June 21, 2007
Obsessives: Gray Area
The idea was that we would present âAnderson Cooper Is Not Gay/Anderson Cooper Is Gay,â with sites debating the â360â hostâs sexual orientation. Turns out, there arenât any âAnderson Cooper...
Scene
Jewelry designer Anna Cantor wears hot red knee high Ferragamo boots with American Eagle shorts, a cropped Vivienne Westwood jacket over a cute Vince top, and a vintage bag. "I...
Rocket Vs. Rodrigo Lopez
Yankee fans should remember Lopez from his last four years as an awful starter for the Baltimore. His ERA in 2006 was 5.90. The Yankees are almost two to one...
Blame My Bank Overdrafts On Rio
Last year at this time, I was in Rio lounging on the beach, drinking fruity bar drinks, shopping Ipanema, and going nuts over Maria Bonita Extra. (A shopgirl actually recognized...
Lapping Up The Spotlight
Check out Simon Doonan's Barney's Babble with Fiat heir and world's best dressed man, Lapo Elkann, where he reveals that he'll be wearing as little as possible this summer "on...
Deal of the Day
Top off your summer look with this tropical printed Beachcomber Fedora from Anthropologie.It's stylish enough for some bike cruising, lounging at the shore, or strolling around the city.Plus for all...
Muckler Canned, Murray Promoted
Ottawa Senators GM (and one-time Rangers coach) John Muckler was shown the door to make room for Brian Murray.With his contract set to expire on the 30th, Ottawa brass felt...
LIVEBLOG/NOLA: The heat is on
Mmmm...snow ball/Courtesy of Plum Street Around 7 o'clock this morning I stepped out into the courtyard of the house I'm staying in and promptly went back inside. I think it's...
LIVEBLOG/NOLA: About that lunch
While I talked about it enough in yesterday's post, you have to see the pictures to really get, well, the picture. (Sorry to go all Jane & Michael Stern on...
ALASKA - THE LAST FRONTIER STATE
THE Bering Land Bridge in western Alaska was a thoroughfare for people coming into the northwestern part of North America. Alaska natives include the Inuit, Tingit and Haida tribes. The...
BEAR HUNTING
IT'S so hard for women to find a decent celebrity lust object these days. Men have it easy - they've got luscious hotties like Jessica Biel, Halle Berry and Jessica...
HAUTE LIST
Sexy secrets for summer IF you spent all winter eating and watching TV, and all of spring pretending summer was a million days away, it's time to panic: Today's the...
A 'THUMP'-SHAKING CLASSIC
WITH respect to the greats of classic rock - from long-dead Jimi to AC/DC's Angus Young and Led Zepplin's Jimmy Page - rock guitar revivalist Jack White and his drummer...
LOVETT LOOMS LARGE
SIZE definitely matters when it comes to music - just ask Lyle Lovett, who's going to try to tease and please his way through a Radio City Music Hall gig...
POOL PUTS SHAKESPEARE IN THE WATER PARK
'ROMEO and Juliet" is all wet. At least it is at the Delacorte, where Lauren Ambrose's Juliet and company stride and splash their way through the latest Shakespeare in the...
POINTE OF NO RETURN
BALLET stars Kyra Nichols and Alessandra Ferri have been dancing next to each other for decades - on separate stages with separate companies. As principal dancers each honing distinctive careers,...
'IDOL' TOUR INVITES KELLY BACK
KELLY Clarkson, whose career hit a bumpy road this summer, is reportedly being offered a spot on the upcoming "American Idol" tour. Clarkson, who has been feuding with her record...
STARR REPORT
Duke takes 5 at 10Duke Castiglione is joining Ch. 5 as the station's lead sportscaster, replacing John Discepolo, who's now over at Ch. 2 - Castiglione's former home. Starting Sunday,...
THE $10-MILLION GAME SHOW
IF you see a pimped out arm ored truck lurking around your neighborhood, don't lock the doors. It's only a promotion for the newest reality game show, "Tontine." Hosted by...
CHRIS' POTTY MOUTH
THE (bleep) hit the fan on MSNBC's "Hardball" when Chris Matthews uttered a prohibited expletive on the air. Matthews apparently did not know he was back on the air when...
