August 29, 2007
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Pedro update
Some small news on the Pedro Martinez timetable -- Pedro will have a bullpen session on Friday at Turner Field in Atlanta, which allows the Mets to witness it. He's...
Scene
L.A.-based gallery worker Cammie Staros wears a cute H&M smock top with a scarf she borrowed from a friend, a Cole Hahn bag, and silver flat shoes from Urban Outfitters....
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Elyssa Da Cruz, who works at the Costume Institute, wears a very cute grey loose-fitting dress with nice details by Sullivan from Pixie Market, Terra Plana boots, bag by Mal,...
New Jerseys
During the All Star break last season, when they unveiled the new Reebok jerseys, I was worried the stitching might pose a problem for clubs with more classic jerseys. I...
FALL DEALS: AA's new look = slashed fares!
NEW ADMIRALS CLUB: Plasmas on the wall, MILFs sipping cosmos -- feel free to delay my flight, AA! Remember that lady on "Seinfeld" Elaine did everything in her power to...
A few notes
-Interesting nugget I looked up about Pedro Feliciano after last night's game: he's now given up only two homers the entire year -- and both have come against the Phillies....
Deal of the Day
Despite looking a bit like pig hooves gone chic but these slingback Wooden Platform Sandals from Dolce Vita are a great pick for Fall.The peep toe will look at home...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: WRIGHT RISES TO THE TOP
Week 21 of awards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 3. Vladimir Guerrero, Angels. With a strong close, A-Rod, currently with 43 homers and 19 steals, could...
Court TV's Jersey Brawl
Court TV is heading to Trenton, N.J., to cast a show about feuding neighbors. Lauren Gellert, vice president of alternative programming for the cable network, told the Trentonian that "Trenton...
Don't unpack just yet
âLostâ has signed Jeremy Davies, most recently of âRescue Dawn,â for a recurring spot on the mystery-island drama, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Note to Davies: Unless youâre an original...
TALK OF THE TOWN
PSST . . . we're going to let you in on a little secret: We've got the inside scoop on where "Gossip Girl" is shooting around town. Based on the...
WEB 'AWAKENING'
'SPRING Awakening" - the rock musical about teenage sexual angst that seemed an iffy bet on Broadway - has recouped its $6 million investment after just 300 performances. That makes...
ALBEE, AT THE RIPE AGE OF 80, NOW IN SEASON
WITH rare exceptions - and here Hor ton Foote springs to mind - play wrights tend to peak in their younger years. Not so Edward Albee, who'll celebrate his 80th...
FLIX PICKS JARS STARS
An eclectic group of celebrities made some surprising choices - and some revealing ones - when Turner Classic Movies asked them to choose their favorite films. TCM will feature the...
TOPIC OF 'CANCER'
ONE day you're having a big cappuccino with your girl friends and talking boys, and the next day your entire existence is changed, and it's changed by one word: Cancer....
RAMSAY'S AMERICAN RANT
COMBUSTIBLE cook Gordon Ramsay is boiling mad over the U.S. court system. The British star of "Hell's Kitchen" and the upcoming "Kitchen Nightmares" on Fox lashed out at American litigiousness...
TRADE CALLS FOR 'NATION' CANCEL
IN an unusual move, a major en tertainment industry trade mag azine yesterday called on CBS to cancel its troubled reality show, "Kid Nation." Citing increasingly serious questions about the...
'SMARTER' CELEBS
'ARE You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" is producing celebrity episodes starring "American Idol" blonde Kellie Pickler. Regis Philbin and Miss America Lauren Nelson will also star in special editions...
UP A CREEK WITH A PADDLE
TRUTH-in-advertising alert: Christopher Walken does not actu ally show up in Asian drag until halfway through "Balls of Fury" - not enough to salvage this mostly unfunny, extremely silly pingpong...
GET THEE TO 'MONASTERY'
THE award for the cine matic odd couple of 2007 goes to an 82-year-old virgin bachelor and a nun young enough to be his granddaughter. No, they're not characters in...
