January 18, 2008
"Advance Wars" in advance
What are you doing this Sunday? Nothing? Well, get yourself over to the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza because they're offering up a sneak peak of the new "Advance...
Callahan hired for running game
The Jets today agreed to terms with former Raiders and Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan to be their assistant head coach in charge of the running offense.Callahan is being brought...
Deal of the Day
Just because the holiday season is over doesn't mean you don't need some cold weather cocktail party options.And this Tuxedo Wool Mini from J. Crew is suited for drinks with...
Is this finale for Strahan?
Giants DE Michael Strahan contemplated retirement before rejoining the team well into training camp. Now, on the verge of returning to the Super Bowl, it seemed the thought of going...
CLINTON: I NEVER DOUBTED BILL'S LOVE FOR ME
Hillary Clinton, talking for the first time ever about her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky, insisted "I never doublted Bill's love for me." Clinton, who was interviewed by Tyra Banks...
Lanvin Loves BG
And we love both of them!If you haven't been to the new Lanvin boutique in Bergdorf, here's a look-see at what you're missing:Go now for pre-spring stuff including shoes, handbags,...
Betemit gets $1.1 million
APReserve infielder Wilson Betemit and the Yankees avoided arbitration, agreeing to a $1,165,000, one-year contract just before teams and players exchanged figures today.Acquired from the Dodgers at the trade deadline...
Eli shows some glove
Giants QB Eli Manning says wearing a glove on his left, non-throwing hand this week felt good, and he'll make a decision whether to wear it or not against the...
Clemens meeting Jan. 26
By BRIAN COSTELLORoger Clemens and a congressional committee have a date.The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform invited Clemens to meet privately with their staff on Jan. 26 in...
ON LOCATION: The real Twin Peaks
View Larger MapThe long-awaited box set of Twin Peaks came out not too long ago. Twin Peaks. Remember? It's only David Lynch's remarkable, groundbreaking ABC drama that marked the beginning...
Sundance: When Stars Collide
â Celebrities are arriving very slowly for the Sundance Film Festival in this snow-shrouded town. Which may explain why Colin Farrell was hanging out at the Village at the Lift...
Jerome is back, really
By MARC BERMANWASHINGTON - The Yankees have their Carl Pavano. The Knicks have their Jerome James. Basketball's version of American Idle is back.James, the 7-1 center, passed his fitness test...
Starr Report
It's been over two months now since A&E suspended production on "Dog, the Bounty Hunter" - and yanked repeats of the show - in the wake of Dog's (Duane Chapman)...
Sundance Opens Quietly
Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford who opened last year's press conference with a denounciation of President Bush, tempered his political comments yesterday. At the opening press conference, the "Lions...
ALL IN THE FAMILY
SOPHOMORE forward Jamel Ferguson and coach Barry Rohrssen refer to their program simply as the Manhattan College family, and that "family" accepted a valuable new member over the holidays. It's...
FAVRE BE IT TO PICK AGAINST PACK
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...
THORNTON JOINS RED BULLS
The Red Bulls are bringing Zach Thornton, a former MetroStar, back to New York. Thornton, the veteran keeper who was signed yesterday, probably will be an affordable backup to recently...
'RICHES' WIN TOP MOMENT
The filly Rags to Riches' photo-finish victory over Curlin was voted "2007 NTRA Moment of the Year" with 51 percent of votes cast, followed by death of Barbaro (17 percent),...
IMMUNITY 'UNLIKELY' FOR MCNAMEE
A lawyer for Brian McNamee, who accused Roger Clemens of steroid use, was told yesterday that his client is unlikely to receive immunity when he appears before Congress on Feb....
ROG HIRES CLINTON LAWYER
Roger Clemens made a huge addition to his legal team yesterday, adding high-powered Washington lawyer Lanny A. Breuer, who is best known for representing former President Clinton during his impeachment...
MIXED COMPETITON
BOXING created its own problems when it began programming fights the same night on competing networks, forcing an already niche audience to split its allegiance. Now it's facing a more...
LEBRON: DITCH CAVALIER 'TUDE
ANYBODY who has had a child or been one, sadly recognizes that nobody else's experiences - parents, entertainers, coaches, criminals - mean diddly-squat, count for anything and have sub-zero impact...
