July 28, 2007
Mouse House Follies
Political correctness continues to run amok at Disney, which has now pulled the plug on the limited-edition of "Ratatouille''-branded line of French Chardonnay that was going to be sold at...
Black is the new, um, Green
Have you heard about 'Blackle' ?It's Google with a black background.If Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750 mega...
How Lo(han) Can You Go?
Poor Lindsay Lohan seems to have taken an early lead in the field for Worst Actress at the Razzies with "I Know Who Killed Me.'' She plays a college student...
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUMS
FROM behind his turntable, DJ Dennis Ferrer is spinning the house/electronica/Afro beats that make him a draw at the hottest clubs from Miami to Ibiza to London. Party people dance...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY JAMMIN': Astrograss knows what's music to kids' ears - the bluegrass-infused folksters started out as music teachers in Brooklyn. Expect plenty of former students in the audience when the...
GREEN DAY
THE hand-lettered banner behind home plate read "Welcome, Shawn!" And there, sauntering around the outfield the other day exchanging high-fives, was the star attraction of the 92nd Street Y's Shawn...
AT LIBERTY, AGAIN!
YOU'RE tempted to say "bless you" when you visit the Liberty Science Center. And it's not just because the Jersey City institution has finally reopened after a 22-month, $109 million...
IT'S A TY SCORE
MERV Griffin, the undisputed king of game shows, is betting that Ty Treadway will help add a third jewel to his crown. After just one meeting in Griffin's office last...
JERSEY TEEN NEW 'JEOPARDY!' CHAMP
A recent high school graduate from New Jersey won a teen "Jeopardy!" championship and a grand prize of $75,000 yesterday. Meryl Freedman, 18, of Livingston, N.J., won the title and...
BOMB HASN'T GOT A LEG TO STAND ON
THERE'S been a lot of speculation this week about Lindsay Lohan's latest antics damaging her movie career - but sadly, it would be hard for the trou bled actress to...
W. NILE BACK
The West Nile virus has turned up for the first time in New York City this season in mosquitoes collected from in Flushing, Queens, health officials reported yesterday. Health Commissioner...
ANTI-TERROR BOO$T UP
The Senate has restored the entire $40 million originally requested by the Department of Homeland Security for equipment to detect radioactive materials entering the New York metro area. An amendment...
FED $$ AID FOR LEX BIZ
Businesses and residents in the neighborhood near Grand Central Terminal affected by last week's massive steam-pipe explosion will receive federal disaster aid, officials said yesterday. The U.S. Small Business Administration...
DIRTY TRICKS SCANDAL
ALBANY - New York to Gov. Spitzer: Come clean! That was the overwhelming message yesterday as 80 percent of voters said Spitzer should be required to testify in any new...
SEMPER FINED 'SCOFFLAWS'
Marine Corps recruiters are involved in a war with officials in Westchester over unpaid parking tickets totaling more than $130,000. "They've disregarded or discarded the tickets," said White Plains Parking...
DEPUTY QUIT AFTER HEVESI-PROBE GRILLING
ALBANY - Days before stepping down as the No. 2 official in the state Comptroller's Office, Thomas Sanzillo was grilled by the offices of the attorney general and Albany County...
COLLEGE KORAN 'FLUSHER' COLLARED
From Russia with . . . hate? Police yesterday arrested a Pace University student born in the former Soviet Union and charged him with a hate crime for allegedly clogging...
MUM ON HIZZONER HOPEFULS
Don't look for Mayor Bloomberg to anoint a successor any time soon. The mayor indicated yesterday he has some thoughts about who should take the helm at City Hall when...
'PAGING' DIMAGGIO
Yankee great Joe DiMaggio's diaries, having spent a week unsold on the auction block, are now being peddled one page at a time. The Yankee Clipper's entries innermost thoughts -...
6-COUNTY COP CHASE SHOOTOUT
Two parolees led cops on a high-speed, six-county chase that crisscrossed the Hudson and ended in a hail of bullets last night. Undercover Passaic County Sheriff's Department cops say they...
BEAUTY-PARLOR ROB NIGHTMARE
A ex-con forced his way into an Upper West Side beauty salon and then onto a helpless employee, police said. Mohammed Hossain, 27, allegedly robbed and sexually assaulted an employee...
