March 19, 2007
After the Boston Beatdown
The Rangers decimated Boston, chasing Tim Thomas and then forcing his return when they continued their offensive success against Joey MacDonald. Tonight, they face Pittsburgh, to whom they blew a...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamELIE TAHARI 520 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor, between 42nd and 43rd streets; (212) 398-2622Sale: March 28 to 31. Wed.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m./Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Merchandise from the fall...
This week's downloadable console content
Is your console online? If the answer is yes, then you can mess around with these games:Today on the Wii Virtual Console:· Excitebike (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) -...
MAILBAG MONDAY
Time for Monday mail call.Has the Hall of Fame veterans committee worn out its welcome?I got this note from the relatives of Johnny Murphy, the great Yankee reliever, the first...
Hello, "Halo"
In case you missed it, Microsoft and Bungie Studios confirmed that there will be three editions of "Halo 3." A trinity of them, if you will. Depending on the level...
TEAMMATES SET TO TANGLE IN LEGENDS MANIA
Thanks to your votes, former New York legendary teammates meeting head-to-head is the theme this week as the Postâs Legends Mania field rolls into the Round of 16... In the...
Day off
By MARK HALE There's no game for the Mets today, as they're off. This morning, though, John Maine, Billy Wagner and Aaron Heilman all threw in a simulated game at...
20 Commandments
We got a sneak peak at the Spring/Summer 2007 Vogue Hommes International...Our favorite page so far in the newly relaunched magazine, editorially directed by Carine Roitfeld, the coolest woman in...
Go Tell the Bart-ans
Strange that Variety editor Peter Bart is denouncing film critics as flabby little girlymen for not liking "300," "Ghost Rider" and, uh, "Wild Hogs" when his own staff is so...
In the trenches
If you're planning to brave the masses and hit H&M early Thursday morning to score some M by Madonna listen to this- the first 250 customers at the 5th Avenue...
Sparta in Ancient Times--1962
What got Frank Miller obsessed with the story of the 300 in the first place was "The 300 Spartans," a 1962 epic that, although it suffers from tin-man acting by...
Deal of the Day
The Victoria's Secret catalog does more than provide Tara Reid with the bulk of her wardrobe. They actually have some cute pieces that aren't solely meant to be worn under...
COMING UP: Live, from onboard the biggest plane ever!
THE A380: Don't point that thing at me/by Andrew Hunt, Singapore AirlinesResidents of outer Queens and southwestern Nassau, if you happen to look up around 1230pm EST and see a...
Day 38: Can The Yanks and Phillies Trade?
The Phillies and Yankees play four times in spring training, which means they get to size each other up pretty well during March. And maybe I am the only one...
CAUGHT IN A MOUSE TRAP
WHEN John Ambrose, 24, interviews for jobs as a legal associate, he doesn't cite his hobbies as "anything that doesn't involve reading boring law books" or describe himself as a...
DREAM JOB: JONATHAN NEWBURY
IMAGINE a job in which you get to travel to exotic locations all over the world and stay in the most exclusive luxury hotels for free. Your job: to see...
GO TO GREG
Q. ACCORDING to a recent survey, attractiveness is such an important factor in career success that it can compensate for lack of talent. That's demoralizing to the "average Joes" of...
'NET WORKING
MARCUS Presley isn't looking for a job, but that doesn't mean he isn't being propositioned by recruiters. A project manager who just left a Wall Street firm for a major...
TAKING OFF
When they walk into a meeting, business partners Mary Kay Bowden, Kim Willson and Morgan Harbin are hard to miss. First there's the matching blond blowouts and the high-spirited camaraderie....
VICTORIA CLAFLIN WOODHULL - A WOMAN OF "FIRSTS"
As New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bids to become America's first female president, today's page looks at the woman who tried it first - 135 years ago. Victoria Claflin...
SPRING AWAKENING
TIME to get dressed. Dresses were the new key piece last spring, and they are once again the most important must-have of the season. An adult version of the onesie,...
'JACK' CAST SAILS
DESPITE its title, not a whole lot goes on "Jack Goes Boating," the new production presented by the LAByrinth Theater Company starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. This play by Bob Glaudini...
DANCING WITH SCISSORS - STILL A BAD IDEA
EVEN those who loved Mat thew Bourne's imaginatively conceived version of "Swan Lake" - the one with those fiercely menacing male swans - might not take so readily to his...
KNOCKOUT A 'TRACE
On "Without a Trace," Roselyn Sanchez is Elana, a young FBI agent who has to prove that she belongs on the elite New York Missing Persons Squad. "She couldn't be...
IT WAS A KILLER WEDDING
IT certainly doesn't hurt to be a John Waters fan if you're watching tonight's premiere of Court TV's first original, scripted series "'Til Death Do Us Part." It's an oddball...
