May 24, 2009
Shortstop now in disarray
BOSTON -- It looks like you might have to scratch that optimism from Jerry Manuel about Jose Reyes finally returning to the lineup Monday night. As a result, the Mets'...
HELIO CASTRONEVES WINS INDY 500
Helio Castroneves capped a perfect month of May with the biggest win of all, pulling away to capture his third Indianapolis 500 just 5 ½ weeks after being acquitted of...
NYC WOMAN DIES OF SWINE FLU
A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th. The woman, who was in her 50s, had other health conditions, Department...
RED SOX 12, METS 5
Kevin Youkilis hit a three-run homer two innings after his long foul ball was upheld by a replay review, Mike Lowell also had a three-run shot and the Boston Red...
PHILLIES 4, YANKEES 3
Carlos Ruiz hit a two-out RBI double in the 11th inning and the Philadelphia Phillies overcame another blown save by Brad Lidge to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 on...
SUSAN BOYLE SINGS AGAIN
Singing sensation Susan Boyle will have another week to make a magical "Memory!" The frumpy church volunteer and worldwide web hit advanced to the final of "Britain's Got Talent" by...
LEYRITZ SAYS ACCIDENT WASN'T HIS FAULT
Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz says he has sold off memorabilia because he's broke, halted charity work because he's become a social pariah and scattered case files throughout his house,...
Pitching set for Nationals series
BOSTON -- The pitching matchups are now set for the Mets' three-game series with the Nationals that opens Monday night at Citi Field as Jerry Manuel's club finally returns from...
ED ASNER Q&A
ED Asner is "dragging ass," as he puts it. On doctor's orders, he's been doing push-ups and hitting the elliptical machine, but exercise doesn't send him "out on wings of...
'UP' YOURS
It's been 14 years since Pixar released its first full-length feature, and the studio seems to be going through what parents might call "a phase." These are its teenage years,...
Red Bulls' Starting XI vs. Chicago
The Red Bulls lineup for today's tilt against Chicago is out, and there is one huge surprise. John Wolyniec, coming off back-to-back solid outings, has forced his way into the...
Church worse but Reyes better
BOSTON -- Jerry Manuel is predicting Jose Reyes will return to the lineup Monday night, but the Mets' manager isn't nearly as optimistic about Ryan Church. Manuel said before today's...
Klinsmann: Bayern Failed Thanks to 'Alpha Males'
ReutersAxed Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann has blamed the club's powerful chiefs and his former players for his failed 10-month stint at the German champions."I hit the limits with my...
Totti Ruins Maldini's Party; Lecce Relegated
At the San Siro, Roma won the game when Totti scored with four minutes left to play to leave Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti's future still in the air with the...
Agent confirms Jones' arrival Weds.
Thomas Jones' agent confirmed yesterday that the running back will join Jets organized team activities on Wednesday.Drew Rosenhaus made the statement on his Twitter page in response to a query...
Game 43: Mets at Red Sox
BOSTON -- The Mets will go for their first-ever sweep at Fenway Park this afternoon when Tim Redding takes the mound against Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in the series...
Coverage in The Post
BOSTON -- They don't get much more improbable than the Mets' 3-2 comeback win over the Red Sox here Saturday night. You had the Mets fielding a Triple-A lineup, the...
K-Rod feeling 'much better'
(UPDATED) BOSTON -- Mets closer Frankie Rodriguez just spoke to reporters in the clubhouse this morning and said he feels much better after collapsing from back spasms here last Saturday...
UFC 98 Packs Plenty Of Punches
Machida, Hughes, Edgar score wins at UFC 98By GEORGE WILLISSome thoughts after venturing to Miami Mike's in Hanover, N.J., to watch UFCE 98 from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.â¢...
Bushes in this week's Post
This week's column is a notes piece on three prospects: Nick Evans, who hit a home run in his first game back with Double-A Binghamton Friday, Fernando Martinez, the Mets...
Bushes in this week's Post
This week's column is a notes piece on three prospects: Nick Evans, who hit a home run in his first game back with Double-A Binghamton Friday, Fernando Martinez, the Mets...
