This is the last Aggie Arcade of the quarter, which means summer vacation is right around the corner. Obviously I’m excited about the much-needed break, but that’s not the only great thing about next week. This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) begins on June 11, which marks arguably the most exciting time of the year […]

The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, established in 1976 and currently located in Nelson Hall, is in the process of creating a new teaching and learning space that it will be implementing in fall of 2013. The space will utilize the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, also located in Nelson Hall. According […]

On June 22 and 23, a South by Southwest (SXSW) style experience will come to Davis for its third iteration. The Davis Music Fest will feature approximately 40 artists playing at venues all over town, including Central Park, Delta of Venus and Sophia’s Thai Kitchen. Danny Tomasello, the director of the Davis Music Fest as […]

There’s something strange about watching Davis squirrels approach us on the Quad with hungry eyes, opening their mouths as if about to speak. And there’s something uncanny about seeing a Davis cockroach scamper across our linoleum floors like a hockey puck after months of hiding in the shadows. Yes, these sights are common to us […]

ART/GALLERY MFA Art Studio Exhibition opening reception Friday, June 7, 5:30 p.m., free Nelson Gallery 2013 Master of Fine Arts candidates in Art Studio present their work at the Nelson Gallery, located in Nelson Hall. Come view the works by talented artists Andrew Armas, Jason Engelund, Evan Jose, Sarah Julig, Andrea Muñoz Martinez, John Tronsor […]

Karen Strack, a former UC Davis employee with the Department of Food Science and Technology, is currently battling her health maintenance organization (HMO) to retain funding for medical rehabilitation after being diagnosed with a rare neuropathy known as Guillain–Barré syndrome. Health Net, the insurance company utilized by the University of California for its retirees, is […]

After nearly a decade of existence, two of UC Davis’ “newest” majors, film studies (FMS) and technocultural studies (TCS), are planning to merge, becoming cinema and technocultural studies (CTS). As part of the early curriculum being organized for the newly unified program, at least one course, CTS 20, will serve as a lower-division introduction to […]

Summer is upon us, as is graduation and being thrust into the real world as full-fledged, degree-carrying adults. So let me arm you with some advice for your newly found adulthood — learn how to sext. In this modern and completely attention-deprived culture, learning how to break through your sexy new prospect’s cluttered inbox is […]

FRIDAY Flippant On Lake Boulevard, an elderly man was shoplifting by putting items into his pants. SATURDAY What in the world An unknown man was knocking on someone’s door on Russell Boulevard; when she answered all he would say was that his name was Cosmo and nothing else. MONDAY Too juiced An intoxicated college-aged student […]

It’s a balmy evening in Davis, a perfect time and temperature for a breezy cruise on your bike through town. You saddle up the good ol’ cruiser, head out and have a splendid evening — but all of that is about to change. At the beginning of your intended return back to your apartment, you […]

He put his dirty fingers deep inside his cheeks and turned them inside out. His giant brown eyes bugged and his teeth glowed shiny white and orange — gold fillings shimmered from the back of his cave and his face loomed large over his crooked body. He was hunched over a baby, pulling his typical […]

Over the past dozen and a half columns, I have explained how the system we have today is not capitalism, and that, despite the blame that capitalism receives for many of our current problems, it is the return to laissez-faire that we need to live in a free and flourishing society. But is this not […]