July 19, 2007
New VR-style googles
While the photo on the right may just look like a big blob of blackness, it's actually a shot of a Headplay Personal Cinema System. What's that? Never heard of...
James Jeans Sample Sale
We hear that are major price reductions at the James Jeans sample sale.Go to:James Lounge500 Greenwich Street#202Between Canal Street and Spring Street(212) 221 460310:00am to 7:00pmAll major credit cards accepted
Anya in numbers
Yesterday, Whole Foods sold 20,000 Anya Hindmarch's "Not a Plastic Bag" totes.Here are today's numbers:196: The number of Anya Hindmarch bags currently listed on eBay64: The number of Anya Hindmarch...
Song smackdown
For a premise that is so similar, "Don't Forget the Lyrics" and "Singing Bee" have completely different takes on determining who has filled their brain with more useless phrases. You...
"SiCKO" healthier every day...
Contrary to various dire predictions that Michael Moore's "SiCKO" was destined for a dismal showing at the box office, the cinematic indictment of U.S. health care is now the fifth...
Time for Lindros to Hang 'em Up
Lindros lies on the ice after getting his bell rung.Eric Lindros is mulling retirement. That's hardly news aside from it taking this long for him to give that question serious...
Curious 'Yellow'
Turns out "Hairspray'' isn't the only musical opening in NYC tomorrow. My esteemed colleague Frank Scheck pointed out a small ad in Sunday's Times for something called "Yellow,'' which is...
Scene
Melissa Tuckman, a student at Wesleyan who is interning at Art Forum. She wears a vintage top with an American Apparel skirt she wears as a dress layered underneath, a...
Tube-alicious
Raakhee checks in today with the summer's must-have dress, a tube-top maxi from Nui in Los Angeles. It's one size fits all, stretching from a size 0 to a size...
Yanks' Young Gun Coming Back
Yankee fans finally have reason to smile this season. With a 5-game winning streak and having taken 11 of the last 14, the Yanks are playing the way everyone expected...
THE STARBURY BLOGS: 4
Stephon Marbury is guest-blogging this week for Knicks beat writer Marc Berman. Marbury is filing dispatches from the road on his 38-city, cross country bus tour to promote his discount...
She'll Always Have Venice
Being a professional cynic, I'm always quick to suspect the worst when a movie changes its release date -- and even more so when it's moved more than once. But...
THE MONKEY KING
Adopted From the Classic Chinese Tale by Ji-li Jiang Illustrated by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy STORY SO FAR: After complaints by Dragon King, Jade Emperor invites Monkey to Heaven. To keep...
HAUTE LIST
Obsessions of the week * Lace love: We never actually thought about swapping out our grimy old laces until we came across Starks Laces, the hot line from Alex Dymond,...
TOTALLY TUBULAR
HERE'S Nicholetta (a svelte size 0) and Evelyn (a curvy size 14) as contenders for the year's best-dressed list - in the exact same Nui tube dress. It's the dress...
DEAD MAN TALKING
CRITICS, like anyone else, have their pet peeves, and here's one of mine: plays in which characters come back from the dead to address the audience. In "Surface to Air,"...
MAYA SPACE
OPRAH might be checking out of "Saturday Night Live." Maya Rudolph and NBC are still negotiating on whether she will return to the late-night sketch-comedy show this fall. Rudolph is...
STAR REPORT
Axes to grindEric Clapton will join John Mayer onstage in Bryant Park tomorrow for "GMA's" summer concert series - trading licks for one song during Mayer's free live per formance,...
SHARPAY IDEA
THE cutest promotional stunt for Disney Channel's much-hyped "High School Musical 2" may be this one: Ashley Tinsdale starred in the movie but her steady job is playing Maddie on...
NOW IT'S DAVID BECKHAM'S TURN
POSH Spice isn't the only Beckham to get her own show. Posh's famous hubby, soccer superstar David Beckham, will star in "David Beckham's Soccer USA," a 13-episode series produced by...
PITCH PERFECT
WHO are the real mad men? Anyone who works at any TV network who might have passed on this new series "Mad Men," that's who. Woe is them because this...
