Arts & Culture

POETRY Poetry Night Reading Series: Hannah Stein April 17, 8 to 9:30 p.m., free The John Natsoulas Gallery The Natsoulas Gallery holds bi-monthly poetry readings and open mic nights. This week, Hannah Stein, a popular Davis-based poet, will feature her works, among them her most recent poem “A Broken Music,” which focuses on music, history […]

Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam — The Relentless Debate “Who’s better?” — how often do we hear that question posed? Whether the discussion revolves around sports, music, politics or pizza, we live in a culture that loves reducing the issue down to two competitors: Beatles v. The Stones, Jordan v. Kobe, Republican v. Democrat. And so […]

The Annual Picnic Day Design by Design exhibition in the Design Museum will be displaying selected entries submitted by UC Davis undergraduate design students. Sponsored by the Birgitta and Helge Olson Design Award and the UC Davis Design Museum, the exhibition of undergraduate design pieces will be on display at the Design Museum beginning April […]

Facebook’s Virtual Reality While I was busy relaxing during spring break, Facebook created quite a buzz with its acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion, the company responsible for the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality head-mounted display which has yet to see a commercial release. Developer kits have been out there […]

The UC Davis Fashion and Design Society (FADS) will be hosting their annual runway fashion show in Freeborn Hall on Picnic Day, April 12. This year’s show is called “Raw Edge” and will feature 16 new collections from advanced design students at UC Davis. A small group of UC Davis design students spent the entire […]

April 12 is UC Davis’ 100th Picnic Day, which will feature a huge variety of events on and off campus. A thorough schedule can be found at picnicday.ucdavis.edu. ART 2nd Friday ArtAbout April 11, 5 to 11 p.m., prices vary Downtown Davis This is a special pre-Picnic Day edition of the 2nd Friday ArtAbout which […]

West Coast band-to-watch French Cassettes will perform at the MU West Quad on April 14 at 12 p.m. French Cassettes’ first album Gold Youth was released in August 2013 following their 2011 Summer Darling EP. Scott Huerta, founding member and vocalist, spoke to MUSE in a phone interview about the band. MUSE: Tell us about […]

Do We Need A New Nirvana? Nirvana was a pretty important change agent in the ‘90s. They brought on a massive cultural shift that essentially juxtaposed the ‘80s with the ‘90s. I think the world was on a precipice anyway and Nirvana happened to be making the right kind of art at the right time […]

The MFA Thesis Performances will be held from April 8 to April 13 in and around the Wyatt Theatre and will present various styles of performance art, from site specific choreographies to adaptations of fantasy novels. The five pieces — which consist of one hour-long collaboration and four half-hour long solo works — are organized […]

Willie Nelson and Family will perform at The Mondavi Center on April 9 at 8 p.m. Lukas Nelson, Willie’s son, will open the show with his own band, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real. Lukas is also part of Willie’s band. While traveling to Taos, N.M., Lukas spoke with MUSE in a phone interview […]

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 […]