KATIE HEADING TO KILL ZONE
Katie Couric will spend her Labor Day vacation reporting from Baghdad just days after a CBS translator was kidnapped and killed in Iraq. Couric will anchor the "CBS Evening News"...
DOES MSNBC'S TUCKER CARLSON HAVE A WIDE STANCE?
Last night on "MSNBC Live" during a discussion with MSNBC honcho Dan Abrams and Joe Scarborough about Sen. Larry Craig's (R-ID) arrest for "lewd conduct" and eventual guilty plea, MSNBC's...
FUHGEDDABOUTIT
HOW pathetic has Little Italy become? Instead of the Italian colors green, white and red, some of the garlands over Mulberry Street are green, white and orange. Yet, to the...
CITY 'ARABIC' ENROLLMENT UP
Seats are filling up at the city's controversial Arabic-themed school scheduled to open Tuesday. Fifty-three students are now enrolled for the Khalil Gibran International Academy's inaugural sixth-grade class, according to...
SCHOOL 'HOT LINES' GO COLD: GOTBAUM
The Department of Education's July transition from 10 regional support centers to 32 district-based offices has been a bumpy one - and parents are bearing the brunt of it, according...
MORE HEV-PAL FIRMS GOT FEES
ALBANY - The top political consultant to former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is affiliated with a slew of companies - including several using the address of his East Hampton home...
FOXY IN THE PEN HOUSE
Jail has taken the moxie out of Foxy. Down-and-pout diva Foxy Brown is holed up in a cell at Rikers Island desperate for human contact as she spends her days...
SHOT GIRL IS BACK AT PLAY
The brave 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet Monday night said she wasn't scared by the ordeal - and was back playing with friends yesterday. Kimberly Desvingnes,...
HEIR OF THE DOG: LEONA WILLS $12M TO A POOCH
Trouble took a $12 million bite out of Leona Helmsley's will. While the Queen of Mean left a kennel full of cash for the plenty-pampered female pooch, she also left...
'POOR' SHOWING IS GOOD NEWS
The rate of New York families living in poverty declined for the third straight year in 2006, dropping to 16.3 percent, according to U.S. Census data issued yesterday. New York's...
METAL BATS STRIKE OUT
The city is free to ban aluminum baseball bats from city schools after a federal judge tossed a lawsuit by unhappy high-school players, coaches and sports-equipment companies, finding they failed...
CONGESTION FEES-IBILITY PLANS SOUGHT
Having already wrestled with the political obstacles to implementing congestion pricing, the city yesterday turned its attention to overcoming the practical ones. The city is asking technology companies to submit...
OH, LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS MESS
She's the anti-Paula Zahn, a Bohemian beauty with gray flow ing hair, casual clothes and a sweet smile. But Josabeth Fri bourg and plastique TV newscaster Zahn share one big...
ASTOR SON RIPS 'MEAN' ESTATE FOE
The fight between Brooke Astor's elderly son, Anthony Marshall, and her well-heeled lady-in-waiting, Annette de la Renta, just got nastier. In court papers made public yesterday, Marshall cited de la...
REPAIRS DELAY AT FIREHOUSE
Permanent repairs have still not been made to the Engine 10/Ladder 10 firehouse more than three months after a 15-foot pipe fell from the Deutsche Bank building and speared through...
TINKLE WRINKLE
A Brooklyn man who spotted a cemetery worker urinating on his grandmother's grave and then was struck with a rake when he tried to stop the desecration filed suit yesterday...
DEUTSCHE MEMO WAS 'IGNORED'
The highest levels of the FDNY knew about but ignored a smoking-gun memo that outlined a plan to battle blazes at the toxic Deutsche Bank site where two firefighters died...
QNS. BIKE KID, 12, DIES IN TRUCK-GRAB STUNT
A 12-year-old boy whose mother is serving overseas in the military was killed yesterday on his bike after he tried to hitch a ride on the back of a refrigerated...
