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OPINION

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 From This Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Streetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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A revealing city report Critics of the Chico City Council like to poke sticks at its efforts

A new complaint procedure ANetwork of Butte County collaborated with former Chico Police Chief Mike Maloney over several months

accessible to public understanding. An important addition to the process is the provision allowing the individual to have an recently to revise and improve upon the Chico Police Depart- advocate present when filing the complaint and during the investigative interview. Police ment’s procedure for handling people’s officials will also meet at locations other than complaints. I am very pleased to report a department headquarters, if the complaining positive outcome. Reports of alleged racial profiling and party so desires. Upon the police chief’s final review of possible police misconduct came to the formal complaints, people will receive a writattention of the Human Relations Netten notice of the findings within 30 days. The work and the other organizations in our compliment/complaint brochures contain the coalition, such as the Chico ACLU, the logos of the coalition organizaButte County NAACP, tions on the front cover and the Love Chapmantown, the by contact informaChico Peace and Justice It is important that there organizations’ Walter Ballin tion on the back cover. Center and the Stonewall In addition to Chico Police Alliance Center. We heard be excellent relations The author chairs Department the and read reports about between law enforcement brochures canheadquarters, the Human Relations people either feeling be obtained at the Network of Chico Peace and Justice Center, intimidated about making and members of the Butte County. 526 Broadway; Stonewall complaints to the Police community. Alliance, 358 E. Sixth St.; Butte Department or reluctant County Behavioral Health, 592 because they felt the comRio Lindo Ave.; or the Chico plaint would not be taken library, 1108 Sherman Ave. seriously. As someone who knows some very fine Chief Maloney listened to the conpolice officers, I say that it is important that cerns and suggestions of the coalition there be excellent relations between law members and undertook to incorporate enforcement and members of the community. many of our suggestions in a new compliment/complaint brochure outlining the I believe that this improved process will enhance that effort. Ω complaint process and making it more community coalition led by the Human Relations

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to promote sustainability, charging that they’re a waste of time and money and that the council should be focusing its attention on jobs and the budget instead. To which we say: They should take a look at the city’s first annual Sustainability Indicators Report. Introduced at the council’s June 5 meeting, the report is an addendum to the city’s Annual Progress Report on implementation of the general plan. That report is a compendium of the major actions the city has taken since adoption of the general plan last year and is useful reading for any citizen who wants to know what city government is doing in that regard. The Sustainability Indicators Report is required by the Sustainability Element of the general plan. Its purpose is to gauge progress in advancing the plan’s sustainability-related policies and goals. These, it turns out, are substantial. The report looks at three key areas: natural systems and agriculture, the built environment, and socioeconomics. “Sustainability,” the report reads, “involves aligning the built environment and socioeconomic activities with nature’s constraints and opportunities. … These components are interdependent and equally important.” Each of the three components is broken down into four or five indicators, such as air quality (under natural systems), housing (under built environment) and public safety (under socioeconomics). Each indicator’s progress is then ranked in one of three ways: “clear progress,” “moderate performance” and “improvement area.” For 2011, the first year of the program, only one indicator, community participation, showed clear progress. Six indicators showed moderate performance, and six were classified as an improvement area. The ratings “are intentionally conservative,” the staff report states, “to reflect the significant work ahead to achieve the City’s lofty goal of achieving a sustainable community.” Most important, though, is that the city’s efforts to foster the goals of the indicators are spelled out for each one. Whether it’s building affordable housing or bike lanes, helping to obtain a biodiesel-production grant, or extending sewer lines into Chapmantown, the city is working in numerous ways to make Chico a sustainable community—and creating jobs in the process. We challenge anyone to read the Sustainability Indicators Report and then argue that all this work is a waste of time and money. Go to www.chico.ca.us to view both the Annual Progress Report and the Sustainability Indicators Report. Ω

‘Wake-up call’ on reform Last week, voters in San Jose and San Diego weighed in on the

issue of pension reform, overwhelmingly approving ballot measures that roll back benefits for current and future city workers. Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento should take heed. Nobody begrudges government employees reasonable pensions, and the average government worker’s retirement benefit is only about $25,000 annually. For those workers, it amounts to deferred salary, not some kind of freebie courtesy of taxpayer generosity. That said, it’s also clear that many local governments have indeed provided overly generous pensions, like former Chico Police Chief Mike Maloney’s. Retired at age 50, he will receive 90 percent of his already generous annual salary for the rest of his life, while the city struggles to balance its budget. And Maloney’s just one of many. Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a modest pension-reform package, but has been unable to get it past union-friendly Democrats in the Legislature. The votes in San Jose and San Diego, he said, are “a wake-up call” to move forward on moderate pension reform, before someone launches a ballot measure that could be much worse. It’s good advice. Ω

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Measure A hangover Butte County supervisors were nursing a marijuana hangover Tuesday (June 12) at their first meeting since June 5, when county voters heaved their medical-marijuana-cultivation ordinance, in the form of Measure A, right off the cliff. The supervisors were feeling the pain of a failure that came after they and county staff had spent a long, difficult year, and put up with some major abuse, to come up with an ordinance that would make considerate neighbors out of growers. The county’s intentions were good, but it botched the process. At the board’s first public hearing on the ordinance, on Feb. 22, 2011, District Attorney Mike Ramsey and Sheriff Jerry Smith kicked things off by making a presentation on the proliferation of pot gardens in the foothills, complete with photos. This quickly framed the situation as growers-versusauthorities. To the growers who’d packed the supervisors’ chambers, it seemed like a declaration of war, and a number of them were openly rude and hostile toward the supervisors. It didn’t help that the draft ordinance called for steep fees, setbacks that would be unmanageable in some cases, strict limits on the number of plants (only two on an acre or less), and that doctor’s recommendations be registered with the county. The growers also objected to being frozen out of the ordinance-drafting process. County staff came back a few weeks later with a revised ordinance, but it was no more popular than the first one. Although it reduced the fees, it allowed no plants to be grown on parcels smaller than a half-acre. That pleased the anti-pot folks, but it angered the people growing for personal use. At the last of three huge public hearings, this one held at the Gridley fairgrounds, Supervisor Maureen Kirk suggested a compromise: to permit growing on small lots inside a greenhouse, as is allowed in Biggs. Several speakers endorsed this option, but the rest of the supervisors didn’t support it. Tuesday’s discussion had the supervisors asking “What now?” By law, the board can’t reapprove the ordinance, or even one similar to it, for a year. The options, CAO Paul Hahn said, were to do nothing or begin working on a substantially different ordinance. The supervisors are plainly sick of the issue. Bill Connelly, who represents the Oroville area, said he was frustrated on behalf of constituents who live near pot growers and feel “intimidated and scared.” He said he was going to start referring them to his board colleagues so they could see what it was like. Hey, I’ve got my share of such folks in Cohasset and Forest Ranch, Kirk replied in so many words. Board Chairman Steve Lambert pointed his finger right back at the board: “If we’d compromised last time, like on the half-acre thing, we’d have an ordinance right now.” For her part, Kirk had long believed the county ordinance wouldn’t have stood up in court anyway. She said she was willing to work with county staff and interested parties on crafting a new measure. Hahn said he’d come back in July with a plan for doing just that, and the supervisors happily moved on to a more welcome topic: solid-waste collection. Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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Revisiting the ‘glory days’ Re “When We Were Kings” (Cover story, by Joe Martin, June 7): Right on, Joe! Way to bring me back to the glory days. It was really exciting during that run, and everybody loves it when the local teams are winning. I grew up a diehard Laker fan, and I will never forget the day watching one of the 2000 playoff games against the Lakers. I strangely found myself rooting for the Kings and realized my allegiance had changed. Then, in 2001, I got to work at playoff game 3—Lakers at Arco—with my brother, Bill, who has been working behind a camera there since the Kings arrived in Sacramento. I can’t describe how awesome that was. I still get to catch a game now and again, and it is so true how enthusiastic the fans are. “They’re still here, and the story isn’t quite over.” Great job, and a “Royal” thank you. DAN EHMAN Chico

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Consent bill not needed Re “Informed choice” (Healthlines, by Evan Tuchinsky, June 7): This bill [requiring that parents receive counseling before opting their children out of vaccinations] is a waste of time and money. The law of informed consent is already in place. Doctors should be counseling each and every patient before every procedure, including vaccines. All of the pros and the very real cons should be discussed in detail at the time vaccines are suggested in the first place. This bill is suggesting that doctors are not doing their job. What this does is put more money into the doctor’s pockets for a return visit! Will insurance companies pay this? Will Medi-Cal pay this? K. FULLER Yuba City

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Enough noise: two views Re “Enough with the noise! (Guest comment, by Neal Wiegman, June 7): I applaud Mr. Wiegman’s guest comment regarding Chico’s noise ordinance and agree with the specific consequences for violation of it. Our air is shared, and no one should have the right to fill it with smoke or noise pollution. With modern electronics available, we should never have to listen to our neighbor’s music, not from his home or his back yard or his car stereo. He can use a headset and blast away to his ears’ content. The drivers with vehicles with subwoofers blaring should be cited severely as well. It would be nice if all human beings were respectful of others and exercised basic values that should be insisted upon from childhood, but they are not. Let’s work together to make sure the peace and tranquility of our air matches the serenity of our parks and trees and streams. BRIAN ANTHONY KRAEMER Chico

There’s another way to look at this: The professor has spent 22 years tormenting himself, his family, the neighbors and the police with his choice of residency, when he could have easily found another place to live. Small towns sometimes grow up and become cities. It seems unreasonable to expect that the noise level of an entire apartment complex in your back yard is not going to be disruptive. Some will say that this man shouldn’t have to move; others may say that it is the right of young adults to enjoy their youth in a lively and fun place like Chico. Either way, it looks like this guy’s in it for the long haul. I, for one, can’t say that I wish him any luck. To be fair, perhaps he inherited this land from his family or maybe he has a whole army of dead pets buried there; perhaps this is sacred ground. Either way, there’s an apartment complex in your back yard, dude! Good luck getting some sleep. RON COLLINS Chico/Yankee Hill

Help the salmon Re “The kings and I” (Chow, by Henri Bourride, June 7): As a commercial salmon fisherman, I would really like to sell my salmon for less money, but after essentially four years of closures, our fleet needs to make some money right now. You as consumers and citizens

“The notion that we are in the process of hiring a new fundraiserin-chief for the university is wrong. We are hiring the educator-inchief for one of the state’s most important institutions.” —Susan Green

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How to pick a chancellor Re “Into the light” (Newslines, by Melissa Daugherty, May 31) and “Commit to openness” (Editorial, June 7): The search process for a new chancellor for the California State University must be as open and rigorous as that to which we subject other university faculty and staff. The notion that we are in the process of hiring a new fundraiserin-chief for the university is wrong. We are hiring the educatorin-chief for one of the state’s most important institutions. The current search process described by CSU Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Linscheid in the May 31 CN&R marries the worst of current corporate favoritism with bygone academic elitism. Our new chancellor needs to be a public servant who inspires confidence and investment from both within the system and outside the system by being an intellectual, political and civic leader, not just another chief financial officer of a large corporation. Selecting a leader based on a resignation to the current inevitability-of-disinvestment-inpublic-higher-education mantra,

instead of the goals of the California master plan, dooms the institution and the state. SUSAN GREEN Chico

Editor’s note: The author, a professor of history and Chicano Studies at Chico State, is statewide treasurer of the California Faculty Association.

Who’s behind the terrorists? Re “Karma and the Constitution” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, June 7): Robert Speer fails his readers by leaving out the backgrounds of Anwar al-Awlaki and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Webster Tarpley describes Al-Awlaki as “by no means the only patsy handler” used by the CIA. Tarpley goes on to say that “just about every major terror attack has been run by an operative with direct ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex.” To ignore “deep politics,” as author Peter Dale Scott calls the workings of power, is to settle for the intellectual comfort provided to us by the powerful. It’s comfortable to understand Obomba’s “worries”; allows us faith in his ability to grok the “terrible moral complexities” of state-sponsored murder. How much more complex when intelligence operatives are setting in motion the terror that we are fighting. True comfort for a liberal is an Obomba playing the role of Christ by taking the murders upon himself so that others (Speer? You? Me?) don’t have “to feel responsible for the deaths....” True conservative comfort is resting in a beautiful America, settled with liberal trash, FEMA camps overflowing; Romney’s new morning for Ignorant America. Couple of years ago I explained a bit of modern politics to a man who had been in the Battle of the Bulge. After hearing my bit he said, “That isn’t the country I fought for.” My reply: “Maybe the country you fought for doesn’t exist anymore.” The coup d’etat was executed on Nov. 22, 1963. Any real understanding of what has replaced America must begin there. JACKIE TWOSTICKS Paradise

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All farmers’ markets in Butte County are now accepting CalFresh benefits as payment, employing a simple token-based system to distribute funds to vendors. CalFresh— known as the California Food Stamp Program until 2008—has made strides to emphasize healthful, locally grown produce, extending benefits to farmers’ markets throughout California, according to a Butte County Public Health press release. Though the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards were accepted at markets in previous years, this summer will be the first time each farmers’ market will have a point-of-scale (POS) device at marked stations, allowing CalFresh recipients to swipe their cards once in exchange for tokens. Additionally, EBT cards will be accepted at markets in Red Bluff for the first time, using the same system. Less than half of eligible Californians are currently enrolled in CalFresh. Go to www.calfresh.ca.gov to see a full list of requirements.

