March 28, 2008
RED BULLS lineup for preseason finale
By BRIAN LEWISThe Red Bulls are playing their preseason finale tonight, and after looking at the starting midfield, boy reinforcements can't arrive soon enough.While the rest of MLS opens this...
New NASCAR 09 screenshots
Reed Sorenson (Target) and Kyle Busch (M&M) Busch and Jeff Gordon (24 car, behind him)
3 DOWN: Yank Long Relief, Stanton and Kershaw
1. I wonder if the Yanks are doing the right thing by trying to force feed a long reliever onto the staff, in this case either Darrell Rasner or Kei...
See? They Can Score
By FRED KERBERAsk some Nets what they have learned about Devin Harris and you hear things like they knew he was quick but didn't realize HOW quick or as Lawrence...
Season over/unders
Here's a look at betting over/under totals for the Mets this season, along with other odds, courtesy of Bodog (www.BodogLife.com): Odds to win World Series: 9/2Odds to win National League:...
Gotay claimed by Braves
FORT LAUDERDALE â- The Mets lost infielder Ruben Gotay to the rival Braves this afternoon as part of a host of moves.Gotay was claimed by Atlanta after being put on...
Season over/unders
Here's a look at betting over/under totals for the Yankees this season, along with other odds, courtesy of Bodog (www.BodogLife.com): Odds to win World Series: 7/1Odds to win American League:...
El Duque gets the upper hand
FORT LAUDERDALE â- A running blog of todayâs split start between Orlando Hernandez and Mike Pelfrey here against the Orioles that was expected to decide the Metsâ No. 5 starting...
Ice roads, trucks and polar bears
The Polar Bear is on the ice and pulling 100,000 lbs.of heavy metal behind him.Hugh Rowland, nicknamed after the great white beasts that roam the desolate lands here at the...
Spotted: Serena van der Woodson
"Gossip Girl" returns to the NYC streets to finish filming the long-awaited remainder of The CW hit show's first season.Click here for photos of Serena.Click here to see the rest...
Lo Duca won't catch Bush
The Washington Times reports that Nationals manager Manny Acta, not catcher Paul Lo Duca, will catch the ceremonial first pitch from President Bush as the Nationals open their new stadium...
END OF FLORIDA FUN
Today brings the Florida portion of my schedule to a close. Iâve been in the Sunshine State since Feb. 10, except for a three-day break.The weather is perfect today and...
Can you say JabbaWockeez?
"American Idol" judge Randy Jackson visits his other reality show, "America's Best Dance Crew," to congratulate winning dance crew the JabbaWockeez."Saved by the Bell" alum Mario Lopez hosts.
Neverending GTA:IV frenzy
New trailer for the game! Check it out! This one's called "Good Lord, what are you doing?" (Love it.) Rockstar's also announced that they'll be launching a new Web site...
Box Office Preview: Low-Grade Spring Fever
Meanwhile, "Stop-Loss'' Kimberly Pierce's belated followup to "Boys Don't Cry'' seems poised to become the latest Iraq war-related flick to be cold-shouldered by audiences -- despite a bait-and-switch marketing campaign...
Cheating the Fans!
Sarah Wayne Callies as Dr. Tancredi Earlier this year it was announced that "24" fan-favorite Tony Almeida would be returning from the dead to take the bad guy role in...
Starr Report: Library of Hope
The US Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on renaming the island's third-floor library The Bob Hope Memorial Library. "We expect it to pass," says attorney Norman Liss, who also...
3 UP: Canseco, Redman and Dumb Nat Acts
1. Pat Jordan has done so much brilliant writing on baseball, and you can add this piece he did on his attempt to interview Jose Canseco. Look, a bunch of...
LIVEBLOG: All aboard the new $1 bus
Boltbus -- it's the one with the giant bolt on it. Waaaaaah -â I have to take a bus to DC and itâs painted like a creepy Disney cartoon. Waaaaah...
NO WHERE TO GO BUT UP
From the pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building , we love tall buildings, Read about these architectural marvels that define the New York skyline. BY the early 1900s,...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... JERRY TARKANIAN
TOWEL-biting, rule-breaking Jerry Tarkanian, who hosts the "Shark Tank" on Sirius Radio, talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about the NCAA Tournament, which Tarkanian won as coach of the undefeated...
OPENING DAY ON DECK FOR FISHERMEN, TOO
NEXT week marks the start of New York's fishing season for both the salt and sweetwater crowds. The winter flounder season opens on Tuesday along with the start of the...
