April 11, 2007
Primates Get Their Game On
Ah, Georgia, land of the forward-thinking zookeepers.Quote:The orangutans use a touch screen built into a tree-like structure that blend in with their zoo habitat. Visitors watch from a video monitor...
The Hoax of 2006
Now that the great Duke "rape" hoax of 2006 is over, I'm just waiting for the usual followup announcement that Hollywood will pony up seven figures for the movie rights....
Hooray for Bollywood
The saga of New York's last grindhouse, which got us a nice mention this week in New York magazine, continues. The ink was barely dry on my piece about the...
New York Hearts 'Grindhouse'
Before we dismiss "Grindhouse'' as a flop (and run out of excuses to run these fabulous stills), it's worth contemplating the Manhattan box-offce figures for Quentin and Robert's 191-minute homage...
IT'S ART: Chew on this!
So why gum? Just for the schtick of it?There is no deep story behind my using gum as an art material. I have never really liked chewing gum but it...
Why do pitchers pitch to A-Rod?
By GEORGE KING If pitchers and managers have brains they will cease pitching to Alex Rodriguez immediately and take their chances with somebody else in the Yankees' lineup.How much longer...
GO NOW: New Orleans comes to town
It wasn't busy running the St. Charles line, so they brought it to New York. The folks responsible for drawing tourism back to New Orleans, bless their hearts, are in...
Deal of the Day
Savvy suburbanites know that Kohls is chock full of frugal fashionable finds a la Target.Take this striped shirtwaist belted tunic for example. With the front tab detailing, shirttail hem, and...
Quick interview
By MARK HALEA buddy of mine, Andrew Marchand, now works for ESPN Radio -- he used to handle the NYP TV Sports section with the Post, which was excellent.Anyway, Andrew...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-Rod and More
Already we are inundated with the race for the presidency, though the election is not until November 2008. We are told this is the earliest, unofficial start ever and essentially...
Turkey Talk 5 or: Party Time in Istanbul!
Even the most dedicated film critic needs a break, so Tuesday evening I left the dark of the screening room for a party at the new Istanbul Museum of Modern...
TEXAS - THE LONE STAR STATE
THE territory known as Texas has changed hands many times in its history. It was part of Spain, France and Mexico, and was an independent republic for a decade before...
LOWER EAST SLIDE
AARON Bondaroff is a Lower East Side fixture. He runs around with people like photographer Ryan McGinley, artist Dash Snow, reclusive graffiti artist Neck Face and Kid America, who's not...
VELVET SCOPE
1. MANNAHATTA 316 Bowery, (212) 253-8644 The former Astor Lounge serves tapas upstairs with a lower-level lounge for dancing. CBGBs sits empty across the street. 2. GOLDBAR 389 Broome St.,...
LES HALLES OF A BAD TIME
LES Halles owner Philippe Lajaunie doesn't want to talk about the clos ing of his popular Park Avenue South brasserie by the Health De partment last week. It's hard to...
VICTIM RETURNS TO MAKE ABUSER FACE PAST
THE Manhattan Theatre Club has presented so many safe, middlebrow plays in recent years that its current production, David Harrower's "Blackbird," comes as a revelation. This incendiary work about the...
THE 'ROOF' CAVES IN
A Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with an all-black cast headed by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker as Big Daddy has im ploded - the result, theater...
MORNING SHIFT
'GOOD Morning America" is quickly becoming the ladies' choice in the a.m. Last month, "GMA" slashed the gap with NBC's top-rated "Today" show in adult women viewers by about half...
STARR REPORT
'Cat' out of a bag Court TV has dropped the gavel on Catherine Crier, cancelling her long-running show, "Catherine Crier Live," which is scheduled to air its swan song April...
LET THERE BE 'LIGHTS'
HOW many synonyms are there for "extraordinary"? Given enough room, I'd use them all to describe "Friday Night Lights," that rare, special, unforgettable NBC series (there's three synonyms right there,...
TONY'S SLOW START
THE 10-month layoff be tween seasons of "The Sopranos" cost the show a large chunk of its viewership. Last Sunday's episode, the first of nine final installments of the HBO...
'IDOL' MUSIC DIRECTOR: 'SANJAYA CAN WIN!'
MANY people think "American Idol" lightning-rod Sanjaya Malakar should've been gone weeks ago. But don't tell that to the show's musical director, Ricky Minor. "You know what? I think that...
