March 4, 2007
MOVIN' ON
Port St. Lucie is in my rear view window.It’s always tough leaving PSL because it’s so close to Jensen Beach, one of my favorite spots in Florida and a place...
Acceptable Finish Against the Blues
With their contest against the Blues, the Rangers have taken two points for the third time in eight games. Two of those wins came against Campbell Conference teams. Though the...
Pavano makes it through two-inning stint versus the Phillies
By GEORGE KINGIn his first appearance in a Yankee uniform since June of 2005, Carl Pavano worked two innings against the Phillies yesterday in Clearwater. While Pavano struggled with command,...
Day 23: Back at Fort Lauderdale Stadium
I have just arrived at Fort Lauderdale Stadium after a 3:30 a.m. alarm, a Jet Blue flight and the marvelous feeling of re-adjusting every mirror in a rental car.This stadium,...
Whither Winona?
Except for her rotoscoped appearance in the trippy "A Scanner Darkly'' and her brief cameo as a wacky shrink in the unfortunate "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things'' (she...
Currying Favor
Kal Penn has become Hollywood's leading East Asian-American actor in lowbrow farces like "Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj'' and "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.'' It was his...
Helter Skelter
Nobody can say the San Francisco Chronicle isn't doing everything in its power to promote "Zodiac,'' the newly-opened thriller that centers on efforts by one of its star reporters and...
SOUL TRAINERS
CESAR Millan, a k a TV's "Dog Whisperer," has millions of fans, but American Humane isn't one of them. The organization is taking the National Geographic Channel to task for...
THE CAT LADY
DOES your home suffer from eau de chat - the slight yet nasty smell that tells visitors cats live with you? Cats are actually very clean animals (they spend about...
ADOPT ME
Baby Girl is a gorgeous, dilute calico that has a delightful personality to match her stunning looks. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of...
SITTIN' PRETTY AFTER COMING OFF BENCH
Chess VASILY Ivanchuk has been among the world's elite players since he burst on the international scene two decades ago when he won the New York Open as an unknown...
HOT SEAT
LIKE Steven Wright meets Grizzly Adams with a score by Burt Bacharach, Zach Galifianakis is the sort of comedian of whom Frank Zappa would have been proud. Galifianakis has been...
HOT LIST
1.Becks and Posh's big move Their heading over stateside and baring it all - the Beckhams just signed a deal with NBC to document their much-anticipated move across the pond...
ADRIFT ON A 'BOAT'
Sitting in the basement-level green room of the Public Theater, the cast of the LAByrinth Theater Company's new relationship comedy "Jack Goes Boating," including Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman,...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
The Departed (Two-Disc Edition)4 STARS Warner, $34.99 The Infernal Affairs Trilogy3 ½ STARS Weinstein Company, $39.99 Both of these sets have been out a few weeks, but now that Martin...
LOSIN' IT
ACTRESS and playwright Iris Bahr hasn't led a conventional life. Born in America, she moved to Israel at age 12, fought in the army, then spent a year trying to...
CACHET & CARRY
Zac Posen leather "Lola" tote, at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave.
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCE
IN 1993, when he was just 16, Consequence made a guest appearance on A Tribe Called Quest's single, "The Chase, Part II," thanks to the support of Busta Rhymes who...
OLDER, MORE WEISS
THE leader of the pack is back. Nearly four decades after packing up her form-fitting outfits and go-go boots, Shangri-Las frontwoman Mary Weiss is releasing her solo debut, "Dangerous Game,"...
ARCADE FIRE: 'NEON BIBLE'
AFTER sleeping through the winter, music wakes up this week with "Neon Bible" - a terrific slow-burn sophomore disc from Montreal's Arcade Fire. Unlike their 2004 debut, "Funeral," this record...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR.: 'YOURS TO KEEP'
STROKES guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has created a radio-friendly pop disc that's better than his main band's last album. Hammond indulges his love of the Beach Boys in "Cartoon Music...
