March 21, 2008
Betts Has Surgery, Out 2-3 Weeks
APRangers forward Blair Betts had foot surgery today and will be out two to three weeks.The operation took place in New York hours before the Rangers are due to face...
Pagan closing in on LF job
A quick wrap-up (non-Pedro Martinez division) from Port St. Lucie after the Metsâ 8-2 Grapefruit League win over the Nationals: 1. Angel Pagan is looking more and more like the...
'L&O' Calls The Headlines
Jim McGreevey The headlines are following "Law & Order"--again.Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?Next Wednesday's episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" centers around a three-way sex...
New episodes of "Futurama"
Yay for Bender! "Good news: those asinine morons who cancelled us were themselves fired for incompetence!""Woo hoo!""Not just fired, but beaten up too. Pretty badly!""Yay?""In fact, most of them died...
Adieu? No, Adu! US Makes Beijing Games
The US National Team got their ticket to the Olympics punched. Two goals from Freddy Adu and one from Sacha Klejstan in their 3-0 win over Canada.READ THE WHOLE STORY
3 DOWN: Santana, Schoeneweis, Wang
1. Is this a positive harbinger? On the same day, April 8, that the Mets celebrate their final home opener at Shea with a certain new ace on the roster,...
'FNL' Cast Has A Foot-Ball
The cast of NBC's cult-favorite football drama "Friday Night Lights" trades in the field for the red carpet at The 25th Annual William S Paley Television Festival in Hollywood.Click here...
Philly Preview
The Rangers, riding high off their shoot-out win over the Devils Wednesday, are in Philadelphia to take on the Flyers.Stephen Valiquette has been the Blueshirts' specialist against Philly this season,...
'LA MISMA LUNA'
While the nation discusses immigration through raging sound bytes, a new film, starring a number of telenovela stars - portrays puts a face to the controversial issue. "La Misma Luna"...
Pedro touched for two by Nats
PORT ST. LUCIE â- Pedro Martinez wasnât as sharp the second time around.Facing a familiar foe in the Nationals, Pedro gave up two runs â- including a solo homer to...
Focus, Focus
By FRED KERBERWith less than a month and only 14 games left in the season, the vets are stepping up, showing the young guys how it should be done. Vets...
Steele Loan to Barnsley Extended
Championship sides Barnsley and West Bromwich Albion came to terms on a deal to extend goalkeeper Luke Steele's loan to the Tykes through the end of the season. The deal...
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
My version of a dot, dot, dot blog.Arrived back in Tampa yesterday and as I drove down Spruce near Legends Field saw Jay Wright jogging. That was the highlight of...
Dark Sector Launch Trailer
I got to sit down with Dark Sector a while ago. I enjoyed it, but I fear that it might fall into the same trap as many post-Gears Of War...
CLINTON CAMP RAPS OBAMA OVER WRIGHT PIC
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign criticized Barack Obama's campaign Friday for "peddling photos" of former President Clinton and Obama's longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. A photograph of the former...
SPL: It's Still a Two-Horse Race
The Scottish Premier League has been won by clubs other than Celtic and Rangers, but not this year. Third-place Hibernian is behind the Hoops by 18 points, and Rangers sit...
SI WIFE FACES MURDER CHARGES
The widow of an FDNY fire marshal was charged with second-degree murder today in the December shooting of her husband as he slept in their Staten Island home. Janet Redmond-Mercereau,...
Ronaldo Nets 33 for United
Manchester United is no stranger to success. They are the juggernaut of English football. Their trophy case is bursting with accolades that would make any club envious. Their success is...
Do You Feel Lucky?
Looks like Clint Eastwood may indeed be reprising his signature character, Dirty Harry Callahan, at the age of 77. A day and half has gone by without Warner Bros. denying...
Schneider to play Saturday
PORT ST. LUCIE â- The Mets got good news this afternoon when catcher Brian Schneider pronounced himself ready to play again. The veteran catcher was not in the lineup again...
Box Office Preview: March Madness
The year's biggest opener, the animated "Horton Hears a Who,'' is expected to stay in the No. 1 spot for its sophomore session, thanks to Easter Weekend crowds looking for...
Starr Report: '48 Hours'
"John Adams" HBO's "John Adams" (Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, David Morse) will be out on DVD June 10.Speaking of which... History Channel is now just plain old History. They've formally...
