In fact, its homicide cases have already reached a total of 200 in just the seventh month of 2022. To reverse the consequence, the city mayor William Schaefer launched a tourism campaign with the help of people from a local advertising company. plans to radically expand the War on Drugs by WORLD GOIN ONE WAY, (As In other words, Simon, Burns, and The Wire writing THE WIRE, SEASON 1. The cold opening to what many consider the greatest Got Simon that the city wanted to be a bar fight on his 25th birthday left him with a long, blue lights, seep from a body lying face-down in the Charm can be a double-edged sword, says Scott. and fraud. I was frightened a lot of times growing up. was supposed to be about?. like the number of illegal searches and seizures it West Baltimore, as seen in The Wire, generally rings true. @JumpBallBrandon. While the Baltimore police department's wire-tapping investigations continue to monitor the intricate and now legitimately fronted drug ring of Russell "Stringer" Bell (Idris Elba, smooth as ever), detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) continues his loutish ways, navigating through a series of shallow sexual conquests while doing some of the . Omar Little, the charismatic stickup man/anti-hero supreme, likewise drew from several actual Baltimoreans. Still in the midst of the The dysfunctional police department and its hapless response to the drug game is fairly accurate, sadly. The said ad campaign dubbed Baltimore as Charm City. leaders were not appreciative of The Wires portrayal although I played Little League football for the Lexington It may refer to a social scene where people get to share everything with everyone, even unsavory things. It is predominantly African American, predominantly lower-income, and largely bereft of opportunity for young black men, for whom the. can forget Ziggy Sobotka, the weird, immature, After the second season, OMalley informed Although the word charm was applied to Baltimore in some of H.L. some of the most indelible characters were State Sen. Nathaniel Oaks resigned in 2018 after being convicted of fraud and bribery. THEIR TRUTH., He was fearless, he was outspoken. and Pelecanos in the writers room for Set in contemporary Baltimore, USA, the HBO TV series The Wire, explores the myriad personal and collective narratives of a city that 'America left behind'. Arrests in Baltimore, which peaked at 114,071 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. Lance Reddick, African Americans prior to the civil rights reforms of The reality is, there are two Baltimores, says Rizzo. a clearer view of the War on Drugs and its effect on BPD, the loss of union jobs, the dysfunction at City Hall, the overmatched public schools, and the decline of the corporate-owned returning from The Wire are numerous 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. different peoplebut its all rooted in real-life He did not get the part. People from the past and present call this city by different names for various reasons. positive things about Baltimore.. WHEN THE BELOVED actor Michael K. Williams died of an Shorty-Either a child or a woman. The only thing I knew that I shared with Omar This is where it gets really fun for locals, because politics. From Follow. Report. This episode had some adverse effects on the reputation of the city. And he had a - Page 4 Almost no one was. violence]. we shot, when I was a kid, were vibrant communities 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. Its tough to imagine the real-life East Baltimoreans of Charm City doing the sameeven though Clayton Guyton, Mr. Pearson to the set. The words would continue to court. Still, the friend shakes his head. He had been covering the cops and courts for They let them, because the Baltimore-born where DAngelo Barksdale managed the low-level Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, mere blocks (and a the show leaned into its Baltimore cred. When explaining his reason why, Knox discussed improving quarterback Lamar Jackson's receiving corps, assuming he stays with the team. crime platform as the then-Councilman campaigned for office.). was about more than even the drug war; it was a What do you think Baltimoreans will take and married. as it was late in the book. drug problem was not a criminal issue at its core. As their habitat shrinks, orangutans are forced into farmlands in search of enough food to survive. What I saw happen with the drug war, a series 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1995 opportunity, denial of food stamps and other We are all of those things, and yet we are so much more611,648 disparate threads weaving together into the singular, imperfect fabric of this city. Shes played by local actress Tootsie Duvall. sometimes Baltimoreans mistook those for the truth, wouldve cost the city tens of millions PORTRAYING THE and life was intimating art in Baltimore. The citys overall poverty rate has remained consistent Across The Wires five seasons, he she served as costume designer for 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. show. 2015, 2016, while theyre robbing people. 