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Confessions of a ‘taker’ N diated,” to use the coinage Sarah Palin cooked up, the right wingers have been whining that Obama’s victory was a

ow that the Tea Party’s ideas have been “refu-

triumph of “takers” over “makers.” It’s the orthodoxy at Fox News, the staple of talk radio, the divide-and-conquer mantra of reactionaries, whether in Fascist Spain in the ’30s, the deep South in the ’50s, or rural California right now. Rush Limbaugh “makes” $50 million a year peddling this nonsense and, on the day after the election, the right-wing blogs were thick with the idea that Obama won because he was Santa Claus, by giving away the makers’ candy to the Jaime O’Neill takers who want something for nothing. I’m one of those “takers,” among the The author, a retired 47 percent of Americans Romney talked Butte College English about when he divided the nation so neatinstructor, is a ly in half in remarks to wealthy donors frequent contributor that may have put the final nail in the to the CN&R. coffin of his presidential ambitions. I come from a long line of “takers.” My dad lived out his last days sucking up medical care from the Veterans Administration, a bit of freeloading he garnered while the Japanese were shooting at him in World War II. My mom lived her last days on a queenly Social Security payment of less than $1,000 a month after a lifetime of work. 4 CN&R November 15, 2012

Following the family tradition, I no longer work for a living, except for the nickels and dimes I earn from freelance writing. I’ve been a “taker” ever since I retired after some 36 years of full-time teaching in the public sector, and another dozen years of work in the private sector. After taxes, I “take” about $300 a month from Social Security, and I “take” another $2,500 a month from a system I paid into over the course of four decades. Actually, this isn’t the first time I’ve been a “taker.” I “took” a grade-school education from all those “makers” back when I was a kid, mooching off the government my parents were paying into with their hard-earned payroll taxes. My college education was subsidized, too, so I took advantage of that fact to freeload on the “makers’ ” dime, taking out student loans that took me more than a decade to repay. I was also a “taker” when a newspaper I was editing went under during the Reagan recession, allowing me to collect unemployment insurance for nearly eight months in an orgy of sponging. Now I’m a full-time “taker,” exploiting “makers” like the Romneys, or Donald Trump, or those 12 Walton family heirs who make nothing, but who have more personal wealth than the 47 percent of the “takers” Romney campaigned against combined. Ω

the state, the California State University, aided and abetted by its Board of Trustees, would win it hands down. Readers will remember that, two summers ago, the board raised student tuition by 12 percent, on top of a 10 percent hike already approved the year before, even as it was agreeing to pay the new president of San Diego State $100,000 more annually than his predecessor earned. Bad timing. Something similar is happening this year. In one of his parting acts, retiring Chancellor Charles Reed has proposed a set of special new fees for students beginning with the fall 2013 semester. The proposal comes just as voters have passed Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure premised on a promise that students not only wouldn’t see new fee increases, but also would enjoy a $250 fee rollback beginning next semester. Really bad timing. CSU officials say the fees have nothing to do with the budget, that they’re simply “incentives” designed to compel students to stay focused on graduation by taking only courses that move them forward. Students who take more units than they need, repeat courses or take 18 or more units at a time would face fee surcharges of up to $372 per unit. The goal, the officials say, is to free up space for as many as 16,000 additional students. OK, but there are better ways to keep students from repeating courses, just as there are ways to keep them from signing up for more courses than they need so they can later drop the ones they don’t like. Many colleges, for example, require that students get permission from their counselor before they can take 18 or more units. And the CSU system already forbids students to repeat classes in which they received a “C” or better. We’re encouraged that the trustees decided to remove this proposal from their meeting agenda this week. Maybe they’re wising up. A new chancellor, Timothy P. White, is scheduled to start work soon. He should be given an opportunity to find a better way to make the university more efficient. Ω

Council’s lost opportunity By approving a well-thought-out Climate Action Plan last

week, the City Council put Chico in the forefront of municipal efforts to meet the requirements of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, and other legislation mandating reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. To its credit, the council avoided placing mandates on local businesses— at least so far. Phase I of the plan, which seeks to reduce GHG levels by 10 percent from a 2005 baseline by the end of 2015, already has reached 98 percent of its goal by using voluntary incentives combined with city actions. Phase II, which will seek to reduce GHG levels an additional 15 percent by the end of 2020, will be more difficult to implement, but the council promised to make every effort to continue with voluntary programs. The plan passed 5-2, with Councilmen Mark Sorensen and Bob Evans dissenting. They wanted the council to hold off on a final vote for two weeks so local business owners would have more time to study the plan. That harmless wish was echoed by three local businessmen, including the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. But the council majority, led by Mayor Ann Schwab, insisted on moving forward immediately. That was a lost opportunity. By showing a simple courtesy, the council majority could have won greater buy-in from the business community— and, conceivably, Sorensen and Evans, and with them unanimous council approval of a significant local achievement. Ω

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The progressive majority Those of you who read Marc Cooper’s interview with Gov. Jerry Brown in our Nov. 1 issue are aware that many people, including some of Brown’s Democratic allies, were convinced he was botching the Proposition 30 campaign, operating a one-man show that was sure to lose. Of course, they said the same thing when he was running for governor. Remember how he husbanded his money and watched Meg Whitman spend her millions before launching a last-minute campaign that led to victory? Now that Prop. 30 has passed, they’re saying Brown’s a genius. Not only did the measure pass, it also played a leading role in winning Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature. But don’t expect Brown to use this newfound power to go on a spending binge. He knows voters trust him to be frugal, and it’s also part of his makeup. This is a guy who can use a Zen vow one minute (“Desires are endless. I vow to cut them down.”) and a biblical reference the next (“We need the prudence of Joseph going forward over the next seven years.”) to underscore his determination to be careful with the people’s money. That doesn’t mean, however, that the supermajorities shouldn’t be used to solve the state’s biggest problems. It’s important to recognize what happened in this election. In California, as well as nationally, a new progressive majority emerged composed of African Americans, Latinos, young people, women, gays and lesbians, you name it. What they weren’t was old, white and Republican. Here’s the deal, though: This new majority needs to be fired up. It wants action. Prop. 30 fired it up in California, young people especially. Thanks to the new online registration, nearly a million more people signed up. Exit polls showed 28 percent of voters were 18 to 29, and twothirds of them supported Prop. 30. But elections come around every two years. The Democrats could easily lose their supermajorities— unless voters remain confident that the governor and his party are taking action to move California forward. Council change-up: What’s true for California and the nation is also true for Chico, where voters showed their support for the City Council’s current 5-2 progressive majority by keeping it in place, albeit with some fresh faces. Only one conservative, Sean Morgan, won a seat, while three progressives—Ann Schwab, Tami Ritter and Randall Stone—did so. Stone, who following the election was only eight votes ahead of Andrew Coolidge for the fourth spot on the panel, has pulled ahead in the tally of mail-in ballots by a virtually insuperable 268 votes. Current Councilman Bob Evans’ loss was a surprise, and so was longtime Planning Commissioner Dave Kelley’s. Kelley’s careful positioning of himself as an unaligned moderate seemed smart at the time. On the whole, though, Chico voters weren’t looking for moderates. They favored the clearly aligned candidates—and, as it turned out, progressives more than conservatives.

About the asbestos Re “Coincidence or consequence?” (Cover story, by Tom Gascoyne, Nov. 8): Thank goodness Proposition 30 passed. Maybe now there will be interest in repairing this problem. Knock the building down, if possible! Move staff! If students studied there, parents would be up in arms. Cal-OSHA, do your work! We pay you to do this! Paul Zingg, where is your heart and courage? Do what is right. The community is watching. Friends of the deceased, your courage to speak up is inspiring. I wish you all the best—and, for what it’s worth, I have your back. P.S. I’m telling Michael Moore!

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A couple things to note: [Tami] Kilpatric’s office was on the seventh floor, and [Andy] Dick’s office was on the sixth floor. Also, I believe Holt Hall should be added to the list of buildings on campus with asbestos. When I worked there, I was told I could not have a chalk board removed from the wall because it would necessitate asbestos abatement. LESLIE SCHIBSTED Chico

Editor’s note: Ms. Schibsted is correct about the location of the offices. Our story had them reversed. The error has been corrected online.

CAP’s effect on farmers Re “CAP and no trade” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, Nov. 8): When Mayor Schwab said the City Council would decide [immediately on the Climate Action Plan], it was an interesting contrast to last year’s 15-month debate over the noise ordinance, which “had to be postponed until students could weigh in” even though they had had almost a year of expressing opinions. The decision to move on with this not only affects Chico, it affects Butte County, as it is tied to the California Air Resources Board (CARB). This board is an unelected body writing rules that are unattainable with current technologies. Farmers are being targeted in an adverse way. The cost of retrofitting their equipment is very damaging to families and the industry. The rules are convoluted, and the newer equipment being installed has turned out to be dangerous, as it often causes the exhaust to become very hot, filters getting clogged, sometimes shooting out flames, and damaging motors. Example: Old motors burning four gallons of diesel now require six gallons. For equipment such as a tractor that is used just a LETTERS continued on page 6

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couple of days a year, retrofitting is clearly not an option. To rent a piece for those few days only adds to fuel consumption and costs. This not only increases refining and transportation costs, it changes pollution from one part of the state and world to another. Not talked about is that the finer particles now being put in the air do not fall to the ground but remain airborne longer, damaging people’s lungs even more. NANCY L. HENRY Chico

Editor’s note: For the record, the city’s Climate Action Plan applies only to the greater Chico urban area.

No place to stay Re “Passing through the gate” (Guest comment, by Bill Such, Nov. 8): Chico is the first community on my Central Valley Walk for Homelessness that doesn’t provide shelter for those seeking a respite for a few nights up to a week. I tried to get in there several days ago when I arrived in Chico from Oroville. This is a misconception, as the homeless as far south as Yuba City and Marysville mentioned that Chico had a shelter similar to a rescue mission concept, when in fact it doesn’t. Your work [the Jesus Center] is vital to close that gap and one that would provide a service desperately needed in the area as the weather turns colder. Thank you for all of your passion and work for those less fortunate. BILL MASH Chico

Funny business Re “Election Day note” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, Nov. 8): I read the News & Review from time to time just to find out how politically incorrect I really am, but the Robert Speer’s column provided laughs not expected. Seems that a reader complained THE NORTH VALLEY’S #1 LOCATION FOR to Mr. Speer that the big bad Enterprise-Record did not print his “rebuttal” email regarding the E-R’s •STERLING SILVER •RARE COINS •MAPLE LEAFS endorsement of Mitt Romney. The •PLACER GOLD •SILVER DOLLARS •KRUGERRANDS reader must be really important for •GOLD & SILVER EAGLES •GOLD & SILVER JEWELRY •US PAPER CURRENCY Mr. Speer to get on David Little’s •10-24 KT SCRAP GOLD case and then to have Speer suggest SINCE 1987 that the E-R should revise the timetable for making their endorseCHICO COIN & JEWELRY ments so that dissenting opinions 894–5436 would be printed. The funniest part was how 1414 Park Ave, Suite 108 Speer actually commented about Chico, CA 95928 e w s teeth & r egrinding.” view business www.ChicoCoin.com hearingn “his I rather doubt that Mr. 03.03.11 designer ss issUe dATeSpeer MON-FRI 10AM-5PM would revise how the CN&R operFiLe nAMe lawofficesofbh030311r2

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“With Jovan, the county has no case against the Tognolis, but it does have the will to drag them through the courts, on our dime, obviously with hopes of further financially ruining them.”

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Prop. 37: two views Prop. 37 lost, 53 percent to 47 percent. We lost. Truth lost. Our children lost. The money won— Monsanto and accomplices spent $48 million telling lies, and we had only $6 million with which to tell the truth. Monsanto gets to go forward with its poisons. Monsanto gets to believe that its domination can continue and grow. For a little while. But if only money counted, we would have lost by 86 percent to 14 percent. The difference was Prop. 37’s volunteers, telling the truth—people who will be my friends for the rest of our lives. And we will never stop. We will find ways for people to vote with their dollars, their behavior. Monsanto will find a constantly decreasing return for their dollars. Monsanto’s carpetbaggers and bought-and-paid-for politicians and FDA bureaucrats will find themselves isolated and friendless. We will feed our children. CHUCK GREENWOOD Bangor

California voters are to be commended on the defeat of Prop. 37. At least we got one thing right. Also thanks to the majority of the state’s newspapers that recommended a no vote on 37. TOM DOWD Durham

The law says otherwise Re “Pot-bust flashback” (Newslines, by Vic Cantu, Nov. 8): It would seem that DA Ramsey is not reading his mail. If he were, he’d be aware of the decision published on Oct. 24 by the state appellate court in San Diego. The People v. Jovan Jackson shows Butte County’s decision to prosecute the Tognolis as nothing but vindictiveness. Jovan clearly states that storefront dispensaries are ulegal s e ounder n l y certain circumstances. With Jovan, theamb county has no ACCT eXeC case against the Tognolis, but it reV dATe new

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Thanks, Howard Re “Gay conversion, failed” (Healthlines, by Howard Hardee, Nov. 8): I want to extend my deep appreciation to Howard Hardee for his excellent work on the article covering SB 1172 and featuring my personal story within it. When Howard contacted me and said he wanted to interview me, I asked him to read my book first. I knew this was a large request, but I explained that in my experience too often interviewers miss things or accidentally misrepresent things in their efforts to get a quick story rather than a thorough and accurate story. Mr. Hardee agreed to read the book, which he did. We communicated through several emails, and then I met with him. He was again kind, sincerely interested in my story, and thoughtful in his questions and comments. When I saw the finished article I was overwhelmed with gratitude. I deeply appreciate the use of my photo and the cover of my book and the thoroughness with which SB 1172 and my story were covered. Every detail accurately represented our discussions. It was also written in a manner that was easy to read and kept the reader’s interest. Congratulations to Mr. Hardee for his excellent work. BRIAN ANTHONY KRAEMER Chico

Editor’s note: Mr. Kraemer’s kind words are appreciated. The article did include one small error, however: It mistakenly referred to SB 1172 as AB 1172. The mistake has been corrected online.

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STUDENTS SPARED OF NEW FEES

A trio of proposed new fees for California State University students has been put on hold indefinitely, the CSU Board of Trustees announced Tuesday (Nov. 13). The fees would have raised tuition for “super seniors” (students with more than 160 units), students repeating courses and those taking 18 or more units, and were aimed at increasing new enrollment at the CSU’s 23 universities. The trustees removed the proposal from the agenda of its Tuesday meeting in Long Beach attended by Gov. Jerry Brown. Just last week, CSU students were refunded about $132 million paid in advance for a tuition hike offset by the passage of Brown’s Proposition 30, a tax initiative to halt millions of dollars of “trigger cuts” to both K-12 and higher education. A local protest of the new fees scheduled for Tuesday evening was canceled after the announcement.

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TROUBLE AT JACK IN THE BOX

The owner of the downtown Chico Jack in the Box pleaded no contest Nov. 5 to a felony count of grand theft and two misdemeanor counts of misappropriation of sales tax and nonpayment of unemployment insurance, according to the California State Board of Equalization. Abolghassem Alizadeh owns 71 Jack in the Box restaurants in Northern California. Alizadeh, 54, reportedly diverted salesand employee-payroll-tax dollars to his business and personal interests and in doing so failed to pay more than $5.4 million in sales tax and nearly $1.8 million to the state unemployment office. A plea agreement allows for Alizadeh to repay the state in full over the next four years and receive three years of probation. Failure to do so means up to four years and four months in state prison.

