March 22, 2009
Live chat: 2 p.m. Monday
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Trying to capitalize on the success of my inaugural live blog discussion on the Mets last week, I plan on holding another hour-long live chat tomorrow...
Here and there
PORT ST. LUCIE -- A handful of notes after the Mets rolled to a 12-1 rout of the Braves here this afternoon in Grapefruit League play: * For an apparent...
Santana talks outing, WBC
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Here is video I shot of Johan Santana discussing his five innings of one-run ball today against the Braves and his feelings on Team Venezuela's elimination...
Jones Shouldn't Gloat Over Win
Roy Jones Jr. earned a fifth-round TKO over an overmatched Omar Sheika. BY GEORGE WILLISRoy Jones, Jr. returned to his native Pensacola and to boxing Saturday night with a fifth-round...
Report: Jets to meet with USC's Sanchez
USC quarterback Mark Sanchez is scheduled to meet with the Jets tomorrow, according to a report on scout.com.According to the report, Sanchez is meeting with the Jaguars today before hopping...
FUNERAL FOR NATASHA RICHARDSON
MILLBROOK -- Actress Natasha Richardson's heartbroken loved ones paid their final respects to the Tony Award winner this afternoon, at a Hudson Valley church and cemetery near the family home....
GEORGE WEBER KILLED
Former WABC radio news anchor George Weber was found murdered inside his Brooklyn apartment today after failing to report to work for two days, sources told The Post. Weber, who...
Santana in midseason form
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Johan Santana was both proficient and efficient here today against the Braves in his second Grapefruit League start, allowing just one run on two hits in...
'KISS YOUR STORE GOODBYE'
A fire tore through a row of businesses in the Bronx today and left a group of stunned owners to pick up the pieces. The blaze, which started around 6...
Box Office: 'Sin Nombre' Director Makes A Name For Himself, 'Super Capers' is a Super Bomb
I'm so pleased Cary Fukanaga's wonderful romantic thriller "Sin Nombre'' averaged an impressive 12K at six locations this weekend, despite being entirely in Spanish and not lacking any recognizable actors....
HISTORY GETS PADDY WHACKED
At first glance, the e-mail from reader Jim Mulloy of Massapequa read like a put-on: "I'd like to thank The History Channel for its annual programming salute to the contributions...
Beltran is a late scratch
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets just announced that Carlos Beltran has been scratched from today's game here against the Braves due to neck stiffness. Beltran was scheduled to return...
Box Office: Masses Shun Julia Roberts' Comeback for Cheesy Nicolas Cage Thriller
Looks like Universal wasn't trying to misleadingly lowball advance expectations for "Duplicity'' after all. Tony Gilroy's smart, twisty and sexy thriller, featuring former box-office queen Julia Roberts in her first...
JADE GOODY DIES AT 27
Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of cervical cancer Sunday at...
JADE GOODY DIES AT 27
Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of cervical cancer Sunday at...
Is Patrick ready to coach?
By MARC BERMANORLANDO - Patrick Ewing said in today's Post he's ready to be head coach next season and at least feels he deserves his first interview - one he...
Schneider still sidelined
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Brian Schneider's planned return to the lineup was scratched today, and the Mets say they don't know when the catcher will be back. Schneider continues to...
Grapefruit: Braves at Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets' lineup is ready for their Grapefruit League contest here today against the Braves in what will be Johan Santana's second start of the spring....
Scandal! DreamWorks' 'Monsters vs Aliens' Gets Taxpayer Bailout
The mediocre "Monsters vs, Aliens,'' opening next Friday, is DreamWorks' first animated feature in 3-D, which means moviegoers will have to fork over a 3-D surcharge at most locations in...
HISTORY HEAVIES ARE ALL HERE YOU NAME 'EM
Fidel Castro rests his arm around Marlon Brando while Michael Jordan laughs at something witty Michelangelo has said. Leonardo da Vinci listens to Josef Stalin pontificate; Albert Einstein enjoys an...
