March 5, 2008
Surgery to sideline Alou 4-6 weeks
March 5, 2008 | 11:55pmPORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets' injury picture took a dramatic turn for the worse tonight with the news that Moises Alou faces hernia surgery.The 41-year-old left fielder can't begin...
Joba struggles in loss
March 5, 2008 | 11:50pmAPJoba Chamberlain was far from automatic against the Twins.Chamberlain allowed a two-run homer to Garrett Jones in a 7-5 loss today, the first Grapefruit League loss in four games for...
PATRICK SWAYZE HAS PANCREATIC CANCER
March 5, 2008 | 11:38pmPatrick SwayzeYeah, I have to say, patrick_swayze_going_to_die is pretty callous... posted by MikeClick here to comment March 5, 2008 -- Twinkle-toed tough guy Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with cancer...
No Need For Vasquez-Marquez IV
March 5, 2008 | 11:33pmIsrael Vasquez and Rafael Marquez gave us one of the best trilogies in the history of boxing over the last 12 months. There's no need for more, and certainly no...
Coughlin contract likely Thursday
March 5, 2008 | 11:25pmBy PAUL SCHWARTZThe contract extension for Tom Coughlin that kept on growing and growing in value as the Giants surged to victory in Super Bowl XLII is likely to be...
DiPietro at practice, may sit again
March 5, 2008 | 11:17pmAPRick DiPietro rejoined the Islanders for practice today with no assurance he would be back in goal Thursday night for the second half of a home-and-home series with the Rangers.DiPietro...
Peaceful matchup for Francona, Torre
March 5, 2008 | 10:56pmAPAfter four years as Bostonâs manager, Terry Francona can finally put his arm around Joe Torre behind the batting cage.If Francona tried that when both led enemy squads in the...
Diane Von Furstenberg is a model citizen.
March 5, 2008 | 9:58pmTomorrow night, celebs and personalities such as Christiane Amanpour, The Clementes, Eva Amurri and Kim Catrall are expected to come out in support of Diane Von Furstenberg and Vital Voices,...
The Williams Guys
March 5, 2008 | 9:34pmBy FRED KERBERIt has been a little tough of late for two of the guys who were the building blocks of the future not that long ago.Sean Williams is now...
3 DOWN: Santana, Murcer, Torre
March 5, 2008 | 9:16pm1. Sitting behind homeplate, even in early March, you can get a great view of why Johan Santanaâs changeup is so devastating. His arm speed and release points are clones...
Cats & Dogs in Times Square Saturday
March 5, 2008 | 9:00pmFrom noon to 3 p.m. this Saturday at the Sanrio store in Times Square, Hello Kitty and Blue costume characters will meet-greet fans and take photos as the store introduces...
PATRICK SWAYZE HAS PANCREATIC CANCER
March 5, 2008 | 8:43pmTwinkle-toed tough guy Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and might only have weeks to live, a rep for the dirty dancer said yesterday. Swazyze's publicist confirmed to...
Santana sharper in second start
March 5, 2008 | 6:13pmPORT ST. LUCIE â- Johan Santana's second spring start as a Met was dramatically better than his debut last Friday. An inning-by-inning rundown of Santana's day against the Dodgers at...
GOOD NEWS TRAVELS FAST
March 5, 2008 | 6:08pmThe news was good on Bobby Murcer today.Bobby offered a statement, saying, âWe received great news this morning. The biopsy revealed scar tissue. It showed no signs of cancer. We...
UPDATE: The girls are off tonight
March 5, 2008 | 6:08pmHere's what you will not see in Las Vegas tonight Not to go all how-the-sausage-is-made on you here or anything, but this week's print cover story on Las Vegas put...
Alou, Vargas latest to go down
March 5, 2008 | 6:01pmPORT ST. LUCIE -â The injuries just keep piling up for the Mets, who lost 41-year-old outfielder Moises Alou and pitcher Jason Vargas this afternoon.Alou -- who turns 42 in...
Tribeca Finally Gets Preggers
March 5, 2008 | 5:51pmThe Tribeca Film Festival, which lost "Knocked Up'' to the hipper South by Southwest last year, has landed another pregnancy comedy from founders Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal's longtime business...
Marbury: I'll be there
March 5, 2008 | 5:45pmBy MARC BERMANStephon Marbury told The Post in an email this morning he will make his first appearance at the Garden tonight vs. the Cavaliers since having ankle surgery Jan....
