October 15, 2007
A-ROD IN CALIFORNIA
While New York Yankees officials prepared to gather in Florida to determine the fate of manager Joe Torre, Alex Rodriguez was in California to consult with agent Scott Boras on...
Scene
Boyeon Jung wears a cool Alexander McQueen dress with a Prada bag, a scarf from Bali, and and Dior sunglasses. "My style is whatever is comfortable. I work in fashion,...
Walking Wounded for Exhibition Game 2
By FRED KERBERJason Kidd still "real sore" with an achy back. Antoine Wright is out and Darrell Armstrong is iffy for Monday in Charlotte.So much for health.Coach Lawrence Frank had...
DVD Extra: 'Girl 27' Stays in the Picture
For some reason, "Girl 27,'' one of my favorite documentaries at this year's Sundance Film Festival, never played theatrically in New York City and arrives today on DVD. In today's...
Deal of the Day
Cute Canuck label, Allison Wonderland makes everything from this streamlined V Neck Dress to mad-for-plaid lumberjack shirts.And it's $99 at Leelush, where it was originally $179. The boutique, which has...
Post Pete Moss
Super supe Kate Moss is rocking new bangs for her new man. She also launched a new haircare line last week with hairstylist James Brown.I love the new look.What do...
TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE
It's been said darn near a zillion times that 9/11 changed everything. But one thing the tragedy didn't change was Marcia Fish's dtermination to keep her romance with a co-worker...
A RUFF LIFE
MARIA Gomez has a standard greeting for customers who walk into Nico Pets, her dog boutique on West 100th Street: "Hello Sweetie! How's your baby?" To Gomez, all dogs are...
GIFTS THAT COUNT
Tomorrow is National Boss' Day - news which may send many of you scrambling around for that perfect tie, bouquet or desk frame that will say "I respect what you...
FOR ART'S SAKE
GEOFF and Lynette Wiley's year-old business, Jalopy, sits at the edge of a stretch of Brooklyn alternately called Carroll Gardens West, the Columbia Street Waterfront District or Red Hook, depending...
DREAM JOB: ROBERT TUCHMAN
SOME people are really into sports. Then there's Robert Tuchman. He's on three softball teams. Even at age 36, the guy still plays pickup hoops four times a week. And...
60 SECONDS WITH
October is the month when many workers can change the terms of their 401(k)s. What should they be mindful of given the dicey economy and recent market volatility? The first...
GO TO GREG
I'VE been in the same job with the same company for 10 years now, and although my performance appraisals are always good, I was recently passed over for a promotion...
JULIUS CAESAR - HE CAME, HE SAW, HE CONQUERED.
He's got the month of July and a salad named after him. Today's lesson looks at one of the most powerful rulers of all time. Gaius Julius Caesar was born...
AMAZING GRACE
If marilyn Monroe was the 1950's' blond bombshell, Grace Kelly was the era's tenor sex - sleek, sophisticated and above all, cool. Among the 11 movies she made in just...
PULSE SALES
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GRAND SITE FOR PIANIST
HE'S played in concert halls around the world, but Yefim Bronfman has yet to tackle Vanderbilt Hall . . . in Grand Central Terminal. That will change Wednesday morning, when...
'NONE' IS TO FUN, AS 'ABOVE' IS TO . . .
ONE look at her all-pink bed room, and it's easy to see that the spoiled Upper East Side 17-year-old of "None of the Above" could give Elle of "Legally Blonde"...
ALL RAPPED UP
FRESH from a federal indict ment and subsequent acquit tal comes the Gotti family looking to revive not just "Murder, Inc." but the former glory with, yes, a reality show....
'SNL' GETS NEWSMAN
NBC news anchor Brian Williams will anchor an other NBC show, "Saturday Night Live," next month. The comedy show made the surprise announcement at the end of its show this...
HASSELBECKS GO TO ARIZONA
ELISABETH Hasselbeck is going on maternity leave from "The View" a little early - reportedly to follow her quarterback husband to his new team in Arizona. Hasselbeck's last day on...
H'WOOD SCANDAL!
WRITER David Stenn was working on a book about the mys terious death of screen icon Jean Harlow when he stumbled across another juicy Hollywood scandal that erupted that first...
