August 30, 2007
Family Guy, meet Xbox Live
Whee-hee!!! Full episodes from season 1 and 2 of "Family Guy" and the movie âFamily Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Storyâ will be available for download via Xbox Live,...
Shiny pretty thing
- Jeans- Trousers- PantsBut you know what I do care about? Black clothes and shiny things.And now, after 30 years of denim indifference, I've finally met a pair of jeans...
FALL DEALS: From Zero to Vero
Vero Beach Hotel & Club gives love a good nameVero Beach has to have one of the coolest yellow pages. Roll up to any phone booth and look under "B"...
Also coming out (finally)...
"LAIR." Yes, that's right, Sony's finally releasing the dragon-slaying game "Lair" for the PS3, after pushing it back who knows how many times. It'll hit stores on Tuesday.Sure, they could've...
FALL DEALS: What's in a villa?
Elan Restort & Spa: As close to Tahiti as it gets in Cancun. Socrates asked, "What is virtue?" -- I'm gonna set the bar a little lower and ask you,...
Mass Effect November 20th
As if this holiday season wasn't already crammed full of 'must-have' games, Mass Effect is now rid of its nebulous 'November' realease window and will be eagerly awaiting our cramping...
Something to Look Forward To
Here's an image of "Gotham General Hospital,'' in reality an old candy factory in Chicago, being blown up yesterday for a scene in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight,''...
Deal of the Day
Swing into fall with this Crepe Button Dress by Filippa K. With a three quarter sleeve henley top and full skirt, this frock marries a classic feminine silhouette with a...
Lizard George to Date Elaine
Jason Alexander will reunite with former "Seinfeld" co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus on "The New Adventures of Old Christine."Â He's set to play a lizard handler for children's birthday party who gets...
FAMOUS LOST WORDS
FIVE years ago, Shaun Raviv found a book in a New York bar. The plot of the book wasn't that interesting; it relayed the tale of a French scientist who...
OPEN BOUND? TRY QUEENS' NEXT TOP MODEL
IF you're sick of all the racket at the U.S. Open, take a time out and a detour to the nearby Queens Museum of Art, where admission is free for...
HAUTE LIST
FERGIE'S got baggage. Lots of it. "If I could afford it, I would wear Chanel all the time," says Fergie, smoothing her neon green Ditto booty shorts and billowing yellow...
KATIE FINDS IRAQ WAR
KATIE Couric flew to Iraq last night on her way to becoming the first female network news anchor to report from a war zone. The plucky, 5'11/2" newswoman will trade...
NOT FROM THIS WORLD
ALIENS - the kind from another world, that is - are always good for laughs. Fox is developing a pilot about a family that moves into a gated community only...
MITT 'LOVE' STORY
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Mitt Romney, whose Mormon faith has become an issue in his quest for the White House, has no problem with the cameo mention he got in the season...
COLBERT CAST GETS CASH
THE cast worn by Comedy Central cut-up Stephen Colbert that was signed by media stars is selling for close to $17,000 on eBay. The money from the sale will go...
FOOT-LOSE
THE new cast of "Dancing with the Stars" is true to form. The producers of the hoofing hit concede they have a checklist of types - the retired tough-guy athlete,...
VA. TECH KILLER'S FAM TALKS
'NIGHTLINE" anchor Terry Moran will interview the maternal grandfather of Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho. It is the first time a member of Cho's immediate family has agreed to talk....
CAREY SQUARED
Drew Carey could end up pulling double duty as the host of "The Price is Right" and "Power of 10." Game show guru Michael Davies told the industry trade magazine,...
HOGAN'S SON WAS RACING DAY BEFORE CRASH: PICTURES
Hulk Hogan's son was street racing the day before he was involved in a horrific crash that left one of his best friends clinging for life, new photos show. Obtained...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You need to free yourself from situations and relationships that hold you back from reaching your full potential. It may be painful to begin with but in the long-term you...
SLAM, SERVE AND SIP
SEEING miniature tennis balls in your drink? No, you haven't had one too many. Those little green orbs of melon in the Honey Deuce cocktail are meant to mimic the...
BOROS TO POOL AROUND
The new floating pool has been such a huge success on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront this summer the city plans to tow it elsewhere next year to give another neighborhood...
RUDY RECRUITS LAWMEN
Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani yesterday tapped trusted ally Howard Safir to head a national coalition of law enforcement and emergency-responders backing his campaign for president. Safir served first as city...
