November 29, 2007
Jorge hearts Johan
Jorge Posada says he "would love to have" Johan Santana on the Yankees.Read the story
Jets can't catch break
Jerricho Cotchery sat out and Laveranues Coles was limited at Jets practice today.Short at receiver
Cotchery misses practice
APJerricho Cotchery has missed practice all week with an injured right index finger, and Laveranues Coles has been limited by an ankle injury that caused him to miss the game...
Meal with the Mets
Mark Hale was out at Shea today, where Omar Minaya chatted with reporters about Jose Reyes, and other items.Lunch with Omar
Lunch with Omar
Trekked out to Shea today as the Mets beat writers had a lunch with Omar Minaya, Jeff Wilpon and some other staff members. After what was actually a pretty good...
Scene
Gallerist Vanina Holasek wears a cocktail-y sequined dress with a cashmere cardigan and ankle boots. "I'm hippie-chic. I'm into being well-dressed."Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©11-27-07
Deal of the Day
Bring out your inner naughty librarian with these amazingly cool Naso Pumps from Nine West. They've been has been having a few fantastic seasons, mind you.Shoe and handbag website Endless.com...
Posada Contract Wrapped Up
Jorge Posada and the Yankees made the catcher's $52 million deal official today.Get the details
Posada loves Johan
APJorge Posada said today that he "would love to have" Johan Santana as a Yankees teammate. The way Posada sees it, the Yankees must add an ace to their rotation....
Torrealba back to Rockies
From MLB.comCatcher Yorvit Torrealba, at one time headed to the Mets as a free agent, is back with Colorado after agreeing to a two-year deal with a mutual option. Recent...
Pick a Boston score
By MARC BERMANBOSTON â There are two matchups that should determine whether the Knicks stay close tonight against the vaunted Celtics at the new Boston Garden.I was told at the...
Starr Report
"A Charlie Brown Christmas," which originally premiered in 1965 on CBS, still packs a punch 42 years later. ABC's re-airing of the holiday classic snared nearly 14 million viewers Tuesday...
Box Office: 'Compass' Off Course?
Variety derives most of its ad revenues from the studios, so it's often necessary to read between the lines to determine if the trade paper seems to be hinting a...
THAT'S ONE TERRIFIC TREE
Last night, the world's most famous holiday tree was lit, officially kicking the season into full swing. Here's a look at how it all got started. SCHOOL CHILDREN line up...
BEAUTY AT STREET LEVEL
OUT of the gutter and into the bars - and parks, cafés, theaters and beaches. That's pretty much the theme of the New-York Historical Society's new show "Life's Pleasures: The...
REVIVAL MAKES FOR GOOD NIGHT & GOOD GLUCK
SPARE a kind thought for your mother - especially if her name was Clytemnestra, and your brother is Oreste. The Trojan Wars, so embedded into Greek tragedy, also inspired Christoph...
HO-HO-HAUTE LIST!
Love your dog? Wear his mug on your boot. Pomeranian boots, $80 at fuzzynation.com Calorie counters will love Philosophy's "The Gingerbread Man" gift set, which only smells yummy and fattening,...
STARR REPORT
ABC 'Charlie' horse "A Charlie Brown Christ mas," which originally pre miered in 1965 on CBS, still packs a punch 42 years later. ABC's re-airing of the holiday classic snared...
'EARLY SHOW' DUMPS STORM
CBS "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm is leaving the program after five years. A network source says executive producer Shelly Ross wanted to keep Storm, but top management wanted to...
FULL 'HOUSE'
REAL life mirrored the drama on "House" this week, when Dr. Cranky finally chose his new team of assistants. Like the show, there was originally room for only two new...
TRIPPED UP
MOST of the action on the final night of "Dancing with the Stars" turns out to have happened off camera. About 25 million viewers saw Indy car driver Helio Castroneves...
