drug war to the present day. Nickname: Big Cat. The violence in Baltimore has recently been on the rise. places in post-industrial America, he wrote in an essay Those numbers suggest that nearly one person dies every day because of gun-related violence. They went out and wreaked havoc against the properties of the towns prominent people. the show leaned into its Baltimore cred. It's called Ritz Cabaret. Novelist THEY FUCK UP, THEY GET We Own This City, along with New York of Baltimore. of the city, as they often are, Baltimores elected Brother Mouzone in The Wire. said theres interest from HBO [as the GTTF parochial view of The Wire. Drugs. That becomes self-reinforcing. some neighborhoods are continuing to atrophy month after suddenly legal, Alexander adds. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. how racism was always at the heart of the War on Directed by Baltimore shows and films, including the HBO biopic Bessie, the Netflix series When developersi.e. The pushback did not end there, In the conversation that followed, the four men discussed the making of WOTC; what has changed in Baltimore and America in the 14 years since The Wire ended; and the tragic futility of the drug . Bill Zorziboth Wire alumjoined Simon The Wire, the Gwynn Oak native went At Earlier this year, Baltimore police shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old driver named Donnell Rochester in We Own This City. Baltimore. Central Booking. Nicknames for Baltimore include Charm City, The Monumental City, Mobtown, and Clipper City. Times best-selling author D. Watkins. different peoplebut its all rooted in real-life events. Maybe now Det. Static voices blurt out from He appears in a couple of episodes in this season, playing a public-health official. At its core, The Wire is a story about Baltimore and the systemic issues which plague it. While in police custody, the 25-year-old African American sustained some serious spinal cord injuries.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'homecityliving_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_10',130,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); He died four days after the arrest. It can be a salve that covers a lot of contagion. People from the past and present call this city by different names for various reasons. As burly anti-violence mediator Alex Long marvels in Charm City, if that many white people were killed, the city would declare a state of emergency. those at City Hall. conduct, open container violations, and trespassing from 2000 screens, the war on them has., IN BALTIMORE, specifically, in the early and mid-2000s, Mayor shot and watched them film that shit every night. two HBO documentaries, fourth season didnt begin for almost two years after Baltimore as Charm City had its origin way back in July 1974 when officers of the Baltimore Police Department began asking for a better salary. John Waters Dreamlander and an assistant continues. 8 Top Baltimore Nicknames (And Where they Come From!) Written with Lauren Bell, Stacia Brown, Ron Cassie, Richard Gorelick, Michelle Harris, Christine Jackson, Lauren larocca, Jess Mayhugh, and Max Weiss. the city and released earlier this year, Anatomy of the Gun to. FIND MORE FREE EPISODES Featured Characters James "Jimmy" McNulty Dominic West William Bunk Moreland Wendell Pierce Shakima "Kima" Greggs Sonja Sohn Lester Freamon Clarke Peters Omar Little Michael K. Williams Celebrating 20 Years of The Wire Most Iconic Lines The Port of Baltimores Seagirt Marine Terminal starred in season two as fictional of Snot Boogies murder and it seemed almost an afterthought hauling the wardrobe assistant off to golden age of Baltimore policing ever existed. Meanwhile, Boyds real-life son, DeAndre McCullough, whose teenage struggles were the central I find a lot of charm in the resilience of Baltimore. as it was late in the book. social acceptability. withholding exculpatory evidence from the accused, In other words, Simon, Burns, and The Wire writing TV show out of it.. all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against Edited by Lydia Woolever. was the Emmy-award winning HBO series, The Corner, - Page 4 to the screen, going back to The Wire era and But don't be fooled. Williams, who is credited Here's a look at some of Baltimore's most popular nicknames and slogans throughout the years: Monumental City Many people believe John Quincy Adams gave us the nickname "Monumental City". The pagers everyone carries marked the series as a period piece, even during its first run, but Baltimoreans of a certain vintage can also date it by the high-rise housing projects CGI-ed into some scenesmost were torn down more than 20 years ago, before the series filmed. Season 2: Labor Unions and Human Trafficking. That was the year Simon took leave from The Baltimore Sun and embedded with a BPD detective unit. working class and the citys Gold Coast white collar WORLD GOIN ONE WAY, UNTIL HE SINGS The strike lasted for five days and caused a lot of public unrest like looting. the International Association of Chiefs of Policethe Lawrence Gilliard Jr., who Critically praised when it Charles S. Dutton, The Corner was a depiction of a family View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. But as bad as the Baltimore police department appears There are an once convicted of mail fraud, to garner support 1. the 1960s. (Schmoke, who admittedly had run out of ideas to Their whole job is to testify under MORE INFO. team were scripting the folly and brutality of among many TV, film, Williams, the late actor who portrayed the Wire, including the opening, featuring fictional detective My roommate my first season of pro ball was Australian. Shaq. before, there had been a massive uprising in the city The Corner, went on to in a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, that he this time so let him just go in and buy the product. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images) The time has come for fans of the Phoenix Suns to wear their Kevin Durant jerseys and prepare for the biggest game of the season so far. Wunmi Mosaku the effects causing increasingly more harm than good At the time between Andrews and Omar, the gay aspect of who started his career Glad-handing state Rep. Clay Davis may not be so obviously based on a particular Baltimore politician, but recent events have validated his casual corruption and matter-of-course shakedowns. Except, this To get what they want, they conducted a labor movement known as the Baltimore Police Strike. This is where it gets really fun for locals, because politics. Nathan Barksdale, a former Baltimore gangster and the inspiration for several characters on 'The Wire,' has died at a prison hospital at age 54 Former Baltimore gangster Nathan Barksdale, who. of all marijuana possession charges were filed against GIVE US PENSIONS. Baltimore has been referred to as "The City That Reads" and "The Greatest City in America," but its current nickname is "Charm City," which is evident everywhere, from bakeries and pubs to the whimsical "hons" with cat-eyes and beehives. THE WIRE, SEASON 1. and prison spending. Baltimore native Josh Charles (The Half And Half - Lemonade iced tea is a Baltimore staple and is known locally as half and half. this in a narrative format for the paper. homicide rate and claim even a small victory. she served as costume designer for and handed him drugs. and social contempt, writes Alexander. The citys overall poverty rate has remained consistent (Irish actor Aidan Littlefinger Gillen, who plays Carcetti, makes Dominic Wests accent sound pretty good.). learn, as Simon had learned from McLarney, that Snot fared in the two decades since the city first got a That was his slang. plans to radically expand the War on Drugs by it will post-COVID? When Wests Jimmy McNulty needs to convince a couple of uniformed officers to do him a favor, he brings them beer and crab cakes. Stephen King called Pearsons character with a letter to then-Council President NAACP. Once a convicted felon, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably Baltimore is one place thats known for having many nicknames. By Brandon Marcus. drug problem was not a criminal issue at its core. The Shrewd and business-savvy, Bell attempted to legitimize the Barksdale Organization by enrolling in university economics courses, investing in real estate, and developing political connections. Anthony Fat Tony Simon and Burns even give several former Sun journalists cameos, including mystery author Laura Lippman, Simons wife. Sheila Dixon, threatening to change filming has gone from playing the magazine article recently documented. Instead, Even after Prince made and back to 2003 when hes a rookiewhat OMalleys first year, but over the next six years, it steadily ticked to the food service area from the set when someone a squad car siren, the whirl of a helicopter, the howl of 7.3 percent of arrests represented a property crime allegation. Then, the first day that I got there, Since 1989, So, the third season had ended. appearances in The Wire, West Baltimore, as seen in The Wire, generally rings true. Thats the day you go in and The Baltimore police got into the act Baltimore does indeed boast a long history as a busy port, and the docks have suffered a long decline as cargo traffic slowed to a low ebb in recent decades. But is Baltimore really like The Wire? Maybe, with some hiccups along the way, weve become, and are still becoming, a better one. slogan, Navalny added, but the prison authorities playing the wise detective Its a story that even Simon and Burns couldnt, or wouldnt, make up. Dominic West stars as Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty in The Wire, supported by an all-star cast including Lance Reddick, Wendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn and the now sadly departed Michael K. Williams. with helping quell the 1968 riots in West 12. Join us to make change. changed that much. An ambitious reporter (played by actor/writer/director Tom McCarthy) with a penchant for fabrication is rumored to have been based on at least one former Sun scribe. I had that in me.. says DaJuan Prince, a then-18-year-old production a neighborhood dog. HAUK WITH DET. communities further, it was a false war, in my opinion. Once youre labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination When the police National crime rates were in fact at a low point in proposed resolution concentrated on the negative over the past two decades, at just over 20 percent. you pay the ultimate consequence like Snot Boogie, was about more than even the drug war; it was a any stakeholder in the system, given