March 21, 2007
Nielsen Remix: Regisâ Legacy of Game Show Gluttony
NBC seems to have inherited game-show dependency issues from ABC. And just as ABCâs remaining lineup was dismal not long ago, NBCâs scripted shows arenât exactly knocking on "Idol's" door....
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am Announced
Aqua Teen fans rejoice (or moan, depending on how you feel about licensed properties being turned into video games) - the uber popular Adult Swim cartoon is getting turned into...a...
Show Us Your Stripes
Coming from a long line of Basque fishermen from coastal Spain, I'll blame the bloodlines for my shine for salty stripes.But there's something so effortlessly chic and timeless about a...
It's All Greek To Him
New York's only Spartan film critic (pictured) has finally weighed in on "300'' and here's part of what he has to say: "I must report that '300' was as pathetically...
BLUE SKIES AND RED SOX
Just another perfect sunny day here in Tampa. This spring has not been Florida-like. It has not been extremely hot, most days have seen crystal blue skies and a comfortable...
Crawford: I'll be back
By MARC BERMANThe Knicks public-relations staff brought Jamal Crawford into the press room this morning and he made his first public comments since Feb. 27th, when the Knicks announced he...
Deal of the Day
Because we all can't afford new Chloe bags every season, pick up this classic utilitarian Top Zip Satchel Bag from Nine West.It has a front pocket and four interior pouches,...
WHAT'S NEW: Grand Canyon Skywalk
APIt was all over the nightly news yesterday, complete with loads of fussin' and a'feudin over whether it is good or bad: Of course, we speak of the new Skywalk,...
Spring forward!
The snow is melting, the birds are singing, the rats are invading fast-food restaurants -- yes, it's spring. And we got you covered from head to toe. Check out The...
Day 40: Thoughts on Mets Pen and Mo Rivera
A few idle thoughts as the weather warms in New York and we head to the home stretch of spring training in Florida: --The Marlins are seriously weighing either Matt...
Notes On 'Camp' On DVD
I wonder what the late Susan Sontag, who introduced the term "camp'' into the mainstream with her famous 1964 essay Notes on "Camp'' would make of camp's arrival as a...
MICHIGAN - THE GREAT LAKES STATE
Michigan became our 26th state on Jan. 26, 1837. It covers 56,809 square miles and the capital is Lansing. Michigan is named for Lake Michigan, one of the five Great...
SPRING IN YOUR STEP
PUT spring in your step with a flirty flat or a sultry stiletto. These splendors in the grass highlight our final day of The Post's Spring Style Special, and the...
MALIN MESMERIZES AT BOWERY
Jesse Malin - the former D-Generation punk mastermind - is poetic in the way he makes a few words explode with meaning. His melodies range from ballads to Bo Diddley...
FIERSTEIN REIGNITED
HARVEY Fierstein, the Tony-winning writer and performer, is re turning to Broadway next season in a musical version of Paddy Chayefsky's gentle slice of Bronx kitchen-sink realism, "The Catered Affair."...
BULLY THE KID
AN angry Rosie O'Don nell lashed out at Elis abeth Hasselbeck yesterday on "The View," berating the younger co-host for voicing an opinion and labeling Hasselbeck's comments as "blather." It...
SHARON TO JUDGE 'TALENT'
SIMON Cowell may re place embattled "America's Got Talent" judge Brandy Norwood with heavy metal matriarch Sharon Osbourne. Cowell, also a judge on "American Idol," is the executive producer of...
REAL 'LIFE' STORIES
TOMORROW night's debut of "This American Life" has convinced me: Showtime is the new HBO. They are the only ones left to have the nerve to do something as radical...
ODDS AGAINST SANJAYA
VEGAS bookmakers have marked "American Idol" underdog Sanjaya Malakar as a favorite - to get the boot tonight. Malakar, the 17-year-old from Washington, has enjoyed an unusual run on the...
CBS PATS SELF ON BACK
KATIE Couric's new pro ducer, Rick Kaplan, has been on the job for a little over a week - but he's already impacting the "CBS Evening News," according to a...
STARR REPORT
(Mon)tel me about it You forget now, after 16 seasons of his talk show, that Montel Williams was a prominent motivational speaker before morphing into a TV personality. It's not...
FROM THE FOXHOLE TO THE FIRE
NEARLY a year after being named best feature at Tribeca, Tristan Bauer's "Blessed by Fire" is making its theatrical debut. The Argentinian export honors the unseen victims of the 1982...
