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THE PAGEANT THEATER OF THE FUTURE

GIRL'S NIGHT, FEATURING WINE & ART

Sadly, film has gone the way of the dinosaurs, but instead of a meteor, it's Hollywood doing the killing. Welcome to digital, now fork over all your money. Our own little local theater is now feeling that big Hollywood pinch. Help them move into the now by donating to their campaign at

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You are not going to believe the genius thing that Painted Vino is. It is a magical combination of art and fun, wine and creativity, painting and partying ... it is the pinnacle of perfection when it comes to Girls Night. Go to facebook.com/Painted-Vino for information about getting in on some serious fun.

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So I'm writing this letter on Friday the 15th, after a press conference for Ken Grossman and Co. for earning a Zero Waste Platinum Rating. Level up! Nice work, guys. That behemoth of a booze factory manages to divert 99.8% of its waste-that means over 50 tons of waste diverted away from the landfill. Here are some other facts from the press release (I went to the press conference, but there were too many people there and I get weird in crowds and can't pay attention. Or I end up standing next to Tom Gascoyne who smells like Duffy's and I get distracted thinking about how I want to be at Duffy's and I forget where I am and why I'm there): • $5,398,470 avoided disposal costs, and $903,308 in revenue (2012) - both of these include spent brewers' grain, which makes up the bulk of what it diverts • 51,414 tons diverted from landfill and incineration

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• Given the lack of regional composting facilities, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was the first in the US to install a HotRot com poster to compost its organic waste. This system composted 261 tons of organics in 2012 that otherwise would have gone to the landfill. So, a hearty congratulations to the hardworking ChicoAmericans at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company; we thank you for your passionate commitment to making awesome beer and to making the world a better place.

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The egg nag started showing up on the refrigerated market shelves a few weeks ago, but I can't reasonably start guzzling the stuff, in earnest, until at least a week into November. It's all the same as the Black Friday nonsense, and the soft transformation of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas into one mega-holiday-an immense three-weeklong shopping Odyssey. Early egg nag presentation is another symptom of a society that has lost its way, a society that has gone so extreme in our celebration of consumer culture that we will exploit any tradition in order to make more money. Anyway, I'm currently into the egg nag. I love it, I breathe it down, I live for it. Egg nag season is my absolute favorite characteristic of winter. The cold weather, the rain, and the fires are nice-but without the egg nag I'd as soon move to San Diego. I never drank egg nag during the years I spent in Southern California. It doesn't make sense in a climate where the temperature is eighty degrees, and the skies are sunny seven days a week, maybe three hundred and fifty five days out of the year. In San Diego I drank a lot of gin, and in Los Angeles I drank everything, but never egg nag.

Sabata May Be the Best Movie I've Ever Seen I am watching a 1970 Spaghetti Western, starring Lee Van Cleef, called Sabata right now, and it very well may be the best movie I have ever seen. The plot

is rudimentary enough, but the surreal costuming and sets, the pacing and framing of the shots, and the otherworldly musical score are blowing my mind.

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Sabata just shot a priest, but the priest was corrupt. Can you think of anything worse than a corrupt priest? Maybe a corrupt cop, or a judge. I don't suspect that the position causes corruption to surface, so much as I suspect corrupt, or corruptible people, seek out these positions. A priest gains so much intense, personal access to the people in the congregation, and potentially their money. A big church costs a lot of money. Why spend every last dime feeding needy people when you can use the tithing to construct massive golden domes or towering brick buildings that appeal to the materialistic cravings of the ego? I don't know what I'm babbling about, it's only a movie, albeit one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. Some giant with blue eyes and red hair keeps showing up and playing the banjo. In a remarkable display of creativity, he's called "Banjo," and he "lives in the saloon." Well the fun is over; Trish wants to watch her shows and channel 20-2 is now 7-1. Sabata has been relegated to the next time they run it on this TV, or maybe added to our nebulous and generally surprising Netflix queue. One more egg nag and I expect I am out for the night. I can barely keep my eyes open.

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then the deer steaks that followed. My aunt and uncle lived next door to us and one day when we were visiting, I stood in the shed with my uncle while he prepared and strung up the deer jerky. I loved that jerky-it was tough enough that I got to work my jaw satisfyingly by gnawing on each salty, slightly gamey piece for quite a bit. I remember sizzling hot July days when we would put on long sleeves, jeans, socks, and shoes, hike down the embankment to the creek that flowed behind our house, and pick wild blackberries from the bushes that grew alongside the water. One of us usually ended up getting a mean case of poison oak. It was blazing hot and we all got scratched by the thorns, but what I remember most clearly are the pounds of dark, juicy blackberries that would be languishing in the freezer for months and the blackberry cobblers that mom would bake. By the time the cobbler was done baking, we would be salivating puddles on the floor due to the aroma that had overtaken the house. The cobbler would come out of the oven golden -brown with a thick, biscuitlike crust and sweet, syrupy berries hidden beneath. This treat would be eaten warm and it never lasted more than two days.