Church suffers setback
March 5, 2008 | 5:34pmPORT ST. LUCIE -â Mets right fielder Ryan Church is scheduled to see a neurologist here this afternoon after suffering a setback in his recovery from a Grade 2 concussion....
Her Name Is Paris... Hilton
March 5, 2008 | 5:31pmParis Hilton will grace the TV screen during the hour-long return of NBC's beloved "My Name is Earl" on April 3. The heirhead will play herself in a dream sequence...
Christina Aguilera for Stephen Webster
March 5, 2008 | 5:15pmTo be unveiled in the April issue of W. âStephen and I have been friends for many years and working together on this campaign and collection has been an incredible...
MARBURY TELLS POST: 'I'M THERE'
March 5, 2008 | 4:28pmStephon Marbury told The Post in an e-mail this morning that he will make his first appearance at the Garden tonight since having ankle surgery Jan. 22. "I'm there," Marbury...
Promotion dates announced
March 5, 2008 | 3:45pmThe Mets announced their promotion dates for the final season of Shea Stadium this morning. Hereâs the rundown:-- Saturday, April 12 vs. Milwaukee: Citi Field Cap Day (first 25,000 fans).--...
'American Idol': The Paula Show
March 5, 2008 | 3:40pmThe "Idol" cameras last night captured two great Simon moments of disgust. It leads us to wonder how many times frustration over Paula gets the best of Simon on any...
Carrie on the Croisette?
March 5, 2008 | 3:30pmIs Carrie Bradshaw, the saucy sex columnist played by Sarah J. Parker, headed back to France? The Cannes Film Festival rumor du jour, courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business...
Starr Report: They're wearing a tie
March 5, 2008 | 3:30pmIn other fashion-show news, former "America's Next Top Model" contestant April Wilkner (from the show's second season) hosts this year's American Legacy Foundation Honors Monday at The Pierre. Last, but...
El Duque tries out new wind-up
March 5, 2008 | 3:08pmPORT ST. LUCIE -â Orlando Hernandez took his new wind-up for a test spin this morning and could be closer to making his first start of the spring. Willie Randolph...
Deal of the Day
March 5, 2008 | 2:38pmPick up this 3/4-Sleeved Cropped Jacket to throw over a T-shirt and wide leg jeans or over one of the floral dresses that youâre bound to buy.The large collar and...
What's the Last Straw?
March 5, 2008 | 2:19pmSean Avery has been a key component of Ranger success since he was brought over at the trade-deadline last season. Whether in part or in whole, he was the catalyst...
3 UP: Delgado, Giambi, Met Bench
March 5, 2008 | 12:55pm1. In todayâs Post, I wrote a column about Carlos Delgado and his attempt at a rebound, and more specifically should we buy into the likelihood that he will return...
MAYOR ORDERS 3RD CASH SLASH
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amSix weeks after Mayor Bloomberg ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by 5 percent, he hit them yesterday with another 3 percent in cuts, worth $500 million. And that...
MIKE LAUDS 500-GRAND OLD PARTY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amTrying to calm the furor over his shocking $500,000 campaign contribution to state Senate Republicans, Mayor Bloomberg argued yesterday they deserve his support because "most of them are from upstate"...
DEMI'S ONE HOT MAMA
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amDemi Moore shows off her nurturing side as she poses with her three daughters for a sleepover-style photo in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar. The hot-as-ever mom teamed up...
COLD HARD CASH
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amIt's nothing to sneeze at. Airborne, the herbal-supplement maker, has agreed to pay through the nose - $23.3 million to be exact - to settle a class-action suit charging it...
FACE TIME ON B'WAY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amNow you can be larger than life - projecting your toothy grin high above Times Square on a giant billboard. The 2,500-square-foot interactive digital screen, which sits atop the 48-story...
CITY NIXES SUGAR SHACK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amCity officials yesterday said they're sour on a planned five-story glass addition for the historic Domino Sugar condo conversion in Brooklyn, telling its developer to go back to the drawing...
FEAR STALKING VILLAGE STREETS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amA lightning bolt of fear struck the heart of the West Village yesterday as word spread of two terrifying assaults on women by a crazed sex fiend. "It's really frightening....
COMMUTE IN RUINS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amMetro-North riders suffered a hellish commute home yesterday after a Harlem building collapse knocked out service on several lines. The Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines were suspended for almost...