CITY'S SAT SCORES SINK
SAT scores among city high-school seniors have dropped to the lowest level in five years, according to newly released data. Similarly, state scores on the college entrance exam dipped to...
FAKE PITCHER WEIGHS PLEA
The "fantasy league" con man - accused of pretending to be famous ballplayers to score drinks, meals and limo rides - is mulling a plea deal that could keep him...
POST MOURNS JOHN GULINO
John Gulino, a former longtime assistant composing-room foreman at the New York Post, died at his Florida home Monday. He was 89. Gulino, who retired a quarter-century ago after 35...
PERP'S FALSE-ARREST SUIT SHOT DOWN
A repeat offender with an apparent fondness for shooting at cops lost his $10 million suit against the city yesterday when a jury ruled he was not the victim of...
TRUMP JUNIOR PACKIN'
Daddy got his gun - now Junior's got one, too. Donald Trump Jr. joined his famous father among the ranks of pistol packers this year after the NYPD issued him...
'KILLER' BUSTED NEAR EX'S HOME
The Long Island man accused of killing six people from Texas to Pennsylvania - including an ex-girlfriend - was busted hiding out around the corner from another former flame, sources...
'DIRTY' WORK
Here's a close-up look at one of the city's top defenses against radioactive "dirty" bombs. This super-high-tech sensor can quickly detect and analyze nearly any source of radiation, from medical...
BEAUTY CHARGES SEX ATTACK AT LOTUS
A night of dancing at a hot Meatpacking District club turned into near-disaster for a beautiful young woman when a hulking basketball player allegedly locked her in a bathroom, groped...
ASTRO'S PSYCHO EXCUSE
Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak now admits she was spaced out - but only for a while. Nowak is pursuing a temporary-insanity defense on charges that she assaulted and tried...
OK, SO WHAT ABOUT NEW TOILET GUY?
WASHINGTON - Sen. Larry Craig, arrested recently for soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport men's room, called a press conference yesterday to deny he is gay -...
BUSH: BEWARE IRAN 'NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST'
WASHINGTON - President Bush warned yesterday of a "nuclear holocaust" if Iran develops an atomic bomb, as he portrayed the Iraq war as battle between the United States and the...
BLOOMY WAR ON POVERTY
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg came to the nation's capital yesterday to call for new efforts to fight urban poverty - while touching on enough other issues to keep rumors of...
OWEN'S 'COKE AND HEROIN' BREAKDOWN
Funnyman actor Owen Wilson was hooked on heroin and cocaine, struggling with depression and hanging out with the wrong crowd in the months before his attempted suicide, according to a...
THE BUNGA-LOWDOWN
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign aides yesterday said they won't return tens of thousands of dollars contributed by a seemingly low-income family living in a tiny bungalow tied to one...
RUDY FLAP HITS 9/11 CEREMONY
Rudy Giuliani will speak at the sixth anniversary commemoration the of the 9/11 attacks - bringing protests from his critics. The GOP presidential front-runner, who was mayor at the time,...
PUPS HIT THE PAWS BUTTON
Maybe they should have called Michael Vick. Movie pirates, mad that DVD-detecting dogs were taking such a big bite out of their booty, have put a failed hit out on...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan An Upper West Side man needed 264 stitches after he was slashed and clubbed by a couple in a fight over money, authorities said yesterday. The attack began at...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 971; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 1288; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 822; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
GONZO'S GONE, BUT THE CIRCUS STAYS
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' decision to step down, which he announced Monday, was probably overdue. But Democrats who sought blood, and even some weak-kneed Republicans, have nothing to be...
CUOMO GETS RESULTS
Kudos to state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose pursuit of Medicaid fraud has begun to yield substantial results - and the promise of more to come. Over the past few...
IRAQ: THE BOTTOM LINE
President Bush has offered strong arguments for the need for America to prevail in Iraq, but one he pressed yesterday is among the most compelling: U.S. interests, and security, depend...
