November 6, 2006
THIS WEEK: Mangia. Bene?
November 6, 2006 | 11:29amGrab a fork and knife: Starting tomorrow, we'll be eating our way through Emilia-Romagna (and also Venice).Is Bologna really one of the best places to eat in all of Italy?...
LISTS: Diamonds are a hotel's best friend
November 6, 2006 | 10:15amThe American Automobile Association (AAA) has announced their 2007 Five Diamond Hotels.This year's list has been freshened up, to say the least - they're learning slowly that Las Vegas really...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Nov. 5
November 6, 2006 | 10:05amSimon Winchester visits the Ajanta Caves in India. You'll need some strong coffee. [NYT]Good idea, crap execution (it happens to the best of us): a how-to of spas, plus, a...
TECH GURU SMITH TO LEAD CBS INTERACTIVE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amTake that MTV! Proving that it is just as nimble as its estranged corporate sibling is, CBS will announce today that it has named Quincy Smith president of a newly...
'R' IS FOR REDO - TOY GIANT SETS COURSE IN CRITICAL HOLIDAY SEASON
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAt a recent store managers meeting in Orlando, Fla., Toys "R" Us Chief Executive Gerald Storch, by way of stressing the importance of customer service, instructed employees to approach shoppers...
CLOSE ENCOUNTER - SHOW'S RIGHT UP HER 'ALLEY'
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAS Alex Forrest, the bunny-boiling bitch of "Fatal Attraction," she was the classic one-night stand who wasn't. But this time, Glenn Close prom ises, it really will be a one-night...
CITY OPERA'S 'HANSEL AND GRETEL' IS YUMMY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amENGELBERT Humperdinck (the composer, not the English pop singer who some years ago so rudely annexed his name) is usually regarded as a one-opera guy - which is not quite...
CLEAN UP ON AISLE 5 - SUPERMARKET SHOTS SHAKE UP STORY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00am"I LOVED THE IDEA THAT JUST A HOUSEWIFE YOU HAVEN'T MET, A SIMPLE HOUSEWIFE, ENDED THE ENTIRE THING." WHY did "Desperate Housewives" kill off two characters last night? Executive producer/creator...
STARR REPORT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe brain trust It makes sense if you think about it: CBS will hold the world premiere of its new series, "3 LBS," next Monday (8:30 p.m.) at Columbia University...
IT'S NO JOKE - SURPRISING GERALDO COMEBACK
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amDON'T look now, but a new audience is finding Geraldo Rivera. "Geraldo At Large," his nightly news magazine that airs in New York opposite the three network newscast, is picking...
'MILLIONAIR'-ESS'
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amMEREDITH Vieira is quietly burning up the track at her other show - "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." The daytime game show is the fastest-growing show in syndication, up...
$HILLING STATION - PA BIDS TO SELL BUS TERMINAL'S NAME
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe Port Authority wants to sell naming rights to the hulking Midtown bus terminal. Sports fans sometimes cry foul when teams sell companies naming rights to their stadiums - such...
15G SO MOOS CAN SNOOZE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has granted an upstate farm $15,000 to buy mattresses - for its older cows! The pampered bovines are in Kernel Acres Sunset View Farm, in Rensselaer...
CHIMP MEAT MA CHARGED
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amMonkey burgers, anyone? A Staten Island woman has been charged with illegally importing the heads, limbs and torsos of wild African animals - including a monkey's arm and the hoof...
WESTCHESTER SENATE RACE A TEST OF SPITZER'S CLOUT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amTHE bitter Westchester state Senate contest pitting liberal incumbent Republican (pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, New York Times-backed) Nicholas Spano against Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins is seen as an early test of Eliot...
SWEENEY LOSES HIS BIG LEAD IN SCANDAL
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amEmbattled upstate Rep. John Sweeney has squandered a 14-point lead and now trails his Democratic challenger by 3 points heading into Election Day, a new poll shows. Sweeney lags behind...
CITY: GET WELL & GET LOST - RULES NIX PATIENT'S JOB
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAfter working for the city for 19 years, during which time she cared for homeless families at a Bronx shelter, Deborah Phillips figured she was entitled to a yearlong medical...
CITY URGED: BOOT PERVS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amCity agencies should do monthly sweeps of public housing to ferret out sex offenders living under the radar and notify residents when they evict one, advocates and a Queens councilman...
