Arts & Culture

The beloved weekend-long Earth Day celebration returns with an array of music, activities and more    BY SHREYA KUMAR — arts@theaggie.org    Each spring, the UC Davis Quad transforms into the Whole Earth Festival (WEF), a student-run event that raises awareness for sustainability and the environment. The large-scale festival began as a small art project […]

No longer the center of books, movies or television, unicorns have been slowly fading from fantasy — is it time for their magical return?    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org It’s 2016. You’re in middle school, and your friends are posting photos of themselves holding plastic Starbucks cups filled with an icy, purple-pink mixture. Blue […]

A review of this past season’s most exciting horror releases.   By BELLA PETERSON — arts@theaggie.org    This summer, we’ve seen no shortage of releases in the horror genre — both returning titles and newer stories. With this fresh surplus of movies for horror fans to enjoy, it’s difficult to know where to begin. Here’s […]

Investigating the beloved manifestation method that everyone’s talking about   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    Since its creation in 2010, image-collection social media site Pinterest has risen to a position of immense popularity in the culture. A visual-focused platform that allows users to create “boards” full of carefully curated pictures — from outfits to artwork to […]

As video game visuals become more and more lifelike, the question arises: Is that even what the masses want?    By BELLA PETERSON — arts@theaggie.org    When it comes to discussing video games, the graphics quality plays a considerable role in the conversation. As more years pass and more games are released, it’s not hard […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   Song: “Obvious” by After (2025) Like summer in a bottle, “Obvious” is a dreamy, romantic track from the two-man band After’s debut EP. The extended play record — fittingly titled “After EP” — is an ode to Y2K […]

The bewitching singer-songwriter’s third album takes her music in a wilder, more vulnerable direction   By NATALIE SALTER — arts@theaggie.org    The contemporary dating scene — one so emotionally barren that the term “situationship” has emerged to define almost every romance — tends to make true love look like a distant, almost illusory prospect. Is […]

The final season of “You” asks viewers to consider their own role in condoning Joe Goldberg’s actions    BY JULIE HUANG – arts@theaggie.org   The fifth and final season of “You” was released on April 24, bringing viewers a definitive conclusion to Joe Goldberg’s story that doubles down on the repetitive nature of his obsessive […]

As spring is in full bloom, enjoy the season with a playlist to match   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    Springtime brings a whole new feeling to the world each time it arrives. Nature is reborn in a whorl of green leaves and iridescent flowers as sunshine bursts through rain clouds. The season is at once […]

Why blind boxes, bag charms and everything in between have taken the world by storm   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    There’s an inexplicable pleasure in the opening of a blind boxes. You inspect the bag’s possible contents and point out which ones you desperately hope are inside, tear it open with a delightful thrill and […]

Let your brain breathe, or don’t and meet Tralalero Tralala in your algorithmic descent   By IQRA AHMAD — arts@theaggie.org Bored? Good. You might be onto something. Stop doomscrolling. Yes, you. The 38th TikTok video or Instagram Reel will still be there in five minutes; it’s a promise. Let’s talk about that strange, sticky feeling […]

Board members speak to the significance and process of the upcoming collaborative event    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   Creating their own portable gallery walls from the ground up and converting the Art Building’s basement into an exhibition space, neither Open Walls Collective (OWC) nor The Basement Gallery (BG) are unfamiliar with bringing a […]