BAGHDAD TREAT LIFE RETURNS TO MEAN STREETS
BAGHDAD IT may be the world's ugliest ice cream, a random mix of a half-dozen melting flavors swirled together in a chaos of chemical colors. But it's a hit at...
THE ODD GUARD
IRAN'S President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has moved to consolidate his hold on key organs of economic policymaking. He has replaced the Central Bank of Iran Gov. Ibrahim Sheibani after he criticized...
ANSWERING ANSWER
THE dog days of August have drawn to a close. This is the calm before the gathering political storm. On Sept. 15, the far-left group ANSWER ("Act Now to Stop...
CLINTON: BEST OF A LOT THAT'S SOFT ON TERROR?
THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's statement that a new terror attack would help the GOP. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will say anything to get back into the White House...
EX-GOLDMAN BANKER PLEADS GUILTY IN SCAM
A young Wall Street scam artist pleaded guilty yesterday to masterminding an audacious transatlantic stock-fraud scheme that racked up $6.7 million in ill-gotten gains. Eugene Plotkin, 28, a former Goldman...
STOCKS BURNED BY FEAR
Stocks stumbled yesterday to their biggest drop in three weeks as Wall Street grew jittery again that a meltdown in the housing market will harm the economy. The Federal Reserve...
DEAD RISE ON RADIO CHANNEL
The Grateful Dead is alive and well, and on Sept. 7 Sirius Satellite Radio will debut a channel dedicated exclusively to the band. At noon on that date, the eponymous...
BANK'S BAD GAS
The fallout from a disastrous series of natural gas bets continues to prove painful to a major Canadian bank with ties to a Westchester futures broker. The Bank of Montreal...
OLD COLLEGE TRY
The college football season is just starting and the Rose Bowl is months away, but TV networks offering live games are scoring big with advertisers and sponsors. Channels ranging from...
MSNBC.COM'S FUMBLE
IN a story that MSNBC.com ran last Friday on how the legal troubles of disgraced NFL star Michael Vick are dividing African-Americans, Web site editors apparently fell hook, line and...
SALES OF 'MADDEN' HIT 1.8M
Video game developer Electronic Arts is putting up numbers worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster with initial sales of "Madden NFL '08," the latest installment of its wildly popular football franchise....
THE GREEN SHADOW
WHEN does being green get you pickled? Spoilers say the former black and white Verizon Building at 1095 Avenue of the Americas is turning into a towering version of the...
PROTESTS PLANNED ON 2ND HURRICANE KATRINA ANNIVERSARY
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of...
QUIET DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER WANTED FOR THEFT: REPORT
Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has reportedly raised more than $60 million for her 2008 campaign, has been taking cash, along with other Democratic candidates, from a known, wanted fugitive,...
TIGER PITCH AD-NAUSEAM
TIGER Woods was in New York with his golf clubs yesterday, six days too late to compete in The Barclays at Westchester Country Club. He was two days too late...
ANGLERS TAKE TO THE BEACH
SURF fishing becomes a "reel'' serious sport after Labor Day as thousands of anglers make their way to the beaches from Cape May to Montauk Point. Fishing from the beach...
ARTEST FEELS FOR VICK
Ron Artest is one of the few professional athletes who can relate to what Michael Vick is about to endure, and the former LaSalle Academy and St. John's star is...
JACOBS CATCHING ON WITH CYCLONES
If there were a New York-Penn League fantasy draft, Brooklyn Cyclones catcher Jason Jacobs would be a hot commodity. At a typically thin position, fantasy-wise, Jacobs, 23, entered last night's...
LUCK OF THE 'IRISH' PART OF 'EQUATION'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Today's allowance field features a clear standout, Dark Equation, but this late in the meet it's time to get away from favorites. He is better than anyone...
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...
