May 2, 2008
Alou part of opener vs. D'backs
The return of Moises Alou highlights the lineups for tonightâs showdown here with the NL-leading Diamondbacks, who send 4-1 Micah Owings to the mound against the Metsâ John Maine. Alou...
Where the magic happens
Weâll take a momentary break from Mets coverage to clue you all in on one of the true pleasures of traveling on the West Coast. Yeah, Iâm talking about In-N-Out...
All Eyes Focused on Italy
By CLEMENTE LISIWith Inter on the verge of winning a third straight Serie A title, the focus of Italian soccer fans after this weekend will be on their beloved national...
TOM CRUISE: I'D JUMP ON COUCH AGAIN
CHICAGO -- Tom Cruise says his couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" seemed to set off a "confluence" of bad publicity for him, but he's not sure he would take...
HOW LONG CAN JETER PLAY SHORT?
FROM JOEL SHERMANIn its weekly notes package assembled by the always helpful Mike Teevan, the Commissioners Office showed a stat that Derek Jeter had moved into the top 10 for...
3 DOWN: How Long Can Jeter Play Short?
1. In its weekly notes package assembled by the always helpful Mike Teevan, the Commissioners Office showed a stat that Derek Jeter had moved into the top 10 for games...
FOSSELLA APOLOGIZES FOR DRUNK DRIVING ARREST
A Republican congressman who reps Staten Island and part of Brooklyn is apologizing profusely for his drunken driving arrest, and is begging forgiveness from his family and constituents. Vito J....
PRIEST ADMITS TO KIDDIE PORN
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A priest was sentenced to about 3½ years in prison Friday after admitting he collected hundreds of child pornography images off the Internet. Thomas Saloy, 47,...
Jets sign 10 free agents
The Jets have signed 10 rookie free agents: Brett Byford (C, Nebraska, 6-3, 300); Jehuu Caulcrick (RB, Michigan State, 6-0, 255); Kenwin Cummings (LB, Wingate, 6-2, 258); Nate Lyles (S,...
Scene: NYC streets
Alison Hertweck wears a plaid jumper from Old Navy with a trench from Joyce Leslie. The Parsons student adds necklaces from the flea market, boots from a boutique in the...
Box Office: 'Iron Man' Gets Off to a Flying Start With $4.5-$5.5 Million Thursday Night
Paramount isn't going to release figures for Thursday night's 8 p.m. showing of "Iron Man'' until Sunday night, but Steve Masonreports that other studios are estimating a take of between...
ON DECK: MARINERS AT YANKEES
The bullpen was the Yankees' biggest concern when they started the season, but a month into the schedule the relief corps has been the most reliable unit on the team....
GIANTS SIGN SIX ROOKIE FREE AGENTS
The Giants yesterday signed six rookie free agents and released two players from their roster, defensive back Andrew Shanle and tight end Marcus Freeman. Both ended last season on the...
Dykstra sued by partner
Lenny Dykstra and publisher Doubledown Media are in a legal battle over control of the second, yet-to-be-published issue of Dykstra's magazine, The Players Club.The finger-pointing by both Dykstra and the...
ON DECK: METS AT DIAMONDBACKS
The desert has been the Mets' home away from home the past three years, although you wouldn't know it from talking to Billy Wagner. The outspoken closer, who ripped Oliver...
Mets coverage in today's Post
The Mets have owned the Diamondbacks in Phoenix the past three seasons, but that could change this weekend. Not only is Arizona sending a Murdererâs Row of starters -- led...
ACCUSED STALKER: I NEVER MEANT TO SCARE UMA
Uma Thurman's creepy stalker took the stand this morning and tried to explain away his sick letters as just an act of creative writing. Maryland-resident Jack Jordan, who faces up...
Hopkins still fuming over Giampa's nod for Calzaghe
Chuck Giampa's recent retirement as a boxing judge comes two weeks too late for Bernard Hopkins. As featured on ESPN.ComBy GEORGE WILLISLOS ANGELES -- Chuck Giampa shouldn't expect any retirement...
