January 13, 2007
THE BEATS GO ON
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amSeminal Beat novel "On the Road" turns 50 this year, and the 92nd Street Y kicks off the golden anniversary Monday night with "50 Years of Beats," a tribute to...
WHAT'S UP
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amTodayKIDDIN' AROUND: Kids know what kids like, so TADA! Youth Theater's production of "Adventures from Ezra Jack Keats: Maggie and the Pirate & Apt. 3" should be a big hit...
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amYOU don't have to be Ben Stiller to spend a night at the museum - or the zoo or the toy store, for that matter. The city's favorite family spots...
FLY THEE TO THE ROOM
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amYOU can practically hear the whirring of the slot machines while Steven Maglio channels the Chairman of the Board in "Sinatra: Remembering the Sands" Saturday nights at the Carnegie Club....
WITHOUT A TRACE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amIF you're the mother or father of a daughter, this is a show you definitely should not watch. And if you're the mother or father of a daughter, this is...
BRAVO! 'EYE' IN FINAL SEASON
January 13, 2007 | 10:00am'QUEER Eye for the Straight Guy" is so over. As The Post reported exclusively last fall, this will be the fifth and final season of "Queer Eye," Bravo officials finally...
'BORAT' CONFESSION
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amSACHA Baron Cohen, aka "Borat," says he won't be in character anymore because of the movie's success. "I think it would probably be impossible," Cohen told NPR's "Day to Day"...
ADVENTURE TALE A CROCK
January 13, 2007 | 10:00am'PRIMEVAL" is one of the few monster-crocodile movies that simultaneously tries to rip off "Jaws" and "Meet the Press." Ads for the movie, and the headlines in the opening sequences,...
STEPPING UP AT-TAX
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amHomeowners are about to get socked with higher tax bills because assessments are going through the roof, city officials announced yesterday. Defying dire forecasts of a downturn, the Finance Department...
FIRE UNION STICKS TO LOCKER LAWSUIT
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe firefighters union is still planning to go ahead with a lawsuit over an order to its members to clean up their lockers even after the FDNY conceded that it...
QUICK FIX ON RIVERSIDE CRIME
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amRiverside Park is not the most crime-ridden in the city after all. When the NYPD posted statistics earlier this week indicating that the park suffered a whopping 36 crimes last...
$15 MIL PENALTY TOPPLES GIANT
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amA judge sacked Michael Strahan's bank account yesterday, ordering the New York Giants defensive end to pay his ex-wife Jean a whopping $15.3 million plus hundreds of thousands of dollars...
MIKE NIXES JUDGE JUMP
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg knocked down a call for more Family Court judges to handle increased reports of child abuse. "It's easy to call for it because you're going to have to...
2 CLUBS ARE BACK IN BIZ
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe party's back on at two popular West Side nightclubs closed down by police last week. Reps for Crobar and Sol say they were allowed to reopen after vowing to...
MAN RUN OVER ON GRAND CENTRAL
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amA man was killed last night after he was struck by two cars while walking across the Grand Central Parkway, police said. The 55-year-old victim, whose name was being withheld,...
PIMP SLAPS BETRAYAL
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amMy lawyer stole my brothel, self-proclaimed "King of All Pimps" Jason Itzler griped from Rikers Island yesterday. "He used to say he was one of my best friends," Itzler complained...
HOSP TRIO SUE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThree former top executives of doomed Victory Hospital in Brooklyn sued the facility yesterday for allegedly reneging on severance agreements that would have provided them millions of dollars in salary...
AN 'L' OF A TRAIN 'WAIT WATCHER'
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe MTA is finally taking the guesswork out of waiting on subway platforms - at least on the L line. The long-awaited passenger-information screens that reveal exactly when the next...
BROOKLYN JURORS LET KILLER ELUDE DEATH PENALTY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amA Brooklyn jury spared Martin "Sassy" Aguilar the death penalty yesterday - giving the man who callously slaughtered a friend to pay off a drug debt life in a federal...
DOGGED HERO HOME
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amRanger's ready to take a bite out of crime again. The hero police dog was released from an animal hospital yesterday after being treated for a paw cut suffered in...
FAT CHANCE ON MODELS' 'RULES'
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amNew York Fashion Week introduced guidelines yesterday meant to curb the use of underage, anorexic models - but the chances they'll make a difference are thin, industry sources said. The...
