January 13, 2009
Meet New 'Idol' Judge Kara
The "Idol" addicts are salivating! Tonight is the night that the magic begins, folks. Watch the auditions on Fox at 8 pm, then check back here on Thursday to get...
Fable II DLC now available on XBL
Of all the games I've played in 2008, I have to say that Fable II is probably the one I've logged the most hours on...and I'm nowhere near done. In...
OBAMA TREASURY PICK FAILED TO PAY TAXES
President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation's economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004,...
At the circus..I mean, Knick practice
By BRIAN LEWISI show up at Knick practice today and all I see are TV cameras galore packing into the media room. All the talk is Eddy Curry this, limo...
Vieira Talks Skid Marks
After reading Meredith Vieira 's latest blog entry, we couldn't help but wonder if the tech-savvy TV host has heard of the term, TMI. "You know that carpet cleaner commercial...
'90210' Boys Work Little, Play Hard
Looks like Dustin Milligan and Michael Steger have gotten used to their Beverly Hills lifestyle.MIlligan, who plays popular jock Ethan Ward, is the current love interest of "90210's" version of...
Return of the 'Cou'-pons?
In light of the Derek Lowe signing by Atlanta today, I'm starting to think the Bernie Madoff scandal is pinching the Wilpons and their ownership of the Mets a lot...
NEW 'IDOL' JUDGE KARA ENGAGED
Along with crooning "American Idol" contestants, another sweet sound the Fox talent show's new judge will be hearing soon are wedding bells. Kara DioGuardi, who appears on the show for...
MANGINI TO TAKE JETS ASSISTANT
CLEVELAND - Browns coach Eric Mangini is expected to pick Jets quarterbacks coach Brian Daboll to run his offense in the next few days. Mangini, fired by the Jets and...
Red Bulls ink Macoumba Kandji
Lost in the news of the Red Bulls trading away Dave van den Bergh was their signing of Macoumba Kandji. The striker inked a contract with MLS and will be...
More details on Dave van den Bergh
Since I know many of you Red Bull faithful are still out on the ledge over the trading of fan favorite Dave van den Bergh...come inside! It's too cold out...
BUS DRIVER, RAPPER MURDERED OUTSIDE JAMAICA HOUSING PROJECT
A bus driver who moonlighted as an independent videographer was murdered along with one of his subjects Sunday afternoon while he was filming a music video in Jamaica, police said....
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM WINS AWARD
A transportation advocacy organization has cited New York City for its worldwide Sustainable Transport Award, praising the city for its “political will, bold leadership and citizen engagement” in planning its...
Report: Edwards likely out with Chiefs
ESPN is reporting that Scott Pioli has agreed to become the GM of the Kansas City Chiefs, which will likely end Herm Edwards tenure as the team's head coach.Pioli, the...
RAVENS ROOTING FOR REX
At least the Baltimore Ravens believe Rex Ryan would make a good head coach. In fact, they're rooting for him. "I think everyone in this building wants Rex to become...
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A coaching question
The Jets have made it clear they are interested in hiring a first-time head coach such as Rex Ryan or Steve Spagnuolo. Some have questioned whether they'd be better off...
'IT WAS LIKE HELL'
A firefighter today described in harrowing detail the frantic scene inside a Bronx building inferno as he and five comrades became hopelessly trapped by smoke and flames - forcing them...
BLOODY RAMPAGE IN QUEENS LEAVES 3 INJURED
A knife-wielding maniac who weighs over 300 pounds went on a bloody rampage in Queens, stabbing two elderly people and a young woman simply because they crossed his path, cops...
'PRISON BREAK' TO END
"Prison Break" has been sent to death row. The four year-old drama will begin airing its final six hour-long episodes on Friday, April 17, Fox President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly...
LC Breaks Up the 'Bromance'
Later, Brody takes the bros to dinner for a Mexican-style elimination that Salsa-d with surprises. Little Chris, despite bombing in the challenge, and LC's choice Alex were saved, while Boston...
YAHOO! PICKS NEW CEO: REPORT
Yahoo Inc. appears to have settled on Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive, ushering in a no-nonsense leader known for developing a clear focus - something...
