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Articles by Michael Cannell
The Death of a Mafia Hit Man
Joey Testa, one of the most prolific killers in Mafia history, died of cancer last month at the age 71, two years after his release from Terminal Island, a federal prison in Los Angeles. Article continues after advertisement Testa’s murderous career seems almost too lurid for real life.
Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation By Michael Cannell Minotaur Books; hardcover, 368 pages; $30.00 Michael Cannell is a former editor at the New York Times, has contributed to The New Yorker and other publications, and is the author of the critically acclaimed A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder Inc., and three other works of nonfiction.
Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence
Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan last month, who currently awaits trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, was not the anomalous actor press accounts have made him out to be. Article continues after advertisement On the contrary, he fits the mold of a recurring type of violent anti-corporate missionary dating back at least to the middle of the last century.
The Mafia and Its Food: A Brief History of a Passionate Relationship
At 7 p.m. on the evening of September 21, 1991, a veteran FBI agent named Robert Marston received a phone call at his suburban Connecticut home from Al D’Arco, the acting head of the Lucchese crime family. “I was told you were someone I could talk to,” D’Arco said. Article continues after advertisement D’Arco began to speak in anxious, disjointed phrases about unnamed Lucchese associates trying to kill him. “His tone was highly agitated, very stressed and aggressive sounding,” Marston said.
Blood and the Badge by Michael Cannell
Posted January 13, 2025 in review Tags: 4.5 stars Blood and the Badge by Michael Cannell Pages: 357 Genres: True Crime Setting: New York City, NY Source: ARC , NetGalley Narrator: Jonathan Yen Goodreads For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Blood And The Badge' By Michael Cannell
The book is in stores on Tuesday, January 14th from Minotaur. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4iqjnyK No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn.
The Twilight of the Mob Movie
In March, Warner Brothers will release “Alto Knights,” a gangster drama based on the seething feud between mid-century mob bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Written by the great Nicholas Pileggi, dean of Mafia chroniclers, and starring Robert DeNiro, “Alto Knights” arrives as the latest in a line of splashy Mafia productions dating back fifty-two years to the debut of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather” trilogy.
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA) publications
Affiliation Melvin D. Livingston PhD, Andrew Walker MS, Michael B. Cannell PhD, and Matthew E. Rossheim PhD Melvin D. Livingston and Andrew Walker are with the Department of Behavioral Social and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Michael B. Cannell is with the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Dallas, TX. Matthew E.
Irving “Gangi” Cohen: The Man Who Escaped Murder, Inc. and Hid Out in the Movies
Forty-eight years ago Francis Ford Coppola released “The Godfather,” thereby cementing a popular conception of the mafia as an insular, clannish consortium obsessed with vendettas and distrustful of the outside world. In real life, as in movies, almost nobody escaped the mob unharmed. One of the few who managed to leave intact did so by hiding in Hollywood, where, in an odd twist on art imitating life, he played tough-guy roles.
The John Jovino Gun Shop: The Closing of a Noir Landmark in Downtown New York
Throughout the long lurid history of the New York Police Department—the corruption scandals and serial offenders, manhunts and race riots—one institution held steady: the John Jovino Gun Shop, where generations of patrolmen and detectives bought the .38 Specials slung on their hips, along with whistles, rosewood night sticks and other accoutrements of law enforcement. The NYPD issued basic gear, but most cops upgraded or added on.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam (Ecco). Reviewed by Ananya Bhattacharyya. “There’s a simmering tension between the two families — a successful white couple and an even more successful Black one — but this story isn’t really about race. Instead, it’s about how all four of the adults, and to a lesser extent the children, cope with some sort of a catastrophe unfolding in the larger world. This is when the novel begins to falter.
A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
Book Review in Non-Fiction, History, United States By Michael Cannell Minotaur Books 336 pp. Reviewed by Dean Jobb November 13, 2020 Abe Reles killed people for a living. During the Great Depression, he was the head of an underworld death squad dubbed Murder, Inc., a group of contract killers the Mob used to eliminate informers, witnesses, and defiant gangsters within its ranks, and anyone else who threatened its operations.
