August 16, 2007
MTV Throws $500M Into Games
Reuters reports today that MTV Networks, owned by Viacom, is planning to sink $500M into its gaming division."As we take our brands narrow and deep to serve our targeted, niche...
Milledge out
Lastings Milledge was set to play right field tonight but he's now out. He's been scratched with flu-like symptoms.Marlon Anderson is in right field. Shawn Green is already at first...
Injury updates
Good day for Endy Chavez, less so for Carlos Delgado.Chavez played his first rehab game today, acting as the DH for the Gulf Coast League Mets. He had two hits,...
Giambi Gets a Free Pass
Bud Selig let Jason Giambi off the hook and won't face punishment for steroid use because of his "charitable work" and for cooperating with the investigation.Giambi has admitted he has...
Giambi Gets a Free Pass
Bud Selig let Jason Giambi off the hook and won't face punishment for steroid use because of his "charitable work" and for cooperating with the investigation.Giambi has admitted he has...
Castillo and Milledge
A friend of mine was IM'ing me last night and made the point of saying that he thought Luis Castillo gets a lot of lucky hits â- balls that find...
Deal of the Day
It's all about picking up transitional pieces at the moment because in two short weeks, we'll be toasting the end of summer and the decency period for walking around half...
Scene
Kiki Allgeier wears a vintage lace trimmed nightgown as a dress with a wide vintage belt, Anna Corinna bag, shoes by Madden Girl and red plastic shades. "I wear vintage...
Inside the Donaghy courtroom
By MARC BERMANI was one of the 10 or so reporters allowed inside the Brooklyn federal courtroom yesterday for the Tim Donaghy guilty plea.As I wrote in a column for...
Invasion of the Job Swappers
Kyle Smith and TV reviewer Linda Stasi switch jobs today, and both turn out three-star reviews, Kyle for the much-hyped "High School Musical 2'' and Linda for the much-hyped "Superbad.''...
A FAIR GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE
Picture phones, lasers and Belgian waffles. These were just some of the amazing things at the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens. IF you wanted to see the latest...
HAUTE LIST
'IN my family, we love a bargain," says a bubbly and very blond Amanda Bynes. "And I love things that are well-made, but it's always nice when I find something...
THE CORSET OF TRUE LOVE
IT'S one hot, sexy "Dream." For "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the latest Shakespeare in the Park production - a giddy tale of meddling fairies and love-muddled mortals - the Delacorte...
SATIRE TO ADMIRE IN A SMASHING 'BASHING'
CONSIDERING the socially contentious times we live in, it's surprising there isn't more political satire out there. Will Durst arrived last night to rectify the situation with his one-man show...
NOT FULLY INFLATED
DARRAGH Martin's "An Air Balloon Across Antarctica" has a female explorer, Caitlin (Soneela Nankani), flying with an obese hamster (Jeff Brown) and an urn full of ashes. Along the way,...
STARR REPORT
Tyra's bedroom eyes Here's your chance to get really up-close-and-personal with Tyra Banks. Banks, who moved her talk show here from L.A., wants to give a (female) New Yorker between...
'WHY I LEFT'KATHIE LEE QUIT REEG TO HELP DYING DAD
KATHIE Lee Gifford yesterday revealed for the first time that she quit her famous morning TV job with Regis Philbin in 2000 to be with her dying father. "My daddy...
BACK TO 'SCHOOL'
'HIGH School Musical" premiered on The Disney Channel in January of 2006, and OMG you guyz!!! I can't even remember what life was like before it. Can you??? The followup...
'BIG' ELLEN
ELLEN DeGeneres will host a Carol Burnettish variety show for corporate cousin TBS. The two-hour variety show, "Ellen's Really Big Show," will be taped Nov. 15 at Caesars Palace in...
MERV FUNERAL FRIDAY
MERV Griffin's funeral will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. - in one of Hollywood's most famous churches. Griffin's by-invitation-only service, expected to draw a veritable "Who's Who" of the...
NIGHT OF THE LIVING NERDS
WHAT happens when even extremely edgy isn't close to edgy enough? You get "Superbad," an often-revolting, don't-go-there teen sex-fest about two guys who need to get lucky before heading off...