RERUNS GO ROSIE-LESS
REPEATS of "The View" set to air during the show's upcoming two-week hiatus won't feature recently departed co-host Rosie O'Donnell. But O'Donnell will resurface - a lot - in repeats...
TRUMP'S 'PAGEANT PLACE'
IF you've ever wondered how Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA would fare under one roof, Donald Trump hopes to have the answer. Trump is developing "Pageant Place,"...
LEFT IN THE DARK
IS it real or is it "The Blair Witch Project?" That's the question you'll be asking yourself if you watch the riveting, truly bizarre "Street Thief" on A&E tonight. The...
ALL ARK, NO BITE
STEVE Carell's frantic mugging as a modern-day Noah barely keeps "Evan Almighty" afloat. This mildly funny made-for-TV movie isn't really a sequel to the far raunchier surprise hit "Bruce Almighty."...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Someone in a position of power will take a shine to you over the coming 12 months and with their help you will rise fast on the corporate ladder. You...
THE CLAY'S THE THING IN BROADWAY 'IDOL'
Attention, Claymates: You're not invisible anymore. Todd Ellis, a drama teacher at Syracuse Civic Theatre, has invested his savings in an eight-week, off-Broadway production called "Idol: The Musical," inspired by...
NOISY KIDS' POOLISH COURT CASE
A Long Island couple was dragged into court yesterday in a bid by neighbors to silence their two young daughters when they play Marco Polo in the backyard pool -...
QNS.' QUAINT 'COTTAGES'
Forget Currier & Ives, Walden Pond or any of those picturesque New England villages and old whaling towns. The No. 1 "cottage community" in America is right here off the...
GARSON'S FLEETING FREEDOM
A Brooklyn judge convicted of taking bribes will have to sit out his appeal behind bars, a judge ruled yesterday. Gerald Garson was sentenced earlier this month to three to...
'JT': ONE WAIL OF HOAX TALE
Boo hoo hoo. It's sad Albert. Writer Laura Albert wept within seconds of taking the witness stand yesterday to describe a history of sex abuse and childhood taunts about being...
MAYORS PAST & PRESENT IN UP-HILL BATTLE HERE
ALBANY - Newly minted independent Mike Bloomberg would place a distant third in a three-way battle for president with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, a new poll of New...
HIZZONER IN COY STORY
A coy Mayor Bloomberg did nothing yesterday to dampen the fierce speculation about a possible independent White House run, declaring that he intends to stay on the job to the...
THE LATEST SHORE THING
Come July 4th, the city's hottest new destination could also be the coolest - a floating swimming pool off the Brooklyn Heights waterfront, complete with gorgeous harbor views and a...
RAPIST E-TAUNTED VICTIM'S BOYFRIEND: COPS
The artist savagely raped on the stairs of her Midown building may have been attacked by a stalker who knew her boyfriend, police sources said yesterday. The fiend sent several...
FETID FLIGHT REALLYSTUNK
More than 150 passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Newark suffered the smell of human sewage for seven hours as toilets overflowed and spewed their sickening contents...
B'KLYN GATECRASHER
That's one way to park. Amazingly, no one was seriously injured in Brooklyn yesterday when this Honda went out of control and smashed through the brick and wrought-iron fence of...
CRACK MTA UNIT TRACKS 2ND AVE.
An MTA contractor has begun installing hundreds of "crack monitors" in and on Upper East Side buildings to monitor possible structural damage from construction of the Second Avenue subway. So...
QUINN EYES AX
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is on the verge of taking disciplinary action against Victoria Plummer, the aide to Charles Barron who raised the specter of "assassination" for one of...
LESSON FOR DRUG TEACH
At least he waited until the kindergartners went home. A Washington Heights man will serve three years in prison after admittedly dealing crack cocaine in the yard of his neighborhood...
ASTROLAND WILL THRILL UNTIL '09
This won't be the final summer after all for Coney Island's fabled Astroland Park, The Post has learned. Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. (D-Brooklyn) brokered a deal to keep the rides...
MCGREEVEY REBUTS WIFE
Gay former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday denied his marriage was an attempt to stay in the closet and boost his career, and batted down his wife's claims that...
DAD DAY SLAY RAP
The alleged shooter in the heinous murder of a 21-year-old St. Albans man - who'd just celebrated his first Father's Day with his baby girl - was charged with murder...
DON WANNABE
Bonanno boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano drew comparisons to the late Dapper Don John Gotti - not because they both liked flashy duds, but because they shared a ruthless ambition,...
L.I. DOGS IN ANIMAL HOUSE
More than 40 dogs were mistreated in a filthy Long Island home by a couple arrested for animal cruelty yesterday, police said. "Conditions were deplorable," said Suffolk police Sgt. Michael...
FEDS IN SMOKE SCREEN
The EPA released misleading air-contami nation data in the wake of 9/11 - prompting thousands of lower Manhattan residents to pass on a residential cleanup program, a federal report released...
MOB BOSS GETS EASY SENTENCE
A federal judge let the feds pull the trigger on a plea deal with former Genovese boss Liborio "Barney" Bellomo, who faces as little as 3½ years behind bars for...
COP SEXUALLY ASSAULTED
An off-duty police officer was sexually assaulted in her Brooklyn home last night, authorities said. The unidentified officer was attacked just before 7:30 p.m. after her assailant pushed his way...
9/11 PARENTS TORN A$UNDER
For Leon Caldwell's sons, there were never any birthday cards from dad. No weekends at the zoo. No teary hugs at graduation. But when the younger son, Kenneth Caldwell, died...
N.Y. 'TERROR' WEAPONS TRIAL
A band of accused arms dealers went on trial yesterday for trying to sell deadly weapons to terrorists, only to be nabbed in an FBI sting. "The defendants saw these...
APPLE'S ENCHANTED ISLE
They went back to the drawing board, and now some of the world's most prominent landscape architects have come up with dramatic new visions for transforming Governors Island. The city-state...
THOMPSON ROLLS WITH CAR PLAN
City Comptroller Bill Thompson threw his weight behind Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing proposal yesterday, but said he wants some changes. Thompson, a likely candidate for mayor in 2009, wants residents to...
LONDON CLOG FOG
LONDON - Gains in cutting back traffic in central London since the inception of congestion pricing four years ago have been slightly less than officials had predicted, according to studies...
NBC'S $1M DEAL FOR PARIS CHAT
LOS ANGELES - NBC has agreed to pay as much as $1 million for Paris Hilton's first after-jail interview, which will appear on the "Today" show, The Post has learned....
MCCAIN FADES IN IOWA
Sen. John McCain has fallen to single-digit numbers among Republicans while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has edged into the lead of Democrats in a new poll of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus...
POLS POP MAYOR'S BALLOON
WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats in Congress were in rare agreement yesterday - not over immigration or Iraq, but their belief that Mayor Bloomberg has virtually no chance to win...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Cops yesterday announced their hunt for a baby-faced gunman who fatally shot three innocent people on a Brownsville stoop earlier this month. Dwayne Erskine allegedly opened fire on the...
INDEPENDENT RUN WOULD DAMAGE THE DEMS WORSE
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloom berg has just given new meaning to the "D" after the names of White House hopefuls such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards....
FALLING SHORT
GOD has given Michael Bloomberg two beautiful daughters, an exciting life, good health, visionary business acumen, and a canny political sense. Yes, God loves Michael Bloomberg. But our mayor will...
A TRIP BACK TO BRONX ZOO
NOW that "The Sopranos" are no more, there is room for another dys functional family on television this summer - the 1977 world champion Yankees. George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin and...
BUNGLERS DESTROYING MYTH OF THE MOB
ASSISTANT federal prose cutor John Buretta asked mobster and murderer Sal Vitale a simple question: "How would you describe the Mafia?" Vitale, now a government witness, answered just as simply:...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 429; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 2824; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 051; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 4031;...
SPILL IT, MIKE
Two days after Mayor Bloomberg cut his ties to the Republicans, opting to go party-less, folks are wondering: Will he or won't he? Run for president, that is. Well, rest...
TELL IT, ADAM
'I call it racism," says Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV of some leg islative colleagues' refusal to bear their fair share of the burdens attending life in the big city....
DO IT, ELIOT
Gov. Spitzer today can show that he's serious about making sure New York has enough electricity to keep its lights on - and businesses operating - long into the future....
WINNING ON OFFENSE
HALLELUJAH! For the first time since Baghdad fell, our military in Iraq has a comprehensive, integrated plan to defeat our enemies. Until now, our efforts have always been piecemeal, stop-start...
MAYOR MIKE'S POVERTY PERVERSITY
TO realize how perverse New York City's pilot "conditional cash trans fer" program for the poor is, consider: With the program's privately raised funds, the city's "Center for Economic Opportunity"...
BEAUTIFUL BALLOON
THE conceit of New York is, as the song goes, that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. If he goes through with an independent presidential...
WHAT W'S REALLY ABOUT
ON May 31, President Bush met for 35 minutes in the private living quarters of the White House with Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hong Kong, in...
PARTY-FREE AMBITION: HIZZONER THINKS BIG
Let the games begin ("Mike's Next Race . . .," Editorial, June 20). Nothing is better than having New York City in the middle of a scramble for the White...
DEAL JONES & CO.
Dow Jones' full board of directors has decided to take control of any merger or buyout negotiations after being frustrated with the pace of talks between the company's founding Bancroft...
YAHOO! AD SALES HEAD'S PLANS ARE KEY
As Yahoo! grapples with high-level departures and challenges to its advertising business, Madison Avenue is focused on the fate of the company's ad sales star. Wenda Harris Millard, who was...
OIL SPECULATORS' SECRET
WALL Street is quick to react to every gasoline refinery that has to shut down and every ill wind in the Caribbean that might cause a disruption in energy supplies....
BEAR MART SALE
Merrill Lynch yesterday followed through with its plan to auction off assets belonging to a collapsing Bear Stearns hedge fund, providing more drama to a bond market that's already licking...
TIMES RAISES PRICE; CUTS SIZE
The New York Times is raising its price and at the same time shrinking its pages. Janet Robinson, the Times' president and CEO, said at an investor conference yesterday that...
TAXMAN COMETH; FUNDS EYE IPOS
Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman and his merry band of rich men are racing to cross the finish line tomorrow to pull off what could be the last big cash out in...
NORDSTROM MAELSTROM
Nordstrom is near a deal to sell Façonnable, a brand of upscale apparel and accessories for men and women sold in specialty boutiques and its own department stores, The Post...
BLACK TEAM RESTS CASE
CHICAGO - Conrad Black appeared in good spirits yesterday as his lawyers wrapped up their closing arguments by accusing the government of manipulating facts and playing "the rich card" in...
VEOH TAKES YOU TO THE VIDEO
In yet another sign that online video is looking a lot more like TV, Veoh Networks has developed a browser and search engine that acts like an electronic version of...
FIREFIGHTER KILLED IN FALL AT BROOKLYN BLAZE
A firefighter lost his life tonight when he fell four stories while battling a fire in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Officials were uncertain as to whether the unidentified 23-year-old member of Ladder...
CLUB SUB
Newlyweds Daisy and Michael Aveno quickly figured out there's just no way to fit blenders and toasters and all that wedding bling in a 500-square-foot studio. Sure, they enjoyed the...
THE RATE DEBATE
IF you've been shopping for a mortgage recently, you've no doubt noticed something troubling: Rates have been shooting up like crazy. Last week, according to Bankrate.com, the average rate on...
THE U.E.S. SMACKDOWN
Developers, wheel out your cranes. The race to completion (and for big sales numbers) is on. We're talking about two massive Upper East Side buildings, exactly one long block apart....
PLAYING THE NAME GAME
Yes, New York neighborhoods are fairly fluid entities - especially for the purpose of selling real estate. The Columbia Street waterfront becomes Carroll Gardens West, Murray Hill fades into Gramercy,...
ZAHN'S GONE
CNN anchor Paula Zahn may or may not be leaving her cable network show, but she's already moved out of the Fifth Avenue co-op apartment she's shared with her soon-to-be-ex...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan TURTLE BAY $365,000 245 E. 54th St. Studio co-op, 400 square feet, with dining area, renovated bath and northern exposure; Brevard building features 24-hour doorman, roof deck, laundry, storage...
SUBURBS 101
When Bianca and Paul Mancinelli left the Upper East Side and bought a house in Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester in 2003, they calculated their monthly expenses mainly based on their mortgage...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
East Village $799,000 Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 750 Maintenance: $984 If you're looking for a kitchen with a "country feel" in the middle of a vibrant neighborhood, you...
DREAM HOMES
Eastchester, N.Y. $3.275 million The design and layout of this estate home might leave you feeling a bit like you're in Normandy (or so claims its brochure: "Vive La Difference!")....
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSE ...
"Shut up and look around," architect Philip Johnson used to tell visitors to his Glass House, an iconic steel-and-glass home based upon a design by Mies van der Rohe. Finally,...
'CAT' DQ SHAKES UP FINALE
Javier Castellano took off mounts yesterday to visit 83-year-old grandmother, who recently suffered stroke, in Venezuela. Kent Desormeaux, Cornelio Velasquez and Mike Luzzi all won back-to-back races. Track was muddy,...
HONDO BACK IN BLACK
You can't keep a good handicapper down the drain for long. Hondo proved that last night when he connected with the Orioles to move back into the black with 90...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Schilling headed to DL Red Sox starter Curt Schilling is headed to the disabled list because of soreness in his right shoulder, though an exam found no major damage....
DELLIN LEADS BABY YANKS
Staten Island Yankees fans got their first glimpse of 19-year-old pitching sensation Dellin Betances last night in the home opener against the Brooklyn Cyclones in front of 7,171 fans at...
SUMMER STOCK
All the St. John's point guard nicknamed "Showtime" wants is a chance to shine amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Daryll Hill, whose senior year at St. John's was...
SANTANA MAY ROCK BIG APPLE
If the Mets or Yankees want to land Johan Santana for 2009, it sounds as if his main priority when finding a new destination will be his comfort level. "I...
BELTRAN BETTER; DELGADO DOWN
Carlos Beltran got three hits last night. Carlos Delgado got booed. But after the Mets' 13th loss in 16 games, the struggling sluggers came to the same conclusion. Beltran, who...
METS' MINNY SLUMP LINGERS
The homestand will end next Thursday against the Cardinals. Seven games are on the slate. Following last night's 6-2 loss to the Twins, Paul Lo Duca said he believes the...
STARTERS HAVEN'T BEEN A GOOD CATCH FOR PAUL
NO PINS were visibly sticking out of the Paul Lo Duca bobblehead that broke at the left arm yesterday as soon as Willie Randolph touched it. "Guess I'm used to...
NETS GM SAYS IT'S NOT KOBE
Sorry, Kobe. Nets GM Ed Stefanski has no plans of reigniting trade talks with the Lakers regarding Jason Kidd in an Andrew Bynum package. Kobe Bryant is shown on a...
TRUE BLUESHIRT
COLUMBUS - There are no doubts and there is no posturing. Brendan Shanahan yesterday unequivocally stated that he will play next season while at the same time declaring a complete...
ROCKIE HORROR
DENVER - One change-up that misbehaved was all it took for Andy Pettitte to become unglued last night at Coors Field. With an ocean of experience, you wouldn't think a...
DAMON MAY HEAD TO DL FOR 1ST TIME
DENVER - In the afternoon Joe Torre and Brian Cashman discussed the very real possibility that Johnny Damon's strained abdominal muscle injury could land the leadoff hitter on the DL...
TALK OR BALK
Decision day has arrived for Jason Giambi. The Yankees designated hitter must let Bud Selig know this morning whether he'll cooperate with George Mitchell's steroid investigation or risk a suspension....
GIAMBI AGREES TO MITCHELL MEETING
As expected, Jason Giambi told baseball commissioner Bud Selig today that he would meet with George Mitchell and discuss his past steroid use. The Yankee designated hitter got into trouble...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A tough-as-nails Vietnam vet killed a rabid bobcat that jumped him as he was relaxing on his porch in Florida. Dale Rippy, 62, reacted quickly and withstood the beast's slashes...