February 5, 2007
STAR TREK: FedEx ships out
The Chesterfield Hotel It's the day after the Super Bowl, and while nobody except the people who bet money and the people who live in Indianapolis care about who won,...
Music to your ears
While I'm not exactly an indie pop/rock fan (at all), I can appreciate it (if necessary), especially when it comes to a band that's doing something vaguely interesting. And no,...
New Bracket
Here is this week's projection of the NCAA Tournament bracket. Remember this is not an attempt to predict the future. This is what I think the bracket would look like...
LIVEBLOG/NYC: Day 6 Happy Year of the Pig
Chinatown Ice Cream Factory All those ladies in gauzy pink getups and cool hats running around Midtown this week put me in the spirit of celebrating Chinese New Year, even...
LIVEBLOG/NYC: Day 6 No reservations
Regardez le menu, FlorenceThere's nothing as good as starting a weekday morning in this town by doing something you aren't supposed to do - i.e. play hooky from work and...
LIVEBLOG/NYC: Day 6 What do I look like, a map?
This whole being-a-tourist thing is great, but I'm having trouble playing the part. I've been stopped for directions four times in 24 hours. What is that about? Can't they see...
Super Mario World Hittin' The Wii
Nintendo is adding three new classic games to the popular Wii video game system's Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9 a.m. PST. This week's new games are:Super...
IN MEMORY: #1 Texas cheerleader
Originally uploaded by justmypov.Whether or not you liked the dear departed columnist Molly Ivins' politics is of no importance - one thing most everyone could agree on is her assessment...
DIFFERENT STROKES
'SO, what do you do?" It's a question that gets asked a million times over in New York City every day. Often the answer isn't too inspiring. "I'm in sales."...
THE HIGHBALL LIFE
CHRIS Santangelo got his first bartending job at the tender age of 17, at a bar at the South Street Seaport. Twenty years later, he's still at it. At the...
CLOCKING OUT
HAVE you wasted enough time today? If not, you need to start getting serious about procrastination. Break away from the rut of playing Minesweeper and talking about YouTube at the...
SEEKING THE STRANGE
Nancy Rica Schiff is always on the hunt for people with weird occupations. Which makes her sort of like a pot searching for kettles to call black. Her career highlights:...
GO TO GREG
Q. My employer issued a new policy threatening disciplinary action for excessive and/or inappropriate personal telephone use and Internet surfing - up to and including termination. Isn't this an invasion...
THE FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Today's page marks the end of the 2006 Black History Month celebration. Read about Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who started this celebration of black history and culture. Black History Month...
A LITTLE OF THE TOP
TOPSY CURVY Evans, winner of last May's "America's Next Top Model" wears a Christian Dior pink lace and satin underwire bra with hook-and-eye details, $280, with matching brief panties, $175,...
RUNWAY ZOOEY-LANDER
Who knew Fashion Week was going to become the Zooey Deschanel show? The indie ingenue opened the ethereal Erin Fetherston runway show by singing the old standard "Dream a Little...
TARA'S HEAD TOO BIG FOR HER TIARA
LOOKS as if Miss USA is getting high again - this time on her own sordid fame. Tara Conner showed up at pageant designer Tadashi Shoji's runway show with two...
BRIT, WHO'S YOUR BAG BY?
From pop babe to bag lady. Here's Britney Spears, caught on a 3 a.m. Duane Reade run Sunday, letting down her hair - and her belly. While Kevin Federline tumbled...
INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLE EVANS
Despite starring in a show known for its "b$%*& poured beer on my weave!" diva behavior, it's hard to find a model nicer than Danielle Evans. The winner of "Cycle...
FEAST FOR THE EARS
TWO of the world's most thrilling dramatic sopranos - Karita Mattila and vet eran Anja Silja - are cur rently standing toe-to-toe at the Metroplitan Opera during Leos Janacek's gut-wrenching...
BAWDY TALES FROM A GAL LIVIN' LARGE
AS the pianist in the camp duo Kiki and Herb, Kenny Mellman may think that he's working with the ultimate diva. But the ante gets upped considerably in the form...
BLONDE FAITH
NICOLLETTE Sheri dan's conniving character Edie Britt will take center stage on "Desperate Housewives" for the rest of the season to fill in for Marcia Cross, whose pregnancy forced her...
'RULES' OF THE LAME
WHERE is Simon Cowell when you really need him? CBS' new mid-season semi-smarmy, insultingly terrible sit-no-com, "Rules of Engagement" is so detestable on so many levels that we need a...
