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The day center idea A number of good ideas for dealing with the problems associated
with Chico’s homeless population were presented at last week’s City Council workshop on the issue. Some, like putting more police downtown, are near-term solutions that could foster some immediate improvement. In the long term, however, we need to tackle the core issues. One of those issues is the fact that, during the day, the homeless have nowhere to go. There is no community living room or recreation room for their use. The Torres Community Shelter closes early in the day before opening again in the evening, and the Jesus Center, while offering many services, is not a hang-out place. The 6th Street Drop-in Center, which serves youths, is similarly not a place where someone can spend time reading, talking with friends or otherwise doing the things other people do in their homes. So the homeless hang out on the streets. The City Plaza is a popular spot because it’s a place where everyone, the homeless and those with homes, are invited to sit and rest. At the workshop, Jennifer Haffner, who chairs the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force, said her group would like to see establishment of a day center in Chico, a place where the homeless can congregate off the streets while also having access to a range of services. A quick Internet check shows that cities all over the country have established such centers, and that they are valuable resources in combating homelessness. The Prado Day Center in San Luis Obispo, for example, is open every day from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. serving 90 to 120 people. It offers housing referrals and job counseling, restroom and shower facilities, washers and dryers, lockers for storage, voicemail and message services, a play area for children, a community garden and much more. Creation of a day center seems like a logical next step in Chico’s effort to help the homeless. Ω
LaMalfa and Agenda 21 Lmeeting to hear Doug LaMalfa speak. Approximately 40 white, mostly older people gathered at Marie Callender’s ast week, I ventured to the Chico Tea Party
to dine and listen and interact with our new congressman. LaMalfa spoke at length about the Rand Paul filibuster, confirming that he did visit the Senate floor and yes, he did slip some peanut M&Ms to the rogue senator. He joked that, given his ricefarmer heritage, he wished he had slipped the upstart Kentuckian some Rice Krispies bars. LaMalfa continued with anecdotes and rants against President Obama that by had the audience nodding along. Allan Stellar Following his speech, LaMalfa took questions. Questions about all the “comThe author is a munist professors” at Butte College. psychiatric nurse who Questions regarding Bill Ayers and his lives in Concow. His education program “Common Core,” a last contribution to suspected indoctrination program affectthe CN&R was the ing every kid in America. LaMalfa had a Feb. 28 cover story, staffer take down the name of the pro“The coyote hunt.” gram to investigate further. But the most bizarre questions came regarding Agenda 21, a non-binding U.N. document from the early 1990s calling on its signatories to try to take care of the Earth. It is a feel-good ecotopian John Lennon song embedded in a government document. It has no requirements of any 4 CN&R April 4, 2013
member nation to take any specific action by any specific deadline. To some folks, however, Agenda 21 is the new “specter that hangs over Europe,” a new green Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx reborn in hemp T-shirts and Birkenstocks. Tea Party groups across the country are all aflutter with this paranoid conspiracy theory, with films and books circulated. LaMalfa relayed grave concerns regarding Agenda 21. He sees it “creeping into local government,” adding it is “creeping in all the time.” He went on to state that Agenda 21 is the inspiration for the “removal of dams, high-speed rail and local county planning.” Really? Afterward, I caught LaMalfa’s eye and read him my notes. I asked if he stood by his allegations that Agenda 21 “is creeping into local government” and that “dam removal, high-speed rail and local county planning” are results of Agenda 21. “Yes,” he stated calmly, looking me directly in the eye. A short simple clear answer. No wiggling away from his statement. Wow! Amazed that he would admit such, I then asked LaMalfa if he believed the United Nations was behind Butte County’s new general plan. “Well, maybe not the Butte County plan,” he conceded. Ω
Step it up, Chico State The university did a smart thing by opening up the conversation
about student alcohol abuse to the greater community back in February. Chicoans care deeply about the health of the community, and no one wants to see another tragic alcohol-overdose death. We’ve seen far too many already. As we read in last week’s cover story, “A perfect storm,” by Mark Lore, Chico State has been grappling with the destructive culture of binge drinking for many decades. It led to Adrian Heideman’s death back in 2000, when the freshman fraternity pledge downed a bottle of blackberry brandy. And the members at the now-defunct Chi Tau fraternity were drunk when they orchestrated the rite that led to the water-intoxication death of Matthew Carrington in 2005. Chico State adopted measures to prevent such instances from occurring again, such as making it mandatory for incoming freshmen to complete an online educational course. But eight years after Carrington’s death, based on current events, including four alcohol-related deaths last semester alone, the binge-drinking culture has only grown. A cursory Internet search of the AlcoholEdu program Chico State employs describes it as a two-part online course that takes no longer than three hours to complete. Further searching on college message boards indicates that many students snooze their way through the educational portion, and simply look up the answers to pass the accompanying exam. To some, the course is a joke. As noted by university health officials, 35 percent of incoming freshmen are binge drinkers. The national average is 25 percent. In other words, Chico State is attracting a great number of students who tend to drink heavily. That’s no joke. Bottom line: The university needs to step up its efforts to curb this behavior. There are plenty of ideas on the table. Now is the time for follow through. Ω
FROM THIS CORNER by Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com
Keep it brief, please The most dramatic moment at last week’s special Chico City Council workshop on solving the problems associated with homelessness came about an hour in, when Mayor Mary Goloff solicited public comments for the first time. Council chambers were packed, and audience members had listened patiently as some of the front-line folks working on the problems, including Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle, described how they saw the situation and what their organizations were doing to improve it. As was explained, the meeting was organized around discussion of four main areas, beginning with “public safety,” then moving on to “safe streets,” “downtown and plaza programming” and “walkable community.” Each would have a public-comment period. Twenty-one people had submitted cards indicating they wanted to speak on the public-safety topic. Goloff, looking out over the sea of faces, knew that if so many people took the usual three minutes to speak on all four topics the workshop would take forever. So she announced that she was limiting speaking to just one minute. It was not a popular decision. People who had prepared three-minute speeches had to edit them on the spot. Groans of displeasure broke out. Still, the first few speakers were very effective, making cogent arguments in under a minute. Twice audience members applauded, a no-no at council meetings, and twice Goloff asked them not to applaud, in “the spirit of giving everybody a chance to be heard.” Then Chris Nicodemus strode to the lectern. Nicodemus’ deep animus toward the liberal members of the council is well known, via his many letters to the editor and frequent appearances at City Council meetings. This time he was especially harsh. Calling Goloff’s decision “underhanded and bogus,” he accused her of making it so she wouldn’t have to consider “issues that you don’t want to hear”—an odd charge, given that it was Goloff who had convened the workshop. Nicodemus then charged that it was the council’s failure to get tough with transients and “send them back where they came from” that had turned Chico into a “magnet city on the transient highway. … Why you allow Chico to become a human dumping ground, I just don’t understand.” This so upset Goloff that she immediately rose from her chair, saying “I’m going to take a break,” and left by a side door. That occasioned yet more grumbling, along the lines of “We get a minute, but she takes a break?” You’ll find a letter to the editor from Nicodemus in this week’s Letters section. In it, he accuses Goloff of using her position “to stifle the voice of democracy,” calling her decision “a thoughtless gesture.” I figured she was just trying to get through a meeting that threatened to last too long for human endurance. But it’s true, as critics often charge, that some council members, including Goloff, don’t always apply standards of brevity to themselves. They should take lessons from Councilmen Mark Sorensen and Sean Morgan, who quickly say their pieces and shut up. It’s a sign of respect, and those of us in the audience appreciate it.
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No more budget excuses Re “Feeling the strain: Student Health Services at Chico State hurt by budget cuts, staff reductions” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, March 28): I am very, very tired of hearing the budget excuse. There is always extra money available when they want to hire a new administrator, or give an administrator a raise. It shows where their priorities are, and it is not with the students or faculty; it is with themselves. They hire insiders who are not qualified to do their jobs, they discontinue valuable educational programs because they don’t like people, and there is rampant retaliation. It is a horrendous situation at the university, with extremely lacking leadership. [President Paul] Zingg and his cronies hide behind a veil of “positivity” while making poorly considered choices that are negative to people, the campus and the community. We are long overdue for a change in “leadership.”
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Uncovered issues Re “Cleaning up Chico: Council addresses homeless transiency” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, March 28): I will miss Robert Speer’s very comprehensive coverage of the City Council. He’s the only game in town for that. There are issues, however, that I have not seen covered yet. First, reading the Butte County Homeless Census and Report (2011) one is struck by the fact that there is no direct query as to where these people came from—only an indirect question as to how long they say they have been in this county. This obfuscates how many homeless are homegrown— job loss, marriage loss, illness, being turned out of foster care, etc.—and how many are here because of Chico’s reputation of generosity. Why wouldn’t we want to know that? Second, Councilwoman Tami Ritter seemingly advocates for the homeless and not the general population. I don’t see her advocating any quality-of-life issues for neighborhoods. In fact, she’s pushing for more transitional housing stealthily placed in predominantly single-family-housing neighborhoods. What else to make of her statements that she’ll take anything, even six-bed (micro) shelters? If many homeless are not deemed good enough to stay at the Torres Shelter, by what alchemy are they suddenly fit neighbors for families with children, vulnerable seniors and students?
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had escaped from a Missouri prison and volunteered for the presidential campaign of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who ran on a segregationist platform. Ray bought a rifle and a scope (being an escaped prisoner did not matter to the gun store clerk) and decided to kill Dr. King, who died immediately at the age of only 39. The future looked bleak in 1968, but on Jan. 21, 2013, this country had an annual national holiday to celebrate and remember the great civil-rights leader. Jane Dolan (I’m her husband) and I (and nieces Sarah and Jessica) sat a few hundred feet from President Barack Obama as he was sworn in for a second term. I thought of Dr. King, who on the top of that mountain probably had tears. While the names of such scoundrels as Richard Nixon and George Wallace will long be noted in the history books, it is those who risked their lives to bring about equality and a better America who get honored. We miss you, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but thank you for speaking out. BOB MULHOLLAND Chico
This assignment stinks Re “Sewage smells: Plumbing failure raises downtown concerns” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, March 21): Excellent article on the plumbing problems facing local businesses on Main Street. It must be nice to be able to designate that block as a full-time reporting assignment. I was surprised not to see the same byline on the St. Pats Day piece, but I guess all that happened outside the Historic Seedy Tavern District. ALAN CHAMBERLAIN Chico
Undesirable natives Re “Canopy Challenge: Professor Calls for sustainable choices in city’s changing urban forest” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, March 21): Chico State biology professor, botanist and conservationist Kristina Schierenbeck laments the lack of large natives in the city’s current and proposed tree-planting scheme. May I point out that there is very good reason to exclude some natives from the city’s “preferred planting list” and ask Ms. Schierenbeck to leave the decisions to the professionals? Ms. Schierenbeck is “critical” of the decision to “exclude valley oaks, California sycamores and other large trees” from the list. Please … the native California
sycamore is highly susceptible to the bud-failure disease anthracnose, which causes the native to lose its leaves multiple times in a rainy spring and drop branches up to several inches in diameter yearround. Wisely, the city has replaced the native sycamore on the list with trees such as the Yarwood sycamore, a disease-free look alike. From out here in the real world, it looks like the city’s preferred tree-planting list is in good hands. BILL SMITH Chico
Mayor’s ‘thoughtless gesture’ At the March 26 City Council meeting, the citizens of Chico witnessed a travesty in democracy. At a special meeting regarding the homelessness problem, Mayor Mary Goloff, without prior warning, announced that she was limiting public comments to one minute instead of the usual three minutes. This decision limited the voices of 21 citizens who wanted to share their views on a subject that will quite possibly tear apart the town where I thought just a few years ago that I would spend the rest of my days. When Goloff heard the numerous groans and muffled comments from the packed gallery, she had a look of shock on her face. What did you expect, mayor, when you
Dubya’s dirty little war Re “Was Iraq worth it?” (Editorial, March 21): What exactly did we get out of the Iraq War? Supposedly it was fought because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. If that was the reason for the war, then why didn’t we go after Iran or North Korea? We knew damn well they were building WMD, but no, we didn’t go after them. Then why Iraq? I believe the real reason for the war was so that George W. Bush could show the world and prove to his father that he could “finish the job” by getting Saddam Hussein as his daddy did not do. So, what happened after the “ne’er-do-well” (Ronald Reagan’s description of George W. Bush) proclaimed “Mission Accomplished”? As the editorial says, $3 trillion and 4,400 Americans killed and tens of thousands of others coming home disabled and injured and we got what? Iraq can no longer keep Iran in line, which it was doing before the war, and we’re $3 trillion more in debt for fighting a war without funding it. As a Vietnam vet (1st Cavalry, 1966-67), I’m hoping that the Iraq and Afghanistan vets will be treated a whole lot better than the disdain and contempt the Vietnam vets were treated with after Vietnam, because I don’t see how those wars are going to end any differently than Vietnam did.
“When Goloff heard the numerous groans and muffled comments from the packed gallery, she had a look of shock on her face. What did you expect, mayor, when you used your power to stifle the voices of democracy?” —Chris Nicodemus
used your power to stifle the voices of democracy? After a well-timed break, at least six or eight citizens who had wanted their voices heard got disgusted at the last-minute ambush and left the chambers. Well done, Mayor Goloff! It is a shame that many people who wanted to express their ideas left feeling slighted by our mayor’s thoughtless gesture. Madam Mayor, you have a lot to learn at your new job. Your decision to limit the voice of democracy will come back to haunt you. CHRIS NICODEMUS Chico
I’m also hoping that the voting public now knows better than to buy the delusions of another politician like George W. Bush, because he does have a brother in Florida who people are making noises about running for president next time. Yikes! PHIL ELKINS Forest Ranch
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Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Chico State professor Jean Schuldberg to the California Commission on Aging. According to a press release from Brown’s office, Schuldberg, 57, has taught in various departments at Chico State since 1989. She is co-director for the Chico State Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education and coordinates the California Social Work Education Center Mental Health Stipend Program at Chico State’s School of Social Work. Schuldberg has a doctorate in international and multicultural education from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in social work from Indiana University. The position offers no compensation and the appointment does not require Senate confirmation. Brown noted that Schuldberg is a Democrat.
