May 10, 2007
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Peeping Tøm: A voyeur's view of the Helsinki Cathedral Itâs like another planet over there in the land of the Norse: "O"s with slashes through them, runic stones, Viking dragon...
ITâS ART: Take the stairs
When only the best for your slinky will do, the Kiwi Collection, a luxury travel agent based in the U.K., has put together a portfolio of the 13 most beautiful...
Feds Help Harvey Hype 'Sicko'
Looks like the high-powered spin doctors that Harvey Weinstein just hired to work on the Michael Moore documentary "Sicko'' already have the clueless feds doing their work for them. The...
Just My Luck -- Not!
You'll have to wait another day for Kyle's acid-dipped official verdict on "Georgia Rule,'' but the signs are not encouraging for the Garry Marshall-directed chick flick, whos reviews are currently...
Deal of the Day
This ethereal white Sleeveless Godet Dress is a low maintenance gal's dream.It's machine washable, made from light breathable cotton, has a breezy silhouette and is only $27.99 (from $40) at...
Sounds of Silents
This has been a great season in New York for seeing silent movies with live musical performance. Two of the more noteworthy offerings at the Tribeca Film festival were the...
Toronto Opener
The summer movie season has scarcely begun, and we're already talking about the opening-night film at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off the fall movie season on September 6....
More Kate TK
Didn't get your Kate Moss for Topshop fix yesterday? There's still time. Worth Global Style Network is reporting this morning that Barneys plans to continue carrying the Kate Moss for...
What Becomes A Legend Most
Ms. Wayne is not thrilled that Paramount, which released spectacular DVD restorations of "The High and the Mighty'' and other long-unavailable titles owned by the family, has decided to re-license...
NEVADA - THE SILVER STATE
Nevada joined the Union on Oct. 31, 1864, becoming the 36th state. It's the seventh-largest state, covering 109,806 square miles and the capital is Carson City. BEFORE the arrival of...
LONELY PLANET
DATING in Manhattan: It's awful! It's bad! It's a veritable Coney Island horror house of romance. On your left, witness the freakish emotionally stunted behavior of the Murray Hill boogeyman....
HAUTE LIST
Trendy without doing time LUCKY Paris Hilton. There's been no better season in recent fashion memory to be thrown in the slammer than this summer. While serving a 45-day sentence...
NEEDS ATTITUDE REHAB
MAYBE because her album "Back to Black" is such a success or that the hype surrounding her is so strong, but Amy Winehouse's "I don't care, I don't have to"...
AUDRA LIGHTS UP 'SHADE,' BUT 110 IS NOT TOO HOT
RADIANCE is a thing called Audra McDonald. To cast a woman born to play Carmen in "Carmen Jones" as a plain Jane of a country gal is creative casting as...
STARR REPORT
He sleeps weekdaysLester Holt has been named anchor of the weekend editions of the "NBC Nightly News" while continuing to co-anchor the weekend editions of "Today." Over at CBS, Paul...
TEARY 'IDOL' LOSER
CALL it Simon Cowell's kiss of death. A week after Cowell planted his lips on her cheek following a grand performance, popular LaKisha Jones was voted off "American Idol" last...
SELLECK DOES 'VEGAS'
FORMER "Magnum, P.I." star Tom Selleck is returning to series television with a starring role on NBC's "Las Vegas." Selleck will replace James Caan next fall. Caan, who's leaving the...
B'WAY 'BEAVER'
LEAVE it to "Hairspray" to give TV legend Jerry Mathers his very first Broadway role at age 58. Mathers - who will forever be best known as the child star...
FRAMED!
MAYBE it's because I'm a die-hard New Yorker, but ABC's newest serial series, "Traveler," which has been sitting on the shelf for over a year at ABC, just has so...
2.5 M PEOPLE AREN'T WATCHING TV ANYMORE
EITHER people aren't watching television as much anymore, or technology has gotten so advanced that it's become impossible to track. More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS,...
LOHAN DIRTY SHAME
EVEN in America, where the definition of a "star" has now been stretched far enough to include someone who poops herself on "Flavor of Love," Lindsay Lohan is pushing it....
TRUE GRIT
WAYNE Oscar Roles: Best Actor for "True Grit," nominated for "The Sands of Iwo Jima," as well as a producer on "The Alamo." Holds record for most leads in feature...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Some things can be explained by logic and science and some things can only be felt on an inner level where logic and science are out of their depth. Don't...