GALA GUY RAN $1M PYRAMID SCAM
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday it will give away $23,000 in donations from a New York businessman after it was revealed he's been on the lam from California...
APPLE-BOUND OPRAH TO DO 9/11 SHOW
Oprah is coming to New York to tackle 9/11. The queen of daytime TV is taping a show at Madison Square Garden next month about some of the "good things"...
DVD RING FAILS SNIFF TEST
Three DVD pirates are facing up to four years in jail after being collared by the long arm of the paw - a couple of black Labradors trained to sniff...
'TRACK' TRICK
A 21-year employee of the school system could lose his job after officials accused him of repeatedly leaving early - and stunned the worker with data it got by tracking...
(FUNERAL) MASS PROTEST AT SHUTTERED CHURCH
A woman who fought to reopen her shuttered East Harlem church will get her deathbed wish today, when her funeral is held outside its locked doors. Carmen Gonzalez, who died...
GOV NOW SUPPORTS AIDE HE BLASTED
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer, who last month suspended top aide Darren Dopp for improper conduct in the explosive dirty-tricks scandal, changed his tune yesterday and insisted, "He didn't violate any...
MY BRO IS FDNY FALL GUY: ATTORNEY
A fire captain relieved of his command after two of New York's Bravest died fighting an inferno near Ground Zero inherited a controversial directive that kept his unit from inspecting...
LMDC BOARD MEMBER COZY WITH CONTRACTOR
The general contractor on the troubled Deutsche Bank demolition project has a Lower Manhattan Development Corp. board member on retainer, lobbying records show. The cozy relationship between Bovis Lend Lease...
TOP DOGS AMONG WORLD'S FAT CATS
She's Trouble, the millionaire Maltese who inherited $12 million from Leona Helmsley and became the newest member of an exclusive pack of pampered pooches. Others include: * Barney the Scottish...
RUFF INJU$TICE
News of Leona Helmsley's passing had her former maid practically singing, "Ding-dong! The witch is dead!" - but she just wished the real-estate mogul would have taken her little dog,...
9/11 HELPERS' SHOCK LINGERS
One out of eight people who pitched in at Ground Zero after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks suffered posttraumatic stress disorder afterward, the city's Health Department disclosed yesterday. The...
TRAIN PERV IS PHOTO FINISHED
A young woman turned the tables on a subway flasher, capturing him in a flash on her cellphone camera, cops said yesterday. The 23-year-old woman was headed from Main Street...
PROBERS MEET PENSION FIRM
ALBANY - Investigators looking into activities of the state pension fund have met with representatives of a small financial-services firm tied to former Comptroller Alan Hevesi's top political consultant, the...
JURY CLEARS 'RAPE' CABBY
A Brooklyn jury deliberated just half a day before finding a livery driver not guilty on charges he raped a passenger in the back seat of his Lincoln as her...
VOTER POLL SHOWS THEY LIKE MIKE
New Yorkers may find Mayor Bloomberg "cold" or even "out of touch," but they overwhelmingly like the way he does his job - and potential successor Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
$5M LONG I. 'POT' OF GOLD
Long Island potheads may have a tough time scoring this weekend after feds took down a $5 million hydroponic marijuana-growing operation yesterday, arresting two men who allegedly grew 2,000 plants....
'LIFE' SPANS
Nearly a quarter of New Yorkers who commit suicide do it by jumping from high places, a gruesome statistic that has led state officials to install suicide-prevention telephones on a...
BOY, 9, CHARGED IN BABY'S BEATING DEATH
A 9-year-old boy was charged yesterday with fatally beating a baby in a New Jersey day-care facility, prosecutors said. The suspect, whose name was withheld because he is a minor,...
MIRACLE COP
A rookie cop cheated death when he plunged four stories through a skylight in Brooklyn yesterday, police sources said. Officer Daniel Diaz, 25, was investigating a report of a prowler...
'BABY KILL' MA 'DEPRESSED'
The lawyer for a 22-year-old woman accused of suffocating her baby said his client is "quite depressed" and said he will offer psychiatric evidence of her instability. Yoneli Rodriguez was...
DIALLO COP SHOT DOWN AGAIN IN BID FOR GUN
A cop involved in the infamous shooting death of Amadou Diallo isn't entitled to get his gun back, a federal judge has ruled. Kenneth Boss, acquitted of criminal charges and...
