January 30, 2009
ABC Let's Lauren Graham Go
"Gilmore" gal Lauren Graham is returning to the little screen to play a self-help guru in "Let it Go." Apparently, Graham's character fails to follow her own advice about letting...
MICHAEL STEELE BECOMES FIRST BLACK RNC CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON -- Michael Steele was elected Republican National Committee chairman on Friday, defeating the incumbent party chief and three other challengers over six rounds of voting to become the first...
NY MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER KILLED FATHER, STEPFATHER
Under intense grilling by a prosecutor, a woman accused of poisoning her two husbands with antifreeze continued pinning the deaths on the daughter authorities say she tried to kill and...
WORKER FALLS NEAR NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
A construction worker was hospitalized for leg injuries after a scaffold collapsed on a rooftop across from the New York Public Library this morning, trapping the man in a pile...
DMX SENTENCED TO 90 DAYS IN JAIL
DMX has been sentenced to 90 days in a Phoenix jail. The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, also was placed on 18 months' supervised probation Friday by a...
Review: Fallout 3 DLC: Operation Anchorage: Hey, Part Of That Rhymes
Every time I sit down to play Fallout 3, I tell myself the same thing: Eh, I'll play for like half an hour and then come back to it later....
Bruney gets $1.25 million
APReliever Brian Bruney and the Yankees agreed Friday to a $1.25 million, one-year contract, settling the team's last salary arbitration case. The deal raised the projected opening-day payroll above $198...
Commish dodges Plax question
By BRIAN COSTELLOTAMPA, Fla. - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell showed moves that would make Plaxico Burress jealous when discussing the Giants receiver's future today. Goodell was asked why the NFL...
WHITE HOUSE: BAILOUT PLAN WILL ADDRESS BONUS PAY
WASHINGTON - The White House says its upcoming financial plan will clamp down on the salaries and bonuses paid to Wall Street employees whose firms receive taxpayer help. This administration...
Rodgers won't say Favre was separate
Aaron Rodgers appeared on "The Michael Irvin Show" Thursday and would not comment on whether Brett Favre separated himself from his Packers teammates at the end of the 2007 season.Favre...
DEALS: Ski Sun Valley, late season
Sure it's got the most unflattering name in the business, but Bald Mountain is the pride of Idaho's Sun Valley ski resort (its neighbor, Dollar Mountain, doesn't have it a...
BLOOMBERG: WALL STREET LOSSES WILL TOP $47B
The only way to put an end to the city's bleak financial future is by slashing 20,000 jobs, raising taxes, cutting city services and getting help from the federal and...
Roundup: Manny, Abreu, Ayala
Albert Pujols is encouraging the St. Louis Cardinals to sign Manny Ramirez."I speak with Manny every three days and he tells me, 'Man, no one wants to sign me,' "...
BLOOMBERG: WALL STREET LOSSES COULD TOP $47B
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Wall Street firms are expected to lose a total of $47.2 billion for 2008, and even more in 2009. The figures are devastating for New York...
FEDS FOIL FANNIE MAE 'COMPUTER BOMB' PLOT
The feds have foiled a diabolical plot unleashed by a disgruntled Fannie Mae worker who tried to wipe out all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide...
Catholic Bishops Snub 'Doubt'
Lay reviewers for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- known as the "Legion of Decency'' during my childhood, when we scanned lists posted in the back of Immaculate Conception...
Stop the Presses! Newspaper Hires Critic!
At a time when newspapers all over the U.S. are laying off critics, I'm extremely proud that The Post is apparently the only major paper in the U.S. to actually...
ST. JOHN'S FRESHMAN VANISHES
A St. John's University freshman disappeared more than a week ago and her family is flying to the city today from North Carolina to help cops find her, authorities said....
Donald Trump's Charm School
Apparently, Donald Trump doesn't watch VH1.Trump, who will fire a whole new freshman class of celebrities on "Celebrity Apprentice" March 1, follows the whip of Sharon Osbourne ("Charm School") by...
Report: Citi deal under fire
In an interesting (but not surprising) twist to the whole Citi Field naming-rights fiasco, Newsday reports that a couple of out-of-state congressmen have written a letter to new Treasury Secretary...
CATERPILLAR TO CUT 2,110 JOBS
Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. announced 2,110 new job cuts on Friday as it scales back production to match lower demand in a slowing global economy. The world's largest maker...