LISTS: Ms. F's Top 10 for summer
Pauline Frommer puts the "fund" in new Newfoundland this summer (AP). The Duchess of Deals, Baroness of Bargains, Empress of Econo, Sultana of Savings, Maharani of Mo' Money (OK, we'll...
Soccer on TV
Here's what we'll be watching this weekend. Enjoy!Saturday, May 3FOX SOCCER CHANNELEngland: READING-TOTTENHAM (live), 10 am.England: BOLTON-SUNDERLAND (live), 11:55 am.GOL TVGermany: SCHALKE-HANNOVER (live), 9:30 am.Spain: ZARAGOZA-DEP. CORUNA (live), 4 pm.Sunday,...
Estrogen Overload?
As noted earlier, "Iron Man'' scored a whopping 95 percent positive reviews at our corporate cousin, Rotten Tomatoes. The only other flick opening in wide release, "Made of Honor'' with...
Starr Report: 'Faith, Trust and Pixiedust'
Natasha Bedingfield Speaking of albums, Natasha Bedingfield, who performed on Wednesday night's "American Idol," saw her single, "Pocket Full of Sunshine," shoot to #3 on iTunes immediately after the show.Last,...
Champions League: A Negative Final
By CLEMENTE LISII know I'm not alone in saying that an all-English Champions League final will not benefit soccer. If the semfinals are any indication, Manchester United and Chelsea will...
Detroit Destroys Depleted Avs
Johan Franzen celebrates one of his three goals. He scored nine goals in the 4-game series against Colorado, a record. The only sweep of the conference semis was completed last...
Warners Mulling Stage 'A Star is Born' With Jackman Even As It Rescues '37 Original from PD Hell
Coincidentally, while Riedel was banging out his column yesterday afternoon, I was on the phone with Daniel Selznick, whose legendary father David O. Selznick produced the '37 version. Daniel revealed...
Shephard family ties
Was anybody seriously fooled by the "Lost" promos that Jack might die? When you show flashforwards, you sorta give it away that certain characters are going to survive. Claire Then...
Two Heads at Warner Indie?
With Warners well on its way to absorbing New Line Cinema, with a resultant flurry of pink slips, attention is focusing on Picturehouse, New Line's specialty film arm formed out...
POOR YANKEE ROSTER CONSTRUCTION
FROM JOEL SHERMANThe Yanks have a case of terrible 40-man roster construction. They are so top heavy with pitchers on the 40-man roster that the only position player who was...
3 UP: Hughes' Innings, Yanks' Roster, Farnsworth's HRs
1. Keep in mind now that Phil Hughes will be lucky to get 120 innings in this season between the minors and majors. That means he is still not going...
STATE COFFERS FEEL WALL ST.'S WOE
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's top economic adviser declared New York a state in recession yesterday, poised to lose 70,000 Wall Street and other jobs while its revenues drop off the...
MIKE SET TO WHACK CUT IN PROPERTY TAX
The city hauled in $1.9 billion more in revenues than anticipated in January, but Mayor Bloomberg predicted yesterday that the party's about to end - so he's withdrawing a 7...
OIL FOILS SUMMER TRAVELS
ALBANY - Eight out of 10 New Yorkers say they're going to cut back on their summer vacations because of the runaway cost of gasoline, according to a poll released...
'MIRACLE MAN' MARINE DIES
A brave Manhattan-born Marine - whom doctors nicknamed the "Miracle Man" for surviving burns to 97 percent of his body after a roadside blast in Iraq three years ago -...
AT BAT FOR THE YANKS
Hardhats at the new Yankee Stadium are among a legion of generous Post readers who have donated close to $1 million to help wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. The ironworkers...
REPO RAPS UP LIL' KIM'S CAR
Repo men hauled off Lil' Kim's Bentley after she fell at least four payments behind. Channel 11 news cameras tagged along with two New Jersey repo men for a story...
FERTILITY MAKES FEM VOICE SEXY
A lady's voice seems sexier to both men and women at the time of the month when she is most fertile, according to a new study released yesterday. Scientists at...
