August 4, 2007
Me, Natalie
While some of her peers are busy acting out, Natalie Portman is touring the Maine camp of Seeds of Peace, an organzation that fosters international cooperation. Here the star of...
Matt vs. Homer
"The Bourne Superemacy'' grabbed $25.5 in early Friday tallies, which Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls figures will translate into a better-than-expected $72 million for three days. That's not only the...
FRESH AIR FUN
JUST when you thought summer was about over, some new outdoor performance series are actually beginning this month, breathing new life into a wilting season. Led by the Lincoln Center...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYHUSTLE AND FLOW: Go retro at Playday, part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors' "Summer of Love" festival. From 2 to 6 p.m., families can learn '60s steps like the...
OUTSIDER ART
IF Henry James is right and the two loveliest words in the language are "summer afternoon," why spend it in a museum? Pack a picnic basket and head for a...
ROBIN HOME, RESTING
'Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts is home and resting comfortably after undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer yesterday. "Robin's surgery was very successful today. She has already left the...
FOX'S FALL MAKEOVER
FOX has already begun tin kering with its fall schedule. The latest move will pair the crime drama "Bones" with "House" on Tuesdays. "House" is one of TV's most-watched dramas,...
FLAVA CLOCKS IN FOR 'LOVE 3'
FLAVA Flav will return for another taste of VH1's "Flavor of Love" - and this time viewers will choose the gals vying for his affection. Production on the surprise third...
TW CABLE AIRING LOST 'DAMAGES' EPISODE
LAST Tuesday's episode of "Damages" will be available to Time Warner cable customers on its free on-demand channel, Ch. 1001, through Tuesday. Viewers missed about 10 minutes of the Glenn...
PHAT BORE
KIMORA Lee Simmons, nearly-ex of mogul Russell Simmons, is the latest to join the too-long line of demanding divas starring in an unwatchable show about the boring minutiae of her...
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
THE bite and bark of "Underdog" are both pretty awful, but little kids might take this pooch for a walk. This superhero comedy is a super-loose live-action adaptation of the...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Your way with words will come to your rescue on more than one occasion over the next 12 months as you take chances and get yourself caught up in all...
NO HEADLINE
A secret fear will resurface this weekend, prompting you to face whatever it is that scares you the most. It would be easier, of course, if you were to let...
MIKE TAKING WTC $$ PLEA ON ROAD
Mayor Bloomberg will be hitting the road this fall to help solicit donations for the World Trade Center memorial. "I'll go to a couple of cities," Bloomberg said on his...
HEAT DRAINS CON ED IN BROOKLYN
Residents in several Brooklyn neighborhoods may have felt yesterday's sweltering heat a little more than most. Con Ed reduced its voltage by 5 percent in Flatbush, East Flatbush, Crown Heights,...
NAUGHTY FIRE 'EQUIPMENT'
Fire officials poured water yesterday on the wildly popular calendar featuring the department's hunkiest hunks after a video featuring this cover boy waving his God-given hose began making the rounds...
$1.25M POTHOLE
How much does it cost to repair a pothole? Try $1.25 million. The city agreed to pay the whopping sum to settle a negligence lawsuit brought by a woman who...
NEW COP 'GANG-TACKLED'
An unarmed NYPD recruit was robbed by four Bloods gang members on a Bronx subway platform, sources told The Post. The attack occurred at 11 p.m. Thursday as the 22-year-old...
MR. SOFTEE DEALT HARD DRUGS: COPS
Do you want sprinkles with that marijuana? A Mister Softee ice cream man was arrested yesterday for selling drugs out of his truck in Queens, police said. He was also...
SEA COPS AND BOBBERS
Three stooges caused chaos in New York Harbor yesterday when an art project involving a replica Revolutionary War submarine sparked terror fears along the Brooklyn waterfront, where the Queen Mary...
GETTING AHEAD CAN BE A BITCH
Women need to control their anger at work or risk being seen as "out of control" and incompetent, although men can get ahead by blowing a gasket, a new study...
GOV AIDE IN LATEST STORM
ALBANY - A new ethics scandal hit Gov. Spitzer's administration yesterday as a top policy adviser, facing the imminent release of a "critical" report on charges he threatened a Public...
'DRUGGED' DUCK
A Sunset Park tavern called The Thirsty Duck was raking in thousands of extra dollars by selling pot and cocaine under the table, Brooklyn prosecutors said yesterday. The accusations are...
VICTORIA'S SECRET TAX 'SHELTERS'
Victoria Gotti won't pay the real-estate taxes on her ex-husband Carmine Agnello's properties - and she's quietly buying up the buildings at auction when the city forecloses on them, said...
