April 12, 2009
SI NEIGHBORS FIGHT OFF FIRE
Staten Island families abandoned their holiday dinner tables to help fight an afternoon wild fire raging near their homes. "It was scary," said Theresa Abella, 46, who joined neighbors along...
FARE BEATER KILLED IN TRASH CHUTE
A 34-year-old New Jersey man fell to his death inside a luxury Midtown building's trash chute after jumping out of a cab without paying, police and witnesses said today. Cops...
Box Office: G-Rated Singer Trumps Date-Raping Mall Cop
"Observe and Report'' may be one of the year's most written-about movies, but it opened at the lower end of expectations with an estimated $11.1 million in fourth place. It's...
Some stuff for a Sunday
Pedroia calls A-Rod a dork Red Sox second baseman and reigning MVP Dustin Pedroia called Alex Rodriguez a dork in a recent Boston Magazine cover story."That guy," Pedroia said, pausing...
MADOFF'S METS TICKETS FETCH $7,500
A pair of tickets owned by ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff for the Mets home opener tomorrow at Citi Field fetched $7,500 in an online auction that ended with all the...
Pitching set for Padres series
MIAMI -- Right-hander Mike Pelfrey is getting the historic first start tomorrow night against the Padres in the Mets' debut series at new $850 million Citi Field. Here is the...
OBAMA GIRLS NAME THEIR NEW PUPPY 'BO'
All dogs go to heaven, but only a few go to the White House. That's where the new top dog is heading Tuesday when President Obama fulfills one of his...
Game 6: Mets at Marlins
MIAMI -- The Mets are looking to close out this six-game trip and head to new Citi Field on a high note this afternoon when ace Johan Santana takes on...
Around the Minors: Friday, April 10
After being selected as the Yankees top draft pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, Andrew Brackman failed to throw a professional pitch for the first year-and-a-half of his career...
Redding aims for May return
MIAMI -- Tim Redding, who has been rehabbing his sore right shoulder in Port St. Lucie, caught up with the Mets here this morning and said he hopes to be...
Around the Minors: Saturday, April 11
Things started off well for the Bufalo Bisons Friday, but the Mets Triple-A affiliate suffered the same results. Rodney McKissic reports from Coca-Cola Field, where the Bisons dropped to 0-2...
POLAR BEAR NIGHTMARE
A disturbed woman caused a horrific spectacle at a German zoo when she jumped into the polar-bear pen where the world-famous Knut lives and was brutally mauled by three of...
Bushes in Today's Post
In today's Post, you can read the first installment of Beating the Bushes for the 2009 season. In it, I lay out six players who currently are flying under the...
Around the Minors: Sunday, April 12
It hasn't been the start to the season the Buffalo Bisons would have hoped for in their first season as the Mets Triple-A affiliate since 1965. For the second straight...
Coverage in The Post
MIAMI -- Livan Hernandez's strong debut as a Met and an unexpected revival from the previously comatose Luis Castillopaced an 8-4 win over the Marlins that ended a two-game skid....
UPGRADING OFFENSE FIRST CONCERN FOR GANG GREEN
The Jets spent the free agency period signing and trading for players to bolster their defense. In the draft, the focus now likely will shift to the offense. The retirement...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Passenger in Adenhart crash off critical list In Anaheim, Calif., a passenger injured in the car crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two friends was taken off...
UNKNOWN FARM PRODUCTS WITH A SHOT
WHEN last season began, Mets fans knew little about Daniel Murphy, who would go on to hit .313 in 151 at-bats and open this year as the Amazin's starting left...
'GENERAL' RALLIES TO WIN BLUE GRASS
General Quarters is heading home to the Kentucky Derby. The 3-year-old colt overtook pacesetter Join in the Dance at the top of the stretch, then held off favorite Hold Me...
PARAGALLO'S EX-MANAGER TRIGGERED INVESTIGATION
The State Police raid on upstate Center Brook Farm last Wednesday that led to the arrest of thoroughbred owner-breeder Ernie Paragallo on 22 counts of animal cruelty was triggered by...
PAPELBON SAVES BOSOX FROM LATE DISASTER
Jason Bay homered twice and drove in three runs, Brad Penny won his American League debut and the Red Sox beat the Angels 5-4 yesterday in Anaheim. Mike Lowell added...
