August 23, 2007
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Candace Thompson wears a cool vintage dress, Frye sandals, thrift store belt and white plastic frame sunglasses from North Carolina. She's an actress and designer's assistant. "I usually wear a...
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Lexie Smith, a student and former model, wears a heavily layered look that she keeps from looking overwhelming by remaining in a neutral palatte. She wears a jersey H&M dress...
Pedro's next turn
Rehab start number four for Pedro Martinez will be Monday, and it will again be for St. Lucie in A-ball. Omar Minaya just announced this, basically saying that the Mets...
UPDATE: Mex chex
Dean's playing piñata with Mexico's east coast/LAT Confucius says: When a storm's named after a Rat Packer, DON'T MESS WITH IT, if you know what's good for ya.Hurricane Dean --...
Jets Kick Kendall to Washington
By Lenn RobbinsAugust 23, 2007 -- One year after coming to the Jets and emerging as the undisputed leader of a young offensive line, Pete Kendall was shipped to the...
Jets Kick Kendall to Washington
By Lenn RobbinsAugust 23, 2007 -- One year after coming to the Jets and emerging as the undisputed leader of a young offensive line, Pete Kendall was shipped to the...
Disney Clobbers Cable Rivals
2. "Hannah Montana" -- 10.7 million3. "The Closer" -- 7.4 million4. "Hannah Montana" (repeat) -- 8.05 million5. "The Suite Life of Zach & Cody" -- 8.01 million6. "HSM2" (repeat) --...
'Seinfeld'-In-A-Box
JUST in time for Festivus â the "Seinfeld"-centric holiday "for the rest of us â comes the ultimate "Seinfeld" DVD collection, all nine season in one box. Nearly 10 years...
Marbury clarifies Vick remark (update)
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury told The Post this morning he feels he's been misrepresented as a dogfighting supporter and went on to clarify his statements in regards to defending Michael...
Deal of the Day
Dubbed Birkenstocks on heels, these Stacked Heel Slingbacks are made from naturally dyed leather and are as easy on your feet as they are on your budget.Wear them into the...
Greg Mottola: The Lost Years
Many reviews for the sleeper hit "Superbad'' noted that this was director Greg Mottola's first feature since his debut with "Daytrippers'' more than a decade ago. Few remember that back...
Good girls wear pearls. Bad girls wear Fendi.
Yesterday a pregnant Foxy Brown chose sky high Fendi Juicy Heel Peep Toe Sandals , a monogrammed Fendi purse and a short periwinkle Fendi dress for her court date.Personally, I...
TANGLED UP IN BOB
IT took Martin Scorsese's documentary film "No Direction Home" three and a half hours to cover Bob Dylan's career from 1961 to 1966. So when director Todd Haynes set out...
BLOOD SELLS
BANISHED to skulk around in the dark on the fringes of society, vampires are getting another chance to sink their teeth into pop culture. We're in the throes of a...
FOR CODDLED TOTS, TAPS NEVER RUN DRY
'ONE of my friends' sons pulled on his mother's skirt at a party with friends while she was in mid-conversation, pointed at her breast and said, 'Milk, mama, I want...
HAUTE LIST
EX-MODEL turned furniture kingpin Eric Villency knows a thing or two about fashion. In between earning his finance degree and joining Maurice Villency, his family business, he posed for Calvin...
STARR REPORT
Showtime for David Two of Showtime's sum mers series are heading in different directions. David Duchovny's return to series TV on "Californica tion" has been a success, so far -...
'DI'-SASTER
LIFETIME'S un-original movie, "The Murder of Princess Diana," premiering Saturday night, is so bad it's enough to bring her back from the dead Shockingly, this clap-trap comes from the company...
RUN'S GIRL GETS SOAP
VANESSA Simmons, daughter of Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons and one of the stars of his MTV reality series, "Run's House," started this week as a regular on "Guiding Light." The...
HIS LAST GAME
HERE'S the clue: An expression of delight - six letters. The answer: "Oooooh." That was hopefully Merv Griffin's reaction to "Crosswords," the new quiz show he was working on when...