MRS. MCG'S PERKY BID FOR 600G
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amDina Matos McGreevey wants $605,999 in damages for her marriage to Jim McGreevey, a sum she claims represents the taxpayer perks she lost when the gay former love gov resigned...
NIXZMARY DAD WITNESS A DUD
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amJurors in the Nixzmary Brown case yesterday heard testimony from a secret defense witness - who apparently hurt the dead girl's stepfather. The testimony by an unidentified former female Rikers...
TWISTED SISTER'S 'THREAT'
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThe older sister of a Russian doctor accused of orchestrating the murder of her orthodontist ex-hubby was busted yesterday for allegedly threatening his brother in an attempt to stop him...
SICKING DOCS ON ALBANY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amHordes of city doctors yesterday left their white coats on the steps of the Capitol building in Albany to protest soaring medical malpractice costs and lawsuits. Hundreds of the protesting...
THE $49M TOWN HOUSE
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThe Upper East Side mansion seized from former Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione has been sold by his creditors for a very sexy price. According to city transfer records, the...
M&M POKES AT COWBOY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThe giant blue M&M that was banished from two video billboards for imitating Times Square's Naked Cowboy has come back swinging. Mars, the maker of M&Ms, has filed a petition...
ANNA TOT INHERITS WINDFALL
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amIt's a good heir day for little Dannielynn Birkhead. The mop-topped daughter of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was named the sole heir to her tragic mother's potentially mega-million-dollar estate. A...
MIND WENT BLANK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThe undercover detective who fired 31 of the 50 shots in the slaying of Sean Bell blacked out minutes after the shooting - saying "he didn't remember" firing his gun...
BELLEVUE'S 'BRIBE' BIG
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThe former head of Bellevue Hospital wrung bribes including a no-show job for his girlfriend out of a medical transcription firm that hoped to do business with the hospital, according...
PREGNANCY FRACAS FOR WAL-MART
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amA pregnant worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart is claiming she almost had a miscarriage when she was forced to push heavy shopping carts around to make her bosses look...
'DUNGEONS & DRAGONS' CREATOR 'ROLLS' INTO HEAVEN
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amGary Gygax, co-creator of board game Dungeons & Dragons, rolled his last 20-sided die yesterday and passed away to his ultimate castle in the sky. He was 69. Gygax had...
OH, CHUTE! RAP IS BACK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThat'll take the wind out of his parachute. High-flying daredevil Jeb Corliss once again faces criminal charges for his flamboyant but foiled April 2006 attempt to jump off the Empire...
FRAUDSTER GETS AWAY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amA suspect wanted for a multimillion-dollar identity fraud managed to elude a massive FBI and NYPD dragnet in Brooklyn last night. The unidentified man is the subject of a sealed...
FREE RENT FOR STUY TOWNERS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amNo, it's not a dream, a trick or someplace in Kansas. The new owners of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village are offering a month's free rent and adopting new, pet-friendly policies...
VILLAGE SICKO OFF TO PRISON
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amA violent pedophile was found guilty yesterday of masturbating, nude, in the doorway of his West Village town house - and sent to serve 60 days in jail. Carl Fisher,...
O SACKS MAC BUT MAC WHACKS HILLARY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWASHINGTON - Barack Obama would handily beat John McCain in a head-to-head match-up, according to a compilation of poll results, while Hillary Rodham Clinton would lose to the likely GOP...
HILL-RAISING DOUBLE WIN
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Call her the Comeback Kid II. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored stunning victories over Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas early this morning - snapping her 12-state losing...
SHE'S THE STRIFE OF THE PARTY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amHillary Rodham Clinton can not win the Democratic nom ination without destroying her party. Going into last night's voting, she trailed Barack Obama by more than 150 delegates. In order...
SHADY TV AD DARKENS 'O'
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amA prominent left-wing Web site is questioning whether Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is playing the race card - by darkening the tone of Barack Obama's skin in a new TV...
HILLARY SCORES 2 GAL-LANT WINS IN CRUCIAL VOTES
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton wrestled back her base of women, blue-collar workers and older voters in her key victories over Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas last night, according...
MCC WINS NOD AS HUCK QUITS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amJohn McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination with four big victories last night - driving his last remaining opponent, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, out of the race. McCain won...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amQUEENS A thief is being sought in the botched robbery of a Kew Gardens Hills bank, police said yesterday. The suspect, in his 30s, walked into the Chase branch on...
