February 8, 2009
U.S. sets roster for Mexico showdown
Tim Howard (Everton), Brad Guzan (Aston Villa).Defenders: Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes), Oguchi Onyewu (Standard Liege), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock), Danny Califf (Midtjylland), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Marvell Wynne...
Gallinari to start
By MARC BERMANPORTLAND - The new Italian Stallion Era begins. In a landmark moment, Danilo Gallinari will make his first start tonight three weeks after his return. "I think it...
BAFTA: Unstoppable 'Slumdog' Takes Yet Another Best Picture Trophy
What a shock. Soundbite from "Slumdog Millionaire'' producer Christian Colson: "I'd like to acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of our cast. The film you saw is the film Danny...
BAFTA: Mickey Beats Sean!
"A pretty statue,'' says best actor victor Mickey Rourke of "The Wrestler,'' the winner of the day's only hotly contested acting race, who wins over Sean Penn for "Milk.'' Rourke...
BAFTA: Winslet For 'The Reader'
Accepting the Best Actress award from Daniel Craig, Kate thanks her late producers and Harvey, too, for all I know -- I'm working off liveblogs by The Times of London...
BAFTA: 'Slumdog' Express Continues With Best Director Prize
Danny Boyle's latest trophy makes it five so far at today's British academy awards.
BAFTA: Supporting Actor to Ledger
Goldie Hawn, for some mysterious reason, presents best supporting actor. But her giggles disappear when she reads the name of...Heath Ledger of "The Dark Knight,'' who died of an accidental...
BAFTA: Cruz Wins Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz is best supporting actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona.'' According to our colleagues at The Times of London, "she dedicates the award to the 'most talented and generous group...
108 KILLED IN DEADLIEST-EVER AUSTRALIAN WILDFIRES
Entire towns have been seared off the map by wildfires raging through southeastern Australia, burning people in their homes and cars in the deadliest blaze in the country's history. The...
BAFTA: 'Slumdog' Takes 4 So Far, Including Score, Screenplay, Cinematography
In what may be the beginning of a sweep, the first award at tonight's British academy awards goes to composer A.R. Rahman (seen here arriving with director Danny Boyle) for...
BREAKDOWN OF HOWARD'S CONTRACT
The Post has learned the breakdown of the three-year, $54 million contract that Ryan Howard signed on Sunday with the Phillies:He will earn $15 million in 2009, $19 million next...
YEMEN RELEASES 170 AL-QAIDA SUSPECTS AFTER NO TERRORISM PLEDGE
Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaida, security officials said Sunday, two weeks after the terror group announced that Yemen had become the...
Standing By for The BAFTAs
Best actor and best actress nominees Brangelina are among the arrivals at the British Academy Awards in London, which get under way in less than an hour. "Slumdog Millionaire,'' natch...
Nelson to A-Rod: Keep Quiet
Former Yankees reliever and teammate of Alex Rodriguez in Seattle, Jeff Nelson, has a message for A-Rod: keep quiet."His best bet is just not say anything about it," Nelson told...
RANGERS TO SIGN ANDRUW JONES
The Rangers will announce in the next few days that they have signed center fielder Andruw Jones to a minor league contract that will pay him a base salary of...
Yes, it's that time again ...
I know that agonizing last fly-ball out by Ryan Church against the Marlins seems like it was only yesterday (or at least it does to me), but Port St. Lucie...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Bronx * A woman was fighting for her life yesterday after she was stabbed by her estranged husband in a Bedford Park apartment, cops said. The two had been arguing...
BRASS BLEW SHOT TO BAIL FROM THIS BOMBER DISASTER
THEY were out. That is what the Yankees will always regret. Fifteen months ago, they were out from Alex Rodriguez. He had famously - and crudely, of course - opted...
FREAKY 'FRIDAYS'
LOCK up your teens and nubile counselors prone to toplessness - Jason's back. The hockey-masked killer, who hacked up hundreds at Camp Crystal Lake throughout 10 "Friday the 13th" films,...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners HARRY MARKOPOLOS After attempting to blow the whistle on Bernie Madoff in the 90's, he takes a victory lap by testifying before a friendly House panel. DUFF McKAGAN Guns...
