Arts & Culture

The Gospel Choir at UC Davis may not be an official course with academic credits like the University Chorus, but it remains legitimate and stays active, managing to tour every quarter. The Gospel Choir has been around before some of its current members were even born. “The choir was directed by Calvin Lymos for 20 […]

Videogame Education Friends who know me well understand that my passion for video games extends beyond the simple pleasures of analog button presses and virtual feedback. I see the entire industry as a means of expression in the same way that great novels, albums or films speak to wide-ranging audiences. I’m sure there are plenty […]

In mid-April, local theater company Common House Productions will bring two weeks of outdoor entertainment to Wyatt Deck, performing Larry Shue’s popular comedy The Foreigner. The play follows a guest at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia who becomes privy to many town secrets after a misunderstanding obligates him to pretend he doesn’t speak English. […]

Every time I turn on the television (which is pretty rare, seeing as I prefer the modes of Hulu Plus, HBO Go and Netflix because they suit my need to constantly be doing something else while I allegedly relax) there seems to be new show after new show after new show created for the sole […]

POETRY/OPEN MIC Joe Wenderoth and Oliver Jones Today, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. The Poetry Night Reading Series this week will feature poets Joe Wenderoth and Oliver Jones. Wenderoth teaches English and Creative Writing at UC Davis. He has been featured in multiple anthologies, and a novel of his was adapted […]

All college students have dealt with final exams. For one UC Davis class, however, the final can be even more daunting: there is an audience. That’s the premise of Science and Society 42: Earth, Water, Science, Song, which fuses studies and song. The class is taught by Professor Wendy Silk and seeks to combine environmental […]

Game of the week StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm came out this week, meaning it’s time to jump back into Blizzard’s addictive real-time strategy franchise. The expansion pack acts as the second installment in a planned trilogy and picks up two years after the events of Wings of Liberty. This time around, players will […]

MUSIC Quarteto Nuevo Friday, 8 p.m., $10 students Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. A cellist, percussionist, acoustic guitarist and soprano sax player make up this jazz quartet. They are to be the second featured performers for the Davis Art Center’s Classical Guitar Series. The concert organizer chose the multi-instrument quartet to enhance the relationship […]

The popular contemporary image of the electronic musician as the megastar DJ, fist-pumping on an elevated stage while a set of pre-programmed beats causes a sea of drugged-out fans to undulate, is a fairly new concept; few realize what a long, illustrious history the genre has had. At it’s core, electronic music has always been […]

After performing its current production, Nightingale, in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble (DSE) will be performing an expanded version of the same production in Davis in April and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September. Dedicated to the translation of classic texts into dramatic productions within a contemporary […]

Dr. Margaret Eldred, a former professor in the English department, has recently taken to painting agricultural scenes from all over the world after noticing the similarity in climate between Morocco and California. An exhibition of her work, entitled Cornucopia: A Celebration of Mediterranean Agriculture, is on display at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center until […]

From March 15 to March 17, the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, the St. Louis Symphony, will put on two free events in a three-day symphony extravaganza at multiple locations on campus. These locations include each one of the egghead sculptures. The first appearance will be on March 15, starting at 2 p.m. […]