March 17, 2008

Kate Moss for Topshop: Take Five

You can get the Native American and Aztec-inspired collection tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at Topshop.

Scene: Karen Millen

At the opening of the Karen Millen US flagship boutique in Soho, Tatianna Yeh wears a cool, asymmetrical vest by Karen Millen with a slim pencil skirt."I'm a T-shirt and...

3 DOWN: Matsui, Beckett and Mulvey

1. A person close to Hideki Matsui told me something interesting a few weeks ago. This person said that Matsui does not see injuries and time on the DL as...

Botkier for Target

This just in from our friends at Target:Designer Monica Botkier Partners with Target for Limited-Edition Handbag Collection, Botkier for Target®MINNEAPOLIS (March 2008) Target is partnering with renowned accessories designer Monica...

Deal of the Day-Calvin Klein

A simple retro bag like this Calvin Klein Luxe Nappa Flight Bag brings a lot of utility for every day.Take the leather number on a spring shopping spree or as...

Scene: Karen Millen

At the opening of the Karen Millen US flagship boutique in Soho, Marylou Burkhardt wears a cute DDC Lab dress over a vintage top.Marylou describes her look as, "Romantic, flirty...

Spring accessories: A shoe-stravaganza!

Shop today's high end heelsGo behind the scenes to sneak a peak at the shoes, including an $11K pair of crystal-studded stilettos.Stay tuned:Tomorrow: $100 to $300Wednesday: Under $100

MCGREEVEY AIDE: DINA'S IN DENIAL

A one-time driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey declared today that Dina Matos McGreevey is still in denial after she blasted as false his claims that...

STATEMENT BY FORMER MCGREEVEY AIDE

This is the statement today from former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey's former driver and aide Teddy Pedersen after Dina Matos McGreevey denied Pedersen's claims that they had engaged in...

Kristy Joe 'Rocks' The 'Love' Boat

As we open this week after a hiatus that seemed far too long, the girls are working out so they are in primo shape to make “awesome” and “spiritual” connections...

SAN DOMENICO TO CLOSE IN JUNE

In a shock to the city's restaurant-lovers, high-end Central Park South Italian eatery San Domenico will close its doors at the end of June, owner Tony May said this morning....

Tribeca: Yet More Titles

The Tribeca Film Festival has released another long list of titles for this year's fest that includes several Sundance faves that will be released theatrically in short order ("Baghead,'' "The...

SPORTS SITES SCORING BIG WITH MARCH MADNE$$

With millions of people obsessed with picking the winners of the NCAA men's hoops tournament, sports sites that offer bracket games and contests are winning with advertisers and audiences. March...

Starr Report: Dinner & Dinnersteins

Donny Osmond Six Degrees of Donny Osmond, who'll co-host the "Miss USA Pageant" with sister Marie Osmond (April 11/NBC). Donny's currently co-anchoring "The Insider," subbing for rehabbing Pat O'Brien, who...

Sweet Anxiety

There is definitely something sports fans love about being wrenched back and forth by their team. While most fans love a winner, I think it's safe to say that every...

3 UP: Pedro, Lackey, Enough Pitching

1. Pedro Martinez is kind of having the Michael Strahan training camp. He is not absent completely like Strahan was. But Martinez certainly is going at a pace comfortable to...

CHECKING IN: Wearin' o' the glam

At this time of year, when it's all shamrock-this and cabbage-that, I am reminded of much traveling in Ireland has changed in recent years. No more treacherous B&B with Old...

NYERS GET $HOCKED

Con Ed's residential customers in New York City and Westchester pay 63 percent more for electricity than people who live just 60 miles north of Manhattan - a difference of...

'SEX' TRADE: SHOW'S STARS CASH IN

"Sex" sells - just ask the four "Sex and the City" stars who have become multimillionaires, thanks partly to hefty endorsement deals inked after the show ended. Sarah Jessica Parker,...

BEHIND SITE'S UNLUCKY 13 VIOLATIONS

Excessive debris, unsafe materials storage and inadequate roof protection were among the serious safety violations city officials brushed off yesterday while discussing the horrific crane accident that killed four people....

TRAGEDY SHOCKWAVES

Three families of missing victims waited, their hopes dwindling by the hour last night, while relatives and friends of four construction workers killed in the massive East Side crane collapse...

I WAS MCG AND WIFE'S THREE-WAY SEX STUD: EX-DRIVER

A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay -...

'CLASS PASS' FIGHT

A bitter fight is expected tonight when the Panel for Education Policy votes on whether to hold back eighth-graders who don't meet promotion standards. Few believe the panel - which...

