Three neglected noirs from the early 1950s are to be released on DVD on Tuesday, courtesy of Olive Films.
Best of the bunch is Lewis Allen’s “Appointment With Danger” (1951). It stars Alan Ladd as postal cop Al Goddard, who is investigating the murder of a colleague.
He’s…
The ship helping to seal BP’s damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was back at the spill site yesterday after a looming storm weakened. The rig had been moved out of Tropical Storm Bonnie’s path Friday as workers prepared to evacuate. The Development Driller 3, which…
There’s a chess game that everyone — or at least, everyone with a TV set — has seen recently. And almost no one notices that the position is beyond belief.
It’s that ever-present Geico auto insurance commercial in which soccer sportscaster Andres Cantor does play-by-play for a master…
Brooklyn
A manhunt is under way for the thug wanted for the murder in East Flatbush last week of a former Guyanese police officer.
The suspect (police sketch above) is believed to be in his 20s, standing around 5-foot-8 and weighing around 150 pounds.
Samuel Boucher, 31, who had been…
“Which do you think is harder,” Cy the Cynic asked me, “dummy play or defense?”
“I think it’s harder to become a fine declarer.”
“Dummy play is easy,” Cy retorted. “All the techniques have been written up many times over. The game would be more interesting if bridge had…
It was early Monday morning, July 19, that a terrible rape occurred in an area of the Bronx that rarely sees such crimes.At 1:52 a.m. at 1400 Benson Street, off East Tremont Avenue, a 79-year-old woman was beaten and raped in the lobby outside the elevator. Reports…
Morris Park residents will be pleased to learn that an abandoned golf center, which many felt had become a notorious eyesore, could soon become a functioning business again.MTA Real Property took back the complex in May when the prior tenant defaulted on their lease, and now MTA spokesperson Aaron…
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is in critical condition and not responding to those around her, her husband said Friday, according to Reuters.
Gabor, 93, broke her right hip and suffered a concussion Saturday after she fell out of bed while watching “Jeopardy!” She was said to be recovering well after…
What a difference three years makes.A non-profit group that once divided the South Slope with a proposal to house formerly homeless and low-income adults with special needs in a Fifth Avenue building received a warm welcome to the neighborhood on Friday.Even Borough President Markowitz, who opposed an early…
Washington, D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee fired 241 public school teachers Friday following poor appraisals, the Washington Post reported.
Rhee said the firings are part of an overhaul that is assessing teacher performance aimed at keeping only the best educators.
“Every child in a District of Columbia public school…