FAMILY CONTESTS 'IDOL' SOB STORY
Ayoung "American Idol" contestant now proba bly regrets ever telling the judges the story of her father shooting her stepmother before turning the gun on himself. Her voice - and...
'THE O.C.' ENDS WITH A QUAKE
SAY you're the producer of a prime-time soap - "The O.C.," perhaps - and your show, which was once one of the hottest series on TV but not anymore, is...
STARR REPORT
Something of note "Access Hollywood" co- host Billy Bush has a musical lineage - his father, Jona than, toured in "Oklahoma" as Will Parker - but whether he's inherited any...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG SHOW
Diane von Furstenberg is on top of the world. She's in the prime of her career, she's the new president of the CFDA and she sold enough wrap dresses to...
3.1 PHILLIP LIM
"Pedigree minus prudence" was the theme of Phillip Lim's most recent collection, and he proved why he had earned him Anna Wintour's coveted affections with a smartly tailored and easily...
LUELLA SHOW
Luella Bartley describes her Luella collection as going back to "our very blue-blooded roots, and we are inspired by everything English," so of course she opened her show with a...
ROCK & REPUBLIC SHOW
Rock and Republic hurled some of the worst cliches in L.A. costume drama down the runway last night, like alternating cheap whores with Tom of Finland biker boys on the...
DKNY SHOW
Donna Karan's DKNY was a clean and cool take on the playful sportswear pieces of the 80s. Long, shaped jackets over short sheaths and shifts established her new, kicky attitude....
NAUM SHOW
Naum, by Julia Jentzsch and Waleed Khairzada, was an incredibly sophisticated showing for these relatively new designers. Admittedly driven by their love of architecture and how it can be applied...
REYES SHOW
The eighties are back. And not the cheesy, asymetrical haircut-wearing eighties of a bad Adam Sandler movie, but the '80s that fostered such visionaries as Sonia Rykiel, Yohji Yamamoto, Marithe...
TADASHI SHOJI SHOW
Mr. Pageant Gown himself, Tadashi Shoji, didn't disappoint his loyalists with his Fall 07 collection on Sunday morning. In fact, Miss Universe Zuleka Rivera, sitting front row, and Tara Connor...
JILL STUART SHOW
It's a sure sign the Fashion Week celebrity scene ain't what it once was when photographers are crowded around JC Chasez (who one front-row editor said was looking "less Dolce...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA SHOW
Oscar de la Renta's collection always signals the advent of the more serious section of Fashion Week. Socialites show up decked to the nines, Anna Wintour and crew are always...
LUCA LUCA SHOW
Despite the freezing temperatures in New York, it had yet to feel like winter on the runway -- until Monday at Luca Luca. Designer Luca Orlandi, celebrating his 15th year...
ISAAC MIZRAHI SHOW
Spring is the new fall and white is the new black - at least in Isaac Mizrahi's bracing, crisp collection, all clean lines and stark, Clorox-y whites, shot through with...
REEM ACRA SHOW
Reem Acra cited the "simplicity of form and sensuality of fabric" as her driving forces for fall 2007. And she took this simplicity a little too far. This famed bridal...
SARI GUERON SHOW
The prospect of another chilly winter seems a bit less dreadful when imagining spending it in Sari Gueron's cozy fall collection. The clothes were rich in wool and cashmere, with...
ERIN GO BLOOMY
Mayor Bloomberg wants the Emerald Isle to take a bite out of the Big Apple. Hizzoner was in Ireland yesterday to unveil a $100,000 advertising campaign on buses and trains...
GOV BOOSTS MEDICAID-FRAUD PROBERS
Gov. Spitzer is boosting the number of investigators in the Medicaid inspector general's office by 30 percent. Spitzer's budget plan calls for 157 new staffers - including 100 auditors -...
30G WTC DONATION NIXED
Officials of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation have rejected donations of more than $30,000 from a Westchester company that marketed 9/11 commemorative coins, The Post has learned. Joseph Daniels,...
PRICE OF FREEDOM HITS TOWERING $3B
The cost of the Freedom Tower has soared to $3 billion, according to the Port Authority's latest estimates. Construction costs for the 1,776-foot tower have been pegged at $2.478 billion,...
'OZ' STAR'S TALE OF DEATH PLUNGE
The "Oz" star who allegedly killed a man by knocking him down an elevator shaft during a fight at a trendy Man hattan club over the weekend strolled out of...
QUEENS BROTHERS DIE IN ELEVATOR TUMBLE
Two brothers, roughhousing on the 11th floor of a Queens building early yesterday, bashed into an elevator door, knocking it from its track - and then tumbled to their deaths,...
