June 5, 2007
Some updates
First of all, a belated series pick -- it's 7:49 and the score is 2-2 in the third inning. Sorry for the delay, but it was a busy pregame, and...
The not-a-car ad car ad
Have you seen this TV spot for "Forza Motorsport 2"? Fast forwarding through commercials on my DVR the other day, zoomed by this one, but caught the Xbox logo and...
Beltran back
By MARK HALEJust a quick blog -- Carlos Beltran said he will be playing tonight and he's in the lineup.Also, Moises Alou had fluid drained from his quad yesterday. He...
Scene
Arabella Mills wears a Dries Van Noten gold top with Chloe shorts, Pierre Hardy shoes and a Comme Des Garcons bag. "I'm a stylist. This is something that can go...
Be still, your beating heart
Yes! Microsoft announced a Broad Range of New Content Coming on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, heretofore known as "the Television and Movie Download Service with Something for Everyone." Starting tomorrow (June...
EA predicts the winner
...of the 2007 NBA Finals. The Spurs!!!They ran a simulation using "NBA Live 07" and here's what they had to say:"Ultimately, the Spurs, led by series MVP Tim Duncan prevailed...
It's back
If you care Kate Moss for Topshop at Barneys is back.Hurry up if you want the stuff; I tried logging on a few times and kept getting an error message...
They Look Good But.....
Is it really that cold in the Teen Vogue Offices? Editor-in-Chief, Amy Astley and fellow Teen Voguer Jane Keltner showed up to the CFDA awards last night looking like they...
FIRST LOOK: What's an Azamara?
More choice means more interesting in this industry, but the newest line to sail the high seas may very well be dead in the water, thanks to its name, Azamara.Trips...
What's Happening?
Don Maloney is gone and, apparently, Mark Messier doesn't want his job.Mess, in Anaheim working for Versus during the Finals, told Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN that he'd...
UPDATE: Sea blogs
Blogging about blogging about blogging about blogging -- it might be a little hard to get your head around it all, but bear with us. Cruisecritic.com has highlighted one of...
New York Hearts 'Knocked Up'
"Knocked Up'' edged "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' out of the top spot in New York City theaters over the weekend, according to final figures from Nielsen/EDI. "Knocked...
Anaheim One Win Away
Ottawa held the lead going into the second period, and escaped the second period with a tie, but even when they held the play, they couldn't pull away from the...
Deal of the Day
Dot your eyes with style and ease and check out these polka dotted Drille Team silk flat espadrilles from Kenneth Cole that are only $29.99 down from $98.Wear these decidedly...
LEWIS AND CLARK - EXPLORERS OF A NEW WORLD
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled America's size overnight. Someone needed to check out the newly acquired land. Enter Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. IN a real-estate deal that Donald...
STYLE ANGELS
STARS of fashion and screen walked hand-in-hand (sometimes literally) to the 25th annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards last night. Each designer brought their own celebrity mannequin for...
MAKIN' NOISE
SHINGAI Shoniwa, the fiery frontwoman of Brit It band Noisettes, wanted to join the circus, but instead she joined a band. Turns out, they were pretty much the same thing....
MPFREES
O.A.R., "Lay Down (live version)" Back in January, roots rock jam band O.A.R. that's Of a Revolution, thank you kindly - taped its sold-out Garden gig for the live CD/documentary...
ADDING SIZZLE TO SUMMER
YOU can depend on slinky Rihanna to seal the coming of summer with a kiss. This season, her smooch is "Umbrella," off today's Def Jam release "Good Girl Gone Bad."...
KEEP THE CHANGE
IF the acts on tonight's second season opener of "America's Got Talent" don't keep you smiling from start to finish, then clearly you don't know talent. Or you don't know...
STARR REPORT
His novel approach Mickey Sherman is the only person I know who can say he's a recurring character in James Patterson's novels. Sherman, the noted defense attorney and TV legal...
COURT: LET'S BE FAIR TO FOUL (LANGUAGE)
A federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC cannot label expletives accidentally uttered on TV as "indecent." The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn't outlaw the FCC policy,...