From Golden Globe to "Guitar Hero"
I've never really understood the appeal, but everyone else seems to really like the Boss...including Activision. They've just announced that Bruce Springsteen will be making his videogame debut on Jan....
JUDGE NIXES CHALLENGE TO BLOOMY TERM-LIMIT CHANGE
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid for a third term, rejecting arguments that a new law allowing him to run again represents a...
Ex-Red Bull Dave van den Bergh discusses his trade request
Hey, all. I'm actualy at Knick practice following up My Man Marc Berman's work on the Eddy Curry fiasco, but wanted to take some time out to touch on some...
Call Juarez returns with blood lust
Ubisoft's announced that they're developing "Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood," a prequel to the Wild West shooter.In this one, players will go from Civil War-era Georgia all the way...
Time for lunch! Where's Dorota?
*Exasperated Sigh*I don't pretend for one minute that "Gossip Girl" is grounded in reality (as much as I sometimes wish it was, just so I could be best of frenemies...
HOWIE MANDEL LEAVES HOSPITAL, PLANS RETURN TO WORK
A publicist for Howie Mandel says he's out of the hospital and plans to return to work Wednesday. Mandel was in Toronto taping his new show "Howie Do It!" when...
Talk Show Guests: Mickey Rourke
Golden Globe comeback kid Mickey Rourke wrestles with Jay Leno tonight at 11:35 p.m. Get the complete Talk Show Guests list for today and tomorrow after the jump. TODAYERIC BRAEDEN...
YANKEES SUBPOENAED OVER STADIUM
ALBANY, N.Y. - An official says a New York Assembly committee investigating the use of millions of dollars in public funding to build the new Yankee Stadium has issued subpoenas...
Lowe set to sign with Braves
Derek Lowe won't be on the Mets this season, but he will be pitching in their new ballpark. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Lowe has agreed to a four-year,...
OBAMA PUSHING FOR $350B IN BAILOUT CASH
WASHINGTON - A week shy of taking office, President-elect Barack Obama already is putting his persuasion skills to a high-stakes test with Congress as he seeks access to the second...
CITIGROUP, MORGAN STANLEY MAY MERGE BROKERAGES
Citigroup Inc. is confirming it is talking with Morgan Stanley about combining their brokerages. The banks said in a statement Tuesday that no definitive agreement has been reached. It also...
FEDS SEARCH FOR 'CRASH' PILOT
HARPERSVILLE, Ala. -- The search for an Indiana businessman who may have tried to fake his own death in a plane crash to escape financial problems took another cinematic turn...
CLINTON VOWS 'SMART POWER' OF DIPLOMACY, DEFENSE
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she intends to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in American foreign policy, calling for a "smart power" strategy in the Middle East and implicitly...
UPDATE: And off we go
We did it! Today marks the launch of our 50 states, 50 stories series in the paper and here on nypost.com. Hop on for our tour of cheap eats on...
3 UP: THE MICHAEL YOUNG ISSUE
While continuing to fill in as a co-host on the morning show on Sirius (Channel 210)/XM (Channel 175) this week (from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Eastern through Friday for...
AS THE GLOBE TURNS
Dark knightRourke wrestles formalwear to the ground Comeback kid Mickey Rourke took home the Golden Globe for his turn in "The Wrestler," but we're giving him a gold star for...
OH NO THEY DIDN'T!
"Tina Fey and I had an agreement that if Barack Obama won, I would speak for the show from now on. Welcome to post-racial America - I am the face...
24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
1. Amanda Seyfried complains to Megan Fox she can't get "Dancing Queen" out of her head. 2. Look - it's Katie Holmes without a Scientology handler! Oh wait, that's Tom...
SLUM ENCHANTED EVENING
WHEN the Golden Globes turned Sunday into Slum-day, it became abundantly clear, Bollywood is having a moment. Bolly-who? Bollywood, the behemoth Bombay-based Indian film industry that churns out hundreds of...
KNICK GETS CALLED FOR SEX FOUL
Knick center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sexual-harassment suit yesterday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him. Stunning court...
