April 16, 2007
Predictions for tonight
I wish we could have playoff hockey all year long. The ticks can't count off the clock fast enough as we approach game time.If last week wasn't exciting enough, now...
So You Want to be a Star: Reality TV Tryouts (Part 16)
How to get your 15 seconds of fame.New ShowHidden-Camera ShowA new show is looking for an improv comedian or two who know pop culture. Sounds a little bit like the...
LIVEBLOG/SEOUL: Mickey? Is that you?
In case you were interested, Seoul's Lotte World is the largest indoor amusement park on earth. You can literally see it from space, and it's one of the most popular...
Gaetan Duchesne
Former Minnesota North Star Gaetan Duchesne died today while training at a gym in Quebec. He was 44.Read the storyCheck out his Hockey DB profile
Pitching update
By MARK HALEWith today's rainout, the pitching for the Mets lines up like this -- Tom Glavine will pitch tomorrow, while John Maine will be pushed to Wednesday. El Duque...
A Preview of Tonight's Action
Here are some random bleatings floating around my head, t-minus three hours and change before NHL playoff action resumes, tonight.Roberto Luongo is making up for lost time. In his first...
Minnesota on the Verge...
Click to see the whole imageThe Anaheim Ducks play hockey that belies their silly mascot and their Disney roots. If this team were called the Machine, or the Bruisers, or...
Maybe They Should Have Bribed the Ticket Buyers Instead
So how does a movie that opened at No. 1 and grossed $122 million in the U.S. end up losing $105 million to date (or a still-hefty $78.3 million even...
Deal of the Day
Metallic ballet flats are the must have staples of the season, but a decent pair might cost you.Good old Nine West has these sweet ones for only $19.99, marked down...
Spidey Weeps at Tokyo Premiere
Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst were on hand as "Spider-Man 3'' had a rainy world premiere Monday night in Tokyo, 14 days before its U.S. bow in Astoria, Queens. "To...
Canucks Shoot Down Stars in OT
Marty Turco was having a great game. His puck control was superb. He helped move the power play with long, accurate passes up the ice after nearly every Vancouver clear....
Wedding "fashion"
Yesterday marked the New York catwalk debut of Disney's wedding dress line -- a 34-gown collection priced from $1500 - $3000 for women who want to feel like fairy-tale princesses...
MAKING CHANGE
STANDING in front of a markerboard in a dark suit and tie, Joseph Perez poses a simple question to the 17 upturned faces in front of him: "Why are you...
DREAM JOB: ANTHONY MADDOX
ANTHONY Maddox always knew he wanted to work in film. Even before he graduated high school in Trenton, N.J., Maddox, now 33, had created a not-for-profit initiative to teach filmmaking...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
CHRIOPRACTOR What does a chiropractor actually do all day? Chiropractors diagnose and treat injuries and conditions related to a person's musculoskeletal system and spinal column. They use a variety of...
A HELPING HAND
IF Strive had been around when Robert Carmona was growing up, he would have been a prime candidate. Raised in housing projects in Harlem and Staten Island, he was a...
GO TO GREG
Q. I work in a medical office for two doctors, both of whom see patients throughout the day. As a result, me and my co-workers work nonstop, and usually have...
DUKE ELLINGTON - AMERICAN MUSIC MASTER
This prolific pianist, composer and bandleader was a founding father of the American music style - better known as jazz. Jazz is often referred to as America's classical music, as...
TAILOR-MADE WORKOUTS
IT'S time for boot-y camp - and legs, arms and abs training, as well. Spring's fashion trends may be gorgeous, but they aren't easy to pull off. With dresses that...
PULSE SALES
ESPRIT 261 W. 36th St. (second floor), between Seventh and Eighth avenues; (212) 947-8748 Sale: April 17-20. Tue., Thu., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Wed., Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cotton belted cargo pants,...
IT'S OFTEN WRONG
THE full title of John Fugelsang's solo piece is "All the Wrong Reasons: A True Story of Neo- Nazis, Drug Smuggling and Undying Love," and if it sounds a bit...
