April 11, 2008
The updates from Shea
Hey folks, it's Mark Hale again. Bart's off tonight, so I'll take care of the blog. The weather remains to be seen here at Shea, but players are on the...
'Idol' chat: JPL
Season 3's Jon Peter LewisJon Peter Lewis, 29, from "American Idol" Season 3's Top 10, is no ordinary "Idol." With a strong sense of self and a new album on...
Manga Mania!
Uniqlo is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Manga with limited edition tees starting on Monday.If you're tee obsessed, check back every week for the latest releases. They're quirky, cartoon-y and...
Deal of the Day-Issho
On the block today is a sweet ruffled dress from LA boutique, Milk.The striped cobalt and black number from Issho (which is Japanese for âtogetherâ) is on sale for $150...
TRADER MO & TORONTO SIGN ROHAN RICKETTS
By BRIAN LEWISForget Trader Joe. Nobody wheels and deals like Trader Mo, as Toronto boss Mo Johnston added his third midfielder in just over a week when he signed Brit...
Soccer on TV
Here's the footy we plan to watch (or try to, anyway) this weekend:Saturday, April 12FOX SOCCER CHANNELEngland: READING-FULHAM (live), 10 am.England: PORTSMOUTH-NEWCASTLE (live), noon.Italy: JUVENTUS-AC MILAN (live), 2:30 pm.MLS: SAN...
O'Hara: Upshaw's ego hurting the cause
BY PAUL SCHWARTZShaun O'Hara, the Giants player representative, said he's not looking to hasten the ouster of Gene Upshaw, the NFL Players Association executive director â but O'Hara did admit...
HILLARY GIVES BILL TONGUE LASHING FOR BOSNIA BUNGLE
In yet another dustup over Hillary Clinton's trip to Bosnia, the presidential candidate unleashed a verbal tirade on Bill today for making even more mistakes when reciting the now tired...
RANGERS AREN'T TWO CONFIDENT
Losing one game on home ice to start a playoff series is not a hole the Devils can't climb out of. Losing both home games is a different story. That...
JUAN PABLO ANGEL OUT FOR DALLAS
By BRIAN LEWISStar striker Juan Pablo Angel will not travel to Texas for the Red Bullsâ tilt at FC Dallas tomorrow (8:30 p.m., MSG), out with a strained left hamstring.Coach...
METS DIDN'T FIGURE ON FIGUEROA
So who is Nelson Figueroa? The right-hander from Brooklyn, who will be taking the ball to start tonight's game against the Brewers at Shea (7:10, SNY, WFAN), has had a...
IMPORTANT START FOR WANG
The first Yankees-Red Sox game of the Joe Girardi Era does not come at a good time for the Yankees or their new manager. The Yankees (5-5) are banged up,...
Western Quarterfinal Matchups: Friday
The Sharks unleashed an all-out assault on Mikka Kiprusoff to even their series at 1-1. Kipper earned the second star of the game for turning aside 41 shots. Sharks keeper...
GIANTS CUT D-TACKLE
The Giants offered a hint as to a position they most likely want to fortify in the NFL Draft with yesterday's release of defensive tackle Manny Wright. Wright, signed last...
'Gossip Girl' Goes For The Bold
S and N: up close and personal It's not just the "Gossip Girl" print ads that are getting steamier for the shows' April 21st return, the network is bringing sexy...
Jan Stands Front and Center
Jan's Warhol Moment "The Office" finally returned with new episodes last night, the first since Nov 15, 2007, and it seems that the hiatus truly allowed the team behind Dunder...
'IDOL' SHOCK
IN THE most shocking turn of events so far this season, big Michael Johns, 29, from Georgia by way of Australia, was sent packing last night on "American Idol." The...
'Idol' shocker
Dial Idol pegged Carly Smithson last in busy signals. TMZ posted a suspiciously sourced story that TiVo engineers predicted Syesha Mercado as our castoff.Both predictions seemed plausible, but instead our...
