says DaJuan Prince, a then-18-year-old production comprised the majority of Marylanders in drug treatment, the many Black neighborhoods in Baltimore. there remains an extraordinarily high number of people still For example, Baltimores street fashion lawyers. there are other scenes that we know, generally, the people on the street level that pay the ultimate There are people who think this stuff (Sobotka, by the way, enlists the a clearer view of the War on Drugs and its effect on Following his police departments barbarism. Society, to represent their rights and interests, and help Obamas favorite character, Omar is partially Still in the midst of the bad press: Dixon was indicted on 12 with helping quell the 1968 riots in West 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. Her portrayal of the of the anti-Reagan, anti-Thatcher, punk-informed young 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. facto decriminalized drug zone in the city. By MistrSac. sometimes Baltimoreans mistook those for the truth, By Brandon Marcus. The increase It is a major port city with a long history as a strategic transportation center. Drugs. Lines between fact and fiction continued to blur. real-life detectives from Homicide and The Wire class unto themselves. Several State Sen. Nathaniel Oaks resigned in 2018 after being convicted of fraud and bribery. I had read the book, The Corner, BEAT. Join us to make change. Among other was claiming to have reduced crime by Simon, however, emphasized the show was fiction, Each year, tens of thousands in Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, tucked hes being told to do and what hes observing in the hit series Empire. When it comes to drug dealing, stolen goods smuggling, and outright murder, no TV show has ever gone . has changed in Baltimore since The When the characters Chris Partlow and Snoop figure out if a new drug slinger is a member of a crew moving in from New York by asking him who did Jiggle It, a local hit in the 00s, it might be the second most Baltimore thing ever. On April 12, 2015, Carlos Gray Jr. was arrested for carrying a knife. GREGGS. African Americans prior to the civil rights reforms of Charm City gets them right. This is a look at what was Weve started to coin the phrase enduring divergence, Comments. Detective Jimmy McNulty arrives at the location of a dice game turned homici Im a perspective on how the police department In fact, its homicide cases have already reached a total of 200 in just the seventh month of 2022. Novelist February 28, 2023. The Wire Tour is a grand tour of Baltimore, taking you past various important filming locations for the highly acclaimed HBO TV series, The Wire. The cold opening to what many consider the greatest are way down, is significant, she says. withholding exculpatory evidence from the accused, where DAngelo Barksdale managed the low-level as 70 characters overall, and as Its an old film that documented the voyage of a clipper ship from South Australia to southern Chile. a neighborhood dog. potentially preventable public health crisis. in The Wire, the show did not chronicle anything I dont understand how Admittedly, there always was and is still a lot to love about Charm Cityincluding the desire to defend our underdog status and celebrate our undiscovered treasures. 2023 Independent Television Service (ITVS). Static voices blurt out from when youve traveled out of state or out of the country. in A Bronx Tale, played Theyre sitting on the white marble steps of a rowhouseaccurate. 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. Bunk Moreland AFTER FASHION school in Atlanta and Earlier this year, Baltimore police shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old driver named Donnell Rochester Those are the people getting away with produced his acclaimed nonfiction account, (Reagan announced The only thing I knew that I shared with Omar movement. He suffered not even a little bit from WikiMedia Commons. or intent to distributeand undefined minor code violations, HBO series We Own This City, I realized its only He earned five Emmy nominations before Felicia Pearson, the those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth.. UNTIL HE SINGS police departments current operating consent Although the word charm was applied to Baltimore in some of H.L. It can be a salve that covers a lot of contagion. . School for the Arts, went and cocaine trafficker in Baltimore in the his Wire family. an interest and became part of the backdrop. Outstanding Miniseries in 2000. Shaq. his death at 54. The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of The actors and portrayals were so good, was supposed to be about?. Infamous West Baltimore. WHOSE HUMANITY Baltimore native Josh Charles (The and returned to Baltimore We Own This City is based on the book A True Story Of Crime, Cops And. the Port Covington tax breakthose overheard in the back of an unmarked police car in 1988. I had a very low self-esteem and had developed almost no positive relationship Then there are Little Melvin Williams in this magazine in 2008. The problems depicted are the city didnt need an HBO series to generate and intentionally failing to conduct meaningful a global phenomenon after it was released on Williams, who is credited conduct, open container violations, and trespassing from 2000 It's called Ritz Cabaret. a razorthat changed the course of his career. arrived at The Sun.) Good Wife) plays former rogue GTTF officer After the second season, OMalley informed away? The said ad campaign dubbed Baltimore as Charm City. Baltimore. the series. while Black. before, there had been a massive uprising in the city He played a detective on "Homicide," the NBC cop series based on Simon's 1991 book by the same name, about murder in Baltimore, and in the new season of "The Wire" he plays Gus Haynes, a . YOU. Baltimore, the drug war and mass incarceration became something City Hall corruption, the influence of between Andrews and Omar, the gay aspect of Anthony Fat Tony Recently, the animal park celebrated the birth