February 27, 2009
Postgame tidbits
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Some odds and ends after the Mets committed two errors and walked seven in a 9-8 loss to the Cardinals here today: * Jerry Manuel was...
Oduro to Professor Angel's finishing school
The Red Bulls followed-up yesterday's 2-1 win over a mixed River Plate side with not one but two training sessions today, working first on technical drills then going on 8v8...
Isles' Witt suspended 5 games
By DAN MARTINBrendan Witt was suspended for five games by the league yesterday for his elbow to the head of Toronto's Niklas Hagman in the Islanders' 5-4 shootout loss on...
SANTANA SCRATCHED AGAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Saying he wants to be "extra, extra, extra cautious," Jerry Manuel confirmed today he is pushing back Johan Santana's first spring-training start a minimum of several...
STEELERS GUARD REJECTS JETS
PITTSBURGH - Left guard Chris Kemoeatu turned down an offer from the Jets and re-signed Friday with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, who would have been depleted on the...
Villone signed to minor deal
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets have signed former Yankees left-handed reliever Ron Villone to a minor-league contract. Villone, 39, pitched for the Bombers from 2006-07 before going 1-2 with...
Santana debut delayed again
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Saying he wants to be "extra, extra, extra cautious," Jerry Manuel confirmed today that he is pushing back Johan Santana's first spring-training start a minimum of...
BERNIE LEAVES YANKEES AGAIN
TAMPA - Bernie Williams admits his baseball passion is growing after spending the past week with the Yankees. The 40-year-old former Yankees center fielder worked out for the last time...
DUI MILLIONAIRE GETS WRIST-SLAP
A millionaire accused of killing a woman in a drunk-driving incident was given a slap on the wrist today after he was allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor DWI and...
Pointless Practice
By FRED KERBERDevin Harris lasted 20 minutes and surrendered to a volcanic stomach. Keyon Dooling went to the doctors with a sore right hip. Yup, Net practice today was basically...
A-ROD, BASEBALL TO MEET SUNDAY
TAMPA - Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is scheduled to meet with Major League Baseball officials Sunday to discuss his admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03 while with...
SOURCE: ED MCMAHON HOSPITALIZED WITH BONE CANCER
Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on "Tonight" and a familiar TV commercial pitchman, is hospitalized in intensive care, and a person close to him said Friday that McMahon...
DEALS: La Jolla, CA, for $215/night
Screw the Octomom (uh, figuratively, please) -- much cuter babies are popping out in San Diego County. Twenty-five pound babies! No need to pity the mothers: February through April is...
SKINNY IS INNY
They are not exactly skinny but the players sure are smaller this year. That's the first thing you notice when you walk around spring training this spring, a trend that...
WHITE HOUSE RELEASES MICHELLE OBAMA'S OFFICIAL PORTRAIT
First Lady Michelle Obama must have channeled Jackie O when she posed for her White House portrait. In the photo, released today by the White House, Obama is seen wearing...
'Slumdog' Shocker: Young Actor Reportedly Beaten by Dad On Return to Mumbai From Oscars
The child actor who played the youngest version of Salim in "Slumdog Millionaire'' was reportedly kicked and beaten by his father on his return to India today following his appearance...
Hello Boston
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury worked out at the Celtics practice facility this morning, will go through the team's walkthrough at the new Boston Garden at 5 p.m., meet the Beantown...
'Grey's Anatomy's' New Dr. Hahn
Looks like Jessica Capshaw will continue to skate through the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital. "Grey's Anatomy" has extended Capshaw's stay from three episodes to the remainder of the season,...
Canty will visit this weekend
BY PAUL SCHWARTZAt first, it doesn't make sense that the Giants would be interested in Chris Canty, who in four years in Dallas started all 64 regular-season games as a...
Jets aggressive early in free agency
By MARK CANNIZZAROIn a fast and furious start to free agency, which began at 12:01 this morning, the Jets have jumped in head-first with mixed results.The Jets and Ravens linebacker...
Free agent rumors
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel says the Dolphins have interest in former Jets WR Laveranues Coles at the right price.Coles would reunite with friend Chad Pennington.The Buffalo News says Coles is...
ALBANY NEARS AGREEMENT ON MTA TOLLS
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. David Paterson and the Legislature are negotiating a deal to rescue the debt-ridden Metropolitan Transportation Authority that could put $2 tolls on bridges over the Harlem...
FUNERAL FOR LI MOM, 3 CHILDREN
Mourners have gathered to bid a final farewell to a Long Island mother and three of her children killed in a suspicious apartment fire last week. The funeral service was...
