February 17, 2009
GM PLAN CALLS FOR $16 BILLION MORE, 47,000 JOB CUTS
General Motors Corp.'s restructuring proposal says the company may need up to $30 billion in government loans as it implements a survival plan that includes cutting 47,000 jobs and closing...
Phillies' Utley healing quickly
The Associated Press reports that All-Star second baseman Chase Utley fielded grounders with the rest of the Phillies today and is ahead of schedule following hip surgery in November. Utley...
DIESEL - MENSWEAR
The eclectic music at the Diesel show paved the runway for an equally motley collection. From jazz tunes to Nirvana, a handful of musicians set the stage for a sultry...
3-YEAR-OLD'S SUBWAY ADVENTURE
Authorities say a 3-year-old wandered out of a McDonald's in Queens while his mother went to get napkins, and then he got on a subway and traveled four stops before...
Sean Williams trouble
The Boston Herald reports that Nets forward Sean WIlliams "was taken into custody Sunday afternoon just before the start of the Boston College-Duke basketball game, according to published reports."Williams was...
Press conference reactions
Here's a sampling of reactions to Alex Rodriguez's steroid controversy:"It's a tough situation, let me tell you. I do have to say that everyone has to deal with their own...
BREWERS SIGN CORY HART
By JOEL SHERMANThe Brewers signed outfielder Corey Hart for $3.25 million, avoiding arbitration, the Post has learned.Hart also can earn $50,000 for being an All-Star, $25,000 for the Silver Slugger,...
STOCKS PLUMMET NEARLY 300 POINTS
Investors around the world are betting that even with government stimulus and bailout programs, the global recession will just have to run its course. The problems that slammed stocks last...
DEALS: Victoria-Jungfrau 60% off
Lest anyone think the Internet's stripping of our humanity a bad thing, consider this: Book Switzerland's alpine empyrean, the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, in the flesh or by phone,...
Sundance at BAM 'Taking a Break'
The Sundance Film Festival will not be holding a 10-day program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this year, Sundance spokesperson Brooks Addicott told me today. She said the decision...
CHRYSLER ASKS GOVERNMENT FOR $5B MORE IN LOANS
DETROIT - Chrysler LLC on Tuesday told the U.S. government it needs even more taxpayer money to survive. General Motors is expected to do the same. Acknowledging that industry conditions...
Beltran: Let's 'kill' Hamels
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Carlos Beltran did his part to add fuel to the ongoing Mets-Phillies war of words today by saying he hopes the Amazin's "kill" Philadelphia ace Cole...
NEW STORY SAME OLD SORRY
By JOEL SHERMANTAMPA - This was the new story. This should not be confused with the old story, which was just eight days old, but was now treated by Alex...
OBAMA TO INCREASE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has signed off on an increase in U.S. forces for the flagging war in Afghanistan, defense and congressional officials said Tuesday. The Obama administration is...
Beltran makes his arrival
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Here is video I shot today of Carlos Beltran's arrival in camp this morning and his subsequent chat session with reporters. Beltran, who described himself as...
CALIF. BUDGET STALEMATE SETS UP FISCAL CALAMITY
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers gathered again Tuesday in another bid to end the state's multibillion-dollar budget stalemate, as the state was poised to start laying off as many as...
Report: Bradshaw back in jail
Insidefootball.com reports that the Giants have released a statement from Ahmad Bradshaw's agent saying the running back has returned to jail "to complete the remainder of his 60-day jail sentence...
Shopping Days Dwindling. Surgery for Najera?
By FRED KERBERHOUSTON - We were kind of hoping someone would ask A-Rod if he thought Vince Carter was getting traded by Thursday's 3 p.m. Eastern deadline.After all, Vince was...
OBAMA SIGNS ECONOMIC RECOVERY BILL
In a move aimed at shoring up the sagging economy, President Obama signed into law the country's most sweeping economic package in decades this afternoon -- a hotly debated $787...