'I KILLED A MAN WITH A TRIDENT'
"Superbad" is only the latest Judd Apatow-produced film that has us annoying our friends with quotes ("McLovin?"). Some of our favorites from Apatow's oeuvre: "KNOCKED UP" "If any of us...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You don't have to be a workaholic to get ahead. On the contrary, the message of the stars on your birthday is that you will go further faster if you...
LABOR'S PAIN KOS PARADE
Union bigwigs have decided to call off the 125-year-old Labor Day Parade this year, officials said yesterday. Officials at the Central Labor Council - which has seen major upheaval in...
$2M 'BLUE MOVIE' LAWSUIT
Amazon.com can't tell one blue movie director from another, according to a filmmaker suing the Internet giant for claiming she made hard-core porn. Nesya Shapiro Blue claims she lost more...
BAT'S ALL, FOLKS
He's gone from major league to minor league to bush league. Former New York Met and All-Star infielder José Offerman was suspended from the Atlantic League yesterday after being slapped...
'BOOK' WORMS
They hang out in bookstores and hookah bars instead of mosques. They stop listening to pop music and instead surf Web sites promoting radical Islam. They throw away their baseball...
THRONGS SAYING BYE TO BROOKE
Brooke Astor was an old-fashioned lady - but she'll get a 21st century send-off tomorrow at her funeral. In a move that the 105-year-old grand dame of New York society...
CRAZY FOXY IN A NEW HIT RAP
Looks as if Foxy Brown needs more anger-management classes. The hot-headed rapper has been charged with whacking a Brooklyn neighbor in the face with her BlackBerry, giving the woman a...
PROBE EYES AIDE TO HEVESI
ALBANY - Investigators have learned that former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's top political adviser pocketed a share of at least $13 million in pension-fund fees paid to a financial-services firm,...
'ALL H2OK' FOR TRANSIT WORKERS
It's safe to drink the subway water again. New York City Transit announced yesterday that the hundreds of water coolers that slake the thirst of workers throughout the system are...
YOU BET REF'S GUILTY AS HELL
Rogue ref Tim Donaghy revealed yesterday he'd been betting on NBA games he officiated for four years - in a deal requiring him to rat out any other officials involved...
METS GUY'S SPA A 'SMUT' HUT
A former Mets massage therapist who was busted for allegedly sexually assaulting a customer also got some major-league thrills by holding swingers' parties and X-rated video shoots in his East...
STEAM-BLAST VICTIM FACES LOSS OF LIMBS
The tow-truck driver badly burned in last month's steam explosion near Grand Central Terminal may face a double amputation, his devastated parents said yesterday. The mother of injured driver Gregory...
RECALL FURY HAS CHUCK CALLING FOR A 'CZAR' IN TOYLAND
Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday he wants a federal import czar to oversee shipments of Chinese goods in the wake of another massive toy recall. "The fact that every week...
H'WAY HORROR
A worker placing traffic cones on the Grand Central Parkway was struck by a car and killed last night, cops said. The unidentified victim, employed by a contractor working for...
PRINCIPAL NOT KOSHER: MUSLIM
The Department of Education "spit" in the face of Arabs with the appointment of a Jewish woman as principal of the city's new Arabic-themed school, a Muslim activist said yesterday....
A NAUSEATING ANIMAL HOUSE
A New Jersey stockbroker and his wife maintained an animal house of horrors - a feces-filled mansion where they kept more than 100 malnourished and neglected dogs and cats, officials...
GAL PAL TO JURY: WHY I GROVELED TO 'ABUSE' COP
He was her captain, her lover and her batterer - and she couldn't let him go. Even after he dragged her by her hair down a West Village sidewalk, and...
RAPIST GUILTY
A jury took just 10 minutes to convict a Brooklyn man of raping a beautician in the bathroom of her Sunset Park salon. Marvin Winkfield, 24, was found guilty of...
TOP N.Y. POET KILLS SELF
Liam Rector, a critically acclaimed poet who taught at some of the nation's top colleges, committed suicide yesterday in his Greenwich Village apartment, police said. Rector, 57, who had battled...
'FEMMES' IN A FEUD
A founding member of the legendary folk-punk band Violent Femmes is blistering mad at the group's vocalist and guitarist. Brian Ritchie, the bassist who named the band when it formed...
MOGUL MURDER SHOCKER
The live-in nurse and former Green Beret who served nearly eight years in a Monaco prison for setting a fire that killed billionaire financier Edmond Safra will be released today...
