February 13, 2009
JAYSON WILLIAMS BLASTED BY WIFE IN DIVORCE SUIT
It's "Unhappy Valentine's Day" for former New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams. The 6-foot-9 ex-NBA player was slam dunked by his wife, Tanya Young Williams, tonight in a bombshell divorce...
Avery expected to play Saturday
APForward Sean Avery is expected to play his first game with the Hartford Wolf Pack on Saturday.The Dallas Stars assigned Avery to the American Hockey League team on Tuesday. A...
LIVEBLOG: 'Idol' hits Orlando
Theme park rides are famous for their flips, their drops, for things that jump out at you in the dark. To get on board the newest attraction at Walt Disney...
Giants franchise Jacobs
BY PAUL SCHWARTZDuring Super Bowl week, Brandon Jacobs again trumpeted his desire to re-sign with the Giants but he did sound an alarm when asked about the possibility of the...
Original Apple moves over
According to the Mets, who provided this action photo above, the original Home Run Apple from Shea Stadium was installed today at Citi Field in the Bullpen Plaza, an area...
Confirmed: No Johan in WBC
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Venezuela's baseball federation announced today that Johan Santana will not be appearing in the World Baseball Classic because the WBC didn't want to pay the high...
GIANTS TAG JACOBS AS FRANCHISE PLAYER
During Super Bowl week, Brandon Jacobs again trumpeted his desire to re-sign with the Giants but he did sound an alarm when asked about the possibility of the only NFL...
PASSENGER JET CRASHES IN LONDON
LONDON - London firefighters say a passenger jet has crash-landed on the runway at London's City Airport. The London Fire Brigade said Friday all 67 passengers were evacuated safely. Two...
SEARCH FOR CLUES IN BUFFALO CRASH
Minutes before a commuter plane nose-dived into a house near Buffalo and burst into flames, killing 50 people, the flight crew discussed "significant" ice buildup on the windshield and wings,...
FAVRE: 'HOODWINKED' BY TRADE
Brett Favre said today he felt "hoodwinked" when the Packers traded him to the Jets, but that his experience in New York was "wonderful."In an exclusive interview with ESPN's Ed...
DUCKIE BROWN - MENSWEAR
What do you get when you mix a royal guard, a prison inmate and a SARS victim in Aspen? A male model on the Duckie Brown runway! Large orange pom-pom...
KEVIN COSTNER AND WIFE WELCOME BABY BOY
Kevin Costner and his wife are proud parents of a baby boy. Costner's wife Christine Baumgartner, 34, gave birth to Hayes Logan Costner on Thursday night in Los Angeles, said...
MIGUEL ANTOINNE - MENSWEAR
Whether he's your boyfriend, your brother or just your favorite bad boy, you want to be seen walking next to him while he's wearing Miguel Antoinne. This 47-piece collection features...
Garcia addresses the media
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Here is video I shot of Freddy Garcia this morning after the former All-Star right hander arrived in camp to begin his battle for the fifth...
Report-day odds and ends
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Some notes (mostly unrelated to the arrival of Freddy Garcia in camp) that I gathered from reporting day: * First, be sure to check out my...
LIST OF BUFFALO CRASH VICTIMS
Fifty people died when Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, NJ, crashed into a home outside Buffalo, NY. Here are some vignettes about some of the victims, and a list...
DEMOCRATS MUSCLE STIMULUS THROUGH CONGRESS
In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a huge, $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress late Friday night in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since...
NO BAIL IN NY BASEBALL BAT PATRICIDE
New York man accused of beating his father to death with a baseball bat has been ordered held without bail. Norman Murray pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday on...
JORGE: WE'LL STAND BY A-ROD
TAMPA - The Yankees mainstay players plan to literally stand by their man, Alex Rodriguez, next week. Jorge Posada told The Post today that he, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and...
UK VETERAN KILLED HIMSELF AFTER MADOFF LOSS
-- A retired British army major killed himself after losing his life savings in the alleged fraud perpetrated by U.S. financier Bernard Madoff, his son said Friday. Willard Foxton told...