STEAMING MELKY
Teammate Derek Jeter calls him Leche, Spanish for milk, fans and sports announcers call him "The Melkman" or "Melky Way." Whatever the moniker, one thing is clear, the shy and...
LATINOS IN 'REEL' TIME
The Eighth Havana Film Festival New York traverses Latin America's scenic, and sometimes bumpy, landscape to showcase movies from Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and other Spanish-speaking lands. Here are some...
TRIBECA
This year's roster of the Tribeca Film Festival (tribecafilmfestival.org), which runs from April 25 through May 6, features more than 20 flicks from and about the Latino world. Here are...
GREENDAY
DECOR VALUES Colombians Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt don't believe in letting anything go to waste. The Brooklyn-based furniture designers collect industrial wood scraps and "repurpose" them into tables, stools,...
LA LIST
PERFECT TENOR Get saxed up with two of the best young horn players today, the spiritual Ravi Coltrane and the energetic David Sanchez. The six-night gig at the Blue Note,...
PARTY 'CRUZ'
The eyes have it with this boy. Brown, liquid, soulful - where have we seen them before? On his gorgeous sister, Penelope Cruz, natch. The Cruz trio certainly has no...
THE LAST TANGO
The sultry sounds of tango merges with the fiery improvisations of Afro-Latin jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater this Friday and Saturday. Arturo O'Farrill and his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra join...
HOT PICKS
Los Straitjackets Yep Roc Records * * * 1/2 Because Los Straitjackets wear Lucha Libre masks when they perform, it's always been hard to accept the band as anything but...
THE BOYS OF SUMMER
The Amazins' outfielder is living the dream Casual baseball fans may not necessarily know Endy Chavez's name, but they definitely remember his spectacular catch during the final game of last...
SOAKING UP REYES
If electrifying Mets shortstop Jose Reyes had a better flow of the English language - there is no telling how many more fanatics he's have in his corner. When speaking...
UFT BIDS TO GRADE MIKE PLAN
The head of the city's teachers union wants to put together a "multipartisan" task force to judge mayoral control of the school system and devise possible alternatives, The Post has...
CLASSY, GASSY CITY TO BE GREEN APPLE
The city produces about 1 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the country - equaling the level of several small nations, including some the size of Portugal and Ireland,...
POL URGING CITY 'IMAMS' GUY TO QUIT
ALBANY - A Queens assemblyman yesterday called on city Human Rights Commission member Omar Mohammedi to resign for representing six imams seeking to sue USAirways passengers who reported that the...
KITCHEN POLICE GRADE GADGETS
There's a reason the Maytag repairman is so lonely. The higher-end status symbol stoves like Viking, Thermador, Dacor and Jenn-Air are among the most repair-prone brands, according to a Consumer...
SLAY 'FUR' HIRE
A Queens man eager to inherit his mother's modest fortune allegedly couldn't wait for her to die naturally. Joseph Salvio tried to hire a hit man to kill his 54-year-old...
KLUGE DONATING $400M TO COLUMBIA
Columbia University today is receiving its largest donation ever - $400 million from investor John Kluge that will be used to provide merit-based scholarships for needy students, sources said yesterday....
9/11 PLANE PASSENGER ID'D
Alberto Dominguez left his sister's house in Boston on Sept. 11, 2001, and boarded American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Center's north tower. Nearly six years...
BODY IN BAG ID'D AS MOM
The woman found strangled and stuffed inside a duffel bag on a Bronx highway over the weekend was identified yesterday, as family members said her 14-year-old son was left home...
'RAPE-SLAYER' WON'T TESTIFY
A Brooklyn man accused of savagely killing the woman he also allegedly raped two years ago faced a judge in Queens Supreme Court yesterday and declined to testify before a...
NAKED & THE DEAD
If you thought a wiseguy would let things slide after getting caught with his pants down, fuhgeddaboudit. Reputed Gambino soldier Dominick "Skinny Dom" Pizzonia killed a daring-but-dumb husband-and-wife duo after...
DOMINATRIX IN LASH FOR CASH
The Bedford Hills dominatrix's latest command to her slaves is: Donate to my defense fund! Sandra Chemero, due in town court tomorrow night to answer to a misdemeanor prostitution charge,...
