April 17, 2007
Impossible to Avoid
This week, you can catch Conan in his regular spot, but if you just canât get enough of the red-headed host, see him when heâs a guest on the âTonight...
Series half-pick
By MARK HALERight now at Citizens Bank Park, the tarp is being pulled off the field. It was raining a little earlier, but it appears as if the game tonight...
Caveat Emptor Times Three
Until a couple of years ago, it was virtually unheard of for two movies to open on the same day without advance screenings, which means the studios are expecting the...
PETA strikes again
This time PETAchief Dan Matthews reads from his memoir "Committed- A Rabble Rousers Memoir" at Barnes & Noble in Chelsea tonight at 7 p.m.We especially love this part of Chapter...
Don't Call it a Comeback
Speaking of recycling, the man who once took a neighbor's discarded mattress and turned it into a rash inducing overcoat might be ready for a recycling of his own career.According...
Earth Day Togs Cometh
Just on cue for Hollywood's newest favorite day, Scottish crooner KT Tunstall teamed up with music inspired clothing company, Lyric Culture to design a T shirt and belt for Earth...
My Drink With Garry Shandling
A few weeks ago, I went to a reception at the Sony Building for the DVD release of the extremely funny "Not Just the Garry Shandling Show,'' which is out...
THE PAPER CHASE
Back at Yankee Stadium, where there is the best hot chocolate in the world. Of course, hot chocolate always tastes great at the Stadium because it always seems so cold...
Who's Yer Mama?
Everyone is assuming that Shia LaBeouf, profiled today by my sardonic colleague Reed Tucker, is going to be playing Indiana Jones' son, even if Spielberg hasn't deigned to confirm this...
Pirates of the Caribbean:At Wit's End
Disney isn't rushing to deny an alarming report at CHUD that "Pirates of the Carribean 3: At World's End'' clocks in at a butt-numbing 170 minutes, so it may actually...
IMAGING: Meeting cute in Bali
photo by Terri Storch Knudson I don't know about y'all, but nothing says Tuesday like a good cuddle. These bizarrely intriguing-looking long-tailed macaques in Bali's Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary have...
UPDATE: Damn this flimsy dollar!
via BBC NewsThe markets must have known that we were working on an affordable London story (running later in the spring). Why else taunt us in this manner? Of course,...
Predators are Prey in Sharks Win
The Sharks took a 2-1 series lead over the Predators with a 3-1 victory last night in San Jose.Teams that hate each other make for great hockey, and hate may...
Deal of the Day
Add a little sexy femininity to your pajama routine with this Vera Wang Chemise from Saks.It's been reduced from $145 to $37.46.Or if you've got the bod to pull it...
Isles Get No Respect
Ice Girls clean up debris thrown by irate spectators in response to the game's outcome.Say what you want about the Islanders, but they might be the only team in the...
Picks for Tonight
So, I finished 1-3 yesterday, a batting average of .333. In baseball, that gets me into the Hall of Fame. In picking playoff hockey games, it means I buy a...
The Yankee Rotation or What's Left of It
Sorry for being a day late to post something, but flooding created a few personal nightmares.On the subject of nightmares, the Yankees have arguably the two best offenses in the...
Tobey or Not Tobey?
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Raimi continued to tease fans about the possibility of a fourth "Spider-Man'' movie at a press conference in Tokyo following last night's world premiere...
IOWA - THE HAWKEYES STATE
Famous for its rich farmland, Iowa joined the Union as the 29th state on Dec. 28, 1846. It covers 55,875 miles and the capital is Des Moines. THE Upper Mississippi...
MIND YOUR BUSINESS
THE must-have accessory of the year, even for (or especially for) those who don't walk the red carpet, is the personal assistant. Oh, they're sometimes called "interns" on Craigslist, but...
HOW YOU, TOO, CAN BE A GENIUS
AS you prepare to open those college rejection letters, or worry about having to take summer school classes, fret not - being brilliant is not in the numbers. A roundup...
YANKS KEEP TABS ON KISSER; IN JAPAN, EYES NEVER LIE
EMOTICONS - e-mail Esperanto? Scientists say no. A study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that Americans put their money - and their parentheses - where their mouth...