BOB GRANT COMEBACK
BOB Grant has "unretired" and will return tonight to a regular radio gig on WABC - the same station that canned him in 1996. Grant, 78, will host "The Bob...
DANKE WITH THE STARS
WAYNE Newton is set to become the latest "old guy" addition to "Dancing with the Stars." Newton, the show-biz crooner and real estate magnate known as "Mr. Las Vegas," will...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Mars-Jupiter opposition on your birthday means you will get involved in situations where you believe that justice is not being done. Anything that strikes you as being untrue or...
GOP 'SLEAZE' AXED IN GOV-DAD THREAT
ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno fired Republican political consultant Roger Stone yesterday for the "despicable" comments he allegedly made in a bizarre and threatening call to Gov. Spitzer's...
CONDO-SELL PLOY STORY
How do you sell a condo? By telling prospective buyers you can't. The developer of luxury condos in the old Board of Education headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn sent out a...
COMMISH FIRES MEATBALL MARIJUANA COP
The meatball cop's career has gone to pot. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has fired NYPD anti-terrorism cop Anthony Chiofalo, who claimed he flunked a drug test because his wife spiked...
PERV SNEAK PIQUE
Jeepers, peepers - you could be going to jail! Stiff penalties may soon by in store for those who get their creepy kicks by leering up the skirts of unsuspecting...
SHE'LL BE SMASHING ON COURT - AND OFF
The U.S. Open will come to town Monday, and in keeping with tradition, parking will be hell and the food overpriced - but Maria Sharapova will look dazzling. Red hot...
FOXY LADY'S NEW LAIR IS A CAGE
A three-months-pregnant Foxy Brown clomped off to jail in her five-inch Fendi heels yesterday after a Manhattan judge ordered her held pending a Sept. 7 hearing on probation-violation charges. Probation...
HEROES DID A 'MACGYVER'
Faced with no plan of attack and a disabled standpipe that left them with no water, quick-thinking firefighters coupled together lengths of hose to battle the Deutsche Bank blaze, Fire...
FDNY BRASS IN TRAGIC BUNGLE
More than 100 firefighters - including two who later died - rushed into a contaminated, vacant high-rise that was burning out of control just steps from Ground Zero, even though...
DOGGED POL GETTING RUFF
NFL star Michael Vick's dogfighting scandal has inspired a City Council push for dramatically tougher penalties for owning or harboring a fighting dog or other dangerous dog. Councilman Peter Vallone...
NEWARK FIENDS FIRST FAILED AT SEX ATTACK: REPORT
The thugs who shot four college students in Newark reportedly preceded their sick attack by trying to sexually assault their two female victims. The group of six assailants - who...
JUDGE OK ON SUIT VS. NA'OW'MI
Ain't that a cellphone in the head! A judge is allowing a lawsuit against Naomi Campbell to proceed, and ruled the supermodel's stormy past can potentially be used against her....
TEST OF WILLS
The odds - and Brooke Astor's family, friends and favorite charities - are against Anthony Mar shall, but he's not giving up his claim to his moth er's estate without...
KNIFE RAP ON SAIGON
Underground rapper "Saigon" - who garnered some cable-TV fame with guest appearances on last year's season of "Entourage" - was busted in Manhattan early yesterday on felony knife-possession charges. Cops...
BARACK'S APPLE POLISH
Sen. Barack Obama came to New York yesterday and won high praise from the hard-working hotel doorman who had given $25 to his campaign. Gregory Smith, whose support for Obama...
ID THIEF A 'CARD' SHARK: COPS
A Long Island receptionist with high tastes and low morals was arraigned yesterday for allegedly stealing credit-card numbers from members of a Jewish community center and using them to buy...
LONELY LEONA RITE
Leona Helmsley's peculiar brand of affection and often-sequestered soft side was remembered yesterday at a private funeral service in Manhattan packed with people on her payroll. The VIPs stayed home,...
