April 19, 2007
A-ROD AGAIN
Let me start with a question from faithful reader Sal M. How could the Indians pitch to A-Rod with first base open and the game on the line?!?Sal, you are...
Stab Proof Sunday Best
I ran across this item on a British trend website this morning and found it utterly hilarious/sad.Bladerunner, a protective apparel company in Britain is going to be making a hoodie...
Giving Macy's a run for its money
Yesterday JCPenney announced plans to open 250 new stores over the next five years including its first flagship in Manhattan -- a 150,000 square foot behemoth located on Sixth Avenue...
Jack Thompson: Bill Gates Responsible For Va. Tech Shootings
Leave it to Jack Thompson to try to exploit the deaths of 33 people for his own personal gains.Not as though Jack has ever made sense to me (his vitriolic...
Last Night's Capsules
Check out Rangers Rap for the rundown of the Blueshirts' series sweep of the not-so-aptly named Thrashers.The Islanders dropped another game to Buffalo. Game two's victory over the Sabres looks...
Topshop sale!
Get on the Topshop site now for the mid-season sale!I just bought too many tunics (7 to be exact) for around $150 total.And, you're welcome.
Deal of the Day
With chunky peg heels, these leather sling back Zoey Shoes by N.Y.L.A. have the whole Miu Miu look going on. And they would look just gorgeous with a skinny jean...
BEST FARES: $138 RT Fort Lauderdale (and more!)
photo courtesy of Greater Fort Lauderdale CVB Are you cold? We're cold. Would prefer muchly a day on the beach to a day in the not-quite-spring, not-quite-winter purgatory New York...
Sicko, Brangelina, Gus, Joel, Ethan and Wong Headed for the Riviera
Michael Moore will, as widely rumored, indeed be returning to this year's Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of his documentary "Sicko,'' an expose of the U.S. health care...
Granger On A Train
Granger will be providing a commentary track for the DVD release of "They Live By Night,'' which will released on a double feature with his other noir, Anthony Mann's New...
WISCONSIN - THE BADGER STATE
Famous for its cheese and football's Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin joined the Union on May 29, 1848, as our 30th state. It covers 54,314 miles and the capital is Madison....
NAUGHTY BRITS
In their native Britain, they're known as "the celebrities taste forgot" - but in Los Angeles, they'll fit right in. Meet the U.K.'s two most notorious celebrity couples, the Beckhams...
HAUTE LIST
Need buzz? No sweat THE last time celebrity publicist Jonathan Cheban launched a clothing line, back in 2004, he broke the price barrier on T-shirts - charging a then-unheard-of $45...
BLONDE FAITH
IT'S big and noisy and glitzy and, omigod, just try keeping girls away from "Legally Blonde: The Musical." The latest (and pinkest) of the girl-power musicals - hello, "Hairspray," watch...
'BLONDE' ON BLOCK
FIRST it was the "Spamalot" fuzzy killer rabbit slippers, then the parrot-head umbrella at "Mary Poppins." Now, the hot new Broadway must-have is "Legally Blonde" merch, a collection of girly...
STARR REPORT
Academy in morning The National TV Academy announced yesterday that, beginning this year, it's created a category honoring Morning Television Programming - with "Live with Regis & Kelly," "Good Morning...
TWO-BIT BRITS
E! definitely gets an "F" (or in this case a double "F") for importing the most irrelevant reality show - for Americans at any rate - in the history of...
NOT 'DESPERATE': GLOBES BACK TO SUNDAY
MORE proof that "Desperate Housewives" has lost its mojo: The Golden Globes will once again square off against the ABC dramedy next year. For the past two years, the Globes...
CARPET CLEANING
TV Guide Channel has rolled up the red carpet on Joan and Melissa Rivers. The acid-tongued comedienne and her daughter were dropped yesterday as co-hosts of the network's red carpet...
'SURVIVOR' DOES CHINA
LET 'em eat rice. That's the message from "Survivor" producers who plan to set the next installment of the adventure reality show in China, reports Variety. The move is a...
SANJAYA IS FINALLY BOUNCED
NOW someone with real talent can finally win "American Idol." After Sanjaya Malakar was booted off the show last night following weeks of weird hairdos and weak performances, the six...
