May 17, 2009
Reyes, Mets getting antsy
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mets claim Jose Reyes isn't bound for the disabled list, but concern about his right leg is starting to grow with the shortstop set to miss...
Report: Ex-Metro Cornell Glen joins Quakes
Ex-MetroStar Cornell Glen, a striker for the Trinidad and Tobago National Team, has reportedly returned to MLS. According to the Trinidad Express, the speedy Glen signed with San Jose on...
Game 37: Mets at Giants
(UPDATED) SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mets will be in search of the first four-game road sweep of San Francisco in their history tonight when Mike Pelfrey puts his unbeaten record...
Wang, Bruney make rehab appearances
Chien-Ming Wang and Brian Bruney both started for Scranton/Wilkes Barre during the Yankees' Triple-A affiliate double-header this afternoon.Wang's second rehab start was impressive as his first. The Yankees' sinker-baller threw...
3 MORE QUEENS SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
City officials ordered three more schools closed today, bringing to nine the total shuttered this coming week to try to halt the spread of swine flu. The three schools, all...
BRONX TODDLER SURVIVES 30-FOOT FALL FROM WINDOW
New York City officials say a 2 1/2-year-old boy survived a 30-foot fall from a third-floor window with just a few cuts and bruises. The boy fell out of a...
Michael Bradley, Borussia Mönchengladbach get a little bit of luck
How lucky is Michael Bradley?After his Borussia Mönchengladbach squad got thrashed 5-0 by Leverkusen, it seemed their chances of staying up in the Bundesliga took a huge hit. But shockingly,...
OBAMA GREETED BY CHEERS, PROTESTS AT NOTRE DAME
As pro-life demonstrators prayed and protested outside, President Obama today squarely addressed the abortion debate in a Notre Dame commencement speech that called for "open hearts, open minds, fair-minded words,"...
PRISON PLAY CANCELED IN NY OVER FIGHT WITH UNIONS
A troupe of 18 inmates at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility were scheduled to perform an original play Wednesday. But the New York State Department of Correctional Services canceled the show...
Stuff for a Sunday
Favre's agent doesn't know muchAt this point, I would be stunned if Brett Favre didn't play for the Vikings next season.The ex-Packers and Jets quarterback has had plenty of chances...
Wells: A-Rod's steroid homers shouldn't count
By FRED KERBERGive David Wells credit. He makes the world an interesting place.At Yankee Stadium today as a TBS analyst for the Yanks-Twins game - on the 11th anniversary of...
Pitching set for Dodgers series
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mets debut of Tim Redding, who has been on the DL since spring training due to a shoulder strain, highlights the pitching matchups for a three-game...
Box Office: Tarnished 'Angels'
Sony is claiming happiness with its estimated $48 million opening of "Angels & Demons'' -- a substantial drop from the $77 million domestic bow of "The Da Vinci Code,'' which...
Coverage in The Post
SAN FRANCISCO -- Johan Santana vs. Randy Johnson might have been something of a a bust Saturday, but the happy outcome sure wasn't for the surging Mets. They have won...
Red Bull coverage in today's Post
I was at another assignment last night, so my soccer work was limited to bloggin' on the Red Bulls' 1-1 tie with Houston. But here's the live coverage from colleague...
Ewing puts foot in mouth
By MARC BERMANDoes Patrick Ewing ever learn? His "guarantee'' for a Orlando Game 7 win on the John Thompson radio show Friday was plain stupid - considering he's been wrong...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners GREGG STEINHAFEL Target CEO fires back at activist shareholder Bill Ackman, slamming his board nominees. KIRK KERKORIAN Casino mogul raises $2.5B to buy back debt, saving MGM Mirage --...
HITLER'S SECRETARY REVEALS HIS SECRETS
In 1930, a young woman from Munich answered an ad for a secretarial job at Adolph Hitler's headquarters. By 1933, Christa Schroeder was his personal secretary, a loyal and dedicated...
PILING ON THE TAXES
New Yorkers are being nickel-and-dimed to death by cash-strapped state and city governments. In fact, it costs city residents roughly $1,500 a year -- about an extra month's rent in...
"FINGERPRINTS OF GOD "
Can science prove that God exists? This was the ambitious question that led award-winning NPR religion correspondent Hagerty on a fascinating trek through the burgeoning scientific field of the study...