KICKING AROUND ROSIE ROLE
THE producers of "Fri day Night Lights" are eyeing Rosie O'Donnell for a guest spot next season - as a soccer coach. "Rosie's a big fan and we heard she...
CASE OF THE MISSING 'NANNY'
'THE Nanny Diaries," the Scarlett Johansson comedy that was postponed from an April opening to early September, has been moved again - into Hollywood's dog days of late August. "It's...
ROWLING RED-FACED AT GRAY LADY
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Are you a free thinker or just one of the herd? The answer to that question will to a large extent determine what kind of year lies ahead of you....
SURPRISE! IT'S PRIME CHUCK
SNOOTY oenophiles take note: The latest prize-winning wine is one cheap shot - literally. Charles Shaw 2005 chardonnay, better known to the hoi polloi as Trader Joe's "Two-Buck Chuck," costs...
COOKING, A TO ZETA
ALL heads turned to the gorgeous new raven-haired waitress last year at Fiamma Osteria. And when she delivered a plate of pasta, one diner commented that she looked a lot...
STEAM BLAST A DEADLY HELL
A rumbling steam-pipe blast blew a 15-by-25-foot crater in a Midtown street yesterday, spewing a geyser of near-boiling water, gluey muck and rocks 120 feet into the air and onto...
'IT RAINED MUD, BRICKS . . . YOU COULDN'T SEE'
Yesterday's Midtown explosion, with its horrific sounds and bloody sights, brought back terrifying memories of 9/11 for New Yorkers whose nerves were already frazzled by the constant threat of terrorism....
LOCKED-OUT TENANTS SEEK BLAST SHELTER
First, she ran down 17 flights, her heart pounding. Then, she couldn't get into her apartment building two blocks away. For Neely Moked, 30 - and scores of others shut...
SUBWAY SERVICE BACK ON TRACK
Subway service was snarled from the tip of Manhattan to Harlem after yesterday's steam explosion, but most service was restored by early this morning. At the height of the commuter...
BLOOMY'S 'BIG FEAR' IS ASBESTOS CLOUD
There may not be deadly asbestos in the "hot zone" on the East Side of Manhattan, but the city isn't taking any chances. It's conducting exhaustive checks and keeping people...
W'BURG FIRE KIDS RESCUED
Brooklyn firefighters rescued a teenage boy and his two young sisters from a roaring blaze in their Williamsburg apartment yesterday. The fire broke out at about 6:45 p.m. in the...
MAN GETS 50 YRS. IN WIFE SLAY
Edelmiro Cesareo "loved his wife to death." And for that he got 25 years behind bars yesterday, plus another 25 years for also killing his sister-in-law - all while three...
MOM, DAD IN SLAY-SUICIDE
Brooklyn cops investigating a report of a missing girl discovered her parents dead in an apparent murder-suicide last night. The officers were flagged down at 7:30 p.m. in Flatbush by...
OH, MY GUSH!
The only things missing were the locusts. The powerful storm that tore through the metropolitan area yesterday uprooted trees, flooded subway stations and snarled traffic at the tail end of...
LES PERV IN FOURTH ATTACK
The sex fiend who molested three Lower East Side women since June struck for a fourth time early yesterday, authorities said. In the latest sickening attack, the creep ran up...
9/11 CEREMONY
For the first time since 9/11, the annual memorial ceremony for victims of the terrorist attacks will not be held at the World Trade Center site, because of its redevelopment,...
'SEX-TOUR' SENTENCE
It was a full-service travel agency, offering package deals to the Dominican Republic that included airfare, hotel - and sex with prostitutes. It was that last part that got him....
LOVER SUES RANDY REV. FOR AFFAIR
The pastor of a ritzy Fifth Avenue church told his striking blond parishioner that their illicit affair was "a gift from God," called himself the "third member" of her marriage...
'POTTER' LUCK OF THE LEAK
Even as sealed boxes of the seventh Harry Potter book were being delivered to New York City bookstores, a few lucky Harry Potter fans got magical surprises in their mailboxes...
