March 7, 2008
MCLAUGHLIN PLEADS GUILTY
Disgraced former labor leader Brian McLaughlin - who was charged with illicitly amassing over $2 million - admitted in court today that he looted political, union and charitable bank accountants,...
3 DOWN: Hampton, Dead Arms and Monster Seasons
1. It took all the way until the second inning of his second start for Mike Hampton to get hurt again, this time his groin. I know a lot of...
Perez rocked, but Mets win again
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the Mets rallied for an 8-6 Grapefruit League win over the Indians this afternoon in Winter Haven, Fla.1. The game was televised...
Ray Romano Returns
PageSix.com is reporting that funnyman Ray Romano has agreed to film a one-hour pilot for TNT.We can all rejoice at the news of Romano returning to TV, because "Everybody Loves...
More From the Former Captain
By FRED KERBERThe former captain spoke. Again.We may have spoken to Jason Kidd more in the past two days than in his 6 1/2 years as a Net combined. Anyway,...
CHECKING IN: The bitch is back!
Is the prestigious Blackberry Farm in Tennessee slipping?/via TripAdvisorJust a brief note from the News You May Or May Not Be Able To Use Desk:I, like (few of) you, have...
Coughlin cashes in
BY PAUL SCHWARTZWhat went from unlikely to likely to a certainty will become official tomorrow, when the Giants announce a new four-year contract for Tom Coughlin that will secure his...
MJ Blogs 'Idol's' Top 12 Bash
David Cook and I hugged. I refused to let him go. But like all my other boyfriends, David Cook was quick to get past me.Michael Johns told me all about...
PHITEN YANKEES
Big day in the clubhouse this morning, Shiro Nitta, the man from Phiten, was here.Whatâs Phiten? Youâve seen all those necklaces around the playersâ necks, the colorful bands. Thatâs Phiten....
Deal of the Day-Juliana Jabour
A loose jersey frock is just the ticket for casual Sunday brunch.Pair this Pocket Dress by Juliana Jabour with ballet flats or ankle boots and layer over a long sleeved...
Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
On last night's episode of "Lost," Juliet tells Jack that she is falling for him, creating yet another love triangle on the island. Since we can't play the "If Jack...
Kilger Experiencing "Anxiety Issues"
A week after being traded to the Florida Panthers, former Toronto Maple Leafs forward Chad Kilger has yet to report to his new team, the National Post reports.His agent says...
Box Office Preview: Not Another '300'
Warner Bros. is clearly hoping the pre-historic "10,000 B.C." will follow in the footsteps of its last big pseudo-historical fantasy epic, "300," which opened to a gargantuan $70.8 million exactly...
YANKEES' ACHES AND PAINS
By GEORGE A. KING IIITAMPA â Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada are suffering from the usual aches and pains associated with the first week of exhibition games."More aches than pains,"...
'Idol's' 12 Take Their Seats
We knew Sanjaya Malakar, Sanjaya Malakar was a friend of ours and Danny Noriega -- youâre no Sanjaya Malakar. Of course we donât know if thatâs good or bad thing,...
Pedro throws 53-pitch simulation
PORT ST. LUCIE â- After having his spring debut washed out the night before in Viera, Pedro Martinez threw a 53-pitch simulated game here this morning. Pedro pronounced himself pleased...
3 UP: MET ROTATION, ALOU, FARNSWORTH
1. My column in todayâs Post is about Pedro Martinez and how enthused those in Met camp are about his health and work, to date. One of the points I...
Ben And Juliet Sittin' In A Tree
Those tricksters at âLostâ pull a fast one on us in the opener. Itâs Juliet, seemingly in a flash-forward with her therapist, who points out that sheâs âonly been here...
DEALS: $100 OW to San Francisco
Was just moaning the other day about how it wasn't so long ago that you could get $225 RT fares to the west coast as a matter of course. These...
WHEEZER PLEASER: CIG-TAX HIKE NIXED
ALBANY - New York's smokers can exhale - now that Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has vowed to reject a call to double the state's $1.50-a- pack cigarette tax. "I'm...
SCRAPPY CITY TAKES ON RECYCLE THIEVES
In the five months since penalties were toughened for stealing recyclables, the city has imposed thousands of dollars in fines and impounded many a thief's car. Last September, after officials...
