April 10, 2007
Mwah ha ha HALO 3 BETA!
Yeehaw! They've finally, finally set a date. It's over a month away, but no matter.Microsoft's announced that the multiplayer beta of "Halo 3" is hitting Xbox Live on May 16...
Some Things To Do:
Shop for cute spring clothes while sipping Veuve Cliquoe Rose at the Meatpacking District's Spring Trunk Show this Saturday.Check out select Meatpacking shops like Tracy Reese, Diane von Furstenberg and...
BASEBALL IN WINTER
Back in the good old days of spring training when baseball was played in warm weather, I would spend quality time with the Philadelphia baseball writers in Frenchyâs, a wonderful...
Overlooked Movies to Love
How can you resist a movie with the credit, "and Oliver Reed as Otto Von Bismarck"?Reed, who later died while filming "Gladiator," costars with the invaluable Malcom McDowell in 1975's...
Halle Berry, Post Reporter
In "Perfect Stranger,'' a thriller opening Friday, Halle Berry plays a star reporter for "The New York Courier,'' a tabloid daily that is very clearly meant to be The New...
King Solomon of Tribeca
"I don't think people understood what we were doing,'' Harvey (no last name necessary) tells Page Six. "The audience didn't get the idea that it is two movies for the...
Deal of the Day
As retro as the Penguin brand itself, this high waist silk Jacquard Janet Mckenzie Skirt is definitely worth a twirl.Especially since it's been reduced from $164 to $39.99 after being...
Playoff Flame Burns in Atlanta
Twenty-seven years since Atlanta's last playoff appearance, that city's second hockey franchise is making its debut.The Flames never had post-season success until they moved to a place where fans appreciated...
NOT ALL MOVERS WILL BE SHAKERS
Latest Roto Files column is online.A move to the pitching mound worked well for former in fielder Tim Wakefield. A shift away from the mound has not yielded fruitful results...
ON BOARD: L'Avion Newark-Orly
Food's good on L'Avion - of course, better coming home than on the way there. French upstart airline LâAvion launched this January as another transatlantic all-business carrier (this one linking...
Turkey Talk 4 or: V.A. Musetto Defies Terrorists
It ıs Tuesday mornıng in Istanbul. Sunny skıes, temperature ın the 60s. The week-long (!) holiday marking the founding of the Istanbul police department continues, but securıty appears tighter than...
The Queen of Technicolor
The esteemed V.A. Musetto, the favorite film critic of John Waters, has been filing reports to this blog from Istanbul. So it fell to your humble servant to review "Jack...
COAT CHECK
COKE or Pepsi? Yankees or Mets? Haim or Feldman? Now you can add one more debate to the great quandaries of determining taste: Trench or anorak? While nothing can trump...
FILLING A SPARSE 'RUNWAY'
AS Heidi Klum is constantly reminding the designers on Bravo's "Project Runway," "in fashion, one day you're in, and the next you could be out." If the turnout at the...
MPFREES
Download these songs for free at nypost.com through Friday:1997, "Garden of Evil" This track off emotive power-pop band 1997's debut record, "A Better View of the Rising Moon" (out April...
CHIEFLY SPEAKING
AT the Muse Hotel in Times Square, the Kaiser Chiefs keyboardist, Nick "Peanut" Baines, received a card under his door, asking if there were any way the hotel could "inspire"...
MIDNIGHT SHACK
FIERCELY dramatic yet with nuanced staging, Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" is a long, wonderful night's journey into day. The Old Vic Theater Company's adaptation is illuminated by...
STARR REPORT
The numbers game Numbers for Sunday's sea son premiere of "The Sopra nos" aren't in yet, but it's likely that the HBO show af fected its broadcast cousins, if even...
DIS-TRESS CALL
SHEER genius it ain't. Bravo's new reality/ com petition show, I mean. Talk about "been there, done that." Bravo's "Shear Genius" is such a ripoff of every competition show that...
BARKING 'DOG'
THIS Dog says he's been mistreated. Duane "Dog" Chapman, the Hawaii-based bounty hunter and star of A&E's "Dog the Bounty Hunter," faces extradition and possible prison time in Mexico over...
IT'S FUNNY GRANNY PAT!
