March 2, 2008
Depleted Mets rally for 6-5 win
A quick wrap-up from Vero Beach after a Mets lineup filled with minor leaguers and backups rallied for a 6-5 victory over the Dodgers:1. An Angel Pagan single with two...
Gotay the latest to go down
VERO BEACH -- The injuries just keep on coming for the Mets.Backup second baseman Ruben Gotay became the latest casualty, twisting his right ankle on a slide at home in...
Miss at your own risk
Highlights for the week of March 2Like watching a car wreckâSurvivorâ + âThe Newlywed Gameâ = âHere Come the Newlyweds.â Get in on the action early with tonightâs premiere so...
HANK STEINBRENNER NOT JOINING RED SOX NATION
TAMPA _ Hank Steinbrenner won't be joining Red Sox Nation no matter how hard Boston owner John Henry attempts to seduce him. However, the chance to work together off the...
Perez knocked around in debut
VERO BEACH â- Not a good beginning for Oliver Perez, who is making his first start of the spring here against the Dodgers.Perez was touched for three runs on four...
TOP WAYS TO INVEST IN THE GOLD RUSH:
Gold mining stocks: Many of the world's leading gold exploration and production companies have listed their shares on the public equity market. Some gold companies have locked in - or...
More on the injury front
A few injury updates from the clubhouse before the Mets head to Vero Beach today for their last visit ever to Dodgertown:-- Catcher Brian Schneider (strained hamstring) will miss two...
PA SALARIES ARE TAKING THEIR TOLL
As drivers begin paying 60 percent toll hikes today at Port Authority bridges and tunnels, surging salaries have nearly doubled the number of agency employees making more than $100,000 a...
SI CLAN IS RAILING: IT'S JUST NOT FARE!
This Staten Island family will pay $79 more per month - and $948 more annually - because of today's Port Authority toll increases and MTA fare hikes. Before the double...
BIG HUNT FOR MARKET SLAY PSYCHO
Cops continued a citywide manhunt yesterday for the crazed drifter who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death and critically wounded another woman in the East Village supermarket where they all worked....
MISS-LEADING
Deceit, thy name is woman. Most females lie "more cleverly and successfully than men" about everything from infidelity and facelifts to barhopping and shopping binges, according to a new book....
COP STANDS BY TESTIMONY
The lieutenant in charge of the unit that killed Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets said he had no trouble giving damning testimony against his fellow cops because...
NEIGHBORHOOD COPS BACK ON 'BEAT'EN TRACK
The beat cop is back. Following the police shooting of unarmed Sean Bell on Nov. 25, 2006, rookie cops are fanning out into the neighborhoods they patrol with orders to...
'BUNGLE OF JOY 'CABBY ARRESTED
In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for delivering an "abandoned" baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was arrested yesterday for making up the heart-wrenching story. In...
SCHOOL IN FEAR OF TERROR TEEN
Brooklyn high-school dean James Patsaricas has knots in his stomach about going to work tomorrow. It's understandable - a troubled teen who once allegedly threatened to kill Patsaricas and every...
NIGHTCLUB ID SCANNERS HELP COPS NAIL SUSPECTS
ID scanners, which police pushed on nightspots after The Post exposed rampant underage drinking in clubland, are now helping solve crimes, club owners and cops say. Information that detectives culled...
QNS. HORSE MAYHEM
A teenage girl riding a horse in a Rockaway Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade yesterday afternoon briefly lost control of the animal, which collided with two onlookers, leaving them each...
JEWS HAVE A 'BEEF'
It's a cheeseburger for the chosen people. But it's leaving some kosher customers quite verklempt. Popular Upper East Side restaurant Talia's Steakhouse recently began cooking up what is believed to...
'MURDER MA' KIDS BURIED
The "three little angels" allegedly murdered by their mother on Long Island were laid to rest yesterday amid the anguished cries of friends and relatives who thought more should have...
GIZMO PUTS TEENS OUT ON THEIR EARS
The Mosquito has landed - and the city's teens and 20-somethings are about to get bitten. A pesky new security device aims to clear out young troublemakers from their hangouts...
