Michael Gross

Veronika Conant considered abandoning her midtown co-op after years of being awakened by privately owned garbage trucks, crunching refuse at all hours of the night and early morning. "The day after I moved in I wanted to move away," said Conant, who...

On Sunday, the actress supreme, Christine Baranski, will depart the Longacre Theater after the matinee of Boeing Boeing and step onto Jeff Zucker's GE helicopter. That will land her in Southampton, N.Y., in time for the gala Hamptons premiere of the new...

Fearful that their urban Eden will be buried under darkness and dirt, residents of bucolic Tudor City announced a lawsuit Wednesday to block one of the city's largest development projects. The suit alleges that the City Council and the City Planning...

Mortgage bankers eagerly are going back to basics before Congress makes it a requirement. At the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the most oft-spoken phrase was "back to basics." What's the hottest mortgage product today, Doug...

Why does everyone hate Chris? Is there a Stargate that will take me to the mall? And where did Alex P. Keaton's parents go so wrong? Find out the answers to these questions, plus what else is coming out, in this week's installment of TV on DVD. Show:...

A summary of the movies playing Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2007 at the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Most tickets are $10 general admission; $5 for members and free for holders of FLIFF Fast Pass. Parties and special events are priced...

Perhaps it shouldn't surprise anyone that Tiger Woods and Roger Federer have started hanging out together. It's not like they can compare notes on transcendence with anyone in golf or tennis. But based on the events of the past week, they might want to...

The cruise industry has suffered its share of recent setbacks: hurricanes, highly publicized cases of missing persons at sea and a steering error that tipped one ship harshly on its side, injuring dozens. Still, cruising remains one of the most...

June 19: Actress Gena Rowlands is 69. R&B singer Al Wilson is 66. Singer Spanky MacFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang is 63. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 57. Singer Ann Wilson of Heart is 55. Actress Kathleen Turner is 51. Country singer Doug Stone is 49....

The producers of "How I Met Your Mother" plan to expand the world the show's characters live in this season, and that will include meeting some of their relatives. Ted's (Josh Radnor) parents will be making an appearance early in the season, and you...

Professionally, there's nothing Annette Bening likes more than a challenge. The three-time Oscar nominee found one in her rare television appearance as the perpetrator of the so-called Scarsdale Diet Murder in "Mrs. Harris," a seriocomic HBO movie...

ATHENS - Bob Bowman, horseman and coach of Michael Phelps, entertains the media every morning at the Olympic Aquatic Centre. Phelps chases Australian Ian Thorpe in tonight's 200-meter freestyle, one of the most appealing finals in the history of...