Editing Davis, California (section)

== Sights and culture ==
=== Whole Earth Festival ===
A continuous stream of bands, speakers and various workshops occurs throughout Mother's Day weekend on each of Whole Earth Festival's (WEF) three stages and other specialty areas. The WEF is organized entirely by UC Davis students, in association with the Associated Students of UC Davis and the university.

=== Celebrate Davis ===
Celebrate Davis is the annual free festival held by the Davis Chamber of Commerce. It features booths by Davis businesses, live music, food vendors, live animals, activities like rock climbing and zip-lining. It concludes with fireworks after dark. Parking is problematic, so most people ride their bikes and use the free valet parking.

=== Picnic Day ===
{{Main|Picnic Day (UC Davis)}}

Picnic Day is an annual event at the [[University of California, Davis]] and is always held on the third Saturday in April. It is the largest student-run event in the US. Picnic Day starts off with a parade, which features the [[UC Davis California Aggie Marching Band-uh!]], and runs through campus and around downtown Davis and ends with the Battle of the Bands, which lasts until the last band stops playing (sometimes until 2&nbsp;am). There are over 150 free events and over 50,000 attend every year. Other highlights include: the [[Dachshund]] races, a.k.a. the Doxie Derby, held in the Pavilion; the Davis Rock Challenge, the Chemistry Magic Show, and the sheep dog trials. Many departments have exhibits and demonstrations, such as the Cole Facility, which until recently showed a [[fistula]]ted cow (a cow that has been fitted with a plastic portal (a "[[fistula]]") into its digestive system to observe digestion processes). Its name was "Hole-y Cow".

=== Davis Transmedia Art Walk ===
The Davis Transmedia Art Walk is a free—self-guided—public art tour includes 23 public murals, 16 sculptures, and 15 galleries and museums all in downtown Davis and the University of Davis campus. A free Davis Art Walk map serves as a detailed guide to the entire collection. The art pieces are all within walking distance of each other. The walk is a roughly circuitous path that can be completed within an hour or two. Every piece of art on the Art Walk has been embedded with an RFID chip. Using a cellphone that supports this technology, you access multimedia files that relate to each work. You can even leave a comment or "burn your own message" for other visitors to see. Artist hosted tours are held on the weekend by appointment only. To pick up a copy of the Davis Art Walk map, visit the Yolo County Visitors Bureau (132 E St., Suite 200; (530) 297–1900) or the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts (521 1st St.; (530) 756–3938).

=== Manetti Shrem Museum of Art ===
{{Main|Manetti Shrem Museum of Art}}

The [[Manetti Shrem Museum of Art]], located on the UC Davis campus, opened on November 13, 2016, and carries on the legacy of the university's world-renowned first generation art faculty, which contributed to innovations in conceptual, performance and video art in the 1960s and 70s. The museum has generated nationwide attention with exhibits by artists such as [[Wayne Thiebaud]], [[Bruce Nauman]], [[John Cage]], and [[Robert Arneson]] as well as its striking architecture, featuring a 50,000 square-foot "Grand Canopy" of perforated aluminum triangular beams, supported by 40 steel columns. Every year the museum exhibits works by graduating art students. The museum is free and hosts lecture series and events throughout the year, as well as weekend art studio activities for all ages.

=== Mondavi Center ===
{{Main|Mondavi Center}}

The [[Mondavi Center]], located on the UC Davis campus, is one of the biggest non-seasonal attractions in Davis. The Mondavi Center is a theater which hosts many world-class touring acts, including star performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Yitzhak Perlman and Wynton Marsalis, and draws a large audience from Sacramento.

