April 10, 2009
PETTITTE DOMINATES KC IN NY'S 4-1 WIN
Andy Pettitte gave up three hits in seven strong innings and Jorge Posada hit a two-run single, carrying the New York Yankees over the Royals 4-1 Friday in the opener...
WOMAN FALLS OVER 100 FT. WHEN STAIRCASE COLLAPSES
A woman was seriously hurt when a staircase she was walking on collapsed at a well-known artists' building in Long Island City today, police said. The unidentified victim fell some...
Red Bulls at Houston: Osorio "worried,'' Richards "we really need a win.''
The Red Bulls upset top-seeded Houston last year en route to their first MLS Cup final. Winless through three games and now in the Eastern Conference cellar, they're taking tomorrow's...
DEALS: Brennt Paris? Au contraire
So you just flew 3,600 miles to Paris, DVT'd like a mofo, only to find that priapism of puddled iron they call zee Eiffel Tower closed due to an ongoing...
DRIVER CHARGED WITH MURDER IN CRASH THAT KILLED ANGELS PITCHER
Prosecutors have filed three counts of murder against a 22-year-old motorist who allegedly ran a red light and killed Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others. The Orange...
Playoff tickets on sale Monday
Individual tickets for the Rangers 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs will go on sale Monday, April 13, at noon.They are available via Ticketmaster at newyorkrangers.com and Ticketmaster charge-by-phone at (212) 307-7171....
A-ROD READY FOR NEXT PHASE OF RECOVERY
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Alex Rodriguez is to resume baseball activities Monday, more than a month following hip surgery on March 9. The third baseman has been working out in...
'Trust Me' Canceled
Bottoms up, boys. As expected, Turner will not renew the ad-agency drama, "Trust Me," for a second season.The series, seen by some as an updated version of AMC's "Mad Men,"...
GAL DENIES BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AFFAIR
He's not the boss of me. So says the New Jersey gal whose husband claims she was dancing in the dark with Bruce Springsteen.RELATED: Hubby Says Sprinsteen Is 'Other Man'...
De-'Fringe' Code
In typical JJ Abrams fashion, there is more to "Fringe" than meets the typical TV watcher's eye.It's to little surprise that the mastermind behind "Lost" - a show that has...
JUDGE: INVESTORS CAN FORCE MADOFF INTO BANKRUPTCY
A federal judge says investors can force Bernard Madoff into personal bankruptcy proceedings. Madoff's Mets Tickets Near $2K on eBay Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission have argued...
Game 4: Mets at Marlins
MIAMI -- After back-to-back rough outings by Mike Pelfrey and Oliver Perez in Cincinnati, the Mets are hoping their rotation can straighten out here tonight when John Maine makes his...
SOMALI PIRATES DEMAND $2M IN RANSOM
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates holding an American captain hostage in a lifeboat demanded $2 million ransom for his release, a fellow pirate said onshore, as a US warcraft equipped...
First Look: Donna Martin, Sew on '90210'
Donna Martin (Tori Spelling) returns to Beverly Hills from Japan, where she's living with hubby David Silver (Brian Austin Green) and their new baby and working as a fabulous fashion...
FRENCH FREE SAILBOAT FROM PIRATES
PARIS -- The French defense minister says the navy stormed a hijacked French sailboat off the Somali coast after pirates threatened to execute the hostages. One hostage and two pirates...
Kanye West Blogs to 'South Park'
"South Park" slammed Kanye West when the animated show portrayed the rapper as an ego-maniac Wednesday night.In the episode, cartoon Kanye couldn't understand why everyone was accusing him of being...
Rondeau tries to rein in N-Rob
By MARC BERMANWOLFEBORO, N.H. - As promised, my guest blogger is Art Rondeau, a mental performance coach who has worked with Allan Houston and Chris Dudley in the past. He's...
MAN FALLS OUT OF CAR, HIT BY 2ND, ON L.I. EXPRESSWAY
A 22-year-old man was seriously injured early this morning after he fell out of a moving car in Islandia on the Long Island Expressway and was hit by another driver...
COURT DENIES LESBIAN PARTNER PARENTAL RIGHTS
A New York state appeals court has ruled that a lesbian whose partner gave birth to a boy after their Vermont civil union has no parental rights because she never...