'ZERO' COUNTDOWN
NINE Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor believes that a whisper can be louder than a shout. Rather than explain his new album "Year Zero" with the traditional visits to MTV,...
MPFREES
Nekromantix, "Life Is A Grave & I Dig It" Equally influenced by the Cramps and the Stray Cats, the great Danish trio Nekromantix follow up their hell-raising psychobilly disc "Dead...
LADIES TAKE BOLD PATHS TO BAD ENDS
NAUGHTY girls always die young at the opera, while their tenors merely suffer broken hearts. Two cases in point: Verdi's "La Traviata," being neatly offered at New York City Opera,...
STARR REPORT
Going, going . . . It's like that falling tree: If "The Apprentice" airs its season finale next week, and nobody watches, is it still a season finale? A paltry...
TOMB RAIDERS
THE biggest thing that separates PBS' popular series, "Secrets of The Dead," from other documentaries that appear on say, Discovery - in which archaeologists try to uncover ancient clues from...
KEITH PRIMED FOR PIGSKIN
KEITH Olbermann is re turning to his sports casting roots - at least on Sundays. The outspoken MSNBC commentator has been added to NBC's Sunday-night NFL show, "Football Night in...
REEGE PHONES 'HOME'
REGIS Philbin says he'll return to "Live with Regis & Kelly" in 10 days - six weeks after undergoing triple-bypass heart surgery. Philbin, 75, phoned into "Live" yesterday to chat...
DOC ROCKED
THE drug-abusing ce lebrity doctor from "Survivor" has been punished - but whether he'll lose his high-profile job is unclear. Adrian Cohen, the adventure-loving doctor who cared for the contestants...
'DRIVE' CRASHES
FOX'S heavily promoted road-rally drama "Drive" stalled in the ratings Sunday night. The two-hour debut of the new series, which preempted the network's Sunday-night animation block from 8 p.m. to...
BEST WEEK EVER
AS weeks go, Shia LaBeouf's couldn't have gotten much better if he moved in with Carmen Electra and started sweating gold. For starters, LaBeouf's "Disturbia" unexpectedly conquered the weekend box...
DON'T BITE ON CHEAP GRILLZ
WITH summer fast approaching, we can't be alone in jonesing to break out the old grill. And by grill, we do mean personalized, diamond-studded gold tooth caps, duh. You might...
'KING' OF THE CLINK
A judge yesterday sentenced disgraced Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman to one to three years behind bars for shaking down a judicial candidate. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Martin Marcus...
RAOUL DEFIANT
ALBANY - Celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder, under fire for a new book alleged to contain racial and ethnic "invective," defied Gov. Spitzer yesterday and said he wouldn't resign as chairman...
COLLEGES ARE GETTING BIG BOO$T
In another dramatic move to lift New Yorkers out of poverty, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday pledged $6.5 million a year in city funds for an unprecedented attempt to boost the dismal...
QNS. CO-ED 'KILLER' WAS LOVESICK
The ex-boyfriend sought in the shocking murder of a stunning college freshman killed her because he didn't want anyone else to have her, a close friend of the victim said...
'GOOD'FELLA WRIST SLAP
Call him Matty the Helpful. A federal judge yesterday gave reputed Genovese crime boss Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello a relatively light jail sentence of 18 months on a racketeering...
CARNAGE CANCELS RUDY
Rudy Giuliani canceled a much-anticipated trip to televangelist Pat Robertson's Virginia-based college today in the wake of the massacre that killed more than 32 people in the same state. "[Today]...
EVIL RAPIST'S FACE
Police yesterday released two sketches of the sadistic sicko who raped, sodomized and tortured a Columbia University graduate student for 19 hours. Police sources said the fiend - a bald...
'HORROR SHOW'
New Yorkers woke up yesterday to the devastation left by the weekend's ferocious nor'easter, as Gov. Spitzer declared: "This one is really a horror show." Spitzer, speaking outside Westchester's Mamaroneck...
GOTTI OK'D WHACK: SNITCH
John "Junior" Gotti OK'd the gangland slaying of a "Bonnie and Clyde" duo who robbed a series of mob social clubs and then got bent out of shape when another...
POL IN CUBAN 'PASS'
The Beacon School history teacher who organized the trade-embargo-busting field trip to Cuba traveled to the communist island this month with the support of Lt. Gov. David Paterson, The Post...
