Buffalo (New York)

Rabbi Darkside on Bringing Prospect Avenue Around the World

Few underground hip-hop artists in New York have had the staying power of Rabbi Darkside. From an era where everyone had a vinyl single, through rap battling at the start of the mid-2000s rising next wave of battle leagues, to being a coach on "MTV's Made" and one of the centerpieces of the Hip-Hop ... More >>

FBI Agent Arrested For Driving Without Pants and Allegedly Trying to Seduce a Truck Driver

Some law enforcement officers like to unwind from a tough week on the job with a nice drink. Apparently one Buffalo, N.Y. FBI agent prefers to unwind by unzipping his pants and seducing truck drivers. John A. Yervelli, a 48-year-old special agent for the FBI's Buffalo office, allegedly pulled along ... More >>

Jets Get Grounded And Pounded

Is it possible that Rex Ryan could have looked at the Jets' 48-28 victory over the Buffalo Bills last week and not understood why the Jets won? It certainly seems that way after watching their season-deflating 27-10 loss to the Steelers Sunday afternoon. Against Buffalo, New York mixed up their of ... More >>

Bath Salt Apocalypse: AG Eric Schneiderman Hits New York Head Shops With Lawsuits

There's a new hero in the ongoing Bath Salt Apocalypse: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.Apparently recognizing that synthetic drugs like bath salts bring out a person's inner-cannibal, Schneiderman has filed 12 lawsuits against head shop retailers across New York for violating the state' ... More >>

OMG! Beef on Weck at Mile End Sandwich

The picture-perfect beef on weck sandwich at Mile End Sandwich. It's something of a black eye that New Yorker City dwellers have never quite figured out how to make a beef on weck sandwich until now. Mainly because it's a particular specialty of our sister metropolis of Buffalo, New York -- both c ... More >>

In Praise of Frank's RedHot: A Thumbnail History of Buffalo Chicken Wings

​Whoomp! There it is. When I'm making Buffalo chicken wings, do I reach for the Tabasco? No I do not. Sure it's great for zapping a gumbo or shaking on oysters, but it's too damn hot and vinegary for Buffalo wings. Use it, and it will climb right up your nose, eclipsing the chicken flavor w ... More >>

Win Cyndi Lauper DVDs And Tickets Right Here!

Here's the drill: Explain why Cyndi Lauper has inspired/entertained/educated you in 150 words or less, and send it to me at musto@villagevoice.com by tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 11:59 p.m. In other words, tell me why you feel "she's so unusual" and amazing.

Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd, Two Grandmothers, to be First Same-Sex Couple Legally Wed in New York State

​When the New York State Senate was torturing gay rights activists last month by putting issues dealing with Niagara Falls on their agenda before marriage equality, it seemed pointless. But maybe the two were connected after all! According to a press release from New Yorkers United for Marria ... More >>

Now Prisoners Have to Watch Commercials in Jail

​Pity the prisoner. The one place seemingly protected from the 24-7 marketing blitz that is life in 2011, with all of its product-placement surround-sound digital marketed glory -- that is, jail -- has fallen prey to the great beast of advertising. Inmates at the Erie County Holding Center in ... More >>

A.R. Gurney Goes Black Tie

A wedding comedy from the veteran playwright

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, And Nicki Minaj Are Invading Long Island In March

​If ever you wanted an excuse to truck out to Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, home to perennial NHL doormats the New York Islanders, this'd be it: Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour, costarring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Mixmaster Mike, and indomitable rapper accessory Travis Barker, is coming to town ... More >>

Complaining About Snow Is So Passé

New Yorkers wade through the 1969 "Lindsay" storm.​It's hard to tell if the New York Times is trying to celebrate or condemn all of this snow bitching. But a story on the paper's website today would like to remind you that whining about blizzards, and especially ragging on city officials abou ... More >>

Buffalo Is So Over Carl Paladino

​In credence to the adaptability and resilience of the human spirit, Buffalo, hometown to the little governor that wasn't, Carl Paladino, is kinda okay with things. In fact, maybe they never loved him in the first place. And even if they did, they certainly didn't consider him "marriage materi ... More >>

A Portrait of the Muslim-American Hardcore Scene, The Taqwacores Is Not Punk Rock

Morning Links: Carl Paladino to Make "Major" TV Announcement; Lou Dobbs' Illegal Immigrant Trouble; Verizon iPhone Update

