May 16, 2008

'JEWISH BLOOD IS NOT CHEAP'

Crown Heights erupted in anger today as hundreds marched in protest after a 16-year-old Jewish teen was beaten and robbed in the early morning hours. Police have made no arrests...

METS-YANKEES RAINED OUT

Tonight's Subway Series opener between the Mets and Yankees at Yankee Stadium has been postponed due to rain. No makeup date has been announced. The Yankees say the game will...

Subway opener rained out

Tonight's first game of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium has been postponed due to rain. No makeup date was announced, other than the Yankees stating that the game won't...

Minaya: Willie not in danger

GM Omar Minaya gave embattled Mets boss Willie Randolph a vote of confidence tonight in response to calls for Randolph's ouster over the club's 20-19 start. When asked if Randolph...

Deal of the Day-Urban Outfitters

All I have to say is that I need this Lux Striped Suzy House Dress.And I mean, need. The girly number will be my uniform this summer and will be...

RANDOLPH FIRES BACK AT FIRING TALK

A fiesty Willie Randolph spent time on WFAN's "Mike & the Mad Dog" show today claiming he wasn't affected by the growing calls for him to be fired. "I'm human....

Players-only meeting on tap

David Wright told reporters this afternoon that the Mets plan to hold a players-only meeting in the clubhouse at Yankee Stadium to clear the air after Billy Wagner's postgame rant...

Why I Love Cooperstown

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- So, I’m walking down Main Street, the best Main Street in the world, I peer into a shop window and see this T-shirt for sale: “I was...

Avery starts Vogue internship

Women's Wear Daily reports Sean Avery started his internship at Vogue magazine on Monday.The Web site says "Observers say he's involved in all sections of the magazine, including features and...

Friday frivolity: Hollywood Tails

"The Dogfather" How to pass the time until it's time to call it a week:Watch some of the most famous movie scenes, re-created by dogs and cats (renamed with titles...

ON DECK: METS AT YANKEES

The No. 4 and No. 7 trains derailed on their way to the Subway Series, which starts tonight at Yankee Stadium (7:05, WWOR, SNY, WFAN, WCBS). "You can't look ahead...

Brian McBride to Chicago?

(Sports Illustrated) McBride’s wife is from the Chicago area and they maintain a house there. The Fire are 5-1-1, their 16 points the second-most in MLS. They’ve allowed a league-low...

FLASHBACK: BOBBY V IN TROUBLE

FROM JUNE 7, 1999 Bobby Valentine is in trouble. Real trouble. The firing of three of his coaches late Saturday after a second straight loss to the Yankees and an...

FLASHBACK: METS FIRE COACHES DURING SUBWAY SERIES

Panic has set in. General manager Steve Phillips, upset with the Mets' losing ways, fired three of Bobby Valentine's coaches last night after the Mets lost to the Yankees, but...

Mets coverage in today's Post

The "Fire Willie" Watch is in full swing, as it should be after yesterday's inexcusable 1-0 loss to the lowly Nationals at Shea. How you waste a near no-hitter by...

JASON GIAMBI WEARS GOLD THONG FOR LUCK: REPORT

Baseball players are legendary for their superstitions, but Jason Giambi's technique for snapping a batting slump may rank among the strangest : He puts on a gold lame, tiger-striped thong....

AMPUTEE RUNNER WINS RIGHT TO OLYMPICS TRYOUT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the...

Why Randolph is in trouble

From JOEL SHERMAN I don't think Willie Randolph's players hate him. That is not the sense you get around the team. But what you sense is perhaps just as damaging....

3 UP: Willie, Cashman and the Rays

1. I don't think Willie Randolph's players hate him. That is not the sense you get around the team. But what you sense is perhaps just as damaging. There is...

Lost recap: the end begins

It's nothing but blue skies for tonight's episode of "Lost" as we focus in on a plane preparing to land. The pilot of the plane refers to some bad "mojo"...

Cannes: Street Art

During the festival, Cannes is a giant sea of billboards, many of them for proposed films that will never actually get made after they fail to attract pre-sales. Here's one...

Cannes: 'The Royal Tenenbaums' en Francais

A artsy, highly dysfunctional family shaped by a long-ago tragedy all get together for the first time in years. One of the parents is dying, the daughter is a melancholy...

