June 12, 2009
Nash a Knick: "I'd love to! Can you work it out?''
By BRIAN LEWISFor the grassy-knoll, single-bullet conspiracy theorists among you, here is a video clip of Phoenix Suns star Steve Nash's comments on Letterman Wednesday night. At the very end...
Damon goes for eye test
By GEORGE A. KING IIIConcerned that a fluttering right eye and almost passing out while attempting to catch a fly ball Thursday night might be related to a concussion he...
Donnie denies Cabezas, coy on Gortat
By BRIAN LEWISHey, all. I know my man Berm gave you guys the heads up that I ran into Donnie Walsh today over at a pre-draft workout, but I just...
Ewing to stay with Orlando
APMagic assistant coach Patrick Ewing has signed a contract extension to remain with the club next season.A Hall of Fame center with the Knicks, Ewing has been instrumental in the...
TEX TALKS BACK ON RED SOX TWEET
Before the Yankees faced the Mets last night at the Stadium, opening the Subway Series, Mark Teixeira spoke to reporters and voiced displeasure with a comment Red Sox owner John...
After rough stint in Triple-A, Cox back to Trenton
After a rough beginning to the season with Triple-A Scarnton/Wilkes Barre, right-handed reliever J.B. Cox has found himself demoted to Double-A Trenton in the wake of trips to the disabled...
METS AT YANKEES
The Mets and Yankees start the 2009 version of the Subway Series at the new Yankee Stadium.FOLLOW GAME HERE
Ubisoft Your Shape to use Wii camera
There really is no end to the number of workout video games that game makers are putting out.The latest one is Ubisoft's Your Shape for the Wii - due this...
WRIGHT, SHEFFIELD DEFEND MANUEL
Prominent Mets David Wright and Gary Sheffield rushed to Jerry Manuel's defense today after a national report hinted at potential player dissension with the second-year manager's style. Foxsports.com national baseball...
Girardi: Penny hit A-Rod on purpose
APYankees manager Joe Girardi has accused Boston's Brad Penny of deliberately hitting Alex Rodriguez with a pitch.Rodriguez was hit in the back in the first inning Thursday night at Fenway...
KITTEN SURVIVES BEING THROWN OUT OF TRUCK
Now she's down to eight lives. An eight-week-old black and white kitten earned the name Lucky today after she was tossed out of a pickup truck on Staten Island, got...
Teixeira fires back
When I and a NY Times reporter informed Mark Teixeira about John Henry's Twitter post from Thursday night after the Yankees were swept away by the Red Sox and the...
QUEENS BAKER IN SEX ABUSE SHOCK
A pervy pita peddler admitted today to inappropriately touching a young boy who frequently bought cookies at his bakery. Isaac Ebstein, 50, owner of Queens Kosher Pita in Kew Gardens...
SENIOR PRANK GOES BAD AS STUDENTS VANDALIZE QUEENS SCHOOL
Chaos reigned at a Queens high school today when hundreds of students incited a senior prank day riot that left the halls filled with disgusting debris, halted classes and saw...
JETS RECEIVERS: FINE WITHOUT PLAXICO
Jerricho Cotchery realizes what people are saying about him and the rest of the Jets' wide receivers. * They're not talented enough. * There's no true No. 1 receiver. *...
DEALS: Fly to Barbados for $99ow
"Do you love me / do you, surfer girl?" ..... 'Cause if not, you should scram, toots -- there's plenty more of youse right down the way who might, here...
Plaxico case moving to Sept.
APDefense lawyer Benjamin Brafman said Plaxico Burress will appear in court Monday for a brief hearing. Brafman said Burress and prosecutors have yet to agree on a plea deal and...
ANDREW CUOMO SAYS DOMINICAN COLLEGE LIED ABOUT CRIME
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The New York state attorney general says a suburban college underreported campus crime for several years, putting its students at risk. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo investigated...
Buy, Buy Kim's
There's good news and bad news for film lovers in the Far West Village. First the bad: Kim's Video on Christopher Street will shut down at the end of the...
Battle of the Rexes
CBS Sports columnists Clark Judge and Mike Freeman present contrasting views on talkative Jets head coach Rex Ryan.An excerpt from Judge: "All I know is that Ryan has made the...
