August 7, 2007
Yankees Activate Chamberlin and Giambi
Today the Yankees called up Jason Giambi and Joba Chamberlin while sending Brian Bruney and Miguel Cairo to AAA. Giambi had hit just .227 in nine minor league rehab games,...
Series pick
Back at Shea, and wanted to pass on my series pick. It's a big one, and I say the Mets will get it done. They'll beat Atlanta for the first...
Aaron Asham Defects to Devils
Right wing Arron Asham, who appeared in a career-high 80 games with the New York Islanders last season, was signed as a free agent by the New Jersey Devils today."Arron...
MacClean, et al Buy Lightning
A group of buyers, led by former Florida Panthers coach and Blue Jackets GM Doug MacLean, has agreed to purchase the Tampa Bay Lightning."Absolute zero thought of [moving the team],"...
LIVEBLOG/SF: Bloomies and bulgogi
Peeking in the kitchen at Out the Door in the new San Francisco Centre/via sfphotorama.comWhen you are San Francisco, it is not enough that you should splay for the whole...
Collins Lands ESPN Gig
Veteran tennis analyst Bud Collins, who was unceremoniously dumped from NBC last month after 35 years, has landed at ESPN.Collins, who starts his new gig in 2008, will appear on...
Deal of the Day
It's a lightweight beach top that would look best as normal casual wear on the street rather than on the sand.The Crazy Carol Tunic is part of the bright stained...
DVD Extra: Dream Team
No star duo made more movies together during Hollywood's Golden Age than William Powell and Myrna Loy -- 13 films over 14 years, not counting Loy's sly cameo at the...
Randolph Morris Charged With Reckless Driving
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- New York Knicks player Randolph Morris was arrested in Lexington early Tuesday and charged with reckless driving, a court official said.Morris, a former center for Kentucky,...
Matt Kicks Russell's Butt
Even before "The Bourne Ultimatum'' set the new record for August openings, Matt Damon was the best bargain in Hollywood, Forbes calculates. Dividing film grosses (about half of which go...
Just in time for "Rush Hour 3"...
For years now, the site Television Without Pity has performed the invaluable public service of publishing in-depth, hilarious and often highly snarky play-by-plays of various shows. Finally, one of our...
EATS: One man, loves his meat
This week is all about San Francisco and the food that is in San Francisco, but first I have to get there. So, this morning, Andy Wang, Real Estate Editor...
GUIDE TO THE CITY'S HUSH-HUSH FINDS
YOU likely won't find a place in America more storied, more chronicled, more waxed about than Brooklyn, from Walt Whitman to Jonathan Safran Foer, from egg creams to di Fara's,...
HIDDEN BROOKLYN
FOOD * Joe's Superette This tiny grocery store on Smith Street "makes the best rice balls (arancini) on the planet," says the founder of seriouseats.com, Ed Levine. "It's one of...
MPFREES
Constantine Maroulis, "Everybody Loves" Despite Maroulis' carefully honed "rocker" image on the fourth season of "American Idol," the first single off his debut record, "Constantine," is more of a feel-good,...
SHROUDED HOUSE OPEN AGAIN
IN an era when bands re unite for the love of money - even if the members hate each other - it's refreshing to see Crowded House come back together...
RUNNER-UP MAROULIS STEPS BACK FROM 'IDOL' MOMENT
EVERYONE knows even losers are winners on "American Idol." Need proof? Take a gander at Clay Aiken and Chris Daughtry - both are chart-topping, platinum-selling artists, even though they weren't...
THE TWEEN SCENE
All hail Nickelodeon's "Drake and Josh" (Drake Bell, Josh Peck): The duo's movie, "Drake & Josh: Re ally Big Shrimp," snared 5.8 million viewers last Friday as the highest-rated TV...
SUMMER SANJAYA TELLS ALL
AMERICA never got to meet Boy Tina Turner. That was the next act that Luigi Padilla - better known as Boy Shakira - had planned for tonight's "America's Got Talent."...
DAN EYES NBC
DAN Patrick says leaving ESPN was like graduat ing from high school - and that he could land at NBC next summer. "I sort of viewed ESPN as going to...
VANESSA'S EX JOINS 'UGLY BETTY'
RICK Fox, who was once married to Vanessa Williams, will star on "Ugly Betty" with his ex-wife - as her bodyguard. Fox, 38, is joining the cast of the hit...