Pettitte talked to Feds about Clemens
The Associated Press has learned that federal prosecutors have interviewed Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte as they investigate whether his former teammate Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using...
'The Best Way to Get Over a Guy is to Get Under Another One'... in 'The City'
On New Year's Day, Jay reveals his resolutions: (1) don't party so much, (2) put more energy into his music and (3) have Whitney cook him dinner every night while...
Kids to eat for free at Thunder games in 2009
The Yankees Double-A affiliate, the Trenton Thunder, and the Phillies Low-A affiliate, the Lakewood (N.J.) BlueClaws, have teamed up to give every kid ages 12 and under who comes to...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ TRANSCRIPT
Here is the transcript from today's press conference given by Alex Rodriguez in Tampa, Fla.:Opening statement: "First, bear with me I'm a little nervous or a lot nervous. So bear...
Bayern: Donovan unlikely to stay
It's looking more and more like the third try WON'T be the charm for Landon Donovan, with Bayern Munich's chairman saying it's unlikely that the U.S. star will stay beyond...
Donnie do-nothing?
By MARC BERMANThe trade deadline is Thursday and the Knicks' action likely will take place after 3 p.m.Without an excuse to hold onto Stephon Marbury any longer, the Knicks can...
BLOOMBERG GIVES CITY DIRE FORECAST
The streets of New York may look more like the canals of Venice in the coming decades as temperatures - and water levels - rise to dangerous new heights, according...
BADGLEY MISCHKA
There used to be no one like Mark Badgley and James Mischka when it came to red carpet gowns. Then everyone else got in the game, and this duo lost...
Updated: Griffey picks Mariners
Ken Griffey Jr. decided Wednesday he was taking the Mariners' one-year contract worth about $2 million, plus incentives, to be their designated hitter.Yesterday, the Seattle Times reported Ken Griffey Jr....
DODGERS SIGN ETHIER
By JOEL SHERMANThe Dodgers and Andre Ethier have agreed on a one-year, $3.1 million contract and will avoid arbitration, The Post has learned.Ethier can earn an extra $100,000 in plate-appearance...
Report: Amare won't be traded
ESPN is reporting that the Suns Amare Stoudemire will likely be staying in Phoenix this season.There were reports that the Suns were trying to move the All-Star forward, with the...
Vikings owner: We don't want Brett
If Brett Favre un-retires for a second time, he won't have a home in Minnesota.There were scattered reports about Favre asking for a release from the Jets before he retired...
RIVAL GANGS SCUFFLE AT COURTHOUSE
A scuffle between rival gangs 2 Deep and MSH - for Money Stacked High - erupted Tuesday outside a courtroom where a 17-year-old is on trial for attempted murder. Dozens...
TWO PEOPLE HIT BY TRAINS IN NYC
New York City transit authorities say a person has been struck at the Brooklyn Bridge subway station in Manhattan. The accident occurred about 3 1/2 hours after a woman was...
GM, UAW CLOSE TO CONCESSIONS AGREEMENT: REPORT
DETROIT - General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers were getting close to an agreement on concessions, a person briefed on the negotiations said Tuesday, just hours before GM...
Vac's Whacks, Tuesday Edition (Updated, 4 p.m.)
The Big East is too big, it has too many teams, too many schools that have nothing to do with each other historically, geographically, philosophically. Old fogeys like myself long...
Sundance/Tribeca Shocker: Gilmore Signs On With Bob and Jane
In what seems to me like a serious bid for credibility, Jane Rosenthal and Robert DeNiro have hired longtime Sundance Film Festival honcho Geoff Gilmore as "chief creative officer'' of...
BOY'S REMAINS FOUND INSIDE CROCODILE
Human remains found in a crocodile caught near where a five-year-old boy disappeared in the far north Queensland Daintree River, Australia, are those of the child. Jeremy Doble disappeared on...