'SLUMDOG' STAR GETS BRUTAL BEATING FROM DAD
One of the child actors who starred in the Oscar-winning flick "Slumdog Millionaire" received a severe beating from his dad today after the 10-year-old star refused to be put on...
AIRLINE MAY ENACT PAY-TO-PEE POLICY
Here's another reason air travelers should be pee'd off. The friendly skies may have just gotten a little more uncomfortable after Irish discount airline Ryanair said today it is considering...
OBAMA ANNOUNCES TROOP PULLOUT SCHEDULE FOR IRAQ
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.- Declaring "I have come to speak to you about how the war in Iraq will end," President Barack Obama on Friday moved to fulfill the defining promise...
JETS FINALLY SIGN SCOTT
It took longer -- and more money -- than expected, but the Jets finally got Bart Scott's name on a contract. The Jets and the Ravens linebacker agreed today on...
Tribeca: The Other Shoe Drops on Peter Scarlet
Tribeca will begin announcing this year's slate on March 9 -- a bit later than usual, which suggests to me that Gilmore is making some last-minute tweaks or, hopefully, re-doing...
Starr Report: Steve Schirripa Gets 'Ugly'
Steve Schirripa guest-stars on "Ugly Betty" next Thursday and returns for 20 episodes of ABC Family's "Secret Life of an American Teenager" next season. Elsewhere on the series scene, "The...
Grapefruit: Cardinals at Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets will get their first live look at fifth-starter hopefuls Livan Hernandez (pictured) and Freddy Garcia when they take on the Cardinals here today in...
NFL FREE AGENT ROUNDUP
The NFL Network is reporting that former Jets tight end Chris Baker has signed with the Patriots, the latest player to jump between teams in the heated rivalry. Baker, who...
Box-Office: Keeping Up with the Jonases
So when will Hollywood's allegedly recession-proof box-office bubble -- up 13 percent from a year ago for the first two months of 2009, according to one report -- burst? Not...
MARBURY JOINS CELTICS
BOSTON - Former Knicks guard Stephon Marbury got a much-needed fresh start in Boston on Friday, and the Celtics acquired the backup point guard they wanted to help them push...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
That said ... I mean, the one Manny Being Manny that counts is still out there after turning down the Dodgers, and you would have to think he could come...
NORTH BRONX MERCHANTS JOIN COALITION
The Bronx Business Alliance has invited all shopping areas community boards 9, 10, 11 to join the newly formed Merchant Coalition. "Biggest point is that we are organizing the coalition...
CARRION'S FINAL "STATE OF BRONX' MESSAGE
Joking, reminiscing and reciting poetry, Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. bid farewell to the Bronx -- for now. During his final State of the Borough address on Friday, February 20,...
BED BUGS TO GO
Community Board 10 had the highest New York City percentage increase in the number of bed bug cases reported in 2008, according to a report released by tracking group New...
OBAMA TAPS CARRION FOR HOUSING SLOT
The Bronx has a friend in Washington D.C. On Wednesday, February 18, Barack Obama tapped 47-year old Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. the country's first-ever White House Director of Urban...
STREET SIGN UNVEILING HONORS GARCIA
Third Avenue between E. 156 and E. 159 streets was renamed after community and environmental activist, and Nos Quedamos founder, Yolanda Garcia on Tuesday, February 17. The moving ceremony brought...
MAN ARRESTED FOR SENDING HIV-INFECTED BLOOD TO OBAMA
A man from President Obama's hometown of Chicago has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them....
DT Rocky Bernard visits
BY PAUL SCHWARTZIt is a busy day at Giants Stadium. In addition to bringing in Falcons LB Michael Boley for a visit, the Giants will also have in Rocky Bernard,...
'Catching' up with Mike Piazza
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Here is video I shot this morning of former Met great Mike Piazza, in town for an exhibition game against his old team, as he talked...
Carrey Trying to Rescue the Devil From Development Hell in 'Damn Yankees' Remake
Still uncast is the central role of Lola, the temptress the Devil employs to take the fan from drifting back to his wife. Tough stillettos to fill. I can't even...
2ND SUSPECT CAUGHT IN ECUADORIAN IMMIGRANT'S MURDER
A remorseless suspect in the hate crime murder of an Ecuadoran immigrant gushed his guilt to cops early today -- then shocked hardened detectives by asking, "So I killed a...
Exhibition: Team Italy vs. Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets are likely to get their first look at new closer Francisco Rodriguez this morning when they take on the Italian WBC representative in a...
