Arts & Culture

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,”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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