The Misread City

LAST night the first half of Ken Burns' latest docs, The Dust Bowl , went up; it concludes this evening. By now, we have a pretty good...

LIKE a lot of people, I knew the reputation of Eyes on the Prize , the famous documentary about the civil rights movement in the Deep South ...

AS a former (and very minor) member of the nation's conspiracy of jazz critics, i remember quite well the vitriol hurled at ken burns fo...