CHICO CITY COUNCIL UPDATE

What was a tight race for the fourth and final spot on the Chico City Council has loosened a bit, and it looks like Randall Stone has gained that last open seat. The initial count after the Nov. 6 election had Stone eight votes ahead of fifth-place candidate Andrew Coolidge. The latest count, which includes the mail-in ballots that arrived on Election Day but were not counted right away, has Stone (pictured) ahead of Coolidge by 268 votes. A clerk’s office employee said there are still about 5,000 provisional ballots left to tally, and it’s unclear how many of those are from Chico precincts. (Provisional ballots have some question as to the actual residency or registration of the voter.) The count at this point shows Mayor Ann Schwab in the lead with 14,081 votes, followed by Tami Ritter (12,458), Sean Morgan (11,245), Stone (10,996), Coolidge (10,728), incumbent Bob Evans (9,811), Toby Schindelbeck (9.721), Kimberly Rudisill (7,959), Dave Kelley (6,858), Dave Donnan (4,270) and Lisa Duarte (3,220). 8 CN&R November 15, 2012

Chico’s new cat house As Cat Coalition volunteers settle into new digs they worry about the future

A (“Homeless for the holidays,” Dec. 8, 2011), the Chico Cat Coalition found itself withs the CN&R reported last year

out a home after 13 years in a repurposed barn amidst the orchards on the outskirts of west Chico. The group’s search for a new by location that would accommoHoward date roughly 60 abandoned and Hardee feral cats was a difficult one—it howardh@ faced restrictive zoning requirenewsreview.com ments from the city, a lack of volunteerism and nearly double the operational costs when the move was completed. Once CCC volunteers settled into their new digs on March 1, however, they found it to be a better fit. The cats took quickly to their new environs, and the space was easier to keep clean Adopt a kitty: and air conditioned. But now the coalition’s longThe Chico Cat Coalition adopts time volunteers believe the city out spayed and has turned a cold shoulder on neutered kittens their organization and warn of a and young cats (all with looming animal-abandonment immunizations) issue that, if gone unchecked, for $45; could quickly escalate. an older cat will “We’re a small organization, run you $25. but the problem is huge,” said Call 894-1265 or go online to Frank Holtz, who has been a www.ChicoCat coalition volunteer for seven Coalition.com for years. “We get calls every day more info. from people who have some sad

story. City Animal Control is overwhelmed. Butte Humane Society is overwhelmed. There is so much animal abandonment and irresponsibility out there, it’s hard to keep up with.” Coalition volunteer Judy Alberico agrees Chico has no shortage of animals in need of a home, suggesting the CCC could “take in thousands” of cats if it had the means. During a recent tour of

the new facility, it was hard to imagine finding space for even a few more cats— every basket, blanket and scratching post was occupied. At the center of the warehouse-like space were shelves full of sleeping cats of varying adorableness; on the fringes, a few lesssocial specimens kept a wary eye on the proceedings. Though operations at the sanctuary are running smoothly, for several months it appeared the CCC wouldn’t be able to find a home at all. “There were a lot of issues coming up, people coming and going. It felt like maybe this wasn’t

going to work,” Holtz said. The coalition found the city’s guidelines for animal-boarding facilities limited the scope of their search. Greg Redeker, an associate planner for the city’s Planning Services Department, explained that in the “six or seven” zoning districts within city limits that allow kennels and boarding facilities, a use permit is required. For animal boarding, key conditions of approval

include noise and odor levels and wastedisposal procedures. Frustrated by the 10- to 12-week approval period and associated $3,000 fee, the CCC broadened its search to outside city limits. And, with the help of Butte County officials, it found a suitable location in south Chico but outside city limits. Now that they have found a permanent home, the volunteers at the CCC are urgently trying to find families for their cats—if they don’t do so at a faster pace, they won’t be able to rescue animals still in need. “When somebody calls and says, ‘I can’t take care of this cat anymore,’ we need to be able to help,” Holtz said. “Right now, we have to tell them we’re full, and we are.” The CCC originally was created

to address a feral-cat population explosion in Lower Bidwell Park. By trapping, housing and making the well-adjusted individuals available for adoption, the organization was providing a valuable service to the city. “In the heyday, they were pulling cats out of the park by the hundreds,” Holtz said. “All it takes is two mamma cats out there, and all of the sudden you have 20 kittens.” The CCC’s efforts have dramatically reduced the cat population in Lower Bidwell, Holtz maintains, but when the city assumed animal-control responsibilities from Butte Humane Society on Feb. 1 of this year, it also began managing the trapping and rescue efforts in the park. “I think the city had a change of viewpoint because [feral cats in Bidwell Park] isn’t such a noticeable problem anymore,” Holtz said. “I don’t think they valued our services any longer, and I guess they figured they could do it cheaper.” And, to “add insult to injury,” the city sent the CCC a letter late last year informing the agency it was no longer eligible to apply for community development block grant funding, instead referring it to the Chico Police Department for funding requests. The CCC has since dedicated itself to rescuing cats in “the greater Chico area” rather than exclusively from Lower Park, although it will still respond to requests from Animal Services to extract animals from the park. Though Holtz believes the city has “dumped” the CCC, he emphasized the importance of cooperation between all of the area’s animal agencies. If they don’t work together, he said, the park’s cat population could get out of hand once again. “What the city is going do when the problem comes back, I don’t know,” Holtz said. “But I know it will come back. Cats are going to reappear. I guarantee it.” Ω

Attacks from afar Locals continue drone protests ine participants in a peaceful, anti-drone N warfare protest at Beale Air Force Base were arrested on federal trespassing charges

last Tuesday (Nov. 6). Although not among those charged, a contingent of local activists representing the Chico Peace & Justice Center was on hand and participated in the action. “We had a discussion the night before about who could get arrested,” said Chico activist Chris Nelson, who has been attending monthly anti-drone “Occupy Beale” actions for the past two years. “Many of us were willing to be arrested and charged in Yuba County, but weren’t ready to get arrested for federal trespassing.” As per this arrangement, Nelson and fellow activist Cathy Webster were among a group of protesters who blocked the main road into the base, effectively shutting it down for four hours. “There’s a thin white line near the gate that, if you cross over, you’re on federal land and you’re getting arrested,” Nelson said. She explained that, while she and others held the road near Beale’s main gate, four people were arrested at another entrance. Five others crossed the line at the main gate to show their solidarity. All nine were taken inside the gatehouse and held for about 45 minutes before being released with a citation. The women said a number of lawyers are working on defending the “Beale 9” pro bono, and fellow activists are anxiously awaiting their day in court. “Putting this on trial is the most important thing for all of us,” Nelson said, adding that she intends to attend the legal proceedings. “I think we’re going to see a lot more arrests in the near future. More people are becoming

aware of the drone situation, and more people are willing to put their lives on hold to help spread that awareness.” In fact, days earlier, on Nov. 1, 17 anti-drone activists were arrested on the same charges at Hancock AFB outside of Syracuse, N.Y.

Protesters block the roadway into Beale Air Force Base, the home base of surveillance and targeting drones used by the U.S. military. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS NELSON

The U.S. government argues that use

of drone warfare is a lawful component of military actions authorized by Congress shortly after the 9/11 attacks, citing them as the most effective tool in battling terrorists. Drones have carried out surveillance and attacks in the Middle East, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. To date, the United States has about 700 drones in its arsenal, compared to about 50 before Sept. 11. The CIA also has a cadre of several dozen drones, and was recently approved to order 10 more. Critics say the use of drones is illegal and they are used to carry out targeted killings that are no different than assassinations, which are forbidden by international law. They also cite a high rate of civilian casualties and a lack of transparency in their use. “They don’t have a very good track record of hitting their targets,” Webster said. “They have a better track record of hitting innocent civilians, contrary to what we might hear in the news. They say they’re being used to fight terror, but they’re actually

spreading it.” “When you see a child dismembered, or your mother killed, how else would you feel but angry and hateful,” Nelson said. “After they hit there’s pieces of people everywhere, and sometimes they’ll send in a second drone strike to hit anyone who tries to help, and those people are killed. This is in rural areas where no one is keeping track. It’s basically a war crime, and we’re perpetrating it on people we haven’t even declared war on.” Webster said operating a drone can be an impersonal activity. “Drone pilots sit in a room thousands of miles away and operate them much like you would a video game,” Webster said. “They’re operating on intelligence that there are terrorists in the area, but they really have no idea who they’re attacking.” Hunter-killer drones are not piloted from Beale, but Northrop Grumman Global Hawk surveillance drones, responsible for gathering intelligence and targeting, are. Two high-profile drone incidents have

SIFT|ER Voting matters! No, you weren’t imagining things if you thought people were pretty hyped up about the general election. A majority of registered voters (70 percent) said that this year’s presidential election mattered more than during previous years in which the POTUS was chosen, according to a recent Gallup poll. However, that sentiment was expressed during the past couple of presidential elections. In fact, an even greater percentage of voters in 2008 and 2004—74 percent and 72 percent, respectively— said it mattered more to them. That’s in stark contrast with the elections of 2000 (47 percent) and 1996 (41 percent). The survey suggests a correlation to pressing national concerns, primarily the economy. Voters were more at ease during Bill Clinton’s two

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hit the news since President Obama’s Nov. 6 re-election. Drones struck alleged al-Qaeda militants, killing at least three people outside the Yemeni capital of Sanaa Nov. 7. On Nov. 9, Iranian officials announced they’d fired at and repelled an American aircraft from that country’s airspace Nov. 1. The United States confirmed the aircraft was an “unarmed” Predator drone, but claimed it was in international airspace. As of Nov. 9, official numbers from the U.S. military indicate 333 drone strikes have been carried out in Afghanistan in 2012—far more than in any previous year. About 1,500 U.S. and U.K. air strikes have happened in Afghanistan since 2009, with more than 1,200 being American attacks. “Obama is not backing off because he isn’t getting told by the people to do so,” Nelson said. “The American people need to understand how far away we’ve moved from conventional warfare, and that we’re putting all our eggs in one basket with this drone program.” —KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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State and Federal DREAMers unite Agencies Are Planning to Take 200 Years A Worth of Our Water

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n organization calling itself the DREAM Bar Association (DBA) is launching a national campaign on behalf of undocumented immigrants who want licenses to practice law after meeting all state requirements. Sergio Garcia, a Chico-area law-school graduate who has an application for legal residency pending, traveled Sunday (Nov. 11) to Washington, D.C., to join other undocumented law-school graduates and law students for a Nov. 13 press conference. Garcia’s right to a California law license is under consideration by the state Supreme Court. The group says it will announce a “DREAM Lawyers” campaign, named after the “DREAMers”— young undocumented immigrants who have grown up in this country, who call it home, and who want a path to legal residency through DREAM Act legislation. But this group says it wants both comprehensive immigration reform as well a path to a law license for those who graduate an accredited law school, pass the bar and meet character and other requirements. “You do all the hard work to get to the finish line, and then you’re told you cannot practice your career,” Garcia said Sunday (Nov.11) in an interview broadcast on community radio station KZFR. “It’s heartbreaking.” Garcia and other DBA members are distributing a press release that says their campaign is designed “…to encourage all 50 states to grant law licenses to undocumented immigrants and emphasize the need to reform our nation’s immigration laws.” Garcia graduated from the Cal Northern School of Law and passed the bar exam in 2009. The DBA’s plan was to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 13) at the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Jose Manuel GodinezSamperio, a law-school graduate who has a case pending in the Florida Supreme Court that will decide his right to practice in that state, will speak, alongside Garcia and representatives from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and other advocacy organizations, according to the press release. DBA President Jose Magaña said California

behalf of undocumented attorneys” when licensing cases end up in court. He and others predict that licensing issues will multiply as undocumented immigrant young people who have sought higher education attempt the final step to practicing. California’s Committee of Bar Examiners found that Garcia met all requirements for a law license and submitted his name to the state’s high court in November 2011. The committee made a note of Garcia’s immigration status, according to court briefs. The court then indicated that various policy issues needed consideration. In August, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief, arguing that a 1996 federal law prohibits California from granting Garcia a law license unless the state enacts legislation for this purpose.

Sergio Garcia PHOTO COURTESY OF CHICO SOL

and Florida are erecting obstacles for undocumented immigrants who qualify to practice law. “We want to encourage state legislators to pass legislation that would allow us to practice, and tie this in with overall On Sept. 6, the Committee of Bar Examiners of the immigration reform,” he said in a telephone interview State Bar of California responded to the DOJ, arguing Sunday. that Garcia should be admitted to the state bar and notMagaña says states should also “promulgate rules” ing “48 organizations and 53 individuals” have filed to ensure that people who are qualified and who are in briefs with the court in support of Garcia’s quest. Supthe process of adjusting their legal status can practice porting briefs came from the California Attorney Genlaw. “This is a fundamental question of fairness,” eral’s Office, civil-rights organizations and a former Magaña states in the press release. justice of the California Supreme Court. A 2012 graduate of Baylor Law School, Magaña “Issuance of a law license to Mr. Garcia is not a has applied for a license to practice in Maryland and pathway to naturalization...,” the bar examiners argue has been granted deferred-action status under Presiin the brief. “Rather, it is recognition of the undeniable dent Obama’s program that delays deportation for fact that he has attained the education, demonstrated young adults who meet specific the knowledge, and evidenced the criteria. Now 26 years old, Magagood moral character necessary for ña has been living in this country admission to the bar. Mr. Garcia About this story: for the past 24 years. has as much earned that recogniThis story first appeared in ChicoSol. Magaña says the group will tion as any other applicant.” Visit www.chicosol.org to learn more about this online bilingual news seek a meeting with Obama to ask —LESLIE LAYTON magazine. his administration to “file briefs on

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Patrol needs, not politics Chief gives reasons for police reorganization

n Nov. 1, the Chico Police Department issued a press release about a suspected gang fight at the Chico Mall that left a 15year-old boy with serious stab wounds. The news was carried front page, top of the fold in the Chico Enterprise-Record. On Nov. 8, another police press release tallying up Halloween statistics, including $51,433 in overtime costs, also mentioned departmental reorganization that included eliminating the department’s gang unit. The timing was curious and set off sparks of concern that have been aired in the local daily, and just this week the Chico State Orion featured this top-of-the fold headline: “Police cut gang unit after stabbing.” This came as city departments try to adjust to ongoing budget tightening. Some saw the timing as perhaps a political maneuver to gain public support and put pressure on the City Council to kick down more money to the police. Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle said that simply is not true, that the decision to do away with the gang, street crimes and traffic units was made in October during budget meetings and is intended to make more officers available to respond to calls. “This is part of the challenges we’ve had with the economy and the reduction to staffing for the city as a whole,” Trostle said in recent phone interview. “The department’s gone from 81 police officers in 2008 to 71 as of now. But all departments as well as our constituency—the citizens and businesses— have all felt impacts. I’m not here to whine about it. That’s just our reality.” He said he told the City Council and City Manager Brian Nakamura about the planned reorganization on Oct. 18, a month ahead of when it would take place. Nakamura confirmed that communication. “The chief and I have talked about this for a while,” Nakamura said. “Consolidating resources is not something we just came up with. This is a way to more effectively address street crimes and gangs and give back to patrol more effectively.” The decision, he said, was also brought forth at the budget meetings and is not politically motivated.

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“This is definitely not a ploy to get more money,” the city manager said. “I want to compliment the chief on this. The TARGET team will be disbanded in February because the funding from that grant runs out. We have to refocus efforts back to patrol.” Trostle said the department currently has 49 of its 71 officers allotted to patrol, but disabilities and the accompanying light-duty assignments along with pending retirements lowers that number to 43. He said there have been two studies on police staffing plans for what a city the size of Chico would ideally have. One had called for 101 officers by this year and the other said 108 officers by 2015. Those numbers are obviously not going to be reached. “We’ve had staffing challenges since before my administration started,” Trostle said. “We’ve gotten to the point where we had to return officers to the patrol section so that we could adequately respond to the critical incidents in the community. There is no politics at work here. It’s very disingenuous for people to make that assumption.” Next month the city begins labor and contract negotiations with its employees, including the police officers. Trostle says that is beyond his responsibilities as chief. “We keep out of that because it’s labor negotiations having to do with benefits and pay, and that’s not my administrative responsibility,” he said. “I just look at staffing issues and how to run a police department.” The chief said he would like to reassure the public about any concerns arising from recent developments. “I want to make sure that people understand that we still have a safe community,” he said. “As we’ve added to patrol there will be additional officers responding to the different activities in the community. We are not in crisis. The community doesn’t have to feel fearful because of this reorganization. It’s just something that we have to do in our business so that we can respond in a timely manner to high-priority calls for service.” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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GREENWAYS GRUB CSA Farm farmers (left to right) Francine Stuelpnagel, Lee Callender and Michael Shaw at the GRUB Cooperative, with their final planting at that property.

FREEDOM STATIONS GET THE GO-AHEAD

On Nov. 5, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a settlement that will result in more than $100 million invested in California’s electricvehicle charging infrastructure. The settlement resolves decade-old claims of market manipulation and overcharging against subsidiaries of Dynegy Inc., now owned by NRG Energy Inc., according to a California Public Utilities Commission press release. In addition to paying $20 million in electricityconsumer refunds, NRG will be required to spend another $100-plus million to install 200 public fastcharging stations and 10,000 plug-in units statewide to expand the availability of electric vehicles. Twenty percent of the fast-charging “Freedom Stations” will be installed in low-income areas.

