November 6, 2007
Scene
Angela Nam is the hippest 17-year-old student from Oregon I've ever seen.Nam wears a zippered Religion vest from Century 21, a Black Sabbath vintage concert T-shirt, vintage necklaces, J Brand...
The Final Cleansing
By FRED KERBEROne road victory removed from a 37-point slaughter and the memory of that disastrous loss to Toronto is over."Who says it's over? It still lingers in the bowels...
NATE ROBINSON
The Knicks have listed Nate Robinson as questionable because of a strained hamstring, but thereâs no way he is missing tonight. The Nuggets are in town for the first rematch...
sending a message
Quiet day out here at Jets camp. Press room nearly empty. No TV cameras. No radio reporters. Only the beat writers. When you're 1-8, no one cares. Only those who...
OCD Archives: More On Parkyakarkus
"Honestly, I don't know more about Harry Parke except he died in Milton Berle's lap at a Friars Club roast,'' writes EW columnist Dalton Ross in a graphic illustrating his...
Oscar Watch: Coens Leading Helmer, Screenplay Races; No. 2 for Best Pic
The Coen Brothers top the season's first charts for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at Gurus O'Gold, while their masterpiece "No Country For Old Men,'' opening Friday, hangs in...
Starr Report
Nick's knack.Ch. 5 weathercaster Nick Gregory isn't only a nice guy on-camera - he's also a mensch off the tube.Nick heard from student Dan Munoz, a senior at Ward Melville...
Nate learned from Brawl and Brown
By MARC BERMANNate Robinson got off a wicked line at practice yesterday when he was asked if "The Brawl'' was the low moment of his NBA career. No, he said,...
Deal of the Day
Like a vintage old camera case, this Black Slider Bag is a classic, definitely not an "it" bag.The LIFEwithBIRD bundle is from Bridget "bird" McCall, the sister and muse of...
CRIB NOTES C B 2
YOU know how you like to spend Sunday afternoon wandering through hip city stores, ogling that geometric-print rug or those sexy red tumblers and play what-if? Well, you can stop...
THEY PARTY LIKE IT'S 1925
WHILE slutty "nurses" and i-banking "pimps" across Manhattan consigned their Halloween costumes to the back of the closet last week, there's a group of New Yorkers who won't be shelving...
AT FEST, STRIKE'S A JOKE
YOU might not be hear ing comedy writers' jokes on TV if their strike lasts, but with the New York Comedy Festival's lineup - from tomorrow's Bob Woodruff benefit at...
CULT HEAD GETS SPIRITUAL AND ZEN SOME
WHEN Ian Astbury, the leg endary frontman for the Cult, walks into a pizza joint and says, "Make me one with everything," he just might be talking about getting his...
'GANGSTER' RAP A FLUKE
LIKE a dog chasing its own tail, Jay-Z's latest record, "American Gangster," is a classic case of life imitating art imitating life. The 38-year-old rapper, who retired three years ago...
MPFREE
Download these free MP3s now through Friday at nypost.comThe Cult, "I Assassin" Known for mixing heavy metal and Goth rock with mysticism, the British band doesn't disappoint with this hook-filled...
DESPITE A FINE CAST IT'S NOT SO GLORIOUS
'THE Glorious Ones," the new musical by Lynn Ah rens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime") that opened last night at Lincoln Center, shows that even love and respect have their limits....
STARR REPORT
Nick's knack Ch. 5 weathercaster Nick Gregory isn't only a nice guy on-camera - he's also a mensch off the tube. Nick heard from student Dan Munoz, a senior at...
THE THIRD 'REAL'
WOULD somebody please ex plain to me why there are so many shows like this one on TV these days? You know the type - the so-called "reality" TV show...
DECEIVED
OPRAH Winfrey was kept in the dark by school officials about the dangerous conditions at her controversial $40 million all-girls school in South Africa, she said yesterday. "They [the students]...
BABS' HEATHER HORROR
THAT splash you heard yesterday morning was Barbara Walters throwing the soon-to-be ex-Mrs. Paul McCartney overboard. In an unprecedented attack during yesterday's "The View," Walters described Heather Mills as an...
