May 9, 2007
Lara's back!
Well, she will be soon, at any rate. Eidos is gearing up for a special, remastered, 10th anniversary edition of the original "Tomb Raider" game, hitting shelves on June 5....
Springfield rocks
Yep, that bizarro GTA-inspired counter that EA had up on their website a couple days ago was actually a countdown to just now, when the gaming giant officially announced the...
Bonds playing
By MARK HALEBarry Bonds is in the lineup again, despite the fact that it's a day game after a night game. That'll make it a bit harder for the Mets...
Deal of the Day
Another dress to throw into the rotation because who can bear to wear anything but breezy frocks these days.This bright 50s inspired Ruby Rox Sailor Shirtdress is flattering on most...
Death becomes pigeon
Hey you: before you get all up in arms, this pigeon was not harmed by PGR. It was just there, on the sidewalk.
Temperley for Target
Now that Kate Moss Topshop at Barneys fever has died down, here's something else to focus on- Target announced this morning Alice Temperley will launch her collection for the discount...
EATS: Sundae of the year
Prepare to be set adrift on memory bliss/Rob Mangione The only reason I pay attention to the James Beard awards each year (PS: they were handed out Monday; PPS: These...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-Rod, Maine and NL All-Stars
Week 5 of Awards Wednesday and we are wondering when (if?) the real Mariano Rivera and Carlos Delgado will be showing up?AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Vladimir Guerrero, Angels....
'Sicko' Express
The Weinsteins, who have denied rumors they're having cash-flow problems, will rush Michael Moore's "Sicko'' into theaters on June 29, just six weeks after its premiere at the Cannes Film...
END OF HIS ROPE
TO his great displeasure, Armin Amiri is best known, among those who care, as "the door guy," the one who stood in front of what, until recently, was the club...
FIRE INFECTIOUS
ARCADE FIRE IN a one-two punch of fi nesse and power, Ar cade Fire was all intensity and immensity at the opening show of its three-date New York run. Monday's...
WATERS NEW B'WAY 'BABY'
BROADWAY'S getting another dose of cult filmmaker John Waters. A musical version of "Cry-Baby," Waters' 1990 movie starring Johnny Depp as a juvenile delinquent, will open in New York in...
BLACK MIDDLE CLASS TO THE FORE
AUGUST Wilson's fascinating "Radio Golf," which opened last night at the Cort Theatre, has a bittersweet tang to its achievement. Wilson, who died of cancer nearly two years ago at...
POP IDOL
WHAT'S a curmudgeon like Larry David doing in an upcoming episode of "Hannah Montana" on the Disney Channel? He's doing what he often does on his HBO series, "Curb Your...
LATE BOOMER
'JERICHO's" day of reckon ing has arrived. Oh, wait a minute, no it hasn't. Fans who plan on watching tonight's season finale of the CBS series (8 p.m.) are going...
NANCY GRACE TO LEAVE COURT TV
JUST three months after pledging that she'd never leave Court TV, Nancy Grace quit the cable network that made her famous. "I love it here - it's like a second...
ROSIE'S WELCOME FLAGGIN'TESTING ABC PATIENCE
ROSIE O'Donnell may be taking more than good wishes with her when she leaves "The View" late next month. Her agent is shopping a new show for the controversial star...
JUDGE MISSTEP ON 'DANCING'
CALL it "Dancing with the Spars." Monday night's "Dancing with the Stars" was the nastiest show anyone can recall in the short history of the series. It began when Billy...
STARR REPORT
Cox cable, Close call FX removed whatever doubt was in the minds of "Dirt" fans yesterday by re newing the Courteney Cox drama for a second season. It also renewed...
SEX, TORTURE, TWINS - THE USUAL
NOT many people are making silent horror serials these days, but Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, "Brand...
TERROR IN TIMES SQ.
FOR the first half-hour of Julia Loktev's disquieting fea- ture "Day Night Day Night," we are not sure exactly what is happening. A 19-year-old woman arrives in New York and...
MEAT'S HIS MATCH
MEET the monster that devoured Le Bernardin. Maximum-fat Japanese Wagyu, or Kobe, was introduced to the four-star seafood temple by chef/co-owner Eric Ripert last fall, simply because he liked "this...
