May 27, 2007
Covetable shoes
A reader asked where she could find the Frye sandals that a past "Scene"-ster was seen wearing on our blog. Unfortunately, Frye doesn't make this particular style anymore, but here...
Impossible to Avoid: Avril Lavigne
With a new album, Avril Lavigne takes the top spot this week on the talk-show circuit, appearing on âThe Viewâ on Monday and visiting Jimmy Kimmel on Friday.Check out whoâs...
Easley, Gomez and Alou
By MARK HALEThe game is set to start in about five or 10 minutes, and the Mets have relatively good news on the outfield front.Carlos Gomez, who strained his left...
FALLEN AND SHINING STARS MARK TV SEASON
If Memorial Day weekend is here, then that can mean only one thing: Another TV season has come and gone. Yes, in case you hadn't noticed, the network TV season...
'WOUNDED KNEE'
A funny thing happened on the way to the massacre. When screenwriter Daniel Giat was preparing to adapt "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," he stumbled upon an unlikely hero...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DRAMA Picking up the pieces Molly Kagan is your average wife of a Hollywood honcho. Spoiled and entitled, she lives in the lap of luxury until-her husband dumps her....
THUMBS UP
It's a good thing you don't need thumbs to play Bingo. Ed Sanders, one of the show's band of elite carpenters from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and host of ABC's...
BOOTY CALL
If you see a twinkle in the host's eye on Mark Burnett's new reality contest, "Pirate Masters," it's because the good-looking scallywag comes from a long line of robbers on...
REEL GOOD
JIMI HENDRIX (1973) Sunday, 4 p.m., VH1 Completed three years after the rocker's death, this documentary includes interviews with musicians from Pete Townsend, to Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Eric...
CAST OF 'SIX FEET UNDER' RETURNS THIS FALL
The network upfronts are just behind us and many people are talking about what the fall schedule means. NBC's gone supernatural with a bunch of new shows ("The Bionic Woman")...
AMBUSHED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
It's last Sunday afternoon. The Braves-Red Sox baseball telecast on TBS is delayed by rain, thus TBS is showing a re-run of "Saved By The Bell," a popular sitcom geared...
HOT SEAT
LOUIS C.K. (formerly Louis Szekely - really, can you blame the guy?) is a can-of-whupass type comedian: open up at your own risk. He's a family-guy funnyman dead-set on unloading...
HOT LIST
1. Movie homage You can't live in New York without loving it. The "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies" multimedia exhibit (at Grand Central Terminal through the end of...
CRIMES OF THE ART
You could say that Gabe Godin's art is very arresting. That is, if you were into puns that are like a case of food poisoning, but we're not, so we...
ALL FALLS DOWN
NOVELIST Don DeLillo makes the CIA look like the cops from "Reno 911," admittedly not the hardest thing to do these days. His intelligence has always been exquisite; his anticipation...
NIGHT JOURNEY
ONLY a novelist of Haruki Murakami's stature would be so bold (or humorous) to begin a literary examination of the human soul in a setting as soulless as a Denny's...
REQUIRED READING
"Here is the real cost of political cynicism - rejection by the younger generation." So writes Anna Politkovskaya in her final book, "Death in Putin's Russia" (Random House). Politkovskaya was...
CALLING ALL FOTOGS
If the new digital age has taught us anything, it's how to multi-task. Why overload your pockets with a cellphone and a bulky digital camera when you can do both...
FUR-VEILLANCE
JUST how much we love our pets can be measured by how their roles in our daily lives have changed throughout the years. In ancient Rome, the words "Cave Canem"...
THE CAT LADY
A few days ago, my male cat, Yang Yang, went into his litter box and howled in pain. Half an hour later, we were at my veterinarian's office. His howling...
NEWEST AMERICANS RULE CHAMPIONSHIP
CHESS ADD this to the immigration debate: If it weren't for the foreign-born, America would be a third-world chess country. This was evident this month when the U.S. Championship came...
WHITE IS RIGHT FOR THE SUMMER
8 EASY WAYS TO BRIGHTEN WHITESAILOR TRY THEM: As a perfect alternative to low waisted styles High-waist linen sailor pants, $98, at Anthropologie, 85 Fifth Ave., with cotton patchwork halter,...
MEN AT WORK
Matt Berninger, the lead singer and songwriter for New York indie group the National insists he couldn't sing or write when he joined his best friend's rock band in college....
PARTY PEOPLE
WHILE Satellite Party, the new outfit from Jane's Addiction vocalist and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell, is a smooth hybrid of rock and dance styles, Farrell's mission wasn't just to unite...