I remember grey, drizzly mornings, sitting next to the wood stove, hands wrapped around a steaming bowl of Cream of Wheat, always with a pat of butter, a bit of These are some of my food memories. They milk, and some dark brown sugar. play a significant role in why I photograph my food, write about food, and love to cook. I remember my dad and uncle getting up What are your food memories? before dawn to go hunting for deer and

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F SEEKING F(OOD): CAN NOT HOST It's a fair assessment that we Americans are a pretty wasteful bunch. I have it on good authority that in taking a peek into any grocery store's dumpster this becomes abundantly clear. (When I say "good authority," I mean a dude in one of my classes who exclusively wears thin cotton tie-dye pants and won't shut up about it). The point is that we waste a ton of food, and I'm including myself in that. Not simply by purchasing food from grocery stores and then neglecting to use it before its expiration date, but by having to throw away leftover takeout food that goes unfinished. The good folks over at Leftover Swap are well aware of our collectively terrible habits, and have a solution in the works that seamlessly blends technology with altruism. They've created an app that lets you take a picture of your leftovers, then drop a pin to let others know what food you have available and how close to them you might be. It's possible that I've been watching way too

much Law and Order : SVU (false-there is no such thing as too much SVU), but I see a litany of possible problems with this idea. Specifically, the act of inviting absolutely anyone to come over to your house gives me pause (murderers, rapists and weirdos, oh my!), but the principle behind it is pretty solid. According to the Leftover Swap website : -40% of the food we produce goes to waste -25% of us don't know our neighbors' names -70% of us are overweight -16% of Americans lack enough food for a healthy lifestyle " We are reaching the ecological limits that our planet can bear, and when we chop down forests, as we are every day, to grow more and more food, when we extract water from depleting water reserves, when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and

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more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think about what we can start saving." You can download the app for free from iTunes, or learn more about it from /eftoverswap.com. In other food -news, 30-printed pizza might soon become a reality. God, FINALLY! I'm glad at least some people have stopped trying to 30-print dumb stuff like guns and are concentrating on the important things like pizza. NASA is funding the project to develop a 30 food printer thanks to their Systems and Materials Research Corporation. At first I thought maybe the folks over at NASA were depressed and were giving up on space travel in favor of hanging out in their zero-gravity chambers and eating pizza and Cheetos, but it turns out that they 're just trying to improve the food setup for astronauts. Oh well. Whatever results in pizza is fine with me. SPACE PIZZA FOR EVERYONE!

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the Pageant Theater holds a special place in your heart. For me, the turning point came in 1997. I was 12, and my dad brought me to see Princess Mononoke. I remember walking into the unassuming building and taking the (big for me at the time) step up into their makeshift box office. After some sports-related banter with Tim Guista on my dad's part, and some wide-eyed staring at the concessions on mine, we made our way into the theater. Everything about that place, from the creaking of the floorboards, the mural on the wall, and the couches in the front row, combined to create a perfectly unique and brilliant amalgamation of what 's become a trademark Chico movie experience.

surplus things-it was a joke. We just liked movies. If we'd known what it would really be like, we probably wouldn't have done it. So in the beginning it was a rude awakening, but we eventually figured it out. Our turning point was when we got the film Ordinary People in the theater. It won the Academy Award that year and helped to get us our start, and gave us enough money to become the art theater that we wanted to be. So that was the beginning. The two of us ran it with help from and friends and family, and here we are 34 years later.

One of the great things about the Pageant is that they still show movies on a film projector as opposed to a digital one. As movies on film will no longer be offered in 2014, the Pageant has been left with the option to either raise the $51,000 needed to make the switch to a DCI digital projection system, or close its doors. In a collective uproar at the thought of having Tinseltown as our only movie option, myself and the other denizens of Chico have joined forces to keep the Pageant alive . I sat down with Tim Guista, co-owner (along with Roger Montalbano) to talk about the past, present, and hopeful future of the Pageant Theater.

Roger was teaching at the time at Paradise Elementary and he'd always loved film. We both did, but he was more of a film buff. There was really nothing like it in the area; there was the Rainbow Theater that did 16mm film, but they were usually two, three, or even four years behind in release dates. So we knew we had the ability to do 35mm film, but we didn't realize what crappy equipment we were working with ... but we had the ability! So that allowed us to show films that were either just released or just a few months old .

How did the Pageant get its start?

What was the first film you showed here?

Roger and I were playing softball for the Pageant team (that's when Al Mitchell owned the theater) . Roger was always a big film buff, and I wasn't really doing anythingbetween jobs as they say. Al had closed the theater down, it was closed for about a year, and Roger asked if I wanted to get involved with it. And I thought, why not? It was more of a lark than anything else. So I borrowed a grand, and he borrowed a grand from his mom ... and we had no idea what we were doing. The projectors up there were World War II

The very first film we showed here was Used Cars, a comedy with Kurt Russell and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who went on to become famous later for Back To The Future and Forrest Gump. Used Cars certainly wasn't typical of the kind of films we were going to show. It was double-billed (back then we did double -bills) with Justice For All, and Jack Warden was in both films ... [laughs], a Jack Warden double-bill.

