May 16, 2007
Reuse a Shoe
Stop in to Niketown (6 E. 57th Street) with a stinky old pair of sneakers tomorrow through May 30th and you'll get $10 off any new pair plus earn good...
ROCKET COACHES FIRST
TAMPA -- When the Yankees and Roger Clemens were working on signing the Hall of Fame pitcher to his pro-rated $28 million contract, Clemens was visiting the home of one...
WiFli: Airport Gaming
Pop quiz, hotshot: Say you're planning to fly home over some dopey Hallmark Holiday or another. You board the plane, only to find yourself stranded on the tarmac for the...
Blow laid to rest
British Vogue reports this morning that Isabella Blow was laid to rest at the Gloucester Cathedral yesterday. Mourners included Alexander McQueen, Sophie Dahl, and Rupert Everett. Blow's coffin was adorned...
Sample Sale Worth Sampling
Got a penchant for indie downtown togs, but the budget of a downtown bowery bum? Now's your chance to score some heavily discounted men's and women's gear at up to...
Soft Reviews for 'Blueberry Nights'
Over at Hollywood Reporter online, Kirk Honeycutt writes that "nothing truly profound gets discovered, nor does the film mark a career breakthrough for Wong despite a change in language and...
Deal of the Day
Shirt dresses are as classic as they are timeless.And add a bit of Byzantium flair to the mix, and you got a great piece for your closet.Active Endeavors has this...
Ta-da!
So much for speculation about another November release - "Halo 3" is officially streeting on Sept. 25 worldwide (unless you're in Europe, then you've got to wait a day). Guess...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-ROD HOLDS ON, MAINE SLIPS
Week 6 of Awards Wednesday and wondering why the Aâs have overcome even more injuries than the Yankees to be an over-.500 team on a shoestring budget?AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez,...
ITIN:PARIS: Kids in tow
Old and young chill at Paris Plage. (Image courtesy of Paris.fr) This week's NYP Travel's Paris Itineraries series marches on, with an all-important, summertime, how-to-keep-kids-happy list of things to do...
NEW YORK'S WEIRDEST ENTOURAGE
PUT a professional football player, three actors, a reality star and a pop star in a room together, and what do you get? New York's surreal take on HBO's "Entourage."...
LINCOLN JAZZES UP FUND-RAISER
IT'S ironic that when Jazz at Lincoln Center makes its annual push for big bucks, it presents stars from every musical genre but its own. That quibble aside, its annual...
ON THE CUTTING WEDGE
SOME people quote Thoreau or Twain, but I tend to favor Skee-lo, who once said, "I wish I was a little bit taller." At 5-foot-nada, I am, according to modern...
'BLONDE' BOMBSHELL
'THE Pinkies are stunned," says a source close to the producers of "Legally Blonde," which yesterday failed to snag the crucial Tony Award nomination for Best Musical. "They don't know...
TONY VS. TONY
Not since John Wilkes Booth interrupted "Our American Cousin" has the theater world suffered such bad timing. We speak of June 10, when the annual Tony Awards telecast goes head-to-head...
2007 TONY NOMINEES
Best Musical: "Curtains," "Grey Gardens," "Mary Poppins," "Spring Awakening." Best Play: "The Coast of Utopia," "Frost/Nixon," "The Little Dog Laughed," "Radio Golf." Best Actor/Musical: Michael Cerveris ("LoveMusik"), Raúl Esparza ("Company"),...
GOODBYE 'GIRLS'
THERE wasn't a dry eye in any household where the series finale of "Gilmore Girls" was watched last night. Opportunities for shedding tears were plenty in an episode that was...
HOLLYROCK
THE Geico cavemen have evolved into network stars. ABC is giving the hairy, metrosexual TV pitchmen their own "buddy comedy" primetime sitcom, "Cavemen." The show, which will air Tuesday nights...
OPIE AND ANTHONY SUSPENDED
SHOCK jocks Opie & Anthony were sus pended - with pay - from XM satellite radio yesterday for 30 days in a new wrinkle on the Condoleezza Rice "rape" controversy....
'VIEW' FOR MOMS
JENNIFER Garner is hoping to become the next Barbara Walters. She and former "So You Think You Can Dance" host Lauren Sanchez-Whitesell are pitching a daytime TV show described as...