DUE to a reporter's error, The Post yesterday misspelled the name of Pat Candaras, the Bay Ridge comedian who is a contestant on "Funniest Mom in America 3," premiering tonight...
OUT WITH A BANG
WELL, no one got whacked on "The Sopranos" season opener - but there's still plenty of time left for that. Sunday's premiere, the first of nine new episodes culminating in...
SANJAYA SEARCH
WACKY "American Idol" contestant San jaya Malakar is officially more popular than Harry Potter - at least according to the Internet search engine Yahoo. Sanjaya was the subject of more...
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!
THE Who be damned. Having entered the dark side of 60, the baby boomer generation has a new motto: Hope I get old before I die. A raft of books...
ADD 30 YEARS TO YOUR LIFE
WHEN it comes to death-defying feats, every little bit counts. According to Dr. Thomas Perls' livingto100.com longevity calculator and Dr. Sanjay Gupta's book "Chasing Life," the following steps can add...
NEW WRINKLE TREATMENT - IT'S A GAS
THE sun can destroy your skin - or save it. A new medical device, the Portrait by Rhytec, uses nitrogen plasma, a highly energized form of the gas, and the...
ANYTHING GOES FOR FORMER FIREHOUSES
The City Planning Commission voted unanimously yesterday to place no restrictions on the future use of four shuttered firehouses, paving the way for them to be turned into homes, cultural...
MIKE'S SCHOOL-WAR BLAST: UFT = NRA
Bolstered by a vote of confidence from 100 civic leaders, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday took aim at what he called "special interests" trying to derail his education reforms, and compared the...
GRANNY'S BX. BLAZE OF GLORY
A desperate grandmother tossed her infant grandson and toddler niece from a fire escape into the waiting arms of two police officers and a maintenance worker three stories below to...
WEEK WILL SEE A BRRREATH OF SPRING
It may have been two weeks since spring arrived, but the temperatures make it feel more like winter. And the cold weather is here to stay, at least for the...
COPS HUNT SEX FIENDS
Four Brooklyn men have been arrested and three others are being sought for molesting and attempting to sexually assault a 14-year-old girl in a Crown Heights apartment, police said yesterday....
BROOKLYN SCHOOL IN SPACE WAR
Parents and students at a Brooklyn elementary school that the city has proposed share its building with a new school focusing on Arab language and culture were expected to protest...
CITY IGNORED RAT 'DROPPING'
The city Health Department ignored complaints for two months about a rat rampage at a KFC/Taco Bell - including that one of the rodents "fell from the ceiling" - before...
SCHOOL DRIVER 'FORGETS' GIRL
A school-bus driver was arrested yesterday for leaving a 5-year-old girl in his vehicle in Brooklyn for more than two hours, police said. Henderson Bourne, 52, of Queens, didn't notice...
SHRINKS LINING UP FOR A PEEK AT 'PERVY PETE'
Still more shrinks are scheduled to peer inside the battered brain of flaky "fire fiend" Peter Braunstein this week in hopes of determining when his sex-kidnap trial can begin. The...
MCG RIPS WIFE'S GAY 'FEAR'
Gay former Gov. Jim McGreevey is ramping up an increasingly contentious divorce from his estranged wife, suggesting she's homophobic and asking a court to bar her from dragging their 5-year-old...
'SLAY MOM' CLUELESS TO PREGNANCY
A Brooklyn woman charged with murder for stuffing her newborn in a garbage bag was held without bail last night - even as her lawyer insisted she never realized she...
TOP JUDGE IN BENCH PRE$$
ALBANY - The state's top judge yesterday threatened to either ram through a pay raise for jurists on her own or sue the governor and Legislature if they don't increase...
'JUNIOR' GOTTI NAMED IN 'BONNIE-CLYDE' SLAYS
It's no rumor if "Junior" Gotti knew about it. So say prosecutors in court papers naming Junior for the first time as a co-conspirator in the murders of Thomas and...
DA: KILLER TAUNTS KIN OF VICTIM
The Brooklyn man accused of silencing a rape victim by slashing her throat before she could testify against him has continued to harass her family from Bellevue Hospital, prosecutors said...