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What made you want to own a theater?

Did you and Roger talk beforehand about how you wanted to run the theater, choosing films, etc?

We both went into it wanting to show movies that were more in the independent film category-stuff that back then you'd essentially have to go to Sacramento or San Francisco, possibly even Ashland to see . That was important to us. When we first started, we got cold feet because we weren't sure if we could make enough money showing the kinds of movies we really wanted to show. So that's why we started going the mainstream route with movies like Used Cars, Justice for All, and some other really bad stuff like the Rocky movies. At one point we stopped and realized this really wasn't what we wanted to do, so why are we doing it? Let's fail or succeed on our own terms. It was rough, but there's definitely an audience out there and we've built it up over the years . It was just nice to succeed doing what we wanted to do, instead of becoming just another mainstream theater. Ok, best night ever at Pageant, worst night ever at Pageant? [Laughs] Oh man, best night ... probably a long ways back . There are nights when you're with an audience and at the end everyone is clapping. Actually, at the movie we're showing right now, Muscle Shoals, that's been happening a lot. People on the street are coming up to me to tell me how much they loved the movie. I think as an event though, the most just fun thing we had was when we showed the Talking Heads movie, Stop Making Sense, back in the mid '80s . We showed that for a while, and we put in a bunch of big equipment, and people were down in the front dancing, so that was the single greatest event.

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Worst night?

What's in your personal top five?

Any night that the film screwed up and came out all over the floor, which has happened more often than I'd like to think. In the early days, probably one of the worst nights was when we were still trying to do mainstream movies, and we 'd show a feature, then a second feature, and then the original feature so it'd be three shows a night. One night Roger was working and we were showing Rocky v or some other crap and about halfway through the second showing of the film he looked down and realized there was nobody there . [Laughs] It was so bad everyone had leftjust walked out . But that was one of the things that helped us get to the turning point of wanting to show the movies we wanted to, and fail or succeed on our own terms.

One of the films that I've always really, really loved was 2001: A Space Odyssey. When that movie came out I was living in Mexico City and I saw it 13 times . And I wasn't stoned or anything! It just blew me away.

Top five movies?

Oh man that 's tough. Depends what day you ask. As far as the top movies in the sense of being popular here ... My Big Fat Greek Wedding. That was off the map compared to anything else we've ever shown. We played it for six months. It was huge for us; I'll always have a warm spot in my heart for that movie. I wouldn't say it was in my personal top five favorite movies, but I'll never forget it because it really helped get us going. Cinema Paradiso is another one that comes to mind.

What's your favorite part of your job?

Actually booking the films and setting up the schedules. I enjoy it when I'm here and it's a big group experience that everyone enjoys . Have you ever gotten to meet anyone who you admire within the industry?

We debuted Alexander Payne's film, Citizen Ruth, because he had been living in Chico. At the time he was nobody, and I remember standing in the back with him while his movie was playing and he's explaining some shots to me, and I asked him what his next project was going to be. He said, "Oh it's all about high school. It's called Election." And I remember thinking (sarcastically), "yeah that sounds like a winner," and of course that's the one that put him on the map. And he's done so much great stuff since, like Sideways and The Descendants. And it's kinda cool now, watching the Academy Awards and seeing him and thinking, yeah, you got your start at the Pageant!

We got to meet David Lynch once, which was funny because Roger had an Eraserhead t-shirt on underneath another one, and he opened his top shirt and Lynch just kind of rolled his eyes and said yeah, whatever. Are there any movies coming out that you're really excited about?

The one I was really looking forward to is the one we have right now, Muscle Shoals. My real passion is music-film is kind of secondary-but I went to Muscle Shoals just to check out the area. I saw the movie in New Orleans and I really wanted to bring it to Chico, but I figured it would just be me and six good friends who love this stuff. It turns out though that it's doing great! Which is a great feeling because there was a time when I'd thought, well I probably won't bring it in because no one wants to see it except me. Anything else you want to add for the readers?

We really appreciate all the people who have been helping out. The campaign hasn't been up that long and we're already at $18,000. It's also been nice to hear when people come up to me and tell me how much they love the theater. Because to me, having done it for 34 years, I mean it's my job, so I lose track of the perspective of why it's important to other people. It's pretty neat what this has become. I knew this digital changeover was coming and I knew we couldn't afford to do it, and I thought well, that 's going to come at the end of 2013, and at that point I' ll be 65; while I'd like to stay with it a little longer, make a little more money, I guess this'll be the end . But when I started telling people, letting them know that we'd be closing, I was surprised at the reaction of people saying "Oh no! You can't do that!" So there was a lot of that extraneous energy that helped push this along, and then Roger jumped on board and helped with the lndiegogo campaign. He doesn't have anything to do here as a day-to-day commitment, but it's a legacy and we want to keep it a little longer. We're eventually going to go, but I sure would like to see the theater go on. Maybe you'll sell the theater to two young upstarts like you and Roger once were ...

