February 1, 2007
Bub and Bob are back...
"Bust-A-Move Bash!" makes its Wii debut next month. It's a puzzle action game with a shooting mode, playable by up to eight people at any given time (four on the...
Get in the kitchen, pronto
The Wii version of the cooking sim game is pretty similar to the DS version. But, instead of using the stylus to chop, stir, peel, grate and otherwise cook, you...
All Wet
Turns out that guerilla-marketing brouhaha in Boston -- planting electronic devices that caused a terrorist scare -- wasn't for the animated "Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' TV show as originally reported....
Pan's Triumph
As noted in my earlier post on the rapidly disappearing "The Good German''("Chilly Scenes of Winter''), this has been a disappointing season for movies that opened in limited release in...
LIVEBLOG/NYC: Day 3 Cafe society
Cooper-Hewitt My shameful secret (well, one of them) is that I generally am more interested than the museum cafe than the museum itself. All I want to know is, where...
UPDATE: Don't lean on me
Fabrizio Bensch/REUTERS To lean or not to lean? For Pisa, it's a no brainer. Everybody loves them some Leaning Tower - locals maybe more than visitors. The million or more...
LIVEBLOG/NYC: Day 3 On top of the world
Courtesy of Rockefeller Center Archives I miss the World Trade Center observation deck - that was awesome. As a kid, who can forget stepping down in to those windows, where...
OY, THE CHUTZPAH
WE knew there'd be trouble when we saw who she was dating. Out of all the male models in the world, why did Britney Spears have to fall for ....
AND THE OSCAR MIKE GOES TO . . .
ELLEN DeGeneres is working hard at looking like emceeing the Oscars isn't hard work. Although rehearsals don't start until the week before, which is when her daily show officially goes...
HITS & MISSES
THIS weekend's kickoff to Fashion Week will focus on the style misses - Miss USA, Miss Universe and Miss Sixty. While the two beauty queens will be walking separate runways,...
10 THINGS TO WATCH FOR AT THIS YEAR'S SHOWS
1. Madison Avenue furrier Dennis Basso, who dressed Meryl Streep in those fabulous coats in "The Devil Wears Prada" (pictured) puts on a runway show for the first time. Attendees...
HAUTE LIST
A SCHOULER THING EXPECT more than the usual crush at the Canal Street subway stop tomorrow when well-heeled but cash-poor New York fashion girls flock to the nearby boutique Opening...
ONE-ACT, ONE-HOUR WONDERS
MOST new plays go through endless rewrites, developments, workshops, more rewrites and rehearsals. And yet, most new plays aren't even good - or at least not as good as the...
ALL'S NOT QUITE WRIGHT IN ARCHITECT DRAMA
LEGENDARY architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with his grandiose artistic visions and his deeply troubled personal life, would seem an ideal subject for a play. And in "Frank's Home," playwright Richard...
STARR REPORT
Clicks and idolsMusic Television: Former "American Idol" contestant Constantine Maroulis, now off- Broadway in "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," previewed material from his upcoming album...
2. DOWN: M-E-R-V
MERV Griffin has once again adapted a popular puzzle - one that millions try and solve everyday - for a new TV quiz show. The result is "Let's Play Crosswords,"...
'IDOL' SOB STORY
THERE is more to the tragic tale of Jamie Lynn Ward, the girl who appeared on "American Idol" Tuesday and told the judges how her father had shot her step-mother...
'IDOL' LOVES COURTNEY: A PRANK
COURTNEY Love was tricked by an imposter posing as an "American Idol" producer, it turns out. "I did not call Courtney Love and am afraid someone may have misrepresented me,"...
'GREY' GUY OUT OF REHAB
'GREY'S Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington is scheduled to return to the hit ABC drama's set today - ending his counseling in the notorious gay-slur flap that has consumed the show...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Someone you meet on your travels over the next few months will open your eyes to ideas and beliefs that you never before knew existed. A whole new world will...
ELIOT CHASES DOC 'PHANTOMS'
Gov. Spitzer vowed yesterday to "immediately" kill $80 million in funding for hundreds of "phantom doctors" in city hospitals. "We have to deal with it immediately," Spitzer said of the...