Inset: Vegetables for CSA members from the GRUB CSA Farm—like last week’s share, pictured— will be picked from the farm at the GRUB Cooperative until the spring, when full production is moved to the new farm.

CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE FRONT BURNER?

President Obama’s re-election has given new hope to environmental groups calling for more decisive action on climate-change issues. Though the president has received praise for a number of green measures—including unprecedented investments in clean energy, pollution restrictions on power plants and new standards for vehicle fuel efficiency—environmentalists have criticized the Obama administration for failing to present a comprehensive plan to address global warming and continuing to pursue domestic oil and natural-gas sources, according to the Huffington Post. However, green groups maintain hope that Obama will be able to overcome a gridlocked Congress to pursue further environmental regulation during his second term. Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute noted that Obama has the opportunity to “tackle the greatest challenges of our generation” and “at the top of his list should be climate change— which is already taking a serious toll on people, property, resources and the economy.”

WORLD’S RAREST WHALE DOCUMENTED

Scientists have proof that the world’s rarest species of whale still exists, though no one has yet reported seeing one alive. A 17-foot spade-toothed beaked whale (pictured) and her calf beached themselves in New Zealand in 2010 and were misidentified by conservationists as Gray’s beaked whales, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper. The conservation workers took photos and tissue samples of the whales before burying them on the beach; six months later, the samples were identified at the University of Auckland as those of spade-toothed beaked whales. The skeletons were exhumed earlier this year, and on Nov. 6 a report of the scientists’ findings was published in the journal Current Biology. The species has previously been identified through skull fragments found in New Zealand in 1872 and in the 1950s, as well as on an island off Chile 26 years ago. Little is known about the whales—notable for their large, blade-like teeth and resemblance to dolphins—except that they live in the South Pacific Ocean and eat mostly squid.

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Veggies on the move GRUB CSA Farm splits off from GRUB Cooperative and moves to a new location story and photos by

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F uncertainty: A hard freeze in May might kill the tomatoes, or dime-sized hail arming is a profession of

in March might shred all the spring greens. But local farmers at the GRUB CSA Farm, who are finishing their final growing season at the GRUB Cooperative, have had to deal with an additional uncertainty—the renewal of their lease. “If we stayed here and the [landowner] pulled the plug, we’d be one to two seasons without any farm—we’d lose everything we’ve gained as a business,” like a slot at the Saturday Chico Certified Farmers’ Market, said Michael Shaw, one of the GRUB CSA farmers. “And we’d have no income.” The farmers—Lee Callender, Francine Stuelpnagel and Shaw—recognized that the possibly of non-renewal of the GRUB property lease, which is up in October 2013, meant they would need significant lead time in order to not interrupt their blooming business. So they recently picked up the GRUB CSA Farm and moved it off of the GRUB Cooperative property on Dayton Road to a new 10-acre farm on West Sacramento

Avenue, while retaining the GRUB CSA Farm name. The GRUB Cooperative will remain at its current location. GRUB CSA Farm began in 2007

without an official farm or cooperative, when Stuelpnagel and Callender, a married couple, and their friend Max Kee put out a public call for back yards and empty lots available in Chico for them to garden in. From those plots, they cobbled together their first CSA (community-supported agriculture) in September 2007 for 12 members. For a monthly subscription cost, each member got a weekly share of the produce the young farmers grew. The next year, the growing CSA allowed Callender to quit his day job; by 2009, both Stuelpnagel and Callender could finally work as full-time farmers. “When the whole thing started, it wasn’t about creating a CSA farm, it was about growing food. It was a very organic thing—trying to teach people in the community how to grow food, and to provide people with food in the community,” explained Stephanie Elliott, a GRUB Cooperative member and head of the GRUB Education Program. Stuelpnagel, along with Sherri Scott, had started the

education program alongside the CSAfarm idea, to promote their overall goal of food education for the public. Then, Elliot and Scott landed a grant and took the GRUB Education Program to the next level, teaching food and gardening to schoolchildren across Chico. Stuelpnagel, Callender, Elliot, Scott, Kee and other friends caught wind of a way to continue their mission of promoting local and sustainable agriculture, but in a more closely linked fashion: The Victorian houses and barns on GRUB’s Dayton Road property (then known as “The Palms”) and the several acres of farmland surrounding it came up for rent in October 2008. The cohorts moved in together, and the GRUB Cooperative—referring to the element of communal living on the Dayton Road property—was born. The CSA Farm and the GRUB Education Program, both already established, moved in as well. “It was fallow with weeds, no irrigation,” said Callender of the property. Lots of

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ECO EVENTS backbreaking work by Kee, Callender and Stuelpnagel followed to get the farm up and running. And that’s where the confusion began: People began referring to the cooperative and the farm as the same entity, but living in the cooperative’s living quarters did not require members to work on the CSA farm. And, subscription to the GRUB CSA Farm did not fund, for example, the GRUB education program; the CSA Farm focused on growing vegetables for the CSA members and covered its own costs in doing so. In 2011, Stuelpnagel and Callender decided to form a general partnership and hire an additional farmer, Shaw, as they were finally coming out of the red from their work on the farm. When the CSA farm became a business, Kee went back to focusing on nonprofit agricultural projects instead, like his compost program— collecting gallons of food scraps from local restaurants and composting them on the cooperative property— and on his then-newly planted fruit orchard, which is next to where the GRUB CSA Farm’s vegetables have been growing. “The idea that we could live on that piece of land and make a living there … that was the grand ideal,” said Callender. Despite the threat of

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THANK GOODNESS FOR THE THANKSGIVING-EVE MARKET Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market goers (and last-minute shoppers) should be delighted to know that the last Wednesday farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market of the year at North Valley Plaza will take place on Nov. 21. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come to our last day at the North Valley Plaza Wednesday Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Marketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one day before Thanksgiving,â&#x20AC;? said Monique Bird, co-manager of the Chico Certified Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market recently. Bird pointed out many of the thumbs-up reasons to attend (besides all of the fresh produce offered by local farmers), such as the tart-sweet products from lemon-curd queens, the Two English Ladies; gluten-free pies from Oogolow Foods; Leon Bistro salad dressings; wonderful naan and Indian condiments from Guzzettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catering & Indian Food; and yummy Spanish food from Leonardoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Besides offering so many of the healthful fixinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed for a scrumptious dinner, the market is also, as Bird pointed out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a great place to pick up lastminute gifts for your Thanksgiving-dinner hostess,â&#x20AC;? such as â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;flowers!â&#x20AC;? Bird promises that a number of vendors will have bouquets of fresh flowers for sale on that Wednesday. The market is located between Trader Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and CVC Pharmacy, and runs from 7:30 a.m. until noon. And, of course, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget that the downtown Saturday farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market at Second and Wall streets runs year-round from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Go to www.chicofarmersmarket.com for more info. STAY AWAY FROM BIG FOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FOOD Now that Prop. 37â&#x20AC;&#x201D;which would have

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required that food containing genetically engineered ingredients be labeled, as they are in so many countries around the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has been defeated, grocery shoppers will have no way of knowing exactly what sort of mutant organism is lurking in their box of cereal or bag of chips, unless the label says â&#x20AC;&#x153;organicâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;GMO-free,â&#x20AC;? as most groceries at natural-foods stores are labeled. (Note that mainstream-supermarket groceries containing corn or soy are more likely than not to be made with genetically modified versions of those ingredients). The Food Poisoning Bulletin provided a nice little wrap-up about the defeat of Prop. 37. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The final vote was 53 to 47 percent,â&#x20AC;? said writer Kathy Will. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A few months ago, polls showed the measure was favored by more than two-to-one. But a huge campaign by opponents of the measure, mostly pesticide and processed food manufacturers, chipped away at that lead over time.â&#x20AC;? The No on 37 campaign spent more than $45.6 million, Will pointed out, compared to the Yes on 37 campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $8.9 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the face of unrelenting deceptive advertising funded by giant chemical and processed food corporations to the tune of nearly $50 million, Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Proposition 37 calling for a simProp. 37â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defeat: Monsanto will conple label on genetically engineered tinue to poison our food with GMOs and food narrowly lost with 47 percent of not have to tell us anything about it. the vote,â&#x20AC;? Will quoted Food & Water Watch spokeswoman Kristin Lynch as saying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While support for GE food labels has never been stronger, the incessant drumbeat of misleading and outright false industry advertising was barely able to defeat this popular measure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prop. 37 may not have passed,â&#x20AC;? said Lynch, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but it brought together and galvanized people from across California, the country and the world who believe deeply that people have a right to know whether their food has been genetically engineered, and this momentum will only grow.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize as food.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Michael Pollan EMAIL YOUR GREEN HOME, GARDEN AND COMMUNITY TIPS TO CHRISTINE AT CHRISTINEL@NEWSREVIEW.COM

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Born in Nature, to be Worn in Nature! The Cascade Hood from our Realfleece collection is made from mid-weight 260gm pure merino. A beautifully-cut technical outdoor jacket that works as well in the city as it does on the mountains, the Cascade has a three-piece hood with contrast lining, zipped hand pockets, a zipped stash pocket on the sleeve, and raglan sleeves for freedom of movement. Nature’s alternative to a synthetic fleece, brushed merino Realfleece has all the warmth of a heavy sweater but with none of the bulk. It’s lightweight, breathable, odor resistant and exceptionally soft.

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HEALTHLINES Dr. Michael Baird, executive director of the Enloe Regional Cancer Center, stands in front of a linear accelerator, which provides radiation treatment for cancer patients.

OBAMACARE FOES STILL VOCAL

Even with President Obama set for a second term, he will continue to face challenges implementing the Affordable Care Act. Some Republican governors have maintained their states will not participate in health-insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion called for by the ACA, according to The Hill. States must decide by Nov. 16 whether to run their own insurance exchanges or allow for federal oversight. The Republican-led House is likely to present a roadblock to the ACA, which is expected to receive resistance during congressional deficit talks later this month. But efforts to block funding for the ACA may be limited, as many of the law’s provisions have already received funding approval. Despite conservative resistance, full repeal of the ACA is seen as highly unlikely now that Obama has been re-elected.

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Exercising too much may actually impede weight loss, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen divided 60 slightly overweight men with sedentary lifestyles into three groups—those who wouldn’t exercise at all, those who would exercise in nearly daily workouts in which they burned 300 calories and those who would burn 600 calories—and told them not change their dietary habits, according to SFGate.com. At the end of 13 weeks, the group that exercised most lost an average of five pounds (20 percent less than the researchers expected) and the moderate-exercise group lost an average of seven pounds (83 percent more than expected). The discrepancy was due in part to muscle gains in participants of the vigorous exercise group, but researchers also found those men ate more and moved around less outside of the gym than the moderate exercisers. The study’s authors cautioned more research is necessary, as the experiment was short-term and the men were all in their 20s and 30s.

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Robert Wentz, CEO and president of Oroville Hospital, spoke about the hospital’s success in implementing open-source electronic health records at a summit held outside of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17 and 18. Wentz (pictured) spoke to a packed house during the keynote opening panel of the firstever Open Source EHR Summit in National Harbor, Md., which was hosted by the Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent organization. Oroville Hospital was the first hospital in the nation to selfimplement the open-source system, using VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) to digitize its patient records, according to an Oroville Hospital press release. Open-sourcing is a practice already widely used in manufacturing, finance and retail but is a relatively new development in health care. 18 CN&R November 15, 2012

Cnothing new. On a seemingly regular basis, a new finding contradicts an old findontroversies in medicine are

ing, which may in fact have contradicted an even older finding. Patients and practitioners alike are left to sort out the science. When the controversy surrounds a frightening and too-often-fatal disease like cancer, the stakes and stress are even higher. That’s why Enloe Medical Center, in partnership with UC San Francisco, has planned a conference on the evening of Nov. 15 to help the public sort out controversies in cancer screening. The event’s title—Cancer Screening: How Much is Too Much? How Much is Enough?—encapsulates the overarching concern. “What’s really upsetting to patients is that every few years the recommendations for cancer screenings change, and it’s always [that patients get screened] less and less [frequently],” said Dr. Michael Baird, executive director of the Enloe Regional

Cancer Center. “People are getting paranoid: Is this real, or is it just being done to save money? “In today’s climate of health-care costs going up, patients are a little suspicious when federal groups or other large consortiums start saying, ‘Well, you don’t need a mammogram every year.’ Is that because I don’t need a mammogram every year, or just because they don’t want to pay for a mammogram every year?” The short answer, according to Baird, is

a little of both. He’ll elaborate at the conference, but he didn’t hold back anything important in a recent phone interview with the CN&R. “In general terms, most of those recommendations are appropriate when you are talking about the population as a whole,” Baird explained. “Let’s say one in 400 of a screening test is going to yield a positive result; that means you are wasting the money on 399 people for the one person you pick up. So if you are an insurer, you’re

APPOINTMENT LOOK GOOD, FEEL BETTER Cancer treatment can take a heavy toll on a patient; aside from the obvious physical and mental-health side effects, chemotherapy has a host of appearance-altering consequences. This workshop, conducted by a licensed beauty professional at the Enloe Regional Cancer Center (265 Cohasset Road) on Monday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to noon, is specifically for women dealing with the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment, and will include a free makeup kit. Call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-2272345 to pre-register (required) or for more info.

saying that’s a waste of money if it’s a very expensive test—but if you’re the one patient, it’s worth everything in the world to you. “There’s another side to the issue: Sometimes it’s about the risk to the patient if you do find something. There’s no test that’s perfect—most tests just show an abnormality that may be cancer— and then it comes down to whether you’re finding cancer that’s really going to make a difference in their lives.” Baird used prostate cancer as an example. Doctors commonly recommend a blood test that checks the level of prostate-specific antigen (or PSA). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explain that “as a rule, the higher the PSA level in the blood, the more likely a prostate problem is present. But many factors … can affect PSA levels.” The next step is a biopsy, in which a doctor extracts a small amount of prostate tissue for examination. That process, Baird said, is expensive, invasive and painful. “So if you’re doing biopsies on a thousand men for every one or two [prostate cancer cases] you find, you’re inflicting a lot of pain for a small amount of yield.” Then comes the determination of how much the cancer will impact the patient’s quality of life. Some cancer types are more severe than others. Going back to prostate cancer, Baird said that “many of the cancers we’ve been picking up on screenings may or may not ever cause someone problems in their whole lifetime. But by labeling it as cancer and treating them aggressively with surgery and radiation, now you’re putting people through side effects, impotence, maybe infection and complications from surgery that maybe they didn’t need to have because maybe that cancer would have never affected them in their life. “All of these things go together in how consortiums decide to recommend something or not,” he continued. “You as a patient sitting out there … need to think through what your risks are.” How does a person, in con-

junction with a physician, determine cancer risks? History has a lot to do with it. Certain cancers are more prevalent in people of certain ages and ethnicity. Genetics also may play a role, so a person with relatives who have had cancer could have a HEALTHLINES continued on page 20

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greater chance of developing that same condition. Even then, different doctors may have different opinions—and may have opinions that differ from recommendations put forth by agencies or associations. Again, look at prostate cancer. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force came out in May with a finding that discourages PSA screening. “Urologists totally disagreed with them,” Baird said. “The AUA [American Urological Association] said this is wrong; patients should continue to have screenings for PSAs. “Of course, people said, ‘Well, that’s just economic because you guys just want to make money from all the biopsies.’ They said, ‘No, we’ve found many, many cancers that otherwise would have been terminal.’ … You can see the argument either way.” The trick is finding a knowledgeable doctor you trust. “If [cancer screening] is something your doctor is interested in and they stay up on it, it’s wonderful,” Baird said. “You can’t guarantee everyone is doing that. Most people in office practice will look

Conference information:

Enloe Medical Center will host a free community-education event about cancer screening—titled Cancer Screening: How Much is Too Much? How Much is Enough?—on Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Enloe Conference Center (1528 Esplanade). Scheduled presentations include: • Screening controversies— Dr. Michael Baird, Enloe Regional Cancer Center • Breast-cancer screening— Dr. James Schlund, North State Radiology and the Breast Care Center of Northern California • Prostate-cancer screening— Dr. Mathew Cooperberg, UC San Francisco • Lung-cancer screening— Dr. Lorriana Leard, UCSF Call 332-3856 for more information.

at the recommendations of the big national groups and it’s sometimes hard to get any discussion past that. “If someone has issues with screening—if they want to get screened and the recommendation doesn’t call for it, and they’re not comfortable with that—that certainly is a reason for them to sit down with somebody like an oncologist to determine if they’re right or wrong.” Ω

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WEEKLY DOSE Five effective uses of medical pot Proponents of medical marijuana have rolled out any number of useful applications from curing cancer to easing boredom. Here are five trial-proven uses for medi-pot: Chronic pain: In a 2010 study by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, 21 volunteers were tested with three different strengths of cannabis. Subjects smoked a random strain of pot for two months, three times a day in five-day stretches. The upshot of the experiment: The stronger the pot, the more their pain was reduced. Muscle tension and spasm: A 2004 study by the American Cancer Society found that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who used a liquid extract containing THC and cannabidiol experienced a decrease in muscle spasms and shaking. Nausea and vomiting: In trials by the National Cancer Institute, two FDA-approved cannabis-based drugs—dronabinol and nabilone— helped reduce chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in cancer patients. Loss of appetite: A clinical trial by the National Cancer Institute found that patients with HIV/AIDS and weight loss who took dronabinol (delta-9-THC) had increased appetite and stopped losing weight compared with patients who took a placebo. Insomnia: According to the National Cancer Institute, studies testing the effectiveness of cannabis show that patients who ingested a cannabis-plant extract spray reported more restful sleep.

