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Mtley Cre frontman to headline Pirate Festival
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Mtley Cre Frontman Vince Neil.
Special to Connect
Updated: Aug 1, 2012, 5:39 PM
Published: Aug 1, 2012, 5:44 PM

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. – Swashbucklers of all ages will converge on Tybee Island for the eighth Annual Tybee Island Pirate Festival on Oct. 4-7, 2012.

Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil will be the headliner at a live concert on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. Best known for his work on legendary Mötley Crüe albums like "Shout at the Devil" and "Girls, Girls, Girls," Neil will perform a variety of Mötley Crüe hits at his Tybee Island Pirate Festival performance, much to the delight of attendees. Since the band’s founding in 1981, Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.

The festivities will kick off with the coronation at the King and Queen at the Buccaneer’s Ball at the Crab Shack on Thursday, Oct. 4. Friday evening entertainment will include live music by the Jimmy Buffett tribute band A1A, pirate performers, street performers, magicians, puppeteers, weaponry demonstrations and more. Eric and Susan Scites of Faire Wynds Historical Entertainment will demonstrate fire eating and perform acts of magic throughout the weekend.

Additional highlights for the 2012 Tybee Island Pirate Festival include The Pirate Victory Parade, Scallywags Costume Contest, Little Matey’s Cove, Thieves Market and the new Pirate Pub with live music. Please visit www.tybeepiratefest.com for a complete schedule of events.

Every Columbus Day weekend, Tybee Island transforms into a lively pirate village, celebrating the colorful seafaring history that defines the Georgia coast.

“We invite everyone to get in touch with their inner pirate at this popular annual event,” said Lindsay Fruchtl, director of marketing for the Tybee Island Tourism Council. “The Tybee Island Pirate Festival offers world-class entertainment with Vince Neil and family-friendly activities throughout the weekend at one of the liveliest celebrations along the coast.”

The Tybee Island Pirate Fest originally began in 2005, attracting pirate enthusiasts from across the country. All 2012 Pirate Festival events will be held at the South Beach parking lot located at Tybrisa Street on Tybee Island, Georgia.

Organized by the Tybee Island Tourism Council, the Pirate Festival will showcase the best of Tybee Island, from award-winning restaurants to six miles of sandy beaches. Visitors are invited to escape the ordinary, if only for a weekend!

Pirate Festival Weekend Passes are $20 through Aug. 31 and $22 after. Children 12 and under are admitted free of charge. Weekend Passes may be purchased in advance at www.tybeepiratefest.com.

For more information about the 2012 Tybee Island Pirate Festival please call 786-5444 or visit www.tybeepiratefest.com.

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'Homeland' slipping this season
Showtime with Sasha
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Claire Danes still plays an obsessive CIA agent entangled with an American war hero is not really who he seems to be. - photo by Studio photo
Sasha McBrayer
Movie reviewer
Updated: Nov 22, 2013, 9:00 PM
Published: Nov 22, 2013, 4:46 PM

Sasha McBrayer is taking a break from her reviews on video for Thanksgiving.

Based upon the Israeli series “Prisoners of War,” Showtime’s American spy thriller “Homeland” is in its third season and has the green light for a 12-episode fourth season, set to premiere in 2014.
“Homeland” has become a highly honored series. It won the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and took home both the 2011 and 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series — Drama. Both of the show’s stars, Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and Actor.
Does season three live up to the high standard set by the award winning drama?
First, here is some background on the show. The word interesting doesn’t seem to do justice for “Homeland’s” first season. Danes plays Carrie, an obsessively driven, caring, capable and intuitive CIA case-worker with a secret. She suffers from bipolar disorder and has kept her condition under wraps until Nicholas Brody (Lewis) hits her radar.
Brody started the series as an American military hero. After being a prisoner of al-Qaeda for eight years, Brody was rescued and returned to his family. However, Carrie and the audience quickly began to suspect that Brody had a secret of his own: He seemed to be working for the enemy, either willingly or thanks to torture.
Only Carrie seemed sharp enough to prevent Brody from playing his part in a massive attack on U.S. soil, but her trustworthiness was questioned when her mental illness came to light. (Never mind that Carrie started to develop romantic feelings for Brody!)
Along the way, two other more minor characters really grabbed me. Brody’s teenage daughter, Dana, amazingly well-acted by Morgan Saylor, and CIA assassin Peter Quinn, played by Rupert Friend, couldn’t get enough screen time, if you ask me. Of course, Mandy Patinkin could do no wrong as Carrie’s mentor, Saul.
In the third season, Carrie appears to have been chosen to be the CIA’s public scapegoat. The CIA, along with Saul, abandon Carrie to a psychiatric hospital.
She stays there just long enough for the viewer to get annoyed, and then a twist (that you may see coming) reveals that Carrie and Saul were in cahoots the entire time, setting up the next leg of the season in which Carrie is, for lack of a better term, undercover.
So how does season three fare in the grand scheme of things? Honestly, the first few episodes are a little bit of a letdown. I’ll keep watching, though.

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