AIRLINE DOCS BATTLE SKY-HIGH DEATH TOLL
More than 17,000 airplane travelers became ill or were injured while flying last year and at least 77 of them suffered the same tragic fate as a Brooklyn nurse who...
SMALL NEW JOYS
In the year since he lost five of his children in a Bronx blaze, Moussa Magassa has found solace in tiny miracles - babies born one day apart to two...
OSCAR WINNER: I DOUBT 9/11
Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard made waves across the Atlantic yesterday after it was revealed she doesn't believe the official story of the 9/11 attacks or the manned moon landings....
HARRY ON THE HOME FRONT
Still decked out in fatigues and body armor, Prince Harry arrived home in England yesterday - 48 hours after the news of his secret war-zone tour of duty was leaked...
SPANKED KIDS A PERV RISK
New research shows spanking a child may result in risky sexual behavior or even sexual deviancy. An analysis of spanking studies conducted by Elizabeth Gershoff of the University of Michigan's...
MUSLIM FURY AT 'PICTUREGATE'
The circulation of pictures of Sen. Barack Obama in traditional Somali garb - said to be an effort by Clinton operatives to tar him - have stoked Muslim extremists' anger...
ALL JACKED UP FOR CLINTON
Can you handle the truth? Jack Nicholson wants the world to know he supports Hillary Rodham Clinton, so he's created "Jack and Hill," snippets of some of his most famous...
'TIE' ANXIETY FOR HILLARY
The race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in the key Tuesday primaries in Ohio and Texas has tightened dramatically in the last few days. Clinton is dead even...
HILL AN 'SNL' SHTICK FIGURE
Hill-arious . . . Last night's "Saturday Night Live" featured a surprise cameo from presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who was greeted with cheers, even as the cast lampooned her long-windedness....
WHITE MEN CAN JUMP-START DEM PRIMARIES
David Parham, a 44-year-old voter in Cleveland, said he was still on the fence after watching last week's Democratic debate. "I'm voting for Howard the Duck," he joked. It's white...
MIKE'S A MCC MAN
Mayor Bloomberg is likely to endorse John McCain for president, says former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari. "He and McCain have a very long-lasting, deep friendship," said Molinari. In...
EXILED BUBBA'S POLITICAL NIGHT-MAYOR
Bill Clinton arrived at his $1.3 million dollar home in Westchester at 6 p.m. Jan. 21, 2001, deeply in debt, jobless and struggling to adjust to his downgraded lifestyle, according...
DONOR'S TRIAL MAY HURT BAM
The federal fraud trial of a former Barack Obama campaign donor opens tomorrow, focusing an embarrassing spotlight on the Illinois senator while providing an opening for the Hillary Clinton campaign...
EYE ON BARACK-MAC
A campaign pitting Barack Obama against John McCain would electrify the nation and rank among the most significant presidential races in US history, political experts predict. Polling analyst Frank Luntz...
BLEND OF OLD & NEW TACTICS POWERS 'O'
Barack Obama's campaign's shrewd marriage of online social networks and an old-school volunteer army created a nimble ground team that allowed him to adapt - and get farther faster than...
RICIN GUY 'MENTAL' TROUBLE
The ailing man at the center of the mysterious ricin discovery in a Las Vegas hotel room is a troubled artist with a history of mental illness, a relative told...
REOPENED PLAZA JUST AS SUITE
The Plaza hotel is open for business. The luxurious, 100-year-old landmark welcomed guests for the first time in nearly three years yesterday following a $400 million renovation - and some...
HICKS NIX STICKS-FLICK CASTING CALL
Looks like political correctness has come to the hills of West Virginia. The Appalachian folk have been hootin' and hollerin' all week about a casting-call ad for a Hollywood movie...
H'WOOD BIG EYES CITY 'ART HOUSE'
Fallen Hollywood kingpin Michael Ovitz is bidding to make a splashy move to the Big Apple by buying a museum in Chelsea and building a palatial loft above it for...
