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I have a lot of friends from out of town who love The Wire. I always kind of feel sorry for them because I feel like they aren’t getting the whole picture. Only someone really familiar with Baltimore can get all the inside jokes, references, and cameos that pepper the series. But sometimes the reference is arcane enough that not even Baltimoreans quite get what they are looking at. For example, how many people know that the soup kitchen Bubbles worked at in season five is a real place?
My co-producer Justin brought that up, and we decided that it would make a great podcast to go down and talk to the people who run that soup kitchen and learn about their experience being featured on The Wire. Their names are Brendan Walsh and Willa Bickham. They play themselves on television (well, sort of…listen to the podcast to find out more!) They are wonderful people and they have a lot of great things to say about Baltimore, social justice issues, and of course, The Wire.
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Baltimore’s Viva House from America, The National Catholic Weekly
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Mildred and Me , from Laura Lippman.com-Laura writes about her experience volunteering at Viva House.
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Diary: Entry 5 from Slate.com-Laura Lippman writes again about Viva House.
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Best Free Food: Viva House from Best of Baltimore 2006 by Baltimore City Paper
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Viva House Catholic Worker
26 S. Mount Street. Baltimore, MD 21223.
Call: 410-233-0488