"THE RAMEN KING AND I "
People give their lives over to some pretty strange folks when things hit the skids. Dr. Phil comes to mind. But when writer Andy Raskin finds himself miserable and unable...
TALES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
A former rock wife lets rip about her controversial new tell-all on Dee Dee Ramone Dee Dee and Vera Ramone were New York punk royalty, but the inside story of...
IN MY LIBRARY: JEFF PROBST
Jeff Probst probably couldn't survive without having a book at the ready. "There are typically two or three books by my bedside since I like to skip between several books...
REQUIRED READING
Squeezed What You Don't Know About Orange Juice by Alissa Hamilton (Yale University Press) The orange juice cartons in your supermarket refrigerator case have more than orange juice in them....
NO MORE SECRETS
Benny Avni's May 14 article "Nuke Nonsense" (PostOpinion) perpetuates a line of reasoning that was thankfully repudiated in the last election. While the Obama administration has a ways to go...
DOG DAZE
Thank you for reporting about the serious problems we are having trying to enjoy Prospect Park with our dogs and families ("He Shooed the Pooch," May 10). The current law...
TERMS LIMITS
It's rich for Dick Morris and Eileen McGann to chide the political cultures of France, Italy and Japan when they barely understand their own ("Resisting O's World," PostOpinion, May 8)....
VEG OUT
I wept tears of joy when I read that Molly, the cow who escaped from a slaughterhouse in Queens, will live out her days in a sanctuary with a special...
WAIT OF THE WORLD
I'll bet that Rip van Winkle wakes up before the World Trade Center project is completed ("Enter, Bloomberg," Steve Cuozzo, PostOpinion, May 12). Dominick Clemente, Brooklyn
... AND FOOLISH DEEDS
Speaking of deficits, Social Security and Medicare trustees are warning that their programs are running out of cash far faster than thought -- and will be flat broke before you...
BAM'S WISE WORDS
Deficit spending in Washington has reached "unsustainable" levels, Barack Obama declared last week -- rightly warning of skyrocketing interest rates on consumer loans that could rival those of the Jimmy...
TO HELL WITH THE FANS
We live in the age of extreme niche fandom. Even more extreme is the quibbling. I was commanded by Paramount's publicists -- the Legion of Women With Clipboards -- to...
PRINCE & THE PARTY POOPERS
He's a prince in a gilded cage. When party animal Prince Harry makes his first official visit to New York City later this month, royal aides will be keeping him...
CITY TO CALL UP NEW AREA CODE
A new report from the state Department of Public Service shows that New York City will need a new area code -- and soon. Phone numbers for the 718 and...
INSULT TO INJURY AT 'BERN'ED SHUL
What chutzpah! That's what some members of the tony Fifth Avenue Synagogue are saying about embattled financier J. Ezra Merkin, who's about to ascend to chairman of the temple board...
THE CASE FOR GREED
Greed, we are agreed, is bad. It also is strange. It has long been included among the Seven Deadly Sins, which suggests that it is a universal and perennial facet...
CHINA, BOND VIGILANTE
President Obama was hanging out in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday and he said a very curious thing. "We can't keep borrowing from China. We have to pay interest on that debt...
OBAMA STEERS GRADS ASTRAY
The screenwriter William Goldman once said Hollywood films do one of two things: They tell us something we already knew, or something we want to believe is true. So it...
WE NEED A MODERN APOLLO PROGRAM
NASA is in a bit of trouble right now. You'd hardly know it. Right now, as you read this, seven astronauts are circling the Earth hundreds of miles over your...
ORION AND ARES -- THE FUTURE OF NASA
My astronaut colleagues on shuttle Atlantis have completed three of their planned spacewalks to repair and upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Their exacting, sky-high brain surgery on Hubble shows how...
'POMP' CULTURE
Graduation season is in full swing, with stars and power brokers from Dolly Parton to President Obama waxing philosophical in commencement speeches nationwide. The most controversial address of the season...
LOST IN SPACE
Across America, plans are being made to commemorate our nation's journey to the moon in July, 1969. There will be much reflection on Apollo 11, the Apollo program, what it...
