June 4, 2007
Scene
Denise Williams, a hostess at Marquee, wears a summery mustard yellow print shift dress from Forever 21, a YSL Muse bag, sandals by Mystique from Intermix, and a great gold...
Payless + Stacey
Alice + Olivia's Stacey Bendet knows how to keep buzz going. Hot off the heels of her recent NoLita boutique christening, she's been tapped by Payless to collaborate on a...
Casting Call for Indy
There will be open casting calls for extras next week in New Haven for the fourth Indiana Jones movie, the fansite Spielberg Films reports. The call is next Monday and...
PAPER OR PLASTIC?
After coming through the Lincoln Tunnel, which is always an adventure, and back into New Jersey, a huge piece of plastic, the kind you would find wrapped around a mattress,...
THOUGHTS AFTER YANKEES-RED SOX
After driving home from Boston in a downpour, some lingering thoughts from more Yankees-Red Sox: --Kevin Youkilis really is a good player. His at-bats are little baseball wars in which...
Synergy
If you ask us, the big "winner'' at Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards was "Transformers,'' which took the brand-new prize for "the best as-yet-unseen summer film,'' and was plugged relentlessly...
Dye for Abreu trade?
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that struggling future free-agent Yankee Bobby Abreu could be traded for struggling future free-agent Jermaine Dye. Abreu and Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen, both Venezuelan, are reported...
BROWN'S DETROIT LEGACY GOLDEN
Watching the Pistons fall to pieces Saturday night - and throughout the Eastern Conference Finals - I couldn't stop thinking about Larry Brown. Nobody has been harder on Brown for...
BROWN'S DETROIT LEGACY GOLDEN
Watching the Pistons fall to pieces Saturday night - and throughout the Eastern Conference Finals - I couldn't stop thinking about Larry Brown.Nobody has been harder on Brown for his...
Mangini Surprises Mom
In a summer of scandal for NFL, Jets coach Eric Mangini proved that gentlemen still exist. Mangini took time off from work in Long Island to attend his mother's graduation....
Heigl Exercise
Just in case you were wondering, nearly twice as many moviegoers (35 percent) say they went to see "Knocked Up'' for Katherine Heigl than for Seth Rogen (18 percent) or...
Deal of the Day
Eliza Gran, the New Yorker behind her eponymous line of dresses for moms and daughters has marked all of her whimsical dresses down 40%.This Mrs. Phillips Dress is proper with...
QUICK TRIPS: Go further east, young man
On the beach in Montauk/Rob Mangione It was impossible not to snicker just a little bit watching the Elliman promo clip for East Hampton that Gawker uploaded on Friday. Try...
THE NEW KID
"EIGHTY percent of success is just showing up," Woody Allen famously quipped. But a different reality awaits the hordes of '07 grads who are starting to fl ood the city's...
DREAM JOB: PAUL COTHRAN
PAUL Cothran has a visible passion for his work. At the mention of VH1's Save the Music Foundation, the nonprofit he's run for the past year, his face lights up....
SHE THINKS INK
As a child growing up in Stamford, Conn., Joy Rumore loved to draw pictures on her arms. Her first permanent body art came at 16, when she tattooed a small...
ON MESSAGE
He worked years for this moment, a presentation to hotshots spanning three continents, all wired into his computer. Boing! A wee bell sounds. On his screen pops a missive from...
POWER POINTS
More is more Cultural stereotype holds that Americans are overly materialistic and obsessed with money, equating success with a boffo bank balance. But how accurate is that image? Pretty darn...
GO TO GREG
Q. Are domestic workers like baby sitters and elder-care givers entitled to holiday and vacation pay? A. I can manage employees worldwide, but I have a hard time just getting...
IDAHO - THE GEM STATE
Famous for its hospitality and potatoes, our nation's 43rd state joined the union on July 3, 1890. It covers 83,557 square miles and the capital is Boise. Idaho was the...