SWITCHIN' KITCHENS
DAILY specials are noth ing new in restaurants - except when the item du jour is the chef. Suba reopened last week with new captain of cuisine Seamus Mullen of...
JUST OPENED
Sandro's 306 E. 81st St., between First and Second avenues (212) 288-7374 Starters: $12 to $15; entrées: $19 to $34.95 Sandro Fioriti is back with the rustic Roman-style cooking his...
THE POWER OF BEAUTY
The setting in the SoHo Grand Hotel is upscale chic. International beauty icons Iman and Patricia Velasquez light up the Grand Salon with their smiles. The two women are both...
COMFY COUTURE
For two years, South Beach hipsters Janell Funair and Rodrigo LondoÑo have been dressing Miami fashionistas. But it won't take long before fashion-forward New York girls catch on to Orangia...
'FLEX' APPEAL
This guy is HUGE. In fact, Victor Martinez, the only professional Dominican bodybuilder, is being eyed as a possible next Mr. Olympia and has his sights set on a future...
IT'S PLAY TIME
This week, dozens of theater companies from near and far are taking over our city in celebration of the first TeatroStageFest, a collection of Latin stage productions from The Bronx...
MOM'S THE BOMB!
BAG LADIES Even when schlepping to the supermarket, Latinas like to do it with style. Brazilian designer Victor Hugo understands. His leather purses and wallets are classy, sexy and perfect...
RAISING THE 'BARRE'
American Ballet Theatre dancers Herman Cornejo and Carmen Corella act like newlyweds even though they've been married for two years and together for eight. They're with each other 24/7, finish...
SHREK, PLEASE!
Hunky actor Antonio Banderas still can't believe that he's paid major bucks for his voice. It was barely a decade ago that the Spanish thespian broke into Hollywood and had...
ROCK 'N' ROLL CHIC
Style-conscious songstresses like Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and Fergie absolutely adore Freddie Rojas' brand of rock 'n' roll streetwear. From his nautical-inspired spring collection to his safari-chic summer styles, the...
HOT LIST
A MARTYR TO MUSIC When Maribel QuiÑones Gutiérrez steps on stage, she transforms into Martirio, a Spanish songbird who dons a classic peineta, dark glasses and crimson lipstick. In her...
6 NABBED IN TERROR PLOT ON FORT DIX SOLDIERS
Six foreign-born Muslims, hellbent on jihad, were charged yesterday with forging a sinister terror plot to attack New Jersey's Fort Dix Army base and slaughter as many soldiers as they...
EVIL HID IN PLAIN SIGHT
From all appearances, they seemed like typical immigrants - knock-around guys who moved to southern New Jersey as children and were struggling to live the American dream. But hiding behind...
JOE PREDICTS GOV. MIKE
ALBANY - State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno yesterday predicted that Mayor Bloomberg would run against Gov. Spitzer in 2010 - saying he's been told by the mayor's own "associates"...
MIKE TARGETS PARKING PERK
The growing abuse of government-issued vehicle placards has finally gotten the attention of the one person whom privileged parkers have to fear: Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg said municipal workers "shouldn't be...
TRUMP SOHO GETS FINAL OK
Despite neighborhood protests, city officials yesterday approved Donald Trump's controversial plan to erect a 45-story condo-hotel in SoHo. Excavation work began last year for the building at 246 Spring St....
IVY LEAK: PROF HELPS COLUMBIA CHEATERS
A Columbia University professor is in hot water for leaking the contents of a compulsory literature exam to her students, allowing hundreds of Ivy League freshmen to cheat on their...
CITY GETS IN SWIM
The Lasker pool in Central Park will be open for swimming again by July - thanks to taxpayers footing the $800,000 bill to repair mechanical and electrical equipment damaged by...
COP-KILLER'S PALS GET 15-YEARS-TO-LIFE IN SLAM
Two accomplices of convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson were sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life in prison for their role in the slayings of two NYPD detectives on Staten...
SCAM KID SURVIVES OD BEFORE JAIL
NYU scam kid Hakan Yalincak overdosed on drugs and was hospitalized on the eve of his scheduled surrender to begin serving a prison sentence for a major hedge-fund fraud, authorities...