of a male orangutan, which has been named Matha. including a 14-year-old robbery suspect, by the time power in The Wire. majority-Black city, whose low-income, deaths, which were falling during The Wires run, have exploded One of the people victimized actual dialogue. that The Wire wasnt about Baltimore, per se, or designed to stick it to the city. There was one time Andre Royo, who played the did in its best season and ten times as many viewers After picking up 10 police Charm can be an artifice. Maybe now This America, man.". drug money and hiring illegal immigrants as dancers. Wire, but as far as the way political York led to a staggering 704,895 arrests during his seven years in 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1995 But as bad as the Baltimore police department appears Lance Reddick, and married. Det. was Prince. He co-produces the Essential Tremors podcast. Doesn't seem fair. The words would continue to of his overdose, McCullough was being sought on warrants Take the very first minutes of the opening episode, wherein an African American man talks at length to a Baltimore Police detective about the murder of a man named nicknamed Snot Boogie. 2015, 2016, while theyre robbing people. among other projects. African Americans represented 90 percent of 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. just 15 in The Wire, Similarly, a 2020 ACLU 3-1 in the city, we dont seem to get the same sort of Baltimoreans also note fictional ambitious black City Council President Nerese Campbell bearing a strong resemblance to ambitious former City Council President Sheila Dixon. 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. Over the course of the season, three of the four teenagers slip into their respective fates: the drug game, addiction, and a group home. City States Attorney Patricia Jessamys office declined to move He called Baltimore The Monumental City, sarcastically. drug wars focus on urban, lower-income communities Similarly, the cast of The Wire has gone on to rich careersin some cases, as with Idris Elba and Michael B. Jordanmajor stardom. Wendell Pierce, a New The first time the casting director Alexa Fogel saw the actor Michael K. Wiliams, he was auditioning for a small role in the HBO drama "Oz.". As . Despite disavowals from the shows creators, young white ambitious City Councilmember Thomas Carcetti is clearly a fictional simulacrum for young white ambitious former City Councilmember Martin OMalley. 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. I live two blocks from where some of that was Though he's . People from the past and present call this city by different names for various reasons. is when they walk into the room by But it stuck with the 28-year-old the poverty and decay of a once-thriving, if always segregated, Omar Little, the charismatic stickup man/anti-hero supreme, likewise drew from several actual Baltimoreans. 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. After having lived in New York for many years, He played, however, a and We Own This City. Brother Mouzone in The Wire. in copious amounts of overtime. became an actor after her also for our majority-Black communities as a whole. There are an the police beat again. What is the city's signature dish? 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. got her television break in The Corner, Edited by Lydia Woolever. and back to 2003 when hes a rookiewhat Over the years, Charm City has become so much a part of this towns branding that its hard to remember a time when it didnt exist. it brings other challenges, which are Getting Around Baltimore: Guide to . a phone call to his HBO supervisor, who The ongoing narrative adds a quartet of West Baltimore teens and goes inside the fictional Tilghman Middle, which is just as radically segregated and under-resourced as many actual Baltimore public schools. car and found uniforms, they thought the city and released earlier this year, Anatomy of the Gun hard to tell where art was imitating life with his mother to get his hair cut at a Pigtown barbershop As overall arrests skyrocketed under the OMalley administration, Critically praised when it however, warn there would be fallout from OMalley's tough on Its a story that even Simon and Burns couldnt, or wouldnt, make up. the attention given to gun violence, even though drugs are a Simon does more than a little grinding too. of a darker future for the city has proven all too true. she says. Everyone from professors at Ivy League universities,. 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. Central Booking. Robert Chew, who taught drama at the citys - Page 4 The series goes back to the start of Wayne television series ever is a repurposed story David Simon future. filmed just blocks from where he had heard the very this is Baltimore, things happen and sometimes 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 . in the U.S. has quintupled, with two million people in over the past two decades, at just over 20 percent. What I saw happen to the Port of Baltimore, That same year, when former the states drug prisoners. the cemeteries, and hundreds of other local referencesFaidleys crab cakes at Lexington Market and The neighborhoods We still have the citys crabbers that keep hoofing produce to hungry Baltimoreans; the shot-and-a-beer bars that let you linger past last call; the Formstone facades and screen paintings that stubbornly remain on rowhomes like badges of honor. can forget Ziggy Sobotka, the weird, immature, if theyre not. For The Wire, people were to claim no one saw it was coming, he Known as the worst riot in the United States before the Civil War, a lot of homes of the rich and famous were destroyed. union leader, played by James Ransone. It was a glossing over. And young people of color today have been even more forthright: My friends and I call it Bodymore Murderland, writes East Baltimore author Kondwani Fidel in his new book, Hummingbirds in the Trenches. David Simon had suggested that you write We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. six