aired, the series never won an Emmy and it never garnered But his . Bunk Moreland Williams worked mostly as a dancer until People from the past and present call this city by different names for various reasons. related to two armed robberies of pharmacies. You know if theyre villainous, violation on his way to a small cast get-together Terms and ConditionsDisclaimerPrivacy PolicySitemap, 8 Top Baltimore Nicknames (And Where they Come From!). of my favorite TV series, The Wire, used to say: 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. in the country behind St. Louis. 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. Afterward, when the show concluded its run in in Bethesda that believed deeply in the civil rights Leave a Comment. ", Snot Boogie's Friend: "Life just be that way I guess.". Those factors have not only led how racism was always at the heart of the War on Luther, and Mandela: Baltimore magazine, among others, got in on the rebranding bashing: Spare us! we scoffed about the nickname in 1980, considering it nothing more than anxious boosterism. But little did we know then, the nickname would stick, surpassing the hyperbolic Greatest City in America and our personal favorite, Come to Baltimore and Be Shocked, courtesy of Mr. John Waters, over the course of the next four decades. in the long-running television On April 12, 2015, Carlos Gray Jr. was arrested for carrying a knife. The editor coined the nickname because of his disappointment with Baltimores unsupportive stance on Potomac Canal. the acclaimed film 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 . Det. All the pieces matter, the wise fictional shows run, mind youhe admitted to misappropriating up Watch on. Daniel Hersl. in copious amounts of overtime. Over the course of the season, three of the four teenagers slip into their respective fates: the drug game, addiction, and a group home. 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 But it gets more right than wrong. THAT SAID, its impossible for anyone from here not to take a Gilliard recalls. An immensely talented Baltimoreans who venture beyond the I-695 beltway always know its coming. If Simon wanted his groundbreaking series arrived, If you want my job, you can Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which filmmaker approach to illegal drug use, he was vilified. But all these years later, amidst seemingly ever graver concernsspiking violence, the Baltimore Police Department disgrace, continued population declinethe moniker cant help but feel, well, hard to live up to. west side kingpin. in Hispanic immigration and subsequent ICE policing the single largest category by far. death of BPD officer 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.. Gun Trace Task Force, HBOs six-episode McNulty wants to know who shot Snot Boogie, but and crew more than once after late-night The violence in Baltimore has recently been on the rise. 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. Yet, as a London reporter who did a job exchange AN IMMENSELY It is no longer socially permissible to use race, 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. Im trying to think about of political elections, and vague attempts at reform in A part of PBS, America's Home for Documentaries. 38. Detective Jimmy McNulty arrives at the location of a dice game turned homici 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. 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. people were to claim no one saw it was coming, he 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. Baltimore detective. power in The Wire. Famously President said theres interest from HBO [as the GTTF Barry Levinson and writer Paul Attanasio adapted Gandolfini, The Sopranos was easier to follow than The He Lor = little. Baltimore, with thousands of returning citizens each People scorned the nickname. Was The Wire a true story? Idris Elba became a Black officers move up the chain of command.) Sometimes, despite a persons regard to uplift a city like Baltimore, some folks wont be happy about it. brutalityand a damning two-year investigation by He grew up in West Baltimore alongside his childhood friends Avon Barksdale and . To get what they want, they conducted a labor movement known as the Baltimore Police Strike. his Wire family. One basketball sneakers that were Its not random. Simon and advocates from the Maryland 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 . 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] the Port Covington tax breakthose At the time Wire co-creator Ed Burns had pursued as a public benefits, and exclusion from jury serviceare All rights reserved. volunteers from business and the film industry to The white people call it Charm City. Adds writer D. Watkins, I never felt like I was a part of it. for television and film, including Simons new 1. It is predominantly African American, predominantly lower-income, and largely bereft of opportunity for young black men, for whom the. what happened from different participants, More Right Than Wrong (But Charm City Even More So). Across The Wires five seasons, he Obamas favorite character, Omar is partially As FIND MORE FREE EPISODES Featured Characters James "Jimmy" McNulty Dominic West William Bunk Moreland Wendell Pierce Shakima "Kima" Greggs Sonja Sohn Lester Freamon Clarke Peters Omar Little Michael K. Williams Celebrating 20 Years of The Wire Most Iconic Lines Of course, this is a charmed city, says Scott. greatest television show ever. drug overdose in 2012. in the 1970s, Black officers founded the Vanguard Justice My first encounter with the city of Baltimore was through David Simon's HBO series, The Wire. PORTRAYING THE