May 30, 2007
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Philanthropist and model Sam Tannehill looks super-chic in a mix of higher-end and less expensive items. Print silk dress by Zara and a trench from Zara are dressed up with...
Isiah may have taken Durant
By MARC BERMANORLANDO - While Kobe Bryant was on the radio strengthening his trade demand, Isiah Thomas spoke to the media for the first time since the season ended six...
Original Party Animal Meets Original Highway Robber
We all know "vintage" or used, is radically overpriced in this city, but this weekend I came across a particularly galling price tag. The vendor on Prince near Mercer that...
IN PICTURES: What season is this?
courtesy of the Daily Mail. However scientifically notated your SPF was this past Memorial Day weekend, it's miserably cold in a lot of other places. And we're not talking the...
Deal of the Day
Trovata's bringing Strappy Back with this breezy white gauze sundress.The Calypso Strappy Dress has a subtly striped high waist, a full skirt, and an alluring peek-a-boo back.Ideal for all chilled...
Bettman 'Intrigued' by Canada Preds
ESPN reported on Gary Bettman's state of the League address, during which the Cornell-educated suit mentioned he was 'intrigued' by the potential return of hockey to a Canadian city from...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: REYES BACK ON TOP, A-ROD TEETERING
Week 8 of Awards Wednesday and just wondering when Roger Clemens asks to be traded to a contender:AL MVP1. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 2. Vladimir Guerrero, Angels. 3. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees....
The Imelda Marcos workout
According to research by UK shoe retailer Brantano, shopping for shoes is as good for a woman's cardiovascular health as a vigorous aerobic workout. (HA! I knew it all along.)...
FIRST LOOK: Is it a drug?
Wet bar and bath behind the wall, sitting area and patio ahead of the bed. We were placing bets around the office that they'd change the name before opening in...
City College Confidential
As it was for much of the country, 1969 was a pretty momentus year for me. I got to meet my first movie star, Ali McGraw, when she shot scenes...
CHIEF JOSEPH - THE PEACEMAKER
The eloquent leader of the Nez Perce tribe led his people with unparalleled grace and dignity in the face of the permanent loss of their homeland. Chief Joseph was born...
POST'S LUMENICK NOW A LUMINARY
WE give this one a rave review. Tonight, the City College of New York will honor the 100th anniversary of its student newspaper, The Campus - proving ground for countless...
RE-PETE ROCKER
THIS summer, while "The Little Mer maid" gets its sea legs in Denver and "Young Franken stein" gets up off the table in Seattle, a promising new rock musical by...
PULLING STRINGS IN BROOKLYN
LEAVE the kids at home during this week's 10th annual Labapalooza! at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. While puppets are definitely center stage in what's billed as a "mini-festival of...
END OF TONY?
OK, so we all know "The Sopranos" calls it quits a week from Sunday, ending one of the most successful shows in TV history. "Sopranos" fans anticipate a bloodbath sooner...
TV ANYWHERE, ANY TIME
THE days of watching TV at home are over. Like phones and radio before it, the world of TV anywhere, any time is upon us. The technology already exists -...
'STAR WARS' CLONE
GEORGE Lucas is one step closer to launch ing the latest chapter of "Star Wars." Two minutes of footage from the upcoming TV show "The Clone Wars" was posted on...
ROSIE-LESS 'VIEW' ADIEU
PEACE broke out yester day on "The View" as mother hen Barbara Walters presided over the first show of the post-Rosie O'Donnell era. Walters declared that she and O'Donnell are...
'LIVE' UP IN SMOKE
FOR the record, Kelly Ripa didn't smell like smoke yesterday. That's the word from Michael Gelman, the executive producer of "Live with Regis & Kelly," following Sunday night's fire that...
STARR REPORT
Leonard, Part 25 Noted film critic Leonard Maltin is celebrating 25 years on "Enter tainment Tonight" - which will honor him with a segment airing to morrow (7:30 p.m./Ch. 2)...
KEEPING UP WITH THE ZONES
SUBURBAN sprawl takes a well-deserved hit in "Radiant City," a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns (you might have seen his feature "Kitchen Party") and journalist Jim Brown. Their well-thought-out...
SHAKE DOWN
FIFTEEN minutes into a half-hour wait at Shake Shack's pickup window, praying for a sex toy-like gizmo to buzz the news that my order was ready, I asked the guy...
BEST BURGERS IN N.Y.C.
TIMES are lean, but not for me. These past weeks of May - National Hamburger Month - have been 78 percent lean with a minimum fat content of 22 percent....
BEST WAYS TO SKIP THE BEEF
WHEN ordering a veggie burger at a burger joint, there's only one desire: to not feel deprived. It's a tall order, since many burger places that offer veggie versions serve...