TEEN BLOWN AWAY AT B'KLYN EATERY
A Brooklyn teen who dreamed of being a firefighter was shot dead by another youth outside a restaurant in East New York yesterday, cops said. Henry Talbert, 16, was shot...
DIOCESE ACCUSED IN 2 KIDS' RAPE HORROR
A 15-year-old boy and girl were raped and sodomized in a Long Island parish by a predator allowed by the Catholic Church to prey on children, a lawyer for the...
ANDY URGED TO PROBE HOSPS
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo should ratchet up random audits and probes against hospitals and other health-care providers to recover hundreds of millions of dollars, a sweeping report from Brooklyn DA...
THROWING 'BOOK' AT JIHAD AIDE
A Brooklyn bookseller was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in jail after admitting to federal authorities that he was involved in a money-laundering scheme to raise money for jihadists in...
CHOCOLATE BUZZ BEATS KISS BLISS
A kiss is just a kiss - but chocolate melting on your tongue hits the sweet spot better than a steamy smooch, according to a new study. British researchers came...
COLLEGE FIEND GUNS DOWN 32
A baby-faced madman in a "Boy Scout-type outfit" yesterday strolled onto the bucolic campus of Virginia Tech University and turned it into hell on Earth - killing 30 students and...
'WE HEARD SCREAMING COMING THRU THE WALLS'
Aimee Kanode was in her dorm room on the third floor of West Ambler Johnston Hall yesterday when a resident assistant frantically knocked on her door at 8 a.m. There...
'ONLY 4 OF US WALKED OUT OF THAT ROOM'
There were more than 20 people in Erin Sheehan's German class at Virginia Tech yesterday - and she believes she was one of only four students who made it out...
SCHOOL DELAY PROVES DEADLY
Virginia Tech's campus cops treated yesterday morning's 911 call about a deadly double shooting at a dormitory as an isolated incident - and failed to send out a general alarm...
TROUBLE DOGS PROUD UNIVERSITY
Virginia Tech, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southwest corner of the state, has had its share of trouble lately with bomb scares and an escaped inmate who...
TRAGIC KIDS STRAIGHT 'A'
Two straight "A" students and a pair of popular professors were among the victims of yesterday's massacre at Virginia Tech. Emily Hilscher, an 18-year-old freshman from Woodville, Va., who spent...
METS STAR WRIGHT FEARED FOR BROTHER
PHILADELPHIA - David Wright got the fright of his life yesterday when he turned on the TV and learned about the massacre at Virginia Tech. Not only is Stephen Wright...
VICTIMS SWAMP HOSPITALS
The rural hospitals around Virginia Tech yesterday looked more like medevac centers in Iraq - with gunshot victim after gunshot victim wheeled in as overwhelmed doctors and nurses tried to...
MCCAIN GAIN IN GOP POLL
Rudy Giuliani's lead in the polls has started slipping, putting struggling Sen. John McCain within striking distance in the Republican presidential race - but only if Fred Thompson or Newt...
JOHN'S $400 TRIM
WASHINGTON - Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards insists on first-class pampering - enjoying $400 haircuts on the road and plunking down nearly $500 for swank spa treatments, according to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* A 14-year-old boy was arrested for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old family friend, authorities said yesterday. The two boys were playing video games in the suspect's Palladino Avenue apartment in...
OUT OF THE HORROR EMERGES A HERO
POP! One second, Derek O'Dell was studying German in the second-floor Virginia Tech classroom. The next, he whipped his head around, just in time to see a bullet tear through...
TOUGH GUY WAS A REAL WUSS
MOB turncoat Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo yesterday richly regaled the jury on just what a tough guy he was. "I can hit pretty good. I've got a pretty good right,"...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 448; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 4667; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 740; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 9886;...
UNFORGIVABLE
America yesterday suffered through the worst shooting rampage in its history - the massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech University. But today, as the nation mourns, many Americans are...
TAX DAY WINNERS & LOSERS
Today, tax day, many Americans are groaning about the hit their wallets are taking from the government. But for many others, tax day is actually more akin to pay day....