RIZZUTO CHARITY LIVES ON
Among the legions of mourners paying tribute to late Yankee great Phil Rizzuto is the man behind the charity golf tournament the Scooter called his own. For 56 years, Rizzuto...
DYNAMITED
Three weeks after a retaining wall came tumbling down on Manhattan's Upper West Side - likely because of dynamite used to blast parts of a neighboring construction site - the...
RAGING MODEL MAULS MIDTOWN 'MUGGER'
A former model turned the tables on a mugger, beating him senseless on a Manhattan street until cops finally pried her off, authorities said yesterday. Silva Natividad, 54, yesterday credited...
CITY GAIN AS SPITZER OKS HOUSING $$
ALBANY - A bill to increase the shelter allowance provided to public housing authorities strongly backed by Mayor Bloomberg was signed into law yesterday by Gov. Spitzer. The new law...
AFRICAN RITES FOR NYU GIRL
A grieving pair of NYU professors will bury their slain young daughter today in South Africa. The funeral of Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, 20, in her native Johannesburg is taking place...
'WE'RE GOING TO HELL FOR THIS'MOBSTERS' LAMENT OVER MOLL SLAYING
When the order came down in September 1984 to rub out a beautiful Brooklyn woman whose only crime was dating a Colombo mob boss, even the hardened criminals were troubled....
A SHORE THING
Here's the first look at the sand castle Donald Trump is building at Jones Beach. Trump on the Ocean, which is scheduled for completion in 2009, will be a sprawling,...
FAKE-ID RING MADE $10M: FEDS
A 15-member fake-ID ring made $10 million in free money by creating alternate personas to rack up credit-card bills, take out mortgages and open bank accounts - only to skip...
SANIT WORKERS RAPPED
Seventeen Sanitation Department officials were publicly chastised yesterday for using the agency's official letterhead to plead for leniency for a colleague being sentenced for a crime. The employees - including...
ADOPT-KID 'DEATH' MYSTERY
A child adopted by the Florida woman accused of scamming $1.26 million from New York adoption officials may have died in her care, a witness has told investigators. Judith Leekin,...
RUDY SCORES ALIEN HIT VS. MITT
Rudy Giuliani yesterday blasted GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney as a hypocrite for accusing him, as mayor, of running a "sanctuary city" that protects illegal aliens. "He had three 'sanctuary...
PENIS FOR SALE
Up for auction next week at a Beverly Hills gallery is a rare piece of pornographic prehistory - a 12,000-year-old walrus penis. The fossilized phallus, discovered in frozen Siberia tundra,...
DUKE DA: DOG ATE MY LAW LICENSE
The disbarred prosecutor in the Duke rape case has turned in his law license as ordered - but complained that the document wasn't fit for showing off anyway because his...
SPECTOR'S GUY GETS SCI-FRIED
Prosecutors grilled music man Phil Spector's science whiz yesterday, calling the world-famous sleuth's objectivity into question. Dr. Michael Baden is the husband of defense lawyer Linda Kenney-Baden, and Los Angeles...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Cops yesterday were searching for a thief who allegedly robbed two Manhattan banks. The 5-foot-6, 170-pound suspect entered an Atlantic branch at Sixth Avenue and West 35th Street at...
THIS GYM RAT REALLY CROSSED THE FOUL LINE
FORMER veteran ref Tim Donaghy walked through the "prisoner's entrance" of the 10th-floor federal courtroom in Brooklyn at 9:13 a.m. yesterday without his whistle - and also without a tie...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 121; Lucky Sum: 4 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 3347; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 828; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 5066;...
HOW TERROR GROWS AT HOME
An eye-opening new report from the NYPD's Intelligence Division turns a spotlight on the threat posed by homegrown terrorists. And it underscores the relentless efforts by civil libertarians and leftist...
WHO REFS THE REFEREES?
NBA Commissioner David Stern insists that the case of disgraced ex-referee Tim Donaghy - who faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to gambling-related felony charges...
KILLING FOR CONGRESS
TWO days ago, al Qaeda det onated four massive truck bombs in three Iraqi vil lages, killing at least 250 civilians (perhaps as many as 500) and wounding many more....
WHACKING IRAN
THE media missed a big one yesterday. They ran with the story that the Bush administration will soon designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps - a major troublemaker in Iraq -...