JENNY BACK ON THE BLOCK

Jenny From the Block is back out on the town! Jennifer Lopez strolls hand in hand with hubby Marc Anthony outside Radio City Music Hall in this first photo of...

SICK PATAKI YES, SICKO SPITZER NO

Eliot Spitzer will not be at the state Capitol today when he turns over the reins to David Paterson - but the former governor whom Spitzer gratuitously insulted during his...

'HEALER' REPLACES HEEL

ALBANY - David Paterson will offer a "healing tone" when he becomes New York's 55th governor today, a week after a sensational call-girl scandal forced predecessor Eliot Spitzer from office,...

DAVID PEEVED BY PALS HE DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD

ALBANY - New York's new governor is furious that a bevy of would-be influence peddlers have come out of the woodwork claiming to have special access to him, The Post...

SEX POL'S PLEA DEAL SLAMMED

The woman who claimed City Councilman Dennis Gallagher raped her now says the politician is getting a slap on the wrist with a no-jail plea deal that will force him...

MAN STRUCK BY COP CAR DIES

A 63-year-old Brooklyn man was struck and killed by a police car responding to a radio call for backup from other cops, police said yesterday. Khalid Hussain was crossing Coney...

CSI TEAM UP NEXT FOR DA AT BELL COPS' TRIAL

Prosecutors in the Sean Bell police shooting trial hope to get their case down to a science today. NYPD crime-scene Detective Ed Dingman, who used laser technology to track the...

A PARADE WITHOUT POLS

There will be a shortage at today's St. Patrick's Day Parade - of politicians. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers will march 42 blocks up Fifth Avenue today in the...

RISING FROM THE PIT

The reborn World Trade Center will begin rising above street level this spring - when the Freedom Tower's steel frame emerges from its 80-foot-deep construction pit, officials say. The tower...

NY AWAITS BRUTAL 'COKE KING'

One of the world's most ruthless drug lords faces extradition to New York on charges he ran a murderous ring that exported $10 billion worth of cocaine here. Brazil's Supreme...

CALM BEFORE A CATASTROPHE

Crane operator Wayne Bleidner seems to have everything under control in this photo taken less than an hour before disaster struck. But on a spring-like day under ideal work conditions,...

'HORTON' PUTS HURTIN' ON RIVALS

"Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" - which features the voices of funnymen Jim Carrey and Steve Carell - trampled the competition and easily soared to the top of the...

MCCAIN WOOS JEWS WITH VISIT TO ISRAEL

John McCain is vowing a fight to win over Jewish voters, and even hopes to break Ronald Reagan's record Jewish support for a GOP candidate. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee...

HOLY TERROR

Insiders with Barack Obama's presidential campaign acknowledged yesterday that they have been worried for more than a year about the damage his lightning rod of a spiritual adviser would inflict...

HALLE-LUJAH! A BABY GIRL

Barrier-breaking, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has a new title: Mom. The Hollywood star yesterday gave birth to a baby girl. "Everyone is doing great!" her ecstatic rep told Usmagazine.com. The...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Brooklyn Cops are asking for the public's help in finding find this thief who robbed two banks within a half-hour in Brooklyn and Queens. The robber approached a teller at...

MAN OF THE PEOPLE JUST WHAT NY NEEDS

DAVID PATERSON - who succeeds the dis graced Eliot Spitzer today - is an old-style, back-slapping politician whose common-man touch may make him the greatest governor since the best of...

ADS TURN TV INTO AN 'EWW'TUBE

IT'S enough to make me take up smoking again. You see the ads every morning on NY1, airing as regularly as a cigarette addict needs a fix. The anti-tobacco ads...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 357; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4377; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 925; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 9657;...

PATERSON'S OPPORTUNITY

David A. Paterson becomes the Empire State's 55th governor this afternoon. New Yorkers of good will wish him luck - and he's going to need it. For Paterson assumes office...

SOME NON-ELIOT SLEAZE

Eliot Spitzer's humiliation has domi nated headlines lately, but the resig nation of Client 9 isn't the only Albany-based corruption story in the news. Last Thursday, jurors at the opening...

IRAN'S ISLAMIC OUTRAGE

LAST Friday's election in Iran - like every vote there since the 1979 revo lution - violated fundamental Islamic principles. But, then, so does the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran...

DEMS' RACIAL DIVIDE

GERALDINE Ferraro often has seemed puzzled during nearly 24 years since she was thrust from obscurity as a congresswoman from Queens to become the first woman nominated for vice president...

THE EDUCATION GOV?

GOV. David A. Paterson's address to a joint session of the Legislature today may be the most important gubernatorial speech since Gov. Hugh Carey's "the days of wine and roses...

