April 25, 2007
Raw meat
I know this Meat guy from the forthcoming Wii game "Mortal Kombat: Armageddon" is supposed to be all sorts of violent, stomach-turning, naughty bad fun. But he seriously reminds me...
LIVEBLOG/TOKYO: Seeing stars
It's Suntory time: TLJ looks fierce for Suntory's Boss brand canned coffees/Jason Cochran Before I got to Japan, I'd always read about how American movie starspull down scandalous paychecks to...
Bloomberg Refuses Buffalo Bet
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blew off a bet from Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown over the Sabres-Rangers series. Mayor Brown confidently put up 50 pounds of Buffalo's famed wings...
Deal of the Day
Summer Dressing 101: Pick up this light cotton Roll Up Sleeve Shirtdress with a drawstring waist from the Gap.It will look sharp with a pair of gladiator sandals or simple...
Most Awful All-time String of Jerseys
Remember earlier this month when I asked which Cup winning team had the worst jersey? There were definitely some bad ones, with the Kenora Thistles and (the original) Ottawa Senators...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A NEW YORK MVP SWEEP
It is Week 3 for Awards Wednesday and the way this month is going for a certain Yankee, maybe they should be renamed A-Wards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2....
True Test Begins Tonight
The Rangers made short work of the Thrashers in the first round. As the only team to sweep their series, the Blueshirts arguably have not faced the same kind of...
OUT OF 'ORDER'
PITY the New York acting world. With a once-popular series on the verge of being canceled, actors face a cold future in which Playbills no longer are filled with the...
TRICKY MANEUVER
'WHEN Broadway history is being made, you can feel it. What you feel is a seismic jolt that sends the audience, as one, right out of its wits." That was...
GOWN CRAZY
CALL it a variation on "funny money." Officials at little Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., are laughing all the way to the bank after last year's graduation speaker, Comedy Central's...
DREAM TEEN
BILLY Ray Cyrus, the lead- footed hunk of "Dancing with the Stars" who claims he wants his mullet back, has got a bigger problem than the loss of his formerly...
(LEE) MAJOR MUSIC VIDEO GUEST
THE bionic man is still solid as a rock, as in . . . rock 'n roll. Lee Majors plays a stern father in the new music video, "When We...
'I'D DO IT AGAIN': CHO TAPE
NBC's news boss stood by his decision yesterday to air the statement of Virginia Tech psycho-killer Cho Sueng-Hui from beyond the grave. Despite a firestorm of criticism, "We would do...
STARR REPORT
What about Fred? "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston has added fuel to the speculation that cast mate Fred Thompson will run for president. What that does to the speculation...
HONG KONG'S KEEN MOB SCENE
ARE you ready for "The Godfather" with a distinctly Hong Kong flavor? Then head for the Film Forum, where "Election" (2005) and its sequel, "Triad Election" (2006), are receiving their...
ZOO
'DEFINING deviancy down," a catchphrase of the cul ture wars from a few years ago, would seem to fit "Zoo," a bizarre quasi-documentary that more or less tries to rationalize...
TERRIBLE TUNA TUSSLE OVER THE REAL NICOISE
SPRING has sprung, and with it the perennial battle over what makes Nicoise salad "Nicoise." The Riviera-born favor ite is popping up on many a spring menu, but in myriad...
FULL FRONT-AL FOOD
FINALLY - New Yorkers have a reason to go to the South Street Seaport nabe. The Fulton Fish Market is gone, but a new wave of eating and drinking spots...
WHEN THREE IS NOT A CROWD
Cuban jazz legend Paquito D'Rivera doesn't remember the particular moment he was seduced by the trio format but he knows why he finds the sound so appealing. "I fell in...
A GOOD $IGN FOR TENANTS
In what could be good news for tenants, the cost of maintaining the city's million rent-stabilized apartments went up just 5.1 percent last year - the lowest level since 2002,...
BROOKLYN HAS NATION'S BLOGGIEST NEIGHBORHOODS
Brownstone Brooklyn, and especially up-and-coming Clinton Hill, is the busiest blog zone in the country, according to a new study that tracks the most blogged-about neighborhoods. Steven Johnson, founder of...