SEXY, SAFE TEENS
More than two-thirds of sexually active Big Apple teens are practicing safe sex by using condoms, but few are augmenting it with the birth-control pill or other pregnancy-preventing measures, a...
BAD BIKERS IN LICENSE PEDI-GRAB
Pedicab drivers busted by police for running red lights and hitting pedestrians may have better odds of winning coveted licenses to "pedal" their wares in the city than drivers who...
GREETINGS FOREIGNERS
Foreign tourists are so important to New York that the city is dispatching 50 teams of volunteers around town to make them feel welcome, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The mayor...
THAT'S USING OLD KIDNEYS
Doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital are planning a four-way kidney transplant this morning in a series of surgeries they may need a scorecard to follow. John Feal, a 40-year-old Smithtown...
3RD PRISONER JOINS NYPD ESCAPE-FEST
For the third time in a week, a prisoner in NYPD custody pulled a Harry Houdini - this time disappearing from a Brooklyn hospital early yesterday morning. Unlike the previous...
PRINCE OF THE PUNKS IS DEAD
He took a run-down bar on the Bowery that he said stank of "dirty old men, vomit and urine," and built a legend - launching the careers of acts such...
WEDDED DISS TO BLISS
To heck with the $17 million real-estate deal, bring on the wedding! A Manhattan judge has ordered the sale of Sky Studios to billionaire Ron Burkle be put on ice...
TENNIS FAN REALLY 'FALLS' FOR NADAL
Flushing Meadows erupted in a frenzy yesterday afternoon when fans rushed superstar Rafael Nadal after his match at the U.S. Open - sending a young woman tumbling onto the court....
775G FINE ON BUSH-BASHERS
WASHINGTON - Federal election officials yesterday slapped a nearly-$800,000 fine on a political group that was closely aligned with John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and heavily bankrolled by billionaire investor...
OWEN WILSON QUITS FLICK
Actor Owen Wilson has dropped out of his latest film following his suicide attempt. The lovable "Wedding Crashers" star - who remains in stable condition at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los...
GOP: FLUSH TOILET POL
WASHINGTON - The political walls started closing in on Sen. Larry Craig yesterday, as three leading congressional Republicans called for him to resign after he got busted in a toilet...
NASA 'SABERS' THE MOMENT
Clearly intent on getting back to serious business and away from silly distractions like crazed astronauts making long drives in diapers, NASA officials took time out for an important event:...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police arrested an impatient ticket buyer for stabbing the patron in line ahead of him in Midtown, cops said. The 61-year-old victim was at the Ticketmaster window, with fellow...
'WE WERE TOLD: DON'T GO IN' THAT MOLDY HELL
PETE D'Ancona, retired firefighter from Ladder 10, remembers in October 2005 going into that horribly cursed former Deutsche Bank building. "We got a call that there was glass falling from...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 943; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 5156; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 322; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 6474;...
BOOING BOLLINGER
For Columbia President Lee Bollinger, the experience had to have been painful. Standing before a large, unruly audience, he could hardly get a word in. As the catcalls rendered his...
IDAHO'S ODDEST POTATO
That wasn't exactly Jim McGreevey standing in front of the microphones, proclaiming himself "a gay American" to deflect attention from his misuse of public office. On the contrary: Sen. Larry...
FOXY BROWN'S RIKERS ISLAND BLUES
Poor Foxy Brown. The nasty-tempered rap artist and serial violator of probation is ensconced on Rikers Island - and not having a very good time of it, either. The Post...
'POVERTY' IN AMERICA
THE Census Bureau announced Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans are "poor." Presidential candidate John Edwards claims these 36.5 million Americans "do not have enough money for the food, shelter and...
SUPPORT TROOPS: UNSUNG HEROES
BAGHDAD THE Army's Maj. Gen. James E. Simmons is a country boy from Arkansas who likes to go fishing in one of Saddam's artificial lakes with NCOs from the Kentucky...
GONE MISSING
ONE normally media- loving voice is conspicuously missing from the who-did-what-when aftermath of the tragic 130 Liberty St. fire on Aug. 18: Where is Charles Maikish, who was in charge...
AFTER GONZO: W GETS SERIOUS
ONE day after Alberto Gonzales submitted his resignation as attorney general, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten was on the phone Saturday feeling out who might be available as...
DEMS AGAINST GONZALES: PURELY PARTISAN PUTSCH
Like yokels at a public hanging, Democrats are gleefully rejoicing at the downfall of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ("Bedtime for Gonzo," Aug. 28). They feared and hated him, not because...
