Arts & Culture

The art exhibition “Davis Inside Out,” which is set to officially open April 9, will soon line the walls of UC Davis’ Social Sciences and Humanities building. The installation features 400 large black and white portraits of UC Davis students and community members pasted along the building’s concrete exterior, and aims to celebrate individualism and […]

The annual Davis Feminist Film Festival (DFFF) is set to take place on April 10 and April 11 at the Veteran’s Memorial Center on 14th Street. This is the festival’s ninth year in production and will once again feature an array of local and international films. This year’s festival will showcase local films on April […]

MUSIC Anglerfish April 5, 9 p.m., free Level 6, West Entry Parking Structure This Saturday night the heavy rock sounds of local band Anglerfish’s upcoming concert will be echoing throughout the West Entry Parking Structure at UC Davis. AKOKA: The End of Time April 5, 8 p.m., tickets $25 to $49 Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center […]

On March 30, The Mondavi Center will host the Australian circus group Circa. Circa will be performing their show “S,” a captivating and raw example of the modern circus. Drawing inspiration from the smooth contours and constantly changing directions of the letter “s,” the cast will explore their physical and emotional limits with organic and […]

On March 29, Davis’ classical Indian dance group, Sunatya, will host their showcase titled Davis Dheem Tana 2014 alongside teams from universities around the country, including UCLA, USC, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Penn State, Tufts and Stanford. Davis Dheem Tana 2014 is made possible by a partnership with the Davis branch […]

At what point does a musical composition have anything to do with water management and soil sciences? For most of us, never, but for the students in UC Davis’ academic course “Earth Water Science and Song” (Science and Society 42), they intertwine perfectly. For the past five years, UC Davis has offered this cross-disciplinary course […]

I’m just gonna go ahead and begin this column with a bold statement, one I expect most people will agree with: Disney movies are fantastic. They’re brilliant. They appealed to me when I was five, they appeal to me now as a 21-year-old and I can guarantee they will still appeal to me when I […]

The International House of Davis will host “Singing Our World Alive,” a fundraiser event in which local musicians will lead the audience in a group song, on March 15. The event, which is co-sponsored by the Davis Community Men’s Talk Circle, will feature local musician Laura Sandage along with San Francisco based musician Doug von […]

March Madness March has been a slow month in the field of video game news, but that’s because people are busy actually playing games. I can’t remember a March lineup quite like this and it makes for an exciting time of the year (notwithstanding school finals). This past weekend I finished South Park: The Stick […]

MUSIC Marriage + Cancer/Virga/No Sects/Pockets March 13, 9:30 p.m., $5 Third Space Art Collective, 946 Olive Drive This “pissed-pop” band out of Portland, Ore., formerly called (and intentionally misspelled) Nucular Aminals, is stopping by Davis on their Bay Area tour. Think Magnetic Fields meets Nirvana’s guitar and quintessential Portland reverb grime. Also to perform: Virga, […]

On March 8, Indian musician Rita Sahai will be returning to perform at the Mondavi Center. Sahai performs Indian classical vocal music and will be accompanied by other musicians who specialize in traditional Indian instruments. Sahai specializes in a form of music known as Hindustani which is traditional repertoire from Northern India. Classic Hindustani pieces […]

How to Wear: The Denim Shirt. The denim shirt is a classic, staple piece that every girl and guy should own in their wardrobe, but how do we keep it chic without looking like we’re going to some tacky, denim-on-denim rodeo? Fourth-year economics major, Michelle “Melles” Tran, shows MUSE how she rocks a denim top […]