N.Y. TRIGGERS GUN STINGS NATIONWIDE
A half-dozen cities might follow New York's lead and conduct their own undercover sting operations to disrupt illegal gun sales, a senior mayoral aide disclosed yesterday. "There are a number...
STRIP PERMIT A-PEEL
It's not enough that Albany digs into everyone's pocket - a legislator wants the state reaching into exotic dancers' G-strings, too. Assemblyman Felix Ortiz wants to fine strippers and strip...
'TIMES KID' IN FAKE-COP BUST
The son of a New York Times newsman was arrested on the Upper East Side yesterday when he pulled over a retired detective and flashed a fake badge, a source...
CAR RAMS BIG-$$ 'SCAM' LORD
A multimillionaire landlord from hell was struck by a hit-and-run driver and critically injured early yesterday - just weeks before he was to begin a 33-month sentence for fraud and...
PRISONER SCHEMED TO WHACK OFFICER: DA
A Rikers Island inmate offered a hit man a Lexus, a Ford Explorer and $1,000 to murder the rookie cop who busted him last August - only to learn the...
BONDAGE & SEX TALES OF FIRE FIEND'S 'XXX'-LOVER
Peter Braunstein sat bug-eyed and slack-lipped yesterday as his beautiful fashion-editor ex was forced to read aloud in court her intimate love letters to him and describe kinky sex play...
DOZENS CHARGED IN FED HOUSING $CAM
Working at the New York Stock Exchange making nearly $100,000 a year rarely qualifies a person for federal housing aid. The feds say one woman believed otherwise, and scammed the...
MIKE SETS HIS 'SITE' ON FUTURE
For a guy who keeps insisting he's not running for president, Mayor Bloomberg did something awfully strange yesterday: He relaunched his old campaign Web site to provide a comprehensive directory...
PLOTTERS' MARITAL DISS
The eldest of the six jihad-loving terror suspects who allegedly plotted to kill hundreds of U.S. soldiers at a New Jersey Army base was so calculating in his planning that...
MAYBE THIS WILL EMBARRASS PARIS
A defeated Paris Hilton yesterday finally came to the realization that she's "not above the law" and is ready to "face the consequences" of violating the terms of her probation....
$11M GIFT OF GAB
Republican 2008 hopeful Rudy Giuliani snared more than $11 million for his paid speeches last year - an eye-popping figure that outpaced former President Bill Clinton's earnings, The Post has...
ARAB SCHOOL FINDS A HOME
Less than a week after dropping plans to house a new Arabic-language secondary school inside a Brooklyn elementary-school building, the city Department of Education yesterday announced a new home for...
NEWS CORP. CLEARS THE AIR
With a warning that climate change "poses clear, catastrophic threats," News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced a sweeping effort yesterday to make his global media empire carbon-neutral by 2010. "We...
TOT FOUND WITH SLAIN L.I. DAD
In a heartbreaking murder that has baffled Long Island cops, a hardworking dad was found fatally shot in the chest Tuesday afternoon - with his 3-year-old son sleeping at his...
YANKEE-DOODLE DOLTS
A pair of baseball boobs face jail time after running onto the field at Yankee Stadium in separate incidents last night. One of the fans - who marred the ninth...
'SICK' WORK SCAM
Four New York City Transit employees who claimed to be too badly injured to drive buses and run trains were caught moonlighting - one as the drummer in a band...
MUSLIM GUARDS' SKULLCAPS OK
Muslim correction officers can wear their skullcaps to work, now that state prison officials have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit with one officer who claimed his rights were violated...
JUDGE: NANNY CAN'T UNMASK S&M BOSS
The jury that will decide if a dominatrix treated her former nanny like a slave won't learn what the S&M queen did for a living, a federal judge ruled yesterday....
RACIAL POL FIGHT HITS THE STREETS
Several black city lawmakers yesterday accused their white colleagues of telling African Americans whom they can honor as the battle over naming a street for the late controversial activist Sonny...
CHEATERS FIGHT BACK
Angry Columbia University freshmen demanded yesterday the school accept their grades from an exam on which hundreds of students cheated after a professor leaked the answers. The freshman, peeved that...
DEADLY INSURE PLOTS
An insurance agent who allegedly wrote policies on drunks, gave them poison-laced cocktails and then collected the cash when they dropped dead chillingly called one would-be victim "easy picking," a...