CRIME LAB A DNA DREAM
Criminals in the five boroughs got some very distressing news yesterday: The city's new $290 million forensic-biology lab is officially open, and is capable of handling up to seven times...
BELL COP ACCUSER ON LAM
A music producer who filed a police-brutality suit against a cop indicted in the slaying of tragic groom Sean Bell is a suspect in the beating death of a 7-month-old...
AN ALARMING FDNY CRISIS
The Fire Department's fire-alarm inspection unit is in shambles, failing to do vital checks in a timely fashion and possibly putting the public in danger, a bombshell audit by city...
'70S MOB PLOT TO SLAY CHIEF JUDGE
In the late '70s, the mob had grand ambitions. Mobsters from three top Mafia families were plotting to kill the chief justice of the United States, Warren Burger, in 1979,...
CALL HIM VINNY MOP-UP: RAT
Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano headed a crew that couldn't shoot straight. That was the gist of the testimony by stool pigeon Nicholas "P.J." Pisciotti, an acting Bonanno capo under Basciano...
CONGE$T PLAN WHEEZES TOWARD DEAL
=ALBANY - Days after it appeared Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan was dead, progress toward an agreement was reported last night, according to Senate, Assembly and city sources. But there was...
PEARL'S WIDOW SUES KILLERS
The widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl yesterday filed a lawsuit against the terrorists who beheaded her husband, the radical organizations they were members of - including al Qaeda -...
BRAZILIAN RUNWAY A DEATH TRAP
The deadliest airline crash in Brazilian history took place on a Sao Paolo runway so short and dangerous that pilots liken it to landing on the deck of an aircraft...
LINDSAY GETS LEG UP ON BOOZE
Lindsay Lohan's 12 steps just got a little bit heavier. The newly sober celebrity has strapped an alcohol-monitoring device on to her left ankle (inset) in order to prove to...
HOUSE SNUBS EGAN
WASHINGTON - Congress is trying to "excommunicate" Edward Cardinal Egan by refusing to pass a routine resolution honoring the New York Archdiocese simply because it mentions the archbishop's name, The...
RUDY WOOS RIGHT IN 1ST IOWA TRIP
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani - making his first major campaign sweep through Iowa - vowed yesterday to appoint "strict constructionists" to the Supreme Court in a bid to woo social...
UN$AFE AT HOME
WASHINGTON - A year after slashing New York's anti-terror funds by nearly 40 percent, the feds yesterday gave the city only a meager increase, while lavishing millions on low-risk sites...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Cops yesterday were searching for a woman who used stolen bank-account information to withdraw money from a Bushwick ATM, police said. On July 3, the thief was caught on...
PARTY OF SURRENDER
Despite the theatrics of their all-night Capitol Hill boogie with the sand man Tuesday, Senate Democrats failed again yesterday to legislate an unconditional U.S. surrender in Iraq. The Dems couldn't...
CAN THE QUOTAS, MR. KLEIN
The time has come for Chancellor Joel Klein to purge all race-based prac tices from city schools - for good. That became clear Monday, when The Post reported that middle-class...
GEORGE GALLOWAY, PAID PUPPET
U.S. senators can be forgiven a smirk or two over the news that Britain's House of Commons has suspended malignant left-wing legislator George Galloway for 18 days. Newly uncovered documents...
TWISTING INTEL
DEMOCRATS on Capitol Hill have complained for years that the White House "cherry-picks" intelligence. Yesterday, that's exactly what the Dems did themselves with the just-declassified summary of a National Intelligence...
BITTER JUSTICE FOR JOHN MCCAIN
AT noon on April 25, in Prescott Park in Ports mouth, N.H., John McCain announced his presidential candidacy. Less than two hours earlier, in the U.S. Supreme Court, a lawyer...
PENSIONS & PLUNDER
WITH prosecutors in vestigating possible criminal misconduct in former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's management of New York's $155 billion state pension fund, there's talk in Albany about making fundamental changes...
HOW HUGO PULLS PELOSI'S STRINGS
IGNORING pleas from outraged South Ameri can governments, Democratic House leaders this week were adamant about Congress going into its August recess without taking action on free-trade agreements with Peru...
IT'S OK TO BREAK THE LAW - IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT
It's amazing that New York voters reelected State Comptroller Alan Hevesi by such a wide margin ("Hevi Lifting," July 16). It just goes to show you how far people and...
PANICKY POLITICS - OR PRINCIPLES?
Concerning Gerard Baker's article, "Panicky Politics," (Post-Opinion, July 15), more truth from the administration about Iraq and less hate from the American people toward Latino, Caribbean and Asian immigrants would...
GLOOM & DOOM
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke fumbled his first attempt yesterday to steer the economy away from a new credit wreck blocking the road ahead - and even managed to slam...
REGULATOR TARGETS DOW JONES DIRECTOR
The Securities and Exchange Commission may file civil charges against a prominent director on Dow Jones & Co.'s board as part of its insider trading probe into News Corp.'s $5...
HEY BABY, INFLATION'S UGLY
YOU and I know how bad inflation really is. We know every time we fill up our cars, go to the supermarket, pay a tuition bill or need to see...
SOFT SHOE MART
Foot Locker is once again considering putting itself up for sale, following the disappointing performance at its U.S. shoe stores and the failure to buy rival Genesco, The Post has...
BUYOUT RUMORS LIFT LONER MACY'S
Macy's is not in talks with buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. or Goldman Sachs about a possible leveraged buyout, despite a report yesterday that sent shares of the...
NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR BLACK
Canada's prime minister said yesterday that dethroned press baron Conrad Black won't get special treatment to restore his citizenship or to return to the country to serve a possible prison...
BEAR'S BOND BLOWBACK
The devastation wrought from the implosion of two Bear Stearns hedge funds isn't hurting just the funds' wiped-out investors, but increasingly, is being felt across the spectrum of bond market...
CRUNCH TIME
Condé Nast's new business magazine Portfolio seems to be in the odd position of succeeding on the advertising front but floundering editorially. Portfolio debuted in April as a May issue...
JOB WEB SITE SELLS FOR $23M
Laurel Touby, the party-happy founder of Mediabistro.com, has sold her company to Alan Meckler's JupiterMedia for $23 million. The company that Touby founded a decade ago grew out of parties...
NYC '$HOW' BIZ
Be careful where you walk this summer - you might just trip over a TV star. New York is preparing to star as never before on prime-time TV this fall,...
SECONDS FROM DISASTER
The FDNY today released a new video taken at the scene of the steam blast that rocked Midtown Wednesday. The black and white time-lapse video shows a tow truck driven...
JUST SOLD!
ManhattanEAST VILLAGE $785,00030 E. 9th St. Two-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 950 square feet, with marble bath and renovated kitchen with Silestone counters, cherrywood cabinets and GE appliances; Lafayette building features courtyard,...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn $1.75 millionBedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2Square feet: 2,290Maintenance: $1,510This schoolhouse rocks! Housed in a former school, the landmark PS 9 building, this co-op on "beautiful, tree-lined" Sterling Place...
WANG'S WORLD
Vera Wang and her family are moving from their spacious Park Avenue apartment into an even grander - yet familiar - residence a few blocks away. The fashion designer is...
MIDDLE MARCH
There's an old bit of real-estate wisdom that says you're better off buying the cheapest house on a nice block than the most expensive house on a not-so-nice one. Makes...
READY, SET, JOE!
CALL it a good trade for Brooklyn. Last week, the unconventional and extremely popular supermarket chain Trader Joe's officially announced it will be opening up shop in the landmark Independence...
WHOA, BABY!
The other day, being the klutz I am, I tripped over a baby stroller while walking down Fifth Avenue. It made me think back to my own diaper-changing days, and...
MORE THAN YOUR SHARE
I'M in a summer time share and recently got a girlfriend. I want to have her out more than I'm allowed. How should I handle this with my housemates? The...
