April 9, 2007
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More, more, more gore
Yeah yeah, you've played through "Gears of War" on Insane and beaten the crap out of everything. You rule.But lookey, lookey, there's a title update on Xbox Live heading your...
Where have all the Diane Keatons gone?
Richard Corliss has a great essay in this week's Time about the dearth of meaty roles for women in movies today. Couldn't agree more. Yes, yes, Rose McGowan does great...
MONDAY MAILBAG
Derek Jeter makes three errors in two games and I write about it and some people think I am âkillingââ Jeter. Jose Reyes hits triples from both sides of the...
Series pick No. 3
By MARK HALEI'm now 0-2 in picking series so far this year, but I'll improve. As for this series against the Phillies, I'll go with the Mets taking two games...
Belfour, Peltonen arrested at South Beach bar
Ed BelfourFlorida Panthers players Eddie Belfour and Ville Peltonen were arrested at a Miami bar early this morning. Belfour was involved in an altercation with a police officer after bar...
Deal of the Day
Though it's laid back and casual, cool distressed Camouflage never fatigues any look.And this sturdy Vintage Camouflage Amagansett Tote from J. Crew is a great way to add a bit...
Yankee starters, the Yankee pen and A-Rod
A few extraneous thoughts about the Yankeesâ season-opening homestand as we ready for the Metsâ home opener: --No Yankee starter made it even one out into the sixth inning in...
Xbox 360 Getting Instant Messaging
This is a superb idea that makes me a little sad.It is superb because the functionality of the Xbox 360 is expanding.It pains me because every new instant messaging system...
FIRST LOOK: Burke on the Strip
Isn't this interior rendering of David Burke Las Vegas awesome? Us neither. Not that we're stalking David Burke or anything, but after a meal at the chef's new Las Vegas...
How the Weinsteins Got Ground Down
You -- and the Weinsteins -- couldn't buy the kind of enthusiastic coverage "Grindhouse'' got, including that cover of Rolling Stone. It was lavished with far more free pre-release publicity...
Turkey Talk 3 or: How V.A. Musetto Beat Jet Lag
Readers of this blog wıll remember that I drıfted off to sleep (jet lag) when I trıed to watch the Serbian black comedy ''The Optimists'' (pictured) upon my arrıval at...
THE GRADUATES,
GRADUATING from college is not what it used to be. The cap-and-gowners of the Class of '07 could very well be getting job offers right in the middle of commencement...
WORK WORDS
SUCCESSFUL recruiting is only half the battle for companies filling the void left by retiring baby boomers. Next is the issue of retaining workers. OK, you're hired - now how...
GO TO GREG
Q. My new employer automatically deducts 3 percent of my salary to go into their 401(k) plan. They match 50 percent of my contributions, but I can't pay rent with...
VITAL STATS
* Number of workers in survey who said they attend more than three work-related meetings in a week: 29 percent * Number who said most meetings they attend are "not...
LADIES, START YOUR ENGINES!
GO 'GREEN' The clothes: Good girl Lisa (far left) wears a ribbed motocross cardigan, $98, and white linen pleated skirt, 68, both at Armani Exchange; "Escrime" sunglasses, $350, at Dior,...
PULSE SALES
CALYPSO 378 Broadway, at White Street; (212) 219-8900 Sale: April 12 to 15. Thu.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Get up to 80 percent off past and current season...
GOTTA HANDEL IT TO 'EM
NOT so long ago, one Handel opera was a treat, but two in a week would have seemed an inconceiv able feast. But two it was when New York City...
NANNY BLUE
A Brooklyn grandmother who is among 13 finalists vying for the title of "Funniest Mom in America" on Nick at Nite was once an administrator for a union of merchant...
LUCKY 'CHARM'
CAN the rude and crude bad girls of "Flavor of Love" be taught some manners? The answer is: Only some of them can, says the woman who's taking them to...
JONES CULT CLASSIC
ON November 17, 1978, 909 people, followers of loony cult leader Jim Jones, willingly drank the strychnine -laced Kool-Aid at his compound in Guyana. Yes, 909 men, women and children...
THE STARR REPORT
Gray and 'Green' Singer/songwriter Macy Gray helps Sundance Chan nel launch its new, three- hour prime-time pro gramming block, "The Green," tonight in L.A. The new block, which actu ally...
BATTLE BREWS OVER LAW ON LOFT TENANTS
ALBANY - The law allowing tenants to live in unlawfully converted lofts without fear of major rent increases or eviction is set to expire at the end of next month....
TURF WAR OVER STATE OF PARKS' BALL FIELDS
Too few city parks workers are focused on maintaining ball fields - meaning amateur athletes will unnecessarily risk injury playing baseball, softball and soccer this spring and summer, an advocacy...
