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Seeing life on the real streets of Baltimore
Baltimore Sun reporterFor many people, when they think of Baltimore, they might imagine the crime-ridden streets that were practically a character in the HBO series, "The Wire." For others, the city can bring to mind more sanitized images of Ravens, Orioles or the Inner...Tags: HBO (tv network), Inner Harbor, African Americans, Minority Groups
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Baltimore's Grand Prix comes with risks and rewards
The city invested nearly $7 million in the Grand Prix at a time of cutbacks in neighborhood services. It tied up downtown traffic before, during and after a long holiday weekend, less than two weeks before voters go to the polls for a mayoral election....Tags: Jones Falls, Cultural Development, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Layoffs and Downsizing, Marketing
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100 things we love about Baltimore -- Printable list
Baltimore Sun reporterA moody tavern. An extraordinary cocktail. The easy lapping of bay water against the banks of the Inner Harbor. Duckpin lanes. Old Bay. Art in an otherwise empty storefront. For all of these things, and for so many more, people love Baltimore. People feel...Tags: Dan Deacon, Restaurants, Andres Alonso, Pepperoni, Hamburgers
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'The Wire' didn't wreck Baltimore's image, and the Grand Prix won't fix it
Kudos to Mac Nachlas for expressing so eloquently most of the feedback I've been hearing regarding the Baltimore Grand Prix ("One racing weekend is no panacea for Baltimore," Sept. 8). Baltimore's reputation has been not been earned by television shows...Tags: Television, Grand Prix of Baltimore
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Authors of 'Why Do We Kill?' give answers in Hampden
On a hot September afternoon in 2007, Devon Richardson, 14, a chronic truant with a juvenile rap sheet, was shooting malt liquor bottles and rooftop birds with a stolen shotgun, when his brother said, "I bet you can't shoot that lady." Without aiming,...Tags: Television, Fox Broadcasting Company, Juvenile Delinquency, C-SPAN 2 (tv network), Murder
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BMA's 'Interior Worlds' highlights Baltimore buildings
Move over, Louvre. Show some respect, Basel's Bibliothek.
A new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art makes the case that two iconic Baltimore buildings can take their place in the first rank of the world's architectural gems. And that's not just the...Tags: Artists, Television, Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Not Big Brother
No one likes the thought of Big Brother constantly looking over one's shoulder. So it's understandable many people initially resisted the idea of blanketing the city with police surveillance cameras that record everything that happens within their field...Tags: Crime Victims, Television, Photography and Video, Big Brother (tv program), David Simon
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David DeBoy celebrates 30 years of 'Crabs for Christmas'
Crabs for Christmas? Yes, please.
For three decades, David DeBoy has been singing his sad tale of an expatriate Baltimorean stuck in Houston on Christmas Eve, sadly lamenting to Santa that the only present he really wants is a big bucket of steamed...Tags: Television, HBO (tv network), Washington Monument, Entertainment Events, Culture
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Omar's coming -- but it's to a silly network sitcom
Michael K. Williams, who played one of the greatest villains in TV history on HBO's "The Wire," is joining the cast of NBC's "Community" for three episodes, according to Dan Harmon, executive producer of the NBC sitcom.
Williams, who played stick-up...Tags: Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Television, Community (tv program), HBO (tv network), Michael K. Williams
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Now a free woman, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson heads to L.A. pursue her dream
To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her reputation.
The actress who portrayed a cold-blooded killer so memorably on three seasons of the HBO cable series "The Wire" pleaded guilty this month to a crime she says she didn't commit....Tags: Felicia Pearson, Television, Celebrities and Health Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, HBO (tv network)
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David Simon says he's being censored -- by me!
David Simon thinks I zapped comments he posted to an item on my blog, about his offer to do another season of "The Wire" if Attorney General Eric Holder stops the war on drugs.
I'm sure a MacArthur "genius" like David Simon can figure out how to post a...Tags: Television, HBO (tv network), Eric Holder, David Simon
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Baltimore crime rate: Making the city safe, not just safer
The latest FBI crime statistics reports are out, and Baltimore, despite its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s, is still the fifth-deadliest city in the nation and the seventh most dangerous in terms of overall violent crime.
It's hard to know what...Tags: Television, Juvenile Delinquency, HBO (tv network), Investments, New York City
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