January 11, 2008
Johan says it's up to Twins
In his first published comments this winter, Johan Santana said he didnât know what to think about his situation, which has him rumored to be traded to the Yankees, Mets...
Johan says it's up to Twins
In his first published comments this winter, Johan Santana said he didnât know what to think about his situation, which has him rumored to be traded to the Mets, Yankees...
Santana says it's up to Twins
APJohan Santana has been in Venezuela since the regular season ended, but he recently arrived in Fort Myers, Fla., to start his workouts.In his first published comments this winter, Santana...
Ticket plans on sale
The Mets have launched 2008 seven-game Ticket Packs, which are the only way fans can guarantee tickets to Shea Stadiumâs last Opening Day, games against the Yankees, or the last...
Ebert Kicks 'The Bucket List'
The most interesting review of Rob Reiner's dreadful "The Bucket List'' comes from none other than Roger Ebert, who spent many months in the hospital recovering from surgery for cancer...
Hughes hears the rumors
APPhil Hughes keeps hearing the trade rumors. If the Yankees acquire Johan Santana from Minnesota, Hughes wound wind up with the Twins,âI try to avoid the rumors best I can,...
Playoff chaos
Terrell Owens and Shaun O'Hara look ready to play, Sam Madison doesn't, Michael Strahan checks out Jessica Simpson, and Terry Bradshaw thinks Tony Romo is nuts.Just another day on the...
FOX's Bradshaw: No, Tony, no!
FOX NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Tony Romo should have waited until after the season to vacation with gal pal Jessica Simpson."Tony is obviously different than...
Got PSP?
Now you'll have Skype too. Sony announced that they're introducing Skype features to the PSP-2000 series (the thinner, lighter version), which means it's practically (uh) as good as an iPhone.This...
Is Santana worth it?
Should the MetsNew York Mets just do it? Should they send away the top prospects in their farm system to get Johan Santana? Is he worth it?LET US KNOW
The U.S. Army wants you...to play "Halo"
I can't tell if it's weird or cool that the U.S. Army is teaming up with Microsoft to have the first ever "Halo 3" championship tourney on Xbox Live. Registration...
Giants injury report
Tom Coughlin said injured center Shaun O'Hara "seemed to do well" at practice today and will be ready to go Sunday when the Giants play the Cowboys in the NFC...
Celts-Nets, KG-Rook
By FRED KERBERStatement game blah, blah, blah.Measuring stick, yada, yada, yada.Yes, many are curious to see how the Nets compare to the Celtics tonight but face it, this is January....
Scene
Jess Shaefer, who works for an art dealer, wears a stripped sweater from H&M, boots from Italy and feather earrings by a Barcelona artist. "I'm into jeans and boots, sweater...
O.J. SIMPSON GOING TO JAIL AFTER BAIL REVOKED
O.J. Simpson's bail has been revoked and he's been taken into custody according to FOX News. He was flying today from Miami to Los Angeles and was expected to arrive...
Gomez an All-Star
Rangers forward Scott Gomez was named to the NHL Eastern Conference All-Star team today as a reserve. He is the only Ranger named. Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro is one of...
Feel the pain, literally
Here's something that'll make you think twice about blindly careening around corners while playing FPSes, just because you can always start over at the last checkpoint. The TN Games FPS...
Interest in Cameron
FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports the Brewers have signed center fielder Mike Cameron, in whom the Yankees had interest.Rosenthal says the fact the Yankees passed on Cameron's salary means they...
Surprise! T.O. will start
By PAUL SCHWARTZWord out of the Cowboys practice complex in Valley Ranch is that Terrell Owens will start at receiver in Sunday's NFC divisional playoff game against the Giants.Surprise, surprise.âIâm...
Strahan: I'd date Jessica
APIf Jessica Simpson gets tired of going out with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, thereâs a Giants defensive end who wouldnât mind a date with the singer-actress.Veteran Michael Strahan came to...
