June 16, 2007
Surfers at High Tide
It was "Flame On'' for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,'' which defied awful reviews (38 percent favorable at Rotten Tomatoes) to open with $22.7 million yesterday, including Midnight...
YANKS-METS, JUNE 16, Vol. I
I beat Joe Torre and Willie Randolph to the Stadium today, but thatâs what you have to do if you want to make sure you have a parking spot. There...
CRAFT-A-PALOOZA
IF the phrase "craft fair'' brings to mind images of middle-aged long-hairs peddling hand-dipped candles and dream-catchers, you're in for a surprise this weekend. Artisans, designers and DIY enthusiasts of...
WHAT'S UP
TodayEASY TARGET: No need to wait till the Fourth for fireworks. At Target Children's Day and Fireworks at South Street Seaport, kids can pass the daylight hours watching live concerts...
PROPS FOR POPS
WE asked you to tell us the best things your dads have done - and boy, did we get an earful! Readers from as far away as Saskatchewan regaled us...
UNSATISFYING TREATMENT
'HEARTLAND" has nothing to do with the actual heartland, unless the supposed "heartland" of America includes Pittsburgh. I always thought of "the heartland" as being more like Iowa or Nebraska,...
HEADS-UP FOR CYCLISTS
The city begins giving away free bike helmets today as part of a campaign to get New Yorkers to practice safe cycling. The helmets, courtesy of Target department stores, were...
$LAP AT PBA
Calling the police union's contract demands "outrageous," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday on his weekly radio show that "we'd be bankrupt if the city ever acceded to [them]." The Patrolmen's Benevolent...
MIKE SHRUGS OFF 'DINNER ONLY' N.H. TRIP
Next stop for Mayor Bloomberg is the presidential proving ground of New Hampshire tonight, but he insisted yesterday he doesn't have national politics on his mind. "I don't think the...
DOG JUDGE: 'FIX' IS OUT
A Brooklyn judge ordered a city animal shelter yesterday to release a runaway mastiff it's been holding since last month because the facility demanded that the owner agree to the...
BLOOMY BASHES POL ON AID-$$ 'DETOUR'
An Oregon congressman took heat from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday for claiming there may be no federal aid available for New York's congestion-pricing program - accusing him of playing politics with...
VILLAGE HUE & CRY
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel is getting the last laugh on historic preservationists who tried in vain to stop him from putting up a 17-story tower on West 11th Street....
DRAINING CLUBGOER WALLETS
Nighttime revelers are digging deeper into their pockets - and forking over an average of $10 for a cocktail in New York's hottest nightspots. According to "Zagat New York City...
TALE'S A TEAR JERKER
The real-life mother of the author behind the "JT LeRoy" literary hoax sobbed hysterically yesterday as she told a federal jury about severe psychiatric problems suffered by her daughter, who...
CRAIGSBUST FOR LAPTOP 'THIEF'
A posting on Craigslist got a Queens teenager busted for using the online listings to sell a stolen computer, said police. Michael Rabaev, 16, of Kew Gardens, placed an ad...
FIRE DAD URGED TO NIX SUIT
Religious leaders yesterday urged Mamadou Soumare, the African immigrant who lost his wife and four children to a Bronx fire in March, not to sue the city. Sheik Moussa Drammeh,...
AIDE STOLE 200G: BIZMAN
A financial big says the ex-employee who accused him of using her as his "p - - - y coordinator" is a liar, thief and extortionist. In papers filed in...
$$$UPER MARIO BROS.
One deep-pocketed video-game geek may soon strike the mother lode. Two thousand items from the "Golden Age of Atari" from 1981 through 1983 are on the auction block at Sotheby's...
PARADE ARRESTS WERE JUSTIFIED: MAYOR
Cops were justified in arresting 208 people at the Puerto Rican Day Parade because most were members of gangs trying to crash the line of march, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday....
FINEST BIGWIG BUSTED
One of the highest-ranking cops on the NYPD was arrested on charges of threatening to shoot the mother of his child, who's also a member of New York's Finest. Deputy...
$5M SUIT OVER DWI BAR BASH
A Long Island bouncer has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a "rich frat boy" drunken college student who allegedly tried to run him down after being ejected him from...
DOGGIE VIAGRA
Ingrid, a pit-bull mix living at a Long Island animal shelter, needs love - and a lot of Viagra. The Little Shelter Animal Adoption Center in Huntington yesterday appealed to...
THE MCCRAZIES
Stop the insanity! That was the admonishment to the warring McGreeveys from a New Jersey judge yesterday. "I would love this case to just settle, go away - and the...
'PEEPING TOM' ATTACK IN PROSPECT PK.
A woman was sexually assaulted in Prospect Park in Brooklyn early yesterday morning while with her boyfriend, police said. The victim and her beau - who were described as a...
'GORGEOUS' SON TO JAIL
The son of mob boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano is following his family's well-trodden path upstate after he was sentenced yesterday to 2 ½ years in prison. Stephen Basciano, 22,...
