Arts & Culture

Dave Nachmanoff is a busy man. He’s a prolific singer-songwriter, the father of two, with a doctorate in philosophy from UC Davis who also tours with Al Stewart and plays a variety of instruments. In addition he has just released his new album Step Up, nearly five years after his previous release. Despite his busy […]

Last year’s Wellman DJ Pit, once a feature of Davis’ Whole Earth Festival that was canceled over growing safety concerns after reports of a rape, among other charges, will be replaced this Whole Earth Festival by a performance by Tipper, Kraddy and Joe Daddy in Freeborn Hall. The venue change from the Wellman Pit to […]

Time is running out — as the Mondavi Center, the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Music seasons come to a close, so does the curtain on the opportunity for your free ticket to any show. All first-year students, whether undergraduate, graduate students or transfer students, are given the opportunity to redeem […]

Whole Earth Festival starts tomorrow, and we all know what that means. Everyone in attendance will be flyin’ high — on those satisfying food and eclectic purchases from vendors and the intoxicating sound flowing through the air, of course. Like Whole Earth Festival is known for anything else … But let’s be real here. Last […]

In 2011, the Mondavi Center launched its Aggie Arts Internship program with a generous grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Aggie Arts interns commit for three quarters and they receive the opportunity to learn from firsthand experience the intricacies of arts administration. Interns work with Mondavi Center staff in many different aspects of arts presenting […]

MUSIC ASUCD EC presents: TIPPER // KRADDY // JOE DADDY Tomorrow at 8 p.m. Freeborn Hall, $16 (general)/$12 (student) Entertainment Council brings TIPPER, a prodigy of electronic music tracing back to the UK rave scene of the late 90’s, and KRADDY, an LA based electronic music artist who brings the sound of underground to new […]

In Review: Dark Shadows 3 out of 5 stars Run time: 113 minutes Rated PG-13 Opens tomorrow at Regal Davis Stadium 5, 420 G St. In the grand scheme of cinematic vampires, Barnabas Collins is, honestly, kind of a square. He’s too gentlemanly to be scary, like Nosferatu or Dracula. His wardrobe is perpetually 200 […]

Shelly Gilbride decided that because she wasn’t teaching or writing she would do something crazy: start a flash mob in Davis. “[It happened] when I wrote a paper about people engaging in art not only in classrooms or dance halls,” said Gilbride about starting a flash mob. Not only did she decide to do something […]

As of last week, Alexis Neiers is married. The 20-year-old onetime reality star and “Bling Ring” member got hitched in Mexico to Evan Haines, a Canadian business owner. When I found this news out, not only did my jaw drop, but also my entire weekend turned into a marathon of her reality show. Now, if […]

Oak Grove Cipher: May 8 Oak & Gorski: May 15 Souterrain: May 21 Plastic Villains: May 24 Marlene Marlene: May 30Throughout May, just outside the Coffee House, West Quad will be host to a series of performers as part of Entertainment Council’s spring “Quad Show” series. Music will be in the air through much of […]

Kaylee Williams, 22, is a senior hydrology major at UC Davis. She and her brother Ryan, 24, make up the band The Native Sibling. Their new EP, titled Follow Trees, is a soothing “folk-Americana” song. Williams studied abroad from August 2010 to July 2011 in Ireland and said that she found some type of identity […]

On Monday, The Shins played at the Mondavi Center and filled the sold-out place to the brim with their musical vibrancy. James Mercer, with his singularly potent talent and his variously skilled supporting cast, jingled on stage with their often wistful, strangely melancholic, yet joyful tunes. They performed for about an hour and a half, […]