MORGENTHAU OPTS NOT TO RUN AGAIN
Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's District Attorney for nearly 35 years, has decided not to seek re-election this fall, The Post has learned. Morgenthau has begun privately calling top deputies into his...
LB Boley to visit
By PAUL SCHWARTZIt is no secret that the Giants are interested in adding a linebacker in free agency and thus it comes as no surprise that they are trying to...
ECONOMY SHRINKING AT 6.2 PERCENT
In yet another sign the country is headed deeper into recession, the economy contracted at a whopping 6.2 percent at the end of last year - the worst showing in...
Report: Bart Scott signs with Jets
The National Football Post reports that linebacker Bart Scott has signed a multiyear deal with the Jets.NFL.com reports the deal will be for five years, up to $40 million.The SportingNews.com...
3 UP: JOHAN, MANNY AND A-ROD
Sorry, have to do a quick 3 Up today. I am back in New York from spring training and doing child care this morning.1. I did this column today in...
PALIN STILL FACES TAX ISSUES
Gov. Sarah Palin's agreement to reimburse the state for trips her children took at government expense does not address potential tax problems she might face for charging Alaska thousands of...
CITIGROUP REACHES AID DEAL WITH GOVERNMENT
The U.S. government will exchange up to $25 billion in emergency bailout money it provided Citigroup Inc. for as much as a 36 percent equity stake in the struggling bank....
THIS STORE'S FREE FOR ALL
Free trade is flourishing once more in the Financial District - the hippie commune variety, that is. No money is exchanged at the Free Store, which recently opened at 99...
PLAZA VETERAN FINDS RETIRING BITTER-SUITE
The door has closed on the career of the longest-serving porter at the storied Plaza hotel. Ed Trinka is hanging up the white gloves after 46 years of greeting everyone...
GISELE & TOM WED: REPORT
New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen reportedly tied the knot last night in suburban Los Angeles. Usmagazine.com said the 28-year-old Bundchen wore a Dolce & Gabbana...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Dead men tell no tales, but dead women do. After a family failed to pay a Gadsden, Ala. funeral home to cremate a relative, the funeral director left the woman's...
YANKS CUT PRICES OF LOUSY SEATS
The Yankees are lowering the price of about 600 obstructed-view bleacher seats at the new Yankee Stadium from $12 to $5. The team said yesterday it had incorrectly priced the...
DEVIN LIFTS NETS' PLAYOFF HOPES
If the Nets go on to make the playoffs, it will be easy to look back at the 50-foot, buzzer-beating shot Devin Harris made to beat the 76ers on Monday...
TIM IS ONE COOL CAT AGAINST TIGER
MARANA, Ariz. - When Tim Clark rolled in a 68-foot putt for birdie at the par-4 fifth hole he might have figured it would be his day. It was the...
EXPECTATIONS WERE TOO GREAT
TIGER Woods is back ... back home. In a turn of events yesterday in the Arizona desert that can be best described as a colossal buzzkill, Woods was unceremoniously bounced...
WOODS' RETURN CUT SHORT BY S. AFRICAN
MARANA, Ariz.-Just when we were getting used to Tiger Woods being back on the PGA Tour, he is gone again. The good news is his layoff this time figures to...
MANNY REJECTS LATEST L.A. OFFER
Manny Ramirez has rejected yet another offer from the Dodgers. The Dodgers announced last night the star outfielder's agent Scott Boras had declined a $25 million, one-year contract with a...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... JOHNNY MILLER
NBC's Johnny Miller talked with the Post's Justin Terranova about Tiger Woods' much-anticipated return to the PGA Tour this week. Q: Could Tiger Woods be better after the injury?A: Dealing...
FEHR'S TACTICS A BAD JOKE
IN 1892 England, the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson left an opening for Poet Laureate. Sir Lewis Morris openly and incessantly lobbied for the title. He figured he was a...
HEALTHY POSADA HITS SOLO HOMER
TAMPA - When people talk about Jorge Posada's return from shoulder surgery, the emphasis falls on how the catcher will be able to throw. Seemingly forgotten is that the Yankees...
A-ROID PROBERS EYE ANSWERS ABOUT YURI
TAMPA - When Alex Rodriguez is interviewed by MLB investigators over his admitted use of performance enhancers - likely today - it's doubtful his answers will result in punishment. Even...
LINEUP SWITCH PAYS OFF: 2 HRS, 6 RBIS FOR REYES
PORT ST. LUCIE - Jerry Manuel's grand lineup experiment already seems like a stroke of genius. Jose Reyes made the Mets manager look even smarter yesterday, drilling two homers -...