OPRAH GETS HER PERP
OPRAH Winfrey will pay an informant $100,000 for turning in a child predator on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Richard Goldberg, 61, fled to Canada in 2001 after he was...
STARR REPORT
Puzzle solved Merv Griffin's new game show, "Let's Play Cross words," will battle "Oprah" and "Judge Judy" at 4 p.m. next fall. Ch. 4 is expected to air back-to-back episodes...
'ONCE' UPON SUBLIME
WHAT "Rent" should have been, "Once" is: a Bohemian rhapsody. A Dublin street musician (Glen Hansard) is strumming his youth away for spare change when along comes a girl with...
$3 DRINK, $13 MARTINI
A well-made cocktail is one of life's great pleasures. But these days getting the bill can knock the swizzle right out of your stick. Setting aside the gimmicky elixirs popping...
WIFE STAGING RITZY SPITZY BA$H
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's wife, Silda, is sponsoring a ritzy, Central Park South, Democratic Party fund-raiser for which individuals - and controversial limited-liability corporations - are being solicited for up...
BELL MAY TOLL FOR BOOTHS ON HUDSON
Driving across the Hudson River is not about to get any cheaper, but it could soon be quicker. The Port Authority is considering a plan to tear down all of...
TIP GUY SHOWN 'DOOR'
An envelope containing a fat Christmas bonus cost an East Side doorman his job, and now he wants somebody to pay - to the tune of $2 million. Viorel Cincu,...
EX-CITY INSPECTOR IN 'BRIBERY SCAM'
A former inspector for the city Buildings Department has been charged with accepting $17,000 in bribes to overlook sewer violations and approve faulty work, according to a federal arrest warrant...
CRUEL L.I. SLAVE MASTERS
A "monstrous" millionaire couple from Long Island's Gold Coast kept two Indonesian women as slaves for five years in their tony estate-turned-house of horrors - until one victim was found...
BURDEN OF OOF: TAX PAIN WORST IN N.Y.
New York's overall tax burden is the heaviest in the nation - a staggering $5,770 average for every man, woman and child, a new study found. Per-capita state and local...
B'KLYN BIZMAN FLEES & FINDS STATE THAT'S SUNNY FOR HIS MONEY
New York's taxes are so high that Brooklyn investment banker Joel Novak has decided to pull up stakes and move to New Mexico now that he's retiring. "I'm leaving New...
DISABLED DOGS GET A LEG UP
Three high-spirited pups born without front legs are looking for a new leash on life after winding up in a Long Island shelter, where they're learning how to walk like...
'WRONG MAN' FREE AFTER 19 YRS. - & REAL 'KILLER' WAS STAR WITNESS
A man who served 19 years in prison for the rape and murder of his girlfriend's children was set free yesterday after DNA evidence proved that a next-door neighbor -...
EX-CON IN SUBWAY PERV BUST
A pervert with a history of sex-related offenses was nabbed after police spotted him rubbing against a woman's buttocks on an East Side subway train, authorities said yesterday. An officer...
HEROES DISPLAY THE RITE STUFF
Two hero Rite-Aid security guards chased down a shoplifter yesterday although he stabbed one of them in the neck, just missing his carotid artery, police and employees said. The guards...
'LOST' STAR A FIND FOR COLUMBIA
"Lost" star Matthew Fox poked fun at the hullabaloo surrounding his selection as the Columbia College Class Day speaker yesterday, in a well-received speech urging graduates to "be the authors...
BIDDERS ARE ALL ART AS AUCTION NETS $250M
A classic Mark Rothko painting that was last purchased for $8,500 in 1960 was auctioned off for $72.8 million dollars last night at Sotheby's in Manhattan. The 7-foot-high oil painting...
PERV PETE 'PLOTTED TO TAINT' FIRE DEPT.
When Peter Braunstein dressed up as a firefighter for his Halloween 2005 attack on a Fairchild Publications co-worker, he had a reason other than kidnapping and sex assault - he...
SUBWAY 'IDOL'
It's tense work, auditioning to be the next subway superstar. Perky Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jodie Shaw finished a near perfect audition yesterday at Grand Central Terminal, but she still wasn't satisfied....