TIGHT STORM ROLLS HOME
War Pass, champion 2-year-old who suffered his first defeat finishing dead last in March 15 Tampa Bay Derby, had his first work since that shocker yesterday, breezing half-mile in sharp...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Wilson leads Zurich Classic Dean Wilson birdied three of the last four holes in windy conditions for a 6-under 66 and a one-stroke lead after the first round of...
HONDO: SAY CHEESE!
It was easy pickin' last night for Hondo, who breezed with Carolina over the Cougars to vault back into the black with 30 tisdales in the account. Tonight, he expects...
PAVLIK CARRYING 'HEAVY' BURDEN
KELLY PAVLIK dropped a nugget at the end of a press conference yesterday that outlined how he envisions the rest of his boxing career. He wants to finish undefeated and...
TITANS AREN'T SINKING
It was 9:30 the night before the biggest game of the season, and Ryan Boyle sat in the second row of aluminum bleachers waiting for his turn on the trainer's...
RU SET 'FOUR' LIFE AFTER RAY
PISCATAWAY - Rutgers is basking in arguably the most successful era in its 138-year football history, the first time it has ever played in three straight bowl games. But departed...
LINCOLN'S STATEN IN ELITE COMPANY
In less than four months, Khalif Staten will be on the campus of the University of Iowa, likely learning the finer points of playing linebacker at the Big Ten school....
LIFE'S A DRAG-ON
Former Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi used to say that the most important player on a football team, besides the starting quarterback, is the backup quarterback. Rohan Davey found that...
NCAA REGIONALS RAISE THE COURT
DETROIT - Smack in the middle of a football stadium, 27 inches above the 50-yard line, sits a basketball court. Don't adjust your HDTV set - this is the future...
CITY SLICKERS
"The playgrounds and the parks and the schoolyards in New York really hone your skills, but more than anything, they make you competitive and force you to develop that stay-on...
'HORNS HELPED BY HOME COOKIN'
Each day during The Dance, Tim Sullivan offers his Best Bets: IF you're Rick Barnes, you can't ask for much more of an opportunity than his Texas Longhorns have in...
LITTLE BIG MEN
DETROIT - There is David son, and there is Goliath, and it sure is fun being Davidson these days. "I was walking to class up the hill - my apartment's...
HEELS BEAT TAR OUT OF WAZZU
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Question: If a team never has to leave its home state, can it still say it earned its way into the Final Four? The Tar Heels are...
CARD SHARKS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rick Pitino knew he irked Earl Clark, his skinny sophomore forward, by yanking him early in last night's game against Tennessee. "I took him out and told...
LOSING IS NOT THE 'DEVIL WAY'
The Devils took the first syllable of deadline too literally. They've been staggering since. The five-game losing streak they bring to Newark tonight against the Flyers is their worst since...
GREAT SCOTT!
Scott Gomez was no hero last night in bringing his sprained ribs onto the Garden ice against the Devils just six days after careening into the rear wall in Philadelphia....
COLES AGREES TO EXTENSION
The Jets, after spending some $140 million in free agent contracts this offseason on players who have never worn their uniform, yesterday took care of one of their most respected,...
'LOST' CAUSE
If president-in-waiting Donnie Walsh ever gets to town and takes a poll of the Knicks locker room, he'll find a familiar Garden refrain: "Fire Isiah." According to one Knick player,...
DONNIE ON THE SPOT
DONNIE WALSH is not even in the building and his reputation already is damaged. Clearly, all these geniuses in the media applauding his forthcoming hiring as Knicks boss must, in...
THE HUMAN ERASER
Johan Santana's first start in a Met uniform comes 182 days too late to save them from their 2007 collapse. But his arrival in 2008 may prevent another collapse happening...
RADIO GIG WILL MAKE WAGNER A SHOCK JOCK
YOU read it here first: ESPN 1050 Radio has signed Billy Wagner to a weekly say-for-pay spot on Michael Kay's late-afternoon show, and that, by no later than Aug. 15,...
METS ARE READY FOR REAL THING
PORT ST. LUCIE - There is an eerie feeling to the final hours of spring training, a loneliness to the locker room that bears the unmistakable whiff of last call:...
DUQUE CAN NAIL DOWN FIVE SPOT
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets expect to make Orlando Hernandez their No. 5 starter if El Duque shows he is healthy today in his final Grapefruit League start, a...