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The Chico Police Department has introduced the first of what will become its new standard patrol car, a black-and-white Chevy Caprice sporting a picture of the Bidwell Mansion (pictured with CPD Officer Todd Lefkowitz). The change was prompted by the fact that Ford stopped producing the Crown Victoria—a favorite cruiser among Chico and other departments—in 2011. As these older, all-white vehicles reach the end of their service at around 100,000 miles, they will be replaced with the newer Chevrolet models. CPD will receive five new Caprices and two Chevy Tahoes in the next few weeks, with all the older cars phased out within three to four years. According to a CPD press release, the color change is cost-neutral and makes the cars more recognizable, which the departments says will provide a “stronger police presence.” 8 CN&R April 4, 2013
Proposed animal-protection law criticized by the Humane Society
Fare accusing animal-rights activists of facilitating animal cruelty. riends of the California beef industry
The sharp twist of irony comes close behind a new proposed law from several California Republicans, includby ing local Assemblyman Brian Alastair Dahle (R-Bieber) and Sen. Jim Bland Nielsen (R-Gerber), that would make it a crime to photograph or otherwise record animal cruelty and not report it to law enforcement officials within 48 hours. Ranchers and beef industry lobbyists say Assembly Bill 343 will help to protect animals. But animal-rights groups oppose the bill, arguing that mandatory reporting of illegal treatment of animals will hinder undercover investigations of farms, feedlots and slaughterhouses suspected of routinely abusing their livestock. These investigations—dozens of which have made huge impacts on public awareness of animal welfare—often last weeks or months as undercover employees wearing hidden cameras compile long and gruesome inventories of footage. “If you see animal abuse, I believe you need to go to law enforcement immediately so they can stop it,” said AB 343 supporter Dave Daley, a rancher and the associate dean of the College of Agriculture at Chico State. Daley noted the often-cited investigation at a slaughterhouse in Chino, which involved months of footage and, eventually, led to a major meat recall and a shutdown of the facility. “That videotape was kept secret for months before it went to the police,” Daley said. “How much more animal abuse was occurring in that time?”
An important question is whether
the long-term benefits of keeping quiet while filming animal abuse outweigh the short-term suffering of livestock. Many animal-rights activists believe they do. It was the Humane Society of the United States that led the Chino investigation before making the video public in 2008. The footage revealed routine abuse of animals and food-safety laws—including the slaughtering and processing of cattle too sick to walk. Had the whistle been blown at the first sign of animal abuse, the owners of the plant might have been notified and the investigation would have gone nowhere, said Mary Beth Sweetland, director of investigations with the HSUS. The undercover investigators, she said, must build a strong enough collection of evidence to lead to the conviction of a suspect in court or prompt changes in animal-welfare laws and policies. “You have to prove a pattern of behavior to prove this is standard behavior,” she explained. Although AB 343 would not prevent the observer from keeping copies of the recorded footage or prohibit that person from continuing to capture more footage, the bill’s opponents are concerned that law enforcement officials would tip off owners of the animals that they are being documented by investigators, allowing them to clean up their act before sufficient evidence has been collected to make a legal case against them. The animal abuse might cease temporarily. The evidence trail would peter
out. The investigation would go nowhere. And after the cameras were turned off, business as usual would resume. Such is the scenario outlined by Sweetland. “To make an airtight case, you can’t just film or document a single event,” Sweetland explained. “Otherwise, the offender will just say the abuse was an aberration, or that they were having an off-day, and that it won’t happen again.” Sweetland said it would be nearly impossible “to build a case in 48 hours.” Daley said he thinks that “four or five days” of silence while filming could be allowed. Similar bills in other states have proposed a 24-hour time limit on how long an undercover investigator of livestock facilities may remain silent after observing animal abuse. AB 343 would make withholding such evidence a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine—but Justin Oldfield, vicepresident of government relations with the California Cattlemen’s Association, insisted that the bill would not interrupt the work of investigators. “Nothing in the bill stops anyone from filming animal abuse or from putting it on YouTube,” Oldfield said. He noted that AB 343 would not even require law enforcement officers to tip off the business owner that he or she is being watched—though the bill does encourage individuals to inform “the owner[s] of the animal or poultry, or a representative of the owner[s]” that recordings have been made of people abusing their animals.
Numerous long-term investigations
nationwide conducted by the HSUS have required weeks of candid camerawork to gain sufficient evidence to shut down routinely abusive operations. In 2009, an inspector spent 21 days filming gory abuse of cows at Bushway Packing Inc., in Grand Isle, Vt., which was eventually closed. In 2010, a sixweek undercover investigation in Virginia compelled the managers of the Smithfield pork facility to agree to cease the use of gestation crates—cramped boxes that contain mother pigs. In 2011, an undercover investigation that took many months ended a Texas cockfighting ring. In 2012, 30 days of covert observations led to criminal prosecution against suspects involved in the torture and abuse of pigs and piglets at Wyoming Premium Farms, a slaughterhouse in Wyoming that was reportedly providing pork to Tyson Foods. Mercy for Animals, based in Los Angeles, has conducted more than 20 undercover investigations into animal cruelty at livestock facilities across North America in the past decade, according to Director of Investigations Matt Rice. He said most of these operations took between several days and several weeks to complete. Nationwide, almost a dozen other socalled “ag gag” bills similar to AB 343 are currently under consideration. Rice said these bills are designed explicitly to prevent the public disclosure of animal abuse—not to actually stop the abuse. Bills like AB 343 also represent a sophisticated change in tactics by the livestock industry, Rice said. Previously, he explained, several proposals to outright ban photography or video work inside slaughterhouses prompted public backlash. “When journalists and animal-rights groups went up in arms saying this was a violation of the Constitution, [the livestock industry] began taking a different approach,” Rice said. While Utah did, in fact, pass such a bill, making it a crime to take photographs, video or sound recordings without permission inside a slaughterhouse or other livestock facility, most proposed laws now pending legislative review seek only to prohibit one from applying for a job with the intention of uncovering illicit activity or, as with AB 343, withholding evidence of animal abuse. Sweetland at the HSUS characterizes this as “the devious nature of this bill.” But those in the beef industry claim to interpret the language much differently. “I really believe [AB 343] was written with the best intentions,” said Daley at Chico State. “I just don’t understand why you would sit on evidence of animal abuse if you like animals. I really don’t understand. Fine, keep filming, but hand over the evidence to law enforcement as soon as you can so they can do something.” Ω
Brothers divided
Scott Baldwin has grand plans for a bar on West Second Street, but a formal protest from a local business owner has delayed construction since late last year.
Downtown building owners at odds over bar’s location uring a recent tour of the vacant space D adjacent to Cold Stone Creamery on West Second Street, local entrepreneur Scott Bald-
win enthusiastically shared his vision for his bar-to-be, The Argus. As he described where the L-shaped bar would go, how he would keep the rough brick work lining the walls “for character,” and the extensive back patio area that would make The Argus “a real gem” in downtown Chico, there was a sense that Baldwin has taken a painstaking approach to launching a business with long-term success in mind. “I feel extremely confident in the location, the business plan, in the community being welcoming to what we’re going to bring to town,” he said. But despite his preparations, including having his architectural plans reviewed by the city and the approval of building and use permits, construction has been on hold since Sept. 21. That’s when Eric Hart, owner of the nearby El Rey Theatre, filed a formal protest and prompted a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) review process that went well past the 175-day window for “investigation, hearing preparation and administrative review” associated with a protested liquor-license application. As reported early this year (see Newslines, “Bar Crawl,” Jan. 10), in order to open The Argus, Baldwin agreed to purchase the liquor license Woody Sjorstrom has used for the past 11 years as owner of the Towne Lounge. Interestingly, the vacant space The Argus is looking to fill is owned by the Hart and Fleshman Investment Group, a company owned in part by Eric Hart’s brother, Michael, who believes Baldwin’s business model will be a positive addition to the downtown area.
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“He’s got his building plans done beautifully, his concept is top of the line,” Michael said. “We feel privileged to have such a highcaliber businessman investing into our properties and into downtown. But his brother isn’t so convinced.
Eric’s complaint to ABC raised issues of bar congestion in the downtown area, “vandalism and alcohol-related issues such as vomit and waste,” the proposed bar’s proximity to Bidwell Presbyterian Church’s services held at the El Rey, and that relocating the liquor license to the West Second Street location would “hurt existing businesses which are already struggling in this area.” The review was completed on Feb. 21 and, as per ABC policy, he was given 15 business days to respond. Eric filed a second protest citing the same grievances on March 14—the last day of the response period—forcing a judicial hearing scheduled for May 9. In the meantime, Sjostrom can’t afford to abandon his only revenue source in the Towne Lounge and Baldwin can’t move forward with construction of The Argus. Baldwin maintains that, since the original protest was filed, he’s made frequent attempts at meeting Eric halfway by adding provisions to the liquor license to address his concerns. He said those efforts have been met with silence.
SIFT|ER PAYING FOR CLIMATE ACTION While most Americans acknowledge the existence of climate change and agree it’s important to act now, most don’t support paying for protective measures such as building sea walls or relocating coastal communities. Here are the results of a recent survey of 1,174 American respondents compiled by Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the Center for Ocean Solutions: • 82 percent believe in the existence of climate change. • More than 70 percent believe climate change will lead to a dangerous sea-level rise and more damaging storms. • 30 percent support building sea walls. • 33 percent support trucking in sand to replace beaches that have washed away in past storms. • 37 percent support moving structures away from the coast. • 80 percent said the cost of coastal protections should fall on those living in coastal communities.
“[Eric] never put his best foot forward to reach any kind of compromise,” Baldwin said. “I think that a solution was never in the works.” Eric maintains that a compromise was not reached because he believes Baldwin’s business model—an upscale bar for businesspeople—simply won’t work and that he will be forced to cater to the college crowd by offering “high-volume discounted drinks.” In that event, he said, business at the El Rey would suffer and downtown Chico in general will continue “deteriorating.” “I think the location is terrible as far as having a bar between a movie theater and an ice cream shop,” Eric said during a phone interview. As for the argument he will present during the May 9 hearing, Eric said, “I grew up in this community and I love this town. I work downtown every day. I hope to show the judge that setting up a bar in that area is going to hurt downtown Chico.” Among the points he will bring to the judge’s attention are Chico’s well-chronicled alcohol-related issues, and how another bar “along the college drinking corridor” is not in the community’s best interest. “We need to be proactive here, and that’s what I’m doing,” he said. His brother, Michael, voiced frustration over the ordeal. “It’s hard to watch,” Michael said of Baldwin’s ongoing construction delays. “Eric’s been very fortunate to have a lot of successes, and for him to impede a young family man like Scott is beyond me.” Baldwin expressed similar frustration, claiming his establishment would only benefit the El Rey’s semi-regular movie nights and concerts. “It’s a very wealthy commercial property owner preventing another business coming into town that’s going to provide employment and tax revenue,” Baldwin said. “It’s the exact opposite of what anyone would want for the economic well-being of downtown Chico. “Ultimately, we’re going to benefit each other,” he said. “There’s no way around it.” —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com
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examination as the new assistant city manager was welcomed, a married couple accused the city of ruining their property with a bike lane, and gun enthusiasts urged the council to support the Second Amendment. Attending his first council meeting, Mark Orme, the new assistant city manager, was introduced by City Manager Brian Nakamura. The two had worked together previously, filling the same roles in the Riverside County city of Hemet. Nakamura was hired last August, and Orme was brought aboard in March following the abrupt retirement of former Assistant City Manager John Rucker in January. Orme mentioned to this reporter stories and comments that have appeared in the CN&R and the local daily that suggested some cronyism was at work in his hiring. “That hasn’t made it easy,” he said. Nor, he said, has being separated from his children while he makes the transition. Nakamura said Orme had been hired unanimously by a board that considered his “training, knowledge and enthusiasm,” and that he subsequently “has hit the ground running.” “I am very fearful for my job now,” he joked. Orme was then welcomed with a round of applause from the council, city staff and members of the audience. First up on the council agenda was the matter of acquiring property to complete a bicycle path from Little Chico Creek to the Community Park on 20th Street. To do so, the city needs a strip of property on Humboldt Avenue owned by Laura and Jerry Douglas. The city has met with the couple in closed-session meetings and offered $6,250 for the property, said Tom Varga, the city’s director of Capital Project Services. The city could use the process of eminent domain, which gives govern-
Chico City Manager Brian Nakamura (left) and new Assistant City Manager Mark Orme at Orme’s first City Council meeting. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE
ment agencies the power to take private property for public use as long as it pays just compensation, which is eventually determined by a court if no agreement can be made. Varga said the city had not heard from the couple since they said they were going to seek an independent appraisal of the land last October. The couple addressed the council and noted they were not initially against the plan, but thought the offer of compensation was low. They also said that since the city opened up a bike bridge last fall over the creek farther to the east, their property—a triplex they rent out—has become a magnet for transients and their shopping carts. “They get drunk and sleep on our property,” Laura Douglas told the council. “We called the cops and they never showed up. They said anybody can sleep on your property.” (When asked later by the council about such policy, police Chief Kirk Trostle said, “That’s news to me. We do respond to transient calls.” He promised to talk to the couple.) Jerry Douglas said building another bike bridge over the creek will triple the number of transients. Varga told the council this was the first the city had heard of the transient problem. “Now that we know what is going on, we will, within reason, try to accommodate those concerns,” he said. The council voted to continue negotiations and not move forward with the process of eminent domain to force the issue.
One of the more interesting
items taken up during the meeting was a request by Toby Schindelbeck, a former City Council candidate and local business owner, that the council pass a resolution supporting the Second Amendment. Seven members of the public addressed the council, six of whom supported his effort. John Salyer pointed to Butte County Sheriff Jerry Smith’s recent statements supporting gun rights, and said the council should do the same. A man named Michael Gaughan also spoke in favor and said, “Freedom was not won with words and wisdom. It was won with blood and bullets.” Connie Voss suggested more people carrying guns would end the increase in stabbings, particularly in Bidwell Park, and Dennis Hall said, as a retired paramedic, he’s seen his share of gun incidents, but even so is a big supporter of the Second Amendment. Chico State professor Lisa Emmerich, taking a different stance, urged the council to “defend the entirety of the Constitution.” After public input, Councilwoman Ann Schwab noted that each council member swears to uphold the Constitution when sworn into office, including the First Amendment, which allows free speech, such as the panel had just heard. Vice Mayor Scott Gruendl then made a motion that the council members reaffirm their oaths of office, which includes more than just the Second Amendment. That passed unanimously, though Councilmen Mark Sorensen and Sean Morgan both said they supported Schindelbeck’s request. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com
Calling for respect Focus of UFW founder’s holiday an ongoing process
ésar Chávez Day in Chico has for years Cof bacchanalian been an occasion noted more for a spirit excess than one of commu-
nity service, but there are efforts afoot to change that. On Monday morning (April 1) about a dozen volunteers congregated at the Compost Display Area on the Chico State campus, located near the tennis courts just off the railroad tracks. They pulled weeds, turned heavy piles of compost, spread a thick mulch of partly decomposed valley oak leaves, and prepared the soil for a diverse host of native plants. “There are a lot of students on campus looking for community involvement,” Jeremy Jensen, a volunteer with the group Cats in the Community, said as he wiped mulch from his hands. “And although we have programs like CAVE, not everybody has the time and commitment to put in so many hours a semester. So this is one of the opportunities [students] have to give a day.” Jensen was among a growing number of Chico State students who want the holiday honoring the late human-rights activist and labor leader, who founded the United Farm Workers, to be about more than revelry, but an opportunity to commit to something deeper, stronger and more abiding. Krista Farnady, the Associated Students commissioner of community affairs, said more than 200 students and community members participated in the Cats in the Community program this year. Red-shirted volunteers dispersed across 11 locations including the Jesus Center, the Boys and Girls Club and Trinity United Methodist Church. They picked up trash in Bidwell Park and washed trucks at the Chico Fire Department. “It’s kind of a high-risk, high-profile weekend,” Farnady said at her makeshift headquarters alongside the pool in the Wildcat Recreation Center. “That’s why we do it on this weekend; to provide an alternate event for people who don’t want [to engage in destructive behaviors].” But the hangovers and red plastic cups associated with the holiday haven’t disappeared entirely. In terms of the excesses seen in the student community, according to a Chico Police Department press release, “activity levels and arrests for the César Chávez Day weekend were down significantly from previous years.” However, according to the data in CPD’s
Cats in the Community volunteer Jeremy Jensen spent Monday (April 1) at the Compost Display Area on the Chico State campus rather than getting rowdy, as has become tradition on the Monday following César Chávez Day, when the Chico State campus is closed. PHOTO BY JESSE MILLS
weekend recap, the numbers of arrests remained fairly static compared to last year. In 2012, CPD reported 42 arrests associated with the holiday between Friday evening and Sunday morning. This year, between late-afternoon Friday (March 30) and early morning Monday (April 1), 61 people were arrested. Of those, 12 were Chico State students, 10 attend Butte College, and five were listed as “other students.” The remaining arrestees were described as local (21), out-oftowner (3) and transient (10). On Sunday (March 31), César Chávez
Day proper, students turned out to engage the community in a different way. Around 25 students representing the Chico State chapter of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán), a national student group promoting Chicano unity and empowerment, gathered at the Student Services Center and marched through the Fifth and Ivy student neighborhood, eventually converging at the City Plaza, where there were speakers and festivities. The route was not arbitrary, said Chico State student Juan Guzman, president of the local MEChA group. Fifth and Ivy, he noted, “is one of the more problematic areas [in the] college community that tends to stereotype Mexican culture. So that’s where we need to bring more of the awareness.” Guzman said that, though overall the march ran smoother this year than it did last year, participants still encountered a handful of racially motivated remarks. “We don’t care if people drink or party, or do whatever they want on César Chávez Day,” Guzman said, “but we don’t like the fact that they tend to stereotype Mexican culture.” In this regard, he added, the university has been doing its part. “Each year they try to help us out [by] publicizing, making statements, creating posters in the community and on campus to teach students to be respectful of César Chávez.” In the end, he said, “It should be a day of community service.” —JESSE MILLS
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A summer camper and a Durham firefighter feel the power of a blasting fire hose during Planes, Trains and Automobiles week last year at Durham Recreation & Park District’s summer day camp. Each day the campers were visited by a guest speaker and their mode of transportation.
