RICK DERRINGER

The greatest one-two-punch guitar duo I ever saw was Rick with Johnny Winter at the Fillmore East in 1970.

NEW (video)

Josh Alan Friedman performs “Thanksgiving at McDonald’s in Times Square” at Alias Books as part of the New Texture Nights series in Los Angeles.

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE?

Nov. 1, 2023 They are fighting for their lives in Israel. All they have to do is lose just once, and it’s all over. The Arabs can lose one war after another. But if Israel loses once, the ship goes down. Activate your moral compass. This is a fight for Western civilization over barbarity. Islamic…

Old Coach Wisdom

The following memoir was published in the Sept. 2022 issue of the British publication, Boxing News:   OLD COACH WISDOM By Josh Alan Friedman They don’t make old boxing coaches like they used to. The world knows them as Cus D’Mato, Angelo Dundee, or Burgess Meredith in the first Rocky. They’re an obsolete breed, a…

Stop the Empire Station Complex: Penn Station’s Ghost Still Haunts New York

The following editorial, slightly edited, appeared in the New York Daily News, Oct. 7, 2021 by Josh Alan Friedman Midtown Manhattan is facing its most important land use decision since the destruction of Penn Station 58 years ago. I’m talking here about the soul of the streets, not just the infrastructure or politics. Cuomo’s Empire…