CHIMP VICTIM HANGING ONTO LIFE
The Connecticut woman viciously attacked by a 200-pound chimp who inexplicably went bananas remains in critical condition this afternoon and faces "life-changing, if not life-threatening injuries" to her face and...
Tobi Stoner Interview
My colleague and Mets beat writer Bart Hubbuch is down in Port St. Lucie with the Mets for Spring Training (in case you forgot the Mets were there in the...
How low have the Rangers sunk?
So low that when thinking about tomorrow night's home matchup against the Islanders, it's tough to think of the Rangers as favorites.Before another Alex Rodriguez press conference/interview engulfs us all...
Morning reading
PORT ST. LUCIE -- While all of us here wait for Jose Reyes and Luis Castillo to arrive in camp (and I hear there's some kind of press gathering today...
CUOMO CREAMING GOV. PATERSON: POLL
Gov. Paterson's support among Democratic voters has fallen through the floor in the wake of the Caroline Kennedy Senate fiasco, with a stunning new poll showing Attorney General Andrew Cuomo...
DVD Extra: Newman Marginalia, Remembering Melvyn Douglas and Outing Randolph Scott (Again)
Illeana's grandmother was the former Helen Gahagan, who had the (literally) deathless title role in "She'' (1935) opposite Randolph Scott -- he incidentally was casually outed over the weekend by...
3 UP: THE A-ROD EDITION
1. Today is Alex Rodriguez day at The George, with a press conference scheduled this afternoon. Yet what I am thinking about this morning is Marshawn Lynch. He was arrested...
3 UP: THE A-ROD EDITION
1. Today is Alex Rodriguez day at The George, with a press conference scheduled this afternoon. Yet what I am thinking about this morning is Marshawn Lynch. He was arrested...
IT'S A LOW BLOW
THE struggle between highbrow and lowbrow continued at the tents yesterday, as designers and attendees jockeyed to fill the void once occupied by Hollywood celebs, now back in LA. In...
HEY, ALEX, TAKE YOUR CUE FROM HONEST ABE
TAMPA - No one thinks about himself more and knows himself less than Alex Rodriguez. This is just another unfortunate result when a runaway ego merges with limitless insecurity. That...
WILD WELCOME TO YANKS' ZOO FOR NEW GUYS
TAMPA - Eventually, every player in pinstripes gets a taste of the craziness that often smothers the Yankees' universe. However, it's rare that it comes as quickly as it is...
FORMER POST EDITOR SAL GERAGE DIES
Salvatore Gerage, a former associate sports editor at The Post, died yesterday morning in Queens, five days before his 81st birthday. Born in Little Italy, Gerage, known as "Sal," began...
BLAIR DOMINATES THABEET, PITT ENDS UCONN'S WIN STREAK
HARTFORD - As the final chords of the national anthem rose up to the rafters in the XL Center and collided with the cascading roar of thousands of Connecticut fans,...
NO PLACE FOR PUDGE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Despite what Pudge Rodriguez keeps saying, the Mets aren't interested in the veteran catcher and aren't talking to him about a contract. MURPHY GLAD HE'S NOT...
MURPHY GLAD HE'S NOT ONE TOO MANNY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Even from the distance of his Jacksonville home this winter, Daniel Murphy couldn't avoid the relentless clamor in New York for the Mets to sign Manny...
MANAGER SAYS BASEBALL ALWAYS BOUNCES BACK
PORT ST. LUCIE - You want to know about pressure, real pressure, the kind you put on yourself, the kind you put on every at-bat, every swing, every trip to...
DIPIETRO SEES HEALTHY FUTURE
Sure, the Islanders will take yesterday's shootout win over the Penguins in which they got good performances from some of their young players who the team is counting on, but...
BRODEUR MAY RETURN THIS WEEK
Coming off a weekend that saw them sweep Boston and San Jose, the NHL's top two teams, the Devils look to extend their seven-game road winning streak tonight with the...