Deal of the Day
Top off your sophisticated winter look with this adorable Provence Cloche by Hats By deLux on karmloop.com.The price hasn't been slashed considerably (it was originally $30 and is now $26.95),...
Starr Report
"Cashmere Mafia" made a decidedly unremarkable debut in its regular timeslot Wednesday. ABC's new series (Lucy Liu, Francis O'Connor, Bonnie Somerville) averaged only 6.2 million viewers (10-11 p.m.) in its...
Harry Raves: 'Like Saving Private Ryan But Instead of Nazis It's A Giant Monster'
That's an actual quote from Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News, who to absolutely nobody's surprise raves about "Cloverfield'' after Paramount granted him an exclusive first screening. Harry claims...
Act like the team is good
The cellar-dwelling Knicks are running a series of 30-second TV ads that purportedly feature real-life fans talking up their heartfelt team devotion.But the commercials conveniently fail to tell viewers the...
Sundance Forecast: Sellers' Market, But Buyers Beware
As you can see from this neat widget, the Sundance Film Festival is less than one week away. For some time, there's been speculation that last year's acquisition frenzy will...
Is Santana worth it?
Should the Mets just do it? Should they send away the top prospects in their farm system to get Johan Santana? Is he worth it?The superstar lefty is a perfect...
Diving Into the January Dumpster
It's the middle of January, and there are a pretty typically motley trio of movies debuting in wide release today. "First Sunday,'' a heist comedy starring the tireless Ice Cube,...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
2 & 3: Run local between 96th and Chambers streets. 4: Free shuttle bus replaces trains between Woodlawn and Bedford Park Boulevard from 4 a.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. Sunday....
SUBWAYS ASPIRE TO BE AVERAGE: CHIEF
Straphangers gave the subways mostly modest C's and C-minuses on New York City Transit's Rider Report Cards - but that still hasn't inspired the agency to aim to be head...
ANTI-DRIVE-FEE NYERS WILLING TO $HIFT GEAR
New Yorkers hate Mayor Bloomberg's idea to charge a fee to drive into most of Manhattan, but that doesn't mean they can't be convinced, according to a new poll. A...
A SHAM DUNK BY KNICKS
The cellar-dwelling Knicks are running a series of 30-second TV ads that purportedly feature real-life fans talking up their heartfelt team devotion. But the commercials conveniently fail to tell viewers...
CITY TO KICK SOME RAT TAIL
City health officials have kicked off a new offensive in the rat war. Health inspectors, armed with handheld computers, have begun combing blocks in The Bronx to catalog signs of...
FIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION IN GUARDS' BEATING TRIAL
Federal prison guards charged in the beating of an inmate lied to their superiors without realizing a camera had recorded the violent attack, a witness testified yesterday. Officer Scott Rosebery,...
FIREMEN BUSTED IN COP BRAWL
A pair of firefighters will be suspended without pay following their arrest for a barroom brawl with cops who were trying to shut down a Staten Island pub, officials said....
DOGS' ROLL CALL
Three adorable Chihuahua puppies who were born without front paws are now hot dogs on a roll - each equipped with their own custom set of wheels. Litter mates Pablo,...
PAL TOOK THE RAP FOR YAYO
A friend of G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo's has told cops that it was he, not Yayo, who beat up the 14-year-old son of a top producer for rival The Game,...
GRISLY SLAYER GETS 25 TO LIFE
Joshua Nowrang vowed to make his common-law wife's relatives cry forever. Yesterday, they revealed how he did so. "He said he's going to make all of us put our hands...
QUEENS MAN GUNNED DOWN IN CLUBLAND SPAT
An argument inside the trendy West Side hot spot Club Stereo early yesterday spilled outside, where one clubgoer was shot dead in the street, police sources said. The gunplay took...
BODY 'PARTS' FOR MORONS
The actor who played the charismatic corpse in "Weekend at Bernie's" said yesterday he may offer movie parts to the two hustlers who were busted for propping their dead pal...