'WHO' IS IT
THE only thing memora ble about this new am nesia comedy is the show's star, Christina Applegate. She plays the title character in "Samantha Who?" - a woman who hits...
DRIVE-FEE FOE: 'BILL BUILDERS'
Queens Councilman David Weprin, one of the city's leading opponents to Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing proposal, is urging the Bloomberg administration to hike construction-permit fees as a way of reducing congestion....
EX-DMV BOSS RIPS SPITZ LICENSE PLAN
ALBANY - A former state motor vehicles commissioner yesterday labeled Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses a "complete surrender" of security measures enacted after the...
DRIVE-IN SHOWS MOVIES IN 'PARK'
The once ubiquitous drive-in, a treasured icon of Americana, is alive and well on the Lower East Side - sort of. DRV-IN - a very modern, very Manhattan take on...
S.I. GRID GAME A BIGOT'S DELIGHT: COACH
From the moment the visiting Harlem Hellfighters arrived at a Staten Island field to play football, they felt a "hostile environment," their coach said yesterday. A racist message was later...
POLS: PUT HATERS IN A NOOSE-GOW
Whoever hung a noose outside the office of a Columbia University professor will not face jail time, thanks to a legal loophole that angry lawmakers yesterday said must be closed...
POLS GETTING RUFF ON DOGFIGHT FANS
State legislators want to take the bite out of dogfighting by siccing the law on spectators who have made New York City the heinous sport's epicenter. It's not enough to...
SHE JUST GAVE HER RIVALS A 'LICKING'
A cuddly Japanese bobtail was the cat's meow yesterday, taking home the whole kit and caboodle as Best in Show at the Cat Fancier's Association Cat Championship at Madison Square...
DA TOSSED FAVOR TO DEVECCHIO MOBSTER PAL
Brooklyn prosecutors set to start a massive case today against a former FBI agent accused of leaking secrets to a vicious mob killer weren't above doing a small favor for...
9/11 HERO MAY GET DRUG PASS
A firefighter set to be bounced from the FDNY after testing positive for cocaine should keep his pension because he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the 9/11...
GRAMPS IN HORROR DRIVE
It should have been a pleasant drive for an 86-year-old Connecticut man, but it turned into a hellish 14-hour trip before Brooklyn cops spotted him weaving in the wrong direction...
EVEN DEMS FEAR 'DIRTY TRICKS' FROM SPITZER
ALBANY - State Democrats are "increasingly distrustful" of Gov. Spitzer and fear he'll use the same dirty-trick tactics on them as he's used on Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno,...
NEW RUDY VS. OLD ON KID HEALTH
In his run for the White House, Rudy Giuliani has championed free-market health care - a far cry from his policy as mayor of New York when he pushed to...
THERE'S NO HIDING FROM THE TRUTH - YOU'RE ON CAMERA!
Mayor Bloomberg has said New Yorkers must face the fact that they're being watched by security cameras all the time. He isn't kidding. It's not just the Police Department and...
BIDDER-$WEET SUBWAY PIX
With a camera hidden in his coat, photographer Walker Evans rode the rails between 1938 and 1941 and captured New Yorkers at their most unguarded. The images here are part...
MTA IS UN-FARE
The tollbooth would be kinder than the turnstile under the fare hikes proposed by the MTA. Despite all the talk about congestion pricing and discouraging driving in favor of mass...
RIDERS WILL LIVE HUSH LIFE IN BUS
The MTA is trying out the latest in super-modern, energy-conserving vehicles: a 35-foot, electric-turbine bus that hums along with barely a whisper. A few lucky straphangers will get to ride...
THE LINE OF FIRE
Criminal investigators probing the deadly Deutsche Bank fire are taking a hard look at a former top downtown development official, The Post has learned. Law-enforcement sources say Charlie Maikish, the...
GROUND ZERO COLLEGE HALL TO FINALLY COME DOWN
Another ugly reminder of 9/11 is about to come down, officials said. State officials are finalizing plans to tear down Fiterman Hall, a 15-story Borough of Manhattan Community College classroom...
PARENTS TURNED GRIEF TO ACTION
After their 25-year-old son, Peter, was killed on 9/11, Elizabeth and Stephen Alderman wanted to create a living memorial to honor him - and founded a charity that is helping...
