November 12, 2007
Numbers Games
By FRED KERBERA Grade 1 sprain for Vince Carter who is definitely out tonight; a likely start at 2 for Antoine Wright; Boki Nachbar would rather be a 3 than...
Scene
Jewelry designer Katharine Sise wears a Free People sweater, J Brand jeans, amazing boots from Dernier Cri by Eley Kishimoto and a Tsumori Chisato bag with a necklace she designed...
Donda West dies from "cosmetic procedure"
Donda West - Kanye's mom/manager - died from a "cosmetic procedure" her rep told CNN.And it really makes us wonder. While we don't know what she was having done, are...
H & Mania
The signs outside the 5th Avenue H&M.And it's not a lie. All I found this weekend were a couple of size 12 returns.
Sample Sales!
Check out this week's sample sales HERE.Starting today:REBECCA TAYLOR 145 W. 18th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 388-0339Sale: Nov. 12-14. Mon., 1 to 8 p.m./Tue., 8 a.m.-8 p.m./Wed.,...
'Close Encounters' Turns 30
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' released 30 years ago this week, gets a new three-disc edition (two discs on Blu-ray), including all three versions of the flick for the...
Stormin' Norman
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FLEX APPEAL
WHEN she was a junior professor of economics at Barnard College, Sylvia Ann Hewlett found herself in a problematic pregnancy just as her tenure review was about to begin, so...
MOTHER'S HELPERS
"Make your first day back to work a Wednesday." This is among the advice Salina Morris gives new moms as they re-enter the workplace at Merrill Lynch. A spokeswoman for...
GO TO GREG
Q I'm getting conflicting advice on how to write my resume. An HR person I know recommended using the first person when describing my accomplishments: "I am responsible for ....
60 SECONDS WITH
Are companies really the only teachers of etiquette nowadays? Universities and companies. And the reason is that mothers, myself included, are spending more time at the boardroom table than at...
DREAM JOB: SEAN MILLS
WHEN Sean Mills left Boston College with a degree in philosophy and political science, he took a job at a Wall Street investment bank. But it didn't take him long...
EFFORT TO SPARE
SHARON Joseph may have moved from Wall Street to 126th Street, but the investment analyst turned bowling-alley owner is still clocking 80-hour weeks and occasionally leaving at 4 in the...
HELLO & GOOD BUY
LISTEN up, ladies: The time to pay down that credit card debt is now. Seventh on Sale, which last happened in 2005, starts Friday and, oh, what a bonanza of...
PULSE SALES
BILLION DOLLAR BABES 135 W. 18th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; billiondollarbabes.com Sale: Nov. 16-18. Fri., noon-9 p.m./Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Get free makeovers, and designer...
TALKING DREADS
'WE should talk." Those three words, guaranteed to send a chill into the heart of anyone involved in a relationship, set off the emotional fireworks in "Homelife," the first of...
ONLY HALF A 'HEART'
FOR sheer ruthlessness, not even the most hard-line current political figures compare to Riddler, the central character in British playwright Howard Barker's "A Hard Heart." This brilliant defense strategist, given...
PREPARATION JUST A WALK IN THE PARK
FOR Bill Pullman, rehearsals aren't enough. To prepare for "Peter and Jerry," he decided to do his own research - seeking out the East 74th Street apartment where Peter, the...
'TERM' PROJECT
Here's a first look at "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," Fox's new drama set just after the second "Terminator" movie ends. The show, slated to debut in January, stars Lena...
VERY NICE 'VIEW'-ISH BOY FOR ELIZABETH
ELIZABETH Hasselbeck and her NFL-quarterback hus band Tim had their second baby, a boy, over the weekend. Hasselbeck, a co-host of "The View" who went on maternity leave last month,...
ACTORS UNION DEFENDS ELLEN
WAR between two Hollywood unions has broken out over Ellen DeGeneres, who continues to host her popular daytime talk show in the face of a writers strike. The striking Writers...