FOR MCNALLY, LESS IS MORANDI
MORANDI is Keith McNally's first dud. No big deal: An artist is enti tled to flop one time in five. But "the man who invented downtown" is so off his...
CULTURE CLUB
IT'S a culture clash - of yogurt cultures, that is. It's like an '80s flashback with all the new frozen-yogurt franchises popping up. L.A. import Pinkberry, based on a Korean...
SANTERIA SUPERHEROES
If you missed Marvel's newest team of Latin American super-heroes the Santerians when they made their debut two years ago in the "Daredevil: Father" series, you are in luck. A...
DIETS ON THE SCALE
If you've tried one diet, you've tried them all, right? Not so. In a recent study, a group of pre-menopausal, overweight and obese women were put on four different diet...
BRINGING CANCER DETECTION TO QUEENS' STREETS
Dr. Margaret Kemeny, Director of the Cancer Center at Queens Hospital, is a surgical oncologist on the local frontline in the effort to bring comprehensive cancer care to local communities....
HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS MORE SUBTLE FOR WOMEN
When you think of someone having a heart attack, chances are you picture a middle-aged businessman dramatically clutching his chest and falling to the ground. "Everyone expects the Hollywood heart...
CHEMO ALTERNATIVE FOR LYMPHOMA PATIENTS
You may not know much about lymphoma, but it's the most common blood cancer. Lymphoma is an umbrella term for a group of cancers that occurs when immune cells called...
SPITZ BLOWS '$MOKE' AT BRUNO
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer delivered a stern tongue-lashing yesterday to isolated Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno over the budget impasse. At a public meeting designed to jump-start the budget process,...
$LASHING MAYOR BURNS DAS
Despite a projected $4 billion budget surplus, Mayor Bloomberg ordered city agencies to slash budgets by 1.5 percent before June 30 - and by another 4 percent for next year's...
MACY'S FIREWORKS BOOSTER MAY FIZZLE
Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom! Macy's wants to make its colossal July Fourth fireworks spectacular even brighter - and louder - by adding a fourth location for its pyrotechnics barges, police...
FIEND KILLS GAL HE RAPED: COPS
A woman about to testify against her accused rapist was murdered by the pervert - who had stalked her for months and then pounced on her outside her Queens home...
MESS HALL MESS
The city's food cops are at war with New York's military heroes after taking the extraordinary step of shutting down a revered American Legion club in Brooklyn, The Post has...
KELLY EYES VESTS FOR AUXILIARIES
The slaying of two auxiliary police officers last week has caused Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to put the issue of whether to outfit the unarmed volunteers with bulletproof vests at...
BELL VENUE CHANGE A LONG SHOT
Lawyers for the cops indicted in the Sean Bell shooting are likely to ask for - but unlikely to win - a change of venue. That's the opinion of lawyers...
VALET OF THE DOLL
Runway diva Naomi Campbell yesterday deputized one of New York's Strongest to be her personal valet, making the gun-toting sanitation cop carry her bag like a paid flunky. The fashion...
SECOND AVE.TUNNEL VISION
The MTA committed to building the Second Avenue Subway yesterday, signing the $337 million contract to dig the tunnels for the first section of the long-awaited line. "This contract paves...
HRA HIT WITH SEX LAWSUIT
A touchy-feely manager at the city's Human Resources Administration subjected her fellow female underlings to sex harassment with unwanted hugs, spanks and kisses that earned her the nickname "Lipstick Bandit,"...
QNS. THUG INDICTED IN COP BASH
The delusional bat-wielding thug accused of stealing a rookie cop's gun and cuffs after bashing him on the head with a baseball bat last month was indicted by a Queens...
ROBE-A-DOPE'S 'BRIBE' IS REVEALED
Reclining behind a desk in his robing room on the seventh floor of Brooklyn's Joralemon Street matrimonial courthouse, Justice Gerald Garson unwittingly told the world how seriously he took being...
PRINCIPAL GETS BOOT
Officials have reassigned the principal of a Brooklyn elementary school where a janitor was accused of raping an 8-year-old girl multiple times over a period of several weeks. Solomon Long,...
SUBWAY SLEUTHS TAKE CLUE LINE
Subway riders can dial M - or N, Q, R and W - for murder in an interactive mystery at a Canal Street subway station. The game can be started...
GIRL, 14, NABBED IN STUDENT BUS BEATING
A 14-year-old girl was busted yesterday in the beating of a high-school student by a pack of kids who taunted her for being "Chinese" as she rode a city bus...