WIFE BACKING UP POL IN 'RAPE'
She's been cheated, been mistreated - but the wife of rape suspect Dennis Gallagher is standing by her man. Donna Gallagher yesterday openly embraced the embattled Queens councilman - who...
STOP-&-FRISK COUNT DROPS
The number of people stopped and frisked by the NYPD dropped more than 12 percent for the second quarter of the year compared to figures from the same period last...
TWIST IN BODEGA ROB-SLAY
Investigators said a string of bodega robberies in Queens - including one that left a father of seven daughters dead - is likely not the work of a single group...
H'WOOD DOG MAUL
Ving Rhames' hulking mastiffs set their fangs on a caretaker and mauled him to death at the "Pulp Fiction" actor's L.A. home, officials said yesterday. The savaged corpse of the...
TRUSS ME - SPANS OK: MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg insisted yesterday the Big Apple's bridges are safe, despite the fact that the majority of the largest spans ranked in poor or fair condition in the city's most...
CONEY I. RIDER HURLED
A 15-year-old girl was injured yesterday when she was tossed from a popular ride at Coney Island's Astroland Park, authorities said. The teen, identified as Lanique Watts, 15, of Brooklyn,...
TOP PRO EYED IN SUSPICIOUS LOSS
LONDON - Tennis officials yesterday were investigating suspicious betting patterns on a match involving top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, who quit with an injury against a low-ranked opponent at a...
ROBOTS ROLL INTO IRAQ WAR ZONE
They're not quite Terminators, but robots have taken to the battlefield. Machine-gun-toting robots have been on patrol in Iraq since April, and they will be involved in combat "soon," it...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A pervert was arrested in Midtown for attempting to snap pictures up a woman's skirt in a subway station, police sources said yesterday. Caroberto Cordero, 31, allegedly placed a...
SENATE OKS WIRETAP BILL AFTER PREZ PRESS
WASHINGTON - In a high-stakes showdown over national security, the Senate voted late yesterday to give President Bush temporary authority to eavesdrop on foreign terrorists without court warrants The House,...
3 DEMS IN IOWA KNOT
The Democratic contest in Iowa has become a three-way dead heat, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and rivals Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards locked in a statistical tie, a...
'NOT RUNNING' MIKE IS TALKING
For a guy who claims to have no interest in the White House, Mayor Bloomberg certainly seems to be spending a lot of time discussing the possibilities of an independent...
W. BOPS 'BOMBER' OBAMA
President Bush thumped Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, saying it was "unsavory" to raise the specter of military strikes in U.S. ally Pakistan, officials there said yesterday. Bush...
EDWARDS REFUSES TO RETURN HIS RUPEES
WASHINGTON - John Edwards yesterday refused to return $800,000 he was paid for a book published by a News Corp. subsidiary - despite his calls for other Democrats to give...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 372; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 4120; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 076; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 1883;...
MINNESOTA MIRACLE
"We were surprised that we didn't have more people seriously injured and killed. I think it was something of a miracle."- Minneapolis Fire Chief Jim Clack, discussing the collapseof the...
DEMS' SAUDI DISHONESTY
Some of New York's congressional representatives are among the most vocal critics of a proposed U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia and several other Gulf nations. After Reps. Anthony Weiner...
CORZINE'S E-MAIL ENIGMA
Eliot Spitzer isn't the only local governor with legal troubles. Across the Hudson, a judge yesterday refused to throw out a GOP lawsuit demanding to know what Gov. Jon Corzine...
KILLING CAMELOT
FROM a distance of nearly 50 years, the liberalism of 1960 is hardly recognizable. It was comfortable with the use of American power abroad, unabashedly patriotic and forward-looking. But that...
HARRY'S EXCUSE FOR TERROR STALL
SENATE Majority Leader Harry Reid shrugged off White House complaints that the Senate's delay is curtailing U.S. moni toring of international terrorists by putting the blame on a fellow Democrat....
LOUIMA'S JUST REWARD: BLAME THE BAD COPS
We New Yorkers don't care about these officers, Tommy Wiese, Tommy Bruder, Chuck Schwarz or Justin Volpe, because the crimes the two latter men were convicted of show them to...
WATERED-DOWN EQUAL RIGHTS
People are legally allowed to burn the Stars and Stripes, but a Pace student gets arrested for putting the Koran into a toilet. What is wrong with this country ("Enter...
