Arts & Culture

MUSIC

Deadly Davis Derby/Dance Party/Dash

Friday, 6 p.m., $3-5

Delta of Venus at 122 B St.

It's good ol' fashioned madness and malarkey presented by the Davis Bicycle Collective. Make sure to get to Delta of Venus at 5:30 p.m. to register your team. The race starts at Delta, goes around Davis and is followed by a dance party featuring DJs TAO, Nix, Dog Tonez and Jordie La Forge.

Drive, Fair Game, Kattywompus, The Grumpy, Private Criminals

Friday, 8 p.m., $10

The Boardwalk in Orangevale

If the dark stringy hair and eyeliner aren't telling enough, here are some more tidbits about Drive: They're hella alt, hella scene and hella influenced by bands like Linkin Park, Evanescence and 30 Seconds to Mars. Take plenty of high-angled shots of yourself at the show to post on your MySpace afterward, because if you're lucky enough, you just might end up on theirs as well.

Propagandhi

Supporting Caste

Smallman Records

Rating: 5

A crescendo of guitar feedback gives way to a crashing of thrashing drums and rhythmic guitars. This in turn gives way to heavy melodic riffing and then a pounding rhythm accompanied with melodic vocals.

I'm a pacifist at heart. My aim with this column is to entertain. However, it seems that my Apr. 2 column "Don't judge" did offend at least one person by making an unintended jab at an ethnic community. And for that, I'd like to make a couple of clarifications.

In the column, I made a flippant remark about "downplaying my heritage" and "straightening the ethnicity out of my hair." These comments were meant in an entirely tongue-in-cheek manner. Me making fun of myself - all in good humor, right?

Observe and Report isn't your typical big budget Hollywood comedy. The audience remains in constant struggle with the film's humor, unsure of whether or not laughter is intended or appropriate.

However, writer and director Jody Hill says he designed it that way, describing the film as "sad and weird."

With the fourth annual ASUCD Entertainment Council, KDVS 90.3 FM and The California Aggie sponsored Search Party competition on the horizon, one might wonder what's become of its previous winners. Like many college bands, many student musicians have left for new hopes and projects. Three previous winners from each year of the competition stopped to talk about their current goals.

The Coathangers

Scramble

Suicide Squeeze

Rating: 4

Have you ever gotten so mad that you had to go pump some iron so you wouldn't rip somebody's face off? Have you ever instantly fallen in love with someone just walking down the street?

Although some would like to think that UC Davis is relatively untouched by marginalization, graduate student Sumer Seiki would strongly disagree. This week, Seiki will present "Academic Inclusion: Undoing Marginalization," an art exhibit and symposium that touches upon issues of racism, sexism and classism.

In the Apr. 2 article "At least it didn't happen to you ... ," it stated that Jesse Drew was the acting director of the technocultural studies department. In fact, Drew is the director of the department. The Aggie regrets the error.

Where do you go when the fantasy is over, the fresh college diploma is mocking you with its uselessness and you have no idea what to do next? When the bright lights, hair-metal, greasy food and pretty girls are calling, you head to Adventureland!

MUSIC

Italic Indian, White Leopards, Mucky The Ducky

Today, 7 p.m., donations accepted

Villanova House

Sometimes lyrics and the standard beat don't provide the right backdrop to an emotional cacophony. SoCal bands Italic Indian and White Leopard are sure to bring medley of interesting sounds to the floor with their ambient electronic.

For the last five years, the Davis Film Festival has brought cinematic expressions of exploration and worldliness to the city of Davis.

Tonight, the festival kicks off its sixth annual event at the Varsity Theater on Second Street with the screening of Beauty Mark, a film designed to speak to people of all backgrounds.

"Since U Been Gone" Kelly, you have left me to wonder what's next for America's first, and perhaps best, Idol.

After a soulful debut record, a sophomore album loaded with chart-topping hits and the darker, less successful My December, Kelly Clarkson rises from the December ashes to deliver a powerhouse fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted.

Despite the "early release" of Yeah Yeah Yeah's third studio album It's Blitz! fans are undoubtedly grateful for the refreshing lyrical and audio bliss that Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase present to them on a silver platter made of 100 percent synth-drenched alternative rock.

I like to consider myself a relatively easy-going and tolerant person, but if there's one thing that I absolutely cannot stand, it's when people take their anger/bad mood/general douchiness out on other people.

If people truly love anything, it's themselves. Specifically, talking about themselves and how they have it worse than everyone else.

Enter FMyLife.com, a relatively recent website geared at letting anyone do exactly that - share their misfortunes with the world. FMyLife, or FML, is an increasingly popular online trend of self-deprecation. And as the hordes of fans that view the site over a million times daily suggest, it's incredibly funny.