10-YEAR $URGE IN HOUSING
The Manhattan residential real-estate market has made millionaires out of average homeowners, thanks to a checkbook-boggling 200 percent price surge in the past decade. A 10-year sales trend analysis released...
PELOSI PAL'S 'FRAMED' BOMBSHELL
A man who fingered Danny Pelosi as the murderer of millionaire Ted Ammon says the convicted killer is now claiming he was framed by a Long Island cop just because...
FEDS TO BEEF UP MTA SECURITY
Federal agents are going to help step up security on MTA commuter trains and stations in a new program that will be announced today, sources said. The Transportation Security Administration...
TRANSIT-SLAY REWARD
The MTA, NYPD and Transport Workers Union Local 100 yesterday announced a $22,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the murder of a transit worker this month....
BUTCHER GUILTY OF SLAYING WIFE
A Manhattan jury took only two hours yesterday to convict a Washington Heights butcher of murdering his estranged wife with a boning knife in 2004. Sergio Parra-Victoria, 28, had believed...
L.I. FIRE 'CROOKS' BURNED
Eight EMT and firefighter felons had money to burn because they ripped off their volunteer departments on Long Island - including one who used hot cash to finance sexy lingerie...
PIER INTO FUTURE
Plans to build a stunning new park in Chelsea, described as the "jewel" of the Hudson River waterfront, were put on a fast track yesterday when the city moved 28...
HEIST BANK SUES SECURITY
A problem-plagued Chinatown bank is suing its security-system installers for $10 million, blaming them for a 2004 bank heist that emptied its vault and safety-deposit boxes of $1.5 million in...
ANNA TOT'S 'REAL POP' WINS TEST
NASSAU, Bahamas - A judge yesterday ordered a DNA sample to be taken from Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, according to the lawyer for the Los Angeles photographer who says it...
MARTHA A SPACE HOST FOR BEAU
When you're the billionaire boyfriend of Martha Stewart, you can't be expected to eat mere freeze-dried beef paste on your first trip into outer space. That's why the domestic diva...
IT'S A $ATURDAY NIGHTMARE: BAND
The '70s rock-icon group Bay City Rollers is demanding "Money Honey" - lots of it - from Arista Records. Members of the band claim in a lawsuit filed yesterday in...
SCARY DISH ON PET FOOD
Federal officials in the midst of a national tainted-pet-food scare yesterday acknowledged that all of the poisoned goods may not have been identified yet - and that some may remain...
MURDER-RAP MAKEOVER
Rock legend Phil Spector may be on trial for murder, but yesterday he and his new wife, Rachelle Short, were convicted for felonious assault on fashion. The 67-year-old "Wall of...
HILL LAUGHS OFF 'BIG BROTHER'
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday laughed off a searing ad sweeping across the Internet that portrays her as a mind-numbing Big Brother figure. Asked about the ad, which has...
DRUG 'RACE BIAS'
White students are far more likely to be offered drugs in New York City public schools than their black, Hispanic and Asian peers, according to a city-sponsored survey released yesterday....
LOHAN MOM'S PAIN
Lindsay Lohan's mother compares her booze-addled daughter to Princess Diana, warning that if the paparazzi keep chasing the young actress, she'll end up dead, too. "Look at me," Dina Lohan...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* Cops are searching for a teenager who disappeared from her Borough Park home. Sharmulla Siew (pictured), 15, was last seen leaving her 55th Street home near 19th Avenue at...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 635; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 3026; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 069; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3632;...
TAP-WATERGATE
'The details uncovered by the New York Post," a clearly steamed Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday, "are profoundly distressing." Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver found the report, by Post State...
CORZINE'S CONFLICT
Gov. Corzine admits he's spent a lot money on his former squeeze, Carla Katz. But he won't say how much and what for, insisting it's private. During his 2005 run...
POTEMKIN PROTESTERS
Anyone who still believes the teachers union tripe - that armies of parents are rising up against the city's school-reform plans - should consider what happened at a meeting Monday...
MEDIA WITCH HUNT
'THE Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's first freedom." The Second secures the rest. It's a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again. A decade ago, Heston...
'STALLION' RUDY
RUDY Giuliani's supporters call him "America's Mayor." But he is something more: the first serious presidential candidate in history with a vowel at the end of his name. Oddly, so...
MOHAMMED'S CELEBRITY: MARTYR OF ALL MARTYRS
THE ISSUE: Khalid Sheik Mohammed's confession to masterminding over 30 terror plots. What to do with Khalid Sheik Mohammed ("Mohammed Speaks," Editorial, March 16)? A simple public hanging in Times...
