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EDITORIAL

cN&r’s pledge In this week’s cover story, you’ll read about Facebook’s ever-changing

algorithm and how media companies have gone to extraordinary lengths to chase page views. It’s a depressing piece for journalists because it underscores the mistakes newspapers have made that have led to a bastardization of this once-great industry.

Indeed, in the digital age, many newspapers and magazines have put too many resources into their online product. Some established whole teams of employees dedicated to pulling readers in through Facebook alone. The problem is that many of them lost sight of their core mission. From writing clickbait-style headlines to assigning stories specifically to get the most online traffic, they’ve moved away from what ought to have been the priority: providing news that translates to an informed citizenry.

The result is a vicious cycle in which a poor product leads to plummeting readership, leading to further declines in quality and fewer readers, and so on and so forth. It’s saddened us to witness this race to the bottom in an industry so vital to society.

Here at the CN&R, we haven’t ignored Facebook. We’d have been ignorant to have done so. But the social media network has never been a high priority. Rather, the emphasis has remained on telling the stories we believe are important to the community, especially those we know other media outlets aren’t willing to tell.

You’ve rewarded us by continuing to pick up this newspaper—week in and week out in the dozen years since Facebook went mainstream. While some publications have floundered, even disappeared altogether, the CN&R has made modest gains in circulation. We appreciate the support that has kept the presses busy for more than 40 years.

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GUEST COMMENT

The tyranny of the Nra Tweekhasthat headed up the NRA since 1978, said last people who argue for gun control “hate

he indispensable Wayne LaPierre, the ghoul who

individual freedom.” LaPierre shows up after every mass shooting to remind us that the problem of gun deaths has nothing to do with guns.

He’s “indispensable” because the American ritual of gun violence wouldn’t be complete without one of his ugly pronouncements following each big bloodletting. He crawls out from under his rock to tell us by guns are indispensable to our Jaime O’Neill way of life, the price we pay for The author is a “individual freedom.” He’s the retired community ghoul who has enriched himself college instructor. by wading through the blood after every shooting to preach the gospel of guns, a gospel more sacred than the lives of children. The freedom of individual teachers to do their jobs without fear of being shot by unstable people who have such unfettered access to semi-automatic weaponry is a dispensable freedom, apparently.

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LaPierre shows up whenever the death count is high enough or the victims young enough to pierce through the public numbness about this insanity.

Got dead kids? Here comes ol’ Wayne LaPierre to fart at the memorial service, to piss in the punch bowl at the wake, a ghoulish guest at our recurring nightmare.

I must “hate individual liberty” because I would restrict the sale of semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 that ended the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of 17 people, mostly kids, in Parkland, Fla. I would initiate a buy-back program to get those guns out of circulation. That would be much cheaper than Donald Trump’s insane idea of arming roughly three-quarters of a million teachers throughout the land. Trump, recipient of $21 million in NRA cash, isn’t part of the solution, of course. He’s part of the problem.

In the NRA fever dream, “individual freedom” means we must accept and normalize the daily fear that kids, teachers, parents, concert-goers, movie audiences, church congregations and damned near everyone in this benighted nation must endure.

American exceptionalism is nowhere more exceptional than in our exceptional tolerance of such madness. □

celebrating the weird What would Chico be without the freaks and misfits who provide the

backdrop for this magical place? Just your basic college town surrounded by farms, that’s what.

So when we throw an annual show under the banner of Keep Chico Weird, what we’re saying is that those colorful characters ought to be celebrated. Bring out your strange talents and showcase them for the world (or at least Chico) to see. Practice that dance routine, rehearse that bizarre monologue, put your dreams to music and take ’em to the stage.

When we first envisioned the Keep Chico Weird talent show, we honestly had no idea what creative submissions we might receive. But year in and year out, we continue to see the depth of this wonderful community and its commitment to stepping outside the box. That in itself is worth celebrating!

We hope to see a wide range of people at this year’s art and talent shows, both of which are being held at new venues—the Museum of Northern California Art and Senator Theatre, respectively. Both events showcase the amazingly creative individuals and groups we have here in the North State.

Beyond all the oddities you’ll expect to find at this year’s events, we also want to encourage everyone to embrace the weird and wonderful things that make you, well, you. If you didn’t have that weird nose whistle or snort while you laugh or have a pinky that bends all the way back to your wrist, well, you might just be boring. No one wants that! So, instead of poking fun at people’s imperfections, look at them as badges of individuality.

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open the gate It’s interesting how your worldview changes when you have a loved one with a major disability. Seven years ago, if you’d asked me about the prospect of indefinitely prohibiting vehicular access to the majority of the road inside of Upper Bidwell Park, I likely would have said I was fine with it.

Fast-forward to today, and the fate of that 4-plus-mile roadway is one of the major components of an online survey the Park Division has set up on the city’s website (www.chico.ca.us). It will be live until March 16. Among other things, it asks participants how often they visit Upper Park and what they do while they’re there. Another question asks what could be done to improve the experience.

From my perspective, that’s easy to answer: Open the entirety of Upper Park Road. That’s the thoroughfare that stretches eastward into the far reaches of the park, adjacent to many of the popular places to take a dip in Big Chico Creek (Alligator Hole, Bear Hole, Salmon Hole and Brown’s Hole).

In sorry shape after years of storms and neglect due to budget cuts at the city, much of the unpaved portion of that road has been closed to cars since 2012. The gate is at the Diversion Dam, just under the 2-mile mark.

Ostensibly because the city is now looking at improving that longignored infrastructure, staff wants to know what Chicoans think about vehicle access—whether they support it at all and to what extent. From what I’ve seen and heard, many folks want to keep the gate closed.

They want what’s on the other side of that barrier to be accessible only to those on foot, bike or horse. They view those areas of the park as an escape from the city, cars especially. They think of Upper Park as a wild space that ought to be kept wild.

Not surprisingly, all of the folks I know who hold those views are also able-bodied people who can easily hop on a bike or walk to Brown’s Hole.

But not everyone can do that. Indeed, my own son, a beautiful little 6-year-old boy with a serious spinal condition, may never be able to see that area without getting in a car. Ditto for many other Chicoans who’d like to enjoy that public space—environs that for previous generations had been open to everyone thanks to the road.

I knew a few years ago when rumblings about accessibility began that this would be a topic with the potential for strident views on either side. That’s why I assigned a cover story on the subject (see “Road block,” Sept. 22, 2016). Among the things you’ll learn by reading it is that, for the past several decades, the road was closed during the wettest months of the year to prevent it from further deterioration. Additionally, it was closed on Sundays and Mondays.

My point: Maybe there’s a happy medium—where vehicular access is permitted but not every single day.

The city’s survey isn’t subtle when it comes to telling respondents that the cost of improvements—of virtually any kind, including road repairs—are going to have to come from users. “Improving access to Upper Bidwell Park, and maintaining Upper Park Road and other facilities will require additional funding,” a portion of the document reads.

Indeed, part of the questionnaire asks how much money parkgoers are willing to shell out. That’s a different subject altogether.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Gun violence reaction Re “Stand united with students” (Editorial, Feb. 22): Let’s maximize our schools’ potential firepower and really go full-on Rambo.

Let’s arm the janitors, bus drivers, crossing guards, groundskeepers and, while we’re at it, the lunch ladies. The cafeteria is a great defensible fallback position. All of that tile and metal trays could really slow down and deflect rounds from a bad guy with a gun.

What about arming the school nurse? She could lay down fire and be our field medic. Oh. Yeah. How about those kids who monitor the hallways?

The little buggers see everyone coming and going. I’m sure a little .380 will fit their hands nicely.

I think we have it covered, but we probably should have an established perimeter with some claymores, concertina wire and gun towers. Can’t leave anything to chance.

Finally, let’s rename the school to make it clear that we aren’t to be messed with. Instead of Millard Fillmore Elementary School, we’ll call it Fort Millard Fillmore Secured Elementary Educational Facility.

Yep. Gawd help the bad guy with a gun who opens on all of us good guys with guns.

Jack Jernigan Magalia

The mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida highlights once again that, in America, we value assault rifles more than human life. We hang our heads and we hang our flags at half-staff, and then choose assault rifles over the next set of victims.

Most recently, 58 people at a Las Vegas concert were killed by a person with legally obtained assault rifles. Afterward, we hung our heads in sadness and chose the assault rifle over 26 church-goers in Texas.

We were shocked by such a brutal massacre in a place of worship, but afterward, we hung our heads and chose the assault rifle over 17 high school students in Florida. And if all we do is hang our heads again, we are already condemning the next victims.

I applaud the students around the country who are taking a stand and speaking out against assault rifles.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 past 20 years, and because they can’t run for office or vote, they have had no power to stop them.

Banning assault rifles is essential to our survival as a civilized nation, and for the safety of our citizens. We have to stand beside our children and show them that we care to protect them. We must no longer hang our heads as if there is nothing we can do, and tell our kids how sorry we are that assault rifles are more important than they are.

Betsy Clemente Chico

As a hunter, farmer and son of a hunter and cattle and sheep rancher, I have been around firearms all my life and use them frequently. I own numerous guns, most of which are inherited and fairly old technology.

It is my strong personal opinion that assault weapons and highcapacity magazines are not necessary and are in fact contrary to the concept of hunting for sport. As for self and home defense, I don’t see the need either. A shotgun or pistol with a reasonable number of rounds should work just fine.

Any benefits conferred by a military-style assault weapon (they are fun to shoot at least a few times) are far outweighed by the dangers they pose in the wrong hands. The Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to bear arms free of reasonable regulation. I do not buy the fear tactics employed by those who may be more interested in profit than public safety that the right to bear arms will be taken. Ban assault weapons and consider a program such as Australia’s to buy them back. It wouldn’t be a panacea, but it’s a step that could save lives.

Strengthening background checks is a “no-brainer.”

Ernie Washington Chico

For some educators, “packing heat” to class seems tantamount to a heart-wrenching and forced early retirement.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

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those locations? Talking with members of Congress doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere.

Do laborers at gun factories have children in schools? Do NRA members have children in schools?

Are they interested in protecting their children?

The Second Amendment was written at a time when a wellregulated militia was necessary for the security of a free state. We now have a strong well-regulated militia. Perhaps it is time for the Second Amendment to be brought up to date.

Barbara Ortiz Magalia

“Someday” a new and all too long narrative will begin in our society necessary for the passage of a constitutional amendment to the effect that there is no right to manufacture, distribute, sell, own or possess any weaponry.

Until such an amendment is passed, the victims of violence will just flail in vain against the might of the NRA and its politicians.

Victims kowtow and seek only the smallest and most piecemeal of legislative measures, like increased age limits, better background checks, elimination of bumper stocks. Nothing very meaningful is possible without amending our Constitution. And that requires a new narrative to bubble up from the blood of innocents.

Ralph Slater Chico

‘Slush-fund money’ Re “‘An attack on all workers’” (Guest comment, by Marshall Elliott, Feb. 22): Last week’s 400-word rendition of the oldy-moldy, “Look for the Union Label,” held little truth about Janus v. AFSCME. Let’s shed some light in 200.

Janus: AFSCME, a public employee union, forces Janus into association with the union via agency fees. Public employee unions and contracts are political.

Money in politics is free speech.

By taking his money against his will, AFSCME is forcing Janus into association and political speech he disagrees with, violating his First Amendment rights.

AFSCME: Janis is not a member of the union, but he is a public employee. He benefits from union-negotiated public employee

The Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to bear arms free of reasonable regulation.

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contracts, therefore he pays an agency fee, or he is a free-rider.

Janus only pays agency fees, not total union dues, which are not part of any political machinations.

Janus is getting outside support because public employee unions take money from members and non-members alike to grease the political careers of the very politicians that determine public employee contracts. It’s incestuous at taxpayer expense.

If Janus prevails, it won’t hinder a single legitimate activity of any public employee union.

They can organize, add members, collect union dues, and negotiate contracts. However, they will lose their slush-fund money for greasy politics. Yikes!

Peter Bridge Ord Bend

‘Profound differences’ Re “Commentary comeback” (Letters, by Lucy Cooke, Feb. 22): Letter writer Lucy Cooke states that a major obstacle to national unity is that Democrats are “emphasizing and dividing people by their specialness—be it sexual, racial or religious.” This charge—that Democrats or liberals are somehow “dividing people” by acknowledging the fact that we’re not all the same—is totally ridiculous.

What today we call “identity politics” is as old as, well, politics.

A hundred years ago folks were complaining about how Irish-, German- or Italian-Americans insisted on maintaining a group identity as “hyphenated Americans,” as if we could simply ignore our differing cultural references.

What makes Cooke’s statement so absurd is that a principal feature of the modern Republican Party’s electoral strategy is to do exactly what she wrongly charges the Democrats with: inciting division and disunity. One example among thousands: Trump suggesting President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. I’m not suggesting the Democratic Party’s elected

officials are beyond reproach, but they are, by and large, trying to preserve civic unity and discourse, while most Republican leaders are exploiting our divisions for political gain. And if we are unable or unwilling to discern the profound differences between the two parties, things will only get worse.

Corey Finnegan Chico

Pants on fire Houston, we have a problem. We have a president who continuously lies, and a press secretary who promulgates these lies during press conferences.

