Local piano legend Lafayette Gilchrist and his 10-piece band, The New Volcanoes, head to New Orleans next week to represent Baltimore in what’s being billed as a Wire vs. Treme battle of the bands....
David Simon has an interesting interview up on The New York Times' Arts Beat blog today. In it, he talks about wearying of hearing praise for "The Wire," and how, of all the characters on the...
In case you haven't been paying attention, Vulture, the excellent on-line counterpart to New York magazine, has been engaging in a little March Madness of its own, having 16 candidates face off in an...
I was just saying to a colleague that we need to stop blogging so much about The Wire. Don't get me wrong, I lurve The Wire. I watched its entire five-season run in about a week a few years ago and...
The Wire turns 10 this year, and the HBO series seems to get more popular and influential as the years pass. In fact, I can think of three random Wire references off the top of my head in the past...
The cover of the March Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair asks, "What's the most influential movie of the last 30 years," then offers the following hints: "(It's not E.T., it's not Pulp Fiction, and it's...
I was walking near Mount Vernon the other day when a woman approached me and asked, in broken English, how she could “get to the castle.” Knowing that the “state of the Ravens” press conference was...
Wire cast members Sonja Sohn (Kima Greggs), Michael K. Williams (Omar), Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield), and Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow) will appear tomorrow at TEDxMidAtlantic in D.C. Along with...
The Internet has been abuzz with stories this week suggesting British actor Idris Elba could be tapped to play James Bond once blond-haired, blue-eyed Brit Daniel Craig is through with the role....
Popular New York-based gossip website Gawker has been using its own editors' opinions to rank U.S. states in what they're calling "The Worst 50 States in America." Yesterday they released ranks 26-33...
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