CARDWELL WAS SIMPLY AMAZIN'
DON Cardwell died Monday. He was 72. Geez, Don Cardwell ...My college roommate, freshman year, lived 90 minutes up the road, outside of Pittsburgh. He'd warned me that Bob Prince...
FEELING CHIPPER
FOXBOROUGH - Not sure if this was a subliminal sign of supreme confidence or not, but the usually stone-faced and stoic Bill Belichick appeared relaxed and even - honest -...
TRENDSETTERS
CHARGERS (+131/2) AT PATRIOTS, 3:00 San Diego has covered seven straight following a win, four straight on the road, seven straight following a cover, four of five vs. winning teams...
HONDO ON JINTS-PACK: ROVER & OVER
HONDO, who continues to struggle in the spread standings, stayed in contention in the all-important over/under division, going 3-1 to remain only a game behind wilting Wimbish. Before getting to...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...KEYSHAWN JOHNSON
THIS week, The Post's Justin Terranova throws Keyshawn Johnson the damn questions - and the ESPN "Sunday NFL Countdown" analyst talks about conference championship weekend, the possibility of a comeback...
NO EXCUSE FOR GOLFWEEK COVER
I CAN excuse Kelly Tilghman. She made a mistake. That's all it was in my opinion: a mistake. When the Golf Channel anchor said in a moment of attempted humor,...
DEVILS MUST NOT FREEZE AT HOME
It's just one loss, but that's how the Devils' NY-NY nine-game no-no opened. Now they must beware nothing snowballs downhill during this stretch of 15-of-18 in Newark that has already...
SIMMS HAS BIG HOPES FOR BIG BLUE
IN A nutshell, what would Phil Simms tell Giant fans about their team's chances Sunday night in Green Bay? "You're big and you're physical and you can run the football...
BULLETIN-BOARD BUNK NO BOTHER TO BIG BLUE
WELL, we can officially begin our countdown to kickoff now, because the Giants have officially been dissed by another dastardly foe. We can count that as part of the regular...
STRAHAN: THE SAPPY FAVRE FEST MUST STOP
Michael Strahan is sick and tired of the national Brett Favre lovefest. The veteran defensive end wondered aloud yesterday why he and other long-suffering pros in the Giants' locker room...
FROM WEEK 2 TO NOW, GIANTS DIFFERENT AS..
The last time the Packers and Giants did battle was on a sunny September day at the Meadowlands - and the Giants looked as much like a playoff team as...
SILENCE OF LAMB
THERE has been so much talk about the weather forecast for Sunday night at Lambeau Field, the strategic aspects of the Giants-Packers NFC Championship game largely have been overlooked by...
UNFROZEN TUNDRA
GREEN BAY - The Frozen Tundra actually never freezes. Not on the watch of Allen Johnson, Fields Manager at the new-fangled old Lambeau Field, who promises an entirely playable field...
TURNING THE CORNER
GREEN BAY - This isn't the end of the football earth. But four years removed from his last Pro Bowl season, Charles Woodson feared one could see it from here....
PACKERS PRACTICE INDOORS
When a Wisconsin television reporter casually asked cornerback Sam Madison about the weather in Green Bay, Madison offered an immediate retort. "Did you ask the Green Bay Packers the same...
PRIDE WILL PREVAIL
HALL of Famer Harry Carson is wild about the Giants. "I feel very confident this team can win this game," Carson told The Post, "and they will win." He never...
GET DOWN AND DIRTY
There was apparent danger for anyone approaching the vicinity of Shaun O'Hara's locker, as the normally agreeable Giants center issued a warning that didn't sound particularly threatening. "You might want...
FORMER JETS DRAFTEE FINALLY FINDS SOME SUCCESS
FOXBOROUGH - Kyle Brady, the other Brady on the Patriots' roster, is basking in a state of nirvana. Jets fans remember Brady as their team's No. 1 draft pick in...
TRADE WINDS AROUND KNICKS
WASHINGTON - Though Isiah Thomas keeps talking about not wanting to make a trade, there has been various reports he has turned down deals left and right. In fact, ESPN...
