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New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy

On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk. “From the outside, it was like some kind of Tex Avery cartoon,” Simon says, “where the house is dancing and the window shutters are popping out to the beat.”...  read more

Harvard Offers Sociology Course on The Wire

A Harvard professor is creating a course about HBO’s acclaimed series The Wire....  read more

HBO Greenlights David Simon's Post-Katrina NOLA Series

A drama series that follows the lives of musicians living in post-Katrina New Orleans is set for a Fall debut on HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is the brainchild of The Wire co-creator David Simon. ...  read more