary shelter.

Also, as has become tradition, the CN&R is accepting donations for our annual toiletries drive. For those who aren’t familiar with that effort, each year this newspaper’s downtown office serves as a repository for supplies that are everyday items for most of us, but often are luxury products for folks who live on the streets.

Picture travel-size soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, deodorant, etc. Those are the kind of items we’re looking to take in, sort and distribute to local service providers, but we’ll accept any size, so long as it’s unused.

Last year, the lot was given to the Torres Community Shelter, which at the time was serving a record number of clients. Over the years, in discussions with the good folks at such organizations, I’ve gathered that, among the supplies we’ve delivered, the most wished-for items include: feminine hygiene products, oral care products (toothpaste, tooth brushes, mouthwash, floss) and new socks.

Our office at 353 E. Second St. is generally open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Thanks, in advance, for your donations.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Re “Departing” (The Death Issue, by CN&R staff, Oct. 26): Some of them were angry At the way the earth was abused By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power And they struggled to protect her from them Only to be confused By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour ...

Let the music keep our spirits high Let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets, by and Let’s by, by and by talk DEATH When the light that is lost within us reaches the sky —Jackson Brown, “Before the Deluge” CHICO’S FREE NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME 41, ISSUE 9 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017

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‘Dignity and kindness’ Re “Comfort at the end” (15 Minutes,

by Vic Cantu, Oct. 26): It was nice to see Keira Troxell featured in this week’s CN&R. Almost a year ago, Keira provided end-of-life care to our beloved Weimaraner, Ted. Keira guided us to follow Ted to his favorite spot in our home and provided the medication that brought his pain to an end. It was a beautiful gift to be able to send Ted off in our own home.

Chico is fortunate to have such a caring and thoughtful veterinarian providing these services to our fourlegged friends. May we all embark on our final journey with the type of comfort, dignity and kindness Keira provides.

Mele and Alec Benz Chico

About the federal budget Re “Don’t expect real courage” (Editorial, Oct. 26): The acceptance of the concept that “all politicians are crooked” is an allowance for them to be so. We have devolved to a population of self-subordinating fools whose voice has been diminished to begging our paid representatives to do just that— represent us—and unless we demand justice and true representation, those LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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profiteering from our compliance will continue to dismantle and dismiss our rights while absconding with our tax dollars for their own self-serving interests.

Jimi Gomez Chico

A volunteer speaks Re “Gone dark” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, Oct. 26): As a former volunteer at the now-closed Chico Museum, I need to react to the article “Gone dark.”

On my last day, when I was informed of the closing, I was told “that it may reopen in a few months and we will call you.”

My inquiring mind wanted to know if and when this may happen.

I telephoned the Chico Chamber of Commerce to ask and they did not know that it was closed. They told me: “It’s open on Tuesday and Thursday.” I told them: “No, it is closed. If you call their main number, a recording states that the museum is temporarily closed for October and November. For more information— www.chicomuseum.org.

Why is it that no one seems to know that it is “temporarily closed” or when it will reopen?

Cherie Appel Chico

About Lew Re “Rest in peace, Lew Gardner” (Arts DEVO, by Jason Cassidy, Oct. 26): Thank you, Jason, for that lively, lovely tribute to my father, Lew Gardner. As he often said, “I am the luckiest person I know,” and moving to Chico was huge luck.

He found meaningful work here, which was, he also repeatedly said, paramount to happiness (OK that, and The New Yorker, and Duke Ellington, and E.E. Cummings, and Mozart, and the Giants and ...).

Besides set-building, of which he was very, very proud (especially working with Dave Beasley in the Chico State scene shop), I want to add one more thing to Art DEVO’s sweet goodbye: his work in the schools. Countless times while out and about in Chico, he was approached by kids and young adults shyly wanting to share a memory of his time in their classroom—whether at Shasta, Hooker Oak or Parkview elementary.

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note, a celebration of his passion for life will be held on Feb. 18, 2-5 p.m., at the CARD center. Expect great music, poetry and stories.

At 1:30 p.m., we will meet at Children’s Playground for a crazyhat bike ride to the CARD Center.

And, please, continue to add to the Lew Gardner Memorial page on Facebook.

This is not incompetent behavior; this is the conduct of a person suffering from psychosis, and that person is our president.

—roger S. beadle

Mary Gardner Chico

Buoying the black market Re “Grow home” and “Where’s the evidence?” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee and Meredith J. Cooper, respectively, Oct. 19): I am a real estate attorney who has practiced for five years in Butte County and seven years in Mendocino County. I don’t use marijuana or represent growers, but I’ve represented neighbors subjected to the ecological devastation, crime and traffic from large illegal grows.

The Chico Police Department recently told the City Council, with no evidence, that outdoor grows increase crime. But there’s another side: If legal grows and dispensaries are banned, illegal grows and sales will proliferate. Prohibition just encourages large illegal grows.

Marijuana prohibition has not worked and will not work.

Marijuana is here to stay, whether or not grows and dispensaries are banned. Reasonable regulation will reduce the harm from large illegal grows and sales while providing much-needed revenue. Sensible codes and regulations should be enacted to allow limited legal marijuana grows and dispensaries.

Then tax it to the maximum extent possible. Any extra law enforcement expense will be more than offset by the increased tax income.

Other Northern California counties increased their revenue as a result; why shouldn’t we do the same? We shouldn’t let political ideology or personal abhorrence get in the way of making a buck—I mean, receiving much-needed tax revenue!

Charles Holzhauer Chico

A majority of the voters in this county voted to have cannabis regulated and taxed. Butte County supervisors and Chico City Council members have done the opposite. They instead voted to support the illicit marijuana trade.

Since the elected officials who voted against the will of the people and for the will of rich illicit marijuana growers, these public servants should be sued for their violation of the public trust, removed from office and be made to repay all the lost fees and tax revenue their decision (blatantly based on bias against cannabis users) has caused the residents of Butte County and Chico. They should also be made to repair any ecological damage caused by the people these “conservative” officials truly represent: the purveyors of black market marijuana.

Sterling Ogden Chico

Two views on JC move For those of us who spend many hours at the Jesus Center—either working or using the services—we will tell you that the layout of the current building is more than cumbersome. It actually impacts the ability to provide services effectively.

I am currently part of the planning team for the Jesus Center’s relocation, but most people know me from street outreach with CCAT, Safe Space or the JC resource center. The rumors that this new campus will be like a prison or that this vision came from Robert Marbut are not true. For the “navigation center,” imagine a program similar to Safe Space but open 24 hours a day year-round and with expanded services.

Throughout this concept stage, we have used phrases like “life-giving,” “come as you are” and “place to be.” I have engaged three of my homeless friends in this process, and going forward, involving people experiencing homelessness is a priority.

I encourage all to ask questions about this relocation before

deciding what the intent is. These rumors are reaching those who live on our streets and depend on these services to survive. It is cruel to mislead them and cause them additional stress and fear.

Siana Sonoquie Chico

The potential Jesus Center move troubles Patrick Newman, who worries the facility plans the same kind of jail-like institution out at the fairgrounds that its highly paid consultant is infamous for designing. Robert Marbut recommends authoritarian dominance to punish subjects into compliance. Marbut utterly dismisses the enlightened and cost-effective innovation known as “housing first,” which nearly the entire service provider community espouses.

Housing first has reduced harm for people experiencing homelessness and their broader communities alike by prioritizing housing and self-determination above traditionally imposed obstacles like sobriety and income.

The rectitude of any potential JC move depends on the extent to which its customers are included in decision processes, otherwise fundraising requirements often insist such organizations be far more responsive to the needs of their donor community than to those of their guests.

Beautiful, welcome rain is forecast soon, but it demeans our humanity that so many of our neighbors will sleep in the rain.

The right thing to do is to make some form of shelter available to everyone with insufficient access to anything better than clandestine camping or urban squatting. How many people must die living on our winter streets before we respond like compassionate human beings?

Dan Everhart Chico

Trump talk The charade being played out at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would be amusing if it was a television show, but it isn’t.

It is thoughtless rhetoric coming out of the White House that is disturbing at best, dangerous at worst. Unfortunately, it appears that many Americans get their daily briefing of world events via 140 characters, so they are missing out on fact-based news.

While flirting with war and carrying on a base-fueled feud with black football players, the ungrateful leader of the free world is trying to destabilize a multicountry agreement with Iran, dismantle a three-nation agreement with Mexico and Canada, while issuing grandiose tweets that mock a leader of a nation who has threatened nuclear warfare against the United States.

This is not incompetent behavior; this is the conduct of a person suffering from psychosis, and that person is our president—a president who is allowing the dismantling of environmental safeguards, as well as the systematic undoing of existing civil rights laws, consumer protections, women’s rights, and protections for our natural resources, all while condoning bigotry, racism and predatory behavior.

A president who prefers authoritarian leadership because it conforms to his inner rage. A president who is a dictator-wannabe.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Correction A story in the CN&R’s Death Issue (see “Death 101,” by Ken Smith, Oct. 29) incorrectly paraphrased hospice nurse Cathy Gallentine regarding the outcomes associated with a dying person’s reduced intake of food. We apologize for the error, which has been corrected online. —ed.

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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea and District Attorney Mike Ramsey discuss details of the shooting of Mark Jensen.

veillance team consisting of Calkins and Sgt. Jack Storne established an observation point nearby.

When the BearCat—loaded with about 10 SWAT and CNT members— arrived at the Jensen house at 6:44 p.m., a female officer addressed Jensen via public address system. The officer, who also has an autistic child, unsuccessfully tried to establish a rapport with Jensen. After about 20 minutes of no response, the vehicle returned to the staging ground.

At 7:25 p.m., Calkins and Storne observed Jensen—now armed with a handgun—walking around his property.

He eventually walked onto the highway, and Calkins shifted in his prone position to keep him in his sights. That’s when, according to Calkins, Jensen spotted him and raised the pistol in his direction.

Calkins fired his .308-caliber rifle and Jensen—hit in the chest—fell immediately. He was declared dead at 7:36 p.m.

Ramsey said Jensen was carrying a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol. In the house, they found a loaded .22-caliber pistol and .30-06-caliber rifle. A toxicology report revealed a moderate amount of marijuana and a high—.22 percent— blood alcohol level.

Though much of the conference focused

on Jensen’s rage during his last days, Ramsey offered some balance: “I’m not painting him entirely as an angry, anti-governmental-type person,” he said, “because people did say he had a bit of a sense of humor, that his temper would flash, but then it would usually calm down.

“It did not appear so in this instance.

He was, as indicated, very, very angry that the government was telling him he couldn’t grow marijuana in his backyard.”

Contacted by phone Wednesday (Nov. 1), Lambert said Jensen had called him occasionally, mostly about social service issues related to his daughters, which the supervisor believes was Jensen’s main impetus to run for office.

“He was particularly good to those kids and did a lot to take care of them,” Lambert said. He added that Jensen was “pleasant enough” as a political opponent, though he would sometimes lash out.

“It’s really unfortunate he took it to the next level that day,” Lambert said.

“Had he not scared the heck out of that woman on the side of the road and escalated things, it might have ended differently.” Ω

The death of a dream?

How sky-high housing costs make California the poorest state leads the nation once again in a statistic no state wants to boast about.

California When the cost of living is factored in, the

Golden State has the highest poverty rate in the country. More than 20 percent of its residents struggle to make ends meet, according to recently released Census figures. That’s nearly 8 million people.

Unfortunately for Californians, this year’s poverty numbers are not an aberration. The Census began releasing state-by-state results for its “supplemental poverty measure” in 2011, in an attempt to About this story: improve upon the outdated This story was proand heavily criticized offiduced by calmatters. cial poverty statistics. org, a nonprofit, In the less sophisticated nonpartisan media “official” measure, a family outlet covering California policies of four in San Francisco or and politics.

Los Angeles or San Diego faces exactly the same poverty threshold—$24,339 annually—as a family in rural Mississippi. That’s despite the fact that you can rent a three-bedroom, two-bathroom 1,200-square-foot house in Horn Lake, Miss., for the same price ($850 a month) as half a living room in the Bay Area.

California has been the poorest state in the nation under the vastly more sophisticated “supplemental” poverty measure since the alternative statistic was created (Mississippi is poorest under the old measure). It’s not even really that close: Florida has the second highest rate, at 18.7 percent.

SIFT ER No. 1 killer In 2015, one thing took more lives worldwide than high-sodium diets, obesity, alcohol, vehicle accidents or malnutrition: environmental pollution. According to a just-released study in The Lancet medical journal, pollution of air and water killed 9 million people that year. That’s 16 percent of all deaths worldwide, three times the number of people killed by tuburculosis, AIDS and malaria combined, and 15 times

Part of the reason California tops the list year after year is a byproduct of how the supplemental poverty measure is calculated.