THEATER COMPANY GOES TO WAR OVER IRAQ
THE Naked Angels clearly have issues. The current offering from this vital and socially concerned theater company is "Armed and Naked in America: A Naked Angels Issues Project," a two-part...
MAD ABOUT EIFMAN
IN the theater, drama is always part of dance, although that part is wildly variable in content. With the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, which over the weekend opened a...
LINDA SEES RED
NOT to put too fine a point on it, or be too high-brow about it, but what we're handed each week now on "American Idol" are more bombs than fell...
GLANCES WITH WOLVES
SOME people will do anything for science. The man in the title of "A Man Among Wolves" is so devoted to the study of wolves that he lost his family...
ROSIE'S 'VIEW' VOW
ROSIE O'Donnell is vowing not to talk about President Bush on "The View" anymore. "i have decided that from now on i will talk about other things on the view,"...
KIDS TELLING MTV WHERE TO GET OFF
THE kids don't want their MTV anymore - at least on TV. Ratings for the once all-powerful music network are sagging across the board compared to last year, even with...
STARR REPORT
Good call by Reege Regis Philbin is scheduled to call in to "Live with Regis & Kelly" this morning to let viewers know when he's re turning to the show...
9/11 IS STILL TAKING COPS' BREATH AWAY
The environmental disaster caused by 9/11 hit New York's Finest especially hard, a shocking new health study shows. The number of police responders who suffered from respiratory illnesses more than...
SPITZER MOVES TO PULL STATE LOBBYISTS OUT OF THE SHADOWS
ALBANY - Making good on a campaign promise, Gov. Spitzer has ordered the establishment of a public registry of lobbyists who meet with him or members of his administration to...
48-HOUR TAX BREAK AS HOLIDAYS DELAY D-DAY
You have two more days - until midnight tomorrow - to file your taxes this year. The Internal Revenue Service granted the two-day reprieve because April 15, the usual tax...
KISS YOUR GRASS G'BYE
Say farewell to grass in parks across the city. In its place you'll find artificial turf - spongy enough to prevent athletic injuries, cheap and easy enough for Parks Department...
DUKE STRIP NOT SO HOT, GUYS SAY
The strip show that resulted in three Duke lacrosse players' being charged with rape was a colossal bore - and lasted only five minutes, according to a published report. The...
FLOODY HELL
A retired city detective was killed near his upstate home yesterday when the vicious nor'easter that hit the region uprooted a tree that crushed his car. John Dorsett, 43 -...
CHILDREN'S VOICES STIR CORZINE
Critically injured New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, under heavy sedation since last week's highway smashup, was able to recognize and respond to his children, they said yesterday. "When you talk...
HS SPURS FUROR WITH CUBA TRIP
A group of Manhattan public high-school students and a history teacher with a soft spot for Cuba flouted federal travel restrictions by taking a spring-break field trip to the communist...
CAR PLUNGES KILL 2
A Brooklyn mom and an aspiring pre-med student from Westchester County were killed in horrifying traffic accidents early yesterday when their vehicles plunged off rain-slick highways. Gretchen Patterson, 48, of...
LOANS PROBE GROWS
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's probe into the student-loan industry has dramatically expanded, The Post has learned. Cuomo's office on Friday sent out subpoenas or formal letters to 13...
CON 'LOVER' CLAIMS JAIL VIOLENCE
The inmate who allegedly had an affair with a prison shrink filed a lawsuit last year against the Metropolitan Detention Center lieutenant arrested Thursday for allegedly covering up an attack...
'SEX-SHRINK' SHOCK
The psychologist who allegedly had a jailhouse fling with a "manipulative" young gang-banger argued in her doctoral thesis that Hispanic women traditionally are "submissive" to men - and that should...
VARY ODD HOSPITALS
New Yorkers pay some of the nation's highest bills for medical care, but those already-steep charges can vary by more than $100,000 from hospital to hospital to treat the same...
