Reality Check: About-Face James Campion July 28, 2021 Columns, Reality Check SUDDEN REPUBLICAN ABOUT-FACE ON VACCINES EXPLAINED After a year of claiming the COVID-19 pandemic was an orchestrated fraud on the American people, overrated, a weird flu that will disappear in a few we... Read More...
Reality Check: THE POLITICS, CULTURE & SPIRIT OF SOUL James Campion July 21, 2021 Columns, Reality Check In Praise of Summer of Soul Musician and filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson may well have made the seminal concert film of the age – the rock/soul/funk/gospel/blues American age. In his brilliantly en... Read More...
“Another Life” Is The Sound of Jackie McLean Letting Go – A Comprehensive & Cathartic Conversation James Campion June 30, 2021 Features, Interviews ANOTHER LIFE WITH JACKIE MCLEAN: Roan Yellowthorn’s lead singer and songwriter on growing up with her dad, Don McLean, coming to grips with a difficult past, being a mom, living her art and her newest, most co... Read More...
Reality Check: ERIC ADAMS NEEDS TO BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY James Campion June 30, 2021 Columns, Reality Check I need to state first, for the record, that if I haven’t already over the nearly quarter century, I have written this column, that I love New York City more than almost anything. Honestly. My family, sure. Mus... Read More...
Reality Check: THE JOE BIDEN BIPARTISAN FANTASY James Campion June 16, 2021 Columns, Reality Check ...And The Waning Progressive Patience It made perfect sense that Joe Biden would use the kumbaya tactic during his 2020 campaign for president. The divisive atmosphere in Washington D.C. was ratchete... Read More...
Reality Check: IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? James Campion June 9, 2021 Columns, Reality Check This is suddenly a legitimate question. I have been following politics since the early 1970s, covering it since the late 1980s, and paid to comment about it here and elsewhere since the late 1990s. I ha... Read More...
ROCK READS – A Summer Guide For The Rock & Roll Literate James Campion June 9, 2021 Features, Goings-On, Reviews Looking for a celebration of music in words to while away your lazy summer days? Grove PR Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour – Rickie Lee Jones (2021) Good news: Rickie Lee J... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: VACCINES, CDC, & THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS James Campion May 19, 2021 Columns, Reality Check So, I’m halfway home. The wife and I got the first Moderna shot a few weeks ago. On the twenty-seventh day of May 2021, we shall be vaccinated. This week the Center of Disease Control and Prevention announced ... Read More...
Eric Hutchinson’s “Jazz” Album: On Birth, Love, Death, and Fatherhood James Campion May 19, 2021 Buzz, Features BEFORE & AFTER LIFE: THE SOUNDTRACK OF COMING AND GOING It is a steamy August late-morning in 2018. Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is in the studio with five jazz musicians he has essential... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: THE NOT-SO CURIOUS CASE OF LIZ CHENEY James Campion May 12, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Wyoming Congresswoman at The GOP Fault Line You know the deal: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney of who, along with eight her Republican House colleagues, joined all the Democrats in voting to impeach th... Read More...