DEAR NATASHA,
This touching and heartfelt letter by Vanessa Redgrave to her daughter Natasha Richardson was first published in London's Daily Mail two years ago. Redgrave is also the mother of actress...
DEVILS NIPPING AT BRUINS' HEELS IN EAST RACE
BOSTON The Devils have their sights set, and they're not even bothering to deny it. This afternoon's Beantown Showdown is their best route to the Eastern Conference title and the...
ISLES SWATTED BY SENS
OTTAWA Chris Neil, Filip Kuba, Mike Fisher, Dany Heatley and Nick Foligno scored to help the Senators win their seventh straight home game, 5-2 over the Islanders last night. Brian...
HUSKIES BRUSH OFF A &M WITH EASE
PHILADELPHIA Jim Calhoun, to his chagrin, got as thorough a checkup Wednesday night as modern medicine has to offer. He was released from University of Pennsylvania hospital Friday morning after...
'NOVA HAS ROLLIE RAVING: 'THEY CAN WIN IT ALL'
PHILADELPHIA Rollie Massimino, nattily clad behind the Villanova bench, across from old nemesis John Thompson, calling the game on radio, loved every minute of it, all 40 minutes of Villanova...
'CATS SNAP UCLA FINAL 4 STREAK
PHILADELPHIA The first message was delivered, "Priority Intent," just 26 seconds into the game. UCLA's Darren Collison got into the lane and Villanova's Scottie Reynolds measured him up. Perhaps in...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH ... MARK TEIXEIRA
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Yankees' new $180 million first baseman about having been teammates with both A-Rod and K-Rod, his idolization of Don Mattingly, his family life...
PRIME TIME
At first glance, the e-mail from reader Jim Mulloy of Massapequa read like a put-on: "I'd like to thank The History Channel for its annual programming salute to the contributions...
TIGERS LOOKING AT DIFFICULT ( & EXPENSIVE) SEASON
A YEAR ago, the Tigers were a chic pick to win the World Series. This year, they are being voted most likely to sell off assets for pennies on the...
REEL GOOD
CAST AWAY (2000) Sunday, 8 p.m., FX A harrowing plane crash leaves lone survivor, Chuck, (Tom Hanks), a FedEx employee, stranded for years on the proverbial deserted island. With only...
COPS: LI 'FIREBUG' WANTED TO BE HERO
He was a pastor's son with an apparent dark side who seemed to be everything from a neighborhood bully to a sweet and vulnerable youngster. But it was Caleb Lacey's...
GOTTA WATCH THE TOURNEY IN VEGAS AT LEAST ONCE
LAS VEGAS Everyone should come here at least once in their lives on the first day of the NCAA Tournament. No, really. Everyone. As frantic as conversations can get around...
Q & A: CHERYL HINES
We're used to seeing Cheryl Hines as a foil for cranky sad-sack Larry David on the HBO hit "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Now, we'll get to see her in a role...
KILLER INSTINCT
Playing one of this season's more intriguing prime-time characters has its perks for "Desperate Housewives" co-star Neal McDonough. McDonough's David Dash he of the murderous split personality and certifiable psychoses...
'IDOLS' NEW BAD BOY
"I think you are theatrical," is how Simon Cowell summed up Los Angeles theater actor, Adam Lambert after he sang a range-defying rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" at his San...
BEATTY AIN'T GOT DICK: SUIT
Oscar winner Warren Beatty has been slapped by a lawsuit to recover motion-picture and television rights to comic-strip character Dick Tracy. Tribune Media Services, a unit of bankrupt newspaper publisher...
IRAN SLAPS O OLIVE BRANCH
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader yesterday rebuffed President Obama's latest outreach for peace. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was responding to a video message Obama released Friday in which he reached out...
DODD'S A DUD: VOTERS
HARTFORD, Conn. Howard Rosenblatt voted for US Sen. Christopher Dodd five years ago. He won't do that again. "It's time for Chris to resign," said the 62-year- old owner of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
A prowler was caught red-handed with a pillowcase full of stolen loot from a Tottenville home, police said. Kenneth Brosnan, 46, was behind the wheel of a Toyota on Seguine...
