June 14, 2009
So exactly who is Jermaine Jones?
So, exactly who is Jermaine Jones, soon to be the newest edition to the U.S. National Team?The 27-year-old Schalke standout is one of the best midfielders in the Bundesliga, shockingly...
18-YEAR OLD ARRESTED FOR SERIAL CAT MURDERS
A teenager faces charges in a gruesome string of cat mutilations and killings that have horrified his neighbors and shaken animal lovers in two South Florida communities. Tyler Hayes Weinman,...
PHILLIES TOP BECKETT, RED SOX, 11-6
Jimmy Rollins homered as part of a six-run seventh inning to help the Philadelphia Phillies bust the game open late, avoid a three-game sweep and beat the Boston Red Sox...
FAA: AT LEAST 2 DEAD IN SMALL PLANE CRASH IN NY
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a small plane has crashed into New York's Mohawk River with three people aboard, and at least two have died. FAA spokesman Jim Peters...
SNAKE TERRIFIES BRONX TEEN
A South Bronx teen today came face-to-fang with a 3-foot boa that slithered uninvited into the youngster's home - a jarring confrontation that had the whole family in a panic....
Mayweather Injured; Comeback Postponed
Floyd Mayweather suffers injury. July 18 fight vs. Juan Manuel Marquez is postponed. ReleaseLAS VEGAS (June 14, 2009) - The highly anticipated July 18 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan...
CIA HEAD SAYS CHENEY ALMOST WISHING US BE ATTACKED
CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in...
OCD Archives: Where Was That 'Purple Rose' Theater?
A charticle in today's Pulse about locations for Woody Allen's movies states the theater scenes in the beguiling "The Purple Rose of Cairo'' were filmed at the Kent Theatre in...
Stuff for a Sunday
Rehabbing Kazmir saves Mets headacheMention Scott Kazmir and any Mets fan will immediately start shaking his head in disgust.In 2004 the Amazin's top prospect was dealt to the Rays for...
COOL ICE CREAM SANDWICHES
Carvel's Flying Saucer and the chewy Chipwich better watch their stacks. Local pastry chefs are heating up the summer dessert scene by reinventing the cool but classic ice cream sandwich....
AHMADINEJAD BRUSHES OFF IRAN ELECTION VIOLENCE
Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities. Anti-riot police lashed...
NETANYAHU ENDORSES PALESTINIAN INDEPENDENCE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a Palestinian state beside Israel for the first time on Sunday, reversing himself under U.S. pressure, but saying the Palestinians would have to lay...
SIKHS CHALLENGE US ARMY'S BAN ON TURBANS, BEARDS
Military service is in Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi's blood. His father and grandfather were part of India's Air Force. His great-grandfather served in the army in India under the British....
Box Office: 'Pelham' Underperforms
The $25 million, third place opening of Sony's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'' is being called "solid to strong'' by studio-friendly Variety. Don't you believe it. This number...
Sheff status iffy after interleague
Gary Sheffield will continue to DH through Thursday, when the Mets complete an interleague series in Baltimore, but his status after that will be decided by the results of the...
K-Rod, Bruney separated in BP
(UPDATED) The Frankie Rodriguez-Brian Bruney feud is getting ugly. K-Rod and the Yankees' lippy reliever exchanged words -- in person this time -- during the Mets' batting practice this morning....
The Weekly Whacks
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******Well, at least the good thing about the days Chien-Ming Wang pitches is that there's...
Game 61: Mets at Yankees
(UPDATED 2.0) The Mets look to win the initial round of the Subway Series today when ace Johan Santana takes the mound against A.J. Burnett at new Yankee Stadium. Santana...
THE BIG HEDGE FUND TURNAROUND
Call them the comeback kids. After suffering humiliating -- and historic -- losses last year, hedge fund execs have changed their investment strategies to match these trying, recessionary times --...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners LARRY FINK BlackRock founder acquires Barclays Global to become world's No. 1 asset manager. MALCOLM GLAZER Billionaire sees his ManU soccer club pocket $131M to part ways with star...
QNS. TOT HURT IN HIT-RUN
A 2-year-old Queens girl who had wandered into the street with her 18-month-old cousin was struck by a hit-and-run driver, police said yesterday. Jaylein Peralta underwent reconstructive surgery to her...
