Remember how Michael Bloomberg gave Johns Hopkins a zillion dollars? (Okay, I’m exaggerating – it was actually only $1 billion.) Anyway, part of the money was earmarked to create special “Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships,” which would encourage academics to explore and collaborate across disciplines. The university just announced the first three scholars to get the job, […]
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Pigtown Design: Baltimore’s More Than Just “The Wire”
Part of the reason I write Pigtown*Design is to show people that Baltimore isn’t just what you see on The Wire, and in fact, I am giving a lecture on that topic in October. When I first started writing this blog, a guy in England was just beginning to write a blog about The Wire, a television show […]
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Have a Very Baltimore Christmas
By now, you’re probably sick of all the holiday songs on the radio/in the stores/everywhere you turn. But can we suggest one minor Baltimore-themed tune to get you back in the spirit? Yes, “Crabs for Christmas” by David DeBoy, the 1981 classic with the signature Bawlmer-accented “oohhhh, I want crabs for Christmas.” If you haven’t […]
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Where Did the Wire Cast and Crew Like to Hang Out in Baltimore?
Slate just ran an excerpt from Brett Martin’s Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos to Mad Men to Breaking Bad that centers on my personal pick for the best of the premium cable anti-hero shows: Yes, obviously, The Wire. The best thing about Martin’s book? All the juicy tidbits […]
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Mike Rowe Needs Your Help to Fix Baltimore’s Image
Baltimore’s own Mike Rowe, host of CNN’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It and formerly of Discovery’s Dirty Jobs, has added his name to the list of people who’d like to rehabilitate the city’s image post-David Simon.
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Homesick New Yorkers Can Watch Baltimore on the Big Screen
There’s more than one way to satisfy a homesick Baltimorean, at least if that person happens to live in New York City. Starting next month, the city’s Museum of Arts and Design is highlighting Baltimore in a five-month movie series called It Came From Baltimore: 40 Years of Cinema From the Charm City, which includes […]
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What Will Be Your Orioles Postseason Anthem?
The Orioles are swinging for the fences this October, so obviously we need a song to sing as we make our way to the World Series. Here are a few options: Thanks to Charm City Wire for pointing us toward this O’s fan’s parody of Lorde’s “Royals,” the perfect song with which to announce the […]
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Tuesday afternoon headlines: Suspended Orioles infielder Chris Davis helps at scene of CAR accident; Royal Farms taking over naming rights to Baltimore Arena; Padonia festival to celebrate Old Bay anniversary; and more
Suspended Orioles Infielder Chris Davis Helps at Scene of Bad Accident Monday– Baltimore Sun Amtrak, Some MARC Service Suspended for Hours Due to Downed Wires– Baltimore Sun Maryland Faces Worse Climate-Driven Flooding, Report Warns– Baltimore Sun Royal Farms Taking Over Naming Rights to Baltimore Arena– Baltimore Business Journal How the “O!” in the Anthem Became […]
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Nat Geo Is About to Make Baltimore Look Pretty Terrible
The National Geographic Channel’s next episode of Drugs, Inc. will focus on Baltimore, “the heroin capital of America,” where “everyone on street [sic] is on the hustle.” It’s called “The High Wire,” and, yeah, it’s not about circus performers. According to the Baltimore Sun‘s TV critic David Zurawik, the one-hour episode “is filled with unnamed […]
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Big Fish Lawrence Lanahan on Journalism, the City, and “The Lines Between Us”
Freelance radio and print journalist Lawrence Lanahan, senior producer of Maryland Morning from 2010-2013 was the project leader for “The Lines Between Us,” WYPR’s an ambitious year-long project about inequality, race, class, and community in Baltimore. The series recently won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award – the broadcast journalism equivalent of a Pulitzer. “The Lines Between Us,” was lauded by […]
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Pigtown Design: 2013 Year in Review
The past week, and indeed, the past year has just passed in the blink of an eye. As I look through the posts of the 2013, I find that I’ve forgotten way more than I remembered! But it was a great year overall. The year started off with a quick trip to NYC with pal […]
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David Simon Proposes a ‘Dangerous Idea’ to Save Capitalism in America
Creator of The Wire and native Baltimorean David Simon traveled to Sydney Australia to participated in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. It was probably fortunate that he was halfway around the world; a revised version of his “impromptu” speech on solving the problem of American capitalism published in the Guardian is about as taboo as […]
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Food Republic Declares Baltimore One of the Most Underrated Food Cities
Courtesy Bmore Media – Food Republic has given its readers seven restaurants in Baltimore they ought to visit. In a piece titled “Beyond Crab Cakes and Crime” (clever), the food site sings the praises of Charm City’s culinary scene, calling it one of the more underrated food cities. “Decades of well-reported urban decline, not to […]
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The Stars of the Wire: Where Are They Now?
The Daily Beast just compiled a “The Wire Stars: Where Are They Now?” slideshow. (They neglect to mention the late Robert Chew, aka Prop Joe, who died earlier this year.) We here at Baltimore Fishbowl thought we’d do them one better. Below, find our end-of-school yearbook nominations for various beloved Wire faces, from Jimmy McNulty […]
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Will a Character from ‘The Wire’ Haunt O’Malley’s Run in 2016?
Gov. Martin O’Malley, who would like to be president in 2016, has little name recognition in many parts of the country, but TV connoisseurs are already familiar with a fictional tough-on-crime former city councilman who went onto become mayor of Baltimore and then governor of Maryland whose political ambitions compromise his morals. I’m talking about […]