RED BULLS RE-UP ANGEL
The Red Bulls re-signed Juan Pablo Angel to an extension that runs through 2010, with an option for 2011. The striker has 33 goals in his two years in MLS,...
TRILLIAN IS THRILLIN'
Track was fast. Maylan Studart and Mike Luzzi had two-baggers. FIRST RACE: Is Naipaul Chatterpaul the next Buddy Jacobson? Last out, he claimed Trillian, a five-length winner at 4-5 for...
ORTIZ: LENGTHEN BANS FOR JUICING
David Ortiz wants players who test positive for steroids to be suspended from baseball for a year instead of the current 50-game penalty. Taking players to court, though, for cases...
FULL HOUSE EXPECTED FOR 'ROID ROAST
TAMPA - Yankees co-owner Hank Steinbrenner said he likely would attend Alex Rodriguez's news conference today to lend support to his embattled superstar. Steinbrenner's younger brother and co-owner, Hal, offered...
PHOENIX PHONIES TRASH THE TRUTH ON MY PORTER SCOOP
PHOENIX - Good thing I don't have any feelings, otherwise this past weekend might've hurt 'em. Friday, you may recall, I alerted the masses that Terry Porter, 51 games into...
COACH KEYS ON KNICKS, NOT EX-TEAM
Despite Mike D'Antoni's vast success in Phoenix, he was unceremoniously dumped. Now, from Jason Richardson's arrival to Sunday's arrest, from shopping Amare Stoudemire to firing Terry Porter, he's watching the...
CARTER DEAF TO TRADE TALK
HOUSTON - Vince Carter hails from Florida, works in New Jersey, but his demeanor usually is more laid-back California. Nothing seems to rattle him on the surface. And that was...
A-ROD PAL SAYS STAR WILL BE OK
PHOENIX - Mike Borzello, the former Yankees bullpen catcher who kidded pal Alex Rodriguez by tagging him "A-Fraud," believes A-Rod eventually will overcome the backlash caused by his admission that...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Suns desert Porter The Suns fired coach Terry Porter yesterday, just four months into his first season, confirming a report by Peter Vecsey in Friday's Post. Assistant Alvin Gentry...
STILL SINGIN' THE BLUES: RANGERS LOSE 8TH OF 9
ST. LOUIS - The Rangers have lost eight of nine while scoring two or fewer goals in all the losses, and the strain seems to be getting to Henrik Lundqvist....
SIENA EARNS TITLE SHARE
Alex Franklin scored 22 points, Edwin Ubiles had 21 points and Siena defeated Iona 75-60 last night in New Rochelle to clinch at least a tie for the Metro Atlantic...
HI/LO
WOULD you like fries with that menswear? Ask any successful professional in the industry about his or her first job, and you'll find every great designer, major editor, show producer...
RAISING A RACQUET
An Israeli tennis star, fuming over being banned from a tournament in Dubai, said yesterday that politics should have no place in sports. "I think a red line has been...
DRESSING LADY O.
WE caught up with Michelle Obama's stealth stylist, Ikram Goldman, and asked her what she favored for the first lady. "No comment," she said, but she did tip her hand...
PAKISTAN CAVES IN TO TALIBAN
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The government yesterday agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across much of northwest Pakistan, in concessions aimed at pacifying the Taliban insurgency spreading...
POP GOES MARC
MARC Jacobs punk'd his audience last night in more ways than one. First, he started his 8 pm show at 7:58 pm, so you were punk'd if you weren't early....
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COMRADES
A young Marine from Long Island had only seconds to act when a fanatic driving a truck bomb came crashing through barricades and aimed straight for a building where 30...
'KIDNAP' BABY SITTER IS BUSTED
An East Harlem baby sitter was arrested yesterday after the child she kidnapped for 24 hours was reunited with his mother, police said. The 14-month-old boy, Heshesh Brent, was back...
MAN SHOT AT VILLAGE DINER
A man was shot and critically wounded yesterday outside a popular all-night Greenwich Village diner, police said. Two groups of customers began arguing inside celebrity hangout Cozy Soup 'n' Burger...