RADIO'S WENDY WILLIAMS GETS OWN TALK SHOW
WBLS star Wendy Wil liams will headline her own daytime talk show set to premiere next year. "The Wendy Williams Show" will air only in New York, at first, before...
'ROCK' PAID BY THE JOKE
WHAT everybody thought was the writers of NBC's "30 Rock" making fun of product placement, was actually, um, product placement. In the Nov. 15 episode of the award-winning comedy, Alex...
'DANCE LINEUP ALL SET
'ENCHANTED" star Amy Adams is returning to her indie roots with a film premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January. "Sunshine Cleaning" stars Adams - Oscar- nominated for an...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Always listen to what your heart has to tell you. Your mind may be a powerful tool but there is a deeper, more authoritative part of your nature that demands...
B'KLYN, QNS. FORECLOSURES SOAR
As the nationwide mortgage crisis deepens, Queens and Brooklyn are bearing the brunt in the city. In Queens, foreclosures were up a whopping 120 percent last month compared with last...
$PAN-PLAN SHOCKER
A longtime city Department of Transportation official and a subordinate were charged yesterday with taking $450,000 in bribes from the company handling the reconstruction of the Third Avenue Bridge. Balram...
$10,000 PARROT PLUNDER
A bounty of $10,000 is being offered for a missing bird with a Brooklyn accent that once helped an Upper East Side woman through suicidal depression. The 18-year-old African gray...
SCOTCH ON THE BLOCKS
Prohibition is finally over in New York. Thanks to the repeal of a Volstead Act-inspired state law banning the auction of liquor, a roughly quarter-million-dollar collection of high-end spirits is...
MCGS IN CHILDISH 'PARTY' CLASH
Dina McGreevey tried to torpedo the birthday bash her estranged love-gov hubby has planned for their daughter - claiming the show couldn't go on because it's not his weekend to...
WE'RE A HIT WITH MRS.
Charlene Marshall burst into laughter yesterday when a Post shutterbug, carrying yesterday's paper featuring a classic Page 1 photo and headline about her husband's legal woes, introduced himself. The daughter-in-law...
SHE'S ASTOR-RICH
Even if he's convicted of swindling millions of dollars from Brooke Astor while she was alive, Anthony Marshall still stands to pocket millions more from his mother's death - money...
HERO CHASES DOWN WEST SIDE MUG SUSPECT
An Upper West Side hero chased down and captured a thug who had just viciously assaulted a woman who lives in his building, authorities said yesterday. Juan Lopez, 20, an...
POP TOPS: COCA-COLA GOES GREEN
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, Coke Is It, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. The mayor trooped to Coca-Cola Enterprises' South Bronx distribution center to celebrate the addition of five...
CITY COUNCIL HAS COOL IDEA
The City Council unanimously passed a bill yesterday that mandates that the city government slash its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017 and encourages city businesses to do so...
VROOM & GLOOM NASCAR RACERS CREATE APPLE JAM
Yesterday morning's rush hour wasn't just slow and frustrating, it was loud. Really loud. Kicking off yet another gridlock-alert day, NASCAR's top 10 drivers roared through Midtown, closing an entire...
WAR OVER $40 MIL LEGAL BILL
A $40 million fee for five months worth of legal work - sounds reasonable, right? Four appeals-court judges think the whopping bill the firm of Graubard Miller presented to the...
SLIWA'S 100G OFFER TO GOTTI
Curtis Sliwa called John "Junior" Gotti's bluff yesterday, vowing to pay the mob scion $100,000 if he can pass a lie-detector test about his alleged involvement in an attempted hit...
A 'HAND SHAKE ON BROADWAY
The curtain is rising again on Broadway. Striking stagehands and producers reached agreement on the outstanding issue of wages late last night, ending a 19-day walkout that cost the city...
RUDY'S HIDDEN LOVE-NEST $$
Rudy Giuliani tapped the budgets of obscure city agencies to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses in 1999 and 2000 when he was secretly dating future wife...
