Monthly Archives: February 2013

Middle school dance begins couple’s sweet love story

24 Sunday Feb 2013

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Remember the sweaty, uncomfortable awkwardness of middle school dances? When “slow dancing” consisted of a boy and girl swaying together in the school gym while standing as far apart as possible and avoiding eye contact?

Jeffrey and Alexa Schultz’s first dance went something like that, but their relationship didn’t end there. On Thursday, Jeffrey posted a photo on Reddit of himself and Alexa awkwardly dancing together in 6th grade — alongside a photo of them on their wedding day.

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UC Davis professor honored by Playboy

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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The behemoth lecture hall 1100 Social Sciences filled up fast, students piling through the doors. A few latecomers rushed in and took seats on the floor as a white-haired professor with a proper English accent pointed out a student in the crowd.

“Have you ever been to Lake Berryessa?” he asked. “Ever go fishing? Did you drink beer? Did you pee? Where? In Lake Berryessa?”

Yes, the student answered to each question.

“That went straight to Budweiser, my friend,” the professor said, as the room erupted in laughter. “Did you do anything else there? Oh, never mind.”

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Mother and daughter make dentistry a family affair

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Mother and daughter dentist duo Jeanne and Kelly Brewer remember the first time they ever worked together. One of Jeanne’s patients needed to have a root canal over a weekend, and with no dental assistants available to help with the procedure, Jeanne offered the job to her daughter, Kelly.

Kelly was seven years old.

“When you’re doing root canal work the person who’s assisting you suctions next to you. She wanted to make sure it was at a perfect angle, and she sat there just doing it perfectly because that was her big job. She was great,” Jeanne said.

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Poets spit sick rhymes and lines

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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It’s Tuesday night, and the Memorial Union’s Griffin Lounge has been transformed. The chairs are facing a small stage outfitted with three microphones and bright lights. Crowds of students and locals sporting horn-rimmed glasses and sweatshirts rush to find seats as a DJ spins ’90s hip hop music. A voice rises above the din.

“I was baptized in the spit left on floors of abandoned stages/See my holy books rhyme/And five times a day, I lick the ink off their pages/Inject the black ammunition deep into my veins and/Now my tongue is stained with poetic cadence,” recites SickSpits member Mannie Rizvi, hands gesturing to the beat. “Rhymes tight because I’m Abel but they’re sinful like I’m Cain and/I’m bleeding rivers of lyrical drops/Leaving your heavens looking like wastelands.”

As she reaches the breathless finish, the crowd chants back, “Spit sick, po-ET!”

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UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Galindo designs costumes for stage and screen

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Leafing through a giant portfolio filled with photos of her many designs, couture fashion designer and historical film costume researcher Elizabeth Galindo can remember exactly how she designed, sewed, and accessorized every one of her signature gowns. After more than 20 years in the business, that’s a lot of dresses.

“This is all hand burnt velvet and it has 24-carat gold thread running through it,” Galindo says, pausing at a photo of Sophia Loren wearing an intricately patterned gold dress. “The beads are all glass beads from the island of Murano. The fabric alone took me six weeks, and then this was draped on her. That took about five fittings before we could start sewing.”

These days, Galindo has been a fixture on the UC Davis campus as she studies for her Ph.D. and, most recently, designed the costumes for the upcoming Theater and Dance Department production ofGallathea.

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The ins and outs of getting inked

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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If there’s one thing you learn when talking to a tattoo artist, it’s that people want some very unique drawings on their bodies. Very, very unique.

“I did one of Wolverine riding My Little Pony,” said Urban Body Body Piercing and Tattoo artist Chris Yoakum as he carefully inked a horse and horseshoe on a young woman’s shoulder. “That seems random but it’s much less interesting if you know the story – the guy got it to commemorate his kids.”

Judging by the steady stream of customers that filled the colorful Davis shop last Saturday, it would seem that lots of people have a story they want to commemorate. Tattooing is more popular than ever, with kids as young as 18 and adults as old as 70 choosing to get inked. And that isn’t likely to change anytime soon, said Sacred Tiger Tattoo owner George Hernandez.

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What’s your word?

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Junior English and political science double major Kate Henka was tired of being called a “dumb blonde.”

So she wrote it on her forehead.

Wearing a dress, pearls and bright red glasses, Henka posed on the staircase of the UC Davis Art Building with “dumb” written across her forehead and “blonde” stretched across her cheeks as photographer Tommy Corey snapped away, offering occasional adjustments and direction.

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“Les Miserables” wedding flash mob goes viral

18 Monday Feb 2013

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With less than one month to go before the release of the film adaptation of “Les Miserables,” musical theater-loving couples may find themselves dreaming a dream of incorporating The Great White Way into their nuptials. Allow us to give you a little inspiration, courtesy of one Danish couple and their insanely talented friends.

Back in May, Susanne and Sune Vibæk Svanekier posted a video on YouTube of their guests bursting out into a surprise rendition of “One Day More” from “Les Miserables.” Watch the video above to see the newlyweds’ friends take on the classic song, each standing during the reception to belt out the different parts.

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Bride and her dad perform amazing tap dance

18 Monday Feb 2013

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For their father-daughter dance, a Broadway-loving bride and her dad put on their dancing shoes — their tap dancing shoes, that is.

Heather and William Jones elevated the traditional wedding dance to a unique new level when they performed a tap dance to Gene Kelly’s “Broadway Melody” at Heather’s wedding to John Russell in Boston last month.

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Surprise marriage proposal: Man pops the the question at his own surprise birthday party

18 Monday Feb 2013

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Katie Wanner thought her boyfriend, Blake Harris, was in for the biggest surprise when she shocked him with a 30th birthday party. But the tables were turned when he gave her a surprise of his own: a marriage proposal!

Harris posted a video on YouTube of himself proposing to Wanner at the surprise birthday party she threw for him at their apartment in Queens, New York on Friday (watch the video above).

Harris told HuffPost Weddings that he planned to pop the question at a restaurant in San Francisco on December 22. The engagement ring he bought for Harris wasn’t supposed to be ready for pick-up until Monday, but on Friday his jeweler called and told him it was ready early. So Harris happened to have the ring in his pocket when he arrived at his surprise party later that night.

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