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COUNTY EMPLOYEE CAUGHT STEALING

A Butte County Public Works employee is facing felony charges for allegedly pocketing cash and gift cards from a contractor hired to remove trees from county rights of way. The alleged embezzler, Charles Bryan Graves, 46, is an 11-year county employee who supervises the county’s road maintenance crews, said District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who recently completed a monthlong investigation. Ramsey said a contractor hired by Graves to remove trees and stumps from county property would in some cases pay the county because the wood was worth more than the cost of removal. For example, the contractor paid $5,000 for a walnut tree in north Chico in the form of a $3,500 check, a $1,000 Costco gift card and a $500 Walmart gift card. The check went to the county, but not the cards. The same contractor reportedly gave Graves cash totaling $1,700 in a couple of other cases. If convicted, Graves faces up to six years in prison.

GMO LABELING UP TO THE VOTERS

The state’s voters get to weigh in this fall on whether genetically modified foods should be labeled. The Secretary of State’s Office announced this week (June 11) that enough valid signatures were gathered to place the Right to Know initiative on the November ballot. If passed, food containing GMOs—plants and meats with laboratory as opposed to naturally altered DNA—will include that information on their labels. In a press release from the California Right to Know campaign, Grant Lundberg, of Richvale’s Lundberg Family Farms, says the United States is one of the few developed nations that don’t require alerting consumers about GMOs. “More than 40 other countries—including all of Europe, Japan and even China—already label genetically engineered food,” he said. “Californians deserve to be able to make informed choices too,” Lundberg said. Chicoan Pamm Larry helped lead the statewide effort to qualify the initiative. 8 CN&R June 14, 2012

Inset: This building, erroneously labeled “Bidwell’s 2nd Mill,” could be John Bidwell’s long-lost bachelor pad. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHICO STATE’S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

I know well: Rough-and-tumble Gen. John Bidwell cleaned up his act and began building an t’s a story many Chicoans think they

opulent mansion in 1865, during his courtship of Annie Ellicott Kennedy. Between 1850 and the mansion’s construction, the only record of by Ken Smith where Bidwell lived suggested a log cabin built in 1850. kens@ Michele Shover, an eminent newsreview.com local historian, has found new evidence indicating Bidwell did not live out his bachelor days, as assumed, in rustic splendor. She unveiled her findings at the Chico Heritage Association’s Preservation Awards ceremony May 10. “You’ll either find it very interesting, or you’ll run me out of town,” Shover said, prefacing her hour-long presentation before a crowd of about 50 CHA members, award winners and history buffs. “It’s a ghost story, really.” She said she was up late one night perusing Chico State University’s Northeastern California About the Collection online, looking for historian: pictures to illustrate her latest Michele Shover is book, California Standoff: a former Chico Farmers, Indians and Miners, State professor and one of Butte 1850-1865, when she came County’s foremost across a photo labeled “Bidhistorians. She well’s 2nd Mill.” Shover immehas published diately recognized the building several books and was no mill, but rather a federalessays on California and style farmhouse and, though disButte County used and worn in the photo, a history. rather substantial one.

“I was startled,” she said. “Apart from the little Wright-Patrick house [located on the Midway] and the small, 1859 section of my own house [the Little Chapman Mansion], I had not seen an image of such a house here.” Shover explained federal-style farmhouses, a favorite subject of hers, were popular in the early to mid-1800s, and most old houses in Chico feature more Gothic, Victorian and Eastlake influences. The mystery of what the building really was grabbed her and kept her awake nights, but Shover continued to focus on more immediate tasks. A few weeks later, while doing

some fact-checking, she was looking through Wells and Chambers’ 19th-century history of Butte County, which contains Butte County tax assessor’s reports from the 1850s. In the jumbles of numbers she stumbled across a narrative written in 1856: “Bidwell’s princely mansion is surrounded by extensive lawns adorned with princely fountains and fruit and flower gardens, arranged in the most judicious and tasty manner, with subdivisions of which are enclosed with thrifty and variegated hedges, and the whole domain beautifully ornamented, with water for irrigation and ornament. The estate is probably not surpassed in California.” Shover thinks the photo of the federal farmhouse and the first-hand description of “Bidwell’s princely mansion” nine years before building began on the mansion we know today are one in the same.

The home appears in another photo, an 1850s panoramic shot of Bidwell’s headquarters, and was located directly behind the present-day mansion. She said the close-up photo, with the house’s front staircase removed, was likely taken shortly after the present mansion was completed and before the old one was torn down. The water feature on the side of the house could be part of a fountain or irrigation system like the ones described by the assessor, and might have been why the photo was misconstrued as a mill. Bidwell’s home was also his base of business in the pre-Annie days, and the building may have served as the mill’s office, among other things. At the time the photos were taken, Bidwell’s headquarters consisted of a mill, a saloon, a store, a hotel, numerous farm buildings and lodgings for the people who kept it all running—25 settlers including laborers, store clerks, millers, blacksmiths, gardeners, a wagon maker and about 60 Native Americans. Shover said that knowledge of Bidwell’s character and common sense dictate that a man with such power, pride and complex responsibilities could not have been slumming it in a decade-old log cabin. She said Bidwell’s character and position also explain a feature inconsistent with federal architecture; a sash-like roof halfway up the building that Shover described as “peculiar—even crude—as an add-on to such a dignified building.” Since Bidwell likely ran his business largely from his home, he wouldn’t want a large, inviting porch upon which peo-

ple could get too comfortable, and opted for a “timbered waiting shelter,” like those seen at bus stops and train depots. “What do people do in timbered waiting shelters?” Shover asked. “They stand as long as they have to until they do what they are there for and then they leave. Perfect for Bidwell.” Shover presented compelling

circumstantial evidence to back up her claims. In 1852 alone, Native Americans from nearby mountains tried to burn down Bidwell’s headquarters four times. One attempt resulted in the loss of a granary, a carpentry shop, a new hotel and a stable. Also lost, according to federal depositions Bidwell gave to secure government reparations, was 5,000 feet of lumber “for a new house to be erected.” At a time when a nice cottage cost $500, Bidwell’s loss was valued at $26,000, which Shover said establishes Bidwell’s intent to build an extravagant home as early as 1852. The Native American threat also explains why the old mansion was built in such close proximity to Bidwell’s other buildings, unlike the modern mansions’ more private setting. “I mentioned the arsons, but there were also murders,” Shover said. She explained that, between 1851 and 1856, Bidwell and his employees “lived under mortal threat from Indian raids. “In 1856, the year the tax assessor saw the house, ranch Indians allowed mountain Indians to hide in their sweathouse where they made ready to assassinate Bidwell. Bidwell’s party killed 11 of them. After that, the Indian raids on his ranch ceased and the raiders’ focus switched to Tehama County, Rock Creek and the foothills east of Rancho Chico.” Bidwell was able to buy John Potter’s land across Big Chico Creek in 1860, just as the threat of raids subsided. As Bidwell’s home we know today neared completion in 1867, he began tearing down the old buildings and moving his workers and operations across the water to what is presently downtown Chico. Shover said her interest in Bidwell is limited, but she wanted to put the information out to help future researchers. She said that Bidwell’s long-gone federal farmhouse itself isn’t so important in the grand scheme of things, but it offers a greater insight into Chico’s formative years. “The ranch headquarters had come to be thought of as a village or a town,” she said. “Our image of Chico history has almost always centered on the town after Bidwell moved it across the creek in 1860. The information I have been working with, and the physical image of the federal farmhouse, which makes no sense to me except as his house, make 1850s Chico seem a more substantial place than we have been privileged to remember. “In this sense, Chico was not started in 1860, but in 1850.” Ω

Out of control

Palermo woman badly mauled by neighbor’s dogs Doctors are trying to save Virginia LoRusso’s left leg, but there’s a very real possibility that the damage inflicted by two dogs is too severe. LoRusso was savagely attacked on Sunday, May 21, as she walked into her backyard orchard. The 68-year-old Palermo woman was rushed by ambulance to Oroville Hospital with severe injuries to both legs and also to her right shoulder. She’s already undergone multiple surgeries and skin grafts, and remains there for further treatment. The Butte County District Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for the owners of the dogs on June 7, charging them with felony violations of allowing a vicious animal at large, causing serious injury. The animals, Gus, a 70-pound pit bull, and Shane, a 45-pound Queensland heeler, belong to LoRusso’s neighbors, Ruben Cambra, 32, and his mother, Chic Gordon, 54, who it turns out has a long history of violations related to the care and control of dogs. (A separate warrant was issued for Theodore Scherbenske, 55, on a charge of concealing a felony for allegedly hiding Gus from authorities.) Linda Haller, Butte County Animal Control program manager, said the dogs were taken into custody the day after the attack and remain so pending a recommendation to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office as to whether they should be returned to the owner with specific stipulations about their confinement, or be put down. LoRusso said this wasn’t the first time she had problems with Gordon’s dogs. During the past few years, both the Sheriff’s Office and Animal Control have been called numerous times because the dogs kept getting through the fence and onto LoRusso’s property.

“You could tell the dogs were not friendly, and I don’t know how many times I told the owner she needed to do something about them coming into my yard,” LoRusso said. Her complaints to authorities yielded a stack of paperwork and a notice that nothing could be done because the dogs were back at home by the time investigators arrived. Haller said there were never enough grounds to remove the animals. “By the time we sent someone out, the dogs had returned to their own yard,” she said. “Unfortunately, it had to come to this for us to take them.” Butte County Superior Court records show that between 1996 and 1998, in three separate cases, Gordon was charged with 55 violations, including dogs running at large, owning a kennel without a license, permitting a dog to annoy, nip, maul or bark and no rabies vaccinations. Just a few weeks before the dogs

attacked LoRusso, she says her grandsons were very nearly mauled, too. The boys were in her yard playing football, and the dogs reportedly got through the fence and chased them. The elder grandson made it into the house, but the younger one had to take refuge in the back of LoRusso’s pickup truck, she said. Animal control was called, but again the dogs retreated to their own property. LoRusso said that on the day of the mauling she and her grandson were on the porch when she decided to check the plums in her orchard.

SIFT|ER The cost of kids

Family expenditures on a child, by income level and age of child, 2010 Every parent knows it isn’t $25,000 cheap to raise a child. Even providing just the basics adds up each year. $20,000 How much it actually costs these days is pretty $15,000 astonishing. According to the U.S. Department of $10,000 Agriculture, which has been estimating this very thing for more then $5,000 50 years, the annual expenses per child in a $0 two-child, two-parent, 0-2 3-5 6-8 9-11 12-14 15-17 middle-come household Age of child ranges from $11,880 to Less than $57,600 $57,600 to $99,730 More than $99,730 $13,830 (as of the latest report from 2010). The U.S. average for the younger child in husband-wife families with 2 children. numbers vary, depending on income and the age of the child, as shown in this chart. Source: www.cnpp.usda.gov/ExpendituresonChildrenbyFamilies.htm

Queensland heeler Shane (left) and pit bull Gus remain locked up by Butte County Animal Control. Virginia LoRusso says she’s complained about her neighbor’s dogs several times before being attacked by them. PHOTOS BY KATY NOAH

“I had a drink tumbler in one hand and a stick for picking fruit in the other,” she said. “But I made my grandson stay on the porch because I knew I couldn’t trust those dogs.” She said she checked the yard to be sure the dogs were not nearby before proceeding across the driveway to the plum tree. She did see the dogs’ owner standing out in her back yard. As she got to the tree, she said, the pit bull came running through the fence and began the attack. “It was clamp down and rip, clamp down and rip,” said LoRusso. “I was kicking the dog with one leg and trying to hit it with the stick but it did no good.” Then, she said, the Queensland heeler jumped the fence and went after LoRusso’s right arm and shoulder. She said she cried for help, telling her grandson to call his mother and then dial 911. LoRusso said that although the dog’s owner was still in the back yard it took several moments to get her attention, then several more for her to get onto LoRusso’s property and call off her dogs. “I’d say a good four minutes passed before she got the dogs off of me,” she said. “At that point I was in a state of shock. I remember Chic asking my permission to go into my house and get some wet towels for my injuries, and then my daughter and the fire department arrived. Once the ambulance got there they began working on me immediately. I knew I had to stay alert, so that’s what I concentrated on; not passing out.” LoRusso’s right leg and shoulder appear to be healing well. The prognosis for her shredded left leg isn’t as hopeful, but doctors are continuing to try to save it. LoRusso said it is absurd to think something so serious had to happen before anyone stepped in. “I was glad to see the arrest warrants, but I think the bail was set much too low,” she said. Bail for Gordon and Scherbenske was set at $15,000 and at $18,000 for Cambra, who allegedly resisted arrest. “I’m hoping this will send a strong message to other owners of vicious dogs who refuse to do anything about them.” —KATY NOAH katychicago@ymail.com