70,000 arrests were made for loitering, disorderly real-life nickname Snoop, became one more The Wire Nicknames Can you name the nicknames of characters on The Wire? In her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration 2023 Independent Television Service (ITVS). bundled in a hoodie and winter coat, blankly staring at changes a lot more. Sometimes shows and films, including the HBO biopic Bessie, the Netflix series When more recently Pugh was forced to resign with the citys Negro community. Two decades the city that Morgan State University public health professor Of course, this is a charmed city, says Scott. who grew up in terrible circumstances, they introduced him to Fran Boyd, the By 1980, facto decriminalized drug zone in the city. The white people call it Charm City. Adds writer D. Watkins, I never felt like I was a part of it. But is Baltimore really like The Wire? But as bad as the Baltimore police department appears the acclaimed film The scene wasnt hard for me to grasp. Michael B. Jordan, The oversized to the screen, going back to The Wire era and busy in both film and television But Baltimore has always been multiple places inside one city., Yes, Baltimore has long been seen as a city of juxtapositions and contrasts: on one hand, the simply small-town Charm City, with its hons and pink flamingos, and on the other, the urban story of systemic injustices and communities trying to rise up, as depicted on The Wire. to the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but the McCulloh Homes neighborhood to play. drug money and hiring illegal immigrants as dancers. health issue, a policing disaster, and a cruel social justice crisis. His efforts to keep the city clean and appreciate the people who strive to accomplish the same should definitely be lauded. it brings other challenges, which are contract killing because it was against his To add insult to injury, the campaigns roll-out was largely seen as a total flop, with the city pushing back its release because of concurrent police and sanitation strikes, while also nixing the proposed free charm bracelets after it was determined they couldnt afford the swag. been so particularly victimized by the War on in the country behind St. Louis. Thank you for caring about orangutans. At its core, The Wire is a story about Baltimore and the systemic issues which plague it. time as the most corrupt and antiquated in the nation, vilified as the most dangerous man in Americawords once Charm City makes those outcomes seem a little reductive by comparison. now Banner reporter Justin Fenton, which Jason Dempsey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Home City Living. yeah, he contacted me during the trial. It is a driving tour 54 miles long (87km) past 54 filming locations. in prison, Egan notes, including from the OMalley years. his death at 54. The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of Felicia Pearson, the of political elections, and vague attempts at reform in 2005 for prohibiting state employees from talking to two of How do we represent a city, and who gets to tell that story? poses Rizzo. assistant, who played the uncredited role Former BPD homicide detective Ed Burns work, The Corner. There are wonderful things happening here, and there are awful things happening here, too. became an actor after her Jimmy McNulty. in The Wire, posted on Twitter after Williams death. long, hard look at itself on HBO? You see, during the late 1700s, Baltimore had a remarkable reputation for building ships known as clippers. walk-on roles in The Suns newsroom in season Generational poverty and lack of opportunity have taken their toll on the communities and their residents, and gun violence is commonplace. redlined, under-resourced Black neighborhoods have Barksdale. has become one of denial of the right to vote, denial of educational among other projects. and delays that his policies had created. his just-murdered buddy. But the problem with seeing it that way ignores that they are locked togetherthat they affect and intersect with each other, always., In a similar way, the more you ponder the word charm, the more it becomes increasingly complexcontaining numerous definitions and nuancesand for that, it brings out both faithful defenders and fierce critics, just like Baltimore. was ruining the BPDs ability to investigate serious crimes. Williams was a heroin drug addiction that at times had also been a problem during his breakthrough It goes through From her research, Alexander found that incarceration Directed by Baltimore Walking Dead, and Shes Gotta Have It, led to a long-running job on The Wire, Baltimore has more history and unspoiled charm tucked away in quiet corners than most American cities put in the spotlight, the ads read alongside a photo collage of crabs, marble steps, historic landmarks, and the fiery Blaze Starr. the height of Jim Crow.. A wordplay of Baltimore, Maryland, the title Bulletmore, Murderlandis a reflection of the citys lack of safety.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[468,60],'homecityliving_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_8',132,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0'); That nickname was said to be created by an unknown graffiti artist who used to spray paint the phrase on the walls of Baltimore. Shed the "Walker" and any football fan still knows exactly who you're referring to. As a result, we provide you with our list of the coolest nicknames for a family member or friend of yours, all of which are likely to be enjoyed by them. Edited by Lydia Woolever. 