Educators Rally Against Cuts

Anderson High School teacher Jeff Carr boiled it down to a simple resonating sentiment: “The cuts must stop!”

Carr described the fiscal storm brewing in Sacramento that threatens to further damage public education across the state and certainly impact the landscape…

Returning to ‘The Weir’

It’s fairly unconventional for a cast of actors to reunite for a play they performed three years earlier.

As Redding’s Elizabeth Johnson puts it: “Usually when an actor is done with a play, it gets put behind them and they look…

Turtle Bay - the Evil Empire, Really?

Redding City Manager Kurt Starman has been having conversations about how to cut an additional $5 million from the city’s budget.

According to a story in last week’s Record Searchlight, one such discussion reportedly involved Turtle Bay CEO (and former city…

The Joys of Holiday Flying

Considering there was a failed terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day, the fact that I made all my connections on flights from Oakland to Grand Junction, Colo., the day after Christmas seems like a miracle. … Picture me in the Salt Lake City airport on the way out — I’m running on a moving pathway with a laptop bag in one hand and guitar in the other…

Jim’s Picks: The New Avett Brothers Album

I’ve seen the Avett Brothers live show twice. My one-word impressions were: wild, creative, lyrical, fun, memorable. It was kind of like punk-bluegrass where these guys were playing a kick drum and a high-hat cymbal while strumming stringed instruments and singing…

The Other Moab

The Porcupine Rim trail is one of the epic mountain bike rides in the Moab (Utah) region. It affords views of massive Castle Valley and features an incredible 15-mile downhill.

From Porcupine Rim (and other places around Moab: the Slickrock Trail,…

Jim Dyar Band to Open Benefit Concert at Cascade on Thursday

The Jim Dyar Band of Redding opens for Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women at the Cascade Theatre on Thursday in a benefit concert to raise money for kids’ scholarships to Westside Performing Arts Company.

We reached singer/songwriter Jim Dyar, Torri Pratt (vocals)…

A News Cafe’: Online to On-Air

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Part of the News Café team gathered at KLXR’s downtown Redding studio Monday to record a radio spot. Click above for a 20-second audio preview of Doni, Kelly, Jim and Steve hamming it up for Bob of KLXR.

Phil Fountain couldn’t make it to…

A couple more weeks of Bodies

I’ve heard more buzz about the Bodies Revealed exhibit at Turtle Bay Exploration Park than any other exhibit the museum has hosted. Part of that buzz, I’m sure, comes from the pre-show concerns/controversy about seeing real human bodies dissected and…

Hell of a summer

I was driving west on Highway 44 just before noon when I noticed the huge plume of smoke pouring from what looked like North Market or Hilltop. My thought was, “Here we go again. When does this end?”

It’s been a…