PROOF POSITIVE
The bottle of Glenrothes 1985 vintage looks like something that might have been smuggled into the US during Prohibition, and the 24-year-old scotch inside is a rare find indeed. Fewer...
FLAT OUT FLAVORFUL
Trigo 268 West Broadway; 212-925-1600 Trigo, named for the Spanish word for wheat, offers a stylish new reprieve in SoHo, with its brass and steel accents, black-and-white tiled floors and...
SCAMMERS' POWER STING
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE Big Apple homeowners are getting zapped by a shocking door-to-door scam. In an attempt to grab Con Ed customers, energy service companies are ringing bells in Brooklyn...
MAKING THE SCENE...
2082 Frederick Douglass Blvd.; 212-662-2030, 67orangestreet.com; Hours: Wed.-Sun., 6 p.m.- 2 a.m.; Fri.-Sat., 6 p.m.-4 a.m. WAY back in the 1840s, in the notorious Five Points neighborhood, an actor named...
GEMS IN THE RUFF
Meet the alpha dogs. These are the seven champions who experts say have the best shot of winning their groups and going on to compete for Best in Show at...
ADOPT ME
Six-month-old Bosley is a male, neutered pug who's fun-loving and sweet! To know him is to LOVE him! Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society...
LICKETY SPLIT!
DEAR DR. FOX: My 2-year-old Shih Tzu/Lhasa apso male mix licks his lips constantly, and the sound that accompanies it is most annoying. I tried cutting the hairs around his...
KINGS OF CRABS
Stand-up comedian Karen Bergreen jokes that she "has crabs" when performing her routine onstage. Then she pauses for comic effect to clarify: pet hermit crabs. Bergreen also has a busy...
$10 A PACK! NOW THAT'S A DRAG
If this doesn't make you quit, nothing will. With a new 62 cent federal tax on cigarettes added this week with the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program...
ROSSI, 31, AND SANMARCO, 33
Dec. 5 - Danielle SanMarco and Jeremy Rossi know that a honeymoon doesn't last just a couple of weeks. The duo enjoyed the company of 110 guests during their wedding...
MCDUFFIE, 28, AND MORGAN, 30
Jan. 24 - The first time Genevieve Morgan and Robert McDuffie locked lips, there were fireworks - literally! In 2006 the Bronx duo shared their first kiss on the Fourth...
RODRIGUES, 36, AND NICOTRA, 30
Dec. 6 - Not even freezing temperatures could keep Serafina Nicotra and Robert Rodrigues away from their favorite NYC spot on their wedding day. After their ceremony at Saints Simon...
LETTERIELLO, 30, AND SGROI, 31
Dec. 7 - Forget about standing at the altar. Salvatore Sgroi took the stage on his wedding day when he grabbed the microphone and started singing "Sono Italiano" with the...
GOOD 'TIMES' GUY
Dinner just wasn't enough for Karen, a 35-year-old writer, and Remi, a 25-year-old production assistant. The duo had such a good time at pizza spot Motorino in Williamsburg, Brooklyn they...
MEET MARKET
ROM-COM FANS get ready to swoon. Justin, a 28-year-old in the military, says he's a dead ringer for Ryan Gosling. A look-alike from 'The Notebook' with soldier style? The line...
WEB SLINGER
The District video.Newsweek.com The news magazine uses a "The Hills"-like format (voice-overs and helpful captions like "Barack, President") to clue in a nation of Us Weekly-obsessed mallrats about the president's...
E. HARLEM FIRE DEATH
A 21-year-old autistic man perished and his grandmother was left fighting for her life as flames engulfed their 17th-floor East Harlem apartment yesterday morning, police said. Jomo Springer, who couldn't...
SCAMMERS' POWER STING
Big Apple homeowners are getting zapped by a shocking door-to-door scam. In an attempt to grab Con Ed customers, energy service companies are ringing bells in Brooklyn and Queens offering...
