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Vol. 42, Issue 3 • September 13, 2018 OPINION

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Second & Flume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Weekly Dose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

GREENWAYS

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Eco Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS

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15 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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COVER STORY

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Chico Beer Week Calendar . . . . 20

ARTS & CULTURE

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Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 This Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Fine arts listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Nightlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Reel World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Chow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Arts DEVO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Brezsny’s Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

CLASSIFIEDS

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REAL ESTATE

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OPINION

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SECOND & FLUME

EDITORIAL

A crisis indeed Let’s face it, the homeless issue facing Chico, Butte

County and the entire state is much bigger than what we see on a daily basis while walking through downtown or the parks. It’s bigger than our shelters can accommodate.

Yes, it affects those with mental illness and addiction problems disproportionately. But it also affects our neighbors who lost a job or fell ill and could no longer afford rent or mortgage payments. Many of them, ashamed, struggle in silence. Perhaps the most heartbreaking part of it all is that it affects our children—more than 500 of them in Chico alone (see “For the kids,” by Ashiah Scharaga, page 8).

We know the biggest reason so many people are without a home: lack of affordable housing. But lowincome homes and apartments don’t pop up overnight; we need to offer relief now.

It’s clear to us that Butte County has a shelter crisis. Numbers don’t lie: According to the 2017 Point-in-Time census, there were at least 1,983 people on one night in January who were considered homeless. In Chico, the number was 1,096; in Oroville, 713; Paradise, 120. In Chico alone, the homeless rate is three times the national average.

Last week, the Oroville City Council did the

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

reasonable—and humane—thing and declared a shelter crisis, acknowledging that it does not have the resources to adequately address the issue. That community will be eligible for state funds specifically earmarked for organizations and programs that deal with homelessness. Chico, Paradise and the county of Butte would be smart to follow suit.

Imagine what $4.9 million could do for Butte County. The plan to consolidate homeless services in a bigger, better Jesus Center could be realized.

Housing communities, whether made up of tiny homes or not, could be created. Mental health and addiction services could be bolstered. Our communities could be healthier and cleaner and, yes, as a result, safer for everyone.

The Butte County Board of Supervisors is set to take up the issue of declaring a shelter crisis at its next meeting, Sept. 25. The Chico City Council will follow with discussion Oct. 2. We urge you to reach out to your representatives and let them know this issue is important to you. Better yet, attend the meetings and speak up.

The status quo isn’t working—it’s time for a change, and the state is willing to help. All we need to do is accept it. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

Drop-kicking the hornets’ nest IA:Democratic Socialists of America. Why? Exhibit a letter I sent to a local newspaper (in 2016)

’m not welcome in a newly forming chapter of the

concerning the Brock Turner sexual assault case. I took the position (as I still do) that, based on my understanding of the facts, Turner’s six-month sentence, along with registering as a sex offender for life, was not a light punishment. Many feminists called for a long prison term, claiming Turner was afforded special treatment, due to “white male privilege.”

What I gathered from the by socialist group is that one cannot Patrick Newman be a socialist without being a the author organizes feminist and one cannot be a a weekly citizen-led feminist while supporting Aaron homeless outreach effort called Chico Persky, the recently recalled Friends on the judge in the Turner case. But, Street. there’s more: to support Persky is to be a “rape apologist”—though my letter indicated nothing of the sort.

In describing these events on my Facebook page, I kicked a hornets’ nest of local feminists.

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Every dimension of feminism was brought forth; none shed much light on why Turner deserved a long prison term. But, what was clear is that taking a position at odds with generally accepted feminist dogma is cause for consignment to the Ninth Circle of hell. Nonconforming positions are not debated, as much as held up as evidence of a thought crime.

I have a complex mix of beliefs on the subject of gender (i.e., I support entirely government-funded reproductive freedom, but I also believe that full-time mothering—especially with very young children—ought to be culturally and economically well-supported). It’s not OK to have a mix of beliefs or any beliefs that do not conform with conclusions drawn by feminist ideologues. To dissent is to blaspheme. Heresy is met with revulsion, censure and “unfriending.”

I very rarely agree with the right-wing on any subject. But, on the subject of gender, there is sometimes more sanity on the right than the left.

My experience with Bernie-inspired young socialists is a reminder that absolutism isn’t always a right-wing scourge. Leftists sometimes slide into paranoia and rigidity—with history providing many notable examples. Ω

Goodbye, burt Last week, at the end of a long day in the office but before heading home, I logged into Facebook and was immediately alerted that something I’d posted had violated its community standards on nudity or sexual activity.

I couldn’t imagine what got flagged for removal, but after a few clicks Facebook showed me the offending photo: Burt Reynolds in a famous centerfold spread for Cosmopolitan magazine back in 1972, before his role in Deliverance and the other films that made him a household name. The image is hard to forget. It’s Reynolds lying on a bearskin rug, his arm propped on the dead creature’s head. The only thing he’s wearing is the cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Indeed, the mustachioed Reynolds is very naked—and very hairy—though his arm covers his package.

The photo is one I’m acquainted with for a few reasons. One, it’s iconic. Two, I’ve seen it up close. A few years back, Meredith J. Cooper and I stumbled across the centerfold while doing some housekeeping here at the CN&R office. The magazine reprinted the spread for its 20th anniversary issue back in 1985, and somebody who worked at this newspaper evidently was quite fond of it. They saved it and even added a few embellishments—including writing on it, “Well, everyone has a dream!”

I can’t remember the context in which I’d posted it online—at some point quite a while ago.

When I got the indecency alert, I was given a chance to contest it, so I responded thusly: “But it’s Burt Reynolds! And you can’t even see his junk!” Nevertheless, Facebook took it down, which seems pretty ridiculous based on the latitude the company gave Russian trolls in 2016.

I griped on my timeline about the ordeal, which, to my surprise, a friend responded with, “This has been happening all day.”

My internal dialogue: Why in the world has Facebook been scrubbing people’s feed of this iconic photo? And that, dear readers, is when I turned to Google News and learned that 82-year-old Reynolds had died that day. (Facebook later apologized and stopped yanking the pic.)

I’ve read a little about Reynolds over the years, and knew that he’d made the mistake of turning down a pivotal role in one of my favorite films, Terms of Endearment, based on the novel by my alltime favorite writer, Larry McMurtry. Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for the part. Turns out that’s one of many regrets he’d expressed about choices made in his career and love life.

There are a lot of tributes floating around in the wake of his death that paint a bleak picture of missed opportunities—he died prior to filming his part in an upcoming Quentin Tarantino flick he’d hoped would launch a comeback, for example.

I’m not going to buy into the gloomy narrative. From what I’ve read, he was a beloved friend and generous philanthropist. Moreover, Reynolds was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Boogie Nights. Does his filmography include bombs? Sure, plenty of them. Was he some sort of sad sack? Not even close.

And then there’s that Cosmo spread—published not once, but twice. Heck, that alone makes for a pretty impressive epitaph.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

LETTERS

ATTENTION BOOMERS

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Comply already Re “Muddy waters” (Newslines,

by Howard Hardee, Sept. 6): Muddy waters is what first alerted me to a mining operation upstream that, when everything was adjudicated, ended with Butte County spending well over $300,000. Now that Mineral Resources LLC is in the sights of not the district attorney(?) but the state Department of Water Resources and state Department of Fish and Wildlife, one possible outcome is the LLC choosing to cut its losses and run. Remember, limited liability corporation is just that.

As county citizens we need to be aware of three things: What permit are they operating under?

What is the reclamation plan? Does the county have enough of a bond, posted by Mineral Resources LLC, to undertake that reclamation plan without costing taxpayers to fix the site?

Anyone who drives by this site has to wonder how they are still in operation. The time involved with Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s process

shows its penchant for giving law breakers more than enough time to come into compliance. This case started five years ago and it has been 1 1/2 years since the company failed to comply with a clean-up and abatement order deadline of Jan. 1, 2017. I’d bet the profits never stopped rolling in.

Rich Meyers Oroville

Commentary comments Re: “Trump’s America: tacky, tasteless and tawdry” (Guest comment,

by Jaime O’Neill, Sept. 6): Jaime O’Neill links poor taste to fascism, and bashes Trump’s sleaziness.

Poor taste and Trump’s sleaziness are the least of the United States’ problems. The U.S. has a huge debt that O’Neill’s generation is leaving to future generations.

Some $6 trillion of that debt is the result of military action taken since 9/11 and supported by Democrats.

This military action has made the U.S. less safe and the world more unstable.

As Bashar al-Assad moves to retake the last U.S.-backed rebel territory in Syria, Trump has now reversed his wanting U.S. troops to leave Syria. Gen. Jim Mattis says the U.S. will stay indefinitely in Syria.

There has been a “soft coup.”

The generals, the foreign policy establishment, intelligence and military industrial complex rule in Washington.

George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump campaigned on less military intervention and no regime change. They all caved to the “deep state” forces that see military action as necessary to further the national interest.

This is important. It is taking the revenue needed for solving very real domestic problems.

Trump is sleazy, and Bill Clinton was a sexual predator, but U.S. militarism and climate change are killing the future.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 I wanted to comment about Jaime O’Neill’s commentary about Trump inviting draft-dodger Ted Nugent to the White House. Trump is a draftdodger who found a pseudo kindred spirit in Ted Nugent. Years ago, in an interview before he became a right-wing clown, Nugent bragged about defecating and urinating in his jeans for about 30 days prior to reporting for his induction physical.

His actions worked. Personnel at the induction center believed he was mentally imbalanced. Poor Ted! His father wasn’t rich enough to pay a physician to fabricate X-rays depicting a bone spur.

Roy Crabtree Chico

Don’t blame enviros Re “Environmentalism run amok” (Guest comment, by Bill Smith, Aug. 16): Bill Smith’s accusation that environmentalists are at fault for all the wildfires is ludicrous, especially coming from a U.S. Forest Service silviculturist who obviously knows nothing about his own agency’s [fire suppression] history.

USFS was established in 1905 and shortly thereafter established its total fire suppression policy, which later included the opposition to light burning by ranchers, farmers and timbermen. The agency attacked fire with a vengeance and with the Weeks Act of 1911 set up the framework of total fire suppression with other federal, state and private forest associations and landowners.

Smokey the Bear was the agency’s fire suppression message, along with the policy of extinguishing the fire by 10 a.m. the next day.

So for decades the USFS created the enormous build-up of fuels by intensely suppressing the natural process of fuel reduction by fire!

The USFS, not the environmentalists, created this enormous fuel build-up through improper forest management with its unscientific policies. Environmentalists want resilient forests and even silviculturists know old-growth forests are the most resilient—living through hundreds of years of fires.

Dave Garcia Oroville

Speak of the devil It hasn’t taken long for another example of environmental groups thumbing their noses at our current smoke-induced health crisis to 6

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A culture and society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Few are more vulnerable than the homeless.

—christy marx

surface. It was on Aug. 16, 2018, that I penned a CN&R guest comment detailing the litigation of U.S. Forest Service fuel reduction projects by environmental groups, which stalls or stops these projects, contributing to the fuel overload in the woods.

These fuels are stored carbon that are converted to carbon dioxide by wildfire, contributing to global warming.

On Aug. 27, in front page news, Paul Rogers of the Bay Area News Group reported that Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing changes to the State Forest Practice Act, which oversees fuel removal on state and private ground. Brown’s changes would make it easier to remove fuel from the woods, which would make it easier “to thin more forests across the state.”

Of course, Brown’s proposal is being opposed “by more than a dozen environmental groups,” including the usual suspects: the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Coast Action Group, and others.

Please don’t support these environmental groups and maybe we can start reducing the global warming effects from wildfires.

Bill Smith Chico

Humane responses Re “Déjà vu” (Second & Flume,

by Melissa Daugherty, Aug. 30): I agree with everything you wrote. I was homeless myself for just over two years, though I was homeless in Southern California, specifically San Diego County. I rotated among several cities depending on the weather.

Most of the police officers ignored the homeless unless they were causing a problem such as forceful begging, refusing to leave when asked to leave or going to the bathroom in sight of the public.

Solving the “problem” of homelessness will involve many things, some beyond the reach of Chico.

But a big first step for those who are not homeless is for them to remember that the majority of the homeless are not homeless by choice and try to be invisible. A small percentage of “the homeless” cause the majority of the problems.

A day center is a good idea, as is a place to store things as well as take a shower and wash clothes. If people don’t want the City Plaza taken over by the homeless, give them somewhere more advantageous for them to be.

In closing, there has always been homelessness and will probably always be homelessness; society needs to decide if it will continue to ignore the problem or deal with it in a humane manner.

George Williams Chico

It takes a village I support a tiny house project for Chico homeless people, along the lines that have proven successful in Oregon. Tiny houses can be part of a mosaic of approaches to problems that will increase if ignored. As a city we can tap into volunteerism and existing skills to move in a positive direction.

Dolores Mitchell Chico

A culture and society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. Few are more vulnerable than the homeless. Helping someone climb out of the abyss of homelessness requires more than compassion.

It requires help and resources from society, but most of all it requires getting people into housing.

Tiny houses have proven to be one of the best solutions. They’ve been built in towns and cities across the United States with excellent results. Wiser minds than mine have proven that having people in housing reduces the overall cost to taxpayers with improved health (so less emergency services) and by providing the stability that may allow

someone to get and hold a job.

The current proposal for Simplicity Village would be of tremendous benefit to Chico, both to the homeless and to the residents.

If Chico City Council will declare a shelter crisis, these mini-communities could be built before winter arrives. Would you want to be living on the street in winter? This is a chance to show that we’re a society that values human life.

Ask the council to implement the Simplicity Village proposal.

Christy Marx Paradise

On congressional voting The Democratic Party is broken. The Republican Party is more broken.

And so Congress is broken, too.

Are you an independent?

Are you an independent-minded Republican? Or an independentminded Democrat? At Independent Like the North State, liberals think we’re conservative and conservatives think we’re liberal. We must be doing something right.

We put country over party. We’re betting you do, too.

We need to restore morality to our government. Congress and the White House have forgotten their integrity of a generation ago. They’ve lost sight of moral, compassionate, cooperative leadership.

Republicans of good conscience have been left out in the cold in today’s extreme political climate.

What’s a moderate Republican to do?

We’re glad you asked.

Independent Like the North State members voted overwhelmingly to endorse Audrey Denney for Congress in the North State. “Your political party shouldn’t matter so much. Vote for the person,” Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, said. We agree. Vote for the person.

That person is Audrey Denney.

Audrey Denney will protect our American freedoms and bring a dose of old-fashioned North State common sense to Washington, D.C. Vote Audrey Denney for Congress.

Chris Verrill Redding

Audrey Denney? Why should I vote for Audrey Denney? She’s a Democrat and it’s obvious that Democrat and Republican politicians are the same. Just look at their party platforms for God’s sake. We’re in this mess because of Congress. Unless I heard

wrong, committee heads (the real Congress people in power) are chosen by a Good Ole’ Boys Club.

Yep. It’s who you know. Our vote really means nothing.

Chris Durniak Chico

On Trump and LaMalfa As I write this on the eve of 9/11, it’s day 600 of the Trump administration, with its related 30-something indictments, guilty pleas, plea deals, jail sentences, guilty verdicts, another upcoming trial, and perhaps more.

Meanwhile, Trump (I call him Igor) is busy tweeting about books and op-eds, attacking authors and journalists, while a hurricane is three days away from hitting the East Coast of America. These are states that voted for Igor. I certainly hope he’s that focused (ha ha) about the disaster that’s about to hit. Or maybe, when it’s over, he’ll go down there and toss some rolls of paper towels and say what a great job he’s doing.

Our Republican House of Representatives, which includes our current guy, uh, what’s his name, has the authority to begin helping those who will soon be in need. Oh, a year after Puerto Rico was hit much of its infrastructure is still in need of repair, including basic electricity. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth—OK, I know they’re sorta brown-skinned, but as of 2010, the Veterans Administration listed 116,029 Puerto Rican vets.

More than 1,225 have died while serving. Step up, congressman.

