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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Arts & Culture

Culture Corner

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more  By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org Album: “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party” by Hayley Williams (2025) While...

UC Davis Professor of Music Pierpaolo Polzonetti discusses the unique traits of holiday music

Polzonetti expounded on the various ways in which cultures and musical genres affect the expression of winter in song By JONAH BERMAN — arts@theaggie.org  As UC...

Review: Daniel Caesar’s ‘Son of Spergy’ is an intimate introspection

The R&B artist experiments with soul, gospel and soft rock to examine themes of religion, love and the self  By SOPHIE LIN — arts@theaggie.org In an...

Upside down and all around: ‘Stranger Things’ and Gen Z nostalgia

Why Gen Z is still enamored with ‘Stranger Things’ as it premieres its final season When “Stranger Things” first flickered onto screens in 2016, it...

Students share their favorite holiday foods and traditions

Whether it’s Chinese food, German Christmas cookies, a Welsh chicken or a pickle ornament in a tree, food is an essential mode of family...

Holiday decor and human connection

UC Davis students share how the act of decorating for the holidays creates cozy memories and fosters a feeling of togetherness BY JULIE HUANG -...

After over 50 years, KDVS 90.3FM prepares to move out of Lower Freeborn Hall

The radio station will be relocating to TB-24, taking its music and memories along with it By MIRIAM RAMAKRISHNAN — arts@theaggie.org  UC Davis’ student-run radio station,...

Review: ‘Wicked: For Good’ is a ‘confusifying’ letdown

The long-awaited sequel is ‘limited’ in its delivery  By AALIYAH ESPAÑOL-RIVAS — arts@aggie.org  Exactly one year after the first installment, “Wicked: For Good” released in theaters...

Commentary: This winter, you ought to be baking

The benefits of baking as a hobby, with student recommendations to get you started  By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org  In our digital age, it has become a respite...

Holiday decor and human connection

UC Davis students share how the act of decorating for the holidays creates cozy memories and fosters a feeling of togetherness   BY JULIE HUANG -...

Upside down and all around: ‘Stranger Things’ and Gen Z nostalgia

Why Gen Z is still enamored with ‘Stranger Things’ as it premieres its final season   By IQRA AHMAD — arts@theaggie.org    When “Stranger Things” first flickered onto...

Culture Corner

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more By SOPHIE LIN — ncsalter@theaggie.org Album: “LIL FANTASY vol. 1” by CHAEYOUNG (2025) On Sept. 12, Chaeyoung,...

‘ODDITY’: The Basement Gallery’s first show of the school year

The student-run art gallery explored ‘the uncanny’ with fall quarter display By HANNAH OSBORN — arts@theaggie.org  This October, in the basement of the Maria Manetti Shrem...

Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ may just be his best film yet

Starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, ‘Bugonia’ explores class tension and alien conspiracies By BELLA PETERSON — arts@theaggie.org  *Note: This review is spoiler-free!  Yorgos Lanthimos has been...

Headline: ‘Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice’ serves as a throughline between human and non-human communities of all kinds

The latest Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum exhibition considers the importance of connections across time, space and species  By JULIE HUANG — arts@theaggie.org Open...