February 6, 2008
MIRACLE MAN ELI VISITS DAVE
Eli Manning walked out to meet David Letterman last night, accompanied by the song "The Impossible Dream," and confirmed that the Giants' Super Bowl win over the Patriots was, indeed,...
Today's Practice Notes
So youâre going to have to pick up the paper (or read it online) tomorrow to see the big story of what happened today at practice. There was an altercation...
Goodell doubts more Spygate info
APNFL commissioner Roger Goodell is willing to pursue any believable information in the Spygate case. He simply doesnât know if any exists.Goodell said today that the league has been in...
Santana contract details
A breakdown of Johan Santanaâs $137.5 million, six-year contract with the Mets, as obtained by The Associated Press. All salary figures in millions of dollars:Year, Salary2008, $19.02009, $20.02010, $21.02011, $22.52012,...
BRITNEY SPEARS OUT OF PSYCH WARD: REPORT
Britney is out, again. The pop star was released from the psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center today after almost a week, the Los Angeles Times reported. The newspaper...
HILLARY CLINTON LOANED CAMPAIGN $5M
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million from her personal bank account late last month, officials acknowledged yesterday -- a surprising twist in the deadlocked race for the...
Waiting for the Other Shoe.
By FRED KERBERGo ahead. If you can explain the Miami-Phoenix deal - proposed deal because nothing's done until it's done, etc. - have at it.Folks inside the Nets won't comment...
ROGER CLEMENS' SYRINGES TO BE GIVEN TO CONGRESS
The strongest evidence Roger Clemens used steroids will be turned over to Congress tomorrow, lawyers for the pitcher's former trainer said. Brian McNamee is scheduled to meet with staff members...
Socialites go to Duane Reade too
Okay, okay, so we don't know whether they go on a regular basis, but Annie Churchill and Amanda Hearst will be at the Duane Reade on Broadway and 40th Street...
VIVIENNE TAM SHOW
Vivienne loves Walt. And who doesn't? The Chinese-born designer, who designed Mickey and Minnie's Chinese New Year outfits for their appearance at Hong Kong Disneyland last week, also used the...
CYNTHIA STEFFE SHOW
A little ethnic and a little modern, Cynthia Steffe's fall line was bright and mature with just the right dose of fun. Vibrant vermillion, rich blackberry and ombre plaid gave...
DIESEL SHOW
Forget T-shirts, low-rise jeans and anything emblazoned with the company's logo - Diesel is going luxe. This according to creative director Wilbert Das and designer of the brand's new "Black...
TIBI SHOW
Tibi designer Amy Smilovic took a trip to Londontown to design her Fall 2008 collection, perfect for pretty city girls who are two parts feminine and one part badass. Maybe...
Wacoal's Fit for the Cure
We've all heard the crazy statistic about how eight out of ten women wear the wrong bra size -- now you can do something about yours, and for a good...
How to get through fashion week: Lube
Blisters from your fashion week shoes? Maybe you need a little lube. Be on the look out for the KY Brand "Love Cars" circling the Bryant Park tents during fashion...
SANTANA SETS SIGHTS ON SERIES
The Mets introduced their jewel of the offseason, Johan Santana, this afternoon at Shea Stadium. And he has one goal in mind: winning the World Series. "That's what we're here...
New NCAA Bracket Projection
Now that the Super Bowl is behind us, we can turn our attention to college hoops and the rapidly approaching NCAA Tournament.Here is my latest bracket projection. Remember this is...
Ledger Autopsy Results: 'Accidental Overdose' of 6 Prescription Drugs
NEW YORK (AP) â Actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, the New York City medical examiner said...
Luck From The ATL
The Post's Melissa Jane Kronfeld (M.J.) and David K. Li blog American Idol, Season 7.The Atlanta auditions didnât mess around."American Idol" producers showed us some great talent without wasting too...
Vanity Fair Hair
A lot has been made over the newest Hollywood all-star cover of Vanity Fair magazine, but here at Superficial Central, we're just going ga-ga over the hair -- concepted and...