POLS GET FREE RIDE
The city's top elected officials will no longer have to reimburse the treasury when they use their taxpayer-funded official cars and drivers for purely personal purposes, The Post has learned....
NERVOUS JURY NAILS MOB KIN IN B'KLYN SLAY
A jittery Brooklyn jury convicted the son of a Genovese associate for a gory 2005 knife murder, but not before asking the judge to lock down the courtroom until panel...
50+ SEX-BIAS CLAIMS SOCK BLOOMY FIRM
Nearly five dozen women now say they faced sex discrimination because they became pregnant while employees of the financial-news company Mayor Bloomberg founded - and the number of alleged victims...
NIXZMARY STEPDAD GUILTY AGAIN
Nixzmary Brown's killer had another conviction added to his record yesterday. Cesar Rodriguez, 29, pleaded guilty to hiding a shiv in his cell at Rikers Island as he awaited trial...
'FREAKED OUT' UMA SOBS
Screen star Uma Thurman played herself in a real-life courtroom psycho-drama yesterday. The slender, 6-foot-tall stunner spent a day on a Manhattan witness stand, describing her two years of terror...
'TIX BLITZ' FAKERS GET WRIST SLAP
Two NYPD traffic agents who found it easier to write fake tickets than look for real violations were sentenced yesterday to five years' probation. Raheem King and Davey Griffin, who...
SHOT AT TRANSIT GLORY
The search is on for the subway's best undiscovered talent. Fifty-five musicians performed their hearts out yesterday in an audition for "Subway Idol" - an MTA-hosted contest to earn a...
DWI COP KILLER BLOTTO: WITNESS
A New Jersey firefighter was in a drunken stupor when he mowed down and killed an off-duty cop on the West Side Highway, a police officer testified yesterday. Robert Derian's...
SORRY FIRE FOOL
One of the two disgraced members of the Bravest who torched the front of a firehouse apologized yesterday for his drunken deeds and was sentenced to five months in jail....
'STARE SLAY' FIEND GUILTY
A Brooklyn man was convicted yesterday of killing a man as the two rode in separate cars. A jury found Robert Maffei, 25, guilty of murder for firing a deadly...
CAPO'S CROSS WORDS
Bonanno crime-family big Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano wants his 7-year-old son to improve his vocabulary, but the feds are getting in the way. The jailed-for-life mobster sends his son, Anthony,...
COP BUSTED AS A RAPIST
A rookie NYPD officer faces rape charges after allegedly forcing himself on a sleeping woman in a Manhattan hotel room, The Post has learned. Kevin Johnson, of Brooklyn, was busted...
COP'S SON, 18, IN FATAL STAB
The 18-year-old son of a female NYPD officer was stabbed to death yesterday in Brooklyn, authorities said. The teen was knifed at about 6 p.m. in a hallway inside an...
TERRIFYING TEMPLE OF TOT-TOSSERS
Muslim worshipers in an Indian village took part in a shocking ritual in which they dropped babies nearly two stories from a temple roof. The disturbing tot toss has been...
VITO JAILED IN DWI
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Rep. Vito Fossella, facing a tough re-election bid this fall in his Staten Island district, was arrested for drunken driving early yesterday in a Washington suburb and...
MERRY MARRIED CAREY
"Touch My Body" singer Mariah Carey, 38, got secretly hitched yesterday to her 27-year-old boyfriend after a one-month relationship, shocking the chart-topping songbird's family and friends. Carey married TV actor...
MADAM SUICIDE TRAGEDY
Facing up to five years in prison for running Washington's most notorious escort service, "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey killed herself yesterday in a storage shed at her mother's Florida...
REV. TAKES POLL TOLL ON OBAMA
Barack Obama's once high-flying poll numbers are sinking fast in key states after a brutal week in which he denounced his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for rants that...
NC CUTS OFF SUSPICIOUS POLITICAL CALLS
North Carolina's attorney general has put a halt to automated phone calls that told blacks to register to vote after the state's registration deadline for Tuesday's primary had passed. The...