'DWI' CRASH KILLS SAMARITAN
A good Samaritan trying to help a fellow limo driver whose car had stalled on the Prospect Expressway in Brooklyn was killed by a speeding drunken driver early yesterday, police...
HOME BUYERS: WE WERE DUPED
A federal judge yesterday green-lighted a discrimination suit by eight black home buyers who say shady real estate brokers, lawyers, appraisers and subprime lenders duped them into buying rundown Brooklyn...
PATIENT ACTIVIST
When New Jersey sixth-grader Casey Casperino told her classmates she wanted to hold a fund-raiser at school to benefit the National Kidney Foundation, a few students asked her what kidneys...
THE GROCERS STRIKE BACK
Two Queens bodega workers yesterday were credited with providing key clues that helped cops smash a brazen robbery ring suspected of committing at least 22 gunpoint heists in the past...
'DWI' BILL IN CADDY SHOCK
Bill Murray may be heading from the Caddyshack to the big house, after he was busted in Sweden for driving a golf cart while drunk. The former "Saturday Night Live"...
SEX DOLL: QUIT TOYIN' WITH ME
Porn queen "China Barbie" thinks Mattel should stop focusing on her assets and deal with its own legal problems. "The site's been up for like five years, so it's like...
SPREE'S YACHT YANKED
A bank is trying to get back $1.3 million it has sunk into former Knicks star Latrell Sprewell's yacht. Marshals seized the 70-foot "Milwaukee's Best" in Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee...
LEAD SINKS SPONGEBOB CHINA GOODS
Just call him SpongeBob Scarepants. Some 250,000 Chinese-made address books and journals bearing the popular, perky character's image were recalled yesterday because they might contain hazardous levels of lead paint....
BUSH'S 'VIET' TWIST ON IRAQ
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday invoked the Vietnam War and warned that Iraq would be turned into mass "killing fields" if the United States withdraws now, as many Democrats and...
MICHIGAN IN EARLY-PRIMARY LEAPFROG
WASHINGTON - The political calendar got another jolt yesterday when the Michigan Senate voted to move the state's primary up from March to Jan. 15 - adding more uncertainty to...
'RUDY' RIP AT FRED
A top ally to Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani yesterday blasted Fred Thompson for attacking the former mayor - and New York City - before even declaring his candidacy for president....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Two thieves stole more than $90,000 from a Borough Park check-cashing business, authorities said yesterday. The heist occurred at 7:05 p.m. last Saturday. Suspect Eric Boadi, 27, was waiting...
JAIL SWINE THAT KILLED THESE MEN
THE family of that perfect human being Joe Graffagnino probably don't want to hear what I'm about to say. And that is because gut-tearing grief so often takes over the...
DRAMA OF A TOUGH MARINE 'SHOOT OR DON'T SHOOT' CALL
CAMP FALLU JAH, Iraq - A Marine ap peared in the doorway of the battalion commander's office. "Sir, we've got an ident on a mortar team." Marine Lt. Col. Nate...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 655; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 0104; Lucky Sum: 5 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 714; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Wed.:...
SCOPPETTA MUST GO...
The FDNY yesterday afternoon admitted what had been shockingly obvious from the very start: There was no pre-fire operational plan for battling a blaze in the Deutsche Bank building -...
...AND BRING THE BUILDING DOWN NOW
Vital as it is to conduct a management housecleaning at the FDNY, it is equally urgent that New York's leaders - Gov. Spitzer in particular - expedite the demolition of...
IRAQ ABSURDITIES
COME September, America might slip closer toward a Weimar moment. It would be milder than the original but significantly disagreeable. After the First World War, politics in Germany's new Weimar...
FEAR & THE FED
THE unexpected, widely praised cut in the discount rate last Friday only momentarily removed pressure from the Federal Reserve. While the Bush administration and conservative economists deplore bailing out improvident...
THE CHARTER DIFFERENCE
THE first-year results of a five-year study of nearly 50 New York City charter schools echo what we in the charter movement have been saying for the last 10 years....