YANKS COULD SKIP JOBA'S FIRST TURN IN ROTATION
TAMPA - The Yankees are contemplating skipping Joba Chamberlain during the first trip through the rotation for two reasons: One, with a 150-innings limit on his electric right arm it...
MARBURY SET TO JOIN CELTICS
Stephon Marbury will join the Celtics this morning after clearing waivers. He will meet the Boston press and is expected to dress for tonight's game vs. the Pacers at the...
METS CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE SANTANA
PORT ST. LUCIE - The crazy thing - considering how last season concluded - is that the Mets can actually survive an injury to their closer, because J.J. Putz, not...
ELBOW SORENESS SIDELINES SANTANA
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' hearts skipped a beat here yesterday morning. The club can only hope Johan Santana's elbow soreness is as minor as its $137.5 million ace...
REESE: FREE AGENCY MAY FILL GIANT HOLES
The NFL free agency signing period kicked off this morning at 12:01 and, as usual, there will be some immediate movement and a handful of quick and gaudy signings. Don't...
JOHNSON: USA 'TEAM TO BEAT' IN CLASSIC
Forget 2006. This is a whole new ballgame. Team USA has been marching to that drumbeat since the provisional roster for the World Baseball Classic was announced last month, and...
BONDS TRAINER TO FACE JUDGE
Barry Bonds' personal trainer will appear before a U.S. district judge today in San Francisco to say whether he will testify in the home run king's perjury trial. Greg Anderson...
KNICKS SET SIGHTS ON 40-WIN MARK
The Knicks went into the All-Star break mired in a six-game losing skid, the kind of slump that threatened to unhinge their season and undo all their good work. But...
ADAMEK BANKS ON VICTORY
Who would have figured it would be Tomasz Adamek to revive boxing in Newark. But that looks to be the case as the IBF/IBO cruiserweight champion has made a home-court...
DREAM STILL UNFUL-PHIL-ED
TAMPA - Of course there are times when the kid lets his mind wander, when his thoughts drift back to a muggy night in Arlington, Texas, to the night of...
GLASS HALF-FULL: STEPH CAN HELP CELTICS
LET'S do something somewhat uncommon for this site, shall we? Today, we look at the shot glass as half-full; accentuate the positive in people, overlook back-page pictures of a personality...
JETS CUT LINEMAN MOORE
In a curious move that has been anticipated for days, the Jets yesterday officially released right guard Brandon Moore to avoid paying him the $7 million in guaranteed money he...
MARTY SHUTS OUT AVS IN DEVIL OF A RETURN
After missing 50 games, Martin Brodeur didn't miss a thing last night. "Like he never got hurt," Devils teammate Zach Parise said. Brodeur's perfect comeback from surgery to reattach his...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Dolphins shore up safety position The Dolphins re-signed Yeremiah Bell on the eve of free agency last night and acquired Gibril Wilson. Wilson, a five-year veteran released last week...
RANGERS FAIL TO SEAL DEAL VS. PANTHERS
The memo proclaiming a clean slate for the Rangers apparently didn't reach the blue seats . . . or the green ones . . . or any other color of...
ISLANDERS FALL IN SHOOTOUT
The pair of two-goal comebacks the Islanders made last night will not mean much this season. The Isles (18-36-3-4), who almost certainly will have the worst record in the league,...
SATHER'S LEFT RANGERS PUNCHLESS
BRANDON Dubinsky's stick, which deflected in Paul Mara's point drive in the first minute of the first period, clearly was below the crossbar, but referee Bill McCreary claimed replay officials...
TEDISCO AHEAD
ALBANY - A new poll shows James Tedisco leading Scott Murphy in the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former 20th Congressional District seat. The Siena College survey found Tedisco, the...
SWEEP VS. SUICIDE NETWORK
ATLANTA - As authorities try to determine how many deaths nationwide may be linked to an assisted-suicide ring, members of the group known as the Final Exit Network are defending...
VICK GOING TO HIS DOG HOUSE
Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick is getting a pass. A government official told The Associated Press yesterday that Vick would be allowed to finish his prison sentence at home because...
PUBLISHER TATUM DIES
The publisher emeritus of the New York Amsterdam News has died. The death of Wilbert Tatum was announced yesterday by the newspaper and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who knew him...
