Tonight, the Sundance Channel begins a five-part documentary series at 10 p.m. called "Brick City," about a year in the life of Newark, New Jersey, that will run all week.
If you don't have the Sundance Channel, find someone who does. It's worth it.
Shot during the second full year of Mayor Cory Booker's term in office, the series shows the energetic, young (40) mayor as he tries to pull the city out of its violent, poor and corrupt past with the help of community activists and, in particular, his police director Garry McCarthy. The city's homicidal history hit a horrible rock-bottom in 2007 with the execution-style murder of three promising college students on a school playground.