TWO MORE HEROES PAY FOR POLITICAL COWARDICE
Two more of New York's Bravest have given their lives keeping us safe, yet when it comes time to give them pay increases or to upgrade their fire- fighting equipment,...
LENDER BENDER
The Federal Reserve's recent moves have not reached the subprime mortgage sector, where lenders continue to teeter and collapse daily, despite being under the corporate umbrella of the most powerful...
NYMEX'S URGE TO MERGE IS NEIGHBORLY
The New York Mercantile Exchange confirmed that it has held "preliminary talks" about a merger that could put the world's largest energy market in the hands of a much-larger rival...
YOU WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE MORTGAGE MESS
SO, you think this whole mortgage mess doesn't affect the average, solvent American household? About a week ago, Capital One started instituting massive increases in the rates it charges its...
WELCOME RELIEF
Stocks surged yesterday as Wall Street got less jittery that the home-lending market's woes would sap the economy. Investor fears eased after four big U.S. banks said they borrowed $500...
GOT 'EM GOT 'EM GOT 'EM
Former Disney boss Michael Eisner yesterday scored a big win in his months-long battle for baseball-card maker Topps after Upper Deck dropped a rival bid, citing Topps management's "shameless" support...
JEWELER 'CRASHES' INTO NYC
Mauboussin, the oldest Parisian luxury jeweler, is returning to New York for the first time since closing its showrooms following Wall Street's crash of 1929, opening a new U.S. flagship...
MUSICAL CHAIRS TALK AT NEGOTIATING TABLE
Large Internet radio operators and the music industry are expected to head to the negotiating table today in search of harmony on music streaming royalty rates. The meeting marks a...
BUILDER MAY BE GOING BUST
Home Solutions of America, a construction company that has caught the eye of federal regulators, could be running out of money. The Dallas-based company, which as recently as this past...
SPITZER'S ULTIMATE DIRTY TRICK
I awoke yesterday morning to false allegations in the New York press that I had made a threatening phone call to Governor Spitzer's 82 year old father, leaving a voice-mail...
SENIORS HAVING SEX INTO 70S, 80S: SURVEY
An unprecedented study of sex and seniors finds that many older people are surprisingly frisky -- willing to do, and talk about, intimate acts that would make their grandchildren blush....
MARBURY: VICK IS '100 PERCENT WRONG'
Stephon Marbury told The Post this morning he feels he's been misrepresented as a dogfighting supporter and went to clarify his statements in regards to defending Michael Vick. Marbury said...
TRES SHEIK
There's no mistaking that Tony-winning "Spring Awakening" composer Duncan Sheik's TriBeCa loft belongs to a musician. Sheik's 2,300-square-foot home is cluttered with the instruments he used to write the music...
BUY THE FARM
IT was four years ago this week when we first reported that Three Ponds Farm in Bridgehampton was going on the market for $75 million. But now it's priced to...
HUDSON'S HEIGHTS
Farah Jaquith can't get enough of sitting by the Hudson River at night and watching tugboats nudge barges and ducks glide along the silvery water. On a recent warm summer's...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan GREENWICH VILLAGE $3,500,000 175 Sullivan St. Three-bedroom, three-bath duplex condo, 2,110 square feet, with dining area, renovated kitchen, fireplace, high ceilings, renovated marble bath, washer/dryer, terrace, central AC and...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
SoHo $1.895 million Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 2,500 Maintenance: $1,550 Don't let the seeming shortage of bedrooms and bathrooms fool you - you could fit several more rooms...
DREAM HOMES
Darien, Conn. $6.295 million There's big, and then there's really big. We're going to go ahead and put this newly constructed stone and shingle home - with about 9,000 square...
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...
RUM SQUALL & BABY LEAGUE WHEN YOU CUT TO THE 'CHASE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Most of today's field exits the same novice stakes here Aug. 2, so getting a read should be fairly simple. Take out your past performances or cue...
NYRA READY TO GRAB HANDEL
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Word is that NYRA today intends to announce hiring of Hal Handel, CEO of Greenwood Racing (Philadelphia Park) and formerly chief of Monmouth and Meadowlands, to fulfill...