GOOD BI TO ALL THAT
'INCLUDE Me Out," the new autobiography of Farley Granger, the preternaturally handsome star of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train," borrows its title from a famous malapropism by...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The Sun and Pluto make a perfect aspect on your birthday, so there is no doubt at all that you will get what you want. If what you want is...
HIGH RISE IN CITY BUILDING
The Big Apple is experiencing its biggest housing building boom in 30 years, according to an analysis from city Comptroller Bill Thompson. Officials issued building permits for 62,526 residential units...
GET WELL, DOPEY: MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg took an indirect slap at New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday for not having buckled up when his SUV, hurtling along the Garden State Parkway at 91 mph,...
GUN WAR'S NEW AMMO
Nearly as many Americans are killed by guns "every single day" as died in the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday as his national coalition to combat...
NYPD'S 'CSI' BOSS BOOTED FOR LAB LIES
The head of the NYPD's vaunted CSI-type units was dumped yesterday because federal and state authorities were kept in the dark about an embarrassing 2002 integrity test that caught two...
DUKE KID'S BONU$
Crime may not pay, but innocence has brought one of the falsely accused Duke lacrosse players a Wall Street windfall. Exonerated team captain David Evans has been given a plum...
GOWANUS WHALE IS A GONER
Brooklyn's whale sleeps with the fishes. A day after getting lost in the polluted industrial waters of the Gowanus Canal, the wayward mammal - nicknamed Murky - died yesterday, after...
SHARPTON'S JUST A LEADER TAWANA-BE: KOCH
Former Mayor Ed Koch surprised an almost exclusively black audience yesterday by telling the Rev. Al Sharpton he had spoiled his chance to become "a crossover leader" by refusing to...
PANEL PLACES GAG ON RAOUL
ALBANY - Celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder was in more trouble with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct he chairs yesterday, as members revealed they had stripped him of his right...
FILMMAKER TOSSED FROM 'RUBBER ROOM'
A former art teacher was bounced from one of the city school system's so-called "rubber rooms" by cops yesterday after he began filming for a documentary inside without permission, police...
SCORES 'FLESH' WOUND SELF-INFLICTED
The Scores West manager who accused cops of roughing him up actually fell on his own, police said yesterday. Harvey Osher, 38, suffered a bruised rib and injured foot in...
B'KLYN DOLT 'CRASHES' FIREHOUSE
A group of Brooklyn Bravest got the surprise of their lives yesterday when a stranger dropped in to their firehouse - literally. A suspected burglar being chased by cops had...
'LAW' MAN EYES 'MOB' COPS FOR TV
The creator of "Law & Order" is hoping to get a hit out of the alleged Mafia cops. Dick Wolf, the brains behind the long-running TV crime dramas, has optioned...
GUILTY GAL GANG WEEPY WOMEN
A gang of four tough-as-nails lesbians dissolved into tears yesterday when a Manhattan jury convicted them of gang assault for their savage beating of a straight man in Greenwich Village....
CHELSEA 'PERV' HEADS FOR TRIAL
Peter Braunstein is fit to be tried - and the alleged phony firefighter and demented sex attacker will stand trial next week, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday. State Supreme Court...
N.Y. TREE IS 380M YEARS OLD
We now know what the earth's oldest tree looked like - thanks to fossilized foliage found upstate. It solves a mystery that has fascinated scientists since the late 1800s, when...
MIKE THUMPS TOM
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted official proclamations drafted by a city councilman honoring Tom Cruise and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for their roles in promoting a detoxification program for 9/11...
NORMAN GETS A JAIL BREAK
A judge is allowing Brooklyn's disgraced former Democratic boss to stay out of jail while he fights his conviction for shaking down a judicial candidate. Appellate Division Judge Robert Schmidt...
POWER BIG: GOV AIDE'S THREAT A SHOCK
ALBANY - The state Public Service Commission yesterday took a rare legal action against Con Edison for last year's Queens blackout, but not before a commissioner accused a high-level aide...
ALUMNI SEETHE AT CLUB RED
The Beacon School spring-break "Club Red" field trip to Cuba has ignited a fiery debate within the Upper West Side school's community about the political leanings of its instructors and...