It’s a three-year moving average, so yearover-year changes can’t swing a state’s poverty rate one way or another all that much.

The Census uses data dating to 2011 to calculate the cost of living, so even the improved poverty rate could be underestimating how big a drain housing has been on California’s poor. The biggest jumps in housing costs—like those seen in Sacramento and other mid-size California cities in recent years—typically apply to a relatively small percentage of renters finding new apartments.

But ask any California renter whether they’d rather be paying 2011 rents or 2017 rents, and they’ll ask you for the keys to the DeLorean as soon as possible.

What exactly is the role of housing in California’s poverty problem? There are a couple ways to answer that question, none perfectly satisfactory.

One method: What would poverty look like

the number of deaths attributed to all forms of violence, including war. Among the many eye-opening numbers in the report is the cost of pollution to the world’s economy. Estimated losses of $4.6 trillion diminish global economic output by 6.2 percent annually. If one takes into consideration the fact that pollution-mitigation measures—removing lead from gas, improving air quality—made by the United States since 1980 have actually returned an average $200 billion per year to the economy, then it’s clear that there are financial as well as health benefits to protecting the environment.

if everyone in California had cheaper rents?

Researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California, which has developed its own Californiaspecific alternative poverty measure, tried to simulate an answer to that question. Researchers there ran a model of the state’s poverty rate with every Californian bearing a cost of living similar to that in Fresno County, where a family of four making about $25,000 would not be considered poor.

The result? The overall poverty rate drops dramatically (from about 21 percent to 14 percent), with nearly 2.4 million Californians lifted above the poverty line. The effect is most pronounced among children, who are disproportionately likely to live in higher-cost regions of the state. The child poverty rate drops nearly 8 percentage points—about 717,000 kids— once the cost of living is lowered.

Relocating every poor family in the state to Fresno is not a practical policy consideration. And housing subsidies for low-income families currently make only a small dent in the poverty rate, at least compared to some other safety-net programs.

(Advocates for the poor argue that’s a great reason to dramatically expanding housing subsidies).

A group of researchers at Columbia University re-created the Census supplemental poverty measure for all states with data stretching back to the late 1960s. Under this measure, California started looking considerably different from the rest of the United States in the early 1980s.

But notably, while California’s supplemental poverty rate has remained significantly above the national average in recent years primarily because of housing costs, in absolute terms the state is actually in better shape than it was in the early 1990s, when more than 1 in 4 Californians lived below the poverty line.

That’s partly because of the significant expansion of federal and state poverty programs to California families in the past three decades.

In 1991, researchers estimate, such programs reduced California poverty by about 4 percentage points. In 2014, those same programs (and new ones) cut hardship by more than twice as much.

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Meet the outsider Congressional candidate Dennis Duncan is using health care as a cornerstone of his first campaign n his daily dealings with children and families in Butte County, social Iworker Dennis Duncan says he sees a health care system that is broken.

That’s what spurred him to make a run for U.S. Congress, with his sights set on Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s seat in the 2018 general election.

“In my experience working as a social worker, I have seen that the ACA [Affordable Care Act] was a good bill for some folks,” Duncan said, after giving a short stump speech outside LaMalfa’s Oroville office on Monday (Oct. 30).

“However, I work a lot with families who may be lower-middle income and they struggle with ACA—the premiums and the deductibles—and many of them simply opt not to do it. It leaves them without health care.”

Duncan, a Democrat from Magalia who’s never held public office, spoke to a crowd of about 30 supporters holding various signs including calls for universal health care. But Monday’s press conference was more specifically a call for his opponent, LaMalfa, to reinstate the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and helps provide matching funds to states for health insurance for families who are

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uninsured and don’t qualify for Medicaid (in California, known as Medi-Cal). The program expired on Sept. 30 with Congress not taking action to renew it.

“Right now, it’s kind of dead,” Duncan said. “It’s expected that by the end of the year the program will be nonexistent if Congress doesn’t do anything.”

The program is a partnership between the state and federal government. It provides low-cost health care coverage for 9 million children from lower- and middleclass families nationwide, according to the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. (In some states, including California, CHIP also covers pregnant women.) Duncan estimates about 40,000 children in Congressional District 1, which includes Chico, receive CHIP benefits and said he’s dumbfounded as to why Congress would let the program expire.

“Mr. LaMalfa has not made any

Meet the candidate:

Dennis Duncan will be part of a candidates social on Friday (Nov. 3), along with opponent Marty Walters, Butte County Supervisor candidate Debra Lucero, and Chico City Council hopefuls Rich Ober and Jeremy Markley. The forum, hosted by Indivisible Chico, costs $20 ($15 for students) and includes dinner. 6-10 p.m. at the Rendezvous (3269 Esplanade, Ste, 142).

statements for or against,” Duncan said. “That’s why I am out here today. If Doug LaMalfa came out here today and said he’d gladly vote for CHIP, I’d pack my stuff up and leave.”

Turns out, the next day, the congressman did just that.

LaMalfa gave support to extending the program during a short speech on the floor of the House Tuesday night, blaming Democrats for holding up the bill.

“Yet despite months of assurances to work together, Democrats continue to stall the reauthorization,” LaMalfa said. “We can’t afford any more delay.”

The program’s expiration came on the heels of Republicans’ recent failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. States have had enough CHIP funding for an additional few months, but that will soon run dry. At issue for the Democrats is that the House bill to extend the funding includes cuts to the ACA’s public health fund, among other issues they say harm those covered by the existing federal health care law.

A vote on the measure is expected on Friday (Nov. 3), according to a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican representing California’s 23rd

Congressional District.

Duncan is a newcomer to the politi-

cal arena. He is a Bernie Sanders supporter who, during an interview with the CN&R following his press conference, criticized Hillary Clinton. “I was very disappointed in the campaign of Ms. Clinton. I never felt like she got a good strong message out there,” Duncan said. “I felt like Mr. Sanders did that.”

The 59-year-old Ridge resident is piggy-backing on the grassroots campaign that saw Sanders, who ran as a Washington outsider, climb to prominence in a presidential race based on ideas such as universal health care and tuition-free public colleges and universities.

Duncan is certainly a Washington outsider, having spent most his life in Butte County. He grew up in Paradise, eventually attending UC Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He spent most of the ’90s working as a services coordinator for the homeless in Chico, where he also lived at the time. In 2002, he began commuting to Glenn County, where he worked with families and children as a social worker, all while still living in Chico. He moved to the Ridge in 2006 and now works for Butte County.

“I believe that one of the big issues in District 1 is our economy,” he said.

Duncan said if elected, he’d propose a bill called the Renew America Act, which would allocate $750 billion to green energy infrastructure. The bill also would provide broadband for rural areas, he added.

“It would also allow us to deal with climate change,” Duncan said.

Being a product of a public university, Duncan said he’d also work at lowering the costs of higher education. He said he’d introduce the United States Affordable Education Act. The bill would make the cost of attendance at Chico State about $325 per semester. “That’s affordable,” Duncan said. As it is, a semester at Chico State runs just over $3,500.

“It’s sucking away at our economy,” Duncan said. “People who want to buy homes, who want to have a family, they want to get married, and they can’t afford to because they’ve got $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 in student loans.”

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HEALTHLINES Dr. Andy Miller, public health officer for Butte County, has been rallying support for opioid prescribing guidelines from medical, governmental and community groups.

An uphill battle

the guidelines, though he knows such policy decisions require consideration—thus, time.

Meanwhile, Miller has spoken to a dozen community organizations and government entities. Chico Sunrise Rotary already has endorsed the proposal, he said; the City Clerk’s Office said the City Council will decide whether to give an endorsement at a future meeting, date undetermined.

Why have people with no medical training weigh in on a medical matter?

“Doctors, without really good guidelines and without guidance from other parts of our society, have been in part responsible for getting us where we are,” Miller said. “Physicians are like anyone else: Even doing their best, they can find themselves in a difficult place.

“They need permission from the community, and from their community of professionals, to do the right thing and change

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Ldeclared national attention when President Trump the proliferation, abuse and deadliast week, the term “opioid crisis” received

ness of narcotic painkillers a public health emergency. He cited 64,000 deaths last year from overdoses—175 Americans a day— and directed federal agencies to combat the problem (though the funding available was just $57,000).

California has been addressing the epidemic for several years through a multipronged approach called the Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Initiative, in which Butte County has played a notable role (see infobox). Dr. Mark Lundberg left his job as county public health officer last fall to provide medically assisted treatment for drug addiction through Butte County Behavioral Health; his successor, Dr. Andy Miller, has championed community prescribing guidelines: a set of recommendations for dispensing opiates, established by local clinicians.

As Miller tells the community groups whose endorsement he’s seeking—including the Chico City Council at the Oct. 17 meeting—Butte County has nearly three times more prescription opioids in circulation than the national average. This statistic comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which maps every county nationwide.

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Rural counties across Northern California are similarly afflicted. In fact, the CDC’s opioid map shows the same pattern nationwide, with the highest averages in rural areas versus metropolitan.

The CDC and other health professionals

measure opioids in a unit known as MME, morphine milligram equivalent, allowing comparison of different-strength narcotics.

Butte County’s average is 1,880 MME prescribed per resident annually; the national average is 640. To put the numbers in perspective, Miller said a 200mg dose would be lethal. Since not every person in the county takes an opioid—such as Vicodin, Percocet and Fentanyl—“obviously with an average like that, there are some who are prescribed significantly more.”

The community prescribing guidelines comprise a general framework plus specific protocols for primary care physicians and emergency room doctors. (Pain management specialists, who participated in the development process, could not reach consensus for their own subset.)

Their overarching aim: get Butte County’s MME prescriptions down to the national average. Miller said there is no preset time frame for reaching that mark but that it’s important to “draw a line in the sand and say, ‘This is where we’d like to get.’…

“The goal is pretty aggressive, but you’re talking about getting down to our national average—we already have a national crisis.

So, even if we get to our goal, it does not mean that our problem has gone away.”

Lundberg told the CN&R that he supports

the effort. So, too, did Dr. Brandan Stark, a family practice physician in Chico who’s also an addiction medicine specialist. What Lundberg offers to publicly insured patients at Behavioral Health, Stark provides to privately insured patients at Argyll Medical Group.

“We’ve got a huge problem with these medications and we have to do something,” Stark said. “Starting with some basic guidelines is a great idea.”

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represent a collective effort, incorporating the input of three dozen clinicians; however, he’s marked this project as a personal priority for himself as public health officer.

He’s seen prescribing guidelines in action at Northern Valley Indian Health, where he worked as medical director before taking the county job. He’s also heard frustration at state-level health conferences where colleagues would tout opioid-treatment approaches, such as the work done by Lundberg, but have little more than laments to offer when it comes to addressing excessive prescribing.

“I think that they’ve kind of developed a learned helplessness there,” he said. “I was in clinical medicine recently enough that I haven’t yet given up on that.”

Miller initially met with 20 clinicians in primary care, emergency medicine and pain management from the county’s four hospitals. He refined the guidelines in subsequent meetings with a handful of clinicians from each group. He’s hoping the medical staff of each hospital will give its seal of approval to

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HEALTHLINES their behavior.”

Lundberg agreed, calling Miller’s wide outreach “a brilliant idea.” He cited another consequence: changing patients’ expectations. He compared opioid guidelines to a recent emphasis on reducing the use of antibiotics in the face of drug-resistant strains.

“The community can help create the expectation that you got good care even though you didn’t get a Norco … or a Percocet … or a[nother] narcotic,” Lundberg continued. “You got good care because that doctor tried to give you newer and better treatments.”

In rural areas, though, the range of treatments tends to be more limited than in cities. That is one possible explanation for the higher rate of opioid prescriptions.

“When you’re out in the wilds, people can’t go get expert care … so family doctors or whoever’s out there do the best they can to try and help their patients,” Stark said.

“We’ve been trained to decrease pain, so we give pain medicine if that’s all we have.”

Miller emphasized that opioids are not inherently bad medicine; they have a place in health care as a

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short-term pain reliever. The problem—supported by the CDC and other research—is long-term use.

Opioids are not proven to offer significant benefit with extended use, he said, while producing negative effects such as addiction.

Because the drugs are addicting, Lundberg and Stark hope patients currently taking opioids prescribed by their physician won’t be left in the lurch. Treatment facilities and professionals already face high demand.

“That is the dark side of these guidelines,” Stark said. “I’m all for decreasing narcotic prescribing, but there’s already a whole population of people out there either addicted or dependent.