Maldini Retires After Storied Career
This Sunday marks the end of an era in Serie A.Twenty-four years after making his debut for AC Milan, left-back Paolo Maldini finally bids farewell to his adoring fans in...
Wolfsburg Wins German League Title
Wolfsburg won its first Bundesliga title on Saturday when it thrashed Werder Bremen 5-1 in the final round.Felix Magath's team finished the season with 69 points -- just two ahead...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners URSULA BURNS The new CEO at XEROX becomes first African-American woman to lead Fortune 500 firm. ROBERT KIDDER Named head of Chrysler Group once it emerges from Chapter 11...
TRACKING A TON OF GRIPES
"Dear morons in charge." That's how one infuriated straphanger began an online complaint to the MTA -- one of nearly 300 diatribes sent to the agency through its Web site...
STAN'S LAST-SECOND PLAN FULL OF HOLES
YUP, that was some exotic craft LeBron James docked in the slip by remote con trol from long distance to win Game 2. Yet, if the Cavaliers get bounced by...
PIANO LESSENS
The piano has been the center of many American homes for generations, not only a proclamation of a love of music but also often a statement about striving for success....
HOLOCAUST COUNT IS 'TOO LOW'
Five years of research into one of mankind's darkest episodes has convinced a French Catholic priest that the death toll in the Holocaust is far higher than the generally accepted...
NO NEW LEASE ON TRILLIONS IN DEBT
A trillion-dollar storm is gathering over the commercial real estate landscape that's threatening to add further pain to an already bruised US economy. At the center of the worries is...
RATING AGENCIES BRING BAD NEWS
IT would be a cruel irony indeed if Standard & Poor's and Moody's, the very same credit-rating agencies that aided and abetted the financial and housing bubbles with their grade...
STABBING AT FERRY TERMINAL
A man was stabbed at the South Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan late last night after getting into an argument earlier aboard a subway train over a girl, cops and...
'DRUMMED OUT' BY THE PIANO MAN
Billy Joel hasn't paid his bills for the longest time, alleges the Piano Man's former drummer and friend who is suing the rocker for what could be hundreds of thousands...
JORGE SHOULD BE CATCHING LESS, DHING MORE
A PROUD man, Jorge Posada has defiantly defended his turf -- or dirt. If you want to upset the veteran switch-hitter, try to engage him in a discussion about playing...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... DANICA PATRICK
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the lady speedster who will start on the inside of Row 4 in today's Indianapolis 500.PHOTOS: DANICA PATRICK Q: You have no doubt in...
DIXON LOOKS FOR INDY 500 REPEAT AGAINST TOUGH FIELD
Scott Dixon is attempting to become the sixth driver to win the Indianapolis 500 in consecutive years when the 93rd edition of the legendary race begins today at 1 p.m....
PHILLIPS REMINDING METS FANS WHY HE GOT THE BOOT AS GM
I THINK what ESPN is doing to Mets fans is a fascinating study in sporting social science, assuming it isn't a top-secret, government-backed exploration of just how far a man...
KORNHEISER'S DEPARTURE WON'T FIX BROKEN NETWORK
ITEM: Tony Kornheiser, after three seasons, out on ESPN's "Monday Night Football," Jon Gruden in. Kornheiser was never as bad as ESPN allowed him to be. No one on ESPN...
HOW TWEET IT ISN'T FOR FANS WHO WANT TRUTH
FANS never have had better access to athletes. You can find out what they had for breakfast or what they thought of their latest victory, but excuse me for not...
TODAY'S ATHLETES FIND PROBLEMS, OPPORTUNITY ON INTERNET
Derek Jeter has seen the look a thousand times. A person approaches him in public, cell phone camera in hand, and asks him to pose for a photo. He declines,...
THE RUMBLE
Signature moment Fans can reminisce with Seaver at an Amazin' fundraiser Fans can mingle with and collect autographs from Mets stars from the last five decades at The Mets Foundation...