CANNED HEAT
NO wonder Gordon Ramsay couldn't resist it. An Irish pub called Finn McCool's in the Hamptons run by an Irish ex-detective and his sons with the Italian last name Mazzio....
SABRINA COMING BACK
'CHEETAH Girl" Sabrina Bryan is gone but hardly forgotten. The producers of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" may bring her back to the dance floor for a special encore performance...
'ENCOUNTER'-CULTURE
ONE week before "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" opened on Nov. 16, 1977, a highly negative article appeared in New York magazine with an illustration of a UFO laying...
CHUCK BURNS OVER OIL-HEAT AID
Get out the long underwear. New Yorkers and Long Islanders will get socked with a record 25 percent hike in home-heating fuel bills this winter, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday...
ON E-Z STREET TO NYC
New Jersey commuters may be getting off E-Z - considering that the majority of them who pay the measly $5 discounted toll into the city earn six-figure incomes. According to...
IT'S ONE EL OF A PARK
The High Line may be the city's newest jewel - and for Manhattan developers, the rusting rail trestle has been pure gold. From the Meatpacking District north through West Chelsea,...
DECKS, MARSHES & TREES SET FOR HIGH LINE
High above the streets of Chelsea, construction crews are turning what was once an eyesore slated for demolition into what will become one of the crown jewels of the city's...
A 'RAIL' EFFORT TO PRESERVE THE PAST
Nearly a third of the High Line lies north of the stretch of rail trestle now slated for a park - and its future remains uncertain as the MTA reviews...
TOURING STAGEHANDS COULD TAKE 'NO' ON THE ROAD
Striking stagehands who shut down much of Broadway this weekend are set to take their show on the road. Union leaders are threatening to pull theater stagehands from lucrative out-of-town...
'CONFESS' TWIST IN STEIN SLAY
The father of punk-rock pioneer Linda Stein's accused killer yesterday said his daughter's confession was "coerced" by lying cops. Natavia Lowery's father, Daniel Walsh, said his daughter told him that...
OPEN THEATERS 'STRIKE' IT RICH
The show must go on, at least somewhere. Manhattan's stagehand strike proved to be a big boon yesterday on and off Broadway at theaters that were not affected by the...
COP RUNNETH OVER
Rudy Giuliani stakes his presidential bid on his record of cutting crime in New York - but the union representing the city's 30,000 police officers won't support his run for...
HEROES GET DUE ON FIFTH AVENUE
Veterans came from as far away as the West Coast to be saluted by Big Apple crowds, who made them feel like the heroes that they are in the city's...
WAR VETS BLEEDING BACK PAY
An NYPD detective who narrowly escaped death in a Bronx shootout last month is one of hundreds of city workers who have been blindsided by a murky Big Apple benefits...
UPS WORKER DRIVEN TO QUIT OVER BELLY WOES: SUIT
Quit or get off the pot. That was the message UPS delivered to one of its sales managers, who was forced into early retirement over his irritable bowel syndrome, the...
LEARNING TO CRAWL
Students and teachers at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, a middle school that was graded an F last week in the city's systemwide ratings, are questioning whether...
JEWELRY THIEVES DROP IN
Some crafty Manhattan thieves yesterday made off with $100,000 worth of gold baubles and cash during a jewelry-store heist worthy of a thriller movie - the latest in a possible...
CELL WOE FOR COP'S 'SHOOTER'
A SIM card, the memory chip in a cellphone, was found in the Rikers Island cell of accused cop killer Lee Woods - and the Correction Department is trying to...
BURGER KING SUED OVER BX. SLAY
The family of a Bronx 16-year-old shot dead outside a Burger King, allegedly by its manager, is suing the fast-food giant - charging that officials should have known their employee...
HE'S 'IRON' MAN
Batter up. A former IBM consultant has shelved his suit and six-figure salary to sell Belgian waffles around the city from a yellow mobile food truck. Thomas DeGeest, 37, of...
