April 23, 2007
So You Want to be a Star: Reality TV Tryouts (Part 17)
New ShowCooking CompetitionThis sounds like âIron Chefâ with a dash of âHellâs Kitchen.â The new cable show is looking for sous chefs for a three-round cooking competition. Filming takes place...
Weekend watching
Remember "Grandma's Boy"? No? Can't blame you. Had it not been for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment sending me a copy of the movie several months ago, I would've missed...
A random funny
I saw this on Destructoid a couple days ago and it's still making me laugh.
For your downloading approval...
This week, get your mitts on these games...Nintendo Virtual ConsoleGradius III (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)Oh, that mean Bacterion Empire, always trying to muff up the Vic Viper starfighter....
Beltran honored and Sanchez optimistic
By MARK HALEA few updates today, with the Rockies and Mets about an hour and a half away:Carlos Beltran has earned the NL Player of the Week award. He hit...
Thompson Street Plus One
I spent the sunny Saturday and Sunday poking around at some of the newest shops to hang an open sign on their doors. Privileged, formerly an online only shop, appeared...
Deal of the Day
Square off your spring wardrobe with this In A Rush short sleeved striped tunic from Kenneth Cole.Its encased elasticized waist, crisp vertical stripes and square cut neck amount to a...
Was There Any Good News For The Yanks Out of Fenway?
And now the good news.Obviously, this was not an upbeat weekend for the Yankees. You canât get swept in Fenway by your archrivals and feel good. You canât have your...
Going to Buffalo
The Rangers couldn't take a game from the Sabres this year, but that's a poor indication of what's to come in this series. These Blueshirts are on fire, they're playing...
Sweet Revenge
Johan Franzen took a vicious slash across the chest from Jamie McLennan in game five ... the next night, Franzen crushed Calgary's playoff hopes, tallying the 2OT game-winner that finally...
DESPERADO
Congratulations Blogites. Iâm sitting at Shea yesterday watching the Mets fall apart while reading your comments off the last blog (they call it multi-tasking) and realizing you are making this...
LIVEBLOG/TOKYO: Mad for Midtown
Jason Cochran Just days ago in the International Herald Tribune, style arbiter Tyler Brûlé confessed to a "boyish sense of giddiness" over the chance to spend a few hours at...
Cheeky monkey
We love this quote from Lily Allen in yesterday's London Sunday Times Style Magazine: "The reason I went to the shows was to get the free stuff. How much is...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamBILLION DOLLAR BABESThe Altman Building, 135 W. 18th, between Sixth and Seventh avenueswww.billiondollarbabes.com/nypostSale: April 28, 29. Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.The annual designer event offers discounts...
Blu-ray Leaving HD DVD In the Dust
Sony, which could use some good news right now, is not only anticipating the release of the blockbusting "Spider-Man 3'' but the latest figures which put its Blu-ray high-definition DVD...
America's Sweetheart Flops Again
Poor Meg Ryan. Her latest flick, the dramedy "In the Land of Women,'' opened wide with a dismal $4.9 million weekend, landing in eighth place. (The upside is it reportedly...
ON MESSAGE
WILL Schwalbe loves e-mail, and he counts the ways. He loves the way it lets him work more efficiently. He loves the way it's ended once-endless games of phone tag....
INTO THE IN-BOX
For busy professionals, keeping up with the e-mail onslaught can be a full-time job in itself, especially now that the buzzing of a BlackBerry is as ubiquitous in Manhattan as...
TECH'S IN THE MAIL
Most employees sentient enough to compose an e-mail are aware their employer can access what they send on company time, whether it's a communiqué to a client or a mash...
THE HOT SEAT
Nick Janusewski began working in restaurant kitchens at 14. He'd always had an interest in food, so when a friend who worked as a chef offered him a job as...
TRUTH CAN HURT
PRIVATE detectives lie for a living. Actors, poker players and used-car salesmen who compliment neckties are liars, too. And all use deception to get ahead. They've got plenty of company...
GO TO GREG
Q. I've heard conflicting advice about whether older job-seekers should try to hide their age by omitting graduation dates on resumes, and only listing recent experience. What are your thoughts?...
