Email Author Josh Goldfein

2005 Stories by Josh Goldfein

• You Better Shop Around

  published December 6, 2005

  You don't need to be Eliot Spitzer to know that retail pricing of CDs can be, um, quirky. We shopped for a basket of likely holiday gift items at... More >>

• 'Isn't This a Time! A Tribute to Harold Leventhal'

  published November 29, 2005

  Harold Leventhal, who died in October at 86, had the charisma of an election worker but an Oscar-bait bio: son of a widowed L.E.S. janitor, high... More >>

• Triple Word Score

  published November 1, 2005

  For all the hours I wasted perusing Justin Whye's defunct MP3 blog ("Listen Closer"),... More >>

• Triple Whammy

  published August 16, 2005

  I'm happy for Michelle Shocked that she's so in love with Jesus Christ. If only half the tsuris in her bio is genuine, it's hard to see how else... More >>

• Angel With Big Friends

  published April 12, 2005

  Marianne Faithfull, as Gina Arnold once observed, is primarily an actress playing the role of herself. She's not a composer, a musician, or even a... More >>

• Film

  published January 25, 2005

  Self-described "media dissector" Danny Schechter is personally offended by abuses of power during the Iraq war; he illustrates this in WMD:... More >>