April 27, 2008
Box Office: 'Baby' Boom
"Baby Mama'' exceeded expectations and opened at No. 1 with a healthy $18.3 million versus $14.6 million for "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'' (which reportedly cost $12 million)...
RANGER DANGER
PITTSBURGH - They lost a track meet in Game 1 on Friday and they lost a pitchers' duel in Game 2 yesterday. Now the Rangers have to be much better...
RANGER DANGER
PITTSBURGH - They lost a track meet in Game 1 on Friday and they lost a pitchers' duel in Game 2 yesterday. Now the Rangers have to be much better...
RANGER DANGER
PITTSBURGH - They lost a track meet in Game 1 on Friday and they lost a pitchers' duel in Game 2 yesterday. Now the Rangers have to be much better...
ALOU HEADED TO NY, BUT NOT TO PLAY BALL
Moises Alou is headed to New York today, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in the Mets' lineup anytime soon. The oft-injured outfielder will be examined by team doctors...
ALOU HEADED TO NY, BUT NOT TO PLAY BALL
Moises Alou is headed to New York today, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in the Mets' lineup anytime soon. The oft-injured outfielder will be examined by team doctors...
ALOU HEADED TO NY, BUT NOT TO PLAY BALL
Moises Alou is headed to New York today, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in the Mets' lineup anytime soon. The oft-injured outfielder will be examined by team doctors...
EIGHT BELLES TAKES ON THE BOYS
LOUISVILLE - The wide open Kentucky Derby, set to go on Saturday, got a huge boost yesterday when the connections of the best staying filly in the land, Eight Belles,...
LOCALS HAVE AVERAGE DRAFT
Professor Serby grades the NFL Draft AFC EAST JETS: After all the needs the Jets filled in free agency and the draft, it still comes back to the quarterback. Over...
EPL Round 36: Saturday Fixtures
Chelsea 2 - 1 Man UtdMichael Ballack celebrates his first goal for Chelsea. Chelsea have made the title run something more than merely academic. Some of United's more head-scratching losses...
AINGE JOINS QB RACE
Meet the new Jets Dwight Lowery, CB San Jose State, 5-11, 201, Fourth round, 113th overall 4.64 in the 40. Ball-hawking corner with 13 INTs in the last two seasons...
AINGE JOINS QB RACE
Meet the new Jets Dwight Lowery, CB San Jose State, 5-11, 201, Fourth round, 113th overall 4.64 in the 40. Ball-hawking corner with 13 INTs in the last two seasons...
AINGE JOINS QB RACE
Meet the new Jets Dwight Lowery, CB San Jose State, 5-11, 201, Fourth round, 113th overall 4.64 in the 40. Ball-hawking corner with 13 INTs in the last two seasons...
AINGE JOINS QB RACE
Meet the new Jets Dwight Lowery, CB San Jose State, 5-11, 201, Fourth round, 113th overall 4.64 in the 40. Ball-hawking corner with 13 INTs in the last two seasons...
AINGE JOINS QB RACE
Meet the new Jets Dwight Lowery, CB San Jose State, 5-11, 201, Fourth round, 113th overall 4.64 in the 40. Ball-hawking corner with 13 INTs in the last two seasons...
THE CHAMP'S PICKS
Meet the new Giants Mario Manningham, WR, Michigan, 5-11, 178, Third round, 95th overall Character issues abound after traffic arrest found Vicodin in his possession and he admitted to marijuana...
No Excuses
During a time out, Jaromir Jagr sits atop the boards with his team down by two goals and only seconds remaining in the game. By BRETT CYRGALISItâs easy to harp...
Playing Catch-Up
I may have been gone for the better part of two weeks, but the playoffs pressed on and there was some great hockey played to end the first round. Now,...
Disappointing to Say the Least
Here's another perspective on the Rangers' Game One loss, and a little bit on today's uninspiring Game Two performance. Wring your hands all you want, blame the refs and blame...
UPDATE: Eos, we hardly knew ye
Nice while it lasted. Lots of airlines have gone bankrupt or disappeared of late. News of the latest airline to make its final touchdown -- this time, it is all-biz,...
GIANT RISK
Giants GM Jerry Reese was eager to extol the physical virtues of Mario Manningham, the receiver from Michigan selected by Big Blue yesterday in the third round of the NFL...
