November 5, 2007
time off well deserved??
The Jets' bye is Sunday _ though one could argue that, at 1-8, they've played like they've already had nine bye weeks.Today, though, amidst some moderate anticipation, Eric Mangini told...
World Music Awards: Monte Carlo 11/4
She is perfect. I am drooling.Sigh.Before:During:After:
Deal of the Day
Overpriced denim is for suckers. There are loads of affordable options in this city like Uniqlo or even Levi's.They consistently makes fantastic jeans at a great price. Like these Skinny...
Scene
Argentine tango dancer Mariana Galassi punched up her look with red Steve Madden boots and a Free People sweater coat."I'm eclectic! I mix it up depending on my mood."Photo by...
Starr Report
Helen Mirren (right) fans - and there are plenty of them - will be glad to know that a new DVD set, being released in February, contains an exclusive, in-depth...
Oscar Watch: Hoffman's Sleeper
The consensus at this year's Sundance Film Festival was that "The Savages'' had the best year-end awards potential, and it received more warm critical attention in Toronto. This razor-sharp black...
Rangers top Devils in Shootout
Scott Gomez notched a long awaited goal and it couldn't have come at a better moment. He opened the scoring against his former club and that tally proved enough to...
Stallone Goes Back to the Dumpster
Sylvester Stallone, whose sucessful Rocky revival last Christmas is being followed by a new Rambo adventure in a couple of months, is up for yet another remake. Undeterred by the...
Oscar Watch: The Writers Walk
The Writers Guild of America set up picket lines in Manhattan at midnight local time, half an hour before last-minute talks collapsed in Los Angeles with no new ones scheduled....
GO TO GREG
Q: I graduated from college in May and have been working for a financial services firm since then. The money is great, but the hours are ridiculous and the work...
MAKING A HARD SELL
Andrew Calvo is an admitted hotel geek. His friends in Tinton Falls, N.J., are into sports and video games and movies and all the normal passions of a 25-year-old guy,...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
URBAN PLANNERWhat does an urban planner actually do all day? Urban planners - also known as regional, city or community planners - help local governments and organizations plan land development,...
DREAM JOB: LOUIS FARANDA
ALMOST from the moment he started his first job, at age 18, Louis Faranda knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. It was the early...
STEVE BRODIE - DAREDEVIL OR HOAXTER?
Ever heard the expression "Pull a Brodie?" A "Brodie" means to attempt to do a dangerous stunt. The phrase was coined after Steve Brodie allegedly jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge...
THE GLAMOUR BROKERS
These days, with 24/7 cameras, a girl's gotta look good. And no one is looking better than today's stylist. One breed has long been a behind-the-scenes taste-maker steering fashion in...
PULSE SALES
ALBERTA FERRETTI, MOSCHINO, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER 30 W. 56th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues; (212) 632-9300Sale: Nov. 7-10. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Gaultier strapless silk jersey...
THEY DON'T BREAK A LEG
TO celebrate the release of the upcoming Duran Duran album, "Red Carpet Massacre," the Brit rockers wanted the perfect frame for their latest painting, so they booked Broadway's majestic Barrymore...
SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF DEATH AS A YOUNG WOMAN
THE Metropolitan Opera seems full of glorious voices these days. Legend would doubtless claim it's not a Golden Age of Singers - but certainly at the very least it's handsomely...
CZECH IT OUT!
PLAYS that make you think - or even plays that make you think they make you think - will always be in short supply, like caviar. Sir Tom Stoppard's new...
JANE'S NAKED TRUTHS
'Dancing with the Stars" favorite Jane Seymour is admitting - after years of denying it - that she has breast implants. The 54-year-old actress got an ever-so-slight enhancement, according to...
'IDOL' SHAKE UP
THE "Idol" express is pulling into Hollywood station. The next edition of "American Idol" doesn't start until January - but the Hollywood phase of the show, where scores of hopefuls...
NEUROTIC NO MORE
LARRY David - who never wanted to say from year to year whether he was going to keep doing his eccentric HBO comedy - is suddenly talking about doing "Curb...
STARR REPORT
Helen heavenHelen Mirren fans - and there are plenty of them - will be glad to know that a new DVD set, being released in Febru ary, con tains an...
OPRAH'S TEARS
Oprah Winfrey said the the child sex scandal that unfolded at her South African school is one of the most "devastating experiences of her life." In a rare video news...
FEET OF ENDURANCE
With Top Gun hubby Tom Cruise and baby daughter Suri cheering her on, actress Katie Holmes - running under a fake name - huffed and puffed her way through the...
BALLPARK FIGURES TOP CITY CONCESSION HAUL
The city made more money out of Yankee Stadium parking last year that it did from the rest of the ballpark. Newly compiled Parks Department figures show the city collected...
