April 25, 2008
3 DOWN: NY First Base, Green vs. Delgado, Heilman
1. In Jason Giambi and Carlos Delgado, the Yankees and Mets have first basemen in which poor defense was tolerated because of high production on offense. But both aging sluggers...
Pregame scoop from Shea
A few things going on at Shea Stadium before tonight's matchup with the Braves, so here is the update:-- Brian Schneider is going to be hospitalized through at least Sunday...
IN TOWN: Next stop, Surf Avenue
Dan Brinzac Sometimes it takes a shark going all early Spielberg on a sexagenarian San Diegan to make us appreciate the beaches we have in our own backyard.Here's a cute...
Giants set for White House visit
By PAUL SCHWARTZThere's a timeslot on the schedule of President Bush set aside Wednesday at 3:20 p.m. to meet the Super Bowl champion Giants on the South Lawn of the...
Wagner's success a bullpen rarity
Hitters might be having a field day against Aaron Heilman, but they donât know what to make of Billy Wagner so far this season. Sporting a new pitching style and...
A-Rod in lineup vs. Indians
By GEORGE A. KING IIICLEVELAND -- The Yankees averaged 6.6 runs across the past eight games -- three of which Alex Rodriguez missed -- so they werenât dying for their...
Soccer on TV
TGIF! Enjoy the soccer this weekend...Saturday, April 26FOX SOCCER CHANNELEngland: SUNDERLAND-MIDDLESBROUGH (live), 10 am.England: TOTTENHAM-BOLTON (delay), noon.England: WIGAN-READING (delay), 2 pm.MLS: LOS ANGELES-CHIVAS USA (live), 10:30 pm.FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOLEngland:...
Jackson: Pitino my favorite
By MARC BERMANAll the way back to 2002 I touted Mark Jackson as future head coach of the Knicks. Just may happen a little later than I figured.This below story...
CROSBY DIVES INTO SERIES
PITTSBURGH - This was more than your customary vanilla pre-series press briefing from Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby. This morning, hours before the puck would be dropped here for the opener...
Devils' Madden up for Selke
APDevils center John Madden is among three finalists for the Frank Selke Trophy, which honors an NHL forward for his defensive work.Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk and Red Wings left...
Orr replacing Hollweg in lineup
By LARRY BROOKSTom Renney will replace Ryan Hollweg with Colton Orr for tonightâs Eastern semifinal opener against the Penguins, a move that represents the Rangersâ first lineup change of the...
GAME ONE: RANGERS AT PENGUINS
Long layoffs can mean a lot in the NHL playoffs, or they can mean nothing. Some teams relish those days off to mend bruises and study video of their opponent....
McFadden's mom doesn't love NY
The Los Angeles Times reports today that Darren McFadden's mother "would love to see her son, a former Arkansas star, land closer to their home in Little Rock" than in...
ON DECK: YANKEES at INDIANS
By DAN TOMASINOWhen the Yankees decided during the offseason to keep their young players rather than package them for Johan Santana, much was made of how pitching phenom Phil Hughes,...
Balenciaga, Baby!
Check out BG this weekend for their new Balenciaga shop-within-a-shop. The third floor store will house both ready-to-wear and handbags, including a purple croc "Work Tote" and hand painted python...
On deck: Braves at Mets
From JUSTIN TERRANOVACarlos Beltran is coming around. Jose Reyes has had his moments. David Wright has been solid all year. Newcomers Ryan Church and Brian Schneider have exceeded expectations after...
Mock draft update (April 25)
With the No. 1 pick is this NFL Draft now decided -- Michigan OT Jake Long to the Dolphins -- most of the Mock Drafts we've been monitoring have changed...
CABLEVISION LEADS RACE TO BUY SUNDANCE CHANNEL
Cablevision is the frontrunner to acquire Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, The Post has learned. According to two sources close to the negotiations, Cablevision was the high bidder when final offers...
