What is "streetwise"

a. 1 Having the necessary knack, personality and instinct for survival in rough, urban environments. 2 Possessing a style that embodies the life and microculture located within urban settings, typically in the States.

adj. having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment [syn: street smart, with-it]

StreetWise is a street magazine sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago. Topics covered depend on what is happening in Chicago at the time. In 2003, it had the largest readership of any street publication in the United States of America. Today, it remains among the largest street newspapers in the nation.

StreetWise contains art, poetry, and articles by vendors; as well as stories of local and national interest, particularly progressive issues.

Streetwise is a 1998 American action/crime film about drug dealers and gangsters vying for power on the streets of Washington, DC. It was directed by Bruce Brown. In 2004, a sequel was released, called Divided City.

The movie, filmed in 1994, debuted in '98, and released on DVD through Maverick Home Entertainment around 2004, is set mainly in SouthEast Washington, DC in the mid 1990s. The film deals with many social issues that plagued the African-American community in that decade, including the scourge of crack-cocaine, the ruthlessness of those who dealt in its trade, and the drastic rise in new HIV infections.

Although Brown chose fictional characters, DC residents who know the story can draw comparison to the "tenure" of Rayful Edmond III, a legend amongst DC drug dealers who many agree was as ruthless in real life as the movie's antagonist, appropriately named "Raymond". However, in reality, Edmond's successful run in the '90s was abated by prison instead of death.

Streetwise is a 1984 documentary film by director Martin Bell. It followed in the wake of a July 1983 Life magazine article, "Streets of the Lost", by writer Cheryl McCall and photographer Mary Ellen Mark, Bell's wife.

According to Mark's accompanying 1988 book, eponymously titled Streetwise, McCall and Mark traveled to Seattle specifically to reveal that even in a town that billed itself as America's most livable city, there still existed rampant homelessness and desperation. After making connections with several homeless children during the writing of the article, Mark convinced Bell that the children were worthy of his making a documentary based on their lives. McCall and Mark were also instrumental in making the film. Streetwise follows the lives of several homeless teenagers, although it focuses most on 14-year-old Erin Blackwell, a child prostitute who goes by the name of Tiny. Much of the time, Tiny stays at the home of her alcoholic mother, Pat, who seems unfazed by her daughter's prostitution, calling it a "phase".

Bell's follow-up documentary, named Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, was released in 2016.

Streetwise is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. They are all Protectobots who turn into cars. He is sometimes called Streetstar by Hasbro for legal reasons.

Streetwise is the debut studio album by American classical pianist Richard Kastle, released on March 5, 1991 by Virgin Records. The album has a warning label that reads: "Parental Advisory: This album contains classical music, no lyrics whatsoever." The musicians debut album was also a part of a larger scheme by Virgin Records to seek out and develop a new and younger audience for classical music. Record companies, in the early 1990s, used innovative and hip marketing techniques in an effort to attract younger audiences to classical music.