October 16, 2006
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October 16, 2006 | 12:12pmThe blog, it is on vacation in Mijami. It has run away with the gnome from Travelocity. We shall be back in our porch rockers to resume whittling on Thursday...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Oct. 15
October 16, 2006 | 12:09pmAnother week, another San Francisco cheap hotels story. Boy, when it rains, it pours. Also, the folks at Kimpton will be pleased to know that despite their efforts at a...
Rain men
October 16, 2006 | 4:16amThe tarp is on the field at Busch Stadium. It's not even an hour after the Mets' 12-5 dismantling of the Cardinals in Game 4 of the NLCS and the...
HOME PURGE HITS 5
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA sweeping internal investigation into a chargeback scandal at Home Depot has claimed five more casualties, The Post has learned. All but one of the employees, who include four store...
FROM SERIOUS TO SOAPS, BEANE THERE, DONE THAT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amEVEN prize-winning playwrights have their tacky days. How else to explain Douglas Carter Beane's four-part soap opera for the stage? In the best "Dallas" and "Dynasty" tradition, "The Cartells" has...
'TOON INTO TRUMP
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amDONALD Trump is animating himself. The publisher of the real-estate tycoon's magazine says they will have the pilot for a Donald Trump cartoon show ready "within 90 days." No word...
STARR REPORT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amFace time for Alfre Alfre Woodard, seen on last season's "Desperate Housewives," is lending her famous face to a campaign for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters called "skinvoice," sponsored by Vaseline,...
MICK CLICK - HOW PROMISING COMEDY LOST ITS JAGGER EDGE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amTOMORROW night was supposed to be the night that one of the fall season's brightest comedies had its premiere. The show is "The Knights of Prosperity," the story of a...
TURNING A PAGE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amCONGRESS is suddenly hot - and not just in a bad way. A series about a young congressional aide trying to navigate the treacherous waters of Capitol Hill - which...
'DANCING': TUNE IN TOMORROW
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE sweating on "Dancing with the Stars"-once confined to the rehearsal studios-is now hot and heavy in the exec suite. Those in charge of the smash-hit reality show spent the...
MORE 'LOVE' - 'NEW YORK' SNAGS OWN SHOW
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amRAPPER Flavor Flav may have dumped his sassy, outspoken date, New York, on last night's season finale of "Flavor of Love 2," but she'll be back soon - with her...
GRAND GLAM - '70S ROCK LOOKS SPRINKLE (ZIGGY) STARDUST ON FALL; GLAM IN ZIGGY & TWIGGY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN it first launched in London in 1964, Biba - first a line of clothes, then a decadent seven-story shop that doubled as a louche clubhouse for David Bowie, Mick...
SNAFU SPRUNG TRIGGER-HAPPY THUG
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA bureaucratic snafu led to the release of a violent ex-con who'd been indicted in a federal drug case - and earlier this month wound up in a shootout with...
METS' SON SHINE - MR. WRIGHT A MAMA'S BOY - FOR NOW
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amHe may be a sex symbol, but he's still my baby boy. That's what Met third baseman David Wright's mom says about her son's rise to fame and his new...
A MODEL OF BAD BEHAVIOR - NAOMI MAID TELLS OF 'DOMESTIC' ABUSE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amSO, that's what made her so crabby. The supermodel woke up each morning to a breakfast of two intestine-destroying laxative drinks, which she sipped surrounded by 1,000 candles - and...
SCHUMER CALLS FOR PILOTS' E-ZPASS IN BIG APPLE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amAn E-ZPass for pilots? That's one suggestion Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) made yesterday to help make Manhattan's skies safer. Dubbed the "Trusted Flyer" program, Schumer said pilots would register their...
FILMGOERS STILL BEAR A 'GRUDGE'
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amAudiences harbored no resentment toward "The Grudge 2," sending the fright-flick sequel straight to No. 1 at the weekend box office. The poorly reviewed horror film pulled in $22 million...
CUOMO WON BY NOT LOSING
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJeanine Pirro may have landed a few stinging jabs in yesterday's state attorney general race face-off, but Andrew Cuomo ultimately won - by not losing. Pirro and Cuomo had very...
SCREW TURNED ON KIM - U.S. VOWS PRESSURE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top U.S. diplomats say the world's leading nations will squeeze North Korea until it gives up its nuclear ambitions - even as critics charged that new U.N. sanctions...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * An armed thief was arrested for pummeling his girlfriend and robbing her in a South Brooklyn supermarket, authorities said yesterday. The incident began at about 11:50 p.m. on...
CAREFUL NOW, NOBODY SNEEZE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIt was a high-wire act that you'll never see at the circus. This tanker came within inches of nose-diving onto Meeker Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, early yesterday after nearly flipping...
