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Dairy Queen is gone — but in name only. Owner Shahid Iqbal officially gave up his fight against the company and went independent this month. Its new name is Davis Burgers & Shakes, but its menu is “97 percent the same.” The signage and menu board changed, but its prices and basic ingredients didn’t. The [...]
By Dorothy Peterson The Yolo Farm to Fork Foundation has attracted four major supporters over the past year to bolster efforts to expand the farm-to-school message from Davis into schools throughout Yolo County. Yolo County Agriculture Commissioner John Young has encouraged the Yolo Farm to Fork Foundation to take the garden, recycle and nutrition programs [...]
The issue: AP phone taps, IRS targets, Benghazi debacle cast a dark shadow on the White House To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama’s supporters believed that, if elected, he would rein in the worst excesses of President George W. Bush’s national-security strategy. The opposite has happened. PRESIDENT BUSH fought the eternal White House battle [...]
The Davis Athletic Club is hosting a contra dance at 8 p.m. Friday. Free beginners’ lessons begin at 7:30 p.m. at the club, 1809 Picasso Ave., followed by the dance at 8 p.m. Mavis McGaugh is the caller, and the music is provided by The Angell Brothers (Barry and Thomas). A $10 donation for adults, $8 [...]
On May 8, I exercised my First Amendment right to petition my government by participating in Resolve’s Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. This event inspires men and women from across the country, affected by infertility, to talk to their members of Congress about issues important to our community. We talked about two bills currently before [...]
Springtime in Davis — life is good and busy, and we often find ourselves at half-past dinner time loading everyone into the car for a dinner run. While dinner out can be delightful, it’s less fun when you don’t have a choice. The solution? Stock up the freezer with ingredients that let you turn nothing [...]
Thursday * Come support children’s nutrition, expand access to quality school meals, and enhance the healthfulness of the school food environment at the Davis Joint Unified School District’s nutrition advisory committee meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. at Harper Junior High School, 4000 E. Covell Blvd. For more information, contact Student Nutrition Services at nutrition@djusd.net [...]
Scout Taylor, a ninth-grader at Emerson Junior High School, is a second-place winner for an original video she produced for the “World of 7 Billion” student video contest sponsored by Population Connection, a grassroots organization. Scout’s claymation video, which shows a connection between women’s education and population growth, was chosen from among 567 submissions created [...]
I am a student in a Race and Social Justice in U.S. History class at Davis High School. I am in a research group called body image, where my group members and I search for our peers’ views of their body image. The overall question we were answering was “How does your body image affect [...]
The artist known as Hauschka — who performs what is dubbed “post-classical music” on a prepared piano, with various objects inserted in the strings to create unusual effects — will perform at the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 21. The performance is organized by the Aggie Arts interns, a group [...]
Check it out What: 13th annual UC Davis Film Festival Where: Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St. When: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, May 22-23 Tickets: $7 each night; $10 two-night pass available at Varsity starting May 15 Info: theatredance.ucdavis.edu/season/prod_details.aspx?p=54 or www.facebook.com/UCDavisFilmFestival The 13th annual UC Davis Film Festival continues to grow in many directions. This year’s submissions include an abundance [...]
* Editor’s note: Herbert Bauer, dubbed the “conscience of Davis,” died Tuesday at age 103. Among his many accomplishments, he was famous for his letters to the editor, which tackled major issues, sometimes fiercely, sometimes cheekily, but always heartfelt. Among his regular themes were public health issues, the death penalty, war and peace, national politics [...]
The issue: Young people still unemployed must learn how to interview, work hard The unemployment rate for would-be workers ages 20 to 24 is just about double the 7.6 percent for the workforce as a whole. This is the age when young adults are eager, or should be, to launch a career and employers should [...]