STUDENT PREZ'S 'F' IN ETHICS
She may have a future in New Jersey politics. A renegade NYU Student Council president is accused of tampering with committee elections, frolicking in a pumpkin patch on the organization's...
MATH SCORES ADD UP TO SUCCESS
Started by a former "Sesame Street" employee, the Harlem Village Academy has in four years become a shining example of what the charter alternative to public schools can become. The...
W. HAILS CLASS ACT IN HARLEM
President Bush visited a Harlem charter school yesterday to praise it as one of the best in the nation, as well as to push for the extension of his No...
BRUNO VS. RI¢HIE $PITZ
ALBANY - Portraying Gov. Spitzer as a spoiled rich kid, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno yesterday said the new governor should focus on creating jobs rather than traveling the state...
THE BOOK STOPS HERE
The Brooklyn Public Library may have to close the book on the $135 million Visual and Performing Arts Library that was to be included in the massive BAM Cultural District...
'2ND WIN' FOR BROOKLYN POL
A Brooklyn doctor won a special election last night - the second time his district voted to make him the first Haitian ever elected to the City Council. Mathieu Eugene...
CHRISTINE DRESSES DOWN 'SLOPPY' CITY HALL STAFF
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is cracking the dress-code whip. The edict of "no jeans, no T-shirts" that she first issued to her staff when elected 18 months ago got...
STABLE SHOWS HORSE SENSE
Local equestrians need not fear their beloved horses will become glue with the closure of the revered Claremont Riding Academy. The famed Upper West Side stable will close Sunday and...
FLASH OF FASHION AT PETE TRIAL
It's a fashion-steeped trial - with the perp, the victim and the ex-girlfriend who allegedly drove him to madness all having met while working at Women's Wear Daily. So it's...
TERROR ATT'Y IS DISBARRED
She's still out on the street, but convicted terror helper Lynne Stewart is out of the legal profession. A state appeals court yesterday formally disbarred Stewart, officially ending her 30-year...
COURT DEALS A BIG BLOW TO TENANTS
A local law aimed at slowing the privatization of Mitchell-Lama housing runs contrary to state and federal laws and cannot be enforced, a judge ruled yesterday. While acknowledging that the...
SEX MINISTER HAS 'AMNESIA'
A smirking former Catholic church youth minister and admitted sex abuser yesterday took the stand at a $150 million civil trial on Long Island and repeatedly claimed he couldn't remember...
P.A.'S SHARP TURN
The Port Authority may hang a "for sale" sign outside its hulking Midtown bus terminal and build a state-of-the-art replacement on land it owns a few blocks away, officials said...
AUTO-EROTICISM NEAR SCHOOL
An off-duty cop collared a pervert who was watching a porno flick and masturbating in a car near a Brooklyn elementary school, authorities said yesterday. The incident occurred at 2:20...
SLEEPS WITH FISHES
Yonkers cops are investigating the bizarre desecration of a freshly dug grave after a cemetery worker discovered four smoked fishes - gutted and stuffed with photographs of unidentified people -...
'SICK' OVERTIME SCAM: CITY
A social worker for the city's Department of Juvenile Justice was arrested for allegedly using fake doctor notes to get more than $3,000 worth of extra sick-day pay, officials said...
SEE-WORTHY INTREPID
Embarked on a restoration mission, the USS Intrepid - the historic aircraft carrier-turnedmuseum - dwarfs workers yesterday as it sits atop 212 pine-covered concrete blocks that are custom-fit for the...
TRAGIC BIKER COP WOULD 'HELP ANYONE'
The young cop who was killed when he lost control of his motorbike in The Bronx joined the NYPD because he wanted to patrol his community and understood the problems...
KID HELD IN THREAT ON HS PROM
A Queens high-school student who allegedly threatened to turn his prom into a Virginia Tech-like massacre was yanked out of English class and busted yesterday. Police say Michael DiGiovanni, a...
BOY STABS BX. GIRL, 11
An 11-year-old girl was stabbed in the leg last night by another child inside a Bronx apartment, police and witnesses said. The stabber was a boy about the same age,...
READING, 'RITING AND RATTING
You really can smell a rat. Recognizing a rodent's natural "perfume" - think urine mixed with decay - was just one of the many tips given yes terday at the...
