Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Don Was -- bassist, songwriter and producer for the Detroit-bred band Was (Not Was) -- talked with Free Press pop music writer Brian McCollum in advance of the band's show tonight at the Majestic Theatre. The homecoming date is part of a tour supporting the group's first album in 16 years, "Boo!"
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Don Was -- bassist, songwriter and producer for the Detroit-bred band Was (Not Was) -- talked with Free Press pop music writer Brian McCollum in advance of the band's show tonight at the Majestic Theatre. The homecoming date is part of a tour supporting the group's first album in 16 years, "Boo!"
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
As a producer, Don Was has worked on critically acclaimed albums by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt to the B-52's. This year, he stepped back into the role of performer with his absurdist dance-rock band Was (Not Was), famous for its 19...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
You'd be hard-pressed to unearth a more unlikely band of '80s hitmakers than Was (Not Was), the Detroit funk-soul-bebop-rock band masterminded by fake brothers Don and David Was and fronted by powerhouse R&B vocalists Sweet Pea Atkinson and Sir Harry Bowens, who had both "Walk the Dinosaur" and "Spy in The House Of Love" land in the top 20 from their 1988 album What Up, Dog?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
The Northwest Puppet Center's most ambitious opera yet, Mozart's "Don Giovanni," opened Friday night and runs through next weekend. Unlike several of the center's previous operatic offerings, "Don Giovanni" was not originally written for puppets. While it is full of comedy that lends itself to puppet portrayal, there is also a darker side to "Don Giovanni:" betrayal and anguish, grief and ambivalence,...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Closing in on 20 years since their last album, the whole gang is here, pretty much — the core of Don and David Was and Sir Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson, along with Was (Not Was) vets Luis Resto, David McMurray, Wayne Kramer, Donald Ray Mitchell, and Randy Jacobs, as well as roughly a [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Don Was has led an extraordinary double life. As the bass player and co-songwriter of Was (Not Was), he has, together with his "brother" David Was, steered that most weird and wonderful of funk-rock groups from the clubs of Detroit to international cult status. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1980s and 1990s with hits including "Walk the Dinosaur", "Spy In the House of Love" and "Shake Your...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
As unaccountably gifted Jewish wiseacres with a sophisticated grasp of music and a penchant for darkly droll lyrics, operating as the twin-brained hub of a musical machine manned by impeccable players, Don and Dave Was have always struck me as being rather like the kid brothers of Steely Dan's Becker & Fagen.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
WAS (Not Was) belong to the "adult" school of rock that includes Frank Zappa, Steely Dan and Randy Newman, very smart men writing slick, sardonic songs that fuse different styles - in the case of Don and David Was, rock, funk and R&B.
Scott Wolf inside USC (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Don Ludwig, who was the director of recreational sports at USC longer than I can remember and worked at the university for 35 years, was ``reassigned'' to a job in student affairs. http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/whats_happening/happened/spirit_and_traditions.html We hear this was not a voluntary...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
A politically charged 60 Minutes report about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was convicted of corruption, was not carried by the CBS affiliate in northern ...
Starpulse Entertainment News Blog (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Brothers Don and David Was are to revive their hit group Was (Not Was) for a Valentine's Day showcase in Los Angeles. In what will be the group's first official show since touring with Dire Straits in 1992, the "Walk The Dinosaur" hit-makers will perform at the Orpheum Theatre with Kris Kristofferson and Brian Wilson.[...] Read more!
liveDaily News Blog (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Was (Not Was) is looking at an April 8 release date for its first studio album in 16 years, according to a press release. The new album features Kris Kristofferson on the song " Green Pills In The Dresser. " Bob Dylan co-wrote the track " Mr. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. " Bandmates Don Was and David Was are playing their second annual Valentine's Day show tonight (2/14) at The Orpheum in Los...
Metro Times Music Blahg (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
As was noted on this site several times over the past two months, producer, songwriter and Was (Not Was) cofounder Don Was was recently in town to record and film a slew of new Detroit music for his part of the MyDamnChannel Web site . Cool excerpts from a majority of this stuff is now up and running, including clips that Don recorded in Ferndale (at Steve King 's 54 studio) with Black Bottom Collective...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Brampton and Mississauga together spent nearly $100,000 to send 14 people to London, England, this week in hopes of collecting awards they believed would put them on the international map.
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raimondo | 12/06/2007
A "Word" from "Saint Nicholas" Illustrations by Lee G. Hines, from The Man Who Was Really Santa Claus by Daniel A. Lord, SJ, 1954 St Nicholas Center Collection In my own heart I cannot separate Christmas from that Boy Child born in Bethlehem some two thousand years ago. I believe that Boy Child was the Child of the Divine Mystery, and He came into the world for love of us all. I believe He came to
raimondo | 12/02/2007
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raimondo | 11/08/2007
Q. Was Jesus Black? (Submitted by: Trifari) A. Since this Web site recognizes the Bible as the only real, authoritative source of information about Jesus, I will have to answer your question with " I cannot be certain ." The Bible gives us almost no physical description of Jesus at all. Jesus, the God who became a man, was a Jew, a member of the tribe of Judah. He was a descendant of David, king of...