KID-SUPPORT BLITZ
City collections for child support jumped $50 million last year after investigators cracked down on deadbeat dads and other parents who owed money to their kids. That's an increase of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police yesterday nabbed a gunman who killed a 21-year-old woman in East New York - the fourth shooting in the neighborhood in 24 hours. Andre Wheatley, 26, for unknown...
FILMMAKERS TO GOV: ROLL CREDIT$
Faced with a film- and TV-industry exodus, Gov. Paterson signaled yesterday that he will propose new state funding to continue a tax-credit program responsible for keeping the highly lucrative business...
NEW PHOTO RULE FOR GIS' COFFINS
WASHINGTON - Families of America's war dead will decide whether the flag-draped caskets of their loved ones can be photographed by news organizations when the fallen heroes return to US...
NEW UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS HIT A GRIM 27-YEAR HIGH
WASHINGTON - New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence that the recession is increasingly forcing...
MAD MIKE LOVES TOURISTS - BUT HATES NYERS
NEW YORKERS, don't take this lying down! Or stuck behind the wheel. We're here in the Crossroads of the World - soon to be known as the Traffic-Choked, Tourist-Loving, New...
BIG BIZ GANGS UP ON 'MILLIONAIRE'S TAX' PLAN
Finally, someone is fighting for the rich guys. A group of powerful business organizations is preparing to fight a proposed "millionaire's tax" they say will drive affluent New Yorkers out...
AMISH SHOPS IN OT 'BILK'
The upscale Amish Market supermarket chain has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle charges that it bilked 550 employees out of overtime, officials said yesterday. Acting on a tip,...
GM TAKES A $31 BIL POUNDING
Cash-strapped General Motors yesterday reported a $30.9 billion loss over the last year - including $9.6 billion in the final quarter, as car sales plummeted amid a deepening recession. The...
MOMA'S AD MAN IN DEEP
The rogue ad exec who had "Poster Boy's" crew go ninja on a MoMA subway campaign he was hired to coordinate could end up paying a heavy price for his...
TAXIS JOIN JETTA SET
A small squadron of Volkswagen Jetta taxis has quietly infiltrated the city's taxi fleet, and more could be on the way. There are currently 13 of the clean-diesel cabs buzzing...
QUINN'S INTERBOROUGH CLASH
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appointed a Queens representative to the position of City Clerk yesterday, infuriating members in Brooklyn. Quinn's appointment of Acting City Clerk Michael McSweeney passed by...
SMILE OF 'HATE'
The NYPD is hoping to get the last laugh in the case of a savage anti-gay hate crime. An image from a chilling video released yesterday shows a Bronx man...
B'WAY BLOOMY'S ROAD-KILL PLAN
It may be the unlikeliest spot in the city to pause for an alfresco refreshment, but pedestrians will soon be relaxing at outdoor tables in Times Square as traffic whizzes...
'DIPLOMA MILL' RAPS VS. PAIR
The state broke up a Medicaid diploma mill in Brooklyn that issued bogus certificates to home health aides it never trained, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged yesterday. The scam sapped...
WHALE OF A RESCUE
Rescuers yesterday freed a young humpback whale entangled in big wire fishing pots off the coast of New Jersey - and then it swam off. "It's in pretty rough shape....
STATEN ISLAND QUINTS TWO-FIFTHS OF WAY HOME
Two of Staten Island's miracle quintuplets (right) spent their first full day at home yesterday waiting for their siblings to join them. Alessia and Emily, the first- and third-born to...
'ALZHEIMER' SCAMMER GETS 2 YRS.
A former Long Islander was sentenced on hate-crime charges yesterday for pulling a brazen, $800,000 mortgage scam on a 94-year-old Alzheimer's victim, officials said. Alexandra Gilmore, 37, will have to...
TAXI TRIAL RUN A FARE DEAL
Mayor Bloomberg might be on to something. His grand plan to shut down two big stretches of Broadway appears to be steering taxi riders to a cheaper alternative down Seventh...
BANK OF AMERICA BAIL$ ON YANKEES
They never got to first base. Much-maligned Bank of America has ended its negotiations for a major sponsorship deal with the Yankees in the wake of its massive taxpayer bailout....
POSTMAN BAGGED IN $90M IRS MAIL 'FRAUD'
The feds have busted a postal carrier and two accomplices, charging that they lifted bogus tax-refund checks out of the mailman's bag after arranging to have them sent to his...
SAKS JEWEL GAL ON TRIAL
A jury got a peek yesterday into the not-so-glittery world behind the jewelry counters at Saks Fifth Avenue. Security was so lax among the diamonds and rubies at the chain's...