'STRAY AT HOME'
A shocking 34 percent of mothers reported having had an extramarital affair after the birth of their children, according to a study released yesterday. More than half, 53 percent, of...
GUYS GO FOR CURVY GALS
Big girls take heart - a new poll of 60,000 men found that guys preferred curvaceous women to skinny minnies. The men's mag FHM polled its readers with pics of...
BATTERERS UP, NAOMI
Naomi Campbell is finally hitting something other than the hired help. The ferocious fashion model was taking her whacks on a baseball diamond in LA yesterday, filming a scene for...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * A gun-toting thug was arrested in connection with a violent apartment robbery in Washington Heights, authorities said yesterday. Jorge Arias, 20, and two accomplices allegedly forced their way...
DAIRY STATE 'O' VOTERS: NO REGRETS
RACINE, Wis. - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has wiped the sunny shine off Barack Obama. But here at Kewpee Hamburgers diner in a state much like Pennsylvania and Ohio, folks...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 506; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 7531; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 388; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
WILFULLY DEAF
Uh-oh: New York's finances are in deep trouble - on both the state and city levels. And while no one ever likes to say, "We told you so," well ....
$810,000 - AND GROWING
Construction workers gathered yester day at the new Yankee Stadium to celebrate the completion of the ball park's steel skeleton. A worthy ceremony indeed - especially as a group of...
WHO NEEDS VIGILANCE?
SOMEONE should tell The New York Times what happened on 9/11 - it ap parently has no clue. If it did, it never would've run that 4,500-word, front-page tearjerker Monday...
WHAT I LEARNED AT 'ANTI-JIHAD U'
LAST month, I visited one of the largest Islamic schools in the Middle East. It's run by the US military - for detainees in Iraq. The suspected insurgents also participate...
THE 'COJONES' PRIMARY
IT's starting to look like a "toughness gap." His chant: "Yes, we can." Her chant: "Yes, we will." Obama likes to say, "I may be skinny, but I'm tough." Hillary...
BAND-AID FOR HOSPITAL BOTCH-UPS
* The state Department of Health's new policy to withhold payment for procedures that result in medical errors is a positive first step, but it does not go far enough...
KILLING A TRADE DEAL: COLOMBIA BETRAYED
* As a Colombian-born US citizen, I agree with Michael Fumento's point of view regarding the Colombia FTA ("Unions' Big Colombia Lie," PostOpinion, April 28). I know that John Sweeney's...
WARREN BUFFETT-ED IN ANTITRUST PROBE
Warren Buffett's empire is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general for allegedly using credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service - of which Buffett is a major shareholder - to squeeze...
COUNTING DOWN
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a town hall style meeting yesterday told the software giant's employees that he would announce his next move in the ongoing standoff with Yahoo! "in...
DYKSTRA SWINGS AWAY
Former Mets outfielder-turned-magazine entrepreneur Lenny Dykstra is embroiled in a bitter legal brawl with the publisher of Players Club, a financial advice and lifestyle magazine aimed at affluent pro athletes...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TAKES TOP HONORS AT MAG AWARDS
NATIONAL Geographic was the top winner at last night's National Magazine Awards, winning three prizes, followed by Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair, which snagged two. No one title dominated this year's...
APPLE WILL SELL MOVIES WHEN DVD IS RELEASED
Score another victory for Apple boss Steve Jobs in his bid to win Hollywood's support for selling movies as digital downloads through iTunes. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company said yesterday that...
IPG GIVES UP BATTLE WITH SEC, PAYS $12M
Ad giant Interpublic Group agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges that it overstated earnings for a six-year period, ending a long-running probe into its accounting practices. The holding...
LENDER MAKES TRACKS
Troubled CIT Group is telling investors it has fielded offers from as many as 20 bidders for its railcar leasing business. The Manhattan-based commercial lender, run by CEO Jeffrey Peek,...