NEW 'ICE' MYSTERY
Federal officials are trying to determine if a recent inspection of the de-icing equipment on the plane that crashed outside Buffalo last week was routine - or the result of...
HILL'S KOREA MOVE
TOKYO - Hillary Rodham Clinton - on her first official overseas trip as secretary of state - told North Korea this morning not to carry out a plan to launch...
GILLIBRAND BED GUN-FREE
New York's new senator Kirsten Gillibrand has moved two rifles she kept under her bed for protection. The rifles were removed for security reasons because their location had been reported,...
IRAQ PILGRIMS KILLED
BAGHDAD - In the latest of a series of attacks on Shiite pilgrims, eight more died in separate bombings of two minibuses yesterday, officials said. The attacks followed bombings last...
13-YEAR-OLD 'DAD' ALFIE TO TAKE PATERNITY TEST
LONDON - A DNA test will determine if a 13-year-old boy fathered a baby with his 15-year-old girlfriend, his spokesman said yesterday. The test comes after The News of the...
OCTOMOM'S PHOTO OP: NOT A PICTURE OF HEALTH
Thanks for the terrific picture of the Sports Illustrated model on your front page last Wednesday ("At Last! A Real Stimulus," Feb. 11) - but did we really need to...
RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
NEWS broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed...
A STATE GRAB ON NYC HOU$ING
THE state government is looking to raid a fund that was established specifically to build affordable housing in New York City. As New York City's comptroller, I certainly understand that...
OBAMA'S HOUSING PLAN WILL HELP MANY, HARM SOME
A guy I know stopped making his mortgage payments two months ago. It's not that he can't afford to pay them these days, it's just my friend figures he needed...
GROWTH WE CAN A-FORDHAM
* Thank you for your editorial supporting the proposed plans for Fordham University's new buildings next to Lincoln Center ("Let Fordham Grow," Feb. 16). As an alumna of Fordham's Lincoln...
PAPA'S PARENT TRAP$
A con man bilked fellow parents at an elite Long Island school of millions of dollars to fund his dwindling day-trading business, The Post has learned. Steven Meszaros, 45, of...
HOT-DOG MAN'S BUN VOYAGE
He's going to relish his retirement. After 41 years peddling hot dogs in the same Times Square spot, Angelo Pipas is calling it a career. "I like what I do....
M'SOFT, LG 'DIAL' UP 5-YR. DEAL
Microsoft Corp. signed a multiyear agreement for Windows Mobile to be included on devices from LG Electronics Inc. and introduced updated phone software in a bid to catch up with...
UK GOV'T: NO LLOYDS TAKEOVER
The UK government said it doesn't plan to take full control of Lloyds Banking Group Plc after the lender forecast a 10 billion pound ($14 billion) loss at its HBOS...
NEW TAX BILL SEEKS FAIR 'SHEARING' OF WEALTHY
ALBANY - A day after Gov. Paterson hinted at plans to soak the rich, a Brooklyn assemblyman announced legislation yesterday to enact the $6 billion tax-hike plan backed by public-employee...
PAKISTAN'S US POWS
THE 36,000 US troops in Afghanistan are prisoners of war. They're still armed and fighting. But their fate lies in Pakistan's hands, not ours. It's time to rethink our nonstrategy...
ALL SIDES 'RAISE' HELL OVER GOV'S PAY HIKES
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson yesterday was blasted by public-employee unions, legislative Republicans and even fellow Democrats for granting sky-high pay hikes to his key staffers at a time when he's...
'93 WTC VICTIM GETS DAY IN COURT
Sixteen years after Linda Nash was struck in the head by concrete - suffering brain, lung and ear damage - during the first attack on the World Trade Center, her...
OCTOGRANNY: ALL'S FORGIVEN
LOS ANGELES - The mother of the Southern California woman who used a fertility doctor to give birth to octuplets sounded a conciliatory note toward her daughter yesterday in a...