Double Soderbergh for Cannes?
The two hotly anticipated new Stephen Soderbergh flicks --"Guerilla'' and "The Argentine,'' both starring Benecio del Toro as T-shirt icon Che Guevara -- are expected to premiere at this year's...
No, We Can't Review Every Single Movie Anymore
Up until two or three years ago, it was possible for The Post to review every single movie that opening in New York City. The number of releases has single...
IN FLIGHT: JetBlue caves in
Off for Easter weekend...before I go, though -- did you get the email this morning? I'm talking about JetBlue's big announcement of "Even More Legroom" being available.For a couple more...
3 UP: Nats Rotation, Marlin Rotation, Bobby V.
1. The Nationalsâ rotation is projected to be Jason Bergmann, Shawn Hill, Odalis Perez, Tim Redding, and either Matt Chico or John Lannan. That is what the Nats are giving...
CHASE TO BUILD AND 'BEAR' IT
JPMorgan Chase will move ahead with building a tower at the World Trade Center, even though its plan to relocate its investment-banking headquarters to Ground Zero was scuttled by the...
CRANE CHECKER 'LIED'
A city inspector, charged with ensuring the safety of the giant crane whose catastrophic collapse killed seven people last Saturday, admitted that he lied about checking the equipment, authorities said...
GOV WINS LOVE IN POLLS, TOO
Gov. Paterson is riding a wave of positive sentiment as he a takes over the state, though his favorable numbers dipped slightly as news of his extramarital affairs went public,...
STATE OF DISGRACE: FEDS TAKE OVER PROBE
The ever-widening federal probe into former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's hooker hanky-panky has put the state's own investigation on ice, officials said yesterday. A spokesman for the state inspector general confirmed...
ELIOT'S SEXUAL HEALING
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has gone into therapy in the wake of the hooker scandal that swept him out of office, a Spitzer insider told The Post yesterday. As part...
DAVE'S FISHY $1,000 PAYOUT
Gov. Paterson's campaign-finance reports show he paid $1,000 to a woman who says she barely knows him, didn't work for him and never received any money, The Post has learned....
FDNY-WIDOW INDICT
An FDNY fire marshal's widow was indicted yesterday in the execution-style slaying of her husband as he slept in their troubled Staten Island home, law-enforcement sources said. A grand jury...
COP CUT 'WON'T HURT'
Crime in the city will continue falling even with fewer cops, Mayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday as he defended his demand of budget cuts from every city agency, including the NYPD....
ARAB PRINCIPAL LOSES APPEAL
The ousted founder of a controversial Arabic public school will not be getting her job back, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a...
EX-TRAINER FOR CLEMENS IN CAR CRASH
Brian McNamee, former personal trainer for steroid-scandal-scarred ex-Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens, passed out behind the wheel of his car and was in a head-on crash with a Queens bus yesterday,...
FIRE HEROES SAVE GRANNY, 3 KIDS
A blaze that trapped a grandmother and three children in their Brooklyn apartment yesterday did not end in tragedy, thanks to a heroic rescue by two firefighters. The four were...
NO TOT VISITS FOR JAILED 'HIT' WIFE
A Queens doctor charged with hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband lost a bid yesterday to have her 5-year-old daughter visit her at Rikers Island. In denying Mazoltuv...
'HE IS GOING TO SNAP'
Talk about a flagrant foul! The wife of crooked NBA ref Tim Donaghy is seeking a restraining order after he allegedly flew into a rage at their Florida home and...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Trains also skip 28th, 23rd and 18th streets in both directions. Take the 2 or the 3 train, which will run...
MSG RIPS SUIT OVER DEADLY DWI
Madison Square Garden officials scoffed at a lawsuit claiming the arena allowed an off-duty cop to get so drunk at a basketball game that he struck and killed a child...
PISTOL JAM IS DIVINE
A thug trying to steal a religious necklace off a man's neck in the East Village shoved a gun into the petrified victim's cheek and repeatedly pulled the trigger -...
SIR PAUL: WE CAN WORK IT OUT
Fresh from a rough divorce, Paul McCartney wants to let it be, reportedly vowing to stay friends with Heather Mills for the sake of their daughter. McCartney, 65, told pals...