AIG KICKING AWAY $98M
US taxpayers gave AIG $180 billion and all they might get from it are some lousy British soccer trophies. The flailing insurance giant, kicked around in Congress for paying massive...
'FAMILY'-MAN WANNABES $HELLING OUT
TWO candidates seek ing the endorse ment of the Work ing Families Party each donated $10,000 to the party last year far more than they had ever given before. Campaign...
O'S NEW SLAP AT WALL ST.
A tsunami of populist rage is ready to roar down the canyons of Wall Street, and if the masters of the universe there are wondering why, they should just get...
KIN SHOCK AT TEEN-SLAY ID BOTCH
A furious Bronx family is reeling at the apparently bungled investigation into their daughter's rape, murder and misidentification. "It took [investigators] so long to find information that was right under...
TAKE ME OUT TO THE SAD GAME
A Mets season-ticket holder is soliciting sob stories from fans who can't afford seats at the new Citi Field and is giving away ducats to those deemed most worthy. Computer...
DUO 'DRIVEN' FROM OFFICE
Two top executives of the State Liquor Authority quit last week in the wake of a Post report that they commuted long distances in state cars against agency rules on...
WEST SIDE 'STORIES'
Take a look at what some are calling the "Fordham Fortress." In an effort to keep up with its growing enrollment, Fordham University is proposing this hulking high-rise development between...
PREZ FOULS OUT ON PICKS
On Friday, Barack Obama found out that the federal budget deficit could average nearly $1 trillion a year under his watch. Then he discovered even worse news his NCAA Tournament...
ASTOR'S SON AND LAWYER FALL UNDER 'BAD SIGN'
This is the signature that could send Brooke Astor's son and her lawyer to the slammer. Anthony Marshall, the 84-year-old son of the Park Avenue doyenne, will stand trial next...
FORD GIVES HER HIS FLOCK-ò
Call him Han no longer Solo. Harrison Ford has finally proposed to longtime love Calista Flockhart, reports People magazine. The 66-year-old "Star Wars" star reportedly presented Flockhart, 44, with an...
VACCINE VICTIM GETS $22.5M AFTER 30-YR. LEGAL FIGHT
A Staten Island man has been awarded $22.5 million by a state Supreme Court jury 30 years after he was paralyzed by his child's polio vaccine. Domenick Tenuto, 61, said...
KIM'S GANG OWNS UP TO KIDNAPPING
The creepy North Korean hermit kingdom admitted yesterday to snatching two American journalists one of whom is the sister of TV personality Lisa Ling because they had been "intruding" on...
'GREEN' EYED
It's a Big Apple landmark, but Tavern on the Green will be more Big Easy if a Louisiana restaurateur gets her way. Ti Adelaide Martin thinks a branch of Commander's...
DIRECTOR'S BRO STARS IN 'SLAYING'
The brother of "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan apparently has a dark streak. Matthew Nolan, 40, was arrested last week in Chicago and is awaiting extradition to Costa Rica in...
AUSTRIA HAS CONCRETE PLAN FOR MONSTER'S DUNGEON
If you're hoping to get a glimpse inside the basement where incest monster Josef Fritzl kept his daughter prisoner for 24 years, you had better move fast. Austrian authorities are...
POPE CROWD CRUSH KILLS 2
LUANDA, Angola A visit from Pope Benedict XVI, who was looking to convert believers in witchcraft and sorcery, sparked a series of stampedes that killed two people and injured almost...
'METH AD' MODEL SUES
A pair of Connecticut models say they never gave permission for their faces to be used in a national ad about methamphetamine addiction has filed suit for $90 million in...
NO, YOU BEHAVE MOMMY!
"Sometimes I lock myself in the bathroom.""I bite my baby daughter's fingernails off rather than using clippers.""I took $60 from my son's piggy bank. When he realized it was empty,...
