Davis Life Magazine

I never thought I would say this, but playing paintball is fun! Aside from the padded pants that make it hard to run, the face mask that makes you look like Darth Vader’s unattractive offspring, and the fact that pellets filled with paint are flying at your head, the sport provides a lot of fun [...]

I recently attended the screening of a film called Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, which addresses the out-of-control marketing practices that are aimed at children today. Everything from the diapers kids wear to the cereal they eat has been infiltrated by the marketing machine that relentlessly pushes them to want, to need, to buy [...]

I didn’t think I would be playing bingo on a Sunday afternoon until well into my retirement, but there I was, not even a year out of college and daubing hot pink ink onto bingo cards. After seeing charity bingo listed on the Davis Dirt calendar–fun and for a good cause!–I couldn’t say No to [...]

Davis now has its very own certified Chi Nei Tsang (chee-nay-song) practitioner. Sylvia Sensiper practices the ancient Taoist method of abdominal chi massage, and I got to experience it firsthand thanks to my policy of Just Saying Yes to new experiences. Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) is a holistic approach to healing that involves physical, emotional, [...]

If you consider yourself an expert on all things Davis, you’d better make sure you’ve checked out the Davis People’s Free School (DPFS) because it embodies many things that Davis stands for: openness, Earth-friendly activities, a high value placed on education, and community. DPFS was started in 2007 by UC Davis undergraduates, and while activity [...]