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Washington Mutual Inc.

  • News

    June 1, 2010

    Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

    Debrahlee Lorenzana says her no-account bosses fired her over her looks

  • News

    April 13, 2010

    People's Champion? Rick Lazio Is a Wall Street Creature

    His fingerprints are all over the recent economic collapse

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Chase Posts $3.59 Billion Profit, Thanks Public for Bailout (Updated: Thanks Not Confirmed)

    ​JPMorgan Chase made a killing last quarter and, as they admitted they would do last year, used their $25 billion in bailout funds to buy other companies like Washington Mutual and move shit around rather than make Bailey Savings & Loan-type investments in little guys like you. Those little-gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    News Roundup: R. Kelly, Jay-Z, Mr. West, Drake and Nipsey Hussle, Phil Spector

    ​--On Tuesday, we noted that R. Kelly had announced his "Ladies Make Some Noise!" tour, which included an NYC stop on October 16th. Now the venue has been revealed-- the WaMu Theater At Madison Square Garden--and tickets are on internet presale right now. The password? LADIES. This man and his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    A Cop For Just Minutes, Officer Firpo Gets His Man

    Around 1:15 p.m. today, almost immediately after graduating from the Police Academy with his fellow cadets at the WaMu Theatre, new Police Officer Dariel Firpo (pictured) apprehended a robbery suspect. NYPD says Jeffrey Grant, 47, snatched an old man's wallet over by Penn Station, pushed the old man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

    Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Are Banks Just Getting Their Karma?

    Beware addicts U.S. banks are worse off than Bernie Madoff these days, their net value having plummeted below the earth's surface as these once formidable institutions freefall into oblivion. We know this is largely a result of their greed, negligence, and overly liberal allotments of money to pe ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 11, 2009

    Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!

    Fortunately, lots of people—well, gay people—still care about Broadway.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    East Village WaMu Reported Robbed, Among Many Others

    Sasha Frere-Jones' twitter informs us that the WaMu in the East Village just got robbed. That makes, what, a hundred bank robberies so far this year? Bank heists were up 54 percent in the city last year, and in 2009 are already up 26 percent versus this time last year; one guy, still at large, has e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    This Week in the Voice (Updated)

    Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Huds ... More >>

  • Music

    February 18, 2009

    The Astral Travels of Van Morrison

    A brilliant and mercurial singer revisits perhaps his finest hour, 40 years later

  • News

    January 28, 2009

    What Cooked the World's Economy?

    It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    5 Banks Robbed Yesterday in 4 Boroughs

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Is It All Over For Nicole Kidman?

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Win one for the gyppers: Banks' current playoffs eerily like the NFL's

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Putting The New Back In New Haven

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Daily Flog: Wall Street down the drain; White House plumber summoned

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Daily Flog: White House on its knees, the rest of us on our backs, Wall Street zipping up

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    The End of Bottle Service in Clubs?

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    My Week in Disappointment

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2008

    New Yorkers Use Classic Salsa to Fight Gentrification

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    No Context: Time in the Wild, The Jammys

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2008

    Live: The Verve at MSG

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Subprime Mortgage Wasteland in the Bronx

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    Queens of the Stone Age @ WaMu MSG, 10/13

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007

    Rumors: Some LES Dirt on Steve Madden

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • News

    June 19, 2007

    The Second Battle of Bushwick

    Thirty years after the blackout riots, it's getting hot all over again

  • News

    April 18, 2006

    Anything to Help

    Nixzmary's biological dad shows up in court as 'friend' of identity theft defendant

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Bench Pressed

    Sliding-Door Lawsuits Keep Organizers Out, Lawsuits In

  • News

    January 28, 2003

    Pataki's Man in Harlem

    How Randy Daniels Helped Put Chain Stores and Market Prices Uptown

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