OUT 'STEALING'
A Long Island Little League coach is under investigation for allegedly filching $38,000 from kiddie sports teams, sources told The Post. Joe Green - a 55-year-old dad of three and...
'BEE' STINGS 'GANGSTER'
Jerry Seinfeld's "Bee Movie" flew to the top of the box office this weekend, trading places with "American Gangster," which fell to second. The animated DreamWorks-Paramount comedy, which features many...
'STALKER' PRIEST IS PRAISED
Parishioners at a Boston-area Catholic church last night lauded their former priest, who has been busted for stalking TV host Conan O'Brien. The Rev. David Ajemian "was the greatest," said...
KANYE'S MOM DIES
The mother of rapper Kanye West died Saturday night in Los Angeles, his spokesman said yesterday. The cause of death was not released. Donda West, 58, served as chief executive...
OBAMA OPENS FIRE ON HILL'S SHILLS
DES MOINES, Iowa - Barack Obama ripped Hillary Clinton yesterday for planting easy questions among supporters at her campaign events out of fear - continuing a broader attack on her...
ADHD DRUGS STUNT KIDS' GROWTH: DOC
Drugs treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in kids have no long-term benefits - and actually stunt their growth, a study shows. A SUNY Buffalo study that tracked 600 kids since...
PAPA BUSH'S PRE-CHUTE
It's the Ex Games, as ex-prez George H.W. Bush plummets through the Texas skies. Dubya's 83-year-old dad took the plunge Saturday - strapped to a member of the Army Golden...
'ROBO' SEEKS LEAKS
The 60-year-old aqueduct that supplies the city with more than half of its water has sprung leaks somewhere along its 85-mile route - and it will be up to a...
COPS' FLOPS LETTING MOGUL GET OFF 'EASY'
A fight between high-school girls led to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein being busted on charges of having sex with underage teens - but infighting between police and prosecutors resulted in most...
REQUIEM FOR MAILER
Private funeral services will be held in Provincetown, Mass., this week for Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of prose. The author, who died Saturday at 84, will also be buried...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police yesterday were searching for a thief who robbed a Midwood bank. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound suspect walked into the Sovereign Bank on Avenue J at East 13th Street and...
TOP SPITZ MAN TOLD AIDE TO LIE: INSIDER
Gov. Spitzer's former communications di rector, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal - including the governor's own allegedly extensive knowledge...
KID RAUNCH CLUBS
HERE'S yet another reason to lock your kid in the house until she reaches 30. When Nina Perez's 15-year-old daughter asked permission to attend a party for teens at a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 372; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5151; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 695; Lucky Sum: 20; Evening Win-4 Sun.: 1780; Lucky...
ENDING THE SHELTER GAMES
Require folks to take charge of their lives and - guess what? - they will. Don't - and they won't. Those are the lessons behind the Bloomberg administration's new policy...
BLOOMBERG'S BRIBES
It's easy to cheer Mayor Bloomberg when he criticizes the all-too-common practice of "bribing" businesses to operate in New York City. With Madison Square Garden's Cablevision owners preparing for a...
JERSEY'S COUNTERTERROR FARCE
THE New Jersey De partment of Home land Security's coun terterrorism conference last month turned out to be a textbook case of exactly what's wrong with many U.S. counterterror and...
GRADING SCHOOLS FAIRLY
PARENTS deserve fair, clear and accurate assessments of our public schools and their children's progress so that they can make appropriate educational choices. The city Department of Education has taken...
PORKERS' PLOY HITS A WALL
THE ploy had been hatched behind closed doors by Democratic leaders of both houses. A pork-laden appropriations bill filled with $1 billion in earmarks would combine with veto-proof spending for...
TERROR TANTRUM
Adapted from Sen. Joe Lieberman's speech last Thursday at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. BETWEEN 2002 and 2006, there was a bat tle within the Demo...
