July 12, 2007
Series pick
Sorry for the delay on the series pick -- today was similar to last year's trade deadline when the Mets were almost getting Roy Oswalt, had Duaner Sanchez get into...
Obsessives: 'Jericho'
Back-from-the-dead âJerichoâ has a two-hour block tomorrow night (oneâs a recap episode), so we thought weâd search out those fans who sent all of those nuts to CBS to get...
Go to Commerce Street
If you are looking for MAJOR MARKDOWNS(up to 80% off) on pieces from Alexander Wang, Cacharel, Vena Cava, Reyes, Rachel Comey, Sunshine & Shadow, Borne....etc.Where: Mick Margo19 Commerce Street(off of...
Franco history
The Mets have designated Julio Franco for assignment and promoted Lastings Milledge.Franco isn't necessarily finished with the Mets since he could clear waivers and re-sign with them. But he's off...
Halo 3 From E3
Yeah, it's the day of a zillion trailers. Ah, well, stuck in New York, it's the least I can do.
Haze E3 Gameplay
Take a gander at some lush jungle environments...of DEATH!Every time I think of super soldiers, I think of Halo. Sorry, Haze.
Tipping the Cap
Larry Brooks is usually right. Not much more needs to be said than that regarding Lundqvist's new contract, but there's plenty to talk about. I mentioned in the "Team Player"...
Metal Gear Solid 4 E3 Trailer
Do you love Metal Gear? Of course you do. Who doesn't love Metal Gear? Here's 8 amazing minutes of it.
Down
As the song says that they used to play at Shea -- "I'm back. . . back in the New York groove." After taking some time off for the Astros...
Deal of the Day
Another thrifty dress to put in rotation for the summer, but this one actually accentuates curves instead of obscuring them.The wide Belted Strapless Dress with rusched detailing by Daisy Fuentes...
'Hairspray' and Teen Smoking: Combustible Mixture?
Anti-smoking forces are fuming because the delightful "Hairspray,'' the first film to be released with a citation for smoking since the rating board changed its policy in May, drew only...
THE MONKEY KING
STORY SO FAR: Seeking immortality, Monkey travels to Master Subhodi's cave. But when Monkey insists upon easy lessons, the master strikes him three times and goes away. AT three o'...
N.Y.C.'S VIRTUAL REALITY
WELCOME to New York - at least the virtual version. Here's a more detailed look at Grand Theft Auto: IV, out Oct. 16, the latest in the controversial Rockstar Games...
HOLLYWOOD, BROADWAY GO TOTALLY '80S
'XANADU" is on Broadway, "Transformers" is in theaters, so why not mine other '80s classics for box office gold? A West End musical based on Madonna classic "Desperately Seeking Susan"...
BLUE D'ETAT!
FIRST designer denim hit $100. Then $200, $300 ... to almost $400 for the latest must-have jeans. Women have had enough. Sensing the (checkout) counter revolution, denim manufacturers this season...
OBSESSIONS OF THE WEEK
Rio Grande: Forget Gisele. Brazil's sexiest export has landed in SoHo with the opening of iconic fashion label Osklen's first stateside store. Boasting both a women's and men's collection full...
HAUTE LIST
IF you're heading out of town this summer, save valuable suitcase space with Lolli's convertible dress - a $250 luxe silk charmeuse dress with black suede straps that can be...
DANES' BROADWAY DEBUT A SHAW THING
CLAIRE Danes' so-called life just turned so Broadway. The 28-year-old actress will make her Broadway debut as the Cockney girl turned fair lady, Eliza Doolittle, in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre...
READY, WILLING & FABLE
TAKE the venerable Comedie-Francaise, founded in 1680, shake it up with international avant-gardist Robert Wilson, and you have all the makings of a potent fizz. That fizz was threatened at...
STARR REPORT
John: 'I'm no Hoff' John Stamos has nothing against David Hasselhoff - just don't confuse him with the troubled "America's Got Talent" judge. Stamos, talking to "Extra" tonight (7 p.m./Ch....
FRONTRUNNERS EMERGE FROM 'PRICE' PACK
MORE than a month after Bob Barker said good- bye after 35 years as host of "The Price is Right," CBS may finally be zeroing in on his replacement. Two...
COURT TV CHANGES NAME
COURT TV will change its name to truTV in Janu ary. The change, announced yesterday, reflects a slate of new programming catering to what network officials call "real engagers." "...
