May 23, 2008

Red Bull notes

By BRIAN LEWISCaptain Claudio Reyna’s injured calf and forward Jozy Altidore’s ingrown toenails seem to be in the rear view mirror, with both apparently set to play in the Red...

EX-TROOPER IN DIRTY TRICKS SCANDAL FIRED BY STATE

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The former trooper at the center of allegations that a rogue state police unit did dirty tricks for two New York governors has been fired from his...

SNY: Pedro to throw Sunday

According to the Mets' TV network, Pedro Martinez is expected to throw a bullpen session in Port St. Lucie on Sunday. Martinez had been scheduled to pitch that session this...

Girardi suspended for tonight's game

Joe Girardi was suspended for tonight’s game after kicking dirt on umpire Chris Guccione in the ninth inning of Thursday night’s 2-1 win over Baltimore.Girardi disputed a foul tip that...

Minaya on his way to Denver

GM Omar Minaya (pictured) is scheduled to join the Mets here in Denver for this weekend's three-game series with the Rockies and is expected to meet with Willie Randolph before...

Wings' Franzen out for Game 1

APRed Wings forward Johan Franzen practiced for over an hour today with his teammates, but hasn’t been cleared by doctors to return to game action following concussion-like symptoms. Franzen, the...

3 UP: Me on TV, Backman and Igawa

1. Forgive me for the shameless plug, but this is my third year as part of My-9’s Yankee post-game show for home games. And, well, tonight is a Yankee home...

HILLARY RAISES ASSASSINATION ISSUE

Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. "My husband did not wrap up the...

ON DECK: MARINERS AT YANKEES

Two teams with high expectations. Two teams in last place in their divisions. That's the situation tonight when the Yankees play host to the Mariners for the first of a...

WARNING ISSUED AFTER LOVE DRUG KILLS MAN

NEW YORK -- Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man. The alert went...

Posh gets 'Ugly' again

"Ugly" is so in right now. First Naomi, then Lindsay and now the one-and-only Victoria Beckham is returning to "Ugly Betty" for a long-term run.The show was so thrilled with...

Box Office: Indy's $25 million opening day

Forget those predictions that "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' will take the crowns for the best Memorial Day Weekend and Best 5 Day Opening away from...

ON DECK: METS AT ROCKIES

The Mets' road trip continues, and as they head west they try not to head any further south in the NL East standings. Perhaps the thin Colorado air will cure...

Rumor mill

The Post's Page Six reports that Alec Baldwin and the producers of "30 Rock" haven't yet agreed to keep him on the NBC hit past the middle of next season.What...

NEW SUICIDE ROCKS STATE POLICE

In the second suicide to rock the New York State Police in less than two weeks, a forensic scientist with the embattled law enforcement agency hanged himself this morning after...

Terry, Your Slip is Showing

I wish I knew who to thank for the image in this post; it's the best reaction I've yet seen to John Terry's spectacular failure from the spot during the...

He Said: Blair Underwood

"My character is so unique. I see him as a chocolate Richard Branson."- Blair Underwood on his billionaire character Simon Elder in "Dirty Sexy Money"

Deal of the Day-Steven Alan

Get your gams in shape and your gladiators ready to wear with this frock.The Denim Zander Dress from Steven Alan is the perfect summer dress.The scoop neck tank dress has...

Starr Report: 'Spirit' moves him

Louis makes his next big-screen appearance this Christmas in "The Spirit," starring Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson.* * *That was Rene Syler, together with Jeanine Pirro, over at Pirro's...

THE DANGERS OF BLOGGER LOVE

What happens when you fall for someone who airs every detail of her life on the Internet? As Joshua David Stein found out, romance can never win in a sphere...

When a song's title is "Sexual Sportswear"...

American Apparel, multi-colored masters of cotton, jersey, primary-colors and layering, get their fingers in the music biz -- they announced yesterday that their Euro stores will be stocking Sebastien Tellier's...

Friday Frivolity: Soap spoof

It's the Friday before Memorial Day, so there isn't anything on your desk that could be more important than getting psyched about the 9021-do-over.And what better way to get in...

REPORT: 2 US DIVERS MISSING OFF AUSTRALIA

Two Americans have disappeared off the north Queensland coast after failing to return to their dive vessel, the Courier Mail of Australia reported exclusively. The two American tourists are missing...

