North Jersey Notes: Blue Vervain Tim Louie May 22, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes BLUE VERVAIN – Fort Lee, NJ Jon Khan, formerly of the band Morningside Lane, has a new project that he’s fronting called Blue Vervain. Jon sent me the link to the band’s debut album Wounds, which gets releas...
Reality Check: Esclave in Utero—A User’s Guide to Life After Roe v. Wade Goes Down James Campion May 22, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “Governments are instituted to ‘secure,’ not grant or create, our inalienable rights.” — Thomas Jefferson, scholar, patriot, slave owner. Last month, the first shot across the bow against habeas cor...
Kam on Film: ‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Kam Williams May 22, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Rebel Wilson Headlines Disappointing Romantic Musical Comedy Natalie (Rebel Wilson) is a dynamic, young professional trying to make her mark on Manhattan. But between a fledgling professional ca...
Reality Check: How Bad Can Trump’s Tax Returns Be (Spoiler Alert: He Thinks They’re Really Bad) James Campion May 15, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Come on, admit it. Even if you continue to defend Donald Trump despite everything, aren’t you the least bit curious as to why he has never released his tax returns despite every candidate since Richard Nixon do...
North Jersey Notes: Jernee Mill Tim Louie May 15, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes JERNEE MILL – Sayreville, NJ When I think of Jernee Mill, the road that leads to the Starland Ballroom immediately comes to mind. Now, there’s a band from Sayreville using that road as their band name. I’m n...
Kam on Film: ‘Tolkien’ Kam Williams May 15, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film J.R.R. Tolkien was a British fantasy novelist best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. After being orphaned at an early age, he attended King Edwards, an exclusive boarding school where he forged cl...
Reality Check: Time For Mueller to Speak James Campion May 8, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Things move so fast during this car wreck presidency that I am forced in mid-stream to abandon one column on Donald Trump’s spastic scramble to keep Congress, and thus the American people away from his tax retu...
Kam on Film: ‘Bolden’ Kam Williams May 8, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Overdue Biopic Belatedly Pays Tribute to Jazz Pioneer Buddy Bolden was born in New Orleans, where he took up the cornet at an early age. His unique approach to the instrument involved a novel form of improvi...
North Jersey Notes: Arc’d Angel Tim Louie May 8, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes ARC’D ANGEL – Maywood, NJ One band that I’ve shared the stage with on a few occasions for Jersey Campfire shows is a band out of Maywood who call themselves Arc’d Angel. Maywood is basically my home away fro...
Queued Up: ‘Studio 54’; ‘Let the Corpses Tan’; ‘Stan & Ollie’; and much more! Bryan Reesman May 1, 2019 Columns, Queued Up DISCO DEVILS Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager has not talked much about his disco inferno days. Until now. Studio 54: The Documentary (2018) takes a look into the liberating lasciviousness and socially grou...
