August 20, 2009
Heatley to address situation
APKELOWNA, British Columbia -- Disgruntled Ottawa Senators forward Dany Heatley is breaking his silence about his rocky relationship with the team. The 28-year-old left winger, who has been in limbo...
SHEFF AND METS AT ODDS
By JOEL SHERMANGary Sheffield asked the Mets for a contract extension, the club rejected the oveture and now Sheffield has threatened to leave the team and head home, two sources...
NFL: Plaxico can play after prison
By PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY -- Plaxico Burress will be suspended from the NFL during his prison stay but will be reinstated once he is released, according to commissioner Roger Goodell.That no...
2 Yankees prospects banned 50 games
APTwo minor leaguers in the Yankees' organization have been suspended for 50 games each after positive tests under baseball's minor league drug program.The penalties for pitchers Nestor de Leon and...
Robert Wilson's Threepenny Opera
We're getting a Robert Wilson show in the fall, but it's his staging of Heiner Müller's "Quartett," at BAM. Meanwhile, his production of "Threepenny Opera" with the Berliner Ensemble will...
'Beautiful' Bodies, Er, 'Life'
Watch out Vanessa Hudgens, one of your "High School Musical" classmates is stealing your nude pic spotlight!The CW just released these promo photos for Ashton Kutcher's upcoming series, "The Beautiful...
Cast Talks 'Guiding Light' at Wrap Party
"Most people hate their jobs, but this has been so much fun," said Grant Aleksander (left, in 1999), who until Sept. 18 plays Phillip Spaulding on "Guiding Light," (he has...
Wagner activated, Livan released
The Mets juggled their pitching staff today, activating reliever Billy Wagner from the disabled list and releasing starter Livan Hernandez to make room on the roster.Hernandez's abrupt dismissal wasn't exactly...
Game 121: Braves at Mets
(UPDATED: 4 P.M.)Johan Santana goes for his 14th victory of the season tonight when the Mets take on the Braves in the finale of a three-game NL East series at...
Sanchez has better day than Clemens
By MARK CANNIZZAROCORTLAND _ It wasn't exactly a rout, but Mark Sanchez clearly had a better practice today than Kellen Clemens in the Jets' starting quarterback derby.Sanchez, who had some...
Feds' CityPoint bailout is a bad use of taxpayer dollars
They made the unwise, risky investment. Now you’re holding the bag. That, in a nutshell, is what happened this week when the city announced that it would funnel $20 million...
'Debate Week' continues with our comptroller forum tonight!
The Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn Independent Television’s “Debate Week” goes citywide with tonight’s exciting comptroller forum on the BCAT TV Network — a battle featuring the candidates to succeed mayoral...
Mara: Plaxico "an American tragedy''
By PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY -- Word spread quickly that Plaxico Burress accepted a plea deal that will land him in jail for two years, and the reaction from the Giants was...
Dow Jones goes down
I was mildly excited at the prospect of seeing "How Now, Dow Jones," and so I was mildly disappointed by the actual production, as you can read here. (And in...
MRNY Visits South Williamsburg to Promote Transparency
For years, the address has sent shivers through the spines of tenants throughout North Brooklyn: 199 Lee Avenue. Home of Lee Avenue Shipping and Communication, it is the site of...
Go, go, go, go the trolleys!
Just as Mayor Bloomberg hinted that he was interested in bringing streetcar service back to Red Hook and other waterfront areas, a local businessman is looking to divest himself of...
Yassky comptroller run gives ground in home borough
City Comptroller candidate David Yassky is finding that his failed race for Congress is beginning to erode political support in his home borough.Yassky, who currently represents the 33rd District in...
The Daily Whacks, Thursday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******Well let's just say you can knock me over with a feather now that it...
Chat rewind: Aug. 20
Click on the replay arrow in the graphic below to revisit my hour-long live chat on the Mets:Mets chat with Bart Hubbuch
‘Big circus’ wish comes true in Coney Island
West Virginia teen AlisaAnne Scamehorn’s dream has always been to see “the big circus.” This week her wish came true in Coney Island.“She was ecstatic,” dad John Scamehorne said. “She...
Amare: '50-50' I will stay with Suns
Amare Stoudemire told Yahoo.com that the chances of him staying with the Suns past this season are '50-50'.If Stoudemire chooses not to exercise his $17.6 million player or sign an...
