January 25, 2009
Report: Ryan adds two more coaches
Jets coach Rex Ryan reportedly added two more coaches to his staff.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Ryan hired Henry Ellard as his new wide receivers coach. Ellard, who coached the...
Verducci defends Torre
Don't blame Joe Torre.That's the message Tom Verducci, who co-authored Torre's new book "The Yankee Years", takes on SI.com in a brief Q&A with the Web site. Verducci explains that...
Mets updates now on Twitter
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Bucks' Redd Done For Season
The Knicks and Nets pursuit of the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference just got a lot easier.The Bucks, who currently own the final playoff spot, lost leading scorer...
PATERSON, SCHUMER, CLINTON AND GILLIBRAND MEET
Senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand pledged Sunday to combat gun violence while protecting hunters' rights, which she called "a core value" upstate. Gillibrand, whose selection to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in the...
LI WOMAN RUN OVER WHILE TALKING ON CELL PHONE
-- A Long Island woman has died after her car was hit by an accused drunk driver who fled the scene. Police say 25-year-old Melissa Scherr was lost and talking...
EDDY CURRY'S EX-GIRLFRIEND KILLED
An attorney for Knicks player Eddy Curry says a woman found slain in Chicago is Curry's former girlfriend and the mother of his 3-year-old son. Attorney Kelly Saindon said Sunday...
Oscar Watch: 'Slumdog' Cops PGA Prize
The frontrunning "Slumdog Millionaire'' won the top prize early today from the Producers Guild of America, whose picks have coincided with Oscar's Best Picture 12 of the last 19 years....
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS STEPHEN ROSS New York real estate big closes on purchase of NFL's Miami Dolphins. DICK PARSONS Former Time chief moves into the chairman' suite of Citigroup. SERGEY BRIN What...
DAVE'S SWISS BLISS
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson will scurry off to a "junket" in a swank Swiss town this week, escaping from New York just days after his disastrous effort to chose Hillary...
ARIZONA'S DESTINY'S DARLINGS - BET ON IT
THE Cardinals will upset the Steelers and shock the world in Super Bowl XLIII, and here's why: I - They are the Team of Destiny, and Kurt Warner is God's...
WARNER & FITZGERALD FIND WINNING FORMULA
Just throw it. It may not be as profitable as "Just do it" or as in-the-moment as "Yes we can," but the Cardinals would like 37-year-old Kurt Warner to keep...
COLON MAKES JOURNEY FROM BRONX TO HOFSTRA TO SUPER BOWL
Willie Colon was the jackpot Joe Gardi practically never hit in the inner city. "I can remember coming to this clinic, what coaches call a meat market, at John Jay...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH... REX RYAN
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the new Jets coach about his remembrances of Super Bowl III, what he learned from his father Buddy, the kind of team he wants...
MCGAHEE'S KO DIDN'T STOP CHEAP SHOTS FROM PRAYING PLAYERS
COME to think of it, how long is the ride back from Kingdom Come? Late in Sunday's Ravens-Steelers AFC Championship, after Willis McGahee had been wheeled off, ending a solemn...
ROURKE'S 'WRESTLER' PORTRAYAL IS A RARE SPORTS-FILM CLASSIC
MICKEY Rourke may not actually take home the Best Actor statue for his performance as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, the washed-up and washed-out wrestler from the aptly-titled film "The Wrestler,"...
MATTINGLY GOES TO BAT FOR MANNY
HERE are some comments Jeff Wilpon, and other owners, may want to consider about Manny Ramirez. Don Mattingly - who knows something about hitting, and especially hitting in New York...
DOUBLE DOWNED
Doubledown Media, the five-year old publisher of Trader Monthly, Dealmaker and other titles aimed at financial professionals, has put itself up for sale, The Post has learned. Randall Lane, CEO,...
BARACK'S BANK BET
The heat is on the Obama Administration. Congressional leaders are pressing the White House to come up with a plan as soon as this week to save the banks and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * A man was stabbed to death by the mother of his child in Crown Heights on Friday, police said. Michael Jones was arguing with his lover in the...
BREAKING UP HARDER TO DO
Irene Georgakis, a housewife in Queens, filed for divorce after learning on Valentine's Day 2007 that her husband of 24 years had a girlfriend. She thought she'd hit bottom. Then...