PHOTO OF CHENEY CREATES WEB CHATTER
A photo that has the blogosphere buzzing that Dick Cheney might be cavorting with naked women while fly fishing is simply a "hand casting a rod," according to his spokeswoman....
Starr Report: Numbers, of 'Late'
Ferguson's "Late Late Show" beat Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" in head-to-head, five-day competition for the first time in its history last week. Ferguson averaged 1.88 million viewers to O'Brien's 1.77...
Toni Twice As Nice
By CLEMENTE LISIItaly striker Luca Toni continued to score in the UEFA Cup, netting two goals on Thursday against Getafe to salvage Bayern Munichâs continental campaign and lead them to...
Pagan's big start
From JOEL SHERMANAngel Pagan is doing exactly what you would want a fill-in to do, making the absence of an important cog such as Moises Alou a whole lot less...
PETTITTE'S IMPORTANT OUTING
By JOEL SHERMANIn the long run of a baseball season, it is hard to pinpoint in real time which occurrences are truly important, especially truly important April moments. But in...
3 UP: Pettitte, Pagan and Nomo
1. In the long run of a baseball season, it is hard to pinpoint in real time which occurrences are truly important, especially truly important April moments. But in the...
$HOCK WATER TORTURE
Homeowners expecting a modest water-rate hike this year are in for a shock today - the Water Board will propose a punishing 14.5 percent increase starting July 1, officials said....
HE'S A COP AND 'ROBBER'
A rookie NYPD cop was busted yesterday for an armed bank robbery in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Christian Torres, 21, a transit officer who lives in Queens, waited outside a Sovereign...
HIGH'JINX' HITS YANKEES
The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed! A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will...
BLOOMY: I OWE YOU ONE, MAC
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday lavished praise on Sen. John McCain in Brooklyn, where the GOP presidential hopeful shifted positions and called for government intervention with the subprime housing crisis. Bloomberg, a...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
2 No trains running between Atlantic Avenue and Chambers Street. To get to Manhattan, take the 2 to Franklin or Atlantic avenues and transfer to the 4, which runs to...
CLOSED STREETS TO MEAN MASS CONFUSION
The NYPD yesterday unveiled widespread street closings for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Big Apple next week. MAP: NYC Street Closures For Papal VisitCOMPLETE COVERAGE Of THE POPE'S VISIT...
MIKE SEES CALM AFTER BELL VERDICT
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he is prepared to meet with elected officials and community leaders should there be fallout in aftermath of a Sean Bell verdict. The mayor - who...
DAY-CARE SITE 'DISGUSTING'
A day-care center at a city-owned building in Brooklyn is a potential death trap laden with exposed electrical wires, surfaces covered with mold - even mushrooms - and broken play...
$$ FOR GAYS & DOLLS
ALBANY - Among the hundreds of dubious pork-barrel projects larded into the just-completed state budget is a group devoted to quilt-making, a doll museum and a "gay day" in the...
BOGUS GRANTS OK: COMMISH
The city's finance commissioner yesterday defended phantom grants as no big deal. Commissioner Martha Stark said using bogus accounts to reserve millions of dollars in government grants was nothing to...
HERO MEDAL FOR SUBWAY RESCUER
Subway Superman Wesley Autrey, who risked his life to jump onto the tracks to save a young man, was among those yesterday named recipients of the Carnegie Medal for heroism....
COLUMBIA CHASE-SLAY DEFENSE
The 14-year-old boy accused in last week's chased-into-traffic death of a Columbia grad student claims he actually tried to stop the victim from running into the street, a cop testified...
ANIMAL 'LOUSE'
A rich Hofstra University frat boy gathered a gang of four "goons" to pummel and pistol-whip a fraternity brother he thought was sleeping with his ex, cops said. After the...
RAW DEAL: BARE BRUNI BAGS 91G
A photo of French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy au naturel was covered in greenbacks here yesterday - it fetched $91,000 at auction, more than 20 times its expected price. A...