The Obama administration has proposed national regulations like those already in place in California to reduce sulfur in gasoline and tighten automobile emissions beginning in 2017. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the new standards would provide $7 in health benefits for each dollar spent to implement them, while the costs would trickle down to consumers in higher vehicle and gas prices, according to SFGate.com. The EPA estimated the gas-price increase would be less than a penny per gallon, and the agency said vehicle prices would increase by $130 by 2025 as a result of the standards. An oil-industry study, however, concluded the price of gas could rise by 6 to 9 cents per gallon. Republicans and oil-industry officials have decried higher manufacturing costs and question potential environmental benefits of the regulations. The standards would reduce sulfur in gasoline by more than 60 percent and nitrogen oxides by 80 percent.
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PESTICIDES BAD FOR BEE BRAINS
Two types of commonly used chemicals— coumaphos and neonicotinoid pesticides—interfere with the way honey bees learn and remember, new research suggests. Researchers from Scotland’s University of Dundee found that if the pesticides were applied directly to the brains of honey bees, they caused “immediate hyper-activation,” or “epileptic-type activity,” according to BBC News. A separate study based on laboratory experiments at the UK’s Newcastle University found that bees exposed to both pesticides were unable to learn and remember floral smells associated with a sweet-nectar reward, a skill critical to bees in search of food. “It would imply that the bees are able to forage less effectively,” said Dr. Sally Williamson of Newcastle University. “They are less able to find and learn and remember and then communicate to their hive mates what the good sources of pollen and nectar are.”
KILLER WAVE LOOMS
An earthquake on a well-known fault line could cause a 26-foot tsunami to hit the California coastline, a recent report finds. A 60-page U.S. Geological Survey report concluded that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake or stronger along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (which runs from Northern California to Canada’s Vancouver Island) would threaten roughly 267,000 Californians living in coastal areas, according to The Associated Press. A further 169,000 Californians work in these “tsunami-inundation” zones, and that number could grow during certain times of the day on tourist beaches. Earthquakes along the CSZ have created tsunamis seven times in the past 3,500 years, in intervals of 140 to 1,000 years. The last tsunami was created in 1700.
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Daytime playtime Local camps offer lots for kids to do when school’s out
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and learn to count and read using LeapPads. Teens are practically required to be on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social-media sites. There’s hardly time anymore to interact face-to-face or get outside and just play. Enter summer camp, the time-tested alternative to boring days around the house. “Spending time outdoors is important for kids these days,” said Caitlin Reilly, office manager at Chico Creek Nature Center, which offers a popular summer day camp in Bidwell Park. “We want the kids to feel safe outdoors, to understand what’s in the world around them and have a good time. Plus, they get physical fitness because they’re constantly moving around throughout the day.” The Nature Center’s camp is decidedly low-tech, Reilly explained. The focus is more on getting kids out into the creek, into the park and experiencing nature, rather than simply keeping them occupied during the few months they’re not in school. Instead of
watching movies or sitting in front of a computer screen, kids are tromping through the creek, playing games and learning to identify insects and plant species. “When we grew up, we’d play outside from after school got out ’til the street lights came on. Now kids want to be in front of a screen of some kind,” said Ceanne Johnson, whose eldest son will be returning to the Nature Center camp this summer for the third time. “I’m a huge fan of the Nature Center camp. The kids learn about our environment and our ecosystems locally. And when they come home, they’re dirty and hungry and tired.” After all, that’s the point of a camp like the one at the Nature Center. And, while that camp may be unique in Butte County, it’s certainly not the only option. There are dozens of camps in the area that offer a range of activities for kids, from arts and crafts, to theater and dance, to sports and outdoor activities. The Nature Center’s program, like the summer day camps offered by nearby Durham Recreation & Park District, offers a mixture of experiences but focuses on being outside, in nature. “It might be a beautiful day outside, but if you’re not involved in a summer camp—if you’re indoors, in front of television or an iPad or whatever—all you feel is the environment that surrounds you.
You’re not getting the physical and health benefits of experiencing the breeze, the sunlight and the sounds of being outdoors,” said Ryan Taxara, recreation supervisor for the Durham district. “The vitamins you get just from being outside in the sun are beneficial for the kids’ nutrition— not to mention the physical activity they get while they play.” Camp is also a place for exploration and trying new things. Campers at the Nature Center get to take hikes into Bidwell Park, where rangers offer guidance about plants and animals, including how to identify poison oak.
Camp connections: • Go to www.bidwellpark.org/page/kids/ day-camps.php to learn about Chico Creek Nature Center’s summer day camp, Camp Chico Creek, and to download the registration form. Ages 5-11. Counselor-in-training program for teens. • Go to www.durhamrec.com to find out more about Durham Recreation & Park District’s summer camps, for kids in grades K-6. Registration is currently open. Counselor-intraining and lifeguard training opportunities for older kids. • Go to www.chicorec.com/Summer-Camps/ index.html for more information on the Chico Area Recreation and Park District’s numerous summer-camp offerings. Registration begins April 8. Check website for specifics.
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“The kids learn to feel safe outdoors because they’ve spent time outdoors,” Reilly explained. At Durham, campers take field trips to places like the Forebay Aquatic Center on Lake Oroville, where they go kayaking, paddle boating and swimming. “The field trips allow the kids to experience things they wouldn’t ordinarily get to experience,” Taxara said. “At the Oroville Forebay, they get to go paddle boating and kayaking—not every child is, either economically or locationwise, able to experience that. Using California parks and park districts is an opportunity to experience different types of environments that are beneficial to a child and their development.” The camps at Chico Creek
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DOING THE GOOD WORK I got an email the other day from local clothing company Young Love Outfitters announcing the launch of its new website. Besides looking even more attractive (I love the new coastal shots), the site also offers a revamped payment system and cost for shipping ($7 flat rate to anywhere in the United States), as well as a fashionable assortment of T-shirts, sweatshirts and cloth tote bags, and a snappy, practical “Neil 5-Panel Hatâ€? (pictured), named after astronaut Neil Armstrong and the first hat in Young Love’s new Pioneer Series. For those of you not familiar with Young Love, it is the brainchild of local entrepreneurs Ken Swain and David Zoppi, who quit their mall jobs last year to start up a socially responsible online business (see “The goodness of their hearts,â€? CN&R, July 12, 2012). Central to Young The Neil 5-Panel Hat, named after pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong. Love’s philosophy is that 15 percent of each purchase goes to one of three worPHOTO COURTESY OF YOUNG LOVE OUTFITTERS thy causes, which change as the financial goal for each is reached; currently, customers can choose to donate to either LeapingStone to provide desks and chairs for classrooms in West Africa, Plant With Purpose to plant 500 trees in deforested areas, or charity:water, which helps bring clean drinking water to people in developing countries. As Young Love’s new-and-improved site says, “Our mission is to create quality goods that look good, do good, and inspire good. ‌ Collectively, we are inspired by street culture, California lifestyle, classic designs, and disruptive ideas. All our clothing is designed to spark conversation, inspire creativity, and to make a difference where difference is needed most.â€? Zoppi offered in a recent email: “We are working on new designs including some small accessories like wallets and more bags that are set to come out this summer. ‌ We are [also] being sold on Roozt.com (an online marketplace for brands that give back), and are now working on getting into physical stores. ‌ Our main focus is just growing the brand, reaching as many people as possible and expanding our products. We are looking forward to the Thursday [Night Market] and other markets in California!â€? Go to www.younglove.com to find out more about Young Love Outfitters. MARK YOUR CALENDAR On April 11, from 7-10 p.m., the Chico Peace & Justice Center is joining with the Chico State Political Science Department and Drug Policy Alliance to host a free screening of the award-winning documentary film The House I Live In, “a powerful journey into the prison-industrial complex and the war on drugs,â€? as CPJC director Chris Moore-Backman wrote in a recent email. “Both the LA Times and the NY Times called the film the best documentary of 2012. Melinda Shopsin, producer of the film, will be our guest and speaker for the evening.â€? The House I Live In will be shown at Chico State’s Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall (PAC 134). “The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.â€? — Marcus Garvey “Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.â€? — Jane Addams EMAIL YOUR GREEN HOME, GARDEN AND COMMUNITY TIPS TO CHRISTINE AT CHRISTINEL@NEWSREVIEW.COM
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Enloe Medical Center was recognized by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California for its quality of spine surgery, and knee and hip replacement. Enloe earned a Blue Distinction Center+ award in both categories, an award based on general quality and safety metrics as well as programspecific criteria, according to an Enloe Medical Center press release. The hospital is one of 31 in California to receive a Blue Distinction Center+ designation for knee and hip replacement since 2006, and one of 21 to receive it for spine surgery. “We will only be more cohesive and collaborative as we continue to develop and fine-tune this program,” said orthopedic surgeon Brock Cummings, medical director of Enloe’s Total Joint Replacement Program.
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Being too clean may be making members of the developed world more prone to illness, researchers say. The “hygiene hypothesis,” produced in 1989 by epidemiologist David P. Strachen, asserts that early exposure to microbes allows our immune systems to identify what’s harmful and what isn’t, according to The Washington Post. If early exposure doesn’t take place, the immune system can become overly sensitive and overreact to non-threats like pollen or dander. A 2012 study of Amish and Swiss children found that those who grew up on a farm— where they were exposed to livestock and associated microbes, and more likely to drink raw milk and have more siblings—had significantly lower rates of asthma, hay fever and eczema. “You don’t need to use antibacterial soaps or wipes, or clean everything with bleach, or even wash your clothes every day,” said Michael Zasloff, an immunologist at Georgetown University Medical Center.
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Flight attendants, pilots and cleaning crews of commercial airliners may be exposed to high levels of flame retardants, a study finds. Researchers from Duke University analyzed dust collected from 19 commercial airliners, finding traces of flame retardants in all the planes and extremely high levels of some chemicals, according to Environmental Health News. Typical airline passengers are likely not at risk, but employees who spend long shifts in the air could face significant exposure. Female flight attendants have a 29 percent higher risk of all cancers (and are at 11 times greater risk of melanoma) than the general public, though flame retardants have not been conclusively linked to this phenomenon. The Federal Aviation Administration requires planes to pass strict fire-safety tests. Items likely to contain brominated flame retardants include seats, carpets, walls, overhead bins and pillows.
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B psychiatrist at Enloe Behavioral Health, he was a radiation oncologist who efore Dr. Scott Nichols was a
regularly found himself counseling cancer patients as they struggled with the enormity of being diagnosed with a potentially terminal disease. “Once you have this life-threatening illness, a lot of people struggle with what’s meaningful in life, what makes life worth living,” Nichols said during a recent interview at Enloe Behavioral Health. “If people are facing the end of their life and then they get cured of the cancer, that throws everything they were previously doing into a new light.” As he often does now with psychiatric patients suffering from depression or anxiety, Nichols would recommend his cancer patients seek fulfillment through physical exercise. But not just any exercise—for the greatest mental-health benefits, the physical activity had to come in the form of something the patient found genuinely engaging and fun. “My work is to help [patients] reconnect with what’s meaningful in their life and put their life together in a way that they can feel good about,” he said. Nichols will discuss the relationship between physical activity and mental health at the Gateway Science Museum on April 10, at 7:30 p.m., during his presentation, Motion/Emotion: Improving Health by Having Fun. His lecture is the second installment in the Gateway’s month-long
Museum Without Walls lecture series, held each semester for the past 10 years. Curiously, this spring marks the first time the lecture series will be held in the museum; previous series were hosted by the CARD Community Center. This spring’s theme, Medicine in Motion: The Science in Sports, ties in with the Gateway’s two current traveling exhibits, Sportsology (which focuses on physical challenges and physiology through interactive exhibits) and Brain Teasers 2 (which highlights mental challenges and cognitive neuroscience with a collection of puzzles), said Renee Renner, the museum’s director of exhibits and education. “There’s a lot of interest in neurological disorders or injuries related to sports in the news, athletes who have suffered from depression or debilitating injuries to their central nervous system,” Renner said. “We realized [the lecture series] would be a good
way to bring those two exhibits together.” Judy Sitton, a member of the Gateway advisory board, said museum administration tapped Nichols for the presentation following a recommendation from an Enloe physician. “He’s just a great individual and has taken this assignment for the lecture series very seriously,” Sitton said. “We’re really looking forward to seeing what he has to say.” Nichols said that he prescribes
exercise to between 50 percent and 75 percent of all his psychiatric patients, many of whom deal with physical pain along with psychiatric ailments like depression or anxiety. While pain-killing opiate medications are effective for some, he finds that such meds can increase depression symptoms for many. Nichols said research has HEALTHLINES continued on page 17
APPOINTMENT AUTISM AWARENESS WALK On Sunday, April 7, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., The Yellow Door (a local organization supporting individuals with autism) hosts Walk for Autism, a three-mile walk through Lower Bidwell Park to raise autism awareness. Festivities include sensory activities for kids, local food vendors and educational opportunities. The walk begins at the One-Mile Recreation Area. Registration is $10; call 518-2495 or go to www.chicowalksforautism.eventbrite.com to register or for more info.