CATHOLIC TEACHER SICKOUT
Hundreds of Catholic high school teachers called in sick yesterday to protest working without a contract since last August. Six of the 10 Archdiocese of New York schools whose teachers...
TOILET IS GOOD TO 'GO'
Halle-loo-jah. New York finally joined the commodern age yesterday, with the opening of the first of 20 automatic public restrooms. For 25 cents, the sleek, if boxy, new bathroom in...
RECAPTURED NJ CON: ESCAPE? WHO, ME?
A second prison escapee was returned to New Jersey yesterday - and, after nearly four weeks on the lam, declared himself innocent of trying to escape because "I coulda gotten...
ADOPT 'SLAY'
A former Queens woman charged with abusing 11 disabled kids she adopted as part of a $1.25 million scam is now being investigated for possibly killing one of them in...
$10 MIL COKE RING SMASHED
A Brooklyn detective went undercover as a longshoreman to smash a Panamanian drug ring that tried to smuggle $10 million worth of coke into the Big Apple on container ships...
RANDALLS FIELDS PLAN FOUL: FOES
A plan to let 20 private schools construct 63 ball fields on Randalls Island amounts to privatizing one of the city's biggest parks, opponents told a judge yesterday. No project...
NY BENCH PRESS FOR PAY HIKES
Give yourself a raise! That's what a Manhattan judge was told yesterday when he heard arguments about whether he should sign a court order pressuring the state to hike long-stagnant...
LITTLE SPITFIRE
The world's cheapest car rolled off the assembly line yesterday with all the hoopla fit for a pricey Lexus. The revolutionary, no-frills Nano, a $2,500 four-seater hatchback by Indian automaker...
WHAT A PURR-TV TOMKAT
Tom Cruise may still be fuming over wild allegations in an unauthorized bio that he's merely the surrogate dad of daughter Suri, but he's all smiles with wife Katie Holmes...
WEIRD BUT TRUE ON THE TRAIL
Hey, that's my "change!" So says a White Plains 19-year-old, who claims he coined "Change rocks" as a phrase well ahead of Sen. Barack Obama turning it into a slogan...
CUT TO THE CHA$E
Rudy Giuliani vows in a new TV ad that on his first day as president, he would submit to Congress the "largest tax cut in American history." "I would lower...
KERRY BACKING BARACK
Sen. John Kerry snubbed Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday and endorsed Barack Obama for president, just days after Clinton's stunning comeback to win the New Hampshire primary. The duo, at left...
TV JUNKIES SPURRING WEB VID STRIKE SPIKE
Boob-tube addicts, frustrated by the Hollywood writers strike that's crippled prime-time TV show production, are tuning into popular online video sites to get their daily dose of entertainment. "We have...
SNIPES OWES ON $38M: IRS
Wesley Snipes paid no federal taxes on $38 million in income during a six-year span starting in 1999 - and continued to do so even after the IRS warned the...
AND THE 'GOLDEN DUD' GOES TO . . . NBC!
If you think watching Congress debate a farm bill on C-SPAN is dull, just wait for Sunday night's Golden Globe awards. With visions of evaporating ad dollars following the cancellation,...
POSITIVELY RIBBITING
Kermit has a new cousin. Herpetologists in Kansas are croaking with excitement at the discovery of a new type of frog - the first unique species found in more than...
DOC'S HAD HIS PHIL OF BRIT'S PARENTS
Boob-tube shrink "Dr. Phil" McGraw yesterday said it was Britney Spears' family - and not his people - who came up with the idea for the pill-pop tart to appear...
A PEACE OF HIS MIND
Toughening his tone toward Israel, President Bush pointedly called for an end to its "occupation" of the West Bank yesterday as he revealed his most detailed vision to date for...
CHRISTA FUROR SLAY JUROR DENIES RACE BIAS
BARNSTABLE, Mass. - A white juror accused of making racially charged comments during deliberations at the Christa Worthington murder trial denied those allegations on the stand yesterday. Marlo George, who...