Complete NFL Draft
ROUND ONE1. Miami, Jake Long, ot, Michigan2. St. Louis, Chris Long, de, Virginia3. Atlanta, Matt Ryan, qb, Boston College4. Oakland, Darren McFadden, rb, Arkansas5. Kansas City, Glenn Dorsey, dt, LSU6....
RED BULLS LINEUP vs. SAN JOSE
By BRIAN LEWISHello, all. After days in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays, Iâm back for this afternoonâs Red Bulls tilt against San Jose. Here is the starting lineup:_________John Wolyniec________Jozy Altidore___________Dave...
GIANTS AND JETS: DRAFT DAY TWO
Andre Woodson put Kentucky back on the football map. He likely won't get that chance right away in New York with Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning squarely planted in the...
NFL DRAFT: ROUNDS 1-4
ROUND ONE 1. Miami, Jake Long, ot, Michigan 2. St. Louis, Chris Long, de, Virginia 3. Atlanta, Matt Ryan, qb, Boston College 4. Oakland, Darren McFadden, rb, Arkansas 5. Kansas...
NFL DRAFT: ROUNDS 1-4
ROUND ONE 1. Miami, Jake Long, ot, Michigan 2. St. Louis, Chris Long, de, Virginia 3. Atlanta, Matt Ryan, qb, Boston College 4. Oakland, Darren McFadden, rb, Arkansas 5. Kansas...
NFL DRAFT ROUNDS 1-4
ROUND ONE 1. Miami, Jake Long, ot, Michigan 2. St. Louis, Chris Long, de, Virginia 3. Atlanta, Matt Ryan, qb, Boston College 4. Oakland, Darren McFadden, rb, Arkansas 5. Kansas...
COMPLETE NFL DRAFT
ROUND ONE 1. Miami, Jake Long, ot, Michigan 2. St. Louis, Chris Long, de, Virginia 3. Atlanta, Matt Ryan, qb, Boston College 4. Oakland, Darren McFadden, rb, Arkansas 5. Kansas...
Miss at your own risk: Soap box
Robin Williams on "SVU." Not so funnyRobin Williams plays with people's minds as a psycho in Tuesday's "Law & Order: SVU." The show promos the guest stint as being an...
IN TOWN: Escape to the...Bronx!
Desert and rainforest collide -- in Riverdale If you're feeling strapped but desperately need a breather, jump on Metro-North and get off a few minutes later at Riverdale. Just a...
Alou might have fractured ankle
Uh, scratch that "imminent" Moises Alou comeback. The Mets revealed today that the 41-year-old left fielder is about to have some tests done on a potentially fractured left ankle. Alou,...
Lineups ready for Braves finale
The lineups are in for today's matchup between Nelson Figueroa and that notorious Mets nemesis, Braves right-hander John Smoltz (pictured), in the finale of a three-game series at Shea Stadium....
Serie A: Inter Moves Closer to Title
By CLEMENTE LISIInter Milan will retain their Serie A title if they defeat AC Milan in next Sunday's derby after the league leaders defeated Cagliari 2-1.Second-placed AS Roma -- six...
DREW LOFTIS ROTO FILES
FANTASY trades are never as simple as they seem at the outset. Sure, your buddy offered Chase Utley for Hanley Ramirez, but even a deal that fair is hard to...
CITY ISSUING EVEN MORE PARKING TIX
Traffic agents are painting the town orange - issuing more than 2.5 million tickets so far this year. The 2,535,308 summonses between January and March represented an 8 percent uptick...
SHOCK AS NY BOOZE BIG QUITS
The CEO of the State Liquor Authority quietly submitted his resignation last week, shocking and upsetting city community groups who touted him as a long-awaited reformer. Joshua Toas is leaving...
'CIG BREAK' BRAWL
Tax-free cigarettes from Indian reservations will go up in smoke if some in Albany get their way. Lawyers for a state lawmaker and Gov. Paterson are scheduled to face off...
2ND TUBE TIRADE
Scorned socialite Tricia Walsh-Smith, who trashed her elderly hubby via the Web two weeks ago, posted a second YouTube video yesterday, ranting she's ready for a legal showdown. The British...
NYU HIKES TUITION 6%
A silver spoon isn't good enough anymore - now you're going to need to be born with a solid gold spoon in your mouth to afford New York University. Already...