RISING METS RELIEVER HITS 100 AT FENWAY
BOSTON-- It's a testament to Bobby Parnell's quiet, aw-shucks demeanor that the Mets' young reliever didn't even know he had reached 100 mph Friday until he got back to the...
MADNESS OF CAP-AND-TRADE
The adage that everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die is on display again as the House considers a massive 932-page climate-change bill, introduced by...
STABILIZED SILLINESS
The article "90 Years In Same Apt." (May 17) eloquently documents the problems and failure of rent control. How many other New Yorkers are paying rents that are far below...
BANANAS!
The Page Six cartoon on May 19 badly misses the point of Woody Allen's lawsuit, as did the defendant, American Apparel. The case was never about damage to Allen's reputation,...
TWO 'CIPS' OFF THE OLD BLOCK
It's lunchtime at Cipriani Downtown, on West Broadway, where two charmed young men sit shoulder to shoulder in custom-tailored suits, dining on tuna carpaccio and vanilla créme meringue cake. Maggio...
EX S. KOREA PREZ SUICIDE
SEOUL, South Korea -- Former President Roh Moo-hyun, hounded for weeks over a corruption scandal, jumped to his death in the mountains near his home yesterday, Korean authorities said. In...
PACHY'S PEDICURE
That's one pampered pachyderm! An Asian elephant named Boyu got a jumbo-sized pedicure yesterday, courtesy of his Ukrainian zoo handlers. Equipped with mechanical nail files and mini-sanders, Boyu's zookeepers methodically...
TEARS FOR CRASH FAMILY IN QNS.
Neighbors gathered yesterday to mourn a Jamaica, Queens, couple and two of their children, killed when their minivan crashed in North Carolina -- leaving three little boys orphaned. Wayne Hicks,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx * Police are searching for a young girl who disappeared from her Melrose home early Friday. Stephanie Bermudez, 11, was last seen near her apartment on East 148th...
BASIL'S HOME $WEET HOME
Basil Paterson enjoys a perk enjoyed by seemingly every prominent Harlem lawmaker -- a rent-stabilized apartment in Lenox Terrace. Despite being a partner at a multimillion-dollar law practice, the governor's...
BAM: WE'RE BROKE
President Obama has checked the accounting ledgers and come to a disturbing conclusion: The government is broke. "We are out of money," Obama said during a lengthy interview with C-SPAN...
HARVARD BOOTS NYER
A female Harvard senior who was a link between a campus drug dealer and the men who allegedly killed him in a botched robbery has been kicked off campus and...
B'KLYN HOSP: 74 BIRTHS IN 2 DAYS
Love must have been in the air nine months ago. An unexplained baby boom left nurses at a Brooklyn hospital swamped last week as they delivered a record 74 newborns...
NONPROFIT $$ DEBACLE COSTS WASH. HTS.
MORE than $1 million set aside by Con Ed to improve Washington Heights after the 1999 blackout is sitting unused a decade later because the group the city selected to...
JIHAD 'BAIT & SNITCH'
It wasn't quite 72 virgins, but it did the job. A slick FBI informant roped four Muslim converts into a horrific terror plot to blow up two Bronx synagogues and...
DOG STAYS BY ODOR OF THE COURT
The smelly dog stays -- the anchorwoman goes. A Housing Court judge has curbed Soledad O'Brien's attempt to evict a family from her swanky Chelsea co-op building because their mutt...
DE'TAT'CHED ATTITUDE
When the Dow is low, the "tramp stamp" has to go. Dermatologists across the city are reporting a boom in tattoo laser removals, as body-art fanatics fretting over their professional...
GRAD WANTS TO START INVESTING SMART
Dear John: My son started a business while in college and is looking to invest some of his earnings beyond the safest, lowest-yielding choices out there. Is there any type...
EX-INTERN DISHES ON JFK AFFAIR
Here's another scandal-scarred page to add to the tragic Kennedy family history -- a tell-all detailing a torrid love affair between a pretty White House intern and a young President...
