Arts & Culture

From Jan. 27 to 31, the UC Davis Music Department, in collaboration with the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, will present Music and Words Festival 2015. The five-day festival will include more than seven concerts and presentations from university artists, distinguished professors as well as local and national performers. The festival, which is titled […]

While clothing is an integral part of life, it is also deeply personal.  The style choices we make each day reflect who we are and convey who we want to be to the outside world. Although American pop culture places a lot of importance on fashion as a form of self-expression, many other cultures stress […]

The Poetry The Mistress On His Mind By Camille Iman Woods Warning: Sexually explicit   He stopped me one day and talked to me, really talked to me he stimulated my mind and caressed my thoughts as he talked to me and we walked towards the library as he caressed my thoughts my thoughts get […]

From now until Jan. 11, Acme Theatre Company will be presenting its winter production of Stop Kiss at Veteran’s Memorial Center. The play, which is directed by company member Betsy Raymond, shares similarities with a homophobic hate crime against a Davis resident nearly two years ago. Written by American playwright Diana Son, Stop Kiss tells […]

SickSpits artist will be performing their spoken word pieces on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the TCS Building (also known as the Art Annex Building) at this year’s SickSpits CUPSI Qualification Slam. Admission is free, but SickSpits is requesting donations of $5. All proceeds from donations will provide the SickSpits team with the opportunity to […]

MUSIC Deborah Wong, Ethnomusicologist Jan. 8, 3 p.m., free Everson Hall 266 Join ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong in observing Thai and Asian American music. Wong will specifically discuss how ethnomusicology handles sexual themes among cultures. OK Sweetheart Jan. 17, time and ticket prices TBA Third Space OK Sweetheart’s music is a soothing blend of indie folk […]

Readers and fellow fashion-mavens, I thought I’d finally give you all a better sense of who writes these articles. My name is Allison Reiss, and I am a third-year design major. My background in fashion: In high school I participated in an after school fashion design regional occupation program. I learned extensively about the fashion […]

ThePoetry-ThePoets&ThePoetesses   ThePoetry Deus ex duodenum By Alana Kugelman I’m sick like god I’m sick like invisible but everywhere and really, really hard to explain to nonbelievers   my psalms are the intricate workings of my esophagus, jargon is my bible; and god said, let there be: hiatal hernia and nissen fundoplication and gastroenterology and […]

On Friday, the Davis Arts Center at 1919 F Street will be holding a reception for the entries to its annual “It’s in the Bag” art contest. The contest, sponsored by the local Whole Foods Market, challenged young artists from ages 7 to 14 to create a piece that promotes healthy foods. The theme […]

For this week’s edition of ASW, I spoke with my social psychology of Clothing professor, Nan Turner. I chose to interview this Davis design alumna because she has a great eye for putting outfits together and comes to class each day looking very professional and chic. Before pursuing a career in education, Turner designed […]

Mark your calendars: the BirdSpokes Big Show hits campus on Friday. The BirdSpokes Big Show will feature the talents of Birdstrike Theatre and all-female a cappella group, The Spokes. The showcase will be Birdstrike Theatre’s final production for the Fall Quarter. Birdstrike Theatre is the university’s improvisational comedy group, which produces small comedy shows throughout […]

With the holidays coming up and some having already begun, UC Davis students reflect on what their traditions are for the upcoming season. From not going to school to spending time with family to celebrating religious holidays, students detail their favorite parts during this time of year. Perhaps the season’s most well-known holiday is Christmas, […]