OBAMA BETTER BATTLE BACK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWITH big wins in Ohio and Texas last night, Hillary Clinton has finally broken her losing streak and sent a clear message to Barack Obama: I'm not getting out. For...
JOHN RUSTLES UP PUBLICITY AS DEMS SCRAP
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWASHINGTON - As Mike Huckabee makes his carni val-act exit from the GOP stage, Sen. John McCain is left with little to attract the media's attention away from the battle...
PROSECUTORS' SLIPSHOD JOB
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWHAT if they held a trial and prosecutors stayed home? The whispers have started in earnest here in Queens, where three cops - Detective Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc...
LOTTERY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 767; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7405; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 772; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3012;...
SUBWAY PIE-IN-THE-SKY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amStraphangers may soon be enjoying new subway lines, less crowded trains, a new rail line to LaGuardia, the sun, the moon and the stars - if you believe MTA boss...
COPS IN THE DOCK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amIf two NYPD officers did what prosecut ors yesterday said they did to a boy on Staten Island last Halloween, they deserve to be locked behind bars for a long...
DOOMING OUR CITIES
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amUH-OH: Here we go again. The so-called federal urban agenda - a set of ideas and policies that helped bring American cities to their knees in the 1960s and '70s...
OBAMA'S REAL MIDEAST PROBLEM
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amIS pronouncing a man's mid dle name tantamount to in sulting him? In Sen. Barack Obama's case, the answer appears to be yes. Sen. Hillary Clinton has already apologized because...
FEMINIST FOLLIES: SLAPPING SOLDIERS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amBEHOLD with me the politics of gynocentrism. What a depressing and desiccative sight it is. Just look at Gloria Steinem. From once-ripe feminist icon to idea-barren harridan, she offers nothing...
BACK FROM THE BRINK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amNO one would have guessed back in De cember that, come March, Hillary Clinton would be the gutsy underdog sticking it to the purveyors of political conventional wisdom. But she...
A POORLY 'TORT' LESSON: SILVER HAS NO SHAME
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amSo long as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is allowed to be associated with Weitz & Luxenberg, there will never be reform ("Silver's Tort-Bar Outrage," Editorial, March 1). He doesn't want...
A RIGHT TO CHOOSE WRONG
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amMichelle Malkin's sad tale of the young woman who killed herself because of the guilt she felt after aborting her twin babies is really a downer ("Abortion: Untold Truths," Post-...
4 EVER BRETT
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amIN GREEN Bay, Wis., and all across America, really, we will all miss Brett Favre, we will root for him to change his mind between now and summer training camp,...
LINCOLN SHINES WITHOUT ITS STAR
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amTop-seeded Lincoln's defense of its PSAL title started easily enough, a 111-59 win over No. 16 Lehman yesterday, but did not come without some potential controversy. The Railsplitters played their...
SPORTS SHORTS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amNFL: Patriots sign Webster With cornerbacks Asante Samuel and Randall Gay leaving as free agents, the Patriots yesterday signed former Buffalo CB Jason Webster . . . Former Titans DE...
DEVS' ZACH ON TRACK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amTORONTO - Martin Brodeur's excellence is the given, win or lose. This season, though, as Zach Parise goes, so go the Devils. The third-year winger responded to slashed ice-time with...
FAVRE'S FINALE A GIANT FIT
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amAny thrilled Giants fan who reveled in their incredible and improbable Super Bowl run is sure to win a bet in the years to come when the following trivia question...
ISLES WON'T GO AWAY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amTHERE is no cream in the Eastern Conference, or by 68 games it would have already risen somewhere. In the capped-out world, where talent is spread too thin and the...
PACE: I'M NOT THE SAVIOR
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amWhen the Jets opened the coffers and handed over superstar money to unheralded linebacker Calvin Pace, they invested in his future potential based on one solid season with the Cardinals....
ISIAH MUM ON STEPH'S NO-SHOW
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThere wasn't any let-up in the Isiah Thomas-Stephon Marbury circus yesterday, with Thomas deferring questions about Marbury to Marbury himself and declaring that he expects the injured point guard at...
MAINE STREAM
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amJUPITER, Fla. - John Maine couldn't agree on his salary with the Mets this year, so they decided it for him yesterday. A 15-win season last season resulted in a...
BELIEVE IT, OR NOT
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amPORT ST. LUCIE - This is that time of year when even the most jaded person can be intoxicated by optimism simply by entering a spring camp. It is about...
