Amid a national housing crisis that has hit California especially hard, one might ask how the Davis market is doing – and the answer is debatable. “I don’t think Davis is immune to the housing bust at all,” said economics lecturer Erick Eschker. “You just have to look at the rest of California and the Bay Area.

If the French language is the universal language of love, then movie lovers will fall in love all over again at this year’s Sacramento French Film Festival. Created to introduce the Sacramento public to French films, the seventh annual film festival will open Friday with its opening night reception and open wine bar at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento.

Talking on your cell phone frequently could produce an expensive phone bill – but could it also give you cancer? For now, the answer is no. There have been several studies about the link between cell phones and brain cancer and many of them have pointed toward the negative.

Honeybees do more than sting you. Without them, you wouldn’t get to eat your favorite fruits, nuts and ice cream flavors. And due to a recent mysterious decline in honeybee colonies, you may actually be losing more than that.

Local officials have taken the first steps toward developing an off-road bikeway between the cities ofDavis andWoodland.The Davis City Council voted Tuesday night to help fund a study examining the possibility of an alternative transportation corridor between the two cities.

Closed-session meeting The council met in closed-session for labor negotiations with Firefighters Local3494.

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Editor’s note: In order to shed some light on its day to day operations, The Aggie talked to its own Jon Gold this week. The managing editor is a senior political science and international relations double major.

The male Japanese beetle doesn’t look for a pretty face when trying to choose a mate. Instead, the invasive pest sniffs for a female’s sex pheromone, a chemical signal which she naturally releases, which the male detects with an enzyme in its antennae, said UC Davis entomology professor and chemical ecologist Walter Leal.

Anybody who still shudders at the traumatizing memory of childhood booster shots will appreciate a recent UC Davis medical study that could mean the end of daily injections for infants afflicted with neonatal diabetes.

Swiss adventurer and schoolteacher Louis Palmer made a stop in Davis on Saturday on his trip around the world to showcase his exclusively solar-powered vehicle, the Solar Taxi. He began his trip July 3 in Lucerne, Switzerland and has traveled 22,000 miles through Europe, Asia and North America.

SATURDAY Rave, Davis style Police received a complaint of 15 to 16 male and female juveniles who were possibly involved in lewd behavior in the public restrooms on C Street. The juveniles were suspected of being intoxicated or using drugs.