“When I got into this thing, I had this self-confidence and a fantasy of becoming successful. Well, that self-confidence and fantasy hasn’t changed any. I’m older now, but I can still cut the mustard.”
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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Dana Fuchs: Black, white & blues
The Across the Universe star and her band are on the Dec. 7 bill at the Screven Motor Sports Complex.
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Spellbound in Savannah
“I just love to be around people; I’m a people person to the extreme,” Mundy enthuses. “I will talk to anyone, anywhere. And I like the collaborative process.”
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Oi! It’s Micky Fitz and the Business
It’s anthemic, soccer-match punk, and its association with angry violence (not to mention that many of the early Oi! fans were card-carrying skinheads who lived by the far right) led some in the tarty U.K. music press to tag it “punk’s idiot half-brother.”
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Go nuts!
In Savannah, there are two unique productions of The Nutcracker — one professional, one not — on the same day, in different theaters, every year. It’s a holiday tradition, as predictable as the ingredients in a Paula Deen pound cake.
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Bands announced for 2014 Stopover
A couple of major names can’t be revealed until January
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The creator: Shonali Bhowmik
“The best thing about my life — and it should be like this for everyone’s life — is that I feel very free to move from one thing to another. I’m sure I have some fears, but for the most part I’m relatively fearless.”
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Back to the Futurebirds
The Nov. 21 Jinx show is also the announcement party for the 2014 Savannah Stopover.
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Band on the rise
“I can be onstage in my Chuck Taylors, and my mohawk in five colors, and sing ‘Ave Maria’ with the best of ’em. That’s how and I live and that’s how I write.”
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Capsula’s ‘beautiful chaos’
“Some songs and writings, because of the poetry, have the power of catching visions from the past but also from the future so it makes sense that those songs can connect with you any time, everywhere.”
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Teach your children well
During her reign as Miss Hawaii 1996, Zapin — she was Melissa Ann Short then — participated in musical mentorship programs nearly every week of the year, on the islands and on the mainland.
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Review: About Time
It feels, often, like Curtis is trying a little too hard to work up some of his earlier movie’s magic pixie dust.