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Belle Wei isn’t in Chico yet, but the longtime educator already feels connected to the campus. Wei is the newly named provost 24 Hanover Lane, Chico | 895–0428 and vice president of Academic www.DRSTERZER.com Affairs for Chico State, a position reporting directly to the president and overseeing all academic programs at the university. In the past couple of months, as she went through a lengthy interview process, she found her own values align well with Chico State’s values of diversity, sustainability and the inspiration of students. You Pay ONLY when we win “They resonated deeply with me,” she said. “These are the areas I have focused on during my 25-year tenure at San Jose State Attorney at Law University.” Wei arrives with a lengthy Over 18 years of experience résumé, a diverse background and a promise that student success is her primary goal. An immigrant from Taiwan who moved to the United States after graduating high school, Wei works in the male-dominated field of engineering. This background gives her a range of perspectives on diversity, she said. As such, she wants to help students from various minority and low-income backgrounds achieve success. “I try to really provide an opportunity and to inspire them and to motivate them to enter fields they have not considered before,” she said. Wei (pronounced “way”) attended UC Berkeley for undergraduate work in biophysics before earning a master’s in engineering at Harvard University. She returned to UC Berkeley for her doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science. She went on to work for the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation, which allowed her to make connections in the Silicon Valley. Since 2002, she has been the dean of San Jose State’s 5:30am | 6:30am | 9:00am 7:00am College of Engineering. In addition to her impressive Functional training for all lEVElS. résumé, Wei has several noteworthy honors and experiences, such No day is the same. Get amazing results in a as being invited to the White fun & supportive team environment House earlier this year by the President’s Council on Jobs and Comn e w for s &discussions r e v i e w babout usiness petitiveness the future of engineering. designer ss issUe dATe 03.03.11 Board Certified in Urology

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selected from the top four of 73 applicants after a “full, complete and rigorous process,” said education professor Charles Zartman, chairman of the provost search committee and director of the Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Studies. Zartman said Wei connected with the members of the committee during the interview process by turning a question-and-answer session into an engaging discussion, especially when it came to student success. She further distinguished herself with her connections to the Silicon Valley business community, which have greatly benefited u s e o n ly the students at San Jose State. She amb ACCT eXeC has approached the companies hirreV dATe

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ing her engineering students and encouraged them to support the program that trained them, Zartman said. Those connections would come with her to Chico State. “She was more than willing to share all the institutional and individual contacts that she has nurtured over the past quarter of a century in San Jose,” he said. Wei will reach out to alumni, such as the engineering students working in Silicon Valley, who want to support programs here in Chico, Zartman said. He referred to her as “most impressive” in her communication abilities, knowledge and forwardthinking ideas. “The outcome of this process is we have a wonderful individual with great talent who will bring this talent for the good of this institution,” Zartman said. Wei, who is married to a fellow engineer and has a grown daughter, will take up her new post on Aug. 1. She already has some familiarity with the area. She visited Chico State for the first time three years ago, helping her niece, who attends Chico State, get settled. Just last week, she said, she drove through the rural areas south of Chico, admiring places like Lundberg Family Farms. Wei has developed many friends and close relationships in San Jose, and while she will miss them after 25 years, she said this: “It is not goodbye to Belle, but welcome to Chico State.” —KJERSTIN WOOD kjerstinwood1@gmail.com

Bagging the plastic bag

City leaders move plan forward in a split vote The proposal to regulate, as opposed to ban, single-use plastic bags in Chico moved forward Tuesday, June 12, when the City Council’s Internal Affairs Committee voted to kick the matter back to the full council for consideration. The issue, which has given fuel to both those who say local government is overreaching and those who say local government has a global responsibility to help protect the environment, was first broached last November with a citizen’s request of the city’s Sustainability Task Force. The task force received public comment at its December and January meetings and recommended the council approve directly pursuing such an ordinance by kicking it to the city attorney or sending it to Internal Affairs for further public input. Both sides showed up this time around once again either to denounce nanny-style government or urge that the city do its part for the larger public good. Linda Herman, the city’s general-services administrative manager, supplied the background: A citizen came forward and asked that the city take up the issue of single-use plastic bags (2.25 milliliters or less thick with handles) distributed by the larger grocery stores. Currently, Herman said, there are 49 jurisdictions in the state with plastic-bag regulations, including Los Angeles, which passed its ordinance just last month. Another 50 California communities are now considering such an ordinance. Herman mentioned state law AB 2449, passed in 2007, required grocery stores to offer bag recycling, but prohibited charging for plastic bags as a means to regulate their use and encourage consumers to use reusable bags (such as nylon or canvas varieties). That law, which does allow stores to charge for paper bags, sunsets at the end of this year. Vice Mayor Jim Walker began with a simple question: Is there a problem? He answered by noting other cities, states and countries were passing plastic-bag ordinances. “There must be something to this,” he said. “It’s not like we are on the cutting edge.” On the other hand, Councilman Bob Evans questioned the costs of using city staff time,

writing an expensive environmental-impact report and providing public education and enforcement. “Four costs,” he said. “That is an issue. We are eliminating library funding, [and] reducing fire and police funding. The reality is there is only so much money. That is a reality we have to face.” Councilman Andy Holcombe disagreed. He said pursuing a plastic-bag ordinance does not increase staff costs, but rather asks staff to prioritize the use of their time. He said he believed such an ordinance is important. “There are those people who say the earth is flat,” he said, “that there is no global warming and no negative impact from plastic bags.” Then the meeting was opened to public comment. Council watchdog Juanita Sumner said the littering of the landscape with plastic bags is caused by the local waste haulers. “The problem is the trash blowing out of the trash trucks,” she said. This is more like a ‘Get off our backs’ measure. It’s not going to do anything to get trash off the ground. Our dump needs to be brought up to standards. This will just add to the price of my groceries.” Sue Hubbard, another regular at council meetings, defended plastic bags and those who use them. “There are plenty of us here who get plastic bags and reuse them a million times,” she said. “[The proposed ordinance] is a feel-good type of thing. I think a majority of Chicoans don’t want it. So put it on the ballot.” Walker said he’d learned that less than 5 percent of plastic bags get recyled. “The most important benefit is a healthy planet,” said Chris Nelson, an activist in the local environmental scene. “This is just an opening step into doing what is right.” Robyn DiFalco, executive director of the Butte Environmental Council, said the bigger picture should be considered. “This is really about a shift in society,” she said. “One day we’ll look back and say, ‘Remember when we didn’t use recyclable bags?’ We are shifting our society, and that is uncomfortable for some people.” Walker agreed. “Adaptation occurs pretty easily,” he said, “though there is some noise at the onset.” The committee voted 2-1, with Evans dissenting, to recommend the council move forward with a plastic bag ordinance. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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UC Davis Children’s Hospital was ranked in the top 50 in the United States in four pediatric specialties by U.S. News and World Report. The hospital ranked 30th in urology, 40th in orthopedics, 48th in diabetes/endocrinology and 50th in nephrology, according to a UC Davis press release. U.S. News and World Report surveyed 178 pediatric centers, looking at such things as availability of key resources and ability to prevent complications and infections. The survey accounted for 75 percent of the rankings, while 1,500 pediatric specialists were consulted for the remaining 25 percent. (Visit www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals to see the complete rankings.) “Our primary goal is to maintain a strong culture of service and excellence, and the rankings are only one of the many tools we use to determine how well we are achieving that goal,” said Ann Madden Rice, chief executive officer at UC Davis Medical Center.

Baby whisperer Nigerian ex-pat pediatrician Samuel Daniyan has a way with babies and kids

POT DOUBLES RISK OF CAR CRASH

Drivers who smoke pot up to three hours before getting behind the wheel double the risk of getting in an accident when compared to a sober driver, a new study finds. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, reviewed nine studies of 50,000 serious or fatal car crashes worldwide, focusing on collisions between one or more moving vehicles involving the consumption of marijuana, according to BBC News. The study’s authors noted the increased risk likely was due to impaired brain and motor functions critical to road awareness, adding that previous studies in controlled conditions demonstrated a decreased ability to respond to potential dangers. In the UK, 18 percent of people killed on roadways have evidence of illegal drugs in their system, with marijuana being the most common. However, the authors emphasized alcohol remains the most common substance present in fatal car crashes.

FRH EARNS TOP SAFETY MARKS

Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by large purchasers of health benefits, awarded Feather River Hospital an “A” Hospital Safety Score. The score—on a scale of A, B, C, D and F— was determined using 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data representing a hospital’s ability to limit infections, injuries and medical and medication errors, according to a Feather River Hospital press release. “At Feather River Hospital, our focus is ensuring an excellent patient experience and improving outcomes,” said Kevin Erich, Feather River Hospital president and CEO. “Keeping our patients safe is a key element in ensuring excellence and providing the highest quality care for our community.” Go to www.hospitalsafetyscore.org to see scores for other hospitals nationwide. 12 CN&R June 14, 2012

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rooms after a busy day seeing patients at Feather River Health Center in Paradise. “That’s why I’m a pediatrician.” Daniyan’s reputation as a lover of babies precedes him. It was the unusually exuberant, thumbs-up comments made to this writer by a mother of one of Daniyan’s patients, in fact, that made him the subject of this story. (“He loves babies,” she said, adding that her baby loves Daniyan as well.) Indeed, Daniyan, the father of two adult children, exudes the kind of warmth and joyful approach in person that makes it easy to imagine why babies take to him. Daniyan, who hails from western Nigeria, has been a pediatrician in Paradise since 2004. He sees patients both at the Feather River Health Center, located on The Skyway at the entrance to Paradise, and at Paradise Medical Group (PMG) Pediatrics, near Feather River Hospital on Pentz Road. He first came to the United States in 1974 and studied medicine at Loma Linda University, a Seventh Day Adventist university in southern California, from 1976 to 1979. After Loma Linda, Daniyan—who is a member of the Yoruba tribe—went back

to Nigeria to work as a general practitioner at a Seventh-day Adventist hospital in the western part of the African country. He returned to the states in 1984 to complete four years of pediatric training at Loma Linda before returning to western Nigeria to work as a pediatrician. “I say ‘pediatrician,’ but you also have to do everything [when working at a hospital in Nigeria],” he noted. “Sometimes you have to deliver the baby, but also take care of the mom. “Obviously there is not as much equipment and diagnostic aid like we have here [in the U.S.],” he continued. “But the people [of Nigeria] value their kids very well. Every child is wanted. … There is total family support when you have a child. The grandparents and the extended family are always involved.” Daniyan, who is a Seventh-day Adventist, also worked for a time as a missionary

in an Adventist clinic in Guam shortly before coming back to the U.S. in 2004. “I think that one of the things you see after working in different countries is that the kids are similar,” he said. “I don’t see any difference in the way the kids relate to me—it doesn’t matter where I work. Whether it’s an African child, an American child or a child from Guam, they seem to relate exactly the same way. “Usually kids are friendly if you approach them in a friendly way,” he went on in his charming Nigerian accent. “I think some people assume that children don’t know anything, [that] they don’t think, so they treat them as if they are not people. But I think that a child wants you to talk to them. “You know, when you are able to have a high contact with a child, the child wants HEALTHLINES continued on page 14

APPOINTMENT HELPING KIDS COPE On Tuesday, June 19, the Feather River Cancer Center (5629 Canyon View Drive in Paradise) hosts the first workshop in a three-day Let Your Colors Shine program for children (ages 6-13) whose loved ones are battling cancer. Each session, beginning at 10 a.m., will incorporate games, art projects and sharing time as a means to cope with grief and loss. Go online for to www.tinyurl.com/ckrec9g for registration information and a complete schedule.

A New World As the world moves forward through advances in biochemistry, technology, and information, medicine is riding the same fast-paced wave. With state-of-the-art computer systems to monitor patients’ records and help avoid errors in treatment plans before they happen, and with new ways of providing hands-on care, like the hospitalist program, Oroville Hospital has become one of the leaders in this race into the future—and here, Dr. Chakra Maddipati is just one young face bringing new energy to the medical world. Maddipati grew up in one of India’s leading technology centers, Hyderabad, a city of seven million, sometimes referred to as Cyberbad. However, he resisted the allure of the promising IT trade when it was first exploding and, instead, went into medicine.

“I never forget that I am treating a person and not an illness.” In 1999, after he and his wife graduated from medical school, they left India and moved to America to practice medicine and start a family. “When we got off the plane we asked ourselves, ‘What are we doing here?’ We left our family, our friends, everybody. But soon, we began to meet new friends. America is a very friendly place,” he says. Over a decade later, and after the birth of two all-American sons, Dr. Maddipati’s life is still moving forward. As a hospitalist, he is at the forefront of a movement that believes many medical errors can be avoided by having someone on site at all times, watching over and providing treatment for the patient. This system

differs from years ago, when family doctors would care for their patients at the hospital in between seeing patients at their office. A hospitalist’s office is the hospital so he or she can react swiftly to fast-changing health conditions at any time of the day or night. This means better care and shorter hospital stays for the patient. Dr. Maddipati is also the Chairman of the Medicine, Morbidity and Mortality Committee, which uses the state-of-the-art VistA program, an advanced electronic health records program, to monitor patients’ records and avoid errors in treatment before they happen. Personal health records and general medical information can be accessed and processed quickly and treatments can be cross-checked to avoid any confusion. But in spite of its technological advances, Oroville Hospital remains a place of oldfashioned personal interactions between patient and doctor. As Dr. Maddipati notes, “Medicine has become more complicated, and we have also become more efficient, but I never forget that I am treating a person and not an illness.” In this ever-changing world there is one thing that Dr. Maddipati and his wife, who is also a physician at Oroville Hospital, plan on keeping the same, “We miss being near our family, but I would rather live here than anywhere else in the world.”