A game of chess
After a panoramic view of the ocean, we watch Kate remove her tank-top strap to bathe, all the while reminding an onlooking Jack of what he can't have. Shooting him...
ON DECK: YANKEES AT INDIANS
When the Yankees decided during the offseason to keep their young players rather than package them for Johan Santana, much was made of how pitching phenom Phil Hughes, a centerpiece...
ON DECK: YANKEES AT INDIANS
By DAN TOMASINO When the Yankees decided during the offseason to keep their young players rather than package them for Johan Santana, much was made of how pitching phenom Phil...
CHRIS LONG HAS FAN ON JETS
University of Virginia defensive lineman Chris Long knows he has at least one friend on the Jets. He hopes after tomorrow's NFL Draft that he'll have more. After playing two...
CHRIS LONG HAS FAN ON JETS
University of Virginia defensive lineman Chris Long knows he has at least one friend on the Jets. He hopes after tomorrow's NFL Draft that he'll have more. After playing two...
Rutgers cancels Notre Dame series
Various media reports say Rutgers has pulled out of a football series with Notre Dame because the Scarlet Knights do not wish to play their home games against the Fighting...
VERDICT FOR SEAN BELL TRIAL
Verdict read by Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman: BEFORE DEALING WITH THE BUSINESS AT HAND, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HONOR THE DECORUM...
Deal of the Day-Reyes
The Gap has their white shirt series hanging in their windows right now. But instead of picking up one of those, get this Reyes Tuxedo Shirt for around the same...
Deal of the Day-Wayf
Some fashion people are predicting the demise of the dress. Sure, it may be usurped by trousers next year, but frocks still rock.And this Wayf Floral Shift Dress is perfect...
Just arrived: New El Dantes shoes at Faith
Kind of pricey at $290 + shipping, but I can't stop look at them.
Box Office Preview: Harold and Kumar vs Tina and Amy
The male-skewing "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay'' will handily triumph over the estrogen-heavy "Baby Mama'' when couples argue about what date movie to see this weekend, predicts Steve...
SEAN BELL DETECTIVES FOUND NOT GUILTY
Three undercover detectives who unleashed a 50-bullet barrage that killed Sean Bell were found not guilty this morning on all charges. Queens Supreme Court Judge Arthur Cooperman, who delivered the...
COPS IN SEAN BELL TRIAL ACQUITTED
Three detectives charged in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 bullets, were found not guilty this morning.
COPS IN SEAN BELL TRIAL ACQUITTED
Three detectives charged in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 bullets, were found not guilty this morning.
SEAN BELL DETECTIVES FOUND NOT GUILTY
Three detectives charged in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 bullets, were found not guilty this morning. THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY....
DETECTIVES IN SEAN BELL CASE FOUND NOT GUILTY
Three detectives charged in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 bullets, were found not guilty this morning. THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY....
3 UP: Torre vs. Manny, Heilman vs. Delgado
1. In his always entertaining Rumblings and Grumblings, my friend, Jayson Stark of ESPN.com, did a piece polling all 30 major league managers on who is the most feared hitter...
SLUSH-$$ COVER STORY CRUMBLES
The woman at the helm of three nonprofits whose funding has been frozen amid a federal probe of City Council slush money claims she provides vital services for a senior...
CITY TO PAY FOR COUNCIL'S LAWYERS
The Bloomberg administration's top lawyer has authorized the City Council to hire private attorneys to represent legislators and staffers who might be dragged into the investigation of phantom funds, the...
CNN SUED BY ALL PEOPLE IN CHINA
A New York beautician hit CNN with a $1.3 billion lawsuit yesterday, accusing commentator Jack Cafferty of slandering all Chinese. On April 9, Cafferty said Chinese leaders "are basically the...
CURSED RAGS TO 175G RICHES
The tattered $89 Red Sox jersey that a traitor hardhat concealed under the new Yankee Stadium in a foiled bid to curse the Bombers turned out to be buried treasure...