BRIGHT EYES: 'FOUR WINDS'
While Bright Eyes - a k a Connor Oberst - finishes up a full-length disc due next month, he gives this fine, country-flavored, six-song EP as an appetizer. The title...
JESSE MALIN: 'GLITTER IN THE GUTTER'
With John Mellencamp-like themes and a sound that's too close to Tom Petty for comfort, East Village legend Jesse Malin delivers a listenable but ordinary collection. Ryan Adams and New...
COMIC RELIEF
Turning a beloved comic book into a movie is a perilous task for any director, largely due to obsessive-compulsive comic fans' propensity to pounce on any detail that deviates from...
PENN 'NAME'
In between getting high and riding a cheetah for a White Castle burger, Harold and Kumar found time to talk books. "John Cho recommended 'The Namesake' to me," says Kal...
A MONSTER WITH SEOUL
A father searches for his young daughter, who has been carried off by a creature in "The Host." AN acrobatic monster, looking like a mutant tadpole, emerges from the Han...
'TIFFANY' TOUCH
Carrie Fisher, the new co-host of TCM's "The Essentials," knows a few things about movies, old and new. The former Princess Leia and bestselling author of "Postcards from the Edge"...
CAT'S MEOW
It might look like the Pussycat Dolls have been on the pop scene for about five minutes. But these cats, who have made splashy guest appearances on "Dancing With the...
SOUL 'IDOL'
"It's time for all the white girls to go home." Like so many others who watch "American Idol," Mark Kriski, the weatherman from L.A.'s top morning news show, KTLA, has...
REEL GOOD
ALMOST FAMOUS (2000) Wednesday, 12:15 a.m., TBS A teen journalist (Patrick Fugit) gets the chance of a lifetime when he's chosen by Rolling Stone to follow a rock band on...
'BLOODS VS. CRIPS': BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
Perhaps if commercials featuring proponents of gang culture included brief taglines they'd seem less insane. Something like: "Portions of sales proceeds will be donated to build new prisons and juvenile...
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Even in the middle of an impromptu jam session by the Naked Brothers Band, E.T., a heavy-lidded bulldog dozes, as if his 9 and 12-year-old owners are playing a lullaby...
PLAY DATE
FRASIER has entered the building - and Niles and Marty Crane couldn't be happier. So it was when The Post corralled the stars of NBC's late, beloved sitcom, "Frasier," for...
DOUGHING NUTS
LIKE New Yorkers, doughnuts come in all shapes, sizes and nationalities. But here in America, we tend to go for the hole-in-the-middle variety made popular by Dunkin' Donuts, Krispy Kreme...
KOBYLARZ, 31, AND BURANICZ, 33
DEC. 30 - Even the most buoyant bride can get that sinking feeling on her wedding day, especially when it involves a floral mishap. "I had a Bridezilla fit when...
LADATO, 26, AND FARLEY, 27
NOV. 11 - Jamie Ladato and Joseph Farley took a hands-on approach to planning their wedding. After Ladato, an administrative assistant at Saatchi & Saatchi, and Farley, a doorman on...
HIRSCH, 24, AND RICHARDSON, 25
FEB. 22 - Ari Hirsch and Leslie Richardson would agree that nothing brings out true feelings quite like playing someone you're not. "We actually first met at the William Esper...
ANG, 30, AND HOLLEY, 25
JAN. 7 - Love has a way of catching people by surprise, and for Novita Ang, a simple message on Match.com grew into something wonderful. "We actually met in August...
PASCHALL, 28, AND RIBEIRO, 25
FEB. 22 - Tawana Paschall may not like the pasta at the Olive Garden, but she did enjoy the company she was in during her first date with Daniel Ribeiro...
MESSAGES FOR MUSHARRAF
As part of his recent tour to the lands of America's allies in the War on Terror, Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly conveyed a tough message to Pakistani President Pervez...
ANDREW'S ON THE CASE
At least one official in Albany seems to understand the state fisc isn't a personal ATM for folks in government: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Last Wednesday, Cuomo issued a legal...
'MAKE IT WORK'
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Post's editors sat down with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week to discuss the state of American politics and government during the War on Terror, themes...