Ed Pitman Chico

Correction Last week’s cover story (see “Ambush on Mangrove,” by Ken Smith) incorrectly reported that the garage where Kenneth Ray Davis worked was attached to the Hotel Oaks, then located on Second Street. Based on further research, we’ve learned that the Oaks Garage, located elsewhere on Second Street, was unaffiliated with the hotel. The story has been corrected online. —ed.

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The best story I have about it is on my in-laws’ houseboat on Lake Oroville. It’s been the go-to beer every summer on that houseboat since they came out with it.

Dwight Aitkens account manager

My favorite beer is Sierra Nevada Summerfest, because of memories camping in the North Pacific redwoods.

Summerfest was the main part of those trips.

Brooke Sears teacher

Probably Blue Moon, because I like the orange flavor in it. I’ve been drinking it since I was 22 years old.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE CONGRESS HOPEFULS FACE OFF

As the Congressional District 1 race heats up in advance of the Nov. 6 election, incumbent Rep. Doug LaMalfa and candidate Audrey Denney will square off in two public forums, hosted by local chapters of the League of Women Voters.

The first takes place Sunday (Sept. 16), 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Anderson New Tech Senior High School, 2098 North St., in Anderson.

The second forum will happen Monday (Sept. 17), 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Graeagle Fire Hall, 7620 Highway 89, in Graeagle.

Butte County’s LWV attempted to set up a local congressional forum, but LaMalfa was unable to attend. However, Denney announced on her Facebook campaign page that her team will have a videographer on-site and share entire recordings of the forums online afterward.

For the kids

APB ON BEAR IN CHICO

A black bear kept law enforcement officers occupied for nearly six hours early Sunday morning (Sept. 9) after finding its way to the Lowe’s parking lot in Chico.

According to a Chico Police Department news release, officers responded to a 911 call shortly after midnight from a motorist who saw the bear in the roadway, near Notre Dame Boulevard and Forest Avenue. Apparently frightened by the citizen’s car, it ran through the lot to the adjacent tire center and climbed a large Sycamore, where it remained after police arrived two minutes later.

Officers called in California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials, who took over the scene. Around 5:30 a.m., the bear left the tree and led DFW officers on a chase across Notre Dame, through a field and over Bruce Road before continuing east, out of sight.

STATE FORGIVES DEBT

Local cities have received a reprieve from California Controller Betty Yee, whose office decided to cancel looming repayments.

Over the past decade, Butte County has overpaid its municipalities to the tune of $6.4 million in vehicle licensing fees (see “Unexpected debt,” Newslines, Jan. 4). Chico’s chunk of the debt totaled just less than $2 million.

Scott Dowell (pictured), the city’s administrative services director, said repaying that amount was “really going to be a hardship.”

Since an original audit came back with a clean report, ultimately the state Controller’s Office waived the repayment.

Chico had originally planned to pay back $400,000 this year. The City Council will decide how to redirect those funds.

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Funding to buoy programs for local homeless children dependent on upcoming City Council decision

AShelter every morning at 7:30, she gets a lot of exercise pushing her 4-month-old fter Sarah leaves the Torres Community

son in his stroller, searching for a place to call home.

She tries not to get discouraged when all story and photo by she finds are places that Ashiah are too expensive for her Scharaga blended family, which includes her boyfriend as h i a h s @ n ew srev i ew. c o m and their four other children. She often ends up at Community Park Upcoming on Dr. Martin Luther meetings: King Jr. Parkway. Then Weigh in on potential it’s back to the shelter shelter crisis at 4:30 p.m., where she declarations for Butte County and Chico, stays in a family room respectively, during the with a baby bath, crib next Board of and swing, privacy curSupervisors meeting, tain and two bunk beds.

Sept. 25, and the next City Council “I’m glad he’s too meeting, Oct. 2 young to know what’s going on,” she told the CN&R as her son sucked on her thumb and looked around a Torres Shelter conference room with wide blue eyes.

Sarah, who asked to remain anonymous, misses her other children. Her 8- and

9-year-old are living with family members.

They stayed at the Torres Shelter with her for a bit, but “it was very hard for them.”

They faced challenges every day, from getting to and from school to being able to focus enough to do their homework.

“They had a tough time. They wanted a home.”

Sarah’s family situation isn’t uncommon. There were at least 553 homeless children enrolled in the Chico Unified School District last school year, and 1,382 countywide, according to data from the Butte County Office of Education. CUSD alone serves 12,201 students at 21 campuses, meaning a minimum of 4.5 percent of its population is homeless. According to kidsdata.org, the state average is 4.4 percent.

The data reflects an increase since the 2015-16 academic year, when there were 515 homeless students reported in Chico, and 1,333 countywide.

CUSD provides case managers at every school site, transportation assistance, free meals and immediate enrollment for homeless children, but there’s an interest in doing more. That’s why the district has been paying attention to the city’s conversation about declaring a shelter crisis. If the City Council does so, CUSD would be able to apply for funding to help more homeless

students. (There could be $4.9 million available for service providers countywide.)

Meagan Meloy, director of BCOE School Ties & Prevention Services, said she suspects the data is a “massive undercount” for many reasons: individual school reporting varies year to year based on current employees (what they notice/have time for); data collection methods are inconsistent; and there are school culture and societal stigmas.

Meloy has worked for the department— which provides mentoring, tutoring, school supplies and other assistance for homeless and foster youth—for 15 years. She said the state housing crisis and the county’s high poverty rate have caused more and more families to become homeless, even if the full scope of the problem isn’t represented in the data.

“We’ve got almost 1,500 students in our county who don’t know where they’re going to sleep from night to night,” she said, “… and they’re showing up at school every day. That shows so much resilience and perseverance.”

Like Sarah’s two older kids, many homeless students live with relatives, or couch-surf. The number of families seeking respite at the Torres Shelter also has increased. Ten years ago, only one family

Torres Community Shelter Executive Director Joy Amaro said the nonprofit’s children’s play area was completed this spring.

was staying at the shelter. Last year, it served 20 families on average, monthly.

To address the state’s homeless crisis,

Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on Senate Bill 850 this past June, earmarking $500 million in one-time funds for local jurisdictions based on Point-in-Time census counts.

Butte County’s share pencils out to just under $4.9 million. To access that money, municipalities have to declare a shelter crisis—so far, the Oroville City Council is the only one to do so. The Butte County Board of Supervisors is set to tackle the topic on Sept. 25, while Chico’s council will consider a vote on the matter at its Oct. 2 meeting.

Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care Coordinator Jennifer Griggs said the funding has intentionally broad parameters to help communities address their specific needs. Possible uses break down into two categories: capital improvements, such as housing (tiny homes or otherwise) and public toilets/showers; and services, such as street outreach and rental assistance.

Griggs pointed to some popular ideas brought forward in community meetings—a detox/sobriety center, mobile medical unit, respite houses and an incentive program for landlords to rent to homeless folks.

Simplicity Village, a proposed tiny home development, also has generated a great deal of buzz. (See “Creating community,” Newslines, Aug. 2.)

A minimum of 5 percent, about $245,000, of the grant funding is required to go to unaccompanied homeless youth or youth at risk of homelessness.

CUSD board member Eileen Robinson has been watching the shelter crisis discussions with an interest in how the school district might be able to apply for funding. She, too, sees the problem as bigger than data might suggest.

“Our families hide because of the stigma, and a lot of them don’t reach out soon enough because of the stigma,” she said. “It makes my heart hurt. … I want to see us embrace the reality of our world.”

Joy Amaro, executive director of the Torres Shelter, sees a shelter crisis declaration as having the potential to bring forth positive change countywide.

“I see everyone stepping up to the plate,” she said. “This is an opportunity we’ve all been waiting for to make that true change happen.” Ω

Bidwells and church bells Chico’s Presbyterian community celebrates 150 years Among his co-workers and fellow congregants

at Bidwell Presbyterian Church, Robert Engstrom is sometimes referred to as the “minister of the custodial arts.” It may seem like a grandiose nickname for the church’s head handyman, but it’s a deserving one, considering the daily challenges he faces to maintain the safety, function and aesthetic integrity of a heavily trafficked historic building.

Engstrom’s to-do list Monday morning (Sept. 10) included changing some light bulbs and fixing a lock—simple-sounding tasks until you realize the bulbs hang in a chandelier suspended from the sanctuary’s ceiling some 20 feet above the pews, and the lock is a century-old mechanism he “had to do some surgery on” to return to working order.

“Just finding parts to repair things here is difficult, and if we can’t find them we have to fabricate them,” he said. There’s some peril involved as well, like when his duties last directed him to the top of the church’s towering belfry.

“Most of the old wooden ladders going up there have been replaced over the years with fiberglass ones, but the one at the very top wasn’t,” he said. “That ladder was over 100 years old, made of wood, and I’m a big guy … it wasn’t easy.”

SIFT ER Beer buzz There’s no better time to be a craft beer lover in the Golden State.

California has more specialty breweries than any other state, with more than 800 in operation. To put that in perspective, 91.4 percent of Californians live within 10 miles of a brewery. Here are some more stats to ponder while sipping a cold one: • Craft beers now account for more than 23 percent ($26 billion) of the $111.4 billion U.S. beer market. About $7.3 billion of that is generated

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Above: The iconic Bidwell Presbyterian Church was built in 1910, but the congregation’s local history goes back much further.

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Church business administrator Lisa Stone stands next to the Bidwell Memorial Window, which graced the original Presbyterian church downtown and survived a fire in 1931.

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The iconic brick-faced church adjacent to

Chico State was originally constructed in 1910, and was largely remodeled following an arson fire in February 1931.

Chico’s Presbyterian community has been around much longer, however, and Bidwell Presbyterian Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a series of events that began in late August and will continue through September.

“When we say ‘church,’ some people just

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think of the building, but we mean people,” explained Lisa Stone, who’s served as the congregation’s business administrator since 2006. The church started in 1868—the year Annie and John Bidwell were married—and, like much of the city’s early history, was directly tied to the couple.

Stone related some of the church’s past, and a more in-depth presentation by local historian David Nopel (which also included a prerecorded interview with Marge Maddux, a Chicoan in her 90s) kicked off the church’s sesquicentennial celebration events Aug. 29.

Annie was a devout Presbyterian, and her beliefs played a major role in the couple’s courtship. Stone paraphrased part of current head pastor Henry Hansen’s sermon last Sunday (Sept. 9), saying Annie purportedly told her suitor “his only major flaw was that he was a Methodist.” John converted shortly after, and Annie set about establishing the church upon her arrival in Chico from Washington, D.C. Just a few years later, in 1871, the congregation had grown large enough to build the Chico Presbyterian Church, which was located at the corner of Broadway and Fourth streets and could fit 300 people. Membership ballooned in the first decade of the 1900s as the Diamond Match Co. attracted more people to Chico, and in time the church needed a new home. John Bidwell died in 1900, and Annie sold the church its current property for a fraction of the market value.

A few relics from the long-gone house of worship in the heart of downtown can be found at the current church. Those include the low granite walls abutting the sidewalk on First Street in front of the building; the bell, which NEWSLINES C O N T I N U E D SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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still rings for Sunday services and weddings and dates back to 1874; and the Bidwell Memorial Window.

The latter, a large stained-glass piece installed at the earlier church in 1901, a year after John Bidwell’s death, also survived the devastating 1931 blaze that claimed much of the later church’s original interior.

Stone characterizes Annie Bidwell as

a kind-hearted woman driven by her faith and a passion for educating and helping people. She emphasized Annie’s good works, though she acknowledged that some of her missionary efforts—particularly with local native peoples—were misguided by modern standards.

“We have a lot more sensitivity to peoples’ ways of life now than some people did back then,” she said.

Comparing the church’s history to its present incarnation, Stone said Annie’s desire to have the Read the report: Bidwell Presbyterian church extend Church (208 W. First beyond its St.) is offering selfhistoric walls guided history walks remains central from Sept. 16-30, and a to its modguided walk by historian ern mission.

David Nopel on “We’re not Sept. 23. A video of really all about Nopel and long-time Chicoan Marge Madus, we’re here dux’s presentation for the entire about the church’s community, history is available on and to support BPC’s Facebook page. those in need,” For more information about the church, go to she said, notbidwellpres.org. ing Bidwell Presbyterian has volunteer programs benefiting the Jesus Center, Torres Community Shelter, Citrus Elementary School and other organizations.

As for changes since the Bidwell era, Stone joked that Annie would be shocked by how technology like cameras, lighting and sound equipment have been incorporated into the building’s design (the church live-streams its services on Facebook and its website). She also said the church was very traditional in Annie’s day, but now includes three widely different services— traditional, contemporary and one geared toward younger, hipper Christians held in the old Masonic building at 131 W. First St. “I think if Annie walked in here right now,” Stone said with a laugh, “her jaw would probably drop to the floor the second she saw those bongos on stage.”

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the face by a .45-caliber Glock in October 2013; a 13-year-old gunned down on the streets of Stockton with a .40-caliber Beretta in February 2015; a young woman killed on San Francisco’s Fishermen’s Wharf by a .40-caliber Sig Sauer in the summer of 2015; a 23-year-old executed by a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson on a Bay Area street in August 2017.

These crimes had a common denominator: They were committed with stolen firearms—weapons that later had to be traced.

With 1,273 gun murders in California last year, detectives continue to rely on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ advanced tracing center, both for solving cases and finding patterns that reveal corrupt gun dealers and shadowy traffickers. But the ATF’s ability to trace crime guns is only as effective as the volume of data its technicians have access to.

That’s why a Hayward lawmaker has been determined to give them more tools for tracing guns on the streets. The California Legistlature has voted to support him in that mission.

A recent case in Los Angeles

County illustrates how the ATF’s National Tracing Center helps investigators intervene in gang warfare and underground gun sales.

On Nov. 5, 2016, prosecutors say a group of gang members shot up the parking lot of a Pasadena restaurant following a high school football game, wounding an innocent bystander.

Pasadena police identified four suspects and discovered they were already on the ATF’s radar.

Its agents had recently purchased rifles from them in an undercover operation in San Bernardino.

Two weeks later, San Bernardino police spotted one of the suspects in a car and engaged in a highspeed pursuit, during which the suspect and his passenger reportedly threw two 9mm pistols from their windows.

The ATF’s gun-tracing center was able to determine the rifles earlier sold to its agents, and the pistols hastily tossed from the sedan, had all been stolen during home burglaries in the weeks leading up to the violence.

Ultimately, five alleged gang members pleaded guilty to various gun charges.

“What tracing does is show

relationships,” said Graham Barlowe, the resident agent in charge of Sacramento’s ATF office. “We’ve broken up a number of gun-trafficking rings in Oakland, and tracing was sort of the linchpin of those investigations.”

In an era of algorithms and

A.I., gun-tracing is a surprisingly human endeavor: Whenever detectives recover guns that might have been used in a crime, they have the option of attempting to track their history through the ATF. Technicians working at the National Tracing Center will first use the gun’s make, model and serial number to determine where it rolled off the factory floor.

Contacting the manufacturer, a technician will then follow the gun to whichever wholesaler had it first. Using the wholesaler’s records, they’ll next contact the retailer who ordered it. That’s how the first member of the public to buy the firearm comes to light. At that point, technicians work with ATF field agents to start knocking on doors, following the gun’s chain of custody.

“There have been times when we’ve been able to trace three or

CLIMATE ACTION Susan Tchudi represents for Chico at the Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice march last Saturday (Sept. 8) in San Francisco.

She was among a contingent of more than 50 locals. Organizers estimated attendance at 30,000—among a quartermillion who participated in more than 900 actions held concurrently in 95 countries across seven continents. Their protests, ahead of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s global climate summit in San Francisco this week (Sept. 12-14), pushed for ending fossilfuel dependence and for economic equity. (See “On the march,” Greenways, Aug. 30.)

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four transactions after the initial point of sale,” Barlowe said, “and actually put that gun at a crime scene.”

According to a recent ATF report, technicians initiated 41,527 gun-tracing investigations in California last year, with Sacramento having the second highest number of traces for any city—2,010—coming in only behind Los Angeles.

But gun control reformers argue that the ATF could assist in solving more crimes if its database had more records from the Golden State. Under current California law, only police and sheriffs’ departments are required to gather information from lost, stolen and crime-associated gun reports that they take and then enter into state-federal data systems, said Assemblyman Bill Quirk. The California Highway Patrol, along with parole agents, probation agents and wildlife wardens, are not. Neither are college or university police departments. Quirk recently introduced Assembly Bill 2222, which would require all California peace officers to log that information into the appropriate systems within seven days.