Coverage in The Post
Bobby Parnell's evolution into a major-league starter took a step back Wednesday night when the rookie right-hander gave up eight runs in the second inning en route to a 15-2...
3 UP: MVP VOTING, PEDRO AND SMOLTZ
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. I learned yesterday that I have been put on the committee that will vote for the AL MVP award. I recognize that simply writing that...
No Business Like Shoah Business
I didn't have space to note that "Nation's Pride,'' the German film-within-the-film directed by Eli Roth and starring Daniel Bruhl as a German war hero playing himself, seems to be...
OBAMACARE'S BAIT & SWITCH
Thomas Sowell on deception of health reform planDebra Saunders says no one should be suprised
PEDRO'S NEW PIGGYBANK
The Albany Times Union on Albany's patronage spreeYonkers Tribune's Henry Stern on the Espada differenceLong Island Business News says great liberal hope is lost
Goodwin's take
Starting in Las Vegas summer league, you can follow me with updates on Twitter.By MARC BERMANAaron Goodwin, Nate Robinson's powerful agent, was taken aback by the tone of some stories...
A win increases the first place lead
Cyclones 6Spikes 1Wednesday, Aug. 19 at State College With the hated Yankees losing, a big Cyclones win moves the first-place Brooks into a commanding three-and-a-half-game lead with just 18 left...
Drink outside the box
As anyone who has hazy memories of college will tell you, it doesn't take much to throw a great party. In the case of MADCrush -- the Thursday night soiree...
'Dow' doesn't wow
THE Fringe Festival tends to prefer its mu sicals new and inept, so it's rather refreshing to hear a certain old-school songwriting craft at a fest show. Yet this revival...
'Project Runway': Fashionably late
Tonight, after an epic battle between Bravo, the original home of "Project Runway," and Lifetime, usurper of "Project Runway," the show returns battered but intact -- or should I say...
Singing the praises of a diva
IT'S strange to remember a diva best for a moment when she wasn't singing, but Hildegard Behrens probably wouldn't mind. As Brunnhilde in the Metropolitan Opera's 1988 production of "Die...
There's electricity in the air
THE B-52s concert got bombed out by rain and lightning strikes Tuesday night, but before the show was prematurely ditched, the New Wave dance aces showed why the Beach at...
Meghan McCain liked 'View'
Meghan McCain is heading back to "The View." The divisive daughter of Sen. John McCain -- Democrats kind of dig her softer side of the right wing ways; Republicans kind...
Whitney's back
Oprah is kicking off the 24th season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" by chatting with Whitney Houston. Winfrey is calling the sit-down interview with the scandal-plagued diva, which airs on...
Hatch back in jail
Richard Hatch was dragged back to jail within hours of giving an interview to the "Today" show. Authorities say the "Survivor" winner -- who is finishing his sentence for tax...
Ballots, bullets, bombs
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence today to choose a new president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a...
Rape lawsuit vs. magician Copperfield
A Seattle woman claims that illusionist David Copperfield repeatedly sexually assaulted her on his private island in the Bahamas during a horrifying two-day ordeal, according to a bombshell federal lawsuit....
50G cop bill for Jacko rites
Michael Jackson's family will cough up $50,000 to have cops ring a Southern California cemetery during the King of Pop's final farewell, police said yesterday. Jackson will be laid to...
To keep NY streets safe
New Yorkers were shocked to learn last month that the NYPD won't be receiving any of the $1 billion in stimulus funds earmarked for police hiring nationwide. As its reason...
Don't cripple state authorities
Lost in the months-long power struggle in Albany was the Legislature's approval of a measure dubbed the Public Authorities Reform Act. Its sponsors, as well as a number of editorial...
TV legend dies
Don Hewitt, the CBS newsman who created "60 Minutes" and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died yesterday at 86. He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton, LI,...
Scary fish find
WASHINGTON -- A federal study of mercury contamination has found the toxic substance in every fish tested at 291 streams nationwide, a finding that underscores how extensive mercury pollution has...
ObamaCare's bait & switch
President Obama has stopped talking about "health-care reform." The new poll-tested phrase of the day is "health-insurance reform." Specifically the president says he wants to protect people with "pre-existing conditions."...