HEDGE FUNDS SUE BANKS OVER CLEAR CHANNEL BUY
Two big Clear Channel Communications shareholders are injecting themselves into the heated dispute between six Wall Street banks and the private-equity firms that agreed to buy the radio giant for...
BEAR HIRE TO BOOST BOFA
Bank of America is picking at the bones of fallen investment bank Bear Stearns. Charlotte, NC-based BofA has hired Cary H. Thompson, a senior managing director with Bear in Los...
THE NEW DEAL TURNS 75
Today's page looks at 75 years of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Programs. ON Oct. 24, 1929, Wall Street crashed, sending the world's economy into a spiral. Less than...
ADVANCE DERBY BETS ARE AVAILABLE TODAY
Advance wagering on the Kentucky Derby will be available at Belmont Park and all off-track betting outlets in the tri-state area. The Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby Daily Double will...
SPORTS SHORTS
OBITUARY: Ex-Dodgers GM dies at 93Buzzie Bavasi, who built Dodgers teams that won the World Series in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, died yesterday. He was 93. His death was announced...
HONDO: SAWX IT TO 'EM
Hondo plunged into double figures yesterday when K.C. failed in Texas, cutting the profits to 60 bowas. Tonight, he expects the Bosawx to get some revenge for last weekend's broom...
'BROWN' LOOKS RED HOT
Rick Dutrow Jr. trains undefeated Florida Derby winner Big Brown, the favorite for tomorrow's 134th Kentucky Derby. This week he shares his insights with Post readers. As told to Ed...
JONES HOPES TO CAST 'SPELL'
LOUISVILLE - "Cowboy" Larry Jones has a shot for a rare sweep starting with today's Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. Jones, trainer of Oaks favorite Proud Spell, hopes to become...
BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 134TH KENTUCKY DERBY
To view The Post's Bettor's Guide, click on the image on the right. Then, to view the horse of interest, click in its area on the page.
NEW YORK'S FAKE FIVE
NOW you see him, now you don't. Is the New York State Lottery in the scam business? Does it run bogus games attached to bogus claims? As far as I'm...
HEART PROBLEMS FOR DERRICK COLEMAN
SOME information is bet ter left unlearned. Yet I wouldn't be doing my job justice if I didn't report that Derrick Coleman, 41 come June 21, is in urgent need...
MAD SCRAMBLE FOR THE ROSES
LOUISVILLE - Strip away the fog of tradition - the mint juleps, the garland of roses, "My Old Kentucky Home" - and you can see tomorrow's 134th Kentucky Derby for...
CHALK WILL FLY AT CHURCHILL
LOUISVILLE - The 134th Kentucky Derby tomorrow, with 20 horses stuffed in two starting gates, may be a watershed in the long history of thoroughbred racing with shocks piled on...
GREEN MEANS GO FOR GHOLSTON, JET ROOKIES
Today is like Christmas morning for Eric Mangini and his assistant coaches. The Jets begin their three-day minicamp for rookies and undrafted free agents, and that means they'll get a...
FIRED MAVS COACH ON KNICKS' RADAR
Knicks president Donnie Walsh made preliminary contact with Avery Johnson yesterday to express interest in interviewing the fired Mavericks coach and is also monitoring the Suns' situation with Mike D'Antoni...
TRYING NOT TO TRIP OUT WEST
PHOENIX - History says the Mets are 11-1 at Chase Field here since the start of the 2005 season. More recent history - namely, the month of April - says...
RENNEY HOPES WIN PLANTS SEED OF DOUBT IN PENS
Finally, after four games, Tom Renney has a head game he can play. He hopes his Rangers have cracked open the Door of Self-Doubt on the only team in the...
RANGERS AREN'T ON ICE YET
There was one more victory salute at center ice, one more chance for Jaromir Jagr, named the night's second star, to bathe in the adulation of a Garden crowd that...
KING EARNS HIS CROWN
THE roar through the "Star Spangled Banner" was half as loud as it had been for Game 3, an occupational hazard for a team that lost that contest to invite...
