November 14, 2007
LIVEBLOG: Paris on strike
In case transit strikes get you excited, here are a couple of Paris shots from a couple hours ago. If you're headed in this direction any time soon, bring walking...
LIVEBLOG: Hello to St. Pancras
Did you see this Eurostar commercial yet? Enough to make train nerds (and preservationists) cry. (Yes, the station really looks that hot.)Well, it happened. Today, London came closer to Paris,...
Ellen punks out on New York
In the mood to catch a TV show? Better off checking out â30 Rockâ live (below), because Ellen (right) has canceled her talk showâs New York episodes, scheduled to tape...
Boston, Part Deux
By FRED KERBERReasons for the Nets to be less than skippy:They're playing the Celtics again after the C's beat them by 11.This time, they're playing in Boston.This time, the Nets...
Scene
Erica Abbott wears a cool DDC Lab jacket and DDC "Stik" jeans with boots from Shoegasm and Forever 21 earrings."I wear a mix of vintage and DDC lab. It's fun...
The show must go on
The writers strike may leave television in rerun hell, but you can still catch a new "30 Rock" episode â sort of.The cast of the show-about-a-show is performing a live...
Deal of the Day
Red shoes are great punctuations marks on neutral-colored getups.These Franco Sarto Card Patent Flats will look amazing with some black tights and a black frock.They've got a little bit of...
Starr Report
Sci Fi's "Tin Man" stars Alan Cumming (right), Kathleen Robertson and even Baxter (the hound who plays Tutor) will participate today in "Visions For Tomorrow," an educational event co-sponsored by...
Wrestling with your fantasy lineup
Welcome to this week's edition of the Fantasy Tracker Wrestling Federation, with your host, Jim Ross, along with the The King, Jerry Lawler. ROSS: Jerry, Adrian Peterson took a slobberknocker...
Paging 'Madam Satan'
Today I reviewRichard Kelly's abysmal "Southland Tales,'' a train wreck of a movie stopping briefly in theaters on its way to DVD. There's nothing to recommend here, even though the...
CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES
Our series Immigration - The Story of America's People, continues. MANY Americans believe that this is a country of immigrants. It is. They also believe that the story of immigrants...
PRIESTESS ON A HIGH NOTE
BELLINI'S "Norma" offers a feast of belcanto singing that no one even half in love with the sound of the human voice at full technical pelt and emotional depth can...
'RUNWAY' STREET
FOR a genuine pop-cultural phenomenon that's also a rare thing - a competitive reality show respected by the viewing public, the television industry and the exacting fashion world - "Project...
NEW KORS OF ACTION
LIKE his fellow judges on "Project Runway," the hit Bravo reality show premiering its fourth season tonight, Michael Kors is finally making it work. The designer opened his new SoHo...
NOW IS THE 'RICHARD' OF OUR CONTENT
RARELY have we seen a Rich ard III as dashing as the one played by Michael Cumpsty. In this, his latest outing with the Classic Stage Company, Shakespeare's dastardly villain...
STARR REPORT
'Tin' stars align Sci Fi's "Tin Man" stars Alan Cumming, Kathleen Robertson and even Baxter (the hound who plays Tutor) will participate today in "Vi sions For Tomorrow," an educational...
JUSTICE IS BLOND
CRISTINA'S Court" Judge Cristina Perez draws on- air inspiration from an unlikely source - original "People's Court" Judge Joseph Wapner. " 'Judge Judy' [Sheindlin] is a pioneer, but the person...
GRACE IN HOSPITAL
NANCY Grace, the lightning- rod CNN Headline News host, was hospitalized over the weekend for blood clots in her lungs, the network said yesterday. Grace, 48, gave birth to twins...
'SNL' WORKS WONDERS FOR WILLIAMS
SOMEONE thinks "Saturday Night Live" is funny after all. A week after hosting the comedy show, NBC anchorman Brian Williams was catapulted back to the top of the news ratings....
LONELY LOONEY TUNES
THE first thing you notice about the racist skin heads on the National Geographic special "American Skinheads" is that the white racists featured have the worst skin on national TV....
WEDDING DAZE
GET ready for the most sensational wedding to be seen on ABC since, well, just last Thursday. It's the long-awaited (seven whole weeks!) wedding of Karen Darling (Natalie Zea) and...
