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Here are the highest-paid coaches in US sports: Forbes
Photo credit: Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin ranked No. 8 with an annual salary of $6.67 million. (Getty)
The NFL dominated Forbes’ list of the highest-paid coaches in American sports in a report released Wednesday. Eight of the top 10 call the shots of football teams, including Giants coach Tom Coughlin at No. 8. The other two on the list are from the NBA. Here’s the full top 10.
1. Sean Payton -- New Orleans Saints -- $8 million 2. Bill Belichick -- New England Patriots -- $7.5 million 3. Andy...
Read more »Authorities bust drug store in Brooklyn selling heroin, cocaine and guns, and bilking Medicaid
Photo credit: Three of the five arrested worked at Malik Pharmacy at 2981 Fulton Street. (Brooklyn DA)
A pharmacy in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn was a one-stop shop for a stunning array of illegal drugs and guns and also the source of a Medicaid fraud that attempted to bilk the system for $9,000 in phony prescriptions, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney.
Five people, three of them employees of Malik Pharmacy at 2981 Fulton St., were arrested Monday as a result of the six-month investigation....
Read more »Theater Review: 'The Master Builder' -- 3 stars
Photo credit: John Turturro and Wrenn Schmidt in " The Master Builder"
The Master Builder 3 stars
Andrei Belgrader’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s 1892 tragedy “The Master Builder,” which stars John Turturro and is now playing at Brooklyn Academy of Music, manages to make a difficult, highly symbolic, rarely staged play feel fresh, focused, sinister and unapologetically erotic.
Halvard Solness (Turturro), a middle-aged architect who fears he will soon...
Read more »Behind the Curtain: St. James Theatre being used for new Keaton flick, more
Photo credit: Michael Keaton (Getty Images)
Keaton flick Although the St. James Theatre on 44th Street is vacant, its marquee is advertising “Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” which was adapted by, directed by and stars Riggan Thomson, who actually looks a lot like Michael Keaton. Well, it actually is Keaton, and the sign is just being used as part of the filming of “Birdman,” in which Keaton plays a film actor...
Read more »In time for summer, Nathan's reopens after Sandy
Photo credit: Nathan's Famous hot dogs (Getty Images)
Damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Nathan's Famous' flagship restaurant in Coney Island will officially reopen Thursday.
The storm put the restaurant out of business for seven months, filling Nathan's, on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues, with six feet of water.
"That was the first time an event occurred that caused the closing of Nathan's," said Wayne Norbitz, president and CEO of...
Read more »Blake Shelton plans benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims
Photo credit: Blake Shelton (Getty Images)
Oklahoma country singer Blake Shelton is planning a televised benefit to raise money for victims of the massive tornado that swept through Moore, Oklahoma, this week, music magazine Billboard reported Wednesday.
"The Voice" judge Shelton, a native of Ada, Oklahoma, which is 75 miles northwest of Moore, said he would have more information on the NBC concert in the next 24 hours.
"I'm...
Read more »Vogel: Anthony Weiner flashes his arrogance
Photo credit: Anthony Weiner (Charles Eckert)
Oh my God, he's running.
Even after a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows more people are against his candidacy than for it. Even after the Clintons said they won't endorse him.
And, worst of all, even after Weiner said it's "possible" that more of his sexting photos are still out in cyberspace, and other women may come forward.
Oy.
Forgive me, Anthony, but...
Read more »Movie Review: 'Hangover 3' -- 2 stars
Photo credit: (L-R) Justin Bartha as Doug, Zach Galfianakis as Alan, Ed Helms as Stu and Bradley Cooper as Phil
The Hangover Part III 2 stars Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms Rated R
After the disastrous “The Hangover Part II,” which effectively remade the original film beat by beat, fans will be relieved to learn that the final movie in the Wolfpack trilogy at least attempts to create a new storyline.
Unfortunately, there’s not much to what is little...
Read more »Movie Review: 'Fill the Void' -- 4 stars
Photo credit: Irit Sheleg, Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman and Razia Israeli in "Fill the Void"
Fill the Void 4 stars Directed by Rama Burshtein Starring Hadas Yaron, Irit Sheleg, Yiftach Klein Rated PG In Hebrew with English subtitles Opens Friday at the Landmark Sunshine and Angelika
“Fill the Void” takes place almost exclusively inside a small apartment in Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox community. It explores a segment of religious Jewish culture that will seem foreign to many, with the...
Read more »Documentary Review: 'We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks' -- 3.5 stars
Photo credit: Julian Assange, left, with WikiLeaks staffers
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks 3.5 stars Documentary by Alex Gibney Opens Friday at the Angelika and Walter Reade Theater
It was only a matter of time before Alex Gibney, our most prolific documentarian, got around to WikiLeaks. Few hot-button issues escape his grasp and only a handful have been as galvanizing as the story of Julian Assange’s website/leak repository, which famously...
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