SHIRT HAPPENS
THE walk of shame is now shamefully stylish. The shirtdress - an extension of your boyfriend's oversize shirt - has evolved in countless ways. Designers from Diane von Furstenberg to...
PULSE SALES
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NOT WILD ABOUT 'CRAZY'
MENTAL illness seems like just an other lifestyle choice, and an adorable one at that, in "Crazy Mary," the A.R. Gurney play that opened last night at Playwrights Horizons. Harkening...
NEW ABT'S IS A SLEEPING UGLY
THE first three perform ances, over the week end, of American Ballet Theatre's brand-new version of "The Sleeping Beauty" started out skirting total disaster and ended, simply through superior dancing,...
WHAT TO WATCH NOW
WHEN it comes to TV, summer means free dom. With the September-May TV season officially over, you are no longer shackled to serialized dramas or "American Idol," shows that required...
'HELLUVA' FELLA
WHEN hell was created, surely the Creator had chef Gordon Ramsey in line for the top job. Mean, handsome, rotten, clever, funny, exacting, talented, Ramsey is back for his third...
HEIGL'S 'GREY' DAZE
DON'T look now but Kath erine Heigl's future on "Grey's Anatomy" just got shaky - thanks to the box-office-busting debut of "Knocked Up." The comedy movie that opened over the...
POSH QUITS
VICTORIA Beckham has reportedly walked away from her U.S. reality show. Some say the ex-Spice Girl wanted to return to Britain this week to see husband David play for the...
STARR REPORT
'Morning News': 7/11 Hard to believe it's been seven years since Ch. 11 launched what was then called "The WB11 Morning News," now called the "The CW11 Morning News" (after...
CATSKILLS SITE EYED
A remote Muslim commune nestled in the Catskill Mountains has come under the scrutiny of state and federal authorities for possible ties to terrorism, according to law-enforcement sources. Officials say...
FUGITIVE: U.S. 'OPPRESSORS'
The shadowy fourth suspect in the plot to blow up JFK Airport often referred to Americans as "oppressors," according to those who knew him in Guyana. Relatives claim that Abdel...
RICH PERPS STAY IN DEN, NOT PEN
Some wealthy defendants will do anything to stay out of jail - including offering to pay up to a million dollars for private security so they can remain under house...
CONMAN IS FACING NEW FRAUD RAPS
A Brooklyn man already in jail for one boiler-room investment scheme was hit with more charges of selling fake stock to investors, police sources said. John Blot, 27, of Bedford...
LAST-DITCH BID FOR NEW ASTRO'LAND'
City officials and Astroland Park's operator say they're trying to iron out an 11th-hour deal to keep the amusement park in Coney Island after the summer. The news comes as...
'CLOCKED' HER
A Bronx woman helped bust the home health-care worker who beat her mother - by using a surveillance camera disguised as a clock radio. The $1,000 camera captured health aide...
RAIN WILL REIGN SUPREME THIS WEEK
Don't expect to see the sun again until Thursday. Tropical Storm Barry is expected to dump up to three inches of rain on the metro area today. "By lunchtime, it...
SANIT MAN KILLED
A 32-year-old private sanitation worker was killed instantly last night in a fluke accident when he was thrown from the back of a garbage truck that had hit a deep...
TRAIN 'WRECK'
Negotiations over turning the Farley Post Office into a train station and a new home for Madison Square Garden are hurtling down the fast track, prompting concerns by preservationists that...
BRINGING CASES OUT OF 'COLD'
Twice a year - on his daughter's birthday and on the anniversary of her brutal 1997 murder - Keith Ford phones the NYPD Cold Case Squad to inquire about her...
SHRINK RAP: FAKE PERV CONFESSION
State officials have slapped a self-styled psychotherapist to the Hasidic community with a $1,000 fine and probation after a judge found he extracted a phony "confession" from a father accused...