SMART SUBWAYS - HIGH-TECH TURNSTILE WOULD SPOT BOMBS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe subway turnstile of the future may scan straphangers for explosives in less time than it takes to swipe a MetroCard. A prototype in development would mark passengers with a...
SCHOOL GRUEL IN GROSS CAFETERIAS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIn hundreds of city public-school lunchrooms, the three R's stand for roaches, rodents and rotten food. A staggering 360 school cafeterias - nearly one out of every three - is...
HIT-&-RUN FIEND DESTROYS FAMILY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA heinous hit-and-run driver killed a beloved Brooklyn mom and left her daughter, a second-grade teacher, clinging to life by plowing into the pair as they walked home from a...
'LIFE' ON LINE FOR LAWYER
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amCivil-rights lawyer turned convicted criminal Lynne Stewart will find out today if she's getting a life sentence for helping Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with his terrorist followers. Stewart's side maintains...
SALUTE TO CORY - YANK BIGS WILL MOURN LIDLE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amYankees manager Joe Torre and other team officials head west today to join Cory Lidle's stricken family and friends in paying their last respects to the pitcher at an emotional...
LAWYER 'LOSES' SLAY CASE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amAn outspoken lawyer who claims he was unfairly tossed off the high-profile case against an ex-con bouncer accused of murdering grad student Imette St. Guillen is threatening to sue the...
ONE COOL CAT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA well-mannered Manx from Trenton, N.J., had the winning mix of color and calm to capture the national cat show championship last night at Madison Square Garden. Cali, a 4-year-old...
DUKE THREE END SILENCE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amThree Duke University lacrosse players charged with raping a stripper proclaimed their innocence in their first media interviews last night, saying prosecutors and police willfully ignored evidence that could exonerate...
CBG(OOD)B(YE) - CLUB CLOSES AFTER FINAL RIFFS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amPunk poet laureate Patti Smith sang farewell to CBGB last night, as the New York music institution closed after hosting three decades of three-chord rock 'n' roll. The veteran rocker...
TRAGIC FISHERMAN FOUND
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe body of a young Brooklyn man who drowned while fishing with his father was discovered yesterday off Breezy Point, near where the tragedy happened, police said. A beachgoer spotted...
ISRAEL PREZ COULD FACE A RAPE RAP
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli police are recommending that President Moshe Katzav be charged with rape and sexual harassment in connection with sensational charges that he assaulted a former private assistant. The woman has...
IT'S PRIME-TIME GRIME TIME - ANDY & JEANINE DEBATE GETS VICIOUS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJeanine Pirro and Andrew Cuomo squared off in a bruising attorney-general debate yesterday - with each trashing the other's ethics in their first face-to-face exchange. "Just so we're clear, there...
SISTER'S FURY AT TEEN SLAY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA sister of the pregnant Brooklyn teen who was shot and killed Saturday lashed out at the baby's father, who cops are looking at in connection with his ex-girlfriend's death....
MOTHER & DAUGHTER HIT-&-RUN
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA beloved Brooklyn woman was killed and her daughter, a second-grade teacher, was left clinging to life after a lead-footed hit-and-run driver plowed into them just steps from their apartment,...
J.LO ADORNS CHEZ.LO
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJenny from the Block is now lady of the manor. In the fall issue of Vogue Living (right), Jennifer Lopez preens and poses in the glamorous country manse she shares...
NOAH WEBSTER - FATHER OF THE DICTIONARY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amToday's lesson looks at the man who wrote the book on American English. Noah Webster's dictionary is an indispensable tool for success in your academic career - and beyond. NOAH...
RAPE RAP EYED FOR ISRAELI PREZ
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli police are recommending that President Moshe Katzav be charged with rape and sexual harassment in connection with sensational charges that he assaulted a former private assistant. The woman has...
HEVESI YIELDS POWER - PUTS PAL IN CHARGE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amSCANDAL-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has turned control of his office over to his longtime political consultant, Hank Morris, in hopes of staving off a criminal indictment, The Post has...
AL'S LOBBY FIRM TIED TO EL LOCO
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Jeanine Pirro's husband, Al, is under fire for working on behalf of a voting-machine company whose parent corporation has been linked to anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, The...
TEACHERS' SEX PREY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amFemale teachers who sexually prey on young male students are motivated by desires ranging from reliving their youth to craving an intimate relationship they can dominate, experts say. They include...
BAG LUNCH OR BLECH! LUNCH IN THE BRONX
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amFirst-grader Sharon Bustamante told her mom she saw a mouse in her school cafeteria. And it wasn't named Mickey. But Catya Bustamante didn't believe her daughter - until The Post...
