February 22, 2008
Bye Big Cat
By FRED KERBERThey tried to trade him, found no takers so the Nets bought out Jamaal Magloire and waived him before the game tonight."It's unfortunate the situation didn't work out...
JOBA MANIA
Man is it hot down here at Legends Field. There was the first installment of Joba Mania today as Joba Chamberlain threw 27 filthy pitches during his live batting practice...
3 DOWN: Randy Johnson, Jeter, A-Rod
1. You know what story doesnât do much for me, the one where a guy predicts his team is going to win and a big deal is made out of...
Patience is a Virtue...
By FRED KERBERSo Thursday night's flight is cancelled and we're flying to Indianapolis before the roosters awaken today.After a lovely taxi ride in the snow to the airport, driving behind...
Scene
Photographer Elizabeth Lippman wears an amazing blue-velvet Victorian-bed jacket with gold trim and a vintage YSL medallion, both from the Manhattan Vintage Show. The vintage lover pairs her top with...
Santana not the only story today
A quick wrap-up from sunny Port St. Lucie (sorry, snow-bound New Yorkers) after the third day of full-squad workouts:1. Oliver Perez returned to camp today after winning his arbitration hearing...
Scene
Handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff (www.rebeccaminkoff.com) in a Nicholas K coat and Alicia Levine sweater carries her own bag. "I like to be an eclectic mix of textures, like this fur...
Santana faces bats for the first time
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Johan Santana made his much-anticipated Mets debut against live hitting this morning.Standing behind a protective screen, Santana threw a total of 25 pitches to David Wright,...
Deal of the Day
Buy this beachy looking Womenâs Large Printed-Canvas Tote now, and save it for your upcoming spring break.Itâs super roomy to fit all of your essentials whether youâre lounging on the...
Will Mac Come Back?
Detroit General Manager Ken Holland has said the Red Wings are "leaning towards offering [Darren McCarty] a contract," according to the Associated Press.McCarty was a fundamental element of Detroit's Stanley...
Demote Isiah to college scout
By MARC BERMANIf James Dolan had any sense, he should let Herb Williams run the bench now and send Isiah Thomas off to scout college games for their lottery pick...
Perez wins $6.5 million
APOliver Perez won his salary arbitration case and will be paid $6.5 million this year rather than the Mets' offer of $4,725,000.The right-hander went 15-10 with a 3.56 ERA last...
Back to Buffalo
The Rangers are 6-4 in their last 10. 3-2 in their last five. 3-4 in their last 7. You can skew the numbers any way you want to make things...
'Idol' Boot Kicks Hard
Garrett Haley, Amy Davis, (R) and Hoboken's Joanne Borgellaleft the stage with little fanfare or real drama last night.Ryan then called Colton Berry and Chikieze Eze to center stage.Garrett's (R)...
REPORT: PATRIOTS* TAPED GIANTS IN 2006
The Patriots were caught videotaping Giants assistant defensive coaches in the final preseason game of 2006, according to a new report. The incident led the NFL to send out a...
Early Box Office: The Big Snooze
Mase figures the No. 5 spot will be taken by the expanding "U23D'' with $7.1 million, while Jack Black's delightful "Be Kind Rewind'' (3 stars from yours truly, 64 percent...
SNOWBOUND YANKEE MORNING UPDATE
Saw something today in Tampa I never saw before at Yankee camp. Hideki Matsui was out running on the main field at 8 am and there were only two Japanese...
3 UP: The Best Shape Deception
1. All the veterans who tell you that they are in the best shape of their lives, does that mean we can say they didnât respect their careers, organizations, teammates...
LIVEBLOG: Paula Deen works blue in South Beach
Erin Franzman Chef Tim Love is an endearing white dude from Texas with very little rhythm, but he knows how to have a good time.So when the cover band performing...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 2 Uptown trains skip 79th and 86th streets. Downtown trains skip 66th, 59th, and 50th streets.4 6 Downtown trains run express from 14th Street to Brooklyn Bridge from midnight...
TAX 'SHARKS' OUT TO BITE YOUR REFUND
Don't be so quick to sign on for that instant tax refund - it could be from a loan shark looking to dupe you, the city's Department of Consumer Affairs...
MIKE FOR PREZ (OF BANK)
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg didn't rule out being interested in becoming president of the World Bank, a position he has called one of the four best jobs in the world....
SCHOOLS TEXT-ALERT PLAN
State legislators are pushing for the city and other large school districts to introduce a text-message alert system that would inform parents about public-school emergencies. The proposed system would imitate...
