March 20, 2007
Pelfrey solid
By MARK HALEMike Pelfrey just tossed five innings against the Orioles, giving up only one run on seven hits.Pelfrey didn't walk anybody, striking out one.The one run the 23-year-old gave...
NIGHT MOVES
Spring training night games, another bad idea. Isnât the whole point of spring training to drink cold beverages and sit in the sun and get roasted. Iâm sitting here watching...
Sierra is gone
By MARK HALEOmar Minaya has just announced that the Mets gave Ruben Sierra his release. Minaya said Sierra was hoping to play with another club. If he doesn't go somewhere...
First Day of Spring Shopping Event
Katra217 Bowery St., at Rivington Street(212) 473-3113Sale: March 21. 6 to 9 p.m.Celebrate the first day of spring with a night of shopping at this party that includes drinks, food,...
Six-Way Shootout
There are a ridiculous six titles opening in wide release Friday. Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls, who has a pipeline to tracking surveys commissioned by the studios, reckons the Mark...
Curry's back/game sore
By MARC BERMAN Knicks center Eddy Curry woke up with a stiff back this morning and did not participate in the morning shootaround. The Knicks still say he should play...
Deja Vu All Over Again
Reader Pete Rukavena relieved his ordeal of watching the Sandra Bullock chick-flick-in-thriller drag "Premonition'' in this e-mail, which he has graciously allowed me to share with you: "I was forced...
Gripping! Terrifying! Electrifying!
Congratulations to Pete Hammond of Maxim (pictured here with Peter Falk), who leads the first 2007 tally of what Erik Childress at eFilmCritic delicately refers to as "quote whores.'' According...
Peter Principle
Peter Bogdanovich's career has taken lots of strange twists since "The Last Picture Show'' launched him as an A-list director 30 years ago. Now Peter and his manager are being...
Deal of the Day
End of season bargains are such a sweet treat, and these Seychelles short lace up leather boots from Urban Outfitters are no exception.Marked down from $150 to $29.99, the sleek...
Battles Continue in Mania's Round of 16
After two rounds and more than 35,000 votes, you've narrowed the field to 16. Check some of the matchups: Clyde vs. Willis, The Mick vs. The Babe, Messier vs. Leetch,...
Francis, Supes and Elisha
Is Francis Coppola's time-traveling "Youth Without Youth'' -- his first film in a decade -- NOT going to make its long-anticipated premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival? That's what...
Day 39: Beating Up The Nationals
Go ahead, think your worst thought about the Met rotation. Your absolute worst thought. Now multiply that by 10 and you are still not close to how bad the Washington...
MPFREES
Brandi Carlile, "Wasted" In this midtempo rock ballad's chorus of "Do-do-do's," young Brandi Carlile says don't - but still gets sucked into the maelstrom where good women are attracted to...
BAGS IN BLOOM
SPRING has a brand-new bag - and we're all over it for Part 2 of our Spring Style Special. The cool color this season is white, but the new totes...
MUSIC'S AUSTIN POWER
AUSTIN, Texas - With long lines, changing lineups and more than 1,400 acts to chose from at the just-concluded South by Southwest Music Festival here, sometimes you just leave it...
TO BOLDLY GO FROM 'STAR TREK' CAPTAIN TO 1860S ACTRESS
WHEN you've been your own leading lady as long as Charles Busch has, you know the territory. So, for Busch's new play - about 19th-century actress Laura Keene from "Our...
STARR REPORT
'Idol' rivalry "American Idol" is still going great guns in the rat ings department - but you won't see the top 12 finalists performing on "Entertain ment Tonight" anymore. You...
JUDY'S JINX
'JUDGE Judy" Sheindlin, meet Susan Lucci. Two of daytime TV's most popular stars have something in common - their quest for a Daytime Emmy. Lucci, the longtime siren of "All...
SPELLING BEE & BEE
IF "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" were the first reality show to expose a Hollywood couple's day-to-day life, it might be worth the watch. But it's been done. And unfortunately,...
HOOP-HOOP HURRAY FOR '60' SIMON
LIKE everything else as sociated with "Ameri can Idol," Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" featuring an interview with Simon Cowell hit the ratings jackpot. The CBS newsmagazine nearly doubled the...