SAM NEW 'L&O' D.A.
SAM Waterston is expected to be "promoted" on "Law & Order" to replace Fred Thompson as the show's resident district attorney. The beetle-browed Waterston, 66, has played assistant D.A. Jack...
ROSIE MEANS RATINGS
ROSIE's rantings on "The View" paid off big in the rat ings. The controversial morning show had the best May in its 10-year history last month. A record number of...
HIGH ROLLERS
THE cast of the "The Sopra nos" is spending its final night cashing in at a South Florida casino. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - where Anna Nicole...
BATTLING SPERM LIMITS
FIRST learned I was in fertile long before getting someone pregnant was on my to-do list. So when the doctor broke it to me that birth control was no longer...
IF AGING GETS YOU UNDER YOUR SKIN, GO WITH THE GLOW
L-OOKING for a lift but not quite ready to go under the knife? Sure, there's al ways Botox - but who wants to walk around with that kind of rictus...
KID-WELFARE ERROR SHOCK
Mistakes in handling cases of child fatalities spiked in the year preceding Nixzmary Brown's tragic death, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum said yesterday. Gotbaum released a study by her office showing...
HIRE & LOWER AS TOP COPS SING THE BLUES
The NYPD will fall more than 2,000 recruits short of the target for its next academy class, and several precincts have already suffered substantial drops in manpower, police brass testified...
'COP' FROM HELL
A brazen Long Island man, busted four months ago for pretending to be a law-abiding, helpful police officer with a security biz on the side, has been charged with raping...
MILLION-$$ PROFESSOR
ALBANY - Call him New York's Million Dollar Man - because that's about how much Dr. Alain Kaloyeros is being paid by the state. State University nanotech scientist Kaloyeros, revealed...
1ST WOMAN IN LIRR'S DRIVER SEAT
A woman will run the Long Island Rail Road for the first time in its 171-year history'. Helena Williams, 51, who previously served as chief of staff of Long Island...
SCOOTER KID DIES AT HOSP
The heartbroken parents of a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy, who was riding his push scooter without a helmet when he was struck by a minivan, made the gut-wrenching decision yesterday to...
HORRIFIED MOM TELLS JURY HOW CAREGIVER 'RAPED' TYKE
A teary-eyed mom recounted to a Queens jury yesterday how horrified she was when her 4-year- old son described unimaginable sexual abuse at the hands of his trusted female child-care...
COP ADMITS DWI KILLING
A suspended cop faces at least two years in prison for manslaughter after admitting he'd gone drinking after work last summer, then plowed his SUV into a photographer who was...
JUDGE KOS 'CRUELLA' HOME PLAN
A federal judge blasted a proposed house arrest arrangement for the Long Island couple accused of enslaving two Indonesian servants yesterday, describing it more as a "tea party" than a...
PROBE DEATH THREAT VS. BARRON: MINORITY OFFICERS
A minority police officers' group yesterday demanded an Internal Affairs probe into anonymous postings on a pro-cop Web site that said, "Someone needs to put a bullet" in the head...
'KILLER' STARE
A disgraced former Wall Street exec accused of stabbing his millionaire ex-lover in a fit of unbridled rage spent the first day of his sensational murder trial yesterday avoiding the...
COLLEGES JOIN GREEN TEAM
Mayor Bloomberg has gotten some of the city's best-known colleges and universities to agree to a massive reduction in carbon emissions over the next decade as part of his Big...
HUMBLE ROOTS
Exactly 38 miles from lower Manhattan, the rebirth of the World Trade Center is taking place on a quiet hillside in Englishtown, N.J., where 386 trees for the memorial plaza...
'A-ROB' HEIST
A bandit in Yankee duds struck a Brooklyn bank - stealing more than a base when he slid out the door with cash, police said. The thief hit the Bank...
L.I. 'CLUBBING'
A Long Island man - upset that he was dumped by the attractive granddaughter of famed jockey Angel Cordero Jr. - has been busted for allegedly attacking her friend with...