LENNON'S OLD HAUNT TO CLOSE
Here's yet another sad verse in the ballad of John and Yoko. Cafe La Fortuna, the Upper West Side coffee shop that was a favorite of John Lennon and Yoko...
EX-MET WANT$ TO HURL
Former Met sparkplug Lenny Dykstra sounded ready to charge the mound yesterday after finding out he's being sued by a Midtown accounting firm that says he took a walk on...
NOOSE PROF'S RACISM CLAIM 'DOESN'T MAKE SENSE'
A former Columbia University department head yesterday dismissed as misguided the claims by a black Teachers College professor that racism led the school to sanction her for plagiarism. College officials...
BLAZE HORROR
A 5-year-old Queens boy, left home alone by his brother, died yesterday when a fire ripped through his family's kitchen, authorities said. Firefighters found Jason Guallapa curled up between a...
SUPER GROUCH
Here's one super who isn't getting any tips this Christmas. Bay Ridge handyman Richard Martin is known as the "Crazy Sign Guy" for the scathing notes he leaves his tenants,...
'TAKE THE $$' GUY'S BAIL BREAK
The Brooklyn man busted for taking advantage of a $5.8 million bank error received some good financial news yesterday when a judge drastically dropped the price tag on his bail....
PRISON 'JUSTICE'
Larry Davis - the notorious thug who wounded six Bronx cops during a 1986 shootout and then went on the lam for 17 days - was stabbed to death in...
KILLER PA'S SENTENCE IS DELAYED
The black Long Island father convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed white teen during a racially charged standoff will be a free man for at least another month. Sentencing for...
SATELLITE MAY PASS OVER NY
A football-size chunk was the biggest detectable piece of a malfunctioning spy satellite smashed to smithereens by a Navy missile, but there remains a small chance that dangerous pieces could...
52 NEW SCHOOLS TO OPEN
The city will open 52 new public schools in September. They include 25 high schools, 14 elementary schools, and several with nontraditional grade ranges - bringing the total number of...
ER MISSED NIXZMARY INJURIES
A Brooklyn doctor who treated Nixzmary Brown for a cut over her eye just six weeks before she died, bloodied and malnourished, admitted yesterday that it did not make him...
TAKE IT TO THE RIVER
Here's a look at what could be the city's next great waterfront esplanade. If a group of lawmakers and local activists have their way, what is now a barren swath...
EX-COP FIGHTS HEAVE-HO(ME)
The city Housing Authority is trying to evict an ex-NYPD sergeant from a Bronx project - insisting that once he retired, he became ineligible for a program designed to enhance...
YOU CAN'T 'DUCT' JUSTICE
An inmate who tried to make a daring escape two days ago from a New Jersey jail got himself freed yesterday - from an air duct. Corrections officers at Middlesex...
'SCHOOL FIGHT' BIG OUT
A school trustee from Putnam County has stepped down after she was arrested for allegedly beating up two people on the grounds of an elementary school, according to reports. Sandra...
'MOVIES MOBBED ME UP'
A wiseguy wannabe who killed for the mob apologized yesterday to Italians everywhere for being a living, breathing stereotype - and blamed Hollywood for turning him into one. "Although I...
HEY, DANNY, HOW'S THE VIEW FROM DOWN THERE?
Itty-bitty Danny DeVito gets dwarfed by a billboard of Catherine Zeta-Jones on Madison Avenue - and loves every minute of it. The Jersey-boy-made-good, who is actually 5 feet tall, caught...
ROVE IN 'MUDDY DIG'
An Alabama GOP operative claims Bush White House political guru Karl Rove sought her help in trying to prove that the state's Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, was cheating on his...
TIMES IS MONEY FOR ANGRY MAC
John McCain yesterday quickly turned the backlash against a thinly sourced New York Times report that he had an extramarital affair into a gold mine for his campaign - using...
DELI PIGOUT A CLINTON GUT BU$TER
AUSTIN, Texas - Hillary Rodham Clinton's free-spending campaign blew a whopping $95,000 at a low-end supermarket-deli chain last month in Iowa - a telling sign of why she can no...
LATINOS: SHE'S DEBATE QUEEN
AUSTIN, Texas - Hillary Rodham Clinton's debate performance last night wowed a group of Hispanic voters who gathered for tacos, enchiladas and a political TV battle at La Reyna, a...
DEMS' CLASH A COPYCAT FIGHT
Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Barack Obama of plagiarism last night, mocking his speeches as "change you can Xerox" - but his campaign hit back, charging that part of her powerful...
