Arts & Culture

Break tradition with these seasonal recipes We all know the typical Thanksgiving: the turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, the potatoes. Time to spice up Thanksgiving — literally. This holiday season, The California Aggie will show you how to take your Thanksgiving dishes to the next level. We’ll begin with a timeless fall dish. Pumpkin pie […]

Yolo County bands together for annual month-long writing challenge Laughter, coffee and creativity were flowing at Crepeville on a Wednesday night as residents of the Davis community furiously typed away on their laptops. It was the eighth day of NaNoWriMo — formally known as National Novel Writing Month — and just the beginning for many […]

Nostalgia is back Just because it’s time for layering your outfits doesn’t mean your sense of style has to take a back seat. With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s time to get ready for Black Friday shopping — the day after Thanksgiving that has instead become the beginning of Christmas shopping season. Retailers often open […]

Take a break from the fall chill and return to Summer of Love In celebration of 1967’s Summer of Love, Sudwerk Brewery is celebrating the landmark year’s 50th anniversary featuring covers of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, It’s A Beautiful Day, Youngbloods, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Cream, Neil Young and […]

Local Kava bar gets groovy It’s time to dust off those vintage bell bottoms and paisley print shirts — Root of Happiness Kava Bar in downtown Davis will be hosting a groovy ‘70s dance party. The event will feature a selection of talented DJs from the greater Sacramento area, and they will be showcasing their […]

Fall is underway; keep up with all the feels through this playlist   November signals the true beginning of fall here in Davis. As the weather has finally cooled, heavy coats and scarves have started to find their way back into our closets. Leaves that once held spring and summer in their veins now scatter […]

Local boutique holds trunk show featuring the Joseph Ribkoff collection Established in 1988, The Wardrobe has been consistently bringing high-quality fashions to its devoted customers for nearly 30 years. Throughout the boutique’s Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show on Nov. 5, owner Heather Caswell mingled with the show’s attendees and assisted them in picking out some of […]

UC Davis graduate draws from early beginnings, collegiate experiences in developing sound Kasra Mirblouk, better known as “Kaz,” is a 2016 UC Davis graduate. Mirblouk, whose bachelor’s degree is in computer science and engineering, has rejected the common engineering postgrad jobs of his peers to pursue his true passion: music. “I didn’t fit into that […]

Films feature cultures from around the world The International House in Davis seeks to foster cultures from across the world through their International Film Series. This longstanding tradition of showing a film on the first and third Fridays now through May not only spreads awareness about diverse cultures but also unites a diverse university community. […]

Free blockbuster movie screening for UC Davis community On Tuesday, Nov. 14, ASUCD Entertainment Council will host an advanced screening of the much-anticipated film “Justice League.” The advanced screening will take place in downtown Davis at the Varsity Theatre. The film, which has generated interest with a star-studded cast that includes Ben Affleck as Batman […]

Film festival aims to humanize, destigmatize homelessness Yolo County Library, YoloArts, California Humanities and the City of Davis presented documentaries to shed light onto the problem of homelessness. The events, which screened four documentary films (two at the first event in Sacramento on Oct. 12 and the other two at the Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre […]

Davis student poets provide community, safe space Community and accessibility are not qualities often associated with poetry. Most of the time it is feelings of alienation derived from frustration, confusion and an unavoidable aura of elusiveness. This attachment of exclusivity to the medium is hard to detach because it requires a willingness and commitment to […]