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Andre’ DiMino, Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition Communications Director, will be on The Gene Valicenti Show, Tuesday 1/22 at about 8:20 AM East discussing Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame President’s decision to remove venerable Columbus art murals from the University. “What a complete disgrace,” stated DiMino.  “And it is unbelievable that he wou...

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On the Top Chef episode “Carne!”, Hollywood screenwriter and actress Lena Waithe (Master of None) surprises the chefs. She informs them of their next challenge: to make the trademark Kentucky dish, the Hot Brown. The famous Louisville dish is an open-faced sandwich consisting of turkey and bacon and Mornay sauce. It can be baked or broiled. It’s ca...

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I definitely pissed off a member of the Bamonte family. I didn’t mean to do it. I was trying to explain to Nicole Bamonte that I’m writing about how I will try, and likely enjoy, any establishment that displays one or more autographed photos of a cast member from The Sopranos, that it’s a seal of approval for me when I walk into a place in the Tri-...

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You may be speaking Soprano — and not even know it. “The Sopranos” — the drama about families of mobsters in suburban Jersey —  premiered on HBO 20 years ago this week. And with it, came new entries into the American lexicon. Like “whadayagunnado?” (What are you going to do?) And “fuggedaboudid.” (Forget about it!) Before the show, these — and a fe...

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When I read that Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the premiere of the HBO drama “The Sopranos,” I immediately thought back to the time in 2007 when I interviewed Len Riggio, the executive chairman of Barnes & Noble Inc.  Riggio is a prickly man, quick to find offense, and surprisingly defensive about his lower-middle-class Brooklyn upbringin...

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After its first season, cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine won two Golden Globes. One was for lead Andy Samberg while the other was for best comedy series. The show garnered a lot of attention but last year, after five seasons on air, Fox cancelled the series only for it to be picked up by NBC a few days later. Brooklyn Nine-Nine's sixth season starts o...

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Twenty years ago, The Sopranos made the airwaves safe for antiheroes and auteurist television, and also paved the way for our current #PeakTV era. If you’re a fan of The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, you owe the show’s creator, David Chase, a debt of gratitude. But we’ve been living in a post-Sopranos world for so l...

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"The Sopranos" sequel "The Many Saints of Newark" will soon roll for the cameras. However, this project from series creator David Chase won't be another television show. Instead, it will be a feature-length movie about the life of Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti. Alessandro Nivola has been cast to play the lead in "The Many Saints of Newark." He confir...

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Don’t mess with Staten Island. A petition has been started on Change.org by outraged residents of the borough over MTV’s upcoming reality show “Made in Staten Island,” which is being produced by “Mob Wives” star Karen Gravano, daughter of the former Gambino crime family’s Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. “The portrayal of Staten Island as a cesspool of ga...

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Twenty years ago, mobster Tony Soprano walked into a psychiatrists office and glued over 10 million Americans to their television sets for the next eight years in one of the most groundbreaking shows in history. Fans of “The Sopranos” can relive their love and passion for TV’s greatest mob story at WORD Jersey City on Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m.,...

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