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Music in 'Treme' takes you to another place
![Last season in previewing HBO's "Treme," I said that in 30 years of writing about television, I had never heard music used as organically, wisely and powerfully as it was in the New Orleans-based series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. I also said I never expected to hear it done better on TV.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/61086130-22135909.jpg "Last season in previewing HBO's "Treme,\" I said that in 30 years of writing about television, I had never heard music used as organically, wisely and powerfully as it was in the New Orleans-based series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. I also said I never expected to hear it done better on TV.")
Last season in previewing HBO's "Treme," I said that in 30 years of writing about television, I had never heard music used as organically, wisely and powerfully as it was in the New Orleans-based series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. I also...Tags: Music Industry, Treme (tv program), Dining and Drinking, Jon Seda, Khandi Alexander
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Bernstein's mixed debut
The thrust of Gregg Bernstein's campaign against longtime incumbent Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy was that her office was badly managed and too often produced incompetent performances in the courtroom. In that context, his pledge to...Tags: Trials, Witnesses, Crimes, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Crime, Law and Justice
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Melissa Leo: A lot of fight in her
![Melissa Leo is conflicted. For her latest film, "The Fighter," where she co-stars opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a performance that's destined to earn her a second Oscar nomination, has her all knotted up with different emotions.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58272030-15125642.jpg "Melissa Leo is conflicted. For her latest film, "The Fighter,\" where she co-stars opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a performance that's destined to earn her a second Oscar nomination, has her all knotted up with different emotions.")
Melissa Leo is conflicted. For her latest film, "The Fighter," where she co-stars opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a performance that's destined to earn her a second Oscar nomination, has her all knotted up with different emotions.
At once,...Tags: Treme (tv program), Movies, Welcome to the Rileys (movie), Frozen River (movie), Drew Barrymore
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Writer David Simon, creator of 'The Wire' and 'Homicide,' wins 2010 MacArthur 'genius' award
![Baltimorean David Simon, whose groundbreaking television series "The Wire" examined the institutions of his hometown with a passionate and unsparing eye, today won a 2010 MacArthur "genius" award.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56399230-27211440.jpg "Baltimorean David Simon, whose groundbreaking television series "The Wire\" examined the institutions of his hometown with a passionate and unsparing eye, today won a 2010 MacArthur \"genius\" award.")
Baltimorean David Simon, whose groundbreaking television series "The Wire" examined the institutions of his hometown with a passionate and unsparing eye, today won a 2010 MacArthur "genius" award.
The 50-year-old Simon is one of only a few people ever to...Tags: Music Industry, Movies, Murder, Washington (U.S. state), Massachusetts
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Peter Hermann: Downgrading rape cases historic problem
![A competitor in a contested state's attorney's race called the Baltimore Police Department's rape unit a "gimmick."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/54657805-25123512.jpg "A competitor in a contested state's attorney's race called the Baltimore Police Department's rape unit a "gimmick.\"")
A competitor in a contested state's attorney's race called the Baltimore Police Department's rape unit a "gimmick."
Officials suggested a hotline in which victims of sexual assault could dial "RAPE" and speak to a detective 24 hours a day.
Outraged...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Crimes, Sexual Assault, Police Investigations, George W. Bush
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'Treme': Cameos by New York chefs, Southern writers and Tennessee bacon
Show TrackerWith all the talk of music being a so-called "character" in HBO's "Treme," now might be a good time to shift to another creative discipline that the New Orleans series co-stars: food. There's a reason, it turns out, that creators...... -
'Treme': While America was watching 'Lost,' a little brother was being found
Show TrackerWhile the rest of series television was watching a fantasy about a fictional island, HBO broadcast the latest installment in a less footloose kind of drama: about the real New Orleans, where time froze on Aug. 29, 2005, and more...... -
'Treme': Did he really jump? Do you really care?
Show TrackerFalling in love with a television series is a singular experience. It’s a creation that infects your brain, your heart, your emotions. You think about it from week to week when it’s not on, you contemplate the next episode as...... -
Man Accused of Fraud After Posting Video on YouTube
KTLA NewsGLENDORA -- It's a dangerous night-game that can turn deadly in an instant for young people in Southern California: street racing. And one stretch of Glendora Mountain Road above Glendora is prime real estate for street racers in the San Gabriel Valley....Tags: Crimes, Corporate Crime, KTLA, Glendora, Justice System
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'Treme': A flashback in the season finale opens a window to Season 2
Show TrackerIn Steve Earle's cameo during this week's season finale of "Treme," he's playing a guitar that has "This machine floats" written on its body. It's a clever reference to the inscription that Woody Guthrie had on his guitar, which read,...... -
'Treme' creator David Simon to be honored at Austin Film Festival
Show TrackerDavid Simon, creator of HBO's "Treme" and "The Wire," will receive the outstanding television writer award at this year's Austin Film Festival. Simon will receive the award at the festival's award luncheon on Oct. 23 at the Austin club. He...... -
"Breaking Bad:" What Now?
The TV Zone(Doug Hyun/AMC) Great shows always seem to pose the same strange paradox, or at least they do for me - we want more but realize that they have within them the seeds of their own demise, if not destruction.......Tags: Demographics, Sony Corp.
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