FACE OF TRAGIC DUFFEL VICTIM
Police yesterday released this sketch of a woman strangled and stuffed in a duffel bag in The Bronx. The body of the unidentified woman, who was between 30 and 40...
$5M 'BEAT' COP LAWSUIT
The music producer who says he was beaten by one of the cops indicted in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell insisted through his lawyer yesterday he is not trying...
BALL 'PARK' WOES DRIVE SHEA FANS BATTY
Fans who drove to Shea Stadium yesterday for the Mets' thrilling come-from-behind victory in the home opener not only had trouble finding a parking spot; they also couldn't tailgate once...
WIFE-KILLER GETS 23 YRS.
A Manhattan butcher was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison yesterday for hacking his estranged wife to death with a boning knife on a crowded Washington Heights sidewalk...
SUSPECT STRICKEN
A Brooklyn cabinetmaker charged with electronically looting $1.6 million from wealthy New Yorkers' bank accounts was hospitalized after his arrest at Newark Airport. Alexis Ampudia, 44, complained of chest pains...
VILLAGE SLASH-BASH BUSTS
Two thugs from North Carolina were arrested for viciously beating and slashing an elderly homeless man while trying to score pot in Washington Square Park, authorities said yesterday. Scott Berry,...
TEHRAN NOTCHES UP NUKES
Iran has defiantly expanded its nuclear program, in a major rebuke to United Nations sanctions, officials said yesterday. Iranian leaders said they had begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges to...
BRITS' FINAL '$AIL'
Name. Rank. Serial number. Price. Britain abruptly banned all military service members from selling their stories to the media yesterday - one day after allowing the 15 marines and sailors...
HAMAS: FREE OUR MONSTER
A Palestinian fiend who coolly confessed to blowing up 66 people - including seven Americans - is among hundreds of terrorists whose freedom Hamas is demanding as part of a...
SPONSORS COULD BE FEELING BACKLASH
Although CBS and MSNBC have suspended Don Imus, both networks could still lose millions of dollars in advertising revenue because of a consumer backlash against the show's sponsors. The National...
IMUS GETS THE OLD 'HEAVE-HO'
MSNBC and CBS radio turned down the dial on Don Imus yesterday, suspending him hours after he made another racial blunder - addressing the Rev. Al Sharpton and a key...
REP. KING RIPS ITALY GI-SLAY TRIAL
Long Island Congressman Peter King yesterday called Italy's decision to try a Manhattan soldier for murder "disgraceful." As reported in The Post yesterday, Spc. Mario Lozano of the 69th Infantry...
RUDY-FAN NEIGHBOR TERRIFIES ME: LIZ
WASHINGTON - One of Rudy Giuliani's biggest backers in North Carolina "scares the business" out of neighbor Elizabeth Edwards, who won't let her kids anywhere near the registered Republican. Edwards,...
'I AM A NYER': OBAMA
Barack Obama swooped into rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's back yard yesterday to appear on David Letterman's show and gobble up campaign cash - as he declared the turf his own....
OLYMPIC STAR IN PRISON DASH
Olympic gold-medalist Tim Montgomery will be forced to trade his track suit for a prison uniform after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank-fraud charges, admitting he joined a plot...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens* A mugger held a knife to a woman's throat as he tried to grab her purse in South Jamaica, police said yesterday. Kenneth Griffin, 38, allegedly approached the victim...
THIS IS AN UGLY, OLD STORY
WHERE in hell has everybody been? Some of us recall, years ago, listening to a Mets game when WFAN ambushed listeners with an "Imus In The Morning" promo, a clip...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 218; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 5162; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 551; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 2029;...
GOTHAM'S WATER WOES
Is a multibillion-dollar tax hike that could boost water bills as much as 50 percent again hanging over the city? The threat comes from the impact of three large upstate...
ELIOT ADRIFT
Has Eliot Spitzer been swallowed by the moral swamp that is Albany? Maybe. For sure, though, after a scant 100 days as governor, the self-styled agent of fundamental reform is...
A LEAK TO CHINA
A COMPANY effectively controlled by the government of China got a heads-up on major Ground Zero news in February, according to my sources. The American press and public were kept...
THE CURSE OF 2ND AVENUE
ON Thursday, New York's mayor and governor will break ground on the Second Avenue subway - again. The financial world should pay attention: Previous "good news" for the long-planned and...
