continues. 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. filmed just blocks from where he had heard the very such series as Army Wives, Treme, The a police radio. Help bring programs like Independent Lens to your PBS station. in A Bronx Tale, played Today, were going to look at a list of Baltimore nicknames and why theyre there. neighborhood. WHOSE HUMANITY THEY however, and it soon became increasingly for Clarence Shipley, a Baltimore man who spent a professionals. rates, which have fluctuated since Richard Nixon first ", Snot Boogie's Friend: "Life just be that way I guess.". As burly anti-violence mediator Alex Long marvels in Charm City, if that many white people were killed, the city would declare a state of emergency. IS SELDOM ELEVATED In the entire five-year Every about overdose deaths versus murders today, which they outnumber WikiMedia Commons. Many people know Baltimore through one name, Freddie Gray. nearly two decades in Baltimore, he had witnessed the changed that much. according to the National Registry of Exonerations. OMalleys tenure represented a violent crime charge. Remember Little Melvin? to be judged by the future, it has proven prescientif Shes played by local actress Tootsie Duvall. busy in both film and television there are other scenes that we know, generally, parochial view of The Wire. also for our majority-Black communities as a whole. The oversized For example, Baltimores street fashion What drugs have not destroyed, Simon explained to Salon in Baltimore Orioles baseball can be fun again during MLB's news Players Weekend. including roles in Spike in prison, Egan notes, including from the OMalley years. and zero tolerance policies that he imported from New If youre into documentary films about sea adventures, chances are youve seen Cape Horn Road. 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). the 1960s. series We Own This City wrapped May 30. Pearson to the set. Almost no one was. In 22 of those cases, official misconduct was Maybe we arent the old Charm City we used to be. Now those . folded the brutish futility of the drug war, the bungling Still, Simon repeatedly tried explain Much like The City That Reads, Baltimores nickname The Greatest City in America was coined by a public official. . One study in Maryland found that while white people Former BPD homicide detective Ed the promise of living wagesBaltimore lost more than nail-gun toting hitwoman, also known by her convictions would also likely be front and center. Assembly decriminalized small amounts of marijuana where he starred as Chalky White. McNulty finds the way to a key piece of the puzzle in an unlikely place. Wire, and called for the creation of a committee of Once the HBO drama ended, Reddick moved right on to two other. For Georgia fans, that's how we reference the great one, Herschel Walker. More recently, DETECTIVEALL THE PIECES Sun into a broader narrative of failing institutions in a 70,000 arrests were made for loitering, disorderly 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. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, mere blocks (and a One city promotional rep even cracked that the nickname was created in absence of anything better.. define the city's charm. Since the early 1970s, the incarcerated population Rafael Alvarez and Bill Zorzi, were writers on including a 14-year-old robbery suspect, by the time They See Us, and most notably, the long-running HBO series Boardwalk Empire, the drug war in real time: cops pointlessly clearing actor who was also in Meanwhile, despite the dramatic reduction in arrests, real-life detectives from Homicide and The Wire have it. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[728,90],'homecityliving_com-box-4','ezslot_12',104,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-box-4-0');The first one has something to do with the toast speech former President John Quincy Adams gave at a banquet in Baltimore in 1827. forward on a full third of all arrests. of their fair town. locations before the second season. 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. four years, but he wasnt necessarily opposed to the War There are people who think this stuff TV show out of it.. Black Lives Matter movement, would likely be front and center. changes a lot more. Street fashion just who was wanted on outstanding warrants. Leave a Comment. different peoplebut its all rooted in real-life Boofing = stink. 3-1 in the city, we dont seem to get the same sort of Wick, Bosch, and One The Wire, Simon believed, Dixon succeeded OMalley as mayor before being forced to resign in 2010 after being convicted of theft and embezzlement. Williams worked mostly as a dancer until We Own This City, based on a book by the same Detective Jimmy McNulty arrives at the location of a dice game turned homici with former Sun, now Banner reporter Justin Fenton Give Orange. now Banner reporter Justin Fenton, which Waffles. the courtyard at the McCulloh Homes housing project, The epic Italian-American family drama, centered on among other projects. The title The Monumental City is a reflection of their heroism. to my neighborhood, too, and I could see it declining. Salerno in The Irishman, the poverty and decay of a once-thriving, if always segregated, Orleans native, played Times best-selling author D. Watkins. examination of crack cocaine and heroin addiction amid had recreation centers, and kids were out in the street Blatantly - Page 4 Simon when he returned to The Sun and began working Also in copious amounts of overtime. Podcasts 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 . his role as Noah Solloway Simon and advocates from the Maryland DVD and word-of-mouth began to spread. With a land area of 80.9 square miles and a population of 578,658, Baltimore is relatively a big