WORKPLACE 'STAFF' SUIT
A secretary says she was done a poetic injustice when her ex-Jet boss made her type out an ode to the male organ. The poetry-of-the-penis incident was one of several...
'LIFE' FOR LESBIAN TOT KILLER
A Harlem lesbian who beat her lover's toddler son to death in their roach-and-rodent-infested apartment because he'd soiled himself was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison yesterday. In...
MIKE JOINS DIPLOMATIC FEE-FOR-ALL
Mayor Bloomberg took sides against the U.S. government yesterday in its fierce dispute with London's mayor. U.S. diplomats in London are refusing to pay a $16-a-day congestion charge to drive...
NYC = GREENLAND
In an address on climate change to business and political leaders from more than 40 nations, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday laid out what he called a "greenprint" for reversing global warming,...
KIDS FLEE BX. PARK SHOOTER
Cops chased down and grabbed a Latin Kings gang banger after he shot two men in a crowded Bronx park - sending mothers and kids running for their lives, authorities...
NO SWEAT ON BUDGET GAPS
In what could be a first, a fiscal monitor has declared that the city's multibillion-dollar budget gaps starting in 2009 aren't particularly worrisome because they're such a small part of...
'HIT' & MISS KILLER
A hit man in a murder-for-hire insurance plot testified yesterday that he had no trouble killing his target - but the rest of the day took its toll after his...
HOUSE OKS CITY POLICE BOO$T
WASHINGTON - New York City would get funds to put as many as 3,000 new cops on the streets under legislation that passed the House yesterday. The money could be...
GI AMBUSH PLANNED
The Iraqi ambush squad that kidnapped three members of an upstate-based regiment and killed four others carefully orchestrated the "planned snatch," a senior military official said yesterday. The Pentagon identified...
POST D.C. CHIEF
WASHINGTON - The New York Post yesterday named veteran political reporter Charles Hurt as its new D.C. bureau chief. Hurt, who will cover the 2008 presidential election and White House,...
N.Y. DRIVERS ARE ALL THE RAGE
Beep! Beep! Go back to #%*!# Jersey! New York City now ranks second in the country for road rage, outdone only by Miami, Fla., for bad temper behind the wheel....
MARY JANE IS SPIDEY 'SENSUOUS'
Say, doesn't that comely babe - barefoot, buxom and scrubbing some laundry - look familiar? Why, it's Spider-Man's better half, Mary Jane, and, wow, are the Webbed Wonder's fans steamed...
ABORT STANCE CLEAR: PANEL
Rudy Giuliani redeemed himself after his confusing abortion answers in the first GOP debate, by having a more clearly stated position during the second face-off last night. That was the...
FARMER CHARMER GIULIANI
Rudy Giuliani quietly crept off to Iowa before last night's debate to make amends with a farming couple his staffers had snubbed for being too "poor" to use their property...
RUDY IN RAGE AT 9/11 DISS
COLUMBIA, S.C. - An irate Rudy Giuliani blasted a fellow Republican candidate at last night's GOP debate for trying to blame the United States for 9/11. Giuliani unloaded both barrels...
'AMERICA'S MAYOR' HOMERS IN SECOND AT-BAT
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani wasted no time in last night's debate playing up his reputation as "America's Mayor" in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. "I know something about...
I HEARD SPECTOR 'FESS UP
The star witness in the Phil Spector murder trial rocked the courtroom yesterday, as he dramatically stood and showed jurors how the music legend allegedly held a pistol in his...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* Two co-workers were arrested for swiping $10,000 in jewelry after breaking into the Bensonhurst home of their boss, authorities said yesterday. A witness, also employed by the victim's construction...
POLS ALL WET ON FIRE SALE
I'VE never heard such a bunch of horse feathers in my life. The politicians - City Councilmen Bill de Blasio, David Yassky, and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz - had...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 859; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 0792; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 242; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3823;...
JERRY FALWELL, 1933-2007
Though he was the nation's most prominent evangelist since Billy Graham, the Rev. Jerry Falwell was best known for preaching a political gospel rather than a biblical one. In that...