WAMU A $12.5B DEADBEAT: IRS
Washington Mutual Inc., the former parent of the biggest US bank to fail, owes $12.5 billion in back taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said in court papers filed in the...
THE REIGN OF THAIN WAS MAINLY JUST A PAIN
WE know why colleagues call former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, "I-Robot." The emphasis was clearly on the "I." This week, with word that Thain spent $1.2 million to redecorate...
GOLDMAN'S RESEARCH TEAM HAS LOST CRED
As stocks tank and Wall Street is re-made, even the best and brightest in the financial sector are getting their reputations shredded. Take, for example, Goldman Sachs, whose equity-research department...
PAPAL PARDON ANGERS JEWS
Jews ripped Pope Benedict's reinstatement yesterday of a British-born Catholic bishop who was tossed out of the church two decades ago after denying the Holocaust. Richard Williams, one of four...
SWAYZE CANCER MEMOIR
Cancer-stricken actor Patrick Swayze is penning a memoir, including an account of his bout with the deadly disease, according to his spokeswoman. The "Dirty Dancing" co-star and his wife of...
ROGUES' GALLERY
When John Thain was forced out as chief executive of Merrill Lynch last week after hurrying through billions in bonuses for executives at the money-losing brokerage and spending $1.2 million...
HEDGIES CASH IN ON BANKS
As banking stocks suffered through one of their worst days ever last Tuesday - Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Bank, JPMorgan Chase and others fell more than 20...
FULD HIDES HOME
Dick Fuld, who piloted Lehman Brothers into Chapter 11 last September, appears to be making moves so he doesn't lose his tony Florida seaside mansion in any civil lawsuits that...
RAMSAY'S GOOSE GETTING COOKED
He's hellfire in the kitchen, but salty celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay may not be able to stand the heat himself as he faces a crumbling restaurant empire, the tax man...
TIMES' MEXICO SAVIOR THE REAL SHADY SLIM
Eighteen months before Carlos Slim, the controversial Mexican billionaire, decided to ride to the rescue of The New York Times empire, a story on the $60 billion man ran in...
BAD ECONOMY HITS SPORTS
The crumbling economy continues to intrude on sports. Struggling insurer AIG, which was taken over by the US government last year, said last week its wasn't going to renew its...
HOUSE-BROKE HAMPTONS
Wall Street woes have wreaked havoc on Hamptons real estate, drying up demand and forcing the rich and famous to swallow millions of dollars in order to get bites on...
SYMPATHY FOR WAMU HOLDERS
Dear John: I have more than 400 shares of Washington Mutual stock. Will it be converted to JPMorgan shares? If so, where can I research the conversion rate? J.P.Dear J.P.:...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
The hunter became the hunted when a shot deer took its revenge. After taking two slugs, the animal turned on Randy Goodman, of Sedalia, Mo., knocking him to the ground...
Romance and STD's: Inside Florida's wild retirees getaway
LADY LAKE, Fla. - It's 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn's gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue's sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new...
RAHEEM MORRIS' RIDE FROM HOFSTRA SECONDARY TO TAMPA BAY SIDELINE
Raheem Morris replaced Monte Kiffin as Tampa Bay's defensive coordinator on Christmas. Less than a month later on Jan. 17, the team stunned the football world when it fired former...
THE RUMBLE
For a single guy, having a girlfriend is good. Watching the Super Bowl is good. But watching the Super Bowl with your girlfriend? Not always so good. So, fella, it's...
DAVE'S SWISS BLISS
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson will scurry off to a "junket" in a swank Swiss town this week, escaping from New York just days after his disastrous effort to chose Hillary...
COACH BID TO BAIL OUT JAIL GUARD
Tilden HS basketball coach Rock Eisenberg is so convinced of the innocence of his former star player Michael McKie - one of three Rikers Island guards arrested last week in...
YANKEE APPLICANTS WILLING TO WORK FOR PEANUTS
More than 2,000 hawker hopefuls lined up at the new Yankee Stadium yesterday hoping to catch food-service jobs at the Bombers' new venue. Laid-off waiters, recent college grads, and even...