Edward Tricomi & Gucci Westman backstage at J. Mendel
We caught up with celebrity hairstylist Edward "Scissorhands" Tricomi and MAC Cosmetics' celebrity make-up artist Gucci Westman backstage at the J. Mendel show, the first fashion show held at legendary...
Starr Report: It's getting 'Ugly'
"Ugly Betty" star Vanessa Williams will be the featured performer at this year's Golden Mike Awards, held Feb. 25 at the Waldorf and hosted by Tom Bergeron ("Dancing With the...
Deal of the Day
This adorable Acne Fleece Drawstring Dress will look fantastic with one of the many new gladiator sandal out this spring.In the meantime, pick up the cotton fleece number for $99.50...
HOT DEALS: $20 OW to Los Angeles
Do you own a car? Do you live north of the city? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you could be flying to the west coast in...
HEATH LEDGER DIED FROM ACCIDENTAL RX OVERDOSE: ME OFFICE
The New York City medical examiner's office has ruled that actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. From the medical examiner's office: "Mr. Heath Ledger died...
'You Need to Settle Down Meryl, Maybe Have Some Kids'
Interesting quote from Woody Allen in Page Six today. Referring to his muse Scarlett Johansson, the Woodman told Macleans magazine, that she's "so beautiful and so sexy and so gifted..she...
Just Asking...
Widespread skepticism across the blogophere has greeted Vanity Fair's claim that it's pulling the plug on its annual Oscar night party because of the writers strike, which seems on the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 773; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 3887; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 014; Lucky Sum: 5; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3325; Lucky...
LATIN OUT LOUD
Tropic of Cancer Brooklyn's self-proclaimed oldest self-sustaining community theater, the Heights Players, takes on Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics. The Pulitzer-winning story of a family of cigar rollers whose...
EAT YOUR HEART OUT!
Whether you're in that lovey-dovey stage of your relationship or need a burst of inspiration to awaken the passion, we've got a sexy Latin restaurant for you. All you have...
DIFFERENT STROKES
Can art bring about redemption? For Pablo Marcano Garcia, a Puerto-Rican nationalist-turned painter -currently having a 25-year painting retrospective at Taller Boricua Gallery - the answer is a resounding "yes."...
ESAI DOES IT
Esai Morales may be best known for having played a cop on "NYPD Blue" but all he's ever wanted to do is rock out. "I'm a frustrated pop star," says...
NY'S JETS LAG
New York's airports - already among the nation's worst for flight delays - got even worse last year, new government figures show. La Guardia ranked dead last for on-time performance...
500G SCAM VICTIM: IT'S NO SWEAT
He lost almost half a million bucks to a flimflam fortune-teller, but this stockbroker is taking his losses in stride. Douglas Lonneker "was very laid back about the whole thing....
BX. BURGER THUG WANTS OUT OF JAIL
The suspected ringleader in the fatal 2006 attack on an off-duty cop at a Bronx White Castle turned down a deal for 15 years in prison and is bargaining to...
$CHOOL HEIST
Two Department of Education employees used their Bronx elementary school like a bottomless ATM - stealing more than $200,000 over three years, investigators charged yesterday. Brazen PS 132 secretaries Karen...
PEPSI EXEC'S SEXTORT GAL ARRESTED AGAIN
A sultry grifter waiting to start a 21-month prison term for trying to blackmail a Pepsi exec over his online dating has been busted for violating her bail yet again....
PAROLE BATTLE RAGES
ALBANY - Charging that Gov. Spitzer is "very soft on criminals," Senate Republicans yesterday announced legislation designed to stem the recent increase in paroles of inmates convicted of violent felonies...
FEDS HIT CITY ON ARAB SCHOOL AX
A federal appeals court took the city to task yesterday for forcing a principal at a controversial Arab-themed school to resign, but seemed reluctant to order that she be given...
CITY TO PREMIERE FIRST HS OF FILM & TV
Lights! Camera! Academics! Film editing and set building will be among the skills taught at a new high school set to open this fall in Queens. The Academy for Careers...
FACES MORE JAIL THAN TERROR MA
The daughter of convicted terror lawyer Lynne Stewart faces up to seven years if convicted of ripping off the city for $2,000 - nearly five years more than the 21/3...