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Taking life back from hip and knee pain When the pain you are experiencing in your hips or knees severely restricts your ability to walk or perform simple activities, it may be time to talk to an orthopedic surgeon and consider a joint replacement procedure. Mobility is a vital part of life and Feather River Hospital’s award winning Joint Replacement Center of Excellence is seeing to it that patients get back to the life they know and love faster. This includes patients who would consider themselves too young for a replacement. Feather River Hospital surgeons use unique, advanced techniques that require smaller incisions and damage less muscle tissue. These techniques allow faster recovery and a shorter hospital stay. Because surgeons are part of a skilled care team that provides a consistently high level of treatment from pre-op through recovery, patients are able to be active again more quickly. The care team comprised of surgeons, nurses, therapists and even dieticians also focuses on the patient experience and the benefit of compassionate, patient-focused care in promoting healing. This approach has helped the program to reach a level of excellence recognized by awards such as a 5-Star Rating in Total Hip Replacements for 10 years in a row from Healthgrades. Feather River Hospital is also a Blue Distinction Center+ for Hip and Knee Replacements. “Blue Distinction Centers set themselves apart by adhering to best practices in patient safety and surgical care
and producing consistently strong outcomes with fewer complications,” says Marcus Thygeson, M.D., senior vice president and chief health officer at Blue Shield of California. The Joint Replacement Center of Excellence offers an innovative, proactive approach to care for total knee and total hip replacement patients utilizing pre-operative learning classes and group therapy. “The focus of this effort is to create a smooth, cohesive plan for the patient that helps them to be fully prepared for their procedure and gives them a clear plan for recovery and an excellent outcome,” says Gloria Santos, Vice President for Patient Care. When recovering in the hospital, patients recover as a group – exercising, enjoying various activities, and providing support and encouragement to each other. Total joint replacement patients average a hospital stay of only one to three days. Most patients are putting weight on their new joint later in the same day that they have their surgery. For patients who once suffered from joint pain, being able to hike, golf, play with their children or even ride a motorcycle again greatly improves their lives. Feather River Hospital’s joint replacement program is helping them to achieve these excellent outcomes as fast as possible. For more information about the Feather River Hospital Joint Replacement Center of Excellence call (530) 876-7243 or visit www.frhosp.org. To learn more about Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care®, please visit www.bcbs.com or contact your Local Plan.
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great and then they feel terrible,” he said. “When people exercise, they tend to feel better and then keep feeling better.” If an individual begins to develop a positive association with exercise through heightened mental well-being, they will feel more compelled to seek it out, Nichols said. He maintains that such an association is much more effective than telling people what not to do. “The motivation that something is enjoyable is much more powerful to people than avoiding a bad thing,” observed Nichols. “That you should exercise because it’s good, you’ll live longer and you won’t get a heart attack isn’t very motivating for people; what can be motivating is, ‘If you do this, you’re going to enjoy it.’ “If you can turn [exercise] from a should into a want, you are much more likely to be successful with it.” Ω
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Sad, sweet music are their lives playin h s s l a c g son e lo e r gs Th BY KEN SMITH k e n s @ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m
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first saw Harold Gilbert perform at a now-defunct old-time-music showcase in the basement of a Chico retirement community two years ago. Of the many exceptional acts I saw that night, none moved me quite like he did.
When his name was called Harold stood up, fetched his banjo and shuffled to a chair centered on the room’s makeshift stage. As he picked the first few notes, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and I got chills when he belted out, in a beautifully aged tenor, the opening lines to an old gospel song: “When the storms of life are raging, stand by me.” When he reached the final verse, I’ll admit I was a bit misty. I’d wanted to interview Harold since that night, and to share his story, as well as the stories of others like him; local musicians who’ve played music throughout their long lives not for ego or money, but for personal enrichment, and a sense of joy and camaraderie that comes only from sharing it. This led to me also meeting with Victor Mlotok, a retired psychiatrist, and Andrew Walters, a honky-tonk man who’s rambled his way around the world. Though Harold, Victor and Andrew are cut from very different cloths, similar themes resonate through each man’s story. They’ve all turned to song for celebration and solace, and all three prefer—and are 18 CN&R April 4, 2013
compelled to share—traditional styles that remind them of who they are and where they’ve been. Harold loves the sound born, like he was, in the Blue Ridge Mountains; for Victor it’s klezmer, the Jewish folk music of his ancestors; and for Andy, it’s good old-fashioned country-western. To me, the love of music is an indication of a person’s character, and the songs he sings snapshots of his life’s journey. Music is art, science, spirituality and, perhaps most important, folk history. These are the stories and songs of everyday people.
The family man Harold Gilbert hails from War, W. Va., and the Southern lilt in his voice was still strong as we spoke in his living room, his fingers instinctively rolling across the strings of the banjo in his lap, a harmonica tucked in the side of his easy chair.
“My parents were born in Virginia; they came up because there’s money in the mountains, in the coal fields.” Harold explained, laughing as he continued, “Well, there was supposed to be money to be made.” He described his childhood as financially poor, but rich in music. His sisters sang and his brother played fiddle and guitar. He remembered watching a neighbor whittle a banjo on his porch, and several times during our conversation he recalled songs he learned from his mother. “We liked the country music,” Harold said. “My mother would sing old ballads
Harold Gilbert first picked up a harmonica at the age of 12. PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH
and I liked them, and I liked the country, mountain sound … I’ve always liked sweet music, that’s the way I put it. Sad, sad, sweet music.” Before she passed away, Harold’s mother wrote some of the old songs down in a notebook he still keeps. He said he doesn’t play them publicly much, because some the lyrics are so dark. As an example he shared a snippet of “Poor Ellen Smith”: Shot
through the heart lyin’cold on the ground/ her clothes were scattered all around/ blood marks the spot where her body was found. Harold got his first instrument, a harmonica, around age 12. “I used to sit on the street and shine shoes in War. I had a shoebox and I could buy a harmonica for a dollar back then. They cost $35 today. “There was a black man who’d come down the street every so often and he’d say, ‘Give me that harmonica, boy,’ and I would, because he was a big guy and I was afraid not to. He would play a lot of different things. Then I’d go home and try to mimic what he’d play.” With that, Harold pulled out his harp, cupped it completely in his hands and began to play in a breathy, percussive style markedly different than most modern harmonica players. Harold joined the Navy as a teenager, and near the end of his tour attended a USO church dance in Washington, D.C. He recalled going for a free meal and finding the love of his life, his late wife, Polly. They were married from 1954 until last October, when she passed away after a long illness. A music lover herself, Polly sang in church choirs and played ukulele with the Chico Ukulele Group. When asked to play a song she enjoyed, Harold sang an old Irish ballad called “Red is the Rose” (You choose the road love and I’ll make a vow/ That I’ll be your true love forever). Harold and Polly had six children who now live in Chico, San Diego, Colorado, Virginia, Philadelphia and Maryland. They had 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with twin great-grandchildren expected any day (“I’m waiting for a phone call,” Harold beamed). The couple spent most of their life together in Maryland and Virginia, where Harold worked as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse, and moved to Chico in 2003 after retiring. Harold bought his first banjo in his late 20s, and taught himself with Pete Seeger’s seminal instruction book, How to Play the 5-string Banjo. He played off and on for years, but didn’t start playing out until a decade ago. Since moving to Chico, he’s been a regular at song circles and folk jams, but said he backed away after Polly’s passing, and is now trying to get back into it. He’s also recently begun—at 79 years old—to learn guitar, something he wishes he’d done earlier.
“I regret a lot about not spending more time with music than I did,” he reflected. “I was too busy raising a family and working, and didn’t have time for music, accept occasionally. I think a lot of people make that mistake. But better late than never.” Harold said another advantage of playing is meeting people, and that Californians are the nicest people he’s met anywhere. But he still misses the mountains of his youth. “It’s where you grow up,” he said. “There’s nothing as pretty as the mountains in Virginia, and the valleys.” As Harold kept speaking of home, one could easily imagine his mother and sisters singing a sweet, sad, old ballad. “If you get up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, and look down into the valleys and see the farms and the green grass growing everywhere, no sand, you’ll see what I mean. It’s beautiful.”
The modest doctor I’d briefly met Victor Mlotok a few times at the Rise Up Singing Circle, where people meet monthly to play and sing at the Chico Friends Meeting House. He’d impressed me as a quiet and contemplative man, often passing when it was his turn to pick a song, but happily pumping and keying his accordion to carry the melodies chosen by others. He plays beautifully, albeit on the quiet side, and speaks even more softly.
A picture of modesty, Victor insisted several times before we met at the Chico News & Review office that there were better musicians with more interesting stories than his to interview. But as we talked about music, particularly his passion for klezmer, the shy retired psychiatrist grew more comfortable, ultimately sharing half a dozen beautiful tunes. Victor was born in the Bronx, in N.Y., but spent most of his childhood in City Terrace, just east of downtown Los Angeles. “At the time I was growing up it was mostly populated by Jewish people, a lot of immigrants,” he said. “A lot of them didn’t speak English. It gradually became Latino.” His parents were immigrants who came to America after World War I. Though from different parts of Eastern Europe, they shared Yiddish as a native tongue; Victor grew up with Yiddish, Russian and English spoken in his home. Victor began learning piano at age 5, and musical training was considered a luxury in his family. This remained a driving force for him to keep playing. “I had trouble sticking to it,” he recalled. “I loved music and I liked playing, but I hated performing. “But I stuck to it because my mom said, ‘Well, if you’re not going to practice then you won’t continue your lessons.’ It cost money and my parents were poor, so that’s why I stuck with it.”
Victor Mlotok grew up playing piano, but switched to accordion when he started playing Jewish folk music. PHOTO BY KEN SMITH
He played through high school, flirting with other instruments—cello, piccolo—but mainly stuck to piano. One instrument he never considered was the accordion, largely due to the The Lawrence Welk Show (“I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the way he plays music, but the music turned me off.”) Victor said he stopped playing after high school: “I went to college, and dropped out of college, then went back to college,” he explained. “I went through medical training, which was very time consuming, so I didn’t have the time or energy. I was focusing on my studies all the time.” Though not playing, he developed a love of Israeli folk dancing. During the time he took off school, Victor did some soulsearching that led to a reappraisal of the accordion. “I lived in Israel for almost a year when I dropped out of college,” he said. “I lived on a kibbutz, a collective farm. Almost every Saturday night the tables and chairs in the communal dining room would be cleared away, pushed to the side, and they’d put on records
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and we’d dance for hours.” On special occasions, an accordionist from a nearby village visited the farm: “He’d sit, just one musician and, instead of the records, he’d play the music and we’d dance. It just sounded wonderful.” Victor returned to the States and to his studies, eventually becoming a medical doctor. During his short-lived first marriage he bought an accordion, learned the basics, and let it sit in a closet for 35 years. Then came a more successful marriage to Anne Warner (“We’ve been together almost 40 years now, so that one’s went pretty well,” he said) and a significant career change. “I was working at the Student Health Center at Chico State for about 10 years as a general practitioner, and I was doing a lot of psychiatry. People came in with all kinds of problems, but a lot of their problems turned out to be psychiatric in nature, so I decided to get training.” Victor became a psychiatrist for the second half of his 40-year medical career, retiring in 2010. Music re-entered his life and he began playing jazz with friends when he and Anne moved to Chico in 1978. Having grown up playing mostly classical music, he said he found new, creative pleasures as he learned the more improvisational style. Throughout the 1980s, he played regular local gigs with a band called Footprints. Eight years ago, he and a friend from the local synagogue started exploring their love of klezmer. He didn’t feel piano fit the music (“The original klezmer musicians were itinerant musicians; They went from town to town in Eastern Europe, nobody carried a piano around with them”), so he pulled out the old accordion, and eventually upgraded. This project evolved into a quartet, the Hemlock Street Klezmer Band, which last December played their first show outside of a synagogue at a packed Café Flo. He also plays with a revolving group of musicians from temple for weddings, mitzvahs and High Holy Days. Then there’s the Trinity Accordion Gathering, a group that meets Thursdays at Trinity United Methodist Church, and sometimes plays retirement homes. Victor said playing with people is his favorite thing about music: “It’s harmonizing with other people,” he said. “It’s not just playing the notes, but [also] trying to make sure what I play fits in with what they play and enhances what we’re all playing.” Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because of his innate modesty, Victor initially balked at playing during the interview. Thankfully he conceded, explaining the significance of each song as he closed his eyes, bowed his head, and lost himself in songs his people have carried for thousands of miles and hundreds of years. 22 CN&R April 4, 2013
The rambling man In October, I stopped by the Towne Lounge for a drink. As the late-afternoon sunlight lit the dust hanging in the air of my favorite (and soon-to-be-gone) local dive bar, an old man wearing an orange shirt with the hand-drawn phrase “User Friendly” sat on the stage next to an electric guitar, a feather tucked jauntily into his baseball cap. After fiddling with a homemade plywood and metal contraption, he set the device on the floor, stomped it a few times to test that the pedal properly triggered a screwdriver against a block of wood, and picked up his guitar. He was joined onstage by local musician Aaron Rich (of The Blue Merles fame) and, with little fanfare, began stomping, strumming and, in a just-slightly and perfectly off-key voice, tore through a set of honkytonk standards by Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and other artists more obscured by passing time. Through casual conversations over several weeks, I discovered he’d recently landed in Chico after a lifetime of travelling the world, playing music in dives not unlike the Towne Lounge, from Portland to Prague. When I told him I’d like to interview him, he gave me a business card with his stage name—Rancho Mars—penned in above his real name and chosen title: “Andrew Walters, Specializing in Esoteric Plumbing and Intergalactic Scatology, Past
Andrew Walters (aka Rancho Mars) and Aaron Rich play happy hour most Fridays at the Towne Lounge. PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH
President and Now Acting Secretary North American Association of ExJockeys.” Walters—who goes by Andy—is quick to recall his childhood outside of Portland, Ore., and his early musical memories. “We were out in the sticks and didn’t have electricity or a radio,” he explained, sitting in a corner of his Chico apartment. “So the only music I heard was in church. A lot of these songs are kinda the same themes. My
dad could sing, and once in a while, when he wasn’t dog tired from working the farm, he’d sing songs. “We were pretty poor, so I never even thought of being able to afford an instrument,” Andy recalled. “I was about 20 and I went to a party and there was a guy playing a guitar and I thought, ‘Woo-hoo, I gotta do that.’ So I got this horrible old Stella guitar with the strings about an inch off the keyboard and I started cracking on that, and I got some bad habits because of it. I had one lesson, and played so much I hurt my fingers and didn’t show up to the second one.” Andy worked through the pain and kept at it, joking he lost some friends while navigating the learning curve. He remembered the first time someone paid him $20 to play a party, which led to playing with more people in gin joints and dives around his home state. As Andy told his tales, it was hard to pin down a timeline, partly because he’s got an endless stream of fascinating stories and partly because, though always affable, he is sometimes deliberately obtuse. “I don’t like to look back,” he repeated more than once as I dug for more details. He hinted at a stab at the square scene before his life took a drastic, and deliberate, turn. “I had responsibilities,” he said, mentioning jobs as a firefighter and desk jockey before a particularly successful extended gig gave him the means to live how he wanted. “That’s when I started traveling,” he recalled. “I bought this van. And this isn’t motor-homing, it’s vanning; it’s a totally different thing.”
