January 16, 2007
Lumpy black and white clothes
Delicately handcrafted silk -- an ethereal lavender dream-concept dress straight from Chanel headquarters on rue Cambon in Paris. I bet it arrived in a gorgeous stiff matte black box with...
Best supporting actor
... with worst supporting stylist. OMG, Jeremy Irons was totally my waiter when i went for some dim sum down on the bowery this afternoon.Jeremy, please. Leave the long coat...
The Golden Touch
Chloe Sevigny gets Big Love for her smart and bold choice: A shoulder baring graphic number from YSL. Some take issue with her somewhat avant garde style, but she's a...
Gettin' fresh.
My friend picked up these Nintendo Power Mints at a novelty store in Miami. I laughed at how gosh darn retro-cute the tin is. Then I popped a mint and...
Ugly Betty producer in Ugliest dress
Every Saturday morning growing up, my mother made my brothers and me change our sheets.To inject a little more fun into our mundane routine, my brother Gregory and I would...
The Final Word on Lee-Jeffries
By MARC BERMANJudging from the comments of the last posting, some of you missed the point or I didn't explain the context of Isiah's response well enough. As a reporter,...
'24' blowing the war on Terror?
After years of close calls, "24" dropped the big one.By Adam Buckman Are we losing the War on Terror?On "24," it certainly looks that way.Despite the best efforts of Jack...
IT'S A BARGAIN!: Feeling Blue
We may be competing with the history books, but up in Ontario (did you see our print story today from up there?), the history books are beat: Warm temperatures during...
LAST MINUTE: $248 RT to St. Thomas
Perhaps today's cover story on the coolest little island down off The Yucatan got you thinking about flying south. If not, how about this: It's cold.Don't ask us why, but...
Golden Globes hangover
Let's see, where have we seen this before? Oh yeah. Whatever the opposite of "stars, they're just like us" is, Jolie-Pitt are it. Howabout "stars, they're unreal -- and increasingly...
COLOR BLIND
PURE vanilla. I know this year's Golden Globe actresses thought they'd look heavenly in an endless parade of white. But in gowns of eggshell, ivory and "creamsicle" (so said Ali...
G'DAY, YANKS
THE Big Apple is getting a visit from Down Under. G'day USA: Australian Week, a weeklong program that aims to introduce Americans to the culinary and cultural delights of Australia,...
'TOYS' RUNNING ON LOW BATTERIES
LILLIAN Hellman's 1960 over heated Southern melodrama, "Toys in the Attic," contains enough shocking elements to fuel a dozen plays, from a secret interracial love affair to a sister's incestuous...
STARR REPORT
Your slip is showingYou're tired: "The Appren tice" continues to struggle, averaging only 7.3 million viewers Sunday (9-10 p.m.), and finishing fourth in its timeslot in adults 18-49. The show's...
FIVE WIVES
SO much desperation, so little time. Yes, TV's got fake "Desperate Housewives" and it's got real, pathologically desperate housewives. The real housewives of "The Real Housewives of the O.C." Bravo's...
'IDOL' GANG IS TALKING ABOUT . . . A CURLY HAIRED WINNER
WHO is the curly-haired guy the judges from "American Idol" have picked as the early favorite to win? As the show returns tonight, that's what "Idol" fans are asking. "There...
'24' GO BOOM!
'24' dropped a real bomb last night. Fox's adrenaline-rush series ended last night's two-hour episode with the detonation of a mini-nuclear device in an L.A. suburb - destined to kill...
'DIRTY' RETURN OF RACHEL
JENNIFER Aniston is coming back to TV Briefly. Aniston will make her first series appearance since "Friends" with Courteney Cox on the season finale of the quirky new drama series,...
HEY BABY, LOOK WHO'S TALKING
COLICKY newborns turn hopeful mothers into pessimists, so Nichole Albanese was leery when a keen-eared Australian language maven promised to transform her crabby baby's babble into recognizable demands. "Both of...
EDUCATION DEPT. BECOMES AN OPEN BOOK
The city is opening its school books to scrutiny. After four years of landmark changes to the school system, the Department of Education is preparing to turn over mounds of...
SHORTCHANGED
City middle schools are caught in a "pattern of neglect" that is magnified in the poorest neighborhoods, a study to be released today charges. The study, by the NYC Coalition...
TRUMP DUMPS ON SOHO'S TRASH PLAN
Donald Trump is ready to talk trash to help his future SoHo neighbors take on the Sanitation Department. The city agency wants to build a 150-foot-tall garage on a site...
