July 30, 2007
MLB Trade Round-up
While Mets acquired second baseman Luis Castillo from the Twins and the Yankees got Wilson Betemit from the Dodgers, there have been a fleury of trades around baseball:Texas Rangers trade...
Fantasy Football 101
Fantasy sports used to be a hobby practiced by a dozen guys in the basement of their parents house. Now, its a booming business. If you haven't dipped your toes...
Mets Aquire Luis Castillo
The Mets Aquired Luis Castillo fortwo minor-league prospects, both foxsports.com and the MinneapolisStar-Tribune are reporting. The Mets gave the Twins ClassAA catcher Drew Butera, the son of former major league...
Scoping out Super Saturday Insanity
Super Saturday turned out to be Sweaty Saturday. Though the weather held for the annual designer garage sale out in the Hamptons, the heat was pretty intense.And no one looked...
Deal of the Day
Being stylishly waisted is a cinch with this Canvas Double Buckle Belt from Banana Republic.The equestrian inspired number can be thrown over a dress or a dress shirt and jeans...
A Coup for Film Forum
Non-profit Film Forum almost always plays movies exclusively in Manhattan, but will make a exception for Todd Haymes' "I'm Not There,'' allowing the Weinsteins to book it at an uptown...
The Ugly Side of Arbitration
Click to enlargeBy now, hopefully you've read Larry Brooks' item on Sean Avery's arbitration battle. It reveals the nature of the process, where the team tries to devalue a player...
We'll Always Loathe Paris
Save a slot in the 2008 Razzie nominations for Paris Hilton, who will begin shooting a musical for the director of the "Saw'' movies, Variety reports. Paris, whose most recent...
FARNSWORTH MUST GO
The Yankees really have to get either better at intelligence or get more intelligence, both the insider information and smarts.Whether out of desperation or simply having too much money to...
Angelina Bares All (Sorta)
Last week we ran the newly-buff CGI version of Ray Winstone from the upcoming motion-picture-animated epic "Beowulf'' and wondered, only half-jokingly, what the digital wizards could do for Angelina Jolie....
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
The master filmmaker, whose ultra-serious films like "The Seventh Seal'' (above) were laced with mordant humor, would surely be amused that news of his passing arrives simulaneously with the demise...
Colorization Creeps On
Unlike the flicks that Ted Turner colorized (using a much inferior process) in the 1980s, "She'' is a title not much known outside film buff circles. It was not included...
DOG DAYS
The next time you're waiting for your burrito at Chipotle, deciding whether you're in the mood for corn salsa or tomatillo, consider for a moment the breadth and flexibility of...
CANINE TO FIVE
It's tough being a dog in the city, watching your owner head to work every morning without you. What's a pooch to do, other than rush to the door and...
HIT THE ROAD
During the 12 years she spent as a corporate recruiter in Atlanta, Jennifer Remling was generally sound asleep at 2 a.m., resting up for another day at the office. At...
FULL COURT
Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Wayne Bodden had dreams of being a professional basketball player. By the time he got to college, at Adelphi University, he knew that wasn't...
60 SECONDS WITH NANCY SPEARS
Your book, "Buddha: 9 to 5" is about incorporating Buddhist values at work. Are there companies doing this in an overt way? For the most part it's on a subconscious...
GO TO GREG
Q. I heard some Fortune 500 companies are letting parents participate in the interview and on-boarding process for new graduates, to help them handle the transition from college to work....
TORNADOES - NATURE'S MOST VIOLENT STORMS
Imagine a towering column of air, whirling at speeds of more than 100 mph. Tornadoes are among the deadliest and most destructive storms on Earth. Tornadoes occur all over the...
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS
THE grass is always greener on the other side of the, um, scalp (or something like that) - especially in the summertime. Curly girls envy their straight sisters' freedom from...
PULSE SALES
ESCADA 715 Fifth Ave., at 56th Street; (212) 755-2200 Sale: July 30-Aug. 15. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Thu., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Sun., noon-5 p.m. Sleeveless floral-print jersey dress, now $416.50 (reg. $1,190);...
