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Carl Russo


Born
in Oakland, CA, The United States
November 21, 1963

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Twitter
MafiaExposed

Genre
Crime, Travel, History


Carl Russo is a San Francisco Bay Area native who has written for the Oakland Tribune, Indiewire and other publications. Russo fell in love with Sicily on his first trip to the island in 1999 and has returned many times since. In 2010, he began a blog, Mafia Exposed, which became the basis for his first book, The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide.

Russo was also a radio producer and disc jockey at KUSF-FM, San Francisco, from 1990 to 2003. The self-described cinema freak made a comic short in 2005 called Baby Pepper, which screened at 48 film festivals in 13 countries. ...more

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It’s Curtains, Rocco! Lights Out at Mafia Exposed

Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Russo?


by Carl Russo


AFTER FIVE YEARS of posting articles about Cosa Nostra and related photographs, it’s time to unplug Mafia Exposed—at least for now. I find it difficult to keep a regular schedule of producing these pieces, which require long hours of research, translation, and editing. It’s also quite expensive to make my archive of photographs available onlin

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“Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island’s tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and telling the amazing stories behind them, I hope to remind readers that the Mafia is not a romantic relic of the past.”
― Carl Russo
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