SILVER MEDDLE: MSG JOB FOR HIS DAUGHTER
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has used his muscle in Albany to kill two major projects that weren't in the interests of Madison Square Garden, once turned to the arena's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN (lcf) * A 75-year-old man was fighting for his life last night after he was struck by two cars, one of which fled the scene, sources said. The man...
RUDY'S MYSTIQUE VS. MCCAIN'S MUSCLE IN GOP SHOWDOWN
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAn election battle royale between big-name Republicans John McCain and Rudy Giuliani will begin right after polls close tomorrow, as they duke it out for the 2008 presidential nomination. Each...
LAST GOP GASP TO KEEP GRASP - * BUSH MAKES RED-STATE SWING * POLLS TIGHTEN IN TOSS-UP RACES
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush swooped into the Great Plains yesterday in a frenzied effort to minimize expected GOP House losses, while new polls gave Republicans a glimmer of hope that...
GAY LIAISON TURNS FATAL
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA 57-year-old Queens man was found bound and beaten to death in the basement of his well-kept home - the apparent victim of a gay tryst gone awry, police sources...
'MONKEY MEAT' MA CHARGED
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amMonkey burgers, anyone? A Staten Island woman has been charged with illegally importing the heads, limbs and torsos of wild African animals - including a monkey's arm and the hoof...
TEARFUL FAREWELL TO ACTRESS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe popular indie-film actress found hanged in her Greenwich Village apartment last week was memorialized yesterday at a jampacked service, as her husband continued to deny that her death was...
BROOKLYN DELI WORKER SHOT DEAD
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA 40-year-old clerk at a Brooklyn deli was killed last night by a bandit who shot him in the head at point blank range, police said. Cops say the crime...
MARCH TODAY AGAINST H'WEEN 'NAZI'
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amStudents and parents from Leon M. Goldstein HS planned to march to the nearby Holocaust Memorial Park today to denounce a student's masquerading as Adolf Hitler in school for Halloween....
IN THE LONG RUN - APPLE CELEBRATES MARATHON MADNESS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amPerfect running weather brought out the best in the thousands of competitors who pounded the pavement in the 37th annual New York City Marathon - and the tens of thousands...
SADDAM FIT TO BE (NECK) TIED - RAGES AS IRAQI COURT SENDS HIM TO GALLOWS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amDefiantly shouting, "God is great!" Saddam Hussein yesterday was convicted and sentenced to die on the gallows for torturing and executing 148 men and boys after an assassination attempt in...
'BORAT' KAZAKHS OUR WORLD
November 6, 2006 | 5:00am"Borat" has dominated the "U, S and A." The R-rated chuckler, released in only 837 theaters, knee-slapped the competition, laughing its way to a three-day take of $26.4 million. The...
SEARCH TO GROUND ZERO IN ON 300 NEW SPOTS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAn expanded effort to recover human remains around the World Trade Center site is expected to begin this week after officials identified more than 300 spots to search, The Post...
GOV IS. GETTING GREEN FACE-LIFT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe vision for Governors Island is set - now they just have to choose the builders and designers. The long-dormant island's planned mega-park will be built along its southwestern end,...
HILL, BILL HIT STREETS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amBill and Hillary Clinton tag-teamed voters to boost turnout in the Democratic base yesterday, with the former president warning that Republicans may try to tamp down Election Day turnout tomorrow....
GOPERS BLAST PATAKI - FURY OVER HEVESI
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki angered fellow Republicans yesterday by ducking a decision on asking the Senate to dump scandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi - and suggesting he may even let...
MILESTONE FOR DEMOCRACY - W. PRAISES SENTENCE AS DEMS LASH OUT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amPresident Bush insisted yesterday that Saddam Hussein's conviction and death sentence was a "milestone" in Iraq's efforts to achieve democracy. But Democrats used the verdict to attack the president's Iraq...
DEATH SEIZURE - DRIVER'S EPILEPSY CITED IN TRIPLE-FATAL QNS. CRASH
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens doctor whose seizure while driving led to the deaths of three people in a horrific auto crash had had a previous epileptic fit in the past two years...
GAY TRYST TURNS TO MURDER
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA 57-year-old Queens man was found bound and beaten to death in the basement of his well-kept home - the apparent victim of a gay tryst gone awry, police sources...
TEARS BID ACTRESS FAREWELL
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe popular indie-film actress found hanged in her Greenwich Village apartment last week was memorialized yesterday in a jam-packed service - as her husband continued to deny that her death...