(laughs) Yeah you never know! Well readers, there you have it. If you'd like to donate, head over to the Pageant Theater's website at www. pageantchico.com and follow the link to the lndiegogo campaign. You can also write a check directly to the Pageant Theater and drop it at 351 E 6th St. Don't forget to attend the Jonathan Richman show, a benefit for the Pageant, on December 11 at the ARC Pavillion!

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PAINTED VINO

BY SARA CALVOSA

I don't want to be putting people in boxes (of wine) and generalizing about ladies in Chico (and how we love wine), and the things we do together in our downtime (drink wine), or while we're watching city council meetings (drink wine in our underwear), or at book clubs (big bottles of wine), but let's face it-we love wine and we love spending time together. Praise be, Erika Noriega of Painted Vino feels you. She has put her entrepreneurial spirit to work and come up with a way to combine our love of hanging out with the girls and being creative while drinking the vino and solving all the world's problems the way we do. It's called Painted Vino and it's an opportunity to get together with the girls/dudes, drink some wine, and have a local artist walk you through the steps of painting your very own masterpiece. As soon as I heard about this, I knew it was totally for me and I wanted to check this business out ASAP. Noriega invited me to an event to check things out for myself. What are you thinking? You're engaged to J-Pigg, getting a PhD, and being a Hooliganz groupie has got to be a fulltime job. What possessed you to start a new business?

Well, we decided to start our life here together and I asked [Jason), "what do people up here do for fun?" That's a legitimate question.

I quickly realized that unless you're a college kid hitting the downtown scene, there isn't much going on. Girls typically have their "wine nights" in. So I thought, what if we mix in something really creative, that would work with what the women in town are already doing? So that's how we came up with it-trying to look for a good time!

As soon as I heard about this I was immediately excited and wanted to check it out. I think it's going to be supernova popular.

You know, with the holidays around the corner, a painting that you created yourself is a great gift. It comes straight from the heart. My boozy little heart. With budget cuts and people really questioning the value of art and why it's important to nurture art in our community, this is a great way for artists to connect with people individually.

That's why we're so excited to get some local artists! And you know, as much as this is an awesome socializing event, this is also great for "me time." We've had people come on their own who have enjoyed the time away from kids, or the stressors of work, and just sit back and meet other people. I've really enjoyed building community within a community.

[And with that, I put on an apron and joined the party with a glass of red. I mingled and chatted, made some new friends, and came home with a delightful, romantic painting that I painted myself Big thank you to Maria for hosting the event and Jetting me partycrash, and to all of her friends for being so much fun!] Please check outfacebook.com/painted.vino for all upcoming events! There are still open spaces for November events!

How do you connect with local artists?

We put a call out for any artist who has expertise in acrylics and also has some expertise with teaching. Something that I look for in the artists we work with is that they're personable; they're all about pulling out the creativity from adults who may not feel that they have any, that may just be buried deep down inside. Eventually we hope we'll be at our own location; we've actually grown a lot quicker than we anticipated. What started off as just doing private parties at residences has now turned into a call for more events and more people getting together. And I have to say, being a new person in Chico, I've felt really welcomed by the community here. There are people reaching out to help us out. Folks that work with wine have reached out to us; we've had different people and venues that have opened their doors to us-Yours Truly and Wine Time, as well as Hot Flash Wines. I'm just really floored by the support, not only by my fiance and my family here but this community and how responsive and receptive they've been. I'm really grateful for that.

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Kids and Creeks Benefit Show. Every ticket provides a free outdoor science field trip for one local student. $15 advance tickets available at Chico Natural Foods and Three Sixty Ecotique, or $18 at the door. Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm.

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19 TUESDAY Laxson Auditorium: Andrew Bird. Stu-

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20 WEDNESDAY

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Cafe Flo: Bluegrass Jam with Lucy

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Chico Art Center: Guest lecture by SFOM curator Ramekon O'Arwisters .

Smith. 1-4pm. Later, The Reckoning .

$5-$15. 5:30-7 :30pm

Lost On Main: Pre-Thanksgiving Rock

LaSalle's: Norma Jean, Gigantes, A Holy Ghost Revival, Every Hand Betrayed, The Greenery, KenMode, Vanna . $12. 6pm

Bash . Rock Mountain Tribe, The Lonely

Laxson Auditorium: Ballet Folklorico

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The Bookstore: Poetry readings by Alec

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Dads Experience 3D. $15/gen, $12/

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The Bear: Trike Races. Wint-shirts and

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Quackers: Karaoke night with Andy.

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University Art Gallery: Paintings of Erika

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The Graduate: Free Pool after lOpm

Wismer Theatre: Spring Awakening. Tickets available at the University Box Office. 7:30pm

Carey Robinson Trio. 5-7pm Chico Women's Club: Prenatal Yoga.

5:30-6:30pm

Maltese: Open Mic Night. Music. Sign-

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19 TUESDAY Cafe Flo: Open Mic Singer-Songwriter

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lOOth Monkey Cafe & Books: Open Mic.

