October 24, 2007
Hallelujah, Kidd practices
By FRED KERBERKidd practiced. Went hard. Felt fine.The Nets thus returned the heart resuscitator paddles, syringes of adrenalin and assorted therapists for the coaching staff. Kidd reiterated that he has...
Tag Insult
No doubt this Eros Olivia Dress is adorable. I love me some big bows.But there is one thing that annoys me about it.It's $395.Oh and it's at Urban Outfitters.What happened...
The Rumor Mill: 'Golden' Turkey?
A couple of weeks ago, we relayed online fanboys' growing negative anticipation about "The Golden Compass.'' Now a flack for New Line has labeled "bull[bleep]'' today's Page Six report that...
Deal of the Day
My good friend, Jo is the brand manager for the Gap in Europe, and she's constantly telling me how much better their collections are across the Pond.Sales are better over...
Half-Life 2 > Halo 3
After grinding through most of The Orange Box's superb content (Half-Life 2, HL2: Ep1, HL2: Ep2, Portal & Team Fortress 2) I was reminded, finally, what incredible production and incredible...
Tony Pena Arrives In Tampa
Tony Pena has arrived in Tampa for his interview with the Steinbrenners.It is thought that the Yankees could hire a new manager by the end of this week."It's possible," Hank...
Scene
Karolina Bosakova wears a pretty floral dress from a local boutique, with over-the-knee boots from Czech Republic, a vest from H&M in Prague, and a bag from Thailand."This is my...
And now batting .... Chad Pennington. No. 10.
After a couple days of speculation about who'll start at quarterback for the Jets, Eric Mangini opened his press conference today by saying that Chad Pennington remains the starter.That will...
Starr Report
Brian Williams, (right) who's hosting "Saturday Night Live" Nov. 3 (with musical guest Feist), saw his "NBC Nightly News" win the evening-news race in total viewers last week for the...
UPDATE: Burned
Wildfires are as SoCal as paparazzi and passive aggressive behavior. But this year's blazes appear to be more dramatic than usual. Right now, the city of San Diego is virtually...
DVD Extra: Universal Silents
The enterprising folks at Kino Video, who keep a particularly sharp eye on restorations of classic films from around the world, have a real winner in their beautiful new edition...
1890 TO THE PRESENT: IMMIGRATION LAW AND NEW PEOPLES
Our series Immigration - The Story of America's People, continues. THE Industrial Revolution - the period in which manufacturing and factories dominated the economy - got into high gear after...
BEHIND YEO'S MONKEY MISS
THE Monkey Bar enjoyed a megabucks redesign this year, but it has been running on empty since executive chef Patricia Yeo and operator the Glazier Group "parted ways" two weeks...
JOKING AROUND GETS SERIOUS
'I'M trying to be positive," I began my set under the harsh lights of the stage at Carolines on Broadway in my audition for the inaugural New York's Funniest Stand-Up...
BACK TO THE FUTURE
WHEN rock musicians take up residencies, they're usually doing them at sparsely attended rinky-dink venues and playing songs that nobody recognizes or cares about. That isn't - and won't be...
MO' MORRISSEY'S A SOLID SHOW
MORRISSEY and moping might go hand in hand in the pop culture consciousness, but the iconic singer overcame that assessment with a smart, well-played concert at the first of his...
GREAT SCOTS AT WAR
SCOTLAND'S famed Black Watch military regiment was disbanded a few years ago after serving its country for some 300 years. It receives a powerful send-off in "Black Watch," the National...
HELP ME, RWANDA
THE 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people were murdered in little more than three months, would seem an overwhelming subject for a play. But J.T. Rogers' "The Overwhelming" handles...
GO AHEAD & 'CRY'
IS there a musical out there the critics and Tony voters can rally around this season? Everybody's asking that question now that it's blazingly clear the new crop of musicals...
STARR REPORT
What about Brian? Brian Williams, who's hosting "Saturday Night Live" Nov. 3 (with musical guest Feist), saw his "NBC Nightly News" win the evening-news race in total viewers last week...
2 PERCENT AMERICAN
COMIC Stephen Colbert is starting to show up in the presidential polls. Not high in the polls, but Colbert, who announced last week that he is running for president, is...
SOCAL BURN FACTOR
THE California wildfires that have forced the evacuation of more than a million people are also wreaking havoc on prime time shows filmed in the area. Among the shows most...
MARIE BLAMES FAINT ON ALLERGIES
MARIE Osmond said yesterday that she was "fine" after she fainted during a live telecast of "Dancing with the Stars" Monday. She returned to the show last night and sources...