A case of cooperation: Dylan's tangle with blue
*** It is time for another beer summit at the White House ("Dylan's a Complete Unknown," Aug. 15). It appears that NJ police are profiling old rock stars not carrying...
Shedding light on watersheds
*** Max Schulz fails to mention that the Marcellus Shale underlies the entire West-of-Hudson portion of the NYC watershed, which supplies unfiltered drinking water to over 9 million New Yorkers...
What the government really said about US housing
Here's a riddle: How many electricians, carpenters and painters does it take to build a seasonally-adjusted single-family home? I'm waiting. Take a guess! (I'm not continuing until you calculate how...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A thief pretending to be wielding a gun was slugged by his victim and busted by cops after he snatched a woman's purse and molested her in the East...
95 dead in Iraq blasts
BAGHDAD -- A truck bomb exploded across the street from Iraq's Foreign Ministry yesterday, leaving a mass of charred cars outside as a wave of explosions around Baghdad killed at...
Citi's facing TARP audit
Citigroup's $301 billion of federal asset guarantees, extended by the feds last year to help save the bank from collapse, will be audited to calculate losses and determine whether taxpayers...
CBS screening its ads
The small screen is getting even smaller. In an advertising first, CBS plans to tout its TV fall lineup on a tiny screen embedded in the pages of a magazine....
NY dealers in a 'Clunk' funk
Car dealers are mutinying over the popular Cash for Clunkers program. Hundreds of frustrated dealers around the city have pulled out of the program because the feds are holding up...
Mario tiptoes around son run
A coy former Gov. Mario Cuomo yesterday boosted his son for governor next year -- while avoiding making an endorsement. "If he runs for governor, I want to see him,"...
Striphanger
A strip club isn't the only place in town you can see a pole dance -- amazed passengers on an L train watched in awe as a naked young woman...
Time Warner, YouTube sign video deal
Add Time Warner to the growing list of major media companies striking deals with YouTube. Yesterday, the media giant reached a pact under which Time Warner will allow YouTube to...
Burress under the gun
Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress heads to court today to plead not guilty to felony weapons possession. The ex-Super Bowl hero shot himself in the thigh with his unregistered...
They may not be back
The battlefield scenes in the movie "Terminator Salvation" could be a walk in the park compared with the legal fight confronting the movie's producers. Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, owners...
Rocky road to payback
Long Island car dealer Richard Howard quit the Cash for Clunkers program yesterday, saying he's fed up with the government's management of it. "I put the brakes on it," said...
Mike's pension punch
Mayor Bloomberg and likely Democratic challenger Bill Thompson got into one of their roughest fights of the mayoral campaign yesterday after it was reported that the returns of the city's...
Fallen finest's badge stolen
A thief swiped the badge and name pin of slain NYPD hero Dillon Stewart from the Hall of Heroes in the department's downtown museum, The Post has learned. The items...
Nate hit sour note in arrest
Knick star Nate Robinson blasted rap music and got belligerent with a cop who stopped his SUV, then tried to use his hoop-player status to avoid being arrested, sources said...
Barney explodes over 'Nazi' slur
WASHINGTON -- Sharp-tongued Rep. Barney Frank ridiculed one of his constituents at a heated town-hall meeting in his home state of Massachusetts when a woman compared President Obama's health plan...
L.A. Reid unveils new music publishing venture
EMI Music Publishing and music impresario Antonio "L.A." Reid are expected today to announce a joint venture aimed at inking new songwriters to publishing deals. EMI and Reid will each...
Business briefs
Marts up Stocks gained for a sec ond day. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index in creased 0.7 percent to 996.46. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 61.22 to 9,279.16....
Bus tragedy's hero
A 16-year-old camp counselor said yesterday "I did what I had to do" when she bravely took the wheel of a Queens school bus after the driver had a fatal...
Pol gave 160G to wife's firm
City Councilman Eric Gioia's campaign has paid more than $160,000 to the fund-raising firm run by his wife for his current run for public advocate, records show. His campaign has...
World Series a shore thing
Staten Island's South Shore Little Leaguers awoke early yesterday, sprinted onto the baseball diamond for a 2½-hour practice at 8:30 a.m. and beat the heat. Now the Staten Island kids...
Taken by storm!
