February 6, 2007
Thomas dampens trade chances
By MARC BERMANBefore tonight's game vs. the Clippers, Isiah Thomas attempted to dampen expectations on making a trade by the deadline Feb. 22, saying he didn't expect to make a...
Why you should play more Xbox Live
As if you needed an excuse for spending more time on XBL...but if you do, Microsoft's got one for you.They've just announced the Old Spice Experience Challenge, wherein you've got...
Ozzfest is free!
All you metalheads out there: Sharon Osbourne just announced that Ozzfest 2007 is going to be t-o-t-a-l-l-y free this summer. (She didn't say whether or not there would be more...
Obsessive: "Heroes" (Part 1)
The folks over at NBC got creative and designed not only Heroes.com, but the âofficial/unofficialâ 9thwonders.com. However, both are mostly pep rallies for the show. If you want to get...
When TV is not enough: DVD releases
They're like reruns, without the commercials: TV series released on DVD today.âAnything But Loveâ Volume OneWay before âThe West Wingâ and â24â made movie stars into TV stars, Jamie Lee...
Cruise Control
April 1 is way off, so there may actually be some truth to this report that Tom Cruise is seeking to rehabilitate his wacko image by poking fun at it...
Ghost Rider Opens Cold
Sony is dodging opening-day print reviews for "Ghost Rider,'' which opens a week from Friday. Critics are being invited to the premiere the night before the opening as well as...
Conspiracy Theory
It's a familiar scenario to us veteran Oscar watchers. A backlash begins developing against a frontrunner, we report on it, and somebody else in the media suggests we're being egged...
Uncoil the Whip
Paramount has announced May 22, 2008 as the official release date for the long-awaited -- and as-yet-untitled -- Indiana Jones movie, which will reunite the 64-year-old Harrison Ford with director...
A HIT FOR AMIS
WITH his new novel "House of Meetings," about a love triangle in Stalin's gulag, Martin Amis has received some of the most ecstatic reviews of his career. It followed "Yellow...
A 'WHEELY' BIG SHOW FOR ISAAC
Isaac Mizrahi didn't walk the runway for a cheering crowd yesterday - he rolled it. Ten days before his first Fashion Week show in two years, Mizrahi was in a...
IT'S OSCAR DELA GORGEOUS
In what was arguably the most gorgeous show yet - 56 looks, not a clunker in the lot - Oscar de la Renta's moody, decadent vision for fall was enough...
PERV HAS GOT A LOT OF NERVE
Fashion folk may be skinny and bitchy, but, at least at shows, they keep it in their pants. The Post's Raakhee Mirchandani caught up with Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher...
FASHION VICTIMS
THE big trend to emerge from this Fashion Week is something inscrutable, mysterious - dangerous, even. It's got that exoticism that fashion people find so appealing, and, like wearing glasses,...
MARCHESA
When all the world's a red carpet, the challenges of designing a collection of dresses are slightly less stringent. Still, keeping a fresh perspective in this realm does require something....
LUCA LUCA
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...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
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...
REEM ACRA
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...
ISAAC MIZRAHI
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...
JILL STUART
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...
REVIVAL CAN'T EVEN THE SCORE
NEW York City Ballet's revival of "Dybbuk" Friday night was more like a resuscitation - a return from the dead. And after all that, it may not even have been...
STARR REPORT
Silverman squared With apologies to Mel Brooks, it's good to be Ben Silverman. Silverman, the producer/ programmer responsible for "Ugly Betty," "The Office" and "The Biggest Loser" has inked a...
SIDEKICK TURNED SHRINK
SOME therapists have emergency numbers. Leila Kenzle has reruns. It is not uncommon for actors to become psychotherapists. But Kenzle is the only therapist who starred on a hit TV...
'LOST' AND CONFUSED
I admit it. I'm lost. The show I once loved so, which became too out-there for me, returns tomorrow night after a 13-week hiatus. Confusion reigned and I became a...
SOME SUPER RATINGS
SUNDAY'S Super Bowl snared a staggering 93.1 million viewers on CBS - the second-most-watched Super Bowl in history and the game's best numbers in 11 years. The Colts' sloppy 29-17...
'BUFFY' STORY CONTINUES IN COMIC BOOK
'BUFFY the Vampire Slayer" refuses to die. The beloved show, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a super-powered killer of the undead, has returned - as a comic book that...
