June 20, 2008
Lineups set for Rockies opener
The Mets will try to put the Willie Randolph tumult behind them and go for their third series win in a row here tonight in Denver when John Maine (pictured)...
WARTHEN BRINGS OWN STYLE TO METS
DENVER -- Newly installed Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen doesn't spout new-age phrases or wear a bracelet symbolized with tenets of Eastern philosophy. Warthen has been friends with Rick Peterson...
Deal of the Day-French Connection
I have the decidedly masculine habit of keeping my hands in my pockets, whether I am wearing trousers or a dress.But it’s sort of a must whenever I buy clothing....
Turkey Reaches Semis After Late Game Heroics, PKs
APRustu Recber saved a penalty shot from Mladen Petric on Friday to clinch Turkey’s 3-1 shootout win over Croatia in the quarterfinals of the European Championship following a 1-1 draw.Arda...
Juan Pablo Angel & Claudio Reyna out, Diego Jimenez not coming
Diego Jimenez not signing...for the moment By BRIAN LEWISStriker Juan Pablo Angel had hoped to return for tomorrow's game, but his hamstring will keep him out at least until the...
Nationals say forget about Acta
Scratch Manny Acta off any list of potential Met managers after this season. It's not because the ex-Mets coach, current manager of the Nationals and close friend of GM Omar...
Switch-pitching Showdown
Switch hitters have become commonplace in baseball. But the first professional appearance for Pat Venditte, a "switch pitcher" for the Staten Island Yankees, was met with plenty of confusion last...
Report: Russian team offers Malkin $12.5 M
The Toronto Star reports "several teams in Russia's revamped pro hockey league want to repatriate NHL all-star Evgeni Malkin by offering him a contract that would make him hockey's highest-paid...
Call Me 'Benedict' Hiddink
AFPRussia's Dutch coach Guus Hiddink says he wants to be the traitor of the year in the Netherlands and see Russia knock his countrymen out of Euro 2008 in Saturday's...
'Beautiful Game' Gets Even Better
ReutersWhether it has any bearing on Monday's crunch Euro 2008 match between the two countries is debatable but Austria drew first blood on Sunday when their topless women's soccer team...
KNICKS KEEP HERB WILLIAMS
Herb Williams will remain as a Knicks assistant coach, joining Phil Weber and Dan D'Antoni on head coach Mike D'Antoni's staff, the team announced today. "We have three top quality...
Stuff: Intellivision Lives
GetBack is essentially a portal that gives users access to decades gone (and some moments best forgotten) - but they DO have some awesome Intellivision stuff. Better, they're free little...
Knicks officially name coaching staff
By MARC BERMANWe've reported this prior but the Knicks announced their coaching staff today. It will a much tighter staff than anything from the Isiah Thomas Era. Mark Aguirre and...
TWO CARS DRIVE ONTO MANHATTAN SIDEWALKS
Two cars plowed onto Manhattan sidewalks today in separate incidents. In the first, a motorist parking his vehicle on a Chinatown street accidentally hit the gas pedal and drove into...
ON DECK: METS AT ROCKIES
Dan Warthen, though new to the Mets, is not a newcomer to the major leagues. The 54-year-old has served as pitching coach with the Mariners, Padres and Tigers. But the...
SNAPS: Oahu, good enough to eat
I suppose it's a lucky problem to have, but I do travel more than I am able to write about in the paper. Last month, I spent a week in...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets are almost back to .500 and just 5 1/2 games out with more than half the season to play, so it's understandable that David Wright (pictured) and his...
STEVEN WHITE REMOVED FROM 40-MAN ROSTER
FROM JOEL SHERMANHere is one for real diehards who care about the composition of the 40-man roster: righty Steven White has passed through waivers and was removed from the Yankee...
Coming back for more
Kourtni and Matt Kourtni and Matt – Fox TrotWell aren’t these two just hot-to-trot and skipping around the stage with perky exuberance? These hobos are working it. Somehow Matt’s cheesiness...
Curt Schilling To Have Season-Ending Surgery
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has aborted his attempt to avoid shoulder surgery in order to pitch this season and will go under the knife next week.Schilling announced that his...
Friday frivolity: Daytime Emmy Bingo
The Daytime Emmys are tonight, and what better way to help you stay awake through the two-hour awards show than a game of Emmy Bingo:
Scolari Moves On, Loew Returns
APSo now Joachim Loew can come out of his glass cell to get back to guiding Germany closer to a fourth European Championship title.And Luiz Felipe Scolari can concentrate on...