MIKE'S POWER DRIVE: NEXT STOP, ALBANY?
Run for governor, Mayor Bloomberg ("Deny This, Mike," Nov. 7). You'll do a better job than Gov. Spitzer - that's for sure. Denise Gainor Manhattan Spitzer has at least three...
CHUCK'S MUKASEY MOMENT
Are you kidding me ("Schumer Stands Tall," Editorial, Nov.7)? Sen. Chuck Schumer is nothing more than a partisan hack. Normally he would be the first one to scream for Judge...
NYMEX SHIP'S IN PORT
The New York Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest energy trading market, is reaching overseas to give traders the ability to bet on the skyrocketing cost of shipping commodities such as...
VIDEO GAMES SERIOUS BUSINESS FOR DISNEY
Walt Disney Co. boss Bob Iger wants the Mouse House to grab a bigger piece of the video game business and plans to do it by stealing a page from...
'SPRINT'-ING TO BIG CABLE
When it comes to the giant cable companies, Sprint Nextel's new battle cry may be, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." The nation's third-largest wireless carrier just announced that...
FORD SON IN START-UP
Jack Ford, the son of the late President Gerald Ford, is teaming up with magazine entrepreneur Don Welsh to launch a new publishing company, Mountain Time Publishing. They plan to...
GOOGLE, FULLER TALK TV VENTURE
Google may give its television ambitions a much-needed jolt by teaming up with Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls and "American Idol." The Internet giant has been...
DISHING DIVAS
We've come to turn to our media goddesses - Oprah, Martha and Rachael - for how to cook, to be empowered, even on how to arrange our bedroom pillows. Goddesses,...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Cyclone, Baby Bash 4. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 5. Ayo Technology, 50 Cent 6. Bed, J. Holiday...
NYU STUDENT KILLS SELF
A 19-year-old NYU student committed suicide in his downtown dorm room, authorities revealed today. Pranay Angara is the second student this year to kill himself at New York University --...
3 TOP SPITZER AIDS TO BE QUESTIONED BY DA
ALBANY -- Albany District Attorney David Soares will interview a top aide to Gov. Spitzer later this week about the circumstances under which he and two officials helped prepare a...
COPS KILL HAIRBRUSH WIELDING BROOKLYN TEEN
An Brooklyn teen - who witnesses said was armed only with a hairbrush - died last night in a hail of 20 bullets fired by cops who had been called...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE GRID: LSU back at No. 1 The LSU Tigers took advantage of Ohio State's loss and regained the top ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 and the BCS...
MLK TOPS IN PSAL SOCCER
Malick Faye made two key saves during regulation and then the keeper netted the game-winning goal in penalty kicks, as top-seeded Martin Luther King beat No. 2 Francis Lewis, 2-1,...
WELTER WAIT
His victory over Shane Mosley on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden has put Miguel Cotto atop the welterweight division, awaiting the next mega-fight that will earn him mega-millions. The...
DALVINA ROMPS IN L.I.
Tick, tick, tick: 49 days until NYRA's clock strikes midnight; only 30 racing days left in New York. Trainers: Do you know where your horses will be stabled on Jan....
HALL OF SHAME
TORONTO - The next time the commissioner of the NHL boasts about the coverage the league receives from its national cable network, Versus, he needs to be directed to tonight's...
SUNDAY, A DAY OF REST... FROM ESPN, ABC
YOU know what was nice about watching football, yesterday? Really nice? None of it was on ESPN or ABC, those Disney networks. On Fox, we watched most of Vikes-Packers, some...
HALL SURVIVES OPENING TEST
There was a marching band outside, 6,711 eager fans inside, and all the makings of a grand opening for Seton Hall at Newark's brand new Prudential Center. Everyone seemed ready...
HEIR JORDAN
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The rumble in the crowd began as the freshman walk-on jogged to the scorer's table and removed his warm-up shirt. It got louder as the University of...