'GALACTICA' PREPARES FOR END
'BATTLESTAR Galactica" may be making its final landing after next year. The creators of Sci Fi Channel's acclaimed space opera are consider ing ending it after its fourth season, according...
EMMY 'BURNSTYN' RULE
THE Emmy's will never be the same - the so-called "Burstyn rule" is in full effect. The rule, in which a person must be onscreen for at least 5 percent...
STRETCHES KEEP GOLFERS SWINGING
WHAT do Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Davis Love III have in common - with you? Unless you've won a major and routinely hit double birdies, not much, you're thinking....
WATERED-DOWN SPA FINALLY COMES CLEAN
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer ended years of deception at the Saratoga Spa State Park yesterday by ordering the posting of notices to disclose that the supposedly pure "natural mineral spring...
POL BIDS TO STRIKE OUT YANKS' TICKET PLAN
ALBANY - A key assemblyman wants to brush back the Yankees' attempt to rescind season tickets for fans who resell their seats on StubHub.com, eBay and other Internet sites, The...
NAOMI MAKES BOOT-Y CALL
Ill-tempered temptress Naomi Campbell turned community service into a one-woman fashion show yesterday, strutting for cameras on her way into and out of a Lower East Side Sanitation depot like...
IT'S GAME OVER AFTER MSG RIOT
Education officials took the extraordinary step of banning all nighttime high-school basketball games after a riot during the championship game at Madison Square Garden spilled out onto the streets, leading...
'50 SHOT' COPS FACE 50+ YRS.
Two cops who fired 42 of 50 shots at Sean Bell could face more than half a century behind bars after their indictment yesterday in the death of the unarmed...
ZIP-SPLIT IDENTITY CRISIS ON UPPER E. SIDE
The Upper East Side is getting zippier. The city's tony Gold Coast - which boasts the cachet-rich 10021 ZIP code - will be broken up into three ZIP-code nuggets by...
BIG SKY COUNTRY
The mammoth Airbus A380 maneuvers like a sports car in the sky, one of its pilots said yesterday after the world's largest passenger jet touched down at Kennedy Airport -...
SCHOOL JANITOR RAPED GIRL: COPS
A Brooklyn grade-school janitor was arrested yesterday after he raped and sodomized an 8-year-old girl, police said. Francis Evelyn, 58, a custodian at PS 91 in Crown Heights, forced himself...
NEW HIGH IN PAY-TO-SWAY
ALBANY - Special-interest groups spent a record $151 million on lobbying in the Capitol last year - with the health-care industry leading the way at $22.3 million, according to a...
'DRUG TRIO' SUBJECT TO HEAVY TOLL
Three men were caught with 110 bags of cocaine at the Triborough Bridge after they didn't have enough money to pay the toll, authorities said yesterday. The driver, Jesus Cancal,...
IT 'WORKS OUT' WELL FOR THIS FITNESS BUFF
Julia Kouyoumdjian, an athletic, 19-year-old NYU student, quit smoking because it was affecting her workouts. "I find when I exercise, it's harder when I smoke. I felt it during my...
9/11 ORPHAN PSYCH WOES
Three-quarters of children who lost a parent on 9/11 suffered from psychiatric illnesses after the attacks, including anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress and depression, according to a study released yesterday. Before...
GALS KICK BUTTS
Young women are stamping out their cigarettes in stunning numbers, new city Health Department figures show. The number of female smokers in the city has plummeted by 123,000 since 2002,...
DISGRACED COKE COP: I'M GUILTY
A crooked cop pleaded guilty yesterday to chauffeuring his bad-news brother on cocaine deliveries and picking up dirty cash for a Bronx drug ring - all while brazenly toting his...
PET-FOOD PANIC IN APPLE
The chilling announcement yesterday that seven animals had died during a manufacturer's testing of tainted food had city pet owners rushing to return the recalled products and fearful for their...
PARENT PROTEST SHAKES SCHOOL-SHAKEUP MEETING
Dozens of angry parents, students and activists last night disrupted a panel meeting headed by Chancellor Joel Klein, in protest of his planned reorganization of the city's school system. Chanting,...