$1T IN TAXES IS HELL TO PAY
WASHINGTON - Big government is back - and so are big taxes. President Obama unveiled a mammoth, $3.6 trillion budget yesterday that would dramatically boost federal spending almost across the...
THUG SWAPS PHONE FOR CELL
A violent, dimwitted rapist was busted after trying to use the iPhone he stole from his victim - because he'd dropped his cellphone at the scene of the crime, officials...
'FISHY' PIVEN DRAMA
Jeremy Piven was back on Broadway yesterday - dragged before a tribunal of actors and producers to convince them it really was mercury poisoning that forced him to leave "Speed-the-Plow."...
ASTOR-CASE LAWYERS RAGE
Tensions in the Brooke Astor case nearly boiled over into courtroom fisticuffs yesterday, as the trial date of her accused swindler son, Anthony Marshall, was again delayed - this time...
DEAL FOR TOLLS ON FREE BRIDGES ALL BUT 'DONE'
Like it or not, drivers will likely soon have to pay anywhere they cross the East and Harlem rivers. Speaker Sheldon Silver all but guaranteed that the state Assembly would...
US DEPORTS TERRORIST IN '73 BOMB BID
A mysterious Black September terrorist who planted three car bombs in the city in 1973 was deported yesterday, a law-enforcement official said. It's not known what country agreed to accept...
MY EX GAVE 'TIP-OFFS' ON MADOFF
A New York Stock Exchange securities analyst - who is being probed over allegations he tipped off his dad to the federal investigation of Bernie Madoff - said last summer...
EXPLODING DEBT LOAD FOR BUNCH OF FREELOADERS
WASHINGTON - Emblazoned on every page of President Obama's budget are the words: "A New Era of Responsibility." That would be a responsibility for you to fork over more taxes....
ELIE: BERNIE'S EVIL
Existing punishments just aren't good enough. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel thinks something new, something creative should be devised to punish Bernie Madoff - who wiped out $15.2 million...
YO QUIERO 500G FOR YAPPY CHIHUAHUAS
Ay-yi-yi, Chihuahuas! An Upper West Side woman has filed a $500,000 lawsuit charging that her downstair's yappy little dogs are driving her loco. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court,...
FOUNDERING BLUESHIRTS LOOK FOR TRACTION IN FINAL PLAYOFF SPRINT
When Barry Melrose's Lightning played the Rangers three times early in the season, he expected the Blueshirts to be contending for a Stanley Cup title. Four and a half months...
TEAR JERKER: UBS' FALLING TO PIECES
Yesterday's ouster of UBS CEO Marcel Rohner may not be the end of the changes in the executive suite of the battered Swiss banking giant. Sources tell The Post that...
EDDIE'S CAPITALIST CAPERS
As Sears' quarterly profit dropped by more than half yesterday, Chairman Eddie Lampert searched for a silver lining. The prickly hedge-fund king noted that - while sales at Sears and...
GM LOPS $800M IN MEDIA-BIZ SPENDING
GM is driving its marketing budget off a cliff. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the car company said yesterday it will slash marketing expenses by $800 million as part...
MADOFF SHIFTED $164M TO NY
Confessed Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff moved $164 million from his London operation to his New York securities firm weeks before he was busted, court papers revealed yesterday. The two transfers...
STRIP THAT GAZA AID!
THE ISSUE: The US plan to offer $900 million to help with rebuilding in Gaza. *** I have no problem with humanitarian aid, but there are people in the United...
GHOST STATES: 'INCONVENIENT' REALITY
PAKISTAN'S bloodied Northwest Frontier Province is getting a new name: Pakhtunkhwa, or "Land of the Pashtun" tribesmen. A key demand of Taliban radicals, the new title isn't an end, but...
IN ONE POCKET, OUT THE OTHER
GEORGE H.W. Bush made a "read my lips" no-new-taxes pledge in his acceptance speech at the 1988 GOP Convention, and broke it two years later. That seemed fast, but President...
THE REVIEWS ARE IN: OSCAR NEEDS COMEDIANS
THE ISSUE: Hugh Jackman's hosting of the 81st Annual Academy Awards last Sunday. *** Hugh Jackman did the Oscars so well, yet The Post has to bag him ("H'wood's Dullest...
WRONG WAY TO SAVE
PICTURE yourself on a cold, deserted subway platform. It's the weekend, or maybe late at night - and (what else?) nary a train in sight. So you wait. And wait....
BAM'S BUDGET
THE president's budget blueprint contains some good initiatives, more that are bad - and some truly ugly ideas that would dramatically expand the government's role in American life. First, the...