We heard the other day that President Trump has always said that Russia meddled in our 2016 election. Perhaps this administration has not heard about video tapes, on which we can hear Trump broadcast that Russian election interference “is a made-up story” and “an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”

America needs a president who will lead our nation in defense of the attacks on the integrity of our electoral democracy. Instead, we have President Trump, who is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a gigantic fool, or both.

Trump’s conduct amounts to a blatant refusal to carry out his sworn oath of office—to protect and defend the Constitution. To do so would require focused energy, something he noticeably lacks.

Trump is demonstrating an unwillingness or inability to defend America against a Russian campaign seeking to divide and undermine our democracy.

This is unpresidential behavior and must no longer be tolerated.

The biggest threat to our democracy resides in the Oval Office.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Real estate talk Re “Project rescripted” and “Intentional living” (CN&R Business Issue, Feb. 15):

Kudos to the Kramer family for being home builders for whom “sustainability matters” and to Lauren Kennedy for her efforts to create affordable community properties. For 22 years I have been a renter at a Chico intentional community where sustainability also matters—a co-housing development called Valley Oaks Village.

As neighbors often did when I was a child in the 1940s, we help each other in countless ways such as child and elder care, cooperative buying in bulk, shared meals and emotional support during difficult times. We work together to maintain our buildings and landscape, and we play together at holiday celebrations, parties and an annual variety show.

The layout of our homes around one large green “yard” with play equipment saves space and requires only one lawnmower. We share other tools and equipment as well. We recycle, compost, have an organic garden and solar panels on our carports.

I chose Valley Oaks Village because as a former therapist and environmental and neighborhood organizer, I knew the psychological, social, economic and sustainability value of living cooperatively as neighbors.

Renee Renaud Chico

More on the market Re “Market madness” and “Flipping onto the screen” (CN&R Business Issue, Feb. 15): While the stories about the local real estate market were informative, does anyone else see the terrible irony contained therein? While the Higginbothams have lost out on every home they have tried to purchase, the Riveras purchased 20 homes last year and plan to purchase 25 this year. That’s 45(!) homes that couples like the Higginbothams won’t have a chance at purchasing because they’ve been snapped up, remodeled and priced out of their budget. Yes, less inventory results in higher prices—and excess gets rewarded with a TV show.

Susy Meyer Chico More letters online:

We’ve got too many letters for this space. please go to www.newsreview.com/chico for additional readers’ comments on past cn&r articles.

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With safety and sanitation in mind, the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force has recommended the city fund installation of a permanent 24-hour restroom this year.

According to a memo sent to the City Council and City Manager Mark Orme last week, the toilet (a stainless steel Portland Loo design or equivalent) is a necessity, particularly for the more than 1,000 homeless people in Chico.

Last year, the city held a 24-hour restroom trial at City Plaza. After about 80 days, it resulted in less outdoor urination and defecation, but extensive costs arose from vandalism and maintenance demands.

“They’re a needed and necessary element,” Councilman Randall Stone, chairman of the task force, told the CN&R.

damage denied Rushing claim rejected, Phillips family suing city

daM bill becoMes law

On Monday (Feb. 26), Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1270 into law, requiring yearly inspections of high-hazard dams, reservoirs and secondary structures, and biennial inspections of low-hazard dams, effective immediately.

The bill was co-authored by Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) and state Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber). Gallagher tweeted that it was a “team effort” and a “win for our region as a whole.”

Other requirements of the bill include consultation with the state Division of Safety of Dams and independent organizations to review inspection methods every decade.

Dam owners have to operate critical outlet and spillway features every year, and demonstrate their effective operation to the Department of Water Resources. Inspection records must be public; however, sensitive information that could “disclose a dam’s vulnerability or pose a security threat” can be withheld.

election update

District 2 Butte County Supervisor Larry Wahl announced this week that he’s seeking a third term on that panel in the upcoming primary election. The incumbent supervisor was elected to that post in June 2010, following a defeat of longtime Supervisor Jane Dolan.

He’d previously spent a decade on the Chico City Council.

In a press release, Wahl (pictured), who is being challenged by businesswoman and arts maven Debra Lucero, noted job creation and public safety as priorities.

Meanwhile, according to the Butte County Elections Office, Chico City Councilman Randall Stone appears to be challenging incumbent Diane Brown for the position of Butte County assessor. Brown was elected in 2014, defeating four other challengers, following the retirement of Fred Holland, who’d held the post since 2009.

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SVentura—driving than usual at his real estate brokerage in to work is the only thing cott Rushing has found himself busier

that’s helped distract him from becoming overwhelmed with grief.

Last year, Rushing and his wife, Paula, lost by their only son, Tyler, Ashiah Scharaga 34, during a standoff with Chico police offias h i a h s @ cers. n ew srev i ew. c o m Since Tyler’s death, the Rushings have become close with another family, connected through nightmarish circumstances. Rushing said he speaks regularly with David Phillips, the father of Desmond, a 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by Chico police March 17 of last year while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.

“Both boys needed help,” Rushing said.

“They didn’t need bullets. They needed medical attention.”

As of Feb. 20, both families had filed claims against the city of Chico for damages and attorney’s costs associated with their sons’ deaths, and both of those claims were denied. Rushing also filed a claim against Butte County, which was rejected as well.

Both killings were declared justified

by Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, based on the results of investigations conducted by the Butte County Officer Involved Shooting/Critical Incident Protocol Team. In each report, self defense is referenced as a motivating factor of the officers’ actions, claiming they feared for their lives and the lives of others.

Rushing was killed July 23, when an armed

security guard responded to an alarm at a title company in downtown Chico. Upon

locating a broken window, the guard engaged in an altercation with Rushing, who slashed him with a glass flower pot shard. The guard, Edgar Sanchez, shot him. When police arrived at the scene, Rushing was wounded inside a restroom and refused to come out, claiming at one point he had a gun. During an eventual encounter, Rushing stabbed two other officers using a ballpoint pen and a shard from a broken toilet, and was bitten by a Butte County Sheriff’s Office K-9 dog and shot twice by then-Chico Sgt. Scott Ruppel.

That’s the basic narrative of events as relayed by the district attorney. However, the Rushings’ story differs in key areas about the night their son died. Their claim alleges that Sanchez shot Rushing “at least one time” and then fired numerous additional rounds as Tyler fled. In the DA’s investigation report, Sanchez is said to have fired just once.

The Rushings’ claim also states that Ruppel’s second shot was fired “execution-style” to the back of Tyler’s neck,

compared with the investigation report’s account that the second shot was fired as Rushing twisted away from the officer.

The Rushings allege that the behavior of the officers involved was negligent and/or intentional, and would not have resulted in the death of their son had they “conducted themselves appropriately” or “exercised due care.” Scott Rushing called the officers’ actions “brutal,” and said it was clearly a case of “excessive force to the max.” The family is pursuing a private investigation.

Ramsey’s report notes that the officers attempted to use nonlethal methods of a ballistic shield, K-9 unit, beanbag shotgun and their own hands before shooting.

While Tyler did not have a history of mental illness and toxicology reports found nothing more than a moderate amount of marijuana in his system, investigators believe he was “under the influence of an undetected drug(s) given the altered state of reality” demonstrated by his bizarre, violent behavior and “extraordinary

Tyler Rushing’s parents, Scott and Paula, of Ventura, are pursuing a private investigation into the death of their son at a title company in Chico on July 23, where he was shot by a private security guard and Chico police officer and bled to death. cN&r file photo

strength and endurance” during the encounter.

Scott Rushing said something just “doesn’t add up.” Tyler did not indicate in conversations with his family that he needed money or food, or that he was feeling aggressive or confrontational.

Rushing said his son could have easily been “out of his mind with pain” that night, or from the blood loss and shock.

Accounts from Ramsey’s report note that while some people who came into contact with Tyler before his death spoke of his gentle demeanor, others said he acted strangely, not “completely rational” or “‘extremely high’ and aggressively spiritual.”

While rushing’s work may be distracting

him from grief, it’s not distracting him from his mission—to serve as an advocate for families that have lost loved ones in officer-involved shootings.

“I’m 64, and the new goal the rest of my life will be to push for dash cams to be required; body cams to be required; nonlethal force to be the first thing used on all these suicidal, barricaded [or] mental health cases,” he said.

Rushing said he’s going to pursue his options, and may sue the city of Chico, Butte County and Armed Guard Private Protection, the company that employed Sanchez.

Desmond Phillips’ family members have tasked themselves with a similar mission.

As of Jan. 23, David Phillips, along with Desmond’s mother, Delphine Norman, and two of Desmond’s nephews, represented by a high-powered Bay Area civil rights attorney, had filed a lawsuit against the city in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento.

John Burris, known for his work in police excessive force cases, has most notably represented Rodney King, Tupac Shakur and the family of Oscar Grant, who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in 2009.

In the complaint, the family alleges that police did not use any “significant de-escalation tactics” or adequately accommodate Desmond’s “obvious disability,” though there was time and opportunity to do so on the night he was killed by Chico police officers. □

Sheriff on iCe State laws limiting cooperation with immigration officials put local safety in jeopardy, he says utte County Sheriff Kory Honea hasn’t changed his stance on laws limiting coopBeration between his agency and ICE. To him,

it seems to run counter to his overarching responsibility: to ensure residents of his jurisdiction are safe.

“We are talking about people who have been arrested for criminal activity and who potentially pose a threat to public safety,” he told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Feb. 27), not “individuals whose status in this country may be in violation of immigration law but who are out there working and making a living and obeying our laws.”

He was addressing the board as part of a mandatory update and public hearing on interactions between the jail and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials (ICE). He outlined the Truth Act, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2017, as well as the California Values Act (Senate Bill 54), which took effect this past January. Both affect the ability of his office to cooperate with ICE, he said. One thing that would solve most problems would be if ICE agents presented federal warrants for inmates in his custody, but that is generally not the case.

Proponents of SB 54 touted its protections for immigrants. Among them, preventing law enforcement from asking people about their immigration status and requiring policies at schools, health facilities and courthouses to limit assistance with immigration officials.

Most instances at the jail involve ICE agents requesting release-date information.

In order to comply with new regulations, the jail now publishes release information on all inmates, “so ICE can just look that up itself,” Honea said. In other instances, when ICE wants to pick up the inmates and transfer custody, if the crime does not rise to the level of “serious” or “violent,” Honea said he’s forced to let the inmate go, at which point ICE can make its own arrest. That is less than ideal, he said.

“If I don’t have ability to cooperate with ICE and transfer custody, in my view that increases the risk to public safety,” Honea told the CN&R. “What ICE has told us is they’ll then go into our communities. They’ll look for the individual, but also if they find him with other individuals who are in the country in violation of immigration laws, they’ll take action against them as well.

That’s the piece that causes me concern.”

In fact, that’s exactly what happened just this week throughout Northern California, where ICE arrested 150 alleged undocumented immigrants in a sweep. Just half of them had criminal convictions, according to CNN. As part of his presentation, Honea delivered stats for 2017. Here are the highlights: • ICE requested a hold or to release information in 34 cases (representing 31 individu-

SIFT ER on ‘fake news’ and media trust What does “fake news” mean to Americans, and what do they think about the modern media landscape? The 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation Survey on Trust, Media and Democracy sought answers from 19,000 American adults.

Here are highlights: • A majority of Americans consider “fake news” a serious threat to democracy. Most define it is knowingly portraying false information as the truth, but four in 10 Republicans consider accurate stories casting a politician/political group in a negative light to always be “fake news.”

• Only 44 percent of U.S. adults can think of an objective news source, with Republicans overwhelmingly mentioning Fox News and Democrats’ responses varying.

• More Americans view news media negatively (43 percent) than positively (33 percent).

• Media trust is heavily influenced by partisanship: Democrats are largely trusting while Republicans are distrusting. Older Americans tend to view the media more positively than young adults.

• Half of U.S. adults feel confident people can cut through bias to sort out facts, down from 66 percent a generation ago.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea presented a 2017 report on jail interactions with federal immigration officials to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Feb. 27). New laws make this work harder, he says. cN&r file photo

als), out of 12,329 bookings in 2017.

• Of those, 11 were picked up at the jail

by ICE. • 19 were from Mexico, five from Thailand, two each from Laos and Romania, and one each from China, India, the Philippines and Scotland. Two were from the United States, prompting a question from Supervisor Maureen Kirk. “They were Hispanic individuals who were born in the United States,” a sheriff’s deputy explained.

“ICE probably just wanted to interview them.”

• Just one of the inmates ICE was interested in was female.

• As of Dec. 31, one had been released on bail, for DUI; 11 were pending judgment; and 22 (eight misdemeanors and 14 felonies) were convicted.

• The worst crime committed by an undocumented immigrant was murder. That case involves 49-year-old Salvador Trejo of Mexico, who was involved in a home-invasion robbery in Palermo in 2013 in which one of his accomplices, Hector Gabriel, was shot in the head by the homeowner. Trejo was found guilty of murder and is pending sentencing. So, what will happen with Trejo, as it concerns ICE? “That’s an interesting thing about SB 54,” Honea told the CN&R. That law did not include the state Department of Corrections. “We can be fairly certain he will be sentenced to state prison. So, he’ll be transferred to the California state prison system and he’ll serve whatever time he’s sentenced to, which would be years. At that time, he would be turned over to ICE by the California state prison system.”