'PIZZA' FUGITIVE IS 'DUH!'LIVERED
A 20-year fugitive wanted in the notorious Pizza Connection drug-ring case was ready for his close-up when he stepped off a plane at JFK Airport - but all he got...
DENTIST'S EX FACES A DRILLING
The heated custody battle for a 4-year-old Queens girl who saw her orthodontist dad gunned down in broad daylight is expected to come to a dramatic close today, with "blockbuster"...
PSC ENERGIZED TO AUDIT CON ED
State regulators are powering up plans to review thoroughly the performance of Con Ed and other utilities amid complaints that for at least 15 years, officials ignored a law requiring...
RUDY: BE MY HEROES
Rudy Giuliani has sent out a letter thanking cops and firefighters for risking their lives - and insisting he would be the president to help prepare them for future terrorist...
POKER ROB LINK PROBED
Cops yesterday were probing whether a weekend robbery-turned-murder at an underground Flatiron District poker den is connected to the holdup of an Upper East Side club in June. Investigators were...
CHANCE TO AIR FARE GRIEVANCES VS. MTA
The public will get its first chance to tell the MTA just what it thinks of the proposed fare hikes for 2008 when a series of public hearings begins tonight...
'CUTUPS' BUS-TED
When a group of scratchiti vandals defaced the windows of a city bus last month, the bus fought back. The vandals were the first collars credited to new digital surveillance...
CAMERA CLEARS 2 'EXES'
Two men questioned in the savage slaying of real-estate broker-to-the-stars Linda Stein do not appear on her building's security videotape the day she died, apparently ruling them out as suspects,...
CUNY PROF WAR
A CUNY professor has filed a $2 million lawsuit against a fellow Ph.D. who's been lambasting her for allegedly trying to "recruit terrorists" to teach within the City University system....
SCHOOL BONUS PAY NAY
Teachers at a Bronx elementary school gave a surprising response to a bonus plan that would pay them roughly $3,000 each for schoolwide student gains: Thanks, but no thanks. Even...
NO BRO IN NIXZMARY SLAY TRIAL
Brooklyn prosecutors have quietly shelved their efforts to put the older brother of Nixzmary Brown on the stand to testify against alleged murderous stepdad Cesar Rodriguez, The Post has learned....
HIT MAN'S STORY MAY KILL SUIT VS. DEVECCHIO
The stunning collapse of the Brooklyn DA's prosecution of former FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio bodes ill for a lawsuit against the ex-G-man. A suit accusing DeVecchio of facilitating a January...
SICK SCHOOL
It started out as a quirk. A couple of parents at one northern New Jersey school gave birth to children with similar learning disorders. Then it became a crisis, and...
ALARM OVER FIRE TRAINING
New York City's ports are becoming easier targets for terrorist attacks now that the FDNY has blocked anti-terror training to an elite firefighter unit that patrols the city's 560 miles...
BABY SHOCKER
A depraved dad brutally beat his baby daughter and then callously left her to die alone on the floor of their Queens apartment, police said yesterday. Peter O'Keeffe, 35, was...
HOME-LOAN RANGERS SLOW TO THE RESCUE
Three months after Gov. Spitzer announced a $100 million program to save New Yorkers in danger of losing their homes due to the subprime mortgage crisis, only a single mortgage...
CLASS MOLD FEARS
Parents at a Manhattan elementary school who believe a moldy classroom is making their kids sick are fuming that education officials haven't taken their concerns seriously. Parents attributed a leak...
WORRIED SIR PAUL WANTS FULL CUSTODY
The ugly split between Paul McCartney and ex-wife Heather Mills has gotten so nasty that the former Beatle will sue for full custody of their daughter, a British paper says....
EARLY TWINS HER SAVING GRACE
CNN Headline News star Nancy Grace made her own headline yesterday - giving birth to twins a little earlier than expected. Grace, 49, was due to deliver near the end...
'GANGSTER' WINS BATTLE OF BUZZ AT BOX OFFICE
Bullets and bees flew high at the box office over the weekend - with "American Gangster" and "Bee Movie" taking the top two spots, according to studio estimates released yesterday....
LARRY SUES INSURANCE BROKER
Talk-show host Larry King claims a greedy broker unethically pushed him to sell $15 million in insurance policies on his own life. In a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles,...
MIKE WOULD BET A BILLION ON PREZ RUN
If Mayor Bloomberg were to run for president, he would spend $1 billion on the campaign, his chief political adviser said in a published report yesterday. "This is a billion-dollar...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A man was stabbed three times in his Hell's Kitchen apartment yesterday, police said. Douglas Johnson, whose age was not released, was knifed during a fight with an acquaintance...
ELIOT PUTS DYING GOP IN DRIVER'S SEAT
SOMBER Democrats are privately conced ing that Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens has done the impossible by reviving New York's long-moribund Republican Party. "He's...