STATE POL'S INTERN-AL PROBLEM
ALBANY - A female legislative intern was let go and an upstate assemblyman faces possible sanctions over an after-hours night out that violated an Assembly rule against fraternization, sources said....
'GAY WEB KILLER': SORRY
One of four young men accused of using a gay chat site to lure an unsuspecting robbery victim to a deserted Brooklyn beach apologized in his videotaped confession, claiming he...
CAP'N CREEP GRABS GAL
A doctor in a Captain America costume went from superhero to super villain when he stuffed a burrito in his tights and groped a woman in a bar, cops said....
KOSHER-CLASH RABBI OK'D
The "rockin' rabbi" is free to speak his mind about a Manhattan steakhouse, a judge said yesterday. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Mark Portnow lifted his gag order against Isaac Bitton,...
FDNY BURNS ME UP
A female firefighter who was one of the first to break the FDNY's gender barrier more than two decades ago said yesterday that little has changed since then, telling a...
LIFE IN JAIL FOR VICIOUS DRUG FIEND
A Bronx narcotics dealer was sentenced yesterday to life in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of torturing his girlfriend and two other victims who were killed during...
DUKE KIDS AID THE INNOCENTS
The three former Duke lacrosse players exonerated in a racially charged rape case lent their support to others who've been wrongly accused of crimes, at a Midtown dinner last night....
PLANET A BRAVE NEW WORLD - AND JUST LIKE HOME
Just in time for Earth Day, scientists have discovered a new Earth. Possibly. Astronomers announced yesterday that they have found the most Earth-like planet yet outside of our solar system,...
MARTHA SALE MIND-GOBBLING
Homemaking guru Martha Stewart has fewer pillows to fluff after selling her Turkey Hill estate in Connecticut. Stewart, who put the Westport property on the market last May for nearly...
YANK 'HEIR' $QUEEZE PLAY
You want a divorce, you're going to pay for it! Cheapskate Yankee exec Steve Swindal, once anointed as father-in-law George Steinbrenner's likely heir, told his estranged wife that he refuses...
CHENEY IN RAGE AT REID
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed the harshest barrage yet at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - blasting the Democrat for his "defeatism" over Iraq and for playing politics...
FOULING OUT
"Shooting" guard Sebastian Telfair was dropped by the Boston Celtics yesterday, four days after the Coney Island hoops legend was arrested on a gun charge - a move his lawyer...
RUDY SHIFTY ON GUNS AT N.H. FORUM
HENNIKER, N.H. - Gun regulations that curbed violence in New York City might not be a good idea elsewhere, Rudy Giuliani yesterday told a crowd of college kids jittery over...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Police yesterday were searching for a woman who disappeared in Melrose. Brenda Mack , 65, an Alzheimer's sufferer, was last spotted in the vicinity of her Park Avenue home near...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 073; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 8259; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 590; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3500;...
SPITZER'S SPURIOUS FIX
Gov. Spitzer is waging a new drive to "fix Albany": He wants to curb New Yorkers' rights to contribute funds to their favorite political candidates. He's even pressuring individual lawmakers...
HALBERSTAM'S LEGACY
David Halberstam, who was killed in an auto accident Monday at the age of 73, was one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation. And deservedly so. He became...
QUEEN OF CRINGE
IN 1992, Bill Clinton hit a po litical home run with his "Sister Souljah" moment. In 2007, Hillary Clinton suffered a reverse "Sister Souljah" strikeout. If it's not the end...
HAMAS: MISRULE IN GAZA
HAMAS, the terrorist group that Palestinians last year elected to govern their territories, is failing to govern at all. March alone saw at least 46 kidnappings of civilians in the...
THE REAL LOAN SCANDAL
STATE Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will testify before Congress today about the abuses he's uncovered in higher education - but he's unlikely to get to the real scandal. Cuomo has...
BLOOMBERG'S 2030 PLAN TO BOOST THE BIG APPLE
Congratulations to Mayor Bloomberg for his long-range sustainability plan ("Mike's Grand Vision," Editorial, April 23). I only hope other local politicians will have the courage to support the 95 percent...
