Readers of SLN know that I’m an obsessive fan of The Wire. I actually kind of stumbled upon the series in a hotel room somewhere while I was on tour when it first came out —I’ve never had HBO at home. The first thing I noticed was, “Hey, I know that block! That’s right around […]
I’ll need something to fill the void. Thoughts to come.
Last night, David Simon, the creator and executive producer of the HBO drama The Wire (among other things), was the guest speaker at Loyola College in Maryland’s 2007 Humanities Symposium. Titled Urban Spaces, Urban Voices, the symposium uses Jane Jacobs’ seminal text The Death and Life of Great American Cities as its point of departure. […]
Story Of The Day. I was at the Common Ground in Hampden today having a coffee and bagel lunch, when in walked a woman, who I seemed to recognize slightly, with three other people—two men and one woman. Although she looked familiar I couldn’t place her and didn’t want to stare. However, when I caught […]
HBO’s The Wire is back for its fourth season. And right on the heels of S4’s debut comes the announcement that the show has been picked up for a concluding fifth season. There were two good articles in the recent Baltimore press worth checking out—one in the Sun and a wonderful feature in the CityPaper.