LADIES-MAN MUSIC FOR GENTS
HAVING EVOLVED from the extinct sexasaurus R&B singers Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Donny Hathaway, R. Kelly, whose 13th solo record, "Double Up" comes out Tuesday, is first and foremost...
STORK REALITY
FAME, FORTUNE and box-office records be damned - Judd Apatow swears he will never be one of the popular kids. "I'm the guy the girl breaks up with," the director...
MOVIE INSIGHT
When Leonard Maltin first started his gig as movie critic for "Entertainment Tonight" way back in 1982, Ah-nuld was a barbarian, not a governor, Pink Floyd was about to erect...
ACTING THEIR AGE
There's a moment in the serial-killer drama "Mr. Brooks," opening Friday, where Kevin Costner, as the killer, and William Hurt, as the manifestation of his bloodthirsty subconscious, share a laugh...
SIX OF A KIND
NOT everybody wants to see Hollywood movies about superheroes, green ogres and pirates, especially when the films don't live up to their media-fueled hype. For viewers who think for themselves,...
THE EX-FACTOR
"We blow things up. Literally." Redhead supermodel Angie Everhart is chatting loudly on her cell phone about her latest conquest, "The Ex-Wives Club" the new therapeutic reality show on ABC...
BEING GREEN
BETWEEN Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, there's no shortage of quality grocery options in Union Square. But with the prime spring-to-summer season upon us, why not enjoy the summer sky...
REILLY, 33, AND DOLL, 31
APRIL 28 - "I knew pretty quickly that he was the one," says Jennifer Doll, a design manager for an intimate-apparel line, of Malicky Reilly. "He just put a silly...
SCOLLO, 26, AND CUCU, 25
MAY 11 - First loves can be more than fleeting. Melissa Scollo and Daniel Cucu met through a friend while attending Bryant High School in Long Island City, and became...
BUDULAN, 30, AND VERFAILLIE, 30
MAY 11 - Bad weather can ruin a wedding, and for Filip Verfaillie, it almost ruined his proposal. Just before Christmas in 2006, "Filip came to meet me and asked...
PRICE, 34, AND CACCIOLA, 40
MAY 5 - It was a true hometown affair for Jennie Price and Joe Cacciola. Though the newlyweds are natives of the borough, "Neither of us ever thought we would...
RAMBO, 31, AND LAROW, 30
APRIL 28 - Good things happen to those who wait - and, apparently, also to those who don't. "He couldn't wait to propose. It was driving him crazy!" confessed April...
BRITS DELIVER N.Y. 'TERROR' RAT TO FEDS
A homegrown terror suspect who grew up in Queens and is accused of supplying al Qaeda with cash and military equipment to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan has been extradited...
HOLIDAY CLOSINGS
For Memorial Day tomorrow: No mail delivery except Express Mail. Post offices, libraries, schools, government offices and banks are closed. No garbage pickup. Parking-meter rules are off. Mass transit running...
PUTTING THE SCREWS TO JAIL GUARDS
Looks like lockdown hasn't put a lid on libidos in New York state prisons. Allegations of behind-bars sexcapades involving state prison staff and inmates skyrocketed last year, The Post has...
BAGEL HUBBY: I KILLED MY WIFE
The Long Island man who allegedly gunned down the mother of his four children confessed to police that he shot the beauty over a pair of bagel shops that a...
BEAT BUST FOR ACTRESS KILLER'S BRO
The ex-con brother of the triggerman who killed young actress Nicole duFresne on a Manhattan street two years ago was busted for robbing and beating a man inside a Staten...
9/11 HERO MURDER MYSTERY
A suspect in the mysterious murder of a New York City firefighter - who'd moved to Arizona because of post-9/11 health problems - committed suicide after being cornered by cops....
'WIDOW' FEELS ARZU KIN'S PAIN
Nicole Paltre-Bell - whose fiancé, Sean Bell, was killed by cops in a fusillade of 50 unanswered shots last Nov. 25 - sat at a funeral yesterday with the grieving...
SOLAR SAILORS
The transportation wave of the future will include solar-powered ferries with special sunshine-grabbing sails. The first of these "green ferries" in America could be launched in New York Harbor by...
GUNMEN BLOW AWAY 2 TEENS
Two 19-year-old men were shot dead last night in separate incidents less than an hour apart in The Bronx and Queens, police said. At 6:50 p.m., Bronx cops found the...
