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Dan Epstein is the Forward’s contributing music critic. His books include Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76.
Dan Epstein is the Forward’s contributing music critic. His books include Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76.
Some of the Marx Brothers movies were way ahead of their time — a few remain stuck in it
Founded by Moses Asch, Folkways continues to be a repository for underappreciated voices
Remembering Kenny Holtzman, the thinking man's baseball hero
Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer's 'Wicker Man' has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions
Though not a masterpiece, 1973's 'Dylan' is at heart, just a collection of good-time jams
Richard Gottehrer's trip to pop music immortality began with good timing and good dessert
Feldman thought he might become a cantor; destiny and pop music had other plans
Who would have thought a song inspired by Ingmar Bergman and Luis Buñuel would create a rock ’n’ roll history