HONDO MESSES WITH TEXAS
The Bronx is burning and Hondo is earning as he showed again last night with the Yankees, who smacked the Bosawx to increase the semi-chunky wad to 160 throneberrys. Tonight,...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Bonds balls auctioned Electronic bidding began yesterday for Barry Bonds' 755th and 756th home-run balls, with the price for the record-breaker starting at $100,000. Sotheby's/SCP Auctions is handling sales...
FULL-TIME FOR DROUGHNS
Everyone knows having Reuben Droughns play fullback for the Giants is not an ideal situation. What once was a fleeting notion at the moment is reality, and don't put it...
STRAHAN CHECKS IN
Send up the white smoke. Alert the networks. Cue the headline writers. Michael Strahan has touched base with his employer, the franchise known as the New York Giants. Monday night...
REVIS COVERS HIS BASES
Darrelle Revis wasn't all that familiar with his new head coach before he finally reported to Jets training camp after a prolonged holdout. "I really didn't know anything about him,"...
MANGINI: JONES OK FOR OPENER
Thomas Jones continues to improve from his calf strain and did some light drills yesterday, but he won't be in a game again until the start of the regular season....
EXTRA PAIN-PHIL
PHILADELPHIA -- There was an almost staggering number of plays, players and sequences that were at least partially responsible for what became an indisputably crushing collapse. It seems like every...
OMAR: NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
PHILADELPHIA - For the record, Billy Wagner's arm is no more weary than Omar Minaya of looking through the same tired pitchers on the waiver wire as his last chance...
PEDRO COULD BE ON MOVE
PHILADELPHIA - Pedro Martinez is almost certainly going to have a fifth rehab start, and while the specifics are still being determined, it might not be for St. Lucie. Martinez...
LOOKIN' SHARP
Under the evening lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium, defending U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova's play shone even brighter than the 600 crystals on her fire-engine-red dress - seamless, just like...
NO DJOK: NOVAK BREEZES
The No. 3 player in the world was placed at the smaller Armstrong Stadium yesterday for his first-round match, but that likely will stop soon. Novak Djokovic is a headliner...
BLAKE SURVIVES A SCARE
This was not the usual, crazy "J-Block'' U.S. Open presence. It was too early in the tournament, too early in the day, too anonymous an opponent. But in two tense...
YEAR OF ALTHEA
Frances Gray, biographer of Althea Gibson and caregiver to the tennis legend in Gibson's final years, said yesterday she plans to approach Wimbledon about a 50th anniversary tribute to the...
JOHNNY ON SPOT VS. RED SOX
Andy Pettitte watched Monday night's slime in Detroit ooze out of a television and immediately understood it was his responsibility to remove the rancid stench that smothered the Yankees. "I...
JOBA RULES!
IT is still Red Sox-Yankees, so it is still a full house and it is still fun and it still has implications. But this is not the Red Sox-Yankees anticipated...
DAMON GETS IT DONE VS. OLD CLUB
FOR A good part of last night's game, a squirrel perched on the right-field foul pole at Yankee Stadium drew a lot of attention from the fans. Then in the...
OLD FAITHFUL
The recipe has become as familiar as traffic on the Major Deegan. The Yankees need a stopper to end a losing skid? Andy Pettitte answers the call. With Yankees universe...
BOMBS AWAY VS. DICE-K
Daisuke Matsuzaka was as much Dice-HR last night as Dice-K. Two strikeouts for the Red Sox right-hander, two home runs allowed. And this time Matsuzaka took a loss against the...
MUSSINA'S OUT
The Yankees proved again last night they aren't afraid to roll the dice in big spots when they deleted veteran right-hander Mike Mussina from the rotation and gave his Saturday...
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...
JETER HAS PLAYOFFS ON MIND
The playoffs don't officially start until Oct. 3, but Derek Jeter says they've already begun at Yankee Stadium. "This is a situation now . . . it's like we're in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Clean up on Aisle 7! Workers at a Wal-Mart in Wisconsin used shopping carts to corral an emu running around the store's parking lot after escaping from a nearby farm....