“You kick all these people off their medicines, what are they going to do? They’re going to score on the streets. They’re not going to get sick; they’re not going to go without.” Ω

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GREENWAYS Claudia Manni, president of the Tiny House Club at Chico State, is hoping the house will end up in Simplicity Village, a neighborhood of tiny houses proposed by Chico Housing Action Team.

Switching gears With annual competition canceled, Chico State’s Tiny House Club sets sights on homeless village

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House Club at Chico State, learned this W year’s Tiny House Competition held by hen Claudia Manni, president of the Tiny

the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) was canceled, she wasn’t sure what the group would do. The third-year political science/history double major had been involved with the club since she was a freshman and was already in the midst of planning

this year’s build, which was a function of the competition.

“We thought ‘OK, well, now our club is dissolved,’” Manni said. “No one is going to support us if we don’t have a purpose.”

Enter the Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT). The group got wind that the competition wasn’t going to happen and Charles Withuhn, a local homeless advocate involved with the group, approached the Tiny House Club about refocusing its build on Simplicity Village, a project led by CHAT aimed at creating a tiny house community to provide affordable housing for the local homeless population.

“Yeah, we are totally on board,” Manni said, emphasizing her relief about keeping the club alive. “We think Simplicity Village will be a good idea to help homelessness in Chico and will allow for more shelters for homeless people.”

The tiny house concept has shifted from a design trend that filled Pinterest boards to a viable living option due to the cost to build and the low environmental impact associated with the homes, which use less energy and resources than a standard house or apartment. Cities such as Portland, Ore., and Seattle have created tiny house villages as a way to combat the housing crisis that’s hit cities all over the country.

“Right now we are in the grips of the biggest, most dramatic, urgent human crisis of my lifetime,” Withuhn said. “I’ve been in Chico since [1972], and I’ve never seen so many homeless people as we have now. Let’s get together as a community and offer tiny homes for homeless people.”

SMUD had decided the competition was too expensive, so the club is now working with CHAT to help procure resources.

Payless Building Supply donated a large amount of lumber for the project.

Additionally, CHAT donated the trailer the house is being built on. The club also just got nine windows donated from JWG Windows and Doors out of San Diego. The owner, Jason Gage, a Chico State alum, wanted to be a part of the project. Additionally, the club has raised nearly $5,000 through a GoFundMe campaign for future construction costs. Manni said the group hopes to spend no more than $15,000 on the entire project.

The Tiny House Club is also going through the application process for A.S. Sustainability’s grant program, which offers up to $50,000 a semester for student-driven sustainability projects, such as a solar-power charging station for electronic devices on campus and last year’s tiny house build by the club. That house is being used in 14 Forward in Marysville, a temporary homeless community.

There are about 15 students lending hands to

this semester’s construction project, including those from the obvious programs such as con-

struction management and civil engineering, but also programs such as sociology.

“People are really into it and excited about it,” Manni said. “Not a lot of people can say that when they were in college, they built a tiny house.”

The students had expected to finish construction by December. The project has taken longer than anticipated due to the change in plans, Manni said, and the group now hopes to wrap it up come March 2018.

This year’s project is unique in the sense that the building will detach from the trailer it’s built on.

The trailer holding the tiny house is 5-feet6-inches wide and 16 feet long. The tiny house will be 8 feet wide and 18 feet long, when the project is finished.

“The purpose is to showcase the house and then eventually make it as part of the village,” Manni said.

The Tiny House Club may need to call another audible once construction is completed, pending the outcome of Simplicity Village. Current zoning laws do not allow for tiny houses within city limits, meaning a zoning modification would need to be made.

Withuhn and Manni hope to pack the Nov. 7 City Council meeting with folks who support tiny house villages such as Simplicity Village, in hopes of getting the council to take up the issue. Manni said she wasn’t sure what would happen with this year’s tiny house if the Simplicity Village project is not able to move forward.

“This meeting is really important,” she said. Ω

ECO EVENT URBAN WETLANDS HIKE Naturalist Jon Aull and advocate Dick Cory from the Teichert Ponds Restoration Foundation will lead a free educational hike through the urban wetlands on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. Participants will learn about the history and ecology of the ponds as well as the area’s birds, bugs and beavers. Wear long pants and shoes and be prepared to get muddy. Meet behind Kohl’s (1505 Springfield Drive).

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business is popping Elisabeth Sterzer has been making caramel corn for 30 years. When the Chico State alumna and licensed practical nurse isn’t working in her husband, Steven’s, urology lab, she’s likely in the kitchen—she has a serious passion for cooking. She says around the time she and Steven moved to Chico—about three decades ago—her mother-in-law made her the most delicious caramel corn she’d ever tasted. Sterzer fine-tuned the recipe over the years, and she’s dedicated to not adding GMOs. She and Steven always wanted to start a side business, so five years ago they co-founded Chico Pops. Sterzer increased her flavors to four, all of which are now available at 50 locations throughout the North State and as far away as Reno. Find out more about Chico Pops at www.ChicoPops. com, www.facebook.com/ChicoPops, or call them at: 844-GOT-POPS.

How did you hit on the right recipe?

Well, we have four flavors and you just know when you’ve hit the right mixture. Our most popular one is the caramel corn with pecans. I go crazy in the kitchen and kept playing with my mother-in-law’s recipe, adding more butter, pecans and caramel. But we also have kettle corn, Chico-style, which is cheesy-salty, and Southwestern-style nacho cheese flavors.

How do you feel about Chico Pops’ progress?

Very good. It took about a year to get more flavors, but now people often recognize me as “the Chico

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The recent fires that ripped through Northern California gave us all reason to pause, I think, and consider the safety of our homes and loved ones. That was particularly true for Betsy Biermann, chief financial officer of Engelbrecht Advertising in Chico. Her husband, Barry, is fire chief of Napa County—where some of the most destructive wildfire took down entire neighborhoods.

“My husband and I are Chico residents, however, our hometown growing up was in Napa. We have personal ties to all counties/communities affected by the wildfires, and especially to the first responder families,” Betsy wrote in an email.

Betsy is holding a fundraiser to help the families of first responders who lost their own homes while fighting the fires in Napa, Sonoma and Butte counties.

She outlines two ways to give: 1. Send a check to Centralized Relief Fund at Napa County Sheriff/EOC, Attention: Kim Henderson, 1535 Airport Road, Napa, CA 94558.

2. Donate gift cards—for stores, restaurants or simply Visa or MasterCard.

These can be dropped off at Round Table Pizza locations in Chico.

Betsy also noted that Chico company Build.com donated 5,000 face masks to those living in smoke-filled areas. That’s what caring for our communities is all about.

Pops lady” and always tell me how much they love it.

The popularity has increased these last two years because we added flavors and have a great salesman. We are now in S & S Produce, New Earth Market, Butte College, and every Safeway and Raley’s from Redding to Yuba City.

I’ve heard you also choose to give back to the community.

Yes, we also use Chico Pops for fundraisers, such as [for] breast cancer. Last year, Durham schools raised funds for themselves. Groups sell our products and keep half, which is more than they get from other fundraisers. We’ve also donated Chico Pops to the Jesus Center and the Salvation Army.

You have unique bags.

3 oz. paper bag with a plastic inner lining that lasts about a year. We started out with just cellophane, but that didn’t keep them fresh long.

What are your future plans?

Another good cAuse Bacio Catering, Take-Out and Biz Box has been holding events

over the past year called Feed Your Soul. This time around, the event will feature appetizers, cocktails, fire pits and a DJ, with proceeds going to Women’s Health Specialists, which offers screenings and other services for local women and families.

Feed Your Soul is Nov. 9, 6-10 p.m., at The Palms (2947 Nord Ave.). Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at Bacio, Women’s Health Specialists or online at eventbrite.com.

We want to go into bigger stores here, and expand to Sacramento and San Francisco. We also want to add more flavors, such as one with peanuts, which the public has been clamoring for.

nAme chAnge The folks over at 980 Mangrove Ave. have changed their business’

How long have you enjoyed cooking?

campaign in Chico to bring entrepreneurs out into the community to network.

The idea behind the movement, started by the Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurship, is that deals are made over coffee every day—so why not set up coffee dates with that in mind? The events will be every Wednesday, with different early-stage businesses presenting their ideas each week. The first caffeine session will be Nov. 15, 8:30-10 a.m., at Idea Fab Labs (603 Orange St.). For more info, go to chicostart.com.

Most of my adult life, especially after meeting my husband.

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year ago, Random Lengths News and the rest of America’s alternative press celebrated the 40th anniversary of Project Censored, the ongoing journalistic mission of its editors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, to expose the important news of each year that has routinely gone underreported or sometimes effectively censored.

But in 2017, Project Censored’s 41st (see “Underreported,” CN&R cover story, Oct. 19), Huff and Roth reached a milestone—the year in which an episode of The Simpsons played out in real life.

Foreshadowed in a TV cartoon, the black comedy of events that obscured and propelled Donald Trump’s rise to president of the United States is now chronicled in the Project Censored chapter devoted to Junk Food News—the so-called “fake news” that squeezed into the places that should have been filled with legitimate, essential information.

In 2016, Project Censored’s legions of student interns, writers and editors spent a considerable amount of ink on the emerging youth movement that produced formidable activists in their own right and undergirded the passion that spurred Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign during the presidential primaries and made the movement to abolish the use of superdelegates in the days after the election about more than just sour grapes.

The occasion of the 40th anniversary and its emphasis on youth seemed to infuse Huff and Roth with hopefulness in Project Censored and the good hands doing its work. But this past election cycle did something else.

Project Censored opened this year’s Junk Food News chapter, co-written

by Huff and Nolan Higdon, a professor of English, communications and history in the Bay Area, with a report titled Post-Truth Dystopia—Fake News, Alternative Facts and the Ongoing War on Reality. It begins with a quote from the late H.L. Mencken, a culture writer, thinker and satirist not known as a defender of democracy and democratic principles, but his writing offered insight into a particular failing of a civilization without a citizenry that is engaged, informed and armed with the ability to think critically: Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat

of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

Huff and Higdon continue by referencing Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business to frame the chapter on Junk Food News.

Postman says a particular medium can only sustain a certain level of ideas. Since the advent of television, Americans receive a great deal of their

information through television news, sitcoms and dramas. But this form can’t articulate complex ideas the way print typography can. Shortcomings of television dilute politics and religion.

And “news of the day” becomes a packaged commodity. Postman argues that television de-emphasizes the quality of information to satisfy the far-reaching needs of entertainment. The result is that quality information becomes secondary to entertainment value.

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Postman’s analysis originated from a talk he gave in 1985 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he participated on a panel focused on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and the contemporary world. During this talk, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell’s book, whose people are oppressed by state control.

The New York Times writer Michiko Kakutani said Morris Berman’s The Dark Ages of America: The Final Phase of Empire gives the left a bad name.

It is against this backdrop that Project

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Censored itemizes examples of Junk Food News distracting Americans, ranging from Trump’s refusal to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to the breathless reporting on Trump’s every tweet.

Huff and Higdon characterized this

coverage as a backlash in response to Trump not allowing corporate media to hobnob with the power elites. Project Censored described the White House correspondents’ dinner as a means to ingratiate themselves to power rather than speak truth to power. This unhealthy diet of junk news displaced news about the widespread famine in Yemen, a region raked by a two-year-old war led

by Saudi Arabia and backed by the U.S. that left more than 10,000 dead and 40,000 wounded in the region. A U.N. report estimated that more than 90 percent of Yemen’s citizens are experiencing famine and malnutrition.

Huff and Higdon described the Summer Olympic Games of 2016 as a media spectacle, particularly after the corporate media latched onto the story of the four U.S. Olympic swimmers who lied about being robbed at gunpoint after vandalizing a gas station bathroom and being stopped by an armed security guard.

Project Censored contrasted the slap on the wrist received by the swimmers, who happened to be white, with the treatment of gold medalist Gabby Douglas (who’s African-American) when she didn’t put her hand over her heart during the medal ceremony. This news displaced coverage of “flooding on a historic scale” in Louisiana.

Project Censored noted that, “while the dam-

age caused was less than that of Hurricane Katrina, 20,000 residents had to be rescued, 10,000 were placed in shelters, and several people lost their lives.”

Huff and Higdon also highlighted the Academy Awards unscandalous scandal in which La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture. It took only two minutes until the film Moonlight was announced as the real winner, but Huff and Higdon noted that this nonscandal scandal obscured major news in that nearly 550 community leaders, elected officials, business moguls, health officials and politicians called for doubling the strength of the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, a clean

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air and healthy climate program.

The authors noted that, “a gathering of this size to enact policies to prevent further climate change is certainly worthy of major attention. But instead, the American public was treated to endless punditry on who was responsible for the year’s Best Picture blunder.”