Out Of This World Scores
Not to dwell on "Moon," but among its other attributes is its trippy score, by Clint Mansell. Perhaps not surprising, given that this is the directorial debut of David Bowie's...
QUEENS BAKERY OWNER PLEADS GUILTY TO SEX ABUSE CHARGES
A pervy pita peddler admitted today to inappropriately touching a young boy who frequently bought cookies at his bakery. Isaac Ebstein, 50, owner of Queens Kosher Pita in Kew Gardens...
Heathcott leads Texas High past nation's top H.S. team to state title
Slade Heathcott didn't let being selected in the first round of this year's First-Year Player Draft by the New York Yankees go to his head.Instead, he led his Texas High...
Report: Favre to throw for Vikings
ESPN.com reports, "In the next few days a Minnesota Vikings trainer and a member of the team's coaching staff intend to travel to Hattiesburg, Miss., to work with retired quarterback...
No interest in Cabezas
By MARC BERMANWe were told weeks ago Mike D'Antoni has no interest in Malaga point guard Carlos Cabezas, so it's absurd his representatives keep trying to float the idea.The latest...
BABY BORN ON BUS, DAY AFTER WOMAN GAVE BIRTH ON SUBWAY PLATFORM
A baby girl was born on an MTA bus in Brooklyn this morning, the second day in a row that a New York City Transit vehicle became a makeshift maternity...
Garcia makes yet another trip to DL
Christian Garcia, like his Double-A Trenton teammate Alan Horne, might as well have no luck at all, given how bad his lucky streak has been for him over the past...
Game 59: Mets at Yankees
(UPDATED) Besieged by injuries, the Mets will be hoping for another lift from a rejuvenated Livan Hernandez tonight when he takes on Joba Chamberlain in the opener of the Subway...
NY FAMILY ARRESTED, KEPT KIDS IN SQUALOR
MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. -- Five family members kept seven children and more than a dozen animals in a Long Island house that reeked of urine and was littered with rotting...
Nieve to start, Switzer promoted
(UPDATED) The Mets tabbed right-hander Fernando Nieve to make John Maine's start Saturday at Yankee Stadium while promoting lefty Jon Switzer from Triple-A Buffalo to take Maine's spot on the...
FORMER GITMO PRISONER 'GRATEFUL' FOR BERMUDA MOVE
One of the four former Gitmo prisoners sent to Bermuda said today he is "very grateful" for the chance to live on the tiny tropical paradise. Salahidin Abdulahat, who like...
BLOOMBERG WORRIES SENATE CHAOS COULD DERAIL MAYORAL CONTROL
Mayor Bloomberg today said that his bid to retain control of city schools could face problems if the state legislature doesn't approve the measure soon. "Mayoral control of the schools...
5 Screaming 'Housewives' and a Baby
"The Real Housewives of New Jersey's" Jacqueline Laurita should lap up the good news while she still can. The housewife and her husband welcomed baby boy Nicholas Francis into the...
BLOOMBERG TO CANADIAN GEESE: 'NICE DREAMS'
Mayor Bloomberg defended the city's plan today to kill 2,000 Canada geese this summer at various spots near two Queens airports, saying they had "to do something" to make flying...
CONGRESS SENDS OBAMA BILL TO REGULATE TOBACCO
WASHINGTON -- Congress sent legislation to the White House Friday granting the federal government unprecedented authority to regulate and restrict cigarettes, the single largest cause of preventable death. President Barack...
Crowder calls off war of words
It seems Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder has called a cease fire in his verbal battle with Rex Ryan.The Miami Herald reports Crowder yesterday told reporters: ''This is over. I'm done...
David Carradine Marathon
Spike TV is honoring the memory of David Carradine with a movie marathon Saturday. Catch Carradine classics, such as "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Killer," June 13 from 2 p.m....
Report: Cubs, Rays look at Pedro
The Boston Globe reports, "a source close to Pedro Martinez indicated tonight that both the Chicago Cubs and Tampa Bay Rays have watched Martinez throw in the Dominican and both...
TENNESSEE HOTEL SUES SHARPTON OVER UNPAID BILL
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Peabody Hotel in Memphis has filed a lawsuit against the Rev. Al Sharpton's civil rights group claiming some bills from a convention last year haven't been...
PERSON INJURED AFTER GORILLA ESCAPES ZOO
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A gorilla is back in its enclosure after briefly escaping at a South Carolina zoo and injuring a worker. Multiple media outlets reported Friday that the gorilla...
COURT REFUSES TO BLOCK NEW JET ROUTES
A plan to modernize jet routes in the country's most congested airspace has cleared a key legal hurdle. A federal court in Washington has rejected a group of lawsuits challenging...
100,000 fans back Bobby V
Maybe Mets fans should have thought of this.Fans supporting Bobby Valentine have gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition seeking to keep him as manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines beyond...
McCain Takes Pro-Palin Stance
Now John McCain is the one standing by Sarah Palin. The Republican Senator agrees with the Palins that late-night host David Letterman crossed the line when joking about his former...
STEPHEN BALDWIN'S HOUSE TO BE AUCTIONED
NEW YORK -- Actor Stephen Baldwin's foreclosed Rockland County home will be publicly auctioned. The auction will be held June 24 at Rockland County Court. Baldwin and his wife Kennya...
Subway Series flashback
With the latest Subway Series starting today, lets look back at the top seven moments from the previous 66 regular-season meetings between the Mets and Yankees: 7. Dave Mlicki --...
NEW YORK: "YOU HAVE A PROBLEM "
NEW YORK -- The FBI was scrambling. Agents had intercepted information about a possible terrorist attack in Manhattan, including a diagram showing a mysterious device. The raw intelligence was relayed...
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN
NEW YORK -- The New York Philharmonic has elected a new chairman - an investment banker involved in solving global financial problems linked to the economic meltdown. Gary W. Parr,...
Juuuuuust a bit outside!
Nice of Brett Gardner to borrow Johnny Damon's arm on that throw home last night, first of all. Always fun.Anyway, I'm off to the Subway Series in a bit, but...
Starr Report: 'It's On'
Ashley Tisdale, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Michael Urie will join the previously announced Jack Black and Michael Cera as guests next week when MTV launches its new talk/ variety show, "It's...
PATRICK KENNEDY CHECKS INTO REHAB
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcoholism and addiction for much of his life, said Friday that he has checked into a medical facility for...
'CLARK ROCKEFELLER' FOUND GUILTY IN KIDNAPPING DAUGHTER
He just couldn't scam his way out of this one. The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller was found guilty today of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and sentenced to a...
ALBANY POWER STRUGGLE TO EXTEND TO NEXT WEEK
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The struggle for control of New York's Senate is likely to drag into next week. After hearing initial legal arguments, state Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara ordered...
RIVALS IN IRAN BOTH CLAIM VICTORY IN ELECTION
Both President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main reformist challenger declared victory in Iran's election Friday shortly after the polls closed. The Interior Ministry then released partial results showing hard-line Ahmadinejad...
DVD Extra: 4 More Dresslers, 7 More Silents Join Warner Archive Lineup
The tiles include George Hill's "Min and Bill'' (1931) with Wallace Beery, which lifted the veteran performer to superstardom and won her a Best Actress Oscar (her other film with...
CRESPO AND GIBSON WIN ELECTIONS
The special elections on Tuesday, June 2 sent two new Assembly members from the Bronx to Albany. The winners of the races in the 77th and 85th assembly districts will...
QAEDA STRUGGLING WITH SLUMP IN DONATIONS
The bad economy has put a real dent in al Qaeda's ability to raise cash. Plagued by money worries over the past year, al Qaeda leaders put out an appeal...
Box Office: 'Pelham' vs 'Hangover'
Some of same prognosticators who said "The Hangover'' couldn't possibly beat "Up'' last weekend -- and might end up fighting with "Land of the Lost'' for second place -- are...
PALIN: LETTERMAN OWES WOMEN AN APOLOGY
Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter. The Alaska governor appeared on NBC's "Today" show Friday, continuing...
Comparing the Pelhams (Warning! Contains SPOILERS!)
Washington plays a disgraced former MTA executive who has been busted down down to dispatcher at the Transit Authority's control center, which for Scott's purposes has been moved from its...
Coverage in The Post
The Mets aren't exactly rolling into the Subway Series on a high note after a disastrous Thursday saw them drop a 6-3 decision in 10 innings to the Phillies before...
A noisy hall with a nightly brawl
Last night I dropped by "Chicago" for my fourth visit since that musical was revived in 1996. I caught the original Encores! production with Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth, and...
KLEIN COUP LESS
Senate Democrats from the Bronx may be out of luck "" and out of funds for their districts "" because of a shocking coup that brought two renegade Democrats, one,...
LEADERS ADDRESS NON-SOLIT
Once a hot-button issue, it barely drew a dozen attendees, mostly representing the New York Department of State. On Monday, June 8, at a hearing held at Lehman High School,...
WATER LEAK CONCERNS PELHAM BAY PARK USER
Sal Grassia enjoys his morning strolls through Pelham Bay Park on his way to pick up his coffee and a newspaper. But sometimes on the way back, he feels like...
'FOXY KNOXY' TAKES STAND IN MURDER TRIAL
PERUGIA, Italy -- An American student on trial in Italy for the murder of her British roommate testified Friday for the first time, her voice sometimes shaking, and said the...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******But after the weeks they've each just endured, it is vast and stark that all...
MALAWI OKS MADONNA'S 2ND ADOPTION BIG
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Madonna can get "Mercy," Malawi's highest court ruled Friday. The court overruled a lower court, saying the pop star can adopt 3-year-old Chifundo "Mercy" James. "I am...
Drama Mama: 'Blood' Thinners
Dramatically speaking, the networks may have pretty much closed up shop for the summer, but Mama is still on the hunt for decent scripted fare up and down the dial....
EUROPE GETS NO-BROWSER WINDOWS 7
Microsoft will ship the new Windows 7 operating system in the European Union without the Internet Explorer browser, aiming to quell antitrust concerns. All versions of the software sold in...
O AXES PROBER CRITICAL OF PAL
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him...
NYPD'S '$NAP' JUDGMENT
NYPD is fighting a bill that would force traffic agents to include photographs with most parking summonses because eliminating "frivolous" tickets would hurt the city's revenue stream, City Council members...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... ANDY NORTH
Two-time U.S. Open winner and ESPN analyst Andy North talked to The Post's Justin Terranova about Tiger'sMemorial comeback, Phil dealing with hardship and how impressed he was with Bethpage in...
CHUCK A REAL JET-$ETTER
Sen. Charles Schumer spent $144,000 in taxpayer money over six months by routinely taking charter flights around the state. His travel bill trailed only the $152,000 spent by Sen. John...
GOOSE IS COOKED IN NEW AIRPORT BIRD BLITZ
Now it's war! Geese are going to need gas masks this summer, as a multi-agency task force plans to round up and euthanize 2,000 of the flying menaces around area...
SWINE FLU KILLS B'KLYN KID
An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl with a severe case of swine flu was among the three latest victims to succumb to the virus in New York -- raising the city's total...
CITY SUPERIORITY ON LINE IN SUBWAY SERIES
Darryl Strawberry never had to deal with being a second-citizen ballplayer when he was one of the centerpieces of the Mets 1986 World Series team. "That never existed. We were...
SUBWAY SERIES MATCHUPS
FIRST BASE METS: DANIEL MURPHY: Whoever the Mets start here, be it Murphy or Fernando Tatis, this is among the most lopsided matchups. With Carlos Delgado out, it's almost unfair.BOX...
MADSON CLOSES DOOR ON METS AGAIN
No Brad Lidge, no problem. For the second straight night, the Phillies entered the bottom half of extra innings in Citi Field with the lead and didn't have the option...
DELGADO'S REHAB FROM HIP SURGERY ON SCHEDULE
A healthy and pain-free Carlos Delgado spoke to reporters yesterday and said his rehab from right hip surgery last month is on schedule. Though Delgado still is expected to be...
YANKEES IN DENIAL ABOUT BIG PICTURE
BOSTON -- The Yankees need to stop talking about "the big picture" as a way to change the subject from how they have been dominated by the Red Sox. BOX...
LATE IMPLOSION LEAVES YANKEES RED SOX SERIES ONE-SIDED
BOSTON -- The Yankees insisted the Red Sox didn't rip their hearts out last night at Fenway Park with a come-from behind capper to a three-game sweep. As they packed...
BRUNEY WANTS BACK INTO BIG LEAGUE PEN
BOSTON -- After throwing 20 pitches warming up and 20 more to Angel Berroa and Ramiro Pena yesterday afternoon, Brian Bruney was ready to jump off the disabled list and...
OH, NO! '09 FEELING LIKE ' 04 FOR YANKEES
BOSTON -- In every way, the Red Sox have the mental and physical edge now over the Yankees. This was shades of the 2004 ALCS when everything started going Boston's...
LAKERS ONE WIN AWAY FROM ANOTHER TITLE
ORLANDO, Fla. -- For 24 minutes, Orlando was a little short of magnificent. But that didn't do them a whole heckuva lot of good in a 53-minute game. KNICKS BLOGDONAGHY...
KOBE TURNS TO FISHER FOR BIG SHOT
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Gee, the Lakers' final play in regulation really wasn't designed for Derek Fisher. It was supposed to go -- duh -- to Kobe Bryant, the game's premier...
SPORTS TV CHOCK FULL OF FRAUDS
IF you didn't know any better, Monday, there were moments when you'd have thought that ESPN's Chris Berman is a solid play-by-play man, letting the pictures from the Rays-Yanks speak...
CHECO'S THE MAN FOR YANKEES
Mariel Checo pitched Norman Thomas to the PSAL title at the new Yankee Stadium on Tuesday and although it's a long shot at best, he's at least got a chance...
SUBWAY DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE
FROM the air, you can see how far along the process is already, the inside of the old Yankee Stadium already looking like a ghost town, the grass already gone,...
SANCHEZ CLOSES MINICAMP IN STYLE
One day after the Jets made a significant statement in making quarterback Mark Sanchez the highest-paid player in franchise history, Sanchez left everyone wanting more. BACK PAGE: Time To Trade...
GIANTS' DIEHL SHOWING ROOKIE NICKS THE ROPES
As they walked together to complete a quick photo-shoot, David Diehl noticed that first-round draft pick Hakeem Nicks placed his helmet down on a ledge outside the Giants field house....
YANKEES-METS BATTLE FOR CITY BRAGGING RIGHTS
The Yankees and Mets just finished facing their hated archrivals -- the Red Sox and Phillies -- and for an encore, tonight they begin the Subway Series against each other....
RED WINGS: GAME 7 JUST ANOTHER GAME
DETROIT -- Nicklas Lidstrom, Chris Osgood and Kirk Maltby spread out like a perfectly shaped triangle in the Red Wings dressing room and tried to explain how Game 7 of...
CALDERON FIGHTS FOR ATTENTION
He is unbeaten in 32 fights, has defended his title 15 times and has ranked among the top 10 on most pound-for-pound lists for the last couple of years. With...
LEE GETS SHOT AT TEAM USA
Late July may be a bittersweet time for Knicks fans. Free agent David Lee may or may not be a member of the Knicks, but he will be part of...
ROY BOE'S LEGACY WILL NEVER DIE
"Google Roy Boe into the next millennium and, unfortunately, he'll be remembered as the guy who sold Julius Erving." -- Billy Melchionni OUTSIDERS have no conception how attached those of...
HONDO: REDS A CINCH
Testing 1-2 . . . Hondo's Pa. system was working perfectly yesterday as he prevailed with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to boost the bulbous bankroll to 600 purkeys. How's that sound?...
PENA PROPELS RAYS PAST ANGELS
Carlos Pena hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, and Dioner Navarro homered and had three RBIs as the Rays beat the Angels 11-1 last night in St....
'SUBWAY' RIVALRY A BATTLE OF NO. 2S
THE three-game set be tween the Mets and Yankees that opens tonight in The Bronx will popularly be known as the Subway Series, but we've got a better name for...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Mickelson trails by two In Memphis, Tenn., returning to work for the first time since disclosing last month that his wife has breast cancer, Phil Mickelson got off to...
HOMER DOOMS METS IN 10TH
It's hard to tell what is sinking the Mets' ship faster -- injuries or the Phillies. It was a combo punch last night as the mangled Mets followed a 6-3...
WANG'S ROTATION SPOT IN JEOPARDY
BOSTON -- The string attaching Chien-Ming Wang to the Yankees' rotation is very short and severely frayed. After watching a video of Wang's miserable outing Wednesday night against the Red...
