Arts & Culture

Jazz music to be featured at upcoming house show It’s Saturday evening, Feb. 28, 2015. You’ve parked your bike at 217 2nd Street, and you walk past the garden beds, picnic tables, homey-porch and balcony donning a decorative and historic turtle shell. You hear those familiar jazzy beats that you came for resonating deep within […]

It’s the age-old story of the bubble gum-smacking mean girl, the locker-slamming jock and the frumpy girl next door that has turned the teen drama genre into an American classic. The films are countless: Pretty in Pink, Clueless, She’s All That and Mean Girls. The list never ends. Somehow audiences keep coming back to relive […]

UC Davis Asian American Studies reaches a milestone Flashback to winter 1969: UC Davis students formed the Asian American Concern (later called the Asian American Studies committee), which established the first formal contract between Asian American students and the UC Davis administration. Soon after, the first Asian American Studies class, a history course on the […]

Free Javanese Gamelan Gadhon concert today Javanese Gamelan Gadhon, a traditional ensemble of music (an array of instruments played together to make a specific type of sound and feeling) from the island of Java in Indonesia, is set to perform at the Mondavi center on Thursday Feb. 26  at 12:05 p.m. While the island of […]

Former competition winners gather for special reunion concert The artists performing at the Mondavi Center this Friday might be young, but they will definitely not be lacking in talent. On Feb. 27, the Mondavi Center is presenting a special Young Artists Competition All Stars performance. This reunion performance will feature the 2014 Young Artists Competition […]

Your weekly dose of campus fashion This week I spoke with Hannah Kagan-Moore, a graduate student in the art history program. During her undergraduate career at Skidmore College she was involved with costuming for drama productions. “My official title was wardrobe mistress,” Kagan-Moore said. Her knowledge of theatrical dress and art throughout the ages helps […]

Winter comedy show to feature comedians from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TBS Drink up and laugh out loud at the Hopped Up Comedy 2.0 show, coming to Davis’ Sudwerk Brewery Dock Store on Feb. 28. The seasonal stand-up comedy show, which will feature comedians from television networks such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and TBS, is set […]

Winner predictions for the 87th Academy awards Here at The California Aggie Arts Desk, we are all about the movies, and with the 87th Academy Awards coming up on Sunday, we are here to offer you lovely readers a 2014 year-of-films review, along with our Oscar-winner predictions. Four veteran Aggie Arts writers, as well as […]

12 local restaurants to go head-to-head for annual charity soup competition Warm your hearts and stomachs, and head on over to Davis Odd Fellows Lodge on Sunday for 2015’s Souper Bowl. Hosted by Davis Food Co-op, the ninth annual charity competition pits 12 local restaurants against one another for who has the best soup in […]

Davis Musical Theatre Company presents Sweeney Todd The Davis Musical Theatre Company (DMTC) is set to bring their rendition of composer and playwright Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical, Sweeney Todd, to their main stage, which is located on 607 Pena Drive. The show opens on Feb. 27 and closes on March 22. The show will take […]

Author Garth Stein to hold book signing at the Avid Reader Garth Stein has had an illustrious career; he’s produced an Academy Award-winning documentary and his last book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, sold over four million copies. Now he’s back with a new novel, A Sudden Light, which is about a family […]

In loving memory of the inclusivity and resilience of Maya Angelou ThePoetry-ThePoetsAndThePoetesses ThePoetry “Science=Art” By Abbas Mohamed   The universe Math and love Chemistry and creation   As above is as below peer in either direction to let the secrets show The more you search the more you start to know No matter what direction […]