Features

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Israeli soccer literature talk

Noon

2203 Social Science and Humanities

Alon Raab, lecturer in Jewish and religious studies, will give a talk titled "From Rabinovitch and the Burden of Jewish History to Beckham's Thigh: Israeli Soccer Literature."

pparently, you need more than a household oven to cook up an engagement ring.

That's what Babak Sanii discovered when he decided to make - rather than purchase - an engagement ring for his girlfriend of four years, Claudia Chung. Sanii made the sterling platinum ring at the UC Davis Craft Center.

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Math Café

5 to 7 p.m.

104 North Hall

Get a good serving of mathematics at this weekly tutoring session with the Women's Resources and Research Center. Women and men are both welcome.

Dominic Callori used to don a jersey and sneakers as a star center for the UC Davis basketball team, hoisting jump shots and grabbing rebounds many a time at the ARC Pavilion.

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Whole Earth Festival

noon to 10 p.m.

UC Davis Campus

Check out this yearly three-day festival of arts, music and food that celebrates Mother Earth.

For those eager to experience a fresh take on literature, pay a visit to the Native American studies conference from May 11 to 13. Officially titled "Discursive Practices: The Formation of a Transnational Indigenous Poetics," the free event gives people an in-depth look at Native American writing, and provides a personal look into intellectual dialogue among American Indian fiction and non-fiction writers.

Whenever I see a restaurant named after someone, it makes me wonder if that person actually exists. Did the owner just arbitrarily choose a name for the restaurant that's easier to pronounce than his real name? That's probably what I would do.

In any case, I thought I'd finally give Cindy's a try after passing it up so many times on the freeway. Judging by the flower décor and color scheme of the sign - yellow, red and green - I figured it was probably a diner. All other details about the restaurant, though, were as mysterious to me as that Milk Farm Restaurant sign off Interstate-80.

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Trivia night

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Silo Café & Pub

Show off your knowledge of random factoids!

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Bike Barn yard sale

10 a.m.to 3 p.m.

ASUCD Bike Barn

All parts are 35 percent off, bikes are 25 percent off and specialized products are 45 percent off!

More students than not have been known to roll their eyes when professors vehemently stress the importance of teacher evaluations.

As it turns out, however, those bubble sheets really do matter.

Editor's note: UC Davis department of English lecturer John D. Boe recently sat down with Aggie Features Writer Danai Sakutukwa to talk about everything from his journey to UC Davis to his experience as a stand-up comedian.

ODAY

Bike Barn yard sale

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

ASUCD Bike Barn

All parts are 35 percent off, bikes are 25 percent off and specialized products are 45 percent off!

TODAY

Health center groundbreaking ceremony

10to11a.m.

LaRue Road Basketball Courts

Celebrate the groundbreaking of a newCowellStudentHealthCenter.

Joe Fields knew that with great power comes great responsibilities. Fields adored Spiderman growing up, but when he saw collectors hoarding the comic books he loved, his spidey senses kicked in.

The Average Joe made a decree: He promised to use his great powers to save comic books from the greedy villains and bad guys.