Video games suck. And there’s little hope of them getting better. The next wave of the video game console wars is locked into graphics quality. Everyone wants stunning graphics, pretty colors and fantasy worlds that look real. All of these shiny objects coming out act as a distraction for a real issue nowadays. To alter […]
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Peter Gammons wants to kill my childhood. The ESPN baseball analyst is trying to erase some of the best memories of my life. He wants to prove once and for all that everything I know is wrong and he is right. He wants to kill baseball. And he’s not alone. In the past seven years, […]
Welcome to Chico, whatever you’re called Before I get too far into my writing this week, I want to take a moment to welcome all of our incoming freshmen. Congratulations on picking a swell institution like Chico State. I think you’ll have a grand time. For most of you, this is the beginning of a […]
I love Financial Aid. I’m actually able to afford to get an education nowadays, and I can buy my books and digital camera for my photojournalism course and not have to worry about taking out a loan from my mom. Wait, that was what I thought three months ago. That’s when the system worked just […]
Henry Rollins delivered blue “Shock and Awe” Wednesday night to a crowd packed in the kind-of clinical setting that is the polished Bell Memorial Union Auditorium. The 44-year-old lead singer of Rollins Band doubles as a spoken word artist commenting on what he sees in the world, especially what he saw during his trips with […]
The Crazy Horse Saloon will be a little crazier May 25, as the California Cowboys perform with headliner Chris Cagle. The California Cowboys will be recording their first video for “The Party’s Over” at the beginning of the night. A crew from Fox 30 will film the video to repay a debt from station owner […]
Never provoke a comedian. It doesn’t matter if the show started late or if the microphone wasn’t on — or when it was turned on, it was too loud. Comedians are like mountain lions–corner them and they will leap for the throat. When their ears could take no more of a shrieking microphone, some of […]
Radio playlists suck. Almost every radio station uses them like gospel, when they”re really just toilet paper music companies pay for. Now, with services like iTunes and Napster 2.0, the chains on music fans have been loosened. Listeners pick their songs and leave the trash where it belongs. No longer are you confined to albums. […]
If you go see “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” expecting a nice, little play, please deposit your ticket in the trash can by Collier Hardware. This is a rock show people. The instruments are live, only some of the offstage singing is taped and the lead singer has a short, little surprise up her short, […]
Every day, all over the world, news stories fall through the cracks. And every year Project Censored picks 25 and gives them new life in a book called “Censored: Media Democracy in Action.” Peter Phillips, the director of Project Censored, will be speaking about the group’s work and “New American Censorship” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday […]