June 25, 2007
Alou and Pedro
I'm a little pressed for time here, so just a few quick updates. . . .Omar Minaya said that Moises Alou -- who has a torn quad -- will be...
Cards make moves before Match-Up with Mets
We hear that the Cardinals have added recently acquired pitcher Mike Maroth to their roster. Cards manager Tony LaRussa plans on starting Maroth tonight at Shea Stadium.Maroth has posted a...
Lo Duca suspended
Paul Lo Duca has been suspended for two games. He's appealing, though, and is in the lineup tonight.More in a bit.
Say "Hi" to Tiger's baby Sam
Tiger Woods releases first photos of his daughter, Sam Alexis Woods.
DVD Extra: 'Three of a Kind'
Ty and Randy describe their he-man exploits in their latest films -- "A Yank in the RAF'' and "Western Union'' respectively. Benny tries to claim he's going to be playing...
Germany Bans Cruise
Germany, which takes a dim view of Scientology, has banned a new movie starring the cult's most famous member from shooting in Deutschland. As we noted back in March, Tom...
The WWW -- W's Wonder Women
Feminist-izing one of the world's most well-known luxury hotel brands can't be an easy feat, but W Hotels is now in its third year of its unique Wonder Women program...
Not-So-Mighty Summer
Time Out New York labeled me as a "glass-half-empty guy'' in a survey of movie critics last year, and that's my preferred mode of looking at the numbers for the...
DEALS: $76 OW to London!!!
via Wikipedia The folks at Zoom finally got approval to fly JFK-London/Gatwick last week - the Canadian lowfare airline was working on this forever. I don't know - we'll see...
Deal of the Day
It may not be a cute Sonia Rykiel waist cincher, but it's about 10% of the price with a similar look.This bold blue Stretch Heart Belt is on sale over...
Who is Your Favorite Sports Star?
So who is Americaâs favorite sports star? According to a poll conducted by Harris Interactive, Tiger Woods remains the favorite for the second straight year, while Derek Jeter is rising...
LIVEBLOG/NOLA: Fun on the bayou
Behind the counter at Fair Grinds/Rob Mangione Each visit post-Katrina means something else went back to normal, even as so much of the city lies in waste. The Faubourg St....
YANKEE DEPTH STINKS
The Yankees are a third-place team because their second-string is fourth-rate. Translation: Their depth stinks.Their sub-.500 record is a reflection of how little they have in reserve. Their bench is...
KEEPING WATCH
WHEN you're sitting behind the walls of a cubicle or making deliveries in a company car you might be working in solitude, but chances are you're not alone. Do you...
DREAM JOB: JENNIFER VAUGHAN MAANAVI
Jennifer Vaughan Maanavi knows a good investment opportunity when she sees one. After more than a decade as a Wall Street trader, the Upper East Sider quit two years ago...
BOSS BLASTER
THE only career move better than telling an obnoxious boss to take a job and shove it is to pass on the job in the first place. That's the idea...
PEP TALK
IT'S that time again - that time between 2 and 4:30 in the afternoon when you just . . . don't . . . seem to . . . have...
DOG'S DAY
The dog days of summer may not yet be upon us, but last Friday was certainly a day for the dogs. That's because it was Take Your Dog to Work...
GO TO GREG
Q I was out on an approved Family Medical Leave when I was notified that I was being terminated. I thought my job was protected during such a leave. Can...
POWER POINTS
* Eyes on the prize Three out of four executives believe they could do their boss' job better than their boss can, says a new survey. And many want a...
HAWAII - THE ALOHA STATE
This lovely group islands became our 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959. Geographically, it's the fourth-smallest state, with its islands collectively covering 6,423 square miles. The capital is Honolulu. The...
10 COMMANDMENTS OF HIGH/LOW
WHEN Angelina Jolie hit the red carpet for the premiere of "A Mighty Heart" last week wearing a $26 dress from Los Angeles vintage store Wasteland paired with $600-plus Christian...