Huff and Higdon recounted how Huff and former Project Censored director Peter Phillips argued in 2010 that the U.S. was facing a Truth Emergency. They assert that “in the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has reached its end.

There is no longer a mere credibility gap, but rather a literal Truth Emergency. ... This is a culmination of the failures of the Fourth Estate to act as a truly free press.”

In 2017, the authors concluded that

little has changed. In the current edition of Project Censored, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on his own people is a primary example.

This attack was used to justify Trump’s order to fire of 59 Tomahawk missiles on a country torn by civil war.

Project Censored pushes back against the notion that critiquing the corporate press pushing the chemical weapon attack as tantamount to being pro-Assad. Indeed, Project Censored adds nuance that should be applied to the Trump administration and the role of JUNK NEWS C O N T I N U E D

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The author is managing editor of Random Lengths News. To learn more about Project Censored, or to order the book, go to projectcensored.org.

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the Russians in the 2016 presidential elections.

Huff and Higdon wrote: This is a complicated matter, to be sure, one that even sparks vivid disagreements among the anti-imperialist and the pacifist left in the U.S. To question official narratives should not mean people are automatically pro-Assad—or proPutin, for that matter. More importantly, what does it mean to be protruth in a post-truth world, when the truth can be elusive, especially in an environment addled by propaganda coming from many sides?

Huff and Higdon noted that the corporate press’ engagement in news abuse regarding Syria is an attempt to build public support for U.S. invasion, much like the second war in Iraq a decade earlier.

According to Project Censored, “This makes accurate reporting and publishing of diverse perspectives all the more crucial.”

They argue that the countermeasure to news abuse and propaganda is an informed citizenry with strong critical thinking skills.

Project Censored actually goes a little further than that by saying that the level of critical thinking required now goes beyond the critical thinking that simply evaluates information based on conformity with existing knowledge. Huff and Higdon argue that the critical thinking required now is one that can embrace perspectives at odds with “prevailing wisdom or personal views” based on evaluation of real facts.

The authors identified a few different and daunting examples of why this form of education is necessary. One of those examples was the aim of right-wing personality Glenn Beck and pseudo-historian David Barton to offer training camps to teach graduating high school students their revisionist history.

They used the words of Salon blogger Amanda Marcotte to describe their historical narrative, saying that it is “one that valorizes straight white men as humanity’s natural leaders and grants Christian fundamentalism a centrality to American history that it does not, in reality, have.” Marcotte also noted that, “in Barton’s history, the founding father idea of government was rooted in fundamentalist Christianity, instead of enlightenment philosophy, and the contributions of people of color are

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The countermeasure to news abuse and propaganda is an informed citizenry with strong critical thinking skills. minimized in service of centering Christian white men as the righteous shepherds guiding everyone else.”

Huff and Higdon also argue that

schools should teach media literacy as core curriculum to help fight against news abuse and fake news.

Project Censored noted that the U.S. education system has drifted to the same for-profit model of information dissemination as the mass media, yielding many of the same results.

They cited critical theory scholar Henry Giroux, who notes that the for-profit model of education emphasizes individual responsibility for problems created by systemic failures.

“The market-driven discourse in higher education, including the corporatization of education that privileges administrators over faculty (who became low-paid workers while students are seen as customers), has outlawed or marginalized those faculty who do talk about critiquing the system rather than teach students to accept it and work with it.”

Giroux concludes that a “democracy cannot exist without informed citizens and public spheres and educational apparatuses that uphold standards of truth, honesty, evidence, facts and justice.

Under Trump, disinformation masquerading as news ... has become a weapon for legitimating ignorance and civic illiteracy.”

To combat this, Giroux is quoted: Artists, educators, young people, journalists and others need to make the virtue of truth-telling visible again. We need to connect

democracy with a notion of truthtelling and consciousness that is on the side of economic and political justice, and democracy itself. If we are going to fight for and with the most marginalized people, there must be a broader understanding of their needs. We need to create narratives and platforms in which those who have been deemed disposable can identify themselves and the conditions through which power and oppression bear down on their lives.

Huff and Higdon recounted the brief history of the term “fake news,” since Trump was “electored” president. The authors noted that during one week in January 2017, the trend of people researching the term “fake news” on Google jumped 100 fold above pre-election levels. Trump and his supporters denounced any critiques of the new administration, such as CNN for questioning the validity of his statements, as fake news.

But Project Censored noted that Trump and his underlings were not alone in labeling inconvenient truths as fake news. The Democratic National Committee was also guilty, as it sought to explain how Clinton lost to a Cheeto. Project Censored noted that the partisan practice of labeling inconvenient truths as fake news undermined credible journalism while distracting the public from the barrage of actual fake news flooding our global society.

This was reminiscent of a Ron Suskind story in The New York Times magazine more than a decade ago in which the phrase “reality based community” was used by an aide in the George W. Bush administration. The term was a phrase used to denigrate a critic of the administration’s policies who are basing the judgments on facts.

In it, Suskind wrote: The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality based community, which he defined as people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.”[...] “that’s not the way the world really works anymore” he continued.

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will— we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.

Ben Carson, U.S. secretary of housing and urban development, has characterized slaves as immigrants who found success in America. photo by gage Skidmore

We’re history’s actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

The source was later revealed to be political operative and Bush administration adviser Karl Rove, but he has denied it.

Huff and Higdon noted that the Internet’s promise of delivering endless information to circumvent a post-truth world has not succeeded in producing a well-informed populace. Instead, the inflation of spurious information coupled with an education system that does not teach critical media literacy to students and does not show them how to navigate and participate in the digital world has resulted in a dystopia of falsehoods that are now referred to as “alternative facts.”

This post-truth environment, they argue, gave rise to a term defined as an outright lie that is introduced and then used as evidence to support a desired conclusion.

Among the examples Project Censored used: • Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claiming three times that a terror attack occurred in Atlanta, Ga. • U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson claiming that slaves were immigrants who worked hard and found success in America, without socioeconomic relevancy or historical context.

• The Trump administration claim that the resistance to their repeal and replace of the Affordable Care

Act were paid protesters.

Huff and Higdon argue that the ability to embrace dissonant facts is a skill set needed now more than ever, when inconvenient truths are labeled fake news. They argue that this state of affairs has resulted in a post-truth world.

After laying this groundwork, Project Censored shifts to the Democratic National Convention and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. From the start, Project Censored makes the argument that the Russian hacking narrative, propagated by the corporate media invested in Clinton’s bid for the White House, is an example of an alternative fact designed to deflect attention away from Clinton’s deficiencies as a candidate.

Huff and Higdon cited The Washington Post’s story on the website PropOrNot, an organization purported to have uncovered the media outlets that served as dupes of Russian hackers with a series of algorithms designed to analyze

Who will check the fact-checker and what criteria will be used?

the Web content of media outlets.

Under threat of lawsuits, the Post published a lengthy editor’s note saying, among other things, that the newspaper “does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so.”

Huff and Higdon’s choice to

frame this chapter with the words of H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman and Morris Berman signals a dark place we’re entering. Though they offer prescriptions to heal American democracy and strengthen its citizenry, there’s an underlying pessimism in this chapter. At the conclusion of the Junk Food News chapter, Huff and Higdon ask, “Who will check the fact-checker and what criteria will be used?”

Huff and Higdon note that factchecking would not be enough to counter fake news. But fake news is not the only threat. Blacklists like the one used by sites like PropOrNot that include legitimate journalistic outlets as fake news, or the passage of legislation that literally bans the media from lying.

Huff and Higdon noted that the corporate press has assisted in creating some of these new threats such as the weaponizing of fake news. The pair acknowledged the daunting task of making these times and the nation more hospitable to a more free and democratic place. They write: … [T]he failures of the corporate media and education system have already contributed to the current post-truth environment by creating nothing short of an epistemological crisis. This has proven to be detrimental to our democratic process and an affront to the First Amendment rights of the American people. Creating the better world we envision will not depend on rewriting recent history to suit our purposes or flatter our illusions, but rather will depend on creating an ever more democratic, diverse, and critical free press.

We have three years and three months to go with Trump at the helm, barring impeachment or another catastrophe befalling this country. Without some sort of progress on building critical media literacy and if there’s a hell below, like Curtis Mayfield said, “We all going to go.” Ω

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The Blue Room’s Reservoir Dolls cast—minus the guy missing an ear (from left): Hilary Tellesen, Samantha Shaner, Leesa Palmer, Amy Brown, Teresa Hurley-Miller, Erika Soerensen, Samantha Kleaver and Stephanie Ditty.

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Upon watching that opening diner scene during a recent rehearsal for Reservoir Dolls—a mostly female stage adaptation of the 1992 film that opens tonight (Nov. 2) at the Blue Room Theatre—it’s clear that there will be many new shades of humor and insight as these notorious wise guys are played by a gang of wise gals.

“The tone of the heavy language and violence when in the hands of women is definitely a new perspective on gender and acting,” said playwright/director/ actor Erika Soerensen, who added that the script offers a chance to show how “much more well-rounded as actors women are than we are given credit.”

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Soerensen’s gender-flipped reworking of the dialogue- and violence-driven cult classic had its debut at the Blue Room.

And since the 2009 premiere, the play has gone on to have successful runs at theaters in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Las Vegas, and in February 2018 it will be performed by the Outré Theatre Company in Miami Beach.

“It’s basically been spread through word-of-mouth networking between people seeing the show and telling friends in other theater groups about the show,” Soerensen said. “It’s become so popular that instead of giving permission to produce it for free, I’m even getting paid for performance rights.”

Behind a pair of expressive eyebrows and with a ready laugh, Soerensen exudes an amiable demeanor and a casual confidence as she talks about the play and her work in theater.

Chicoans first got to know the actress as a regular player at the Blue Room in the 1990s, before she moved away (and back a couple of times) to gain dramatic experience in bigger cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle, graduating from LA’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts and working as a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild along the way.

“Honestly, I’ve never known a time when I didn’t want to be doing theater or acting or performing. From the time I was 5 years old, I was directing little theater and dance pieces with the neighborhood kids.”

When she returned to Chico the first

time in 2004, Soerensen jumped back into the local scene, mostly at the Blue Room, acting as well as stage managing, directing and writing her Reservoir Dolls script. She was fascinated with Tarantino’s gift for telling the story with “absolutely brilliant dialogue and ensemble acting,” and also recognized how rare it was for women to play such roles, ones that offered such extreme emotional range, not to mention the thrill of dirty language and participatory violence (other than victimhood). She envisioned the different perspective it would create if all of that shooting, cussing, bleeding and dying was done by women.

The Blue Room premiere was wellreceived—by audiences and the cast— and Soerensen is excited to bring it back with three of the original cast members: Hilary Tellessen and Samantha Shaner reprising their roles as Ms. Orange and Ms. Pink, respectively, and Soerensen switching from Ms. White to Ms. Blonde this time around.

“Doing it eight years later is just as fun and exciting as the first year,” she said. “The cast is a little different, but the energy and passion is just as strong.

“Seeing these actresses up there owning these masculine-driven roles is exciting and interesting,” Soerensen added.

“This show is dedicated to the actresses.

Without their talents, passions and confidence in themselves and the project, it would never be as successful as it’s been.” Ω

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Music OROVILLE COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND: The band plays its annual concert to benefit the school’s music program. Thu, 11/2, 7pm. $10. Oroville Christian School, 3785 Olive Highway. www.occband.org

QUEBE SISTERS: Authentic swing and vintage country music with three fast-fiddling sisters out of Texas. Thu, 11/2, 7:30pm. $15 - $25. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Meyers St. www.orovillestatetheatre.com

Theater ANNIE JR.: Youth Theater players bring the Tony Awardwinning musical to life. Thu, 11/2, 7pm. $8-$10. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

ONE-ACT PLAYS: The PVHS Theater Department’s fall production showcases four student-directed, one-act plays. Thu, 11/2, 7pm. $6-$8. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave.

RVOIR DOLLS: A play based on the classic Tarantino film, Reservoir Dogs, with a gender-bending twist. Adapted and directed by Erika Soerensen. Thu, 11/2, 7:30pm. $14.

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MOMIX OPUS CACTUS: The American Southwest comes to life through dance and illusionary movement. Dancers transform into lizards, cacti, insects and snakes using their bodies, costumes, lighting and giant props. Sat 11/4, 7:30pm. $25-$42. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 530-898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

NOR CAL ROLLER GIRLS: The local girls skate their last match of the year versus Shasta Roller Derby. Sat 11/4, 7pm. $10-$12. Cal Skate, 2465 Carmichael Drive.