WTC SPIRIT SAILS ON
The USS New York, the newest warship of the Navy fleet, carries both the spirit - and steel - of Ground Zero. The strongest point of the $850 million "San...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX A man was shot dead and another wounded in Mount Hope, police said yesterday. Cops responding to a call of shots fired arrived at East 178th Street and...
BIG-GIVER BLOOMY MULLS GOV RUN
ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg - who just took himself out of the presidential running - handed the state's top Republican a $500,000 campaign contribution last month to keep open the...
SHE'S A GONER BUT NO QUITTER
WASHINGTON - If anything is certain about the outcome of Tuesday's crucial Democratic primaries, it's that Hillary Rodham Clinton will not go quietly from the field. In the course of...
DEAL NEAR ON EASING RESIDENCY RULES FOR MORE WORKERS
A TENSE, 18-month stalemate over relaxing residency requirements for some of the city's lowest-paid workers may finally be nearing an end. Officials at the City Council and District Council 37,...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 259; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 5717; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 413; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 9380;...
MLB SHOULD HEED STERN WARNING
* It's about time someone or something from these congressional hearings regarding steroids made any sense at all. Rep. Cliff Stern (R-Fla.) got it right when he said he is...
ROCKET OVERLOAD
* We in New York have two very fine baseball teams preparing to begin their respective journeys to October glory, hopefully against one another. Roger Clemens is gone, never to...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Yao opts for surgery Rocket center Yao Ming plans to have surgery to repair a stress fracture in his left foot, the team said. The surgery is scheduled for...
DECKING THE HALL
There was more emotion packed into Carnesecca Arena yesterday than the old band box should have been able to hold. Anthony Mason Jr., who hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 1.7...
BEAR, DEER HUNTERS MADE 2007 COUNT
IF YOU go by the num bers, it was a pretty successful hunting season with both the deer and bear harvest figures up from over the past few years. Hunters...
NO VROOM TO SPARE
Brian Vickers is 11th in the Sprint Cup standings, but is still outside the top 35 as far as qualifying is concerned. In the first five races of the season,...
THE RUMBLE
Jon Blue Jovie Rocker backed Jints vs. pal Belichick Philadelphia Soul owner Jon Bon Jovi, longtime pal of Patriots coach Bill Belichick, confesses he rooted for the Giants in Super...
NHL SHOULD LEAD LEAGUES IN DRUG FIGHT
HONESTLY now, given the intense public scrutiny - or, at least, media scrutiny - on the issue, there's no good reason for the NHL not to be the most progressive...
BOTH SIDES OF THE TORRE
THERE is no one - and I mean no one - quite like Mike Francesa. The closest anyone comes is the Wizard of Oz, but he's a fictional character. Even...
GOING DISS WAY
SORRY, but no Shawn Marion column today, as advertised, on the grounds one and all insisted on anonymity with regard to his debatable trade for Shaquille O'Neal. The portion of...
ALL THE RIGHT (& WRONG) MOVES
WHEN exactly does this offseason end? Camps are open, but the business of winter is not closed. There was chubby Bartolo Colon agreeing just a few days ago to a...
ICE-COLD OFFENSE
So much for rising to the occasion and breathing some life into this snooze of an Islander season. Coach Ted Nolan had said opportunities like yesterday's don't get much better,...
HAPPY FANECA!
Give the Jets credit for learning from their mistakes. They played it cheap a year ago and paid for their frugality in a big way when their left guard situation...
LIGHTS OUT
HERE we are, another March, another spring, another few steps removed from the perch and the title that used to define us. It was the great Pete Axthelm who gave...
MICKEY MOUSE KNICK EFFORT
ORLANDO - Once upon a time, in a universe not so far away, Eddy Curry was considered in the same stratosphere as Dwight Howard. These days, Howard has become "Superman"...
SEE HOU AGAIN
ORLANDO - The Knicks are done, but Allan Houston isn't. Houston, cut by the Knicks in preseason, said he's hoping to be invited to another camp next October, but not...
... AND MAYBE EW, TOO
ORLANDO - Magic assistant and Knick legend Patrick Ewing says he's ready to be an NBA head coach. After five years as an assistant, Ewing, selected two weeks ago as...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Mets' righty reliever who starred in 2006 before suffering a right-shoulder separation in a taxi crash, then missed the entire 2007 season when...
