The woman from Haddonfield, New Jersey, wrote to me on stationary decorated with sky blue and lilac butterflies. “This is the trashiest book I’ve ever read…so much so I’d never pass it on to anyone else,” she wrote. So she stuffed her copy in an envelope and sent it to me at my home address. […]
The name “Johnny Popko” reaches out and grabs you, squeezing like a smooth Ukrainian cage fighter crushing a stranglehold on a terrible tattooed opponent. A gentle man by nature, Popko still snaps and crackles as the laid-back host of an increasingly popular internet radio podcast that puts imitators to shame. Mature, smart, thick-skinned, all attributes […]
Always smart in a dark business suit, silk tie and pocket square, trial attorney Chuck Volpe cuts a sharp impression. Secure among the rich and powerful, he hosts public civic soirees and behind-closed-door private business meetings. Volpe is a player and independent thinker. That’s what makes him dangerous to the political status quo, especially to […]
Don’t ask me how to spell the CNN newsman’s full name and title. “For security reasons,” he refused to tell me. I already know how to spell CNN. And CNN spells “fake news.” My bad trip with what media critics call an enemy of the people cable network occurred this morning when I called the […]
Raising his white-taped fists fast as a whiplash, Muhammad Ali leaned close to my face and threw a crushing question. “Did you just call me nigger?” A state senator leaning against the dressing room wall laughed. Stunned by Ali’s head shot, I lowered my fists I had raised for a photograph and stared at “The […]