'SOPRANO' COP-SLAY DAD DIES
A Bronx dad whose cop son was fatally shot trying to foil a burglary allegedly committed by a "Sopranos" actor was buried next to his son yesterday. Pedro Enchautegui, 64,...
$PITZER REFORM PUZZLE
ALBANY - Under fire for his own campaign fund-raising practices in recent weeks, Gov. Spitzer yesterday surrounded himself with good-government advocates to call for better disclosure of those who raise...
ARREST IN '96 RAPE
A masked man who raped a woman in Queens 11 years ago has been arrested after his DNA matched samples taken at the crime scene, police said yesterday. Curtis Clinkscales,...
THE 'SKINNY' ON DIET PLANS
When it comes to diets, Consumer Reports agrees with Oprah - and not Atkins. In a rating of popular diet plans and books, the consumer products rating guide gave its...
N.J. GIS DIE IN IRAQ
Two soldiers from New Jersey have died in Iraq - one from a roadside bomb, and the other mysteriously from a "noncombat related incident." Sgt. Sameer Rateb, 22, from Brigantine,...
PREZ POLS' SOUND OF MUSIC
A presidential candidate who loves Willie Nelson can't be all bad. And while some candidates running for the White House are just a little bit country, tastes in music among...
TERROR TANDEM RAN SMACK INTO RED, WHITE AND BLUE 'BIG WALL'
GOULDSBORO, Pa. - The terror-loving jihadists charged with plotting to gun down U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix hated America so much that they were willing to go toe-to-toe with a...
PELOSI'S PLEDGE OF NO PROFIT
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed an official letter stating she wouldn't benefit from a $25 million San Francisco development project she pushed through just a mile from her...
MINORITY POLS BAIL ON HILL
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid to solidify her home-state support next week with an endorsement rally featuring Gov. Spitzer hit a speed bump yesterday when several minority lawmakers said they...
CHOICE CLEAR FOR GIULIANI
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Rudy Giuliani strongly defended his support for abortion rights in the heart of the largely pro-life South yesterday while fielding questions that have dogged him since last...
ROMNEY RIPS 'BIGOTED' AL
WASHINGTON - GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney yesterday slapped the Rev. Al Sharpton for making "a bigoted comment" about his Mormon faith. During a debate Monday, Sharpton said of Romney,...
PHOTO 'SHOOT'
A photographer told L.A. jurors yesterday that she fought off a drunken, violent Phil Spector in a posh Madison Avenue hotel as the musical madman threatened to shoot her. Rock...
W. VOWS TO VETO
WASHINGTON - President Bush would veto a revised Democratic House bill that would fund the war in Iraq only through July, the White House promised yesterday. The House this week...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Police yesterday released a photo of a woman bandit who robbed Commerce Bank branches in Brooklyn and Staten Island. She struck first Saturday at a branch on 86th Street...
SICKO LOVE STORY OF BEAUTY & THE BEAST
SLEEK, blond and cool as ice, Jane Larkworthy was Peter Braunstein's kryptonite - the thing he desired most on earth, but could never really touch. Ultimately, she became the one...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 036; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 1063; Lucky Sum: 10 /Evening Nos. Wed.: 158; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 5974; Lucky...
KANSAS: THE REAL SHAME
Did you hear about the tornado in Kan sas that killed 10,000 people last weekend? Barack Obama did. "There was a tragedy in Kansas," said Obama Monday. "Ten thousand people...
BELFAST'S UNEASY HOPES
Former mortal enemies Ian Paisley, the 82-year-old Protestant preacher, and Martin McGuinness, the former Irish Republican Army commander, were sworn in Tuesday as Northern Ireland's first minister and deputy first...
HEDGING HIS BETS
Leave it to 102-acre-estate-owner and Democratic presidential wannabe John Edwards to claim that his work for the $1.2 trillion hedge-fund industry was meant to research . . . poverty. Is...
DUTY TO THE FUTURE
EDITOR'S NOTE: News Corp., The Post's corporate parent, employs some 47,000 people on five continents. Yesterday, Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch announced the company's dramatic plans to become fully carbon-neutral...
STIFLING SPEECH
LAST fall, Eliot Spitzer annihilated fund-rais ing records on his romp to Albany. He happily accepted checks from corporations and welcomed $50,000 contributions from individuals. But now that campaign season...