BUT WRIGHT, MO GET GOOD GRADES IN HARDBALL RATINGS
HARDBALL's annual Best and Worst has evolved over the years. There are fewer "Worst" categories, for example. We used to do the five worst managers and general managers, but so...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... J. J. PUTZ
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Mets' new setup man.COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG Q: You're notorious for pieing guys in the face. Do you have any new teammates picked...
ADENHART TRAGEDY A SOBERING REMINDER OF ATHLETES' MORTALITY
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This is the kind of news that makes your blood run cold in an instant, and always will. We think we are fairly unshockable anymore, that...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS STEVE JOBS Apple CEO sees shares soar 44% in March -- well above Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones gains. JOHN STUMPF Chief executive at Wells Fargo fuels sector...
GIANTS MAY USE EXTRA PICKS
Thank you, Jeremy Shockey. Soon enough, that could end up being the sentiment of the Giants. The reward brought back for their erstwhile tight end, sent away to New Orleans...
PLASTIC CUT
Putting further pressure on efforts to re-ignite consumer spending, 42 percent of consumers had their credit card limits lowered or accounts closed in the six months ended Oct. 31, according...
CREW HAILS HERO OF PIRATE ATTACK
Safely in port at last, the American crew of the Maersk Alabama -- which included at least one New Yorker -- hailed the still-captive skipper Richard Phillips as a hero...
ALL-PSAL TEAM
With Lincoln winning its fourth consecutive PSAL title, it's no surprise the Railsplitters got a pair of players on The Post's All-PSAL First Team. Lincoln senior guard Lance Stephenson has...
THE RUMBLE
Off to see the 'Wizard' Coughlin meets Wooden for first time Giants coach Tom Coughlin (right) finally got to meet John Wooden (inset) 10 days ago when Coughlin and his...
PERRY WILL AUTHOR A NEW OLD STORY
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It seems almost sacrilegious that somehow Jack Nicklaus' magical final round in 1986 will be upstaged. Well, maybe not upstaged, but certainly replaced in the record books....
YANKS' 'PEN AUTHORING TURNAROUND
Opening Day in Baltimore did nothing to ease the fears about the Yankees' bullpen in front of Mariano Rivera. Not when Jonathan Albaladejo, Phil Coke, Brian Bruney and Damaso Marte...
ITALY'S CIAO HOUND
Everybody knows one: the boy in grade school who made bunny ears behind the teacher's head in the class photo. Or the uncle always ready with the whoopee cushion. Well,...
GAY MARRIAGE'S EARNED VICTORY
Uh-oh. Now gays really, legitimately, democratically and completely non-sneakily have won the right to marry, in Vermont. Next thing you know gays preparing to wed will be everywhere, threatening our...
WHAT'S THE SCUTTLEBUTT?
Was it the day my oldest son asked me what "rope-a-dope" meant? Or when his younger brother - who was born after the world's worst nuclear disaster - wondered "Who's...
TECH VISA TREACHERY
In between establishing new national policies on healthcare, education, financial regulation and energy, the Obama Administration said last week that it is getting ready to tackle immigration, too. Part of...
KEEP THIS THUG CAGED
One of the region's most notorious killers is up for parole again this month -- only this time there's a good chance he could be set loose. That must not...
OBAMA ON ISLAM
President Obama's declaration to the Turkish parliament that "the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam" is being widely hailed as a major shift in...
SERIOUS WORK
Meghan Clyne's article ridicules members of the New York Congressional delegation for introducing so-called "lunatic legislation" ("Keystone Congress," PostOpinion, April 6). Every bill introduced by me or my colleagues is...
ZONE OFFENSE
Why does The Post see nothing wrong with the city Department of Education violating state law by denying parents a say in the rezoning of their children's neighborhood schools ("UFT...
ARROGANCE ABROAD
As a Brit holidaying in Manhattan with my US cousins, your letters page caught my eye ("The Age of Arrogance," PostOpinion, April 7). There are two pronouncements that most Europeans...
WRONG TRACK
Nowhere but in the increasingly bizarre world of New York state government would school budgets be raided to fund a transit system ("GOP Needs To Get Behind MTA Bailout," April...
REQUIRED READING
Store Front The Disappearing Face of New York by James T. and Karla L. Murray (Gingko) The married New York photographers spent eight years documenting the disappearing storefronts of mom-and-pop...