14.5% WATER HOSING

The Water Board is poised to raise water and sewer rates today by 14.5 percent, ignoring a last-minute plea by a majority of the City Council to postpone its meeting...

POST PRICE NCREASE

The weekday price of the New York Post will rise to 50 cents starting Monday, May 19, as a result of increased production and transportation costs. For hard-hitting news, world-famous...

LABOR PAINS: DAVE TELLS UNIONS THE PARTY'$ OVER

ALBANY - Citing a growing budget deficit, Gov. Paterson yesterday warned powerful labor unions and their legislative allies that he'll fight any attempt to raid the state treasury this year....

PROBER COP A LIAR: FEDS

The feds yesterday charged an NYPD Internal Affairs sergeant with lying about advising a detective looking to evade a department probe, authorities said. William Valerio, 41, a 16-year police veteran,...

COONSKIN CAPPED

Cops trying to safely capture a raccoon in a tree on the Upper East Side bungled their attempt at animal control yesterday - and wound up killing the furry woodland...

ISRAEL PM WAS ON A 'CASH DIET'

A former New York limo driver says he's the bagman who delivered suspected bribes to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Manhattan and Jerusalem - including cash hidden in cases...

HER HONOR WIELDS A BIG GAVEL

Former Brooklyn US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf was formally inducted as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York yesterday before a standing-room-only crowd of legal luminaries. Mauskopf, the...

TWO TOP COPS RAPPED

Two high-ranking NYPD commanders were disciplined this week in separate instances of misconduct. Inspector Michael Phipps, a 26-year NYPD veteran who commands the housing unit in Manhattan, forfeited 30 days'...

FALLING DEBRIS HALTS DEUTSCHE

Dismantling work at the trouble-plagued site of the Deutsche Bank building was halted yesterday after a steel disc fell 22 stories from a hoist, authorities said. No one was hurt....

BROOKLYN CHAMP CAN CHESS-THUMP

Brooklyn's Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, a sixth-grader at IS 234, was crowned national chess champion this week after besting 2,200 students at a tournament in Pittsburgh. Although the Russian-born pawn-pusher is just...

CHEAP MCGREEVEY LET DINA PAY FOR NUPTIALS

What a cheapskate! Jim "I am a gay American" McGreevey didn't pay a dime for his 2000 wedding, instead letting Dina foot the bill, the ex-New Jersey governor admitted yesterday....

TROOPER SUICIDE

ALBANY - A former top State Police official slated to be questioned in the political Dirty Tricks probe committed suicide yesterday at his upstate home, officials said last night. Retired...

GAY COP IN PERV ARREST

An NYPD sergeant who once headed the city's gay-cops coalition sexually preyed upon a relative's adopted son, forcing the boy to have sex on a weekly basis, authorities charged yesterday....

CRUISE 'WIDOWER' BACK

His lips firmly zipped and his nose in a book titled "Accidentally Yours," a New Jersey man whose girlfriend plunged from a cruise-ship balcony flew home from Bermuda yesterday. Before...

'SUPER' MAN NAILS 'THIEF'

A burglar known for a lifetime of crime was collared by a quick-thinking superintendent as the thief attempted another break-in, authorities said. Glenard Brown, 51, was trying to break into...

B'WAY PLUNGE SUIT

The "Little Mermaid" actor who fell more than 30 feet onto a Broadway stage is far more seriously injured then previously believed, and is planning to sue over the freak...

THIS $60 STRAP IS THE REASON 7 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES ON EAST SIDE

Federal investigators yesterday displayed frayed nylon slings and other evidence showing the physical forces involved in the March 15 East Side crane collapse that killed seven people. Officials aren't saying...

LANDLORD IN BOMB INDICT

A Brooklyn man was indicted yesterday on attempted-murder charges for trying to evict a tenant - with a homemade bomb that claimed the victim's leg. Yung Tang, 38, also was...

NY ARREST IN PA. RAPE-SLAY

A Pennsylvania murder and rape suspect was busted in Manhattan in a stolen rental SUV - then briefly escaped near Central Booking, authorities said yesterday. Ritchie Yaris, 26, of Philadelphia,...

SOME RAIL TALENT

Buskers are laying down some new tracks in the subway. The MTA yesterday announced the winning 23 musicians in its "subway idol" competition, awarding selected acts with the most coveted...

