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Cindy Adams woke up on Election Day knowing exactly where to spend her evening. There were parties all over town. Lefty celebrities would be out in force. But the longtime gossip columnist for the New York Post wanted to be at the place she felt would be “the heartbeat of the world”—namely, the CNN Grill. Read More

Bette Midler’s Staying in Vegas, Baby!

For her "Hulaween" party this year, which benefits her New York Restoration Project, Bette Midler wore a white chef’s costume (complete with toque) splayed with fake blood, and carried a cleaver. "If factory food doesn’t start changing its ways, people are going to start dying in the streets. Amputations and blindness isn’t any fun," Ms. Read More

A Taste of Cindy

Introducing an occasional scorecard for New York’s most dynamic gossip columnist.

Today’s Post gives Cindy Adams a much-deserved page-one teaser: “WTC: Why I hate this lousy movie.”

Inside, on page 14, Cindy–self-nominated as “New York’s watchdog” (motion seconded! And carried!)–touches all the critical bases:

* Filmgoing experience? “Slow-moving and formulaic.”

* Commercial prospects? Read More

20 Real New Year’s Eves

It seems that now, on New Year’s Eve, everything shifts east. New Jersey stumbles into Manhattan; Manhattan’s riffraff ends up in Brooklyn. (The Transom isn’t sure yet where Brooklyn goes. Hauppauge? Copiague? Nor does it really care.)

But where do the real New Yorkers end up? Although a union spokesperson wouldn’t comment, Transit Workers Union Read More

WOOD WAR XVIII

Who’s winning the battle of the front pages?

“Dirty Harry” would be clever if the Post had bothered to include a subhead mentioning the movie is PG-13; “CARD TRICK” feels like a desperate attempt to keep up with the non-developments in the FAKE BRAVEST ‘SEX FIEND’ story.

But the Post could have run dummy text Read More