PIVEN HAILS NEW B'WAY 'PLOW' MAN
As the plow prepares to speed down Broadway with William H. Macy, its former star, Jeremy Piven, predicted his successor will "hit it out of the park." "I know he'll...
WEINER TARGETS CITY PENSIONS
In a surprising stance for a hard-core Democrat, Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday said generous pensions for municipal employees are out of kilter with today's harsh economic reality. Weiner (D-Queens/Brooklyn), one...
SUBWAY GRADES: WE ALL RIDE THE 'C' LINE
Eight subway lines have gotten their report cards from riders - and they all scored in the C range. The lines - the 2, 4, 5, 7, B, L, M...
WEB FEAT HELPS A STRANGER
An unlucky New Year's Eve reveler is having a happy 2009 - thanks to an honest cabby and a tech-savvy stranger who used Facebook to return her lost wallet and...
DUBYA FLUBYA: BUSH 'FESSES UP TO ERRORS
It took him eight years, but President Bush is finally owning up to making mistakes. The 43rd president yesterday turned his final White House press conference into a combative yet...
GOLDEN PARACHUTE
MILTON, Fla. - An Indiana businessman whose financial-management companies were under investigation apparently bailed out of his small plane and let it crash in what may have been an elaborate...
COURT: CORZINE E-MAIL OFF LIMITS
TRENTON, NJ - E-mail between New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and his labor-leader ex-girlfriend, Carla Katz, is private, an appeals court ruled yesterday, reversing a lower-court order that they share...
'NUTS!' GEN. DEAD AT 93
Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has...
SHIFT FOR BAILOUT
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday he will fundamentally change the way the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout fund is spent, focusing some of the relief...
DEMS OK BLAGO PICK
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats accepted Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's Senate successor yesterday - eager to put the scandal-tainted standoff behind them. "He is now the senator-designate from Illinois...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Three female thugs attacked two women in a Chelsea nightclub, police sources said yesterday. Adela Diaz-Martinez, 30, Michelle Matias, 28, and Ivette Aranda, 27, clashed for unknown reasons with...
TOP STATE WATCHDOG QUITS POST
ALBANY - The chairman of the scandal-scarred state Public Integrity Commission abruptly resigned yesterday just hours after The Post disclosed that some commission members had hired criminal lawyers in the...
SHUTTING GITMO 1ST ORDER OF BIZ
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office - and perhaps his first day - to close the US military prison...
B'KLYN MAN FOUND SLAIN
A beloved postal clerk was discovered butchered in his family's Brooklyn house, police said. Donald Paccione, 56, who worked for 38 years at the Bath Beach Post Office, was found...
FIRE DEATHS PLUMMET AS FDNY RESPONSE SOARS
New York's Bravest responded to fires last year with record speed, while the city also saw a 10 percent drop in fire fatalities, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. Bloomberg and Fire...
SILENT COPS SUED
Cops are refusing to explain why a Queens 5-year-old who threw a tantrum and a 16-year-old who used a cellphone in school were hauled to psych wards for evaluation last...
WALDORF-HEIST HERO HAILS HIS NYPD BLUE ANGELS
The retired NYPD detective shot by a thief during a botched jewelry heist inside the Waldorf-Astoria was reunited yesterday with the five cops who saved his life, including one who...
'SEX-FIEND' MOVIE LURE
Several women who accused an Academy Award-winning songwriter of sexual assault said he lured them from the other side of the country with the promise of movie parts. According to...
CAROLINE WOOS KEY BX. POLS
Caroline Kennedy made the rounds from Midtown to The Bronx yesterday, meeting with representatives of key voting constituencies - Jews and Hispanics - as she pressed her "noncampaign" to be...
GIRL BEATS JAWS
A teenage girl fought off a 16-foot great white shark before escaping with a massive wound to her leg and a big chunk bitten off her surfboard. Hannah Mighall, 13,...
CHEAT GOES ON AS MADOFF MAKES FOOLS OF FEDS
SLUMBER party at Bernie's! Bernie Madoff will sleep soundly between 500 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets, secure in the knowledge that he's already gotten away with it. I want his life....
