September 19, 2008
Red Bull statement on Johnny X
Red Bulls statement on Johnny Exantus By BRIAN LEWISAfter Belgian team Royal Racing Club of Montegnee announced that they had signed Johnny Exantus, I’ve been trying to get a response...
Mets would host Brewers
The Mets won a coin flip with the Brewers today, meaning the Amazin's would play host to a one-game playoff for the NL wild card on Sept. 29 if the...
Report: Buffalo new Triple-A home
The Buffalo News is reporting that the Mets will switch their Triple-A affiliation to Buffalo starting next season after two years in New Orleans. A formal announcement is expected Monday...
Game 153: Mets at Braves
ATLANTA –- While keeping one eye on Philadelphia and Milwaukee, the Mets look to extend their winning streak to three games here tonight when Oliver Perez takes in the Braves...
Serie A: Atalanta and Lazio Look To Stay Perfect
Atalanta and Lazio will be looking to stay atop the Serie A standings this weekend when they take on Catania and AC Milan, respectively.Both teams have made a convincing start...
D-day on tap for Maine
ATLANTA -- The Mets are giving John Maine one last look Saturday before deciding whether to activate the right-hander or shut him down for the rest of the season. Maine...
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McQuarters did not practice
By PAUL SCHWARTZYes, cornerback R.W. McQuarters did take part in the individual portion of practice but he did not participate in any of the real aspects of practice. He remains...
Final Stadium game details
From the YankeesYankee Stadium gates will open at 1 p.m. on Sunday as the Yankees invite fans to take one last memorable stroll through Monument Park. Fans also will be...
Pitching set for Braves series
The pitching matchups are in for the three-game series in Atlanta against the Braves that starts tonight when left-hander Oliver Perez (pictured) tries to keep the Mets' playoff hopes alive...
THUGS CAUGHT ON TAPE IN BRONX BEATING
Two thugs armed with a bat savagely beat a Boston radio show host in a Bronx vestibule early this morning - striking him on the head eight times before stealing...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets still have some heavy lifting to do to make the playoffs, but they appear to have righted the ship after Brian Schneider and Johan Santanapowered them to a...
O.J. SIMPSON JURY MAKES SECRET CRIME-SCENE VISIT
LAS VEGAS - Jurors in O.J. Simpson's robbery-kidnapping trial took a top-secret tour of the crime scene in a hastily organized undercover visit this morning. Clark County District Court Judge...
Giants the picture of health
By PAUL SCHWARTZA look out at the stationary bicycles out on the Giants field this morning revealed, well, nothing. Not one player on the active roster was on the bikes,...
It's official: Mets choose Buffalo
That didn't take long.After major league clubs and potential Triple-A affiliates were allowed to open discussions yesterday, the Buffalo Bisons have scheduled a press conference for Monday morning with the...
PHOTOS OF MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER
PHOTOS OF THE MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER IN LOUISVILLE
Deal of the Day-Kenneth Jay Lane
For a neutral but quirky accessory, pick up this Square Natural Burwine Bangle by Kenneth Jay Lane.It will be a nice chunky piece to add to the thin bangles that...
Starr Report: The marrying kind
Former Westchester DA (and former county judge) Jeanine Pirro - now hosting Ch. 11's "Judge Jeanine Pirro" - will marry Juliet Huddy and Doug Barrett Jan. 23 (she's already hosted...
Wright more A-Rod than A-Plus
From JOEL SHERMANWhen the Mets tanked last season, David Wright excelled. In the 17 season-closing games in which the Mets blew a seven-game lead to Philadelphia, Wright hit .397, which...
3 UP: WRIGHT HAS BEEN MORE A-ROD THAN A-PLUS
1. When the Mets tanked last season, David Wright excelled. In the 17 season-closing games in which the Mets blew a seven-game lead to Philadelphia, Wright hit .397, which was...