MAURY LOOKS AT 10 YEARS OF PATERNITY TESTS
MAURY Povich cele brates 10 years of "Maury" tomorrow. But it's "A Current Affair," the magazine-show granddaddy he hosted in the mid-1980s, to which Povich attributes his longevity. "I think...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Venus-Pluto aspect on your birthday suggests that the next 12 months or so will be hugely exciting for affairs of the heart. It also suggests that someone you work...
OPEN THE SCREENING DOOR
CHANCES are you've turned on the TV recently and seen one of the many new ads for "BRCA" tests. Maybe you've wondered what this is - or why you're hearing...
MIKE'S SECRET BID TO RUN VS. SPITZER
A top aide to Mayor Bloomberg has secretly contacted one of the state's best-known Republican strategists about helping Bloomberg run for governor - against Gov. Spitzer or anyone else, The...
QUINN BAGS BACKING OF BUSH NIECE
The plastic-bag recycling proposal being pushed by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn got a ringing endorsement yesterday - from President Bush's niece Lauren, an anti-hunger activist. Quinn (D-Manhattan) is seeking...
GOV LICENSE PLAN COULD HURT DEMS AT POLLS
In what would normally be a very dull election day, political observers are closely watching today whether Republicans gain an edge in races where Gov. Spitzer's plan for giving driver's...
'HELL NO TO A HIKE'
Brooklyn straphangers were railing last night about the proposed MTA fare hike - pleading with transit officials to reconsider the increases. "Once again, you want to raise the price of...
CITY LEERY OF LETTING ILLEGALS USE LICENSE AS ID
The special driver's license that Gov. Spitzer is proposing for undocumented immigrants may not be accepted as ID for all city services, The Post has learned. Mayoral spokesman Jason Post...
'PERVS' RIDE THE NO. 5 LINE
Two perverts were busted at the Union Square subway station for molesting a woman and a teenager aboard two trains in separate incidents during the morning rush yesterday, authorities said....
EX-GIANT WALLOPED GAL: COPS
Former Giants cornerback Jeremy Lincoln has been busted for assaulting a woman for the second time in 16 months, authorities said yesterday. Cops arrested Lincoln, 38, on Oct. 24 at...
BACK TO 'HERO' AS MIKE GIVES IN
Mayor Bloomberg did an about-face yesterday and apologized to the father of an NYPD detective for saying his son was "not a hero" because the city's medical examiner ruled he...
TOPSY-TURVY SCHOOL DAZE
Two city public schools on the state's most-violent list this year have scored A's on their first-ever report cards - while the high-performing PS 35 in Staten Island, where 98.3...
'FRAME' TWIST IN SLAY
Police removed a section of Linda Stein's apartment door for analysis yesterday in an attempt to yield fresh clues a week after the punk-rock-manager-turned-broker-to-the-stars was viciously murdered in her Upper...
DENTIST IN-LAW PUZZLE
Just days before a Queens orthodontist was shot to death after winning a bitter child custody case, his estranged wife's relatives asked a public official what would happen to the...
DEFENDING 'TERROR' CALL
He's charged with fabricating a suicide bomb threat to frame his business rivals. But Brooklyn jeweler Rimon Alkatri spent a day on the witness stand in Manhattan yesterday insisting all...
HOW N.Y. RANKS IN CHECKUP
New York is a healthier state than it was a year ago, but still ranks near the middle of the nation overall, according to a survey released yesterday. The Empire...
DAD 'ADMITS' BABY KILL
A Queens monster yesterday pleaded not guilty to killing his 13-month-old daughter - after allegedly admitting to cops that he brutally choked the baby, threw her on the floor and...
GUILTY PLEA IN LURE SLAY OF GAY MAN
A Brooklyn man accused of helping lure a gay robbery victim to a deserted lovers' lane - then chasing him into traffic where he was killed by a hit-run driver...
'TIPSY' HOLIDAYS
Here's a holiday tip - the list of people to thank has grown and so has the amount needed to show your gratitude. Traditional recipients of holiday tipping such as...