MASTERS: Hamilton's Last Hurrah?
At the 73rd Masters By GEORGE WILLISAUGUSTA--This is the last year of Todd Hamilton's 5-year exemption earned after winning the 2004 British Open. He's making the most of it, finishing...
OBAMA: 'GLIMMER OF HOPE' IN ECONOMY
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday the economy is showing glimmers of hope" despite continuing stresses and signaled more steps to brighten the business climate. Obama commented to reporters...
FARRAH FAWCETT RELEASED FROM LA HOSPITAL
Farrah Fawcett has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after being treated for internal bleeding not directly related to her cancer, People.com reported. The 62-year-old actress, who starred in...
RBNY still awaiting Pacheco's ITC card
As it stands right now, Alfredo Pacheco won't be suiting up for the Red Bulls tomorrow at Houston, with the club still awaiting the newly-acquired defender's ITC card."The case as...
Report: Offer to Austin likely
The Dallas Morning News says WR Miles Austin "is likely to receive an offer sheet (from the Jets) that the Cowboys could match or accept New York's second-round pick, which...
OBAMA QUIET ON PIRATE NEGOTIATIONS
WASHINGTON -- So far President Barack Obama's role in the U.S. response to an American sea captain's kidnapping by Somali pirates has been careful -- and quiet. The new commander...
Syracuse trio enter names in Draft
Big East tournament MVP Jonny Flynn, Eric Devendorf and Paul Harris of Syracuse plan to enter their names into the upcoming NBA Draft, the university said Thursday.Flynn said he will...
Kelly Bensimon Regrets 'Housewives'
On her response to costar, Bethany Frankel calling her "inauthentic":"Is Bethenny a socialite? No. Will she ever sit next to Lauren duPont? No. Is she best friends with Aerin Lauder?...
REPORT: MADONNA BUILDING MALAWI HOME
Madonna is hoping to build a home in Malawi despite her application to adopt three-year-old local Mercy James being refused. Last week a judge turned down her bid to become...
EPL: Promotion Time
Earlier this week, I talked about which clubs look poised to go down. Now, it's time to see who's ready to come up from the League Championship.With five games left...
MAYOR: TEACHERS UNION TACTIC NOT ILLEGAL
Mayor Bloomberg today said the teachers' union handing out prepared questions to legislators at a Council hearing "doesn't pass the smell test." "I think it's very naive to think anybody...
Coverage in The Post
MIAMI -- Greetings from sunny South Florida (I know, I know, back so soon), where the Mets try to bounce back tonight against the Marlins after Oliver Perez's thoroughly awful...
CURRY MURDERS SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY
CHICAGO -- A Chicago attorney accused of killing New York Knicks' player Eddy Curry's infant daughter and ex-girlfriend during a domestic dispute pleaded not guilty on Thursday. Fredrick Goings, 36,...
NEW SCHOOL OCCUPATION ENDS IN 22 ARRESTS
Police in riot gear swarmed a New School University building this morning, arresting 22 students and ending an occupation after just five hours. Protesters dressed in hooded sweatshirts with scarves...
ROVE: BIDEN IS LYING ABOUT BUSH EXCHANGE
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a "liar" on Thursday, dramatically escalating a feud between Biden and aides to former President George W. Bush over Biden's claims to...
TORNADO KILLS 3 IN ARKANSAS
MENA, Ark. -- A tornado that swept through this mountain community killed three people and injured at least 30 others, authorities said Friday after concluding a house-to-house search. Polk County...
Box Office: Another Mall Cop
Jody Hill's very dark comedy "Observe and Report,'' starring Seth Rogen as a mall cop with major boundary issues (including, it's only fair to warn readers, date rape) will open...
3 UP: JETER, SWISHER AND COKE
1. It is only three games, but Derek Jeter has seemed to think more like a leadoff hitter in this go-around in the spot. He has shown a greater willingness...
3 UP: JETER, SWISHER AND COKE
1. It is only three games, but Derek Jeter has seemed to think more like a leadoff hitter in this go-around in the spot. He has shown a greater willingness...
SHARK UPSTAGED BY MIZE AGAIN
AUGUSTA -- Greg Norman was wrapping up his press conference late yesterday after shooting a more than respectable 2-under par 70 in his first competitive round at the Masters since...
