Arts & Culture

Davis is more conventionally characterized as an agricultural city or a bicycle city, but maybe less so as a city known for its music.

When seniors Matthew Cool and Saraswathi Subbaraman came together to form Mistlefinger, their musical union was more coincidental than anything else.

The results are in - the winners of the 2008 Search Party are Lacey Macri, Unit Panic, Mistlefinger and A Class Act.

Robots are the essence of Search Party winners Unit Panic, a Davis-based indie-rock duo. Robots embody the band's lyrical themes, musical inspiration and fast-paced electronic and effect-board driven pulse.

MUSIC

Lacey Macri, Unit Panic, Mistlefinger

Today, 7 p.m.

ASUCD Coffee House

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.

Halo-Halo

Ingredients:

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.

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

Kill Rock Stars

Rating: 4

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

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.

LIVE MUSIC

Salt & Samovar, Geographer

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

Sophia's Thai Kitchen

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.

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.

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.