January 16, 2008
Arrested for making son wear Pack jersey
Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldnât wear a Packers jersey during the teamâs playoff victory Saturday, a Wisconsin man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the...
PATRIOTS RECEIVER MOSS HIT WITH RESTRAINING ORDER
This is just what the 17-0, history-seeking Patriots needed five days before Sunday's AFC Championship game in their quest to get to a fourth Super Bowl in the past seven...
Why are vegetables so expensive?
Natalie Portman's line of vegan shoes for Te Casan launched today.And while I am a proud vegetarian-tree-hugging-animal lover, at $275 these shoes are ridiculously over-priced. And their not terribly interesting...
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Erika Ortize Gottlieb, "just takes clothes from the closet, there is no discrimination, as long as it's in good condition." The shoes are from Shoegasm and the jacket is vintage...
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Tila Johnson says "anything goes!" The shoes are Rag & Bone, the boots and the jacket are vintage.Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©01-08-08
Eli's glove story
Eli Manning today said he won't wear gloves on his hands no matter how cold it gets Sunday in Green Bay."No, I am not going to wear one, definitely not...
Deal of the Day
If you're still mad for plaid, check out this L.A.M.B. Red Plaid Military Tab Parka.The red tartan cover has a cozy, warm fleece lined hood with side slits for a...
What did she buy?
Cash Warren's baby momma Jessica Alba hit Harmony Lane in Beverly Hills yesterday to stock up on leggings, cardigans, long tanks and sweater dresses for Sundance.âI need clothes that are...
VH1'S HIRSCHORN ABOUT TO LEAVE NETWORK
In what can only be considered a major loss for VH-1, executive vice president and head of programming Michael Hirschorn is close to leaving the network, The Post has learned....
FSN leans toward Packers
It appears Fox Sports Net did not figure on the Giants making it to the NFC Championship game judging by their lineup for the "Best Damn Super Bowl Bash."STRAHAN TO...
Kidd Speaks; Torching One Rumor; Stuff
By FRED KERBERIt's the other way around.A story out of Sacramento and noted on a local website said the Nets offered Vince Carter to the Knicks and were rebuffed. Not...
FOXY BROWN CLAIMS HEALTH 'EMERGENCY' IN BID FOR PRISON RELEASE
Foxy Brown has had quite enough of jail, thank you very much. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the hip-hop queen says she's a changed woman after spending five...
Moss denies battery claim
APRandy Moss said today that allegations he committed battery against a woman are false and that she made the claim to get money from him.âI want to make something clear,â...
Injury news promising
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe midweek injury news coming out of the Giants is, if not optimistic, certainly promising. The Giants need all hands on deck for Sunday's NFC Championship Game in...
Recap: American Idol, Episode 1
Everybody and their mother was there at the dramatic tryouts, and we mean this literally. "Idol" producers, perhaps spooked by last yearâs backlash against mean, promised a 2008 season with...
Starr Report
Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (R) returned to earth Monday in its regular timeslot (9-10 p.m.), averaging 10.1 million viewers (down from the 18.3 million it pulled after last...
One Day to Sundance!
I'm headed off to the Sundance Film Festival today, but I already did an interview in today's Post with Alan Ball, whose "Towelhead'' will make its U.S. debut in Park...
'Cloverfield' Hits Manhattan
I skipped the first screening of "Cloverfield'' last night at the Lincoln Square to attend a pre-Sundance screening of Tom McCarthy's superb "The Visitor'' in the calm of the Dolby...
Nylander Out for the Season
Yesterday, the AP reported that Michael Nylander, who was having a fine season for the Capitals, is now done for the rest of the season. There's no telling if this...
Oscar Watch: Academy Plots Plan B as 'Atonement' Sweeps BAFTA Nods
Bowing to the very real possibility that the writers will still be on strike and picketing a month from now, Varietyreports the motion picture academy is devising a secret "alternative''...
CO2: KEY GREENHOUSE GAS
Our series, "GlobalWarming," continues. THE air you breathe is a complex collection of molecules - nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone, not to mention neon, helium, hydrogen, methane,...
IDOLING?
The King of Mean was replaced by the Prince of Nice. Sure, Simon Cowell might revert to his old, nasty self tonight when "American Idol" features auditions from Dallas, but...
SIMON SAYS
To Alyse Wojciechowski, 20, of Havertown, Pa.: "It's exactly identical to a nightmare I had last week." To Udgeet "Udi" Sampat, 28, of Horsham, Pa., who sang "My Way": "You're...
HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLS & SPILLS ADD UP TO SPOOF POSITIVE
THE great Spanish playwright Calderon once described drama as "a plank and a passion." I don't know how much passion there is in the Roundabout Theatre's delightful version of "The...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL . . .
WILL Ferrell has been quietly poking around Broadway, looking for a theater for a show he's writing and will star in next fall. Details are sketchy, but sources say Ferrell...
STARR REPORT
Back for seconds Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" returned to earth Monday in its regular timeslot (9-10 p.m.), averaging 10.1 million viewers (down from the 18.3 million it pulled...
MOST POPULAR
MOVE over, Oprah - there's a new favorite in town! Ellen DeGeneres has supplanted Oprah Winfrey as America's favorite TV personality, according to a new Harris poll. "The Ellen DeGeneres...
MTV LOOKS FOR 'LEGALLY BLONDE'S' NEXT ELLE
MTV appears to be trying to cast the next leading lady of Broadway's "Legally Blonde." A casting representative has confirmed that the network will hold auditions Jan. 21 in Orlando,...
DO THE SLIGHT THING
IT has come to this. With scripted dramas and comedies drying up faster than a sponge in Death Valley, the broadcast networks are turning to alternative programming that would likely...
SINGING THE BLUES
THE uglier it gets, the more charming it somehow becomes. I mean "Ugly Betty," the show in which the ugly girl doesn't throw off her glasses to reveal the gorgeous...
'BEAUTY' SCRIBE: I'M NO BEAST
IN his Oscar-winning script for "American Beauty," Alan Ball had Kevin Spacey masturbating in the shower. Ball further pushed the envelope with the Emmy-winning TV series "Six Feet Under.'' He...
STRIKE MAKES FIGHT FOR FEST FILMS
BIDDING for titles at this year's Sundance Film Festival is expected to be especially competitive as distributors stock up on completed films in anticipation of a continuing writers' strike that...
NOT EASY BEING GREEN
GRAMERCY Tavern on the Green? Nobu Central Park? With Tavern on the Green's lease up at the end of the year, it's fun to dream about how much better the...
GET NO CREDIT
Vikram Pandit dove deeper into the first month of his honeymoon from hell by posting Citigroup's worst earnings ever - then dropped a surprise credit card bomb that scattered investors....
THAIN SECURES MERRILL WITH $6.6B INFUSION
John Thain thinks he got a pretty good deal in raising $6.6 billion in foreign cash to bail out Merrill Lynch. His bank will pay 9 percent annually on the...
NO DAYS WITH RAY
THERE is more turmoil at the magazine home of Rachael Ray. Two more top-level execs have resigned from the Reader's Digest Association-owned Every Day with Rachael Ray. Executive Editor Maile...
KELLWOOD BOARD AIN'T 'PHAT' WITH SUN CAPITAL'S OFFER
Struggling apparel maker Kellwood advised its shareholders not to act on a hostile buyout bid from Sun Capital, saying its board will review the $544 million cash offer with the...
AMES IS SPARED IN PURGE AT EMI
Terra Firma boss Guy Hands lowered the boom on EMI employees yesterday, confirming plans to lay off as many as 2,000 workers over the next six months in a bid...
BOFA TO AX 650, SHUT UNIT
Bank of America chief Ken Lewis, fresh off a deal to buy struggling mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, plans to slash 650 jobs and sell its prime brokerage unit after suffering...
RETAIL WRECKS
Retail sales data are serving notice that stocks relying on consumer spending are flying into the face of a recession. News that sales last month fell - along with a...
OPRAH DEAL SETS ITS OWN COURSE
Billionaire Oprah Winfrey's already giant empire just got bigger. The Queen Bee of TV and Discovery Communications yesterday announced a 50-50 joint venture that will re-brand Discovery Health into OWN:...
IAN GETS MARQUEE
SOURCES have just whispered to us that the much-touted Ian Schrager-created hotel group for Marriott International could simply be dubbed "Schrager Hotels." After all, everyone refers to them as Schrager...
INVESTORS PANNING APPLE'S MOVIE PLAN
Hollywood is officially on board with Apple's movie download rental plan - the same can't be said for Wall Street. All the major movie studios announced their support for the...
JUDGE OUT OF B'KLYN ARENA WAR
A Brooklyn federal judge has removed himself from hearing an appeal on a lawsuit opposing the borough's $4 billion Atlantic Yards project, after admitting in court that he once responded...