NEEDS COUNSELING
MAYBE it was the opening dream sequence that made "State of Mind," one of two Lifetime series premiering Sunday night, seem not as good as it turned out to be....
JOKE'S ON HIM
'LATE Late Show" host Craig Ferguson was forced to take an un precedented commercial break in the middle of his Tuesday- night monologue - under a new mandate from management....
'HAIRSPRAY' GETS A CIG-NATURE RATING
'HAIRSPRAY" is the first movie to be cited for a smoking scene under the movie ratings board's new policy - and anti-smoking forces are burned up because it only got...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
If you fancy a change then by all means reward yourself with one. It does not have to be anything drastic - although it might be - it just has...
GEEKERCISE
WHO says video games will make you fat? Nintendo's hoping to change the image of gamers as pasty, Cheetos-eating basement dwellers with "Wii Fit," a device for a wired workout....
HORSE & 'MUGGY'
Carriage horses are wilting in the intense summer heat because of regulations that refuse to take humidity into consideration, animal-rights activists brayed at a City Hall protest yesterday. The latest...
9/11 EMTS ASK FOR $$
Several first-responders to the 9/11 attacks who worked for voluntary hospitals implored state legislators yesterday to pass an override of Gov. Spitzer's veto of a bill that gives them increased...
ALBANY, NEW POLL CLOG CONGE$TION
ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg made a last-ditch effort yesterday to convince Assembly Democrats to return to the Capitol on Monday to pass his controversial congestion-pricing plan. Bloomberg's effort came as...
CUPCAKE ACHE FOR TOP SHOP
Alas, the "Sex and the City" girls will have to find a new place for cupcakes. At least temporarily. The Magnolia Bakery - perhaps one of the most famous bakeries...
GUN USED TO ATTACK QNS. MAN
The gun used to shoot two Brooklyn cops on Monday was used to blast a man in Queens a day earlier - and may be involved in the January murder...
PLEA IN JFK BOMB PLOT
The former JFK cargo handler accused of plotting to blow up the airport pleaded not guilty to the charges yesterday. Russell Defreitas, 65, appeared briefly in Brooklyn federal court to...
MTA PLAN HAS NICE 'RING' TO IT: RIDERS
Straphangers say they want subway cellphone service, even though platforms are sometimes so crowded, you don't need to reach out far to touch someone. Negotiations between the MTA and wireless...
GOTTI FOE JAIL SUIT WHACKED
A state judge has tossed an inmate's claims that prison negligence allowed a mobster to attack him behind bars in 2001 out of revenge for exposing jury tampering intended to...
TIARA DRAMA
Leaders of the Miss New Jersey pageant are set to meet today to decide the fate of embattled beauty queen Amy Polumbo. The pretty blond student revealed last week that...
'DR. GROPE' GOES AFTER SPACEY 'E.T.' ACCUSER
The East Side psychologist accused of sexually pawing his job applicant - while telling her he was merely demonstrating his "therapeutic massage" techniques - is fighting back hard, branding his...
EX-FDNY BIG IN ETHICS SLAP
A former Fire Department official was fined $6,500 yesterday by the city Conflicts of Interest Board for taking thousands of dollars in gifts from a contractor. As FDNY assistant commissioner...
$400M BIAS SUIT SLAMS TOYS 'R' US
It's not all fun and games for black customers at Toys "R" Us, where security staffers target minorities for shoplifting screening as they exit while letting white shoppers leave without...
JILTED PAIR SUES VILLAGE WEDDING SITE
A Brooklyn couple who dreamed of walking down the aisle at a posh Greenwich Village penthouse is taking a detour to court. Michelle Barry 29, is suing Sky Studios to...
924 TRUE-BLUE HEROES JOIN RANKS OF THE FINEST
Nearly 1,000 NYPD recruits - including two sets of twins - were sworn in yesterday. The ceremony at Brooklyn College for the new class of 924 Finest candidates had been...
MAIM BOY'S COLLAPSE AGONY
Damion Hope Rosa moaned in agony yesterday as he tried to move what's left of his amputated leg - but the 10-year-old summoned the strength to give a piece of...
SHOCK OVER 'ABUSED' POL
A drunken domestic-violence incident in which a Bronx assemblywoman's husband threatened her with a knife was completely out of character for him, friends said yesterday. "He's not a big drinker...
'SLUM BUM' HIT WITH RICO SUIT
One of the city's largest landlords was slapped yesterday with a federal racketeering lawsuit, claiming the company is waging "an attack" on affordable housing with thousands of illegal evictions aimed...
