Arts & Culture

Every time a movie trailer or poster screams, "In eye-popping 3D!" I die a little inside.

This year, the ASUCD Entertainment Council, the student-run group that organizes on-campus concerts and other events, has been reeling in artists left and right. As the anticipated Social Distortion, RJD2 and Snoop Dogg concerts approach, members of the Entertainment Council offered a peek into how a group of students organizes A-list shows and a packed lineup of movie screenings, quad shows and more.

MFA graduate lights up a New York art gallery; Ph.D. Tim Lee educates and entertains with thriving comedy career

There is a raw art in revitalizing the complete unprocessed synergy of where the root of hip-hop and music is inspired - that is, through rhythm, beat and soul. And this is exactly what Ramble John Krohn, more widely known as RJD2, knows how to do.

Although Taxi Driver is famed for its dark and gritty story, its screenplay, written by now-acclaimed screenwriter Paul Schrader, was sold in a much more festive context.

I feel sorry for a lot of people in the world - for instance, flood victims and the homeless.

Coco Chanel once famously said, "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

Musicians around the country are beginning to take notice of UC Davis' graduate program in music, a highly selective and rigorous program of study for those with serious musical ambitions.

The Yuba Watershed Institute, a group that seeks to protect natural resources and biological diversity, recently published a new book entitled The Nature of This Place. In it, over 65 contributors illustrate the Sierra Nevada surroundings through art, essays, stories and other literary works.

Dim the lights down a bit. It's time to disengage from your typical night on the town and experience a scenic wave of sound.

Freeborn Hall was filled to the max at the Entertainment Council's biggest show of the current academic year, 30 Seconds to Mars. In case you missed it, two Aggie arts writers give you their take on everything that went down at Sunday night's performance.

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing with Julian Lage; Typhoon, AgesandAges; Daniel Handler: Why Does Lemony Snicket Keep Following Me?

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: "Fantasy"; Swiss Family Skiers, Angora Debs, The Hondettes, DJ Toddles; Sa Moana: The Sea Inside.

Whether it's for television, movies or the stage, the first step to making it big is getting through the grueling task of auditioning.

Tapes n' Tapes was formed in the cold boundaries of Minnesota in 2003. Consequently, they recorded their first album in the numbingly freezing Wisconsin woods.