CRAMER GOES CUCKOO
CNBC's Jim Cramer - who became a YouTube star over the weekend after an on-air meltdown - says he'd do it again. But he won't. The "Mad Money" host, appearing...
TYRA: NO FEAR
The fashion model-turned-talk-show-host was spotted downtown over the weekend filming new promotional spots for her daily show, "The Tyra Banks Show," which is moving from LA to New York this...
LEGEND OF B.B.'S LUCILLE
AT 82 years old, just about everything that can be said about B.B. King has been said. He's America's greatest living guitarist, an extraordinary bluesman who crossed over to the...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
With luck planet Jupiter moving in your favor on your birthday there is no doubt at all that you will achieve something remarkable this year, something that even your supporters...
WELCOME, CLASS OF 2021
Kindergarteners starting school this year will graduate from high school in 2021, and while it's hard to prepare for what the world will be like then, there is a lot...
READING RIGHT
Hugo & Miles in I've Painted Everything Scott Magoon (Houghton Mifflin, $16. Ages 4-8) Hugo, the artist in question, and his friend Miles leave for a whirlwind trip to Paris....
WHAT'S ON
August 7 - 12 * Cowboy Bandanas Children's Museum of Manhattan 212 W. 83 St. (212) 721-1234 www.cmom.org Kids learn why cowboys wear bandanas and decorate their own. August 8...
LICKING THE HEAT
* Hippest Ice Cream ParlorMary's Dairy 171 W. 4th St. (212) 242-6874; www.marysdairynyc. com Mod New York style with wickedly good old-fashioned ice cream, with 14 percent butterfat and exotic...
HAPPY CAMPERS
The call comes. "I wanna come ho, ho, ho-home," your child mutters in between heaving sobs. But it's just three days into sleepaway summer camp session. Should you cave in...
KIDSTECH
Those mutable robots are popular with dads as much as with kids just learning their three Rs. With its low pixel count and greeny grey LCD screen, this machine is...
ASPIRIN AMAZES EVEN AT AGE 110
"Take two aspirin and call me in the morning." So goes the old punch line. But 110 years after the discovery of what's formally called acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin remains a...
CHUCK: INSPECT TUNNELS
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday called on the U.S. Department of Transportation to stop neglecting the safety of the nation's tunnels and mandate the same inspections that are required for bridges....
JOE: STOP E-VADING
ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the target of the Troopergate plot, called yesterday for subpoenas to be issued for private e-mails sent by top aides to Gov. Spitzer...
STUDENT IN NYU HORROR MURDER
The beautiful young daughter of two prominent NYU professors was found dead - her rot ting corpse surrounded by condom wrappers - in her Greenwich Village bedroom in what cops...
U.N. GUY IN 100G IMMIG FRAUD: FEDS
A United Nations translator and his pal pocketed more than $100,000 helping illegal aliens slip into the country through a ruse that made it appear they were attending U.N.-sponsored conferences,...
CITIZEN MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg showed up for jury duty yesterday like any regular Joe - but, unlike most, he was asked for autographs, sketched by courtroom artists, and greeted personally by the...
FREE CABBY LOSES FARE FIGHT
Taxi driver Ray Kottner's meter has run out. The freewheeling octogenarian cabby, who for several years has offered complimentary rides to anyone who hailed his taxi, will have to go...
N.Y. AIR DELAYS PLANE AWFUL
Nearly half of all flights to New York's three major airports arrive late, according to delay figures released yesterday. And the numbers show that Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark rated...
SERVING UP A LAWSUIT
The latest creation from the embattled Ci priani family of restau rateurs involves turn ing lemons into lemonade. The family filed a $20 million lawsuit against its landlord at the...
'DWI' MOM'S SON: I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS DRUNK
The cop whose allegedly DWI mom plowed into three members of a family in Queens said last night that he would never have let her get behind the wheel if...
'LET'S GET OUT OF HERE'
They knew they were in trouble. The four promising college kids shot in a Newark schoolyard massacre over the weekend sent text messages to one another moments after they were...
BOOZE RAP FOR 'POUR' L.I. MOM
A Long Island mom became the first parent to be busted under a new Nassau County law that makes it a crime to give booze to minors, when she allowed...
EX-HUBBY WHO BRIBED DIVORCE JUDGE CAGED
A Brooklyn father who admitted bribing a crooked judge with cash, cigars and nearly $10,000 in food and booze for help in his bitter divorce, was carted off to jail...