SPITZER MADAM'S A HIT WITH A-ROD
The Manhattan madam linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer claims she had a "connection" and "flirtation" with scandal-scarred Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Kristin Davis, who says she met the third-baseman...
KOSHER DOG FIGHT
It was kosher chaos. A riot erupted at a Brooklyn restaurant last week when Orthodox Jewish patrons discovered the "kosher" hot dogs on the menu were chicken franks that didn't...
KLEIN DENIES KID SNUB
The Department of Education is disputing a Bronx girl's claim that she sent Schools Chancellor Joel Klein 25 e-mails begging for a transfer from a school where she was being...
SEX-ED LESSONS GOT TOO PERSONAL
One student was knocked up by a teacher at the Monroe Academy for Business and Law. Another got pregnant by a substance-abuse counselor at Herbert Lehman HS. These are some...
RAPPER REPO'D
The repo man got Method Man. The state Department of Taxation seized a 2008 Lincoln Navigator belonging to the rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan, who failed to pay...
CHARLIE ROSE 'WHACK JOB'
Bring me the head of Charlie Rose! No, not the PBS talk-show host. The other one the legendary Mafia-busting prosecutor. Unfortunately, bumbling mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa and...
MORE TEACHERS ARE MISBEHAVING
They watched porn on work computers, falsified records to pad their pockets, faked doctors' notes to go on vacations abroad. And they all worked for New York City schools. Misconduct...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Potty pyros beware Clorox is looking to clean you up. Someone's been setting San Francisco construction-site toilets on fire since November, causing $50,000 in damage. The cleaning-chemical company is offering...
DON'T MISS
category: DRAMA hed: Good 'Gossip' After Blair's (Leighton Meester) lifelong dream of going to Yale is dashed, she does what all disappointed young girls do: She goes on a big,...
THE RUMBLE
Knicks go to his head Tattoo may be sign of 'ultimate fan' SPIKE Lee is not the only rabid Knicks fan in New York City, or across the globe for...
DRIVERS: NO 'POINT' TO CHANGE
BRISTOL, Tenn. As Formula One's ruling body debates a new points system, NASCAR's top drivers almost unanimously agree a similar format would not work in their series. The FIA said...
USA AIMS TO RECLAIM STATUS
LOS ANGELES Earlier in the World Baseball Classic, Team USA manager Davey Johnson mentioned how the "world is catching up to us." Tonight, the world may pass the United States...
EX-RANGER PODDUBNY DEAD AT 49
THUNDER BAY, Ontario Former NHL player Walt Poddubny died yesterday after collapsing at his sister's house. He was 49. The cause of death wasn't known. Drafted 90th overall by Edmonton...
SLUGS VENEZUELA; SELIG SAYS WBC SHALL RETURN
LOS ANGELES As South Korea crushed Venezuela, 10-2, last night at Dodger Stadium in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic, Bud Selig came out with his own strong message...
BLUESHIRTS GO FORWARD
The puck is moving. So are the Rangers. "Our defense is offense," John Tortorella, the head coach who has given his team the green light, said after the Blueshirts won...
BULLDOGS 'TOP WESTERN KENTUCKY
PORTLAND, Ore. Gonzaga's rowdy celebration spilled into the locker room, where the team watched a replay of freshman Demetri Goodson's game-winner and got to cheer again and again. Goodson streaked...
GREAT GRIFF LEADS OU
KANSAS CITY Michigan bumped Blake Griffin around, knocked him to the floor, even bloodied his nose. There were no wrestling takedowns, but the Wolverines still gave it to him pretty...
OBAMA CRACKS UP
The AIG bonuses, alienating our allies, that Special Olympics crack on "The Tonight Show" there's certainly plenty of competition, but this was probably the worst week of President Obama's nascent...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
THE WEEK'S WINNERS DOV CHARNEY American Apparel CEO sees 4Q income grow by 30%, same-store sales rise 11% and stock pop 15% on the news. BEN BERNANKE Fed chairman's plan...