LIMB-LOSS MODEL DIES
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A 20-year-old Brazilian model died yesterday from complications related to a rare infection that had forced doctors to amputate her hands and feet. Mariana Bridi...
OBAMA-ISTAS RUSH J.CREW
The First Family fashion craze hit home yesterday, as women and their little girls - eager to pick up some Malia, Sasha or Michelle Obama styles - flooded a J.Crew...
HARLEM TALE SHINES AT SUNDANCE
PARK CITY, Utah - A gritty drama about a pregnant Harlem teenager who turns her life around captured both the top prizes last night at the Sundance Film Festival. In...
HOMETOWN HERO
DANVILLE, Calif. - He may be a hero to the rest of us, but US Airways pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III was nothing but humble when he received the...
FEDS BREAK UP FOWL FIGHT RING
A cockfighting ring that set up bloody bird battles to the death in the basement of a Bronx apartment building was busted by the feds, authorities said. Federal agents found...
O BIDS TO BE PEACEMAKER
In his administration's first stab at brokering peace in the Middle East, President Obama's special envoy to the region, George Mitchell, will go to Israel this week to convene talks...
SERB THUG SNEERS AT AMERICA
The fugitive Serb basketball player accused of beating a Brooklyn student into a coma flaunted his defiance of US justice in a visit to the Serbian parliament in Belgrade last...
TRAVOLTA 'EXTORT' POL QUITS
A Bahamian government official who was charged in a scheme to extort millions from John Travolta stepped down from parliament yesterday in the midst of the brewing scandal. Sen. Pleasant...
IT WAS NO SUICIDE!
What happened to Heath Ledger - a tragic death one year ago on Jan. 22, 2008 - was "an absurd accident," says friend and director Terry Gilliam. As Ledger earned...
MADOFF MIRACLE
A Long Island family that was one of the last to invest with finance fiend Bernard Madoff might end up with the best return - all their money back. Last...
DEAD MAN FOUND IN BURNING CAR
A man was found dead in a car that had been set ablaze behind a Queens restaurant last night, sources said. Rescuers made the grisly discovery near the eatery on...
KENNEDYS LIVID AS GOV ASKED CAROLINE TO 'LIE'
An "apoplectic" Kennedy family is seething over the rough treatment that heiress apparent Caroline got from Gov. Paterson's office and is spoiling for revenge, several sources close to the clan...
DRUNKEN 'ARSON' AT 7 WTC
Ryan Brinkerhoff may be new to New York, but he still should have known that 7 World Trade Center is not the place to play with fire. The 24-year-old commodities...
RANGEL PROBERS AWOL
Nobody's home at the House ethics committee that's supposed to be investigating Rep. Charles Rangel. The panel created on Sept. 24 to probe the Harlem Democrat's alleged ethical lapses has...
POL URGES BUS 'STOP!' FOR FIENDS
City Councilman John Liu is blasting a legal loophole that lets murderers, sex offenders and other criminals drive school buses for 90 days while their backgrounds are checked - saying...
SEX 'CELLS' FOR NAKED TEENAGERS
Spin the bottle? Seven minutes in heaven? That's so last generation. This year's teen courting ritual is "sexting" - sending nude photos of yourself to a boyfriend, girlfriend, crush or...
BRITISH STEPMOTHER'S PROUDEST DAY
As President Obama looked to the future at his inauguration, he kept a big part of his past close by. His stepmother, Kezia Obama, 67, sat in the VIP section...
MIKE PAL BOO$TS DA FOE AMID DEUTSCHE FLAP
TWO weeks before Man hattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau issued a scathing report accusing the city of gross negligence in the fatal Deutsche Bank fire, Mayor Bloomberg's longtime accountant sent...
CRASH INVESTIGATORS 'CHECK' RECOVERED BAGS
Call it baggage handling with crash-and-fold service. Suitcases, carry-on bags and other personal possessions fished out of the Hudson River and pulled from the cargo hold of US Airways Flight...
TORRE RIPS 'A-FRAUD' & BOSS' BRASS BOZOS
Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the...
SALON SUED FOR DIS-TRESS
It was supposed to be a hair straightening - not a hair removal. A Manhattan woman who went to a downtown salon for a "Japanese hair straightening" ended up with...