POSADA: YANKS WILL BACK A-ROD
By JOEL SHERMANTAMPA - The Yankees mainstay players plan to literally stand by their man, Alex Rodriguez, next week.Jorge Posada told The Post today that he, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera...
'Seven Pounds,' 'Secret Lives' Finally Win Just Desserts
Will Smith and Rosario Dawson were named best actor and best actress for the immortal "Seven Pounds'' at the Razzies, where "The Secret Lives of Bees'' was named best picture...
Falcons planning to trade Vick
Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff said in an interview on the team's Web site that he is looking to trade the rights to quarterback Michael Vick."With regards to Michael Vick, we've...
Box Office: Jason Gets First-Ever Opening Day Taste of Critics' Knives
"Is the Crystal Lake P.D. really doing such a good job?'' quips my junior colleague Kyle Smith in today's print edition of The Post. "You'd have to go back to...
Yanks will tire of "Camp Alex"
By GEORGE A. KING IIICC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett roll into the clubhouse to take physicals and go through a light workout. Andy Pettitte holds court not far from their...
A-Rod book moved up
APAn unauthorized and highly anticipated book about Alex Rodriguez is coming out a month sooner than planned.Publication of Selena Roberts' "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez" has been moved...
TENANTS ACQUITTED IN 'BLACK SUNDAY' DEATHS
A jury today cleared two Bronx tenants of causing the deaths of firefighter John Bellew and Lt. Curtis Meyran in the tragic 2005 Black Sunday inferno, a verdict that left...
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER'S RADIO TRANSCRIPT
This is a transcript of the radio transmission between the air traffic control tower and planes in the Buffalo area, including Flight 3407, which crashed into a home, killing 50...
Miley, Holt, Flores earn BA honors
Scranton/Wilkes Barre manager Dave Miley and Mets minor leaguers Brad Holt and Wilmer Flores all earned accolades from Baseball America for their performance in 2008.Miley was named the 2008 Triple-A...
Bowman, Welch named to provisional WBC rosters
Two Mets minor league third basemen, Shawn Bowman (Canada) and Stefan Welch (Australia), have been selected to be on their respective country's provisional World Baseball Classic rosters.Bowman, a 24-year-old from...
Pulse Sales: DKNY
DKNY655 Madison Ave., at 60th street; 212-223-3569Sale: Feb. 14. Sat,. 2 p.m.-6 p.m.Shop an extra 30 percent off merchandise that's already marked down 70 percent. In honor of the brand's...
Bushes in Today's Post ...
In today's paper, Mets beat writer Bart Hubbuch reports about an impressive bullpen session by one of the Mets top prospects, pitcher Brad Holt. The third of the Mets 2008...
WIDOW OF 9/11 VICTIM DIES IN BUFFALO PLANE CRASH
WASHINGTON - One of the victims of the Buffalo commuter plane crash, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the...
BOY, 13, FATHERS CHILD
Boy dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost - but said: "I think it's a lot." Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more...
OBAMA EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES FOR CRASH VICTIMS
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has voiced condolences to the families of people lost in the crash of a commuter passenger jet in upstate New York. 50 Dead in Fiery...
3 UP: A-ROD, JETER AND THE FUTURE
FROM JOEL SHERMAN1. I wrote a column in today's Post on how tethered the Yankees are to Alex Rodriguez. He is their most talented player and with a contract running...
3 UP: A-ROD, JETER AND THE FUTURE
1. I wrote a column in today's Post on how tethered the Yankees are to Alex Rodriguez. He is their most talented player and with a contract running through 2017,...
Film Society Salutes Mother Love As Its New Chief Wields the Axe
And Jean Hersholt ("Greed'' and Leslie Nielsen's real life uncle, above with Bennett) as Stella's drunken "friend'' Ed Munn is far sleazier -- there's more than a suggestion he's hitting...
DOC 'OC' WOE STRIKES A 2ND TIME
He IVF'd up again. Dr. Michael Kamrava, the in-vitro fertilization specialist responsible for Octomom, has over-impregnated another woman - this time with quadruplets. The 49-year-old patient of Kamrava's, a mother...
RETAIL GETS LIFT OF 1% IN JAN.