EXPECT FAMED JACKET TO BE SLIPPED ONTO SHOULDERS OF STALWART
The Masters champion traditionally comes from the who's who of golf, but over the past couple of years, it's become a "who's that?" Zach Johnson and Trevor Immelman are two...
SHAME ON YOU, CHRISTINA
Christina Applegate, who underwent a double mastectomy last summer because of breast cancer, sends some bad smoke signals this week in LA. A source told "The Insider" that the 37-year-old...
PIRATES ARE IN FOR A SHIP STORM
A US Navy destroyer yesterday shivered the timbers of a hapless group of Somali pirates stranded on the high seas in a lifeboat. "We are surrounded by warships and don't...
SUMMERS: ECONOMY WILL SETTLE
White House chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers voiced confidence that the US economy will soon get over what he called its "sense of a ball falling off a table." "We...
TOTAL UNEMPLOYED HITS RECORD 5.84M
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance exceeded 600,000 for a 10th-straight week and the total collecting benefits increased to a record, signs the labor market remains...
THE TARP STATE
THE National Security Act of 1947, a reorganization of the foreign-policy and military apparatuses of the U.S. government, created what historians call "the national security state." Critics complain that the...
SLIM-SIZED RETAIL
Retailers' sales continued to plunge in March, but their results offered a few rays of hope that consumer spending is finding a bottom. While more companies than not reported worse-than-expected...
DREIER MAY OWE $1.5M
Disgraced attorney Marc Dreier could be on the hook for $1.5 million to the white-shoe lawyers who took over his finances after he was busted in a $700 million impersonation...
THIS TIME OF YEAR, IT'S ALL ABOUT TROUT
THE wind is still a bit stiff and the air has a chill, but the trout season is open in New York and will open tomorrow in New Jersey, and...
GIANTS' MARA HAD 'ENOUGH' OF PLAX
Several times in recent weeks Giants GM Jerry Reese tried to get in touch with Plaxico Burress. No luck. That might have been the last straw. GIANTS THROW AROUND RECEIVERS...
JERSEY CLINCHES DIVISION
OTTAWA -- With another division title already sewn up, the Devils brushed off a late, tying goal by Ottawa and set a franchise record. NHL STANDINGS Zach Parise and Brendan...
IT'S OFFICIAL: ISLANDERS ARE WORST IN NHL
PITTSBURGH -- Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins are assured of being in the playoffs, yet they still had much to play for during their final regular season home game. The...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... BUCK SHOWALTER
FORMER Yankees manager and current ESPN analyst Buck Showalter is sad to see the old stadium go. Shea? Not so much. He talked with The Post's Justin Terranova as the...
METS FANS TAKEN FOR A RIDA
"MOON Over Miami," meet Flo Rida: Under Bud Selig, MLB continues to be run as if it were spring intramurals down at Giuseppe Franco Barber College. The first hour of...
METS RELIEVER MOURNS FOR PAL KILLED IN CRASH
CINCINNATI -- Mets reliever Darren O'Day was devastated yesterday by the death of former teammate Nick Adenhart in a California traffic accident. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOGBACK PAGE: 'PEN GREAT AT...
NYRA BANS PARAGALLO OVER CRUELTY TO HORSES
Thoroughbred owner-breeder Ernie Paragallo, the authorized agent for Paraneck Stable, had his privileges revoked yesterday by the New York Racing Association over allegations that dozens of horses at his upstate...
LIBERTY TABS RU'S VAUGHN
Kia Vaughn grew up in The Bronx, played high school basketball almost across the street from the Garden and then went to Rutgers. She won't have to go far when...
PEREZ PUTRID IN METS LOSS
CINCINNATI -- Spending $36 million on Oliver Perez already is looking like a bad call by the Mets. The erratic left-hander lived down to his reputation as a tease here...
ALREADY, ROTATION'S A WORRY
CINCINNATI -- It is on days like this when you wonder if the worse news for the Mets is that they lost their own game to the Reds or that...
CHARITY WINS AT YONKERS
Playing in behalf of the Alzheimer's Foundation, Post assistant sports editor Ralph Wimbish won second place in the inaugural Master of the Green Charity Putting Invitational yesterday at Empire City...