CARTOON MORONS SPUR MASS. PANIC
This is one ad campaign that really bombed. The Cartoon Network caused some serious trouble in the real world yesterday when electronic devices it planted in 10 cities as part...
JURY HEARS OF THREAT BY NORMAN
When a city judge balked at funneling thousands of dollars to a consultant preferred by Brooklyn Democratic kingpin Clarence Norman, the boss had three choice words for her campaign crew....
CONCERTED EFFORT IN CONEY IS.
Jones Beach could soon be facing stiff competition from Coney Island in attracting A-list performers. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. are confident they'll convince the...
FDNY BRASS SHAM
Thirteen high-ranking firefighters were promoted within the FDNY - even though they got their college credits from a now-de funct online diploma mill, investigators said yester day. Three of them...
DOG 'FIEND' SNARLS AT COPS
A Brooklyn man went berserk when officers tried to arrest him for starving one dog to death and leaving eight more to die in his back yard, authorities said yesterday....
W.'S BIG 'BOARD' SLAP
President Bush, in a speech on Wall Street yesterday, called on corporate boards to "step up to their responsibilities" to tie executive compensation to performance. "Government should not decide the...
BUSH QUIZ
Jennifer Fagenson has seen highs and lows as a specialist clerk on the New York Stock Exchange floor - but she hadn't seen her floor-trader colleagues as excited as yesterday,...
IMETTE KIN SUES 'KILLER' & BAR OWNER
The family of slain grad student Imette St. Guillen yesterday filed the first lawsuit stemming from her vicious murder, targeting accused killer Darryl Littlejohn and the bar owner who hired...
COUPLE IN A LEGAL 'METH'
A Scottish couple is awaiting extradition to the United States to face charges of supplying chemicals to crystal-meth makers - including a Manhattan bank executive busted last year for having...
BUS MAN HOLIDAY
As students scrambled to adjust to new bus routes sprung on them late last week, the head of pupil transportation for the city was on vacation and the lead private...
DAD FACES BABY-SLAY RAP & RAGE
Angry Bronx residents screamed, "Burn in Hell!" at a man charged yesterday with killing his 1-month-old daughter whose body was found in a housing-project trash compactor. Acting on a tip,...
COPS: MA BEAT DISABLED SON
A Long Island mom was arrested and charged with attacking her wheelchair-bound son with her fists - and her cane, police said. Suffolk Detective Sgt. Nancy Byrne said Karyl Betts,...
FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR SPUNKY SPITZ
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's sensational claim that he's a "f - - -ing steamroller" who will crush his opponents stunned state lawmakers yesterday - but the governor wasn't backing down....
POST BLOTTER BAGS BANK 'BANDIT'
A bug-eyed stick-up man accused of two Manhattan bank robberies was arrested after a tipster recognized his photo in The Post and reported him to police, authorities said yesterday. On...
DRUG COP GETS 15 YEARS
A crooked cop nabbed in a brazen scheme to steal $450,000 and 10 kilos of heroin from a drug dealer was sentenced yesterday to 15 years behind bars. Porfirio Mejia,...
BIG APPLE STUDENTS INTEL-LIGENT
New York dominated the list of finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search, with 12 of 40 announced yesterday hailing from the Empire State. Three were from schools in New...
STRANGLER ADMITS KILLING GAL PAL
A once-aspiring Bronx rapper has pleaded guilty to strangling his girlfriend, whose 2-year-old daughter was found clutching her lifeless body in a Bronx apartment two years ago, authorities said. An...
ITALY HEEL 'SORRY'
But soft! What news through yonder paper breaks? Continuing in the tradition of Romeo (and his Juliet), the richest man in Italy, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was publicly reduced...
POL EYES SUDAN DIVESTMENT
A Queens city councilman is urging the city to withdraw more than $524 million of pension investments in companies that do business with Sudan to protest the carnage in Darfur....
ARSON KILLS TOT, 2
A vengeful Bronx woman, hellbent on torching her beau, started a fire yesterday that killed a little girl living upstairs, law-enforcement sources said. Sharon Scott - busted last year for...
PIRRO ON A ROLE
Meet Maureen and George - and if their saga of sex and politics reminds you of the Jeanine-and-Al soap opera, remember it's only fiction. Next Tuesday's episode of "Law &...