THE FORCE IS WITH HIM
Tonight at 8, a National Geographic Channel special takes viewers aboard Air Force One, a flying fortress run by a topnotch crew of about 30 Air Force personnel. Before taking...
HALL OF FAME COACH YOW DIES OF CANCER
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast...
NEW COACH, SAME OLD JETS DREAM
* Look out NFL, here come the Jets! It's amazing to me that each and every move this woebegone team makes is sure to guarantee a Super Bowl berth. Less...
JETS HIRE 2 COACHES
The Jets yesterday confirmed Brian Schottenheimer will return as offensive coordinator and hired two assistants for Rex Ryan's new staff. They added Jim O'Neil as defensive quality control coach and...
NO ANSWER FOR PISTON FAILURE
GIVEN a 21-gun sa lute Friday at The Palace by the Mav ericks, the franchise formerly known as the Pistons has gone from the Bad Boys to the Really Bad...
LUNDQVIST: SLOWING STARS UNLIKELY
MONTREAL - The last time Henrik Lundqvist played in this city, he allowed five goals in the opening 23:35 en route to the Rangers' Dec. 4, 6-2 defeat to the...
PHILS' UTLEY IN CHASE TO PLAY '09 OPENER
Chase Utley says his rehab from hip surgery is on schedule, and the Phillies second baseman expects to be ready by opening day. Utley, who underwent right hip surgery Nov....
MOSLEY TKOS MARGARITO TO CAPTURE TITLE
LOS ANGELES - Some thought Sugar Shane Mosley had taken one too many punches when he said he was trying not to be over-confident for his WBA welterweight championship fight...
DOOLING NAILS BIG SHOTS AS NETS SNAP SKID
MEMPHIS - The losing streak was at five and so the Nets searched everywhere for positives. OK, they almost beat the Spurs - but still lost. The Grizzlies, last night's...
STRICK-LY BUSINESS AT HOPE CLASSIC
LA QUINTA, Calif. - Steve Stricker shot a 10-under 62 yesterday to overtake Pat Perez and rewrite a couple of PGA Tour records as he went to 33 under through...
OVECHKIN SCORES A 'HAT' TRICK
MONTREAL - It wasn't quite the Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard donning a Superman outfit replete with a cape to win last year's NBA slam-dunk contest, but Alex Ovechkin, the NHL's...
BIG PLAYS ELUDE KNICKS AS WINNING STREAK ENDS
PHILADELPHIA - Mike D'Antoni often has lamented that the Knicks do not have a star to pull close games out down the stretch. Last night was the perfect example when...
GALLINARI SITS AS BACK-TO-BACK BAN KICKS IN
PHILADELPHIA - Danilo Gallinari has turned into a Garden rock star. But last night at Philly's Wachovia Center, he was taken off stage, as the Knicks' medical staff implemented the...
NO. 1 IS DONE; SAFINA SURVIVES A BIG SCARE
MELBOURNE, Australia - Jelena Jankovic went out in the fourth round of the Australian Open today and No. 3 Dinara Safina was twice a point away from following the top-ranked...
WHITE ON AS SOUTH SIZZLES
MOBILE, Ala. - Local hero Pat White passed for 95 yards and a touchdown and directed two scoring drives to lead the South to a 35-18 win over the North...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Injured Steeler busted Steelers tight end Jonathan Dekker, who spent the season on injured reserve, was arrested early yesterday in Alexandria, Va., and charged with obstruction of justice....
NEW JERSEY TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF
MEMPHIS - Compared to the previous night, the Nets were downright sloppy with seven turnovers last night. After all, they tied a franchise-record with just five Friday, the seventh time...
SHOWING UP HERE'S LEAST THEY CAN DO
MONTREAL - You can't have it both ways. You can't ridicule the NHL All-Star Game for featuring rosters that include players of modest renown and then turn around and ridicule...
NO. 13 UCLA WASH-ED OFF PAC-10 PINNACLE
Freshman Isaiah Thomas scored 24 points and Justin Dentmon returned from foul trouble to spark the decisive late run that sent resurgent Washington to an 86-75 victory over 13th-ranked UCLA...