STREETLIGHTS GETTING ZAP-ALERT GIZMOS
Tens of thousands of streetlights across the city are getting high-tech gizmos with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, that will glow brightly if the light poles become electrified. It's an idea...
CROP SHOP CRAZE
The hottest summer shares aren't just in the Hamptons. New Yorkers are snapping up shares in organic-farming harvests faster than Sag Harbor rentals as the community-supported agriculture trend blooms. There...
BRONX HALL FROM HELL
The state is asking law-enforcement agencies to probe a firm whose slipshod inspectors approved the entranceway to the budget-busting $400 million Bronx Hall of Justice - including a 75-foot canopy...
POL'S KID OFF TO CONGRESS
Dylan Fossella was 5 when he discovered he had diabetes, and this month, he's going to Capitol Hill to tell elected representatives what's it's like to live with it. His...
DAY 'THE GRIM REAPER CAME TO MY HOUSE': ACTOR
Steve Schirripa knew his six seasons as "Sopranos" wiseguy Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri were numbered when show creator David Chase asked to visit him at home - something Chase had never...
JET SET KIDS
The city's youngest high-fliers are pampered campers whose parents are paying big bucks to jet them off in style to their summer vacations. In some cases, parents are spending thousands...
14 GIS SLAIN OVER 3 DAYS
Fourteen American soldiers were killed over the weekend in three deadly days of fighting in Iraq, including four in a single roadside bombing, the military said yesterday. The military also...
FEDS TARGET NUKE PHANTOM
Al Qaeda's so-called nuclear whiz kid - a "tantalizing terror figure" with a $5 million bounty on his head - was the radical big shot investigators had hoped to snag...
COUGH-SYRUP ABUSE WORRY
Experts are asking kids and parents to learn more about the dangers of an alarming teenage trend - cough-medicine abuse. Many teens are seeking a high by ingesting capsules or...
'PIRATES' GETS BOUNTY BUT VIEWER-SHIP SINKS
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" rode out a box-office storm over the weekend to retain the top spot. The third film in the successful series sailed off with...
THE VOTERS' CHOICE
MANCHESTER, N.H. - The majority of an independent-voter panel that watched last night's presidential debate expressed serious concerns about the Democrats' ability to fight the war on terror. "The Democrats...
HILL GOES TO WAR VS. JOHN
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and rival John Edwards clashed last night on Iraq and national security, with Clinton flatly rejecting his claim that the global war on...
FEDS PROBE FISHY BRUNO HORSE DEAL
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was off to the races after getting a bargain on two thoroughbred horses he bought from a politically connected real-estate magnate, according to federal authorities....
HEIR $TIFFS EX WHILE LIVING HIGH LIFE
Being bad has been very, very good for Alexander's department-store heir Bruce Farkas. He cheated on his now-ex-wife, Arlene, for at least 30 years of their 35-year marriage - including...
HILTON CHECKS INTO JAIL
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton reportedly checked herself into jail late last night - two days before her deadline - in a surprise move to duck the press. Her lawyer, Richard...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A thief was busted after he attacked a store security guard and led police on a wild chase through the Upper West Side, authorities said yesterday. The guard spotted...
PROF'S RECORD 142G PAY HIKE
THE State University has secretly granted the largest pay raise in public payroll history - an eye-popping $141,995-a-year - to a little-known, Ferrari-driving professor who is already the highest-paid official...
BYE-BYE, BACALA
'THE Sopranos" is going out with a bada bang! Last night's second-to-last episode of HBO's storied series about the New Jersey mob had everything fans of gangland action could ask...
EMBATTLED CLINTON AT A LOSS ON IRAQ
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who could lose the Democratic nomination because she voted in favor of the war in Iraq, tried in vain during last night's debate...
