December 28, 2008
Box Office Oscar Watch: Leo and Kate Are King and Queen of the World Again, At Least For One Weekend
"Revolutionary Road,'' which seemed to be losing momentum in the Oscar race, got the attention of the academy -- most of whose ballots will arrive in the mail tomorrow --...
Clint Dempsey guts Chelsea
By BRIAN LEWISThe Deuce is Back. And Clint Dempsey showed it with today's brace against Chelsea, including a last-minute header to salvage Fulham's thrilling 2-2 tie at Craven Cottage.The U.S....
Today's Inactives
We just got the inactives for today's Jets-Dolphins showdown. David Clowney is the most interesting name on the list after two weeks of being active. The receiver had a nice...
Mets slowing down on Lowe
According to colleague Mike Puma, who is carrying the load on the Mets while I'm (technically) on vacation, the Mets are backing off somewhat on Derek Lowe unless Lowe's asking...
Talking with J.J.
While we all wait out the holiday lull, here is an interview several Mets beat writers (including myself) conducted recently with new set-up man J.J. Putz. Take a listen ...
MARBURY WANTS FINE SETTLED BEFORE DISCUSSING BUYOUT
Stephon Marbury said yesterday he won't discuss a buyout with Donnie Walsh until his fine of two games' pay - $400,000 - is settled by a league arbitrator. Walsh said...
Box Office: Win-Win for Jen, Brad
Yes, Jennifer Aniston and hit-hungry Fox won the four-day holiday weekend handily with the critically reviled "Marley and Me,'' which ended up with a stunning $51 million. But it's probably...
ISRAEL SET FOR GROUND RAID
Israel prepared for a possible ground invasion of Gaza today as its warplanes blasted a central prison and smuggling tunnels that are a major weapons pipeline for the territory's Hamas...
The Grandson Also Rises
The Mouse House keeps subidizing the show as a promotional tool for the industry, so who cares if Ben likes to pose for pictures with C-list celebrities? It's not as...
'PIG' OUT ON FISH
The John Dory 85 10th Ave.; 212-929-4948 The Spotted Pig's gnudi and Roquefort cheeseburger started a revolution of sorts, and the same will be said for chefs April Bloomfield and...
PROOF POSITIVE
WHAT eggnog is to the American holiday season, Coquito is to the Puerto Rican tradition. Made with egg yolks, spices, evaporated milk, rum and coconut pulp squeezed through a cheesecloth,...
CAPONE, 34, AND KARCHNER, 28
Oct. 18 - Katie Karchner had an abundance of "something old" at her wedding. When the graphic designer wed Gabriel Capone, a group copy supervisor, their vintage theme was present...
MCNAMARA, 26, AND RIDGE, 26
Nov. 8 - There's no place like Queens for newlyweds Elizabeth Ridge and Robert McNamara. The Queens natives paid homage to their favorite borough when they wed. After a ceremony...
SIDDALL, 28, AND KATZ, 32
Oct. 25 - Whitney Siddall and Jordan Katz know just how lucky the number seven can be. Last summer, while on vacation in Ireland, Katz proposed on July 7, 2007,...
GRAPULIN, 30, AND GEORGIOU, 29
Grapulin, 30, and Georgiou, 29 Sept. 27 - Marie Grapulin and Mike Georgiou had "I do" déjà vu on their wedding day. "We had two ceremonies!" says the bride, an...
MEET MARKET
Lounging ladies, look elsewhere! Antonio, a 37-year-old personal trainer, wants a girl who can keep up with him. Active ladies into water parks, working out and camping - this guy's...
SPARKLESS SINGLES
Susan, a 27-year-old writer and editor, was intrigued by Dave's passionate personality on paper, but things fell flat when the two met at Union Square wine bar Vintage Irving. The...
TECHNOLOGY
Hot hands Aevex Intelligent Heat gloves $259 and up; aevex.com Disposable hand warmers are fine and dandy, but there's always that heartbreaking moment when they stop working and you're left...
Q&A WITH VIGGO MORTENSEN
You have to wonder where Viggo Mortensen finds the time to act. In between gigs like the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and David Cronenberg's movies (most recently "Eastern Promises"),...
SI MOM HELD IN SON'S SLAY
A Staten Island mother was charged last night in the death of her 10-year-old son, cops said. Melissa Sekulski, 30, was arrested a day after her child, Jaquan Porter, was...
