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Friday, December 20, 2024

Arts & Culture

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MUSIC

 

Lacey Macri, Unit Panic, Mistlefinger

Today, 7 p.m.

ASUCD Coffee House

Signs of the times

It's been a few years since Aggie readers have gotten their horoscope readings, so as an almost-end-of-the-year gift, I will grace you with my mystical interpretation of this month's solar movements.

Cool food

Halo-Halo

Ingredients:

The Senior Series: Music Composition

Editor's note: "The Senior Series" aims to give readers a comprehensive look at what senior students have achieved in their four years of instruction at UC Davis.

Music review: Thao Nguyen — ‘We Brave Bee Stings and All’

Thao with The Get Down Stay DownWe Brave Bee Stings and All

Kill Rock Stars

 

Rating: 4

Lacey Macri

Search Party winner Lacey Macri isn't in Davis to make it big in music.

Dancing to sound of music all year long

With UC Davis celebrating its centennial anniversary, the university will be dancing to scores of sharps, flats and a plethora of quarter notes. The music department announced its 2008-2009 lineup with a focus toward the university's 100 years of educating students.

Artsweek

LIVE MUSIC

 

Salt & Samovar, Geographer

Today, 10 p.m., $3-5, 21

Sophia's Thai Kitchen

Anyone else but you

Monday was a particularly lucky day to be a music journalist at UC Davis: Adam Green made an unexpected yet marvelous guest appearance on the air at KDVS 90.3 FM.

Music review: Flight of the Conchords – ‘Flight of the Chonchords’

Comedic music doesn't ever stay fresh for very long - nobody regularly listens to Tenacious D or Weird Al anymore, and few probably ever did anyway.

Author, professor emeritus Jack Forbes explores a new view of Native Americans

The basic history of the United States of America should be a familiar story to any college student, but writer and UC Davis professor emeritus Jack D. Forbes wants to rethink the way textbooks cover American history.

Movie review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

It's 1957, America is deep in the Cold War and Indiana Jones is at it again in the entertaining fourth installment of the series.

Updated Shakespeare provocative, still political

Shakespeare never looked so sexy with a quartet of scantily clad strippers dressed in fishnet stockings, fluorescent tinted wigs and not much else for the opening of the theatre and dance production Measure for Measure.

‘Expression Redefined’ in the springtime

The room was filled with dream interpretations, witty sandwich prose and comedic car rides Tuesday night, all compliments of the creative minds of UC Davis students.

Technology in Culture

Technology is an integral part of our culture, though in many ways, it goes unnoticed. However, there is an emerging discipline that strives to understand the sociological, artistic and historical connections between technology and society.