WASHINGTON WAITING TO CASH IN
Leon Washington would like to make a withdrawal. "Everything I've done is in the bank in a sense," the Jets running back said yesterday. "I've been saving over the last...
A-ROD, TEAMMATES MAY HAVE REUNION MONDAY
BALTIMORE -- Joe Girardi said Alex Rodriguez will report to Tampa on Monday and start working out at the Yankees' minor league complex. "He is in good spirits and seems...
CARTER HOPES TO BE PART OF NETS' REBUILDING PLAN
Vince Carter knows what's coming -- to an extent. He knows this summer will be filled with talk of his contract being moved. There will be theories floated how he...
ANGELS PITCHER'S DEATH HITS YANKS' CLUBHOUSE HARD
BALTIMORE -- One minute, country music out of Nick Swisher's collection softly filled the Yankees' clubhouse. The next, stunned players gathered around a television and listened to the awful details...
BURNETT ACES FIRST BIG TEST
BALTIMORE -- The count was 3-1, but the fear was 0-3. It was just the third inning, just the third game of the season. But these are the Yankees. Irrationality...
SWISHER SPARKS OFFENSE IN NICK OF TIME
BALTIMORE -- Nick Swisher can do more than blister the paint on the clubhouse wall with loud music, break teammates' chops and look like John Belushi in pinstripes. COMPLETE YANKEES...
LATE BOGEYS END RUN AT RECORD
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tantalizing images of posting a record score were dancing in Chad Campbell's head yesterday in the opening round of the Masters. Campbell, who became the first player...
WALSH'S WORK NOT DONE
After scouting the Pac-10 tournament, Knicks president Donnie Walsh is back from the Eurocup in Turin, Italy. And with just three games left in this horrid season, he and head...
CAMPBELL ON TOP AS 38 BREAK PAR
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Augusta National was there to be had yesterday. At recent Masters, there was bloodshed with leaderboards clogged with high scores resulting from the increasingly difficult course set-up...
HONDO'S ROCKIN'
It's true what they say: The betting lines are ahead of the handicappers this time of year. Hondo's deficit soared into triple figures yesterday when the M's put a zippin'...
PAR 3 CHAMP JOKES ABOUT JINX
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- South African Tim Clark, known mostly this year for knocking Tiger Woods out of the Accenture Match Play in February, is trying to become the first player...
PAVANO POUNDED IN DEBUT
The "American Idle" was not idle yesterday. The Indians probably wish he was. Former Yankee bust Carl Pavano -- who earned the "Idle" nickname by spending more time on the...
ARMSTRONG UNDER FIRE
PARIS -- France's anti-doping agency accused Lance Armstrong of violating its rules yesterday for not fully cooperating with a drug tester and says it could punish the seven-time Tour de...
ROUGH ROAD FOR 'ERASER'
RARELY a day goes by anymore that sickness and death isn't on my lips and in my ear, or dialing or e-mailing. For years now, every time I see a...
PODS RALLY TO DODGE DEFEAT
Adrian Gonzalez's solo homer started a three-run rally in the eighth inning that carried the Padres to a 4-3 win over the Dodgers yesterday in San Diego. Closer Heath Bell...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Calhoun plans return to UConn Connecticut men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun says he plans to return for a 24th season at the school, after his Huskies lost in the...
LUNDQVIST SECURES RANGERS' PLAYOFF BERTH
This was a sound from the past, from the better days of early this season, from the better days of the last three seasons. NHL STANDINGS This was the sound...
PENSIONS WILL CRU$H BIG APPLE, MIKE WARNS
The city will go flat broke if municipal unions don't agree to rein in exploding pension and health-care bills, Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday. "Pension costs and health costs are going...
IRAQI NEW-CAR SALES ON A ROLL
BAGHDAD -- Business, not bombs, is booming in Baghdad car dealerships, as well-heeled Iraqis indulge in a passion long out of reach -- spiffy new autos. BMWs, Nissans, Hyundais and...
PRINCETON IN THE POORHOUSE
Princeton University is seeing less green on the ivy. The school is planning to slash $170 million from its budget over the next two fiscal years. University President Shirley Tilghman...
