February 3, 2007
Liveblog / Alice Roi show
Fantastic show by hometown sweetheart Alice Roi.
YOUR BEST BETS FOR THIS WEEKEND
TODAYISN'T IT ROMANTIC?: Not everything romance-related will have kids screaming "Cooties!" The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert's program on romantic music introduces listeners to 19th-century works by Berlioz, Strauss...
KIMORA'S FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Has Kimora Lee Simmons been sipping the Stoli? Or does she just covet the Faberge? Whatever the inspiration, Russia was just the excuse she needed to lavish on the Siberian...
HILLARY SKIRTS ALONG THE RUNWAY
Bill chases them, now Hillary's on one. Fashion got political in Rome on Sunday when Italian designer Fernanda Gattinoni sent models down the catwalk in floor-length puffball gowns emblazoned with...
GET THE RED OUT!
FASHION Week went on red alert yesterday as celebrities from film, TV and sport strutted in style for the smoking-hot Red Dress Collection. Beautiful boldfaces like Angela Bassett, Kelly Ripa...
NICOLE MILLER SHOW
Celebrating her company's 25th anniversary has given Miller a fresh perspective. Miller's collection was all about the well-defined waist, as the wide belt was everywhere. Skirts were full, with lots...
RAG & BONE SHOW
Vogue editrix Anna Wintour yawned her way through Rag & Bone's fall collection of Massachusetts prep school-inspired shrunken blazers and skinny pants. While the collection of menswear and womenswear appeared...
MARC BOUWER'S SHOW
Bouwer's clothes are not trendy or directional, or even especially of the moment; he prefers to traffic in what can best be described as rather pedestrian, old-school Hollywood glamour, and...
EVIDENCE OF MODERN TRIBE VIBE
RONALD K. Brown's Evidence Dance Company (named for the first solo dance he ever choreographed, back in 1985) is a striking group, now celebrating its 21st anniversary. Brown is a...
A SILENT EPIDEMIC
ANTI-crime crusader John Walsh is using the power of "America's Most Wanted" to highlight an epidemic form of domestic abuse - teen dating violence. "Some teens call it the 'silent...
'MESSENGERS' CAN'T DELIVER
HONG Kong horrormeisters Danny and Oxide Pang ("The Eye") make an underwhelming American directing debut with "The Messengers," which easily manages to be as generically plotted, poorly acted and scare-free...
KITCHEN KIDS
FOR a real bunch of cutups, look no further than the latest cooking classes for kids. Sessions for chefs as young as 2 have 'em wielding whisks before they can...
FULL-COURSE LEARNING
Here are some of the best classes out there: KidFresh: Eight-week sessions for kids ages 3 to 10 start Monday. It's $300 for eight classes. Drop-ins are encouraged for single...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Not only is there a Sun-Jupiter aspect on your birthday that indicates good fortune but a related Mars-Uranus aspect means you will be much more active in the world at...
B'KLYN BOSS GREED'S ELEX 'SHAKEDOWN'
A failed Brooklyn Civil Court candidate told jurors yesterday how then-county Democratic boss Clarence Norman went face to face with her campaign manager, demanding she cave in to his demands...
L.I. SUICIDE MAY BE LINKED TO SWINGERS' SEXTORTION
Police on Long Island are probing whether a local sex swinger's suicide came after he was victimized by a Horny and Clyde blackmailing duo, a source told The Post. The...
CITY SUES STATE OVER PBA TALKS
The bitter contract war between the city and the police union was ratcheted up another notch yesterday when the Bloomberg administration announced it's suing a state agency to get a...
GAY-GOV DIVORCE SHOCKER
The estranged wife of former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey says she won't make any divorce deals with her homosexual hubby until they resolve their "profound differences about what our...
A SABBATH 'SABOTAGE'
It was high holy chaos hours before the Jewish Sabbath yesterday, as school bus companies scrambled to retrieve students at scores of yeshivas whose traditional early Friday dismissals were botched...
180 degrees TURN BY TOP BUS BOOB
The city's point man on the frenzied rerouting of school buses had been preparing to retire at the end of the month - but the Department of Education said yesterday...
BRAVE VICTIM SEES RAPIST GET 325 YRS.
Raped, robbed and humiliated by a treacherous band of thugs in a dingy basement maintenance room in Brooklyn, a young victim believed she'd never make it out alive. And yesterday...
CHINATOWN TIP THIEVES' 700G SLAP
A Chinatown restaurant that stole a fortune in tips from its wait staff must shell out nearly $700,000 to 11 workers, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Manhattan Federal Judge Gerald...
SLAY HUBBY 'BLACKED OUT'
An Upper East Side landlord on trial for killing his estranged wife can't remember stabbing her because the trauma of the act sent him into an emotional tailspin, a psychiatrist...