BEAR BLOODIED
Mortgage-bond trading powerhouse Bear Stearns has taken some emergency measures to right its listing 0 ship, dismissing President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Warren Spector and beginning a dialogue with regulators...
INVESTORS BAIL OUT OF STOCKS; DOW TUMBLES 281
Wall Street retreated in near panic over a doomsday comment by Bear Stearns' chief money man that the debt market rout is the worst he's ever seen. Blue chips plummeted...
ANALYST RIPS TIME WARNER
Time Warner's weak second-quarter results prompted Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield to release a blistering report on Thursday in which he called on the company's board to shake up management...
GAME DELAY BATTERS FIRM
A delay in the release of the next installment of the hit video game "Grand Theft Auto" sent investors stealing away from publisher Take-Two Interactive yesterday. The New York-based company...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Sabbatini leads In Akron, Ohio, Rory Sabbatini continued to make a difficult Firestone golf course look like a breeze yesterday, shooting another 3-under 67 and taking a two-shot lead...
HONDO HUFFS & PUFFS
Hondo huffs & puffs It's official: those Harvard kids are sharp. Hondo, following the sagacious suggestion of Post intern Jonathan Lehman, hit with the Padres last night to lower the...
COUNTING ON CANO, CABRERA
The Yankees weren't sure what to expect from Melky Cabrera this year. Robinson Cano, however, they figured they could count on. Yet both players were mired in slumps throughout much...
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...
'PRINCESS' SHOOTS FOR UPSET
Pampered Princess hopes to go from rags to riches in today's $1.5 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands. The champion filly will take on the males and look for the upset...
'RUSH' FACES TEST
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Old Spa earned its moniker "the graveyard of favorites" not because the winning percentage has been lower over the years here than at other tracks -...
IT'S SHOW-ME TIME FOR JINTS' NEW NO. 55
ALBANY - A year ago, amid much fanfare, LaVar Arrington embarked on a Giants career wearing No. 55, calling himself Mr. Nickels, but his ascension never got off the ground....
A REAL DRAG
SAN DIEGO - As Barry Bonds sat in the dugout at Scottsdale Stadium in spring training, a smirk came across his face while discussing the home-run record. "You know how...
ANDERSON ROOTING FOR SLUGGER FROM SLAMMER
SAN FRANCISCO - Greg Anderson is rooting from prison for Barry Bonds to break Hank Aaron's home-run record. The convicted steroids peddler and weight trainer has been in prison for...
CHUMP CHANGE
ALBANY - Michael Strahan wants Giants fans to know that his holdout - which has now reached seven days and counting - has nothing to do with money and everything...
SUPER BRAD: SMITH SHOWS JETS HE CAN DO IT ALL
See the talented second-year player make one acrobatic catch after another as a receiver, beating defensive backs with twice the NFL experience he has. See the player excel on special...
MYSTICS TOP REELING LIBERTY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alana Beard scored 24 points, and Nakia Sanford scored 16 points to help the Mystics defeat the Liberty 80-68 last night. The Mystics (11-15) snapped a two-game...
SWELL-GADO
David Wright jumps for joy after scoring the go-ahead run on a double by Carlos Delgado (inset) in the ninth inning of the Mets' 6-2 victory over the Cubs yesterday...
GOTAY GETS 2ND CHANCE
CHICAGO - In the eighth inning yesterday, Ruben Gotay was down 0-2 in the count, then eventually worked a 10-pitch at-bat for a double that nearly started a go-ahead rally....
HUGHES RETURNS TO ROTATION TODAY
The last time we saw Phil Hughes in a Yankees uniform, he was the feel-good story of a season that was off to a rocky beginning. He was working on...
CHIEN, YANKS GET THE WIN...
They stuffed their sweaty bodies into Yankee Stadium hoping to see Alex Rodriguez make history. When they left the sold-out ballpark, Rodriguez was still searching for the elusive homer, but...
SUMMER OF '77
AUGUST 4, 1977ANGELS 5, YANKEES 3 SEATTLE-A week ago Billy Martin announced his win-the- series theory. The Yankees don't play the Orioles again and they have just five September games...
500 WILL COME, CAREER MARK MORE IFFY
AND so our long national nightmare enters its 10th day, with Alex Rodriguez still at 499 home runs and counting, in a manner of speaking. Forget the flashes from the...
ALEX THE GREAT
Initially, Alex Rodriguez remained virtually frozen at the plate. Had he kept the towering fly ball fair? Had he finally done it? With two on and one out in the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Go down, Moses - way down to federal prison. A real-estate developer named Charles Moses violated the Clean Water Act by trying to part the waters of an Idaho creek...