Davisville, Sept. 22, 2025: Useful but dull information + humor = attention

You’ve got information. People need to hear it. It’s useful ... and it’s dull. This circumstance is a common problem for people who work in communications, such as today’s guest, Mark Deamer. One way to draw the disinterested is humor, if...

Davisville, Sept. 8, 2025: We talk with Benjy Egel, food editor for Abridged, a major new source of regional news

Greater Sacramento will gain a promising new source of news and information when Abridged, part of Sacramento public TV station KVIE, officially debuts on Sept. 16. Benjy Egel (pictured), who grew up in Davis and formerly wrote about food for the...

Davisville, Aug. 25, 2025: About 7 percent of rentals in Davis are vacant, says broker, who sees lower rents in '26

About 7 percent, and maybe as much as 10 percent, of rentals in Davis are currently vacant, says Davis real estate broker and manager Kit Boschken on this week’s Davisville. That's highly unusual for Davis, especially in August. The rate was...

Davisville, Aug. 18, 2025: Remembering an important book by the late Davis journalist, Joel Davis

This interview was recorded in January 2013

Few journalists have had as much impact in Davis as Joel Davis, who died in April at 62.

In 2005 he wrote his book Justice Waits about the kidnapping and murders of two UC...

Welcoming Brianna Menson

Still here, still leading

Davisville, Aug. 4, 2025: ‘I want him (Guaraldi) to become one of our Tchaikovskys’

Vince Guaraldi’s music continues to have a wonderful afterlife, thanks to the successful recent releases of the Peanuts soundtracks that Guaraldi recorded before he died at 47 in 1976. Today we update the story with Derrick Bang, who wrote the...

Davisville, July 21, 2025: The puppy-chewed training book, and other tales from the Davis Book Menders

The ordinary jobs that come to the Davis Book Menders include wear-and-tear repairs, like fixing torn pages or tattered covers, but some damage is unusual — like the books that displayed tire treads or evidence of use as a trivet. Whatever...

Davisville, July 7, 2025: SF Mime Troupe returns to Davis with its latest sharp satire

The San Francisco Mime Troupe wants to entertain and challenge audiences with live satire, but Michael Gene Sullivan, the writer, director and an actor for this year’s show — Disruption: A Musical Farce — says he aims for more than two-dimensional...

Davisville, June 23, 2025: Top grad prizes research, time with people, and learning how to make a mug

This year’s top graduating senior at the University of California, Davis is Avantika Gokulnatha. She just earned a degree in genetics and genomics, she’d like to help make aging more manageable for people, she values her art classes in the campus...

Davisville, June 9, 2025: Veterans of Paul’s Place plan to build more Yolo homes for the homeless

Davis needs hundreds of additional homes for people with very low incomes, says Bill Pride during today’s Davisville, and other Yolo County cities have similar needs. As executive director of a new nonprofit, Yolo Community Builders, Pride wants to respond to...

Davisville, May 26, 2025: Downtown businesses assess the impact of Trump’s tariffs

The large tariffs on U.S. imports ordered by President Trump in April have created huge uncertainty and anxiety, amplified by Trump’s frequent course changes and by tariffs imposed on the U.S. in retaliation. Small businesses can’t wait for uncertainty to clear,...

Davisville, May 12, 2025: Davis faces choice between more homes, fewer schools

The Davis school district might have to close up to three public schools over the next decade for reasons that include declining birth rates, high housing costs, and changing job patterns. Adding more homes for families in Davis could blunt that...

Davisville, April 28, 2025: Yolo Local has a question for you -- 'What do you need to know?'

Last year’s idea for a new “civic information hub” in Yolo County has grown into Yolo Local, a budding project to create a new source for local information and news. This spring the project is surveying people throughout the...

Davisville, April 14, 2025: As others fled Saigon 50 years ago, she stayed

You might have seen the famous photo of a U.S. helicopter incongruously perched atop the roof of a Saigon building, with people lined up on a sloping ladder, backlit by the sky, hoping to board. The image illustrates the final hours...