COCAINE COP GETS 10 YEARS IN PRISON
A crooked cop who acted as driver and armed protector for his drug-pushing brother - making coke deliveries and picking up dirty cash - got a 10-year prison term yesterday....
GRAMPS PINCHES GRINCHES
Two Long Island Grinches tried to steal jewelry and cash from a 72-year-old granddad as he was trimming the holiday tree, police said yesterday. But the heist went sour when...
BACK TO MTA FOR PAUL'S 'LOVE'
Yesterday, MTA board member Nancy Shevell got back to where she once belonged. The trucking heiress, who last month was spotted smooching with Paul McCartney in the Hamptons, returned to...
'GANGSTA GAL' FRAUD RAP
A Queens lawyer who wrote a book called "The Gangsta Girls' Guide to Child Support" was charged with bilking clients and a would-be co-op buyer, prosecutors said yesterday. Arelia Taveras,...
'BANDIT' ROB ARREST STUNS PALS AT ELAINE'S
Jessica Joyner, now infamous as half of a sticky-fingered pair cops say pinched jewelry from open houses around town, was a generous customer at Upper East Side landmark Elaine's and...
BUILDING 'BLOCK$'
Queens businesses in the way of the mayor's massive redevelopment plan for Willets Point gave nearly $30,000 to a city councilwoman with the authority to block the project, campaign-finance records...
LI DAD PULLS PEE-WEE STUNT WITH SON: COPS
A surprise day off with Dad took a disturbing turn for a Long Island boy yesterday - his pop pulled him from school just to get a urine sample to...
TRAGIC 'RAPE' HOAX
Enraged upon hearing that a black teen had allegedly threatened to rape a close female friend, Daniel Cicciaro Jr. set out on a racially charged revenge mission in 2006 that...
BX. WAR HERO KILLED IN IRAQ
A Bronx soldier has been killed in Iraq, military officials said yesterday. Pvt. Isaac T. Cortes, 26, of Parkchester, died along with another soldier Tuesday when an improvised explosive device...
NY TERROR DOC GETS 25 YEARS
A former New York doctor was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for providing material support to terrorists by swearing an oath of allegiance to al Qaeda and promising to...
NARC EYES LAWSUIT VS. 'GANGSTER'
A retired federal agent is threatening to sue the makers of the film "American Gangster" over its fiction-cloaked-in-fact portrayal of New York's Drug Enforcement Agency office during the infamous reign...
HOLIDAY TREET
It was a green Christmas last night in Rockefeller Plaza. For the 75th year, the tree was lit up - and this year, it dazzled an overflow crowd with energy-...
JIHAD VS. TEDDY BEAR INFIDEL
With hundreds of thousands dead in its war-torn Darfur province, Sudan has finally decided to tackle its real enemy - a stuffed bear named Mohammed. The Islamic dictatorship of the...
FRED GETS IT 'RIGHT' FOR ONCE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Like a fickle Hollywood actor who maddeningly keeps his own schedule, Fred Thompson finally walked on the set here last night and turned in the performance...
GOPERS ILLEGAL-LY ROUGH
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani accused chief rival Mitt Romney of running a "sanctuary mansion" - with illegal immigrant workers at his own house - as the two waged...
OBAMA: I'D HIRE HILL'S HUSBAND
He's running hard to topple Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary, but Barack Obama says he would hire her "talented" l husband "in a second" if he won the...
CBS DEBATE STRIKES OUT
The Democratic National Committee has canceled its Dec. 10 presidential debate over fears CBS News writers could call a strike the same day. "Due to the uncertainty created by the...
BILL'S BULL ON IRAQ TRIGGERS RIDICULE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democrats and Republicans thrashed Bill Clinton yesterday for claiming he's been opposed to the Iraq war since it started - a whopper that flies in the...