EXPERTS BARE PLAN TO SPARE NY TAXPAYERS
ALBANY - Assembly Democrats could avoid hiking New York's highest-in-the-nation tax burden by targeting pork-barrel waste, bloated state services, profligate legislative payrolls and runaway education and health-care spending, independent fiscal...
EAST END IN $LUMP
There goes the neighborhood! Prices have skidded so badly in the Hamptons that you can now buy a single family home for - gasp - under $1 million. The median...
BIG APPLE POWDER TRAIL
The bomb that smashed the Times Square recruitment center early yesterday morning probably contained the same black powder explosive used in two previous attacks on New York City, police sources...
TIMES SQUARE BOMBER BOAST
Envelopes stuffed with an anarchist manifesto, a photo of a man standing in front of the Times Square recruiting station and the bold taunt, "We did it," showed up on...
'ATM RING' WIFE BUSTED
The wife of a Brooklyn man who allegedly ran a $5 million ATM scam was busted yesterday as an accomplice after agents found $690,000 stuffed in her closet. Olena Rakushchynets,...
ARBUS SUIT'S A PICTURE OF LO$T CHANCE
A Brooklyn collector of African-American memorabilia let a fortune slip through his hands when he sold a treasure trove of rare pictures from famed New York photographer Diane Arbus. So...
'DWI POL WITH PASSED-OUT GAL'
State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, son of the legendary Harlem congressman, is in trouble with the law again after being busted on a DWI charge - with a mystery...
GREEN PARKING
A Queens lawmaker is pushing to have owners of hybrid vehicles get free parking at street meters and municipal parking lots, as a way to encourage city drivers to go...
CREDIT-CARD RING SMASHED
Cops smashed an international identity-theft ring that manufactured credit cards with stolen account information to buy millions of dollars worth of high-end goods and sell the products over the Internet...
NIXZMARY A 'GOOD KID' - GRANDMA
Nixzmary Brown's grandmother yesterday denied that the tragic 7-year-old was a wild child in need of discipline - the excuse cited since Day One by the stepfather accused of beating...
GAL: I SURVIVED 2 HOURS WITH VILLAGE SEX FIEND
A man who attacked two women in the West Village may have invaded a third woman's apartment, held her hostage for two terrifying hours, and threatened to rape her before...
5G/HR. HOOKERS
The feds busted a diamond-studded international call-girl ring that offered well-heeled johns "fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students" for up to $5,500 an hour - after one of the...
GET SET FOR 'SEINFELD 2'
Maybe this time, it'll be a show about something. Jerry Seinfeld is in talks with NBC for a new series, PageSix.com reports. The show, which aims to premiere in June,...
BLOOD & BULLET HOLES
Horrific crime-scene photos - featuring Sean Bell's bullet-ridden and blood-soaked car - were placed into evidence yesterday in the trial of three detectives charged in the killing of the young...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 Shuttle buses replace trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Trains also skip 28th, 23rd and 18th streets in both directions. 2 3 Trains run local between 96th and...
A HALL OF A FIX: REPAIRS COULD TOP $65M
A plan to renovate dilapidated sections of City Hall has turned out to be much more complicated than anyone anticipated, and might have to be delayed until the next administration,...
LEAD PAINT LOUSE
A Bronx jury yesterday slammed "the poster child" of bad landlords by making him pay $21 million to three teens who suffered brain damage from lead paint. It was believed...
'GOD'S GIFT' AFTER BLAZE
It's been a year since a fire raced through Moussa Magassa's Bronx home, killing five of his children, but a good Samaritan who offered to rebuild the house is about...
'RAPE' RAT AND MOM ATTACK COURT ARTISTS
The creep at the center of a pot-fueled date-rape case that caused an NYPD Internal Affairs cop to lose his badge and gun showed his true colors yesterday by body-slamming...
LEFTISTS GANGING UP
A cabal of Latin America's left-wing leaders took shape yesterday in an effort to gang up on US-backed Colombia before a possible border war. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former...
STING NABS 'LORD OF WAR' FIEND
A notorious Russian arms dealer - who was the inspiration for Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 film "Lord of War" - was busted yesterday for trying to sell dozens...
YESHIVA TERROR
A Palestinian gunman infiltrated a packed library at a Jerusalem yeshiva yesterday and killed at least eight people before he was shot dead by an army officer, authorities said. The...
MAMA MADONNA GOING TO THE MAT FOR MALAWI
Madonna didn't even know where Malawi was before adopting a son from the African nation in 2006, she says in a new interview. The "Like a Virgin" singer gets touched...