GUESS STEWART THINKS IT'S SEXY
Maggie May she? Do you think I'm sexy rocker Rod Stewart played the part of exasperated father at the Marc Jacobs show last night, as his daughter Kimberly treated the...
CAROLINA HERRERA SHOW
Carolina Herrera, who is de la Renta's cohort in reliable elegance, was a bit more predictable. She opted for a far more reliably muted palette, veering off only with some...
NANETTE LEPORE SHOW
Nanette Lepore's customer is younger and cooler and poorer (on the fashionista sliding scale) than either de la Renta's or Herrera's - so her stuff is looser and feels a...
MAX AZRIA SHOW
Max Azria is in love with a fuller silhouette, so much so that the soundtrack for his namesake collection featured a song that chanted "Big girls, you are beautiful." While...
CHAIKEN SHOW
Chaiken designers Jeff Mahshie and Julie Chaiken really (in ital.) believe in gray for fall. The collection was a quarter of the way over before anything else was introduced, the...
LAM SHOW
After seeing so many swaddling layers and generous silhouettes and gauzy gowns - all of which seem to imply that designers think we will want cocoon ourselves and disappear, and...
KAI MILLA
Usually Kai Milla's shows are about her very famous husband Stevie Wonder. This time though, it was about her sweaters. Maybe it was the frigid temperatures outside, but her beautiful...
WAGES OF FAME
CELEBRITIES have plenty of advantages the rest of us don't - yachts, the ability to go clubbing despite having 11 children. But they also seem more likely to succumb to...
A BREAK FOR FRACTURES
THERE are 206 bones in your average human adult, and each one can be broken in myriad and troubling ways. Some breaks are minor and heal easily in a cast....
WTC 'FAMILY HOUSE' MOVED
A private trailer at Ground Zero that's been used by 9/11 family members to mourn their loved ones over the last four years will be relocated this month to make...
SITE CAUSES URBAN STRIFE
Who does Keith Urban think he is? Keith Urban, the country singer married to Nicole Kidman, is suing Keith Urban, the painter from New Jersey, over his KeithUrban.com Web site,...
RAW DEAL: ICY TEMPS ALL WEEK
Frigid. That's the chilling forecast until Friday at the earliest. The outlook is so grim that the city's Department of Homeless Services is deploying outreach teams around the clock to...
S.F. 'SEX' MAYOR IN BOOZE RX
A sexy New York TV host's ex-husband - the mayor of San Francisco, who admitted he had an affair before their divorce was finalized - announced yesterday he will begin...
MIKE: GOV PARES OUR FAIR $HARE
ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday ripped key parts of Gov. Spitzer's new $120.6 billion spending proposal, including the governor's plan to "unjustly" cut the city out of a longstanding municipal-aid...
DEGAS-DANCER THIEF PLIÉS GUILTY
It's still unclear exactly where the little bronze dancer is, but her thief will soon be going up the river. Thomas Doyle pleaded guilty yesterday in Manhattan to swindling the...
'COP-BASH THUG' NABBED
Two rookie cops yesterday chased down a Queens punk who, after stalking their Police Academy classmate, bashed his skull with a baseball bat and stole his gun and handcuffs, authorities...
BROOKLYN IS BOROUGH OF BUILD KINGS
Manhattan may be where the action is, but there were more residential building permits issued in Brooklyn last year than at any time since modern record-keeping began in 1965, according...
TOT SPENT DAYS WITH DEAD MA
A Bronx baby was found dehydrated, but otherwise healthy, after spending as many as five days alone in an apartment with his dead mother, who apparently had overdosed, police said...
BANK BULLETS
Police yesterday shot a Brooklyn bank robber who went berserk - lunging at cops menacingly with a knife - after a teller refused to give him cash, authorities said. Andy...
BLACK JUDGE DISSED
Disgraced Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman would not back a black judicial candidate in 2002 because he didn't believe an African-American could win a boroughwide race, according to bombshell...
BUS WAITS CREATE LITTLE 'CHILL'-DREN
Bone-chilling weather yesterday intensified concerns about unreliable school-bus service and prompted a slew of complaints from lawmakers, who called on the city to do away with the route changes. As...