LEAD COP RELIVES THE DAY HE MET A PSYCHO
Retired Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey was a NYPD task-force supervisor who questioned David Berkowitz immediately after his arrest. Here are Coffey's recollections, as told to Post Criminal Justice Editor Murray...
MY DOOMED 1ST DATE WITH TRAGIC STACY
Robert Violante was just 20 when he was partially blinded by the "Son of Sam." Violante turns 50 today, still lives in Brooklyn, and, like David Berkowitz before him, works...
SON OF SAM'S REIGN OF FEAR
This is Part 4 of a five-day series marking the 30th anniversary of New York City's wild and terrifying summer of 1977. Blackouts. Riots. Layoffs. What other curse could lay...
AGING IS NOT FUNNY
Knock, knock . . . who's there? For older people, it doesn't really matter, since they're not likely to get the joke anyway, a new study has found. Researchers at...
'COP-SHOOT' THUG ARRESTED
The depraved ex-con wanted for the coldblooded shooting of two Brooklyn cops was captured yesterday in Pennsylvania after an eagle-eyed motorist spotted him while police were conducting a massive manhunt...
BANK-ROB BOMBSHELL
The feds dropped a bombshell in the case of the exploding pizza man yesterday - declaring that he was in on the 2003 bank-robbery plot that led to him being...
GIULIANI & HILL AN UNGODLY PAIR: POLL
WASHINGTON - Voters put Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the back pew when it comes to religious faith, according to a Time magazine poll out today. Just 15...
LADY BIRD JOHNSON DIES AT 94
AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, President Lyndon Johnson, died yesterday at 94....
UNION SCORCHES RUDY
The simmering feud between Rudy Giuliani and the firefighters union escalated into a four-alarm blaze yesterday after the labor leaders blasted the former mayor for "disastrous" leadership on 9/11. The...
CHERTOFF'S TERROR JITTERS
WASHINGTON - The head of the House Homeland Security Committee tore into Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday over his "gut" musings that America faces an elevated terror threat this summer. "Words...
NICOLE GETS 'DUI' DELAY
The judge in Nicole Richie's DUI case yesterday granted a delay for the trial so the defense's star witness can enjoy a vacation. Los Angeles County Commissioner Steven Lubell pushed...
NEW SEX WOE FOR SIN-ATOR
WASHINGTON - A high-priced New Orleans madam is pointing the finger at Sen. David Vitter for being a john - a day after the Republican lawmaker apologized for being a...
AREN'T HER FIFTEEN MINUTES UP YET?
She's gone way past the time limit. Here's ex-jailbird Paris Hilton strutting in an Andy Warhol-inspired silk-screen T-shirt - of her own face. It's part of her new sportswear collection...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A woman was savagely attacked in Crotona Park East last week and cops are asking for the public's help in finding out who she is. The victim, in her...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 633; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 5111; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 196; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win- 4 Wed.:...
A WIN FOR THE CITY
Mayor Bloomberg's announcement of a contract settlement with the NYPD's sergeants union marks a big breakthrough for the city - and the union - on several levels. Most important, the...
QUINN VS. THE CLOWNS
So how clever was Viola Plummer, showing up for "work" Tuesday as a "volunteer" in Councilman Charles Barron's office despite having been fired for cause a day earlier by City...
LADY BIRD JOHNSON, 1912-2007
Long before it was cool to be green - and environmentalism became a polit ical cause celebre - there was Lady Bird Johnson, pioneering the movement to beautify the nation's...
THE MCCAIN WRECK
IS it possible to revive John McCain's comatose presidential candidacy? Yes, say his loyalists, but only because he got rid of his campaign manager and his longtime political adviser. Without...
IRAN ABDUCTS UNION MAN
ONE of Iran's most popular civil-society leaders was ab ducted in Tehran on Tues day after chairing a meeting of trade unionists. Mansour Osanloo, the 48-year-old president of the Union...
N.Y. HIGHWAYS ON THE WATER
THE waters surrounding Manhattan are natu ral highways and a vital transportation link that will help Mayor Bloomberg achieve his visionary congestion-pricing plan. The existing capacity of NY Waterway and...
TO FREE THE FARMS
TIME was, Riley Web ster Lugar, a Hoosier farmer, vociferously disapproved of the New Deal policy of killing baby pigs to control supply in the hope of raising prices. When...