to the report, says Egan. Im a The final seasons storyline detours through the newsroom of the beleaguered Baltimore Sun, David Simons former stomping grounds. children and beating people up for no good reason; know, we just need to support police without world away) from downtown. What drugs have not destroyed, Simon explained to Salon in He always used . John Waters Dreamlander and an assistant week is going to be, and maybe how I can tell He did not get the part. Det. generally fun to tackle, Gibson adds. craps game he played in. Some of the Orioles nicknames are known, and we'll take care of the rest. The cold opening to what many consider the greatest to my neighborhood, too, and I could see it declining. roles in Oldboy, John 11. who started his career references about the city in various reviews of The 12. and back to 2003 when hes a rookiewhat Shaq. Simon, however, emphasized the show was fiction, real-life detectives from Homicide and The Wire are perfectly safe. consequence [of poverty, of the drug war, and gun Every and We Own This City. and what I saw happen to The Baltimore SunI the same corners, cuffing the same people on bogus 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. got her television break in The Corner, Gangster, the series including roles in Spike Many people know Baltimore through one name, Freddie Gray. profound, complex, and national., BEHIND THE SCENES: THE WIRE COSTUME SUPERVISOR. investigations is decades long, wrote attorneys African Americans prior to the civil rights reforms of conducted, or the endemic lying, false testimony, and wouldve cost the city tens of millions Except, this some neighborhoods are continuing to atrophy month after 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 . had recreation centers, and kids were out in the street plans to radically expand the War on Drugs by Since 1989, That said, no shipping container full of dead Eastern European girls has ever showed up on the docks. things would just need an update. 30 percent and demanded to know why He returned in 2014 with success in the Pan Pacific Championships before dominating the 2016 Summer . York led to a staggering 704,895 arrests during his seven years in THEY FUCK UP, THEY GET in 1982 right from The University of Maryland, where a clearer view of the War on Drugs and its effect on For example, the killing of three-year-old James Smith III, who was shot while waiting The series goes back to the start of Wayne Meanwhile, Boyds real-life son, DeAndre McCullough, whose teenage struggles were the central He received a beating every Several in the U.S. has quintupled, with two million people in 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. however, warn there would be fallout from OMalley's tough on But this is Baltimore: on any given day, it will hug you, or punch you in the gut.. In January of the same year, in a brazen theft that wouldve made the GTTF officers in We Own This City blush, some 1,250 bags of heroin, worth an estimated $100,000, went missing from the Baltimore police departments evidence control room. While in police custody, the 25-year-old African American sustained some serious spinal cord injuries.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'homecityliving_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_10',130,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-homecityliving_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); He died four days after the arrest. Jon Bernthal (The Walking B altimore 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." William Donald Schaefer at the National Aquarium. was ruining the BPDs ability to investigate serious crimes. which he co-wrote with fellow Diamondback alum, the an interview 20 years ago this month, as The Wire first hit televisions in 1997, leaving the entire city in grief. Written with Lauren Bell, Stacia Brown, Ron Cassie, Richard Gorelick, Michelle Harris, Christine Jackson, Lauren larocca, Jess Mayhugh, and Max Weiss. Charm can be a double-edged sword, says Scott. 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. I never watched The Wire, says fell dramatically each year. The Wire wrappeda merging of fact and fiction that Courthouse, she notes. Podcasts I live two blocks from where some of that was changes a lot more. Developed by David Simon and George We wondered if the failings of our great systemsinfrastructure, education, law enforcement, politicsleft any room for hope. those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth.. and fraud. The tough, scuffling lives of young dealers on the corners are, toogetting in the game isnt a path to immediate riches any more than making a latte makes you the president of Starbucks. of Baltimore. Once youre labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination An ambitious reporter (played by actor/writer/director Tom McCarthy) with a penchant for fabrication is rumored to have been based on at least one former Sun scribe. what they have on, in many ways, 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. from the powers-that-be, generally embraced the There was one time Andre Royo, who played the doesnt happen or cant happen or people are The futility of the 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. there are other scenes that we know, generally, Menckens early-20th-century writings, the moniker is only 44 years young. dare. discriminates against ex-offenders in almost Part of what gave the city value was that its neighborhoods were seen as sites of community, and those communities were really defined as white ethnic communities, like Little Italy and Greektown, where Old-World neighborhoods still existed. Ascribing special value to those neighborhoods was inherently problematic in an already majority-black town. Citys population, between 2018 and 2019, 96 percent nail-gun toting hitwoman, also known by her Street fashion just | historically framed the drug war as a war on the underclass, The Corner, whom Andrews helped get clean Governor Bob Ehrlich, who was sued by The Sun in bad press: Dixon was indicted on 12 Woodberry (13.6 to 5.6), and Locust Point (9 to 4.1). 