CHURCH CLEANUP
'THANK you, New York Post!" said the voice on the phone. "I'm getting off the M11 bus on Amsterdam Avenue, and for the first time in years, I'm not seeing...
FED'S FLAWLESS FINANCE FIDDLE
PRIOR to the recent global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve Board under Chair man Ben Bernanke was ready to take a sub tle step toward easier money in order to...
THE ROAD TO LOCAL JIHAD
Excerpted from "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat," a report prepared by senior NYPD intelligence analysts Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. RADICALIZATION Ideology:...
THE END OF AN ERA: ROVE HITS THE ROAD
We should honor Karl Rove, for he was part of a team that has protected us for almost six years (" 'Evil Genius' Joins Annals of Dark Lords," John Podhoretz,...
MAYOR MIKE'S CELL OUT
Your editorial, "Mike's Timely Veto," (PostOpinion, Aug. 13) does not address the fact that parochial schools allow their students to bring cellphones into school, provided they're turned off and out...
A DEBT RATTLE
The mortgage industry meltdown may be about to claim its biggest victim yet. Countrywide Financial, the nation's No. 1 mortgage lender, appears headed for a financial crisis as speculation swirled...
DOW FALLS THROUGH 13,000
U.S. stocks spent three months rallying from 13,000 to an all-time high close of 14,000.41 on July 19 - but it took just over three weeks to give everything back....
PLUNGE PROTECTORS ARE ALL OVER MARKET MELTDOWN
THE Plunge Protection Team and the Federal Reserve saw it coming. The "it" is the turmoil in the financial markets that we've been seeing ever since the failure of some...
EMI NAME GAME
Now that Guy Hands' Terra Firma has picked up shareholder approval for EMI, questions are swirling around the future leadership of the British recorded music giant. Multiple sources said the...
MIU MIU OPENING ON 57TH
Prada's boutique brand Miu Miu is taking over the former Jil Sander space on East 57th Street, The Post has learned. Prada, which sold the Jil Sander label to Change...
KKR FINANCIAL HURT BY $40M LOAN LOSS
Investors who bought a piece of Henry Kravis and George Roberts two years ago might now feel like kicking the legendary Wall Street financiers. Yesterday, shares of KKR Financial Holdings,...
MACY'S LOWERS THE BAR
Macy's yesterday reported a 77 percent slide in second-quarter income and lowered its forecast for the year, reflecting ongoing problems and costs related to its acquisition of the May Department...
ZIFF SKIPS PAYMENT
Ziff Davis Media has finally hit the wall. The embattled tech media company - which has teetered on the brink for over a year as it tried to sell itself...
SCOTTOS TO OPEN DOWNTOWN EATERY
In a breakthrough for the Wall Street dining scene, Midtown Italian power-eatery Fresco by Scotto plans to open a major Lower Manhattan restaurant at 10 Hanover Square, The Post has...
CHRYSLER TURNS TO AD VET FOR MARKET HELP
Chrysler, now under its new private-equity owners, yesterday tapped an automotive ad veteran to lead its marketing efforts. Deborah Wahl Meyer, previously vice president of marketing for Toyota's luxury Lexus...
LI & FUNG SECURES REGATTA
Li & Fung USA said yesterday that it had acquired nearly all the assets of Regatta USA for $145 million, giving it the right to produce and market products under...
BILLBOARD RILES UP ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS
A storage company's billboard on Manhattan's West Side featuring a coathanger and references to abortions has several community groups up in arms. The Manhatttan Mini Storage advertisement reads, "Your closet...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CLINTON $1,550,000 350 W. 42nd St. Two-bedroom, two-bath condo, 1,349 square feet, with floor-to-ceiling windows, designer Italian kitchen, Waterworks bath fixtures and N/E exposures; Orion building features 24-hour attended...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Hell's Kitchen $699,000 Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 800 Common charges: $208 Located on what the brokers' Web site claims is the neighborhood's "prime brownstone block," this renovated condo...
$WEET $UITES
Even Donald Trump is amazed by the huge response from potential buyers at his Trump SoHo building on Spring Street. "The sales office is just opening, and already we have...
CRUNCH TIME
MONDAY, July 30, was supposed to be a busy day for Anthony Carollo. The Queens-based real-estate broker had three closings lined up. The first was starting at 9 a.m., so...