Andy vanned around the United States and Europe for decades, also spending time in Uruguay, Puerto Rico and Mexico. He spent his longest overseas stint—20 years— living in a rattletrap old German mail truck he fixed up and drove “from Turkey to Ireland, from Portugal to Poland, and back and forth several times.” In all his travels, he continued to play music for anyone willing to listen: “People go over to Europe and they see the Louvre, they see the chain bridge in Budapest … but there’s nothing like playing music,” he said. “I had experiences people will never have, and God bless them.” His course has always been plotted by opportunity, intuition and a commitment to break free from the mundane. Once, while staying in Sacramento and wondering where to go next, he dreamt of a “pair of dice”; the next day he drove to Paradise for the first time. Since then he’s stayed in the Chico area a few times, most recently returning a year ago. He also spent some time in Nashville in the early 1980s, plugging his van into the back of a Music Row flophouse filled with aspiring songwriters. There, he got a role as an extra in a made-for-TV Hank Williams Jr. biopic called Living Proof (“It’s the worst movie ever made,” he said). Though unimpressed with the film, through it he met a woman who introduced him to a personal hero, Marty Robbins. Andy said Robbins liked his originals and made plans to record a few. Two weeks later, Robbins died of complications from heart surgery. Though he’d love to have worked with Robbins, Andy said he never aspired to fame, and readily expresses disdain for “jippo music publishers,” “hacks” and other music-industry phonies. He’s even self-conscious about playing his own compositions, saying “people come out to have a good time, not to get an education.” He shared a few of his favorite standards— “Honky Tonk Girl,” “Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On,” before playing one of his own, A Robbinsesque gunfighter ballad about the bulls and the blood and the sand. “As good as it gets is playing a sleazy old honky tonk with two or three guys,” he said between songs. “It can’t get any better than that.” Ω
Walters spent 20 years living in an old German mail truck while gigging throughout Europe. PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH
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Arts & Culture The dudes: (from left) Daniel Martin, Chris Keene, Michael Lee and Daniel Taylor. PHOTO BY KYLE FORREST BURNS
THIS WEEK Making hay with the dudes The sun is still shining on Chico’s favorite pop-rockers
E Chico band with a far-reaching sound (think: Mother Hips, Number One Gun) that puts out a
very once in a while there is a special
recording that not only makes them big fish locally, but also makes waves in greater musical waters outside of our little by Jason pond. And for the past couple Cassidy weeks I’ve been telling everyone who’d listen about a great new jasonc@ newsreview.com recording that would seem to have the potential for such a splash. Post-Heroic, the new selfPREVIEW: recorded, self-released album by Surrogate CD- local rockers Surrogate, is jarringly release party, good. The 10-song collection is a Friday, April 5, 8 p.m., at perfectly recorded mixture of LaSalles. Armed strong, tuneful, mostly mid-tempo for Apocalypse pop rock held together by the invitand French ing tenor of front man Chris Keene. Reform open. If one of the songs showed up on LaSalles your playlist between Death Cab 229 Broadway for Cutie and Radiohead, I doubt 893-1891 you’d even blink. To put it succinctly: It sounds like music that is popular now, so much so in fact that the first thing that comes to mind is, “Why aren’t these guys signed?” Well, they used to be. Thanks to ties that Keene had left over from his days as a member of Number One Gun, Surrogate was on Tooth & Nail Records for their first two albums. But since the release of the Diamonds and Pearls EP in 2011, the band has been on its own. And despite the obvious appeal of their recorded efforts, they’re not looking to do the getsigned/tour-the-country thing. So, the real question for a band still putting in the work might be … “Why do we do this? … That’s kind of our persistent existential quandary,” said bassist Daniel Taylor during a recent conversation with him and Keene. “[I want] people who might like it to hear it, as opposed to people not hearing it all,” he explained about the band’s recordings, but mostly he said that creating and playing music with friends is satisfaction all its own.
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Taylor has been busy pushing the band online, spreading the new recording across social media and sending it to music blogs in hopes of finding ears for the music. “In lieu of touring, this is kind of the next best thing,” he said. Even with label support, touring would be tough for a group at the age where “real life” has mostly taken over band life: Taylor is finishing up law school. Keene is married and works full time at Build.com. Keyboardist Daniel Martin is a teacher and also married, and guitarist Michael Lee works several jobs and is recently engaged. “We’re not really in a place where we can leave [for] three weeks,” said Keene. In Chico, though, the band has been fully in the game. Post-Heroic is Surrogate’s fourth release recorded in town by Keene; the band has regularly taken home trophies in the CN&R’s annual CAMMIES awards (including Best Local Act, Best Album, Best Male Vocalist); and when they play LaSalles, as they will at a CD-release party Friday, April 5, they pack the large downtown club. And Post-Heroic finds the band at the height of its powers. Part of the new album’s strength, and where its sound differs from the band’s previous recordings, is the comparatively raw overall sound and palpable energy of the playing. It was a concerted effort on Keene’s part to beef things up and capture more of a live-show sound. Additionally, with the departure of founding drummer Jordan Mallory last year, there naturally was a change in the sound of the drums, which were recorded by a rotation of the remaining members of the band, mostly the two Daniels. After the CD-release show, the four will go back to their busy lives, and will even take the summer off as Taylor takes a hiatus to study for the bar exam. As for what’s next, that will likely include what it always has, namely the dudes getting together to make music, hang out and, as Taylor put it, “To make hay while our sun is still shining.” To which Keene added on without skipping a beat, “Before they put us out to pasture.” Ω
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DR. DREW: A lecture with Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction medicine specialist best known as a TV and radio personality. Th, 4/4, 7-9pm. $5 $40. Bell Memorial Union Building (BMU), 2nd St. 305; (530) 898-6411 ext. 3373.
GLOBAL VOICES: ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDS: Live music, dance, cultural activities and authentic cuisine at this celebration of Asian Pacific Island culture. Th, 4/4, 6-8pm. Free. Rose Garden, Chico State Campus, (530) 898-4101.
THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: It’s back! Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: local funk from GravyBrain, folk and blues from Bob McDaniel, a performance from Fusion Dance Company and more. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico, www.down townchico.net.
Art Receptions INTO THIS VASTNESS I STEAL AWAY: An opening reception for the Chico State MFA culminating exhibition featuring work from Mariam Pakbaz. Th, 4/4, 5-7pm. Free. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078 gallery.org.
Theater JANE EYRE: The classic tale of a young woman’s transition into adulthood and her love for the proud, moody master of Thornfield Manor. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 4/21. $12$18. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.
ON THE VERGE: Considered an important feminist work, this bare-bones production emphasizing rhythm and word follows three Victorian lady adventurers as they travel through time. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Sa & Su, 2pm. $6-$15. Wismer Theatre, Chico State Campus, (530) 898-5739, www.schoolofthe arts-csuchico.com.
DR. DREW Tonight, April 4 BMU Auditorium
SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS
COMEDY NIGHT: Stand-up comedians Todd Johnson and Sean Peabody hit the Rolling Hills Comedy Stage. F, 4/5, 7:30pm. $10. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (877) 840-0457; www.rollinghillscasino.com.
KEEPING DANCE ALIVE!: A colorful, upbeat and energetic performance in which the North State’s finest dancers showcase ballet, hiphop, modern jazz, bellydance, tap and Irish dances. F, 4/5, 7:30pm; Sa, 4/6, 2pm. $14-$18. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.
KEITH LOWELL JENSEN: The “atheist comedian” appears at the Blue Room for two shows in support of his third comedy album, Elf Orgy. Johnny Taylor opens. F, 4/5, 8 & 10pm. $10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St.; (530) 8953749; www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/356268.
MAGICIAN WAYNE HOUCHIN: Local magician who has performed in more than 30 countries presents his newest show, Insanity. F, Sa,
7:30pm through 4/13. Opens 4/5; Su, 4/7, 2pm.
$10-$15. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.
FINE ARTS MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL: A humorous musical parody set to classic pop music in which four women meet at a lingerie sale. Su, 4/7, 4 & 7:30pm. $30-$45. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.
ON THE VERGE: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State Campus, (530) 898-5739, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
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KEEPING DANCE ALIVE Friday & Saturday, April 5 & 6 Laxson Auditorium
SEE FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS
JANE EYRE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.
ON THE VERGE: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State Campus, (530) 898-5739, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
Theater THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: A Broadway musical comedy parodying American musical theater of the 1920s presented by the Creative Arts Centre. 4/5-4/6, 7:30pm; Su, 4/7, 2pm. $5-$15. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2470.
JANE EYRE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.
ON THE VERGE: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State Campus, (530) 898-5739, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
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Special Events KEEPING DANCE ALIVE!: See Friday. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.
MAGICIAN WAYNE HOUCHIN: See Friday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
SEEHD BENEFIT DINNER: A catered dinner and silent auction to benefit Chico State’s student program Sustainable Engineering an Environmental Health for Development. Email for ticket info. Sa, 4/6, 6-9pm. $45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.
Theater THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: See Friday. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2470.
Poetry/Literature WORDFIRE CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE: An all-day conference for fiction writers, poets, essayists and playwrights including presentations, workshops and more. Call or go online for registration info. Sa, 4/6, 8:30am-4:30pm. $35-$65. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. AHPS 125 in Oroville; (530) 895-2935; www.buttewordfire.org.
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Special Events MAGICIAN WAYNE HOUCHIN: See Friday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
SONS OF ITALY PASTA DINER: An all-you-can-eat pasta dinner accompanied by live music, a raffle and more to support the Sons of Italy high school scholarship program. Su, 4/7, 1-7pm. $7.50-$15. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave.; (530) 582-5641.
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The Buried Life present an interactive video lecture contemplating the question “WHat do you want to do before you die?” M, 4/8, 8pm. $12-$25. Bell Memorial Union Building, Chico State; (530) 898-3373; www.csuchico.edu/boxoffice.
Music THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS: One of Chico’s favorite touring acts of late, the Honeydrops play a mix of soulful blues, roots and New Orleans-style funk. M, 4/8, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.
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Art Receptions A FICKLE MENAGERIE RECEPTION: A reception for an exhibition of drawings depicting an unsettling vision of the future from Chico State MFA candidate Ruby Rudnick. W, 4/10, 5-7pm. Free. University Art Gallery, Trinity Hall At Chico State; (530) 898-5864.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: See Friday. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2470.
JANE EYRE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.
BULLETIN BOARD on page 26 for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 30
KEITH LOWELL JENSEN Friday, April 5 Blue Room Theatre
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Art 1078 GALLERY: Into This Vastness I Steal Away, a Chico State MFA culminating exhibition featuring work from Mariam Pakbaz. 4/44/13. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
2ND FLOOR PUBLIC SPACE GALLERY: Quiet
Artist, Talkative Artworks, a display of work by Hiroshi Yakabi, a talented artist with autism, as part of Chico State’s annual Far East Fusion. 4/6-5/8. Bell Memorial Union Building at Chico State.
AVENUE 9 GALLERY: From the Trenches, an exhibition of work from Chico State students relating their daily slog through technical and creative obstacles. Through 4/13. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.
CHICO ART CENTER: Creative Fusion, an exhibition of work from seven local junior and senior high school students. Through 4/6. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.
CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
CHICO MUNICIPAL BUILDING: Camera Club
Exhibit, works by the Chico Camera Club on display. Through 7/12. 411 Main St., (530) 8967214.
CHICO PAPER CO.: California Mountain Series, Jake Early’s mountain serigraphs—now including the recently completed “Tamalpais”—on display. Through 4/20. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.
ELLIS ART & ENGINEERING SUPPLIES: Window
Gallery, Cynthia Sexton’s shoe series, from boots to ballet, on display. Through 4/30. 122 Broadway St., (530) 891-0335, www.ellishasit.com.
HEALING ART GALLERY: Sten Hoiland, wire sculptures by Northern California artist Sten Hoiland. Through 4/11. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.
JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:
Dacid Baca Exhibition, abstract paintings with architectural references, muted colors and spatial compositions. Through 4/30. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.
MANAS ART SPACE & GALLERY: American
Heritage, an exhibition of works in all mediums using the historical journal “American Heritage” as inspiration. Through 5/3. 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.
SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Spring Forth, views of the North State in pastel, watercolor and oil. Through 4/6. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: A Fickle Menagerie, an exhibition of drawings depicting an unsettling vision of the future from Chico State MFA candidate Ruby Rudnick. 4/84/12. Trinity Hall At Chico State, (530) 898-5864.
Call for Artists CHICO ICONS: NEIGHBORHOOD: Works in various mediums (using the theme “neighborhood” as a creative springboard) accepted. Go online for complete requirements and submission info. Through 6/29. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com/call-for-artists.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOKMARK CONTEST: The annual bookmark contest (for students K-3 and 4-6) is themed “Communities Matter at Your Library.” Visit the library for applications and more info. Through 4/6. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.
MUSICANS FOR COUNTRY FAIRE & THRESHING BEE: Bluegrass, folk, ragtime and Americana musicians sought for the Patrick Ranch’s annual Country Faire and Threshing Bee. Call for more info. Ongoing. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 354-3276.
Museums BUTTE COUNTY PIONEER MEMORIAL MUSEUM: Antique Firearms Display, an exhibition of firearms designed and manufactured before the beginning of the 20th century. Ongoing. 2332 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.
CHICO MUSEUM: This is Our Home, Here We
Remain, a Mechoopda Indian exhibit on display. Through 5/31.I Heart Chico, paintings, poetry, kid’s art, photography, textiles, videos and interactive collaborative exhibits inspired by Chico. Through 6/2. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.
GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Spring Exhibits,
The exhibit Sportsology explores the science behind sports, while Brain Teasers 2 offers a new collection of confounding puzzles. Through 5/5. $3-$6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.
LOTT HOME IN SANK PARK: Woodcarver’s
Exhibit, work from the Oroville Woodcarver’s Club on display. Ongoing. 1067 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Infinity & Beyond, an exhibit tracing early human celestial observation to modern space endeavors with a Russian Sokol Space suit, a moon rock and brand-new footage of deep space on display. Ongoing. CSUC Meriam Library Complex.
Stoke the flames “Writing can be a lonely business,” writes Butte College English professor Molly Emmons in the press release for the WordFire creativewriting conference. And it’s for the purpose of bringing those sometimes lonely writers together that Butte College’s Literary Events Committee has—for the second year—organized this day-long series of workshops in fiction, poetry and other creative-writing genres presented by local and visiting authors and instructors, as well readings, a student salon and a visit EDITOR’S PICK from a panel of agents and editors. The conference takes place at the Learning Resources Center at Butte College on Saturday, April 6. See THIS WEEK listing for info on registration.
—JASON CASSIDY April 4, 2013
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Community AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave. North off of Hwy 32 and East Ave, (530) 321-5607.
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AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,
Brazil and West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 345-6324.
