August 14, 2007
Plenty of updates
Here I am in lovely Pittsburgh at PNC Park -- got a bunch of updates for you on everything from Pedro to Castro to Chavez to the lineup. I'll keep...
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Kendra Smalter wears a green vintage thrift dress she cut off, her shoes are thrift from Kansas and her bag was her mom's. "I wanted something thin. I manage a...
Heroes Beams Up Another Star Trek Alumnus
The hit NBC drama has recruited Nichelle Nichols, better known as Lt. Uhura from the classic Star Trek series, to play a grandmother this season, according to tvguide.com. Nichols joins...
Knicks get Garnett twice in preseason
By MARC BERMANThe Knicks released their preseason schedule moments ago and they get Kevin Garnett twice during exhibitions - if he plays.The Knicks play in Boston Oct. 17 and host...
Buscemi's Finest Hour(s)
Twelve years after its release, Tom DiCillo's film "Living in Oblivion" remains maybe the best portrait of the surreal world that is independent filmmaking - and it's also one of...
Vick Close to Plea Deal?
Dog-loving Michael Vick is close to striking a plea deal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting.The paper, quoting "a person with knowledge of the negotiations," said an agreement could be reached...
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Brynn White wears high waisted jeans from Anthropology by a brand called Bicacheia with a little kerchief top from a vintage shop in Louisville, thrift bag and shoes from Anthropology....
Phil Rizzuto Dies at 89
Yankees legend Phil Rizzuto passed away today at the age of 89.A Hall of Fame shortstop and longtime broadcaster, "Scooter" played with the Yankees for 13 seasons. A consummate winner...
Deal of the Day
The celebration of his simple and elegantly edgy aesthetic has been in overdrive since the opening of his Mercer Street store, and now you can get a piece of fem...
JOBA THE GREAT
Now the rest of the world knows why I wanted the Yankees to call up Joba Chamberlain.His performance against the Orioles Monday was phenomenal, considering that was his first Yankee...
Will 'Song of the South' Be Next?
Otto Preminger's controversial "Porgy and Bess'' (1959), which has been almost totally unavailable for decades, will play a two-day run at the Ziegfeld beginning on Sept. 26, the 109th birthday...
VIDS: Killer Coasters From Japan
Five out of five experts agree: Only Japan can match the United States for insane roller coaster mayhem.But who can afford to fly to Japan just to ride them? Fortunately,...
SCULPTURES IN THE SKY
Appearing as floating figures, fiery sunset streaks or rolling fog, clouds are a major player in mother nature's sky show. Today's Classroom Extra page takes a look. CLOUDS begin to...
10022-SHOE
NEW YORK has its fair share of designer shoe salons, but how many can claim their own ZIP code? On Friday, Saks Fifth Avenue unveils its new heel emporium on...
MPFREE
Eisley, "Invasion" The Texas-based pop-rock act's sophomore album, "Combinations," doesn't disappoint their fantasy-lovin' fans, especially on the lead single, which, unlike many songs on the album, isn't about falling in...
BEAUTY & THE GEEKS
THEY'RE named after a "Star Wars" space sta tion, sound like some thing "a Hobbit might make on a rainy day," and look like the children from the "Village of...
TIME TO PICK UP LIFE'S LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE PIECES
THE central characters in "Human Error" work for the National Transportation Safety Board, investigating plane crashes. But the title of Keith Reddin's play refers not to the explanations for the...
ROBIN GOOD BACK FROM CANCER OP
Morning-show host Robin Roberts returned to "Good Morning America" yesterday, 10 short days after undergoing surgery for breast cancer. "I'm not ready to do the chicken dance any time soon,"...
STARR REPORT
Rachael takes a fall So how popular is Rachael Ray and her morning show? Over 110,000 people are on the waiting list for tickets to fall tapings of "The Rachael...
LIE DETECTOR
FOX is shooting a game show proving the old adage that it doesn't pay to lie. Or does it? "Nothing But the Truth," a hit in Colombia, uses a lie...
COLBERT-BRANSON FIGHT WILL AIR
STEPHEN Colbert's much- talked-about water fight with Richard Branson will air Aug. 22 on "The Colbert Report." Branson, who was on the show to promote his Virgin American airline, did...
TONY AS SNEAKER GURU
'SOPRANOS" star James Gandolfini will come back to HBO again in a new movie about legendary sports marketer Sonny Vaccaro. Gandolfini's production company, Attaboy Films, will produce the proposed made-for-TV...