MAN KILLED IN W. SIDE CAR TOSS
A man died last night after being shot and tossed out of a moving, stolen SUV on an Upper West Side street, cops said. Witnesses saw the 24-year-old victim, whose...
TECHNOLOGY: BONE MACHINE
Skeleflex T-Rex Powerflex Lab $45; Skeleflex.com Forget those dumb wood-and-glue dinosaur skeleton models that snap in half if you hold them too hard - this model dino eats them for...
GRAMMY BALLOT
Song of the Year * "American Boy," Estelle feat. Kanye West (multiple songwriters) * "Chasing Pavements," Adele (Adele Adkins & Eg White) * "I'm Yours," Jason Mraz (Mraz) * "Love...
THE GRAMMY TOP 40
WITH multiple nominees in 110 categories, it's practically impossible for any one person to figure out what's worth listening to in this year's Grammy crop. Heck, even the Recording Academy...
Q&A WITH MELISSA LEO
Every Oscars has an underdog, and this year's is Melissa Leo. (Mickey Rourke doesn't count; he's more of a comeback.) The 48-year-old New York native, nominated for her leading performance...
BURNETT,TEIXEIRA & SABATHIA WILL PROVE TO BE SMART MONEY
THE Yankees finally go from Money Ball to playing ball as spring training begins this week at Steinbrenner Field. Thus begins a new chapter of Yankee Years. Everyone knows the...
. . . BUT REHABBING MO & POSADA ARE REAL KEYS TO RESURGENCE IN '09
Better? You bet. Good enough to pass the Red Sox and Rays? Don't bet on it. The Yankees open spring training this week in Tampa panting to unveil their $423.5...
JUMPING OFF THE SCREEN
When last year's "U2 3D" concert film came out, we went in feeling blasé - why saddle a decent band with a crummy gimmick? - and came out feeling like...
AGENDA
This week: Open your heart and your schedules! Fall in love with books about singledom; divulge in lotsa chocolate; watch power women share the love; take home artsy crafts; and...
SAVE FOR K-ROD AND PUTZ, SQUAD HAS FAMILIAR SPRING
PORT ST. LUCIE - Call them optimists or downright delusional, but the Mets appear convinced they're on the cusp of a championship. Sure, the hated Phillies won the World Series...
MY NEW YORK
The Beastie Boys are as New York as the Bowery, the Yankees and Ed Koch - all of which they referenced on their 1989 record "Paul's Boutique." The revolutionary album,...
HARDBALL'S PLAYERS, TEAMS AND STORYLINES TO WATCH THIS SPRING
THE initial thrust of the offseason was good for, well, initials. If you were a J.J., a K-Rod, an A.J. or, especially, a CC, then you were lettermen who defied...
PHELPS' IMAGE TAKES A HIT WITH YOUNG FANS
LIHUE, Hawaii - This is probably what it looked like back in 1920, on the courthouse steps in Chicago, assuming the story we have heard handed down from generation to...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... DAVID LEE
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Knicks' forward about dating a model, hanging out with David Wright, possibly playing with LeBron James, and much more. Q: Have you dreamed...
RUMBLE
Dunkin' like dadEwing Jr. favored in D-League slamfest Patrick Ewing, who wowed Garden crowds with his thunderous dunks, will be watching from the wings as his son Patrick Jr. (right)...
SPICY ITALIANS
ONE of the most talked about films of this young year is "Gomorrah," from Italy's Matteo Garrone. A prize winner at Cannes, it is based on the book "Gomorrah: Italy's...
BRIDGE
UNLUCKY Louie is a master of improvisation: He invents new ways to lose money at my club. Louie was East, and Ed, the club expert, was South. Louie played the...
UGANDA BONANZA
IF there were an MVP prize in team chess, the unlikely winners would be two brothers from Uganda. They weren't just the stars of their team at the Dresden Olympiad...
IN THE 'BERN' CENTER
It's ground zero of Madoff misery. The North Shore Towers, three 33-story luxury apartment buildings on the border of Queens and Nassau County, was listed in Bankruptcy Court papers last...