JUSTICE OF THE CEASE
New York's judges are waging war on Sheldon Silver and the state Legislature. Judges across the state are engaged in a "rule-book slowdown" and refusing to hear cases involving firms...
THE TRIALS OF JURISTS' SALARY WAR
The current revolt among the judiciary caps more than three years of brinksmanship with lawmakers whose failure to deliver a pay raise has dragged judges' morale to a low point....
SLUSH SCANDAL HITS 'FAKE' TENANT GROUP
A Bronx City Councilwoman earmarked thousands of taxpayer dollars for a tenants association in her former apartment building - an association residents say doesn't exist. Councilwoman Maria Baez, a Democrat...
PROSECUTOR'S TRYING TIMES
It's been a rough year for prosecutor Charles Testagrossa. On Friday, the Queens counselor lost the Sean Bell case. In February, his 26-year-old son, Robert, was locked up for five...
NYPD IS PROBING TAUNTS
The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating a cruel prank call to the family of Sean Bell's fiancée that originated from the Manhattan offices of a prominent police union, The...
'THEY KILLED HIM ALL OVER AGAIN'
Nicole Paultre-Bell choked back tears yesterday as she blasted a judge's decision to clear three NYPD detectives in the slaying of her fiancé - saying it was like "they killed...
CAR KILLS B'KLYN TEEN
A swerving car struck three friends in Brooklyn early yesterday as they crossed the street, killing a 17-year-old girl and injuring the other two. Belinda Santiago was crossing Avenue U...
LOCAL FANS IN A FUNK
You stink! New York sports teams scored miserably with their fans when it came to performance and likability, with the awful Knicks dead last in a nationwide fan-satisfaction poll, according...
BUILDING KICKS TENANTS' CARS TO CURB
Tenants are being forced out of the Upper West Side's famed Apthorp apartments - and now BMWs and Bentleys are, too. More than 100 cars were evicted Monday night and...
HELL ON RAILS VIA THE LIRR
It'll take a little longer to travel to the Hamptons this summer if you intend to get there by hopping on the Long Island Rail Road. A massive $60.4 million...
AMBULANCE IN RAP SLAP
The head of a Brooklyn volunteer ambulance service is steaming mad at rapper Papoose for duping him into using his wagon for a violent rap video and plans to sue....
UNSAFE HANDS
Horrific medical mistakes kill, maim and sicken New Yorkers in alarming numbers, The Post has learned. Blunders - such as cutting out the wrong organ, giving a fatal medication overdose,...
GYNO CON SUES
"Dyno Gyno" Neils Lauersen, who spent more than five years in prison for billing insurance companies for millions of dollars in phony treatments, is suing his insurance carrier. The gynecologist...
NY LOSING BIG BIZ AS TAXES SOAR
New York state's skyrocketing business taxes are taking a toll on its corporate dominance. For the third time, New York has been trumped as the home to the most Fortune...
CORK SCREW
He's the sommelier of sniffing out swindles - and he smells a bogus bouquet. America's wine cop, billionaire connoisseur William Koch, uncorked his latest legal assault last week against a...
TAX REBATE? SOME GOT IT SPENT ALREADY
Eager New Yorkers are already spending their tax rebates - even though the feds don't begin mailing out checks until tomorrow. "I knew I was getting some money back," said...
'SHOCK' OF THERAPY HORROR
You'd immediately notice something odd about Staten Island homemaker Felicia Vitale if you simply said goodbye to her. "Alive, 100, good, 100, good," is a phrase people must use to...
OFFENSIVE LINE
The city has booted Harlem's only high-school football team, the Hellfighters, from its home in retaliation for the coach speaking out about a racial incident at a Staten Island game...
5 ABDUCTED IN IRAQ MAY BE IN IRAN
A group of five British hostages kidnapped in Iraq last year are being held in Iran by the Revolutionary Guard, according to a published report. The hostages, who were snatched...
JOKER BUSH TAKES POT SHOT AT HILL
WASHINGTON - President Bush took gentle jabs at himself and his political rivals last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. "Senator Clinton couldn't be here because of sniper fire...
CLINTON: LET'S DEBATE ALONE
Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged Barack Obama yesterday to an unmoderated debate - even as her rival in the Democratic presidential run said again he was done debating until after the...
