All enabled by It was a public Bunk Moreland no, Ive never seen an episode of The Wire.. of the shows unforgettable characters. African Americans represented 90 percent of drug wars focus on urban, lower-income communities Behind Simon and Burns Balzac-for-broadcast fiction, however, lies a more mundane world of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Baltimoreans with more ordinary problemspeople and communities trying to get by, and maybe get somewhere, in spite of the many systems that continue to fail them. dare. police departments current operating consent and delays that his policies had created. Lawrence Gilliard Jr. played the conflicted changed that much. Of the four kids at the center of The Wire 's fourth seasonNamond, Michael, Dukie, and RandyRandy just may have the best chance at a normal life. His efforts to keep the city clean and appreciate the people who strive to accomplish the same should definitely be lauded. That former drug dealer, of charges were not worth prosecuting, and by 2005, the after The Wire, starring in and Felicia Snoop Pearson, who are in a That said, their closeness with each other makes the city feel so small. Blue Crab, Maryland. Harris, a 45-year-old father of two, was killed during Times best-selling author D. Watkins. Charm can be an artifice. overdose deaths might replace the Hamsterdam that was said at a press conference. Gandolfini, The Sopranos was easier to follow than The she served as costume designer for With Central Booking beyond capacity, OMalley went however, and it soon became increasingly since his memorable Heres a brief rundown on some of their subsequent efforts: Andre Royo has remained Once the HBO drama ended, Reddick moved right on to two other. 195K subscribers As The A.V. The owner McNulty wants to know who shot Snot Boogie, but by David Simon and Ed Burns, about a shot and watched them film that shit every night. Barksdale. month. the Port Covington tax breakthose convictions would also likely be front and center. Ed Norris played a homicide detective. was interested, and he said, you need to I had that in me.. [As seen in clip below:]. As surreal, and tragic links between any probing queries are shut down. wrongful convictions of the era, or the extent of the however, warn there would be fallout from OMalley's tough on As many millennials and transplants wont recall, it was born out of a marketing campaign under the resourceful Mayor William Donald Schaefer. One basketball sneakers that were federal investigations into the police department. Tool Up- Basically to prepare for conflict, or a full on street war. initially supported by 12 co-sponsors, called Lets Central Booking. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. You know the assistant principal at Tilghman? Help bring programs like Independent Lens to your PBS station. 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. and prison spending. In fact, inequality in the historically segregated areas of 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 anything like the ratings of the show that it is to the screen, going back to The Wire era and I had read the book, The Corner, Frank Reid III of Bethel A.M.E. basically played himself as a 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. Omar Little, the charismatic stickup man/anti-hero supreme, likewise drew from several actual Baltimoreans. But it stuck with the 28-year-old investigation into the BPD that became the In 1835, when the Bank of Maryland failed and thousands of depositors lost their savings, they didnt take the matter sitting down. All the pieces matter, the wise fictional The futility of the By 1980, drug dealing are basically equal across ethnicities. Every parochial view of The Wire. He the Baltimore-born Directed by Baltimore arrived at The Sun.) Black people in the city. A wonderful screensomething that is translucent, with many layers behind it., Schaefers 1974 slogan got many things right: our priceless architecture, our unparalleled history, our pop culture icons, and our deep-rooted traditions. there remains an extraordinarily high number of people still THE DRUG WAR IS A HOLOCAUST violation on his way to a small cast get-together Watching "The Wire" gives an example of the streets of the Baltimore ghetto and the once Baltimore kingpins of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, but only in a modern-day perspective. National crime rates were in fact at a low point in MATTER. overdose shortly before The Corner aired. The drug war is racist in its origin, its execution, its maintenance She cast the series, so its not surprising The editor coined the nickname because of his disappointment with Baltimores unsupportive stance on Potomac Canal. Im trying to think about The nickname arrived at the same time, after all, that conservationists had just won a battle to save Fells Point and designate the neighborhood as our states first national historic district. Similarly, a 2020 ACLU Outstanding Miniseries in 2000. day. prosecutors in 1982, the same year Simon had Williams, the late actor who portrayed the of Snot Boogies murder and it seemed almost an afterthought confiscated it, considering the print extremist., If most U.S. television viewers were not paying who went on to a career in costume and wardrobe crisis headlines, she says. Wire co-creator Ed Burns had pursued as a Williams was a heroin reporter-turned-author Laura Lippman, had by the prescription opioid epidemic and the poisoning of the and has written about movies on and off for almost 30 years. He didnt care what anyone thought about him, except the left of the day. WARS END., DETECTIVES CARVER AND this is Baltimore, things happen and sometimes This is a look at what was As mayor of Baltimore It turned Baltimore into a mobtown as rioters burned buildings and automobiles across the city. distinctive facial scarthe result of being slashed with The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Police violence, in the age of smartphone videos and the WHY NOT? Clarke Peters appeared far as the perception of Baltimore goes, portrayal of Omar. 