JUDGE WITH A GRUDGE
Controversial and highly regarded Judge Jack Weinstein has begun holding post-trial Q&As with jurors - in front of the defendant, the prosecutors and the press - to find out if...
$QUALL IN THE FAMILY
A wealthy Manhattan media CEO and his equally successful brothers, all scions of the founder of the legendary eatery The Palm, are embroiled in an ugly court battle against their...
CABBIES WON'T BE PETAL PUSHERS
The public art project that has plastered many of the city's yellow taxis with floral designs painted by kids has been cut off by tensions between cabbies and the TLC....
SHOT TOT'S OK
Cops are hunting for a hulking Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet in the wounding of an adorable 3-year-old girl who escaped death by a hair when a stray...
BLAZING BATTLES
Justice delayed is justice denied, but after a 10-year court fight, Daisy Curbean might not be denied much longer. The 41-year-old single mom is one step away from victory in...
COP-KILL VERDICT EASY
There wasn't much to discuss for jurors deciding the fate of cop-killer Allan Cameron last week, one member of the panel told The Post. "By the time we were in...
LE SEPARATION
C'est la vie. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his stunning, jet-setting wife, Cecilia, are expected to announce as early as today they are separating after nearly 11 years of marriage,...
CHUCK AIRS HIS 'BEEF'
Sen. Charles Schumer wants to beef up the federal government's power to close down meat processing plants that repeatedly fail safety inspections. Responding to the nationwide recalls of tainted hamburger...
FAKE KID-ID CRACKDOWN
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is backing a state lawmaker's proposal to yank al cohol and lottery licenses from stores and bars that let kids with fake IDs buy booze....
'MARRIED' PACKING THE AISLES
Talk about your marital bliss. "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?" took the No. 1 spot at the box office over the weekend, according to studio estimates released yesterday....
HEART DEVICE DEATHS LINK
The maker of an implanted heart defibrillator said today it suspended sales of a wire lead that could cause the device to stop working or give an unnecessary shock. The...
DISABLED STUDENTS GET TESTY
When more than 100,000 of the city's 10th- and 11th-graders sit down to take the PSATs on Wednesday, not all of them will be doing so on a level playing...
LAWYER: BUM RAP ON T.I.
The lawyer for hip-hop artist T.I. insisted yesterday that his client was innocent, after the Grammy-winner was nabbed while allegedly trying to pick up machine guns and silencers on his...
'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier...
PELOSI & HILL CLASH
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won't bring up a resolution denouncing Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization - putting her at odds with Hillary Rodham...
GEN. PEEVES MCCAIN
Sen. John McCain yesterday slammed retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, who late last week said a failure of leadership had led to a "nightmare." "I...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens An off-duty firefighter was hospitalized yesterday after a car wreck on the Grand Central Parkway in Jamaica. The victim, whose name and age were withheld pending family notification, was...
JOE FOE IN CROSSFIRE
SENATE Minority Leader Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat caught last week plotting with Gov. Spitzer against the Senate Republican leader, is now under attack from both the governor and the...
GIVE THIS SCHOOL'S BOSS TOSS
SOME things are not as they seem. A Manhattan principal last week was lauded as a champion for children: He tussled with security guards as they tried to march an...
ALL HORSE FEATHERS!
IAN McKEEVER is hopping mad at a legion of wacko animal activists who can't help but put the cart before the horse. McKeever is one of the 68 registered horsedrawn...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 701; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4241; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 808; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
UN-PRINCIPAL-ED BEHAVIOR
Go figure: A Manhattan high-school student and her principal physically assault two school-security officers - and now they're the victims, at least according to the "civil liberties" zanies. The Department...
ELIOT'S QUACK CURES
Upstate New Yorkers - desperate for prosperity to return to a region that's losing nearly 7,000 jobs a year - listened kindly to Gov. Spitzer's solemn campaign pledge to swoop...
AFGHAN HOSTAGE HORRORS
LATELY, Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has shown a genius for doing exactly the wrong thing for the Afghan people and their fledgling democracy. He has been asking, indeed begging, the...
N.Y.C.'S NEXT REFORMS
LAST week, I announced five ways to make government more accountable. What exactly does accountable government mean to the average New Yorker, to you and your family? Accountable government is...