DAS CAPITALISTS REELING
Talk about a red scare. The burgeoning ranks of Russia's billionaires shrank by more than half over the past year, as the uber-rich from that country got slammed by plummeting...
LI MAN SETS PAL AFIRE WITH TEQUILA: COPS
A Long Island man doused his drinking buddy with tequila and set him on fire - all because the guest refused to go home, police said. Epigmencio Garcia, 24, and...
THIS 'ECKO' SOUNDS LIKE A LAWSUIT
MARC Ecko Enterprises faces a nasty legal battle for walking away from its lease at the former Times Square Theater, where it abruptly dropped plans to open a spectacular, three-level...
CARD COUNTING GETS 'SMART'
You can beat the dealer - with the right smart-phone application. A program that can be run secretly on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch makes it much easier to...
COPS SINK POT PROBE OF PHELPS
Michael Phelps backstroked away from pot charges yesterday after South Carolina cops said their evidence wouldn't hold water against the Olympic hero. Even while announcing that Phelps was off the...
STATE: TEST KIDS LATER
The state is seeking to schedule annual reading and math tests later in the school year - a move that could erase one of the biggest hurdles to using students'...
JACKO: BID IT, JUST BID IT!
This auction could be a thriller. Michael Jackson's iconic white glove and more than 2,000 other items from Neverland will go under the hammer in April - including his throne,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens * A diner was busted after he flew into a rage at a Flushing restaurant as he harassed his waitress and refused to pay for his meal, authorities said....
COPS DRAW BLANK IN FLA. GIRL HUNT
SATSUMA, Fla. - Authorities in north Florida have scaled back their search for a missing 5-year-old girl who vanished from her home last week, and a volunteer search group has...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Pounded The pound fell 0.8 percent against the dol lar to $1.4246 in London after the Confederation of British Industry, the UK's biggest business lobby, said the econ omy will...
SEC OKS STOCKHOLDER INPUT AT FIRMS GETTING TARP FUNDS
A little-noticed ruling by the Securities and Exchange Commission is setting the stage for shareholders to further question the compensation packages doled out to executives at banks that received rescue...
CITI ASSETS FLOP
Citigroup's quest to raise cash by selling the assets it doesn't want is falling flat, as would-be suitors have more interest in the parts of the business that Citi would...
CHINA DEAL A HUM DINGER
The Sichuan Auto Industry Group, one of the smallest carmakers in China, is in talks to buy General Motors' Hummer sport utility vehicle unit, three people familiar with the negotiations...
PALS RALLY FOR BATTERED DIVA
Battered pop star Rihanna is resting at home in Barbados and getting "her life back on track" while recovering from injuries suffered in a domestic dust-up, her cousin said yesterday....
OBAMA KID 'RUNS' FOR WHITE HOUSE
There's no place like home - the White House - for President Obama's youngest daughter. Seven-year-old Sasha looks positively joyful yesterday as the family returns to Washington, DC, after a...
LANCE'S BIKE PEDAL-PILFERED
It was a tour de theft - thieves have stolen Lance Armstrong's unique, $10,000 bike. The Tour de France legend announced on Twitter Sunday that his distinctive, yellow and black...
CONDO CRISIS HITS WALL ST. HIGH ROLLERS
Dozens of financial-industry professionals may lose their new Battery Park City condos because the building's developer allegedly defaulted on debt payments, which forced the property into foreclosure and threatens an...
DETROIT'S LAST CHANCE
Can you build a car by committee? Can you build a car that people will buy by committee? It's been tried, and it doesn't work. Nevertheless, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner...
DECIPHERING DAVE
Gov. Paterson, a master of the mixed message, thawed his self-proclaimed state-budget freeze long enough to pump up the pay of more than a dozen key aides. So reports Post...
OIL DROPS TO $36.82
Crude oil traded near $37 a barrel in New York on speculation a deepening recession in Europe and Asia will stifle demand for energy and fuel. Crude oil for March...