CITY SCHOOLS UNDER SIEGE
What is so surprising about the report that New York's schools are under siege by crime ("Facing School Violence," Editorial, Aug. 26)? Despite an 18 percent drop in the number...
BOUNCING DOW
Just a day after the Dow Jones industrial average posted yet another 2 percent plunge amid a fresh wave of credit-crunch jitters, major stock indexes roared back to life yesterday,...
SHORT-TERM FUNDING CRISIS CLAIMS LONDON FUND
The inability of finance companies to access short-term funding yesterday whacked another gilt-edged money manager whose asset-backed commercial paper program was unexpectedly downgraded. London-based Cheyne Capital began selling the assets...
PAULSON IS STILL CLAMMING UP ABOUT THE PPT
HERE'S more from the interview that never happened - my imaginary chat with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who in real life refuses to discuss the Plunge Protection Team. Paulson seems...
WEAR SHE WENT
The launch publisher of red-hot Everyday with Rachael Ray has bailed out of the Reader's Digest Association title to throw her lot in with the Condé Nastie crowd. Christine Guilfoyle,...
BUSINESSWEEK EXEC DODGE OUT
The publisher of BusinessWeek is bailing to join Salesforce.com, a fast-growing software developer. BusinessWeek Publisher Geoffrey Dodge leaves three months after he was passed over for the job of BusinessWeek...
ANGEL OF LORD
Lord & Taylor parent NRDC Equity Partners plans to spend $500 million renovating the department store chain, including $100 million earmarked for the flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 39th...
APPLE SET TO UNVEIL NEW IPODS
Anticipation that Steve Jobs is set to release a new slate of iPods ahead of the holiday shopping season sent shares in Apple Inc. surging over 5 percent yesterday. Apple...
NEWS CORP. & NBC CALL VIDEO BIZ HULU
After five months of waiting, media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. announced the name of their much anticipated foray into online video: Hulu. "Huh?" you might ask. "Objectively, Hulu...
IT'S TERRA IN-FIRMA
The management shake-up is under way at EMI as Guy Hands' Terra Firma takes control of the British recorded-music giant. Chief Executive Officer Eric Nicoli and Chief Financial Official Martin...
YAHOO! HEAVE-HO CLAIMS AD BOSS
Yahoo!'s top ad exec is headed for the door as part of an ongoing overhaul of the ailing Internet giant. Greg Coleman, the global head of ad sales, is leaving...
SUPERVISOR KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN BRONX WORKPLACE DISPUTE
NEW YORK -- For years, Paulino Valenzuela was considered a model employee. Then came the repeated altercations, the firing, the discrimination lawsuit and, finally, the deadly gunfire. Authorities say after...
BRIT'S BIG BUCK$
Pop-tard Britney Spears makes a whopping $737,868 a month - while K-Fed earns zilch, according to the latest documents in the fractured couple's kid custody battle. "[Spears] is clearly the...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
TriBeCa $1.85 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,525 Maintenance: $1,344 It might seem counterintuitive, but you could easily make this "spectacularly renovated" two-bedroom co-op on White Street into...
HEAD OF THE CLASS
IT wasn't long ago that $30,000 would cover first-year tuition at Dartmouth or Yale. Today, $30,000 isn't even enough for kindergarten. Tuition for one year of preschool at the Upper...
ON THE MARKET
UPPER EAST SIDE 1619 Third Ave.: $1.199M Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,161 square feet. Agent: Karen Sassoon, Prudential Douglas Elliman, (646) 505-6950. 120 E. 86th St.: $799K Two-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 868...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan GREENWICH VILLAGE $1,075,000 11 Fifth Ave. One-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 1,100 square feet, with dining room, central A/C and terrace; building features doorman, concierge, laundry and storage. Maintenance $1,500, 45...
DREAM HOMES
SoHo $8.5 million The flyer for this condo at the Jean Nouvel-designed 40 Mercer claims the boutique building is "indisputably downtown's best building." Well, who are we to dispute it?...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Perfect LeBron leads U.S. In Las Vegas, LeBron James went 11-for-11 from the field, making all four of his 3-point attempts, and scored 26 points in the first half...
BAFFERT'S FIRST-TIMER SPATACULAR
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Bob Baffert, who shipped several of his horses from California to Saratoga because he didn't want to race them over the new, quirky Polytrack surface at...
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...
