March 10, 2008
TV in the nude
What do "The Simpsons" and "National Geographic" have in common?Both shows made the list of "Top 10 TV Series That Have Promoted Healthy Nudity."Fancast talked to nudity expert Nicky Hoffman,...
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
By FRED KERBERYou hate to talk about what might have been, but...That's exactly what we're going to do here.Richard Jefferson today was talking about how he has known nothing but...
Isiah: Curry's weight not problem
By MARC BERMANDALLAS â Isiah Thomas gave Eddy Curry a pass on his weight and was careful not to degrade his skill level.Thomas, when asked what is the most disappointing...
Deal of the Day-Banana Republic
Enamel jewelry is all the rage this springâitâs being sold everywhere from J. Crew to Bloomingdales.This Chain Link Bangle from Banana Republic is great accessory to wear with a cocktail...
More "Mass Effect" on Xbox Live
Yes, dammit, I'm still obsessed with "Mass Effect." So, it is with a big wahoodle that I say that today's the day...the day when the "Bring Down the Sky" content...
Jets play host to Colts TE Utecht
The Jets refuse to rest in their aggressive offseason push to improve on their miserable 4-12 season in 2007.One day after agreeing to terms with former Dolphins running back Jesse...
COPS
Thought I was in an episode of COPS the other night. Here are a couple Florida moments, one good, one not so good. It is a strange state of affairs...
SANTANA SHARP AGAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The chance to face an AL team again had Johan Santana looking comfortable in his third spring start today. Santana gave up a leadoff single to...
3 DOWN: Santana, Lester and Beckett
1. It was hard to watch Johan Santana on Monday against the Red Sox and not be impressed. He worked four shutout innings and earned it. His stuff was exquisite...
SPITZER LINKED TO PROSTITUTION RING: REPORT
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a federal prostitution probe after it was discovered he had a tryst with a young high-class hooker the day before Valentine's...
Santana faces Red Sox in third start
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The chance to face an AL team again had Johan Santana looking comfortable in his third spring start today.Santana gave up a leadoff single to Jacoby...
Chatman latest signing
APThe Jets signed free-agent running back Jesse Chatman to a one-year deal Sunday.Chatman, out of football in 2006, ran for a career-high 515 yards and a touchdown for Miami last...
Cooney Salutes Irish Heritage
Gerry Cooney to host "A Salute to Irish American Heritage" at Yonkers Raceway on Tuesday, March 11. PRESS RELEASEGerry Cooney, one of the great boxers of his era and the...
Beltran, Delgado are back
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado are now definite for today.The Mets released their lineup moments ago, and Beltran will bat cleanup as the DH while Delgado...
3 UP: Freel, Beckett and Girardi
1. Every once in a while, I will throw out a trade idea. Keep in mind this is simply something I am suggesting (not something officials from teams are saying...
SITE CHECK: Money isnât everything?
Red hair. Blue eyes. Thin lips. Hemophilia. Albinism. There are plenty of quirky recessive traits swimming around the beer stein of genetic ale from which weâve all drunk.In this country...
Starcraft 2: Zerg Intro
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WELFARE CHIEF PUSHES FOSTER-KID GREEN CARDS
Foster-care agencies across the state must better identify illegal-immigrant children in their custody to prevent them from "aging out" before getting green cards, according to a new edict from the...
WEIGH TO GO AGAINST TRUCKS
Law-breaking truckers could soon face the digital scales of justice. The city's Transportation Department is set to test a weight-activated traffic camera that adjusts to bust trucks that are too...
SHRIMP 'PIMP'
A stout female dwarf dubbed "Shorty" has been busted in Brooklyn for pimping out an underage runaway to upscale clients she found over the Internet, police sources said yesterday. Suspected...
BIG STEP FOR HALLOWED 9/11 STAIRS
It is an enduring symbol of survival on 9/11. And now, the Survivors' Stairway is on its way to becoming a permanent part of the memorial at the World Trade...