SURGERY FOR STEPH
WASHINGTON - The Stephon Marbury Era is all but over. The Knicks' point-guard torch officially was passed yesterday - from the Coney Island Kid to Jamal Crawford. The Knicks announced...
THE KIDD WHO TALKS THE TRUTH
His voice was resignation laced with realism, as Jason Kidd laid out the cold, hard truth about the Nets. They are what they are: A middle-of-the-road, up-and-down .500 team. Don't...
PAYING THE PENALTY
The Rangers would have been within their rights to question some of the calls made against them in the second period of Wednesday's 2-1 victory over the Sabres during which...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1: Trains skip 28th, 23rd, and 18th Street stations in both directions. No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. 2 & 3: Trains run local between 96th and Chambers...
PEDICABS ROLL TO VICTORY
Pedicab companies were riding high yesterday after a judge quashed a rule that made it more competitive for the ubiquitous rickshaw operators to obtain licenses. "This decision does nothing less...
NO. 7 RIDERS GET ALL-CLEAR SIGNAL
Maybe the number 7 is a little lucky after all. Manhattan-bound riders on the No. 7 subway line will get a two-weekend reprieve from signal work, New York City Transit...
NYERS METRO-GUARDED
Straphangers hate change. That's what some riders told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday over the agency's decision to alter its 20 percent bonus for all pay-per-ride MetroCards over $10 to...
FAT CHANCE, NYPD
Obese police have nothing to lose. Unlike firefighters, who undergo annual fitness tests, there is nothing to thwart the Finest's fattest because cops are required to be checked for fitness...
BLACKVERRY DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR
State transportation officials are "encouraging unsafe behavior" by drivers by providing the technology to check traffic conditions on their cellphones, a lawmaker charged yesterday. "It puts the motorists in danger,"...
THE $10M DELI MAN
A Manhattan deli clerk may have sliced his last salami - after selling himself the winning ticket to the biggest scratch-off lottery jackpot in state history. Waleed Alsaidi, 22, will...
HAIL-MARY JERRY
Don't worry, Eli! Jerry Seinfeld's got your back. The nasty general manager of the Fox affiliate in Green Bay said he's yanking Eli Manning's favorite TV show, "Seinfeld," while the...
MIKE TAKES BABY STEP$ IN CITY PLAN
Bracing for an economic storm, Mayor Bloomberg laid out a series of modestly priced initiatives yesterday in a State of the City speech weighted toward locking in his policies for...
ALBANY BUDGET FORECAST: $4.4B SHORTFALL
ALBANY - A "nervous" Spitzer administration yesterday painted a grim economic forecast as it prepares to release its 2008-09 state spending plan next week. Spitzer budget officials are now predicting...
LOOK OUT BELOW!!!
Wall Street's New Year hangover won't go away. Continuing one of the worst January starts in the last century, stocks plunged more than 300 points yesterday as investors were socked...
WILTING BONUSES WALLOP TAXMAN
ALBANY - Year-end Wall Street bonuses dropped significantly in 2007 over record levels paid the previous year, officials said yesterday. The Spitzer administration, which only months ago expected bonuses to...
WRONG-AIRPORT CONTROLLER SPURS CLOSE CALL AT NEWARK
A harrowing near-miss over the skies at Newark Airport is being blamed on an air controller who gave an arriving jet the wrong radio frequency for the airport's control tower,...
NYU SCAM KID'S MOM FACES BOOT
A Connecticut woman who helped her NYU grifter son swindle $8.8 million in an audacious hedge-fund con has been ordered deported to her native Turkey - a ruling that suggests...
REV. AL'S TRIAL RALLY
The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday said he would organize a rally outside Appellate Court in Brooklyn to demonstrate against any change of venue in the trial of three cops accused...
DENTIST-SLAY SUSPECT, WIDOW IN GABFEST
The Russian immigrant accused of gunning down a Forest Hills orthodontist traded 65 phone calls with the victim's estranged wife, prosecutors said yesterday. The brother of slain dentist Daniel Malakov...
GHOUL'S TOOLS OF TORTURE
A monster of a dad turned ordinary household items into implements of torture and used them to make his 7-year- old stepdaughter's short life hell, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday. They...