TV 'NET WORKS
FINALLY, it's TV like it ought to be. While the networks destroy the experience of watching their shows on regular TV by loading up on commercials and plastering those distracting,...
SAVIOR OF THE SEX SLAVES
SOMALY MAM doesn't know her birthday. She has no clue what her real name might be, or if she even has one. Somaly also doesn't know what her age was...
I LOVED A 'CUTE' KILLER
LINDA SCHIRO, the embattled mistress of dead gangster Greg Scarpa, said simply: "He was in the business of killing." Her daughter, "Little" Linda Schiro, interrupted: "True, but he was home...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 065; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 1631 Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 750; Lucky Sum: 12; Evening Win- 4 Sun.: 6907;...
A CASE FOR INDIAN POINT
Could New York City prosper without the Indian Point power plant? Could it even survive? Those questions have taken on new urgency since the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) revealed that...
RATCHETING BACK REFORM
Stand by for more grousing about Chancellor Joel Klein's latest reform: Progress reports on individual schools are to be released today. Who are the bellyachers? They're a diverse lot -...
UK'S BAD MEDICINE
Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign released a radio ad last week in which the candidate praised American health care for curing him of prostate cancer and wondered what might have happened...
N.Y. NEEDS MORE VOLUNTEER CLINICS
POLITICAL fights in Albany tend to produce a lot more heat than light. However, a recent dust-up between Gov. Spitzer and an outspoken legislative critic of his plan to issue...
CARTER'S CLARITY: END 'OCCUPATION'
TIMING the placement into movie theaters the last two weeks of the new documentary "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" before the proposed Middle East conference in Annapolis this year was...
CONGRESS PUNTS
AMERICANS are wondering, with the lassitude of uninvolved spectators, whether the president will initiate a war with Iran. Some Democratic presidential candidates worry, or purport to, that he might claim...
SLANDERING A HERO, MIKE BECOMES A ZERO
As a retired NYPD officer, I welcome Mayor Bloomberg's comments on Detective James Zadroga's status as a hero ("Mike's Manglemouth," Editorial, Oct. 31). It confirms what every man and woman...
NOT SO WYLDE ABOUT KATHRYN
Kathryn Wylde, who is known to possess zero educational mastery, has the nerve to attack Diane Ravitch, who is universally recognized as America's top educational expert ("Hypocritical Critic," PostOpinion, Oct....
NAIL-BITING TIME FOR WRITERS IN HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood scribes and their studio bosses were hunkered down last night in a last-ditch effort to hammer out a contract and avert a strike set to begin today. The two...
CITI'S EMPTY SEAT
With yesterday's ouster of Chief Executive Chuck Prince, Citigroup now finds itself in the same boat as rival Merrill Lynch: hobbling along without a permanent captain at the helm. Like...
WIPE YOUR SHOES
This week, Media City allows itself to indulge its feminine side - no straight guy will admit to leafing through a decorating mag, unless he has to write a review...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 4. Cyclone, Baby Bash 5. Ayo Technology, 50 Cent TiVo favorites 1. Grey's...
IT'S A WAR IN HI-DEF
Cheap prices for HD-DVD players may lure consumers into Hollywood's high-definition DVD format war this Christmas. Up until now, both HD-DVD - a hi-def format backed by giants Toshiba, Microsoft,...
FIRM TAILORS ONLINE BUZZ
A lot of advertisers want to have a conversation with consumers on the Web, but they haven't been able to do much more than stand by and listen to what...
BERNER SEES LALLI POP FOR READER'S DIGEST
In one of the first big editorial shake-ups in the Mary Berner era at Reader's Digest Association, Frank Lalli has been named international editor-in-chief, responsible for all non-U.S. editions of...
NYC SCHOOLS FROM A TO F
One hundred forty nine of New York's more than 1,200 public schools got Ds or Fs and 279 scored As in the city system's first ever public rankings. The majority...
L.I. 'SLAVE' HORROR
An Indonesian maid yesterday testified that her millionaire Long Island "masters" scalded her with hot water, beat her and once forced her to eat her own vomit when she choked...
STATEN ISLAND TOXIC CHEMICAL SPILL
Nearly 20 people were sickened in a Staten Island housing project yesterday after workers accidentally released a toxic chemical cloud while cleaning a sewage spill. One worker was in critical...
MOUNT RISES TO OCCASION
Mount St. Michael hasn't been the most consistent team this year, but the Mount seems to save its best football for the stiffest competition. After ending St. Anthony's long winning...
SPORTS SHORTS
FOOTBALL: LSU takes No. 2 spot LSU moved up to No. 2 behind Ohio State in the Associated Press poll released yesterday, right where they began the season. No. 3...
