Arts & Culture

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda have captured the hearts of dedicated fans for six seasons of "Sex and the City."

Music in the college scene has always been about artistic expression, but never has it been restricted to bored undergraduates with a guitar, mic and Garage Band.

The Department of Theatre and Dance eighth annual UC Davis Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with screenings of student documentaries, commercials and short movies.

Gavin Rossdale said it himself when he repeated in the opening track, "I've been gone too long."

The premise sounded promising: A successful single woman has everything, aches for the chance to be a mother and thanks to her sketchy uterus, cannot.

Ladyhawk is one of those bands you heard at the bars and in a moment of drunken conviction bought their album.

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