Arts & Culture

One Way Productions is an award-winning theatre company that will be opening an inspiring new drama, The Hiding Place, on June 13 at the Veterans Memorial Theatre. Ingrid Laurentiis-Wilson, a John McGrath Theatre Arts Scholarship recipient and SARTA Elly Award-winning playwright, brings to life the incredible story of Corrie ten Boom. Adapted from the bestselling […]

Get ready for yet another round of free musical entertainment with the ASUCD Entertainment Council’s (EC) event Lawntopia. Sponsored by KDVS and the Student Alumni Association (SAA), Lawntopia starts at 6 p.m. on May 31 on the Quad with live bands and food sales by Woodstock’s Pizza and the CoHo hot dog cart. Headlined by […]

POETRY Poetry in the Garden with Zach Watkins Thursday, May 30, noon, free Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum A composer, musician and poet, Watkins graduated from CSU Hayward with a bachelor of arts degree in music and now lives in Sacramento. Come to the Arboretum for an afternoon of poetry with Zach “OmegaZ” Watkins. SickSpits […]

CD: Random Access Memories Artist: Daft Punk RATING: 4.5/5 FOR FANS OF: Chic, Kool & The Gang, Saturday Night Fever CHECK THESE TRACKS: “Fragments of Time,” “Get Lucky,” “Contact” Hype can be a painful thing. Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, was hyped up as though it were the “Second Coming of Music.” The […]

In mid-February, class of 2011 alumnus Ian James Walters uploaded a vocal rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” (from the musical Les Miserables) to the popular video-hosting website YouTube. Despite having to contend with a near-infinite sea of covers, karaokes and lip-syncs, this modest four-minute cover quickly racked up a 1 million-view count, attracting the […]

FILM 13th Annual UC Davis Film Festival Thursday, May 23, 8:30 p.m., $7 per night The Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St. Student films selected by UC Davis faculty will be featured on the big screen during the second night of the annual festival. The short films include a broad range of subjects, styles and genres […]

On May 23, UC Davis’ Master of Fine Arts studio art candidates will host the annual first-year studio art show reception. The event, which takes place in the old Nelson Gallery offices in the Art Building, launches the student-work exhibition that runs through June 4. MFA is a small and interdisciplinary art graduate program that […]

The Masochist in Me As I write this week’s Aggie Arcade column, Microsoft has yet to reveal its successor to the Xbox 360. My thoughts on the big event will have to wait until next week, but in the meantime, let’s talk about difficult video games. The reason for such a topic? Well, not much […]

On June 2, expect to find yourself surrounded by cassette tapes, vinyls, turntables and maybe even a gramophone or two. No, it’s not time travel or Urban Outfitters, it’s the third City of Davis, Armadillo Music and KDVS 90.3 FM Vinyl & Music Fair. With vendors coming from as far as Reno or Portland, the […]

Aggie Arts interns at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts invited Hauschka, a Dusseldorf-based pianist and composer, to play the experimental work he is best known for on the prepared piano on May 21 at 8 p.m. Adding a modern twist to classical music, Hauschka’s avant-garde arrangements embrace the multitudes of […]

Imagine a Coachella crowd stretching hundreds of people deep, and high-waisted, shorts-clad bodies bobbing and undulating rapidly to electronic thuds and wubs bursting forth from the speakers. Chances are, Wolfgang Gartner’s on the stage. Gartner, who really got his foot in the door in 2011, is an electronic artist most well-known for his tracks “Illmerica” […]

On May 18, UC Davis students will have the opportunity to see a feature-length film written, directed and produced by one of their peers. At 10:45 p.m on May 18 at the Varsity Theater, there will be a screening of Part Time Thief, the new film by fourth-year biochemistry major Stephen Leung. The plot revolves […]