I know this is last minute, but if you are home tonight, do yourself a favor at watch the premier of The Interrupters on PBS. The Interrupters is a documentary made by the same guy that made Hoop Dreams (which is also excellent), Steve James. The movie basically follows for a year the lives of three violence interrupters in Englewood, which is a crime-ridden town outside Chicago. There jobs are not to actually turn in gang members to the police, but to simply stop violence before it happens Continue reading
