March 29, 2007
Best Bets for Weekend
Nobody asked me, but here are five tips for weekend movie watching:1. "Color Me Kubrick,'' with an over-the-top John Malkovitch as an infamous Stanley Kubrick imposter who fooled most of...
One nerd to rule them all
Ring. One RING to rule them all. Sorry. Turbine, Inc. is inviting over a million players to join the MMOG "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar" fun....
Veggie violence
Courtesy of the folks behind the upcoming "Dark Sector" game...With sound effects like these, how can a game go wrong?
"DiRT" trailer online now
WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!If the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is compatible with this game, I am TOTALLY going to get one.Expect it for the Xbox 360 and PC in June, with...
So...the Xbox 360 Elite
If you haven't heard about the Xbox 360 Elite by now, where the hell have you been? Kidding!Microsoft has officially announced what punters on the Information Super Highway have been...
Newhan and Milledge
By MARK HALEDavid Newhan just clobbered another homer, so he now has two today. Meanwhile, Lastings Milledge just had his first at-bat since Sunday, and he struck out on four...
Delgado
By MARK HALECarlos Delgado is back in camp today, and he was set to play in a minor league game at Tradition Field. Delgado was away in Puerto Rico since...
CRUISES: NCL goes next-gen
Now, complete with things to throw at the walls. Can you really turn gamers into cruisers? (Or is it cruisers in to gamers?) Either way, Nintendo and Norwegian aim to...
Good German, Boring Kazakh
I'd personally prefer if he were playing a bad Nazi, but it turns out Tom Cruise will be portraying the man who led the "July Plot'' to assasinate Hitler in...
SPRING FLING
So, as I was saying, I stop in the Desert Inn, a place I’ve passed 20 times throughout the years on my way to and from Tampa, located in the...
Deal of the Day
Any riff on a plain old man's shirt is a good thing.Enter this white voile belted Pullover Shirttail top from Fei that's been marked down at Anthropologie from $118 to...
Day 48: Which New York Team Will Win More?
We have been asking you to ponder a New York vs. New York question in this little corner of universe all week and today we really ask you to ponder...
Dunzo at Dior
British Vogue is reporting that Dior has severed all ties with Hedi Slimane, who, over the past seven years, single-handledly built the Dior Homme label into a powerhouse of men's...
Scarlett Fever Receding
The Weinsteins have long been notorious for moving release dates like so many chess pieces. While getting ready for next week's opening of Grindhouse, the House of Pain has pushed...
Back to the Future
"Toy Story 3'' is being produced in 3-D, claims former Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. Jeff, who famously stormed out of the Mouse House to co-found Dreamworks after producing "The Lion...
OFFSPRING TRAINING
NAIA Rebekah Neuman was born Monday at 12:50 p.m. She weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces. She cooed and smiled, ready to embrace a whole new world, a world filled with...
EGOMANIA!
WHAT happens when an immovable object of self-promotion meets an irresistible force of puffery? We'll find out Sunday during Wrestlemania 23, when Donald Trump and WWE honcho Vince McMahon clash...
HOW TO TURN KIDS INTO FANS
BEING a loyal and devoted baseball fan for years and years is almost like a religious experience. "It is like a religion," says Kerry Sulkowicz, clinical professor of psychiatry at...
HAUTE LIST
LATELY, it doesn't matter whether you spend $30 or $3,000 on a handbag or pair of shoes - like clockwork, by the time you've scrimped and saved enough to make...
MACY COMES UP 'BIG' WITH FUNKY STUFF
AFTER years trying to match the success and quality of her 1999 debut, Macy Gray is back on top with a masterpiece of neo-soul aptly titled "Big." At the Gramercy...
STARR REPORT
Brown out in L.A.Morning TV, past and present: Former "Early Show" co-anchor Rene Syler visits "Oprah" today to discuss her decision to undergo a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy to prevent breast...
THE VIIITH WONDER
SHOWTIME'S glorious, gorgeous "The Tudors" is the best series since "The Sopranos." Period. Yes, I like it. A lot. But it's not just me. When my family was in from...
FAMILY TRAGEDY
'RUN'S House," the hit MTV show starring Joseph "Rev.Run" Simmons and his wife, was never about an average family. The former hip-hop star - father of five kids, all in...
'LOST' LOSING REPEATS
ABC is expected to finally take a page from Fox's hit show, "24" and run "Lost" episodes consecutively next year with no repeats or month-long breaks. "The plan next year...
E'S TRUE H'WOOD STORY
WHO wouldn't want Emmanuelle Chriqui to be part of their "Entourage"? Chriqui, 28, plays Sloan, the daughter of top Hollywood mega-agent Terence (Malcolm McDowell), Ari's (Jeremy Piven) former boss/nemesis. She...