MURCER BACK ON TV TONIGHT
For a change, the Yankees are getting a key player back. Bobby Murcer is scheduled to make his 2008 broadcast-booth debut tonight, having missed the season's first month to recover...
YOUNG YANKS PHIL-ING BAD
It's going to be a short, tarnished 2008 season for Phil Hughes. Hughes may pitch again for the Yankees this year, but it's not going to be immediately after his...
. . . AS KENNEDY GOES AWRY
For the Yankees, it's three straight unimpressive games. For Ian Kennedy, it's been nearly all unimpressive games. Kennedy was hammered again last night, serving up four runs in 42/3 innings...
TIME FOR HUGHES TO DEAL WITH ADVERSITY
IT WAS March 2007, early in spring training, and Phil Hughes had just taken a 34-pitch, seven-man tour through the Minnesota Twins in his first real test as a hot...
Pundits posting odds on Willie
It seems more than a tad premature, considering the Mets are just a half-game out of first place and all, but Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal already has Willie Randolph in...
Immature Perez a conundrum
Reporters love talking to Billy Wagner because heâs never afraid to say exactly whatâs on his mind and, to use a favorite sportswriting phrase, can fill up your notebook. The...
WINNING 'ENDGAME'
'NOTHING is funnier than unhappiness," famously declares one of the characters in "Endgame." That one line perfectly encapsulates the comically mordant tone of Beckett's absurdist classic, now receiving a first-rate...
HOOKING UP WITH 'LIAISONS' A SAFE BET
VICE and depravity wrapped up like a box of bonbons, costumes to die for, a dashing swordfight - and while virtue isn't rewarded, at least the wages of sin are...
WISH HUGH WERE HERE
HOLD on to your panties, middle-age ladies from the suburbs: Your boyfriend, Hugh Jackman, is making his way back to Broadway. Jackman, who single-handedly turned the feeble "The Boy From...
NOT ALL ROCKIN' ROBBINS
NEW York City Ballet's gala Tues day - black-tie and class chow - not only launched its spring sea son, but the Jerome Robbins Celebration, as well. During its nine-week...
PROMS FROM HELL
IF the title, "THS Investi gates: Prom Nightmares," has you thinking "big fat, hot prom mess" with overweight girls bulging out of their too-tight prom dresses and boys in horrifyingly...
STARR REPORT
Ernie Borgnine, whose au tobiography, "Ernie," will be out in July, has been in town the past few days schmooz ing. He and his editor at Ken sington, Gary Goldstein,...
HILLARY HELPS O'REILLY
Hillary Clinton boosted Bill O'Reilly's numbers big-time Wednesday night. Clinton's first-ever visit to Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" averaged 3.7 million viewers, a 42 percent increase from O'Reilly's year-to-date...
MILEY DUCKS THE CAMERAS
MICKEY Mouse appears to be corralling Han nah Montana away from reporters. Miley Cyrus will not be attending her first scheduled public appearance since Vanity Fair pub lished photos that...
'RUNWAY' GOES TO LA
FIRST the Brooklyn Dodg ers and now this. "Project Runway," the high-style reality series synonymous with New York's fashion industry, is heading to Los Angeles. The sixth season of "Runway"...
'STROKES' VICTIM
Gary Coleman is banging his head against a wall over his unhappy marriage - literally! Coleman, 40 - the former child star of "Diff'rent Strokes" - has "anger issues" that...
BRIDESMEN ARE MORE THAN A MOVIE TREND
DAMIAN Possidente will never forget his best friend's wedding last summer. He was clad in a sleek, navy tuxedo, his boutonniere intact - the perfect image of a groomsman walking...
DEMPSEY IS MCDREARY IN MAN-MAID WEDDING
'MADE of Honor" is something old, it's something new, it's something borrowed and it's something that blows. When Harry and Sally went to see "My Best Friend's Wedding," they could...
MAMET, DAMMIT
WITH "Redbelt," we speak of David Mamet. We. Are. Speak. Ing. Of Mamet. Do you hear this thing that I am telling you? What the f - - k did...