TAPPED OUT IN AC
You're filing for Chapter 11. That's the message Trump Entertainment Resorts bondholders had for Donald Trump as his casino company filed for bankruptcy protection today. The filing came after Trump...
DEAL WITH LIBERTY WILL KEEP SIRIUS XM FLYING
John Malone's Liberty Media is expected to announce today a deal to provide a senior secured loan of between $250 million and $300 million to Sirius XM, The Post has...
HAVOC AS CHIMP GOES APE
A massive chimp who loved flowers, filet mignon and the Yankees went berserk outside his Connecticut home yesterday, mauling his owner's friend before being killed by cops. Capt. Richard Conklin...
BEATING LANDS SUGE IN HOSP
Rap mogul Suge Knight has been hospitalized after a fight in an Arizona hotel, police said. Cops arrested two men after the Death Row Records founder suffered facial fractures during...
FAMILIES GATHER AT SITE OF TRAGEDY
Heartbroken relatives of victims from last week's commuter-plane tragedy visited the crash scene yesterday for the first time, seeing up close where their loved ones perished. The grieving family members...
AUTO-MATIC MONEY
WASHINGTON - Detroit is really in the driver's seat these days. General Motors is set to pocket billions in bailout bucks today - despite blowing a government-imposed restructuring deadline. EDITORIAL:...
EMT IS A REAL S.O.B.B.
A decorated EMS officer is under investigation for allegedly shooting several subordinates for fun with a BB gun in their Brooklyn battalion headquarters, The Post has learned. "God forbid, he...
FAA SOLVES SPACE ODDITY
DALLAS - The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said yesterday. FAA spokesman...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
One upstate New York bowling alley is strictly BYOB - bring your own ball. Workers at Thurston's Restaurant bowling alley in Frankfort discovered that thieves had swiped all but one...
GRANDCHILD LIKED HIS 'BEING THERE'
THE road to an Oscar is sometimes long and winding. For Melvyn Douglas, it led through World War II Burma (now Myanmar) where he met a young British comedian named...
NEWMAN RESOURCES
PAUL Newman spent four decades trying to discourage people from watching his film debut, so it's ironic "The Silver Chalice" is in the first group of his movies arriving on...
FLEA PUTS ON SOME ONE-ACTERS WITH MARKET VALUE
OTHER than delivering a cutesy pre-curtain announce ment, playwright Itamar Moses doesn't actually appear in "Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to It)," an evening of short one-acts at...
NOW BARKLEY'S A SWINGER
Barkley: Still suspended from TNT. CHARLES Barkley is going from erratic driving in his car to taming his erratic drives on the golf course. Barkley, still under suspension by TNT...
'DOLL' IS A DUD
VIEWERS didn't exactly extend a welcome to the "Dollhouse." Joss Whedon's much-hyped, highly anticipated series launched to low numbers Friday night - averaging 4.7 million viewers to finish third in...
JIMMY SPEAKS!
JIMMY Kimmel says he was "surprised" that Jay Leno stayed at NBC rather than jump to rival ABC. "I wasn't surprised that NBC did it, I was surprised because it...
CLASS DISMISSED
VAPID, vacuous and vulgar. It's bad enough, when the economy is strong, to watch desperate women afflicted with a never-enough psychosis parade themselves on TV - clueless that they are...
PERILS OF WORKPLACE GUILT
WITH the economy under siege and layoffs increasing, I'm see ing symptoms of job-related depression and anxiety. Never in my 16 years of practice have I seen people so shaken...
SHE'S A BELIEVER
AS a kid in Philadelphia, Jazmine Sullivan says, "I always dreamed of being nominated, going to the Grammys and winning." Two out of three ain't bad for this singer, who...
BY GEORGE, HE'S GOT IT!
FIRST, let's straighten out the misunderstandings. The name of the band that's playing the Mercury Lounge tonight is thenewno2 and it's pronounced the-new-number-2, a reference to the classic TV series...