Janet Turner Print Museum: Women-

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Chico Women's Club: Yoga. 9-lOam. Afro

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Panama's: Eclectic Nights. Buck night

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Holiday Inn Bar: DJ Dancing. 70s and

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9:30pm

8pm-midnight

The Bear: DJ Dancing No Cover. 9pm

Janet Turner Print Museum: Women-

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LaSalle's: 1980Now! 8pm Maltese: Live Music. 9pm University Art Gallery: Paintings of Erika

Navarrete. All ages. Free. llam-4pm University Bar: Free Pool 6-8pm

Jam with Mark Johnson . $10. 7-8:30pm

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The Bear: DJ Dancing. No Cover. 9pm

Crazy Horse Saloon: Fusion Fridays.

Butte College Black Box Theatre: The

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DownLo:

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midnight.

Wismer Theatre: Spring Awakening.

DownLo: Chico Jazz Collective every

Janet Turner Print Museum: Women-

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The Beach: Play and Destroy DJ Contest.

Cafe Flo: Steven Truskol and The Next

Woodstock's: Trivia Challenge. Call at

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7:30pm

University Bar: Free Pool 6-8pm

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ONE IS SILVER AND THE OTHER IS GOLD Why would anyone read the same book more than once, when there are so many books to read? In a scene from the film Memento, Guy Pierce asks his wife this question as she reads a book she's read countless times before, making me wonder why I do the same thing. She answers him with "It's good, I enjoy it." Simple explanations are often the best kind. I ask readers at the bookstore where I work which books they read over again. Mostly they are the usual suspects: Little Women, Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice; sometimes the picks are unusual. Naturally they are good books, but the reason they are read repeatedly is what interests me. The selections most likely are rooted in personal reasons. I never ask why they read them again. I have my own reasons for reading Henry James' Portrait of a Lady over and over again. For such a dusty sounding title, the book is exceptionally full of life. James has created a living, breathing world in exquisite detail that I want to keep revisiting. I've followed protagonist Isabel Archer through her discoveries and disappointments a dozen times, and each time it feels like picking up with an old friend, albeit a complicated and at times confounding friend. The story begins with her journey to visit relatives in England, where she is given a large gift of wealth from her dying uncle. This allows her independence, a rare thing for women of that era. She travels Europe, turns down great proposals of marriage and finds herself in conflict with her idealism when she faces forces darker than she believes possible in a human heart. James generously brings his characters to life, illuminating them wholly, with flaws and idiosyncrasies. Critics would probably not classify this as a love story, but I think it is a story of great love. The love story does not make itself known until nearly the end of the book, when then it becomes something transformative. The person who loved Isabel asked nothing from her but that she live her life well, so that he could take pleasure in witnessing it. Throughout difficult years of sorrow and

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disappointments she unknowingly had his love-a light from a distant sun warming her all along. Truly selfless acts have the ability to slay me. This story makes me cry every time I read it. Great love stories are more than just stories of passion and ecstasy-sometimes they are quiet, unlikely, and beautiful to behold. It's been said that there are really only seven basic stories retold throughout time. The character in Memento responds to his wife reading the same book again by saying "I always thought the pleasure of a book was in wanting to know what happens next." Generally that is true, but most of us know what's going to happen. We've read the same stories told in innumerable ways. We're born, we live, and we die. Some are told so exceptionally well that they're worth experiencing again, and the pleasure lies in returning to them like old friends, picking up right where we left off.

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THE WEATHER REPORT

Another week in the books and the NBA couldn 't possibly be any wilder than it already is. The biggest acquisition of the summer was Dwight Howard. I don't think anyone would contest that. But as of writing this article, the Indiana Pacers are the proud owners of an 8-0 start that bodes well for their rugged style of defense and their wildly underrated free-agency splurge this summer. Houston remains undisciplined and slightly confused on how to shore up their failed Asik/Howard pairing and a lubricous number of turnovers that has even Kenny "The Jet" Smith wondering about his beloved Rockets. What is there not to like about the Pacers? Paul George is turning into a bona fide star right before our eyes, and the Pacers play a smash -mouth type of basketball that would be suited for the gridiron. Perhaps the only question looming is : how will the streaking Pacers fare against above-.500 teams? Did I fail to mention their hot start comes at the expense of sub-.500 teams that are trying to figure out the season during the first few weeks? Either way, I'm buying the Pacers as an Eastern Conference juggernaut. What about the South Beach connection? LBJ in the 307? If you are a casual fan, you might look at their defensive woes and think they are in a steady decline, prime to have their throne usurped by the upstart Pacers. A slow start on the defensive end is about

