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• What is The Wire?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  When David Simons groundbreaking series becomes a subject of academic study, even the question of whether its a TV show is up for discussion So is The Wire a cop show, part of a totally new genre or not even a TV programme at all? At the Wire as Social Science Fiction? conference in Leeds, Freya Billington from the ...
  4 days ago

• R.E.M. and a day in Treme

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 576
  - New Orleans continues to amaze me. Already riding a buzz from an exciting NBA game and a few post-game drinks last night, my intrepid photographer and I went to Le Bon Temps to catch the Soul Rebels last night. We caught them just as they finished their first set and went in for the second when Jonathan spotted a ...
  1 week ago

• New Orleans Gets <em>Wired</em>: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy

  
  ShowHype - Top Television News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 173
  Wired : David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy" style="border: 1px #ccc solid;margin: 2px 4px;" /> On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild ...
  1 week ago

• ?A Man Must Have A Code??

  
  Network News Mashup | Rawkus.com — Authority: 155
  Nat King Cole’s sugar-swirled songs echo through Walmart walkways lined with stockings and ornaments.  Price-drops of epic proportions are slated for a Friday after Thanksgiving that is sure to leave at least one Midwesterner trampled to death. It’s with these staples the holiday season descends upon us and I ...
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• The 100 Greatest Quotes From The Wire

  
  :: The Playlist :: — Authority: 653
  As huge, avowed fans of "The Wire," this is just too good not to post. Still the greatest TV show ever as far as were concerned, but then again, we dont really bother with TV much outside HBO. But several of these are stone-cold classics, especially anything that came out of Omars (Michael Kenneth Williams) mouth. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Wire — 100 Greatest Quotes.(hnd)

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 125
  The Wire — 100 Greatest Quotes. ( hnd )
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• Kal Caricatures on M&Ms

  
  Sketchblog — Authority: 416
  The Maryland Film Festival held a Gala fundraiser featuring Baltimore native filmmakers Barry Levenson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog, Diner, Liberty Heights), John Waters (Hairspray, Serial Mom) and David Simon (Homicide, The Wire). I was asked by the festival to create drawings of the three heads (with foreheads) to use as ...
  2 weeks ago

• B’Man’s Patriot Watch: David Simon

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 129
  I am certainly glad that Chycho decided to post this and enlighten folks (Chycho has recently been on an important hiatus ). Part One Part Two I think my buddy Jay Midnyte would be interested in Mr Simon’s thoughts on free market capitalism. Posted in BMans Patriot Watch, Big Prison, ...
  2 weeks ago

• E1 to Release “The Avon Barksdale Story” on DVD!

  
  BIG CED's Blog Page — Authority: 133
  E1 Music is excited to announce the release of The Avon Barksdale Story- Legends Of The Unwired – in March 2010.This gripping film won Best Docudrama at this year’s NY International Independent Film & Video Festival and reveals the raw truth about death, drugs, and violence in the streets ...
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• E1 to Release “The Avon Barksdale Story” on DVD!

  
  The Hip Hop Cosign — Authority: 132
  E1 Music is excited to announce the release of  The Avon Barksdale Story -  Legends Of The Unwired – in March 2010 . This gripping film won Best Docudrama at this year’s NY International Independent Film & Video Festival and reveals the raw truth about death, drugs, and violence in the streets ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hyping The Wire

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 135
  From a very promising blog which I discovered thanks to The Mumpsimus : The Wire may be one of the greatest TV shows ever made, but does David Simon have to keep telling us that ? (Zunguzungu) I love The Wire, good lord I love The Wire. But I continue to be struck by how often the conversation about the show ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remembering "The Wire"

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 515
  Even though the final episode aired on March 9, 2008, I still miss "The Wire" -- best damn show ever on TV. So here you go with a choice video: "The Wire: 5 Seasons in 5 Minutes."
  3 weeks ago

• Sketching Famous Filmmakers

  
  Sketchblog — Authority: 416
  Here’s a rough sketch I have created for the Maryland Film Festiva l.  The Festival is having a major fundraiser celebrating three of Baltimore’s film-making stars: Barry Levenson, John Waters and David Simon.  I am producing special artwork for the evening which will be auctioned off to raise funds for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harvard to Teach Class on The Wire and Poverty

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  I never really had a desire to go to Harvard but news that they are now offering a class solely on David Simon’s The Wire means that might have to change. The class, according to African American studies chair Professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham, will use the show to illustrate poverty in America. From the Harvard ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dominic West Update: Arresting role for Wire star Dominic West

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 539
  Dominic West Update: Arresting role for Wire star Dominic West Check out this interview with The Wire’s Dominic West. West and the interviewer discuss his new found attention, the cult-status of The Wire, his current project: doing a play in the UK – in the nude (no homo), news of David Simon creating a new show ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Disaster Mentality

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  I have been reading Bill McKibben’s latest piece for The New York Review with great fascination. It is a review of the book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. As McKibben makes clear, this book is not an academic analysis. He prefers to think ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Wire: Not Quite Done Yet

  
  Book Case — Authority: 416
  The Wire may have finished its career as the best thing to ever happen to television but its creator David Simon is not quite done as he has a new book due out detailing his experience and inspiration for creating the show. Here is a long but fascinating podcast with Simon from The Times [...]Related posts: The Alan ...
  5 weeks ago

• Why you (and everyone you know) should watch HBOs "The Wire"

  
  Sweetney — Authority: 119
  Last week I was reminded of the greatness of the HBO drama "The Wire," and how lax Ive been in singing its praises of late. Indeed, "The Wire" is a show that merits some serious evangelizing -- I can scarcely think of another television program that inspires such depth of feeling, thought, and...
  5 weeks ago

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