'NAZI' THUG $NITCHED FOR NYPD
The crazed hatemonger arrested for stashing pipe bombs in his Brooklyn Heights apartment and scrawling swastikas on local synagogues has worked as a paid confidential informant for the NYPD. The...
BID TO BUY STARRETT CITY
A coalition of labor, faith-based and other community groups wants to buy Brooklyn's Starrett City, according to a published report. The coalition is spearheaded by the Central Labor Council, the...
NO REST IN WA-SHH!-INGTON HTS.
Not even the dead get peace from honking horns and idling buses in Washington Heights, which has led the city in overall noise complaints since last July. "When there's a...
IT'S NOISE IN THE HOODS
Partygoers in the East Village and Lower East Side are making the biggest racket in town - with bars and clubs in those communities generating the most noise complaints in...
GUN POINTS TO A TRIGGER-WOMAN
Police have found female DNA on the gun used to murder a fire marshal in the Staten Island home he shared with his disgruntled wife, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Police...
POLISH PM IN JFK SCARE
A Polish airliner carrying Prime Minister Donald Tusk was diverted to a remote area of Kennedy Airport yesterday after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. Authorities checked the...
BAD BREAK HITS TRUMP SOHO HOTEL
The troubled Trump SoHo condo-hotel construction project was slapped with its second stop-work order when a hoisting device broke free and shattered glass on three floors due to high winds...
MY DAY IN CAB COURT
I went to taxi court, won my case and still wound up feeling guilty. My cabdriver, Surjit Singh, had been completely in the wrong, but as I watched him squirm...
BELL'S PARENTS, FIANCÉE AT ODDS OVER PROSECUTION
A rift apparently has developed between Sean Bell's fiancée and his parents over how well prosecutors are handling the case against the cops accused of firing 50 shots, killing the...
CONVENTIONAL IDEAS
Like the neighborhood dry-cleaning store and the corner tavern, the Jacob Javits Convention Center is being priced out of Manhattan. State officials who recently pulled the plug on an ambitious...
BOMB-BIKE CLUE
Cops have lifted fingerprints from the bicycle they believe was used by the Times Square bomber and hope to use them to nab the man who blew up the military...
UMA'S 'STALKER' ON TRIAL
"Kill Bill" siren Uma Thurman is braced for a courtroom showdown in Manhattan this week against the brainy but freaky psych patient charged with stalking her. "Our eyes connected," defendant...
PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1
The parents of two Bronx preschoolers are suing the city, charging that their kids were tossed out of class - and handcuffed by a school-safety officer - for refusing to...
SO WHY IS THIS PRINCIPAL SMILING?
When you're in charge of the city's biggest high school - with nearly 4,500 students jammed into a building meant for 2,600 - it takes some flexibility to make it...
SURVEY BLITZ FOR PARENTS TO RATE KIDS' SCHOOLS
The city's Department of Education is pulling out all the stops to find out parents' opinions of their kids' schools. Officials want 60,000 more survey forms filled out this year...
NY GUARD READY FOR IRAQ DUTY
Nearly 130 Iraq-bound members of the New York National Guard bade farewell to their loved ones at Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton yesterday. The 133rd Quartermaster Company, a supply troop, was seen...
COURTS CORRUPT: SNITCH
His testimony helped nail crooked Judge Gerald Garson, and he paid for his own misdeeds with eight months in jail - but disgraced matrimonial lawyer Paul Siminovsky says there are...
PRINCIPAL'S PAL WAS BIG MAN ON CAMPUS
A young man who lived at a Catholic high school without being either a student or employee also walked in the St. Patrick's Day Parade with the principal and band,...
IQ, DOGGY STYLE
Finally, an answer to the question: How dumb is your best friend? A California company has created a doggy IQ test that's sure to please New York canine lovers who...
B'KLYN ROW A NO-GO
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a major money pit that's now in danger of losing its biggest draw - waterfront activities like rowboating, canoeing and kayaking, The Post has learned. The...