AXED RED CROSS CHIEF HAD MISSISSIPPI QUEEN
A sultry Southern belle is at the center of the storm that caused the married head of the American Red Cross to get sacked for carrying on a torrid love...
A SPRING DEBUT FOR 'OJ TWO'
OJ Simpson yesterday pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and armed-robbery charges, setting the stage for a sensational Las Vegas trial that could send him to prison for life. The disgraced...
MISSING GIRL A 'PORN STAR
An 18-year-old college student who led a double-life as an Internet porn star is missing and believed to have been the victim of foul play, authorities said. Emily Sander, of...
TRAGIC NFL'ER SCARED
Police said yesterday they believe the fatal shooting of NFL star Sean Taylor at his home was a "random" act - but one old friend said he thought the player's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX Police are searching for a bank robber who fled a branch in Fordham empty-handed. The balding, bespectacled suspect entered the Chase branch at East Fordham Road and Creston...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 576; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 3839; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 759; Lucky Sum: 21; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3016; Lucky...
SAME OLD BILL
Bill Clinton has always been a stranger to the truth, but is it possible that he's never heard of Google? Apparently. How else to explain his ridiculous claim - while...
'TOLERANCE' IN KHARTOUM
It would be comical if it wasn't so dis turbing - but at least Gillian Gibbons will be more careful with her stuffed animals next time. Gibbons, a British citizen,...
OFFENDING OSAMA . . . & THE DMV
Are there any bureaucrats more petty than the dim bulbs at the Department of Motor Vehicles? Dumb question, we know. Earlier this month, the DMV approved retired NYPD Sgt. Arno...
CITIZEN MUSHARRAF
BETTER late than never: Pa kistan's President Pervez Musharraf yesterday offi cially shed his military uniform and will act as a civilian head of state. He had promised to make...
NOV. 29, 1947: THE UN DID RIGHT
'THE deep, slightly hoarse voice came back, making the air shake as it summed up with a rough dryness brimming with excitement: Thirty-three for. Thirteen against. Ten abstentions and one...
LEAVING FOR LUCRE: LOTT'S SQUALID EXIT
WELL-connected Republicans in Mississippi were shocked by more than the unexpected nature of Trent Lott's announced resignation Monday. They were stunned that Lott, in good health at age 66 and...
BATTLING THE PAST
YOUTUBE may be cutting-edge tech nology, but for much of last night it was the occasion for a debate about the past. The top Republican candidates - especially Mitt Romney...
FIRST LADY OF HARDBALL: HILLARY'S DIRTY FIGHT
It takes two to tango, and Dick Morris puts it all together in his article, "How Hillary Will Go Negative" (PostOpinion, Nov. 27). Why must we put up with a...
NOT SO CAPITAL IDEA
Capitalism has been so corrupted by our corporate and political masters that it has given us thousands of closed factories, down-sized corporations and thousands of unemployed Americans ("Giving Thanks for...
BUYING FRENZY
Ben Bernanke's stand-in waved the starting flag for a big Wall Street rally that roared right past all the economic warning signs for curves ahead. The Federal Reserve chief remained...
TIMES ARE GETTING TOUGH FOR GRAY LADY
The New York Times' stock price took a big hit yesterday after a Wall Street analyst urged investors to dump their shares because a slump in the economy could diminish...
FCC EXPECTED TO CLEAR TRIBUNE BUYOUT
Tribune's $8.2 billion buyout backed by real estate mogul Sam Zell looks set to clear another hurdle after a top government regulator proposed to grant waivers the media giant needs...
WHO'S IN SI-BERIA?
In the publishing world, it's not Black Friday or the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting that officially kicks off the holiday season, but rather Condé Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr.'s...
THE TREASURY'S MISSING MINUTES MYSTERY
AFTER a year and a half of stalling, the US Treasury finally complied with The Post's requests for information about The President's Working Group on Financial Markets - by delivering...