JES' 'VIEW'
JESSICA Simpson is expected to sit-in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck as a guest host on "The View" for two days next month when Hasselbeck goes on maternity leave. Simpson is slated...
DO WAH DIDDY
CLEAR your calendar for the evening of Feb. 25. It's a winter Monday, anyway, which means you'll have no excuse for missing the long-awaited arrival of "A Raisin in the...
OPPORTUNITY UNRAVELS
WITH the title "Lagerfeld Confidential," Rodolphe Marconi's documentary should be over flowing with juicy secrets about the famed fashion designer and photographer. It isn't. Rather, it comes off as something...
TOMATOES IN THE KITCHEN
A few weeks ago, Ivy Stark, the brilliant executive chef of Stephen Hanson's giant Dos Caminos on Park Avenue South, found an unappetizing surprise in her locker room - a...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
It's okay to be serious about your aims in life but not so serious that you lose your ability to have fun. Every time you feel the corners of your...
CABLEVISION VOTE MAY BE CLOSE
The Dolan family's pursuit of Cablevision remained up in the air last night as some big shareholders, which previously were against the $22 billion takeover indicated they may vote in...
ONLINE FACEOFF
Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes. Microsoft and Google are each vying to take a...
NEW SPORTING LIFE OF REILLY
WHEN Sports Illustrated lost its star writer Rick Reilly to ESPN earlier this week, it was more than just one media giant raiding another. Reilly was said to be the...
REELING CANTOR DEBT BIG LEAVES
A key Cantor Fitzgerald executive has departed as the firm copes with sharp losses from this summer's crash of the mortgage- and asset-backed securities markets. Irving Goldman, a Cantor partner...
LUXURY STOCKS FALL AS HOLIDAY SALES FORECAST APPEARS WEAK
Santa is going on the cheap this year as consumers show new signs of skipping luxury products in their shopping plans. Stocks of most high-end manufacturers and purveyors - from...
MOZILO'S MOVE
Flamboyant mortgage mogul Angleo Mozilo built his empire on public relations skills - and hopes it will rescue him now from the worst crisis of his career. Mozilo, 68, whose...
TIMES SHARES JUMP 10% ON STRONG 3RD-QTR. PROFITS
Money manager Hassan Elmasry must be down in the pits after dumping his New York Times shares. Yesterday - about a week after Elmasry sold his firm's 7.2 percent stake...
BAYOU HEAD FACES MUSIC
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for one of the men involved in the notorious $450 million Bayou hedge fund swindle are locked in a bitter pre-sentencing battle of claims and...
TWINS FOR DEUCE
SILVERSTEIN Properties has finally started construction of 600 W. 42nd St., and we're now unveiling the design for its $700 million twin-towered plan at the corner of Eleventh Avenue. The...
ANGLING FOR A TAX REPRIEVE
The Blackstone Group and others are pressuring lawmakers to double the five-year grace period on the proposed tax increases for publicly traded hedge funds and private-equity firms. A draft of...
FEWER ASKING CITY TO GIMME SHELTER
Ten days into its new policy of refusing automatic beds to families showing up after hours at city shelters, city officials yesterday said the number of such shelter seekers has...
APPLE GUSHES ABOUT WATER REVE-NEW$
Water bill revenues jumped 12 percent above projections in the first half of this month - a sorely needed uptick as the Water Board weighs an 18.5 percent special rate...
7 MORE TAKE ID-PLAN EXIT
ALBANY - The revolt of the county clerks against Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses grew yesterday as seven more said they will defy the...
STEAM-PIPE 'BLAST' ALERT
Engineers found a "crack-like flaw" in the ancient Con Ed steam pipe that erupted in a geyser of mud and devastation in Midtown last July - and other pipes in...
TINY CHOP-KEEPER KICKS GUNMAN'S AX
A tiny but fearless shop clerk stalled a robber pointing a gun at her head - then swung a giant ax wildly at him until he ran from her family's...
DONALD TRUMPETS NEW $HOW
Move over, Oprah - here comes The Donald. Donald Trump will host a daytime advice show in which he'll help people settle their financial disputes. "It's gonna be a show...
RUDY THE YANKEE FLIPPER
Call him Judas Giuliani. Yankee fanatic Rudy Giuliani revealed yesterday that he is backing the hated Boston Red Sox in the World Series. Giuliani - who has a sign on...
CHAMBERS OF HORRORS
Preppy Killer Robert Chambers and his strung-out girlfriend turned their tony East 57th Street building into a high-traffic drug market as they peddled vast quantities of cocaine from their filthy,...
SOCKER MOM IS BUSTED
They volunteer for this? A Long Island soccer mom allegedly bashed her daughter's elderly youth coach in the face with a cloth folding chair Sunday because the man - who...