US retail sales bounced unexpectedly in January, according to government data, but economists say consumer spending is likely to remain sluggish as the job market worsens. The Commerce Department said...
ALTRIA IS 'SMOKED'
Altria Group, the biggest US cigarette maker, lost the first phase of a trial in a suit filed by the family of Stuart Hess, who died from lung cancer in...
CATERPILLAR BLOW FOR O
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - President Obama's stimulus plan may be good for Caterpillar, but its chief executive says the company will probably lay off more staff before it rehires any...
BIBI POISED TO SPOIL TZIPI PARTY
The final results released yesterday in Israel's election confirmed a razor-thin victory for moderate Tzipi Livni's party, and she vowed to create a coalition government based on negotiating peace with...
QUINN BUYS INTO HOUSING MARKET
The city is starting a program to buy vacant apartments to bolster its affordable-housing stock, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced in her annual State of the City speech yesterday....
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE TRILLIONS IN PORK
SEN. Charles Schumer took to the floor on Tuesday to sneer at public outrage over the trillion-dollar porkulus. "The American people really don't care," he said, about those "little, tiny,...
BAM'S CABINET $PLINTERS
Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew as commerce-secretary nominee yesterday - surprising President Obama, drawing a testy reaction from the White House and handing the administration another...
PUT GUILTY BIRDS IN GOOSEGOW
The jury finds the defendants, Canada geese, guilty! Federal investigators officially declared yesterday that the wily waterfowl are responsible for causing Flight 1549's incredible emergency ditch into the Hudson River...
BROWN'S 'THREAT' TO RIHANNA
R&B singer Chris Brown was so out of control as he unleashed a beating on his pop-star girlfriend, Rihanna, that he threatened to kill her, according to an account of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Officials in Houston were stunned to discover a cat had gotten stuck on top of a six-story concrete pillar built as a part of a freeway extension and had no...
UCONN STAR DYSON FACES KNEE SURGERY
STORRS, Conn. - Connecticut guard Jerome Dyson requires surgery on his right knee and could miss the rest of the season. Dyson was injured Wednesday night less than four minutes...
IRISH CRUSH L'VILLE, SNAP SKID
Luke Harangody had 32 points and 17 rebounds and Notre Dame shot 54 percent in a 90-57 victory over No. 5 Louisville last night in South Bend, Ind., that ended...
TIMES SQ.'S HISTORIC H'WAY
A sign unveiled in Times Square yesterday marks the eastern terminus of the historic Lincoln Highway. The highway was a patchwork of roads connected into a 3,389-mile route to San...
FOES OF VACCINE JABBED
WASHINGTON - In a big blow to parents who believe vaccines caused their children's autism, a special court ruled yesterday that the shots are not to blame. The court said...
NY'S FALCONS ON UPS-WING
ALBANY - Peregrine falcons are making a comeback - flourishing on the cliffs, bridges and skyscrapers of New York state, four decades after pesticides apparently had eliminated them from the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens A cross-dressing bank robber made off with next to nothing after he got all dolled up, police said yesterday. The 5-foot-6, 130-pound man (right) came wearing a black wig,...
340M LINCOLN PENNIES
A handwritten manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's re-election victory speech sold for $3.4 million yesterday, setting a record for US historic memorabilia on the bicentennial of the 16th president's birth. The...
HIRAM IS FINED 30G
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who's facing felony charges for cutting his girlfriend in the face, was slapped with a $30,102 fine yesterday for violating campaign finance rules in his City...
MASTER OF OUR OWN 'DOMAIN'
Pretty soon, anyone can snag a hot city address. The Big Apple is poised to get its very own Internet domain - .nyc - for individuals, businesses and government agencies...
GAY-NUPS FANS TOLD: GO AWAY
Hundreds of same-sex couples taking part in an annual rally for gay-marriage rights were turned away at marriage-license counters nationwide yesterday. Some Manhattan activists wore signs that read, "Just Not...
PSC HEAT'S ON CON ED
State regulators voted yesterday to investigate whether Con Ed is prudently handling its capital spending after 11 utility supervisors were arrested last month for allegedly forcing contractors to pay them...