SEEING RED: SOCIALISM GAINS IN POLL
Buffeted by bank bailouts and months of dire economic news, a growing number of Americans are quickly losing their faith in capitalism, a new poll found. A Rasmussen Reports poll...
9/11 ORGAN PIPES UP
An organ damaged on Sept. 11 will be played on Good Friday for the first time since 2001. The 1,680-pipe organ at St. Paul's Chapel near Ground Zero has had...
ANTI-PIRACY 101
THE seizure of the Maersk Alabama and her American crew of 21 by pirates on Tuesday may finally be the wake-up call we need to deal with the ongoing piracy...
US DAD TO IRAN: LET MY GIRL GO
TEHRAN, Iran -- The father of an American journalist charged by Iran with espionage said yesterday he will not leave the country until she is freed from jail. Roxana Saberi,...
MAHMOUD'S NUKE BOAST
ISFAHAN, Iran -- Iran announced further progress in its disputed nuclear program yesterday, after world powers said they would invite Tehran to direct talks. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had...
'100 BLACKS' SON GETS JAIL
The troubled namesake son of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement co-founder Kelvin Alexander Sr. was sentenced yesterday to 4½ years for gun possession. In taking a plea in Manhattan Supreme...
ON WITH THE WIND AT HISTORIC NEW BUILDING
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday opened a $25 million building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard's industrial park that is the city's first with mounted wind turbines. The Perry Avenue property is the...
MARATHONER'S LUCKY NUMBER
The number 1549 Patrick Harten will wear as he runs the Boston Marathon is no ordinary bib assignment: The air-traffic controller worked to save US Airways Flight 1549 before its...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A burglar swiped $1,500 in jewelry and electronic equipment from an apartment on the Upper East Side, police said yesterday. The suspect climbed up a fire escape and slipped...
GOV PUSHES GAY-NUP BILL
Gov. Paterson upped the gay-marriage ante on Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith yesterday, vowing to introduce his own bill to legalize same-sex unions if the Senate doesn't act on its...
HOW TO STOP N. KOREA: MAKE W 'ROCKET CZAR'
THE ISSUE: North Korea's provocative missile launch last Sunday. *** President Obama has too much on his plate ("The 'Excuse Me' Prez," Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, April 7). I have the...
O HAS YOU COVERED
As the economy limps along, a young New York entrepreneur has come up with the ultimate stimulus package for hard times -- "Obama Condoms." "That's what we call our flagship,"...
WOO-HOO! IT'S A 'SIMPSONS' SPECIAL DELIVERY
Now you can stick it to Homer Simpson. The Simpson family's stamps, featuring images by series creator Matt Groening, were unveiled yesterday by the US Postal Service. They include the...
BID WAR FOR MADOFF TIX
Looking to walk off with Bernie Madoff's Met tickets? They might not be a steal. Four fat-walleted fans are locked in a bidding war for the Ponzi schemer's field-level Opening...
LOTSO MATZ-O AT OBAMA'S SEDER
"Pass the matzo, please," President Obama seems to be saying as he makes history last night -- becoming the first sitting president to host a White House seder. Obama, joined...
$80M SCAMMER IN 'SORRY' STATE
As a dozen victims looked on, a New Jersey man admitted in federal court that he masterminded a real-estate Ponzi scheme that, prosecutors say, bilked hundreds of individuals and lenders...
DETROIT 'GREEN'BACKS
WASHINGTON -- In an effort to jump-start a sputtering Detroit, President Obama announced yesterday that the federal government will purchase 17,600 new fuel-efficient vehicles from American automakers by June 1....
DREYFUS LEFT FORTUNE TO HIS RX FOUNDATION
Legendary "Lion of Wall Street" Jack Dreyfus left the lion's share of his $36 million estate to his drug foundation. Dreyfus, who died on March 30 at age 95, had...
COLUMBIA'S NEW LOW
Just when it looked like Columbia University might actually be striking an uncharacteristic blow for academic honesty comes word that the institution has caved in to pressure and awarded tenure...
HIDE THOSE PUPPET STRINGS!
Teachers union capo di tutti capo Randi Weingarten vowed "changes" yesterday after union operatives were caught red-handed giving City Council members cue cards with questions to ask at a charter-school...
