October 3, 2008
HOWARD STERN GETS MARRIED
Shock jock Howard Stern and his long-time girlfriend Beth Ostrosky were married tonight inside Manhattan's Le Cirque restaurant. "The wedding was great," famed lawyer and Stern poker pal Dominic Barbara...
Roach Confident PacMan Beats Oscar
Freddie Roach is confident he has the answers to help Manny Pacquiao defeat Oscar De La Hoya By GEORGE WILLISWhen Freddie Roach was serving as Oscar De La Hoya's trainer...
Manuel agrees to two-year deal
After heightening the drama a bit this week, Jerry Manuel signed off on a two-year deal today to return as manager of the Mets. The contract is worth roughly $2...
Serie A: Moggi to Face Trial
APFormer Juventus executive Luciano Moggi, a leading figure in a match-fixing scandal that shook Italian soccer, was ordered on Friday to stand trial on charges of sports fraud and criminal...
METS GIVE MANUEL TWO-YEAR DEAL
Following last year's collapse, the Mets didn't determine if Willie Randolph was going to return until two days after the season. But Randolph, with two years and an option left...
The Big Guy - The Big Asian Guy - Practices
By FRED KERBERGuess Yi Jianlian was cleared for practice. Because he practiced today.Lawrence Frank had indicated there would be no contact today for Yi who has been out with a...
Red Bulls on Saturday vs. Toronto: "We have to win. It's a must.''
By BRIAN LEWISWith three teams just a point behind the Red Bulls in the MLS wildcard race, and with a brutal three-game stretch looming to close the regular-season, tonight's tilt...
RANGERS NAME DRURY CAPTAIN
The Rangers will open the season in Prague tomorrow against the Lightning with Chris Drury wearing the captain's "C" and current linemates Scott Gomez and Markus Naslund wearing the associate...
Mets finalize Arizona Fall League roster
The final selections have come in from the Mets for their spots in the Arizona Fall League, and the organization has decided to send pitchers Bobby Parnell and Eddie Kunz...
REPORT: BOBBY V 'WOULD LOVE' METS JOB
As talks with Jerry Manuel take longer than may have been expected, a familiar name has arisen -- again -- in connection with the Mets' manager's job: Bobby Valentine. ESPN...
Adu, Altidore & Jose Francisco Torres in U.S. roster vs. Cuba
By BRIAN LEWISNational Team head coach Bob Bradley has named his 23-man roster that will train for the World Cup qualifier vs. Cuba Oct. 11 in D.C., and it's a...
Starr Report: Separated at Birth
Jodi Applegate, late of "Good Day New York," will be Curtis Sliwa's co-host on WABC (770 AM) next Wednesday-Friday (10-11:45 a.m. each day). Jodi apparently bears a physical resemblance to...
Omar and trading the core
From JOEL SHERMAN In today's Post, I wrote a column in which I suggested Omar Minaya do a better job of emphasizing the whole 25- and 40-man rosters and not...
MINAYA, SABATHIA, LIDGE
1. In today's Post, I wrote a column in which I suggested Omar Minaya do a better job of emphasizing the whole 25- and 40-man rosters and not just obsess...
Q rings up Js
By MARC BERMANSARATOGA SPRINGS - Just as the VP debate was about to start came the news from the Knicks about Jared Jeffries' broken leg. By then, my story for...
MAC & PALIN TRAILIN' IN NY
New York's support for the McCain-Palin ticket sank faster last month than the price of Lehman Brothers shares, according to a statewide poll released yesterday. Siena Research Institute's survey of...
PIT BULL SARAH SHOWS HER BITE
ST. LOUIS - Sarah Palin used folksy language, winks, smiles and sharp elbows to try to put seasoned rival Joe Biden on the defensive in last night's vice-presidential debate. "It's...
SARAH SCORES!
NASHUA, NH - Eight real-life "hockey moms" plucked from the ice to watch the vice-presidential face-off last night said their high-profile counterpart from Alaska dealt her critics a bell-ringing body...
TEACHERS: WE WON'T 'BUTTON DOWN' IN SCHOOLS
Teachers union to education brass: Button this! UFT President Randi Weingarten said she'd fight Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's bid to bar teachers from wearing political buttons in schools, with legal...
RANGEL THROWIN' O BA$H
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, who has experienced friction with Barack Obama's campaign, is the featured attraction at a Harlem fund-raiser for the Democratic presidential nominee this month. Rangel will hold...