PHELPS TELLS CHINA: SORRY
High-flying swimmer Michael Phelps apologized to all of China yesterday, in a million-dollar mea culpa aimed at saving his golden advertising deal. In a subtitled video distributed by auto giant...
MOB STAB-SLAY RAT
A mob turncoat yesterday fingered a Gambino hit man as the knife-wielding thug who fatally stabbed another mobster. Former Bonanno associate Vincent Rossetti, 44, said he and a group of...
ANGUISH OF DRAG VICTIM'S FAMILY
The man whose gruesome, 20-mile dragging death stunned the city was identified yesterday as a hardworking Ecuadoran immigrant who had been sending money home to his wife and daughter. Guido...
CITY'S $8M TAB FOR 'PRIVATE' PENSIONS
City taxpayers are supporting the pensions of 1,500 employees who don't even work for the city in 28 cultural institutions, as part of a little-known deal struck 47 years ago,...
PARENTS SUE IN AUTISM DEATH
The parents of a 13-year-old autistic boy who died while in the care of state employees filed suit yesterday, saying workers were not properly trained or supervised. Jonathan Carey died...
FAT-TAX SUPPORT TOO LIGHT: GOV
MORRISVILLE, NY - Gov. Paterson has admitted that one of his most talked-about tax proposals - an obesity tax on sugary drinks - is fizzling. While meeting with college students...
BROOKLYN BREW-HAHA OVER 'BARACK' BEER
A small Brooklyn brewery that was seeing great sales of its gimmicky "Hop Obama" beer during the presidential campaign got a buzz kill a month after its namesake was elected...
UNHOLY TERRORS STEAL CATHOLIC-SCHOOL CASH
Thieves slipped inside a Queens Catholic school and swiped about $19,000 in cash and checks - the latest in a slew of similar burglaries around the city, sources said yesterday....
A COLD CURE IS COMING
Can the chicken soup - a cure for the common cold may finally be on the horizon. Scientists have unraveled the genetic code of an army of cold-causing viruses -...
KILLER WIND & CRUEL FLAMES
Wicked winds wreaked havoc across the metro area yesterday - killing three people and fanning a furious Queens inferno that engulfed a row of houses. The ferocious gusts topped out...
O HAILS HIS AMERICAN IDOL
President Obama yesterday led tributes to Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth, calling on Americans to follow the Great Emancipator's example of seeking national unity. "Only by coming...
MOGUL'S $CAM IS DRECK: WIFE
Call this divorce suit "The Diarrhea of a Madman." The wealth-crazed scion to a parking-garage fortune faked an intestinal ailment so he could sneak away and literally empty the family's...
'MINI MADOFF'S LAM LETTER
Florida hedge-funder Arthur Nadel knew he would be dubbed the "mini Madoff" after being accused of stealing $350 million from investors, the feds revealed yesterday. In four pages of breezy...
SPACE-SMASH CLASH
MOSCOW - Americans and Russians traded shots yesterday over who was to blame for a huge satellite collision this week that sent clouds of debris hurtling through space, threatening other...
ALOMAR: NO AIDS
Former Met All-Star Roberto Alomar flatly denied yesterday he has AIDS, while a close associate said Alomar isn't even infected with HIV, the virus that causes the disease. Reached by...
ARREST IN DEADLY AUSSIE BLAZE
YEA, Australia - A suspect was arrested early today in connection with one of the deadly wildfires in southern Australia that have killed at least 181 people. Police did not...
PANTHERS ROLL 'CANES
Tomas Vokoun made 42 saves for his fourth shutout of the season, Anthony Stewart and Gregory Campbell scored 12 seconds apart in the second period and the Panthers routed the...
LIFE GOES SEAN
Sean Avery took another step in his comeback yesterday, practicing again with the Rangers' AHL team in Hartford at the XL Center. He is expected to make his debut with...
ICE CATCH! FISHERMAN BAGS GIGANTIC WALLEYE
YOU can put one New York state fishing record on ice. Fishing with tip-ups, Thomas Reed of Kill Buck, NY, pulled a 16-pound, nine-ounce walleye through the ice on Mystic...
