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Steve Penhollow

Steve Penhollow

Whatzup Features Writer

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Songwriter trades NYC for Catskills

Three days after Hannah Cohen graduated high school, she moved from the west coast to the east. What brought Cohen to New York City was modeling.  Now a respected singer-songwriter, […]

Still releasing new music for longtime fans

Buck Dharma sounds like the name of a chopper-riding, soap opera bad boy. In real life, it describes a longtime guitarist and songwriter for Blue Öyster Cult. Buck Dharma’s real […]

Flipping MTV VJ into a full-time comedy career

People don’t choose comedy as a vocation. Comedy chooses comedians, according to Pauly Shore, who will perform at Freemason’s Hall on Dec. 30. Of course, Shore had more opportunities than […]

Growing up and growing together in country music

Lonestar’s lead singer Ritchie McDonald grew up in a musical family. Just not a country music family. His grandfather was a member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and his father […]

FPT show offers an ideal respite from holiday stress

The holiday season that runs roughly from Halloween to New Year’s Day is more stressful than joyous for many people, even when they have the best of intentions — especially […]

The Oak Ridge Boys define the history of country music

The Oak Ridge Boys might be the most widely known group in country music history. Everyone (regardless of their feelings about country music) knows the band’s hit “Elvira” and everyone […]

Christmas tunes and Santa, too

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s esteemed Holiday Pops series is an essential feature of many Hoosiers’ holiday celebrations. Planning and steering the series is no easy task. For several years, that […]

A cappella group unwraps music for Christmas

There is an in-joke involved in the name of the Fort Wayne a cappella group Smooth Edge 2. After I tell you about it, you will be in on it, […]

Singer-songwriter finds his muse in the melancholy

Dylan LeBlanc spent part of his childhood in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with his musician father. As a boy, he’d listened to the music other kids were listening to at the […]