November 9, 2008
HALF-NAKED CAMBRIA HEIGHTS 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND DEAD
A 14-year-old girl was discovered viciously slashed to death in her blood-splattered Queens home yesterday, cops and family said. Sabrina Matthews' father, a driver for the Administration for Children's Services,...
BRAZEN DAYLIGHT CHINATOWN STICKUP
Six workers at a Chinatown travel agency were bound and gagged at gunpoint as a gang of masked robbers made off with approximately $28,000 in a brazen daylight stickup today,...
DVD Extra: 'This is the Army' Finally Gets Its Due
Today, Veteran's Day, is the 70th birthday of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America,'' the unofficial national anthem that Kate Smith introduced on her radio show in 1938. That moment is...
Oscar Watch: Writing 'Changeling'
Eastwood didn't make any changes, but a subplot about Collins' husband, who was in jail at the time of the kidnapping, ended up on the cutting room floor after it...
Box Office: Bernie Mac's DOA as 'Madagascar' Scores and McLovin Outdraws Rogen
Despite publicity generated by the deaths of star Bernie Mac and cameo player Isaac Hayes, "Soul Men'' has tanked, just like a long list of other Weinstein Co. projects distributed...
DVD Extra: Chase Talks Sopranos Ending, Movie Version
"Sopranos'' creator David Chase breaks his omerta on the controversial final scene of this landmark series and the possibility of a movie version in the copious new extras included in...
Miss at your own risk: 'Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II'
Highlights for the week of Nov. 10Lipton talks to Rick JamesDave Chappelle returns to TV for "Inside the Actors Studio's" 200th episode. Catch him in the host's seat Monday on...
CHANGING OF THE GUARD FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT
Despite the fact that President-elect Barack Obama, code name Renegade, enjoyed a close relationship with Secret Service agents assigned to him on the campaign trail, they won't be going with...
MEET FIRST COUPLE OF COOL
A weekday evening at home. Jay-Z is playing in one room. The Jonas Brothers in another. Mom is putting on a Narciso Rodriguez dress. Dad is checking a Twitter feed...
BARACK BLOCKBUSTER
The inauguration is still two months away, but throngs of Barack Obama fans are already shelling out big bucks for gala events with no guarantee they'll be waltzing next to...
KID STUFF GETS COMPLICATED
Here's just a bit of what 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha Obama can expect from life in the White House: All their little friends will be vetted by the Secret...
KENNEDY KILLS HILL'S HOPE TO BE TOP HEALER
Hillary Rodham Clinton's dream of overhauling the country's health-care system as the steward of a new Senate subcommittee has reportedly flatlined. The New York senator had made health-care reform the...
BAM: TIME TO BOO$T ENGINES
Barack Obama took over the Democrats' weekly radio address yesterday to make a plea for swift economic action, as he spoke of the struggles facing 10 million Americans now unemployed....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 257; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 2022; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 937; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
IT'S CHARITY - H'WOOD STYLE
THEY have good looks, but they could use some serious help straightening out their books. George Clooney, Bono, Wyclef Jean, Petra Nemcova and a half-dozen other celebs have founded charities...
RUDY'S KID IN ROUGH
DURHAM, NC - Andrew Giuliani is still swinging. Alone on a sunny day last week in Durham, the 22-year-old former first son of New York walked the golf course on...
SIMPSON CONNING HIMSELF
LAS VEGAS - A delusional Juice thinks he'll soon be on the loose. "We're going to get out of this," O.J. Simpson is telling friends behind bars. "I can't wait...
'KILLER' MARINE'S REVENGE MOTIVE
One of the four Marines charged in the slayings of a Brooklyn-born Iraq veteran and his wife may have had revenge on his mind, a close friend of the accused...
NEW TOLLS EYED FOR EAST RIVER BRIDGES
A state commission is proposing slapping tolls on the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th Street bridges to plug a gigantic, $1.5 billion hole in the MTA's budget, sources told The...
