Arts & Culture

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 […]

Shakespeare-On-a-Shoestring (SOS), a no-budget troupe in the Department of Theatre and Dance, will present The Merchant of Venice from March 13 to 16. The play is directed by Bella Merlin, a UC Davis theatre and dance professor. Merlin came up with the idea of the Shoestring series, which minimizes the use of costumes and aims […]

MUSIC “Innovation Greets Tradition” by Rita Sahai March 8, 7 p.m., $8 children and students, $20 adults Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center Presented by the UC Davis Department of Music, Rita Sahai will be performing a Hindustani classical vocal concert where she will be accompanied by the table, harmonium, viola and slide guitar. Sahai is […]

On March 14, The Lounge Lizards, UC Davis’ co-ed a cappella group, will host the annual show “No Instruments Attached,” performing a mixture of old favorites and new songs alongside several different a cappella groups. The show will welcome to the stage UC Davis’ male a cappella group The Afterglow, The Cal Jazz Choir from […]

On March 7, the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance will be hosting The Grapes of Wrath Symposium, honoring the 75th anniversary of the publication of the Steinbeck novel while also exploring the larger social, cultural and historical context surrounding the novel, both in the past and the present. The symposium is free to […]

I may spend most of my time with video games nowadays, but I’m the kind of guy who can appreciate a good card/party game every now and then. Spot It! Hip falls into that category despite my initial skepticism. Adding the words “hip” or “hipster” to anything doesn’t appeal to my personal taste, but the […]

Irrational Response The video game community continues to discuss the downsizing of developer Irrational Games following the shocking news last week. The studio responsible for the critically-acclaimed BioShock and BioShock Infinite no longer exists in its original form — only Creative Director/Co-founder Ken Levine and 15 other employees remain. According to a post on the […]

A New York State of Mind. Hailing from the Bronx, Palmira Muniz, a third-year English and film studies double major, tells MUSE how she combines her lived experiences both in New York and Los Angeles to create her own unique personal style and how to DIY (do it yourself)! As I was strolling through the […]

With performances beginning March 6 and going on through March 16, the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance will be presenting Frank Galati’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Miles Anderson, the play’s plot of a farmer family escaping the Dust Bowl to California is dramatized by […]