'MOB' EATERY SLAMS DOORS AND THE CITY
The owner of a popular Queens restaurant and banquet hall - identified by authorities as having mob ties - has closed down and blasted City Hall for forcing its waiters...
MANDEL SCARE
"Deal or No Deal" star Howie Mandel was reportedly hospitalized with severe chest pains late last night. The comedian and game-show host was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto,...
GOTHAM BOOKS HOARD IS SAVED
PHILADELPHIA - A literary hoard that includes works by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller has been rescued from New York's defunct Gotham Book Mart. The 220,000-item collection, including books, periodicals,...
VOGUE LOOKS LIVELY
Anna Wintour is hoping to make Vogue a bit more lively - one way or another. Amid swirling rumors that the editor of "the world's most influential fashion magazine" is...
DEFLOWER POWER
A 22-year-old woman's quest to auction off her virginity has snared hundreds of bidders, including one who says he'll pay $3.8 million to seal the deal - but only if...
BEQUEATH LEDGER: DAUGHTER GETTING HIS GLOBE
Heath Ledger's Golden Globe award is going to his biggest fan, his 3-year-old daughter, Matilda. And if his final performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" earns Ledger an...
KIDNEY BEANED
A Long Island woman yesterday struck back at the husband who wants $1.5 million for the kidney he gave her, calling him insanely jealous and "hyper-suspicious." "He was rummaging through...
HONEST, ABE KEPT THINGS SIMPLE
Taking office on the eve of Civil War, Abe Lincoln kept things simple after being sworn in as the 16th president: He lunched on mock turtle soup, corned beef and...
HE'S TEFLON BERNIE
Bernard Madoff will remain free on bail - but still under house arrest - after a judge yesterday rejected a motion to jail the accused Ponzi schemer because he recently...
M'HATTAN SLAYS AT RECORD LOW
Murder is at an all-time low in Manhattan, prosecutors said yesterday. There were 62 murders in the borough last year, four fewer than the previous year and the lowest since...
CONEY SITE TO MOANY SITE
A Web site that was created to promote Coney Island's rebirth has become the home page for "the best porn on the Net." The site, created by developer Joe Sitt...
COP IN MURDER SUICIDE
An off-duty NYPD lieutenant fatally shot his wife in their Long Island home yesterday before blowing his own brains out, police said. The grisly murder-suicide stunned neighbors on the quiet...
FEDS TO PROBE LI HATE CRIMES
Three federal agencies have opened a joint investigation into allegations of hate crimes in Long Island. The Justice Department, the FBI and the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District...
CIPRIANIS SUE IN FOOD FIGHT
The Cipriani family wants a judge to let them keep the Rainbow Room - and give them a pot of gold. Cipriani Fifth Ave. has filed suit to bar its...
GIVE CABS CREDIT: POL
A city councilman wants to put the brakes on cabbies who grow irate when passengers pay with plastic. David Weprin (D-Queens) proposed a bill he said could reduce the 5...
O TO ARRIVE IN A 'LINCOLN'
They're going to party like it's 1861! In what will be a Lincoln-themed inauguration from top to bottom, Obama won't only follow in the footsteps of the former president -...
COLD RX IS GOOD SNOOZE
WASHINGTON - People who sleep less than seven hours a night are three times as likely to catch a cold as their well-rested friends and neighbors, researchers reported yesterday. The...
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
Faced with plummeting enrollment, Catholic church officials said yesterday they'll close 11 schools in June as part of a larger overhaul of the Diocese of Brooklyn's school system. If approved...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A California man was arrested on human-trafficking charges after complaining to cops that he hadn't been paid by a youth - to whom he allegedly had sold his 14-year-old daughter...
TRUCKS DRIVEN BY FAMILY
FOR most of his life, Derek Trucks has been moving the world one slithering six- string slide at a time. The 29-year-old guitar-legend-in-the-making jammed with blues icon Buddy Guy when...
NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
HERE'S a roundup of new CD releases: Various artists, "Notorious" **** When you're resurrecting a rap icon as beloved and revered as the late Christopher Wallace, known as Notorious B.I.G....
TGI 'FRIDAY'
FOR those of you unfor tunate enough not to have DirecTV in your area, and have been deprived of seeing this whole new season of "Friday Night Lights," take heart....
REGIS' SECOND COMING
'WHO Wants to Be a Millionaire" could be returning to primetime after a five-year absence. Series executive producer Michael Davies told tvweek.com that he wants to bring the trailblazing game...
LOCAL MOTION
WNBC is prepping the launch of a new 24-hour "hyper- local" cable news channel - a grand experiment that TV stations all over town are watching with interest and more...
T.I. SERIES GETS FED'S OK
RAPPER T.I. hopes to scare his fans straight - and pocket a few extra Benjamins - by documenting his final days before incarceration in an MTV series "T.I.'s Road To...
KNICKS END ROAD TRIP WITH WIN OVER HORNETS
NEW ORLEANS - Talk about a much-needed victory. Off the court, the Knicks were involved in more embarrassing alleged shenanigans - a gay sexual harassment/discrimination lawsuit filed against center Eddy...
CARTER SURGE LEADS NETS TO OT VICTORY
Regulation contained less than 10 seconds and the Nets and Thunder were tied at 88. Brook Lopez's shot and a tap by Vince Carter already had failed. But Carter slapped...
RAVENS, STEELERS BRACE FOR SEASON'S THIRD THUD
PITTSBURGH - After staring each other down to only seven points difference in two games this season, the Ravens and Steelers look into the mirror and see their evil twin....
GRAND JURY TO LOOK INTO CLEMENS' TESTIMONY
The case against Roger Clemens has taken another step. A federal grand jury has convened to look into whether the former Yankees pitcher lied to Congress last year, according to...
GIANTS' SEASON, JACOBS-WARD TANDEM BOTH DONE TOO SOON
ALL across the room, there was a distinct sense of finality, of good-bye, like the last day of high school. Football players busily stuffed the remnants of a season into...
MANNING & MATES SAY GIVE PLAX SECOND SHOT
ELI Manning could not lift his game, could not lift his team, without Plaxico Burress. If the judicial system does not interfere with Burress, and he is lucky enough to...
TYREE: SUPER HERO TO SPECTATOR
David Tyree lived out everyone's dream as one of the heroes of the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XLII. But all the wide receiver could do this season was dream...
DUNGY: IT'S TIME TO GO
INDIANAPOLIS - Saying this was the right moment, Tony Dungy retired yesterday after seven years as coach of the Colts. "These seven years have been better than I could ever...
DERRICK BLUE OVER LIKELY FAREWELL
As somber Giants cleaned out their lockers yesterday, all were still feeling the sting of Sunday's Divisional playoff loss to Philadelphia. But for some, the sense of disappointment was mixed...
TUCK: STAY OR GO, BIG BLUE 'D' SUPPORTS SPAGS
Justin Tuck has invited his defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnuolo, to go to the Pro Bowl in Honolulu as his guest, but so far there has been no commitment. The only...
MINAYA'S 50-50 ON PEDRO'S RETURN
Heads, it's Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez or Randy Wolf. Tails, it's Pedro Martinez or some other option for the Mets' rotation. GM Omar Minaya yesterday made it a coin flip...
BLUESHIRTS, ZHERDEV TALK NEW CONTRACT
The Rangers and the agent for Nikolai Zherdev are in the preliminary stages of negotiations aimed at extending the talented 24-year-old winger's contract and thus preventing him from reaching the...
GORDON EMBRACING YOUTH
Islanders coach Scott Gordon has made it clear that the rest of this dismal season will be about the future and the development of the team's younger players. At the...
MORNING-AFTER MISERY FOR FALLEN CHAMPS
Bad day. Hard night. Worse morning after. Welcome to the land of the Giants. "Does it look I've slept at all?" guard Chris Snee asked yesterday, leaving no doubt as...
QUESTIONS LOOM FOR GM
After characterizing what just transpired as "a real good season," Giant GM Jerry Reese yesterday promised to bolster the roster in order to turn "real good" into something much better....
