Arts & Culture

Review: Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’

CD: Random Access Memories Artist: Daft Punk RATING: 4.5/5 FOR FANS OF: Chic, Kool & The Gang, Saturday Night Fever CHECK THESE TRACKS: “Fragments of Time,” “Get Lucky,”...

Recent UC graduate gains fame as “Gollum Sings” web celebrity

In mid-February, class of 2011 alumnus Ian James Walters uploaded a vocal rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” (from the musical Les Miserables) to...

Arts Week

FILM 13th Annual UC Davis Film Festival Thursday, May 23, 8:30 p.m., $7 per night The Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St. Student films selected by UC Davis faculty...

News in Brief: UC Davis’ studio art MFA students host art show reception May 23

On May 23, UC Davis’ Master of Fine Arts studio art candidates will host the annual first-year studio art show reception. The event, which...

The Aggie Arcade

The Masochist in Me As I write this week's Aggie Arcade column, Microsoft has yet to reveal its successor to the Xbox 360. My thoughts...

News in Brief: City of Davis, Armadillo Music and KDVS present multimedia music market June 2

On June 2, expect to find yourself surrounded by cassette tapes, vinyls, turntables and maybe even a gramophone or two. No, it’s not time...

Hauschka to perform prepared piano at Mondavi

Aggie Arts interns at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts invited Hauschka, a Dusseldorf-based pianist and composer, to play the...

MUSE interviews Wolfgang Gartner

Imagine a Coachella crowd stretching hundreds of people deep, and high-waisted, shorts-clad bodies bobbing and undulating rapidly to electronic thuds and wubs bursting forth...

UC Davis student to screen feature film at Varsity Theater

On May 18, UC Davis students will have the opportunity to see a feature-length film written, directed and produced by one of their peers....

Art for food’s sake

Art manifests itself in many forms, as it marvels our every sense through its effect on touch, hearing, smell, sight and taste. Art especially...

Arts Week

POETRY Lynn Freed at the Poetry Night Reading Series Thursday, May 16, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. This week’s installment of the Poetry Night...

The Aggie Arcade

Xbox Reveal Wish List On May 21, Microsoft will reveal the successor to the Xbox 360. Rumored names for the upcoming console include Xbox Fusion,...

The Pretty Good Gatsby

Like Van Gogh’s paintings or the female anatomy, I don’t fully understand The Great Gatsby — they’re all pretty, confusing and taught in my...

Arts Week

MUSIC Folk Music Jam Session Friday, May 10, noon, free Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum Bring your acoustic instruments, fiddles, guitars, banjos, mandolins, squeeze boxes, etc. to play...

Original Woodstock acts headline Whole Earth Festival

In 1969, a small group of art students on our campus organized an event called “The Art Happening,” channeling the spirit of the times...