RE$CUE PIGS GET ROASTED
Angry Republicans on Capitol Hill yesterday launched an effort to pull nearly $2 billion in pork - including tax breaks for wooden-arrow manufacturing and Puerto Rican rum producers - from...
PROS LOVE HIS SUBSTANCE, HER STYLE
Joe Biden scored points on the issues at last night's debate, but Sarah Palin showed a winning, folksy style, a Post panel of experts found. "I think he shows his...
THIRD TERM'S A CHARM - OR SO MIKE THINKS . . .
* Mayor Bloomberg is gearing up to seek a third term as mayor, and that is a good thing for New Yorkers ("It's Official" Oct. 1). However, I think that...
THE VEEP DEBATE: SHE'S BACK!
EVERY Republican in America rejoiced last night: "At long last the Couric captivity is over! Sarah Palin is free!" Palin had suffered through a series of nightly interview bits with...
THE GOOD THAT GREW UNDER THE SUN
THE New York Sun got some well-deserved praise as it ran off its final issue Tuesday. But most folks never truly understood - better yet, appreciated - its goals. In...
'HOOVER' HOOEY
AN old story is once again being retold, with a few of the characters' names updated to besmirch the innocent. In this story, conservatives are to blame for an economic...
PALIN WINS BIG WITH A REAGAN-LIKE FLAIR
LAST night was a big, big win for Sarah Palin. showvideo("NY%20Post","1458_389969"); She showed originality, charisma and sass - a style that is refreshing and different in our politics. She didn't...
PIT BULL KICKS WONK BUTT
ST. LOUIS - JOE Biden tiptoed out on stage last night wondering whether he'd face a lady pitifully out of her depth or the lipstick end of a pit bull....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 614; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 1155; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 210; Lucky Sum: 3 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 3918;...
O.J. DEFENSE: NOT GUILTY, JUST DUMB
LAS VEGAS - A prosecutor yesterday branded O.J. Simpson a reckless criminal leader, while The Juice's own lawyer called his client "stupid" - but not guilty. DA David Roger rejected...
TAX-ING CHARGES FOR 'DANCING' STAR
Federal prosecutors yesterday accused racing champ and "Dancing with the Stars" winner Helio Castroneves with tax evasion scheme that allegedly hid millions of dollars from Uncle Sam. Castroneves, his sister...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * It was an easy bust for cops after a dimwitted Upper West Side burglarleft her ID at the scene of the crime, authorities said yesterday. Adrienne Amuaka, 28,...
VICTIM'S KIN FEEL FOR POLICE FAMILY
The devastated family of a man who toppled to his death after being shot with a Taser said they were upset yesterday to learn that the cop who gave the...
SINGLE SLUGGER & HIS A-WAD
Who cares if you're not playing baseball in October? Life still is pretty good when you have enough money to use a $100 bill as a napkin. A-Rod was caught...
NEW YORK, YOUR SHIP HAS COME IN!
The USS Intrepid makes its way majestically up the Hudson yesterday en route back to its home at Pier 86 after a two-year renovation. "Feeling the deck moving under my...
POLL: 3RD TIME FOR MIKE NO CHARM
New Yorkers overwhelmingly want to keep term limits - but they are of a mixed mind on the possibility of Mayor Bloomberg's serving four more years, a poll found. A...
LIRR SICS WATCHDOG ON FRAUD
LIRR officials yesterday announced a host of measures aimed at combating fraud among retirees, including the establishment of a watchdog unit to review every application for disability benefits. The stricter...
CHUTIST EYES 2ND JUMP SHOT
If at first you don't succeed, dive, dive again. Stunt parachutist Jeb Corliss is still fighting misdemeanor charges from his foiled attempt to fling himself off the Empire State Building...
HOSP-RAPE RAP FOR DOC
A gynecologist raped a patient in an examination room at Kings County Hospital and then walked her before hospital security cameras as if nothing had happened, authorities and the patient's...
TASE-SLAY LEADS TO 2ND TRAGEDY
The cop whose order to use a Taser turned deadly took his own life yesterday - his 46th birthday and the day of the victim's funeral - saying he felt...
ASTOR SON HEART WOES
Anthony Marshall - charged with swindling tens of millions of dollars from his mother, philanthropic icon Brooke Astor - is broken-hearted over the accusations, his lawyers said yesterday. Marshall, 84,...
