December 4, 2006
JETER/A-ROD SAGA ROLLS ON
By KEVIN KERNANAll those who think Derek Jeter should be standing up for Alex Rodriguez a bit more need to check out my column today (Dec. 4). I sat down...
JETER/A-ROD SAGA ROLLS ON
By KEVIN KERNANAll those who think Derek Jeter should be standing up for Alex Rodriguez a bit more need to check out my column today. I sat down at length...
Shoe porn
There's nothing like a new pair of shoes to cure the post weekend hangover.Trust me, I know. I just took a quick break for emptying my bank account at Office...
Peace of mine
And in case you missed it, the Sunday paper featured a dozen of the best black dresses for this holiday season. Pictured here: An $850 sequin minidress from Tory Burch...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamCAROLINA HERRERA, NINA RICCI, RENA LANGE 317 W. 33rd St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (718) 747-1656Sale: Dec. 10-12. 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.The designers converge, offering up to 85...
LIVEBLOG/COACHELLA VALLEY: Water water everywhere
Once upon a time, the Gulf of California extended across the border and all the way to Riverside County, although at that time it wasn't called Riverside County. This was...
LIVEBLOG/COACHELLA VALLEY: A night at Haleiwa Joe's
If only they could move Hawaii a few hours closer to New York, I might be bothered to get on a plane and go. This is not to say I...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Dec. 3
Larry Rohter on the Guaranàmission trail in South America. We are fascinated by the California missions, so this is interesting to us. Apologize if otherwise to you. [NYT]The Las...
MARBURY A SHOE-IN FOR SNEAKER AWARD
Knicks superstar Stephon Marbury has scored one of the shoe industry's biggest wins - the coveted launch of the year award for his $15 sneaker. Marbury's StarburyOne, which he promoted...
WRECKSON DEAL - ICAHN'S PARTNERS BAIL ON $6.3B REAL ESTATE BID
Carl Icahn appears to be standing alone in his renegade effort to buy office building group Reckson - and may have to put up some of his own billions or...
TESTING THE WIND - GOLDMAN BETS ON HIGH PRICE FOR ENERGY UNIT
Goldman Sachs is putting its Horizon Wind Energy subsidiary up for sale, in a bet that the market for renewable energy is nearing a top. According to energy news Web...
CNBC ROLLS OUT WEB SITE
After five years hidden behind the wall of Microsoft's MSN service, CNBC today will unveil a redesigned Web site that relies heavily on streaming video. Looking to combine and capitalize...
'RUNWAY' LAURA DELIVERS
'PROJECT Runway" finalist Laura Bennett finally had her baby over the weekend - a boy. Finn - her sixth child - weighed in at 8 lbs. and was about a...
'HEROES' LEAVES FANS HANGIN'
THE biggest hit of the new season, "Heroes," is disappearing after tonight for six weeks. But it's leaving with a massive cliffhanger, according to the show's creator. Every character will...
WIGGLES REPLACE FOUNDER
THE yellow jersey has been handed to a new Wiggles. Not suprirsingly, it's the same guy who has been subbing for original Wiggle Greg Page on tour. Page said last...
SOARING VOICES MATCH EPIC OPERA'S SCOPE
WITH James Levine back at the helm, everything is usually all right in the world of the Metropolitan Opera. And so it was Thursday night, when Verdi's great "Don Carlo"...
THE D'S ONE HELL OF A BORE
POWERED by a single joke, Tenacious D, featuring comedians Jack Black and Kyle Gass, have nurtured their decade-old HBO comedy sketch into a franchise currently riding high with movie, a...
BLOOD BROTHER - PETER KRAUSE REVIEWS HALL'S KILLER NEW HIT, 'DEXTER'
MICHAEL C. Hall's performance in "Dexter" just received another rave review - from "Six Feet Under" costar Peter Krause. Krause (pronounced Krau-za) had high praise for Hall's work in the...
LATE SHIFT - VIEWERS DRIFT FROM LETTERMAN, LENO TO NEWS, REAL AND FAKE
THE beginnings of a social shift seems to be underway in late night TV - people are tuning away from traditional, joke-y talk shows like Leno and Letterman and turning...
STARR REPORT
Gray matters Vivian Gray, who's cohosting "Good Day New York" today and tomorrow, knows from whence she speaks when it comes to her role on "Desire," the MyNetworkTV telenovela in...
THEY'RE REAL - BUT MADE BY MAN. SYNTHETIC STONES PROMISE ... DIAMONDS WITHOUT GUILT; PEACE OF MINE
DIAMONDS, they say, are forever. But this holiday season, you could get one that is considerably younger. That's because for the first time New Yorkers can buy a diamond made...