HITTING A B NOTE
MENTION musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age, and people think of all those Technicolor spectaculars with Garland, Grable, Astaire, Hayworth and Kelly. But Tinseltown in the 1930s and 1940s also ground...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The moon's eclipse of Saturn on your birthday means you must stay calm no matter how big the challenges that confront you over the coming 12 months. Others can get...
HOSPS BIG WINNERS IN STATE BUDGET WAR
ALBANY - New details of the tentative state budget deal emerged yesterday - and they were greeted with cheers by the state's financially struggling hospitals. The agreement wipes out the...
DESIGNER SUES
Seeing double? Well, Diane von Furstenberg is seeing red. The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store Forever 21's $32 "Sabrina" smock dress looks suspiciously similar to her own $325 "Cerisier" design....
BOSS OF 50-SHOT WITNESS ARRESTED
The boss of a Queens janitor who told the Sean Bell grand jury that he saw a man fire at cops was arrested yesterday for telling the witness to clam...
A 'POWERFUL' LESSON FROM 'BRIBE' JUDGE
He'll never quite join the ranks of Machiavelli, but disgraced Brooklyn judge Gerald Garson offered his own lessons on the use of power. "I asked him how powerful he really...
SCAM RAP ROCKS THE BOATHOUSE
The operators of the famed Central Park Boathouse scammed the city by undercounting revenues by $2.4 million, giving away free meals and never reporting money from bike and gondola rentals,...
LAFAYETTE HS PRINCIPAL IS OUT
The embattled principal of Lafayette HS in Brooklyn, whose management of the failing school provoked frequent clashes with students, teachers and alumni, will step down tomorrow to take a new...
CITY MURDER RATE SLASHED
The murder rate has plunged 28 percent so far this year in the Big Apple, leading an overall double-digit decline in serious crime, police statistics show. The 84 murders through...
AXED PLAZA EXEC: ISRAELI 'BIAS' WASN'T KOSHER
A former bigwig at the real estate company that bought The Plaza hotel says he got thrown out on his tuchus because he didn't speak Hebrew. In papers filed in...
LADY'S LEG WASHES UP AT DOLAN'S L.I. HOME
A human leg inside a plastic bag was found washed up onto a Long Island shoreline - behind the Gold Coast mansion of James Dolan, the president and CEO of...
TAXI HORROR NEAR CENTRAL PK.
A woman was clinging to life early today after she was struck by a cab - in front of her horrified daughter - while crossing Central Park West. The 50-year-old...
OFFICER SHOOTS HOSP 'ESCAPEE'
A 19-year-old Brooklyn man was shot by a cop in Kings County Hospital yesterday after attacking him in an escape bid, authorities said. The man, who was not identified, broke...
UDDER PAIN WITH MILK SET TO $OAR
There's sour news on the dairy front - milk prices will rise 4 percent Sunday and will get even higher in the coming months, industry experts say. The official state...
RAP FLAP AT 'PRUDE U.'
Two months after banning a campus performance of "The Vagina Monologues" because of its "unsuitable subject matter," St. John's University has opened its doors to a potty-mouthed rapper who's been...
CROSSING GUARD IN '$CAM'
A school crossing guard was arrested yesterday for ripping off $36,000 in city housing assistance and food-stamp benefits, authorities said. Sharena Hockaday, 31, of Brooklyn, was charged with welfare fraud...
ENDORSE COURSE FOR HILL, RUDY
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed by a major women's group yesterday as rival White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani brought longtime flat-tax proponent Steve Forbes on board. Democrat Clinton pushed...
POL PUSH VS. SCHOOL CHANGES
More than half the City Council yesterday backed a resolution urging the Department of Education to stop its reorganization of the school system. The development was the latest in an...
KELLY FIRES SALVOS IN COP SHOOT
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly lashed out at the feds yesterday over out-of-state gun sales as a cop shot during a routine pot bust a day earlier was released from the...
WAGERS OF SIN
An ex-cop rolled snake eyes yesterday as authorities charged him with running a $30 million online gambling ring out of a Queens strip club. John "JK" Kinahan, 56, took bets...
MIKE OFFICIALLY CUTS THE FAT
The trans-fat ban is now official. Mayor Bloomberg signed it into law yesterday, insisting the change wouldn't be a great imposition on restaurants. "It's something that doesn't really hurt anybody,"...
'HIT MAN' WIFE, SON BUSTED
A Mafia hit man's life on the lam was all in the family, federal prosecutors charged yesterday. The wife and stepson of reputed Genovese crime family gunman Michael "Mikey Cigars"...