HENDERSON RUNS INTO HALL ON FIRST BALLOT
NOW that former Yankee Rickey Henderson is in the Hall of Fame in a leadoff role, and Red Sox slugger Jim Rice made it in his final at-bat against the...
SPAGNUOLO, RYAN FINALISTS FOR JOB
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Jets' Super Bowl III victory. They're still searching for the coach to bring them their second world title. The far-reaching search to replace...
PROBLEMS COM-POUND FOR CURRY
NEW ORLEANS - A frustrated Mike D'Antoni acknowledged weight is a factor in Eddy Curry's latest knee injury, which has thrown his comeback on indefinite hold. KNICKS BLOG Curry, whose...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Cards' TE to miss playoffs Cardinals starting tight end Stephen Spach is out for the playoffs with a torn knee ligament. Spach was injured during Saturday's 33-13 rout...
'SHAQ-OVIC' A FT HOTSHOT
LOS ANGELES - This is not a typographical error: Shaquille O'Neal honestly, undeniably, definitely has downed 12 straight at the line over the last two games and his free-throw percentage...
NYC'S OUT-OF-CONTROL LABOR COSTS
NEW York City needs and deserves an efficient, effective, fairly compensated workforce - but that compensation must take into account the ability of struggling taxpayers to pay the costs. Across...
BAM'S ECONOMIC 'FIXES': THEY'RE DEPRESSING
Barack Obama's intent to energize the economy through a stimulus package is nothing more than an impetuous quick fix ("Obama's Stimulus: Wrong Rx," J.D. Foster, PostOpinion, Jan. 9). Like a...
BLOOD SACRIFICE
WELL-MEANING Western commentators make a grave error when they insist that Islamist terrorists want to drag the Muslim world back to the seventh century. It's much worse than that. Al...
DON'T LOOK FOR QUICK RECOVERY
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said he expects the US economy to remain extraordinarily challenging in the first half of the year and that he was not expecting...
W'S MISTAKES
PRESIDENT Bush infamously couldn't or (more likely) wouldn't identify mistakes he'd made during his presidency at a 2004 press conference. In a newly self-reflective mood in his twilight hours in...
FDIC GAINS MORE POWER
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will get more authority to protect consumers against bank failures under financial-rescue legislation Congress plans to take up this week. The measure allocating the last...
CREDIT CRISIS TEACHES THE VALUE OF SAVING MONEY
JOHN Templeton is a subver sive who's trying to wreck the US economy. I say that in jest, of course, because Templeton has been dead for six months. But the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Whole Foods US antitrust regula tors battling with Whole Foods Market over its 2007 acquisi tion of former rival Wild Oats asked a judge to halt all integra tion activities....
LEWIS, BOFA FACING 4Q LOSS OF NEARLY $3.6B
Bank of America's Ken Lewis is finding there's a huge cost to being the savior of Wall Street. Lauded last year for the economy-saving purchases of both struggling Countrywide Financial...
WHAT THE SENATORS MUST ASK HILLARY
FORMER President Bill Clinton's massive finan cial ties with Arab gov ernments raise serious questions for his wife as she tries to clear Senate confirmation and become secretary of state....
SL GREEN'S DILEMMA
THE investment-sale market for office buildings is so bad - i.e., dead - that every tip and rumor about a possible deal sets off a frenzy of excitement. Maybe this...
SLUNG OUT OF ECHOSTAR
The brains behind Sling Media are leaving the television place-shifting company after butting heads with Charlie Ergen, chief of parent EchoStar Communications. Co-founders Blake and Jason Krikorian, entertainment group heads...
WB PLANS 10% CUT IN BUDGET
Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Time Warner Inc. studio that made "The Dark Knight," is asking its departments to cut their budgets by at least 10 percent, according to people in...
HOORAY FOR HUNTER!
Another day, another milestone for City University: This time, CUNY's Hunter College takes the honors - claiming eighth place in a ranking of the nation's "best value" public schools. The...
EXECUTIVE E-PRIVILEGE?