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residents in distress.

Sometimes she can de-escalate a situation, such as in one instance she vividly recalls, when she spent around four hours speaking with an agitated man along the side of his house—the last hour with four police officers out front.

Other times, she can’t.

Speaking to the CN&R on Tuesday (Feb. 27) at her Chico office, she relayed the story of a homeless woman battling schizophrenia without psychiatric medication, instead medicating with illegal street drugs. This woman—sexually abused, beaten up—would lash out in anger at social service providers, to the extent that they’d call the Chico police Department.

Yet—despite five meetings in a year among Currier, the agency, CPD’s Target Team and Butte County Behavioral Health—no one with the authority to commit her to a psychiatric hold would do so, Hear more about it:

Colleen Phipps will present a talk for Butte County Behavioral Health’s Grand Rounds titled “Revisiting Laura’s Law” March 22, 3 p.m., at 109 Parmac Road.

Currier said, “even though she’s a gravely disabled threat to herself and others.” Ultimately, the woman did hurt someone, an act of battery that led to her arrest and jailing.

Currier, along with fellow mental health advocate Colleen Phipps, lament such instances.

They also look at recent mass shootings in Rancho Tehama and Parkland, Fla., committed by men with mental illnesses and wonder if those might have been prevented by intervention.

Both feel such violence may be forestalled by a piece of California legislation already on the books.

It’s called Laura’s Law. Adopted in 2002 and named after Laura Wilcox, a 19-year-old fatally shot by a man with severe mental illness, the law allows a judge to order a comprehensive support program and assisted outpatient treatment for adults who are severely mentally ill, have threatened others and been hospitalized or jailed recently.

The treatment plan incorporates both behavioral health and criminal justice departments.

Here’s the catch: Counties must agree to implement Laura’s Law. To date, only 18 of 58 have done so, the most recent being Shasta.

Supervisors there approved imple-

mentation in October 2015, but the roll-out did not occur until March 2017, with the opening of a new mental health center.

Butte County is not among the 18. Local advocates are preparing to change this.

The Butte County Board of

Supervisors were given a presentation about Laura’s Law two years ago. As chronicled in the CN&R (“Looking into Laura’s Law,” Newslines, April 14, 2016), the supervisors—notably Larry Wahl, who represents Chico—found merit in the presentation, enough to direct county staff to assess potential funding and interdepartmental cooperation.

Behavioral Health Director Dorian Kittrell reported back four months later with a recommendation not to implement it “at this time” primarily due to considerations of labor and resources.

Supervisors took no action.

“There was a lot on the plate of the [Behavioral Health] department as well as the significant implications it would have on the partner agencies that would have to implement Laura’s Law, too,” Kittrell told the CN&R by phone this week. He added that sentiment for the program “really var-

Mental health advocates Lisa Currier (left) and Colleen Phipps tout a range of benefits from implementing Laura’s Law, including violence prevention.

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Currier and Phipps see Laura’s Law as a benefit both financially for the county and personally for individuals.

Currier is calculating the costs to various departments (e.g., public defender, police, courts) to ascertain savings specific to Butte County, compared to savings registered elsewhere. Phipps said advocates’ part of the April 2016 presentation was heavy on “the compassion piece”—this would add hard numbers.

Phipps is president of NAMI Butte County, local affiliate for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She’s passionate about Laura’s Law because, as she told the supervisors, she feels assisted outpatient treatment could have helped her son and potentially averted the fatal car accident he caused while in a psychotic state.

Donovan Phipps, convicted of murder, drew a lengthy prison sentence.

Even if Laura’s Law helps just a few people, or even one, she sees its value.

“In the foreseeable future,” Phipps added, “we might be able to prevent some type of tragedy that is similar to those that have happened—by having Laura’s Law.” NAMI Butte County, headquartered at Currier’s office, has held several events this year to build momentum. Should its members ask the county to reconsider, they’ll have willing ears from Wahl.

“I would welcome it as an informational [agenda item] and be happy to hear their pitch on how we could make this happen in our county,” he said by phone Tuesday evening. “I wouldn’t give it a whole lot of odds of getting through right now, but it’s worth listening to, to see if there’s some way we could go to it.”

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HEALTHLINES Lena Chambers and John Vrbeta—North State Sleep Center’s patient/practice liasion and co-owner/sleep lab manager, respectively—inside one of the center’s sleep labs.

Below: The author, all hooked up for his sleep study.

Finding dreamland Resting easy after years of suffering from sleep apnea story and photos by

Ken Smith

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Ifemale roused by the sound of an unfamiliar voice and struggling to make sense woke with a start from restless sleep,

of my surroundings. I was in a strange bed in a dimly lit room resembling that found in a motel, save for a few pieces of high-tech medical equipment sitting on and mounted above the bedside table. As I sat up, the realization I was connected to this equipment via more than a dozen tubes, wires and sensors—taped and clamped to my head, chest, arms and legs—rose to the surface of my muddy consciousness.

“Mr. Smith, you definitely have serious sleep issues,” the woman, a respiratory therapist at Chico’s North State Sleep Center, said in a comforting voice. “We’re going to try the second half of the night with the CPAP machine.”

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With her words, I remembered I was there to participate in an overnight sleep study, known in medical terminology as a polysomnogram. The equipment measured my brain activity, eye movements, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, body movement and other functions as I struggled through that first few hours of sleep. I took the test to determine if I have sleep apnea, a condition in which the body’s airways become repeatedly blocked or restricted during sleep.

The therapist outfitted me with face mask that covered my nose and mouth, and the CPAP machine it was connected to immediately started blasting air into those openings.

I struggled to breathe against the pressure, a sensation that felt something like drowning, and my hands rose instinctively in an attempt to push the mask off. The therapist’s gentle voice became firm, like that of a mother administering medicine to a truculent toddler, as she held the mask in place.

“Mr. Smith, you have severe sleep apnea,” she admonished. “You need this.”

I’ve had problems sleeping my entire life. At

a recent family gathering, my stepmother offered a one-line summary of what I was like as a child, which I took as profound and plan to someday adapt into my own epitaph: “You were fearless, and you never slept.”

Little did I know then that my chronic lack of sleep could hasten the need for that grim (albeit badass-sounding) remembrance.

I’ve always attributed my lifelong insomnia to the fact I have trouble quieting my mind at nighttime, something I’ve attempted to treat over the years—with varying degrees of success—with everything from melatonin to marijuana to meditation.

But in my late teens I started to be bothered by physical as well as mental barriers to sleep that have earned me some notoriety

among those who’ve witnessed my nocturnal behavior.

I’d snore, sit up, sometimes speak and thrash about, even throw an occasional punch.

Most concerning, I frequently stop breathing. This activity increased in recent years, and I finally decided to do something about it last September, at the urging of my long-suffering wife.

I’d already guessed I had sleep apnea. It’s a common condition, and particularly so for people with bronchial and weight issues, both of which I admittedly have in spades.

But I had no idea how severe it was until I followed up on my sleep study with Dr. Dinesh Verma, the affable and snappily dressed expert in critical care, pulmonary and internal medicine at the North State Sleep Center. At a loss to convey the severity of my apnea in medical terms, he summed it up by saying my test results were “absolutely crazy bad.”

It turns out I’d stopped breathing an average of 80 times an hour, or approximately every 50 seconds, during the first half of the study. Even worse, my oxygen saturation was less than 90 percent—the number necessary to maintain healthy body functions—for 94 percent of the time I spent “sleeping.” Verma was hesitant to even use the word “sleep” to describe my nighttime behavior, as I’d never dipped below the first two of five stages of sleep

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during my study. The latter three stages are known as deep, or restorative, sleep, and are necessary to rest and repair the body. The fifth and deepest stage is REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep, in which we dream and our brains process complicated problems.

Verma and Beth LeBaron, a respiratory therapist at Enloe Home Medical Equipment, gave me a rundown of the dangers of sleep apnea and how serious my condition was. Sleep deprivation wreaks havoc on the body’s organs by disallowing restorative functions to occur, leads to hormone and protein imbalances and can cause loss of memory and other cognitive problems. It weakens immunity and greatly increases the risks of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and many other illnesses. It can also cause depression, anxiety, and recent research ties chronic lack of sleep to dementia.

In my case, the severe lack of oxygen put me at imminent risk of having a stroke and caused my heart and lungs to work overtime. Verma warned that, if it was left untreated now—while I’m relaCatch some ZZZ’s:

Sleep apnea affects an estimated 22 million americans, with 80 percent of the cases of moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnea going undiagnosed, according to sleepapnea.org.

If you think you might be suffering from apnea or other sleep disorders, talk to your doctor about getting a sleep test.

tively young and healthy—I could develop heart arrhythmia in the next few years, and would definitely be plagued by serious medical conditions within 10 to 15 years.

Furthermore, I was constantly lethargic, struggling to stay awake most afternoons. This caused a great deal of consternation, knowing that I was missing out on life as my condition continued to worsen. Lacking REM sleep, I’d altogether stopped dreaming. I resolved to take whatever action necessary to make it better.

The primary treatment for sleep apnea is using a CPAP machine, like the one the therapist strapped to my face during the second half of my sleep study. Once she finally got it fitted, it took me a few minutes to overcome the drowning sensation, after which I eventually fell asleep.

That night, I got four hours of the first real sleep I’d had in years. I got my own CPAP a few weeks later, which I’ve used religiously every night since. With my machine, I sleep deeply and silently through the night. I’ve gone from having 80 apneas an hour to an average of one every two hours.

The effects of sleeping through the night have been life-changing. My wife is much happier, and so am I. I have more energy and am more alert, and I don’t wake up feeling half-dead. Instead, I feel refreshed and open my eyes to a healthier future. I can finally dream again. □

WEEKLY DOSE Cheers! Beers for a long life The UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders’ recently released 90+ Study contains a wealth of information on longevity, dementia, cognitive decline and disabilities gleaned from the oldestold of society. One item of particular significance in beer-crazy Chico: A couple of servings of alcohol each night may help you live past 90. “I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,” said Dr. Claudia Kawas, a neurology specialist and head of the study, which analyzed information from over 1,600 nonagenarians. That data showed that people who drank two glasses of beer or wine a day improved their odds of living longer than those who abstained by about 18 percent. And your beer belly might not be a problem, either. The study shows that people who were overweight—but not obese—in their 70s lived longer than normal or skinny people did.

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GREENWAYS Marc Kessler plugs in his Tesla Model X at a charging station at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

Electric future Tesla plans supercharger station for Chico story and photo by

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Keener love to plan getaway trips to LtheJulia coast. When they invested in their first ike many local couples, Marc Kessler and

electric vehicle, a Tesla Model X, two years ago, they scouted charging stations along their route from Chico to the Fort Bragg/ Point Arena area, zeroing in on a small town of about 15,000 in the heart of Mendocino County.

“We had 30 minutes, or 45 [to charge the car], and started walking around Ukiah, and we found cool little restaurants and brew pubs,” Kessler said. “We really love Ukiah now, and I don’t think we’d ever know about that town if we hadn’t stopped and charged there.”

The placement of the Tesla supercharger in Ukiah is a strategic one: It’s located downtown. Since electric car owners will be stopped for about a half an hour, it’s hard to imagine travelers, like Kessler and Keener, not walking around the city, checking out shops and restaurants. Now, it’s a tradition for the couple that brings them enjoyment and supports local business.

Tesla, the renowned Palo Alto electric automotives, energy storage and solar panel company, has kept the details of its plans for Chico largely under wraps, but has indicated a supercharger station is scheduled to open in the city by the end of this year, noting on its website that the “exact timing and specific location may vary.”

Supercharging stations allow for quick, convenient charging of Teslas on longer journeys. According to the company’s website, it uses “precise energy modeling” to choose locations, typically placing them near amenities like hotels, restaurants and shopping areas. Tesla is also planning on bringing supercharging stations to Redding and Yuba City. Currently, the closest ones to Chico are in Corning, Rocklin, Roseville and Sacramento.

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Chico already has two Tesla destination charging stations—which charge vehicles over a longer period of time, 20-60 miles per charge hour, versus 350 for a supercharger— at the Oxford Suites on Business Lane and at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Last week, city assistant civil engineer Wyatt West confirmed Chico has been talking with Tesla and is moving ahead with two more destination charging spots, along with generic electric charging stations, downtown: in the municipal parking lot at Second and Wall streets (where the Saturday farmers’ market is held) and the parking structure at Third and Salem streets. The chargers in the farmers’ market lot—two of each kind— will be finished by this summer, but there is no timeline on the other location.

There are “a high amount of users in the area,” West said, so the expectation is they’ll “be used pretty heavily.” Chico has 10 electric vehicle charging locations, according to plugshare.com, which includes a downtown location at Chico Volkswagen on Main Street and one at Chico State.

Electric vehicles have increased in popularity

over the years due to their reduced environmental impacts and cost savings, coupled with more vehicle offerings, improved battery technology, availability of charging infrastructure and state incentives and rebates, according to the California Energy Commission. Gov. Jerry Brown has also set a statewide goal of 1.5 million electric cars on the road by 2025.