Central Park looked like a war zone yesterday after a storm packing 70 mph winds ripped through the lush grounds, knocking down hundreds of stately trees and damaging thousands of...
Mike switches gears on bikes
He's been skeptical for years about whether bike-sharing would work here, but in the middle of his re-election campaign, Mayor Bloomberg has told a bicycling advocacy group that such a...
Just 3½ years for DWI killer
An illegal immigrant -- already under suspicion for a 2006 murder -- will serve as little as 3½ years for drunkenly killing two women in Queens after pleading guilty yesterday...
Condo caper
Ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi, indicted for an alleged fraud that helped bring down the firm, attempted to use his $2 million redemption from a fund he supervised...
Big job$ a coup for Senate Dems
ALBANY -- Fat raises and plum jobs doled out by state Senate Democrats in a shocking post-coup spending spree will cost taxpayers more than $1 million a year, according to...
NY eyes UBS tax cache
The Internal Revenue Service's plan to force as many as 5,000 Americans to pay back taxes on assets they hid from Uncle Sam in Swiss bank accounts will likely provide...
New York's next champs?
It's a little premature to start planning another Yankee parade this fall down the Canyon of Heroes. But another New York City team could bring the city a world championship...
Subway warning signal
At the 181st Street station in upper Man hattan, the sky really is falling -- or, at least, the ceiling is. Think of it as a harbinger, courtesy of the...
Pedro's new piggybank
Want a job in the state Senate? Just become a Friend of Pedro. For the resignation -- following a Post investigation -- of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's son from...
Brute bashed 5-lb. dog to death: cops
A depraved Staten Island bruiser was busted yesterday for unleashing a savage beating on his girlfriend's defenseless Chihuahua, killing the 5-pound pooch days after the animal bit him, authorities said....
New credit card has no limit
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest US credit card lender, is taking aim at the market for affluent card holders dominated by American Express Co. Chase Sapphire, targeted at households...
New York most expensive place to live
It takes 14 New York minutes to earn enough to buy a Big Mac. That's about two minutes per bite. But if you work in Nairobi, Kenya, or Caracas, Venezuela,...
Holy O turns 'faith' healer
WASHINGTON -- Repeatedly invoking the Bible, President Obama yesterday told religious leaders that health-care critics are "bearing false witness" against his plan. The fire-and-brimstone president declared holy war in a...
UK film aims to find Lehman lessons
Less than a year after its gut-wrenching bankruptcy sent Wall Street into an unprecedented spiral, the story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers is about to become a made-for-TV movie...
It's a ma'am slam
It turns out that women have a taste for headlocks and body slams, too. World Wrestling Entertainment, which has long had a stranglehold on the elusive but lucrative young male...
'Harvard' cop beat bias raps
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The white police sergeant whose arrest of a black Harvard professor ignited a national furor was twice before accused of racial bias, but cleared, according to internal...
AIG owes us for Madoff: suit
A couple who had $8.5 million on account with Bernard Madoff filed suit yesterday against bailed-out insurance giant AIG for refusing to reimburse them for what they say they lost....
Dreier left rag firms out to dry
Crooked celebrity lawyer Marc Dreier didn't limit his brazen fraud scheme to big-bucks hedge funds -- he also ripped off famous fashion and footwear firms, court papers revealed yesterday. A...
Reality-TV star eyed in murder
A reality-TV star with a criminal record is the target of an international manhunt after his wife, a swimsuit model, was found murdered and dumped in a California trash bin,...
Outraged Oprah sues over cure-ious web claims
Oprah Winfrey and her favorite physician, "Dr. Oz," filed suit yesterday to shut down more than 500 Web sites that falsely claim the pair endorses the sites' diet pills and...
MTA is sweating bricks
The ceilings of several subway stations that last year were found to be riddled with water damage are still not scheduled for repair, The Post has learned. The findings come...
Model harassed by woman she knew
Ain't that a bitch! The anonymous cyber-bully who harassed and belittled Manhattan model Liskula Cohen with insulting terms like "skank," "ho" and "old hag" on a mean-spirited blog was a...
Chilling last words in Hudson air crash
"Oh, my Lord!" With those heartbreaking words, a woman in the operations center of the Teterboro airport came to the numbing realization that a small plane and helicopter had collided...