CAYNE CUTS 650
Bear Stearns is slashing another 650 jobs in the firm's fourth round of cuts this year after getting burned on subprime mortgage bets that went up in smoke. "As we...
LEHMAN BUYING VDM SPECIALISTS
In an about-face, Lehman Brothers has decided to take up position again on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, agreeing in principle to purchase the assets of Van...
STATE'S SIV IS LEAKING
Cracks surfaced yesterday in the seemingly safe pillar of institutional money markets, as towns and schools in Florida yanked $8 billion of cash from a state-run money market fund. The...
KAPLAN TO LEAD PARADE
Janice Kaplan was just named the new editor of Parade magazine. Kaplan has been acting editor since Lee Kravitz left in early October. Parade is the largest Sunday magazine in...
WARNER EYES GREEN FROM 'OL' BLUE EYES'
Warner Music Group and the estate of Frank Sinatra are singing a duet on a new joint venture designed to milk greater profits out of the music and likeness of...
GOP DEBATE QUESTIONER FROM CLINTON CAMP
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton injected herself into last night's GOP debate. Keith Kerr, a retired U.S. Army colonel who had submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military,...
MAN STABS GIRLFRIEND IN NYC MALL
A knife-wielding sicko slashed a 35-year-old woman in the busy lobby of the Manhattan Mall during rush hour this morning then attacked cops who had to restrain him in a...
RODNEY KING SHOT IN SAN BERNARDINO
Rodney King was shot in the face and arm before he biked to his San Bernadino, Calif., home late Wednesday, an area newspaper reported today. King, famous for being the...
DREA DEMATTEO GIVES BIRTH TO FIRST DAUGHTER
Drea Dematteo gave birth to her first daughter, Alabama Jennings, last night. Dematteo's longtime boyfriend, Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon Jennings, is the father.
HOW I SET UP 'DEATH PRANK'
A witness testified today that he thought up the ugly prank that led his friend's father to shoot an unarmed teen to death in a racially charged confrontation. Michael Longo,...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CENTRAL PARK SOUTH $850,000 150 Central Park South Studio co-op, 462 square feet, with fireplace and open park and skyline views; building features doorman, concierge, gym, laundry and live-in...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
New Rochelle, N.Y. $1.095 million Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 2,641 This "enchanting" 1927 stone-front Colonial, situated on a fifth of an acre in the prime Larchmont Woods...
FOR THE LONG HAUL
COMPLAINING about one's commute is considered a birthright for New Yorkers. Well, all you wimps, quit whining. Anybody who only has to deal with a single-fare subway ride isn't entitled...
STING STAYING?
Another previously unsolved mystery surrounding the untimely death of broker Linda Stein was the disappearance of Sting and Trudie Styler's apartment from her Prudential Douglas Elliman Web page on the...
DREAM HOMES
West Village $3.9 million Talk about the perfect blending of old and new: This sleek parlor-floor duplex in an 1850s brownstone sits at the gateway to trendiness, just steps from...
LITTLE E HAS TALL TASK AHEAD
Jimmie Johnson will be chasing history next season, while new teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be trying to get a giant monkey off his back. Johnson just captured his second...
MOURNING FATHER TO 'SKINS: MAKE PLAYOFFS
ASHBURN, Va. - Sean Taylor's father urged the Redskins to make a playoff push, while Miami police asked for the public's help to solve the safety's death. Taylor's family and...
BRACETTY GETS THE BOOT
Apprentice jockey Jose Bracetty, 29, was taken off his mounts yesterday at Aqueduct after his license was denied by State Racing and Wagering Board "because it was determined that his...
SECONDARY SCORERS FUEL FORDHAM
In Fordham's first five games it counted on the duo of Marcus Stout and Bryant Dunston to do most of its scoring. The pair scored 51 percent of the team's...
STORM'S MASON RE-INJURES ANKLE
The field-goal shooting wasn't easy on the eyes - and the 3-point shooting was a flat-out eyesore. But the worst sight on this night in Carnesecca Arena was that of...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: LeBron hurtLeBron James sprained his left index finger in the second quarter last night and did not return for the Cavaliers in a 109-74 loss to the Pistons in...