SHOCK VID OF BRIBERY JUDGE: DA
Let's go to the videotape. Brooklyn prosecutors opened their bribery case against disgraced former judge Gerald Garson yesterday, promising hours of wiretaps and surveillance videos of corrupt wheeling and dealing...
CRIME SCENE SHUTTING FOR GOOD
De Marco's Pizzeria, the Village eatery where homicidal madman David Garvin gunned down a bartender to start the murderous rampage that left two unarmed auxiliary cops dead, won't reopen for...
BRUSH WITH A KILLER
A Long Island commodities trader yesterday claimed he had a violent face-off with madman David Garvin only days before the gunman went on a bloody killing spree in Greenwich Village....
TELLER AT 'VAULT' IN 90G HEIST
A Long Island bank-vault teller was caught on surveillance video slashing open moneybags, swiping wads of cash, and resealing the plastic sacks with a stapler, authorities said yesterday. Execs at...
NO HEDGE IN JAILING MOM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The scam-artist mom of an NYU whiz kid who swindled $7.5 million from investors in a phony hedge fund was sentenced yesterday to serve two years...
BUDGET WATCHDOG BITES INTO STATE SENATE GOP
ALBANY - A fiscal watchdog yesterday ripped Senate Republicans for trying to break the bank in their fight against Gov. Spitzer's proposed budget. Diana Fortuna, executive director of the nonpartisan...
SEA BEAST CONFESSES
WASHINGTON - A one-legged terror suspect who tried to join the Sept. 11 hijackers has admitted a major role in the deadly attack against the USS Cole in 2000, according...
DIRECTOR ACCUSED OF SCAM
Oscar-nominated director Peter Bogdanovich and his manager swindled $100,000 from the father of an aspiring filmmaker - demanding cash for a job in movies and then leaving them in the...
HAIR 'TRIGGER'
Wigged-out rock producer Phil Spector has gone from "Bride of Frankenstein" to "Meet the Beatles," sporting a new blond mop top - and a new wife - as he arrived...
TV CHANNEL SURFING'S UP
Now there's proof that TV really is taking over our lives. The average number of channels available in U.S. homes jumped from 96.4 to 104.2 in 2006, according to a...
HALF-MIL HITS ON 'NET AD THAT HAMMERS HILL
WASHINGTON - A scathing parody of Sen. Hillary Clinton exploded across the Internet yesterday, as more than 500,000 people viewed a re-edited Apple computer ad that casts the former first...
PUCKY BREAK
Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice yesterday announced she will not prosecute New York Islander Chris Simon for bashing Ryan Hollweg of the Rangers in the face with his stick. "After...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx* A man found his roommate dead in their Grand Concourse apartment, police said yesterday. The 39-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld pending family notification, was strangled. His...
SEEKING STAR TREATMENT AMID THE GARBAGE
THE toilets would just have to wait. Naomi Campbell stewed in the back of her chauffeur-driven Cadillac Escalade before the gate of the Sanitation depot. Ten minutes passed. We feared...
IT'S CRIMINAL TO DECLARE THIS MURDER
THE sign in neat large letters yesterday read: "Detective Oliver 31shots is murder." Councilman Charles Barron - a very articulate but bitter man who once said: "I sometimes wanna go...
HEATHER'S GOT LEGS
Maybe they should call it "Dancing With The Leg," since the biggest draw for last night's fourth-season premiere of "Dancing With the Stars" was Heather Mills, the self-promoting amputee and...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 146; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 4208; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 790; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 8395;...
THE SPEAKER'S DAY JOB
Look who's back in the news: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his conflicts of interest. The Post's Carl Campanile reports that three upstate counties - which rely on Silver for...
CRIMINALIZING TRAGEDY
Three of New York's Finest were arraigned yesterday on felony and lesser charges in the Sean Bell case - a tragedy steeped in the chaos and danger that city cops...
... & WHY SUCCESS UPSETS DEMS
WHEN President Bush announced a surge of troops into Baghdad in January, Democrats pounded him for the folly of putting U.S. troops in the "middle of a civil war." Two...
