Big Mob trouble in the Big Easy
Organized crime’s influence in New Orleans is at the center of a legal drama airing on Showtime through January. Titled…
Mob in Pop Culture
Re-edited ‘Godfather: Part III’ wins applause
Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of The Godfather: Part III is receiving praise from critics who say the changes have streamlined…
‘Goodfellas’ still going strong after 30 years
In the painting, a man with white hair and beard, his left hand steering an outboard motor, is piloting a…
Multiple podcast series put ‘Sopranos’ stars back in limelight
Sitting around in pajama pants, Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, friends who starred together on The Sopranos, decided to start…
Cocaine trafficking breeds violence in ZeroZeroZero
About 10 cartel assassins armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers stormed the deputy police chief’s house at 5 a.m., snuffed…
Who bombed Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s car?
Flames two or three inches high emerged from the defroster vent as he sat in his car with takeout food…
From shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick Pileggi remembers it well
Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he…
Two popular TV series will highlight Midwest mobsters this spring
The Kansas City Mob is being featured in two popular crime series that will be kicking off new seasons this…
‘Mob Town’ movie spotlights notorious Mafia summit
One of the major events in organized crime history, the 1957 Apalachin summit, a gathering of Mafia leaders at a…
Ernest Hemingway on gangsters
Here’s how the story goes: Two hit men, Al and Max, enter Henry’s “lunch-room” in a town outside Chicago, looking…