'Naked Pint': Chuck the chardonnay - 11/13/2009

BABES AND BEER go together like mud and wrestling - which is to say, it's a guy thing. Which, incidentally, explains why so many women reach for the grape instead of grain.

 

Poker Guy: Unconventional tactics serve Pham well - 11/13/2009

CONVENTIONAL poker strategy suggests raising from early position only with the strongest of hands - say, aces, kings, queens and A-K.

 

Martha Stewart: Your brush with fate: Paint like a pro - 11/13/2009

IN THEORY, we all know how to paint a room with latex paint. Dip a brush or roller in a color, and spread it over the wall. But painting neatly and efficiently using the foremost methods and tools is a skill most of us could brush up on. Here's a guide detailing what you need to know to paint a flawless finish in any space.

 

Tattle: Harvard to hear Eliot Spitzer on . . . ethics - 11/12/2009

By Howard Gensler

TATTLE WOULD be hard-pressed to come up with any politician who could give a talk on ethics, but Eliot Spitzer, the call-girl-favoring ex-New York attorney general and governor?

 

Kimberly Garrison: Readers weigh in on bike laws - 11/12/2009

MY COLUMN last week on the death of legal assistant Andre Sneed, allegedly struck by a bicyclist in Center City, and the need for tougher bicycle laws, got readers fired up! Here are some of their thoughts on this hot-button issue:

 

Jenice Armstrong: Deadline drama - 11/12/2009

NEWSPAPERS have long enjoyed dueling images - one as bastions of gentlemanlike civility and the other as busy, cluttered places where gruff city editors chain-smoked and cussed out reporters whenever they felt like it.

 

Gary Thompson: A Gary Thompson production - 11/12/2009

A 12-YEAR-OLD I know asked me if he should be worried about the movie "2012," based on purported Mayan predictions that the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012.

 

Ellen Gray: 'Prisoner' remake not very telling - 11/12/2009

THE PRISONER. 8 p.m. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, AMC. THE 1960s have been very, very good to AMC, whose Emmy-winning "Mad Men" transformed it from a cable channel known exclusively for classic - and sometimes not-so-classic - movies to a player in the realm of original series.

 

Tattle: Letterman defendant: Blackmail not in the script - 11/11/2009

By Howard Gensler

ROBERT J. "Joe" Halderman, the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman in exchange for keeping quiet about his sexual affairs, was trying only to sell the late-night comic a screenplay, his defense attorney yesterday.

 

Dan Gross: From Jersey to 'Mercy' - 11/11/2009

MARLTON ACTRESS Andrea Langi is featured prominently on tonight's "Mercy" (8 p.m., NBC). Langi, last seen on film having bathroom sex in a bar with Mickey Rourke