Mafia

The 10 commandments of real-life wiseguys

A new documentary details the rules of life with the mob. ANDREW RYAN From Friday's Globe and Mail All things being equal, Tony Soprano probably had it right: “There is no Mafia!” the bear-like mob boss snapped to his...

Mafia profiting from the dowturn in Italy

By Guy Dinmore and Giulia Segreti in Rome Italy's Mafia gangs are profiting from the credit crunch by expanding lending to small businesses and using their vast pools of cash to buy up property and companies at knockdown...

Gomorrah pins its Oscar hopes on earlier release date

Date shift would make Matteo Garrone's mafia drama eligible for other Academy Award races apart from the one for best foreign language film Italian director Matteo Garrone is shifting the US release date of his acclaimed mafia...

TNA iMPACT "Spoilers" for Nov 11th and Nov. 20th

TNA Wrestling Impact spoilers for 11/13/08 and 11/20/08TNA Impact 11/13/08-Impact opened with Mick Foley addressing Samoa Joe, The Motor City Machineguns, Petey Williams, Consequences Creed, AJ Styles and Jay Lethal. He tells...

AEPi hosts hip-hop concert for the cure

Three 6 Mafia will headline fundraising event to benefit breast cancer research In the context of Three 6 Mafia’s relatively vulgar lyrics, a benefit concert appearance may seem somewhat incongruous. On Monday, Nov. 17,...

The world of the Mafia comes to our screens this week with 'Gomorra'

13-Nov-2008

Also out this week is 'La Buena Nueva', set in the Spanish Civil War Gomorra Naples and Caserta are immersed in the Mafia's hell in this film directed by Mateo Garrone and based on the novel by Roberto Saviano. A cruel portrait...

Clare Longrigg: Go on holiday - and live like a mafia boss

At the height of his powers, the notorious Sicilian mafia boss Totò Riina used to celebrate a murder by throwing a banquet at his farmhouse near Corleone. The island's most powerful criminals would drink champagne and pile...

Mafia 2 Quickie

Nov 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM - - 1 Comment Games Radar slapped up a quickie preview of Illusion Softworks' Mafia 2: Released in 2002, the original Mafia was pretty much one of the standout games of that year. It offset its...

Cockney Mafia's back

I see on SSN the Cockney Mafia are back at Newcastle today and the supposed Yanks interested have said they have no such plans. The Mags will let it fly no backbone or stomach for a fight they will be singing 1 Mike Ashley soon...

Mafia 'boosted' by credit crisis

Italy's government has deployed paratroopers to help tackle the mafia The Italian mafia, the country's organised crime network, is making a profit out of the global economic downturn, a new report suggests. Small business...