April 14, 2007
BEST BALLPARKS
Right now, my favorite major league park is Petco Park in San Diego (right). It has a little bit of everything, including a fantastic view and great weather every day....
Indy Junior Whips Halle
My Boss Steve is skeptical about Shia LaBeouf being cast as Indiana Jones' son in the long-awaited third sequel, but Friday's box-office projections confirm that the erstwhile star of the...
DVD Extra: Sherman's March
Sherman, who was one of the last surviving helmers from Hollywood's Golden Age (Jules Dassin, 96, is still with us), became a celebrity in movie buff circles when he was...
Turkey Talk 8
New Yorkers fed up with commercials before movies should take a lesson from the folks in Ä°stanbul, who wait in the lobby until the ads (they drone on for 15...
PAY TO PLAY
VELVET ropes and VIP lounges are nothing new to New Yorkers - but private clubs for the preschool set? The past two years have seen the opening of no fewer...
SNAP JUDGMENT
IT'S been said before, but it's worth saying again: Photographs are a great way to start an art collection. You can get work by a master photographer for the fraction...
WHAT'S UP
TodaySIMPLY SYMPHONIC: Showtime at the Apollo goes classical with a concert by the Harlem Symphony Orchestra. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson is your host. She'll narrate Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's...
DEMANDER IN CHIEF
EVERYBODY wanted to be king at Thursday's Kaiser Chiefs concert at the Roseland Ballroom - from the security guy at the door who, after an all-too-intimate frisking, found and confiscated...
IN TUCKER THEY 'TRUST'
FORMER MSNBC pundit Tucker Carlson, who waltzed on "Dancing with the Stars," will now host a game show pilot for CBS. Carlson, famous for his bow ties, will host a...
FALL SEASON
BEING a true true- crime fan, the whole tawdry story of the murder by best-selling novelist Michael Peterson of his wife whom he pretended had merely fallen down the stairs...
WHEN HALF-BAKED, ADD CHEESE
PLAYING the district attor ney in the mystery "Slow Burn," Ray Liotta spends the movie shuffling between two police interrogation rooms that are like multiplex screens showing "Basic Instinct" and...
PENNEY POWER
In a direct challenge to longtime Herald Square fixture Macy's, JC Penney is looking at major space in the Manhattan Mall - two blocks away - for its first location...
MIKE 'DIGS' THIS SCHOOL
It took 15 years of letter-writing by a dogged principal, but yesterday Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein finally broke ground on a $34 million site for a new...
THOMPSON: MY BAD ON BIG ROB
A social worker was able to siphon off $3.6 million from the city comptroller's office through a mix of human and electronic errors, Comptroller William Thompson said yesterday. Prosecutors say...
ROASTING RAOUL
ALBANY - Famed celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder should resign or be ousted as head of the powerful state Commission on Judicial Conduct because his new book "invokes racial, ethnic and...
$105M MEGA GROCERY 'SCORE'
Hardworking Gilberto Bueno spent the past 17 years stocking shelves at Key Food in Astoria, dreaming of winning the lottery and quitting his job. Last Saturday morning, Bueno (pictuerd with...
FIEND ROBS TOURISTS IN HOTEL ROOM
An Atlanta couple visiting the city with their 9-year-old daughter were terrorized last night by an armed bandit who left them bound in their upscale hotel room before fleeing with...
SQUASH BUCKLER GOV
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine wasn't wearing a seat belt when he was badly injured in a highway crash - violating a law that the Garden State spends hundreds of...
'REAL' RICH SPITZ IS NOW THE $2M MAN
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer made $1.97 million last year, a hefty $600,000 increase over 2005, according to his tax returns released yesterday. Just $145,916 of Spitzer's income came from his...
BONE-CRUNCHED JON ON VENTILATOR
Gov. Jon Corzine was in so much pain from his 12 broken ribs that he needed to be sedated and fitted with a breathing tube, doctors said yesterday. The New...
ONE WET AND WILD WEEKEND
Let it snow?! A nor'easter will be roaring through Gotham this weekend, dumping buckets of rain, high winds and even some wet snow on the city before all is said...
THE MEOW 'MURDERER'
The chisel-faced former Mets minor leaguer accused of murdering his girlfriend's cat in a fit of rage has a hair-trigger temper with a history of domestic violence, neighbors said yesterday....
MY LITTLE TONY
The mother of a Long Island thug who had a jailhouse affair with his sexy, married shrink said the two are equally culpable for their antics - calling the psychologist...
DA PULLS OVER 'ID THEFT' COUPLE IN $1M SCAM
A married couple from Brooklyn went from better to worse after getting caught using a Queens man's identity to scam more than $1 million, authorities said yesterday. Emerick Martin and...
N.Y. JOURNALIST MISSING IN THE PHILIPPINES
A Peace Corps volunteer who worked at Ground Zero has vanished in the Philippines while hiking alone. Julia Campbell, 40, a journalist who has lived on and off in New...