GETTING YOUR MORTGAGE RATE LOWERED
Dear John: Years ago you wrote an article about the success that your readers were having getting their mortgage rates reduced. Would it be too much trouble if you sent...
PROS: FOR STIMULUS, CUT TAXES
Congressional leaders need to cut the amount of spending in the current stimulus bills they passed as the start to confer this week - or risk pushing the country deeper...
CANSECO NEEDLES: I TOLD YA SO!
In his 2008 book, "Vindicated," former big-leaguer Jose Canseco devoted half a chapter to Alex Rodriguez, including his recollections from the late 1990s, excerpted here, of the future Yankee slugger's...
TAXPAYERS ARE REALIZING IT'S A DEM DISASTER
IT'S too late to fix any thing. It's over. There is little hope to repair the multibillion-dollar stimulus plan now - but that could actually mean good news for Republicans....
ANGRY GOP LETS OFF $TEAM-ULUS
With the $780 billion stimulus plan steaming toward expected passage in the Senate Tuesday, Republicans took some parting shots, hammering the bill as wasteful spending that will do little to...
GALS CASHING IN AT GOLD-SALE PARTIES
Forget Tupperware - hip Long Island housewives are hosting jewelry-pawning parties. The suburban set is taking advantage of gold's all-time high price by bringing gold-buying shops into their living rooms,...
'FLAMING' HEIRHEAD: 'POOR ME'
Heirhead rich-girl Courtenay Semel's lesbian romps, public beatdowns and flaming rows might have lifted her D-list celebrity status - but they've cost her A-list wealth. The party princess, who has...
'O POSTER' BUST
The artist who created the ubiquitous red, white and blue posters of President Obama had better hope a Massachusetts judge is a fan of his work. Shepard Fairey, 38, was...
DESPITE ECONOMY, FIFTH AVE REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST
While the recession is pinching consumer budgets and crushing most of retail, Fifth Avenue's fashionable real estate has remained surprisingly robust, according to vacancy rates and interviews with industry insiders....
SALVATION EYED FOR 4 SCHOOLS
Four Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens in danger of shutting down would be saved in an unusual church-state partnership proposed yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. The city and the Diocese...
'MINOR SURGERY' DEATH LAWSUIT
An Upper East Side doctor with a history of botched procedures stood by while his young patient went into fatal cardiac arrest during a minor procedure on his penis, according...
LIVE NATION MAY BE STUBBED
THE boards of both Live Nation and Ticket master are scheduled to meet tonight to approve their merger, On the Money has learned. A deal could be announced as soon...
JERSEY PUTTING BRAKES ON NYC SUBWAY SEA TRAIN
New Jersey has suspended a program that creates artificial fishing reefs off Atlantic City by sinking old New York City subway cars. State officials say an initial batch of about...
BONUSES NOT A BIG ISSUE; BUT WAGE DEFLATION IS
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has spent a fair amount of time during his first two weeks in office talking about pay in America. On day one, he froze the salaries of...
3 DEAD IN BLOODY UPPER WEST SIDE SLAY-SUICIDE
A jealous lover shot his girlfriend and her other boyfriend to death at a tony Upper West Side apartment before turning the gun on himself, sources said yesterday. Police found...
HELTER SHELTER
Federal authorities are investigating a Virginia-based finance company that went belly-up last year, sticking hundreds of real-estate investors with millions of dollars in losses, The Post has learned. The 440...
'ROID-RIGUEZ IN HALL OF SHAME
Trouble-plagued Yankees slugger Alex Rodriquez was caught juicing during his 2003 MVP season, and was later tipped off that future drug tests were coming, according to a shocking report. Bomber...
POSTNUPS FOR WARY WEDDED
Cover your assets. Get a postnup. Moneyed marrieds have long forced their less wealthy spouses to sign prenuptial agreements outlining how much they'd get should they divorce. But now there's...
NEW WORLD OF 'WASTE'
New York state's economy may be sinking, but it's spending boatloads of money to keep Henry Hudson's legacy afloat. The state, while slashing programs and proposing new fees, is pouring...