$70,000 'CRIME' OF FASHION
An office manager for a Manhattan fashion house - where a new reality-TV show is set - bilked her bosses out of $70,000 by forging checks and paying herself and...
COP-SLAY KIN MEET WITH DA
The family of an unarmed man shot to death by an off-duty cop huddled behind closed doors with the Bronx district attorney yesterday and emerged saying they were satisfied that...
FUGITIVE ELUDES HIS OWN MOM
The elusive al Qaeda nuclear whiz whom investigators had hoped to snag in the JFK Airport terror plot last spoke with his family in Florida after 9/11 - when his...
TAPE SHOWS JFK FIEND'S APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Here's the first chilling look at Brooklyn terrorist wannabe Russell Defreitas, courtesy of surveillance tape from the local diner where he allegedly plotted to blow up JFK Airport. The purported...
KEEPING FAITH
Terrorists tied to al Qaeda in Iraq boasted yesterday that they had killed two missing GIs, and released a video showing the men's ID cards - but the Queens mother...
APPLE IS SAFEST BIG CITY IN NATION: FBI
Bucking a national trend, the Big Apple remains the safest major city, even as murders and other serious felonies increase nationwide. The FBI yesterday reported a modest .3 percent increase...
IT'S WE DRIVE HARDER
Now you can look like a millionaire for 30 bucks an hour - Avis is letting customers rent chauffeurs with their cars. The rent-a-car company is giving preferred customers the...
JONBENET'S DADDY IS DATING NATALEE MA
In one of the more bizarre, made-in-media-heaven matchups, JonBenet Ramsey's dad has developed a cozy "relationship" with Natalee Holloway's mom. The couple's shared representative yesterday confirmed to The Post that...
HOTEL 'RITZ' & MISSES
The luxurious Ritz-Carlton scored high in overall satisfaction compared to other hotel chains across the country, while Howard Johnson and Days Inn earned low marks, a new survey reveals. The...
OBAMA BLASTS HILL: NOT 'SAFE' AT HOME
WASHINGTON - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama's camp slammed rival Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, blasting the party's front-runner for saying the global war on terror has made the U.S....
POST YOUR THOUGHTS TO THE CELL-EBUTARD
Paris Hilton has a lot of time on her hands these days, so The Post decided to brighten her jail stay by inviting her fans and frenemies to tell her...
HARD TIME MINUS CARTIER
LYNWOOD, Calif. - Paris Hilton swapped a swanky evening gown and Cartier watch for an orange jail uniform and plastic ID bracelet yesterday, Day 1 of her simple life behind...
SPECTOR SPOTLIGHTS LANA'S 'SUICIDAL' WRITINGS
Crazy-maned music mogul Phil Spector's pitbull defense yesterday cast dead B-movie actress Lana Clarkson as a prime candidate for suicide - a pathetic emotional and physical wreck who teetered on...
RUDY: DEMS 'IN DENIAL' OVER TERROR
Rudy Giuliani yesterday charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates are living in a "different world" when it comes to understanding the threat of terrorism....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* A teenager was shot in the arm on a Williamsburg street, police said yesterday. Three thugs confronted the 16-year-old victim and shot him in the arm at Broadway and...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 521; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 3963; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 292; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
GRAY LADY, GRIM AGENDA
Terror plot? What terror plot? That's what The New York Times seems to be asking, even as most news outlets are giving front-page coverage to the recently foiled scheme to...
A MIDDLE EAST ANNIVERSARY LESSON
Forty years ago this morning, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike that decimated the Egyptian Air Force, destroying 300 planes and paving the way for the remarkable six-day victory on three...
SIX-DAY WAR, 40 YEARS ON
WITH war forced upon it 40 years ago, Israel's outnumbered forces fought a stunning lightning campaign and shattered its enemies on three fronts. The victory enabled Israel to survive. But...
HILL'S DUST STORM
FAMED Yankees pseudo-fan Hillary Clinton does seem to have learned one very important skill from the late, legendary Bombers manager Billy Martin - how to kick up an unholy amount...