A NIESE DAY: PROSPECT KEY TO FIRST VICTORY
PORT ST. LUCIE - One of the Mets' most promising young pitching prospects helped them get off the Grapefruit League mat yesterday. Filling in while Pedro Martinez eases himself back,...
METS GET CRASH COURSE IN PAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Carlos Delgado's sore right hip turned out to be just the start of a bruising day for the already banged-up Mets. The veteran first baseman, who...
OLD JOE CROWS ABOUT NEW JOE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Joe Torre agrees with Hank Steinbrenner: The fiery Joe Girardi was a good choice to manage the Yankees. "Hey, he's got a good manager," Torre said...
CARLOS HASN'T BEEN LEADER AMAZIN'S NEED
PORT ST. LUCIE - This is how a bad season can get off to a bad start. You get sent home from spring training for an MRI exam. Leaving the...
SPURS VISIT HAS NETS 'CHAMPING' AT BIT
So the Nets, whose season often has rivaled any Shakespearean tragedy for down moods, finally find something to pump their chests about, a reason to get all warm and fuzzy....
IT'S HENRIK INSTEAD OF FLYER-DENIER VALIQUETTE
The Rangers will be messing with a good thing today. In both of their games against Philly within the last few weeks, Steve Valiquette has gotten the start between the...
BABY BOMBER GETS BUSTED IN BAR FIGHT
A Yankees prospect was arrested in Florida last night for starting a drunken bar fight and refusing to leave a notorious local hotspot. Two Tampa cops told center fielder Austin...
JACKSON FAN OF NAMESAKE
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Reggie Jackson saw Austin Jackson make a running, shoestring catch and promptly put the 21-year-old outfielder among some of the best leather wearers in baseball and possibly...
WANG TIME COMING
CLEARWATER, Fla. - His turbo sinker pushes speed guns into the mid-90s and is as hard to get in the air as a bowling ball. The second bullet in the...
'STRIPED SLEEPERS
TAMPA - You wander around the room, you see most of the same familiar names, belonging to the same familiar faces: Jeter. Rodriguez. Posada. Rivera. Giambi. Mussina. Matsui. You scan...
DUNCAN ALREADY SIZZLING
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Shelley Duncan warns against gushing about the sizzling first exhibition game performance he delivered yesterday against the Phillies. "You can't make too much of it," said Duncan,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A rage-aholic in St. Paul, Minn., was sentenced to probation after admitting he blew up on his way to anger-management class and struck a woman. Justin John Boudin, 27, was...
MY NEW YORK: ALAN CUMMING
"Everyone says the East Village has changed so much. I'm glad. If this is gentrified, I like it." Broadway veteran, Tony winner and die-hard East Villager Alan Cumming has long...
SHAKE YOUR RUMP
This week: 'Kick it root down' for a cause with the Beastie Boys; flaunt your mug above Times Square; go bananas for 'King Kong'; tune in for mucho music with...
THE NEXT BROADCAST
Web entertainment enters prime time, as Internet networks start modeling themselves on real-world broadcasters BY THE TIME you finish reading this sentence, a 15-year-old mall-punk in central Michigan will have...
WEB SLINGER
'Star Wars' according to a 3-year-old youtube.com At first blush, this just seems like the usual inane ramblings of a wee kiddie caught on video. But, pay attention and you'll...
SUBMARINE SHOOTER
Olympus Stylus 850 SW $299, Olympus.com Underwater photography often requires equipment with bulkiness that's rivaled only by its price. But this pocket-size shooter allows users to take 8-megapixel images or...
A JOYLESS RIDE
The Iditarod, the annual 1,150-mile race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome, began this weekend. It's been romanticized ever since 1925, the year a hero dog named Balto - who's...
THE CAT LADY
Do you ave a spray bottle that you use to squirt your cat when he does something you don't like? Please, save it for misting your plants and ironing the...
ADOPT ME
Choo Choo is a friendly, 1-year-old papillion mix who's great with people and dogs. He'd love any opportunity to show off his good looks. Meet him from 11 a.m. to...