AMERICAN MEAT & CONTAGION SHOWING: Film showings as part of Butte County Public Health’s day of free public health presentations. F, 4/5, 5:30-8:45pm. Free. El Rey Theater, 230 West Second St., (530) 892-1838, www.buttecounty.net/publichealth.
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SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, (530) 872-7085.
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CHICO WALK FOR AUTISM: A three-mile walk to raise autism awareness with sensory activities for kids, local food vendors and more. Proceeds benefit an autism grant program. Su, 4/7, 9:30am-1pm. $10. Lower Bidwell Park, Vallombrosa Way Parking Lot off of Vallombrosa Way; (530) 518-2495; www.chicowalksforautism.eventbrite.com.
CREDIT CARD DEBT CLINIC: A workshop for those served with court papers for credit card debt. Call to register. W, 4/10, 9am. Free. Legal Services of Northern California, 541 Normal Ave., (530) 345-9491.
DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, (530) 891-6524.
FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods, honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more.
Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday
Farmers’ Market, parking lot, (530) 893-3276.
FOUNDERS WEEK: A weeks-worth of events to celebrate Chico State’s heritage. Go online for a complete listing. 4/5-4/14. California State University, Chico, CSUC, (530) 898-4636, www.csuchico.edu/pa/founders-week.
FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor
medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.
FREE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES: A rabies shot clinic for pets 4 months and older, booths for summer BBQ safety, health screenings and more. F, 4/5, 2-5:30pm. Free. Community Park, E. 20th St., (530) 966-0239, www.butte county.net/publichealth.
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Health Education staff present info on nutrition, emergency response and environmental health issues. F, 4/5, 9-11am. Free. Chico Public Library, Corner Of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (891) 891-2726.
in the park serving as a neighborhood collaborative forum focusing on healthy lifestyle promotion, education and access. F, 2-5:30pm through 12/31. Free. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 592-0889, www.cchaos.org.
shop detailing 10 steps to a healthy relationship with food. Su, 4/7, 2-4pm. $25 per person or bring a friend and pay $20 each!. Paradise Yoga Center, 7655 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-0503.
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CHAPMAN FARMERS MARKET: A farmers’ market
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Painters and photographers will demonstrate their set up for working outside and provide advice on capturing nature’s beauty. Sa, 4/6, 11:30am-1:30pm. Free. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 570-7343.
ing various careers in sports science, medicine and technology. M, 4/8, 5pm. Free. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.
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Jeffrey Halper, a Nobel Prize nominee and peace and justice activist, on present-day realities and future prospects for Israelis and Palestinians. In the Center for Academic Excellence at Butte College. Tu, 4/9, 2-3:30pm. And in Colusa 110 at Chico State on W, 4/10, 3-4:45pm.
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TABLE MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWER TOURS: A guided hike of Table Mountain during wildflower bloom with California Department of Fish and Wildlife naturalists. Go online to register. Sa, 10am & 1pm through 5/4. Free. Contact for info, (916) 358-2869, www.dfg.ca.gov/lands/er/ region2/northtable.html.
TRAIL LESS TRAVELED RUN: A quarter marathon and 5K trail run through the foothills near Lake Oroville to benefit the Hope Center. Call or go online for more info. Su, 4/7, 9am. $20$35. Saddle Dam Day Use Area, Kelly Ridge Rd. in Oroville; (530) 591-4161; www.race planner.org.
WHY ARE GRAPHICS SO POWERFUL?: Chico State professor Dr. Neil Schwartz discusses how we process images cognitively and emotionally and the use of graphics in our culture. Su, 4/7, 4-5pm. Free. Chico Women’s Club, E. Third And Pine, (530) 898-5397, www.csuchico.edu/ anthmuseum.
WALK 4 WATER: Bring your own bucket to carry on a 2K or 5K walk through Lower Bidwell park to benefit Sa, 4/6, 8:30am. One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park; (530) 342-5746; www.btg4water.org.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL SKILLS: A naturalist-led survival skills workshop in Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. Call for more info. Sa, 4/6, 9am. $5. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 898-5010.
For Kids ART FOR KIDS: Hands-on art activities for students from 1st to 12th grades led by Chico State art faculty and students. Tu, 3:30-5pm through 5/14. Free. The Turner Print Museum, Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS LECTURE SERIES: Gateway’s annual spring lecture series continues with “Motion/Emotion: Improving Health by Having Fun” presented by Dr. Scott Nichols of Enloe Behavioral Health. W, 7:30pm through 4/24. Opens 4/10. $3. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csu chico.edu/gateway.
MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.
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Four of Lisa Congdon’s gouache-and-graphite illustrations of Gertrude Stein’s tender objects.
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reat friends of the brewery, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers are coming back to the Big Room for two special nights. (Check out our blog post about them.) Nicki charged onto the San Francisco music scene, performing with her band, The Gramblers, and mixing it up with a host of other Bay Area artists. Nicki’s debut album, “Toby’s Song,” appeared in JamBase’s top 10 albums of the year. Her sophomore album, “Driftwood,” conjures the magic of Linda Ronstadt, the duets of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the smoky Memphis soul of Dusty Springfield. Whether she’s playing with The Gramblers, her husband (Tim of The Mother Hips) or Brokedown in Bakersfield, Nicki dominates the stage with her vocal prowess and charm. Come see her while you can; she’s on her way. And yes, the dance floor will be open.
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Art bound With books as the medium, there’s more than words to look at in new batch of literary works of art
Wducing books as art objects with works such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations in 1963, the gesture was hen artist Ed Ruscha turned to pro-
one with a darkly satirical and ambivalent democratic bent. Art could then be taken off the by frame and distributed beyond the Willow purview of the elite gallery, and was Sharkey simultaneously capable of being as mass-produced, cheap and disposable as any pulpy novel or crass commodity. While not the ideal format for many works of art, the book may also be heralded as an exceptionally accessible medium, and disseminator of difficult visual abstraction in a subversively common system. The book as an experimental form of art object was further pushed and prodded beautifully in works like artist Nick Bantock’s celebrated Griffin and Sabine trilogy (1991-1993), a hybrid of epistolary novel, love story, mystery, and paper art, with a narrative unfolding through literal, illustrated letters a reader opens and holds in one’s hands, offering an intimately tactile, visual and narrative experience like little else. Art and words also collide in the following three suggestions for spring reading, the two brought together to affirm that they might align and support one another. Gertrude Stein’s experiments in poetry par-
alleled and complemented the aims of her friends the Cubist painters in taking up fragmentation as a device to probe and model a troubling modern experience. Her puzzling yet often charming wordplay is given new life by another impressively imaginative, if more gentle, contemporary sensibility in the reissue of her poetic work from 1914, Tender Buttons: Objects. Now illustrated by the artist Lisa Congdon, Stein’s difficult meditations on everyday objects become playful little sources of illumination. The attachments we may form to the things that populate our daily routines and their attending relationships are granted a sense of revelation by Congdon’s stylistically sincere drawings, making Stein’s mysterious, open, undefined fragments of description into concrete objects—still
full of curiosity, but imbued with life and, magically, touches of yet more wonder. Artist Yayoi Kusama has been working diligently since a young woman, achieving international-artsuperstar status and fame only recently, in her 80s, as her work was commissioned last year by Louis Vuitton to embolden the fashion house’s high-end lines, and was granted major retrospective shows at the Tate and Whitney museums. Kusama’s enduring visual motif is that of the polka dot, which she’s employed from the 1950s through today in painting, sculpture, drawing and textile, as evocative of a real hallucinogenic vision she has had since childhood: an altered vision of reality encountered while working through severe mental-health issues. Kusama’s visions are uniquely suited to join up with Lewis Carroll’s version of altered reality. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Kusama’s illustrated-book version of the dark children’s tale gives form to her wonderful and challenging polka-dot-covered way of seeing—childlike and also haunted. Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen is interested in big ideas. He investigates concepts of time, communication and how history is told and preserved in projects like The Last Pictures, a collaborative effort between the artist and a number of scientists, philosophers and anthropologists who have discussed the contradictions and conflicts of our contemporary cultures and chosen 100 photographs representing modern human history (from cave paintings to the Dust Bowl) to make up the book form of the project. We may hold onto this artifact which gives earthly presence to their project and is also manifested as an archive etched onto a golden silicone disc attached to a communications satellite currently orbiting our planet. This satellite ultimately will become a super time capsule, long outlasting anything else humans have created. As visions of our elaborate and obscure world surge forward and manifest in new mediums, we may also hold onto the everyday version and visions, with the visuals on paper binding, turning comfortably and Ω comfortingly in our hands.
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Small-plates wine bar is impressive new tenant in old Chico haunt
W Malvina pre-dated Henri’s arrival in Chico by many years, he still had a soft spot in his coeur for hile the institution that was Caffe
the little ristorante and the always-charming owner. So I was sad to see it shut its doors and the Closed sign go up in the by window. Buono fortuna, Sal. Henri And then, on a recent walk Bourride downtown, Miss Marilyn and Mr. Theo a-leash and sporting their new sweaters by Prada Pets, Colette and I took notice of a new restaurant/wine bar going into Malvina’s spot. Well! Henri felt more than a bit disaffected. I also knew that the new place had some very big chaussures to fill. So when the restaurant opened ★★★★ last month, I initially spurned my dear sister Colette’s entreaty to try it. “Oh, come on,” she said. “Don’t Tannins Wine be like that?” Bar & Bistro “Like what?” 234 W. 3rd Street “Stupid. Stubborn. Pig-headed.” 636-4468 “Are you through?” www.tannins “Close-minded. Inflexible. chico.com Obstinate.” Hours: Tues.-Fri. & Sun., “Moi?” I said. “Obstinate?” 4 p.m.-close, and She laughed. “Let’s go. It’s not Sat., 2 p.m.Malvina, but let’s give it a chance. close. I’ll buy.” So off we went, and we’re glad we did. Tannins Wine Bar & Bistro looks like it will be able to carry le torche just fine, merci beaucoup. Tannins is owned and operated ★★★★★ by two former Pour House manEPIC agers, Nathan Ahlberg and Tori ★★★★ AUTHORITATIVE Goble, both of whom, though quite young, have many years of restau★★★ APPEALING rant and business experience. Goble, with whom we talked off and on ★★ HAS MOMENTS throughout our first meal (we sat at ★ the bar; she was tending), grew up in FLAWED Oroville and is adamant about using
as many local and seasonal ingredients as possible, as well as buying from local distributors and retailers, including S&S Produce and Natural Foods and Tin Roof Bakery. In fact, while the restaurant’s current menu offers only small-plate dishes, Goble said that they plan to add dinner entrées on Friday and Saturday nights in the near future—made from whatever strikes their fancy at the Thursday Night and Saturday-morning farmers’ markets. The only real structural change to the 12-table mostly unornamented dining room is the addition of the bar, with eight stools. The menu, which will change based on what’s seasonally available, currently features 11 small plates running $7-$12, including shrimp ceviche, blackened steak skewers, and garlic and sun-dried tomato hummus. Soups and salads are $6 and $7, desserts $7. The wine list includes a wide range of reds and whites, with glasses running $5-$9 and bottles $22 (Mezzacarona pinot grigio) and $24 (Simi chardonnay), to $55 (Fess Parker pinot noir) and $65 (Rodney Strong Symmetry Meritage). They also serve several draft and bottled beers, including Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad and Pale Ale and Coronado Coffee Stout ($4-$6). On our first visit, we managed to sample over half of their dishes and were impressed with all of them. My favorites were the steak sliders with caramelized onion, lettuce and horseradish aioli; and the steak Oscar bruschetta—small bites of steak on toast with crab, asparagus and Hollandaise sauce. The smokedsalmon bread points were also delicious, with just the right blend of cream cheese, capers and red onion. We’ve returned twice, and I think we’ve pretty much worked our way through the menu, never disappointed. Definitely at the top of the list is the spicy Andouille gumbo, deliciously thick and with the right bite, perfect for dipping Tin Roof toast into. Also good: the Margherita pizza—sun-dried tomatoes, lots of basil and mozzarella on thin, light, house-made crust. We’ll miss Caffe Malvina, but we’ll be back to Tannins. (Who’s obstinate?!) Ω
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NIGHTLIFE KEVIN SECONDS Saturday, April 6 Maltese Taproom SEE SATURDAY
THURSDAY 4|4—WEDNESDAY 4|10 LOW FLYING BIRDS: Danceable bluegrass with Chico faves Doug Stein and Sid Lewis. Th, 4/4, 6:30pm; Th, 4/18, 6:30pm. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestau rant.com.
OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to share your music, poetry, comedy, or other talents in a 10-minute slot. First and Third Th of every month, 7pm. $1. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.
OUTTA NOWHERE: Rock and metal covers
CLAUDE BOURBON: A finger-style guitar virtuoso out of Switzerland specializing in Medieval and Spanish blues. F, 4/5, 8pm. $10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.
COUNTRY NIGHT: Live country music with Rancho Mars. F, 5-8pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.
IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.
MOTIFS: Soulful, old-school R&B, blues
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Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 5283500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.
SURROGATE CD-RELEASE SHOW: The popular local pop-rock outfit celebrates the release of their third full-length album, Post-Heroic. Fellow locals Armed for Apocalypse and French Reform open. F, 4/5, 8pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
SYSTEM & STATION: The experimental rock band favors complex three-part vocal harmonies and monster guitar riffs. Sean Thompson, Jedidiah Jenkins and Michael Fair open. F, 4/5, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by
local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 2-5pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St.; (530) 345-4128.
THE BLUE MERLES: Traditional country
tunes in the nightclub. Sa, 4/6, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.
DRIVER: Live rock’n’roll. Sa, 4/6, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.
and country in the lounge. F, 4/5, 8:30pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655
on the back patio. Th, 4/4, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
4THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music
round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.
BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-
midnight. Lynn’s Optimo, 9225 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 872-1788.
CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.
Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.
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IMPROV JAM: A weekly open jam session. Th, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.wee bly.com.
JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: The local duo plays an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 5:308:30pm through 4/25. Opens 4/4. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.; 809-2304.
LAST STAND: A stand-up comedy open-
mic. First and Third Th of every month, 8-10pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
BASSMINT: A weekly electronica dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. F, 9:30pm. Peeking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. 4; (530) 895-3888.
THE BOYS OF SUMMER: An Eagles tribute
band in the brewery. F, 4/5, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.
THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS
The California Honeydrops are from Oakland by way of the Big Easy, mixing every style of fun-loving American roots music together with their New Orleans-parade approach to partying in the street. They hit the Sierra Nevada Big Room Monday, April 8, as part of the West Coast album-release tour for their latest disc, Like You Mean It.
FRIENDS OF THE CHICO COMMUNITY BALLET & CHICO PERFORMANCES PRESENT
Keeping Dance Alive! 22nd Annual Repertory Dance Concert 2013
Celebrating the diversity of dance! Featuring: BALLET • HIP-HOP • MODERN • IRISH • JAZZ BELLY DANCE • MUSICAL THEATRE Two Performances:
Friday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. Laxson Auditorium, CSU, Chico Advance Tickets $14-$18 at University Box Office
Wednesday Dance Night Dj Spenny & Jeff Howse • 9pm
The Pub Scouts Happy Hour 4-7pm Friday Irish Music
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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24 Creek Winery. Sa, 4/6, 3-7pm. $15. Long Creek Winery, 233 Ward Blvd. in Oroville; (530) 589-3415; www.longcreekwinery.com.