SCHOOLS SPARED BUDGET WHACK
The Department of Education is bailing out 26 schools that couldn't cope with the midyear budget cuts enacted in January, officials testified yesterday. The schools, facing flagging student enrollment, citywide...
LONG I. RACIAL 'REVENGE'
A black Long Island family's pristine lawn was shredded in what police believe could be a racially motivated act of vandalism stemming from the lenient prison term given to another...
GAL-PAL SLAY RAP
A New Jersey man was arrested in Brooklyn yesterday and charged with killing his missing lover - last seen two days before the man dumped their year-old child in a...
1ST SHOT IN FEAR
An undercover cop who unleashed 11 of the 50 shots at Sean Bell and friends said he was "scared and nervous" moments before the shooting and that all he could...
'BRIBE' POL WANTED A 'LEGIT' LOOK
Diane Gordon wanted to "keep everything legit" as she hammered out a bribery deal that would score her a custom-built home, prosecutors charge. "You read a lot about politicians going...
ROLL CALL IN B'KLYN
Brooklyn's ready to roll again. Nearly a year after the last roller-skating palace closed, a Coney Island store owner-turned-activist is bringing the pastime back to the borough with a little...
FIEND GUILTY IN CAT KILLING
A sadistic Bronx man beat a cat with a chain while his two pit bulls mauled it - scaring the feline into the street, where it was fatally struck by...
'TIP OF ICEBERG' FOR MCGREEVEYS
Dina Matos McGreevey got her day off to a great start yesterday, taking daughter Jacqueline to school - before she and hubby Jim had their first court showdown since the...
CENTRAL PK. MUGGERS KNIFE MAN
Two vicious muggers stabbed and slashed a 23-year-old man in Central Park last night after grabbing his wallet and iPod, police sources said. The attack occurred at about 8:40 p.m....
26% SPIKE IN MURDERS
The city's murder rate is up a startling 26 percent over the same time period last year, according to police statistics. The figures show that 92 homicides have occurred within...
MAMI FROM THE BLOCK
Just call her J.Glow. New mom Jennifer Lopez beams as she cuddles twins Emme Maribel and Maximilian David for their first public bow. "You hear people say this all the...
HILLARY TAKES LEAD IN NATIONAL POLLS
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has snatched the national lead from Barack Obama and built a big advantage in Pennsylvania, where the next primary is being held, according to polls...
SNEAKS PEEKED AT OBAMA, CLINTON PASSPORT FILES
WASHINGTON - Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's passport files were breached, the State Dept. said. Reports surfaced last night that two State Dept. employees were fired for snooping at...
BAD NUDES
Looks like Ashley Dupre's bod isn't the only high-priced quarry in town - Playgirl magazine is inviting Eliot Spitzer to appear in the buff. "Your political career is sadly over,"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police yesterday released the photo above of an alleged rapist who attacked a teenager in a Brownsville housing project. The 5-foot-7 man pulled a knife and accosted a 19-year-old...
'O' WHAT A LUCKY BREAK THIS FELLOW IS GETTING
WASHINGTON - Call him Barack O'Bama - for he's got the luck of the Irish. The very week he faces his toughest obstacle ever - one that may still derail...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 764; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 3659; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 981; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 5102;...
BUT WHAT'S MIKE REALLY THINK?
"That is one of the stupider things I've ever heard. Are you kidding? It's insanity." - Mayor Bloomberg, reacting to a claim by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Bklyn.), a 2009 mayoral...
BUSTIN' BUSTA LOOSE
After multiple court appearances, recidivist rapper Busta Rhymes finally met "justice" Tuesday. Yeah, right. The performer, whose real name is Trevor Smith, was formally sentenced to three years' probation and...
DON'T CUT COPS
City Hall's money troubles are set to shrink the size of the NYPD to its lowest level in 15 years, says Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Even at a time of...
IRAQ PLUS FIVE: WHAT WENT RIGHT
JUDGING by the way much of the Western media is dealing with the Iraq War's fifth anniversary, we're still fighting the acrimonious debates of 2002 and early 2003. Focusing on...
OBAMA'S CHUTZPAH
IN his hour of political need,Barack Obama went to his base - the media. He delivered a speech about the nation's racial divisions that couldn't possibly get anything but lavish...
HEAVY HITTER? NOT HILLARY
NOW that Hillary Clinton's schedule as first lady has been released, her near-total lack of serious involvement in the real inner workings of the government is bluntly apparent. There are...