Box Office: Studios Clearing Their Shelves of Hard-to-Sell Movies
The three major limited openings are also tough sells. Warners is launching Ed Harris' "Appaloosa,'' which I call the best western since "Open Range'' in my three-star review today (it's...
DEALS: Happy birthday, indeed
Disney's Animal Kingdom (via TripAdvisorThe economy may stink, but Disney's theme parks, never tethered strongly to reality, have been minting money anyway. Trouble may be brewing in Fantasyland, though, especially...
MEN WHO WANT MUSCLES OPT FOR LIPOSUCTION
Try as he might, personal trainer Aaron couldn't get a six-pack. Even with great eating habits, routine cardiovascular workouts and daily abdominal exercises, genes just weren't on his side. "I...
BIDEN: TAX IS PATRIOTIC
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden wrapped Old Glory around Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich should be "patriotic" and fork over more cash. "It's time...
DEM POL'S SON WAS 'HACKER'
The 20-year-old son of a Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee was being cited on the Internet yesterday as a suspect in the hacking of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail. State...
MAC: I'D SACK MARTS' WATCHDOG
Putting daylight between himself and President Bush on a key economic issue, John McCain said yesterday that if elected he'd can the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who...
SARAH JOINS HILL IN QUITTING IRAN RALLY
Organizers of an anti-Iran rally planned outside the UN on Monday have disinvited Sarah Palin, citing a "media frenzy" created after Hillary Rodham Clinton withdrew from the event. "The decision...
A SINKING ECONOMY: TAXPAYERS, START BAILING
* Can someone explain to me why billions of dollars in subprime mortgage-backed securities are being written off by all of these corporations, yet I am still expected to pay...
WASHINGTON BREWED THE POISON
BLAME for the financial crisis is settling on those old standby scapegoats, Wall Street fat cats. So: Who should go to jail? The answer, as far as I can tell,...
RANGEL'S POWERFUL POST
BELEAGUERED Rep. Charles Rangel holds one of the most influential jobs in America - chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Mere membership on Ways and Means is one...
THE 'DEVILS' WE NEED
BEFORE investors and policy-makers sign onto the idea that the last two investment banks left standing should find shelter in the arms of big commercial banks, let me try to...
ILLUSIONS LOST
THE Bush years will be remembered for the cruel triumph of realism over illusion. One of the era's great illusions was spun by President Bush - that the force of...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 915; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 5925; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 964; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 9140;...
TOW-NAILING CHARLIE 'PARKER'
WASHINGTON - Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel's Mercedes-Benz was towed yesterday from the House of Representatives parking space he had been using for years in violation of congressional rules. As a...
BACK FROM THE DEBT: DEAL NEAR ON RESCUE
Congressional leaders and top government fiscal officials were in "virtually unanimous agreement" after meeting last night to discuss the feds taking over the bad loans financial companies made but can't...
O.J. 'SMOKING GUN'
Headphone-wearing jurors yesterday listened to a swaggering O.J. Simpson planning to ambush two sports memorabilia dealers last year, with complete confidence the law was on his side. Prosecutors hope the...
THE 'DOOMSDAY' MUPPETS
Hey, kids, this week's lesson is brought to you by the letter T - for terror. It's also brought to you by the letter H, for hurricane, and F, for...
CURTAINS FOR 'BILL & JERRY'
What's the deal with Seinfeld? Microsoft paid the funnyman $10 million to make Bill Gates look cool, but their ads went over about as well as the puffy shirt -...
AIDE RATTED OUT ANNE EX
An administrative assistant to Raffaello Follieri outed him to the FBI, telling agents the admitted swindler kept a safe stuffed with financial and business records in his Trump Tower apartment,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND * A wise-cracking thug kicked a cop in the head after asking police for a light to smoke a joint, authorities said yesterday. Uniformed cops spotted Brayon Yarbrough,...
GUN 'MAKER' GETS NAILED
What a tool! A homeless man who spent the summer stealing gunpowder for a pistol he was building was busted after leaving his stash behind the Manhattan federal courthouse while...