OBAMA TASK FORCE TO 'LEVEL PLAYING FIELD'
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders Friday that he said should "level the playing field" for labor unions in struggles with management. Obama also used...
STOCKS SLIP AFTER GDP REPORT, MIXED EARNINGS
Stocks are falling for a second straight day as investors worry that the economy is rapidly getting worse. All the major indexes are down more than 1 percent at midday...
Is Anne Thompson's Blog Following Her Out Variety's Door?
When Variety shockingly whacked the highly respected Anne Thompson, this week, she announced on her widely read Variety blog that she was "in negotiations'' to continue having the blog hosted...
'HAUNTED' LONDON HOSPITAL TO 'EXORCISE' SPIRIT
Spooked staff at Derby's new Royal Hospital claimed a black-clad figure wearing a cloak was stalking wards and corridors. Now chiefs at the £334million NHS site are to summon a...
GI WRAPS SELF IN BOX FOR SON'S BIRTHDAY
DAYTON, Nevada - Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was. The kindergartner was so engrossed in the cupcakes his mother brought to his class...
Last Stop: New York City
It was "Idol"-mania last night as Simon and crew hit up two cities for one show. New York City (home to the New York Post) was one of the stops...
2 NY BANKS TURN OVER MADOFF ASSETS TO TRUSTEE
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. agreed to transfer a combined $534.9 million from accounts owned by Bernard Madoff's investment firm to a trustee overseeing...
US PUTS $20M FOR GAZA RELIEF
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has made an emergency contribution of more than $20 million for urgent relief efforts in the Gaza Strip. The contribution came Friday, a day after...
OCTUPLETS' FAMILY BROKE
The California woman who gave birth to octuplets filed for bankruptcy nearly two years ago and was forced to move in with her parents because of the skiddish economy --...
Box Office: Quiet Super Bowl Weekend
Super Bowl weekend -- when business typically drops 75 percent on game day -- is often dominated by chick flicks at the box office, but maybe not this year. Steve...
EXXON MOBIL PROFIT SHATTERS US RECORDS
Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from...
ECONOMY SHRINKS AT 3.8 PERCENT PACE IN 4Q
The economy shrank at its fastest pace in nearly 27 years during the fourth quarter of last year - plunging the nation's economy deeper into recession following the financial meltdown...
Mets sign Maine, avoid arbitration
From JOEL SHERMAN The Mets have reached agreement with John Maine on a $2.6 million contract, avoiding arbitration, The Post has learned. Maine also can earn $25,000 by pitching 200...
METS SIGN MAINE
The Mets have reached agreement with John Maine on a $2.6 million contract, avoiding arbitration, the Post has learned.Maine also can earn $25,000 by pitching 200 innings.Maine is coming off...
Report: Jozy Altidore to go on loan
U.S. striker Jozy Altidore my go out on loan after all, according to a Spanish report. La Liga's Villarreal is on the brink of completing a loan deal to second-division...
JOE PUBLIC
GREG GALLO Steelers, 27-23 STEVE SERBY Cardinals, 23-17 PAUL SCHWARTZ Steelers, 31-30 MARK CANNIZZARO Steelers, 28-27 RALPH WIMBISH Steelers, 24-13 RICO Cardinals, 21-17 DAVE BLEZOW Steelers, 27-13 TIM SULLIVAN Steelers,...
STEELING MONEY
WHEN trying to predict what's going to happen in a Super Bowl, it's easy to get caught up in all of the stats and awash in all of the opinions...
PICK WARNER AND YOU'LL BE A WINNER
The winner of multiple major handicapping championships against world-class competition, The Wildcat returns. Including the1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against...
HONDO HOLDS THE CARDS
Hondo did a spread split with the Cards and Ravens in the Conference title games, which left him tied for second place, a game behind Paul Schwartz with one to...
'PRACTICE' MAKES SHANNY PERFECT
BOSTON - The NHL's 11th-best all-time goal-scorer begs to differ with conventional wisdom. Brendan Shanahan says his knack is an acquired skill. "Practice," Shanahan said, is the root of his...
PREVIEWS
"GUYS AND DOLLS": Oliver Platt and Craig Bierko head the cast of the 1950 classic. Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. 41st St.; 212-921-8000. Opens March 1. "UNCLE VANYA": Austin Pendleton directs...
GIAMBI BROTHERS LIKELY TO TESTIFY IN BONDS' TRIAL
Federal prosecutors plan on having Jason Giambi and his brother Jeremy testify at Barry Bonds' perjury trial in March, according to a published report. It looks like an apparent effort...