ROOKIE COP HURT BATTLING QNS. THUG
A rookie cop suffered a bloody head injury last night as he fought with a suspect in Queens, authorities said. The violence took place at 1:20 a.m. at 102nd Street...
BUS KIDS' PERV PERIL
It's every parent's nightmare - and every pedophile's dream. As the city's disastrous school-bus shake-up goes into its second week today, many children find themselves waiting at bus stops alongside...
RAIL RULE #1: NOD & SMILE
The MTA's training manual for subway-station customer assistants devotes 12 pages to dealing with angry customers - three times the space given to dealing with terrorist attacks. Relations between straphangers...
WAIT FOR BUS GPS IS OVER
New technology is making it harder to miss the bus. Every bus at Manhattan's 126th Street depot has been equipped with global-positioning hardware, allowing its exact location to be monitored...
AL PLEDGES 'FRISK' SUIT
A furious Rev. Al Sharpton vowed to file a class-action lawsuit against the NYPD, charging cops overwhelmingly targeted blacks in "stop and frisk" incidents last year. "This is a matter...
KIN SUE OVER 'DWI' OFFICER
Relatives of a young Queens man critically injured in a crash with an allegedly drunken off-duty cop said yesterday they will sue the city and Police Department. "It's very difficult....
PARISHIONERS MAD AS HELL
Dozens of people ignored the bone-chilling cold outside St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday to protest the scheduled closing of their East Village church. "The archdiocese is complaining that people don't come...
BERNIE'S PRESIDENTIAL POWER LUNCH
Pasta, coffee and counternarcotics enforcement were on the agenda this weekend as former NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik chowed down with a new client - the president of Guyana -...
SLAY RAP EYED IN INFANT TOSS
The Brooklyn DA's Office is deciding whether to charge a 14-year-old girl with murdering her newborn son after she allegedly tossed him out of a third-floor window. The teenager, whose...
POWER DANGER
A Con Ed push to modernize electric service in thousands of Manhattan buildings is under investigation by state utility regulators amid charges that the equipment used in the upgrades is...
A SEAT ON THE STREET
Manhattan will have some new outdoor attractions before the end of the year - the borough's first public toilets - and here's a first look at where they're likely to...
CITY TAKES SON FROM PEE-BRAINED FOOD NUT
The baby son of a urine-drinking East Village health guru to the stars has been taken from his father's care because the dad failed to bring the boy to a...
WRESTLER SEEKS BITING WRIT
A Long Island athlete is suing two school districts because he says a referee failed to quickly stop his wrestling match - despite the fact that the boy's opponent was...
QNS. FIRE & ICE
A six-alarm fire engulfed a Far Rockaway apartment building early yesterday, forcing scores of pajama-clad residents to flee for their lives into the sub-freezing cold as 250 firefighters battled the...
SLAIN LITTLE GIRL'S AUNT SUES ACS
The aunt of a 7-year-old girl who died after repeated beatings by her father is suing the city and the Administration for Children's Services for removing the child from a...
HOUSE OF JIHAD
WASHINGTON - This building is ramshackle and nondescript from the outside. But inside, trained Hezbollah operatives are plotting to carry out their fanatical leader's desire for "armed resistance - jihad"...
OPRAH 'N' DAVE IN TV 'TEAM'-UP
Take heart, America - history was made at the Super Bowl last night. The Colts won for the first time in 36 years, and Peyton Manning finally got his championship...
BULLET FIRED IN RYAN-SON FIGHT
Actor Ryan O'Neal fired a warning shot inside his Malibu home to ward off an attack by poker-wielding son Griffin O'Neal, friends and cops told The Post yesterday. O'Neal, 65,...
GOP PALS DUKE IT OUT
WASHINGTON - Sens. John McCain and Chuck Hagel, GOP pals with presidential ambitions, ripped each other yesterday over opposing plans for Iraq on the eve of a historic Senate vote....
EDWARDS STEPS UP HILL WAR
WASHINGTON - Escalating his feud with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) said he would maintain his attacks on Democrats who fail to condemn the Iraq war -...
'BURY' HELPFUL
WASHINGTON - Powerhouse Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel can't raise the dead, but he's expert at raising campaign cash from those who tend to the deceased - coffins full of it....
SOFT-ROCK THE VOTE
WASHINGTON - Upstate Democratic Rep. John Hall can't shed his bare-chested-rocker past. At the House Democratic retreat in Williamsburg, Va., this weekend, Queens Rep. Joe Crowley and New Hampshire Rep....
BANISH THE BIMBOS TO LIMBO: U.S.