CHUCK RIPS FDA OVER CHINA RISK
An anemic Food and Drug Administration needs a $500 million infusion to increase its overseas inspections after a violations-riddled Chinese factory was linked to the contaminated blood thinner Heparin, which...
'LIKE TO HIKE' MCC LOVES UPHILL CLIMB
If John McCain tells you to "take a hike," don't be insulted. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee said hiking is his favorite form of exercise and recreation when he's not...
'PENN.' PALS FOR HILLARY
PHILADELPHIA - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins in Pennsylvania next month, as is widely expected, she will solidify her standing as the official candidate of the older, union-worker, white male....
MAC PLANS MIDDLE EAST SWING
WASHINGTON - With the GOP presidential nomination sewn up, Sen. John McCain is heading to Europe and the Middle East later this month as part of a congressional delegation. The...
STRIPPED STATES IN MAIL-IN VOTE BID
WASHINGTON - Democrats in Florida and Michigan may yet have a say in picking their party's presidential nominee - with do-over primaries conducted by mail. "It's comprehensive - you get...
(PRE)HISTORIC DEBUT FOR 'B.C.'
Mammoth was the word for the caveman action flick "10,000 B.C.," which stomped out all competition in trampling its way to the top of the box office this weekend. With...
H'WOOD PI GRILLS FOXY TURNCOAT
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood gumshoe to the stars Anthony Pellicano will try to strip a sexy "junior detective" of all her credibility tomorrow after his former partner in crime dished...
SPACE 'MONSTER'
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a "monstrous" two-armed space-station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx An elderly woman was clinging to life after being struck by a car in Kingsbridge yesterday, cops said. The 75-year-old woman was picking up something she had dropped...
DA RIPS PANEL BIG AS PROBE MEDDLER
ALBANY County District Attorney David Soares privately ripped the head of the state Public Integrity Commission last week, charging that he interfered with Soares' criminal probe of the Dirty Tricks...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 548; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5238; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 811; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 6059;...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Bird steals the ball! Bird steals the ball! An Oregon urology center is marketing vasectomies with a radio ad that suggests patients can recover while watching the NCAA college basketball...
THE WRONG STUFF
IRRATIONAL is an adjective we're all too comfortable throwing around. Your mother-in-law? Irrational. Your boss? Really irrational! The Knicks? A smoldering mass of volcanic irrationality! But MIT behavioral economics professor...
GO TO GREG
Q I'm an internal auditor in my mid-20s, and I travel often for work. A colleague with the same position just returned from maternity leave, and the company is reducing...
DREAM JOB: TED ALLEN
When shooting for the final episode of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" wrapped in 2006, viewers wondered what the Fab Five had planned for an encore. Going solo, what...
GET A HEALTHY START WITH CHEF JUSTIN MILLER
Our series on healthy eating continues with tasty contributions from teen chef, Justin Miller who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as World's Youngest Chef. Justin shares...
I WANT ARM CANDY
New bags make for sweet treats.
PULSE SALES
DONNA KARAN 711 Greenwich St., between 10th and Charles streets (no phone) Sale: Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Take advantage of the designer's first-ever sale at her Stephan Weiss Studio that...
GO ALONG FOR THE RIDE AND TAKE IT ALL IN
'TAKE Me Along" - the rarely performed musical adapta tion of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" - handles sexual yearning, alcoholism and more with such a light touch, it makes you...
MIAMI MEMORY SWAMPS
APRIL Yvette Thompson works very hard in "Liberty City," the new solo piece she's co-written with Jessica Blank ("The Exonerated"). But the audience works even harder. Watching this talented performer...
UPTOWN UPSTAGED
OH, for the Jets and Sharks of yesterday - the Annie in "Annie Get Your Gun," or even the Annie of "Annie." Oh, for a few people being real, nasty...
NEW KID ON THE LOX
THE question "What is Sanjaya doing these days?" has been answered. He's on Long Island performing at a bat mitzvah. And the former "American Idol" wannabe wasn't just the hired...