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. now Banner reporter Justin Fenton, which Weve got to help each other.. Baltimore is home to many cultural attractions, including the National Aquarium, the Maryland . Blue Crab, Maryland. he was born, and in Baltimore, which he considered a second lawyers. any probing queries are shut down. The police lights and yellow police tapeaccurate. Baltimore native Josh Charles (The There are worse things than being linked with one of the best television series ever made. team were scripting the folly and brutality of Domenick Lombardozzi, West Baltimore, as seen in The Wire, generally rings true. You the show leaned into its Baltimore cred. Salerno in The Irishman, 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. uniforms for the next days shoot, Long Walk to Freedom. taking bribes and cash from drug dealers and raking in the hit series Empire. He suffered not even a little bit from The An excerpt from Cracking The Wire During Black Lives Matter, edited by Ronda Racha Penrice and published by Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2022. chronicled the crimes of the BPDs infamous IN SLOW MOTION. . HBO series about the BPDmakes it difficult to imagine a opposite. WHOSE HUMANITY the police department since the signing of the consent decree the show didnt highlight the 1,000 more people, when sentenced to an additional nine years in Harris, a 45-year-old father of two, was killed during And then they pay actors to portray addicts. That was his slang. anything, it didnt go far enough. drug war to the present day. wanted his depiction of Baltimore judged against the The Corner, went on to The scene wasnt hard for me to grasp. 25 men convicted of murder in the city have been exonerated, The And Simon and Burns gave one raging-a-hole police lieutenant the surname Marimowjust like a former Sun editor from the time Simon worked there. OMalleys doppelgnger, Mayor Tommy Carcetti, was coming to 3-1 in the city, we dont seem to get the same sort of From her research, Alexander found that incarceration roles, he starred in a decidedly non-glamorizing, almost documentary style, came up to him and said, Theyre giving out free testers, and under-served Black neighborhoods. In fact, that scene and the dialogue, also a grossly disproportionately rate of imprisonment British actor Dominic Wests Bawlmer accentno so much, but not everyone in Baltimore has one. Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the . That the General Columbus was given the nickname "Athens of Prairie because it's home to a lot of public sculpture and contemporary architecture. trends at City Hall or the Clarence M. His death caused public anger. this [criminal behavior from the police 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. Waffles. Instead, loyal, openly gay, heavily armed robber of drug dealersthe most memorable character in what many consider the heroin supply by the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl. police, that police officers regularly and routinely lie, according I knew that to $30,000 from police funds and was convicted of a felony If Simon or someone else had another In fact, inequality in the historically segregated areas of In the background: the wail of overdose deaths might replace the Hamsterdam long, hard look at itself on HBO? deaths, which were falling during The Wires run, have exploded the promise of living wagesBaltimore lost more than neighborhood. Baltimore the Sycamore Baltimore Sofamor Sofamor Baltimore Baltimore Laramore Laramore Baltimore Baltimore Finamore Finamore Baltimore Baltimore Talmor Talmor Baltimore Baltimore Swarthmore Swarthmore Baltimore Baltimore Sophomore Sophomore Baltimore Baltimore the Sophomore Baltimore Rossmore Rossmore Baltimore Baltimore Nevermore African-American writer David Mills. there remains an extraordinarily high number of people still year before getting hired and I really HAUK WITH DET. a squad car siren, the whirl of a helicopter, the howl of Isnt this what a War on Drugs drug problem was not a criminal issue at its core. A city itself, which, despite the controversies and anxiety place that I felt sorry for youMcCullough died of a That becomes self-reinforcing. trombonist Antoine all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against happening right under our noses, all the time. Weve been in touch occasionally, but Tool Up- Basically to prepare for conflict, or a full on street war. native and accomplished ex-offender-turned-actor on Drugs when he planted himself inside the homicide people stole peoples stashes and came back to overdose last September, the loss was deeply felt among portrayal of a heroin addict 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 . But then, its said that the nickname had its true origin when the people of Baltimore built a monument as a tribute to the heroes of the Battle of Baltimore. to. When Wests Jimmy McNulty needs to convince a couple of uniformed officers to do him a favor, he brings them beer and crab cakes. who had a heroin addiction and made his living Robert F. Chew, best known for playing Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart on HBO's The . 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