FEAR FACTOR HITS THE NATION
Michael Timlin, owner of the Smoke N Gun Shop in Mount Vernon, New York, as well as a gun training school, security company, and shooting ranges, says his store is...
THE COMING INFLATION CRISIS
If you don't understand the profound importance of the Federal Reserve's decision this week to purchase $300 million of US long-term debt, consider the words of savvy Wall Streeter Ben...
REAL SUITE DEAL
Laid-off workers are taking solace from their spouses and jump-starting entrepreneurial enterprises by renting space in so-called temporary, or "swing," office suites. Leases can be as short as one to...
AIG SAVES U.S. $1.6T
AIG's toxic $165 million bonus package, which has sparked a nationwide fury over Wall Street pay practices and moved Congress to pass a law that will tax the cash payments...
INFLATION WORRIES
Dear John: With all the money being printed by the US government and nobody buying the debt, do you think the US dollar will be devalued? Or will it become...
MORTGAGE INVESTORS SLAM OBAMA MOD PLAN
As the Obama administration gets barraged with criticism over the effectiveness of its multi-front fight to jumpstart the economy, another battle line has been drawn: investors in mortgage securities are...
AIG BONUS: STOCK IS UP 200%
Since March 2, embattled insurer AIG has seen its stock rise 200 percent. While Main Street and Washington lawmakers lambasted CEO Ed Liddy for signing off on $165 million in...
THE ART OF THE DEAL
After amassing the world's most expensive private art collection, hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen now has his sights on the world's biggest art auction house Sotheby's. Cohen caused a stir...
'NET MOGUL CLARK TYING HIS 4TH KNOT
IT'S good to be Jim Clark. The techno-billionaire, who is set to marry a golden-haired swimsuit model less than half his age today in the British Virgin Islands, leads a...
PERKS NOT IN VOGUE
The days of wine and roses may soon be coming to an end. As Condé Nast continues to take a pounding, with ad pages off 30 percent to 40 percent...
NEWSPAPERS HIT, ALSO
Voluntary buyouts of 165 employees at the Newark Star-Ledger and S.I. Advance have not been enough to stem the bleeding, The Post has learned. Management of the two area newspapers...
CAVA-LEADERS ARE GETTING IT ALL RIGHT
CLEVELAND Normally, a hiring of a coach ahead of a general manager is an NBA recipe for restiveness, if not all-out revolution. Burrowing below the surface of Mike Brown's selection...
CLYDE, LEGENDS GET THEIR NIGHT
Long before Walt Frazier was a dishin' and swishin' TV analyst or the slick-shooting guard who led the Knicks to two titles with his guile and style, he was a...
NETS MUST FACE DOUBLE-DOSE OF LEBRON
One D-Wade down, two LeBrons and one Kobe to go. From an individual standpoint, it's MVP Week around the Nets. From the team view, it's the Hell Week Edition of...
ALL WRIGHT
* When it comes to comparing third basemen in New York, the Mets' David Wright wins, hands down. It is only fitting to read about his heroics in the World...
NHL NEEDS BIGGER LOTTERY FOR LOSERS
THE NHL Entry Draft is an anachronism, created in 1963 when there was no such thing as free agency, refined in 1995 when there was no such thing as a...
BERGTRAUM ROLLS TO ANOTHER TITLE
Bergtraum hadn't lost at home in a decade when the Lady Blazers dropped their regular season finale to division foe Manhattan Center on Feb. 11 and they hadn't lost a...
DOMINANT JOBA ROUNDING INTO FORM NICELY
TAMPA Joba Chamberlain wears the fifth-starter tag because his resume is light compared to the others in the Yankees' rotation, but such labels are not permanent. The right-hander had all...
STEPHENSON NAMED MVP
Tiny Morton was an assistant coach at Lincoln when Stephon Marbury played there and was the head coach when Sebastian Telfair won three city titles at the Brooklyn school. After...