'C-ROD' PLAYS HURT
WHY does she put up with it? Just a day after her husband publicly shamed her, Cynthia Rodriguez slapped on her game face Thursday and braved the cameras - clearly...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Sun.: 255; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4992; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 342; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
LIGHTENING THE LOAD
Mayor Bloomberg certainly sounds prudent when he points to the City Council's spending habits as his reason for caution with tax-cutting. Will his proposed 5 percent property-tax cut be increased...
TRASHING NEW YORK
Even by the standards of a city abounding with spineless officeholders, the fecklessness of three veteran Man hattan assemblymen regarding a proposed West Side garbage-transfer station truly stands out. Assemblywomen...
A TURKEY-IRAQ WAR?
TURKEY could send troops into Iraq any day now. It's massing ground forces on its southeastern border for a possible strike against the terrorist/separatist group the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)....
THE FRIEND THAT DUBYA FORGOT
LURITA Alexis Doan, an innovative African-American entrepreneur from northern Virginia, a year ago took a big government job: chief executive of the General Services Administration (GSA). After 12 months, she...
THINK LIKE US - OR ELSE
COLUMBIA University's Teachers College is one of America's most prestigious education schools. For many students, it's proba bly the best - but not if you don't buy the school's definition...
GASOLINE-PRICE GOOFINESS
WITH gasoline prices rising, political rhetoric is rising even faster. Liberals have launched a war of words, whose net result may be a demand for some form of price control....
SAVE THE BOOM
FOR the economy of New York City, this is among the best of times. But the worst of times may be just over the horizon - unless our represenatives in...
NEW YORK: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
THE ISSUE: A New Yorker who is leaving the state because of its liberal political culture. Bravo to Lee Anthony Nieves ("Ex-New Yorker: Why I'm Gone," PostOpinion, May 29). I...
GOOD-BYE, CINDY: A LIB WE LOVE TO HATE
THE ISSUE: Cindy Sheehan's resignation as the unofficial face of the anti-war movement. The Post quotes Cindy Sheehan as saying, "Good-bye, America . . . You are not the country...
STAKES ARE HIGH ON $3.2B OUTBACK DEAL VOTE
Outback Steakhouse's founders and their private-equity backers are confident they have enough support from shareholders to seal their $3.2 billion takeover deal and plan to go ahead with an official...
NO DUMBBELLS
Potential buyers, including private-equity firms, are starting to circle Bally Total Fitness, even though the feeble company is heading into bankruptcy court in about two months, according to people familiar...
GIRLS JUST WANNA . . .
This week's crop of magazines are an effective reminder that women have libidos too - and know how to use them. Glamour is the savviest of the "pretty girl" magazines,...
FINANCIER SUES FIRED WAL-MART EXEC FOR DEFAMATION
Financier Irwin Jacobs filed a defamation suit against fired Wal-Mart ad executive Julie Roehm after she accused him of cutting sweetheart deals with the powerful retailer and its chief, H....
TEDDY BALLGAME PUTS IT ALL ON THE LINE
The year 1941 may have been best summed up by Phil Rizzuto, who in that year was a rookie shortstop for the Yankees carrying an ominous draft number, same as...
BUSINESS AS USUAL
THE racing game, struggling to retain pub lic interest against a tide of competitors, took a one-two blow to its survival at the weekend when Street Sense and Hard Spun...
STATEMENT WIN
There were doubters. There had to be. Sure, the Liberty had opened 3-0, a great start for a franchise that reinvented itself after last season's 11-23 debacle. But on closer...
RIEGGER WINS
GLENVIEW, Ill. - John Riegger won the LaSalle Bank Open yesterday for his first Nationwide Tour title, holing a 20-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 4-under 68...
RU WOMEN LOOKING TO MOVE ON
Perhaps the one thing the Rutgers University women's basketball team wants - more than an NCAA Championship or another Big East title - is unattainable. Since finding themselves in the...
KENT SWEEPS STALLION STAKES
Kent Desormeaux took home both $75,000 New York Stallion Stakes for state-bred 3-year-olds yesterday, winning Cupecoy's Joy for fillies by four lengths aboard 2-1 favorite Laurentide Ice and Spectacular Bid...