HOME VALUES DROP - BUT TAXES GO UP
After six years of astonishing double-digit increases, the city's Finance Department yesterday lowered the assessment on one-, two- and three-family homes by 2.76 percent - but that doesn't mean small-home...
FALL ST.
A plunging stock market and skid in consumer spending - coupled with some of the nation's biggest banks reporting their worst profits since the Great Depression - fueled serious fears...
MAKING A SPLASH
Four manmade waterfalls, 90 to 120 feet high, will be installed under and around the Brooklyn Bridge this summer in one of the city's most audacious art undertakings, Mayor Bloomberg...
THE TIMES IS 'MURDER' ON OUR GIS
Conservative columnists and bloggers are blasting The New York Times for what they call fuzzy math and shoddy research designation to trash the reputation of GIs by saying Iraq and...
A GIANT THANK YOU FOR 'JESS'
Heads turned, horns honked and Giants fans cheered wildly as The Post's Jessica Simpson lookalike, Lynsey Nordstrom, took a triumphant victory lap around the city yesterday. The dead ringer for...
FEDS JOIN HUNT FOR TRANSLATOR
Federal agents are helping NYPD detectives determine if a missing Russian court translator disappeared because of her work on sensitive mob cases, officials said yesterday. The FBI is scheduled to...
WALKOUT AIMED AT PRINCIPAL
Complaining that their principal is too strict, students at the elite Bronx High School of Science yesterday staged a walkout. Nearly 200 of the city's brightest kids walked out of...
SIGN-ING UP
The House That Jeter Built has a new sign that unmistakably promises great baseball will be played there. The words "Yankee Stadium," solidly etched in gold-leafed stone, were hoisted by...
YOU CAN TAKE BULL FROM LEONA
Leona Helmsley is being sold off to the little people. Christie's is auctioning off the late Queen of Mean's collection of art, furnishings and jeweled animals over the next year,...
STUYVESANT HS TRACK-TEAM GAL PARALYZED IN CRASH
A Stuyvesant HS girls' track-team member was paralyzed after a van carrying the team on a Vermont highway flipped over, police said yesterday. The van, carrying six or seven members...
JERSEY JOLTS GIULIANI AS VOTERS DEFECT
Republican voters are drifting away from presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani in droves - even in neighboring New Jersey, a surprising new poll shows. John McCain has edged ahead of Giuliani...
'LET ME GO OR I'LL DIE'
"I will fall and I will die if you do not let me go - I will fall and I will die." That's what daredevil Jeb Corliss told security guards...
CRIME OF 'CENTURY' MINUS 1
He could be the king of raps. A 52-year-old career criminal, whose voluminous 92-page arrest record reads like a hardboiled detective novel, was busted on Long Island for the 99th...
HEADS OR TAILS
A Brooklyn construction worker who went to the emergency room with a head injury is suing the hospital for forcing him to undergo a rectal exam. Brian Persaud says doctors...
POL-SLAM IN 'TRUMP' DEATH FALL
A councilman yesterday demanded that the city's top buildings official resign for allowing work to continue for months on Donald Trump's violation-plagued SoHo hotel-condo project. A scaffolding collapse on the...
KILLER SUES TO REVERSE CONVICTION
Convicted killer Danny Pelosi has slapped a $150 million lawsuit against Long Island prosecutors, saying they illegally nailed him with the help of medical records in which he calls himself...
HI LIFE FOR NY SERVANTS
It sounds like the most unbelievable bargain in New York - living rent-free in a million-dollar apartment overlooking Central Park. There's just one catch - you might have to clean...
TENANTS HIP-HOP TO IT TO SAVE BX. BUILDING
Tenants at a Bronx building considered to be the birthplace of hip-hop yesterday said they were reaching out to industry giants to help them fend off a real-estate developer. A...
ATTORNEY DONOVAN DIES
A prominent Long Island lawyer died Monday after a long battle with esophageal cancer. Thomas J. Donovan, 60, who lived in Harrison, practiced law with the firm Bee Ready Fishbein...
'KILLER' DAD: BLAME MOM
"My wife did it." That's the defense Cesar Rodriguez is expected to mount as Brooklyn prosecutors open their case today against the monster stepfather accused of beating to death 7-year-old...