SUPER SIBS FROM NYU
It'll be business as usual for two super-smart sisters today - when they graduate with doctoral degrees in economics from NYU's Stern School, at the tender ages of 19 and...
FAKE COP IN B'KLYN RAPE
A hunt is on for a badge-flashing rapist who threatened to arrest a young Brooklyn woman before he sexually assaulted and robbed her. The fake-cop sex fiend offered the 20-year-old...
INSIDE SICKO'S TWISTED MIND
"Fire fiend" Peter Braunstein's hate-filled journals were made public at his kidnap-sex-assault trial yesterday, complete with his disturbingly violent fantasies of arson, rape and revenge-what he dubbed "kind of an...
'SPIDER' IS CONVICTED OF 3RD RAPE
Reginald Swinton, the creepy "Spider-Man" rapist who crawled up fire escapes and through windows to prey on women in their homes, was convicted yesterday of attacking an Upper East Side...
PARISH COLLECTION-PLATE PARIAHS ROB REV
Three armed thugs sauntered into a Queens church yesterday, politely greeted the minister and then emptied his pockets of more than $1,500 - nearly half collected Sunday from parishioners and...
MIKE ROCK(AWAY)S THE BOAT
A Queens beachside neighborhood in one of the city's most far-flung areas may get a new, publicly subsidized ferry route to lower Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "Over the long...
CASHING IN ON KIDS
Scores of city public schools can expect a boost of roughly $400,000 this fall under a new funding formula that ties cash to student characteristics, including their family income and...
PSYCH WARD FOR FAKE PET DOC
A phony veterinarian who was busted in Brooklyn for operating on pets without a license will not have to go to jail. Prosecutors consented yesterday to let Steven Vassall, 29,...
RAGE OF SLAIN MAN'S BROTHER
The brother of a murdered Guatemalan immigrant yesterday called for the appointment of an independent investigator to probe the homeless man's brutal death. The demand by Anibal Javier Perez, 26,...
W. SIDE STORY
Manhattan's West Side rail yard - once slated to host a football stadium - is now on track to become home to a new riverside development, including office towers, apartment...
PARK 'ROW' ON UPPER E. SIDE
A California man was busted just before he boarded a plane to go home after he savagely attacked an Upper East Side parking lot attendant over a $10 fee, authorities...
'PSYCHOSIS' DEFENSE FOR 'SLAY' MOM
A Brooklyn woman, accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die on a frigid back porch, suffered a bizarre psychosis that rendered her completely unaware of her pregnancy, her lawyer...
MIKE GUNS FOR GONZO
Mayor Bloomberg has stepped up his opposition to a federal law that protects gun records, blasting scandal-scarred Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department for "criminalizing good police work."...
MURDOCH AND KOCH PRINCES OF THE CITIES
News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch and former Mayor Ed Koch were honored last night with the Alexander Hamilton Award, in recognition of their help in fostering the revitalization...
MUSCLEHEAD
The Governator has vowed to take "seriously" a bid to spare Paris Hilton a stretch behind bars. He'll personally review any petitions or letters the office receives on Hilton's behalf,...
BIRTH MONTH SHOCK
Spring babies may be less intelligent, startling new research shows. A study of more than 1.6 million elementary and high school kids between 8 and 15 found those conceived in...
BUYING 'MELONS'
Amy Fisher's husband has filed for divorce, and apparently the former high school hooker-turned-hausfrau is already prepared for single life - she just got a boob job, a source told...
ALA. BIG ON RUDY: POLL
Rudy Giuliani's presidential candidacy is running strong in the heart of Dixie - despite his support of abortion rights. Giuliani stumps today in conservative Alabama, where a poll shows the...
GOV BACKS HILL
WASHINGTON - Soaring from a poll bounce in the wake of the first Democratic presidential debate, front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton will get another boost Monday, when Gov. Spitzer finally endorses...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* Police say this man (pictured) held up Commerce Bank branches in Brooklyn and Staten Island. He struck first last Saturday at a branch on 86th Street in Bensonhurst. Two...
THEY PAY BACK OUR WELCOME WITH THEIR HATRED
WELL, here is the thanks we get. Eight years ago, America opened its arms to tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. The first planeload landed at Fort...