HOLDS OFF DERBY WINNER 'BIRD'
BALTIMORE -- The super filly Rachel Alexandra came to Pimlico, she saw the colts, and she conquered them. Leading every step of the mile-and-three-sixteenths, the statuesque daughter of Medaglia d'Oro...
SUPERSTAR FILLY JOINS RACING'S IMMORTALS
BALTIMORE -- They have been calling her Alexandra the Great but today she has a spanking new name. Call her Alexandra the Greatest. Rachel Alexandra, the filly hyped to the...
RODRIGUEZ TEAMS WITH TEIXEIRA IN WALK-OFF WIN
They're a devastating duo that is back-to-back and can go back-to-back. And Alex Rodriguez knows it's not going to be easy for the opposition to escape.YANKEES BLOG Rodriguez is back...
THAT'S JUST HOW ALEX DREW IT UP
LOOK, let's face it, by the time spring training started, we all had grown weary of the drama encircling Alex Rodriguez, who seemed more a myth than a man, more...
TINO'S ADVICE HITS THE MARK
Tino Martinez supplied some advice to Mark Teixeira before Friday's game, urging the struggling newcomer to be more aggressive at the plate. Coincidence or not, Teixeira had two hits and...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... A.J. BURNETT
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Yankees right-hander who is in the first year of a five-year, $82.5 million contract.YANKEES BLOG Q: Did you think you were destined for...
VAC'S WHACKS
I am not one to normally buy into the whole idea of the New York hype machine, but I will say this: If Chipper Jones had played his career in...
SORRY, KNICKS, BUT LEBRON SHOULD NEVER LEAVE HOME
MAYBE this doesn't matter. Maybe it shouldn't matter. In sports, there's no such thing as a guilty conscience if you're a fan, no such thing as feeling badly for coveting...
CONTENDERS HUNGER FOR FORMER 'YOUNG' WINNERS
LET'S hope Roger Clemens is the Punxsutawney Phil of baseball. He should see his shadow (of a doubt) remains strong and go back into hiding for at least another year....
WITH GRIFFIN A LONGSHOT, NETS WILL AIM FOR 'BEST AVAILABLE'
The coveted prize, Oklahoma power forward Blake Griffin, is out of the Nets' realistic reach, unless you consider a 0.90 chance -- nine ping pong balls in 1,000 -- realistic....
IF SPANISH POINT GUARD IS GONE, CURRY MAY BE KNICKS' TARGET
As the Knicks brace for their annual rite of passage -- Tuesday's Draft Lottery in Secaucus -- one sharpshooting guard prefers the Knicks don't get lucky with the ping-pong balls:...
THREE EX-RAVENS HELPING RYAN GET JETS' D READY FOR THE FIGHT
Rex Ryan snuck back to Baltimore one Sunday in March to watch his teenage son, Seth, run a 5K. This was days after the new Jets coach had lured former...
CHILLIN' WITH QUIZMISTRESS ALEXI PANOS
ALEXI Panos -- humanitarian . . . activist . . . entrepreneur . . . model . . . actress . . . author . . . one-time singer ....
GREAT PLAYOFF MOMENTS GOING UNSEEN BY MOST
SO, WHEN Alex Ovechkin went down and Sidney Crosby went the other way to score on the breakaway that sealed the confrontation between the headline acts who drove each other...
ORIGINAL SIX DUEL TO DETERMINE FASTEST GUN IN WEST
DETROIT -- The defending Stanley Cup champion Red Wings are going from a playoff-tested, big and feisty opponent to a team in the playoffs for the first time since 2002...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Nadal, Federer to meet again In Madrid, Roger Federer will face Rafael Nadal for a championship. On clay. In Spain. The two rivals set up their first clash since...
METS' PROSPECT THOLE TAKING ADVANTAGE
AT THE start of the 2008 season, Josh Thole was an after thought in the Mets farm system. Baseball America rated at least four of the organization's catchers ahead of...
SYBASE SET UP FOR BIG FINISH
After three straight Sybase Classic wins, Lorena Ochoa's dominance appears over, buried deep in the pack. And with today's round promising a rousing, dramatic finale, Americans Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie...
A-HUNTING FOR SHORT GAME WIE WILL GO
THE task will not be an easy one. Michelle Wie is three strokes off the lead with 18 holes to play in today's Sybase Classic at Upper Montclair Country Club....