RAPIST GETS MAX
A Brooklyn judge handed a serial rapist the maximum yesterday, packing him off to prison for 80 years following convictions for four sex attacks. Kingsley Ewing, 36, was found guilty...
YOUNG COP IN TRAGIC SUICIDE
A 24-year-old cop with two years on the job shot himself in the head last night in a Staten Island parking lot, police said. It was unclear why Christopher Stella,...
B'KLYN'S DA-VINE FOR RED HOOK WINEMAKER
It's enough to make a longshoreman cry. First, Ikea took over a dock on the Red Hook port in Brooklyn. Then Fairway, the upscale grocer, set up shop there. And...
SCATTER BRAINS
The Department of Education's attempt to standardize a mishmash of district-based gifted-and-talented programs has left a wide disparity in the number of applicants and students qualifying in each district, according...
GIMME A BEER - AND DO MY TAXES
If the idea of doing your taxes makes you want to reach for a stiff drink, this service is just for you. Trek across the river to Hoboken, NJ, and...
GOTTI SICK & TIRED OF JAIL
Peter Gotti says he's suffering from a list of illnesses long enough to keep a crew of doctors busy for years - but that, mainly, he's sick of prison. The...
WISEGUY SON TRIED IN GORY SLAY
Brooklyn prosecutors yesterday opened their murder case against a mobbed-up man who allegedly flew into a rage and stabbed an aspiring music producer 31 times. Vincent Arena, 23, the son...
SPLIT 'P' SOUP
The jury divided up the pie - and it's still not clear which Patsy's is the big cheese. After two days of deliberations, the beleaguered Brooklyn federal jury issued a...
SOCIALITE'S SMUGGLING BUST
The American-born wife of a British billionaire was busted after she allegedly tried to smuggle crack cocaine and heroin into an event at the US Embassy in London. "I have...
JET SWINE THANKS BIN
LONDON - A man accused of plotting to blow up a plane recorded a martyrdom video praising Osama bin Laden for inspiring him to attempt to kill hundreds of people,...
POWELL HEDGES ON PREZ
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke admiringly of Barack Obama, but said he is still making up his mind about whom to support for president - a...
OPRAH'S BARACK-LASH
Did Barack Obama kill Oprah Winfrey's mojo? Fordham University political science assistant professor Costas Panagopoulos says so - deducing that Oprah's popularity has plunged since she endorsed Obama last spring....
DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR STRANDED TRAVELERS
Airlines' failure to follow FAA safety rules has doubled up the risks for passengers - not only must they worry more about whether planes are safe, but there's also a...
POPE TO PRAY FOR DEVILS
Pope Benedict XVI will pray for the redemption of terrorists when he visits Ground Zero next week, the Vatican revealed yesterday. "Turn to your way of love those whose hearts...
W. PUTS FREEZE ON IRAQ GI PULLOUTS
WASHINGTON - President Bush will halt US troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer, he said yesterday as he accepted the request of his top commander there. Gen. David Petraeus told...
DEADLINE PRESSURE ON KATIE
Katie Couric and her bosses will sit down after the presidential inauguration to decide whether she'll continue anchoring the "CBS Evening News," high-level sources told The Post yesterday. Both sides...
PI GETS A BREAK - BUT STILL FACES 400 YEARS
Prosecutors dropped a slew of charges against Hollywood gumshoe Anthony Pellicano yesterday, but he still faces 400 years behind bars. US District Court Judge Dale Fischer allowed prosecutors to abandon...
STATE'S 500G LOBBYING TAB
WASHINGTON - New York state spent more than half a million dollars to lobby the federal government last year, according to a government-watchdog report released yesterday. The report by the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QueensCops are searching for the gunman pictured above who has held up several grocery stores and a Laundromat in Corona. The suspect entered the New Corona Grocery Store at Corona...