as common as Ray Allen hitting three for the Miami Heat during their legendary three straight NBA Finals appearances. The more important concern, whether you are a Heat fan or a LBJ detractor, is that he of two straight NBA Finals and regular season MVPs is calling out his team. This rings as bittersweet when considering that the Year of the Horse could see King James opting out of his lucrative contract and testing free agency once more. Do I think he will be leaving South Beach? No. I think the Heat front office will build around James once more, but I think the roster will look different come the 20142015 season. Another title, vaulting this iteration of the Heat into the record books, might bode well for keeping most of the core. However, perusing free agency next summer offers some interesting possible combinations to line up with LBJ in South Beach. What about the Warriors? Stephen Curry/Klay Thompson/Andre lguodala might represent one of my favorite line-ups in any back court in the league. That could be because I am a Dubs fan, but it could also be the ridiculous ceiling for Golden State, given continued growth and a large dose of a lack of injuries besieging the Warriors. I guess Sacramento fans can be excited that the middling Kings stayed in town, even if Cousins has yet to deliver on a monster contract. Oh yeah, football games were played, too.

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NOVEMBER 18 - NOVEMBER 24, 2013

ON THE TOWN

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HOWL HOW LM OV ESMOUNTA IN S.TUMBLR.CO M

ABOY AND HIS DRAGON

The wind whistled through Howl 's hair. To either side were Sabriel's black, leathery wings, rising and falling in a hypnotic rhythm. On long rides like this one, the boy liked to talk aloud-to stay awake, and reassure his companion with the sound of his voice. "Can you remember how we met, girl? It seems like I can only ever remember my most recent memories. What is it that keeps us traveling together? We're never apart, yet there are times with you that have been the loneliest of my life ... " "Do I love you, Sabriel?" Howl wondered aloud. "Can a boy love a beast such as yourself? If it is love that we have, it's certainly a different love than what I felt for her, all those years ago. No, I think this is something altogether different ... Something shared between us, and no one else. An experience we make, continually-never permanent, but always uniquely our own." The boy leaned forward to rest his head on his lady's neck, and the warmth of her inner furnace leeched into his body. They'd spent the night riding through a storm; the morning sun was shining brightly now through broken clouds, but it did little to dry Howl's soaked riding leathers.

erupted from her nostrils before they dissipated into the air. She never said much, being a dragon, but her thoughts were more or less constant. If her thoughts on this particular morning could have been put into English, they'd have gone something like this : "Do I love Howl? Sometimes I do. Sometimes I resent him. The differences between us seem too profound to comprehend ... Surely too vast of a gulf for love to exist. "I take pride in my friend, even while I resent his smallness. I have to tame my inner fires for his comfort. I have to resist the desire to eat him, even when I grow ravenously hungry. Before Howl, I was free, and beautiful, and terrifying to behold. "Before I met Howl, I never knew myself. What is my power? What is my freedom? They have no meaning, without love. They are meaningless unless perceived by someone who understands. He doesn't understand, but later, he may. I'll go where he leads, for awhile longer. I can always eat him if I need to."

Sabriel huffed, and two small gouts of flame

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PREVIEW

NORMA JEAN

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ON THE TOWN

BY TOMMY DIESTEL

Long time members of the metal scene Norma Jean will be coming to Chico November 22nd. Apparently their name is a reference to Marylin Monroe's real name. Recently they left their Christian metal label for independent rockers Razor & Tie, who also covers Hatebreed. Formed in 1997, these guys have been rockin' out for over 15 years now. Whoever said "faith and the devil's metal don't mix" never heard Norma Jean. Their album 0 God, The Aftermath was nominated for a Grammy. This week, Norma Jean will be stopping at LaSalle's to rip your face off for Jesus. Full of metalcore throwbacks and good wholesome fun, you can bet this show will be heavy, especially with the lineup to back them up. Also playing are the Oroville heavy hitters A Holy Ghost Revival, alongside Orland's Every Hand Betrayed, and Chico's Gigantes. Plus The Greenry, Ken Mode, and Vanna,

all the way from Boston. Seriously, if they came from Massachusetts to play, the least you can do is go downtown to see them. It's right there. Go support 'em. This night is bound to be brutal. Full of endless metal. Shredding guitars, heavy breakdowns, in-your-face guttural vocals, what's not to like? You'll be lucky to make it out alive, or even with your guts still intact. Hopefully you signed up for Obamacare, because your eyes will leak out of your ears at this show. That's how nuts it will be. Seriously, you may be in mortal danger.* You've been warned. So go check out Norma Jean, A Holy Ghost Revival, Every Hand Betrayed, Vanna, The Greenry, and KenMode downtown at LaSalle's. November 22nd. 6pm. $12. Be there. *The Synthesis is not liable for any bodily harm to come out of you rocking your face off too hard.