SPINNING STRAW INTO GOLD
The 1998 season was filled with emotion for Yankees slugger Darryl Strawberry - but now the trouble-plagued former outfielder's ring from the Bombers' World Series win that year has been...
MCFADDEN CRASH PILOT REVELATIONS
The pilot killed in a plane crash in Texas that also took the life of the brother of renowned fashion designer Mary McFadden and another passenger may have passed out...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 Downtown trains skip 66th, 59th and 50th streets. Uptown trains skip 79th and 86th streets.2 Downtown trains skip 66th, 59th and 50th streets. Uptown trains run on the 5...
GOV WARNS OF MIDYEAR BUDGET CUT
Gov. Paterson is considering midyear cuts to the state budget in light of plummeting revenues, he said yesterday. Paterson didn't specify where the cuts would be made, but said belt-tightening...
NYERS WARM TO WEATHER
The most beautiful day of the year greeted New Yorkers yesterday, prompting many to turn a midweek workday into an impromptu vacation. "It's so beautiful out today. I love it!"...
PBA, MIKE TRADE COP-HIRE FIRE
The police union yesterday angrily rejected Mayor Bloomberg's claim that the union triggered an NYPD recruitment crisis. "The mayor's misinformation is misleading when the recruitment problem started before the 2005...
RED HOOK DOCK UNION TRIUMPHS
Brooklyn's last commercial port will keep working for at least another decade. The Port Authority yesterday approved a new 10-year lease for the longtime operator of the Red Hook container...
HEIGHT FIGHT VS. 'CRANE' BUILDING
Thirty-three floors of the 43-story apartment building rising at the site of last month's deadly crane collapse would have to be turned into a "community facility" to comply with zoning...
JAIL GUARDS' CONTRA-BUST
Seven current and former Rikers Island correction officers were busted yesterday on charges of taking bribes to smuggle pot and other contraband into the lockup. The seven met with investigators...
APT. SUIT: IT'S BIAS VS. KIDS
A Brooklyn husband and wife who claim they got shut out of three different apartment rentals because they have a child are fighting back - filing a class-action lawsuit against...
SURGING IN GALLOP POLL
An undefeated thoroughbred named Big Brown, owned by two Long Islanders, is the favorite to win his fourth race - the Kentucky Derby. The chestnut colt is owned by a...
$12M BOOST FOR WATER
The chance of anyone poisoning the city's massive water-supply system is remote, but Mayor Bloomberg was happy to accept $12 million yesterday for a pilot program to detect contamination. Stephen...
PA HONCHO IS BLUE-CROSS
The head of the Port Authority yesterday slammed the outrageous trashing of confidential Freedom Tower blueprints. "There is a construction protocol as to how you get rid of blueprints and...
BLACKOUT-REBATE OUTRAGE
Queens lawmakers aim to short-circuit Con Ed's promise of a $100 rebate to Astoria and Long Island City residents who suffered through the nine-day blackout in July 2006. "A hundred...
'FIX' REF'S GAMBLER PAL GUILTY
The professional gambler who bet on basketball games with disgraced ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to illegal gambling conspiracy charges yesterday in Brooklyn federal court. James Battista, 42, said...
600G TO KIN OF HEROES
The feds have reversed a contentious decision that denied more than $300,000 each in death benefits to the families of two auxiliary cops gunned down in Greenwich Village last year,...
OIL-FOR-FOOD $$ WRIST-SLAP
An Iraqi-American businessman who acted as a star witness in a federal probe of the UN oil-for-food scandal yesterday dodged prison time for taking bribes of cash and lucrative oil...
A BREAK FOR UMA 'STALKER'
An admitted screw-up during the videotaping of a confession by screen siren Uma Thurman's alleged stalker resulted yesterday in prosecutors voluntarily pulling the tainted tape as direct evidence. The setback...