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you to communicate with him or her. And the child may not be talking to you in the language that you are used to talking with adults, but the child does respond back when you communicate to them.” Two-month-old children, for example, will smile at you when you smile at them, said Daniyan. “Why is the child not crying? Because they see the smile and they recognize the expression and they smile back,” he said. “They want to communicate. You just have to establish what level they are at and communicate appropriately.” Babies have “obvious personality differences,” Daniyan offered. “It’s not just adults [that do]. Even from infancy, you can start to see personality differences, but I think every kind of personality responds to love.” Daniyan’s love for children includes an emphasis on the importance of vaccinations. “There’s a lot of confusion now about immunizations,” he offered. If people [in the U.S.] could only see the effects on a community when vaccinations are inadequate. Measles, chicken pox, meningitis, tetanus, polio—all of these diseases still exist and are killing people every day. “I’ve seen patients for more than 20 years in this country and I’ve never seen a case of tetanus in children, whereas [in Nigeria] I’ve seen an average of two cases per month. I’ve worked in places [in Nigeria] where there are so many measles that we literally had a clinic just for measles. “And it’s not because the people don’t want vaccinations—they can’t get them.” Vaccinations “definitely are one of the best things parents can do for their children,” Daniyan said passionately. “But I do under-

stand the concern that some people have.” Daniyan’s devotion

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to caring for children is appreciated by the people he works with. “I have known Dr. Daniyan since I started here…in 2005,” wrote Jackie Walker, one of Daniyan’s nurses at Feather River Health Center, in an email. “The Lion King was popular then and he somewhat reminds me of the Rafiki character. After a circumcision, he would hold the infant in the air and pronounce, ‘Now you are a man,’ and then hand the child to the parent. “I find him to be very wise,” continued Walker, who also wrote that “the children just love him. … He always goes to the baby or child first and engages the child with his easy smile and laugh.” “His caring nature, wonderful sense of humor and infectious laugh are only surpassed by his extensive knowledge of pediatric medicine,” offered Margaret Farace, another nurse who works alongside Daniyan at Feather River Health Center. “He has such rapport with the children and their families, they are always happy to see him no matter how ill the child may be.” “Doing something you like, it doesn’t feel like you are working,” Daniyan summed up with a chuckle. “It’s kind of depressing to do something every day that you don’t like. “They [the children that are his patients] cheer you up. Especially little babies.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE The skinny on fatness By now, most Americans are aware that the combination of eating too much (especially too much junk food) and exercising too little can cause one to become dangerously overweight. As AlterNet puts it, “[a] third of the U.S. population is now overweight, making it just a matter of time before normal size people are actually in the minority.” Maybe something can be done about this alarming trend toward obesity, especially if people are apprised of other factors that may contribute to it. Here are some things to consider avoiding: • Artificial sweeteners, such as those found in diet foods and soft drinks, which may encourage cravings for weight-adding sweets. Additionally, because these sweeteners have no caloric content, they “actually further fuel ‘food-seeking behavior.’” • Excessive use of antibiotics may contribute to obesity. “Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, Type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma,” said microbiologist Martin Blaser. • Taking certain antidepressant medications such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, and antipsychotics like Seroquel and Risperdal, can cause a person to “pack on the pounds.” Source: “8 Surprising Things That May Be Making Americans Fat”; go to www.alternet.org to read the whole article.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s administration is moving to hasten the extraction and export of Canada’s natural resources with controversial provisions to a budget bill. The legislation would change the way the government reviews the environmental impact of developmental projects, regulates potential threats to fisheries, and monitors the activities of nonprofit groups, according to The Washington Post. Increasing demand from Asia coupled with increasing prices for oil and minerals has given Canada fresh incentive to develop the country’s natural resources. Energy officials have applauded the revisions, while environmentalists have decried what they believe is the most detrimental environmental legislation Canada has seen in decades. “Very clearly, a lot of these changes are designed to expedite inappropriate pipeline proposals,” said Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defense Canada. “It’s essentially a big gift to Big Oil.”

WARMING CLIMATE BRINGS TROPICAL DISEASE

Rare diseases typically limited to tropical climates are becoming more prevalent in the United States than ever before, and some scientists believe climate change is partially to blame. Diseases like schistosomiasis and dengue fever have long plagued warm, wet countries close to the equator, but volatile weather patterns and warming temperatures have influenced the spread of tropical diseases and their vectors in the U.S., according to ClimateWire. Ben Beard, associate director for climate change at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, said that warming climate and incidence of disease spread through vectors like mosquitoes are intimately linked. “Certainly, if you take a disease like dengue or West Nile virus, warmer temperatures allow the mosquito to replicate faster,” Beard said. Additionally, he noted annual frosts tend to kill off vectors, but warmer seasons are delaying frost and pushing frost lines—and disease— farther northward.

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Costco, the sixth-largest retailer in the United States, settled a lawsuit filed by 29 district attorneys for improperly handling hazardous materials at dozens of outlets in California. Costco agreed to pay $3.6 million rather than fight the lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, accusing the company of failing to label or sort oven cleaner, bleach, pool chlorine, nicotine patches and batteries that sat unsold on shelves or were returned by customers, according to SFGate.com. The offenses occurred over a five-year period in which the products were thrown in the trash or left in stores indefinitely despite state law requiring proper disposal of all hazardous materials within 90 days. “As a result of this investigation and prosecution, regulated waste produced by Costco stores in California must now be properly stored, handled, transported and disposed of,” said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.

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400 parts per million (ppm), which is higher than the 350 ppm many scientists have said is the highest level of atmospheric CO2 that is safe. It’s also 125 ppm higher than CO2 levels present before the Industrial Revolution. In fact, according to climate scientists, it’s been at least 800,000 years since the Earth had CO2 levels in the 400s. CO2, as most people know, is considered a “greenhouse gas,” one that traps heat in the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. The present upward trend of atmospheric CO2 is troubling. It is partly in response to the need to lower the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that study and discussion of biochar—“a solid material obtained from the carbonization of biomass,” as the International Biochar Initiative (IBI) describes it—has picked up steam of late. Biochar— which can occur naturally from forest fires or be manufactured in a controlled, pyrolitic process—has the ability to sequester atmospheric carbon in the soil, while amending the soil at the same time.

The production process of biochar also creates clean, renewable biogas and oil products and heat as a side benefit. “Very simply, biochar is a charcoal that is usable in the soil,” said Kelpie Wilson, a Chico State graduate in mechanical engineering living in Cave Junction, Ore., who has worked as IBI’s communications editor for the past four years. Amending soil with charcoal “goes way back,” Wilson said, pointing to information presented in Charles C. Mann’s award-winning 2005 book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. “Researchers looked at soils in the Amazon Basin and tried to figure out why there were large areas of black, carbon-rich soils [known as “terra preta”],” she explained. As it turned out, this fertile, anthropogenic soil was the result of native inhabitants adding charcoal from fires to the soil for thousands of years: “They

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found artifacts in the [terra preta] soil dating back to 6,000 years ago. … And the soil is still incredibly rich 500 years after those people were extirpated.” The state of Iowa, added Wilson, has “the richest soils in the country, because of a high percentage of biochar from naturally occurring prairie fires.” Conversely, soil in various places around the country (and world) are becoming depleted “because they have been worked and tilled, which puts oxygen in and speeds up decomposition of the organic matter in it. The soil ends up being very carbon-depleted. Biochar acts like a sponge—it holds onto fertilizer and moisture.” Hand in hand with providing boosted GREENWAYS continued on page 16 June 14, 2012

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fertility, an abundance of carbon in soil aids plants in drawing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the soil where it can be sequestered for hundreds to thousands of years. Biochar, said Wilson, cooperates with the natural carbon cycle of plants to convert some of the CO2 drawn in from the atmosphere by the plants’ tissues “into solid form. It takes the cellular carbon from the plant and converts it into a stable fused carbon” that remains sequestered in the soil. Additionally, “in the baking process, gases such as methane and hydrogen are released that can be burned to provide energy. At the very least, you can use that energy to continue with the biochar-making process. At any rate, it doesn’t take fossil fuel to make biochar.” Wilson is part of a growing

group of voices extolling the virtues of biochar. Locally, Colusa resident Thor Bailey, of the Agricultural Biomass Center (ABC), sees the production of biochar as an effective way to transform agricultural green waste (orchard clip-

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strips the amount available. On a bigger front, climatechange activist and former VicePresident Al Gore has praised the use of biochar as “[o]ne of the most exciting new strategies for restoring carbon to depleted soils, and sequestering significant amounts of CO2 for 1,000 years or more.” Widely known writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben put it this way: “If you could continually turn a lot of organic material into biochar, you could, over time, reverse the history of the last two hundred years. … We can, literally, start sucking some of the carbon that our predecessors have poured into the atmosphere down through our weeds and stalks and stick it back in the ground. We can run the movie backward. We can unmine some of the coal, undrill some of the oil. We can take at least pieces of the Earth and—this is something we haven’t done for quite a while—leave them better than we found them.” Wilson is excited about the

upcoming four-day U.S. Biochar Conference, which will be held at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park from July 29 to Aug. 1. Among the topics covered at the conference will be an overview of the physical and chemical characteristics of biochar, information on growing sustainable biomass for use in making biochar and the economics of biochar (head to www.2012.biochar.us.com to learn more and to register). “There is going to be a lot of discussion about the use of biochar on working farms,” Wilson said. “Registration is open to anyone,” she added. “It will be a wonderful conference for anyone who really wants to learn about biochar.” Ω

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Cedric has two Same-sex parenting is becoming the new normal Summer is for families Welcome to the CN&R’s first Family Issue Summer is a wonderful time for families—the kids are out of school, the weather is perfect for camping or going to the beach, lovers are getting married and starting new families, extended families are coming together for big reunions, you name it. It’s also a good time for a special issue about families. As we at the CN&R were enjoying the summer months with our families, we got to thinking that it would be fun to do a special issue devoted to stories about today’s families and the issues they face. As you’ll see, the stories we’ve come up with cover a range of topics, from finding child care to the challenges same-sex parents confront, from smart-phone apps for new parents to the question of which is more effective, attachment parenting or tiger parenting. This is the first of what we hope will be an annual special issue, similar to our annual Bike Issue. Please let us know what you think of it.

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he most common question we heard was what he was going to call us,” Melissa Hormann said when asked how people reacted when she and her partner, Stephanie Lingsch, decided to have a baby together. “We had to think about it, since it seemed to be the main thing people wanted to know. We decided to let him choose, by Ken Smith to let it happen naturally.” kens@ Hormann and Lingsch sat togethnewsreview.com er on a swing in their yard while photos by their now 3-year-old son, Cedric, Kyle Delmar oversaw a major excavation project a few yards away, shifting dirt around the garden with a large toy tractor named “Scoop.”

Hormann told me the names he chose—she’s Ma Melissa and Stephanie is Mom most of the time, but Cedric also likes to call her by the pet name he picked up from Hormann—“Sweetie Peaches.” Construction was abandoned as Cedric perked up at the name. “Sweetie Peaches!” he yelled with glee as he ran to join his moms on the swing. The family dog, a mixed-breed named Henry, watched attentively, and the family cat lay nearby, sunning herself in the perfectly manicured lawn of the home they all share. It’s the American Dream in action circa 2012, a banner year when even the President of the United States can openly voice his opinion that same-sex couples are entitled to the same privileges as all Americans, including marriage. Though Hormann and Lingsch are not yet married, they regard Obama’s announcement as an evolutionary step. “I love that he was influenced by his daughters, who said that treating people differently just doesn’t make any sense,” Hormann said. “For an adult to be affected by a

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is actively included in decisions about Cedric, and no conflicts have arisen. “We’re all pretty much on the same page, and my brother is my best friend,” Hormann said.