SILVER STEPS UP
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is a man of considerable consequence in Albany, and his qualified support of former MTA chief Richard Ravitch's plan to help balance the authority's budget without...
SPENDAPALOOZA
Don't be fooled: President Obama did not propose a federal budget yesterday. What he offered was a $3.6 trillion spendapalooza meant to usher in a new era in the nation's...
POLITICKING WHILE NY BURNS
"We're in an emergency, we're in a crisis. One of the things that is disturbing me about a lot of people right now is they acknowledge that we are in...
JEWEL TROUBLE
JEWEL'S attempts to use "Dancing With the Stars" to boost her record sales may fizzle even before the show premieres March 8. She's currently out of commission with a bad...
SACK DANCE
WITH the bad news about Trump Casinos this week, it's a good thing the ever-resourceful Donald knows how to make great TV. And he does. On Sunday, the insanely entertaining...
STARR REPORT
Steve Schirripa guest-stars on "Ugly Betty" next Thursday and returns for 20 episodes of ABC Family's "Secret Life of an American Teenager" next season. Elsewhere on the series scene, "The...
A HIT AND A MISTRESS
NOW it can be told: John F. Kennedy would have sur vived Dallas if only his mistress had been able to reach him on the phone. In "An American Affair"...
SOMEONE TO ALIEN ON
JUST when you thought it was safe to avoid "message" pictures and Oscar hopefuls, here comes Wayne Kramer's "Crossing Over," a bid to create the "Crash" of illegal-immigration dramas. Like...
PLAYING FAST BUT NOT LOOSE
TAKE a breath, blink an eye, drink a beer, and the Tokyo Police Club show at Webster Hall was over. At least that's what it felt like Wednesday at the...
'WEAPONS' IN SHORT SUPPLY
IN what promises to be a welcome but brief bit of insanity, Robin Williams returns to Broadway this spring for a limited run. Very limited - just five performances of...
TAYLOR NOT TAILOR-MADE
PAUL Taylor has been making great dances for over half a century, but sometimes he comes up with a head-scratcher. Look no further than his "Beloved Renegade," which opened his...
SEX AMID LOVE'S FIRST FLUSH
'THE Trouble With Romance" contains the most disgust ing toilet scenes in the history of cinema. OK, so I exaggerate. But the scenes are so sick that I can't write...
MATRI-MONEY
IT only took Jerry Seinfeld 11 years to come up with another idea for a TV show. Seinfeld said yesterday he was returning to TV with a new comedy-reality series...
PATEL DOES 'MILL'
DEV Patel, who starred in the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire," is in talks to appear on Britain's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." It would be a case of life imitating...
FILM STILL PAINS JANE
'SO you've seen 'Jane,' " says Jane Fonda, fixing me a look that says, "I'm ready to deal with this." "Jane" is the movie Fonda hoped time had forgotten. Made...
IT'S OUR KIND OF 'TOWN'
THE bucolic New England hamlet of Grover's Corners has never looked quite as forbidding as it does in the revival of "Our Town" that opened last night. This production, imported...
GILMORE MOM B'WAY GUISE
AS Lorelai Gilmore, the sassy, witty, speed-talking single mom on "Gilmore Girls," Lauren Graham be came a TV star. Now, on Sunday, she makes her Broadway debut in "Guys and...
ROBERT BLECKER WANTS ME DEAD
THE documentary "Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead" is a thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman, a professor at New York Law School in...
JONAS DRUTHERS
THEY'VE got a lot of spunk, these Jonas Brothers. I hate spunk. "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience" is exactly what you'd think. So read your expectations, and you already...
BROADWAY
"THE AMERICAN PLAN": ** 1/2 Richard Greenberg's intermittently intriguing 1990 play is a bit like "Glass Menagerie" set in the "Dirty Dancing" era. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th...
OFF-BROADWAY
"BECKY SHAW": *** 1/2 Gina Gionfriddo's scathingly funny, class-conscious comedy about a blind date. Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St.; 212-246-4422. Closes March 15. "THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN": ***...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
DAVID BYRNE: The former Talking Heads frontman plays tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Radio City Music Hall, Sixth Avenue at 50th Street; 212-247-4777. ROCK-IT SCIENCE FESTIVAL: Musicians including...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: The Spanish Harlem Orchestra plays its unique brand of "heavy samba" at 8 and 10:30 p.m. through Sunday at 131 W. Third St.; 212-475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Pianists...