GAS BLAST SHELLSHOCKS OYSTER BAR
An explosion rocked the Oyster Bar at Grand Central yesterday morning, sending one employee to the hospital with burns. The oven in the lower-level restaurant blew up as assistant baker...
HERE COMES CITY E-CYCLING
New York City is on the verge of becoming the first municipality to enact an e-waste bill, officials said yesterday. City Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D-Brooklyn) announced that he has collected...
JFK TRAFFIC PARLEY HITS TURBULENCE
The FAA and airline officials held a heated meeting in Washington yesterday to try to come up with ways to reduce congestion at JFK Airport. Airport and airline executives blasted...
'I KILLED & I FEEL BAD'
A narcotics cop says he feels bad about shooting and killing an unarmed motorist in an East Harlem road-rage incident, and wishes it never happened. "It was a loss of...
L.I. SUPERBUG
Long Island authorities have reported their community's first case of the dangerous killer bug MRSA staph: a student athlete at Baldwin HS. The unidentified student was diagnosed with the illness...
PENN ON TRACK
State officials yesterday took the first steps toward converting the old Farley Post Office into Moynihan Station, complete with a new Madison Square Garden and Penn Station commuter hub. Yesterday's...
'DEVECCHIO' TEEN MAY HAVE DUG HIS OWN GRAVE
A witness against alleged rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio nearly whacked the Brooklyn DA's case yesterday by testifying that one of the deadly secrets the G-man allegedly leaked to the...
PUNCHED GAL RIPS DJ PLEA DEAL
A New Jersey woman allegedly socked by radio host Ed Lover at a Chelsea nightclub - permanently scarring her face - was furious yesterday after the popular DJ copped to...
S(HE) HAS A HISTORY
The transsexual who says she was pressured into an affair with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein when she was just 16 once filed a similar - and bogus - claim against another...
VICTIM FLUBS BX. COP IDS
A man who says he was savagely beaten by two Bronx cops outside a Yonkers bar was unable to pick the officers out of separate line-ups yesterday, sources said. The...
RUBBER ROMEOS WANTED
It may well be the hardest job around - but applicants are expected to be excited, motivated and straight shooters. Condom-maker Durex wants men - and women - to become...
KIDS' STRIPPER AID IS A BUST
Scores strippers set to help out at a Halloween festival held at a Brooklyn middle school have been told thanks, but no thanks. Ladies from the jiggle club were scheduled...
STAGNANT GOWANUS
Something stinks along the Gowanus - and it's not just the long-polluted canal, Brooklyn activists say. Although developers are lined up to build along the banks of the waterway -...
POOR PLEA BY RAPIST
Meet the poor little preppy rapist. Button-down, baby-faced beast Alex Kelly - the once-privileged son of wealthy parents from tony Darien, Conn. - whined yesterday that he can't afford to...
'DANCE LAWYER' GAY FLAP
A boisterously eccentric defense attorney yesterday accused a Bronx Supreme Court judge of being "homophobic" after the jurist told him to stop "dancing" around "in a flamboyant nature" in his...
DRIVER LIKELY BOUND FOR TRAFFIC COURT
It was disorder in the court yesterday when a woman crashed her car into a bus stop at busy Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn - sending six people to the hospital....
DA SEEKING VICTIMS OF 'PERV' SHRINK
The Manhattan DA set up a hot line yesterday in hopes of finding victims of an alleged pervert child therapist who was arrested after porn featuring young boys was found...
TEEN THUGS JAILED FOR SICKENING SEX TORTURE
Two thugs who sadistically sodomized a mentally handicapped young man with a plumber's snake were sentenced yesterday to long terms behind bars by a Long Island judge who called their...
THE 'BULL' RING
Bada bling. Jeweled "family" heirlooms belonging to Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano - including his diamond-encrusted pinkie rings and gawdy key chains - will hit the auction block next month, with...
MIKE COP: I'M BACK!
A bruised and limping Brooklyn cop, recuperating at home yesterday after a violent struggle with a subway psycho as he guarded Mayor Bloomberg at a train station, shrugged off his...
'SEX SLAVE' NIGHTMARE
A prostitution ring operating in the city and suburbs exploited Korean immigrants by forcing them to work 'round-the-clock shifts as prostitutes, and swapped women from state to state to keep...
TURKS WARN OF ATTACK ON KURDS
Turkey said yesterday the 60,000 troops it has massed on the Iraqi border are ready to cross it and crush Kurdish guerrillas "at any time" - as the United States...