This family support extends to Cedric’s grandparents. Hormann says she is blessed with “poster P-Flag parents,” referring to the support group Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and Lingsch’s mother lives in Paradise and sees Cedric and helps with child care. Lingsch also has a gay sibling, a sister who is raising a 12-year-old boy with her partner. “It’s nice that his cousin can be kind of a role model for him as he grows up and faces anything, because he has two moms, too,” Lingsch said. “My mom jokes that her straight kids didn’t do anything for her as far as having a grandchild, but it was her gay kids that came through,” Hormann said. As for issues of prejudice or homophobia, the women said they haven’t experienced much firsthand, but they chalk this up to a large and accepting circle of friends and Chico’s inherent progressiveness. “It’s not like we plan on enrolling [Cedric] in a rightwing Christian school or anything where we might face that type of opposition, so we just figure we’ll cross the bridges as we come to them,” Lingsch said. “If I ever do sense that from people, they tend to just clam up and not say anything rather than open hostility,” she added. Hormann wasn’t as lucky growing up in northern Wisconsin, where she didn’t even know what a lesbian was until a friend came out to her and explained it when she was 18. “I had internalized homophobia, and after that I would sleep out on the deck when I stayed with them, I was afraid to sleep in their house. But everything started to make sense more and more, and I was able to realize who I was. Then I moved to Chico in 1983, and my whole world changed. “But now, even [in Wisconsin], people are more accepting,” she continued. “I went to my high school reunion and everyone was perfectly wonderful. Things have to move in that direction; it’s evolution. “My grandma graduated from grade school, my mom from high school, and I graduated from college. Everything’s moving along. It seems really slow sometimes, but that’s progress. Things are already so different than when I was 18, and I’m confident they’ll be even better for Cedric.” Ω more FAMILY continued on page 20

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What do doulas do? For expectant mothers—and their partners—they offer skillful support 24/7 by

Carson Medley

t 41, I thought I had dodged the bullet. But one Indian summer night last September, Julia came into my office with the words that planted the bullet right in my gut and sent me sprawling to the floor. “I’m pregnant.” I could tell by the bemused severity of her tone that this was no practical joke. I pulled fetal and laughed hysterically for a good five minutes. God works in mysterious ways, I heard my mother whispering in my ear. I was ecstatic and terrified. I did not know where to turn. Neither one of us did. About a week later, Julia came to me and said she wanted a doula. The word put the wheels of my imagination in motion. What’s a doula? I thought of witches coming to a barn on a full moon and slaughtering a lamb and smearing the blood on our faces while we sipped a broth of puppy dog tails and medieval snails and a satyr played the banjo while my fiancée gave painful birth in a pile of fresh hay with an instrumental of “Stairway to Heaven” as our theme song.

Fast-forward four months, a U-Haul move from San Luis Obispo, and two OB-GYNs later. Julia and I stood in front of the store Mother Nurture, which, sadly, has now closed, and huddled in the biting January air beneath an awning. Two women were already there, and they were talking about childbirth with the verve of two Star Trek fanatics discussing their favorite episode. Doulas, I thought? They looked more like faculty from the Department of English. “When are you due?” one of the women asked Julia, whose bump was more akin to a racquet ball. Yes, these were doulas. Julia had gotten the time for the doula meeting wrong. We were an hour early. “No problem,” said the doula. “You can sit in on our pre-meeting.” A few minutes later, another woman showed up with keys in her hand and unlocked the door. “Welcome to the Chico Doula Circle,” she said. I had no idea what to expect. We went into the back room of Mother Nurture, and within 15 minutes all six founding doulas of the Chico Doula Circle had arrived. Each doula introduced herself, giving her background and experience. Amber Dayney, Anne Junge, Christa Cottrell, Kim Humble, Sorrell Bobrink and Stacie Bingham immediately won my trust. Stacie, for example, told us she’d “attended over 120 births as a doula, logged 1,000-plus 20 CN&R June 14, 2012

hours as an educator, and helped many, many moms and babies with breastfeeding.” The others were similarly experienced. I was in immediate awe of these women, ashamed at my preconceived notions that this meeting was going to play out like a community theater version of The Witches of Eastwick. Stacie asked if there was anything Julia and I wanted to talk about. We had thousands of questions but were both hesitant to ask. I did have one burning question, though, so I let it fly: “We’re struggling with whether we should circumcise our child. What are your thoughts?” Thus began an hour-long discussion on circumcision that was unbiased, intellectual, entertaining, and, most important, informational. Julia squeezed my hand. I looked at her and smiled. We knew we had made the right decision.

We sat in a circle and talked about birth the entire time. No question was a dumb question, and even though the doulas had probably answered these questions a thousand times, there was never the slightest hint of boredom in their cadence. Meet the doulas:

The Chico Doula Circle meets the first and third Thursday of every month from 7-8:30 p.m. at La Casita Primera Preschool, 2035 Esplanade in Chico. The event is free, and the doulas welcome you and your family to come meet them and learn more about their services. Go to www.chicodoulacircle.com for more information and contact numbers.

Three hours later, Amber asked if we had any other questions. Sure, I thought, how am I ever going to afford this? I’m an unemployed college English instructor who just moved to town. Given all of their knowledge and experience, I figured there was no way I could afford their services, but figures lie and liars figure. I cleared my throat and asked as politely as possible: “How much will all this cost?” “The fee for our package of birth doula services is $400,” Anne said. “A portion of this is paid at the time you sign on with our group, and full payment is expected by 36 weeks of pregnancy. And if this presents a financial burden, we do operate on a sliding scale, so let us know what you’re comfortable with.” Labor support. Postpartum visit. Workshops twice a month. Birth plans. Breastfeeding support. “Oh,” Christa added, “once you’re established as a client, we’re here for you day and night.” “All six of us,” Sorrell said. “We’ll provide you with complete prenatal support,” Kim added, “whether you just need to talk, or you’re wondering if your labor may have begun.” We couldn’t believe it. These women were genuinely interested and put Julia’s wishes, her feelings, first. We were receiving an education. “So, a doula is, like, a birth coach?” I asked. “No,” Stacie said with the quickness of lightening. “A doula helps promote the mental and physical health of the mother, baby and

Doula Sorrell Bobrink (dark hair) offers prenatal advice to several expectant parents as doulas Amber Dayney, on her left, and Christa Cottrell, on her right, look on. PHOTO BY MATT SIRACUSA

family by providing continuous emotional and physical support.” “We’re your advocate,” Amber added. “Childbirth is a time of uncertainty and doubt. We help gather the information necessary for the woman and her partner to make informed decisions during labor and birth.” Ultimately, the doulas offer empowerment, and want to make sure that the most beautiful and important day of your life proceeds as you envision it, not the way the hospital sees it being played out. As I type this, Julia and I are five days late. There has been a dramatic drop in barometric pressure, rain is tap dancing on my roof, tonight is a full moon, and Julia has started to feel a strange cramping sensation. We have the on-call calendar of doulas on our refrigerator. Amber has already called three times to check in. We are not panicking. We have no anxiety. We will let nature takes its course. When the baby, not the doctor, decides he or she is ready to come out and Julia starts to feel the real pains of labor, we will call our doula. She will come over and comfort us, and when it’s time to go up to Feather River Hospital, she will be with us, through it all. What’s to fear with friends like these? Ω

Precious cargo Local nonprofit aids parents in their pursuit of child care by

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onnie Roberson’s children are grown, but she remembers all too well what it was like when she had her first baby and was looking for child-care providers. Back then, she was a recent graduate of Chico State’s Child Development Program and planning to pursue a teaching credential. But then that sweet little baby, a boy, changed those plans. Instead of returning to the university, she opened a family-day-care business in her home, where she was able to care for her own children, four altogether, as well as children from other families—many other families over the course of 23 years. For the past 11 years, she’s worked at Valley Oak Children’s Services. The local nonprofit specializes in assisting both child-care providers and families in a variety of ways, including helping working parents find child care, which, as Roberson attests, can be a difficult and stressful experience. “The thought of talking to people you don’t know and leaving your baby with them is tough,” she said. Roberson, a child-development coordinator with Valley Oak, gives parents referrals of licensed providers—family (in-home) providers, child-care centers and certain exempt providers—with openings to fill. (The service is free.) The options are narrowed by certain information, such as the child’s age, the desired location, along with

the requested days and hours of care. That info is entered into a computer program, resulting in a randomized list, she said. To make sure parents aren’t overwhelmed, Roberson said she gives parents only about 10 providers at a time. And her advice to parents is to call everyone on the list. Of course, that initial call should be followed up by an in-person visit, ideally more than one, she said. “I encourage parents to spend a long time with the provider to make sure it’s going to be a good fit,” she said. Parents should ask a lot of questions and thoroughly check out the environment, she said. To that end, Roberson gives them a list of good questions through a handout titled “Choosing Child Care—5 Steps to Finding Care,” which advises parents to be informed, look, count, ask and listen (as in “listen for joyful noise from the children”).

Roberson noted that the referrals aren’t recommendations and was echoed by Karen Marlatt, executive director of Valley Oak, who stressed that parents are encouraged to call the organization should questions or concerns arise. Workshops for parents and childcare providers are available through the organization, as well as books, toys and other resources through its library. “We see ourselves as a family-strengthen-

Be informed:

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ing organization,” she said. Roberson said each family’s needs and preferences vary. Some parents like the idea of leaving their children with a family provider in a home-like environment, while others feel more comfortable with center-based care, where there are multiple caregivers on hand. She explained some of the major differences between the two types of providers. In a nutshell, family caregivers must be fingerprinted and have background checks, plus obtain 15 hours of health and safety training. Centers must adhere to those requirements, but have additional educational components for its staff members, including a mandatory on-site director. (Check out the state Department of Social Services’ child-care fact sheets at http://ccld.ca.gov/PG2683.htm to learn more.) Ratios are another factor families need to consider. The ratio at a center is one adult for a maximum of four infants (children under age 2) and one-to-12 for children ages 3 to 5. The ratios for family-day-care homes are more complicated. Small in-home providers licensed for six children, for example, may have no more than three infants. Large providers licensed for 12 children may have no more than four infants. (There are licenses for 8- and 14-child providers, as well). Roberson refers parents to Community Care Licensing, the state agency under the

Babies Jonah, Kionah and Caydence during lunchtime at Bright Beginnings Childcare in Chico. Bright Beginnings aide Angie Rodriguez snuggles with 9-month-old Jenavieve.

Department of Social Services, to review the perspective provider’s facility file, which holds any complaints as well as info on mandated evaluations. Valley Oak isn’t an evaluating or licensing agency, and has nothing to do with enforcement, she noted. But even if a provider has a stellar record, Roberson said parents should not hesitate to walk away should they sense something is off. “I always tell people, ‘Go with your gut,’” she said. Ω more

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A well-balanced childhood Two Butte County professionals discuss parenting styles

t’s no secret that the way parents raise their children has lifelong implications. Though there are exceptions, a stable childhood will usually make for a stable adult. But recently exactly how one goes about providing that foundation has been a subject of heated debate. Amy Chua’s 2011 book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother captured the nation’s attention with the authoritarian parenting style described within, and Time magazine’s May 21 cover—of a mother breastfeeding a child many would consider too old to be nursing—turned our collective attention to attachment parenting. So is there really any particular method a parent hoping to raise a sound-minded child should adopt? Two Butte County professionals with insight in child development discussed the importance of the parent-child relationship.

Development program at Chico State since 2000. “How old is too old? That’s a matter of discussion,” she said. “When children have bad dreams, they often come in and sleep with their parents. It’s a matter of choice—how much privacy do you want?” Attachment parenting has been in practice for thousands of years and is still widespread around the world, especially in poor countries where a mother working in the fields with a baby tightly wrapped around her back is a common sight. And increasingly women in the United States are bringing baby on errands in much the same fashion. Some would argue, however, that constant affection hinders a child’s future independence. “Sometimes, children will seem too dependent on the parent rather than supporting that ongoing autonomy,” Groves said. “That’s something parents have to think about when they do this. You want to foster autonomy and growth but also a sense of caring and concern, so there’s definitely a balance.”

The term “attachment parenting” was coined by William and Martha Sears in The Baby Book, which has become a bible for childrearing since its publication in 1993. Tenets of attachment parenting include breastfeeding for as long as possible, providing nurturing touch, positive discipline and “safe sleep.” For many parents, that includes sleeping in the same bed with their child, a principle of dispute that has no clear-cut timeline, said Melissa Groves, a professor in the Child

On the other side of the spectrum lies tiger parenting, a style at the core of conservative Chinese culture that places extreme emphasis on individual accomplishments and work ethic, often at the sacrifice of typical kid stuff. In her book, Chua details the raising of her own children, who weren’t allowed to have playmates, participate in school plays or play an instrument other than piano or violin and were held to the highest academic standards. Obviously, it is rare for most American

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parents to adopt such a demanding style, but emotional detachment between children and parent is common in Butte County, said Joe Taylor, director of the Chico Creek Counseling Center. “I had a parent a while back, a mom in her mid-20s with a 5year-old child,” he said. “The child was doing a great job in fantasy play. She had her dollhouse out on the table, but mom didn’t know what to do. I had to coach her through it, word for word. Getting down on their level, making eye contact, sitting close to them—these are real simple things so many parents don’t know how to do.” And to illustrate how important such detachment can be for lifelong development, Taylor reflected on how often he counsels adults with troubled childhoods. “Say you have an adult come in with an anxiety disorder or depression. How often is that rooted in childhood? I’d say about 100 percent of the time.” Taylor believes many parents are neglectful without realizing it, putting too much emphasis on academics and extracurricular activities in lieu of simple family time. “When I go on a walk with my grandchildren, it could take us 20 minutes to go 20 feet,” he said. “We don’t learn to be so busybusy as a child. We like to literally stop and

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smell the roses and look at the bugs.” Groves agrees the best way parents can ensure their child has the best chance for sound development is attentiveness. “We’re always looking for the golden ticket for parenting success, and I say it’s really paying attention, supporting your child, giving them challenges and not being afraid of letting them have some disruptions and not always coming to their rescue,” Groves said. “Most people find themselves somewhere between attachment and tiger parenting, and that works pretty well.” Ω

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BabyPhone Deluxe Instead of spending money on baby monitors, use your smart phone. Set your phone near your sleeping child, and the app will dial the configured phone number—say, your partner’s phone—when the baby’s noises go above the volume you set. This app also comes with a recorder to record and download your baby’s babblings. Available for Android is Baby Monitor, a free app that texts or alerts you when your baby is crying. BabyPhone Deluxe is available for iPhone, $2.99; Baby Monitor, Android, free.