HE'S GOT THE BASE
THE most surprising recent national polling result was an answer given by Republicans who attend church weekly when Gallup asked their presidential preference. A plurality chose Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic...
THEY LOVE HIS RECORD
'THE most important 'traditional value' in this election is keeping the Clintons out of the White House," says Greg Alterton, an evangelical Christian who writes for SoConsForRudy.com and counts himself...
LITTLE ITALY & CO. GET THE BOOT
Brava, Julia Vitullo-Martin. I'm sure you've noticed that there are no more Italian neighborhoods ("New York's Lost Italian Heritage," PostOpinion, Oct. 8). What happened to Bensonhurst, The Bronx and Little...
GA-GA OVER GIULIANI? GOP'S NOT CONVINCED
Thank you, Maggie Gallagher, for getting it right on how wrong people are to think that Rudy Giuliani is the most electable GOP candidate ("Rudy's Mythical 'Electibility'," PostOpinion, Oct. 10)....
BAILOUT KINGS
A group of the biggest U.S. banks are ready today to roll out a $100 billion bailout plan to jump-start the wrecked credit mar- ket - but it could trigger...
TORRE'S A LOCK AS 'TEA' BALL CHAMP
When it comes to New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, Corporate America is showing more loyalty than team owner George Steinbrenner. While Steinbrenner & Co. have suggested that Torre may...
BIZ BROUHAHA
Once a sleepy sector of the magazine world, business-themed mags have gotten hot all of a sudden. Certainly, much of that is due to Condé Nast Portfolio, which arrived to...
IT'S A WALGREEN'S NEW YEAR
Dick Clark's "Rockin' New Year's Eve" party is headed to Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain has just signed a 20-year lease to the Crossroads of the World's centerpiece skyscraper, where...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat Soulja Boy, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 4. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 5. Shawty, PLIES 6. Make Me...
CINEMA AD BUZZ
Call it a sequel, but cinema advertising is having another blockbuster year. Revenue from in-theater advertising topped $456 million last year, up more than 15 percent from $395 million the...
DON IMUS TO RETURN TO AIRWAVES IN DECEMBER: REPORT
Don Imus will return to radio airwaves Dec. 3, six months after the shock jock shocked America when he muttered a racial slur during his CBS radio show, Drudgereport.com reported....
CALLING OUT CARAY A CHIPSHOT
WE'RE not looking to pile on Chip Caray, but his command of basic baseball language and concepts is so confused that he's like traveling by pinwheel. Friday's Game 1 of...
BCS MADNESS STRIKES AGAIN
THE first BCS standings were released yesterday, which means it's never too soon to speculate which teams (teams?) may get the shaft. The early return suggests that if a team...
ROCK AND ROLL!
DENVER - For a good part of his jog around the bases, Yorvit Torrealba pumped his fist in the air. Now, the Rockies have the World Series in their sights....
A PAT HAND
IRVING, Texas - Tom Brady has the serene looks of a choirboy and the steely conscience of an assassin, and after six weeks of efficient hit jobs on NFL defenses,...
OWENS: WE'LL SEE THEM LATER
IRVING, Texas - Terrell Owens talked the talk. But after the Cowboys fell 47-28 to the Patriots at Texas Stadium yesterday, he found it exceedingly difficult to walk the walk....
STEPHENSON WARY OF HOOISERS
Lance Stephenson was among the recruits who attended Hoosier Madness at Indiana University over the weekend and met with basketball coach Kelvin Sampson. "It blew me away," the Lincoln star...
'DEVOTION' XTRA SPECIAL
Going six furlongs on Belmont lawn in her last start, Kiaran McLaughlin's Irish-bred 3-year-old filly Genuine Devotion whistled gate to wire by 4½ lengths. In yesterday's $100,000 Xtra Heat grass...
NIXON'S HOT TO TROT AFTER KEY PINCH-HIT
CLEVELAND - Life as the enemy isn't so bad for Trot Nixon. The recipient of so many cheers at Fenway Park over the years while playing for the Red Sox,...
BYRNES BURNT BY COMMENTS
DENVER - Eric Byrnes didn't quite retract his remarks. But last night the Arizona star outfielder further explained his comments from Saturday that the Diamondbacks had perhaps played better than...
