Who’s That Eric Hutchinson Behind The Curtain? A Songsmith’s Journey into Modern Happiness James Campion October 31, 2018 Features, Interviews “Let’s forget this is New York, have fun and just play,” counsels a rather collected Eric Hutchinson to his band The Believers moments before they hit the stage at Sony Hall in early October. Not sure th...
Reality Check – Alt Right Underground – A Perspective: When Mailed Bombs Become Teachable Moments James Campion October 31, 2018 Columns, Reality Check I was reminded of a couple of things this week when word came that enemies of the Trump administration -- past political opponents, celebrities, old leftists and CNN -- received to what amounted to half-...
Reality Check – Thirty-Six Hours: The Nightmare of Legal Purgatory in the Island Tombs James Campion October 24, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Thirty-six hours. No water. None. No place to sleep. Well, steel benches. Fifty degrees with blowing ceiling fans in a 20-by-30-foot cinderblock room. Open, rusted, putr...
Reality Check – #FEMINIST: Notes from the Penis Underground James Campion October 10, 2018 Columns, Reality Check I wish to start out this week by denouncing this asinine argument that somehow this beer-soaked lightweight Brett Kavanaugh is somehow representative of the men in this country. He is not. He is a fuckin...
Reality Check – THE UNRAVELING OF JUDGE KAVANAUGH & The Beauty of Politics and the Human Experiment James Campion October 3, 2018 Columns, Reality Check I love politics. Always have. It is my grand flaw. I am mostly angry, somewhat dazzled by art, music and certainly the written word, I love to drink gin, smoke cigars, read until I pass out, lo...
Seán Barna: Impressions Be Damned James Campion September 19, 2018 Features, Interviews Confronting Religion, Grief & Anti-Gay Bigotry in Seán Barna’s Brilliant “Cissy” Seán Barna sits across from me looking off into the distance as he contemplates a question I’ve asked hi...
Reality Check – Readers Responses James Campion September 12, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Will someone please tell me why this is so hard? (THE FIGHT TO LEGALIZE WEED IN NJ CONTINUES – Issue: 5/30/18) Come on. Alcohol? They just legalized sports book gambling. This is obviously a held-over su...
Reality Check – Catholic Church’s Ongoing Child Rape Problem James Campion September 5, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them...
Reality Check: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 – The Day The Raven Tapped For Mr. Trump James Campion August 29, 2018 Columns, Reality Check As to Count Number Seven, on or about the summer of 2016, in coordination with, and at the direction of, a candidate for federal office, I and the CEO of a media company at the request of the candidate worked t...
Reality Check – Tribute: Aretha Franklin: 1942 – 2018 James Campion August 22, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Recently on a podcast called Underwater Sunshine that I co-host with the lead singer and main songwriter for Counting Crows, Adam Duritz, we played a live version of Aretha Franklin singing her early 197...