HIGH-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
IT took a dust-up at one of the city's most prestigious prep schools to mark me as an enemy of "academic freedom." The Horace Mann School recently fired Andrew Trees,...
TROUBLING ROOTS
ONE of the most disturbing aspects of the JFK terror plot is its Caribbean roots. The four men named in the case don't come from the Middle East or any...
BLAME THE PRESS, TOO, FOR IRAQ
THE ISSUE: America's mission in Iraq and George Bush's legacy as president. The inability of the administration to articulate a mission statement that makes sense certainly has led to much...
PUTIN ON THE BLITZ: THE NEW COLD WAR
THE ISSUE: Russia's recent testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Russian President Vladimir Putin knows full well that the American missile-defense system is directed at Iran ("Putin's Excuses," Peter Brookes,...
HEDGE FUND BEAR-ISH ON SUBPRIME RELIEF
A big hedge fund on one whopper of a winning streak is picking a bitter fight with Bear Stearns over whether renegotiating loans for homeowners struggling with subprime mortgages is...
TRUMP IS FIRED
CHICAGO - Donald Trump was a no-show at Conrad Black's fraud trial yesterday, after lawyers for the dethroned press baron decided abruptly to dump the real estate mogul from their...
I'VE GOT A HOT TIP FOR THE FINANCIAL PRESS
ATTENTION: Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Barron's. The Labor Department over-estimated job growth again. Last Friday the department reported that 157,000 new jobs were created in May. That...
IT'S ALL IN THE JEANS
Goodbye, skinny. Hello, wide. Wide-leg jeans are showing up on celebrities such as Jessica Alba and are fast becoming the must-have fashion look, potentially giving retailers a way to jump-start...
GOOD FIRST MEET
The first face-to-face talks between the Bancroft family and Rupert Murdoch over the sale of Dow Jones & Co. got off to a "constructive" start yesterday. Murdoch, chairman of News...
CONDOS COMING TO UES
LONG before it has a subway, Second Avenue will have lots of new condos. Soon to come is a 21-story, 105,000-square-foot luxury project with a rooftop pool, wrapping around the...
STOCK ANSWER
CNBC's $1 million stock-picking contest may turn out to be a bust for players amid revelations of rampant cheating - but it's been a boon for the financial news network's...
PERSHING HEADS TO WAR WITH $2B FUND
A New York hedge fund with a gift for shaking up corporate boardrooms has raised $2 billion that will be dedicated to launching an activist assault on just one specific,...
ON BROOKLYN AND BOMBS
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...
EX-STANNERS SHARE MLB DRAFT DREAMS
Matt Rizzotti was a sophomore at Archbishop Molloy when he walked onto the field at Shea Stadium for the first time and he remembers what he thought about that day....
BENSEL GOING TO OAKMONT
Through rain drops, weather delays and a healthy dose of angst and heartbreak, three players made it through sectional qualifying at Century CC in Purchase yesterday and will compete in...
HONDO: PHIL 'ER UP!
Hondo rebounded beautifully from Sunday's Chris Ray-induced Oriole debacle, scoring easily with the Giants yesterday afternoon, but then giving the bulk of his winnings back with the Twins last night....
PSAL TITLE GAME AT KEYSPAN
The PSAL baseball title game will not be at a major league park for only the second time in history, according to PSAL officials. Shea Stadium was unavailable for Friday's...
NASCAR MOURNS FRANCE JR.'S DEATH
DOVER, Del. - Former NASCAR president William France Jr. passed away yesterday at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 74. France Jr., diagnosed with cancer in 1999, was...
TRUEX RIDES VICTORY LANE
DOVER, Del. - Martin Truex Jr. was confident, even with the departure of Dale Earnhardt Jr., DEI would remain competitive. Yesterday, at the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway,...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Tank banned eight gamesTank Johnson, the Bears' defensive tackle, was suspended yesterday for the first eight games of the 2007 NFL season. Johnson, who recently spent two months in...
ROOKIE DAVENPORT HELPS LIBERTY STAND TALL
Jessica Davenport's talent is no surprise to Liberty coach Pat Coyle. Her sudden impact on the team is another matter. To land their center of the future, the Liberty on...
