May 14, 2007
Endless Zombie Rampage
With this game, the title pretty much says it all.Endless Zombie Rampage is a top-down defense shooter where the blood can literally paint an entire screen.I wholeheartedly endorse this insane...
Floyd returns
By MARK HALEI still can't believe I lost a series prediction after my three-straight run there, but life goes on.Anyways, I'm back at Shea today and I'm looking forward to...
Cycle Me Chic
In a showdown between Europe and the US, Europeans win the bike competition hands down. They view cycling as more utilitarian and know how to rock a frock on two...
Deal of the Day
One can never have enough black dresses, and this Military Shirtdress from Maria Bonita Extra is a keeper.With side pockets, a cinched waist and other funky detailing, this dress is...
The Blue Seats
Well, Ranger fans, the 2006-07 season is over for the Blueshirts and that leaves us looking forward to 2007-08. In honor of a new season, and continued and greater success,...
Anaheim Gets Even
The Ducks struck first, and then found themselves fighting to survive a fierce Red Wings attack. Rob Nediermayer opened the scoring, but Kirk Maltby tied it with a highlight-reel short-handed...
Ottawa Leads 2-0
With six seconds left, Daniel Briere kept his team in it. The Sabres escaped a regulation loss and had a chance to knot the series in overtime. But Joe Corvo...
THE YANKS' LEFTY PROBLEM
The Yankees have moved from one problem to another. This weekend their starting pitchers permitted seven runs in three games against the Mariners, and the Yanks still lost two out...
EXPLORING: Which way to Moldova?
Pretty: A little Art Nouveau-ness in the Serbian town of Subotica/Vukovic Ivan The Eurovision song contest is over for another year. (What, you weren't glued to the streaming tube Saturday...
ROCKET WATCH
Down here in Tampa, the sun is red-ringed as a result of smoke created by the Georgia wildfires. Waiting for Rocket is also smoke from a distant fire.Roger Clemens will...
IN PICTURES: China likes to swing
Geronimo! If this were part of the Beijing Olympics, I might actually tune in, since you're quite possibly looking at the final moments of some poor sod about to take...
Michael Moore Speaks (Briefly)
Michael Moore hints that foes who have been lining up to bash "Sicko,'' his expose about the U.S. health care system that premieres Saturday in Cannes, are in for a...
WIRED & WEARY
ON April 17, you could have been forgiven for thinking there had been another total ConEd meltdown. Communication came to a halt. Panic swept the populace. Was this the end...
SHORT CIRCUIT
MY former co-worker Rick seemed like a perfectly normal guy - until Memorial Day rolled around each year. It was at that point that he would undergo a bizarre transformation,...
DREAM JOB: RUSSELL SIMMONS
Russell Simmons was 15 when he started promoting hip-hop block parties in the streets of Harlem. One year later he dropped out of high school and began Rush Productions, a...
GO TO GREG
Q. My boss is a real jerk. Any tips on how to survive, or should I just cut my losses and move on? A. Oh, if I had a nickel...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
Paralegal What does a paralegal actually do all day? A paralegal handles much of the research and paperwork for an attorney, law practice, legal department or government agency, and helps...
ON A ROLL
IF you see more pinstripes in the bike lane than usual this week, it may be because the city's annual "Bike to Work Week" kicks off today. This being New...
YOU'RE ON CALL
WHILE wireless technology has made it easier for employees to keep tabs on business when they're away from the workplace, it's also made it easier for employers to keep tabs...
BOSS CROSS
THE weekly staff meeting, the annual review and the office holiday party aren't your only opportunities to bond with the boss. Taking advantage of chance encounters both inside and outside...
STEVIE WONDER - MUSICAL GENIUS
The child prodigy became a sensation at the age of 12. The super-talented singer, songwriter and producer is one of the world's greatest musicians. Steveland Morris was born on May...
HEROIC SAVE
IT'S been two years since I wrote a "Save Eric Roberts" column, calling for an interven tion from Hollywood to mercifully throw this once-praised Oscar-nominated actor a halfway decent role....
GIRLS GONE WILDLIFE!