DREAM HOMES
Upper East Side $3.325 millionNext to the Neue Galerie and across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. That's all you need to hear to know that this...
RAIN KOS BELMONT BELMONT WASHED OUT
Racing and simulcasting were canceled at Belmont Park yesterday because of torrential rains that flooded many area roads and required extensive maintenance of the racetrack. There also was minor flooding...
BOOKIES WARY OF TIGER'S ODDS
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - The betting parlors in Great Britain are rarely as busy as during British Open week. And those bookmakers are praying for a more successful week than last...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Sheffield fined Detroit slugger Gary Sheffield was fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball for recently criticizing umpires. The punishment stemmed from remarks he made in June regarding...
ANNIKA'S GAME IN TRANSITION
Annika Sorenstam still strikes fear into opponents, but the eight-time LPGA Player of the Year said she isn't as focused on her game as she was when she dominated the...
HONDO: HERE, KITTY!
Hondo, who stumbled with the Padres Tuesday night, was a man of no action last night because Bedard came up lame for the Orioles, which left the deficit holding at...
HOPKINS' TEAM HAS NEW LOOK
LAS VEGAS - Consistency and stability were staples of Bernard Hopkins' career as a middleweight. Bouie Fisher and Nasim Richardson devised the strategy and worked the corner. Arnold Joseph handled...
LETTING IT 'ROID
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - On the eve of today's opening round of the British Open, Gary Player rocked the golf world with a stunning accusation about players taking steroids. Player, who's...
BELOVED MONTY STILL MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Bring up the subject of Colin Montgomerie and you find a fascinating study in conflict of emotions here in his home country. The Scots, as well as...
NICK THE KNIFE
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Unwittingly, on the eve of the most important major championship to the European players, Nick Faldo might have taken a significant stride toward sabotaging his own 2008...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
GIANTS INK OL
The Giants yesterday signed Chris Patrick, a rookie free-agent offensive linemen from Nebraska who was not selected in last week's supplemental draft. Patrick did not play during his senior year...
FRANCO BACK ON BRAVES
SAN DIEGO - Julio Franco has joined the Mets' archrivals. Franco, 48, whom the Mets designated for assignment last week, is with the Braves now, agent Chuck Berry confirmed yesterday....
SMITH-EREENS!
SAN DIEGO - Ultimately it all turned out to be for naught. It was an astonishing comeback but still inadequate. Last night the Mets delivered a dramatic and stunning rally...
MELKY'S HARD WORK PAYS OFF
When Melky Cabrera's batting average was lean, he wasn't. But Cabrera, one of the team's hottest hitters entering yesterday, has added bulk to his batting average while subtracting from his...
ROCKET ABLE TO KEEP BLUE JAYS IN CHECK
You can allow nine hits over six innings and fare just nicely, as Roger Clemens did last night, but here's the catch: Make sure the hits are almost exclusively singles....
HUGHES '100 PERCENT'
TRENTON - Phil Hughes moved a step closer yesterday to making the Yankees' rotation whole for the first time this season. On a hot, muggy day at Waterfront Park, Hughes...
YANKS FIND JAY TO ESCAPE
Entering the bottom of the seventh last night, the Yankees had been outhit by Toronto, 10-2. With a relentless, remarkable surge, they made up that ground . . . and...
BOMBERS' ONLY OPTION WILL BE TO PAY-ROD
THERE was first-and third and one out in the fourth, the Yankees already in danger of running out of opportunities against Toronto's tough Shaun Marcum, when up stepped Alex Rodriguez...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There are those who run City Hall and those who want to burn it down. Sometimes it's the same person. Town supervisors in Fort Hill, Pa., accidentally set a trash...
JUST BACK: Orlando
Don your shades - Orlando's Communitea Cafe is colorful, inside and out/via DCC Just in from Orlando. Learned a few things. I feel like sharing. Run for cover, or tune...
Franco, Alou and Mota
A few small updates for you guys:-Julio Franco's joined the Braves, according to his agent, Chuck Berry."Everything is agreed to," Berry said.Franco's now going to be on the Mets' biggest...