AltWeeklies Wire
Steve Earle Talks Music, Politics and Addictionnew
Earle's resurrection after being released from jail in the mid-1990s is remarkable, and few would dispute that he is today one of the best songwriters in the world. And he always seasons his songs with powerful political messages that rise above the polemical.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Police Sociologist and Criminal Justice Prof Writes About His Experience as a Baltimore Copnew
As a critic of the justice system, Peter Moskos decided to engage this dysfunction from a very local level, from the perspective of an officer on the street. As an officer, he became a cog in the machine, patrolling Broadway, from Orleans Street to North Avenue, on the night beat.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Steve Earle on TV Roles and Winning Another Grammynew
It was a case of art imitating life when Earle found himself cast as a recovering addict on The Wire, the alt-country troubadour having suffered for years from heroin addiction before finally going clean 13 years ago.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
07-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew
Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
06-10-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Little Melvin Williams Is Not Who He Played On 'The Wire'new
Though the former gangster, whose public redemption was aided by his Wire appearances as a man of God, says he's cleaned up his act, he still considers himself a "world-class gambler."
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
03-25-2008 |
TV
David Simon: 'The Wire' Exit Interviewnew
The Baltimore-set and -shot series that debuted in 2002 is officially over following this past Sunday night's series finale. It's over. Finished. Kaput. Long live The Wire.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-12-2008 |
TV
What Happened to Our Show?new
For four seasons The Wire reinvented the crime drama. Now the viewer's the victim.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Athitakis |
02-01-2008 |
TV
Saving Gracenew
Critics have called The Wire's most unlikely star, Felicia Pearson, and her character "Snoop" one of the "most ruthlessly charismatic" murderers to ever grace the small screen.
San Diego CityBeat |
Will K. Shilling |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'The Wire' Goes On the Recordnew
David Simon turns an unblinking eye toward daily journalism with its fifth and final season.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-08-2008 |
Movies
'The Wire' Stops the Presses With Final Seasonnew
For 13 years a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Simon returns to the newspaper for The Wire's final season, folding journalism into the show's omnibus of city problems
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-03-2008 |
TV
Les Girls
The week in TV Jan. 3-9: Celebrity Apprentice, Cashmere Mafia, American Gladiators, The Wire and The L Word previewed/reviewed with unparalleled wit and insight.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
12-28-2007 |
TV
