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Compiled with input from readers and the newsroom, The Baltimore Sun’s list of 100 essential food experiences encompasses places people talk about, think about and come back to again and again and again.

By Christina Tkacik

Aug 14, 2019

David Simon is filming a six-episode adaptation of Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" book in Baltimore's Canton neighborhood.

By Phil Davis

Jun 13, 2019

As I watched Baltimore burn on the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral four years ago this month, the only comfort I could find was in the thought that the city I loved could not possibly ever again look worse to the world than it did at that profoundly sad moment. But recent events proved me wrong.

By David Zurawik

Apr 4, 2019

Novelist and former Baltimore Sun reporter Laura Lippman has dedicated her latest book to the five victims of last year’s Capital Gazette newsroom attack.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 17, 2019

A sit-down with casting director and John Waters favorite Pat Moran, offering insight into some areas where she is peculiarly qualified

By Chris Kaltenbach

Nov 21, 2018

David Simon is a co-producer and co-writer of a six-part HBO series based on Philip Roth's 2004 novel "The Plot Against America."

By Christina Tkacik

Nov 8, 2018

Idris Elba played Stringer Bell in "The Wire."

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 6, 2018

A jacket worn by actor Dominic West on 'The Wire' sold at an auction Oct. 13 at the Thomas Johnson Elementary Middle School Fall Festival.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 13, 2018

Mke Bowler, a newspaper man for over 30 years, most of them with The Baltimore Sun, died the other day. There were tributes galore, especially for his work on education. I remember, though, a less-known tale: Mike Bowler saved a man from a lonely death in prison.

HBO's Baltimore-set 'The Wire' got a shout-out during Michael Che's "Reparations Emmys" skit at the 70th Emmy Awards.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Sep 18, 2018

Author and TV showrunner David Simon returned to Twitter on Wednesday morning, still critical of the social media platform's ban of him earlier this year.

By Wesley Case

Sep 12, 2018

That’s the good news of Season 2: more Maggie Gyllenhaal and more women’s stories told in greater depth. The bad news: There is less to like about James Franco’s performance.

By David Zurawik

Sep 4, 2018

The famed chef and television personality once worked at Harborplace in the 1980s.

By Anna Muckerman

Jun 11, 2018

Filmmaker and writer David Simon says he has been banned from Twitter after publishing tweets that violate their rules.

By Brittany Britto

Jun 8, 2018

As much as local cinephiles enjoy going to the annual Maryland Film Festival, some of the filmmakers are equally as happy to bring their work here.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 7, 2018

If “The Last Stop,” a novel that follows a jailed felon suspected of wielding tremendous power behind bars, has the ring of truth to it, no wonder.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 18, 2018

When HBO’s heralded series “The Wire” went off the air 10 years ago, it wasn't immediately clear that it would be a launching pad for much of the ensemble.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the HBO drama about Baltimore crime, politics and everything in between, here's some of our favorite content about "The Wire" over the years.

By Ellen Fishel

Mar 9, 2018

Baltimore state's attorney candidate Thiru Vignarajah posted a database of police officers' names online Saturday after they were removed from a public website this week.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 3, 2018

Jonathan Abrams’ “All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire” is really something special. A conversation with the author.

By David Zurawik

Feb 19, 2018

With all the talk coming out of City Hall these days about Baltimore’s image, I have been champing at the bit to share this take on the city from Andre Royo, aka Bubbles, one of the most richly-drawn characters on  “The Wire.”

By David Zurawik

Feb 13, 2018

With the passion fans still voice for characters from HBO’s “The Wire,” there is undoubtedly a huge audience for a sequel. But Norris Davis, who played Vinson in the series, is learning you run into serious problems when you use names of characters associated with a property someone else created.

By David Zurawik

Feb 12, 2018

The actor Reg Cathey, who had roles in The Wire, House of Cards, and other films and TV shows with Baltimore links has died at 59.

By Meredith Cohn

Feb 9, 2018

Within the first week of the premiere of Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe’s Showtime series “The Chi,” Twitter and the inter-webs were flooding with comparisons to one of the most prolific shows from Baltimore — “The Wire.”

