“Bike Fridays” in Downtown Davis

July 16, 2010

When Downtown Employees “Bike Fridays”, Customers Will Find More Parking & “Greener” Shopping

Every third Friday, starting May 21 through September 17, 2010 Downtown Davis workers supporting the program can earn a free lunch & an entry to win a new bike by cycling to work.

As a customer, YOU win by enjoying more Downtown parking a Downtown with fewer cars & vehicle trips.

Downtown businesses and organizations with employees participating this Friday, May 21 include: Shuz of Davis, Fleet Feet, Davis Food Co-op, Bay Area Economics, Wiscombe Funeral Home, First Northern Bank, Apex Cycles and Service, the Davis Enterprise, Armadillo Music and the National Forest Foundation.

Eateries supporting the program with free lunch donations are: Fuzio, Habit Burger, Chipotle, Woodstock’s, Tommy J’s and the Davis Food Co-op.

Questions about Bike Fridays?  Want to participate or donate?  Please contact DDBA Director Joy Cohan at joy@davisdowntown.com, or (530) 756-8763.

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Bob Ostertag Reads at Bistro 33

December 1, 2009

Poetry Night at Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Bob Ostertag for a reading tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd at 9 P.M.

Bob Ostertag is a multitalented creative professional with 21 CDs of music, two movies, two DVDs, and three books under his belt. An experimental audio artist, Bob has performed his music all over the world and has collaborated with a diverse collection of artists, among them the Kronos Quartet, Mike Patton, Anthony Braxton, and Lynn Breedlove. His political writings have been translated to many languages and have been published widely. His most recent book, Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines, is a collection of journalistic and autobiographical essays that explore the parallels and variations between artistic media.

“Unique and engaging. Creative Life spins an intriguing narrative, builds a compelling argument about the nature of art and politics, and raises a stimulating set of questions for politically engaged art in an age of digital technologies.” –Jonathan Scott Lee, author of Jacques Lacan

BobOstertag-Davis-CABob Ostertag is currently Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis. He teaches the wildly popular TCS 1: Introduction to Technocultural Studies. In 2006, Ostertag made all of his recordings to which he owns the rights available as digital downloads under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license, as you can discover at http://www.bobostertag.com. Bob is also a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. Please join us for a creative, political, and rhetorical performance by Bob Ostertag.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early tomorrow to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.

Who: Bob Ostertag
What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33
When: Wednesday, December 2nd, 9 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.

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Poet Pamela Houston Reads at Bistro

November 18, 2009

Pamela+Houston+Davis+CA+EventsPoetry Bistro 33 is proud to welcome Pamela Houston on Wednesday, November 18th at 9 P.M.

Pamela Houston is the author of the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, a collection of essays titled A Little More About Me, and the novel Sighthound. Her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Award, the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Houston has also completed a stage play entitled Tracking the Pleiades, produced by the Creede Repertory Theater, and she has edited Women on Hunting, a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. An occasional contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, Pam Houston currently writes for O magazine. In addition to her many publishing credits, Houston is a popular faculty member teaching for and often coordinating the Creative Writing Program at UC Davis.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.  Poetry Night at Bistro 33, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 10 P.M.


Who: Pam Houston
What: Poetry Night at Bistro 33
When: Wednesday, November 18th, 9 P.M.
Where: Bistro 33, 226 F. St.

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