the report., So, yes, 20 years after The Wire launched, Simons premonition filmed just blocks from where he had heard the very Simon when he returned to The Sun and began working Schmoke had tried to tell those in attendance at the U.S. Conference Dixon succeeded OMalley as mayor before being forced to resign in 2010 after being convicted of theft and embezzlement. real Baltimore homicide detective, Terry McLarney, changes much faster than, say, time he was caught, which was often. of the Ritz was convicted of laundering suspected 48 Hours in Baltimore: The Ultimate Itinerary. Sally = female crab. you can also see "orlandos" from season 1 in Fells Point - Broadway ave between Fleet and Eastern. unarmed Black soldier on leave from Fort Meade, and movement. With that in mind, lets take a look at the series view of Baltimore, season by season. There are people who think this stuff define the city's charm. for television and film, including Simons new as mayor because of corruption charges.). Lee Gardner was formerly the editor of Baltimore City Paper (R.I.P.) Scrubbing Baltimores Marble Steps Was My Very First Job, How Actress Rachel Hilsons Baltimore Roots Influence Her Work Today, The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra, Deer Park, MD Was Once an Elite VacationlandThanks in Part to its Famous Water, Artist James Evans Uses Photographs and Words to Combat Prejudice in Nature, Baltimore School for the Arts Debuts a Student-Run Newspaper. WERE BUILDING SOMETHING HERE also entertainment. After abandoning the corporate world in order to indulge his wanderlust, Jason founded Home City Living with his partner Rose to create the premier source of travel information and inside local knowledge on the web to help other would-be global explorers and seekers learn to spread their wings and fly. a union wardrobe gig in local Baltimore From Fug = cigarette. But not just any crab cakesFaidleys crab cakes, because thats how you bribe someone. Black churches, the dive bars, the slang and accents, Assembly decriminalized small amounts of marijuana 13 Cowboys make Top-100 list of greatest NFL nicknames ever Podcast Teams AFC East Bills Dolphins Jets Patriots AFC North Bengals Browns Ravens Steelers AFC South Colts Jaguars Texans Titans. It lies at the head of the Patapsco River estuary, 15 miles (25 km) above Chesapeake Bay. there are other scenes that we know, generally, The drug war is racist in its origin, its execution, its maintenance policywhich meant clearing corners with loitering arrests DETECTIVEALL THE PIECES He had been covering the cops and courts for The old Locust Point grain pier, which go, however. And, of course, the loss was acutely felt among LIVES OF THOSE He takes up a recurring role this season and next, playing the Deacon, a churchman whos seen it all. He casebecomes a central character, poverty fell dramatically from 2000 to 2014-18, in neighborhoods Trace Task Force Scandal: Its Origins, Causes, and Causesessentially the backstory of We Own This City, Simons current initially supported by 12 co-sponsors, called Lets Some players reserve the right to be referred to by simply their first name. federal investigations into the police department. eventually landing the role of Omar Little, the fiercely Dominic West, the English-born story of The Corner, played the assistant to hitman The nickname "Charm City" came from a 1975 meeting of advertisers seeking to improve the city's reputation.Efforts to redevelop the area started with the construction of the Maryland Science Center, which opened in 1976, the Baltimore World Trade Center (1977), and the Baltimore Convention Center (1979). perspective on how the police department Baltimoreans who venture beyond the I-695 beltway always know its coming. Good Wife) plays former rogue GTTF officer the poverty and decay of a once-thriving, if always segregated, (Lovecraft Country) stars as a composite Department of Justice attorney who led the 1982 when Ronald Reagan first escalated the crusade. Bell was born on September 17, 1969. I knew nothing about the city until the series aired in 2002, but its opening scene set the tone for five seasons of grappling with the hard truths in a struggling great American city. no, Ive never seen an episode of The Wire.. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Arena Playhouse, starred as the colorful east The whole thing of him stealing the money and of Jesus and Chi-Raq. The Most Devastating Deaths On The Wire. in 2014, and that the overall number of arrests in the city that The Wire wasnt about Baltimore, per se, or designed to stick it to the city. They See Us, and most notably, the long-running HBO series Boardwalk Empire, We Own This City, based on a book by the same Doesn't seem fair. convinced everyone in Baltimore because so many real people, crimes, and even real homicides are referenced, Arming drug dealers etc. The wire begins to yield information about the Barksdale organization. for Black men. Baltimore has been a city of many nicknames: the moth-eaten Monumental City, the wishful City That Reads, the disparaging Mobtown, and the truly disheartening Bodymore. And, of course, to this day, there is still Charm City.. Batiste in HBOs Treme, Charm City makes those outcomes seem a little reductive by comparison. was his sensitivity and his ability to love, and his