CLASSICAL
ALICE TULLY HALL: The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs the US premiere of Martynov's "Vita Nuova" tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Lincoln Center: 212-721-6500. CARNEGIE HALL: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs works...
DANCE
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Sarah East Johnson's all-female troupe Lava performs its latest, "We Become," today at 8 p.m., and tomorrow and Sunday at 7 p.m. 227 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn; 718-399-3161. JOYCE...
PREVIEWS
"33 VARIATIONS": Jane Fonda, Samantha Mathis and Colin Hanks star in Moises Kaufman's play about a musicologist obsessed with a Beethoven waltz. Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St.; 212-239-6200....
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
RE-CHOIRED LISTENING Praise the Lord - and the $10,000 grand prize - when tomorrow's Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition turns the World Financial Center into one big church. A vocal end...
TEAR JERKER: UBS' FALLING TO PIECES
Yesterday's ouster of UBS CEO Marcel Rohner may not be the end of the changes in the executive suite of the battered Swiss banking giant. Sources tell The Post that...
NEW-HOME SALES SINK TO RECORD LOW
New-home sales tumbled to a record-low annual pace in January and there's no relief in sight as mounting damage from the collapsed housing market pushes the country deeper into recession....
JPMORGAN TO AX 12K
JPMorgan Chase plans to eliminate 12,000 jobs as it swallows failed bank Washington Mutual. The financial giant said it expects to save about $2 billion by combining operations of the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Downshift Ford Motor Co., low ered its forecast for 2009 US car and truck sales to as low as 10.5 million this year, a re duction of 1 million vehi...
READER'S DIGEST GETS BOLD WITH LAUNCHES OF NEW MAGS
READER'S Digest Association is throwing Hail Mary passes, starting three new magazines in a down economy even as it sags under a mountain of debt that's been slapped with a...
BUDGET BUSTER
If President Barack Obama's budget is any indication, the $700 billion dedicated to solving the banking crisis won't be enough. Obama, as part of the budget he released yesterday, is...
SEARCH ENGINE FAILURE
Yahoo!'s executive exodus continued yesterday, as Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen resigned amid a restructuring by new CEO Carol Bartz that aims to streamline the stifling decision-making process that typified...
NOW IT'S LEWIS' TURN: BOFA BOSS GETS GRILLED
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis yesterday got his turn under the microscope of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to answer questions related to Merrill Lynch's payment of $3.6...
DOLANS MULL FEE AT PAPER
In a move every bit as bold as its decision to buy into the newspaper business, Cablevision yesterday said that its plans to charge readers for access to Newsday's Web...
FBI NAILS STANFORD EXECUTIVE
The FBI made the first arrest in the Stanford Financial Group fraud investigation yesterday, detaining Chief Investment Officer Laura Pendergest-Holt on federal obstruction charges. The US Justice Department said Pendergest-Holt...
TOPLESS GIRLS; CLUELESS CB13-BOARD, DANCERS SHARE BUILDING
A new topless bar complete with stripper pole and private theme rooms has opened one floor below the offices of Community Board 13 and down the block from P.S. 90...
CROOKS ROB SCHOOLS
Two borough schools have been connected to a burglary crew's growing list of targets, officials said. Police said that the same duo responsible for a string of school break-ins in...
FREE TO ROAM THE OCEAN FLOOR
Freedom, while delayed, was nonetheless sweet for Craig the Crustacean, a 20-lound lobster, released last week from a Dyker Heights eatery into the cold, clear water off the coast of...
BARE BREASTS, NO QUESTIONS
Community Board 13 District Manager Chuck Reichenthal concedes that the thumping music emanating from the Foxy Gentleman's Club located downstairs from the board's offices at 1201 Surf Avenue did not...
DISTRICT 22 SHAKE UP
Zoning rules in School District 22 may soon change -- and now's the time for parents to give their input. The district's Community Education Council (CEC) will host a meeting...
Montreal Takes In Winter Soccer
APThe pitcher's mound is long gone, now part of a soccer field.Five years after the Montreal Expos left town, Olympic Stadium filled up Wednesday night, a big change for the...
Beckham Says He's 'Frustrated'
David Beckham admitted Thursday he has become frustrated over the protracted transfer saga surrounding his proposed move from the Los Angeles Galaxy to AC Milan.Beckham's mood was not helped by...
REYES HITS SLAM BATTING THIRD
PORT ST. LUCIE - This new-look lineup for the Mets is off to an excellent start. Dropped from the leadoff spot to No. 3 in the order, Jose Reyes hit...