August 8, 2007
Deal of the Day
Japanese rock star designer Tsumori Chisato's cult status in Paris and Asia should be evident by just peeking at her sublimely schizophrenic collections. She has been slowly creeping onto our...
Happy Birthday
Salutations to Dustin Hoffman, who turns 70 today ("The Graduate'' turns 40 in December, so you do the math). Here's sincerely hoping that Zach Helm's "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium,'' wherein...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-ROD HANGS ON, YANKS CLIMB
Week 18 of awards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 3. Vladimir Guerrero, Angels. Let us not forget now as the Yankees soar that they would have...
LIVEBLOG/SF: Getting ready to fly
Mood lighting? More than 3,000 MP3 files at the touch of a button? Food from menus? It's all that and much, much more that's promised on board the new Virgin...
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANTS
You'll see plenty of ant colonies this summer - and you'll notice that while you're enjoying the warm weather, these little critters are hard at work. ANTs are among the...
HIDDEN QUEENS
FOOD * Taj Jackson Diner gets all the attention, but, to be honest, the food isn't all that great. And it's gotten pricey. For about half of the price of...
PULSE SALES
CATRIONA MACKECHNIE 400 W. 14th St., at Ninth Avenue; (212) 242-3200 Sale: through Aug. 16. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m./Sun., noon-6 p.m. Dior nuce and black lace bra, $114 (reg. $195),...
MOODY MUSE CONFUSE
AT Muse's Madison Square Garden debut Monday, the dark, moody Brit trio were the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of contemporary rock. When lead singer Matthew Bellamy was strapped into...
BLADES OF 'GREY'
KELLY and Lou Gonda, the bil lionaire airline in dustry moguls who flew "Grey Gardens" into the side of a mountain, certainly have their defenders. A column the other day...
CARRIE ON
MTV is giving it's an nual "Video Music Awards" an extreme makeover this year. For the first time ever, the channel will not run repeats of the awards show, which...
NIGHT RIDER
'CASH Cab" has had enough of tourists. Discovery Channel's pistol-hot game show is making some changes when a new, prime-time version of the taxi-based trivia show starts tomorrow night. The...
BUD COLLINS GOES TO ESPN
VETERAN tennis analyst Bud Collins, dumped by NBC after 35 years, has landed at ESPN. The highly regarded Collins, 78, will appear mostly on ESPN2 working Grand Slam events starting...
MILLION DOLLAR WINNER
WELL, that was fast. Jamie Sadler, a 19-year-old college sophomore from Upper Montclair, N.J., won $1 million last night - as the very first contestant on CBS' new game show,...
STARR REPORT
Dave to the 'Rescue' Mets slugger David Wright stars in an interstitial spot airing during tonight's episode of "Rescue Me" (10 p.m./FX). The spot, which Wright taped at a city...
BAD GOODING BRINGS BOOS FOR 'DADDY'
'DADDY Day Camp," a comedy for no ages, has an amazing amount of CGI - Cuba Gooding Incompetence. Gooding takes over, Darrin Stephens-style, as the same character played by Eddie...
UPPER BEST SIDE
MEET Manhattan's hottest restaurant neighborhood: the Upper West Side. No snickers, please. Confounding stubborn clichés, the fall's two biggest planned openings are both in the zone long regarded as the...
NEW DYNAMIC DUO
WHEN Bar Boulud opens at 1900 Broadway (at 64th Street) in early November, it will follow a time- honored Upper West Side tradition: Its charcuterie (basically French for "deli") items...
'MANNY' OF THE YEAR
Manny Perez's Hollywood star is rising - and fast. And if you don't recognize his ruggedly handsome face yet, by year's end, you will. The Marymount Manhattan College grad will...
MAGIC WANDA
Veteran actress Wanda de Jesus has never looked sexier - or scarier. In her latest film, "Illegal Tender," she defends her family by any means necessary, with a gun on...