A-ROD'S A YANKEE DOODLE RANDY
Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez stepped up to the plate with a mysterious, busty blonde in Toronto, as these intimate, exclusive photos reveal. The cozy duo dined with two pals at...
BIRTHDAY BOY RUDY 'BOROUGHS' FOR $$
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani celebrated his 63rd birthday with fund-raising bashes across the city yesterday - while defending his record on 9/11. "I love it. It reminds me of the...
GAY NUPS IS GAINING N.Y. FAVOR
ALBANY - A majority of New York voters under the age of 55 back Gov. Spitzer's plan to legalize gay marriage, strongly suggesting time is on the side of those...
GALL-PARK FIGURE
Think it's expensive to live in tony Brooklyn Heights? Try parking there. The affluent brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood and its surrounding downtown, Cobble Hill, DUMBO and Boerum Hill neighborhoods got hit...
600G MEDALLION NOT TOO SHABBY, CABBY
Owning a Big Apple taxi is one of the fastest rides to a huge retirement nest egg. A taxi medallion sold yesterday for a record $600,000 - making the lowly...
U.S. 'QAEDA' IN COURT
A lawyer for a Queens man charged with supplying military gear to al Qaeda terrorists defended his client as a wrongly accused academic arrested based on lies from an informant...
TIX OF THE TRADE
ALBANY - Sports and concert tickets could be legally scalped for any price under a deal reached yesterday by state lawmakers. The new free-market measure eliminated the 45 percent markup...
B'KLYN DIRECT TO GOVS IS.
Brooklyn residents looking to picnic or see a summer concert on Governors Island will be able to hop a water taxi starting this weekend. New York Water Taxi will run...
MOB-CASE JUDGE GIVES DA A WHACK
A Brooklyn judge yesterday slammed the DA's Office for its failure to follow up with the police on a 1990 homicide - an oversight that could lead to dismissal in...
N.Y.'S ALERT TECH EXECS
The Big Apple's computer nerds are the best prepared for coping with a natural or man-made disaster, a new study says. The New York area's information technology execs bested a...
PIT BULL MAULS B'KLYN KID'S TINY DOG TO DEATH
A casual walk turned into terrier terror for a Brooklyn dog yesterday when a pit bull leaped from the back of a van and mangled a Maltese. Little 5-year-old Gizmo...
HIT-RUN SLAY
In a fit of unbridled, jealous rage, a two-timing Brooklyn woman mowed down the father of her unborn child with her other boyfriend's SUV - killing the former amateur boxer...
WISEGUYS FIGHT OVER MOB LAIR
"Mob cops" star witness Burton Kaplan was so broke during the 1980s that he pleaded with his partner in crime, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, to bankroll his daughter's wedding and put...
WIFE BACKS 'PERV' HUBBY
The wife of the white-shoe New York City lawyer accused of paying a mother to pimp out her teen daughters to him is not only standing by her man, she's...
SERIAL CAB ROBBER HITS IN MIDTOWN
The man believed to be behind a string of cabby robberies apparently struck again last night, cops said. "He got in front and pulled a gun right here," yellow cab...
BROOKLYN IS A TRAGIC CHILD 'HOOD
The child death rate is higher in Brooklyn than in any other borough - and nearly twice as high as in Manhattan, according to a report released yesterday by a...
MEET ONE RED-HOT 'MAMA'
Watch out Lil' Kim. Hip-hop's latest Brooklyn brat is Lil' Mama, a 17-year-old sparkplug who hopes to smack you to the curb - with her "Lip Gloss." Lil' Mama, who...
'FRAUDSTER' SLAMMED DOORMAN FOR 90G
He opened the door to his heart, and she robbed him blind. A young con woman scammed a retired Upper East Side doorman out of nearly $90,000 with a bogus...
L.I. SICKO'S EVIL HISTORY
The drunken Long Island gunman who tried to get revenge on his boss by molesting one of his children and slitting his mother-in-law's throat hid a dark past from his...
GRISLY DAY LEAVES 5 DEAD IN CITY
It was a murderous day in the city - with at least five people killed and eight more wounded, including two gravely, in less than 17 hours, police said yesterday....
'DRUG-SLAY' COP GRILLED ON STAND
The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed drug dealer seven years ago took the stand yesterday to defend himself against a massive civil suit - and insisted he was...
'SPY' DRAMA IN MOVIE HOUSES
Shhhhhhh! I'll tell on you. Moviegoers were treated to a quieter film experience yesterday when seven city cinemas offered handheld devices that allow patrons to silently tattle on talkers and...
GOV OPEN TO MIKE'S DRIVE
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday said he is "theoretically" in favor of Mayor Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing proposal, but warned there are serious issues that need to be resolved. "It is...
TOT'S PARENTS IN SLAY-SUICIDE
A Long Island man called relatives in the middle of the night and asked them to come get his baby - and then killed his wife and himself, police said....