BUBBA WANNABES
The battle to finally claim the Democratic nominee is a challenge over who can best channel Bill Clinton. The Democratic candidate most likely to succeed - in the primary and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * Police are seeking the man pictured above in connection with a pair of bank robberies. Cops said the robber first struck Tuesday when he threatened a teller at...
COUNCIL CAMPAIGN GUZZLES GAS & $$
RECORDS show that City Councilwoman Maria Baez (D-Bronx) withdrew $668.35 from her "Baez for the Future" fund to pay for 13 gas purchases between July 21 and Dec. 4. On...
EXPECTED INJUSTICE MUTES THE RAGE
BY now, with all the talk of outrage over the Sean Bell verdict, you would think the jails would be filled with protesters, traffic would be tied up in every...
BAGGAGE IS FILLING O'S EMPTY VESSEL
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's greatest strength as a political sensation has come back to haunt him as he tries and tries and tries to finally clinch the Democratic nomination. Since...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 631; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8300; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 757; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
SHEA WHAT?
* Recipe for fixing the Mets: 1) In between starts, let Johan Santana play first base. He has a higher batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage than Carlos Delgado,...
BE SMART WHEN INSURING YOUR BOAT
GETTING insurance for a fishing boat can be tricky, and BoatU.S. Angler recommends you ask five questions when shopping for it: * Do you need an "actual cash value" or...
ALL-PSAL TEAM
LANCE STEPHENSON * 6-5 * JUNIOR * Guard * LINCOLN Coach Dwayne Morton said he believes Stephenson could have scored 40 points a game this season. The fact he scored...
HONDO GOES FOR TWO
The Twins messed with Texas last night as they rallied past the Rangers to raise Hondo's collection of disposable dead presidents to 220 blasingames. Today, he'll give nods to Wang...
THE RUMBLE
'Brown' for this Bunny Playmate goin' for Derby Double Kentucky Derby Week in Louisville is filled with celebrations and parties leading up to Saturday's big race. One of the top...
RYAN NOT DOGGED BY ATLANTA'S PAST
After Michael Vick's sudden and disgraceful departure last year, the Falcons were left with unimpressive retreads like Chris Redman, Joey Harrington and Byron Leftwich under center. Now, it appears that...
ANGEL DOUBTFUL FOR RED BULLS
With forward Juan Pablo Angel doubtful for today's home game vs. San Jose (3 p.m., ESPN2), it appears the Red Bulls (2-1) will play their third of four games this...
MARQUEZ FEELS GROWING PAINS
TWO prominent mem bers of the Yankees' youth movement, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy, have spent the first few weeks of the season struggling to adjust to starting the season...
BROWN'S NEXT TOWN?
LET'S connect the polka dots. No sooner does Larry Brown resign his vacuous vice president's job - or whatever title it was - with the 76ers than the 32-50 Bobcats...
VOICE OF PRAISE
FATE, kismet, the turn of a card, the turn in a road, a turn in the weather, 30 sec onds later or earlier in any direction. For all our plans,...
'SMOOTH' DERBY RUN HITS BUMP
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The heartwarming story of Smooth Air and his 70-year-old trainer, Bennie Stutts Jr., in their quest to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby reads like the script of an...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Pacman a Cowboy, almost The complicated deal to get Adam "Pacman" Jones to the Cowboys was finished last night. Now it's up to the suspended cornerback to make the...
SCALE DOESN'T LIE
IT'S always interesting being a coach or a manager in the big city, just never more so than now, in a 24-7 sports culture in which a coach or a...
LONG WAY TO THE TOP
Chris Long still had to experience yesterday's NFL Draft, still has his first training camp and perhaps the humiliation he'll feel after getting schooled by an established NFL tackle. But...
NEW RAY-VEN
Ray Rice sat in his New Rochelle home and waited for a lot longer than he anticipated. After it was over, however, the former Rutgers and New Rochelle standout said...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the running back from Arkansas who was selected fourth overall by the Raiders in yesterday's NFL Draft. Q: How are you similar or different...
SUPER SPRINTER
PHILADELPHIA -- In February, Sanya Richards watched fiancé Aaron Ross win a Super Bowl ring with the Giants, and this summer she plans to add Olympic gold to the family...