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Welcome to the Family Helping women has always been important to Pamela D. Simons, MD, and as the newest member of Oroville Hospital’s obstetrics/ gynecology team she is dedicated to keeping the “care” in health care.

“At Oroville Hospital I have the opportunity to work with experienced and highly respected physicians and be part of a multi-disciplinary team.” Simon adds, “Dr. Johansson, Dr. Bazzani, Dr. Bippart, and Holly provide patients with the best possible care. They want to serve

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privilege and responsibility to touch the lives of the women I care for,” says Dr. Simons, a board certified OB/GYN who started her career in health care on the management side after receiving her MBA from

“I view my relationship with my patients as a partnership.”

Cornell University. “I view my relationship with my patients as a partnership. I believe in empowering my patients to take responsibility for their own healthcare,” she says. Dr. Simons is thrilled to join Karl Johansson, MD, Matthew Bazzani, MD, Peter Bippart, MD, and Holly Torricelli, NP. She values being part of a team, especially one composed of such skilled and compassionate partners.

Dr. Simons loves being a doctor and is eager to begin establishing relationships with her patients. “I enjoy the fact that I get to care for women throughout their entire lifecycle and that my specialty is still so broad, encompassing routine annual care, the wonder of pregnancy and childbirth, and specialized surgery,” says Dr. Simons. “And I have particular interests in adolescent gynecology and the emotional/ psychological aspects of obstetrics and gynecology, including postpartum depression and pelvic pain.” She also became fluent in Spanish after living in South America and practicing for many years in the Southwest United States. Dr. Simons came to Oroville to settle down for the long term, and believes it’s a good fit for her personally, as well as professionally. “Oroville is big enough to have everything that I need. I love open spaces, riding horses, skiing, sailing and just being outdoors.” She also enjoys competitive West Coast Swing dancing, and this area has an active and energetic West Coast Swing community. Dr. Simons’ colleagues believe she is a valuable addition, and are happy to add another knowledgeable, skilled and caring physician to their team. The entire staff hopes she will stay a long time, and that this is more than a West Coast swing for this caring, dancing doctor.

2767 Olive HigHway • OrOville, Ca • (530) 533-8500 • www.OrOvilleHOspital.COm November 15, 2012

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One play’s journey from auditions to opening night story and photos by

Jason Cassidy jasonc@newsreview.com

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Why was I the only one who seemed nervous?

It was opening night at the Blue Room Theatre, but you wouldn’t have known it watching the cast, crew and director as they went about getting ready for the night’s performance. Families and various local theater types were streaming in from the chilly autumn night, making their way up the two flights of squeaky wooden stairs before quietly settling into their seats in the little black-box theater. Meanwhile, over in the “Wood Room,” the wood-paneled production/rehearsal space on the opposite side of the building, everyone was doing “The Hokey Pokey.”

The impromptu song was, of course, a way of letting off steam and bringing everyone together, but even before they all started putting their “left foot in,” this cast of the stage version of The Little Prince hardly seemed fazed by the fact they were minutes away from having to hit marks and remember lines in front of an audience for the first time. One of the leads was walking around, smiling at passersby and reciting to himself. A member of the ensemble was selling refreshments at the snack bar in full costume. And the 18year-old stage manager, while looking fairly serious, was the picture of calm as she fiddled with her headset and shouted to the cast scattered around the production room: “Five minutes to places!” “Thank you!” they responded before returning to texting, dancing and rolling around on chairs before starting “The Hokey Pokey” a mere minute before they found their pre-show spots. But I knew better. At least I thought I did. For nearly six weeks, I’d been eavesdropping on these people and this production. I followed along from the cold readings of the open auditions, through weeks of alternately ragged and magical rehearsals and technical preparations, all the way up to the final week’s frantic tech- and dress-rehearsal schedule. And even though I was outwardly rooting for them to nail it as I said “break a leg” to each of them, inside I was thinking it’s very possible that opening night would be a rough one. Chico really is a theater town. If you were to plan on going to an entire season/year’s worth of every locally produced play by the seven community theater companies—Blue

Room, Chico Theater Company, Rogue Theatre, California Regional Theatre, Theatre on the Ridge, Birdcage Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Chico—as well as those by Chico State and Butte College, you’d be calendaring about 40 different plays over 12 months. That’s not even counting the high-school productions, or the community theaters’ youth programs, or for that matter the touring Broadway productions that Chico Performances brings to Laxson Auditorium and the one-off special events like the annual Butcher Shop festival. All told, you could see an average of about one play per week in Chico over the next year—if you were very motivated. Of course, those numbers pale in comparison to the math behind the curtain. The mind boggles when one stops and thinks about all of the actors, directors, set builders, costume designers, prop makers, light and sound techs, and all of the other unlisted organizers, office workers, volunteers and more who make these plays happen. That’s especially true considering the fact that all the local people and resources are being spread out among so many theaters, working for weeks and sometimes months on each production. It seems nearly impossible that so much theater could be produced in the Chico area. It was with all that in mind that I decided to approach one theater—the Blue Room, now entering its 19th season in downtown Chico—and ask to tag along to see for myself what it takes to put on just one play. Director Fred Stuart The Little Prince is the first play of the and stage manager Blue Room’s 2012-13 season, and it’s also Maddison Heffley the first main-stage production since Fred oversee a rehearsal Stuart came aboard as the theater’s artistic of The Little Prince director last summer. “I have been volunin the Blue Room Theatre’s teering my time helping the Blue Room re“Wood Room.” group managerially and artistically while also volunteering as a kids’ theater teacher in my spare time,” he explained. Stuart—who also works full time for Theatrical Rights Worldwide, a licensing company for Broadway and off-Broadway shows—would also be directing the play, and he was more than happy to offer access to the process. Tryouts for the first production would happen over two nights, Sept. 16-17, and Stuart recommended coming to the second. Of course, the process had already started earlier in the summer, when Stuart worked with the Blue Room to put together the schedule for the season. Given the fact that they brought him on board during the summer, the Blue Room board forwent its preferred “slowcooking” approach to curating (where plays are chosen only after a rigorous series of multiple readings), and chose plays for the season from works that Stuart had worked on before and would fit with the season’s theme of “Civility.” The Little Prince, adapted from the beloved French children’s book by Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry—and featuring an Aviator stranded in the desert with his downed plane far from civilization and a little prince who has many questions about modern man’s empty pursuits—fit the bill nicely.

in the hallway waiting their turn, the open audition has them all in the same room, where one or more can be called upon at random to pick up a script and do a cold reading, alone or together. “It’s a trick of watching how they interact once they hear the rhythm of the scene a few times,” Stuart explained, adding that in the process he’s looking for “just a certain spark.” The play requires two main actors: a kid to play the Little Prince and an adult to play the Aviator who meets up with the mysterious young prince in the desert after crash landing his plane. There are also a flexible number (10 or so) of ensemble parts to be handed out. Before beginning, Stuart ran the group through a few games together in order to stretch out their speaking muscles and to get them to begin reacting to one another. The first was called “What are you doing?” and it started with one person miming an action, and the next person asking them “What are you doing?”—to which they responded by describing an entirely different action than the one they were demonstrating, at which point the one who asked the question had to start acting out what had just been said. So, when the player who was killing cockroaches responded with “I’m ice skating,” the highly energetic young boy who asked the question immediately started sliding and spinning around the room like a junior Brian Boitano. As they progressed through a couple more of these exercises, what had felt like a nervous energy running through the room early on was put to good use as most of the players eagerly jumped at the chance to shake off the jitters and start to play. After warm-ups, the first pair called to read together was Shrestha and 31-year-old Sean Constantine. As they slowly read through the brief page of dialogue, Stuart wasted no time jumping right in to give them notes. After she had been stopped and re-started a few times and was urged to pick up the pace and to respond—not just read the lines—the young Shrestha, unfazed by the interruptions, calmly worked up to hitting her stride. “That’s it! You feel that rhythm?” Stuart asked. “It’s so much happier when it builds.” And Stuart continued on this way, pairing up players and putting them through the motions, and sending them on their way a few at a time saying that they’d be receiving an email in a couple of days one way or the other— “We’ll be in touch.” He kept Shrestha around for a while, pairing her up with a handful of the actors. While she wasn’t as quick as the young adults at reading the script, she did seem quietly at ease with each scenario Stuart tested her with. After she was excused, her mom gave her an enthusiastic “Nice job!” as they walked out. “We are pretty much all over the board as far as experience level,” Stuart commented, adding that he felt that the less-experienced actors actually gave the best line readings. After the audition, Stuart said that, except for the Aviator part,

From top: Playing games during auditions; the ensemble rehearses becoming an airplane; the Aviator (Denver Latimer) and one of the two Little Princes (Jackson Indar) rehearse on set; ensemble member Sean Constantine (who also plays the Fox) reveals his Little Prince tattoo (which went unnoticed until rehearsals were underway).

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“I like when people read ice cold,” Stuart said as the actors filed in on night two of auditions. He said that 17 potential actors had shown up the previous evening. This night’s open audition had 12, ranging from a 10-year-old Lili Shrestha, a student from the Blue Room’s summer youth-theater camps, to 38-yearold Jeff Burkhart, a local musician who just made his acting debut in a Butcher Shop one-act this past summer. Unlike a traditional closed audition, where someone is coming and reading alone for the director while the other actors sit November 15, 2012

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One play’s journey from auditions to opening night story and photos by

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Why was I the only one who seemed nervous?

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with no fanfare, they jumped right into reading the script. “Let’s turn to seven and begin.” Stuart did opt for casting two princes—with Shrestha being tasked with miming most of her role and 11-yearold Jackson Indar in charge of the bulk of the dialogue. From the first word, Indar was on. He read with energy and breezy confidence, as though he already knew the part, and had the collected ensemble smiling along. And as they jumped around and got familiar with the different sections, Stuart was intensely engaged, throwing out brainstorms for stage direction, making the appropriate sound effects and complimenting or commenting on every nuance of delivery. “If you’re out of the way of this material,” he said, “we’ll have success.”

he already had a good idea who he was going to select. He also said that he was toying with the idea of casting two Little Princes—“one to act, and one to narrate”—possibly Shrestha as well as a kid named Jackson who he said had a great rehearsal the previous night. But he still needed to find his Aviator. And he knew just where to look. After the cast list was sent out, and the varied schedules of the 13 actors sifted through, the first rehearsal was scheduled for a Monday night, Oct. 1, a week later than originally planned. In addition to the normal work and school conflicts, many of the actors were still winding down their commitments to other productions in town, including California Regional Theatre’s Oliver, and the Blue Room Young Co.-produced Fiddler on the Roof Jr. (which Stuart also directed) at Laxson Auditorium. As a result, there were a few actors who couldn’t make it to the first reading, but the Aviator was there. The first person I ran into was board member and Blue Room cofounder Denver Latimer, whom Stuart had convinced to play his adult lead. For his part, Latimer said he was looking forward to working with Stuart and getting a closer look at his process. The rest of the players filed into the Wood Room and around a table set up with scripts by stage manager Maddison Heffley, and after settling further scheduling issues, and

PHOTO BY KATHY GRAY

Counterclockwise, from top: Lighting designer Chris “CB” Burkhardt discusses cues with stage manager Heffley; Mahri Gray, a senior at Inspire School of Arts & Sciences, puts the finishing touches on shiny costumes for the Little Princes; the two princes (from left) Jackson Indar and Lili Shrestha; cast and crew before final dress rehearsal; Latimer waits for his cue. 24 CN&R November 15, 2012

Only one additional rehearsal was scheduled for the first week, that following Saturday morning, and Stuart started it off by talking a little bit about how The Little Prince isn’t a Disney sort of children’s story. It’s a tragedy, and he wanted to play it as such, with the little man’s crisis building to a catharsis. “Unless our audience is hard-hearted,” he explained, they should feel it and hopefully leave the theater with questions in their head. He then separated the cast, with the Aviator and two princes going over lines on the main stage, and the ensemble going to work in the Wood Room. After leading the ensemble in some body and vocal stretching (“Puh-ti-cah! Bu-di-gah!”), Stuart explained that they would be doing a lot of physical work, namely in the creation of a few set pieces on what would be a mostly black set. He also said they would be distributing the various smaller roles among the ensemble as they moved forward. For the time being, they were to work on the first and most important of the set pieces—the Aviator’s airplane. “This will teach us how to do every bit after,” he said, before leaving them on their own to figure out how to create a plane using their bodies. “Once you guys start, it’s your world.” With stage manager Heffley reading lines for them and jotting down potential blocking as the plane came and went in various forms, they enthusiastically went to work, with everyone talking at once, throwing out one idea after another: “Is someone going to flutter a scarf? “Is this a bi-plane?” “How am I going to put my head where my butt is?” Fred then returned and read the Aviator’s line that would be their cue: “‘I learned to pilot airplanes’—Boom! That’s the beat.” With no hesitation the 10 of them scrambled into the form of a plane, before crashing and scattering bodies