BRUNO'S BUDGET
Lost in the heated state-budget rhetoric in the Capitol and in the pages of The Post is the fact that New York's taxes are the highest in the nation, and...
ODDS ARE FOR DIVORCE
Bookmakers think Lord Black will be found guilty of some charges, but may beat prison time. But the oddsmakers are heavily favoring his wife walking out on him. BestUS.com posted...
TRIAL TELLS TALE OF TWO CONRADS
CHICAGO - As they headed home after a wearying eight hours in court yesterday, the 12 jurors enlisted to decide the fate of Conrad Black had two vastly different portrayals...
VENTURE IN CHINA THWARTS PIRATES
Billionaire tech publisher Patrick McGovern has quietly teamed with Hearst Corp. and News Corp. to form a new venture in China that plans to make movies, DVDs and computer and...
READER'S DIGEST EXECS CONDENSED
MARY Berner, the new CEO of Reader's Digest Association, lowered the boom on three RDA executives. Gone in the shakeup is Reader's Digest publisher Ben Madden, who has been there...
'DIRTY' TRADERS ON TRIAL
A quartet of dirty day-traders are on trial in Brooklyn federal court for allegedly bribing three brokers to let them eavesdrop on orders placed by institutional clients, enabling the traders...
BLOCK-BUSTED
Blockbuster CEO John Antioco lost the battle and the war with Carl Icahn, agreeing yesterday to both a much narrower pay package than he argued for and to end his...
EX MARKS THE SPOT IN WAL-MART TRYST
When Wal-Mart needed proof of an alleged office romance between former ad chief Julie Roehm and her underling, Sean Womack, the retail giant turned to the one woman armed with...
HOMELAND CON ARTIST
The feds have cracked a brazen scheme by an accused stock swindler who cheated investors out of millions by claiming he had a won a contract from Department of Homeland...
BOB'S BUILDING
THE office building at 230 Park Ave. South is expected to fetch north of $250 million. The 350,000-foot building on the southwest corner of East 19th Street is home to...
APOLLO INKS $3.1B DEAL FOR CLAIRE'S
Preteen trinket retailer Claire's Stores unveiled a deal yesterday to sell itself to private-equity firm Apollo Management for $3.1 billion after nearly four months on the auction block. Apollo, run...
CRAMER'S BIG MOUTH
CNBC host Jim Cramer's candor in a now-infamous video clip that has circulated on YouTube may have run afoul of the terms of his broadcast contract, sources told The Post....
ACCREDITED GETS COSTLY LOAN
A mortgage lender struggling to survive during the subprime loan meltdown is getting a taste of its own medicine after it reached an agreement to borrow much needed financing at...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
IS THERE anything this city cares about more than real estate? It's our history and our future, it's reached heights nobody could have anticipated, it's the largest and most crucial...
JOIN THE CLUB
MANHATTAN'S FINANCIAL DISTRICT IS one of the oldest sections of the city, yet it's only recently emerged as one of the city's hottest residential neighborhoods- thanks in part to new...
HOME BUT NOT ALONE
WHEN YOU VISIT THE WEB SITE FOR 100 WEST 18TH, A NEW 41-unit condo building in Chelsea, up pops pictures of young, attractive people engaging in young, attractive single-people activities...
PICKS AND PERKS
PARTY CENTRAL We all need to make choices. Like choosing between a backyard barbecue or kicking back in the La-Z-Boy to watch the game. But if you owned a Cal...
REACH FOR THE STUY
WHEN A $5.4 BILLION REAL-ESTATE DEAL goes down, it's time to pay attention. Our ears definitely perked up last November when we heard that MetLife was selling one of its...
STYLE POINTS
COSTAS KONDYLISStyle: The consummate developer's architect, Kondylis never lets art interfere with using the maximum allowable square footage. His aesthetic could be called corporate modern on steroids, with touches of...
SWEET ISLE O'MINE
WHY HEAD SOUTH EVERY WINTER FOR two weeks when you can have your own tropical villa year-round? Here's the best places to buy your second home.CAP CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC On...
THE GREAT DIVIDE
RANDY POLUMBO IS NO STRANGER TO New York City real estate's rugged side. Living on Avenue D in the '80s, he had cockroaches in his apartment so big he used...
PARKING, LOTS
TIME WAS (ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO) WHEN A SMALL BUT livable Manhattan studio went for $195,000. What'll that get you now? At the Onyx Chelsea, an 11-story, 52-unit residential building...