Vehicles powered by electricity have no direct tail-pipe emissions, but do have “wellto-wheel” impacts from greenhouse gas and air pollutants emitted in the production and distribution of energy used to power the car, like a power plant.

Where people live and drive their electric vehicles can make a big difference as to the benefits. California, not surprisingly, is a good choice. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, nearly half of the electricity in California is sourced from natural gas, with the next-highest percentage, nearly 15 percent, from hydro power. The average annual emissions of an electric vehicle in California are 2,276 pounds of CO2 equivalent, compared to 11,435 pounds generated by a gasoline-powered car. The environmental impact of electric cars in California is much greener than the national average, where electricity is sourced from only 33 percent natural gas sources and about 30 percent coal (compared to less than 1 percent in California). The amount of CO2 equivalent generated by an electrical vehicle under those circumstances doubles to 4,585 pounds.

Tesla has a live tracker that, as of Friday morning (Feb. 23), estimated its drivers have saved more than 3 million tons of carbon dioxide around the world. Last year, 13,804 electric vehicles were purchased in California, according to the California New Car Dealers Association. Chris Devine, planning manager for Butte County Association of Governments, said it has been difficult to quantify the number of electric vehicles owned locally because BCAG hasn’t received the data from the Department of Motor Vehicles, despite requests. County estimates, based on the California Air Resources Board’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, show that 173 plug-in electric vehicles were purchased by residents of Butte County between March 18, 2010, and Aug. 31, 2017.

West said the addition of a Tesla supercharger station would be an economic benefit to the city, and put Chico on the map

for travelers. He told the CN&R he couldn’t reveal much about a timeline or location, except that Tesla told city staff it is looking “for locations and ideas” for a Chico spot.

Kessler, a middle school teacher in Paradise, and Keener, who co-owned California Organic Flowers with Kessler before retiring, have seen cost benefits from the purchase of their two Teslas.

Most of the time, they charge their vehicles at their solar-powered home. They changed their PG&E plan to one with an electric vehicle rate and saw their power bill actually decrease.

For the couple, the drive to purchase an electric car wasn’t rooted in cost savings, though, but rather an ethical concern for the environment, Kessler said.

“We have wanted a car that’s powered by the sun for years,” he said. “Every time I [would] go to the gas station and fill that tank, I [would] feel like I’m part of the problem.” □

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The Chico Bonsai Society has been helping foster an appreciation for the ancient Japanese horticultural art form—and teaching the skills necessary for locals to grow their own bonsai—since 1976. These days, the club boasts some 40 members who hail from Chico and its environs. The club meets monthly at the Butte County Library and also holds an annual bonsai show and sale at the end of April. The group’s president, Chuck Coate (pictured on right), and treasurer, Leo Martinez, offered the CN&R a private tour of Coate’s personal collection— a veritable tiny forest of some 200 bonsai of various species in various states of growth.

Both are longtime enthusiasts—Coate for 40 some years and Martinez for over a quarter century. Coate sat down to answer some questions for the CN&R about his love for bonsai, which he enjoys sharing with fellow enthusiasts and newbies alike. The society’s next meeting is Sunday (March 4), 10:30 a.m., at the Butte County Library, Chico branch (1108 Sherman Ave.). For more information, go to chicobonsaisociety.com.

How did you start growing bonsai?

When I was dating my wife back in the ’70s, her mom had a Sunset Magazine booklet on bonsai and a few trees. Whenever we went out for a date, I’d always have to wait for her, so I’d go out into the backyard and

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A few years ago, as several CN&R staffers and I made the car ride back from an all-day retreat at our HQ in Sacramento, we were positively radiating with ideas.

As we shared what we’d discussed in our respective breakout sessions that day, we began to brainstorm fun ways to build on our brand. We’d been successful with the Weird Chico issue. What if we built on that and held a talent show, à la America’s Got Talent, to showcase our crazy, weird, cool culture in Chico? The idea wasn’t fully fleshed out right there and then, but here we are in 2018, poised to host our fifth annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show. (Saturday, March 3, at the Senator Theatre).

Among my favorite acts each year are the belly dancers. We’ve had several groups and individuals perform over the years, including perhaps Chico’s bestknown duo, BellySutra. Turns out, that duo—Selina Lynn and Megan Love—are now sharing their love of the art of dance with anyone who’s willing to learn. Last week, they opened BellySutra’s BellyDance Fusion Studio at 220 W. Sixth St. in downtown Chico. Lynn tells me that starting this month, they’ll be offering a variety of classes and workshops, from stretching and conditioning to BellySutra-style belly dancing to sword and veil dancing (the first beginners belly dance class starts March 6!). You can also book belly and fire dancers for your private events through the studio. Go to bellysutrarocks.com for more info (and check out Lynn and Love at this Saturday’s talent show!). look around. I got fascinated by the trees, and that’s how I got the bug.

appreciation is being able to look at your bonsai and see the plan and where it’s going.

Which tree here is the oldest?

What’s a good way to get started?

I’m not really sure, because it’s not about actual age, but how old it looks. That’s the whole point of bonsai, taking a plant and putting style to it to make it a scale model of a mature tree out in the woods. That’s the art of it … it’s easy to explain, but hard to get there.

We ... have some demonstrations at [our annual shows], which is basically a Q&A session while someone is working on a plant.

Sometimes [the sessions] get a bit off-track, but that’s OK, because people want to know stuff and we want to provide them with the information.

What are some of the challenges?

What do you get out of it, personally?

The biggest thing for beginners is developing patience … learning to let things grow before you start whacking away at them.

You should take time to learn about what the plant likes and accommodate those things. It may take years, but part of the

I’m retired, so it gives me something creative to do and helps me stay busy, from day-to-day and season-to-season. It’s very satisfying when you get something that works.

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s with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror—and maybe a little bit of relief.

That’s the spot that Facebook has put the news business in. In January, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even more posts from their friends and family, and a lot fewer from media outlets.

The move isn’t all that surprising. Ever since the 2016 election, Facebook’s been under siege for creating a habitat where fake news stories flourished. Their executives were dragged before Congress last year to testify about how they sold ads to Russians who wanted to influence the U.S. election, and so, in some ways, it’s simply easier to get out of the news business altogether.

But for the many news outlets that have come to rely on Facebook funneling readers to their sites, the impact of a separation sounds catastrophic.

“The End of the Social News Era?” a New York Times headline asked. “Facebook is breaking up with news,” an ad for the new BuzzFeed app proclaimed.

When a giant like Facebook takes a step—until recently, the social media site had been sending more traffic to news outlets than Google—the resulting quake can cause an entire industry to crumble.

Consumers, meanwhile, have grimaced as their favorite media outlets have stooped to sensational headlines to lure Facebook’s web traffic. They’ve become disillusioned by the flood of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have run rampant on the site.

A recent Knight Foundation/Gallup poll revealed that only a third of Americans had a positive view of the media. About 57 percent said that websites or apps using algorithms to determine which news stories readers see was a major problem for democracy.

Two-thirds believed the media being “dramatic or too sensational in order to attract more readers or viewers” was a major problem.

Now, sites that rely on Facebook’s algorithm have watched the floor drop out from under them when the algorithm is changed—all while Facebook has gobbled up chunks of print advertising revenue.

It’s all landed media outlets in a hell of a quandary: It sure seems like Facebook is killing journalism. But can journalism survive without it?

“Traffic is such a drug right now,” says Sean Robinson, a 53-year-old investigative reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune. “The industry is hurting so bad that it’s really hard to detox.”

Heartstrings or fury

It’s perhaps the perfect summation of the internet age: a website that started because a college kid wanted to rank which co-eds were hotter became a global goliath powerful enough to influence the fate of the news industry itself.

When Facebook first launched its “News Feed” in 2006, it ironically didn’t have anything to do with news. At least, not how we think of it. This was the website that still posted a little broken-heart icon when you changed your status from “In a Relationship” to “Single.”

The News Feed was intended to be a list of personalized updates from your friends.

When Facebook was talking about “news stories,” it meant, in the words of Facebook’s announcement, like “when Mark adds Britney Spears to his Favorites or when your crush is single again.”

But in 2009, Facebook introduced its iconic “like” button. Soon, instead of showing posts in chronological order, the News Feed began showing you the popular posts first.

And that made all the difference.

Facebook didn’t invent going viral— grandmas with AOL accounts were forwarding funny emails and chain letters when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was still in grade school—but its algorithm amplified it. Well-liked posts soared. Unpopular posts simply went unseen.

Google had an algorithm, too. So did YouTube.

Journalists were given a new directive: If you wanted readers to see your stories, you had to play by the algorithm’s rules.

Faceless, mystery formulas had replaced the stodgy newspaper editor as the gatekeeper of information.

So when the McClatchy Co.—a chain that owns 31 daily papers including the Tacoma News Tribune and the Bellingham Herald— launched its reinvention strategy last year, knowing how to get Facebook traffic was central.

“Facebook has allowed us to get our journalism out to hundreds of millions more people than it would have otherwise,” said McClatchy’s vice president of news, Tim Grieve, a fast-talking former Politico editor. “It has forced us, and all publishers, to sharpen our game to make sure we’re writing stories that connect with people.”

With digital ad rates tied to web traffic, the incentives in the modern media landscape could be especially perverse: Write short, write lots. Pluck heartstrings or stoke fury.

In short, be more like Upworthy. A site filled with multisentence emotion-baiting headlines, Upworthy begged you to click

by promising that you would be shocked, outraged or inspired—but not telling you why. (One example: “His first 4 sentences are interesting. The 5th blew my mind. And made me a little sick.”)

By November 2013, Upworthy was pulling in 88 million unique visitors a month.

With Facebook’s help, the formula spread.

The McClatchy-owned Bellingham Herald headlined a short crime story about the arrest of a carjacker this way: “Four people, two cars, one gun. What happens next?”

A short Herald story asking for tips about a recent spree of indecent exposure was headlined, “She was looking at her phone, but the man wanted her to watch him masturbate.”

Even magazines like Time and Newsweek—storied publications that sent photojournalists to war zones—began pumping out articles like, “Does Reese Witherspoon Have 3 Legs on Vanity Fair’s Cover?” and “Trump’s Hair Loss Drug Causes Erectile Dysfunction.”

Newsweek’s publisher went beyond clickbait; the magazine was actually buying traffic through pirated video sites, allegedly engaging in ad fraud.

In February, Newsweek senior writer Matthew Cooper resigned in disgust after several Newsweek editors and reporters who’d written about the publisher’s series of scandals were fired. He heaped contempt on an organization that had installed editors who “recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness” and left him “despondent not only for Newsweek but for the other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO.

Mathew Ingram, who covers digital media for Columbia Journalism Review, says such tactics might increase traffic for a while.

But readers hate it. Sleazy tabloid shortcuts give you a sleazy tabloid reputation.

“Short-term you can make a certain amount of money,” Ingram said. “Long-term you’re basically setting fire to your brand.”

One strategy throughout the industry is to downplay the location of a story: readers in other markets are more likely to click if they don’t know it happened thousands of miles away.

Robinson, the veteran Tacoma News Tribune reporter, says local cops have complained about crime stories from elsewhere that were being shared on Facebook by local TV stations without context—worrying local readers were being misled into thinking they happened in Tacoma.

Grieve, the McClatchy executive, says that he doesn’t ever want to sensationalize a story. But he also says that “internet and social media are noisy places,” and papers have to sell their stories aggressively to be heard over the din.

“If you’re writing stories that aren’t getting read,” Grieve said, “you’re not a journalist—you’re keeping a journal.”

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Clickbait and switch

Plenty of media outlets have tried to build their business on the foundation of the News Feed algorithm. But they quickly got a nasty surprise: That foundation can collapse in an instant.

As Facebook’s News Feed became choked with links to Upworthy and its horde of imitators, the social network declared war on clickbait. It tweaked its algorithms, which proved catastrophic for Upworthy.

“It keeps changing,” Ingram said. “Even if the algorithm was bad in some way, at least if it’s predictable, you could adapt.”

A 2014 Time magazine story estimated that two to three global algorithm tweaks on Facebook were happening every week.

Six years ago, for example, KHQ, a TV news station in Spokane, Wash., told readers they’d have “an ENTIRE day here on FB dedicated to positive local news” if the post got liked 500 times. It worked. The post got more than 1,200 likes, and KHQ followed through a with a puppy-picture-laden “Feel Good Friday!!!”

Under the current Facebook algorithm, that tactic could get their entire page demoted. So could using shameless “you won’t believe what happened next”-style phrases.

Much of the time, Facebook and Google don’t announce their shifts up front. Media outlets often have had to reverse-engineer the changes, before issuing new commands to their troops in the field.

“Oh, they changed their algorithm again?”

Robinson said. “Oh, what is it today, coach?

OK, it’s 50-word [headlines] instead of 60?”

A pattern emerged. Step 1: Media outlets reinvent themselves for Facebook. Step 2: Facebook makes that reinvention obsolete.

Big publishers leaped at the chance to publish “Instant Articles” directly on Facebook, only to find that the algorithm soon changed, rewarding videos more than posts and rendering Instant Articles largely obsolete.

