Behind the Scenes at the Redding Freedom Festival… • a fireworks display.• a brilliant performance or display, especially of a specified skill. “ he thrilled his audience with vocal pyrotechnics”• …
How Does Your Garden Grow
Plantable Nursery & Cafe Plants Seeds of Transformation… In Scotland, Kirkwood and Donna Hale fell in love with the United Kingdom version of a garden center that combines a nursery …
A Time to Grow Back Stronger
Rebuilding Whiskeytown Environmental School… Between 1970 and 2018, some 134,000 fifth- and sixth-graders got to splash in Clear Creek, hike, camp overnight, marvel at star-filled skies and learn about the …
Where Water Flows
Tyler Faires’ Award-Winning ACID Canal Documentary… Like many others, Tyler Faires did not give much thought to the water that came from his kitchen faucet, much less the water that …
Living the Adventure
Hit the Trail for the Bigfoot Adventure Challenge… It’s gotta be the socks. How else to explain why nearly 400 people entered last year’s Bigfoot Adventure Challenge last year, completing …
A Feeling of Familiarity
Made to order with Karlene Niver… Déjà Vu, the popular Redding breakfast and lunch spot, has relocated from its longtime home in the Lorenz Hotel to new digs on Shasta …
Crafting Success
Inside the World of Fall River Brewing… When Fall River Brewing relocated from its cramped Intermountain facility to an expansive warehouse on Eastside Road in Redding, its owners had no …
Eclectic Offerings
Cascade Curations in Downtown Redding… Hours before Nashville-based touring artist Molly Tuttle performed on the Cascade Theatre stage, she stopped in at a downtown boutique. An upscaled pair of jeans, …
Immersive Experience
Virtual Reality Entertainment Center at AREA 151… It’s tough enough keeping at bay the zombies, who lurch forth from the shadows of a dystopian hellscape, but when the enraged, mutant …
On the Fly
Matt Dahl’s Grunt Fly Fishing… As a boy, fly fishing was something Matt Dahl could enjoy with his grandfather, Les. As an ex-Marine with two Iraqi deployments under his belt, …