Dominic West, who starred as Baltimore Police Det. Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, recently joined Twitter. But he will block you if you come at him with tweets about the HBO series.

After calling into The Kojo Nnamdi Show yesterday to express his disappointment with the U.S. Attorney’s case against former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown, The Wire creator David Simon expanded his argument on his website.

Today, The Wire David Simon called into The Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss the charges against former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown. Amazing.

Ever wondered what The Wire would look like as a dinner-theater musical? Now you can, thanks to the folks at Funny or Die.

Want to see Omar Little, Slim Charles and Baltimore Police Det. William “Bunk” Moreland jamming in one place? Get yourself to New Orleans on May 11 for a battle of the bands between The Wire and Treme.

Photo by Erica Bruce Another March, another run of sold-out Pogues shows at the 9:30 Club. Despite the propitious occasion of St. Patrick’s Day — the equinox ’round which the graying-but-still-preeminent purveyors of Emerald Isle folk-punk (funk?) book their East Coast tours in recent years — Tuesday night’s hootenanny was no more gleefully shitfaced than their 9:30 gig from last year on March 9. In fact, it was arguably less so: Frontman Shane MacGowan…