BLITZ VS. RAIL TERROR
Cops in commando gear, armed with submachine guns, and guiding bomb-sniffing dogs stood guard on subway platforms and trains yesterday morning on the first day of an anti-terror drive. PHOTO...
COPS IN SEAN BELL TRIAL ACQUITTED
Three undercover detectives involved with unleashing a 50-shot barrage that killed Sean Bell outside a strip club hours before he was to be married were found not guilty this morning...
GRAVE INSULT
Um, "Poltergeist?" A Brooklyn church yesterday cleared out the remains of 211 corpses that had been buried for more than a century in an adjacent crypt to help pave the...
IRAN WEAPONS CACHE IN IRAQ
A stash of Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives have been unearthed in Iraq - further proof that Tehran has been sending weapons across the border, it was reported today. The...
REVEALED: N. KOREA WAS BEHIND SYRIA NUKES
A top-secret Syrian nuclear reactor - built with North Korean help - was within weeks of going operational when it was blown up by Israeli jets in a dramatic attack...
CAR-WRECK CURSE HITS BOND SET
A curse is plaguing the set of the new James Bond movie. There are fears that production of "Quantum of Solace," starring Daniel Craig as 007, is jinxed now that...
LOCKUP FOR TAX CHEAT WESLEY
Tax scofflaw Wesley Snipes will pay Uncle Sam with three years behind bars, a federal judge ruled yesterday, despite dramatic appeals for leniency from the actor's Hollywood pals. Snipes, 45,...
TOP DEMS WANT NOM BY JUNE
WASHINGTON - Democratic Party bigwigs are preparing to push superdelegates to get off the fence once state primary elections end in June, officials said yesterday. The leaders, Senate Majority Leader...
O'S RACE TALK IS JUST POLITICS: WRIGHT
Barack Obama was just doing "what politicians do" when he distanced himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright over the cleric's incendiary comments about race relations, the pastor says in a...
'MALCOLM' PAROLE NIX
He's served 43 years behind bars, and now Malcolm X's assassin is filing suit to get out of prison. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Thomas Hagan says a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The BronxThe man pictured above is wanted for breaking into a Kingsbridge Heights home, police said. The suspect climbed into a Heath Avenue apartment after prying open a window from...
PARTY RISKS 'DRIVING' OFF BLACKS BY BOOTING BARACK
WASHINGTON - If Democratic leaders strip Barack Obama of the nomination when he holds the lead in pledged delegates, they might as well call it "Driving Miss Hillary" - and...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 996; Lucky Sum: 24 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0102; Lucky Sum: 3 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 044; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
TOO MANY CARROTS FOR MR. KIM
CIA Director Michael Hayden yesterday screened a video for members of Congress that showed Koreans working at a Syrian nuclear reactor that was destroyed by Israel last fall. The Bush...
A JOB FOR LEGAL AID
Little more than a week after US Attorney Michael Garcia busted two City Council aides for embezzling some $145,000 in "member-item" cash bound for nonprofit groups, New Yorkers are starting...
DEMS' FALLING IDOL
THE self-appointed 19th-century prophet William Miller attracted an intense following when he predicted the end of the world and the arrival of the Second Coming sometime between March 1843 and...
THE FUTILITY OF SCHOOL 'REFORM'
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. - "A...
FOOLISHNESS & FOREIGN AID
TODAY is World Malaria Day; all three presidential candidates will likely mark the occasion with fresh promises on foreign aid, malaria and poverty. Problem is, the "solutions" will mostly boil...
WEAPONS WAL-MART
INTELLIGENCE officials yesterday briefed key members of Congress on evidence that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear reactor like the one that cranks out plutonium for Kim Jong-Il's...
DEAD WOMAN WALKING - OR COMEBACK KID?
THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary. Dick Morris' "Too Little, Too Late" (PostOpinion, April 22) should be read out loud on every...
MERRILL MOVES
John Thain is proof again that Wall Street's new graduating class of chiefs can run their ships better than their predecessors. The soft-spoken Thain showed yesterday he's hardly the meek...