JET-DEBTOR ALEX PUTS PLANE ON MARKET FOR $20M
A jet that Alex Rodriguez co-owns is up for sale - after a turbulent year of lawsuits and racking up $376,000 in unpaid bills. A-Rod and his pilot, Craig Frost,...
'DWI' COP MOWS DOWN WOMAN, INJURES MAN: POLICE
A drunken Jersey City cop plowed his car into a young couple as they crossed a downtown street early yesterday, killing the woman and leaving her boyfriend in intensive care,...
BLOG BABE: 31 DATES TO V-DAY
After two breakups last year and a lifetime of painfully bad dates, Tamara Duricka decided enough was enough. On Jan. 11, the 31-year-old TV writer and Harlem resident launched an...
FIXING U.S. HOME PRICES
* The Obama administration's plan to stop the slide in US housing by establishing baseline prices for millions of foreclosed homes has an added benefit - new jobs for an...
WATCH IT, KEN
So far Merrill Lynch has been a well-publicized nightmare merger for Bank of America's Ken Lewis. However, it's the CEO Lewis' slapdash acquisition of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial for $4.1...
SUSPICION EASES ON AMERICAN 'SEX MURDERER'
When the world first met Amanda Knox more than a year ago, she was dubbed a bloodthirsty, sex-crazed American exchange student in Italy who had slashed her roommate's throat during...
SNEAKY FOUL TIPS
Here's a tip - make sure restaurants aren't automatically charging you one. New York City eateries have begun tacking on automatic gratuities to meal checks, making up for the economic...
RAGING PENSION FIRE
More than 70 percent of firefighters who retired in the past five years did so on disabilities - hiking the cost of taxpayer-funded FDNY pensions to nearly $1 billion a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
He's no Rod Blagojevich. A North Carolina politician is literally selling his state Senate seat on eBay. Republican Sen. Eddie Goodall is offering his personalized, black-leather swivel chair in exchange...
LIGHTNING STRIKE DOWN ISLANDERS
TAMPA, Fla. - Mike McKenna raised both his arms into air when teammate Gary Roberts broke a scoreless tie. The Tampa Bay rookie goalie then made sure the one-goal lead...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Rollins drives to top of Buick In San Diego, John Rollins caught up to Camilo Villegas again, and this time kept right on going until he finished off a...
WILL FERRELL'S BUSH LEAGUE SHOW
Is it too much to ask for Hollywood's leading comic actor not to use the deaths of our troops in combat for a giggle? Stay classy, Will Ferrell. In his...
DETROIT'S FROZEN HEART
DETROIT - This city has not always been a gentle place, but a series of events over the past few, frigid days causes one to wonder how cold the collective...
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
For a long, dreamlike week now, I've been watching the future of television. It started when I bought a device called AppleTV, a $230 mini-computer that plugs into your television...
... AND OVER THE TOP
Say this for Rep. Charlie Rangel, dean of the New York congressional delegation and chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee: He's consistent. All his various controversies involving taxes...
ABOVE THE LAW ...
These are the times that tax men's souls. Unless, that is, you're an Obama administration appointee and opt out - or try to. Labor Secretary-designate Hilda Solis is the latest...
HURRAH HUDSON
Even Francis Scott Key must have heard Jennifer Hudson reach out to her mother, brother and nephew in each soaring note of our national anthem ("Bruce Scores Big at Halftime,"...
FAIR WEATHER FANS
Please let me know how Knicks fans are considered the best in the game ("Kobe Throws His Own Garden Party," Feb. 3)? You couldn't find a Knicks fan in the...
BLIND SIDED
The blind man who asks "Why are you doing this to me?" in a union-backed TV ad needs a severe attitude adjustment ("Gov Diss in Blind 'Spots'," Feb. 3). He...
DON'T BLAME US
There you go again, blaming the nation's fiscal crisis on hardworking city employees ("Bloomy's Budget," Editorial, Jan. 31). Quit trying to punish middle-class citizens by taking away our hard-earned benefits...