'LOAFING' BEAU GETS LAST LAUGH
A Harvard grad whose millionaire girlfriend accused him of refusing to leave her East Side brownstone says that he's no dope-smoking, deadbeat dad - and that his entertainment-guru ex is...
FARE-CHEATING BUS-HOPPERS REAR-END NYC TRANSIT
Move over, schoolkids - Grandma is sneaking on the bus. Grandparents, baby boomers and even mothers with carriages are becoming the city's new scofflaws by using the rear exit doors...
MA CLAIMS SCHOOL AIDE GOT STUDENT PREGNANT
A Brooklyn school aide got a 16-year-old student pregnant, then told her and her mom that "he was unable to do anything for her," according to a legal claim seeking...
MANHUNT ON AMID RAPE'S SICKENING DETAILS
Cops yesterday were hunting for a sadistic rapist who slit the eyelids of his victim and left her for dead in her burning Upper Manhattan apartment. The battered and bleeding...
FIRE HEROES SAVE FAMILY IN BROOKLYN
Hero firefighters made a daring rescue yesterday, pulling members of a Brooklyn family out of a raging blaze that injured seven people, including an elderly person who was clinging to...
CRIME OF PASSION
A teen was shot dead in the hallway of her Queens building yesterday - and police want to talk with her ex-boyfriend, whom she dumped the day before, sources told...
ASBESTOS FURY
A pipefitter who claims to have found asbestos in seven city public schools and one Department of Education office says he's asked officials to remove the carcinogen - but knows...
ROCKIN' RABBI
He was European rockin' royalty until he saw the light of the rebbe. Now Isaac Bitton's former bosses at Le Marais, a French kosher steakhouse in Manhattan, may use his...
HOLOCAUST'S TRAGIC LESSON ENDURES: CHUCK
The Holocaust is a grim reminder that Jews must be active in stopping genocide anywhere in the world, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday at a candlelit ceremony in lower Manhattan...
BOMB SCARE STOPS CIRCUS
A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of more than 6,000 people at the circus and a concert at Madison Square Garden last night. No explosives were found, but police located...
'NO MORE DIANAS'
Prince William abruptly ended his tabloid-titillating, five-year romance with cutie Kate Middleton after his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, reportedly warned him, "We don't want another Diana." The notoriously prim-and-proper queen was...
'DISTURBIA' PROVES SUPERBIA AT BOX OFFICE
Nothing could disturb "Disturbia" over the weekend. The PG-13 thriller, a nod to Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," captured the younger market and killed the competition over the weekend, according to...
RUDY WILL SPEAK AT REV. PAT U
Republican White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani will speak tomorrow at the university founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, a major appearance for the former mayor before a conservative crowd. Several hundred...
RODHAM & RUTGERS
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet today with the Rutgers women's basketball team. The senator had reached out to the team before radio host Don Imus was fired last week...
DEMS' CAU$E CELEB
The celebrity supporters of Democratic White House rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama hit the spotlight last night, as their names and contributions were revealed in federal election filings....
BARACK'S BILLS HINT OF CLINTON PINCHIN'
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's leading Democratic rival, Barack Obama, is a rising political star, a charismatic campaigner - and a copycat. Obama has liberally lifted ideas and text from...
ANNA DIARIES UP FOR GRABS
Anna Nicole Smith's diaries went on sale again yesterday, after two potential buyers chickened out over a possible lawsuit. The journals - penned between 1992 and 1994 by Smith and...
BOAST HOST IMUS
Unemployed shock jock Don Imus has bragged he could be back at work any time for "more money," but has decided to take this summer off. Imus wrote an e-mail...
TWIN COPY CATS
Katie Couric's plagiarizing producer has an identical twin sister - with an identical poaching problem, The Post has learned. Melissa McNamara, 32, was axed from the tarnished Tiffany network last...
GONZALES' TRUTH TEST
WASHINGTON - Embattled Attorney General Alberto, who said yesterday he has "nothing to hide" over the firings of eight federal prosecutors, has a chance to save his job tomorrow with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynA man who had vanished from his Prospect Heights home was found yesterday after a nurse at a Manhattan hospital spotted him while reading about his disappearance in The Post's...