ENABLING ELIOT'S ILLUSION

LIKE every New Yorker, I was amazed by the events that cul minated in Eliot Spitzer's resig nation as governor - saddened for his family and shocked to see a...

DEM PRIMARY WOES: MUD, SLIME & NO ISSUES

Is there any self-respect in politics anymore ("Delegate Debacle," Kirsten Powers, PostOpinion, March 10)? Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton need to talk about the issues. Politicians tend to...

JPMORGAN BAGS WOUNDED BEAR

Bear Stearns, which was brought to the edge of bankruptcy last week, will be consumed by JPMorgan Chase in a fire sale that federal officials hope will prevent further damage...

CME TO BUY NYMEX FOR $9.5B

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is expected to announce today a $9.5 billion deal to buy the New York Mercantile Exchange in a move that will make the Windy City a...

SURVIVING THE SLUMP

Markets are slumping, and worried investors are battening down their hatches. But don't cash out just yet, Media City has a line on who's got the best advice for investors...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

All that Southern exposure could cost students in Florida. The state Senate recently said wearing low-riding pants and exposing one's underwear should merit a suspension from school. The House must...

GO TO GREG

Q I recently graduated from art school with a design degree. I took an internship at a small publishing company, and they hired me full time. They are the nicest...

EVERYONE IN THE POOL

THIS morning is an extra-busy one in workplaces across the city, with office workers everywhere hunched over their desks, feverishly tending to statistics and spreadsheets. And it's not because annual...

IN THE DEEP END

an office pool with a measly $5 buy-in might be a big event where you work. But on Wall Street, where tossing around huge sums on risky propositions is a...

CASH OFFERS

John Kominetz left a downtown job interview last month feeling rather unimpressed. In fact, the highly sought-after software engineer felt like the company he met with should have compensated him...

A CUT FROM ABOVE

On a recent Sunday, Brooklyn pastor Victor Carrillo stood by the door of his modest church near the Gowanus Canal and welcomed his flock as it trickled in for an...

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?

What does a high school guidance counselor do all day? High school guidance counselors advise students on planning and choosing coursework, and assist with career and college planning, which might...

PIZZA JUSTIN-STYLE

We continue our series on healthy kids eats with a treat created by teen chef Justin Miller that no kid, or adult, can resist. WHEN you think of a favorite...

CITY OPERA'S 'BUTTERFLY' FLIES HIGH

MARK Lamos' pervasively intelligent and persuasively atmospheric staging of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," now almost a venerable 10 years old, remains a secure delight in New York City Opera's stable. I...

DRAMA MEETS THE MINIVAN

THE play's the thing - but the mimosas, massage chairs and merch aren't bad, either. Welcome to "Secrets of a Soccer Mom," which has the only lobby in town that...

HEEL OF FORTUNE!

- Jonathan Kelsey metallic heel, $725 at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave. - Chanel striped platform, $875 at Saks Fifth Avenue - Hero star sandal, $1,090 at Yves Saint...

PULSE SALES

eDressMe PENTHOUSE BOUTIQUE 325 W. 38th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (212) 239-6505 Sale: until March 20. Mon-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Highlights include a Jill Stuart ruched hem sleeveless...

NOT QUITE DRUNK ENOUGH

CARYL Churchill's "Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?" lasts for all of 45 minutes, but you're not likely to go away eager to see more. This highly elliptical work...

STARR REPORT

Dinner & Dinnersteins Each year, Robin Quivers and her pals select a fledgling charity for which they host an event to raise money. This year, Robin and her commit tee,...

HOMEROOM HEROINES

WHATEVER happened to the idea of keeping some things private? Take tonight's episode of "High School Confidential," the second installment of the WE channel's eight-part documentary-style examination of life in...

ODDS STILL ON 'IDOL' DAVID

LAS Vegas bookmakers are shaking up the odds this week after a topsy-turvey week of unopredictable performances on "American Idol." After forgetting some lyrics in last week's competition, odds-on favorite...

'TIES' TO 'DH'

'FAMILY Ties" star Justine Bateman is going on to play a kooky artist on "Desperate Housewives" for a few episodes. She moves in with Gabby and Carlos, according to the...

IMAGINE THAT R2D2 RAN THE BADA BING

'STAR Wars" creator George Lucas is reportedly at work on a new, live-action TV series with the tantalizing description: "Deadwood" meets "The Sopranos" in outer space. It will be part...

ROLL THE DICE

If prior to the start of this unpredictable college basketball season you had wagered $10,000 on Wisconsin, which lost stars Alando Tucker to the NBA Draft and Kammron Taylor to...