THE DR'S DARK SECRET
When I read last week about the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic censuring Loft, a nightclub in the Naco neighborhood of Santo Domingo, because of the club's policy of...
LATIN OUT LOUD
EATS Ay Caracas! Venezuelan-owned eatery Tisserie is now serving brunch. So forego the pancakes and eggs and opt for an arepa with a side of reina pepiada (shredded chicken with...
BROS' FLOW
At 15 and 18 years old, Chris and Steve Martinez seem like regular teenagers: They hang out on MySpace, play basketball and think girls are drama. But these Bronx-bred brothers...
STATE WON'T SNITCH ON ABUSED 'ILLEGALS'
ALBANY - The Spitzer administration wants to make it easier for illegal aliens to receive government services protecting them from child or domestic abuse without the fear of deportation, The...
COMPTROLLER: NO FARE HIKE NEEDED
Straphangers can be spared a fare hike next year if the city and state agree to cough up more dough, according to a report released yesterday by City Comptroller William...
DETECTIVES AGREE TO CONTRACT
The city reached a deal with NYPD detectives yesterday for a new 26-month contract - the latest agreement to highlight the ongoing pay battle between the Bloomberg administration and the...
CON EDISON DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE IN BLAST
Three weeks after the steam explosion that rocked Midtown, Con Edison officials admitted yesterday they still haven't pinpointed the cause of the blast. Company Vice President Bill Longhi gave a...
BEAU'S EERIE KISS OF DEATH
The abusive and jealous boyfriend of a beautiful co-ed found slain in her NYU-professor mom's Greenwich Village apartment was arrested last night after trying to commit suicide on the roof...
QNS. FIRE DESTROYS 3 STORES
A five-alarm blaze ripped through a Duane Reade drugstore and two nearby businesses along a busy Queens commercial strip yesterday, injuring more than a dozen firefighters and routing residents in...
OBAMA PULLS FETE FROM 'ALL-WHITE' CLUB: MEMBER
A board member at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan claims Sen. Barack Obama scheduled - and then canceled - a fund-raiser there, citing Mayor Bloomberg's "concern that the club had...
COUNCILMAN PARTIES WITH H'WOOD SCIENTOLOGY SET
A Queens legislator - who insists a controversial detoxification program he's promoting in lower Manhattan isn't a front for Scientology - attended a celebrity-studded Los Angeles gala sponsored by the...
'CHARM' SCHOOL
When rules and discipline failed to keep students at a Manhattan high school in line, the principal allegedly tried another technique - black magic. Maritza Tamayo turned Unity HS on...
CITY THREATENS TO TURN OFF TAP ON DEADBEAT DRIPS
In a first for the city, 11 homeowners who owe thousands in past-due water and sewer charges are about to learn that the city is getting serious about collecting: If...
LAZY AGENT SCAM A TICKET TO SLIDE
Four NYPD traffic agents were caught on the wrong side of the law yesterday - after they were busted writing dozens of phony tickets, police said. Investigators with the department's...
POLS GET BEST SEATS IN HOUSE
The Mets and the Yankees will make sure city officials have a special place to root for the home teams in the new ballparks expected to open in 2009. The...
SEX SUIT VS. ISIAH 'STRONG'
A federal judge turned up the heat on Knick coach Isiah Thomas, finding a former team executive makes a strong case that she was sexually harassed and fired in retaliation...
COP WIFE ARRESTED IN GUNFIRE
An NYPD cop's wife was busted for shooting his service weapon through their Long Island bedroom wall during a domestic dispute, police said. The 9mm slug exited the bedroom of...
A FLYING MONKEY
It wasn't a big yellow hat, but it worked just the same. A man smuggled a monkey onto a La Guardia-bound plane yesterday by hiding the baby marmoset under his...
CIPRIANI-TOY STORY THICKENS
A fight between the Cipriani family and its landlord at the Toy Building may lead to some wedding bell blues, but the landlord says the restaurateurs only have their "unlawful...