3 UP: Willie, A-Rod and Mo
1. I think it is an unfair criticism of Willie Randolph that he was using his main players too much; the glaring example was David Wright who never rested this...
Euro '08: Day 14
Day 14 of the Euros features the second quarterfinal between dark horse Croatia and underdog Turkey at 2:45 p.m. ET.Actually, it could be time to stop talking about Croatia as...
ON KESSEL'S WATCH
A recent editorial ("Gov. David Pataki?" June 17) and George Marlin article ("A Hack is Back," PostOpinion, June 18) question my tenure as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Chairman. I...
MCCAIN'S OIL AGENDA: NOT SLICK ENOUGH
THE ISSUE: Sen. John McCain's views on how to deal with the skyrocketing price of oil. After reading "A Fine Place To Drill," (Jonah Goldberg, PostOpinion, June 14) it amazes...
THE REAL OIL FAILURE
DENOUNCING the "failed policies of the past" has become the Democratic Party catechism. Yet Democrats didn't applaud this week when President Bush changed his long-held position on offshore drilling. Instead,...
THE BUBBLE POPS
RARELY has so much hectoring produced so little. After all the magazine covers, celebrity sermonizing and UN-certified-expert hand-wringing, the fight against global warming got a real-world test in the US...
'PRESERVATION' POPPYCOCK
SO Robert De Niro built a bigger, fatter and steeper penthouse atop his newly opened $43 million Greenwich Hotel than the plan the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved in 2004. Even...
SCAPEGOATING THE SPECULATORS
SEN. John McCain recently called for a "thorough and complete investigation of speculators" to see if they've driven up oil prices. And Senate Democrats plan a new bill aimed at...
HEZ TARGETS CANADA JEWS
Thug's slay spurs "revenge" cry. Mounting intelligence evidence reveals Hezbollah is preparing to carry out a terrorist attack on "Jewish targets" outside the Mideast, possibly in Canada, ABC News reported...
MOVING UP IN WORLD
The world's population is expected to hit 7 billion in 2012 then grow more slowly in the following decades, the US Census Bureau said yesterday. Right now, the planet has...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 250; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 8321; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Thu: 160; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 8703;...
BAM MAKES PATRI-O-TIC AD PITCH
Barack Obama yesterday unveiled his first ad of the general-election campaign, painting himself as a true-blue American with heartland values. The 60-second biographical spot - entitled "Country I Love" and...
PORN TO BE WILD
Christie Brinkley's skirt-chasing husband has a penchant for Internet porn and loves to troll swinger sites, the supermodel will claim at their divorce trial. The allegations will be the first...
'GODFATHER' SON SEEKS RE$PECT
The son of "Godfather" author Mario Puzo is going to the mattresses with Paramount Pictures over revenues from a popular video game based on the book and award-winning movie. Anthony...
BRAVE KERRY'S TREASURE VAULT
Tiger Woods may have put together the gutsiest performance ever by an athlete, but gymnast Kerry Strug remains America's courageous sweetheart. In an btc365-futebol.com poll conducted yesterday, Strug came in...
GOING BARACK ON HIS WORD
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama said yesterday he will turn down public funding for the November election - breaking a campaign pledge and giving him a chance to use a boatload...
'LEGO' CANDY SCARE
Parents and consumer activists are up in arms about Lego-shaped gummi-candies from Kellogg's, fearing that confused kids might then eat and choke on the real plastic toys. "I am stunned...
THE GREAT SKATE
These dudes must be board out of their minds. Two college students are making the 850-mile trek from Chicago to New York on their skateboards, braving endless hills, nasty weather...
PROBE FEDS WHO PROBE ME: AL
It's the investigators that need investigating, a defiant Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday in the face of the widening federal probe into his finances. With the IRS and the US...
BIG BROWN TRAINER A SCRATCH AT STEROID HEARING
WASHINGTON - The trainer of Big Brown was AWOL at a congressional hearing yesterday, infuriating lawmakers who wanted to question him about steroid use in horse racing. Rick Dutrow Jr.,...
SCALPERS' TIGER TRAP
The rush is on to see Tiger Woods' comeback. Internet hawkers were selling tickets yesterday for next year's US Open on Long Island for as much as $2,000. Usually cheaper...
BRIT'S SIS JAMIE LYNN HAS BABY
"Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a girl yesterday, culminating the most high-profile out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy in Hollywood history. Maddie Briann Aldridge entered the world at 9:33...