FEAR STALKS HARLEM AS MAN BIDS TO SNATCH GIRL
A manhunt is on for a shameless perv who lunged at a little girl and tried to kidnap her from the lobby of her Harlem building as she arrived home...
SUIT AGAINST JANET OK'D
Janet Jackson will have to answer questions under oath about an alleged bodyguard malfunction. A Manhattan judge has denied a bid by the pop superstar to get a $120 million...
'RAPE' NIGHTMARE OF FOSTER CHILD, 13
A 13-year-old Brooklyn girl was placed in a hellish foster home where she was repeatedly raped by the family's teenage son, authorities said. The girl claims her foster mom told...
CORVETTE STING
ALBANY - The Corvette-loving state employee who was accused of stealing more than $1.2 million from the state pleaded guilty to grand larceny yesterday and now faces up to 10...
PATHWAY TO WTC UNVEILED
Here's the first look at a new entrance to the World Trade Center's PATH terminal, due to be up and running by the end of the year. The new PATH...
'RATS' A SHAME
A Health Department crackdown in the wake of the KFC/Taco Bell rat uproar has ensnared some of the city's most prominent restaurants - including the posh Mandarin Oriental hotel, the...
GARSON 'CHECKS' DA CLAIM
You could say the defense team for former Judge Gerald Garson knows when to fold 'em. Lawyer Michael Washor yesterday cast doubt on the prosecution's claim that Garson accepted a...
CAR-BUY 'SCAM' HALTED IN TRACKS
Eight city car dealerships, which allegedly ran a sweepstakes scam promising "winners" a free vehicle, had the brakes slammed on them yesterday by the Department of Consumer Affairs. Some 150...
HEEL NAOMI GREAT FOR SHOE BIZ
Whoever said crime doesn't pay never met a supermodel in a hot pair of stilettos. While Naomi Campbell was working off her debt to society last month - sentenced to...
SOLDIER'S STORY RILES ITALIANS
A soldier from Manhattan has created a furor in Italy by telling The Post why he fatally shot an Italian intelligence officer in a "friendly-fire" incident at a Baghdad vehicle...
ASTRONUT'S PERVY PICS
A cop search of psycho space nut Lisa Nowak's car turned up a stash of hardcore bondage photos along with some money and pills, documents released yesterday revealed. Nearly all...
LUSTY LARRY LICKS 'EM IN ANNA NICOLE DADDY DERBY
And the father is - Larry Birkhead. The Los Angeles photographer was named the winner of the Anna Nicole Smith baby-daddy derby yesterday, as it was revealed that his sperm...
SPONSORS FLEE SHOW IN WAKE OF UPROAR
Staples and at least two other major advertisers have dumped Don Imus over his racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. The office-supply chain was joined by...
TEAM BLASTS 'IGNOR-IMUS'
Rutgers women's basketball players slam-dunked Don Imus yesterday, blaming him for ruining their glorious season with his racist and sexist slurs. The Scarlet Knights announced they'll go one-on-one with Imus,...
HILL LAPS BARACK IN POLL
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama may be breathing down Hillary Rodham Clinton's neck in the race for campaign cash, but he's eating her dust in a new national poll. A Gallup...
OBAMA A-DOORS HIS NEW N.Y. SUPPORTER
A city hotel doorman who switched from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Barack Obama received a surprise "thank you" phone call from the Illinois Democrat, who asked permission to tell the...
W.'S MAN 'WOLF' IS WHISTLED
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz came under heavy fire yesterday for arranging the transfer of his girlfriend to a State Department job that pays almost $200,000 a year. "It's ironic...
CHURCH SEX-ABUSE CLAIMS DROP
The country's Roman Catholic bishops received 714 clergy sex-abuse claims in 2006 - the second consecutive year the number of allegations has dropped, according to a new report. Costs related...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* Four sisters were arrested for brutally beating a neighbor in their East Side apartment building, authorities said yesterday. Christina Crosby, 20, Allana Grant, 24, April Kittrell, 18, and Quindaya...
POP COULD GO WEASEL IF KID LOSES MONEY FIGHT
HE BOUNDED like a hyperactive puppy into the rich Bahamas air - fists pumping shamelessly, thumbs extended skyward, a stupid grin plastered on his tanned face. Larry Birkhead exited the...
