Arts & Culture

Art manifests itself in many forms, as it marvels our every sense through its effect on touch, hearing, smell, sight and taste. Art especially attests to the beauty of its execution when it can move us by combining its effect on a multiplicity of these senses simultaneously — especially the last two. As the art […]

POETRY Lynn Freed at the Poetry Night Reading Series Thursday, May 16, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. This week’s installment of the Poetry Night Reading Series features Lynn Freed, a South African author and professor in the Department of English. She received the first Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction in […]

Xbox Reveal Wish List On May 21, Microsoft will reveal the successor to the Xbox 360. Rumored names for the upcoming console include Xbox Fusion, Xbox 720, and simply Xbox — not to be confused with Microsoft’s first console (but let’s be honest, that’s pretty damn confusing). For the purposes of this article I’ll use […]

Like Van Gogh’s paintings or the female anatomy, I don’t fully understand The Great Gatsby — they’re all pretty, confusing and taught in my 10th grade curriculum. Unlike the first two, however, I had the chance to see Baz Luhrmann’s newest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel in person at an advanced screening this […]

MUSIC Folk Music Jam Session Friday, May 10, noon, free Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum Bring your acoustic instruments, fiddles, guitars, banjos, mandolins, squeeze boxes, etc. to play during the lunch hour. All skill levels are welcomed, and listeners are invited. This event happens almost every Friday. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Saturday, May 11, 2 […]

In 1969, a small group of art students on our campus organized an event called “The Art Happening,” channeling the spirit of the times into a celebration of love and creativity known today as the Whole Earth Festival. In the same year, on the other side of the country, a weekend-long celebration of peace and […]

A new Discovery Channel show can be summed up as “The Apprentice,” but with engineers. The show, called “The Big Brain Theory,” places engineers in a series of challenges, which include disarming bombs on speeding trucks, creating a machine that can feed tourists and creating a robot that can compete in multiple athletic events. One […]

Students will be given the opportunity to feature their films on the big screen at the 13th annual UC Davis Film Festival. This two-night event at the Varsity Theatre presents short films by UC Davis undergraduates and recent graduates, providing an opening night party at Vini Wine Bar, live entertainment, a raffle and awards for […]

Shakespeare’s plays often focus on nobility, but a new play from a UC Davis grad student focuses on the common people. The Dogs of War, directed by Joselle Miller, a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies, takes scenes from some of Shakespeare’s plays and uses an ensemble cast of 16 people playing four dozen roles to […]

The second ever Davis Anime Convention (DAiCon), put on by the Davis Anime Club (DAC), is on May 4 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Freeborn Hall and the Memorial Union. DAiCon offers a whole host of activities, including a cosplay contest, an animated music video contest, panels, vendors, artists, game rooms and a […]

If you were to step back five years and ask any chance passerby if they recognized the name “Iron Man,” you’d be met with one cocked eyebrow and a resounding “no.” Prior to Marvel Studio’s ambitious first independent studio effort in May of 2008, the many adventures of Tony Stark and his metal-clad alter ego […]

If living on a farm next to cows in the middle of nowhere isn’t enough to truly make your Davis experience exactly like its stereotype, get ready to fill that void next weekend. Our campus is already quite unique with an amalgamation of cultures, languages, interest groups, sexual orientations, lifestyles, etc… But if walking/biking among […]