ANIMAL MAGNETISM Chiffon giraffe-print halter blouse, $925, at Alessandro Dell'Acqua, 818 Madison Ave.; stretch cotton-twill "Ryan" pencil skirt, $355, at Ralph Lauren, 867 Madison Ave.; Dean Harris wood bracelet, $1,400,...
PULSE SALES
ABAETE 560 Broadway, suite 509, at Prince Street; (212) 334-4755 Sale: May 17-19. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Get up to 70 percent off items like dresses, now $100 (reg. $350), and...
RADICAL IDEA FOR A SHOW
MANY solo performers have laid bare the skeletons in their closets, but few have as much gripping material to work with as Marissa Chibas. In her one-person show "Daughter of...
BIG TIME
Who knew that TV would turn out to be our savior from skinny bimbo overload? Just when we'd reached critical mass (media) from the never-ending coverage of those overexposed, underweight,...
THE LAST 'KING'
THERE is no joy on Queens Boulevard tonight. Or on Northern Boulevard, or Main Street, or Elmhurst Avenue. "The King of Queens" is calling it quits. The comedy series that...
'L&O' WILL BE BACK
NBC is keeping "Law & Order" for another season. But it has moved one of its spin-off series, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," to the NBC-owned cable channel USA. NBC...
ADDISON SPINS
IT'S official: The "Grey's Anatomy" spin-off star ring LA-bound Addison is a "go" for next September. The working title for the show is still "Private Practice," but that could change,...
STARR REPORT
Ryan to stay 'Idol' Don't expect "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest to host "The Search for the Next Great American Band," which is being produced by the "Idol" braintrust for...
CELLSMANSHIP: CITY RENTS OUT JAIL SPACE
New York City is renting out prison beds - for up to $150 a day - to Long Island authorities who don't have enough room for their own jailbirds. New...
CIG-NIFICANT DROP IN N.Y. SMOKERS' QUIT KITS
Maybe they quit quitting. Fewer New Yorkers than ever have opted for city-sponsored nicotine patches and nicotine gum to help wean them off cigarettes, Health Department data shows. This year,...
'NET' PROFITS
If you want to land premium season tickets to catch the Nets in their new Brooklyn arena in two years, you're going to have to pay for it - starting...
GOV BID TO WIN DNA CON-TEST
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday proposed greatly expanding the state DNA database by collecting samples from every person convicted of a crime, but also recommended moves designed to make it...
$1M COP
Meet Long Island's million-dollar cop, a Southampton village detective who reeled in a whopping $1.3 million annual salary through side jobs for tony clientele. Officer Herman Lamison already rakes in...
TAKE THIS WHIZ KID AT HIS WORD
He's a 13-year-old Manhattan kid with a sesquipedalian bent, and he hopes to make big bucks off it. Statewide vocabulary champ David Sugerman is pitting his wordsmith wits against 52...
MIKE LOBBIES FOR PLANYC
Mayor Bloomberg heads to Albany this afternoon to lobby state leaders on his plaNYC proposals to make Big Apple cleaner, healthier and more livable for the estimated million more residents...
TAIL OF 2 BITTIES
A dogfight has broken out over the title for the world's smallest pooch. After a Florida woman put forth her 4-inch-tall Chihuahua as the world's puniest canine, a Rockland County...
DRUNKEN DADDY: HONEY, I LOST THE KID
A New Jersey woman spent a bizarre Mother's Day searching for her toddler - and then nearly getting arrested for trying to break into the car in which he had...
THREE COPS IN HOT WATER AMID BUSTS, SUSPENSION
Two NYPD cops were arrested and a Port Authority officer suspended in three separate incidents, authorities said yesterday. Off-duty NYPD cop Patrick Donaher was busted yesterday on DWI charges after...
FUROR OVER 'MIA' LIFEGUARD AFTER GYM DROWN SCARE
An elderly man nearly drowned after suffering chest pains while swimming at a Midtown health club yesterday, but was rescued by a fellow member - because the pool's lifeguard was...
ARREST IN DEADLY L.I. HIT-&-RUN
Headlight shards at the scene of a hit-and-run that killed a Long Island mom quickly led to the arrest of a Massapequa man, police said yesterday. Robert Fowler, 57, was...
CANCER KILLS 9/11 COP, 46
A retired NYPD detective who worked for the elite Emergency Service Unit died early yesterday of pancreatic and lung cancer believed to be related to his work at Ground Zero....
