April 18, 2007
Lo Duca looks likely
By MARK HALE Paul Lo Duca is currently in the Mets' lineup, hitting second, one day after suffering a right index finger bone bruise.Meanwhile, quote of the day came from...
AN EARLY READ ON THE SEASON
Weâre only 18 days into April but the early pattern to the season is set and so far, Iâm batting 1.000. Only A-Rod is hotter. Just check out his slugging...
Neighborhood Watch
I am always ranting about Spanish retailer Mango's slow movement through the birthing canal of the New York retail scene. But last night I saw signs of progress. That is,...
Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007)
on the Arts) did secure big-screen immortality by playing the female lead in the 1935 Marx Brothers classic "A Night at the Opera.'' That's Kitty on the phone at the...
Finishing the Job
The Rangers have four chances left to end this series, with the first opportunity coming tonight at the Garden. Whether the Rangers win the series in four or seven, it...
Picks for Tonight
So far, so good with the picks. Had I any money, I might actually use my picks to increase whatever little wealth I have.Thrashers-Rangers: Atlanta's frustrated. When Ilya Kovalchuk is...
Deal of the Day
The perfect bold skirt for summer and spring is just $34.99 at Urban Outfitters.This apron-esque Lux Solid Button Front Skirt, which started at $58, is so totally ambidextrous, you can...
The Two-Referee System
Do we really need four officials clogging the ice? Two linesman I can live with; it's been that way my whole life. I'm used to it. But two refs? Maybe...
New York Hearts Halle
"Perfect Strangers'' did so-so business across the nation during its opening weekend, landing in fourth place with an unimpressive $4,211 per-engagement average. But the ludicrous Halle Berry-Bruce Willis thriller lead...
Wild Answer the Call
How about Minnesota? With their playoff lives on the line, they delivered, big-time, against a Ducks team that had their way in each of the first three games of the...
Flames Keep Series Close
The Flames had little choice but to come away with a win from their first game at the Saddledome, and they did precisely that. With Detroit holding a two-game series...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-Rod, King Felix and More
It is Week 2 for Awards Wednesday and Alex Rodriguez is still regal and King Felix Hernandez is making us all think of the young Dwight Gooden: AL MVP1. Rodriguez,...
LIVEBLOG/SEOUL: Update your guidebooks
Look! It's Flushing! Just further away. photo by Jason Cochran Itaewon, just south of the iconic N Seoul Tower, is Seoul's hub forWesterners. You can go all day without seeing...
LIVEBLOG/SEOUL: Ever-Everland
Don't be afraid - the Global Village ride at Korea's Everland amusement park won't hurt you. It'll just creep you out a little. Kind of like Disney's It's a Small...
SPRING FOOTBALL: THE PRE, PRESEASON TOP 25
By TIM SULLIVAN Itâs late April, and while many football fans are focused solely on the NFL Draft and which college players are leaving for greener pastures, letâs not forget...
GIRL POWER UPSETS ROCKER
BECAUSE of the trite vapidity of Avril Lavigne's latest record and the critical acclaim for Chris Cornell's body of work (from both Soundgarden and Audioslave), when the pair wrestled in...
SHIVER HER TIMBERS
A few days ago, the cast of "The Pirate Queen" (arrrr!), still smarting from their terrible reviews, was sitting in the Hilton Theatre waiting to be called onstage for a...
SISTER ACT
'AMERICAN Idol" flash point Sanjaya Malakar's fame is spreading - to his sister. Shyamali Malakar, the older sister of the most polarizing "Idol" contestant to come along in years, is...
WORKING MOM
THE WE channel is cutting the best part from this Fri day's premiere of the new reality series about a woman bounty hunter. That would be a sequence at the...
'GREY'S' SPINS TO L.A.
THE two-hour episode of "Grey's Anatomy" which will spin off into a new series for Dr. Addison Montgomery Shepherd (Kate Walsh) now has an airdate - and the semblance of...
