Things to do in Davis Homecoming Weekend October 5-8, 2012

UC Davis Homecoming is generating a lot of fun weekend activities including pre-game wine tasting. Sunday also brings Davis Neighbors’ Night Out. For those of you who get Monday off for Columbus Day, check out the de Vere’s Pub Quiz at 7 PM .

Although this repeats some information in prior posts, we’re putting all events in one place:

Aggies past, present and future enjoy the Pajamarino at the Davis train station 5:30 October 5th. There’s free food, ice cream, band music and cheerleading!

Friday, October 5
• Aggie Pride Friday – get caught wearing UC Davis gear by the Aggie Pack Prize Patrol for awesome swag! The Aggie Pack Prize Patrol will be on campus between 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Men’s Soccer vs. UC Riverside – Aggie Soccer Field – 4 p.m. (Tickets) (Promotions)
• 100th Pajamarino – Davis Train Station – 5:30 p.m.

Our favorite event over homecoming weekend is the Pajamarino on Friday evening. 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of this uniquely UC Davis tradition. As you can see in the photos, “kids” of all ages gather in their pajamas at the downtown Davis train station where they hang out with the wildly costumed UC Davis Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh, Aggie cheerleaders, students, and townies to greet each train full of visiting alumni as they pull into the station. There is free food, drinks, sometimes candy (we are closing in on Halloween, after all), and lots of shwag for the most creatively dressed pajama-clad attendees.

• Get ready for game day with a special Tailgating themed dinner at the UC Davis Dining Commons
• Homecoming Pre-Party at Gunrock Pub – 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Come and enjoy campus produced foods!

Get your special edition Homecoming Aggie Pride t-shirt at the Homecoming Game October 6th. Kickoff is at 4PM.

Saturday, October 6

Get your free limited edition Aggie Pride hat at the Homecoming Game October 6th. Come one, come all, but only while supplies last!

• Football vs. Montana State – Aggie Stadium – 4 p.m. (Tickets) (Promotions)
• Wine Tasting with the Aggies – Lot 56, Aggie Stadium – 1 p.m.
• Men’s Tennis Aggie Invitational – Marya Welch Tennis Complex – All Day

Sunday, October 7
• Men’s Water Polo vs. UCLA – Schaal Aquatics Complex – 1 p.m. (Tickets)
• Men’s Soccer vs. UC Riverside – Aggie Soccer Field – 4 p.m. (Tickets) (Promotions)
• Men’s Tennis Aggie Invitational – Marya Welch Tennis Complex – All Day
• Davis Neighbors’ Night Out

For more information about Pajamarino and Homecoming Week, please visit the UC Davis Homecoming Week web site.

With so much happening in Davis this weekend, if you want to escape to the movie theater, big movies opening in town include:

Taken 2

Photos – IMDb

‎1hr 31min‎‎ – Rated PG-13‎‎ – Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller/Drama‎
Director: Oliver Megaton – Cast: Liam Neeson, M Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Serbedzija,Leland Orser

Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one. « less

Regal Cinemas Davis Holiday 6

101 F Street, Davis, CA

‎1:10‎  ‎2:00‎  ‎4:10‎  ‎5:00‎  ‎7:15‎  ‎8:00‎  ‎9:50‎  ‎10:30pm‎

Looper

Trailer – Photos – IMDb

‎1hr 58min‎‎ – Rated R‎‎ – Action/Adventure/Scifi/Fantasy‎
Director: Rian Johnson – Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Bruce Willis, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe – is waiting to mop up. Joe isgetting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self for assassination. « less

Regal Cinemas Davis Stadium 5

420 G Street, Davis, CA

‎1:45‎  ‎4:45‎  ‎7:45‎  ‎10:25pm‎

Hotel Transylvania

Reviews – Trailer – Photos – IMDb

‎1hr 31min‎‎ – Rated PG‎‎ – Animation/Comedy‎
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky – Cast: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James,Fran Drescher – : 

Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s most famous monsters – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more – to celebrate his daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but this could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis. « less

Regal Cinemas Davis Holiday 6

101 F Street, Davis, CA

‎1:30‎  ‎4:30‎  ‎7:00pm‎

Pitch Perfect

Trailer – Photos – IMDb

‎1hr 52min‎‎ – Rated PG-13‎‎ – Comedy/Musical‎
Director: Jason Moore – Cast: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp

Beca is that girl who’d rather listen to what’s coming out of her headphones than what’s coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls , sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella. This could wind up either the coolest thing they’ll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.

Regal Cinemas Davis Stadium 5

420 G Street, Davis, CA

‎1:30‎  ‎4:30‎  ‎7:30‎  ‎10:10pm‎

Frankenweenie

Reviews – Trailer – Photos – IMDb

‎1hr 27min‎‎ – Rated PG‎‎ – Animation/Comedy/Horror‎
Director: Tim Burton – Cast: Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer – : 

After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life-with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor’s fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new “leash on life” can be monstrous.

Regal Cinemas Davis Holiday 6

101 F Street, Davis, CA

‎1:00‎  ‎1:45‎  ‎4:45‎  ‎6:45‎  ‎10:25pm‎

Here are live event highlights from our friends at The Davis Dirt.