NO TAKERS FOR MOLL 'PERJURY'
At least two city district attorneys' offices have told court officials in Brooklyn they aren't interested in acting as special prosecutors to investigate allegations of perjury against the disgraced star...
TOXIC-FUME FRIGHT IN S.I.
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...
PAIR BUSTED IN MURDER OF BX. BAR BOUNCER
Two Bronx thugs have been arrested in the slaying of a city employee as he worked a second job to support his young family, police said yesterday. Frank Conte, 26,...
'SLAVE' RELIVES TORTURE ORDEAL
A maid yesterday testified that her millionaire Long Island "master" carefully wrapped her manicured hands in plastic to protect her nails - before pummeling the "slave." Allegedly beaten with a...
BRITAIN'S TERROR TEENS
Terrorists are recruiting British kids as young as 15 to carry out attacks on native soil, Britain's domestic spy chief warned yesterday. Jonathan Evans, director-general of MI5, Britain's counterintelligence agency,...
TV ON THE RERUN AS SCRIBES WALK
Dave and Jay's monologues sounded awfully familiar last night as the Writers Guild of America strike forced late-night shows to hastily throw on repeats. As writers hit the picket lines...
TIP-TOPICAL JACKO IS BACKO
That crazy cat in the hat is still hanging around, 25 years after stunning the musical world with his landmark album, "Thriller." Michael Jackson, who's been laying low of late,...
MSNBC MAY COME UP ROSIE
Feisty former daytime gab-show hostess Rosie O'Donnell is ready for prime time - she's talking to MSNBC about a nightly show. Sources say O'Donnell, who left "The View" in May...
VOTE OFFERS GO-PREVIEW
WASHINGTON - Republicans are watching the off-year elections scattered across the country today to gauge the party's prospects heading into next year's race for the White House. "If Republicans do...
FRED'S DRUG PAL QUITS
WASHINGTON - One of Fred Thompson's top advisers and money men bailed out of the campaign yesterday and sought refuge on his private Alabama island after the press revealed his...
HILLARY'S LEAD DRIVEN DOWN
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead over Barack Obama has plummeted sharply after her shaky performance in last week's presidential debate, during which she badly flubbed an answer about driver's...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are searching for a who robbed a bank in lower Manhattan. The suspect passed a note to a teller at the Sovereign Bank branch at Gold Street last...
PROGRESS RETORT
AS A former principal, I think the school pro gress report is a step in the right direction - making principals and schools accountable for the work they do with...
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP THIS POOR LITTLE GIRL
SOMEWHERE in Queens, a 4-year-old child is hurting, damaged beyond repair. Her father was murdered before her eyes, in a still-unsolved whacking on Oct. 28. Her mother, who sat in...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 576; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 0357; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 542; Lucky Sum: 11; Evening Win- 4 Mon.: 8206;...
GRADING SCHOOL GRADES
When we predicted griping yesterday over Chancellor Joel Klein's latest school-accountability reform - school report cards - we assumed many folks would be surprised (outraged?) by the grades. In that...
ELIOT THE AMAZING
Another day, another dissenter. The latest national-security heavy weight to turn thumbs down on Gov. Spitzer's star-crossed scheme to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens turns out to be Tom...
A FRIEND IN FRANCE - FINALLY
NICOLAS Sarkozy, the recently elected leader of America's oldest ally - and possibly the most pro-U.S. president in France's history - begins his first official visit to the United States...
PAKISTAN PERIL
THE sound you hear in Pakistan is a couple of pillars of Bush ad ministration foreign policy crumbling. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf - the army chief of staff who seized...
COMING UP FOR AIR AFTER DEMS' DRUBBING
THE ISSUE: Attorney General-Designate Michael Mukasey and his position on waterboarding. Torture is getting a bad name in the wake of Michael Mukasey's reluctance to proscribe waterboarding ("Torture Tricks," Rich...
THANK YOU FOR BOMBING
THE ISSUE: The death of Gen Paul Tibbets, World War ll's Enola Gay pilot. Thank you, Gen. Paul Tibbets, for never turning your back on your country in dropping the...
BOARD STIFFS
Citigroup's board saw the writing on the wall months ago, but did little to stop the world's largest bank from crashing and taking the rest of Wall Street with it....