So publishers like Mic.com, Mashable and Vice News “pivoted to video,” laying off dozens of journalists in the process.

“Then Facebook said they weren’t as interested in video anymore,” Ingram said. “Classic bait and switch.”

Which brings us to the latest string of announcements: The News Feed, Zuckerberg announced in January, had skewed too far in the direction of social video posts from national media pages and too far away from personal posts from friends and family.

They were getting back to their roots.

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And now, news organizations who’d dumped a lot of money into eye-catching pre-recorded video would suffer the most under the latest algorithm changes, Facebook’s News Feed VP Adam Mosseri told TechCrunch last month, because “video is such a passive experience.”

Even before the announcement, news sites had seen their articles get fewer and fewer hits from Facebook. Last year, Google once again became the biggest referrer of news traffic as Facebook referrals decreased. Many sites published tutorials pleading with their readers to manually change their Facebook settings to guarantee the site’s appearance in their news feeds.

“Some media outlets saw their [Facebook] traffic decline by as much as 30 to 40 percent,” Ingram said. “Everybody knew something was happening, but we didn’t know what.”

It might be easy to mock those who chased the algorithm from one trend to another with little to show for it. But the reality, Ingram says, is that many of them didn’t really have a choice.

“You pretty much have to do something with Facebook,” Ingram says. “You have to.

It’s like gravity. You can’t avoid it.”

Zuckerberg’s comments that stories that sparked “meaningful social interactions” would do the best on Facebook caused some to scoff.

“For Facebook, it’s bad if you read or watch content without reacting to it on Facebook. Let that sink in for a moment,” tech journalist Joshua Topolsky wrote at The Outline. “This notion is so corrupt it’s almost comical.”

In subsequent announcements, Facebook gave nervous local news outlets some better

“As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it’s being used in unforeseen ways with societal repercussions that were never anticipated.”

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news: They’d rank local community news outlets higher in the feed than national ones.

They were also launching an experiment for a new section called “Today In,” focusing on local news and announcements, beta-testing the concept in cities like Olympia, Wash.

But in early tests, the site seemed to have trouble determining what’s local.

Seattle Times reporter Joe O’Sullivan noted on Twitter that of the five stories featured in a screenshot of Facebook’s Olympia test, “NONE OF THEM ARE OLYMPIA STORIES. ZERO.” The Seattle Times and other outlets say they’re taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the latest algorithm, analyzing how the impact shakes out before making changes.

They’ve learned to not get excited.

“It just, more and more, seems like Facebook and news are not super compatible,” said Shan Wang, staff writer at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. At least not for real news. For fake news, Facebook’s been a perfect match.

Faking it

There was a time Facebook was positively smug about their impact on the world. After all, they’d seen their platform fan the flames of popular uprisings during the Arab Spring in places like Tunisia, Iran and Egypt.

“By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible,” Zuckerberg bragged in a 2012 letter to investors under the header, “we hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.”

And Facebook certainly has—

Mathew Ingram, chief digital writer for Columbia Journalism Review.

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though not the way it intended.

A BuzzFeed investigation before the 2016 presidential election found that “fake news” stories on Facebook, hoaxes or hyperpartisan falsehoods actually performed better on Facebook than stories from major trusted outlets like The New York Times.

That, experts speculated, is another reason why Facebook, despite its massive profits, might be pulling back from its focus on news.

“As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it’s being used in unforeseen ways with societal repercussions that were never anticipated,” writes Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, in a recent blog post.

The exposure was widespread. A Dartmouth study found about a fourth of Americans visited at least one fake-news website—and Facebook was the primary vector of misinformation. While researchers didn’t find fake news swung the election—though about 80,000 votes in three states is a pretty small margin to swing—the effect has endured.

Donald Trump has played a role. He snatched away the term used to describe hoax websites and wielded it as a blunderbuss against the press, blasting away at any negative reporting as “fake news.”

By last May, a Harvard-Harris poll found that almost two-thirds of voters believed that mainstream news outlets were full of fake news stories.

The danger of fake news, after all, wasn’t just that we’d be tricked with bogus claims.

It was that we’d be pummeled with so many different contradictory stories, with so many different angles, the task of trying to sort truth from fiction just becomes exhausting.

So you choose your own truth. Or Facebook’s algorithm chooses it for you.

Every time you like a comment, chat or click on Facebook, the site uses that to figure out what you actually want to see: It inflates your own bubble, protecting you from facts or opinions you might disagree with.

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And when it does expose you to views from the other side, it’s most likely going to be the worst examples, the trolls eager to make people mad online, or the infuriating op-ed that all your friends are sharing.

That’s partly why many of the 3,000 Facebook ads that Russian trolls bought to influence the election weren’t aimed at promoting Trump directly. They were aimed at inflaming division in American life by focusing on such issues as race and religion.

Facebook has tried to address the fake news problem—hiring fact-checkers to examine stories, slapping “disputed” tags on suspect claims, putting counterpoints in related article boxes—but with mixed results.

The aforementioned recent Knight Foundation/Gallup poll, meanwhile, found that those surveyed believed that the broader array of news sources actually made it harder to stay well-informed.

And those who grew up soaking in the brine of social media aren’t necessarily better at sorting truth from fiction. Far from it.

“Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the internet can be summed up in one word: bleak,” Stanford researchers concluded in a 2016 study of over 7,800 students. More than 80 percent of middle-schoolers surveyed didn’t know the difference between sponsored content and a news article.

It’s why groups like Media Literacy Now have successfully pushed legislatures in states like Washington to put media literacy programs in schools.

That includes teaching students how information was being manipulated behind the scenes, says the organization’s president, Erin McNeill.

“With Facebook, for example, why am I seeing this story on the top of the page?” she asked. “Is it because it’s the most important story, or is it because of another reason?”

But Facebook’s new algorithm threatens to make existing fake news problems even worse, Ingram says. By focusing on friends and family, it could strengthen the filter bubble even further. Rewarding “engagement” can just as easily incentivize the worst aspects of the internet.

You know what’s really good at getting engagement? Hoaxes. Conspiracy theories. Idiots who start fights in comments sections. Nuance doesn’t get engagement.

Outrage does.

“Meaningful social interactions” is a hard concept for algorithms to grasp.

“It’s like getting algorithms to filter out porn,” Ingram said. “You and I know it when we see it. [But] algorithms are constantly filtering out photos of women breastfeeding.”

Facebook hasn’t wanted to push beyond the algorithm and play the censor. In fact, it’s gone in the opposite direction. After Facebook was accused of suppressing con-

servative news sites in its Trending Topics section in 2016, it fired its human editors. (Today, conspiracy theories continue to show up in Facebook’s Trending Topics.)

Instead, to determine the quality of news sites, Facebook is rolling out a twoquestion survey about whether users recognized certain media outlets, and whether they found them trustworthy. The problem, as many tech writers pointed out, is that a lot of Facebook users, like Trump, consider The Washington Post and the The New York Times to be “fake news.”

The other problem? There are a lot fewer trustworthy news sources out there. And Facebook bears some of the blame for that, too.

Feast and famine

It’s not fair, exactly, to say that Facebook killed the alt-weekly in Knoxville, Tenn. But it probably landed the final blow.

The internet, obviously, has been killing newspapers for a very long time. Why, say, would you pay a monthly subscription to the Daily Cow, when you can get the milk online for free?

It killed other revenue sources as well.

Craigslist cut out classified sections. Online dating killed personal ads. Amazon put many local mom-and-pop advertisers out of business.

Yet the Metro Pulse, Knoxville’s longtime alt-weekly, was still turning a slight profit in 2014 when the E.W. Scripps Co. shut it down. So Editor Coury Turczyn and a few other staffers set out to start their own paper.

But in the six months it took to get the Knoxville Mercury off the ground, the market had changed.

“We lost a lot more small-business advertisers than we expected,” Turczyn said. Facebook had captured them.

At one time, alt-weeklies could rake in advertising money by selling cheaper rates and guaranteeing advertisers to hit a younger, hipper, edgier audience. But then Facebook came along. The site let businesses microtarget their advertisements at incredibly specific audiences.

Like Google, Facebook tracks you across the web, digging deep into your private messages to figure out whether to sell you wedding dresses, running shoes or baby formula.

“You go to Facebook, you can try to pick

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your audience based on their geographic location, their interests,” Turczyn said. It’s cheaper. It’s easier. And it comes with a report chock-full of stats on who the ad reached.

“Even if it doesn’t result in any sales and foot traffic, it at least has this report,” Turczyn said.

Mercury ad reps would cite examples of businesses who advertised in print and saw their foot traffic double the next day—but the small businesses wouldn’t bite. Attempts to rally reader donations weren’t enough. The Mercury shut down in July.

“It’s just more of the same sad story,” Turczyn said. “It’s a slaughter, there’s no doubt about it.”

Turczyn says two decades of journalism experience hasn’t helped much with the job search. Journalists aren’t what outlets are looking for.

“The single biggest job opening I see consistently is social media manager. Or ‘digital brand manager,’” Turczyn said. “Those are the jobs on the marketplace right now.’

It’s not that nobody’s making massive amounts of money on advertising online.

It’s just that only two are: Facebook and Google—and they’re both destroying print advertising.

The decline in print advertising has ravaged the world of alt-weeklies, killing icons like the Boston Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Philadelphia City Paper and the Baltimore City Paper.

Dailies keep suffering, too, no matter how prestigious or internet-savvy.

The West Virginia Gazette-Mail won

a Pulitzer Prize last year for reporting on the opioid crisis. It filed for bankruptcy in January. Eleven staffers were cut from the Oregonian on Jan. 31, the same day Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury News slashed staff.

McClatchy has made a lot of cuts in the last year, too, though Grieve declined to say exactly how many positions have been eliminated. He, for one, doesn’t blame Facebook.

“Our newsrooms are smaller than they once were, but because we’re so focused on serving the needs of our communities, we’re actually reaching more readers than we ever have before,” Grieve writes in an email.

Yet the convergence of layoffs with the pressure to get web traffic has influenced coverage, says Robinson, the Tacoma News Tribune reporter. When potential traffic numbers are an explicit factor in story selection and you’re short-staffed, you have to make choices. Stories about schools don’t get many clicks. Weird crime stories do.

But as a longtime reporter, Robinson knows that bombshell scoops can sometimes begin with mundane reporting. Fail to report on the dull stuff, and you don’t know what else you’re missing.

“The media companies want the traffic, the traffic, the traffic,” Robinson said. “The stuff [readers] need to know—but don’t know they need to know—disappears.”

Asked if there’s any reason for optimism, Ingram, at the Columbia Journalism Review, lets out a wry laugh.

If you’re not a behemoth like BuzzFeed, he says, your best bet is to be small enough to be supported by die-hard readers.

“If you’re really, really hyper-focused— geographically or on a topic—then you have a chance,” Ingram says. “Your readership will be passionate enough to support you in some way.”

That’s one reason some actually welcome the prospect of less Facebook traffic. Slate’s Will Oremus recently wrote that less news on Facebook would eventually cleanse news of “the toxic incentives of the algorithm on journalism.”

Maybe, the thinking goes, without a reliance on Facebook clicks, newspapers would once again be able to build trust with their readers. Maybe, the hope goes, readers would start seeking out newspapers directly again.

But even if Facebook suddenly ceased to exist, there are other sites with other algorithms that can drive traffic and shape coverage. As traffic referred by Facebook falls, the focus at McClatchy is already shifting. You can optimize your news coverage to appear high in the Facebook News Feed — but you can also optimize it to appear higher in the Google search results.

“We’re all about Google again,” Robinson said. “Google, Google, Google.” □ March 1, 2018

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Arts &Culture Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad.

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ftentimes when we try something new,

is familiar with the feeling, one he calls “gut churn.” And when the co-host/producer of Radiolab—a radio program “about by curiosity” created at Robin Bacior New York’s WNYC and broadcast on more than 500 public radio Preview: stations—visits Laxson Chico Performances Auditorium (Saturday, presents Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad, March 3), he’ll bring a Saturday, March 3, multimedia presenta7:30 p.m. tion about that awful Tickets: $20-$30 feeling when negativity (students $10) intersects with a creLaxson Auditorium ative surge. It turns out, Chico State it’s there for reason.

898-6888 “Periodic negative www.chico feelings are valuable, performances.com because it forces the part of your brain that’s really happy and delusional to put up or shut up,” Abumrad said during a recent phone interview. “It pushes you past your first few ideas until you get to something really interesting. That’s not something I’m just making up; there’s been some really interesting research that’s borne this out. I genuinely feel like bad feelings, as long as you don’t get stuck, can be extremely useful. There’s a reason they’re there.”

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The topic is just the sort of thing that would be featured on the wildly successful Radiolab, which has captured the imaginations of its more than a million weekly listeners with inventively edited conversations on philosophical and scientific ideas. The show has earned a couple of Peabody Awards, and Abumrad’s work on the program also led to him receiving a MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Grant) in 2011. Of course, none of that came together overnight.

Abumrad grew up in Nashville.