SMILING T.O. GETTING TON OF TDS
The numbers had never left Terrell Owens. Now the megawatt smile is back, as are the big plays and the bigger wins. T.O. is finally happy again playing football, and...
MARTIN SHORT
PITTSBURGH - The Devils have owed Martin Brodeur plenty over the years, but if he tries again for his 500th career victory here tonight, they will owe him big-time. There...
SHOCKEY'S BIG GAME FOR NAUGHT
Jeremy Shockey spent the week speaking and at times lamenting his role in the Giants offense, especially when comparing himself with Cowboys tight end Jason Witten. This season, Witten has...
NO GIANT LEAP
THE game was over and the opportunity gone, and the Giants were in a feisty mood. Tom Coughlin didn't want to go anywhere near a question wondering if this 31-20...
TOO MUCH TONY
Tony Romo tortured the Giants with his feet and torched them with his $67.5 million right arm, scrambling and throwing four touchdowns in Dallas' 31-20 win yesterday. But the Big...
JINTS DONE IN BY BIG D
Everyone, including the Giants, wanted to know. Just how good are they? Everyone, including the Giants, knew the answer would come last night. After feasting on so many of the...
ROMO ROLLS, ELI FOLDS IN GIANT MISMATCH
ON A Star Wars stage where Eli Manning had his chance to make the kind of loud and definite statement Giant fans have been hungering for since he arrived four...
ISLES HOPE NOT TO TRIP ON THE ROAD
Ted Nolan saw lots of empty seats at Nassau Coliseum last year, his first as Islanders head coach. "Early last year, it seemed we couldn't get more than 5,000 or...
CAN'T TAKE HEAT
It has been 12 years since Pat Riley resigned from the Knicks, but the franchise finally presented the Heat coach with a parting gift last night at the Garden. It...
ZACH GRIEVES GRANDMOTHER
When the Knicks begin their rugged four-game West Coast trip tomorrow in Phoenix, they could be without two starters - Zach Randolph and Quentin Richardson. The Knicks were without Randolph...
ISIAH PREACHES WRONG SERMON
NOT only was Zach Randolph home in Indiana at his grandmother's funeral, but somebody kidnapped Isiah Thomas and was using his body. "Turnovers," recited the Knicks coach and president of...
POSADA WON'T RULE OUT METS
Jorge Posada's preference is to remain with the Yankees, but he wasn't ready to say last night that he's definitely returning to The Bronx. With the Yanks' exclusive negotiation period...
ANKLE MAY KO CARTER
In virtually every preseason assessment of the Nets, there was one word that was at the heart of any forecast. Health. Everyone saw how injuries to Nenad Krstic and Richard...
NEW OFFERS FOR JORGE POSADA, MARIANO RIVERA
The Yankees were set to offer increased proposals to both Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera before the day was over, but there was no chance that either star free agent...
YANKEES AND JORGE POSADA AGREE TO $52 M DEAL
Yanks keep Posada and wait on Rivera With Jorge Posada remaining in pinstripes, next up on the Yankees' docket is Mariano Rivera. Posada, the free-agent backstop, still has to take...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Police in Erie, Pa., arrested 70-year-old Donald Cesare after the senior walked into a bank with a bandanna, a supermarket bag and a broken gun. Cesare told cops he robbed...
Can you spell choke
By MARC BERMANMark the date on the calendar â Nov. 11. Perhaps itâs the last time the Knicks will ever see the .500 mark.This was an infuriating loss and a...
COWBOYS SNAP GIANT STREAK
Once they stopped beating themselves with penalties, the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants and took command of the NFC East.Tony Romo hit Terrell Owens on two of his...
Still Doubtful
By FRED KERBERVince Carter Still DoubtfulHopes For Miracle FadingCarter's sprained right ankle received at least two treatment sessions from athletic trainer Tim Walsh today. There's no timetable, other than the...