During his days as a professional boxer, Pinklon Thomas shared ring time with the who's who of 80s boxing: Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Tommy Morris...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
"The Wire" was arguably the best show to ever grace our televisions and now an entrepreneurial fan has strung together all the best lines from its fiv...
Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.
nypost.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment
'THE Wire," HBO's gritty se ries about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard. The announcement came at a panel discu...
Mr. Skin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Style
Explosions and mechanical mayhem have supplanted plot and character at the movies and thus, the simple art of storytelling has moved into living rooms. Where plots develop and characters grow, sex happens.
The Hollywood Ham | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy
Tensions initially arose when Shaw did not contribute to a "best instances of foreshadowing in the first season" debate.
New York Daily News | Kenny Porpora, Alison Gendar and Samuel Goldsmith | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
A made-for-tv gun battle erupted outside a Brooklyn baby shower for the wife of a star of the HBO crime series "The Wire" Sunday, killing one teen and...
Paul Butler | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
If I get put on a jury in a non-violent drug case, I'll vote "not guilty," based on my principles -- even if I think the defendant actually did it.
Guardian | Oliver Burkeman | Posted 04.28.2009 | Media
Fictional corrupt politicians are a mainstay of The Wire, David Simon's celebrated television series about life on the Baltimore streets. But the show...
AP | STACEY PLAISANCE | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment
NEW ORLEANS — David Simon, creator of the critically acclaimed television shows "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street" is in New Orleans ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media
So, I'll be the first to admit, when I was musing on what's to become of the AIG's bonus babies, I indulged in a little "extreme clawback" fantasia, t...
Brandon Perkins | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment
Well before Plaxico Burress caught the game winning touchdown in one of the most epic Super Bowls of all time, I knew that my first son would be named Plaxico.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
With Rod Blagojevich reminding me so vividly of Clay Davis, and Baltimore's Mayor in real life, Sheila Dixon, getting indicted on twelve counts, inclu...
Michael Giltz | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment
Here are the top releases from December. Most of them are in the stores now but a few hit shelves in the next week. They saved some great stuff for the end of the year.
Alden Loury | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Hopefully there will be more in a sixth installment of The Wire. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich have shown us the way.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media
Yesterday, I made mention of how neatly this whole unfolding Blagojevich scandal seemed to neatly intersect with so many cultural referents. An inves...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media
Looking over the breadth and scope of the unfolding Rod Blagojevich investigation, I couldn't help thinking that that Patrick Fitzgerald has hooked hi...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Anger, outrage and confusion spread through the progressive political community as sources close to Karl Rove began leaking a list of things that Rove...
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media
LONDON — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic h...
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment
If anything is clear from The Wire, it is that the War on Drugs is a failed war, one that only keeps the cycle of addiction, poverty and violence going.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Obama should push for measures to deal with a variety of urban issues in exchange for the financial assistance sought by auto makers, Wall Street investors, middle class homeowners and the rest of America.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Tomorrow, members of the cast of the Peabody Award-winning drama series The Wire will attend a Backyard Brunch for Barack in Raleigh. Seven of the sh...
BBC | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment
Seth Gilliam, star of gritty US drama The Wire, has criticised the Emmys for being obsessed with sex and violence. The actor, who plays Sergeant Elli...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
Dominic West, the underappreciated lead of the HBO show "The Wire", gave an interview to today's London's "Guardian" (the fifth season is about to deb...
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Over the past few weeks, HBO has announced a series of moves to stem the tide of speculation that the network is faltering. After canceling 12 Miles o...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact