Arts & Culture

The UC Davis department of theatre and dance’s ITDP (Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance) program presents Nectare, a prelude to the choreographers’ Master of Fine Arts theses, to be presented in spring. Nectare aims to address things like touch and rhythm, visual perception and the immigrant experience. It is also a series […]

One Direction has done it again. They’ve already fostered such an obsession in my heart for them, but no. They release another heart-stopping and swoon-worthy music video for me and the rest of the 13-year-olds out there to cry over. I mean, sure, the three-minute and 38-second black-and-white video is set in a recording studio […]

Artist: State Radio Title: Rabbit Inn Rebellion Rating: 4.5 “This is rock; unrefined, hard and volcanic.” So declares the website of Massachusetts-based rock band State Radio. Listening to the band’s newest album, Rabbit Inn Rebellion, one would be hard-pressed to disagree. State Radio has returned not only to the studio, but also to their hard […]

Rating: 4/5 Cloud Atlas is a rarity. How can we begin to describe what an accomplishment it is that this film even exists? Its source material, a novel of the same name by Englishman David Mitchell, was said to be unfilmable: six stories, all distinctly plotted, representing several centuries from the 1800s to the post-apocalyptic […]

The Poetry Night Reading Series is held at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 First St. in Davis on the first and third Thursdays of every month. The reading series, which starts at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public, features an hour-long reading from a guest poet followed by an hour-long […]

The internet has done it again. Parodying serious events, even as the events are still occurring. Case in point: Hurricane Sandy. Serious and dangerous but somehow extremely entertaining online. Some genius created the Hurricane Sandy Twitter account not to inform the nation of updates on the disaster, but rather to say ridiculous quips that celebrities […]

Artist: Kendrick Lamar Album: good kid, M.A.A.D city Rating: 5 Twenty-four years after NWA formally introduced the Compton state of mind to the world at large, rising hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar retreads familiar geography to capture another portrait of his hometown in present-day Hi-Def. This time, however, the result is far from familiar. What we […]

Game of the week Although Need for Speed: Most Wanted came out this week and I love fast-paced racing, the obvious choice for this edition is Assassin’s Creed III. The third main entry in the stealth-action franchise taps into the history of the American Revolution, following half-English/half-Native American protagonist Connor as he violently takes out […]

At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a line starting at Freeborn Hall snaked all the way around the UC Davis Bookstore. NEEDTOBREATHE fans are a dedicated bunch. Singer-songwriter Matthew Mayfield opened the concert playing a mix of his songs and hard-rock covers like “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses. Good Old War pumped up […]

Game of the week This edition’s game of the week is a unique downloadable title for the PlayStation Network — The Unfinished Swan. I’m not even sure how to categorize it … perhaps first-person painting game will suffice. Anyone who has seen videos probably recognizes it as the visually astounding black-and-white game, but The Unfinished […]

Adjacent to the ticket office of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center, there exists a hidden courtyard with shaded tables and chairs set near the buildings’ sandstone façade. While this location has remained mostly underused since the Mondavi’s inception, the center’s 10-year anniversary has provided a new opportunity to make some lively changes. The year-long […]

October is National Arts and Humanities month and to celebrate, the City of Davis organized art events for every day of the month. “Artober” is Davis’ effort to encourage community members to participate in this month’s plentiful artistic and cultural events in the streets, theaters and galleries of Davis. Exciting events are still to come […]