DWI 'WIFE DEATH' GUY LIED: DA
A Queens prosecutor told a jury yesterday that a man accused of killing his wife in a horrific DWI crash claimed afterward he didn't know the woman who died. Edward...
IRAN 'SPY' OUTRAGE
Iran has charged three Iranian-Americans, including a Manhattan-based academic, with being members of a U.S. spy ring, officials in Tehran said yesterday. Kian Tajbakhsh, a former New School professor, and...
'HEALTHY' OBAMA VS. 'TOGETHERNESS' HILL
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated an all-for-one society yesterday in New Hampshire, while Democratic rival Barack Obama countered in Iowa with an aggressive universal health-care plan. "I prefer a...
ANTI-MORMON MORON'S BIG FIT AT MITT
WASHINGTON - A man who said he supports Hillary Rodham Clinton for president heckled Republican candidate Mitt Romney over his Mormon religion during a campaign stop yesterday. "I'm one person...
'BROWSING' IN THE BIG APPLE
Virtual voyagers got some new tools and views from Google and Microsoft yesterday. The dueling behemoths both launched the most high-tech interactive city maps to date in a fierce fight...
NUCLEAR TERRORIST 'DOOM' SCENARIO
WASHINGTON - Half the people in the heart of the city would be killed or badly hurt. Many tens of thousands more would be exposed to radiation and later get...
PAPA DO PREACH: DAD PLANS HAMPTONS RELIGIOUS DETOX
Lindsay Lohan's dad has teamed up with a firebrand preacher to establish a $15 million treatment center in Southampton - for people like his drink- and drug-addled daughter. Michael Lohan,...
WOBBLY LINDSAY MAKES A DRY RUN
Lindsay Lohan has left the party train and is finally on the wagon. The wild child star yesterday admitted herself at Promises drug and alcohol rehab in Malibu - the...
HOW LANA DIED
A pathologist testified in sickening detail yesterday about how a bullet tore apart Lana Clarkson's head after a gun was forcibly jammed in her mouth at Phil Spector's home. Mercifully,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* A gun-toting, note-passing thief (pictured) robbed a Midtown bank, officials said. The unidentified suspect brandished a handgun in an Emigrant Savings branch on East 42nd Street at 10 a.m....
SMOKE GETS IN MY IRE - TWICE!
IT may not make the Guinness Book of Records, but I believe I paid the highest price in the world to smoke a single cigarette - $25, to be exact....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 781; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 9677; Lucky Sum: 29 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 727; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3726;...
IRANIAN DOUBLE-DEALING
THE first official face-to-face diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran in more than a quarter-century ended Monday. Less than a day later, Tehran announced formal espionage charges against...
GANGING UP ON COPS
New York's Finest moved decisively to defuse a potentially violent encounter between rival Brooklyn gangs last week. So, of course, the cop-bashers are blasting the NYPD. Let's be clear: The...
BOOING MISS USA
THE United States government is on the verge of approving a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens - a plan pushed aggressively by meddling Mexican officials who reap billions...
DOING THE RIGHT THING IN DARFUR
THE greeting to visitors at the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan, is an exercise in intimidation: You pass guards in white uniforms with AK-47s, walk under a pair of enormous...
HOW TO DAM NY'S GUSHING WATER RATES
ON May 14, the city Water Board voted to increase water and sewer rates by 11.5 percent for the next fiscal year - the first double-digit rate increase since 1992....
GREENS' AFRICAN DEATH TOLL
ACTIVISTS say companies should be honest and accountable, and put people ahead of profits. But unless these common-sense guidelines also apply to nonprofit advocacy groups, corporate social responsibility will remain...
ELIOT'S COLLEGE TRY
GOV. Spitzer yesterday made two announcements that indicate his desire to make SUNY one of the finest state university systems in the nation. The governor created a Commission on Higher...
THANK YOU, NYC
On behalf of the 600 Marines and 3,000 sailors who have been in New York for Fleet Week, thank you ("Welcome to the Fleet," Editorial, May 26). The outpouring of...
DEMS' FUNNY WAY OF 'BACKING' TROOPS
THE ISSUE: Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's votes against the Iraq war-funding bill. Both Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama want to be commander in chief, yet both...
PEACOCK CHANGE WON'T CURE UPFRONTS DEBACLE
The shakeup in NBC's programming ranks didn't come soon enough for advertisers mulling the network's relatively slim lineup of new shows. NBC plans to add just five shows in the...
NBCEASEFIRE
Ben Silverman's first order of business in saving NBC's primetime lineup is developing a better working relationship with CEO Jeff Zucker than Kevin Reilly, the person he's replacing, did. While...
THEIR 15 MINS. ARE UP
POLO-playing Peter Brant, the real estate developer and art collector who bought Interview magazine with his then-wife Sandra from the Andy Warhol estate in 1989, has decided to put the...
