Arts & Culture

As I wait yet another quarter to hear about upcoming shows at The Mondavi Center, Freeborn Hall or the Pavillion, I continue to question whether this job was worth it. I only wanted to be Arts Editor for free tickets, y’all! Just kidding. My god, I’m so kidding. I love this job. Don’t fire me, […]

As we wrap up with the month of January, we anticipate and welcome a new batch of art shows coming to Davis’ galleries in February. Some galleries are still hosting their January shows — swing by to check them out before they get replaced by these upcoming exhibitions. Nelson Gallery Design+Build: An open call exhibition […]

FILM Yolo County Film Society screening: Rear Window Sunday, 7 p.m., recommended donation $2, all ages Yolo Pleasure Dome (1401 Pole Line Rd) The second film screening from YFS will showcase the classic 1954 thriller Rear Window, a perennial favorite for film experts and popcorn junkies alike. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s best, Rear Window features […]

The UC Davis Design Museum is to open its winter exhibit, Structures, Signifiers, and Society: People and Textiles, with a special discussion with the guest curator and UC Davis alumna Mary Schoeser, Thursday, Jan. 24. The exhibit features global textiles, coincides with the release of Schoeser’s new book, Textiles: The Art of Mankind and exhibits […]

Artist: José James Album: No Beginning, No End Rating: 4 The third album by Minneapaolis-born Neo-Soul vocalist José James can be likened to a tall, ponderous cup of coffee, full bodied, warm and stirring throughout. That being said, the individual tracks on NBNE consistently rise above the pleasantly unengaging sounds of most café music. It […]

Game of the week This week marks the first big video game release of 2013 with DmC: Devil May Cry. The new entry in the series is both a reboot and the first Devil May Cry game in five years. Development duties shifted from Capcom to Ninja Theory, and to say the change generated controversy […]

Local Celtic music band Riggity Jig has been making appearances around Davis, charming audiences with their upbeat Celtic tunes since 2000. An unassuming quintet of local musicians, David Riggs, Lee Riggs, Jim Coats, Josh Ray and Kyle Wallin, are as fun-spirited as the music they play, and they have successfully infiltrated various parties and events […]

Too cheap to see it in theaters and too impatient to wait for it to come out on Netflix On Demand, I streamed Pitch Perfect on my laptop at what might have been the lowest resolution in existence. As the movie progressed, I slowly realized that my friend’s frequent demands and mock whining about the […]

Artist: The Lone Bellow Album: The Lone Bellow Rating: 4.5/5 Dear readers, to gain my musical favor an album must do more than tickle my fancy (all connotations implied). Sure I may toss it a few complimentary bones, but to truly be a blessed member of Gerber’s musical athenaeum an album must woo me. I’ll […]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and review Anything Goes at The Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 9. Anything Goes is a revival of the 1987 Broadway rewrite while still featuring music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The story focuses on two unlikely pairings on the S.S. American, a […]

POETRY Poetry Night Reading Series — Art Mantecón and Gilbert Rodriguez Tonight, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street Tonight’s Poetry Night Reading features two poets. Art Mantecón is a Texas-born, Detroit-raised poet who has been featured in several venues all over California. In 2011, he published a translation of selected poems by […]

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably never heard of the Broadway classic Anything Goes. You’ve also got a high sense of fashion, perfectly tousled hair and a deep-seated fear of public bathrooms as the direct result of a traumatizing experience in the handicap stall of Regal Cinemas. Possibly an over-inflated ego. Maybe asthma. Probably […]