'PRIVILEGE' IN DOPP STONEWALL
ALBANY - An attorney for Darren Dopp, Gov. Spitzer's former communications director, is expected to claim lawyer-client privilege next week in an effort to block Dopp's former lawyer from testifying...
SCIENCE OF WINDOW WASHER'S MIRACLE RECOVERY
A medical miracle, quick, coordinated treatment and the physics of a perfect fall saved a window washer from certain death when he plunged 47 stories last month, his doctor and...
ALUMINUM IS SCAFF-SCOLDED
Workers at the Trump SoHo construction site yesterday charged that the use of aluminum rather than stronger steel poles to build cement-supporting scaffolding might have contributed to the fatal collapse...
AX LOOMS FOR STUY DRIVER
The city high-school coach at the wheel of a van that crashed on a Vermont highway, leaving a girl paralyzed, could be fired for taking students on the trip without...
HORROR SMASH
A US Postal Service tractor-trailer collided with a firetruck racing to what turned out to be false alarm in Queens yesterday, causing a horrific crash that injured eight people, officials...
'WE JUST DROPPED'
LONDON - A British Airways jet carrying 152 people crash-landed at Heathrow Airport yesterday, injuring 19 people and causing more than 200 flights to be canceled at Europe's busiest airport....
DOPE DAD DEFENDS PAINFUL PACK-ING TAPE
Here's the cheesehead Wisconsin dad who made his 7-year-old son wear a Green Bay Packers jersey - wrapping it onto the child with insulating tape. Construction worker Mathew Kowald, whose...
BUSH 'BUCKS' A GRIM TREND
With storm clouds looming over the nation's economic outlook, President Bush today will put forth plans for a sweeping stimulus package in the hopes of avoiding a recession. Bush held...
OBAMA REV.'S BLOW TO BILL
The pastor whom Barack Obama calls his spiritual guide and mentor took a stunning shot at Bill Clinton this week, saying the ex-president did the same thing to black voters...
GOP DEAD HEAT IN SC
The Republican battle to win the bare-knuckled South Carolina primary tomorrow is too close to call - with polls showing a dead heat between old war horse John McCain and...
MITT IN SNIT WITH REPORTER
WEIRD BUT TRUE ON THE TRAIL Mitt Romney's high from his Michigan victory seemed to have worn off yesterday, when he got into a spat with a reporter over whether...
TOUGH LUCK, HILLARY
LAS VEGAS - A federal court yesterday dealt a bad hand to Hillary Rodham Clinton, smacking down an effort to stop Nevadans from caucusing at Las Vegas casinos like Caesars...
HIP-HOP OP FIXED MY HEAD
It took "miracle" brain surgery, but now a Queens woman can listen to rapper Sean Paul without getting sick. It had nothing to do with musical taste - Stacey Gayle,...
'RANDY' MOSS 'XXX-TORTION'
The Florida woman who claims Randy Moss beat her up demanded half a million bucks for a minor injury she got while "fooling around" with the New England Patriot, one...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn An alleged prostitute and her john were busted in Bushwick as she was performing a $10 favor in his truck, authorities said yesterday. Police on patrol spotted Luz Kercado...
MCCAIN TAILED BY 'AMNESTY EXPRESS'
COLUMBIA, SC - The only thing that could stop John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" at this point is the little, white "Amnesty Truth Express" van that's following his bus around...
I'M SICK TO DEATH OF THIS DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
ENOUGH! In life, little Nixzmary Brown was too small to defend herself against a grown stepfather and pig of a mother. But in death, the poor child continues to be...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 751; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 3128; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 974; Lucky Sum: 20; Evening Win-4 Thu.: 9400; Lucky...
BARACK'S UN-RIGHTEOUS REV
Barack Obama may have called for a truce in the increasingly ugly war of words with Hillary Clinton, but it looks like the Chicago minister whom he has cited as...
MIKE'S MODEST MESSAGE
First, he did no harm. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday pres ented his seventh State of the City Address and proposed, well . . . not very much at all. No grandiose...