'SEX' EDUCATION
Guys, don't waste your time trying to impress women in their upper 20s by showing them how brainy you are, because they're the ones with degrees, a new survey shows....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Two thugs were arrested for beating and robbing a man and his wheelchair-bound wife in Hell's Kitchen, authorities said yesterday. Matthew Greig and Richard Clarke, both 22, allegedly accosted...
HILLARY'S COLLAPSE CAN PULL A COMEBACK
BEFORE everybody falls down hyperventilating over Hillary Rodham Clinton's huge "comeback" victory in New Hampshire this week, let's review the facts. She won by 2 percentage points. This represents an...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 068; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 9087; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 338; Lucky Sum: 14; Evening Win-4 Thu.: 6816; Lucky...
PETRAEUS' VICTORY
US aircraft yesterday marked the first anniversary of President Bush's declaration of the Iraq troop surge by pulverizing suspected terrorist hideouts in the suburbs of Baghdad with 20 tons of...
THE SURGE AT ONE
AS you read these lines, our troops are in the midst of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a "mini-surge" to squeeze al Qaeda and its fast-dwindling band of allies out of their...
US-ISRAELI FAULT LINES
JERUSALEM OBSCURED amid the backslaps and bilateral affinity on display during President Bush's three-day stay in Jerusalem are worrisome fault lines threatening the traditionally rock-solid US-Israel alliance. More worrisome still...
CLASS ACT'S EXIT PUTS MET IN PERIL
THE announcement on Wednesday that Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1977, planned to retire late this year marked not only the end of an...
HOUNDING HILL
A TELLING moment between Hillary Clinton and the press came the day before the Iowa caucuses. Armed with coffee and bagels, the senator boarded the press bus and made a...
HILLARY'S 'SOFT' SIDE: COLD, CALCULATED CRYING
THE ISSUE:Hillary Clinton's emotions in an interview after her caucus defeat in Iowa. Real tears or crocodile tears, Sen. Hillary Clinton is not ready for prime time - although she...
OSCAR PLANNERS EYE INTERVENTION
Academy Award organizers have reached out to the striking writers guild and the union representing screen actors in an effort to start negotiations ahead of a possible move to postpone...
HOUSE GUEST
Countrywide Financial boss Angelo Mozilo is readying his swan song nearly four decades after founding the company and building it into the nation's largest mortgage lender. Bank of America was...
INTERNET $WINGERS
They came from MySpace, YouTube, and other corners of the Web to scale to the top of the pop music charts. Two of the top 10 songs on this week's...
FASHION VICTIMS
Retailers suffered their weakest December sales in years, stoking fears that a US economic recession is likely. Dogged by soaring gasoline prices and turmoil in the housing and credit markets,...
BARNES & NOBLE HOLDERS READ THE RIOT ACT
Investors threw the book at Barnes & Noble yesterday after the entertainment retailer said same-store sales dropped 0.4 percent over the holidays on slumping music sales. Shares plummeted $6.58, or...
FEARING THOSE FOREIGN FUNDS
The Senate is ordering a probe into sovereign wealth funds controlled by foreign governments, just as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch negotiate a new wave of overseas capital injections weeks after...
CREDIT CABAL
Buyout titan Stephen Schwarzman is slapping down a $1.4 billion bet in a bold play to drag his stalled Blackstone shares out of the pits. Blackstone, whose stock has skidded...
AG CHIPS IN VERSUS INTEL
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is launching his broadest probe yet - taking on chipmaker Intel in a surprise move that could reward the state with a new $3...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A little poop turned out to be one teen's undoing. Josue Herrios-Cornilla, 18, was busted after drunkenly smashing his car through a fence and into a yard in Durham, NC,...
ADVENTURES IN THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE
Far away from the revelry of the big cities of New York or Paris, I was hidden away in a French country paradise, full of great food, friends and fun....