VITAL STATS
* Number of employees in e-mail survey who said others use "reply all"too often: 75 percent * Number who said they themselves did: 14 percent Source: Cohesive Knowledge Solutions
THINK EARTH DAY EVERY DAY
We love our planet - and we must take care of it. This year marked the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. Here's how it got started. The first Earth Day...
PAINT THE TOWN
Roses, sweet OUR two Juliets, Kristina and Malla, await opening night of the New York City Ballet at the N.Y. State Theater tomorrow, and the premiere of "Romeo + Juliet,"...
PULSE SALES
BILLION DOLLAR BABES The Altman Building, 135 W. 18th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues Sale: April 28, 29. Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The annual designer event...
NAIL TO THE CHIEF
THERE is nothing in the theater quite like a prize fight - the ancient Greek protagonist/ antago nist, winner-take-all with, as Richard Milhous Nixon jocularly threatened David Frost just before...
TRIPLE TREAT AT THE MET
IT was one of Puccini's last ventures, and the special joy of "Il Trittico" is how magically these three one-act operas - a melodrama, a touching sob story and a...
SCRIPTS, NOT NAMES, ADD SHEEN TO ROLES
MICHAEL Sheen, who puts the Frost in "Frost/ Nixon," isn't surprised Americans react more strongly to the ex-president than the British talk-show host who interviewed him. Nor is he shocked...
'AQUA TEENS' EATEN
FOLLOWING the critical success of the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie and all the attention lavished upon the Adult Swim cable cartoon recently, its co-creator is mulling big changes for...
'WEDDING' CRASHES
CALL it the corporatization of "Punk'd," or maybe just call it a big stinkola. I'm talking about the latest and worst of the shows that the very desperate NBC has...
UNDERWORLD
IT'S time to save NBC. The once-mighty net work, which has logged some miserably low ratings lately, may not exactly need saving. But the return of "Heroes" tonight (9 p.m....
ELLEN AND LAURA REUNITED
TV loves reunions - but putting Ellen DeGen eres back together with actress Laura Dern 10 years after their famous lesbian-kiss episode beats another where-are-they-now? special on "Who's the Boss?"...
STARR REPORT
Dylan's Hall pass "More gourd!" CNBC's "Fast Money" anchor Dylan Ratigan rocks out with Fountains of Wayne tomorrow night at Webster Hall. Ratigan inter viewed the band for a story...
MTA WORKERS GO BY CAB
When the MTA wants to guarantee its employees get to their destination, they skip the bus and subway and call a taxi. Rather than take a free ride on the...
LINCOLN TUNNEL 'LEXUS LANE' WEIGHED FOR HIGH ROLLER$
The Port Authority may add a second bus lane to the Lincoln Tunnel approach, and is considering letting drivers pay a premium toll to use it. Officials confirmed the agency...
EX-BEEP GOT $1.5M FOR AN INSIDE 'TRACK'
Former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari quietly collected $1.5 million lobbying for the failed bid to bring NASCAR racing to the Big Apple, The Post has learned. International Speedway...
MCG'S WIFE KEPT HIS SECRET
She knew. Despite claims to the contrary, Dina Matos McGreevey knew former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey was gay long before he announced it to the world - perhaps even...
WEST SIDE'S TALE OF WHOA
The neighs have it. Claremont Riding Academy on the Upper West Side, a national historical site and the oldest continuously operated stable in the country, is closing down for lack...
MAYOR'S VISION OF GREEN APPLE
Looking to catapult New York to the environmental forefront in one dramatic bound, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed a far-reaching plan for remaking the city over the next quarter-century that would...
'RAIL' BIG HOUSING PLAN
As part of his plan to create space for housing, Mayor Bloomberg is proposing the biggest coverup in city history. The mayor said his administration would consider constructing decks over...
SURCHARGE TO SAVE APPLE JUICE
Your electric bill could go up a few bucks a month, but you'd be saving substantially more down the line, says Mayor Bloomberg. Tucked away in Bloomberg's proposals to conserve...
DRIVER 'FEE-Z PASS'
Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a host of transit reforms and initiatives yesterday to move the city into the 21st century - including a call to charge trucks a $21 fee to...
A MUSSEL-BOUND CITY
For the first time in decades, the city will be flexing its mussels in an attempt to improve water quality. A mayoral panel wants to reintroduce "mollusk habitats" to the...
A COMMUTER'S 3-HR. NIGHTMARE
Elsie Linage commutes three hours each day from her home in Cambria Heights, Queens, to her job in Manhattan and back. A bank analyst, Linage, 44, takes the Q83 bus...
DIM-WIT MET FAN'S DARK DAYS
A low-watt Met fan yesterday struck out trying to go home on bail and was instead sent headfirst into another night in jail for his alleged high-beam blooper at Shea...
MOM & BABY IN CRASH HORROR
A young Queens mom died cradling her newborn son early yesterday after a drunken driver slammed into their vehicle - then didn't lift a finger to help his victims, police...
DROWNING IN JAMAICA BAY
A fishing trip shared by best friends turned tragic Saturday when their small craft overturned in Jamaica Bay and one drowned, police said yesterday. The survivor, William Schulken, 37, of...
CORZINE'S ROAD TO RE-GOV.-ERY
Crash-battered New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, breathing on his own and slowly healing, yesterday ate mashed potatoes and talked easily with family and staff - asking to watch the Devils...
CAN'T GO HO AGAIN
Several NYPD sergeants and officers were on the hot seat yesterday for calling four black female cops "nappy-headed ho's" during two separate roll calls - within days of shock jock...
BRONX GIRL, 5, STRANGLED BY JUMP ROPE
A 5-year-old girl Bronx girl died mysteriously yesterday - apparently strangled by a jump rope, police said. Mona Williams was discovered unconscious by her hysterical grandmother inside the family's seventh-floor...
DARK 'VICTORY'
ALBANY - Dozens of city hospitals are performing below the statewide average when it comes to providing appropriate care for heart attack and pneumonia patients, a Post survey has found....
MSG BOMB SCARE PROVES FATAL
Antoinette Nelson was literally scared to death by a phony bomb threat at Madison Square Garden, relatives of the Bronx mom say. The 37-year-old concession worker's heart stopped on a...
'CRUEL' SCHOOL
A Brooklyn yeshiva is under fire for planning to boot two dozen families - including many elderly and disabled Russian immigrants - from a rent-subsidized apartment building in Brighton Beach....
HOSTAGE HIJINKS
A British sailor held hostage in Iran has ignited a firestorm of criticism by staging a drunken re-enactment of his 13 days in captivity - and laughing hysterically as a...
FACE OF THE BOY BUTCHER
This is the 12-year-old boy who hacked off the head of a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a Taliban official who died in a December air strike in Afghanistan. As...
HOWARD TO HORN IN ON TIMES SQ.
Howard Stern is bringing smut back to Times Square, at least for a day. The satellite-radio shock jock converted an old milk truck to accommodate video booths playing porno-themed programming....
SUITE LIFE FOR RUDY
He's running for president, but some of Rudy Giuliani's campaign-trail hotels have been fit for a king. Giuliani, whose campaign boasts of having spent the least cash of all the...
CHUCK: 'WE CAN WIN WAR'
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday said the war in Iraq can still be won - just days after a fellow Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, got slammed for...
PALS PENCIL IN GORE FOR PREZ RUN
WASHINGTON - Friends of Vice President Al Gore are trying to line up top campaign hands to hold in reserve in case he decides to make a dramatic late entry...
ANNA'S LAST MOVIE
Calling Anna Nicole Smith's final film, "Illegal Aliens," the worst movie of all time is an insult to truly awful flicks. The movie - due to hit video stores next...
'DISTURBIA' SITTING ATOP THE THRILLER THRONE
The weekend competition couldn't scare off "Disturbia." The popular thriller starring Shia LaBeouf slaughtered its box-office rivals for the second straight weekend, with a three-day take of $13.5 million, according...
ALEC KID UNDER GUARD
Kim Basinger isn't taking any chances - she's hired around-the-clock protection to keep foul-mouthed ex Alec Baldwin away from their 11-year-old daughter, whom he recently called a "thoughtless little pig."...
