Arts & Culture

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more   By AALIYAH ESPAÑOL-RIVAS — arts@theaggie.org   TV Show: “New Girl” by Elizabeth Meriwether (2011 to 2018)   Arguably one of the funniest sitcoms in recent years, “New Girl” follows Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel) as she moves in with three guys, Nick Miller, Winston Bishop […]

Several unique artists bring new exhibits to Davis   By ELIZABETH BUNT — arts@theaggie.org    The John Natsoulas Gallery, with its iconic cat statue over the front door, is a staple of the Davis art scene. The gallery always has new exhibits in rotation, hosts weekly poetry readings and artist talks and participates annually in […]

The UC Davis Design Museum’s November exhibit offers students a space to decompress through sensory immersion    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   On view from Nov. 1 to 22, the UC Davis Design Museum debuted “Sonic Horizons: A Sensory Immersive Video Installation,” created by Master of Fine Arts (MFA) design graduate student Maral Salehian. […]

Microtrends promote overconsumption in the name of encouraging individuality    By JULIE HUANG – arts@theaggie.org   With the arrival of the holiday season comes Black Friday and other coveted end-of-year sales. In recent years, these traditional shopping events have been increasingly influenced by the rise of social media microtrends, which concern anything from clothing to […]

On Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, The California Aggie hosts their fall Couch Concert, featuring local band Your Tax Dollars at Work. The band has five members: Eliza Gilligan on vocals, Patrick Farrell on bass guitar, Lev Gordon-Ferierabend on guitar and violin, Leo Hecht on drums, and Adella Kaufer on rhythm guitar and vocals.

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   Song: “It Ain’t Me Babe” by Joan Baez (1998)   My absolute favorite Joan Baez cover, “It Ain’t Me Babe,” is the fourth track of “Baez Sings Dylan,” a compilation of various songs debuted by songwriting legend Bob […]

Film buffs descend on Davis to check out a wide variety of independent movies    By ELIZABETH BUNT — arts@theaggie.org    Film lovers packed into the red velvet seats at the Davis Veterans Memorial Theater for a series of independent movies, short features and documentaries on Nov. 3 from 2 to 9 p.m. Members from […]

As the highly anticipated film adaptation of the musical releases later this month, watch these four films to get you in the musical spirit    By AALIYAH ESPAÑOL-RIVAS — arts@theaggie.org    “Hairspray” (2007) dir. Adam Shankman   “Hairspray,” originally debuting on Broadway in 2003 as an adaptation of a 1988 John Waters film, follows 16-year-old […]

Girl group aespa continues to prove their worth as musical stars with their latest musical release   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    Since their flashy debut with “Black Mamba” in 2020, the K-pop quartet aespa — composed of members Karina, Winter, Giselle and Ningning — have made it clear that they are not content to simply […]

The film delivers a horrifying retelling of a serial killer’s appearance on “The Dating Game”    By ANA BACH —- arts@theaggie.org    If you haven’t been spooked enough this Halloween season, Netflix recently came out with a thriller that will surely deter you from ever going on a blind date. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more   By ELIZABETH BUNT — arts@theaggie.org    Book: “The Passion” by Jeanette Winterson (1987)   I first came across Jeanette Winterson’s work in a literature class here at UC Davis. Her debut novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” was assigned as an example of […]

‘We Live in Time’ stars Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield as they navigate illness, love and the uncertainty of the future   By AALIYAH ESPAÑOL-RIVAS — arts@theaggie.org    With only six months to live, the film “We Live in Time” follows Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) as they navigate the last months of […]