PAT BUCKLEY, 1926-2007
As the wife of William F. Buckley, syndicated columnist and founding editor of National Review, Pat Buckley helped facilitate, inspire and nourish a generation of young conservative writers and activists...
THE METHOD OF TERROR'S MADNESS
THE most important consumer good any government supplies to its citizens is security. Consequently, the universal terrorist strategy is to convince the people that their state can no longer protect...
INDECENT INTERVAL
IS the flaky Dennis Kucinich - the one-time boy mayor of Cleveland and now bachelor vegan congressman, who hoped his 2004 bid for the presidency might also surface a wife...
'FIRST PRIMARY': OBAMA ROMPED
BILL Clinton defined the March 31 financial filings as the "first primary" as he exhorted donors to do their utmost to lift his wife to the winners' circle. Now the...
A GUTLESS LYNCH MOB
JUST before the North Carolina Attorney General announced his decision on the Duke University "rape" case, one of the many expert TV legal commentators said that AG Roy Cooper would...
GONZO THEORIES
IN "A Beautiful Mind," her bestselling biography of mathematician John Nash, Sylvia Nasar describes the process whereby he went mad. He spun coincidences and unrelated incidents into a pattern utterly...
LEADING BY EXAMPLE: GOV'S SEAT-BELT MISTAKE
THE ISSUE: Gov. Corzine's car accident and injuries he incurred while not wearing a seat belt. I was repulsed by the headline "Bucklehead" (April 14). Gov. Jon Corzine could have...
U.K. TEACHES IT RIGHT
In "U.K. Schools' Sickening Silence," (Post- Opinion, April 8) Barry Rubin cites an inaccurate news story as the basis for his argument that schools in England are no longer teaching...
DOUBLE CROSS
Microsoft and AT&T, two of the biggest antitrust targets in U.S. history, are working to cast Google as the new corporate aggressor. Both are seizing on a strategy to put...
BIG HURDLES FOR ION SHAREHOLDERS' BID
A group of investors in Ion Media Networks have sweetened their takeover offer for the troubled broadcaster, but the move likely will be shot down by media giant NBC Universal...
AD SECTOR EYEBALLED
Google's buy of DoubleClick has analysts predicting a flurry of activity in the Internet ad sector. Shares of aQuantive, the closest competitor to DoubleClick, rose more than 12 percent to...
THE 'MYSTERY MAN' RESPONDS TO THE POST
A gentleman named "Edward Pastorini" has something to say. This past Thursday I, along with a few other news organizations, wrote about a guy named "Edward Pastorini," who Bloomberg News...
AN EMPTY PORTFOLIO
New business magazine Portfolio rolled onto newsstands in New York yesterday, easily the most hyped and expensive launch of a new magazine in years. And what do they have to...
BLACK SAYS PROSECUTORS STILL HAVE 'NO CASE'
Conrad Black isn't very impressed with the four prosecutors seeking to put him behind bars for the next 15 years. "I've always said they had no case, and nothing has...
PRINCE HAS CITI MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Citigroup chief executive Chuck Prince is finally going into an annual meeting with something of a tailwind at his back. The banking colossus reported first-quarter earnings yesterday, with Citi's revenue...
CALPERS IMPERILS CLEAR DEAL
The $27 billion buyout of radio giant Clear Channel Communications remains in jeopardy after the California Public Employees' Retirement System said yesterday it plans to vote against the deal. The...
THAT'S SHOE BIZ
Time is running out for Foot Locker to launch a hostile bid for rival shoe retailer Genesco. While a friendly deal remains the priority and negotiations are continuing, Foot Locker...
LITTLE LOOMS LARGE
ALTHOUGH giant leases in new towers get the glory, it's "the sub-10,000-square-foot tenants that drive the market," says Broad Street Development partner Daniel M. Blanco. Insatiable demand for smaller spaces...
SPORTS SHORTS
MARATHON: Cheruiyot wins in BostonRobert Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon for the third time yesterday, defending his title in the remnants of a soaking nor'easter to bring Kenya its 15th...
CROSBY HAS A LEG UP ON OTHER KICKERS
(With the Raiders already on the clock as the April 28 NFL Draft approaches, Post college football expert Lenn Robbins breaks down the best players at each position, beginning today...