On stages this week: The Little Prince , at Blue Room Theatre

across the floor in mock wreckage. “It’s very childish,” Stuart exclaimed as he surveyed the scene. “I like it!” “Now we’re in terrible-ville.” Stuart was sort of joking. It’s not that things were any more terrible for The Little Prince than they would be for any other play in the middle of its rehearsal schedule. However, in the two and a half weeks since they started, thanks to various schedule conflicts, there had been only five rehearsals (half of what had been planned). Still, the basics of the story’s structure were fully understood, all the ensemble players had been assigned their additional roles, and with the exception of Latimer, whose Aviator has the most dialogue next to the Little Prince, most of the lines had been memorized. But the real, painstaking work was beginning in earnest. The final two and a half weeks would have three times the number of rehearsals, and much of that time would be spent examining every detail of the actors’ performances and making adjustments and experimenting with how to move through the story. “I don’t want to be a tyrant,” Stuart said. “It’s my job to be completely critical of their performance [and] teach a group of people how fun it can be to throw convention out the window.” And it is a group with a wide range of backgrounds. In addition to the child actors, Stuart is working with two high-schoolers and one college freshman making their theater debuts, plus Karin Hoover, a set builder and mother of a teenage actor making only her second stage appearance. Then there’s infrequent actor (and fulltime lawyer) Latimer and Constantine (very experienced, but 10 years removed from his last role), plus four fairly accomplished younger actors—ages 18-20—including Livy Gomez and Allison Parker, formerly of local The Troupers youth-theater group, and now teaching musical theater in the Blue Room’s Young Co. (in addition to doing clerical work for the theater). “I’m very happy to have a group of inexperienced actors,” Stuart said, relishing in the work and adding matter-of-factly, “This is theater.” “Volcanoes, you can take five.” Stuart was still working out the details, and he had the Rose, a digital projection, and a last-minute light cue in his laser site. “Back up one light cue, please!” The actors playing volcanoes had been excused so that he could focus on getting the correct projected image on the giant white sheet and coach The Rose—Pleasant Valley High School junior Shivany Condor—to dip her head at enough of angle in order to get the correct blooming effect when she raises it as the light cue comes. It’s tech week, the final week of rehearsals, when all of the lights, sounds, special effects and actors rehearse together in an effort to get synced up for opening night. There has been a lot of action these final couple weeks. With the help of Chris “CB” Burkhardt, one of Chico’s go-to lighting and set-design specialists, Stuart put together a simple but attractive set featuring large swaths of white fabric draped at different angles, creating a disjointed frame around the completely black set. And compacted into the final days of tech, Stuart worked on the final CD of the play’s soundtrack and ruthlessly edited down the number of images to be projected on the big backdrop. Meanwhile, Burkhardt designed the lights and programmed (and frequently reprogrammed) the lighting cues. And through it all, the young unflappable stage manager, Heffley, a graduate of Inspire School (and whom Stuart reverently called “exactly the model of a Broadway stage manager”), kept things in order while also learning how to operate the light and sound boards for the first time—two days before opening night! “Tech week is where we actually realize we’re in a show,” Heffley joked. The day of the show, I called Stuart to see how he was feeling about opening night, and he said he thought the final dress rehearsal was encouraging and that he was eager to get the production in front of an audience to see how it was going to play. He also admitted, “I’m terrified that Denver won’t know his lines,” and said that the two of them talked at length after rehearsal and he reminded

him to listen to The Prince. For his part, Indar knew his part forewards and backwards, and in addition to driving the play through rehearsals, he slyly nudged Latimer into place when needed. A few minutes later I called Latimer and asked him about it and he said that even though he knows he’s been struggling with lines, he felt like he was “getting there” and that he was “hoping for a breakthrough tonight.” My stomach was jumping as the house lights came down and Latimer ambled out from the shadows into the spotlight at center stage. What if he had spent so much time working on his other lines that he blanked on the opening ones, I thought? What if the laptop showing the backdrop slides froze up? What if one of the firsttimers missed a crucial cue? How in the world were they actually doing this? I wished at that moment that I could somehow un-see the behind-the-scenes work of the play’s journey to opening night and just experience it as one of the patrons settling in from the cold to be warmed up by some community theater. But then the Aviator spoke his introduction, with clarity and earnestness, and when the ensemble entered on his cue—“I learned to pilot airplanes”—and neatly assembled themselves into the form of his aircraft to the audible delight of the audience, I exhaled. Not everything went so smooth on opening night—there were a handful of missed technical cues, and some rough line deliveries (which I’ve been told have been steadily smoothing out with each performance)—but Latimer somehow, some way had his breakthrough, and overall all the trippy fun of their unconventional adaptation came through. If I had come in cold, and was just reviewing the show, I might have said something like: When the house lights went down, the cast and crew successfully transported the audience from the cares of the outside world into the fantastical realm of The Little Prince. After the show, I went back to the Wood Room, and of the actors I congratulated and spoke with, only ensemble player Angel Berlanga—a junior at PV who also played the Snake—admitted to being nervous before the show. And now that the first-time actress is on the other side of her debut? “I’m so excited. I don’t want it to end now.” As the play’s Fox character (played to the hilt by Constantine— who nearly stole the show) famously says, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” and from the director on down, I witnessed a lot of heart poured into this play. Through it all, it was seeing the transformation of this disparate group of people—some strangers, many who had never worked together before—into a work of art that most resonated. That’s the so-called “magic of theater,” I suppose. Although “magic” isn’t really the right word. “No, there is no magic. None,” said Stuart afterward. “It is done by the cast, crew, lights, sound, terror and mostly the dramatic intent of what we worked on over many rehearsals shin[ing] through. No magic—[just] hard work and focus.” Ω

(139 W. First St.), Thursday & Friday, Nov. 15 & 16, 7 p.m. Tickets: $9-$11 895-3749 www.blueroomtheatre.com

Hooray for Holywood: Nunset Blvd , at Theatre on the Ridge (3735 Neal Rd., Paradise), ThursdaySaturday, 7:30pm; Sundays, 2 p.m., through Dec. 9 (no shows Thanksgiving, or Nov. 25). Tickets: $16-$18 877-5760 www.totr.org The Good Doctor , at Birdcage Theatre, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2 p.m., through Nov. 18. Tickets: $7-$15 533-2473 www.birdcagetheatre.net

Gambling for theater: Blue Room Fall Ball: High Rollers , Saturday,

Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m., at Arc Pavilion (2040 Park Ave.). A casino/dinner fundraiser featuring games, prizes and buffet banquet. Tickets: $60 21-over 895-3749 www.blueroomtheatre.com

Counterclockwise, from left: Ensemble members (from left) Allison Parker and Livy Gomez take a pizza break; Constantine applies last-minute glue to his fox tail on opening night; ensemble member David Kamrar adjusts the backdrop for projections. November 15, 2012

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Arts & Culture ‘The bacon’s been keeping you alive’

THIS WEEK

Butte College pulls off groovy adaptation of Molière’s wacky comédie-ballet

N French comedy” more to me than the peace-loving, psychedelic ’60s. othing says “18th-century

Apparently I am not the only one who thinks so, as the Butte College Performing Arts Department’s recent production of Molière’s The Imagiby MaryRose nary Invalid is set wholly in a Lovgren groovy 1960s Paris townhouse with walls that shimmer in black-lit, bioluminescent colors. Think miniskirts paired with thigh-high white REVIEW: Butte College boots; girls dancing in golden presents The cages; and musical numbers remiImaginary Invalid , niscent of Hairspray. ThursdayBut it all makes fantastic sense, Saturday, Nov. 15as Molière is famous for a genre of 17, 7:30 p.m., & Sunday, Nov. 18, 2 drama known as comédie-ballet, p.m., at Butte which intersperses spoken word College Black Box with music and dance, a perfect fit Theatre. for the go-go ’60s. You dig? Tickets: $10-$15. After a brief introduction by a pair of hippie-era minstrels, we Butte College Black Box meet Argan (a terrifically believTheatre able Christopher Sullivan), a midArts Building, dle-aged man who, when not main campus slumped in his easy chair swaddled 895-2994 www.butte.edu/ in an enormous robe bemoaning his drama many supposed illnesses, is performing verbal acrobatics with his sassy and smart servant, Toinette (the dynamic Lauren O’Connor). Argan’s worries center around how he will continue to pay for the many medicines, elixirs and (ahem) enemas that he believes are keeping him alive. But he has a plan: to marry off his younger, “pretty” daughter (the one “without the hump”), Angélique (an adorably Amy Adams-esque Kasandra Partain) to his doctor’s nephew (who is also a doctor), the simpering Thomas Diafoirus (Avery Sintes). He sees not dollar bills in this union but rather a continuous source of free medical care (cue contemporary dialogue on socialized medicine). She, of course, is already in love with Cléante 26 CN&R November 15, 2012

Argan (Christopher Sullivan) and his scheming wife, Béline (Jazmin Siguenza). PHOTO BY KYLE EMERY

(Michael Jolley), her tall, pale and frizzy Romeo whom she just met last week. Meanwhile, Argan’s sly and sexy second

wife, Béline (a sly and sexy Jazmin Siguenza), while encouraging her husband’s healthy diet of bacon (“The bacon’s been keeping you alive. Don’t stop eating it.”) is plotting with her lover and lawyer, Monsieur de Bonnefoi (Adrian Diaz, channeling a young Chris Kattan from Saturday Night Live), to abscond with all of Argan’s money on event of his death (or, better yet, before). The only hitch: Bonnefoi faints whenever he utters a lie, which, given their subterfuge, is often. The only thing more enjoyable than seeing Diaz theatrically faint is to watch him recover and reveal the inner workings of his troubled mind. Other notable and crowd-pleasing performances include Argan’s brother, Béralde (an impressively chiseled Marques), who effectively channels the hot/cool blaxploitation sexual energy of the 1970s; Louison, Argan’s daughter “with the hump” (Heather Bankston), who gives the performance its distinctive Hairspray feel; Dr. Purgon (Autumn Rose Jay, frightening with her thin beard) and his eager minions; and of course, Guy (Tyler Hawthorne), the brother of Toinette, whose one goal in life is to write lyrics that will “change someone’s perspective on the world.” Watch for his incredible ability to break the fourth wall and cleverly interact with the audience while remaining in character. The overall performance was characterized by rapid-fire delivery (identified in the playbill as “Italian Style”) that could, at times, be challenging to follow. Except for a few minor audio glitches, the sound and lighting were top notch and well suited to the atmosphere of the play. The performance contains adult themes, sexual language, religious satire and dark imagery and is intended for mature audiences that don’t mind a little goodnatured potty humor as well. Ω

THURS

Special Events AVOIDING FUTURE HOLOCAUSTS: Presented by Pleasant Valley High School staff and students (and featuring Holocaust survivor, ballerina, author and actress Yanina Cywinska), the evening will include presentations and performances remembering the Holocaust and educating about ongoing genocides. Th, 11/15, 7pm. $5. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus; (530) 8913050.

BEER RELEASE PARTY: Brewmaster Roland Allen debuts Seasons Cranberry Ale and offers tours of the brewery. Th, 11/15, 6pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

Music ANGELIQUE KIDJO: Africa’s most celebrated female musician—with 11 critically acclaimed crossover albums—will perform material from her latest, the Afro-pop influenced OYO. Th, 11/15, 7:30pm. $18-$31. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

HOORAY FOR HOLYWOOD: NUNSET BLVD: A new musical comedy written by Jerry Miller that follows the Sisters of Our Lady of Kankakee as they try to save their beloved orphanage and order by going Hollywood. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su,

2pm through 12/9. No shows Thanksgiving or Nov. 25. $16-$18. Theatre on the Ridge

Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

IMAGINARY INVALID: The protagonist of this 17thcentury musical comedy thinks he has every illness in the book and suffers from too many bills, a sassy maid, a greedy wife, a dishonest lawyer, doctors with crazy cures and two willful daughters. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 11/17; Su, 11/18, 2pm. $10-$17. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. AHPS 125 in Oroville, (530) 895-2994, www.butte.edu/drama.

THE LITTLE PRINCE: A theatrical adaptation of the beloved French children’s book. Th & F, 11/15 & 11/16, 7:30pm. $9-$11. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Poetry/Literature BOOK PRESENTATION: Local author Andy Marks

presents his new book, The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company. Th, 11/15, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books, 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 8913338; www.lyonbooks.com.

Theater THE GOOD DOCTOR: Neil Simon’s Chekov-inspired comedy featuring a series of sketches built around the character of a writer. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 11/18. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO Today, Nov. 15 Laxson Auditorium

SEE THURSDAY, MUSIC

FINE ARTS IMAGINARY INVALID: See Thursday. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. AHPS 125 in Oroville, (530) 895-2994, www.butte.edu/drama.

THE LITTLE PRINCE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

SAT

Special Events OROVILLE HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Jewelery, Christmas decorations, small gifts, crafts and baked goods. Sa, 11/17, 9am-noon & 4-7pm; Su, 11/18, 8am-noon. Prices vary. St. Thomas the Apostle School, 1330 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 534-6969.

CHICO POETRY SLAM Today, Nov. 15 Chico Peace & Justice Center

SEE THURSDAY, POETRY/LITERATURE

CHICO POETRY SLAM: Opens slam, plus featured poets: Seattle’s Oscar McNary and Casey Tonnelly, who will craft a dynamic show of dense, magical wordplay and witty social commentary. Th, 11/15, 7:30pm. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway; (530) 8939078; www.facebook.com/chico.poetryslam.

A LITERARY EVENING: A reading with Jeff Hull, Kathleen McPartland, Sarah Pape and Hilary Tellesen. Th, 11/15, 7:30pm. $3. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078 gallery.org.

FRI

Special Events FRANK CALIENDO: The comedian, actor and impressionist has worked with MADtv, Fox NFL Sunday and hosted his own show, Frank TV. F, 11/16, 8pm. $30-$70. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

SANTA ARRIVES: Santa will arrive (chauffeured by the Chico Fire Department) outside the mall’s Center Court entrance. Performances by the Children’s Choir and Women’s Choir of Chico. F, 11/16, 6pm. Free. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St.; (530) 343-0706; www.chicomall.com.

STAND UP FOR KIDS: A full evening of food, beer

SAC RIVER TRUST BENEFIT DINNER: A catered

Music LET MUSIC LIVE!: A performance from Synergism, a community women’s chorus with appearances by Chico Country Day School’s 5th- to 7th-grade choir and IMT3, the musical theater touring troupe from Inspire School of the Arts and Sciences. F, 11/16, 7-9pm. $10. Faith Lutheran Church, 667 E. First Ave. Near Mangrove; (530) 895-3754; http://flchico.org.

Theater THE GOOD DOCTOR: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

dinner, a silent auction, no-host bar, door prizes, live music by John Seid, Larry Peterson and Stevie Cook, guest speakers Diana Jacobs, John Merz, Eric Ginney and more to benefit the Sacramento River Preservation Trust. Sa, 11/17, 6-9pm. $40. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave.; (530) 345-1865.

Music 490 CABARET: The Grange’s concert series continues with soul and funk from local songwriter David Zink and a solo set from Mark McKinnon of local Celtic band Ha’Penny Bridge. Sa, 11/17, 7pm. $10. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 8722084.

1078 GALLERY: Hahn & Hanson, new work by Alan Corkery Hahn and Belinda Hanson on display. Through 11/24. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Maria Phillips

Exhibition, large, other-worldly watermedia paintings on display. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: A New Leaf, paintings by Candy Matthews and fine jewelery from Mike and Susi Gillum exploring the beauty of leaves. Through 12/1. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: Here nor There, electronic art curated by Kate Adams on display. Ayres Hall Room 107 Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Work n

Progress, an exhibit of work by student artist Dennis Wickes. Through 12/6. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. Inside the ARTS Building in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Small World Small Works, a touring exhibition of small foot-by-foot works from around the world. Through 11/25. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Works by

Claudia Steel, an exhibition of etchings, serigraphs, watercolors and oils. Through 1/11, 2013. 411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 8967200.

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

HOORAY FOR HOLYWOOD: NUNSET BLVD: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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CHICO MUSEUM: I Heart Chico, paintings, poetry, kid’s art, photography, textiles, videos and interactive collaborative exhibits inspired by Chico. Through 1/31, 2013. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

CHICO STATE HUMANITIES CENTER (TRINITY HALL): Gone to Ground, a new series of photographs of bunkers in Albania from photographer Wayne Barrar. Through 11/30. 400 West First St. 100 400 West First Street, (530) 898-6341.

ELLIS ART & ENGINEERING SUPPLIES: Ellis Art

Window Gallery, photography of exotic lands, Chico covered in snow fall, exquisite birds of Northern California and more. Through 11/30.Ellis Art Window Gallery, clay works and more by Janice Hoffman. M-Su through 11/30. Free. 122 Broadway St., (530) 8910335, www.ell ishasit.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Folk Art & Crafts, local folk art and one-of-a-kind sculptures, dolls and old-world Christmas ornaments. Through 11/30. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 3453063.

TIN ROOF BAKERY & CAFE: Chico landmarks in the Snow, photographs of Chico landmarks in the rare three-inch snowfall of 1987 by Karen Kolb on display. Through 11/30. 627 Broadway St. 170, (530) 345-1362.

THE TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Issues: Social,

Political, Gender, prints exploring a range of issues from English political satire to American social realism. Through 12/16. Curator’s talk and reception: Th, 12/6, 5:30 p.m. 400 W. First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico, (530) 898-4476, www.the turner.org.

Call for Artists 2013 ART FIESTA BOOTHS: Artist booths are still available for next spring’s event. Call or email for more info. Through 4/1, 2013. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 4874553.

EVERYTHING GREEN SHOW: MANAS is accepting new works in all mediums for their show beginning at the end of November. Call for details. Through 11/17. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

GREEN ARTS COMPETITION: Mixed media artwork that answers the question “what does it mean to be green,” with winner based on message, creativity and aesthetic appeal. Top finalists will have their work published on the Associated Students homepage. Ongoing. CSU Chico, 400 West First Street, Yolo Hall Room 178, (530) 898-6677.

Museums GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Fall Exhibits, three exhibits running through the fall semester including “Take Flight,” “Gold Fever: The Untold Stories of the California Gold Rush” and “Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West.” Through 12/31. $3-$6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Veterans Day Exhibit, A display honoring those who serve.

Ongoing.Victorian Quilts, Historic quilts from early 1800s to 1940s on display. Through 11/30. 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

and wine tastings, desserts, music by The Crawlers, a silent auction and stand-up comedy. F, 11/16, 6-9:30pm. $25-$30. Southside Community Center, 2959 Lower Wyandotte Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-9622.