MIKE SWEET ON SODA TAX
Mayor Bloomberg supported his health commissioner's call for a tax on non-diet sodas yesterday, and said Gov. Paterson "walked away from" his plan to implement the tax. "It's our obligation...
PREZ: NOW'S THE TIME TO RELY ON REFI
WASHINGTON -- President Obama touted his policies yesterday for helping save homeowners from foreclosure and lower their mortgage bills in the process. With interest rates as low as any seen...
RED-FACED RANDI VOWS 'PUPPET' PAYBACK
Heads may roll. United Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten vowed "changes" at her union yesterday following the egg-on-face revelation that members tried to steer City Council questioning using scripted...
LEASH TUG OF LOVE 'TINKLE' SHOCKER
The Queens woman who claims a dog-sitter stole her Yorkie is an absentee owner who barely housetrained the pet -- and recommended swatting the tiny terrier when he tinkled inside,...
SM-ART QUEENS KID PLAYS KETCHUP FOR $1,000
A Queens small fry who didn't bottle up her imagination has become one of 12 students to win a national ketchup-themed design compe- tition. Melissa Rueda, 11, of Flushing, was...
AMBITIOUS COURSE
The Department of Education is preparing space for a whopping 100,000 students in charter schools within four years -- quadrupling the number of kids in charters today, according to a...
POTTY-MOUTHED POP TART SPEWS
Britney Spears serenaded Canadian fans with an expletive-laced curtain call, ending a concert that nearly went up in smoke. The pop princess had fans at GM Place in Vancouver buzzing...
HUFFING GUILT-FREE CHOCOLATE
If you're such a chocoholic that you wish you could free-base the stuff, a new product will let you come pretty close. Le Whif (right) is a new chocolate-consumption gadget...
OBAMA'S EASTER 'ISLAND'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama expects to attend Easter services. Question is: Where? Nearly a year after Obama cut ties with his controversial Chicago church, the first family's search for a...
SPOUTTA HERE!
Thar she blows! A geographically challenged humpback whale drifted into New York waters and spent about 24 hours in the Big Apple before heading back out to sea last night....
POOR LINDSAY COULD JUST DYE!
Hell hath no fury like a celebutard scorned! Lindsay Lohan is seeing red after her recent breakup with gal pal Samantha Ronson, and dying her wavy tresses a shade to...
WHEEL GRUMPY GRAMPS
A crotchety old man was arrested after repeatedly ramming his ex-wife with a motorized wheelchair in the lobby of their Staten Island apartment complex, police said yesterday. Twelve years after...
DEATH PLUNGE AT PENTHOUSE
A night of drinking turned deadly for a bond trader who got locked out of his West Village penthouse and fell to the street trying to climb onto his balcony...
VERMONT DID IT RIGHT
THIS week, Vermont be came the fourth state to recognize gay marriage. More significantly, it became the first state to enact it legislatively, not by judicial fiat. Every prior victory...
HAVING AN 'AFFAIR' WITH THE BOSS
Looks like workin' man's rocker Bruce Springsteen may have some lipstick on that blue collar. A heartbroken husband claims in devastating divorce papers that his wife was carrying on an...
EGAN BACK AT PULPIT
Edward Cardinal Egan said yesterday that missing his final Easter Sunday presiding over St. Patrick's Cathedral was a cross he couldn't bear. ST. PAT'S PANIC So two days after leaving...
KIN TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR SALTY, SPUNKY CREW
A cabby-turned-ship's-captain, Richard Phillips is likely to head straight back to the helm of his vessel when he's freed by the pirates holding him hostage off Somalia in a drifting...
HOSE ME TIMBERS! H2O BEST DEFENSE
These days, sailors use a fire hose instead of a cutlass to fight off pirates, even when the buccaneers are toting AK-47s. PIRATES ARE IN FOR A SHIP STORMKIN TAKE...
ST. PAT'S PANIC
A doorman bizarrely took the wheel of a cab idling across from St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, lost control and nearly crushed a crowd of worshipers filing in for Holy Thursday...
MISS-TAKE COSTS 'NET BOOBS $7M
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A former Miss West Virginia has won a $7.2 million verdict against nine Internet companies and individuals who tried to sell pornographic videos that they falsely claimed...