FIREMEN TRUCK-UP
The family of a Brooklyn woman who bled to death, and the paramedics who tried to save her, have charged that firefighters who arrived first made a halfhearted effort to...
CIG BAN? WHAT CIG BAN?
While Mayor Bloomberg tries to make the world safe from greenhouse gases, his cigarette ban is going up in smoke. Scores of trendy clubs and neighborhood pubs across the five...
PARK AND 'LIED'
It's not just government workers abusing parking privileges in Manhattan. The Post last week spotted two cases of private individuals using city agency placards to park illegally. One man displayed...
DA PUTS HIT OUT ON ME
The white-shoe lawyer accused of paying a mom to have sex with her daughters claims prosecutors are trying to have him whacked in jail. James Colliton, who is back in...
TENANTS' AIR WAR
Residents of a tony Tudor City apartment complex are boiling mad after the building's board seized their air conditioners - claiming the window units marred the building's stately facade. Dozens...
KISSEL'S CREDITORS LOSE $30M
Creditors of murdered real-estate developer Andrew Kissel will be scrambling for scraps after a Connecticut probate judge declared the swindler's estate insolvent. Greenwich probate Judge David Hopper ruled creditors, owed...
GIRL HIT BY STRAY SHOT IN B'KLYN
A 12-year-old girl was shot in the leg outside a Brooklyn bodega, joining her sister as a victim of gun violence. "I'm just so stressed out," said mom Isemona Vincent,...
S.I. BEEP'S BAD-BOY GRANDKID BUSTED AGAIN
The troubled grandson of Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro has been arrested again - this time on a charge of driving past the house of a witness in his...
SKI GAL CHRISTIE NEARLY LOST LEG
Freshly single Christie Brinkley has revealed that she almost lost her right leg in a risky operation after being rushed to the hospital with crippling pain in her spine. Brinkley...
6 TOSSED INTO HELL'S GATE AS BOAT CAPSIZES
A leisurely three-hour tour on the East River turned into "The Poseidon Adventure" for a family of boaters sunk by a massive wave that flipped their 17-foot vessel yesterday. Romulo...
FILM 'SOLVES' SPY SLAY: PUTIN DID IT
CANNES, France - The widow of KGB dissident Alexander Litvinenko fought back tears yesterday as she attended the premiere of a documentary that accuses Russia's leadership of ordering his death...
'COKED' LOHAN
A drug believed to be cocaine was found in Lindsay Lohan's wrecked Mercedes after the free-falling star crashed in Beverly Hills yesterday following a wild night of partying. A "usable...
HOT CURVES AT INDY 500
Gentlemen, stop your engines - before they overheat. Three sexy speed demons are set to drive racing fans wild at to day's Indianapolis 500 - and make history with more...
OPRAH'S PAINFUL YEARS
Oprah Winfrey has made billions sharing her thoughts and opinions with the world - her favorite things, her favorite books, her adoration of her half-dozen dogs and her relationship with...
'ENTOURAGE' OF STAR'S '2 DADS'
The mom of "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier was living in a commune when she became pregnant with the TV heartthrob - resulting in years of confusion about the identity of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing East Harlem man. James Parson was last seen leaving his Madison Avenue home near East 124th Street at...
SOME WANT TO '86' ONE CONGESTION BOUNDARY
SOME of the most ardent sup porters of Mayor Bloom berg's congestion-pricing proposal are drawing the line over the northern boundary of the $8-fee zone - they want it on...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 273; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 0687; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 875; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
BERGER'S ETERNAL SECRET
It now looks like the American people will never learn how - and why - Bill Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy "Sticky Fingers" Berger, stole and destroyed classified documents from...
UPSTATE'S AGONY
First Lady Silda Wall Spitzer is launching a "brain-drain initiative" to find out why so many young folks, particularly from Upstate, flee New York every year. Why doesn't she just...
RX FOR BREAKDOWN
ONE of the biggest - and least discussed - problems with the immigration bill now before the Senate is the sheer impossibility of implementing it. The measure would triple the...
CAB CARTEL ATTACKS
MINNEAPOLIS THE campaign to deny Luis Paucar his right to economic liberty illustrates the ingenuity people will invest in concocting perverse arguments for novel entitlements. This city's taxi cartel is...
MODERATE MUSLIMS: THE TRUTH COMES OUT
THE ISSUE: U.S. Muslims who justify suicide bombings to defend Islam. The recent poll of Muslims in the United States only serves to highlight what many of us know as...