COURIC'S FALL HURT US ALL
WHEN will someone admit the truth about Katie Couric? Katie was trotted out to the public less than two years ago as no less than the savior of modern American...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 903; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 6629; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 578; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
PELOSI'S PUTRID SELLOUT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an in teresting way of dealing with the po litically explosive - well, for Democrats, anyway - issue of free trade: She cheats. That's precisely...
PATERSON PUNTS - AGAIN
Gov. Paterson flunked a key test yes terday, sinking a plan for a critically important natural-gas transmission facility in Long Island Sound. And some folks thought he was going to...
BUMBLING ON THE BEAR BAILOUT
AT last week's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the government's historic bailout of Bear Stearns, two questions were expected. Who set the initial bargain basement price of $2 a share...
ECONOMIC HYSTERIA
MEDIA hysteria over the mortgage crisis is almost certainly misleading countless people about prospects for the real economy. The US economy is likely in recession. Yet even that conclusion may...
PRESS 1, TROOPS 0
TODAY, the Newseum - a 250,000-square-foot homage to journalism that cost $450 million to build - opens on Pennsylvania Avenue, midway between the White House and the Capitol. What's wrong...
WATER RATES: AN HONEST FIX
AT a time when New Yorkers are feeling the pinch of rising food, energy and shelter costs, they'll soon find out how much more they'll have to pay for another...
KATZ'S LABOR OF LOVE - ALL POLITICS ASIDE
THE ISSUE: Melinda Katz's pregnancy and the difficulty of child-rearing. Another wonderful article by Andrea Peyser ("Melinda, A Baby is Not a Political Prop," April 8). What is it about...
BEWKES WINNING POINTS FOR STYLE, NOT STOCK
Just over 100 days into his tenure as CEO, Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes is looking to dramatically transform the media giant with the proposed pairing of the company's AOL...
GAMING THE 'NET
Battle lines are being drawn over control of the Internet, with Microsoft on one side, Google on the other and Yahoo!, Time Warner's AOL, and News Corp. racing to align...
GROSS TO GO FROM O
AMY Gross is stepping down as editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine after an eight-year run. "I really just feel like it is time," said Gross, who is 65. "I've...
SHARPER IMAGE EYED BY EX-CHAIR
Sharper Image's Chairman Jerry W. Levin was brought in less than two years ago to help turn around the struggling retailer. Now that the high-tech gadget retailer has filed for...
SHOP AND DROP
Cash-strapped shoppers shunned apparel and other discretionary purchases in March, stocking up instead on groceries and other basics at discounters like Wal-Mart as the economy swooned. With food and energy...
CHAP. 11 NEXT FOR LINENS 'N THINGS
Linens 'n Things and its creditors are scrambling to prepare for a bankruptcy filing they hope will be quick and painless for the home-furnishings retailer, sources told The Post. Sources...
DIMON TAKES MOST CREDIT
Jamie Dimon's seat atop Wall Street's credit-crunch casualties has put him in the enviable position of being the lender to distressed loan-hungry buyout shops, The Post has learned. Dimon, who...
A LIGHT IN THE TUNNEL
Lloyd Blankfein, Wall Street's highest paid banker at $70 million, believes hard times are nearing an end in his loss-wracked industry. The chief of Goldman Sachs earned his big jackpot...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
They're the Hansel and Gretel of crime. Cops in Cincinnati tracked a group of confectionery robbery suspects by following a trail of candy wrappers leading to their hideout. Four people...
CHRYSLER BUILDING - AN ART DECO ICON
Today's page looks at New York's Chrysler Building, one of the world's most beautiful and famous skyscrapers. By the 1920s, the automobile was an indispensable part of American life. Master...
RING IT ON!
Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez had to turn to Eli Manning to restore the pecking order in the New York-Boston rivalry. Who could have predicted that? The Red Sox have...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...
WITH the Rangers and Devils engaged in The River Rivalry,The Post's Justin Terranova chatted up Mike "Doc" Emrick, play-by-player for the Devils on MSG and the hockey voice of NBC...
DERBY PREPS ON TAP TOMORROW
Final two major preps for May 3 Kentucky Derby will be run tomorrow: Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass at Keeneland and Grade 2, $1 million Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park...
