“There was this engineer who had his own mixing studio in his house in Santa Monica,” Doug Carn recalls. “He mixed for motion picture soundtracks, and he charged $200 an hour. And I had $200. I said ‘The album is 52 minutes long.'”
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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Philharmonic’s Irish Spring in Autumn
The guest soloist is Hungarian-born violinist Gwendolyn Masin, a virtuoso who’s spent most of her life in Ireland.
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Can I have some more Sweet Tease?
“Many people don’t realize that back in the day, there was a lot of comedy in burlesque,” Wendy Denney says. “And our show is a mixture of a throwback to old-school stuff, and maybe neo-burlesque.”
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Savannah Jazz Festival: Tom Scott
“I had done that one record with Joni Mitchell, and she said ‘Listen, will your band record on my next album?'” he recalls.
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Six degrees of Laurence Juber
Juber was introduced to Gilligan and the Skipper because Hope’s father was — you guessed it — Sherwood Schwartz (who also created The Brady Bunch, and composed that silly, obnoxious, unforgettable theme song).
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24-hour play fest: Six plays, one day
“The writers show up first,” Reynolds says. “They’ll be given a very loose theme and no other directions other than they have to write it there. They’ve got until 6 Saturday morning to finish a 10-minute play.”
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Revival Fest: Truth & Salvage Co.
“We had some choices as to what we should do, and we thought ‘Let’s go try and build a crowd in the South, and on the east coast, like we’ve done out here in the West. And if we do that, we’ll have the whole United States covered.'”
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Gray’s Reef Film Fest: ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
‘When I was out there we saw computer monitors, we saw refrigerators! Massive pieces and also smaller pieces, which are more insidious and more detrimental.’
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Gray’s Reef Film Fest: Crittercam creator!
The year before, Sony had introduced the first hand-held video recorder. What if, Marshall wondered, one of these could be attached to a free-swimming whale, turtle or shark?
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College Issue: The Connect Playlist
Right here, right now, a healthy and quite vibrant cross-section of the best rock, hip hop, electronic, acoustic and string band music in Savannah.
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Hello there, Miss Sandra
“It’s a little bit tongue-in-cheek, it’s satirical, it’s smart. People take it in any way they want. Some people think you’re being bitchy. I think I’m being ironic. It’s a strong female funny figure, and I think gay men like that.”
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Exposed: The Odd Lot
“We’ve gotten a lot of people who are aching to see us do something blue. They want to see what we would do if we let that aspect of the comedy in. So we’re going to perform no holds barred.”