UP & AT 'EM
Pat and Dawn Kiernan knew what they wanted: A sort of private home with lots of space and a backyard. And they wanted it in an apartment building on the...
DREAM HOMES
Murray Hill $9.985 million If the guy who was once the richest man in America built his private home (and library) just a block or so away, you know it's...
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...
IT'S A SMALL 'FORTUNE'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The lock of the meet, take two. Divine Fortune went down in flames (at 7-2!) in Week 1, rallying from far back to take the lead at...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Beckham scores for L.A.David Beckham scored on a free kick in the 27th minute of the L.A. Galaxy's 2-0 SuperLiga semifinal victory over D.C. United last night in Carson,...
HONDO BAGS A DEUCE
Hondo's fine feathered friends were good to him yesterday as he swept with the Orioles and Blue Jays to bring the deficit into double digits at 60 jaco bys. Tonight,...
'SARGEANT' MIGHT BE 'SPECIAL'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Today, 2-year-olds square off in Grade 2, $150,000 Saratoga Special. Sargeant Seattle, who broke his maiden by 6½ lengths here on opening day, is lukewarm pick over...
'HAPPY' DAY FOR BAFFERT
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Bob Baffert, whose speed-sharpened horses have struggled over the new, safe, but oh-so-slow artificial Polytrack surface at the current Del Mar meet, has found a haven...
DIRTBAG DONAGHY HINTS AT OTHER REFS' BIASES
In pleading guilty to two felony counts related to gambling yesterday, Tim Donaghy cast a cloud over all referees when he said in federal court that one of his betting...
BILL ON PHIL
Bill White was vacationing in Canada when he got the sad phone call Tuesday from Phil Rizzuto's family. "Well, I had seen Phil 10 days ago," White told The Post...
FANS CAN PAY TRIBUTE AT MUSEUM
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center will be available for baseball fans to send and personally leave remembrances of Phil Rizzuto, who died Monday. The notes will be available...
AGE-OLD QUESTION
ALBANY - If anything, Sam Madison and R.W. McQuarters, after all these years, have a knack for anticipation, which is why they could foresee the overriding question hovering over the...
A BIG ADDITION TO D-LINE
ALBANY - It was a busy afternoon of players coming and going yesterday at camp. The largest arrival is Manuel Wright, who comes aboard with extra tonnage and plenty of...
VASICEK SIGNS WITH ISLES
While the Rangers' bid to add two-time Selke Trophy winner Mike Peca to their already-formidable roster was still on hold yesterday, the Islanders signed 26-year-old Josef Vasicek to bolster their...
HAPPY HE PASSED ON SCHOTT WITH DOLPHINS
Jets assistant coaches were permitted to speak to the media for the only time during training camp yesterday. For offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, it was his first chance to address...
TURNING THE CORNER
The Jets got their man. It may have taken a 20-day holdout, two days of marathon negotiations, and a 47-page contract, but first-round pick Darrelle Revis officially became a Jet...
DELGADO INJURES LEFT KNEE
PITTSBURGH - Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado said he hyperextended his left knee when chasing a foul pop near the first-base stands in the second inning of the Mets' 10-8...
DISASTER AVERTED
PITTSBURGH - For the offense, the discrepancy was pretty staggering. There was an explosion, seven innings of absolutely nothing and one more explosion. It was a strange night at PNC...
I WAS AW-PHIL!
Phil Hughes was angrier yesterday about the mental nap he took than his pitching performance. Specifically, Hughes broke late to cover first base in the fourth inning, a miscue that...
BIRDS HAVE MO SUCCESS
The Orioles rode Erik Bedard's mastery for seven innings and were one out away from their second straight snuff job of the Yankees. OK, the Yanks had two aboard, but...
ORIOLES SLOW YANKS' MO
These are the dog days of not just August, but also Mariano Rivera. Woof, woof, woof went the Yankees yesterday, chasing their tails in a futile attempt to capitalize on...
JOE MUST LESSEN CLOSER'S WORKLOAD
THE Yankees lost a game yesterday, but really began losing it in June and July. That is when Joe Torre's trust in Brian Bruney, Kyle Farnsworth and Scott Proctor vanished,...
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...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Nobody likes to pay taxes, but one Indiana landlord really went the extra mile. Cary Malchow, of Muncie used coins and $1 bills to pay off $12,656.07 in back property...