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  • Skydiver will chill beers at 10000 feet before serving it to customers at NY club

    New York clubs have come up with innovative ways to serve booze to its customers with the beginning of the Hamptons party season. Derek and Daniel Koch's Day and Night brunch at Gurney's Inn in Montauk is offering a bottle of beer chilled during a 10,000-foot free-fall by a skydiver for 25,000 dollars. Sources said that one poor member of the brothers' Dual Groupe hospitality firm will ...

  • Jamaican sprinters steal spotlight in New York meet

    Jamaican sprinters stole the spotlight in the athletic events at the Adidas Grand Prix, New York Diamond League meet at Icahn Stadium. Veronica Campbell Brown romped to victory in the 200 metres in 22.53 seconds ahead of a fast finishing Anneshia McLaughin (22.63) also of Jamaica on Sunday. Sherone Simpson finished in fourth place with 22.96. Aleen Bailey sped to victory in the womens 100 ...

  • Cop sexually harassed me and lied about bong toss tweets Amanda Bynes

    Amanda Bynes has accused the NY Police Department of sexual harassment, claiming that the cop who arrested her for allegedly tossing a bong out the window of her Times Square apartment, "lied" about it and was "creepy." The 27-year-old actress took to Twitter on Saturday to tell people not to believe the reports about her being arrested, saying that it's all lies, the New York Post ...

  • Mets ace Matt Harvey dating Victorias Secret model Anne V

    New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey and supermodel Anne V were reportedly spotted getting intimate in public at the New York Rangers playoff game at Madison Square Garden, on Thursday. Harvey- who is a Connecticut-born, die-hard Rangers fan- first met the green-eyed blond bombshell in early May after they watched the Broadway Blueshirts win at the Garden, the New York Post reported. According to ...

  • Mets frustrated but determined to turn it around

    Email NEW YORK -- The Mets have reached their boiling point and cooled back down again. Everybody involved with the team is frustrated by the season so far, but the Mets have reached the collective understanding that getting angry and yelling at each other isn't going to fix anything. Now, if anything, the Mets are only more determined to work together and dig themselves out of their ...


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Black Christmas (aka Silent Night, Evil Night) [DVD]

Black Christmas (aka Silent Night, Evil Night) [DVD]

Has any director in recent memory had a stranger career trajectory than Bob Clark? This is, after all, a man who got started making innovative low-budget horror movies in the early 1970s, then graduated to studio-financed animal comedy with Porkys (1982) and Porkys II ... ...

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  • Mets honor military with special night at Citi Field

    Email NEW YORK -- Days like Sunday force Sandy Alderson to think about his father, his time in the military and the men and women serving in the armed forces all over the world. The Mets' general manager, who served in the Marine Corps, deeply understands the importance of honoring the military. "I can empathize because I was in the service myself, but they're the ones that are ...

  • Teammates voice support for slumping Ike

    Email NEW YORK -- Ike Davis may be losing the battle of batting average, but he's winning the war in the clubhouse. Davis, struggling with a .148 average entering Sunday, has heard daily questions about whether he'll soon be demoted to Triple-A Las Vegas, and his teammates weighed in on the subject. David Wright, captain of the Mets, spent a few minutes fielding questions about Davis, ...

  • Mets hope to feed off energy of Subway Series

    Email NEW YORK -- With their cast of veteran fill-ins and up-and-coming studs, the Yankees are bringing a tough test for the Mets to Citi Field on Monday night for the start of the 2013 Subway Series. While they're scuffling heading into the four-game slate, the Mets see this as an opportunity to try to pick up some quality wins against a first-place team. "Usually they're one ...

  • Hughes has some momentum as Subway Series begins

    Mariano Rivera still remembers the excitement surrounding the very first regular-season meeting between the Yankees and Mets, back in 1997. The legendary closer could do nothing but watch as the Mets notched a 6-0 victory, but one day later, he earned the first of his 20 regular-season Subway Series saves after the Yankees defeated their crosstown rivals, 6-3. On Monday the two teams will ...

  • MLS Columbus 2 New York 2

    Jamison Olave scored in second-half stoppage time Sunday, lifting the New York Bulls into a 2-2 draw against Columbus. With time running out in the 91st minute, Olave corralled Jonny Steele's cross, steadied it with a right foot and propelled it into the net, earning a standings point for the Eastern Conference-leading Red Bulls ...

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