MARTHA'S KID PAID $1 MIL FOR TAX 'GOOF'
Martha Stewart's daughter had her own run-in with the feds -- she had to shell out almost $900,000 in back taxes and a $110,000 fine after an IRS audit, court...
KIDS DIG FIRST LADY'S HOME AND GARDEN
WASHINGTON -- First Lady Michelle Obama and a group of eager fifth-graders from a Washington elementary school are planting the first fruits and vegetables in the new White House garden....
HELP HILL & GET 'DATE' WITH BILL
Break out the blue dress! Hillary Rodham Clinton fans can win a chance to hang out with Bill Clinton by giving $5 to her failed presidential campaign and helping the...
BASEBALL TRAGEDY
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others were killed yesterday when a suspected drunken driver plowed into their car, just hours after the rookie's impressive season debut, police...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Looks as if these jurors are trying to take some headline writers' jobs. A panel in Paducah, Ky., declared a man "super guilty" after convicting him of resisting arrest. Police...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Retiring early 3M is offering 3,600 non-union, US employ ees early retirement to cut costs as the reces sion reduces profit. The voluntary program was presented yesterday to 11 percent...
STANFORD OFFICIAL IN PLEA TALKS
Stanford Group Co. Chief Financial Officer James M. Davis, accused by federal regulators of helping his boss, R. Allen Stanford, run a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, will enter plea negotiations with...
PAY FOR PLAY CHARGED
THERE are lots of wild pay- for-play allegations flying around in the celebrity-magazine world. One has it that OK! magazinepaid $40,000 to get "Biggest Loser" Tara Costa on their cover...
WELLS ENDS WELL
Wall Street celebrated its own Easter miracle by keeping stocks propped higher for the fifth-straight week, this time aided by Wells Fargo's profit shocker. The rally started early yesterday in...
YOUTUBE SETS BUSINESS MODEL TO MUSIC
Remember when YouTube's whole business model revolved around shunning professionally produced content in favor of user-generated videos? Well, forget that. The Google-owned firm and Universal Music Group, the record industry's...
$10B CAPITAL IDEA
Goldman Sachs is looking to raise as much as $10 billion in a major capital-raising effort that in part will go toward paying back the rescue cash the Wall Street...
TRUMP SUES 2 DEVELOPERS
You're sued! Donald Trump filed a $10 million-plus suit yesterday against the developers of a failed Mexican hotel and condo project, claiming they breached a deal to market it under...
POLAROID AUCTION IS EXTENDED BY JUDGE
Flip-flopping continued in the effort to sell Polaroid, as a bankruptcy judge once again extended the auction amid complaints from creditors and bidders. Late Wednesday, Hilco Consumer Capital and Gordon...
MADOFF TRUSTEE SUES TO RECOVER $150M
Fear is gripping New York's wealthy set following court moves to seize $150 million from an investor who pulled his cash from Bernie Madoff's fund just two months before it...
COLONY CAPITAL, MGM MIRAGE TALKS COLLAPSE
Sun-drenched casino titan Kirk Kerkorian was dealt a body blow late last night when a deal for private-equity firm Colony Capital to inject $750 million into his struggling casino company...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
HATS ENTERTAINMENT Grab your floppiest hat and hop over to Midtown for Sunday's Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., paraders -- a term we...
PREVIEWS
"ACCENT ON YOUTH": David Hyde Pierce stars in this 1934 tale of a playwright and his secretary-turned-muse. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St.; 212-239-6200. OpensApril 29. "NEXT TO...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
STOP AND SMELL THE MAGNOLIAS: Spring springs on Roosevelt Island this weekend when the president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society, Judith Berdy, leads visitors on the 90-minute Magnolia Blossom...
FILM
FILM FORUM: Director Masaki Kobayashi's trilogy "The Human Condition" airs in its entirety tomorrow and Sunday beginning at noon. The three parts run individually Monday through Wednesday. Houston Street, west...
DANCE
THE NEW VICTORY: Italo-Swiss circus dancers La Famiglia Dimitri perform tonight at 7, tomorrow at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at noon and 5 p.m. 209 W. 42nd St.;...