ROGER'S PLEA HARD-IN TO BELIEVE
MICHAEL Caputo, a reader from Ridgefield, Conn., nailed it in an e-mail: "Brian McNamee might not be a doctor, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express!" That's the...
'SUPERMAN' SET TO FIGHT AGAIN
ROY Jones still thinks he's Superman though some might suggest he's closer to being Super Grand Dad. The former pound-for-pound king, who turns 39 on Wednesday, sees no immediate end...
AGUDIO BRIGHTENS UP HOFSTRA'S BACKCOURT
ANTOINE Agudio needed some good news. His gimpy ankle had just kept him out of the Holiday Festival at the Garden, and Hofstra's leading scorer and senior leader was down...
BLUES TRAVELER
WE'VE read the story the Giants are trying to write, two years ago when the Steelers stormed through Cincinnati, Denver and Indianapolis before winning Super Bowl XL in Detroit. We...
CHALK UP PACKERS & 'BOYS
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record...
BIG D-TERMINED
IRVING, Texas - It's not exactly Doomsday III, but it's as close as the Cowboys have gotten to that in more than a decade. The defense the Cowboys will trot...
TO GETS SOME PRACTICE, STILL QUESTIONABLE
IRVING, Texas - Terrell Owens practiced on a limited basis for the first time all week yesterday and appears likely to at least test his sprained left ankle Sunday against...
MLB, UNION DISCUSS MITCHELL REPORT
Representatives of Major League Baseball and the Players Association met this week to discuss the recommendations in the Mitchell Report, The Post has learned. Commissioner Bud Selig and union executive...
MCNAMEE, FEDS MEET
Brian McNamee met with federal investigators for three hours yesterday at his lawyer's office in New York, according to a source. Jeff Novitzky, an IRS agent, and Matthew Parrella, an...
LINCOLN STAR SUSPENDED
Lance Stephenson was suspended for five days and will miss a pair of league games after being involved in a fight with Lincoln teammate Devon McMillan on Wednesday at the...
TRENDSETTERS
PACKERS (-8) VS. SEAHAWKS, 4:30 P.M. Green Bay has covered four straight as a home favorite of 31/2-10 points, six of seven as a favorite of any size, eight of...
THE ODD COUPLE
Sure, The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) went only 1-3 against the spread on wild-card weekend, but they finished 3-1 on the all-important and far-more-challenging over/unders. TOMORROW: Packers...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...TERRY BRADSHAW
FOX NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw discusses this weekend's divisional round with The Post's Justin Terranova. Q: Was the game against the Bucs Eli Manning's breakout performance? A: Howie Long called...
HONDO'S AN EMOTIONAL WRECK
Due to a series of tragic, unforeseen happenstances - the Titans' Bironas missing a chip-shot FG, the Jags blowing an 18-point lead, the 36-point explosion in the fourth quarter of...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Billikens score only 20 Saint Louis set a modern Division I record for fewest points in a game last night, falling 49-20 to George Washington in the Atlantic 10...
WAR PASS GOES BACK TO WORK
Unbeaten War Pass, who likely will be named 2-year-old champion at the annual Eclipse Awards dinner Jan. 21 in Beverly Hills, yesterday had his first workout since winning Oct. 27...
HORSEMEN SEEK PURSE PROTECTION
With the Jan. 23 deadline fast approaching for resolving the New York racing-franchise crisis, the NY Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association yesterday urged the state to protect the interests of its 6,000...
DEVS PUT ON REAL SHOW OF FOUR-CE
RALEIGH, NC - To the Devils, it was a bonanza. They hadn't scored more than three goals in regulation, without an empty-netter, in more than a month. "This is awesome,"...
ONE GIANT ADVANTAGE
There cannot be any secret weapons. Can there? Not usually in this day and age, not with all the scouting and obsessive preparation and the fact that the Giants and...
JINTS' SEASON FOR BELIEVIN'
STANDING in the middle of the Giants locker room after the Cowboys had beaten the Giants for the second time, Osi Umenyiora announced: "They are absolutely not a better football...