SALES
* CAROLINA HERRERA, NINA RICCI, RENA LANGE 317 W. 33rd St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (718) 747-1656 Sale: Sun.-Dec. 12. 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The designers converge, offering up to...
TESTS & PESTS - BEDBUGS GETTING INTO CITY SCHOOLS
Bedbugs are itching to get into Big Apple schools. As the city grapples with a resurgence of the pesky critters in hot-sheet motels and Park Avenue penthouses, it appears the...
'TYLER LIVES ON' - COP'S FUND FOR TRAGIC SON
A heartsick NYPD cop whose 10-year-old son died after he accidentally shot himself with his dad's handgun has created a charity in the boy's name devoted to easing the financial...
DETECTORS TO LET CITY FIGHT DIRTY
The city has approved a $1.64 million contract to rearm the Fire Department with 600 radiation detectors that could be used to respond to a "dirty" nuclear-bomb attack, The Post...
SPONGEBOB & PALS EYEING MOVE TO CONEY
SpongeBob SquarePants could soon frolic along Coney Island's boardwalk. Cable-TV giant Nickelodeon has expressed interest in being part of developer Thor Equities' $2 billion plan to turn the famed summer...
TRANS-FAT BAN SET TO BECOME OFFICIAL
Here's the skinny - the city Board of Health will approve a rule tomorrow ordering trans-fat oils out of restaurant fry baskets. The new policy, pushed by Mayor Bloomberg's health...
PAWS FOR ALARM - LEASH-LAW RULING LOOMS
Hundreds of pooches mixed it up in Prospect Park yesterday, as their humans prepared for a city vote tomorrow that will finally clarify confusing regulations on whether dogs can roam...
HOSPS PREPARE FOR CHEM, NUKE ATTACKS
The city plans to designate 30 Big Apple hospitals as special emergency burn units to treat victims in a chemical or nuclear attack, The Post has learned. Each hospital will...
HIRE CALLING FOR GRADS
It's going to be a banner year for job-hunting graduates in the class of 2007 at colleges both here and around the nation. "I haven't seen a job market this...
FDNY GETS BURNED BY BIAS BLAST
The Fire Department is turning a cold shoulder to qualified black women, passing them over for promotions, two veteran Emergency Medical Service officers charge. Capt. Andrienne Knight and Lt. Mary...
CELL DEALERS FEE 'STEALERS'
Cellphone buyers, beware - you may be getting ripped off and not even know it. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum yesterday warned customers that many cellphone dealers charge hidden cancellation fees...
NEW GOP BOSS STIRS 1ST STORM
NEWLY elected state GOP Chairman Joseph Mondello has been in office for less than a week - but he's already being accused of breaking his word to party leaders, Republican...
PA HONCHO COLLIDING WITH SPITZ
Gov. Pataki's top appointee to the Port Authority has vowed to continue serving on the agency's board even after Democrat Eliot Spitzer becomes governor next month, setting up a certain...
KAZAKH TOURISM'S 'BORAT BOOM'
"Borat" make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan after all. After weeks of being the laughingstock of the wildly popular mockumentary film, Kazakhstan could end up laughing all the way to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * A ski-masked bandit was busted after robbing a worker with a hunting knife in a Bushwick coin laundry, authorities said yesterday. Albert Plummer, 22, was at Clean Max...
DAD'S SLAY 'LIES' - BABY-BEAT 'COVER-UP'
A burly Bronx man charged with beating his infant daughter to death initially feigned innocence in the coldblooded slaying - even trying to revive the baby when she was discovered...
PICTURE THIS: SPITZER TAKES GRAND CENTRAL
Eliot Spitzer will take over Grand Central Terminal next month with a photo exhibition of images from his campaign. "The Making of a Governor" will chronicle the stump speeches, handshakes,...
3-PEAT FOR 'HAPPY FEET' - BOND STILL NIPPING AT ITS HEELS
The bird's the word at the box office. The computer-animated penguin flick "Happy Feet" danced its way to the top of the box office for the third straight weekend, according...
TALK ABOUT A 'DREAM' COME TRUE
Gorgeous "Dreamgirls" stars Anika Noni Rose, Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Hudson (left to right) strike divalicious poses for the January issue of Vanity Fair. The movie, to be unwrapped in...
HILLARY WOOS ELIOT - 'BEGINS PREZ PROCESS'
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer yesterday as part of a vigorous new effort to line up support for a possible presidential run. "As Sen. Clinton...