UNCOMMON 'LAW'
IF any lawyer ever did even a third of the things that Eliza beth Canterbury does on "Canterbury's Law," the outrageous Denis Leary/Jim Serpico show that premieres tonight, she'd be...
WB SECOND LIFE ON WEB
NOSTALGIC for the old WB? Plans are underway to resurrect the golden age of the now-defunct youth network online. Episodes of "Gilmore Girls" and "Everwood" would be available immediately. Officials...
OPRAH: SORRY FOR WEB FLOP
OPRAH says she was "deeply disappointed" that her first, live webcast was a technical disaster. In an email sent over the weekend to hundreds of thousands of fans who signed...
MOTLEY ROCKER TAKES IN 'RENTS
FORMER Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil - who revived his career with a memorable stint on the reality show "Surreal World" - is working on an unusual reality show...
COMEBACK!
KATHIE Lee Gifford - who is deep in talks to return to morning TV on the "Today" Show - is on the verge of a storybook, showbusiness comeback. While neither...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: O'Hair sinks Cink Sean O'Hair took advantage of a stunning collapse by Stewart Cink to win the PODS Championship, closing with a 2-under 69 yesterday in Palm Harbor, Fla.,...
PYRO POURING IT ON
The bandwagon of Pyro maniacs was already overloaded after the son of Pulpit exploded from last to first through the final furlong to win the Feb. 9 Risen Star Stakes...
CURTIS COACH RETIRES
Fred Olivieri won his fourth PSAL football title this season and last week decided to go out on top. The Curtis head coach, who has been at the Staten Island...
BEST OF THE BEST
Roger Federer is coming off rare back-to-back losses, and acknowledged last week that he'd been suffering from mononucleosis. What better way for the greatest player in the world to get...
'CUSE, 'NOVA ON BUBBLE
Before March Madness, we have Manhattan Madness. The 2008 Big East Conference Tournament begins Wednesday in the Garden, and no two teams have more at stake than Syracuse and Villanova....
KNIGHTS WIN CHSAA TITLE
Paul Gilvary was a student at Holy Cross the last time the Knights played for the CHSAA city title, when they lost to Mater Christi in 1978. He didn't know...
YEAR TO FORGET
Believe it or not there actually has been a definable high point of the Isiah Thomas coaching era with the Knicks. One year later, Knicks fans can only weep in...
CURRY COULD HAVE RIGHT KNEE SURGERY
The Knicks are hopeful Eddy Curry's season isn't finished, but will not know until later in the week. An MRI examination performed yesterday on Curry's right knee revealed a small...
VALENTIN'S DAY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Jose Valentin couldn't have picked a better time to be ahead of schedule. Taking advantage of the relentless injuries plaguing the Mets this spring, the 38-year-old...
RED SOX NATION INVADES TRADITION FIELD
PORT ST. LUCIE - Hank Steinbrenner might scoff, but Red Sox Nation is very much a reality. Just ask the Mets, who could draw the largest home crowd for a...
CONFIDENCE MAN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Rick Peterson sensed John Maine was fighting his confidence, yet again, and so he sat Maine down in the Budweiser Hot Seat. No, really, this is...
TRAGIC NO. 20 FOR REELING NETS
HOUSTON - The tragic number for the Nets' playoff elimination is 20. Any combination of Nets' losses and Atlanta victories equaling 20 puts the Nets back into the realm of...
AVERY LEAVES FANS ALL WET
Sean Avery, apparently angered by a second-period penalty call against him during the Rangers' 1-0 shootout victory over the Bruins yesterday at Madison Square Garden, hurled two water bottles from...
DAWES BREAKS ICE
Another day, another Nigel Dawes' shootout goal, another victory for the Rangers. Oh, and another game in which Jaromir Jagr did not score. It's odd, isn't it, how the Captain's...
BLUESHIRTS HOPE THIS IS START OF LUNDQVIST'S RUN
HENRIK Lundqvist played despite a sore throat, apparently unrelated to the number of goals he has given up lately, but it didn't seem to motivate the Rangers early in the...
