Have you ever seen someone lose themselves in a battle against humor? From what I’ve witnessed and personally experienced, laughter can possess a person. It takes over — distorts the face, makes limbs flail in all directions, dominates your desire to actually breathe properly and sometimes it can even literally bring a person to the […]

UC service workers are experiencing a decrease in take-home pay due to the recent enactment of UC’s latest proposal for AFSCME 3299 service workers. The AFSCME service workers include custodians, gardeners, food service workers and facilities maintenance staff. The workers are now required to contribute a larger percentage of their paycheck to the pension fund. […]

Teams: UC Davis at Cal State Fullerton; at UC Riverside Records: Aggies, 5-5-1 (1-1-0); Titans, 4-6-0 (1-1-0); Highlanders, 0-2-0 (5-4-2) Where: Titan Stadium — Fullerton, Calif.; UC Riverside Soccer Stadium — Riverside, Calif. When: Friday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. A tough loss to sixth-ranked Cal State Northridge may […]

Our generation, in my opinion, has the most convoluted ideas about meeting people. We congregate in the most pungent bars, scour internet chat rooms, spend hours in dark coffee shops reading a clever book conspicuously held up to our faces for passersby to inspect. Love though, does not conform to meticulously crafted schemes, and instead […]

Thursday, October 10 Conversations with Writers: Sam Freedman 4 to 6 p.m. Voorhies 126 Attend the first lecture of this year’s Conversations With Writers Series, hosted by the UC Davis University Writing Program. Author, journalist and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism professor Sam Freedman will speak about his new book. The event is free. […]

The Oktobrewfest Race, hosted by Davis-based A Change of Pace Foundation, will take place on Oct. 12 at Central Park, on the corner of F Street and Covell Boulevard. Both the 5K and 10K course start at 6 p.m. The event is sponsored by local brewery Sudwerk. While most people who enter the race are […]

There’s a plastic bag ban coming to town, and we applaud the Davis City Council for its vote although we’re surprised that it’s only happening now. Starting in January for major retailers, the ban will remove single-use plastic bags from the city, with the exception of produce aisle bags for sanitation reasons. We’ll still be […]

Cool Davis’ third annual Cool Davis Festival will take place on Saturday, Oct. 12 in Central Park, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. According to Lynne Nittler, co-chair of Cool Davis, the Cool Davis Initiative has almost 60 partner organizations from the Davis community who focus on reducing transportation-induced carbon footprints and hosting zero waste […]

New York-based dance company Ballet Hispanico will perform at the Mondavi Center on Oct. 11. Through modern dance, the dance company explores the Latino voice, experience and tradition. Ballet Hispanico was founded in 1970 by dancer, choreographer and National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez. The company became committed to exploring, preserving and celebrating Latino […]

On Oct. 12, Central Park will rock. The Festival on the Green, a concert sponsored by Music Only Makes Sense (MOMS) and the Davis High School Blue and White Foundation, features nine bands performing on two stages from 2 to 10 p.m. The bands include Midi Matilda from San Francisco, Radiation City from Portland, Cherry […]

Teams: UC Davis at Long Beach State; UC Davis at UC Irvine Records: Aggies, 3-5-2 (0-0-0) ; 49ers 7-5-0 (1-1-0) ; Anteaters 6-5-0 (1-1-0) Where: George Allen Field – Long Beach, Calif.; Anteater Stadium – Irvine, Calif. When: Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. Who To Watch: Senior Ashley […]

Lightsabers may no longer be a figment of George Lucas’ imagination. Harvard physics professor Mikhail Lukin and MIT physics professor Vladan Vuletić are the closest yet to making the Lightsaber — a laser beam-bladed sword and every Star Wars fan’s weapon of choice — a reality. If the research produces tangible results, they will look […]