Archive for: the wire

Voices From the Archive: Kinukitty on Improving This Blog By 17.6%

And then there are the elected officials.

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Utilitarian Review 9/14/12

This week’s news, blogging, links, and reading.

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Election vs. the Wire: Brutal Cage Match of Gritty Despair

Johnnie To’s Election and Triad Election vs. David Simon’s The Wire.

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Here and There and Gone Again

The early newspaper cartoonists had tremendous audiences for their work, audiences that would be unheard of today for any similar form of entertainment. They also had the illusion, though, of impermanence.

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Of Wires and Weeds

The men of The Wire; the women of Weeds.

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The Truth Is Out There

Twin Peaks, the Wire, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and the Truth.

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The Wire Roundtable: Not Anti-Cop

But, there was one area of real policing where The Wire’s normally unflinching gaze pulled back.

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