The veteran New York Post copy editor and the author of the famous headline, "Axis Of Weasel," died on Thursday from complications related to a recent stroke. Joseph Cunningham was 43 years-old. more ›

Ramon Barroso, a 45-year-old ex-con with four burglary convictions, got lucky when he was arraigned in Judge Carol Feinman's courtroom recently. Barroso was busted for breaking into a church in the Bronx after detectives traced his DNA to a sample from a safe. The Post reports that Barroso told cops he is an "expert safe cracker" and, as such, he would have worn gloves had he committed the crime. And Feinman agreed, declining to set bail at the $50,000 prosecutors requested. more ›

The UK tabloid The Mirror is obviously thrilled at the scandal that sunk Rupert Murdoch's century-and-a-half old weekly The News of the World, which folded over the weekend after it was revealed, among other things, that employees of the paper allegedly hacked the phone of a missing teenager who was later found murdered. Now The Mirror is reporting that the phone hacking scandal nearly jumped the pond when reporters at The News of the World allegedly tried to buy the personal information of 9/11 victims who died in the attack on the World Trade Center. more ›

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is friends with Dominique Strauss-Kahn. When Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May, Lévy complained about his treatment, "I resent the New York tabloid press, a disgrace to the profession, that, without the least precaution and before having effected the least verification, has depicted Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a sicko, a pervert, borderlining on serial killer, a psychiatrist’s dream" and also got the Daily Show treatment. And now, with Strauss-Kahn's release, Lévy has some thoughts about the latest turn of events. more ›

From the POV of some tabloid columnists, the recent reworking of the city's streets is the DOT's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark—an ill-conceived waste of time and money designed for the tourists—not the poor working man driving their SUVs. And DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan is their Julie Taymor: a myopic power-drunk "psycho" who is simply biking too close to the sun. The Post, in particular, has been withering in their assessment of the innovative commissioner (even calling her "Sadist-Khan), but the Times has also just published a fascinating, in-depth report on Sadik-Khan's polarizing tenure. It's chock full of money quotes, like this one from Councilmember Letitia James, a self-described friend of Sadik-Khan: "Other than Brownstone Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan, she is pretty much despised by my colleagues." more ›

The announcement that golf superstar Tiger Woods will be speaking publicly for the first time tomorrow since his car accident-turned-extra marital affair-scandal has sent the media into a new frenzy. Woods' agent Mark Steinberg said, "While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between him and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him. He also let down his fans. He wants to begin the process of making amends, and that's what he's going to discuss." more ›

The OK! Magazine article which points a judging finger at Madonna and A-Rod's "friendship" is now in print and online (well, partially) for all of those suspect of the pals. more ›

The Post and Daily News gleefully put the old Gray Lady on their covers with the same headline--"The New York Climbs"--in the Times' headline font. The NY Times tucks mention of the pair of unrelated climbers, Alain Robert and Ray Clark, who scaled its building to the bottom of the front page. more ›