White Plains

Wal-Marts in New York City? It's Looking Less and Less Likely

At least for now, it looks like Wal-Mart is deescalating its push to break into New York City's retail market. Although the big-box chain has reaffirmed its commitment to exploring opportunities to open up stores in the city, it seems clear that the company is tampering down the capacity of its cam ... More >>

The Gawker/Christine Quinn Gun Owner Database Debacle

We were a bit afraid that this would become a "thing." Two weeks ago, we reported on the Journal News, a newspaper based in White Plains, published the names and addresses of all the gun owners in and around New York City. As a result, readers and media folk alike flipped out, leading one blogger ... More >>

The Journal News Gun Owner Database Debacle

Whenever one's privacy is breached in the public sphere, there's always that awkward, immediate reaction when the reader asks, "Was that one too far?" Well, it depends on impact and damage; this was a main concern with WikiLeaks - "Did their privacy leaks put anyone in harm's way?" underlies every c ... More >>

White Plains "Dirtman" Heading To Jail For Turning Yard Into Landfill, Polluting Reservoir

For about a year, a White Plains man who goes by the fitting moniker "Dirtman" has been operating an illegal landfill on two residential properties that he owns in Putnam County. Now, he's going to jail."Dirtman," a.k.a. Anothony Adinolfi, pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony charge of operating an ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of Westchester Punk

Anarchy in the 914

Q&A: Lambchop's Kurt Wagner On Vic Chesnutt, Chopin, And How The Internet Is The Biggest Thrift Store Of All

Kurt Wagner, ringleader of Lambchop, stops to chat with me for a few minutes outside his tour van. He's in White Plains, on his way to Philly, and he has about a cigarette break's worth of time. Thankfully, he's as verbose and animated in conversation as he is muttering, inscrutable, and downright p ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez To Jeremy Lin: You Can Stay With Me

​This is the stuff fan-fiction dreams are made of. A veteran New York sports star offering up his pad to the newbie in town. It's like the passing of the torch/merchandising contract. It's like the plot line of a buddy comedy. Yankee Alex Rodriguez has gone on the record saying that if Knick J ... More >>

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (In A Good Way): Sorting Through Prurient's Late-2011 Burst Of Noise

On Tuesday Dais Records issued God Is Truth and Light Is His Shadow by Prurient, a.k.a. Hospital Productions overlord/NYC noise institution Dom Fernow. Clocking in at almost 16 minutes, God is a reasonably inauspicious outing that's more interested in ambient texture than pulse-quickening implosions ... More >>

A Look At Pop Around The Globe, From Operatic Creole Harmonies To Riot-Grrl-Inspired French Rappers

The end of the year brings a flurry of world music albums with commercial intentions ranging from the archival to the optimistically opportunistic. Some, like the Creole Choir of Cuba's Tande-La or Vlada Tomova's Balkan Tales, accompany tours by the outfits that made them; others are heavily branded ... More >>

Woman Who Chili-Bombed 65 Pairs of Victoria's Secret Panties Is Finally Apprehended

A celebratory dance.​Justice! The woman who in April of this year entered a Victoria's Secret in White Plains and, seeking revenge for an alleged "earlier shoplifting incident," poured a container of chili all over 65 pairs of panties, which cost $750 dollars, a woman who had been on the lam e ... More >>

In Memory Of Paul Shaffer's House, The Now-Shuttered Punk Outpost In The Bronx

​Over the last year, those who traveled to the Paul Shaffer House--from Brooklyn, Fordham, Columbia, and SUNY Purchase--had somehow become convinced that the punk house off the Bronx Park East stop was going to be around forever. It wasn't hard; on the best summer nights, the place seemed like ... More >>

Milton Sisalima Busted for Videotaping Women from Ladies' Room Stall

"Sample" image​Malls are scary places. They contain clothes, and bad food, and bad lighting, and people, lots and lots of people, one of whom was recently arrested for videotaping ladies in the bathroom of the Galleria Mall in White Plains. (You may remember the Galleria Mall in White Plains a ... More >>

Woman Barred From Shopping at Victoria's Secret Throws Chili on Panties

Not available at Victoria's Secret. ​"Woman Chili-Bombs Panties at Victoria's Secret" has to be your headline of the day. At least until someone dumps fried pickles all over the counter at an adult video store. (Send us your tips!) This happened: A woman infuriated at being barred from the Vic ... More >>

Saigon's The Greatest Story Never Told Is Out Today; Go Congratulate Him In The Bronx

​Long-suffering NYC rapper Saigon, whom non-rap fans might recall from his brief stint on Entourage, has a new record out, The Greatest Story Never Told. Which is remarkable in that he's been waiting nearly half a decade for someone to type that sentence -- here is a Nah Right post touting a r ... More >>

Energy Kitchen Plans Nationwide Bison Burger Domination

​Energy Kitchen, the "healthy" fast-food chain that operates 10 restaurants in the New York City area, is looking to take over America with its ostrich and bison burgers and plans to expand to a whopping 1,000 locations over the next 10 years.