'PRICE' FIXING BY MID-MAY
THE battle to replace Bob Barker as host of "The Price Is Right" is narrowing. It now appears that George Hamilton, "ET" co-host Mark Steines and Todd Newton are the...
STARR REPORT
Mark his words Yesterday I wrote here about the (low) ratings for "The Apprentice," which ends its season on Sunday. The item elicited a call from show creator/executive pro ducer...
TIME WARNER GETS MENU FOR MASSES
EVEN before Landmarc opened Monday at Time Warner Center, its gently priced American bistro menu sent a shock wave across the shopping galleria's third floor. After struggling to draw a...
NOT PLANTS - INGREDIENTS
HARD to believe after a soggy nor'easter, but it's spring. You remember, that sea son when little green life forms sprout from the earth? City dwellers can tap into their...
RIVER GODDESS
Growing up Sonia Manzano didn't know that a river ran through her Bronx neighborhood. Today, the actress who introduced millions of children to Latino culture, both as the character Maria...
GUNG-HO ON GOVS I. GONDOLA
A pitch to build a $125 million overhead gondola system connecting Governors Island to Manhattan and Brooklyn is no pie-in-the-sky dream, officials said yesterday. Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff said the...
CITY PROCLAMATION SPARKS L. RON HUBBUB
In a move that has outraged some officials, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been honored by the City Council ahead of tomorrow night's Manhattan fund-raiser for a controversial 9/11...
RAP'S DASH IN TAX SLAP
Tax day was really taxing for Damon Dash's accountant yesterday - the hip-hop honcho hit with him a $3.5 million lawsuit. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Dash, 35,...
IT'S 'FIN' CITY
This is no fish tale - a baby whale somehow got stranded yesterday in Brooklyn's toxic Gowanus Canal. The 15-foot, 30,000-pound whale was first spotted swimming off the shore near...
'PIMPS' PLAGUED GARSON: LAWYER
Sleazy courthouse players were "pimping" Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson behind his back, the disgraced jurist's attorney claimed yesterday in closing arguments at his corruption trial. In a courtroom performance...
'NET 'PERV' CAUGHT IN OWN WEB
A Pennsylvania man was arrested for using an Internet chat room to solicit a Bronx woman for sex from her two young children, authorities said yesterday. But he was actually...
MORE 'CLUB RED' POLS
Two more elected officials said yesterday they wrote letters of support on behalf of the Manhattan public high-school students who traveled to Cuba this month - but said they did...
BX. TEEN, 15, GUNNED DOWN
A 15-year-old was shot to death last night after an argument on a Bronx sidewalk, police said. The teen, whose name was not released, was slain near the intersection of...
ZONE CHEFS FOUNDER IN BOILER-ROOM PLOT
Seven mobsters and associates - including the former president of the Zone Chefs diet service - have pleaded guilty to running a $20 million boiler-room operation. The defendants, including Colombo...
GOV BID TO CURB VID 'X' GAMES
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday said he will soon introduce legislation to make it more difficult for kids to buy sexually violent and explicit video games. "It is now pretty...
PASTOR LIED ON STAND: SEX VICTIMS
The two plaintiffs in a $150 million church sex-abuse lawsuit on Long Island angrily accused their former pastor of lying on the stand yesterday. "How does it feel to lie...
91 MPH
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's SUV was tearing along the Garden State Parkway at 91 mph - 26 mph over the speed limit - seconds before it crashed into a...
S.I. RAIL WILL GO TO 'WASTE'
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday reactivated a dormant branch of the Staten Island Railroad, a $75 million project that's part of his plan to revamp the way the city deals with its...
JACKIE RIPS BOOK-CRITIC GOVERNOR
ALBANY - Comedian Jackie Mason yesterday attacked Gov. Spitzer's "preposterous" call for celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder - co-author with Mason of the racially charged book "Schmucks" - to resign as...
WTC CHARITY NEARING GOAL
The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has raised $300 million, inching to within $50 million of its fund-raising goal of $350 million yesterday, officials said. Since Mayor Bloomberg's appointment as...