GOLF AUTHOR'S GOOD FIGHT
Here's the book on Bob Labbance: He loves golf, he loves the Yankees and he has Lou Gehrig's disease. "Hey, at least I have a disease named after a famous...
MEET THE NEW GIANTS
Kenny Phillips, S, Miami, 6-2, 213, 31st overall Widely regarded as the top safety in the nation. Three-year starter for the Hurricanes who entered the draft after his junior year....
A TRADE OFF
Sometimes a team makes a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft that triggers all sorts of wonderment and surprise. That was not the case yesterday, as the...
TWICE AS LONG
There were no squeamish scenes of a highly touted quarterback sitting forlornly in the Green Room as it emptied out, one happily drafted player at a time. There was a...
MEET THE NEW JETS
Vernon Gholston, DE/LB Ohio State, 6-3, 264, 6th overall He's a pass-rushing specialist who the Jets will use mostly as a stand-up outside LB. Gholston had 22½ career sacks, ranking...
DARREN RUNS TO RAIDERS
There weren't going to be any problems for Darren McFadden either way. The Jets would have thrilled him. The Raiders would have thrilled him. He'll be in Oakland, however, as...
1ST & GHOL!
If you're a Jets fan and you were seeking high drama and a sexy pick from the Jets in the first round of yesterday's NFL Draft first round, you either...
KELLER PICK STUNS FAITHFUL
When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the Jets, who traded the 36th overall pick (a second-rounder) and the second of their two fourth-round picks (113th overall) to the Packers,...
SUPER SATURDAY FOR D-MINDED GANG GREEN
DARREN McFadden, the gamebreaker the Jets so desperately need, had gone to the Raiders, and Glenn Dorsey had gone to the Chiefs. With eight minutes on the clock, the first...
PITINO, LOOIE MAKE PITCHES FOR JACKSON
President Donnie Walsh, who met with Mark Jackson in Phoenix Friday, should know there are others prominent basketball people who believe Jackson's the right choice to coach the Knicks. "If...
RICK: DON'T LOOK AT ME
Rick Pitino, who ran the Knicks from 1987 to 1989, said he's done with coaching in the NBA and would not be interested if Donnie Walsh came calling. "It's a...
MISSING MOISES
Moises Alou was scratched from his rehab start Friday because of a sprained left ankle, but the Mets aren't expecting a setback in the left fielder's return plans. "I don't...
CHEERS, JEERS ROCK SHEA
David Wright finally got a hit. Actually, he got two. Now if he could just put this lineup on his back and carry it for, say, a month, the Mets...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT SHEA: NO. 22
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Shea. This week, No. 22.July 25, 1978...
SANCHEZ'S ROLE KEEPS EVOLVING
One year ago, Duaner Sanchez's role didn't matter. His career was up in the air. Sanchez had undergone two surgeries and carried around a screw in his right shoulder. It...
WIN OR LOSE, IT'S DÉJÀ BOO ALL OVER AGAIN
IN OTHER years, in other times, with other teams, maybe things wouldn't be so ugly so quickly, malice lurking and loitering on the other side of every pop-up, strikeout or...
DIVING RIGHT IN
PITTSBURGH - The Penguins always have been an interesting franchise, saved from leaving town first in 1984 by conspiring to lose enough games the final six weeks of the season...
PRUCHA LIKELY TO RESURFACE IN GAME 2
PITTSBURGH - Tom Renney implied that Petr Prucha would make his first appearance of the playoffs here this afternoon in Game 2 against the Penguins, and though the coach did...
THE EYES HAVE IT
WE HAD the stupid moment again in New York sports this week when people spoke en masse about a subject they truly knew nothing about and it wasn't even the...
ACHY JOBA IDLE AGAIN
CLEVELAND - A barking hamstring, suffered Thursday night on a wet Chicago mound, has idled Joba Chamberlain the past two games, and the Yankees don't know when the best setup...
SAME 'OHL' STORY
CLEVELAND - Ian Kennedy was effective in four of five innings. Johnny Damon had four hits. LaTroy Hawkins and Kyle Farnsworth combined for three scoreless innings. Jorge Posada delivered a...
