Displaying items 37-48 of 253
» View ktuu.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-22
Next >
-
Donnie Andrews, inspiration for Omar character on 'The Wire,' dies
Like the television character he helped inspire, Donnie Andrews lived by a code. In his earlier years when he was robbing rival dealers as a young hustler in West Baltimore — experiences that would later form the basis for the popular Omar...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Heroin, New York City, The New York Times, Sonja Sohn
-
'Boardwalk Empire' recap, 'Two Imposters'
"I need a bath, some chow, and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies."- Al Capone "Two Imposters" picks up no more than a couple hours after the crate containing Owen Slater showed up at Nucky Thompson's door. Right away, "Boardwalk...
Tags: Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Steve Buscemi, Heroin, Google Inc., Al Capone
-
Man arrested in 2011 murder believed linked to recent killing
More than a year ago, police suspected that James Berry III had killed a man during a triple shooting in Bolton Hill, and they presented their evidence to prosecutors. At the time, the case was not deemed strong enough to merit arresting Berry, once a...
Tags: Bolton Hill, Prosecution, Murder, Anthony W. Batts, Police Arrests
-
Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: Hugh Grant, Amy Adams, Argo (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie), The Master (movie)
-
Detective has been good to his creator
Special to Tribune NewspapersIt's been two decades since the maverick Los Angeles homicide detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch made his debut in Michael Connelly's first novel, "The Black Echo." In 18 novels over that span, the hard-charging, short-tempered, fiercely independent Bosch...Tags: Tribune Tower, The Killing (tv program), Matthew McConaughey, Burn Notice (tv program) , Los Angeles Police Department
-
Donnie Andrews dies at 58; killer an inspiration for TV character
Like the television character he helped inspire, Donnie Andrews lived by a code. In his earlier years, when he was robbing rival dealers as a young hustler in West Baltimore — experiences that would later form the basis for the popular Omar Little...
Tags: Sonja Sohn, Edward Burns, David Simon, Heroin, New York City
-
2012 in review
It won't take much more than a few minutes into the new year to see the impact of the old one, with Baltimore's City Hall opening at midnight to begin performing same-sex marriages under a law that takes effect on Jan. 1. But if the state's newly...
Tags: Atlantic Coast Conference, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, George Huguely V, Matzoh, Fiscal Cliff
-
When movies feel like TV
Last month after a screening, even as the lights came up in the theater, I could feel "Zero Dark Thirty" fading, its images and impact already softening in my head. No, no, wait: not fading — mingling. If our cultural experiences rub shoulders at...
Tags: Girls (tv program), The Impossible (movie), Flight (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
-
'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Cocaine, Methamphetamine (drug), The House I Live In (movie), Heroin, Movies
-
'Slow moving holocaust' keeps prisons full
The first thing you notice about the 1905 mug shot of Laura Scott is her Sunday-go-to-meeting hat, large with wayward bows. Then, you take in the information surrounding the photograph that reveals her physical measurements and describes her as a 40-year-...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Cocaine, U.S. Department of Justice, Richard Nixon, Rogers Park
-
What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore
Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....
Tags: Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Al Jazeera English (tv network), Ed Burns, Journalism
-
Omar actor binged on coke while filming 'The Wire'
The Baltimore SunMichael K. Williams, who played Omar in "The Wire," is talking about his years of drug abuse and saying he's surprised it didn't lead to him ending up in a body bag. Williams tells the Newark Star-Ledger that while he was playing Omar in the Baltimore-...Tags: Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Michael K. Williams, Cocaine, Substance Abuse
Dec 14, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 12, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 13, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Nov 24, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 27, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 30, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 11, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 15, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 19, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 4, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for The Wire (tv program) topic gallery.