NOW, LES IS MORE
THE holiday weekend wasn't kind to Les Miles. On Friday morning, the LSU coach was the hottest name out there. He had the No. 1 team in the land, and...
EARLY CHRISTMAS FOR FANTASY OWNERS
IF YOU'RE shopping the waiver wire for great Christmas deals for your fantasy team, good luck. It's like browsing through the clearance section of the local department store. That doesn't...
DEVS PLAYING 'ROCK' & ROLL
The Devils showed something to themselves last night. Overcoming their franchise goaltender's flubs may mean more than the winning streak it extended. Spotting the red-hot Stars two first-period stinkers by...
PIERCE MOURNS PAL TAYLOR
Antonio Pierce spent one year in Washington as a teammate of Sean Taylor, the 24-year old Redskins safety who died early Tuesday of a gunshot wound from an apparent intruder....
LINE IN THE SAND
Warning: If you happen to see a large man out and about, perhaps doing some holiday shopping, and that beefy guy happens to be a Giants offensive lineman, don't be...
ANOTHER INJURY FOR PLAX
Every week, Plaxico Burress' name appears on the Giants injury report based on his chronically sprained right ankle. Every week, he sits out practice. Yesterday, though, a new injury cropped...
ISLES PUT DOWN SENS
The Islanders had dropped eight straight to the Senators, and when Ottawa tied the game with 1:55 to go in the third, it would seem only natural to expect a...
COLES: I'LL MISS SEAN
Laveranues Coles yesterday remembered the first time he met Sean Taylor, the Redskins safety who died after being shot earlier this week in his South Florida home. The Jets receiver...
VIEW FROM BENCH STILL PAINS CHAD
Once, he couldn't wait for Sunday. Now it's the most dreaded day of the week for Chad Pennington. Once, Sunday was the most fulfilling day at the office for Pennington....
BIG 3? BIG DEAL
The Big Three? More like No Big Deal, if you ask Quentin Richardson. Apparently forgetting the Knicks are 4-9 and staring up at Boston in the Eastern Conference standings, Richardson...
LEE IS LOSING MINUTES
David Lee said he knows why his minutes and numbers are down this season, and their names are Zach Randolph and Eddy Curry. Lee was one of the Knicks' few...
METS' OFFER FALLS SHORT
By JOEL SHERMAN Three teams have emerged as frontrunners for Johan Santana, The Post has learned. The Yankees are among that group. The Mets are not. The Red Sox are...
MINNESOTA DEAL MAKES IT AMAZIN' LONGSHOT
Though the Twins traded for two young outfielders last night, acquiring someone to play center is still a priority. Minnesota's stance should mean the Yankees' Melky Cabrera is still a...
MINAYA MUST ACE THIS OFFSEASON
OMAR Minaya fancies himself a wheeler-dealer, an aggressive operator in a world that is too often slow moving and staid. But this is no slow-moving or staid offseason. This should...
NETS FEELING SWAMPED
What was once a homecourt advantage for the Nets has disintegrated into a homecourt disadvantage. Nearly every game at the Meadowlands has started with them digging themselves a double-digit hole...
AVERY TAKES A DETOUR FOR WRIST SURGERY
After missing close to a month with a shoulder injury at the beginning of the season, Rangers winger Sean Avery now will be sidelined indefinitely when he undergoes arthroscopic surgery...
MINNY OPTIONS AT PLAY IN CHASE FOR SANTANA
Hank Steinbrenner didn't have an answer to the question everyone in baseball is asking today. With the Twins and Rays close to a six-player deal that is highlighted by outfielder...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's probably not a good idea to pose as a cop in front of a cop. Police in Bensalem, Pa., busted Harry Hackert after he allegedly drove past an idling...