TENACIOUS TECHIE
BLACKSBURG, Va. - With classes set to resume on Virginia Tech's shattered campus today, the Strollo family has emerged as the perfect example of resolve. Freshman victim Hilary Strollo, hospitalized...
BLOOMY BLASTS FEDS
Crimes involving illegal handguns could be prevented if Congress stopped "handcuffing" police from tracking weapons, Mayor Bloomberg writes. "Right now, federal law prevents our police officers from looking at all...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynPolice yesterday were searching for a 13-year-old girl who disappeared in Crown Heights. Tyler Senn was wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and Coach sneakers when she was last spotted...
DOWNTOWN NEEDS BIG HELP NOW
IT'S just dandy that Mayor Bloom berg wants to let people stroll across the High Bridge spanning the Harlem River, as he stated in his "PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New...
REFORM RAI$E
GOV. SPITZER made a last-ditch effort over the weekend to win legislative approval of a sweeping campaign-finance reform measure - even offering lawmakers a pay raise in exchange, insiders said....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 909; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 7378; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 346; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 3834;...
MIKE'S GRAND VISION
Mayor Bloomberg's Earth Day outline of his vision for New York City decades hence, presented yesterday at the Museum of Natural History, was nothing if not ambitious. Some might say...
HELP THE ILL BEFORE THEY KILL
THE killing of 32 students and staff at Virginia Tech is a tragedy which did not have to happen. It is yet another rampage killing, in which many people are...
KEEPING NYC GREAT
NEW York has long been a boom-and-bust city, with extraordinarily prosperous economic times often followed by crashes and panics. One reason has been the city's recurrent reluctance to use the...
SQUEEZE SUDAN
DESPITE endless rounds of shadowboxing with the dodgy Sudanese government over the ongoing nightmare in Darfur, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is asking us to give appeasement, er, diplomacy, one...
PARTIAL-BIRTH HYPOCRITES
WHEN the Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by Congress in 2003, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told a press conference: "I would only say...
HOKEY HOSP. HOOPLA
In "Vary Odd Hospitals" (April 16), Tom Topousis cites an assemblyman as the single source of his information regarding hospital fees charged to a patient by Mount Sinai. None of...
REID ALL ABOUT IT: DEMOCRATS SURRENDER
THE ISSUE: Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's declaration that "this war is lost." It is truly a sad day for this country ("Harry Reid's White Flag," Editorial, April 20)....
INVESTORS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON DOW 13,000
The lure of the 13,000 magic mark in the Dow Jones industrial average is heady stuff but the desire to get while the getting's good may be too powerful to...
FOR THE RECORD
The former head of publishing giant Simon & Schuster claims he was stiffed by Edgar Bronfman Jr. for nearly three years after he says he helped the billionaire music mogul...
MANHOOD MATTERS
What with the pressures of work, play and looking good, it's not easy being a man these days. But here's the good news: there's a raft of magazines that can...
TIME INC. CLINGS TO AD TITLE
The magazine industry's ad-page crown, which has rested with Time Inc. for most of its storied life, is about to slip off. Technically, Time Inc. is still No. 1 in...
PAY HANGUP
After claiming victory in campaigns that led to the ouster of the head honchos at Home Depot and Pfizer over their bloated pay packages, the nation's largest labor-union group is...
L.A. TIMES LOOKS TO LAYOFF 150 JOBS
The Los Angeles Times is expected to announce today a plan to cut about 5 per cent of its work force, or approximately 150 jobs, as profits at the newspaper...
AD BIG RIPS GOOGLE DEAL
Martin Sorrell, head of the world's second-biggest advertising group, joined the industry-wide attack on Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of the online advertising broker DoubleClick. The chief executive of WPP said...
ESPN FAILS AGAIN TO TAKE OUT TRASH
IT'S clear by now that ESPN has no intention of backing off until every kid on the continent regards sports as an invite to behave like a desensitized, name-calling, wise-guy...
HIDDEN JEWELS ON O-LINE
With the Raiders 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 offensive...