N.Y.'S INDIGESTION OVER CONGESTION PRICING
What Mayor Bloomberg wants is to reduce congestion and pollution, upgrade the transit system and prepare the city for long-term growth ("Gridlock Rally," July 9). These are good goals, but...
ONLY IN HAVANA, KIDS
Cindy Adams' "Havin' a Ball in Old Havana" (July 8) is insensitive to the Cuban masses who are not having a ball, living under a relentless, 48-year-long Stalinist tyranny, and...
HEDGE HORROR
As home foreclosures ricochet through Main Street in rising junk mortgage meltdowns, Wall Street is facing a separate barrage that could swamp its first rich victims - hedge funds for...
SALLIE DEAL DISPUTE, STOCK HAMMERED
Hedge funds that bet on the $25 billion takeover of Sallie Mae took a bloodbath yesterday after the buyers of the nation's largest student loan provider said congressional plans to...
LIZ'S DEPART-MENT FUTURE
Retailers fretted yesterday at Liz Claiborne's plan to sell or close 16 brands, including such well-known names as Dana Buchman, Ellen Tracy and Laundry by Design, signaling that the uncertainty...
FINANCE COMMITTEE WALKING ON THIN ICE
WASHINGTON - It's considered heartless to kick someone when they are down. But it is quite another thing to kick them when they are up. Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee...
GREAT DEBATE
Washington's quest to raise taxes on hedge funds and private-equity firms got underway yesterday as the kings of Wall Street traded blows with lawmakers who claim they want to close...
NO VERDICT REACHED BY JURORS
Jurors at Conrad Black's fraud and racketeering trial remained deadlocked yesterday, ending their 10th day holed up in a deliberation room at the downtown Chicago courthouse without reaching a verdict....
WHERE'S THE MISSING CHAD HANGING?
CHAD Hurley appears to have gone from rock star to falling star. Last year, the YouTube co-founder was the cause célebre at Allen & Co.'s mogulfest at Sun Valley, Idaho,...
'HALO' ON THE HUNT
When Microsoft released its "Halo 2" video game in 2004, the software giant garnered huge publicity and drove fans to stores with the mysterious and cutting-edge "I Love Bees" campaign....
COURT OKS NBC ION PURCHASE
Angry investors in struggling broadcaster Ion Media Networks suffered a huge setback after a Delaware judge refused their request to halt a pending takeover by hedge fund Citadel Investment Group...
S&P DRILLS STRUGGLING N.Y. TIMES
The New York Times Co.'s outstanding debt fell one step closer to junk yesterday as Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings on the publisher citing weak advertising revenues and a...
IT'S VALENTINO IN DESIGN DEAL
The Valentino Fashion Group said yesterday that it had acquired 45 percent of the U.S.-based design team Proenza Schouler for $3.7 million. The announcement confirms a May 9 story in...
THIRD B'KLYN COP-SHOOT SUSPECT CAUGHT: REPORT
Authorities in Pennsylvania have reportedly captured Robert J. Ellis, the third suspect in the shooting of NYPD officers Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan.
THIRD COP-SHOOT SUSPECT CAPTURED
July 12, 2007 -- After an intense manhunt through the Poconos, police this morning got their man - the third suspect in the brutal Brooklyn cop shooting - just 12...
JUST SOLD!
ManhattanMIDTOWN WEST $640,000150 W. 55th St. Renovated prewar one-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 750 square feet, with living room, moldings, details, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, walk-in closet, window AC and northern exposure;...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Milan, N.Y. $849,000Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 2Square feet: 3,400It may be a bit farther than the commuter's ideal range - a two-hour drive, sans traffic - but here you'll find the builder's...
MEL TO SELL
The streets of leafy Greenwich, Conn., could become a bit quieter now that Mel Gibson has put his sprawling estate on the market. But Gibson's still going to have to...
GRIN & SHARE
We were all taught to share when we were little. If you were lucky, sharing meant letting the weird kid play with your Hot Wheels collection. If you were less...
'LUSH' DIGS
How do you lure a group of Manhattan brokers north? Well, you might try free food and booze, for starters. That was the tack Halstead Properties and Marketing Directors took...
LEGAL PAD
FOR eight years, real-life couple Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry played husband and wife Stuart Markowitz and Ann Kelsey on "L.A. Law." They owned a lovely 3,000-square-foot home in California,...