WHY IT'S WORKING ...
'I WALKED down the streets of Ramadi a few days ago, in a soft cap eating an ice cream with the mayor on one side of me and the police...
MATH AND MARXISM
THERE'S a fifth column in New York City's public schools - radical teachers who openly undermine Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's curriculum mandates and use their classrooms to indoctrinate students in...
INDICTING THE POST'S FRONT-PAGE JUDGMENT
THE ISSUE: The Post's exclusive reporting of detective Michael Oliver's Saturday night dinner. What difference does it make where and how much was spent on Detective Michael Oliver's dinner ("Rap...
CITY PARK PLAYBILLS
I understand that comparing the puppet- eers to New York's Finest is a comic metaphor for skewered salary values built in to the city budget, but may I take a...
CRAMER REVEALS A BIT TOO MUCH
Flamboyant Wall Street trader turned TV host Jim Cramer, not known for being the shy, retiring type, might have said too much in a video interview he did for a...
LADY, WHAT LADY?
CHICAGO - Lady Black was anything but ladylike yesterday. Apparently stressed out by a surprise delay in the start of her husband Conrad Black's fraud trial and by the intense...
THEFT UP FOR A $TEAL
Investors in struggling video game design company Take-Two Interactive Software got more encouraging news yesterday, when the company said it was pondering putting itself up for sale. The move, which...
AMI SETS THE DATE TO REPORT FISCAL '06
It's coming. American Media Inc.'s long overdue report for fiscal 2006 may now be only days away, according to the company's latest SEC filing. Technically, the publisher of Star, the...
YOUTH IS $ERVED
Apollo Management, the secretive investment firm run by billionaire Leon Black, is close to inking a $3 billion deal for Claire's Stores nearly four months after the pre-teen trinket retailer...
CITI CON GETS 15 MONTHS
The former chief of Citigroup's worldwide commodities trading is going to prison for 15 months - or the equivalent of about $45,000 a day - for his cooked-books scheme. David...
MIGRATING MOOLA
A complex, just-signed office lease will bring another batch of financial employees from Midtown to downtown. Australia's QBE Insurance Group is more than doubling its space at 88 Pine St.,...
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Steakhouses may be facing a "mud-cow" crisis. Cattle are so deeply mired down in rain-mucked feedlots that they're overworking themselves just trying to maneuver through the mud - and losing...
IRON HORSE HAS JOE D. ON ROPES
After two rounds and more than 35,000 votes, you've narrowed the field to 16. Check some of the matchups: Clyde vs. Willis, The Mick vs. The Babe, Messier vs. Leetch,...
THE PETE 16
Pete Gillen, the colorful former coach who enjoyed smashing March Madness success at Xavier (Sweet 16, 1990) and Providence (Elite Eight, 1997), offers his unique NCAA tournament perspective from his...
KANSAS IN RUSH
You want to see what energetic youth looks like? Take a gander at the Jayhawks as they race into the Sweet 16. No one player epitomizes what Kansas is all...
ROHRSSEN TORN AS PITT, UCLA COLLIDE
He won't be working as a radio or television analyst for the West Region matchup between Pitt and UCLA Thursday in San Jose, but he doesn't need to. Barry Rohrssen...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Wells has diabetes San Diego left-hander David Wells has Type 2 diabetes, the team said. The 43-year-old old signed a one-year contract in January to return to his hometown...
PSAL SOUNDS SECURITY ALARM
While the PSAL sorts through the aftermath of Sunday's melee at the PSAL championship game at Madison Square Garden, there are other security matters the league still has to deal...
BROWN NOT POINTED AT 'CATS
LARRY BROWN is not under consideration to succeed Bernie Bickerstaff on the Bobcats' sidelines next season - though there is some talk about Carl Scheer rejoining the NBA's version of...
DEVS ARE LOOKIN' IN THE MIRROR
The Devils have struggled offensively while losing five of their last eight. They've topped three goals only twice during that span and suffered a humiliating 7-2 defeat to the Hurricanes...
LEACH INKS GIANT OFFER
KA-3Unless the Texans think highly of Vonta Leach, the Giants will soon have a new fullback. Leach, a restricted free agent, yesterday signed an offer sheet from the Giants, and...