SERENA SHOOTS FOR FOURTH AUSSIE TITLE
MELBOURNE, Australia - Serena Williams has been there before - three times in fact. The closest Dinara Safina has been was watching her brother celebrate his title. On the line...
MIDSHIPMAN LEADS CHURCHILL BRIGADE
Champion 2-year-old colt Midshipman, winner of the Oct. 25 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, yesterday was named 126-pound highweight on The Jockey Club's Experimental Free Handicap ranking last year's...
WFAN DUO FLUNKS CREDIBILITY TEST
'NEW Joe Torre book causes uproar, will retail for a few dollars more in Canada, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports, confirms, reports again." There's nothing quite like a tell-all/told-to sports book...
U.S. LOOKS TO GET BACK ON TRACK
When the starting gun goes off at the Millrose Games for the 102nd time - it's the longest continuously-running event at the Garden - the spotlight will be on the...
JACOBS: NO BURRESS PREVENTED GIANTS REPEAT
TAMPA, Fla. - If Plaxico Burress had not screwed up, the Giants would be here and on Sunday they'd capture their second consecutive Super Bowl title: Though some suggest that...
'BAD LUCK' JET PULLS FOR OLD CARDINALS MATES
You may excuse Calvin Pace if he's feeling a bit left out this week. The Jets linebacker, signed as a free agent before this season, spent the first five years...
POLAMALU KEY TO STEELERS' TENACIOUS D
TAMPA, Fla. - The black hair flows freely and fittingly out of the back of his helmet, because Troy Polamalu flows freely to the ball, oftentimes as a blur, a...
T'WOLF STUD SNUBBED FOR ROOKIE SHOWCASE
STUMBLEBUM that I am, I have stumbled across a situation whose level of egregiousness falls somewhere between Bernie Madoff and Bernie Goetz. I haven't been this outraged since the dawn...
STEELERS EXPECTING BAG OF TRICKS
TAMPA, Fla. - The Steelers know all about the affinity Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt has for trick plays. After all, the former Steelers offensive coordinator called one the last time...
SPORTS, SPRINGSTEEN MAKE US FEEL GOOD - AND YOUNG
TAMPA, Fla. - We'll get to the Boss in a second. First, let's start with Mike Tomlin, the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who the other day may have summed...
WARD SAYS HE'LL PLAY AND PROVE NAYSAYERS WRONG
TAMPA, Fla. - Even Hines Ward is getting a little tired of his right knee. "Every day it's something about my knee," Ward said. "I think my knee deserves an...
RANGERS OBTAIN REITZ FOR 'LEVERAGE'
The hermetically sealed roster has been penetrated. The Rangers have come to the conclusion that the personnel that has produced a 29-17-4 record isn't sufficient to go as deep into...
NETS' HARRIS NAMED EAST RESERVE
When the Nets dealt eight-time All-Star Jason Kidd to the Mavericks for a package including Devin Harris last year, who'd have guessed that, of the two point guards, Harris would...
NATE'S TURN-AROUND SPARKING KNICKS SURGE
This time three years ago, Nate Robinson was a promising Knicks rookie preparing for a trip to the All-Star festivities in Houston, where he participated in the rookie-sophomore game and...
PEDRO PLANS TO USE WBC AS LAST AUDITION
Pedro Martinez's plan is to pitch in the World Baseball Classic and reveal what he can still offer a major league team in 2009, The Post has learned. Martinez is...
EX-PUNTER FACES TAX FRAUD CHARGES
LAS VEGAS - Former NFL punter Joe Prokop, who played with the Giants and Jets, and two Las Vegas-area businessmen face federal conspiracy and fraud charges for allegedly helping people...
SHAQ BACK TO LEAD 'STAR' RESERVES
After being left out of the NBA's midseason gala for first time in his career last season, the Suns' Shaquille O'Neal received his 15th All-Star selection when the reserves were...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Bucs add fired BC coach Three weeks after being dismissed by Boston College for pursuing the Jets' head-coaching job, Jeff Jagodzinski was hired yesterday by the Buccaneers to be...
WELLS RIPS TORRE
In at least two radio interviews, David Wells fired back at Joe Torre yesterday, saying the manager has unfairly criticized his ex-Yankees players in his new book. "I just think...
'EXTRA' EFFORT PAYS OFF FOR DEVS
BOSTON - It sounded an alarm, a two-goal lead blown in the third, but last night's comeback on the East's leaders drowned that out, resonating to the resilience of these...