HOPES ON THE ROPES FOR LONG I.'S STRAY DOLPHINS
Spirits were lifted yesterday when it appeared that half of the dolphins stranded in an East Hampton creek had made it to the deep waters of Gardiner's Bay - but...
QNS. EATERY PROBED FOR LINK TO MOB
The city's launched an investigation into a restaurant contract given to a reputed mobster whose uncle co-ran the Gambino crime family for John Gotti. The Department of Investigation and the...
I WAS SERVED A FRENCH DI$$ IN N.Y. CAFE
Excusez-moi!? A French-born Manhattan resident claims a trendy SoHo restaurant tacked a gratuity on his bill without telling him - then said it was to "protect" the waiters because foreigners...
MORGAN IN WTC CHASE
Financial giant JPMorgan Chase is in talks with the Port Authority about developing the fifth World Trade Center skyscraper into a corporate tower - which would prevent Mayor Bloomberg's push...
MIRACLE CRASH
A single-engine plane attempting to land in heavy fog crashed in flames last night on a New Jersey street, killing the pilot and sending residents fleeing from their homes -...
'PREZ CHARLIE'
As New Yorkers honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg quipped that he would like to see one of the city's most powerful black politicians -...
CURB DEADLY TRUCK ROUTES
A month after a 6-year-old boy was killed by a casket-delivery truck in Brooklyn's Sunset Park section, community leaders are blaming the city's Transportation Department for the number of trucks...
COPS CAN SPOT THIEVES' DIRTY PLATES
Car thieves, beware - you can run but you can't hide from the NYPD's latest technology. Two cops on patrol in Brooklyn caught a pair of teens asleep at the...
TOURIST'S B'KLYN HELL RIDE
An out-of-towner visiting her husband's family got a fright-seeing tour last night from two armed carjackers who took her on a wild midnight ride through Brooklyn, police said. The terrifying...
GOV EYES SLASHING OVERTIME
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer plans a crackdown on state worker overtime, The Post has learned. "We have been over the past several weeks, reviewing the overtime issue," Spitzer's spokeswoman, Christine...
SECURITY E-ZPASS AT JFK
Starting today, travelers at Kennedy Airport can fly fast-class - completely skipping the security line and zipping straight to the gate. The new service, targeted at business travelers and frequent...
HUNT FOR BX. SLAY SUSPECT
Police are looking to question a Bronx man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman who was trying to stop a fight between friends. Benjamin Waters, 33, allegedly...
SUBWAY TRAIN KILLS HOMELESS VET
A homeless man was killed when he fell between the cars of a subway train in lower Manhattan yesterday, police said. José MontaÑez, 58, who carried papers indicating he was...
$700M PARK FLAP
A development team with close ties to ex-Gov. George Pataki stands to rack up nearly $700 million in gross revenue by selling more than 400 luxury condos to be built...
STRAHAN WIFE BARES HER 'EX'-TASY
Thief. Liar. Gold digger. During her nasty, two-year divorce battle with Giants star Michael Strahan, Jean Strahan was called plenty of names. But when a Jersey judge last week slammed...
SADDAM BRO'S GORY HANGING
The hooded head of Saddam Hussein's half-brother was severed when he and another Saddam aide were hanged before dawn yesterday, dramatic video of the execution shows. An adviser to Prime...
CONDI PUTS MIDEAST SUMMIT ON 'MAP'
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will bring Palestinian and Israeli leaders together in the next month for a rare three-way summit to revive the Mideast peace process, officials said yesterday....
LABS LEAD DOG PACK
The Labrador retriever was crowned top dog in the country yesterday. The American Kennel Club named the lovable breed the most popular dog in the United States based on a...
'DREAM' COMES TRUE AT GLOBES
The dream year of "Dreamgirls" continued last night at the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards. The film took home the best picture award for comedy or musical. Jennifer Hudson, the...
KIDNAPPER UNDER COPS' NOSES
ST. LOUIS - Mike Devlin was so good at flying under the radar that he calmly chatted about fishing with a local police captain the day before he was busted...
PREGNANT MISS JERSEY STEPS DOWN
Can a Miss USA keep her clothes on long enough to keep her crown? That's the question dogging the prestigious pageant after another comely contestant revealed she's hanging up her...
OBAMA HAT SET FOR RING
Supporters of rising Democratic star Sen. Barack Obama are bracing for him to make an announcement about his White House ambitions this week, sources told The Post. Aides to the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* Police say this man robbed a Park Slope bank. The thief handed a note to a teller at the Commerce Bank at Fifth Avenue near First Street last Friday...