EAST BREAKDOWN

Here is the packing list for the North Carolina team manager: One toiletries kit. One change of underwear. As many tickets as possible. No team has an easier road to...

MIDWEST BREAKDOWN

If Kansas coach Billy Self seems a bit weary, you'll have to forgive him. The guy has been hauling an 800-pound gorilla around for the last five years since arriving...

SOUTH BREAKDOWN

How can a team lose the battle and win the war? Ask the Texas Longhorns. They lost the Big 12 title game to Kansas yesterday, by far the best conference...

WEST BREAKDOWN

If you believe in karma, this must be the year UCLA returns to glory. The legendary John Wooden, the man who set the NCAA Championship bar so high no coach...

LOVING LAS VEGAS

They all become Cameron Crazies when March Madness tips off inside the sports books of Las Vegas. When the Big Dance opens, from Thursday afternoon until Sunday evening, there will...

SPORTS SHORTS

AUTOS: Hamilton romps Lewis Hamilton, last year's Formula One runner-up, never was seriously threatened in winning an accident-filled Australian Grand Prix to open the season yesterday in Melbourne. The McLaren...

WAR PASS IS A GONER THIS WEEK

Those comparisons to Seattle Slew and Affirmed were obviously premature. Faster than you can say "Eliot Spitzer," 2-year-old champ War Pass nosedived from steamroller to steamrolled. Going into the gate...

'PRO' BALLER

After one especially strong drive to the basket by Lance Stephenson yesterday, Tiny Morton shouted repeatedly to no one in particular, "Pro! Pro!" Unfortunately for Boys & Girls and the...

BLAZIN' THE WAY TO GLORY

One day a PSAL girls team other than Bergtraum will win a city title. Ed Grezinsky's exhortations on the sidelines won't be enough and his players will be outdone by...

GARDEN OF INEQUITY

THERE was a celebration of basketball all over the place yesterday. Colleges were crowning their conference champions and accepting bids to the NCAA Tournament. Black Magic, a splendid documentary profiling...

TIGER DOES IT!

ORLANDO, Fla. - This time there was no signature right-handed fist pump. There was a furious upper-cutting double fist pump. That came after Tiger Woods spiked his cap into the...

HAT'S OFF

ORLANDO, Fla. - Don't take this for granted. Enjoy every millisecond of what you're watching right now with Tiger Woods. Enjoy it because you're fortunate enough to be alive and...

ISLES AWAIT OKPOSO

This Islanders season has turned into a forgettable one, as they have dropped out of playoff contention with five straight losses. So now the team is looking to the future...

JETS ADD FRANKS

The Jets continued their offseason renovation by adding former Packers TE Bubba Franks, a No. 1 pick in 2000 who has been an afterthought over the past three seasons. Franks,...

KNICKS GO BOTTOM UP

Jim Dolan was in his baseline seat, watching his sorry Knicks strengthen their lottery position with a 109-98 loss to the Hawks last night at the Garden. At 19-47, their...

PEDRO DELIVERS

PORT ST. LUCIE - Pedro Martinez made such a dazzling spring debut yesterday, he left Mets GM Omar Minaya raving about the performance. Minaya was particularly impressed by a sequence...

MRI FOR CASTRO TODAY

PORT ST. LUCIE - Ramon Castro is slated for an MRI today that will determine how bad his right hamstring is injured. The backup catcher's hamstring had kept him out...

NETS LOOK TO KEEP MOMENTUM GOING

Forget the Rockets. The most improbable winning streak in the NBA this season is the Nets' two-game run since returning from their five-city swoon. That's an exaggeration, but highlights for...

RANGERS FIGHT FOR PLAYOFF LIVES

Throughout the Rangers' record-setting mark of 13 straight games gaining a point, they insisted they weren't playing great hockey. After the debacle that was this weekend's Florida getaway - where...

DUNCAN, CABRERA MAKE APPEALING DECISION

TAMPA - Shelley Duncan and Melky Cabrera are going to appeal their three-game suspensions handed out for their involvement in last Wednesday's incident against the Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla....

LEYRITZ MAKES AWKWARD VISIT

TAMPA - The Yankees opened their doors to a humbled Jim Leyritz yesterday and provided the former player who is facing DUI manslaughter charges in Fort Lauderdale a chance to...

BOMBERS LETTING REPUTATION SLIDE

TAMPA - The Yankees this spring are quite obviously not concerned about appearances. On Thursday, a comedian named Billy Crystal was allowed to get an at-bat for the team in...

BANK GETS BEAR STEARNS

Bear Stearns, which was brought to the edge of bankruptcy last week, will be consumed by JPMorgan Chase in a deal that federal officials hope will prevent further damage to...