'MUG' GRANNY'S DOGGED SAVIOR
A feisty grandmother strolling near Central Park teamed up with a pit-bull mix and the animal's quick-thinking owner to thwart a pair of pathetic teen muggers armed with a knife...
'FIRE & ICE' HORROR
Two immigrant cousins were clinging to life yesterday after firefighters plucked them out of a walk-in freezer they had run into to escape a smoky blaze at their family's Bronx...
'SHOWY' HILL: EYES OFF MY NECKLINE
WASHINGTON - Call it the Great Cleavage Controversy. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign cried foul in a letter to supporters yesterday protesting a racy recent Washington Post story that focused on...
EDWARDS SCOLDS FEUDING DEM FOES
WASHINGTON - White House hopeful John Edwards yesterday bashed feuding Democratic front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama for spending days attacking each other instead of focusing on the country's...
'HELI' HELL CRASH
Two TV news helicopters broadcasting a police chase in Phoenix collided in midair yesterday, killing four people. The choppers - one from KNXV-TV, an ABC affiliate, and the other from...
PERV-DEATH SHOW'S COP 'PUPPETS'
Producers of the show "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" manipulated cops into rushing an investigation that led to the suicide of a Texas prosecutor, according to an explosive report...
A 'LUSH' LIFE: NICOLE GETS 4 DAYS IN JAIL
Now the other "Simple"-ton is heading to jail. Paris Hilton's reality-TV partner in crime, Nicole Richie, agreed yesterday to spend four days behind bars for driving under the influence. The...
BRITNEY'S BODYGUARD 'WHOOPS' UP ON PUSHY PAPARAZZI
The hits just keep on coming for Britney Spears. The problem-plagued pop tart claimed that her baby son, Sean Preston, was whacked in the head by an aggressive shutterbug's camera...
LOHAN TOOK US ON TERROR RIDE
As she chased down her ex-assistant on a California highway at 100 mph, bombed bombshell Lindsay Lohan bragged she was above the law - and told police "the black kid"...
ENDORSE BIZ GIVING VICK THE BOOT
Michael Vick was sacked from all sides yesterday as Nike said it was suspending its endorsement contract with him - following the lead of Reebok and the NFL, which sidelined...
GALS NOW VACA-SHUN THEIR MEN
The ladies are doing it for themselves, at least when it comes to vacations, according to a new study that found more women are leaving hubbys or boyfriends behind for...
MOM LOST 5 KIDS IN CRASH
A hysterical mother had to be carried out of her Bronx home after she learned her five children had been killed in a fiery highway crash in Virginia. Pamela Ramharrack's...
REF'S MAFIA POINT MAN
A small-town gambler with a Las Vegas rap sheet is responsible for introducing disgraced NBA ref Tim Donaghy to the Gambinos, sources close to the case said yesterday. Peter Ruggieri,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police say this man tried to abduct a little girl in the parking lot of the New York Aquarium on Coney Island. The crook grabbed the 9-year-old girl's arm...
SHIELD OF HONOR
YOU walk under the por tals of One Police Plaza leading to the auditorium, and above are the etched names of 713 cops who have fallen in the line of...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 074; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 4083; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 467; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5150;...
SIDESHOW OF HATE
The Charles Barron and Viola Plummer circus took its act to the City Council chamber this week; it was quite a performance - complete with all the faux righteous indignation...
JA DO THE CRIME, JA DO THE TIME
By all appearances, rapper Ja Rule didn't take his arrest this week on il legal gun charges too seriously - after all, what's a bail hearing if not an opportunity...
THE GITMO FANTASY
Good news from Pakistan in the War on Terror: Abdullah Mehsud, a sen ior Taliban commander in that coun try's rebellious western provinces, blew himself up last week to avoid...
HILLARY THE FORMIDABLE
Hillary Clinton has led in almost every national poll among the Democratic presidential candidates, usually by double digits. She has turned in a solid, self-assured performance in all the debates,...
ROVE REBUTS BUSH BLAME
KARL Rove, President Bush's political lieu tenant, told a closed-door meeting of 2008 Republican House candidates and their aides Tuesday that it was less the war in Iraq than corruption...
REF DONAGHY FOULS OUT
Point-shaving referee Tim Donaghy and dogfighter extraordinaire Michael Vick would have made quite a lethal team ("Commish Rips 'Traitor' Ref," July 25). Disgusting figures in sports are sometimes just made...