RALPH LAUREN LOSES LOGO FIGHT
A federal appeals court rode in like the cavalry and handed a victory to the US Polo Association in a trademark dispute with Ralph Lauren. The famous fashion company had...
'SUNSHINE' GOV IN MAC VEEPSTAKES
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain lauded Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as a potential running mate yesterday as they campaigned together in the Sunshine State. Crist helped deliver the crucial...
'TALLY MICH. & FLA. OR IT'S DEM DOOM'
WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party is heading toward a "train wreck" if the Florida delegate problems aren't fixed, one of the state's senators warned yesterday. Sen. Bill Nelson, who has...
HILL LAUNCHES 'STARR' WARS
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign unleashed a blistering attack against Barack Obama yesterday - accusing him of behaving like Kenneth Starr, the Sexgate prosecutor whose probe led to Bill Clinton's impeachment....
SWAYZE IN 3RD ROUND OF CHEMO
Cancer-stricken "Dirty Dancing" heartthrob Patrick Swayze was back at his secluded California home with his wife yesterday after undergoing a grueling third round of chemotherapy, his publicist said. "We are...
FEDS OPEN VS. 'CORRUPT' SLEUTH
LOS ANGELES - Gumshoe to the stars Anthony Pellicano used wiretaps and secret police files to "discredit and, in some cases, destroy" unsuspecting Hollywood enemies, prosecutors said yesterday. During opening...
AMERICANS WOULD NEVER CELL OUT
Americans are so hung up on their cellphones, they'd find it harder to give them up than to ditch their TVs or the Internet, a new survey has found. There...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A paraplegic was murdered execution-style in the elevator of a Brownsville housing project yesterday, police said. Fednard Dickson, 36, was found slumped in his wheelchair on the first floor...
CLINTONS JUST KEN'T GET IT RIGHT
IN TEXAS and Ohio, Hillary Rodham Clinton finally found the Holy Grail she'd been searching for ever since she fell flat on her face in the frozen fields of Iowa...
WHOSE SIDE ARE PROSECUTORS ON?
FOR Sean Bell's loved ones, the trial against three cops accused of shooting him to death one dark and confusing night has gone from bad to worse. Here at the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 757; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0887; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 451; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 7112;...
THE TROOPS DESERVE BETTER
"[The attack] insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world . . . Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on...
. . AND DEAN'S DO-OVER 'DOH!'
REMEMBER the Democrats' battle cry after they lost Florida in 2000? Let all the votes count! Now Democratic National Committee Chairman Dr. Howard Dean is at it again. He wants...
HILL'S '90S NOSTALGIA . . .
'I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president," Sen. Hillary Clinton's top press aide said yesterday. With...
LESSONS FROM THE GENERAL
LT. Gen. Ray Odierno looks like he could snap an NFL linebacker in half. Yet his voice is so quiet you strain to hear him across the table in an...
LAWYER ATTACK
TEL AVIV ISRAEL is deploying a power ful new secret weapon with its frontline forces in Gaza. Problem is, the innovation is going to help Hamas - the enemy in...
THE TAX NY WON'T COLLECT
AS a member of our state Assembly, I was elected to craft and uphold legislation that would help create a better New York state. Recently, I brought legal suit against...
LETTING SILVER SLIDE
POLITICS, or prosecutors, may well force GOP Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno into sudden retirement - arguably leaving Gov. Spitzer halfway toward fulfilling his vow to "fix Albany." Too bad...
GLORIA'S BIG MS.-TAKE: BELITTLING A HERO
THE ISSUE: Clinton supporter Gloria Steinem's belittling of John McCain's POW experience. Gloria Steinem has taken political hate speech to a new low in belittling Sen. John McCain's painful experience...
MOOD IS GETTING BLACKER AT BLACKSTONE
Steve Schwarzman has already given up his $3 million birthday bash tradition - next could be his ranking on the billionaire list. In a refrain that is getting all too...
HARRY'S HELPLINE
Harry Macklowe moved a step closer toward selling his venerable GM Building, receiving what one source described as "several bids" worth more than $3 billion. However, at least two big-name...
APPLE'S IPHONE TARGETS B'BERRY
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is positioning the iPhone to go head-to-head with Research In Motion Inc.'s Blackberry as a device for retrieving work e-mails on the go. The Cupertino,...
DOOM & GLOOM-BERG
THE sprawling media-informa tion company that Mayor Mike Bloomberg left behind is bracing for the worst in terms of a fiscal downturn. "The new top brass here are betting on...
