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Category Archives: Inner City
Patrick Joust, Baltimore Street Photographer
Bravo to my colleague Patrick Joust, a librarian at the Enoch Pratt Central Library whose after-hours photography “hobby” has garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including City Paper’s 2015 Best of Baltimore award for “Best Tumblr” site. (Be sure … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Art, Hampden, Highlandtown, Inner City, Media, Neighborhoods, Photographs, Roadside Attractions
Tagged baltimore, patrick joust, photography
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Pratt Library: Your Hustling Journey Starts Here
Having just watched National Geographic’s expose of Baltimore – “Heroin Capital of America” – on “The High Wire” episode of their popular Drugs, Inc. television series, we are still blown away by the unintentional product placement the drug hustlers gave … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Baltimore Babylon, Drugs, Inner City, Media, Neighborhoods, Roadside Attractions, Television, Vices
Tagged drugs inc., heroin, libraries, national geographic, the high wire
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“Drugs, Inc.” looks at Baltimore in “The High Wire”
By Tom Warner (Baltimore Or Less, August 29, 2014) This week, National Geographic Channel‘s Drugs, Inc. television series aired its Baltimore episode, “The High Wire.” The show characterized Baltimore as the heroin capital of America, with its ever-growing drug problems … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Baltimore Babylon, Crime, Drugs, Inner City, Neighborhoods, Roadside Attractions, Uncategorized, Vices
Tagged addiction, drugs inc., heroin, lexington market, national geographic, the wire
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LETTER FROM BALTIMORE: This Is My Jail
Hello Baltimore! Once again, we’re in the national spotlight for sex, drugs, murder and corruption! In this week’s New Yorker magazine (pictured left), legal columnist Jeffrey Toobin rehashes the embarrassing scandal of Tavon White, the Black Guerilla Family gang (and … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Crime, Inner City, Murder, Roadside Attractions
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