PREGGER PACT BY HS GIRLS
A group of New England high-school girls made a stunning pact to get pregnant and raise their babies among the group, according to a bombshell report yesterday. There are now...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QueensThis is the suspect wanted for five burglaries in Rego Park and Forest Hills over the past month - crimes he allegedly committed by sneaking through open windows, sometimes when...
BANK-HEIST SCHOOL SCARE
A day after an armed thug invaded a Brooklyn elementary school, a Park Slope junior high was locked down yesterday as cops searched for a bank thief. The bandit, however,...
FAMILY TRADITION ENDS AS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CLOSE
For one lifelong Bronx resident, the Archdiocese of New York isn't just shutting down a 95-year-old parochial school today- it's undoing a family tradition. Diana Santana graduated from St. Pius...
ELIOT 'MADAM' EYES A BREAK
Independence Day may come a few days early for an alleged ex-madam to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Since March 25, buxom blonde Kristen Davis has been in jail - in...
GAL PAL 'JUMP' ROPED
The girlfriend of a fugitive hedge-fund manager who faked suicide to avoid a 20-year sentence was collared yesterday after admitting to cops she helped him pack a getaway RV and...
MTA BUS ROUTES KEEP IT MALL IN THE FAMILY: POL
A city lawmaker yesterday blasted the MTA for rerouting two bus lines to serve a Queens shopping mall developed by the agency chairman's son. Councilman John Liu said the MTA...
'SHE-WOLF' BEAT CHARGE TOSSED
A state appeals court yesterday overturned the gang-assault convictions of two members of an alleged lesbian she-wolf pack that beat and slashed an insult-spewing straight man in Greenwich Village. The...
PLEA FROM DWI KIN
They don't scream for the young drunken driver's blood. They don't want him to rot in prison. This is what the parents of Julia Thomson want instead: That anyone who...
$61M IS YOURS FOR THE ASKING
More than 200,000 New York City residents who aren't required to file taxes are missing out on their economic stimulus checks, IRS officials said yesterday. More than $61 million in...
TICKET TO JAIL OVER 'ASSAULT'
A Brooklyn delivery turned into a night in jail after a man scuffled with a traffic agent who gave him a ticket for double parking while he dropped off a...
GET THE PUCK OUT!
The NHL wants to put Jim Dolan on ice. The Cablevision boss could lose ownership of the Rangers after accusing league officials of violating antitrust laws in a federal lawsuit,...
IT'S 'EXHAUST'ING
Motorists on the Upper West Side cruise a total of 366,000 miles a year - more than the distance from Earth to the moon - in the relentless pursuit of...
KISSEL 'CASH HOARD' SLAY
Court papers unsealed yesterday suggested for the first time that real-estate swindler Andrew Kissel was killed over a large amount of cash stashed in his Connecticut mansion. When Greenwich cops...
SECOND RAP IN COLLAPSE DEATH
A second suspect was indicted yesterday in the death of a day laborer in a wall collapse at a Brooklyn construction site. Abraham Herzberg, 86, an engineer, was charged with...
MTA MAN IN KID-PERV BUST
An MTA worker was snared in an NYPD online sting, accused of writing sexually explicit messages and trying to arrange a rendezvous with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl....
BIG-WHEEL BRUNO
ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno delighted truckers yesterday when he joined their fuel-cost protest - by hopping behind the wheel of a massive rig and taking it for...
W. HONORS B'KLYN DUO
Two Brooklyn natives received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, from President Bush at a White House ceremony yesterday. Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist who conducted...
LOW NY FORECLOSE RATE
Homes are being foreclosed in New York less than in nearly every other major US city, according to a study released yesterday. And the state is bucking a national trend...
NEW 'BLOCK THE BOX' $OCK
ALBANY - Big Apple motorists who "block the box" at major intersections will be targeted by a massive new enforcement effort - and higher fines - under a bill given...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 Uptown trains skip 103rd, 110th, 116th and 125th streets. 2 Trains run local between 96th and Chambers streets. Manhattan-bound trains run express from Gun Hill Road to East 180th...
FUROR AS RENT BOARD OKS AN 8.5% WALLOP
City residents living in rent-stabilized apartments will pay 4 1/2 percent more for one-year leases and 8 1/2 percent more for two-year leases - hikes the Rent Guidelines Board approved...
TRAGIC FDNY HERO PROMOTED
A firefighter killed in last August's blaze at the Deutsche Bank building was posthumously promoted yesterday. Joseph Graffagnino's widow, Linda, was presented with a lieutenant's badge at the FDNY promotion...