I.D. CRIME 'WAVE' - CROOKS SCAN HI-TECH CARDS IN YOUR POCKET
Personal information from credit cards that you wave in front of a sensor can be stolen even as the plastic remains in your wallet. More than 20 million Americans use...
DEADLY AIRSTRIKE ON REBEL HIDEOUT
American planes blasted a foreign-fighter safe house in a Sunni stronghold west of Baghdad, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the military said yesterday. However, residents in the...
I KNOW WHO KILLED SPY - KGB PAL IN VA. SPINS NEW INTRIGUE
Calling the death of Alexander Litvinenko "an act of international terrorism," a friend and former KGB agent now living in Virginia says he gave police the name of the person...
SPITZ READIES KO PUNCH VS. HEVESI - PROBE REPORT WILL BE 'DEVASTATING'
ALBANY - Attorney General and Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer is about to drop a new bombshell on scandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi that senior officials predict will be the final straw...
DA OPPOSES SPECIAL PROBE
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown yesterday balked at repeated calls to step aside in the controversial Sean Bell police-shooting case to make way for a special prosecutor. "There exists no...
SOUP 'NUTS' MAN KILLED
A homeless man who tossed soup on a woman during a dispute in Brooklyn was later found dead, fatally stabbed in the groin, cops said yesterday. The unidentified man was...
BUSH FIELDS IDEAS FOR IRAQ: AIDE
President Bush is considering a "laundry list" of options for Iraq policy changes - including suggestions from a memo by outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that was leaked last week....
SHOCKING REVELATIONS IN 8-YEAR KIDNAP CASE
The sadistic Austrian man who kidnapped a 10-year-old girl and held her captive for eight years had been pals with her mom's boyfriend and regularly dined in the same restaurant...
GREEN 'HOUSE' - BANK BUILDING TO SET STANDARD FOR ENERGY SAVINGS
Money isn't the only green thing New Yorkers can associate with the Bank of America. The bank's crystalline tower going up at the corner of West 42nd Street and Sixth...
DEM POWER OUTAGE OVER
WASHINGTON - Not a single piece of substantive legislation authored by a New York City Democrat won approval in the current GOP-controlled Congress - a drought likely to change in...
BUILDERS' SIGN OF THE CRIMES
Putting up a sidewalk shed around a vacant lot makes no sense - unless you're profiting by blighting the city with gigantic illegal advertising signs. A year ago, a 250-foot...
WALT DISNEY - THE MAN BEHIND THE MOUSE
Walt Disney was a film producer, director, screen writer, voice actor and animator, but we know him best for his theme parks and his famous mouse. WALTER Elias Disney was...
J.D.-LED RANGERS ICED THE ISLANDERS
The Islanders had the best team in the NHL in 1978-79 and three of its top six scorers. And yet, if the third period of Game 6 of the Stanley...
STEPH DOESN'T MIND FEEDING CURRY
KNICK NOTES Stephon Marbury can't complain now about Isiah Thomas' new missive of making this Eddy Curry's team and ensuring the guards get the ball down low to their big...
ISIAH: I JUST DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER
Isiah Thomas recognizes the problem, that the Knicks are psyched out at home because of the harsh Garden crowd. But he doesn't know how to fix it. The Knicks, with...
BIG DAY FOR COA, 'KITTY'
It started out as Eibar Coa Day at Big A with Coa booting home four of first five winners, and he just missed taking East View Stakes by whisker. In...
NETS' GROWTH CREATES LOGJAM
Just play everybody on the team 20 minutes each. No problem. As the Nets get healthy, more players are staking valid claims for playing time. Hassan Adams wowed 'em in...
TEAM PLAYER - JETER HAS YANKEE MATES' BACKS
DEREK JETER plays the game right. He also knows how to treat teammates. Recently, the Yankees Captain has been hit with some misguided criticism that he should come out stronger...
PLAX ANSWERS HIS CRITICS
Nobody can say Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress quit in yesterday's loss to the Cowboys. Not after he shook off a slow start with a super finish, leaping over Anthony...
TORRID JETS WHACK PACK - LAMBEAU THAWED BY GANG GREEN ATTACK
Jets 38 - Packers 10 GREEN BAY - As advertised, the tundra was, indeed, frozen. But the Jets were scalding hot. The Jets were so sizzling in torching the Packers,...
LOOKS LIKE A PLAYOFF TEAM, HUH?
GREEN BAY - The sweetest dream the most devout Jets fan ever had was never as good as their real first half yesterday. Water doesn't meet less resistance after going...
HOUSTON HAS NO PROBLEM
GREEN BAY - During pre-game warm-ups yesterday with the temperature 19 degrees with a wind chill of 2 degrees, Jets fullback B.J. Askew sauntered onto Lambeau Field without a shirt...