CABARET
FEINSTEIN'S: A Broadway veteran of 50-plus years, Barbara Cook presents "Here's to Life" Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. 540 Park Ave. South; 212-339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Aaron Lee...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: A double bill sees pianist Omar Sosa's quintet followed by vocalist/violinist Jenny Scheinman and her trio, which features two guitarists, today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. 131 W....
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Ricardo Muti conducts and pianist Mitsuko Uchida is featured as the New York Philharmonic performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and Schubert's Symphony No. 9 on Wednesday...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
BUSTA RHYMES AND KID CUDI: The legendary rapper and his protégé will be joined by special guests including Fat Joe and Funkmaster Flex Sunday night at 11 at B.B. King's,...
OFF-BROADWAY
"BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?": *** Moving musical revue featuring songs and stories of the Depression era. Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd St.; 212-352-3101. Closes June 14. "DISTRACTED": **½...
MARATHON MANGA: NONSENSE FOR THE SENSES
This movie was not screened in advance for North American critics. Here's a review from the Herald Sun of Victoria, Australia. A popular Japanese manga se ries. Produced by Hong...
MONTANA A REAL BUTTE
AT least "Hannah Montana: The Movie" pays its respects to ancient forms of storytelling. The thing is a virtual remake of the fusty oldie "Sweet Home Alabama," which came out...
JUST 'CHASING' ITS TALE
'ONE Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" meets "The Golden Girls" in "Chasing Manet," about two old women plotting their escape from a nursing home. Tina Howe's strained dark comedy has...
DOC PUTS WAR SHOT IN SHARP FOCUS
YOU may not know the name Eddie Adams, but unless you just arrived from Mars (or New Jersey) you know the photographer's most famous image: a Vietnamese general shooting dead...
BABS IS BACK
CBS is airing a 2006 Barbra Streisand concert to dovetail with the release of a Streisand DVD collection. "Streisand: Live in Concert," airs April 25 (8 p.m.) and is taken...
LIGHTEN UP TO HEAVY METAL
ROB Reiner's 1984 mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap" and Sacha Gervasi's new "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" have a lot in common. But there's one major difference: Anvil is a...
HARDLY WORTH A PITT STOP
YOU know a movie's got prob lems when the most memo rable thing about it is Sienna Miller's mustache -- and the vulgarity the one-time It girl used to defame...
'MODEL' DO-OVER AT HOTEL PENNSY
MINIATURE model hopefuls looking to get cast on the next season of "America's Next Top Model" should head to the Hotel Pennsylvania's Penn Plaza Pavilion tomorrow. Tyra Banks is making...
YOU SAY 'MOSAIC,' WE YAWN 'PROSAIC'
THE tedious documentary "In a Dream" tells you much more than you could ever want to know about an ob scure Philadelphia artist called Isaiah Zagar. Zagar, a nutty leftover...
YOU CAN BID TO PLAY WITH A STAR
WANNA do lunch with Steve Bus cemi? Hit the trapeze with Jonathan ("Spring Awakening") Groff? Shoot par with Lewis Black? OK, that last may be too much to hope for,...
SETH ROGEN'S GOT MALLS!
SETH Rogen, a consistently genial stoner presence in what seems like every fourth movie these days, shows he can actually act in "Observe and Report," a disturbingly humorous cross between...
PULITZER LIST ISN'T 'PRETTY'
'SPRING," as Oscar Hammerstein II wrote, "is here" -- which on Broad way means awards, awards and more awards. The first -- and most prestigious -- is the Pulitzer Prize...
BROADWAY
"BLITHE SPIRIT": **½ Angela Lansbury and Jayne Atkinson prevent director Michael Blakemore from completely smothering Noel Coward's comedy. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. "GOD OF CARNAGE": *** A...
$14M A SHOW
TV's biggest show, "American Idol," is also its biggest moneymaker. No surprise there. But "Brothers and Sisters" and "Heroes"? Yep -- they're also among TV's top 10 biggest cash cows,...
RANGERS BEAT FLYERS 2-1, CLINCH PLAYOFF SPOT
Henrik Lundqvist made 37 saves, Ryan Callahan had a goal and an assist and the New York Rangers clinched a playoff spot with a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers...
MICHAEL VICK BEING HELD IN VIRGINIA PRISON
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick is in a prison in his home state of Virginia. The bureau's Web site reported Thursday that the former...