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The first time I heard the name Mac DeMarco, I was listening to a friend rave about the Canadian musician’s show at Scala in London, last October. DeMarco’s wild enthusiasm and insane genius led to his losing shoes and screaming comedy covers on stage. Previously recording as Makeout Videotape, Salad Days is Mac DeMarco’s second […]

I’m that obnoxious girl that knows every hit single on the radio, has contemplated life to every song by every obscure indie band too mainstream for Coachella and listens to Mozart while doing her homework. Though this is all true, my heart first and foremost belongs to jazz, which is why I am so grateful […]

Studio Ghibli’s most recent animated production, The Wind Rises, is now showing at Regal Cinemas on G Street in downtown Davis. The film is Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s final movie of his career and is perhaps one of his best pieces yet. Miyazaki, writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away, has brought […]

QS World University Rankings, an organization that annually ranks universities in 30 subject areas, recently ranked UC Davis No. 1 in the world for teaching and research in agriculture and forestry for the second consecutive year. UC Davis was also ranked in the top 15 for environmental sciences and in the top 35 for civil […]

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a long-term large assignment or a test to study for? If so, when you felt this way, did you sit down and grind through the assignment or studying until you finished? Or did you procrastinate and then stay up all night the day before to do it, and likely […]

Name: Jonathan Mitchell Major: Biological systems engineering Position: ASUCD senator Year: Fourth 1: What would you want to do for your dream date? I’ve actually thought about this. Here’s my dream date: a tandem bike ride to the Arboretum where we sit on a beach towel and have a picnic in the middle of the […]

On March 14, The Lounge Lizards, UC Davis’ co-ed a cappella group, will host the annual show “No Instruments Attached,” performing a mixture of old favorites and new songs alongside several different a cappella groups. The show will welcome to the stage UC Davis’ male a cappella group The Afterglow, The Cal Jazz Choir from […]

On Friday Feb. 28, a Yolo County Superior Court Judge ruled that Daniel Marsh, the suspected killer of elderly Davis couple Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin, will go on trial on April 14, the one-year anniversary of the double homicide. Additionally, the judge ruled that Marsh’s alleged confession of the crime to the Davis Police […]

A Yolo County Superior Court Judge is set to rule as to whether Daniel Marsh’s alleged confession of the April 14, 2013 murders of an elderly Davis couple, Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin, should be part of the upcoming trial process. The motion to suppress the alleged confession was filed by deputy public defenders Ron Johnson and Andrea Pelochino on Feb. […]

In the opening track of Sun Kil Moon’s Benji, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek makes it clear that he is confused and intrigued about — yet ultimately fixated upon — death. Describing the titular “Carissa,” Kozelek explains the “senseless tragedy” of her death (an aerosol can explosion, just like the way his uncle died, nonetheless). His paced […]

Tuesday 2/4 It’s all in the delivery Someone on Kestrel Place discovered three fraudulent charges on his credit card totaling $800, then inadvertently received a package addressed to the suspect. Thursday 2/6 Pet peeve The reporter asked a man on Albany Street not to smoke and he became aggressive, threatening to come back later and […]

Muse of the Week: Judy Yi, a fourth-year computer science major. 1. If you could describe your personal style in three words, what would they be? Can I say weird three times? 2. What makes your style so “weird”? Mostly the way I dress is like, I’ll do one style for one day and switch […]