OBAMA'S NEW HEALTH RX
President Obama yesterday outlined a $313 billion cost-cutting plan to slash the government's exploding health-care expenses by lowering reimbursements to hospitals and payments to pharmaceutical companies. In his weekly YouTube...
TIMING THE MARKET IS A FOOLISH VENTURE
Dear John: I am a long-time reader and agree with you 90 percent of the time. However, I've been out of most of my equities since last May and stayed...
SUIT: EX KEPT HIV SECRET
A Manhattan woman thought her lover was just a handsome heartbreaker who was two-timing her -- not putting her life at risk. It wasn't until Kelly Imperatore's stormy, nearly two-year...
IT'S A REAL BOOZY TIME FOR TELEVISION
Broadcast television appears to like the financial buzz it is starting to get from liquor advertising. This year, with network advertising revenue off about $250 million, or 4.2 percent, in...
REPAYING TARP IS NOT SO STRESS-FUL
Talk about the irony of grade inflation. After a financial crisis that was greatly aided and abetted by credit-rating agencies that slapped triple-A ratings on a wide swath of toxic...
PREPPING FOR THE WORSE
While the stock markets have recovered from their March lows and the credit crunch appears to be easing, predictions that another 2.4 million Americans may lose their jobs have many...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * A man was shot dead inside a Dyker Heights home last night, cops said. The victim, whose name and age weren't immediately released, was found with a single...
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE
You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has...
MICROSOFT'S 'DECISION ENGINE' DECIDEDLY RACY WITH VIDEOS
Bing better get ready for a ding. Microsoft's new search engine may run afoul of anti-porn and family-rights organization because it overrides pre-set parental controls and allows for easy viewing...
SIX FLAGS IN CH. 11 FILING
Six Flags, which operates 20 amusement parks in North America, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday in hopes of converting its massive $2.4 billion debt into equity. The company,...
US DEBT IS AT $1M PER FAMILY
A former official in the George H.W. Bush White House estimates that the bloated public and private debt in the US works out to $250,000 for every man, woman and...
WAXMAN'S BEAT
THERE'S life after the New York Times for Sharon Waxman, the one-time Hollywood beat reporter who raised more than $1 million to launch Thewrap.com in January. Last week, her site...
IN THIS GAME, ANYTHING POSSIBLE
IT'S on days like these when you want to hop on a Greyhound bus and go find Pete Rose in whatever Main Street card shop he happens to be hawking...
STILL HAUNTED, CASTILLO GETS RIGHT BACK AT IT
Roughly 12 hours after his Friday debacle, Luis Castillo said he still hadn't slept a wink. But just a few minutes after the Mets' bounce-back 6-2 win over the Yankees...
NIEVE LEADS WAY IN METS' BOUNCE-BACK WIN OVER YANKEES
Decades from now, Mets fans will not have deleted Luis Castillo from their Subway Series catalog of memories. When you blow a game to the Yankees in the ninth by...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... KEITH HERNANDEZ
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with SNY analyst and 1986 champion Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez: Q: The intangibles that your '86 Mets team had that this Mets team...
STAN'S COACHING LEAVING A STAIN ON FINALS
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The multi-dimensional Magic -- awfully deserving of a seven-game series decided at the buzzer for deposing the Celtics, postponing King James' coronation and turning Kobe into Derek...
JACKSON ON VERGE OF BECOMING FIRST TO 10
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The one for the other thumb can come here tonight for Phil Jackson. Jackson is tied with Red Auerbach for the all-time NBA high with nine coaching...
NEED HISTORIC RALLY TO FULFILL TITLE DREAMS
ORLANDO, Fla. -- History and logic say the Orlando Magic have as much chance of rallying and winning the NBA championship as Luis Castillo has of being voted "Man of...
TOP 10 CIVIL WARS AMONG CURRENT LOCAL COMBATANTS
LOOK, we can debate a lot of things about the Subway Series. If you are a Yankees fan you can argue, and with some merit, that the Red Sox games...
BEST & WORST OF FREE AGENT CLASS OF '09
MANNY Ramirez represents one of the most fascinating free-agent signings in major league history. Because you legitimately could argue it was either one heck of a decision by the Dodgers...
JOHNNY MILLER'S BIG SHOTS
Multiple major championship winner Johnny Miller, the irreverent color golf analyst for NBC Sports who will commentate on the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, provided The Post an exclusive breakdown...
THERE'S NO BETTER PLACE FOR FANTASTIC TIGER-MICK FINISH
FOR years, we have waited for this rivalry to explode, full-bore, bold-faced, all-caps, into a rivalry, one as worthy in practice as it is in promise. We have waited for...
PLENTY OF STORY LINES TO GO A ROUND (OR FOUR)
The masses will cram the grandstands and stand 10 deep outside the ropes to see Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson make their respective dramatic bids to win the U.S. Open...
MELTDOWNS ARE MAJOR KILLERS
It's inevitable at any major, especially the U.S. Open. With courses such as Bethpage Black set up to humble the world's greatest golfers: a bad shot, a bad bounce, a...
OPEN SHOULD BE GOLF'S ULTIMATE TORTURE TEST
Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, Wise men never try. -- from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's "Some Enchanted Evening," as performed in "South Pacific."...
THE RUMBLE
Lights, camera, Jackson It's Showtime for Lakers coach, girlfriend One of the highlights of the Lakers' Web site this season is "Jeanie Vision." Lakers executive Jeanie Buss, who is the...
JUNIOR HAPPY WITH NEW CREW CHIEF
It's been a long, eventful year since Dale Earnhardt Jr. last visited Victory Lane in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. When Junior squeezed the last drop of gas out of...
ALL NHL HAS TO DO IS FOLLOW ITS OWN RULES
I CAN'T tell you whether the Lighthouse Project conceived by Charles Wang is good for Long Island, but I can tell you the Islanders are good for Long Island, that...
SIDNEY'S SNUB RILES RED WINGS
DETROIT -- The Red Wings can accept that Pittsburgh won the Stanley Cup. Getting snubbed by Sidney Crosby is another matter. After watching Pittsburgh hoist the Cup on Detroit's ice,...
TROJANS' TAJ KEEPS DRAFT OPTIONS OPEN
Brooklyn's Taj Gibson went all the way across the country to USC not just to play basketball but to graduate from a school he fell in love with. And just...
RAMS CRUISE INTO TITLE GAME
Sal Lisanti may not be the top pitching prospect in the city, but the Fordham Prep senior certainly looked like it yesterday. The Bryant College-bound righthander was dominant in the...
HOMER RELIANCE MAY BURN YANKS
This new Stadium and the Yankees' lefty might means they are never out of a game. Nevertheless, that combination might be seducing the Yankees into: COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOGHARDBALL BLOGSHERMAN...
JOHAN GIVES METS EDGE IN FINALE
A.J. Burnett began his year well, and he's basically been dreadful since. Johan Santana began his year spectacularly, but even he's slumped a bit lately. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG Neither...
PETTITTE, RIVERA SHOW THEIR AGE
ANDY Pettitte and Mariano Rivera share memories and history. They were vital to four championships, and recently they set a record by combining on a win and a save in...
PHIL'S DOWN 10 SHOTS AT MEMPHIS
Phil Mickleson's putter remained balky in shooting a 2-under 68 yesterday, leaving him 10 strokes behind Brian Gay -- who can punch his ticket to Bethpage Black and the U.S....
METS NEED TO PLAY RIGHT WAY -- EVERY DAY
ALL the Mets' problems really come down to one thing: Respect the game. Do that and they have a fighting chance to succeed. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG The Mets may...
SHEFFIELD TOO MUCH FOR OLD MATES
Sore right knee and all, Gary Sheffield has been quite a handful for the Yankees over the last two days. Sheffield yesterday launched his second homer in as many games,...
DAMON SEES PROBLEM WITH CAFFEINE
Johnny Damon is trying to eliminate caffeine in an attempt to solve his eye problems, but he admitted to feeling a little lethargic yesterday and needing a late-game energy fix....
K-ROD, BRUNEY IN WAR OF WORDS
Francisco Rodriguez offered a stinging rebuke to the out-of-nowhere criticism from injured Yankees reliever Brian Bruney following the Mets' 6-2 win yesterday. COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOG K-Rod scoffed at Bruney,...