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amHere's a first glimpse of Brooklyn's future welcome mat. The long-neglected Flatbush Avenue corridor into Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge will soon get a much needed facelift. The Bloomberg administration...
COLUMBIA STUDENTS TUTOR CITY PRINCIPALS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhat can a 20-something with a head for business bring to a public school? Apparently a lot, judging by the growing number of city principals turning to graduate students at...
REVIVAL HOUSE - BELOVED B'KLYN THEATER WILL BE SAVED
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amA legendary but long-shuttered Brooklyn performance palace - which in its heyday saw the likes of Bob Hope and Milton Berle take the stage - has been saved from the...
AL CROWN PERFECT FIT FOR TIGERS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amDETROIT - There is something regal about the Tigers franchise. Walk around Comerica Park and you get the sense that all is right again in the baseball world because the...
OLIVIERI'S WARRIORS REMAIN UNBEATEN
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amCurtis 22 - New Dorp 12 Fred Olivieri has had plenty of success in the PSAL in the past and it didn't take him long this year to determine that...
VICK SUFFERS INDIGNITY OF SEVEN SACKS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ATLANTA - In most games, allowing 223 rushing yards would signal doom for a defense but not so yesterday for the Giants, who knew as a unit they...
GIANTS' 2ND WIND TORCHES ATLANTA - TIKI IGNITES COMEBACK FROM 14-3 DEFICIT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amGiants 27 - Falcons 14 ATLANTA - At halftime, Tom Coughlin approached Tiki Barber and, more than suggest, he implored his Pro Bowl running back to make something happen. "He...
COLES-BLOODED - LAVERANUES' TDS GIVE JETS VICTORY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJets 20 - Dolphins 17 Everyone wanted to know how the Jets were going to respond from the 41-0 shellacking they took on the chin from the Jaguars a week...
BACK ON TRACH - STEVE MAY GET CALL FOR GAME 7
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - Both Willie Randolph and Steve Trachsel said the veteran right-hander could be on the hill for a potential Game 7 of the NLCS. Trachsel suffered...
JUST ENOUGH - THIS WIN FELT MORE LIKE RELIEF THAN REDEMPTION
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amF or the first four weeks of the NFL season, Eric Mangini was viewed as a refreshing change from the previous head coach. Of course, some of us said the...
NO REST FOR WEARY - GLAVINE & WEAVER SET FOR GAME 5
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jack McKeon spoke at a leadership conference at Duke University last week. The former Marlins manager is now a speaker in demand, largely because of the 2003...
DUNHAM ON THE SPOT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amPREDATORS at ISLANDERS - Tonight:7:30 - FSN2 (1130 AM) Mike Dunham knew he'd play in a few games this season. Just not this many. Not this fast. Dunham was a...
KASPY IS BACK TO WREAK HAVOC
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amDEVILS at RANGERS - Tonight: 7:00 MSG - FSN; WFAN (660); ESPN (1050) This was tough love, Tom Renney keeping Darius Kasparaitis out of the first five games of the...
JOEY STARTS SLOW, WITH A BIG FIN-ISH
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amAt 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, Joey Harrington looks like an NFL quarterback. Looks were deceiving yesterday until the fourth quarter. During the first three quarters, Harrington, playing for the injured Daunte...
ANOTHER 'L' DOURS DOLPHINS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Dolphins left Giants Stadium yesterday visibly shaken and bitter about losing to their most hated rival. "It's come to the point where it's embarrassing," Dolphins' DE Jason...
JOY, BY A FOOT - MISSED FG GIVES JETS NEEDED WIN
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amJets 20 - Dolphins 17 This one would have hurt more than any of the other ones. It would have stung more than the should-have-won loss to the Colts. It...
METS 'GADO BELIEVE - CARLOS CARRIES CLUB TO CRUCIAL VICTORY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The Mets, circa 2005, were 24 Carlos Beltrans. They were constricted by the pressure and the magnitude of all that was going on around them, and desperate...
TRACH STOCK DROPS - STEVE PULLED SELF FROM GAME 3
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - Steve Trachsel missed time at the end of the regular season due to personal reasons, so the Mets were already down on him. Now his...
AMAZIN' DEFENSE BAILED OUT PEREZ
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Lost in the offensive explosion from the Mets in last night's dismantling of the Cardinals in Game 4 of the NLCS is how strong the team's defense...
BELTING THE BALL - AMAZIN' CF JUMP-STARTS NEW POWER SURGE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Carlos Beltran's parents decided to stay at home in Manati, Puerto Rico, and watch the Mets' first two postseason rounds on TV. "They told me they'd come...