PULSE SALES
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD 33 Little West 12th St., at Washington Street; (212) 371-2888 Sale: June 25-29. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Get 50 to 80 percent off British designers, including Westwood, Nine Lives...
ROLLING WONDER
SHE'S been courted by a beast and chomped by a plant. But neither "Beauty and the Beast" nor "Little Shop of Horrors" prepared Kerry Butler for the hell on wheels...
A ROSE, BUT A SIMPLER SET WOULD SMELL AS SWEET
IN real life, Lauren Ambrose may be a wife and mother approach ing 30, but as she demonstrated in the long-running HBO series "Six Feet Under," she can seem much...
SAYING GOODBYE TOE TO TOE
IN ballet, a great dancer's farewell is one of those sad/happy occasions, beribboned with bouquets and flowers, homage from audience and company alike, an explosion of curtain calls greeted with...
LOST & FOUND CRAZY EDDIE
THIS reunion is insaaaaane! It's the first face-to-face meeting in 20 years between cousins Eddie and Sam Antar, the founder and chief financial officer, respectively, of the Crazy Eddie electronics...
THINK 'POSITIVE'
MORE an afternoon special than a real movie-movie, "Girl Positive" is one of those Lifetime fear-mongering (and necessarily so) morality tales wrapped up in a soap opera. That doesn't mean,...
BABY ON BOARD COMPLICATES JUMP TO CNN
'TODAY" show weekend anchor Campbell Brown - who last week appeared to be on her way to CNN - has hit a bump. A baby bump. The attractive anchorwoman told...
'SURVIVOR' STAR GETS SOCKED BY BABY SUIT
Andre "Dreamz" Herd, the two-faced contestant from "Survivor: Fiji," has been hit with a paternity suit. Herd was already unpopular with fans for reneging on an immunity agreement with another...
STARR REPORT
For a good cause The Post's parent company, News Corp., is the presenting sponsor of today's 14th An nual "A Taste of Down Under" event benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Associa...
CITY'S WORLDWIDE 'TOUR' DE FORCE
The Bloomberg administration has quietly boosted the number of city tourism offices abroad, sources told The Post. In an attempt to take advantage of the weak dollar, NYC & Company,...
BLOOMY LOOKS CUTE AS A BUTTON
Memorabilia merchants have launched a White House bid on behalf of "noncandidate" Mayor Bloomberg. "I like Mike 08" and "Bloomberg 2008" buttons are already the rage on memorabilia Web sites...
IT'S A 'BUM RAP'
Foxy Brown is a "colorful character" who was merely telling cops a "colorful story" when she claimed a woman mugged her at a Brooklyn housing project, the suspect's lawyer said...
D.D.S. IS 'FILL' OF IT: AUDIT
ALBANY - In an incredible feat of serial drilling - and serial billing - a Brooklyn dentist wants Medicaid to believe he filled 52 cavities in one patient's mouth in...
METROCARD TO OFFER LONGER RIDE
The MTA is doubling the shelf life of MetroCards. Bus and subway riders, who now have up to a year after a card's expiration date to transfer the funds to...
'LAW & ORDER' MAN SILENT ON CO-STAR, HAILS BLOOMY
WASHINGTON - "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston praised a possible White House run by Mayor Bloomberg - but had little to say about co-star Fred Thompson's presidential aspirations. Bloomberg...
AT'TAX' TARGET MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg isn't even a declared candidate for president, but a national anti-tax, pro-business group is already claiming he's a big tax-and-spender who oversees a nanny state. Officials at the...
BLACKOUT RISK ON RISE: REPORT
Eight New York neighborhoods are at a higher risk for blackouts this summer than Queens was last summer, according to Crain's New York Business Reports. Crain's reported that despite Con...
COLOR-BARRED STUDENT
A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely...
JEWS AID PENTECOSTAL BUS DRIVER IN PANTS FIGHT
An Orthodox Jewish organization has hired attorneys to represent the Pentecostal bus driver fired by the MTA for refusing to wear pants. Agudath Israel of America, which defends Jewish interests,...
I WAS SET UP BY COPS
A man who spent nearly half his life in prison for the rape of a cop's wife - and was then cleared by DNA evidence - is suing detectives who...
MANIC MANNEQUIN
Eddie Murphy flexes his funny bone yesterday while filming a scene for his next movie, "Starship Dave," on the Upper East Side. Murphy was imitating mannequins in a Barneys window...
N.Y. PERV AIDS KID-PORN RING BUST
The 2006 arrest of an upstate child-porn purveyor helped lead to last week's bust-up of a massive international pedophile ring in Britain, The Post has learned. In February 2006, federal...
CAMPUS AUTO 'WRECK'
Columbia University is moving ahead with its controversial, multibillion-dollar plan to build a new campus on Harlem's western edge, a plan that's proving very expensive for at least one area...
GRIEF FOR FIRE HERO
Hundreds of grim-faced firefighters, sobbing relatives and grieving friends filled a Brooklyn funeral home and the surrounding streets to mourn a young firefighter who fell to his death while battling...
JUDGE'S 'FAVOR' OF LOVE
A state judge has ruled that rapper Flavor Flav has to cough up $1.8 million to a neighbor he allegedly shot at 10 years ago in their Bronx apartment building....
80G 'BRIBE' IS BAD BET
A Bronx gambling kingpin is facing bribery charges for offering $80,000 to a narcotics detective to gain his freedom, sources said. The events leading to convicted drug dealer Basilio Alicea,...
PETS SAVED FROM SHOP FIRE
Nearly 200 animals were evacuated from a Long Island pet store yesterday after a basement fire filled the building with smoke. Huntington Manor firefighters extinguished the flames at Selmer's Pet...
SIX WOUNDED IN FOUR HARLEM SHOOTINGS
Detectives are searching for links among three Harlem shootings that occurred within a dozen blocks and one hour of each other over the weekend. All of the victims are now...
FAMILY IN GRISLY N.J. CAR CRASH
Five members of a family - including four children - were injured in a car crash in New Jersey yesterday after the driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, sending...
BOOM ON FLATBUSH
Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue is getting a makeover that would make "Queer Eye's" Fab Five envious. The north end of Flatbush Avenue is slated to see more real-estate development over the...
S.I. PIPE-BOMB SUSPECT BUSTED IN B'KLYN
The Brooklyn man whose failed pipe-bomb plot forced neighborhoods in two boroughs to be evacuated was captured yesterday at his brother's Brooklyn apartment, police sources said. The search for Baudelio...
COPS IN CRASH PROBE
Two detectives in the elite Emergency Services Unit have been suspended for failing to report that they crashed an NYPD truck following an exhausting Fleet Week shift that included a...
GAYS OF OUR LIVES
The colors of the rainbow brightened the city's streets yesterday as the 38th Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March streamed from Midtown to the West Village. "You [saw]...
RAPE-SLAY SUIT
They were the words Leonard and Natasha Ramen wanted to hear. "We'll have him off the streets by Saturday." But the assurances, offered by a detective in October, proved hollow...
CON WOMAN'S MET SISTER ACT
A Florida con woman became an All-Star scammer when she pretended to be the sister of injured Met superstar Pedro Martinez. Shirley Gordon, 50, was recently sentenced to 30 years...
'CHEMICAL' BURNED BY PAST
The vicious Saddam Hussein cousin known as Chemical Ali was sentenced yesterday to die on the gallows for directing a campaign of genocide against Iraq's Kurds in which poison gas...
ISRAEL WILL GIVE ABBAS A BIG BOO$T
Israel agreed yesterday to begin releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax funds to help Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a move aimed at strengthening his hand in his...
CAM-DO ATTITUDE
WASHINGTON - Hey, Hillary! Who's going to be running the White House if you win the presidency? You? Or Bill? That flip question is one of nearly 200 submitted by...
'PARIS'IANS: CONTROL HEIR TRAFFIC
Paris Hilton's anxious neighbors say they're worried about the celebucon's release from jail - because hordes of gawkers and journalists will follow her home. Hilton, 26, is set to finish...
'ALMIGHTY' NOT QUITE GOD-$ENT
"Evan Almighty" made enough almighty dollars to score the No. 1 slot at the box office over the weekend - but it wasn't as heavenly as expected. The comedy, in...
GOLDEN-GAL REPS
WASHINGTON - Three well-heeled local millionairesses in Congress have built fortunes that dwarf the nest eggs of their male colleagues, financial-disclosure reports reveal. Democratic Reps. Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, and...
IMMIG BATTLE TO HEAT UP
WASHINGTON - Both sides of the immigration debate warned yesterday of a major showdown in the Senate this week. "We have a terrible problem in this country that demands an...
BENEFITS MIRAGE
Employees who think they're increasingly getting the short end of the benefits stick compared to 2006 are imagining things - they're not worse off, but they're not better, either. A...
NYPD DAIL BLOTTER
Brooklyn A man was shot dead in Downtown Brooklyn early yesterday, police said. Erik Speights, 31, was shot once in the abdomen in the lobby of a building in the...
ELIOT A 'LOSER' SINCE 'DAY 1'
FRESHMAN Gov. Spitzer was the big loser and veteran legislative leaders the big winners as the disastrously unproductive legislative session came to an end Friday, senior officials agree. Spitzer, who...
PROFS' STUDY IN ANTI-SEMITISM
THEIR tactics smack of McCarthyism. Hitler would be proud. Last month, the union representing Britain's professors voted overwhelmingly to boycott colleagues who hail from Israel - isolating and destroying some...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun. 344; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4536; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 436; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 2432;...
ELIOT'S REALITY CHECK
So much for "everything changes." Gov. Spitzer's inaugural legislative session ended last week with New York's chief executive revealed not to be the mighty steamroller of his vivid imagination -...
CHINA: WORLD'S POLLUTER-AMA
CHINA last week became the world's biggest air polluter, according to a Dutch government-funded environmental watchdog. The People's Republic now out-belches the United States as the world's largest producer of...
ELIOT'S BIG TEST
ELIOT Spitzer's first legislative session as governor ended last week with gridlock on some of his top priorities. But while they couldn't agree on campaign-finance and public-construction reform, Assembly Democrats...
AHNULD AMOK
SACRAMENTO, Calif. THE California Chamber of Commerce's annual advocacy conference here last week discussed a possible tradeoff: weakening the state's rigid term limits in exchange for legislative redistricting that would...
MAULED OVER MYSPACE
COLLEGE students, consider yourselves warned: Your school may be watching you online. Twenty-seven-year old Millersville University student Stacy Snyder found out the hard way. Snyder was just one day away...
STARVING THE MULLAHS
THE conventional wisdom says that we have two choices in confronting and containing Iranian nuclear ambitions - United Na tions sanctions and diplomacy, or a military strike to knock out...
RUSHDIE TO JUDGMENT: MORE ISLAMIST OUTRAGE
THE ISSUE: Muslims' opposition to the knighting of controversial author Salman Rushdie. I see progress in the Islamic world - Muslims are now outraged at the queen of England and...
POOLSIDE MANNERS 101
THE ISSUE: The Bayville, Long Island, lawsuit over noisy neighborhood kids. I agree with Mark and Angie Kostakis 100 percent ("Noisy Kids' Poolish Court Case," June 21). My children have...
BEAR MAULED BY HEDGE FUND HISTORY
Bear Stearns has long been known as the premier issuer and trader of mortgage-backed bonds on Wall Street, but when it comes to actually managing investments in the often volatile...