SCORES BIG HURT IN CLASH
A Scores West honcho ended up in the hospital yesterday after being roughed up by lawmen in a bizarre incident at the Harlem offices of the State Liquor Authority. Manager...
REV. AL DUCKS A 'RAP'
Seeking to avoid being labeled a hypocrite, the Rev. Al Sharpton has "suspended" plans to honor the head of Island Def Jam Music Group - whose stable of singers includes...
STALKER WHO TURNED KILLER
He was a chubby-cheeked campus creep who stalked at least three pretty co-eds - terrifying one enough that her parents called the cops on him - before he wound up...
POLICE PUZZLED WHY CO-ED WAS 1ST TO DIE
Pretty, young Emily Hilscher was the first person shot at Virginia Tech by Cho Seung-Hui - after her boyfriend dropped her off at a dorm - and now authorities and...
PSYCHO PENNED POISON PLAYS
He penned venomous plays featuring a sicko stepdad and "satanic" teacher he wanted to kill - prompting spooked students to dub him a potential "school shooter" last fall. "I was...
TALES FROM A KILLING ZONE
Some ran for their lives - several jumping from windows - to escape a madman on a murderous rampage. In a surreal daze, they watched friends, classmates and professors die...
UPSTATE GIRL'S PEACE WISH
Caitlin Hammaren had hoped one day to fight for a world without bloodshed through diplomacy, before a crazed gunman snuffed out her life . The 19-year-old was a stellar student...
JERSEY BOY HAD MILITARY DREAM
New Jersey native Matt LaPorte went to Virginia Tech with a dream of helping his country by joining the military - but that dream ended in a hail of gunfire...
INSIDE STORY OF VA. TECH'S TRAGIC DELAY
Virginia Tech police decided against locking down the school and going on high alert after a double-murder early Monday because they were told the female victim's boyfriend was a gun...
BUSH GRIEVES WITH AMERICA
BLACKSBURG, Va. - President Bush became the nation's consoler yesterday as he traveled to grief-stricken Virginia Tech to meet with relatives of the victims and attend a memorial ceremony for...
EASY LOADER
The Virginia Tech madman was able to buy a powerful Glock 19 handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition in a routine quick sale at a Roanoke gun shop five weeks...
TOUGH WEAPON LAWS STILL LONG SHOT: POLS
WASHINGTON - Gun-control advocates, including New York Reps. Charles Rangel and Carolyn McCarthy, said yesterday it will be tough to enact sweeping reform in the wake of the Virginia Tech...
BARACK'S BIG ARMY
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is marching into the battle for the White House with an army of campaign staffers and consultants that dwarfs arch rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp, federal...
DADDY LARRY'S LI'L GIRL
If DNA testing didn't do it, these adorable pics should prove once and for all that Larry Birkhead is the father of lookalike daughter Dannielynn. A beaming Birkhead looks every...
KERRY: IMUS FIRING UNFAIR
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry yesterday said he doesn't think Don Imus should have been fired for his racially charged comments - a sharp break with the current Democratic 2008 front-runners....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* An unruly man was arrested for terrorizing staffers and customers in a Bedford-Stuyvesant eatery, authorities said yesterday. Nicholas Gaspar, 37, appeared drunk at 1:10 p.m. Monday when he entered...
CREEPED-OUT PROF'S WARNINGS FELL ON DEAF EARS
BLACKSBURG, Va. - It now seems dozens of people on the Virginia Tech campus saw the rampage coming. For two solid years. But the campus police refused to step in...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 943; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2531; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 053; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 7989;...
MOOKIE COMES CLEAN
Much of the media is treating as disastrous the news that Cabinet ministers loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr quit Iraq's burgeoning government Monday. The Associated Press said the development "highlighted growing...
. . . AND CORZINE'S BITTER LESSON
Regarding people who think they are above the law, consider the latest disclosure about the auto accident that critically injured New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine last week. The state superintendent...
TEACHING CONTEMPT . . .
Students at New York City's Beacon School are getting a real education this week: The law is for chumps. Teacher Nat Turner and about a dozen of his Beacon students...