CALM, COMPOSED FOR MOSTLY MOZART
MOZART, Beethoven . . . and Golijov? "Let's not even go there!" murmurs Osvaldo Golijov, the Mostly Mozart Festival's first composer-in-residence. "It's like asking a playwright to talk about Shakespeare...
MORE OF A LONG TIME
HERE'S the thing about losing virginity. How it happened to you: fascinating. Other people: not so much. "My First Time," the new theater piece written by Ken Davenport and "real...
HE-E-RE'S JIMMY
'SATURDAY Night Live" stalwart Jimmy Fallon is the top candidate to replace Conan O'Brien in 2009 - when O'Brien is set to take over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno....
POSH: A 'VIEW'-ISH GIRL?
WITH "The View" re portedly closing in on Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd as the new co-hosts, a new face has popped up - Victoria Beckham. Beckham, better known as...
TRISTA HAS BABY
Trista and Ryan Sut ter, of "Bachelo rette" fame, have had a baby - a little boy named Maxwell. The boy, born on Thursday, is "perfect and beautiful," the reality...
STARR REPORT
Hair's the thing ... If you've ever wondered what Joey Fatone (pictured) looks like with a mullet, you'll get your chance on to morrow's episode of NBC's "The Singing Bee."...
YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH HUE
SPECIAL-effects legend Ray Harry hausen thinks colorization - the controversial practice of converting old black-and-white movies into color - has gotten a bad rap. And so he's supervised newly computer-colored...
'COREYS' MOVE UP
'THE Two Coreys" want ev eryone to know that their new reality show is not exactly real. "News flash: The show is not a reality show, but the emotion is...
TASTY APPLE DANISH EYED FOR CONEY IS.
A world-famous Danish amusement park that inspired Walt Disney to build Disneyland is considering expanding operations to Coney Island, officials said. Robert Lieber, president of the city's Economic Development Corp.,...
MINORITY REPORT: BIZ AID IS BASHED
A program to help businesses owned by women and minorities compete for city contracts is "failing at its basic task," a new report by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum says. While...
CITY IS 'INN' A TIGHT $POT WITH TOURISTS
The flood of tourists to the Big Apple slowed last year as domestic vacationers began to cringe at the rapidly rising costs of hotel rooms, according to a new report....
NEW YORK POLS BLAST DEAL WITH SAUDI ARABIA
A pair of New York congressmen vowed yesterday to block a possible deal to sell $20 billion of state-of-the-art weapons to Saudi Arabia because they claim it supports international terrorism....
EMPOWER ANDY: GOP
ALBANY - Senate Republicans will demand that Gov. Spitzer name Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as "special criminal prosecutor" - armed with full subpoena powers - in the dirty-tricks scandal that...
STEAM-BLAST DRIVER SUIT
The parents of the tow-truck driver who was critically injured in the Midtown steam-pipe explosion will sue Con Ed over the blast, which left their son in a coma with...
USHER'S WEDDING HAUL BLUES
Workers yesterday dismantled two massive white tents and hauled off tables and decorations set up for R&B star Usher's lavish wedding to stylist Tameka Foster that was abruptly canceled on...
DAUGHTER STRANGLES & DISMEMBERS DAD: COPS
A Queens woman strangled her father and sliced off his penis before being taken to a mental ward, police sources said yesterday. Cops believe Eric Goodridge, 55, who was found...
PARTY'S OVER
Pennsylvania friends of disgraced former NBA ref Tim Donaghy and his pal, reputed bookie James Battista, have begun testifying before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, sources close to the...
CAR RUNS DOWN FOUR COPS ON L.I.
Four Long Island cops were hurt, one seriously, when they were struck by a car as they were making an arrest last night, police said. The officers, all from Nassau's...
FALSE-ARREST MOM HAS PREGNANT CAUSE
A pregnant mother of three has sued the city, saying she was wrongly busted, searched in front of neighbors, handcuffed, hauled off to a Bronx station house and strip-searched before...