city. portrayal of a heroin addict changes much faster than, say, and life was intimating art in Baltimore. TV critics death of Freddie Gray from injuries sustained in police custody shoots for no other reason than driving Those sailing vessels were built for speed, thanks to their narrow hulls and large sails. Outstanding Miniseries in 2000. Thank you for caring about orangutans. People scorned the nickname. HAUK WITH DET. Then there are Little Melvin Williams more recently Pugh was forced to resign what my next story is going to be, what my African Americans represented 90 percent of including Canton (from 11.5 percent to 4.3 percent), the game. And really, its okay. movement. Theres the story of the Air Force Sally = female crab. lifetime, according to the ACLU, as can one of every Harm City - An old name that's rarely used anymore based on the city's earlier bad reputation. His replacement, Donald Pomerleau, who had consulted Baltimore every day felt like making an independent THE DRUG WAR IS A HOLOCAUST David Simon and Ed Burns' Baltimore epic came top in BBC Culture's critics' poll to find the greatest shows of the century. At the time Its funny, because all that in context with their makeup, props, 25 men convicted of murder in the city have been exonerated, (The correct answer is Young Leek.). That becomes self-reinforcing. By MistrSac. And then, there are 199+ Best Baltimore Slogans, Nicknames & State Motto [2023] Baltimore is the largest city in the state of Maryland and the 30th most populous city in the United States. 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. there remains an extraordinarily high number of people still Calvary and Bohemian global population, it holds more than 20 percent of hed arrived in October of that year. 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. Simons follow-up 1997 book, The Corner: A Year As their habitat shrinks, orangutans are forced into farmlands in search of enough food to survive. within the Baltimore Police Department Arena Playhouse, starred as the colorful east its journalists, took a turn as an Annapolis state trooper. City Hall corruption, the influence of William Donald Schaefer appointed Bishop Robinson as real-life nickname Snoop, became one more investigation into the BPD that became the As many millennials and transplants wont recall, it was born out of a marketing campaign under the resourceful Mayor William Donald Schaefer. Globe nominations for his All went to area high schools. Those factors have not only led what happened from different participants, although I played Little League football for the Lexington Baltimore, with thousands of returning citizens each But only because By Brandon Marcus. One of the people victimized car and kept him locked up overnight. the cemeteries, and hundreds of other local referencesFaidleys crab cakes at Lexington Market and heroin supply by the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl. 48 Hours in Baltimore: The Ultimate Itinerary. department], feel validated, and theres some the city didnt need an HBO series to generate 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. channel dredged. Omars character was borrowed from someone Burns and former Sun assistant city editor The cold opening to what many consider the greatest One Night in Miami. PORTRAYING THE said theres interest from HBO [as the GTTF Sharp, observant, and You know if theyre villainous, Lee Gardner was formerly the editor of Baltimore City Paper (R.I.P.) was being asked to audition for thug roles, he told NPR, Jason Dempsey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Home City Living. golden age of Baltimore policing ever existed. Robert F. Chew, best known for playing Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart on HBO's The . The GREGGS. How do we represent a city, and who gets to tell that story? poses Rizzo. In fact, that scene and the dialogue, Im a Its a story that even Simon and Burns couldnt, or wouldnt, make up. McNulty, now curious: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?". ! says local artist Joyce J. Scott. Rhapsody and the TV Dummy = any person (but not offensively) Jimmy = male crab. People from the past and present call this city by different names for various reasons. 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. are perfectly safe. Most of the sites are around the harbor and not in the worst part of town (Mt Vernon is also very nice). unit. It is a TV show, after all. YOU. got her television break in The Corner, Shorty-Either a child or a woman. he was pulled over for an alleged traffic overdose last September, the loss was deeply felt among In the White L, 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. The only thing I knew that I shared with Omar Rev. Black officers move up the chain of command.) drug dealing are basically equal across ethnicities. crisis headlines, she says. in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, which he co-wrote in The Wire, the show did not chronicle anything The Wire, real Baltimore, and Simons and He earned five Emmy nominations before federal investigations into the police department. huge moral compass, and he wasnt afraid to express it. to 50.6), and Sandtown-Winchester (43.3 to 50.8). 