UN-FREE SPEECH
THE Supreme Court can do much today to remove the McCain-Fein gold speech-regulation law's stain if it decides to hear the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It...
OBAMA THE ORATOR - VS. WRIGHT AND WRONG
THE ISSUE: Sen. Barack Obama's speech about the Rev. Wright and race in America. The courage that Sen. Barack Obama showed in choosing to write and deliver his brilliant speech...
OFF THE STREET
Goldman Sachs, having weathered the worst of the subprime crisis, is planning to cut up to 15 percent of the workforce in its capital markets and related support units -...
NEWS CORP. MULLS ALLIANCE WITH NEWSDAY
News Corp. is in talks with Sam Zell to explore a possible strategic alliance with Newsday, sources close to the situation said. Zell, the Chicago real estate magnate who took...
GOLDMAN'S NEW 'LIST'
FORBES magazine, which has lost two top editors to cable TV in recent months, has now lost the editor who compiles its popular Celebrity 100 list. Lea Goldman, a senior...
ANALYST: BANKING CRISIS IS ENDING
Although he's known to change his mind overnight, banking analyst Richard Bove is now saying just what Wall Street wants to hear - that the banking crisis is over. Bove,...
BORDERLINE PLAY
Cash-strapped retailer Borders put itself up for sale, stoking speculation that activist investor Bill Ackman is looking to merge the battered book chain with its larger rival, Barnes & Noble....
NO PLACE FOR DISNEY
Children's Place shareholders yesterday had the same reaction to the company exiting the Disney Store business as they did when it acquired the retail chain four years ago - a...
GIBSON LAWSUIT WIDENS BATTLE WITH ACTIVISION
Gibson Guitar Corp. is demanding in a new lawsuit that a half-dozen major retailers pull all copies of the "Guitar Hero" series from their shelves as part of a widening...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Pennsylvania man "went berserk" and killed his wife - for turning off the TV. Thomas Gay Wickerham, 58, shot and killed his wife in front of their children after...
BASEBALL FOR BREAKFAST
The Mets' road to the 2000 World Series started with two games in Japan against the Cubs. The Red Sox will open in the same place as those Mets, but...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... JOHNNY MILLER
TIGER Woods puts his five PGA tournament winning streak on the line this weekend at Doral. NBC analyst Johnny Miller talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about Woods' chances of...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: Steelers release Wilson The Steelers have released veteran wide receiver Cedrick Wilson, who was charged yesterday with assaulting his former girlfriend. "We're extremely disappointed with this incident," Steelers chairman...
MERRY CHRIS-MISS, GOLF FANS
DON'T worry. Be happy. This past October, from the moment ESPN announced it had entered the mix to televise the Masters, the fear and loathing among golf fans in anticipation...
GROWLIN' TIGER
MIAMI - If you observed Tiger Woods' face and body language and listened to the tone of his voice following yesterday's opening round of the WGC-CA Championship at Doral you...
DAVIDSON PUTS STREAK ON LINE
RALEIGH - There is no closer, loyal and more nurturing family in athletics than the New York City basketball coaching fraternity. Before Bob McKillop, a Queens native who is now...
WITH DAD ON PAROLE, UNC'S GREEN PLAYS ON
Danny Green Sr. talked of a perfect ending to this season. He would be sitting in the stands at the Alamodome on April 7, watching his son, Danny Jr., play...
GONZAGA: BULLDOGS WITH BITE
BEFORE this week, around these parts, Davidson was the name of a legendary former Ranger goaltender. Nowadays, it's the NCAA sweetheart pick. There's one every year, isn't there? Whether it's...
'NOVA AT 12 LOOKS LIKE CINDERELLA
TAMPA - Jay Wright has heard all about the NCAA Tournament trend of No. 12 seeds beating No. 5 seeds through the years - but this time he wants to...
DUKE SURVIVES
WASHINTON - Duke escaped a second straight first-round tournament embarrassment - barely. Not until Justin Hare's last-ditch 35-foot heave was just wide left could the second-seeded Blue Devils exhale, and...
WEST VA. WHIPS 'ZONA
WASHINGTON - First-year West Virginia coach Bob Huggins proved legendary author Thomas Wolfe wrong. He not only went home again, but he got his alma mater back into the NCAA...