ONE 'SHIFT'Y PRISONER
The convicted felon allegedly seduced by sexy New York jailhouse shrink Magdalena Sanchez likely hasn't had time to strike up another prison liaison - he's been sent to five federal...
LIGHTNING FIRE BURNS HOMES
A lightning strike set off a fire that damaged two Long Island homes yesterday, authorities said. The bolt struck a utility pole, jarring a power line loose on Smith Street...
LOUIMA'S HAUNTED HIGH LIFE 10 YEARS LATER
Don't let the bling fool you. Nothing, says Abner Louima - not the majestic home in Miami, not the in-ground swimming pool out back, not the stable of luxury cars...
NOW, THIS LADY IS OUT OF SIGHT
Cynthia Groopman figures she's done about 17,000 hours of volunteer work at a Queens senior center over the past 16 years, and she's counting on logging many more. "It makes...
HOTEL SWEET
A lot has changed in the 50 years since Sue and Bob Harris married, but their hotel bill at The Waldorf-Astoria isn't one of them. The Long Island grandparents recently...
TRAGIC MA REFUSED TO COMMIT 'KILLER SON'
A devoted Queens mom who was knifed and bashed to death with a barbell - allegedly by her psycho son - had steadfastly refused to have him committed, her husband...
TRANSIT MAN IN PERV BUST
A city transit worker was arrested for sexually abusing a woman in a subway car, police said yesterday. Bus dispatcher Glenn Jones, 37, was off duty when he allegedly approached...
CRASH MOM RELIVES EERIE CALL FROM KID
Weather was responsible for the horrific crash that killed five Bronx siblings in Virginia, their grieving mom said yesterday as she recalled a fateful call her eldest son made from...
ACS LOST MY BOY, MA SAYS
A Harlem mom is furious with city child-welfare officials for placing her 14-year-old son in a foster home, then doing nothing after he ran away and vanished earlier this month....
CAPSIZE DRAMA OFF CITY I.
Rescuers fished out three men from the Long Island Sound near City Island after their motorboat hit rocks and capsized yesterday. The men were cruising in their 30-foot craft near...
MANN-CANNED TEACHER'S SIDE
He taught the importance of free speech - but American history teacher Andrew Trees had no idea there'd be a student uprising when an elite Riverdale prep school fired him...
VILLAGE VIOLENCE
Two Brooklyn men savagely beat a stranger after they caught the victim relieving himself on their friend's car, cops said yesterday. Nathaniel Spiggs, 25, and Lorenz Spiggs-Depass, 32, were both...
THEME PARK RIDER
Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., the nation's third-largest theme-park operator, has entered into quick-moving talks with investment firm Destiny Capital Solutions about a $4.1 billion takeover, The Post has learned. The...
MARGE & IN CHARGE AT MOVIES
Producers of "The Simpsons Movie" are having a cash cow, man. The film blew past expectations to take the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, with $71.9 million,...
LINK EYED IN HOOPS STICKUPS
Authorities are "sharing notes" on two gunpoint home-invasion robberies of NBA players, believing the incidents could be connected, officials said yesterday. Early Saturday, a trio of gun-toting robbers broke into...
RUDY'S 'VULTURE' $$ MAN
Advocates for the poor charge that a top fund-raiser for Rudy Giuliani is a "vulture" whose firm preys on the debt woes of impoverished Third World countries. Billionaire hedge fund...
NEWT GING-RIPS MCCAIN
WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said it would be nearly impossible for Sen. John McCain to be president, piling on criticism of the former Republican front-runner. McCain (R-Ariz.)...
BUSH HAS DATE WITH BRIT PM
WASHINGTON - Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, arrived at Camp David yesterday for a meeting with President Bush that is expected to set the tone for their vital relationship....
ISRAEL 'POLICY' OUTCRY
WASHINGTON - Life-insurance companies are systematically denying coverage to customers solely because they have visited Israel or plan to go in the future - outraging travelers who say Israel's historic...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A thug fatally shot a man yesterday on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street in broad daylight yesterday. Douglas Joyner, 44, was hanging out on Nostrand Avenue and Madison Street at about...