Fascinated by electronic music, he spent most of his time alone scoring imaginary films in his room. After graduating from Oberlin with degrees in creative writing and music composition, Abumrad aimed to compose for real movies. A few years later, he switched his focus to radio. In 2002, he began the early stages of Radiolab, a show that challenged the traditional radio format with hard edits and a unique soundtrack of noises and samples (a manipulated sound clip of a clinked coffee mug, for one small example). Much to Abumrad’s surprise, it took off.

“It’s a bit mysterious to me that it’s even successful, because for most of the life cycle of this thing it was just me in a dark room making a radio show for pretty much no one,” Abumrad said. “Then it began to sort of tiptoe out. Around 2011, suddenly with podcasting becoming a

thing, it just got an audience. I’m still perplexed by that. I can’t say there was any strategy on our part; it was just like every story we threw ourselves into it, to do something a little unusual just to keep ourselves interested. I always looked at This American Life. I felt we were chasing them but not even remotely second place. [I’ve] been suffering from a very long-running inferiority complex, so it’s all felt surprising to me.”

Over the last few years, Abumrad’s taken on a couple side projects: a Supreme Court-related podcast called More Perfect, and the solo “Gut Churn” lecture.

“This is a talk I’ve been sort of honing—I monkey with it pretty much every five minutes. It’s my own personal story of getting into what I do now, and [how] scary and confusing that was for me personally. It’s the story of Radiolab and how it came into the world, and again that story is how do you make something when you don’t exactly know what you’re trying to make? On the third level, it’s kind of [a] storytelling clinic. And on a fourth level, it’s a real prismatic look at different ways to think about not knowing what you’re doing. I look at it from the perspective of psychotherapy, from Cherokee belief systems, from poker, from theoretical biology, from evolutionary psychology—all of these ways of seeing this thing.” □

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KEEP CHICO WEIRD ART SHOW RECEPTION: Opening reception for the CN&R’s open-entry, multi-media group show featuring the funkiest, funnest and freakiest in local art. Thu, 3/1, 6-8pm. Free. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. keepchicoweird.com.

MEET AUDREY DENNEY: Democratic congressional candidate discusses her platform and plans for CA-01. Thu, 3/1, 6pm. Butte Hall, Chico State, Room 223.

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION LECTURE: UC Berkeley lecturer Jason Morton leads a discussion on the Revolutionizing the World? art exhibit (see Fine Arts). Thu, 3/1, 5:30pm. Free.

Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State, Arts 279.

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Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham. patrick ranchmuseum.org

Chico State composition students and musicians unveil premiere performances at day one of the annual two-day new music fest. Thu, 3/1, 7:30pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State, Performing Arts Center 134. 530-898-5739.

JAD ABUMRAD: Host of the twotime Peabody-winning Radiolab public-radio program brings his insightful multimedia presentation to town. Sat 3/3, 7:30pm. $10-$30.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State.

530-898-6333. csuchico.edu

Theater 42ND STREET: Broadway hit follows starstruck chorus girl Peggy Sawyer as she tries to fill Dorothy’s grandiose shoes after the diva is injured. Set during the Great Depression, the classic musical is loaded with dancing and unforgettable tunes. Performed by drama students from Inspire School of the Arts & Sciences. Thu, 3/1, 7pm. $10-$20. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 530-8913090. inspirecusd.org

BUG: Cocktail waitress Agnes hides from her violent ex-husband in a seedy motel room in this well-crafted play. The intense thriller ratchets up the paranoia when Agnes meets Peter, a Gulf War vet obsessed with conspiracy theories. For mature audiences. Thu, 3/1, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

EVERY BRILLIANT THING: 1. Ice cream 2. Kung fu movies 3. Things with stripes. Duncan MacMillan’s story follows a young boy as he attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Poignant and very funny. Thu, 3/1, 7:30pm. $10-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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Special Events BEER BY WOMEN: On tap: Beer brewed and inspired by women. Fri, 3/2, 4pm. Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Suite 114. thechicotaproom.com

SPRING FEVER: Former San Francisco Giant Tim Flannery and Giants reporter Amy G. appear at dinner and auction to benefit local baseball programs. Fri, 3/2, 5pm. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave. Email tstev47095@ aol.com for tickets.

Music PAUL HANSON: Wild experimentation via bassoon and electronics on this second day of Chico State’s New Music Symposium. Hanson is equally adept at jazz and chamber music, collaborating with diverse musicians and orchestras around the world. Fri, 3/2, 7:30pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State, Arts 279.

Maybe you’ve heard of this? CN&R’s own Arts DEVO hosts this wild variety/talent/what-did-I-just-see? show, judged by a panel of local celebrities. Sat 3/3, 7:30pm. $16$20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.

QUEER PROM: Glam it up for this discriminationfree celebration. Sat 3/3, 8pm. $5. Bell

Theater 42ND STREET: See Thursday. Fri, 3/2, 7pm. $10$20. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 530-891-3090. inspirecusd.org

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL: Outrageously entertaining and timely musical comedy follows the exploits of three female office workers who turn the tables on their sexist, abusive boss. #MeToo Fri, 3/2, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. chicotheatercompany.com

Memorial Union Auditorium, Chico State.

Music GUITAR GREATS: Guitarist and singer Gene Kelly leads an open jam session in conjunction with the guitar exhibit (see Fine Arts, p. 26). Sat 3/3, 5pm. $5-$10. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd., Paradise. 530-8728722. goldnuggetmuseum.com

LOW BRASS ENSEMBLE: Chico stage director and professor Matthew Teague-Miller shows his acting and singing skills accompanied by the Chico Low Brass Choir. Sat, 3/3, 7:30pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State, Performing Arts Center 134.

530-898-5739.

SPRING EQUINOX DINNER & DANCE: Decades performs along with pianist Shigemi Minetaka and the Children’s Choir of Chico during this dinner, auction and fundraiser for the choir. Sat, 3/3, 5:30pm. $10-$25. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzanita Ave. 530-342-2775. childrenschoirofchico.org

Theater 42ND STREET: See Thursday. Sat, 3/3, 7pm. $10$20. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 530-891-3090. inspirecusd.org

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL: See Friday. Sat, 3/3, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd., Suite F. chicotheatercompany.com

BUG: See Thursday. Sat, 3/3, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

EVERY BRILLIANT THING: See Thursday. Sat, 3/3, 7:30pm. $10-$22. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING: See Thursday. Fri, 3/2, 7:30pm. $10-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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Special Events BAILE DE LAS AMÉRICAS: Hispanic Association for the Community and Education’s big fundraiser includes dinner, dancing and music from salsa band Sabor de Mi Cuba. Sat 3/3, 6:30pm. $65. Lakeside Pavilion, 2565

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36 STRINGS Perhaps the most innovative guitar group of all time, the Pacific Guitar Ensemble, performs startling renditions of Latin, modern and classical music that will change the way you think about the guitar. The eclectic sextet is led by renowned classical guitarists David Tanenbaum and Peppino D’Agostino, and includes alumni and faculty from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. You’ll hear inventive arrangements from Bach, Brahms, Greek-American guitarist Paul Psarras, Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla and more during this Sunday, March 4, matinee concert at Zingg Recital Hall.

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DÀIMH: Gaelic supergroup puts on one hell of a show and covers all the Irish folk bases from mournful ballads to explosive jigs. Wolfthump opens the seated show. Sun, 3/4, 7:30pm. $15.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

PACIFIC GUITAR ENSEMBLE: Six-guitar ensemble performs classical Latin, and modern arrangements from Bach to Piazzolla. Sun, 3/4, 2pm. $10-$36.

Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State, Arts 279. 530-898-6333. csuchico.edu

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Music EVERLY BROTHERS EXPERIENCE: The Zmed Bros. capture the heart and soul of the Everly Bros. in this tribute act.

Dinner tickets also available. Wed, 3/7, 6:30pm. $10-$40. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

TIM & THE GLORY BOYS: Tim Neufeld performs “Worship Hoedown” with his bluegrass-ish band. Wed, 3/7, 7pm. Evangelical Free Church of Chico, 1193 Filbert Ave.

Art B-SO GALLERY: Sculpture, works from assistant professor Lauren Ruth’s students on display.

Through 3/2. Also, open studios where BFA and MFA students show their work. 3/7.

Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE: Paper Art Collage, Molly Amick’s work elevates the lowly cocktail napkin to new artistic heights. Through 3/31.

1387 E. Eighth St.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Revolutionizing the World, exploring the visual history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and evaluating the global impact of this historical event. Through 3/16. Curator’s talk with Cristina Cuevas-Wolf of the Wende Museum in L.A., Th, 3/1, 5:30 p.m., in Zingg Recital Hall. Followed by reception in the gallery. Chico State., 530-898-5864. university artgallery.wordpress.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Florin Hategan, selected for the solo exhibition prize from the Turner National Print Competition, Hategan’s drawing and printmaking work dissects the collision of new and old, humanity and technology, and anatomy and architecture. His art has been featured throughout North America, Europe and Asia Through 3/31. Free. Chico State, 530-898-4476.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Keep Chico Weird Art Show, radical submissions from local artists. Through 3/4. Plus, What, Us Worry?, an exhibition featuring sculptures by Tony Natsoulas, Paul DiPasqua and Michael Stevens. Through 3/31. $5. Register for the Modern History of Architecture lecture series exploring the events, individuals and buildings that shaped Western architecture from the late 19th through to the 21st century. Eight sessions, 3/5-5/14. $70. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

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5564 Almond St., Paradise. paradise-artcenter.com

UPPER CRUST BAKERY: Kandis Horton-Jorth, new mixed media works. Through 3/5. 130 Main St., 530-828-6296.

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Hand Tools, rotating displays of more than 12,000 kinds of tools. Through 6/2. $3. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville, 530-538-2528. boltsantiquetools.com

BUTTE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: WWI Exhibition, recently renovated exhibits demonstrating the profound changes in American society caused by The Great War. Through 7/29. 1749 Spencer Ave.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Permanent Exhibits, including the The Janeece Webb Living Animal Museum and the Nature Play Room. 1968 E. Eighth St. ccnaturecenter.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Brain – The World Inside Your Head, an exhibit exploring the inner workings of the brain—neurons and synapses, electricity and chemistry. Through 5/6. 625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Guitar Greats, Jim Campbell’s collection of antique, vintage, signature and boutique guitars returns to the museum. Through 4/1. $5-$10. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise., 530-872-8722. goldnugget museum.com

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Imprisoned at Home, excellent and enlightening exhibit on Japanese Americans held at the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp during WWII. Through 5/18. Also, Sacred Splendor, exhibit chronicles the history and influence of Christian colonization, underscoring the faith’s movement across the globe from Indo-Portuguese carvings to a William Morris cartoon. Through 5/11. Chico State. csuchico.edu

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“I have a thing where I need to pick everything apart—how do they sync things up to work together?” Filepp said.

Cars & Trains has been a part of Filepp’s life now for nearly 15 years, beginning in earnest while attending art school in Boston, and progressing after he and his wife moved to Portland in 2007. In that time, he’s released a number of EPs and five full-lengths, including his latest, Fictions, released last October on the independent hiphop label Fake Four Inc. The new record zeros in on the day-to-day as it exists within our new modern chaos, with the music and Filepp’s lyrics painting pictures both bleak

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and hopeful. Acoustic guitars are strummed over soft electronic beats as well as a wall of loops and oddball instrumentation—it’s soothing, but there’s a lot going on.

While Cars & Trains began as a “bedroom project,” Filepp continues to perform in Portland, as well as tour parts of the States and even Europe (by himself, of course), which has helped him to more emphatically embrace his moody and melodic electronic music.

Filepp is keen to the fact that this type of music doesn’t always translate live, though he’s made a concerted effort over the years to keep both himself and the audience engaged.

“The process is the biggest part,” said Filepp, who builds his songs (some of which include 90 to 100 tracks) with loops during the performance, while also singing and playing guitar. “I find it interesting to build up textures and make it interesting to others.” He adds with a smile, “In the old days I may as well have been up there doing my taxes.”

Talking to Filepp, it’s difficult to imagine him being part of the hardcore and metal scenes in his formative years in New York. He ticks off the names of thrash gods like Metallica and Death Angel as early influences. Those gave way to

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more electronic-minded artists like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, as well as Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis.

During that time he played in a number of bands, although those days are long behind him. Filepp sometimes misses playing with other musicians, but says he owes Cars & Trains’ longevity to the fact he’s remained a solo artist—no personality clashes, no conflicting schedules, and no responsibility to others when things go awry on the road.

“I’ve taken some tourmates through the ringer,” Filepp said.

“Also, having been in a bunch of bands, it’s nice to be more selfsufficient.”

A decade and a half in, and you could say Filepp has perfected touring and performing by himself. You can tell he relishes the unexpected, though, too. Like at a show in Europe, where an equipment malfunction led him to walk through the crowd strumming a guitar that wasn’t working, his voice the only thing audible to those in attendance.

“You have to force yourself to be in the moment,” Filepp said.

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Black Panther

Opening this week Death Wish

Horror director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) is at the helm of this remake of the classic 1972 revenge drama, with Bruce Willis taking on the role of vigilante husband/ father made famous by Charles Bronson.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

In the Fade

This German film about a woman dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist bomb killing her son and husband won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Red Sparrow

Fear of the unknown Into the scary world of Annihilation

Aoneofofthese without question. On top of that, it is the scariest films you will see this year, and

nnihilation is billed as sci-fi/fantasy, and it is both

could also be classified as a legitimate entry in the horror genre.