'50 SHOT' DIVE GETS CLOSED
The cops couldn't do it. Neighborhood complaints couldn't do it. So, what finally shuttered the sleazy Queens strip club where groom-to-be Sean Bell partied before he was gunned down in...
CUOMO: END OF LINE FOR MTA'S FREE RIDES
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he'll force MTA board members to cough up years of free rides if they reject a proposal to restrict their lifelong unlimited access to the...
MORE HORROR IN IVY RAPE
A Manhattan jury yesterday heard more about the agonies suffered by a Columbia University graduate journalism student after her 19-hour ordeal of rape and torture. Ex-con Robert Williams, 31, is...
SMOKING-MAD QNS. GAL FORCES JET TO LAND
A JFK-to-San Francisco flight had to make an emergency landing when a boozy Queens woman lit a cigarette, then went ballistic after being told she couldn't smoke, authorities said. The...
FED SWEEP NETS 400+ REAL ESTATE SWINDLERS
In coast-to-coast raids, federal agents have rounded up and charged more than 400 real estate swindlers for shoving illegal mortgage schemes onto hapless homebuyers. The alleged shady deals led to...
HEARST RUMORS RAMPANT
AFTERSHOCKS continue to shake the Hearst empire in the wake of the sudden departure of CEO Victor Ganzi. Most expect Frank Bennack, the previous and now current CEO, to hold...
LIVE NATION CHAIR SINGS SWAN SONG
Live Nation Chairman Michael Cohl is negotiating his exit from the company after losing a power struggle with CEO Michael Rapino over the touring giant's controversial strategy to sign acts...
HELL-BENT HEDGES
Two ex-Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers arrested at their homes yesterday wrote e-mails showing they privately worried about the potential collapse of their hedge funds while simultaneously wooing investors to stay...
ICAHN'S BIG BAD BLOG
Corporate America better watch out - Carl Icahn is now a full-fledged blogger. The billionaire investor made his first postings yesterday after launching, "The Icahn Report," over six months ago....
VIK-RUN TO THE EXITS
Vikram Pandit's learning a hard truth about why so many turned down the job of fixing Citigroup's hidden black hole - it devours executives who tread inside. The financial giant...
CREDIT SUISSE HEADS BACK TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK
Credit Suisse is expected to hand out more pink slips in investment banking, The Post has learned. The Swiss investment bank is set to wield the ax in areas that...
PIER 1 OFF AS IT SEEKS COST PLUS
Pier 1 Imports reported worse-than-expected quarterly profits, beating its shares down 20 percent and casting further doubt on its chances of buying rival home-furnishings retailer Cost Plus. Pier 1, which...
REORG SEEN AT YAHOO!
Yahoo! is close to unveiling a reorganization that could further shake up the ranks at the Internet search company and centralize a number of divisions into global product groups, as...
FORTRESS WAR CHEST UP BY $1B
Fortress Investment Group is considering adding another $1 billion to the war chest it's amassed to take advantage of the pain being felt on Wall Street. The US' first publicly-traded...
BUDWEISER HAS A GIANT, JET CORNER IN ITS POCKET
A hostile takeover offer isn't enough to keep Anheuser-Busch from its football - the beer maker announced yesterday that it has signed on as the second sponsor for the new...
WIND-FARM STICKUP
If an energy firm wants to invest $2 bil lion in New York, creating jobs and a clean, new source of power, what should the state do? Why, charge it...
THE REV DOTH PROTEST
Looks like Al Sharpton is really feeling the heat this time. Why else would he be calling in all his chits, such as they are, to get the IRS and...
GET WELL SOON, TIGER
Just before their epic, 18-hole-plus playoff finale to the US Open at Torrey Pines, Rocco Mediate called Tiger Woods a "monster." Whatever Woods is, he's clearly not human. His 14th...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Revenge is sweet, particularly for Wisconsin's fuzzy woodland creatures. An armed woman chasing a marauding woodchuck accidentally shot herself in the foot as she tried to stop the little beast...
Cristiano Ronaldo finally comes clean
By BRIAN LEWISNow that Portugal showed its true colors in a 3-2 Euro quarterfinal loss to Germany, Cristiano Ronaldo showed his _ and they don’t look like they include Manchester...
SUMMERTIME IS FINALLY HERE!
Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere tonight at 7:59, officially kicking off our favorite season. AHHH summertime. We dream of it all year long. We happily ditch the coats,...