NO SHAME, REMORSE OR SILENCE FROM THIS FIEND
WE ALREADY knew damn well that he did it. What we didn't know, until now, is precisely how remorseless, cruel and vicious - and patently egotistical - O.J. Simpson was...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Mon.: 694 Midday Win-4 Mon.: 9249 Evening Numbers Mon.: 504 Evening Win-4 Mon.: 7541 Pick-10 Mon.: 1, 7, 12, 21, 24, 26, 38, 41, 45, 46,...
ELIOT'S EXCELLENT PICK
Gov. Spitzer's appointment of Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Theodore Jones to the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest, is encouraging. Granted, Jones is decidedly more liberal than the...
PUSILLANIMOUS PACE
Anyone who still labors under the delusion that U.S. colleges, particularly in New York, are free-speech havens should gaze at the adjacent letter by Pace University's President David Caputo. Caputo...
QUIET FIGHT IN ALBANY
Gov. Spitzer and Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver are locked in a pivotal clash over who'll replace Alan Hevesi as state comptroller. The question is: Does Spitzer realize it? Ostensibly, Spitzer...
GITMO'S GOOD WORK
FIVE years after the establisment of the Guantanamo prison camp, angry protests demand immediate release of the "unfortunate innocents." Are the protestors waving "Bushitler" signs right? Is Gitmo a hotbed...
A PREZ PROTESTS
The president of Pace University's Hillel group appears to have misconstrued the intentions of the dean who brought our Muslim student group together with Hillel to engage in a constructive...
THE COST-OF-LIVING 'CRISIS'
THE ISSUE: Whether NYC is faced with a hunger crisis that warrants more city services. Assemblyman José Rivera (D-Bronx) writes: "You may not agree there is a hunger crisis, but...
DEMS' IRAQ STRATEGY: WAVE THE WHITE FLAG
THE ISSUE: Congressional Democrats' opposition to Pres. Bush's plans for success in Iraq. We went into Iraq, overthrew a butchering despot, set up a democratic government and now are being...
DOVE VIDEO SOAPBOX HAS LADIES IN A LATHER
Dove has women in a lather again, this time over a contest to create a national TV commercial touting its new body wash. In just five days, the Web video...
UPHILL BATTLE
The New York Stock Exchange's bid to cobble together an Asian equities-trading platform is running into some strong headwinds in India. A member of the Securities & Exchange Board of...
HOT COMMODITY
Nearly 24 years after he began trading silver in the rough and tumble pits of the New York Mercantile Exchange, electronic trading had made Mike Carboni's job obsolete. Now, the...
IF I WERE PRESIDENT, I WOULD . . .
I am here today to announce that I'm not running for president. How could I possibly compete with Joe Biden's charisma or Hillary Clinton's . . . actually, I don't...
PETROL PETITION
In noisy desperation, the heads of Iran and Venezuela are trying to publicly corner their oil cartel partners into an emergency meeting to prop up sliding oil prices to get...
TMZ INKS DEAL WITH FOX FOR TV SHOW
TMZ.com, the celebrity news Web site that made Lindsay Lohan and "firecrotch" synonymous, is coming to television. The Web site, owned by Time Warner, announced late yesterday a deal with...
PLAZA TO MARK 100
PRAISE Eloise - New Yorkers will get an autumn present on Oct. 1, with a gala reopening ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the lavishly reconfigured Plaza Hotel on...
NEW MAGS SHOOT FOR THE RICH NICHE
Doubledown Media is living up to its freewheeling corporate name. In a publishing world beset with talk of cutbacks and downsizings, Doubledown is taking an opposite tack by adding two...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Webber to join PistonsChris Webber, the five-time All-Star who was waived by the 76ers last week, said yesterday he will sign with the Pistons. He becomes an unrestricted free...
IT'S A TOUGH DAY FOR BRANCH
Ah, winter at the Big A! Day got off to rousing start with news that two horses were scratched from Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, reducing field to three 3-year-olds running for...
BEARS' BACKFIELD HAS DOUBLE VISION
The Monsters of the Midway have two heads, neither of which are particularly big nor thick, fortunately. "I'm not going to stir the pot or create no drama two games...
HEAVYPEY-LOAD
PEYTON Manning is Patrick Ewing to Tom Brady's Michael Jordan. Brady is halfway to Jordan's six championships, Manning is halfway to a personal hell, a great player trapped in the...