COUNCIL 'DISSES' LAUDER
The City Council will introduce a bill Tuesday to give elected city officials a shot at a third term permanently - a move that directly contradicts the wishes of billionaire...
A NIGHT OF POMP-ADORE
Cheers, mate! Some 400 friends and colleagues of legendary Post columnist Steve Dunleavy marked the retirement of the tabloid titan at a big bash in the Theater District - calling...
QAEDA'S BREAK
Gruesome testimony about a suicide bus bombing and a video of Osama bin Laden unfairly poisoned jurors against a Yemeni cleric and his aide convicted of conspiring to fund terrorism,...
WTC TIMELINE DRAGS INTO '13
The reconstruction of Ground Zero will now take up to two years longer than last projected, and likely cost an additional $1.5 billion, according to a Port Authority report released...
NAVY YARD'S 'TOUR' OF DUTY
Forget Times Square and Lady Liberty - how about touring the Brooklyn Navy Yard? showvideo("NY%20Post","1458_390611"); The city is hoping the 300-acre industrial park, which has been off limits to the...
'I DON'T WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM A CITY I FEEL I CAN HELP LEAD THROUGH THESE TOUGH TIMES'
Declaring that the economy "may well be on the verge of a meltdown," Mayor Bloomberg ended months of fevered speculation yesterday and announced he'll seek a third term to steer...
I FLEW ON JET 'LEWD'
A horny JetBlue flight attendant from Brooklyn admitted turning a woman's trip into hell, showering her with dirty talk and photos and insisting he wanted to give her "some chocolate...
NEW LIFE FOR LIFE & STYLE
THE search for a new editor-in- chief of Life & Style is over. Insiders say that Bauer Publications is expected to announce, possibly as early as today, that Dan Wakeford...
STOCKS BEATEN DOWN
The economy stumbled into a deeper rut with just about every investment play turning sour - from lending money to buying stocks, oil or even hoarding gold. Jobless claims for...
SINGLE-PLAYER GAME
Video-game publisher Take-Two Interactive has decided to play by itself for the foreseeable future. The company yesterday ended its formal search for another merger partner, less than a month after...
PARAMOUNT PARALYSIS DIAGNOSED FOR VIACOM
Viacom should sell its Paramount Pictures movie studio to Time Warner. At least that's what analyst agitator Richard Greenfield of Pali Capital thinks. Selling the Brad Grey-led studio is just...
MORGAN STANLEY NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET
Morgan Stanley is rejiggering portions of its business, including scaling back its prime-brokerage operation, as it wrestles with a rapidly changing Wall Street landscape, sources tell The Post. According to...
LINENS UNIT BIDDER
While Linens 'n Things stores across the US look poised for liquidation, a potential bidding war is heating up for the struggling retailer's small but profitable Canadian chain. Lord &...
LEHMAN'S P.R. FIRM IS OWED $400,000
The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has not only ensnared some of the world's largest financial institutions, it is also causing problems for Wall Street public-relations legend Gershon Kekst. Kekst, a longtime...
JPMORGAN HOPES QUIRKY AD ENTICES WAMU FLOCK TO STAY PUT
If you're a nervous Washington Mutual customer who watched your bank nearly crash and burn last week, JPMorgan Chase wants you to stop worrying. That's the message delivered in the...
A TRAGEDY COMPOUNDED
The controversy surrounding last week's Taser-induced death of an emotionally disturbed Brooklyn man took a doubly tragic turn yesterday, as the NYPD lieutenant responsible for the incident was found dead,...
THE DUNLEAVY DIFFERENCE
After a newspaper and television career spanning 55 years, including some three decades at The Post, our friend and colleague Steve Dunleavy has hung up his notebook. Not that the...
GROUND ZERO PROMISES
Port Authority boss Chris Ward claimed yesterday that Ground Zero will indeed be rebuilt someday. That's encouraging. In fact, he even distributed a 70-page report detailing exactly how it's to...
ROADMAP CLAPTRAP
JUST when you thought Ground Zero couldn't become any more of a national embarrassment, the Port Authority went "probabilistic" yesterday. Forget "probable" or even "possible" - that's the wacky word...
'YOU BETCHA' SHE BELONGED ON THE STAGE!
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - I walked in last night expecting a train wreck from our gal of the moment. Instead, I saw fireworks. Sarah rules. In her first, and last,...
I MAY BE GOING - BUT I WON'T BE GONE
REAL men don't cry, but on Wednesday night if my eyes were dry, there was a Niagara cascading from my heart. It was the occasion of my retirement at a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Rhode Island man almost went out with a bang when the cigarette he was smoking in his car accidentally set off the fireworks he had stashed by his feet....
