James Knapp, Author at HARDTIMES

August 9, 2020

CAMDEN, N.J. — A green Bic lighter still hasn’t given up hope that it will one day no longer be…

August 9, 2020

AURORA, Ill. — Local man Wendell Banks drove a 2013 Prius hybrid to popular power-pop trio Fold-Out Fedora’s drive-in show…

August 2, 2020

As a police union representative, let me say this in plain English for all you darn snowflakes trying to defund…

July 28, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Local jokester Jeff Kessler’s impersonation of acclaimed actor Chistopher Walken last night was met with stunned silence, as…

July 13, 2020

A couple of weeks back our office was shaken when a strange mass of blue energy suddenly appeared and exploded…

July 1, 2020

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After several months of working remotely, employees of Hard Radar Publishing returned to their office for the…

June 28, 2020

At The Hard Times we feel it’s important to occasionally leave our comfort zone to seek out new places, cultures,…

June 21, 2020

WEST LAWN, Penn. — A generation-defining show at local basement venue The Bottleneck was briefly interrupted last night when venue/home…

June 16, 2020

KALISPELL, Mont. — The Kalispell Police Department was directed by city officials yesterday to sell its Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine…

June 9, 2020

I’m not afraid of ghosts. They actually fascinate me quite a bit. So I’m not at all concerned that my…