LET'S NOT DO THE TIME WARP
A year and a half after it premiered to boos at the Cannes Film Festival, Richard Kelly's sci-fi fantasy/political satire "Southland Tales" finally detonates in US theaters on its way...
THIS BILLY WILL BE A HERO
AS far as this reporter is concerned, Christmas shopping is the closest one can get to hell on earth. Dante and his nine circles? Bring 'em on - just don't...
GOOD OLD PLAYS
VAN HALEN'S reunion concert last night at Madison Square Garden could have been the next storyline for the "Back to the Future" movie franchise. One of the most popular band's...
SCHNITZEL HAPPENS
ACHTUNG: Schnitzel is on the march. From social-magnet Swifty's on the Upper East Side to hipster-mecca Radegast Hall & Biergarten opening any day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, gourmands are gobbling up...
ETHNICI-TURKEY
NOVEMBER after November, same meal same deal. We're over traditional turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. This is a country of immigrants and a city powered by people from India to...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
This will be a year of remarkable changes, a year when the unexpected happens several times every day. It may be tiring trying to keep up with new developments but...
BOFA'S TURN: $3B WRITE-DOWN
Bank of America warned yesterday it plans to write down $3 billion worth of debt, becoming the latest big bank to be hit by soured bets on risky home loans....
SLIPPERY SLOPE
Good news at opposite ends of the economy - from Wall Street's bankers to Main Street's bargain hunters - sparked a broad rally yesterday that marked one of the market's...
KENNEDY TO CASH IN
A bidding war has erupted for the rights to Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-Mass.) autobiography, which could end up well into the mid-seven figure range. The floor price to get in...
FREE WSJ WEB SITE COULD INCREASE USERS
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday that the size of the audience for The Wall Street Journal's Web site, wsj.com, could balloon to as much as 15 million users...
ABC TO USE NEW READER MATH
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has unveiled sweeping new rules that revamp that way it reports paid circulation for newspapers, helping to push advertisers toward looking at a paper's total...
NYBOT PITS SWEAT PLANS TO CLOSE
Members of the New York Board of Trade, including the world's largest cotton merchant, are pleading with the exchange's corporate parent to hold off on plans to shut down the...
OLYMPIC DREAM$
NBC Universal is going for advertising gold with wall-to-wall coverage of the Beijing Olympics on the Web. The Peacock is making a major Internet ad push for next year's Summer...
TIFFANY'S TARGETING EBAY FOR KNOCKOFFS
A trial over a trademark dispute with Tiffany & Co. got underway in New York yesterday that could change how eBay - and other e-commerce companies - do business. Tiffany,...
$1.6B DEAL'S IN THE WORKS
Las Vegas SHORENSTEIN Co. is slicing through complicated negotiations to sign a $1.6 billion contract to purchase 388 and 390 Greenwich St. from Citigroup, sources say. As we advised last...
'DEAL' MAKER GETTING REAL
Endemol, the Dutch television producer responsible for such hit reality shows as "Deal or No Deal" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," is expanding its U.S. operations through a deal to...
WARM WINTER FORECAST PUTS $$ IN OUR POCKETS
Mother Nature is handing New Yorkers her own version of an energy-savings program - a warm winter that can cut hundreds of dollars from your heating bill. A new long-range...
STUDENT LOCKERS ARE PUT ON HOLD
Safety concerns have temporarily derailed a pilot program to install more than 5,600 cellphone lockers outside 16 middle and high schools in September, The Post has learned. The lockers are...
PHONE FOR GRADES IS HARD 'CELL'
Doling out free cellphones to good students shows that the city's controversial rewards program is out of control, critics charged yesterday. "Now we've got the cellphones. A couple of weeks...
MIKE'S SIS LIGHTS FIRE UNDER UN
Mayor Bloomberg and his sister - the city's liaison with the United Nations - played tagged team against the world body yesterday with a letter ripping its timeframe for fixing...
LA LIZ GOES FOR LOT LESS AT $23M
An iconic Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor made a disappointing showing at auction last night, selling for $23.6 million, below even its low-ball estimated value of $25 million. The...