THE SECRET SCHOOL
STORY SO FAR: Ida, aged fourteen, has been attending a one-room schoolhouse. Now, just before Ida finishes eighth grade, the teacher must leave, causing the school to close. CHAPTER THREE...
ELECTING A PRESIDENT - IT ALL STARTED WHEN...
Election Series IN 1787, America's Founding Fathers met to write the new country's Constitution. A short time before, they had broken free of the rule of the king of England,...
DEVS' DEFENDERS LOOK SHARP
It is no secret the Devils have been one of the best defensive teams in the NHL over the past decade. Though Martin Brodeur remains in net, he will have...
NO TALK ON MCLOUTH TRADE, YET
Decision makers in The Bronx and Pittsburgh said yesterday there was nothing to the Yankees acquiring outfielder Nate McLouth from the Pirates - yet. "We haven't talked about it, it's...
AIR SEATTLE TARGETS SWAMP
Any Giants player studying tape of the Seahawks must dig out clips of last season to truly see what will be out on the field Sunday at Giants Stadium. That...
TUCK: PLAXICO HAD IT COMING
Having players on board when a key decision is made by a coach and an organization is critical for team harmony. When it comes to the suspension of Plaxico Burress...
ISLES PREPARED FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE
The Islanders secured a part of their future yesterday, but in terms of their present, today is certainly more crucial. Shortly after the team announced that it had signed first-round...
HONDO'S WOOFING!
Hondo shined with the Rays yesterday for his first playoff victory, but gave it right back and then some with the brutal Brewers last night, leaving him with 705 brutons...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: Westbrook practices All-Pro running back Brian Westbrook practiced for the second straight day yesterday, and the injured Eagle appears to be getting a little healthier. * Receiver Lee Evans...
FEARING CURSE OF THE BILLY GOAT
CHICAGO - You think you know angst? You don't know angst. You don't know misery. You don't know despair so deep and so thick that it shackles your hands and...
RED-HOT HONDO'S IN 11TH HEAVEN
Oh, what a move by Hondo! Mr. Aitch was truly marvelous last week, racking up 11 winners against just two losses and posting a pristine 3-0 Best Bet record. The...
TRENDSETTERS
EAGLES (-6) VS. REDSKINS, 1:00 P.M. Philadelphia has covered six of seven following a non-cover, seven of nine following a loss and is 4-1 in its last five in division....
REF REPORT: MAKE CHANGES
A report stemming from a year-long review of the NBA's officiating program released yesterday found no illegal activity other than disgraced referee Tim Donaghy. But it calls for a host...
PHILLIES BUST CC'S BUBBLE
PHILADELPHIA - CC Sabathia looked at the scoreboard in disbelief. Maybe it was the 5-1 score. Maybe it was the one hit his team had. Or maybe it was the...
EVAN'S TWO HRS IGNITE RAYS
ST. PETERSBURG - The first playoff game in Rays' history turned into a Longoria ball competition. The AL Rookie of the Year favorite arrived on the October stage yesterday with...
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Giants, Colts, Ravens, Chargers, Chiefs, Eagles, Lions, Packers, Broncos, Patriots, Cardinals, Bengals, SteelersMONDAY: SaintsBEST BETS: Colts, Lions, Cardinals
O/U RICO
Rico had a so-so week, going 7-5-1 (2-1 Best Bets) on the over/unders to bring the season record to 31-27-2 (8-4). The selections for Week 5:OVER: Colts / Texans; Titans...
DODGERS TAKE COMMANDING 2-0 SERIES LEAD
CHICAGO - Even for the Cubs, this is embarrassing. Lou Piniella's club couldn't get out of its own way here last night, committing four errors to put Joe Torre's Dodgers...
TINSLEY DEALT TO NUGGETS
Locked-out Pacers point Jamaal Tinsley was traded to the Nuggets for Chuckie Atkins and Stephen Hunter, The Post has learned. The deal is contingent on Tinsley passing a physical. Chronically...
SEATTLE'S BEST
Steve Serby fills in for Dave Blezow this week. MIKE Holmgren and Matt Hasselbeck get Bobby Engram (shoulder) back, and Deion Branch (knee) in a more limited capacity, and Tom...
