FEATURES
By Tim Swift and Tim Swift,Sun reporter | March 17, 2007
The Wire's Dominic West returns to Baltimore this month for the final season of the HBO drama a bigger star after his new movie, 300, defied studio expectation as the breakout hit of the spring. The 36-year-old actor, who plays earnest detective Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, successfully shifted gears to portray a slimy politician in the Spartan epic. He'll take questions before tonight's 8 p.m. screening of 300 at the Senator Theatre. Away for the past few weeks in England, he'll watch the completed film for the first time with a Baltimore audience.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun | August 12, 2011
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing. The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally. And a few are doing extraordinary work on and off camera. Some of it can be seen this week on TV. Two of the finest actors from the HBO series, Dominic West and Idris Elba, are about to help launch a prestigious drama showcase and series on BBC America at 10 Wednesday night.
FEATURES
By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,sun movie critic | March 9, 2007
With 300, a blood-strewn retelling of that apotheosis of Spartan military glory, the Battle of Thermopylae, cinema has once again proven its ability to incorporate every other mass-media art form. Director Zack Snyder and his computer wizards have made the best example yet of the movie-as-comic-book. Based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller, whose testosterone-soaked storytelling has made him a genre favorite, 300 captures not only the look and feel of its source material, but its essence as well.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Jordan Bartel | June 27, 2013
We're a bit biased, but the staff at EW are clearly geniuses. In the magazine's latest issue, out Friday, the writers and editors have named Baltimore-set social tapestry "The Wire" as the No. 1 TV show. Of all time. Here's what they had to say: "The most sustained narrative in television history, The Wire used the drug trade in Baltimore, heavily researched by creator David Simon, to tell tales of race and class with unprecedented complexity. Politics, the war on drugs, labor unions, public education, the media - these were among the big themes, all examined through exquisitely drawn characters, such as the brilliant yet broken detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West)
NEWS
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | August 9, 2011
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin, it seems like a good time to catch up with what some of the other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing. And two of the finest actors in the series, Dominic West and Idris Elba, are about to help launch a prestigious drama showcase and series on BBC America next week. On Aug. 17, BBC America is introducing a franchise called Dramaville, which will serve as a showcase for top British dramatic series and films.
FEATURES
By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,SUN STAFF | January 22, 2003
EHOHOO. Almost-Baltimoreans know this sound. Real Baltimoreans say it. No, it's not the whoop of the first swimmer downyocean on Memorial Day, nor the bellow of Willie Don Schaefer contemplating Parris Glendening's gift of African violets, nor the frustrated cry of the pixilated Ravens fan. EHOHOO is the classic Baltimore "O." As in "NO," when you clinch your brows, crinkle your nose, pucker your lips and emit the sound "NEHOHOO." As ancient Highlandtowners once vowed, "Nehohoo way I'm moving out Blair Road."