HONDO SWEEPS!!!
The cash machine known as Hondo nailed the Pick 3 yesterday, scoring with the Royals, Indians and D'backs to put 175 cardenals into the account. Today, Mr. Aitch will stick...
BETTORS BELIEVE IN EASY 'STREET'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - It will be Street Sense in front, the rest nowhere, in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes. That's according to the morning-line odds that made the Kentucky Derby...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Mattingly, Hernandez snubbedWes Parker, a defensive ace first baseman for the Dodgers in the 1960s, beat out Don Mattingly and Keith Hernandez in fan voting for the all-time Rawlings...
MARIA STANDS TALL IN U.S. OPEN DRAW
On the 71st floor of the Empire State Building yesterday, Roger Federer's bid to become the first player to win four straight U.S. Opens since the 1920s took a slight...
LEFTY MAY PULL A TIGER
Phil Mickelson pushed the door ajar yesterday with speculation that, like Tiger Woods, he might not play in all four FedEx Cup events. "I'm not sure how it's all going...
PGA'S IRON MAN
One of the most talked-about topics regarding the FedEx Cup playoff series, which begins with today's opening round of The Barclays at Westchester Country Club in Harrison has been the...
NO TIGER GIVES FIELD EDGE IN CUP RACE
The officials hate it, the players privately prefer it, or at least don't mind. By skipping The Barclays that starts today at Westchester CC in Harrison, Tiger Woods put a...
IT'S ABOUT THE CASH, COMMISH
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem used the word playoffs 13 times during his press conference yesterday at Westchester Country Club to talk about the FedEx Cup. Yet, it doesn't take...
CAMP CLOSING, STRAHAN COULD RETURN
ALBANY - The 28 days of Giants training camp come to an end today after a brief morning practice, meaning unless Michael Strahan suddenly drops in on the capital of...
BIG BLUE STREAK
ALBANY - Shaun O'Hara yesterday morning read with a hefty amount of shock and awe that Eli Manning laid into former Giants teammate Tiki Barber, and the veteran center had...
REVIS NO BUTT-HEAD
There are games within the game, and there may not be a more intense game of chicken than the one played by wide receivers and cornerbacks. Wide receivers, by virtue...
REYES SWIPES RECORD
Jose Reyes will need a big finish to reach 100 steals this season, but he hit one milestone last night, setting the Mets' single-season record for stolen bases. Reyes tied...
METS CAN'T STEAL ONE FROM PADRES
Carlos Beltran can't do it alone. It takes a team effort, or at least another Carlos involved, to make this Mets' offense purr. Beltran did his part last night with...
MOTA MAKES MORE MISERY
The Mets have an albatross to bear, and its name is Guillermo Mota. The slumping reliever poured gas on the fire with a sorry two-inning, three-run outing that proved decisive...
PEAVY WOULD BE SCARY IN OCTOBER
YOU CAN never look ahead too early. It was clear after last night's 7-5 loss to the Padres at Shea Stadium that the Mets have two scary issues staring them...
ANDY'S DANDY
ANAHEIM - Pitching with his back to a scoreboard that showed the Mariners and Red Sox had lost, Andy Pettitte last night displayed the guts and talent that made Brian...
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...
JOE PASSES CASEY
ANAHEIM - Of all the names Joe Torre has passed on the managerial victory list, none is bigger than Casey Stengel, the man he went past into second place on...
JETS TRADE KENDALL FOR 2009 DRAFT PICK
One year after coming to the Jets and emerging as the undisputed leader of a young offensive line, Pete Kendall was shipped to the Washington Redskins today for a 2009...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It may be a half-baked idea, but officials in Croatia are building a new theme park devoted to potatoes. The park will include potato plant flower beds, a potato-themed playground...
WRIGHT OR WRONG
At 11:30 Wednesday morning I showed up in Times Square at a David Wright promotion for Vitaminwater. A panel of fans played a guessing game with Wright's life. The energy...