Arts & Culture

The formula for Speed of Darkness is a simple one: Celtic folk + punk rock = Flogging Molly. If you already knew this equation, you pretty much understand the experience of listening to the Los Angeles-based Irish rock band’s latest album.

Ever since Lady Gaga boldly tweeted months ago that her upcoming record was going to be “the album of the decade,” her “little monsters” have been hotly anticipating its release, while some critics have been hoping they can tear it, and Gaga, apart.

Culdesac is the third album self-produced by Childish Gambino, the moniker used by Donald Glover who plays the role of ditzy community college student Troy Barnes on the popular comedy, “Community.”

The film Lost in Africa saw its U.S. premiere in Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at UC Davis’ Mondavi Center last Saturday evening.

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: The Who’s Tommy; Or, The Whale; Rocky Horror Picture Show

As my tenure as Aggie editor and columnist winds down, I find myself struck by something that strikes many arts writers at the end of the year: the urge to think back on everything that happened over the last 12 months and judge it mercilessly.

There’s no denying that Los Angeles is the one of the most significant birthplaces of the West Coast hip-hop music scene. And better yet, L.A. native Dom Kennedy is quickly becoming one of those names to emerge from the West Coast feel and sound.

Landscape Architecture students spend their entire last year designing a site or researching a subject they have an interest in before publicly presenting it the day before their graduation.

As soon as the lights turn off in Wright Hall, the audience is already in anticipation for the exciting and lively music of The Who’s Tommy.

“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” In 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a film adaptation of a British classic rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, directed by Richard O’Brien.

This time next week, the woman who brought us Favorite Things, the Book Club and Tom Cruise jumping on a couch will have officially closed the curtain on the most iconic daytime talk show of the last 25 years.

Rock band The Who came out with Tommy in 1969, a rock opera concept album about a boy who is deafened and blinded after witnessing a murder. Tommy grows up to become a pinball wizard and a rock star.