FOR COLOMBIA, A CHILL ON HILL
COLOMBIA'S President Alvaro Uribe re turned to Bogota this week in a state of shock. His three-day visit to Washington to win over Democrats in Congress was described by one...
A PRO-U.S. SARKOZY: FRANCE'S NEW STANDARD?
France is the garden that sprouted the loathing of President Bush and America ("Weasels No More?" Editorial, May 8). Then, along came Hungarian immigrants and Nicolas Sarkozy and, voila, the...
TEEN TRAGEDY IN THE BRONX
What kind of parents let a 12-year old attend a late-night party with older teens at a place that is known for trouble and previous episodes of violence ("No Mercy...
IN THE HOT SEAT
CHICAGO - Conrad Black and his turncoat deputy David Radler both had their turns to squirm yesterday at the dethroned press baron's fraud trial. Radler, the government's star witness, was...
OPTIONABLE BATTERED WHEN BMO BALKS
The Bank of Montreal yesterday pulled its business from Nymex commodities broker Optionable Inc., dealing what might prove to be a fatal blow to the Westchester County-based firm. The loss...
LOOK AT GRASSO'S ACTIONS, NOT HIS PAY
A few years ago I ran into then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer at a conference sponsored by Forbes magazine. Spitzer asked me to ride down in the elevator...
IT MAY BE A 'WRAP'
Wall Street brokerage firms are on edge awaiting a decision next week by Securities and Exchange Commission boss Christopher Cox that could put nearly $300 billion of their client's money...
NEWS CORP. Q3 UP 6.2%
Strong results at News Corp.'s film division helped drive third-quarter net income up 6.2 percent to $871 million from $820 million in the year-earlier period. Led by the strong performance...
WEINSTEINS POACH CHOO EXEC FOR HALSTON
Continuing their effort to rebuild The Halston Company fashion house, new owners The Weinstein Co. and Hilco Consumer Capital are expected to announce today the appointment of Bonnie Takhar as...
MACY'S, LIZ FIZZLE
The relationship between Liz Claiborne and its largest customer, Federated Department Stores, has grown increasingly strained over the apparel-maker's decision to launch a new line with J.C. Penney. The tensions...
HOME $OUR HOME
New York's rich suburbs are feeling the housing pinch for the first time in years, with values sliding as much as 18 percent from last spring. Once immune to slumps...
SAFT JUMPS TO NEW FIRM
Stuart Saft, a lawyer and longtime guru of commercial real estate and cooperative and condominium law, has jumped to worldwide legal powerhouse LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae after 18 years...
RODALE UNLOADING BACKPACKER
Privately held Rodale, home to Men's Health and the South Beach Diet series, is getting ready to take Backpacker magazine on a little trip with a new owner. Active Interest...
24/7 IN 'NET AD SALE FRAY
Internet ad firm 24/7 Real Media confirmed it is on the auction block and has hired Lehman Brothers to advise it. The Post first reported last month that 24/7 Real...
DEEP THROAT
A rare cancer in the back of the throat is "strongly associated" with a virus transmitted during oral sex, researchers believe. The research also suggests that unprotected oral sex is...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Pound Ridge, N.Y. $1.099 million Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 3 1/2 Square feet: 3,800 This Colonial, built 10 years ago, boasts "lovely moldings and details" as well as "mature and robust...
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HOT PLANS
IT'S almost time to pack your bags and head for the beach, lake or mountains. As excited as you may be, if you plan on feeling at home in someone...
IN GOOD COMPANY
Last summer, the British press reported "exclusively" - from Los Angeles, of all places - that Scarlett Johansson and her then-boyfriend Josh Hartnett were buying a $6.2 million apartment in...
FAIR PLAY
FOR a long time, Manhattan was - as far as American design was concerned - the undisputed center for design. The colossal International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which will be...
RUNNING ON EMPTY
I'm moving out of the co-op I own at the end of the month because I am relocating to another city. Unfortunately, my very nice one-bedroom hasn't sold. I'm told...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan MIDTOWN EAST $450,500 245 E. 54th St. One-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 625 square feet, with renovated kitchen, hardwood floors and western exposure with garden views; the Brevard building features 24-hour...
HAPPY LANDINGS
REMEMBER how exciting it was when Pa built the little house on the prairie for the Ingalls family? That pioneering spirit lives on. If you're willing to go to the...