CLEMENT REJOINS JETS
The Jets yesterday re-signed Anthony Clement, their starting right tackle in 2006. Clement, who was an unrestricted free agent whom the Jets allowed to test the open market, started all...
FRYE STIRRED UP BY RECENT SURGE
Channing Frye has shown signs in the last two games that he may be reverting back to his rookie form. Frye scored 20 points in each of the last two...
TO BEAT DALLAS, KNICKS MUST BE . . .
Isiah Thomas does not usually reveal much about his game plan. But after yesterday's practice, the Knicks coach shed some light on what he would tell Channing Frye, Jared Jeffries...
SWEET & SOUR OF GRAPEFRUIT
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Grapefruit League has its Sweet and its Sour for the Mets each spring. Here's the annual spring progress report for the defending NL East champs:...
WAGNER PITCHES THREE INNINGS
The Mets' bullpen has been on a roller coaster ride this spring with plenty of bad and good moments. Duaner Sanchez (kicked out of camp for being late; separated shoulder),...
R.J., KIDD REVVED UP FOR STRETCH RUN
It's no coincidence as soon as Richard Jefferson got his legs back under him, Jason Kidd erupted with an Eastern Conference Player of the Week performance. It's no coincidence as...
SEVENTH HEAVEN
This is the glamour matchup the NHL so desperately needs in the playoffs, the Rangers against the Penguins and Sidney Crosby. This is the one the league would die for...
PAIR OF YANKS ALIVE FOR FIVE
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Jeff Karstens can still pitch his way into the Yankees rotation . . . and Kei Igawa can still pitch his way to Triple-A Scranton. At least,...
ABREU MAY STAY BEHIND
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Although Bobby Abreu will start tonight's game at DH, the Yankees will proceed cautiously with him. Perhaps they'll be cautious enough to leave him in Tampa in...
DAMON'S TAKE: WE'RE THE BEST
DUNEDIN, Fla. - One of Johnny Damon's great strengths is that he tells it like it is; the center fielder will always offer an honest opinion. When he looks around...
WET 'N WILD
THE BAHAMAS' fabled Atlantis resort is no stranger to change. You might know it as the Lost-City-themed megaresort that sprang onto the scene in the mid-90s, captivating kids' imaginations (and...
JUMP IN!
WITH all the recent additions to Atlantis, you need a guide to sort out what's what - here, a list of the newest features. 1) THE COVE What's what: A...
SPRING FEVER
ALABAMA Combine your laziest of sweet tea sipping/front porch fantasies with a weekend of incredible seafood eating when you stay in tiny Magnolia Springs, a charming small town (perfect for...
DUDES DIG ICELAND
REMEMBER all that chatter about how Iceland is the new hotness/cool as a cucumber?Apparently, even though many of us have moved on, the northern isle stills attract its fair share...
STAR TREK
Chris Rock stars in the Fox Searchlight film, I Think I Love My Wife. Laurie Heifetz caught up with him at the premiere to ask what he might love about...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Australian police department is crying, "Thanks for the mammaries," after a photo of a female cop's breasts was circulated through the force's internal e-mail. The boyfriend of a Victoria...
LIVEBLOG: Boarding the A380
Like just about every other member of the media, our Chris Bunting was out on the tarmac at JFK today (first time since 9/11, they say!) to welcome Airbus' A380,...
7th and Climbing
As an aside, I want to give full marks to Michael Nylander for not only shooting the puck, but for being one of the best skaters I've ever seen play...
The Whole Playoff Picture
With regular season games dwindling down to a precious few, it's time that the Post takes a look at the upcoming NHL playoffs. For the uninitiated, there is not a...
When TV is not Enough: DVD Releases
Itâs like reruns, without the commercials: TV series released on DVD this week. âMiami Viceâ Season Three and Season FourApparently, the demand was so great for Crockett and Tubbs that...
Turkish Delight
Bilge Ebiri of Screen Grab (and an occasional poster on this blog), one of the few brave critics out there who liked "Premonition,'' read my negative review afterward -- and...