BERRY KINKY CALL BEFORE MURDER
Just hours before he allegedly slashed his beautiful ex-girlfriend to death, Paul Cortez had strawberries and kinky sex on his mind, according to testimony in his murder trial yesterday. "Hi,...
FIANCÉE OF DEAD BIKER TO SUE COPS
The fiancée of a man who died in a motorcycle accident is suing the NYPD - claiming that he was mowed down by cops who then fled the scene, according...
'DRUNK DAD DITCHES TOT' AFTER CRASH
An allegedly drunken dad crashed a car into a pedestrian in Queens - then fled the vehicle, leaving his own injured 3-year-old son behind, police said yesterday. Melvis Fabian, 29,...
FIRE HERO OUT 560G TO SCHOOL
A firefighter who pulled a 3-year-old girl and her mother from a burning Queens building Sunday has seen his bank account go up in flames in a legal battle to...
COP-SLAY FIEND IN RAMPAGE
Crybaby cop killer Ronell Wilson went nuts during a jailhouse visit from his mother yesterday and smashed a chair through two windows. And now the tantrum may get him sent...
DEMS SET TO DEFY SPITZER
ALBANY - The Legislature is expected to vote tomorrow on a new state comptroller who sources say will likely be a current Long Island assemblyman - overriding Gov. Spitzer's demands...
'97 RAPIST GUILTY
A Long Island man is facing 23 years in prison after DNA connected him to the brutal home-invasion rape of a Queens Village woman nearly 10 years Ago, authorities said...
ELEVATOR SHAFTED
A mechanism that was supposed to keep a Queens elevator door in place failed a city inspection a year before two half-brothers plunged to their deaths after sending the door...
LOST GOYA SURVIVES ART ATTACK
A valuable Goya painting that was feared gone forever when it was stolen out of a van last year will soon be on display in Manhattan. The 1778 painting "Children...
IT PAYS TO WORK FOR HILLARY
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton handed out a slew of cash bonuses to her army of campaign staffers after winning her second Senate term last fall, new fund-raising records show....
DUBYA TAKES AX TO NEW YORK $ECURITY
WASHINGTON - President Bush's new budget slashes funding for the nation's top anti-terror-grant programs - including those that benefit New York most - infuriating lawmakers who thought the feds had...
'RUNNIN' MATES' JUDI 'N' RUDY AIM FOR '08
Sexy Judi Giuliani is keeping a tight lip-lock on her hubby as he moved even closer yesterday to officially announcing his presidential bid. As his loyal missus bared some of...
FRIEND KILLER GETS 19 YRS.
A Pennsylvania man who confessed to killing his friend in Queens two years ago in a fight over motorcycle parts was sentenced yesterday to 19 years behind bars. Roberto Polanco,...
SHE'S ASTRONUTS
A love-crazed female astronaut, disguised in a wig and trench coat, toted a knife to a Florida airport yesterday to hunt down her rival - another NASA worker allegedly having...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS Cops are searching for the person who fatally stabbed this Richmond Hill woman in her bathtub, investigators said. Priscilla Pimentel , 25, a Pennsylvania native, was stabbed in the...
PUTTING LIVES ON LINE FOR $25,000
HOURS after rookie cop Joseph Cho was almost debrained - allegedly by a 21-year-old city slime named Danny Fernandez - I got a letter from a man I do not...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 026; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 5198; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 286; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 5885;...
RUDY TEES UP
Rudy Giuliani, "America's mayor," has taken a giant step toward the White House. Yesterday, he filed a "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission - which means that he's...
WANTED: MEN OF HONOR
As soon as tomorrow, state lawmakers will make one of Albany's most sem inal decisions in years: picking the state's next comptroller. Why is that so important? It's not so...
CHOPPERS DOWN: WHAT TO DO
WITHIN two weeks, four choppers go down in Iraq. Shot down. By ene mies who previously couldn't hit the Goodyear Blimp. Attack helicopters and transport birds, military and contractor aircraft...
RUDY'S RIGHT STUFF
IT'S semi-pseudo-almost-nearly kind-of official: Rudy's running for president. Basically. In essence. He could change his mind. But he probably won't. Almost certainly. Which makes sense. Rudy Giuliani is leading the...