SOX ALL SET TO ROLL DICE AT THE JAKE
CLEVELAND - In Terry Francona's lexicon, there is fun, funner and funnest. And when the Red Sox manager stops to reflect on Game 2 of the AL Championship Series, one...
HONDO: GO JINTS!
Hondo pushed with the Titans but bulled his way into paydirt with the Jaguars and Rockies to reduce the debt to 75 katcavages. Tonight, after yesterday's wipeout with his NFL...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Els captures Match Play crownErnie Els won his seventh World Match Play Championship title by beating Angel Cabrera 6 and 4 in the final at Virginia Water, England. Els,...
ASHAM'S SCRAPPY PLAY MAKES SUTTER SMILE
He doesn't shout about it, but then, that's not really his style. The Devils' Arron Asham is quietly making the most of his chance to do more than muck and...
BIG BLUE GOAL: BEAT THE TRAP
ATLANTA - Guys who spend so much time with their hands on the ground, bent over in a stance and engaged in a brutal collision every play don't get caught...
COUGHLIN TRIES A CUP OF JOE
You can learn the hard way, especially in this town, that showing up every single day as the football General Patton usually doesn't get you very far in this Jerry...
ATLANTA'S JACKSON IS ONE BIG BIRD
ATLANTA - Some things in life are true. Some are false. The Giants take a look at Grady Jackson, the Falcons massive nose tackle, and note that he's listed at...
NEW LOOK, OLD STORY
When Kerry Rhodes emerged from the tunnel leading from Giants Stadium to the Jets' locker room in the bowels underneath the stadium stands yesterday, he unleashed a one-word obscenity so...
NO MORE KELLEN TIME; LET CLEMENS PLAY
IT WAS fourth-and-a-season now for Chad Pennington and the Jets, fourth-and-a-season from the Philadelphia 4, and a pass that Pennington has completed over the years in his sleep, for his...
ONE YARD SHORT
NONE of the Jets wanted to touch the subject. Not Thomas Jones. Not Chad Pennington. Not Laveranues Coles. No one wanted to second guess the Jets coaching staff for two...
PLAY-CALLING COMES INTO QUESTION
Thomas Jones had gouged the Eagles for 130 rushing yards, by far his most in five games here. The Jets were averaging almost five yards a carry, by far the...
JETS STILL TACKLING DUMMIES
The Jets' throwback uniforms were fitting Sunday, because their tackling looked a lot like a throwback to the week before. One game after 14 missed tackles all but sealed an...
PHILLY 'D' NOT DUPED BY JETS
It wasn't said with any bravado or malice, just stated as simple fact. The most stinging indictment of the Jets' 16-9 loss to Philadelphia - and their failed quarterback sneak...
NO WAY TO TACKLE THIS PROBLEM
All last week in preparation to play the Eagles, a theme to the Jets' practices was improved tackling. The Jets were coming off of a poor tackling performance against the...
NETS KEEP TRUST IN COLLINS
Jamaal Magloire was signed for his toughness and low-post presence. The Nets need that. Malik Allen came to camp as a mid-range shooter with size. The Nets need that, too....
RANGERS MUST BECOME MORE GOAL-ORIENTED
REGARDING the Rang ers: Through five games, the Blueshirts' best players have been: 1. Henrik Lundqvist; 2. Fedor Tyutin; 3. Dan Girardi. In his role, the best forward has been...
D-DAY MINUS 1
TAMPA - Asked to handicap Joe Torre's chances of remaining the Yankees manager, an organization voice said it was impossible because nobody knows what will come out of tomorrow's Legends...
CURRY: I'M BACK
Brace yourself. Eddy Curry is ready to roll. Sooner than expected, Curry, rehabbing from a torn labrum in his right shoulder, was cleared yesterday morning to go full tilt in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Homeowners on Hickory Island, Mich., are helpless as the waters around them are being taken over by state-protected plants. A once-tiny patch of American lotus has grown to nearly 10...
Third and a lonnnnnnnng one
BY JAY GREENBERGWhatever happened to the Chad Pennington who had plenty of arm strength to out-play Tom Brady in the regular-season meeting, riddle Green Bay in a near-perfect first half,...