EAT THIS
MEET THE GOURMAND'S BEST FRIEND: the Real Estate Man. What, you say? Don't landlords evict eateries to score big bucks from a bank? Don't developers raze beloved neighborhood haunts to...
SHOP THE STREET
LAST YEAR'S NEWS THAT TIFFANY & CO. and Hermés were setting up shop on Wall Street sent shivers through the retail kingdom. It also sent high-end retail reps scurrying to...
STRIPER SERIES RETURNS MAY 19
THE FLW Striper Series was a big hit last year with anglers from our area, so much so that it will be back again. The Wal-Mart FLW Striper Series kicks...
SALITA SETS SIGHTS ON GATTI FIGHT ON CABLE
Dmitriy "Star of David" Salita would love to fight Arturo Gatti in July, a match his promoter Lou DiBella swears would be a sold-out, action-packed fight. But so far HBO,...
LADY ROYALS ADAPTING TO ROLE AS SPECTATORS
Even though Christ the King's girls team didn't qualify for the state Federation tournament for the first time in 18 years when it was stunned by St. John the Baptist...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Coach vs. cancer North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth. The 55-year-old former Browns coach said he...
BE-LEAF IT
TORONTO - The Devils are losing every which way - games, players, and their grip on the division lead. They brought their home hex baggage with them to open a...
FINN SEES WRITING ON COUGHLIN'S WALL
As usual when these situations arise with players, Tom Coughlin made a call Monday night to Jim Finn, informing him that the Giants had signed Texans fullback Vonta Leach to...
HOUSE OF PAIN
The Knicks weren't "helpless," as Isiah Thomas predicted. But they weren't good, either. After the Knicks hung around for a half, trailing by three, Maverick stars Josh Howard and Dirk...
CUBAN: ZEKE PACT MERITED
Mavericks billionaire owner Mark Cuban, wearing a pair of the Stephon Marbury-brand $14.98 sneakers, supports Knick owner James Dolan's decision to give Isiah Thomas a new contract. "You see chemistry-wise...
MARBURY IS OK AFTER BRIEF SCARE
With Stephon Marbury writhing on the ground, clutching his left shoulder after Dallas' Josh Howard dove on top of him during a scramble for a loose ball in the fourth...
PLEADING THE FIFTH
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Pelfrey believed he would stay the course as far as getting ready for his last few outings of spring training. "I'm not going to change...
METS BACK IN WIN MODE
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets ended their second four-game skid of spring training last night - knocking off the Orioles, 6-1. Manager Willie Randolph said on Sunday the Mets...
D-PRESSING D-FEAT
The prime directive was to defend. The mighty Denver offense, the third best in all the NBA world, was invading the Meadowlands. The Nets were determined to keep Denver under...
K-MART: KIDD IS MISTER NET
There was a time Kenyon Martin probably felt the Nets would never let him go. That changed, huh? But at the trading deadline, Martin just shook his head at the...
SHANNY EXPECTED BACK
Brendan Shanahan received a lengthy ovation the last time he was on the ice at Madison Square Garden. The next time he evokes that response, he'll have a much better...
PETTITTE PROBLEM
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte came back to the Yankees with a history of elbow issues. But he'll likely miss his next start Friday with a new physical concern: back spasms....
LEAN MACHINE
TAMPA - Late in the 2005 season, Joe Torre and Joe Girardi pulled Jorge Posada aside and asked him what his weight was. Posada realized this inquiry was not just...
IGAWA HAS BEST START TO DATE
TAMPA - On the day Andy Pettitte was held back with back spasms, Kei Igawa stepped up. Igawa produced his best start on these shores, twirling five shutout innings of...
HE'S THE KEI TO YANKS' ROTATION
TAMPA - Former Yan kee Mike Pagliarulo played in Japan and is one of the top scouts in the game, working extensively in Asia. He was at Legends Field last...
ABREU PASSES 1ST GAME TEST
TAMPA - Playing in his first Grapefruit League game of the spring last night, Bobby Abreu felt the butterflies. "I was nervous in the first at-bat," the Yankee outfielder said....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Michigan man sued and won more than $100,000 from the owner of a Seal Point Siamese after the cat bit him. And the owner is the sister of the...
Crimes of Fashion
Catwalk queen Naomi Campbell was granted a delay in serving out her five-day sanitation sentence (for hurling a phone at her maid over a pair of missing jeans -- this...