HERE'S TO YOU, 42
FOR all the hoopla surrounding the historic day 60 years ago when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, the impact of what he was doing didn't hit Robinson himself until...
GOV TO RAOUL: QUIT - OR ELSE
GOV. SPITZER yesterday called on celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder to quit the state Commission on Judicial Conduct or face possible ouster because of "inappropriate" comments in his new book, "Schmucks,"...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 338; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 0725; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 910; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 0269;...
MIKE'S WAR ON WARMING
Mayor Bloomberg has mounted his high horse again, this time to rescue the world from global warming. Last week, his staffers completed Step One of the mission: reporting the city's...
A CASE WORTH REOPENING
It may be an investigative longshot, but it's good to see Police Commissioner Ray Kelly following through on his promise to launch a new all-out probe into the controversial 1972...
IRAN'S EVIL GAME
To catch a snake, use your enemy's hand.- Persian proverb LAST week's U.S. military re port alleging Iran is now giving weapons to Iraqi Sunni insurgents may seem downright illogical...
NOURI NIXING TEHRAN'S TYRANTS
A FEW months ago, Wash ington circles saw Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as "Tehran's man" in Baghdad. Today, Tehran circles label him "Washington's man" in Baghdad. Maliki's government has...
DEFENSE NEEDS DNA, TOO
A "NIGHTMARE" that took them to "hell and back" is how the three former Duke University lacrosse players described the nearly 400 days they spent accused of raping a stripper...
TAX-CODE CHAOS
THE vagaries of the cal endar have extended this year's income-tax filing deadlines to midnight tomorrow, April 17. New Yorkers, especially, can use the extra time to cope with their...
HAMAS BIG'S PEACE PLEA
ON Saturday, April 7, I sat down in a Palestinian National Authority office in Ramal lah with a leader of Hamas, the extremist organization that won last year's elections. He...
FLAGS FLY HIGH FOR SADR AS HE HIDES IN SHADOWS
THE ISSUE: Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's failure to appear at an anti-U.S. rally in Najaf. The followers of Muqtada al-Sadr have killed more Americans than those of al Qaeda ("Mookie Behind...
CAN N.Y.'S JUDGES TAKE A HIKE?
THE ISSUE: N.Y. Chief Justice Judith Kaye's demands for pay hikes for herself and fellow jurists. Chief Justice Judith Kaye speaks with a forked tongue ("Blackmail From the Bench," Editorial,...
NYBOT TRADERS TO CBOT: ICE THE OFFER
A large group of floor traders at the New York Board of Trade are furious with their new owners at the IntercontinentalExchange and are about to launch a publicity campaign...
CBS RADIO DAZE
Dan Mason thought he knew what he was getting into when he agreed to take over for Joel Hollander as CEO of CBS Radio three weeks ago. That, of course,...
NO LETUP IN TIMES FIGHT
Billionaire investor Bruce Sherman shows no sign of dropping his campaign against The New York Times to end the company's dual-share structure and raise the share price. In an interview...
ON $WEET HOME$
Despite what the mercury says, it's beyond spring and time to get those digs spruced up - with everything from the latest in kitchen gadgets (everyone needs screened cabinets for...
FORTUNE 500 RELIEF FOR REELING WAL-MART
The nation's two biggest companies are also among the most hated. Retail behemoth Wal-Mart holds the top spot on the Fortune 500 after wresting it away from oil giant Exxon...
IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY
Commodity brokerage firm Optionable is on a tear with fast growth and a sizable investment from the Nymex, but a look behind the numbers reveals a history of extensive related...
DEADLY E-MAIL DELAY
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech students and an employee say the first e-mail warning they got from the university about the shooting rampage came more than two hours after the...
BULLY IMUS NOT A VICTIM
WFAN, for the first time in 20 years, is without Don Imus, the man who made FAN stand out from thousands of other stations. And with his dismissal, last week,...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES FOR MATHIS
With captain Claudio Reyna out, the Red Bulls turned to reclamation project Clint Mathis for offense in their home opener. Years ago Mathis had been the fulcrum of their attack;...