ONE NATION UNDER DOG
Back in November 2007, Utah's Deseret News wrote up a five-year-old Shih Tzu whose wardrobe included a pink mohair sweater and a fur-trimmed parka. The same month, the Arizona Republic...
BAD COP
Paul Bacon joined the New York City Police Department after 9/ll because he wanted to help people. But as he discovers, the NYPD is no place for dreamers. Although a...
KAZAN ON DIRECTING
To exaggerate very little, Elia Kazan created Marlon Brando, James Dean, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, yet to many an incensed actor who glared when he was given an honorary...
BESTSELLER: ALWAYS LOOKING UP
Fox's new memoir isn't as compelling as his previous, "Lucky Man," which chronicled the discovery that he had Parkinson's disease. But there are still riveting moments as he talks about...
IN MY LIBRARY: JAYNE ATKINSON
Now that she's freed from saving the world -- as Karen Hayes on seasons five and six of "24" -- Jayne Atkinson can read again. That's one of the perks,...
GEORGE
That George Steinbrenner has a legendary temper is, well, legendary. He has fired more employees than Donald Trump has apprentices. His feuds are epic. His jealous rage has cost him...
KATY COUTURE
SHE wore a Hello Kitty-bedazzled bustier to the Brit Awards, a carousel-inspired skirt to the MTV Awards and channeled Chiquita Banana at the Grammys. Forget being known as that singer...
CITY $PREADING FRESH FED AID TO MORE SCHOOLS
The city's most vulnerable kids are getting a billion-dollar boost from President Obama. Thanks to $300 million in stimulus funds earmarked for Title 1 -- and a policy tweak by...
EGAN'S FRENCH BLISS
After he bids adieu to his role as the Big Apple's spiritual leader this week, Edward Cardinal Egan plans to use his language skills for a higher cause. Egan, who...
WED 'TIL DOGS DO US PART
Julia Szabo, The Post's pets columnist, divorced her husband, John, in 2001, but they continued to live together for years for the sake of their six dogs. Finally, last month,...
POLITICS BUBBLING BELOW THE SURFACE AT WATER BOARD
ONE of the newest members of the city's Water Board is going to have a hard time rejecting the administration's request for a 14 percent hike in water and sewer...
GAL HELD IN SUITCASE GIRL'S MURDER IS FAMILY FRIEND
TRACY, Calif. -- Police said yesterday after arresting a Sunday school teacher that they still didn't know the motive for the shocking murder of an 8-year-old girl, whose body was...
HARD LIQUOR-AGENCY WHISTLEBLOWER BATTLE
Two high-ranking officials at the embattled State Liquor Authority had to repeatedly push state investigators to look into possible corruption at their agency before they got any satisfaction, sources said....
SHOWDOWN OF 'ABBA' FAUX FOES
Mamma Mia! It's a battle of the tribute bands. A Swedish songbird who makes her living mimicking the '70s pop group ABBA has allegedly been badmouthing a rival group --...
FATHER OF 14 OWES 530G
FLINT, Mich. -- Authorities say a man fathered 14 kids with 13 women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support. Thomas Frazier, 42, was jailed Thursday, the Flint...
BAM'S BROTHER BARRED BY BRITS
One of Barack Obama's half brothers was refused entry to Britain in January while he was on his way to the president's inaugural, it was reported today. Samson Obama was...
SINGH DONS PONZI GEAR AT THE MASTERS
TALK about staying the course. PGA golfer Vijay Singh -- playing this weekend at The Masters -- is still donning the Stanford Financial logo despite statements from the company's founder,...
KISSING UP TO THE BOSS
She's not born to run. Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen's better half, seems to have shrugged off reports about her allegedly two-timing man. On Friday night, the lead backup singer wrapped...
RAMONE TOME A 'DEE-SASTER'
The estate of longtime Ramone's bassist Dee Dee Ramone, who died in 2002, is asking a court to put the kibosh on a book by the musician's first wife. Vera...
COP-DNA SUBPOENA IN RAPE
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has issued subpoenas for DNA swabs from the NYPD patrolman and his partner involved in the alleged rape of a drunken executive in her East...
FALLON IN MEXICAN STANDOFF
Food fight! "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon is not welcome at two Manhattan restaurants. He angered staff at Los Dos Molinos, a Mexican eatery near Union Square, when he reportedly...
