Arts & Culture

A side pony is more than a fashion statement Over 11 years ago, four college freshmen at the New England Conservatory of Music birthed a not-so-novel concept for a band: playing jazz music at local dive bars. It wasn’t until the group piled into a minivan for their very first tour, passing around a mix […]

Sensual Daydreams Shadowcast bring you the Rocky Horror Picture Show brought to life The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a live shadowcast by performance group Sensual Daydreams, is coming to the Davis Graduate at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28. Prepare to shiver with antici…pation. For those who don’t know, a shadowcast performance is typically where […]

Spoken word auditions to be held at CCC Today, Feb. 24, the Cross Cultural Center (CCC) will be holding spoken word auditions for pieces to be performed at an event hosted by the Radical Artistic Decolonization (R.A.D.), a student-initiated space that focuses on fighting oppression through artistic mediums. Their event, “R.A.D. 2016: Resistance through Expression,” […]

A romantic love story, a comedy full of sexual innuendos, a gory horror and a stereotypical action movie — all in one fantastic package From the “skull emoji poop emoji L” billboard and the promo photos of Deadpool holding a gun at his crotch, I knew I would have a lot of good things to […]

Department’s poignant winter production features diverse cast UC Davis’ Department of Theatre and Dance will be putting on a production entitled Time Is Passing By, produced by John Jasperse, a renowned choreographer and UC Davis’ Granada Artist in Residence. The Artist in Residence program brings artists from around the country to campus to produce their […]

Psychedelic sounds put a twist on generic rock On Feb. 23, Third Space Art Collective will be showcasing an event featuring the bands Ringo Deathstarr, Future Death and Starrsha. Kasra Mirblouk, a fourth-year computer science major and events coordinator of KDVS, and J.E. Paguyo, a third-year mathematics major and bassist and vocalist of locally-based Davis […]

Spokes take 2nd in ICCA quarter-finals, headed to semi-finals. The Spokes, an all-female acapella group on campus, took second place at the  International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) quarter-finals and earned themselves a spot in the semi-finals in Portland on March 19. The ICCAs is a collegiate a capella competition where groups from northern […]

Please stop making apocalypse movies. The world will not end if there are no more apocalypse movies and The 5th Wave is proof of that. I had very low expectations before watching this film and sadly they were not proved wrong. Director J Blackeson’s adaptation of Rick Yancy’s bestselling novel The 5th Wave does not […]

The evolution of an unpretentious small town. From Feb. 2 to 27, Gallery 1855 at the Davis Cemetery will present Davis Shopscapes, a photography exhibition by Manila-born artist Ben Tuason. The collection consists of black-and-white photographs that capture the character of Downtown Davis’ cityscape. However, Tuason does not use photography to simply display urban architecture. […]

The Afterglow, The Spokes and many others come together to bring you this romantic treat. The fifth annual Lights Low with the Afterglow performance is set for this Friday, Feb. 19. The all male a cappella group The Afterglow, will be joined this year by the all-female group The Spokes, UC Santa Cruz’s the Hightones […]

WRRC-sponsored show will feature student-written and performed pieces on the topic of gendered experiences. Vagina* OurStories, an annual production inspired by Eve Enseler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” will take place at the Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre during the weekend of Feb. 27. The Women’s Resources and Research Center (WRRC) sponsors the annual event, which allows performers […]

Black Family Weeks to celebrate black culture and raise awareness of African Diaspora’s presence on campus Black Family Weeks, a program run through the Cross Cultural Center (CCC), has started its annual celebration of the African Diaspora population on campus. The event started on Feb. 1 and runs through Feb. 19 with events such as […]