DUKE SAYS NO MORE TO ST. JOHN'S SERIES
St. John's scored a huge win over Rutgers last night in the Garden, but the Red Storm are losing one of their marquee drawing cards. The Post has learned Duke...
RIP RUTGERS TO ERASE CINCY COLLAPSE
When we last saw the St. John's Red Storm, they were in the midst of going from eight points up to six feet under against Cincinnati on Wednesday night. The...
HUSKIES END IRISH HOME STREAK AT 45
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Hasheem Thabeet and Jeff Adrien stood at the top of the key as the final seconds ran out, held their arms high and smiled widely at...
GAELS ROUT MANHATTAN AS FISTS FLY
Manhattan's Herve Banogle horse-collared Iona's Scott Machado with a flagrant foul that led to punches being thrown and suspensions being levied last night. But while the Jaspers lost their tempers...
HALL NO! P.J. NOT BLAMING '89 REFS
Twenty years after the worst call in NCAA championship game history, the one that almost surely cost Seton Hall the 1989 national title and left Pirates fans bleeding blue for...
CAT UNDER COVER
DEAR DR. FOX: Every time I see an ad for covered litter boxes, I worry about the poor cats that are forced to use them. The ads state these covered...
ACHES & GAINS
MY 14-year-old pit bull Sam is lucky: Back in April, in better economic times, my severely arthritic dog underwent costly stem-cell regeneration therapy. In the Vet-Stem procedure, fat was surgically...
BEAMERS AND BIRD:
Steelers Fans Daddy-O 44 Bedford St.; 212-414-8884; Screens: three; Wings: three styles, $9 an order; Beer: $2 Pabst Owner Phil Casaceli officially registered his bar with the Steelers a few...
SUPER TROOPERS
WHETHER you're in it for the love of the sport, $3 million commercial spots or Janet Jackson's nipple, the Super Bowl holds many charms. And for all the reasons there...
GONZALEZ, 33, AND GONZALEZ, 35
Dec. 8 - Love is in the air - and on air - for Manhattan duo Theresa Gonzales and Irving Gonzalez, whose wedding will be featured on TLC's "Say Yes...
RAINONE, 29, AND HOFFMAN, 38
Oct. 31 - Even though the plot of Sarah Rainone's forthcoming novel, "Love Will Tear Us Apart," focuses on a traditional wedding, this bride's nuptials were anything but the norm....
BOMBARA, 26, AND POLLY, 29
Oct. 4 - Getting engaged was like a dream for Gina Adele Bombara - really! Last February, Daniel Polly, who works in construction management, surprised his bride-to-be with an early...
PEPPER, 32, AND HALPERT, 35
Nov. 9 - On their wedding day, it was all about love and libations for Farrah Pepper and Joshua Halpert. After saying "I do" at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, the...
MEET MARKET
Grab your paintbrush and get ready to talk. Paul, a 37-year-old professor, is looking for a creative chick who can make great conversation - and maybe teach him a thing...
BARELY BOWLED OVER
THE creative juices were flowing when Iyabo, a 24-year-old development associate at a nonprofit, and Jon, a 28-year-old record company executive, met for dinner at Italian spot Opus. The artistic...
TECHNOLOGY
The hottest new gadgets of the week. Kensington SlimBlade Trackball $129.99; us.kensington.com While it may look like one of those executive desktop water fountains, Kensington's new trackball mouse is more...
WEB SLINGER
Star Wars: Retold Funnyordie.com Die-hard fans might clutch their pearls at this retelling of the original "Star Wars" trilogy according to a giggling girl who's only seen bits and pieces...
Kljestan hat-trick sinks Sweden
The U.S. National Team couldn't have asked for a much better opening to 2009. Sacha Kljestan _ lining up a move to Scottish powerhouse Celtic _ notched the 11th hat...
Q & A WITH TIM ZAGAT
RESTAURANT Week is in full swing, and the man who helped dream up the enormously popular dining deal is guidebook guru Tim Zagat. That was back in 1992, when Zagat...
FILM BYTES
Enough with the remakes, says Ralph Macchio. The actor isn't taking kindly to news that Will Smith's 10-year-old son Jaden is set to reprise the role of Daniel-san. "It feels...