ORIGINAL DIAGRAMS NEW DA VINCI CODE
CHESS A long-lost Renaissance manuscript turns up in a pile of books sold by an Italian poet, then lays unnoticed in a library until an art expert notices it has...
UNDER 'CONTROL'
Even though a stately dominatrix with breasts straining to escape the top of a leather corset stood stage left, all eyes were fixed on Janet Jackson, answering questions about her...
ROCK AND THE REAL GIRLS
WHEN you're growing up in Oklahoma City, it's easy to feel like the only female death-metal fan in the world. "Oklahomans don't really know about subcultures," says Laura, now 18....
Q&A: AMY ADAMS
THOSE who saw Amy Adams' delightful portrayal of the lovable, small-town, mother-to-be in "Junebug," a film that earned her an Oscar nomination, saw firsthand how her appealing, good-natured sincerity made...
10,000 B.S.
Oh, the terrible bedhead and the form-fitting animal skins! There's something about a caveman that just inevitably spawns schlock. Think "The Clan of the Cave Bear," the cheesy '80s movie...
LONDON FALLING
if YOU THINK LAST year's "The Queen" chafed Her Majesty's velvet knickers, wait until she gets a load of Friday's "The Bank Job." The movie, starring Jason Statham of "The...
FILM BYTES
CYNCIAL about that upcoming "Lost Boys" sequel? So is Corey Feldman - and he's in it. The former teen idol tells shocktillyoudrop.com, "I don't know if Warner Bros. really saw...
THE OLD MAN & THE SCREEN
MANOEL de Oliveira, the esteemed Portuguese film maker, turns an amazing 100 on Dec. 12, but he shows little sign of retiring, or even slowing down. He has directed a...
IF THIS SHIP IS ROCKIN'
SOMEWHERE along the vast cultural ocean separating Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" and VH1's "Flavor of Love" sailed "The Love Boat." Though the series, which ran on ABC from 1977 through...
NEW DVD RELEASES
Into the Wild: 2-Disc Edition Movie: 3 ½ STARS Extras: 1 ½ STARS (Paramount, $35.98) Sean Penn's heartfelt drama about a young man's journey into remote Alaska captures the spirit...
PROOF POSITIVE: MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE SILVER RUM
The first time I cracked open a bottle of Mount Gay's new white rum, the whiff of pure ethanol was so strong I thought my girlfriend was doing her nails...
SMARTS AND CRAFTY
Elettaria 33 W. Eighth St.; (212) 677-3833, elanyc.com After leaving his longtime stage at Craftbar to guide the kitchen at European Union, chef Akhtar Nawab is finally opening a place...
MAKING THE SCENE...KISS & FLY
409 W. 13th St.; (212) 255-1933 THE wheel won't be reinvented in the Meatpacking District, where the over-the-top nightlife scene is all about being the newest kid on the block....
PINEIRO, 28, AND ORTIZ, 26
Feb. 15 - Maribel Ortiz met her future husband, Adrian Pineiro, through her best friend. "I knew of him before that night," recalls Ortiz, an art student at Queens College....
FALINE, 26, AND REAGAN, 26
Jan. 20 - Erin Faline's dance moves sealed the deal for Matthew Reagan. The senior regional sales associate for Axa Distributors saw his future bride get her groove on at...
ROSARIO, 24, AND ESTIEN, 24
Feb. 15 - Crystalee Estien had to watch herself around Wilson Rosario when they first met in 2002 at a mutual friend's birthday party. "I was with someone at the...
GROBSTEIN, 45, AND GALEN, 43
Jan. 20 - "It's hard to give up that beach wedding dream," says Gigi Galen. "My poor flower guy tried to set up the chuppah on the beach, but every...
QUANTUM MECHANIC
PhD physicist Diandra Leslie-Pelecky claims that her new book "The Physics of NASCAR" is for "armchair speed demons, auto-science buffs and NASCAR fans." Regrettably, she is absolutely right about the...
REQUIRED READING
The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Two decades after his death, Otto Preminger, who gave us "Laura," "Anatomy of a...