CITY PENSION NIGHTMARE
The city's five pension funds have lost close to 30 percent in the Wall Street crisis this year - threatening to hit taxpayers like an economic tsunami for years to...
QUINT-ESSENTIAL NUCLEAR FAMILY
A Staten Island couple got exactly what they wanted for Christmas: five healthy, newborn babies. Kevin and Jamie Ferrante welcomed their new bundles of joy into the world yesterday at...
A GUIDE TO NEW YEAR'S EVE IN NYC
FOUR years ago, on New Year's Eve, Patrick Hallahan took his wife to see Wilco and the Flaming Lips at Madison Square Garden for New Year's Eve. While he enjoyed...
PUNK'D
IF you've ever wondered how punk rock came alive, look no further than the pre-punk-band life of the Damned guitarist Captain Sensible. "I was living in squats," says Sensible, who...
2008'S BEST OF THE WORST
The year 2008 will be remembered as the year that Detroit melted down, Sarah Palin winked her way through discussions of complex policy issues and the value of your 401(k)...
AGENDA
Will Ferrell brings the funny; chefs turn up the heat for amateur cooks; flamenco dancers get their groove on; would-be flappers shimmy and shake; and Hank Williams is remembered. Guys...
FEAST FOR THE SENSES
CATS have an amazing sense of smell. We humans have about 5 million to 20 million olfactory cells (the cells used to detect scent), compared to a cat's 60 million...
ALL ANSWERS ARE HELD IN FAVRE'S RIGHT HAND
WELCOME to Brett Favre's last stand, and hanging on his creaking, 39-year-old right arm is only the entire season, the bold gambit to make him a Jet, his New York...
TEEN GAL CHARGED WITH TWO MURDERS
A 15-year-old girl has been busted in connection with two Bronx murders, including the savage stabbing and dismemberment of a 22-year-old man, sources said yesterday. Sharell Butler was charged Friday...
WHERE THEY JET-SET THE TABLE
It's not hyperbole to say that Le Cirque - Sirio Maccioni's celebrated 34-year-old restaurant now located on East 58th Street - is more empire than eatery, a canteen for three...
SCHOOL-BUS RIDE 'KILLED' ASTHMA KID
An ill Queens boy with a history of severe asthma attacks was sent home on a city bus by his school's nurse, only to die at a hospital less than...
KELLER WENT FROM MAIN MAN TO MILK CARTON
Dustin Keller made one of the best plays and one of the worst plays of the Jets' season. The rookie from Purdue showed what he was capable of on a...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS JEFF BEZOS Amazon chief reports his firm's best-ever holiday sales season. JONATHAN RUBINSTEIN Palm chairman gets a much-needed $100M cash injection from Bono's Elevation Partners to fund product development....
TWO DOGS & A BABY
UPPER East Sider Becky Fawcett recalls the years 2002-2004 as the most difficult of her life - and she credits her dogs with helping her through them. As she and...
JETS STILL HAVE SHOT IF THEY CAN BEAT DOLPHINS
This script would make Shakespeare jealous. Today's Jets-Dolphins game features as much drama as any of The Bard's plays. The Jets (9-6) are in the midst of another December collapse....
FAMILIARITY BREEDS SUCCESS FOR BIG BLUE
THERE haven't been enough offensive plays in a Jets game for both Thomas Jones and Leon Washington to save the season. The top-seeded Giants, on the other hand, are about...
YO, ADRIAN! VIKINGS STAR 'A HIGHLIGHT REEL'
MINNEAPOLIS - The superlatives were coming fast and furious this week as the Giants took a look on film and then offered their opinions on Vikings running back Adrian Peterson,...
PLENTY OF ISSUES TO WORK OUT BEFORE PLAYOFFS
MINNEAPOLIS - With everything they desire already wrapped up, the Giants as the No. 1 seed in the NFC today close out their regular season against a Vikings team that...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH... JERRICHO COTCHERY
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Jets wide receiver in the hours leading up to today's crucial game against the Dolphins.Q: What are the odds Brett Favre comes back?...
BRIDGE
CY the Cynic had made a trip to Wal-Mart. He walked into the club with a bag of items that included dishwashing liquid, cold medicine and cereal. "Anything labeled 'new...
SHARMAN'S GREATNESS REACHES BEYOND COURT
LOS ANGELES - At 19, in early August 1945, before meriting a USC scholarship (senior Tex Winter and Alex Hannum were teammates) . . . . . . before a...