DEVILS MEASURE UP
Fresh off back-to-back victories over the Rangers and Islanders, the Devils take on the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins tonight at the Prudential Center. But instead of looking at the game as...
TOM'S NOT SKIDDING ABOUT BIG REBOUND
Tom Renney had the evidence in front of him - a list of other teams that have gone through ugly stretches during the regular season, only to turn things around...
REDDING EXPECTING TO BE IN METS' ROTATION
PORT ST. LUCIE - Tim Redding isn't buying all the scenarios he has heard about the Mets' fifth-starter job. Redding is the only one in the mix with a guaranteed...
ABREU HAPPY IN DISNEYLAND
ANAHEIM - The Angels were content heading to spring training with what they had. Then came a deal that was simply too good to pass up. The Angels agreed to...
EMMY NOD FOR SERBY
Post columnist Steve Serby's Sunday Q-&-A - which appears in The Post and airs on SNY's "Geico SportsNite" show at 10 p.m. - received a New York Emmy nomination yesterday...
CARTER & CO. CONVINCED PLAYOFFS IN REACH
The Nets are one of the more confident, most optimistic teams ever to reside five games under .500 at the All-Star break. The Nets know they have a tough path...
GIRARDI HOLDING BACK JORGE
TAMPA - Not wanting to tax his surgically repaired right shoulder, the Yankees' plan isn't to use Jorge Posada behind the plate when the exhibition season starts Feb. 25. "I...
PELFREY LAUGHS OFF GOLF CART CRASH
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Pelfrey can't be trusted around golf carts. That's the lesson the Mets came away with after the big right-hander's comical mishap on a course here...
MANAGER'S YANKEE LIFE ON LINE IN '09
TAMPA - Like everybody else in the Yankees' universe, manager Joe Girardi has his fingers firmly crossed the latest - and largest - distraction in Alex Rodriguez's career doesn't turn...
CASH PLAN: DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL
TAMPA - Brian Cashman knows the biggest name on the list of 104. Alex Rodriguez wasn't a Yankee when he failed a 2003 steroid test, but he's Cashman's problem now....
MEETING ARRANGED TO HANDLE MARBURY, KNICKS DISPUTE
The Knicks have enough headaches as they enter the All-Star break on a six-game losing streak. The one they could have easily nipped in the bud - Stephon Marbury -...
GARRIGUS, JOHNSON FEELING JUST BEACHY
Sunshine and tranquil conditions turned the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am into paradise yesterday in Pebble Beach, Calif., and it was particularly ideal for big hitters Robert Garrigus and Dustin...
EXPECT TEAMMATES TO STAND BY ALEX
TAMPA - I watched Derek Jeter take batting practice yesterday and this thought kept popping into my head over and over: What if, when Jeter is ready to discuss Alex...
AGENT SHOPS PLAX, DRAWS GIANTS' IRE
With each passing day it becomes more and more unlikely that Plaxico Burress will ever play again for the Giants. And the legal system hasn't had its say in the...
CONGRESS MIGHT YET GRILL ALEX
Will he or won't he be headed to Capitol Hill for a grilling? Just days after the head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform indicated that Congress...
EXPECT EXPERIENCED QB TO JOIN JETS' 3 KIDS
Now that Brett Favre has announced his retirement, this harsh reality faces Jet rookie head coach Rex Ryan: The most critical position on the team he just inherited represents a...
FANS SPLIT OVER BRETT
Brett Favre says he's done with football. Jet leadership says it's ready to move on and search for the quarterback of the future. And pigskin fans in the Big Apple...
BUD BLASTS A-ROID BUT BACKTRACKS ON PUNISHMENT TALK
Alex Rodriguez will have to live with the shame of knowing he juiced, but evidently not a suspension. A day after baseball Commissioner Bud Selig suggested in a published report...
BAD KARMA IN VALLEY OF THE SUNS
PHOENIX - Before launching today's Scuds. I wish to apologize, sincerely, for anything embarrassing or illegal Selena Roberts may dig up from the past, and for anything I may get...
ROCKET SUIT IN 0-2 HOLE
Roger Clemens is headed toward another loss. A U.S. District judge in Houston yesterday dismissed most of The Rocket's defamation suit against ex-trainer Brian McNamee, saying the court does not...