FILE-$HARING
Music file-sharing service Qtrax is about to hit the markets with the blessing - not to mention the catalogs - of all four major record labels, The Post has learned....
STAR YAHOO! AD EXEC JUMPS SHIP FOR MARTHA
Yahoo!'s ad sales star, Wenda Harris Millard, is leaving the embattled Internet giant for a newly created job at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she will be president of media....
SUMMER SIZZLE
Just as bathing suit season is getting under way, women can rest easy that there are magazines out there that offer them ways to look good in that itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie-yellow-polka-dot bikini....
NBC PAYS FOR SPITE
The rich syndication deal NBC struck for "The Office" could have been a whole lot richer had the Peacock network let financing company Media Rights Capital into the process, The...
TIGER'S TINY TOT
Pro golfer Tiger Woods and wife, Elin, introduced their first child, Sam Alexis, to the world today. The couple posted images on Tiger's web site of the doting dad clutching...
RUSSO'S 'ROID RAGE
FOR all his years of screaming condemnations and defamations of others, when does Chris Russo make himself accountable for his words and actions? Thursday on WFAN, Russo stated that Barry...
LIBERTY PLAY GIVEAWAY
The young Liberty's red-hot start is history. Yesterday's 74-63 loss to Indiana typified the worst of what they've become: struggling, mistake-prone and, most of all, timid. The Liberty committed a...
GUIDING EYES QUITE A SIGHT FOR GOLFERS
The smile on blind-golfer Otto Huber's face after he whacked his first shot of the day told the story. The 75-year-old Canadian turned from the first tee at Mount Kisco...
CHIEFS LAKE WINS MIKE LEE
Chiefs Lake took command at the top of the stretch and drew off to win the $107,700 Mike Lee Stakes by 31/4 lengths. Stunt Man was second and Dr. Vs...
HONDO: NATS ALL, FOLKS
Maine provided fond remembrances for Hondo yesterday when he and his Metamucil mates let it flow against the A's to put 20 batteys in Mr. Aitch's account. Tonight, he'll take...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Buehrle on the block? The White Sox reportedly could be on the verge of trading left-hander Mark Buehrle, who can become a free agent after this season. According to...
AMAZIN'S TAKE A QUANTUM SWEEP
Even though it wasn't a home run, Jose Reyes probably should have taken a curtain call. It was warranted. Reyes made an unreal play to open the game yesterday at...
GOMEZ CATCHING ON VERY FAST
TIME has been hanging heavy on the Mets' hands waiting for Moises Alou, biding Endy Chavez. And at first it looked as if Carlos Gomez didn't know whether to wind...
COMEBACK KID
Jose Valentin returned from the disabled list over two weeks ago and had hits in nine of the 12 games since he had rejoined the Mets. But it wasn't until...
DON'T TELL JOHN HE'S MAINE MAN
The words "ace" and "all-star" seem to do something to John Maine that opposing hitters rarely can: make him uncomfortable. While his teammates rave about Maine's performance and reliability, the...
FRANCO'S KNEE IS A REAL PAIN
Julio Franco is having problems with his right knee. The veteran reserve said yesterday his knee has been hurting since the Mets' series at Yankee Stadium last weekend. Franco, who...
A 'BIG' RISK
The Nets are taking another look at a troubled athletic big man to possibly strengthen the defensive interior while expecting to bring back their major offensive apparatus, Vince Carter. Members...
YANKS' WESTERN SWING AND MISS
SAN FRANCISCO - You watch the games and can't help but feel the Yankees' run of nine straight AL East titles is finished. What happened to that nine-game winning streak...
ROCKET GIVES RARE DOSE OF RELIEF
SAN FRANCISCO - Roger Clemens knows the urgency surrounding the Yankees these days. He understands the bullpen has been used often. So, to him working an inning of relief in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Tulsa, Okla., man who won a 1957 contest that asked participants what the population of the city would be in 2007 is no longer among the living, and the...