January 24, 2007
The Pope Is Probably Not A Gamer
This isn't much of a shock, but Pope Benedict has come out against forms of media that "exploit" sex and violence for entertainment. And that includes video games."Any trend to...
Duke it out, kids
In the next couple of months, we'll find out. PC gamers will have the chance to prove their superiority to console heads (and vice versa) with Microsoft's new operating system,...
BMI for Dummies
When I was a student in Spain, my friend(a size 10) overheard the shopgirl in the popular chain, Mango complain about her in Spanish, "These American girls think they can...
Leftovers from the BAT dinner
The Baseball Assistance Team held its annual dinner Tuesday night in Manhattan, where former Yankee Jim Leyritz had some interesting insight on Bernie Williams... Hey Post readers,This is my first...
COMING SOON: Aquaventure!
Aquaventure You read about it in Tuesday's print story about what's hot in family travel this year, now have a look at what you're in for.Yes, it's AQUAVENTURE, the newest...
FOOD: Cookies for your Valentine
Uyen Nguyen Travel's all about food, particularly when you travel to Vegas these days. And if you've never tried the food at Guy Savoy's Nevada outpost - inside Caesars' fancy...
LIVEBLOG/UK: When hotels attack
Malmaison Oxford, by Danica Lo Check out the crud on that shower! This photo comes to you courtesy of Post fashion reporter Danica Lo, who has been chronicling her stay...
INDIANA - THE HOOSIER STATE
On Dec. 11, 1816, Indiana became our nation's 19th state. Indiana covers approximately 35,870 square miles. The state capital is Indianapolis. The name Indiana means "Land of the Indians." The...
PITY PARTY
NOW it's time for the Oscar for best achievement in (kiss and) makeup. The world's most stupendous and celebritastic event - you know, the one that draws about the same...
HOW A 'DREAM' DIED
SO how did "Dreamgirls" wind up getting treated like Effie? Surly Oscar voters yesterday issued snubs like a teenage diva handing out birthday invitations, leaving "Dreamgirls" off the short lists...
ACADEMY'S COSTUME BALL
"Curse of the Golden Flower" Costume designer: Chung Man Yee Ornate, elaborate and intricate, the bustiers, gowns and robes in the film are perfectly fit for royalty. Gong Li's dramatic...
OSCAR SMILES ON FOX SEARCHLIGHT
The splash Fox Searchlight is making as a big spender at this year's Sundance Fim Festival is matched only by the waves the specialty studio generated in garnering nearly a...
COCKAMAMIE JAMIE
ACTOR Jamie Foxx tagged his musical variety show the "Unpredictable" tour, and boy was he right. Who would ever have guessed an acclaimed Oscar-winning entertainer would have embarrassed himself with...
'XANADU' TO B'WAY? KHAN DO
THE last time Jane Krakowski appeared on a Broadway stage, she wore a sheet and dangled from a swing. This time, she'll be in tight leather pants and on roller...
WHEN DEBRA MET FRASIER
GET ready for the most expensive sitcom ever. Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton are in talks to team for "Action News" as anchors who reunite for a local newscast, according...
OPRAH'S 'ROOTS' SHOWING
I don't know how to tell you this -but Oprah is not, re peat not, Zulu. Yes, despite her pronouncement a few years ago in Johannesburg that "I went in...
'HEROES' MORE THAN '24'
THE superheroes of NBC's "Heroes" fended off the superagents of Fox's "24" to win the highly anticipated first face-off between the two serialized hits. "Heroes" attracted 14.9 million viewers Monday...
CUOMO ESCAPES BOMB
ABC News corre spondent Chris Cuomo narrowly escaped a roadside bombing yesterday while on assignment in Iraq. The explosives were hidden in dead bodies. Cuomo, 36, says the experience, which...
STARR REPORT
Casting about . . . Disney Channel's "Cory in the House," off to a strong start, has snared Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for an upcoming episode. Johnson, who taped his...
