Jim Sullivan wrote about music and pop culture for The Boston Globe from 1979 to 2005. Currently, he writes for WBUR’s ARTery, among other sites. He is the author of two 2023 volumes of Backstage & Beyond: 45 Years of Rock Chats and Rants.
Jim Sullivan
By Jim Sullivan
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Books How a Jewish kid from the Bronx shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, married Faye Dunaway and became the Zelig of rock ‘n’ roll
Former J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf returns to the spotlight with his debut memoir 'Waiting on the Moon'
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Music At a memorabilia auction, Bob Dylan reunites with another noteworthy Bob — and the unsung women behind their careers
Terri Thal and Paula Batson were pivotal figures in the lives of Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth
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Books How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Culture He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
The activist professor and author of 'A People's History' died 15 years ago at the age of 87
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Music How Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah shows became the most joyous bash of the holiday season
Yo La Tengo plays 8 straight nights at Bowery Ballroom — and no show is the same
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Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
Elijah Wald's 'Dylan Goes Electric' inspired the new Timothée Chalamet-led Dylan biopic
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Music Promising ‘no stupid Hanukkah songs,’ The Leevees strive for a ‘two-sauce solution’
A rock 'n' roll supergroup of sorts wants to reinvent Jewish holiday music
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Culture How a Jewish deep-sea diver found treasure, shipwrecks and Leonard Bernstein
Howard Rosenstein came to Israel with $500 and found a life of adventure and innovation
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