GWYNETH GETS BACK INTO THE 'ACTION!'
Gwyneth Paltrow is jumping off the mommy track and making a comeback - as an action hero. The former Hollywood golden girl recently took a break from the limelight -...
CONEY LAND SWAP EYED TO END SAND-STILL
A boardwalk land swap is on the table that could salvage the fast-fading dream of returning Coney Island to its glory days, The Post has learned. With the Bloomberg administration...
VINNY'S BITTER HALF
She still wants him to suffer, just not that much. The wife of convicted Bonanno boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano has made an impassioned plea to a judge to spring...
'BATMAN'-SLAY JUROR RECANTS GUILTY VERDICT
A juror who found a man guilty last month for the 1989 "Batman" Bronx movie-theater murder said she did so only because she felt pressured by the other panelists, The...
'CENTRAL' PARK-ING CUTBACKS
Score it Bicyclists, 1 - Privileged Parkers in Central Park, 0. The Parks Department has abruptly canceled all 90 parking placards for Central Park's jammed East Drive, effective Aug. 15....
WOODSTOCK SALE
The homestead that played host to famed music festival Woodstock in 1969 is up for grabs to anybody who can afford the $8 million asking price. Although Max Yasgur's original...
KILLER NO LIAR, DA TELLS JURY
The star witness is a coldblooded killer who ratted on his old colleagues from Brighton Beach's Russian mob to get a better sentencing deal - and that's exactly why he...
COPS NAB 'KISSING BANDIT'
Cops bagged a career criminal who cozied up to his female victims during his most recent venture - a two-week Upper West Side robbery spree. The bandit would follow his...
WHAT A KICK!
Suddenly soccer-crazed New Yorkers will be in for a bitter shock if David Beckham's ankle isn't fully healed in time for his scheduled match at Giants Stadium - they won't...
L.I. MA RUNS OVER SON, 5
A Long Island mother killed her 5-year-old son when she accidentally rolled her minivan over him in the driveway of the family's burned-out home, authorities said yesterday. Christine Schilling told...
QNS. 'RAPE' POL GETS STRIPPED
A day after embattled Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher was hit with a 10-count rape indictment, Council Speaker Christine Quinn pushed him to withdraw from his council responsibilities, it was...
DUBYA'S DARING SURGE WORKING
Associated Pressmilitary writer Robert Burns, on his 18th reporting trip to Iraq since the start of the war in 2003, has written about U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle...
OLMERT EYES A 'PALESTINE'
JERICHO, West Bank - In their first meeting on Palestinian soil, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday he hopes to launch negotiations "soon" on establishing...
RUDY KID STABBED DADDY IN THE BARACK
Rudy Giuliani's sweet Caroline has apparently soured on Daddy - signing up for Barack Obama. Caroline Giuliani, 17, who is said to be estranged from her dad, registered on the...
ADOPT MOM 'BEAT ME'
ST. PETERSBERG, Fla. - The first adoptee freed from the clutches of abusive mom Judith Leekin told caretakers at a Florida shelter she was beaten and even tethered to other...
DEMS' CODDLE THE TERRORISTS
LITTLE did they know it, but terrorist suspects living in Pakistan recently had their rights to privacy enhanced. It happened through the magic of adventurous judicial interpretation of an outdated...
HILL PALS $PECIAL: BARACK
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama slammed Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday for allowing special-interest lobbyists help bankroll her presidential campaign, ratcheting up his efforts to paint Clinton as a Washington insider. Obama...
SUPPORT GROWS FOR IRAQ TROOP JOB: POLL
WASHINGTON - President Bush's troop surge in Iraq is enjoying a surge in support from American voters, according to a new poll. Thirty-one percent of respondents said the additional troops...
DEFENSE DISASTER
Moviemaker Michael Bay blasted an Armageddon-sized hole in Phil Spector's defense yesterday, denying that he blew off slain actress Lana Clarkson and turned her into a sobbing mess. A key...
NYPD BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A fake gynecologist was arrested for molesting a Greenwich Village salon manager and stealing $300 from her, authorities said yesterday. In late July, Michael Forman, 66, allegedly told the...
SHIRTING THE ISSUE
HOW many ways can you define "sui cidal"? The school hasn't even opened yet. But the hijab-wearing principal of a taxpayer-funded school founded especially for Arab students has issued a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 889; Lucky Sum: 25 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 1843; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 211; Lucky Sum: 4 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
POWER TO THE AG
Gov. Spitzer wants folks to think Troo pergate involved just two top aides, but reports by Post State Editor Fre dric U. Dicker about undisclosed private e-mails suggest otherwise. And...
