WASHINGTON D.C.-Attorney General, Eric Holder is joining with Wendell Pierce and Sonja Sohn from the critically acclaimed HBO TV series, “The Wire” to announce a public awareness campaign, addressing the challenges faced by children and families affected by drug abuse. This Tuesday, Holder will take part in a panel discussion with the head of the […]
BALTIMORE — A woman who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to sell heroin. Felicia “Snoop” Pearson entered the plea Tuesday morning during an arraignment in Baltimore Circuit Court. An Aug. 9 jury trial date was set. Pearson is one of 64 people charged in […]
BALTIMORE Baltimore’s police commissioner, Frederick H. Bealefeld has made a harsh public criticism of the HBO TV Show, “The Wire” for the way it portrays Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun reports: “I heard all this stuff about, ‘Well there’s crime shows about L.A., about New York, about Miami,'” Bealefeld said. “You know what Miami gets in […]
Washington D.C.– Best known as Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series, “The Wire,” actor Lance Reddick has released his first album, “Contemplations and Rememberances.”
Two years after its cancellation, “The Wire” has been given the respect given to authors like Dickens and Shakespeare, Hemingway or Langston Hughes. It has been given its own class at Harvard. Not only has it been given an undergraduate class at Harvard, but in this spring, “The Wire” will be taught at Harvard Law […]
In our course on urban inequality at Harvard this semester, we want our students to understand the roots of the social conditions in America’s inner cities. To that end, we get some help from Bodie, Stringer Bell, Bubbles and others from HBO’s The Wire.
Idris Elba is in a hotel suite at the MGM Detroit Grand talking up his new movie “Takers” as part of his first extensive movie publicity tour.
After spending most of his years working on the critically-acclaimed series “The Wire,” Idris Elba is a man in demand in Hollywood. Currently, he is prepping for the release of his new movie “Takers.” To find out the new roles he’s been recently casted in and to see a gallery of the popular star: Read […]
From MSNBC: Hurricane Katrina was a devastating, depressing debacle whose ramifications are still felt today. Lives were lost, homes were destroyed. You’d think “Treme,” a new HBO series that takes place in New Orleans in the months after Katrina, would be a downer, that viewers would be treated to a humbling, depressing television experience. You’d […]
NEW ORLEANS — An HBO spokesman says David Mills, a veteran television writer who worked on “ER” and “The Wire,” has died in New Orleans.
From Slate.com: Among the police officers and drug dealers and stickup men and politicians and dockworkers and human smugglers and teachers and students and junkies and lawyers and journalists who populate the late, great HBO series The Wire, there is one academic.
