A full-fledged amphitheater next to the Sacramento River and repurposing historic signs into public art displays were two of the 10 Redding City Identity Project ideas unveiled Thursday before a jampacked Cascade Theatre audience....
Author: Jon Lewis
Editor’s note: We are saddened to report the news of Peggy Lewis’s death. Both Peggy Lewis and her son, Jon Lewis, have contributed to A News Cafe. Click here to read some Peggy Lewis...
Art and culture not only feed the soul, they can feed community coffers as well. That was one of the main takeaways from the second annual Redding Cultural District Summit held Thursday at the...
With an emphatic nod toward change, Redding voters elected two new City Council members and an incumbent Shasta County supervisor who has represented west Redding for 20 years was unseated. Erin Resner, who co-owns eight Dutch...
Who is Bozo Texino? Bill Daniel is glad you asked. In fact, that simple question sent him on a 16-year cinematic quest that revealed an American art form that has been rolling across the...
Bethel Church’s contributions to Redding police, the long-dormant Stillwater Business Park, the homeless, preventing the next Carr Fire, the city’s new cannabis industry and raising taxes were just a few of the topics that...
Embers from the devastating Carr Fire were still glowing when donations began pouring in for recovery efforts with the largest clearinghouse for those contributions, the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, reporting a total of $3.5...
The Redding City Council, buoyed by the unanimous voices of community members, spoke as one on Wednesday to let City Manager Barry Tippin know that the Redding Library is off-limits in the search for...
With the Carr Fire nearing containment, the thousands of people affected by the historic blaze are returning home, assessing the damage and deciding when and how to rebuild or repair. And hot on their...
When you put a bunch of beer makers together and present them with a challenge, it’s a given they’re going to brew up a solution. The challenge at hand: find a way to combine...