NIXZMARY TRIAL STARTS
Prosecutors ripped into Nixzmary Brown's mother yesterday as they opened their murder case against her, telling jurors that she "did not care" whether the frail, beaten girl lived or died...
FULL-TILT PANIC
Two window repairmen trapped on a tottering work platform 700 feet above Midtown used hand signals yesterday to alert people in the building across the street that they needed help....
RAPIST'S PLEA TO 'FORGIVE'
The brazen thug who beat and raped a Brooklyn woman in her building's basement expected immediate forgiveness from his victim just because he apologized and suddenly became religious, neighbors said...
CITY RIDES BIZMAN OVER CONEY CLOSURE
A controversial developer is now officially Coney Island's public enemy No. 1 -- at least as far as the Bloomberg administration is concerned. In the strongest public rebuke of Joe...
BULL COULDN'T OUTRUN DEATH
A bull that led Queens cops on a 14-hour chase during a mad dash for freedom died less than an hour after being guaranteed a reprieve from the butcher. showvideo("NY%20Post","1458_382479");...
VANDAL SPRAY-WOL
A graffiti vandal from the Netherlands, in town for a graffiti confab, got in Dutch with Queens prosecutors after cops caught him spray painting two subway cars. Robbert Boxem, 25,...
A-ROD AND WIFE STRIKE A DIVORCE DEAL
Yankee superstar A-Rod and his long-suffering wife slugged it out quickly and quietly - and now have reached a settlement to end their troubled marriage, a source told The Post...
40% 'PASS' RATE ON 'TEACHER BONUS' TEST
Just under 40 percent of elementary and middle schools where teachers could earn bonuses for boosting student performance got the payouts, education officials said yesterday. In a controversial initiative that...
SUITS FLY AT THE PLAZA
Cover your ears, Eloise. It's getting nasty at The Plaza. The developers of the famed landmark are fighting back following two multimillion-dollar lawsuits filed against them by separate penthouse buyers...
'MOURNERS' WILL BRING THE HOUSE DOWN
Sunday's game will be an open-casket funeral for the House that Ruth Built, with no shortage of eulogies, tears and fond remembrances. Though some 40 former Yankee greats are expected...
GRANDMA INJURED BY FALLING BRICKS
A woman pushing her 18-month-old grandson through Manhattan's Kips Bay was struck in the head yesterday when bricks and debris fell 14 stories from the facade of a building under...
WHAT A PUSSY! CUTE 7-LB. KITTY STRUCK TERROR IN KILLER'S HEART
Don't be fooled by the pretty red bow. Notorious "self-defense" cat killer Joseph Petcka took the witness stand in Manhattan yesterday, describing his victim - Norman, the orange house tabby...
MIKE CRANE PLEA
The feds need to boost safety standards to help protect New Yorkers from the danger of falling tower cranes, Mayor Bloomberg said in a letter to President Bush made public...
BX. HERO'S COURAGE UNDER FIRE
Battling zero visibility and searing heat, FDNY Lt. James Congema single-handedly rescued three family members trapped in their Bronx apartment and helped save two others. In the early-morning hours of...
BOMBERS AWAY
For the past 18 seasons, Sgt. Trevor Diaz has been on the road and in the line of fire. But even during his two tours in Iraq - and even...
NIGERIA NUT OUTSCAMS STOX 'CROOK'
A stone-hearted - and rock-headed - securities broker stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from elderly clients, money he then sent to Nigeria in hopes of collecting an $8.7 million...
KINKY BID TO BE TAX XXX-EMPT
This was not the "happy ending" William Halby was looking for. The 77-year-old Brooklyn lawyer owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes for wrongly deducting more than $300,000...
FIREMAN: 'BEAT' COPS DISSED SIS
A Long Island firefighter allegedly beaten by two off-duty NYPD cops said yesterday that he was repeatedly punched and "kicked in the head" by the officers after they hurled vulgar...
