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Written by Ross and illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards, the comic series is a hard boiled noir crime thriller with girls, guns, fangs and aliens, set in 1920s prohibition-era New York.
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Judge Nelson Johnson, author of the book Boardwalk Empire about the prohibition-era Atlantic City that became an HBO series, ordered NJ Transit and its advertising agency not to touch the billboard until a March 10 hearing.
Judge says racy Atlantic City casino billboard can stay up for now 2011
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Sweeping from Victorian London to prohibition-era Chicago, it's a hugely ambitious and impressive first outing from a duo worth keeping tabs on.
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In less than two hours, liquor will be declared illegal by decree of the distinguished gentlemen of our nation's congress … HBO's lavish new period piece is set in prohibition-era New Jersey.
2011 TV preview: gangsters, gap years, off-world colonials 2011
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Fox's high school musical "Glee" is our best comedy series and HBO's prohibition-era Atlantic City-set "Boardwalk Empire" our best drama series, according to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which doles out the Globes.
'Glee' and 'Boardwalk Empire' soar while Ricky Gervais crashes at Golden Globes Lisa de Moraes 2011
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Yes, traditional jazz is alive and well in New York, but you have to go downstairs into a basement to hear it which is somehow prohibition-era appropriate.
Swinging Down in the Basement and Out in the Garden Will Friedwald 2011
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DVD & Blu-ray, Momentum Scorsese-produced prohibition-era epic gangster series.
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Unless you're going for caricature, there's no need to make your characters look like street-wise prohibition-era gangsters in the mold of Edward G. Robinson.
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The building has changed over the years, as it was once the home of James Brown (an aide to George Washington), a restaurant and a prohibition-era speakeasy.
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"We give a nod to the 20s, when bold trumpet players led the sound of prohibition-era rebellion in dark clubs, with mind-enhancing substances and a lot of physical intermingling," explains Roderick.
Tamara Conniff: Matt Von Roderick Makes Jazz Dangerous Again 2010
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