DeAndre McCullough was 35 when he died last week of a suspected drug overdose in Woodlawn. In a city where hundreds OD every year, McCullough’s death is getting a bit more attention than most — because if you ever read (or watched) David Simon’s The Corner, the precursor to The Wire, then you know his […]
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Michael Phelps Sells Fells Pt. Condo at $400,000 Loss
Our friends at Curbed are reporting that Michael Phelps has sold his Fells Point condo for less than what he paid for it. The asking price was $1.42 million, but he sold it for only $1.25 million. The Olympic champion purchased the property in 2007 for $1.69 million. Read Michael Phelps Wire: Has the Phenom […]
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Friday Links: Manhunt for Vi Ripken’s Kidnapper, Hospitals Worry About Cuts for Uninsured, Fear of Guns Sells Guns and more
Manhunt Continues for Vi Ripken’s Kidnapper – The Baltimore Sun Hospitals Worry About Cuts for the Uninsured with New Health Care Law – The NY Times Bay Bridge Gets Weather Alert Update After Storms Hit – The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Needs 5,000 More Apartments, Study Says – The Baltimore Business Journal Fear of Guns Sells […]
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Big Fish Q&A with Baltimore Boy & Gawker Wunderkind Ben Rosen
Baltimore native Ben Rosen, 26, serves as ad operations coordinator at online media juggernaut Gawker Media,whose eight websites combined — Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Jalopnik, Kotaku, and io9 — get more monthly views than The New York Times. Rosen, also a dedicated standup comic (he was voted Baltimore Comedy Factory’s Funniest Person of 2010), graduated from […]
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Baltimore Through the Eyes of A British Tourist
He enjoyed our sketchy neighborhouds, and our local colour. To him, we looked “unpretentious,” and full of “heart and soul.” He can’t stop talking about The Wire. Yes, you guessed it: the British came to Baltimore, and deemed it worth visiting. However, if you actually live in Baltimore, you won’t find much new in this […]
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Cast of The Wire to Hold Obama Fundraiser
Party Time, a website that documents the “political partying circuit,” reports today that the cast of The Wire will hold a fund raiser for President Barack Obama in Martha’s Vineyard on August 15. Tickets range from $500 to $2,500 and no word on which members of the cast will be in attendance. The president is […]
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“Turn Around, Don’t Drown,” Baltimore!
STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION WARNS MOTORISTS OF POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN, FLOODED ROADS National Weather Service Issues Flash Flood Watch for Much of Maryland (July 20, 2012) – The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of the State from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Storms moving in from the west may […]
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The Wire — In Lego Form
Someone did a really good job of not only distilling the five seasons of The Wire into one four-minute video — but also doing it with stop-motion Legos. It’s Baltimore — sorry, “Bricktimore” — as you’ve never seen it before.
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Get Invisalign and Get Straightened out for Good
Being a teenager is tough enough without crooked teeth or bulky braces. What’s worse, the pain of a crooked smile doesn’t fade with age. Countless middle-age moms cringe when they see their adolescent children reliving the same painful smile that’s plagued them for years. The rest of the world notices, too: A new study confirms […]
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Perry Hall Man’s Lame Defense Fails Him in Biofuel Fraud Trial
The Perry Hall man who stood accused of selling phony biofuel credits to commodities brokers and oil companies was convicted yesterday of wire fraud and money laundering. Rodney R. Hailley, 33, founded Clean Green Fuel to sell biofuel credits to companies that needed to meet quotas set by the Environmental Protection Agency. And to lower […]
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“Baltimore Was a Culture Shock”: Real Talk from The Wire’s Creators and Stars
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the first episode of The Wire, a certain men’s magazine decided to take its mind off boobs and video games for once and instead give the series a thorough historical review. The whole oral history is worth a read, but we’ve distilled it to a few choice snippets […]
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The Wire: The Musical?
The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams from Michael Kenneth Williams Funny or Die has posted a video spoof of something we hope never happens: a musical version of Baltimore’s much-loved HBO hit “The Wire.”
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This Is Rigged: Poetry by Erin Sweeten
Poet Erin Sweeten — a graduate of the JHU Writing Seminars — sees the world like no one else. Tour her trio of poems for a stimulating and surreal break from your back-to-work Tuesday. This Is Rigged Alex Calder has got a room to himself at the National Gallery of Art. Men with glistening sunburned […]
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Thursday Links: Nik Wallenda, Ellicott City’s Churches Practice Forgiveness, Budget Agreement Unveiled, and More
Nik Wallenda nearly slips off wire during Baltimore tightrope stunt – New York Daily News Churches offer to host funeral for alleged St. Peter’s shooter – Baltimore Sun O’Malley, Busch, Miller unveil budget agreement for special session – Baltimore Sun Walters Art Museum Uploads Images to Wikimedia – Urbanite Obama Took A Potential Liability With […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Inner Harbor
Nik Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas to Walk High Wire Over Baltimore Harbor
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is bringing world-famous Nik Wallenda tomorrow May 9 to Baltimore’s Light Street Pavilion in the Inner Harbor for an unbelievable feat as part of the company’s official announcement for its new complex. Wallenda will walk a high wire from the new Ripley’s Odditorium out over the water to a platform […]