STREET BINS FOR RECYCLING
The city's first outdoor recycling bins are being installed next week for a trial run at Staten Island Ferry terminals and five parks, including Union Square. Starting Monday, environmentally conscious...
SECURITY HIKE FOR PASSOVER
The NYPD will increase patrols around synagogues and surrounding neighborhoods during Passover next week, police brass told members of the Jewish community yesterday. New York's Finest will carefully monitor temples,...
BROOKE STAFF'S 'BONUS'
The Brooke Astor employees instrumental in getting her son bounced as her caretaker profited from his departure, court records show. Astor's butler, a nurse and a nurse's aide filed affidavits...
BORAT VS. BORE
He's racist, rude and his stories of his homeland are twisted, but Borat still may be Kazakhstan's best representative. Yesterday, students at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights sat through...
SLAY RAPS ON 'DRUG KINGPIN'
The alleged head of a murderous drug and robbery ring has been charged with slaying two rival dealers while stealing their pot stashes - crimes that could land him the...
CHEER AS COP EXITS HOSP
The brave Brooklyn cop stabbed in the brain by a craven criminal two weeks ago left the hospital yesterday and said he was ready to get back to work keeping...
YOUTUBE HORROR
Authorities are searching for a gang of teens who savagely beat a Bronx high-school student in an attack that was videotaped and posted on YouTube. A student at DeWitt Clinton...
'2ND' CHANCE AT LAST
The long-awaited Second Avenue Subway will be born again on April 12. The MTA will kick off construction under East 99th Street in the ill-fated, though still pristine, tunnels dug...
MTA BIG'S PAL TO RUN SUBWAYS
MTA Executive Director Elliot Sander has picked his former boss and mentor to run the city's buses and subways, sources said. Howard H. Roberts, 67, who was a vice president...
COP KILLER TO FACE NYPD BLUE
A sea of blue will greet cop killer Ronell Wilson in a Brooklyn courtroom today as a federal judge officially sentences him to death. Wilson, 24, was convicted in December...
COP IN 2ND BUST
An NYPD detective charged with raping his girlfriend was busted just hours after making bail when he continued tormenting her over the phone, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The ink was...
FIRE LIGHTS UP PARK SLOPE SKY
Towering flames shoot from the top floor of a Brooklyn commercial building that was left in ruins before dawn yesterday by an electrical fire. The blaze was sparked at about...
FEISTY FOXY FIGHTING FLA. RAP
Foxy Brown is not going down without a fight. The rapacious rapper pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she tangled with a beauty-store worker in Florida on Feb. 15....
JAILS DEPT. BIASED: SUIT
The city Correction Department discriminates against women who "are over 50 and not of the Jewish faith," two longtime employees charge in a $7 million lawsuit. Francesca Digirolamo, 53, and...
IRANIANS SINK TO A NEW LOW
Iran declared yesterday that the only way Britain can get back its 15 hostage sailors is if it admits they trespassed into Iranian waters. Tehran's ultimatum came only hours after...
HOW KIDS 'AD' ON POUNDS
Children are getting fat because artichokes, broccoli and cucumbers get less TV advertising than pizza, burgers and sweets, a new study says. More than 70 percent of food advertising is...
BOSS' HEIR IS OUT AT HOME
Steve Swindal, heir apparent to the Yankee throne of father-in-law George Steinbrenner, is about to be divorced from the empire. His wife, Steinbrenner's daughter, Jennifer, filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable...
BUSH RIPS DEMS' DATE WITH DISASTER
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday emphatically condemned the "disastrous" Iraq pullout plans passed by congressional Democrats, and vowed to veto any bill that contains a withdrawal timeline. "Our enemies in...
'IDOL' SOUR NOTE
Hair he goes again . . . "American Idol" misfit Sanjaya Malakar defied his detractors last night to escape the chop on the top-rated TV talent show. Despite stumbling through...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Cops busted a pervert who molested a woman aboard a subway train on the Upper East Side, authorities said yesterday. Darren Robinson, 22, rubbed against the victim's buttocks on...
GOV. STEAMROLLED INTO A BIG SOFTEE
ALBANY - Gov. Steamroller has become Mister Softee this week as plunging poll numbers, Republican recalcitrance, and the approaching April 1 budget deadline forced Eliot Spitzer to change himself into...
MOM RAGES IN COURTHOUSE CONFRONTATION
THE furious mother whirled into the courthouse, de termined to confront the old man on his way to the bathroom. "Judge Garson!" the attractive woman, 54, cried while climbing into...