CITY SUED OVER WATERY GRAVES
A Queens cemetery is suing the city for $35 million because of chronic flooding. St. John's Cemetery, in Middle Village, has repeatedly asked the city to fix what it says...
CITY PAYS THROUGH NOSE AT WILLETS PT.
The city bought itself a half-acre of land at Willets Point for $3.5 million - snapping up three parcels in Queens' redeveloping "Iron Triangle" at nearly 10 times their assessed...
APPLE'S EYEING YOU
They're watching you. The NYPD's plan to have 5,000 cameras trained on every sidewalk crack south of Canal Street has begun in a space-age hub that will be operating by...
NY SENATE GOP LOSES DEM PAL
ALBANY - The "Gang of Four" lost one of its members yesterday, as state Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate announced he would back his fellow Queens Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith,...
SOMEONE BELT THIS GUY
Very smooth and charming, I rolled up to two beauties in Union Square. And, oh yeah, my pants were almost down to my knees. "That's just unnecessary for us to...
NYPD BLUES CANCELED
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has asked cops not to wear their uniforms if they attend tomorrow's opening of the trial of three men accused of killing Officer Russel Timoshenko, law-enforcement...
MAN DIES IN QUEENS BLAZE
A Queens man was killed early this morning in a quick-moving blaze at his home, witnesses and officials said. The blaze tore through the second-floor of the 190th Street building,...
SCHUMER 'RULES' THE ROOST
Robert Byrd's resignation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee has touched off a game of musical chairs among Democratic leaders - and Sen. Charles Schumer is one of the...
HELP RETIRE THE MORTGAGE DEBT
Dear John: Why promote early 401(k) withdrawals exclusively for home purchases when you can already take a loan out against your 401(k) for that reason? I closed on my first...
HEDGE FUND CHIEF SHORT AND $WEET
Renowned short seller Jim Chanos is emerging as a potential front-runner for this year's prize for top hedge-fund performer. According to performance data obtained by The Post, Chanos' short-only fund,...
PRE-CHRISTMAS PRICE CUTS MAY LEAD TO '09 DEFLATION
THE family mailbox is often filled with surprises, both pleasant and otherwise - unexpected bills, wedding invitations and jury-duty notices to name a few. But have you noticed what's in...
AXES ARE IN VOGUE
In the lavish world of Condé Nast, every year brings a winter of discontent - and the one coming up might be particularly cruel. That's because following a shocking round...
STEP 2.0: PROFITS
It's a dilemma that even a whiz kid like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg might not be able to figure out: How can a Web site make money as online display advertising...
MADISON'S MAD MAN
When Levi's wanted to attract young guys, it called on ad agency EVB and its CEO Daniel Stein to unleash a raunchy campaign called "Unbutton Your Beast." Visitors to the...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS STEVE BALLMER Microsoft chief is in catbird seat to snag Yahoo! on the cheap - if he wants it. MERRILL BROKERS The "thundering herd" forces Bank of America to...
O FACTOR INSPIRING THOMPSON
THE Barack factor has entered the mayoral race. Allies of Comptroller Bill Thompson - who's pondering whether to take on Mayor Bloomberg in 2009 - certainly took notice of the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * This thug pictured above is wanted for raping a woman in Flatbush. A 42-year-old woman told cops she had been walking along Bedford Avenue shortly before 4 a.m....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Now that's a wonder bra. A British woman says a new bra saved her life after a teen mugger tried to stab her in the chest - and the blade...
OBAMA 2012
I enjoyed reading your future Post headlines after four years of an Obama presidency; it made my future bleeding ulcer that much bigger ("Four Years Later," PostScript, Nov. 2). The...
OF COURSE RACE MATTERED
All year Republicans and media folk have been thrown by my support for Barack Obama. Why do I feel vaguely insulted by that? After all, I have a reputation, albeit...
