Arts & Culture

Peace, poetry and Remi Kanazi

Jewish Voices for Peace and and Students for Justice in Palestine host event with poet Remi Kanazi Today, Nov. 18, Jewish Voices for Peace...

Aggie Style Watch: California cold

Busting out the scarves and sweaters. With temperatures dropping and fall weather finally showing its face, Davis students have begun pulling out their sweaters and...

My All-American review: Sports movie fails to wow audiences

New football movie full of clichés and cheesy dialogue. In his directorial debut, Angelo Pizzo fails to wow audiences with the generic underdog story, My...

Prominent Native American filmmaker to come to Davis

Free screening of “Kissed by Lightning” to be held by Varsity Theatre. The Varsity Theatre, in association with the C.N. Gorman Museum, will host a...

The horrors of war through the eyes of a child

A review of Cary Fukunaga’s film, Beasts of No Nation Beasts of No Nation is a film about a West African boy named Agu, played...

Celtic storytime

Legends of the Celtic Harp to put on “The Door Between the Worlds” in Davis. In medieval times, people often spent many nights around a...

Bling not a fling

The staying power of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” music video. It wasn’t surprising that this Halloween, more than one person thought of dressing up in their...

Theatre department prepares fall production of Government Inspector

The cast and crew form a unified front to get ready for opening night. The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance’s fall production of...

Aggie Style Watch: Mikal Mitchell

This week’s edition: Colorful prints and Jesus sandals. For this week’s edition of Aggie Style Watch, I felt as if the subject came to me...

Aftershock festival brings amazing show to Sacramento

  A review of the good, the bad and the weird The two-day Aftershock Music Festival, featuring artists as huge as Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Deftones,...

Philosophical enlightenment through dance

Pamela Trokanski’s Dance Theatre presents Blood, Reciprocity and Kevin Bacon. Dance enthusiasts will be pleased to hear of the upcoming performance by Pamela Trokanski’s Dance...

Netflix and chill with the Arts Desk

The arts writers share their current Netflix obsessions Fall weather has finally come to Davis, and there’s nothing more pleasant than curling up on a...

Aggie Style Watch: Halloween Edition

Last-minute costume ideas for procrastinators everywhere What’s the best part of Halloween — the parties, the creepy yard decorations or the return of Halloweentown to...

Black Mirror: A dark satire worth watching

Show reveals society’s dependence on technology There is no denying that television is in its golden age. Shows like “Breaking Bad,” “Game of Thrones” and...

Get spooked at the Davis Food Co-op

Davis Food Co-op to put on Not-Very-Scary-Haunted-House Every year, the Davis Food Co-op brings a dose of Halloween spirit with their Not-Very-Scary-Haunted-House. This event provides...