LET'S BE FRANK: TBS IS IN FULL PLUG MODE
IT's TV. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Last year at this time, TBS made its debut as an MLB postseason network. In doing so, TBS clearly had one goal:...
EVEN WITHOUT YANKS & METS, PLAYOFFS OFFER INTRIGUE
What baseball's postseason lacks in hometown teams, it makes up in story lines. On Wednesday, when the Phillies' Cole Hamels delivered the first pitch of the playoffs, against the Brewers,...
TIM SULLIVAN
SUNDAY: Seahawks, Texans, Titans, Dolphins, Chiefs, Eagles, Bears, Packers, Broncos, 49ers, Cardinals, Bengals, JaguarsMONDAY: SaintsBEST BETS: Eagles, Broncos, Cardinals
BUCS NO MATCH FOR BRONCS
The winner of multiple major national handicapping championships against world-class competition, The Wildcat returns. Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5percent)...
5 QUESTION FOR...JOE MICHELETTI
MSG analyst Joe Micheletti is with the new-look Rangers in Europe as they prepare for Saturday's opener with the Lightning in the Czech Republic. He discussed his thoughts on the...
KNICKS LOSE JEFFRIES FOR 6-8 WEEKS
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The luck for Jared Jeffries - and the Knicks - can't get any worse. Just as 6-foot-11 Jeffries was emerging as a vital component in Mike D'Antoni's...
CLEARING AIR ON ZACH, STEPHON
SARATOGA SPRINGS - In need of contact lenses, reading glasses and direct sunlight in order to see clearly these days, I figured my vision had taken another abrupt turn downhill...
NOW IT'S TIME TO PLAN LONG-TERM
JERRY Manuel mulled his lineup card last Sunday; the most important game for his team, his most important game as a manager. Finally - reluctantly - he wrote in Nick...
AMAZIN'S MUST INK BULLPEN ACE
ANAHEIM - Frankie Rodriguez' locker sits in the left-hand corner of the Angels' clubhouse. It is a prominent place for the Angels' most prominent pitcher. K-Rod put together a record-setting...
OMAR'S BACK; NO DECISION ON MANUEL
The Mets made Omar Minaya's return official yesterday, but Jerry Manuel figures to take a little longer. The club formally announced the expected - and somewhat controversial - decision to...
METS LIKE DELGADO OPTION
Barring a trade, it appears Carlos Delgado will remain the Mets' first baseman. General manager Omar Minaya said yesterday the team almost certainly will exercise its option on Delgado. "I've...
NETS' VETS SEEK ADVICE FROM ROOK
The story is well known by now. The Nets never thought Chris Douglas-Roberts would be available to them at the 40th spot in the NBA draft. Chris Douglas-Roberts never thought...
STARR REPORT
Jodi Applegate, late of "Good Day New York," will be Curtis Sliwa's co-host on WABC (770 AM) next Wednesday-Friday (10-11:45 a.m. each day). Jodi apparently bears a physical resemblance to...
THE FINAL RINSE FOR MR. CLEAN
THE original Mr. Clean has died. House Peters Jr., who played the bald-headed spokesman on the Proctor & Gamble house cleaner from the late 1950s into the early 1960s, was...
ROSIE'S BACK
ROSIE O'Donnell will host a live variety special for NBC. "Rosie's Variety Show" will air from New York on Thanksgiving-eve, Nov. 26 (8-9 p.m.), and will include a monologue and...
I SEE THE LIGHT
From the guy who brought you "Star gate Atlantis" and "Stargate SG-1" comes "Sanctuary," SciFi's first and possibly the world's first "green screen" series. No, that doesn't mean that "no...
BOS-CUBS WOULD BE NICE
FOX officials are hoping two of baseball's oldest losers will make it to the World Series. A match-up between the Red Sox - who broke an 86-year-old championship drought in...
THE BROS. BURNS
THE brother of filmmaker Ed Burns has sold to CBS a new drama about New York City firefighters. The yet-to-be-titled show, from Brian Burns, who produces HBO's "Entourage," will follow...
IMPASSIONED, NOT RATIONED
ON the surface, Florida pop quintet the Black Kids and American singer/ songwriter Sonya Kitchell have little to do with one another musically - where they connect is their passion...
NOT A PRETTY SIGHT
THE themes of "Blindness" go by in a blur. When resi dents of a nameless cosmo polis are suddenly struck blind, the vagueness seems so deliberate that the allegory could...
