{"id":17042,"date":"2017-11-23T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17042"},"modified":"2017-11-23T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:07:59","slug":"citizens-bill-and-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17042","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Bill and Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted are reviews of two docs centered on iconic activists with unique adgendas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17038\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BillNyeScienceGuy2017_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"103\" \/>The former host of the popular 1990s PBS science show is chronicled in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17037\">Bill Nye: Science Guy<\/a><\/strong> (2017), as he accepts challenges to debate climate change deniers, and see Carl Sagan\u2019s dream of a solar sail come to life.<\/p>\n<p>David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg\u2019s film ends its exclusive run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxoffice.hotdocs.ca\/websales\/pages\/info.aspx?evtinfo=66883~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&amp;epguid=a1a41036-cbe1-4f35-bc34-1ed13d4bd525&amp;\" target=\"window\">Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema<\/a> this evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17034\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CitizenJaneBattleForTheCity_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CitizenJaneBattleForTheCity_poster.jpg 285w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CitizenJaneBattleForTheCity_poster-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/>Jane Jacobs was profiled in an exceptional doc <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17033\">Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City<\/a> <\/strong>(2016), and Torontonians will get some insight into the devastation that was averted in NYC when she battled city planning tsar Robert Moses, and later helped kill the Spadina Expressway soon after moving to Toronto in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs\u2019 insight on the value within \u2018urban chaos\u2019 and the dangers of mega-projects remains timeless, and Matt Tyrnauer\u2019s film is being screened Wed. Nov. 29 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/revuecinema.net\/films\/citizen-jane-battle-for-the-city-2\/\" target=\"window\">Revue Cinema<\/a>, and is available on DVD via Ifc Independent Film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of two docs on iconoclasts: Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017), currently running at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema + Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City (2017) on DVD from IFC, and screening Nov. 29 at the Revue Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5430,5429,5424,2562,2563,5425],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BillNye_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-4qS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17053,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions\/17053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}