MIXED UP FINALE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Saratoga's steeplechase finale, the Grade I New York Turf Writers Cup, goes to the post as the eighth race today and lures a special horse in Mixed...
HONDO: LET'S GO METS!
The Rangers had one of those heroic-for-Hondo games last night, outlasting the pitiful Pale Hose in 11 to raise the accounts receivable to 210 randles. Today, the price is nice...
SMALL STAR COMING UP BIG FOR S.I.
The Staten Island Yankees showed last night that their similarities with their Bronx brethren can be more than in name only. The Baby Bombers did their best impersonation of their...
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
CAL seemingly had it all last Sept. 2, when the glitzy, glamorous Golden Bears strolled into Knoxville for a season-opening tussle with Tennessee. The Bears were No. 9 in the...
OPTIMISM REIGNS AT RUTGERS
What once sounded like the ravings of a lunatic now has thousands of college football fans in the metropolitan area beating their chest and exclaiming, "I told you so!" When...
GIANT GAME PLAN: DON'T GET HURT
FOXBOROUGH - It's a game just like any other game, except that it's not. The Giants starters - most of them, anyway - will put on shoulder pads and helmets...
CLEMENS CLIMBS
PHILADELPHIA - Chad Pennington's preseason is over. If he plays a down the Jets' preseason finale against the Eagles tonight, it'll be an upset. As for Kellen Clemens, tonight marks...
NO EXCUSE FOR METS' MISCUES
PHILADELPHIA - Oliver Perez walked a pitcher old enough to practically need a walker, marching the Mets up against a wall. Marlon Anderson went into Tad Iguchi with his forearms...
SLIP, SLIDIN' AWAY
PHILADELPHIA - They were both baffled and angry, believing they were robbed last night. The Mets lost their fourth straight game last night, thanks mainly to yet another terrible night...
ACHY NADAL STRUGGLES TO VICTORY
Rafael Nadal's chances of earning a Finals rematch against Roger Federer appear bleaker than parking at Shea Stadium. Nadal wore a sleeveless banana-yellow shirt - a color that now stands...
ROGER, SERENA ADVANCE
Roger Federer and Serena Williams both took steps toward another Grand Slam, but each will figure to have some challenges before getting to the U.S. Open finals. Williams looked shaky...
VENUS, ANA ON COLLISION COURSE
Ana Ivanovic played at Ashe Stadium for just the second time in her career yesterday, but that total will grow and grow. The 19-year-old rising star, part of the Serbian...
NO MANNY LAND
Manny Ramirez flashed a thumbs-up sign yesterday when asked about his latest injury, but that was just "Manny being Manny," trying to avoid directly answering a question from reporters. A...
WATSON'S VISIT IRKS FRANCONA
Tired of repeated warnings falling on deaf ears, The Post has learned Bob Watson entered the Red Sox dugout during last night's game to talk to Terry Francona about not...
BOMBERS PLAN TO AMEND JOBA RULES
The Joba Rules are about to change, The Post has learned. And after watching Kyle Farnsworth almost flush a Yankees win last night, the alterations can't be made soon enough....
ANOTHER KYLE-D RIDE
THERE was Paul McCartney, cheering in the first row behind home plate last night at the Stadium. That was only fitting - the Yankees took a major step on the...
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...
MOOSE UNHAPPY ABOUT BEING SKIPPED
About an hour before last night's 4-3 win over the Red Sox, Yankees GM Brian Cashman was standing in the clubhouse speaking to reporters about when plans go awry. As...
YANKEES ON ROCKET RISE
In the previous nine games not started by Chien-Ming Wang or Andy Pettitte, the Yankees had won one. Across the previous seven games that Wang and Pettitte worked, the Yankees...
A-ROD'S HR RIGHT ON TIME
The sense of dread was growing at Yankee Stadium when Alex Rodriguez stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Yankees led the Red Sox, 3-1,...
THAT'S THE CLEMENS THE BOMBERS NEED
HE IS the greatest pitcher of his generation, and one of the greatest ever born, but Roger Clemens hasn't been able to throw his credentials past the American League so...
PEDRO TO WORK OUT IN ATLANTA
PHILADELPHIA - The next step for Pedro Martinez will take place tomorrow with a bullpen session, a development that also helps clarify his timetable. Martinez' bullpen session will be in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Would-be crooks dug a 60-foot-long tunnel toward an ATM machine filled with nearly $150,000 worth of British pounds. The bold plan to loot the ATM in Manchester, England, was foiled...