NYPD CUTTING PARKING PERKS
All cops who want placards authorizing them to park on the street will now have to apply for them - apparently ending the policy of automatically giving them to every...
COLOMBIA COKE KINGPIN CAGED
One of the world's most notorious drug kingpins was sentenced to 30 years yesterday for running a $100 million cocaine-smuggling ring. Manuel Felipe Salazar-Espinosa, 58, who oversaw the international operation...
A TEST TUBE MARVEL
LONDON - British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope can lead, within five years, to treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases....
NEWEST B'WAY STARS
New York screamed until it was Big Blue in the face. The unstoppable Giants drove a victory lap the length of 10 football fields along Broadway's Canyon of Heroes yesterday,...
CLINTON CORE EVAPORATING
ALBANY - Hillary Rodham Clinton last night lost ground with her core supporters of whites and women, even as she crushed rival Barack Obama among Hispanics, exit polls showed. Clinton...
SLUGFEST IS A SPLIT DECISION
Hillary Rodham Clinton grabbed the biggest Super Tuesday primary prizes last night, beating Barack Obama in California and New York, but the two rivals split other key states and braced...
EMPIRE STATE IS HILLARY COUNTRY
ALBANY - New York Democrats handed Hillary Rodham Clinton an easy primary victory last night over hard-charging challenger Barack Obama, who failed to do as well as expected with fellow...
CHALK IT UP TO EXPERIENCE
Leadership and experience count. Exit polls of Republican voters yesterday showed Sen. John McCain ran strongest with voters who cared about a candidate's leadership qualities. And he slightly led Mitt...
MCCAIN'S TRAIN BARRELS ALONG
John McCain took a giant step toward securing the GOP nomination last night - carrying California, sweeping primaries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware, and romping in the...
ART WORLD REGAINS A WAR-HAUL
An Andy Warhol painting that was stolen from a SoHo gallery a decade ago is now on ice at Christie's auction house, where a Brooklyn man had tried to sell...
SVENGALI SAM 'DRUGGED' BRIT
Britney Spears' Svengali sidekick planted anti-psychotic pills in her food and berated her as a "piece of trash" and "whore" as she collapsed into mental breakdown, according to explosive court...
HEATH TESTS BACK TODAY
Results of toxicology tests on Heath Ledger - expected to reveal the cause of the "Brokeback Mountain" star's death - will be released today, after his family is notified first...
CO-ED CON'S DAD BLAMES H'WOOD
The father of an Ivy League con artist who's facing 30 years in prison for identity theft blamed Hollywood's movie culture yesterday for his daughter's problems. "Profanity and nudity and...
UMA MAY BE FORCED TO FACE HER 'STALKER'
Sexy screen star Uma Thurman could be climbing to the witness stand as early as next month at the trial of her mentally unhinged alleged stalker - providing her travel...
GOTTI FIRE SALE
The US government is hurrying to sell off 14 properties owned by "Dapper Don" daughter Victoria Gotti and her ex-husband before tax liens render them worthless, prosecutors said during a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx Police yesterday were searching for the woman pictured above who disappeared in Unionport. Yvonne Yorke, 48, who stands 5-foot-5 and weighs 182 pounds, was last seen in the...
DREAM DAY FOR BLUE YORK CITY
THIS was Super Tuesday after Super Sunday for the New York Giants, and for New York. This was what it looked like and felt like and sounded like in October...
NOTE TO POLLSTERS IT'S THE SINGLE WOMEN, STUPID
Hillary Clinton'S vic tory in California restores her as the front-runner, a title that was in doubt as Barack Obama racked up victory after victory in states he was not...
HARLEM AND I GOT BEHIND OUR HOME GIRL
THE results of my unscientific poll are as surprising as the Giants win, as perplexing as the longevity of the Clinton-on-Clinton marriage. In Harlem, Democratic voters surged to the polls...
ONCE JOHN WINS, HE'LL MAKE A LEFT
RUNNING as a conserva tive, John McCain rolled up huge victories last night in New York, New Jersey and beyond. But if history is any guide, the McCain we've seen...