SHARP EFFORT FOR GLAVINE VERSUS FORMER TEAMMATES
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Ex-Met Tom Glavine took a big step here yesterday in his bid to go out on a high note. Glavine, who endured offseason elbow and shoulder...
RIGHTY KEEPS GETTING PUMMELED
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Is it too early to start worrying about John Maine? Maine and the Mets say it is, but the right-hander's numbers this spring have to be...
HUGHES SENT DOWN TO TRIPLE-A
TAMPA Phil Hughes' fate was essentially sealed after Andy Pettitte signed this winter to give the Yankees five starters. So yesterday's demotion probably didn't come as a shock to the...
EWING: GIVE ME A SHOT TO RUN TEAM
ORLANDO Magic assistant Patrick Ewing, disappointed he did not get an interview for the Knicks vacancy last summer, is hoping something works out this offseason. Ewing, the Knicks great who...
KLITSCHKO RETAINS WBC TITLE
STUTTGART, Germany Vitali Klitschko stopped Juan Carlos Gomez in the ninth round last night, easily retaining his WBC heavyweight title. The 37-year-old champion twice put down the Germany-based Cuban defector,...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSMLB: Boone's heart surgery Thursday Astros third baseman and former Yankee Aaron Boone will have open heart surgery Thursday at the Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. D. Craig Miller...
KNICKS KEEP IT CLOSE, BUT LOSE FOURTH STRAIGHT
ORLANDO Compared to the prior two embarrassments, blowout Garden losses to the Nets and the Kings, the Knicks last night played like world-beaters against the powerhouse Magic. KNICKS BLOG Mike...
GOOD LUCK SCORING THOSE NON-PSL SEATS
EVERY day there's a new ticket caper. The latest M-E-S-S involves the J-E-T-S. When the Jets announced they wouldn't smack upper-deck subscribers with new stadium PSLs, the club appeared slightly...
ORANGE HAVE SEASONING TO ECLIPSE SUN DEVILS
Each day during the NCAA Tournament, the Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays of the day: CAN a team be accustomed to playing grueling March games without playing a whole...
HEELS LAY DOWN 'LAW' VS. LSU
GREENSBORO, N.C. No one has ever doubted Ty Lawson's talent, speed or ability to take over a game for North Carolina. Maybe now Lawson won't hear so many questions about...
LITTLE SCHOOL OUT TO DEAL CARDS A TOURNEY LESSON
DAYTON, Ohio One of the smallest players from the smallest school in the entire NCAA Tournament is thinking big. As in Big East. "I was always the little guy and...
HENDERSON LEADS DUKE PAST LONGHORNS
GREENSBORO, N.C. Jon Scheyer was falling out of bounds when he made a heady play to keep one loose ball alive. David McClure tipped another one to a teammate to...
A-10'S FLYERS SOAR INTO KANSAS STORM
MINNEAPOLIS Chris Wright was a prized national recruit three years ago, when the kid with the 40-inch vertical leap decided to ignore the pitches from the power conference schools and...
MAKING HIS 'MARQ'
BOISE, Idaho Marquette coach Buzz Williams isn't so fond of the term "career suicide." But how else to describe bailing out of a head-coaching job the job you worked your...
SWEET BATTLE FOR SU'S FLYNN, ASU'S HARDEN
MIAMI With a battle between their respective teams for a precious Sweet 16 berth just hours away, Syracuse's Jonny Flynn and Arizona State's James Harden broke bread together late Friday...
MEXICAN STANDOFF
PHOENIX Police Chief Jack Harris, a solid block of a man with a shock of thick gray hair, is stolid and patient but there are limits. Clearly he is weary...
BLOG WATCH
Keep on donating! "As the public boils with anger over millions of dollars in retention bonuses for American Insurance Group employees, financial interests quietly continue to woo lawmakers with fundraising...
OBAMA'S CONGRESS PROBLEM
Team Obama's stupendously wrongheaded plan to charge wounded Iraq and Afghanistan vets for treatment of their injuries died a well-deserved death in Congress last week. It's history now, happily. But...