REQUIRED READING
The Dream Begins: How Hawaii Shaped Barack Obama by Stu Glaberman and Jerry Burris (Watermark Publishing) While the inspirational story of Barack Obama's life is now familiar to most, Hawaiian...
PAST IS PROLOGUE
In December 1958, Jacob Javits, then a Republican senator from New York, wrote an essay for Esquire magazine entitled "Integration from the Top Down." He opened with an imagined scene...
OBAMA'S WINNING WAYS
Comparing exit polls from 2004 and 2008 makes the breadth of Barack Obama's victory clear. Obama received a larger share of the vote than John Kerry among voters of all...
READY, STEADY, GO
You're lucky to live through big history. And you're living through it. The explosion of joy in large pockets of the country Tuesday night was beautiful to see, and moving....
WALKING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS
In late January 1870, a tall, heavy-set man in his late forties, impeccably dressed in a three-piece suit with white gloves and carrying a brass cane, strode purposefully into the...
STICKING IT TO "THE MAN"
It wasn't very long ago that the only way a black senator could become President of the United States was for the Hand of God to reach down from the...
SPITING A PATRIOT
Sen. Joe Lieberman finds himself a man without a political home. Democrats, their Senate majority bolstered, want to punish him for his apostasy in not only endorsing Republican John McCain...
MONEY WELL-SPENT
In light of the fiscal shortfalls at City Hall and in Albany, what to make of the $55,000 raise just awarded to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein? Simple: He's worth every...
WINS OVER NOBODIES ADDING UP
BRETT Favre managed to use the word "manage" the other day and didn't choke on his words, the ultimate concession by the offensive leader of the Jets that he has...
WRIGHT HEADED IN 'SPECIAL' DIRECTION
He's not what you would call a household name on a roster filled with higher-profile players, but keep a close eye on Wallace Wright this afternoon at Giants Stadium. He's...
RAM IT DOWN THEIR THROATS & HEAD TO FOXBOROUGH IN FIRST
Rams receiver Torry Holt might as well have been a guest speaker in coach Eric Mangini's team meeting early in the week, because Mangini couldn't have delivered the warning message...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH... KRIS JENKINS
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Jets' 6-foot-4, 349-pound nose tackle: Q: Do you shudder thinking about what your life or career would have been like if you had...
DEVILS' 'DOC' HALL OF A GUY
Devils' TV voice Mike Emrick tomorrow in Toronto will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as recipient of the Foster Hewitt Award for broadcasting. The pleasure is not...
DEVILS' DINGS IN LOSS TO WINGS APPEAR MINOR
DETROIT - This loss hurt the Devils a little less because their two latest casualties may not be hurt so badly, and because it came against the defending Stanley Cup...
NEW NYSAC CHAIRMAN SAYS MMA NOT A CONCERN
Melvina Lathan calls herself "a boxing purist" and it's easy to see her passion for the sport as she goes about her new role as chairman of the New York...
SUPER JOE POUNDS JONES JR. IN GARDEN BRAWL
Roy Jones hoped to turn back the clock to a time when he was the pound-for-pound king of boxing and could club any man on the planet. For one night...
HOME SWEET HOME
A group of Bronx youths and a few former Yankees stars dig into the soil around home plate and the pitcher's mound at the old Yankee stadium yesterday, filling dozens...
THIS LOOKS LIKE GAME OF THE YEAR
PHILADELPHIA - In a season that has given us Matt Cassel instead of Tom Brady, the deterioration of the Cowboys without Tony Romo, and mediocrity and backup quarterbacks everywhere you...
GIANTS BATTLE DESPERATE EAGLES ON HOSTILE TURF
PHILADELPHIA - Of all the descriptions of what life is like for the enemy team at Lincoln Financial Field, none is as succinct as the one coach Tom Coughlin provided...
SPAGNUOLO WARY OF BIRDS' 'SCARY' OFFENSE
PHILADELPHIA - Steve Spagnuolo grew up in the NFL as an assistant coach with the Eagles, and last season he became a star defensive coordinator with the Giants. Given that...