'SMOOTH' ENDING IN SHUVEE
Favored Seattle Smooth angled outside in midstretch and ran down Color Me Up to win the 34th running of the Shuvee Handicap by three-quarters of a length. Sea Chanter, who...
HONDO SWEEPS!!
Welcome to Baseball Broomtown! Hondo whisked his way to a sweep yesterday with the Brewers and Cubs, which, along with his mini-setback with Friesan Fire in the Preakness, boosted the...
FIELD FOR INDY FILLS OUT
INDIANAPOLIS -- Robert Doornbos shook off two crashes in practice last week and led the third of four rounds of time trials yesterday for the Indianapolis 500 as the final...
NO NEED TO PANIC . . . JOBA, MO LOOK STRONG
When last we saw Mariano Rivera in The Bronx, there was a four-alarm panic issued. The greatest closer on the planet had surrendered back-to-back home runs for the first time...
LOSING JOCKS SPEAK OUT
BALTIMORE -- Here's what some of the losing jockeys had to say about yesterday's 134th running of the Preakness Stakes: Mike Smith (2nd, Mine That Bird): "He's a tough little...
SLIGHTLY OFF, SANTANA FINALLY GETS SUPPORT
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a good thing the Mets finally scored some runs for Johan Santana yesterday. METS BLOG Santana ended up needing every one of them. Proving he isn't...
DELGADO TO DL; MAY BE LENGTHY
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a long-expected move, the Mets finally put Carlos Delgado on the disabled list yesterday with an impingement in his right hip. METS BLOG Delgado returned to...
REYES SITS WITH SORE CALF
SAN FRANCISCO -- Jose Reyes was out of the lineup for the third game in a row yesterday because of continued soreness in his right calf. Alex Cora replaced Reyes...
RUNNING OUT OF LUCK IN THE END
Gary Stute, 52, trains Ar kansas Derby winner Papa Clem, who finished sixth, nearly eight lengths back of winner Rachel Alexandra in yesterday's Preakness Stakes after taking a solid fourth...
PHELPS NOT 'BACK' ON TOP
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Aaron Peirsol, the world-record holder and two-time Olympic champion handed Michael Phelps his first defeat in almost a year, winning the 100-meter backstroke at the Charlotte UltraSwim...
SHUG'S PARADING WINS GRADE 1 DIXIE
BALTIMORE -- New York may not have had a representative in the Preakness Stakes, but it had the next best thing: a powerful winner of the big undercard event, the...
'BIRD' FALLS SHORT IN BID FOR SECOND CROWN LEG
BALTIMORE -- A few minutes after jockey Mike Smith dismounted Mine That Bird, trainer Chip Woolley balanced himself on his crutches and gave the Hall of Fame rider a big...
DOC SCOFFS AT EWING'S GUARANTEE
BOSTON -- By the time the Knicks were good enough to brag about it in the mid-1990s, Patrick Ewing took on the role of amateur prognosticator. KNICKS BLOGEWING LEFT OFF...
WOLYNIEC TIES UP DYNAMO
The Red Bulls' rousing, shorthanded comeback turned controversial when their coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, implied that MLS justice is applied ethnically unequally. Late sub John Wolyniec rescued a 1-1 tie...
B.J. LIFTS GARZA, RAYS 'UP' AND OVER INDIANS
B.J. Upton homered for the second consecutive day, Matt Garza pitched six effective innings and the Rays beat the Indians 4-2 yesterday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hours after he completed...
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME PLATE
* They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but Phil Mushnick's column last week [Equal Time: "Angels of Harlem," The Post and nypost.com, May 10] has been worth...
AFTER WINNING GOAL, ONE CRUCIAL SHOT NOT TAKEN
THERE are can't-make-this- stuff-up moments in live TV event coverage, Doozies. A sampler: The 1992 Indianapolis 500 was won by Al Unser Jr. by .043 of a second, its closest...
MAZZEI MADE COSMOS THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN
IF I could have brought you on a sportswriter trip with me, the one we would have taken was my first: Covering the Warner Communications-owned New York Cosmos of the...
GIVE DEC A 'GROUND OF APPLAUSE
NEW YORK has found a way to keep six campgrounds opened that originally were slated to be closed this season because of budget cuts. Working with local governments, the Department...