IAN BETTER - BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH
CLEVELAND - Ian Kennedy was better yesterday than he was the last time he pitched. But according to Yankee manager Joe Girardi, there still is room for improvement. "I am...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT YANKEE STADIUM: NO. 22
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Yankee Stadium. This week, No. 22. Oct....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What's more all-American than cheerleaders rooting on the home team? In India, however, they're are not considered so wholesome - and a plan by the nation's top cricket league to...
APRIL 27 - MAY 3
This week: Take a bite out of Brooklyn; watch ringside as punches are thrown; designers get crafty with it; writers and authors share stories with the public;and hot mama's yuk...
DAVID MAMET
Acclaimed writer-director talks the talk on his well-known dialogue, kicking butt and 'Moby Dick' ANY critic planning to unload on David Mamet's work best tread carefully. He could probably choke...
BRIDGE
CY the Cynic says that the trouble with resisting temptation is that it may never come your way again. Cy showed me today's deal from a penny Chicago game. He...
HOT CRIMES IN THE CITY
New York City gets played; double the screen pleasures; personalized home speaker system; monitor your style and your health; and visualize tunes. Grand Theft Auto IV $60, Grandtheftauto.com Anticipation from...
WEB SLINGER
Black Cab Sessionsblackcabsessions.com A cameraman, a sound guy and an indie music artist cram into the back seat of a cab to record a song, which is the bare-bones premise...
RUSSIAN RINGERS
AMONG the stars of the just-concluded Russian team championship were - Americans. Former US Champion Alexander Onischuk, wearing an "Obama" T-shirt, was the top board for a Moscow team. The...
WALKING CURE
NEXT Sunday is the annual Dogswalk Against Cancer, held simultaneously in Riverside Park and Bear Mountain State Park (for info, call (800) ACS-2345). Now that his cancer is in remission,...
BASH OF THE TITANS
The question isn't why rap's reigning king, Jay-Z, would undertake a real, honest-to-goodness double-bill with Mary J. Blige in a year when his popularity is at an all-time high. It's...
STILL INTO THE GROOVE
Madonna, our lady of perpetual motion, knows that the constant, essential element of her music has always been reinvention and layers of chameleon-like disguises. That lust for change has served...
FILM BYTES
Legendary Pictures founder Thomas Tull tells the Hamilton College alumni bulletin (which is apparently now breaking showbiz news) that if a Superman sequel does get made, the Man of Steel...
MEN OF 'IRON'
Not since Abbott and Costello met the mummy have moviegoers been in for such a mind-blowing cinematic crossover. When "Iron Man" opens on Friday, it not only launches what Marvel...
BEASTIE BOY'S HOOP DREAMS
Madison Square Garden may be home to the Knicks, but Harlem's Rucker Park is the nation's basketball stage. In his new documentary, "Gunnin' For That No. 1 Spot," Beastie Boys...
ISLE BE SEEING YOU
KIM Ki-duk, the maverick South Korean filmmaker, is busy finishing his 15th film, the sleepwalking drama "Dream," but he found time last week to jet from Seoul to New York...
'GOLDEN' BEARS
Philip Pullman has a favorite response to people who ask him if he's worried about what the movie "The Golden Compass" will do to his book of the same name....
NEW RELEASES
27 Dresses Movie: **½ Extras: * (Fox, $29.98) If it weren't for the charms of Katherine Heigl, "27 Dresses" would be yet another soggy lump of romantic dross. As it...
'THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY'
If you have DOUBTs about why painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nod for"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," tune in to his commentary on the...
MAKING THE SCENE...
Bowery Electric 327 Bowery; (212) 228-0228 Despite the plethora of hipster chic lounges and high-end retailers suddenly lining the Bowery, rebels can still plug into the rock 'n' roll scene...
LITTLE ITALY LOOK-ALIKE
Campo 2888 Broadway; (212) 864-1143 Every neighborhood needs a rustic little Italian trattoria for a nice bowl o' pasta and a bottle of Chianti. Now, with Campo, which just opened...
PROOF POSITIVE
1800 Select Silver Tequila Finally, there's a super-premium tequila for people who hate tequila. Ever notice how the best aged tequilas are full of peppery, citrusy traces of the agave...
BRENIZER, 29, AND TSOI, 27
April 12 - Andrea Tsoi and Ryan Brenizer got engaged at the very same spot they met: Grand Central Terminal. She was a Manhattanite, but he was living in Westchester,...