THE GREAT UNKNOWNS
While last year's crop of acting nominations gave us George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Daniel Day-Lewis, this year's roster includes - well, hang on a second while we look them...
SLIPPING THE ACADEMY A MICKEY
IS this the most counterintuitive Oscar campaign ever? In recent weeks, Rourke has: * Delivered an obscenity-laced acceptance speech at the British academy awards, during which he bragged about watching...
OSCAR MANIA
WITH Oscar polls closing today, it's clear the main event Sunday night will be Mickey "The Wrestler" Rourke slugging it out with another longtime bad boy, Sean "Milkman" Penn, for...
MPFREES
Wild Light, "California on My Mind" The curse-laden pop-rock track from "Adult Nights," due March 3, is a counterpoint to every wistful California-themed song you've ever heard. They're at Bowery...
HOT DEALS!
IRELAND $599 per person for RT air from NYC, 3 nights at the Strand Hotel in Limerick and 3 more at the Regency Hotel in Dublin City. Daily breakfast and...
50 STATES: California
ONE of the reasons it is so easy for visitors to make broad generalizations about Los Angeles is because they never get out of their cars. Imagine, if you will,...
EASY TO STOMACH
IT never takes foodies long to realize that the best Miami dining falls outside the zone of Ocean Drive's honking horns and Lincoln Road mall's rubber-necking pedestrians. But in these...
HOT SHEETS
THE transformation of Los Angeles hotels has continued at a rapid pace in the last few years - many old addresses will be unrecognizable to those who haven't been back...
DIESEL BLACK GOLD
Diesel owner Renzo Rosso and creative director Wilbert Das are singing the blues... and some Nirvana. And we're totally sipping the Kool-Aid. To coincide with the opening of the brand's...
BABY PHAT
For the sake of all that is good and fabulous, we stand here today to tell you that no one makes better faux chinchilla than Baby Phat cat Kimora Lee...
YIGAL AZROUEL - MENSWEAR
You wouldn't have known that Azrouel transferred his RSVP list to his in-house publicist two days before his men's presentation, except that had they kept Kelly Cutrone in charge, she...
WILLIAM RAST
Man, is Justin Timberlake lucky he's cute. Not that his fall 2009 William Rast collection - a partnership between Timberlake, childhood friend Trace Ayala and creative directors Marcella and Johan...
BETSEY JOHNSON
In lieu of a traditional runway production with models stomping down a catwalk, Betsey Johnson turned her garment district offices in to Betsey Crocker's food parade, complete with a sweet...
MAPS: Walking across Los Angeles
It's Oscar Week, and over here, it's all Los Angeles, all the time. This year, though, I wanted to try something different: I wanted to walk across the entire city,...
CYNTHIA ROWLEY
Judging by the wishbone stamped on her show notes, Cynthia Rowley is in a wishful state of mind. Wishing for what? We're not quite sure, since most of her collection...
JILL STUART
If there's one thing Jill Stuart knows, it's the girl who loves to buy her clothes. An interesting mix of precious and edgy, lace and leather, uptown and downtown and...
'Family Guy' vs. Christian Bale
We thought the Christian Bale Mash-Up Award would go to the Bill O'Reilly vs Christian Bale video (which, in a horrific act against Viral Amazingness, was taken down from the...
After the Break
By FRED KERBERHOUSTON - The rest of today. Tomorrow. Wednesday. And then Thursday up to 3 p.m. Eastern time.Get through that and then we can put all trade talk away...
ELIE TAHARI
Designers have to give consumers a reason to buy new clothes and somber, black clothing is rarely new. Rather than the high-end designers, it seems the department store designers realize...
CHIMPANZEE ATTACKS WOMAN IN STAMFORD
A massive ape lost control at his Connecticut owner's home today and mauled a woman's face before he was repeatedly stabbed by his horrified owner and eventually shot dead by...