'APART' OF HISTORY
About a half-century ago, a shy young Nigerian man, who had grown up reading Dickens and "Pilgrim's Progress," put his handwritten novel in the mail to a typing service in...
IN MY LIBRARY: SASHA COHEN
Figure skater Sasha Cohen has been reading a lot lately - or, more specifically, listening a lot lately. Her daily practice schedule in Southern California has her on the road...
HOT AND SOUR SCOOP
In 2005, an $84 millionn Powerball drawing yielded 110 winners nationwide, an unprecedentedly large and possibly suspicious number. Jennifer 8. Lee traced the source of the many winning numbers to...
GENTRIFEARCATION
New York has become so attractive and pleasant that it's easy for those who don't know the city well to mistake its superficial welcome for fundamental safety. Yes, violent crime...
SORRELL'S A YAHOO! BACKER
SIR Martin Sorrell, the outspoken chief of ad giant WPP Group, once famously called Google a "frenemy" in describing the relationship between his ad agencies and the search giant. So...
EMPTY SUITS
Spending time and money to train fashion merchants is back in style again. After years of cost cutting, some department stores have renewed their focus on grooming young executives to...
FREE TRADE STANCE KEY FOR CLINTON AND OBAMA
IN the race for the democratic nomination, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are "trading" barbs as "Super Tuesday II" is almost upon us. But no matter which candidate prevails...
WHICH WAY IS UP?
Investors went ballistic this past week, pulling money from the tumbling stock market, as fear replaced greed and traders coped with a slowing economy, rising commodity prices, such as gold...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS STRAUSS ZELNICK Take-Two chairman is at the center of an emerging bidding war for the troubled video game maker that could result in a sale worth more than $2...
FADE TO BLACK
Media baron Conrad Black is spending his last weekend of freedom throwing dinner parties at his elegant waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., just a short drive to the sprawling...
FIRST-CLASS FLIGHT OPTIONS
At a time when major airlines are charging $7,000 for first-class flights from New York to London, a pair of smaller carriers are betting they can fly high with prices...
THE ATM IS NOT A GIFT CENTER
Dear John: Back in November I used the Chase ATM located in the building where I work. I keyed in the amount of $110, but instead of getting that amount,...
ALL THAT GLITTERS
As both individual and institutional investors get scorched by the choppiness of the stock and bond markets, many are turning to that which glitters - gold. And who can blame...
BARACK'S IRAQ ATTACK
Barack Obama says he's got the perfect prescription for Iraq: Pull out all American troops now, but then rush back in once al Qaeda overruns the place - which, of...
A DUBIOUS 'HATE'
Does an assault on the English language constitute a hate crime? It's a relevant question - especially as Queens DA Richard Brown busies himself demonstrating the utter absurdity of New...
SKIN DEEP
What no one disputes is his most evident characteristic. America knows Barack Obama to be, above all, a conciliator. His instinct is to unify. This decency can help the country...
PUTTING KIDS IN DOUBLE JEOPARDY
If you're attending a Hollywood baby shower these days, get the two-for-one deal at Babies 'R' Us. Patrick Dempsey, Marcia Cross and Dennis Quaid all welcomed twins recently, and Jennifer...
COSMIC RAY
From the start, it was clear that reporters covering William F. Buckley Jr.'s campaign for mayor of New York City would find it . . . unusual. He was running...
HITTING STOCK BOTTOM
According to Charles Morris, "the stage is set for a true shock-and-awe surge of asset writedowns" - that is, investor losses - "through most of 2008." His estimate: "The Trillion...
STAG PARTY
"Stagflation" is back in the headlines - but the term is being misused. Eminent commentators describe stagflation as the messy mixture of high inflation and high unemployment. It isn't. Stagflation,...
THE $1 BILLION ELECTION
Barack Obama raised $36 million in January. John McCain took in a paltry $12 million. So it's not hard to see why McCain's campaign has decided to hound Obama about...
BLOOMBERG'S BUCK$
While Mike Bloomberg finally decided not to run for president as an independent this week, he still might decide which party wins the White House in November. That's because in...