ALIENATION AND ORIENTATION
SURPRISINGLY entertaining, "Hollywood Chinese," a fast-paced survey of how the Chinese have been portrayed in American films from the silent era to the present, is packed with unexpected delights. Filmmaker...
HONG KONG WONG: REBEL WITH A CUZ
IF your only encounter with Wong Kar-wai, the revered Hong Kong filmmaker, has been "My Blueberry Nights," his disastrous English- language debut, do yourself a favor and see "As Tears...
SOLDIER BOYHOOD
TWO small British boys film a homemade se quel to "First Blood" in "Son of Rambow," an '80s coming-of-age comedy with more energy than ideas. One kid is a shy...
XXY
THE Argentine drama "XXY" is a teenage love story with a twist: The "girl," Alex, is a hermaphrodite. Alex lives with her parents in a remote area on the Uruguayan...
FUGITIVE PIECES
AS plodding and pretentious as it is ambitious, Jeremy Podeswa's "Fugitive Pieces" is a Holocaust drama that spans decades as it moves from World War II Poland to Greece and,...
MISTER LONELY
A lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) meets an ersatz Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) in Paris. Naturally, the two of them move to a Scottish colony of fellow celebrity imitators...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
CURB YOUR LAUGHTER May 2 - Comedy Jeff Garlin is the man with the unenviable task of being Larry David's manager on "Curb Your Enthusiasm. But this weekend, he gets...
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. Music Box Theatre, 239...
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. 236 W. 45th St.;...
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": ** A stellar cast,...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
LOU REED: New York City's legendary singer/songwriter son celebrates this concert venue's first birthday Monday night at 7. HighLine Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St.; (212) 414-5994. MARY J. BLIGE and...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Monday: Jeremy Schonfeld. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: the Yellowjackets. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. LINCOLN CENTER: Through Sunday: The Sing Into Spring...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: The New York Philharmonic performs its concert version of "Camelot," Wednesday through May 10. Lincoln Center, 132 W. 65th St.; (212) 875-5656. BAM: The Brooklyn Philharmonic puts...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER: The 123 Festival features up-and-coming talent from secondary companies at Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and others, through May 11. (See joyce.org for complete schedule.) 175 Eighth Ave.; (212)...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Elaine May's famous flop "Ishtar" (1987), starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, unspools tonight at 9 and Tuesday night at 7. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181, anthologyfilmarchives.org....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
ROMANIA DAY FESTIVAL: A street fair tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Broadway between Fulton Street and Battery Place. ANNUAL VILLAGE FAIR: A street fair on Broadway from...
PREVIEWS
"BOEING-BOEING": Christine Baranski and Bradley Whitford star in the revival of this 1962 comedy. Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens Sunday. "TOP GIRLS": Marisa Tomei and Martha...
REYES CAN'T SHAKE SLUMP
PHOENIX - A miserable September looks like it carried over to April for Jose Reyes. The All-Star shortstop, whose .205 average the final month of 2007 contributed to the Mets'...
TRYING TIMES FOR TRACK ATHLETES
For more than a century, the U.S. sprint corps has owned their Olympic events like no other team has dominated its disciplines. But victory doesn't always bring vindication, and American...
GOLDEN GOODBYE
LOS ANGELES -- Bernard Hopkins has his own ideas how Oscar De La Hoya should end his career and, of course, Hopkins being Hopkins, he figures he should share the...
DON OF A NEW DAY
When Don McPherson enrolled at Syracuse, the Orange were coming off a 2-9 season, and the glory days of Ernie Davis and Ben Schwartzwalder seemed a distant past. By the...
TIME TO BATTLE THE BLUES AND BASS
THINGS are starting to pop in the New York Bight and the waters around Long Island with the arrival of hungry bluefish. Blues and bass are offering some nice action...
Shot ... Season Saved!
By BRETT CYRGALISWith about 6:30 left in tonightâs decisive Game 4 at the Garden between the Penguins and the Rangers, defenseman Dan Girardi put a big body check on Penguins...