ANOTHER TOP TURNOVER MEANS CHANGE AT LIFE & STYLE
BAUER Publishing, parent company of struggling celebrity magazine Life & Style, is now said to be scouring Fleet Street in London for a new editor-in-chief. Sources say the incumbent editor,...
DEBT BAILOUT IGNITES MARTS
Wall Street's financial institutions climbed back on their feet yesterday with renewed vigor on a glimmer of hope that a fundamental solution to rid their balance sheets of mortgage-tainted holdings...
PULLED QUOTE AT NY TIMES
The New York Times is still trying to figure out the old newspaper truism, "Never let facts get in the way of a good quote." The editors of The Times...
CABLEVISION STICKING WITH TICKETMASTER
Cablevision Systems boss James Dolan found himself doing damage control yesterday after suggesting earlier in the day that he'd consider dumping Barry Diller's Ticketmaster as his company's ticket provider. In...
UA STILL ON CRUISE CONTROL
The $500 million film-financing fund that Merrill Lynch extended to Tom Cruise's United Artists studio is expected to remain intact despite agreeing earlier this week to be acquired by Bank...
WEDDING DISASTER
Morgan Stanley's beleaguered CEO John Mack is sizing up a tie-up with Wachovia, but in reality a combination of the two may be a mistake. A helter-skelter stock market is...
LUXE SUITES SOUR
New York sports teams banking on high-priced sales of luxury suites at an unprecedented number of new stadiums and arenas could feel the pinch from the Wall Street meltdown. Five...
FUNDS FLEE MORGAN, GOLDMAN FOR JPMORGAN
Score another one for Jamie Dimon. The JPMorgan Chase CEO is seeing the coffers of the bank he runs being filled with "billions of dollars a day" coming from hedge...
SHORTS BAN EYED
Embattled SEC Chairman Christopher Cox reportedly is considering banning short-selling temporarily. It's unclear if the startling move has been approved by the commission. All five SEC commissioners must vote for...
CHARLIE'S WAYS AND MEANS
Say it ain't tow, Charlie! Ah, but it was. They put the hook to Rep. Charles Rangel's '72 Mercedes Benz yesterday, hours after The Post reported that the vehicle had...
OBAMA V. NEW YORK
A good rule of thumb: Whenever a Democrat starts talking patriotism, reach for your wallet. Case in point: Joe Biden. The Democratic vice presidential nominee went into a flag-waving fury...
MEMO TO CAT LADIES: THIS HUMAN BEAST IS A HUNK
NEW YORK ladies of a certain vintage, I beg you. Listen up. You have a choice. When presented with the option of huddling on a chilly night with a warm,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's probably a more interesting message. A misprint in a New Jersey phonebook has replaced the number for the Sussex County Democratic Committee with a phone sex line. The phone...
THE ESSENTIAL THESAURUS
Today's page looks at the indispensable thesaurus and the man who created it. Have you ever found yourself writing an essay or school report, or just sending an e-mail to...
THE SECRET SCHOOL
Reading Series CHAPTER ONE Getting to School On a cool spring morning in April, 1925, Ida Bidson, fourteen, and Felix, her seven-year-old brother, drove to school. Ida, brown hair braided...
THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY HUDSON
New York History Edition Just what does one have to do to get a river named after him? Henry Hudson knew. Read on to see how this famous navigator earned...
JETS' CB UP FOR CHALLENGE VS. CHAMBERS
It would be tough for Darrelle Revis to be off to a better start this season, with a game-clinching interception in Week 1 and shutting down Randy Moss in Week...
NO PRACTICE FOR AILING TOMLINSON
For the second straight day, Chargers star LaDainian Tomlinson didn't practice. Tomlinson, who has been bothered by turf toe, participated in the walk-through yesterday, Chargers coach Norv Turner said during...