Alex Garland directs and co-scripted this alieninvasion movie—loosely based on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel of the same name—that explores themes of self-identity and by love (much like the filmmaker’s Bob Grimm 2014 debut, Ex Machina) while mixbg rimm@ ing in environmental terror involving newsrev iew.c om nightmarish creatures and mutating landscapes. There’s a lot going on in this movie, yet Garland and company balance it all in a stunning piece of brainy entertainment.

In an opening sequence reminisAnnihilation Starring Natalie cent of John Carpenter’s The Thing, Portman and Jennifer an object enters Earth’s atmosphere Jason Leigh. Directed by alex Garland. and crashes to the planet. The zone cinemark 14, Feather surrounding the crash site becomes river cinemas, something known as The Shimmer, Paradise cinema 7. an environmental phenomenon surrated r. rounded by a swirling, bendy, translucent barrier that no one can figure out. Numerous expeditions into The Shimmer have resulted in the disappearance of many people, but one man, Kane (Oscar Isaac) does return a year after going in.

Kane is husband to former Army biologist-turnedprofessor Lena (Natalie Portman), and he doesn’t seem all there when he sits down at the kitchen table after his mysterious return. He starts convulsing and spitting up blood, which prompts a trip to the hospital, and along the way government types overtake the ambulance and Lena wakes up in a strange facility in the care of mili-

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tary physician, Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Lena finds out where it is her husband has been, and soon she joins the doctor and three other women—Anya the paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), Cass the geologist (Tuva Novotny) and Josie the physicist (the amazing Tessa Thompson)—on a mission to collect data at the edges of the mysterious Shimmer.

Fat chance.

Once the team enters, we see how crazy it is in The Shimmer, and how unkind it is to those who visit.

Among the horrors they discover: videos left behind by former explorers, mutated wildlife and a general tendency to make those inside batshit crazy.

There are at least three scenes in this movie that made me want to die rather than watch because they were so damned scary, and a good chunk of the running time had me uncomfortable. High praise for a horror movie.

To go with the dread and the sci-fi, Garland also mixes in some scary elements involving the Lena-Kane marriage, and the results are a movie that goes to great lengths to challenge your mind while freaking you out.

Portman is great (as usual) as someone who will endure many layers of psychological and physical horror to find out the root cause of her husband’s illness. Her cohorts—Rodriguez, Novotny and Thompson—each have shining moments, while Leigh provides a nice anchor.

Only two movies in, Garland proves he’s multifaceted. Already a first-rate auteur in the sci-fi realm, he’s also no slouch with pure drama and in capturing stellar performances. And, without a doubt, he possesses some major horror chops.

Annihilation owes a lot to Ridley Scott (Alien), John Carpenter (The Thing) and any incarnation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, yet it is still original.

It might be 2018’s first masterpiece. □

Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence again teams up with star Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) in this thriller about an elite Russian spy on a complicated mission involving the CIA and a possible mole. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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This week’s repertory selection is the classic Soviet psychological sci-fi drama about a mission to a space station where the crew has all gone mad as they orbit the fictional planet of Solaris. One showing, Sunday, March 4, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre.

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The 15:17 to Paris

Clint Eastwood’s latest is a brisk account of the recent incident in which three young American men foiled a heavily armed terrorist’s attack on the passengers of a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The three Americans are longtime pals from the Sacramento area and they have been cast as themselves in this 94-minute action drama based on the book they wrote in the aftermath. Suspense over the terrorist attack starts building very early on, but most of the film is devoted to sketching in the threesome’s life stories and the choices that lead them to be on that particular train on that particular day. Stone is an Air Force man on leave, Skarlatos is on leave from the Oregon Army National Guard and Sadler is a college student on summer break. The three of them have been enjoying themselves on an improvised European summer tour. The onscreen results are consistently engaging without ever seeming to be really extraordinary. The near-minimalist efficiency of Eastwood’s direction (and of Dorothy Blyskal’s screenplay/adaptation) generates an overall impression of mildly conventional earnestness. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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With its black superhero and predominantly black cast, and its special mixture of action fantasy and social history, Black Panther is a monumental cultural event. And a key part of its specialness is that it’s also a richly entertaining movie. Writer-director Ryan Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole have produced a very engaging mixture of action movie and epic/utopian allegory. It’s an impressively mounted production throughout, and even with elements that are routine or generic, it makes fine use of a large and appealing cast. Chadwick Boseman has the title role.

He is T’Challa, the newly coronated king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. His Black Panther-infused superpowers derive from vibranium, the super-strong metal that is the basis of Wakanda’s radically advanced technology. A key premise of the tale is that Wakanda has heretofore kept its highly developed civilization hidden from the rest of the world. Eventually, the new king will move to change all that, and Boseman proves to be well attuned to both the warrior and the statesman in the character. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Film adaptation of the young-adult novel about a 16-year-old girl who falls in love with a spirit that occupies a different human body every day. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Game Night

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in this dark comedy about a group of friends whose regular game night turns into an actual murder mystery. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Owners of The Chico Taproom support communal aspects of craft beer that there is real snobbery in W the world of craft beer, aficionados illie Matthews acknowledges

who like to pick apart a brew’s head or mouthstory and feel. As the owner photo by of a beer bar, he Howard certainly doesn’t Hardee begrudge anyone Chico Tap Room who gets really, 2201 Pillsbury Road, really into it, but Ste. 114 he personally 774-2943 thechicotaproom.com likes to keep everything in perspective.

“It is just beer,” he said. “It’s just kind of a fun thing where you get to come hang out and be with people.

It doesn’t have to be about the beer.”

The social and communal aspects of the craft beer scene are what really appeal to Matthews and his wife, Claire, who own and operate The Chico Taproom in the Almond Orchard shopping center. In that spirit, they’ve been hosting regular beer/yoga nights on Tuesdays ($20 includes the session and one beverage), game nights and creative tap takeovers, including one called Beer by Women coming up on Friday (March 2), a celebration of Women’s History Month “featuring six beers brewed, influenced or owned by women.”

“We don’t have Wi-Fi, so people actually have to talk to each other or play Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots or Jenga or Cards Against Humanity, which is refreshing to see,” Claire said. “There’s nothing worse than having a group of six

people sit down and look at their phones. Beer is community; beer is talking; beer is having fun.”

The couple met in Chico and helped run a 32-handle craft-beer bar and restaurant in Pacifica before returning here to buy a home and start a business of their own. The Chico Taproom opened last May, and it’s since been quietly building a base of clientele.

Over the past 10 months, the owners have learned a lot about the local beer market and what their customers want. For example, when they first opened, the draft list leaned toward relatively rare beers that had never been poured in Chico. But as it turned out, most of their customers were looking for their personal favorites from places such as Fall River Brewing Co. out of Redding/Mills River, and Sacramento’s New Glory and Moonraker breweries.

“So, we’ve kind of balanced that,” Willie said. “We’ve been showcasing beers that don’t normally run in Chico, but also getting the beers people have been asking for.”

To that end, they put a brewery suggestion board in the hallway.

As long as it’s financially feasible, they’ll bring in the beers and breweries customers want. That’s the whole point. Willie says he has no interest in brewing beer himself, because he finds satisfaction in showcasing and supporting other people’s hard work.

“I have nothing but admiration

for the people who do it, because they’re artists,” he said. “What they’re making is really an incredible product, and the passion and knowledge they bring to it is just really impressive. But with the way the craft beer scene is, I really like being a retailer, being able to bring in all these different breweries and seeing the variety. Some people are really pushing the envelope with different ingredients and styles.”

If craft beer is art, then The Chico Taproom is a gallery. The place has 40 rotating tap handles and a huge wraparound bar with enough space for as many chairs.

True to the name, the taproom makes a point of featuring locally made beer and cider, including from small, local outfits that have popped up in Chico over the last couple of years—Lassen Traditional Cider, Secret Trail Brewing Co. and Waganupa Brewing—as well as breweries operating throughout the greater North State.

But, again, it’s not all about the beer. As a couple, they’ve been working at balancing their personal lives with the around-the-clock demands of being business owners.

“It’s kind of like when you move out of an apartment to your own house, and all of the sudden you can’t call your landlord to fix everything,” Willie said. “We’re trying to adjust our schedules so we don’t burn out.”

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COUNTRY MILE: Trad country outfit plays Haggard, Yoakam, Strait and more. Fri, 3/2, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

DECOY: Five-piece band covers hits from the ’60s to today in the lounge. Fri, 3/2, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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HIRIE: Poppy reggae and sunny,

weed-positive jams, plus Indubious and the For Peace Band. Thu, 3/1, 7pm. $13. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

KELLY TWINS ACOUSTIC: Jon and Chris dust off some old favorites for an evening of “living room” music. Thu, 3/1, 6pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

THE RIVERSIDE: Folk rock band performs free gig for Chico State students. School ID needed for

GOTCHA COVERED: Dance your butt off entry. Pat Hull opens. Thu, 3/1, 7:30pm. Bell Memorial Union Auditorium, Chico State, 400 W. First St.

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ARI SHAFFIR: Edgy, uncensored and

frequently filthy comedy Fri, 3/2, 8pm. $25. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 State Highway 45, Colusa. colusa casino.com

BAND SHOWCASE: Featuring three local acts. Fri, 3/2, 8:30pm. White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

to Top 40 tunes in the lounge. Fri, 3/2, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

OPEN MIC: Tito hosts music, comedy,

poetry and more. Fri, 3/2, 6pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main Street. loston mainchico.com

PUB SCOUTS: Irish music for happy

hour. Fri, 3/2, 3:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

RIK & THE PIGS: Sweaty, fist-in-theair rock band from Olympia, Wash. plus sets from local piggies Truck Stop and Sunny Acres. Fri, 3/2, 9:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

outfit The Brainiax tear it up with locals The Cretin’s Cattle and Quips & Chains. Fri, 3/2, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

SCOTT PEMBERTON BAND: Psych and roots rocker lays down the fuzz and the funk. The guitar wizard has thrilled audiences at High Sierra Music Festival and beyond. Ashland, Ore.’s Bamboozle opens with some good-time rock ’n’ roll. Fri, 3/2, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

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Slobby, snotty punk rock in the vein of the Dead Boys. Rik & The Pigs’ new album, A Child’s Gator, rips through eight tracks in less than 20 minutes with songs about best friends, living in America and rat anus. Started as a solo project, Rik’s Pigs has since grown into a sprawling six-piece. They’ll squeeze onto the stage and blow the doors off Duffy’s on Friday, March 2, along with Chico’s Truck Stop and Sunny Acres.

SPAZMATICS: Eighties cover nerds

geek out in the brewery. Fri, 3/2, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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A REAL FRIEND’S FESTIVAL: Hip-hop,

indie pop, electronic dance and rock ’n’ roll from Wod Higgins, Animals in the Attic, Subfer, Lo & Behold, AJ the One and many more. Sat, 3/3, 12pm. $10. 600 Pomona Ave. real friendsandco.com

DECOY: See Friday. Sat, 3/3, 8:30pm.

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

GOTCHA COVERED: See Friday. Sat,

3/3, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: Eagles tribute act. Unlike “Hotel California,” you can leave whenever you’d like. Sat, 3/3, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

Air Jordans and overalls. Sat, 3/3, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

OPEN MIC: For musicians of all

ages. Sat, 3/3, 7pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

NAUGHTY ’90S BURLESQUE: The Malteazers shake it to ’90s hits, followed by a dance party. Wear your

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OPEN MIC MADNESS: Music/comedy

open mic hosted by Jimmy Reno. Mon, 3/5, 6pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

TRAPT ACOUSTIC NIGHT: The last we dance floor with cover tunes from a wide range of genres. Sat, 3/3, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

SECRET SOCIETY HANDSHAKE: Highenergy funk and soul from 12-piece dance band. Sat, 3/3, 9pm. $5.

Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

SYMBLANCE: Original tunes and classic rock hits from the ’70s and ’80s, back when music was real, kid. Get off my lawn. Sat, 3/3, 9pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

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ELECTRO-FOLK & HIP-HOP: Blips, beats and bits from Denver’s CURTA and Portland’s Cars & Trains, plus opening sets from local acts Pervert and SCOUT. Sun, 3/4, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

TIM MCKEE & LARRY PETERSON: Blues, rock and more. Sun, 3/4, 2pm.

Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

heard from the boys in Trapt, they were crowdfunding a video. Now see them get acoustic with Yuba City’s No King and locals DeVoll. Mon, 3/5, 9pm. $15. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave., 530-345-7499.

07WEDNESDaY DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and

Amburgers spin funk, pop and hiphop. Wed, 3/7, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

EVERLY BROTHERS EXPERIENCE: The Zmed Bros. capture the heart and soul of The Everly Bros. in this tribute act. Dinner tickets available. Wed, 3/7, 6:30pm. $10-$40.