The bill, which is sponsored by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, sailed through both the state Assembly and Senate public safety committees and then garnered a 79-0 “yes” vote on the Assembly floor, followed by a 39-0 vote in the Senate. It landed on the governor’s desk Monday (Sept. 10).

“The governor’s always a wild card,” said Amanda Wilcox, president of the California chapter of the Brady Campaign. “But this is important to us. Pushing for more gun-tracing is one of Brady’s key programs—it’s our ‘bad apple dealer’ campaign—and we’re pushing it because we really care about disrupting the flow of illegal guns that are flooding our urban streets and causing so much harm. We need to know where those guns are coming from.”

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HEALTHLINES Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, spoke in Chico about the state insurance exchange and the Affordable Care Act in 2015.

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Californians under 65 now [have] MediCal—and the employer tax benefit, it’s a lot. …

The thing that we do spend [more on] compared to other nations is administration; it’s about 8 percent of our spending, compared to 3 percent. That’s a lot, but that difference between 3 and 8 percent doesn’t account for our health-care costs being double…

The bigger issue is we pay more for everything … and so the challenge we have is we need to, number one, make sure people aren’t getting unnecessary care.

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A Network in the 1980s, Peter Lee helped s program director of the National AIDS

organize protests outside the While House, as then-President Ronald Reagan refused to confront the epidemic. Lee’s main focus at the time was getting access to health care for the hundreds of thousands of Americans affected by the epidemic.

Three decades later, Lee found himself visiting the White House again, while working for President Barack Obama as the deputy director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

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Covered California’s executive director, Lee remains committed to the cause of healthcare access—and his main adversary is again the man in the White House.

CN&R publisher and CEO Jeff vonKaenel visited Lee at his Sacramento office recently to discuss the Affordable Care Act, skyrocketing costs and California’s role in the future of health care.

Since Donald Trump took office, it seems like every day there’s a new issue, a new conflict in relation to Covered California and the Affordable Care Act. What is keeping you up at night about these issues?

Well, the thing I’d start with is the reminder of where we are not. President Trump ran on a platform that included “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. And it’s so important that we are light-years away from that. …

But I will talk about what I call “the nip-

ping at the heels.” One fundamental element of the ACA relates to the restructuring of the insurance system. However, the [federal] tax act of last year did away with the ACA’s mandate.

That will mean two things: that there will be hundreds of thousands of Californians [who] are uninsured because they think it’s smarter to roll the dice on not having coverage, and that premiums will go up for everyone else. So that, in essence, all Californians, including those with employer-based coverage, are gonna pay more.

There’s been discussion about restructuring health-care insurance, either with single-payer or a public option. What are your thoughts on those?

I’m very much a focused-on-the-hereand-now kind of guy. We have with the Affordable Care Act, the tools, if we keep making it work, to be very, very close to universal coverage. To my mind, what we should be trying to do is get everybody coverage, spend less money on administrative waste and spend more money effectively on people getting the right care at the right time. And whether you have a single-payer system or a very diverse system doesn’t say you necessarily get there.

The other thing to remember is that about 70 percent of health-care dollars are public dollars today. When you add up Medicare spending, Medi-Cal spending—one-third of

What do you think of the public option expansion and single payer?

In Covered California, we have 11 health plans that compete for enrollment. One of them is LA Care ... a publicly responsible entity. Our second largest plan in California is Blue Shield of California, which is a nonprofit.

So—what do we mean by a public option? From day one, we at Covered California wanted a range of choices. In Northern California, in the very beginning days, we approached CenCal [Health], which is a Medi-Cal plan, a public plan.

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to grow our Medi-Cal enrollment by threefold, and you want us to be distracted by this? Give me a break.” And so it wasn’t from lack of mission alignment, it’s bandwidth. So the issue of a public option, I’m really not sure what it means or how you structure it.

Let’s talk about affordability. You mentioned we’re paying twice the GDP for our health care, without any significant health improvements. So—it’s called the Affordable Care Act …

One of the really healthy things that has come up in the last five years, and I’ve actually seen some of your reporting on this, is a recognition that health isn’t just about the health-care system. It’s about communities, about social determinants, and those factors have a lot more in the long run to do about health and health-care costs than, “Can you do a good surgery?”

While we spend double what the rest of the developed world spends on health care, we spend half what the rest of the world spends on social policies that lead to better health. And this might be a homelessness program; this might be programs for women after giving birth to a baby, being able to stay out of work for longer.

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And the Affordable Care Act actually started down that path by having major funding for community preventive health. Those programs have been gutted.

If I made you our health-care czar and said, “OK, let’s improve health care but let’s cut out 3 percent of the GDP that we’re spending on it,” what would you do?

I would start by saying this czar wouldn’t have unrealistic ambitions. Which is, we ain’t going to cut 3 percent out of the GDP. Rather, I’d say, “Sorry, if you want a czar that can do that, that’s a czar that’s living in la-la land.”

What would I do to reduce cost growth? One, we should be looking at having caps on what some providers charge. What we’re paying is too much. Second, we do spend far too much on administration and having things like patient-centered benefits, not just in Covered California, but with large employers. So, I would look at administrative simplification. Ω

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W college studies on environmental conservation and protection, she found herself blazhen Mandi McKay decided to focus her

ing a new trail. Chico State had no degree in sustainability; she put together a “hodgepodge major” en route to graduating in 2008.

Concurrently, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. had few businesses to emulate in integrating green practices throughout its operations.

McKay came on board soon after graduation, assuming a “role that didn’t exist” until she filled it, sustainability coordinator. With the sustainability manager hired two years earlier, she helped transform the Chico brewer into an eco pioneer recognized industrywide.

“Sierra Nevada’s great in terms of their commitment to the environment and limiting their resource use,” said Chuck Skypeck, technical brewing products manager of the Brewers Association, a national trade organization based in Boulder, Colo.

One resource, in particular, receives careful scrutiny: water. That may seem evident, since water is the predominant component of beer, but breweries now place more emphasis than ever on its use up and down the supply chain, along the production line.

“We recognize that we are a very large water user in a state that’s been droughtstricken, even though we’re in a regional area that’s been more or less removed from the worst impacts,” McKay said. “It’s the same straw; we happen to be at the north end of the valley, our aquifer is recharged

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on a regular basis, and fortunately we had a reasonable amount of snowpack in the last couple years—but we saw it miss for two or three in a row.

“It is a very big concern,” she said.

“Everyone knows that if we continue to have these years where we’re not getting that snowpack or precipitation, there could be some very big impacts to us as a business and as a community. We feel lucky we haven’t been impacted yet, but it’s a very real possibility.”

Water worries are universal—from largescale producers to craft brewers. They look into the farming practices for ingredients such as hops and the milling of barley. They refine brewing techniques to reduce water ratios. They recapture and recycle for cleaning and irrigation, saving fresh water for their products.

“It’s often not one great big fix,” Skypeck said by phone. “It’s often paying attention to a lot of little things to reduce your water use.”

Small, cumulative changes add up in an industry that’s growing. According to the Brewers Association, the U.S. had 6,200 breweries operating at the end of 2017 and 6,665 as of June 30, both 5 percent increases from the previous year. The federal government has granted licenses to 2,500 under development.

California has more than 800 active breweries.

“I really think water is going to be more and more of a critical resource, and I think California has an opportunity to really be on the forefront of this [sustainability],” said Peter Kruger, master brewer at Bear

Republic Brewing Co. in Cloverdale. “It’s challenging for us, but I also think that because we’re a consumer-facing business, we have an opportunity to lead by example.”

Bear Republic has faced a water shortage head-on. In 2013, after the second successive dry winter, Cloverdale lacked the supply to meet minimum health and fire-suppression guidelines. The city—located by the Russian River, in Sonoma County—capped Bear Republic’s allotment.

“That was kind of our real firsthand wake-up call in terms of the pinch on water,” Kruger said by phone.

The brewery advanced Cloverdale $467,000 in impact fees to fast-track a well project. Within a year, the city installed two wells and refurbished two others, doubling the capacity of the municipal water system.

In the interim, Kruger said, “we really learned to do more with less.” For instance, Bear Republic reduced its ratio—water used in its brewing compared to the final volume—from 4-to-1 to 3.25-to-1.

Skypeck cites Bear Republic as “an industry leader in terms of reducing their water use.”

Sierra Nevada’s ratio is higher, between 4.5- and 5-to-1, but McKay explained that breweries use different brewing techniques and varying methods to measure. For example, she accounts not just for water in the beer itself but throughout the brewery. Even so, Sierra Nevada has reduced its ratio by 25 percent since 2007, when it started tracking.

“We continue to become more efficient the more we grow,” McKay said.

Industry giants, such as Anheuser-Busch

and Molson Coors, have ratios around 2.5-to-1.

“The bigger brewers kind of lead the way,” she added. “The bigger you get, the more efficient you can be…. They’ve being doing it forever, they’re doing it on a much larger level, and they get to make investments into equipment and [technologies].”

Sierra Nevada has invested in agricultural research, funded by Brewers Association grants. Skypeck said the company contributes to a grant program that his organization uses to foster scientific study of hops and barley. The goal is to naturally breed varieties that thrive with less irrigation.

The association started awarding grants in 2014. Farmers and brewers may not see results for another half-decade, Skypeck said. In the meantime, his group and breweries collaborate with suppliers on water-wise farming ideas.

“We have always wanted to foster relationships with farmers who are doing things we would do on our own hops fields here at the brewery or our restaurant garden,” McKay said. “There’s this preference, and kind of pressure to do those things—and we request those things of our suppliers. But we’ve not required anything.

“The focus has very much been internal.

For Ken [Grossman, Sierra Nevada’s owner and founder], water has always been a really big issue, and he’s constantly pushing that bar lower and lower…. I would like to see us do more of that [externally].” Ω

ECO EVENT Biodiversity exemplified Avid gardener and permaculture expert Carla Resnick has created a slice of agricultural heaven on the edge of town, transforming her half-acre yard into a biologically diverse plot over the past 10 years. Resnick (pictured) added hundreds of plants—more than 50 species—in multiple layers, with bird, bee and butterfly forage, which has drawn a wide variety of creatures to the yard. Monday (Sept. 17) at 6:30 p.m. at the Chico Creek Nature Center, she’ll share her observations, photos of the transformation, stories of bird and animal visits and her philosophy on plant selection and placement.

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Plaques and memorabilia line the wall above the high, dark wainscoting, and several tables fill the room near the warm and richly colored bar. But this is not just a pub, it’s also a brewery.

Nor Cal Brewing Co. is the latest addition to what owner Jim Hardesty is calling the “fermentation district” in south Chico.

Nine taps line the back wall, and behind it all you can see glimpses of the equipment used to make the beer. Hardesty, who’s lived in Chico for 20 years, has been making beer since 1981, when some friends gave him a homebrew kit for his 20th birthday and challenged him to start his own brewery. Eight years later, Hardesty quit his day job and started working in the microbrew industry; he worked his way up to become a successful consultant helping small beer companies optimize and maximize their beer-making operations. In July, he opened the Nor Cal tasting room at 180 Erma Court, Ste. 100. Check out norcalbc.com for hours and other info.

Tell me about Nor Cal Brewing.

We do all the beer-making here.

We have a small brewhouse and a little bit of capacity, but it’s all geared for this pub here, the tasting room and the tap room.

So, having people come in here and have a pint of beer, that’s what we’re focused on right now.

We’re part of a neat neighbor-

hood we’re hoping people are going to want to come to and kind of check us all out.

Is this actually a bar?

Yeah. That’s exactly what it is.

I think you’re going to see a lot of this type of stuff happening ... a lot people are very comfortable coming into this warehouse, industrial kind of [area]. More and more little breweries are doing this kind of thing.

What can you tell me about your beer?

We offer a range of beers that are all small-batch … we have from wheat to pale blond ale, brown ale, porter. What makes these unique? I think it’s just my experience, the amount of experience that I’ve actually had in the industry and kind of understanding and honing on and working on some of these

recipes for so long, that they are really good and solid. Some of them I’ve had in the arsenal for 25 years and cannot make them any better, I believe.

How do you feel about being a part of this growing area?

The fermentation district is really supportive of everything going on here. We’re trying to drive people down to our area, and I think that’s the most important thing I can say, is just come down and check out the area and share everything that’s down here—not just me, but all of us—because there’s a lot of businesses in here that I think people are gonna want to check out and move around a little bit and maybe do a little loop and visit us all because we’re here and we’re close.

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My boyfriend jokes that he comes third on my list of loves—behind Oliver, the best little Boston terrier on Earth, and cheese. Of course, if push came to shove, I’d give up cheese for him. But the withdrawls would be rough. Beer is a little lower on my list, but I do enjoy a good cold one. So, in honor of Chico Beer Week, I set out to taste some local brews—and meet one of the newcomers on the scene—and make some beer cheese, because, well, why not?

I’d met Steve Kay, president and brewmaster at British Bulldog Brewery, a few times at tap takeover events—first at Miner’s Alley in Oroville and again just last week at the Oasis Bar & Grill in Chico. Both times turned into great fun. So, I was excited to head out to his brewery at the north end of town last Saturday (Sept. 8).

I’d been invited to the growler-tap party by Dann Trammel, an Orland native who’s teamed up with British Bulldog to spearhead its “American branch” with Specialist Brewing Co. An Army vet, he’s going with the military theme British Bulldog is known for—beers have names like Black Hops and MOAB (Mother of all Beers). My favorite that night was Bearded Bastard, a Specialist double IPA, but all the brews on offer were fantastic. Try ’em out for yourself—see the Beer Week calendar on page 20, or go to britishbulldogbrewery.com for a list of events.

SAY, “BEER CHEESE!” Boyd Atkin has been cooking for as long as he can remember—he has seven kids, after all. About a decade ago, he decided to make a career of it, opening Chico Catering Co. He jokingly refers to it as his “fifth career.”

A few years ago, he and his wife, Vicki, opened Foodie Cafe by the Chico Municipal Airport and they haven’t looked back. Atkin invited me into his kitchen to make his well-loved beer cheese, in which he uses British Bulldog’s Freedom Scottish ale.

“I really like using local ingredients,” he told me of his choice of beer. “And British Bulldog makes a really good dark Scottish ale.” He even shared the recipe:

Foodie Cafe beer cheese Ingredients: 12 oz. sharp cheddar 2 tablespoons corn starch 1 cup half-and-half

12-16 oz. beer 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon hot sauce 1 teaspoon salt

In a large bowl, mix shredded cheddar with corn starch (which will act as a thickening agent). In a pot on the stove, heat half-and-half, Dijon and beer to a slow boil. Add Worcestershire and hot sauce (not Tabasco) and salt. When it’s barely at a boil, add in cheese a bit at a time until incorporated. Stir frequently.

So, make your own or just head on over to Foodie Cafe (999 Marauder St.) to try theirs. For Beer Week, Atkin will be creating some special beer milkshakes and floats, too!

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But that’s not what’s happening in the commercial/ manufacturing zone at the south end of Park Avenue in Chico. The “fermentation” brand is what some of the various alcohol-centric businesses that have recently moved into the Meyers/Ivy street area would prefer their fun, new district be called.

ISSUE However, there are other options floating around the local vernacular: the (too broad) “Beverage District” and the (perhaps too Chico) “Booze District.” Ultimately, Chicoans are going to decide for themselves how the area is known, and in the city with The Bear, The Goose and Chico Natty, we think we know how this is going to play out.

The good thing is that, despite any potential fears of rowdiness associated with the word “booze,” the district that’s been created by two breweries, two cideries, a tap house and a distillery moving into warehouses and refurbished eyesores off Park Avenue over the last couple of years is pretty darn chill.

First of all, it’s far removed from Chico’s downtown party core. Second, Jagerbombs and Coors Light are not on tap.