AS CIVILIANS JOIN FIGHT VS. MILITIAS ; IRAQ DEATHS ARE FALLING
AFP/Getty ImagesGRASS ROOTS:Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch attributes the decline in fatalities in Iraq to a turn against extremists. BAGHDAD - October is on course to record the second consecutive decline...
CAUGHT IN LINE OF FIRE
More than 1 million California residents were forced to flee their homes yesterday - one of the biggest evacuations since the Civil War - as high winds whipped wildfires into...
HOUND DOG MURRAY
He makes a great Elvis, but Bill Murray is no King of hearts. Posing on the premiere issue of Movies Rock magazine, the "Lost in Translation" star confesses that most...
BARACK SLAPS HILL IRAN VOTE
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama launched an airmail attack on Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, slamming her "dangerous" vote for a Senate resolution on Iran. The letter marks one of the sharpest...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A woman bodega customer attacked an employee preparing a sandwich for her more slowly than she liked, authorities said yesterday. Ischica Prempeh, 27, clashed with the 19-year-old employee in...
'IT BREAKS MY HEART,' SAYS HIS FATHER
I FEEL damn sorry for Robert Chambers - the fa ther, not the son. Around 10 yesterday morning, Robert Sr., 68, got a telephone call. "It was from my son,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 612; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2511; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 834; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 1772;...
THOMPSON'S SHOP TALK
Here's something you don't hear every day: Many of New York City's pub lic-school students may be far better served by vocational education than by a college-prep curriculum. That was...
JUST RUDY BEING RUDY
Rudy and the Red Sox? The Rudy who got beat up for wearing a Yankees cap when he was a kid in Brooklyn - that Rudy? - will be rooting...
FREE SPEECH LEFT HANGING
The state Senate on Monday passed a bill that would make it a class E fel ony to place, draw or otherwise display a noose - on public or private...
A LESSON IN STEALING PENSIONS
OSTENSIBLY, union leaders have one purpose - to protect and advance the interests of their members, push ing for higher wages, better health and pension benefits, etc. But the nation's...
HILLARY'S HURDLES: DUBIOUS DONORS
ASIAN-American groups don't like the increased scrutiny that Hillary Clin ton's mysterious Chinese dishwasher donors are getting. To which I say, in words that should be universally understood: Boo-freaking-hoo. In...
A CHANGE AGENT - NOT
THE most interesting thing to come out of the GOP de bate Sunday is confirma tion that the party is dying to run against Hillary Clinton. Each candidate whacked at...
HILL'S CAMPAIGN ORDER: MORE CHINESE TAKEOUT
THE ISSUE: Questions over Sen. Hillary Clinton's fundraising effort in Chinatown. "Hill's Cash Eyed as Chinese-Laundered" (Charles Hurt, Oct. 20) is a terrific article. You've done the legwork, digging and...
TEACHER PAY ON THE MERITS
THE ISSUE: The merit-pay plan proposed for teachers in the city's high-need schools. Merit pay for teachers? It just won't work ("A Meritorious Reform," Editorial, Oct. 18). With salaries dependent...
PROTESTOR ATTACKS CONDOLEEZZA RICE ON CAPITOL HILL
An anti-war protestor, whose hands were painted red to look like blood, stormed up to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she arrived to testify on Capitol Hill this morning,...
UPPER EAST SIDE MAN, 89, KILLED IN HIT-AND-RUN
A kindhearted 89-year-old man who offered to get a cup of coffee for a doorman on the Upper East Side was struck and killed on his way to the deli...
MOB WANTED TO WHACK RUDY
The bosses of New York's five Mafia families in the mid-1980s came a hair-trigger away from sanctioning a hit on then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, according to bombshell FBI records made...
HENRY: YANKS WILL BE FINE WITHOUT GEORGE
BOSTON - John Henry has a unique position when it comes to reading the machinations of this Yankees offseason. He obviously is interested since he is the principal owner of...
THE GREATEST SHOW ON TURF
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Breeders' Cup, the defining event of the American turf, is set to launch in 48 hours at Monmouth Park, the born-again racing pearl by the New...
'STREET' FOR THE HEART
OCEANPORT, N.J. - If the size of the crowd is the measure of celebrity, the star of this week's Breeders' Cup stands alone: His highness, the Kentucky Derby winner himself,...
BC'S ACID TEST
BOSTON College was idle last weekend but moved to second in the BCS standings after South Florida lost at Rutgers. The Eagles are being asked, "Who have you beaten?" They...
ROLLIN' ROCKS VS SUPER SOX
BOSTON - It's possible the Red Sox' left-field wall is more well known than most of the Rockies' players. The Rockies are an anonymous group, made more dramatic when you...