NYPD IMPASSE
The head of the NYPD captains' union yesterday declared a contract impasse, insisting the stalemate was due to the city's stubbornness and "disrespect." "We're the hardest-working executives in the city,...
CHUCK IT! SPRING IS DUE SOON
Two groovy groundhogs agreed beyond a shadow of a doubt yesterday - we're due for an early spring. Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow when he emerged from his Pennsylvania...
42 IN QNS. DRUG BUST
Forty-two people were busted yesterday in Queens following an undercover drug investigation at a housing project, authorities said. Scores of drug sales involving cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana were made...
TRIAL GORE GALORE
He'd never seen so much blood. It was splattered everywhere - the floors, the walls. Their belongings were scattered, like after a break-in. The pet Labrador was trembling and ready...
'UNWORTHY' FOOT FIEND GETS JAIL
A Brooklyn man who admittedly grabbed, fondled and licked the feet of some 70 terrified women while riding the subway over the last three years was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan...
DESPERATE BID TO SAVE 'SUPREME'
Lawyers for Queens crime kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff asked the Department of Justice to reconsider - for a second time - whether their client should be facing the needle for...
COP IN 'DWI'
An off-duty NYPD detective who refused to take a breath test faces a DWI charge after a crash in Queens landed him and the driver of an oncoming car in...
BRAVE BLOOMY VISITS TERROR-TARGET TOWN
SDEROT, Israel - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday got "a chance to see myself the threats Israel and the Israelis face every single day" when he visited this Negev Desert town, the...
IRAN'S GAZA GOONS
In a sign of growing Iranian meddling in the Middle East, an Iranian general and six others were seized by Palestinian security officers at a Hamas-controlled university where they ran...
LET 'EM EAT BUGS
North Korea's wacko dictator Kim Jong Il is promising his starving people a giant bunny in every pot. The government is studying plans to end its food shortage by breeding...
QUINN HEADING TO ISRAEL
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will lead a delegation of a dozen council members to Israel tomorrow, The Post has learned. It will be her first international jaunt since becoming...
I'LL END WAR
WASHINGTON - Pumping her fists and shouting to the rooftops, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed yesterday to bring an immediate end to the war in Iraq if she's elected president....
'IDOL' SIREN BY DAD'S SIDE AFTER HIT-AND-RUN
The gorgeous Queens gal who wowed "American Idol" judges with her chiseled body and plucky pipes had her moment of glory snatched away when a hit-and-run driver mowed down her...
TERROR-SCARE WARES EXPLODE ONTO WEB
The executives behind the Cartoon Network's terrorizing ad campaign could turn out to be marketing geniuses. Wacky merchandise featuring the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" character that was plastered on electric-light...
CARTOON 'COVERUP'
The Manhattan marketer behind the Boston terror scare ordered the so-called guerrilla artist who installed dozens of electric-light displays around the city to keep quiet for at least three hours...
PARK-LOT VID CAPTURED 'SLAY BY COP'
WALTERBORO, S.C. - Investigators have recovered chilling surveillance video that captures a retired NYPD sergeant shooting his ex-wife in the head in Staten Island, law enforcement sources said yesterday. A...
FLA. HELL STORMS
LADY LAKE, Fla. - Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search for bodies yesterday after powerful storms, including at least one tornado,...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are asking for the public's help in finding a Harlem man missing for more than two weeks, authorities said yesterday. Lawrence Edmonds , 43, was last seen leaving...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 348; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3191; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 742; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5716;...
HILLARY'S IRAQ POLL-ICY
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton left no room for doubt yesterday: "If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will," she told the winter meeting...
TONGUE-TIED THOMPSON
City Comptroller Bill Thompson raises some important points in a report on what he terms the MTA's failure to maintain subway infrastructure. Alas, as is often the case in New...
KLEIN'S COMMON SENSE: LEFT AT THE BUS STOP
The editors of The Post, whose reporter Dave Andreatta broke this story months ago, are right on the money when they say that eliminating over a hundred bus routes in...
SINN FEIN FORGES PATH TO UNITY
While I am pleased that The Post ran John O'Sullivan's article, "Sinn Fein Gains" (PostOpinion, Jan. 29), I am troubled that, within the first two sentences, O'Sullivan refers to Sinn...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Overstock Overstock.com Inc., the online seller of ex cess inventory, sued Morgan Stanley, Gold man, Sachs & Co. and other brokerages, saying they caused the compa ny's stock to drop....
TIMES BULLIES
John Mack says he's "amused" at strong-arm attempts by The New York Times to punish and muzzle his analysts at Morgan Stanley over their attacks on mismanagement by the family...
VIACOM YANKS ITS CLIPS FROM YOUTUBE
YouTube will lose some of its most popular clips - not to mention some fans - after media giant Viacom demanded the removal of 100,000 pirated videos from its file-swapping...
