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Poet Pride: A Charm City Classic on Film

Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movment, New York, Baltimore, 1990's, Muggsy Bogues, Hbo, Drugs, 1980's, War on Drugs, Basketball, Film, The Wire, Carmelo Anthony, Len Bias, USA Today, Reggie Lewis, Chicago, Documentary, Boston Celtics, Rudy Gay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nba, 1970s, Entertainment News
Timothy Cooper

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.

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Harvard To Offer Class On 'The Wire'

nypost.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

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'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...

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Rated TV-MA: How Sex Came of Age on Television

Mr. Skin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Mr Skin, Internet, Nudity, Celebrity Skin, Sex, Dexter, In Treatment, The Sopranos, Big Love, The Office, The Wire, Sex and the City, Emmy Awards, Red Shoe Diaries, Lost, The Shield, True Blood, Grey's Anatomy, Sons of Anarchy, Three's Company, The Munsters, Charlie's Angels, 30 Rock, Entourage, Damages, The Flintstones, Six Feet Under, Television Sex, Style News
Mr. Skin

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.

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Man Brutally Murdered After Admitting To Not Like The Wire

The Hollywood Ham | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: The Wire, The Wire Fans, Entourage, Cult TV Shows, HBO Series, Hbo, Satire, Comedy News
The Hollywood Ham

Tensions initially arose when Shaw did not contribute to a "best instances of foreshadowing in the first season" debate.

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Gun Battle Kills One Outside Baby Shower For Wife Of "Wire" Actor

New York Daily News | Kenny Porpora, Alison Gendar and Samuel Goldsmith | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

Read More: The Wire, Gun Battle, New York, Brooklyn New York, Jamie Hector, Brooklyn, New York News

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...

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My Jury Service to America

Paul Butler | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Wire, Jury Duty, Prison Population, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Prison, Jury Nullification Drugs, War on Drugs, Politics News
Paul Butler

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.

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Wire Creator Predicts Surge In Corruption As Newspapers Decline

Guardian | Oliver Burkeman | Posted 04.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Corruption, The Wire, Newspapers, David Simon, Wire, Media News

Fictional corrupt politicians are a mainstay of The Wire, David Simon's celebrated television series about life on the Baltimore streets. But the show...

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David Simon Begins Work On New Orleans Show

AP | STACEY PLAISANCE | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Television, Treme, David Simon, Hbo, New Orleans-Louisiana, Entertainment News

NEW ORLEANS — David Simon, creator of the critically acclaimed television shows "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street" is in New Orleans ...

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Jason Linkins

CNN Caller Says AIG Execs Should Be Shot (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wire, Aig, Video, Twitter, Aig Bonuses, AIG Bailout, Rick Sanchez, AIG Scandal, Bonus Outrage, Media News

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...

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Please Don't Call My Unborn Son "Cheddar Plax"

Brandon Perkins | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Plaxico Burress, Sports, Lil Wayne, Nfl, Amar'e Stoudemire, Super Bowl XLII, Entertainment News
Brandon Perkins

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.

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Jason Linkins

The Wire: Five Seasons/Five Minutes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wire, Video, Rod Blagojevich, Sheila Dixon, Media News

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...

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DVDs: The Rest Of The Year

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, The Wire, Murnau, Dvds, TV Shows, Movies, Animation, Holiday Season Commentary, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

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.

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The Wire: Season 6?

Alden Loury | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: The Wire, Patrick Fitzgerald, Rod Blagojevich, Hbo, Wiretapping, Political Corruption, Barack Obama, Chicago News
Alden Loury

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.

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Jason Linkins

Blagojevich Scandal A Font Of Creative Inspiration

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media

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Yesterday, I made mention of how neatly this whole unfolding Blagojevich scandal seemed to neatly intersect with so many cultural referents. An inves...

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Jason Linkins

The Blagojevich/Wire Connection, Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Mark Lisanti, Video, Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Arrested, The Wire, Blagojevich Indictment, Patrick Fitzgerald, Blagojevich Corruption, Blagojevich Investigation, Media News

Looking over the breadth and scope of the unfolding Rod Blagojevich investigation, I couldn't help thinking that that Patrick Fitzgerald has hooked hi...

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Progressives Angry Over Reports That Karl Rove Likes Things

Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, The Wire, Dexter, True Blood, The Beatles, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

Anger, outrage and confusion spread through the progressive political community as sources close to Karl Rove began leaking a list of things that Rove...

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John Updike Wins Bad Sex Prize

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

Read More: The Wire, England, Books, Sex, Bad Sex, American Literature, John Updike, John Updike Bad Sex, Updike Bad Sex, Media News

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...

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What Obama Can Learn from The Wire

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Black People, The Wire, Television, Tv, War on Drugs, White People, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Casey Gane-McCalla

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.

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Let's See That Audacity In Action

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Bailout, Barack Obama, Urban Policy, Recession, Cities, The Wire, Obama Priorities, President Obama, Tom Sugrue, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, Obama Issues, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Julian E. Zelizer

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.

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"The Wire" Cast Campaigns For Obama In North Carolina

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Seth Gilliam Of "The Wire": We Take Pride In Not Being Nominated For Emmys

BBC | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Seth Gilliam, The Wire Outstanding Writing for Drama Series, Seth Gilliam the Wire, The Wire Emmy Nomiation, The Wire Emmys, Seth Gilliam Emmys, Entertainment News

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...

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Dominic West On Working With Julia Roberts: "No One Seemed To Enjoy It"

Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Mona Lisa Smile, Dominic West, Renee Zellweger, Renee Zellweger Diet, Julia Roberts, Entertainment News

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...

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HBO Desperate For A Hit In Post-Sopranos, Post-Wire World

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

Read More: The Wire, Frank Rich HBO, Hbo, HBO Original Programming, Frank Rich, The Sopranos, Flight of the Conchords, Media News

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...

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Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Barbara Ehrenreich Nickle and Dimed, Podesta Center for American Progress, Edwards, Martin Luther King Poverty, Martin Luther King, The Wire Poverty, Johnson Poverty, Half in Ten, Pew Center Poverty, The Wire, Edwards Half in Ten, Obama, Edwards Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Johnson, War on Poverty, Edwards Miniumum Wage, Unired Auto Workers, Edwards Obama, President Johnson Poverty, Poverty Media, Edwards Poverty Czar, Edwards ACORN, Edwards Maud Hurd, Edwards Podesta, John Edwards, John Podesta, Hurd ACORN, Home News
Peter Dreier

The Edwards endorsement of Obama made all the news. The Edwards plan to battle soaring levels of poverty in this country, Half in Ten, has made almost no news at all.

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Chris Matthews vs. Jimmy McNulty

David Sirota | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Chris Matthews, The Wire, Mcnulty, Chris Matthews McNulty, Media News
David Sirota

When you flip on the tube, you are led to believe the only thing that matters are politicians screaming at each other, and millionaire pundits analyzing the sport of it.

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