CON ED BIGS BID TO $HORT-CIRCUIT PROBE
Zapped by a state probe blaming it for last summer's nine-day Queens blackout, Con Ed is begging regulators to spare it more scrutiny and delay efforts to punish it financially,...
CELLPHONE GRIDLOCK VIDEO IS A GOOD CALL
Rather than wait for the weather forecast, it's sometimes more efficient to just look out the window. That's the idea behind a new cellphone service that instantly gives drivers live...
HAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT
Edward Cardinal Egan has a welcoming smile for people (and pooches) in bonnets yesterday - a sharp contrast to his Easter homily warning of the perils of filth on the...
SEX IN SLAMMER
The sordid saga of the jailhouse shrink accused of having sex with an inmate is the kind of thing that "happens all the time" at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, a...
BUSH KNEW ABOUT KERIK PAST: REPORT
WASHINGTON - Red flags about Bernard Kerik's checkered past were brushed aside by the White House in 2004 so that President Bush could make a political splash by nominating the...
'AUTO SHOW' STABBING IN TIMES SQ.
A teenager was stabbed last night in Times Square in what cops say has become a violent Easter ritual - post-Auto Show gang violence. The 16-year-old was slashed in his...
'I HAD TO TAKE THEM OUT': GI
Spc. Mario Lozano of Manhattan remembers the moment in Baghdad that changed his life forever - when, with eyes "the size of apples," he saw a vehicle barreling directly toward...
GOOD BUY, NEW YORK: FOREIGNERS
New York real-estate brokers and developers are passing up dollars for euros, pounds, won and rubles as overseas buyers eagerly snap up pricey city properties. Brokers are on a new...
20 CRASH DRIVERS 'HOSED'
State highway officials are investigating whether a construction worker left a water hose running on Brooklyn's Gowanus Expressway early yesterday - causing a 20-car pileup. "It does appear that there...
HI-RISE INFERNO
A raging fire in a Bronx high-rise injured 41 people last night and sent hundreds of terrified residents fleeing for their lives through billowing smoke that reached to the top...
ROMANCE READERS HOT FOR ICE
The race for the Stanley Cup isn't the only thing getting fans all worked up - a crop of hockey romance novels are steaming up the bookshelves. Some bodice-ripper writers...
LEGIONNAIRE DEATH SUIT
The family of a 42- year-old woman who died while being treated at New York Presby- terian/Columbia University Medical Center two years ago has sued the hospital, saying she contracted...
WAG THE FINGER
This run is for the dogs - but the rules are for the owners. And there's a long list of them at the private Mercer-Houston Dog Run at the edge...
APPLE WATER THREAT
Massive development planned in the upstate watershed is threatening to pollute the city's drinking water - potentially forcing the city to build an $8 billion filtration plant that would dramatically...
CITY'S $200M LAND PLAN
The City Council has proposed setting aside $200 million in capital funds over five years for the purchase of land upstate to better protect New York's tap water. The plan...
'CHARTERS' RACE IS ON
Legislation to double the number of charter schools in the state has lit a fire under would-be operators of the schools, with organizations working feverishly to file applications and interpret...
2 SLEUTHS DUCKING 'MOB FED'
Lawyers for accused rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio are seeking to haul into court two freelance investigators who've been credited with laying the groundwork for the Brooklyn DA's bombshell quadruple-murder...
BABY-DAD SHOCK
The distraught boyfriend of a young Brooklyn woman accused of killing their newborn girl by stuffing her in a garbage bag and leaving her in the freezing cold told cops...
TEEN SUES COP WHO SHOT HIM
A teenager who was shot by an off-duty cop during an argument last year has fired back with a lawsuit against the city. Scott Porter, 16, was shot in the...
A GOOD PAROLE MODEL
A Queens man who shot and killed a serial sex abuser who'd raped his girlfriend has been denied parole three times, despite a sterling record behind bars. John Valverde's exemplary...
MUQTADA URGES NEW DRIVE TO OUST 'ARCHENEMY'
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. capture of Baghdad, powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen yesterday to redouble their efforts to oust American forces,...
'SHAMEFUL' $TORY OF SEIZED SAILORS
The mother of a 19-year-old British medic killed in Iraq last week blasted England's Defense Ministry yesterday for letting 15 sailors held hostage in Iran sell their stories to the...
TALIBAN BEHEADS INTERPRETER
Bloodthirsty Taliban thugs beheaded the kidnapped interpreter for an Italian reporter yesterday as a roadside bomb killed six Canadian soldiers serving with NATO in southern Afghanistan. A separate roadside blast...
N.Y.'S BARACK $TARS
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of New Yorkers are reaching into their wallets to bankroll Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid - including many longtime boosters of arch rival Hillary Rodham Clinton....