WHAT I'VE LEARNED IN ALBANY
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer, the self-described "f - - - ing steamroller whose aides tried to destroy his leading GOP opponent, pledged a new era of "humility" yesterday as he...
ARAB SCHOOL'S PEACE GOALS
Internships with Muslim lawyers, trips to the Middle East and community activism are the hallmarks of the city's Arab-themed school scheduled to open this fall. The controversial Khalil Gibran International...
CITY OKS NEW RATNER DEAL
The Bloomberg administration yesterday agreed to back a compromise state bill that would remove major roadblocks to Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards mega-project. It cuts from $300 million to $200 million the...
BLOODS-CRIPS PROBE IN NEWARK MASSACRE
Cops are probing whether a Bloods and Crips turf war was the root of last weekend's massacre of three college students in Newark - but are getting little help from...
SIS 'HID GUNS' IN COP SLAY
The three thugs who gunned down NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko rode the subway home afterward - and one of their sisters later tried to ditch their murder weapons for them,...
TOURO'S 'MASTER CHEATS'
Two fugitive "students" in the Touro College sawbucks-for-sheepskins scandal turned themselves in yesterday - including a bank teller who allegedly turned his F's into A's, and a teacher wannabe who...
DIRTY DEVIL DOGS
Nancy Manning could not understand how someone could break into her doctor's home in a bucolic Connecticut town, strangle his wife and savagely kill their two daughters. "I came here...
BREAKFAST FLUB
Despite gains in recent years, New York still ranks second-to-last among large cities in the percentage of low-income public-school students taking advantage of free or reduced-cost breakfasts. A report released...
JAY-Z ACCUSES ACCUSER
Hip hop star Jay-Z and his Chelsea hot spot, the 40/40 Club, have fired back at a former employee who is suing for lost wages, by accusing her of vindictively...
ADOPT-MOM PROBE SNAFU
Florida investigators hit a dead end in 1999 while investigating a woman accused of abusing 11 adopted children because New York officials couldn't find her records. Judith Leekin, 62, was...
FIRE ISLAND 'BEAT COP'
A Fire Island village has been slapped with a second blockbuster lawsuit - a $20 million filing charging a rogue police chief with brutality and false arrest. Jesse Prisco, 31,...
VICTIM CONFRONTS HER BRUTAL 'RAPIST'
A Brooklyn beautician faced off in court yesterday against the man she said beat her with a hammer and then raped her in a Sunset Park salon. The tearful woman...
POLY WANNA LINK WITH NYU
Two of the city's oldest private universities are talking marriage. New York University and Polytechnic University have resumed merger discussions that had dropped off three years ago, officials at both...
PANTIES & 'ANTIS'
National Underwear Day was nothing but a panty waste for New Yorkers yesterday - many admitted that they don't wear any. "I go commando so there's no lines - even...
FORCE FOR HEALING
When two families from the African nation of Mali lost 10 members, including nine children, in a Bronx fire last March, Sheik Moussa Drammeh was there for the survivors. He...
'GENIUS' VIDS HURT KIDS: STUDY
Parents who think "Baby Einstein" products make kids smarter are actually flunking child-rearing, a new study has found. Children ages 8 to 16 months who watch the DVDs learn fewer...
GRABS BONDS' RECORD BALL
SAN FRANCISCO - The ball that made Barry Bonds the home-run king ended up in the hands of a guy from Queens. And he's a Mets fan, to boot. Matt...
EAU DE BECKS
First, they invaded our shores - now they're invading our nostrils. English soccer star David Beckham and his Spice Girl wife, Victoria, will soon release matching his and hers perfumes...
NURSE HILLARY
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking health care personally. She will work a shift as a nurse at a Las Vegas hospital next week, it was disclosed yesterday. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
ManhattanCops are searching for an armed bandit who wore an NYPD cap while holding up an East Side grocery store, authorities said. The gunman walked into store at 1045 First...