The Strange Poetry of a Notorious Gangster’s Last Words
The mobster Dutch Schultz died eighty-five years ago this month after a pair of Murder, Inc gunmen shot him in the bathroom of a Newark, New Jersey chop house that served as his temporary meeting place and headquarters. Schultz’s death earned the lurid front-page banner headlines you might expect from one of organized crime’s ruling figures. His passing also led to one of the oddest experiments in film history.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'A Brotherhood Betrayed' By Michael Cannell
Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of The Book ‘A Brotherhood Betrayed’ By Michael Cannell RedCarpetCrash October 3, 20202020-10-03T03:24:01-05:002020-10-05T07:04:13-05:00 In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission.
12 Neo-Noir Authors Too Good Not to Be Crazy Famous
By Greg Levin September 9, 2020 The best noir writers are as dark and dangerous and unpredictable as the stories they write. So buckle up, because we've got 12 authors you can't miss. Some of the best fiction I’ve ever read—and I’m not just talking crime fiction—are noir and neo-noir stories that, for whatever reason, not enough people know about.
A BROTHERHOOD BETRAYED
More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom. In her third book, Doyle (Love Warrior, 2016, etc.) begins with a life-changing event. “Four years ago,” she writes, “married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman.” That woman, Abby Wambach, would become her wife.
Gardenista Looks to Demystify the Backyard
In the five years since it was started, Remodelista.com has established itself as a sourcebook for home renovation and furnishings. Its appeal lies in its balance of highbrow minimal taste (a portfolio of patterned Scandinavian blankets) and sensible advice (how to spray-paint Ikea pendant lamps). Now Remodelista is casting its eye on the backyard. Two weeks ago, it introduced Gardenista.com.
Daughters and Dragons
I knew the Waldorf theory had panned out when Evie propped herself up in bed to query me. What befell Cricket’s parents? Was Ling Ling wicked or warmhearted? Did Cricket walk Buddy in Central Park by herself? The Cricket stories made such an impression that Evie began calling her younger sister Cricket months before she was born. As a teenager, Ann still goes by Cricket, like it or not.
New Home with Old World Style
Mediterranean flavor plus Sea Island tradition add up to a new house that blends seamlessly with its established neighbors. Architect Thad Truett made
The New York Times
As shelter magazines foundered, up came a new breed of self-curating, design-smart amateurs spurred to resourcefulness by the recession and assisted by the Internet in finding materials and furnishings at deep discounts. The result is an outpouring of homegrown inventiveness — sofas upholstered with burlap coffee sacks, stereo speakers made from Ikea salad bowls, party decorations conscripted as permanent ornamentation.
Will Magazine Design Flourish or Fizzle on the iPad?
Last week a parody of Dwell magazine made the viral rounds. Unhappy Hipsters consists of photos drawn from the magazine, each showing cool young homeowners looking forlorn in their expensive interiors. Tagline: “It’s lonely in the modern world.” I suspect a magazine has jumped the shark when it invites parody, but that’s a topic for another day. What interests me most about Unhappy Hipsters is its timing: it went viral just as Apple unveiled the iPad, practically to the hour.
How New York’s longest manhunt marked the beginning of the end for print media
Is it possible to pinpoint the moment when newspapers began their slow, painful slide? The answer, strangely enough, may lie with the frantic manhunt to catch a serial bomber who menaced New York in the 1950s. Press baron William Randolph Hearst died of a brain hemorrhage at his Beverly Hills home on an August morning in 1951 with five sons at his bedside. Also in attendance was Richard Berlin, a bean-counting company president whose primary ambition was the containment of profligate spending.
See How a Hamptons Weekend House Becomes a Minimalist Retreat | Architectural Digest
This article originally appeared in the December 2011 issue of Architectural Digest. Four years ago Vincent Herbert, CEO of the Belgian bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien, and his wife, Laurence Verbeke, spent a few nights at Hegia, an 18th-century French farmhouse turned bed-and-breakfast in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
See How Isay Weinfeld Turned a Brazilian Villa Into a Relaxing Getaway | Architectural Digest
This article originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Architectural Digest. Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld says he would hate to live in any of the homes he has designed over the past 35 years. “People are shocked by that,” he says. “But I design for other people. Like haute couture, a house should exactly fit its user.” And the user must fit Weinfeld. Arguably Brazil’s best-known architect after Oscar Niemeyer, Weinfeld has the luxury of turning away as many projects as he undertakes.