SULZBERGER, JR.: TIMES AREN'T CHANGIN'
Turning up the heat on New York Times Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, shareholders sent their strongest signal yet that they want a shake-up at the newspaper giant. A stunning 54...
CLOCK STOPPED
Jeffrey Citron and his wounded Vonage got a last-minute court reprieve yesterday from certain bankruptcy collapse - sending shares soaring as much as 53 percent in a feeding frenzy. Traders...
NAPSTER $$$ FOR WARNER
Warner Music Group yesterday scored the largest settlement yet in the music industry's copyright-infringement lawsuit against file-sharing service Napster. The major label - home to such artists as Wilco, Bjork...
IN TOUCH OUT OF IT
IN Touch's gamble to jettison celebrities for its cover story and go with real-life news tied to last week's Virginia Tech massacre turned out to be a newsstand bust. "It...
STREET PUTS ENERGY BEHIND URANIUM
In a bet on the revival of nuclear energy, Wall Street giants including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are set to move mountains of cash into uranium when it starts...
WPP AMONG SUITORS FOR 24/7 REAL MEDIA
Internet ad firm 24/7 Real Media is on the auction block and has already been talking to Martin Sorrell's WPP Group, the world's second-largest ad giant, among other potential suitors,...
HOME SALES BOMB
Retreats in the Hamptons are soaring and condos in the Big Apple are still on the rise, but the rest of America took its worst springtime hit in home sales...
L.A. FIRM TURNS LIPSTICK DEAL
MAKING its first big-city debut, Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Real Estate Investors has lassoed both the Lipstick Building and 292 Madison Ave. in deals valued at $607 million and $140 million,...
SALLIE MAE WARNINGS
Investors in SLM Corp., popularly known as Sallie Mae, are probably thanking their lucky stars that a quartet of buyers led by private equity powerhouse J.C. Flowers has a $60-per-share...
LIMITED LOOKING FOR SUPPORT ON APPAREL
Sales of Victoria's Secret lingerie have been on a tear the past few years, helping to do for parent Limited Brands much what its Miracle Bra does for cleavage. The...
FIDI SOARING HIGH
The Financial District is over. So is the "Wall Street area." But say hello to FiDi, the coinage of major downtown landlord Kent Swig, who decided it's time to humanize...
PUT MINE ON THE SIDE
Tenants faced with steep jumps in office rents and loss factors are retreating to side streets or smaller buildings and splitting operations to reduce their occupancy costs, brokers say. "It's...
DANCING WITH THE STARS
What do you do when you run into Al Roker in an elevator at 250 W. 57th St.? Why, ask him about the weather, of course. Everyone has to have...
MORE FROM LESS
With office rents on the rise, more companies will be searching for ways to cram more people into less space. Enter Anthony "Tony" Argibay, founding principal of Meridian Design Associates...
LOBBYING FOR IDENTITY
Office towers can create multiple lobby entrances, elevator banks and signage to provide special tenants with so-called building-within-a-building identities. These makeovers are easier to accomplish on corner or full block...
BUYING GAME
Anyone who has watched Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" and seen the candidates' struggles has figured out it ain't so easy in the business world. To get it right more often...
MARKET FORCES PUSH UP PRICES
The surging commercial office market has finally caught up to the water cooler crowd. "Everyone including the taxi driver knows what's going on in commercial real estate," observed Robert Emden,...
GREEN BELIEVER
It's getting much easier to be a green office tenant. While residential developers have been faster to brag about environmentally friendly construction, more office buildings are now touting such benefits....
AHEAD OF ITS TIMES
The Deuce is getting Midtown's next new office tower and in keeping with current earth friendly and sustainable development the builders are planning an environmentally friendly Silver LEED-rated one to...
MOVIN' ON UP
When MetLife made a great deal to move a large number of staff to Queens, company honchos figured they would lose a few people. But less than two years later...
OFFICE CONVERSION RATE SLOWS
Because the office market is so strong, those B buildings once slated for residential conversion are being rethought as redeveloped office buildings. L&L Holdings contracted to buy the International Toy...
RUTGERS BACK EYES 1ST ROUND
With the Raiders on the clock as Saturday's NFL Draft approaches, Post college football expert Lenn Robbins breaks down the best players at each position. Today: the running backs. We've...