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NOVEMBER 18 - NOVEMBER 24, 2013

REVIEWS TIME SPENT IN THE MACHINE MUSIC REVIEW BY AMY OLSON

1930-2013

From the first notes he sings over the popping bassline in Dynamite Parasite, former Slow Car Crash alumnus Omarr Awake delivers a retro funk reminiscent of the laid-back sass of Stevie Wonder's lnnervisions. There's something very refreshing to me about that sound: an optimism that says it's a good idea to stay up all night dancing. His voice is smooth, passionate, and punchy, and the horns and guitar scattered over the bouncing low end are as fresh today as they were in the era they invoke. Not every song on Time Spent In The Machine pays such homage, however. To Carry You Home takes that optimism and lays a burden of experience on its shoulders. It's the city, the industry, and the tempered hope of a young artist, all in musical form. In Control Of Just One Soul is in the same vein, but it also carries a message of acceptance that opens a window to its environment. Listening to it, I felt a sense of being right in the groove of life as his voice crooned along over an easy acoustic guitar and drum track. Sadness slinked in like a regular in a smoky jazz club, watching his old love laughing

with her new man through the bottom of a glass. The machine in question seems to wind down from a bumping party to a rainy day with a big fuzzy blanket. I can't help wondering if the progression of tracks on the album was a metaphor for life after leaving the party scene of Chico in the '90s, the oddly empowering disillusionment of navigating the music industry and life in big cities, and the basic humanity that matters most in the end.

RESPECT THE VAN Flo has left us, but be certain of this She is greeting others with a warm

"HI!, HOW YA DOIN?" Wherever her spirit lives on. Chico loves you, Flo.

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MUSIC REVIEW BY SARA CALVOSA I don't generally do CD reviews because I pretty much only listen to holiday music. It's my favorite kind of music, and this is the time of year that I really ramp it up in that department. But because I have a rule, "No Holiday Music Until the Day After Thanksgiving," I agreed to listen to this CD and review it. So, with that in mind, this is my review: I think The Brothers Comatose are the reincarnated soul of an old hillbilly from Arkansas that was born inside a brokendown banjo. There's fiddling and banjoing and I'm pretty sure there's a guy blowing into a giant jug. You know how Disneyland used to have the Country Bear Jamboree? Respect the Van definitely brought me back to those summer days as a 7-yearold, kicking down some dance moves in Frontierland like nobody was watching, just feeling the vibe, hoeing-down with some animatronic bears. I don't know

about all the technical musical stuff, but I was dancing in my car as I listened, and singing along to all the places they repeat themselves as if I knew the words and had been listening to this CD forever. Also, Nicki Bluhm makes a guest appearance! I could listen to her read a grocery list. So, from what I can tell, Respect the Van is quintessential ProgAmericana, and this is an excellent CD for getting in the mood for holiday music.

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The year after the Civil War ended, an unrepentant Mississippi delta planter wrote: "I think God intended the

niggers to be slaves. Now since man has deranged God's plan, I think the best we can do is keep 'em as near to a state of bondage as possible ... My theory is, feed 'em well, clothe 'em well, and then, if they don't work ... whip 'em well." Now, nearly 150 years later, with Barack Obama as our leader, lots of people have been trying to make the case that racism is a thing of the past. A whole lot more people have been anxious, however, to let us know that racism is alive and kicking and screaming and whining and crying. And we never need to look far to find it. Anyone who thinks that racism isn't fairly common among cops hasn't been spending much time in the real world . Just today, I got a bit of hate mail from a former D.C. cop who avowed that people like him were going to take up arms, and when they do, "Obama and the liberals are fair game." Right here in ol' white bread Chico, we've got allegations of racism in the ranks of our cops, and across the spectrum of the American right wing, the biggest mouths among 'em make little effort to disguise the racism that has driven so much of their hatred of Barack Obama , and just about anything associated with him. Nor is it coincidental that so many comments are now made by Tea Partiers-observations that tend to play up things they don't like while simultaneously playing down the horrors of slavery. Sarah Palin thinks that the growth in the nation's debt is "worse than slavery." She's peddling a book on the chat shows these days, and her handlers are trying to give her things to say that' ll garner a little more media attention, to sell a few more copies before that big print run of her wisdom gets remaindered and pulped . So, Mrs. Palin-the woman who abandoned her duties as the Governor of Alaska after serving half a term-is now in full pursuit of another big payday and more of the national attention she became addicted to after the great patriot, John McCain, chose her to be a heartbeat away from the nation's highest office. McCain thought Sarah-who couldn't name a single publication she'd read, and who was transparently ignorant of the world-was going to garner him some votes from women, so he endowed the country with the enduring legacy of this self-serving woman. Among her many profundities is this right-wing meme about things they think are as bad , or even worse, than slavery. In Sarah Palin's mind, not only is the federal debt worse than slavery, but so is a woman's right to decide whether

