Arts & Culture

On May 10, Finish Ticket will be performing at UC Davis West Village. The free show begins at 7:30 p.m. The San Francisco-based band has been storming the West Coast and recently signed to Atlantic Records. Finish Ticket was started by twins Brendan and Michael Hoye and their friend Alex DiDonato. In 2012, brothers Gabe […]

The 45th annual Whole Earth Festival (WEF) will take place this Mother’s Day weekend, May 9, 10 and 11. The event, which aims to celebrate health, the environment and expression, will be hosted on the Quad and will showcase a variety of local and visiting artists, dancers and musicians. Whole Earth manages to pack the […]

Live Through This Twenty years ago, Hole released what would be their definitive record: Live Through This. Live through what, exactly? Well, just about everything you can imagine: being ripped into doll parts, resisting kill me pills, struggling with abandonment, breaking, burning, being walked on, disrespected, taunted, threatened and coping with suicide. Death and life […]

From May 9 to May 18, Davis’ undergraduate theater group Studio 301 will be presenting the Tony Award-nominated Broadway hit Seussical the Musical (Seussical). This show will mark Studio 301’s annual musical production. Seussical is based off of multiple children’s books by the late author Dr. Seuss. The musical incorporates bits and pieces from Horton […]

Man and Woman Theatre, a new theatre company that will focus on one-man, one-woman plays, will perform their first production in Wright Hall’s Arena Theatre from May 2 through May 4. The play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, written by 2010 Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph, focuses on the relationship between two people, Doug and Kayleen. This is […]

MUSIC UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: Berlin, Leipzig and Stockholm May 3, 7 p.m., Prices vary Mondavi Center, Jackson Hall The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra will be performing works by Weber, Mika Pelo and Mahler for a performance that will offer a sampling of compositions from the titled European cities. LITERATURE AND POETRY SickSpits Poetry Slam […]

Editor’s note: Tanya Azari is the SickSpits’ president in addition to the opinion editor at The Aggie. On May 7, UC Davis’ Spoken Word Collective, SickSpits, will host their annual Poetry Slam, a competitive spoken word reading. The event boasts special guest and two-time World Poetry Slam champion Buddy Wakefield, as well as spoken word […]

The California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art (CCACA) is returning to Davi s for the 26th time. Lectures, demonstrations and 45 major shows of both student and professional ceramic work will take place in Davis from April 25 to 27. The conference is the legacy of Robert Arneson who was a renowned ceramics […]

Mobile Metamorphosis Last December, I joined the exclusive club of hip, cool kids and their fancy smart phones. More specifically, I acquired an iPhone, and in turn gained access to an extensive library of mobile games. Two years ago I wouldn’t have cared about that, but perspectives shift over time. Apathy best describes my past […]

THE Albums of the Nineties The ‘90s were the Golden Age of alternative rock, with MTV and powerful radio stations like Los Angeles’ KROQ delivering to large audiences music that didn’t fit into mainstream formats. Now with the benefit of years of hindsight, it’s a good time to look back and appreciate what I believe […]

LITERATURE AND POETRY Poetry in the Garden April 24, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., free UC Davis Wyatt Deck Local poets Heera Kulkarni and Kenya Mitchell are set to perform original readings at this daytime event. There will be an open mic for anyone who would like to participate after the featured poets. Author Event: […]

April 19 cannot come sooner for music aficionados and vinyl collectors alike. The third Saturday in April, also known as Record Store Day, will have customers waiting patiently outside local shops to score limited releases of rare vinyl. Record Store Day appeared in 2007 as means of highlighting the culture that encompasses local music shops, […]