WINTER WONDERS
SAN DIEGO - On the East Coast, one team is preparing for yet another AFC Championship game, an exercise that probably seems as routine to the Patriots as getting up...
LOOKS LIKE LOU WON'T DEAL SCOTT
The GM who always holds his cards close to the vest has tipped his hand. As the Rangers visit the Meadowlands tonight, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello has six weeks to...
GIANTS NAME REESE GM
It is not the splash to create headlines or a move that will reverberate around the NFL and make other teams take notice, but the Giants today will introduce Jerry...
FAST AND LOSE
The Islanders next play the Lightning when they visit Tampa March 20. Forgive them if they aren't looking forward to the trip. For the third time this season, the Lightning...
JETS AIDE PASSES UP MIAMI JOB
SAN DIEGO - One day after his father lost a devastating AFC divisional playoff game to the Patriots, Brian Schottenheimer withdrew himself from the running for the Dolphins' vacant head-coaching...
CUBAN: STEPH SHOES ON MARK
Mavericks billionaire owner Mark Cuban is one of the world's savviest entrepreneurs, but yesterday he praised Stephon Marbury for having the best business idea of 2006. It is why Cuban...
NATE SITS - THEN IS STAND-UP GUY
Nate Robinson still hasn't scored since returning from his 10-game suspension last Wednesday, posting zeroes in two games and then enduring his first DNP of the season in yesterday's 102-97...
FINALLY, THE RIGHT STEPH
THE ball left Ron Artest's hand, and for an uncomfortable moment it looked as if the Knicks and the Kings would be working overtime on Martin Luther King Day. There...
WHO NEEDS CHRIS?
WHO needs Pistons pledge Chris Webber? Who needs the uncertain escort services of the Sixers separatist when the Knicks boast Jamal Crawford's composed shot-crafting and artistic assists in clogged arteries...
SOME HOLIDAY CHEER AT MSG
Isiah Thomas has never figured out if it's best for Jamal Crawford to start the game. But he always knows he wants Crawford to finish the game. Given a demotion...
NETS PICK UP PACE
The final ticks were counting down and Jason Kidd was positioned perfectly for the rebound that would provide his triple-double. The Pacers' Maceo Baston chose that precise time not only...
KIDD NOT DISTRACTED ON COURT
If this performance represented the calm before the storm, then Jason Kidd could probably endure an F-5 tornado, yawn, then ask what's for brunch. Maybe he's just getting accustomed to...
KROG SPURS RANGERS
The Rangers' search to find a consistent lineup continued as Tom Renney again experimented with different combinations at yesterday's practice. "I'm looking for a bit of balance on each side...
METS MAY BE SIERRA CLUB
The Mets are the frontrunner to sign Ruben Sierra, according to his agent, Chuck Berry, who is optimistic that a minor-league pact could be signed before the end of the...
LA ISLA BONITA
THEY can be as long as 46 feet. Weigh more than 15 tons. Grow up to 300 rows of teeth. And when their beady eyeballs roll to focus in on...
ICE DREAM
MANUAL labor in sub-zero temperatures -now that's a vacation. My friends weren't quite on board with the concept - me traveling to northern Ontario's Algonquin Park - to build my...
ESCAPE PLAN
SINT EUSTATIUS When American colonists thought it was time to make the Redcoats a little redder, they bought guns and ammo from Dutch arms dealers on this Netherlands Antilles settlement....
FACE LIFT
A STAY at London's Lanesborough Hotel - which, despite its name, has actually been a St. Regis since mid-2002 - is inarguably one of the best hotel experiences in the...
DRY RUN
I STEP off the curb and into a puddle of thick, black sludge. No doubt this multi-species feces is a slurry of every disease that keeps my mother up at...
LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!
10/1/06 ISTANBUL What a country, Turkey. I'm sipping Domaine Ott (purchased at the duty free for less than $30!) in my overpriced luxury hotel room at the Kempinski, whilst competing...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN
LOOKING for a way to bypass security lines? We understand your frustration - this whole "trusted traveler" thing has been very (verrrrry) slow to take off, what with the involvement...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
David Regine's last dental patient didn't get novocaine before the root canal. He got a tranquilizer and was told to, uh, grin and bear it. Regine also had to use...
Isiah dwells on Lee airball
By MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas did it again - trying to lump David Lee with Jared Jeffries in the can't-shoot category today. It's almost as if Thomas is trying to demean...