Devil

If you have any doubt the New Jersey Devils are frustrating the New York Rangers in their Eastern Conference finals, just look at Game 4. Forget that Zach Parise scored two goals and set up another in the Devils' 4-1 win that evened the series at 2-all. Look at the extracurricular stuff in the game Monday night. Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur got sucker-punched by former teammate Mike Rupp, who might now be facing a suspension. New Jersey teammates Patrik Elias, Adam Henrique and Steve Bernier were the victims of cheap shots, and the Rangers spent most of the final 20 minutes...

NEW YORK - Ryan Carter snapped a tie with 4:24 left, and the New Jersey Devils survived for a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers after blowing a three-goal lead in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday night. The Devils, who led 3-0 before the first period was half over, have a 3-2 edge in the series and can advance to face the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup finals with a win at home Friday night. If the Rangers can stay alive then, Game 7 would be back in Madison Square Garden Sunday.

It only takes a minute or two to figure out what Ti West is up to in “The House of the Devil.’’ The grainy film stock, the barren autumn trees, the fragile young heroine seeking a baby-sitting job on the night of a lunar eclipse. If these haven’t tipped you off, the opening titles will: freeze-frame on the girl and cheesy yellow lettering that blares the cast and crew. Ah, the 1970s - what a time for gutbucket horror. West, a rising young director of minor cult pleasures (2005’s “The Roost,’’ 2007’s “Trigger Man’’)

The New Jersey Devils never could have imagined they would have a three-goal lead on the New York Rangers less than 10 minutes into Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals at hostile Madison Square Garden. Their shock was even greater when that advantage was gone, and they were suddenly locked in a tie game in the opening minute of the third period. In the end, it all worked out for the Devils, who got another surprising goal from fourth-line forward Ryan Carter in the closing minutes and escaped with a win that put New Jersey on the brink of a spot in the Stanley Cup finals.

NEW YORK - Mad at disgraced investor Bernard Madoff? There's a toy just for you. One of the vendors at this week's Toy Fair is offering the "Smash-Me Bernie," a $99.95 Madoff look-alike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork. It comes with its own hammer - so you can pulverize it. Phoenix-based ModelWorks is behind the caricature Mini-Me figures, which can be customized to look like celebrities or whomever a buyer chooses. Madoff was arrested in December after investigators said he confessed to his sons that he had swindled investors of $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme.

It's been ten years since Boston Red Sox President Larry Lucchino dubbed the New York Yankees "the Evil Empire" - on account of the team's large coffers, excessive salaries, and, um, occasional success on the diamond. Since then, Yankees fans have come to embrace the idea of their players as the ones everyone else loves to hate. The team celebrates its dubious honor, too, by playing the Imperial March from Star Wars before each home game. But now the team is taking its reputation for evil a step too far by threatening to sue a mom-and-pop operation hawking anti-Yankees merchandise...

The Zoe Scofield/Juniper Shuey multimedia dance collaboration "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" is one of those bewildering pieces that demands total engagement in the moment, but sends you out the door wondering "What was that?" all the way home. Given its Boston premiere over the weekend by the Seattle-based husband and wife team and their company, it is unapologetically confounding, yet insidiously memorable, like a crazy dream you just can't shake. At the center of it all, there's a furious little heart that pumps equal parts vitriol and grace.

The author of a newspaper column suggesting the devil may be responsible for homosexuality has resigned from his job with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. A spokeswoman for the Roman Catholic bishops said Friday that Daniel Avila (AH'-vee-lah) offered to step down and his resignation was accepted Friday. Avila's column appeared a week ago in The Pilot, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston. Avila had written that there's evidence suggesting the devil is responsible for same-sex attraction.

It’s a clever premise, to jam most of a movie’s action into a small space. At least one filmmaker has tried this before: Hitchcock, whose “Lifeboat’’ placed survivors from a torpedoing during World War II into a dinghy. “Twelve Angry Men’’ and “Das Boot’’ also tackled this challenge and, to a lesser degree, “Phone Booth’’ and “Panic Room.’’ “Devil’’ throws down this claustrophobia-inducing gauntlet. Three-quarters of this thriller takes place in an elevator car stuck between the 21st and 22d floors of a skyscraper.