ORANGE CRUSH TERRAPINS
It has been a red-letter spring for the Orange. The Syracuse hoopsters had a mad March, highlighted by a six-overtime Garden win over Connecticut in the Big East Tournament and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island * Dwaine Johnson of The Bronx tried to pass himself off as Philip Zmigdrodski of Tottenville at a Chase bank branch, police said. Even with a fraudulent driver's...
COST OF FLYING CHEAP
Aviation safety consultant Capt. Steve Cowell has more than 17,000 hours in the cockpit. He's flown the Bombardier Q400, the same model involved in Febru ary's crash in Buffalo. Could...
JACKO 'HAS SKIN CANCER'
Michael Jackson is fighting skin cancer, but has vowed not to let it stop a massive set of comeback gigs planned for this summer, it was reported yesterday. The pop...
SLAY RAP ON 'ROAD RAGE' LI MOTORIST
A panicked driver accused of killing a livid foe in a horrific road-rage incident was slapped with a manslaughter charge yesterday. "I'll see you guys when I get out," a...
CHEAP DEALS UNFAIR REWARD FOR BAD 'DEED'
SOME think turning over buildings to squatters is a milestone in the redistribution of property. It allows relatively poor people to own and enjoy what formerly belonged to the greedy...
NYPD HERO'S RELIC ON EBAY
A solid-gold NYPD Medal of Honor -- crafted by Tiffany jewelers and handed to a cop 58 years ago for nabbing a gunman on the Upper West Side -- has...
DUO DOUBLE-PAY TO STAY AWAY FROM COLGAN
Colgan Air is putting the fear back in flying. Two Queens passengers said yesterday they were so scared to fly on the jinxed commuter airline, they shelled out double the...
'HOME' SHOPPER
Ruth built it. Rudy's buying it. The high-priced sale of Yankee Stadium memorabilia is a hit with former mayor and lifelong fan Rudy Giuliani, who is planning to grab grass,...
THIEF CAN'T HIT ESCAPE KEY IN BX.
A brazen thief snatched a laptop from a US marshal in a Bronx park yesterday and dodged a bullet when the marshal shot at him -- only to be caught...
O'S GOOOOAL!-DEN MOMENT
Hail to the soccer-dad-in-chief! President Obama looked just like any other suburban dad yesterday as he exploded in jubilation when 7-year-old daughter Sasha's soccer team scored a goal at a...
PREGNANT AT . . . 66!
A wealthy, 66-year-old divorcée has defied her age -- and Mother Nature -- by becoming the oldest woman in Britain ever to get pregnant, setting off a storm of controversy...
HOW MADONNA FOUND HER JESUS
She's always liked them hot, young and Latin, but Madonna's latest boy toy has another special charm -- he was a Kabbalist before they even met. PHOTOS: MADONNA Jesus Luz,...
DIGGING DEEPER
WHEN Berkshire Hathaway shareholders descended on Omaha earlier this month for their annual meeting -- the value investor's equivalent of a pilgrimage to Mecca -- one of the hottest topics...
SPACE INVADERS PAY DIDDLY SQUAT
Sometimes crime does pay. Nearly 30 years after an eclectic group of poets, performers, anarchists and artists illegally occupied a burned-out East Village tenement, they've officially become a Manhattan co-op....
MATTRESS WIDOWER BACKS SON
The millionaire mattress mogul whose estranged wife was beaten to death, allegedly by their 38-year- old son, rushed to his defense yesterday, calling him "a good human being." A visibly...
GET MORTGAGE HOLDER HELP!
Dear John: Please don't put this letter in the trash bin. Sometimes I think life is not worth living. Can I write to the president to ask him about the...
18 'SWINE' SCHOOLS ON UFT WATCH LIST
Eighteen schools must be monitored by city officials to see whether they should be closed due to the new swine-flu outbreak, teachers-union officials said yesterday. All the schools had unusually...
MIKE TAPS NEW HEALTH CHIEF
Mayor Bloomberg has picked a new city Health commissioner, sources told The Post last night. Hizzoner will announce tomorrow that Dr. Thomas Farley, of Tulane University, will succeed the outgoing...
SEIDMAN WAS A MAN TO BANK ON
THE financial world lost its most youthful and optimistic octogenarian this week when former FDIC Chairman Bill Seidman passed away at the age of 88. With his death, the world...
