Arts & Culture

Here’s one way to make your Valentine’s Day more memorable: Serenade that special someone. And if your singing isn’t up to snuff, don’t worry. That’s where the Liquid Hotplates come in. “The Liquid Hotplates are a co-ed a cappella group on campus. We’ve been hosting shows and events, and right now we’re selling singing valentines […]

Game of the week I wouldn’t call myself a fan of scary video games, but there have been releases that effectively manage to instill an overwhelming sense of fear and dread with tense atmosphere and obligatory jump scares. The first two Dead Space games are examples of this, and Dead Space 3 looks to continue […]

Celebrities are people too. And when I say “celebrities,” I am of course referring to me, myself and I. The above sentence is a basic statement in my glossary of famous phrases. And the statement you just read is an over-exaggeration of how much I love myself. Yes, I love myself. That, my friends, is […]

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Friday’s 2nd Friday HeArtAbout will be a day of romantically-themed art viewings and artists’ receptions in participating businesses around Davis. The public is invited to participate in Davis downtown’s monthly celebration of the arts through free art installations and live music events. In a phone interview with Katrina […]

Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra Album: II Rating: 3 Second albums can often be a treacherous step for independent bands who’ve gained acclaim on the Net; the continual quest in the blogosphere for a new sound or the single of the day from among a multitude of interesting groups can often result in a band’s sophomore […]

Game of the week Devil May Cry and Ni No Kuni have kept plenty of gamers busy over the past two weeks, but this week sees a return to the typically quiet January release schedule. Luckily that provides me with an opportunity to highlight some smaller indie games that hit the Steam platform in the […]

Every decade in music seems to have a flurry of new genres that can seemingly rise and fall overnight, but leave behind a sonic record of the times we live in. Some stick with us for quite awhile, like grunge or post-punk revival, and others evaporate into the nostalgic ether to be later discovered and […]

The scene was set: I had press tickets to the L.A. Dance Project in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center. I was dressed up. I was with my gay best friend. I was prepared to be blown away by a dance group created by the man who choreographed Black Swan. I was already live-tweeting my […]

UC Davis Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) presents: The Art of Athletes, the fourth annual ICA student-athlete art show held at the Basement Gallery in the Art Building. The show runs Friday to Monday and will feature over 40 pieces of student-athlete art pieces. There will be a “meet the artists” reception tomorrow from 5:30 p.m. to […]

Album: Heartthrob Artist: Tegan and Sara Heartthrob, the newest album from twin-sister indie rockers Tegan and Sara, presents an artistic evolution for the two. It’s not a crazy move like Lil Wayne picking up the guitar; it’s more like Madonna picking up the guitar. It’s also pretty much par for the band. I should note […]

Film Salome Opera High-Definition Screening Monday, 7 p.m.; tickets: regular $20 / student $10 Mondavi Center The Mondavi Center is to screen Richard Strauss’ sexually-charged one-act opera set in Biblical times, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play, by the San Francisco Grand Opera Cinema Series. The opera screening, sung in Italian, includes English subtitles along […]

An art festival at the Mondavi Center will explore the act of migration through art, dance and music. Worlds of Discovery and Loss, which runs from Wednesday to Feb. 3, will feature performances from the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Calder Quartet as well as members of the Department of Theatre & […]