THE CIVILITY SQUAD SKIRTS THE RAP RATS
THE culture of "bitches, ho's and niggas." Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also...
AUCTION KING IS 'BIDDER'
SELF-MADE tycoon Alfred Taubman, one-time honcho at Sotheby's auction house, has a lasting, if laughable vision of Dede Brooks, the woman whose Judas testimony put him in prison. "I didn't...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 176; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2420; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 945; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3485;...
A FUNNY WAY TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS
"The bottom line is this: Congress' failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the...
MOOKIE BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday managed to summon up a huge rally in the holy city of Najaf on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Thousands of...
BLOOMBERG'S BULL'S-EYE
Mayor Bloomberg let the teachers union and its allies have it with both barrels blazing the other day - which is a bit ironic, since he likened them to the...
THE BRITS WAKE UP
LONDON CAN an entire nation go on an emotional rollercoaster? Britain's public has been on such an emotional adventure since its 15 sailors and marines were seized in the Persian...
W THE DEFEATIST
NOT all incremental progress is equal in the eyes of President Bush. When it occurs in Iraq, it is a sign that we need to forge ahead despite all difficulties....
MUSHARRAF AT THE CROSSROADS
AS NATO forces prepare to face a massive "spring offensive" by the Taliban in Afghanistan, policymakers may be ignoring a greater threat looming in Pakistan. My guess is that the...
GOPERS WHO CAN TALK
CAN you remember seeing a Republican expressing outrage? Democrats express outrage 24/7. Ted Kennedy alone has expressed more outrage than the entire Republican Party. Democrats can lie their way around...
HOLOCAUST HUSH-UP: IT WON'T MAKE UK SAFE
THE ISSUE: U.K. school districts that are removing Holocaust lessons from the curriculum. I was shocked to read "U.K. Schools' Sickening Silence" (Barry Rubin, PostOpinion, April 8). That a once-mighty...
5 MORE YEARS
Martin Armstrong, the former financier who has spent seven years behind bars for refusing to cough up $15 million in gold booty, was hit with a new five-year prison term...
RETAIL DEAL FRENZY IS LOSING STEAM
The boom in mergers and acquisitions that made retailers and apparel makers prized targets, and resulted in ownership changes for marquee names such as Neiman Marcus, May Department Stores and...
TIME OUT DOWN UNDER
TIME Inc. itself may not be in play, but the largest magazine publisher in America has put most of its Australian titles on the block. Ann Moore, the beleaguered Time...
BEHIND-THE-SCREEN TALKS FOR CLEAR CHANNEL
The private-equity duo fighting to save their $27 billion buyout of Clear Channel Communications are weighing their options ahead of a crucial vote on the deal next week, according to...
OVER THE HEDGE
Some of the luminaries in a ranking of the hedge fund universe's biggest earners are raising eyebrows because their mammoth pay packages don't match the performance of their respective funds....
RENTS CRASH THROUGH ROOF
MANHATTAN office rents in all property classes have moved up so sharply in the last few months that they have reached record highs in most areas including Midtown, where average...
THE RAT PAC
GOOD for Roger Goodell. Good for the rookie NFL commissioner for booting Pacman Jones out of the 2007 NFL season. If ever there is a time for zero tolerance in...
IONA'S NEW COACH EARNS RAVE REVIEW
Not that we're looking to put any pressure on new Iona coach Kevin Willard, but his former boss, Louisville coach Rick Pitino, said Willard reminds him of another former assistant,...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Durant ready to turn proKevin Durant, the 18-year-old Texas freshman, said yesterday he's leaving the Longhorns to enter the June 28 NBA draft. Also, UCLA All-American guard Arron Afflalo...
HONDO'S A GIANT
Hondo scratched out another victory - his sev enth straight - last night, scoring with the Tigers to boost what was an already bulbous bankroll to 555 belangers. Tonight, with...
DEVILS-LIGHTNING MATCHUPS
FORWARDS: The Devils can't match Tampa Bay's top two, only can hope to contain Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis, and Brad Richards has been a massive headache each time...
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
The Devils need the old double reverse. They must turn around two seasons, in opposite directions, in two weeks. Not only must they transform NHL goal-scoring champ Vincent Lecavalier and...
GIANTS MULL WRIGHT MOVE
In the never-ending quest to bolster their backup quarterback position behind Eli Manning, the Giants this week will meet with Anthony Wright, who will make a visit to Giants Stadium...