JOEL KLEIN'S CHOICE
Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser is to be principal of Khalil Gibran Interna tional Academy, New York City's new Arabic-centered public school, when it opens in the fall. Either she is a...
BIG APPLE BASEBALL
It was a New York baseball weekend! Saturday, Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to hit 500 home runs when he connected off of Kansas City Royals starter Kyle Davies...
SAUDIS, ARMS & TERROR
SAUDI Arabia is often touted as one of America's closest Middle Eastern allies. Indeed, the Bush administration is now negotiating a $20 billion arms deal providing the Saudis with America's...
IT'S TIME TO LET KOSOVO BE FREE
KOSOVO, my country, is in suspended animation - a victim of grotesque power politics. A decade ago, the leadership of Serbia waged an ethnic-cleansing campaign against the ethnic Albanians of...
BRIDGE 'BLAME' THE FAILURE IS ALL OURS
THE partisans began lining up their argu ments of conven ience almost immediately after the collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis. The calamity was President Bush's fault, said newly...
PAYING THE PRICE FOR NEGLECTING BRIDGES
I am waiting for the Democrats and the media to blame President Bush for the recent bridge collapse over the Mississippi ("Death Roar as Bridge Falls," Aug. 2). American society...
NYMEX LINING UP BIDDERS FOR BUILDING
The New York Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest energy market, is quietly fielding offers for its lower Manhattan headquarters ahead of a deal to sell itself to a rival exchange,...
DEAD CAT BOUNCE
Wall Street pulled itself from a free-fall nightmare yesterday on hopes Uncle Sam will soak up junk mortgages and reopen the spigot for cheap credit to flow through the economy....
NO FED RATE CUT BUT THERE ARE OTHER SOLUTIONS
THE Federal Reserve won't cut interest rates today. And there won't be a reduction in rates at the Sept. 18 meeting, either. Ditto for when the Fed's policy-making Open Market...
GRAY LADY GIRDLE
The New York Times yesterday became the last of the big dailies to shrink its pages, making it one-and-a-half inches narrower. With few design changes to accompany the shrinkage, however,...
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED
The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. After much internal debate, Times executives...
ONLINE AD WAR
Web advertisers are spreading their online ad dollars across more sites and are paying lower rates in many cases, putting pricing pressure on established Internet players. Several companies are already...
UPPER DECK HEADS BACK TO THE PLATE
Topps Co., the maker of baseball cards and Bazooka bubble gum, said Upper Deck Co. is free to begin a $425 million bid for Topps after an antitrust waiting period...
GOOGLE'S MORBID NEW TUNE
Music publishers yesterday joined the growing list of companies gearing up to do battle with Google and YouTube over copyright infringement. The National Music Publishers' Association, the largest music-publishing association...
SITT'N PRETTY ON BROADWAY
WHILE Thor Equities CEO Joseph Sitt squabbles with the city over Coney Island redevelopment, he's keeping his hand in elsewhere. Sitt is a major partner in the just-completed, unannounced, $190...
SONGS FOR LESS
As Amazon.com gears up to launch a digital music download store later this year, the online retail giant is exploring alternatives to pricing all songs at 99 cents. The company...
NO BABY EINSTEINS
Which is better for a child's vocabulary, 'Baby Einstein' or 'American Idol'? It sounds like a trick question, but a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics proves that babies...
NYC BOGUS TICKET BUST
Four NYPD traffic agents were busted yesterday after they were caught writing bogus summonses in Manhattan, police said. Davey Griffin, 30, Raheem King, 26, Julian Fisher, 24, and Gregory Baird,...
FAME NOT FLEETING TO 'BIZ'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Jose Santos got big standing ovation when he was newest jockey inducted into Racing Hall of Fame yesterday. Joining Santos were former trainer John Veitch, 30 years...
PICKS 'R' HONDO
Picks 'R' Hondo Byrd became a fine feathered friend to Hondo last night as he flipped the Twins to lower the deficit to a tidy 355 boudreaus. Tonight, Mr. Aitch...
BUSCH TO JOIN GIBBS RACING
Kyle Busch reportedly has chosen to join Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) next season, replacing J.J. Yeley in the No. 18 car. Busch will join Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin on...