On "Saturday Night Live," even the devil was offended by the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. "SNL" cast member Jason Sudeikis reprised his role as Satan, appearing with red horns and pitchfork. The devil was informed by "Weekend Update" host Seth Meyers of sex charges against a former defensive coordinator and allegations that university officials failed to report the abuse. Even he was disturbed by the news. Addressing Penn State students who protested football coach Joe Paterno's firing, the devil spoke directly into the camera,...

NEWARK - The Eastern Conference finals between the rival New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils finally got ugly - real ugly. Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur was sucker punched in the third period by former teammate Mike Rupp. Coaches Peter DeBoer of New Jersey and John Tortorella of New York screamed at each other after the incident. And the Rangers blew their cool, as the Devils rode two goals and an assist by Zach Parise to a 4-1 victory on Monday night that evened the series, 2-2. "Throughout a seven-game series," Parise said, "both teams are going to get frustrated with things.

If you have any doubt the New Jersey Devils are frustrating the New York Rangers in their Eastern Conference finals, just look at Game 4. Forget that Zach Parise scored two goals and set up another in the Devils' 4-1 win that evened the series at 2-all. Look at the extracurricular stuff in the game Monday night. Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur got sucker-punched by former teammate Mike Rupp, who might now be facing a suspension. New Jersey teammates Patrik Elias, Adam Henrique and Steve Bernier were the victims of cheap shots, and the Rangers spent most of the final 20 minutes...

NEWARK - In his latest playoff gem, Henrik Lundqvist had little time to do more than stop every breakaway or two-on-one attempt New Jersey shot his way. When he took a moment to breathe, Lundqvist had all the confidence that his New York Rangers would bail him out with a goal or two. "You know sooner or later it's going to turn," he said. "It's going to turn in our favor. " Unlike those dozens of Devils shots, his feeling was right on the mark. Lundqvist had 36 saves, and Dan Girardi, Chris Kreider, and Ryan Callahan scored third-period goals to lead the...

John Tortorella stood out again at a playoff news conference. Only this time it was because of his feistiness toward the New Jersey Devils and not for his brevity and contentiousness with the media. The New York coach defended Rangers forward Brandon Prust, who was given a one-game suspension Sunday because of an elbow to the head of New Jersey defenseman Anton Volchenkov, and accused the Devils of embellishing to draw penalties in the Eastern Conference finals. "We tell our players, 'Don't stay down on the ice. Get up,"' Tortorella said Sunday.

For one game, at least, in the Eastern Conference finals, the New Jersey Devils found a way to beat Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers. After losing out in the Rangers' block party in Game 1, the Devils found a solution in Game 2. They forechecked, moved the puck, didn't give the New York defense time to set up, shot quickly, and got traffic in front of the Rangers' goaltender. It wasn't anything novel. It was Hockey 101, and a better effort than in the opener of the best-of-seven series.

Henrik Lundqvist stopped all 36 shots, and Dan Girardi, Chris Kreider and Ryan Callahan scored third-period goals to lead the New York Rangers to a 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday. The Rangers scored two goals only 1 minute, 57 seconds apart early in the third to help them take a 2-1 series lead. Lundqvist was busy from the opening faceoff en route to his second shutout of the series and third in the postseason. Callahan iced it with an empty-netter late in third.

CAMBRIDGE — Who doesn’t enjoy a good yarn about outwitting the devil? Cultures all over the world have concocted variations on this theme. For “Ti-Jean & His Brothers,’’ an early work (1957), Pulitzer-anointed poet/playwright Derek Walcott drew on his memories of tales he heard as a child on Saint Lucia. The play, as revived at Central Square Theater under the joint aegis of Underground Railway Theater and Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University (Walcott initiated the latter three decades ago)

The oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the country has apologized and retracted an opinion column written by a senior official with the organization running the church suggesting the devil may be responsible for same-sex attraction. The Pilot on Wednesday withdrew Daniel Avila's column titled "some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction. " The Boston archdiocese newspaper says it failed to recognize the theological error before publication. Avila says in the piece that "the scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be...

NEW YORK - David Clarkson's deflected goal 2:31 into the third period snapped a tie and lifted the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers that evened the Eastern Conference finals at one game apiece Wednesday night. Clarkson built off the momentum created by Ryan Carter's goal late in the second period that tied the score, 2-2. Ilya Kovalchuk had given the Devils a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal in the first. Defenseman Bryce Salvador added two assists, and Martin Brodeur stopped 23 saves for the win. "We had to keep going to the net, and I think we were doing some...