Daily Archives October 10, 2007

Nicole Cavallaro '11 originally had no desire to play soccer, and she was discovered nearly by accident by Fairfield's coaches. Now, she is one of the top players in the MAAC. After a record-setting weekend, Cavallaro was named to the SoccerBuzz Elite Team of the Week, an honor never before received in the program's history.

I recently had the privilege and pleasure of interviewing the phenomenal musician Chad "Stokes" Urmston from State Radio. Urmston started the band State Radio shortly after Dispatch's unfortunate break up. State Radio carries on Dispatch's legacy of political and social activism through its lyrics and work beyond the realm of music such as the recent Dispatch: Zimbabwe benefit concert and Urmston's personally founded Elias Fund for Zimbabwean youth.

There and back again has been done before by short, pointy-eared, hairy-footed hobbitses (gollum, gollum). It works as a storyline because, at least in the case of "The Hobbit," the audience gets a happy ending. But as a character's arc, it's not so hot.

We have all heard the slogan, "So easy a caveman could do it," but no one ever imagined that Geico's popular 30-second commercials would be turned into a full-length sitcom. "Cavemen" the television show premiered on ABC Tuesday, earning second in the ratings race and last in critics' hearts.

When we sat down with the upcoming rock band Talking to Walls last year, the members had just gotten their first rock van and were headed down the road to fame. Since then the group, half of which is made up of Fairfield alums Brian Kelly and Matt Krupa, has toured the Northeast.

I can't begin to tell you how excited I was last week when I got to hear the new Angels and Airwaves album. It was everything I expected it to be and more, and I highly recommend you head to your local record store right now and pick it up. Oh wait, you can't.

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Comedian Alex House said if she shortened her name like J. Lo., she would be A. Ho. House has appeared on "The View" and "Last Comic Standing." The Mirror got a chance to catch up with House before her performance this Thursday in the lower level of the BCC.

During the Holocaust, many people found themselves in a difficult moral situation: To allow the Nazis to try to live out their regime or oppose them and risk death. There was no black-and-white answer to this situation. Everyone had to decide for themselves which choice to make.

The sex abuse scandals that rocked the Catholic Church in 2002 caught the public's eye, motivating the laity, or the faithful body outside of religious officials, to do something about the situation, Paul Lakeland, chair of the Catholic studies department, said last Monday.