$22M cellphone-scam bust
A Brooklyn cellphone-fraud ring that got the confidential records of thousands of AT&T and T-Mobile customers was busted yesterday for allegedly swiping $22 million in wireless devices, authorities said. The...
Jayson gets big break
Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams finally got some good news yesterday, as a North Carolina prosecutor dropped an assault charge against him at the request of a man he was accused...
'Rape' gal's e-mails put me in the clear: QB
PITTSBURGH -- The former Nevada casino worker who accused Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of rape in a civil lawsuit should drop the case because her e-mails and text messages...
Joba says he can start 6 more during regular season
OAKLAND, Calif. — Joba Chamberlain says he will make a half-dozen starts between Tuesday and the end of the regular season. BOX SCORE BIGGEST NEW YORK BUSTS If Chamberlain averages...
'Left' is the right move
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Funny how things change. Three weeks ago, You The Man came to Saratoga as a value horse from a sneaky good barn, decent effort in last, facing...
Duva helping 6-7 lefty make it big
When Zhang Zhilei, China's massive super heavyweight Olympic silver medalist, returns home after training in the U.S. for about three weeks, he'll bring with him a DVD of the movie...
McEnroe: Don't bet on Federer
John McEnroe says Roger Federer could be headed for a letdown at the U.S. Open after having twin girls and already setting the record of 15 Grand Slams in winning...
Putz warms up for next week
The Mets wish they could say the same about their lineup, but the bullpen is getting a lot healthier over the next week. BOX SCORE METS BLOG HUBBUCH ON TWITTER...
Hondo's slithering
Hondo, who had his winning streak stopped at six Tuesday night, started another one last night when the Angels wiped the smile off Chief Wahoo's face to lower the deficit...
Sports shorts
HOOPS: Williams joins Magic Embattled Nate Robinson won't be replaced by Jason Williams. Williams, who worked out for the Knicks two weeks ago after the Knicks were awarded negotiating rights,...
Atlanta delivers 8-run second inning
The Mets' Bobby Parnell experiment is going to have some growing pains, but last night felt more like a migraine. BOX SCORE METS BLOG HUBBUCH ON TWITTER BIGGEST NEW YORK...
Amazin' brass needs to own up to problems
The remarkable part, if you think about it, isn't that 38,602 of you bought tickets for last night's grisly slaughterhouse special at Citi Field, or that a good 30,000 of...
Wagner willing to waive no-trade for title contender
Billy Wagner might be pitching for a pennant contender before he knows it. BOX SCORE METS BLOG BIGGEST NEW YORK BUSTS According to a published report, the Mets placed the...
Surging Yanks go 5-2 out West
OAKLAND, Calif. — How good are the Yankees going? Inside a week they have won games started by journeyman right-handers Sergio Mitre and Chad Gaudin without scoring a bevy of...
Weird but true
What's less than minimum? The lowest-paid workers in Colorado are about to find out when the state lowers its minimum wage by 3 cents an hour next month. The state...
Proxy battle in 34th District as Reyna fights Vito's ghost over B'way Triangle
The most important issue in the race for Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 34th Council District isn’t even in the 34th Council District. And, believe it or not, that’s an issue in...
Super Mario stumps for tall Bill
Former Gov. Mario Cuomo, a giant in the Democratic party, on Wednesday endorsed Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Slope), a life-sized giant, in his bruising race for public advocate. The support...
Live chat: 12 p.m. Thursday
I will be holding another of my weekly, hour-long blog chats on the Mets tomorrow (Thursday) at 12 p.m. ET. So be sure to check back then and have your...
Construction worker falls to death
A 42-year-old construction worker was killed after he fell off a scaffolding hitched to a 12th Street building.Police were told that Henyrk Siebor and two others were resurfacing the brickwork...
Report: Mets eager to deal Wags
Billy Wagner is expected to come off the disabled list in the next two days, and the Mets appear eager to deal their former All-Star closer.ESPN is reporting that the...
Other ways to go 'extreme'
Climbing isn’t the only way to go extreme in Brooklyn. Here are some other action sports you can practice without leaving the borough:Skateboarding The staff at Homage Skateshop can turn...
Yassky comptroller run gives ground in home borough
City Comptroller candidate David Yassky is finding that his failed race for Congress is beginning to erode political support in his home borough.Yassky, who currently represents the 33rd District in...