ISLES HOLD ON FOR 2ND WIN IN ROW
ATLANTA - Islanders coach Scott Gordon told his team to calm down after Atlanta came within one goal of tying it in the third period. "We may have run out...
RUTGERS STILL WINLESS IN BIG EAST
Across the Hudson River, they refer to the hoops hostilities between Rutgers and Seton Hall as the Garden State Showdown, which doesn't even come close to describing the acrimony that...
SAPP: EVEN WITH INSIDE INFO, CARDS WON'T STOP PITT
Some have argued the Buccaneers' Super Bowl XXXVII win over the Raiders was aided by head coach Jon Gruden's tenure in Oakland at the same position. Warren Sapp, who played...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
LETTUCE ENTERTAIN YOU February 1 - Kids Should audience members decide to throw fruit at the actors and dancers performing "The Festival of the Vegetables," they might wind up with...
IONA MENINGITIS
A student at Iona College in New Rochelle is critical condition with a probable case of bacterial meningitis, officials said. The 19-year-old Long Island man was hospitalized Wednesday with symptoms...
IRAQIS HAIL SHOE HEEL
Iraqis have given former President Bush "the boot." A sofa-sized shoe monument was unveiled yesterday in Tikrit - the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein - in honor of...
AFGHAN VOTE DELAY
KABUL, Afghanistan - The presidential election is being postponed until Aug. 20, four months later than the constitution specifies, to give US forces time to stabilize Afghanistan's most violent regions....
LI PONZI JUDGE: UP 750G BAIL BID
A federal judge yesterday ruled that the owner of a Long Island investment firm accused of running a $370 million Ponzi scheme was entitled to bail, but that a defense...
UPDIKE'S POEM ON HIS OWN 'DEMISE'
The death of Pulitzer-winning author John Updike made headlines this week, but in a poem to be published this year, he mused about his "overdue demise" being received with "a...
GENE TIED TO CANCER RISK
The so-called breast-cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 can raise the risk that a man who develops prostate cancer will get an aggressive form, researchers said yesterday. Certain gene mutations indicated...
PAKISTAN NABS 9 'TERROR BOMBERS'
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Nine men suspected in a string of deadly bombings last year that wrecked the Danish Embassy, killed an army general, and wounded several FBI personnel were arrested...
'BOOB JOB' NIGHTMARE
VICTORVILLE, Calif. - Prosecutors say a spurned lover ambushed his ex-girlfriend and tried to cut out the breast implants he paid for by stabbing her. San Bernardino County prosecutor David...
QAEDA EYED IN ABDUCTIONS
BAMAKO, Mali - A North African branch of al Qaeda is the likeliest group to be holding four European tourists kidnapped in northeastern Mali last week, a senior Malian military...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A woman assaulted an elderly female neighbor in the lobby of their Murray Hill building, authorities said yesterday. Elizabeth McNamara, 28, allegedly accosted the 69-year-old victim in the building...
LUV FOR GOV IS WAY DOWN
Gov. Paterson's Senate selection circus and the furor over leaks trashing Caroline Kennedy have lifted his unfavorable rating with voters to an all-time high of 30 percent, according to a...
THREE CANDIDATES KILLED AS ELECTION NEARS
BAGHDAD - Gunmen fatally shot three candidates in separate attacks yesterday, just two days before election polls are scheduled to test the war-weary country's fragile democracy. Hazem Salem Ahmed, a...
TOP TURK IN TIRADE VS. ISRAEL
DAVOS, Switzerland - Turkey's prime minister stalked off the stage at the World Economic Forum red-faced yesterday after reproaching Israel's president over the Gaza offensive by saying, "You kill people."...
HONCHO NOT LET OFF E-Z
A Parks Department official caught cheating the city out of $52 by using his official E-ZPass on personal business has been socked with a stinging $11,000 fine - or 211...
A BUNCH OF FAKES
Investigators raided a massive black-market warehouse stocked with millions of dollars worth of knockoff goods and substandard products destined for city discount stores, the Brooklyn DA's Office said yesterday. "What...
TRAGIC SIB'S PAIN
The family of a Brooklyn boy who fell to his death in an elevator shaft wants a judge to spare the boy's brother, who witnessed the tragedy, from having to...
GIANT-SCREEN-TV SALES SCORING BIG
Steelers-Cardinals may not be the hottest Super Bowl matchup, but it isn't chilling the traditional late-January sale of big-screen TVs. "Every year during this time, we have a spike, and...