NEW YORK FANS' SPORTS DNA DETERMINES ALL
THERE are a million wonderful quirks to being a sports fan in New York, but I've always thought one of the best is this: No two fans have the exact...
VAC'S WHACKS
Really, all Shaun Ellis did with that snowball incident last week in Seattle was mirror the entire Jets play-calling philosophy all year: He threw when he should have run. ***...
TOASTS (AND TURKEYS) OF THE TOWN
IT WAS all over for Yankee and Shea Stadiums in 2008 without the shouting, both teams missing the postseason, with the Mets even more painfully taking their failure to the...
GIANTS LED OLD GUARD INTO WINNER'S CIRCLE; PHELPS RULED THE POOL
EVERYBODY loves an underdog. Out of the cellar just once in their first 10 years, the Tampa Bay Rays used a $44 million payroll to outlast the mighty Yankees, stare...
THE RUMBLE
While the Giants and their fans were suffering through the Giants' 20-8 loss to the Cowboys two weeks ago, Osi Umenyiora was focused on something else entirely. The Giants' 2007...
PATRIOTS-BILLS VIEWER ALERT
Viewer beware: Ch. 2, today at 1 p.m., has Patriots-Bills - a biggie for Jets' fans - followed by Dolphins-Jets at 4:15. Uh-oh. By now we know what that means....
IT'S A PERFECT START FOR MLB NET
LET'S do launch. The MLB Network debuts New Year's Day with brilliance: NBC's telecast of Don Larsen's 1956 World Series perfect game (hope I didn't ruin the ending for ya!),...
NHL ECLIPSING BRIGHTEST STAR
IT IS the most unassail able offense-related re cord in NHL history, the 550 shots Phil Esposito sent on net in the 1970-71 season during which he would plant himself...
CARTER, NETS NEED OT TO TOP BOBCATS
CHARLOTTE - There could have been another game-winning shot at the buzzer for the Nets, their second in a week. There wasn't. So there could have been a fold engineered...
OFF THE MARK
* The Yankees can't seem to release themselves from the vicious cycle of overspending on players who come to New York with the sole intention of accepting the highest bid....
HERE WE GO AGAIN: KNICKS IN 'CRISIS' MODE
On the morning after their pitiful blowout loss to the Timberwolves, coach Mike D'Antoni acknowledged the Knicks are in "a crisis." MORE: Knicks Blog Carrying an 11-17 record, the Knicks...
END OF THE LINE FOR GANG GREEN VS. CHAD'S FISH
TODAYDolphins (+3) over JETS: Dolphins cop AFC East with victory. Jets win would only get 'em to January if the Pats and/or the Ravens lose. No doubt Brett Favre will...
COUNT ON TITANS & COWBOYS
Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread. TODAY Titans (-3) over COLTS: Line askew because Tony Dungy...
DEVS BREAK OUT TO FINALLY TOP LUNDQVIST
Recent Rangers domination of the Devils took another step toward becoming recent history last night. New Jersey remembered how to score just in time to beat Henrik Lundqvist for the...
RANGERS SCREAMING OUT FOR AVERY
THIS is pretty much the way it was around here before Sean Avery became a Ranger . . . the first time. This is pretty much how the Rangers played...
SPENT STORM CAN'T MATCH HURRICANES
There is not a lot of difference between the Miami and St. John's basketball teams these days. The Hurricanes and Red Storm are in the bottom tier of their respective...
ELEX BOARD 'DRUGGIE' GETS A PASS
It looks like alleged drug dealing at the Board of Elections may never be investigated. Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson has rejected a request that he look into allegations by...
ALWAYS BE PROUD, SON
It arrived in the mail one day in July 2006. Inside a plastic zip bag, a 200-page notebook filled cover-to-cover with block lettering. It was from First Sgt. Charles Monroe...
IN BOD WE TRUST
He'll soon carry the weight of the free world on his shoulders, so President-elect Barack Obama is doing some heavy lifting now - bench-pressing as much as 200 pounds at...
PIVEN WAS 'SICK' MAN ABOUT TOWN
Jeremy Piven might blame mercury poisoning from sushi for his early Broadway exit, but chasing women and partying into the wee hours can't be healthy, either. The day he called...
YANKEES' PAYROLL $QUEEZE
The New York Yankees' decision to commit more than $400 million to high-priced free agents has some fans wondering how the team can continue to bankroll its expensive roster and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island A prolific thief was busted in a string of robberies, including a Christmas Eve heist at a Carvel ice-cream shop, police said. Edward Ginocchio, 36, and a second...