'PUFF' DOGG: NEW HIT FOR RAPPER'S RAP SHEET
Snoop Dogg has been busted for smoking weed - again! The rapper was handed a desk-appearance ticket Wednesday night outside a Manhattan nightclub, his lawyer told The Post yesterday. "He...
LAPD BOSS TO BRITNEY: STAY HOME
LAPD chief William Bratton would rather keep the streets free of Britney than keep Britney free of the paparazzi. The former NYPD top cop blasted a new LA City Council...
LOOK AT MY SHINY NEW MEDAL
President Bush - looking rather royal, if awkward, in a gilded throne, shiny sash and new bling - inspected his sizeable new medal yesterday after receiving Liberia's highest civilian honor....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
ManhattanA homeless man was arrested for stealing $1,800 worth of clothing from Macy's, cops said yesterday. A security guard spotted Crispulo Ynoa, 41, allegedly trying to leave the Herald Square...
ALL NEWS FIT TO SMEAR
HERE we go again. Failing miserably to nail down a story never prevented the Newspaper of Record and Rumor from shooting itself in the foot, or more sensitive regions, when...
FRONT-RUNNER RUNS BEHIND THIS TIME
WASHINGTON - Determined to shed the rap that he's "all hat and no cattle," Barack Obama showed up at the Texas debate last night with neither hat nor cattle. Unlike...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 354; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 5475; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 935; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
SMASHING SATELLITE SHOOTDOWN
It's a hit! A missile fired from the guided-mis sile cruiser USS Lake Erie, steaming in the Pacific Ocean, struck a crippled US spy satellite Wednesday night, all but certainly...
EUROPE'S KOSOVO CHALLENGE
Serbian protests against Kosovo's recent declaration of independence took an ugly turn yesterday, as rioters stormed the US embassy in Belgrade in response to American recognition of the fledgling nation....
DRIVE-BY JOURNALISM
John McCain says he's "disappointed" with yesterday's front-page New York Times story alleging - with out offering an iota of proof, or even actually saying so - that he had...
DEADLY MADMEN
'KILLER Ranting and Raving Mad": Did you have the feeling that you'd already read the story? Perhaps you were recalling the one about Colin Ferguson on the LIRR. Or maybe...
DEFENSE IN THE HEAVENS
SOMEWHERE 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, tumbling around the Earth at 17,000 mph, a disabled spy satellite met a fiery end late Wednesday night - destroyed by a US...
CHANGE, BARACK & BARRY
SEN. Barack Obama's campaign - with its wildly enthusiastic crowds, its arm ies of volunteers and vast donations from political neophytes - is the start of a political movement, revolutionizing...
SMEARING MCCAIN
'SEN. John McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe. With a...
GUNS ACROSS AMERICA
THE ISSUE: The call for stricter gun control following recent shootings on school campuses. Tim Rutten writes that it's the gun, once again, that's to blame for the killings taking...
A FIDEL-FREE CUBA: WILL DEMOCRACY FLOAT?
THE ISSUE: Fidel Castro's announcement that he's stepping down after 50 years in power. As good as it is that Fidel Castro has stepped down, the only way such a...
NYMEX MERGER DEAL ALL BUT COMPLETED
A deal between Chicago giant CME Group and The New York Mercantile Exchange to create a $40 billion futures trading powerhouse could be formally announced by early March, The Post...
RESCUE ON FIFTH
Living up to his reputation as the Houdini of real estate jams, Harry Macklowe is said to be negotiating a rescue deal with billionaire investor Joseph Cayre in exchange for...
LOHAN RACING AGAIN
THE racy photos of Lindsay Lohan in the current issue of New York might have crashed the magazine's Web site for four hours Monday - but that's proving to be...
THE WAR FOR OIL, COMING TO A CONSOLE NEAR YOU
There will be blood - and sore thumbs. At a time when oil prices are hovering around $100 a barrel, video game publisher THQ Inc. is tapping into consumer anxieties...
CARING, SHARING M'SOFT
Microsoft's proclamations yesterday about sharing information about its technology and products didn't directly have anything to do with its $40 billion Yahoo! bid - but indirectly had everything to do...
PENNEY PLANS TO PULL BACK
JC Penney had a slimmer-than-expected fourth-quarter profit drop, but said this year's earnings will miss Wall Street's forecasts and reined in its store-growth plans on a downbeat view of the...