THE IRANIAN BOMB
The International Atomic Energy Commission has determined that Iran, having solved its technical problems, is enriching uranium at a much faster rate than ever before. Next stop: weapons-grade material -...
N.Y. TAX TORTURE
New Yorkers today "celebrate" Tax Freedom Day - but keep the champagne corked: A report yesterday shows just how taxpayers in this state are being bled dry. It ain't pretty....
NOT SO SPECIAL?
WILL the departure of Tony Blair from No. 10 Downing Street in six weeks mean the end of the Anglo-American "special relationship?" As Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown prepares...
BEGGING TO GET SUCKERED AGAIN
IS it time to negotiate with the Taliban? Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf cut a deal with the Afghan extremists last fall, allowing them to flourish safely in his nation's Waziristan...
AN UN-P.C. EXPOSÉ
HERE is a tale of two breeds of undercover journalists. One has been celebrated by the national media and journalism organizations. The other has been shunned. One has champions in...
THE MISSING REPUBLICANS
TWO shadows loomed over last night's Republican debate in South Carolina - the men who weren't there. Both ex-Sen. Fred Thompson and former Speaker Newt Gingrich are reviewing their astrological...
THE SILENT GRAY LADY: TERROR TAKES BACKSEAT
THE ISSUE: The New York Times downplaying of terror plots, including the recent one at Fort Dix. Why would any rational person be surprised that The New York Times would...
BACK TO THE BASICS IN MATH
THE ISSUE: The new content and teaching strategies for New York City math teachers. Sol Stern writes as if liberal orthodoxy in public education is something new or undesirable ("Radical...
'WRAP' THAT UP
Wall Street is scrambling to deal with nearly $300 billion of client money suddenly thrown into limbo thanks to a slap in the face from SEC boss Chris Cox. In...
LIMITED APPEAL FOR EXPRESS BRAND
Limited Brands said yesterday that it would sell a majority stake in its Express clothing chain to a private equity firm and consider strategic alternatives for its Limited retail stores,...
EVERGREEN TO CASH IN ON TUPAC'S WRITINGS
Independent music publisher Evergreen Copyrights is expected to announce today that it has acquired full control of the writer's share of late rapper Tupac Shakur's song catalog, its 12th and...
ORGANIC RECYCLING
DON'T ever let it be said that health-oriented publisher Rodale doesn't practice what it preaches when it comes to composting and recycling. The publisher of Men's Health, the South Beach...
YAHOO! RAISES SIGHTS
Yahoo! hired veteran dealmaker Blake Jorgensen to be its new chief financial officer yesterday in a sign the struggling Internet titan may be looking for its own deals, despite overtures...
ABC IS UPFRONT ABOUT USING NEW AD RATINGS
With the networks vying for ad dollars during the annual "upfront" market, ABC said it would cater to advertisers eager to do deals based on how many viewers actually watch...
RADLER HIT OVER SLIPPERY ANSWERS
CHICAGO - The judge presiding over Conrad Black's fraud trial blasted David Radler for his combative and sometimes slippery responses to questions as he spent a sixth day sitting in...
ARMANI TO ALTER BOSS SITE
FASHION designer Giorgio Armani has signed a lease for a massive store of more than 40,000 feet at 717 Fifth Ave., the former site of the Hugo Boss store on...
ZANDERS' RAZR SHOW FIZZLES
In plaid jacket and a matching shirt-and-tie set, Motorola chief Ed Zander came to the Chelsea club scene yesterday to kick off a fashionista-styled preview of his new smart phones....
BEWARE 'X' FACTOR
FAIR HILL, Md. - In the run- up to the Preakness, serious horseplayers are obliged to study carefully the "new faces" in the starting lineup, horses that skipped the Kentucky...
HARD SPUN ENJOYS TOTAL TEAM EFFORT
Trainer Larry Jones is preparing Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun for Saturday's 132nd Preakness Stakes, hoping to derail the Triple Crown bid of Street Sense. This week, he shares his...
MANHATTAN CUP ON TAP
ON Friday, the Fishermen's Conservation Association (FCA) will host the 9th Annual Manhattan Cup catch and release charity fishing tournament from Manhattan's Chelsea Piers. On the 1 p.m. outgoing tide,...
