Baltimore

The “city is the star” cliche aptly applied to The Wire

In Architecture, Baltimore, Guardian, Television, The Wire on 15 August 2008 with no comments

I’ve spent a busy Friday afternoon preparing to move to Delaware, which is only an hour’s drive from Baltimore, a city I hope to visit several times (if only to see Camden Yards). Last month Steve Rose of The Guardian’s architecture bureau argued that, for all the gritty acting and tangled storylines, the built environment [...]

New Yorker profiles David Simon of The Wire

In Baltimore, Crime, Film & Television, Media on 19 October 2007 with no comments

The most recent New Yorker profiles David Simon, co-creator of The Wire. The new season centers on the newsroom of the Baltimore Sun and features actor/director Clark Johnson as editor Gus Haynes:
In the season opener, Haynes provides a bitingly funny introduction to newsroom culture. He complains about a photographer who invariably gooses the poignancy of [...]