'FLASH' IN THE PAN IS BUSTED
A high-tech flasher who once stalked actress Jennifer Aniston twice accosted a Brooklyn shoe-store clerk and showed her nude photographs of himself, authorities charged yesterday. David Hesterbey, 50, a drifter...
DOOMED MA'S PLEA
A frightened Queens woman pleaded with a 911 operator to send police to her house yesterday - just moments before her deranged, gun-toting son killed her, her wheelchair-bound fiancé, a...
CHURCH PERV PIMPED ME OUT: GAL
A Long Island woman testified yesterday that a Catholic youth minister coerced her into sex when she was just 16 and convinced her to have one-night stands with strangers. The...
PUBLIC GETTING FIRE-HO$ED: AUDIT
A state audit of six volunteer fire departments revealed questionable use of their tax-funded coffers - including a Playboy Channel subscription, the provision of gift bags at departmental dinners, and...
N.Y. GAL SLAIN IN ASIA
The death in the Philippines of a former Brooklyn journalist - who decided to "drop out of the rat race" and join the Peace Corps - was no accident and...
SUNY EYEING TEXT-MESSAGE ALARM SYSTEM
The SUNY system is "actively considering" mandating that all of its 64 campuses adopt emergency text-messaging programs that could instantly warn students via their cellphones in the event of a...
BROOKLYN CRIES FOR HERO PROF
The engineering professor who died blockading his classroom door as his students fled the Virginia Tech massacre was memorialized yesterday in Brooklyn. About 300 people packed the Shomrei Hachomos temple...
SAY BYE-BYE-A TO SANJAYA
See ya, Sanjaya! "American Idol" misfit Sanjaya Malakar, who both horrified and captivated millions with his improbable run, was finally voted off the show last night. Much of the attention...
PSYCHO'S WISH TO LIVE IN INFAMY
He wanted to be remembered as a tough guy. That's how experts yesterday explained the chilling videotape and photos Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui made of himself during his murderous...
MAD KILLER'S TV HATE MAIL
Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui took a break between murders to mail a chilling multimedia missive - which included videos explaining the twisted reasons why "I did it. I had...
MOB RAT'S COLD FACTS
Star stool pigeon Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo was tortured in a freezing prison cell before becoming a mob rat - but decided to flip on his associates only when they...
MOGUL 'RAPS' REV. AL
The Rev. Al Sharpton's annual convention hit a sour note yesterday after a major record company withdrew financial support for the gathering, sources told The Post. Universal Music Group demanded...
'ABORT' BOMB IN PREZ RACE
The Supreme Court dropped an emotional bombshell into the 2008 presidential campaign yesterday - reversing itself and allowing the government to ban partial-birth abortions. White House hopefuls quickly took sides...
HILLARY'S POPULARITY RATINGS GO NEGATIVE
WASHINGTON - A new national poll shows Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorable ratings sinking like a stone, and her negatives soaring - a terrifying trend for a campaign desperately trying to...
GRANDDAD: 'I SHOULD'VE DIED'
Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui's maternal grandfather says he'd rather be dead than see his progeny's shame - the first comments from a family member. "I should have died a...
CHO 'PRESENTS AN IMMINENT DANGER,' JUDGE WROTE IN '05
BLACKSBURG, Va. - A judge refused to send Cho Seung-Hui to a mental institution in 2005, ignoring his own conclusion that the troubled student "presents an imminent danger" to himself...
NYPD BLOTTER
Brooklyn A fingerprint match from a demand note led to the arrest of a teen who allegedly beat a restaurant worker during a Bay Ridge robbery. Abed Abed, 17, wearing...
WHY TECH 'LEADERS' DID NOTHING
BLACKSBURG, Va. - It's worse than we thought. I've learned the decision- makers' names. And their reasons. Soon after two people were shot to death in a Virginia Tech dormitory...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 593; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 4989; Lucky Sum: 30 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 131; Lucky Sum: 5 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 5164;...
JOKERS JUDGING JUDGES
Gov. Spitzer and the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct want celeb-di vorce lawyer Raoul Felder to quit as chairman because of an "inappropriate" book called "Schmucks" that he penned with...
WHY WAS CHO FREE?
Now comes news that a court in 2005 found Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui to be "mentally ill" and an "imminent danger to others" - but then let him go....