FANNING FLICK BARK WORSE THAN BITE
PARK CITY, Utah - Yes, there's a rape scene featur ing 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. No, it isn't remotely child pornography. There's no nudity. You don't see anything. The scene lasts...
FATHER AS FUHRER FIGURE
GERMAN guilt gets a vigorous workout in the penetrating and symbolically important documentary "Two or Three Things I Know About Him," in which a man born in 1942 investigates the...
BIRTHDAY O' BURNS WI' PIPIN' HAGGIS
TOMORROW night, Scots and Scot-wannabes in the city and the world will have a special supper honor ing Robert Burns, the 18th-century poet who is Scotland's favorite son. Burns also...
CASHING IN ON THE CASUAL
SO long, starchy table cloths. Dining out just got easier to swallow at several top eateries that have gone casual, lowered prices and made their food more fun. "In a...
COME FALAI WITH ME, LET'S FALAI AWAY
* Caffe Falai 265 Lafayette St., between Prince and Spring streets (917) 338-6207Pastries: $2 to $4Lunch: $7 to $13 Chef and owner Iacopco Falai has expanded his popular Clinton Street...
FOR RICHER OR POORER
LAST winter and spring, three restau rant wizards spent a combined $29 million (not including rent) to launch a trio of giant, heavily hyped eateries on the single 10th Avenue...
TITILLATING TANGO
A long time ago, Miguel Angel Zotto was given an ultimatum: "My girlfriend asked me to pick between her and tango," he reminisces. Almost 20 years later, the world-renowned tango...
SPITZ-SHINED DEAL ON ETHICS REFORM
ALBANY - After less than a month in office, Gov. Spitzer has pushed legislative leaders to agree to unprecedented ethics reforms for scandal-plagued Albany, sources told The Post last night....
MIKE RAPPED ON SCHOOL $$
Teachers-union President Randi Weingarten ripped Mayor Bloomberg's proposed school-funding overhaul as "very dangerous" yesterday during a breakfast with lawmakers in Albany. The union, she said, supports infusing cash into underperforming...
TRICKSTER SHUT OUT AT SHEA
The Long Island teen who slipped into the Mets' clubhouse with a bogus press pass and interviewed Mike Piazza before being caught will do no jail time - but is...
FOR DAD
The grieving son of a tragic city cop attended President Bush's State of the Union speech last night even as he mourned his hero dad - who had died just...
7 JUDGES FACE QUIZ AT 'BOSS' TRIAL
When disgraced Brooklyn Democratic ex-boss Clarence Norman's trial begins next week, the witness box will look more like the bench. Seven Brooklyn judges - and the county's current political boss...
NOT HIS KID, BUT EX MUST PAY
A man has been ordered to pay child support for the baby girl his ex-wife conceived via artificial insemination - even though she'd agreed to let him off the hook....
VICTORY & SWEET RELIEF
The federal case against former Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern is being dropped, a source said yesterday. Stern was accused of trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars...
BOY 'BANDS' COULD SAVE OBESE KIDS
Severely obese kids can safely cut the fat - lots of it - with an experimental operation, according to a study released yesterday. Doctors at NYU Hospital tracked the weight...
WILLIAMSBURG DEVELOPER 'VOTED' CITY'S WORST LANDLORD
About 200 tenants and housing activists held a mock convention yesterday to tag a Manhattan-based developer as the city's "most abusive landlord" for his alleged treatment of residents in a...
$LAP FOR 'STRIPPER SLAY' ATT'Y
The defense lawyer in the sensational throat-slash murder of a beautiful exotic dancer was fined $1,000 yesterday and faces possible jail time after going AWOL from jury selection in Manhattan...
N.Y. VIGIL FOR SLAIN TURK
Hundreds of ethnic Armenians gathered in Midtown near the Turkish Consulate last night for a candlelight vigil for Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, whose assassination last week sparked world protest. "We...
PFIZER WORKERS' WOE AT B'KLYN PLANT
Twenty-eight years ago last month, Roberto Nieves began working at Pfizer's Brooklyn plant, which over time has employed his uncles, nieces and twin brother, Nelson. Now Nieves is scrambling to...