Secret Trail and Nor Cal brew their own beer, Lassen and Cellar Door make their own cider, Hooker Oak distills its own rum, and The Commons features some of the finest craft beer, cider and wine around. No drink specials down here. Third, given the preceding, the crowd is much more diverse. Sure, the townies, beer geeks and hipsters are migrating from downtown, but Chicoans of all ages and social circles also are heading south to take advantage of less-crowded streets for date night.

The initial appeal of locating a business that brews alcohol in a light manufacturing area is, of course, the pre-existence of large warehouses and appropriate zoning; plus, as city of Chico senior planner Mike Sawley says, there’s also the draw of cheaper leases. Sawley also suggested that the industrial aesthetic is part of the appeal.

“People have shown a tolerance over the years to the look of manufacturing buildings,” he said, adding that the raw and gritty elements are in line with what’s in style.

And it is a fun and hip scene, a semi-hidden little community of high-quality adult beverages and—in perfect symbiosis— high-quality food served by a rotating menu of street vendors that set up shop in parking lots.

With all this in mind, a rag-tag crew of CN&R staff, contributors and party friends made a few recent forays into the new happy-fun-time-awesome district (that better?) to map out the following booze crawl in time for Chico Beer Week.

(Note: We did not include Eckert Malting & Brewing, maker of gluten-free rice beers, or HoneyRun Winery, Chico’s longrunning honey-wine makers, because they don’t have tasting hours—though you can and should call 345-6405 and arrange to stop by HoneyRun, at 2309 Park Ave., for samples during business hours.)

This map follows a logical path, but it requires you to ride your bike (or get dropped off by taxi or Uber) deep into the district and bike or walk your way out. Also, in order to include the cideries, you have to start your crawl on a Saturday afternoon since both tasting rooms are open only on Saturdays. We highly recommend planning for lunch or dinner at one of the food trucks along the route.

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Mapping out Chico’s new beverage, fermentation, booze district Nor Cal Brewing Co. 180 Erma Court, Ste. 100, 592-3845 Hours: Wed.-Thurs., 3-9 p.m.; Thurs., 3-10 p.m.; Sat., noon-10 p.m.; 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

To get to Nor Cal Brewing Co., turn right into the first driveway after Aircraft Extrusion. You know, it’s right there, across

The door’s wide open at Nor Cal Brewing.

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It’s no wonder there are no fewer than three signs with red arrows along the roads leading to Chico’s newest brewery [see “15 Minutes,” page 15]. The location is not only far removed from the city’s usual food/beverage zones, it’s tucked away in a deep pocket of the warehousepacked area at the south end of Park Avenue into which most Chicoans have likely never ventured.

But as you round the corner into the parking lot, the big red star of the Nor Cal logo comes into view, and with the roll-up door all the way open, the airy indoor/outdoor taproom appears as a most-inviting oasis among the warehouses.

Owner/brewer Jim Hardesty opened Nor Cal’s tasting room in July, a year after starting his brewing operation, and it joins Secret Trail as the second brewery/taproom in the neighborhood. Like its counterpart, it gives off that casual, roughly finished industrial vibe. The warehouse isn’t terribly big, but space is well-planned, with an open layout in its front seating area that benefits greatly from the natural light and outdoor air thanks to the open warehouse door. In addition to the bar stools and high tables, there’s a long stand-up counter along one wall that extends all the way to the back of the space, where the compact brewing setup is perched on a raised platform and where another roll-up door opens to a back patio that doubles as a parking spot for a rotating cast of food trucks that roll up at mealtime.

The small-batch brewery currently has nine taps (including one dedicated nitro handle), and on a recent visit by a bikeridin’ posse of CN&R brew explorers, seven were flowing, so we tried them all.

The range of styles for such a small operation was impressive. There were three varieties from the hoppy pale ale/ IPA spectrum: a high-alcohol, simply named IPA (8.4 percent ABV), the X Pale session blonde ale, and the star of the trio, Callahan’s Reserve, wonderfully balanced with a blend of three malts and tried-andtrue Pacific Northwest hops that makes for a clean yet subtly complex pale ale.

The rest of the menu included the Teacher’s Pet Porter, the easy-drinking Wheatwizer wheat beer, and the chocolaty Jim’s Brown brown ale, which came in both standard CO2 and nitro, the latter of which made it especially smooth and creamy.

Nor Cal might seem out of the way, but it’s really not hard to find. When you get there, you’ll feel like you’ve stumbled upon one of Chico’s hidden gems.

—JASON CASSIDY jaso nc @ newsr ev iew.c o m

Lassen Traditional Cidery owner/ cidermaker Ben Nielsen pours a sample in the tasting room.

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11 Commerce Court, Ste. 2, 200-6857 Tasting room hours: Saturdays, 2-6 p.m. (call to confirm)

Winter is coming. And in the realm of cidermakers, its arrival is not some nebulous point in the indeterminate future. Fall is nearly upon us, and with it comes a small window of time when the Northern California apple harvest hits and cideries must brew nonstop until the fruit runs out and the winds of winter blow in to end the season.

Cellar Door Cider owner/brewer Bryan Shaw opened his business in July, but the apple-processing and cider-making that went into his maiden brew, The White Raven (a nod to an episode of Game of Thrones), happened last fall. Like his neighbor around the block, Lassen Traditional Cidery, Shaw uses exclusively Northern California apples, so brewing happens only when the local apples are available. For The White Raven, he used Mutsus, Winesaps and Newtown Pippens, and the blend was aged in French oak barrels.

During a recent tasting with a small posse of eager CN&R writers in the stark Cellar Door tasting room, Shaw shared the dry, mildly earthy brew that brought to mind an open-fermented farmhouse-style beer. Very crisp and refreshing, yet deep in flavor.

Given the cycle of brewing, Cellar Door has only the one variety available now (find bottles at your favorite specialty grocery store), but Shaw has more on the way. In addition to the new brews that are about to be created, he has a couple waiting in barrels to be kegged—a hopinfused variety and one that’s been sitting with sweet orange peels. Both will be available at your local beer bar soon. Watch the skies—or visit his Facebook page— for a sign.

—JASON CASSIDY

Lassen Traditional Cidery 26 Bellarmine Court Tasting room hours: Saturdays, 2-7 p.m.

“The Lord is good to me/and so I thank the Lord/ for giving me the things I need/the sun and rain and an appleseed/Yes, He’s been good to me!” —Johnny Appleseed Those are words from the title character’s song in 1948 Disney animated short The Legend of Johnny Appleseed, sung as he skipped about early 19th century America in a tin pot cap, planting apple trees and praisin’ the Lord for life’s simple pleasures. As abysmal as Disney’s record of historical accuracy tends to be (see Pocahontas), the true story of John Chapman—aka Johnny Appleseed—is arguably stranger than Mickey Mouse’s wildest opium dreams (see Fantasia).

Chapman was a vegetarian Christian mystic who lived a monastic existence, traveling around the Western frontier (the modern Midwest) planting apple orchards.

He even wore the pot on his head, which might’ve been the 1800s equivalent of a lamp shade, because the dude liked to party!

And the seeds he

planted grew into sour-tasting apples not meant for eating. The varieties Chapman cultivated were meant to be harvested for alcoholic cider—which we can thus postulate is far more American than pie.

Ben Nielsen, owner of Chico’s Lassen Traditional Cidery, knows what Appleseed was really up to. He’s a well of cider knowledge, and he and fellow brewer Eric Pietrangelo were happy to share their passion for the fruit with the CN&R’s away team.

The cidery offers about a half-dozen different brews at a time, with the lineup changing as different varieties become available and as Nielsen experiments with new recipes. We sampled six: two singlevariety ciders, Winesap and Newtown Pippin; blends named Chico, Farmouse Dry and Green Johnny; and a pear-based concoction called Woodleaf Perry.

Each recipe was decidedly different, and detecting the nuances of each came easily even for someone like me—I’m far from a cider aficionado, but dig it on occasion. Of the ciders, the most distinct difference was between the one-apple and blended brews, which I can best compare to the difference between a single note and a chord. Everything is delicious, but the singular Newtown Pippin and Winesap were my personal favorite ciders—with the former having the driest finish of all, and the latter’s heirloom variety of apple bringing a tangy wine-like flavor to the cider. What really resonated with my taste buds, though, was the Woodleaf Perry.

I’ve had “pear cider” before, but all true ciders are apple-based while a perry is the pear equivalent—and this one was dry and fruity with a slight yeasty earthiness.

Nielsen said he also plans to brew a jerkum in the near future, which is to stone fruit what cider is to apples.

Nielsen came about his ciderpaedic knowledge the natural way. He began home-brewing in Oregon in 2005, where he hosted annual cider parties. He refined his recipes and decided to focus on cider full-time in 2015.

You can pick up bottles of Lassen’s cider at specialty grocery stores and bottle shops all over town and at the tasting room during open hours.

Also, this Sunday, Sept. 16, the cidery will be hosting an anniversary party—with tastings, food trucks and live music—to celebrate two years in business. Don’t forget your tin pot hat.

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Yes, it’s a very large horse with international prestige, but it was a lonely pasture for a town considered a beer destination. Riding into town, one expects a thriving craft beer scene bursting at the seams like similar cities. Bend, Ore., has 19 breweries, there are two dozen in Eugene and Sacramento has nearly 30. Yet, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. rode solo.

Part of the problem was a prohibitive city zoning code that did not allow taprooms to serve alcohol without also serving food. Secret Trail Brewing Co. to the rescue! After finding a suitable location for their business, co-owners Charlie and Michelle Barrett and Jesse Fischer helped get that code amended in the fall of 2017, which opened the door for new breweries to serve their beers while leaving the food preparation to Chico’s burgeoning food-truck scene.

Housed in an industrial warehouse off Park Avenue, Secret Trail opened last November with a focus on community, quality and living and drinking “off the beaten path.” Pulling into the parking lot, there’s not

much to look at, but Secret Trail has carved out a comfortable patio area with an inviting taproom. The brewery has a 15-barrel production capacity and has over a dozen beers on tap, with weekly limited releases from their experimental Explorer Series. The taproom also hosts live acts and has a steady rotation of food trucks serving up grub in the parking lot.

In the regular stable, Secret Trail offers a robust variety of beer appealing to a full spectrum of discerning palates. For IPA fans, the brewery makes three hopped-up, juicy beers: Hazy Trail, a Northeast IPA; the double-version Bout It! Bout It!; and Electric Oats, an American IPA with a nice malt counter to the typical West Coast bitterness. You’ll also find a robust imperial stout, a sour wheat, an English brown and two refreshing beers for hot summer days, the Delta Breeze kolsch and the Summer Gleam, a light session ale. After multiple visits, the Lights Out Baltic Porter remains a stand-out with a dark, complex flavor, although the barrel-aged vanilla version pushed too much sweetness.

The brewery is not yet bottling, but you can purchase growlers on-site to get your Secret Trail to go.

The taproom also serves flights and is generous with sample tastes. Servers and owners are all incredibly helpful and full of information to handle all of your beer-related questions. Tally-ho, Secret Trail.

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The Commons 2412 Park Ave., 774-2999 Hours: Tues.-Thurs., 2-10 p.m.; Fri., 2 p.m.-12 a.m.; Sat., noon-12 a.m.; Sun., noon-8 p.m.

If it weren’t for all you Barneys, we wouldn’t need no Moe the Bartenders.

The rest of us ain’t gonna walk around the bar and wrap our lips around the tap and drink until our hearts stop like we’re in some episode of The Simpsons.

The good news is that technology has caught up to our desire to help ourselves. At The Commons taproom, thanks to a wristband with a built in sensor, you get to be the bartender.

Hold it up to activate the tap of whatever style you’re interested in, pour as much as you want, and the price per ounce and amount dispensed shows on the screen, along with a description of what you’re drinking.

It’s a great setup, but not because you can party like Barney (you can’t—to keep your imbibing in check, you’re approved for only 32 ounces at a time when you pay up front). The beauty part is that you get to choose the amount of beer and taste as many varieties as you want before you settle on a fave. Or you can just keep sampling small amounts. You’re charged only for what you actually pour.

There are 24 rotating taps of beers and ciders. During a recent visit, the choices were broken down into nine “danky” beers (heavily hopped brews), six ciders/sour beers, and another nine beers of various styles (stout, kolsch, Belgian tripel, wheat, etc.). Plus, there are a few wine spouts as well. All of it accessible via your wristband.

It’s pretty cool. And the selections, especially the beers, are amazing. The nonpareil Berryessa Brewing Co. is regularly featured, as are local faves Sierra Nevada and Secret Trail.

However, as novel and engaging as it is being your personal bartender, once you take a step back from the taps and take a look around, you realize there’s a lot more to the place. The Commons opened in June, and the “Social Empourium” vision of owners Garth Archibald, Jesse Grigg and Byron Hetherton is something like the huge den of the coolest house on the block. There are two spacious rooms with sports on widescreen TVs mounted on the walls, out on the beautiful patio are picnic tables and a couple of cornhole games, and at night there’s a food truck in the parking lot and often a live band in the back room.

Moe’s Tavern this ain’t.

—JASON CASSIDY

At The Commons “Social Empourium,” you can bring your dinner—like this grub from the Drunken Dumpling food truck—inside.

Hooker Oak Distillery 2420 Park Ave., 809-0720 Tasting room hours: Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m.

Naturally, when most people think of rum, they think of Captain Morgan. Or maybe Capt. Jack Sparrow. Either way, it’s a pirate’s drink. And, fittingly, it plays by its own rules.

“A lot of people assume that because it’s rum it’s going to be sweet,” Dylan Rowe told the four of us lined up along the bar in the tasting room at Hooker Oak Distillery on a recent afternoon. The first taste was light rum, aged in French oak wine barrels, he told us, and its character is more like a whiskey than what most might think of when they think of rum.

Indeed, it was a full-flavored, hair-on-thechest-type drink.

Rum, it turns out, has one basic rule it must adhere to, according to federal government standards: It must begin with sugar cane. So while makers of rye whiskey are busy ensuring that their mash contains at least 51 percent rye and that, once fermented, it’s aged in charred new oak containers, the pirates of the drinking world have room to get creative.

For the folks behind Hooker Oak, J.T. Martin and Billy Ahumada, that meant concocting flavor combina-

tions. That’s what we tried next—Rowe poured us the apple pie rum first and, it was a contrast to the earlier, burlier taste.

Most people drink this one straight, Rowe told us, chilled or even warmed. It’s also great in a hot toddy or warm apple cider.

The third and final taster was pineapple-flavored rum. Extremely sweet on its own—the extra sweetness comes entirely from the pineapple, Rowe said— this one is better for mixing. Not one to just take a person’s word for it, I ordered the pineapple rum cocktail offered on the menu board, $5—or free if you buy a bottle. Delicious! I’ve tried others, too, at other events, and they have all been very tasty.

While Hooker Oak is less of a hangout spot than some of the others in the growing fermentation/beverage/booze district, it was among the first on the scene. The building it’s in was in shambles when Martin and Ahumada purchased it.

Contractors by trade, they fixed it up and built their still inside. This past summer, The Commons opened up next door and, in fact, when I was finished at Hooker Oak, I walked over there for a sip and some food from the Drunken Dumpling food truck in the parking lot. Distillery tours are available on Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment.

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Sac Town Smackdown

4pm Sac breweries highlighted at the “Social Empourium.”

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Miyagi/Fall River Collaboration

5pm BnB’s Miyagi Pocock and cohorts collaborated with Redding’s Fall River Brewing Co. for a special release.

Meet the brewer/owner, John Hutchings.

Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

THROUGHOUT BEER WEEK

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 A Visit from the Lion

Beers from the Cellar

All day Spike’s has been hoarding special goodies in the cellar and will be releasing them throughout Chico Beer Week.

Spike’s Bottle Shop, 1270 E. First Ave.

Cask Beer in the Pub

4pm Throughout Chico Beer Week, Sierra Nevada will unveil a new cask-conditioned treat at 4pm in the pub.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St.

Secret Trail Brewery Tours

3:30pm & 4:30pm Jake and Charlie will conduct free brewery tours every weekday (except Tuesday) during Chico Beer Week.

Secret Trail Brewing Company, 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120

Sierra Nevada Brewery Tours

Call to reserve time The brewery offers range of different tours, some complimentary some for a fee. Tours fill up fast.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., 899-4776

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 Secret Trail Tap Takeover

11am The Chico brewery takes over the taps for the day.