NO MOVEMENT YET ON MICROSOFT'S YAHOO! BID
Time is running out for Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer to ink a friendly deal with rival Internet icon Yahoo! Yesterday, Microsoft reported mixed fiscal third-quarter results including revenue of $14.45...
THE WORST OF TIMES
THE New York Times' news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days. The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout...
WRONGED COMSCORE DEFENDING ITS REPORTS
Web tracker comScore, seeking to repair its tarnished reputation, took Wall Street to task yesterday for misinterpreting its reports suggesting Google's paid-click growth had slowed. In a publicized letter, the...
BACONATOR DEAL
Although twice rejected in earlier bids for Wendy's, billionaire Nelson Peltz is now getting the last laugh - buying it in his third try for a super value price. Peltz...
NOT SO CHARMING POWER STRUGGLE
Struggling plus-size apparel retailer Charming Shoppes tried to strong-arm more than a dozen of its shareholders in an usually aggressive effort to thwart two hedge funds looking to shake up...
WII-ND FALL TO END
Nintendo is riding high on strong sales of its Wii and DS gaming systems, but could see its profit growth zapped this year by slowing momentum for the gadgets, and...
BANKS NOT YET IN THE CLEAR (CHANNEL)
A New York judge yesterday did not rule on a request by six Wall Street banks to throw out a lawsuit brought against them by two private-equity firms in the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Talk about taking your work seriously. A London cop was forced to resign because he had sex with a prostitute - at a building he was sent to investigate as...
5 QUESTIONS FOR ...RON JAWORSKI
ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski dissected 16 hours of film a week for several weeks to prepare for Saturday's NFL draft, and he talked about the Jets' and Giants' plans, among...
ANGLERS, WEST IS THE BEST
RIGHT now the best salt water action is to the west. Waters in lower New York harbor offer a variety of flounder, bass, blackfish and even a few bluefish that...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Brown quits as Sixers' VPLarry Brown wants one more stop on his nomadic coaching career. Brown resigned as the Sixers' executive vice president yesterday with the intent to pursue...
EIGHT BELLES, 'SPELL' EYEING DERBY, OAKS
The filly Eight Belles will definitely be entered to run against the boys in next Saturday's 134th Kentucky Derby, and she could be joined by her stablemate Proud Spell, trainer...
HIGH ON LIFE BUT DOWN ON BOXING
Walking into Sotheby's on the Upper East Side is like stepping into the world of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Your eyes drift from person to person, taking in the...
AIRWAVES FULL OF THE ABSURD
I ADMIT it. At times this job has become so easy a caveman could do it. For example, years ago, when I was angling to write about TV and/or radio...
HONDO: BOMBERS AWAY!
Hondo, who had been slumping, had nothing but cheers for Cliffy and the Indians, who zipped the Royals last night to elevate the earnings to 230 har relsons. Tonight, with...
TRYING TO BUCK THE 'BACKER TREND
Back in the day, the defensive glamour position in the NFL was linebacker. Butkus, Nitschke, LT, Singletary - they all personified the personality of defense. These guys didn't tackle, they...
SECOND FIDDLE
NFL conspiracy theorists have reported seeing a second cameraman at New England Patriots games and a member of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority opening and closing the huge...
2008 MOCK DRAFT
A special thanks to Bill Belichick for delivering videotape of the draft boards of all 31 foes:
JINTS' OSI: I WON'T HOLD OUT
The Giants look like they'll avoid a potentially ugly summer with Osi Umenyiora. There were whispers that the Giants' star defensive end was a candidate to be MIA for training...
MAKING A MOVE
There are times in an athlete's life when he must take the step forward or else get passed by, perhaps forever. That time has arrived for Gerris Wilkinson. Entering his...
JETS TRADE ROBERTSON
The Jets yesterday finally unloaded defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson, trading him to the Broncos for an undisclosed 2009 draft pick and possibly a second pick. Robertson, the Jets' top draft...