NONE ABOVE LAW
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The betting public will have the final say on who goes off the post-time favorite for Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Monmouth Park. But 4-year-old...
STREET SENSE POSTS SIZZLING SPRINT
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Before a stunning victory in the Kentucky Derby, Street Sense turned in a workout at Churchill Downs that took the clockers' breath away. Yesterday at Monmouth Park,...
JOE GETS TROPHY REQUEST
Former Yankees manager Joe Torre, a longtime racing fan and part-time thoroughbred owner, has been asked by the Breeders' Cup to present the trophy for Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup...
GRASS FINALLY GETTING GREENER FOR JUVENILES
OCEANPORT, N.J. - As opposed to Europe, turf racing for 2-year-olds has always been an afterthought in America. Though some tracks - Saratoga, Belmont Park, the Meadowlands, Keeneland and Woodbine...
IONA, JASPERS HIT BY MAAC TRUCK
Basketball coaches in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tabbed Siena as their preseason No. 1 team and defending champion Niagara No. 3 at yesterday's league media day at the Garden....
HONDO: THE WINNER IS . . .
Hondo, whose debt mushroomed to 70 peskys after Monday night's failure with the Jaguars, had a rare no-play day yesterday, but with good reason. Tonight, after careful analysis of all...
SPORTS SHORTS
FOOTBALL: Chargers mull Sunday shift Due to the wildfires sweeping Southern California, the San Diego Chargers don't know where or when they'll play their next game. The Chargers are scheduled...
JINTS ON GUARD (ROYALLY!) VS. LONDON LETDOWN
WHEN Queen Victoria, in 1837, moved to Buckingham Palace, a detachment of the Queen's Foot Guard took position there - and the guardsmen's tradition of stillness and stoicism remains to...
RARE CHANGE ON GIANTS 'D'
The Giants this season have not been forced by injuries to make any changes to their starting defense, but that could change Sunday in London, with rookie Michael Johnson likely...
BERARD OUT 2-4 WEEKS
Bryan Berard missed the first three games of the season while the Islanders tried to find room for him on the roster. Now Berard will be out 2-4 weeks because...
KEEP CHAD STARTER!
WHEN the Jets con vene on the practice field today Hofstra, the cloudy future of their starting quarterback should be come clearer. All eyes will be on the quarterbacks, with...
NATE IS LOOKING GREAT
The Knicks couldn't have sent more shots across Nate Robinson's bow last summer. Not only did they bring in three guards on draft day capable of taking his spot in...
CELTS SAY DON'T LOOK PAST NETS
The Celtics are the popular - and logical - pick in the NBA East with their three superstars. They are getting just as much attention in an area where the...
NOTHIN' DOING
PITTSBURGH - It is axiomatic in hockey that the first thing to go in an older player is his hands. It happened to Wayne Gretzky. It happened to Brett Hull....
THE WELCOME MATT FOR DON
TAMPA - Don Mattingly's day started at 10 o'clock in the morning and he walked out of the Yankees' minor league complex at 7 p.m. Throughout the marathon interview process...
GALLEGO'S EXPERIENCE SUMS UP DONNIE
BOSTON - Mike Gallego heard the pitching machine whirring down the right-field line beneath Yankee Stadium. It was 8 a.m. A night game was not very far in the background...
MAKING A SURPRISE APPEARANCE, JETER HAS HIS SAY
TAMPA - While Don Mattingly was meeting with GM Brian Cashman and his extensive staff for the second time yesterday at the minor-league complex, Derek Jeter pulled out of the...
TORRE FIRES BACK AT HANK
Joe Torre talked in detail last night about why he was so "hurt and insulted" by the Yankees' one-year contract offer that guaranteed him $5 million plus $3 million more...
POSADA CAMP WAITS ON OFFER
TAMPA - Almost a year of talking with the Yankees hasn't resulted in Jorge Posada signing an extension and with the recent changes in the club's universe it's not likely...
DON MATTINGLY SURPRISES STEINBRENNER AS YANKEES' COACH CANDIDATE
A normally reserved Don Mattingly unexpectedly wore his heart on his Yankees sleeve yesterday and pitched with passion and emotion why he was the best man for the job during...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
That's putting your weight to work. A Wisconsin homeowner held a burglar he caught for cops by sitting on him until police arrived. Jeffrey Stephens was awakened by his dog...
Snake Bitten
The drought continues.Any reasonable person would agree that the Rangers had their share of chances and, in fact, carried much of the play ... but they couldn't beat Marc-Andre Fleury,...
In Progress...
Down 1-0 to Pittsburgh in the second. The Rangers are getting their chances, but not putting them away. So far, Nigel Dawes looks impressive and some of the best opportunities...