'POPPINS' FRESH
IF Walt Disney's frozen head could talk, it would surely express satisfaction at the staying power of "Mary Poppins." Disney considered the 1964 film a crowning achievement (as did many...
TOP 10 TRACKS FOR 2009
Need a jolt of new sounds to keep winter doldrums away? Download these tunes and your iPod will be seriously chillin' (in a good way). * "Daylight," Matt & Kim....
FRANZ FERDINAND: LIVE WIRES
THE driving pop of Franz Ferdinand seems an almost effortless glide at times, as songs steer themselves toward unforgettable hooks with instinctive ease. So it comes as a surprise, when...
KINGS OF THE GARDEN
KINGS OF LEON has opened for bands like U2, Pearl Jam and Radiohead and played before more than 150,000 British hipsters at the Glastonbury Festival. But for lead singer Caleb...
KILLERS ASK: 'ARE WE HUMAN?'
THE meta-analysis of the media can make certain works of art seem plain silly. Case in point: The pivotal line from the Killers' single "Human," from the band's most recent...
U2 SETS EVENT 'HORIZON'
You may have already heard U2's latest single, "Get on Your Boots," the first official release from the album "No Line on the Horizon," due out March 3. It's an...
COLD PLAY
IT'S difficult not to hear a reverberation of the nation's enthusiasm for political change in Bruce Springsteen's new "Working on a Dream," out Tuesday. Given the Obama-esque title, you might...
MY NEW YORK
Of course Paul Bettany's happiness here might have something to do with the fact that he's married to Jennifer Connelly, but never mind that. The acting power couple, who used...
AGENDA
Shop for Japanese brands; eat, drink and listen at the Rainbow Room; bring your pup to a party; preach on through to the other side; and pig out, leave a...
A SEX SLAVE'S AGONY
A movie that got the censors in China bent out of shape, "Blind Mountain," has made it to DVD, courtesy of Kino. The bureaucrats in Beijing forced filmmaker Li Yang...
BRIDGE
HERE'S a riddle for you: How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? The answer is four: Calling a tail a leg doesn't make...
SHE'S A 'REAL' GM
WHEN the world chess federation, FIDE, holds its first presidential board meeting of 2009, it will approve more than three dozen new international titles and make the star of Scotland's...
INAUGURAL O-VERLOAD
What I learned on Inauguration Day.9:09 a.m. - WCBS-2 in New York City is showing weather graphic. Wednesday is 27 degrees and "a touch colder." Thursday, 31 and "thawing out."...
STRAD TO THE BONE
What makes a Strad a Strad? The question has haunted musicians, historians and craftsmen, who puzzle why the most beautiful-sounding violins in history came from the hands of Antonio Stradivari...
2012: THE END IS NIGH!
The end of the world is nearly upon us, but there's a silver lining: At least you know when your 401(k) will finally hit bottom. Mark Dec. 21, 2012 on...
WITNESSES TO HISTORY
It was like "The Canterbury Tales." That's what it was like last Saturday, in LaGuardia Airport, on the shuttle to Washington packed full of people going to the inauguration of...
... AND TONY'S WINNING ISSUE
Meanwhile, Rep. Anthony Weiner has been sounding downright mayoral lately, calling for serious public-employee benefit reform as a way to slash City Hall's long-term financial burden. "Future employees should expect...
MIKE VS. DAVE ...
Just hours after Caroline Kennedy ended her bid for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg was once again clashing - loudly and publicly - with Gov. Paterson. Coincidence? Hardly....
BLOG WATCH
Making YouTube pay "Have you checked out Monty Python's YouTube channel? It's got a selection of their brilliant (as always) clips, and it's got links to buy their DVDs on...
CRYING FOWL
On Sunday, Jan. 18, you ran a cartoon showing geese flying towards an airplane shouting "Allah Akbar." If this was supposed to be funny, it failed miserably. A tragic accident...
CRYING FOAL
It's clear to see that Liam Neeson is sticking his nose into something that he knows nothing about, and he come off sounding like a fool ("Liam Bridles at Horse...