PRIME TIME SLIME
IT'S not the premise of "Murder," Spike TV's new game show, that's so heinous. It's the execution. The good idea behind the bad game is simple: Solve a murder. The...
SPITZER 'GAG' REFLEX
Gov. Spitzer's administration silenced two more top figures in the dirty- tricks scandal - using a highly unusual maneuver that prevented Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigators from questioning them, The...
AIN'T THAT A BEACH!
THE letter arrived in late December, striking Carol Iorio like a stake in the heart. "It left me more shaken than my breast-cancer diagnosis!" she told me The letter informed...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 681; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 3909; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 522; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
ELIOT'S STONEWALL
How high is the stone wall the Spitzer administration has erected around Troopergate - its deployment of the State Police to destroy state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno? It's hard...
NEEDED: A LICENSE TO KILL
If the rhetoric coming out of the Krem lin has been sounding eerily. . . Soviet recently, maybe it's time the West adjusted its tactics accordingly. At issue is a...
DON'T LET NY'S HACKS MUZZLE YOU
IT'S worth noting that the plot by top staffers of Gov. Spitzer to use the State Police for political espionage against state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was apparently intended...
MIKE THE MOVER
AS all eyes have been glued to Gov. Spitzer's rapid political descent, his New York City counterpart - Mayor Bloomberg - has been quietly, steadily, shoring up his own reputation....
WAGES OF WARD: ACADEMY EXPOSED
IT'S said that a "picture is worth a thousand words." For more than 25 years, con servative writers have been telling anyone who would listen that our higher education system...
DUBYA'S DUBIOUS TURKISH TRICK
THE morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush administration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. High-level U.S. officials are working...
THE DEM DEBATE: MOTLEY CREW & THE TUBE
THE ISSUE: CNN's Democratic debate featuring voter questions delivered via YouTube. In a country of some 300 million people, is this the best that we can do ("CNN: Crazy News...
A HEALTHY DOSE OF MERCURY?
THE ISSUE: Concern over elevated levels of mercury found among New Yorkers. As "Mercury's Rising in Bloodstream" (July 24) suggests, mercury levels can be reduced simply by choosing fish that...
ANCHORS AWAY! FUND BOSS' YACHT ON BLOCK
A high-profile hedge fund manager whose fund has had to wrestle with poor performance has put his 142-foot yacht on the block. In the latest sign that circumstances are rapidly...
BIMBOS IN LIMBO
In the world of gossip mags, last week was the gift that kept on giving, thanks to the antics of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie. People unleashed a...
RETURN TO TENDER IS EMI TAKEOVER TUNE
The $4.8 billion takeover of EMI Group by private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners was extended again yesterday after a tender offer for shares in the world's third-largest music...
FLYING BLIND
Dillard's Inc., a regional department store chain, has historically lagged behind its peers by almost every retailing measure, from same-store sales to merchandise margins. That hasn't stopped the Dillard family...
VICK CODEFENDANT IN COURT FOR PLEA DEAL
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's defense case against federal dogfighting charges could take a serious blow today as a co-defendant is expected back in court for a plea deal with...
SUDDENLY, VICK'S CHARACTER COUNTS
AND so now it's religion, patriotism, charity and dumping Michael Vick that are the last refuges of scoundrels. In the last few days, decisions have been reached: Vick's signature shoe...
LOVING THE GAME
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The only thing better than being Mr. Padre, Tony Gwynn would have to admit, would be becoming Mr. Baseball. Gwynn had a tough stage to share yesterday...
BRONX BARRY
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds had the Yankees on his mind and on his chest yesterday. Bonds walked into the Giants clubhouse at 10:20 a.m. yesterday wearing a T-shirt with...
A 'DANDY' COMEBACK FOR 'STREET'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - It's been 12 years since a Kentucky Derby winner won a race at the Old Spa, when Thunder Gulch took the Travers in 1995. So the crowd...