TRANSFER WORRIES A SUMMER BUMMER
Jack Alesi never used to worry about losing players to different schools during the summer. And since the Xaverian basketball coach routinely sends players to Big East schools, and guided...
ANOTHER ROUGH START
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Another mishap in the starting gate, one of several so far through the first two weeks of the meet, resulted in Phone Home, the even-money favorite in...
PACMAN JOINS RASSLIN' RING
NASHVILLE - Adam "Pacman" Jones is stepping into the ring and giving pro wrestling a whirl. His latest career move was announced yesterday at a new conference. The suspended Titans...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Yao gets hitchedYao Ming married his long-term girlfriend yesterday at a swanky hotel in his hometown of Shanghai. The 7-foot-6 Rockets star center tied the knot with Ye Li,...
SAY NAY, BARRY
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds spent the final hour before last night's game with the Nationals in a clubhouse office chatting with his godfather, Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Bonds...
LOOKING FOR SEPARATION
They're more armed than before and more dangerous than before. There are some other enemies on the Braves now, and tonight at Shea, the Mets will battle their newest archrivals....
GLAV TIDINGS
Pedro Martinez is impressed that he's earned 200 victories. Which is one reason why he's gushing about Tom Glavine. Martinez was one of multiple sports stars to be part of...
STRAHAN RETURN EXPECTED BY VETS
ALBANY - There was no buzz generated at training camp after the lengthy statement Michael Strahan issued late Sunday night, and most veterans expect the star defensive end to arrive...
STRIKE IT RICH
ALBANY - Watch any Giants practice here or hang around outside the team cafeteria and before long, Rich Seubert will catch your attention. Training camp is no favorite of any...
BAKER COULD BE SITTING ON A BIG SEASON
The Jets have wanted Chris Baker to become a more vital part of the offense for several years. Although the Springfield Gardens native did catch a career-high 31 passes a...
PENNANT FERVOR
THERE haven't been enough games like these through the years, regular-season baseball games at Shea Stadium that can make the whole city take up and pay attention. Too many Mets...
GIAMBI'S RETURN ON HOLD
TORONTO - Jason Giambi is expected at Rogers Centre today, but it's not a lock he is jumping off the disabled list. "He may not be activated [today]," Joe Torre...
MOVINTAGE
TORONTO - Mariano Rivera's Hall-of-Fame career doesn't require additional validation. He won't need more than one ballot to enter Cooperstown. Yet, how he pitches across the final eight weeks of...
HOOP STAR DEAD AT 80
Al Rubenstein, a star player at the University of Cincinnati in the late 1940s, died on July 13 in Cedarhurst, L.I., after a prolonged illness. He was 80. A Brooklyn...
THE TIGER RULES
TULSA - Memo to the field assembled for the PGA Championship this week at Southern Hills: Don't tick off Tiger Woods. That's not good for your psyche, confidence and -...
SUMMER OF '77
CATFISH Hunter continued to be victimized by the longball, as Seattle roughed him up with four home runs last night in a 9-2 win over the Yankees at the Kingdome....
NETS LIKELY TO RENEW TALKS FOR PACERS' O'NEAL
The Nets can't comment, but they can try to renew trade talks. Multiple sources indicated that's the plan regarding Jermaine O'Neal after the Indiana star said at a charity event...
JOBA HAS A MAJOR-LEAGUE JOB
TORONTO - Having cleared up a passport issue, stud pitching prospect Joba Chamberlain flew here yesterday and will be in the Yankees' bullpen tonight. The club planned to have the...
SAVVY SURFING
IT is official - the tables have turned. According to a study released by PhoCusWright, which tracks travel industry trends, this is the year where the majority of travel dollars...
DOWN THE TUBES
TICK, TOCK! There's less than a month of summer left. But a few more trips to the park is definitely not the answer. Why not get your kids involved in...
GET YOUR WINGS
KAYAKwww.kayak.com Possibly the most useful fare search engine (not to mention a great jumping off point for booking hotels and cars.) The most popular aggregator at the moment, it is...
READY, SET, BOOK!
which, in search engine fashion, compiles data from third party sites as well as directly from the airlines. Perhaps the most popular type of site right now, aggregators are not...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An airline losing your luggage is one thing - losing your kid is another. Canadian dad Greg Henry says WestJet lost his 7-year-old son, Will, when the boy was traveling...