REFORM PANEL
Worried about Wall Street's diminishing role as the world's financial capital, Gov. Eliot Spitzer is putting together a blue-ribbon panel to recommend overhauling outdated regulations that govern financial-services companies. The...
CHANGE AT TALBOTS TO BE SLOW IN COMING
Investors betting that Talbots, known for its classic clothes and equally conservative business sense, is ripe for change - given that profits are shrinking and its chief executive is preparing...
HARD ROCK'S END
THE Hard Rock Hotel New York at 235 W. 46th St. is in contract to be sold to Walton Street Capital for approximately $200 million. "This will be the end...
SMALL BOAT OWNERS FACE SECURITY ISSUE
IF you are a small boat owner, you should be interested in what transpires in three weeks between Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Coast Guard. Officials from both organizations...
'OPEN' MINDED
Thoughts of Winged Foot never stray far from Geoff Ogilvy's mind. It is the place, after all, where his life changed forever and immeasurably with his unlikely U.S. Open victory...
RODDICK, BLAKE TAKE EARLY EXITS
PARIS - Andy Roddick is out of the French Open in the first round again. For the second straight year and fourth time in the last six years, the American...
MONROE REFUSES TO LOSE
It's been two years since Monroe lost a baseball game. The Eagles bounced back from that surprising defeat to Walton in the 2005 PSAL quarterfinals to win the league championship...
STREET SENSE SET FOR KEY WORKOUT
A workout scheduled for Street Sense this morning at Churchill Downs will determine whether the Kentucky Derby winner will head to the June 9 Belmont Stakes for a rematch with...
SANTOS, VEITCH RACE INTO HALL
Jockey Jose Santos, former trainer John Veitch, 1997 Kentucky Derby winner Silver Charm and Mom's Command, who swept the filly triple crown in 1985, have been elected to the National...
HONDO RUFF AND READY
Hondo leapfrogged back over the century mark last night as he breezed with Birds in K.C. to in crease the earnings to 135 kaskos. Tonight, the prices look right right...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Dowd calls for crackdownJohn Dowd, the lawyer who headed baseball's investigation of Pete Rose, wants commissioner Bud Selig to suspend players who don't cooperate with the steroids probe spearheaded...
SOMETHING TO BALK ABOUT
Why the remaining fans at Shea Stadium were booing Armando Benitez as he entered in the 12th inning last night was something of a mystery. Given Benitez's history here, with...
AMAZIN' FINISH HELPS US FORGET ABOUT BARRY
NIGHTS like these are the antidote, the serum for the sickness that Barry Bonds carries with him from ballpark to ballpark, from town to town. They are splendid reminders that...
BONDS HAS QUIET NIGHT
At 4:34 p.m. yesterday, Barry Bonds arrived in the visiting clubhouse at Shea Stadium. Wearing a black shirt and jeans, Bonds bounced to the music coming out of his headphones...
GREEN ON DL FOR 1ST TIME
After years of bragging to teammates about his indestructibility, Shawn Green has one less boast he can make. The Mets right fielder was placed on the disabled list yesterday for...
MOTA WILL BE AVAILABLE TONIGHT
Guillermo Mota committed the crime and did the time, now the Mets are ready to welcome him back. With his 50-game suspension complete after violating baseball's steroid policy, Mota will...
A STEAL SHAME
TORONTO - For the first time this season, the Yankees took a round of infield practice before last night's game - then Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez made throwing errors...
CUT-BLOAT BIZ
STOP talking about Todd Helton and Richie Sexson now. Those are not solutions for the Yankees. That is the cancer. That is the reason why they are in this horrible...
ROCKET LIKELY TO LAUNCH MONDAY
TORONTO - Rocket II may be too late to save the Yankees from a brutal first two months, but it will be launched Monday at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field against...
ROGER'S WIFE: IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY PLAN
DEBBIE Clemens stands by her Rocket. No one knows Roger Clemens better than his wife, and as her husband, 44, enters the final stage of his Yankees comeback, she offered...
BUD'S DECISION ON GIAMBI EXPECTED
TORONTO - While Jason Giambi awaits Commissioner Bud Selig's reaction to Giambi's recent steroid comments, the Yankees' DH may have a bigger problem than a bone spur near his left...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This thief tried to steal a woman's heart. After two men robbed a U-Haul store in Milwaukee, one of them lingered in an effort to get the phone number of...
MAPS: Enough, already?
Streets shaded in blue can be now be viewed on Google Maps/Courtesy of Google I went to Budapest over the winter, and found that having spent a little time mucking...
Coyotes Poach Maloney
Don Maloney, the voice of reason in the Rangers front office who can largely be credited for weeding out the organization's big-spending efforts and opting instead to build from within,...