Hudson’s Gastropub, 2760 Esplanade, Ste. 100

Dionysus Tap Takeover

Noon The adventurous Bakersfield brewery known for its barrel-aged sours and wild ales takes over all day.

The Lab Bar & Grill, 250 Cohasset Road, Ste. 10 20

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San Diego Tap Takeover

2pm The Commons highlights San Diego breweries all day.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

SF Invasion

2pm Breweries from The City take over taps: Barebottle, Harmonic, Fort Point and Laughing Monk (Chico debut).

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Nor Cal Hazy Session IPA Release

3-9pm Release of a new session IPA in taproom, food truck on the back patio. Plus, raffle! Enter all week.

Nor Cal Brewing Co., 180 Erma Court, Ste. 100

Bikes and Beers

5pm New Belgium takes over the taps and Pullins Cyclery will tune up your bike.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

New Glory Tap Takeover

5pm Sac’s New Glory brings some special treats to the taps, including Infinite Void, multiple varieties of Wakey Wakey, Flippin’ Good and plenty of fun IPAs. Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

Dinner in the Garden at Sierra Nevada

6pm Five-course garden-to-table beer-pairing dinner under the summer-evening sky. $75.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St.

Hazy Little Thing & Swamp Zen

6pm Get hazy during the Thursday Night Market with Sierra Nevada’s Hazy Little Thing and live music by groovemasters Swamp Zen. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

Noon-6pm Firestone-Walker co-founder will be making the rounds at a bunch of local beer bars throughout day, tapping special releases (including barrel-aged goodies), signing bottles and more. Catch him at The Handle Bar (noon); The Lab (1:30pm); Burgers and Brew (3pm) and the Winchester Goose (4:30pm).

Multiple venues

Moksa Tap Takeover

Noon The Rocklin brewery takes over the taps.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Sacramento Saturday

Noon Specialty brews from New Glory, Track 7 and Device will be featured along with Urban Roots Brewing making its Chico Taproom debut.

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Lassen Tasting Room

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14

2-7pm Free tastings of Lassen’s lineup of ciders.

Lassen Traditional Cidery, 26 Bellarmine Court

Chico Brewery Showcase

Surprise Beer Tasting

Noon Steal the Pint, Chico edition. All local pours from Sierra Nevada, Secret Trail, British Bulldog and a special sneakpeek sampling from a new local on the horizon, Chico Creek Brewing Co. While supplies last.

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Pizza Port Tap Takeover & Tie Dye

2-6pm Create a one-of-a-kind Pizza Port shirt and enjoy an epic lineup from the So Cal brewery, including Barney

2-5pm Roll the dice and head to BevMo for a special, mysterious tasting. Only 5 cents!

BevMo, 1937 E. 20th St.

Nor Cal Brewing Trivia Night

4-8pm Trivia in the taproom. Call and reserve a spot.

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UIDE Oroville Fall Bar Crawl

4pm Special cocktails and beers at multiple stops in the Riverfront District, including: Copa de Oro, Butte County Wine Co., Nori Asian Grill, Miner’s Alley, The Exchange and Eagles FOE 196. $6-$30.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 Hawaii Brunch

11am Live island music plus Maui Brewing Co. brews on tap during Sunday brunch.

La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

Breakfast Beers Sunday

Noon Pair breakfast-inspired imperial stouts with free donuts (while supplies last).

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Sunday Fun-Day with the Beaches Noon Beach-area breweries take over the taps all day.

Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops are encouraged.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Drink Beers with Moksa

2pm The Rocklin brewery will be in the house and on the taps.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

Lassen Cider Two-Year Anniversary

2pm Celebrating two years with a warehouse party featuring food trucks, live music (Cat Depot, Perpetual Drifters), raffles and cider tastings.

Lassen Traditional Cidery, 26 Bellarmine Court

Corn Hole Tourney & Local Beer

2pm A corn hole tourney on the patio and local Secret Trail Brewing Co. beers on the taps. Show up early to sign up.

La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

MONDAY, SEPT. 17 Beer Library: Grand Opening

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Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Henhouse In Da House

5pm Burgers and Brew promises beers you can’t get anywhere else on tap all night from the hop-heads at Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

Novo Brazil Tap Takeover

5pm The Chula Vista brewery with a “Brazilian soul” takes over eight taps at the clubhouse, Round Table Clubhouse, 2201 Pillsbury Road.

Sours and Cheese

including a conconction aged for eight months in Elijah Craig bourbon barrels.

Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

Beer Trivia Night at Secret Trail

6:30pm Jake the brewer hosts beer trivia. Call to sign-up team starting at 4pm.

Secret Trail Brewing Company, 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120, 487-8151

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19 East Bay Day

5pm An evening of sour beers from Orange County-based Bruery Terreux paired with locally made cheeses.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

2pm San Francisco isn’t the only place in the Bay Area making killer beer. The Taproom devotes the day to East Bay brewers, including Faction, Fieldwork, Calicraft and the Chico debut of Gilman Brewing.

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

TUESDAY, SEPT. 18

Wort Giveaway Wednesday

Tasting Tuesday, plus Secret Trail and Chico Creek

2pm A selection of inexpensive pre-set flights, plus a specialty keg from Secret Trail and round of samples from soonto-open locals Chico Creek Brewing Co. Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Secret Trail & British Bulldog Takeover

4pm Special collaboration between two local breweries, plus taps dedicated to the brews of each.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Boochcraft In-Store

4-7pm The kombucha brewers will be in the store with swag and booch knowledge.

Spike’s Bottle Shop, 1270 E. First Ave.

Beers and Bacon

5pm San Marcos’ Lost Abbey brews paired with local LLano Seco bacon. (All night, please!)

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

Sacrament Tap Takeover

5pm The brewmaster from Burgers and Brew’s house brewery will be on hand for the evening to talk and pour beer,

3:30-4:30pm Secret Trail will be handing out the wort from their Bout It! Bout It! double IPA (bring a 5 gallon bucket), and the brewer who returns with the best beer made with it gets to do a full-size batch with Jake and Charlie!

Secret Trail Brewing Company, 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120

Modern Times Tap Takeover

4pm The San Diego brewery comes bearing brews.

The Handle Bar, 2070 E. 20th St., Ste. 160

Sierra Nevada Tap Takeover

4pm The local fave takes over the taps with special goodies.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Secret Trail Collab Night

5pm Burgers and Brew collaborated with the Secret Trail brewers for Po’Man’s Salty Cucumber Gose. Try it and other Secret Trail brews and meet the brewers.

Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

Blind Beer-Tasting

5pm Amateur cicerones! Show off your skills by going blind for a tasting.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

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FRIDAY

6pm Local breweries take over the taps for the evening.

Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 1105 W. Fifth St.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 Boochcraft Tap Takeover

4pm The high-alcohol kombucha brewers out of San Diego will share The Booch at The Lab. The Lab Bar & Grill, 250 Cohasset Rd., Ste. 10

Calicraft Tap Takeover 4pm Beers of the Golden State on tap.

The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Berryessa Tap (and Cask) Takeover 5pm Nor Cal faves, Berryessa Brewing Co. bring a cask and plenty of kegs for a proper takeover.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

Simcoe-Core Re-Release

5:30pm The Sierra Nevada/Burgers and Brew collaboration brew is back. Taste the hazy Simcoe-Core—plus other Sierra Nevada brews (including Trip in the Woods barrel-aged specialties)—while supplies last.

Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 California Coastal Craft Night

Noon Coastal breweries take over the taps for the day, including Modern Times, Alvarado Street, Hop Dogma and a barrel-aged offering from Pedro Point Brewing.

Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

Fort Point Tap Takeover

2pm The S.F. brewery takes over The Goose’s taps all day.

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

Altamont Tap Takeover

Black Friday

6pm The annual imperial stout madness returns with vertical tasting of some of the baddest renditions out there, including Parabola and Abyss.

Burgers and Brew, 301 Broadway St.

British Bulldog/Specialist & Live Music

6pm Local breweries take over the restaurant’s taps for the evening as the Carey Robinson Band performs live.

The Foodie Cafe, 999 Marauder St.

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Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114

831 Invades The 530

2pm The beers of the Central Coast’s 831 area code take over for the day. Highlights include selections from Alvarado Street, Corralitos and Humble Sea. The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

Kill the Keg(s)

2pm All the leftovers from the week’s debauchery are on tap!

Winchester Goose, 800 Broadway St.

Lassen Tasting Room

2-7pm Free tastings of Lassen’s ineup of ciders.

Lassen Traditional Cidery, 26 Bellarmine Court

Surprise Beer Tasting

2-5pm Roll the dice and head to BevMo for a special, mysterious tasting. Only 5 cents!

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Arts &Culture Trainwreck (from left): John Konesky, John Spiker, JR Reed, Kyle Gass and Nate Rothacker.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TRAINWRECK

Music to the rescue KG reforms his Southern-rock band and talks of Tenacious D saving us all

Khaverunning joke-rockers Tenacious D been teasing new material for

yle Gass and Jack Black of the long-

months. Back in May, they posted a crudely drawn animated video of the duo worby rying about how to pay Howard rent; Gass suggests putHardee ting out a new album and going on tour.

Preview: “Ugh, dude, that’s Trainwreck gonna take us like five performs tonight, Sept. 13, more years,” Black 8 p.m. Smokey replies. “We are fucked.” the Groove opens.

Given that the forthTickets: $12/ coming record is the advance; $15/door follow-up to 2012’s Rize The Maltese of the Fenix, which fea1600 Park Ave. tured artwork of a penis 343-4915 and testicles soaring on facebook.com/ fiery phoenix wings, the themaltese short video was enough to get fans pumped about the dick jokes to come. More details slowly trickled out: The album is a rock-opera called Post-Apocalypto. It comes out Nov. 2 and will be accompanied by a U.S. tour and preceded by an online animated series of the same name (hand-drawn by Black and premiering on YouTube Sept. 28).

But first, Gass is hitting the road with another recently revived comic musical project—the Southern-rock

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band Trainwreck, which had been on hiatus since splitting up in the middle of a 2010 tour. During a recent phone conversation with the CN&R, Gass said the band made a pact to keep details of the breakup hush-hush.

“It’s a dark tale,” he said. “It’s kind of in the misty fogs of yesteryear, and the fact that this is happening now means the story is still being written.

We had something happen in Chicago that night, and we had to discontinue the tour. We all decided to keep it amongst ourselves, but we knew we needed to stop right then.”

Trainwreck is playing The Maltese tonight (Sept. 13). The band features JR Reed (known as “Lee of the D” in Tenacious D lore) on lead vocals, bassist John Spiker, drummer Nate Rothacker, John Konesky on electric guitar and Gass on acoustic guitar and backup vocals. The same dudes are also heavily involved in Gass’ other musical projects; Konesky plays live with the Kyle Gass Band and Tenacious D, and Spiker is producing Post-Apocalypto.

“There is quite the cross-pollination,” Gass said. “I call them the ‘Johnas brothers’—John Konesky and John Spiker. They’ve been with me since Trainwreck got together and Tenacious D went electric. Really, they’re exceptional players and we’ve gotten to be

really good pals over the years. It’s an ideal situation.”

Outside of getting Trainwreck back on track, Gass has been mostly working on Post-Apocalypto. The record features songs from the animated series, but Gass was tight-lipped, and maybe a little snarky, about the plot.

“The title tells you a lot,” he said.

“Post-Apocalypto infers there was an apocalypse, and ‘post’ means after. I think that’s all I can tell you.”

Based on the D’s tradition of mocking/embracing cock-rock clichés, it’s safe to presume that Post-Apocalypto will repeatedly reference Gass and Black’s otherworldly musical and sexual abilities and how awesome their friendship is. (The bromance is real, by the way. Gass told the CN&R they celebrated Black’s most recent birthday by going for an “impromptu picnic” together.) But a few things are for sure: There will be monsters. And mayhem.

And tasteless album art.

“Situations arise and get pretty intense, and then we have to write a song about it. We have to save the world, basically,” he said. Which is nothing new for Tenacious D. Gass asked rhetorically, “How many times can you save the world, anyway?”

Every time they’re short on rent, apparently. Ω

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Special Events CIRCUS VARGAS: Avast! This fun, traveling, animal-free big top circus adds a new level of swashbuckling spectacle to its music-filled extravaganza with it’s latest show, Dreaming of Pirates. Enjoy aerial feats, acrobatics and clowning, not to mention a colorful cast of characters, singing, comedy and more. Thu, 9/13, 7:30pm. $15-$72. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. 877-468-3861. circusvargas.com

A NIGHT IN CALABRIA: Sons of Daughters of Italy’s monthly Italian dinner series stops in southern Italy. For three nights, Sept. 13-15, chef James Taylor prepares a five-course prixfixe menu of Calabrian specialties. Call to reserve. Thu, 9/13. Sicilian Cafe, 1020 Main St., 345-2233.

PRISONER LETTER WRITING: The North Valley Prisoner Support crew gathers to write letters to incarcerated individuals. Thu, 9/13, 6pm. Free. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

Music ORGONE: California soul and funk, plus Adryon de León. Thu, 9/13, 8pm. $15-$20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. 892-2445.

CHRISTOPHER TITUS Friday, Sept. 14 Paradise Performing Arts Center SEE FRIDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS ON NEXT PAGE

HOT Q’S & COLD BREWS BBQ CHAMPIONSHIP:

CIRCUS VARGAS

Professional barbecue teams battle it out as they compete for a California State Championship title. Who wins? You do, after tasting all of their smoked specialties. Sat 9/15. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino. com

Thursday–Monday, Sept. 13-17 Chico Mall SEE THURSDAY-SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

NATIONAL BULLRIDING CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS:

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: See Thursday Sat, 9/15, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico

A NIGHT IN CALABRIA: See Thursday. Sat, 9/15. Sicilian Cafe, 1020 Main St., 345-2233.

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!: See Thursday. Sat, 9/15, 7:30pm. $12-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735

Alverda Drive, Oroville.

Music BUTTE COUNTY FIRE PREVENTION FESTIVAL: Big Mo

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: CTC cele-

& The Full Moon Band and The Southside Growlers perform, plus food trucks and local artwork. Half of the proceeds will go toward fire prevention in Butte County and the other half will go to fire victims. Sat, 9/15, 6pm. $45. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. 3546282. paradiseperformingarts.com

brates 15 years of theater with its premiere production, a rollicking musical based on the beloved MGM film that follows a crafty and assertive young woman living in the Oregon wilderness. Thu, 9/13, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!: Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious comedy. Divorcees Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend. Thu, 9/13, 7:30pm. $12$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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Special Events CHRISTOPHER TITUS: Bay Area native uses comedy to transform the brutal truth of his dysfunctional childhood and family tragedies into explosively funny material. Expect scathing indictments of the current political climate. Fri, 9/14, 8pm. $22-$32. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. jmaxproductions.net

CIRCUS VARGAS: See Thursday, Fri, 9/14, 4:30pm & 7:30pm. $15-$72. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. 877-468-3861. circusvargas.com

HOLY SMOKES BBQ: Fish fry on Fridays and ribs and links on Saturdays, with salad and fries, to help finance repairs and general maintenance on the fellowship hall. Fri, 9/14, 11am. $15. Bethel AME Church, 821 Linden St.

A NIGHT IN CALABRIA: See Thursday. Fri, 9/14. Sicilian Cafe, 1020 Main St., 345-2233.

SUMMER BLOCK PARTY: Tons of activities and rotating live acts, plus dunk tanks, dancing, vendors, food and much more. Fri, 9/14. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

WHISKY & WINE TASTE FOR A CAUSE: An evening of tasting fine scotch, local wines and appetizers. Raffle prizes, plus a cigar raffle and tasting. Proceeds benefit The Work Training Center. Fri, 9/14, 6pm. $15-$35. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. 343-7994.

