'Conclave' director Edward Berger and the film's Italian stars, Isabella Rossellini and Sergio Castellitto, will be feted by the L.A.-Italia Festival.
he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters. Siegel was not only influential within the Jewish mob but, like his friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish...
La Lupa Italian Cultural Arts Festival (LA LUPA FEST)is an event established to broaden the Los Angeles community by creating a festival that enriches and exposes diverse neighborhoods to Italian and Italian-American inspiration, passion, and culture of today.LA LUPA FESTis the first Italian Cultur...
Los Angeles Mafia While it has greatly diminished in power, the Los Angeles chapter of the Mafia still exists and has its hand in loan sharking, trafficking, and murder for hire. The LA Mafia never had the high profile of its New York and Chicago brothers, but still boasted well-known ...
The Italian Mafia, Chinese triads, Iranian, Pakistani and other criminal organizations control the heroin market, while Colombian crime families are flooding Canada with cocaine, according to the Mounted Police. Other drugs are imported by Vietnamese gangs in Vancouver, motorcycle gangs such as the ...
The focus on Rothmiller’s titillating gossip, OCID veterans say, ignores the real challenges--and problems--of the unit formed in the 1950s to scare the Italian Mafia away from Los Angeles. In the years since, its detectives have expanded their expertise to cover whole industries--including...
And yet, what this pizza lacks in true quality, it sure makes up for in quantity. You know this place was started by a couple who had survived the Great Depression, because one pie was clearly intended to feed an Italian American family of seven for a month. The medium pizza, which ru...
Jay Preston is a trained theatrical actor from New England who is currently based in Los Angeles. Known primarily for his work and accomplishements in the Voice Over Industry.
Status: Italian Immigrant with a bad past Conflict: His old friends drag him back into the mafia and his family starts to suffer the consequences Special: Mafia Backup and Respect; Missions in Italy (Like the LC mission in San Andreas) ...
thrusting the characteristic sound of Rauw Alejandro to new heights. Each scene unfolds with stunning choreography and costume changes that complement the narrative of Cosa Nuestra, which directly translates to "Our Thing" in Italian. This title invokes its historical ties to the Sicilian mafia, addi...