IRISH TAKE ALL THE FIGHT OUT OF GEORGE MASON
DENVER - Big East eyes were smilin' again last night when Notre Dame, playing as if haunted by last year's first-round elimination by Winthrop, made corned beef and cabbage out...
FIELDS OF DREAMS
DENVER - Levance Fields is a compact 5-foot-10, 190 pounds, and his braids flow over a white headband, and he chews gum, and his baby face is partially covered by...
BEASLEY GOES WILD
OMAHA, Neb. - What the old coach saw was enough to bring a smile to his face, enough to invite color to his cheeks and bring a bounce back to...
DEVILS HOPE TO BOUNCE BACK
This game is precisely the sort the Devils must win if they're hoping to claim the Eastern Conference title. Failure would be another calamity. Still rocked by losing their sixth...
DOLAN GIVES ISIAH PEP TALK
Knicks owner James Dolan made a rare visit to the team's practice facility Wednesday to partake in team pictures. In his talk with Thomas, Dolan must have said something to...
RANDOLPH MUST GO FOR LEBRON TO FIT IN
One of the goals of the new Knick administration likely will be to get under the salary cap after 2009-2010 to have a crack at LeBron James. And the only...
LOOKING FOR THE NEW ISIAH
CONTRARY to reports pertaining to the prospective hiring of Kiki Vandeweghe, no matter who replaces Isiah Thomas as Knicks president, there is no way, not a fleck of a fragment...
IT'S TIME TO REGISTER
PORT ST. LUCIE - Don't be fooled by the big-market status or the NL's richest payroll. The Mets are just as willing as the Pirates and Royals of the world...
SANTANA HAVING 'DOUBLE' THE FUN
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Orioles went down so quietly against Johan Santana last night that the only drama was provided by Santana's bat. The Mets' ace left-hander looked as...
NETS HOPE HISTORYREPEATS ITSELF
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, some sage person once said. The Nets gladly will claim they've flunked recent history lessons if they can...
RANGERS READY TO ROLL
Fresh from stretching one streak, their unbeaten first six against the Devils, the Rangers can make it two straight seasons of utter triumph in Philadelphia when the visit the Flyers...
HELD FOR RANSOM
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Are the Yankees better served by Cody Ransom's ability to play shortstop if Derek Jeter goes down or having Morgan Ensberg to DH against lefties? That's the...
BETTER JOBA
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Joba Chamberlain's pedestrian spring came to an earsplitting finish yesterday at Knology Park. Officially shifted from starter to reliever the day before, Chamberlain responded by looking like...
SHTICK AROUND FOR MASON
AFTER 20-something years, it's hard to imag ine a season or two without a new Jackie Mason show. But the comic swears that "Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew" will be...
WHEN REHEARSALS GO UNDERGROUND
IF laughter is truly more valuable than gold, then the massive under ground bank vaults at 14 Wall St. have never held a more precious commodity. Since January, the empty...
WHEN VERDI MET CITY
FOR now, Lincoln Center offers a rare chance to sample cheek-by-jowl Giu seppe Verdi from start (well, almost start) to finish: with "Ernani" (1844) at the Met, and his final...
'FENCES' CAN'T HOLD O
THEY'RE being tight-lipped about casting for the fall revival of August Wilson's powerful drama "Fences," but word is that flirtations have begun with Laurence Fishburne, Mos Def and Anthony Mackie....
STARR REPORT
"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty and Paul La Rosa, the newsmag's pro ducer, will be at The Mysteri ous Bookshop (58 Warren St.) Tuesday (6:30 p.m.) to promote their new...
OVER FOR OVERMYER
FOR someone who was just booted off "American Idol" in front of 26 million people watching at home, Amanda Overmyer didn't sound very disappointed yesterday. "[It] wasn't the most traumatic...
FOUR-TOED 'LOST' STATUE WAS TOO CREEPY
THE mystery of the four-toed statue on "Lost" has been solved - sort of. Under questioning this week at a panel in LA, Damon Lindelof, the show's main producer, says...
OH, BROTHERS!
THE Jonas Brothers are going to be on TV more often than "Law & Order" - if things keep up at this pace. The wildly popular brothers band - from...
OBAMA PASTOR TOUR HIT
Barack Obama's recent round of TV inter views dealing with the fall out from his pastor eruption is a ratings sensation. The audiences for ABC's "Nightline," CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360"...