MIKE $TRIKES HIKES
FOR the first time since taking office, Mayor Bloomberg won't be handing out raises to the city's nearly 13,000 managers, The Post has learned. "Given what we don't know about...
EISNER PULLS PLUG ON HIS CNBC SHOW
THERE will be no more con versations with Michael Eisner. No, The Post isn't cutting him off - Eisner's just ending his CNBC show. But unlike the recent scaling back...
BUY-BYE OFFERS EYED FOR CITY WORKERS
The Bloomberg administration is studying a buyout plan in an effort to shed costly veteran city workers, The Post has learned. City officials last week started to crunch the numbers...
CLUES FOR WEATHERING ANOTHER STREET MESS
AFTER a rough 2008, in vestors and other mere mortals are justifiably enjoying a long winter's nap. But for clues as to whether 2009 will be a more auspicious year...
SEASON OF DREAD
Next month, New Yorkers are bracing for a blizzard - of the pink-slip variety. Many of those lucky enough to make it through 2008 without getting laid off aren't exactly...
BUS DRIVER TOOK GIRL, 8, ON NIGHTMARE RIDE: SUIT
A befuddled city school-bus driver got continually lost trying to drive a young disabled Bronx girl to her Connecticut school before he caused an accident that injured her, the girl's...
LEGAL PROS GET PRIMED FOR A PAYDAY FROM MADOFF SCANDAL
Leave it to the lawyers to find a silver lining in the Bernie Madoff scandal. Just as it began to look as if the credit crunch was going to put...
FASHION'S SILK-ROAD DREAM
As the US recession stings apparel companies, a small but growing number have moved to hawk their fashions to China's burgeoning middle class. New York-based Phoebe Co. - which sells...
STORE-FRONT ROW ESCALATES INTO SUIT
As the co-founders of Steve & Barry's liquidate their twice-bankrupt chain, they are facing fresh heat from an influential New York City landlord who claims the duo misappropriated $1 million...
PEPSI'S CAFFEINE BUZZ
Pepsi wants to be the choice of a new generation - again. Hoping to revive sales of its flagship soda and recapture its youthful vibe, the cola company is ringing...
Q&A WITH CAROLINE KENNEDY
Q: What did your kids say to you about what you're doing? What were your conversations like about this?A: (Pauses) Well, I think throughout the past year - two of...
SLAY-SPREE SANTA TRICK
COVINA, Calif. - A stunned California costume-shop owner who sold mass murderer Bruce Pardo the $300 Santa suit he wore during his grisly rampage recalled yesterday the psycho's strange request...
CAROLINE: IT'S A CLAN-DO EFFORT
They're virtually unknown to New Yorkers, but the husband and children of Caroline Kennedy - the woman with one of the most famous names in American politics - are also...
MANY UNHAPPY RETURN$
In another hit to the slouching economy, the number of people returning or exchanging gifts was up 40 percent this year, according to a recent survey. "This year is the...
BERNIE MADOFF A RIPOFF 'VICTIM'
How does it feel, Bernie? Swindler extraordinaire Bernard Madoff got a taste of his own medicine last weekend when a burglar stole a $10,000 statue from his posh, $9.4 million...
COP WHO LOST SON KILLS SELF
A Queens police officer and former Marine whose 8-year-old son drowned on the Fourth of July killed himself yesterday morning, sources said. Ronald Coy, whose boy, Justin, fell into the...
LAST SEDUCTION OF THE G-MAN
She's the tall brunette in the slinky black dress, a classic femme fatale of film noir. Sitting in a bar, she has a cigarette in one hand, and the other...
2 DEAD IN CAR-LOT HEIST BID
The owner of a Brooklyn used car lot and a crook were both shot dead last night in a botched stick-up, sources said. The 35-year-old owner, whose name was withheld...
HELL FIRE RAINS ON GAZA
Israel yesterday unleashed the bloodiest attack in its nearly 60 years of conflict with the Palestinians with an aerial and missile assault that left more than 270 dead and 750...
HASID STREET FIGHT
A group of Brooklyn Hasids, furious that city transportation officials put bike lanes in a school drop-off zone, have defiantly put up their own traffic sign to detour motorists -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A California woman hit the cracker-jackpot when she found a whole lot of cheddar in a box of her favorite snack. Debra Rogoff, of Irvine, was shocked to find $10,000...