ROCK ROLLS
COMBUSTIBLE cook Rahman "Rock" Harper last night emerged as the winner of Season Three of "Hell's Kitchen" on Fox. Harper, 30, a professional chef from Spotsylvania, Va., edged out the...
MISS AMERICA FINDS A NEW SUITOR
THE struggling Miss America Pageant has landed at cable's TLC - its third home in four years. TLC will air the pageant next January and will retain the broadcast rights...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Mind planet Mercury aspects Neptune, planet of imagination, on your birthday this year, so you won't find it hard to come up with new ideas. What you may find hard...
ARTHRITIC FEET'S SHOT OF HOPE
IF your doctor has unsuccessfully tried curing your ar thritic big toe or ankle using oral medications or corti sone injections, you have yet another viable nonsurgical option . ....
SKATERS TAKE THE FALL
EARLIER this month, X Games skateboarder Jake Brown fell 45 feet to the flat floor of the Big Air event's quarter pipe. He survived because he landed feet first, not...
MIDDLE MANAGEMENT
The city is pumping an extra $5 million into its 50 worst middle schools, beefing up the number of guidance counselors, pitching free teacher training, and appointing a new director...
INSURANCE SUPT. HITS HMOWES
ALBANY - Health insurers should be required to seek state approval before raising their premiums, Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said yesterday. Dinallo made his comments in the wake of a...
LOSE THE MAN, KEEP HIS NAME
The majority of divorcées just can't wash that man out of their hair - they keep their exes' last names long after splitting, a study shows. A poll conducted by...
CHARITY GIANT AT PEACE - HEIRS SET FOR A WAR
She donated more than $200 million to charities in her lifetime - but Brooke Astor's death is expected to spark a bitter battle royal over the $130 million she didn't...
UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
The Underground Railroad will be officially commemorated in Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. He announced the appointment of a panel of historians and community leaders to come up with an...
TWO BUSTED FOR PARADE KNIFINGS
Cops busted at least a dozen people, including two involved in separate stabbings, during the Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan on Sunday. The two bloody knifings occurred within an hour...
NEW PRINCIPAL 'CHOSEN'
A Jewish educator who can't utter a phrase of Arabic has been tapped to head the city's controversial Arabic-themed school, officials announced yesterday. In a shocking move, the Department of...
NEWARK SUSPECT'S BAIL KO'D
Too little - and too late. Essex County Court Judge Thomas Vena yesterday finally revoked the bail of one of the Newark massacre suspects - in an unrelated, earlier case,...
TEEN NABBED IN SUBWAY SLAY
A 16-year-old Bronx youth was arrested yesterday in the senseless subway shooting that left another teen dead and three pals wounded, police said. Robert Denis was charged as an adult...
SPITZ PAL CUTS OUT OF PROBE
ALBANY - A friend of Gov. Spitzer's has dropped out of the state Ethics Commission probe of the Troopergate scandal involving dirty tricks by Spitzer aides against the state's most...
BRIT TOURIST MURDERED
A British tourist who was once on the short list to be named bachelor of the year in Wales was stabbed to death on the Jersey Shore, authorities said yesterday....
ONE HACKUVA TIME IF IT'S LOST
Any passenger who leaves an item in a taxi and doesn't have a receipt or medallion number handy is in for one bumpy ride, a city councilwoman said yesterday. Councilwoman...
SUIT: TOY FIRM MUST PAY 'PRICE'
Fisher-Price made a fortune peddling nearly 1 million Chinese-made toxic toys and should be forced to fork over its profits and pick up the tab for kids' medical testing, a...
CITY ON ROAD TO FED $$
Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing proposal has made the Big Apple one of five cities in line to snare millions of dollars in federal transit grants, officials are expected to announce today....
SAMARITAN WIDOW IS FOUND DEAD
A kind and caring Brooklyn widow who took in homeless boarders was found dead inside her ransacked apartment, her naked corpse lying face up at the foot of her bed,...
'SKIMMING' KIDS' MILK MONEY
A flamboyant Queens principal who has been hailed by Chancellor Joel Klein once used students' lunch money to help foot the bill for limos to the premiere of a school-produced...
U.S. JIHADIST COPS A PLEA
A homegrown jihad plotter from Seattle who once agreed to cooperate with the feds - only to flee the country while on parole last year - copped a plea yesterday...