What if Torre dodged L.A.?

From JOEL SHERMANI believe the following: If Joe Torre had not taken the Dodger job, he would be the Mets’ manager right now. There are a few items temporarily saving...

3 UP: Torre, Alou and Randolph vs. the Wilpons

1. I believe the following: If Joe Torre had not taken the Dodger job, he would be the Mets’ manager right now. There are a few items temporarily saving Randolph’s...

Mets coverage in today's Post

It's a sobering day for the Mets. Despite decimating their farm system to land Johan Santana (pictured) and forking out the NL's highest payroll, they are now below .500 after...

LIVEBLOG: In Belgrade, vote rocked

It's Day 2 of our live report from the Eurovision song contest in Belgrade. (Bet that's a sentence you don't hear every day!) Our correspondent reports on last night's festivities:This...

A TIME TO REMEMBER THE NATION'S HEROES

Memorial Day is more than just a three-day weekend. Read on to see how and why, this celebration came to be. THE Everyone looks forward to Memorial Day - the...

JETS COUNT ON JENKINS

That wasn't the beginning of a solar eclipse that Chad Pennington was witnessing as he peered over center across the line of scrimmage in yesterday's offseason practice at Hofstra. It...

LIBERTY TURN BACK MYSTICS

Liberty guard Erin Thorn referred to the team that lost big in the season opener as, "that other New York team." That team didn't rebound, didn't play tough defense and...

JOBA'S MORE THAN AN EIGHTH WONDER

THIS is what the Yankees needed to do to kick-start their season. You could see it in Joba Chamberlain's eyes last night and in the way the Yankees played. Chamberlain...

GIRARDI TOSSED FOR FANS

Livid over a call against Jason Giambi, an irate Joe Girardi threw a raging tirade last night that got him ejected. In the ninth inning of the Yankees' 2-1 win,...

TAKING TIME TO STRETCH

There are going to be incremental steps for Joba Chamberlain as he transitions into the rotation. The second one is slated for tomorrow. Manager Joe Girardi said yesterday that Chamberlain...

YANKEES CAN-O'S ON SINGLE IN NINTH

Way to give your sleeping team a kick in the pants, Joe. Robinson Cano delivered the winning hit last night, but Joe Girardi may have been the real catalyst of...

WANG PUSHED BACK

Chien-Ming Wang passed one test yesterday, throwing without pain in his right calf, but the Yankee right-hander will pitch Sunday against the Mariners instead of tomorrow as originally scheduled. Manager...

GIRARDI: REPLAY FOR HRS

Yankees manager Joe Girardi reacted positively yesterday to news that instant replay might be implemented on an experimental basis for the Arizona Fall League. On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez was deprived...

JEFF VAN GUNDY

ESPN/ABC analyst and former Knick coach Jeff Van Gundy talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about the conference finals, new Knick coach Mike D'Antoni, and Van Gundy's TV colleague, Mark...

LIONS ROAR AGAIN

Like just about everyone else who graduated from Columbia on Tuesday, Henry Perkins and John Baumann have solid futures ahead of them. Perkins has a job in finance lined up,...

'DRIVE' AWAITS IN BELMONT

Big Brown, the undefeated master of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, will be odds-on when he goes for a sweep of the Triple Crown in the 140th Belmont Stakes on...

BIG OPPORTUNITY

THE 55,000 people that will pack the City of Manchester Stadium in England tomorrow night are coming there mainly to see native son Ricky Hatton. But as far as Brooklyn's...

THE SEASON'S OFF TO A FLYING START

IT HAS been anamazing couple of weeks leading up to the start of the summer season for saltwater fishing. We've seen a 19.12-pound weakfish (a potential world record) taken by...

LADIES & GENTLEMEN

Any talk of the Indy Racing League usually starts and ends with Danica Patrick. As Sunday's 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 approached, nothing changed, with Patrick coming off her...

HONDO'S TEX. MESSAGE

Hondo went down the drain yesterday in Boston, getting flushed with the Royals to lower the earn ings to 225 cloningers. Tonight, Mr. Aitch is battling the odds and the...

DANOWSKI HAS DUKE ON TRACK FOR CROWN

John Danowski didn't go to Duke despite the ugly 2006 scandal that devastated the program when three players falsely were accused of rape, costing a disgraced local district attorney his...