AMAZIN'S ARE BACK IN MARKET FOR BACKUPS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amPORT ST. LUCIE - Joe Smith was a revelation in Mets spring training last year, winning the award as the most impressive first-timer in camp and, more important, winning a...
REYES HAS 2K8 COVERED
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amPORT ST. LUCIE - If there's a dreaded MLB 2K8 cover jinx, Jose Reyes isn't worried. The Mets' All-Star shortstop said he couldn't be happier about following Derek Jeter as...
METS GET GOOD NEWS ON GOTAY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amJUPITER, Fla. - The Mets finally got some positive injury news yesterday, they hope. A CT scan showed backup infielder Ruben Gotay suffered only a sprain of his right ankle...
NETS IN DEVIN & HELL
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amSAN ANTONIO - Inevitably, no matter what Marcus Williams did, Devin Harris was going to become the Nets' starting point guard. And Harris did. Inevitably, no matter what the Nets'...
TOUGH NIGHT FOR HENRIK
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amHenrik Lundqvist played well enough to lose and so did the Rangers. As such, call last night's 4-3 shootout victory for the Islanders at the Garden, justice. Actually, call it...
NOT JUST O-KEI: A PERFECT DAY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amDUNEDIN, Fla. - If you rightfully crucified Kei Igawa for a putrid outing against the University of South Florida last week, then you have to praise him for two perfect...
FUL-PHIL-ING PROPHECY
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amDUNEDIN, Fla. - A year ago they didn't give Phil Hughes a chance to be a Yankee starter. It wasn't in the plans. This spring there is no stopping the...
TEAM MCNAMEE EMPLOYS 'MOTION' OFFENSE
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amLawyers for Brian McNamee filed motions yesterday with a federal judge in Texas to have Roger Clemens' defamation suit dismissed and Clemens' lead lawyer disqualified from the case. The motions...
MATSUI COULD SIT FOR 10 MORE DAYS
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amDUNEDIN, Fla. - Hideki Matsui and the Yankees insist a stiff neck and a surgically repaired right knee aren't going to hold Matsui back from being ready for Opening Day....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amThis couple took the "death do us part" bit a little too seriously. Just 90 minutes after her 83-year-old husband, Bill Caswell died, Miriam Caswell joined him in the hereafter....
ROYAL FLUSH
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amSURE, there was that whole Revolution thing against the British king. But today, Americans seem to be smitten with royalty - especially when it comes to the Tudor dynasty. You...
LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA HAS FAMILIAR RINGTONE
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amFOR a woman in her early 30s, Sarah Ruhl sure seems obsessed with death. The subject - central to her plays "The Clean House" and "Eurydice" - forms the theme...
HE SAID. I SAID. PERIOD.
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amA couple of weeks ago, in a column about a sneak-peek at the up coming Broadway musical "Shrek," I made some minor - and, of course, constructive - criticisms of...
FLASH FASH' FINALE
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amIT'S a matter of taste. Tim Gunn, the wise and well-spoken sage of "Project Runway," says the decision about who wins this year's competition will come down to the personal...
CLEAN & SOBER
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amVH1's harrowing "Celeb rity Rehab," the limited-run series, ends tonight - not with the bang we got on every other episode, but with a whimper. It's graduation time and clearly...
DOC'S MURDER ON 'L&O' FIRST
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amON tonight's "Law & Order," a psychiatrist is brutally murdered - and one of his patients is suspected. Sound familiar? The episode, "Betrayal," is airing just three weeks after Upper...
OPRAH FIASCO
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amOPRAH flattened the Internet Monday night. The first of several heavily hyped live Webcasts featuring Oprah Winfrey and the author of her current book club pick crashed about 10 minutes...
STARR REPORT
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amThey're wearing a tie Ratings: The "NBC Nightly News" (Brian Williams) beat ABC's "World News" (Charlie Gibson) by 256,000 total viewers last month. The newscasts did, however, tie in the...
A REALITY-TV STAR AND A RABBI WALK INTO A KITCHEN . . .
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amWHEN Hung Huynh - last season's "Top Chef" winner - recently announced he was taking up residency in a kosher New York restaurant, it sparked some foodie head-scratching. Was this...
BRAND-NEW CENTRAL PARK MOUTH-WATERING
March 5, 2008 | 7:59amM ANHATTAN dining revolutions - real ones, not ones invented by publicists - occur out of the blue. One day, Allen Street is a wasteland; the next, it's home to...