WOLFF, 30, AND BUCHBINDER, 31
April 5 - College sweethearts? Close, but no fraternity pin. Darrell Kate Buchbinder, a freelance makeup artist and executive assistant at Bear Sterns, and Scott Michael Wolff, a senior associate...
FLEISCHMAN, 28, AND HAUSMAN, 28
April 12 - Talk about livin' it up while goin' down! Scott Fleischman and Stacy Hausman met on an elevator, but the doors opened and she almost got away. Luckily,...
TOMES, 32, AND CHAN, 31
March 28 - Daisy Chan couldn't help but laugh when Geoffrey Tomes proposed. "We always joked about it, so when he asked me, I cracked up," says Chan, a personal...
DAVE'S MIXED SIGNALS
State finances are heading south rapidly, and Gov. Paterson seems to understand the gravity of that - "seems" being the key word. Last week, the gov once again warned of...
HARRY REID SMEARS
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has every right in the world to oppose the Iraq war, but does he really need to impugn the honor and integrity of two true...
DANCE OF THE VEILS
Tehran's former police chief Reza Zarei attempted suicide in prison last week, a month after being arrested for consorting with six naked women in a brothel. In the aftermath of...
LIFE IN THE ABSTRACT
In "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," a paranoid federal official interrogates the boys after they're arrested on an airplane with a bong that looks like a bomb and...
WE'RE NOT 'PAST RACE'
The student dropped me off on the corner. I walked up the block a few feet, found the correct house, and started up the driveway. At that moment, a woman...
WHEN ONE FOOL THROWS A STONE ...
What made the FBI wake up now and charge an 84-year-old American Jew with spying for Israel 23 years ago? The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, is...
MCCAIN'S PLAN
For reasons of financial necessity, personal preference and plain politics, John McCain is gearing up to run one of the least traditional presidential campaigns in recent history. But even prominent...
CLASH OF THE INDEPENDENTS
It's electability, stupid. That's what Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have been spinning to super-delegates and anyone else who will listen since she lost her grip on once-inevitable nomination. There's...
BLOG WATCH
Don't fight the tax man A lesson from the Wesley Snipes case at riehlworldview.com "While I personally believe too much is made of alleged civil liberty encroachments under Bush and...
GIVE IT THE HOOK
Enough stories about former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's off-site antics ("New Hooker Reveals Spitzer's Kinky Sex Games," April 24). This story has had enough said about it. Move on to something...
THIRD RAIL SHOCK
George Marlin's article on the MTA's multi-billion boondoggles is right on the money, except that the third LIRR track has the worst cost-benefit ratio of them all ("The MTA's White-Elephant...
BAD MEDICINE
I am the author of "Our Daily Meds," reviewed by Robert Goldberg in "Hard Pill to Swallow" (PostScript, March 30). Goldberg misleads your readers by stating that I never acknowledged...
BAD AIR, HOT AIR
Christie Whitman lied to Americans about the air quality around Ground Zero, and now a judge has ruled that we can't hold her responsible ("Christie Can Breathe Free," April 23)....
NO GREEN GOV
Glenn Harlan Reynolds' article, "Green & Smart" (PostOpinion, April 22), correctly asserts that technological improvement is the only solution to climate change. But his implication that government should fund this...
FACE THE NATIONS
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert KaganKnopf Voters interested in keeping America safe, free and prosperous have a choice. Option No. 1: They can follow...
AMERICA'S FIRST TOP MODEL
American Eve Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu Riverhead Books It all began with a face. In...
REQUIRED READING
The Red Leather Diary Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel (HarperCollins) Like something out of a novel, a chance find in an Upper...
FEARS OF A CLOWN
The Chris Farley Show A Biography in Three Acts by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner ColbyViking "From the day he arrived at 'Saturday Night Live' [in 1990], Chris Farley was...
IN MY LIBRARY
Linus Roache It's hard to challenge Sam Waterson's gruff Jack McCoy in our pantheon of "Law & Order" favorites, but Linus Roache - who joined the cast this year as...
HOT FOR TEACHERS
Relentless Pursuit A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna FooteKnopf "You are quite evidently deranged," Wendy Kopp's senior thesis advisor responded after she described her idea...