DISHING OUT PROPS
I REALIZE we've all got it coming (William "Bill" Munny, "Unforgiven"), but, for the moment, fans, foes, freeloaders and freebasers, it's time to credit or discredit those in the NBA...
HONDO BAGS ANOTHER 'W'
Hondo continued his inexorable march toward four figures and points beyond last night when he chugged to victory with the Brewskis to expand the bankroll to 750 olivas. Tonight, with...
DEVILS ROAD-KILL
GAME 3 Lightning 3 Devils 2TAMPA - Beyond a 10-mile radius, the Devils just don't travel well in the playoffs anymore. Now Lightning has struck Martin Brodeur a second time,...
ISLAND BUMMER
GAME 3 Sabres 3 Isles 2When Ryan Smyth took advantage of a beautiful Randy Robitaille pass and scored to pull the Islanders to within 3-2 with eight seconds remaining in...
STEAMING CURRY
Bulls coach Scott Skiles never pushed the right buttons to motivate Eddy Curry when he played in Chicago and turn him into the offensive monster he has become this season...
CARTER TRIPLE-DOUBLE NETS HUGE WIN
Nets 104 Knicks 95Lawrence Frank was the last to know. Fans knew. Media types were aware. Players were on the situation. The Nets coach? "No clue," Frank said of Vince...
A SEASON OF LOSING
HERE is the pity about the way the basketball season concludes in New York City: The end is greeted not with anger but with indifference. There are no pickets positioned...
POWER OUTAGE
PHILADELPHIA - There have been few reasons for curtain calls, no need for celebratory handshakes. There's yet to be much need for a tape measure. One of the strange developments...
GLAVINE GETS CALL TONIGHT
PHILADELPHIA - With their second straight rainout yesterday, the Mets changed their rotation. John Maine was scheduled to start Sunday and then again last night, but he's now scheduled to...
CULLEN KNOWS IT 'CANE HAPPEN
Matt Cullen lived life on the other side last year, when his Hurricanes lost the first two games of the first round at home to the Canadiens and traveled to...
FOR YANKS CHASE IS ON
The Yankees used to play with aces. Now, they are holding cards with without faces. When the Yankees opened spring training, their rotation was Chien-Ming Wang, Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina,...
CARL DODGES MRI ... FOR NOW
The fact that Carl Pavano didn't undergo an MRI yesterday doesn't rule out the American Idle being dumped in a tube today or tomorrow to see what's up with his...
A TEXAS-SIZED CHALLENGE AWAITS
The tarp was on the field and no one was in the stands as Chase Wright walked to the Yankee Stadium mound last night for the first time. The 24-year-old...
BURN, BABY, BURN
WONDERING how to blow your hefty tax refund this year? (Wait, what hefty tax refund? Never mind, this isn't about us.) For those with money to spend, there's no easier...
SWEET SUITES
PRESIDENTIAL SUITE $15,000 Four Seasons Hotel, New York Architect I.M.Pei came out of retirement last year to design these masculine twins on the 51st floor, each 1,500-square-feet huge. The X...
RIDE IN STYLE
ATTENTION almost-rich people painfully suffering through another commercial flight in (shiver) business class - the sweet salvation of a private jet is now affordable. Your messiah? Jumpjet, the latest private...
GOOD TO GO!
NO matter how fun it is to travel, if you do it for work, it can be a hassle, and being a celeb doesn't always mean the way is smoothed,...
LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!
4/13/07 SEOUL Each room [at the Park Hyatt] has floor-to-ceiling windows, sliced only by the occasional architectural support beam...of course, all that glass exposes more than a slight flaw in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Japan's leading toilet manufacturer is offering free repairs to 180,000 commodes after three of them caught fire. The culprit is the Toto Z model's electric bidet accessory, which features a...
Playoff Hockey at the Garden
It's coming. The Rangers take their 2-0 series lead to the Garden ice tomorrow night, looking to put themselves one win closer to the second round. We're excited and, understandably,...
Lightning Be-Devil Jersey
For two periods at the St. Pete Times Forum last night, 1990s-style hockey dominated. There were low shot totals — only two goals scored — and skating room for the...
Ugly Finish at the Coliseum
I'm not an Islander fan, but I love a good underdog story. Watching the contest between them and the Sabres, I find myself pulling for the Isles. There's no way...