FALLING FLAT
In his PostScript column, "The Road to Flat City," (Jan. 18) Arthur B. Laffer advocated a flat tax. You can't blame him for trying. Nevertheless, advocating a flat tax after...
CHILLY, AL?
I noticed Al Gore at the inauguration bundled up, wearing an overcoat. I would have expected him to dress in accordance with his belief in global warming. Vincent DiPippo, Yonkers
FINGER POINTING
I read with concern the story on the failure of the state and local agencies to move to electronic fingerprinting ("Prints of Darkness a Peril to Schoolkids," Jan. 18). This...
CELEBUTARDS
Celebutards. They eat, sleep and breed just like ordinary humans. But at some point between the moment a movie script wanders into the hands of a world-class celebutard such as...
WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO?
With the possible exception of Apple, Google is probably the biggest corporate success story of the past decade. It's adapted superbly to today's fast-moving technological and economic changes. Its rivals...
SIMA'S UNDERGARMENTS FOR WOMEN
Hidden beneath the red and orange brick two-story homes of Boro Park, Brooklyn, is Sima Goldner's basement lingerie shop, where for 35 years she has practiced the mystic art of...
REQUIRED READING
The Rules of the Game by Leonard Downie Jr. (Knopf) Longtime Washington Post executive editor Len Downie proves himself something of a soothsayer with his first novel, which, along with...
INSIDE GITMO
As expected, Barack Obama's first presidential order was to close Guantanamo, although he doubtless disappointed activists by giving his team a year or more to accomplish that task. In the...
IN MY LIBRARY: ELISABETH MOSS
In David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," Elisabeth Moss plays a temp whose life is transformed when a Hollywood hotshot asks her to read a spec script. It's supposed to be a "courtesy...
DON'T BARACK THE BOAT!
THE boating industry is asking President Obama not to shut out the recreational angler. The industry has called on Obama to stop using Presidential proclamations to bypass environmental reviews such...
'69 METS WILL BE MEN ABOUT TOWN
The Mets' 1969 World Championship is almost 40 years gone, but far from forgotten. And the men who made it happen will be coming to town to bask in the...
REALITY BITES
No one ever got famous on reality TV by being nice. The contestants we remember scheme and lie, take advantage of others' good natures and engage in winning power plays....
THE NEW MAD MEN
If television is to be believed, the world of advertising is one where the most talented executives can take three-hour-three-martini lunches, spend weekday afternoons dallying in bed with their lover...
BANANA SPLIT
Since her breakthrough role in the hit Australian comedy "Muriel's Wedding" in 1994, Toni Collette has managed, every few years, to be in the big movie everyone was talking about....
THE REAL 'LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE'
The ghost of Jon Benet Ramsey looms large over the child beauty pageant world on display in the new Learning Channel series "Toddlers and Tiaras." Going behind the scenes, the...
MARTHA DOES 10TH ST.
During the week of January 26 "The Martha Stewart Show" will tour the restaurants of E. 10 Street. On Monday, Stewart visits the ultra cozy Graffiti, which only has four...
REEL GOOD
THE FLAMINGO KID (1984), Tuesday, 8 p.m., Ch. 55 Gary Marshall's wondrous classic about Brooklyn-bred Jeffrey (Matt Dillon) who spends the summer after high school working as a beach club...
IN AND OUT LIST
STARSIn: William Petersen His exit from "CSI" drew between 24 and 25 million viewers. Which network will snap him up next?Out: Patrick Swayze Despite massive promotion and a walk-up interview...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA THE CLOSER, Monday, 9 p.m., TNT Getting 'Closer' - During the September cliffhanger, Detective Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) was shot three times and airlifted to a hospital, cradled in Brenda's...
PRIMETIME
The state of elected government in this country is beyond belief, beneath contempt and out of its mind. Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell on Jan. 12 nominated Greenwich resident and World...
DRUNKEN 'ARSON' AT 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER
Ryan Brinkerhoff may be new to New York, but he still should have known that 7 World Trade Center is not the place to play with fire. The 24-year-old commodities...
RUSH LIMBAUGH FIRES BACK AT OBAMA
President Obama's call for Republicans to ignore Rush Limbaugh if they want to "get things done" with the new Democratic majority, featured in today's Post, sparked a war of words...