SOGGY DOG DAY: Chico Area Recreation District and TrailBlazer Pet Supply present a doggy health fair where local organizations offer info on how take care of your pet. Dogs can also enjoy a 30-minute session of water play. All proceeds go toward CARD’s fund for a new dog park. Sat 11/4, 11am. $10. Shapiro Pool, 280 Memorial Way. 530-895-4711. www. chicorec.com

VETERANS DAY 5K HOORAH RUN/WALK: Chico

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Special Events BREAK BREAD WITH A FARMER: A fundraising barbecue with a pie auction and live music

by Big Mo and the Full Moon Band. At each table, a farmer will discuss his or her crops, practices and culture. Proceeds benefit the museum. Fri, 11/3, 6pm. $35. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham. www.patrickranchmuseum.org

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS RECEPTION: The exhibition celebrating life and death kicks off with a chili cook-off. Fri, 11/3, 5pm. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

DINNER FOR DESMOND: A potluck dinner to remember Desmond Phillips, who was killed

by Chico police officers in March. Includes a discussion of crisis intervention and more information about Desmond. Fri, 11/3, 5pm. Free. Bethel AME Church, 821 Linden St.

ROCK THE HOUSE: A New Orleans-themed fundraiser for Chico Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) featuring dinner, live

State’s Facilities Management & Services kicks off a campus-wide, week-long celebration of veterans with a 5K run and walk. Sat 11/4, 8am. $20. Kendall Hall lawn, Chico State.

530-898-6222. www.csuchico.edu/fms Dixieland jazz by Bogg and casino games. Fri, 11/3, 6pm. $75. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.chiphousing.ticketleap.com

Music RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: KZFR 90.1 FM presents the outlaw country-rock legend touring to support his new album, Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can. Fri, 11/3, 6:30pm. $45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

Theater ANNIE JR.: See Thursday. Fri, 11/3, 7pm. $8-$10.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

ONE-ACT PLAYS: See Thursday. Fri, 11/3, 7pm. $6-$8. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave.

RESERVOIR DOLLS: See Thursday. Fri, 11/3, 7:30pm. $14. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

URINETOWN THE MUSICAL: What if you had to pay for the privilege to pee? Set in a fictional future and inspired by the past, this silly, thought-provoking musical is about a drought so severe that the government hires Urine Good Company to maintain pay-touse public toilets. Fri, 11/3, 7:30pm. $10-$17.

Black Box Theatre, Butte College, Oroville.

530-895-2432.

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Special Events ARC DINNER & SILENT AUCTION: A Mexican buffet with margaritas, live music and a silent auc-

tion to benefit The ARC of Butte County. Sat 11/4, 6pm. $50. ARC Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave. www.arcbutte.org

CHICO FORENSIC CONFERENCE: A one-day

dAncIng AT LugHnASA Wednesday, Nov. 8 Wismer Theater

See WedneSdAY, THEATER

conference on the latest in forensic science sponsored by the Department of Anthropology including speakers, informational tables, raffles and more. Open to the public. Sat 11/4, 9am. Free. Bell Memorial Union Auditorium, Chico State. 530-898-6192.

DUELING PIANOS DINNER: A fundraiser for Soroptimist International of Chico featuring Killer Keyz Dueling Pianos out of Utah.

Includes dinner, a no-host bar and a dessert

auction. Sat 11/4, 6pm. $75. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sichico.com

ENLOE WELLNESS EXPO: Enloe Medical Center’s biggest community event of the year features free flu shots, health screenings and information, cooking demonstrations, a drug take-back station and much more. Sat 11/4, 10am. Free. Corner of West Fifth and Magnolia avenues. www.enloe.org

FALL COMMUNITY YOUTH BENEFIT: An evening of art, wine, food and music to benefit the North State’s Junior Leadership Development Program. Includes a silent auction and raffle. Sat 11/4, 6pm. $30-$35. Unwined at 980, 980 Mangrove. 530-566-5003. www.jldpmentor.eventbrite.com

FARM CITY CELEBRATION HARVEST FESTIVAL: A day of family fun including arts and crafts, interactive animal exhibits, calf-roping, antique and modern farming equipment, butter churning, nutrition education, bee demos, horse-drawn carriage rides, food booths and more. Sat 11/4, 10am. Free. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade. 530-533-1473. www.farmcity.com

HARVEST OF QUILTS: Annie’s Star Quilt Guild presents more than 260 of its members’ original quilts representing multiple techniques, as well as a special exhibit of work created by featured quilters Janice Maxey and Janet Alexander. Also includes raffles and vendor booths. Sat 11/4, 10am. $7. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. 530-343-2553. www. anniestarquilt.org

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: A benefit for two nonprofits, Shalom Free Clinic and the Jesus Center, featuring gifts, food, fresh market produce, jewelry, rummage items and a fair trade booth. Includes a raffle. Sat 11/4, 9am. First Christian Church, 295 E. Washington Ave. 530-343-3727.

HOLIDAY FAIRE: A craft fair featuring homemade Christmas ornaments and decorative gift baskets. Sat 11/4, 10am. Free. St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, 5872 Oliver Road, Paradise.

530-877-7006.

FRee LISTIngS! post your event for free online at www. newsreview.com/calendar, or email the cn&R calendar editor at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com. deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

ragtime and the jug-band tradition. Scott H. Biram opens. Sun, 11/5, 8:30pm. $25. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. www.jmaxproductions. net

LYSANDER PIANO TRIO: A young, energetic trio delivers an intimate performance of classical music. Sun, 11/5, 2pm. $10-$36. Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State. 530-898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

Theater ANNIE JR.: See Thursday. Sun, 11/5, 1pm. $8-$10.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

URINETOWN THE MUSICAL: See Friday. Sun, 11/5, 2pm. $10-$17. Black Box Theatre, Butte College, Oroville. 530-895-2432.

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Music SAM BUSH BAND: Three-time Grammy-winner

Music CHORAL ENSEMBLES PILGRIMAGE: The Chico State Chamber Singers, University Chorus and Acappella Choir come together for a fall choral concert. Sat, 11/4, 7:30pm. $6-$15.

Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State. 530898-5739. www.csuchico.edu/boxoffice

Theater ANNIE JR.: See Thursday. Sat, 11/4, 1pm, 7pm. $8-$10. Chico Theater Company, 166

Sam Bush of Kentucky is an expert mandolin player, songwriter and singer who has been going since the early 1970s, when he co-founded the pioneering progressive bluegrass band, New Grass Revival. Mon, 11/6, 7:30pm. $34.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

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Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

RESERVOIR DOLLS: See Thursday. Adapted and directed by Erika Sorensen. Sat, 11/4, 7:30pm. $14. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First

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URINETOWN THE MUSICAL: See Friday. Sat, 11/4, 7:30pm. $10-$17. Black Box Theatre, Butte College, Oroville. 530-895-2432.

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Special Events HARVEST OF QUILTS: See Saturday. Sun, 11/5, 10am. $7. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. 530-343-2553. www.anniestarquilt.org

IN FOCUS - FILMS OF HUMAN DIVERSITY: Chico State”s Valene L Smith Anthropology Museum presents a one-day film festival highlighting three films created by students, staff and faculty—Putting on Face, A Bright Idea and Mr. Tanimoto’s Journey. Sun, 11/5, 3:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. 530-898-5397. www.csuchico.edu/ anthmuseum

Music CHICO’S GOT TALENT: A benefit for Chico Housing Action Team with music by Channel 66, Sunday Iris, Alli Battaglia & the Musical Brewing Co. and Hugh Hammond. Includes root beer floats, a bike raffle and silent auction. Sun, 11/5, 7pm. $10-$20. Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave. 530-518-9992.

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE: JMAX Productions presents the drummerless acoustic trio that has deep roots in blues and country music, but also incorporates elements of punk rock,

bARnYARd RocK The Devil Makes Three proves you don’t need a drummer to get crowds moving. The barn-burning trio originally from Santa Cruz relies on upright bassist Lucia Turino and Cooper McBean’s percussive rhythm guitar and tenor banjo to hold down the rhythm section, and the band swings from tub-thumping tunes in the jug-band tradition to punk-tinged Southern blues. They’re bringing their propulsive take on old-time music to the Senator Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 5. Bring your stompin’ boots. novembeR 2, 2017

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‘It’s a privilege to pee’ Butte College students present a lively musical about the high cost of pissing Urineto The Musical Awhatabout, well, pissing. To be more specific, it’s about happens when something as simple as taking a leak s its title suggests,

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(Bronwyn Allen), who tells the Poor, who are clutching their crotches, “If you gotta go, you gotta go through me.”

A rebellion breaks out when Old Man Strong (Nick Reiner) is caught peeing against a wall and sent to Urinetown. The uprising is led by his son, Bobby (the excellent Marcus Rutledge), who works for Miss Pennywise as the amenity’s custodian but is sympathetic toward the suffering Poor.

Complicating matters, Bobby falls in love with Cladwell’s ingenue daughter, Hope (the bubbly Sarah Merrill), whom the rebels kidnap for use as a hostage in an effort to force her father to roll back recently enacted toilet fee hikes.

All of these developments are interspersed among— and illustrated by—the 16 or so songs and their accompanying dance numbers. The production is blessed with several strong singers, including the child-like street urchin Little Sally (Kaleigh Joyce), as well as the players already mentioned.

Tamara Allspaugh ably serves as musical director as well as conductor of the five-piece orchestra, and Melinda Buzan handles the choreography. Credit for the very effective set design, with its revolving center section that allows instant switches from the toilet scenes to the UGC’s corporate headquarters, goes to the estimable Robert Pickering.

Lynne Schuepbach designed the costumes, including the dazzling Day-Glo suits worn by the corporate honchos, and Butte’s theater instructor, Jesse Merz, directed the production—most impressively. Ω

becomes an expensive commodity. Need to use the toilet?

Pay up, pal. It’s a privilege to pee.

Granted, that’s not an attractive by premise.

Who wants to watch a Robert Speer play about the politics and economr ober tspeer@ ics of going tinkle? What makes newsrev iew.c om Urinetown extraordinary is that it takes such an unlikely concept and makes it into a large-scale, politicalPreview: ly charged and entertaining musical Urinetown: The Musical shows Friday-Saturday, satire filled with dancing and song 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, in the tradition of The Threepenny 2 p.m., through Nov. 5.

Opera.

Tickets (at door and In 2002, Urinetown won three www.eventbrite.com): $17/general; $10 Tony awards. A cult favorite, it students and seniors opened off Broadway in 2001 but the following year moved to Black Box Theatre Broadway, where it had a very sucARTS building Butte College main cessful three-year run. campus This is not an easy play to stage.

895-2994 It has more than 20 parts, numerous www.butte.edu/drama song-and-dance numbers that call for a live band as accompaniment, complex costumes, frequent set changes and several major roles that require actors who can at once sing, dance and create compelling characters.

Kudos to the Butte College Drama Department for not only having the gumption to take on such a challenging work, but also for doing a first-class job of it.

Sarah Merrill as Hope, and Marcus The play is set sometime in the Rutledge as Bobby in Butte College’s future, following an eco-catastrophe production of Urinetown. that has led to a 20-year drought. Water PHOTO BY TRAVON HENRY has become precious and is controlled by the Urine Good Company, headed

by Caldwell B. Cladwell (the amazing Bryce Corron, a man of many faces).

The wealthy can afford to pay to use the “public amenities,” of which only one remains, but not the poor. Those who disobey the water laws are sent to Urinetown, a mysterious place from which no one returns.

The story is narrated by Officer Lockstock (the imposing David Loperena), who along with his partner, Officer Barrell (Garrett Vincent), is responsible for enforcing the water laws.

He warns us early on: “This is not a happy musical,” he says. Shades of Les Misérables.

As the play opens, a line of desperate poor people—known collectively as the Poor—has formed at “Public Amenity #9,” the only public toilet still operating.

Access to it is controlled by the hardas-nails custodian Penelope Pennywise

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Special Events HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE: Faculty from across the college discuss the origins, impact, and legacy of the Protestant Reformations and Martin Luther’s Nine-Five Theses. Tue, 11/7, 7:30pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State. 530-898-5152. www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com

Music EMILY SALIERS: KZFR 90.1 FM presents Saliers, known best as one half of The Indigo Girls, touring to support her first solo album, Murmuration Nation. Tue, 11/7, 7:30pm. $45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

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Music NORTH STATE SYMPHONY HAPPY HOUR: Mingle with director Scott Seaton and guest violinist Chloe Trevor. Includes a no-host bar, live music and a special preview of upcoming concert, Infectious Rhythms. Wed, 11/8, 6:30pm. $15. Tres Hombres - Blue Agave Room, 100 Broadway St. www.northstate symphony.org

Theater DANCING AT LUGHNASA: Ancient and modern customs clash in this fall theater production of the Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s masterpiece. Wed, 11/8, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Wismer Theatre, Chico State. 530-898-5739. www. schoolofthearts-csuchico.com

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Shows through Dec. 31 Museum of Northern California Art SEE ART

ART B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibition, ceramics by Ze Treasure Troll. Through 11/3. BFA Culminating Exhibition, ceramics

by Gianna Benetti. Through 11/9. Ayres Hall, Chico State.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Form & Feeling, featuring works by local artist and past Butte college student Tatiana Allen and San Jose ceramic artist Avery Palmer.