IF EATERY IMPROVES, IT MAY BE MEDIOCRE
IT'S a good thing I hap pened to skip breakfast yesterday before I had lunch at the Boathouse Cafe. Without an appetite ravenous enough to devour Cleveland, I wouldn't have...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 196 Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 2763; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 652; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 6500;...
NOTHING'S CHANGED
Well, that didn't take long. Eighty-seven days, to be exact. The governor who swept into of fice on a pledge to "change everything" about Albany - most especially its backroom-brokered,...
TIMELINES FOR DEFEAT
President Bush yesterday got tough with congressional Democrats, vowing to veto any bill that sets a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq - and promising not to compromise on...
A CONSTABLE'S LOT
Another NYPD officer has been shot - this one on Tuesday evening in Brooklyn, by a seven-times-arrested drug suspect, during a struggle. Happily, Officer Rory Mangra was convalescing in Park...
MEET JOHN DOE
EARLIER this month, six pub licity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and Minneapolis/St. Paul's Metropolitan Airports Commission. The Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November...
CALL IT A PRETEND STATE
LINCOLN supposedly said: If I call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Which...
A $400B TAX HIKE
THE new Democratic major ity today begins dancing the next phase of the tax- and-spend minuet in the House of Representatives. Following the example of their Senate brethren last Friday,...
TAX & SPEND: WHO WINS
FROM property taxes to income taxes, the tax burden for the av erage American household continues to rise. This year, Americans will have to work a full four months before...
U.S. HOUSE OF QUITTERS: CONGRESS CUTS AND RUNS
After the vote in the House of Representatives to pull the troops out of Iraq, can there be any doubt that the Democratic Party is the party of treason, surrender...
FIGHTING DIRTY
Wal-Mart's fired ad chief accused the retailing giant of waging a "smear campaign" after it disclosed embarrassing e-mails as evidence of an alleged office romance. In a statement sent by...
JEERS FOR WPP'S 'SORRELL' STATE
Sir Martin Sorrell, the outspoken chief of ad giant WPP Group, declared himself a winner after settling his "mad dwarf" libel suit, but he is still in danger of ruining...
HIGH SCHOOL STARS BLOCKED FROM PROS LOSE A LOT
KEVIN Love, O.J. Mayo and Eric Gordon are each contributing $4 million-plus toward making next year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament as good as this year's. But they aren't contributing the...
BEN'S TUG-O-WAR
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is still struggling to take charge of Wall Street the way his predecessor Alan Greenspan did. The tug-of-war between the two economists intensified yesterday when...
IT'S MILLER TIME
Prominent Bear Stearns media analyst Victor Miller is sticking to his guns after being trashed by the private-equity firms trying to persuade shareholders to support their $26 billion leveraged buyout...
AGASSI BOOK ACES $5M
Tennis legend Andre Agassi has just fired an ace in the book world, snagging an advance estimated to be just around $5 million for his life story. The winning bid...
GOLF BOSS TO TEE UP
Fore! Condé Nast tapped Christopher McLoughlin to be the new publisher of Golf for Women, replacing Lee Slattery, who resigned yesterday. Since October 2006, McLoughlin was the associate publisher of...
FREDDIE FIGHTS BACK
Broke and bruised mortgage packager New Century Financial Corp. got booted from the banking system yesterday as a new legal quagmire swelled around its exit. The federally backed underwriter Freddie...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Trumbull, Conn. $939,000 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 3,680 The suburban Northeast is where you'll find "Southern Cedars," a stately Georgian home on a 1.13-acre spread. The house...
ROYAL TREATMENT
Sarah Ferguson, the royal squeeze of restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani, will be living closer to her boyfriend. Sources tell us the Duchess of York is buying a large two-bedroom, 21/2-bath pied-a-terre...
THE 21 CLUB
Former New York Giants superstar running back Tiki Barber recently retired from football at the peak of his career, but his days in the spotlight - and on your television...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan EAST VILLAGE $925,100 228 E. 13th St. Renovated prewar two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 900 square feet, with windowed gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, floor-to-ceiling oak cabinets, wine cooler and dishwasher,...
GIVE ME LIBERTY
Philadelphia is a mere 70-minute high-speed Acela train ride from New York City, but it's a world away in terms of real-estate prices. While we wish you luck finding decent...
BROTHERLY LOVE
In Philadelphia's Four Seasons Hotel, there's a restaurant called the Fountain Room, named for the Alexander Calder fountain that sits just in front of the building, on the southern side...
DREAM HOMES
Union Square $3.795 million No need to buy a TV before moving into this penthouse loft. The 2,466-square-foot floor-through condo with three bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms (which offer Jacuzzi tubs)...