White Noise Subtle ambient sound can help calm babies and lure them to sleep. The White Noise app plays sounds on repeat at various volumes. Based on the reviews, adults seem to like it, too. Available for iPhone, 99 cents, and Android, free for Lite version.

Baby Connect Track your baby’s eating and sleeping patterns, as well as doctor appointments, medications, habits and more with Baby Connect’s timeline interface. Several alternatives are available, including Baby ESP (Eats, Sleeps and Poops) and Feed Baby Pro. Available for iPhone, iPad and Android, $4.99. A free web component syncs with the app.

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a handy mobile cookbook. A Lite version is available, but for nutritional information and specific cooking guidelines, the paid version is more thorough. Available for Android, $1.99.

Lullaby for Babies If you’re tired of singing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” for the hundredth time, let this app to take over for you. Choose a song and set it to loop. Available for Android, free.

Kid Care While an app should never be used in the place of legitimate, professional medical advice, Kid Care, created by the St. Louis Children’s Hospital, is a good option for new parents who may have trouble identifying a serious ailment. Parents can search by symptoms, and the app will provide information on illnesses or injuries that match. It will also indicate the level of severity. Available for iPhone and Android, free.

Baby Brain Development This app uses scientific studies to help you track the brain development of your child. Like the Kid Care app, it should not be used in place of medical advice, but it’s a good quick resource to see how your child is progressing. Available for iPhone and Android, $1.99.

I Love Potty Training Help ease the transition into potty training through the games and features offered with this app. Created by a children’s book author, I Love Potty Training has an interactive story and reward system. It will even send your child a diploma once potting training is complete. Comments from iTunes and parenting websites have mentioned its usefulness with children on the autism spectrum. Two different versions are available for girls and boys, as well as English and Spanish versions. Available for iPhone and iPad, 99 cents.

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Arts & Culture Chico mix The busy local acoustic scene produces four new albums

Make a Home

Integration of the Awkward

MaMuse MaMuse’s new effort is the duo’s most sophisticated studio work yet, cementing the singers’ ethereal acoustic folk niche that has captivated Chico and beyond. Anchored by the songwriting, instrumentation and soaring vocals of sisters-in-song Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nutting, Awkward’s 10 new offerings are buoyant and uplifting charmers, each with its own special distinction. “Goodness Is,” the second track, exemplifies the album’s collective optimism: “And we’ll plant a garden and we’ll plant our feet/ and we’ll grow the love between us.” The women’s delicate voices continue to express the humility, sensitivity and kindness that have enabled the Chico-based group’s initial local splash to ripple toward ever-wider audiences. Mike Wofchuck’s bongos and other soft percussive contributions have found permanent footing in the band these days, adding an important organic tribalism to the mix. And, the amazing cover art by Mara Friedman of New Moon Visions Sacred Art adds another lovely dimension. Other tunes include the comforting lullaby-like “Constellation,” the Joni Mitchell-reminiscent “Hard to Handle,” and the whimsical “Love Poem,” which offers a comforting view of mortality: “When I die I ain’t gonna die afraid/ all my life’s a little love poem to my grave/ A little love poem to the ground where I’m from and where I’m bound to go.” —ALAN SHECKTER

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Ha’Penny Bridge I like this album a lot, and it’s not just because I’ve been friends with its auteur, Mark McKinnon, since we both had hair down to our butts. I’ve listened to it so often already that I can’t get some of its tunes out of my head, which is a real credit to Mark, who wrote all the songs but one, and to his band, which plays and sings them with affection and skill. Good music begins with good songs, and Mark has an Irish poet’s feel for lyrics and story telling and a California musician’s ability to wrap them in sweet melodies. It doesn’t hurt that Ha’penny Bridge is composed of some fine players and singers, including the lovely Molly McNally Paul joining Mark on lead vocals, Vita Segalla on fiddle, Jewel Cardinet on mandolin, Tom Haber on bass, Bo Bowen on flute and whistles, Curtis Paul on drums and Zach Cowan on congas. Some of the songs, like the title tune, are rollicking, and others, like the gorgeous “Holy Ground,” are elegiac. There are love songs (“I Went Out Walking”) and political love songs (“The Running Man”) and even a cowboy Celtic song (“The Blue Winds of Summer”). Give these tunes a couple of listens, and you’ll be humming them in your dreams, guaranteed. —ROBERT SPEER

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Envelope Peasant & the Scientific Orchestra No matter how easy the humming once you’ve heard a melody, it is a very difficult thing to invent a memorable one. So, it is pretty astonishing that Envelope Peasant, aka Chico singer/songwriter/guitarist Sean Harrasser, has fashioned at least one pleasing earworm for each of the 11 songs on this acoustic project with his Scientific Orchestra (Melissa “Texas” Patterson on cello, violin and vocals; Andy Oldon, piano; Spencer Holmes, stand-up bass). After each listening, I had a different refrain taking over my brain for the day: I would find myself hollering out “You wanna stop your eyes/ You wanna stop your brain/ You wanna stop the single note that makes you stray” (“A Single Note”); swinging a beer stein along with, “And I wish, yes I wish this could all stay the same/ But then you like the sunlight and I like the rain.” (“Sunlight, Rain”), and crying into that beer to “It feels like a splinter/ and oh god it hurts/ and I’ll write you this letter/ for all that it’s worth” (“Feels Like a Splinter”). When it comes to Harrasser’s vocal approach, mileage may vary. He does sing pretty in plenty of spots, but he’s just as often caterwauling like a madman and shoving a lot of words into each line. But, for those who’ve warmed up to him (like this writer), that’s when he’s actually at his emotional best. A very engaging collection of diverse and well-played songs of love, loss, nature and wanderlust. —JASON CASSIDY

Lament to Death

The Railflowers With Lament to Death Chico’s sweet-voiced Railflowers deliver an authentic alt-country/folk/bluegrass mélange that could have come straight out of the backwoods or the bayou. Quiet and intimate, the new disc gives fans 10 new, melodious sing-alongs that journey into musical domains occupied by such notables as Roseanne Cash and Gillian Welch. The opening number, “Homestead,” is delivered with an old-timey gospel groove, with the calming message, “We’re going home to the country/ never had a mind for these city ways,” while the next track, “Burning,” prompts the listener to sing out loud the lyric, “Burning, I’m on fire,” long after the disc is over. “Silent Voice” offers perfect three-part harmonies made stronger by the Knight siblings’ seeming telepathic power, and the traditional “Never Grow Old” closes out the collection in stirring fashion. Led by the sisters Beth (mandolin), Hannah (banjo) and Ellen Knight (guitar), vocalists all, with Emma Blankenship on the stand-up bass, Lament also includes generous helpings of Deren Ney (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers) on guitar and a dash of Aaron Redner (Hot Buttered Rum) on fiddle. The whole disc was produced by Hot Buttered Rum’s Nat Keefe. While The Railflowers’ have mastered the harmonious, gentle end of the Americana sound spectrum, next time out it would be great to hear the band kick-up their heels with a few dust-shaking, up-tempo numbers as well. —ALAN SHECKTER

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THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: funky world-jam-iness with Tyler Matthew Smith, easy listening with Love Sick Romeo, Sirens in Sanity belldancers and more. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

Music JAMES SLACK BAND: Oroville’s weekly Concerts in the Park series kicks off with James Slack Band, a local country and southern rock outfit. Th, 6/14, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011; www.frrpd.com.

Theater KISS ME KATE: A musical based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew with plenty of laughs and memorable tunes. Th-Sa, 7:30p; Su, 2pm through 6/24. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

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TWENTIETH CENTURY: The story of an egomaniacal Broadway director who attempts to persuade his former chorus girl—now a movie star—to return to the stage. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 6/24. $12-$16. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

Special Events LINKS FOR LITERACY: The CN&R’s annual golftournament benefit to raise funds to buy books for Butte County Library’s Children’s Summer Reading Program. Shotgun start, hole-in-one prizes and a lot of fun on the links. Register online. M, 6/18, 10am. Tuscan Ridge Golf Course, 3100 Skyway Blvd. in Paradise, (530) 624-7006, www.newsreview.com/ chico/linksforliteracy.

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evening of killer blues guitar with husky bluesman Chris Cain and guitar-hero Laurie Morvan. Tu, 6/19, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

KISS ME KATE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

Art Receptions HONEYMOON BABY BLANKET: A showcase of local artistic talent to celebrate the opening of Chico’s newest art venue, with music by Ayrian and more. F, 6/15, 7-11pm. Free. Manas Art Space & Gallery; 1441 C Park Ave.; (530) 588-5183.

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FAMILY NIGHT OUT: Movies in the Park and Neighborhood Night Out come together with music by the Alice Peak Experience for this new CARD event. Showing: E.T.: The ExtraTerrestrial. Sa, 6/16, 6pm. Free. One Mile Recreation Area; Bidwell Park; (530) 896-7200.

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Theater KISS ME KATE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Music RISE UP SINGING: A choral concert with Doin It Justice and John-Michael Sun, directed by Warren Haskell. Proceeds benefit Shalom Free Clinic. Su, 6/17, 7pm. $5-$15. Congregational Church of Chico; 1190 E. First Ave.; (530) 5188300.

TOURING THE IVORIES: Pianists Scott Davis and Michele McLaughlin reach beyond the boundaries of the contemporary solo piano genre, embracing elements of rock, classical, Irish folk, and even heavy metal. Su, 6/17, 7pm. $15$20. Faith Lutheran Church; 667 E. First Ave. Near Mangrove; (530) 895-3754; http://flchico.org.

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Special Events COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly comedy night on Wednesdays inside Spirits Lounge at Gold Country Casino. W, 8pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: A summer celebration with music by Alex Brown, Pat Hull and the Perpetual Drifters and comedy by Bob and Yusef. Food from Bustolini’s Deli, beer and wine will be available. W, 6/20, 7-9pm. $10. Chico Peace and Justice Center; 526 Broadway; (530) 893-9078; www.chico peace.org.

Art 1078 GALLERY: Interpreting Structures, two artists who take different approaches to address either cultural or personal interpreation within structural form. Through 6/30. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Sal Casa Gallery, some of Sal Casa’s early work depicting classic Sicilian culture. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: A Sense of Place, an exhibition of works by Phyllis Cullen and the California Fiber Artists. Through 6/23. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

Garcia. Ongoing. 225 Main St. D, (530) 8953282.

BUSTOLINIS DELI & COFFEE HOUSE: Holly

Siemens, new works. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Closed Sunday. 800 Broadway St., (530) 892-1790.

CAFE FLO: Skateboard Art, by local Maia Illa.

Through 6/30. 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Contemporary Woman 6, a juried exhibition of 66 works by 40 contributing artists. Art Center. Also, Salon des Refuses, an exhibition of “refused” works on display in the lobby gallery. Through 6/23. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Joel Collier

Photography, a display of Joel Collier’s photography on all three floors of the City Municipal Center building. Through 7/13. 411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 896-7200.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Dragonflies and Damselflies, a photo exhibit by Robert Woodward. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

EMPIRE COFFEE: Windows, photos by Kyle Delmar, displayed in such a fashion as to create the illusion of reality. Through 6/30. 434 Orange St. Between 4th & 5th in train car, (530) 899-8267.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Current exhibits, by Northern California artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Currently featuring watercolors by Amber Palmer. Ongoing. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Oaxacan Huipiles & Prints, Brightly colored Huipils woven by Guatemalan women, telling stories of their heritage. Also exhibiting etchings depicting Mexican wrestlers, folklore and mythologies by Charles Barth. Through 7/28. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE:

Reconstructed, original artworks by Andy Greer. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Open daily. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY:

Beautiful Impressions, paintings and prints by Jon Shult and sculpture by Tamara Bonet. Through 6/23. 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Celebrating the

Figure, an exhibition of of pastels, chalk, pencil, water color, acrylic paints and various inks from 12 local artists. Through 6/30. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.

SATORI COLOR & HAIR DESIGN: Gitta Brewster, 13 locally-created paintings on display. Through 7/15. 627 Broadway St. 120.

THE VAGABOND ROSE GALLERY & FRAMING: Will Chiapella Photography, “lost” B&W film images and digital photographs from abroad on display. Through 7/31; Tu, 7/31, 10am-5pm. 236 Main St., (530) 343-1110.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Cradleboards: Carrying on the Traditions, an exhibition of cradleboards, commonlyused by many Native American cultures to carry and protect infants. Through 6/15. CSUC Meriam Library Complex.