THAT '70S SHOW
Wall Street's fear that the US economy might be taking its cues from the era of bellbottoms and disco grew more intense yesterday after more dismal economic news emerged suggesting...
SULZBERGER AVOIDS SALARY PINCH AT NYT
It still pays to be the boss of The New York Times. Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. collected $1.09 million in salary last year, as part of a compensation package...
NO SMALL CHANGE
Rock band Nickelback and Warner Music are in discussions over a new contract that could cost the Edgar Bronfman Jr.-led company a bundle - at a time when analysts have...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When a cat named Meatloaf disappeared, his owners in Florida didn't think he got any farther than their neighborhood. So they were sure surprised when they got a call saying...
LIVEBLOG: Roll in the Haymarket
I know that it is unseemly to gush, but I must admit that it is much easier for me to check out of one of London's Firmdale Hotels these days....
GIANTS TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN
Giants co-owner John Mara described the impending contract extension for Tom Coughlin as "really not a sense of urgency," which is proof of the inevitability of the situation. The deal...
BERMAN VIDEOS CRIME SCENES
WHILE not normally moved to defend ESPN's Chris Berman, he's no less a sympathetic figure than any other victim of a theft. In recent weeks, audio and video recordings of...
MUSINGS ON SHAQ
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - First things first: Happy birthday to Sal Gerage, my all-time favorite sports editor who yesterday turned 80 in the shade. Though I shall reserve jaundiced judgment about...
BOXING'S NOTHING LIKE IT 'USED TO BE'
THE gym at the Police Ath letic League's Harlem Center was officially dedicated the Joe Louis Gym yesterday, and among those applauding was a 98-year-old man who remembers a time...
NO. 16'S SEEKING RIGHT GLASS SLIPPER
DAVE Calloway stood outside a Wachovia Center locker room, pondering what to say to his team at halftime when he was interrupted by a legend. His No. 16 seed Monmouth...
HUNTING AND FISHING GROUPS JOIN WAR ON GLOBAL WARMING
HUNTING and fishing organizations from all 50 states are urging their senators and representatives to target global warming with strong climate legislation. "America's sportsmen have a special connection to the...
BIG BEN, WALLY LAND WITH CAVS
The Cavaliers gave LeBron James the help he wants - maybe enough to compete for the ring he craves. The Cavaliers took part in the biggest trade of deadline day,...
FITTING TRIBUTE FOR 'AMERICA'S HERO'
Harlem now features quite a tribute to Joe Louis. Yesterday at the PAL Harlem Center, the renovated Joe Louis Boxing Gym was unveiled, featuring upgrades to the facility provided by...
PHILS' HOWARD WINS BIG RAISE
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Everywhere Ryan Howard turned, people wanted to dig into his pockets. Howard's bank account just skyrocketed like one of those home runs he deposits into the upper...
FRIARS COACH MIGHT FACE FIRING SQUAD
Providence coach Tim Welsh, one of the sharpest offensive minds in the game, is in jeopardy of being fired after the season if the Friars don't make a late push,...
RED BULLS MAKE MOVES
Juan Carlos Osorio's reshaping of the Red Bulls continues, as the new coach traded starting midfielder Dema Kovalenko to Real Salt Lake and cut reserve forward Francis Doe. The team...
RING OF FIRE
Jim Lampley will have a little extra spunk working Saturday night's Wladimir Klitschko-Sultan Ibragimov heavyweight unification bout for HBO. The fight is big, but the venue even bigger. Glad to...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...BILL RAFTERY
IT'S crunch time in college basketball, with the regular season nearing conclusion and teams scurrying to secure conference tournament seeding and NCAA tourney berths. The Post's Mike Puma asked CBS...
AQUEDUCT CANCELS LIVE CARD
Racing today at Aqueduct was canceled yesterday afternoon in anticipation of the winter storm forecast for this morning. The Big A will be open for simulcasting with free parking and...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Indiana mum on Sampson Indiana could have a new head coach when the 15th-ranked Hoosiers travel to Northwestern tomorrow. School officials met yesterday to consider the future of embattled...
FANS CHEER STREAKING ISLES, BUT JEER SIMON
The fans at the Nassau Coliseum had plenty to be pleased about last night: A 1-0 Islanders victory, Rick DiPietro's third shutout of the year and a season-high six-game winning...
MANGINI'S QB QUAGMIRE
For the first time since the Jets' disappointing 4-12 season came to its merciful end, Eric Mangini surfaced and spoke publicly yesterday, holding court with reporters at the NFL Scouting...
