Arts & Culture

Campus personified: Searching for a soul within wood, brick and concrete

June 10, 2020

Wellman, Shields, Social Sciences, Olson have more to them than meets the eye In the first article I published for The California Aggie, I wrote...

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Commentary: A tribute to the graduates of 2020 — a graduation nobody will forget

June 10, 2020

The generation with the future in their hands and their sacrifices getting there The year 2020 was intended to be one of new beginnings. But...

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Harry Styles: What a world-famous rockstar should look like in 2020

June 8, 2020

“Treat People With Kindness” is not just a song off of Styles’ latest album, an ode about how he lives his life, navigates fame Harry...

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From STEM to design, the life of student artist Thomas Telles

June 8, 2020

How Telles found a passion for art, tigers What began as a simple love for slap stickers in middle school blossomed into a small business...

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Catching up with Davis artist Lillian Frances

June 8, 2020

Arts writer Caroline Rutten Zooms with Lillian Frances, talks debut album It has been a year since I last interviewed Lillian Frances, the brightly-colored synth-pop...

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The California Aggie’s “In 100 Words or Less”

June 8, 2020

This year’s theme for The California Aggie’s Literary Magazine was “In 100 Words or Less.” The Literary Magazine committee ultimately chose 17 student submissions...

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One in a thousand: Students like Shondreya Landrum navigate being Black at UC Davis

June 5, 2020

Black students, Chancellor May, discuss facing discrimination, finding community In the ASUCD Winter 2019 Elections, Shondreya Landrum won a seat on the Senate table. The...

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The truth about virtual romance

June 5, 2020

Can we find love online, or is it virtually impossible? If you’ve ever been romantically involved, you probably know what it’s like to get butterflies...

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What have we been listening to this year?

June 5, 2020

The Arts and Culture Desk (and a bonus!) shares our most impactful albums from this year Liz Jacobson, Arts and Culture Editor: “YHLQMDLG” by Bad...

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Revisiting “Friends” in 2020

June 3, 2020

The iconic, trendsetting ‘90s sitcom is both revered, criticized today The NBC sitcom “Friends,” which first aired in 1994 and ran for 10 seasons, was...

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“Normal People” review: It’s not like this with other books

June 3, 2020

The universal appeal of “Normal People” is captured both on paper, on screen What is it that is so fascinating and so engrossing about the...

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:o) Emoticons: a Conversation :o)

June 2, 2020

Like the characters, not emojis (＠_＠;) We are all familiar with emojis, the little pictures that communicate what words just can't. Emoticons, on the other...

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Three ways that “The Hunger Games” is actually a cornucopia of truth

June 2, 2020

A dystopian fiction: the mockingjay of reality The “Hunger Games” series gained immense popularity back in the 2010s — so much so that its...

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From movies to characters, here’s what Netflix has to offer the LGBT community

June 1, 2020

Exploring different television shows, movies that feature LGBT characters, storylines Television: “I Am Not Okay With This” Following the hype of “Stranger Things,” Netflix cast the popular...

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Experimental student musician “Nina Spheres” talks about debut album

June 1, 2020

Spheres discusses “Spherical” and the recording, editing process Experimental musician Nina Spheres, a fourth-year philosophy major, sat down with Arts and Culture Editor Liz Jacobson...

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