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  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • Bikes rack up protests

    Opponents of the city’s bike-sharing program have plastered East Village kiosks with copies of a Post article headlined, "Get the rack outta here," that shows a crew moving a rack across town. A gadfly scribbled, "Call 311!" over the photocopied posters. "This is not a good location," resident Tallia Herrara, 29, said of bike racks on East 13th Street and ...

  • B’klyn drug and gun raid

    Cops busted two heavily armed Brooklyn drug dealers yesterday, scoring three guns and a cache of cocaine and heroin, authorities said.David Etienne, 27, and Brian Johnson, 25, were caught off guard when officers from the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Gang Squad stormed their building on Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 9:30 a.m., and gave up without a fight.Cops said they recovered a .22- ...

  • Bynes is a brat gone bong-kers

    Andrea Peyser Sometime-actress and full-time train wreck Amanda Bynes took her pocketful of crazy into Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, where the disturbed and potentially hazardous actress caught a major break. In a ratty, platinum-blond wig that looked as if something had died in it, Bynes did her best impersonation of that competing four-car pileup, Lindsay Lohan.This is just what the city ...


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Movie Review

Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa

It is all too appropriate that Sylvester Stallone is returning to South Philly pugilist Rocky Balboa, the character who kicked off his career and with whom he will always be most associated. The original Rocky (1976) was an allegory (self-conscious or not) of Stallones own life a ... ...

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  • Clues in Conn. train derailment

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said yesterday.They didn’t explain what the condition was, though they did say repair work had been done last month in the area of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not yet ...

  • Hot dog hooker busted

    Long Island’s hot-dog hooker is back to selling her buns, cops said yesterday. Catherine Scalia, 47 - who got seven days in prison last year for selling sex out of her hot-dog truck - was busted again yesterday for prostitution, Nassau County cops said.Sacalia was caught during a prostitution sting when she responded to a police officer’s call for a masseuse at an East Garden City ...

  • Court’s a real hair raiser for Amanda

    Troubled starlet Amanda Bynes wore a tangled peroxide-blond wig and sweat pants yesterday to a Manhattan courtroom, where she answered to drug charges - then had to bum $20 off her lawyer for the cab ride home. The dazed former Nickelodeon actress had allegedly flung a bong out of her Times Square apartment’s 36th-floor window on Thursday as she was being interviewed by uniformed ...

  • Mayor Quinn in air clash

    In a bizarre scene at JFK Airport, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday toasted a new terminal - while mayoral race front-runner Christine Quinn was outside protesting the airline that helped build it. Hizzoner held court with Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson and the Rockettes at Gate 41 in Terminal 4, touting the $1.4 billion facility for bringing jobs to New Yorkers and promoting "the great ...

  • New GOP Kelly push

    Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the talk of the political world yesterday, with sources saying Republican power brokers are in a "full-court press" to get him to enter the mayor’s race."There are people who are unhappy with the field of candidates who badly want Kelly to get in," one said.Sources said state GOP Chairman Ed Cox is part of the push. Kelly maintained ...

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