SPORTS SHORTS
TRACK: Jones' mates lose medals The International Olympic Committee has stripped the medals from Marion Jones' U.S. relay teammates at the 2000 Olympics because of her doping history. The executive...
HONDO FLYING WITH O'S
Hondo, who finally was betrayed by his wildly suc cessful Anti-Tiger Investment Theory Wednesday night, bounced right back with one more Motown mowdown last night in Boston. Tonight, with 565...
BLABBERMOUTH BILLY SILENT AT WRONG TIME
WHAT happened? When did networks begin to direct their A-Team analysts, from Joe Theismann to Joe Morgan, to deliver speeches after every play, tortured, fractured sermons based on bad guesswork...
JUSTIN TIME AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga. - The heavy anticipation for the first round of yesterday's Masters did not disappoint, with a litany of compelling storylines. PHOTO GALLERY: Day 1 At The Masters Tiger...
NO ROARS FOR WOODS AFTER MEDIOCRE START
AUGUSTA, Ga. - For most of a sun-splashed afternoon Tiger Woods didn't look like a player capable of creating golf history by winning the first modern-day Grand Slam. He looked...
NO. 16 SWEET FOR OUTSPOKEN POULTER
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Complaints have surfaced that there aren't as many roars around Augusta National anymore, because there aren't as many eagles and birdies being carded. England's Ian Poulter took...
RHODES TO RICHES
Kerry Rhodes waited quietly and patiently as the Jets conducted their free-agent spending spree in February. In all, some $140 million in new contracts, including more than $63 million in...
MAN WITH A 'PLAN'
Donnie Walsh doesn't do five-year plans. But listen to the new Knicks president talk and it's clear he's plotting a two-plus year fix, one that puts them under the cap...
ISIAH'S WELCOME IS WELL WORN OUT
IT'S well documented how bad the Pistons' relationship was between Isiah Thomas and Adrian Dantley, who were re-connected earlier this week by the announced Hall of Fame induction of Dantley,...
SCHOENEWEIS GETS METS OUT OF JAM
The boos were waiting for Scott Schoeneweis as soon as the bullpen door opened in the 11th inning. As he jogged to the mound, the remaining fans at Shea Stadium...
PAGAN ENJOYING AN AMAZIN' START
It isn't a fluke, according to David Wright. Angel Pagan can play. Last night, Pagan was terrific again, delivering one of the most clutch hits of the Mets' season, slamming...
STRIKING 12TH
After last night, now maybe the Mets will be in the Phillies' heads. The Amazin's blew a three-run lead, then came back to grab a 4-3 victory in the 12th...
REYES SLIDE COULD LEAVE SKID BEHIND
JOSE Reyes knows every thing can change in a flash. He insisted last night before the game that his confidence was not shaken despite his terrible start after a terrible...
HARRIS: NETS' AGONY SELF-INFLICTED
TORONTO - As a member of the Dallas Mavericks, Devin Harris didn't really experience that agony of defeat thing a whole heckuva lot. In 3½ seasons before he was traded...
COPYCATS?
SCOTT Gomez is al ways respectful of the Devils' organization whenever the subject is raised, which these days is quite often. Why wouldn't he be after matriculating in a seven-year...
SECOND CHANCE
This is the Rangers' colossal chance, their opportunity to finally start building that powerhouse aura they never achieved during the regular season, despite the blockbuster signings. Tonight is when Ranger...
SOX BACK TO EVEN AS YANKEES LOOM
BOSTON - The Yankees aren't the only AL East heavyweight off to a lethargic start. The Red Sox have sleepwalked through the early portion of the schedule, but for now...
JETER LIKELY TO MISS OPENER VS. BOSOX
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Derek Jeter did nothing yesterday to test his cranky left quadricep muscle that has forced him to miss the past three games. Jorge Posada was the...