Unmasking the Mad Bomber
Shortly after lunch on a cold December morning in 1956, a trio of New York City detectives stepped out the back door of the copper-domed police headquarters looming like a dirty gray temple above the tenements and trattorias of Little Italy. Across the street, half-shrouded in winter shadow, a revolver-shaped sign hung outside John Jovino’s, the oldest gun store in the city, if not the country, where patrolmen bought the .38 Specials slung on their hips.
Daughters and Dragons
When my daughter Evie was small, I told her a series of bedtime stories. Seated in the half-light of her room, I devised nightly updates on Ten Town, where every citizen is 10 years old, and on the birdbrained doings of Buckwheat, the silliest donkey in the world. Evie binge-listened in her compact built-in bed, bath-scented and pajama-soft. Her curls fanned out on a white cotton pillow like a cinnamon halo. The nightly installments went on for years, like sitcoms in syndication.
Modern Cape Cod-Style Cottage Tour
An architect puts a new spin on the classic shingled Rhode Island beach house. The result? A modern stunner that meets new flood requirements and takes advantage of its gorgeous seaside setting. Cape Cod Mod Photo: Annie Schlechter; Styling: Barbara Schmidt The design of this Charlestown, Rhode Island, beach house honors the farm buildings and Cape Cod-style summer cottages that have inhabited the nearby rockbound peninsulas for hundreds of years.
Malibu Beach Bungalow Tour
A new house with a great deal of tradition, but not a huge amount of space. Homeowners Renee Vogel and Allan Mayer also wanted to capture the magnificent view of the Pacific, and create rooms, indoors and out, that their family would spend time in every day.
South Carolina River House Tour
Fishermen on the Colleton River, in South Carolina, can barely make out the contours of the house through a screen of live oaks swathed in Spanish moss. What lies half-hidden in that tidal estuary is a low-slung compound of three cottages and a carriage house, joined by a covered breezeway running parallel to the river. Architectural designer James Strickland modeled his ideas after the scattering of barns, smokehouses, and sheds that accrues on plantation grounds.
South Carolina River House Tour
At the heart of every coastal house is an extraordinary setting. Here, along the South Carolina shoreline, a charming Lowcountry cottage compound is modeled after traditional outbuildings, drawing inspiration from its island setting. Lowcountry Rambler Photo: Peter Frank Edwards; Styling: Ginny Branch Fishermen on the Colleton River, in South Carolina, can barely make out the contours of the house through a screen of live oaks swathed in Spanish moss.
Are the Bulls so good they're bad for the NBA?
The NBA should write B.B. King a nice royalty check, because one of his hits is the theme song for this season. The Thrill Is Gone, baby, and it's been gone for quite a while, probably since Michael Jordan laced 'em up in training camp. Seven weeks remain in the regular season, but is there any reason the engravers should not get started on the championship trophy right now?
New Online Openness Lets Museums Share Works With the World
In 2009 Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, told a TED conference that if cultural institutions opened their collections without limitations, they would “be used by other people to do wonderful things, in ways that they could never have imagined.” He then led the audience in a chant: “Raw data now, raw data now.” Mr. Berners-Lee’s call for open access has grown into a cultural movement. In museum boardrooms, unrestricted sharing is a current fixation.
Museums Turn to Technology to Boost Attendance by Millennials (Published 2015)
AMPLIFYING AN EXPERIENCE “Tech can, and should, bring joy and enrichment to galleries,” said Brendan Ciecko.Credit...Katherine Taylor for The New York Times March 17, 2015 If museums face an uncertain future, you wouldn’t know it from “Henri Matisse: The Cutouts,” which recently drew 664,000 to the Museum of Modern Art. The show was so thronged that MoMA kept its doors open round-the-clock on the closing weekend last month. But blockbusters like Matisse may be deceptive.
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