BY GEORGE!
* It's very rare that I get misty-eyed while I drink my coffee on a Sunday morning. But Kevin Kernan, did just that to me when I read his piece...
ISLES STILL 2ND-BEST IN 3RD
The Islanders have talked a lot lately about learning from their past third period collapses and how they have to stay aggressive with leads late in games. But they are...
DRURY PICK-POCKETED ON PENALTY SHOT IN THIRD
WASHINGTON - The effort wasn't good enough, the execution wasn't good enough, and the Rangers weren't good enough to come away with even a point last night. They ceded the...
RULES CLEAR ON REPLACEMENT DRAFT PICKS
WASHINGTON - The CBA almost certainly will have to be amended in order for the Rangers to be awarded the compensatory pick they are seeking for the loss of Alexei...
SEASON'S ON LINE FOR RED BULLS
The Red Bulls' job today [3 p.m., MSG+, WADO (1280 AM)] couldn't be simpler, but it also couldn't be any harder. The worst road team in MLS has to play...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Kim disqualified for using altered driver Anthony Kim was disqualified today from the HSBC Champions tourney in Shanghai, China for playing with an altered driver. Kim, a star in...
REESE: OBAMA'S WIN 'AMAZING'
PHILADELPHIA - On the morning after America elected its first African-American president, the first African-American general manager of the New York Giants woke up his 16-year-old daughter Jasmyne and then...
RUMBLE
Rip-roarin' good times Cal Jr. in town for twinbill with Yogi Some Super 8s are getting together at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Tuesday. That's when Cal...
CAREER HIGH IS NO PROBLEM FOR PARKER
IT'S official: Tony Parker became the first player in league history to hit the double-nickel without emitting a single bead of sweat in last Wednesday's double-OT Spurs win against the...
DREW'S THE MAN ON ROAD
Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's record in print stands at 354-294 (54.5 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Saints (+1) over FALCONS: At 4-4, two games behind...
ELECTION RESULTS WORRY SPORTSMEN
THE recent elections have created big changes in Washington D.C., and these changes have many sportsmen concerned about the future of their sport. We already are seeing reports that the...
NFL NETWORK DROPS THE BALL
IF YOU could get it, Thursday night, there it was - exactly what live TV hopes for, lives for, prays for, pays for: 3:58 left, Broncos down three at Cleveland,...
BARK WITH BIG BLUE AT THE LINC
TODAY GIANTS (+3) over Eagles: Using "projection" handicapping, Philadelphia's the side. Two games behind Big Blue, and healthier than it was when its season was ruined by the New Yorkers...
GREAT TO HAVE ANOTHER ATHLETE AND RABID FAN IN OVAL OFFICE
NO MATTER how you cast your vote last Tuesday, no matter on which side of the political aisle you happen to reside, I am confident we all can agree as...
CURTIS SHUT DOWN BY BEACH CHANNEL
Not too many people would have given Beach Channel a chance against defending champion Curtis yesterday. Beach Channel coach Vic Nazario tried to use that to his advantage. "I talked...
ISIAH GETS ASSIST FOR MOTOWN RETURN
Hall-of-Famer Dave Bing, running for mayor in Detroit, said he would love to see the Pistons bring Isiah Thomas back to the organization. Thomas had a long-running feud with owner...
KNICKS ADAPTING TO D'ANTONI SYSTEM
After the Knicks' season-opening win vs. Miami, the players presented Mike D'Antoni the game ball. KNICKS BLOG One person close to the situation said the game ball going to D'Antoni...
RANDOLPH NAMED BREWERS' BENCH COACH
A week after he was passed over for their managerial job, Willie Randolph was hired as the Brewers' bench coach yesterday. But Randolph, who is in contention for the job...
NEW JERSEY LACKS ENERGY IN DEFEAT
INDIANAPOLIS - In the third quarter Friday, the Nets unleashed Devin Harris amid an intense, energized, team-wide display of execution to catapult themselves toward victory. Last night, there was no...
