Reality Check: Hopeville In Autumn James Campion September 15, 2009 Columns This debate has become less about facts than emotions. —Joe Scarborough Political animals, real political animals, know virgin territory when they see it. This kind of thing can create weird currents and st... Read More...
Reality Check: Edward Moore Kennedy: 1932-2009 James Campion August 28, 2009 Columns 11 It is a good thing Ted Kennedy is Irish Catholic. He is going to heaven. That’s how it works. No matter what kind of sham your life is, what type of negligent homicide you’re guilty of, scores of hypocrisy you’... Read More...
Impeccable Peccadillos: Tori Amos Defies The Sins of Sexual, Religious & Corporate Segregation James Campion August 13, 2009 Interviews 1 “I can’t stop it,” an ebullient Tori Amos whispers over a phone line somewhere on the outskirts of the road. “The muse walks in and grabs me by the throat, and demands, ‘Pay attention!’—it could be in the middl... Read More...
Reality Check: Stupidly, Stupidly, Stupidly, Life Is But A Dream James Campion August 4, 2009 Columns The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, suppo... Read More...
Reality Check: The Healthcare Shuffle James Campion July 27, 2009 Columns Fourth Rail of American Politics Goes Nuclear At the risk of continuing to make Glenn Beck weep like a schoolgirl or cause Chris Matthews further senseless hemorrhaging, it is important that this space reite... Read More...
Reality Check: Woody Being Woody James Campion July 13, 2009 Columns In Praise of The Master’s Latest Opus, Whatever Works Whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can provide, every temporary measure of grace, whatever joy you can filch from this immense vo... Read More...
Interview: Lucinda Williams’ Graceful Simplicity James Campion March 6, 2009 Interviews From the Bayou to Bakersfield, Austin to Boston, from the high plains ballad to the raunchiest riffs and the echoing twang of an all-night hootenanny, Lucinda Williams has covered every geographical/musical bas... Read More...
Interview with Counting Crows: Out Of The Abyss James Campion March 26, 2008 Interviews Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings will be the last Counting Crows record. Not because they’re breaking up, but because who makes records in this ghostly digital world anymore? Apparently the Counting Crows ... Read More...
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band @ Continental Airlines Arena James Campion November 7, 2007 Concerts E. RUTHERFORD, NJ—No one is more beloved for his survival in the rock and roll idiom than Bruce Springsteen. Not the Stones. Not Dylan. No one. While they are also grand survivors of age, generation, curious ca... Read More...