FEDS PAYING $497M FOR FULTON SUBWAY HUB
The $497 million needed to construct the long-delayed Fulton Street Transit Center will be paid entirely through President Obama's economic stimulus package, MTA officials said yesterday. The project calls for...
FIRST MOM RIGHT AT HOME
WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama has imported some of the routines from home that provide structure in her daughters' lives at the White House - from early bedtimes to a healthy...
NEW CAUSE 'PACHS' IN STARS
Free Billy! A menagerie of Hollywood celebrities has a new cause - helping a 23-year-old pachyderm to pack his trunk and move from the Los Angeles Zoo to a Northern...
DADDY'S NEW JOB: CHANGIN' DIAPERS
IT certainly wasn't what they had planned. Life has turned upside-down on the Upper East Side, where a year ago Spencer Cutter was a high-powered senior vice president at Lehman...
$22M LOTTO WINNER IN 7-ELEVENTH HEAVEN
A Long Island woman who went to 7-Eleven for a Big Gulp soda wound up with enough liquid assets to last the rest of her life. Janet Alnwick won the...
SCHOOLS GET MIXED REPORT CARD AT HEARING
It ain't broke, but it needs some fixin'. That was the general consensus at the first in a series of state Assembly public hearings yesterday in Queens on whether to...
GUANTANAMO JUDGE DEFIES O
MIAMI -The chief judge for the Guantanamo war-crimes court yesterday refused a request from President Obama to delay proceedings against Abdal Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi charged with plotting an attack...
CITY HORSE WAR: TO HOOF AND HOOF-NOT
A city lawmaker's campaign to hobble horse-drawn buggies would wipe out more than 300 jobs in an already dismal economy - but proponents say it's a small price to pay...
PALIN & BAM TO SHARE STAGE
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin will share the stage with President Obama here Saturday night - giving a sneak peek at what could be the high-wattage presidential matchup of 2012. The...
SURVIVORS' GILT
We crash-landed in the Hudson River - but all we got were these lousy upgrades! US Airways sent a raft of "frigid" letters to the 150 passengers of miracle Flight...
ELIOT'S MADAM GETS 6 MONTHS
She was the property of her overbearing partner, and the madam who helped run the prostitution ring that brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer has the tattoo to prove it. Cecil...
EX-COP SUIT IS FLUSHED
A former cop seeking line-of-doody disability pay for breaking a finger on an overflowing toilet is spit out of luck, an appeals court ruled yesterday. The state Appellate Division tossed...
CHANGE FOR THE WORSE
WASHINGTON - Buried deep inside the massive spending orgy that Democrats jammed through the House this week lie five words that could drastically undo two decades of welfare reforms. The...
GEE, SHARP MINOR
He began playing the piano at 5, the viola at 9 and now, at 13, the New York Philharmonic will be playing one of his compositions. "I'm excited. I worked...
'DYNO GYNO' SPARED JAIL
A federal judge yesterday ruled "Dyno Gyno" Niels Lauersen had done enough prison time and sentenced the disgraced doctor to probation for dragging his feet on restitution payments from an...
DOORMAN'S COURAGE
He chased down a lunatic serial stabber in Times Square, and lived to tell a jury about it yesterday. "I don't know if it was more heroic or stupid," former...
JUSTICE TIME FOR MOB MADMAN
They called him "Crazy Charles," a wild-eyed killer with a reputation for using acid to dispose of his victims - a depraved distinction that earned him a place in John...
ACCUSED PSYCH-CENTER RAPISTS DODGE JAIL TIME
Three workers accused of raping underage girls at an acclaimed upper Manhattan psychiatric treatment center have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor endangering charges and will do no prison time. Sentenced to...
BERNIE FACES BOOT
Start packing, Bernie. Accused Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's luxurious penthouse apartment - where he currently whiles away the hours under house arrest - could soon be up for sale, The...
HEATH'S $10M BABY
The company holding Heath Ledger's life-insurance policy will pay the $10 million death benefit and avoid a costly lawsuit, according to court records. ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. had initially refused...
CRA$H COURSES
Officials at Columbia and New York University this week braced their students and staff for painful cuts in the face of endowment losses of more than 15 percent since the...
STEELY BIDEN TELLS CRITICS: BUY INTO 'BUY AMERICAN'
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden yesterday defended a "buy American" steel provision included in the $825 billion economic-stimulus bill that has caused concern among some US trading partners. "I...