RACING BLOWN AWAY AT BIG A
Racing at Aqueduct was canceled yesterday morning after the National Weather Service issued a high-wind warning for Ozone Park, with gusts up to 60 mph blowing off Jamaica Bay making...
HOLT OPENS EYES IN WORKOUT
PORT ST. LUCIE - Right-hander Brad Holt doesn't have an invitation to the Mets' major-league camp this spring, but get used to hearing the name. The 6-foot-4 prospect, a first-round...
SOURCES: PAX OUT IN BULLS SHAKEUP
Do I know this to be fact? No. But two people in the know maintain John Paxson will resign as Bulls GM soon after Thursday's trade deadline expires. Assistant GM...
CELTICS STREAK BY MAVS NBA ROUNDUP
In Dallas, Paul Pierce scored 18 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter, finally giving Boston its first lead, then hitting two jumpers in the final 1:12 to put...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: IRS agents cleared in BALCO probe The government's lead sports doping investigator and several other Internal Revenue Service agents have been cleared of any wrongdoing in a raid on...
SEATTLE 'RUMOR' NEWS TO GRIFFEY
If Ken Griffey Jr. is about to return to Seattle, it's news to him. "We don't know what we're doing next year with respect to Seattle. It's all rumors," Griffey...
PETE BETS AGAINST ALEX'S STORY
Pete Rose would lay good odds that Alex Rodriguez is full of baloney with his claim he stopped using banned substances in 2003. "If you're A-Rod and you're using from...
WEIGHT OUT 6 WEEKS
The Islanders suffered another dose of bad news yesterday, losing Doug Weight for six weeks with an MCL sprain. Weight was injured in Wednesday's 4-2 loss to the Devils in...
MT. VERNON NATIVE GETS POINT AT UMASS
No one expected the ceiling to be so high for Chris Lowe - not even him. The University of Massachusetts senior and Mount Vernon, N.Y., native returned home against Fordham...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
RALLY OF THE DOLLS Barbie still wears miniskirts and drives a Corvette, and she's turning 50 in March. To celebrate Barbie's birthday and her first-ever Fashion Week show tomorrow in...
THE PARTY'S OVER
MODELS used to walk the runways by day - and later dance the night away in new nightclubs that timed their openings to coincide with Fashion Week. But this year,...
MCFASHION WEEK
THE perks at Fashion Week are taking a weird turn downmarket. High-powered fashion editors and retail merchants - who in seasons past have hauled off gift bags of Victoria's Secret...
SCRUTINY GETS IN TENTS
SWIFTLY and suddenly usurping Anna Wintour as the most powerful person at Fashion Week: Ikram Goldman, a 41-year-old shopkeeper from Chicago and stealth stylist to Michelle Obama for the past...
FASHION WEAK
FASHION Week is here. Sort of. While pret-a-porter is usually a season ahead of mainstream culture, this season finds some Bizarro World version of the big biannual wallowing in the...
MARTIN, JUNIOR TOP DAYTONA STORYLINES
NASCAR is becoming a young man's sport, but Mark Martin has a chance to turn back the clock on Sunday when he starts from the front row at the Daytona...
UNDER THE SEA 3-D
BEFORE it got into the Hollywood blockbuster business, IMAX venues showed a lot of nature documentaries that ran well under an hour, such as Howard Hall's beautifully photographed "Under the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... MARV ALBERT
YES! The NBA's All-Star Break is upon us. TNT and YES analyst Marv Albert talked with the Post's Justin Terranova about the Knicks' chances of getting LeBron in 2010, and...
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. "33 VARIATIONS": Jane Fonda and...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Through Tuesday, Linas Phillips' 2007 documentary "Great Speeches From a Dying World" follows nine homeless people in Seattle. 32 Second Ave.; 212-505-5181. IFC CENTER: This weekend's installment...
DANCE
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: The all-female troupe Lava performs its modern show "We Become" at 8 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and 7 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, through March 1. 227...