TATIS HAS SHOT AT REDEMPTION
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets are one step closer to letting Fernando Tatis clear his name. The veteran appears poised to grab one of the Mets' final roster spots...
RJ: KIDD SAGA WAS THORN IN NETS' SIDE
This Nets' season won't be defined by whether the team makes the playoffs as much as it will for the Jason Kidd saga. That became abundantly clear again yesterday when...
JOE'S REUNION
TAMPA - Dumped by the ugly duckling less than two years ago, Joe Girardi returns to Dolphin Stadium tonight with the prom queen on his arm. Despite keeping the young...
PETTITTE TO GET START IN MINORS
TAMPA - With an eye on starting next Friday or Saturday against the Rays at Yankee Stadium, Andy Pettitte will throw in the bullpen today and face minor league hitters...
THE BOSS' BIG DAY
TAMPA - This was George Steinbrenner's day. He received a standing ovation from the 10,719 fans and his Yankees as he rode around the field that was renamed in his...
BAWLING REMY IS GUILTY
Tough-gal rapper Remy Ma's gangsta image melted in tears yesterday after she was convicted of shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. "Oh, my God! My son! My son!" she...
ECO-FRIENDLY PA
The Port Authority is going green. The bi-state agency announced plans yesterday to make all of its operations "carbon neutral" by 2010. First, it will reduce energy consumption and carbon-dioxide...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
A Queens-bound trains run express from Hoyt-Schermerhorn to Utica Avenue. Free shuttle buses replace trains between Far Rockaway and Beach 90th Street from 11 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday....
BARACK BEHIND THE PLAN
Barack Obama yesterday had supportive words for the plan to charge drivers to enter Manhattan's business districts . "I think Mayor Bloomberg's proposal for congestion pricing is a thoughtful and...
CITY JUMPS THE GUN ON 'CONGEST' JOBS
The city is already seeking résumés for high-paying gigs with its congestion-pricing initiative - despite the fact it might never be approved. And, according to the salaries being offered, drivers...
GIULIANI WEIGHING 'SPECIAL' RUN FOR GOV
In the latest twist in New York politics, Rudy Giuliani is eyeing a run for governor in a special election this fall should Gov. Paterson be forced to resign, sources...
NYU FALLS IN EYES OF HOPEFULS
The dream is over. New York University's three-year run as the No. 1 "dream" school for college-bound students has been derailed, according to survey rankings released yesterday. Harvard, Princeton and...
JUDGE CHEWS ON CALORIE RULE
The clock has been stopped on the city's controversial calorie-counting rule for popular chain restaurants. Manhattan federal Judge Richard Holwell yesterday barred the Health Department until April 14 from enforcing...
BATTY BOMBER & 'BRIDEZILLA'
Godzilla put down the bat so he could pick up a ball and chain. Yankee slugger Hideki Matsui secretly stole back to New York in the middle of Florida spring...
ELIOT-PROBE DA'S; 'GRAND' ILLUSION
ALBANY - Albany County District Attorney David Soares misled the public by suggesting - as recently as Monday - that a grand jury is probing the Dirty Tricks Scandal, when...
QUICK ACTION
The wheels of justice aren't always slow - a Manhattan judge yesterday used a day-old law to toss a landlord's bid to boot tenants. The new law, passed by the...
TWO CRANES ARE SIDELINED
Two construction cranes were shut down on the Upper West Side yesterday after inspectors determined they didn't have proper permits. At 80 Riverside Blvd., a 41-story residential project, inspectors stopped...
5% SPENDING HIKE NEAR IN STATE BUDGET
ALBANY - Despite what Gov. Paterson says is now a recession, he and legislative leaders yesterday announced the framework of a state budget agreement that would increase spending by nearly...
KRAZY KOP KO'D
A cop wannabe with "a fear of dead people" shouldn't be in the NYPD - despite what the city's Civil Service Commission says. That's the finding of Manhattan Supreme Court...
MOBSTER'S LAWYER KID OFF CASE
Gambino family consigliere Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo is in the market for a new attorney after a Brooklyn federal judge threw the gangster's lawyer son off his case. "I make...
B'KLYN HS GUN-PANIC LOCKDOWN
Cops surrounded a Brooklyn high school and kept it under a two-hour lockdown yesterday after students saw a gun fall from a teen's backpack, sources said. Students began running and...