WADE'S WORLD
Rick DiPietro skated for the first time yesterday since suffering two concussions within two weeks and missing the Islanders' improbable run to the playoffs, but both he and Ted Nolan...
ISLANDERS-SABRES MATCHUPS
FORWARDS: The Sabres, with four players topping 30 goals, led the NHL in scoring (308) and intimidating speed through four lines. The Islanders, with 40-goal-man Jason Blake enjoying a breakout...
GAY VISITS JETS
Patriots cornerback Randall Gay yesterday completed a visit with the Jets, who now must decide if they want to sign him to an offer sheet. Gay is a restricted free...
BULL-ED OVER
CHICAGO - Bulls coach Scott Skiles verbally knocked Eddy Curry off his "pedestal" before last night's game. His club took the Knicks big center down a couple more pegs during...
LEE LIKELY DONE FOR SEASON
CHICAGO - In another scary medical development, David Lee did not make the trip to Chicago last night because he was scheduled to undergo a battery of tests to figure...
BLUNDER ROASTS BOASTFUL ROLLINS
Straight out of the Muhammad Ali school of oration, Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins declared Philadelphia the team to beat in the National League East prior to the season. The Mets'...
SKILL ON THE HILL
John Maine was facing Pat Burrell and with a 2-0 count in the third inning Monday at Shea. That's when Carlos Delgado went out to the mound. Three innings later,...
CARTER BREAKS RECORD
WASHINGTON - The Nets have a new single-season scoring champ. He's the same as the old single-season scoring champ: Vince Carter. Carter scored 31 points here last night to raise...
NETS: WE'RE OFF TO SEIZE THE WIZARDS
WASHINGTON - There was another blown double-digit lead. Hey, they're the Nets. There was a fistful of turnovers in the middle of the fourth quarter that appeared downright lethal. Again,...
THRASH TALKING
Sean Avery will make his NHL playoff debut tomorrow night in Atlanta, but this won't be the Rangers' catalytic converter's first big-league postseason experience. Far from it. In 2002, as...
RANGERS-THRASHERS MATCHUPS
FORWARDS: Scott Stevens pounded then-Senator Marian Hossa into submission over the course of the 2003 Eastern Conference Finals, but Marcel's older brother (43-57-100) has grown into a far more dominating...
HE'S A HOT ROD'
MINNEAPOLIS - The ball swells to softball size. Pitchers continue to foolishly challenge you. Every time your bat kisses the ball it's on the sweet spot. Welcome to Hitters' Nirvana,...
TWINS USUALLY MEAN WIN FOR MOOSE
MINNEAPOLIS - Considering Mike Mussina's dominance of the Twins, he couldn't have drawn a better team tonight when he attempts to rebound from a dismal first outing last week, right....
2007 GIANTS SCHEDULE
2007 GIANTS SCHEDULE (REGULAR SEASON) Date Time Network Opponent Sun. 9/9 8:15 PM EST NBC at Dallas Sun. 9/16 1:00 PM EST FOX GREEN BAY Sun. 9/23 4:15 PM EST...
NEW YORK JETS SCHEDULE
Sunday 09/09/07 01:00 PM New England Sunday 09/16/07 04:15 PM @ Baltimore Sunday 09/23/07 01:00 PM Miami Sunday 09/30/07 01:00 PM @ Buffalo Sunday 10/07/07 01:00 PM @ New York...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Throwing a wild pitch for the ceremonial first toss at the Cincinnati Reds' home opener will have lasting consequences for the city' mayor. He now has a sandwich named for...
Updated: The Match-Ups
Anthony Affrunti, Denis Gorman, Steve Soldwedel and Dave Andreatta give their picks for the first round of playoff action.East (formerly the Prince of Wales Conference)Buffalo (1) vs. NY Islanders (8)Season...
Cherry Coming to America
Brace yourselves, everyone; Don Cherry will be making his U.S. television debut with NBC for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Cherry's been a fixture on the CBC "Hockey Night In Canada"...
Skiles knocks Curry down a peg
By MARC BERMAN CHICAGO - It was quite a pregame tonight at Chicago's United Center. Isiah Thomas defended the Eddy Curry trade, then Bulls coach Scott Skiles, who gave up...