BEANED IN BOSTON
Top executives at the New York Times Co. said they won't sell its Boston Globe, despite taking a massive write-down on the paper that pushed the publishing giant deep into...
BIG BUCKS FOR SCHOOLS
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday unveiled a $120.6 billion budget proposal that includes massive increases in funding for New York City schools, but slashes nearly $350 million in municipal aid...
CITY TAKES ON MINORITY SUICIDES
In an attempt to curb rising suicide rates among Latina teens and older Asian-American women, city officials are pushing for doctors to perform screening tests for depression. Health statistics show...
CHILLING BRIT TERROR PLOT BY 'BEHEADERS'
British police arrested nine suspected terrorists before dawn yesterday, foiling a plot to kidnap a Muslim solider, film his torture and al Qaeda-style beheading - and put the chilling execution...
DRESS FIT FOR BEAUTY QUEEN
She's out of rehab and ready for the runway. Miss USA Tara Conner - who nearly lost her crown last month due to her heavy drinking and other hard-partying ways...
'TOON TOUTS A HEALTHY SHREK-FAST
Forget Shrek's sweet tooth. Now he wants to take a bite out of childhood obesity. The endearing green ogre, a former off-screen pitchman for sugary cereal and other sweet goodies,...
'I DO FEEL THAT HE CARES'
Ceasar Borja Jr. took his crusade for sick Ground Zero workers straight to President Bush yesterday - and said he sensed a special bond as soon as he shook hands...
BIDEN BLOWS IT
WASHINGTON - Blowhard Sen. Joe Biden yesterday damaged his long-shot presidential bid on the day he launched it by making inflammatory comments about Barack Obama - and slapping Hillary Rodham...
S.I. 'KILLER' COP GRABBED IN DIXIE
A retired cop on the run after gunning down his ex-wife in a Staten Island parking lot was nabbed yesterday in South Carolina, police said. John Francis Galtieri, 61, was...
ITTY BITTY DIDDIES
Here's a little Diddy - make that two little Diddies. Sean "Diddy" Combs and longtime girlfriend Kim Porter show off their newborn identical twins, Jessie James and D'Lila Star Combs-...
NYPD BLOTTER
QUEENS A man was charged last night in connection with a botched robbery that led to his accomplice being shot by an off-duty cop, authorities said. Luis Lema-Lema, 24, and...
IT AIN'T BRAGGING IF YOU CAN BACK IT UP
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's im modest claim that he has "done more in three weeks than any governor has done in the history of the state" is a slight to...
MONSTROUS MOMMY A BIG FAT LIAR
PRISON food clearly agrees with Nixzaliz Santiago. This alleged excuse for a human being lumbered into the Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, slovenly, looking as if she would burst her gray sweat...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 554; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win 4 Wed.: 0076; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 636; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win 4...
GOV. GEORGE E. SPITZER
Looks like some things in Albany won't be changing after all. Judging from the triple-the-rate-of- inflation spending hikes Gov. Spitzer proposed in his initial budget yesterday - and the bashing...
STOPPING RONELL WILSON
Cop-killer Ronell Wilson, condemned to die by a federal jury in Brooklyn, won't be walking the last mile anytime soon. New York hasn't seen a federal execution since 1954 -...
THE PERFECT STAR FOR AIR AMERICA
Well, whaddaya know - looks like Mark Green might finally get a job in the private sector. Green's real-estate mogul brother, Stephen, emerged Monday as the latest financial angel to...
ELIOT'S SPENDING SURGE
WHEN it comes to overall spending, Gov. Spitzer's "new paradigm" looks a lot like the old one. The state-funded portion of Spitzer's $121 billion Executive Budget (excluding federal aid) calls...
SCHOOL WARS: THE TIDE TURNS
FIFTY-SEVEN years later, the Sumner Elementary School in Topeka is back in the news: That city's board of education is still wrongly preventing the right people from getting into that...
HOW TO WIN IN IRAQ WITH A NEW SET OF RULES
Karbala was waiting to happen ever since our government ignored the Geneva Conventions ("Atrocity in Karbala," Editorial, Jan. 27). Place the responsibility for this outrage squarely where it belongs -...