QNS. CAR SALESMAN SHOT DEAD
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amA well-liked father of two from Queens was gunned down outside the auto dealership where he worked, stunning co-workers and baffling the police. Nassau County cops said Collin Thompson, 27,...
ED. BIG CAUGHT IN CHEAT
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amA longtime city school superintendent was forced to resign yesterday after investigators determined he had dipped his quill in the company ink, The Post has learned. Sources with knowledge of...
BUS-FLIP SCARE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amSeven people - including five Catholic-school kids - were taken to the hospital yesterday after a school bus collided with a minivan and tipped over in Brooklyn. The bus carrying...
GRIPPING SLAY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amProsecutors say Benjamin Odierno couldn't bear to let go of his attractive, younger wife. Yesterday, his Manhattan murder jury heard how Odierno - having allegedly stabbed her to death as...
OWNERS SNIFF AT DOGGIE RX
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe first diet drug for potbellied pooches has some dog owners sitting up and taking notice. Slentrol, which got Food and Drug Administration approval earlier this month, will go on...
UNFAIR TO 'SINGLE' OUT FOES: VET N.Y. POL LIZ
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amFormer Brooklyn District Attorney and Democratic congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman - a successful professional woman without kids - shares Sen. Barbara Boxer's liberal politics but disagrees strongly with her comments about...
TIMES, NEWS TURNED BLIND EYE TO STORY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Reporters and editors at The New York Times and the Daily News had their heads in the sand about Sen. Barbara Boxer's bitter personal screed against Condoleezza Rice...
RICE RAPS DEM BABY TALK
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday challenged Sen. Barbara Boxer's claim that she can't make effective decisions about sending U.S. troops to war because she's not a mother....
POST READERS HAVE THEIR SAY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00am'Sen. Boxer is a moron. Just because a person doesn't have children means they are not able to make judgment calls or opinion?'- Maddie 'It should be OK to question...
PELOSI BILL BLASTED AS PORK FOR TUNA
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Red-faced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went into damage-control mode yesterday after Republicans charged she slipped a loophole into the Democrats' just-passed minimum-wage bill to benefit a company in...
MO. BOYS FOUND
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWhen police finally tracked down a 13-year-old Missouri boy who disappeared near his home five days ago, they also found an unexpected surprise - a 15-year-old boy who had been...
PREZ RUN A FULL-TIME JOB: RUDY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWILMINGTON, Del. - Rudy Giuliani last night said being a 2008 White House candidate would be a "full-time" endeavor for him if he runs - suggesting he'd drastically scale back...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amQueens* Cops are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a man who tried to rob a Forest Hills bank. The would-be bandit walked into a Chase branch on Queens...
LOTTERY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Fri.: 797 Midday Win-4 Fri.: 8588 Evening Numbers Fri.: 442 Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2134 Pick-10 Fri.: 1, 3, 11, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 35,...
NANCY'S FISHY FRIENDS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amHouse Democrats believe in open, honest government. Well, right after they get caught, that is. Turns out, in the hoopla of self-congratulations following Democratic House leaders' passage of a minimum-wage...
WRITE [email protected]
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe White House denounced the remarks as "outrageous" and "tacky." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she found it all "a bit confusing." Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman - as fiercely...
DOUBLE-TEAMING PILFERING POLS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00am"We've been opening newspapers for the past several weeks. We see scandal after scandal involving state government. So I think the time is also right. It's a higher priority probably...
AGAINST THE ROPES: BOXER FIGHTS DIRTY
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: Sen. Boxer's claim that as a childless woman Sec. Rice can't understand war's costs. Sen. Barbara Boxer and her ilk continuously suggest that unless the president or his...
SWEET & LOW
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amCablevision's controlling Dolan family has sweetened its takeover bid by $900 million and added investor-friendly provisions that could make the new offer too good for the Long Island company's board...
AFTER SCANDAL, WAL-MART HIRES TWO AD FIRMS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amAfter the embarrassing ouster of its ad chief and freshly picked ad agency, Wal-Mart hired two new shops to handle its $580 million account and put an end to the...
RETAIL SALES A MIXED BAG
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amRetail sales for the holiday shopping season came in below expectations, as strong demand for consumer electronics failed to offset a sluggish housing market and unseasonably warm weather for traditional...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amHOOPS: Surgery for RileyPat Riley is recovering from surgery to replace his left hip, and there's no timetable for him to return as coach of the NBA champion Heat. The...
