The Davis Farmer's Market is a lovely place to people watch, pick up produce, listen to music, and sample food from local restaurants. The market is held twice a week, the larger one on Saturday morning, and a smaller one on Wednesday afternoon. Both markets are held in a covered pavillion in Davis Central Park (near the intersection of 3rd and B streets) and the crowds are such that trying ...
The University recently finished building a high end performing arts center, called the Mondavi Center (named after the California Wine mogul Robert Mondavi). The center is visable from the freeway (I-80) near the Highway 113 interchange, and resembles a large, multi-million dollar cardboard box. However, the Center has state of the art acoustics, and regularly books a variety of both elegant and modern musicians. Going ...
There are many gorgeous art deco theatres scattered around the greater Sacramento Area. There are the Tower and the Crest Theaters in Sacramento. Davis also has one of these beautiful old theatres,The Varsity, and last winter it was renovated and reopened as an indie movie hall. Since then it has been showing first run art house films, and this fall they introduced a midnight ...
There is more live music in and around Davis than one would expect for a small city of 60'000 residents. Some venues solely have music, some are bars or cafes that like to host bands. Since Davis is on such a major interstate, it isn't hard for these venues to convince musicians to fill in another show on their way from Olympia ...
