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 EpsteinContributing Music Critic
By Dan Epstein
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Music Sly Stone was one of the funkiest performers on the planet — so why did he record this schmaltzy Doris Day tune?
'Que Sera Sera' by the Jewish songwriting duo Livingston and Evans was an anomaly in Sly Stone's catalog
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Music ‘A Complete Unknown’ forgot about this legendary Jewish rocker, but history will remember Barry Goldberg
Goldberg overcame an abusive childhood in Chicago to jam with the greats
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Culture Barbra Streisand recorded here — and so did Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon and, uh, The Village People
Founded in 1969, the Hit Factory has more than lived up to its name
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Sports This baseball star’s life paralleled Jackie Robinson’s — this Jewish sportswriter wants to make sure he’s not forgotten
Jerry Izenberg has made it his crusade to honor Hall of Famer Larry Doby
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Film & TV The greatest (and also the worst) Marx Brothers movies ranked from 13-to-1
Some of the Marx Brothers movies were way ahead of their time — a few remain stuck in it
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Music The hugely influential record label that unites Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan and Bernie Sanders lives on
Founded by Moses Asch, Folkways continues to be a repository for underappreciated voices
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Sports He outdueled Sandy Koufax to win the greatest Jewish pitching showdown of all time
Remembering Kenny Holtzman, the thinking man's baseball hero
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Film & TV How a sly Jewish playwright wrote ‘the Citizen Kane of horror movies’
Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer's 'Wicker Man' has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions
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