BX. GI'S ARREST ORDEAL - COP'S BIG BLUNDER
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA patriotic Army private, fresh out of boot camp and walking proudly through his Bronx neighborhood in fatigues, was hauled to a police station, handcuffed and interrogated by an overzealous...
COLUMBIA'S NAZI LINK
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amHolocaust historians accuse Columbia University of maintaining cozy relations with the Nazis in the 1930s - even after the Third Reich purged German universities of Jewish professors, burned books by...
HOLE-FOOD STORES IN TRANS-FAT TROUBLE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amIt's time to change the doughnuts! Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban on trans fat would deep-fry doughnut giants Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme - unless they eliminate the artery-clogging oils from...
PIRROS' NEW CAR TROUBLE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amJeanine Pirro's campaign is crashing - literally. A Brooklyn man is suing a campaign staffer and Pirro's husband, Al Pirro, in connection with a Long Island fender-bender that left him...
HEZ HOSTAGE'S WIFE'S U.S. PLEA
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Four months after her husband's kidnapping triggered a Mideast war, Karnit Goldwasser brings her international campaign to free him to American Jewish leaders. Next Sunday, the 30-year-old resident...
HOSP SUED BY MOM OF DEAD BABY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amA 21-year-old Bronx woman is suing Montefiore Medical Center, claiming that she was left holding her stillborn fetus for seven hours before hospital personnel finally took the baby away. The...
BEYONCÉ REFLECTS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amBeyoncé says she's still crazy in love with Jay-Z despite rumors of his unfaithfulness and her new album rife with lyrics that chastise cheaters. The bootylicious songstress - whose acting...
BUTCHER'S BLOODY LEGACY TO LIVE ON
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amEven if Saddam Hussein loses his appeal and dies on the gallows, it probably will have little effect on the future of Iraq, experts say. The reason they cite is...
MARIE ANTOINETTE - TRAGIC TEEN QUEEN
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAt 15, Austrian teen Marie Antoinette became queen - and the most hated woman in France. MARIA Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg Lothringen - say that five times fast -...
SWEET SOUNDS FOR TIKI
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe 78,845 fans at Giant Stadium loudly chanted "Ti-ki! Ti-ki! Ti-ki!" It is a sound that will resonate in Tiki Barber's memory forever. But how long will it be until...
SHOCK STEPS UP ON A DAY OTHERS CAN'T
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amSLOWLY, with deliberate defiance, the angry attrition of the season strips layers from a football team, systematically picking off key elements like a sadistic sniper. A linebacker here. A defensive...
FEETING FRENZY - FOOT INJURY LEAVES STRAHAN FEELING SULLEN
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amWith the Giants ominously quiet about the condition of Michael Strahan's right foot, Strahan refused to rule himself out of next Sunday night's showdown with the Bears. "I hope [to...
CLASSIC FLOP - INVASOR DIDN'T BEAT 'REAL' BERNARDINI
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Invasor, undefeated in the U.S. and beaten just once in 10 lifetime starts, is a worthy Horse of the Year after adding Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic to his...
MAYWEATHER PLANS TO QUIT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. whipped Carlos Baldomir for 12 rounds Saturday night to win the WBC welterweight championship, his fifth world title in a fourth different weight class....
BIG SHEIK-UP IN SPORT OF KINGS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Racing in America in 2006 will go down in the history books as the year of the great Sheik. The Arabs - or more specifically the ruling Maktoum...
KOSTER LIFTS CHAMINADE INTO SEMIS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Rob Koster led Chaminade into the CHSFL AAA semifinals by tossing four touchdown passes yesterday as the third-seeded Flyers knocked off No. 6 St. Joseph by the Sea,...
JINTS GET 'JUMP'
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Is imitation the best form of flattery when it comes to something as silly as the jump-shot celebration that Giants defensive players have come up with this season?...
MARBURIED - STEPH: 'I PLAYED LIKE GARBAGE'
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amSPURS at KNICKS - Tonight - 7:30MSG; ESPN (1050) Bring it on! One day after getting booed out of the Garden in the Knicks' home opener, Stephon Marbury said the...
AGENT: METS LIKE LORETTA
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amMark Loretta may be one of the Mets' top choices to play second base. They have shown more interest in him than any other club so far, Loretta's agent told...
RANGERS FALL
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Sabres 4 - Rangers 3 Yes, the Rangers were indeed better against the Sabres at the Garden last night than they had been in Buffalo on Oct. 14 when...
