Prior to last Saturday at 8 p.m., I was an opera virgin.

The stigma created around female masturbation is a lot like the stigma set about female excrement. Basically, it just doesn’t exist.

Initially, Infinite Definitive sounds like it could be heard on a movie during the opening credits, or a running or happy scene. The harmony is a little repetitive at first, but the songs grow on you. The songs are cheery, positive and uplifting in sound and Keith Lynch’s seasoned voice adds to the flavor. It’s good enough to hear in a serious movie and calm enough to fall asleep to.

With some notably heavier guitar riffs and spastic beats, Floater takes a different direction than most bands that reign in the mellow indie-rock scene of Portland, Oregon. Wake is definitely a rock-inspired album.

Bruno Mars’ debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, is anything but conventional. The rookie took on his musical endeavor seriously, and proved what talent actually sounds like.

Pictures of derelicts, vagabonds and punks run amok in the Richard L. Nelson Gallery exhibit “Wonderers.” Guest curated by Matthias Geiger, the show features seven different photographers as they capture the roving, wandering and uprooted existence that many are living to this day.

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love (Mondavi Center, Vanderhoef Studio Theater), Tonight to Saturday and Wednesday, 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., $15; Garrett Pierce and Timothy James Wright (Delta of Venus, 122 B St.), Friday, 8 p.m., free; Readings by Creative Writing Faculty (UC Davis Arboretum, Wyatt Deck), Tonight, 7 p.m., free.

TODAY: EAC: Cuban and Chicana/o Socio-Cultural Perspectives Program; Camp Adventure Information Session; Sigma Nu-dles; Camp Kesem Informational Meeting.

Tranquil music whispers softly in the background as students take advantage of the Human Touch Massage Chair, power nap area and biofeedback machine available free of charge at the new Mind Spa.

The universe is a violent place. Not only did we start with an explosive Big Bang, but our solar system is continuously shaped by the desperate pull of gravity.

Down Old Davis Road, just across the railroad tracks and under the freeway, sits one of Davis’ hidden treasures: the California Raptor Center.

Yolo County is still looking for information regarding a dog that was found in a Davis dumpster on Sept. 30. The elderly dog – a gray, female terrier mix – was found alive by a maintenance worker at Danville Apartments. Unable to stand, the dog was later euthanized.