THE TIMES FINALLY GETS IT - ON JOBS FIGURES
WHO says the U.S. doesn't export anything nowadays? The government of Argentina, beset by criticism over rampant inflation, said it is considering using the American way of calculating rising prices....
EMPIRE STRIKES OUT
After 12 years of failing to win over investors, media magnate Barry Diller is busting up his Internet empire into five separate publicly-traded companies. Shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp - whose eclectic...
TEFLON TRADERS
As Citigroup attempts to come clean over its problems due to failed mortgage-backed securities, the financial titan's woes have had the unintended effect of putting the spotlight back on the...
BEWKES TAKES TIME WARNER CEO TITLE
It's official: Jeff Bewkes will become chief executive of Time Warner on Jan. 1, succeeding Dick Parsons. But it could be a short honeymoon with Wall Street. The soon-to-be CEO...
GOOGLE EYES NEW CELLPHONE PLATFORM
Google's "g-phone" is coming - but it is not what consumers were expecting. Rather than unveiling a singular, flashy device a la the iPhone from Apple, the Internet search giant...
BONUS FOR LEFRAK
EVERY large office building tells a story. At the LeFrak Organization's 40 W. 57th St., it's a tale of office rents that have doubled in just five years - and...
CONDÉ NAST SHUTS HOUSE & GARDEN
There will be no more renovations at House & Garden after Condé Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. pulled the plug on the magazine after 11 years of losses. The failed...
DITHERING DIPLOMATS
SENIOR officials of the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany met last Friday in London to discuss Iran's nuclear-weapons program. Once again, they failed to agree on meaningful...
BARRING CITIZENS FROM POLITICS
TODAY, voters in six states - including New Jersey- will decide 38 ballot measures covering such hotbutton issues as school vouchers and stem-cell research. Issues like that invite public comment,...
PAUL MCCARTNEY'S LONG ISLAND GAL PAL
Paul McCartney is putting his lonely days behind him - as he rushes into the arms of a millionaire New York business woman. The divorcing Beatles legend was spotted last...
DIDDY OFF THE HOOK
His Diddyness has dodged a bullet. Prosecutors have declined to pursue criminal charges against Sean "Diddy" Combs in a nightclub slapfest with an acquaintance last month, the rap impresario's attorney...
WBAI GM SEX-HARRAS SUIT
Famed lefty radio station WBAI is run by an alcoholic, coke-snorting general manager who coerced a popular female deejay into having sex with him, according to an explosive sex-harass suit....
NO RED BULL: ARENA'S OUT
After just 16 months, Bruce Arena officially resigned yesterday as the Red Bulls coach and sporting director. Essentially, he was fired. Managing director Marc de Grandpre said there were various...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Pirates hire RussellJohn Russell, let go by the Pirates as their third-base coach two seasons ago, was hired yesterday to succeed Jim Tracy as Pittsburgh's manager. He becomes the...
MATTINGLY, BOWA HIT L.A. AS TORRE ERA BEGINS
LOS ANGELES - Fifty years after Walter O'Malley bought a piece of land called Chavez Ravine for $1 and moved his Dodgers here, Joe Torre, another Brooklyn transplant, stood in...
THE MITCHELL FACTOR
ORLANDO - The Mitchell Report hovers over this offseason. Obviously, there is wide concern about what damage will be done to the sport by a document expected to further reveal...
N.J. HOME-ICIDE
Those couldn't have been empty seats taking up half the new Newark arena. They must have been ghosts, the way they kept saying "Booo." The Devils provided no substance themselves,...
BIG BLUE BLOCK
INDIANAPOLIS - If the 1972 Dolphins want to avoid becoming a footnote to history, the Giants might end up being their last hope. That was the consensus here after the...
FIVE-DAY BREAK A BIG SHOCK
Amani Toomer has been around long enough to anticipate certain requirements, but he did not at all expect hearing Tom Coughlin last week announce a five-day break for the bye...
'BOYS TO MEN
Following a brief but welcome vacation to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Amani Toomer returned home and settled in Sunday night, ready for some advance scouting as he...