CHEF JAM
March 5, 2008 | 7:59am'TOP Chef" host Padma Lakshmi really does eat. And while she's hands down the hottest person on the set, she's not the only diva (paging head judge Tom Colicchio!). That's...
GLOBAL WARMING WILD CARDS
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amYou've now read about and thought about some of the things that could happen as the world warms. At this point it's important to remind you that no one knows...
ROYAL FLUSH
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amSURE, there was that whole Revolution thing against the British king. But today, Americans seem to be smitten with royalty - especially when it comes to the Tudor dynasty. You...
HE SAID. I SAID. PERIOD.
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amA couple of weeks ago, in a column about a sneak-peek at the up coming Broadway musical "Shrek," I made some minor - and, of course, constructive - criticisms of...
LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA HAS FAMILIAR RINGTONE
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amFOR a woman in her early 30s, Sarah Ruhl sure seems obsessed with death. The subject - central to her plays "The Clean House" and "Eurydice" - forms the theme...
STARR REPORT
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amThey're wearing a tie Ratings: The "NBC Nightly News" (Brian Williams) beat ABC's "World News" (Charlie Gibson) by 256,000 total viewers last month. The newscasts did, however, tie in the...
OPRAH FIASCO
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amOPRAH flattened the Internet Monday night. The first of several heavily hyped live Webcasts featuring Oprah Winfrey and the author of her current book club pick crashed about 10 minutes...
FLASH FASH' FINALE
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amIT'S a matter of taste. Tim Gunn, the wise and well-spoken sage of "Project Runway," says the decision about who wins this year's competition will come down to the personal...
DOC'S MURDER ON 'L&O' FIRST
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amON tonight's "Law & Order," a psychiatrist is brutally murdered - and one of his patients is suspected. Sound familiar? The episode, "Betrayal," is airing just three weeks after Upper...
CLEAN & SOBER
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amVH1's harrowing "Celeb rity Rehab," the limited-run series, ends tonight - not with the bang we got on every other episode, but with a whimper. It's graduation time and clearly...
CHEF JAM
March 5, 2008 | 7:06am'TOP Chef" host Padma Lakshmi really does eat. And while she's hands down the hottest person on the set, she's not the only diva (paging head judge Tom Colicchio!). That's...
BRAND-NEW CENTRAL PARK MOUTH-WATERING
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amM ANHATTAN dining revolutions - real ones, not ones invented by publicists - occur out of the blue. One day, Allen Street is a wasteland; the next, it's home to...
A REALITY-TV STAR AND A RABBI WALK INTO A KITCHEN . . .
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amWHEN Hung Huynh - last season's "Top Chef" winner - recently announced he was taking up residency in a kosher New York restaurant, it sparked some foodie head-scratching. Was this...
B&N FALLS 5% ON '08 OUTLOOK
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amA bitter battle is brewing between big booksellers. Shares of Barnes & Noble dropped nearly 5 percent yesterday after the giant chain warned the coming year's profits will sorely miss...
PANDIT-MONIUM
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amWall Street fears Citigroup faces the end of its run as a global giant, mired in losses so steep that even oil sheiks can't rescue it. Investors fled Citi yesterday,...
LEDGER ADJUSTMENT
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amTHE ax man is coming to the Newhouse empire - at least to unionized, blue-collar workers on the newspaper side of the operation. George Arwady, publisher of the Star-Ledger in...
FIREBRAND FOLDS AFTER ITS FORMULA JUST DIDN'T AD UP
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amIt turns out people really don't want to watch ads. Firebrand, a New York startup that tested the popular notion on Madison Avenue of ads as entertainment, has folded after...
DILLARD'S FACING PROXY BATTLE
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amA shareholder activist group signaled it is gearing up for a proxy battle against Dillard's, the department-store chain that has been criticized for hit-and-miss operations and poor corporate governance. In...
FAMILY JEWELS
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amNever mind those $300 million paychecks among the hedge fund crowd - the real bucks are coming from billion-dollar windfalls of stock cash-outs or the selling of family empires. With...
GM TOWER SWEEPSTAKES
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amTHE pack chasing the GM Building is getting thinner and pinching its pennies. Just as we were ready to "out" SL Green Realty Corp. as the third of three bidders...
$WEET MUSIC
March 5, 2008 | 7:06amThe guys behind Viacom's popular new video game "Rock Band" are in line to collect over $200 million if profits from the chief rival to Activision's "Guitar Hero" hit certain...