'RUSSIAN MOB' 3 IN POKER BUST
A Texas hold 'em player on a run of bad luck led feds to bust up a high-stakes underground poker game with links to the Russian mob. According to court...
OTB SCHEME FOR INTERBET
You've heard of the iPhone. Here comes the iBet. The state's six off-track betting systems are in talks to operate a single Web site that would accept online wagers -...
'KID-PORN' DAD VS. 'PILL-POP' MA
A multimillionaire who until recently headed one of the world's top luxury travel agencies is accused of collecting kiddie porn and raping his wife in what could be Connecticut's most...
SHIFTY LAWYER SENT TO STIR
His bravery as a whistle-blower once sent a crooked Brooklyn judge to prison. Yesterday, Gary Berenholtz was sent to prison himself for being a crooked lawyer. Berenholtz, 55, of Woodmere,...
ARREST IN 1971 COP MURDER
A notorious former black-power radical - who beat a murder rap in the execution of two NYPD cops in Harlem more than 35 years ago - was busted in Queens...
ROGUE COP'S NEW SENTENCE
A retired detective was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison yesterday for swiping $169,000 in cash intended for an undercover money-laundering sting - a heist that triggered a...
BOARDWALK EATERY BURNS
A Russian restaurant on the boardwalk at Brighton Beach was severely damaged yesterday in a fire that was eerily reminiscent of a still-unsolved blaze that destroyed a neighboring eatery three...
N.J. FIRE DEPT. HAS AMPUTEE CHIEF
A New Jersey fire department that denied an athletic amputee from becoming a firefighter has a deputy chief with an artificial leg. The Paterson Fire Department now faces charges of...
TEEN BEATS COP, GRABS GUN
A Brooklyn high-school student grabbed a gun from a cop yesterday and opened fire - after viciously beating an officer during an unprovoked attack on a Brooklyn street, police sources...
L.I. DOUBLE SLAY
Two young brothers returned home from school yesterday to find their parents shot to death inside the family's home on the tony North Shore of Long Island, cops said. "They...
SPIT-HEAD EX-CON IS ARRESTED
A spitting-mad ex-con was collared after a spat with a cop in a Brooklyn park. Humberto Sayas, 25, was in a Sunset Park playground reserved for kids Monday morning when...
GAG ORDER ON CONDO GADFLY
Stop the presses! A Manhattan judge has ordered a 90-year-old man to stop publishing his apartment-building "newsletter," which referred to the condo's board of directors as "liars" and "slime." "I...
BEAU KILLS EX, SELF IN QNS. HORROR
A man fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in her Queens apartment yesterday, then turned the gun on himself and blew his brains out, cops said. Gabriella Alcivar's mother found the 21-year-old...
RAPE RAP FOR ISRAEL PREZ
Israel's attorney general plans to indict President Moshe Katsav on rape and other criminal charges after hearing accusations from four women who worked for him. Katsav, 61, is expected to...
BURGER FLIPPERS ARE ALL K-FED UP
Real-life burger flippers are sizzling mad over a Super Bowl commercial that features notorious loser Kevin Federline as a lowly fry cook at a fast-food joint. In the 30-second Nationwide...
D.C. 'SUPERMAN'
WASHINGTON - New York's "Subway Superman," Wesley Autrey, was honored by President Bush last night during the State of the Union message - then got a standing ovation from the...
WANNABES TAKE THEIR SHOTS
WASHINGTON - Candidates for the White House last night sought to turn President Bush's moment in the spotlight into their own - with Democrats blasting away at the Iraq war,...
KEY GOP SENATOR A SURGE FOE
Sen. John Warner became the latest Republican leader yesterday to break ranks with President Bush over his planned "surge" in U.S. troops in Iraq. Warner, former chairman of the Armed...