A New Jersey appeals court has swal lowed hook, line and sinker Gov. Jon Corzine's bizarre contention that he wants to keep private e-mails he exchanged with his union boss...
A CARDINAL CHOICE
The city Parks Department is looking for an official mascot, and it wants New Yorkers to propose one. May we, in all modesty, put forward our suggestion? How about Cullen...
CONDé NAST'S WACKERMANN TO OVERSEE DOMINO
Domino Publisher Beth Brenner, whose magazine has lost nearly $40 million over its 3 1/2-year life, is getting a new boss as Glamour Publisher Bill Wackermann assumes the title of...
PUT THE CAR IN REVERSE
Bill Ford boasted over the weekend that he'd only need Uncle Sam's bailout money if "the world implodes" - but a day later his executives said maybe they'll need those...
BONUS POOL IS BACK
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are looking at setting aside between $2 billion and $3 billion to keep top brokers at the wealth-management shop the two banking giants are close to...
MARKETS SLUMP ON EARNINGS
US stocks fell, extending losses from the market's worst week since November, as investors speculated Alcoa will kick off a disappointing earnings season for commodity producers and banks. Alcoa, the...
VIVENDI IS WRITING OFF HALF OF ITS NBCU STAKE
NBC Universal is the latest media company to get hit with a writedown on the value of its assets. Vivendi, the French conglomerate that owns 20 percent of NBCU, said...
GIANTS REPORT CARD
Here are the grades following the Giants' 23-11 playoff loss to the Eagles this Sunday: PHOTOS: GIANTS REPORT CARD
MPFREES
Illinois, "Are You Coming With Me?" A continuation of an ongoing story comes out in "The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe: Chapter 3," featuring this mellow, yearning tune. They're at Fontana's...
NEWS + NOTES
FIND YOUR KEYS FLY regularly between Ft. Myers and Marathon Airport in the Keys on Continental's code-share buddy Cape Air. The 9-passenger Cessna will make 3 roundtrips a day all...
HOT DEALS!
PENNSYLVANIA $149 a night at the presidential favorite Bedford Springs Resort in the Cumberland Valley - now under Omni control - Jan. 18-22. Must stay a minimum of 2 nights;...
CAPITAL GAINS
IN New York, Wall Streeters' whims make the hotspots. Washington, however, belongs to the lobbyists and the political hangers-on, and when the chief changes, the culture shifts. After eight years...
Spicy Curry sex suit
By MARC BERMANNEW ORLEANS - I'd love to rehash the unexpected victory tonight over the powerhouse Hornets, the unselfish play, each of their whopping 30 assists, David Lee's monster performance...
10 BEST: 'ONO EATS ON OAHU
Hungry and/or thirsty? Here are 10 of our favorites for eating (and drinking - don't forget drinking) on our favorite Hawaiian island. Consider this nothing more than a good jumping...
50 STATES: Hawaii
CLEARLY not a fan of travel, Thoreau once opined that one might find fulfillment as easily watching ducks on a lake as counting all the cats in Zanzibar. (Well, duh,...
KNICK SLAPPED WITH SEX-HARASS SUIT
Knicks center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sex-harassment suit Monday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him. The stunning...
Report: Mets offer Perez
The Mets seem to be getting discouraged with the pace of talks with Derek Lowe, judging by a report from the MLB Network tonight that GM Omar Minaya has offered...
IND. MAN MAY HAVE TRIED TO FAKE PLANE CRASH DEATH
MILTON, Fla. - An Indiana businessman whose financial management companies were under investigation apparently bailed out of his small plane and let it crash in what may have been an...
Shallow Grave For 'Killshot'
When we saw John Madden's "Killshot'' slotted for a Jan. 23 opening at online release calendars, we assumed that Mickey Rourke's likely Oscar nomination for "The Wrestler'' finally got the...
MARISKA HARGITAY SUFFERS COLLAPSED LUNG
"Law & Order: SVU" star Mariska Hargitay has suffered a partially collapsed lung--but will appear in all her scheduled episodes for the remainder of this season. Hargitay shot the bulk...