​• New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has bought a block of TV time with the three network affiliates in Buffalo and is expected to make a "major" announcement today at 5:13 p.m. Don't bet that he's dropping out. But is he still angry?[NYDN] • The stream of red, toxic sludge f ... More >>

Carl Paladino May Be Unsafe At Any Speed: Now it's OSHA Fines on His Buildings

Morgan Schweitzer​Carl Paladino marked his pledge to turn down his bile dial yesterday by calling Shelly Silver a "criminal" - a word that even bothered the Post's editorial page which has been calling for Silver's head for years. Say this for Buffalo's Have-Mouth-Will-Travel Paladin: He's a n ... More >>

Carl Paladino: The Dirty Details in His Campaign Filings

​The Times and the Daily News ran stories yesterday exposing the shady conspiracy that is the Paladino For The People campaign. The $53,000 tax lien against campaign spokesman Michael Caputo unearthed by the Times got a taunting "so what" from Caputo himself. Stiffing the IRS just proved agai ... More >>

Carl Paladino's Carefully Crazy Act

How many nuts win multimillion-dollar state leases?

Buffalo Wings: Old Town Bar Versus Bonnie's Grill

Old Town Bar's buffalo chicken wings​In a 1980 New Yorker article, Calvin Trillin attempted to get to the bottom of exactly who invented buffalo chicken wings, and when. There is no doubt that the snacks were born in Buffalo, New York, and the generally accepted story goes that the Bellissimo ... More >>

New York's Indians Try to Fend Off the (Marlboro) Man: A Court Fight Over Smoking Rights

​Hasn't America already doled out a terrible hand to the Indians already without trying to make them a part of their eugenics and assimilation? Apparently not. Today, the Seneca Nation Indians have to fight off New York State from taxing cigarette purchases made by non-Indians on their reserva ... More >>

Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime

James Cohan Gallery hosts the artist's Swing Shift

Ants on Happy Meals; Deli Meats Recall

​Brooklyn artist Elizabeth Demaray is feeding her red harvester ants McDonald's Happy Meals for 30 days instead of their usual seeds as part of an installation at Exit Art. [NY Times] Albany is starting to enforce a state tax law that calls for sliced bagels to be taxed (whereas whole bagels ... More >>

In The Grand Manner, A.R. Gurney Looks Back at Broadway's Past, and His Own

Lincoln Center mounts a story of stagestruck youth

Branded Saloon in Prospect Heights

Bourbon-glazed wings​Other than the wagon wheel hanging from the ceiling, a cow skull grinning from one wall, and a few other thematic touches, it's hard to see what's so country, or cowboy, or honky tonk about Branded Saloon, the new bar and snack spot on Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights.

Great American Food & Music Fest: When Food and Celebrity Team Up to Fleece the Hapless and Hungry

Tom invites you to waste some money and get taken advantage of. ​I hate to say this, but I blame the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. Ever since reading a New Yorker article about the meteoric rise of the Buffalo wing, I'd been meaning to make a pilgrimage out to where it all began. Though controversy s ... More >>

That's Carl Paladino, with one "L" -- and boy is he pissed!

A reader gently notes that we gave Buffalo businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino too many L's in his name. So we went to double check. And boy, are we glad we did.

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Dem Party Animals

As New York's Democrats prepare to take charge, reform vows take a backseat

Covert Operations

What's the matter with Buffalo? A journalist's personal take on the abortion war

Upstate Video Blackjackers Pop a Metalcore Boner

Stirring Up the Toxic Dust

They turned Uncle Sam's uranium into atom bombs, and the work made them sick. Now they've got a new champion—Hillary Clinton

Boots of Leather

What rust belt city was it? It wasn't in the rust belt. That's why we left.

Squirt You

August precedents, timely details, and timeless novelties you will find nowhere else

Rousing Constituencies

Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes

Sometimes Lyrics Suffice

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Letters

Gods and Sea Monsters

They Call Me Bruce

Letters

Escape Claus

A Smaller Stick

Terrorism Investigators Risk Scaring Off Their Best Helpers

A Very Good Year

Northern Closure

The U.S.-Canada 'Smart Borders' Accord Sells Refugees Down the River

Getting Them Straight

Music

Hit It, Now Hold It

Consumer Guide

The Circus Comes to Buffalo

Operation Rescue puts on a show in a slain abortion provider's hometown

Y2K Pete

Vanity Fare

A court ruling this month brings the shadowy world of vanity publishing into the open

Consumer Guide