Reality Check – The Wall: A Surrealist Perspective James Campion January 2, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “Existence is illusory and it is eternal.” - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays “Don't know what I want, But I know how to get it.” - Sex Pist...
Kam On Film – “Vice” Kam Williams January 2, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Vice Christian Bale Morphs into Dick Cheney in Seriocomic Biopic Who is the real Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and how did he become the most powerful vice president in U.S. history? Those are the funda...
The Makin Waves Dirty Dozen Bob Makin December 27, 2018 Columns, Makin' Waves For the first time since 1995, the Makin Waves Dirty Dozen returns to the New Jersey music scene. Here’s a year-end/next-year look at my 12 favorite local music acts, a tradition from 1989 to 1995, w...
Shoreworld John Pfeiffer December 26, 2018 Columns, Shoreworld Telegraph Hill Records - Compilation and Live Shows I’ve tried to cover just about everything that goes on in our shore area, and that includes record labels that concentrate on promoting local acts and perf...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman December 26, 2018 Columns, Queued Up GROOVY GHOULIES As the fortunes of Hammer Films were beginning to wane, and their Gothic horror films were receiving strong competition from Amicus Productions and others, they rebooted their Dracula ...
Manhattan Beat – Shakin’ Street, Bikini Car Wash, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 26, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Shakin' Street/The Bowery Electric/Dec. 12, 2018 Born in Tunisia, North Africa, and raised in Paris, Fabienne Shine started writing songs as a youth. She became a model and actress as well as a m...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt December 26, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll A New Miles Davis EP Well, it’s only five different mixes of the same song but still. The year was 1985. The notoriously impossible-to-deal-with Miles Davis, curmudgeon that he was, abruptly left...
North Jersey Notes – Old Currents Tim Louie December 26, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes OLD CURRENTS – Glen Rock, NJ As I was looking for a band from North Jersey to feature this week and came across these young chaps from Glen Rock who call themselves Old Currents. I thought I might hav...
Kam On Film – “If Beale Street Could Talk” Kam Williams December 26, 2018 Columns, Kam On Film 1 If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins Directs Faithful Adaptation of Beloved James Baldwin Classic In 1974, James Baldwin published “If Beale Street Could Talk,” a love story, set in Harlem, about...
20th Annual Makin Waves Awards Bob Makin December 20, 2018 Columns, Makin' Waves The Makin Waves Awards return for their 20thtrip around the sun to honor New Jersey’s best indie and unsigned music acts. For 20 of the past 30 years, Makin Waves has bestowed its Makin Wave...