BLOG WATCH
Motherjones.com on what the terrorists are listening to these days: "Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, 'prolong capture shock,' disorient detainees...
SHE SOLD PICS!
Your cover story, "J. Lo Has $6M Twins" (Feb. 23) degrades the sanctuary of childbirth by comparing it to a money-making event. Besides the fact that Jennifer Lopez gave birth...
BABY BLUES
Can someone please explain to me this absurd obsession with celebrities and their babies? Am I in the minority when I say that I could not care less about Lopez...
SPOIL SPORT
Let's be clear: Ralph Nader equals John McCain, and voting for Nader will help McCain ("Nader Re-Re-Rerunning for Prez," Feb. 25). Just as Nader saw no difference between Al Gore...
OSCAR GROUCH
The sourpuss Oscar reviews from Adam Buckman ("Jon Offers More Yuck! Than Yuks," Feb. 25) and Liz Smith ("We Grumble, But We All Watch," Feb. 26) show how out of...
REAL PRINCES
I don't think that it's right that Prince Harry is all over the news just because he's at war ("Prince at War," Feb. 29). There are a lot of people...
LAST RITES
Major American institutions began losing their collective minds during the 1960s. The Roman Catholic Church, large segments of academia, the judiciary and the Democratic Party all fell victim, and none...
RUSSIAN TRAGEDY
"Who started this war?" a fellow soldier asked. "I haven't the faintest idea," Arkady Babchenko replied. "Ask me something easier." Welcome to "One Soldier's War," Babchenko's taut, dramatic account of...
MEET MARKET
Ali, a 26-year-old freelance writer, confesses to having a very vivid imagination. Her ideal prince would be chivalrous, ridiculous and not too religious. Dudes with baby blues who sing or...
FIRESTARTERS
THE heat was on, as Ajay, a 36-year-old fashion designer, returned from a business trip just in time to meet his date, Jana, a 39-year-old arts consultant, at the Omni...
CLEANING OUT A CLUTTERED CLOSET OF EMOTIONS
SOMETHING amazing has happened. The weight is gone. It's been replaced, almost entirely, with a sense of peace and joy and love. And no, I have not joined a cult....
TOP 5 REASONS TO REMAIN FRIENDS WITH YOUR EX
"For booty calls, obviously!" - Joanna "To keep him on handyman duty." - Gayle "So he can invest in the movies I produce one day." - Leslie "For a fallback...
Israel Vasquez Wins Split Decision
Israel Vasquez retained the WBC super bantamweight championship Saturday night, earning a split decision over Rafael Marquez in the rubber match of their trilogy BY GEORGE WILLIS"Thank you" Rafael Marquez...
OLD GALS CAN 'DANCE'
She doesn't need the money. Or the fame. Or the punishing training schedule. So why is Priscilla Presley (below), the manager of one of the largest estates in music, doing...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: REALITY Dressed to thrill The "Project Runway" finale kicks off with a fashion show at Bryant Park. It's a high-pressure situation with cheering fans, former designers from the show...
REEL DEAL
UNFORGIVEN (1992) Sunday, 10:30 p.m., TCM Originally called "The Cut Whore Killings," this gritty Western tells the tale of a former gunslinger (Clint Eastwood) and a young gun (Jaimz Woolvett)...
'O,'HAPPY DAY
GIve big or go home. Those are the marching orders for the 10 contestants on "Oprah's Big Give." The new reality series combines the sentiment of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"...
FUNNY, THEY DON'T LOOK BLUE-ISH!
Did you hear the joke about the History Channel's documentary about the history of the joke that made a joke of itself? A couple of weeks back, in this space,...
'WIRE' CLOSES OUT ITS RUN WITH A BANGN
The sudden death of scar-faced Omar Little was just one surprise in last week's episode of "The Wire." The other one was the reappearance of Poot (Tray Chaney), the first...
WIVES' TALE
Money--and tons of it--makes the world go round for the "Real Housewives of New York City." The cast of Bravo's newest reality series shows off their lavish condos, their perpetual...
Jiri Fischer Skates Again
Detroit Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer took to the ice for the first time since his heart stopped during a game more than two years ago, the AP reported.Fischer played...