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Virginia Might Not Forcibly Wand Women's Vaginas

And now for some good news and some bad news. The good news: Virginia might not forcibly wand women's vaginas after all. The bad news: Virginia had thought that forcibly wanding women's vaginas was a good idea in the first place. Let's rewind a bit. Last week, Slate reported on a bill passed by ... More >>

Virginia Wants to Wand Your Vagina. Rightbloggers are Outraged (That You'd Complain)

The week before last, some Catholic organizations were told they'd have to allow their insurance providers to offer (at their own cost) birth control to their employees. Rightbloggers were outraged at this violation of the Catholic orgs' civil rights. Last week, the Virginia legislature passed a bi ... More >>

Newt Gingrich and Gov. Rick Perry Fail To Qualify For Virginia Primary

​Last night, the Republican Party of Virginia announced on their Twitter account that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry did not submit the required 10,000 signatures they needed to qualify for the VA primary. In response to the news, the Gingrich campaign says that Virginia has "a failed system." V ... More >>

Roving Armadillos Are Heading for the East Coast

This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, where he a ... More >>

Cold Winds: Incubus' Morning View And The Knotty Aftermath Of September 11

​Once the towers had fallen, simultaneously facing both the body count and the scarred city skyline was enough to realign anybody's perspectives. I was supposedly on track as a college sophomore in Virginia, but it was tough for me to justify continuing on as a student; every day for months, I ... More >>

Map Shows NYC's Confusion With Rest of U.S.

WikipediaNope. Not how it looks.​What do New Yorkers believe rests beyond its borders? It's like cornfield, cornfield, D.C., cornfield, Chicago, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, and then L.A. topped by San Francisco, right? Now there's (satirical) proof that we are a little confused ... More >>

Sex Lives of Our Parents Gets Inside Mom's Pants

Second Stage Uptown opens its summer season

Floor

Second Stage Uptown opens its summer season

Surprise Me Mr. Davis+Washington

Second Stage Uptown opens its summer season

Bank Robber to Voice: Find My Photo!

​Here at the Voice, like at any newspaper, we regularly receive letters from inmates at jails and prisons. But none in recent memory has been quite like the one we received today from an inmate in Virginia. We'll let the letter speak for itself, and, after the jump, we'll show you what we foun ... More >>

Bus Driver Resigns after Snowman Hit-and-Run

Remember those heartless Virginians who killed an inflatable Rudolph by running his head through a traffic light? Here is a video of a bus driver plowing through a snowman in Illinois. Possibly more disturbing than the video, or the snowman's untimely demise, is the fact that the bus driver quit aft ... More >>

Virginia Kills Rudolph, and Possibly Christmas

Parents, shield your children from this horrifying sight: An inflatable Rudolph in a recent holiday parade in Virginia is felled, then destroyed most violently -- an unwitting casualty of human error and a too-short traffic light. Consider Christmas over. Still, the look on the poor reindeer's face, ... More >>

Toting Your Handy Firearm Will Make That Drink Taste So Much Better, Sir

​Good news for people who feel that they need to protect themselves with guns in bars; bad news for those of us who just want to get our drink on without the threat of impending bloodshed or ricochet action totally blowing our buzz. Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, and Virginia will now let you br ... More >>

New York Times is Sadly Sexless

​What's important in a marriage? For the non-married, guesses go something like this: kids, money, sex. When long-term couples don't work out and outsiders assume simplistic reasons for the dissolution, they might bet that one, or all, of The Big 3 were to blame. Curiously, in the New York Tim ... More >>

WAR HEROES

Robert Manns directs Yorktown

The Shop at Andaz 5th Avenue will Serve Mast Brothers Chocolate, Blue Bottle Coffee

Midtown, meet Blue Bottle.​A little over a week ago, just months after the Andaz Wall Street Hotel opened its doors, Andaz 5th Avenue made its debut. Next Monday, the hotel's casual dining spot, The Shop, will open. Taking a cue from the Wall Street branch, perhaps, which has its own farmer's ... More >>