PLETCHER QUINTET READY FOR ROSES
Todd Pletcher may rank second only to photographers in trips to the winner's circle, but one that has remained elusive in his 12 years of training is the Kentucky Derby....
HONDO GOES FISHING
The Big Unit picked up in Arizona right where he left off in New York, which enabled Hondo to throw the good splitter last night with the Padres and Nats....
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Unit hit hard Six months after back surgery, Randy Johnson gave up six runs and six hits in five innings in his first start for the Diamondbacks since 2004,...
TOUGH SERIES GIVES DEVILS CONFIDENCE
Lou Lamoriello has won enough to know there is no surefire way to get through the Stanley Cup playoffs. He's seen his Devils blitz first-round opponents and not make the...
GERRIS TO JINTS: DON'T DRAFT LB
For those anxiously awaiting the Giants' selection of a linebacker with the 20th pick Saturday in the NFL draft, Gerris Wilkinson has a suggestion: Focus on a different position. "I...
PENN ST. STUD SEEING GREEN
By most accounts, Paul Posluszny is a can't-miss prospect. As a linebacker at Penn State - a/k/a "Linebacker U" - Posluszny was a four-year stud, having set school records for...
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Damion Easley didn't have any more outs and he didn't have any more strikes. In the bottom of the 10th inning last night at Shea, the Mets were down a...
HE'S NO AVERAGE JOE
ONE year ago at this time Joe Smith was at Wright State, heading to Milwaukee for a big weekend series against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "I'd be facing the old...
CHAVEZ'S BUNT JUST A 'GREAT PLAY'
In the end, it wasn't Orlando Hernandez's seven shutout innings or Damion Easley's two-out, two-strike home run in the ninth that won last night's game for the Mets. It was...
CASTRO HOPES TO CATCH ON
With the way he's playing, it's worth considering whether Ramon Castro could become the Mets' starting catcher next season if the team and free-agent-to-be Paul Lo Duca part ways. Castro's...
TWO MUCH TO ASK
TORONTO - Vince Carter was locked in the private little hell every Raptors fan craves for him. His shooting was nearly as bad as it was in Game 1, when...
ANOTHER FROSTY NIGHT FOR CARTER
TORONTO - Comment ing yesterday morning about the new construction around the Air Canada Centre, Vince Carter says it's good to see this town booming. Without him, he means. But...
NO BOKI ENCORE
TORONTO - It was deja vu all over again. Sort of. Bostjan Nachbar was in the corner waiting to take a huge 3-pointer. Just like Game 1. Vince Carter drove...
IF AND OR BUFF
BUFFALO - As Brendan Shanahan sees it, the challenge confronting the Rangers as they move into the second round of the NHL playoffs won't be so much the Sabres' speed,...
RANGERS-SABRES MATCHUPS
The Sabres have established a new-age identity out of the NHL lockout by amassing a plethora of quick, skilled athletes whom Lindy Ruff utilizes to full advantage. The Rangers are...
YANKS ARE NOW LEAST OF EAST
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - George Steinbrenner told Joe Torre he wasn't happy about getting swept by the Red Sox in three games in Boston. Imagine what The Boss' mood is...
ALEX ON HIS FUTURE: CALL ME STAY-ROD
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It wasn't a guarantee that he won't opt out of his contract in November, but Alex Rodriguez uttered his strongest statement yet on the subject. Sitting...
MINOR-LEAGUE PALS: CHASE WILL BE ALL WRIGHT
TRENTON - Monday morning it seemed as if every channel Chase Wright turned on had the same loop running. "One after another, they kept showing them," Wright said last night....
HUGHES PUMPED FOR YANK DEBUT
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - To tag Phil Hughes as the savior of the Yankees' season would be an injustice to the 20-year-old right-hander. However, there is no avoiding that the...
JETER: THIGH 'NO BIG DEAL'
ST. PETERSBURG - A 91 mph Scott Kazmir fastball found Derek Jeter's left thigh in the first inning and hurt enough to put Jeter out of last night's loss to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A drunk who was trying to sleep off the booze took a nap in a bank's ATM lobby - with his horse snoozing next to him. Wolfgang Heinrich, 40, had...