=== UC Davis Arboretum ===
{{Main|University of California, Davis, Arboretum}}

The [[University of California, Davis, Arboretum|UC Davis Arboretum]] is an [[arboretum]] and [[botanical garden]]. Plants from all over the world grow in different sections of the park. There are notable [[oak]] and native plant collections and a small [[Cupressaceae|redwood]] grove. A small waterway spans the arboretum along the bed of the old North Fork of Putah Creek. Occasionally [[heron]]s{{which|date=December 2022}}, [[kingfisher]]s{{which|date=December 2022}}, and [[cormorant]]s{{which|date=December 2022}} can be seen around the waterways, as well as the ever-present [[mallard duck|ducks]]. Tours of the arboretum led by volunteer naturalists are often held for grade-school children.

=== The Domes ===
The Domes (AKA Baggins End Innovative Housing) is an on-campus cooperative housing community designed by project manager Ron Swenson and future student-residents in 1972. Consisting of 14 polyurethane foam-insulated fiberglass domes and located in the Sustainable Research Area at the western end of Orchard Road, it is governed by its 26 UCD student residents. It is one of the few student co-housing cooperative communities in the US, and is an early example of the modern-day growing [[Tiny house|tiny house movement]]. The community has successfully resisted several threats to its continuation over the years.

===Farmers Market===
The Davis Farmers Market<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davisfarmersmarket.org/|title=At The Market! — Davis Farmers' Market|website=davisfarmersmarket.org|access-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310041102/http://www.davisfarmersmarket.org/|archive-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> is held every Wednesday evening and Saturday morning. Participants sell a range of fruits and vegetables, baked goods, dairy and meat products (often from certified organic farms), crafts, and plants and flowers. From April to October, the market hosts ''Picnic in the Park'', with musical events and food sold from restaurant stands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daviswiki.org/Picnic_in_the_Park|title=Picnic In The Park – Davis – LocalWiki|website=daviswiki.org|access-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525171028/https://daviswiki.org/Picnic_in_the_Park|archive-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref>

===Media===
Davis has one newspaper, ''The Davis Enterprise'', a thrice-weekly<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davisenterprise.com/|title=Davis Enterprise|website=Davis Enterprise|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref> newspaper founded in 1897. UC Davis also has a weekly newspaper called ''[[The California Aggie]]'' that covers campus, local and national news. Davis Media Access, a community media center, is the umbrella organization of television station DCTV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Television|title=Davis Community Television – Davis – LocalWiki|website=daviswiki.org|access-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525171030/https://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Television|archive-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> There are also numerous commercial stations broadcasting from nearby Sacramento. Davis has two community radio stations: [[KDVS]] 90.3 FM, on the University of California campus, and KDRT 95.7 FM, a subsidiary of Davis Media Access and one of the first [[Low-power broadcasting|low-power FM]] radio stations in the United States. Davis has the world's largest English-language [[LocalWiki|local wiki]], [[DavisWiki]]. In 2006, ''The People's Vanguard of Davis'' began news reporting about the city of Davis, the Davis Joint Unified School District, the county of Yolo, and the Sacramento area.<ref>{{cite web |author1=The People's Vanguard of Davis |title=Guiding Principles |url=https://www.davisvanguard.org/about-us/guiding-principles/ |website=Davis Vanguard |access-date=February 17, 2022}}</ref>

=== Toad Tunnel ===
{{see also|Amphibian and reptile tunnel}}
[[Image:toadhotel.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Toad Tunnel in front of the Post Office]]

Davis' '''Toad Tunnel''' is a [[wildlife crossing]] that was constructed in 1995 and has drawn much attention over the years, including a mention on ''[[The Daily Show]]''. Due to the construction of an overpass, animal lovers worried about [[toad]]s being killed by cars commuting from South Davis to North Davis, since the toads traveled from one side of a dirt lot (which the overpass replaced) to the reservoir at the other end. After much controversy, a decision was made to build a toad tunnel, which runs beneath the Pole Line Road overpass which crosses [[Interstate 80 (California)|Interstate 80]]. The project cost $14,000, {{Inflation|US|14000|1995|fmt=eq|r=-3}}.{{Inflation/fn|US}} The tunnel is {{convert|21|in|cm}} wide and {{convert|18|in|cm}} high.