'MADAM' LINK TO DC VIXEN
The former Senate aide who scandalously blogged about sleeping with Washington, DC's elite for cash - and later posed nude for Playboy - is among the inner circle of a...
DA, 'HONCH-HO' TO TALK SPITZER
Manhattan prosecutors will convene a "secret summit" today with alleged madam Kristin Davis and her lawyer - and disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will be discussed, The Post has learned....
BELL WAS BLIND IN RIGHT EYE: DOC
Sean Bell was legally blind in his right eye and might not have been able to see undercover cops walk up to his car just before they let loose a...
DE$PERATE CITY RECONSIDERS CONEY BUILDER
With time running out on Mayor Bloomberg's dream of rebuilding Coney Island, the city is now looking to bring a controversial developer back into the plan to build America's largest...
HILLARY JOINS AUX-COP BID
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday joined Sen. Charles Schumer in urging the feds to reconsider their "unjust" decision denying death benefits to the families of two auxiliary cops slain in...
GARDEN: WE'RE NOT MOVING
Madison Square Garden isn't going anywhere. Long-sought plans to relocate the sports and entertainment arena and build a grand train station in its place came to a halt yesterday when...
$MACK FOR CITY IN SI FERRY CRASH
A federal appeals court slammed the city yesterday for trying to skimp on payments to victims of the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash, blaming negligent management for the tragedy that...
SEX RAP FOR GAL TEACHER
A Long Island high-school teacher has been busted and charged with raping her 16-year-old math student, police said. Heather Kennedy, 25, who teaches at Wantagh HS, had sex with the...
PIER 40 PLAN DEEP-SIXED
Hudson River Park officials yesterday shelved a controversial plan to build a $625 million performing-arts complex - including a home for Cirque du Soleil - on Manhattan's decaying Pier 40....
HI-RISE HELL FIRE
An elderly man was fighting for his life early today following a fire that injured 20 people in a lower Manhattan high-rise. The 83-year-old victim went into cardiac arrest when...
'POLLUTE' SUIT VS. COLUMBIA
The owner of a warehouse in the crosshairs of Columbia University's expansion plans filed suit yesterday, calling the school's designs an environmental disaster in the making. Nick Sprayregen, whose Tuck-It-Away...
BUNGLE SETS FRUIT-LOOPY THIEF FREE
Raul De Jesus Jr. - a cocaine addict with the unnerving habit of snacking on his burglary victims' fresh fruit before making off with their valuables - should have been...
'KOZYING UP TO BRITS
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model wife, Carla Bruni, have been the toast of Britain during a two-day diplomatic romp across the channel. The couple spent yesterday with Prime...
WAILS SHATTER TIBET 'PEACE'
LHASA, China - A group of monks shouting that there is no religious freedom disrupted a carefully orchestrated visit for foreign reporters to Tibet's capital yesterday, an embarrassment for China...
MIKE & OBAMA IN NY LOVEFEST
Mayor Bloomberg gave a boost to Barack Obama on Hillary Rodham Clinton's home turf yesterday, lavishing a warm introduction on the Democratic front-runner, who was here to deliver a speech...
MUSIC BIG HANDED PI COOL 135G
LOS ANGELES - A famed music producer and longtime pal of Anthony Pellicano told jurors yesterday he hired the indicted gumshoe to wiretap his son-in-law. Freddy DeMann, Madonna's former manager,...
VETS SNIPE AT CLINTON'S LIES
Veterans who saw their lives flash before their eyes in the jungles of Vietnam and the bloodstained beaches at Iwo Jima are baffled at how Hillary Rodham Clinton could concoct...
BARACK: I'D HIKE CAPITAL-GAINS TAX
Barack Obama yesterday said he'd raise the capital-gains tax as president - but softened his estimate on how much it would go up. "I haven't given a firm number," Obama...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
ManhattanPolice yesterday were searching for the East Side bank robber pictured above. The thief confronted a teller in the Wachovia branch at Madison Avenue and East 54th Street at 5:40...
HAS-BEEN HILL STILL IGNORING THE INEVITABLE
RALEIGH, NC - Hillary Rodham Clinton trails Barack Obama by every reasonable measure, and it's become obvious to nearly everyone that she has virtually no hope of winning the nomination....
LOTTER
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 626; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 1441; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 264; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 5275;...
SHE DESERVES FAR WORSE
The '70s-era radical terrorist Sara Jane Olson was sent back to prison last week after California officials realized they'd paroled her a year too early. Now her lawyers are demanding...