WEIGHT IS OVER
There's nothing like a little shared gastric-bypass surgery to bring a family together. New Jersey matriarch Myra Blundetto, her two adult daughters and her son-in-law all had the fat-melting procedure...
TERM-LIMIT POLS MULL CHALLENGES
As the clock ticks down on the current City Council term, lawmakers are scrambling to the next chapter of their political lives, and in the process are taking aim at...
THE LAND 'LORD'
The Jehovah's Witnesses might be better known for Bibles than buildings, but the religious sect's vast real-estate portfolio in Brooklyn would make even Donald Trump salivate. The Watchtower Bible and...
TRUMP'S NEW TITLE: GRANDPA
The Donald is now a grandfather. Kai Madison Trump, the first child of Donald Trump Jr. and wife Vanessa, was born Saturday afternoon, weighing 6 pounds and 14 ounces. "Everyone's...
VOTE FRAUDSTER'S 1,500-HOUR DEBT
John O'Hara will pay the very last installment on his debt to society tomorrow, 10 years to the day he was convicted of voting from the wrong address. O'Hara, 46...
HEARTBREAKING MOTHER'S DAY
She was viciously silenced forever - allegedly by her cop ex-fiancé - but slain Queens beauty Guiatree Hardat was still able to send one last message of love and joy...
BOY DIES SAVING TOT IN CRASH
A 14-year-old boy who was holding his 2-year-old goddaughter in his lap as they rode in an overloaded minivan was killed yesterday when its unlicensed driver lost control and slammed...
FIRE-ESCAPE FALL KILLS QUEENS MAN
A Queens man fell to his death from a fire escape after locking himself out of his fifth-floor apartment, police said yesterday. Relatives of José Ramirez Jr., 35, said Saturday...
TEEN FUELS NO-GAS DAY
A St. John's University business student is at the forefront of a national grass-roots movement to tell big oil companies to take their gas and shove it - by urging...
BROOKLYN BREAK-IN PERV BUSTED
A low-level career criminal got himself busted for being, well, a jerk. Suliman Abdurrahim, 25, entered a home in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, on the morning of Dec. 30, police sources...
MARRIED-TO-THE-MOB CASH CLASH
The star witness in last year's sensational mob-cops case is denying bombshell allegations he paid for the wedding of his daughter - now a state judge - with money he...
TEEN, CUZ HELD IN A DAD'S SLAY
A 16-year-old triggerman and his teenage cousin were busted in the coldblooded slaying of a hardworking Long Island dad whose young son was found asleep on top of his bloodied...
THE HOUSE THAT GIAMBUILT
Bronx Bomber Jason Giambi is helping to build a sports complex that a kid could only dream of - a scaled-down version of Yankee Stadium in the California town where...
IN QAEDA CLUTCHES
An al Qaeda-led group yesterday said it seized three U.S. soldiers during a deadly attack on their patrol. The group, Islamic State in Iraq, announced it was holding the soldiers...
HILL'S MESSAGE AIMED AT TEXTERS
WASHINGTON -Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking her campaign high-tech - sending text messages to her supporters starting today. Clinton will unveil her mobile-to-mobile text-messaging push on the steps of the...
HAGEL: MIKE'S A HOT TICKET
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel appealed yesterday to Mayor Bloomberg to join him on a 2008 presidential ticket - saying the independent-minded billionaire has what it takes to help...
GIULIANI SLAMS EX-AIDE
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani yesterday fingered his former top emergency-management aide Jerry Hauer as the man responsible for the tragic decision to put the city's emergency command bunker inside the...
RUDY GETS TAX 'BOOST'
Rudy Giuliani has a better record as a tax-cutter than rival John McCain, a study by a conservative fiscal watchdog group has found. The Club for Growth gives Giuliani high...
TORI'S MOM TO PARIS: GET REAL
Tori Spelling's mom dished out some Mother's Day advice to Paris Hilton yesterday, telling the prison-bound pea brain to "get real." Candy Spelling celebrated the holiday by posting an open...