AILING BARBARO 'ACTING BRIGHT'
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThree days after suffering a "significant setback" to his left hind foot that's been slow to recover after being hit by the dreaded disease laminitis last July, Barbaro continued to...
NO CHALK IN DAILY DOUBLE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amAqueduct will host a birthday party today in the Trustees Room for Phil Laub, who turns 101. An escapee from Nazi Germany, Laub opened a grocery store in the Bronx...
FOR 1973 KNICKS, 2ND TITLE SWEETER
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amTwo seasons removed from their first NBA championship, the 1972-73 Knicks had added Jerry Lucas, an excellent shooting center who could draw out defenders, and guard Earl Monroe, a brilliant...
BIG TROUBLE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe coaches are well past the phantom handshake they shared a year ago before Connecticut beat St. John's 66-50 in Gampel Pavilion in a game that was more competitive and...
A LONG SCHOTT
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Quick. Patriots vs. Chargers in tomorrow's AFC divisional playoff game at Qualcomm Stadium. Who are you going to give the coaching edge to: New England's Bill Belichick...
LACH OF TIME
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amTime flies, like Brian Urlacher to the ball. At age 28, with half his career probably over, he needs no further reminder the eras of Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers...
BIG PEY-DAY OR INDY-GESTION?
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amBALTIMORE - Rarely does a confrontation unfold as definitively as this one does this afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium. "They know they're the best offense, we know we're the best...
COLTS VS. RAVENS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amINJURY REPORT Colts: Out: WR Ricky Proehl (Hamstring). Questionable: CB Nick Harper (Ankle); T Ryan Diem (Shoulder); DE Robert Mathis (Hip); LB Gary Brackett (Ankle); S Bob Sanders (Knee); G...
LATTER-DAY SAINTS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amNEW ORLEANS - It has been fewer than four months since the Saints made a dramatic and emotional return to the Superdome and crushed the Falcons before a packed house....
EAGLES VS. SAINTS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amINJURY REPORT Eagles: Out: CB Lito Sheppard (Elbow). Questionable: RB Thomas Tapeh (Knee). Probable: LB Dedrick Roper (Knee); RB Ryan Moats (Ankle); LB Omar Gaither (Shoulder); T Tra Thomas (Knee);...
WORTH THE WAIT
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThey're doing it again. Legendary for patience, the Devils last night played the waiting game right into second place in the Eastern Conference. "Patience. That's the key. It's the difference...
GIANTS TO NAME REESE GM
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe Giants made no moves with their coaching staff yesterday, but early next week they are expected to call a news conference to announce the hiring of Jerry Reese as...
JINTS-FISH IN LONDON
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe Giants will hit the road next season to face the Dolphins, but it looks as if the game won't be played anywhere near South Florida. In the coming weeks,...
ISIAH TRIES TO SPIN C-WEBB
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amWhile all signs point toward Chris Webber winding up in his hometown Detroit, Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas is believed to have delivered his sales pitch to C-Webb yesterday afternoon on...
'TIP' TO BOTTOM
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amIf the Knicks' prior victory over Charlotte here on Dec. 20 on "The Tip" play was one for the ages, this was one for the trash heap. Just when the...
METS & SOSA NEAR DEAL; PEREZ RE-UPS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amRighty Jorge Sosa is close to signing a short-term deal with the Mets, a baseball source confirmed last night. Sosa was 3-11 with a 5.42 ERA with Atlanta and St....
NET-WORK NEWS
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Richard Jefferson is furious about reports concerning the origin of his black eye. Jason Kidd's divorce is gaining more media attention than any of his 82 career triple-doubles...
RANGERS' RENNEY STILL SEEKS 'THE ONE'
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe stories exploded out of the Rangers' 6-4 loss to the Senators on Thursday night like Secretariat galloping down the stretch at the Belmont: * Five unanswered Ottawa goals in...
NELLIE EXITS IN PINSTRIPES
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amJeff Nelson retired as a Yankee yesterday, hours after the team signed him to a minor-league pact and invited him to spring training. The 40-year-old played on four World Series...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 13, 2007 | 10:00amIf all criminals were this dumb, the police would go out of business. A burglary suspect being transported by upstate cops near Syracuse kicked out the window of the cop...
Songs of the second season
January 13, 2007 | 5:58amThe playoffs are in full swing, entering their second week. With virtually all fantasy leagues now in the offseason, it's time to focus on musical fantasy rather than our fantasy...