LIGHTWEIGHT LAUGHS
A 40-year-old carpenter takes up boxing and tries to qualify for the Olympics in the middle weight comedy "The Ham mer." Adam Carolla of "The Man Show" (and "Dancing With...
MY SHODDYGUARD
The last time I saw this much talent in a losing cause was Super Bowl XLII. Trying to mix farce with heart, "Drillbit Taylor" is instead as soulful as Kenny...
IRINA PALM
NOT all sex workers are as glam orous as the one in the Spitzer scandal. Take the matronly title character of Sam Garbarski's "Irina Palm," whose stage name comes from...
THE GRAND
THE sort of half-baked vanity proj ect favored by the Tribeca Film Festival (this one premiered there last year), Zak Penn's "The Grand" features a slew of recognizable faces in...
FRENCH KISS AND TELL
TWO'S company, three's a crowd - except in French films. In "Jules et Jim" (1961), Francois Truffaut beguiled us with the story of two men who agree to share the...
POISONED BY POLONIUM THE LITVINENKO FILE
RUSSIAN ex-spy Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko was as sassinated by radiation poison slipped into his tea in London in 2006. Filmmaker and friend Andre Nekrasov, who had filmed many hours of...
HEARTBEAT DETECTOR
AT a huge European industrial firm, a corporate shrink (Mathieu Amalric of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") is asked to launch a secret investigation of the company's own CEO...
BOARDING GATE
EVEN an ultra-feral performance by Asia Argento - the art house Angelina Jolie - isn't enough to suffer through "Boarding Gate," a draggy and incoherent thriller by French director Oliver...
PLANET B-BOY
THE break-dancing documen tary "Planet B-Boy" proves that what might be (but probably isn't) worth five minutes of your time while you're passing through the Times Square subway station really...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
THE BEAT GOES ON IN BROOKLYN March 21 - Jazz A Brooklyn Music Festival heats up the Tea Lounge (837 Union St., Park Slope, Brooklyn; [718] 789-2762), beginning tonight with...
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
DOWNTOWN POKER CLUB: Sounding more like "downtown" New Orleans than anywhere else, this collective of NYC jam-band veterans should be good for a full house Sunday night at 8. B.B....
JAZZ
BIRDLAND:Tuesday through March 29: Ravi Coltrane Quartet. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE:Tuesday through March 30: Spyro Gyra. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Tuesday...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Kurt Masur leads the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir through Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; (212) 875-5656. CARNEGIE...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE: Through April 12: Barbara Cook. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Tomorrow: Baby Jane Dexter at 7:30 p.m. 3 W. 22nd St.; (212) 206-4400. OAK ROOM:...
DANCE
BAM: The Afro-Brazilian ensemble Grupo Corpo combines jazz, ballet and modern dance in a program running Tuesday through March 29. Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave.; (718) 636-4100. DANCE...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Before Spencer Williams became known as Andy from the "Amos 'n' Andy" TV show, he directed rather serious films like "The Blood of Jesus" (1941), "Go Down,...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
EGGS-STRA EGGS-TRA: From noon to 4 p.m. tomorrow, kids 18 months and older search for eggs and treats at the South Street Seaport, where the Wall Street Church also provides...
PREVIEWS
"CRY-BABY": John Waters' flick about a '50s rebel, now a musical. Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway; (212) 307- 1400. Opens April 24. "GYPSY": Patti LuPone as the ultimate stage mother. St....
Sanchez: Back-to-back next week
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Duaner Sanchez threw 11 pitches in one inning of work Thursday night but said he wonât attempt to throw in back-to-back games until next week -â...
Santana rolls in next-to-last start
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Like John Maine the night before, Johan Santana can't wait for the regular season to get here.The Orioles went down so quietly against Santana on Thursday...
Forbes Fires Roger As Trainer
Forbes fires Roger, hires Jeff Mayweather. Is Floyd happy now? Apparently, one Mayweather is as good as another. Steve Forbes ,looking to distance himself from another brewing Mayweather family feud,...
Shilstone Good Fit For B-Hop
Fitness guru Mackie Shilstone will help prepare Bernard Hopkins for his April 19 fight with unbeaten Joe Calzaghe. BY GEORGE WILLISWhen Bernard Hopkins approached Mackie Shilstone about working with him...