D.C. PORK FE$T FOR N.Y.'S POLS
WASHINGTON - New York's newly powerful congressional delegation has snagged tens of millions' worth of pork projects to aid local rivers and streams - grabbing cash to clean up babbling...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A motorcyclist died yesterday after she wiped out while swerving to avoid a pedestrian who had darted into traffic, police said. Nancy Tannenbaum, 47, was riding northbound on the...
'GODFATHER' PART 2 IN APPLE
SICILIAN mobsters - with their infamous history of violence and drug trafficking across several continents - are re-emerging as major powers in the Big Apple, The Post has learned. And...
PATAKI HEADS FOR AIR CRA$H
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's office is threatening to file a state Ethics Commission complaint against former Gov. Pataki unless Pataki pays the full price of yet another costly, last-minute charter...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 710; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 1869; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 474; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
ELIOT'S UNMAKING
When Gov. Spitzer told New Yorkers last year that, if elected, he'd "change everything," most folks thought he meant for the better. We sure did. We were wrong. Four-plus months...
WHY IRAQ'S SO HARD
WE sent the world's best military. We spent an enormous amount of money. We "stayed the course." And now it's an open question as to whether we'll lose to savages...
WHERE JACKALS PLAY WATCHDOG
THE U.N. Commission on Sustainable Develop ment last week elected Zimbabwe as its chair. It's obscene: The panel is supposed to facilitate economic growth as well as environmental integrity -...
DON'T JOKE AT TUFTS
A DISCIPLINARY board at Tufts University in Massachusetts has found the conservative student publication "The Primary Source" guilty of "harassment" and "creating a hostile environment" for publishing two articles that...
TOO FEW COPS
WE New Yorkers live in a public-safety cocoon - but in many of the nation's other large cities, the murder rate is skyrocketing. Indeed, the crime virus is raging in...
WHEN D.C. WAS CIVILITY'S CAPITAL
ON Monday morning May 13, 1957, I entered the Washington bureau of the Associated Press in the old Evening Star building on Pennsylvania Avenue, a 26-year-old reporter transferred from Indianapolis...
STICKING TO HIS GUNS: A PRO-CHOICE GIULIANI
THE ISSUE: Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice stance on abortion. I admire Rudy Giuliani for sticking to his guns on the abortion issue ("Clear Choice for Giuliani," May 10). It's...
MPAA'S RATINGS GO UP IN SMOKE
THE ISSUE: The MPAA's move to assign R ratings to movies containing "glamorized" smoking. It's too bad that the Motion Picture Association of America has caved in to political correctness...
CERBERUS BID HAS INSIDE TRACK WITH CHRYSLER
Secretive investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, which counts former Treasury Secretary John Snow and Vice President Dan Quayle among its advisers, has emerged as the lead horse to take over...
A TENDER FOOT
Foot Locker's unfriendly bid for rival Genesco may face new obstacles now that the giant sneaker retailer has posted a sales decline and warned that first-quarter earnings are well below...
SUMMER TUNES
With the summer-concert series just around the corner, and the music industry continuing to reel from declining CD sales and copyright infringement, it seemed an appropriate time to take a...
BLACK DAY IS RADLER'S REWARD
CHICAGO - Today could be make-or-break day for Conrad Black. The deposed press baron's turncoat deputy, David Radler, is turning out to be a surprisingly resilient witness. Black's lead lawyer...
EX-TIMES BIG JOINS VERONIS
Leonard Forman, the former chief financial officer of the New York Times, is joining media-focused investment firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in another sign that private equity continues to lure retired...
FLOOR EXITS
The New York Stock Exchange's specialists, long the fixtures of the floor's economic life, are beginning to disappear as the brutal realities of electronic trading and a changed mission whittle...
SALE MAY SINK SCHRAGER'S HOTEL DREAM
Ian Schrager's plans to bring a clubby high-end hotel/residential project to One Madison Avenue may be over, now that the trend-setting developer and his partners have accepted an offer to...
'I'M GOING TO KILL ANNA WINTOUR'
"Fire fiend" Peter Braunstein planned to kill Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, it was revealed this morning at his Manhattan kidnap-sex-assault case. "So I'll tell you why I'm going to kill...
GOTTA BULL'S-EYE ON STREET SENSE
Trainer Larry Jones is preparing Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun for Saturday's 132nd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, hoping to derail the Triple Crown bid of Street Sense. This week, he...