ROSES & GUNS: A Guns and Roses tribute band in the brewery. Sa, 4/6, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feath erfallscasino.com.
SOUL TRAIN DANCE PARTY: Dancing to
LANDON WORDSWELL Sunday, April 7 1078 Gallery
THE GODBEAST: Blast-beats aplenty with this heavy metal and punk outfit out of Seattle. Astronaut and Blood Cabana open. Sa, 4/6, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
showcase hosted by Warren Haskell featuring George Sakellariou from the San Francisco Conservatory. Sa, 4/6, 7:30pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078 gallery.org.
THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Chico’s
master of worldly funk. Sa, 4/6, 9pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.
KEVIN SECONDS: Lo-fi Americana-punk by Kevin of Seven Seconds fame. Shout Bamalama and Heather Michelle open.
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Sa, 4/6, 9pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 3434915.
MOTIFS: Soulful, old-school R&B, blues
and country in the lounge. Sa, 4/6, 8:30pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 5283500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.
RECKONING: Grateful Dead songs made
bluegrass. Sa, 4/6, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room,
1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.
JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: With the Carey
Robinson Trio. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
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JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
LANDON WORDSWELL: The high-energy, fast-flowing rapper out of Eugene, Oregon takes cues from old school hip-hop and is comparable to contemporary acts like Lupe Fiasco and Zion I. Locals Strange Habits open. Su, 4/7, 8pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078 gallery.org.
with BellySutra. Tu, 6-7pm. $8. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.
keyboardist Shigemi Minetaka and rotating accompaniment. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade; (530) 343-2056; www.farmstar pizza.com.
10WEDNESDAY GENNA & JESSE: A soulful Bay Area indie duo that showcases contrasting male and female vocals. The Rugs open. W, 4/10, 9pm. $3. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, tin pan alley, jazz and more. W, 7-9pm. Free. VIP Ultra Lounge, 191 E. Second St. Upstairs from The Beach.
OPEN MIC: All ages welcome. W, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.
SMASHED SPELLING BEE: Participants must have a drink in-hand as they approach the mic and spell words found in grade-school spelling bees. W, 4/10, 9:30pm. Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.
SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every Wednesday night, swing dancing lessons 8-10pm. W, 8-10pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.
WAY OUT WEST: A weekly country music showcase with The Blue Merles. W, 79pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
THE DEEP WILE: Blues and countryinfused punk rock out of Olympia, Washington. The Pushers open. Tu, 4/9, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.
GENNA & JESSE Wednesday, April 10 LaSalles SEE WEDNESDAY
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THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS: M, 4/8,
BELLY DANCE CLASS: Weekly belly dance
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GUITAR PROJECT: A semi-regular guitar
old-school soul jams with DJs Sexual Chocolate, Darkness and Fix-it with performances by Yung Doejah and Big Slim. Sa, 4/6, 7pm. $5. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroomtheatre.com.
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Quit talking to yourself.
Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Rachel Bush and Juan-Carlos Selznick.
and take over the world. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Opening this week Emperor
Girl with a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber is at the helm of this historical biopic set in post-World War II Japan, when General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) and General Bonner Fellers were tasked with deciding the fate of Emperor Hirohito/ Showa and whether or not he was guilty of and should be executed for war crimes. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.
Save me Soul-sucking aliens and lovesick humans fall flat in latest tweener sci-fi romance
Iplanet before The Host invaded. I’m not criticizing director Andrew Niccol f only I could’ve moved to a new
(Gattaca) for making something unoriginal. His film (based on Stephanie Meyer’s book that isn’t Twiby light) is about human bodies Rachel being taken over by aliens, a Bush concept which has already made its way to the big screen in one form or another several times over the decades between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Host. However, sans an original setup, something else has to stick, The Host and this just sucks. Starring Saoirse The story is set sometime in Ronan, Diane Kruger and Max the vague future, when alien Irons. Directed “souls,” as they’re called, have by Andrew infiltrated nearly every human Niccol. Cinemark body in the world. Ironically, 14, Feather River Cinemas and these extra-terrestrials lead Paradise Cinema much more peaceful lives than 7. Rated PG-13. humans ever did, despite the fact that their Earthly presence is only possible because of human genocide. This contradiction might have been interPoor esting to explore, but the plot barely touches on it. As some of the few humans Fair remaining, Melanie (Saoirse Ronan), her younger brother, and her boyfriend, Jared (Max Good Irons), struggle to elude alien capture from The Seeker (Diane Kruger). Melanie gets caught, and her body is Very Good infused with the soul of an alien called Wanderer. Usually, the human spirit dies after this Excellent procedure, but a resistant
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Melanie lives on in the subconscious of Wanderer, who soon empathizes with the entrapped human. Their budding friendship, while at times heartwarming, is mostly annoying. Ronan is a promising young actress, but she fails in conveying a believable voice-over, so the dialogue between Wanderer and the internal voice of Melanie plays like unintentionally funny schizophrenia. Melanie leads Wanderer to where her remaining living family is hiding with other human holdouts, but they’re reluctant to believe she is a cohabitant of her own body. In the process of gaining their trust, Wanderer gets to know a human named Ian (Jake Abel). They fall for each other, but Melanie’s still drooling over Jared. And here we get a weird version of the famous love triangle that is the wildly popular trademark of author Meyers. I’m not sure it’s going to work with the tweens this time though. Interspecies relationships between vampires, werewolves and humans just look cooler. Everyone here just looks human (yawn); plus it’s not really a triangle since there are two young studs and technically two women fighting it out in one young head. Luckily, the film is a lot easier to look at than it is to comprehend. The desert caves where Melanie’s family seeks refuge are stunning. It becomes an oasis not only for the film’s characters, but for the viewers too. Smart costume choices help add to the visual appeal. All the “seeker” aliens, aka the ones in charge of killing humans, are dressed in completely white uniforms. Coupled with blue alien eyes, they exude just the right amount of creepy. Bottom line: It’s another pretty but contrived Hollywood formula piece, with the added distraction of being a convoluted and silly love story. The human characters might have some hope for salvation, but it’s too late to save the audience. Ω
Evil Dead
A sort of remake of/sort of sequel to Sam Raimi’s celebrated horror/comedy about an evil book in an evil cabin in the woods, and the giddy fun there is to be had therein, splashing about in the blood as a group of young’uns fight for their souls. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
Jurassic Park: 3D
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Spielberg’s 1993 dino-theme-park flick gets the 3-D treatment. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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A romcom about the hijinks (and romance?) that ensue when the worlds of three people collide: a college admissions officer (Tina Fey), the principal (Paul Rudd) at an alternative high school, and a high school kid (Nat Wolff) who might be the son the admissions officer gave up for adoption. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
The Call
A young woman (Abigail Breslin) calls a 911 dispatcher (Halle Barry) from the trunk of her abductor, which draws the operator into a dangerous game that finds her back in the sights of a killer (Michael Eklund) from her past. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
The Croods
Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener provide voices for this computeranimated feature about a prehistoric family on an adventure through uncharted territory. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.
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Ends tonight, April 4. Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh set up interviews with six men from Shin Bet, Israel’s Internal Security Service—Avraham Shalom, Yaacov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter and Yuval Diskin, each of whom had done a stint as the agency’s head sometime in the last 30 years. The Oscar-nominated documentary that resulted, mostly talking heads with intermittent bits of archival footage, is a riveting, wide-ranging and unexpectedly illuminating account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Each of the six becomes a distinctive character in his own right, and Moreh’s brilliant editing marshals their remarks into a briskly articulated essay on the miscalculations, self-inflicted wounds, and aggravated blind spots on both sides of the conflict. The Shin Bet six and the film itself are surprising in their candor and their independence from hard-line dogma. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
In this second installment in the film series based on the famous toy, the original Joe (Bruce Willis) joins the G.I. Joe squad, led by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, to help them bring down the Cobras as they try
See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —R.B.
Olympus Has Fallen
Things explode all over Washington, D.C., as it is attacked by terrorists who kidnap the president (Aaron Eckhart). His only hope is a disgraced former security agent (Gerard Butler) trapped in the White House and helping authorities who have no choice but to rely on his inside knowledge of the situation. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
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It’s been 74 years since the release of The Wizard of Oz, and director Sam Raimi (Spiderman) and company are exploring its title character, preDorothy and gang. Struggling magician/conartist/womanizer Oscar “Oz” Diggs (James Franco) isn’t living up to his “great” potential, working the circus scene in Podunk, Kansas. So when a tornado sweeps him away to the land of Oz, where the inhabitants believe that he’s their awaited wizard, he goes with it. With the help of Glinda The Good Witch (a sappy Michelle Williams), this amateur hero attempts to save the citizens of Emerald City from the wicked sister witches (Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis). There’s plenty of visual oohing and ahhing to be had, but the fun stops there. The dialogue falls flat and the mediocre acting does little to save it. Keep traveling down that yellow brick road. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —R.B.
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Quartet
Ronald Harwood has adapted his own play about retired opera singers putting on one more show for the retirement home that is their special last refuge. Dustin Hoffman, making his directorial debut, amiably indulges a frisky cast of veteran Brit actors. The arrival of haughty diva Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) makes possible an on-stage reunion of the eponymous quartet, but maybe not—Horton’s still-heartbroken ex-husband (Tom Courtenay) figures in the erstwhile quartet and the now-humbled diva has her own pride and self-doubt to deal with. The other members, the exuberantly randy Wilf Bond (Billy Connolly) and the sweetly erratic Cissy Robson (Pauline Collins), nudge things toward geriatric farce early on. But once the diva is present, the tone changes to something verging on the tragicomic, and the feel-good finish (with a decorous touch or two of the bittersweet) is certain to draw a few well-earned tears. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
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Spring Breakers
The spectacle of beer-sloshed, drug-fueled, semi-naked revelry is here for all to see, but just who this film aims to please becomes a matter of some confusion, which seems deliberate on the part of writer-director Harmony Korine. The unabashedly lurid tale follows four naively rebellious college-age girls as they “go wild” on spring break in Florida and finance the trip via a restaurant hold-up. Once in Florida they become entangled with an unctuously lubricious gangster/rapper (James Franco). Right from the start, Korine is dealing in clichés but churning them out with an exuberance that is at times almost rhapsodic. All in all, his film has an amusing satirical snap to it, and there’s a nifty brio to the cinematography, editing and sound design. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.
Temptation
Writer/director Tyler Perry is in dramatic mode here with this film version of his play about a marriage counselor whose life and marriage is turned inside out after she pursues an affair with a very successful man. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BRONZED AND POLISHED at 14154 Skyway #5 Magalia, CA 95954. JENNIFER LEANN HERNDON 13779 So Park Drive Magalia, CA 95954. NICHOLAS ALAN HERNDON 13779 So Park Drive magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: J HERNDON Dated: February 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000272 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CAVEWOMAN CONFECTIONS at 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, Ca 95973. JOHN PHILLIP PATTON 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, CA 95973. VALERIE LYNN PATTON 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: VALERIE PATTON Dated: February 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000202 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOHN’S HANDYMAN SERVICE at 714 Bradford Ct Chico, CA 95926. JOHN FREDERICK INNOCENTI 714 Bradford Ct Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOHN INNOCENTI Dated: March 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000290 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FILTHY KICKS at 260 E Lassen Ave Apt. 11 Chico, CA 95973 MICHAEL MEAD 260 E Lassen Ave Apt. 11 Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL MEAD Dated: March 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000287 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KRAKER WEB SERVICES, SERVICERS WEB at 2581 California Park Drive #134 Chico, Ca 95928. NATHAN ROY KRAKER 2581 California Park Drive #134 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: CHRISTINA KRAKER Dated: March 5, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000317 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name: ADONIS POOLS AND SPAS at 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. LEONARD D STACHELEK 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. WATER ART INC 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by a Corporation. Signed: LEONARD D. STACHELEK Dated: February 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2006-0000239 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KEARNS CLEANING at 230 Walnut Street Suite C #118 Chico, Ca 95928. MICHAEL KEARNS 698 W 8TH Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL KEARNS Dated: March 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000333 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as REAL ESTATE INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE at 2687 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973. ALVRO RAY HUBBARD 2687 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973. BEVERLY JUNE HUBBARD 2687 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Married Couple.
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Signed: ALVRO R. HUBBARD Dated: February 27, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000281 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LTK REAL ESTATE REFERRALS at 9648 Jones Avenue Durham, CA 95938. LEE T KOEPPING 9648 Jones Avenue Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LEE T. KOEPPING Dated: March 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000358 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO VIRTUAL TOURS, NETGUAVA, SHARP VIRTUAL TOURS at 3209 Esplanade Suite 150 Chico, CA 95973. NETGUAVA INC 3209 Esplanade Suite 150 Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: STEPHEN CONNELL Dated: March 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000294 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEATHER’S NOVALTIES at 930 Columbus Avenue #2 Chico, Ca 95926 HEATHER GOMES 930 Columbus Avenue #2 Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: HEATHER GOMES Dated: March 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000365 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following person has withdrawn as a partner from the partnership operating under THREE GIRLS AND A KITCHEN at 3183 Sespe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973. KIMBERLY LUCE 882 Glenn Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: DAVID CHEN Dated: February 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000044 Published: March 21,21, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JADE RAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY at 1160 Lupin Ave Chico, CA 95973. JADE ASHLEIGH MILES 1160 Lupin Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JADE MILES Dated: March 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000349 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS at 2197 North Ave Chico, CA 95926. PERRYMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 2197 North Ave Chico, CA 95926.