HARRIS A 'POSSIBILITY' VS. HEAT
INDIANAPOLIS - Devin Harris won't say he'll play tomorrow in Miami. But he won't say that he will not play, either. "I have no idea. It's a possibility," said Harris,...
NO. 3 NITTANY LIONS' PERFECT SEASON RUINED AT IOWA
IOWA CITY -This is where dreams recently have been born. Big dreams. Dreams that never before have been realized. It was a win in the Iowa Democratic caucus that launched...
TEEL, RUTGERS HAVE 'KNIGHT' STUFF
Mike Teel evidently enjoys cupcakes as much as the tough meat on the schedule. Yesterday's performance probably won't get the Rutgers quarterback another Big East offensive player the week citation,...
TECHNOLOGY
HP Mini 1000 $399 and up;HP.com Even fast food joints are offering up free WiFi these days and HP's new ultra-portable is designed to take full advantage. It starts at...
WEB SLINGER
Sacha Baron Cohen Crashes Proposition 8 Rally youtube.com In character as flamboyant gay Austrian fashionista Bruno, Cohen is caught by news cameras mixing it up with anti-gay marriage activists in...
THE DOGS OF STORE
AS any shopping hound knows, combining retail therapy with dog walking is convenient and fun. Happily, numerous New York stores graciously greet four-footed browsers. Ceslie Armstrong, founder-publisher of the high-style...
BRIDGE
"WENDY says that, just like all men, you possess a dirty mind," I told Cy the Cynic. Cy, a shameless chauvinist, and Wendy, my club's feminist, are always at odds...
AGENDA
This week: score some recession-priced beauty booty; dancers rejoice! 'Billy Elliot The Musical!' opens; soak in a bushful of art on the streets of Bushwick; catch some telling shut-eye; and...
TEAM TROUBLE
GRANDMASTERS are the Monday morning quarterbacks of chess, and many of them are weighing in on Vishy Anand's surprisingly easy victory over Vladimir Kramnik in the world championship match. "Vishy...
MEOW CHOW 101
According to a new survey of US pet owners by Harris Interactive for Wellness pet foods, more than 50 percent of pet owners say they always read the label on...
LADIES AND GENTS, HEAR THIS!
THE time has come to pay the hip-hop piper. After lending his robot-like vocals and magnetic production schemes to countless musicians, collaboration king T-Pain is finally getting his back scratched....
YES THEY CAN ROCK YOU
Montreal repairman Benoit David was out on a lake, fixing the seats on a customer's boat, when he received a surprising phone call. Minutes later, the 42-year-old father-of-two had gone...
Q&A WITH WAYNE COYNE
You could fly to Mars and back in less time than it took for Wayne Coyne, the theatrical frontman of experimental psych rock band the Flaming Lips, to finish his...
TOKYO STORY
THE 2008 edition of the Museum of Modern Art's an nual festival of new films from Germany opened Wednesday night with "Cherry Blossoms - Hanami." The screening was followed by...
TROUBLE-07
THE affable Roger Moore holds the record for playing James Bond, having taken on seven missions to save the world from men with prominent scars and underwater lairs. He has...
ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY
Handsomely packaged in a linen-backed, wedding-style album that weighs in at 10 pounds, "The Sopranos: The Complete Series" may be an offer you can't refuse - even at a retail...
WACKY 'WIZARDS'
One of the most reliable genres in the world of documentary filmmaking is the examination of a bizarre, niche subculture populated with highly passionate fans who you probably wouldn't want...
EMPIRE STEAKS BACK
Center Cut The Empire Hotel, 44 W. 63rd St., mezzanine level; 212-956-1288 The steakhouse is proving to be as enduring as the black dress. The latest addition to the carnivore...
LEVINE, 30, AND AZIZI 32
Oct. 25 - Alisha Levine and Michael Azizi unlocked their hearts in middle school. The Long Island natives were just 14 and 16 when they caught eyes at their lockers,...