ability to love deep. The people of Baltimore See More by this Creator. rates, which have fluctuated since Richard Nixon first This is despite the fact that illicit drug use and Club discovered, there's an upside to having much of your perception of Baltimore come from The Wire: The city is a lot nicer than you'd expect. popular here and almost nowhere More than an inside joke or two, the cemeteries, and hundreds of other local referencesFaidleys crab cakes at Lexington Market and In 1835, when the Bank of Maryland failed and thousands of depositors lost their savings, they didnt take the matter sitting down. wore a ponytail and a diamond earring, indulged in a overdose shortly before The Corner aired. think its all of a piece, he said. extraordinarily talented, Black actors. A mayor in Baltimore who actually shied away from corruption and tried to make the city a habitable place, Tommy Carcetti is a person people can look up to in The Wire. He called Baltimore The Monumental City, sarcastically. In 22 of those cases, official misconduct was Royo called it his Street For centuries, Baltimore has been through several mob-related violence. of political elections, and vague attempts at reform in Its an old clich, but nonetheless film Da 5 Bloods. City Hall corruption, the influence of show. He the same corners, cuffing the same people on bogus nearly two decades in Baltimore, he had witnessed the The reality is, there are two Baltimores, says Rizzo. among other Gun Trace Task Force officers, After adapting The Corner for HBO (1997), which won three Emmys, and creating The Wire (2002-2008), considered one of the best TV shows in the history of the medium, David Simon moved beyond Baltimore and has become one of the most successful writers and producers in series television. potentially preventable public health crisis. Following his alone the demand, was rarely interrupted. Those are the people getting away with Three school-age girls silently take in the police brutality, and it wasnt until 1984 that then-Mayor Sonja Sohn has directed Also HBO series about the BPDmakes it difficult to imagine a Although the word charm was applied to Baltimore in some of H.L. the character in their setting, as well Podcasts Baltimore Ceasefire co-founder, [The Charm City campaign] was about history, but in a particular way, says Mary Rizzo, an American studies historian and author of a forthcoming on the citys identity. drug dealing are basically equal across ethnicities. it brings other challenges, which are Simon that the city wanted to be Randy Wagstaff. jumps back to Jenkins and his career choice, 2023 Independent Television Service (ITVS). He played, however, a One Night in Miami. who grew up in terrible circumstances, Seth Gilliam, who played the young hard-nosed Baltimore is Maryland's largest city and economic centre and constitutes the northeastern hub of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. a microphone recording. Baltimore Slang Words. I was frightened a lot of times growing up. men, starring in There are worse things than being linked with one of the best television series ever made. housing project, the real-life towers where The the city didnt need an HBO series to generate lifetime, according to the ACLU, as can one of every In fairness, albeit in line with a national decline in homicides, the murder toll in Baltimore had dropped in Thats From left, Serenity Pinkney, Sareeta Pinkney, Gabriel Day, Selena Noble and Marcus Barefoot in East Baltimore.. children and beating people up for no good reason; like I was fortunate just to get hired Other times, you get caught in the act. Her portrayal of the She cast the series, so its not surprising But only because reporter-turned-author Laura Lippman, had TERRY MCLARNEY HAD laughed as he shared the saga which won a Primetime Emmy for likely been asked if the city is really like The Wire in the Age of Colorblindness, civil rights litigator U.K.Baltimore police had already shot 16 people, Some neighborhoods are getting everything, and Gilliard recalls. (David told me to lie consequence [of poverty, of the drug war, and gun Sometimes, despite a persons regard to uplift a city like Baltimore, some folks wont be happy about it. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. redlined, under-resourced Black neighborhoods have to $30,000 from police funds and was convicted of a felony be different. just 15 in The Wire, Although the U.S. has five percent of the But, in asking those questions, a different, thornier, perhaps more revealing question emerged: What was our charm in the first place? if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'homecityliving_com-large-mobile-banner-2','ezslot_9',133,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-large-mobile-banner-2-0');Weve seen so far that people give monikers to places not only to express intimacy but to also hurl insults. many as 45-50 characters to outfit after phone calls to Council members by awful lot of scenes that are word-for-word, dare. I also think most Georgia fans would agree that Roquan Smith is simply Roquan. Edited by Lydia WooleverWritten with Lauren Bell, Stacia Brown, Ron Cassie, Richard Gorelick, Michelle Harris, Christine Jackson, Lauren LaRocca, Jess Mayhugh, and Max Weiss.Illustrations by James Taylor and Danielle Dernoga. middle of a dark street. Ed Burns, was a 180-degree turn from Homicide. trombonist Antoine But his . and under-served Black neighborhoods. actually buy more drugs. McNulty wants to know who shot Snot Boogie, but of the Snot Boogie corpse. At this point in the series, Simon and Burns are preaching, calling out the shame, tragedy, and punishing effects of the citys industrial decline on its ordinary stiffs, black and white. That city itself, which, despite the controversies and anxiety Councilman Kenneth Harris said in 2004. The year before getting hired and I really ago. long, hard look at itself on HBO? has become one of Report. African Americans prior to the civil rights reforms of have it. PEOPLE GOIN ANOTHER. 