DEEP THOUGHTS
Declaring tonight's draft the deepest he's ever seen, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello raised the possibility of once more trading down to pile up picks and players. "You'd always like to...
JOBA, MEN OF STEAL NOTCH PLUCKY NO. 7
Even with each passing no-decision, it's obvious the Yankees have made the right decision. Joba Chamberlain still doesn't have a win or a loss since leaving his setup role to...
PLAYER POLL: JETER OVERRATED
Derek Jeter was voted the most overrated player in baseball in a Sports Illustrated poll of over 495 major leaguers. Not surprisingly, both the Yankees captain and his manager could...
NO BULL! 'PEN DOING STELLAR MINUS JOBA
When Joe Girardi went to the mound with two out in the sixth yesterday, the sellout crowd of 54,362 booed the decision to pull Joba Chamberlain. But truth be told,...
CLEAN SWIPE
This must be the aggressiveness Joe Girardi was supposed to bring here. The Yankees stole four bases yesterday - their second straight game with four steals - leading to both...
EVERYTHING IS COMING UP ACES
YANKEES fans have held it over Mets fans forever, and this week is yet another example why the Yankees Universe is so much more of a respectable place than the...
ONE STEP CLOSER TO GRADUATING
IT'S the time of year when graduations are everywhere and it will be no different in the boxing ring this weekend when several fighters look to take major steps in...
S.I. PITCHING 'SWITCH' CONFUSION
Switch hitters have become commonplace in baseball. But the first professional appearance for Pat Venditte, a "switch pitcher" for the Staten Island Yankees, was met with plenty of confusion last...
RAVES FOR RONDO
IN NINE years of playing for the Celtics, Tommy Heinsohn, who came into the NBA the same season as Bill Russell (arrived six weeks late due to the '56 Melbourne...
RACING TAKES A 'THOROUGH' BEATING IN DC
Congress came a step closer to asserting federal control over the horse racing industry yesterday when a House subcommittee held hearings in Washington, DC, on the subject of "Breeding, Drugs,...
HONDO BEARING UP
Hondo somehow managed to circumvent his Cub curse last night, scoring with a Ray play that ele vated the earnings to 405 treshes. Today, he'll see if he can make...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...
SNY analyst and former Met and Yankee Darryl Strawberry told The Post's Justin Terranova that the problem with the Mets was not with Willie Randolph, but with the players Randolph...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Davey, Tino to manage Sticking with a New York theme, former Mets manager Davey Johnson and former Yankee Tino Martinez will manage the Futures game next month as part...
STRIPERS, BLUES ARE ON MENU
THE weekend shapes up to be a nice one with lots of inshore action for stripers and blues. Big stripers are becoming commonplace with lots of 50 pounders being taken...
KICK SOME GRASS!
Tennis in New York explodes in late August, when throngs of people invade Flushing Meadows for the U.S. Open. Don't wait till then. Across the pond, men's tennis could have...
NO OFFERS FOR JAGR & CO.
OTTAWA - Glen Sather has told agents representing more than one of the Rangers' five significant impending unrestricted free agents that he has no intention of signing any of them...
HOFSTRA GUARD SHOWS HIS STUFF
Hofstra guard Antoine Agudio was in heaven just having a limo take him from his Huntington home to the Knicks' practice facility yesterday morning. Although the likelihood of Agudio being...
MORE OF THE LAME
WHO among us, if gifted with the talent and blessed with the fortune to play major league baseball, wouldn't play hard, wouldn't have our heads in the game? Yet, rare...
REASON FOR HOPE
"Look," David Wright said the other night. "There are a lot of guys in here who love and respect Willie Randolph, so this isn't any kind of knock on him....
REYES' HUSTLE DRAWS RAVE REVIEWS
DENVER - Jose Reyes drew as much applause from his manager and teammates for an infield pop-up Wednesday night as he did for his 3-for-5 line and three runs scored...
MOVE ON ALREADY
DENVER - All but overlooked amid the Willie Randolph firing and front-office drama of the past week is that the Mets have won four of their past six games. They...
RANDOLPH NEVER HAD A CHANCE
WILLIE Randolph, distrustful of Tony Bernazard, didn't trust anyone talking to Bernazard within the deposed Mets manager's eyesight, either. Therefore, Randolph grew leery of Jerry Manuel, who, as the walls...
HICKS FINDS NICHE
'AMERICAN Idol" winner Taylor Hicks has finally landed with a record label more in-tune with his personality. Vanguard Records, the longtime purveyor of jazz, blues and folk, has agreed to...