GRIMALDI, 31, AND AGOSTO, 35
Sept. 27 - You can take the bride out of Maine, but you can't take Maine out of the bride. From the "Welcome to Maine" celebration kicking off their wedding...
CONWAY, 25, AND PEROSI 26
Oct. 4 - It was love at first lecture for Nicole Conway and Nicholas Perosi, who met as college classmates in 2001 at Monmouth University in New Jersey. The Staten...
WILCOX, 32, AND ANIKEWICH, 33
Oct. 25 - As Stefan Anikewich was about to propose to Kristielee Wilcox on Christmas Eve 2005, they were interrupted by an unexpected visitor - and it wasn't Santa. "He...
MEET MARKET
A high IQ is the way to Kevin's heart. This 38-year-old attorney/engineer with big aspirations is looking for a brainy babe who'd make a great first lady.Sue, 39 senior analyst...
CLASHING CO-EDS
WHEN Joy, a 27-year-old marketing assistant, decided to take a chance with Ethan, a 32-year-old glacier data analyst, we thought for sure the two globetrotters would hit it off. But...
PRIMETIME
By now you likely know the story, perhaps you've seen it reported on TV: Daily newspapers throughout the country are approaching the precipice of extinction. In an age of techno...
'GIRL' GONE WILD
It is not hyperbole to say that "Gossip Girl" - the gleefully frothy, just-this-side-of-filthy CW soap about super-rich Manhattan teens private school kids and their moral dilemmas is more chess...
CRIMINAL MIND
Don't be fooled by the pitch black hair, multiple tattoos and perky attitude: Pauley Perrette is not, in real life, the lab geek she plays on the top-rated CBS series,...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: COMEDY 'Desperate' Dave While everyone on Wisteria Lane may think Mrs. McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten) is off her rocker with her suspicions about Dave (Neal McDonough), her sister Virginia (Frances...
THE SCARY '30 ROCK' LADY AND OTHER GROSS CHARACTERS
The actress is named Marceline Hugot, and the part she's playing on "30 Rock" is an emotionally stunted adult named Kathy Geiss, who might be the most off-putting character on...
REEL GOOD
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Sunday, 6 p.m., TCM Gloria Swanson plays demented, faded movie star Norma Desmond, who falls for a hack writer (William Holden) and hires him to be her...
WINNERS AND LOSERS
Primetime TV is back. Or is it? Many of TV's top shows - "Heroes," "House," "Grey's Anatomy" - have lost their way - and millions of viewers in the process....
'CENT' AND SENSIBILITY
When MTV showed rapper/mogul 50 Cent the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, warehouse they'd found as the location for his business competition show, "50 Cent: The Money and The Power," he was struck...
LIVINGSTON DEFIES 'GRAVITY'
The next TV series inspired by a British program may well be "Defying Gravity." The Fox series, which stars Ron Livingston as one of eight astronauts on a mysterious mission...
WAYNE COYNE: PICKING HIS BRAIN
"There are a lot of kids [there] who have s---ty parents. If I didn't do a Halloween party in my neighborhood, those kids wouldn't have anything. I made a circus...
JETS: BETWEEN THE HASHMARKS
PLAY OF THE GAME With the Jets up 10-0, the Rams were driving but Abram Elam came on a safety blitz and drilled Rams QB Marc Bulger. Bulger fumbled and...
YES, WE CAN
In his first speech as president-elect, delivered in Chicago's Grant Park to a enraptured crowd shortly before midnight, Barack Obama listed the challenges facing the nation. "The climb will be...
DENIED
Hillary Rodham Clinton's dream of overhauling the country's health-care system as the steward of a new Senate subcommittee has reportedly flatlined. The New York senator had made health-care reform the...
SCHUMER BIG WINNER IN SENATE SHIFT
Robert Byrd's resignation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee has touched off a game of musical chairs among Democratic leaders - and Sen. Charles Schumer is one of the...