CITY FACING AN EMT EMERGENCY

The Emergency Medical Service will have to use overtime to fill its shifts because of a shortage of EMTs, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta revealed yesterday. Testifying at a City Council...

THIS PLAZA'S SWEET

The Meatpacking District has gotten a face lift that'll stop traffic - literally. The former traffic hotspot where six streets converge at Little West 12th Street has been transformed into...

PLAYBOY TO LAUNCH 'GAYBOY'

The world's most famous bunny is bouncing both ways. Playboy Enterprises, the parent company behind the famous girlie magazine for men, confirmed they are launching a gay-porn cable station that...

MAC: I'D END IRAQ WAR BY '13

John McCain - who once said US troops could be in Iraq for 100 years - yesterday promised that if he's elected, the vast majority of American forces would return...

PREZ SLAMS O POLICY OF 'TALK TO TERRORISTS'

WASHINGTON - Addressing Israel's parliament yesterday, President Bush blasted Barack Obama's proposal to negotiate with enemies - comparing it to the appeasement policy that did nothing to stop Adolf Hitler....

ALL BETS OFF FOR BARKLEY

One-time hoops great Charles Barkley will face criminal charges if he doesn't pay off a massive debt to a Las Vegas casino, Sin City prosecutors said yesterday. Barkley - a...

SLEAZE SLEUTH GUILTY

A federal jury hammered private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano yesterday, convicting him of snooping on Hollywood bigwigs with wiretaps, among other dirty tricks. The 64-year-old sleuth was found...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN * Three alleged pimps were busted after taking money from an undercover cop at a Chinatown brothel, authorities said yesterday. Ying Yeung, 34, Sheng Li, 46, and Ben Zheng,...

JOLIE: I WANT MORE BABIES

CANNES, France - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt won't quit making babies after she delivers twins this summer. "Not this time," the world's most glamorous pregnant mother told a Swedish...

HUGS FOR THUGS COULD SINK NAIVE OBAMA

WASHINGTON - What is it about the word "appeasement" that got Barack Obama's ears ringing? Without once uttering the freshman anti-war senator's name, President Bush warned against negotiating with terrorists...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 934; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 5713; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 576; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 0931;...

SAVING BABIES FROM BAD PARENTS

Credit where it is due: Administration for Children's Services head John Mattingly seems to get it. At a City Council hearing this week, Mattingly announced a new ACS policy giving...

BUSH, OBAMA AND TERROR

President Bush touched a nerve yesterday when he went before the Israeli Knesset and criticized those who "believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals" as engaging in...

ALBANY'S WASTEFUL 'INVESTMENTS'

WITH New York's five- year cumulative deficit now projected to hit an astounding $27 billion, Gov. Paterson has no choice but to cut state spending. Ripe for the chopping block:...

A TEST FOR ABBAS

ANYONE with high hopes for the Middle East Road map as President Bush ar rived in Israel Wednesday might reasonably be considered insane - that is, if insanity is, as...

THE GONER

IN 2006, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel had an inspiration: run culturally conservative Democrats in culturally conservative congressional districts. This doesn't sound like the stuff of strategic brilliance,...

MINDING COPS: COUNCIL'S ON IT

REP. John Conyers (D-Mich.) convened a Ju diciary Committee hearing to discuss race relations and policing in New York and even called for a federal monitor. I commend the desire...

BURMA'S DITHERING - & AMERICA'S

* Abe Greenwald's concise analysis of the United Nations' lame response to the devastation in Burma is right on ("Don't Wait for 'the World,' " PostOpinion, May 13). He knows...

PORK BY ANY NAME IS JUST AS UNKOSHER

* Rep. Anthony Weiner thinks that he's tough in calling for an end to the money tree at the City Council ("Wise Words on Pork," Editorial, May 13). If Weiner...

HEDGES BET ICAHN

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is about to learn dealmaking's golden rule: at a certain price, everyone's a seller. Only a few hours after Carl Icahn said Yahoo!'s board "acted irrationally"...

YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE

Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned....

AP JOB TO NY TIMES VET

ENDING weeks of rumors, Michael Oreskes is stepping down from atop the International Herald Tribune and heading to the Associated Press to be its first-ever managing editor for US news....

