Arts & Culture

Davis’ local radio station, KDVS 90.3 FM, will be hosting their first house comedy show of the school year on Nov. 7. The show is called “F***in’ Funny” and will be held at the Robot Rocket Residence on M Street. The event is a showcase of some of the best local standup comedians and is […]

Andrew Bird, critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is well-known for his incorporation of violin and fiddle to his indie rock and folk tunes, will be performing at the Mondavi Center on Nov. 14. Bird first began recording albums in 1996 with the band Bowl of Fire, and soon broke off to create his […]

Nameless Magazine is UC Davis’ exclusively student-run literary magazine, which publishes one digital issue per quarter and one print issue per year. Each issue features fiction, poetry or mixed media submissions. Mitchell Winter, editor in chief and fourth-year linguistics and religious studies major, believes it is the emphasis on student participation for which the publication […]

E.D.Empty Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is very quickly growing in popularity. From UC Davis students, to middle school students, to aspiring DJs who work at Trader Joes (I met one of those), everyone seems to be getting into one type or another of this blossoming genre. I am not by any means a huge electro-head. […]

The smell of menswear is in the air as fashion enthusiast and raw denim junkie, third-year electrical engineering major Jasper Siu, gives MUSE the inside scoop on his personal style and how to do menswear his way. In this week’s edition of Campus Chic, let’s talk raw denim. If you like your clothes nice and […]

Davis will participate in the Meso-American festivity of Dia de los Muertos with three different events that Davis Downtown, the Davis Cemetery and the University will all host. On Oct. 31, the second annual Dia de los Muertos celebration will occur in the E Street Plaza from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Attendees can enjoy a […]

The Creative Writing Program within the UC Davis English Department named Lucy Corin its new program director after Pam Houston, who built up the program for over a decade, stepped down from her directorship after Spring Quarter 2013. After returning from her year-long residency in Rome as the 2012 John Guare Fellow at the American […]

Vegan leather? Edible clothing? This sounds like science fiction, but Davis resident Sacha Laurin is making this a reality. Laurin, a cheesemaker, has created a kind of fabric from kombucha, a green tea fermented with a culture of bacteria and yeast. The fabric is durable and its texture is comparable to leather. “It’s a sustainable, […]

FILM Yolo Film Society screening: Lost In Translation Sunday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., $2 recommended donation Yolo Pleasure Dome, 1401 Pole Line Road The Yolo Film Society will be playing Sofia Coppola’s second feature film, Lost in Translation. Starring Scarlett Johansson as an aimless college grad and Bill Murray as an unhappy movie star, the […]

Lisa Trever, assistant professor in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, will be giving a lecture on Oct. 29 from 4:10 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Everson 157 to discuss her research on the representations of botany and the human body in ancient South American art. The lecture will focus on her current […]

Rich with a myriad of sounds and influences, local Davis band Summer Peaks will be releasing their first LP, Your Days, this November. This new band was formed two years ago by friends Daniel Mandrychenko, Melina Duterte and Zachary Elsasser after many years of performing together in their high school jazz band. Bassist Melina Duterte […]

With weekly live music shows on its outdoor deck, the bar at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen serves as a reliable source for indie music aficionados to discover up-and-coming indie bands. Oct. 19 is the venue’s Season Finale, with performances by Brooklyn-based duo Widowspeak and Portland-based Pure Bathing Culture. Widowspeak spent the first half of their North […]