CELL-GAB DRIVERS A WHEEL PROBLEM
One-third of New York motorists use their time behind the wheel chatting on the phone, drinking coffee and smoking, according to a new study. "It's one thing to multitask at...
MA'S FRANTIC CALL
The shooting of a Brooklyn teen cops believed was brandishing a gun - but who was carrying only a hairbrush - appeared to fall "within department guidelines," Police Commissioner Ray...
SUICIDE STUDENT MOURNED
The family and friends of the NYU student who committed suicide in his dorm gathered for his funeral yesterday and mourned the loss of the once-promising intellectual who "wanted to...
BX. BASHES 'FARE HIKE'
Bus and subway riders gave the MTA's proposed fare hike the Bronx cheer last night during a hearing at Lehman College. "There's hardly any capacity on the 4 line," said...
SPITZ IN FREE FALL
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's once-sky-high popularity has fallen faster and further than that of any governor in modern state history as a result of his driver's-licenses-for-illegals plan and the ongoing...
OUT-OF-GAS ELIOT PUTTING THE BRAKES ON LICENSE PLAN
ALBANY - With his poll numbers collapsing, Gov. Spitzer will pull the plug today on his controversial plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. The embattled governor will...
MOBSTER'S WIFE: HE'S NOT ON THE LAM, HE'S DEAD!
The wife of Colombo mobster William "Wild Bill" Cutolo, who disappeared in 1999, denied that he fled legal heat. Cutolo's fellow crew members Alphonse Persico and John deRoss are being...
QNS. CRASH KILLS AMBULETTE RIDER
An 80-year-old man was killed yesterday when the ambulette-service car in which he was riding careened into a tree and a light pole in Queens. The driver had swerved to...
MIKE, SPITZ & PATAKI FACE $180M DEUTSCHE BLAZE SUITS
Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Spitzer and former Gov. Pataki all share responsibility for the August inferno at the condemned Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters, according to notices of claim...
POL: WARN PARENTS OF SUPERBUG
A Brooklyn lawmaker wants to force city health officials to immediately notify school authorities as soon as pupils test positive for the deadly staph infection known as MRSA. City Councilman...
BAD HAND IN POKER SLAYING
A convicted killer who was the sole arrest in last week's Flatiron District poker-game slaying was sprung from jail yesterday after prosecutors failed to win a timely indictment. By law,...
'PERV' CLERIC, 83, LOSES PRIESTLY POWERS
An elderly Queens priest has been stripped of his powers as a cleric after Catholic officials found there was "sufficient evidence" that he sexually abused several boys 25 years ago....
'COP KILLER HAD A BAG OF BULLETS'
Former "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato's suspected cohort not only boasted about outgunning a cop he shot to death during a botched burglary in The Bronx two years ago, he had...
'GREEN'-LIGHTED
Officials yesterday unveiled plans to open the city's first "green" classrooms just blocks from Ground Zero. "This will be the most environmentally friendly school ever constructed in New York City,"...
COP SLAYS WIFE, THEN HIMSELF
A Port Authority cop fatally shot his wife as their 14-year-old daughter watched in horror and then blew his brains out, cops said yesterday. Wilfredo Nieves, 37, and his wife,...
'MOB BAKER KILLED MAN FOR DOUGH'
A Queens pizza man and a Brooklyn baker didn't want to pay the piper - so they arranged to have him whacked instead, prosecutors charged yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court....
GOV AIDE FACES GRILLING ON 'THREAT' TO DOPP
ALBANY - A top aide to Gov. Spitzer is expected to be asked by the Albany district attorney if he or others threatened former Spitzer communications director Darren Dopp with...
THE MEIN EVENT
Hold the sour - it's all sweet victory for 11 Chinese restaurants in the Big Apple. The eateries were highlighted in the fourth annual Top 100 Chinese Restaurants in USA...
SUPREMELY POIGNANT
Sandra Day O'Connor's beloved husband has found a new woman - and she couldn't be happier. The retired Supreme Court justice's spouse, John O'Connor, has had Alzheimer's disease for 17...
TOUGH-TALKING THOMPSON: EXPAND MILITARY
WASHINGTON - GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson yesterday proposed a dramatic expansion of the US military to a "million-member" ground force. "We can either build up and deter war or...
