Arts & Culture

On Nov. 8, Davis Downtown will be hosting its monthly 2nd Friday ArtAbout. Live music, performances and a mix of local, regional and international art will be featured in 31 venues. The 2nd Friday ArtAbout, which was originally established by The Artery and overseen in part by the Davis Downtown Business Association, is a self-guided […]

Davis Musical Theatre Company’s latest production Oliver!, based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, will premiere on Nov. 8, and will be running through Dec. 1. The timeless holiday tale recounts the story of the orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is sold to an undertaker. He escapes and […]

Video Games: The Next Generation We have now arrived at the biggest month in video games in about seven or eight years. In just one week Sony will release the PlayStation 4, and Microsoft will follow suit on Nov. 22 with the Xbox One. Let’s just say the next few weeks will be simultaneously hectic […]

Birdstrike Theatre, UC Davis’ long-form improvisational group, will perform their first show of the school year on Nov. 1 in Kleiber 3. “This show will be all live, unlike our quarterly ‘big shows,’” said Sarah Lloyd, a Birdstrike member and second-year chemistry major. “It will be 100 percent improv.” The members of Birdstrike Theatre do […]

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, […]