GET REAL, RUDY
DEAR Rudy Giuliani, I'm writing this open letter to you because I'm worried you're blowing it. I still think you stand the best chance among the candidates in the Republican...
WORKERS ACCEPT CRUISE FOR RELIEF, NOT RELIGION
THE ISSUE: Tom Cruise's work to help a Scientology-inspired program for 9/11 rescue workers. At least Tom Cruise has not forgotten the horrific events of 9/11 and its impact on...
NYPD IN NEED OF NEW HOMES
THE ISSUE: The proposed $1 billion, 30-acre Police Academy to be built in Queens. It's great that the city is going to spend $1 billion to erect a training facility...
INVESTOR DEMANDS PIER 1 WALK THE PLANK
Pier 1 Imports was sucker punched yesterday by its third-largest shareholder, which demanded the struggling retailer close more stores and add new board members to end nearly two years of...
A PRINCE-LY SUM
A mix of laughter and derision filled the executive rooms of hedge funds yesterday as managers pondered the shocking news that Citigroup may purchase a hedge fund for an eye-popping...
IT LOOKED LIKE A JOB BOOM, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T
TONS of jobs were created in March. And next month's job growth will be even stronger. The bulk of the March growth was statistical, not real. A case of government...
NO HEDGE AGAINST SALARY
Move over, Lloyd Blankfein. There's a new king of Wall Street - and he lives in Houston. John Arnold, 33, head of energy hedge fund Centaurus Energy, has been crowned...
PAR$ON$ PARTY
Dick Parsons is leading the "You really earned it" payday parade with a 40.6 percent hike for helping boost Time Warner's sagging stock price. The chairman-CEO's compensation for 2006 jumped...
MARTHA MAKES A NICE SUM
Martha Stewart has pulled off a lulu of loopholes in the controversy over hidden corporate paydays. Although the 65-year- old founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia was reported in the...
FOX, HEARST MAGS DEVELOP WEBISODES
Fox Television Studios yesterday announced a deal with Hearst Magazines to develop original television and Internet content based on Hearst's existing brands. The first so-called "Webisodes" will launch later this...
DISCOVERY CUTS 200 STAFFERS
Discovery Communications yesterday trimmed its work force by about 3 percent, or roughly 200 people, in what is internally being described as the second phase of a three-part restructuring plan....
YAHOO! AD COUP
After taking a beating from archrival Google, Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel finally has a reason to smile. The company's new online ad system, dubbed Panama, is getting accolades from advertisers...
GLASS LEWIS VS. NYT GLASS HOUSE
A second investor watchdog group has pounced on the New York Times for refusing to let outside shareholders make decisions at the media company. Glass Lewis & Co. yesterday joined...
GLAMMING UP IN SOHO
THE colorful district where SoHo and Chinatown brush elbows has never been known as a glam hotel destination, but big changes are afoot. Sources say Highgate Holdings, the Texas-based outfit...
BIDDERS FOR NYRA IN ALBANY
Today and tomorrow, in Meeting Room 6 of the Empire State Plaza in Albany, a panel appointed by Gov. Spitzer will hear proposals from the four bidders seeking to operate...
BIG BUCKS FOR HONDO
Hondo made another addition to his pile of dough yesterday when he came back with the Metamucils to increase the soaring profits to 505 aspromontes. The triumph improved his season...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGES: Wooden hospitalized Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has been hospitalized for treatment of a possible recurrence of diverticulitis. Daughter Nancy Muehlhausen said the 96-year-old Hall of Fame coach...
ZACH-LY WHAT GOLF NEEDED
AUGUSTA - All day Sunday, the galleries around Augusta National - and the rest of the free world watching the Masters on television - waited for the inevitable to occur....
PARALYZED TILDEN HOOPS STAR FACES BATTLE TO WALK AGAIN
Alanzo George had hoped to spend this spring getting ready to play Division I college basketball next year, maybe at Manhattan. Instead, the Tilden High School senior is lying in...
A WILD FINISH
The Stanley Cup playoff tournament has a field of Zach Johnsons without even a single Tiger Woods in sight. The hard cap has produced parity in our time. It has...