COMPANY TOWN
SAVAGE KINGDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF JAMESTOWN, 1607, AND THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICABY BENJAMIN WOOLLEYHARPERCOLLINS, 469 PAGES, $27.50 HOW did America become America? "Chance was to make the continent home...
DEAF & DUMB ON DARFUR
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK: BEARING WITNESS TO THE GENOCIDE IN DARFURBY BRIAN STEIDLE WITH GRETCHEN STEIDLE WALLACEPUBLIC AFFAIRS, 256 PAGES, $24.95 IT has been a year since the United...
A KUNG FU ODYSSEY
AMERICAN SHAOLIN: FLYING KICKS, BUDDHIST MONKS AND THE LEGEND OF IRON CROTCH; AN ODYSSEY IN THE NEW CHINABY MATTHEW POLLYGOTHAM BOOKS, 384 PAGES, $26 IT takes a special kind of...
BUY A PAL A PINT - WHEREVER
Steve Cohn, a 31-year-old Hoboken resident, used to spend many a Friday afternoon during graduate school at a local pub enjoying a pint of beer with his classmates. It was...
IN THE BLACK
So much for Conrad Black as a suit-wearing bank robber. After 10 weeks of testimony and five key witnesses, prosecutors have yet to put one victim on the stand who...
CONSOLIDATE YOUR LOANS
ATTENTION recent college graduates. If you have loans to pay off, moving now to consolidate them can save you thousands of dollars. But you must act before July 1. College...
STUDY IN THE SAND
For folks hoping to put some sizzle into their savings, make their retirement plan more robust or inject some insight into their investments, the summer beach reading season is the...
SHINE A LIGHT ON THE PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM
Dear John: Although I admire your quest to get information on the Plunge Protection Team, I'm not sure why you are doing so. Seems to me, if you consider it...
USPS WEIGHING A VANITY ZIP CODE PROGRAM
Vanity ZIP codes could be a gold mine for the United States Postal Service. Just days after upscale department store Sakes Fifth Avenue convinced the USPS to give it a...
MAYOR MIKE'S MIND
WILL Mayor Michael Bloomberg run for president in 2008? With millions of Americans already tiring of the declared frontrunners, no doubt that question will be asked at many a barbecue...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSMARK BADGLEY Along with partner James Mischka, revamps company's marketing plan by supplying threads for "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks. MATT RUBELL CEO of Payless ShoeSource, already engineering turnaround of...
'EASY' WAY OUT
It's not too often people get to witness a 180-degree turnaround in a company's marketing message, but that is exactly what folks are seeing with the latest effort by Reebok....
PHONE CARD COMPANY CALLING FOUL ON RIVALS
Howard S. Jonas is an unlikely policeman. His company, $2.2 billion IDT Corp., is fresh off a $20 million class-action settlement for claims of failing to adequately disclose rates and...
MORE CELEBS GET THE BLUES
Two more celebrities are about to jump into the $13 billion denim jeans business - albeit in opposite ends of the pool. Sarah Jessica Parker will debut $20 jeans, part...
THAT'S THE TICKET TICKET
GOT pulled over the other day. Wasn't wearing a seat belt. Cop peers in the window, looks at my driver's license, smiles. "You the guy who works at The Post?"...
FEEDING TIME
STEVE Jones (among other NBA analysts) used to say when a player has it going, you give him the ball until he flames out or his shooting arm goes dead....
THEY SERVE PUNCH
RIVALRIES never die. Just ask Bill Lee. Lee was the centerpiece of the biggest brawl in Yankees-Red Sox history 31 years ago this month when the Boston lefty separated his...
BUD SHOULD BE THERE TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT
GO, BUD. I have heard all the reasons why Bud Selig should not be in attendance when Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's all-time homer record. But here is the biggest...
PIAZZA MIGHT NEED HIS CATCHER'S MITT
Mike Piazza just recently regained full range of motion after spraining his right shoulder early this month. He is due back early next month and when he returns, the A's...
MESSIN' WITH TEXAS
AS SEEN on TV: It was hardly shocking, but among the six remaining Texas Hold 'Em players at the table last week, three could have been no older than 25,...
BARKIN' UP RIGHT TREE WITH THESE
BOB BARKER is the Babe Ruth of game- show hosts. But like all legends, his run of dominance must come to an end. The popular television icon is calling it...
PHILLIPS TEARING IT UP IN TRIPLE-A
WITH a number of worthy subjects to touch on this week, it seems the perfect time to go beating around the bushes, and reveal a few minor-league storylines that could...