Anything Goes at NYC's Bizarro World Elections Board

Ben Novack Jr.'s Beating Death: Wife, Three Assistants Charged

​Is there some kind of International Crime Day being celebrated? On an afternoon when every TV camera is setting up outside federal court in Lower Manhattan for the arraignment of 10 Russian sleeper agents, U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara just held another press conference at the White Plains bran ... More >>

Boycott Arizona by Shunning P.F. Chang's Fake Chinese Food

You have probably heard that Arizona has decided police should be able to stop anyone who looks like he or she might be an undocumented immigrant, ask for identification, and arrest them if they fail to provide it. (No, not racial profiling, silly. Just looking out for illegal Mexicans!) Now there's ... More >>

Adam Bradley, White Plains Mayor, Charged with Domestic Assault

​White Plains ain't exactly ancient Athens, and when Democrat Adam Bradley took over as mayor from Republican Joseph Delfino, he complained that his predecessor shredded city documents and made shady deals. Clearly he was going for a white-knight thing, but that'll be a little more difficult ... More >>

Bernie Kerik, Cry Baby? Read Tough Cop's Email -- and Weep!

​Who knew that Bernie Kerik, the bullet-headed tough cop now headed to prison, was such a whiner? A really good whiner too, as proved by the latest submission by federal prosecutors to the White Plains judge who will sentence Kerik next week to somewhere north of 27 months. Prosecutors cite a ... More >>

Clip Job: Brownmiller Hangs with Junkies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 22, 1965, Vol. X, No. 40 Washington Sq.: 'Man, That's My Living Room!' By Susan Brownmiller Friday night. The New York University people meet with Park Commissioner Newbold Morris and representatives of the Police Department's Fi ... More >>

Les Paul, 1915-2009

He played electric guitar, and helped invent it; Gibson made a model based on his work and named it after him. With his wife Mary Ford he made some hit records on which he also innovated, using tape speed shifts and multi-tracking. He wasn't just a tech pioneer, though: he was also a tasty player. ... More >>

Bernie Kerik Indicted in D.C.

The "cockroaches" are after him again: Former Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik has been indicted in Washington for making false statements to the Bush White House when he was being vetted for Secretary of Homeland Security. That vetting, you may recall, was a debacle which not only revealed Kerik's ... More >>

Paterson Duped Again: Shelly Silver Gets Childhood Pal Jonathan Lippman State's Top Courts Job

Wayne Barrett: How Shelly Silver Made His Pal Chief Judge

This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>

Bernie Kerik Arraigned Today

Former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik is being arraigned today in White Plains for allegedly failing to disclose income on tax returns and falsifying a loan application. He'd previously been charged with, and pled not guilty to, corruption charges (including giving false information on his applicati ... More >>

Hoffman and Thompson Elevate the Otherwise Unremarkable Last Chance Harvey

Operation Rescue NY Event Cancelled, America Media "Finished"

Paterson Campaign Site Pushes Honesty, "Civility"; Other NY Pols Rely on Cash

Clip Job: MacDougal Street's Son-of-a-Beats

Weeping With the Enemy

Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.

New Terror Plot, Same Old Money Problem

Gay Marriage "Inevitable": Rally in Sheridan Square

Somewhere Else

Bill Laswell proves that Matthew Miller has a lot going on

Hillary Gets Two Surprise Challengers

Anti-war underdogs take on Clinton, put Sheehan in a pickle

Protection Racket

Questions about Albany's cut of New York's homeland security money

Mama Warbucks

Hillary Clinton brings home the dollars for New York's defense contractors

Letters

The Scourge of Her Conviction

Activist Elena Sassower annoyed congress, her trial judge, and defenders of free speech—all the way to jail

Driving While Influenced

A bribery trial opens a window on Albany patronage and a once proud agency's decline

All Hail the Chief

Opening a jewel box of ballets to celebrate Mr. Balanchine's birth a hundred years ago

Jam Master Jay, 1965–2002

Rhythmic Heart of the Kings of Rock

Cat O' Many Tales

Kim Deitch Gets Animated

One-Bedroom Apartment in High-Rise

Lyne Disease

Constance Craving

Letters

NY Mirror

Keely Smith

Letters