KERREY'S SLAM AT PROTEST
The hooligans who launched an ill-fated bid to take over the New School are a bumbling brood of terrorists who deserve to be locked up, the university's embattled president said...
GREEDY GANGS NOT KIDD-ING
Ragged Somali fisherman have traded nets and hooks for rocket launchers, GPS receivers and satellite phones and other tools of what's become a big-money, high-danger industry on the high seas....
VALOR & HORROR IN FRENCH RAID
With a hijacked yacht drifting closer to the Somali shore and all ransom offers rejected, French naval officers relayed a last-minute offer to the pirates -- trade our lives for...
WAR VETS READY FOR ENROLL CALL
The GI Bill has a new generation of combat veterans marching home from the Middle East and into Big Apple college classrooms -- the biggest surge since the Vietnam War....
EX-LOVE BEGS LILO: GET HELP!
Get a grip! That's the message Samantha Ronson has for her scorned former gal pal, Lindsay Lohan, who has been in meltdown mode since their recent breakup, according to a...
IRAN TRIES CYBER-RATTLING
Chocolate, tulips, Heineken and now "sexual and moral perversion." The Iranian government is trying to put the kibosh on a Dutch media program in the Middle Eastern nation. The cybercrimes...
FBI KEEPS NY EYE ON CRISIS
The FBI's probe of Somali pirates' seizure of an American cargo ship is being run out of the agency's New York office, officials said yesterday. The office typically handles cases...
YANKEE HEIR TIES HIS SECOND KNOT
A notoriously private heir to the Yankees empire is taking another swing at wedded bliss. Hal Steinbrenner, 39 -- one of team owner George Steinbrenner's four children -- married his...
PUPPETEER POT O' GOLD
It shouldn't be hard for the teachers union to craft cue cards for City Council members -- they pay their writers six figures. While city teachers sweat out the threat...
SUMMERS' WIND, COME BLOWIN' IN FROM ACROSS THE SEA
CALL it the education of Larry Summers. At least that's what the mainstream media wants Americans to take away from the disclosure that President Barack Obama's top economic adviser earned...
TREES GROW IN CONCRETE JUNGLE
A barren downtown Manhattan traffic triangle will soon be transformed into a lush urban oasis. DeLury Square, a cement-covered island at Fulton and Gold Streets, is going from gray to...
WHITE LIE NATION
Outrage over the proposed merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster continued to grow last week, threatening to put the kibosh on the concert industry mega-marriage. State and local government officials,...
SMART TAX PLANNING
Despite stagnant wages and rising taxes, New Yorkers can still create their own fiscal stimulus package and give themselves a raise, financial advisers said. It's all possible through smart tax...
ATM DANGER BARED
Two apparent ATM card skimmers have been discovered in Manhattan -- and a third in Los Angeles -- putting at risk the account information of hundreds of customers. The skimmers...
RAGING EX-COP SUICIDE
A sickly former NYPD officer flew into a jealous rage yesterday when his city-cop wife brought home a male colleague and tried to gun the pair down in his Long...
PAUL-SON MAY RISE IN WEST
Merritt Paulson decided 14 years ago not to follow his dad's career path to Goldman Sachs. The 36-year-old former New Yorker and son of one-time Goldman Sachs CEO and former...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens * Five partygoers were busted after they went on a rampage in a Flushing karaoke bar, sources said yesterday. The pals were in a VIP room at the DIY...
SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS ISSUES
Dear John: The Social Security Administration recently said that its annual budget surplus will end five years earlier than previously predicted, due to the ongoing recession/depression. How will that affect...
GLAMOUR 'FIRST'
She's America's top "model." Michelle Obama is the nation's first first lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage, according to stylists who have worked with presidential...
'ROCK' BOTTOM
It's the end of the Ice Age for New York City brides. Burned by the recession, grooms are buying engagement rings set with -- gasp -- cubic zirconia instead of...
'FAMILY' AFFAIR FOR FINANCE COMMISH
City Finance Commissioner Martha Stark has been dating a former assistant commissioner in her department -- which also hired her lover's ex-husband and three of Stark's family members, The Post...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Nevada's hookers are begging and pleading for the taxman to cometh. State lawmakers in Carson City shot down a proposed prostitution tax supported by the Nevada Brothel Association. The industry,...
MEET MARKET
Get ready to rock! Blair, a 25-year-old restaurant server, loves karaoke. But if you can't carry a tune, a good sense of humor will do.Ivan, 26 interior designer He is:...