O SENDS ANGRY ME$$AGE
President Obama delivered a blistering message to Wall Street yesterday, blasting the big-bucks bonuses doled out to fat-cat execs as "shameful." Obama called reporters in to the Oval Office to...
BLAGO NOW SIMPLY BLA-GONE
Defiant Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was tossed from office yesterday after he delivered a rambling speech invoking actress Elizabeth Taylor, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Sen. Ted...
LESS POLICE MISCONDUCT
The number of cases of NYPD wrongdoing substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board dropped to 7 percent last year, authorities said. The CCRB substantiated allegations in 161 of some...
PREZ PICKS PITT
President Obama says he is pulling for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday's Super Bowl - over the Cardinals from Republican-leaning Arizona. But the president waxed diplomatic toward the team from...
BIG DAY: 9/11/11
The World Trade Center Memorial will be open to the public by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks - and it will remain open afterward, even as...
A CLASS 'ACTION!'
Fledgling city filmmakers soon will be able to hone their craft in high school. The Cinema School, the fifth of seven academically selective public schools the city has pledged to...
SUPE TICKETS SUPE BARGAIN
If you're a Pittsburgh Steeler or Arizona Cardinal fan on a budget, you might be in luck. With a tanking economy and a less-than-marquee matchup, Super Bowl tickets have plunged...
BUSTS OUTSIDE MIKE GALA
Ten pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested last night for chaining themselves to a Times Square hotel during a dinner attended by Mayor Bloomberg, cops said. The protesters used plastic tubing to...
MIKE'S BUDGET: BAD NEWS FOR JOBS, TAXES
Mayor Bloomberg will warn today that more than 23,000 city workers could lose their jobs if labor unions don't agree to givebacks and Albany doesn't cough up enough aid. He'll...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A New Jersey man stole newspapers from people's mailboxes and delivered them to others for years before anyone noticed, police say. Michael Farrell allegedly collected checks from his "subscribers" each...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
A SQUARE DEAL: Today at noon, the Times Square Alliance offers a free walking tour of the area where the big ball dropped just a month ago. Just show up...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: German director Douglas Sirk's melodrama "La Habanera" (1937) not only made him unpopular with the ruling Nazi party but paved the way for a career in Hollywood,...
DANCE
LINCOLN CENTER: Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins' companies team up to tackle works set to music by Brahms and Handel in "Early Music Masters" tonight and Thursday at 8 p.m....
5 QUESTIONS FOR... IAN EAGLE
YES Network's Ian Eagle talked with The Post's Justin Terranova this week about the Nets, the Super Bowl - and why he turned down Mike Francesa. Q: Why did you...
CABARET
FEINSTEINS: Jane Monheit performs cabaret and jazz standards through Feb. 7. For showtimes, see feinsteinsattheregency.com. 540 Park Ave. South; 212-339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Judy Kreston and David Lahm perform today at...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Conductor Riccardo Muti and pianist Radu Lupo team with the New York Philharmonic for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Scriabin's Symphony No. 2 tonight and tomorrow...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: The Yellowjackets perform Tuesday through Feb. 8 at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. 131 W. Third St.; 212-475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Sax star Lou Donaldson leads his quartet through...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
BEIRUT: These lo-fi indie darlings led by a singer barely old enough to drink play Wednesday at 8 p.m. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; 718-486-5400. THE...
OFF-BROADWAY
(Starred reviews by Frank Scheck)"BECKY SHAW": *** 1/2 Gina Gionfriddo's scathingly funny, class-conscious comedy about a blind date gone horribly awry. Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St.; 212-246-4422. Closes...
BETWEEN LOVE & GOODBYE
CASPER Andreas, who directed the smuttily hilarious "Slutty Summer," gets bogged down in a dreary gay soap opera with "Between Love and Goodbye." Manhattan singer Kyle (Simon Miller) is so...
LUCK BY CHANCE
A sort of "Hooray for Bollywood," India's affectionate comedy-drama-musical "Luck by Chance" asks the question: Can two cute youngsters make a living as actors in the Hindi film industry? Farhan...
STARR REPORT
With all the attention being lavished on Oscar nominee "Slumdog Millionaire," I was interested to see if the movie - which revolves around India's edition of "Who Wants to Be...