WHEELS OF INJUSTICE
NEW YORKERS, be afraid: Why is this man still allowed to drive? Busta Rhymes is the rap world's answer to Paris Hilton - a crybaby celebutard who refuses to take...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 220; Lucky Sum: 4 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 1331; Lucky Sum: 8; Evening Nos. Tue.: 052; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 2054; Lucky...
PEACE IN KLEIN'S TIME
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday laid out a funding plan for city schools - and, in so doing, made clear just what City Hall paid to buy peace from labor...
THE WAR AT HOME
The arrests of six foreign-born Muslim men in a conspiracy to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey underscores yet again the threat Islamist terror poses to America. As...
DECADE OF FAILURE
ANGRY and embittered by their government's botched military confrontation with Hezbollah, Israelis are focused on settling accounts with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his hapless defense minister, Amir Peretz. Great...
UNDERPAID COPS
NEW York City is slated to build a modern NYPD training academy, but who will sign up to be a trainee? Future recruitment is endangered by an arbitrator's 2005 ruling...
ISRAEL'S BATTLEGROUND: MORE THAN JUST LAND
THE ISSUE: What Israel needs to give up and what it must keep to ensure its security. As usual, Ralph Peters gets it exactly right: Israel cannot give up its...
JUDGE KO'S GRASSO REPAYMENT
Former New York Stock Exchange boss Richard Grasso finally had a good day in court yesterday, as a New York State Appeals Court dismissed four of the attorney general's six...
UNFAIR TRADE
A wealthy Hong Kong family led by Chinese telephone tycoon Michael Leung has been drawn into an insider-trading scandal involving a recent $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. The Securities...
HBO BOSS HEADS BACK TO AA
HBO boss Chris Albrecht said he would take a leave of absence and seek treatment for problems with alcohol as he awaits word about whether he'll face charges in Las...
TIME SETS TABLE FOR 100
IT started more as a one-time marketing gimmick, but now the Time 100 list of "most influential people in the world" has become an annual event, one that gave some...
RIVALS GET BUSINESS OVER 'GOOGLE CLICK' THREAT
While advertisers weigh whether "GoogleClick" is a merger or a menace, some are already turning to rivals to help offset the potentially powerful combination. Their moves underscore the unease in...
WMG FLIES IN JET BLUE WEB VET
Underscoring the growing importance of online-advertising revenue to record labels' financial fortunes, Warner Music Group will announce today the appointment of Peter Scherr to vice president of interactive marketing, The...
RADLER'S VENOM
CHICAGO - The government's star witness at Conrad Black's fraud trial yesterday accused the former press baron of being the mastermind behind the alleged scheme to loot millions from investors...
SPRING (ST.) IS IN THE AIR
THE Schack family has decided to sell a major corner of SoHo and pocket as much as $250 million - and this isn't a fake story from its tenant, the...
A FASHION FAIRY TALE
New York design house Proenza Schouler is close to sewing up a deal for a partial sale to a European luxury firm, The Post has learned. Proenza Schouler's founders Jack...
MURDOCH ANNOUNCES ENERGY-EFFICIENT INITIATIVES
With a warning that climate change "poses clear, catastrophic threats," News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch announced a sweeping effort yesterday to make his global media empire carbon-neutral by...
PARIS ON A SLAB
A plaster-of-Paris sculpture of a plastered Paris Hilton shows the jail-bound heir-head spilling her guts - literally. The life-sized artwork depicts a pregnant Paris dead after a horrific drunk driving...
THE KINK AND I
Peter Braunstein sat bug-eyed and slack-lipped today as his beautiful fashion editor ex was forced to read aloud in court her intimate love letters to him and describe kinky sex...
'CHICO' WAS THE MAN
THE enduring mental snapshot I'll have of Diego "Chico" Corrales is when he and his wife Michelle came to New York a few weeks after the biggest victory of his...
MITCHELL 'ROID PROBE EYES 'MED' RECORDS OF SUSPECTED USERS
The first names of players being targeted by Sen. George Mitchell's investigation into steroid use in baseball leaked last night, and they were not surprising. According to a published report,...