'MEAT' MARKET MISHAP
AFTER hearing about his date at UWS Mediterranean spot Nanoosh, we're left wondering why Andy, a 31-year-old baker, chose Laura, a 27-year-old account executive. They disagreed on food (meat versus...
THERE IS NO 'WE' IN TEAM
I am sitting in a cab next to my boyfriend who has just broken up with me. We're on the way to my Upper East Side walk-up, I'm bawling and...
EVERY NIGHT FEVER
SINCE nightclub owners couldn't pay their rents with "cool" during the real-estate boom of the aughts, Clubland's business model of the past half-decade was to fleece I-bankers with $400 bottles...
AGENDA
Beauty-licious Citywide locations, spaweek.com It's that radically Zen-tabulous time of year again. Yes, ladies (and men who love a good pampering), it's Spa Week! Starting Monday and running through next...
STREETCARTS OF DESIRE
It's getting warmer outside and you're getting poorer. This particular confluence makes now the perfect time to check out the city's dizzying selection of street carts. And we're not talking...
SAUNDERS NOT COACHING MAGICIAN WIZARDS NEED
MEANINGFUL mater ial first: Andrew "Fuzzy" Levane yesterday celebrated his 89th birthday. Mundane matter next: The Wizards have committed to Flip Saunders as their next head coach, and officially will...
NO REASON ISLES CAN'T BE MORE LIKE ST. LOUIS
PHILADELPHIA -- So if the Blues, who are only the most prominent feel-good story of the year in the NHL, were able to do what they did, then what are...
TORTORELLA: BAD PRACTICE WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN
With just one more game tonight in Philadelphia until what coach John Tortorella calls "the real stuff, not that regular-season [junk]," the Rangers practiced yesterday like the grind had gotten...
MICK'S BASE-RUNNING PLAY IN '60 SERIES WASN'T HEADS-UP
UNTIL last week, when two readers straightened me out, I was among those to present a particular baseball myth as fact. It was one of those "facts" that, because it's...
KNICKS LOOKING TO FINISH SEASON ON STRONG NOTE
Destined to finish the season with a trip to Secaucus for the NBA's draft lottery instead of the playoffs for the fifth straight season, the Knicks just have pride to...
3 MEN OUT FOR METS
* I've watched the first four games of the season, and I've noticed that after the first six batters, the Mets have three automatic outs: second baseman Luis Castillo, catcher...
RAY PLAY FOR HONDO
Livan and the Metamucils did a fantastic flush job on the Fish last night in Miami, giving Hondo a sec ond straight victory that trimmed his deficit to a scant...
JERSEY COMPLETES REGULAR SEASON WITH WIN
These are not those magic Devils of February, the team that went 30-10-2 in one stretch of Martin Brodeur's absence. They want that spirit back, hoping they rekindled it by...
ISLES' EYES ON DRAFT LOTTERY AFTER ANOTHER LOSS
The Islanders already have clinched the worst record in the league, and now the only thing that matters is what happens on Tuesday, when the NHL holds its draft lottery....
BETHPAGE LETS PUBLIC TEST DRIVE CHANGE OF COURSE
There has been a philosophical change at the U.S. Golf Association in the last three years, and if you're observant enough, you now can experience it for yourself. Starting yesterday,...
TIGER, PHIL TOGETHER, BUT NOT IN FINAL GROUP
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- This isn't exactly what we all wanted. Yes, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will be paired together in today's Masters final round. They won't however, be in...
PADDY'S DAY DEMOLISHED BY QUAD BOGEY
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The "Paddy Slam" was slammed yesterday. Padraig Harrington, who entered the Masters trying to win his third consecutive major, flamed out with a 1-over-par 73 to leave...
JAMMED LEADERBOARD PROMISES THRILLING FINISH
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Are you ready for a shootout? Brace for it in the final round of the Masters, today at Augusta National, because the leaderboard is littered with players...
CARTER, ROOKIE STARTERS LEAD NETS TO VICTORY
Brook Lopez, the professional, got angry and responded with dunks and determined play. Brook Lopez, the high school or college player, probably would have done something stupid. "It doesn't surprise...
LUIS LETS LOOSE VS. OLD TEAM
MIAMI -- Luis Castillo might have bought himself a reprieve from the expected Citi Field boobirds tomorrow night. The embattled second baseman was prepared to hear it from Mets fans...
