“Sometimes it’s boring; sometimes it’s 800 miles, nothing happens, but then suddenly you find such a great valley. You have to be patient, you have to believe and you have to trust that you’re going to somewhere special. Always.”
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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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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Savannah Music Festival: 2014!
March 22, Ships of the Sea Museum: “Southern Soul Assembly” brings together the great electric blues guitarists Luther Dickinson and Anders Osbourne, with J.J. Grey (of Florida’s Mofro fame) and Louisiana’s Marc Broussard.
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Our Town: Life stories
It’s not spoiling things to say that Our Town gives us everything “from womb to tomb” — two of the central events are a wedding and a funeral.
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How ’bout them Blue Dogs?
Charleston’s Blue Dogs play the official marathon pasta party and concert Friday night at the Charles H. Morris Center.
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Halloween tribute bands @ The Jinx
Because there are so many bands this year, the 9 p.m. start time will be (more or less) observed. Four of these bands include at least one Jinx bartender.
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Film Festival: A boy & his tiger
“Anybody who has made a movie can attest to the fact that making films is hard. It takes a long time, it’s not cheap. You finish film school and you’re ready to make movies, and the reality is, you also need to make a living.”
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Film Festival: Horns of Plenty
“These guys were playing on the street, so I assumed that any help they could get, they would take. I didn’t realize that wasn’t the case! One of them said to me, ‘Yeah, yeah, you want to support us? Best thing you could do is buy some CDs.'”
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Bands that go bump in the night
Halloween weekend marks the annual resurrection of GAM, Savannah’s psychedelic punk pioneers, for a painted pagan rock ‘n’ roll ritual at the Jinx, followed by the big, bad blood-wrestling competition.
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Film Festival: 3-D or not 3-D?
“Building a visual effects shot is not much different than building a house. Once you’ve figured out what you want to see, then you start breaking it down into its constituent parts.”
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Come to Mother’s Finest
Mother’s Finest never became a household name; instead, the band absolutely killed on the concert circuit, tearing the roof off one sucka after another.