REV. AL GIVES WHITES BUM RAP ON N-WORD
NORMALLY, I disagree with the Rev. Al Sharpton about the color of the sky. This time is no different. Yesterday, some 200 people took to Times Square at the behest...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 287; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 9376; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 718; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
LONELY PAT LYNCH
Mayor Bloomberg's announcement of a contract settlement with the NYPD lieutenants union - even before the current contract ran out - marks another important step toward ensuring that New York's...
ELIOT'S BIZARRE DODGE
Gov. Spitzer delivered a strange speech yesterday, apparently in an effort to put Troopergate behind him once and for all. It didn't work. Spitzer spoke near upstate Jamestown, at the...
SAUDIS SUE FOR SECRECY
THE Saudis' efforts to keep a veil of secrecy over their sup port for al Qaeda and Hamas got a shot in the arm last week, as a British publisher...
BOGUS IN BAGHDAD
THE tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited "Baghdad Diarist" for The New Republic magazine, is an old tale: Self-aggrandizing soldier recounts war atrocities. Media outlets disseminate soldier's...
RABBLE-ROUSING, JUST BEKOS
THE ISSUE: The Democratic presidential candidates' appearance at the annual Kos convention. Congress' - and, by extension, all Democrats' - ultimate goal is to make President Bush look bad ("Red...
BARRY'S BAGGAGE VS. HANK'S HONESTY
THE ISSUE: Barry Bonds' tie with Hank Aaron for the career home run record of 755. For the first time in baseball history, a cheater and a fraud is idolized...
PRIVATE DANCER
The downward spiral of Warner Music's stock price, coupled with investors' negative sentiment for the music industry in general, has the record label's financial backers thinking it might follow Terra...
BIG BEN HAS MARTS ROCKIN' & REELIN'
Wall Street isn't sure which way to roll while Fed chief Ben Bernanke adjusts his settings for the economy's course. Traders plunged head on into a volatile day yesterday, sending...
PROBLEMS A LA CARTE
The National Association of Broadcasters yesterday released a study questioning the value of Sirius and XM's proposed "a la carte" pricing plan for consumers, saying it would increase costs and...
NO. 2 AT PORTFOLIO IS HISTORY
Jim Impoco is out as deputy editor of Portfolio - even before Condé Nast's much-hyped new business magazine has published its second issue. No reason was given for his departure,...
SALLIE MAY OR MAY NOT BE BOUGHT OUT
New York billionaire J. Christopher Flowers and Wall Street giants Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have stepped up their fight to lower the $25 billion price tag for their...
BULLISH BEAR
Bear Stearns might have a new president in Alan Schwartz who can rally the troops after a series of humiliating miscues and snafus, but the firm's hope of recovery rests...
WEB MAY TOP PAPERS IN AD $$ BY 2011
It's more bad news for the beleaguered newspaper business. A new report predicts the Internet will overtake newspapers in 2011 to become the nation's biggest ad medium, calling it "a...
CAYNE'S DOUBLE BOGEY
Nothing improves your golf game like firing your $36-million-a-year golden boy. Just ask Jimmy Cayne. While beating back a financial meltdown at Bear Stearns, its 73-year-old chairman has surprised many...
CHELSEA BLOCK IN REHAB
THE Chelsea block that's been held hostage by the raucous club-hopping of bridge-and-tunnel crowds may be on the verge of getting some relief. Several development sites on West 27th Street...
POOR LITTLE PHONY
MONTHS ago, I observed on my Web log that I think John Edwards is a phony - a make-believe Man of The People. It's not so much that he's lying...
STORMS CAUSE NYC COMMUTING HELL
NEW YORK -- A torrential downpour caused a hellish commute for New Yorkers this morning as subway service was suspended or delayed across the city, causing people to overrun the...
HOME RUN CATCHER GLOVED HISTORY
A 21-year-old Queens man gloved a share of baseball history, when all he wanted to be was an anonymous spectator to home run king Barry Bonds. "All I wanted to...