HERNANDEZ, CASTILLO PROPEL AMAZIN'S
MIAMI -- Livan Hernandez was just what the manager ordered for the Mets last night. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG On the verge of wearing out his bullpen less than a...
A-ROD MAY BE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Barring a last-minute setback, Alex Rodriguez will report to Tampa and begin working out tomorrow. When Rodriguez was diagnosed with a torn labrum in his right...
CC EARNS AN 'A' WITH 72/3 SHUTOUT FRAMES
KANSAS CITY -- The Steinbrenner family celebrated Hal's wedding yesterday in central Florida. In the middle of America, a large part of their investment portfolio calmed jangled nerves throughout the...
POSADA BACK IN SWING OF THINGS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There is little mystery to what's on Jorge Posada's mind, even less wonder about his emotions from one day to the next, from one week to...
BILL WOULD BE STEP BACK FOR N.Y. HUNTERS
ONE of the high notes this past hunting season was the success of the new Junior Big-Game hunting license authorized by Gov. David A. Paterson, which allows 14- and 15-year-olds...
OUR 'FRIENDS' IN NEED
It's an unfortunate byproduct of starring in an insanely successful TV series when you're young: Nothing will ever be this good again. (Just ask Lisa Bonet.) As if to illustrate...
ADOPT ME
Polera is a 4½-year old spayed kitty who's affectionate and sweet. She'd make a great one-and-only pet! Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of...
CLEVER HOUSE TOYS
Living in the same house with the same old cat toys day after day can get boring for kitty. New objects spice things up, which is why disposable cat toys...
PAMPERING PUSS
When a down-on-his-luck Persian cat named Leo started to get his groove back after a simple grooming, his owner, former model and makeup artist Aryn Quinn, realized that a little...
THE CAINE SCRUTINY
MEN want to be him. Women want to date him. And Yanks just want to understand what the heck he's saying. Distinctive cockney accent or not, Michael Caine has been...
FRENCH TOAST FOR JACKIE
JACKIE Raynal, an important but relatively unsung figure in the world of film, is get ting her due -- a tribute at the French Institute/Alliance Francaise (22 E. 60th St.)....
BRIDGE
"THERE is more than one way to play every hand, unless it's the hand you just finished playing." -- Anonymous. "It was the finest hand I almost played in my...
SEEN IT ALL BEFORE
TAKE a look at the di agram and see if any thing strikes you. It struck Viswanathan Anand quickly, even though he was playing the game "blindfolded." In two seconds...
GOTHIC GIRLS
This is a story that starts with a house: an East Hampton mansion where one of New York's most prominent families lived, partied and slowly slid into madness and ruin....
SPELLING TEST
Tori Spelling may have spent 10 years of her life playing Donna Martin on "90210," but that didn't stop her from getting a bad case of the nerves when reprising...
IT IS 'UNUSUAL'
Cold hard reality is not the province of ABC's new cop drama "The Unusuals." A visit to the set at the massive Steiner Studios complex at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA THE TUDORS, Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime The royal leg - A physician removes a splinter of bone from Henry VIII's ulcerating leg, courtesy of a jousting accident. Lady Ursula...
REEL GOOD
"Armageddon" (1998), Sunday 10:00 p.m. Encore Don't you hate it when an asteroid the size of Texas careens our way? To avert disaster NASA enlists an oil driller (Bruce Willis,...
PRIMETIME
It's as predictable as a hangover. And nearly as nauseating. The news telecasts -- morning, noon, evening and night, national and local -- now open with the latest someone-done-someone-a-big-pile-of-wrong song....
Oops, Macheda did it again!
They say once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend. Well, if I'm Manchester United, I'm giving Federico Macheda a chance to make the third...
Red Bulls draw a Houston
After one of the worst soccer games I've ever team, the Red Bulls still have one of the worst attacks in MLS history. But give Juan Carlos Osorio's team this;...
Flo Rida gets low
MIAMI -- You're looking at the reason why the attendance-challenged Marlins drew a crowd of 39,412 to Dolphin Stadium tonight (their largest since the 2003 World Series season). Of course,...
WHERE YOUR TAXES GO
Whether you've already filed your federal taxes, or will rush to the post office this Wednesday at the last minute, you probably signed the form with a twinge of frustration....