W. RUNS INTO 'DISS' UNION
WASHINGTON - President Bush, in his State of the Union Address last night, offered an olive branch to the Democratic-controlled Congress - but his key initiatives were immediately swatted down...
WOMAN FINDS BABY MUMMY
A New Jersey woman cleaning out her parents' rented Florida storage space made a chilling find: a partly mummified baby boy wrapped in a 1950s newspaper and hidden in a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx* A woman showed up at Bronx Lebanon Hospital yesterday with serious stab wounds, authorities said. The victim, in her mid-20s, came at 1 p.m. to the emergency room...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Tue.: 481 Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6998 Evening Numbers Tue.: 862 Evening Win-4 Tue.: 2548 Pick-10 Tue.: 1, 5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 26, 31, 32, 33,...
LUNCHES WITH WOLVES
Democracy has been defined as two wolves and a sheep discussing plans for lunch. Can the same be said for ethics reform in Albany? State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno...
IT'S STILL THE WAR
In his State of the Union Address last night, President Bush proposed a series of domestic-policy initiatives - everything from cutting U.S. gas consumption to tax deductions for health insurance....
IRAN'S PLANS: STICKS & CARROTS
CONFRONTATION or accommodation? As the U.N. Security Council's latest deadline for the Islamic Republic draws closer, that perennial question of Iranian politics is back at the center of debate in...
A DECENT START
THE speed is astonishing: In just over two weeks, Gov. Spitzer and the Legisla ture's leaders agreed on legislation to address numerous fiscal issues that have obstructed state government for...
DUBYA'S NEW VOICE
'GRACIOUSNESS" is not a word usually used to describe a State of the Union speech, but it's the appropriate one to characterize President Bush's address last night. At the political...
'THE GREATEST' BOXER - OR DRAFT DODGER?
THE ISSUE: "American hero" and champion boxer Muhammad Ali's 65th birthday. Young people always ask what makes Muhammad Ali such a great American ("The Champ at 65," Editorial, Jan 18)....
IGNORANCE FINDS A HOME IN N.Y.C.
THE ISSUE: Karl Kemp's lawsuit against a homeless man for loitering outside his shop. Could Karl Kemp be any more ignorant or lacking in compassion ("Million Dollar Bum," Jan. 18)?...
ONE $WEET RIDE
The controversial trans-Pacific corporate jet jaunt that ousted Citigroup exec Todd Thomson took with glamorous CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo set the New York banking giant back almost $50,000. Based on...
BUSH PLAN SENDS OIL BACK OVER $55
Oil prices shot up yesterday after President Bush said he'd double the amount of crude oil the government buys for its strategic stockpile. Analysts said the government move caused more...
TAB TITLES IN NEW JERSEY
NEW York Observer owner Jared Kushner could be just weeks away from making a decision about bankrolling a free weekly newspaper in New Jersey. The plan he is mulling is...
LAVALIFE PARENT SEEKS SUITOR
Internet marketing company Vertrue Inc., which runs online matchmaking site Lavalife, has quietly put itself up for sale and is soliciting potential suitors including private-equity firms, The Post has learned....
TRIBUNE BIDDING
News Corp., publisher of The Post, is teaming up with the Chandler family on a bid for Tribune Co., the Chicago newspaper giant that put itself on the block last...
IT'S THE BLING THING
HIP-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his estranged wife, Kimora Lee, founder of Baby Phat, have hopped over to Seventh Avenue for new offices for Simmons Jewelry. The growing jewelry line...
AT&T HANG-UP
Building Cingular into a major cellphone player took five years and billions of dollars in advertising. But that didn't stop it from ditching its hip brand and taking the stodgy...
YAHOO! REPORTS GOOD RESULTS FOR A CHANGE
After a spate of earnings embarrassments, Internet ad giant Yahoo! reported fourth-quarter results that met forecasts and vowed that its new ad system would spur growth early this year. The...
REPORT: SHAWN HELPED KIDNAP BEN
Shawn Hornbeck was forced to help kidnap Ben Ownby, KMOV-TV News 4 in St. Louis is reporting. Police say that Michael Devlin, 41, grabbed Ben, 13, after he got off...