REZONE ALL WEST HARLEM
We must consider the "ripple effects" of Columbia's expansion.. ANYONE who's ever taken a photo knows that nothing is more important than how you frame the subject you want to...
BRITS' NEW SNIT
IN 1930, poet Humbert Wolfe wrote his immortal ode to the English press: You cannot hope to bribe or twist(thank God) the British journalist.But seeing what the man will do...
TRAGEDY AT VA. TECH: A NATION IN MOURNING
THE ISSUE: The killing of 30 students and two teachers at Virginia Tech University. Blaming university officials for the deaths at Virgina Tech is unfair ("30 Kids Shot Dead," April...
NINE WEST BOSS WALKS IN BLOW TO JONES
A senior Jones Apparel Group executive in charge of the giant Nine West retail chain has unexpectedly left the company, The Post has learned. The departure of Heather Pech, who...
COMSTOCK'S LOAD
NBC Universal integrated media chief Beth Comstock is being criticized by company insiders who question her decision to make iVillage.com a cornerstone of the media giant's digital strategy, and say...
STAR-LEDGER LOSES READERS
The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily paper, is the latest publication in the metropolitan area to be whacked by a huge adjustment in its reported circulation numbers. In a rare...
NEWSDAY'S WALL OF BLAME
TRIBUNE Co., which recently sold itself to Chicago real-estate tycoon Sam Zell for $8.2 billion, is having its long-delayed meeting for chief editors, publishers and the TV executives in Chicago...
ADVISER SUPPORTS 'PINCH'
A shareholder advisory firm is breaking ranks with two other investor watchdog groups that are waging a campaign to shake up the structure that keeps the Sulzberger family in control...
BELIEVE IN BOFFO BUYOUTS: CARLYLE
Dan D'Aniello, co-founder of The Carlyle Group, did his best to debunk what he claimed were giant myths about the booming private-equity industry as big buyout firms try to clean...
DOW'S ROW AT POWWOW
While Wall Street Journal correspondents risk their lives in war zones for shrinking paychecks, they say CEO Rich Zannino gets $667 every day just for his limo commute from his...
HEDGE FUND IN $2.9B SUBPRIME DEAL
A well-known Greenwich hedge fund is getting into the subprime mortgage business in a big way. Ellington Capital Management is in the process of finalizing an agreement with Fremont General...
GROOVY PICKUP
Sony/ATV hit a music publishing world home run yesterday with the acquisition of the Jerry Leiber Mike Stoller song catalog, which includes such heavily played hits as "Stand By Me,"...
SOHO GETS TATTOO TOGS
THE ink is barely dry on a new lease in SoHo for the vintage tattoo wear shop, Ed Hardy. The new flagship city location at 49 Mercer, between Grand and...
FALCO'S FETE
After five months on the job, new AOL boss Randy Falco says Time Warner would be crazy to get rid of the once struggling Internet giant. "I'm not going to...
YAHOO! Q1 PROFIT COMES UP SHORT
Yahoo!'s first-quarter profit fell 11 percent yesterday, disappointing investors who were hoping the Internet giant's new ad system would fuel growth. After rising 48 cents to close at $32.09, the...
EARNINGS, RUMORS LIFT JOS. A BANK
The stock of men's clothing retailer Jos. A Bank soared nearly 14 percent, after the company surpassed earnings estimates and an analyst published a report suggesting it could be taken...
N.Y. DUCK GROUPS ARE QUACK UNITS
DUCKS Unlimited members from New York have reason to be proud today. DU's New York City and eastern Suffolk chapters in New York joined a prestigious list of the top...
SMALLISH CB SHOULD DRAW BIG ATTENTION
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. Today - the...
ZAB: I'LL BE 'SUPER'
There are two sides to Brooklyn's Zab "Super" Judah. "Super" Judah is a powerful, disciplined knockout artist. Zab Judah is an unpredictable head case. "He's a no-joke fighter, but he...
RED BULLS FINALLY LAND THEIR MAN
The Red Bulls sifted through dozens of potential targets in their winter-long search for a striker, and finally landed the one they claim was their No. 1 choice yesterday when...