RANDI WANTS ALL THE COOKIES
WARREN Buffett once quipped, "You can't buy love. It's very irritating." Gov. Spitzer's now learning the lesson the hard way. Spitzer proposes $7 billion in new spending for New York...
AN UGLY INVOCATION
THE Democratic National Committee made a strange choice to deliver the invocation last Friday at its winter meeting: Husham al-Husainy - an extremist who has a long record of support...
HILL'S FORWARD MARCH - RIGHT OUT OF IRAQ
Of course Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will pledge to end the war in Iraq if that's what it takes to get elected president ("I'll End War," Feb. 3). She would...
THE POST'S OFF TRACK
To refer to the Saratoga trotters track as "posh" is ridiculous ("Snake Eyed," Feb. 5). There is a distinct difference between the prestigious flat track, the oldest flat track in...
ICAHN-OCLASTS
Rabble-rouser extraordinaire Carl Icahn has found a wingman in fellow billionaire Steve Cohen when Icahn has acquired stakes in some of his most recent high-profile targets. In the past few...
SPIELBERG STORM HAS VIACOM IN CLOUD
Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey wants to give star director Steven Spielberg what he wants - just as soon as he figures out exactly what that is. That's the inside...
LABOR'S 3-CARD MONTE
NEXT, the U.S. Labor Department will bring you a springtime economic boom. But you'll have to wait until May before you start to fully enjoy the next statistical farce. I...
WNBC BLOG EVENT FALLS FLAT ON E-MAIL REQUEST BLUNDER
Jeff Zucker, who's set to take over as CEO of NBC Universal to tackle the challenges the Internet poses to TV land, might want to dole out some advice to...
ION TAKES LOWER ROAD FOR LATE NIGHT PROGRAMMING
ION Media, owner of the family-friendly television network formerly known as Paxson, will soon be airing new late-night programming from Bodog, a brash company best known for defying U.S. laws...
JEFF'S NEW BAG
As Jeff Zucker prepares to be officially named the CEO of NBC Universal, it's unclear how much power he'll have in his new role. Two sources close to NBC said...
EXITS FROM NEWMARK LEAVE BUY OPENING
Three leaders of Newmark Knight Franks' retail group jumped ship last week, and it has led NKF to begin scouting another company acquisition to beef up its retail ranks. The...
ICAHN TARGETS CAR-SEAT MAKER
Billionaire rebel investor Carl Icahn yesterday offered to buy struggling car-seat maker Lear Corp. for $2.7 billion - a price several big investors said was beyond cheap. Icahn's move, which...
POMERANC'S SMYTH TO BE CUTTING-EDGE
Hotelier Jason Pomeranc is bringing one of his cutting-edge hotels to the border of the Financial District. And this time he's adding residential units to the mix. The owner of...
PLAYING IT SAFE
Snickers - whose ad featuring two men kissing was one of the biggest winners of Super Bowl night - has ended up a big loser. Its parent company announced it...
VIEW FROM THE TOWER
TOURING the skeletal innards of Bank of America Tower at 1 Bryant Park, the fast-rising 54-story skyscraper at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, is to witness Manhattan's post-9/11 renaissance in...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Giants' Pierce headed to Pro Bowl Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce was named to the NFC's Pro Bowl roster, replacing Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, who suffered a toe injury in...
DUNGY BACK? LIKELY, BUT ...
MIAMI - Tony Dungy yesterday continued to leave the door open regarding whether he'll return to coach the Colts next season. "Every year probably in the last three or four...
FOR BETTOR OR WORSE
As Robert Walker sat down to watch Super Bowl XLI, his first thought was: "As long as Devin Hester doesn't run back the kickoff we'll be all right." Walker had...
'07 TEAM WILL BEAR RESEMBLANCE TO SUPE UNIT
Whether the Bears are able to get back to a Super Bowl any time soon remains to be seen, but if they don't, they won't be able to blame wholesale...
BLACK AND WHITE
IN THE 1975 NBA Finals, Al Attles' Warriors beat K.C. Jones' Bullets in four straight games. It was the first time two African-American head coaches (assisted by another; the most...
ANYBODY CAN TALK TROPHY
MIAMI - The rejoicing will be loudest and most fervent in Indianapolis, of course, because that is where the Lombardi Trophy is going to reside for the next 52 weeks,...