'08: A BATTLE VS. BOREDOM
IN the 1920s, the Brooklyn Dodgers finished in sixth place seven times in eight years. Late in that unfortunate period, a droll sportswriter, noting the team's listless play, wrote, "Overconfidence...
A TITANIC BLASPHEMY
THE ISSUE: Sean Delonas' cartoon about James Cameron's new documentary. As an ardent reader and fan of The Post, I find the cartoon of Jesus disgusting, and, as a Catholic,...
AN INDISPUTABLE TRUTH: EX-VEEP'S FULL OF HOT AIR
THE ISSUE: Al Gore's electric usage and his concerns for the environment. Wouldn't you know that pudgy, Oscar-winning, hysterical Al Gore isn't subjecting himself, by a long shot, to the...
CONTAINMENT?
CONTAINMENT: REBUILDING A STRATEGY AGAINST GLOBAL TERRORBY IAN SHAPIROPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 208 PAGES, $24.95 THE United States' basic national security strategy, since 2002, has been to help spread the core...
DIAGNOSING DOCTOR ERROR
HOW DOCTORS THINKBY JEROME GROOPMANHOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 320 PAGES, $26 JEROME Groopman's newest book, "How Doctors Think," may well make the list of required reading at America's law schools. Groopman has...
ROCKY ROAD TO THE RIGHT
WHY I TURNED RIGHT: LEADING BABY BOOM CONSERVATIVES CHRONICLE THEIR POLITICAL JOURNEYSEDITED BY MARY EBERSTADTTHRESHOLD EDITIONS, 304 PAGES, $23 WHY do today's leading conservatives tend to be passionate mavericks, rather...
AFL BOSS: LEAGUE GETS NO RESPECT
The Arena Football League is given short shrift by the media - which are fixated on more established sports leagues, the commissioner of the indoor league told The Post. David...
DANGER ZONE
After spending last week vainly looking for a place to hide from the stock market's sell-off, investors are now scanning the horizon in search of clues to what happens next....
HOW 2% IS A LOT
FOLKS looking at mutual fund returns to gauge which investment vehicle to jump in on shouldn't always believe their eyes - total returns can lie. An actively managed fund -...
NO TIME TO PANIC
Following the stock market is like following a 2-year-old around a department store. Just when you think he's standing right next to you, he's gone - and you presume the...
FUNDAMENTALS, NOT HYBRID, CAUSED THE PLUNGE
Dear John: What happened with the stock market last Tuesday? My thought is, someone pushed the sell button and guess what? There was no human there to stem the slide....
BEAUTY AIDS MAKE YOU GREEN WITH ENVY
Designer-lipstick manufacturers are expected to play follow the leader after one national beauty-products firm introduces this month the world's first biodegradable lipstick. The expected moves are part of a tidal...
NIGHT MOVES
When ABC approached late night cut-up Jimmy Kimmel with a lucrative contract extension last month, industry insiders buzzed about how serious the network was about keeping the host happy -...
A FREE LENO COULD MOVE TO FOX
In 2010, Jay Leno may still be duking it out with David Letterman in the late night wars - but he might be fighting for Fox. Leno is reportedly sore...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSJEFF IMMELT General Electric CEO rewarded with $17.9M in compensation for a successful 2006.MARTHA STEWART Saw her struggling company show profit for the first time since emerging from prison in...
RHYMES WITH DUCK
Conference calls are a necessary evil for Wall Street's beleaguered analysts. They are sort of scripted press releases, encouraging bland management remarks and blander analyst questions. Plus, even in this...
NEW DISCOVERY CEO CHANNELS ORIGINALITY
David Zaslav has only been at the helm of Discovery Communications for two months, but he's already generated more buzz than the company had in the previous decade. Airing James...
POL SIGNALS SMOKE-TAX HEALTH AID
Millions in proposed state health-care cuts could be restored - and then some - if New York could recoup the lost tax revenue from cigarettes sold on Indian reservations, a...