THE BASRA SURPRISE
Well, no one ever said it wasn't a war. Iraqi forces moved this week to re assert Baghdad's control over the southern port city of Basra, which has been in...
WAITING FOR JUSTICE
If the families of Nicholas Pekearo and Eugene Marshalik - the auxiliary police officers cut down last March while pursuing a crazed gunman - ever receive justice from Washington, it...
GOP ACHILLES HEEL
DENVER CHEERED as Republicans may be by the Clinton-Obama wars, the fact is that long-term trends still favor the Democrats this fall. To see the problem, consider the interior West...
A TAX WELL WORTH CUTTING
A MAJOR strategist in John McCain's campaign was asked privately this week whether his candidate might propose cutting the payroll tax. "Yes," came the reply. "No problem. Not a big...
LIFE IN A TIME OF ROCKET ATTACKS
SDEROT, ISRAEL LARISSA is distraught. She pulls one packet of pills out of her pocketbook, then another - and a third. "This is my breakfast, my lunch, my dinner," she...
POWER POLITICS
WHEN a state panel nixed a 5-year-old plan for a Brooklyn power plant last week, it drew scant notice. Who'd complain, after all - so long as the lights are...
DON'T LUMP BUSH WITH HILL AND BAM
THE ISSUE: Whether politicians truly care about the 4,000 troops who've died in Iraq. To those of us cosseted comfortably in America, Ralph Peters offers a sophisticated view, informed by...
NY GIANTS TAKE A HIT FROM CREDIT CRUNCH
Even Eli Manning and his Super Bowl heroes can't stop America's credit crisis menace from spoiling their game. The Giants are the latest victims of the big money madness that's...
CAYNE DUMPS STOCK
One-time billionaire Jimmy Cayne has cut and run - carrying a paltry $61.1 million payoff. The departing chief of Bear Stearns had been the rallying symbol of resistance to the...
SOURING ON SWEDES
A year after Swedish publishing giant Bonnier Group acquired Time Inc.'s Time 4 Media operation, unrest still reigns among the newcomers. According to people familiar with the situation, former Time...
STREET THINKS DEAL WILL CLEAR
Shares of radio giant Clear Channel Communications jumped 10 percent yesterday as investors grew confident that the Wall Street banks will ultimately be forced to finance the $27 billion takeover...
CLICKS CLUNKER
Google is suffering "paid-click" pains again. Shares of the Internet giant slipped after research firm comScore found that Google's paid-click growth - or the number of times people click on...
RINGTONE SALES FIZZLING OUT
The beleaguered music industry got more bad news yesterday when a report showed that sales of ring tones - once one of the few areas of meaningful revenue growth in...
BLACK'S SEEING RED
Billionaire Leon Black's investment in Linens 'n Things is showing more ugly stains from the housing meltdown. As shoppers rein in home-related spending amid the crisis, the Clifton, NJ-based chain...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
You can lead a horse to water, but can you get a fish to catch itself? Scientists are trying to train fish to swim into a net when they hear...
EVERYTHING'S BRIGHT LIGHTS AND LOLLIPOPS
IN truth, no one was ever born to do anything - except bawl their lungs out - but Patti LuPone comes pretty damn close as Momma Rose in Jule Styne's...
CLUNKY, HISTORIC 'COLUMN' DOESN'T HOLD UP
THE Mint Theater has a long, commendable history in res urrecting lost plays - but sometimes the back stories are more interesting than the actual works. That's the case with...
EASTERN 'DREAMGIRLS'
THE original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" played its out-of-town try out in Boston. The upcoming revival is going out of town as well - 6,883 miles out of town. The...
WEB OF INTRIGUE SURROUNDS 'TUDORS' PREMIERE
FANS of Showtime's "The Tudors" can catch Sunday's season opener online - but only if they're Showtime subscribers. Although Showtime has advertised that it will provide the second-season "Tudors"premiere on...
IDENTITY CRISIS
IN 2006, the world was stunned by a case of mistaken identity that arose out of an impossible set of circumstances. The horror began when a group of college students...
OBAMA ON THE COUCH
Barack Obama said he's "skinny, but tough" - and discussed his controversial pastor during an appearance on "The View" taped yesterday. It will air today (11 a.m./Ch. 7). "You know,...
STARR REPORT
Library of Hope It looks like the late Bob Hope is about to leave a last ing impression on Ellis Island - where he and millions of other immigrants landed...
