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Davisville, March 18, 2024: Secret Spot creates a new home for the creatively weird in Davis
Today’s Davisville is a story about the new — and about getting started in Davis, as well as art, life after the pandemic, ambition, and the weird. We talk with Toni Rizzo and Harry Greer, who along with Stephanie Peel have...
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Davisville, March 4, 2024: DMA looks into creating a new information source for Davis and Yolo
Finding information and news about Davis is harder than it should be. The Enterprise still prints and posts local stories, but lacks the scope and heft it had before the rise of internet technology decimated newspapers as a business. Other paid...
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Davisville, Feb. 19, 2024: Measure N is normal in Davis, unusual in California
Measure N is the latest Davis schools parcel tax to come before voters — the latest in a string that goes back 40 years. Relatively few school districts in California have such taxes, and few levy as much as Davis does.
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Davisville, Feb. 5, 2024: The Artery at 50, Cuteware, and painting Putah Creek
The Artery co-op/gallery/store turns 50 this year. Most of its downtown Davis neighbors from the 1970s are gone, so how has the Artery lasted? Heidi Bekebrede and Adele Shaw, two of its members, list several reasons on today’s Davisville, and some...
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Davisville, Jan. 22, 2024: Louie Toro demystifies smartphones
You’ve probably got a smartphone. Does it ever confuse you, or do anything you don't expect? When you have a question, where do you get answers? From friends? YouTube videos? Many of us just click different things and hope for the...
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Davisville, Jan. 8, 2024: Catching up with Davis housing
Housing in Davis has kept evolving since we last talked about it on Davisville in summer 2022. The supply has grown, more new housing is in the works, and the city logged just 354 home sales in 2023, when in “a...
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Davisville, Dec. 25, 2023: Expanding Interstate 80 through Davis
Traffic on Interstate 80 is often frustratingly slow through Davis, and has been for years. What’s the remedy? Caltrans proposes adding a fourth lane, and the options include allowing free use of the lane only to vehicles with at least three...
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Davisville, Dec. 11, 2023: A marquee writer returns to the Enterprise
Some individuals’ work in Davis is so visible that they end up personifying their jobs. Today’s guest is one of those folks — Bruce Gallaudet, a longtime, prolific writer about sports in Davis. A former editor and sports editor of the...
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Davisville, Nov. 27, 2023: The strikes, best and worst movies, and what’s ahead
Get yourself settled and turn off your phone, we're raising the curtain on our latest year-end movie show with Davis film critic Derrick Bang. We talk about the effects of this year's writers’ and actors’ strikes, streaming, some of the best...
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Gift Basket Central returns
The Davis Farmers Market’s Gift Basket Central is back, offering free baskets and wrapping of market items on Saturdays. Every Saturday until the new year, shoppers can compile items for custom gift baskets, and have them wrapped for free at the market’s Gift Basket Central station. There are red, green and blue tissue options, neutral...
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Extended Pre-Thanksgiving Market is Nov. 22
The day before Thanksgiving, the Davis Farmers Market extends its hours. This year’s annual Pre-Thanksgiving Market will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Central Park, 301 C St., Davis. On Wednesday, Nov. 22, the market will have a bounty of seasonal produce, flowers and table décor, olive oil, honey, nuts, wine and more....
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Davisville, Nov. 13, 2023: Author of ‘Lost Subways’ book distills some insights for Davis
Jake Berman, who lived in Davis when he was younger, has developed a writer’s interest in something Davis has never had — subways. So he wrote The Lost Subways of North America — a Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and...
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Davisville, Oct. 30, 2023: Oobli, part of Davis food-tech evolution, sees sweet future in sweet proteins
Today’s Davisville involves Davis, food, the invention of new food products, and potentially good news for the environment, depending on how this idea develops.
The topic is sweet proteins, a sugar alternative probably new to most of us, and Oobli, a...
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We celebrate community on Farmers Market Week
By Randii MacNear, executive director of the Davis Farmers Market Alliance What comes to mind when you think of farmers markets? Ripe seasonal produce, colorful flowers, freshly baked bread, music? While the Davis Farmers Market has a positive effect on your Saturday morning or Wednesday afternoon, it also makes a direct impact on our broader...
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2025 beer schedule for Picnic in the Park
May 7: Sudwerk Brewing Co. May 14: Dunloe Brewing May 21: Three Mile Brewing Co. May 28: Super Owl Brewing June 4: Sudwerk Brewing Co. June 11: Dunloe Brewing Co. June 18: Three Mile Brewing Co. June 25: Super Owl Brewing Co. July 2: Sudwerk Brewing Co. July 9: Dunloe Brewing Co. July 16: Three...