SCHOOL DAZE
THIS just in: Kobe Bryant told Billy Donovan to make up his damn mind already. So the despondent Donovan, following a solid two days as the Magic's new coach, and...
'TIME' FOR A TEST
The 139th Belmont Stakes received a welcome addition yesterday when trainer Patrick Biancone announced he will run his New York-bred colt Time Squared in Saturday's mile-and-a-half "Test of the Champion."...
DASILVA SERVES PICKS
Post thoroughbred handicapper John DaSilva will serve up his Belmont Stakes selections today at noon at Gallagher's Steak House. DaSilva heads of panel of racing experts at the Power Lunch...
'CRAZY' ABOUT STAKES SHOT
THE horse that killed legions of superfecta bettors in the Kentucky Derby is coming back to haunt them in the Belmont Stakes Saturday, prompting the question: Will he bankrupt 'em...
SMITH GROWS ON MOSS
The day after the NFL Draft, Sinorice Moss picked up the phone and called to congratulate Steve Smith, which is interesting, considering the selection of Smith can be viewed as...
ISIAH MAY PULL DRAFT SHOCKER
Isiah Thomas is bracing Knick fans for an improbable draft night. If a late lottery pick drops like a stone to No. 23, be warned: The Knicks president/coach could pull...
PHIL THE HEAT
As David Wright puts it, games within the division are "money games." And it's time for the Mets to start anteing up again. The first-place club begins a three-game set...
WILLIE: YOU CAN ONLY RIDE SUBS SO LONG
Willie Randolph was careful not to make it sound insulting, but the truth is the truth. The Mets manager, who hosted his second annual Celebrity Golf Classic at Essex County...
WORRIED JOE MAY REST WEARY A-ROD
CHICAGO - Joe Torre is locked onto Alex Rodriguez' every move to make sure his cleanup hitter isn't showing signs of weariness because of what he has been through in...
YANKS GREAT DIES
CHICAGO - To different generations of Yankees fans Clete Boyer meant something different. In the 1960s he was the clutch-hitting third baseman who was the best at diving toward the...
WHITE SOCKED
The Yankees, presented with a chance to build on Sunday night's emotional victory over the Red Sox in Boston, pulled into U.S. Cellular Field and smothered the South Side night...
CLEMENS, PETTITTE IN LIMBO
CHICAGO - Yesterday's news on Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens was inconclusive. Although there is a chance Pettitte could start Friday against the Pirates at Yankee Stadium and Clemens could...
ONE GUY CHI
RATHER fitting that in the Yankees' disrupted season, disrupted scar tissue is the latest injury added to the long list of pinstriped pain. That's the official diagnosis of Roger Clemens'...
SAIL AND SAVE!
SORRY "Star Wars" fans - in the future, all travel will take place by boat, not Millennium Falcons. What? You don't think so? Best believe: According to a study by...
BE SMART
READY to book? Are you sure? Great fares are great fares, but there are many things to consider before choosing your cruise. Here, some tips for the uninitiated. 1) Inside...
SEA THE WORLD
IF you have a Metrocard and are able to hail a taxi, oceanborne bliss is just a short hop from home with these itineraries departing from one of New York's...
ATTACK OF THE CLONES
IN the spring of 2006, Royal Caribbean floated the largest cruise ship in the world, Freedom of the Seas. As a product, it didn't vary much from the line's slightly...
WE'RE JUST FLOATING THIS OUT THERE...
LIVE LARGE Rumored for years to actually be happening, Toronto-based Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts has finally reached an agreement with the developers of a 13-deck, 719-foot luxury liner with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Myrtle Beach, S.C., became home to the world's tallest sandcastle after a 43.12-foot tower was topped off yesterday. The castle - which required more than 300 truckloads of sand weighing...
Merveilleuse Marion Cotillard
I suspect everyone who has seen Marion Cotillard ("Big Fish," "A Good Year") as Edith Piaf in Friday's art-house release "La Vie en Rose" is thinking about the awards potential...