TESTY 'TASTI' THUGS BEAT EAST SIDE YOGURT CLERK
A pair of gun-toting bandits ripped off an East Side yogurt store yesterday, pummeling the terrified clerk until he opened up the store's safe, police sources said. Rafy Torossiean, 20,...
'KILLER' BLOODLINE IN CSI SLAY
Doing time can sometimes run in the family. Gary McGurk, charged in the murder of NYPD criminologist Michelle Lee, is the son of a former member of the Irish Republican...
RUDY PUTS LI JERK IN HIS PLACE
Bring it on! Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn't blink yesterday when a surly passer-by threatened to knock his lights out as Rudy strolled with wife Judi in the Hamptons, challenging...
CITY HIT BY UNDERWATER HOMES
A fresh wave of home foreclosure pain is building in the Big Apple. Roughly 40,000 homes purchased in the last five years in New York City are now underwater --...
UNION SQ. HERO TAKES CARE OF BEES-NESS
Union Square yesterday looked more like Avenue Bee -- as a swarm of the little buzzers shocked passers-by and forced stores to shut their doors until a brave amateur beekeeper...
SUBWAY THIEF SMOKES BACON
Kevin Bacon wasn't footloose enough. The Hollywood star tried to chase down a thug who swiped his BlackBerry at a Seventh Avenue subway station Thursday, sources told The Post. The...
HEARTLESS THIEF PREYS ON THE ILL
Cops are hunting for a woman who ripped off patients in a string of robberies at Manhattan hospitals. The thief, who may be an employee, has been snatching wallets from...
IVF CLINICS SCRAMBLING
THE recession is hitting this country's fer tility clinics hard. Facing with a dwindling number of people able to afford the typical $15,000 price tag of in vitro fertilization, clinics...
JET CRASH KILLS LI AIR FORCE PILOT
An Air Force pilot from Long Island was killed during a training mission over the Mojave Desert, authorities said yesterday. Capt. Mark Graziano, 30, died instantly after his T-38A jet...
SCHOOLS' FLU COSTS BIG AID $$
Swine-flu school closures could shrink New York City's state aid. Since the outbreak began in April, 42 public schools and programs have closed for up to six days, meaning classes...
VULTURES' PLAY BOOK
Blackstone Group's Steve Schwarzman is sitting pretty this weekend. With the private-equity titan's surprise victory last week in gaining FDIC approval to purchase Florida's BankUnited -- along with Wilbur Ross,...
TOY VEY! AMERICAN GIRL DEBUTS JEWISH DOLL
Shalom, Dolly! * Popular toy maker American Girl will introduce its first Jewish doll at the end of this month -- a Lower East Side resident from 1914 -- and...
MTA SPEND SPREE 'RAISES' A RED FLAG
The MTA burned through $3.5 million in the past year to increase staffing and hand out raises in its headquarters at the same time it cried poverty and begged for...
RETIRE-READY COPS STAYING ON
It's NYPD Glue -- police officers sticking on the force longer than ever because of the shattered economy. The number of retirements plummeted by 43 percent, from 1,314 in 2007...
JUST CALL DAVID DADDY'S LI'L GOV
He's one of the most powerful men in New York politics, a titan of labor law whose firm represents 40 unions, millions of government workers and dozens of special interests....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
He doesn't mind feeding the IRS, but paying them is another matter. A Houston man who owed $49,000 in back taxes offered the agent auditing his restaurant a job. The...
SUPER FRIENDS
The headline "Filthy Rich Meet In Secret" (May 20) makes the meeting of several wealthy people, discussing their charitable contributions, sound like a shameful event. But the story makes it...
BUSH'S SUCCESS
We're finally recognizing the success of George Bush's foreign policy initiatives in the Mideast ("How Bush Doctrine Batters Islamists," Amir Tahari, PostOpinion, May 20). After years of Democratic and left-wing...
... AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Speaking of lawbreakers, ex-Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin finally faced the music last week. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Richard Sullivan hit the disgraced Queens pol with a 10-year prison term -- the...
ALBANY SLEAZE ...