WHAT PRESSURE?
The Cowboy boot may be on the other foot for Sunday's divisional playoff matchup between Dallas and the Giants. The pressure usually reserved for Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning's postseason...
BIG BLUE IS BLACK & BLUE
The sight of cornerback Kevin Dockery hobbling on a pair of crutches yesterday means the Giants are not going into Sunday's NFC divisional playoff game against the Cowboys at full...
'BURY THE KNICKS 'BURY
Stephon Marbury admitted the obvious yesterday. The Knicks are going in the wrong direction and he's not sure whether he will still be with them when - or if -...
EJECTION DEJECTION
YOU know that dead guy who was wheeled into a Manhattan check-cashing shop by two friends looking to covert his monthly $355 social security payment into currency? James Doughland just...
WILLIS: DON'T GIVE UP ON EDDY-ZACH
Knicks legend Willis Reed said yesterday it's too early to split the so-far failing Eddy Curry-Zach Randolph tandem. "If I had Curry and Zach on my team, I wouldn't give...
ISIAH: 'T' WASN'T A GOOD IDEA
Isiah Thomas' decision Wednesday night to draw a technical as his team was trying to come back against the Rockets did not pay off and yesterday, he admitted as much....
JUST SAY NOHAN
The door is open wide for the Mets to land Johan Santana, but the Twins' asking price is still too high, industry sources told the Post yesterday. The superstar left-hander...
NETS: BATTLE AGAINST CELTS NOT DO-OR-DIE
When the Nets face Boston tonight at the Meadowlands, they're confident they can acquit themselves better than their last meeting with the NBA's top team, their worst offensive outing of...
RANGERS DROP FIFTH STRAIGHT
This isn't about all the King's horses and this isn't about all the King's men, culpable as they all were in the Rangers' five-alarm 6-2 loss to the Flyers at...
PRO PUNTERS ARE THE NEW 'IT' ACCESSORY
THE hottest celebrity arm candy this season isn't a Birkin or the latest Louis bag. It's a hulking, sweaty, diesel, grease-painted beefcake with abs of steel - aka a pro...
FIRST SLICE OF 'SWEENEY'
JOHNNY Depp has received mountains of praise for his haunting perform ance in the film ver sion of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd." But as good as he is, for theatergoers...
HOW TO PICK UP A FOOTBALLER
MALE models, singers and actors are a dime a dozen in New York's nightlife scene. But pro athletes - especially football players? They're rarer than Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket. "In...
A MOUND OF CONCRETE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
IT'S a wonder this new revival of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" isn't rendered in capital letters, with an exclamation mark - everything else about it has been ratcheted up to...
RUN FOR THE LIFEBOAT
AS idle as a plastic ship upon a plastic ocean - with apologies to Cole ridge's "Ancient Mariner" - that was the aqueous opening of "The Little Mermaid," Disney's latest...
THIRD 'IDOL' BITES DUST
'MCPHEEVER" has definitely cooled off. Katharine McPhee, who nearly won "American Idol" two years ago, has been dropped by record label RCA - joining Taylor Hicks, who beat her for...
TONY SOPRANO IS GETTING HITCHED
TONY Soprano is off the market. James Gandolfini, who played the mob boss in "The Sopranos," is engaged to his girlfriend, former model Deborah Lin, according to reports. They have...
FUTURE TENSE
YOU don't need to be a fan of the "Terminator" movies to like Fox's new show, "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," which premieres Sunday night. In fact, if you're a...
STARR REPORT
In Liu of viewers "Cashmere Mafia" made a decidedly unremarkable debut in its regular timeslot Wednesday. ABC's new se ries (Lucy Liu, Francis O'Connor, Bonnie Somer ville) averaged only 6.2...
SEE YA, L.C.
'THE Hills" star Lauren Conrad and Teen Vogue are so, like, over. Conrad, whose work as an intern at Teen Vogue was a featured part of MTV's reality show, has...