N.Y. STATE: HABITAT GRANTS STILL AVAILABLE
THE New York State Depart ment of Environmental Con servation is reopening the ap plication period for proposals for grants that will fund projects aimed at improving fish and wildlife...
BONDS HITTING BUMP IN 'ROID
Barry Bonds stepped to the plate for the first time at Shea Stadium on June 13, 1986. The 37,582 fans had no way of knowing that the Pirates' 185-pound leadoff...
KAHNE-DO ATTITUDE
Kasey Kahne was expected to battle for the Nextel Cup title this year, but now even qualifying for the Chase seems like a long shot. No NASCAR driver has come...
CLAY ACHIN'
Pete Sampras spent a legendary career never winning the French Open. For all his greatness, grace and grandiose strokes, Roger Federer could be destined to the same fate, according to...
JOCKEY CRITICAL BUT DOING BETTER
Jockey Andrew Lakeman, badly injured in a spill Friday at Belmont Park, remains in critical condition at North Shore Hospital on Long Island, but his condition has stabilized and he...
THE RUMBLE
Dr. Yogi's prescription, Tells grads to 'stand up, take lumps' "Dr. Yogi" Berra was a huge hit at St. Louis University last weekend as commencement speaker for 1,900 graduates. Yogi...
VAC'S WHACK'S
The Mets and their fans can talk all they want about how the old Turner Field House of Horror stories are old and dated and irrelevant. It would still behoove...
BARRY BAD
* In preparation of the all-time home run record being broken, the San Francisco Giants, in conjunction with the Society for American Baseball Research and the Elias Sports Bureau, are...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Halladay to return next week Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay will return to the rotation next week and come off the disabled list earlier than originally expected. Manager John...
HONDO: OH, SPLIT!
Hondo threw the ol' splitterooski last night as he clicked with the Pirates and clunked with the Dodg ers to fatten up the profits to 80 blasingames. Today, Mr. Aitch...
BACK ON TRACK
MIAMI - It had been a few starts since it happened, so John Maine certainly needed to have a good game. Carlos Delgado might have needed it just as much....
HAMSTRING INJURY PUTS GOMEZ ON THE BENCH
MIAMI - Carlos Gomez, who was in right field last night as Shawn Green's replacement, strained his left hamstring and might miss time - though he said he believes it...
IT'S TIME FOR 9
THIS was immediately after the Nov. 24, 1999 game in Tampa during which Brian Leetch broke his right forearm blocking an early first-period Fredrik Modin slap shot and not only...
DON'T LOOK NOW BOBBY
Bobby Abreu never took his bat off his shoulder in the ninth . . . except to drop it in disgust. With the tying runs on the corners and two...
UNDER PRESSURE
If George Steinbrenner thought his angry words would immediately turn the Yankees' lagging season around, he was wrong. The Yankees have lost two straight games since Steinbrenner's proclamation from Tampa...
GET OVER THE UMP, IT'S BOMBERS' FAULT
A CALLED third strike that was closer to the Hudson River than it was Bobby Abreu had Joe Torre steaming in his office following a 3-1 loss to the Angels...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...TYLER CLIPPARD
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with the Yankees' 22-year-old right-hander who defeated the Mets in the Subway Series and is 1-1 with a 3.60 ERA in two starts: Q:...
ABRE-BOO ANGRY OVER LAST STRIKE
Bobby Abreu took a called strike three with two out and the tying runs on base in the ninth inning yesterday, then stood at the plate in disbelief. After Francisco...
ACHING DAMON KEEPS HIS FEET UP
The last thing the Yankees need right now is someone kicking their feet up. But that's precisely the prescription to help Johnny Damon's constantly cramping calves. Team officials agreed with...
HOW MANY PORTRAITS SHOULD YOU RESPOND TO?
When you log on, do you spend hours trying to find The One to reply to? Or do you shoot off emails to everyone and anyone who catches your eye......
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: My girlfriend tells me that she does not feel appreciated. Yet when I ask what I can do to make her feel appreciated she says that she...
MEET MARKET
SURVIVAL of the fittest: It applied to the apes, and now it applies to dates. For Bryan, a personal fitness instructor, physical activity isn't just his trade - it's his...
LOVER AND FIGHTER
To the Meet Market's dismay, there was no head-butting, eye-gouging or fish-hooking at Mexican restaurant Maya, where 26-year-old fashion designer and sports-lover Amanda met up with Joe, a 31-year-old Thai-boxing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Talk about being sky-high after having a baby. A woman gave birth in a plane aisle during a flight from Germany to Atlanta. She went into labor nine hours into...