Theater SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: See Thursday Fri, 9/14, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!: See Thursday. Fri, 9/14, 7:30pm. $12-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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program featuring Dr. David Rothe on the University’s Centennial Organ and Ayako Nakamura on horns. Sat, 9/15, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144. 898-5152. csuchico.edu

HOUSE CATS: Meow meow music for brunch. Sat, 9/15, 11am. La Salles, 229

Special Events

THORSTEINN GUNTER: Piano concert from local

Great Sierra River Cleanup to pull trash out of our creeks and beloved park. Grab your boots and volunteer, then eat barbecue at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Sat 9/15, 9am. Hooker Oak Park or Annie K Bidwell Parlor (10th and Salem streets). 891-6424. becnet.org

Broadway St. keyboard wizard, educator and composer.

He’ll perform original works accompanied by cellist Caleb Hermle and violinist Mindy McPherson Sat, 9/15, 7pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

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

Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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Special Events ANTIQUE APPRAISAL: Bring your collectibles, prized possessions and other treasures to be appraised by experts. Sun, 9/16, 10:30am. $8. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St.

CIRCUS VARGAS: See Thursday. Sun, 9/16, 12:30pm, 3:30pm & 7pm. $15-$72. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. 877-468-3861. circusvargas. com

FEATHER RIVER GEM & MINERAL SHOW: See Saturday. Sun, 9/16. $4. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. featherriver rocks.org

Music FEI-FEI DONG: This celebrated pianist’s passionate performances have won numerous accolades and awards, including a 2013 Van Cliburn Finalist and the 2014 Concert Artist Guild Competition. She’ll perform works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and more. Sun, 9/16, 2pm. $15-$36. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First Street. 898-6333.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY FESTIVAL: Co-sponsored by the Ridge Coalition for Peace and Justice

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CARD 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Celebrate 70 years of Chico Area Recreation and Park District with fire truck tours, live music, carnival games, sports clinics and a rock wall, plus live animal visits and food trucks.

CARD manages 10 parks and five community centers, and offers dozens of classes, sports and activities for all ages. Sat 9/15, 10am. Free. DeGarmo Park, 199 Leora Court.

895-4711. chicorec.com

CASA SUPERHERO RUN: Don your cape and run your fastest to raise money for the Court Appointed Special Advocates program. Sat 9/15, 7:45am. $35. One Mile Recreational Area, Bidwell Park.

CIRCUS VARGAS: See Thursday. Sat 9/15, 1pm, 4pm & 7:30pm. $15-$72. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. 877-468-3861. circusvargas.com

FEATHER RIVER GEM & MINERAL SHOW: Dozens of

CARD 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

HEROIC MUSIC FOR TRUMPET & ORGAN: Classical

SAT

BIDWELL PARK & CHICO CREEKS CLEANUP: Join the

Theater

Watch animals desperately try to escape cowboy-athletes in this public spectacle. Sat 9/15, 6pm. $25-$35. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St.

SUMMER BLOCK PARTY: See Friday. Sat 9/15. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3

Theater

and the Paradise Community Guilds, the event features music and dance performances celebrating the diverse culture we share. Bring a chair or blanket. Sat, 9/15, 5pm. Free. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. 530-762-1333.

rock, bead, gem, fossil and crystal vendors, plus children’s activities and more. Sat 9/15. $4. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. featherriverrocks.org

Saturday, Sept. 15 DeGarmo Park

FREE LISTINGS!

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Post your event for free online at www. newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar editor at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

TRASH WAR

EDITOR’S PICK

Park employees and guerrilla cleanup crews can only do so much to address the refuse left in Bidwell Park, so now more than ever is the time to pitch in and help. The Butte Environmental Council and the city of Chico hold the 31st annual Bidwell Park and Chico Creeks Cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 15. You can register in advance (becnet. org) or just show up at 9 a.m. at either Annie K. Bidwell Parlor (10th & Salem) or Hooker Oak Recreation Area. Afterward, you’ll be treated to a barbecue in the Sierra Nevada Hop Yard.

Can’t make it? Go to BEC’s website and donate.

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FINE ARTS

KATHY KALLICK BAND: Ripping bluegrass outfit performs a partial benefit for the California Bluegrass Association’s youth music programs. Sun, 9/16, 6:30pm. $10$20. Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St. 894-1449.

NORCAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: Saxophone and clarinet virtuoso twins Peter and Will Anderson perform songs in the spirit of Benny Goodman, plus guitarist Felix Lemerie. Sun, 9/16, 7:30pm. $5-$15.

Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. para diseperformingarts.com

Theater SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: See Thursday. Sun, 9/16, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico

TIME HONORED Shows through Sept. 27 Chico Art Center SEE ART

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

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!: See Thursday. Sun, 9/16, 7:30pm. $12-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

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Special Events CHICO CITY COUNCIL & CUSD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FORUM: Chico City Council candidates (nine candidates for three seats) and the CUSD Board of Trustrees (four candidates for three seats) discuss the issues. The League of Women Voters of Butte County and Chico State’s Office of Civic Engagement co-host. Mon, 9/17, 6:30pm. Free. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144.

CIRCUS VARGAS: See Thursday. Mon, 9/17, 6:30pm. $15-$72. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. 877-468-3861. circusvargas.com

Music JAZZ AT THE MUSEUM: For the third installation of this popular event, MONCA presents Peter and Will Anderson, NYC Saxophone and clarinet virtuosos, with guitarist Felix Lemerie. Mon, 9/17, 7:30pm. $5-$30. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. monca.org

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Special Events STATE OF THE TOWN BROWN BAG LUNCH: Topics include budget information, upcoming projects, an update on Measure C and the upcoming ballot Measure V. Tue, 9/18, 12pm. Free. Paradise Square Banquet Room, 5550 Skyway, Paradise.

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Special Events CURATOR PRESENTATION: Doug Keister, curator of Black and White in Black and White (see Fine Arts, this page), discusses the history and cultural significance of this exhibition. Wed, 9/19, 7pm. $5. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. monca.org

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Art A BEAUTIFUL LIFE FURNISHINGS: Birds & Barns, show featuring local teachers Reta Rickmers and Caitlin Schwerin. Through 10/31. Free. 250 East First St., 487-7229.

ARGUS BAR + PATIO: Pondopium, Pondo (David McMillian) showcases his hand-drawn, digitally painted artworks at this reception. DJ music, food and drink specials available. Through 9/14. 212 W. Second St.

BLACKBIRD: Shadow Boxes, fascinating works

by Zak Elstein and Liz Hayes. Through 9/30.

1431 Park Ave.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Faculty Art Exhibit, dynamic, multimedia exhibit showcases the work of the college’s talented faculty. Through 9/18. ARTS Building, 3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Members’ Exhibit, original paintings, photographs and collage created by CSL members.

Through 10/15. Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 877-5673. paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: Time Honored, juried exhibit explores the multiple ways time is referenced, expressed and recorded in landscapes, still lifes, portraits and designs. Through 9/27. Free. 450 Orange St., 895-8726. chicoartcenter.com

CHICO CITY HALL: Breaking the Cycle of Youth Homelessness, art and writing created by homeless youth made during monca workshops that allowed families to create and express themselves away from the constant pressure of surviving. Through 11/2. Free. 411 Main St.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Dogg Days, solo exhibition by Trong Gia Nguyen featuring new works produced in Chico during a six-week residency. Nguyen’s work is imbued with the fervor of our current times, including subversive installations that address our climate catastrophe and tenuous political war zone. Through 10/13. Free. Chico State, ARTS 121, 530-898-5864. univer sityartgallery.wordpress.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS GALLERY: Ann Pierce, watercolor paintings from the estate of Chico’s most honored artists and educators. Through 10/31. 254 E. Fourth Street.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Imagining the Past, curated by English professor Corey Sparks and his Early British Literature class, this exhibition asks that we consider how even the distant past continually affects our present moment. Through 9/22. 400 W. First St. janetturner.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: Group Show, ninth annual event showcases the work of 40 California

artists, with sculptures, paintings and more. Through 9/22. 732 Fourth St., Orland.

PARADISE ART CENTER: Members’ Choice, no limit! Paintings, drawings, sculptures, pottery, photographs, digital media and much more from the PAC community. Through 9/29. 5564 Almond St., Paradise. paradiseart-center.com

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Susan Proctor, works in watercolors, acrylics and pen and ink contain hidden images incised into the medium. Through 10/27. 493 East Ave., Ste. 1. sallydimasartgallery.com

THE PALMS: Experience Plein Air, plein air painting demonstrations and award ceremony for artists, plus local art for sale, live music, food trucks, and more. Through 9/16. 2947 Nord Ave.

UPPER CRUST: Animals, lions, hippos and zebras, oh my! Teal N. Buehler’s collage, paintings and drawings take you on a wildlife safari. Through 9/30. 130 Main St.

Museums GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: A Stitch In Time, quilts from the museum’s collection, along with the handiwork of people in our community and stunning works from the Ridge Quilters Guild. Through 11/4. 502 Pearson Rd, Paradise.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Black & White in Black & White, exhibit examines the optimistic era of “The New Negro Movement” through the photographs of African American photographer John Johnson. Taken between 1910-1925, his portraits reveal the dignity and hope of his friends and neighbors during this time of great promise for African Americans.

In conjunction, MONCA presents Silence Out Loud, exploring non-traditional presentations of the Black image featuring members of the 3.9 Art Collective, an association of African American artists, curators and art writers. Through 10/28. $5. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

PATRICK RANCH MUSEUM: Working farm and museum with rotating exhibits open every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm.

Through 12/30. 10381 Midway, Durham. pat rickranchmuseum.org

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Reimagining Chico, find out what Chico looked like 100 years ago with this exhibit exploring the archaeology of our neighborhoods. Two excavations have yielded historic artifacts from boarding houses located on campus and the long abandoned historic Chinatown. Through 12/8.

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California Art. Keister’s Museum of Northern story begins in California Art 1965, when he 900 Esplanade; was just a junior Hours: Thursdayin high school Sunday, in his hometown 11 a.m.-5 p.m. of Lincoln, Neb. Even then he was drawn to photography, and by happenstance he was able to purchase, for $10, some 280 historic glass plate photo negatives of members of Lincoln’s substantial black community.

Not knowing what to do with the plates, Keister hung onto them, even after moving to California, where they remained in storage for 35 years. Then, in 1999, his mother mailed him a newspaper clipping about the discovery of 36

glass negatives in the home of a black woman in Lincoln. Another person who saw the article was Ruth Talbert, who recognized the photos as the work of a man named John Johnson. (Talbert is in one of the pictures in this exhibit.)

That solved a mystery that had stymied Keister for years: Who was this exceptional photographer?

One of the many beauties of this exhibit is that it establishes Johnson, who had attended college but could find work only as a laborer, as a skillful photographic artist whose work documents his community—between 1910 and 1925—in remarkable ways.

Viewers are immediately struck by the dignity and strength of Johnson’s subjects. They were materially poor but spiritually and socially wealthy.

As my colleague Evan Tuchinsky reported in his Oct. 6, 2016, CN&R article, “Developing history,” the photos have been declared a historical treasure in Nebraska, and the new National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C., has added 60 of them to its permanent collection.

This may be the last time we can view selections from this remarkable collection that has such a strong connection with Chico.

The Johnson photos occupy the Headley and Ginochio galleries on the north side of the museum. They are enhanced by a second exhibit, one that comple-

ments Black and White in Black and White and is titled Silence Out Loud, in the Phillips gallery on the south side.

It’s a collection of about two dozen contemporary artworks created by members of the 3.9 Art Collective in San Francisco, an association of black artists, curators and art writers. As they describe it, their mission is “to call attention [through art and activism] to the impact of black emigration from San Francisco” because of impossibly high housing costs.

These artists work in a variety of media, with an emphasis on conceptual and abstract works that reflect, according to MONCA’s written description of the exhibit, “a broader and an extremely personal look at identity, gender, and race through contemporary portraiture.”

It’s a perfect companion to Black and White and equally deserving of your attention. Credit goes to Pat Macias, MONCA’s president and de facto executive director. When she saw that the Johnson photos, as substantial as they were, wouldn’t fill the museum, she contacted her longtime friend Ramekon O’Arwisters, the 3.9 collective’s founder, and quickly arranged an exhibit.

Upcoming: Keister will be speaking about Johnson’s photos on Wednesday (Sept. 19) at 7 p.m. at MONCA. On Sunday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m., there will be a panel discussion featuring members of the 3.9 Art Collective. Ω

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tHUrSDAY 9/13—WeDNeSDAY 9/19 PUB SCOUTS: Traditional Irish music

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OPEN MIC/JAM: Bring your songs and

your instrument for this weekly open mic and jam session. Thu, 9/13, 7:30pm. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

RIK & THE PIGS: Down from Olympia with a fist full of Stooges/MC5 rock and roll. Opening set from sneaky spellcasters Satanic Mt. Witches.

This one will be quick and dirty. Thu, 9/13, 9:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

SOLAR ESTATES: Indie pop and shoegaze band performs old favorites and new tunes from their upcoming EP. Thu, 9/13, 8pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

SWAMP ZEN: Funk and jammin’ rock

during the Thursday market. Thu, 9/13. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

TRAINWRECK: Kyle Gass (Tenacious D) and his prog Southern rock, boogiewoogie mess of a band deliver absurd lyricism and ridiculous banter. Smokey the Groove opens the gig. Thu, 9/13, 8pm. $12-$15. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebar chico.com

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ADORE//REPEL: Hard-hitting UK noise rock outfit, plus West By Swan, Dead in Argentina and The Tighties. Fri, 9/14, 9pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

CHRISTOPHER TITUS: Bay Area native uses comedy to transform the

brutal truth of his dysfunctional childhood and family tragedies into explosively funny material. Expect scathing indictments of the current political climate. Fri, 9/14, 8pm.. $22-$32. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. jmaxproductions.net

JAMES SLACK: Yee-haw! Dance

country in the lounge. Fri, 9/14, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

KYLE WILLIAMS: Talented singer

shares stories and songs. Fri, 9/14, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery Street, Oroville.

LARRY PETERSON & JIM SCHMIDT: An eclectic mix of tasteful tunes for your dining pleasure. Fri, 9/14, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

OPEN MIC: Tito hosts this regular

event. Backline available. Fri, 9/14, 7:30pm. $1. Down Lo, 319 Main St., 530-513-4707.

for happy hour. A Duffy’s tradition! Fri, 9/14. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

QUEEN NATION: From “Keep Yourself Alive” and through Queen’s glory years, this tribute act plays all your favorite vintage hits. Fri, 9/14, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

ROCK FOR RICH OBER: Severance Package, D-FY and Bad Mana rock out in support of Chico City Council candidate. Fri, 9/14, 8pm. $5-$10.

Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St. oberforchico.com

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With twins on guitars, there is a musical symbiosis that occurs with UK instrumental rock act Adore//Repel (pictured). Brothers James and Daniel Brown provide a natural counterpoint to each other. Extremely guitar driven, the band plays post-hardcore/emo/screamo with beautiful, groovy passages as well as heavy, overdriven parts. They’re a great sonic match with locals West By Swan (featuring its own set of telepathically connected bros on guitars) at the Maltese on Friday, Sept. 14. Oakland’s Dead in Argentina and local rockers The Tighties also perform.

TYLER DEVOLL: Happy hour tunes. Fri, 9/14, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

ZACH WATERS BAND: Power rock

trio from Sacramento. Fri, 9/14, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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AFTER-THOT: Winners of Madison

Bear Garden’s singer/songwriter contest. Expect good times and memorable tunes with this fun duo. Sat, 9/15, 5pm. Rock House Dining & Espresso, 11865 Highway 70, Yankee Hill, 532-1889.

COCO’S BIRTHDAY BASH: Drag show,

THE FRITZ: Live music. Sat, 9/15,

8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980

drinks and dancing in celebration of Coco! Sat, 9/15, 10pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

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DRIVER: Rock and roll trio. Sat, 9/15, 9pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582

Esplanade.

DUELING PIANOS: Sing along with the

Kelly Twins. Sat, 9/15, 8pm. $5.

Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

JAMES SLACK: Yee-haw! Dance

country in the lounge. Sat, 9/15, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

KYLE WILLIAMS: Talented singer

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THE FOOLS: Trash rock Tuesday,

featuring members of doom band Hell. Severance Package also tears one open. Tue, 9/18, 9pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave.

OPEN MIC COMEDY: First-time comedians take the stage. Totally not intimidating. Wed, 9/19, 9pm. Free.

Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes on stage. Wed, 9/19, 7pm. $2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 877-4995.

HARSH R & CLAYFACE: Oddball punk Company, 132 Meyers St., Suite 120. secrettrailbrewing.com

JIMMY GRANT ENSEMBLE: Jimmy Grant

LARRY PETERSON & JIM SCHMIDT: An eclectic mix of tasteful tunes. Sat, 9/15, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: Eagles tribute act. Unlike the infamous Hotel California, you can leave any time you please. Sat, 9/15, 9:30pm. $5.

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

MOONSHINE LIGHTNING: Modern country and classic rock. Sat, 9/15, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

RADIO RELAPSE: Hard rock and hip-hop cover band performs three sets with a focus on Rage Against the Machine. Sat, 9/15, 9:30pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

STOICB4DARK: Debut show for this new rock band. Sat, 9/15, 10:30pm. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

SURF NOIR KINGS: Reverb-drenched

rock. Sat, 9/15, 8:30pm. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

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CHICO LIVE IMPROV COMEDY: CLIC

comedy troupe performs. BYOB event. Sun, 9/16, 7pm. $5. Chico Live Improv Comedy, 561 E. Lindo Ave.

GINA VILLALOBOS & AMEE CHAPMAN: Americana tunes, plus country, blues and soul from these two talented singer/songwriters. Sun, 9/16, 3pm. Secret Trail Brewing

was recently a finalist in the John Lennon songwriting competition and his quartet performs swing-era pieces, originals and traditional gypsy tunes. Mood:Swing opens the show. Sun, 9/16, 7pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., 894-1978.

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THE BIDWELLS: An intimate evening of music to start your week off right.

Caitlin Jemma & The Goodness and Kevin Briggs also perform. Mon, 9/17, 6pm. $5. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

JAZZ JAM: Uncle Dad’s Collective hosts this monthly event, typically highlighting the music of a specific artist. Mon, 9/17, 7:30pm. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

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and industrial dance tunes from Olympia’s Harsh R; bitter, sad music by Clayface; melancholic locals Iver; and a short noise set by Dudecorpse. Tue, 9/18, 6:30pm. $7.

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THE BIDWELLS: Local duo performs in the lounge. Wed, 9/19. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and

YOUNG BLOOD

Laid-back, intimate and with songs that belie his young age, Florida-based Matthew Fowler is an authentic voice in a crowded field of guitar-slinging singer/songwriters. His debut album features songs written while in his teens and was recorded in his kitchen. But it was enough to catch notice from American Songwriter Magazine, his local PBS stations and Sean Rowe, who took Fowler on tour. The passion is definitely there. Fowler plays Naked Lounge on Wednesday, Sept. 19, with sisters Tana and Adeline Prado providing vocal harmonies, woodwinds and piano accompaniment.

Amburgers spin funk, pop and hiphop. Wed, 9/19, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

MATTHEW FOWLER & THE PRADO SISTERS: Florida-based singer-songwriter performs on acoustic guitar, accompanied by trumpet, clarinet, oboe and piano. Local acts TBD. Wed, 9/19, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

OPEN MIC: Music, storytelling, poetry and more. Wed, 9/19, 7pm. Butte

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Eyes open in Oakland A rich portrait of the realities of racism, violence and gentrification in the East Bay

Bdiverse contemporary realities of that beleaguered, storied and California city, and filmed there as well. lindspotting is an Oakland product, steeped in the

It’s also a rough-and-tumble buddy movie; an intriguingly bent suspense film; an by offbeat comedy of rowdy manners; Juan-Carlos a brash paean to the saving graces of Selznick rap and hip-hop; a belch in the face of Bay Area gentrification; a hauntingly tangled meditation on friendship, parenting, race and the police, personal and cultural identity, guns, Blindspotting cars, smart talk and guile, etc.

Starring Daveed There’s a wonderful richness in Diggs, Rafael Casal all that, to be sure, but I mention the and Janina Gavankar. local connections first, because this Directed by Carlos López Estrada. Pageant film’s sense of rootedness in a parTheatre. Rated R. ticular time (ours) and a particular place (Oakland, a town recognizable as “nearby” even if it were much farther away from us, in miles, than it actually is) gives it an immediacy that is both intimate and urgent.

And something akin to that immediacy also flourishes in Blindspotting by way of its having been written by two performers, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who play the film’s two main characters, both of whom are, among many other things, rappers and street poets in their daily lives. There’s an almost Pirandellian zing to that—a couple of local guys making a movie about a couple of local guys who seem to be living it at the same time that they’re creating it.

Not the least of the film’s many charms, however, is that it’s a ripping good yarn, a freewheeling tale that mixes semipicaresque rambunctiousness with hardcore social conscience. Collin (Diggs), who is black, is a parolee trying to get through the final days of his probation without getting penalized for keeping company with gun-toting friends and drug dealers.

Miles (Casal), who is white, is Collin’s best friend and his partner in a furniture-moving business. But he is also a reckless rascal whose more extreme antics have everything to do with Collin having done time in prison.

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Val (Janina Gavankar), Collin’s ex-girlfriend, is the receptionist at the movers’ business office; Collin has hopes of winning her back; Miles holds her in angry contempt, ostensibly because of her authoritative manner. Miles is negligent toward his wife (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and young daughter, the latter of whom gets much playfully avuncular attention from Collin.

Several variable layers of suspense develop via these domestic complications and the emerging tensions in the friendship of Miles and Collin, as well as through Collin’s increasingly fraught efforts to steer clear even the appearance of trouble with the law while he’s on probation. The latter element gets an especially ferocious twist when Collin witnesses the killing of an unarmed black man by a white policeman (Ethan Embry).

Some major reviewers have complained that Blindspotting is disjointed and uneven. I understand what they’re reacting to, but I view it as one of the film’s special strengths. Diggs, Casal and director Carlos López Estrada have mixed modes and moods in order to create a kind of cinematic idiom with which to challenge the stereotypes, rigid categories and other long-lived “blind spots” of human awareness. Ω

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

Opening this week Bashful Charlie Robinson

A short documentary on widely respected local guitarist Charlie Robinson—with a live performance by the legend himself. One showing, Saturday, Sept. 15, 1 p.m. Free. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

Gus Van Sant’s latest is a biopic on Portland-based cartoonist John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who, after becoming a quadriplegic in a car accident, turned to drawing darkly funny, and often controversial, comics. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Mandy

In what might end up being the role of his life, Nicolas Cage delivers a ferocious performance as a man driven to revenge after cult destroys his life. Tonight, Sept. 13, 9:15 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated. R.

$23 The Predator

pher Robin (Ewan McGregor) to help him find the sense of imagination he’s lost. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The sixth film starring the human-hunting aliens follows a band of mercenaries trying to protect a small town from a Predator invasion. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Unbroken 2: Path to Redemption

A spiritually focused follow-up to the film about WWII vet Louis Zamperini, who survived being lost at sea for 47 days before being captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. This sequel tells the story of his conversion to evangelical Christianity. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

White Boy Rick

A film based on the life of Richard Wershe Jr., a young drug-dealer who, at the age of 14, became the youngest FBI informant ever.

Featuring a star-studded ensemble that includes Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern and many more.

Cinemark 14. Not rated.

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God Bless the Broken Road

Director Albert Hughes—of Hughes Brothers fame—makes his solo directorial debut with this story set in the Ice Age about the origins of man’s best friend; when a young man befriends a stray wolf as he journeys to find his way home. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Meg

A Christian faith-based film inspired by a country song made famous by Rascal Flatts.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Alpha

The new “Spike Lee joint” is a periodpiece action movie of sorts, but of course it’s also much more than that: a stark appraisal of race and American social history; an undercover police story set in the 1970s with historical references ranging from the recrudescence of the KKK circa World War I to the white supremacists of Charlottesville, Va., in our own time; a nifty roundelay about self and American identity; a half-comic epic that entertains without ever losing sight of its most serious and urgent concerns. The central story premise has to do with the actual case of a black police officer named Ron Stallworth who successfully infiltrated a KKK chapter in Colorado in the late-1970s. Stallworth (versatile John David Washington) talked his way into the group via telephone calls, then shadowed a fellow undercover cop named Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) who pretended to be the “white Aryan” that Stallworth concocted. The racial tensions are at times ferocious and there is an extraordinarily intimate and riveting quality of suspense in the moments in which the guile and daring of Stallworth and Zimmerman put them in danger of all-out misadventure. Cinemark 14.

Rated R —J.C.S.

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Crazy Rich Asians is being celebrated as a landmark of Asian-American filmmaking, and deservedly so. And best of all, it’s a smart and lively romantic-comedy, a multicharacter entertainment that keeps its sense of serious fun fully in play from beginning to end. The central romance in all this is between Nick Young (Henry Golding) and Rachel Chu (Constance Wu). He is a brilliant young businessman and the expatriate scion of a massively wealthy family in Singapore, and she is an economics professor at NYU and the daughter of an immigrant single mom. Nick invites her to travel with him to Singapore, where he will be the best man at a wedding on old family turf. The Singapore trip advances the love story between those two, but it also takes them into the tangled relationships and deeply entrenched history of Nick’s family and friends. A diverse array of siblings, cousins, lovers and pals complicates things, comedy-wise and otherwise.

And particularly dramatic challenges come from Nick’s aunts, his grandmother (Lisa Lu) and, most crucially, his stately mother Eleanor (a superb Michelle Yeoh). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The Nun

A spinoff from The Conjuring series of horror films that follows a priest sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun’s suicide and ultimately confront an evil force. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Operation Finale

Historical drama about the efforts by Israel’s Mossad to track down Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who had fled to Argentina after World War II. Starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Each year, Sierra Nevada collaborates with a different German brewery for its seasonal Oktoberfest beer. For 2018, the Chico-born brewery worked with Weihenstephan, the longest continuously operating brewery in the world. Advertised as an “American take on the classic German Oktoberfest,” it’s a malt-forward and highly sessionable brew that begs to be gulped from a boot-shaped glass. It pours a crisp, burnt-orange color and produces a fluffy head that deflates rapidly, leaving a white ring around the top of the glass. On the tongue, it comes on strong and finishes mild; there’s a hint of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale’s signature hoppy bitterness at first, but that impression is promptly replaced by caramel, autumnal spices and toasted grains. You’re left with a bready, light aftertaste.

For the full effect, I suggest pairing this year’s Oktoberfest with sizzling bratwurst and highly aggravating polka music. And remember: This is the one and only time of the year when it’s acceptable to don lederhosen.

It seems like yesterday that breweries were engaging in full-on hop wars with explosively hoppy IPAs. But in 2018, there are more than six times the number of craft breweries vying for shelf space as there were a decade ago. Beermakers have gotten more adventurous, and a little less reliant on the standard IPA. Alan Taylor studied beer-making in Germany for years, and became brewmaster for Zoiglhaus Brewing Co. when it opened in late 2015. The brewery—located in southeast Portland—specializes in German styles like its excellent schwarzbier and kölsch, but also plays around with more familiar styles.

Last year, Zoiglhaus (or Zhaus, as it’s affectionately known) unleashed the Hopfenbombe—a light, yet hoppy German IPA that’s one of the best beers going right now. The hops hit you up front, but it always finishes clean, which makes this German delicacy perfect for sipping or throwing a few back around the barbecue.

“But is it hazy?” That’s the question that’s permeated the craft beer scene over the last couple of years, as hazy IPAs—those cloudy, unfiltered New England versions of the style—have taken over the taps and beer coolers. For me, the style is hit or miss. At its best—as with the wonderful Lazy Hazy from Redding’s Fall River Brewing Co.—the style merely adds a satisfying juicy mouthfeel to the hop-forwardness that marks the core style. At its worst, the pulpy haziness takes over at the expense of the development of the rest of the beer, clouding the hop and malt flavors for a fairly dull experience—like drinking a watered-down beer tea instead of a bold IPA. Fall River’s signature hazy IPA, like the rest of its excellent IPA portfolio, is thankfully very flavorful. The floral and fruity hops blend well with an understated juiciness for a very quaffable summertime brew.

But with an alcohol level in the double-IPA range (8 percent ABV), and the fact that Lazy Hazy comes in big 16-ounce cans, proceed to the lake, river or backyard party with caution.

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FighT FiRE wiTh Punk RoCk Last time I talked about Chico’s HeartBurn Records in this space, I was singing the praises of its activist approach to releasing music, specifically its out of the Cold compilation that came out in February and was sold to raise money for the local safe space winter Noise for Nor Cal shelter. That debut featured three local bands—The Empty Gate, splatter Party, sex Hogs ii—contributing two songs each for a short-and-sweet blast of sweaty, punky garage-rock.

For its sophomore release, HeartBurn has gone much bigger. Label owners Josh Garcia (co-owner of Electric Plant recording studio) and alex Kokkinakis (bassist for The Vesuvians) cast their net far and wide for noise for nor Cal, an 18-song benefit compilation for Northern California fire victims.

The multigenre mix not only includes local acts—Michelin Embers, West by swan, Ryan davidson, dying for it—but also a very impressive roster of bands from all over the West, including East Bay folk-punk jokesters Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Mcnuggets, Oakland badasses year of the Fist, and a handful of punk legends—Kevin seconds (of seminal hardcore crew 7 seconds) and Fat Wreck Chords mainstays Good Riddance and swingin’ Utters.

The comp drops Sept. 15 on iTunes and at heartburnrecords.bandcamp. com, and proceeds from sales will be split between shasta Regional Community Foundation: Community disaster Relief Fund and north Coast opportunities: Wildfire Relief Fund.

BaShFul ChaRliE If you were to take a

poll of Chico guitarists and ask them who among them has the best chops, I’d bet money that Charlie Robinson would win hands down. In fact, he probably taught many of them as they were coming up.

Fellow local musician (and acupuncturist) James “Higgy” Lerner has been a student.

And he and his brother, Kansas-based psychologist/filmmaker stephen Lerner, recently completed a 21-minute minidocumentary on Robinson’s life—Bashful Charlie Robinson—that will be screened this Saturday, Sept. 15, at 1 p.m., at the Pageant Theatre. Robinson will be on hand for a Q&A, and will also play a few tunes. The event is free, but bring cash for CDs and vinyl of Robinson’s music that’ll be for sale.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF september 13, 2018

by rob brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anne

Carson describes part of her creative process in this way: “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” I suspect you might be able to benefit from using a comparable trick in the coming days. That’s why you should monitor any odd dreams, seemingly irrational impulses or weird fantasies that arise in you. Although they may not be of any practical value in themselves, they could spur a train of thought that leads you to interesting breakthroughs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The idea

of liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind,” wrote philosopher E.M. Cioran. I agree that trying to deny or stifle or ignore our desires can’t emancipate us. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that freedom is only possible if we celebrate and honor our desires, marvel at their enigmas and respect their power.

Only then can we hope to refine them. Only then can we craft them into beautiful, useful forces that serve us rather than confuse and undermine us. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in this spiritual practice, Taurus.

keeps us up to date with the ever-shifting self-images that float through her awareness. Here’s one of her bulletins: “Stage 1. me: I’m the cutest thing in the world. Stage 2. me, two seconds later: no, I’m a freaking goblin. Stage 3. me, two seconds after that: I’m the cutest goblin in the world.”

I’m guessing that many of you Libras have reached the end of your own personal version of Stage 2. You’ve either already slipped into Stage 3, or soon will. No later than October 1, you’ll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s

no such thing as love,” said Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso, “there are only proofs of love.” I’m tempted to believe that’s true, especially as I contemplate the current chapter of your life story.

The evidence seems clear: You will thrive by engaging in practical demonstrations of how much you care. You’ll be wise to tangibly help and support and encourage and inspire everyone and everything you love. To do so will make you eligible for blessings that are, as of this moment, still hidden or unavailable.