A-ROD TRIES POWERING OUT OF SLUMP
Alex Rodriguez was slumping in every way imaginable -- with runners in scoring position, home runs and overall production. But, yesterday, A-Rod finally got going again. "He's going to be...
NEVER NERVOUS, NIEVE DOES JOB
Fernando Nieve hadn't started a major league game since June 15, 2006 and was only on the mound yesterday because of John Maine's tired right shoulder. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: UConn coach injured in bike crash UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun was hospitalized yesterday after he collapsed following a 50-mile charity bicycle ride during which he fell and broke...
POSADA: NO ISSUE WITH JOBA
Multiple trips to the mound in the third inning Friday night by Jorge Posada added to Joba Chamberlain shaking off his catcher often and it appeared the catcher and pitcher...
RED BULLS' SKID HITS 5
TORONTO -- The Red Bulls lost their fifth straight game as Sam Cronin and Danny Dichio scored goals in the first half of Toronto FC's 2-1 victory last night. Albert...
HAMMON SINKS LIBERTY
SAN ANTONIO -- Becky Hammon scored 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter to rally the Silver Stars to a 63-60 victory over the Liberty last night. Sophia...
BOSOX POUND PHILLIES
Jason Bay and Jacoby Ellsbury homered, Julio Lugo had four hits, and the Red Sox overcame another shaky outing by Daisuke Matsuzaka to beat the Phillies 11-6 last night in...
HONDO'S DOUBLE SUNDAY
Hondo had to fork over some dead presidents again last night when he flopped with the Phillies to reduce the bankroll to 480 broglios. Today, he'll wing it with the...
CHAMP RETAINS TITLE AFTER SPLIT DECISION
Joshua Clottey had said weeks earlier he would respect Miguel Cotto regardless of who won their WBO welterweight title fight. Consider that respect to be mutual. In a back-and-forth blood...
MAKING UP FOR SOX FLOP
* As bad as things got in Boston, Friday night made it all worth while. Just hearing the hubris in Mets announcer Gary Cohen's voice turn to slush made me...
NEW FISHING LEGISLATION GETS IT RIGHT
CAN we rebuild our fish eries without putting the recreational fishing community in the poor house? Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) thinks we can. Schumer has introduced legislation in the Senate,...
ANALYSTS: HEATHCOTT A GAMBLE FOR YANKS
AFTER three days, about 15 hours and roughly 1,500 selec tions, this year's version of baseball's biggest mystery -- the First-Year Player Draft -- has come to an end. Now...
ADOPT ME
Dakota is a 1½-year-old, male, neutered, gray and white Lhasa Apso. He is very loving, friendly and social with everyone. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the...
LEG-LICKING LADY
DEAR DR. FOX: We have a 5-year-old calico cat we rescued from the local shelter shortly after birth. She's a lovable, happy cat, but has one bad habit we cannot...
N. KOREA TALKS TOUGHER VS. UN
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea reacted to new UN sanctions by vowing yesterday to step up its nuclear bomb-making program by enriching uranium and threatening war on any country...
HIRAM SOUGHT DEFENSE-FUND $$ FROM LOBBYIST
Turncoat Democrat Hiram Monserrate was accused of soliciting a donation to his legal defense fund from a lobbyist pushing for changes to a bill sponsored by the embattled Queens senator,...
QNS. MAN, 98, KILLED IN 'DWI'
A 98-year-old Citymeals-on-Wheels volunteer died in a head-on collision with a drunken driver barreling down the wrong side of the road, police said. Joseph Capatosto, a retired Navy Yard worker...
SUNNY GITMO GUYS
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- No hard feelings, America. That's the conciliatory message from the four Chinese Uighur men sprung from Guantanamo Bay after seven years of captivity Thursday and transferred to...
MADGE BABY BILL: $19 MIL
"Mercy" for the Material Girl came at a high price -- more than $19 million, according to British news reports. Madonna funneled millions into orphan-aid projects in poverty-stricken Malawi, where...
IRAN AMOK AFTER A'JAD'S 'VICTORY'
As chaos reigned in the wake of Friday's tainted Iranian election, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States refused to accept Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim to...