DEVILS GLAD ROLSTON'S BACK
There was a twinkle in Brent Sutter's eye, excitement in his voice. The former 100-point man said he thinks he has a new offensive weapon that provides top-line speed. "When...
ALI'S LIFE INSPIRES BEYOND BOXING RING
LOUISVILLE - A must see during any trip to this city is a visit to the Muhammad Ali Center located in the heart of the downtown area. I took the...
LIBERTY ECLIPSE SUN IN GARDEN
The Liberty have been here before. Just last year, in fact. This time, they'd like a different outcome. After taking Game 1 of their first round playoff series against Connecticut...
AT LEAST BOMBERS WILL AVOID ANOTHER ALDS DEFEAT
On the bright side, the Yankees don't have to worry about their season ending in a fourth straight AL Division Series meltdown. What hurts more, being bumped from the playoffs...
NEARLY 103, FINALLY VISITS STADIUM
Emilio Navarro stood on the field at Yankee Stadium yesterday, holding a bat he received from George Steinbrenner and slicing his birthday cake - his 103rd birthday cake. The Yankees,...
JOE: MO DESERVES LAST CALL
Joe Girardi doesn't want the score tied in the ninth inning Sunday night against the Orioles. "My only fear is that it's a tie. I want to see Mo pitch...
JUST ANOTHER TEAM
THERE are many lessons the Yankees must learn from this season. Don't rely too much on the kids. Understand that the games in April and May count as much as...
MOOSE MAKES MOST OF FINAL STADIUM START
Two bags of documented dirt from his cleats were near the rosin bag from the mound and in contact with two dozen balls used in the game. Done with the...
BABE'S BLAST FROM THE PAST
Babe Ruth entered the month of September in 1927 with 43 home runs. Then, he went on a homer binge that left him tied with his own record of 59...
GIANTS TE AWAITS FIRST CATCH
Kevin Boss nearly broke his personal shutout last weekend in St. Louis. He made his first catch of the season, good for 28 yards to the left sideline, but the...
GIANTS 'D' OUT TO MAKE CINCY MISERABLE
Up next it's the surging Giants defense against the laboring Bengals offense. Is this a fair fight? There's harmony and unity within a unit that plugged in five new starters...
RANGERS' ZHERDEV OFF TO SLOW START
Nikolai Zherdev was the standout at yesterday's hyper-competitive second day of training camp, and no, that is not good news for the Rangers. The fact is that the presumptive first-line...
SEPARATE, BUT STILL EQUALLY LOATHSOME
DOESN'T matter if they're alone, together or alone together at the same time on the radio, Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, to paraphrase both Brian McNamee and Popeye - only...
TIME FOR MICKELSON TO LEAD U.S. TEAM
LOUISVILLE - Phil Mickelson has flown under the radar for much of the 37th Ryder Cup with most of the talk these last weeks centering on Paul Azinger's captain's picks,...
TRENDSETTERS
REDSKINS (-3) VS. CARDINALS, 1 P.M. Dating back to 1992, Washington is 6-0 when it faces a team that completes more than 65 percent of its passes. Arizona completes at...
FUMIGATE YOUR ROSTER - NOW
OFTEN, Week 1 can be written off as an aberration - the good and the bad. This season, it seems, troublesome occurrences in Week 1 frequently reoccurred in Week 2....
O/U RICO
Rico went 6-8-1 (2-1 Best Bets) on the over/ unders last week to bring the season record to 18-12-1 (3-3). The selections for Week 3:OVER: Titans / Texans; Redskins /Cardinals;...
HONDO: IT'S IN THE CARDS
Hondo and the Phillies joined forces and formed a successful combo last night, marching through Atlanta in civil fashion to increase his total of dead presidents to 640 lollars. Today,...