21): According to a Pew Research Study, nearly 75 percent of Americans say they talk to God, but only 30 percent get a reply. I’m guessing the latter figure will rise dramatically for Sagittarian Americans in the next three weeks, however. Why? Because the astrological indicators suggest that authorities of all kinds will be more responsive than usual to Sagittarians of all nationalities. Help from higher powers is likely to be both more palpable and more forthcoming. Any communications you initiate with honchos, directors and leaders have a better-than-normal chance of being well-received. day in October 1926, author Virginia Woolf inscribed in her diary, “I am the usual battlefield of emotions.” It was a complaint, but also a brag. In fact, she drew on this constant turmoil to fuel her substantial output of creative writing. But the fact is that not all of us thrive on such ongoing uproar. As perversely glamorous and appealing as it might seem to certain people, many of us can do fine without it. According to my analysis, that will be true for you in the coming weeks. If you have a diary, you might justifiably write, “Hallelujah! I am NOT a battlefield of emotions right now!”

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

thropologist Margaret Mead had definite ideas about “the ways to get insight.” She named them as follows: “to study infants; to study animals; to study indigenous people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.”

I have my own list of ways to spur insight and inspiration, which includes: to do walking meditations in the woods on a regular basis, no matter what the weather; to engage in long, slow sex with a person you love; to spend a few hours reviewing in detail your entire life history; to dance to music you adore for as long as you can before you collapse from delighted exhaustion. What about you, Aquarius?

What are your reliable ways to get insight?

I suggest you engage in some of them, and also discover a new one. You’re in the Flood of Radical Fresh Insights Phase of your astrological cycle.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful,” writes designer John Maeda.

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak up,” says artist Hans Hofmann.

“Simplicity strips away the superfluous to reveal the essence,” declares a blogger named Cheo. I hope these quotes provide you with helpful pointers, Leo. You now have the opportunity to cultivate a masterful version of simplicity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote

is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So, in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather, he’s interested in pristine natural phenomena that are unspoiled by civilization. He regards them as food for his soul. I mention this, Virgo, because now is an excellent time for you to get big doses of people and places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear and untainted. ger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes candidly about her relationship with herself. She

Kubrick made masterful films, but most of them bore me. I regard John Ashbery as a clever and innovative poet, but I’ve never been excited by his work. As for painter Mark Rothko, I recognize his talent and intelligence, but his art leaves me empty. The music of Nora Jones is pretty and technically impeccable, but it doesn’t move me. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to make the kinds of fine distinctions I’m describing here. It will be important for you to be faithful to your subjective responses to things, even as you maintain an objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.

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JANE LARRABEE 3585 Keefer Road Chico, CA 95973.

STEFANIE OLSON 1927 Ackerman Avenue Durham, CA 95938.

LEAH PARKER 1455 Mesa Road Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Unincorporated Association.

Signed: STEFANIE MARSHALL-OLSON Dated: August 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001068 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JBR EARTHWORK at 2 Creek Circle Chico, CA 95973.

JUSTIN BROWN 2 Creek Circle Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JUSTIN S. BROWN Dated: August 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001051 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as PACIFIC BRAILLE at 6638 Ray Family Lane Magalia, CA 95954.

KENT F RAY 6638 Ray Family Lane Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KENT RAY Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001054 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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The following persons are doing business as BATHTUB REFINISHERS at 204 W Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973.

ROUBAIX ENTERPRISES, INC. 7700 Irvine Center Dr Ste 800 Irvine, CA 92618.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TERRY DECOTTIGNIES, PRESIDENT Dated: August 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001016 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’ts for

Boys or Errors of Conduct Corrected was an advice book for boys published in 1902.

Among many other strictures and warnings, it offered this advice: “Don’t giggle.

For the love of decency, never giggle.”

There was additional counsel in the same vein: “Don’t be noisy. The guffaw evinces less enjoyment than the quiet smile.”

Another exhortation: “Don’t tease. Be witty, but impersonal.” In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby proclaim that all those instructions are utterly wrong for you right now. To sweetly align yourself with cosmic rhythms, you should giggle and guffaw and tease freely. If you’re witty— and I hope you will be—it’ll serve you well to be affectionate and personable.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Remember

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The following persons are doing business as DEFIANCE SOLUTIONS at 1056 San Ramone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DONALD KENNETH PENDERGRAFT 1309 Sunset Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ADAM EDWARD SAMORANO 1056 San Ramone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ADAM SAMORANO Dated: August 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001074 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

The following persons are doing business as CHICO MEALS ON WHEELS at 2836 A Morseman Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

CHICO AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INCORPORATED 2836 A Morseman Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA ALVISTUR, ACCOUNTANT Dated: July 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000970 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CASINO PARTY PEOPLE at 3 Torino Ct Chico, CA 95973.

CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT 3 Torino Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT Dated: August 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001026 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREENS AND THINGS SOUL FOOD at 574 E. 12th Street Chico, CA 95927.

JOHNNIE ANNETTE HERALD 1055 E Lassen Ave 29 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHNNIE A. HERALD Dated: August 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001044 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTH VALLEY TACKLE at 2368 B Lincoln St Oroville, CA 95966.

JAMES R SORENSEN 853 E 7th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES R SORENSEN Dated: July 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000941 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name NORTH VALLEY TACKLE AND PRO SHOP at 2368 B Lincoln Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

DANIEL L. WELLS 53 Brenda Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

JAMES R. SORENSEN 853 E. 7th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JAMES R SORENSEN Dated: July 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2016-0000884 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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The following person is doing business as I HEART CHICO, I LOVE CHICO CA at 2135 Nord Ave Spc 6 Chico, CA 95926.

KIMBERLY DEANNE HIGMAN 2135 Nord Ave Spc 6 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY HIGMAN Dated: August 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001038 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

The following persons are doing business as PACIFIC BUSINESS SOLUTIONS at 100 Sterling Oaks Drive #268 Chico, CA 95928.

SAJADI, INC. 100 Sterling Oaks Drive #268 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ALAN SAJADI, PRESIDENT Dated: August 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001008 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SPUN ORGANIC COTTON CANDY at 960 Mathews Drive Chico, CA 95926.

PETER GALVANY 960 Mathews Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PETE GALVANY Dated: August 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001009 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

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The following person is doing business as BLUEWATER POOL SERVICE at 2524 Pillsbury Rd Chico, CA 95973.

BRADFORD EARL KERRY 2524 Pillsbury Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRAD KERRY Dated: August 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001075 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

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The following persons are doing business as C AND C PHOTO BOOTH RENTALS at 1149 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CHERIE BROWN-SPELLINGS 1149 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CARRIE SPELLINGS 1149 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: CARRIE SPELLINGS Dated: August 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001089 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NSHS LLC at 5217 Xeno Place Paradise, CA 95969.

NSHS LLC 5217 Xeno Place Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: J. CAYOT, MANAGER Dated: August 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001031 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

The following persons are doing business as SKYWAY MART at 5309 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

EMISSA INC 144 Delaney Dr Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BASHIR ABDULMASSIH, PRESIDENT Dated: August 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001080 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

The following persons are doing business as THE TACKLE BOX at 379 E Park Ave Chico, CA 95928.

PHILLIP PEEPLES 4325 Kathy Lane Chico, CA 95973.

RICHARD PEEPLES 4325 Kathy Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: RICHARD PEEPLES Dated: August 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001045 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TAHOE BLUE POOL SERVICE at 172 Horse Run Rd Chico, CA 95928.

ANTHONY DINO MOLATORE 172 Horse Run Rd Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANTHONY DINO MOLATORE Dated: August 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001076 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE ODONNELL GROUP at 2571 California Park Drive Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO WEALTH RIA, INC. 2571 California Park Drive Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RYAN O’DONNELL, PRESIDENT Dated: August 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001097 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as ORANGETHEORY FITNESS at 874 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CONFYDO, INC. 1456 Falcon Pointe Lane Roseville, CA 95661.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEREMY ALMAND Dated: August 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001002 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as EUROPEAN WAX CENTER at 728 B Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CONFYDO, INC. 1456 Falcon Pointe Ln Roseville, CA 95661.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEREMY ALMAND Dated: August 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001003 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following person has withdrawn as partner from the partnership operating under EXTREME CLEAN DECLUTTER

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SERVICES at 2556 Marigold Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

TINA BRADLEY 1650 Forest Ave #23 Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: TINA BRADLEY Dated: August 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001058 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO HYUNDAI at 2562 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973.

CHICO NISSAN, INC. 575 Manzanita Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BRIAN BOWEN, CEO Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001062 Published: September 6,13,20,27, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as EL REY THEATER at 230 W. 2nd Street Chico, CA 95928.

THE MAJESTIC CHICO LLC 5794 Salisbury Lane San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: TYRONE GALGANO, MANAGER Dated: September 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001136 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as EXTREME CLEAN DECLUTTER SERVICES at 2556 Marigold Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

MOLLY SABELMAN 2556 Marigold Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MOLLY M. SABELMAN Dated: August 28, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001113 Published: September 6,13,20,27, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GARDEN VILLA CAFE at 196 Cohasset Road #150 Chico, CA 95926.

J AND S COFFEE LLC 2485 Notre Dame Blvd #390 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JENNIFER SILVA, MEMBER Dated: August 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001107 Published: September 6,13,20,27, 2018

The following persons are doing business as NORCAL CLEANING SERVICES at 1815 Paige Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

JENNIFER SIEMENS 1815 Paige Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

BERNARD WESTPHAL IV 1815 Paige Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: BERNARD H. WESTPHAL IV Dated: August 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001019 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as TASTE OF HMONG at 1008 W Sacramento Ave Ste H Chico, CA 95926.

ENG VANG 956 Lupin Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ENG VANG Dated: August 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001102 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as TASSLE AND WOLF STUDIO at 2468 Marsh Ct Durham, CA 95938.

HELENA MONTZ 2468 Marsh Ct Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HELENA MONTZ Dated: August 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001117 Published: September 6,13,20,27, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT

The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name OLDE GOLD ESTATE JEWELRY at 225 Main St Suite 3 Chico, CA 95928.

STEVEN JOHN CATTERAL 1201 W. 11th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD S. MATSON, ESQ. ATTORNEY FOR LISA CATTERALL, TRUSTEEE Dated: August 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2016-0000431 Published: September 6,13,20,27, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SKYHIGH HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER, TEA SHACK at 6220 Clark Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

GARY CHARLES HEATH 5151 Circle Ln Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARY HEATH Dated: July 30, 2018

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The following person is doing business as BIDWELL SEEDLINGS PRESCHOOL at 3 Claremont Cir Chico, CA 95926.

TRACY ARMSTRONG 3 Claremont Cir Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TRACY ARMSTRONG Dated: August 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001104 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as APPLIED ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING at 951 Madrone Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID HANKINS 951 Madrone Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAVID HANKINS Dated: August 31, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001127 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as STREAMFINE, STREAMFINE CONSULTING at 30 Pebblewood Pines Dr. Chico, CA 95926.

ANTHONY CHAPMAN 30 Pebblewood Pines Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANTHONY CHAPMAN Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001055 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as GRUB CSA FARM at 3269 West Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95973.

LEE M CALLENDER 3269 West Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95973.

FRANCINE OLIVIA STUELPNAGEL 3269 West Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: FRANCINE STUELPNAGEL Dated: September 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001146 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as YOUR HOME HELPER HANDYMAN at 177 Hollow Oak Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DANIEL BOTSFORD 177 Hollow Oak Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL BOTSFORD Dated: September 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001152 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as BLOCKHOUSE at 708 Cherry Street Chico, CA 95928.

SCOTT ALLEN BARWICK 1521 Bidwell Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SCOTT BARWICK Dated: September 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001155 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as THIRTY MINUTE NANNY at 1225 Stewart Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CORRELARE, LLC 1692 Mangrove Avenue #129 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KELLY SMITH, OFFICER Dated: September 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001158 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as ASHLIES HAIR STUDIO at 9341 Midway Ste C Durham, CA 95938.

ASHLIE NICOLE WHEELER 9341 Goodspeed St Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ASHLIE WHEELER Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001056 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person is doing business as ELEMENTS OF HEALTH, PARADISE COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE at 757 Fir Street Paradise, CA 95969.

MELISSA MARIE ILLINGWORTH 15178 Jack Pine Way Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MELISSA ILLINGWORTH Dated: August 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001021 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RAELENE J. BRAWLEY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYCEE RAE STOWERS Proposed name: JAYCEE RAE BRAWLEY 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: October 12, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: August 13, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02594 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SUSIE I ESTRADA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JUAN SEBASTAIN PADILLA Proposed name: JUAN SEBASTIAN ESTRADA 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: October 12, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: August 16, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02622 Published: September 13,20,27, October 4, 2018

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 Ave. Chico, CA. 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: KEVIN J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (083972) 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA. 95973 (530) 893-8231 Dated: June 11, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV01854 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

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: February 9, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV00468 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

SUMMONS SUMMONS

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CONNIE ANN FARAG AKA CONNIE ANN LAIL AKA CONNIE ANN MCGINNIS 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

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NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: RICHARD J GUTIERREZ, REGINA ANN GUTIERREZ 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

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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: October 27, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV03176 Published: August 30, September 6,13,20, 2018

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE

ROBERT A. CARR AKA ROBERT CARR AKA ROBERT ALAN CARR To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROBERT A. CARR, ROBERT CARR, ROBERT ALAN CARR A Petition for Probate has been filed by: NELLIE E. WABS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 25, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 8 Room: 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: JOHN C. SCHALLER 1458 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926 Case Number: 18PR00385 Dated: August 30, 2018 Published: September 6,13,20, 2018

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SUMMONS SUMMONS

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, 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 20, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: CLAUD DAVID BUTLER NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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530.345.6618 | www.C21SelectGroup.com UPDATED AND BEAUTIFUL Cal Park 3 bed/2 bth, 2,004 sq ft

...................................................$399,900

CUL DE SAC, NEAR BIDWELL PARK! 4 bed/2.5 bth, 2,070 sq ft,park like backyard. .............. $439,900 FRESH EXTERIOR paint, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,767 sq ft ................................................................... $339,900

Teresa Larson (530)899-5925 DRE #01177950 chiconativ@aol.com

$229,000 1050 sq ft in North Chico, home features a 1 car garage and very large backyard

BUTTE VALLEY 2 custom homes, private setting on 235 acs, horse or cattle ..................... $1,899,000

BEAUTIFUL 4 bed/2.5 bth, 2,457 sq ft updated kitchen + bath, large yard ............................ $469,900

NICE HOUSE + commercial DINGon .83 of an acre in town. .............................................. $499,900 PENbuilding NEAR BIDWELL PARK! PPool, room, 3 bed/2 bth, 2,124 sq ft .........................................$425,000 DING ENgame

New 2100+ home, 3 car garage $479,000 Lot in Butte Meadows $76,900 20 acres with views $145,000

Immaculate 3 bedroom home with a bonus room that could easily be a 4th bedroom.

Built in 2000 and has new carpet and new interior paint, 1842 sq ft, $327,000.

MOVE IN ready 3 bed/2 bth, .21 ac lot, 1,341 sq ft, adorable! ................................................... $329,500

Kimberley Tonge l 530.518.5508 Lic# 01318330

CalBRE #01312354

Alice Zeissler l 530.518.1872 Lic# 01318330

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of August 27 – August 31, 2018 The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

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1475 Eaton Rd 39 Skywalker Ct 834 Alice Ln 17 Pebblewood Pines Dr 519 W 7th St 1608 Arbutus Ave 2194 Floral Ave 644 W 4th Ave 2915 Rodeo Ave 555 Vallombrosa Ave #72 884 Inyo St

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$279,000 $277,000 $270,000 $252,500 $237,500 $230,000 $215,500 $210,000 $200,000 $180,000 $100,000

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SQ. FT. 1119 1181 1335 1889 1283 1277 1106 832 1692 902 975

ADDRESS 164 Plumas Dr 136 Bryden Way 5236 Honey Rock Ct 114 Romo Rd 723 Mission Olive Rd 10 Patrick Ct 597 Renato Way 6613 Firland Dr 6274 W Wagstaff Rd 4483 Sierra Del Sol 6683 Shay Ln

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$508,636 $440,000 $333,000 $280,000 $275,000 $275,000 $436,000 $415,000 $385,000 $382,000 $345,500

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

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SQ. FT. 1971 2640 2230 768 1200 1650 2028 2228 2232 2108 1733

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345 West Fifth Street 15 17 Chico, CA 16 95928 (530) 891–6328 Please call for reservations Open Fridays for Lunch 11:30am – 2:30pm Join us for Happy Hour Every Day 4:30–6pm