B'KLYN KID CHARGED IN JET SKI DEATH
Prosecutors slapped a Brooklyn teen with manslaughter charges yesterday in connection with a Jet Ski collision last summer on the waters off Mill Basin. It was the first instance in...
'CROTCHING' TIGER
The young lesbians accused in a bizarre, gay-on-straight Greenwich Village beatdown have come out swinging - taking the witness stand to tell their side of the story. Their boorish, bigoted...
EMPLOYEE EYED IN S.I. GAL'S GRISLY SLAY
An American woman who worked for a Staten Island businesswoman in Panama is the lead suspect in her grisly dismemberment, local investigators said yesterday. But there was no known motive...
REALTY-RAGE BOSS KICKED OUTTA HOUSE
A manager of a tony real-estate office in Westchester was fired after he "lost it" on a customer, verbally abusing her and holding her against her will in front of...
BX. MURDER CHARGE IN IMPALING
A man who had been questioned in the death of his girlfriend after she was pushed out her Bronx apartment window and impaled on a fence has been arrested and...
GALS' TURN TO MAKE THE SPERM
Men, start panicking - you could soon be on the endangered-species list. British scientists say women could one day produce their own sperm - taking guys completely out of the...
HILL'S $18B PLAN A 'CUT' ABOVE
WASHINGTON - Front-running Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday laid out her plan for revamping the massive federal bureaucracy, vowing to cut 500,000 government contractors for a savings...
A-ROD $TARRING ON RUDY A-TEAM
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and former Mets star Keith Hernandez agree on a candidate for president - both chipped in to elect Rudy Giuliani, who had a hefty $11 million...
CONDI SAYS IMUS GOT WHAT HE DESERVED
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was pleased Don Imus was fired for his "disgusting" comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. "I'm very glad that there was, in fact,...
ANNA MOM IN SHOCK BABY-GRAB
NASSAU, Bahamas - First it was the lover, now it's the mother. Anna Nicole Smith's mom is preventing Larry Birkhead from getting custody of his daughter because she wants to...
MADAM STARTING TO MAIM NAMES
The alleged "D.C. Madam" revealed that one of her clients was the military strategist who helped invent the "shock and awe" war strategy - and her lawyer said more names...
POST'S D.C. ACE DIES
Niles Lathem, a long-time Washington correspondent for the New York Post, died yesterday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 51. Lathem covered some of the biggest stories of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island* Cops say an ex-con robbed one woman and attempted to mug another in New Dorp last month. Joseph Mortellaro (pictured), 41, allegedly simulated a handgun when he tried...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 830; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 9109; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 848; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win- 4 Fri.:...
THUGS DON'T DESERVE HONORS
Kudos to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for blocking a bill that would have renamed a Brooklyn street after racist and urban terrorist Sonny Carson. Councilman Al Vann, who introduced...
NILES LATHEM, 1955-2007
The Post's Washington correspondent Niles Lathem was a genuinely nice guy in a profession noted for its hard-bitten cynics. As a reporter, though, he was a genuine workhorse. Lathem died...
CORZINE'S TERRIBLE MISTAKE
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is lucky to be alive, doctors say, after being critically injured Thursday in a horrific crash on the Garden State Parkway. His SUV hit a...
A CUT ABOVE THE COMPETITION
DIFFERENT media myths infuriate different people. Personally, I get angry with a certain anchorman's ravings that we can't compete without barricading ourselves in the 19th century. American business can compete...
BONFIRE OF PROFANITIES
DON Imus has to wonder where all his friends went. Just yesterday, his radio/TV show was the favorite venue of the journalistic and political elite, who delighted - or pretended...
KEEPING KARL OFF THE BORDER
THE White House is letting it be known on Capitol Hill that top presidential adviser Karl Rove will play no part in President Bush's forthcoming big push to pass a...
NO WAY TO TREAT A BABY
THE ISSUE: DNA test results that show Larry Birkhead to be Dannielynn Stern's biological father. I was completely disgusted by the way Andrea Peyser referred to the child of Anna...
TOO HARD ON BRITS
Considering the criticism that The Post has heaped upon the British hostages, how many brave souls on your editorial board have served in the military, were POWs or have been...
MAYOR MIKE MISFIRES: UFT SLAM IS OFF-TARGET
THE ISSUE: Mayor Bloomberg's likening of the city's teachers union to the national gun lobby. Mayor Bloomberg's comparison of the UFT to the NRA is seriously flawed ("Bloomberg's Bull's-Eye," Editorial,...
PROUD PEACOCK
In a sign NBC Universal's nascent turnaround is on track under new chief Jeff Zucker, the media giant posted its second-straight quarterly gain in profit. NBC, owned by light bulb-making...
GOOGLE PAYS $3.1B FOR DOUBLECLICK
Google is acquiring Internet ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion to push deeper into the online marketplace and become a one-stop shop for Web advertisers. The acquisition will help Google...