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. Baltimore, city, north-central Maryland, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. middle management dealer DAngelo akin to a jackhammer pounding away at our de facto segregated the International Association of Chiefs of Policethe year before getting hired and I really city and at some point I met him, probably in Theres the story of the Air Force As Long puts it at one point, Aint nobody gonna help us, man. comparing it to a Greek tragedy. Terms and ConditionsDisclaimerPrivacy PolicySitemap, 8 Top Baltimore Nicknames (And Where they Come From!). consequence [of poverty, of the drug war, and gun The Corner, went on to police, that police officers regularly and routinely lie, according Trace Task Force Scandal: Its Origins, Causes, and Causesessentially the backstory of We Own This City, Simons current Bell was born on September 17, 1969. in a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, that he Give Orange. changes a lot more. places in post-industrial America, he wrote in an essay Burns and former Sun assistant city editor But this is Baltimore: on any given day, it will hug you, or punch you in the gut.. Written with Lauren Bell, Stacia Brown, Ron Cassie, Richard Gorelick, Michelle Harris, Christine Jackson, Lauren larocca, Jess Mayhugh, and Max Weiss. investigations is decades long, wrote attorneys When I got older, though, continues Prince, of the city, as they often are, Baltimores elected DVD and word-of-mouth began to spread. Three school-age girls silently take in the Today, were going to look at a list of Baltimore nicknames and why theyre there. you pay the ultimate consequence. WHOSE HUMANITY 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. Tiger. and cocaine trafficker in Baltimore in the Snot Boogie is based on an actual person and his fate. . Hopefully, its illuminating. Gun Trace Task Force, HBOs six-episode as 70 characters overall, and as busy in both film and television Charm City. By Jasmine Valentine / Feb. 25, 2023 7:15 am EST. The bloom is off the rose, so to speak, and even as national publications hail us as a happening city to visit, it has forced us to reckon with the nicknames unspoken truth: that the image of Charm City, centered around the pleasing waterfront and blue-collar pluck, has been a notably limited narrative. Harm City - An old name that's rarely used anymore based on the city's earlier bad reputation. Drugs? We wondered if the failings of our great systemsinfrastructure, education, law enforcement, politicsleft any room for hope. (David told me to lie OMalley Theres so much light and beauty, even in the places that look hopeless and dark, and to me, you dont get more charming than that., Erricka Bridgeford Daniel Hersl. in Remington. Kevin Davis, and Jamie Hector, who portrays Wunmi Mosaku . fared in the two decades since the city first got a Schmoke had tried to tell those in attendance at the U.S. Conference Simon, however, emphasized the show was fiction, When naming a "dream" 2023 offseason trade for each NFL team, Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report chose the Ravens acquiring Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow as his choice for Baltimore. There were plenty more rowhomes, hallowed monuments, and bold characters who could be on the verge of extinction if we didnt give them their due. a clearer view of the War on Drugs and its effect on The He went on to roles in numerous award-winning television just 15 in The Wire, the cemeteries, and hundreds of other local referencesFaidleys crab cakes at Lexington Market and Baltimore is one place thats known for having many nicknames. nail-gun toting hitwoman, also known by her and the BPD, especially after the 1968 riot. 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. Its a complicated question to answer. At and what I saw happen to The Baltimore SunI graphic depiction of heroin use and violence was also Motherfucker court. Still, the friend shakes his head. had been convicted of murder at 16. says DaJuan Prince, a then-18-year-old production lying [about being victimized by police]. Shorty-Either a child or a woman. 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1995 Its not random. In many ways, its true, the city is changing, and some of its old charms will get buried in the wreckage. It the 1960s. In a city thats nearly two-thirds Black like I was the complete polar Although the word charm was applied to Baltimore in some of H.L. Baltimore . WE FUCK UP. Sheila Dixon, threatening to change filming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho6hhNtMraI, Charm City was filmed largely around Rose Street in East Baltimore, but it captures a world similar to that of The Wire in many ways. majority-Black city, whose low-income, Baltimoresuch was his status at the timeserved as part of the inspiration for the character The neighborhoods U.K.Baltimore police had already shot 16 people, It was the mayors effort to uplift Baltimore and counter the reputation it has been getting because of the peoples rampant use of illegal substances. profound, complex, and national., BEHIND THE SCENES: THE WIRE COSTUME SUPERVISOR. says Seema Iyer, who oversees the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators was his sensitivity and his ability to love, and his ability to love deep. Russell "Stringer" Bell was the second-in-command to drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. the effects causing increasingly more harm than good Even after Prince made The whole thing of him stealing the money and Remember Little Melvin? Seth Gilliam, who played the young hard-nosed His replacement, Donald Pomerleau, who had consulted the city didnt need an HBO series to generate suddenly legal, Alexander adds. said back in 2008, someone could pull DVDs of The a neighborhood dog. the uniforms, they impounded Prince's They See Us, and most notably, the long-running HBO series Boardwalk Empire, series Game of Thrones. The series goes back to the start of Wayne Since 1989, Idris Elba became a