AN OPEN LETTER TO KELLOGG'S
Whereas . . . 1) Kellogg's is a major manufacturer of cereal and junk food products including but not limited to Frosted Flakes, Pop Tarts, Cheez-Its, Froot Loops, Keebler's Cookies,...
REQUIRED READING
Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice by Phillip House (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Nine months before Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a...
NETS DROP DENVER WITH STUNNING EFFICIENCY
The schedule threw the Nets a five-game stretch that could make weaker men curl into a fetal position and pull their own heads off. Especially considering their last five games...
KNICKS HIT ROAD WITH 'URGENCY'
After suffering through much-hyped losses to the Lakers, Cavs and Celtics, the Knicks have to fight the natural inclination to exhale and let their guard down. After a winless week,...
NHL CAN'T UNILATERALLY BACK OUT OF OLYMPICS
GARY Bettman and the Board of Governors act as if the question of NHL participation in the Olympics beyond 2010 in Vancouver is somehow up to them to answer unilaterally....
JEERS FOR KOBE CHEERS
* What has happened to Knicks fans? Kobe Bryant comes to the Garden and receives a standing ovation, after hearing "MVP" chants from the New York "fans." I can appreciate...
SUNS' STOUDEMIRE COULD SET IN JERSEY
The Nets could be prominent in the Amare Stoudemire sweepstakes - if they aren't already. "I would say they have a good shot and better than a lot of teams,"...
RANGERS' COACH FEELS JOB IS SAFE
On Friday, the Rangers allowed six third-period goals in losing 10-2 at Dallas. The two games before that, the Blueshirts scored a total of one goal. The game prior to...
ANOTHER SYRINGE STUCK IN BASEBALL
THIS shouldn't surprise us, be cause after all we have learned about baseball and the steroid era, nothing should surprise us. The rule of thumb, if you are smart, if...
LOCAL INSTRUCTORS, PLAYERS STUNNED
This isn't just another Alex Rodriguez scandal. This is not Madonna. This is not tanning in Central Park. This is not yelling "Ha," when an opposing player is trying to...
MLB CAN'T DISCIPLINE A-ROD
While Alex Rodriguez is sure to face a media storm when he reports to spring training, he will not face any discipline from Major League Baseball. Rodriguez, according to a...
RODRIGUEZ DEBACLE MEANS BRONX ZOO BACK IN BUSINESS
Move over, Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, there's a new potential inductee to the Yankees' Hall of Shame. This member simply could have "A-Roid" inscribed on his plaque....
1960 LAKERS WILL NEVER FORGET PLANE CRASH THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES
CHARLES Lindbergh carved out his hallowed highland in aviation history by becoming the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger awed mankind on Jan. 15...
GUN-LAW BILLS ARE OFF-TARGET
IT DID not take long for the Democrats in Al bany to go after the gun laws once they got control of the legislature. The New York State Assembly has...
ONLY THE TRUTH CAN SAVE RODRIGUEZ NOW
THERE is nowhere to hide now, A-Rod. No fancy public relations firm is going to get Alex Rodriguez through this. Madonna can't sing and dance and make it all go...
DEVS LOSE; BRODEUR MAY PRACTICE
They opened the season's longest homestand dreadfully last night, but by the time it's done a week from today, the Devils are expected to have Martin Brodeur back in practice,...
HOFSTRA SURVIVES
Midway through the first half of yesterday's CAA battle, it looked as if host Hofstra, not Towson, was the team with a 3-9 conference record. Towson surged ahead early, building...
STORM HOPE REBOUND IN THE CARDS
Twice this season, St. John's has suffered excruciating losses that rattled the program to its core. The Red Storm bounced back from the first crushing defeat, beating Rutgers after losing...
WOLVERINES GET CONN-ED
Hasheem Thabeet scored 17 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to help top-ranked Connecticut hold off Michigan 69-61 last night in Storrs for the Huskies' 11th straight win. It was...
LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND
"From the first launch of airplanes in combat, the idea of rescuing downed airmen flew with 'the knights of the air.' The first rescue of an airman by a fellow...
