In a tense meeting early in the episode, Arnold Rothstein—pale and stolid as always—summarizes for the audience: “Rosetti controls the roads in and out of Tabor Heights.

(MORE: Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Crate) I’m going to skip over the history lesson involving Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein and the rest.

The band 3 Doors Down will no longer be on the Boardwalk Rock bill after lead singer Brad Arnold announced he has been diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Boardwalk Empire concluded its first season with the episode "A Return to Normalcy." What did you think of this installment and/or the season as a whole?

Forget jam-packed, this week's episode of the Empire podcast is positively marmaladen with great guests, folks! To kick things off, Chris Hewitt talks to Paddington In Peru stars Hugh Bonneville ...