POINTING A FINGER AT FRAUD
What is the problem with people being fingerprinted to obtain thousands of dollars of free health care ("Bid To Finger Fraud," Jan. 29)? I'm sure that these same individuals who...
I-87'S DEATH TRAP
I was horrified to read "Death Freeze Trap," (Jan. 28) as I have traveled the area where the Langners went off the road at least 100 times over the last...
MARTS FED UP
A Federal Reserve likely to keep rates unchanged was enough for the stock market to post a positive January, as a late afternoon rally yesterday pushed the Dow to within...
WAL-MART TAKES GLOVES OFF ON FALL OF ROEHM
The ugly battle between Wal-Mart and its ousted ad chief Julie Roehm got even uglier yesterday when the company went public with allegations that she had an illicit office romance...
HOW JOBS NUMBERS REFLECT THE ECONOMY
WALL Street thinks the government will announce tomorrow that at least 150,000 new jobs were created in January. I think Wall Street is wrong. Bet the under, as they say...
TEEN TO SUE OVER PIRACY
A 16-year-old boy could blow the amps of the music industry for its history of strong-arming kids out of as much as $1,000 for a single 99-cent music download made...
GOOGLE Q4 NOT ENOUGH
Google reported fourth- quarter results that blew away the competition - but investors still weren't satisfied. The Internet juggernaut said profit nearly tripled as its bread-and-butter search business widened its...
PRIVATE EYES FOCUS ON HALL & OATES CATALOG
Primary Wave Music Publishing, led by former Arista and Virgin Records executive Larry Mestel, is expected to announce today that it is acquiring a "significant interest" in the song catalog...
BUYING BINGE
Big Wall Street firms are continuing their hedge fund buying binge, with Lehman Brothers' purchase of a 20 percent stake in a high-flying London fund yesterday being the latest. The...
JONES MULLS IPO FOR BARNEYS
The Jones Apparel Group has had conversations with investment bankers about a potential break-up of the company, including an initial public offering of the Barneys New York luxury department store...
BLACK TO PEN BIO ON NIXON
Embattled press baron Conrad Black has found a publisher for his latest bio, a sweeping epic on the life of Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States,...
YOU'VE GOT ADS
After a second consecutive quarter of impressive results at AOL, all eyes are now on CEO Randy Falco to see how well he can continue the portal's momentum and deliver...
NEW EDITOR AT MEN'S JOURNAL
Jann Wenner has changed horses on Men's Journal once again, installing his third top editor in just over 16 months. Yesterday he moved Rolling Stone veteran Jim Kaminsky, who earlier...
HORNY & CLYDE
A flamboyant con artist and his Hamptons gal pal videotaped sex romps with married lonely-hearts they met over the Internet - then blackmailed them for thousands of dollars in hush...
STARS AND STIPE
IT'S not the end of the world as Michael Stipe knows it, now that the R.E.M. frontman has bought actor Casey Affleck's downtown apartment. Stipe paid Affleck $5.75 million for...
PRICE POINTS
JUST how much does it really cost to live in Manhattan? It's an answer - and a sum - that goes far beyond a mortgage payment or rent check. There...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn $1.095 million Bedrooms: 1+ Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,400 Common charges: $595 This southeast corner penthouse in a doorman building on Dean Street includes a sleeping loft...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan WEST VILLAGE $1,150,000 31 Jane St. Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,200 square feet, with renovated kitchen and street views; building features 24-hour doorman, roof deck, laundry, storage and live-in super....
DREAM HOMES
Flatiron $3.4 million Talk about stunning park views - even if they're not of that park - this "triple mint" duplex condo looks out directly over Madison Square Park and...
BARBARO OWNER MULLS MUSEUM
Barbaro, who was cremated following his death on Monday, may be gone in body, but his spirit lives on in several projects dear to his co-owner Gretchen Jackson's heart. Speaking...
ANOTHER 'DAYTIME' DISASTER
Last out, favored at 3-5, Daytime Promise rallied from far back but got stopped dead in stretch traffic trying to come up rail under Ramon Dominguez, settled for third. Off...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Mets hurler has surgery Mets pitcher Dave Williams had surgery yesterday to repair a herniated disc in his neck, and it's unclear how long he could be sidelined. The...
