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A fanfare to the The Wire, The best television series ever.
The wire was actually the worst television series on television, but that's exactly what made it so amazing. It was more like an unwritten novel adapted to be broadcast as a television series. It even seams that if The Wire had a novel to base on it wouldn't have ruined it the way most television series do, trying to simplify the story, ''cutting ...
Posted to TV Club by shaul hanuka on March 9, 2008
Life on Eighth Avenue
I also walk past the Times building and my curiosity has to do with how the building affects Eighth Avenue. The streets are already congested with office workers, homeless people, tourists who stay in nearby budget hotels and the thousands of people who use the Port Authority Bus Terminal directly across the street. It's strange (in a nice way) to ...
Posted to Architecture by msd on January 9, 2008
Re: The resurgence of some cities and the collapse of others
I find the argument that Baltimore ''isn't doing as well'' as say, New York or Boston because it doesn't have as much to offer to be pretty weak. I grew up in New York and there was a time when it was a lot scarier than it is now, but it still had similar offerings (if not better ones, since artists could actually afford to live there). Why did ...
Posted to TV Club by Mulligan on January 9, 2008