OK, I GIVE UP - SHE JUST WON'T DIE
Hillary Clinton is the vampire of politics - a creature who simply refuses to die. The harder you attempt to twist a stake into her heart -believe me, I've tried...
HOYA PARANOIA NOW HAS PRINCETON TOUCH
THE conversation took place in the hallway outside the Nets' locker room at Meadowlands Arena. As the tall, 40-year-old college head coach helped the short, 76-year-old NBA assistant coach on...
WRIGHT ON TARGET
It did not begin as a great night. The St. John's team bus got stuck in traffic making its way crosstown and arrived at the Garden at 6:10 last night,...
MCALARNEY OUT FOR THE SEMESTER
Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey was optimistic Monday afternoon that he would have his sophomore point guard, Kyle McAlarney, who was arrested on Dec. 29 for possession of marijuana,...
REYNA SET TO JOIN RED BULLS
Arguably the greatest soccer player this country has ever produced will return home today when Springfield (N.J.) native and former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna is unveiled as the Red Bulls'...
FROZEN ASSETS
DALLAS - Sidney Crosby is 19 years old and already the best player in an NHL that can't wait to show him off tonight in the first All-Star Game it...
EIGHT ISN'T ENOUGH FOR SHANAHAN
DALLAS - Eight times Brendan Shanahan has played in NHL All-Star games and he says it never gets old, unlike the Ranger winger himself. "Coming out of the lockout, the...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: T'wolves ax Casey The Timberwolves fired coach Dwane Casey yesterday, one day after Minnesota lost its fourth consecutive game and only 1½ seasons since he took over. Assistant coach...
JETS NOT TUNA FISHING
The Jets have no plans to speak to Bill Parcells about a possible position with the club, an NFL source familiar with Jets business told The Post yesterday. Since Parcells...
SUNS & SWOON
Batten down the hatches. Here come the Suns. If the Heat can humiliate the Knicks without Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, if they can score a record-setting 27 straight points,...
MARBURY DOUBTFUL TONIGHT VS. SUNS
Stephon Marbury doesn't know if he will be able to play tonight against the Suns, but he's not ruling it out. "It's day-to-day," Marbury said. He didn't practice yesterday, still...
METS MAY BE IN ARMS WAY
Mike Pelfrey and Philip Humber haven't thrown many minor-league innings, yet they're both candidates for the Mets' starting rotation. It's worth examining how ready they are without many more frames...
BULLPEN SHOULD COVER FOR ROTATION
THE Mets' pitching-rotation plight has not made them desperate. After all, the NL East favorites still reside at Shea and, as one AL GM said, "How can a team be...
DELGADO COULD MISS OPENERS FOR BABY
Part of the Mets' 2007 opening week may have Julio Franco playing first base. According to an Associated Press report, Carlos Delgado may have to skip several games in early...
LINE OF IRE
SAN FRANCISCO - There were the missed free throws. And the pass to Mikki Moore's shoelaces that skipped out of bounds. Oh, and the foul trouble didn't help. Not to...
BLOWING BIG LEADS IS NOTHING NEW FOR NETS
SAN FRANCISCO - The Nets led the Kings by 20 on Monday. And lost. Please don't act surprised. You've seen it all year. They led Boston by 20 points and...
BERN-ING TO RETURN
Jorge Posada has talked to Bernie Williams frequently this winter, and says the longtime Yankee outfielder has no plans to retire. "He's not even talking about that yet," Posada said...
MURCER: 'I'M DOING GREAT'
An upbeat Bobby Murcer said yesterday his treatment for cancer is progressing well enough that he plans on broadcasting Yankees games this season. "I'm just doing absolutely fabulous," Murcer said...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Letter carriers in Casper, Wyo., have stopped delivering to 24 homes because of attacks by a mutt named Butch. Postmaster Susan Grey said the shepherd/chow mix has chased her carriers...