HEY, BOO-BOO!
CATAHOULA, La. - The green sugar cane stalks are 2 feet high now, waiting for a summer of 95-degree heat that will transform them into white gold by October, and...
TEAM ARENA TAKES TUMBLE
They used words like "poor" and "panicked," "horrible" and "brain dead." This sorry non-effort was all that and worse. "If [you play like that], you're not going to win. We...
PLETCHER PLACES HOPES ON 'KING'
Although Todd Pletcher hails from Texas, you never see him wear a cowboy hat or aviator sunglasses. Other than that, the 39-year-old horseman has morphed into a replica of his...
TERRIBLE FALL KOS ESPINOZA
Busy day for EMTs attending fallen jockeys. In third race, No Reply broke outward coming out of gate, brushed with Hunting and stumbled badly, dumping Fernando Jara, who walked off...
SPORTS SHORTS
AUTO RACING: Gordon wins againJeff Gordon overcame a leaky radiator and used a gutsy late call to race to his third NASCAR victory of the season yesterday at Darlington (S.C.)...
BIRD BEFOULS HONDO
Chris Ray, please find another occupation. The gory details can be found elsewhere, but Hondo lost out on a big score yesterday when the Orioles' so- called closer gave it...
NFL-READY
Of all the rookies set to infiltrate Giants training camp in Al bany this summer, Steve Smith is poised to outshine them all. Count on it. This does not ensure...
JETS HOPEFUL LIVING DREAM
Jesse Allen was supposed to be at his college graduation on Saturday. He had bought his cap and gown. His family had travel and hotel reservations to be there for...
OLLIE BAFFLES BREWER BATS
A rousing ovation greeted Oliver Perez when he batted for himself in the eighth inning yesterday afternoon. And when he laced an RBI single just inside the left-field line, the...
OLIVER JUST ANOTHER OMAR SPECIAL
MIKE Pelfrey needs time in Triple A, leaving Omar Minaya's long arms extending deep into the hat again where he found Jorge Sosa (2-0, 2.77), ready to step in for...
SINKER
The remarkable patience the Mets have shown toward Mike Pelfrey finally ran out yesterday. Before yesterday's game, the Mets sent the 6-foot-7 pitcher down to Triple-A New Orleans. It came...
GLAVINE MISSES GAME FOR 'FAMILY THING'
Apparently, Roger Clemens isn't the only New York pitcher on the family plan. Tom Glavine was given permission to leave the Mets for a family function over the weekend, The...
GOMEZ HAS ONE DAZZLING DEBUT
Minutes after making his Major League debut yesterday, Carlos Gomez sat in front of his locker, still in his uniform pants looking at his cell phone in frustration. "No service,"...
DL STINT LIKELY FOR ALOU ... AGAIN
With 14 previous trips to the disabled list, Moises Alou is a reluctant expert on injuries. When asked whether he's suffered anything like the strained left quad that sent him...
STRIKE IT RICH
Forget Richard Jefferson's scoring average, which has soared to 20-plus in the Eastern Conference semifinals against Cleveland, and 21-plus overall in the Nets' postseason. It is a combination of little...
COLD NIGHT NO WORRY TO LEBRON
LeBron James walked into the John Jay College gym yesterday afternoon wearing gigantic headphones and engaged in a halfcourt shooting contest with Cavaliers teammate Anderson Varejao. Coming off the lowest-scoring...
NO EGO TRIP FOR HOT KIDD
It's almost commonplace: Jason Kidd and triple-doubles. He is averaging a triple-double (14.6 points, 12.2 assists, 10.3 points) in the Nets' nine playoff games. "Numbers are a part of the...
CATCHING COLD
SEATTLE - Like a lot of Yankees, Johnny Damon isn't ready to concede the AL East to the Red Sox in the middle of May. Yet, Damon is well aware...
CLEMENS LIKELY TO MAKE MINOR LEAGUE START FRIDAY
SEATTLE - If Roger Clemens comes through tomorrow's bullpen session in Tampa without a problem he will make a minor league start Friday and start the clock ticking toward Rocket...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Astro, a 185-pound Steller sea lion, apparently likes it better on land than in the ocean in California. He showed up at a school and joined kids for a walk....