TWU WANTS $TIMULUS, TOO
Forget banks and Wall Street bigwigs -- the city's transit workers deserve bailout money, too, says the head of the Transport Workers Union. In a letter sent to the MTA...
90 YEARS IN SAME APT.
When 12-year-old Elsa Barnouw first moved into her Morningside Heights apartment, Woodrow Wilson was president, World War I was barely over and Tammany Hall man John Hylan was mayor of...
ROCK GOD TACKLES THE RECESSION
It's hard to tell what excites former Guns 'n' Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan more -- rock 'n' roll, or high finance. McKagan, who holds a finance degree from...
BANKER CRIES FOR HIS $2M
A banker laid off after Barclays took over bankrupt Lehman Brothers last year is going to court to "clawback" his bonus. Wayne Judkins, 42, who earned $200,000 a year, claims...
CHINA GROWTH: NO MIRACLE
Be careful about investing your hard-earned dollars in the latest Chinese five-year economic miracle. One should not confuse China's latest economic growth -- retail sales up 14.8 percent, industrial production...
DILLARD FAMILY SPLIT OVER POOR PERFORMANCE
The Dillard family could use a session with Dr. Phil. The Arkansas-based family -- which controls the struggling Dillard's chain of more than 300 department stores -- has produced underwhelming...
32,000 GOT PAY BOOST DURING GOV'S 'FREEZE'
Gov. Paterson's freeze on hiring and promotions in the midst of the state fiscal crisis did not stop some 32,000 state workers from getting raises, The Post has learned. The...
HIRED CONSULTANTS: INVEST IN . . . US
A consulting firm hired by the New York City Employee Retirement System is supposed to provide unbiased advice on where to invest pension-fund money, and it recommends itself -- despite...
SEX-HARASS CASE COSTS CITY 22G
THE city has quietly paid $22,000 to settle an other lawsuit alleging sexual harassment at the Department for the Aging against former Commissioner Edwin Mendez-Santiago. Ana Valdez, a $39,232-a- year...
DOLLAR DOOM
Economist Nouriel Roubini came out last week with a party line. The New York University professor agreed with Chinese central bankers' assertion that the dollar should not be the world's...
CITY IS FACING PAYOUT DOOM
The city faces potentially catastrophic costs of up to $43 billion from recent pension investment losses, which threaten to drain the municipal budget and put taxpayers on the hook for...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Pigs don't fly in Texas -- but hunters can. The state legislature's lower house has passed a bill to let airborne marksmen shoot wild oinkers. Rep. Sid Miller said more...
ADOPT ME
Sparky is a 6-year-old neutered Lhasa Apso mix who's looking for a quiet home. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of New York, 306...
POWER OF SHEEP
DEAR DR. FOX: I have two pet sheep about 8 months old. One of them is blind and about 14 pounds smaller than the other. The normal one has started...
LAY DOWN THE PAW
The trend of deluxe mattresses providing full-body support has officially gone to the dogs. People are no longer the sole target for manufacturers offering high-end beds with features like memory...
GLAM AND CHEESE
Once a little known indulgence, Burrata, a super-soft, velvety cheese fashioned with heavy cream and mozzarella, is suddenly the star of appetizers, entrees and desserts citywide. And it's certainly deserving:...
KITCHEN COUTURE
Like any woman with a taste for fashion, I'll often base an entire outfit around a single pair of shoes. But it's rare that I choose something from my closet...
MEET MARKET
FORGET Mr. Miyagi. Barry, a 29-year-old health-care sales consultant, is a tae kwon do pro looking for a girl who's got brains, a great body and a passion for peanut...
POLAR OPPOSITE PALATES
He said: Irene arrived right on time and looked great -- straight, blond hair and cheekbones I could cut my steak with. She's an attractive girl, but that's pretty much...
THE CHECK LIST
* VIEW THIS: Starting Friday, Morrison Hotel Gallery presents a "Still Moving," a photo exhibit featuring indie band My Morning Jacket. The six-year retrospective from photographer Sam Erickson features vivid...
AGENDA
WE'VE all been there: suffering through a soul-crushingly dull, crowded subway commute with nothing to read, a dead iPod battery -- and a sudden, irrepressible urge to laugh or scream...