'KILLER' CAUGHT NAPPING
A man who lived in his car was arrested in Brooklyn yesterday on suspicion that he killed a John Jay College graduate who vanished seven months ago during a trip...
NY STAR POWER
Finally, an awards show with stars. The red carpet was back in business at Cipriani in Midtown, last night and stars such as George Clooney and his girlfriend Sarah Larson...
FEDS HAVEN'T GOT A BEEF WITH CLONED MEAT
Cloned meat is as safe as any other. That's what the federal government said yesterday in removing the last major hurdle that barred genetically duplicated cows, pigs, and other livestock...
RUDY FIRM HIRES PAL IN MCC CAMP
Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm has re-established ties with a former aide who left after a reported clash with the candidate's wife and who is supporting John McCain's presidential campaign, sources...
BLOOMBERG'S RUNNING SHOO
Another "draft Bloomberg for president" committee popped up yesterday, this time led by two founders of the failed Unity '08 bipartisan movement. Doug Bailey and Jerry Rafshoon, who served as...
LATEST 'O' BLOW: HILL PLAYS THE FEAR CARD ON TERROR
LAS VEGAS - Barack Obama last night accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of using the fear that terrorists might strike again to score points in her presidential bid - leveling a...
1/3 DEMS ON THE FENCE
"Uncommitted" scored more than a third of the Michigan Democratic primary vote against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night, in a contest in which she was the only major candidate....
THE MORMON THE MERRIER
For Mitt Romney, there's no place like home. Romney notched a victory over John McCain last night in the GOP primary in Michigan - Romney's birthplace and the state where...
'IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH!' TIGER VICTIM SCREAMS TO 911
One of the survivors of the Christmas Day tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo pleaded with a 911 dispatcher as the 250-pound cat pounced on his friend and his...
STAR RAVING MAD!
Show me the mania! No. 1 Scientology fan Tom Cruise goes all out in describing his hard-core dedication to the sci-fi-themed belief system in a video that has surfaced on...
MCCONAUGHEY TO BE A 'POP' STAR
"Wedding Planner" star Matthew McConaughey is now planning to be a dad. The actor and his girlfriend, Brazilian model Camila Alves, are expecting a baby, he announced on his Web...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Two burglars swiped $9,000 from a hotel-room safe after kicking in the door at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, authorities said yesterday. Leonard Salter, 32, a street vendor...
REPUBLICAN RIVALS SHARE ONE BOND: ALL LOSERS
WASHINGTON - With this field of losers, it's no wonder the race for the GOP presidential nomination remains completely up for grabs. The only common bond among the Republicans running...
THIS GUY'S A WALKING TOM BOMB
HOLY Thetan, Tom Cruise. We always knew the Tomster was a bit, well, unusual. Strange, hyperactive, agitated and short. And Katie Holmes was clinically insane. Which means poor baby Suri,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Tue.: 864; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6784; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 266; Lucky Sum: 14; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 6101; Lucky...
WHAT, ELIOT WORRY?
New York earned a dubious distinc tion yesterday as one of the few states not making news for its bud get prudence. "Slower growth in tax revenues are prompting governors...
IDIOT JUMPER, IDIOT JUDGE
Dumb judges beget dumb lawsuits. The dumb jurist du jour is state Su preme Court Justice Michael Ambrecht, who last January threw out reckless-endangerment charges against moron parachutist Jeb Corliss....
FREE MARK TWAIN!
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein looks to be getting serious about ending New York's most embarrassing racial quota. The Department of Education announced Monday that it's asking a federal judge to...
CIVIL PARTNERS
WITH the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act, "you have created a Second Emancipation," said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to President Lyndon Johnson. "The real hero is the American Negro,"...
IRAQ: RECONCILING WITH THE BA'ATH
FOR at least the last two years, national reconcilia tion has been the buzz phrase in all discussions on Iraq's future as it struggles to convince its friends to continue...
MICHIGAN'S MEANING:
THE GOP race has now descended into total chaos. Mike Hucka bee, John McCain and now Mitt Romney have each won an important primary or caucus and lost two others....
THE REAL ROMNEY?
'WELL, my friends, for a minute there in New Hampshire I thought this campaign might be getting easier," John McCain started off, as he conceded to Mitt Romney last night....
PRIMARY COLORS 2: CLINTONS PLAY RACE CARD
The Clintons always show their true colors when they are desperate ("Bill's 'Fairy Tale,' " Jan. 12). Just to get elected, they stooped as low as to insinuate that Sen....