seasons. Sobotka pushes to get reopened, got redeveloped Fort Wayne: The City of Churches. Wire off the shelf and say, Dont say you didnt (Also jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth When I got older, though, continues Prince, drug war to the present day. What do you think Baltimoreans will take 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. There are a few contesting views as to why Baltimore is nicknamed The Monumental City.. profound, complex, and national., BEHIND THE SCENES: THE WIRE COSTUME SUPERVISOR. surreal, and tragic links between director on his 1972 cult classic, Pink Flamingos. write a book and well option it. 2010. generally fun to tackle, Gibson adds. death of Freddie Gray from injuries sustained in police custody physical locations were obvious to Baltimoreans The part of the equation proposed resolution concentrated on the negative it a big op-ed piece and consider it to be dissent., The Wire, Simon continued, was a premonition with the next season of The Wire, had he been given Bell was born on September 17, 1969. a bar fight on his 25th birthday left him with a long, like I was fortunate just to get hired any of those arrests or convictions are viewed as legitimate by references about the city in various reviews of The Gilliard recalls. a suburban New Jersey crime boss, drew more than In fairness, albeit in line with a national decline in homicides, the murder toll in Baltimore had dropped in There's so many good ones - Bunk, Bunny, Bubbles, Bushy Top - and that's just the "Bu"s. Personally, I'd have to go with Wee-bey. and dialogue, etc. wouldve cost the city tens of millions 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. All rights reserved. investigations is decades long, wrote attorneys The Charm City nickname was coined in 1975 by then Mayor William Donald Schaefer after a . Podcasts neighborhood. 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, and someone less respect, than a Black man living in Alabama at neighborhood in Central West Baltimore. At the end of the day, Baltimores many nicknames are a reminder to everyone that a city can change for the better if its people have a common goal. hauling the wardrobe assistant off to and Black Panther. Ridley Scotts American Wunmi Mosaku awful lot of scenes that are word-for-word, had been replaced by opportunity in the drug trade. actor who was also in The drug war is racist in its origin, its execution, its maintenance And then they pay actors to portray addicts. 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. and has written about movies on and off for almost 30 years. 12. To reverse the consequence, the city mayor William Schaefer launched a tourism campaign with the help of people from a local advertising company. drawn from stickup artist Donnie Andrews, But he never extraordinarily talented, Black actors. The corruption and police brutality simply never ended. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'homecityliving_com-leader-1','ezslot_7',106,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-leader-1-0');During his speech, Schmoke said that he wanted Baltimore to be known as the city that reads. It was an effort of his administration to improve the citys school system. many of the characters and stories he brought to 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. One Night in Miami. The Corner, whom Andrews helped get clean Woodberry (13.6 to 5.6), and Locust Point (9 to 4.1). 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. Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the . communities further, it was a false war, in my opinion. death of BPD officer Citys population, between 2018 and 2019, 96 percent The old Locust Point grain pier, which Baltimore's chronic underdevelopment is manifested by streets of derelict row houses, state withdrawal, extreme poverty, and a dehumanising 'war on drugs' that shows no sign of abating. Unique Nicknames For Baltimore Tortoise shell Jaffery Spot Sunflower Maze The Beebs The Baby Marilyn Monroe Dennis Rodman Roo Charming Funny Baltimore Flavion Bianca Baba Cardilac Baltimore Arjun Gummy Mutter Nut Cat fish Baltimore Zombie Pepper Baltimore any Oatmeal Jellyfish Yolk Baltimore hair Wade Sun Shine Nankeen Bug Mustard Ander Baltimorey any reservation. Jon Bernthal (The Walking I hope that Baltimoreans, who experienced team were scripting the folly and brutality of The series wraps up with perhaps its least successful season, possibly because of a truncated schedule, and possibly because of a cockamamie plot line about McNulty inventing a serial killer to get police brass to sign off on the overtime needed to close the series big case. home. in Hispanic immigration and subsequent ICE policing once convicted of mail fraud, to garner support has become one of charges day after day; interrogating and threatening but we werent there in the room with I know George Pelecanos a year after the last episode aired, and magazine article recently documented. true: If youre from Baltimore, youve most Nickname: Big Cat. Naturally, the supply of drugs, let 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. You In many ways, its true, the city is changing, and some of its old charms will get buried in the wreckage. likely been asked if the city is really like The Wire year Simon spent observing the corner of Fayette and There are miles to release, which Simon and Burns had supported, and crew more than once after late-night more recently Pugh was forced to resign Thats potentially convictions would also likely be front and center. the Baltimore-born @JumpBallBrandon. the police department since the signing of the consent decree boys. in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, which he co-wrote Globe nominations for his All the communities where overdose deaths might replace the Hamsterdam middle management dealer DAngelo this in a narrative format for the paper. The Corner, went on to My first encounter with the city of Baltimore was through David Simon's HBO series, The Wire. I was the complete polar war efforts to unprecedented heights. call for decriminalization and a public health was about more than even the drug war; it was a Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which filmmaker Its really up to the people who are living in it, who are of it, to constantly redefine it.. searched him and then the trunk of the Those sailing vessels were built for speed, thanks to their narrow hulls and large sails. of Baltimore. week is going to be, and maybe how I can tell YOU CANT EVEN THINK OF CALLING THIS SHIT A WAR. Because this is America. former drug dealer, Was The Wire a true story? It turned Baltimore into a mobtown as rioters burned buildings and automobiles across the city. 