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
IT'S no surprise that Tori Amos would title her new CD, out Tuesday, "Abnormally Attracted to Sin." While not one to shock solely for shock's sake, Amos has always been...
MOTOR CITY MADNESS
After releasing 2004's "Encore," Eminem spent years in drugged-out -- then rehabbed -- suburban isolation. Now the Detroit rapper takes a Shady approach to 12 steps with Tuesday's Dr. Dre-produced...
DORKY GUYS GET THE DOLLS
SPECIAL effects are dazzling and all, but if you want true movie magic, take a look at the tricks Hollywood pulls off in romantic comedies. There, guys who would normally...
WHO'S AFRAID OF CHRISTIAN BALE?
"AM I GOING to walk around and rip your f - - king lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the f - - k are you...
THE BARK KNIGHT
It's always gonna be a mind-scrambler," says "Terminastor Salvation" director Joseph "McG" McGinty Nichol. "John Connor must send Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother and ultimately [become...
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ART
As if there wasn't enough chaos in Washington, DC, already. This Friday, all hell (of the nonlegislative variety) breaks loose in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," the...
THE BAD OLD DAYS
THE Russians are coming! The Rus sians are coming! Five Russian films -- new and rela tively old -- will unreel Thursday through next Sunday at the Anthology Film Archives....
MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
WHEN the 53rd US Championship tour nament ends today in St. Louis, it will be remembered for its remarkable series of upsets of grandmasters by up-and-coming players. The surprises began...
BRIDGE
"SURE, there are dishonest men in local politics. But there are dishonest men in national politics, too." -- attributed, perhaps spuriously, to Richard Nixon. Bridge has deceitful players at all...
ANGEL VS. DEVIL
WILL THE NEXT "American Idol" be bold, brassy and wicked? Or the angelic dark horse? That's the tantalizing choice this week as America's favorite show heads into its eighth-season finale,...
10 SUMMER SHOWS YOU MUST WATCH
The summer TV season used to be no big deal, until the premiere of "The Closer" on TNT. When the Kyra Sedgwick mystery series attracted audiences that rivaled network shows,...
REEL GOOD
THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961), Wednesday, 1 a.m., TCM John Frankenheimer's message movie is a sort of "West Side Story" without the singing and dancing juvenile delinquents. Burt Lancaster is an...
PRIMETIME
So where is the outrage? Better asked, where in hell is the outrage? Among the fiercest competitions in TV, the last 20 years, is the battle to determine which American...
GLOBAL 'DANCE'
"So You Think You Can Dance" doesn't need gimmicks like a permanent new judge or a contestant "save" to shake things up for its fifth season. Watching people pull off...
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
The soundstage at Paramount Studios is hushed, expectant. They're about to film a key scene between two lead actors in a tiny wedding dress shop on the forthcoming Fox series...
DON'T MISS LIST
CARTOONTHE SIMPSONS, Sunday, 8 p.m., Fox Springfield border skirmish - When neighboring Ogdenville's economy crumbles -- due tainted barley in Krusty's veggie burgers -- the town's unemployed flock to Springfield...
"THE CONSERVATIVE TURN "
Whittaker Chambers and Lionel Trilling are not well known today. The ex-communist spy and literary critic respectively seem as remote from our existence as "I like Ike" banners and white-wall...
RBNY's Angel, Osorio rips refs as "stupid,'' and racially-biased; Johnson breaks foot
John Wolyniec saved the Red Bulls tonight, his 88th-minute equalizer salvaging a 1-1 tie. But after seeing Carlos Johnson suffer a broken foot on a play that didn't earn a...
Barcelona and Inter Win Domestic Titles
Barcelona won the Spanish league title on Saturday for the first time in three years, clinching the crown after Real Madrid lost 3-2 at Villarreal.Barcelona has 86 points with three...
Andre Ward Decisions Miranda
Andre Ward remains unbeaten with a victory over Edison Miranda.Andre Ward out-bullied the bully Saturday night, earning a unanimous decision over Edison Miranda at the Oracle Center in Oakland, Calif.,...
Mets continue to sizzle
SAN FRANCISCO -- Here is video I shot today of Johan Santana and David Wright discussing Santana's performance in the Mets' 9-6 win over the Giants, which put the Amazin's...