The fifth studio album of southern rock group Kings of Leon showed a slower paced yet entirely powerful new direction that the band seems to be heading in. The three Followhill brothers (and cousin) bring their own brand of melodic riffs and melodramatic sensuality with Come Around Sundown. While the arena rock showmanship of Only by Night seems to fade into the background and only appear on one song, “Mary,” the band exemplifies a raw energy that is both admirable and fitting for the fervent religiosity and southern rock riffs that Kings of Leon seems to wallow in.

Arcade Fire proves that they’re back and here to stay with their hauntingly beautiful new album, The Suburbs. The album is an epic journey through the life of someone in suburbia, and is jam-packed with emotional lyrics that reminisce of the band’s phenomenal debut, Funeral.

Last Wednesday the UC Davis Student Liaison Commission met in the Community Chambers of City Hall. This is where the city comes together with UC Davis students to discuss the Davis experience.

As you begin trading in your shorts for jeans, your cute sundresses for heavy coats, and your free-spirited days of lying on the MU lawn for hours of studying in Shields, you may begin to lose the urge to be outside at all.

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: 2nd Annual Confluence College Poetry Tour; Gamelan Cudamani: Bamboo to Bronze; Best Coast, AB & the Sea, Dog Party, Produce Produce.

The UC Davis men’s tennis team put up a good showing at the 2010 ITA Northwest Regional Tournament this weekend.

TODAY:?Camp Adventure Information Session; Meat Lab Sale; Enchanted Cellar at UC Davis.

For students considering studying abroad, participation in a summer abroad program is a way to avoid falling behind in studies or missing out on employment, while still being able to experience a foreign country.

With the Nov. 2 election less than two weeks away, campaigns are working to inform students about their causes and encouraging everyone to vote.

When most people think of pigs, they may think of the movie Babe, just a cute little animal or a barbecue, but when scientists and undergraduate students at UC Davis get involved, they think of nematodes.

A possible scene from 500 million years ago: The ocean floor crawls with roving packs of arthropods called trilobites. Instead of sticking to its normal diet of plankton or algae, one hungry trilobite looks around at its trilobite friends and sees dinner. Welcome to cannibalism in the deep.

United Auto Works 2865, the union representing over 12,000 Academic Student Employees (ASE) including teaching assistants, tutors and readers throughout the UC system, met with the UC’s bargaining committee in Los Angeles on Oct. 14 and 15 to exchange contract proposals.