HONDO'S 'STROLLIN'
The Orioles smoked the Jays yesterday, leaving Hondo hungry for a winner as his earnings fell back to 750 powells. Tonight, he'll be delighted if Sampson flexes his muscles and...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Watney wins Zurich ClassicNick Watney won the Zurich Classic for his first PGA Tour title, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over Ken Duke yesterday in...
ODDS AGAINST 'FAVORED' CURLIN
Making an accurate morning line for this year's Kentucky Derby, just 12 days away on May 5, is a daunting task, beginning with: Who will be the favorite? The prevailing...
EASY DOES IT IN STALLION STAKES
Anyone among crowd of 3,996 on picture-perfect day at Big A looking for exciting finish in pair of seven-furlong N.Y. Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds walked away disappointed, as both were...
LIGHTS OUT
TAMPA - They're moving on because they returned to being the Devils. Another puzzle solved, they think they've started something. The Devils will crash into the Ottawa Senators - likely...
RICHARD WAS A WELCOME MAT
TAMPA - His teammates' gratitude is laced with hard-to-conceal amazement. The defenseman who did almost as much swimming as skating was one major reason the Devils are advancing instead of...
'PEN LETS BRAVES HAVE LAST BLAST
The re-run was as unappetizing for the Mets as the original. For the second time in two series against the Braves this year, the Mets were on the brink of...
THESE BRAVES ARE NOT GOING AWAY
THE simplistic answer is that the Braves have improved their bullpen and that's why they appear to be the Braves again. The real answer goes much deeper than that. This...
VALENTIN'S ERROR COSTLY
Jose Valentin came up when he should've stayed down. The Braves went up for good a few batters later. Valentin's error on a ball off Jeff Francoeur's bat to start...
LO DUCA SNAPS BACK
Paul Lo Duca broke out of his slump yesterday. After going hitless in his first two at-bats yesterday, Lo Duca was in a 1-for-24 rut and an 0-for-16 hole. But...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
The Toronto Raptors already have their new Atlantic Division championship banner hanging in Air Canada Center. The Nets' Richard Jefferson said it's up to the Raptors to prove it means...
RAPTORS SAY THEY'RE READY TO REBOUND
TORONTO - The Raptors yesterday looked very closely at the tapes of their Game 1 playoff loss to the Nets. When the barf bags were used, taped and discarded, coach...
SABRE RATTLERS
This was Oct. 27 at the practice rink in Glendale after the Rangers had skated in preparation for their game the following night against the Coyotes. Jaromir Jagr was on...
THE SWEEP COMPLETE
BOSTON - George Steinbrenner has been in Brian Cashman's ear for days complaining about the long list of Yankee ills. And that was before the Red Sox completed a three-game...
FOUR PITCHES THAT WRIGHT GOT WRONG
BOSTON - After a while, you could tell that Joe Torre didn't know whether to rescue Chase Wright or offer him a hug. You could tell that the part of...
PENNING A DEFEAT
BOSTON - There was a moment in the fourth inning last night in which it appeared as if the Yankees battery was about to become Colter Bean pitching to Josh...
SAWX-ING IT TO 'EM
BOSTON - After Red Sox outfielder Wily Mo Pena failed to hit a home run in the third inning last night, he returned to the dugout and received an earful...
CASHMAN: POSADA'S NOT HEADED FOR DL
BOSTON - According to Yankees GM Brian Cashman, the team has no plans to put catcher Jorge Posada on the disabled list. "That hasn't been discussed at all," Cashman said...
DAISUKE DICEY, BUT GETS WIN
BOSTON - Sometimes it's just a matter of hanging around long enough. Daisuke Matsuzaka wasn't close to dominant for the Red Sox last night, but he also provided no reason...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 64-year-old Santa lookalike who won the New Hampshire "Rock, Paper, Scissors" finals may dress up like Kris Kringle when he competes for the national title in Las Vegas. "I'm...
Don't Trust Early Numbers
Advanced math is difficult - a bunch of numbers that, using normal reasoning, just don't add up. Fantasy baseball has thrown us a mathematics curveball early on with several players'...