AARON DIGNIFIES HR WITH TOUCH OF CLASS
In the end, we should have known. We should have known that after all the joyless weeks, months and years leading up to that moment at 11:52 p.m. Eastern time...
PARTY BOAT ANGLERS ARE COMING UP BIG
A-NGLERS beat the heat in Montauk and took a bite out of these dog days by getting in some "reel nice fishing" on party and charter boats as well as...
NO. 756 JUST JUNK BONDS
SAN FRANCISCO - For a few seconds, the questions stopped and the doubts quieted. As Barry Bonds' 756th home run sailed into right-center field bleachers at AT&T Park last night,...
LAST CALL
TULSA, Okla. - The marketing slogan for the PGA Championship, annually the final major of the season, reads: "Glory's last shot." It should read: "Tiger's last shot." Tiger Woods, hell-bent...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Backman resignsWally Backman resigned yesterday as manager of the South Georgia Peanuts after run-ins with umpires, a press box argument with another team's radio announcer and a forfeited game...
HONDO NEEDS 'SABATH'
The Hondo Heat Wave became a little more steamy last night when he sizzled with the Rangers and Roy als to slash the deficit to 255 andujars, giving him 11...
DEVILS READY TO KICK SOME ASHAM
If Brent Sutter doesn't ban intrasquad fighting, Devils training camp could prove to be as entertaining as the exhibition season. Continuing his contrarian trend toward toughness in the new NHL,...
BE LIKE MIKE
ALBANY - When Osi Umenyiora was asked what effect on him the possible retirement of Michael Strahan would have, he contributed the following headline-making material. "It doesn't matter," Umenyiora said....
ARMSTEAD LENDS A HAND
ALBANY - Former Giants linebacker Jessie Armstead owns two car dealerships in New Jersey and another in Westchester County but cannot separate himself from football. That's why he's here at...
NO LOOKING BACKFIELD
Thomas Jones has played with some shaky quarterbacks in his six-year career, including last season in Chicago with wildly inconsistent Rex Grossman, who had a 0.0 quarterback rating in the...
'BRICK ON GUARD FOR LINE CHANGE
Lomas Brown knows all about playing next to a new guard on the offensive line, something Jets left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson may have to do this year, with disgruntled Pete...
BRAVES SHAVE INTO MET LEAD
A T-shirt from the movie "Wedding Crashers" hung in a Mets locker after last night's 7-3 loss to the Braves. It read: "Rule #76. No excuses, play like a champion."...
ADDITIONS HAVE PUT ATLANTA BAT IN NL EAST MIX
THESE aren't your father's Braves. The grandfather who manages them, Bobby Cox, suffers from amnesia when he has no interest in comparing lineups. But anyone who watched Atlanta drive out...
SHEA PLAY EARNS ALOU BOOS
Moises Alou is still waiting for the Shea Stadium fans to show him some love. After a road trip in which he hit .389 and slugged two homers, Alou (0-for-4)...
BELTRAN HOPES TO RETURN TOMORROW
There was good news for Carlos Beltran yesterday, and there's a chance there might be more today and tomorrow. Beltran has been out since July 25 with his strained left...
SHOWING FIGHT
TORONTO - It's not enough for the Yankees to pound opponents into submission. Now, they have to add flair to the beatings they administer. Last night at Rogers Centre, Alex...
JOBA SECURITY
THE Yankees are going to have rules for how to use Joba Chamberlain, and let's all just pause a second to catch our breath after laughing. Joe Torre has the...
JASON PINCH-HITS IN RETURN
TORONTO - Joba Chamberlain wasn't the only addition the Yankees made to the roster last night. Jason Giambi jumped off the DL and onto a seat in the dugout at...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
A JOBA WELL DONE
TORONTO - The fastball was consistently clocked at 97 mph and was down in the strike zone. The slider was timed at 88 and had filthy bite. But the best...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
She must have really hated her husband's ex-wife. An Elmira, N.Y., woman sold the ashes of her husband's previous wife for 50 cents at a yard sale. Anita Lewis says...
