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‘The Wire,” HBO’s gritty series about life in Baltimore, is about to become a course at Harvard.
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show’s stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
“I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication,” Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, “including studies by social scientitsts.”
The series ran for five seasons, starting in 2002. Each year, it took on a different aspect of urban life — from drugs to schools to the news media.
Harvard will be not the first college course on “The Wire.” Other students commented on The Crimson’s site that courses on the TV show already exist at Duke University and Middlebury College.
Envisagement…
Rebecca Hall from October’s issue of Dazed&Confused
Edan is dropping a new record called Echo Party on Five Day Weekend. We’ve got a pre-order here at Stones Throw, and here’s the info on the project:
Edan was given access to the Traffic Ent. Group’s back catalog of old school rap - labels like Magic Records, Chocolate Star, P&P among others - and asked to create something new out of it, whatever he wanted. What began as a simple mixtape, two years later turned into a 30-min record of dance, rap and punk, utilizing everything from turntables, tape echo, guitar, moog and maybe even kazoos. He’s even going to hand-draw each LP cover.
The vinyl LP covers are going to be all white-tip on sleeves, like those old 60s records, with Edan stenciling, or stamping, or doing some kind of cover art to each one personally. There will be only 1000 made.
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If I could only watch one channel, it’d be Current TV. New season of Vanguard started, too.
Saw a feature on this on CNN.com today! Definitely checking it out.
my friend jason works for current tv. they have a new program called embedded that airs tonight.
the first episode follows mos on tour in japan. check it out!
Edan’s Echo Party Bullshit Promo (download)
Fail: DJ Khaled Promoting McDonald's -
I think Khaled just earned himself a gang of coupons.
I SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE! IT’S A RECESSION AND I LOVE FOOD!!!