MARKETS HIT LOWS ALL OVER
US stocks fell to an 18-month low, led by banks, after home foreclosures climbed to a record and loan defaults by Thornburg Mortgage Inc. and a Carlyle Group bond fund...
YOULOSE.COM
Dozens of online video startups are struggling to attract enough ad dollars and set themselves apart from the pack, leading to a long-predicted shakeout in the space. The thinning has...
WINTER BLUES FOR RETAILERS
Rattled by recession fears, shoppers are pinching pennies and focusing on the basics. Retailers reported tepid February sales, with most department stores and mall-based specialty chains missing Wall Street's forecasts....
A GREEN HEDGE
Al Gore - who built a fast $100 million fortune since leaving the vice presidency - is gambling about $35 million of it where his mouth is. Gore is plowing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This birdie landed one PGA golfer in the hoosegow. Tripp Isenhour was charged with cruelty to animals for allegedly killing a protected migratory hawk on purpose - with a deadly...
NORTHEAST PLANTS SEEDS FOR NCAA
THE Northeast Conference has taken some hits in recent seasons. The league champion had to win the play-in game two years ago just to secure a No. 16 seed in...
A POWERFUL LITTLE FLOWER
Fiorello La Guardia was one of the greatest and most beloved mayors New York ever had. Nicknamed the "Little Flower," he was no shrinking violet. Here's the story of this...
IT'S ALL ABOUT SHOWING UP
WHAT does it say about our NBA local yokels that the most, er, only compelling story Wednesday night was whether Stephon Marbury or Keith Van Horn would show up at...
FIGHT FANS TANGLE WITH MARTIAL ARTS
THE future of combat sports has arrived. Or at least it will tomorrow night when Showtime takes the logical step of pairing boxing and mixed martial arts in the same...
FISHING PROPOSALS POSTED
PROPOSALS for New York's freshwater fishing regulations have been posted and with quite a few changes, so you may want to take a look and put in your two cents....
FITNESS GURU THROWS FIT AT ROG STEROID ALLEGATIONS
A Houston fitness center owner named in a published report as a person of interest to Roger Clemens' investigators said last night he has nothing to hide. The New York...
MAAC ATTACK
ALBANY - In many ways, the MAAC Tournament epitomizes what March Madness is all about in its purest form: A wacky one-bid league where seeds mean nothing and winning means...
PAINT THE TOURNEY RED
The turning points may have come from a couple of losses, and to Jason Hartford of Ivy League-champion Cornell, that's exactly the point. "You learn the most during failure," the...
'STATE'-MENT GAME
Just talking about the game gets Dick Vitale excited. When North Carolina and Duke meet Saturday night in Durham, N.C., the winner will earn more than in-state bragging rights -...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...DIGGER PHELPS
ESPN's Digger Phelps talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about this week's Big East Tournament, which the former Fordham and Notre Dame coach calls the best of all the conference...
SIFFORD TO BE HONORED WITH GOLD TEE AWARD
Charlie Sifford, the first African-American to play the PGA Tour and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, will be honored for his career achievements at the Metropolitan...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Gruden caddies for Daly Tampa Bay Bucs coach Jon Gruden was John Daly's caddie yesterday in the first round of PODS Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla. During a rain...
DEVS TRYING 'NEW LOOK'
In a worst case, the Devils will have a new look while continuing to struggle offensively. Brent Sutter's solution to his team's anemic scoring output, at least for now, is...
NEW JET FULLBACK AN OLD WARHORSE
The busy Jets aren't exactly promoting a youth movement. After a brief respite, general manager Mike Tannenbaum got back to action yesterday by working a deal for free-agent fullback Tony...
ISIAH: I PASS
Stephon Marbury's announcement Wednesday night that he wants to return to the Knicks next year gave Isiah Thomas another opportunity to commit to his point guard. Thomas, however, shunned the...
PLAY IT COOL
VIERA, Fla. - The Mets insist they won't be forced into any panic moves in the wake of Moises Alou's hernia surgery. The 41-year-old left fielder underwent the procedure yesterday...
REIGN IN SPRING
VIERA, Fla. - Usually when you ask a team official what is up in early March, they begin to gush about some kid who is not shaving yet. The 18-year-old...
