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CD review: Lady Gaga

Ever since Lady Gaga boldly tweeted months ago that her upcoming record was going to be "the album of the decade," her "little monsters" have been hotly anticipating its release, while some critics have been hoping they can tear it, and Gaga, apart.
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CD review: Childish Gambino

Culdesac is the third album self-produced by Childish Gambino, the moniker used by Donald Glover who plays the role of ditzy community college student Troy Barnes on the popular comedy, "Community."
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Actress Connie Nielsen brings the U.S. premiere of Lost in Africa to the Mondavi Center

The film Lost in Africa saw its U.S. premiere in Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at UC Davis' Mondavi Center last Saturday evening.
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Artsweek

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: The Who's Tommy; Or, The Whale; Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Column: Year in review

As my tenure as Aggie editor and columnist winds down, I find myself struck by something that strikes many arts writers at the end of the year: the urge to think back on everything that happened over the last 12 months and judge it mercilessly.
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Catching up with Black Family Day performer Dom Kennedy

There's no denying that Los Angeles is the one of the most significant birthplaces of the West Coast hip-hop music scene. And better yet, L.A. native Dom Kennedy is quickly becoming one of those names to emerge from the West Coast feel and sound.
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Landscape Architecture students get creative with senior projects

Landscape Architecture students spend their entire last year designing a site or researching a subject they have an interest in before publicly presenting it the day before their graduation.
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Theatre Review | The Who’s music shines in Tommy

As soon as the lights turn off in Wright Hall, the audience is already in anticipation for the exciting and lively music of The Who's Tommy.
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Rocky Horror is back … with a twist

"I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey." In 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a film adaptation of a British classic rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, directed by Richard O'Brien.
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Column: Goodbye, Oprah

This time next week, the woman who brought us Favorite Things, the Book Club and Tom Cruise jumping on a couch will have officially closed the curtain on the most iconic daytime talk show of the last 25 years.
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Rock opera Tommy to open with a bang this Thursday

Rock band The Who came out with Tommy in 1969, a rock opera concept album about a boy who is deafened and blinded after witnessing a murder. Tommy grows up to become a pinball wizard and a rock star.
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Korean Culture Night: A Fun Fundraiser

Heartful, the annual Korean Culture Night celebrating Korean-American talent and culture, is fast approaching. Held on Wednesday night at Freeborn Hall, the event is a collaborative effort put on by the UC Davis Korean American Student Association and UCD Sigma Kappa Rho.
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Dead Arts Society makes performance world accessible to all majors

What happens if you are an engineering, exercise biology, or managerial economics major and you find yourself falling in love with the performance world? Do you have to choose between the two?
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Arts Week

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: The Who's Tommy; Music on the Green with Kevin Devine; UC Davis Jazz Band, "Guest Artists"; The Chillage People; Music on the Green with Kevin Devine; STAND, Mayday: A Call for Solidarity.
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Eleventh annual UC Davis Film Festival may feature the next Spielberg

Every year in May, UC Davis' department of theatre and dance hosts its own version of the Cannes Film Festival with the UC Davis Film Festival. The festival will kick off on May 25 and 26 at Varsity Theatre at 8:30 p.m.
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