Mugen Hoso, Not A Part Of It, Destroy Boys, and Sonder at The Colony Mugen Hoso came all the way out from Japan to live it up in the 916! On Wednesday, April 13, starting at 7:30 PM, Mugen Hoso, Not A Part Of It, Destroy Boys, and Sonder are playing at The Colony (3512 … Continue reading
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The 2015 Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest.
The Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest is hosted each year by the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis, CA. Prizes will be awarded to poems that honor and emulate the spirit of the Beat Generation. Contestants will have a chance at winning cold hard cash as well as an invitation to attend and read at the Jazz … Continue reading
Swinging By Third Space for a Chat with Lauren Cole Norton
Lauren Cole Norton sits in the part of Third Space Davis referred to as the Living Room. Her short blonde curls are caught in a headband, and her eyes on her new puppy Rosie, a cute and energetic Pug-Cocker Spaniel mix. When she talks, her Irish accent curls around her r’s and broadens her vowels. … Continue reading
A Night of Art
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Picnic Day in Davis.
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‘The Foreigner’ in the Arboretum
Tinned honkytonk filled the air and the sun set slowly over the wooden deck nestled in the midst of the Arboretum. The air was pleasantly warm, if sprinkled with mosquitos, but that fell away as the actors entered from offstage and the play began. The premise of the ‘The Foreigner’ is simple: Charlie Baker, grieving … Continue reading
Dropping by with the Dropkick Murphys
If you know anything about the American Celtic punk scene, the odds are you’ve heard of Dropkick Murphys. A veritable standard in the scene, the Murphys are in their seventeenth year, have recently released their eight album Signed and Sealed in Blood, and show no sign of slowing down. Based in Boston, the band has … Continue reading
Symphonic Eggheads
The day of the Egghead Music Walk was just a little warmer than pleasant, but nothing short-sleeves and sunscreen couldn’t fix. The sizable crowd that gathered in front of Mrak Hall for the first stop of the walk didn’t seem to mind. They bunched around the little stage on the sidewalk and sprinkled themselves on … Continue reading
Mondavi Center Presents the Egghead Music Walk Featuring Members of the St. Louis Symphony
The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis will host a three-day residency with the St. Louis Symphony. The residency will feature events on the UC Davis campus and throughout the Sacramento region meant to engage students and community members. One highlight is the Egghead Music Walk on Friday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at UC … Continue reading
Sliding Away Through The Funky Night
The night of the show was cold and windy like so many this time of the year, but the Mondavi Center was warm, bright and filled with people. As with many shows I’ve been to there, the range of the guest’s attire was startling, from women in power suits and sparkling patterned jackets to men … Continue reading
Cirque Mechanics: Birdhouse Factory
It was the best of times and the worst of times…well maybe just the worst. A little over 80 years ago, almost one-fourth of all wage earning Americans were unemployed. I am of course, referring to the Great Depression. American culture at the time was engrossed in the desire to be distracted from their constant … Continue reading
Pajama Party at Sacramento Zoo
Today can be one of those days where you stay in your pajamas a little later than normal. Let your children wear their pajamas too. Why not? Go out and enjoy the first day of vacation from school or take a break from the holiday hassle and GO TO THE ZOO! Today the Sacramento Zoo … Continue reading
The Firefighters Burn Institute and The Sacramento Ballet are Heating Things Up!
Forty years ago, Sacramento witnessed a terrible tragedy. During the 1972 airshow an F-86 Sabre Fighter overran the runway, flew over a levee and ran through a fence, Freeport Boulevard and an automobile before finally crashing into Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor in a ball of fire. As a result of the crash 23 people died, … Continue reading
A Classically Funky Night at The Mondavi
Photos courtesy of Mickey Martin Oh the 1970’s; A decade full of disco, roller skates and polyester suits. A period of time that also birthed all that is funk. Blending soul, jazz and rhythm to create a unique groovy sound, funk music took off with legendary artists such as James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and The … Continue reading
70s & Strings
As Henry Longfellow says, “Music is the universal language of mankind”. Whether you speak fluent Ke$ha or are bilingual in Psy-nese and Katy Perry-an, music has become much more than a way of communicating. As Beiber Fever and One Direction infection have proven, music can even represent a way of life. But with this bubble … Continue reading