Herbert Teitelbaum quit last week as executive director of the misnamed Public Integrity Commission, five days after Gov. Paterson sought a full makeover at the scandal-scarred panel. Terrific. That leaves...
REQUIRED READING
Just Doing My Job Stories of Service from World War II by Jonna Doolittle Hoppes (Santa Monica Press) The grand-daughter of war hero Gen. Jimmy Doolittle offers an oral history...
IN MY LIBRARY: KARL ROVE
Karl Rove is a busy man. "I'm up against a deadline writing my book," the former deputy chief of staff tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman. "If I had any scruples...
THE END OF OVEREATING
A middle-aged woman who weighs about 180 pounds sits at Chili's Bar & Grill in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, shoveling in a massive platter of Southwestern Eggrolls. Every time she downs...
SIDEWALKS
Who knew that sidewalks could inspire passionate debate? Ever since the first ones appeared in Turkey in 1990 B.C., they have paved the way for urban discord and political grandstanding....
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
"Singin" in the Rain" is a movie that's got legs, but in Cyd Charisse's case, the camera revealed too much. So much, in fact, that the film had to be...
PAUL NEWMAN: A LIFE
"The toughest role is playing Paul Newman," the 10-time Oscar nominee once told a reporter with his trademark self-deprecation. "My own personality is so vapid and bland, I have to...
LOON
It was something of a shock to his family and friends when Jack McLean enlisted in the Marines in 1966. "Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," he writes in...
GUTS
Unless you're an avid reader of late 20th-century niche magazines, chances are you've never heard of the writer Robert Nylen. Probably best known as the co-founder of Belief.net, an award-winning...
STEWART SEEKS FIRST MEMORIAL DAY WIN
Tony Stewart has team co-owner Gene Haas in town, teammate Ryan Newman on the pole and both of his World of Outlaws drivers racing at a nearby dirt track. No...
SANTOS' VIDEO-REVIEWED HR BEATS PAPELBON, SOX
BOSTON -- If you thought the Mets' win here Friday night defied explanation, this one somehow topped it. Fielding what resembled a Triple-A lineup because of numerous injuries and down...
LAMORIELLO SHOULD LET DEVILS COACH OUT OF HIS CONTRACT
BRENT Sutter sure sounds like a man whose heart is in Red Deer, whose life is in Alberta and whose head couldn't be farther from Newark. Fair enough. But now...
TALKING TURKEYS
* Phil Mushnick is 100 percent correct on his assessment of Yankees broadcasters [Equal Time: "Voice for the Yank-ing," The Post and nypost.com, May 18]. New York fans do not...
STRUGGLING EVANS LANDS IN BINGHAMTON
IT WAS a year ago today that Nick Evans burst onto the scene. The Mets called him up from Double-A Binghamton on May 24, and he promptly hit three doubles...
NADAL EYES 5TH FRENCH OPEN TITLE
PARIS -- Rafael Nadal's most recent matches were a loss to Roger Federer and a four-hour struggle to beat Novak Djokovic, both on clay, so the French Open draw brought...
TIME FOR RED BULLS TO SHOW SOME FIRE
The Red Bulls need today's game against Chicago for a myriad of reasons. To move on from Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup embarrassment. To climb out of the Eastern Conference cellar....
HONDO: HELLO, HALOS!
Looper might want to think about becoming a caddie after carrying the Brewers and Hondo to a defeat that caused the wad to shrink to 435 belinskys. Today, he expects...
BELMONT CONTENDERS GET SOME WORK DONE
With the 141st Belmont Stakes just two weeks away, three contenders -- Charitable Man, Summer Bird and Dunkirk -- worked out yesterday morning at Belmont Park. Charitable Man, who figures...
SABBATINI, MALLINGER IN CHARGE
Rory Sabbatini and John Mallinger are set to play another round together as leaders at the Byron Nelson Championship. The second-round co-leaders shot 5-under 65s yesterday to share the lead...
GIAMBI RIPS 400TH HR, BUT A'S FALL IN 11
In Oakland, Stephen Drew singled in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th inning and the Diamondbacks won their season-high fourth straight game, beating the Athletics 8-7 last...