NY BUDGET: BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR
THIS year's state budget didn't bring about nearly enough change. Setting the priorities for next year should start now. Yes, the budget included some modest reforms - a more equitable...
THE CHAOS GROWS
MORE fun is in store for Downtown's embattled residents, workers and business owners: yet another big dig. This one will soon chew up Fulton Street between Broadway and Gold Street,...
SENATE SNEAKS PRESERVE PORK
THE Senate's Democratic leaders have a political problem with earmarks. Ever since the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska captured the public's imagination last year, they have been on record...
BACKFIRING BAN
PUBLIC policy often illustrates the law of unintended conse quences. Society's complexity - multiple variables with myriad connections - often causes the consequences of a policy to be contrary to,...
MAYOR'S COOL PLANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING
The Post scoffs at Mayor Bloomberg for his environmental concerns, although, as charter members of the Flat Earth Society, you are the ones who should be mocked ("Mike's War on...
ROBINSON'S 60-YEAR VICTORY LAP
It was the beginning of Jackie Robinson's 10-year career in baseball that transcended the game ("An Enduring Legacy," Editorial, April 15). His success in breaking baseball's color barrier also opened...
UNCLEAR SKIES
The private-equity buyers of radio giant Clear Channel Communications raised their offer yesterday after intense shareholder pressure threatened to derail the $27.1 billion buyout. But the sweetened offer may still...
TOPPS BOARD SPLIT OVER RIVAL'S BID
Some board members and shareholders of Topps are furious with the iconic baseball card maker after it shunned a higher bid from rival Upper Deck in favor of a $385...
TAXES DONE? THIS NEWS OUGHTA DISTURB YOU
IF you filed your taxes on time Tuesday you already know how much you earned. But do you know how much more everyone else is making? Here's a multiple choice...
FRESH BRAUCHLI
Putting an end to months of rumors over who would take over as the top editor of The Wall Street Journal when Paul Steiger retires this year, Dow Jones &...
SUBPRIME LENDERS RESCUED
The risky-mortgage meltdown appears to be heading for a softer landing thanks to a new $20 billion safety net thrown up by Freddie Mac yesterday. As foreclosures on home mortgages...
ICAHN LEADING 'BARGAIN BOOM' LAND RUSH
Carl Icahn is leading the smart-money stampede into a new land rush - in this case in Florida, where $1 million homes lie fallow. The billionaire investor yesterday turned up...
$WEET SOUNDS
Here's something that hasn't happened to EMI in a while: Investors sent the company's shares up after it provided an update on its financial condition. Gareth Davies, an analyst for...
NEWS VET TO HELM METRO
Veteran newsman Jon Auerbach was named editor-in-chief of Metro US, which includes the freebie Metro New York as well as daily free papers in Boston and Philadelphia. He fills a...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Jewett, N.Y. $1.2 million Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Square feet: 4,250 Those looking to live large might want to check out this Catskills house: It has a mammoth living room,...
WHAT'S MY LINE?
IF you ever go to a Park Slope open house and see a highway and a canal outside the front door, then guess what? You're in the wrong place. Oh,...
SLIDING DOORS
Anglophile actress Gwyneth Paltrow has almost doubled her money on the TriBeCa townhouse apartment she bought just two years ago. Paltrow and her rock-musician husband Chris Martin have just gone...
'WICK-ED COOL
A FEW years back, the idea of new condo construction in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood wasn't exactly an easy sell. I remember one broker, says Prudential Douglas Elliman's Lisa Maysonet. He...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan UPPER EAST SIDE $710,000 118 E. 60th St. One-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 940 square feet, with dining area, renovated kitchen and renovated bath; Plaza Tower building features 24-hour doorman, concierge,...
DREAM HOMES
Upper East Side $3.9 million There's nothing like the "glamour of the past" at the prices of the present - that's Park Avenue for you. To be fair, this "elegant,...
ONE BETTOR GRABS 124G PICK 6
FOURTH RACE: Bombs away! Barbara's Wildcat, 7-5 favorite after finishing second in debut for Todd Pletcher, gunned to front under Mike Luzzi, then around turn was hooked by Partida, 2-1...