DEALING DOWN
Darren McFadden. Vernon Gholston. Chris Long. Matt Ryan. In no particular order, those are the big four names at the top of tomorrow's NFL Draft who have been most associated...
MARK STANDS TALL ON HIRE GROUND
APROPOS to the Knicks' interest in Mark Jackson, if there is going to be conversation about ex-players who became head coaches without any experience as an assistant, why limit the...
KARL MAY LURK ON KNICK RADAR
Two years ago, with his buddy Larry Brown running the Knicks, George Karl waxed on about one day wanting to coach in New York. By next week, Karl might be...
REYNOLDS GRABS SNY GIG
Harold Reynolds, the ex-big league second baseman who recently settled his wrongful termination suit against ESPN, has joined SNY as a Mets' pre- and post-game studio analyst. He'll begin tonight....
SCHNEIDER SHELVED BY THUMB INFECTION
WASHINGTON - Brian Schneider just can't seem to catch a break this season. One day after returning from bruised right arm that caused him to miss three games, Schneider was...
AARON BLOWS IT AGAIN
WASHINGTON - The mysterious meltdown of Aaron Heilman continues to doom the Mets. One of the NL's top middle relievers the past three years, Heilman has been nothing short of...
CROSBY CLAMPDOWN
PITTSBURGH - The Rangers must get the puck in deep, they must force the Penguins to play as much as possible in their own end of the ice, and they...
THE MATCHUPS
PITTSBURGH - The Rangers and Penguins have met in three prior playoff series, with each ending in humiliating defeat for the Blueshirts. The 1989 first-round sweep with GM Phil Esposito...
IN ARM'S WAY
Another bug attack would be the least of the problems for the Yankees and their young pitchers if they struggle this weekend in Cleveland like the Bombers did in last...
JOBA VOWS NOT TO BE BUGGED BY MIDGES
CHICAGO - If the Lake Erie midges invade Progressive Field this weekend like they did last October when the place was known as Jacobs Field, Joba Chamberlain is ready. "I...
NEW DAD A-ROD MAY DH TONIGHT
CHICAGO - Proud father Alex Rodriguez rejoined the Yankees last night at U.S. Cellular Field handed out cigars to celebrate the birth of Ella Alexander, his second daughter and received...
JOBA SOX-ED
CHICAGO - Rain denied the Yankees more than two innings to look at a crisp Phil Hughes last night. It's too bad the wet stuff didn't snuff out the bullpen...
DUTCH TREAT IN NEW STEPS
THE Joyce Theater is going Dutch - at least through the weekend - via Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, which just opened its season there. Generally ranked No. 3 in the international...
EVERYBODY MIGHT LOVE BILLY
'BILLY Elliot" looks set to lift Broadway out of its slump. While there's still plenty of money to be made in Times Square ("Wicked" and "Hairspray" are chugging along nicely),...
DOESN'T HOLD UP LIKE 'HAIRSPRAY'
EVER since "Grease" set the scene, we've had '50s nostalgia pastiche musicals (call them "nostiche") on Broadway, some good, some not so good - "Hairspray" and "All Shook Up" among...
PAULIE TAKES FIFTH
Back when disco was king and life seemed like a party for all the beautiful people, the underside of the high life was still taking its toll in some very...
HAPPY TO BE OFF 'IDOL'
DON'T cry for "American Idol" castoff Carly Smithson - she's thrilled to be off the show. Smithson, who appeared unfazed after her elimination from "Idol" - no tears for her...
AT LAST, BAM ROX FOX
Barack Obama has finaly agreed to appear on Fox News Channel - after shunning the network for two years. Obama will sit for an interview with host Chris Wallace, slated...
STARR REPORT
Bill of goods Billy Bush has snared Ma donna for her only sitdown interview to promote her new video - and he's got her on the TV side ("Access Holly...