IRAQ, SIX YEARS ON
You may have missed it amid the AIG-bonus furor, but last week marked six years since the start of the Iraq War. It's a noteworthy moment, because America's mission in...
DUMP THE UN
Benny Avni's article ("O's Unrequited UN Love Affair," PostOpinion, March 16) highlights the absurdity of continued American support, financial and otherwise, for what has become the United Arab Nations or...
MIRROR, MIRROR
So what if Alex Rodriguez is in love with himself ("A-Rod Madly in Love With His Mirror," March 17)? He's entitled. How many of the rest of us have been...
DIP-LOMACY
What Amir Taheri asserts about our foreign policy in the Mideast can be expanded to include the entire world ("Producing Panic in America's Allies," PostOpinion, March 17). We insult our...
NATASHA'S LAST BOW
The loss of Natasha Richardson's life is both tragic and unfathomable for her family and those who have had the opportunity to love and be loved by her ("Grief as...
SLICE OF HUMBLE Y
Meg Prossnitz, a 23-year-old who graduated from Vassar with a degree in French and English, is now on her fourth stint as an intern for a magazine, no paying job...
AGE OF THE NON-APOLOGY
Nothing my alcoholic, belt-wielding father ever did to me as a child enraged me as much as the day he pulled me aside, said how sorry he was for his...
SO SAYETH THE TELEPROMPTER
A reading from the Book of Barack, 3:22:09.And the Word was heard from above. America, my flock, my followers, my enthusiasts and aficionados. This is thine president, thine one true...
GANGS OF NEW YORK
MAKING the cut at a Meatpacking District club like Tenjune isn't easy. On a typical Saturday more than 1,000 people flood Little West 12th Street, begging entry to a space...
UNITED IN HATE
If you've ever wondered at the delight with which academics excuse Islamist terrorists, or at the callousness with which radical feminists ignore the oppression of Muslim women, or at the...
REQUIRED READING
The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele (Amistad) Bandele, a Nigerian-born playwright who lives in London, was inspired to write this novel by his father's experiences. He was an African soldier...
HAPPENS EVERY DAY
Much like her title suggests, Isabel Gillies' "Happens Every Day" is a perfectly ordinary story, an admission the debut memoirist makes early on. Her husband left her for another woman...
SHE ALWAYS KNEW HOW
"Do you know my idea of a wonderful time? Sex and chop suey." The best part of the new Mae West biography, "She Always Knew How" by Charlotte Chandler, isn't...
UNDERGROUND: MY LIFE WITH SDS AND THE WEATHERMEN
Older New Yorkers will remember Mark Rudd as the enfant terrible of the 1968 Columbia University strike, when radical members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) occupied administration buildings...
MR. AMERICA
Today, as you trudge to the gym or begin a new fad diet, spare a weary thanks to Bernarr Macfadden, the eccentric, forgotten father of the American exercise movement. It...
TABLE HOPPING: A CUT ABOVE
New Yorkers love their meat. But in recent months our appetite has concentrated on charcuterie beautiful, unctuous cured meats such as prosciutto, paté, salami and terrine. "New Yorkers are gourmands...
IN MY LIBRARY: JEFF DANIELS
You've probably seen some of Jeff Daniels' films "Speed," "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and "Terms of Endearment" among them. And maybe you'll even catch him in Broadway's "God of...
FIVE VOICES, ONE PRIZE
It's no AIG bonus, but on Tuesday one of five Jewish writers will get a nice chunk of change when the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is handed out....
CHEEVER: A LIFE
"It was the heart alone that interested [John] Cheever," says biographer Blake Bailey of the writer's work. What Bailey exposes, on the other hand, is not Cheever the writer, but...
THIRTY-NINE YEARS OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS
It is hard to know the point of Tom Davis' new memoir, "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss." Ostensibly, one would feel it's safe to assume that it's about the...
SIGN ON & SHOP
FINDING sample sales is standard shopping procedure for New York fashionistas on a budget. But sometimes the thought of being elbowed in the face while undressing amid piled-up, priced-down duds...