K-ROD COLLAPSES WITH BAD BACK
BOSTON -- Chaos reigned in the Fenway Park hallway outside the Mets' clubhouse late last night after closer Francisco Rodriguez apparently collapsed because of severe back spasms. METS BLOG Rodriguez,...
REDEMPTION FOR ERROR-PRONE MARTINEZ
BOSTON -- As much as he didn't want to, manager Jerry Manuel was forced to start Ramon Martinez again at shortstop last night. METS BLOG With Jose Reyes still sidelined...
EVERYONE'S HAVING A BLAST AT NEW STADIUM
THREE fewer homers were hit in the second Phillies- Yankees game than the opener. And yet the four long balls launched yesterday were more informative about just what a pinball...
CLOSER FAR FROM PERFECT
Last year, Brad Lidge was perfect. This season, the Phillies' closer has been perfectly awful, and yesterday, that worked out well for the Yankees. And it could wind up being...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Steelers LB's son OK after dog attack The agent of Steelers linebacker James Harrison says the player's young son is "doing well" at a Pittsburgh hospital following an...
A-ROD SHOT, MELKY SLAP KEY RALLY IN 9TH
There still was life remaining -- that was the key. So what if the Yankees had been shut down for eight innings? They've proven time and time and again that...
A-ROD ROCKS TO SURVIVOR
Alex Rodriguez was just looking to survive. He ultimately hit a game-tying, two-run homer to set the stage for Melky Cabrera's game-winning single, but Rodriguez swore he had "Survivor" over...
MAGIC LOOK TO REBOUND AFTER LEBRON'S BUZZER-BEATER
ORLANDO, Fla. -- As if once wasn't enough, the Magic were forced to watch LeBron James' amazing buzzer-beater all day yesterday. The Magic were witnesses all right. Again. And again....
YIP, YIP, HOORAY FOR PELFREY
BOSTON -- If the Mets make the postseason by one game this year, this will be the night to remember. All because of a pitcher who had the "yips" his...
MALKIN, PENS ROUT HURRICANES
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Penguins are tough enough to handle when one of their young stars is playing his best. When both are clicking, they're nearly unbeatable. Evgeni Malkin had...
FISHING WEEK BOON FOR ANGLERS
I DON'T have to tell you how many places in this coun try offer you great fishing and how easy it is to take part in this great sport, but...
KOBE'S BIG SHOT SPARKS L.A. WIN
DENVER -- Trevor Ariza's clutch steals are punching a dagger in Denver's season just as much as Kobe Bryant's big baskets. For the second time in three games, Ariza stole...
SYRACUSE RETURNS TO TITLE GAME
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Defending champion Syracuse is back in the NCAA lacrosse title game. The second-seeded Orange defeated third-seeded Duke, 17-7, in a Division I semifinal yesterday. Syracuse (15-2) is...
MISREADING THE SIGNS
As I was doing my daily affirmations, earnestly repeating "I deserve love" while gazing at myself in the bathroom mirror, the phone rang. The name of the handsome actor I'd...
BLACK-BELT BUDDIES
WHAT happens when you set up two karate kids on a blind date? Well, they didn't duke it out, but it definitely wasn't love at first fight, either. Over dinner...
MEET MARKET
Still working on your six-pack? Then Erin's your girl! This 24-year-old makeup artist from Harlem is looking for a goofy guy with a bit of a belly. Beer drinkers, this...
OUT EAST ON A LIMB
MUCH the way a bad economy has devastated small towns across America, the Hamptons, too, will see relative hardships as the first recessionary summer rolls around. Billionaires have been reduced...
BLUE BLOGS
The Queen Bee: Name: Rachelle Hruska Age: 26 Blog: GuestOfAGuest.com Originally from: Nebraska Now lives in: NoLIta Background: Rachelle started Guest of a Guest two years ago as a side...
BATTLE OF THE BOX
If there's anything the Wii should be great at, it's boxing games. Just look at the controllers: one in each hand, perfect for bopping a virtual palooka. But instead of...