SANTOS OUT FOR SPELL
Jockey Jose Santos, who was carried off the track on a stretcher and taken to Jamaica Hospital after a gruesome, three-horse spill at Aqueduct on Thursday, will be out for...
DONN TIME FOR INVASOR
America's reigning Horse of the Year, Invasor, and the 3-year-old colt who should contend for this year's honors, Nobiz Like Shobiz, each make their first starts of 2007 today on...
LAGAT MASTERS MILE
One hundred years of history demanded that the Wanamaker Mile be the highlight of the centennial Millrose Games, and Bernard Lagat made it so. Lagat turned expected threat Alan Webb...
EMPIRE RACING TO HOLD FORUM
Empire Racing, still in the hunt to take over the NYRA franchise at the end of this year, will hold a town hall meeting discussing the future of racing Wednesday...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Celtics lose 14th straight In Boston, the Celtics lost their franchise-record 14th consecutive game, falling 100-89 to Elton Brand and the Clippers. Brand had 26 points and 19 rebounds....
NICE & QUEASY
MIAMI - When the Colts and Bears wake up this morning, they'll wake up with larger butterflies fluttering around in their stomachs, because Super Bowl XLI kickoff will be just...
EXPERT PICKS
"I think the Bears are at a severe disadvantage with the quarterback." Randy Cross; CBS, former 49ers offensive linemanColts, 17-12 "The Colts are just the better team, and Peyton will...
LOVIE AFFAIR
MIAMI - OK, we get it. Lovie Smith isn't a yeller. "He can't yell ... he's not capable of yelling," Bears linebacker Lance Briggs said. There is no evidence to...
CELEBRITY PICKS
"The Colts have a better QB, they come out of a better conference, they're favored for a reason." Bob Costas, NBC, HBO Colts, 27-17 "Robbie Gould has been gold all...
ALL THE WAY FOR MIDWAY CONFIDENT BEARS: ESTINY'S ON OUR SIDE
MIAMI - The prospect of fearsome gunslinger Peyton Manning reaching into his holster to engage Rex Grossman in a deadly Super Bowl shootout does not scare the Bears, or faze...
COLTS NEED MARVIN TO STOP STARVIN'
MIAMI - Joe Montana couldn't have become Joe Montana by himself; he needed Dwight Clark at first, then Jerry Rice, in order to secure for himself a forever slice of...
BACKUP PLAN
MIAMI - All week, Rex Grossman dutifully took his place on podiums in and around South Florida, standing before the assembled masses, fulfilling his media obligations, always in demand. Far...
A REAL SORGI SPOT: 'I'M THE MAYTAG REPAIRMAN'
MIAMI - Jim Sorgi might be the one player on the Colts who can walk the streets of Indianapolis without being at least noticed, if not mobbed, by a few...
NICK-ED UP HARPER NOT SURE HOW MUCH HE'LL PLAY
MIAMI - Colts cornerback Nick Harper went through the entire week without practicing with the team because of his high ankle sprain, but he said he plans on playing in...
DEVILS WON'T BE RATTLED BY SABRES' VISIT
The Devils circled this date weeks ago. Now that it's here, they are circling the wagons. They're hardly the defensive fortress they want to be for tonight's Meadowlands showdown with...
LONDON CALLING
MIAMI - The Giants will be headed to London for a game next season and Michael Strahan has a suggestion on how to keep everything orderly in Tom Coughlin's world....
CURRY NOT STAR STRUCK
ORLANDO, Fla. - Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was steaming yesterday at Eastern Conference coaches for leaving teammate Eddy Curry off the All-Star team as a reserve center, calling it "a...
METS' PETERSON GETS EXTENSION
The Mets announced the signing of Rick Peterson to a three-year contract yesterday, solidifying his place in Flushing and his stature as one of the game's most-valued pitching coaches. "I'm...
DAZE OF BLUNDER
ORLANDO - Let's start with the positives about the Nets last night . . . There, that didn't take long. Seriously, they called timeouts real good. Cliff Robinson was impeccably...
NOTHING OF A NIGHT FOR JASON
ORLANDO - Jason Kidd did a reversal of recent form last night. After weeks of blistering shooting and scoring, Kidd laid an oh-fer egg vs. the Magic. Kidd failed to...
SHANAHAN SKATES
TAMPA, Fla. - It's rather hilarious that Brendan Shanahan declared Jaromir Jagr was a victim of an NHL officiating double standard following the Rangers' 2-1 loss to Toronto on Wednesday...
PAVANO READY TO GO
Carl Pavano knows he must earn back the trust of his Yankees teammates. But for the most part, he plans to let his pitching do the talking. Pavano, considered a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Authorities in Nebraska made a grave discovery recently when they opened a deceased man's storage locker and found 47 tombstones stolen from cemeteries. Police say the macabre collection likely came...