HARVICK: DAYTONA IS THE KEY
The world-champion Giants were not the only ones in Manhattan yesterday celebrating a thrilling victory. Kevin Harvick, with slightly less fanfare, regaled reporters at Gallagher's Steakhouse in Midtown with details...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Casey joins Bosox Free agent Sean Casey, who played for Detroit last season after spending 11 seasons with the Reds, agreed to an $800,000, one-year contract with the Red...
CLOCK TICKS ON STORM
This is the last chance for St. John's to salvage any chance of getting to the Big East Conference Tournament. Despite losing seven of its first eight league games, the...
ABOUT LAST KNIGHT
It was March, 1987, and I had just covered St. John's 83-75 overtime loss to DePaul in an NCAA Tournament second-round game in Chicago when hubris overtook me. Indiana had...
WRIGHT: PHILLIES TEAM TO BEAT
David Wright agrees with Billy Wagner: The team to beat in the NL East is still the Phillies, even with Johan Santana on the Mets. Before being honored at the...
DEVS FACE BATTLE FOR TOP SPOT
The Devils head to Buffalo to face off against the mediocre Sabres tonight as they look to regain first place in the Atlantic Division. The Flyers, with 65 points, hold...
NO REST FOR BEST
Eli Manning has had his share of sleepless nights as the quarterback of the Giants, but his latest bout of insomnia is one he can deal with. "I've had other...
BELICHICK NOT LOOKING BACK YET
BOSTON - With the sting still fresh of the stunning Super Bowl loss that ruined the Patriots' unbeaten season, coach Bill Belichick hasn't watched tape of the game yet or...
SPAG PARTY
At the celebratory and joyous rally for the Super Bowl champion Giants yesterday afternoon at Giants Stadium, one of the loudest and longest ovations was given to Steve Spagnuolo. The...
GIANT REPORT CARD
QUARTERBACK After 15 weeks of the regular season, Eli Manning (297-529, 3,336 yards, 23 TDs, 20 INTs) was not living up to the great expec tations. From then on, he...
KEEPING IT TOGETHER
Not long after a team claims the Vince Lombardi Trophy it starts breaking apart, one way or another. The Giants could soon lose Steve Spagnuolo, their valued defensive coordinator, to...
OUR TOWN, OUR TIME MIKE
THIS one felt good, really, really good, because now, for the first time, maybe we can understand how rare these kind of celebratory days really are. We are New York,...
PLAX MISSES PARADE
As the Giants celebrated in lower Manhattan yesterday, there was one player noticeably missing. Plaxico Burress, who caught the winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII, was not on any float...
'THERE'S NO GREATER STAGE'
All conversations stopped as the buses carrying the world-champion Giants entered Manhattan through the Holland Tunnel early yesterday. Players, coaches, staff members, family and friends all looked out of the...
ISLES CAN'T DUCK ANOTHER LOSS
Sure, the Islanders have had some injuries and have caught some unfortunate breaks recently, but that doesn't change the fact they are plummeting in the Eastern Conference - and that's...
ZEKE LAUDS KNIGHT
Isiah Thomas' reign with the Knicks has been a colossal disaster, but there was a time in his life when most everything he touched turned golden. And for that, the...
GLOVE CONNECTION
Luis Castillo still remembers every detail of the day he was traded to the Mets, still has last June 30 etched in his memory. So should the Amazin's and their...
CARTER'S ANKLE ON THE RISE
For much of the season, Vince Carter has played more like Nell Carter. There have been assorted flashes, though. Like last night. There were some drives - and one Vin-Sanity-like...
NETS CONTAIN KOBE- BUT NOT LAKERS
So you hold Kobe Bryant to a season-low six points on 3-of-13 shooting. Great, even if he played with a dislocated right pinky. You have a sellout crowd driven to...
LAKERS A FIX-IT MODEL
A proud team used to winning, suffering through a frustrating season. A disgruntled, want-away star begging for a trade, a life raft off a sinking ship. The Nets and Jason...
KINGS MAKE BLUESHIRTS BOW DOWN
The one-year anniversary is considered the paper anniversary. How appropriate for Sean Avery, who celebrated the first anniversary of the trade that sent him from Hollywood to Broadway with a...