HAWKS AIN'T JOSHIN'
THE NBA must be thrilled about the graceful 24 hours it experienced Sunday/Monday. Aside from Miami Beach police playing ring around (James) Posey in the early a.m., the Hawks suspended...
FINN NOT GIVING UP GIANT JOB
Here's all Jim Finn is asking: Make it a fair fight for his job, because if it is, he's confident no one will supplant him as the Giants fullback. "If...
WEBBER'S NEXT MOVE: RETIREMENT OR KNICKS
Chris Webber told The Post last night he could see himself retiring if he wins his first NBA title with the Pistons this June. If he doesn't retire, Webber, 34,...
READY TO BURST
Pistons 91 Knicks 83The Knicks are not only depleted now. They are dead. Another Knick miracle last night? Almost, but not quite. Credit the Knicks for going to toe to...
FRANCIS GETS 2 T'S, NO SYMPATHY
Steve Francis played poorly and acted worse. Clearly still hobbling on a sprained ankle, he forced himself back out on the court because - with five of the Knicks' top...
DELGADO SOLVES PHILLIES' SHIFT WITH A BUNT SINGLE
Yesterday wasn't the first time Carlos Delgado thought about bunting against a shift. "I've been considering it for about 13 years," Delgado said. "I just never had the [guts] to...
VIEW TO A KILL
A James Bond movie is not about the outcome. We know beforehand that no matter how bleak it gets for the hero, he will survive and the bad guys will...
RANDOLPH DEFENDS NOT PULLING BURGOS, ALOU
They scored seven runs in the eighth inning, turning the home opener into a runaway. The Mets made it look easy. But without that late outburst, yesterday's sellout crowd might...
GREATEST OF E'S
The chants came cascading down from the highest reaches of Shea. Jimmy Rollins was serenaded for his ineptitude. He said he was more honored than irritated. The Phillies shortstop, whose...
A COMEBACK FUL-PHILLED
Back in February, Jimmy Rollins made his claim. He said that the Phillies were "the team to beat" this season. Now, it's only April. The Mets and Phillies just began...
ALL IS WELL DURING AMAZIN' APRIL
ALL Billy Wagner knew, as he started stretching in the bullpen in the last of the eighth inning, was that he was getting some work in, didn't matter the score,...
NETS NOT UTTERING 'CATCH' PHRASE
If the Nets do make the NBA playoffs, they may look back on this time as a sort of test run. The Nets face the Wizards tonight in D.C., three...
RENNEY OR NOT
Behind one bench will be Bob Hartley, who in four playoff appearances as coach of the Avalanche from 1999 through 2002, never failed to reach at least the seventh game...
INCREASED PT NO RX FOR STRUGGLING CABRERA
MINNEAPOLIS - The Yankees were hoping regular playing time for Melky Cabrera would shake the switch-hitter out of the 2-for-17 slide he was in before last night's game against the...
ANSWERING THE CARL
Yankees 8 Twins 2MINNEAPOLIS - If you didn't predict Carl Pavano would be the first member of the Yankees' rotation to pitch effectively and post the initial victory by a...
NO PAIN, NO GAIN
ZIPPING through a tropical jungle from cables perched 20 stories high, amidst fauna that had creepy little names like the "kill tree" or the "walking palm," I had a revelation....
DESTINATION: DIET
VACATIONS, like birthdays, are occasions when calories allegedly don't count. But with the recent and upcoming crop of site-specific diet books, it's hard to go anywhere without reflecting on your...
'FRIENDLY FIRE': HOW A SOLDIER SEES THE FACTS
IN yesterday's Post, Spc. Mario Lozano finally spoke of the incident that killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari and wounded journalist Guilinana Sgrena. I can understand, as a friend and as...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A British man has met and married a woman after supposedly dreaming of her phone number. David Brown, 24, said he texted the woman's number and asked, "Did I meet...
So You Want to be a Star: Reality TV Tryouts (Part 15)
How to get your 15 seconds of fame."My Super Sweet 16"You can deny all you want that you watch this show, so just imagine being on it. And try to...
Head toward the "Light"
The longest-running show on TV is probably one you don't catch on a regular basis, mostly because it's on at 10 a.m. in New York -- in many cities, it...