Arts & Culture

Every quarter, the UC Davis Craft Center Gallery presents two exhibitions to share the work of instructors and volunteers. At the center, artists have the opportunity to truly reflect their artistic personality and aesthetic to the public. Kicking off this winter’s run is Impromptu, which features pieces by flamework instructor Kim-Xuan Nguyen. The exhibit will […]

From now until March 13, the UC Davis Department of Design is presenting its latest exhibit, Red Dress: Design Stories For Heart Health, at the UC Davis Design Museum in Cruess Hall. The exhibit is part of the department’s collaboration with the UC Davis Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program (UCDWCMP) to raise women’s heart health awareness. […]

Letty Uy, a third-year design major, is very interested in music, television and entertainment, “but fashion has always been [her] number one.” With a summer internship at an upscale New York-based fashion design house and years of experience on the UC Davis Entertainment Council, Uy is well on her way to pursuing an exciting career […]

ThePoetry-ThePoets&ThePoetesses   The Poetry “Someone New” by Rouzbeh Rahai In the winter, In the winter him and I would drive to the water, where the ocean’s echo kept us from exchanging the strongest whispers. He screams. “when are you going to start your own family” Midst the December gloom on our skin, our breaths spiraled […]

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 […]