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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Remembering Kenny Holtzman, the thinking man's baseball hero
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Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer's 'Wicker Man' has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions
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Though not a masterpiece, 1973's 'Dylan' is at heart, just a collection of good-time jams
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Richard Gottehrer's trip to pop music immortality began with good timing and good dessert
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Who would have thought a song inspired by Ingmar Bergman and Luis Buñuel would create a rock ’n’ roll history
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Irving Berlin and the Gershwins were among the many immortalized by the legendary singer
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Yiddish דער קאַפֿע-הױז װי אַ מקום-מקלט פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטורThe cafe as a refuge of Jewish culture
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די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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