SON GETS LIFE FOR MOM SLAY
There were many tears, but no forgiveness, in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, as a Washington Heights teen who stabbed his stepmother 43 times was led away to serve 11 years...
QUEENS CONTRACTOR SHOT
A city building contractor was shot twice in the head execution-style yesterday morning in the driveway of his Queens home, police said. Boris Grzic, 54, was fighting for his life...
GOSSIP WILL BE HEAVENLY
Socialite and former Page Six editor Claudia Cohen, who reported on celebrities with such vigor she eventually became one, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 56, her family...
HAITIAN TEENS MAY GET KICKED
Five Haitian soccer players who mysteriously disappeared during a layover at Kennedy Airport returned home yesterday and now face a government investigation into why they deserted their team. Haitian Sports...
PALESTINIAN PREZ REGROUPS AND PICKS A NEW PM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named an independent technocrat as his new prime minister yesterday and won emergency support from world leaders despite his humiliating loss of the Gaza Strip to...
MASK-ERADE OF THE BARBARIANS
Hamas' self-styled "holy warriors" ran rampant through the conquered Gaza Strip yesterday, looting the strongholds of their defeated rivals and taking everything they could - even a kitchen sink. Members...
RUDY EYES A SWEET $16M
Rudy Giuliani will raise about $16 million this fund-raising quarter in his quest to become the Republican presidential nominee, sources predict. He'll close out the April 1-to-June 30 period with...
FULL-COURT PRE$$ ON JOHN
WASHINGTON - John Edwards may be running for the White House as a populist concerned about "the other America," but that doesn't mean he has to sit in the cheap...
PUN'JAB' HITS OBAMA
WASHINGTON - A major Indian-American organization yesterday accused Barack Obama's presidential campaign of "engaging in the worst kind" of stereotyping for slamming Bill and Hillary Clinton's close ties to India....
TEARS OF VICTIM & D.A. ROGUE
The pinheaded prosecutor who famously botched the Duke lacrosse rape case blubbered like a baby yesterday as he declared he would resign his post because he nearly destroyed the lives...
WORST OF JOBS FROM HELL
If you're whining that you have the job from hell, just think of the poor guy who has to give a horny elephant a vasectomy. The task of sterilizing bull...
NEW DIET-PILL THRILL WITH NO RX
Just in time for swimsuit season, the first over-the-counter diet pill approved by the FDA hit drugstores nationwide yesterday Scores of waist watchers, calorie counters and love-handle loathers pray that...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens* Police are asking for the public's help to find a woman missing since Thursday night in Glen Oaks. Jean Robinson (pictured), 33, was last seen on Winchester Boulevard at...
BOB BIDS GOODBYE TO 'PRICE'
BOB BARKER has "come on down" for the last time. Millions tuned in to CBSyesterday morning to watch the classy, white-haired host say farewell at the conclusion of his final...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 343; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 2792; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 531; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 6606;...
A JOB FOR CHAIRMAN RANGEL
What's this? Congress might not be ready to guarantee some $500 million in funding for Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan? At least one congressman, Rep. Peter DeFazio, seems to thinks so...
GOOD RIDDANCE, MIKE NIFONG
With tears in his eyes, Mike Nifong yesterday announced that he is resigning as the district attorney of Durham County, N.C., over the now-dismissed rape charges he brought against three...
KURT WALDHEIM, 1918-2007
Even in death, Kurt Waldheim tried to have the last word. The disgraced former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, who became an international pariah 20 years ago when his long-hidden...
HOPELESS IN GAZA
HAMAS gunmen celebrated their victory over Fatah yesterday by parading the bullet-ridden corpses of the rival faction's fighters in the streets of Gaza City. Amid shouts of "Allah is the...
KAMIKAZE MCCAIN
JOURNALISTS spent months explaining how Sen. John McCain's stalwart support of the Iraq war would sink him in the Republican presidential primaries - and it didn't. Then, they swooned over...
BLOOMY BULLISH ON OKLAHOMAN
WHEN Mayor Bloomberg delivered the University of Oklahoma commencement address May 11, he engaged in a long, private discussion about 2008 politics with university president and maverick Democrat David Boren....
SOPRANOS FANS' CHASE FOR MEANING IN FINALE
THE ISSUE: The inconclusive final episode of HBO mob series "The Sopranos." The final episode of "The Sopranos" was insulting to all fans ("Tony & Gang Whack Fans," June 11)....
IT'S ALL IN THE HEAD
No one does headlines quite like The New York Post. Friday's front page "HAMAS-IDE" is yet another impactful, attention-grabbing example of how The Post captures a significant event in a...
NYMEX IS WOOED
New York Stock Exchange chief John Thain has met several times with officials at the neighboring New York Mercantile Exchange about a possible merger, but the talks are very preliminary...
BRITS IN A SNIT OVER NEWS CORP.'S DOW JONES BID
Pearson PLC is circling the wagons to save the Financial Times. The British publishing company's attempt to mount a competing bid for Dow Jones & Co. is a move to...