MARTINEZ DEBUT DELAYED
VIERA, Fla. - Pedro Martinez's gift to the Mets, agreeing to get on a bus for two hours, was all for naught yesterday. Martinez's spring starting debut against the Nationals...
PEP TALK HAS SANCHEZ EAGER TO GET BACK ON MOUND
VIERA, Fla. - A Pedro Martinez pep talk over lunch this week did wonders for Duaner Sanchez's outlook. The young reliever, out since July 2006 because of two surgeries on...
NETS GETTING DESPERATE FOR RELIEF FROM THE ROAD
DALLAS - Two words are being used more and more for the Nets: urgency and desperation. Unfortunately, the word that matters most is being used less and less: winning. Having...
KIDD TAKES GLOVES OFF
DALLAS - Jason Kidd insists he holds no bitterness toward the Nets. There are enough memories, some bad, most good, from a 61/2-year run to fill a lifetime. There were...
RANGERS' REVENGE
File this one under "O" for "Over thinking." In the Islanders' most important game of the season, with franchise goaltender Rick DiPietro sound of body and mind and ready to...
RENNEY SMARTLY STICKS WITH LUNDQVIST
A COUPLE good turns from Wade Dubielewicz deserved one more, Ted Nolan believed. Rick DiPietro, 15 years and $67.5 million worth of franchise goaltending, was back from burying his grandmother...
KYLE'S BILE
SARASOTA, Fla. - Joe Torre's lack of confidence and poor communication skills led to Kyle Farnsworth's two years in The Bronx being ugly. At least that's how Farnsworth sees it....
SHELLEY'S FIGHT
TAMPA - Never cheat the game. That's the lesson Shelley Duncan learned growing up in his baseball family. Never cheat life. That's the lesson Duncan learned this past November when...
GIRARDI GIVES JOBA, KENNEDY PEP TALK
SARASOTA, Fla. - Joe Girardi met with Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy yesterday to discuss pitching one day after the neophyte right-handers were spanked by the Twins Wednesday in a...
WANG BOMBED IN LOSS
SARASOTA, Fla. - A long stride resulted in a short stint for Chien-Ming Wang yesterday at Ed Smith Stadium. Wang, the Yankees' Opening Day starter and winner of 19 games...
YOUR 'IDOL' DOZEN
FAN favorite Danny No riega got the boot from "American Idol" last night, making him the last contestant cut before the final 12. "Idol" viewers cast 36 million telephone and...
BEWARE PERILOUS ICE IN PARKER
QUICK-hit gossip today. So fasten your seat belts, and let's run 'em all down. Cub reporter Campbell Robertson wrote a profile of Mary-Louise Parker the other day in the Times...
'ROOF' IS THE CAT'S MEOW
THERE are more ways to kill a cat than by choking it with revisions. But ever since its first Broadway outing in 1955 - under the often heavy hand of...
BREAKING OUT
JACK Bauer will be back next fall - in an unprecedented two-hour movie on Fox. The film will be a prequel to the seventh season of the show, which is...
'TODAY' SHOW SPINNING HOSTS
WATCH the revolving door at the "Today" show. Natalie Morales, the morning show's news anchor and fill-in host, is out for a while - to have a baby. And Kathy...
'FRIDAY NIGHT' MAY BE BACK
THE demise of NBC's high school football drama "Fri day Night Lights" could be staved off by a Hail Mary production deal. According to a report posted on deadlinehollywood.com, a...
CAGE FIGHTS WITH STARS
BET is jumping onto the Mixed Martial Arts bandwagon, made popular by Spike TV's "Ultimate Fighting Championship." The new show, "Iron Ring," kicks off March 18 and will feature teams...
TIMBER!
THEY'RE lumberjacks, and they're OK - only they ap parently don't like to be called lumberjacks. "I think the term lumberjack is a [expletive] name that people from the East...
SET FOR 'REHAB2'
PORN star Mary Carey, who just checked out of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" on last night's season finale, could land a reality show of her own, she says. "The producers of...
ROLLING OVER IN SOMEONE ELSE'S GRAVE
DIRECTOR Gus Van Sant's fascination with youth culture (think "Elephant" and "Last Days") continues with the intriguing, mind-altering skateboard elegy "Paranoid Park." The story unfolds in the words of Alex...
ACCRUES INTEREST
RIGHT, mate. There's this MI5 man, or pos sibly MI6. There's your royal family in trouble, a drug bust, a hard man called Perky, a tailor called the Major, a...
