‘I’ve done American accents in nearly every show I’ve been in. In Legally Blonde, you had to do the Valley Girl L.A. accent, which was kind of fun.’
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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SCAD grad show; Summer Solstice
Greyboy Allstars to play ‘New Alumni’ show May 31
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Cirque du Soleil: Timing is everything
Exactly 20 years ago, Canadian native Allister Booth was a physics student at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He’d been a competitive gymnast since he was a little boy, […]
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Playing D&D for keeps
For 20 years, Martin Noyes has been active in the role-playing gamers’ world of Dungeons & Dragons. When the staff of SCAD’s Performing Arts Department discovered the comedy She Kills […]
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Hip hop shows close out SUAF
The festival winds down with a big block party event Saturday, April 27, on Franklin Square.
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Queen of the Mic
A very small population understands what spoken word is. Some think it’s the whole snapping fingers, beatnik thing, and I’m like, ‘No, we’ve sort of surpassed that.
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Chalk this way
‘We didn’t look at what anyone else was doing. Once we finished, that’s when we walked around. It was intimidating. There were a lot of good pieces.’
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Grandma’s dance party
‘I really wanted to make it dance-y, because I feel that dance is one of the strongest forms of prayer that we can give.’
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‘Reefer Madness’: It’s alive!
The campy, deliberately over-the top film became a cult classic, beloved by potheads who find its unintentional humor illuminating, and funny enough to bust a gut over.
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Chris Tucker digs his roots
‘That’s a great feeling in live shows, to be right there with your audience. Movies are great, too, but you gotta wait until months later to get the benefit of the movie.’
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Say the Word at SUAF
‘I used to curse like a sailor. I’m not gonna lie, when I hear my old stuff I cringe sometimes. I’m in no way a Christian rapper, but everything I do, I put God first, and my faith is high. I believe things happen for a reason.’ – Wordsmith
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Jeffrey Tonnesen at SUAF
Once upon a time, when radio mattered, the DJ was king. The guy (or gal) who played the records had a distinctive voice — both literally and figuratively — and […]