CLEMENS TALKS UNDER OATH IN D.C. DEPOSITION
Roger Clemens repeated his denials that he ever used steroids and human growth hormone yesterday - this time under oath on Capitol Hill. The former Yankees pitcher met with staff...
BUILDING PLANS
THIS was at the Giants' team hotel on Saturday night, 24 hours before the Super Bowl. Ernie Accorsi, the team's former GM, was explaining a philosophical decision to two interested...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
San Francisco voters yesterday were weighing in on the future of the Rock, with a proposal that the city take control of Alcatraz, raze its notorious prison and erect a...
RESULTS OF A WARMING WORLD
Our series, "GlobalWarming," continues. LET'S assume the worst. Let's assume average temperatures rise 3 to 8 F. What would be the consequences? What would happen to natural ecosystems? What would...
G-SPOT
TODAY Trump Tower becomes Gucci Gulch. At a press conference yesterday morning, Gucci unveiled its largest store in the world - a three-floor, 46,000-square-foot chunk at the corner of Fifth...
IT'S SHOW TIME
With Oscars looking likely, it was an appropriately red carpet kind of day, with the gown merchants cranking out a new crop of floor dusters. Rodarte, recent favorite of Keira...
HAUTE LIST @ THE FRONT ROW
IT takes a lot to gobsmack Haute List during Fashion Week, but we were utterly star-struck when we ran into Master of the Shoe Universe Christian Louboutin at The Blonds....
SOPHIA BUSH GOES GOODY TWO-SHOES AT FASHION WEEK
* Someone give Sophia Bush a gold star. The CW cutie showed up at the W Jet Lounge yesterday boasting to friends she'd cast an absentee ballot back home in...
REALLY, REALLY WANT TO GO!
IT's girl-power time - but not for little girls. We're talking the big ones, too. The Spice Girls are storming the NYC area during their world reunion tour, and for...
THE SPICE IS RIGHT
BOSTON - The Spice Girls are shaking it again. At their seven sold-out New York-area performances fans can expect over-the-top production that's a little cheesy, very sexy and totally entertaining...
A GOOD SPORTY
FOr years Melanie Chisholm said absolutely, positively no to a Spice Girls reunion. Mel C, 33, is the band's best singer. She was known in the '90s as Sporty Spice,...
UNION BANS, FINES QUAID
WHEN last we checked in with Randy Quaid and his charming wife, Evi, they were wreaking havoc at the Broadway-bound musical "Lone Star Love." Evi was trashing the producers and...
STARR REPORT
It's getting' 'Ugly' "Ugly Betty" star Vanessa Williams will be the featured performer at this year's Golden Mike Awards, held Feb. 25 at the Waldorf and hosted by Tom Bergeron...
WHO'S YOUR GREAT, GREAT GRANDDADDY?
AND you thought your family had secrets. Tonight, radio personality Tom Joyner will learn the story of how two of his great uncles and three other men - all African...
LABOR PAINS
THE writers' strike is nearly over - and with it, we suspect, the parade of celebrity babies and weddings of the past three months. Out-of-work celebrities discovered something during this...
THE PIES THE LIMIT FOR CNN MAVENS
CNN was the pie-chart champ. At one point during last night's TV coverage of the Super Tuesday election returns, I counted 18 pie charts being displayed all at the same...
DANIEL DOES BAR SNACKS
'THANK you for coming to the West Side. I'll have them stamp your visa." You can't make up a quote like that - a guy actually said it to a...
SPITZER STINTS ON SCHOOL SAFETY
If Gov. Spitzerreally wanted to make a dent in Albany's projected $4.4 billion budget deficit, there are countless bloated bureaucracies he could choose to cut. But the Office of School...
BUSH'S BUNGLED BUDGET
President Bush has never really fretted much about overspending, but he's outdone himself with the $3 trillion in outlays he proposed Monday - and the $400 billion-plus deficits they'll produce...
GIANTS-NYC: FEUD OVER
Mayor Bloomberg assures us that he's not a candidate for anything right now, so we can assume that his enthusiastic embrace of the Super Bowl champion Giants in a parade...
