On Monday, September 26, Don Was will be at the University of Michigan in Dearborn for a private classroom lecture and public talk on the campus grounds. According to a statement from Was’ people, “Native Detroiter, co-founder of the band Was (Not Was) and multiple Grammy Award winner Don Was is best known for...
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It’s good news to find out that Will Sessions will be officially releasing the instrumentals for Elmatic on September 27th. The eight member funk and jazz outfit worked with Elzhi to painstakingly recreate all of the music from Nas’ Illmatic record. Travis Wright already hipped you to that story a few months ago. Recreating...
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Day 7 – Wednesday Morgan Spurlock’s “Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope,” turns out to be better than I expected. Far from a snarky smackdown on the geeks and freaks who descend on this San Diego festival every year, Spurlock offers an affectionate look at those who attend. From a young geek who...
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After a long stay on the West Coast, former Detroiter Ralph “Buzzy” Jones moved closer to home a year or so ago to join the faculty at Oberlin in Ohio. But to the best of our reckoning, he’s gotten no closer to the city than a Kerry Town gig with percussionist Adam Rudolph last...
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Is the doctor prescribing you drugs from, say, Pfizer or Eli Lilly, also raking in thousands of dollars — even hundreds of thousands of dollars — from the same companies in consulting and speaking fees? Probably not. But possibly so. And short of asking and hoping for a straight answer, you have no way...
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The Candy Band has announced that October 1st will see the first annual Bestest Concert Ever at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market between 5-8 p.m. Admission will be $5 per person. For that five bucks, there will be four bands, food, drinks, crafts, mini bowling, rock star photos (complete with hair stylists on hand),...
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