GO FIGURE
$7.25 million Going price for the most expensive of One Brooklyn Bridge Park's 26 penthouse units, making it Brooklyn's all-time priciest condo $3.8 million The borough's previous record, paid this...
TRIBECA CALLS
Time was (about 10 years ago) when TriBeCa was cobblestone streets, quaint cafes and raw, open loft conversions. Though the cobblestones and cafes are still there and conversions still rule,...
DREAM HOMES
Greenwich Village $3.5 million If the Village, near Union Square, is where you'd like to live and raise your family, you can't do much better than this 2,800-square- foot, four-bedroom,...
MINT SLEWLEP JOINS PREAKNESS
The Preakness picked up another likely starter, Mint Slewlep, fourth last out in the April 29 Withers. "We had this in the back of our mind depending on how many...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOCKEY: Russia, Sweden advanceEvgeni Malkin scored two goals to help Russia beat the Czech Republic 4-0, and Tony Martensson scored three goals in defending champion Sweden's 7-4 win over Slovakia...
GIANT LOSS FOR HONDO
Same old Benitez. The Giant closer opened the door for a Metamucil victory yesterday, which sent Hondo to his third straight defeat and caused the earnings to tumble to 590...
BEGINNING FOR END
The moment Michael Strahan retires, newly assigned linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka anticipates he immediately will shift back to defensive end for the Giants. "I don't see why not," Kiwanuka said. "That...
HASSELBECK ENJOYS STATE DINNER
Why in the world was Tim Hasselbeck at a White House white-tie state dinner Monday night, rubbing elbows with President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Queen Elizabeth II? "I'm pretty...
FLUTIE HIGH ON CHAD & ELI
Doug Flutie knows a little something about being a quarterback, and said yesterday that Chad Pennington and Eli Manning have the ability to lead the Jets and Giants for many...
HERB INTERVIEWS FOR JOB AS TOP CAT
Knick assistant coach Herb Williams is not only garnering respect around the league, he's also got friends in high places. Williams' friendship with Michael Jordan helped land him an interview...
LO DUCA STOPPING STEALERS
SAN FRANCISCO - Last season, catcher Paul Lo Duca threw out less than a quarter of the runners trying to steal. It's not wise to run on him this year,...
NO BUZZKILL FOR AMAZIN'S
SAN FRANCISCO - For a decent part of this season, David Wright has been struggling. He'd tallied few impact hits and hadn't provided any game-turning RBIs. Wright had to deliver,...
OMAR JOINS BALD BRIGADE
SAN FRANCISCO - It apparently wasn't a hard decision for Omar Minaya to get his head buzzed yesterday. "Part of the team, bro," the GM explained before the Mets' 5-3...
LEBRON, AND OFF
Vince Carter can't blame the Toronto fans for this slump. In two games in Cleveland, LeBron James shined like a superstar while Carter flamed out. Aside from Cleveland's domination on...
CLIFF MAY GET CALL TO HELP TEAM REBOUND
Desperate Lawrence Frank said he is considering lineup changes for Game 3 Saturday, and it appears the Nets' coach is mulling whether to dust off 40-year-old veteran Cliff Robinson to...
JASON SITS
Jason Giambi spent much of yesterday's pregame in the training room, a sight that might become common around the Yankee clubhouse as he deals with a bone spur in his...
YANKS REACH FEVER PITCH
Roger Clemens, take your time. Really, there's no rush. A starting rotation that bombed for the season's first month suddenly doesn't look so bad. Last night it was Mike Mussina's...
WIL GETS FIRST HIT SINCE '02
Derek Jeter Jeter and Robinson Cano couldn't help laughing, and with good cause. Wil Nieves finally mustered his first hit in the majors since 2002, and the first thing he...
ROCKET STARTS TREND THAT MAY NOT END
YANKEES great Reggie Jackson admitted yesterday he was envious of how Roger Clemens is finishing out his baseball career - playing less than a full-season, basically setting his own schedule...
ROCKET SILO
It's destination Florida for the Yankees' $28-million Rocket. Joe Torre said yesterday Roger Clemens will report Monday to the team's complex in Tampa and throw a bullpen session a day...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's as easy getting caught as it is robbing the blind in Cincinnati. In the past two weeks, two people were busted trying to short a blind clerk at a...