Call for Artists ART INSPIRED BY CHICO: The Chico Museum is planning a multi-media exhibit (including poetry, art, videos, sculptures, textiles and music) of original creations inspired by Chico. Go online for submission guidelines. Through 7/1. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

CHICO ICONS: An exhibit that will focus on the endangered, fragile and precious aspects of our natural and man-made environment in Chico. Go online for a full prospectus. Through 6/30. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, http://tiny url.com/d3b8jgg. PHOTO BY AARON POFFENBERGER (VIA FLICKR)

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

Summer kick-offs Who cares what the calendar says, it’s already summer in Chico, and this week there are two perfect events to help you jump into the season with the rest of your community. Tonight, June 14, at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, the Chico Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 50th annual CommuEDITOR’S PICK nity BBQ. The St. Louis-style rib competition will feature both amateur and professional que-masters, and the festivities will include live music by The Blue Hippies, business exhibits, plus a finger-licking sampling of barbecued meat. And with a Friday in between to recover, you can be plenty rested for CARD’s Family Night Out—a mash-up of its Movies in the Park and Neighborhood Night Out programs—on Saturday, June 16. Head out to Sycamore Field at One-Mile in Bidwell Park and enjoy a variety of lowcost dinner options, games, crafts, live music by the Alice Peake Experience, and after the sun goes down, a showing of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial under the stars.

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CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting hosted by the Chico Police chief to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, free your feet and your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 891-6524.

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative and uplifting group dances honoring many of the world’s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 891-8789.

EVENING STROLLS IN UPPER BIDWELL PARK: Learn about Bidwell Park’s geology, history, biology and native peoples. Meet at the Rod and Gun Club parking lot. Sa, 5-8:30pm through 6/30. Free. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, (530) 895-3730, www.upperpark.net.

FARMERS MARKET - CHICO STATE: The Organic Vegetable Project’s weekly sale of freshpicked greens of chard, kale, cabbage, flowers, herbs, veggies, farm-fresh eggs and more in the campus plaza. W, 11am-2pm. Chico State, W. First St. Plumas Hall.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more. Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot On Second And Wall Streets, (530) 893-3276.

FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh food vendors with local crafts and food booths. Sa, 7:30am-noon through 11/17. Free. Oroville Farmers Market, Montgomery & Myers, Municipal Auditorium Parking Lot Montgomery & Myers in Oroville, (530) 8795303.

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followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 6/29. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

GOLF FOR VETERANS: A program to help combat veterans socialize with other veterans on the links. Ongoing. Free. Call for details, (530) 8998549.

LET YOUR COLORS SHINE: A three-day program for children whose loved ones are battling cancer, incorporating games, art projects and sharing time. Go online for registration information and a complete schedule. 6/19-6/21, 10am-2pm. Feather River Cancer Center, 5629 Canyon View Dr. in Paradise, http://tiny url.com/ckrec9g.

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basic medical care and mental-health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 895-4707.

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SUMMER READING SKILLS PROGRAM: Chico State offers eight different reading skills programs for four-year olds through adults. Go online for a complete schedule and enrollment information. Ongoing. Opens 6/11. California State University, Chico, CSUC, (180) 096-48888, http://rce.csuchico.edu/reading.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed for those who have suffered through recent loss or turmoil looking to enhance their outlook and learn to cope. Tu, 6-7:30pm through 7/24; Through 9/25, 6-7:30pm. Lakeside Pavilion, 179 E. 19th St., 895-4711.

TEEN DAY CAMP: Teens entering grades 79 are invited to participate in two one-week sessions of ongoing stewardship and habitat restoration efforts. Call for more info. 6/186/29, 8am-1pm. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

WHAT IS BALLET?: A demonstration and seminar with dancers from the Northern California Ballet Company to encourage youth involvement. Sa, 6/16, 2pm. Free. Monday Club, 2385 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 872-1719.

For Kids CHILDREN STORY TIME SERIES: Reading events

sponsored by Lyon Books. Every other Th, 3pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-3338, www.lyon book.com.

DAY CAMP FOR KIDS: Hosted by Oroville’s YMCA, this day camp is intended to get kids outside and to begin developing healthy life-long habits. Call for more info. M-F, 6:30am-6pm through 8/17. Call for fees. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, (553) 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

SEWING, KNITTING & CRAFTS CLASSES FOR KIDS: Classes for kids hosted by Earth Girl Art. Go online for class schedule. Ongoing. Earth Girl Art, 3851 Morrow Ln., (530) 354-2680, www.earthgirlart.com.

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

VOLUNTEER FRIDAYS IN BIDWELL PARK: Volunteers will remove invasive weeds from the restoration site and help water native plants. Meet at the north end of Caper Acres. Call for more info. F, 9-11:30am through 6/22. Free. Bidwell Park One Mile Recreation, Woodland Ave., (530) 896-7831, http://tinyurl.com/c426rbo.

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or more likely several—to the Thursday Night Market. The market hosts roughly a dozen food vendors, making it ground zero for a weekly street-food rumble. I recently embarked on such a mission with a half-dozen friends, to ensure we could sample as much as possible in a single visit from a broad range of carts and stands. This was our plan of action

as we scattered up and down Broadway, each of us picking a few separate places. When we reconvened on a patch of grass at City Plaza 15 minutes later, we’d assembled a feast consisting of three Korean tacos (Annie’s Asian Grill, $5), a “boat” of tequila lime riblets (Kinder’s Meats & Deli, $5), a cheeseburger (Turri Farms, $7.75), three tamales (Maria’s Gone Tamales, $2 each), three cupcakes (Cupcake Crusader, $2 each) and two Mexican ice cream bars (La Flor de Michoacán Paletería y Nevería, $2 each). Most of us started off with a piece of beer-battered fried bacon, served on a stick from the Jimmy Jack’s Rib Shack stand ($1). Like hundreds of other people, we simply couldn’t pass up the temptation. The woman ordering next to me seemed a little disappointed with herself. “I guess I’ll take that bacon nonsense,” she ordered with a sigh. Reviews among our party were mixed, but I enjoyed it, and probably will have to spend another buck there this summer. We tried three types of Korean tacos (spicy pork, chicken and tofu), and most of us enjoyed the spicy pork ones the most, with

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imply that Earth was seeded by ancient astronauts, and before you can hum “Also sprach Zarathustra” we have our eponymous spaceship hurtling toward a destination many light years from Earth. On a trillion-dollar expedition funded by the villainous Weyland Corporation, the ship and its suspended-animation crew is tended by an unflappable android called David (Michael Fassbender). (“Hello, Dave.”) After arriving at their destination a few years later, he wakes the crew and opens the pod-bay doors to let them do some exploring. There’s some setting up of motifs and underlying metaphors before then, but they don’t really have anything to do with the narrative other than introducing us to the archaeologist couple’s shipmates: an icequeen rep for the corporation (Charlize Theron), the ship’s cigar-chomping, Christmas tree-decorating captain (Idris Elba) and an assortment of other unlikable crew members. It would have been nice if these characters had been drawn in anything but broad strokes so that we give three shits about them, but that would have gotten in the way of laying out the allusions. It takes about an hour of exploring the familiar H.R. Gigeresque terrain before people start to die. I’d say that up until then the planet was being very, very patient with these boneheads, because they seem to have been hired for their serious lack of survival instincts and their mad skillz in doing boneheaded things to keep the narrative moving. A biologist who only moments before was squalling about the catacombs in a girly panic pauses to pet a slimy space snake. That turns out as well as any rational person might expect. And then things go from pretty silly to just WTF. But not in a good WTF way. Scott is not and has never been a good storyteller. Like Kubrick, he’s not about letting a cohesive narrative get in the way of cool visuals. But unlike Kubrick, he’s Ridley Scott. So Prometheus lurches about from one set piece to another, overtly driven by how it’ll look rather than how it parses. For all its class-act special effects, bitchin’ 3D and highbrow aspirations, the script for Prometheus is as dumb as a rock. Unless you’re stoned. Ω

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domineering mother in particular. Dench is superb and Nighy is a delight, as always. Wilkinson is very good in the one truly somber role. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Opening this week

Hysteria

Set in Victorian England, the film tells the story of Dr. Mortimer Granville’s invention of the vibrator in the late-19th century in response to the hand pain the good doctor experienced from his ever-growing caseload of genital-massage treatments for so-called hysteria. Starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Rock of Ages

A country girl and a city boy with rock-star dreams hope for their big break at a popular L.A. nightclub that is about to host a huge show by big-time rocker Stacey Jaxx (Tom Cruise). The film version of the Broadway musical built on big hair and the pop-metal and powerballads of the ’80s. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

That’s My Boy

Adam Sandler plays an idiot who, while still in his early teens, fathers a kid, names him Han Solo and raises him badly until he turns 18. Twelve years later, pops needs money and tracks down his estranged son (Andy Samberg) for a loan. Hijinks ensue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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The Avengers

Once Black Widow (Scarlett Johanssen) starts kicking some ass about 11 minutes in, this superhero flick shifts gears and begins to get more awesome as it howls along. What we get next are a few origin stories, about the recruitment of the Avengers—Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk and eventually Thor and Hawkeye—as a team. As a stand-alone, it could be confusing. But if you kick back and go with the flow, that’s over soon enough and they band together to fight a common threat that has followed power-hungry god Loki to Earth. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is pretty much the center of the movie, but director Joss Whedon has also made the Hulk interesting. Helping to sell the package is Mark Ruffalo as Hulk’s alterego, turning in a performance that echoes Bill Bixby (the original live action Bruce Banner) while making the character comfortably his own. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

Battleship

After a meet-cute with the skanky daughter (Brooklyn Decker) of a barking naval commander played by Liam Neeson, a total loser (Taylor Kitsch) mans up and joins the Navy. With his brother’s help, he manages to work his way up the chain of command while remaining a screw-up. But he gets his shot at redemption when the fleet sets out on some big Navy exercise. If you’ve seen the ads, you know where this is going: Next come the aliens and the explosions. Director Peter Berg has gone from the jagged edges of Very Bad Things to being a fairly polished Hollywood stone, and here he’s delivered one very polished two-hour commercial that is at least much more visually cohesive than a Michael Bay movie. Writers Erich and Jon Hoeber also deserve some credit for floating a narrative out of the basic board game on which the film is based, managing to incorporate the iconic aspects of the game into the mix, while laying down with a subtext involving the nature of games and adding some nice touches regarding disabled vets and forgotten war relics. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

This good-natured crowd-pleaser from John Madden (Shakespeare in Love; Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) is primarily a charming field day for a small host of veteran British actors. The story, drawn from a novel by Deborah Moggach, sends a motley assortment of hardpressed Anglo senior citizens off to a cut-rate retirement home in India. Their number includes a grieving widow (Judy Dench), a bickering married couple (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton), a much-married lady (Celia Imrie) boldly seeking yet another (preferably wealthy) husband, a retired judge (Tom Wilkinson) who is gay and returning to the scene of his youth, an exultantly randy old gentleman (Ronald Pickup), and a crotchety exnanny (Maggie Smith) who’s getting an outsourced hip replacement. Late-blooming romances mingle with a medley of financial and medical issues. Individual dilemmas get a miscellany of resolutions, but the film as a whole gathers itself around the problems of Sonny (Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire), whose courtship of lovely Sunaina (Tena Desae) and amateurish management of the hotel draws the ire of his family and of his

Darling Companion

Ends tonight, June 14. The key plot points are a fading marriage and a lost dog, but plot points don’t really matter all that much in this good-natured ramble, a bunch of whimsical little anecdotes fueling what amounts to a mildly amusing comedy of manners set among mostly middle-aged suburban types. Beth Winter (Diane Keaton) is a feisty grandmother who feels somewhat neglected by her husband, Joseph (Kevin Kline), an all-business surgeon. On impulse, she adopts a stray dog, names it “Freeway,” and becomes distraught when Joseph loses Freeway while walking him in the woods. The subsequent search for Freeway brings a host of friends and relatives into play—Joseph’s sister, Penny (Dianne Wiest), and her new boyfriend, semi-retired businessman Russell (Richard Jenkins) and son Bryan (Mark Duplass), who is also a doctor; Carmen (Aylet Zurer) who is the gypsy caretaker of the Winters’ summer cabin; and a veterinarian named Sam Bhoola (Jay Ali) who tends to Freeway and marries the Winters’ daughter, Grace (Elisabeth Moss). It has fewer dramatic pretensions than The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but the basic appeal is much the same—a mostly irresistible cast playing an agreeably flaky set of characters. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13. —J.C.S.

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and the other familiar voices are back for part three in the DreamWorks animated franchise about the mismatched crew of wayward zoo animals trying to find their way back home to New York—this time via a cross-country European adventure disguised as circus animals. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Men in Black 3

The sharp-dressed partners are back, going about their comfortable routine of policing the city streets for illegal aliens—of the spaceship kind. But that routine suddenly gets really complicated when Boris “Just Boris” the Animal manages to bust out of an über-secret maximum security prison on the moon and head back to Earth for some payback on the Man in Black responsible for his down time. That man being the taciturn Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). Of course, this being a summer blockbuster, just ambushing him is sort of uninspired so Boris (Jemaine Clement) cuts a time-fart and goes back to 1968 to kill K. This results in all sorts of nasty butterfly effects being unleashed in the space/time continuum, like giant creatures descending from the sky and eating New York. The agency sends K’s partner, J (Will Smith), back to turn the fan off before the shit hits—with surprisingly amusing results. It’s complicated but not too complicated, seeing as this is a summer popcorner. But it’s a very well-crafted popcorner. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

Prometheus

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —C.B.

