Starting Sunday, for three consecutive nights, WTTW will air a new six-hour Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Burns and his filmmaking partners, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, based the series on a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit curated by Chicago-area native and current Newberry Library president, Daniel Greene. From 2014 […]
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Still the greatest
Muhammad Ali is so great, an eight-hour documentary can’t even tell the full story.
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Born Ready, In to America, and seven more new theater reviews
A kinder, gentler All About Eve and a multivarious chronicle of the migrant experience are among this week’s best bets.
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Honoring baseball photographers—an idea goes nowhere
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Ken Burns presents The Roosevelts
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Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses
Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/6: Ken Burns, In>Time Performance Festival, and the Vaccines
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
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The thin blue lie in The Central Park Five
The Central Park Five revisits the rape that sent five innocent men to jail
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Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Culture Vultures: Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo, Man U versus Chicago Fire, and more
In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they’re watching, reading, and seeing