Through 11/12. 3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville.

CHICO ART CENTER: Dios de los Muertos, art celebrating life and recognizing the value of the people, places, animals and happenings that positively shape our lives. Through 11/24. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY - ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Works by Jenny C. Marr, watercolor paintings, soapstone sculptures and pine needle baskets by the Northern California artist. The Healing Art Gallery of features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Through 1/19. 265 Cohasset Road, 530-332-3856.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Vanished, a chronicle of loss and discovery across half a million years. Through

12/15. Chico State. www.universityart gallery.wordpress.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: Watercolors, by Frances Miller. Through 12/29. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: The Meaning of Life - Visual Analogy, an exhibition adding visual layers to the biggest question—how we assign meaning to human existence. Through 12/9. Chico State, 530-898-4476. www.theturner.org

MERIAM LIBRARY: We’ve Been Here, We’ll Always Be Here, traditional and contemporary Native American art. Through 12/15. Chico State.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Notes From a Spanish Dutchman, a retrospective exhibition of art work created by James Kuiper, artist and long-time faculty emeritus with the Chico State Art Department. Through 12/31. Plus, memorial/reception celebrating the late artist’s life on 11/4, 4-7pm. 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

PARADISE ART CENTER: Teachers & Facilitators Show, paintings and drawings by the gallery’s instructors. Through 12/16. 5564 Almond St. www.paradise-art-center.com

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Here’s to the toast, kid Let’s all drink to one another this holiday season be glasses raised above Thanksgiving tables and W champagne flutes in the air for the New Year. Yet,

ith the upcoming holiday season, there will surely

even with traditional special occasions, not to mention among the barflies and hipsters of our lounges and speakeasies, the by Matthew toast has been reduced to mere reflex.

Craggs Reverently delivered poetry, clever pun-making and grand statements on the human condition have been replaced with a thoughtless “Cheers!”or a quick, “Raise a glass” and a “Hear, hear!”

Some suggest that the clinking of glasses during a toast was invented in order to include sound in the drinking experience, thus satisfying all five senses.

Others—mainly Klingons—believe the sloshing of liquids between clinked glasses will spread any poison from unknown assassins. Whatever the origin, toasts have probably been around as long as alcohol and are human ritual at its best. Exemplifying and often speaking directly to the human condition, a toast makes a meal out of food. It’s what separates us from the animals.

Scandinavian warriors of old drank from the emptied skull of a fallen enemy (hence the toast “skal”—pronounced “scoal”), while ancient Greeks, those wonderful lushes, drank to the gods and anything else in their field of vision.

As Rome was collapsing, the English championed the idea of drinking to one’s health with a cry of the phrase “wæs hæl,” roughly “be well.” Over nearly 1,000 years of use, this phrase evolved into “wassail” around some heavy cider drinking and visiting of one’s neighbors, and eventually became associated with Christmas, morphing into the holiday caroling we do today.

When American colonists got hold of toasting, they took up where the Greeks left off, using any excuse—especially a jab at the crown—to raise a glass.

At one time, toasts became associated with drunkenness and incivility so much that English toastmaster J. Roach felt the need to clean up its image with what some say is the original book on the subject, The Royal Toastmaster, published in 1791. In the book, he describes the role of the toast “as a stimulative to hilarity, and an incentive to innocent mirth, to loyal truth, to pure morality and to mutual affection.”

Roach’s lofty, though inspiring, description—along with published examples of great toasts—helped revive the toast’s popularity before Americans lost interest amid the Great Depression and Prohibition. Casablanca’s (1942) “Here’s looking at you, kid,” is arguably the art’s high-water mark before the toast fell out of favor in America, languishing for the past 80 years.

Being such a great tool for communal engagement, as well as such an integral part of the history of a drinking culture that is on the rise again, the time would seem ripe for thoughtful, artful public toasts to make a comeback. Roach believed a good toast could “revive languid conversation … cool the heat of resentment, and blunt the edge of animosity.” Doesn’t that, along with a stiff drink, sound like what the world needs right now?

So when the toast comes around this holiday season, let’s invite it to stay for another drink. Let us make amends for the sloppy best man and penetrate the shallow surface of barroom Instagram selfies, and speak poetically and with sincerity to thirsty brethren, united under raised glasses as citizens of the world.

Let’s drink to family and friends, gathered around a table. To fallen warriors. To landing a dream job. To getting over that cheating asshole—drink up! To feeling nothing and to feeling everything. To leaving town—and never coming back. Let’s drink to the lost weekend you’ll never remember with the friends you’ll never forget.

My friends are the best friends, loyal, willing and able. Now let’s get to drinking! All glasses off the table!

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NASTY BASS: Nasty Rumor presents filthy, grimey bass music hosted by Dub Heezy. Thu, 11/2, 9pm. $5. The Patio, 177 E. Second St.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & CHRIS WENGER: An eclectic mix of tunes

for dining pleasure. Thu, 11/2, 6pm.

Grana, 198 E. Second St.

PUB RUN: A run ending at a downtown watering hole. This month’s event includes a demo by New Balance. Thu, 11/2, 6pm. Fleet Feet Sports, 241 Main St., 530-345-1000.

KUNG FU: An ultra-danceable electrofunk fusion band. For the Love of Frank, a local Zappa tribute band, opens. Thu, 11/2, 8pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.lostonmainchico.com

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party

Friday, Nov. 3 Chico Women’s Club See FrIDAY

with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 11/3, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. PHoTo bY mArY KeATIng-brUTon

THUrSDAY 11/2—WeDneSDAY 11/8 BEATLES VS. STONES - A MUSICAL SHOWDOWN: Tribute acts for two of the all-time greatest rock ’n’ roll bands face off. Featuring bands Abbey Road and Satisfaction. Fri, 11/3, 8pm. $15-$20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., 562-480-7951. www.loston mainchico.com

COMEDY NIGHT: Featuring standup comedians Becky Lynn, T.J. Hudson and Emma Hanley. Fri, 11/3, 11pm. Free. Fusion Hookah Lounge, 245 Walnut St.

REGGAE HOP: Chico Reggae and Nasty Rumor presents an evening of reggae and hip-hop with dancehall band Soulmedic and Galactik Vibes, a conscious hip-hop group out of Portland. Local support from Triple Tree and The Conquering Lion Band, Big Slim and Rosebud. Fri, 11/3, 9pm. $5-$10. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

11/3, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park

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REUNION: Covers of 1970s radio

THE LOKI MILLER BAND: Killer guitarist

TWO STEPS DOWN: Danceable country

OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by Tito

WORLD DANCE PARTY: Line, circle

leads his three-piece band. Fri, 11/3, 8pm. Unwined at 980, 980 Mangrove Ave. (aka Thunder Lump). All forms of performance art welcome!! Fri, 11/3, 7pm. $1. DownLo, 319 Main St.

RADIO RELAPSE: Covers of alt-rock and pop-punk hits from the 1990s. Fri, 11/3, 8:30pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: KZFR 90.1 FM presents the outlaw country-rock legend touring to support his new album, Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can. Fri, 11/3, 6:30pm. $45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

England, is unapologetically old-school, with an impresLovers of jazz fusion are sively expansive catalog in for a treat on Monday, Nov. 6, as The New Master- of songs rooted in classic soul, jazz, boogaloo sounds roll through Lost on and funk spanning Main with a bag full of filthy more than 10 studio licks. The long-running albums. Expect to four-piece from Leeds, shimmy.

RETROTONES: Live classic rock. Fri,

HINDSIGHT: R&B, hip-hop and jazz in the lounge. Fri, 11/3, 8:30pm.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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hits. Fri, 11/3, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. in the lounge. Fri, 11/3, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

and couple dancing from around the world, featuring live music by Troika. Fri, 11/3, 7:30pm. $7-$10.

Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave., 530-774-2287.

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Halloween costume party featuring electronic music producer and DJ Audien. Also featuring John Beaver, Rossy and Ossian Sat, 11/4,

8pm. $18-$30. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.

HARVEST BALL: An annual concert celebrating the end of harvest season with local dance-friendly music.

This year’s lineup includes Electric Circus, Low Flying Birds, Black Fong,

319 Main St. • Downtown Chico NOV2 Kung Fu with For The Love Of Frank NOV3 Beatles vs. Stones A Musical Showdown NOV4 9th Annual Harvest Ball NOV6 The New Mastersounds NOV10 Indubious, Zahira, and Rocker T NOV11 Roosevelt Collier’s CA Get Down Live w/ Bamboozle DEC31 Lost on Main’s NYE 18: Vokab Kompany, Ideateam, Smokey The Groove JAN16 Reverend Horton Heat, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Big Sandy & His Fly-R.

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HINDSIGHT: R&B, hip-hop and jazz in the lounge. Sat, 11/4, 8:30pm.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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Sunday, Nov. 5 Maltese Bar & Tap Room See SUnDAY

Productions presents the drummerless acoustic trio that has deep roots in blues and country music, but also incorporates elements of punk rock, ragtime and the jug-band tradition. Scott H. Biram opens. Sun, 11/5, 8:30pm. $25.

Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.. www. jmaxproductions.net

KATTATTAK: The two-piece deathmetal band plays its farewell show.

Shadow of Crows and Biggs Roller support. Sun, 11/5, 7pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

THE HOUSE CATS: Swing, jazz, blues,

rockabilly, country and pop. Sat, 11/4, 8pm. Unwined at 980, 980 Mangrove Ave.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & CHRIS WENGER: An eclectic mix of tunes for dining pleasure. Sat, 11/4, 6:30pm.

Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

THE KITES: Originals and 1960s and ’70s pop rock. Sat, 11/4, 6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

MASQUERADE BALL BURLESQUE: House dance troupe The Malteazers are throwing a masquerade ball to celebrate five years of performing. Masks provided to first 50 guests. Sat, 11/4, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

MIXTAPE: Covers of modern and classic hits. Sat, 11/4, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

TIM MCKEE & LARRY PETERSON: Live

music. Sun, 11/5, 2pm. Studio Inn, 2582 Esplande.

OPEN MIC: For musicians of all

ages. Sat, 11/4, 7pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

UNAUTHORIZED ROLLING STONES: A tribute band that looks, sounds and struts like the original. Sat, 11/4, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

WHAT IS HIP? BENEFIT: A hipreplacement surgery benefit for local graphic designer/video producer Barry Cunningham, featuring performances by Big Mo, Lazy Lester, Alan Rigg and more. Sat, 11/4, 2pm. $10 (suggested donation).

White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

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THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: A four-piece jazz fusion and funk band from Leeds, England with an impressively expansive back catalog. Mon, 11/6, 7:30pm. $18-$23. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.lostonmainchico.com

OLD TIME FIDDLERS: A good, old-

fashioned jam. Mon, 11/6, 7pm. $3.

Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

SAM BUSH BAND: The three-time Grammy Award-winner from Kentucky is an expert mandolin

player, songwriter and singer who has been going since the early 1970s, when he co-founded the pioneering progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival. Mon, 11/6, 7:30pm. $34.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierra nevada.com

TRIVIA NIGHT: Get quizzed on useless knowledge. Mon, 11/6, 9pm. Free.

Down Lo, 319 Main St.

5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

THE POSEYS: Swing, jazz, blues and vin-

tage Western. Wed, 11/8, 6:30pm. Free.

Red Tavern, 1250 Esplanade.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival teams with your squad of up to six

fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 11/8, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.., 530-893-1500.

KILLER WHALE & THE VESUVIANS: S.F. psych rockers Killer Whale join local space-rockers, The Vesuvians.

Also, electro-pop wunderkind Kirt Lind. Wed, 11/8, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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EMILY SALIERS: KZFR 90.1 FM presents the singer-songwriter known best as one half of The Indigo Girls, touring to support her first solo album, Murmuration Nation. Tue, 11/7, 7:30pm. $45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

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NORTH STATE SYMPHONY HAPPY HOUR: Mingle with director Scott Seaton and guest violinist Chloe Trevor.

Includes a no-host bar, live music and a special preview of upcoming concert, Infectious Rhythms. Wed, 11/8, 6:30pm. $15. Tres Hombres Blue Agave Room, 100 Broadway St. www.northstatesymphony.org

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songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 11/8, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall,

As far as mandolin stars go, Sam Bush is about as big as they get. The three-time Grammy Award-winner from Kentucky has been going since co-founding the pioneering progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, which released more than 20 albums between 1971 and 1989. Nicknamed the “King of Newgrass,” Bush is known for his rustic, timeless voice, and the dude can seriously play his instrument.