FLU BUG ASSAULTS POLICE ACADEMY
Seventy recruits at the Police Academy, or about 5 percent of the class, were hit last week with flulike symptoms, prompting an investigation by the city's Health Department, The Post...
CITY'S 'RED EYES' SEE STOPLIGHT TIX SURGE
Say cheese, scofflaw. The number of drivers photographed while running red lights more than doubled after the city expanded its red-light camera program in December - and now the city's...
'DINE & DASH' FOXY TAKES CAKE
Brooklyn bad girl Foxy Brown just cheapskated herself out of the best cheesecake in town. The delinquent diva dined and dashed one too many times at the famed Junior's Restaurant...
ONCE-A-YEAR CHECKUPS BY HEALTH DEPT. VERMIN-ATOR
At least once a year, every restaurant in the city gets a surprise visit from a health inspector - and it's not to relax at the bar. Inspectors are supposed...
IT'S INSPECTOR 'SNOOZE'-EAU
No wonder the rats have the run of the restaurants. A shocking surveillance tape obtained by The Post shows a city health inspector lazing at the bar of a Manhattan...
COUNCIL ZEROS IN ON PRINCIPAL POWER
A program giving public-school principals more funding, power and accountability is going under the microscope at a City Council Education Committee hearing tomorrow. While many principals, teachers and parents praise...
BROOKLYN MOM'S A 'SCHOOL FOLKS' HERO
Eight years ago, when her son, Domenic, was only 2, Martine Guerrier started looking at schools in her Park Slope neighborhood and was surprised that her neighbors "didn't see any...
'REVENGE' INFERNO
A squatter, fed up with his girlfriend using their den to do drugs and prostitute herself, took his revenge by lighting a six-alarm fire that destroyed a Queens apartment building...
WALL STREET 'MADAM' BUSTED
An artist whose nude portraits have been displayed in galleries around the world has been busted and charged with managing a brothel in the Financial District that catered to wealthy...
DNA TEST A PUP QUIZ
A $64 genetic-test kit gives new meaning to "dogged pursuit." Now canine owners who plunk down thousands of dollars for high-end pooches can determine if Fifi is purebred or pure...
MEGA POT JACKED UP TO $340M
"Marry me, I'm a megamillionaire," is the first thing Mario Ongania, 73, will say to his girlfriend if his lucky numbers come up in Tuesday's record $340 million Mega Millions...
PLUNGING BEAM BEANS WALKER
A 14-foot-long metal beam fell from scaffolding around a Midtown building yesterday afternoon, bounced off the sidewalk, and struck a 25-year-old Manhattan woman in the back of the head. "My...
DANCE-HALL SLAY
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death on the crowded dance floor of a party hall in Brooklyn yesterday, setting off a wild melee in which another teen was shot...
3 PEOPLE DEAD IN VEHICLE TRAGEDIES
Three pedestrians were killed yesterday in separate vehicle accidents - one a hit-and-run - over a span of 12 hours in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, cops said. The series of...
A 'SECRET' OPRAH CRAZE HITS NEW YORKERS
Oprah Winfrey has kicked up a storm in Manhattan. Suddenly, the question being asked in e-mails, in chat rooms, around office cubicles, on blind dates is: Do you or don't...
FIREBUG KOOK ATTACKS PRIEST: COPS
A deranged homeless man who served seven years behind bars for setting fire to a Queens church went back to the house of worship upon his release and beat up...
BASTARD SONS' CASH FLAP
Two more baby mamas with sons by Ol' Dirty Bastard emerged in court last week to press their claims in a legal battle over his estate - and to rip...
PRO-CLINTON 'DIRTY CASH' MAN FLEES
A Pakistani immigrant is wanted by federal authorities on charges he channeled $30,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential war chest. The FBI is hunting Los Angeles...
JOLTIN' GIULIANI ROLLS UP A 25-POINT LEAD IN POLL
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani is surging ahead of such GOP big guns as Sen. John McCain for the GOP presidential nomination, a poll shows. The Newsweek poll suggests that Republicans...