HOPKINS IS THINKING BIG
Bernard Hopkins wants a piece of Evander Holyfield. Not his ear, but in the ring where Hopkins wants to make his mark in the heavyweight division. "If I got a...
'SENSE' OF SPEED
BALTIMORE - As if to warn his eight challengers in Saturday's 132nd Preakness Stakes that his tour-de-force triumph in the Kentucky Derby didn't empty his tank, Street Sense zipped five...
U.S. BOOSTS BRADLEY
After a protracted coaching search that felt longer than the director's cut of "The English Patient," the U.S. Soccer Federation has finally found its coach, and will officially remove the...
NORM INKS PAIR FOR JOHNNIES
Continuing what is proving to be a successful strategy, St. John's basketball coach Norm Roberts signed two more players yesterday who are late-bloomers with tremendous upside potential. If Pittsburgh swingman...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Dirk named MVP The story had leaked out last week, but yesterday it became official - Dirk Nowitzki ended the two-year MVP reign of good friend Steve Nash yesterday....
HONDO ORDERS FISH
Hondo bounced back marginally from Monday night's double disaster by splitting with the Tigers and Angels last night to elevate the earnings ever so slightly to 400 belinskys. Tonight, he...
HE KNOWS THE DIEHL
According to ESPN NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper Jr., the Giants got a C- minus this year largely because, "I was surprised they didn't take left tackle Joe Staley, because...
TEAM SCOUTING GABRIEL TO HELP OUT GM
The search for a new director of player personnel could prompt the Giants to bring back one of their own. Greg Gabriel, a former longtime member of their scouting department,...
METS ENDURE HORROR SCHO'
The Mets were down two runs at the start of the sixth inning - still a tight game, certainly a reasonable chance to overcome. Then came Scott Schoeneweis, who promptly...
LET THE RECORD REFLECT, MILLEDGE IS STILL IMMATURE
LASTINGS Milledge said during spring training that the biggest lesson he learned - having been chastised by 1) Willie Randolph for not running hard from first on a two-out double...
CLIFF MAKES METS PAY IN SHEA RETURN
David Wright couldn't resist a crack at his buddy's expense. As Cliff Floyd ran past his old teammate on the bases last night, Wright joked that the oft-injured former Met...
METS RAP L MILLZ FOR VULGAR SONG
The Mets issued a statement last night condemning a song from a record company that, according to the company's Web site, is co-founded by Lastings Milledge and features him on...
NETS: THREE YOU LATER
Edgy Nets coach Lawrence Frank snapped yesterday when asked about being worried what might happen to the roster this summer if his club is eliminated tonight in Cleveland. "This is...
LEBRON: MIKKI AIMED TO INJURE
LeBron James accused the Nets yesterday of attempting to injure Serbian forward Sasha Pavlovic during the two games at the Meadowlands - and gave a veiled threat it better stop....
'MOVING FURNITURE'
CHICAGO - The last time Joe Torre moved Alex Rodriguez out of the cleanup spot his third baseman went from fourth to eighth in Game 4 of the 2006 ALDS...
ROCKET SPEED
TAMPA - Get ready for an early Rocket launch. Twenty-three years to the day after making his major league debut, and after firing 71 pitches yesterday in a bullpen session,...
ESPN LIKELY TO AIR CLEMENS' CLASS-A START
ESPN confirmed rumors last night that it is planning to broadcast the Rocket's Class-A start with Tampa on Friday night, though the decision was not yet official late last night....
TORRE WON'T TALK ABOUT BROTHER'S CONDITION
SEATTLE - After his comments about going home Monday to visit brother Frank at Columbia Presbyterian ignited a media frenzy outside the hospital, Joe Torre has decided to avoid answering...
SUNDAY STARTER IFFY
CHICAGO - While Mike Mussina will pitch the first game today and Chien-Ming Wang goes in the nightcap, due to last night's rainout the Yankees need a starter Sunday night...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Some people have their loved ones embalmed after death, but this is something else. More than 7,000 Americans have had their bodies "plastinated" for use in museums and at medical...
What You Missed By Watching âIdolâ: Gilmoresâ End
âGilmore Girlsâ finale was tonight -- and only two years too late. Although the show didnât absolutely know it was the end at the time, the series finale gave all...