HONDO BEARING UP
Hondo followed up his Saturday night sweep with a lone conquest yesterday, breezing with the Blue Jays to decrease the damage to 535 halickis. Tonight, he's hoping Lilly doesn't gum...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Watson wins Senior British In Gullane, Scotland, Tom Watson won his third Senior British Open in five years yesterday after a final round 73 yesterday gave him a one-stroke...
IT'S NIP AND TUCK
ALBANY - Out of the muck, mire and silliness of the Michael Strahan holdout we bring you Justin Tuck, who as a contrast is delighted to be here and, he...
MANNING GETS A LEG UP
ALBANY - Leadership takes on many forms and doesn't always have to be trumpeted. Eli Manning is never going to lead with his mouth, but he did make a statement...
NEW LEASH ON LIFE
A year ago, Justin McCareins had a front-row seat in purgatory. During the first couple days of the 2006 training camp, the Jets' seventh-year receiver was so deep into Eric...
REVIS' HOLDOUT IRKING MANGINI
The longer the Darrelle Revis contract holdout drags on, the more irritable Jets coaches and management become. Revis, the Jets' top draft pick, No. 14 overall, missed his fourth and...
KENDALL EXPECTS TO BE LET GO
Pete Kendall, the Jets' disgruntled guard, said yesterday he believes the Jets are making an example out of him and he said he thinks it's a matter of time before...
REELING LIBERTY DROP SIXTH STRAIGHT
It's six losses and counting for the Liberty. Katie Douglas scored 26 points to lead the Connecticut Sun (14-12) to a 67-61 win over the Liberty yesterday before 8,303 at...
SUPER MAINE RAINS ON NATS
By the time the Mets extended their two-run lead during the fourth inning yesterday, the only concern was whether they'd beat the rain. Beating the hapless Nationals seemed no problem...
TEAM-PLAYER CASTRO ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS
A few minutes after the skies opened and enough rain began to fall to halt play at Shea Stadium, Ramon Castro's cell phone was ringing. Castro was in the clubhouse...
IT'S HIT OR MISS LATELY FOR REYES
Jose Reyes lately hasn't had a gray area. He's either creating a commotion, in the middle of most Mets rallies, or nowhere to be found in the line score. Yesterday...
IMMEDIATE PLANS CALL FOR RELIEF HELP BY TRADE
The Mets believe most of the available starting pitchers, such as the White Sox's Jose Contreras, will still be on the market well beyond tomorrow's non-waiver trade deadline. Therefore, their...
DL STINT LIKELY FOR BELTRAN
Carlos Beltran has already missed six games, and he said he's not close to playing. A trip to the disabled list seems a matter of time after yesterday's MRI revealed...
SLATS NOT FAIR! RANGERS CALL AVERY 'DETRIMENT' IN BRIEF
Rangers coach Tom Renney repeatedly referred to Sean Avery as one of the team's most valuable components during the drive to the conference semifinals, so imagine the 27-year-old winger's surprise...
KYLE'S STYLE A SPOILER
BALTIMORE - A very tired Yankees team found enough energy to overcome the handicap that Kyle Farnsworth has become to a club whose season is circling the drain. Brought into...
PERFECT SET-UP
THERE are questions whether the Rangers are serious about keeping Eric Gagne if they do not get a significant prospect by tomorrow's trade deadline. There are questions whether the Yankees...
NO TALKIN', ALL WALKIN' FOR A-ROD
BALTIMORE - As Alex Rodriguez headed back to the dugout in the eighth inning yesterday after being forced out at second base, he took off his batting gloves and tossed...
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...
DAMON: JASON SET TO RETURN
BALTIMORE - Jason Giambi told Johnny Damon that he is ready to come off the disabled list but don't look for him in The Bronx tomorrow night. Damon spoke to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
New Yorkers will have another thing to lease come September, when a California woman brings her rent-a-dog business to the city. Marlena Cervantes, who runs FlexPetz, says members will shell...