SON-BURNED RUDY'S TOUGHEST TEST
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani's biggest challenge in his White House run to date could be how he responds publicly to comments his son made about their strained relationship. Andrew Giuliani,...
HILLARY & OBAMA MARCH ON SELMA
First Hollywood. Now Selma. The increasingly bitter dueling campaigns of Democratic nominee wannabes Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, after weeks of shadowboxing, take the prize fight to the heart...
BIKINI BUDDIES BRIT TURNED TO
When Britney Spears melts down she doesn't do it alone - she enlists the help of friends, and sometimes strangers, too. A day after she began her downward spiral from...
KID SUES OVER STRANDED-TRAM 'TRAUMA'
A 12-year-old boy stranded with dozens of people on the Roosevelt Island tram last year was so traumatized by the experience that he's been unable to return to school, according...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A city deputy sheriff was busted for firing his gun into the air on the Upper East Side early yesterday, police said. Francisco Melendez, 35, was off-duty when he...
DIG THESE BAHAMA ANNA DING-DONGS
NASSAU, Bahamas - For an experienced grave dig ger, the sandy earth of the Bahamas is not a hard shovelful. But this grave, Joseph Celissa sensed, required special care. "I...
LONG 'ABATE' WAIT IS TAXING A LOGJAM OF BUILDERS
AT the same time that Mayor Bloomberg is promoting his ambitious affordable-housing plan, the city agency that oversees one of the largest housing-tax-abatement programs is struggling with a backlog of...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 060; Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 3000; Lucky Sum: 3 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 372; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3733;...
BUCS COLLECT QBS
The Buccaneers signed free-agent quarterback Jeff Garcia and potentially nabbed even more competition for incumbent starter Chris Simms by obtaining the rights to Jake Plummer from Denver yesterday. Garcia, a...
DRAGONS HAVE TITLE DREAMS
Dragons' head coach Weylan Harding has championship aspirations as he enters his third season with the New York Dragons arena football team, which will take the field at Nassau Coliseum...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Federer wins 41st in row In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Roger Federer won the Dubai Open for the fourth time in five years, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4,...
SUPPORT HABITAT TAX BREAK
THERE is a bill in Al bany that would give land owners a tax break in exchange for habitat conservation. The Ruffed Grouse Society is urging New Yorkers to write...
MOUNT MAKES SEMIS
When Tom Fraher found out that Iona lost its MAAC playoff game to Rider on Friday, he hoped his former player, Alejo Rodriguez, would come to Mount St. Michael's CHSAA...
FUTURE NOW FOR DEALING TEAMS
OF THE two compet ing forces generated by the NHL's hard salary-cap system, general managers apparently reached the near unanimous trade-deadline conclusion that the narrow window of opportunity to win...
MICHAEL QUIETLY BATTLED THE DUNK PUNKS
GOOD deeds make varying noises, starting with loud. But if good deeds are supposed to be their own reward, they should hardly make a sound. And that brings us to...
STORM HAVE LOT AT STAKE
When St. John's fans file out of the Garden after today's game against Providence, they'll be serenaded by the timeless voice of Frank Sinatra belting out the incomparable, "New York,...
DIKEMBE WON'T WILT
DIKEMBE Mutombo - (allegedly) 41 this June 25 - pulled down 22 re bounds in 33 minutes in the Rockets' 108-97 road win at Denver Friday. Thus, he became the...
TIME TO ARISE AND SHINE
LIFE as Alex Rodriguez means needing a bounce-back year after hitting 35 homers, driving in 121 runs and ranking as the AL's most-productive third baseman. Such is the high standard...
FORGET-'EM-NOTS
Before filling out your NCAA Tournament office pool - certain that you're the big cheese because you know national-champ Florida returns all five starters and that Kansas is a lock...
THE RUMBLE
Igawa is Shogi bearer Sal Fasano turned the Yankees clubhouse into a Washington Square Park chess lounge last summer when he arrived from Philadelphia. Now, the Yankees can bond with...
DOIN' ALL WE CAN
TAMPA - This, I swear, is a true story: It is Oct. 15, 1986, and the Mets are playing the Astros in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series,...