COUP'S ON FIRST AS TRAITORS HAVE BALL
The turncoats who threw a curveball at state Democrats by siding with Republicans in a heated battle for control in Albany took themselves out to the ballgame yesterday, laughing it...
RAGE OVER DAVE MATTHEWS FAN-CLUBBING
A die-hard Dave Matthews Band fan was dismayed when the group's ticket police wrongfully accused him of scalping a highly coveted ducat. Lorenzo Zinti, 27, was shocked when he received...
FEDS EYED JAIL IMAM IN W. HATE
The FBI sent a warning to cops about the city jail system's head chaplain, Umar Abdul-Jalil, after he blasted President George W. Bush and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in a...
GOV GIVES MIDTOWN SCHOOL LESSON
Gov. Paterson said last night that New York's focus on fixing the ailing economy must also be joined with an emphasis on education. "In these difficult economic times, we are...
FLT. 447'S FINAL RUDDER ALARM
RIO DE JANEIRO -- A burst of automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 before it crashed into the Atlantic includes one about concern over its rudder's safety device...
WEDDING CRASHERS
I dupe, I dupe! While political arguments rage, New York City has certified its first gay marriage -- of two men who fooled the City Clerk's Office into letting them...
GRISLY STABBING ON R PLATFORM
A man was stabbed in the neck at a busy Midtown subway station yesterday, cops said. The 35-year-old victim, whose name wasn't released, was knifed once at around 6:05 p.m....
COP GRID WIN FOR SLAIN HERO
The NYPD's football squad honored slain teammate Omar Edwards yesterday by winning the championship against rivals from Philadelphia. New York's Finest MVP Randy Litrell handed over his trophy to Edwards'...
SWIMMER TRAGEDY IN ROCKAWAY
The beachgoing season has gotten off to a tragic beginning in the notoriously treacherous waters off the Rockaways. A 35-year-old man was believed to have drowned yesterday after frantically trying...
FINAL DAYS OF DEVIANCE
On screen he amazed crowds with his masterful kung-fu moves. In death, he revealed his taste for kinky, dangerous sex. PHOTOS: Celebrities At David Carradine's Funeral But in life, David...
RAGE AT 'LAWLESS LIMOS'
The Port Authority has kicked to the curb a chauffeur service connected to rental-car company Avis -- but safety advocates and city limo drivers are hoping for more action. The...
SOTOMAYOR SKIPPING PR PARADE
Qué pasa, Senora? Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a hero to the city's "Nuyorican" population after her nomination to the Supreme Court by President Obama last month, won't be marching -- or...
OOPS! KIDS SEE 'SEX ED'
Debbie does grade school. An auditorium full of unsuspecting Brooklyn students -- some as young as 5 years old -- got a surprise lesson in reading, writing and raunchiness on...
HE DID MESS WITH THE MOHAN
It's revenge, tailor made. Suitmaker to the stars Mohan "Mike" Ramchandani, who has outfitted Derek Jeter, Walt Frazier, Patrick Ewing and Ed Koch, trained a young protégé to assist in...
TEFLON CHARTER PRINCIPAL'S 'CHEAT' SHEET
A BRONX charter school has a principal who has been accused of helping students cheat. According to a 1999 investigation, Evelyn Hey allegedly coached pupils on how to select the...
SAY 'HIGH' TO NEW APPLE LANDMARKS
Big multimillion-dollar makeovers are in the works for three major Big Apple icons. Plans for the Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall and the Fashion Institute of Technology are all...
LIRR MEN SLEEPING ON JOB - AND GETTING PAID
They get cash for catching Zzzz's! An arcane union rule allowed 34 Long Island Rail Road grease monkeys at a Queens maintenance shop to earn a total of $2.5 million...
TEHRAN'S RE-ELECTION FIXERS SCRIPT A 'LANDSLIDE' FOR HATE
THAT Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would win re-election was never in doubt. But the scale of the victory arranged for him has surprised even some of his friends. IRAN AMOK...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Thieves in one little Florida town have a thing for women's wear. A man was spotted stealing $2,000 worth of bras and panties from an Oviedo, Fla., Victoria's Secret, just...