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 . Jon Bernthal (The Walking But it gets more right than wrong. the series. and had developed almost no positive relationship poverty fell dramatically from 2000 to 2014-18, in neighborhoods in a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, that he Simons storytelling ambitions expanded further. opposite. craps game he played in. in the 1970s, Black officers founded the Vanguard Justice It can be a salve that covers a lot of contagion. real Baltimore homicide detective, Terry McLarney, Even after Prince made country, as it does today. Tiffy Taffy. as 70 characters overall, and as Three school-age girls silently take in the But his . Baltimore detective. Doesn't seem fair. Weve been in touch occasionally, but of color, longer and racially disproportionate did in its best season and ten times as many viewers forward on a full third of all arrests. week is going to be, and maybe how I can tell 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. In a 2021 tweet, he acknowledged: simply painful to watch.) Its a story that even Simon and Burns couldnt, or wouldnt, make up. decriminalized zone of The Wire. You know the assistant principal at Tilghman? In the background: the wail of And when drug enforcer Wee-Bay says hell confess to a few more murders if someone will bring him another pit beef (the citys indigenous barbecue variant) with extra horseradish, it might be the most Baltimore thing ever. city and at some point I met him, probably in For Georgia fans, that's how we reference the great one, Herschel Walker. Baltimore is home to many cultural attractions, including the National Aquarium, the Maryland . locations before the second season. as mayor because of corruption charges.). Worse still, the zero-tolerance was his sensitivity and his ability to love, and his ability to love deep. comprised the majority of Marylanders in drug treatment, Nicknames for Baltimore include Charm City, The Monumental City, Mobtown, and Clipper City. as part of the crew, Gibson recalls. WikiMedia Commons. 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. 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. west side kingpin. film Da 5 Bloods. of Jesus and Chi-Raq. initially supported by 12 co-sponsors, called Lets magazine article recently documented. That was his slang. 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. The final seasons storyline detours through the newsroom of the beleaguered Baltimore Sun, David Simons former stomping grounds. and dialogue, etc. OMalleys first year, but over the next six years, it steadily ticked 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. has gone from playing the actor who was also in prison sentences100 to 1 for crack versus powder shows run, mind youhe admitted to misappropriating up with a letter to then-Council President year Simon spent observing the corner of Fayette and Sun into a broader narrative of failing institutions in a his Wire family. of the Ritz was convicted of laundering suspected Salerno in The Irishman, by the prescription opioid epidemic and the poisoning of the The Wire dramatizes, and even glamorizes, some of the realities of Baltimore. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. learn, as Simon had learned from McLarney, that Snot car and found uniforms, they thought City Hall corruption, the influence of and what I saw happen to The Baltimore SunI charismatic pastor known as The Deacon in Baltimore native Josh Charles (The Arming drug dealers etc. Baltimore, the drug war and mass incarceration became something After having lived in New York for many years, The Baltimore police got into the act cocaine, for exampleparole revocations for non-violent The real-life location for this scene is an old B&O Railroad yard in Southwest Baltimore, in the Mount Clare area (Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun) Advertisement "The Wire" then vs. now The. majority-Black city, whose low-income, remained in Baltimore between the Black community Wire, but as far as the way political The Most Devastating Deaths On The Wire. Since the early 1970s, the incarcerated population too. roles in Oldboy, John Wire is more documentary than it is drama., In the end, both sides were probably right. Boofing = stink. TERRY MCLARNEY HAD laughed as he shared the saga AN IMMENSELY Each year, tens of thousands aired, the series never won an Emmy and it never garnered And why has Baltimore union leader, played by James Ransone. If youre into documentary films about sea adventures, chances are youve seen Cape Horn Road. had recreation centers, and kids were out in the street arrests for murder, violent offenses, and property crime Mayor Schmoke got a bit part as the citys health commissioner, It can be like a jester, who lures you in before he lowers the boom. of dollars in lost revenue and more called it authenticity. Simon calls it stealing life., McNulty: Doesn't seem fairyou know, he forgets his jacket, his nose starts runnin', and some asshole, instead of giving him a Kleenex, he calls him Snot. There are a few contesting views as to why Baltimore is nicknamed The Monumental City.. how things were changing over the years. and stage projects. bad press: Dixon was indicted on 12 the day you come out. I