NEWSWIRE STAFF JOIN UNION
A mix of money, sex and outrage over a reporter's ouster drove disgruntled journalists at Dow Jones & Co.'s Jersey City newswire operation to join the financial publishing giant's main...
BRONFMAN HEIR QUITS IDB BANK
Seagram heir Matthew Bronfman found himself on the losing end of a boardroom showdown yesterday and was forced to resign as a director at Israel Discount Bank of New York...
THAIN FACING $4.3M SUIT
A former New York Stock Exchange seatholder is going to get her day in court against exchange Chief Executive John Thain, allowing her to claim that he misled her right...
EMPIRE STATE DEATH LEAP
Stunned tourists noshing at a ground-floor Empire State Building cafe witnessed a scene of grisly horror yesterday when the leg of a man who had leaped to his death landed...
MEMO BARES WOLFY'S JOB PUSH FOR GAL
WASHINGTON - World Bank boss Paul Wolfowitz personally pushed for his girlfriend to get a cushy transfer to the State Department with a fat raise to nearly $200,000, a newly...
NYRA: MAIN TRACK WAS SAFE
NYRA director of racing services John Passero paid a visit to press box yesterday to clear up perceptions about condition of Aqueduct's main track in wake of Thursday's cancellation after...
HONDO: THE NAT-URAL
Hondo, who was rained out Thursday, toweled off and resumed the onslaught yesterday, rallying with the Reds in Wrigley to inflate the earnings to 580 o'tooles. Today, he'll see how...
BLUE GRASS TEST FOR STREET SENSE
The favorite for the 133rd Kentucky Derby on May 5 will be decided today at Keeneland in the 83rd running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes. If Street...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Wooden out of hosp John Wooden was resting at home in Los Angeles yesterday after his hospital release yesterday. The 96-year-old former UCLA coach had been hospitalized since Sunday....
DEVILS LOOKING TO SCORE AGAIN VS. HOLM' TEAM
That annoyingly simplistic rule of "goaltending first" applies here, and it isn't because of anything Martin Brodeur did. If Tampa Bay goalie Johan Holmqvist can't improve to at least mediocrity...
A WRIGHT BACKUP
At one point yesterday, Giants coaches stood on the side watching Anthony Wright throw passes to Charles Rogers. That's the way the latter stages of NFL free agency works sometimes,...
UN-DI-TERMINED
BUFFALO - Not one of the four goals Wade Dubielewicz gave up Thursday night was a soft one. Yet coach Ted Nolan's decision this morning should be no harder than...
KNICKS KNOCKED INTO NEXT SEASON
The Nets are going to the playoffs - again. And a lot of that has to do with Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson. The Knicks are going home...
ISIAH'S CREW LIMPS TO FEEBLE END
The Knicks are physically, emotionally, spiritually and now mathematically dead. It ended with Steve Francis placing the ball gently on the Meadowlands court with 1.9 seconds left. The buzzer sounded...
ACTA HEADED FOR LONG YEAR
Sure, Manny Acta said it felt "kinda weird" to walk by the Mets clubhouse yesterday afternoon and not walk into it. But Acta, the former Mets third-base coach now in...
PELFREY WARMS TO TASK
Mike Pelfrey's season debut included almost enough scary moments to fill a horror flick. But Friday the 13th ultimately had a sweet ending for Pelfrey: The Mets won and his...
BACK ON TOP
Moments after Julio Franco's seventh-inning, go-ahead RBI single was ripped into center field, the Shea Stadium speakers blared the song "New York Groove." Later, the Mets were back, back in...
CARTER HIT WHERE IT HURTS
Vince Carter drove in the third quarter. He got a hard foul from Jared Jeffries, who also drove an unintentional shot that dropped Carter and raised his voice above five...
KEEPIN' IT HEAL
ATLANTA - Ten games into Brendan Shanahan's return from the concussion that sidelined him for 31 days, the Rangers' winger isn't yet the same player he was before violently colliding...
BLAMING NEW TRAINERS SEEMS TO BE STRETCH
OAKLAND, Calif. - Like Brian Cashman, Joe Torre said it's too early to lay the blame for the multiple injuries the Yankees have suffered on Marty Miller, the team's director...
ELBOW MAKES PAVANO INTO 'IDLE' ... AGAIN
OAKLAND, Calif. - The "American Idle" is stalled again. Two starts into a season in which the Yankees desperately need him, Carl Pavano's status is in doubt again. Due to...
EXTRA PAINFUL
OAKLAND - Wednesday night Kyle Farnsworth killed the Yankees in the eighth inning when he turned a tie into a four-run deficit. Last night the erratic reliever did it again,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An armed robber with a conscience allowed the Florida convenience-store clerk he was holding up to call paramedics when she had chest pains. The unidentified gunman burst into the Kangaroo...