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

KAYZO: Remix DJ Kayzo performs electronic dance music with 4B, Dubloadz, Gammer and JSTJR. Wed, 3/7, 8pm. $20-$30. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St. kayzochico.eventbrite.com

FEEL ThE FUNK

Calling Chico groovehounds! Scott Pemberton delivers freaky funk from Portland, Ore., to Lost on Main on Friday, March 2. Called the “Bruce Lee of rock ’n’ roll”

by Tahoe Onstage, the guitarist and showman is joined by a keyboard/bass player and a pair of percussionists who lay down thick, chunky rhythms on sprawling jams.

Expect six-string histrionics, high-energy performances and a whole lotta fun.

OBE & ERIN HALEY: Dinner tunes

from local troubadours. Wed, 3/7, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

OPEN MIC: Mr. Bang hosts. Wed, 3/7, 6pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

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OPEN MIC: Hosted by singer-song-

writer Andan Casamajor. Tue, 3/6, 6pm. Free. Gogi’s Cafe, 230 Salem St., 530-891-3570.

mic. Wed, 3/7, 7pm. $2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 530-877-4995.

SUPER BAR ARCADE: NES, PlayStation and other consoles will be set up for your gaming pleasure, plus allrequest DJ. Wed, 3/7, 9pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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Some people might know Max Minardi as part of Chico’s vibrant musical community. But if you haven’t crossed paths, that might be because Minardi’s been busy, averaging 150 shows per year, most on the road.

After a busy 2017 touring the U.S. and U.K., Minardi recorded his newest EP, Stories, which exudes a well-worn feel of songs sung day after day. The record kicks off on a bright and chipper folk note with “Stories,” with light snare brushed beneath an airy fingerpicked melody as Minardi’s country-tinged voice moves up and down like rolling hills.

On “Lately,” he expands into folk rock with a wide-open tune featuring tasteful drums and hazy background vocals and Minardi’s rich vocals, while the uptempo “I’ll be Mine” has a strong pop hook, with punchy drums, understated piano, peppy background vocals and a surprising synth solo. The highlight is the sunny, harmony-driven closer, “Young & Green,” a folk-pop raver that conjures images of Nor Cal life: “We ran through the forest and back to the stream/where we drowned our demons and found our peace.”

Mostly in Blue George Cotsirilos Quartet Oa2 records It wasn’t until 1969 when, at 17, George Cotsirilos enrolled at UC Berkeley and got interested in jazz and began playing the guitar. In the 1980s, he worked and recorded with esteemed Bay Area drummer Eddie Marshall before getting a law degree and practicing and teaching law. After three acclaimed trio albums since 2006 with bassist Robb Fisher and drummer Ron Marabuto, they hooked up with pianist Keith Saunders to explore what Cotsirilos describes as “a little different sound connected to the tunes I was writing.” The results are astounding. “Wes Side Blues” isn’t a blues but a high-speed tribute to Wes Montgomery. They show their superb bop chops on the uptempo “Crazeology,” while “Lights Out,” another original (“bedtime music of the most enticing sort” says Cotsirilos), reveals a calmer side of the group.

The only problem I have with this otherwise excellent album is the aggressive drumming throughout, especially all the Latin-style clacking on the otherwise delightful “I Wish I Knew.”

—Miles Jordan

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Hexadic III Various artists Drag city On the third installment of his Hexadic series, Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasney challenged peers to employ his esoteric compositional system to see what strange new aural wormholes might be conjured. The Hexadic System is a musical composition method devised by Chasney using playing cards to create noninstinctive pieces of music, referencing philosophical precedents, hermeticism, even the occult. The first two Hexadic albums were released under Chasney’s Six Organs of Admittance moniker; Hexadic III brings artists as creatively diverse as Moon Duo, Tashi Dorji and Phil Legard to the table, utilizing the system to eerily cohesive effect. Whether through the warbling noise collage of Richard Young’s “Abandoned Problems,” or the creepily beautiful “Protection Hex” by Meg Baird (of Heron Oblivion) and Charlie Saufley (S.F.’s Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound), the project revels in heady, primitive psych fare. It may be more interesting to musical intellectuals, though there are still enough inherent grooves and ambient detours to make it appeal to those who listen even slightly outside the box.

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Don’t wait for art There is nothing arts dEVo enjoys more than sharing

his excitement over new work by local artists he loves, and over the past year or so I’ve loved the wild, fun art of local collage-maker Molly amick more than nearly everything I’ve seen in town. So, I’m especially stoked about her upcoming blowout—Paper art Collage—at Beatniks Coffee House for the month of March. The pieces I’ve seen so far (such as “The Ferryman,” with a deer-headed skeleton dude canoeing through a dark watergarden) are out-of-this-world.

Those who know her already know “The Ferryman,” by Molly Amick that Amick has been living (“really well,” she says) with breast cancer, and she expects that this is probably her last art show in Chico. The retired family practice and psychiatric nurse practitioner is now in hospice care, but Amick says she’s looking forward to joining her family and the “always wonderful and inspirational Chico community” to celebrate the show during the reception this Sunday, March 4, noon-3 p.m. I encourage everyone who knows Amick and everyone who loves art and the people who make it to show up for what promises Amick, the collagist. to be a very special event.

ParaDise songbirD Big props to amber sauer,

the Paradise-raised musician who made it to the tryouts for the new season of the singing competition show The Voice on NBC. Now living in Los Angeles, Sauer is part of the pool of singers in the first “blind auditions” phase of the show, and her audition could potentially be on any of the first six episodes (Mondays and Tuesdays, 8 p.m., through March 12). As of press time, Sauer had yet to appear on the televised broadcast; tune in the next two weeks to see if she makes the cut.

here to entertain you Hey, would you look

at that! New CN&R staff writer ashiah scharaga is the lead in a local musical, starring as Doralee (the Dolly Parton character) in Chico Theater Company’s production of 9 to 5. The CN&R has a Amber Sauer long history of employing creative types who live second lives as part of the fertile local art scene, and we now have two more: Scharaga, a singer with impressive pipes (which she’ll need to hit Dolly’s notes), who’s been in previous CTC shows as well as musical productions of the Uncle dad’s art Collective; and nate daly, our new calendar editor, rad dude and drummer for a range of local bands, including garage-punk duo sex Hogs ii, rock quartet Royal oaks and (formerly with) sludge-metal crew amarok.

You can catch Scharaga during opening night of 9 to 5, Friday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

uP on creePy creek Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just a random creepy head on a stake down by the creek. Carry on, Chico.

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ber 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement.

“It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying . . . or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago . . . or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you . . . or transform your relationship with an old wound . . . or all of the above.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The

Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’ Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn.

You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps—to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment, and abundant slack.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one can

be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation?

Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semifaithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appa-

lachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia.

Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning

out to be as I expected it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn your focus to them.

Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t

find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the com-

ing weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French

philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic.

So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the smartest, feistiest, most resourceful lover who has ever lived.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the

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You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment.

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not quite a revolution that’s in the works.

But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting storylines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

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AARON MICHAEL ANDERSON 180 Alvin Court Chico, CA 95928.

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ALLEN HADIDIAN 283 Idyllwild Circle Chico, CA 95928.

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NICOLE THOMAS 13081 Orchard Blossom Lane Chico, CA 95973.

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WIRELESS WIZARD SOLUTIONS, LLC 1197 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

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DAKONA LEE DWYER 331 Black Bart Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

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JESSE WILLIAMS 939 Karen Drive Chico, CA 95926.

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PAOLOA GUZMAN 3569 E. Eaton Rd. Chico, CA 95951.

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AMANDA NICOLE PICKREN 1225 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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BASSAM ELHINDI 2161 Hartford Drive #148 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

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BIDWELL SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC 966 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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BIDWELL SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC 966 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: LYNETTE N. DORENZO, CEO/OWNER Dated: February 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000179 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

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ALFRED GOMES Jr 225 W Lassen Ave., Apt 1 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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ALL ABOUT VETERINARY SERVICES, PC 1900 Mangrove Ave Ste 50 Chico, CA 95926.

This business in conducted by a Corporation.

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CASSANDRA MARIN WALLING 691 Camellia Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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JODI L KREBS 1085 Glenwood Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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GABRIELL HERNDON 5893 Golden Oaks Paradise, CA 95969.

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BAYWOOD COMPANY, INC 1275 East Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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COMMUNITY TENNIS ORGANIZATION 15700 Fitzgerald Dr Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

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NEIL ANDREW DOOLEY 460 E Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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BRIAN LOGUE 4 Bartram Terrace Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRIAN LOGUE Dated: February 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000260 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIFTH SUN at 495 Ryan Ave Chico, CA 95973.

GONZALES ENTERPRISES, INC. 495 Ryan Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DANIEL GONZALES Dated: January 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000114 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SOILLOGIX, WILSON’S ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS at 3472 Comfort Lane Concow, CA 95965.

CORINE ELAINE WILSON 3472 Comfort Lane Concow, CA 95965.

LARRY N WILSON JR 3472 Comfort Lane Concow, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CORINE E. WILSON Dated: February 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000197 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CA SALES at 542 B Street Biggs, CA 95917.

CRAIG L ANDES 542 B Street Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CRAIG ANDES Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000235 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PEGASUS UI DESIGN at 555 Vallombrosa Ave #72 Chico, CA 95926.

XIAOHU XU 555 Vallombrosa Ave #72 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: XIAOHU XU Dated: February 22, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PERFECTLY IMPERFECT at 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

ASHLEY MCMAHAN 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

MARIA MCMAHAN 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MARIA MCMAHAN Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000229 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLANT BURGER at 5161 Eden Road Paradise, CA 95969.

BERLYN HALE 5161 Eden Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BERLYN HALE Dated: February 23, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000271 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DATADANCER MEDICAL SYSTEMS at 1644 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL L KOHUT 1644 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL L. KOHUT Dated: February 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000247 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928

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Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00282 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MOHAMMAD REZA AND FNU SHAISTA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOHAMMAD REZA FNU SHAISTA FNU ZAHEEDUL RAHMAN FNU SAMIU RAHMAN Proposed name: MOHAMMAD REZA NEKSIAR SHAISTA NEKSIAR ZAHEEDUL RAHMAN NEKSIAR SAMIUL RAHMAN NEKSIAR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 29, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00250 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00319 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TONI SUZOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEE NICOLE RYDEN Proposed name: ASHLEE NICOLE SUZOR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 30, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00360 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CHONG LOR Proposed name: CHONG LEE 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: April 20, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 14, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00274 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEE VANG & ZELEE LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOUA LOR Proposed name: MOUA MONG LEE 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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00299 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00298 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARGARET ELIZABETH RIEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARGARET ELIZABETH RIEN Proposed name: ELIZABETH RIEN 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: April 20, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE EILEEN E. PORTER, AKA EILEEN ELIZABETH PORTER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: EILEEN E. PORTER, AKA EILEEN ELIZABETH PORTER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: APRIL E. GILL in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: APRIL E. GILL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES W. LA FORCE, JR., AKA JAMES WEAVER LA FORCE, JR. AND JAMES W. LA FORCE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES W. LA FORCE, JR., AKA JAMES WEAVER LA FORCE, JR. AND JAMES W. LA FORCE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JAMES W. LA FORCE III in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JAMES W. LA FORCE III be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. the will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have

waived notice or conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 6, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Room: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: VANESSA J. SUNDIN, Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Ste. 302, Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 18PR00057 Published: February 15,22 March 1, 2018

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SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHICO CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AND ALL PERSONS UNKOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO AND DOES 1 THROUGH 100, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: DANIEL E. BAILEY NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS 200981 Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 Dated: August 14, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02433 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. the will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 27, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Room: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Petitioner: APRIL E. GILL, IN PRO PER 6664 Shay Lane Paradise, CA 95969 Case Number: 18PR00056 Dated: February 8, 2018 Published: February 15,22, March 1, 2018

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SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: DAVID M DIAZ YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 366-4290 Dated: September l5, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02761 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

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The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 14, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00403 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

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Chico Durham Forest Ranch Gridley Magalia Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville

$98,000 $352,273 $305,000 $175,000 $65,000 $275,000 $221,000 $184,000 $160,000 $75,000 $70,000

2/1 4/3 3/2 3/1 1/1 3/2 3/1 2/1 3/2 2/1 2/1

SQ. FT. 864 3079 1744 1360 759 1841 1039 1270 1352 1230 736

ADDRESS 3842 Silvera Ct 5636 Feather River Pl 5334 Filbert St 316 Redbud Dr 5976 Sylvan Ct 5748 Newland Rd 1079 Fairview Dr 6224 Pentz Rd 6342 Baston Ln 6679 Brook Way 676 Elliott Rd

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$590,000 $375,000 $297,000 $289,000 $265,000 $260,000 $228,000 $200,000 $193,000 $121,500 $97,500

3/2 3/2 3/2 3/2 2/3 3/2 2/2 2/1 2/1 2/2 3/2 march 1, 2018

SQ. FT. 2248 2109 1727 1575 1765 1442 1403 1377 948 1369 1304

CN&R

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stop

the cycle

start the healing

sexual violence is not a gender issue, but a human issue Fact: 9-10% of all rape survivors outside of a criminal institutions are male 16 years of age Fact: Many men experienced sexual abuse by the age of 18 Fact: The greatest age risk for males being sexual violated is age 4

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