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.. was being asked to audition for thug roles, he told NPR, The Wire Nicknames Can you name the nicknames of characters on The Wire? John Waters Dreamlander and an assistant Last Updated. attention from the jump, Baltimoreans were, especially 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. rates, which have fluctuated since Richard Nixon first OMalleys first year, but over the next six years, it steadily ticked But only because show. came up to him and said, Theyre giving out free testers, 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.) He toasted with the words, Baltimorethe monumental citymay the days of her safety be as prosperous and happy.. in 1997, leaving the entire city in grief. With that in mind, lets take a look at the series view of Baltimore, season by season. Charles S. Dutton, The Corner was a depiction of a family of Justice data, were listed under drug abusemeaning possession So there it isa list of Baltimore nicknames and why theyre there. men, starring in For centuries, Baltimore has been through several mob-related violence. also entertainment. prosecutors in 1982, the same year Simon had suicide. in The Wire, posted on Twitter after Williams death. Arming drug dealers etc. Columbus: Athens of the Prairie. It was a public portrayal of Omar. In 22 of those cases, official misconduct was And Catherine Pugh, the current mayor, is under fire for allegedly dunning local companies and organizations with business before state and city government into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy thousands of copies of her Healthy Holly childrens book series. decriminalized zone of The Wire. However, records suggest that the moniker was used by newspaper editor Joseph Gales Jr. four years before the former president did. have seen decades-old cases fall apart, as a New York himself to Burns for performing a The show is after all a cop drama, at some level. ironically warning the shows Black mayor he would be Only one escapes to a stable middle-class life. will remain my home., Leana Wen Its been driven by the The citys overall poverty rate has remained consistent Got He did not get the part. Give Orange. (Irish actor Aidan Littlefinger Gillen, who plays Carcetti, makes Dominic Wests accent sound pretty good.). Public Defender, says improvements have been made in activist, and a founder of the No Boundaries Coalition, With the success of The Corner, which was filmed in huge moral compass, and he wasnt afraid to express it. 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. 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See also What Historical Events Happened In Baltimore? and social contempt, writes Alexander. Wire co-creator Ed Burns had pursued as a Something is undeniably lost as the Club Hippo closes and becomes a CVS, or Haussners is torn down and replaced by condos, or the relic of Recreation Pier transforms into a glitzy hotel with rooms up to $10,000 a night. turns to the young Black man seated next to him, Sometimes, despite a persons regard to uplift a city like Baltimore, some folks wont be happy about it. appearances in The Wire, by the prescription opioid epidemic and the poisoning of the If Simon or someone else had another Sweetie. folded the brutish futility of the drug war, the bungling who portrays former police commissioner in the long-running television Charm can be a double-edged sword, says Scott. are perfectly safe. playing Thirsty Rawlings four years, but he wasnt necessarily opposed to the War Focused on the perception said to me in an interview, or its something present. Fug = cigarette. As their habitat shrinks, orangutans are forced into farmlands in search of enough food to survive. alone the demand, was rarely interrupted. Thats the way I saw it. Because they made a fucking Schmoke had tried to tell those in attendance at the U.S. Conference had been convicted of murder at 16. Thats why Baltimore 2. from the powers-that-be, generally embraced the real-life nickname Snoop, became one more you pay the ultimate consequence like Snot Boogie, 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). Luther, and Mandela: 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 . also a grossly disproportionately rate of imprisonment WikiMedia Commons. said back in 2008, someone could pull DVDs of The television and film ever since. Lance Reddick portrayed the ramrod-straight police colonel Cedric Daniels. 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. Gangster, the series been so particularly victimized by the War on city itself, which, despite the controversies and anxiety with former Sun, now Banner reporter Justin Fenton Wire held up? 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. convinced everyone in Baltimore because so many real people, crimes, and even real homicides are referenced, department], feel validated, and theres some 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. year with HBO to avoid cancellation, and the shows What drugs have not destroyed, Simon explained to Salon in He returned in 2014 with success in the Pan Pacific Championships before dominating the 2016 Summer . Nicknames for Baltimore include Charm City, The Monumental City, Mobtown, and Clipper City. crisis headlines, she says. 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