SPORTS SHORTS

GOLF: Wagner cards 63Johnson Wagner shot a 7-under 63 to grab the lead in the first round of the Colonial Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. Phil Mickelson and Brett Wetterich...

BELOW-AVERAGE JOE ONE MORE ESPN FLOP

IN a TV world gone nuts, ESPN is operating from the deep end. The nation's all-sports network (for crying out loud) has made both Monday Night Football and Sunday Night...

THOU SHALT 'COVET'

THOSE in the know reveal Jerry Reinsdorf's business-like approach (vs. Donnie Walsh's unchecked enthusiasm) to Mike D'Antoni's recruitment was the major factor in choosing the Knicks over the Bulls. "Mike...

SWEEP-WALKING

ATLANTA - Willie Randolph couldn't even count on Johan Santana to stem the bleeding last night. With Randolph and the Mets needing him to be a stopper in the worst...

PEDRO: 'I HAVEN'T CONSIDERED RETIREMENT'

ATLANTA - Pedro Martinez apparently isn't so eager to retire, after all. Shooting down a story in the Daily News, the Mets' three-time Cy Young winner told ESPN's Spanish-language Web...

MOISES BACK ON THE DL

ATLANTA - Moises Alou was back in a familiar place yesterday: the disabled list. The Mets' oft-injured left fielder has been shelved for at least 15 days after straining his...

UNCONFIDENCE GAME

ATLANTA - Silence from ownership might have spoken volumes about Willie Randolph's shaky job security yesterday. Randolph admitted he was rebuffed after reaching out to Mets owner Fred Wilpon and...

HARRIS ON GUARD

Nets point guard Devin Harris knows better than to discount trade rumors. "You never know. Obviously, I've been a big part of rumors, as well, so you never know what's...

PAYING COPS WHAT THEY'RE WORTH

THE ISSUE: The long-awaited ruling giving pay hikes to NY cops in exchange for concessions. The Post's editorial board obviously believes the old adage "If you keep repeating a lie,...

CAN FOSSELLA SAVE FACE WITH HELP FROM FRIENDS?

THE ISSUE: How the media covered the Fossella scandal and news that he won't run for reelection. Do you mean to tell me that Mark Foley, David Vitter and Larry...

BEHIND THE ISRAEL-SYRIA TALKS

EVERYONE had been dancing around the idea of Israel-Syria peace talks for at least a year. Why are they happening now? Will they get anywhere? Negotiations are under way now...

OUR SCHOOLS, ALBANY'S RULES

CITIES rise and fall on the strength of education - it's the most important responsibility of local government. It isn't just about an obligation to our children. The quality of...

GAY-VOWS DOUBLETALK

Barack Obama might be the first major candidate for president to support same-sex marriage. He won't say as much. His definition of a "new politics" is capacious enough to allow...

MOMENT THE WORLD CRUMBLED

These pictures paint the sad tale of one of the deadliest earthquakes in modern times, from a new angle - through the lens of a wedding photographer. Wang Qiang awaited...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 841; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 7690; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 904; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 2691;...

HOT TO INDICT IN DEUTSCHE FIRE

Prosecutors are pushing to indict those responsible for the Deutsche Bank fire before the anniversary of the tragic August blaze, Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau said yesterday. Morgenthau stayed mum on...

WANNABES BETTING ON 'GONG' SHOT

"The Gong Show" is making a comeback. NBC's classic '70s talent-show parody, where failures were ushered out to the sound of a bang, is getting another shot this summer on...

SNIPES STAYS FREE FOR NOW

Convicted tax crook Wesley Snipes can remain free pending his appeal, a Florida judge ruled yesterday. The "Passenger 57" star was sentenced to three years behind bars April 24 for...

CONS FILM FESTIVAL

Looks like the only person who wants to hang out with anger-management- challenged model Naomi Campbell is another ex- con. Campbell showed up to the premiere of "Che" Wednesday at...

GROUNDSWELL OF CALLS FOR O-HILL UNION

Barack Obama yesterday launched his search for a running mate - as Democratic calls for a "marriage" to rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reached new heights. With the party sharply...

AIRLINE PRICING SOON WILL BE FEE-FOR-ALL

High oil prices will soon make planning a plane trip like ordering off an "a la carte" menu as carriers begin imposing fees like American Airlines' planned $15 charge for...

OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is into a split ticket - at least when it comes to her footwear. The embattled Democratic presidential underdog was sporting a mismatched look yesterday in...

MAC & OBAMA AT WAR OVER GIS

John McCain and Barack Obama declared war on each other yesterday after battling over a controversial measure to boost benefits for military veterans. Obama, in a highly unusual instance of...

THANKS, AMERICA

Looking relaxed and sounding thoughtful, Sen. Ted Kennedy yesterday called the outpouring of caring and support since his cancer diagnosis "very uplifting, very touching." In his first interview since the...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BrooklynPolice yesterday were searching for the Dyker Heights bank robber pictured above. The 6-foot, 210-pound suspect, wearing a reddish fake beard, demanded cash from a teller in the Capital One...

'WISEGUY' DA KEPT ON ICE

A Queens prosecutor suspended for having ties to a reputed wiseguy can't return to work despite the mobster's recanting his wild allegations against her, authorities said yesterday. Joseph Bonelli, 26,...

$25M A LOT OF GREEN

She was a girl from Brooklyn who never forgot her roots, and yesterday, Shelby White donated $25 million to the beloved borough of her childhood, as well as to The...

GOV TO HAVE 2ND EYE OP

Gov. Paterson hit the airwaves yesterday as he prepared to undergo a second procedure today to prevent glaucoma from spreading to his right eye. The legally blind governor told WAMC...

LARRY WINS DELAY TO WOO MERRILL

The Port Authority yesterday agreed to give Ground Zero developer Larry Silverstein an extra six months to build one of his World Trade Center towers to try to lure financial...

BQE TRUCKER DIES DESPITE CRASH VICTIM'S HEROICS

Despite burns and bruises, lifeguard David Cabrol squeezed out of his crushed, burning car and tried desperately to save the life of the truck driver who had smashed into him...

JUDGE USES A SILENCER ON BLOOMY

Mayor Bloomberg won't be able to say his piece about the gun menace on the city's streets at the upcoming trial of a Georgia gun dealer, a judge ruled yesterday....

PATCH GIRL'S BIRTH MOM IN $50M SUIT

The biological mother of a 6-year-old Manhattan girl who died after her foster mom allegedly used a painkiller patch on her filed a $50 million notice of claim against the...

BANDIT ACTING A-LOAN

A Bronx man has come up with a creative way to beat the credit crunch - when a bank won't lend you money, just rob it. Harry Fournier, 43, tried...

DA DONOVAN WON'T SEEK VITO'S SEAT

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan - the GOP's favored man to succeed disgraced Vito Fossella in Congress - announced yesterday he would not seek the office. Fossella, who has...

MIKE'S ILLEGAL DRINK

The Brooklyn Bridge was the toast of the town last night, but Mayor Bloomberg was one of just a few allowed a drink in its honor - and even that...

I WANT THE TRUTH

The heartbroken parents of a firefighter killed on 9/11 yesterday defended the lawsuit they've filed to stop their son's fiancée from collecting a share of his pension. Marian Prior, the...

FEST FIRE ALARM

SoHo fire companies would not have the necessary manpower if a blaze were to break out on a block obstructed by a street festival, FDNY sources warned yesterday. Mulberry Street,...

VIGILANTE SLAP

An Orthodox Jewish vigilante group, under fire in Brooklyn after one of its members attacked a black man, uses "Soviet-style tactics" and continues to operate "outside the boundaries of the...

PROBER FEELING CRUSH OF $LUSH

The job of probing the City Council's slush fund has grown so large that the city's top watchdog said yesterday she needs more investigators to handle the "crushing" workload. Investigations...

NEW YORKER CARTOONIST A REAL 'COPY' MACHINE

A New Jersey man says the New Yorker is using an old cartoon - his. Jon Rau, of Warren, said a cartoon he's had up on his Web site since...

SCHOOLYARD BEATING

Top state lawmakers yesterday flatly rejected Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's plea for them to loosen restrictions on how the city can spend millions of dollars in education aid. State Sen....

B'DAY SPARKLER

What a blast! The Brooklyn Bridge turned 125 yesterday with a spectacular birthday bash that drew thousands of revelers from around the world. The crowd was dazzled by a 15-minute...

$2M BAIL FOR 'MOB BOSS'

The reputed acting boss of the Gambino crime family was granted $2 million bail yesterday - so he can go back to his $700-a-week job. John "Jackie Nose" D'Amico has...