COWELL GETTING DRAMATIC
LIKE American Indians who found a use for every part of the buf falo, "American Idol" kingpin Simon Cowell is producing a drama about the backstage turmoil at a TV...
MORE GIFTS FROM 'IDOL'
THE power of "American Idol" isn't just helping game shows like "Are You as Smart as a Fifth Grader?" to big ratings - it is juicing the news, too. An...
GOLDEN PASS TO REEL WORLD
LIGHTS, camera, friction! Perhaps the most hotly anticipated reality show of the summer - Fox's "On the Lot," a collaboration between DreamWorks honcho Steven Spielberg and reality guru Mark Burnett...
LIFE ON 'MARS' STILL HOPE
REPORTS that "Vero nica Mars" will be cancelled after this season are melting faster than the weekend snows. Last week, the entertainment Web sites started hanging black crepe all over...
MTA MAY FOLD THE METROCARD
The MetroCard may soon go the way of the token. The MTA is looking to move from its swipe card system to the kind of radio-frequency identification that powers EZ-Pass,...
'GREEN LIGHT' FOR SCALPERS
ALBANY - Ticket scalping could soon be legal in New York. Broadway-theater owners and producers have dropped their longstanding opposition to lifting the state cap on how much resellers can...
KOSHER COKE A BIG HIT
Why is this Coke different from all other Cokes? It's kosher for Passover. And even non-Jews are thirsty for the limited batch of Coca-Cola because of a very special ingredient...
HILL IN 9/11 'SHOP' CHOP AT W.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night used a celeb-studded Midtown fund-raiser to blast President Bush for telling New Yorkers to "go shopping" after 9/11. Clinton, introduced at the event by...
SHEL FIRM HIRED FOR N.Y. COUNTIES' SUITS
Powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Manhattan law firm has been hired by three upstate counties to represent them in lawsuits against drug companies - a potential conflict of interest, The...
HOGWASH! STATE SPA'S 'PURE' LIES
SARATOGA SPRINGS - New York state has deceived tens of thousands of patrons of the famed Saratoga Spa State Park by secretly mixing standard chlorinated drinking water into pure -...
TWO HOTHEAD FIREFIGHTERS BUSTED FOR 'ASSAULTS'
Two Brooklyn firefighters were arrested in a pair of unrelated but vicious assaults over the weekend, police said yesterday. Harry Pfeiffer, 27, and two other men were apprehended after a...
NAOMI'S 5 DAYS OF BAD MUCK
Instead of designer clothes, she'll have a big broom. And tantrums definitely will be out. But when anger-challenged Naomi Campbell reports for community service today, there should be plenty of...
'GASSED' OUT
Deadly doses of poisonous carbon monoxide spewing from a burning Con Ed manhole nearly killed two women after it spread across a sidewalk and seeped into their Brooklyn homes yesterday....
15 BUSTED AT GARDEN HOOPS RIOT
Fifteen people were arrested at Madison Square Garden last night when a riot broke out at a high-school basketball game and spilled into the street and then the subway, sources...
KIN-FRAME CLAIM BY MURDERER PELOSI
Convicted killer Danny Pelosi claims his brother-in-law, accused sextortion cop Guy Giammatteo, and the officer's sister framed him for the murder of millionaire Ted Ammon. In a jailhouse interview, Pelosi...
SCHOOL BOOK UPROAR
A group of Korean-American parents is demanding an award-winning memoir be yanked from libraries and reading lists at city middle schools because of what they say are historically distorted, racist...
A HERO'S FAREWELL
A 19-year-old auxiliary cop - one of two unarmed law enforcers slain by a mad gunman on a Greenwich Village street - was laid to rest yesterday as mourners remembered...
GUNS AREN'T ENOUGH - POLS WANT BULLET CONTROL
Getting guns off the street is not enough to stop violent crime, a group of lawmakers said yesterday. You have to stop the bullets, too. "For far too long we...
SEARING MEMORY
The Bronx fire that killed nine children and one adult was the deadliest in New York City since the Happy Land blaze in 1990. DANNEMORA, N.Y. - TV footage of...
YANKEES LEAVING TOP FANS TIXED OFF
With Opening Day just two weeks away, the Yankees have failed to set up a promised Internet site where season-ticket holders can resell seats to games they can't attend. Not...
PROBLEMS LOOM AT THE BALL 'PARK'
Big Apple baseball fans who want to see the Mets and Yankees drive in first-inning runs had better go by train. Both teams have warned that gridlock could keep thousands...
ANTI-WAR RALLY JAMS MIDTOWN
Thousands of protestors marched through Midtown yesterday to call for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. A hodgepodge of organizations and individuals - ranging from local unions to...
GIVE MORE MED AID TO VETERANS: N.Y. DEMS
Two New York congressional representatives yesterday called for an additional $3.4 billion over President Bush's $1.2billion emergency spending proposal aimed at curing an ailing military health-care service. "The dismal resources...