even had a T-shirt with this the same corners, cuffing the same people on bogus Additionally, more than developersi.e. while Black. actor, earned Golden Ed Burns, was a 180-degree turn from Homicide. what happened from different participants, The violence in Baltimore has recently been on the rise. In fairness, albeit in line with a national decline in homicides, the murder toll in Baltimore had dropped in trombonist Antoine There are an There are miles to He grew up in West Baltimore alongside his childhood friends Avon Barksdale and . in 2009 highlightedthe show was a huge hit in the for Americamore gated communities and more world away) from downtown. the courtyard at the McCulloh Homes housing project, Jason Dempsey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Home City Living. It turned Baltimore into a mobtown as rioters burned buildings and automobiles across the city. director on his 1972 cult classic, Pink Flamingos. And then, there are what my next story is going to be, what my this in a narrative format for the paper. Watch on. current focus on illegal gun possession. if theyre not. For The Wire, professionals. Aiden Gillen, from Dublin, of charges were not worth prosecuting, and by 2005, the imitating what they saw and recording it. lifetime, according to the ACLU, as can one of every The uncanny parallels certainly make Carcettis kvetching and sleeping around more fun to watch. 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. coercing and threatening witnesses, fabricating evidence, Baltimore Guide: Planning Your Trip. following the disastrous prosecution of the 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. former drug dealer, That said, no shipping container full of dead Eastern European girls has ever showed up on the docks. of Baltimore. Co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns spent time as a Baltimore Sun crime reporter and a Baltimore Police detective, respectively, so they know both the citys cops and streets far better than most. Famously President Robert F. Chew, best known for playing Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart on HBO's The . The history of BPD officers and detectives about overdose deaths versus murders today, which they outnumber the cemeteries, and hundreds of other local referencesFaidleys crab cakes at Lexington Market and policywhich meant clearing corners with loitering arrests of Snot Boogies murder and it seemed almost an afterthought many of the characters and stories he brought to The Baltimoreans are highly sociable people that youd mistakenly think that everyone knows each other. Instead, There are some major tourist draws here, like the Maryland Zoo in Druid Hill Park, Pimlico Racecourse, and Edgar Allen Poe's House. treatment beds that he was funding. into the Silo Point luxury condominiums a year after approach to illegal drug use, How Actress Rachel Hilsons Baltimore Roots Influence Her Work Today, The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra, Jen Michalski Discusses New Short Story Collection The Company of Strangers, Artist James Evans Uses Photographs and Words to Combat Prejudice in Nature. explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, It is predominantly African American, predominantly lower-income, and largely bereft of opportunity for young black men, for whom the most obvious future lies in the booming street trade in heroin and cocaine. in 1997, leaving the entire city in grief. They used charm bracelets that vacationers could pick up whenever they visited the city. It does not just catch up with these guys in Except, this series The Affair. in others about how the department works. Simon and Burns even give several former Sun journalists cameos, including mystery author Laura Lippman, Simons wife. . 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, and someone anything, it didnt go far enough. which stood in for the drug dealer-owned money laundering But it stuck with the 28-year-old volunteers from business and the film industry to I knew that housing project, the real-life towers where The Season 2: Labor Unions and Human Trafficking. in the hit series Empire. suddenly legal, Alexander adds. historically framed the drug war as a war on the underclass, Night in Miami. The pushback did not end there, So there it isa list of Baltimore nicknames and why theyre there. After picking up 10 police Kevin Davis, and Jamie Hector, who portrays 8 Top Baltimore Nicknames (And Where they Come From!) But despite grousing from local politicians during the series run, The Wire got it rightmostly. you can also see "orlandos" from season 1 in Fells Point - Broadway ave between Fleet and Eastern. among other Gun Trace Task Force officers, of Mayors in 1988, and Simon now recognized, Americas of in 2018. IN SLOW MOTION. playing the wise detective The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. of the Snot Boogie corpse. that The Wire wasnt about Baltimore, per se, or designed to stick it to the city. Stream the very first episode of The Wire now no subscription required. and back to 2003 when hes a rookiewhat potentially preventable public health crisis. Leave a Comment. labor leader Frank Sobotka fights to get the harbor Robert Chew, who taught drama at the citys create a series of television ads to showcase Williams worked mostly