By Brittany Britto

Feb 1, 2018

Echoing what HBO told the Sun Wednesday, David Simon, co-creator of “The Deuce,” said that there were no complaints about James Franco in connection with that series.

By David Zurawik

Jan 11, 2018

As James Franco denies allegations of sexual misconduct in his past, HBO emailed a statement to Sun Wednesday saying there have been no complaints about him on "The Deuce" where he is a director and executive producer as well as star.

By David Zurawik

Jan 10, 2018

There has been a lot of talk about narratives coming out of City Hall lately. And with it, some criticism of the media. "Happy New Year! Change the Narrative ... Goodness Is On the Rise!" Mayor Catherine Pugh wrote in her first tweet of the new year. So, let's have a real talk about narratives.

By David Zurawik

Jan 4, 2018

Never watch a David Simon show expecting a happy ending.

Well, we knew it wouldn’t be long before a show about porngraphy, would delve into psychologically scarring topics.

It’s a triumphant day for the porn industry in New York City.

In Episode 3 of "The Deuce," Candy is bitten by the movie bug, and we get more capitalism critiques

Here's what critics have to say about "The Deuce," the new show from Baltimorean and "The Wire" creator David Simon.

'Baltimore Rising' film chronicles the passionate feelings on all sides after Gray died a week after suffering a critical spinal injury while in police custody in 2015.

Dennis D. Wise, an alleged hitman and convicted murderer from Baltimore who was shipped to an Arizona prison nearly two decades ago after state officials accused him of running a largescale criminal enterprise out of the former Maryland House of Correction, has been released after striking a deal with prosecutors in his decades-old murder case.

By Kevin Rector

Jul 11, 2017

Marin Alsop leads Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in impressive season finale featuring violinist Gil Shaham.

The Ringer celebrates 15th anniversary of 'The Wire' with 'Where's Wallace' game

By Brittany Britto

Jun 1, 2017

So the internet's really giving a pair expensive jeans the business.

Ed Norris is publishing a memoir, "Way Down in the Hole," a title borrowed from the theme song of David Simon's "The Wire" HBO series, which chronicled policing, crime and drugs in Baltimore.

David Simon, Steve Earle and Deborah Rudacille may create a musical about Baltimore's "steel works and the people who labored there."

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates. Yet we were resigned to enrolling our child in private school. By last fall, however, a decade of work by our energetic and community-minded neighbors gave us the option of enrolling our child in a school a 10-minute walk from our front door in Baltimore. She has classes in art, music and technology. But all of it is at risk if the governor and mayor don't close the education funding gap.

Annie and Neal Goldman discoved when they closed on their new home in 2012 that they were buying more than a pretty four-bedroom house in Homeland. They learned the house, built in 1920, was used as a filming location for "The Wire," HBO's critically-acclaimed television show that chronicled Baltimore's drug trade and other societal problems. It appeared in several episodes during seasons three and four as the home of Tommy Carcetti, who rises from Baltimore City Councilman to mayor to governor,

A lifetime of going against the grain earned Baltimore's own John Waters the unabashed respect of his peers Sunday night.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Feb 20, 2017

As fires raged all over the city on April 27, 2015, two smart Baltimore teens engineered a $100 million drug heist that catapulted them to the top of the city’s

Monday night, the Beth Am Synagogue's pews were filled with around 900 citizens, local notables and speakers, including city health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen,

By Brittany Britto

Feb 13, 2017

Blown Deadline Productions will hold fundraiser Monday night in Reservoir Hill for groups aiding immigrants and refugees

By Mary Carole McCauley

Feb 8, 2017

Folk singer Steve Earle, who also played drug counselor Walon on "The Wire," will play a show at Beth Am Synagogue on Feb. 13 in support of immigrants, David

Baltimore-born writer-director John Waters will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Writers Guild of America East.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 14, 2016

Writer/producer David Simon is taking considerable heat online for using the N-word in a sarcastic tweet about a town hall meeting on “Black issues” that aired

By Chris Kaltenbach

Sep 21, 2016

Jack Gerbes is a salesman. On a given day, he might be driving around the state, looking for the perfect Victorian house or an old granary silo that can be used in a film shoot instead of a department store.