SLAIN MOM IN HER SHOT SON'S DREAM
The shattered son of a Staten Island woman shot to death by her jealous ex-boyfriend said last night that his mom came to him in a dream and told him...
QNS. SEX FIEND HOLDS KNIFE TO WOMAN'S THROAT
A fiend put a knife to the throat of a woman on a quiet, tree-lined Queens street and robbed her of $400 before shoving her down an alley and sexually...
AIDS-BITE THREAT BY 'HOOKER'
A hefty hooker threw a hussy fit yesterday when she was collared for trying to pick up an undercover cop on a Staten Island street corner, threatening to bite him...
SLAVE-CASE BABBLE RANT
An Indonesian woman allegedly kept as a "slave" by her wealthy Long Island employers ranted and misbehaved so she would be sent home, her bosses claim in new court documents....
BUTT-LEGGERS
Holy smokes! A five-month probe into a massive counterfeit-cigarette ring led to the takedown of a Queens crew that sold dangerous bootlegged Chinese smokes to retailers across the tri-state area,...
TIX BLOWN OFF
Mayor Bloomberg has ordered that that all parking tickets given in parts of Brooklyn most severely affected by the tornado last week be dismissed. Officials said yesterday that those who...
WORKERS FALL IN HELL HOLE
Firefighters rescued a father-and-son construction team from a 10-foot-deep hole in Midtown yesterday after the sidewalk the pair was jackhammering suddenly collapsed. Santiago Dutan, 27, and his father Jose, 51,...
KOREAN 'SUITE' DREAM
The New York Philharmonic is considered da bomb with symphony-music lovers - including, apparently, North Korea's nuclear-mad dictator, Kim Jong-il. The wacky world leader's Ministry of Culture has asked the...
BILL & PALS DO PARIS
PARIS - Mon dieu! Billionaire bad boys Ron Burkle and Steve Bing rocked the Champs Elysées with their good pal Bill Clinton over the weekend. The hound dogs were in...
CHUCK HEDGES HIS BETS
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer has begun drafting legislation that would close a loophole that allows wealthy hedge-fund managers to get big portions of their earnings taxed at less than...
WRESTLE DEATH GRIP
Tragedy has again body-slammed the world of pro wrestling, as former WWE star Brian Adams, a k a "Crush," was found dead by his wife at their Florida home yesterday....
DUBYA'S 'BRAIN' DRAIN
WASHINGTON - Karl Rove - political mastermind to President Bush and Darth Vader to Democrats - announced yesterday he will resign his top-level post at the White House at the...
RUDY TAKING $$ MACHINE TO ENGLAND
Rudy Giuliani is planning an unusual fund-raiser next month - in a foreign country. The Republican front-runner will travel to London for the Sept. 19 event, which aims to give...
BLOOMY: QUIT IT, MITT
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday told Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to stop picking on the city's immigrants. "Boy, let 'em come," Bloomberg said of immigrants. Romney last week referred to the...
HILLARY ADS TO HER APPEAL ON IOWA AIRWAVES
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton burst on to the Iowa airwaves yesterday, launching the first TV ad of her campaign in a state where, locked in a tough race, she's presenting...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A man was stabbed to death just blocks away from his Crown Heights home, police said yesterday. Edwin Nitus, 21, was leaving a building on Eastern Parkway near Sterling...
SCHOOL BAD IDEA EVEN BEFORE HEBREW-HAHA
DID you hear the one about the Muslim school led by a Jew? Suffice it to say, it won't have long for this world. This might be the worst joke...
'EVIL GENIUS' JOINS ANNALS OF DARK LORDS
KARL ROVE, the key Bush aide who announced his resignation from the White House yesterday, is the latest in a long line of Evil Republican Geniuses. These are nefarious magicians...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 996; Lucky Sum: 24 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 7201; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 841; Lucky Sum: 13/ Evening Win- 4 Mon.: 1774;...
DEBBIE IN DENIAL
It's now clear why the Department of Education refused to release the text of Debbie Almontaser's letter of resig nation as principal of the nascent Khalil Gibran International Academy. The...
LET THE SUN SHINE IN, CONT'D
Gov. Spitzer continued to insist yester day that he's been "totally forthright" about Spitzergate - even as The Post's Fredric U. Dicker reported that the gov's aides scrambled to block...
