BRYAN REESMAN’S QUEUED UP Bryan Reesman July 1, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Queued Up Veteran writer Bryan Reesman has you covered with his monthly round up of new releases and hidden gems available via home video and streaming. ONE SHOT AT GLORY It’s hard to make a film that can ... Read More...
JAMES CAMPION’S REALITY CHECK James Campion July 1, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check William Barr's criminal syndicate is illustrative of systemic anarchy in what are likely the final days of Trump. The Justice Department is a sinkhole of criminal activity and another miserable stain on... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: THE UNTOUCHABLE TRIUMVIRATE OF MILITARY, RELIGION, AND POLICE James Campion June 24, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check 1 I applaud the people protesting every day around the world since that atrocity a few weeks back that took the life of yet another black man at the hands of a lunatic white cop. This is odd for me, the man who ... Read More...
MAKIN WAVES WITH STELLA MROWICKI’S CONTAGIOUS COURAGE Bob Makin June 9, 2020 Columns, Makin' Waves YOUNG & DIY: 21-year-old Jersey Shore-raised Stella Mrowicki is a marvel who writes, performs, and records her songs on a variety of instruments, then produces, mixes, and masters them herself. Stelle M... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: “I CAN’T BREATHE” PART II James Campion June 3, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check A riot is the language of the unheard.- Martin Luther King Jr. Minneapolis is burning. A police precinct is breached. There is the usual looting and insanity, calls for calm, mayoral and gubernatorial s... Read More...
MAKIN WAVES KEEPS A ‘TIGHT LIP’ WITH SHORE SCENESTER JOY VAY Arts Weekly May 22, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Makin' Waves Jersey Shore outfit Tight Lipped make punk rock with as much attitude as it’s ever had. The four-piece punk group Tight Lipped, led by scene veteran Joy Vay—also of TV Tramps infamy—has a new seven-song EP,... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: GET OUT THERE AND SAVE THE DAY, AMERICA. James Campion May 18, 2020 Columns, Reality Check It's time for Americans to risk their lives for the good ol' U.S.A. Hey, America! Here’s how it works now. You need to get back out there and save the economy. If you get sick and die, well… it happens.... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 15, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Rant 'N' Roll Hank Lives In 1951, with just over a year left to live, Hank Williams hosted his own WSM 15-minute weekday radio show, many of which were from pre-recorded transcription discs on vinyl so he could stay on t... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: TRUMP IS FAILING LATEST CRISIS TEST, JUST AS HE’S FAILED TIME & TIME AGAIN James Campion April 15, 2020 Columns, Reality Check 1 “I alone can fix it.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 campaign trail The most pressing national crisis since the 2008 economic collapse and maybe even the 9/11 tragedy and we have a game show host in charge.... Read More...
MAKIN’ WAVES WITH DAUGHTER VISION Bob Makin April 4, 2020 Columns, Makin' Waves In an increasingly harrowing reality, Daughter Vision are a female-fronted synth-pop performance-art four-piece from Asbury Park whose audience and material has grown greatly singer a local singer-songwriter n... Read More...