DIPIETRO SEES SPEEDY RETURN
Rick DiPietro was back on the ice yesterday, and while his status for tonight's game against the Rangers remains uncertain because of the eye injury he suffered on Saturday, the...
TACKLING DUMMIES
QUARTERBACKS C+ Kellen Clemens (23-42, 226 yards, 1 TD, 78.1 rating) showed toughness and scram bled well (7-48 rushing). But he had some miscommunications with receivers at times and led...
BYE FOR NOW
When Eric Mangini delivered the news to his players yesterday, there was no celebration, there were no high-fives, there was no cheerful chatter. It was more of a thank-goodness moment...
COLES LIKELY TO RETURN AGAINST STEELERS
Laveranues Coles revealed two bits of compelling news yesterday. Firstly, he grew so emotional about not being able to play Sunday against the Redskins as a result of the concussion...
NUGGETS ARE GOOD AS GOLD
AS I vaguely recall, there's nothing worse than a stiff test so early in a marking period. Despite staying up on the workload, you already have the sickening feeling the...
THE OL' BRAWL GAME
Before the black eye of "The Lawsuit," there was the black eye of "The Brawl." In the Knicks' battle against the Nuggets on Dec. 16, 2006 at Madison Square Garden,...
OMAR IN A-ROD STAKES
ORLANDO - The Mets will almost certainly meet with Scott Boras at the GM Meetings to gauge the Alex Rodriguez situation. But as has been the case since the superstar...
HEALTHY JEFFERSON HAPPY TO SILENCE HIS CRITICS
Richard Jefferson heard all the criticism during his injury-riddled 2006-07 season. He not only heard people question his hustle and his heart, but he felt it. Now, finally healthy and...
WITH KING HENRIK BETWEEN PIPES, IT'S ALWAYS ZERO HOUR
HENRIK Lundqvist swears he loves goaltending for a team that probably will lose on the next goal he gives up. "It's fun, keeps you sharp," he said. "Playing in goal...
'VERY STUPID
Sean Avery has been back in the lineup for two games after missing 10 with the left shoulder separation he suffered in the Rangers' second game of the season, in...
NO ATKINS DIET AT 3RD FOR YANKS
ORLANDO Fla.- You can knock Garrett Atkins off the Yankees' wish list to replace Alex Rodriguez at third base. The Rockies are adamant they are keeping Atkins. The reason there...
BOLD BOMBER
ORLANDO - Unlike Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte communicated directly with the Yankees. Unlike Alex Rodriguez, he pledged his fidelity to the Yankees. Unlike Alex Rodriguez, he did not set up...
YEN AT WORK
SO it has come to this, has it? So far has the American dollar fallen, that even the Canadians can strut about wherever it is they strut, feeling great about...
HIGH CAMP
WANT to steal away to a private island on the sly this winter? All you need is a c-note. That's no misprint. In one of the new Virgin Islands Campground's...
HISTORY'S SEXY SIDE
IT'S Tudor mania, with the film "Elizabeth: The Golden Age", Scarlett Johansson's upcoming "Other Boleyn Girl" and Showtime's "The Tudors" making the old-time Royals everyone's favorite screwed up family. We...
BE STRONG!
TOKYO not your style? Here are four more places to live like a Manhattan millionaire on a Bay Ridge budget. BEIJING Next year, the world will descend on Beijing for...
NEWS + NOTES
REEF DIVE ATLANTIS is getting bigger. Again. The 497-unit Reef tower debuts in December. Marketed originally as the Residences at Atlantis, the 22-story building will offer apartment-style accommodation and all...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Life in Hell just got a little more heavenly for John and Sue Wilson. The Wilsons, who live in Hell, Mich., won $115,001 from the Michigan Lottery. **** Jackie "The...
Taking it to Broad Street
Another blanking from Henrik Lundqvist. Another win for the Rangers. They beat the Flyers at their own game and answered with some sandpaper in the forms of Jason Strudwick and...
UPDATE: St. Pancras reborn
courtesy of the BBCIt's hard to imagine that a building so incredibly characterful could have so recently been so hated, but the city's St. Pancras station (being re-dedicated tomorrow in...