HILL SHILL SPILLS ALL
WASHINGTON - An Iowa college student pulled back the curtain on Hillary Rodham Clinton's stage-managed campaign stops - claiming the candidate seemed to know to call on her for a...
MAILER'S RITES ARE FITTINGLY FLAMBOYANT
Norman Mailer was buried yesterday after a Cape Cod graveside service that was as irreverent, quirky and brash as his long, legendary literary life. "I don't feel the old vim,"...
AGENT STOLE FED SECRETS ON TERROR
In an embarrassing security breach, an illegal Lebanese immigrant arranged a bogus marriage to earn US citizenship and jobs with the FBI and CIA - then sneaked into a top-secret...
'F--- THE POLICE! WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO, TAKE ME TO JAIL FOR TAKING MY OWN S---?'
LAS VEGAS - One of O.J. Simpson's hotel shakedown partners testified yesterday that the Juice declared, "F--- the police!" and demanded that his goons arm themselves with guns as they...
KANYE-MA SURGEON A DWI BOOB
The plastic surgeon who reportedly tried to give rap superstar Kanye West's mom a tummy tuck and boob job before she died has been accused of being a violent drunk...
$TRIKING OUT
The TV writers' strike is costing David Letterman and Jay Leno more than $100,000 a night each. Because the late-night stars have stayed off the job since the walkout began...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN An Alphabet City resident was arrested for threatening a man at knifepoint inside an elevator of a Midtown building, police sources said yesterday. Yaru Nyerere, 52, of Avenue C,...
A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THE GREAT BITE WAY
MAYOR Bloomberg is right: The Broadway strike affords everyone the perfect opportunity to check out Theater District restaurants where they don't ordinarily eat. Here are nine places not to miss....
HARD LINES ON STRIKE COULD OFF BROADWAY
AND now the game is: How long can they stand the pain? As the brutal stagehands strike enters its fifth day, Broadway producers have concluded that the rank and file...
MY BOUTS VS. MAILER
I FIRST met Norman Mailer in 1948, right after the publication of his book "The Naked and the Dead." I had sent him a note saying how much I liked...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 134; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 3341; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 801; Lucky Sum: 9; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 9914; Lucky...
NO PLACE FOR YOUNG MINDS
New York City schoolchildren looking to study dysfunction and corruption may be in for a disappointment, but Mayor Bloomberg is standing firm against fire-safety violations at the United Nations' East...
A TRAGEDY IN BED-STUY
Few situations are as potentially inflam matory as a police shooting of a young, unarmed civilian. Which is why Police Commissioner Ray Kelly should be commended for the swiftness with...
ELIOT IN FREE FALL
Gov. Spitzer's spectacular political crash-and-burn, reflected in a stun ning Siena College poll yesterday, seems to have had an immediate effect: The governor today will deep-six his ludicrous driver's-licenses-for-illegal-aliens proposal....
A BLIND EYE ON IRAN'S NUKES
MUHAMMAD El Baradei could make the differ ence between war and peace later this week, with his latest report on Iran's nuclear program. El Baradei, the Egyptian director of the...
HOAX-CRIME HYPE
THE ululations of the ag grieved ebb and flow like the tide. If there's an insult to be milked - Macaca! Nappy-headed ho! - the professional victims will rush in,...
COUNT THE CASUALTIES BEFORE OU CRUSADE
Early, universal testing for autism may please advocates - but it would likely mean more false diagnoses, with tragic results. AUTISM is a devastat ing condition, both for those who...
THE TROUBLE WITH SOAKING THE RICH
'THE question is, should we be giving an extra $120 billion to people in the top 1 percent?" So asked Gene Sperling, Hillary Clinton's chief economic adviser, at a recent...
GIULIANI & KERIK: GUILT BY ASSOCIATION?
Former Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik is a stench in the nostrils of all those in law enforcement ("Bernie Kerik's Shame," Editorial, Nov. 10). Let the trial begin. Gene Mullahy Nanuet****...
JERSEY GOES FRUGAL
We, the people of New Jersey, wish to thank The Post for literally sending the message ("Voters to Trenton: Get Real," Editorial Nov. 8). Gov. Corzine and his drove continuously...