America has chimed in on the Bimbo Summit - and it's anything but enamored with the famous floozies. According to a Newsweek poll that comes out today, 77 percent of...
'MESSENGERS' DELIVER BOX-OFFICE WIN
Nobody can kill "The Messengers." The paranormal thriller, about kids who can interact with the dead, levitated to the top of a quiet box office this weekend, raking in $14.5...
NYPD BLOTTER
QueensOne man was stabbed to death and another wounded in a dispute outside a Jackson Heights bar early yesterday, authorities said. Robinson Lopez, 34, of Florida and another 33-year- old...
'RACE FIX' SCANDAL
A state grand jury is probing allegations of harness-race fixing at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway - specifically, that horses were doped with painkilling snake venom and an energy-boosting drug during...
PRINCE REIGNS IN RAIN
HE DIDN'T twirl an umbrella, jump into a puddle or climb a lamppost, but Prince put on his own version of "Singin' in the Rain" at last night's Super Bowl...
COMPTROL VOTE NEAR
ASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Silver will call a vote for a new state comptroller as soon as Wednesday and no later than a week from today, legislative insiders told The Post...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 036; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 1284; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 531; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 0584;...
AL'S MISDIRECTED ANGER
Rev. Blowhard is at it again. Al Sharpton yesterday was threatening legal action against New York City based on some new NYPD statistics relating to the department's so-called stop-and-frisk program...
END THE HOT AIR
The planet is warming - run for your lives! (On the way, shut down the economy.) That sums up much of the reaction to Friday's report by a U.N.-sponsored panel...
WHERE IRAQ STANDS
THE long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq - "Prospects for Iraq's Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead" - is finally on the streets after months of delay. If you've been following...
A STRANGE PATRIOTISM
THE upcoming Senate resolution condemning the Bush administration's Iraq strategy is a perfect reflection of the American public's mindset. Like the Senate, the public's commitment to defending the United States...
LICENSE TO KILL?
WOULD you hand a .50-caliber sharpshooter rifle, a weapon that can take down a low-flying commercial airliner, to a total stranger? How about the keys to the White House, the...
IT'S NOW A RUDY ROMP
UNTIL now, the status of front-runner in the Republican primaries for president was jointly held by Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. McCain is clearly...
CBS SHOOTS BACK
If anyone had bothered to ask us, we would've explained that video shot in Iraq regularly appears on multiple media outlets ("Logan's End Run," Michelle Malkin, PostOpinion, Jan. 31). CBS...
BIDEN BAITS OPPONENTS: FINDS FOOT IN MOUTH
THE ISSUE: Presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden's controversial remarks about Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. Joe Biden barely began his White House race and already had to apologize ("Biden Blows It,"...
STEWART MEANS RELIEF - OR GRIEF?
THE ISSUE: The Port Authority's plan to buy upstate New York's Stewart Airport. As someone who escaped the noise of JFK's politically influenced aircraft routing over my community in the...
ZUCKER PUCKER
Jeff Zucker is expected to be named chief executive of NBC Universal early this week, succeeding Bob Wright, who has led the Peacock network for more than two decades, sources...
ROTH CAPITAL'S $LEAZE TO PLEASE
At a time when other Wall Street firms are cracking down on lavish client entertainment, Roth Capital Partners, a leading small-cap stock underwriter, has developed quite a reputation for outrageous...
MOOD INDIGO AT NEW HOTEL
One of the world's largest hotel conglomerates is bringing its newest concept to Manhattan. The Post has learned that InterContinental Hotels will open the first New York branch of its...
HACHETTE MAY DRAW CURTAINS ON PREMIERE
Premiere magazine, which has been bleeding red ink for several years, is being put on the block by Hachette Filipacchi Media in the latest sign of retrenchment by the American...
CATWALK CASH
After factoring in the cost of the clothes, the models, the lighting and the stylists, there is one additional expense that often goes overlooked, but can add tens of thousands...
AMI DEFAULT LOOMS
American Media Inc., owner of the National Enquirer and Star, was fighting for its very survival last week, negotiating with bankers to avoid falling into default as its debt continues...
SONY TAPS RUBIN AS 'CZAR' OF MUSIC BIZ
Sony Music's U.S. label group has tapped super producer Rick Rubin to serve as the company's "music czar," overseeing the creative development of artists on its Columbia and Epic Records...
THE BEST IN BASIC BLACK
Magazines aimed at black readers seem to tread much the same ground as many titles on the racks - help for the lovelorn, self-improvement and celebrity dish. Top-selling Essence's cover...