OUR SURGE TO VICTORY
I wish that today's politicans would read Ralph Peters' articles, especially "The Surge at One" (PostOpinion, Jan. 11). The Democrats hard- ly ever talk about the war, and if they...
NEEDLING FEDS
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress dropped a message yesterday for Roger Clemens or anyone else testifying before them - you'd better tell the truth. The leaders of the House Committee...
MITCHELL DEFENDS TESTIMONY CITED IN REPORT
WASHINGTON - A mostly dull 41/2-hour congressional hearing into steroid use in baseball was highlighted by former Senator George Mitchell defending the testimony Brian McNamee gave him about Roger Clemens'...
DOWN FOR THE DIS-COUNT
The Garden has adjusted ticket prices for Saturday night's Roy Jones-Felix "Tito" Trinidad showdown, reducing the highest priced ticket from $15,000 to $5,000 for a ringside seat. Garden officials confirmed...
ARGENTINE TRAINER DEAD AT 71
Alfredo Callejas, who retired in 2004 after training horses on the New York circuit for over a quarter-century, died at his home in Florida last Saturday. He was 71. A...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: 'Pacman' accused A woman is seeking an arrest warrant against Adam "Pacman" Jones, claiming the suspended Titans cornerback punched her at an Atlanta strip club on Jan. 3. Wanda...
DEVS TRY AGAIN VS. NY HEX
It's rather remarkable. The Devils may be the best team in the Atlantic Division - they've been in first place for more than a month - but they're the worst...
NO CHANCE IN HELL
THE PACKERS probably won't do it, won't comply in sucker Cowboys fashion, won't set a dumb trap for themselves by opening their mouths or escaping Green Bay to head to...
THE COLD FACTS
THE Giants can overcome the cold and make it to the Super Bowl. If they fail, shame on them if they blame it on the zero-degree temperatures. That's the message...
PACK & FIELD
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Jimmy Robinson, who caught the first touchdown pass ever at Giants Stadium, from Craig Morton in 1976 against the Cowboys, smiles wistfully when reminded that, after...
WHO'S RYAN NOW?
If Ryan Grant wasn't such a good-looking guy, he might never have blossomed so forcefully into a hard-charging running back for the Packers, looking on Sunday to rip through his...
ISLES JUST DON'T HAB WHAT IT TAKES
Ted Nolan warned them about it. Not that he had to. His Islanders already knew the dangers of starting slowly in this first game off an extended cross-country road trip...
THEY'RE ON A STREAK!
It's time for a contract extension! Isiah Thomas' Knicks posted their second straight blowout win last night, routing the Wizards 105-93 at the Garden, racing to a 22-point first-half lead...
STEPH NEEDS ANOTHER NEW START
EVERY time a Giants player in the house was shown on the Garden scoreboard last night, the crowd erupted in joy. When Stephon Marbury's face was briefly flashed, the boos...
NO STEPH, NO PROBLEM
Isiah Thomas said that when his Knicks share the ball, when they pass up contested shots of their own to get wide-open ones for their teammates, they're playing honest basketball....
MARBURY COULD BE ON LAST LEGS
Stephon Marbury will do what's best for Stephon Marbury and that is why he is ready to have ankle surgery in a few days that could be season-ending and Knicks-career-ending....
METS GIVE VALENTIN 2ND LOOK
The Mets will be bringing back Jose Valentin, the player's agent told The Post last night, giving him a minor league deal with an invitation to major league spring training....
NETS PRIMED FOR PAYBACK
There are blemishes on the soul of a season that are so hard to erase. Trailing by double digits in 26 of 37 games; trailing by 20 or more in...
HEY, TOM: END MR. SOFTY ACT
Tom Renney talked yesterday about the need for the Rangers to be personally accountable to themselves and their teammates, and so too did Sean Avery, who's likely to return from...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
The empire has truly fallen - nearly half of young adults in Britain have no idea how to boil an egg. A survey by Farmhouse Breakfast Week revealed that only...
Three days, 2 wins, 1 surgery
By MARC BERMANThere was actually playoff talk in the Knicks locker room after tonight's game. The only P-word I have for that is â Puh-leeze.But it is amazing how good...
Deal of the Day
Lately, I cannot stop buying plaid shirts from the boy's department at Old Navy and flannels from The Gap.Danica blames My So-Called Life nostalgia. I blame my so-called shopping problem.This...