IRAN BLACKS OUT DAY OF PROTEST
'NO news is good news," goes the old adage. But one man's good news can be another's bad news - or, if the authorities have their way, not be allowed...
THE REAL ROVE
KARL Rove loomed so large in our politics that no one could see him clearly. He was both underestimated and overestimated, and he leaves the White House with both significant...
WEB GAMBLING: TAX, DON'T BAN
THE Treasury Department is charged with a number of law-enforcement jobs - protect ing the president, investigating counterfeit money, tracking terrorist financing and more. But now, thanks to a legislative...
CLASS IN POLITICAL SAVVY: FULANI FLUNKS OUT
Once again, a person announcing that she is running for office all of a sudden atones for past aggressions. Lenora Fulani is just the latest ("Fulani Backs Off Her Anti-Jewish...
ACS SIDESTEPS RESPONSIBILITY
When New York state makes it a felony to assault Administration for Children's Services workers, then they will fearlessly perform a thorough job ("ACS at Fault in 10 Children's Deaths,"...
SACHS-CLOTH
Goldman Sachs yesterday agreed to inject a total of $3 billion into a battered hedge fund that saw 30 percent of its value wiped out last week. During a conference...
BLACKSTONE GROUP PROFIT SOARS TO $774.4M
The Blackstone Group, run by billionaire mega-financier Stephen Schwarzman, yesterday reported its second-quarter profit tripled, but warned that the credit crunch could halt giant buyout deals for the rest of...
HOW CHAOS IN MARKETS WILL AFFECT INFLATION
NOW the good news: the chaos in the financial markets does have a bright side. Inflation will be lower. But not only how you think. And it won't matter anyway,...
KKR EYE$ WOE
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the buyout firm run by legendary dealmaker Henry Kravis, said yesterday that the recent jump in borrowing costs could hurt its profits and poses a...
QUADRANGLE IS SET TO STUFF IT
Quadrangle Group is expected to complete its $245 million takeover of the American portion of Dennis Publishing today and plans to immediately fold struggling magazine Stuff. "The Stuff staff is...
BARGAIN HUNTING
As Wall Street volatility eases and stock prices stabilize, it just might be time for investors to come out from hiding and start hunting for bargains, veteran investors and market...
TESTING TIME AT TIMES SQ.
WITH commercial real estate players more nervous than they'll admit over the credit crunch resulting from the subprime-loan crisis, the new development that's drawing all eyes is SJP Properties' 11...
ACE TRUMPED BY PORN NEWS
Condé Nast's Portfolio magazine was hit by another high-level departure as investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald resigned. The exit of Eichenwald, a former star reporter for The New York Times, came...
LIPMAN'S LAMENT
Portfolio's second issue hits newsstands later this week, with improved tempo and pacing, but with new unrest now surfacing on Joanne Lipman's editorial staff. The cover - cars on an...
IMUS STRIKES BACK
Don Imus has reached a contract settlement with CBS that will pay the disowned shock jock a reported $20 million. As reported exclusively by The Post last month, Imus had...
'FIXER' REF TO SURRENDER
A rogue ref at the center of an explosive NBA point-shaving gambling scandal will surrender today to plead guilty to federal charges, law enforcement sources said. Tim Donaghy, 40, who...
CURLIN TO MISS TRAVERS, STREET SENSE REMATCH
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The highly anticipated rematch in the Aug. 25 Travers Stakes between Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and Preakness winner Curlin has been canceled. Curlin, who turned in...
ASHIMA PULLS UPSET
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Ramon Dominguez, Javier Castellano and Alan Garcia each had two winners; Cornelio Velasquez continues to boot home longshots, winning the first race with $34.20 French Episode. FOURTH...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Riley to coach 3 more yearsPat Riley says he will be back in charge of the Miami Heat next season and is committed to coaching the next three seasons....
HONDO'S ALL RED
The Twins and Santana refused to change their evil ways for Hondo last night, getting M-barrassed in Seattle to raise the nasty red number to 250 lindb lads. Tonight, he'll...
BONDS NOT SURE AFTER '08
PITTSBURGH (AP) - With his place in home-run history secure, Barry Bonds says next season likely will be his last. Bonds previously talked about playing in 2008. Yesterday, the 43-year-old...
WALK THE TALK
This looked like the year that Rome would fall. Nike "E" One, the two-time defending champion of the Nike Pro City League, was only one game above .500 entering the...