CABARET
FEINSTEINS: Betty Buckley's "Broadway By Request" has the songstress singing songs suggested by audience members at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. today and tomorrow. 540 Park Ave. South; 212-339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM:...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: The Juilliard Orchestra performs works by Bruce MacCombie, Franz Liszt and Dmitri Shostakovich Tuesday at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; 917-441-6109. CARNEGIE HALL: The New York Philharmonic performs...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: David Sanborn performs Tuesday through Feb. 22 at 8 and 10:30 p.m. 131 W. Third St.; 212-475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: A collection of jazz musicians plays romantic film...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE: Michael Patrick's Ring of Fire band honors the country legend on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. - a couple of weeks before what would've been his 77th birthday....
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....
STARR REPORT
"GDNY's" Mike Woods will join the Harlem Globetrotters today at 11 as they take on the Washington Generals (who else?) at the Garden. Woods' hoops wizardry will be on dis...
UNBALANCED ACCOUNT
UNTIL this week I was an Isla Fisher-aholic, but I'm getting better thanks to "Confessions of a Shopaholic," a "Devil Wears Prada" for Chico's customers. Lightning-strike victims, coma-ward residents and...
THERE'S NOT MUCH TO LOVE
GWYNETH Paltrow is back and Joaquin Phoenix has got her in the soppy indie drama "Two Lovers," a dismal cine-splotch about depressed losers in outer Brooklyn by writer-director James Gray....
FLESH, BLOOD AND THE USUAL FLYING HATCHETS
NOT to second-guess our law-enforcement authorities but . . . is the Crystal Lake PD really doing such a good job? You'd have to go back to Phnom Penh in...
MOB FLICK A HIT
'GOMORRAH" takes the time-honored Mafia genre and gives it an all- new twist. Unlike films by Cop pola and Scorsese, Italian director Matteo Garrone's mob epic refrains from glamorizing its...
NO THANKS TO BAD BANKS
WHEN officials of a corrupt European bank in Tom Tykwer's thriller "The Interna tional" decide to eliminate their in-house assassin with a hit squad (lest he turn criminal informant), someone...
'CALLER' IT QUITS VERY QUICKLY
IF Frank Langella hadn't received an Oscar nomination for "Frost/Nixon," it's pretty doubtful that an opaque oddity like Richard Ledes' "The Caller" would have managed even a one-week vanity booking...
NAOMI DOESN'T BLAME PARENTS
HARD as it may be to be lieve, Naomi Crespo says she doesn't blame her kooky parents for getting her kicked off of ABC's "The Bachelor." On Monday night's episode,...
TRADING PLACES
'AMERICAN Idol" did it again - shocking its fans with another last-minute twist no one saw coming. The show's producers disqualified this season's most controversial contestant - former "Annie" wannabe...
SPEND YOUR V-DAY WITH A BUNCH OF 'REJECTS'
GETTING rejected is the best! Well . . . when it comes to writing comedy material, that is. Just look at Brooklynite Jon Friedman's new book, "Rejected: Tales of the...
'UNCLE' RELATIVELY MINOR REVIVAL
THE marquee attractions of the new off-Broadway production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" are Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard (our local equivalent to Brangelina) and Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare ("Take...
DREAM 'DOLL'
DID you ever have a really great date, and then the per son inexplicably disappeared, never returned your phone calls and even blocked you from his/her email list like you...
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"...
AFTER WALL ST.: RADICAL RX FOR NEW YORK
WALL Street firms' $18 billion in year-end bonuses sparked much outrage. But for New Yorkers, the real issue is that bonuses fell more than 40 percent from the year before,...
OUT-OF-TOUCH CHUCK: WE CARE! NO MORE PORK!
THE ISSUE: Sen. Schumer's claim that Americans don't care about pork in the stimulus bill. *** How dare Sen. Chuck Schumer say on the floor of the Senate that "the...
ON THE DOLE AGAIN
MUCH of the "stimulus" bill is devoted to a backdoor undoing of one of Washington's greatest achievements of recent years - welfare reform. One of the most important changes of...
TOO MANY TEACHERS?
THE ISSUE: Whether select NYC teachers should be laid off as a preventive economic measure. *** It is not very often that I agree with The Post's position on the...