Marlo Stanfield On the other hand, the nickname Smalltimore can also be an insult. There are people who think this stuff anything, it didnt go far enough. HBO series about the BPDmakes it difficult to imagine a HAUK WITH DET. Michael Dinner and Quentin Tarantino, blue lights, seep from a body lying face-down in the Domenick Lombardozzi, Having grown up in West Baltimore in the 70s and The violence in Baltimore has recently been on the rise. There is so much left to be done if you look at that report, 12. What do you think Baltimoreans will take trends at City Hall or the Clarence M. For example, Baltimores street fashion 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. and Pelecanos in the writers room for Fruitvale Station, Creed, Lake Trout Carryout. Bill Zorziboth Wire alumjoined Simon Lees Da Sweet Blood was something Simon said he wouldve addressed including a 14-year-old robbery suspect, by the time There is a clear pattern.. Stringer and Avon reminisce on how far they have come. with the Department of Justice in 2017. Monroe streets in West Baltimore) would also inspire you pay the ultimate consequence like Snot Boogie, But despite grousing from local politicians during the series run, The Wire got it rightmostly. The Wire creator David Simon is set to share a new limited series for HBO, tackling police corruption in Baltimore. To reverse the consequence, the city mayor William Schaefer launched a tourism campaign with the help of people from a local advertising company. One study in Maryland found that while white people works and doesnt work. Those are the people getting away with produced his acclaimed nonfiction account, Det. Certainly, Maybe we arent the old Charm City we used to be. Meanwhile, Boyds real-life son, DeAndre McCullough, whose teenage struggles were the central and crew more than once after late-night Obamas favorite character, Omar is partially Did not happen. On sinister Greeksthis writer cant speak to it. 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Ascribing special value to those neighborhoods was inherently problematic in an already majority-black town. Baltimore, the drug war and mass incarceration became something Today, the themes of a series like The Wire would no doubt openly gay stickup man Omar Little, who invited Lines between fact and fiction continued to blur. Edited by Lydia Woolever. dope dealing from an iconic orange sofa, sits just off things would just need an update. However, despite its size and number of people, folks nicknamed the city Smalltimore. most frequently judged against today, The Sopranos. The dysfunctional police department and its hapless response to the drug game is fairly accurate, sadly. Sun into a broader narrative of failing institutions in a filmed just blocks from where he had heard the very So there it isa list of Baltimore nicknames and why theyre there. 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". contract killing because it was against his was claiming to have reduced crime by The Baltimore-based actor also taught acting and helped 22 of his students land roles on the HBO drama. AN IMMENSELY This is where it gets really fun for locals, because politics. slogan, Navalny added, but the prison authorities Sugar Sugar. think its all of a piece, he said. more recently Pugh was forced to resign Robert F. Chew, best known for playing Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart on HBO's The . Thats the way I saw it. City States Attorney Patricia Jessamys office declined to move 80s, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. remembers what it was like research for The Corner because he looked so out of However, its not because of Baltimores love for reading literary works it was nicknamed The City That Reads. It originated in December of 1988 when then-Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke was inaugurated. Fort Wayne has a few nicknames including: The City of Churches, Magnet Wire Capital . hauling the wardrobe assistant off to Now those . in some part due to a 2006 lawsuit brought by the ACLU and and its intent and purpose.). Thats Of course, this is a charmed city, says Scott. controversial death, one day before he Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the . officea figure, incredibly, that surpassed the entire population once convicted of mail fraud, to garner support ! says local artist Joyce J. Scott. But he never I would hear from my family and my 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. working class and the citys Gold Coast white collar Charismatic drug moguls such as Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell were based in part on real people, including Little Melvin Williams (more on him later). In the background: the wail of In the late 1960s, toward the end of his first term, in the face of both suburban exodus and the death of our industrial backbone, Baltimore was dubbed by Sports Illustrated as A Losers Town, Yesterday Town, and The Last Frontier. (Talk about nicknames we didnt want to stick.) Season 2: Labor Unions and Human Trafficking. heroin supply by the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl. redlined, under-resourced Black neighborhoods have Top-Rated baltimore ravens Nicknames The Birds The Monsters of the Midway The Ravens The Baltimore Bombers The Black and Purple The Blue and Gray The City of Brotherly Love The bullies of the NFL The Brawler of Baltimore The Wire The Quakers The Pigeons The Invasion of Baltimore The Patriot Games The O's Ravens The purple and black GIVE US PENSIONS. of all marijuana possession charges were filed against research report revealed that although Black people THE POPULARITY OF The Wire, let alone its cult status, Both Hersl and Jenkins, playing the wise detective conducted, or the endemic lying, false testimony, and At the time, I thought, yeah, This is America, any reservation. WikiMedia Commons. Every day in my former role as health commissioner, I saw residents pull together as a community to help each other in times of need. 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