SADLY, 'ANGELS' FALLS IN 2ND HALF
'YOU notice people don't bring out cameras on sad days," says the teen at the center of "Snow Angels." Exception: indie film directors. It's the happy days that make them...
NOT BEST OF A DAD SITUATION
'COLLEGE Road Trip," a comedy about a Chicago police chief who wants to keep his daughter from straying too far to college at Georgetown, is better than most Martin Lawrence...
MS. MCDORMAND MISSES AS PETTIGREW-SOME
I adore Frances McDor mand, but she's seri ously miscast - in a title role Emma Thompson could play in her sleep - in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,"...
EXSTINKER!
I was kind of rough on "Apocalypto," which in retrospect seems like a minor classic compared to "10,000 BC," in which Mel Gibson's adventure and many another are processed through...
MAKING SUMMER ROCK
PARENTS who name their daughter Palace have to expect that she'll be a bit of an oddball. Just how much of an oddball 7-year-old Palace has turned out to be...
ALIEN ADMIRATION, FOR THE KIDS
STEPHEN Chow, the Chinese actor-director responsible for the delightful martial-arts spoof "Kung Fu Hustle," has less fun with "CJ7," a fitfully entertaining, self-conscious homage to "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." A comparatively...
J'ENTENDS PLUS LA GUITARE
FRENCH director Philippe Garrel is a critics' favorite, but his films rarely get a release in New York. Consider "L'Entends Plus La Guitare," made in 1991 but only now receiving...
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
THE doctors and nurses who care for America's wounded troops on the battlefield and in hospitals get their due in "Fighting for Life." The first half of the film is...
MARRIED LIFE
HARRY (Chris Cooper) is a well-to-do 1949 businessman who likes "Married Life" with his wife (Patricia Clarkson). He simply likes his mistress (Rachel McAdams) a little more. As he begins...
FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT
THE Japanese film "Funky For est: The First Contact" is, you might say, funky. It consists of a series of comic sketches. Some are funny, like "Babbling Hot Spring Vixens...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
BOMBS AWAY March 7 - Film Bad taste has rarely been so good as in "Myra Breckenridge" (1970), one of the screen's biggest financial and critical bombs. Myron Breckenridge, an...
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
ADDING MACHINE": *** ½ A powerful chamber-music theater adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionist classic. Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane; (212) 307-4100. "ALTAR BOYZ": *** Musical spoof of Christian-pop...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
JUSTICE: The French dance-rockers headline a show opened by Montreal electro-funkers Chromeo Tuesday at 8 p.m. WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza; (212) 465-6741. THE DONNAS AND...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Diane Schurr through Sunday. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. IRIDIUM: Through Sunday: The Herbie Hancock Project plays a tribute to the Grammy-winning composer. 1650 Broadway; (212) 582-2121....
CLASSICAL
BARGEMUSIC: Beethoven, Mozart and Behzad Ranjbaran are played on flute, violin, viola and cello tonight at 8 and Sunday at 4 p.m. at Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn; (718) 624-2083. CARNEGIE...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE: Through April 12: Barbara Cook. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S: Through March 15: Tovah Feldshuh. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. JOE'S PUB: Monday: Jackie Hoffman at...
DANCE
CITY CENTER: The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs its new work "De SueÑos que se Repiten," as well as other dances, through March 16. (See ptdc.org. for schedule.) City Center,...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 editing breakthrough "Battleship Potemkin" screens Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BAM ROSE CINEMA: Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira celebrates...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
NEVER CRY WOLFE: Author Tom Wolfe reads from his '80s tale of New York City greed and crime, "Bonfire of the Vanities," Thursday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble,...
PREVIEWS
"CONVERSATIONS IN TUSCULUM": Brian Dennehy, Joe Grifasi, Aidan Quinn and Maria Tucci star in Richard Nelson's tale of Roman life in the days of Caesar. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.;...
LIVEBLOG: Rockin' glam in Vancouver
Before......and after. Canada's Holt Renfrew is the kind of department store where 70 % off means those shoes you had your eye on are now just $200. Each. Think Barney's...
Notes on a rainy day
A quick wrap-up from Viera after Pedro Martinez's first spring start and Mets vs. Nationals was rained out:1. Carlos Delgado took batting practice in Port St. Lucie and appears on...
Moving in A-very Good Direction
So tonightâs game could not have ended more aptly. Sean Avery, instigator extraordinaire, driving to the empty net and getting hooked down. He was hustling and making a play that...