THE NEW 'LEPERS'
I'VE had a huge response to Tuesday's column about The New York Times' obscene bid to smear veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as mad killers. Countless readers seem to be...
THE HUCK HOAX
MIKE Huckabee has pulled a neat trick.His appeal so far has been limited exclusively to evangelicals, yet the press has taken him seriously as a new populist force in the...
MIDEAST PIPEDREAM: BUSH'S LAST-DITCH EFFORT
THE ISSUE: President Bush's initiative to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace within a year. I find it quite a stretch to believe that our warmongering president has the ability to bring peace...
BUCK WILD OVER RODEOS
THE ISSUE: Phil Mushnick's criticism of Fox Sports' "The Toughest Cowboy" rodeo reality show. Congratulations to Phil Mushnick for acknowledging rodeo for what it is - an explicit spectacle of...
THAIN SEES RED
Merrill Lynch posted another record wipeout - but will pay more in bonuses and compensation than the entire firm took all year from its bungled business. With its capital depleted...
RANKS OF RECESSION BELIEVERS SWELL
Wall Street pros say they can withstand beatings like yesterday's global stock rout - but what really worries them is when their toes can't feel the bottom anymore. Analysts say...
CLEANING THE RACKS
RETAIL behemoth Wal-Mart is tossing more than 1,000 magazines from the racks in its stores, sending yet another shock wave through the battered publishing industry. Most of the magazines are...
VH1 SCRAMBLES AS PROGRAMMING BOSS LEAVES
VH1 yesterday announced a management shuffle that elevated two senior executives to replace programming boss Michael Hirschorn, whom the network confirmed would be stepping down to form his own production...
HOLDER BACKS KELLWOOD BID
A major shareholder in Kellwood - whose brands include Phat Farm - has come out to support Sun Capital's hostile bid for the struggling apparel maker. Chicago-based Discovery Group, which...
BLACKSTONE'S BUYOUT DEAL COMING UNGLUED
Hedge funds that bet on merger deals took another beating yesterday after shares of Alliance Data Systems tumbled on fears that billionaire Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group would abandon its $8...
NYSE TO BUY AMEX SEEKING OPTIONS
The New York Stock Exchange has inked a deal to buy the beleaguered American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock as it looks to broaden its reach in options...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
After last year's consumer-created ad craze, Super Bowl marketers are returning to the celebrity-heavy formula that has worked in the past. Perennial Super Bowl marketer Pepsi sets the standard for...
'MAD' JIM CRAMER LOSES GOLDEN $50K BET
Should stock jockey Jim Cramer be locked up for aiding and abetting the subprime market meltdown? The host of CNBC's "Mad Money" now owes $50,000 after losing one of the...
INVESTOR RIPS COMCAST CEO
Calling Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' leadership a "Comcatastrophe" for shareholders, investment firm Chieftain Capital Management asked the cable operator's board for remedies that include removing Roberts as boss, eliminating the...
BEEP! $ CREEP
Add Time Warner Cable to the list of Internet service providers who want to clear lanes on the information superhighway by discouraging users from clogging up bandwidth with illegal swapping...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There are bad drivers - and then there's this gal. A Texas woman was busted after cops discovered she had a Texas-size rap sheet - with 76 unpaid traffic tickets...
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR
Today's page celebrates the life of the great Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King was born on Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Ga., to Martin...
PENN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS REALLY CLICK
NO one calls the shots the way Irving Penn does. The Vogue lensman's confrontations with many of the greatest talents of the last century - Picasso and Norman Mailer among...
I'M SJP, FLY ME
COFFEE, tea or Carrie? "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker has been of fered the role of the sexy Italian airline stewardess in the revival of the 1965...
WHITE HOUSE TASK FARCE
WITH a masterly sleight of hand, Nathan Lane turns slightness into giddy fun in "November," David Mamet's impeccably politically incorrect tale of a US president in pollster hell. Not that...
IT'S A FREEHEARSAL FROM CITY BALLET
SUSAN Stroman's more than a Broadway baby: Sometimes she goes to the ballet. The woman who's helmed a few monster hits (and mon sters) in her time - "The Producers"...