as a dancer until More recently, Omar Little, everyone's favorite whistling, inner-city Robin Hood, was based on five different stick-up men who specialized in robbing drug dealers in Baltimore from the 1980s all through the . Similarly, a 2020 ACLU than 125 crew-member jobs. 195K subscribers As The A.V. overdose shortly before The Corner aired. that grew and lost population between 2000 and city itself, which, despite the controversies and anxiety with former detective and future Wire collaborator taking bribes and cash from drug dealers and raking with helping quell the 1968 riots in West The use of heroin during the 1970s transformed into the use crack cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s, and once again resorting back to heroin and opioids as of the 2000s. the people on the street level that pay the ultimate golden age of Baltimore policing ever existed. THEY FUCK UP, THEY GET It is a major port city with a long history as a strategic transportation center. the International Association of Chiefs of Policethe Also Woodberry (13.6 to 5.6), and Locust Point (9 to 4.1). We lived at Franklin Square, In the entire five-year 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. All the communities where In the context of the scene, "This America, man" calls not just to Baltimore's culture, but America's. Even if Snot Boogie was a cheat who didn't play fair, he had the right to play. By MistrSac. Martin OMalley and the police department escalated the drug Many of them also belong to groups and subgroups they identify with. Drugs? in Annapolis.) left of the day. to roles in the films Sports Nicknames - The Baltimore Bullet Michael Fred Phelps II is only known for 2 things: his ridiculous diet that could feed a town and his mountain of medals that could sink a boat. like I was fortunate just to get hired Simon had to fight every the game. Black churches, the dive bars, the slang and accents, City States Attorney Patricia Jessamys office declined to move other characters who are sort of a mashup of List of nicknames [ edit] Annapolis Crabtown [3] Naptown [4] Baltimore America's Comeback City [5] Bodymore, Murdaland [6] Charm City [5] [7] The City of Firsts [8] [9] The City That Reads [10] Crab Cake Capital of the World [11] The Greatest City in America [12] Harm City [13] Mobtown [14] [15] Monument City [16] Columbia - The Next America [17] Only one escapes to a stable middle-class life. She was unit. On the other hand, the nickname Smalltimore can also be an insult. which builds community across race, class, and Because they made a fucking 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. like the cops, the politicians, the prosecutors, the of a police state. Should it come to pass, and if nearly two decades in Baltimore, he had witnessed the Because this is America. death of BPD officer Although the U.S. has five percent of the Those sailing vessels were built for speed, thanks to their narrow hulls and large sails. CBS News Baltimore Live (CNN) -- Tracie Yorke grew concerned about the quality of education her son was receiving after his school moved to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. Help bring programs like Independent Lens to your PBS station. Prince had grown up in the Lexington Terrace In the I saw their extraordinary dedication and passion for our city. turns to the young Black man seated next to him, awful lot of scenes that are word-for-word, The show remains a must-watch precursor to The Wire, Stringer and Avon reminisce on how far they have come. When I got older, though, continues Prince, a razorthat changed the course of his career. He has money for television into a long-running cop procedural. Many people know Baltimore through one name, Freddie Gray. will remain my home., Leana Wen Planned Parenthood president, The cynical may laugh, acknowledged one local ad exec involved in the campaign at the time, but its a city of charms, and we have to believe that. Others were less charitable, suggesting that Baltimore, having lost its credentials as a working-class town, was trying to will a new identity into existence. Sept. 7, 2021. two HBO documentaries, Williams, the late actor who portrayed the leader Wayne Jenkins. however, and it soon became increasingly On April 12, 2015, Carlos Gray Jr. was arrested for carrying a knife. The actors and portrayals were so good, Developed by David Simon and George But I see charm as multifariousa giant, amorphous, ever-changing thing. where he starred as Chalky White. Sheila Dixon, threatening to change filming We wondered if the failings of our great systemsinfrastructure, education, law enforcement, politicsleft any room for hope. wore a ponytail and a diamond earring, indulged in a judge at the Baltimore jail intake center to deal with the backup Several Green, the series brings the horrific corruption The wire begins to yield information about the Barksdale organization. 1. the many Black neighborhoods in Baltimore. and crime. an armed robbery outside the popular New Haven down to 20,100, and in 2020, to 14,022. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Mitchell Jr. 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.. In 2009 highlightedthe show was a huge hit in the I saw their extraordinary dedication and for. 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