COLTS QUARTERBACK SITTING IN SEVENTH HEAVEN
MIAMI - Peyton Manning can now arguably take his place among the top seven quarterbacks of the game, and if and when he wins another Big One, he will jump...
MANNING'S NOW AMONG GREATS
MIAMI - To the very end, to the climactic moment when Peyton Manning was finally able to do what he'd envied other Super Bowl MVP quarterbacks doing for all these...
PEYTON: ELI CAN BE SUPER
As Sunday night was blending into Monday morning, Eli Manning was going at it with big brother Peyton, hugging and celebrating - but mostly analyzing. The Bears safeties, Eli observed,...
VEGAS FAVORS GANG GREEN OVER BIG BLUE
The Jets are the kings of New York football in the eyes of Las Vegas odds makers. MGM Mirage has Gang Green as a 25-1 shot to win next year's...
FRYE ADJUSTING TO NOT STARTING
Channing Frye remained the good soldier yesterday, having been bumped from his starting spot by Jerome James. Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas continued to talk about what Frye needed to do...
JEROME COOKIN'
The signing of Jerome James to a $30 million contract before last year is looked at by most as the biggest disaster of Isiah Thomas' ugly reign over the Knicks,...
OH, BABY! PIAZZA'S A DAD
Mike Piazza will have to learn how to change some diapers. Three days ago, he and his wife, Alicia, had a daughter, Nicoletta Veronica. It's the couple's first baby and...
METS LEFTY OUT FOR 3 MONTHS
Dave Williams could require three months of rehab before he is able to pitch for the Mets, his agent said yesterday. The left-hander had surgery last Wednesday for a herniated...
DEALING WITH SOME REAL FOUL SHOOTING
PHILADELPHIA - Free throws have been anything but free lately for the Nets. In fact, they've been downright costly. The Nets were ghastly again for a fourth straight game last...
ALL OUT OF LUCK
PHILADELPHIA - Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. Of course, if you're the Nets these days, it doesn't matter either way. The Nets haven't been very good lately,...
WING-DINGED
Well, at least this much is clear with yesterday's acquisition of Sean Avery, and that is, if the Rangers are going to keep losing, at least they'll do so with...
JAGR'S SHOULDER LEAVES RANGERS LOOKIN' UNHINGED
THAT'S a lot of dead weight Jaromir Jagr is trying to lift with a weak left shoulder. His center, Michael Nylander, shoots the puck about as often as Glen Sather...
JORGE: PACT NO ISSUE
Jorge Posada is already working out in Tampa, and he said he won't be distracted by a contract issue this season. Posada, who will be in the final year of...
KEEP IT CLEAN
Traveling to the sub-continent always feels like an exhausting but fascinating interplanetary journey. It is, as billed, incredible. Colors are brighter, the animals we wouldn't otherwise look twice at somehow...
ALL AT THE MALL
WHAT do Bombay and Paramus have in common? If you need to buy something, chances are you're heading for the mall. The city once famous for mom and pop fabric...
BREATHE EASY
AMATRRA SPA AT THE HOTEL ASHOK New Delhi With 45,000 square feet of space, this smart day spa in the diplomatic district of Delhi is a local favorite because of...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN
THERE'S a burgeoning Big Man On Campus in the global tourism wars - China! Surprised? We were, too. But this being the Chinese Year of the Pig and all, it's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A group of nuns fled their convent and holed up inside a Greek monastery after their knitting business went bust, leaving them $1 million in debt. The controversial order, from...
STRATEGIES: 12 step program for curing the New York blues
The lobby of the Four Seasons, home to the Ty Lounge The worst thing about being down on New York isn't that you aren't feeling your hometown - its that...
ADDRESS BOOK: Bombay boutique crawl
Whym in Bandra, by Raakhee Mirchandani If you read Raahkee Mirchandani's whirlwind shopping Bombay/Mumbai story in the paper today and were left wondering how to find the addresses of her...
Yankees doings
Jorge Posada is already working out in Tampa, and Alex Rodriguez is coming to New York on Tuesday. Posada spoke about his contract situation with a reporter from the Associated...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Feb. 4
SNEAKIEST REASON TO UPLOAD A CHEESE/BEEFCAKE GALLERY: We would have talked about the travel section but were too busy flipping through the photo gallery for Larry Rohter's up-front story on...