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Of course, it is completely ridiculous and annoying to be talking about Christmas before November is even half over, but I won’t bust the chops of our downtown small-business folks for trying to make a living, especially since they always provide a wonderfully fun and fesEDITOR’S PICK tive atmosphere in which the community can come together and peruse their wares at the annual Christmas Preview, in downtown Chico. You got yer pretty lights, yer hot chocolate, yer strolling carolers and of course the appearance of the season by “the hardest working band in snow business,” The Yule Logs, Sunday, Nov. 18, 4-8 p.m.

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THIS WEEK continued from page 27 KRADDY: The LA-based DJ and music producer (and founding member of Glitch Mob) borrows from hip-hop, dubstep, dancehall and rock ‘n’ roll swagger. DJ Daneekah, Chaos and Concord open. Sa, 11/17, 8:30pm. $12. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

Theater THE GOOD DOCTOR: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

HOORAY FOR HOLYWOOD: NUNSET BLVD: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

IMAGINARY INVALID: See Thursday. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. AHPS 125 in Oroville, (530) 895-2994, www.butte.edu/drama.

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Special Events CHICO TWEED RIDE: Vintage bikes and “get up” is encouraged (but not mandatory) for this ride through Bidwell Park. Riders will stop at FiveMile Recreation Area for a picnic and end at Sierra Nevada Brewery for a pint. Su, 11/18, 11am-2pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, 400 Main St.

CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Downtown businesses get in the holiday spirit with Christmas decorations (and sales) as holiday festivities begin in earnest—Santa will be at the corner of Third Street and Broadway, carriage and trolley rides will be offered, carolers will stroll and live music will be provided by The Children’s Choir of Chico, Sounds of the Valley, The Bidwell Generals and Chico’s favorite holiday band, The Yule Logs. Su, 11/18, 4-8pm. Downtown Chico.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIRE: Original paintings, photography, ceramics, plants, crafts, jewelery, raffles and more presented by the We Care A Lot Foundation. Su, 11/18, 11am-4pm. Prices vary. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 223-7771.

OROVILLE HOLIDAY BAZAAR: See Saturday. St. Thomas the Apostle School, 1330 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 534-6969.

Theater THE GOOD DOCTOR: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

HOORAY FOR HOLYWOOD: NUNSET BLVD: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

IMAGINARY INVALID: See Thursday. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. AHPS 125 in Oroville, (530) 895-2994, www.butte.edu/drama.

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Music DIEGO’S UMBRELLA: Gypsy rock out of San Francisco that draws from the eclectic sound of Gogol Bordello. M, 11/19, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

BULLETIN BOARD Community AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

ANCIENT FIRE MAKING: Learn how to make fire by friction and compile your own fire-making kit. Sa, 11/17, 12-5pm. $10. GRUB Cooperative, 1525 Dayton Rd., (609) 713-0904.

CAMPUS TREE TOURS: A detailed tour of the trees on Chico State’s campus. Call for more info. F, 11/16, 10am; F, 11/30, 10am. Free. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 342-2293, www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=460.

CANCER SCREENING: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?: Educational presentations covering controversies in cancer screenings and specifics for breast, prostate and lung cancer screenings. Th, 11/15, 6:30-8pm. Free. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, (530) 332-3856.

CHAPMAN FARMERS MARKET: A farmers’ market in the park serving as a neighborhood collaborative forum focusing on healthy lifestyle promotion, education and access. F, 2-5:30pm through 12/31. Free. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 592-0889, www.cchaos.org.

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.

CINEMA FOR CHANGE: The monthly film series

continues with Happy, a documentary exploring what truly makes people happy. Sa, 11/17, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

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.

EAT RIGHT WHEN MONEY IS TIGHT: Monthly cooking demos for families on a budget. Third Th of every month, 6-7pm through 12/20. Free. OPT for Healthy Living, 1311 Mangrove Ave. B Mangrove and 3rd Ave, (530) 345-0678, www.optforhealthyliving.org.

EVERY WOMAN COUNTS WORKSHOP: Wendy Kaplan, MPH, will speak on how to detect breast cancer and preventing cervical cancer. Call to register. M, 11/19, 5-6pm. Free. Stonewall Alliance Center, 358 East Sixth St. Corner of 6th and Flume, (530) 893-3336.

EVOLUTIONARY SHIFT NETWORK: Celebrate conscious awakening, connection and examples of the birth of a new “universal humanity.” Su, 67:30pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

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.

FOLK DANCING: Traditional folk dancing, no partners necessary. Call for more info. F, 8pm through 11/30. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

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collection drive to raise funds for Durham Elementary. Not accepted: large household appliances or hazardous waste. Call for more info. Sa, 11/17, 9am-1pm. Free. Durham Elementary School, Putney Dr. in Durham, (530) 345-7724.

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FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 1-4pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 5188300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.

THE GATEWAY GOBBLE: An educational workshop covering the noble turkey, with instruction for making homemade turkey calls. Sa, 11/17, 125pm. Free. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

GREAT GOBBLERS!: A workshop for preschoolage children in which a CCNC naturalist will guide a walk through turkey territory, a craft project and more. Children must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Th, 11/15, 10-11am. $12. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

NED TALKS: A nature education series featuring three speakers each week who will present on a variety of topics with a 15-minute time limit. Call or go online to register. Tu, 7pm through 11/27. $8. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

PAWS SPAY & NEUTER CLINIC: For dogs over 40 pounds. Call or go online for more info. Through 11/30. Butte Humane Society Low Cost Spay & Neuter Clinic, 587 Country Dr., (530) 896-0303, www.chicospayneuter.org.

PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA: A fundraiser for Butte Humane Society—no appointment necessary. Sa, 10am-3pm through 11/17. Donations. Nantucket Home, 6th And Broadway, (530) 895-1038.

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 872-7085.

SOCK THE HOMELESS: A (new) sock drive for the needy in room 607. Donors will be entered into a raffle. Through 12/2. Butte Hall, 400 West First St. Chico State Campus, (530) 898-6204.

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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) 891-6524.

THANKSGIVING BASKET BRIGADE: Azad’s annual drive to feed needy families in Chico. Call or stop by the martial arts center to make donations. Through 11/19. $40. Azads Martial Arts Family Center, 313 Walnut St. 150 Corner of Walnut and 4th St., (530) 892-2923, www.azadsmartialarts.com.

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THE BIG TEXAS TRIP: Local Altacal trip leaders will share highlights of their six-week, 8,000mile birding adventure from Chico to High Island Texas and back. M, 11/19, 6:30pm. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

TREE PLANTING WORKSHOP: Participants will begin the permit process for planting a roadside tree, provided by the city. Call to register. Sa, 11/17, 9am. Free. City Municipal Services Center, 901 Fir St., (530) 896-7800.

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appellation just south of Sacramento, the Clarksburg Wine Company made a young wine with its 2011 vintage and may do so again this year, according to the company’s president, John Beckman. The wine is a blend called Delta Rouge that went to bottle several months after harvest—much later than Beaujolais Nouveau but much sooner than the average red. “It’s a young wine still,” Beckman said. “It’s lighter and fruitier [than most reds]. It’s very reminiscent of a Beaujolais Nouveau, though there’s more to it.” Beckman says that true Beaujolais Nouveau, at its best, is fresh, simple and straightforward. At its worst, the style may be

“bubble-gummy in not a good way,” he added. But nouveau wines have gotten better over the years. Georges Duboeuf, which has led the international sales pitch of Beaujolais Nouveau for decades, has also pushed for improvements in Beaujolais grape growing. Gamay tends to be a vigorous producer whose vines may sag with huge clusters of fruit—but high grape yields tend to mean watery, lackluster wine. Georges Duboeuf, which buys grapes from hundreds of farmers and ultimately sells 150,000 cases of Beaujolais Nouveau to Americans, is now demanding less yields and better fruit for finer, more characterdriven wine. By coincidence, the thirdThursday release date dictated by the French government happens to sync up perfectly for Americans buying wine for Thanksgiving dinner. Sunseri at New Clairvaux notes that the typical nouveau wine’s light effervescence often nicely complements the flavors of turkey and cranberries, and Beaujolais Nouveau is, in fact, widely consumed during Thanksgiving feasts. And it may be ironic, but for all the fanfare and hype and anticipation of the stroke of midnight that will set free the newest wines of the year, Beaujolais Nouveau, at its best, goes down easily and with hardly a critical thought— except, perhaps, “Pass the turkey.” Ω

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B pretty fun job. I wonder when the last time Chico Mayor Ann Schwab found it appropriate to eing the mayor of Paradise seems like a

attend a public event dressed like a member of the chorus line from Paint Your Wagon. This is exactly what Mayor by Steve “Woody” Culleton did last Ken Smith Saturday (Nov. 10) to introduce the kens@ second annual Paradise Cowboy newsreview.com Poetry and Music Gathering. It’s just part of the job description, one might guess, in a town that so cherREVIEW: ishes its Old West heritage. Paradise Cowboy The gathering, held at the ParMusic and Poetry adise Performing Arts Center, Gathering, brought together three acts dedicatSaturday, Nov. 10, at the Paradise ed to keeping these traditions—or at Performing Art least a nostalgic, theatrical represenCenter tation of them—alive: cowboy poet Dick Warwick, all-around showman Sourdough Slim and musical ensemble the Old West Trio. Each act performed two 15- to 20-minute sets separated by an intermission in which the performers mingled with the audience. And, the event was a benefit for the town’s Gold Nugget Museum. Warwick kicked off the night with a humorous poem about a cowboy getting stuck in a mucky corral, setting the tone and establishing a motif for the evening. Most of his poems tended toward the lighter side of cowboy life, and quite a few contained at least passing references to dung. This is no reflection on the quality of the verse, but worth noting as it says something about the G-rated quality of the genre, or at least the brand on display in Paradise that night, where the raciest references were reserved for cow paddies and a rodeo rider who loses his chaps after gluing himself to a saddle. Warwick, who hails from Washington, came about his love of cowboy poetry via a circuitous route. In the ’80s, he was introduced to the Down Under-equivalent of the form while working on a ranch in Australia, and came home excited to explore poetry of the American West. As homage to these beginnings, he also shared a handful of Australian poems. For his final poem, Warwick sidestepped the

humor, saying he felt the heart of cowboy poetry lies in the more serious works. He recited an original poem called “The Old Meeting Hall”—referencing crumbling meeting places reminiscent of simpler times— that elicited “Awws” from the audience. Bookending performances by Sourdough Slim was the Old West Trio, a three-piece from Garden Valley composed of stand-up bassist Leslie Ide and guitarists Steve Ide and Steve Johnson, all of whom share vocal duties. The trio not only dressed the part, but the two male members also sport facial hair that indicates this cowboy thing is no passing fancy: Johnson favors the classic gunfighter ’stache-beard combo, while Ide bears an uncanny resemblance to President Teddy Roosevelt in his roughrider days. The trio blessed a number of new and old Western songs with their spot-on musicianship and three-part harmonies. Highlights included three classics played back to back—“Don’t Fence Me In,” “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” and “Back in the Saddle Again.” They also played what they called (and many would agree) “the greatest cowboy ballad ever written,” Marty Robbins’ “El Paso.” The biggest thrills of the evening were undoubtedly courtesy of Paradise’s own Sourdough Slim, whose schedule of high-profile national festival gigs makes local appearances few and far between. Slim is a consummate showman whose act includes music, comedy and musicianship hearkening back to the days of Vaudeville. Armed with an accordion, Slim fired through originals like “Ride that Bronco Buckaroo,” “I’m Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky” and older songs like 1915’s “Hesitation Blues.” He also set the accordion aside for some six-string action on some songs, including a haunting rendition of “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” Slim finished up with a self-proclaimed “deathdefying” finale, eliciting laughs when he alluded to the dangers he faces every day. “If you don’t think strolling the streets in this country, in this day and age, dressed up in an outfit like this with an accordion strapped to your chest is death defying, then you’ve got another thing coming.” He then proceeded to spin a lariat while playing accordion, yodeling and dancing a jig. That 30 seconds alone was well worth the price of admission. Ω

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2012

NEW YEAR’S EVE GOURMET FOOD, THE WORLD’S BEST BEER AND THE SHANE DWIGHT BAND. I’M THERE!

New Year’s Eve in the Big Room. Works for me. To help burn off all those delicious calories, we’re proud to present one of the Big Room’s all-time favorites, The Shane Dwight Band. They are the best at what they do and that is getting people out on the dance floor. Tickets!! This is the only show where we sell reserved seats only. On Sunday, November 18th at 9 AM we’ll open the doors to the Big Room which will be set exactly as it will be on NYE. Each table is numbered so it will allow you to scan the room in advance and pick out the ACTUAL seats you’ll be occupying on the 31st. No phone, no on-line…just hands on pick’n and choose’n. Just get in line at the gift shop doors and they’ll open right at 9 AM and we’ll sell the tickets until they’re gone. (usually sells out the first couple of hours) So, the Big Room, wonderful food, the world’s greatest beer, wine if so inclined, desserts, party favors, balloons, our hardwood dance floor, the rock & roll sounds of Shane Dwight, champagne at midnight and all this for $50. I’m there!!

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he new Abe Lincoln picture from Steven

While the title character is central in every way, the film is no biopic, nor is it a war film—even though the Civil War is part of its setting right from the by Juan-Carlos start. Kushner’s brilliant script focuses on Selznick Lincoln and his contemporaries and on the complex political maneuvering involved in getting slavery abolished, via the Thirteenth Amendment, in the first four months of the war’s final year, 1865. That much historical specificity may sound a little daunting—or by some lights, a little too dry—but the Spielberg/Kushner Lincoln is never dull. There’s a fresh, canny mixture of Lincoln Starring Daniel docudrama and dramatic entertainment Day-Lewis, David throughout, and a wonderfully trenchant and Strathairn, Sally diverse cast provides vivid foreground and Field and Tommy background alike in this unusual and complex Lee Jones. version of Spielbergian spectacle. Directed by Daniel Day-Lewis’ reedy and avuncular Steven Spielberg. performance in the title role is a genuinely Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13. magnificent spectacle in its own right. Sally Field (as the emotionally divided Mary Todd Lincoln), David Strathairn (as William Seward, Lincoln’s shrewdly droll right-hand man and secretary of state), and Tommy Lee Jones (as Poor the firebrand abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens) make especially strong impressions. Other standouts include Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant, Hal Holbrook as the curmudFair geonly Francis Preston Blair, Joseph GordonLevitt as Lincoln’s adult son, Robert, and Gulliver McGrath as Lincoln’s beloved younger son, Tad. And a trio of rowdy lobbyGood ists (played with ribald flair by James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson and John Hawkes) bring a funky picaresque element to the tale of Lincoln’s grassroots politicking. Very Good The film’s one notable battle scene comes right at the start; a muddy, blood-soaked, nearmedieval scrum with Blue and Gray nearly indistinguishable and wallowing in savage Excellent

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hand-to-hand combat. That is followed with Lincoln’s first scene—an auspicious sideline conversation about the future with two very upright Union soldiers who are black and then with two scruffy-looking combatants who are white and in awe of the president. Moral and political struggle form the film’s central dramas, and Lincoln’s genius as a speaker and thinker—the storyteller, the homespun lawyer and polemicist, the moral visionary, the shrewd, grave politician—is the central ingredient in its most dynamic action. Spielberg the visionary auteur steps aside to put himself at the service of Kushner’s inspired pragmatism for most of this. Spielbergian awe is present in several of his justifiably hallowed images of Lincoln (including the quietly biblical intimations of the final scene), but the subtle iterations of a more Kushnerian motif— Lincoln’s friendly, respectful intimacy with an array of boys and young men—is more germane to the film’s richest artistry. Ω

Shaken, not deterred Skyfall

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

by Howard Hardee The two most recent installments of

the 23-film James Bond series (2006’s Casino Royale and 2008’s Quantum of Solace) established Daniel Craig’s Bond wouldn’t quite fit the mold—he wasn’t tall, dark and handsome, he didn’t have a tuxedo full of fancy gadgets, and most notable of all, he had feelings. And Craig’s continued development of the character well beyond its previous dimensions is at the forefront of Skyfall, the first Bond film

directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty). The film’s opening sequence finds Bond botching an attempt to recover a stolen hard drive containing mega-important information (albeit after another stunningly awesome over-the-top chase scene, which has become something of a signature for the rebooted series). From there it’s all womanizing, day-drinking and swallowing handfuls of prescription medication. And when a bleary-eyed Bond is put through a series of physical and mental tasks to determine whether he is still fit for service (secret service, that is), we are confronted with a concept entirely foreign—Bond being bad at stuff. His practice shots are off target and he labors through push-ups and chinups, all while looking generally disheveled. It’s a

Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Howard Hardee and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week

Lincoln

See review this issue. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2

All the familiar faces and their respective wolf packs and vampire covens rally round a vampire/human lovechild in the second film of the two-part finale to the Twilight film series. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Argo

In 1980, in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis, a CIA agent organized an undercover caper that was desperate, dazzling and very improbable. In the hands of Ben Affleck and company, that little farrago becomes a riveting, briskly entertaining thriller. There is no shortage of peril and suspense in the basic incident—agent Tony Mendez (Affleck) is attempting to spirit six Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy out of Iran. And the tension is only heightened by the outlandishness of Mendez’s scheme—he and the six escapees will exit Iran disguised as a Canadian film crew. That scheme adds a second, curiously complementary element to the story—Mendez must set up an actual production company as a supporting cover story for the filmcrew disguise. The cover-story movie becomes a sci-fi epic called Argo which might be filmed in Iranian locations. The movie angle adds a rich level of ironic comedy to Affleck’s own production, which thereby also becomes a dark, barbed comedy-drama about the business of making movies. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Cloud Atlas

Not the least of Cloud Atlas’s various accomplishments is that, over nearly three hours of moderately unconventional storytelling, it sustains itself as steadily engaging dramatic entertainment. This collaborative hybrid comes from a trio of writer-directors—Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix). Tykwer directed the modern-day sections—the romantic and professional travails of a young, gay composer (Ben Whishaw) in the Britain of the 1930s; the efforts of an investigative reporter (Halle Berry) to expose a corporate energy scandal in 1973; and the present-day misadventures of a slightly

genius move, see, because when was the last time we doubted Bond’s spy skills? (Answer: George Lazenby.) Speaking of genius moves, casting No Country for Old Men baddie Javier Bardem as Bond’s nemesis, Raoul Silva, and Skyfall’s villain is right up there. Silva is a former MI6 agent and super-hacker with a big grudge against Bond’s boss, M (Judi Dench). The dialogue between Silva and Bond, particularly in their first encounter, is the most compelling aspect of the film—excluding the scene in which a military helicopter crashes into a Scottish castle. Skyfall is not without its flaws; there are a number of situational mistakes silly enough to rival any B-horror flick, but who cares? Did you see the helicopter crash into that castle?! Ω

addled literary editor (Jim Broadbent) trying to escape confinement in a prison-like nursing home. The Wachowskis directed the 19th Century segment, the shipboard drama of a young businessman (Jim Sturgess) who comes to the aid of a stowaway slave, as well as the two episodes set in the future— in Korea in 2144, a young “fabricant” (Doona Bae) rebels against the socially-engineered regimentation imposed by a high-tech oligarchy; and in 2346 two very different survivor/refugees (Berry and Tom Hanks) try to sort out their respective heritages and destinies. Following those motifs and echoes is one of the quiet pleasures offered by this occasionally clamorous movie. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Flight

In the new movie by Robert Zemeckis, Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is, in his own words, “flying.” And it’s apparent early on that he’s right about that in more ways than one: he’s an airline pilot of unusual gifts, and he’s a spectacularly reckless consumer of drugs and alcohol as well. Whitaker practices both kinds of flying more or less interchangeably, and in the course of Flight, a heroic exploit, which is also a lethal misadventure, forces him to face up to the full consequences of who and what he has become. Skillfully scripted by John Gatins, Flight is a rousing, pungent character study, with a fine, nuanced performance from a smoldering Washington. And while it is not the action/disaster epic that its preview trailers might seem to suggest, it does ride a long ways on the energy of its flawed, semitragic protagonist’s daring and swagger. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Liberal Arts

A 35-year-old man and a 19-year-old coed fall for one another when the former returns to his college alma mater for an old professor’s retirement party. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

The Man with the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA wrote (with Eli Roth), directed stars in this martial-arts fantasy about a weapon-making blacksmith (RZA) who transforms into a living weapon himself in order to fight off the warriors and assassins who are threatening his village. Also starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Paranormal Activity 4

More spooky strangeness goes down after dark as the supernatural faux-foundfootage series picks up four years after the events of the original. Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Pitch Perfect

The Bellas are an all-girl college a capella group led by a new member (Anna Kendrick) who injects updated songs into the repertoire on the way to The Bellas taking on their male rivals. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Samsara

Director/cinematographer Ron Fricke (Chronos, Baraka) spent five years filming this non-narrative documentary in 25 different countries that “explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous” via natural wonders, disaster areas, sacred places, industrial zones and other examples of the modern world. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Seven Psychopaths

The action in the new movie by playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh includes the efforts of an Irish guy named Marty (Colin Farrell) to write a Hollywood screenplay, but all he has at the start is a title, “Seven Psychopaths.” The fragmented stories that emerge, for Marty’s screenplay and/or from McDonagh’s movie, have a good deal of violence in them, some of it farcical, some of it gruesome, some of it both at once. McDonagh, whose movies call Quentin Tarantino to mind, fancies himself having a moral seriousness that is lacking in Tarantino’s pictures. Be that as it may, Seven Psychopaths fails to distinguish itself as moviemaking and ends up looking a lot like a rather lazy and deluded knock-off of the Tarantino “brand.” What it does have going for it are a good cast, an assortment of offbeat amusements, and a wacko throwaway story about a psychopathic gangster (Woody Harrelson) trying to retrieve the Shih Tzu that two part-time dog kidnappers (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) are holding for ransom. Farrell, stranded in McDonagh’s mildly parodic self-portrait, ends up playing half-hearted straight man to those guys and others. Feather River Cinemas and Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

You should be getting it once a week.

Skyfall

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —H.H.

Taken 2

The retired CIA agent (Liam Neeson) who rescued his daughter who was taken by human traffickers in the first film is himself the target of the father of the kidnapper who he killed while saving her. (Side note: Isn’t it obvious that they should’ve called this Taken Again? C’mon, people!). Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Wreck-it Ralph

A Wreck-it Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) is the villain character in a video game who gets tired of being the bad guy, so he escapes to other games in the arcade in an attempt to be the hero. Also starring the voices of Sarah Silverman, Jayne Lynch and more. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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THURSDAY 11/15—WEDNESDAY 11/21

“They are San Francisco’s poster girls of all things raggedy glam!” Or so say Emily Schmidt and Uni & Her Ukulele, the ukulele duo that makes up The Paper Dolls. The two blonde S.F. troubadours blend a repertoire of tunes from “a surrealist diner’s jukebox” with their own bright originals and they will be visiting Café Coda Saturday, Nov. 17, along with Oaklandbased singer/songwriter Mana Maddy and Chico’s own The Perpetual Drifters.

15THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

ANGELIQUE KIDJO: Africa’s most celebrated female musician—with 11 critically acclaimed crossover albums—will perform material from her latest album, the Afro-pop influenced OYO. Th, 11/15, 7:30pm. $18-$31. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

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

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

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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) 8943033; www.has beans.com.

OPEN MIC: COMEDY: CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

IMPROV JAM: Open jam with Michael

Gaughan. Th, 5-8pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Chico’s

Everyone is welcome to try their hand at stand-up comedy. Th, 8-10pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to share your music, poetry, comedy, or other talents in a 10-minute slot. Third and First Th of every month, 7pm. $1. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

master of funk on the back patio. Th,

11/15, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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 through 11/29. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnnies restaurant.com.

16FRIDAY BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

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

BRASS HYSTERIA!: A night of ska and punk. Icko Sicko, Badger and Partito Tiempo open. F, 11/16, 8pm. $5.

Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

BROOKWOOD BOYS: Live music at Flo. F,

11/16, 7-9pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

CHICO BAILE LATINO: MORE THAN SALSA: Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and Bachata dance lessons followed by an open social dance. F, 8pm through 11/15. $2$4. The Hub, 685 Manzanita Ct. Inside the Holiday Inn, Chico; (530) 518-9454.

COUNTRY NIGHT: Live country music with Rancho Mars. F, 5-8pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.

FURLOUGH FRIDAYS: Local rockers take a page from ’90s alt- rock playbook. A Cult Like Vulture and Kevin Briggs open. F, 11/16, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.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. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

LET MUSIC LIVE!: A performance from Synergism, a community women’s chorus with appearances by Chico Country Day School’s 5th- to 7thgrade choir and IMT3, the musical theater touring troupe from Inspire School of the Arts and Sciences. F, 11/16, 7-9pm. $10. Faith Lutheran Church, 667 E. First Ave. Near Mangrove; (530) 895-3754; http://flchico.org.

THE MONTANES: A danceable country and rock cover band. F, 11/16, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

PAT HULL: The fingerpickin’ singer-songwriter will perform selections from his forthcoming album Shed Skin in his last Chico appearance before a full U.S. tour. Local prog rockers Clouds on Strings and San Francisco’s Graham Patzner open. F, 11/16, 8pm. $7. Origami Lounge, 7th and Cherry Streets.

THE PURPLE XPERIENCE: A Prince tribute band—complete with Doctor Fink of Prince and the Revolution—in the brewery. F, 11/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

RAT JERKY: Covers from the heavy end

of the classic rock spectrum. F, 11/16, 9pm. $1. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

SHOP & ROCK: Locals Threk (ska and funk) and Frankie Doppler’s Nuclear Sunrise (ska and punk) perform amid a sea of vintage clothing. F, 11/16, 7pm. Free. Pepper Grand Coulees Funky Trunk, 1112 Mangrove; (530) 894-8065.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. F, 11/16, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

17SATURDAY 490 CABARET: The Grange’s concert series continues with soul and funk

PURPLE XPERIENCE Friday & Saturday, Nov. 16 &17 Feather Falls Brewing Co. SEE FRIDAY & SATURDAY

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Diego’s Umbrella might be the west coast’s answer to Gogol Bordello, but these are no gypsy-punks. These gypsies rock much more melodically as they cycle through a similarly eclectic bag of tricks—Klezmer, flamenco, mariachi and even some soaring anthemic choruses and electronic beats. Join the energetic dance party this Monday, Nov. 19, at the Sierra Nevada Big Room.

from local songwriter David Zink and a solo set from Mark McKinnon of local Celtic band Ha’Penny Bridge. Sa, 11/17, 7pm. $10. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 872-2084.

APPLE Z: High-energy covers from multiple genres. Sa, 11/17, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

BLUEGRASS JAM: Open jam hosted by

Lucy Smith. Sa, 11/17, 1-4pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

DEAD MANS HAND: A blend of modern

country and rock. Sa, 11/17, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

ERIN MCKINNEY: Live country music. Sa, 11/17, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino,

2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

KRADDY: The LA-based DJ and music producer (and founding member of Glitch Mob) borrows from hip-hop, dubstep, dancehall and rock ‘n’ roll swagger. DJ Daneekah, Chaos and Concord open. Sa, 11/17, 8:30pm. $12. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

NOT DEAD YET: A Grateful Dead tribute

band. Katie McConnall opens. Sa, 11/17, 7:30-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.wee bly.com.

THE PAPER DOLLS: Perpetual Drifters and Mana Maddy open. Sa, 11/17, 8pm. $5.

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THE PURPLE XPERIENCE: See Friday. Sa,

11/17, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. Sa, 11/17, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

TRADITIONAL DANCE CLUB: Traditional country dancing with live music by Cottonwood, Silver Wing and more. Sa, 11/17, 7-10pm. $6-$7. VFW Hall, 1901 Elgin St. in Oroville; (530) 533-5052.

18SUNDAY JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.has beans.com.

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: The local duo will play an eclectic mix of tunes. Su, 11/18, 6-9pm. Free. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St.; (530) 8916328; www.5thstreetsteakhouse.com.

19MONDAY DIEGO’S UMBRELLA: M, 11/19, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

20TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

JOE BUCK YOURSELF: A sinister one-man hillbilly punk rock show from the former bassist for Hank Williams III. The Hooten Hallers (Chico) and Black Market Prophets (Bay Area gypsy-folk punk) open. Tu, 11/20, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

21WEDNESDAY HAPPY JAZZ: A weekly jazz appointment with Shigemni Minetaka on piano and Christine LaPado-Breglia on upright bass. W, 5-7pm. Chicoichi Ramen, 243 W. Ninth St.; (530) 891-9044.

JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey

Robinson and company. W, 5-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS: Traditional punk out of Minnesota. The French Exit (out of L.A.) and locals Hallow Kids and Born Into This open. W, 11/21, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

ROCKRIDGE BLUEGRASS BAND: One of the North State’s most seasoned traditional bluegrass bands. W, 11/21, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 5148888; www.liveatflo.weebly.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.

TAINTED LOVE: The popular ’80s tribute band returns to Gold Country’s stage. W, 11/21, 8:30pm. $5. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Join the jam. Drum kit, 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.

OPEN MIC: All ages welcome. W, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

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Toronto three-piece METZ are perpetually stuck on one setting—shoved beyond the red and into the white hot. Their music is akin to: a) being forced at gunpoint to shove your ears into a meat-grinder, b) the stress of figuring out how to physically get your ears into a meat-grinder, and c) having your ears run through a meatgrinder. Needless to say, there’s not much melody on METZ’s self-titled debut—these guys play post-apocalyptic punk rock that is as tightly wound as it is tightly played. Guitars slice mercilessly through the air and drums pummel with caveman vigor on the aptly titled “Headache,” and “Wasted” sounds like an outtake from Nirvana’s Bleach sessions. It should be noted that these aren’t kids (the members are all in their early-30s), and that the band’s unadulterated power is sophisticated and precise much in the same way metal can be. METZ don’t necessarily bring anything new—there are plenty of bands who have worked this angle before (Killdozer, early Helmet)—but it’s a friendly reminder that the perfect mix of precision and ferocity can still move mountains. —Mark Lore

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Borderlands 2 2K Games Xbox 360, PC, Playstation 3 Ignore any skags who insist less is more. More is more, and this sequel to the 2009 surprise hit proves just that. A new group of Vault Hunters is at your command to foil Handsome Jack’s evil plan, but the real appeal—once again—is the unrestrained humor and outrageous guns. Gun manufacturers now feel and look more distinct from each other. Some guns sport increased fire rate and others explode like a grenade upon reload. The RPG elements remain with a few new twists such as Badass Points (global buffs for completing objectives) and character skin and head customizations. The combat is tried and true, but we get to topple more building-size monsters, which gives boss battles an epic oomph. While the overall story is bland—though better than the first— the towns and quests are overflowing with sexist, homicidal and perverted characters, and quests that drive us to kill while murdering our funny bone. Unlike any other game out there, the unapologetic humor and distinct visual style creates an over-the-top adventure that fuels replayability not with filler objectives but with a desire to let loose continually in a world that is as inappropriately crass as we all love to be sometimes.

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Matanë Malit Elina Duni Quartet ECM Records Though my knowledge of the Albanian language is rusty to the point of being absent altogether, I had little difficulty understanding the beauty found on Elina Duni’s ECM debut album, as lovely a collection as I’ve heard in a while. Part of the beauty here is traceable to the gentle jazz piano accompaniment provided by the alwaysinteresting Colin Vallon. But Duni’s exquisite vocals, all sung in her native Albanian, are what give this album its distinction and its emotional power. Duni has a terrific voice, and though she left her homeland more than two decades ago, she is obviously still in touch with her roots, with the folk music of that Balkan nation. “I fell in love with the old songs,” she said in a press release, “and discovered that not only could I sing them … but that this was really my voice, emerging in a very natural way. It was as if it had been waiting to be activated.” There is great poetry in these songs, a poetry not dependent on understanding the language. But translations are provided in the liner notes, and any listener who takes the trouble to read these lyrics in English will find additional depths of feeling and stark beauty in those translations.