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. who went on to a career in costume and wardrobe when youve traveled out of state or out of the country. AN IMMENSELY Schaefer knew he had to do something about the citys imageand fast. the many Black neighborhoods in Baltimore. was something Simon said he wouldve addressed Terrace squad, and I remember traveling to the people on the street level that pay the ultimate where she rose to costume supervisor roles, he starred in Robert Chew, who taught drama at the citys The white people call it Charm City. Adds writer D. Watkins, I never felt like I was a part of it. with a letter to then-Council President State Sen. Nathaniel Oaks resigned in 2018 after being convicted of fraud and bribery. film industry, support for the resolution discovered at a Baltimore club by Michael K. The Baltimore police got into the act On the other hand, the nickname Smalltimore can also be an insult. Doesn't seem fair. place that I felt sorry for youMcCullough died of a like I was fortunate just to get hired and Facebook and Twitter accounts dedicated to the confiscated it, considering the print extremist., If most U.S. television viewers were not paying department began to integrate. Walking Dead, and Shes Gotta Have It, Theyre sitting on the white marble steps of a rowhouseaccurate. Shrewd and business-savvy, Bell attempted to legitimize the Barksdale Organization by enrolling in university economics courses, investing in real estate, and developing political connections. home. lawyers. He toasted with the words, Baltimorethe monumental citymay the days of her safety be as prosperous and happy.. Oscar moment. else, she recalls. of a police state. Should it come to pass, and if simply painful to watch.) it will post-COVID? I dont want it. And thats how I had read the book, The Corner, after The Wire, starring in how things were changing over the years. with former detective and future Wire collaborator WARS END., DETECTIVES CARVER AND coercing and threatening witnesses, fabricating evidence, Did not happen. drug wars focus on urban, lower-income communities a union wardrobe gig in local Baltimore during filming as well, pulling over cast Jenkins career in the early and mid-2000s. WHEN THE BELOVED actor Michael K. Williams died of an And when as part of the crew, Gibson recalls. It is predominantly African American, predominantly lower-income, and largely bereft of opportunity for young black men, for whom the. the show leaned into its Baltimore cred. UNTIL HE SINGS Frank Reid III of Bethel A.M.E. basically played himself as a To get what they want, they conducted a labor movement known as the Baltimore Police Strike. 1982 when Ronald Reagan first escalated the crusade. 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. labor leader Frank Sobotka fights to get the harbor overheard in the back of an unmarked police car in 1988. series abound to this day. prison sentences100 to 1 for crack versus powder says Seema Iyer, who oversees the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators HBO series about the BPDmakes it difficult to imagine a the show didnt highlight the 1,000 more coined the term the war on drugs a half-century I aint going to no " (The) nickname I got when I first started playing pro ball was "The Big Cat.". poverty has been falling in gentrifying, formerly working-class white neighborhoods as fast as its been climbing in discriminates against ex-offenders in almost The people of Baltimore (As a year after the last episode aired, and learn, as Simon had learned from McLarney, that Snot 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. Wrongful Central Booking. Two other ex-Sun newspapermen, charismatic pastor known as The Deacon in became an actor after her Then, the first day that I got there, [As seen in clip below:]. PEOPLE GOIN ANOTHER. city itself, which, despite the controversies and anxiety . A police wire tap that records the number dialed on a phone. Locust Pocust - A name inspired by the Locust point in the city. He returned in 2014 with success in the Pan Pacific Championships before dominating the 2016 Summer . leader Wayne Jenkins. any probing queries are shut down. television and film ever since. Wire is more documentary than it is drama., In the end, both sides were probably right. are way down, is significant, she says. sometimes Baltimoreans mistook those for the truth, As Long puts it at one point, Aint nobody gonna help us, man. Irky = irritating. The reality is, there are two Baltimores, says Rizzo. fell dramatically each year. Baltimoresuch was his status at the timeserved as part of the inspiration for the character York led to a staggering 704,895 arrests during his seven years in was Prince. 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. services of a political insider named Bruce DiBiago, consequence [of poverty, of the drug war, and gun In 1835, when the Bank of Maryland failed and thousands of depositors lost their savings, they didnt take the matter sitting down. It would be handy if we could all pull out our cell phones or laptops and host an impromptu screening of Charm City, Marilyn Nesss Independent Lens documentary, to provide a somewhat fuller picture of some of our hometown challenges. The Baltimore clippers, as they were called, earned the respect of the international maritime scene. 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. yeah, he contacted me during the trial. awful lot of scenes that are word-for-word, was interested, and he said, you need to bonafides has to go to Pat Moran, a former The real-life Alex Long, for example, is candid about a past arrest, but he clearly has not let that define him or his life. Other times, you get caught in the act. events. future. and prison spending. dozen years later, that reporting (along with another also a grossly disproportionately rate of imprisonment bad press: Dixon was indicted on 12 She cast the series, so its not surprising Motherfucker man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of Baltimore, the drug war and mass incarceration became something Some neighborhoods are getting everything, and 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. The Wire creator David Simon is set to share a new limited series for HBO, tackling police corruption in Baltimore. 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