HILL MAY BE DONE AT SJU
The college career of St. John's guard Daryll Hill almost certainly ended yesterday with an announcement by the school that the senior point guard will miss 4-6 weeks as he...
FISHER JOINS JORDAN ROSTER
Villanova-bound Corey Fisher, a Bronx native, was named to the roster of the Jordan Brand All-American Game yesterday. The game will be played at Madison Square Garden on April 21....
GOLDEN OLDIES TO LIGHT UP MILLROSE
They are the old heads of the sport, the grand old man and woman of sprinting. Maurice Greene and Gail Devers are proving to be far more grand than old,...
RUTGERS ALUM A SUPER STORY
MIAMI - For those who might be in the room with Fraser Foster watching Super Bowl XLI on television on Sunday, you may excuse the man if he sheds a...
DUNGY PAYS HOMAGE TO EX-JINT GM YOUNG
MIAMI - He's not here for Super Bowl XLI, but someplace with a good view, former Giants GM George Young is smiling over South Florida this week at the sight...
MONSTERS, INC.
MIAMI - He is the Monster in the middle of Peyton Manning's Super Bowl dream, maniacal in his pursuit of the football and his own championship. "Butkus was mean," Brian...
IF YOU CAN'T FEET 'EM . . .
MIAMI - Ricky Proehl wouldn't admit as much to anyone standing near him, of course, because to do so would be to violate the unspoken code of sports. All around...
DEVIN MAY BE A FLORIDA KEY
MIAMI - Can you know in the fourth grade? Devin Hester said he did. That's when he knew he was faster than everyone else. By now, the secret's out. The...
CONFIDENT COLTS DON'T PLAN ON MISSING MISSILE
MIAMI - Sometime during Super Bowl XLI on Sunday night at Dolphin Stadium a runaway train looking like an out-of-control missile will be careening toward the Indianapolis Colts kick or...
BRODEUR LIKELY TO FACE FLYERS
PHILADELPHIA - Like Paris, Martin Brodeur is always a good idea. But the Devils are boxing themselves in, greedy for points, risking Brodeur burnout. Tonight's visit to the league-worst Flyers...
MAYNARD GETS SECOND SHOT AT TITLE
MIAMI - This is the second go-round for Brad Maynard at the Super Bowl, and this time he's certain he's better equipped to handle what comes his way. Maynard is...
DAVID GETS 'SOPH' SPOT
CHARLOTTE - David Lee earned one honor, and Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas thinks he may ultimately win an even bigger one. While Channing Frye was snubbed, the second-year Lee was...
KNICK BRICKS
CHARLOTTE - The Knicks finally faced Kobe Bryant last night. He was disguised as Gerald Wallace. Consistently getting to the rim, Wallace torched the uninspired Knicks for a career-high 42...
RJ BACK - JUST TO ROOT
After a long five-game road trip, the Nets had a welcoming committee at the Meadowlands last night in the form of injured forward Richard Jefferson. Jefferson had not been around...
HOME SCHOOLED
After a week of breathtaking wins and heartbreaking losses, the Nets delivered a clunker last night. In their first home game in 11 days, the Nets put forth a performance...
SHANAHAN SNAPS
Brendan Shanahan has thrown down the gauntlet. Simmering much of the season over the way he believes the Rangers have been shortchanged by on-ice officials, Shanahan last night came as...
YANKEE TIX HOT ITEM FOR ICY FANS
Spring was in the frigid air yesterday at Yankee Stadium. Hordes of baseball's biggest fans - with pinstripes in their eyes and World Series dreams in their hearts - began...
BERNIE MAY SEE INVITE AS MINOR INSULT
A standing invitation for something is usually considered a polite gesture. Bernie Williams probably views his as insulting. Williams has been offered an open-ended invite to spring training with the...
ROCKET PAYS VISIT TO N.Y.
Still undecided, Roger Clemens did his best last night to sound pessimistic about pitching in 2007, but he kept coming back to the same conclusion: He's too competitive, too coveted...
YANKS REALLY ONLY CHOICE
ROGER Clemens made it clear last night that when it comes to pitching, the Legend just can't say no. The trick is for the Yankees to find a way to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It definitely was NOT time to make the doughnuts. An Iowa man narrowly escaped a frigid death when he drunkenly drove his SUV onto the ice-covered Mississippi River to do...