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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
3. Chicago
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Bartelby

Bionic Poster
There are a lot of different versions of the 501. Mine are the nineties version, or at least they were bought then. Most used to wear 505.
 
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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
4. My favorite, the Sicilian
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The Dark Side of the Pie: Heroin, Mob Cheese, and New York Pizza
We spoke to experts on pizza and organized crime about the historical overlap between crime and America's favorite food.
Nick RoseSeptember 26, 2017

Everything has a dark side—even pizza.

Five years ago, John "Johnny Pizza" Porcello was arrested and charged with racketeering in the biggest mob raid in FBI history

Porcello, once described as a "tough-sounding, but actually-nice-guy" by a pizza trade magazine, was a Bronx pizzeria owner and reputed Genovese crime family associate. Johnny Pizza ended up pleading guilty to loan-sharking and was eventually served a forfeiture order of $18,000.

Using pizza shops as fronts, Sicilian Mafia associates in the United States were able to import 1,650 pounds of heroin (with an estimated $1.6 billion street value at the time) between 1975 and 1984. The trial dragged on for almost two years and was one of the first to establish a clear, irrefutable line between the Sicilian Mafia, which was processing Turkish morphine in Palermo, and the Bonanno crime family in New York City, which oversaw distribution across North America.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xymp77/the-dark-side-of-the-pie-heroin-mob-cheese-and-new-york-pizza
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
5. Song Of The South was covered and made into a hit by the band Alabama but it was probably at least the fourth version of the tune to chart. Here is the first by Bobby Bare:

 

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
2. The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a - Tchaikovsky


I. Miniature Overture 0:00
II. Danses caractéristiques
--a. Marche 3:29
--b. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy 5:59
--c. Russian Dance (Trepak) 7:47
--d. Arabian Dance 8:58
--e. Chinese Dance 12:04
--f. Reed-Flutes 13:05
III. Waltz of the Flowers 15:15

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик[a], tr. Shchelkunchik listen (help·info)) is an 1892 two-act ballet ("fairy ballet"; Russian: балет-феерия, balet-feyeriya), originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King".
Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. The complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America.[1] Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker.[2][3] The ballet's score has been used in several film adaptations of Hoffmann's story.
Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
 
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