SHUFFLE MODE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Even in a Yankees Universe where the sky is always falling, it is hard to describe an early-April as big. Nevertheless, when Andy Pettitte went to...
HOBBLED SQUADS RENEW THEIR FEUD TONIGHT AT FENWAY
KANSAS CITY - Are MRIs available in HD? That may be the best way to gain insight into this weekend's three-game Yankees-Red Sox series at Fenway Park. Derek Jeter had...
DUEL IN NEED OF GIANT TURN
BOSTON - Hello there, New England. Remember us? We're that upstart little city 200 miles west and south of y'all, the feisty little overachieving cow town that could, the one...
Around the Bases: Shelley explodes in Scranton
Shelley Duncan acted like he had something to prove last night in his first appearance back at Triple-A. Duncan went 4-for-5 with three doubles, a home run, 3 RBI and...
A TASTE OF 'FILLE' FOR FREE
ONCE again, the Met's opening its doors for a free dress rehearsal, the last of its season. On April 18, starting at 10 a.m., there'll be exhibits, rehearsal and a...
TEXANS IN TUNE, BUTT . . .
SPOON just might be the smartest and dumbest band in America. At a sold-out Terminal 5 for a one-nighter, the Texas quartet did a terrific hour-plus set of straight-ahead rock....
LEADING LADY IN 'GALAXY' HAS STAR QUALITY
'MARCY in the Galaxy" is based on a story co- written by Michael Patrick King, but the title character of this intimate new musical is a far cry from the...
'COUNTRY' RESTORATION
STUNG, no doubt, by The Post's startling report that they'd butchered the first act of Clifford Odets' celebrated play "The Country Girl," director Mike Nichols and playwright-turned-blogger Jon Robin Baitz...
SHE LETS THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
IF they ever make a bio pic about Marilyn Maye, the third act is already in place. In her early days, she was a sensation - with hit records for...
HIS PEACE TREATISE
MOST composers are heard, not seen. Philip Glass is both. The master of repetitive musical form, whose "Satyagraha" opens at the Metropolitan Opera tonight, is himself a repetitive form -...
YEAR ABROAD BEGINS WITH MURDER
DID she do it? Did she participate in the or giastic murder of her roommate? That's the question hanging over the head of 20-year-old Amanda Knox, the college student and...
ABC TAKES TIME FOR ABUSE SUIT
ABC News has asked for more time to devise a court defense against a woman who was shown being beaten by her stepfather on a 2006 edition of "Primetime." Kyle...
RATHER'S LAWSUIT LOSES STEAM
DAN RATHER'S $70-million lawsuit against CBS hit a road bump yesterday - but will continue. Justice Ira Gammerman of the New York Supreme Court said the case can go on,...
NOBODY INTERESTED IN 'SECRET TALENTS OF STARS'
CBS' "Secret Talents of the Stars" has been canceled after just one episode. The show featured a group of B-level stars competing in a talent show doing things they are...
STARR REPORT
Numbers, of 'Late' To borrow part of an old '60s TV title, last week was "The Week That Was" for Craig Ferguson. Ferguson's "Late Late Show" beat Conan O'Brien's "Late...
WHAT THE DUCK?
IF all the statistics cited in this new National Geographic Channel special were laid end to end, you could wrap them around your own head 112 times. And you would...
LUCKY CO-STARS
SMART PEOPLE *** Mixed couples.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated R (teen drug and alcohol use, brief sexuality and partial nudity). At the Cinema 1, the Chelsea, the Angelika, others. CALL...
EAST MEETS WEST IN SOUTHERN CELLS
HARDENED convicts serving life terms for horrific murders are people, too. That's the lesson to be drawn from "The Dhamma Brothers," an inspiring documentary written and directed by Jenny Phillips,...
LOOKING BACK, SEEING NOTHING
THE audience, if any, for "Chaos Theory" is going to be hit with a little puff of celluloid flatulence. The movie won't linger in the air, but that doesn't make...
YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA
THE title of Sue Williams' "Young & Restless in China" might lead you to believe that the characters in the long-running soap opera have moved to Beijing. They haven't, of...
DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
BEST movie I've seen so far this year? Hands down, it's Tom McCarthy's superb "The Visitor," which turns Richard Jenkins, one of the best character actors in the business, into...
DARK MATTER
A brilliant Chinese graduate student at a fictitious American university violently flips out in "Dark Matter," an unsatisfying drama that premiered at Sundance '07 and was supposedly delayed because of...
BRA BOYS
'LAW & Order" meets "Wide World of Sports" in the strange documentary "Bra Boys," about surfers and criminals at a working-class beach in Australia. Four brothers who grew up poor...
REMEMBER THE DAZE
'REMEMBER the Daze" remembers "Dazed and Confused" but forgets to put in the laughs. Some 22 dull characters (the cast includes Leighton Meester of "Gossip Girl") shuffle aimlessly around this...
NOTHING KEANU UNDER THE SUN
ALARM clock goes off. Load an automatic weapon, have a light vomit, and start looking for people to shoot. It's how I start my day, and it works pretty well...
HE'S THE WRONG MAN - IN THE RIGHT FILM
JOHN Leguizamo knocks it out of the park as an armored car driver in "The Take," which is quite a bit better than you'd expect from a low-budget thriller that's...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
DOGME DAYS April 11 - film Harmony Korine, of "Kids" fame, did his bit for the Dogme movement in 1999 with "Julien Donkey-Boy," a shocking portrait of a dysfunctional family....
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Imperial Theatre, 249 W....
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": **** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE": ** ½ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre....
OFF BROADWAY
ADDING MACHINE": *** ½ A powerful chamber-music theater adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionist classic. Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane; (212) 307-4100. "ALMOST AN EVENING": Three new comic plays...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
HOT CHIP: Electronica meets dance-rock when Brit superstars make the hipsters groove tomorrow at 7 p.m. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; (718) 599-5103. JOE JACKSON: The...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Tuesday through April 19: Cesar Camargo Mariano, Harry Allan, Joao Bosco and others play the BossaBrasil Festival. Lineup at birdlandjazz.com. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Thursday...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Superstar pianist Lang Lang joins the New York Philharmonic for the world premiere of Tan Dun's Piano Concerto and Stravinsky's "The Firebird," today and tomorrow at 8...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE:Today and tomorrow: Barbara Cook. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S:Tonight and tomorrow: Lainie Kazan. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. METROPOLITAN ROOM: Through Monday: Karen Mason. 3 W....
DANCE
CITY CENTER:The Kirov Ballet and Orchestra perform works by Balanchine, Forsythe and others through April 20. 130 W. 56th St.; (212) 581-1212. JOYCE THEATER:Ballet Tech company's "Mandance Project" includes the...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES:The 50-year career of animator Robert Breer is the focus of a weekend festival that features his short films, a listing of which is available at anthologyfilmarchives.org. 32...
PREVIEWS
"A CATERED AFFAIR": Harvey Fierstein wrote, produces and stars in this musical version of Paddy Chayevsky's play, with Faith Prince and Tom Wopat. Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St.;...
Italian Clubs Seek Revenge
By CLEMENTE LISIEleven months ago, AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi -- not one to mince words -- declared that Italian soccer was the best in the world.Frankly, who could blame...
Wings Win Hard-fought Game One
Detroit's Johan Franzen attacks the crease. The Wings ended the night with a 3-1 win, but the victory was anything but easy.For Nashville, Dan Ellis was superb in goal. Again...
Rhodes finds well-deserved security
Jets safety Kerry Rhodes waited quietly and patiently while the Jets conducted their free agent spending spree in February.In all, some $140 million in new contracts, including more than $63...
JORGE ROJAS AND OTHER RED BULL NOTES (UPDATED)
By BRIAN LEWISRed Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio is still working overtime to add to his roster, still hoping to add Venezuelan star Jorge "Zurdo'' Rojas before Tuesdayâs transfer window...