MATSUI HITLESS IN DEBUT
FORT MYERS - The boxscore shows Hideki Matsui went hitless in his first three at-bats since last October. However, the numbers don't tell the entire story of Matsui's spring training...
BAD BLOOD ZIMMER-ING
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The bad blood continued to flow between the Yankees and Rays yesterday. Joe Girardi repeated the Rays were wrong when Elliot Johnson fractured Francisco Cervelli's right...
HUGHES LOOKING LIKE ACE
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Until further notice, Chien-Ming Wang and Andy Pettitte are running one-two in the Yankees' rotation. However, they aren't so far ahead of Phil Hughes they can't...
JOE'S FIRE ENCOURAGING
TAMPA - Joe Girardi has really shown me something. He criticized the Rays and their manager Joe Maddon for the spring training body block of young catcher Francisco Cervelli on...
VET PRANKSTERS HIT ROOKIE HARD
TAMPA - The clubhouse pranks for the Yankees have picked up this spring, and last year's No. 1 pick Andrew Brackman, who is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, has been...
JUSTICE FROM ON HIGH
Common sense floated down from New York's state Appellate Division last week. The court reinstated an indictment against Jeb Corliss, the moron who tried to parachute from the top of...
AL FRANKEN, HYPOCRITE
Being a liberal means that the rules apply - to everyone else. Consider one Al Franken, author, erstwhile "Saturday Night Live" writer/performer and Air America host. After decades in New...
HILL'S SCHEME MACHINE
With the two Democratic presidential candidates seemingly poised for a duel to the death, and one of the two being Sen. Hillary Clinton, you can be sure of one thing:...
DELEGATE DEBACLE
IN the summer of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Demo cratic Party challenged the Democratic Party to replace Mississippi's all-white, anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention with a mostly...
SOUTH ASIA: CAULDRON OF CHAOS
THE next occupant of the White House better have an iron grip on the na tional-security challenges facing the United States in the geopolitical hotbed of South Asia well before...
NY'S BUDGET BLUES
WITH a stagnant, if not re cessionary, national econ omy, many states are having trouble making ends meet. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports that at least 25...
NJ: HIGH PRICE FOR ROTTEN GOV'T
WHEN New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine an nounced his slim med- down budget recently, he said that the state could no longer afford the government that it now has. What...
AT BAT FOR A CHEAT: WEINER SHOULD BUNT OUT
Is Rep. Anthony Weiner telling us that it is alright to lie to Congress ("Weiner: Clemens Probe Foul," March 6)? He wants the criminal probe on Roger Clemens dropped, but...
NECK-AND-NECK TILL THE END
Holding out for the distinct possibility of a seriously divided and hobbled Democratic Party going into the November election may buy our troubled republic some time ("Bedeviled by Deadlock," Editorial,...
START ME UP: STONES CONSIDER BIZ OPTIONS
If the Rolling Stones ultimately decide to leave longtime home EMI, they'll be taking their lucrative post-1971 catalog with them. With speculation heating up that the legendary rockers may jump...
TEST OF LIBERTY
Other than the occasional visit to the set of "Law & Order," Barry Diller isn't one to step into a courtroom - but that all changes this week when the...
DEATH REARS ITS PROFITABLE HEAD FOR CELEB MAGS
Death seemed to be a bigger seller than births last year in the magazine world. But it seems not every death warranted big cover play. Media Industry Newsletter, in its...
SEASON SIGNALS
Don't tell the Dolans - the owners of the Knicks and the Rangers - but it's downtime for most New York sports fans when Media City likes to check in...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. No One, Alicia Keys 2. Cyclone, Baby Bash 3. With You, Chris Brown 4. Low, Flo Rida 5. Sweetest Girl, Wyclef Jean 6. Apologize, OneRepublic 7....
Kingdom Come (finally!)
The looming contract. The health of his father. The new look team. The young defenseman. The underachieving talent forcing the goalieâs underachievement.Henrik Lundqvist celebrates after his ninth shutout of the...