IN MY LIBRARY: KURT ANDERSEN
It hardly surprises us that Kurt Andersen - novelist, ex-Spy magnate, "Studio 360" host and cofounder of VeryShortList.com - juggles several books at once. "I finish more than half the...
THE FOIE GRAS WAR
Death threats. Alleged acts of torture. Inept Chicago politicians. No, it isn't the saga of Rod Blagojevich - but this scandal is much more delicious. On March 29, 2005, two...
SCORSESE BY EBERT
Roger Ebert has a man-crush on Martin Scorsese. And why not? Scorsese remains one of the top directing talents and Ebert's day job is to evaluate the films he sees...
JAMES PATTERSON: SERIAL KILLER
James Patterson's path to publishing stardom began nearly 40 years with a simple realization - he would never be a truly great writer. "I was reading like crazy - seven,...
WHY GM MATTERS
"It's hard to change when you're successful." That's General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner's explanation for the decline a 100-year-old industrial icon. But the story is actually much more complicated than...
True To His Word: Vic Demolishes Arce
Victo Darchinyan retains the WBC, WBA and IBF 115-pound belts by whipping Jorge Arce in 11 rounds.Vic Darchiyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) retained the WBC, WBA, and IBF 115-pound titles after...
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Global Economic Meltdown doesn't mean a thing to Patti Stanger, Bravo's "Millionaire Matchmaker," which returns to Bravo for season two on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 10 p.m., just in time...
READY, WILLING AND ABE
Abraham Lincoln is almost as hot as Barack Obama. With an exhibition at the Smithsonian to celebrate the two-hundreth year of his birth, February 12, the American president who ended...
REEL GOOD
AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999), Tuesday, 10 a.m., TBS Sam Mendes' weirdly captivating story about a depressed, out-of-work suburban dad (Kevin Spacey), his insanely aggressive real estate broker wife (Annette Bening), their...
QUESTIONS FOR ROB DYRDEK
After three years (and seasons) of silly shenanigans on the MTV buddy comedy reality series, "Rob & Big," Rob Dyrdek is striking out on his own. Although his new 12-episode...
TYRA BANKS THROWS DIVORCE PARTY
Divorce parties are all the rage, with companies like The Divorce Party Planner doing so well there's a book by the same title. Never married talk show host Tyra Banks...
'HOUSE' PROUD
You can't kill good architecture. The brownstones in Brooklyn survived the riots of the '60s, the blackout of '77, the white flight to the suburbs and other assorted urban ills...
PRIMETIME
It's last Wednesday, top of the hour, 1 p.m., Fox News Channel anchor Trace Gallagher announces that he has "Breaking news" to report. Naturally, he has my full attention. Gallagher,...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMATERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, Friday, 8 p.m., Fox 'Terminator' is back - Injured by a gunshot wound, Sarah (Lena Headey) starts seeing things - specifically the image of her...
'DRUNK' JERSEY COP KILLS YOUNG WOMAN
A drunken Jersey City cop plowed his car into a young couple as they crossed a downtown street early today, killing the woman and leaving her friend in intensive care,...
3 KILLED IN WEST 93RD STREET APARTMENT
Two men and a woman were killed in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West side, police said Saturday. The bodies were found in an upscale building shortly after 5 p.m....
SULLY GOES TO SEE 'SOUTH PACIFIC'
The hero pilot who ditched his jetliner in the Hudson River without a single death is heading to Broadway. Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is expected to attend Saturday night's performance...
FLY ON THE WAL
Some people, usually community activists, loath Wal-Mart. Others, like the family of four struggling to make ends meet, are in love with the chain. I, meanwhile, am in awe of...
1 DEAD, 134 RESCUED FROM LAKE ERIE
A miles-wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours. One man fell into the water and...
US GAL AT CENTER OF ITALY 'SEX' MURDER MAY GO FREE
When the world first met Amanda Knox more that a year ago, she was dubbed a bloodthirsty, sex-crazed American exchange student in Italy who slashed her own roommate's throat during...