YAHOO!, WPP PLAN WEB AD ALLIANCE

Yahoo! and WPP Group will announce a partnership that the companies said would make it easier and more effective for WPP and its agencies to buy and target advertising across...

BLACKSTONE GETS FUNDS IN SPITE OF BIG LOSSES

Despite his recently failed deals and huge new losses, Wall Street is starting to throw even more billions at Steve Schwarzman and his Blackstone Group, sending its shares higher. Blackstone...

WEB FEAT FOR CBS

CBS boss Les Moonves yesterday moved to step up the Tiffany Network's presence on the Internet in a big way, announcing a deal to acquire San Francisco-based Web information and...

WILL 3RD TIME BE LUCKY FOR EA?

It's decision time once again for Electronic Arts boss John Riccitello. His company's $2 billion tender offer for Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is set to expire today. But...

KIRK'S CRAVING ONE SUITE DEAL

A partnership of Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Mirage and investment company Dubai World has held discussions about buying the Drake Hotel site from developer Harry Macklowe, The Post has learned. While...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Hairy ants are overtaking east Texas. Five counties around Houston have reported infestations of "crazy Rasberry ants" - named for legendary local exterminator Tom Rasberry- which are shorting out electrical...

HONDO'S HUGE LOSS

The Giants pulled a gigantic choke yesterday, blowing a 6-0 lead that caused Hondo's earnings to plunge to 190 hamakers. Tonight, now that hustling is optional for the Metamucils, the...

ANNIKA'S RED HOT

The Farewell Annika Tour started in the fast lane, even while she basked in a state of serenity. The decision to retire in December didn't damage Annika Sorenstam's game yesterday....

FLYERS AVOID SWEEP

PHILADELPHIA - The Flyers, facing The End, needed a better start and finally got one. They beat what had been a suffocating Penguins trap with speed and intelligence. They forced...

SPORTS SHORTS

NBA: Spurs force Game 7Manu Ginobili scored 25 points, Tim Duncan added 20 points and 15 rebounds, and the Spurs beat the Hornets 99-80 last night in San Antonio to...

YOUTH IS LOSING POKER GAMBLE

IT'S mid-May, the days are longer, warmer. Whattya say we stay inside and keep playing poker? It's the end of spring training, sports fans, the beginning of the new season,...

GRASSHOPPER ONE TO BEAT IN SPECIAL

BALTIMORE - The Preakness isn't the only big race at Pimlico this week. Today, older horses clash in the Grade 1, $250,000 Pimlico Special - first run as the match...

BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 133RD PREAKNESS STAKES

BETTOR'S GUIDE TO THE 133RD PREAKNESS STAKES

NO 'BIG' STUD DEAL - YET

BALTIMORE - A deal with a prominent Kentucky horse farm to syndicate Big Brown for stud duty - estimates range as high as $50 million - was not announced yesterday,...

BIG BROWN HAS 'THE KID' IN HIS CORNER

BALTIMORE - One down, two to go, for Brown to take the Crown, and "The Kid" is in his corner. Thirty years ago, Steve Cauthen, then an 18-year-old phenom who...

SUPERHORSE WILL WIN SECOND LEG

BALTIMORE - Barring accident, bad luck or bad karma, Big Brown will win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico tomorrow and surge forward to sweep the Triple Crown, a feat unsighted...

WE'RE CONFIDENT OUR HORSE WILL DELIVER

Rick Dutrow Jr. trains undefeated Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, the favorite for tomorrow's 133rd Preakness as he bids to sweep the Triple Crown. This week he shares his thoughts...

JERSEY-BASED MMA PROMOTER GETS PRIME TIME SHOWCASE

GARY SHAW says he sleeps about two hours a night, which is about all he can spare while working as a promoter in the hectic worlds of boxing and mixed...

HORNEK HELPS ST. FRANCIS DEFEAT MOLLOY

It's an age-old baseball maxim that penetrates all levels of play: Give the ball to your best pitcher when you most need a win. Unfortunately for St. Francis Prep yesterday,...

WYNN VISITS WITH BIG BLUE

The Giants in last month's NFL Draft did not select any defensive linemen, but they may be interested in adding an experienced player to that position for depth purposes. With...