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REEL WORLD FILM SHORTS Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week A Bad Moms Christmas

For this sequel, the three bad moms—Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn—have their holidays disrupted when their own bad moms—Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Susan Sarandon—invade for Christmas. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Last Crop

Chico Natural Foods Co-Op hosts a matinee presentation of this documentary about the efforts of a small family farm to succeed in California’s Central Valley. Shows Saturday, Nov. 4, 11 a.m. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

Let There Be Light

A Christian faith-based film about a notorious atheist who, after a drunken-driving accident, has a worldview-challenging moment. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

A historical biography about FBI agent Mark Felt (played here by Liam Neeson), aka Deep Throat, the Watergate informant who helped bring down Richard Nixon. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

The dullest blade

Thor: Ragnarok

Saw franchise reboots with a flop

Idance myself a little celebration. Well, I did a little happy in my head when I walked out of a movie theater. t was seven years ago, around Halloween, when I had

You see, I had just seen Saw 3-D, aka Saw: The Final Chapter, the seventh film in by the Saw franchise and, as advertised, Bob Grimm the supposed last.

Deep down in my cinema-going bg rimm@ heart, I didn’t really believe it would newsrev iew.c om be the last one. I had been tricked before. (Screw you, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street!)

But, you know, it did say The Final Chapter in the title, and this was Jigsaw back in the pre-Trump days, when I Starring Tobin bell. was a little more optimistic and had a Directed by michael and Peter Spierig. bit more spring in my step.

No more was I to endure Tobin Cinemark 14, Feather river Cinemas. Bell as Jigsaw, droning on about rated r. “playing a game” while murdering people with elaborate schemes that would cost something like $7 billion per death (a lot of industrial labor, major logistics and perhaps even a live production crew would be required to pull off Jigsaw’s Rube Goldbergian stunts). After two or three years went by, I thought, Hey, maybe greed won’t win the day and Jigsaw’s cinematic legacy actually come to an end.

Nah. The bastard lives on. Jigsaw resurrects the series, pulling Tobin Bell out of the mothballs and finding a way for his permanently scowling, droning

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party pooper to commence elaborate killings again.

Things start in that oh-so-familiar Saw way, with a bunch of people trapped in a room and chained to contraptions that threaten to disembowel them. They are all bad people who must confess their crimes or face the wrath of Jigsaw and a rather stellar makeup department. This movie is idiotic, but the gore masters do some pretty decent, yucky stuff. There’s a halfsawed-off-head moment that is quite good. I hope the PA or intern who did the work on that one got an extra Snickers for the effort.

Yeah, Jigsaw died in one of the past movies. I don’t remember which, and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back and watch them again to figure it out. I just know he died somewhere in the prior six films, and lived on in flashbacks. The writers have come up with yet another way to return the crotchety psycho codger to the big screen because somebody at LionsGate needs one of those saltwater swimming pools and a new bike.

I’d give you a plot synopsis but, hey, what’s the point, right? It’d just be me running off a bunch of characters played by actors and actresses you don’t really know dying at the hands of convoluted killing contraptions—like the nonsensical spinning blade thingamabob rigged to a motorcycle engine that makes little to no sense, or the wire rigging sniggledee-doo that chops a dude’s leg off, etc., ad nauseam.

Seven movies in, and I’ve yet to meet a Saw movie that I like. Jigsaw is more of the same, more of the lame. Ω

The god of thunder (Chris Hemsworth) is back, this time doing battle with the likes of the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and even his own sister Hela, the goddess of death (Cate Blanchett). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Blade Runner 2049

Tyler Perry’s sassy Mabel “Madea” Simmons and company find themselves at a haunted campground. Shenanigans ensue.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Foreigner

Bond/Zorro director Martin Campbell is at the helm of this actioner about a London-

Geostorm

When a satellite system designed to protect Earth from extreme weather goes haywire, the exiled expert who built the system tries to fix it, only to discover that there might be powerful people behind the scenes purposely causing the disruptions. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Happy Death Day

A college girl learns a few lessons about life—and not being a total ass—by reliving the day she is murdered over and over again in a mediocre movie that gets by on the power of the performance of a relatively unknown actress, Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman. It’s established fairly quickly that Tree is a campus jerk and has more than a few enemies. All of those enemies, and even some friends, become murder suspects when Tree is stabbed to death by a masked baddie on her way to a party that evening. After her life force is snuffed out, she immediately wakes up in the same young man’s bed again. She goes about the same day thinking it’s just déjà vu, but when she is murdered again and wakes up in the same bed on the same day, she figures things out. She’s living a murder mystery, Groundhog Day-style. Even though her character is a pompous twit at the start of the movie, Rothe manages to make her a funny, semi-likeable pompous twit so that audiences can invest in her.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —B.G.

Only the Brave

Now, 35 years after the original, we actually get a Blade Runner sequel, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve, the visionary behind Enemy and Arrival (Ridley Scott remains involved as a producer).

Ryan Gosling steps into the starring role of K, a new blade runner tasked with “retiring” older model replicants, aka synthetic humans. Villeneuve, along with writers Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, have concocted a whole new world, a realistic evolution of the one presented in Scott’s original. Gosling is in top form, navigating a future society in which one’s sense of identity can be a very confounding thing.

The film has a few flaws. Jared Leto, while not awful, pours it on a little too thick as Niander Wallace, creator of replicants. And while the film’s finale is fine, it doesn’t live up to the excellence that preceded it. These are minor quibbles, because the wonders that Blade Runner 2049 deliver far outrun the missteps. Cinemark 14. Rated R —B.G.

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

based businessman (Jackie Chan) who tries to track down the people behind a terrorist incident that killed his daughter. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

A star-studded biographical action film about a real-life firefighting crew, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and its efforts battling the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona.

Starring Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13.

Suburbicon

George Clooney directs this dark comedy co-written by the Coen brothers (among others) about a man (Matt Damon) who invites all kinds of mayhem upon his suburban community when he gets involved with fighting the mob. Also starring Julianne Moore. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R.

Thank You for Your Service

A biographical war drama based on David Finkel’s 2013 book about U.S. soldiers suffering from PTSD after returning from Iraq. Starring Miles Teller and Haley Bennett. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated R.

Victoria and Abdul

Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity) directs this film based on the true story of the unlikely and transformative friendship between Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and an Indian servant (played by Ali Fazal).

Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Light Information Chad VanGaalen Sub Pop Chad VanGaalen won me over almost a decade back with the song “Phantom Anthills,” a blend of a simple folky guitar hook and synths pumping in polyrhythmic harmony. There was also a level of crudeness, partially from VanGaalen’s vocal delivery, that moved somewhere between howling and talking. Now with his sixth solo release, VanGaalen has lost none of that charm. Light Information continues to venture through the woods of mellow guitar-driven rock, where psychedelic light breaks through the trees. Standouts include “Old Heads,” with its poppy snare and tambourine and bright, summery feeling, and “Faces Lit,” with its well-worn rock groove doused with the occasional drop of delay that ripples through the choruses. VanGaalen’s raw, echoing voice sometimes evokes classic Daniel Johnston. There’s an underlying melancholy to these songs, a quality that’s perhaps left over from early-2000s indie rock. That’s not to say VanGaalen’s just a throwback. He’s just doing it right.

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Open Book Fred Hersch Palmetto records Forty years ago, 21-year-old pianist Fred Hersch moved from Ohio to New York City and began working with men like Joe Henderson and Art Farmer before striking out on his own. Since then, he’s made more than 80 records, many in trio settings with various sidemen. On Open Book, we have him all by himself and the results are phenomenal. Not since Thelonious Monk has a pianist so consistently captured my interest and admiration. Monk’s music also appeals to Hersch, who for some time has included a Monk tune on his CDs. Here he gives “Eronel” a playful interpretation that I’m sure the composer would also find enchanting. Hersch does a magnificent job of deconstructing then reconstructing Benny Golson’s “Whisper Not,” and on Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Zingaro” he just keeps stretching the delicate structure of this incredibly lovely tune. The CD’s highlight is Hersch’s own “Through the Forest,” a nearly 20-minute “example of improvising with no safety net … I just went wherever it took me,” he says. And thanks to a Hamburg Steinway, the sound is gorgeous!

DevotioNs: autumNal Dump arts dEVo loves the smell of fall. Not the palate-wrecking pumpkin spice bombs or unholy cinnamon-marinated pine cone odors that pollute the season; I’m talking about the smell of rot.

And with millions of leaves cutting free in earnest with the lower temps and rains in the weekend forecast, things are about to get nice and sweet and musty and rotten around here. And as the leaves have begun to pile up, so too have the scribbled notes, unanswered emails and bits of local gossip. Just a few: • open mic is back? The Thursday night open Mic—the popular weekly event that was forced to shut down when Smell the pile. its home of 17 years, downtown’s Has Beans Coffee & Tea, closed its doors this summer—might be coming back to life. The open mic’s organizer, andan Casamajor, has found a new spot, naked Lounge, and beginning Nov. 30, will do a test run at the downtown hangout on Thursday nights through the end of the year. If you want the new venue to stick, get out and show your support!

• Hot shows alert! JMax Productions is going off in the new year!

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James Alan Kuiper

Two new shows coming to the senator Theatre that you must put on your calendar: Jan. 22: Portland indie-pop rad kids sTRFKR (say the name loud!); Feb. 17: the singular loop-happy sounds of Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yards. It’s gonna be a good year. I can feel it!

and Chico State art instructor who died on Feb. 27. The opening reception is tonight, 6-8 p.m., and there will also be a memorial for Kuiper at Monca this Saturday (Nov. 4), 5-7 p.m.

deep-fried-turkey seminars to demo the steps for safely cooking your own crispy bird. Stop by at noon on Nov. 11 or 19 and get the skills necessary to win the holidays this year.

Ritual Talk Self-released Just when you think you’ve had your fill of smooth pop, one more project sneaks up and charms you. Ritual Talk’s Rippled Glass is just an EP, so it won’t take too much time. The Brooklyn five-piece has made a modest debut, composed of smooth harmonies with mix-and-match vocals by all five members. There’s something very similar to early Dirty Projectors with these vocal tones, but where Dirty Projectors took more challenging sonic shifts, Ritual Talk occupies more of a 1980s easylistening space, with a few psychedelic moments. On “Rippled Glass,” the tension builds subtly, strings whipping into a frenzy that never quite explodes, instead just cutting out to make room for a tasteful guitar outro. All around, the tones have a caramel sweetness, and even on the loud closer “Dancing Still,” the sounds don’t venture too far. The vocal interplay is really what makes the album stand apart.

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• stephanie sings: Normally, I would never advocate for Christmas music so far ahead of the actual holiday, but if there’s a local musician who has recorded an entire album filled with songs for the holiday, I’ll make an exception. Chico singer/songwriter stephanie Madsen just dropped Christmas, a new album filled with her renditions of classics—from “The First Noel” to “Silent Night”—as well a catchy original called “Christmas Eve.” Buy local this holiday at www.stephaniemadsenmusic.com.

• Feeling Krampy: If I’m going to let the light of Christmas shine through so early, you know I’m going to give equal time to Santa’s dark and crusty fellow traveler, Krampus.

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ric Carlson is on a mission to show the commercial potential of marijuana’s misunderstood sibling: hemp.

“Hemp will be the world’s next trilliondollar crop,” says Carlson, who is chairman of the California State Department of Agriculture’s Hemp Advisory Board.

Marijuana, cannabis and hemp are the same thing, except that mature female hemp plants contain less than 0.3 percent THC. They look and smoke like regular marijuana, but won’t get you high.

The first use of hemp reaches back to 8000 B.C., before the invention of the wheel.

Known for its versatility, hemp has been used over the centuries for paper, clothing, rope and food. In 1914, the U.S. $10 bill was printed on hemp and showed a hemp harvest on the back side. During World War II, “families in the Midwest were paid by the government to grow hemp for the war effort,” says Carlson.

But contemporary marijuana growers stay away from hemp production, partly from a fear that renegade hemp pollens will contaminate their outdoor marijuana crops.

The profits are also greater and more immediate with marijuana than hemp.

“Here’s a crop that’s not psychoactive, but has healing effects, omega 9s — it’s a super food,” Carlson says. He reports that hemp is now used in biodegradable plastics, biofuels,

“hempcrete” building blocks, fiber board and blow-in attic insulation.

As a food crop, Carlson says a typical acre of hemp can bring in $1,500, versus $300 for corn. CBDs can also be produced from hemp, which helps make it a billion-dollar industry already. Last year, an obscure provision in Prop. 64 allowed for development of a commercial hemp industry in California.