PEEK & SAY: I SEE LONDON!

Thanks to an artist's tunnel vision, a New Yorker can stand in Brooklyn, wave to someone in London - and see the Brit waving back. The jolly good show is...

ID GUARDIAN'S ID RIPPED OFF

The CEO of LifeLock claims that his company's identity-theft protection service is so good that he puts his own Social Security number up on billboards and in televised ads. But...

NEW 'OLD' BUS IS ON DECK

The city's bus fleet could be headed back to the future. New York City Transit is mulling a test program to run double-decker buses in Manhattan, possibly before the end...

BILKED BACKERS IN PAYBACK BID

People who lost their life savings to a crooked financial adviser are hoping for bidder news - now that some trinkets seized from his luxury lifestyle were auctioned off yesterday....

MURDER RAP FOR 'ROBBER'

A gunman who shot and killed the owner of a Staten Island liquor store before bolting with the cash register was charged with first degree murder yesterday, cops said. John...

WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE

1 Trains skip 28th, 23rd and 18th streets in both directions. Downtown trains skip 86th and 79th streets. Uptown trains skip 103rd, 110th, 116th and 125th streets. No trains between...

EKSTRACT'S EXTRACTION

MEDIA entrepreneur Richard Ekstract is putting Hamptons Cottages & Gardens and three other regional shelter magazines on the block. His reason: The longtime Hamptons resident wants to travel the world...

YAHOO! BOARD BAILOUT

Yahoo! yesterday pushed back its annual meeting and announced that board member Edward Kozel had stepped down amid pressure from billionaire activist Carl Icahn, who wants the Internet icon to...

FROM RAG$, RICHE$

Specialty-apparel giant Gap said first-quarter profit surged 40 percent despite plunging sales as the retailer's tight inventory controls boosted margins. The San Francisco-based company, which is looking to turn around...

FEDS CUFF FOUR MORE IN STREET KICKBACK CAPER

Four Wall Streeters, including one who used to work at Morgan Stanley, were arrested yesterday and led from their homes in handcuffs as part of a criminal investigation related to...

B &N TAKES A LOOK AT BORDERS

Barnes & Noble said it has assembled a team of executives and financial advisers to explore a possible purchase of rival book- retailer Borders. New York-based Barnes & Noble, which...

TYING KLEIN'S HANDS

Behind Chancellor Joel Klein's pleas for modest relief from Albany's school-spending rules is a simple question: Who should run public education in this city - state lawmakers or Klein and...

LEBANON: PEACE IN OUR TIME

So much for the political isolation of Iran and its terrorist surrogates, Hezbollah and Hamas. Western nations, led by the US, yesterday welcomed the Arab League-mediated deal that gives Hezbollah...

BARACK'S BOCA BATTLE: WINNING OVER SYNAGOGUE SKEPTICS

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Does Barack Obama have any close Jewish friends? That was the bottom-line question one voter hit him with yesterday during his visit to the B'nai Torah...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Looks as if gas prices might be pushing people back into the dark ages. A Tennessee farmer has hooked his tractor to a pair of mules to gather hay in...

'IDOL' ENDS WITH BANG

ROCKER David Cook was far from the only winner on Wednesday night's "American Idol" finale. The network scored with about 30.7 million viewers, who altogether cast 97.5 million votes. Cook,...

STARR REPORT

'Spirit' moves him The Bronx's own Louis Lombardi ("24," "The Sopra nos") will be at the Hoboken International Film Festival June 1 for the screening of his movie "Doughboys" at...

'SHARK' CHIC

JUST when you thought it was safe to go back to the couch, along comes the truly frightening "Shark Swarm," an unoriginal "original" TV movie about sharks gone wild in...

'HEY, I'M THE NORMAL ONE'

SIZE matters to more than men. Controversy has been swirling around Whitney Thompson for a week now, ever since she was crowned the first plus-sized winner of "America's Next Top...

'F-BOMB' SUE TEAMS UP WITH OLD CO-ANCHOR

SUE Simmons will be reteamed with long-time co-anchor Chuck Scarborough at 6 p.m. weeknights as WNBC/Ch. 4 shakes up several of its newscasts. The "f-bomb" anchor- woman, who uttered the...