TO FUR, WITH LOVE
ON an ordinary day, celebs, supermodels and socialites get their hair washed in the sinks of the swanky Mark Garrison Salon on the Upper East Side. But last week, Garrison's...
MEET MARKET
Steven is a reality TV junkie with small-screen ambitions. If Lauren Conrad is your idol, then this 26-year-old compensation consultant just might be your man! (Just no more "Speidis," please!)...
FLOWER POWER
Anthony knows that the way to a girl's heart involves heightening all her senses. The 27-year-old high school teacher overdosed on romance by bringing Claire, a 27-year-old makeup artist, pretty...
CRAZY, TASTY, COOL
THAT old familiar ice cream truck jingle often brings back fond memories of running down the block barefoot with a pocketful of change and an aching sweet tooth. While similar...
FLASH YOUR STACHE
With the exception of sideshow professionals, women have never flaunted mustaches. In fact, most ladies, present company included, rid themselves of lip fuzz, and have done so for centuries, whether...
HEART-FELT 'WIZ'
For her stage-musical debut as Dorothy in the City Center revival of "The Wiz," singer Ashanti has the benefit of veteran co-stars to work with and learn from. It's a...
WHY I DID IT
For far too long, Albany has ignored any calls for reform, preferring to take orders from one special interest after another. In fact, five years ago, the Brennan Center at...
AGENDA
* PLAY THIS: Wannabe guitar gods can test their shredding skills Tuesday with the release of "Guitar Hero Smash Hits." The game features more than 40 favorite songs from past...
THE SEVEN-YEAR FRIENDSHIP
When it comes to marriage, the seven-year-itch is many things: a truism, a cliché, an evolutionary adaptation, a joke. When it comes to friendship, however, it is very, very real....
BOB KERREY'S 'LONELY' BATTLE
It's three weeks after graduation, and embattled New School president Bob Kerrey sits alone in his massive office atop an empty university hall. Now that the tumultuous school year is...
LIFE INSIDE IN THE MEDIA BUBBLES
Wednesday I embarked on a frazzling all-day mission. Destination? My couch. I immersed myself in TV news channels that I don't normally watch and a couple of blogs I don't...
GOING BACK IN SLIME
It came. You saw. It kicked your ass. This month marks 25 years since "Ghostbusters" hit theaters, and the comedy classic is still causing mass hysteria of biblical proportions. The...
234, AND STILL KICKING BUTT
On June 14, 1775, Congress in Philadelphia authorized a new Continental Army to prosecute what had just become a shooting war with British regulars around Boston -- dispatching Gen. George...
SLAPPING A FRIEND
There he goes again. For the third time in less than five months, President Obama has shown the back of his hand to Great Britain -- America's loyal and long-standing...
MONKEY BUSINESS
I am a little shocked that you used the term "grease monkeys" to describe the train-car mechanics who made so much overtime ("This Guy Gets Paid 283G to Repair Trains,"...
ON BROOKLYN'S SIDE
Steve Cuozzo laments Frank Gehry's departure from the Atlantic Yards project while grossly misrepresenting Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn ('Net' Loss Is Devastating," June 6). His column tars us as "bullies,"...
'HIGH' LIFE
Mayor Bloomberg is leading the charge to make New York City the Green Apple ("It's 'High' Praise," June 10). With the opening of High Line Park, the city becomes an...
STAR CARTOONIST
I have been reading The Post for many years, and I look forward to every cartoon Michael Ramirez publishes. He is always right on target. Richard Ligarzewski, Bay Shore
STAR COLUMNIST
What a delightful surprise to see a column written by Charles Krauthammer ("How Fox News Opened America," PostOpinion, June 10). Here's hoping his column on Thursday is the start of...
'DINNER' & A MOVIE
"My Dinner with André," a feature-length conversation between actor/playwright Wallace Shawn and theater director André Gregory, became an indie film sensation back in 1981, inspiring a slew of imitators. By...
NEVER MIND THE BULLOCK
Spending three minutes watching the trailer for Sandra Bullock's romantic comedy "All About Steve," due out this fall, is not unlike time spent on the Weather Channel during twister season....
