“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.”
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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AJ Ghent at Midnight Garden Ride: Steel the one
Sometimes it can sound like the roaring, whooping and hollering voice of God himself has joined the gospel fervor. And he’s an alto.
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Equinox: Those bandstand boys
“A guy came up to us after a show and said ‘The songs were great; the arrangements were great. But I felt like I made two new best friends.’ And for me, that is what it’s about.”
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Jam with Eric Culberson again
“When I was not playing music for a living, Jam Night was huge for me,” he says. “Because I could go out and do my thing with a band. On a stage.”
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Modern English: Melting the years
“We’d listen to Bowie, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, kind of left-field stuff, but we never dreamt of playing music until punk rock happened.”
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Jose Ray really appreciates vinyl
Now three years young, Vinyl Appreciation – it’s like Open Mic for DJs – returns to Muse Aug. 25.
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Shannon Christopher’s singular vision
The Muse is an exhibition of Christopher’s Cockspur photos, opening at the Tybee Island Social Club with a reception for the artist Wednesday, Aug. 28.
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That girl from ‘Savannah’
“I was raised in a pretty liberal area of Texas. When it comes to southern hospitality, though, I definitely know what that’s all about.”
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Hip hop and help
A large part of the proceeds will go to programs for military families. “It’s cheaper than any other T.I. concert,” says Christopher Dorm. “The reason we were able to keep the ticket cost so low is that he’s practically coming here for nothing.”
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‘Les Miserables’ at Savannah Theatre
Originally, the Savannah Theatre production was to be the “concert version”, with the actors — in character, in costume — at center stage microphones. This, quite serendipitously, has changed.
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‘Medea’ at Muse: Not Tyler Perry
There is a “Greek chorus”, as always, to comment and pass judgment on the dramatic proceedings, but this Medea is augmented with multi-media installations, live music from Electric Grandma, and choreography.
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Thomas Oliver’s new lease on life
“We both took the buyout,” Oliver laughs, “and said ‘Let’s see if we can make chicken salad out of chicken shit, and make this work for us.'”