ZEKE'S TRADEMARK
In likely his last trading deadline fronting the Knicks, the once-freewheeling Isiah Thomas stood pat yesterday with his rotten ballclub - a strong indication of his shrinking power and inability...
ARTEST STILL HAS SHOT AT KNICKS
Ron Artest still is not a Knick and Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph still are. Artest, a Queensbridge product, will likely opt out and become a free agent and the...
METS, PHILLIES GO MOUTH TO MOUTH
PORT ST. LUCIE - If the Phillies want to brawl, Pedro Martinez says the Mets will put up their dukes. Told yesterday that several Philadelphia players expect the budding NL...
AMAZIN' IT TOOK THIS LONG TO FORM RIVALRY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Well, hell, it's about time. The Mets and the Phillies have been National League neighbors for 46 years. They sit at either end of the Jersey...
JOHAN TO FACE BATTERS
PORT ST. LUCIE - The moment the Mets have been waiting for arrives this morning. Johan Santana told The Post he will throw to hitters today for the first time...
NO MORE TRADES FOR WHEELING AND DEALING NETS
INDIANAPOLIS - Nets team president Rod Thorn and special assistant Kiki Vandeweghe were chatting in the trainer's area adjacent to the court at the Nets' practice facility yesterday when Vince...
AFTER THE FALL
Even though hockey players are famous for their missing teeth, there's a different reason why the pearly whites of Rangers players and coaches weren't visible for most of yesterday's practice....
WHAT'S IN A NUMBER?
TAMPA - Alex Rodriguez says he has never come up dirty on a drug test. Yesterday, 24 hours after Rodriguez said he was tested 9-10 times last year, causing a...
GIAMBI'S LAST CHANCE
TAMPA - By now there were supposed to be championships and MVP awards and a Yankee era defined by his shaggy hair, positive nature and booming homers. That script has...
STILL SWINGING
LAKELAND, Fla. - Gary Sheffield yesterday described his monster swing as "violent, but level." Those swings would be both on and off the field. Sheffield has played for all kinds...
A-ROD: MVP TO JETER
TAMPA - Asked a question about what type of year Bobby Abreu was going to have, Alex Rodriguez predicted Derek Jeter would make it two straight years a Yankee wins...
TESTING, TESTING
Alex Rodriguez said Wednesday that he had been drug tested 9-10 times, indicating he might have failed a test for stimulants. He later backed off that number and yesterday said...
SPECIAL KEI
TAMPA - The Yankees are letting Kei Igawa work on a different program than their other pitchers, and in the early days of camp they have seen improvement from a...
Don't Let The Man Get You Down
Ben points out that heâs been locked up and interrogated before by John, and that didnât turn out so well either. At this point, we get to the first Lame...
BY GEORGE, REVIVAL'S PRETTY AS A PICTURE
A drizzle of subtle color, a shimmer-curtain of sound - and we are transported back to "Sunday in the Park With George," the 1984 James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim musical,...
THE PLOW'S THE THING
IT'S one of David Mamet's sharpest satires. It features two movie stars at the top of their games. And it's got Lon don critics "throwing their hats in the air"...
'FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' RESCUE PLAN
'FRIDAY Night Lights" may return for a new season - but that doesn't mean it will be on NBC. Executives at NBC Universal are reportedly in serious negotiations with other...
O GOES TO STANFORD
OPRAH Winfrey is going to give the commencement speech this June at Stanford University, one of the nation's most prestigious colleges. Stanford, the No. 4 university in the country, according...
LA BOMBER
WHO "betrayed" Joe Louis? This new documentary about the Brown Bomber proposes that it was the US government, which pursued him for back taxes throughout the postwar years. Those happened...
FEELING THE BEAT
MARLEE Matlin, the deaf, Oscar- winning actress who will tango and two-step on "Dancing with the Stars" next month, may have a leg up on her competition - the ability...
CARMELA GETS OWN 'DARK' COMEDY
CARMELA Soprano is switching to a rival fam ily - HBO's Edie Falco is going to work for Showtime. Falco, who won several Emmys for her portrayal of the beleaguered...
'SOPRANOS' LOSER APPEALS
A former New Jersey judge has filed an appeal to keep alive his breach-of-contract case against "Sopranos" creator, David Chase. Robert Baer insists he helped Chase develop the mob show...
TEEN OUT IN 'IDOL' SHOCKER
PRODUCERS wasted no time eliminating contestants on last night's "American Idol." The show's loyal watchers, who have grown accustomed to hourlong results shows where contestants learn one by one if...