THE FRAGILE CIVILIZATION FACTORY
MY daughter really, really, really (throw in a few more reallys for accuracy) wants to go to Disney World. Scouting reports from several of her preschool colleagues indicate a large...
AN ABSENT ANXIETY
ALTHOUGH Americans are alarmed by the credit crisis currently convulsing the economy, they are sensibly placid about one consequence of the crisis. It is the substantial investment by sovereign wealth...
MCCAIN'S STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
FOR Republicans, the story from Super Tuesday seems to be that John McCain, while still the frontrunner, has a tremendous amount of work ahead of him uniting the Republican base...
RE-RUNS FROM THE '90S: ANOTHER CLINTON SCANDAL
THE ISSUE: Bill Clinton's business dealings and his refusal to disclose his charity's donors. The Post's editorial, "Can the Clintons Change?" (Feb. 4) is a serious piece of rhetorical wit....
CONGESTION INDIGESTION
THE ISSUE:Mayor Bloomberg's plan to charge cars $8 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street. Manhattan is a grid ("Car-Fee Green Light," Feb. 3). A grid offers many ways to...
NO SUPER TUES.
An astonishing collapse in the health of the US economy's service sector led to the worst day the markets have seen so far this year, despite the Giants Super Bowl...
WALL ST. WANTS A YAHOO! SWEETENER
There's a new rallying cry on Wall Street regarding Microsoft's half-hostile offer to buy Yahoo! - $31 isn't going to get it done. The view has less to do with...
STRIKE BREAKTHROUGH
The details of a tentative plan to resolve the contentious writers' strike that has halted Hollywood for three months are beginning to emerge ahead of membership meetings this weekend for...
BREAKING BREAD
THE Condé Nast Italian Guys are riding again. The leader of the Italian Guys, former Condé Nast CEO Steve Florio, was laid to rest on New Year's Eve, but the...
AXA KEEPING DIGS IN NYC
AXA Financial is heading to the Jersey City, NJ, waterfront, but is also recommitting to the city. The insurance giant signed a 13-year deal at 1290 Avenue of the Americas...
TICKER $HOCK
With a stock price of just over $500 per share, Google's stock suddenly looks cheap - by Google's recent standards anyway. Google stock yesterday rallied 2.3 percent, or $11.37, to...
More Knick advice from Rondeau
By MARC BERMANReligious readers of this blog will remember performance coach Art Rondeau, who formerly worked with Allan Houston and Chris Dudley during the Knicks' glory years. Rondeau, who deals...
Familiar Trap
And so the trap game trapped them. After looking like a changed team in the midst of the going 5-1 in their last six, the Rangers blew it tonight, losing...
MARC BY MARC JACOBS SHOW
Usually, Marc by Marc shows a day or two after the Marc Jacobs line, but designer moved the latter show to the end of the week in an attempt to...
BARBARA TFANK SHOW
Taffeta, tulle and trapeze shapes definitely make up for the silent T in Barbara Tfank's Fall 2008 line. Less than average looking models looked like this may have been their...
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON SHOW
There are some definite trends on the catwalk already this season. Plaid, floral prints, metallics, fur and shorter lengths for skirts and dresses, to name a few. It is interesting...
RODARTE SHOW
By far the best, most mature Rodarte show yet. Sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy have been fashion world darlings since debuting in 2005, designing wildly inventive yet completely unwearable clothes....
DOO.RI SHOW
Doo Ri Chung has a way with fabric, particularly when it comes to draping. There are few designers working in New York today that are as adept with making fabric,...
CHARLOTTE RONSON SHOW
IT was a full-on family affair at Charlotte Ronson's fall 2008 fashion show. Twin sister Samantha spun the tracks, little sister Annabelle took to the catwalk (while model Jessica Stam...
BEHNAZ SARAFPOUR SHOW
A darling of the fashion industry, Behnaz Sarafpour consistently manages to deliver pretty, wearable pieces. This season was no exception. Her first look, a to-die-for cream structured mini dress with...
LIVEBLOG: Vegas gets a free show
Apologies to drivers and pedestrians at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd. and Flamingo Road this afternoon. Guests of the Bellagio as well. Sorry, but I just had to take...