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When Pig Day rolls around Saturday, March 2, at the Davis Farmers Market, local volunteers will provide nearly all the fun, with farmers and food vendors providing all the yum. Now in its 22nd year, Pig Day holds fast to its status as one of the more unique farmers market events in California, celebrating local […]
Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani’s adult life was, in a sense, bookended by tragedy. And yet out of that tragedy grew extraordinary art.
Born in Sacramento in 1920, Mirikitani grew up in Hiroshima, Japan, he returned to the United States until at age 18 to pursue a career in art and escape the militarism growing in Japan.
He would be spared the devastation Hiroshima would experience at the end of World War II, but he also would spend much of the war imprisoned in the Tule Lake internment camp in Northern California. Later, after finally being released, he spent the rest of his life on the East Coast, working as a cook, often homeless, but always working on his art.
Jury selection begins this week in a Davis homicide case in which the defendant has claimed he put his ailing friend out of his misery. James Elron Mings, 37, was indicted on a single count of murder in connection with the Oct. 1, 2011, death of Kevin Gerard Seery at the College Square Apartments on […]
Learn more What: Davis City Council When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Community Chambers, City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd. Watch it: Live on Comcast Channel 16 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, and as streaming video online at www.cityofdavis.org/media The rubber meets the road at Tuesday’s City Council meeting for a plan to fix the bike path along […]
Chris Dewees, a longtime fish biologist and devotee of gyotaku — Japanese fish printing — since his graduate student days, prepares an octopus for a print in his studio. He will teach the traditional art at a workshop Saturday, March 9, to benefit the Yolo Basin Foundation. For details, see Page A4. Courtesy photo