POISONED LOVE
When Melanie Cane's boyfriend Luke* dumped her in 1992, the former psychiatric medical resident laced the drinks in his fridge with a toxic drug, nearly killing him. Cane, now 47,...
THE ICE QUEEN MELTETH
There's this great rumor that during the time Kate Moss was dating Johnny Depp, he or one of his people advised Moss never to speak, never to give an interview...
REQUIRED READING
The Complete Game by Ron Darling (Knopf) Ex-Mets pitcher and current announcer Darling comes up a winner in his rookie writing effort. There's plenty to satisfy Met fans -- and...
REAGAN'S SECRET WAR
This is Ronald Reagan, as described by Mikhail Gorbachev's interpreter: "When you touch raw nerve, Reagan's flare will fill the room! . . . He is like lion! When lion...
METHLAND
When Reding decided to focus on the small town of Oelwein, Iowa, as the nexus of the meth epidemic for his new book, he couldn't have imagined the nightmares he'd...
EASTERN PROMISES
TIME again, dear read ers, for the New York Asian Film Fes tival, which has been growing by leaps and bounds since it started in 2002. This year's edition features...
BRIDGE
"BREATHES there a man so free from greedWho has never felt the needWhen in a phone booth to exploreThe coin-return slot just once more." It costs nothing to fumble for...
PUBLISH & CHERISH
WHEN established pub lishers release new chess books, the subjects of the works usually have widespread appeal, like a beginner's manual on how to move the pieces. But as more...
IN MY LIBRARY: GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Never mind a library -- Guillermo del Toro has an entire building for his books, comics, props and toys. He calls it his "mancave." "It's five blocks from my family...
DOWN AROUND MIDNIGHT
In 1979, Robert Sabbag was flying from New York to Cape Cod on Air New England flight 248 and, like all stories that begin with a flight number, you know...
CRAZY FOR THE STORM
Norman Ollestad was blessed -- or was it cursed? -- with a mystical, wacky, 1970s childhood among the stoner surfers and laid back hippies of Southern California. As a youth,...
Coverage in The Post
The injury-depleted Mets have been resilient all season, and Saturday was no exception as they put Friday night's Luis Castillo debacle behind them with a 6-2 Subway Series throttling at...
'TRUE' LOVE
Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton may be TV's hottest - and - only paranormal couple. The first season of "True Blood" drew viewers into their strange world: Bon Temps, Louisiana,...
WHEN 'LOVE' CROSSES THE LINE
Last season, "True Blood" fans got an eyeful of stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer repeatedly getting it on as skittish mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire lover Bill...
REEL GOOD
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (2003), Sunday, 4:30 p.m., WE Diane Laneâs glowing performance is the best thing about this trite romantic drama, in which an unhappy divorcee finds her bliss...
PRIMETIME
It figures. The most alarming on-going story in the nation's history is mostly being ignored or terribly understated by TV newscasts. Daily newspapers, the primary, most-aggressive and most-reliable source of...
OUT OF 'AFRICA'
Just three episodes into "Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone" and the explorers are clearly tired of the terrain, the crappy weather and, most importantly, each other. That's what happens When...
THE ANTI-'BRIDEZILLA'
There's no end to the wedding-themed "reality" shows that chronicle our national obsession with planning that perfect day and the humiliating extremes some couples will go to achieve it. Shows...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA HAWTHORNE, Tuesday, 10 p.m., TNT - Series Premiere Woman against the world - The sky is falling, the sky is falling and it's up Christina Hawthorne, Chief Nursing Officer...
RBNY fall 2-1 in Toronto, lose 5th straight
The Red Bulls played hard and scored a goal. Other than that, it was business as usual, losing as always. They went to Toronto needing a huge gut-check, and gave...
Sheffield to undergo MRI exam
Could the injury-ravaged Mets soon add an unthinkable ninth player to their disabled list? It's possible after Gary Sheffield said following today's 6-2 win over the Yankees that he is...
K-Rod responds, mocks Bruney
(UPDATED)Frankie Rodriguez offered a stinging rebuke to the out-of-nowhere criticism from injured Yankees reliever Brian Bruney following the Mets' 6-2 win today. K-Rod scoffed at Bruney, calling him a "nobody"...