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Jets, Chiefs, Browns, Jaguars, Saints, Panthers, Titans, Bucs, Rams, Raiders, Redskins, EaglesMONDAY: RavensBEST BETS: Jets, Bucs, Eagles
TIM SULLIVAN
SUNDAY: Jets, Chiefs, Bengals, Texans, Saints, Panthers, Vikings, Packers, Rams, Chargers, Cowboys, BearsMONDAY: SteelersBEST BETS: Saints, Packers, Steelers
SO-SO HONDO READY TO MAKE HIS MOVE
Hondo followed up his opening 8-8 with an equally mediocre 7-7-1 in Week 2 that has him five games behind Gallo, the unlikely temp at the top. Even Ed Hochuli...
CUP SUITS SERGIO
LOUISVILLE - If the Americans are going to wrest the Ryder Cup away from the Europeans for the first time since 1999, they're going to have to do something about...
U.S. LOOKS TO END EUROPEAN DOMINANCE
LOUISVILLE - The enormity of the Ryder Cup was there for all to see yesterday as European captain Nick Faldo conducted his news conference to announce the pairings for today's...
PANTHERS PLUNDER PURPLE PEOPLE
The winner of multiple major national handicapping championships against world-class competition, the Wildcat returns. Including the1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent)...
TIGER-LESS U.S. A LONGSHOT IN RYDER
Simply said, "It couldn't be any worse." Those were NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller's discouraging words when asked about the United States' chances in this year's Ryder Cup without Tiger...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Curt rips MannyCurt Schilling said former teammate Manny Ramirez's behavior in Boston was a drain on his teammates and disrespectful to manager Terry Francona. Speaking on a Boston radio...
HAMMERIN' IT HOME
THE Giants should be able to run at will against the Bengals. In some ways, that could turn out to be a deterrent to covering a big number, if a...
DANILO MAY BE 'BACK' SOON
Danilo Gallinari was courtside at the Garden last night, watching a basketball game. It's something the Knicks hope does not become a common occurrence once their season begins. And even...
SCHNEIDER, SANTANA WAX WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON - Thank you, Johan Santana? More like thank you, Geovany Soto. Locked in a race with Philadelphia and Milwaukee for the final two NL playoff spots, the Mets erupted...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...DAVID CONE
WITH the Yankees counting down the Stadium's final days and the Mets desperately trying to avoid another September collapse, YES analyst David Cone - who played for both teams -...
JERRY MUM ON AARON
WASHINGTON - If Jerry Manuel had to put together the Mets' playoff roster today, he said hapless reliever Aaron Heilman would "probably" be on it. That by the Mets' interim...
METS FINALLY GET THEIR D.C. JOLLIES
WASHINGTON - For once, there was a game-long bounce to their step and a postgame lightness to their moods. The Mets have made a big deal about wanting it known...
STARSTRUCK BY VAN GOGH WORKS
SOME pop pills; others pray. When Vincent van Gogh felt low, he painted the stars. Those stars are out in force in "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night,"...
CLINTON ON 'VIEW' AS CINDY MCCAIN BASHES THE WOMEN
BILL Clinton will spend an hour on "The View" this Monday. And it promises to be a more clubby atmosphere than the one Cindy McCain says she and husband John...
SERIAL THRILLER
MADISON Ave. can now measure how addicted you are to your favorite shows. Turns out that "Survivor," the long-running reality show heading into its 17th edition, has the highest loyalty...
ONCE A BRADY...
JAN Brady didn't approve of brother Peter doing reality TV, mom Carol criticized his marriage, sister Marcia has only recently become more "Brady-accepting," and older brother Greg is the family...
STARR REPORT
The marrying kind Former Westchester DA (and former county judge) Jeanine Pirro - now host ing Ch. 11's "Judge Jeanine Pirro" - will marry Juliet Huddy and Doug Barrett Jan....
OUT OF AFRICA
Jack Bauer is supposed to be getting away from his problems in Africa with a little missionary work. How long do you think that is going to last? Fox is...
