Arts & Culture

Drake Take Care Universal Republic Review: 3 In a recent review by Pitchfork, Drake was touted as the heir to Marvin Gaye. As it usually is with music critics or critics of any kind, the opinon as stated was hyperbolic. The Canadian-born singer stands comfortably with the new-school of hip-hop artists that also includes Lupe […]

Just when you thought you knew too much about the minute-to-minute activities of your friends, Spotify came onto your dashboard and proved that, yes, you can know more. All of a sudden you knew exactly what song your friends were listening to and exactly when they switched to the next. Foreign and unknown to many […]

Growing Up in India, a film and photographic series at the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts sheds light on the economic and social issues embedded in Indian culture. The film series began this past Monday with a screening of Salaam Bombay! and concluded Tuesday with the movies Udaan and Pink Saris. The series was a part […]

Florence + the Machine Cermonials Island Records Rating: 4 “You are a revelation” sings the scarlet headed Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine in the recently released Ceremonials. For anyone who remembers her aptly titled first album, Lungs, Welch is again singing full throttle here, exhaling booming vocals like only few lungs can through […]

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS MUSIC The Souterrain Friday, 8 p.m., free 202 E Street Known for their sweet folksy sound, local band The Souterrain will play a free show at the chic Riki Design on E street. The band is made up of Laura Norton on vocals, Sham Shirley on guitar, David Sachs on double-bass […]

In review J. Edgar Opens Friday at Regal Davis Stadium 5, 420 G St. Run time: 137 minutes Rated R *** ½ stars J. Edgar Hoover is one of those unfortunate political figures to whom history has not been especially kind. Is it possible to truly understand anything about a guy who bounces back and […]

The last words uttered by the crazed Roman Emperor Nero, before he took his life, were “Qualis artifex pereo.” For the many Latin illiterates out there, a rough English translation would be somewhere along the lines of “What an artist the world loses in me.” With today’s weak economy and numerous budget cuts, there really […]

It’s about 7 p.m. on a Friday night and in a few hours this small city will be swarming with young college folks ready to rage late into the night after a week of burying faces in books and exams. There’s a mirror on the side of the studio where I stare and catch my […]

Imagine walking through the CoHo and seeing your artwork covering the walls, on display for everyone to see. Aggie Public Arts Committee is now accepting submissions from undergraduate artists for the Coffee House Juried Art Show. The show is organized by the Aggie Public Arts Committee. Their goal is to find ways to represent undergraduate […]

Local Folk-bluegrass-neo-americana music group Quicksand Marching Band completed its eponymous first album earlier this year. The band formed in 2009 for Whole Earth Festival and has played various live shows at local hotspots, as well as for KDVS. While the band members themselves contend over what genre of music one can put them under, it […]

November is Native American Heritage Month. UC Davis celebrates through the Cross Cultural Center this month with the theme of “Moving Forward, Giving Back.” A series of speakers, films and events take place until Nov. 18. Typically the program is scheduled in April, however, Native American Culture Days was moved to November to coincide with […]

“New Orleans is here, we’re still here,” said Bennie Pete, leader of the Hot 8 Brass Band. The band’s performance is part of the series Spirit of New Orleans at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Spirit of New Orleans is part of the larger series of events called Life Out of Balance which […]