SPERM BANK PRANK
IN all the U.S., there are only a few hundred sperm banks. So what are the odds that two of them will be robbed during the same hour? In one...
TALE ABOUT PRETEEN TRIO A TURKISH DELIGHT
LET us give thanks for the small pleasures of life. The Turkish movie "Times and Winds," for example. Set in an arid, remote village, it deals with life through the...
IT HAS A LOT TO CRUCI-FIX
ICE Cube goes cold in "First Sunday," a heist comedy in which the audience gets robbed. Cube plays a harried, working-class Baltimore dad who needs $17,000 to pay off a...
LIBERTY KIDS
THERE is no shortage of films about the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but there is a lack of good ones. The low-budget indie "Liberty Kid," produced by downtown...
THE PIRATES WHO DON'T DO ANYTHING: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE
THE second big-screen spinoff from a long-running direct-to-video series, "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" gets half a star for truth in advertising. I've seen more exciting no-smoking announcements in...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
YOU CAN A-FORD IT January 11 - Film John Ford, that great American filmmaker, shot more than 50 flicks - from silents to talkies - at 20th Century Fox. Now...
BROADWAY
"A BRONX TALE": ** Chazz Palminteri stars in his 1993 one-man show of growing up in The Bronx. Material worked better in De Niro's movie. Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W....
LONG RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": **** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE": ** ½ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre....
OFF - BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": *** Musical spoof of Christian-pop boy bands is entertaining despite one-joke premise. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St.; (877) 226-9941. "BECKETT SHORTS": *** Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
THE BACON BROTHERS: Actor Kevin and his brother Michael play a country/folk/rock-inspired set tomorrow night at 7:30 at B.B. King's, 237 W. 42nd St.; (212) 997-4144, ticketmaster.com. DANNY & DUSTY:...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Allen Toussaint. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Through Sunday: Clayton Brothers Quintet. 33 W. 60th St.; (212) 258-9595. KNITTING FACTORY: Tomorrow: The...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Select artists from the New York Philharmonic perform chamber pieces by Mozart, Martin, Schumann and Lerdahl. Lincoln Center, 132 W. 65th St.; (212) 721-6500. BARGEMUSIC: Bach, Shostakovich...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Through Jan. 19: Elaine Stritch. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. DON'T TELL MAMA: Donna Moore presents "The Cougar Cabaret" Thursday at 8:30 p.m. 343 W. 46th St.;...
DANCE
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Russia's Moiseyev Dance Company performs traditional folk dances tomorrow at 8 p.m. Flatbush and Nostrand avenues, Brooklyn; (718) 951-4500. THE GUGGENHEIM: Frederic Franklin speaks...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES:Alexander Dovzhenko's epic "Arsenal" (1929) is a visual tale of civil war in Russia reminiscent of works by his contemporaries like Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin. Sunday at...
COMEDY
CAROLINES COMEDY CLUB: Tonight and tomorrow: Susie Essman. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR:Today and tomorrow: Darrell Hammond, Keith Robinson, Godfrey, Mike Birbiglia and Amy Schumer. 117 MacDougal St.; (212)...
FAIRS FEST, ETC...
BIG APPLE CIRCUS:At Damrosch Park's big tent at 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, through Sunday; bigapplecircus.org. PARTY LIKE IT'S 1995: Deejays spin '90s hip-hop and R&B, and guests...
PREVIEWS
"ALMOST AN EVENING": Filmmaker Ethan Coen's three-part comedy. Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2, 330 W. 16th St.; (212) 279-4200. Opens Jan. 22. "NOVEMBER": Nathan Lane stars in David Mamet Comedy....
Torture on Broadway
Excuse me while I wipe the blood off my clothes; I seem to have just stepped out of an Iron Maiden.And you know what? The Iron Maiden sounds inviting in...
Broad Street Beating
Six unanswered goals. The Rangers took a 2-0 lead before allowing six Flyer goals en route to the worst beating of their recent skid. Henrik Lundqvist has been, as Larry...