CITI SNUB: THAIN GOING TO MERRILL
Merrill Lynch is expected this afternoon to announce that it has hired New York Stock Exchange CEO John Thain to replace ousted CEO Stan O'Neal, according to people familiar with...
PEOPLE LOVE TO HATE O.J.: WITNESS
LAS VEGAS -- People are happy to once again see O.J. Simpson in chains and on trial, one of the Juice's alleged shake down victims said from the witness stand...
IRS RELEASES LIST OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS
Upper East Siders and SoHo's young millionaires must be too rich to bother picking up their free money from Uncle Sam. The IRS is trying to distribute $9.5 million to...
IRS HAS $9.5 MILION IN UNCLAIMED CHECKS FOR NEW YORKERS
Upper East Siders and SoHo's young millionaires must be too rich to bother picking up their free money from Uncle Sam. The IRS is trying to distribute $9.5 million to...
HEAR THIS! NHL RUNS KANGAROO COURT
TORONTO - I've been told some of the language Sean Avery has spat at opponents at different times throughout his career, and believe me, it's vulgar, unsavory and out of...
OPTIMISTIC ST. JOHN'S ALL SET FOR SEASON 100
The 100th season of St. John's basketball begins tonight with hopes this once-storied program can continue to leave behind its recent troubles and return to prominence. Coach Norm Roberts believes...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Bills stick with Losman Quarterback J.P. Losman was selected as the starter for Buffalo's game against the unbeaten Patriots this Sunday. Losman has led the Bills (5-4) to three...
STEP RIGHT UP!
It's a Very Big Night, a three-ring circus under the brand-new big top. The Devils just don't want it to be Sean Avery's Big Night. There's so much to buzz...
MANN ENOUGH
LAST week's buildup decreed this was the game to determine Eli Manning's football worth. Beat the Cowboys and Tony Romo or else get dumped into the garbage with the rest...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
IT'S difficult to fathom any 1-8 team fancying one of its players being voted onto the Pro Bowl team, but the Jets appear to have a lock on their roster...
VILMA: I EXPECT TO BE A JET NEXT YEAR
Jonathan Vilma, speaking yesterday to reporters for the first time since he had surgery on his right knee last week, said he has every intention of returning to the Jets...
TRAVELING MARBURY
PHOENIX - Stephon Marbury's tumultuous Knicks career is in jeopardy of ending after the point guard bolted Phoenix in a huff yesterday morning and flew home following a wild argument...
THE CORE OF THIS BELOVED FRANCHISE ROTS EVEN MORE
THE cruelest part is how badly this city misses legitimate professional basketball, how much it craves a return to respectability, even the slightest hint of it. And how regularly the...
IT GETS WORSE!
PHOENIX - The misery continued to mount for the miserable Knicks, who had as much chance of winning last night's game vs. the Suns as the Jets have of winning...
CATCHER & THE BUY
The Mets appear set to submit a bid for free-agent catcher Yorvit Torrealba, as his agent told The Post yesterday he was anticipating a contract offer from the team. "We...
THIS ONE COULD HURT
The Nets still have a leprechaun branded on their backsides from Saturday's debacle against the Celtics, and now comes a rematch with the potential for an even uglier conclusion. At...
'MATES STAND BY AVERY
Sean Avery has the complete support of his teammates in the wake of an alleged incident that, yesterday, cost him a $2,500 fine and the Rangers a $25,000 penalty. Avery...
A-POSSIBILITY
Hank Steinbrenner opened the door even wider for Mariano Rivera to return to the Yankees yesterday and - perhaps more interesting - did not slam the door on the potential...
LA BOUND
According to an e-mail to The Post from Stephon Marbury this morning, the Knicks' AWOL point guard is on his way to Los Angeles to join the Knicks for tonight's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Where is the love? Apparently, not in Illinois. A 13-year-old girl was given detention after she hugged her friends at her school in Mascoutah. School officials say it was in...
Can Isiah-Stephon repair the wounds
By MARC BERMANPHOENIX - Nobody in the organization could predict if the Isiah Thomas-Stephon Marbury feud can be repaired. If it can't, the Knicks will have no choice but to...