TWICE AS ICE FOR 'BLADES'
Film audiences hopped into the holiday spirit over the weekend, opting for good-natured humor and family fare rather than the bloody "Grindhouse." The ice-skating comedy "Blades of Glory" triple-lutzed to...
BUSH PUSHES 'GUEST' WORK
WASHINGTON - President Bush heads to Yuma, Ariz., today to kick-start his push for comprehensive immigration reform and the implementation of a controversial guest-worker program. This will be Bush's second...
BESIEGED IMUS TO DO REV. AL'S
Don Imus will be on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show today to talk about the racist cracks he made about the Rutgers women's basketball team. But Sharpton still wants...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Two Flatlands roommates landed behind bars after threatening each other with weapons during a dispute over a cellphone charger, authorities said yesterday. Robert Norris, 32, clashed with Chrystal Henry,...
KID 'I.D. THIEF' IN $1M STOCK CROCK
A recent college grad made a killing by electronically looting $1.6 million from wealthy New Yorkers' bank accounts and buying penny stocks that he already owned - sending his portfolio...
IT'S BADA-BACK!
'THE Sopranos " blasted back to life last night, rousing us from the nearly irreversible comas David Chase & Co. had put not only Tony into last season, but the...
GOV PU$HES LIMIT
GOV. SPITZER'S self-imposed limit of $10,000 per individual contribution hasn't stopped him from seeking $100,000 each from his supporters, a fund-raising document shows. Spitzer's re-election committee has begun inviting past...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 175; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5260; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 480; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 5648;...
CHEAPER THAN TWINKIES
Five years after the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance "reforms" were supposed to have taken the money out of politics - and one-quarter into the 2008 presidential fundraising cycle - the campaign cash...
THE SUING IMAMS
Exhibit A in defense of the notion that America doesn't take Islamist terrorism seriously enough has to be the curious Case of the Flying Imams. Last November, US Airways removed...
EMPOWERING EVIL
THE death, destruction and human misery in Sudan's western region of Darfur may now be worse than at any time since the conflict started four years ago - if that's...
AFTER GONZO: W'S AG DILEMMA
ALBERTO Gonzales is toast. He apparently doesn't realize this. President Bush doesn't, either. But Gonzales' tenure as attorney general - or, at least, as an effective attorney general - is...
'08: BIG TICKET
PRESIDENTIAL hopefuls made headlines last week when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both announced they'd raised record sums. On the Republican side, Mitt Romney also raised more than $20 million...
ARAB CHRISTIANS HEAD FOR EXITS
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK HANI Hayek, an accountant who is the Christian mayor of the tiny Christian-majority Palestinian vil lage of Beit Sahour, was angry last week driving me along the...
SUPREMES' GREEN DREAMS
THE ISSUE: The Supreme Court's ruling that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under Clean Air Act. When I heard that the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is ruining the...
PACE'S PLUCKY PREXY AND COLUMBIA'S COWARD
THE ISSUE: Free speech controversies at local universities Columbia and Pace. The apology by Pace University President David Caputo and the lack of apology by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger...
PAYROLLS, MERGERS LIFT SPIRITS
Wall Street hopes to keep its stock bounce in play, cheered on by growing payrolls and big merger talk such as the $54 billion takeover of Dow Chemical. Optimism and...
'UP' SIDE DOWN
The annual TV "upfront" ad sales season kicks off in just a few weeks, but advertisers are in no rush to make a deal. With a dizzying array of alternatives...
HEDGE FUND WOMEN & MEN WHO LOVE 'EM
In its cover spread on the hedge fund phenomenon, New York also takes a look at the better halves of the hedge kings - the new high society. Ranking No....
RETIRING IN STYLE
By now, taxes should be nestled in the file cabinet, or at least at the top of the inbox. With that out of the way, it's time to start thinking...
STEVE'S HOT LIST
While Wall Street eyes Blackstone Group's looming initial public offering with jealousy, investors looking for an edge into learning how one of the world's most-connected money manager's trades can study...
MOBILE SERVICE LETS CALLERS ACT PHONY
For $4 a month, you can buy a glamorous, witty life - or at least show off one in public. A new mobile phone service provides an exquisite fake lifestyle,...
PRIMEDIA BIDDERS' FIELD IS SHRINKING
The field to buy the Primedia Enthusiasts titles is narrowing to a handful of players and some industry sources are saying the $1 billion price tag is iffy. The top...
IMUS DIGS DEEP
Don Imus lashed out at the Rev. Al Sharpton and the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus yesterday, telling them: "I can't get any place with you people!" The besieged...
AT LAST!
AS Howard Cosell said upon the passing of George Halas, "It was inevitable." Inevitable, too, was that someday Don Imus' hateful hilarity, rarely funny to begin with, would no longer...
