Arts & Culture

Davisites thirsty for live music should be well satiated when KDVS's 8-hour outdoor music festival Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom returns this Saturday.

The festival - which includes performances by 10 bands and an afternoon DJ set - takes place in the grassy backyard of Plainfield Station, a bar and restaurant nestled in the fields between Davis and Woodland. Scheduled bands include Davis locals San Francisco Water Cooler - who will get the live music started at 2 p.m. - and Sacramento acts Hexlove and Beware of the Knight. Headliners LSD And The Search For God will finish their closing set by 10 p.m.

The UC Davis graduate department of performance studies will host the "Performance: Reading, Writing and Technology" symposium today at noon in the Technocultural Studies Building.

Part of a year-long series on electronic media and writing, the all-day event features talks by several multidisciplinary artists and multimedia installations by UCD students. The event is free.

UC Davis students will be able to purchase tickets to in-demand concerts at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts starting Oct. 8.

If tattoos tell a story, then I guess you could say that mine started this past Saturday.

It was my first tattoo. Getting ink done was something I've always considered, but chronic indecision and a seemingly permanent deficit to my funds stood in my way. After almost two years of this passive (if not lazy) quest for a tattoo, I decided to take action.

MUSIC

Tim Williams

Today, 12 p.m.

The Quad

Tim Williams has helped give a little bit of indie street cred to teen drama "One Tree Hill." I can't say much in favor for the show, but Williams' music - solid indie acoustic - could be something to write home about. For any of you with class or any other prior engagements, fear not: he'll also play at Sophia's Thai Kitchen tonight.

Imagine lifting all that emotional weight off your shoulders in one simple movement - according to Professor Emeritus Bobbie Bolden, this is an achievable goal.

Bolden will be teaching a course starting Oct. 8 at the Davis Art Center about InterPlay, an international movement which aims to "to unlock the wisdom of the body," according to the InterPlay Worldwide website.

While most of the attention in the Nelson Gallery is currently attributed to the main show taking place in the Art building, a small collection of photo collages by Jimmy Jalapeeno are on display at the entryway gallery.

Unlike the other three artists on exhibit at the main gallery, Jalapeeno is a graduate of the UC Davis department of art during the "legendary '70s." He learned under the tutelage of the famous faculty that included Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson, professors he said he holds in esteem.

The UC Davis music department will begin the year with its annual Noon Concert performance series, continuing with its long-time tradition of free weekly noontime concerts.

The concerts are typically held in room 115 of the music building, a small performance-friendly room familiar to regular attendees of the midday showings.

Editor's Note: MUSE recently had the opportunity to talk to Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, the stars of the film "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," in a roundtable interview with other college publications. The Q&A below contains excerpts from that interview.

With a new school year under way and campus filled with fresh faces, there's change in the air. But sometimes it's comforting to run into an old friend - or an old tradition like concerts in the Coffee House on campus.

For UC Davis student Dallas Imbimbo, driving isn't a problem. No matter where he is, he'll find his way out.

His mother, Toni, will eat anything. "The Amazing Race" was, as his friends call it, a no-brainer.

Among the hordes of people and carnival games at Friday night's The Buzz event, dancing fans will want to keep an eye out for The Battle at the Buzz - a five-hour breakdancing competition taking place on the Memorial Union patio, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

For fans of: T.I., 2Pac

Give these tracks a listen: "What They Want," "Hustlaz Ambition," "Circulate"

A typical scenario: It's a weekday evening, and I'm sitting at home watching television with my roommates. The TV is turned to the Disney Channel - "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," to be more precise.