JETS' QB RACE STILL A TOSS UP

At the start of what will be a marathon competition for the Jets' starting quarterback job, there was a coin toss. Hopefully, that's not the way the competition between Chad...

BAKER'S MISSING IN ACTION

Two players were missing from the Jets practices yesterday - tight end Chris Baker, who's boycotting the voluntary sessions while in a contract dispute, and safety Abram Elam, who's in...

APPEALING TO A 'HIRE' AUTHORITY

BILLY King, Billy Knight, Bernie Bickerstaff and a mystery man are the exclusive competition for the Knicks' GM job, it says here. My use of a mystery man allows me...

HIGH EXPECTATIONS

The Knicks have averaged 28 wins the past four seasons. Mike D'Antoni has averaged 58 wins in Phoenix the past four seasons. The new Knicks coach declared yesterday he'll be...

METS PREPARING FOR AMAZIN' SUBWAY RIDE

You had manager Willie Randolph reminiscing about Yankee Stadium, Moises Alou wondering what it would be like to finally play a game there and Billy Wagner quoting Hank Steinbrenner. Those...

CASTILLO RETURNS - AND RUNS INTO TROUBLE

Second baseman Luis Castillo made a surprise return to the Mets' lineup yesterday and quickly figured in one of the key plays in their 1-0 loss to the Nationals. METS...

BOOS FOR WILLIE'S AMAZIN' MESS

There are losses, and then there are soul-crushing nightmares that send teams spiraling and get managers fired. For the Mets and embattled boss Willie Randolph, yesterday's 1-0 setback against the...

PELFREY'S MATURING ON MOUND

Mike Pelfrey lost a no-hit bid in the seventh inning yesterday, and essentially lost the game one frame later. The young starter walked off the mound to a standing ovation...

UN-MET GOALS PUT RANDOLPH IN JEOPARDY

WILLIE Randolph is in big trouble. That cannot be ignored any more. He was booed off the field making a pitching change yesterday - the second consecutive day Shea fans...

A-QUAD ALMOST SET TO PLAY BALL

ST. PETERSBURG - If Alex Rodriguez doesn't suffer a setback in his right quad between today and Monday night, he will rejoin the Yankees Tuesday and try to boost a...

THE SUBWAY SERIES MATCHUPS

They should play the first three games of the Subway Series at the corner of Walk/Don't Walk instead of Yankee Stadium because the Yankees and Mets are very pedestrian teams...

IT'LL BE WAR TO SCORE IN SERIES

ST. PETERSBURG - Johan Santana doesn't have to live on the black tonight against the Yankees. All he has to do is assault the strike zone and keep the ball...

TINO OK WITH RANT BY HANK

Tino Martinez has been on teams that were on the receiving end of some rather harsh assessments from George Steinbrenner. Since the end of last year, Hank Steinbrenner has taken...

RIVALRY GOES FROM SUBWAY TO SUBPAR

HELL, N.Y. - Nobody saw this coming. Did you? Did anyone named Steinbrenner, George or Hank or Hal? Did anyone named Wilpon, Fred or Jeff? This is supposed to be...

CURTAIN'S UP ON OUTDOOR MOVIES

SUMMER in the city has its perks: short shorts, Mister Softee trucks and, natch, outdoor movies. This season, the city offers up a slew of films - in parks and...

'GREASE' GETS HICKS

CALL him the one that you want - again. Taylor Hicks, whose "Soul Patrol" fans propelled him to victory on the fifth season of "American Idol," slithers into "Grease" on...

TONY LANDSLIDE: 'CRY-BABY' BY 1

HERE'S something that'll make the folks at "A Catered Affair" drive their taxi off a cliff: They missed out on the coveted Tony nomination for Best Musical by one measly...

WEDDING REVIVED WITHOUT A HITCH

NEW York City Ballet's su persized Jerome Robbins Celebration offers 33 Rob bins ballets, from his first, 1944's "Fancy Free," to his last, "West Side Story Suite" in 1995. But...

SOLO PORTRAIT OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT BEARS UP

THE advantage of a show like "The Bully Pulpit," Michael O. Smith's entertaining solo portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, is that it provides an easily digestible history lesson for those who...

