Author Evan Barden

There's an old proverb that says the future is in the hands of the youth. Another tells us to look to our elders, for they are wise. Could it be that both pieces of advice are in fact, true? Theatre Fairfield seems to think so. Theatre Fairfield's New Works Festival premiered the best and brightest new plays from the University community on Feb. 21 and Feb. 24 at the PepsiCo Theater.

If only the residents of Bridgeport had seen the traffic of the night before: cars full of vegans, dread-heads, music elitists and burn-outs backed all the way up from Seaside Park to I-95. The cars, RVs, trucks and even buses rolled in throughout the night filling the air with the music of U Melt, John Brown's Body and a tribute to Jerry Garcia, in honor of his would-be birthday, from Dark Star Orchestra.

Still Life is what live music should be: exciting, engaging and inspiring. Still Life, the most recent group to come out of the Fairfield music scene, is an extremely talented group of musicians blending together jazz with funk, rock and hip-hop. I had a chance to catch the group perform at the local music hotspot Acoustic Café, which was just the beginning of their tour of shows in the area continuing with a performance this Friday at the Blackrock Arts Center.

Western legend defines an incubus as a male demon that makes love to sleeping women at night. Well, no one was sleeping but it was at night and Incubus was certainly channeling some kind of supernatural power. On Wednesday, Jan. 31st, Incubus was in full form as they performed at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.

Plans to add a life-size marble Stag statue launched FUSA's Stag-positive campaign two weeks ago. However, FUSA Sen. Kate Cota '07 took this initiative one step further, asking for the addition of a live Stag mascot to increase school spirit. "If we could get a baby red deer, the male version of which is the Stag, we could raise it from birth and somewhat domesticate it.

If you ask any male fan how they would describe Huntington Beach power pop band HelloGoodbye, only two words are necessary: "guilty pleasure." This college-aged band from southern California have infiltrated the punk rock scene with some of the most sugar coated guitar tracks since the days of The Go-Go's and the mid-'80s girl rock explosion.

Not too many rock bands' stories begin with comic books, but that's exactly where lead singer/songwriter of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way, began his journey. While working in the comic industry in New York City, Gerard experienced first hand the devastation of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Last Monday at Toad's Place in New Haven, a place typically known for its wide variety of musical acts, the audience was in stitches over the comedic stylings of Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Black is a well know TV personality from his work on "Ed," "Celebrity Poker," Sierra Mist commercials and most notably as a commentator on VH1's "I Love The…" series.

On Saturday Oct. 7, while most students were enjoying their first visit home of school year, Theatre Fairfield's improv troupe, "On The Spot," traveled to New York City to catch a show at one of the Big Apple's best, The Magnet Theatre. The Magnet was formed in March 2005, by Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Shannon Manning and Alex Marino.

I had been waiting two years to see Gym Class Heroes and on Friday, Sept. 15, my friend Austin and I made the drive up to the Webster Theater in Hartford to do just that. It wasn't just any Friday night though; it was my 21st birthday. After dropping a vagabond freshman off at Trinity to see his girlfriend, Austin and I drove around the block to the Webster.