KNIGHTLEY SNOOZE
SCHOOL-BOUND urchins infest my sidewalk. I waste 12 hours each weekend watching football. Keira Knightley shoves herself into a corset. September. This time she's "The Duchess," a coltish free spirit...
VIOLENTLY LACKING CHARACTER
DIRTY Harry is an altar boy compared with the black-uniformed members of BOPE, an elite police unit in Rio de Janeiro. They shoot first and never ask questions as they...
BLOCK WATCH OUT
CAN'T we all just get along? Not really, says "Lakeview Ter race," in which racial frustration throbs like a busted toe even in a suburban LA neighborhood. Soon after an...
RIO BRAVO FOR WESTERN
THERE is perhaps no genre as full of pitfalls for contemporary filmmakers as the Western. Last year's crop were either pretentious ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert...
GOING HUNCHBACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
NO animated horror spoof in which Eddie Izzard voices a bad guy named Dr. Schaden- freude can be a total loss. Not even "Igor," pieced together from Tim Burton and...
OUR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED
WAYNE Wang began making films in the 1980s with modest but enjoyable efforts such as "Chan Is Miss ing" and "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart." Then he felt...
FANNING, BUT NO FLAMES
UNIVERSALLY known as "The Dakota Fan ning Rape Movie" since its disastrous debut at the '07 Sundance Film Festival, Deborah Kampmeier's "Hounddog" is finally arriving in theaters - with a...
RIOTOUS TALE NOT WELL ESPRESSO'D
IN his directing debut "Battle in Seattle," actor Stuart Towns end does an impressive job (on a shoestring budget) of re-creating the massive street protests that forced the cancellation of...
LUST FOR AFTERLIFE
RICKY Gervais is lethally funny seeing dead people in his leading-man debut on the big screen, "Ghost Town." Imagine David Brent of "The Office" with some brains and a touch...
IT SHOULD BE FAR, FAR BETTER
IT was the worst of times . . . and the worst of times. Who knew how eagerly I'd await Sydney Carton's closing words, "It's a far, far better thing...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
TOP-FLIGHT Planes - September 20 If you're hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan, seeing American bombers overhead makes for a rough weekend. But at Teterboro Airport's Wings & Wheels Expo,...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Pianist Yefim Bronfman teams up with the New York Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 through Tuesday at Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Columbus Avenue; 212-875-5656....
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: The Warhol/Watson/Webber/Whitney program features short films from these experimental artists, starting with Warhol's "Eat" (1963), a 35-minute flick which shows artist Robert Indiana consuming a mushroom. 32...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
FULTON STREET FOLLIES: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a fair on Fulton Street between Water and Cliff streets. GUARDIAN ANGELS FAIR: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m....
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSINTHE": *** 1/2 This thrilling blend of European-style circus and burlesque offers decadent pleasures in a wonderful summertime setting. Spiegelworld at Pier 17, South Street Seaport, South Street at Beekman...
DANCE
CITY CENTER: More than two dozen companies from around the world perform through Oct. 27 in the "Fall for Dance" series. For lineup info, go to citycenter.org. 130 W. 56th...
PREVIEWS
"A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS": Frank Langella plays the saint in this revival of Robert Bolt's Tony-winning play. American Airlines Theatre, 227 W. 42nd St.; 212- 719-1300. Opens Oct. 7....
POP, ROCK, FOLK
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Antone Newcombe's often-changing lineup tries to follow the manic frontman's lead tonight at 8. Music Hall of Willaimsburg, 66 N. Sixth St.; 718-599-6103. THE HANGDOGS: All "original...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Sunday: Andy Farber and his orchestra, featuring Hilary Kole on vocals, Sunday at 6 p.m. 315 W. 44th St; 212-581-3080. BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB: Through Monday: Bassist Ron Carter...
A-ROD & CYNTHIA SETTLE DIVORCE
Yankees superstar A-Rod and his long-suffering wife slugged it out quickly and quietly and now have reached a settlement to end their troubled marriage, a source told The Post Thursday...