RICKEY: GIMME A SHOT LIKE CLEMENS
SAN FRANCISCO - Rickey Henderson, 48 years old, believes he can play and wishes to prove it. "Seeing Roger [Clemens] come back, all the seed that it plants is ask...
HONDO: THAT'S TWO BAD!!
Hondo suffered the dreaded double-flusher last night with the Blue Jays and White Sox, which all but wiped out the rewards from his Monday night sweep. Today, with the earnings...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Herb eyes Bobcat job Knicks assistant Herb Williams interviewed yesterday for the Charlotte Bobcats head-coaching vacancy, a source confirmed. Also interviewing in the past two days were Mike Fratello...
DEVILS PACK UP MEMORIES
Even Lou Lamoriello waxed nostalgic as the Devils departed the Meadowlands for the last time yesterday. "Even out there on the ice, without thinking about it, you glanced around. How...
PLAX ARRIVES TO WORK OUT
In the recent past, Plaxico Burress would scoff at the mere suggestion that by this juncture of the offseason he should be at Giants Stadium for the team's voluntary conditioning...
ELI HELPING GOLF CAUSE
Giants quarterback Eli Manning was in Manhattan last night in support of the 30th Annual Guiding Eyes for the Blind Golf Classic, for which he will serve as host June...
BALD IS BEAUTIFUL
SAN FRANCISCO - With Tom Glavine getting his head buzzed after the game, Rick Down thought the move was for the better. "He looks 10 years younger," the hitting coach...
BELTRAN KEEPING EYE ON SORE QUAD MUSCLE
SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Beltran was in the lineup again last night, but his sore left quad bears watching. The Mets center fielder said before last night's 4-1 victory over...
METS' FARMHAND BANNED FOR 100 GAMES
SAN FRANCISCO - Jorge Reyes, a pitcher in the Mets' farm system, is now out for 100 games, having tested positive for drugs twice in two years. Reyes also was...
TO CAV & TO FOLD
CLEVELAND - After another Cavaliers rebound slaughter was complete, after the Cavs had again rolled up a laughably huge edge in second-chance points, after an utter and complete Nets collapse...
CRAMPS CATCH CARTER
CLEVELAND - With the Nets down four with just about 2:00 left, Vince Carter rose on the left side and as he has for much if the series, and missed...
BYE-LANDER
When those Rangers whose opinions were solicited at yesterday's break-up day, including Tom Renney, agreed that management's offseason focus should be trained on adding an upper-echelon center, the unspoken implication...
ANDY & A-ROD BRING A-GAME
Lately, the Rangers have been the ultimate elixir for the Yankees. When the Bombers were reeling from five losses in six tries to Boston early last week and George Steinbrenner...
PACT PUSHES ASIDE PINSTRIPE PRINCIPLES
THERE is some good that can emerge from the bluster and the ballyhoo of Roger Clemens' return to duty. From this point forward, on into forever, we can finally, officially...
PETTITTE PITCHES IN
GET ready for some Texas Two-Step action. Andy Pettitte pitched a gem last night, his first start since his Lone Star State buddy Roger Clemens agreed to come back to...
YANKEES: IT'S ALL FOR ROG
Just win, Rocket. That way nobody can complain about when you are and aren't with the Yankees. Though former teammate David Wells ripped into Roger Clemens' "Family Plan," and Greg...
TRAINING SITE STILL BEING WORKED OUT
Roger Clemens told reporters yesterday he would like to work out with the club next week in Chicago because his son's minor-league team will be out of Lexington, Ky., but...
GIAMBI INJURED
Jason Giambi exited in the sixth inning of last night's 8-2 victory over Texas with pain in his left heel due to a bone spur. Joe Torre wasn't sure if...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A homeless man who had fallen asleep in a trash bin in West Palm Beach, Fla., was inches from death when he was dumped into a garbage truck and nearly...
Clemens won/loss record will dictate how much criticism he gets for coming and going.
By GEORGE KINGIf Roger Clemens pitches well nobody will criticize him for coming and going in the Yankees' universe. If he gets rocked regularly expect to hear about his schedule...
Buzz cuts
By MARK HALEThis was a strange pregame.Twenty-one out of the 25 Mets now have buzzed heads or shaved heads, with Carlos Beltran serving as the main barber in the clubhouse...