PICK SIX POT GROWS TO 131G
November 6, 2006 | 5:00am4TH RACE - Play It True, a 55-1 first time starter from Billy Turner barn, took the lead on the far turn and drew off in the opening leg of...
COLTS NO PATS-IES - HARRISON SPARKS UNBEATEN INDY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amColts 27 - Patriots 20 FOXBOROUGH - All right, Jets. The Colts provided a game plan on how to beat the Patriots at Gillette Stadium last night. When you visit...
PATERNO MAY NEED SURGERY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amJoe Paterno wasn't resting comfortably yesterday, which is great news for college football fans everywhere, especially those at Penn State. The 79-year-old coaching icon was at home, barking on the...
WELCOME RETURN - GARDEN GREETS GIACOMIN WITH TEARS
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe 11 best years of his life that Eddie Giacomin gave the Rangers were 11 of the best the franchise has had. And the only chance the fans had to...
DEVILS IN ROLE OF JEKYLL AND HYDE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe choice remains the same. The Devils are still trying to find their identity, and it's increasingly looking like the devilish one we know. "We've played two different games," defenseman...
'THIS HAS NOT SHAKEN ME' - LUNDQVIST DETERMINED TO FIND MISSING FOCUS AFTER BENCHING
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amHe watched from the bench as Kevin Weekes was in goal for the third straight game, but Henrik Lundqvist is hardly ready to step down from his throne. "I know...
SUPERSTAR POWER - MANNING VS. BRADY ALWAYS A BIG EVENT
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amFOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The debate is akin to Picasso versus Monet or Mozart versus Beethoven: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? Manning or Brady? It depends on your taste in quarterbacks....
RJ REFUSES TO BLAME BUM ANKLE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amRichard Jefferson stunk in Miami. So he was flattered when asked if his ankle contributed to the trouble. "I am fine, fine," Jefferson maintained yesterday, two days removed from shooting...
ESPN COMMITS CARDINALS SIN
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amOOPS. Early Thursday evening, I filed a column about how ESPN, the nation's all-sports network, had shown significantly hopeful signs that it might be inclined to again show some genuine...
GIANTS SHOW BEAR MINIMUM - WITH CHICAGO ON DECK, BIG BLUE WINS FIFTH IN A ROW
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amWhen it was mercifully over, after the Giants were allowed to admit preparing for and disposing of the Texans was harder than it should have been, there was a sense...
A VICTORY THAT WAS NOT REAL EASY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amIT turns out that the Bears were looking ahead to the Giants and the Giants were looking ahead to the Bears, and the Bears lost to the Dolphins and the...
HARD TO STOMACH - BEST U.S. HOPE TAKES HIT FROM CHICKEN FETTUCCINE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amMeb Keflezighi, one man of about 15 who had a legitimate chance to win yesterday's New York City Marathon, was running with the fastest of them through 13 miles before...
BRAZEN BRAZILIAN - GOMES DOS SANTOS FIRST S. AMERICAN NYC CHAMP
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Marilson Gomes dos Santos made his move in yesterday's New York City Marathon, world recordholder Paul Tergat said he didn't know who the Brazilian was. It's unclear whether he...
WALK IN THE PARK FOR PROKOPCUKA
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amAll the hype coming into yesterday's New York City Marathon was about American Deena Kastor ending the nearly 30-year U.S. drought, but it was Jelena Prokopcuka who pushed her chips...
PATERNO MIGHT BE HEADED FOR KNEE SURGERY
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amJoe Paterno wasn't resting comfortably yesterday, which is great news for college football fans everywhere, especially those at Penn State. The 79-year-old coaching icon was at home, barking on the...
LANCE: I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe most famous runner in yesterday's New York City Marathon certainly wasn't the fastest, but Lance Armstrong won his race against his own three-hour goal the way he won the...
YANKS PICK UP SHEFF'S OPTION
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees picked up Gary Sheffield's 2007 option yesterday, which had been expected. Sheffield is owed $13 million next year. Dealing Sheffield is on the Yankees' agenda, with four of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amWell, that's a wrap. A Michigan woman will not be charged after trying to sell mummified human remains on eBay. The remains, likely from a child, were once part of...
Thomas holds desperation practice
November 6, 2006 | 12:28amBy MARC BERMANIt is an unwritten rule that teams do not practice after back-to-back games and it's unheard of to practice after three games in four nights. But Isiah Thomas,...