HEIR TO 'SLAYER'
'BUFFY" fans have a reason to celebrate - their hero, executive producer Joss Whedon, is back at work. Production began this week in Los Angeles on the first episode of...
NOTHING AS IT SEEMS IN CINEMATIC JOURNEY
I'VE never though of diminutive Domin ique Pinon as the leading-man type, but rather as a cultish character actor in such films as "Diva" (1981), "Delicatessen" (1991) and "Alien: Resurrection"...
AUDITOR'S TALE WON'T ADD UP
IS there anything more boring than watching $20 million being electronically trans ferred to an offshore bank account? Maybe it's someone repeatedly barking "You have no idea what I'm capable...
UP THE YANGTZE
CHINA'S public image suffers another blow with "Up the Yangtze," a docu mentary by Chinese-Canadian Yung Chang. As has been reported, China is building the largest hydroelectric project in the...
WITHOUT THE KING
'WITHOUT the King" is a fascinating documentary about a little-known African tyrant, King Mswati III of Swaziland, a country the size of New Jersey with a population of 1.1 million....
YOUNG AND THE BUCHARESTLESS HIT THE ROAD
NEW York is beginning to look like Bucharest on the Hudson. Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater is hosting a festival of old and new films from Romania, the Two Boots...
HUNT FOR A WOMBMATE
FEW Oscar winners have disappeared from the spotlight as quickly as Helen Hunt, who followed her Best Actress win for "As Good as It Gets" with a quartet of high-profile...
PHOTOS OF ABUSE STILL BLURRY
THE Errol Morris documen tary on Abu Ghraib is here. That's fair enough: Why shouldn't there be torture porn for readers of The Nation? Only thing is, those hoping to...
BONGS AWAY!
IF you find the idea of a genially out-of-it Dubya sharing a doobie with the stoner heroes of "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" appealing, this may be the...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Reopens Tuesday at the...
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....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
IT'S EASY BEING GREEN: The Go Green Expo, features a green fashion show, a market and eco-activities for kids. Tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
RHETT MILLER: The Old 97's frontman goes solo tomorrow for an 8 p.m. performance at the Hiro Ballroom, 371 W. 16th St.; (212) 307-7171.THE VERVE: After a 1999 breakup, these...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Through Sunday: Arturo Sandoval. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Tuesday through May 4: the Yellowjackets. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. VILLAGE VANGUARD: Through Sunday: Bill...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Pianist Andre Watts joins the orchestra for Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 1," Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances" and more. Charles Dutoit conducts today and tomorrow at 7 p.m., and...
DANCE
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER: ZviDance pays homage to founder Zvi Gotheiner's mentor, Gertrude Kraus, with a performance of "Gertrude" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. 405 W. 55th St.; (212) 405-9000....
FILM
FILM FORUM: Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman take on New York in the Oscar-nominated "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), playing through Tuesday. (Filmforum.org for complete schedule.) 209 W. Houston St.; (212) 727-8110....
PREVIEWS
"BOEING-BOEING": Christine Baranski stars in the revival of this 1962 farce. Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens May 4. "LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES": Laura Linney and Ben Daniels...
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. "ALMOST AN EVENING": ** Three new comic...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
CONEY CURIOUS April 25 - Art As if the Coney Island sideshow weren't wacky enough, this weekend the act gets an extra dose of freak when the Congress of Curious...
Mussina gets win 252
FROM JOEL SHERMANMike Mussina's win on Wednesday made him 252-147 lifetime. To most that victory will signal that he now has one more career victory than Bob Gibson and now...
Willie's faulty lineup choice
From JOEL SHERMAN When Willie Randolph uses a term such as Luis Castillo is "a prototype No. 2 hitter," is that because he reminds him of someone, namely himself?Like Castillo,...
3 DOWN: Willie's lineup, Lidge and Mussina
1. When Willie Randolph uses a term such as Luis Castillo is "a prototype No. 2 hitter" is that because he reminds him of someone, namely himself. Like Castillo, Randolph...