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KATHLEEN PAPPANI 1556 Mountain View Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: KATHLEEN F. PAPPANI Dated: October 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001475 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PASEO HACIENDAS DEVELOPMENT LLC at 1111 Marauder Street Chico, CA 95973. PASEO HACIENDAS DEVELOPMENT LLC 14040 Kelsey Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: CURTIS HAYS Dated: October 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001401 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOUNG LOVE OUTFITTERS at 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95973. KENNETH SWAIN 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95973. DAVID ZOPPI 1121 Marin Street Corning, CA 96021. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: David ZOPPI Dated: October 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001505 Published: October 25, November 1,8,25, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLUM GALLERY at 3204 Calistoga Drive Chico, CA 95973. JUSTIN LEHRBAUM 3204 Calistoga Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: JUSTIN LEHRNBAUM Dated: September 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001308 Published: October 25 November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENLOE REGIONAL CANCER CENTER at 265 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95926. ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER 1531 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: MYRON E. MACHULA Dated: September 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001386 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO ENDOSCOPY CENTER LLC at 888 Lakeside Village Commons Chico, CA 95928. ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER 1531 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a Limited Partnership. Signed: MYRON E. MACHULA Dated: October 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2007-0001979 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DISCOVERY PLACE at 790 Filbert Ave Chico, CA 95926. MICHELLE WINDES 790 Filbert Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHELLE WINDES Dated: October 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001486 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name OLD CROW ESTATE SERVICES at 852 Wisonsin St Chico, CA 95928. PAUL SHUY 1916 Laburnum Chico, CA 95926. TAMMARA ASKEA 852 Wisconsin St Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: TAMMARA ASKEA Dated: October 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000240 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OLD CROW ESTATE SERVICES at 852 Wisconsin St Chico, CA 95928. TAMMARA ASKEA 852 Wisconsin St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: TAMMARA ASKEA Dated: October 23, 2012 FBN Number 2012-0001525 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WACI at 273 E. 2nd Ave Chico, CA 95926. WINSTON COLGAN 273 E. 2nd Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: WINSTON COLGAN Dated: October 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001533 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO HOMES REAL ESTATE SALES INCORPORTED at 2571 California Park Drive Suite 200 Chico, CA 95928. SANDI BAUMAN 2571 California Park Drive Suite 200 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SANDI BAUMAN Dated: October 22, 2012 FBN No.: 2012-0001516 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A GREENER CLEAN at 3805 Addys Ln Oroville, CA 95965. GARY MIDDLETON 3805 Addys Ln Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: GARY MIDDLETON Dated: October 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001476 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name BEAUTY SQUARED at 240 Main ST #140 Chico, CA 95928. E AND V SQUARED GROUP LLC 240 Main ST #140 Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: SHUHUA LUO Dated: October 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001191 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BEAUTY SQUARED at 240 Main ST #140 Chico, CA 95928.

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DKNJ INTERNATIONAL CORP 4091 Bresee Ave Baldwin Park, CA 91706. This business is conducted by a corporation. Signed: SHUMING CAO Dated: October 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001492 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FRANK WATTERS AND MARY ANNE HOUX CHILDREN’S FUND at 13 Victoria Way Chico, CA 95926. BUTTE COUNTY CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL 13 Victoria Way Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a corporation. Signed: MARGIE RUEGGER Dated: October 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001526 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NOR CAL MEAT AND SEAFOOD at 3549 Esplande #443 Chico, CA 95973. WILLIAM L BILLINGSLEY 286 1ST Avenue Chico, CA 95926. TONY K MUNROE 3549 Esplande #443 Chico, CA 95926. EDWARD SKAGGS 1487 East First Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: TONY MUNROE Dated: October 30, 2012 FBN Number 2012-0001549 Published: November 8,15,22,29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VICTORIA;S PIANO STUDIO at 11 Integrity Ct Oroville, CA 95965. VICTORIA HIEB-SWIGER 11 Integrity Ct Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Victoria Hieb-Swiger Dated: October 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001536 Published: November 8,15,22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TOP TIER at 1712 Hemlock St Chico, CA 95928. VINCENT GIACOMO COMMENDATORE 1712 Hemlock St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Vincent Commendatore Dated: October 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001473 Published: November 8,15,22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EARTHEN URN at 1837 Norman Ave #1 Chico, CA 95928. KEVIN REGAN 1837 Norman Ave #1 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: KEVIN REGAN Dated: November 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001564 Published: November 8,15,22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EVAN’S EXPERT TREE SERVICE at 2225 Norte Dame Blvd Chico, CA 95928. TREVOR W. EVANS 2225 Norte Dame Blvd Chico, CA 95928.

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This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Trevor W. Evans Dated: November 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012: 0001566 Published: November 8,15,22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as REBECCA’S REMEDIES at 2394 Durham St Durham, CA 95938. REBECCA LYNN YARROW 2394 Durham St. Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: REBECCA YARROW Dated: October 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001498 Published: November 8,15,22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OLOFAT ONE BITE BBQ at 1040 Windsor Way Chico, CA 95926. SIGRAH BILLYOS 1040 Windsor Way Chico, Ca 95926. SCOTT SUZUKI 1050 Columbus Avenue #14 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: SCOTT SUZUKI Dated: November 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001576 Published: November 8,15,22 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CANOPY HAIR STUDIO at 1245 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926. REBECCA M. WALKER 23 San Ramon Drive Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: REBECCA M. WALKER Dated: October 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001429 Published: November 15,22,29, December 6, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OROVILLE CAB COMPANY at 1388 Longfellow Ave Ste 14 Chico, CA 95927. BYRON J CHARLES SHOBAR 69 Jackie Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: BYRON SHOBAR Dated: October 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001533 Published: November 15,22,29, December 6, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LITTLE SISTER at

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1447 Bel Air Drive Paradise, CA 95969. Patricia White 1447 Bel Air Drive Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Patti White Dated: October 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001462 Published: November 15,22,29, December 6, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE HEMLOCK APARTMENTS at 1750 Humboldt Rd Chico, CA 95928. IRIS M. RING 871 Birdhaven Ct Lafayette, CA 94549. TERRANCE O. RING 871 Birdhaven Ct. Lafayette, CA 94549. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: IRIS AND TERRANCE RING Dated: October 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001561 Published: November 15,22,29 December 6, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE: Saturday 11/24/12 at 12:00pm at Bidwell Self Storage, 65 Heritage Lane, Chico, 893.2109, Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units of household or personal items and boxes, leather couches, dressers, bed frame, mattresses, wooden cabinets, holiday d‚cor, and other misc. items not specified will be sold. Silent auction.The unit numbers and names are: Unit 229: David Brantley Sr. Unit 447: James Esh Unit 219: Candace Carby Unit 244: John Silvera Unit 078: Shelly Byrd Unit 087A: David Krause Unit 527: Barbara Moore Unit 030: Steve Anthiety Unit 404: Cherie Higgs Unit 336: Rent A Center Unit 211: Rent A Center Unit 384: Rent A Center Unit 306: Rent A Center Unit 075: Rent A Center Unit 301: Rent A Center ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DANALEE R WILCOX, DARRYL R BROWN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JEREMIAH JACK WILCOX Proposed name: JEREMIAH JACK BROWN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 12, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: October 12, 2012 Case Number: 158030 Published: October 25, November 1,8,11, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ASHLEY DEVIN CUTTING filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEY DEVIN CUTTING Proposed name: DEVIN ASHLEY CUTTING THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 30, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert A. Glusman Dated: September 24, 2012 Case Number: 157858 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TAMMY BUSHYHEAD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as

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follows: Present name: LILLIANA JAELYNN RIVERA Proposed name: LILLIANA JAELYNN PEZQUEDA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 30, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L. M Lean Dated: October 24, 2012 Case Number: 158110 Published: November 1,8,15,22, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GARY L WILLIAMS JR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ELIZABETH KRISTINE WAGONER Proposed name: ELIZABETH KRISTINE WILLIAMS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: A The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: November 6, 2012 Case Number: 157857 Published: November 15,22,29, December 6, 2012

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old Christian and Islamic lore, the dove was a symbol of the holy spirit. The bird was considered so pure and sacred that the devil, who was an expert shapeshifter, could not take on its form. The dove had a different meaning in other traditions, however. Among the ancient Greeks, it had a special relationship with Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In Rome, its eggs were regarded as aphrodisiacs. Drawing on all these meanings, I’m nominating the dove to be your power animal in the coming week. You will have an excellent chance to intensify your connection with divine truths through the power of love and eros—and vice versa.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your next

assignment is to deepen and refine your relationship with your temptations. That doesn’t mean you should shed all caution and simply give in to them. Rather, I’m suggesting you escape the bind that makes you feel like you have to either ruthlessly repress your complicated longings or else thoroughly express them. Is there an inbetween position you can find? A way you can appreciate the mysterious gift that the temptations confer and not be miserably obsessed by them? A perspective in which you’re neither tormented by guilt nor driven to compromise your integrity?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re a bit

like a professional jet pilot who is operating the pirate ship ride at an amusement park. You have resemblances to a top chef who’s shopping for gourmet ingredients in a seedy convenience store. In other words, Gemini, you may feel slightly off-kilter or dispossessed, even though you have a lot going for you. Here’s the best possible thing you could do while you wait for the fates to show you how to make a correction: Make it your intention to feel centered, poised and at peace exactly as you are right now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Contrary to

conventional wisdom, there is currently enough food available to feed everyone on the planet. The problem is, it’s not distributed efficiently. Some people get far more food than they need, and even waste a lot of it, while less fortunate folks go hungry. I invite you to think about whether you might have a metaphorically comparable situation in your own life, Cancerian. Is there a part of your psyche that’s well-nurtured but a different part that receives meager shares of love and support? Are you overstuffed in one way but starved in another? The coming weeks would be an excellent time to correct such an imbalance. (More on food: http://tinyurl.com/HungryWorld.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This horoscope is not

an advertisement for ceremonial shovels. I am receiving no payment from a ceremonial-shovel company for suggesting that you procure a customized engraved gold digging tool for your own personal use. And I will feel fine if you don’t actually get a real one, but instead merely imagine yourself wielding a pretend version. The fact is, Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do a groundbreaking ritual: to dig up the first scoop of metaphorical dirt in the place where you will build your future dream house, masterpiece or labor of love.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don’t think

you’re fully aware of the game you’ve been immersed in. You may even be in denial that you’re playing it. If I’m right about this, please make it a priority to acknowledge what’s going on and identify the exact nature of the game. You can’t afford to be innocent about the subterranean forces that are in motion. It’s especially important not to be too nice and polite to see the complicated truth. Please note: There’s no need to be a cynical shark—that would be as inappropriate a response as being a sweet little lamb. But you should definitely activate your jungle senses.

the following: “What is your best ‘unanswerable’ question, Reddit?” Among the more serious offerings were: “What is love?”; “What is magic?”; “Why is there something as opposed to nothing?”; and “What is the meaning of life?” Then there were more avant-garde possibilities: “Where do squirrels go during hurricanes?”; “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?”; and “If I asked you to sleep with me, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?” After evaluating the current astrological omens, Libra, I urge you to pose your own best riddle—a query that will provide maximum stimulation as you meditate on it during the next four months.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An environ-

mental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul. In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught. For example, New Zealand companies throw away most of the liver, roe and heads of the fish, while Iceland has come up with ways to take advantage of all that stuff. Judging from your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I conclude that it’s crucial for you to take your cue from Iceland rather than New Zealand in the coming weeks. Be inventive, efficient and thorough in harnessing the power of all your raw materials.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“They will say you are on the wrong road,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “if it is your own.” I suspect you may have to deal with wrongheaded badgering like that in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. In fact, you could experience a surge of discouraging words and bad advice that tries to shoo you away from the path with heart. Some of the push may come from enemies, some from friends or loved ones, and some from deluded little voices in your own head. I hope you won’t be demoralized by the onslaught, but will instead respond like a brave hero who uses adversity as a motivating force.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m

sure you’ve got thousands of practical details to attend to. Your schedule may be as busy as it has been in months. But I hope you will find time to do what I consider essential to your well-being, and that is to wander and wonder. In fact, let’s make that your motto: to wander and wonder. Even if it’s just for a few stolen moments between your serious appointments, allow yourself to meander off into the unknown and marvel at all the curious things you find. Be on the lookout for high strangeness that thrills your imagination, for exotic pleasures that titillate your lust for novelty, and for fertile chaos that blows your mind in all the right ways.

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

Joyce was a great novelist but not much of a fighter. He picked a more imposing and athletic buddy to go drinking with, though: Ernest Hemingway. If the two men encountered any alcohol-induced trouble, Joyce would slink behind his friend and yell, “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!” I don’t anticipate that you’ll be in the vicinity of any bar scuffles in the coming week, Aquarius. But I do think you would benefit from having a potent and persuasive ally on your side. It’s time to add some heft and clout to your arsenal of resources.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is it possible

that you have been too receptive and empathetic for your own good lately? I mean, I love how attuned you are to the ebb and flow of subtle energies—it’s one of your most winsome and powerful qualities—but I fear you may be going too far. As heroic as it might seem to be the most sensitive and responsive person in a 10-mile radius, I’d rather see you work on being more selfcontained right now. That’s why, for a limited time only, I’m recommending that you turn the full force of your touchy-feely solicitude on yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On Reddit,

someone asked members of the community

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Ami McNairn-Emery left a decade-long career in social work a year ago to tap into her “creative and crafty” side. She started FABU to YOU, an event-planning business specializing in custom themed parties. McNairn-Emery has two sons, 16 and 13, and has lived in Chico and Durham for most of her life. She said she knew what it was like to work a nine- or 10-hour work day and then come home and have to plan a party. Her new business helps busy folks by taking the stress out of throwing a bash. She sets up everything from start to finish, and provides decorations, activities, you name it. In addition to kids’ parties, she offers baby showers, bridal showers and many other themes. The motto of McNairn-Emery’s business is, “FABU to YOU does it all for you!” Go to www.fabuto you.vpweb.com or call 228-6914 for more info.

What made you want to switch career tracks? I was let go from my last job for “not being happy”; those were the exact words. I realized, I’m not happy, I’m dealing with sadness every day, and a light went on in my head. I had to do something beneficial, anything else where I’m still helping with children, but in a celebratory way. [I wanted] the next chapter in my life full of joy, peace and happiness. Life’s too short.

How would you describe yourself? Outgoing. I have an alter ego, Miss Ami, who has a blonde wig, glasses and a big skirt. She’s there to entertain the kids and put the par-

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ents at ease, so they don’t feel like they need to entertain me. It takes the pressure off of them.

What’s a FABU to YOU event like? There are themes: fairy, pirate and garden Victorian. For tweens there’s a diva theme, spa party and sleepover. I design the outfits, decorate the person’s home, set up, do gift bags, food, everything. It’s a service for working parents, busy parents.

Where do you hope to see FABU to YOU go? Right now I’m just trying to get my name out and keep expanding, and because this is a passion of mine I’d drive to Sacramento. It’s a party, it’s my career, but it’s also so much fun to celebrate in a happy way. I’d like to see FABU as a chain, everywhere. There’s really no limit; I totally see it bigger than I ever

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Thanks for asking For months now people have been asking me how I’m doing. I’m OK. Before my wife got sick and died, if anybody casually asked how I was I’d say, “Fine.” I wouldn’t think much about it, if at all. I’d just say, “Fine.” “Fine” wasn’t based on any detailed examination of my states of mind and body. I’d just do my usual scan: No exploding metal falling from the sky? No suppurating wounds or unsightly growths? No imminent starvation? No intractable pain? Then I’m fine. I could be fine even in those situations, and so without them I’m definitely in good shape. Then people would ask how I was because they knew something about caregiving. I’d sometimes say, “I don’t see a good place to fall so I’m still standing,” which was fairly accurate. Caregiving was tiring, stressful, all-new, and chock-full of opportunities to judge myself, but I had nothing to compare me to so I just did my best and did better when I could. I’ve heard that somebody has divided grieving into numbered stages, which is usually a silly, simpleminded thing to do and very popular. I don’t know what stage I’m in. Although a lifelong bookworm, I

didn’t think to bone up for grieving. I’ve known for a long time that Janice was likely to die soon, but I was king of denial, and now I’m too busy grieving to read about it. My official position is that I’m doing all right and in the proper stage for my age and vocabulary. About a month after Janice left me to my own devices I began to notice changes in my emotions. Waves of sadness still took me over, but not so often, maybe a couple of times a day. Then a week ago I had a string of days of no tears. I’d choke up, moist eyes, no tears. I felt guilty, which I see now was quite an achievement, and suitably short-lived. Recently I was going home after some deathrelated administrative chore with my widower briefcase when the Godzilla of Grief got me in my car outside the Humboldt Has Beans. I spent the next several minutes sobbing uncontrollably, which phrase I now know as more than just a figure of speech, while I waited for a tow truck because my car wouldn’t start. The Godzilla of Grief is a coldblooded mother. A friend distributed Janice’s clothes, so I have only her notes and files and books and art and supplies and equipment to deal with. Piece of cake next to Godzilla. November 15, 2012

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