DREAM HOMES
Darien, Conn. $3.995 millionThis beautiful 4,711-square-foot stone-and-shingle home with five bedrooms and 5½ bathrooms was designed by an award-winning architect, hence the "extensive custom" millwork and dome and coffered ceilings....
THE BOSS BELIEVES
George Steinbrenner built the Yankees into a billion-dollar business due to a brilliant understanding of math and money. However, when it comes to the final 10 weeks of what has...
CONTENDER TO FACE IDOL GATTI
Moments after a press conference to hype Saturday's boxing card in Atlantic City Alfonso Gomez was scooping up the cardboard nameplates that identified the participants. "Did Gatti already take his?"...
BEWARE OF DOGS
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Frank Beamer doesn't know if Michael Vick was involved in an illegal pit-bull dog-fighting operation but he knows it's time for his former star quarterback to be...
UNION: KEEP 'ROID NAMES FROM PUBLIC
The major-league players union joined the federal government yesterday in opposing the release of as many as 23 players named as customers of steroid dealer Kirk Radomski. A federal judge...
INJURY KOS RIDER 3-4 MONTHS
Apprentice jockey Tzeonn Chang is expected to be out three to four months after a training accident at Belmont Park on Monday. Chang suffered a broken left tibia when thrown...
HONDO: SMITH PONIES UP
Bill Smith showed Hondo and everyone else why he's known as Harness Racing's Guru To The Stars last night when he nailed the eighth race at the Big M with...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Mickelson set for ScotlandPhil Mickelson, prepping for next week's British Open at Carnoustie, said his recent wrist injury was still not 100 percent but it should not affect him...
PELE SAYS BECKHAM MUST WIN
Pele stood with his back to Broadway as he spoke about David Beckham's likely July 21 debut. With a picture of the Los Angeles Galaxy's new star scrolled over his...
MUCK STOPS HERE
As he finishes up a vacation in Amelia Island, Fla., just days after celebrating the marriage of his daughter, Keli, Tom Coughlin already knows the main theme he's set to...
ELI: I'M READY TO LEAD
With Tiki Barber gone into retirement, Tom Coughlin has laid the mantle of leadership at the feet of Eli Manning, who can either kick it aside or reach down and...
NICHOLS COULD HEAD TO EUROPE
LAS VEGAS - Through two summer-league outings, second-round pick Demetris Nichols has shown he has a Knicks future beyond Las Vegas. But next season, it might come in Europe. The...
LIBERTY LOOK TO BE THORN IN INDIANA'S SIDE
The Liberty say they have grown up a lot after beating last season's two WNBA finalists in a three-day span. Tonight's game at Indiana (7 p.m.; MSG), which has the...
AMAZIN'S SEEKING CONSISTENCY
This second half of the Mets' season is going to be focused on two comebacks. The first is the return of Pedro Martinez. It'll be one of the most anticipated...
MET SHAKE UP
The Mets are in first place, but their first half hasn't met expectations - and it's now brought about a major coaching change. The Mets have fired hitting coach Rick...
MILLEDGE IS SLATED FOR MAJOR RETURN
Lastings Milledge is expected to be promoted today and return to the Mets for the first time in three months. Milledge, who had three at-bats with the Mets in April...
NETS LOOK AT MAGLOIRE
So what's a day or two among friends - or among employers and mega-millionaires? As the Nets continue juggling the free-agent big-man puzzle with Jamaal Magloire emerging as their prime...
KING'S RANSOM
Henrik Lundqvist may have saved the Rangers repeatedly over his first two seasons on Broadway, but the King sure didn't save his team any cap space yesterday by signing a...
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...
30 SOMETHING
Alex Rodriguez is assured of soon becoming the first-ever $30 million-a-year baseball player. His agent, Scott Boras, yesterday told The Post that even if Rodriguez does not opt out of...
PHIL IN THE BLANK
Brian Cashman has an idea when Phil Hughes will be ready to provide the Yankees with a much-needed boost it the back of their rotation, but the GM isn't ready...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Pennsylvania man tried to use the ATM card of a dead man whose body he found in a pickup truck, police said. Dennis James Laslo found the body of...
âBeeâ Notes
Weâll be the first to admit it: We didnât have high hopes for âThe Singing Bee.â Weâll also be the first to admit that the show got right what so...
Vegas scouting report
By MARC BERMANLAS VEGAS - The Knicks summer-league team had the day off before resuming tomorrow night vs. the Kings, who boast Daniel Artest. It's a good thing David Lee...