CANCEL THIS ONE, POSTHASTE

AT last: Uwe Boll has made his first intentionally funny film. Boll, the German director of shlocktastic video-game-themed movies, seems to be relishing the current Internet campaign to get him...

IRAQ & ROLL

YOU are pushing 40. You are Canadian, but that is mollified by living in the East Village and working in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Or is it?) You are kind of famous...

WORLDS COLLIDE, MAKE QUITE A SMASH

I was quite fond of "Head-On," German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's brutal 2004 ode to nihilism. Now I find myself fond of Akin's newest feature, the softer "The Edge of Heaven,"...

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

IT'S time to ask: Has any war, ever, inspired such a heavy proportion of truly dreadful fictional movies as the current conflict in Iraq? I mean, even the Civil War...

GUNNING FOR OUTRAGE

DID you hear the one about the schoolgirl who loses her left arm in a fight with mobsters and has it replaced by an eight-barrel machine gun (shades of Rose...

THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI

BEAUTIFUL but boring best sums up "The Children of Huang Shi," a melodrama set during Japan's invasion of China in the late 1930s. The cinematographer, Zhao Xiaoding (who worked with...

HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD

JUST when I thought the war in Iraq had been examined from every possible angle, along comes "Heavy Metal in Baghdad," a fascinating documentary on the country's only heavy metal...

GOOD CH-CH-CH-CHANCES

CLINT Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh have premiered their ambitious new films at the Cannes Film Festival, where "No Country for Old Men" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" began...

SPIN IS IN AT SEASON PREMIERE

AFTER a none-too-gala opening, American Ballet Theatre this week got down to the real business of its eight-week season at the Met. This came with the season's premiere of Marius...

TOY THEATER FESTIVAL IS NO SMALL FEAT

IF the phrase "toy theater" con jures up images of Legos and Hello Kitty dolls, you don't know toy theater. The form dates back about 200 years, and was hugely...

VARIETY'S THE SPICE OF JEROME ROBBINS' WORKS

CHOREOGRAPHY is an art of the inevi table - a way of setting dance to music to make it seem its footprints are forever embedded in the score. Jerome Robbins...

NONPLUSSED ON NONPROFITS

AS the Tonys approach, Broadway al ways gets a little nutty. Everybody's tally ing up their votes, bad-mouthing the competition, howling when the press dismisses their chances of winning. Here...

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...

FILM

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Lee Man Hui's "The Marine Who Never Returned" (1963), a classic from Korean cinema's "Golden Age," screens tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BAM:...

DANCE

FIT:New York tap-dancers and the Frank Owens Trio unite to honor Maurice Hines Sunday night at 7. Haft Auditorium, 227 W. 27th St.; (718) 232-1852. JOYCE THEATER: Moses Pendleton's Momix...

FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...

LOWER THIRD AVENUE SPRING FESTIVAL: A street fair on Third Avenue between Sixth and 14th streets, tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. TIMES SQUARE FAIR: On Seventh Avenue between...

POP, ROCK, FOLK

THE EAGLES: Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden; (212) 307-7171. FIREWATER: Tod A's recently added an international flavor to his band's punk sound, which will be on display...

CABARET

CAFE CARLYLE: Through May 31: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S: Through May 31: Bebe Neuwirth. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095.

BROADWAY

"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-winning play is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239 W....

PREVIEWS

"OCCUPANT": Mercedes Ruehl stars in Edward Albee's work abuot sculptor Louise Nevelson. Peter Norton Space, 555 W. 42nd St.; (212) 246-4422. Opens June 5. "SAVED": A new musical comedy, based...

CLASSICAL

CARNEGIE HALL: The New England Symphonic Ensemble plays Mozart's "Vesperae Solennes de Confessore" Sunday at 8:30 p.m. and Brahms' German Requiem Monday night at 8. Seventh Avenue at 57th Street;...

WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT

ALL IS FAIR IN ART AND CULTURE ART - May 23 The 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts starts tonight at 6, with free theater, music, dance,...

JAZZ

DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA: Tonight and tomorrow: The Brazilian Festival celebrates 50 years of bossa nova. Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street; (212) 258-9595. JAZZ STANDARD:Tuesday through June...

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,...

Reyna expects to play, other Red Bull notes

Reyna expects to play By BRIAN LEWISClaudio Reyna and Seth Stammler are both listed as questionable for the Red Bulls’ Sunday game against Chicago; but it’s looking more and more...