PEDALING REVOLUTION
Can the car commuter find common ground with the cyclist? Can New York City bike messengers and taxi drivers share the road? As author Jeff Mapes found out for his...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
IN a dimly lit, smoky basement on Ninth Avenue, Veve Lane, 26, a receptionist by day and amateur wrestler by night, is getting ready to rumble. "I'm back again, and...
NPS TOLD TO GET THE LEAD BAN OUT
SINCE the National Park Service an nounced the ban on lead in fishing tackle and ammunition through its system, there has been a storm of protest from hunting and fishing...
MIDWEST MISMATCH
WHEN we set up Chicago native Lauren and Indiana transplant Joe, we hoped that it would be a match made in Midwestern heaven. But things fell flat at Upper West...
MEET MARKET
JOE, a 25-year-old filmmaker, has a serious supermodel crush. But even if these ladies haven't walked the runway, they should be able to impress him with confidence and a few...
AGENDA
Girl's roller derby teams skate into town SPORTS - Sat, 28 Long Island University Schwartz Athletic Center, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn; 646-405-9803, gothamgirlsrollerderby.com AS IT TURNS OUT, when the stock...
PEARL JAM
FEW fans are as devoted to their band as Pearl Jam admirers, so they should know right up front that the remixed version of the band's 1991 debut "Ten," out...
ALL UKE NEED IS LOVE
After falling in love with the ukulele, veteran producer Roger Greenawalt decided to load every Beatles song onto his hard drive so he could learn to play them on his...
PUMPING UP THE JAM
NINETEEN years ago, Eddie Vedder unleashed an emotional tirade on a harmless cassette tape, singing over instrumental tracks and melodic samples played by Seattle musicians he didn't even know. A...
RINGING THE FUNK
The iPhone lets you play your tunes while surfing the 'Net, check the weather and the location of your next meeting, play games, read novels and take disappointingly low-resolution pictures....
3.0 COMING OF THE IPHONE
Apple has sold more than 30 million iPhones and iPod touches since release, and just about all of them will be getting a face-lift when version 3.0 of their mobile...
ADOPT ME
Bailey is a 4-year-old, neutered male coon hound/pointer mix. He's house-broken and he would love a country home with another dog. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at...
DEPRESSED DOGGY
DEAR DR. FOX: We adopted a 5-year-old mixed-breed a few months ago from the Brooklyn Animal Care Center. Since coming home, Loki's been responding to attention and affection. But there...
STYLE GOES TO DOGS
MANY of the world's top designers have created high-fashion threads for kids, but pets were overlooked until now. Roberto Cavalli, who scored a hit with his low-priced collection for H&M,...
FILM'S JESS FOR YOU
MUMBLECORE marches on! The latest entry in the popular indie genre is "Alexan der the Last," which was a hit at the just-completed South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas....
BRIDGE
IT'S a truism that successful contracts are reached with brief auctions. When you know the right contract, bid it. Don't stop to pick daisies and give your opponents a blueprint...
WEB RIGHTS, WRONGS
A bizarre legal issue arose last month when the Bulgarian Chess Federation threatened to sue a German Web site over who could reveal the moves of a big-deal match to...
COPS: LI 'FIREBUG' WANTED TO BE HERO
He was a pastor's son with an apparent dark side who seemed to be everything from a neighborhood bully to a sweet and vulnerable youngster. But it was Caleb Lacey's...
Vitali Klitschko retains WBC belt
Vitali Klitschko retains WBC heavyweight title with ninth round TKOAPSTUTTGART, Germany -- Vitali Klitschko stopped Juan Carlos Gomez in the ninth round Saturday night, easily retaining his WBC heavyweight title....
HARRISON FORD PROPOSES TO CALISTA FLOCKHART
Call him Han no-longer-Solo. Harrison Ford has finally proposed to long-time love Calista Flockhart, reports People. The 66-year-old "Star Wars" star reportedly presented Flockhart, 44, with an engagement ring over...