UNTOUCHABLE
IT'S now a numbers game for Tiger Woods - a good, old-fashioned countdown to immortality. Woods' deficit to Jack Nicklaus' long-standing record of 18 major championship victories stands at just...
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...
STRAHAN NO MAGIC CURE FOR SHAKY DEFENSE
ALBANY - For many, the problems with the Giants' defense in their 24-21 preseason-opening loss to the Panthers magnified the need to get Michael Strahan out of his retirement mode...
OUT OF POSITION
ALBANY - Mathias Kiwanuka was on the field for 25 plays in the Giants' 24-21 preseason loss Saturday night to the Panthers, 13 of those plays with the starters and...
KENDALL'S SAGA STILL SIMMERS
The simmering feud between the Jets and Pete Kendall has more melodrama than a telenovela. In the latest installment, the disgruntled guard took snaps for the second straight day at...
STRAIN DELAY
The Jets acquired Thomas Jones to fix their struggling ground game, intending to make the veteran running back the centerpiece of their rushing attack this season. But after Jones strained...
THE SNAKE PITT
There's bad history in Pittsburgh and a lot of uncertainty as the Mets head to PNC Park tonight. The Mets have lost all three of their series in Pittsburgh the...
PEDRO PROGRESS
With the rust perhaps gone, Pedro Martinez will have rehab start No. 2 this afternoon. Martinez's second rehab outing will be with the Gulf Coast League Mets at noon in...
RANGERS, PECA TO RESUME TALKS
Negotiations may have bogged down to bring Mike Peca to the Rangers, but it seems likely the former Sabre and Islander captain will soon join an already formidable arsenal of...
MELKY'S ARM, BAT ARE KEY
It was another golden ending for the Yankees - thanks in part to a Gold Glove play from unsung center fielder Melky Cabrera that saved them from completely collapsing in...
FEDS SUE STRAW OVER BACK TAXES
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Darryl Strawberry is having more legal trouble. The government has filed a lawsuit against the troubled former Met and Yankee star, seeking to collect...
POSADA: WE WANT AL EAST
The old guard, led by Joe Torre, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada, evidently needs to provide a mission statement to some of the lesser-tenured Yankees. After Johnny Damon and Bobby...
ROCKET RETURNS THURSDAY
Roger Clemens is expected to rejoin the Yankees on Thursday, and make his next start on Saturday against the Tigers. Clemens, who is suspended for five games, was in Lexington,...
'KAR' TO RE-START IN BRONX
Roger Clemens' five-game suspension for his retaliatory pitch last week in Toronto sparked two results: One, Clemens got to spend more quality time with his son, Kobe, in Lexington, Ky.,...
SLOW ROLLER SAVES MO
Mariano Rivera got the win and Melky Cabrera combined with Jason Giambi for the save. It wasn't your typical night at the Stadium, but maybe the Yankees needed something like...
YOUTH MOVEMENT SERVED AS JOBA WOWS STADIUM
YOU came to Yankee Sta dium last night hoping to get a look at Joba Chamberlain, the phenom whose first four innings of major-league work last week on the road...
YANKEES LEGEND RIZZUTO DIES AT 89
Yankees legend Phil Rizzuto passed away today at the age of 89. The Hall of Famer shortstop and longtime broadcaster "Scooter" played with the Yankees for 13 seasons.
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE -- RIZZUTO'S WIFE: I'VE LOST MY BEAUTIFUL PRINCE
We've all lost our favorite baseball uncle. Phil Rizzuto passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at 11 due to complications from pneumonia. He was 90. "I've lost my...
AT A THEME PARK IN KOREA, EVERYTHING'S STRANGELY FAMILIAR SMALL WORLD
THE BUS from Seoul dumped me and my luggage in a parking lot and lumbered away. Being that I had arrived at one of the world's largest theme parks, Everland,...
P-TOWN FOR PENNIES
IF THE pilgrims who set foot on Provincetown in 1620 had the power of foresight, the Mayflower Compact might have included a provision on public nudity. And the Portuguese fisherman...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An anonymous eBay bidder has spent $1,525.69 for an oil stain that resembles Jesus Christ on the garage floor of a Virginia home - and no one is more surprised...
GETTING THERE: Provincetown
Due to space issues with Susannah Cahalan's Provincetown story in today's paper, we weren't able to fit this sidebar on how to get there. Here you go.Driving is the best...