GONE WITH THE WINDSHIELD-WIPER LAWSUIT
GREG Kinnear, one of the most underrated utility players in contemporary Hollywood, shines with an awards- caliber glow as an inventor fighting the system in "Flash of Genius." Currently in...
COMICS SEARCH FOR A LAUGH MECCA IN THE KORAN
ALLAH made me funny - not. Three Muslim-American stand-up comics - Mo Amer, Azhar Usman and Preacher Moss - show off their comedic talents in the concert film "Allah Made...
HUMBOLDT COUNTY
AN uptight LA medical student becomes the pet to a com mune of shaggy pot farmers who urge him to mellow out, man, in the indie dramedy "Humboldt County." Lured...
WRY FIDELITY TO A GENRE
FIFTEEN years after this city was reborn, it's about time we had a "Dazed and Con fused" or "Sixteen Candles" or "Superbad" set in Man hattan. "Nick & Norah's Infinite...
RICH & FAMOUS BUT NO LIFE, STYLE
ANY movie in which the hero accidentally kills a Chihuahua can't be a total loss, but "How To Lose Friends & Alienate People" comes pretty darned close. Very loosely based...
BLOOD, REVENGE AND A TINY SKIRT
AND now a word from the New York Asian Film Festival about one of the hits of its 2008 edition, "Tokyo Gore Police": It is "quite possibly the goriest, craziest,...
ANNE FOR ALL SEASONS
ANNE Hathaway, whose dazzling smile has sometimes blinded people to her acting talent in movies like "Brokeback Mountain," plumbs the depths as a drama queen on leave from rehab in...
GRAB A SCOOPER
THE film is "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." The audience is the fire hydrant. She's Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore), the best-dressed bitch since Donatella Versace. She's got sequined pillbox hats, doggie...
'NOT TO BE' RUDE, BUT ...
SOMETIMES, it's better if the writer's dead. That, at least, is the feeling at "To Be or Not To Be," the stage adaptation of the classic Jack Benny-Carole Lombard movie...
GLIDING WITH A SNORT BEYOND TIME'S BORDER
KRISTIN Scott Thomas is an actor who doesn't act. Rather, she moves into a character, breathing the same air as a human reality. It's a style heaven-sent for the plays...
DANCE
BAM: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company continues celebrating its 25th season and the NextWave Festival with 7:30 p.m. modern dance performances through Sunday. 30 Lafayette St.; 718-636-4100. DANCE THEATER...
CABARET
FEINSTEIN'S: Nikki Blonsky performs at 8 and 10 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. 540 Park Ave., at 61st Street; 212-339-4095. JOE'S PUB: Judy Kuhn sings the songs of Laura Nyro Monday...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
FILM
ASIA SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: The Sikh 2008 Film Festival features documentaries, shorts, children's films, and a feature beginning tomorrow at 10 a.m., concluding with a dance party at the Asia...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
GRAVE PERFORMANCES October 4 - Dance Open House New York, an annual event featuring more than 350 free architectural and design tours of the city, takes place tomorrow and Sunday...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
THE KILLS Known almost as much for modelizing as music making, this indie rock duo plays tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St.,...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Wednesday through Sunday: Lou Donaldson Quartet with Dr. Lonnie Smith at 8:30 and 11 p.m. 131 W. Third St.; 212-581-3080. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: The Women in Jazz Festival...
CLASSICAL
CARNEGIE HALL: Former Tokyo String Quartet violinist Peter Oundjian conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra through Kurt Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins," with singer Ute Lemper, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 Saturday...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSINTHE": *** 1/2 This thrilling blend of European-style circus and burlesque offers decadent pleasures in a wonderful summertime setting. Spiegelworld at Pier 17, South Street Seaport, South Street at Beekman...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
UNION SQUARE AUTUMN FAIR: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Park Avenue South between 17th and 23rd streets. NYC OKTOBERFEST: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on...
PREVIEWS
"13": Jason Robert Brown's musical about a teen's move from New York City to the Midwest. Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.; 212- 239-6200. Opens Sunday. "A MAN...
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Jeffries fractures leg
By MARC BERMANSARATOGA SPRINGS - The dark cloud over the Knicks continued tonight as the Knicks announced Jared Jeffries suffered a fractured left fibula during tonight's scrimmage and will be...
USL awesome, MLS atrocious in Champions League
Mac Kandji is the kind of USL talent dominating Champions League - and that MLS needs to mine By BRIAN LEWISRed Bull striker Macoumba Kandji, just acquired on loan from...