SHE WEARS IT WELL
NO worse and no better than the majority of chick flicks, "27 Dresses" features appealing and gorgeous Katherine Heigl as - how original! - a desperate Manhattan singleton. Supportive of...
LOST IN A DARK WOODY
NOBU, Jaguar, Claridge's, the Connaught. The char acters in "Cassandra's Dream" decorate their lives with posh brands, but only in their sleep. When they wake up, they're going to wish...
CHASTE MAKES WASTE IN MENTAL DENTAL HORROR SPOOF
AN anti-date movie if there ever was one, "Teeth" is a darkly engaging if uneven horror movie spoof centering on men's fear of castration. Jess Weixler - who won an...
EPIC FULL OF LOVE & NAKED TRUTH
CHINA'S movie censors and I would like to see director Lou Ye make some trims in his epic "Summer Palace," but for vastly different reasons. The bureaucrats in Beijing want...
DON'T TAKE THE MONEY, JUST RUN
AND the cinematic comeback of the year award goes to . . . someone other than Katie Holmes, whose comedy "Mad Money" is the most cringe-making return since "Love Boat:...
FESTIVAL LOOKING TO LAUGH
PARK CITY, Utah - It's the lighter side of Sun dance. After years dominated by feel-bad dramas and a succession of laments about 9/11 and the war in Iraq, programmers...
FORTRESS OF OUTRAGE
IT'S 2000, and Israel is preparing to evacuate Lebanon. At Beaufort castle, an ancient fortress fought over for centuries, a band of elite troops awaits the order to leave. They...
DAY ZERO
'DAY Zero," a lukewarm film about what might happen to three New York City friends if the draft were reinstated, proves that even the most controversial of topics can be...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
DANCE PARTY NYC January 20 - Dance Sneaker- and streetwear-clad soloists from New York City Ballet perform excerpts from Jerome Robbins' "N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz," which is currently being made...
BROADWAY
"A BRONX TALE": ** Chazz Palminteri stars in his 1993 one-man show of growing up in The Bronx when The Bronx was The Bronx, and having to choose between hoodlum...
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. "THE AWESOME '80s PROM": Kitschy ode to...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
AU REVOIR SIMONE: The Brooklyn-based female synth-pop trio plays danceable music tonight at 8:30 at Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St.; (212) 260-4700. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH: These quirky indie...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Monday: Mercedes Hall. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Tuesday and Wednesday: Eldar. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Through Sunday: Randy Weston &...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Select artists from the New York Philharmonic performs a program featuring Brahms' Second Piano Concerto tonight at 8. Lincoln Center, 132 W. 65th St.; (212) 721-6500. BARGEMUSIC:...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Tonight and tomorrow: Elaine Stritch. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. DON'T TELL MAMA: Tomorrow: Diana LeBlanc. 343 W. 46th St.; (212) 757-0788. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Through Sunday: Barb...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER: More than two decades of work by choreographer David Parsons are the focus of the Parsons Dance company tomorrow and Sunday. 175 Eighth Ave.; (212) 352-3101. LINCOLN CENTER:...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (his friends call him Joe) hosts two screenings showing seven of his short films today at 7 and 9 p.m. Both programs run...
COMEDY
CAROLINE'S COMEDY CLUB: Thursday: Jeffrey Ross. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Tonight and tomorrow: Darrell Hammond, John Joseph, Dave Attell, Dan Naturman and Ben Bailey. 117 MacDougal St.; (212)...
MUSEUMS
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Central Park West at 79th Street; (212) 769-5000. BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: 1040 Grand Concourse; (718) 681-6000. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway; (718) 399-8440....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
CHECKMATE: Greenwich Village's Marshall Chess Club hosts Sunday's Cross Generation Chess program, where young players are encouraged to join the senior citizens for whom this monthly program is designed. Game...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * CHRIS BROWN takes the stage with LIL' MAMA Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Trump Taj Mark G. Etess Arena. Tickets: $46.25-$96.25; trumptaj.com, (609) 449-5150. * Hey,...
PREVIEWS
ALMOST AN EVENING: Three new comic plays by filmmaker Ethan Coen, with F. Murray Abraham, Mark Linn-Baker and Elizabeth Marvel. Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2, 330 W. 16th St.; (212)...