GUARD OFF TRACK: CHUCK
A satellite-tracking system intended to monitor ships heading to U.S. ports beginning this spring won't be ready until 2014 - because the Coast Guard has ignored a congressional mandate to...
'BRIBE JUDGE' TRIAL TODAY
"The green makes him love you." More than four years ago, a shady businessman uttered those words to Frieda Hanimov, confirming in her mind her fears that the Brooklyn judge...
SUV MAIMS B'KLYN MOM
A Brooklyn mom may lose her leg after it was mangled yesterday when an SUV jumped a curb in Brooklyn and struck her, her 12-year-old daughter and an elderly man...
ID-THEFT SHOCK AT TAX-PREP FIRM
Last year, the IRS and the state Department of Taxation and Finance refunded Bronx resident Najat Redmond about $7,300 after her income-tax returns claimed deductions that included two kids. Problem...
BIG TOUCHDOWN AT JFK
Long the behemoth of the skies, the 747 will be more jumbo shrimp than jumbo jet when the football-field-sized Airbus A380 touches down at Kennedy Airport today. The giant plane...
'HOME' TO AFRICA SOIL
BAMAKO, Mali - In the end, the red African soil reclaimed its own. After days of emotional uncertainty, Mamadou Soumare's four children and wife were finally buried yesterday where he...
IRAQIS' UPBEAT VIEWS
On the eve of tomorrow's fourth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new poll finds that most Iraqis believe life is better for them now than under Saddam Hussein. And...
'300' IS NO. 1 IN WEEK 2
"300" wouldn't retreat, defeating its box-office competition and staying at the top of the pack for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates. "The historical epic for the MTV...
GOP RIPS CHUCK OVER AG
WASHINGTON - Republicans blasted Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday for his efforts to confront the White House over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys - accusing the New York lawmaker of...
JUDGE 'BOOTY'
The judge wasn't just married by the mob. They put a roof over her head, too. Jailed Luchese underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso claims he paid $80,000 during the 1980s for...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A bartender was arrested for molesting a female patron in a Kensington pub after luring her into a dark room, authorities said yesterday. Ramtahal Deneshwar, 35, was busted Friday...
PURE CHANCE
LADIES, get him while he's hot - and pure. Last week, I intro duced you to Herb Shaw, a 23-year-old cheesecake distributor who lives in his parents' attic, spends most...
GOV PUMP$ LOBBY BIGS IN UNION WAR
GOV. SPITZER is hitting up some of the state's most powerful lobbyists in order to counter the multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign aimed at blocking his proposed $1 billion-plus Medicaid cut. Spitzer,...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 297; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4820; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 780; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 0633;...
RANDI AND THE RUBBER ROOMS
United Federation of Teachers presi dent Randi Weingarten seems to have fallen down on the job. An important segment of her constituency lacks fair representation This must end. Teachers facing...
BASHFUL FAT CATS
Well. New York's hospital fat cats fi nally admit that Gov. Spitzer is right about Albany's wasteful "health-care" spending. In particular, they're embarrassed by their own astronomical salaries. That's the...
IRAQ YEAR 4: PRESERVING VICTORY
AS the world this week marks the fourth anniver sary of the Iraq war's start, the right and wrongs of the U.S.-led mission remains a hot topic of debate. Those...
PACIFIC POWER PLAY
RECENT military news out of China includes double trouble. First, Beijing an nounced a jaw-dropping 18 percent jump in its defense budget - 5 percentage points more than last year's...
BUDGET BUSTERS
THERE was a time when Republicans in New York prided themselves as the arbiters of fiscal accountability and responsibility. They chided Democrats as "tax-and-spend liberals" and said only Republican restraint...
W UNDERMINES ANTI-PORK PUSH
AS part of "Sunshine Week" to promote transparent government, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) last Monday was supposed to release a com prehensive database revealing the number and...
COUNCIL'S DOUBLE PLAY: BANNING BATS AND FATS
If there is no discernible difference between the effects of a metal bat and a wooden bat, why do bat manufacturers spend a fortune advertising the exact opposite ("Metal-Bat Ban...
IRAN CASTS ITSELF AS EVIL
According to the newspaper Ayandeh-No's headline, "Hollywood declares war on Iranians" ("Iran Blasts '300,' Editorial, March 14). Well, it's about time someone has. Georgia Craig Cary, N.C. Imagine if today's...
'QUOTES' ARE A COP-OUT
I take exception to putting the word "cops" in quotes when describing auxiliary police officers; it's insulting to a group of people who volunteer their time to help protect the...
A TALE OF RICHES
Dethroned media baron Conrad Black will be back in court here today, where he'll hear prosecutor Jeff Cramer tell jurors that he's a common crook who treated his newspaper company,...