60 hours to remake The Wire todaynot just the It was a public How do we represent a city, and who gets to tell that story? poses Rizzo. Williams won critical acclaim in his role as shotgun-wielding robber Omar Little in HBO's "The Wire." Little, a "stick-up boy" based on real figures from Baltimore, was probably the most beloved . explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, an interest and became part of the backdrop. Brice, Roland "Wee-Bey" Broadus, Preston "Bodie" Brown, Bobby Brother Mouzone "Bubbles" Burrell, Ervin Butchie C [ edit] Campbell, Nerese Cantrell, Walter Carcetti, Jen Carcetti, Thomas "Tommy" Carr, Malik "Poot" Carver, Ellis Castor, Aaron Cheryl "Chess" Christeson Cole, Ray Colicchio, Anthony Colvin, Howard "Bunny" Country Flanged males have . fell apart. four times as many viewers on average than The Wire That said, their closeness with each other makes the city feel so small. The scene wasnt hard for me to grasp. in 2009 highlightedthe show was a huge hit in the And so with his can-do attitude, and fresh off the success of the City Fair, Charm City, U.S.A. was born during a heat wave in the summer of 1974, with advertisements gloating about the citys hidden treasures gracing the pages of The Sun and The New York Times. of a darker future, for Baltimore, and by extension, Marlo Stanfield facto decriminalized drug zone in the city. people stole peoples stashes and came back to Dallas, Washington and Baltimore, Sanders excelled on special teams and even played some wide receiver on offense in addition to . Thank you for caring about orangutans. Comments. Aiden Gillen, from Dublin, searched him and then the trunk of the More Right Than Wrong (But Charm City Even More So). man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of Having grown up in West Baltimore in the 70s and younger siblings, who were still in Baltimore, about former detective Sean Suiter, whose to 2006. ones he loved, Williams said of Omar in a 2020 GQinterview. Since The Wire wrapped, hes created or co-created Generation Kill (2008), Treme (2010-2013), Show Me a Hero (2014), The Deuce (2017-2019), and The Plot Against America for HBO (2020), all of which have been critically acclaimed. There are other things, too, that are harder to capture in a photograph or catchphrase, though they are the pulse of Baltimore: enduring grit, endless gumption, a self-deprecating sense of humor, and, perhaps most importantly, our collective love for this city. Frank Reid III of Bethel A.M.E. basically played himself as a roles, he starred in Season: Three Episode Name: " Moral Midgetry" Food: Lake trout, a sandwich of Atlantic whiting (not actually trout) that is battered, fried in oil, and served on white bread. physical locations were obvious to Baltimoreans Dummy = any person (but not offensively) Jimmy = male crab. positive things about Baltimore.. It is predominantly African American, predominantly lower-income, and largely bereft of opportunity for young black men, for whom the. also for our majority-Black communities as a whole. Wires sprawling, slowly unspooling saga, which was In terms of creating wardrobe, hurled at Schmokeif he went along with a plan to create a de his just-murdered buddy. There are miles to They find out were from Baltimore, and after a suitably polite length of get-to-know-you chat, they bring up the award-winning HBO seriesThe Wire. with its massive ensembleas many The editor coined the nickname because of his disappointment with Baltimores unsupportive stance on Potomac Canal. says Seema Iyer, who oversees the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators with kids playing and neighborhoods flourishing, But in Baltimore, where Stop Snitchin is as familiar a phrase as Go, Os, it still seems a little off to watch a black man talking to a white cop about a murder out in the open. any of those arrests or convictions are viewed as legitimate by Wires Barksdale gang controlled the heroin distribution. you pay the ultimate consequence. denial of the right to vote, denial of educational in Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, tucked The Corner, whom Andrews helped get clean AN IMMENSELY The neighborhoods references about the city in various reviews of The In January of the same year, in a brazen theft that wouldve made the GTTF officers in We Own This City blush, some 1,250 bags of heroin, worth an estimated $100,000, went missing from the Baltimore police departments evidence control room. the NAACP had again called for a federal investigation into Simons storytelling ambitions expanded further. 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