AGENDA
* DO THIS: Get your morning zen on in Riverside Park tomorrow with a relaxing and meditative 9 a.m. yoga class. The free summer series, which will take place Monday,...
Q & A WITTH ALLISON
IF we could invite our favorite fictional characters to a dinner party, office-subterfuge mastermind Violet Newstead and press secretary C.J. Cregg would be near the top of the guest list....
A HAZY SHADE OF SISTERHOOD
NEW attitudes, children and solo careers have helped keep the Bangles together since the '80s pop act reunited in 1999. Oh, and they have rules. For one, Vicki Peterson doesn't...
RYAN'S SONG
FOR MANDY MOORE and Ryan Adams, opposites not only attract -- they agree. At least when it comes to her music. When asked which song on her new album, "Amanda...
A SPIRITED SUMMER
My favorite spot in a liquor store is the place nobody else goes -- the dusty shelf. Whether or not the bottles are actually coated with a thin film of...
ADOPT ME
Yossi is a 4-year-old friendly and patient cat who likes to lie down in lit areas. He'd make a great only cat. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m....
IMPURFECT SIGHT
Blindness is not all that uncommon among cats, especially as they age. But since cats have super senses of smell and hearing, and because they are acutely aware of every...
BIRDS IN PARADISE
Love them or hate them, rock doves are surely New York's unofficial feathered mascot. To honor them on National Pigeon Day (June 13), the New York Bird Club and United...
CRUNCHTIME CHAMP
CHAMPIONS win when they have to win, as masters have shown since the days of Emanuel Lasker. The lesson was reinforced last week when Hikaru Nakamura of White Plains captured...
BRIDGE
SUPPOSE you're today's North, and South opens one diamond. What is your response? In a team-of-four match, North at one table bid one heart. South tried one spade, North took...
THE DAD FROM HELL
JEAN-Pierre and Luc Dar denne, the 50-something Belgian brothers whose screen portraits of life's losers have made them critics' darlings, are get ting a complete retrospective at Lincoln Center. The...
Santos talks clutch homer
BOSTON -- Here is video I shot late Saturday night of Mets catcher Omir Santos discussing his game-winning two run homer in the ninth inning off Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon....
REEL GOOD
STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE (1997), Sunday. 8 p.m., MTV For "Star Wars" fans and addicts, this is the re-edited version of the 1997 blockbuster in which Luke...
PRIMETIME
If there was ever a time for TV executives to consider the veracity of the advertising they accept before accepting the dough to air them -- a time for execs...
ALL FALL DOWN
Once upon a time, TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" was a sweet little reality show about a man, his wife, and their encounters with fertility drugs that yielded eight...
MOMS WEIGH IN
Mothers are big fans of "Jon & Kate Plus 8." Watching the Gosselins balance their various responsibilities while caring for 8 children lightens the burdens of almost any exhausted parent....
'PHRASE'-WORTHY
Television history is replete with lines of dialogue made famous by characters who live on in memory: Ralph Kramden; Ricky Ricardo; The Church Lady and more. When heard years after...
DON'T MISS LIST
MADE-FOR-TV MANEATER, Saturday and May 31, 9 p.m., Lifetime 'Maneater' on the hunt - "The Starter Wife" may have run its course, but fans of the series -- and author...
K-Rod collapses from spasms
(UPDATED 2.0) BOSTON -- Chaos reigned in the Fenway Park hallway outside the Mets' clubhouse late Saturday night after closer Frankie Rodriguez suddenly collapsed due to apparent back spasms. Rodriguez,...
UNION SQUARE HERO TAKES CARE OF BEES-NESS
Buzz off! Union Square looked more like Avenue Bee yesterday as a swirling swarm of the insects shocked passers-by and forced stores to shutter until a brave amateur beekeeper came...
GENERAL RAY ODIERNO WAS RIGHT ABOUT IRAQ
This Memorial Day Weekend, between the hotdogs and the potato salad, pause to remember the immense sacrifices those in uniform made to defend our freedom.HOW THE MILITARY IS PLANNING FOR...