CHIKEZIE DOES IT
'AMERICAN Idol's" Chikezie Eze, better known as just "Chikezie," says he wasn't surprised at being voted off the show Wednesday. "I knew I was going to be in the bottom...
LOST IN THE SHUFFLE
The fascinating story of six college students who took Las Vegas for millions gets dealt a bad hand in "21," which turns their true-life saga into a slick, shallow and...
LATEST DEMI CHORE: BLAME IT ON BOTOX
DEMI Moore's face actually shows some expression for the first time in years in the opening scene of her latest abortive comeback vehicle, the slack heist caper "Flawless." Unfortunately, that's...
LOVE IS BITTERSWEAT
SUGGESTION: When making a film called "Run Fat Boy Run," how about hiring a fat boy? Watching a scrawny guy run doesn't provide a lot more comedic surprise than "Run...
PHONY LOOK AT HOW THE CATCHER WENT AWRY
STARTING the clock on the assassination of John Lennon when Mark David Chapman arrives in New York from Hawaii makes "Chapter 27" a movie about a guy standing in front...
DRIVES YOU UP AWOL
AFTER five years of news footage and documentaries coming from the war in Iraq, "Stop-Loss" is as phony as a re-enactment with finger pup pets. "Stop-Loss" is a highly patriotic...
CAPPING A CARRER
JYLL Johnstone's irresistible "Hats Off" documents Mimi Weddell, a Manhat tanite who, at 93, has pretty much cornered the market playing elegant, very old ladies in movies, TV, commercials and...
MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD
'MY Brother Is an Only Child" is a politically charged family drama set in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s - think "The Best of Youth" (director Daniele Luchetti collaborated...
THE COOL SCHOOL
WE tend to think of New York as synonymous with contemporary art, so it's surprising to learn in "The Cool School" that Andy Warhol had his first exhibition (32 Campbell...
SHOTGUN STORIES
AS a general rule, I avoid rec ommending movies with brothers named Son, Boy and Kid. But I'll make a qualified exception for "Shotgun Stories," which pits the sibs against...
PRICELESS
IF you're planning to see "Price less" because you remember its star, Audrey Tatou, from "Amelie," take note: This time, the French actress bears little resemblance to the effervescent waif...
BACKSEAT
TWO unemployed Manhattan slackers (Rob Bogue and Josh Alexander) hit the road to Montreal hoping to meet Donald Sutherland in Bruce Van Dusen's sporadically funny, micro-budgeted indie comedy "Backseat." Alexander's...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES March 29 - Magic Pulling a rabbit out of a hat? Easy. Making magic entert aining? Now that's a trick. Presented by The Society of American...
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
LA LA BROOKS: The former Crystals ("Then He Kissed Me," "Da Doo Run Run") singer performs tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. at The Cutting Room, 19 W. 24th St.; (212) 691-1900....
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Tonight and tomorrow: Ravi Coltrane Quartet. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Spyro Gyra. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Through Sunday:...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Violinist Pinchas Zukerman performs Copland's Symphony No. 3 and Elgar's Violin Concerto today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; (212) 875-5656. Brooklyn Museum: The Brooklyn Philharmonic...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE: Through April 12: Barbara Cook. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S: Tonight: Cristina Fontanelli at 8:30 p.m. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Sunday: Lucy Shropshire...
DANCE
BAM: The Afro-Brazilian ensemble Grupo Corpo combines jazz, ballet and modern dance in a program tonight and tomorrow. Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave.; (718) 636-4100. JOYCE THEATER: The...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES:Through Sunday, Albert Brooks' "Real Life" (1979) and "Modern Romance" (1981) play at 7 and 9 p.m., respectively, at 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. THE TIMES CENTER: The...
PREVIEWS
"CRY-BABY": John Waters' flick about a '50s rebel, now a musical. Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway; (212) 307- 1400. Opens April 24. "SOMETHING YOU DID": Joanna Gleason stars in this tale...
Nothing New for Jersey
By BRETT CYRGALISMan, where would the Rangers be without the Devils.After tonightâs 3-2 win at the Garden, the Rangers are now 7-0-0 against the Devils this year. When all is...
U.S.-ARGENTINA at Giants Stadium finally set
By BRIAN LEWISGive Bob Bradley credit for this much: He sure isnât ducking anybody. It was a poorly-kept secret, but the U.S. National Team finally announced itâll face Argentina _...