PERRY MASON, MYSTERY
OK, so you're Raymond Burr, you're turning 40 and you've finally hit the big time. After years of playing menacing heavies in B-movies and noir thrillers - most notably wife-killer...
NEW BEER MAG CIRC IS FROTHY
The economy may be sour and print media sales flat, but two 29-year-old entrepreneurs from Phoenix have defied the odds with a frothy success story - a consumer magazine covering...
STALEMATE
Microsoft's deadline to strike a deal with Yahoo! or go hostile came and went yesterday without so much as a hint of aggression from its almost-always antagonistic CEO Steve Ballmer....
JOBS HOPING TO ADD REAL 'LIFE' TO VIRTUAL MALLS
STEVE Jobs is already in your head and your heart - and now he may be gunning to win over your virtual soul. The Apple CEO recently revealed that he...
IT'S SHOWTIME. NOT.
Harvey Weinstein is dreaming of life after MGM. The studio chief is said to be reviewing his options for a new pay television distribution agreement, people said - one that...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSSTEVE JOBS Apple CEO reports sales of computers, iPods and iPhones that beat Wall Street estimates.NELSON PELTZ In his third attempt, investor succeeds in buying Wendy's burger chain for $2.4B.ALAN...
ART & THE DEAL
Yet another one-time high-flying hedge fund appears ready to crash to earth. Seven-year-old SageCrest II, which promised investors lofty returns by making art-, real estate- and structured settlement-based loans, is...
TIME TO 'BELLY' UP FOR PREZ HOPEFULS
ALL steamed up about the soaring price of rice, pasta, milk and eggs? This week food inflation rose to the top of the national agenda, amid reports that US consumers...
WALL STREET HAWKS EYE NEW ATM SCAM
Two Wall Street watchdogs are warning investors to study their brokerage statements. The two claim they are seeing a marked increase in theft by brokers - particularly via forged clients'...
WHO IS THE ONE DEFLATING THE INFLATION NUMBERS?
Dear John: The "official" inflation rate is nonsense. Anyone who goes to the market can see that a 30 percent to 40 percent rise seems more like it. What screwball...
CASH DISCOUNT FOR GAS
It's baa-ack! After an absence of about 20 years, gas stations are once again offering motorists discounts for cash purchases. Several north Jersey stations were spotted recently offering 10 cents...
OIL'S SLIPPERY SLOPE
Speculators who've bet billions driving oil prices into the stratosphere face a huge crash to Earth if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hits the off-switch of his rate-cutting machine. That's the...
MEET MARKET
Robbie, a 28-year-old marketing manager, is a nostalgic gent who relies on his wit and a dance move called "the fish out of water" to woo women.Judith, 31 physician Describe...
TOP 5 MOST SUGGESTIVE BEER NAMES
According to brew guzzlers at Cafe Fanelli in SoHo "Lager? I hardly knew her!" - Scott "Dos Equis XX. It's close to being triple X." - Kat "Heineken. I like...
BOLLYWOOD OR BUST
He said ** "She would be perfect for one of my friends." She said** "I was disappointed that Jay was young and still in school." Onlookers whispered and ogled as...
A REAL BRUSH WITH JEALOUSY
I am wicked jealous. My friend Lisa has apparently found Mr. Perfect. I didn't even know I was capable of this kind of jealousy. I think it was the toothbrush...
VIEWERS SHOULD GIVE VULGAR PROMOS THE FINGER
It's the TV industry's campaign to get all of us to embrace the f-word because, heaven knows, we don't have enough profanity in our lives. In case you're keeping track...
FIERCE 'BETTY'
It's a match made in Hot Tranny Mess Heaven: "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano is wooed by Alexis Meade. The cheeky sprite with the plus-sized attitude guest stars as himself...
DON'T MISS
Less of More Poor Thomas More (Jeremy Northam). Having opposed King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn and his subsequent ejection of the Catholic Church from England, he wound up...
PRIMETIME
All life should be attached to a laugh track. It would make things easier; it would remove all doubt. Former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca has made a splash with a...
REEL GOOD
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) Tuesday, 3:15 p.m., TCM Six, count 'em six Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to this phenomenal retelling of the clash...
THE 35 BEST SHOWS ON TV--EVER
Our parents told us TV would melt our brains. While it's possible "Punky Brewster" and "A-Team" did just that, along the way we saw some genius art. Television can't play...