RIVALS TOTTENVILLE, MONROE TO MEET AGAIN
There are no shortage of teams around the city that are intimidated just by the thought of playing Monroe. Coaches have their players turn their backs to the field while...
WORKOUTS SLOW ON DRY TRACK
THREE of the six probable runners in Saturday's Belmont Stakes worked out yesterday at Belmont Park over a track that was dry and deep, producing slow times all morning. Hard...
TALKING 'TIAGO'
A field of only six still appears likely for Saturday's 139th Belmont Stakes, led by the Triple Crown veterans Curlin, winner of the Preakness after finishing third in the Kentucky...
DELAYED 'TRIP
DOVER, Del. - A steady downpour postponed yesterday's Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway, forcing NASCAR officials to move the race to noon today. That's a problem Michael Waltrip...
HONDO'S RAY BASHING
Attention, Chris Ray: On behalf of Hondo and Jer emy Guthrie, please get your butt out of baseball. The Orioles' alleged closer, who gave up a game-losing dinger yesterday and...
SPORTS SHORTS
NCAA BASEBALL: Red Storm ousted St. John's was eliminated from the NCAA baseball tournament after dropping a 6-5 decision to Coastal Carolina last night in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Earlier yesterday,...
FIFTH GONE WILD
Oliver Perez's outing had the potential to be much better. And some Mets say they have the potential to play with more energy and passion. After buzzsawing the Diamondbacks over...
A LULL-ABY AT SHEA
IT'S not the first time since the beginning of last season and it surely won't be the last time either, but the perennially first-place Mets have hit a lull here....
EL DUQUE'S SCHOOLING A HIT FOR GOMEZ
Facing Orlando Hernandez's maddening array of breaking balls is the kind of thing that can put some hitters into a funk. Apparently it was just the tonic to help struggling...
RAREFIED ERROR FOR REYES, METS
Jose Reyes has been so good in the field, has spoiled the Mets and their fans so thoroughly, seeing him make an error almost comes as a shock to the...
BELTRAN HOPES TO PLAY TOMORROW
Carlos Beltran guaranteed it. Then he hedged. "Today I'm going to be available (to pinch-hit)," Beltran said before yesterday's 4-1 loss to Arizona. "I'm not going to be able to...
ALEX POPS PAP IN 9TH
BOSTON - When Alex Rodriguez stepped in to face Jonathan Papelbon in the ninth inning last night at Fenway Park, he couldn't have asked for worse conditions. A driving rain...
KISSING A CRAZY WEEK GOODBYE WITH A BOMB
BOSTON - Of course it had to be him, right? Of course it had to be Alex Rodriguez, at the end of his most trying week as a Yankee, in...
LIKE OLD TIMES
BOSTON - Mariano Rivera was warming up either way. The score was tied in the top of the ninth. But the bottom of the inning promised David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez...
ACHING ANDY
BOSTON - Andy Pettitte tried pitching through the pain in his lower back, but finally cried uncle in the fifth inning last night. And now the Yankees will wait and...
ROCKET EYES PITT LAUNCH; DESALVO UP
BOSTON - How bad are the Yankees going? Hours after Roger Clemens was stuffed into an MRI tube today in Florida, Matt DeSalvo was slated to replace the future Hall...
SOURCES: HAL NOT NEW BOSS
BOSTON - According to several Yankees sources, a published report yesterday that said Hal Steinbrenner is the new leader of the franchise and will determine the fates of Joe Torre...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Residents of Farmington Hills, Mich., have a new addition to their neighborhood - wild turkeys. The fowl have recently been spotted loitering in the Detroit suburb. "They are very adaptive,"...
Ottawa Strikes Back
The Senators showed up to play last night and they delivered a much-needed victory to bring their series against the Ducks to 2-1. Chris Pronger was dealt his second suspension...