MANNING MAKES GROSSMAN PEY
MIAMI - The difference in Super Bowl XLI was the difference between Peyton Manning and Wrecks Gross man, end of story. It was Mann against boys for most of the...
SWEETEST SHOWER OF ALL
MIAMI - It was always hard to picture Tony Dungy on the receiving end of the sticky baptism due all Super Bowl coaches, the orange Gatorade splashing his baseball cap...
SIMMS STILL SUPER
THE common man's touch is what makes Phil Simms uncommonly good. And by halftime, last night, Simms, playing for CBS, had won the Super Bowl. Make that halfway through the...
WORLDWIDE LEADER IN HYPOCRISY
Just once, in addition to telling us what's wrong, ESPN should actually do something about it. Throughout this NFL season, ESPN made shame-shame at the Bengals. Seven Bengals arrested, one...
AT LAST IT'S INDY INDEED!
MIAMI - The most fitting moment of last night's thoroughly convincing Colts' 29-17 thumping of the big, bad Bears in Super Bowl XLI at Dolphin Stadium came moments after they'd...
SUPER HESTER-IA
MIAMI - Never before has a rookie who plays exclusively on special teams burst onto the Super Bowl scene as spectacularly as Devin Hester did last night. And never before...
REX WRECKS BEARS' TITLE DREAMS
MIAMI - The rhetoric all week was not kind to the Bears' Rex Grossman. It went something like this: Was he the worst quarterback to ever make it to a...
NO LOVIE STORY IN THE END FOR BEARS
MIAMI - Two weeks ago, Lovie Smith made history as the first African-American head coach to get his team into the Super Bowl. It was a significant achievement and Smith...
INDY'S 'D' ENJOYS LAST LAUGH
MIAMI - Colts' linebacker Cato June pranced through the Super Bowl-winning locker room last night yelling, "We shocked the world, we shocked the world." That the Colts beat the Bears...
VINATIERI'S ALIVE AND KICKING
MIAMI - Adam Vinatieri was at it again in the Super Bowl. The NFL's best postseason clutch kicker ever didn't kick a third game-winning Super Bowl kick in last night's...
TWO FOR RUSH HOUR, PLEASE
MIAMI - Joseph Addai rushed 19 times for 77 yards and caught 10 passes for 66 more. Dominic Rhodes ran 21 times for a game-high 113 yards and caught one...
HAYDEN GOES ALL THE WAY
MIAMI - The man who drove the final stake through the Bears' heart is, of all people, a Chicago kid whose mother, of all things, works for the Catholic Charities...
BEARS' DEFENSE GETS WASHED OUT
MIAMI - When it was time for the kickoff for Super Bowl XLI, the mist that hovered over South Florida for most of the day deteriorated into a full-fledged rain....
IRSAY'S MAGIC MOMENT
MIAMI - Colts owner Jim Irsay stood in the center of his team's locker room last night, his face and eyes red, probably from shedding some tears of joy. He...
NO MORE PROEHL BOWLS FOR RICKY
MIAMI - As he watched his teammates whoop it up in the locker room after the Colts' 29-17 Super Bowl win, it was a bittersweet moment for Ricky Proehl, who...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Hingis wins in TokyoMartina Hingis thrashed Serbia's Ana Ivanovic 6-4 6-2 to win a record fifth Pan Pacific Open title yesterday in Tokyo. The Swiss second seed completely outclassed...
CLYDE'S PLAYOFF PICK
Walt Frazier said he still believes the Knicks will make the playoffs and feels they are better than their record, though he also called the club too "inconsistent." "I'm sticking...
KNICKS' FRYE BENCH-BOUND
Channing Frye has been banished from the starting lineup as Isiah Thomas continues to move the chess pieces to find the right combination for his talented - if mismatched -...
NETS BEAT AT BUZZER, AGAIN
Tyronn Lue was at halfcourt pinned to the Meadowlands floor, crushed under a mob of teammates celebrating his last-ditch jumper that beat both the buzzer and the Nets. But chances...
ROAD NOT SO BAD AFTER UGLY DEFEAT
Normally, going out on the road after losing three straight isn't a good thing. But for the Nets, maybe getting away won't be the worst thing in the world. After...
IT'S TOM FOR A TURNAROUND
TOM Renney is an ex emplary individual who treats everyone with respect. He's a professional in the most pure sense. That and $76 will get him a 30-day subway pass....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
For 10 years, Lucy Bruring thought that a five-diamond ring that slipped off her finger at a Wisconsin bowling alley was gone for good. Last week, the Wisconsin woman got...