CELEBRITY WASTELAND: LOHAN'S MINI-DRAMA
Please run news- worthy stories on your "news" pages ("Room for Rent," July 25). The latest arrest of a drunken actress is merely gossip. Give us what is important, and...
MAUL STREET
Thursday's bloodbath in the stock market continued yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average sank another 208 points to end Wall Street's worst week since March 2003. A combination of...
MADONNA EYES $100M LIVE NATION MEGA-DEAL
Madonna is pondering hanging up on Warner Music Group in favor of life without a traditional record contract. With the Material Girl's existing pact with Warner Music Group's Warner Bros....
BLACK BRINGS IN A BIG GUN FOR APPEAL
Fallen media mogul Conrad Black is appealing his guilty verdict with the aid of a high-profile lawyer who helped overturn the conviction against one-time tech banking star Frank Quattrone. New...
DOW JONES SHARES ROILED
Dow Jones & Co.'s shares went on a roller-coaster ride yesterday following a report the Denver branch of the Bancroft family will reject News Corp.'s $60-a-share takeover offer for the...
6-YEAR TERM FOR NACCHIO
One-time telecom tycoon Joe Nacchio got sentenced to six years in the slammer for racking up millions in ill-gotten gains trading on inside information, just months before investors lost billions...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Lee to practice for Team USA David Lee has accepted an invitation from USA basketball chief Jerry Colangelo to play for a Team USA practice squad that will scrimmage...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
HONDO: LESTER IS MORE
Hondo, who swept Thursday, took a broom upside his head last night, losing with the Jays and Yankees to send the deficit soaring to 690 klimchocks. Tonight, he'll pester Lester...
PICK 4 TICKET WITH A 'TWIST'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Invasor, coming off victories in the Pimlico Special and Suburban Handicap, would have qualified for the 2006 Breeders' Cup Classic even if he didn't beat Sun King...
BARRY: A-ROD NOT IN MY LEAGUE
SAN FRANCISCO - For most of the last month, Barry Bonds has been tossing verbal bouquets toward Alex Rodriguez, but the praise stops at a point. "Is he as good...
1 AWAY!
SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than an hour before last night's game, Barry Bonds stared at the big-screen TV adjacent to his locker. He watched Marlins pitcher Rick Vanden...
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...
BLUE BOMBSHEL
ALBANY - The Giants were braced for a disgruntled Michael Strahan holding out of training camp. The possibility of him leaving the game for good is something the team never...
WRONG WAY FOR A GIANT ERA TO END
THIS is no way for a Hall of Fame Giant like Michael Strahan to go out. By leaving a message for Tom Coughlin some nine hours before the Giants officially...
UNHAPPY CAMPER
Against his will, Pete Kendall, embroiled in a nasty contract dispute with the Jets, reported on time to training camp Wednesday night and found a surprise awaiting him. "I show...
ON YOUR MARK
TO some degree, the Mets' path to the NL East title became less arduous Thursday when the Phillies lost Chase Utley for around a month with a broken right hand....
TOM GLAD HIS 300TH IS CLEAN
Barry Bonds is on the verge of breaking Hank Aaron's home-run record with the specter of steroids hanging over his head. Tom Glavine closing in on his milestone 300th career...
RIP, RIP JORGE
The faster Pedro Martinez returns from the disabled list, the faster Jorge Sosa can be relegated to "thanks for your help, good luck," status. There's no question that Sosa was...
ONE WAIT OVER ... ONE NOT
BALTIMORE - Essentially, the Yankees split two games last night with the Orioles at Camden Yards. They closed out a suspended game when Mariano Rivera provided a ninth-inning scare and...
RODRIGUEZ CAN'T WALK TO HOME RUN
BALTIMORE - A-Rod, wel come to Barry Bonds' walk world. After grounding out in his suspended-animation at-bat (yes, now the 500th home run really will be the 500th home run)...
INCONSISTENT IGAWA SHIPPED TO TRIPLE-A
BALTIMORE - With no margin for error, Phil Hughes and Jeff Karstens about ready to come off the DL and the Yankees not needing a fifth starter until a week...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 17-year-old boy squeezed an 11-year-old for $20 at the little entrepreneur's lemonade stand. But dozens of neighbors in Oshkosh, Wis., have offered to replace the stolen cash. "I think...