PROFILE OF BRAVERY MISSING A MOTIVE
HANNAH Senesh was one brave woman. In 1944, Senesh, a diarist-poet, left the safety of Palestine, where she was part of a kibbutz, to parachute behind enemy lines in a...
CAR JOURNEY TAKES WRONG TURNS
A play consisting of noth ing more than a con versation between a father and his son during a lengthy car ride would seem to offer little in the way...
LITTLE LIFE IN DOC'S GHOST TALE
ESSENTIALLY "Poltergeist" with lovely Macedonian locations and abundant female nudity, Milcho Manchevski's "Shadows" is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural clichés. To make an overlong story short: An...
FROM FEAR TO MATERNITY
THE horror flick "The Uninvited" is not unclever - but it is unoriginal. The movie lifted its title from a 2003 Korean horror flick (and a lot of other movies)...
CHEERFUL INDIE EASY TO SWALLOW
A one-night stand turns into a little more in "Medicine for Melancholy," the feature debut for writer-director Barry Jenkins. Reminiscent of Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise," the cheerful indie begins with...
WHAT THE HELLWEGER?
WITH the recession getting worse by the day, it's asking an awful lot for audiences to laugh at a romantic comedy centering on corporate layoffs. Unfortunately, the bad timing may...
'VIEW' HOST PREGS
IT'S baby time again for Elisabeth Hasselbeck. "The View" co-host announced on yesterday's show that she and husband Tim Hasselbeck are expecting their third child in August. The couple's two...
MTV TO OWN
FORMER MTV exec Christina Norman has been named CEO of Oprah Winfrey's cable network, OWN. Norman left MTV last year after 17 years, reportedly because she was unhappy with the...
DAVE LATER-MAN
THEY'LL probably have to carry David Letterman out. The "Late Show" host apparently has no plans to retire soon and has started early talks with CBS to stay beyond his...
THE OLD 'EVE'-HO
CAN somebody please rush an emergency copy of "All About Eve" to Paula Abdul before the unsuspecting judge is killed off by the Eve Harrington disease? In that classic Bette...
UP & ADDAMS
DA-DA-DA-DUM. Snap, snap! Good buzz is coming out of this week's invitation-only reading of "The Addams Family" musical, with lots of cheers for what one spy calls a "brilliantly funny"...
NOT 'TAKEN' WITH THIS
NEXT out of the January dreg-u-lator: A Liam Neeson thriller so lacking in ambition they should have called it "Paycheck." "Taken," one of those Frenchy efforts to do an American-style...
BROADWAY
(Reviews by Clive Barnes, unless noted otherwise)"THE AMERICAN PLAN": ** 1/2 Richard Greenberg's intermittently intriguing 1990 play is a bit like "The Glass Menagerie" set in the "Dirty Dancing" era....
TIME TO LOSE SOME LOCAL GOV'T
IN this time of economic ills and budget crisis, it's time to hone in on the hidden costs of New York state's 10,500 local government entities. State leaders can't afford...
IRAQ'S NEXT TEST
TOMORROW, Iraq holds its third nationwide elections and its first without American training wheels. The results may tell us more about the region's future than any event since the fall...
HELP MEXICO BEAT THE NARCO-GANGS
MEXICO may be headed to hell in a handbasket as a result of grisly fighting between the federal government and drug cartels - and among the narco-gangs themselves. Some of...
BIPARTISAN HACK
What was Al D'Amato, a Republican, doing on the podium taking bows at the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, to the US Senate ("Dem Red 'Al'ert on Sen. Kirsten,"...
AN 'A' FOR IMMELT: WELCH
General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt gets an "A" for fourth-quarter performance and any decision on the company's continued support of a dividend and AAA rating is up...
BUDGET BALM
MAYOR Bloomberg's budget presentation today will be sobering. He'll say the city is desperately short of cash and will likely outline "bold" steps to keep City Hall solvent. But the...
SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE! CAN'T YOU SPARE A-ROD?
THE ISSUE: Joe Torre's new book and its criticism of the Yankees and the team's management. *** Your front-page article about Joe Torre's book is unfair ("Joe Book Fury," Jan...
BIG BUCKS FOR SEC BOSS
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro was to receive $5 million to $25 million in benefits when she resigned from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to join the...
KODAK TO CUT UP TO 4,500
Eastman Kodak Co. said it will eliminate as many as 4,500 jobs and restructure after reporting a fourth-quarter loss and sales that missed analysts' estimates. The shares fell to their...