Awesomely Nerdy Spelling Bee Finals Remind Us How Relieved We Are to Be Adults

​If you're just sitting at home tonight between 8 and 10 p.m., you're going to want to tune in to the Championship Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, live on ABC. Why? Because it will be...awkward. Cringe-inducing. Stressful! And awesome. Remember when you wore a retainer, waged an o ... More >>

Pusha T Presents: A Clipse Guide to New York City

Pusha T at the Highline Ballroom last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The Clipse make coke rap cut straight out of Virginia. But Pharrell's favorite rapping brothers, Malice and Pusha T, have a discernible New York streak running through their rhymes. Which is no surprise given that they were b ... More >>

Indecision+the Bulletproof Lincolns

Pusha T at the Highline Ballroom last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The Clipse make coke rap cut straight out of Virginia. But Pharrell's favorite rapping brothers, Malice and Pusha T, have a discernible New York streak running through their rhymes. Which is no surprise given that they were b ... More >>

Haiti's Rum Industry to Rebuild; Not All Nut Liqueurs Should Be Ignored

​ Several states with tight control on liquor sales, such as Virginia, Vermont, and Mississippi, are considering a change in legislation that would privatize the distribution of alcohol, either by auctioning licenses to private companies or selling distribution centers. [Wall Street Journal] ... More >>

Roman's: Ungodly Din, Good Food

But don't try to order that dish you loved so much last time

Election 2009: McDonnell in Virginia

​Republican candidate Bob McDonnell has quickly vanquished Democrat Creigh Deeds for Governor of Virginia. The race was close in June, but McDonnell broke out in recent weeks and is expected to show a healthy total when the votes are counted. With about half the count in, the former state atto ... More >>

GOP, NRA Scaring Rubes with Ethnic New Yorker

Aw, cute. In support of Bob McDonnell, a Republican running for governor of Virginia, the NRA has emitted this ad in which a heavily-accented wiseguy, who makes ample use of his hands when he talks, tells the simple country folk that "our New York Bloomberg came down here to take away some of your ... More >>

Forget Swine Flu: Horse Virus Kills Man Upstate

​As if swine flu weren't enough to worry about, a man in upstate New York has died of Eastern equine encephalitis. This brain virus is rare at present and spread by mosquitoes to horses, humans and other animals; no cure is known for the human cases. Officials in other states have had their ey ... More >>

News Roundup: Steven Tyler Crashes to Earth, Chris Brown Sentencing Delayed, Regina Spektor On Sale

--Steven Tyler fell off the stage last night during Aerosmith's gig at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital ten songs into their set. The 61-year-old frontman was dancing to entertain the crowd after the sound system failed during "Love in an El ... More >>

Mickey D's Making Customers Happy & The Latest Food Safety Scare? Cantaloupes!

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Broker Fails to Get Richies Drunk Enough to Buy Apartments

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Already Problems at Polling Places

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Poll Probs: Strict Clock in VA, "Panthers" in PA, Liquor in ID

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Wet Ballots for Some, Sour Grapes for Others

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

NYC Subway Cars Falling Into Ocean

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Trey Songz

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Vito Fossella: I Fathered a Love Child

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

Got Vino? Try the Village's Gottino!

An appreciation of a new wine bar and a plea

Death Metal With no Masturbatory Dissonance

An appreciation of a new wine bar and a plea

Love Actually

Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day

Centrist Democrats Notch Big Win

Finding the middle pays off in red-state Virginia

Larry, Larry

There's ice all over the place—they said, make sex on the beach

Art

There's ice all over the place—they said, make sex on the beach

George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboy

See how the little feller measures up to the Cowboy Code, and you tell me.

The Bush-Cheney Gazillions Tour

Get Out Your Checkbooks. It's a Bundle of Fun

Theater

Get Out Your Checkbooks. It's a Bundle of Fun

Outside Chance

Meet the Thinkers Who'd Help Uncle Sam—If Only He'd Bring Them In

Stalking the Stalkers

City Prosecutors Target Romantics Gone Wrong

Young Gun

Packing Heat on Brooklyn Streets

Play Dough

Money For (Almost) Nothing

Moderately Republican

The Power of the Maine-stream

Giuliani Trashed

The Power of the Maine-stream

Make Gender Not Love

The Joylessness of Sex