Arts & Culture

Some years, there are maybe two movies that are truly memorable. Sometimes fewer. Perhaps there is no clear Oscar front-runner for 2011, but this year gave us movies to be passionate about. These films do not just entertain, but also reach depths of emotional and intellectual penetration that feel permanent in their impressed profundity. And […]

August 28, 1963 was a hot, humid summer day but the thousands of people gathered at Washington, D.C. couldn’t have cared less. One man stood before the crowd, prepared to make a speech that he hoped would encourage people to work together toward a greater good. He spoke of a dream in which segregation wouldn’t […]

Allen Banez graduated from the University of California system in 1988. After seeing the recent lambasting of UC Davis students by the gauzy orange burn of pepper spray, he was inspired to create Evil Boss, a weekly comic making light of the social slavery surrounding the populace. “I was totally disgusted with the UC Davis […]

THEATER Cyrano Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., $8 for students Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. Acme Theatre Company in Davis presents Cyrano, a story about heroism with a slight twist of comedy and adventure. The story is about a poet and swordsman named Cyrano who pines for his cousin […]

Starting today, UC Davis’s student-run production company, Studio 301, will host performances of The Odd Couple: Female version. The play is originally written and directed by Neil Simon. Though this time the directorial efforts of UC Davis undergraduates Stephanie Moore and Ulysses Morazan will attempt to bring out the laughter on the Wyatt Pavilion Stage. […]

MUSIC A Lotta Cappella Friday, 7:30 p.m., $5 Social Sciences 1100 The annual show, A Lotta Cappella, is hosted by Liquid Hotplates. Just as their name suggests, the smooth quality of their vocals have the power to burn you. Joining LHP will be other a Capella groups such as the Lounge Lizards, The Afterglow and […]

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, perhaps better known as the guys from Discovery Channel’s ubiquitous “MythBusters,” are hitting the road for their all-new upcoming stage show, “MythBusters Behind the Myths Tour.” While many have long witnessed Savage and Hyneman’s scientifically based antics, specifically where they “bust” myths of a varying sort on TV, they’ll be […]

It’s finally here. The moment you’ve been waiting for when the light at the end of the tunnel has crept passed the glazing glass of your car and into the pupil of our eyes where it slowly adjusts like a camera to reveal what’s on the other side. And there my friend, at the end […]

Crossbill Records, a local music label residing here in Davis, is what you might call a one man operation. In fact, that is precisely how Michael Leahy, founder, owner and president of Crossbill Records describes it. Essentially, he is Crossbill Records. Or at least, he is Crossbill from the managerial side of things. “I do […]

If I could, I would leave this entire review blank. There are no words to describe my experience at Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday night at the Allen Stone concert. All I can say is, for those of you who weren’t there, you really missed out on one of the best opportunities to come to […]

Things are getting hectic for 24-year-old singer Allen Stone, who grew up in the quiet countryside of eastern Washington. Just last month Stone released his sophomore and self-entitled album, and now he is getting ready to kick off a full tour. Stone began singing in his father’s church, where over the years the sincerity of […]

The UC Davis Theater Department’s fall season production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a worthy rendition of the original, written by Tom Stoppard. Absurdest in nature, the two and a half hour long play sees to it that the secondary characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (originally from Hamlet) get their share of existential reasoning. […]