Snow White and the Huntsman

This is an engaging and welcome de-Disneyfication of the old fairy tale, grimed-up and pitched at teenage girls while still remaining accessible to everyone else. It has some weaknesses—a little too much gratuitous spectacle and not enough of the villain—but those are flaws only if you walk into it churlishly. Here we have Charlize Theron as wicked ice queen Ravenna, who after seducing then killing the king, locks his daughter, Snow White (Kristen Stewart), up in a dark tower to let the young girl’s beauty rot away. After she blossoms in her cell and manages to escape, a growling huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is set loose on Snow White’s trail, which also crosses that of a band of ruffian dwarves. Her adventures with the conflicted huntsman and her eight little friends adds seasoning to a rebellious stew that builds up to a Joan of Arc-ian crusade back to Ravenna’s despairing kingdom. Theron sinks her teeth into the role like it’s Shakespeare, and Stewart has an earthy beauty that plays well against medieval despair, and despite the Twilight haters, she handles herself capably here. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting

In the same vein as other recent fluffy ensemble romcoms (see: Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve), a ton of recognizable faces (J-Lo, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Banks, etc., etc.) fall into a bunch of interconnected roles—this time in the form of five couples all dealing with the ups and downs of having babies. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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dramatic screwball comedy set on a Depression-era luxury story and train and led by two of photo by the area’s finest perAlan Sheckter formers, Jerry Miller alsheck@ and Sheri Bagley. comcast.net The classic Broadway production gives the audience a twisted glimpse into the wheeling and dealing of glamorous movie stars and the Broadway producers who seek them out. Guided here by TOTR REVIEW: Executive Director Judy Twentieth Clemens, Miller gave a Century shows Thursday- commanding performSaturday, ance last Friday (June 8) 7:30 p.m. & as the play’s loveable Sunday, 2 p.m., cad, Oscar Jaffe, a through June 24, pathetically selfat Theatre on the Ridge. absorbed, pompous Tickets: $12-$14. movie producer whom some consider a lumiTheatre on nary while those who the Ridge get a peek at the real 3735 Neal Rd., Paradise man behind the curtain 877-5760 more accurately know www.totr.org him as a cretin. Jaffe, who faces financial ruin after a dreadful money-losing Joan of Arc-based production, is financially exhausted to the point that his theater is near foreclosure. We find him and his assistants searching for answers on an overnight Chicago-toNew York 20th Century Limited train ride on which one of Jaffe’s former stars, Lily Garland, happens to be traveling. Jaffe is motivated to sign Garland to a contract—problem is, his next hit play has not yet been written. That doesn’t deter Jaffe, who will do anything to get her name on the dotted line. Presented on a stage that simultaneously houses two drawing rooms and an observation car, action breezily flittered between the three locations, with clever lighting techniques defining which room the audience should focus upon while minor action occasionally continues in

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the two alternate rooms, enough to add extra atmosphere, but subdued enough to not impede on the main action. Bagley superbly assumed the persona of the jewel-festooned Garland, an over-privileged actress who is as histrionic as she is alluring. Garland has the two-faced ability to proclaim both her love and hate of a man within 20 seconds and is convinced that she is unfairly oppressed despite her elevated status. “Why do they do this to me? What do they think I’m made of?” she whines. “All of them, tearing at my nerves. All I want is a little peace.” Jaffe the schemer is flanked by his loyal manager, Ida, and trusty assistant, Owen. The assertive and effectual Ida, portrayed with admirable conviction by Miller’s real-life wife, Teresa Hurley, is his closest confidant, absorbing mercurial behavior that ranges from partial strangulation to adoring praise. Owen, who sees through his boss’s deceptions and trickery but nevertheless remains his confidant, was effectively played by Eric Ricketts. Also on the train is Jaffe’s most direct competition, Max Jacobs (Richard Lauson), whom Jaffe remembers as Max Mandelbaum. “He started out selling herring on 34th Street till they arrested him for unclean practices.” Jaffe’s dis-

dain for Jacobs is apparent when he summons Owen to send a wire to Jacobs, which begins, “Dear Max: You are the foulest, most vile, putrid piece of trash that ever walked this earth—and I say that with all due respect.” Ken Mathieson partially stole the show as Matthew Clark, a very animated religious zealot with an “overwhelming desire to save people,” and who made a fortune selling laxative tablets. Sean Green was excellent as Garland’s young manager/lover George Smith, and John Duncan who in the last two years has really established himself in the area as a top-notch actor capable of adapting a wide variety of roles, did a splendid job as the Conductor, the only straight man in the play. As TOTR’s most enduring figure, Lauson consummately assumed three roles: the detective, an individual known as “The Beard,” as well as the fatcigar-smoking, beret-wearing, loud-mouthed producer Max Jacobs. The question of the play: Will the past collaborations of Jaffe and Garland lead to renewed success, or will his overzealous pipe dream promises bring him and the famehungry star to ruin? It’s well worth heading up to Paradise to Ω find out.

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On July 19th, Chris Robinson (former lead singer of the Black Crowes, sellers of over 30 million albums) brings his Chris Robinson Brotherhood to the Big Room for their only California appearance north of Los Angeles. The Brotherhood is a Grateful Dead like kaleidoscope of chooglin’ soul and bedrock boogie. With Robinson (lead vocals, guitar), Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Adam MacDougall (former Black Crowes, keys, vocals), George Sluppick (drums) and Mark Dutton (bass, vocals) they feature an exuberant California sound with tendrils reaching all the way back to the original Fillmore West.

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THURSDAY 6|14—WEDNESDAY 6|20 SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. Th, 6/14, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

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ing local country. Th, 6/14, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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15FRIDAY 14THURSDAY ACCORDION BABES: Two of San

Francisco’s Accordion Babes—Amber Lee Baker and Renee de la Prade—play a free happy-hour show. Th, 6/14, 57:30pm. Free. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

midnight. Lynns Optimo; 9225 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 872-1788.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

FUNKY KINGS: The Funky Kings and Mud Creek Kenny play everything country and rock. Th, 6/14, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499; www.tackleboxchico.com.

JAMES SLACK BAND: The weekly Concerts in the Park series kicks off with James Slack Band, a local country

and southern rock outfit. Th, 6/14, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 5332011; www.frrpd.com.

JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends, featuring Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic mix of tunes all night. Th, 6:30-9:30pm. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical guitarist Matteo plays film scores and light classics. Th, 6pm. Free. Angelos Cucina Trinacria; 407 Walnut St.; (530) 899-9996.

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

REGGAE NIGHT: DJ PhG giving you the best in roots, dub and dance Hall reggae. Th, 6/14, 9pm. $1. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

ASHLEY BUCHART: A former opera singer

turned country belle. F, 6/15, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

CHAD BUSHNELL: Live country fresh out of Red Bluff. F, 6/15, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: SPARK ’N’ CINDER: The weekly concert series continues with the calypso, funk, blues, reggae and jazz of Spark ’n’ Cider. F, 6/15, 78:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

FUNKY KINGS BLUES BAND: The name

says it all—bring those dancin’ shoes. F, 6/15, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the

Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffys Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

JOHN TRENALONE: Jazz and Broadway

standards. F, 6:30-8:30pm through 10/26. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220

W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestau rant.com.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. F, 6/15, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

SOUL BUTTER: Lost on Main’s Funky Fridays begins with Soul Butter and DJ Spenny. F, 6/15, 8:30pm. $4. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

THE SPAZMATICS: A whacky ’80s cover

band in the brewery. F, 6/15, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feath erfallscasino.com.

ASHLEY BUCHART: A former opera singer

ONE HEADLIGHT: ’90s rock hits. Sa, 6/16,

9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770

turned country belle. Sa, 6/16, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

OUTBREAK TWENTY 12: A zombie-themed evening of dub step electronica with DJs Simple Science, Destro, Bloodshed, Triple Bit, BK and Seantron. Zombie costumes strongly encouraged. Sa, 6/16, 9pm-1:30am. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

CHUCK EPPERSON, JR.: Soulful R&B, blues and rock with Epperson and Eric Peter. Sa, 6/16, 8:30pm. Free. Farwood Bar & Grill; 705 Fifth St. in Orland; (530) 865-9900.

GUITAR PROJECT: Warren Haskell’s show-

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case of local and visiting classical guitar masters. Sa, 6/16, 7pm. $10. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans

Sa, 6/16, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar &

Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

RISE UP SINGING: A choral concert

MONTANES: Live rock music at Tackle Box.

SURROGATE: One of Chico’s most beloved rock bands bids farewell to their drummer with a final show. Big Mittens and The Shimmies open. F, 6/15, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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with Doin It Justice and JohnMichael Sun, directed by Warren Haskell. Proceeds benefit Shalom Free Clinic. Su, 6/17, 7pm. $5-$15. Congregational Church of Chico; 1190 E. First Ave.; (530) 518-8300.

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metal act from the Bay Area. Dirty Filthy Mugs and Master Lady open. W, 6/20, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Join the jam. Drum kit, TOURING THE IVORIES: Pianists Scott Davis and Michele McLaughlin reach beyond the boundaries of the contemporary solo piano genre, embracing elements of rock, classical, Irish folk, and even heavy metal. Su, 6/17, 7pm. $15-$20. Faith Lutheran Church; 667 E. First Ave. Near Mangrove; (530) 8953754; http://flchico.org.

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writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo. weebly.com.

CHRIS CAIN BAND & LAURIE MORVAN BAND: An evening of killer blues guitar with husky bluesman Chris Cain and guitar-hero Laurie Morvan. Tu, 6/19, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

DON SHERIDAN: Jazz keyboard. Tu, 5-7pm.

DREW NELSON: A warm-up for the

Michigan-based songwriter’s show in Paradise the following night. David Zink opens. M, 6/18, 7:30pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St, (530) 514-8888, http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

DREW NELSON: The Michigan-based songwriter stops in Paradise while touring in support of his new album, Tilt-AWhirl. David Zink opens. Tu, 6/19, 7pm. $10 donation. Paradise Grange Hall; 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 8722067; http://paradisegrange.com.

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 57pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

SLEEPY SUN: A fuzz-happy psychedelic

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rock band from San Francisco. Voltare opens. Tu, 6/19, 10pm. $5. Duffys Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

bass rig, guitar amp and PA system are provided, bring your own instruments. All ages until 10. W, 7pm. Free. Italian Garden; 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.my space.com/theitaliangarden.

CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

cal bull contest. F, 9pm-1:30am. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

DUFFYS: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1. Duffys Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

FEATHER FALLS: Su, 8pm-midnight. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

LASALLES: Th, 10pm: DJ Mac Morris; Fr,

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

restaurant. W, 8-11pm. Tortilla Flats; 2601 Esplanade; (530) 345-6053.

SOLO JAZZ: Every Wednesday with Carey Robinson. W, 4-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

LOST ON MAIN: Best and latest reggae

and dancehall. Th, 9pm through 8/23. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

LOST ON MAIN: A brand-new electronic DJ crew. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. $3. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 895-3825.

TACKLE BOX: DJ Shelley. Tu, Su, 6pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.

LYNNS OPTIMO: F, Sa, 9pm. Lynns Optimo, 9225 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1788.

MONTGOMERY ST.: Tu, 8pm. Free. Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

QUACKERS: Th, 9pm. Free. Quackers Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 895-3825.

KARAOKE

SMOKIE MOUNTAIN: F, Sa, 9pm. Free.

CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

FEATHER FALLS: Tu, 7-11pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

KINGS TAVERN: M, Tu, 8pm. Free. Kings

Smokie Mountain Steakhouse, 7039 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-3323, www.smokiemtnsteakhouse.com.

STUDIO INN: With Brandon Hightower. Tu,

9pm-1am. Studio Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

TORTILLA FLATS: Karaoke en Espanol. Su, 8-midnight. Free. Tortilla Flats, 2601 Esplanade, (530) 345-6053.

Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

LASALLES: Su, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

LAST CALL LOUNGE: M, Th, 8pm-midnight. Last Call Lounge, 876 East Ave., (530) 895-3213.

MADISON BEAR: Dancing upstairs and on the patio. W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every Wednesday night, swing dancing lessons 8-10pm. W, 8-10pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery; 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

QUACKERS: F, 9pm. Free. Quackers

DOWN LO: DJ Ron Dare. Tu, Sa, 9pm. Free.

A PLAGUE UPON HER: One of Chico’s most hardcore two-steppin’ metal bands. Prepare for bowel-shaking amplification. W, 6/20, 9pm. $3. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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AND THE EMMY, AGAIN, GOES TO … Christopher Allan Smith and Ryan Neisz. The local video production/editing team that won a 2011 Northern California regional Emmy for Best Informational/Instructional Program/ Special for their “Every 15 Minutes” drunk-driving awareness video shot for Castro Valley High just took home a trophy at the 2012 awards as well. This time it was in the non-news editing category for another “Every 15 Minutes” special, this one for San Leandro High. Raise a glass of champagne for the homies and visit rockspots.tv to see their work. MARCH TO THE BEAT OF JORDAN Join Chico rock gods Surrogate this

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