Since making their live debut at Brighton’s Loop Festival in late 2008, Grasscut’s Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair have been working on various side projects including their latest release, Muppet. Phillips – known for his work with One Giant Leap and Lo Recordings – and music journalist/radio DJ O’Dair offer a stylistic take on modern classical blended with experimental electronic.

After The Delgados broke up in 2005, founding member Emma Pollock began to focus on her own career. She released her solo debut Watch the Fireworks (4AD) in 2007. Pollock spent last year in the studio to record her second album, The Law of Large Numbers on Chemikal Underground, the label that she co-founded in 1994.

Teams: UC Davis vs. Brigham Young University

Q: What happens if you get caught stealing toilet paper from one of the bathrooms on campus? It is designated for public use, after all.

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“St. John Passion” will show at the Davis Community Church on Mar. 1 at 8 p.m. A pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m. will also be held. Ticket prices start at $18 for students.

UC Davis will be looking to prepare itself for the upcoming season when they scrimmage Saint Mary’s at 8 a.m. Saturday in West Sacramento.

TODAY

Robots can vacuum, assemble cars and explore outer space, and now they have successfully taken on a new life-saving task – lending a hand in heart surgery.

Yesterday morning at 9:45, approximately 20 students at UC Irvine began a sit-in at the campus’s administrative building, Aldrich Hall. The sit-in resulted in at least 17 students, faculty and staff arrests for unlawful assembly and refusal to disperse, according to a press release from University Communications at UC Irvine. All but five of those arrested were released on the scene.

In a unanimous decision, the Joint Legislative Assembly Committee (JLAC) of the California Legislature approved an audit requesting the examination of University of California financial practices.

Creating a sports team from the bottom up is not easy. Just ask Ryan-Sandy Lee, a junior mechanical and aeronautical engineering major who founded the UC Davis Sailing team two years ago. “We had a bumpy start … but I was either going to start a team or transfer. Sailing is that important to me,” […]