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  • Did Justin Theroux have bachelor party at NYC

    Justin Theroux is rumoured to have had celebrated his bachelor party in New York City. The 41-year-old actor, who was photographed enjoying a stag party at the Big Apple on Sunday, is fuelling speculation that he could be tying the knot with Jennifer Aniston sooner than expected, Contactmusic reported. A pal of Theroux, writer Gavin McInnes, posted a photo of himself fooling around with the ...

  • Bourbon Outfitters Hipster chain out to sell booze in Williamsburg

    Soon, the hipsters in Williamsburg will be able to down their Pabst while buying their ironic T-shirts.A new Urban Outfitters site on North Sixth Street in the trendy Brooklyn ’hood is applying for a liquor and restaurant license to serve booze in the store.The clothing chain is to unveil its plan May 30 before Brooklyn Community Board 1’s State Liquor Authority review committee. It ...

  • Kiss that perv goodbye Rape teach wife snog in court before jail

    He has no shame.A married Queens teacher and dad who repeatedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl in his family’s home openly made out with his lawyer wife in court yesterday - minutes before landing a sweetheart jail deal for his rape charge.As a Queens judge dispensed criminal cases feet away, Daniel Reilly, 36, shared long, passionate kisses with wife Annemarie, 28, who rubbed his knee ...

  • ‘Pic’-a-boo Stolen phone snaps ‘thief’

    A stolen smartphone was able to do its own detective work - by taking a photo of the man who might have snatched it. Police want to talk to this "person of interest" (pictured), who was photographed holding a phone stolen from a man in the Inwood section of Manhattan, cops said. The victim was inside a pedestrian walkway at the 190th Street A-train station on Sunday when three men ...

  • Chinese ‘spy’ busts at NYU

    Three Chinese citizens engaged in industrial espionage while conducting federally funded research at NYU Langone Medical Center, authorities charged yesterday.The men - one of whom was called an "innovator" in MRI technology" - allegedly funneled "nonpublic information" financed by taxpayers to a rival university in China and a company backed by the Chinese ...


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Movie Review

The Sum of All Fears

Roughly halfway through The Sum of All Fears, the worst thing imaginable happens: A small nuclear weapon placed by terrorists explodes in a major American city, killing tens of thousands of people and decimating a mile-wide area. During the Cold War era, the fear was that a massive nuclear strike would be launched against the U.S. by the Soviet Union, resulting in an unwinnable war that wo ... ...

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  • Sal Squeeze Weiner for cost of election

    With Anthony Weiner about to pop into the race for mayor, one of his Democratic rivals demanded yesterday that he pony up $350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated congressional seat two years ago.Weiner resigned under pressure in June 2011 after it was disclosed he was tweeting lewd pictures of himself to women he’d met on the Internet. In the special ...

  • Caroline Kennedys jury acquits accused drug dealer

    An accused crack dealer is singing "Sweet Caroline" today.Former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and her fellow jurors took just over an hour yesterday to acquit the Harlem man of charges that he sold four "nickel bag" crack rocks at $5 each to an undercover officer.Violent predicate felon Nelson Chatman, 31, smiled as the jury foreman rendered the verdict in the 2011 case ...

  • Poor li’l rich kids Posh schools scold parents who send nannies

    EXCLUSIVE Wealthy New Yorkers are shunning their parental duties - choosing instead to send nannies to their children’s private schools to take part in everything from "safety patrol" to accompanying the kids on their entrance interviews. "They’re sending nannies for bake sales, book clubs, for the ice-skating group," Amanda Uhry of Manhattan Private School ...

  • Bronx ghetto tour ditched

    The Bronx "ghetto" tour is no more.A tour company exposed by The Post on Sunday for bringing tourists to the South Bronx to gawk at food pantry lines, a "pickpocket" park and a housing project, yesterday announced it would stop all tours "effective immediately.""Good riddance," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. "The Bronx is more than what ...

  • Hofstra ‘kin’ Cop to blame

    The godfather of the Hofstra student shot dead by a cop during a Long Island home invasion blasted the officer yesterday for not first trying to reason with the violent felon who held her hostage. "He should have tried negotiation," said Henrique Santos outside the Tarrytown family home of slain Andrea Robello. Robello, 21, was struck and killed as veteran Nassau Police Officer Nikolas ...

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