After Oscar Snub, 'The Interrupters' Honored
"The Interrupters," a film about former criminals working to stop violence in Chicago, was named best documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Award...
"The Interrupters," a film about former criminals working to stop violence in Chicago, was named best documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Award...
Chicagomag.com | Chicagomag.com | Posted 10.26.2011
In Cicero, on 26th street, a paved vacant lot on one side, a chiropractor's office on the other, sits an unassuming barbershop with the unassuming nam...
Dan Persons | Posted 10.25.2011
In the new documentary The Interrupters, director Steve James and producer Alex Kotlowitz follow several members of CeaseFire as they attempt to defuse conflicts before they occur.
Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 10.24.2011
Steve James and Alex Kotlowicz detail the incredible journey of filming the ground-breaking work of the violence interrupters who struggle to cease violence before it erupts on the South side of Chicago.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 10.04.2011
Stop the shooting: That's the motto of CeaseFire, an organization dedicated to reducing the violence plaguing the streets of Chicago. A new docume...
Kristin McCracken | Posted 10.03.2011
In their new doc, duo Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz profile some criminals-turned-activists who find redemption through mediation on the streets of Chicago. We recently sat down with James and Kotlowitz to discuss their film.
John Maki | Posted 05.25.2011
In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.
The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 05.25.2011
According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
Our troubles had begun when my wife Kirsten took the job teaching art, K-8, at a West Side elementary school. Then came the informal adoptions.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011
It's Chicago's turn to inspire an issue of Granta, the esteemed British literary journal that seems to instantly confer upon the subscriber a mantle of elevated intellect, or at least the appearance of it. I talked about the issue with editor John Freeman.
AARP | Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
Shortly before his death in October at age 96, I visited my dear friend Studs Terkel. His crackling voice was thinner than it used to be, and he didn'...
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
I could have gone either way, and I think that when I arrived in Chicago, fresh out of college in 1992 I was neither liberal nor conservative. But then . . .
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