WILLIAMS IN FOR RUSSERT
NBC anchor Brian Williams will be the first to fill in for Tim Russert as the host for "Meet the Press" this Sunday, the network said yesterday. Russert died suddenly...
EMMYS: DOING DAYTIME TV JUSTICE
THE Daytime Emmy Awards are tonight and I have a few bones to pick, starting with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. Think you can guess how many Daytime Emmys Regis...
BIGGEST TV
THE biggest TV available will sell for a whopping $100,000 and is the size of an SUV - and it's coming to US this fall. Sharp's new 108-inch LCD TV,...
'24' TIME WARP
JACK Bauer will be turning 52 when the popular Fox drama returns next year. At least, he should be. When "24" comes back next January, four years will have passed...
WIDOW SPEAKS
TIM Russert's widow says he had been under an extraordinary amount of stress in the days before his death. Putting his widowed father, Tim Sr., 84, into an assisted living...
DANCE NOT ALICIA'S KEY
RIGHT before Alicia Keys fired up her tune "Sure Looks Good to Me," the pretty R&B diva confided to her fans: "Everybody tries to tell me to shake it a...
MUSIC GALORE: PUNK TO THE PHILHARMONIC
THE first day of summer will be ushered in tomorrow by a cacophony of curbside concerts. More than 850 bands, orchestras, choirs and solo performers ranging in genre from rock...
EAST MEETS FEST
READY or not, the New York Asian Film Festival is upon us again. Begun seven years ago, the fest has become one of New York's most important cinematic events. For...
BOY METERS GIRL - BUT WHY?
THEY should sell antidepressants along with the popcorn at theaters showing Cecilia Miniucchi's "Expired," one of those Sundance "comedies" that make you contemplate slitting your wrists. Samantha Morton and Jason...
SMART'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE
WOULD you believe the new version of the '60s spy spoof "Get Smart," starring Steve Carell, isn't awful - like almost all TV-to-movie transfers - but instead, that it's actually...
'KIT KITTREDGE': LEGEND OF THE DOLL
ONE of the 10 best American movies re leased so far this year, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is the surprisingly satisfying first theatrical film inspired by a long-running series...
SARI DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT
AIRLESS, earnest and sludgy with banalities, the Brit drama "Brick Lane" wraps a sari around the kind of suffering-housewife picture that became a cliché 30 years ago. Nazneen, a Bangladeshi...
'LOVE GURU': STOP MAKING INCENSE
'THE Love Guru" is even funnier than "Wayne's World" or "Austin Powers." Not. If this movie were a president, it would be Tedious Roosevelt. Mike Myers' titular figure, a wannabe...
NO 'FAITH' IN DIRECTOR
THE Broadway rumor mill is grinding up Taylor Hackford, the Oscar-winning director who's making his stage debut with the new Alan Menken musical, "Leap of Faith." Hackford, whose movies include...
VET DANCER SAYS ADIEU, WHILE NEWBIE MAKES DEBUT
SEVERAL debuts and one farewell had ballet fans skittering across Lincoln Center between New York State Theater and the Metropolitan Opera House this week, taking in them all. First, the...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
DIVA DUO June 20 - Opera There's only one Metropolitan Opera performance in the parks this summer - so the Met pulled out its big guns and gave us this...
CLASSICAL
NAUMBURG BANDSHELL: The Brooklyn Philharmonic and violinist Tim Fain perform works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Beethoven in a free concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Central Park at 72nd Street; (718)...
PREVIEWS
"THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO": The Roundabout Theatre Company revives Christopher Durang's comedy about a dysfunctional marriage in 33 short scenes. Laura Pels Theatre, 111 W. 46th St.; (212)...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
THE CURE: The 1980s English rockers, led by wild-haired Robert Smith, are back onstage to support the band's 13th album, expected in September. Tonight at 8 at WAMU Theater at...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER: Compagnie Maguy Marin's controversial performance of "Unwelt" includes full nudity. Through June 22. 175 Eighth Ave.; (212) 242-0800.
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Tonight and tomorrow: Paquito D'Rivera at 9 and 11 p.m. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA: Through Sunday: Lee Konitz Quintet at 7:30 and 9:30...
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...
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....
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: A celebration of American filmmaker Danny Lyon includes "Los Ninos Abandonados" (1975), "Llanito" (1971) and more through Thursday. (For showtimes, visit anthologyfilmarchives.org) 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181....
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. "ARIAS WITH A TWIST": *** Hilarious cabaret...