MARTIN, COA SUSPENDED
Fallout from Sunday's second race: When Eddie Martin Jr. put Eibar Coa in tight down backside, Coa returned the favor, dropping over on Martin heading into turn. Stewards suspended both...
CLIFF'S MINUTES FALL OFF
After 18 NBA seasons, Cliff Robinson is wise enough to be able to read the writing on the wall, even if he's still proud enough not to believe what it...
WEST VA. ENJOYING TITLE RUN
NIT FINAL Before West Virginia beat Mississippi State in the NIT semifinals Tuesday night, Mountaineers head coach John Beilein said, "I would rather be where we are right now than...
QUIP BE SINKING
Micheal Ray Richardson is in trouble again. The former Knick and Net, and current coach of the Albany Patroons, was suspended by the team for the rest of the CBA...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Urbina sentenced In Caracas, Venezuela, former Major League pitcher Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted murder of five workers on his family's ranch,...
HOYAS MASTERING PRINCETON OFFENSE
In whispered voices, or in quiet places, the ugly words of racism could be heard. "Do you think the Princeton offense can work at Georgetown?" The Georgetown players heard the...
LEGENDS MANIA
Babe Ruth and Lawrence Taylor continue to steamroll toward a classic championship final in The Post's Legends Mania. Ruth, who already has eliminated Mel Ott, Mariano Rivera, Mickey Mantle and...
HOME OR AWAY
BUFFALO - The Devils' task is simple: Win at home or lose home-ice in the playoffs. They've had trouble winning anywhere lately, 2-3 on the road swing that finished with...
JETS WRAP UP DE BOWENS
The Jets, who seem to be collecting free-agent defensive linemen this offseason, made possibly their biggest splash to date with the agreement to terms with former Dolphins DE David Bowens....
CRAW COMEBACK?
While Isiah Thomas acknowledged Quentin Richardson (back) and David Lee (leg pain) might be done for the regular season, Jamal Crawford did not rule out returning sooner than planned and...
A MUST HAVE VS. THE CAVS
This time, there was no chance of anyone swatting away these two late Garden rainbows from Stephon Marbury's fingertips. As true as the warm spring night, Marbury fired in two...
SHORTHANDED AND SAGGING, THEY STILL WIN ... THIS TIME
Brick by brick, Isiah Thomas, architect of a team nine games under .500 in the fourth season of his reign, constantly tells us how the Knicks will have to be...
LEBRON LAUDS KNICKS
LeBron James is considered the game's top ambassador, and last night the Cleveland superstar displayed why. After James took a repeated pounding during the Knicks' 97-93 victory, he put the...
EL DUQUE ON TARGET FOR START OF SEASON
PORT ST. LUCIE - Orlando Hernandez tossed six innings in a simulated game yesterday and said he felt ready for the start of the season. "I feel ready. I feel...
METS SHRUG OFF MARCH BADNESS
PORT ST. LUCIE - There is enough out there to fill any Mets fan's anxiety closet. There is the starting rotation, about which much angst already has been spilled and...
NO TOM TO SEE HALL
PORT ST. LUCIE - Every time he earned a victory last year, Tom Glavine collected a keepsake. Glavine has never been on the disabled list, but he began to fear...
INDY MOOD TO WIN
There was the continued emergence of rookie Josh Boone as a presence around the rim. There was the absorption of two hard, questionable hits and a response that was simply...
BOONE HITS STRIDE
Marcus Williams sees the steady growth in Josh Boone, his former UConn teammate and fellow first-round pick. "He's been ready. He's been finishing around the rim, doing all the things...
A-VERY TOUGH CALL
For an individual who somehow was named the NHL's most overrated player in a poll of players recently conducted and this week published by The Hockey News, Sean Avery is...
PROBABLE PAUSE
TAMPA - Joe Torre is holding off naming an Opening Day starter, and because the most obvious choice is Carl Pavano, you get the feeling the Yankees manager would hold...
MENDING SPREE
TAMPA - Staff ace Chien-Ming Wang is still out until the end of next month, but the Yankees' pitching picture continues to get brighter. Even if Carl Pavano being the...
MO HAS NO PROBLEM WITH CONTRACT STATUS
TAMPA - Mariano Rivera has no problem pitching for a contract. "I am perfect with that," Rivera said of entering the season on the final year of a deal. "I...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Somebody should have told the tumbleweeds that this ain't no ghost town. Residents of Bozeman, Mont., had to use snowplows to dig their way out from under the mounds of...
Mario & Sonic Appearing Together
This is either great or horrible and I'm honestly not sure which camp I'm in.Mario and Sonic are two heavy video game rivals - sure, but Sonic has seen WAY...