JANSSEN BANNED 3 GAMES
Cam Janssen has been suspended three games by the NHL for his hit on Toronto's Tomas Kaberle during Friday night's game at the Meadowlands. Janssen checked Kaberle 2-3 seconds after...
DOM-NAMIC DUO
Brandon Jacobs this offseason has in no uncertain terms made it clear he is the rightful heir to Tiki Barber's running-back throne. That should not be a problem if the...
JETS TRYING TO GET INTO THE RUNNING
While a number of big-ticket free agents were secured for massive amounts of money in the opening hours of free agency, the Jets have been rather quiet - publicly, that...
CHANNING A STARTER
ATLANTA - The Isiah Thomas Power-Forward Shuffle appears over. At least until Thomas changes his mind again. With the season-ending injury to Jamal Crawford, Thomas said Channing Frye will start...
TWO-RRIFIC
ATLANTA - Welcome to "The Steph and Steve Show." The Stephon Marbury- Steve Francis tandem that Larry Brown once envisioned as a dynamic duo flourished in a gigantic way last...
PEL ON HIS WAY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Pelfrey's advancement was praised by Paul Lo Duca yesterday. "He's making big strides," the Mets catcher said. "He threw the ball really, really well today,...
STROKE OF GENIUS
PORT ST. LUCIE - You can marvel at the picture-perfect swing, but the truth is, Carlos Beltran is only going to go as far as his legs take him. That...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the 24-year-old, 6-4, 210-pound righty who made his Mets debut last September and is challenging for a rotation spot this spring: Q: Tom Seaver...
VARGAS MAKES STARTING PITCH
PORT ST. LUCIE - Jason Vargas didn't seem to have many complaints after his spring debut with the Mets. Acquired in a trade with the Marlins this offseason, Vargas tossed...
BOSTON-BEANED
Everything appeared to be aligned perfectly for the Nets yesterday. They had the worst team in the Eastern Conference - the Celtics - playing in their building. They were riding...
RANGERS MUST 'FI-RE SA-THER!'
* It's time for Rangers GM Glen Sather to move on. As a native New Yorker and life-long Rangers fan, I've had my fill of this current Rangers management. Sather's...
A SHOT OF JAGR
The Rangers' season was essentially on the line at the Garden yesterday. And when it was, the puck was exactly where it belonged, on the stick of the right man,...
'A' FOR AVERY'S EFFORT
FEDOR Tyutin is gone for three to four weeks, just about the season considering the way it has been passing before the Rangers' eyes and the way it has been...
FIRST BLOOD
TAMPA - "American Idle" is about to be canceled. How long it stays in mothballs is yet to be determined. Today at Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater, Carl Pavano...
CANO, WANG NOT OFFERED LONG DEALS
TAMPA - Despite Chien-Ming Wang winning 19 games a year ago and developing into the staff ace and Robinson Cano being an All-Star and finishing third in the AL batting...
AVERAGE PITT-STOP
TAMPA - Mike Mussina didn't duplicate the sterling efforts of Chien-Ming Wang and Andy Pettitte yesterday at Legends Field. However, the veteran hurler wasn't disappointed that he gave up the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A delivery mix-up had a Michigan couple scared beyond belief when they opened up packages containing a human liver and part of a head. Franck and Ludivine Larmande were expecting...
MEET MARKET
A GUY who uses a pickup line like "Damn, girl, you're not bad looking" deserves to be backhanded. However, a guy who says it in jest and understands that he's...
15 MINUTES OF LAME
SOME people go on Meet Market dates to actually meet a possible match. Others, we're sure, just want a free meal. But as the date between Katrin, a 27-year-old magazine...
10 THINGS EVERY SINGLE GIRL MUST OWN
Sure, you've got the perfect shade of lipstick and the little black dress... but is that all you need? Hardly. 1. A fabulous photo of yourself We all have that...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I went on a date last night with a very cute brunette. We hit it off right from the start, but about 10 minutes into the date,...