PAGE-ING OSCAR
THE virtual envelope, please - and the winner is . . . "Juno"! Moviefone.com polled readers for their Oscar picks in an unscientific but telling, survey. "Juno" was a runaway...
ODD CURRENCY OF DESPERATION
AN Oscar nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film, "The Counterfeiters" recasts concentration camp internees not as passive victims but as authors of their own moral decisions. If you were among the...
SECRET DISSERVICE
FOR a long time, "Vantage Point" reminded me of the old joke about the Italian tank: four gears in reverse, one in for ward. Once it gets going (about halfway...
DOWN LOW AND DIRTY
YOU could call Bill Duke's "Cover" sort of a blaxploita tion riff on "Far From Heaven" by way of Tyler Perry, with Aunjanue Ellis accused of murder after she finds...
SOME 'KIND' OF WONDERFUL
A surprisingly sweet comedy showcasing a manic Jack Black, "Be Kind Rewind" is a love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY...
DOWNEY IS PRINCIPAL IN CAP & GOWNY
'CHARLIE Bartlett" mixes and matches tropes from "Fer ris Bueller's Day Off," "Risky Business," "My Bodyguard" and several other teen classics to sporadically hilarious effect. Between this and "Be Kind...
THEY'RE DEAD RINGERS
ON the 10th Street crosstown bus the other day, my fel low riders included a creep who insisted on screaming into his cell phone at the top of his lungs....
BIG, WET FRENCH MISS
'SUCH a fuss over an empty carriage," says someone near the end of "The Duchess of Langeais." This movie is an empty carriage. In 19th-century France, a handsome general (Guillaume...
BOYS' NIGHT OUT
While the Best Actress category usually provides copious amounts of eye candy - thanks to numerous young Hollywood starlets glamming it up or purposely going ugly - this year's female...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
CASHING IN February 23 - Music The Man in Black went to the light in 2003, but this doesn't mean urban cowboys won't be celebrating in anticipation of what would've...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' family drama with horrific family values is eviscerating melodrama. Imperial...
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": *** Spoof of Christian-pop boy bands is entertaining despite one-joke premise. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St.; (877) 226-9941. "BETRAYED": *** Powerful drama about Iraqis working for...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
GEORGE CLINTON: The head of Parliament brings the funk to Brooklyn Tuesday at 8 p.m. 261 Driggs Ave.; (718) 387-0505. GIPSY KINGS: Busy guitars and tango/flamenco beats get the Latin...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Tuesday through March 2: Michel Legrand with Ron Carter and Lewis Nash. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. IRIDIUM: Through Sunday: the Cookers. 1650 Broadway; (212) 582-2121. VILLAGE VANGUARD:...
CLASSICAL
CARNEGIE HALL: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays modern classics favoring French music Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m. 57th Street and Seventh Avenue; (212) 247-7800. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: In its final...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE: Through March 1: Judy Collins. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S: Through Sunday: Betty Buckley. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB: Thursday: Judy Kuhn. 1650...
DANCE
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER: Quebecois troupe Zogma fuses modern and folk dancing today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. 405 W. 55th St.; (212) 415-5500. JOYCE SOHO:...
FILM
FILM FORUM: An ode to director Sidney Lumet through Thursday, featuring films including "Serpico" (1973) and "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975). Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue; (212) 727-8110. PIONEER THEATER:...
COMEDY
GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB: Tuesday: "A Tribute to Bill Hicks" features film clips of the comic and tributes from Greg Giraldo, Ted Alejandro and others. 208 W. 23rd St.; (212) 367-9000....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
ART CARNI(VAL): Twentieth-century works of wide-ranging media are on sale the Seventh Regiment Armory Thursday through Sunday for the Art Dealers Association of America's 20th annual art fair. Admission is...
PREVIEWS
"ADDING MACHINE": David Cromer directs Elmer Rice's play about an employee who's replaced by technology. Minetta Lanes Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane; (212) 307-4100. Opens Monday. "CAT ON A HOT TIN...
Gametrailers picks games for '08
Way back in January, all those long months ago, I posted a list of highly anticipated games for this year. Now, it's Gametrailers.com's turn. What do you think of their...
Sunday night Oscars lights
Have you heard? It's Oscars night on Sunday! If you're planning a little Oscars watching get together, pre-game with "Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action" for the Xbox 360. Like the...
Buy Kiera Knightley's green dress -- for big bucks
Yes, that dress, that green dress, that dress from the library scene in Atonement, is up for grabs. Well, kind of.It's up for grabs if you've got a wad of...