NINA STAYS AT ELLE FOR 'RUNWAY'

NINA Garcia, the hard-to-please judge on "Project Runway," is jumping to Marie Claire magazine - but not before she finishes at least one more season on "Runway." In a complicated...

JACK'S PREZ TWIST

JACK Bauer is getting involved in the presidential elections this November. Fox is preparing a special two-hour "24" TV movie to air this fall - with a plot that revolves...

TAKIN' A SHOT

TWO questions are overriding all others as "Desperate Housewives" goes into its two-hour season finale this weekend. The questions are not even likely to be answered on Sunday (9-11 p.m....

STARR REPORT

One of the good guys A few words about Warren Cowan, the legendary PR whiz who died Wednesday night in LA at the age of 87 after a career spanning...

DAD WON'T QUIT

EVEN though he was banished to the cheap seats, the father of "American Idol" hopeful David Archuleta couldn't keep his mouth shut. "Idol" producers have told Jeff Archuleta - an...

REFUGEE WOES IN BROOKLYN

TWO timely issues - illegal immigration and identity theft - power the stylishly dark "Sangre de Mi Sangre," the first feature by Kenya-born, Columbia-educated filmmaker Christopher Zalla. The story opens...

MY FATHER MY LORD

'MY Father My Lord" lasts just 73 minutes, and I spent the first hour or so wondering what the director-writer, David Volach, was getting at in his nearly plotless feature...

YELLA

YELLA (Nina Hoss), the title character in German writer- director Christian Petzold's thriller, is leaving her sleepy town for a well-paying job in a city. She accepts a ride to...

QUANTUM HOOPS: THE CALTECH BASKETBALL STORY

REVENGE of the Nerds" minus laughs plus inspirational music equals "Quantum Hoops," a documentary about the inept Caltech basketball team - which as the film begins is in the midst...

IT'S NORWAY TO WRITE

LIKE many a Scandinavian film before it, Norway's "Reprise" is a tale of lust: a naked, urgent, wanton craving for literature. Erik and Phillip, two friends in their early 20s,...

FRENCH FEST IS CANNES-IMATED

CANNES - The fuss over Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aside, the animated film generating the most buzz at the Cannes Film Festival is not "Kung Fu Panda," which is...

GOOD KNIGHT, AND GOOD PLUCK

KIDS do grow up fast: Since the last time we saw the quartet from Narnia, they've aged 1,300 years. Another classic saga of deeds dastardly and swashes buckled, "The Chronicles...

WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1998 MUSIC - May 16 There's always a Friday night party to be found in the city, and every weekend warrior from Bayonne to Bay Shore knows...

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. Music Box Theatre, 239...

PREVIEWS

"PORT AUTHORITY": Conor McPherson's tale of everyday Dubliners dealing with life, loss and love. Atlantic Theater Company, 336 W. 20th St.; (212) 279-4200. Opens Wednesday."SAVED": A new musical comedy, based...

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": ** A stellar cast,...

POP, ROCK, FOLK

JACK GRACE BAND: Local country crooner Jack Grace hosts a two-hour open mike before his band graces the stage, and they're followed by the Defibulators, all beginning Sunday at 7...

JAZZ

DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA: Through Sunday: The Julliard Jazz Orchestra salutes Sir Duke with "Celebrating Ellington." Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th St.; (212) 258-9595. THE JAZZ GALLERY: Tuesday:...

CLASSICAL

AVERY FISHER HALL: Kristen Chenoweth and Raul Esparza sing Broadway's best with the New York Philharmonic Tuesday at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center, 132 W. 65th St.; (212) 875-5656. SYMPHONY SPACE:...

DANCE

JAPAN SOCIETY: Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks troupe debuts a brand-new addition to their "Page Out of Order" saga tonight at 7:30 p.m., then perform it again...

FILM

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Lee Man Hui's "The Marine Who Never Returned" (1963), a classic from Korean cinema's "Golden Age," screens Thursday at 7 p.m. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BAM:...

FAIRS, FESTS. ETC...

DOG DAY AFTERNOON: Milk Bone celebrates its 100th anniversary in Times Square, where a 480-square-foot doghouse made from 100,000 dog biscuits serves as a backdrop for dancing dog demonstrations, psychic...

Some Minor Musings - Yankee edition

After missing most of the last several days, we're going to try and catch you up on everything we've missed in the last week, starting with this post on the...