MYSPACE NUDGES USERS INTO POLITICS
Social networking site MySpace aims to help capture the youth vote in '08 with a new section dedicated to politics. The "Impact Channel" will launch with profiles of 10 presidential...
TO 'ELLIE' AND BACK
The National Magazine Award nominations came out last week and The Post takes a look at this week's offerings from some of the honorees in the "Ellie" competition.The New Yorker,...
TO MAIL OR NOT TO MAIL IS MARKETERS' QUESTION
First came the national "do not call" list. Then there was talk of a "do not e-mail" registry. Now, more than a dozen states from Hawaii to New York are...
PARTY HEARTY HEDGE
Ex-Jefferies salesman Kevin Quinn, whose idea of client entertainment got him in big trouble with securities regulators, is in the process of opening up a hedge fund in Boston. Quinn's...
DESIGNERS LAUNCH NEW LOOK
After selling their last company, Enyce, to Liz Claiborne for $114 million, partners Evan Davis and Tony Shellman should be enjoying early retirement. Instead, they are launching a new company,...
BULLET TRAIN
The detective indicted for reckless endangerment for his role in the 50-bullet barrage that killed groom-to-be Sean Bell was charged because of an errant shot that struck an AirTrain platform...
WIS-GONE-SIN
CHICAGO - When he transferred out to the Las Vegas desert, he did so for the rare opportunity to play his final year for his father, veteran coach Lon Kruger....
HOT 'HAWKS
CHICAGO - Do not blink if you want to catch a glimpse of a team that unquestionably can stay alive in the brackets as long, or longer, than anyone else....
LAW & ODEN SHOW
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Ohio State and Texas A&M, both winners out of the NCAA Tournament's Lexington region, move on to San Antonio this week each riding the respective backs of...
'DOG DAYS
The 2006 Preseason NIT championship trophy sits next to the Hoosier Classic championship trophy in the glass case just outside the basketball coach's office in Hinkle Fieldhouse, a basketball temple...
LINCOLN CAPTURES BRAWL-MARRED TITLE
In a game marred by fights in the stands, Lance Stephenson managed to take control of last night's PSAL AA championship game, leading Lincoln to a 77-50 win over Boys...
CTK BOYS, GIRLS UPSET
It was a rough day yesterday for Christ the King. First, the boys team lost to Rice, 44-41, when Kemba Walker drilled an off-balance 3-pointer at the buzzer for the...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Nadal captures Pacific Life Rafael Nadal won his first title since the French Open, beating Novak Djokovic 6-2, 7-5 yesterday in the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Calif....
THE CHAMP IS BACK
Is Street Sense, named 2-year-old champion after taking last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile by a record 10 lengths, the long-awaited colt who'll finally break the dreaded "Breeders' Cup Jinx"? Since...
BALKIN' TALL
Eddy Curry was flagged with his fourth foul in the opening minute of the third quarter, forcing him to the bench for rookie forward Renaldo Balkman. It became the turning...
GETTING TO KNOW RENALDO
WITH 4:07 remaining in the Knicks' 92-74 blowout victory over the Raptors yesterday, the Garden stood as one and offered an apology to Renaldo Balkman. A Knicks victory was assured....
A TASTE FOR CURRY
Eddy Curry's decline continued yesterday, but Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas said he is addicted to his center and not looking to reduce his role. Curry got in foul trouble and...
DUQUE'S STYLE GETS CRAMPED
JUPITER, Fla. - Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez bunted his way out of his second start of the spring yesterday. He was set to at least start his fifth inning in...
REYES' POWER IS NOT A JOKE
JUPITER, Fla. - After he homered and returned to the dugout yesterday, Jose Reyes said nobody joked with him about his power. "No, because they know it's not part of...
SEVENTH HEAVEN
The task was simple, really. Win and stay in. Lose and temporarily tumble out of the playoff picture. So the Nets resorted to something they have done occasionally - if...
RANGERS LET KIDS LOOSE
It is essentially impossible to disprove a double negative, and so there is no way to know that the Rangers wouldn't be better off today had they recalled young forwards...
SLAM THE DOOR
TAMPA - Jason Giambi believes the Yankees - or at least the Yankees hitters - are already ready for 2007. If Mike Mussina and company can pitch as consistently well...
MOOSE BUSTS LOOSE
TAMPA - Mike Muss ina fell behind the Pirates' leadoff hitter, Chris Duffy, 3-0, yesterday when someone yelled, "Throw strikes." No, it was not Brian Cashman, Joe Torre or Ron...
ABREU'S PENCILED IN AS DH
TAMPA - It's in pencil, not ink. But you can write in Bobby Abreu as the Yankees' designated hitter for tomorrow night's home game. Abreu, who took batting practice with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Superior, Wis., man, who graduated from high school in 1977, was forced to pay two charges to his alma mater last week before he was able to get a...