AMERICA'S ZOMBIE BANKS
HACKERS the other day changed the message of an Austin, Texas, road sign to "Zombies Ahead." It was a whimsical warning for that stretch of Texas road, but could have...
STIMULUS = DEATH?
NEW York politicians are already exulting over the state's share of the $789 billion "economic stimulus." That puts us on track to disaster. State and local pols need to remember:...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Rebound The Dow Jones indus trial average pared sharp losses to finish down nearly 7 points after a re port that the government plans to subsidize mort gage payments for...
WELLS FARGO LOSSES GROW
Wells Fargo & Co., the second-biggest US home lender, said its fourth-quarter loss was wider than first reported because of additional costs tied to securities holdings. The bank recorded a...
BONUS BAN BOUNCED FROM BILL
Congressional leaders have killed a plan that would have forced financial institutions to compensate taxpayers if they paid their executives large bonuses after receiving federal bailout money. The Senate had...
STREET POACH PARTY
Even before it's finished, the much-ballyhooed joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup's Smith Barney is already showing some cracks. Plans to create a massive force of 20,000 brokers are...
SUMNER'S SUNNY DAY
Sumner Redstone yesterday said that his National Amusements is moving closer to refinancing $1.6 billion in debt and that negotiators had made "substantial progress," removing a cloud that has loomed...
GOOGLE'S RADIO AD RETREAT
Google is getting out of the broadcast-radio business, retreating from yet another area of traditional advertising. The Internet giant announced yesterday in a blog post that it's abandoning an effort...
BILLIONAIRE CHARTER-ING ANOTHER TRIP TO FAILURE
Tech legend Paul Allen - who lost more than half of his $36 billion Microsoft fortune while bankrolling flops - is pulling the plug on one of his worst bets,...
LOSING FACE(BOOK)
It turns out even Mark Zuckerberg never thought his social-networking Web site Facebook was worth $15 billion. While the world believed the popular Web site had achieved that lofty valuation...
LIVE WIRE IMPERILS LIVE NATION DEAL
As if lawmakers and artists denouncing the merger with Ticketmaster weren't enough, now Live Nation has to contend with opposition to the deal from its largest shareholder. Shapiro Capital Management,...
PARADE FINALLY PASSES ITS LONG-TIME EDITOR AND CEO
CHANGE is coming to the hidden jewel of the Newhouse media empire, Parade Publications. Walter Anderson is stepping down as chairman and CEO of the highly profitable weekly that every...
MEDIAN HOME VALUES IN METRO AREA LOSE 14.6%
Foreclosures have hit the highest level ever, pushing millions out of their homes and dragging down home prices to new lows to wipe out untold billions in equity. In the...
DUMMY UP, JOE
Remember back when Iraq was a frac tured, strife-torn country - and Vice President Joe Biden was still just a flap-jawed senator from Delaware? Times change. Someone should tell Biden....
A PRINCIPLED POLITICIAN
President Obama's latest candidate for commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, withdrew yesterday, citing "irresolvable differences." First, consider this: Gregg's sayonara represents the fourth withdrawal from an administration not four weeks...
HER MASTERS' VOICE
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday called for a stiff hike in New York's personal-income tax, which prompts a question: What, the council ran out of street names to change,...
MICROSOFT PLANS OWN STORES
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, will open its own retail outlets and hired a 25-year veteran of Wal-Mart Stores to lead the effort. David Porter, who will be a...
Winky To Face Paul Williams
Former junior middleweight champion Winky Wright returns to the ring after a long absence will take on former welterweight champion Paul Williams on April 11 in Las Vegas.Press ReleaseLOS ANGELES,...
NO SERIOUS INJURIES AS FIRE ENGULFS 11 HOMES IN WOODHAVEN
A quick-moving, five-alarm blaze engulfed 11 homes on a Woodhaven block Thursday, fire officials said. Two firefighters and two civilians suffered minor injuries in the fire that swept through 96th...
Update: Warner, Cards closer
The Arizona Republic reports that the Cardinals and QB Kurt Warner are inching closer to a new contract but may not complete the deal before NFL free agency begins Friday.The...