EDDIE BAUER GETS BOSS FROM LIMITED
Troubled retailer Eddie Bauer has named Limited Inc. executive Neil Fiske as its next chief in the hope of stemming losses and jump-starting sales. Fiske, who has run the Limited-owned...
DEAL BREAKS 'UPFRONT' JAM
After a slow start, the television "upfront" negotiations between the networks and ad buyers are picking up steam. Fox yesterday said it had sealed several ad deals, making it the...
TAKE D' TOUR SEEKS REPEAT
A field of six fillies and mares goes a mile-and-sixteenth today in the Grade 1, $300,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap. Take D' Tour, winner of this race last year by 5½...
BRUINS MAY TAB MILBURY
The Madness appears to be on the verge of returning to the NHL, once again in Boston and once again behind the bench. Sources have told The Post that mercurial...
HONDO A BRAVE MAN
Hondo got himself into a vine mess at Wrigley yesterday with the Padres, but bounced back last night with the Tigers to leave the earnings holding steady at 165 gastons....
MALIGNAGGI: I'M GONNA BE CHAMP
UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Paulie Malignaggi has proven almost nothing can stop him. Growing up in Brooklyn, in a broken home, couldn't stop him from fighting Miguel Cotto in the Garden...
PHIL BURNS UP
OAKMONT, Pa. - Phil Mickelson has been biting his tongue for a few days. Yesterday, after shooting a maddening second-round 77 that sabotaged his chances of winning the title he...
TIGER STAYS WITHIN FIVE SHOTS
OAKMONT, Pa.-Tiger Woods is actually having fun at the 107th U.S. Open, something you might not expect from the world's best player, who scratched out a 4-over par 74 yesterday...
OAKMONT CUTS DOWN BENSEL'S, CONDELLO'S DREAMS
OAKMONT, Pa. - New York's two local hopes failed to make the cut in yesterday's U.S. Open second round at Oakmont. Frank Bensel, the assistant pro from Century Country Club...
THE PUNISHER
OAKMONT, Pa. - Phil Mickelson had just finished his U.S. Open second round - an unsightly 77 yesterday that sabotaged his chances of winning his most coveted championship - when...
MIGHTY CASEY
OAKMONT, Pa. - When Paul Casey holed out for par on the 9th green to complete his second round of the 107th U.S. Open at an astonishing 4-under 66 yesterday,...
THEY SAID IT
"The greatest thing that tells you how tough it is: The caddies, when they checked in,got a box of Band-Aids."- Paul Goydos ***** "This is a test of golf all...
GIANTS DEFENSE IN STEP UNDER NEW COORDINATOR
It's too early to tell exactly what personality the Giants' defense will adopt under new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but it's clear players are hopeful the atmosphere is more upbeat than...
KEEP UP WITH JONES
Curtis Martin was on the field during drills yesterday at Jets minicamp, but he wasn't participating. Instead, he stood near Eric Mangini, offering insight to the head coach. Because that...
METS RUN AT WILL ON POSADA, YANKS
At least Jorge Posada threw out 48-year-old Julio Franco. But Joe Torre admitted his catcher didn't have much of a shot the rest of the time. Last night, the Mets...
GOMEZ IS CATCHING ON QUICK
Endy Chavez had a huge hit against the Yankees earlier this year, blasting a two-run homer to help the Mets win the opener of the first Subway Series at Shea...
SIDEARMING SMITH TURNS A-ROD INTO EASY OUT
Mets reliever Joe Smith came into last night's opener of the second Subway Series facing a Yankees hitter for only the second time this season. He then got one of...
PEREZ STOPS BOTH STREAKS
It doesn't make a difference what Yankees lineup Oliver Perez faces. Almost a month ago the lefty dominated the slumping Yankees. Last night, in the first of the final three...
TIDE TURNS ON GOMEZ CATCH
AT FIRST, off the bat, it seemed we were about to experience the kind of moment that had defined the Yankees' week, and the kind of moment that had defined...
GIAMBI NEARING DEAL TO TALK
As the deadline nears for Jason Giambi to decide if he will meet with George Mitchell, lawyers representing the Yankees designated hitter, the Players Association and Major League Baseball are...
GUT KOS DAMON
Johnny Damon's legs are fine. The same can't be said of his stomach muscles. Originally listed in last night's lineup leading off as the Yankees' designated hitter, Damon was scratched...
ROCKET GAINS SPEED
ROGER Clemens was not the Rocket, but he was not out there just for charity. He pitched very well against the Mets in the Subway Series opener, better even than...
YANKS GIVE PEREZ PROPS
Oliver Perez is worthy of having his mug shot pasted on a wall inside the Yankees' clubhouse. If not an outright enemy of the state, Perez at least can be...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
The Cream of Wheat man finally has a fitting grave marker. Sixty-nine years after his death, Frank White - the chef featured on the box of the popular breakfast staple...