OVER PAR BUT NOT OVERMATCHED
AUGUSTA - Ignorance can be a good quality for a golfer, especially someone who really doesn't want to understand the magnitude of his circumstance. That was Zach Johnson on the...
IT'S MASTERS AND JOHNSON
AUGUSTA - Please allow the 2007 Masters champion to introduce himself. "I'm Zach Johnson and I'm from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That's about it. I'm a normal guy,'' Zach Johnson said...
TIGER TAMED
AUGUSTA - Masters champion Zach Johnson, with his Green Jacket almost fitted, still had one more hurdle to clear late yesterday afternoon. Tiger Woods, refusing to go away while in...
MICKELSON FALLS APART ON 1ST HOLE
AUGUSTA - Phil Mickelson was never a factor this week at Augusta. Despite being given several chances to stay in contention, the defending champion failed to capitalize. Any charge Mickelson...
HONDO COLLECTS AGAIN
Ride the tsunami, boys and girls. Hondo reeled in yet another winner yesterday, hooking the Fish to increase the bankroll to 455 mumphreys and im prove the season record to...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Heat fall in Wade's return Walter Herrmann hit two big 3-pointers in the final minute and the Bobcats spoiled Dwyane Wade's first game back after missing 6½ weeks with...
'BIZ' IS BOOMING
Unless 2-year-old champ Street Sense jumps up to run a corker in this coming Saturday's Blue Grass Stakes, the May 5 Kentucky Derby found its favorite when Nobiz Like Shobiz...
ISLES MAKE 3!
Cinderella came back out after midnight tolled, and danced right into the playoffs. "It's almost a storybook," understated goalie Wade Dubielewicz, the newest hero in the Islanders' proud pantheon of...
CAN'T RIP CURRY TRADE NOW
CRITICIZE Isiah Thomas' GM moves of signing three straight mid-level free-agent busts Vin Baker, Jerome James and Jared Jeffries. Rip Thomas for drafting Channing Frye over Lakers center Andrew Bynum....
SHOT THEIR MOUTHS OFF
I'M largely ambivalent as to which coach's comments were more dim-witted following the Knicks' cheesy 118-113 OT victory Saturday night over Milwaukee that kept them on the respirator - three...
GARDEN GROWTH
Tonight's Garden match between the Knicks and Pistons is sold-out, as is the Knicks' home finale next Monday vs. the Nets. Despite their losing record, the Knicks' attendance soared as...
ASRON LAYS EASTER EGG
ATLANTA - Maybe the Curse of Turner Field isn't dead after all. The Mets came to town Friday carrying a 3-0 record and the swagger of a first-place juggernaut. They...
SO FAR, PHILLIES ALL TALK
ATLANTA - The bat tle has been joined, and the foe has a familiar name. When the Mets arrive at Shea Stadium this afternoon, the Phillies will await them, the...
WRIGHT'S STILL RIDING STREAK
ATLANTA - David Wright, strangely, has an 18-game hitting streak. Wright singled in the eighth inning of yesterday's 3-2 Met loss to Atlanta, keeping his career-best hitting streak alive. He...
NETS NEED EFFECTIVE RJ
Vince Carter and Jason Kidd made history. But maybe Richard Jefferson made the biggest statement for the Nets. Carter and Kidd each forged a triple double in the 120-114 overtime...
HOLIK TO FACE FORMER MATES
When Bobby Holik faces his former teammates in the first round of the playoffs Thursday at 7 p.m. in Atlanta, No. 16 says it will be nothing personal. "We were...
THESE YANKS ARE NON-STARTERS
One homestand into the season, the Yankees are totally predictable. The rotation has been lousy, while the offense gives them a chance to win virtually every day. Darrell Rasner continued...
ROTATION A FLOP FIRST TIME THROUGH
IT began to snow in the fifth inning yesterday and the Yankees needed to go to the bullpen. Neither was a surprise any longer in early April, not the unseasonable...
CURSES! MATSUI'S ON DL
For somebody who played 1,768 consecutive games before breaking his left wrist last season, Hideki Matsui suddenly seems cursed. The left fielder learned yesterday that he'll spend at least the...
ANDY 'PENS' RARE STORY
A familiar - and yet unfamiliar - person greeted Yankees fans in the sixth inning yesterday. Andy Pettitte worked an inning of relief in the 6-4 loss to Baltimore after...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Move over, Tiger. And sorry, Zach Johnson. You may be the new Masters champ, but the big story in golf is 102-year-old Elsie McLean - who has just become the...
Isles Are In
The Islanders have guaranteed themselves a place in the post-season with their win today over the Devils. It's the first time since 1994 that all three teams from the New...