ALBANY BUDGET OFFERS NO HELP TO OUTDOOR FANS
THIS Christmas season it looks as if Scrooge has taken up residence in Albany. Hunters, anglers and outdoors enthusiasts likely will take big hits if Gov. Paterson's budget is passed....
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: 'Cuse reinstates guard Syracuse guard Eric Devendorf could be back on the court Tuesday after completing 40 hours of community service. The university issued a statement announcing Devendorf's return...
UFC 92 Results
Evans, Mir and Jackson score victories at UFC 92. By GEORGE WILLISForrest Griffin's reign as the UFC light heavyweight champion didn't last very long. He was dethroned in his first...
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTERS N,Y,C
One night in the late winter of 1968, television producer Jon Stone saw a public service announcement that changed his life - and the lives of millions of children around...
IN MY LIBRARY: ANNA NETREBKO
On her new CD, "Souvenirs," Anna Netrebko sings in 10 languages, including Yiddish and Czech. But the feisty soprano prefers to read in one - her native tongue, Russian -...
SPRAY IT LOUD!
Graffiti Lives Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground by Gregory J. Snyder NYU Press Graffiti lives! proclaims author Gregory Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti...
DON'T MISS LIST
INTERVIEW SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH., Wednesday, 9 p.m., Sundance A singer's singer: Elvis Costello may be with his peers when he has Elton John or James Taylor on his talk...
REEL GOOD
SOYLENT GREEN (1973) Tuesday, 10 p.m., TCM The year is 2022 and New York City is bursting-at-the-seams with 40,000 starving people who exist on a synthetic food substance called "Soylent...
PRIMETIME
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. In 2008, these were a few of my favorite things: * In March, a group of political commentators on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight"...
GIRLY ACTION
Men may dominate the military, but over at "NCIS" equal opportunity reigns supreme - especially when it comes to laying down the law. Which is exactly what Chilean beauty Cote...
OVER THE 'HILLS'
Once Lauren Conrad rocketed to girly-girl popularity on "The Hills," MTV realized that they had a potentially gold-spinning formula on their hands: throw a vapid fish into shark-infested waters; add...
HOWARD'S EYE
Oscar winning director Ron Howard has a unique showbiz legacy. As a boy and a young man, he grew up in front of the camera, primarily on the hit television...
NEW YEAR'S BLOWOUT
Everything else in the economy may be shrinking, but there's one thing that's getting bigger: the ball that drops on New Year's Eve. On Nov. 11, Times Square Alliance and...
LIES, DAMN LIES & STATISTICS
Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts...
WHY THEY HATE THE '50S
Oh, no. Really? Again? Ten minutes into "Revolutionary Road," director Sam Mendes delivers his nightmare vision of starched gray men suited up for corporate life sentences as they parade in...
LAND OF BROTHERS
I have three children serving in the Israel Defense Forces. I am the father of Sgt. Nathan Weinberger (almost 21), Cpl. Rebecca Ross (19 and a half), and Pvt. Ruthie...
COPS CASHING IN
Suffolk County residents have one of the heaviest property tax burdens in the state - and that, of course, translates into one of the harshest in America. So, why does...
OBAMA'S CABINET CREEP
In one of his first speeches after winning the White House, President-elect Obama committed to eliminating billions in federal bureaucratic waste. Odd, then, that his early appointments suggest a greater...
NO TIME FOR KABULSH-T
Nearly every observer of Afghanistan, from the most senior US military officers to Washington think tank analysts and everyone in between, agrees that stability in that country demands a multipronged...
LETTERS
Hanukkah Michael Starr's article about Hanukkah's absence on TV speaks volumes. "(Why No Hanukkah Shows?" Dec. 22). We say "enough" to the brain-dead TV executives. Christmas shows clog the screen,...
BLOG WATCH
A different tune "The Internet was set to reshape our music-buying ways - opening up a vast market for sellers and buyers where obscure tracks would drive sales. However a...
PRESTO! WHAT MAGIC CAN TEACH US ABOUT
It is one of the newest, unlikeliest, and most promising attempts to understand the causes, and develop the cures, for Alzheimer's, ADHD, and other diseases of and traumas to the...
REQUIRED READING
The Toyota Leaders An Executive Guide by Masaaki Sato (Verticle) Longtime Japanese auto reporter Sato, who's written books on Toyota and on Honda, concentrates on the executive suite in his...
PAYROLL $QUEEZE FOR YANKEES
The New York Yankees' decision to commit more than $400 million to high-priced free agents has some fans wondering how the team can continue to bankroll its expensive roster and...