SUGAR SHAKE ROLLS
Bettors had difficulty separating top two choices in Grade 3, $100,000 Turnback The Alarm Handicap at mile-and-eighth for fillies and mares, settling on Altesse as 9-5 favorite with Sugar Shake...
SCOTT-STOVE LEAGUE
ORLANDO - The free- agent market is deep in center fielders, Scott Boras clients and Grade C possibilities - and all of it is expected to be very expensive. "It...
COLTS: WE BLEW IT
INDIANAPOLIS - As much as they wanted to credit New England for its comeback win yesterday, the Colts couldn't help blaming themselves more. The general feeling in their locker room...
NAVY ENJOYS PERKS AFTER HISTORIC WIN
In the euphoric visitor's locker room inside Notre Dame Stadium, there still was enough emotion for a few more cheers and a few laughs. The cheers erupted when Captain Margaret...
HADEN DOES NOT STAND PAT
NBC ANALYST Pat Haden, in just a few minutes, Saturday, won the weekend. Working Navy-Notre Dame, Haden, understated but firm, let viewers know that NBC's contract to televise Notre Dame...
TWO STARS, ONE GREAT FINISH
TAKE it from Paula Radcliffe, from whom no one has ever taken away a marathon that she's been able to finish. A 26.2-mile race is harder than childbirth, which gives...
LEL OUTLASTS RIVAL FOR SECOND NYC WIN
Six months after Kenyan Martin Lel had out-kicked Abderrahim Goumri down the stretch to win the London Marathon, the duo raced stride-for-stride for the final three miles of yesterday's New...
CLASSIC FINISH
Paula Radcliffe hadn't run a marathon in nearly two years, hadn't braved 26.2 miles since giving birth in January. But yesterday one of the greatest marathoner in history out-kicked rival...
TURNING A PAT TRICK
INDIANAPOLIS - As if the rampaging Patriots weren't scary enough, they sent the rest of the NFL a chilling message here yesterday. They can win a close game, too. The...
LIKE IT OR NOT, THE GREATRIOTS ARE WINNIN' IT ALL
IT IS time to start thinking about hiding all the women and children. A madman in a hoodie is on the loose, and he brings with him a sniper who...
GOODWILL KEY FOR WEEKES
When the Devils made Kevin Weekes their backup goalie, they found an ambassador to the people of Newark, as well. "It wasn't a tough sell, that's for sure," Weekes said...
COTCHERY NOT SURE-HANDED
Jerricho Cotchery, the Jets' leading receiver and one of their most dependable players, was a culprit in two of the most critical moments of yesterday's 23-20 overtime loss. Cotchery fumbled...
KENDALL HOLDS TONGUE IN RETURN
Pete Kendall's brutally honest tongue either had the batteries removed yesterday or his emotions really were mixed about making a triumphant return to the Meadowlands. "I've had three of these...
JETS LET LEAD WASH. AWAY
Kellen Clemens was supposed to be the story of this game for the Jets. Instead, yesterday's 23-20 overtime loss to the Redskins at Giants Stadium morphed into the same old...
NOT HIS FAULT: CLEMENS GIVES FANS SOME HOPE
IN the middle of a hopeless season, in the middle of a hopeless team that could not stop Rosie O'Donnell if she tried to run the football, hope wore No....
ZACH SOLID IN HOME DEBUT
Zach Randolph admitted to opening night jitters yesterday in his home opener as a Knick. It may have affected Randolph's shot, but not his grit. Though Randolph shot 6 of...
WINNING VERDICT
Surprisingly, Isiah Thomas received more cheers than boos in his mixed reception during intros of last night's home opener at the sold-out Garden. Maybe because it was Sunday, many fans...
LESSONS LEARNED, SAYS SEB
He's struggled to get minutes for much of his NBA career, suited up for three teams in little more than three years and been in and out of trouble with...
JEER BRASS, NOT TEAM
YOU knew the Knick home opener last night wasn't exactly routine when the primary topic of interest was how the crowd would welcome the head coach rather than the team....
CARTER HAS SORE RIGHT THUMB
Jason Kidd's thigh isn't the only medical worry for the Nets. Vince Carter has a banged up right thumb that is annoying, but not crippling. Kidd showed how debilitating his...
RANGERS LEANING ON HENRIK
During their current homestand the Rangers have managed to score more than two goals just once, in a 3-1 victory over Tampa last Monday. But thanks to a remarkable stretch...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Some Utah kids had a very profitable Halloween - thanks to a local dentist. Dr. Terry Preece offered $1 for every pound of candy they brought to his office. By...
Few boos at the Garden in home opener
By MARC BERMANThere was nobody more relieved than Isiah Thomas last night. There was a victory for him on the court and in the crowd. When the Knicks embattled coach/president...