CURLIN, DOMINICAN GAIN
Saturday's final two key preps for the May 5 Kentucky Derby - the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park - produced polar-opposite finishes, and...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Blue Jays place Ryan on DL The Blue Jays placed closer B.J. Ryan on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained elbow. * The Rockies placed infielder and former...
NO GAME FOR HONDO
Hondo scratched with the Marlins yesterday when Sanchez failed to take the hill, leaving the earnings holding steady at a staggering 700 stankys. Tonight, with a 12-2 record after the...
BRODEUR: IT'S ON MY SHOULDERS
TAMPA - The All-Timer, the Greatest-Ever Devil, yesterday shouldered the weight of the playoffs, the season and the franchise. "I have to be the difference," Martin Brodeur declared, preparing for...
DOWD NEEDS MORE MINUTES
TAMPA - The Devils brought in Jim Dowd in on the strength of his playoff showing with the Avalanche last year, and all he's done is come through in the...
YASHIN ON ICE AS ISLES KNOT SERIES
Ted Nolan and Alexei Yashin both downplayed the fact the Islanders center played just over seven minutes in Saturday's Game 2 win at Buffalo, but the fact remains the high-priced,...
WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR
TORONTO - Stephon Marbury has accepted the Knicks' nasty fate of missing the playoffs and asked fans yesterday to be patient and view this season with a broader lens. Because...
KNICKS FIND WAY TO FALL TO RAPTORS
TORONTO - This was hardly a blowout, but the Knicks found a way to lose in the final eight seconds last night, falling 107-105 at AirCanada Centre to the Raptors...
HOPE FLOATS
The Mets were looking forward to honoring Jackie Robinson yesterday, but a nasty storm prevented them from taking the field at all. Due to torrential rain, the team called its...
AN AMAZIN' START FOR METS' PERFECT BULLPEN
David Wright's stretch of 23 games with a hit is a novelty, but it's not the most significant streak pertaining to the Mets these days. How about 12 2/3 straight...
THE JOY OF SIX
INDIANAPOLIS - Seven is a nice number. It's lucky. It's The Mick's number. It was going to be the name of George Costanza's kid. But the Nets really like six....
CARTER ECLIPSES 2,000 FOR SEASON
INDIANAPOLIS - The Nets have their first 2,000-point single season NBA scorer. Vince Carter achieved the feat yesterday when he scored 35 points in the Nets' 111-107 victory against the...
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY AT GARDEN
TOUGHNESS is measured as surely by a player's and a team's willingness to take a hit to make a play and to absorb punishment without retaliating just as surely as...
SUNDAY MO-URNING
OAKLAND - Marco Scutaro's game-winning homer was descending to earth after colliding with the left-field foul pole. As the A's roared out of the dugout to celebrate their light-hitting second...
MUSSINA, PAVANO SHIPPED OFF TO THE DL
OAKLAND - Mike Mussina stopped a bullpen session after seven pitches and Carl Pavano never made it from long toss to the mound. Shortly after those developments yesterday, the Yankees...
JETER GETS NO LOVE FROM THE GLOVE
OAKLAND - Six errors in 11 games is a pace Derek Jeter needs to reduce. "I have pretty much used up my allotment," said Jeter, whose first-inning boot led to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 13-year-old girl was attacked by sea lion as a speedboat towed her on a surfboard in Western Australia. One marine scientist said the animal may have been trying to...
Time to address rotation woes
By GEORGE KINGRoger Clemens isn't coming yet. Phil Hughes is further away from the Rocket's arrival in The Bronx. Yet, the Yankees' rotation is hurting and houses one (Andy Pettitte)...
Pens Fall Short
Despite a third-period goal by Sidney Crosby, the Penguins couldn't muster a comback against the Senators in Pittsburgh. Crosby's goal cut the Ottawa lead in half with 5:20 left to...