“Here’s a crop that’s not psychoactive, but has healing effects, omega 9s — it’s a super food.”

Eric Carlson, Chairman, CSDA’s Hemp Advisory Board

To get people interested, Carlson is hosting a “Hemp and Grow Rich” symposium on Nov. 16 at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks. His own experiences include growing marijuana, but this symposium concentrates exclusively on the burgeoning hemp industry and ways to profit.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF November 2, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s

Civil War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension. In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it may be more metaphorical. Blessings from bygone times, perhaps even from the distant past, will be available to you. But you’ll have to be alert and know where to look. So now might be a good time to learn more about your ancestors, ruminate exuberantly about your own history study the lives of your dead heroes, and maybe even tune in to your previous incarnations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I wasn’t

in the market to buy a Day-Glo plastic fish from a street vendor,” testified a witty guy named Jef on Facebook, “but that’s exactly what I did. The seller said he found it in someone’s trash. He wanted fifty cents for it, but I talked him up to a dollar.

The best part is the expression on the fish’s face. It’s from Edvard Munch’s The Scream.” I bring this testimony to your attention, Taurus, because I feel it’s good role-modeling for you. In the coming days, I bet you won’t know exactly what you’re looking for until you find it. This prize may not be highly valued by anyone else but you. And it will amuse you and be of use to you in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where are

Chinese gooseberries grown? In New Zealand. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur. When England and France waged their Hundred Years’ War, how long did it last? 116 years. When do Russians celebrate their October Revolution? In November. Trick answers like these are likely to be a recurring theme for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. That’s why I advise you to NOT be a master of the obvious.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In ac-

cordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1. Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love. 2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful. 3. Explain your deeply felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or cafe.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a

photo of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? - Renegade Leo Scholar.” Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation.

I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clar-

issa Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals, angry, wounded victims, leaky vessels aching to be filled or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation.

You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, self-sufficiency and sovereignty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to

scoff at people who play the lottery.

The chance of winning big is almost nil.

Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money?

But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational

by rob brezsNy amusements I’d pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy.

In alignment with current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: Meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the

early stages of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio. I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): I used to nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the extracurricular Calculus Club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math—I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology—but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction?

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

the lore of ancient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans.

Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s

a parable you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about. But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity.

She asks herself, “Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye?” In the end she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A game

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE AMBER ROSE at 804 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928.

EARL F HALLETT 330 W 18th Street Chico, CA 95928.

AARON NOTT 2140 Salem Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: EARL HALLETT Dated: October 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001329 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BDC TRANSPORT at 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

BRYAN JOSEPH PARADEE 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

DANIELLE ALANA PARADEE 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BRYAN PARRADEE Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001297 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MICHELLE MITSUKO DESIGNS at 5888 Golden Oaks Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

MICHELLE WYSOCKI 5888 Golden Oaks Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHELLE WYSOCKI Dated: October 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001344 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FULL CIRCLE SPEECH THERAPY at 30 Landing Circle Suite 103 Chico, CA 95973.

ELIZABETH KYSAR 5172 Bonnie Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

ELIZABETH VICHI 3111 Hidden Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ELIZABETH VICHI Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001318 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRISTINE PARTIES at 922 Walnut St Chico, CA 95928.

RINO RWEJUNA NYUNDO 922 Walnut St Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PATS SANDBLASTING SERVICE at 85 Circle Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

RODNEY L HORN 85 Circle Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RODNEY L HORN Dated: October 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001359 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALAIR TRAVEL at 405 Panama Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

CHELSEA BRITT JOHNSON 1352 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHELSEA JOHNSON Dated: October 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001334 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AG PRIVATE PROTECTION at 500 Cohasset Rd, Ste 27 Chico, CA 95926.

RYAN SPEHLING 9 Jasper Ct Chico, CA 95928.

ADAM STRICKER 843 Alice Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ADAM D. STRICKER Dated: September 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001283 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SORENSON MOVING AND STORAGE at 600 Orange Street Chico, CA 95928.

SORENSON MOVING AND STORAGE INC 600 Orange Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: RICK W. SORENSON, PRESIDENT Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001321 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STILSON CANYON GRANITE AND MARBLE at 2700 Hegan Ln Ste 162 Chico, CA 95928.

JASON CHRISTOPHER LIND 5326 Becky Ln Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON LIND Dated: September 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001281 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name PATS SANDBLASTING SERVICE at 5355 Miners Ranch Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

KARL SODERBERG 5355 Miners Ranch Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KARL SODERBERG Dated: October 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0001140 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PINEAPPLE GANG at 1013 W. 7th St. Apt. 26 Chico, CA 95928.

ANDREW DAVIS 1013 W. 7th St. Apt. 26 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANDREW DAVIS Dated: October 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001402 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO BUILDING at 280 Boeing Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

WESTERN WOODS INC. 275 Sikorsky Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: CHRISTOPHER RICHTER, PRESIDENT Dated: October 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001350 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GRAMPA’S GOURMET COOKIES at 5195 Bennett Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

KENNETH BEARD 5195 Bennett Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KENNETH BEARD Dated: October 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001387 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELEVATE at 1015 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT L NORMAN 952 E Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT L. NORMAN JR. Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001320 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

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FAMILY TREE HYDROPONIC EMPORIUM LLC 711 S Carson Ste 4 Carson City, NV 89701.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KASEY VALLE, MANAGER Dated: October 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001384 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN SIERRA ECO FRIENDLY LAWN CARE at 935 Waggoner Road Paradise, CA 95969.

MATTHEW JAMES ARMSTRONG 935 Waggoner Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MATT ARMSTRONG Dated: October 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001419 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STEP BY STEP TUTORING at 352 E 8th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

MIHAELA BEATRICE HARJAU-BROUGHTON 352 E 8th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIHAELA BEATRICE HARJAU-BROUGHTON Dated: October 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001422 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as J SCHLESINGER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT at 2734 Brenni Way Chico, CA 95973.

JOSEPH ERIC SCHLESINGER 2734 Brenni Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSEPE E. SCHLESINGER Dated: October 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001409 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner YESENIA GALLEGOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OZIEL ATENOGENES ZEPEDA-PLACENCIA Proposed name: OZIEL ATENOGENES GALLEGOS 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.

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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: November 17, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02607 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LISA MARIE GARCIA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LISA MARIE GARCIA Proposed name: LISA MARIE MARTIN 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: November 17, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: October 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02683 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MORANDA SEREINA PINE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MORANDA SEREINA PINE Proposed name: MORANDA SERINA DONN 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: December 15, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: October 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02637 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

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SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT CHANH THI LE You are being sued by plaintiff: DENNY DUONG You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: TUAN VAN LAI, SBN 182967 Law Offices of Tuan Van Lai 5591 Sky Parkway Sacramento, CA 95823 (916) 399-4980 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 6, 2017 Case Number: 17FL01753 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BOBBY JAKE HOBBS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BOBBY JAKE HOBBS, ALSO KNOWN AS BOBBY J. HOBBS, BOBBY HOBBS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PATTIE MANES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: PATTIE MANES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’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.

The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an

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objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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 representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: ROBERT L. HEWITT 3044 Olive Hwy Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-8393 Case Number: 17PR00370 Dated: October 11, 2017 Published: October 19,26, November 2, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BARBARA A. BENNETT, AKA BARBARA ANN BENNETT, BARBARA BENNETT To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BARBARA A. BENNETT, AKA BARBARA ANN BENNETT, BARBARA BENNETT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: TIM KITCHEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: TIM KITCHEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted 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 authority.

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held in this court as follows: Date: November 21, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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 representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: DIRK POTTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 17PR00367 Dated: October 10, 2017 Published: October 19,26, November 2, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES D. LIPTRAP To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES D. LIPTRAP A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CAROLYN FREDERICK in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: CAROLYN FREDERICK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted 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 authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 28, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California

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County of Butte 1775 Concord 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 representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: VANESSA J. SUNDIN Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Ste. 302 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 17PR00395 Dated: October 24, 2017 Published: November 2,9,16, 2017

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PRICE

BR/BA

14 Kestrel Ct 730 Henshaw Ave 2 Merle Ct 524 W 12th Ave 10020 Cohasset Rd 1273 East Ave 956 E 16th St 2533 El Paso Way 56 Cottage Ave 2930 Pennyroyal Dr 1742 Oleander Ave

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$290,000 $290,000 $280,000 $279,000 $265,000 $253,000 $245,000 $225,000 $202,000 $195,000 $185,000

3/2 3/1 3/2 3/2 3/2 3/1 2/1 3/2 3/2 2/2 3/1

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SQ. FT. 1501 1540 1648 1474 1884 1070 1072 1260 1302 904 1132

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The following houses were sold in butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of october 16, 2017 – october 20, 2017.

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

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

13895 Cascade Dr

ADDRESS

Magalia

$225,000

2/2

1557

95 Crane Ave

Oroville

$140,000

3/2

1544

13543 W Park Dr

Magalia

$220,000

2/2

1524

52 La Colina Dr

Oroville

$137,000

3/1

875

13894 Cascade Dr

Magalia

$215,000

2/2

1622

2341 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$110,000

1/1

503

13567 Andover Dr

Magalia

$180,000

3/2

1088

3825 Silvera Ct

Paradise

$387,000

1/1

1230

1281 10th St

Oroville

$325,000

3/1

2020

631 Circlewood Dr

Paradise

$385,000

4/3

2872

7295 Lower Wyandotte Rd

Oroville

$308,000

3/3

1608

6672 Brook Way

Paradise

$270,000

3/2

1598

5319 Mount Ratchel Ct

Oroville

$269,000

2/2

1624

5212 Old Clark Rd

Paradise

$238,000

2/2

1536

1565 2nd Ave

Oroville

$250,000

4/2

1456

522 Eldredge Dr

Paradise

$227,500

1/1

1060

160 Fairhill Dr

Oroville

$249,000

3/2

2593

6009 N Libby Rd

Paradise

$220,000

2/1

832

2340 Via Corte

Oroville

$186,000

3/2

1151

6363 Lucky John Rd

Paradise

$210,000

2/2

1232

3415 Morningside Dr

Oroville

$155,000

3/1

1389

3605 Connie Cir C

Paradise

$167,000

2/2

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ADDRESS

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For all your Real Estate Needs call (530) 872-7653 Turnkey Restaurant completely Remodeled in 2014, sale. Includes restaurant equipment, new Pressure dose septic system. $395,000 Ad#20 Amber Blood 530-570-4747

Great Lot! .58 Acres to build your dream home on Showdown Circle in Magalia. $58,500 Ad # 929 Donna Cass 530 520-8156

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2BD/1BA located in lower Paradise. Spacious living room, bright kitchen, new laminate flooring, fully fenced yard, two lrg storage sheds. $184,500 Ad#32 Wendee Owens 530-872-6809

PRICE REDUCED! Custom home with astounding views. 5Bd 4Ba 3,133+/-SqFt one owner home, 3.27 Acres, nicely updated, separate living areas, potential guest/in-law quarters. $499,000 Ad#25 Chari Bullock 530-872-6818

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3 Bed/2.5 Bath, 8-Car Garages, 2166 SF Butte Valley ranchette on 10 acres. Seasonal creek. Fully fenced & X-fenced. 2 garages/ shops. 1st time on market. $549,000

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7 Bed/6 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 2708 SF Nearly level 2-acre parcel with 6-bdrm house & 1-bdrm cottage. Clean home & grounds. Outbldgs/workshop. $349,000

3 Bed/2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1692 SF RV parking, new laminate flooring & carpet, freshly painted interior, large backyard with fruit trees, great neighborhood. $269,900

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2 Bed/2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1662 SF Fantastic home on large level lot in the heart of Paradise. New exterior paint, circle drive, fenced yard. Now $264,000

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2 Bed/2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1805 SF Unique log-cabin-style home built in the 1920s on a secluded 1-acre parcel. Newer central heating & air. Now $169,900

NEW PRICE

3 Bed/2 Bath, 1-Car Garage, 1774 SF 5-acre estate. Large kitchen and family room, updated vinyl windows & central heater, seperate guest home. $249,500

3 Bed/3 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1688 SF Great end-of-street location with a canyon view! Large yard, detached garage and circle drive. Now $239,900

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3 Bed/1 Bath, 986 SF 2 Bed/2 Bath, 1-Car Garage, 1536 SF Woodstove & wall A/C unit. Carpets in all Great lower Pines location for this spacious bdrms & living rm. Fenced & X-fenced yard. home. Formal living & dining. Newer paint, Laundry hookups in shop. $135,000 updated flooring & counters. $134,000 november 2, 2017

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