HONDO'S TEX. MESSAGE
The cash machine known as Hondo collected again last night, hitting with the Bosawx to boost his bulging bank account to 850 averills. Tonight, Mr. Aitch is so hot he's...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Urlacher fined $100,000 Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 by the NFL yesterday for wearing a cap during Super Bowl media day that promoted a sponsor not authorized...
GOMEZ GETS DEVILS EVEN
TAMPA - With hefty helpings of guts, Zach Parise, and, finally, Scott Gomez, the Devils are back in business. They can gratefully call him Go To Gomez after this. His...
GIANTS SIGN QB WRIGHT
No one has handed Anthony Wright the backup quarterback job, but the Giants will be stunned if he doesn't beat back competition from Jared Lorenzen and Tim Hasselbeck. Wright yesterday...
WE WUZ ROBBED!
For a team that already felt the world was against it, the Islanders' loss to the Sabres last night didn't do anything to help matters. Brendan Witt's apparent game-tying goal...
KNICKS FINISH IN STYLE
CHARLOTTE - Isiah Thomas' associates say his mood has been miserable the last two weeks, watching his undermanned Knicks go down in flames. That mood didn't brighten after Thomas walked...
DAVID SEES HIT MARK AS NO BIG DEAL
MIAMI - David Wright isn't very impressed with it. Wright set the Mets' record for longest hitting streak last night, going 2-for-5 to make it 25 games. He had entered...
FILET OF FISH
MIAMI - The fate of John Maine's no-hit bid might have been determined by the pitch before it got broken up, when a potential strike three on Miguel Cabrera was...
NET'S NEXT STOP: TORONTO
The Nets know exactly what awaits them in Toronto for the first round of the playoffs. An Atlantic Division championship team. An MVP-quality stud in Chris Bosh. Oh, there should...
BLUE STREAK
For the 10 years, the loudest cheers in the Garden have been reserved for the guys who used to be Rangers, for the guys whose numbers have been or will...
DEFENSE ON LOCKDOWN
THE Rangers gave the Thrashers nothing. Not names, certainly, when three months ago no one had ever heard of Dan Girardi and Thomas Pock. Not rank, because there was not...
A-ROD CLOSING IN ON 500 HR CLUB
Alex Rodriguez is on pace for 112 home runs this season. OK, OK, we know it's just April 19, but the way A-Rod is swinging the bat right now it's...
YANKEE BATS ARE A-O-KEI
Another day, another onslaught . . . another first major-league victory. One night after rookie Chase Wright picked up a win in his major-league debut, Kei Igawa nailed down the...
DEEP POCKETS, DEEP LINEUP
IT'S GOOD to have deep pockets; real deep pockets, especially in baseball where you can buy what's needed to help you survive when your pitching staff is in disarray. The...
DAMON UNSURE WHAT KIND OF GREETING TO EXPECT IN BOSTON
Johnny Damon isn't sure whether the Boston boobirds will be easier on him this season. While Damon called the weekend series in Boston just another three games for him, he...
THE CHASE CONTINUES
Chase Wright conquered Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, now he gets his shot at Fenway Park ... against Dice-K of all people. Yankees manager Joe Torre announced the 24-year-old lefty...
POSADA, THE FORGOTTEN BOMBER, JUST KEEPS ON PRODUCING
JORGE Posada hit his 200th home run as a Yankee Tuesday night. Who cares? Posada is batting .364 with a slugging percentage of .568. Big deal! Only Alex Rodriguez is...
YES! MURCER WILL RETURN TO THE BOOTH IN MAY
Bobby's back! Sources have confirmed to The Post that YES Network analyst and Yankees legend Bobby Murcer is tentatively scheduled to return to the broadcast booth during the Bombers series...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Florida woman claimed that she ran out of a store without paying because she had the runs. Helen Gallo, 61, was busted for shoplifting at a Cape Coral grocery...
Bulls' chances for Oden drop
By MARC BERMANCHARLOTTE â The win here tonight over the Bobcats actually mattered in terms of hurting the Bullsâ mathematical chances of getting Greg Oden or Kevin Durant.With the victory...
First to Advance with Thrashers Sweep
The Thrashers found themselves holding the lead, not once, but twice ... the first two times in the entire series that they had done so. It didn't matter. The Rangers...