Reality Check: CALIFORNIA SCHEMING James Campion September 15, 2021 Columns, Reality Check What the Golden State recall election tells us about national politics. Six weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom was in trouble. The recall election slated for September 14 looked to be hanging ... Read More...
Julien Baker: Evolving Storyteller James Campion September 10, 2021 Features, Interviews The songwriter’s new album, sound, and tour still bring her signature raw emotion. “I’ve always had a lot of anxiety around performing.” Julien Baker is chatting with me over the phone from her... Read More...
Reality Check: WOMEN IN BONDAGE James Campion September 8, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Supreme Court ignores unconstitutional bans on abortion in Texas, thus enslaving women’s bodies at the behest of the state. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or i... Read More...
Reality Check: CHARLES ROBERT WATTS – 1941-2021 James Campion August 30, 2021 Columns, Reality Check This special edition of Reality Check pays tribute to Charlie Watts and his now eternal greatness. There are a few magical seconds that transpires in the 1969 Rolling Stones track, “Monkey Man” in which... Read More...
Reality Check: AFGHANISTAN – THE BIG FAIL James Campion August 25, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Italian proverb Man, I have written a whole lot about Afghanistan over two decades. Not as much as Iraq, but a lot. It has been a long, strange trip, over thr... Read More...
Reality Check: GOVERNORS BAWL James Campion August 11, 2021 Columns, Reality Check To say the very least, this has been a strange summer for the governors of four of our biggest states: California, Florida, New York, and Texas. To say the most, it has been a friggin’ shit show. Two D... Read More...
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...
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...
“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...