THOMAS' NEW DEAL PAYS OFF
JET NOTES GREEN BAY - On Friday, Jets linebacker Bryan Thomas was signed to a fresh five-year contract extension worth a reported $25 million. Two days later, he played like...
HENRIK'S PSYCHE TAKES A BEATING
Islanders 7 - Rangers 4 It was bad when the Rangers played poor defensive hockey and received no more than average goaltending during October. It is worse that they have...
'DUMB PENALTIES' BRING ON GIANT HEADACHE
With his Giants seething over last weekend's collapse and steaming over the coverage of the Michael Strahan-Plaxico Burress flap, coach Tom Coughlin spent all week preaching discipline and poise for...
FAILED GAMBLE BURNS COUGHLIN
GIANT NOTES Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That's the way it's going for Tom Coughlin, who tried to get aggressive and ended up with an inquisition on...
GRAMATICA PAYS DIVIDENDS
Bill Parcells had a reward waiting for Martin Gramatica after the Cowboys' new kicker booted a 46-yard, game-winning field goal yesterday to beat the Giants. "That kick gets him on...
RU SEASON STILL SUCCESS
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - If it's possible to feel another person's pain, then no one walked out of the visitor's locker room at Mountaineer Field without empathy for the Rutgers...
COWBOYS SHUT UP 'GIANT' TALKERS
While the Giants spent most of their time talking trash to each other last week, they did find time to say a few things that annoyed the Cowboys. Jeremy Shockey...
GIANT COLLAPSE COULD PROVE COSTLY
For the second time in as many weeks, the Giants played outstanding defense for three quarters, only to let a game slip away in the final seconds. But unlike last...
TERRELL GOOD AT MISSING PASSES
When Terrell Owens arrived in Dallas, he told Cowboys fans to get their popcorn ready. But he has played this season as if his fingers are covered with that fake...
COUGHLIN MUST PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE
THE GIANTS are broken, that much is obvious. They are a mess from the foundation on up, from the players who've cultivated a country club where a clubhouse is supposed...
BRUTAL GIANTS REST IN PEACE ... OR PIECES
THE Giants picked the wrong time to disintegrate as a team, and they picked the wrong day and the wrong opponent to try to put the shattered pieces of a...
ANOTHER COLLAPSE, ANOTHER DEFEAT
For the second time in as many weeks, the Giants played outstanding defense for three quarters, only to let a game slip away in the final seconds. But unlike last...
BIG D BOOTS BIG BLUE - GRUESOME GIANTS DROP 4TH STRAIGHT
Cowboys 23 - Giants 20 There's not much now for the Giants except to think they can when they've shown they can't. The shock and despair after last week's historic...
BIG D BOOTS BIG BLUE - COUGHLIN'S CREW DROPS 4TH STRAIGHT
Cowboys 23 - Giants 20 Unlike other recent efforts, there was nothing despicable or disheartening about the way the Giants played in yesterday's showdown game. They simply were not good...
DROPPING THE BALL - UNTENABLE MISTAKES DOOMING BIG BLUE
THE WORST part, of course, was that this time there were no ancillary excuses to grasp onto, no jaundiced justifications. The Giants hadn't blown a flukey game, as they had...
ISLES' POTI IN FAMILIAR SPOT - EX-RANGER STILL AN UNDERDOG
Tom Poti had heard it all before, about how his team would have no chance to compete, about how it was a mismatched group that was fated to land in...
GATORS GET IN - FLORIDA MAKES BCS TITLE TILT VS. OSU; TRESSEL REFUSES TO VOTE
The BCS was irrevocably exposed for the fraud it is yesterday, exposed by the only coach who should have no gripes against this horrifically-flawed system. No coach or program has...
RUTGERS' SEASON STILL HUGE SUCCESS
MORGANTOWN - If it's possible to feel another person's pain, then no one walked out of the visitor's locker room in Mountaineer Field without empathy for the Rutgers football team....
FEAGLES FOILED BY WOBBLY PUNT
GIANT NOTES After working out on the field hours before kickoff, Jeff Feagles convinced the Giants' medical staff he was healthy enough to play in his 300th NFL game. Feagles,...
MAGLOIRE DEAL UNLIKELY
NET NOTES Yes, the Nets have made an offer for Portland's Jamaal Magloire. But multiple team sources say it's doubtful they can land the 6-11 center for Jason Collins and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Albuquerque principal is in a hairy situation after driving a student off campus to a barbershop last week without seeking the permission of the teen's parents. Al Sanchez, of...