MO' DOUGH FOR HONDO
Don't get too close; you might get burned. Hondo continued to sizzle last night as he hit with the Twins to increase the earnings to 800 carbos and im prove...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Dice-K losesDaisuke Matsuzaka's lack of control in a key situation cost him against the Blue Jays in Toronto last night. Dice-K struck out 10 over six innings but forced...
LOU MUST DRAW LINE
TAMPA, Fla. - It's time for the GM with the itchy firing finger to put up, or apologize to Claude Julien. It's time for Lou Lamoriello to do the coaching...
OH, BABY! DEVILS NEED LUKOWICH
TAMPA - Already in a hole with Colin White battling a bad back, the Devils are reduced to hoping that Brad Lukowich can return here from delivery-room duty in New...
STARS NOT IN GIANTS' FUTURE
Hearing the names of the players coming in and out of Giants Stadium figures to whet the appetite of any fan anxiously awaiting next week's NFL draft. Alas, many will...
NOLAN: ISLES WON'T 'GET ANY BREAKS'
Ted Nolan has seen the Sabres take a 2-1 series lead in their playoff series and knows that his Islanders are the No. 8 seed against the top team in...
NO DOUBTIN' THOMAS
Knicks owner James Dolan yesterday said he has no regrets about the timing of the contract extension he gave to Isiah Thomas and still believes he made the right decision....
HOLY MOISES!
PHILADELPHIA - He hurt three different Phillies last night. Two pitchers with his bat, one hitter with his glove. This past winter, Moises Alou signed a one-year deal with the...
FOUL TIP KOS LO DUCA
PHILADELPHIA - Paul Lo Duca left last night's game before the bottom of the fourth inning, suffering a right index finger bone bruise after getting hit by a foul ball....
CARTER CLAMORS FOR SHOT AT RAPTORS
It sounds so appealing: playing in front of 19,800 screaming fanatics who want nothing more than to rip out your bodily organs and fry them up with some assorted veggies....
THREE-LANDER
There's an adage in best-of-seven playoff hockey that the fourth victory in a series is the most difficult to attain. That may or may not apply except in theory, but...
THRASH COURSE NORMALLY RELUCTANT RANGER STEPS UP
THE VERY first shift, and the Thrashers lost Michael Nylander. Admittedly, this has been an easy thing for the media and fans to do during two of the better seasons...
BIG BATS PROVIDE WRIGHT ANSWER
For two innings, Chase Wright battled his nerves and his control in the 48-degree weather, dancing around trouble and throwing nearly as many balls as strikes. Then the Yankee offense...
CHASE MAKES A SOLID CASE
CHASING the dream is what it's all about. In the winter of 2003, Chase Wright's two agents took him to Yankee Stadium to get the kid from Iowa Park, Texas,...
HOMER HEAVEN: POSADA SWATS CAREER 200TH, A-ROD 8TH OF '07
Jorge Posada's fast start has gotten lost somewhere between Alex Rodriguez's MVP April and the starting rotation's physical demise. But Posada had a moment last night that thrust him into...
JACKIE GETS PLAQUE IN MONUMENT PARK
The Yankees paid tribute to Jackie Robinson last night, dedicating a memorial in Monument Park to the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Famer. Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Robinson...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
More do-it-yourselfers are shooting themselves in the foot. Since 1991, nail-gun injuries have risen about 200 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The home-renovation frenzy is to blame...
Dolan should check the standings
By MARC BERMAN CHARLOTTE - The worst moment of James Dolan's appearance on Mike and the Mad Dog was him saying the Knicks "almost made the playoffs.'' Almost? Has Dolan...
Domination
The Rangers made the Thrashers look foolish through 60 minutes at the Garden. In a 7-0 game, the Blueshirts looked like the only team that came to New York from...
Closer are Spice Guys of baseball
Closers often resemble musical fads. They seem invincible for a spell, then suddenly fall out of favor, for any number of reasons â from injury to age to one pitch...