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This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: VICKI PERRYMAN, PRESIDENT Dated: March 14, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000385 Published: March 21,28, April 4,11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BROWN AND GAMBOL ENTERPRISES, CHICO TAR HEELS BASKETBALL FAMILY RONALD BROWN 1617 E Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973. MARLON GAMBOL 1617 E Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: RON BROWN Dated: March 18, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000398 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FARMSTRONGBRAND, STOP AND STARE MEDIA GROUP at 568 Grand Smokey Ct Chico, CA 95973. CHRIS MOODY 568 Grand Smokey Ct Chico, CA 95973. MATT MOODY 568 Grand Smokey Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MATTHEW MOODY Dated: March 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000450 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as INCREDIWEAR EMPIRE at 260 Cohasset RD, Suite 150 Chico, CA 95926. PATRICK HALEY 3122 Calistoga Dr Chico, CA 95973. ED RODGERS 168 Donald Dr Chico, CA 95973. MIKE SWAIN 759 North 5th St San Jose, CA 95112. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: PAT HALEY Dated: March 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000406 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DREAM HOME INVESTMENTS at 205 Hagenridge RD Chico, CA 95973. ALEX HOAG 205 Hagenridge RD Chico, CA 95973. DEBRA HOAG 205 Hagenridge RD Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Joint Venture. Signed: DEBRA HOAG Dated: February 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000234 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VALUEPLAN at 1055 The Esplanade Suite 1 Chico, CA 95926. BUSINESS VALUE GROUP LLC 1055 The Esplande Suite 1 Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: HANS P. SHROEDER Dated: March 15, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000394 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013
NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAMA SATTVA at 173. E. Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926. CYNTHIA M GAGE 173 E. Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CYNTHIA GAGE Dated: March 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000378 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BOBKAT PROPERTY SERVICES, BPS, BPS PROPERTIES at 3120 Cohasset Road Suite 10 Chico, CA 95973. BOBKAT BUILDERS, INC 3120 Cohasset Road Suite 10 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: BROOKE SHELTON V.P. Dated: March 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000367 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WESTERN TERMITE SOLUTIONS at 43 Deer Run Lane Berry Creek, CA 95916. JAMES M HITESHEW 43 Deer Run Lane Berry Creek, CA 95916. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JIM HITESHEW Dated: February 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000273 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as REAL DEAL TRAINING PROPS at 140 Estates Dr Chico, CA 95928. DOUG K MARTIN 140 Estates Dr Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DOUG K MARTIN Dated: March 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000413 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OLOFAT ONE-BITE BARBECUE (BBQ) at 1040 Windsor Way Chico, CA 95926. SIGRAH BILLYOS 1040 Windsor Way Chico, CA 95926. MD OBET 1050 Columbus Ave Apt 19 Chico, CA 95926. SCOTT SUZUKI 180 E. 8TH Avenue #203 Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: SCOTT SUZUKI Dated: March 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000432 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AKE BREAKERS at 702 Mangrove Ave # 143 Chico, CA 95926. DAVID LOUIS WALDRON 1764 Elm St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DAVID WALDRON Dated: February 25, 2013
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FBN Number: 2013-0000265 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PURE THRIFT at 1306 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926. JEANNE M SCHADEMAN 1306 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JEANNE M SCHADEMAN Dated: March 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000361 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business names: STOP AND STARE MEDIA GROUP, FARMSTRONGBRAND at 568 Grand Smokey CT Chico, CA 95973. CHRIS MOODY 568 Grand Smokey CT Chico, CA 95973. MATT MOODY 568 Grand Smokey Ct Chico, CA 95973. PAUL AITKEN 568 Grand Smokey CT CHico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: CHRIS MOODY Dated: March 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000408 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NURTISHOP CHICO at 1141 Forest Avenue STE 20 Chico, CA 95928. BURTON, MCVANNEL AND RIX LLC 1208 Bidwell Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: DARCI BURTON MEMBER/ MANAGER Dated: March 27, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000458 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL AGENCY, HPA at 2555 Zanella Way Suite F Chico, CA 95928 HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL AGENCY 2555 Zanella Way Suite F Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KYLE NELSON Dated: March 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000354 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TUXEDO DEN at 6234 Greenback Lane Citrus Heights, CA 95621. MR FORMAL INC 1205 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214. State: OR This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: MATT ROSENBERGER, CONTROLLER Dated: march 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000405 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TWELVE SEASONS at 296 E 8TH Avenue Chico, CA 95926. ZI QUAN KUANG 820 W 4TH Avenue # 244 Chico, CA 95926 KIRILL ALEKSANDROVICH OBRAZSTOV 296 E 8TH Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: ZI KUANG Dated: March 29, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000471 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIFTH AND ORIENT at 1692 Mangrove Ave #142 Chico, CA 95926 PHUONG K LY 533 Orient Street Chico, CA 95928. LEAH E MORRIS 117 W 18TH Street B Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: PHUONG LY Dated: March 6, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000319 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIVE YOUR LEAP LIST at 3112 Ceanothus Ave Chico, CA 95973. DANELLE LEES 3112 Ceanothus Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DANELLE LEES Dated: March 29, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000473 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013
NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner OLGA LEONTEAC MAKININ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OLGA LEONTEAC MAKININ Proposed name: OLGA MAKININA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: april 19, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 25, 2013 Case Number: 158982 Published: March 14,21,28 April 4, 2013
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CASEY LOGAN ALLEN RENAUD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CASEY ALLEN LOGAN RENAUD Proposed name: CASEY LOGAN ALLEN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 26, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 25, 2013 Case Number: 159006 Published: March 14,21,28 April 4, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTY ANNA WENZEL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CHRISTY ANNA WENZEL Proposed name: CONNOR ALWYN WENZEL 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. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 3, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: March 15, 2013 Case Number: 159118 Published: March 28 April 4,11,18, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MUHAMMED ALTALIB filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RENAD ALTALIB Proposed name: DANAH ALTALIB 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: May 17, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is:
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Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: March 20, 2013 Case Number: 159205 Published: March 28 April 4,11,18, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner EMARELD ANNA-ERICKA BEHRENS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EMARELD ANNA-ERICKA BEHRENS Proposed name: EMERALD ANNA-ERICKA BEHRENS 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: May 17, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: March 20, 2013 Case Number: 159120 Published: March 28 April 4,11,18, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEAN THOMAS OVERTON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SEAN THOMAS OVERTON Proposed name: SEAN CONSTANTINE 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: May 10, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: March 22, 2013 Case Number: 158833 Published: April 4,11,18,25, 2013
SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: STEVEN R MCCORMICK AKA STEVE R MC CORMICK, an individual, and Does 1-100, inclusive. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: PERSOLVE, LLC, A Limited
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liability company, dba, ACCOUNT RESOLUTION ASSOCIATES. 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.
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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 can-
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not 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
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court is: Chico Courthouse 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: Alaine Patti-Jelsvik PERSOLVE, LLC dba Account Resolution Associates 9301 Winnetka Ave. Suite B Chatsworth, CA 91311 (818)534-3100 Dated: August 13, 2013 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 157524 Published: March 28, April 4,11,18, 2013
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
“Art cannot be modern,” said Austrian painter Egon Schiele. “Art is primordially eternal.” I love that idea. Not all of the artifacts called “art” fit that scrupulous definition, of course. Katy Perry’s music and the film Wreck-It Ralph may have some entertainment value, but they’re not primordially eternal. I bring this up, Aries, because I think you have entered a particularly wild and timeless phase of your own development. Whether or not you are literally an artist, you have a mandate to create your life story as a primordially eternal work of art.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “All my best ideas come from having no answer,” said pioneer filmmaker John Cassavetes, “from not knowing.” I hope that testimony cheers you up, Taurus. As hard as it may be for you to imagine, you are on the verge of a breakthrough. As you surf the chaotic flow and monitor the confusing hubbub, you are brewing the perfect conditions for an outburst of creativity. Rejoice in the blessing of not knowing! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sant is a Hindi word that comes from a Sanskrit verb meaning “to be good” and “to be real.” Personally, I know a lot of people who are either real or good. But few are both. The good ones tend to be overly polite, and the real ones don’t put a high priority on being nice. So here’s your assignment, Gemini: to be good and real; to have compassionate intentions even as you conduct yourself with a high degree of authenticity; to bestow blessings everywhere you go, while at the same time being honest and clear and deep. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to pull off this strenuous feat.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s take a
look back at the first three months of 2013. How have you been doing? If I’m reading the astrological markers accurately, you have jettisoned a portion of the psychic gunk that had accumulated in you during the past six years. You have partially redeemed the shadowy side of your nature, and you have, to some degree, ripened the most immature part. There’s also the matter of your heart. You have managed some healing of a wound that had festered there for a long time. So here’s my question for you: Is it possible for you to do more of this good work? The target date for completion is your birthday.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Naturalist Charles
Darwin formulated the theory of evolution, which has been one of history’s most influential hypotheses. A crucial event in his early development as a scientist was a five-year boat trip he took around the world when he was in his 20s. The research he conducted along the way seeded many of his unique ideas. The writing he did established his reputation as a noteworthy author. And yet, before his journey, his father tried to talk him out of embarking, calling it a “wild scheme” and “a useless undertaking.” Did your parents or other authorities ever have a similar response to one of your brilliant projects? If so, now would be a good time to heal the wound caused by their opposition.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ve got three
sets of affirmations for you, Virgo. Say them out loud and see if they might work for you. 1. “I will be engrossed in fascinating experiences that feed my curiosity, but I will not be obsessed with grueling frustrations that drain my energy.” 2. “I will be committed to love if it opens my eyes and heart, but I will not be infatuated with maddening conundrums that jiggle my fear.” 3. “I will give myself freely to learning opportunities that offer me valuable lessons I can use to improve my life, but I will be skeptical toward rough-edged tests that ask far more from me than they offer in return.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Pole of inac-
Gear practitioner
by Rob Brezsny usually considered to be the spot that’s farthest from the coastline. For instance, there’s a pole of inaccessibility near the frozen center of Antarctica. Its elevation is more than 12,000 feet, and it has the planet’s coldest average temperatures. As for the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, it’s an area in the South Pacific that’s most remote from land. By my reckoning, Libra, you would benefit from identifying what your own personal version of this point is, whether it’s literal or metaphorical. I think it’s also a great time to transform your relationship with it.
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Ken Smith
kens@newsreview.com “When you talk about The Police, you don’t say Gordon Sumner, you say Sting,” explained the man who prefers to be known solely as The Rock Doc. For the last two years, the Doc has taken appointments to fix whatever ailments afflict most instruments, his business mostly spread through word of mouth from Chico musicians. To contact the Doc, and to see samples of his work and testimonials from satisfied clients, search for The Rock Doc on Facebook. His shop is located at 932 W. Eighth Ave.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every April, the ancient Romans celebrated a festival known as Robigalia. Among the rites they performed were ceremonies to exorcize the god of rust and mildew. I suggest you consider reviving that old practice, Scorpio. You would benefit from spending a few days waging war against insidious rot. You could start by scrubbing away all the sludge, scum and gunk from your home, car and workplace. Next, make a similar effort on a metaphorical level. Scour the muck, glop and grime out of your psyche. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” Tinkerbell says that to Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie’s famous story. Sometime soon, I think you should whisper words like those to a person or animal you love. It’s time for you to be as romantic and lyrical as possible. You need to bestow and attract the nourishment that comes from expressing extravagant tenderness. For even better results, add this sweetness from French poet Paul Valéry: “I am what is changing secretly in you.” And try this beauty from Walt Whitman: “We were together. I forget the rest.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) had an ecstatic relationship with the California wilderness. He studied it as a scientist, and he worshipped it as a mystical devotee. During the course of his communion with the glaciers and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, he came close to seeing them as living entities that evolved over long periods of time. “Glaciers move in tides,” he wrote. “So do mountains. So do all things.” With Muir as your inspiration, I invite you to identify the very gradual currents and tides that have flowed for years through your own life, Capricorn. It’s prime time to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the big, slow-moving cycles that have brought you to where you are today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): American
author William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in literature, an indication that he had abundant talent. The prose he wrote was often experimental, cerebral and complex. He was once asked what he would say to readers who found it difficult to grasp his meaning “even after reading it two or three times.” His reply: “Read it four times.” My counsel to you, Aquarius, is similar. When faced with a challenging event or situation that taxes your understanding, keep working to understand it even past the point where you would normally quit. There will be rewards, I promise.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Rob: I
just consulted an astrologer, and he told me that my planets are very weak because they’re in the wrong houses and have bad aspects. Please, tell me what this means. Am I cursed? Is there any way to remedy my afflictions? —Paranoid Pisces.” Dear Pisces: Whoever told you that nonsense is an incompetent astrologer. You shouldn’t heed him. There’s no such thing as one’s planets being weak or being in the wrong houses or having bad aspects. There may be challenges, but those are also opportunities. Luckily, the coming weeks will be prime time for you Pisceans to overthrow the influence of inept “experts” and irresponsible authorities like him. Reclaim your power to define your own fate from anyone who has stolen it from you.
cessibility” is a term that explorers use to identify places on Earth that are hard—and interesting!—to get to. On each continent, it’s
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Where did you learn to fix instruments?
15 MINUTES
BREZSNY’S
For the week of April 4, 2013
I’ve been woodworking literally since I was 3 years old. My dad was a guy who knew how to do a lot of stuff, and he passed along some of that to me, along with his tools. I also started playing music when I was in fourth grade, and started tinkering with instruments when I was a teenager.
How did you start doing this professionally? Essentially, I needed some more room in my house, so I cleaned out my garage, rented this place and set up a shop. I started thinking, instead of just having this as a glorified man cave, I should start using my skills. My wife made a connection with Sid Lewis from the School of Rock and I started repairing all their instruments. Then I started the Facebook page and fixing things for other people.
What kind of repairs do you do? I replace strings, fix cables and jacks, any electronics, guitars, lots of keyboards come through. I think it’s kind of beneficial for local musicians because I can fix things for less
than it might cost to ship a keyboard to Sacramento or San Francisco, which you might have to do if I wasn’t here.
Do you do custom work? Absolutely. I especially do a lot of custom cases, like [for] vintage lap steels and even an acoustic Flying V guitar. I made that one into a backpack and you might see the guy riding around town with it. I also built a custom bar for someone out of an old piano.
Anything you can’t fix? Well, motorcycles. I’ve been asked to do that a couple of times. And brass instruments; there’s not much I can do for them except maybe a little soldering if someone needs it. Other than that, I’ll know a job I can’t do when I see it.
What’s special about your services? I always try to do a little extra. If someone hires me to fix their amp, I’ll fix it and also clean it up really nice. I also try really hard to keep the price fair, and to do things as soon as people need them.
FROM THE EDGE
by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net
Candor Janice died six months ago last weekend, and not long ago I was listening to a sound file I made last summer of her and me talking in the back yard. I have to stop here, because “her and me talking” sounds wrong. I say “her and me” are objects of the preposition “of” and deserve to be treated like objects, and we forget their status at our peril. All the while, something about “she and I talking” is awfully attractive because it feels right for sturdy, useful “talking” to be associated with movers and shakers like “she and I.” It sounds right, and it isn’t. “Her and me” is. So this recording of us talking in the garden started with Janice saying, “It’s pretty common. We create a package of expectations for people. You and I have done that to each other. I guess that’s the work, unraveling all that.” I’m leaving out my grunts and squeals as irrelevant. Later, after a son came over and we had sat a while with nobody saying anything, out of the blue she said to us, “Cremation, and ashes in the wind. Got it?” That was Janice all over. Right to the point, always, especially the one on top of my head.
Janice was smart and loving and generous and compassionate and not the least bit nice. She never faked a smile or an attitude. I always knew what was going on with her and where I stood in her world. I didn’t always like my status, but I always knew what it was. Next to Janice, many seem insincere and deceptive to me. I’m hoping that’ll pass. Habits are tough, though, and this one is many years old. I’m used to the absolute bald truth, along with relevant candid opinions, as a given. I tend to take people at face value and expect them to act the way they feel, no matter what they think I want, and I’m adjusting as fast as I can. I have reason to believe that Janice’s verbal edge came from her mother. My source is unimpeachable, and I think Janice got her tendency to allow all and sundry to know how things differed from her ideal from her reputedly sharp-tongued mother, whom I never met. So Janice drove me crazy, and I tried to shut her out the way I shut my mother out, which of course was no help at all and useless with Janice Lee Perry, Miss Persistence of 1953. We found our balance, though, and eventually I gave her all my attention and effort and she accepted them gratefully without comment. We both came a long way, and it seems I have a ways yet to go. April 4, 2013
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