David Simon

Baltimore Sun in the news

2012-05-08 08:22:00

There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them. Nonetheless,...

The casting director: Living in the house of Bodine

2012-05-10 07:39:00

When I was a little girl, I read from an early age. I come from a family of big newspaper readers, and one of the first (and favorite) things I remember reading was the Brown section in the Sunday Sun, so-called because it was sepia in tone. Other kids...

The Orioles and cops -- an Opening Day primer

2012-04-05 14:07:00

Police and baseball go together like, well, maybe not so much. But cops and criminals are part of this city’s fabric, and sometimes get just as much attention, if not more, than the ballplayers themselves. Opening Day gives us a chance to look...

David Simon apologizes for 'amused contempt' of 'Wire' fans

2012-04-06 13:02:00

Fans of "The Wire" were taken aback to read that creator David Simon is sort of tired of their rah-rah, late-to-the-game enthusiasm. Simon on Thursday told the New York Times: I do have a certain amused contempt for the number of people who walk...

David Simon's "Homicide" cop battling life on the streets once again

2012-03-11 00:00:00

March 11, 2012 Seven-baker-twenty-four unit turns at Mosher and rumbles past that stretch of Appleton Street where Gene Cassidy took two in the head for the company, the first one stealing his eyesight, the second lodging in his brain beyond the skill of...

Thanks to David Simon, The Sun, for shedding light on liver donation

2012-03-16 06:00:00

I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to David Simon and The Baltimore Sun for telling Gene Cassidy's remarkable story ("David Simon's 'Homicide' cop battling life on the streets once again," March 11). Gene is truly one of Baltimore's finest, ever....

Good afternoon, Baltimore: Monday lunchtime lowdown

2012-03-19 10:54:00

ON THE SITE... City police investigate eight shootings since Friday:�A 29-year-old man who was shot in the leg early Monday in Pigtown�was the eighth person shot in Baltimore since Friday afternoon, according to police. Two of the victims died....

Police turn out at blood drive in honor of injured officer

2012-03-19 16:49:00

Those who work in public safety consider themselves part of a brotherhood. But for the purposes of organ donation, a brother in blue may not be quite family enough, as Officer Gene Cassidy is finding out. Cassidy was shot in the head 27 years ago in West...

Finding shards of light 'In Darkness'

2012-03-21 16:23:16

Agnieszka Holland's Holocaust movies, like "Angry Harvest" and "Europa Europa," are a world away from concentration camp tear-jerkers like Robert Benigni's Oscar-winning smash "Life Is Beautiful." Holland's films are uninhibited and sexual, gutsy and...

Wire and Treme actor opens grocery in New Orleans

2012-03-08 03:00:00

He played a hardnosed detective on HBO's The Wire, a trombonist on Treme and soon Wendell Pierce will be a grocery store owner. The actor who has a made a career starring in David Simon's popular television series plans to open Sterling Farms grocery...

Simon returns to The Sun with look at officer wounded in battle

2012-03-12 04:55:00

David Simon has returned to the pages of his old newspaper with a compelling look back at a Baltimore police officer wounded in the drug war, and now in need of help himself. The blind Gene Cassidy, shot twice in the head in 1987, still works at the...

Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans

2012-03-29 18:29:00

When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall. There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...

Watchers of HBO's "The Wire" can't help but be familiar with The Sun, because much of the fifth and final season takes place inside the newsroom where creator David Simon formerly worked as a police reporter.

2012-05-02 23:42:33

David Simon.

2012-04-25 17:23:00

David Simon (at podium) and Nina Noble (left of Simon) were honored with the Free Mind Award at Manifesto 2011, a celebration of free speech to mark Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore on Saturday.

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