WHOLE FOODS STARTS TALKS WITH FTC
Whole Foods Market, the largest US natural-foods grocer, has begun talks with the Federal Trade Commission to resolve the government's antitrust review of its $565 million purchase of Wild Oats...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Starbucks Starbucks' debt rat ings may be lowered by Moody's Investors Service after the coffee chain said yesterday it will cut 6,700 addi tional jobs and close 300 more stores....
TW CABLE FREEZES PAY
Time Warner Cable Inc., the second-largest US cable operator, will forgo raises for top executives this year as subscriber growth slows, hurt by the deepening recession. No raises will be...
FULL-PRICE FOLLIES
The owner of Barneys New York is struggling to face a painful markdown. Istithmar - the investment arm of the Dubai government that ponied up nearly $950 million to buy...
CASH4GOLD HAS A SUPER PITCH
Cash4Gold, best known for its cheesy, ubiquitous TV ads asking people to mail in their baubles for cash, is leaving the ranks of late-night advertisers behind and joining the big...
TANKS RUN ON EMPTY
Reeling from its worst performance in 105 years, Ford Motor has enough cash for about eight more months but says it would rather borrow from banks than take government-bailout money....
AMAZON-LIKE NUMBERS LIFT BEZOS & COMPANY
Online retailer Amazon.com yesterday defied the laws of retail gravity, posting a robust jump in fourth-quarter profit at a time when most peers are swooning or shutting down altogether. The...
NOT OK! FOR BROWNRIDGE
AFTER yesterday's shake-up at OK! magazine, it'll take a microscope to find any trace of the mark left by Kent Brownridge. He, along with Editor-in-Chief Susan Toepfer, are out after...
HOME-SALES CARNAGE DRAGS MARKETS DOWN
Even bargain mortgage rates can't help pull housing out of its quicksand. New-home sales dived in December to close the worst yearly showing ever, while the glut of unsold new...
BYE-BYE BLAGO
"He doesn't think one minute about the people, just himself . . . He has a constitutional right not to be thrown in jail without a fair trial. But he...
WHICH SOARES WILL TAKE THE CASE?
State Inspector General Joseph Fisch, New York's new ethics-in-government watchdog, is making it clear to Albany: There will be no statute of limitations on official misconduct. To that end, Fisch...
THE MTA MONEY PIT
MTA boss Elliot Sander announced yesterday that a half-billion dollars from President Obama's stimulus packages could soon be available for the Fulton Street subway reconstruction project. Oh, joy. That should...
LAW BIG DREIR INDICTED
Marc Dreier, the jailed New York law-firm founder, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for cheating hedge funds and other investors of more than $400 million. The indictment,...
$750G NOT ENOUGH
The suspected mastermind of a massive Long Island-based Ponzi scheme was told today to sharply raise his offer of bail if he wants to get out of jail - while...
LANDMARK STATUS FOR HUBBARD HOUSE - GRAVESEND RESIDENCE DATES BACK TO 1830
Every house has a story, and the Hubbard House in Gravesend has a particularly unusual one. Last week the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) landmarked the home, meaning that its...
BROOKLYN MARINE DIES - JULIAN T. BRENNAN WAS 25
In many ways, he was your typical twenty-something Park Slope resident, hanging out at the local bars and aspiring to be a successful actor. But Marine Lance Cpl. Julian T....
FIRE ERUPTS IN BRIGHTON - BUNGALOW BLAZE IS THE LATEST TO STRIKE NABE
A man was reportedly killed last week after a raging fire ripped through a Brighton Beach bungalow — a blaze that had some worrying that the spree of arsons that...
CONEY ULURP HEARINGS
Pins and needles. That's probably a good way of describing the mood on Community Board 13 this week as the group anxiously awaited the arrival of the recently certified Coney...
COPS: TWO; CROOKS: ZERO - CRIME BUSTERS TAKE DOWN THUGS
The cracker-jack crime fighting team recently honored for taking a machine gun off the streets of Bath Beach is once again in the sights of a grateful community. Members of...
No Magic for Lee
By MARC BERMANAt least Donnie Walsh got one of his guys in the All-Star Game - Danny Granger of the Pacers, one of his best-ever picks. .No David Lee. No...
BIG BLUE BURGLAR MAY SPEND 'SUPER' WEEKEND IN JAIL
ATTLEBORO, Mass. - The Massachusetts man accused of stealing Big Blue's bling will spend Super Bowl weekend behind bars, unless he can fork up $3 million bail, a judge ruled...