PEREZ EARNS SURPRISE VICTORY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Oliver Perez batted for himself in the top of the sixth inning last night, a feat almost nobody thought possible. Of course, the Mets starter was ahead...
WRIGHT-ING HIS WRONGS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - David Wright finally is off the mat. Wright was 0-for-10 in the NLCS by the third inning of last night's Game 4, mired in a slump that...
LA RUSSA FUMBLES WITH 'PEN
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Instead of moonlighting as Ben Bradlee, Tony La Russa should stick to managing. Throughout the NLCS, the Cardinals' skipper has instructed the media on how to handle...
PUJOLS FAILS TO BUST OUT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols is easily the best player on the Cardinals. So considering Pujols has only four hits, five total bases and hasn't driven in a run in...
LYON-IZED - STEVE JOINS LONG LIST OF PERSONALITIES FIRED FOR WHAT THEY WERE HIRED TO DO
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amSo now what? Do we just toss Steve Lyons on the scrap heap of sportscasters fired for social insensitivity? That would be simple. And easy. And unfair. While we were...
COLES-BLOODED - JETS LEARN IN ORDER TO WIN, LAVERANUES HAS TO HAVE BALL
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amMaybe it was a coincidence, the natural result of the flow of the game, match-ups, adjustments and all that other stuff that dictates who gets the football and who doesn't....
EL DUQUE EYEING SERIES
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - With the Mets' pitching prospects looking dim, the team received some good news last night before the Mets' 12-5 victory in Game 4 of the NLCS. Injured...
NOW BATS MORE LIKE IT - OFFENSE WAKES UP; SERIES TIED
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 4: Mets 12 - Cardinals 5 ST. LOUIS - It was capped by Jose Valentin. Three Mets scored on his double, finishing perhaps the most significant rally of the...
MOMENTUM? TRY MET-MENTUM NOW
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - There were 46,060 of the widest-eyed, heartiestthroated faithful you'll ever see and hear packed tight inside Busch Stadium last night, almost every one of them wearing red,...
EVEN THE MIGHTY METS NEED ARMS IN OCTOBER
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amS. LOUIS - The Mets weren't the first team with vast October aspirations to find themselves having to rely on a journeyman pitcher last night, when they threw Oliver Perez...
DUQUE EYEING SERIES
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - With the Mets' pitching prospects looking dim, the team received some good news last night before Game 4 of the NLCS. Injured starter Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez...
AILING VETS TRY TO AID METS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - In a despondent Mets clubhouse Saturday night, Cliff Floyd was one of the final Mets to get dressed and leave. The normally affable Floyd looked frustrated and...
IT'S TOM FOR TURNAROUND - UNFAZED GLAVINE TAKES THE HILL TONIGHT
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - If he can, Tom Glavine would like to convince Albert Pujols tonight. Following Glavine's Game 1 dominance in the NLCS last Wednesday night, when he held the...
SPIEZIO: MISTER CLUTCH
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Alex Rodriguez inhales and exhales so hard in tight spots you expect him to pull a rib cage muscle. Gary Sheffield's cuts are so fierce he gets...
METS' MOUND OF TROUBLE - STARTERS A PROBLEM NOW, A CONCERN LATER
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - It is not just that Pedro Martinez was unavailable for Game 1 of the NLCS this year. He is unavailable for Game 1 of the next regular...
OFF THE TRACH - STEVE PULLED SELF FROM GAME 3
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES ST. LOUIS - Steve Trachsel missed time at the end of the regular season due to personal reasons, so the Mets were already down on him. Now his...
HARRINGTON HAS A STRONG FIN-ISH
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amAt 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, Joey Harrington looks like an NFL quarterback. For most of yesterday, looks were deceiving. During the first three quarters, Harrington, playing for the injured Daunte Culpepper,...
COLES COMES UP BIG
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amOne week after seething aloud to reporters about a diminished amount of plays in the blowout loss to the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Laveranues Coles came back yesterday with yet another...
VALENTIN'S DAY IS NOT IN OCTOBER
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Even when Jose Valentin finally did come through at the plate on Saturday, he still shot himself (and his team) in the foot. Valentin mustered only his...
SLUGGISH METS NOT SLUGGING THE BALL AGAINST CARDINALS
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The Mets are in an offensive malaise, particularly with runners in scoring position. And RISP might soon mean RIP. Entering Game 4 of the NLCS, the Mets...
ROSE GUARDIN' - KNICKS CAN'T LET JALEN'S LACK OF MINUTES HURT HARMONY
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe shrinking role of Jalen Rose is among the most sensitive issues Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas must navigate as he tries to return harmony to a fractured locker room. It...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIf it looks too good to be true, it is. L.A. cops came upon a pair of street merchants who were looking to sell antique silver dollars for only $20...