or not to carry a pregnancy to term . Sarah's rather glib in making such comparisons. But since things that are worse than slavery come so readily to her mind, I'm guessing she's inclined to make that analogy even at home, in her private life. On mornings when her hair won't do what she'd like it to do, does Sarah exclaim in exasperation : " Oooh, these split ends are worse than slavery"? When she comes back from the salon with an imperfect manicure, could she stop herself from whining about how "this nail job is worse than slavery"? Or when she's hunting wolves from a helicopter, and the pilot fails to hold steady as she's about to pull the trigger, wouldn't it be natural for her to decry the inadequacies of the paid help by comparing their inadequate performance to the hell of slavery? When she's perched precariously on high heels, and she twists an ankle, wouldn't it be likely for her to curse those shoes by comparing them, unfavorably, with what slaves once endured? But Sarah Palin isn't the only right-winger who finds stuff that's worse than slavery. Another former Republican VP candidate, Paul Ryan, compared himself and his fellow anti-choice activists to the abolitionists who opposed slavery. And former GOP presidential hopeful and current Fox News commentator, Mike Huckabee, commonly compares abortion to slavery. Even George Will, the gray eminence of conservatism, recently compared the Affordable Care Act to fugitive slave laws that required the return of runaway slaves to their masters. Some might consider that a bit of a stretch, but not many on the right do. Another Republican, E.W. Jackson, a candidate for Lt. Governor in Virginia, even argued that welfare programs have been worse for black folks than slavery. Makes sense. Give most black folks a choice between food stamps and 50 lashes with a bullwhip, and only a fool would choose the food stamps . Not to be outdone or overlooked on the subject, Glenn Beck has compared restrictions on guns as the first step on the path to slavery. Oh, and lest we forget, Rush Limbaugh was on this bandwagon early and often, comparing the Affordable Care Act to slavery as that analogy was being rolled out as part of the right-wing marketing strategy. Rush got real defensive on the whole issue of slavery a couple years ago when he rushed to reassure everyone that white folks shouldn't be burdened with guilt about that regrettable slavery period, because it was Caucasians

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who shed blood to free blacks from bondage, after all. Or at least some of them did, so no guilt necessary. Among right wing women, Ann Coulter, poster girl for the kind of Tourette's Syndrome that produces involuntary outbursts of hateful commentary, called Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty programs " the worst thing that had been done to black people since slavery." Michelle Malkin attempted to make fun of the idea that black people might be entitled to reparations for a couple hundred years of involuntary servitude by comparing such demands to her own beef with a shoemaker who sold her a product that didn't satisfy her expectations. She was just kidding, of course. We all know what kidders these right wingers can be. But it ain't just the white folks who can get pretty dismissive of slavery's horrors . Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas-a guy who benefited from both Affirmative Action and the enthusiastic support of Republicans who have used him as proof of their liberality on matters of race-has compared Affirmative Action programs to slavery. And Dr. Ben Carson, the latest in a line of high-profile black folks willing to front for right-wingers, also thinks that we're currently enduring stuff that's as bad as slavery. Dr. Carson, in fact, seems to think that abducting people from a continent far across the seas, confining them below decks on slave ships, shackled and left to wallow in their own filth while crossing the Atlantic was no worse than what is being visited upon Americans these days as they're made to endure changes in health care programs. Surely, the government imposition of restraints on insurance companies that charged for "junk" policies or dropped coverage of people who got sick is a crime against humanity any right-thinking person would associate with slaves whose offspring were sold, whose backs were stripped raw by the lash, and who were denied all rights and legal protections as human beings . The equivalencies should be obvious . Dr. Carson, like Sister Sarah, is cashing in by saying dumb stuff some people are rabid to hear-but speaking for myself personally, this ain't a guy I want tending to my medical needs. Anyone who can't tell the difference between changes in health care laws and enslaving millions of people isn't someone I can trust to distinguish between a kidney and a pancreas . So, when it comes to black folks, the view hasn't really changed all that much since that Mississippi plantation owner was offering his opinion back in 1866. Feed 'em, clothe 'em, but if they don't work, whip 'em. But, for God's sake, don't damage them with food stamps or welfare programs . As even a Chico cop might tell you, that'd be worse than slavery.

NOVEMBER 18 - NOVEMBER 24, 2013

NOVEMBER 18 - NOVEMBER 24, 2013 BY KOZ MCKEV

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

You have a renewed appreciation

This week you shift away

Monday and Tuesday begin with

The good times continue to

You know the things that

You've been getting stronger

for where you live. Service, and

from flirtation and go straight

the moon in Gemini. I find folks

roll. The moon will be in Cancer

motivate you and the things

over the last several weeks.

working with others happily,

to intimacy. There occurs a

will often reveal their other side

Wednesday morning through

that hinder you. Pay more

Eating right and sleeping more

are part of what this is about.

transformation when we give

or evil twin during the moon's

much of Friday afternoon. Allow

attention to your spiritual life

can really pay off. Finish off

The sun moves into your ninth

our power to share in physical

stay in Gemini. Who do we

the things you hold dear to be

and/or lack thereof. Make time

whatever was neglected during

house Thursday night. Be ready

lust. Lust is natural. Love is a

pretend to be in order to meet

accomplished. Stay engaged in

for meditation and prayer.

the last several weeks. Be aware

to focus more on education,

choice that may require some

the expectations of others? Your

creative activities. Love affairs

Things finally begin to swing

of who your friends are. Focus

travel, and exotic experiences.

work while infatuation is a feeling

desire for romance increases

are easier to come by. Be aware

your way by the weekend