Arts & Culture

The Arts Desk’s weekly pick of movies, TV shows, books and music Movie: “To All the Boys: Always and Forever” dir. by  Michael Fimognari (2021) The final “To All the Boys” movie finally arrived last month, and it was my favorite addition to the series. Let’s admit this truth: Lana Condor carried the entire series […]

Joel Daniel of the DIMI aims to help Davis’ struggling artists The Davis Independent Music Initiative (DIMI) was founded in 2019 with one mission: secure the future of independent music in Davis by collecting resources that would allow musicians to reach their full potential. Joel Daniel, the founder of DIMI and the first recipient of […]

The 2021 Templeton Colloquium at UC Davis outlined ways to reframe how museums include non-white art and better understand the role they play in enacting real social change On Friday, Feb. 19, the Department of Art and Art History presented a lecture over Zoom from Professor Bridget Cooks of UC Irvine and Dr. Susan Mullin […]

Amid the pandemic, users have turned to the dating app as another form of social media Over the course of the pandemic, what was once known as a dating app transformed into a new and modified form of social media. Because everyone has been stuck inside, many students have turned to Tinder to help them […]

New organization gives students an opportunity to give back and connect with others while learning new recipes Homemade is a new and vibrant student-run organization that aims to help students cook tasty meals that are still nutritious. With members sending in their recipes, this organization has crafted a blended list of all types of foods […]

A list of predictions for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 If you have been avidly watching the newest season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” you’ll know that the competition has been close over the past few weeks with the tops and bottoms switching constantly based on minor mistakes throughout the challenges.  As we saw in the […]

The local musician shares her philosophy as an artist “Amy Winehouse was my first music love,” said Cierra Brown, a fourth-year English major. “I just love her voice and how unique it is and how organic her music is.” Brown also mentioned “artists like Daniel Caesar, John Mayer [and] Lady Gaga” when asked about her […]

Words like “homeless” that we use to describe certain individuals can be used to oppress and dehumanize them As Mark Twain so eloquently stated, “The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.”  The words individuals use to describe others have an incredible effect on one’s […]

A recap of stop #1 Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, Jackson Hole, WY. The first day of YETI Natural Selection Tour snowboard contest took off Thursday morning, in bounds, at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The contest is the brainchild of world-renowned snowboarder Travis Rice, and has been years in the making.  Quicksilver ran the original event […]

Sitting in the grass under the sun is one of the best things the world has to offer Believe it or not, whoever said that it’s the little things in life that matter most was absolutely right. One of the best feelings in the world is that sense of bliss you get just sitting (or […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly pick of movies, TV shows, books and music Movie: “Black Dynamite” dir. by Scott Sanders (2009) Seriously one of the funniest movies ever made. Sanders shot using Super 16 color reversal Kodak film stock over the course of 20 days to ensure it looked as crummy and distended as possible. A […]

Disney’s newest original series is everything we miss about Marvel movies “WandaVision” takes place after “Endgame” in a suburban town where Wanda Maximoff (played by Elizabeth Olson) and Vision (played by Paul Bettany) settle down in hopes of raising a family together and living in the comfortable peace they never reached throughout their lives.  “WandaVision” […]