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Davisville, March 9, 2026: Yolo’s news picture starts looking a little brighter

After years of dwindling news coverage in Yolo County, two regional news outlets — the Sacramento Bee and Abridged, a news source started by Sacramento public TV station KVIE in 2025 — have each launched free Yolo weekly newsletters this year,...

Davisville, Feb. 23, 2026: From gray walls at MIT to colors in California

Davis architect Maria Ogrydziak, whose designs include the Davis Food Co-op building (pictured) on G Street downtown, was born in Stockholm to Estonian parents, lived in Taiwan for two years while growing up, and began to make her mark as an...

Yolo Local, Abridged announce partnership

Comcast changes City Channel 16 to Channel 21

Celebration of Life, Feb. 15

Davisville, Feb. 9, 2026: Think of homes in Davis in the 2030s and ’40s — what do you see?

Davis is updating its General Plan, which is meant to guide Davis’ physical development as a community through 2050. The update is a classic, easy-to-overlook civic project that works better when more people know about it and add their ideas about...

Davisville, Jan. 26, 2026: You have four weeks to make a short movie. On your mark …

One of the new events in Davis for 2026 is a competition, led by a Davis marine biologist whose awards include an Emmy for his camera work, that’s open to anyone willing to make a short movie during the next month....

Davisville, Jan. 12, 2026: With research cuts, ‘this is what you’re giving up’

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal spending on university research have prompted Ed Kiggins, who leads communications for the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, to start the Minds Over Matters podcast highlighting research at UC Davis. Every two...

Davisville, Dec. 29, 2025: Three ideas about Davis

The turn of the year is a natural time to step outside the usual stream of events, and that’s what we do today. We asked three previous guests of Davisville to each offer an observation about Davis as 2026 begins —...

Davisville, Dec. 15, 2025: Crest movie palace focuses on its next era

The Crest movie theater in downtown Sacramento has changed its mix of attractions several times during its long history — the vaudeville-era graffiti near the top of the curtains is one sign of that — and owner Bob Emerick has begun...

Davisville, Dec. 1, 2025: The silver lining is the public’s response

It’s been a strange year for food relief, marked most recently by the sporadic suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aid during the federal government shutdown this fall. Today on Davisville we talk with two people deeply involved in different...

Davisville, Nov. 17, 2025: Davis critic Derrick Bang sizes up 2025’s year-end movies

Today we enjoy Davisville’s annual fall movie show in which Davis film critic Derrick Bang (pictured at KDRT on Nov. 16) tells us about movies he’s looking forward to as 2025 ends, plus ones he’ll dodge if he sees them sauntering...

Davisville, Nov. 3, 2025: Yolo Local news and information project takes another step forward

Yolo Local, an emerging Davis Media Access project to create a new place for local information and news -- with the goal of countering the decline of local news outlets -- has wrapped up several months of conversations and research to...

Davisville, Oct. 20, 2025: Explorit might have found a way back

The Explorit Science Center in Davis, which suspended operations this year after the death of a major donor, has begun to form plans for how it might return. It has a $50,000 pledge from one of its founding families — the...