WITH MAINE OUT; METS SCRAMBLE FOR STARTER
The replace-Mets again are holding open auditions, this time for the starting rotation. The latest casualty is John Maine, whom the Mets placed on the disabled list last night with...
ALABAMA FOOTBALL PLACED ON PROBATION
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The NCAA placed Alabama's football program and 15 other of the school's athletic teams on three years' probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks,...
RX FOR TODAY'S LEADERS: BACKBONE LIKE CHURCHILL
THE ISSUE: Winston Churchill's war-time image, as viewed six decades after WWII. *** Not since World War II have we seen such fierce determination in a leader to save his...
A CENTRAL BARK
In criticizing philanthropist Karen LeFrak's support of Central Park, "'Charities' Look Like Parodies," (June 7) overlooks the role private citizens play in caring for the city's greatest asset. The Central...
AIRBUS GAL'S TRAGIC TWIST
An Italian woman who missed doomed Air France Flight 447 was killed days later in a car accident, it was revealed yesterday. Johanna Ganthaler and her husband, Kurt, showed up...
JEWS' TRUE NEMESIS
EVEN before the blood was fully mopped up from Wednesday's shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the left began shouting "We told you so." Homeland Security's gumshoes, we're told,...
THE REAL ROAD TO RECOVERY
Americans living within their means: Can the nation afford it? NOTING that people "criticize me for harping on the obvious," Calvin Coolidge justified that practice by saying, "If all the...
WIFE IS HERO OF REVOLT AGAINST MULLAHS
TEHRAN -- Iran's presidential election was not supposed to be like this -- days and nights of giddy excitement and political mudslinging and anarchic scenes of a sort that the...
IRAN'S CHOICE: BALLOTS, NUKES & NUTS
THE outcome of today's presidential election in Iran may decide whether there'll be a military confrontation with Tehran. Iran's businessmen, students and urban women want change. Their candidate, Mir Hossein...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops are hunting a robber who has been preying on elderly men in the East and West Village and the Gramercy Park area. The thug has struck three times...
BUBBA LEGACY VIRGINIA REELING
Terry McAuliffe's crushing defeat in Virginia's gubernatorial primary is the latest blow to former President Bill Clinton's political legacy, still reeling from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in...
STUY HIGH 'PERV' BUST
A librarian at the city's most prestigious public high school has been arrested for inappropriately touching four students, authorities said yesterday. Christopher Asch, 56, who prosecutors said is a member...
GOV BITTEN BY HIS WATCHDOG
ALBANY -- Just when it seemed state government couldn't get more insane, Gov. Paterson's new head of the disgraced Public Integrity Commission contradicted him yesterday by saying the ethics panel...
CONRAD'S BAIL REQUEST REJECTED BY SUPREME COURT
A US Supreme Court justice refused to order bail for former Hollinger Inc. Chairman Conrad Black during the high court's review of his conviction for mail fraud and obstruction of...
NEW SUITOR SURFACES FOR GLOBE
The employee unrest at the Boston Globe isn't keeping one company from going public with its interest in the money-losing paper. Boston investment company Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. acknowledged it's...
NO BIG TRIP FOR GOOGLE
Google is canceling its annual company-wide trip and replacing it with smaller excursions for departments. The goal is for employees to get to know each other, spokesman Matt Furman. Breaking...
ASTROTOWER'S A KEEPER: BUILDER
Coney Island's biggest landowner is intent on saving one of its icons -- the Astrotower. Developer Joe Sitt yesterday said he "fell in love" with the popular, 275-foot-high attraction and...
PETS FLY FURS CLASS ON AIRLINE
It's a kitty Continental. Or a doggie Delta. A new animal airline takes flight July 14, promising to pamper "pawsengers" with extra leg room from New York to Los Angeles...
FACEBOOK TURNS EASIER PAGES
Facebook devotees seeking to give themselves more easily accessed personal pages had better be poised at their computers late tonight. At 12:01 a.m., users of the social-networking Web site will...
'DEAD SEA SCAMMER' IN DEEP
An accused Dead Sea Scrolls scammer learned yesterday he'd been indicted -- but insisted that he was just exercising his freedom of speech. Raphael Golb, 48, faces charges of identity...
DC MUSEUM KILLER: PREZ A TOOL OF JEWS
The white supremacist who gunned down a security guard in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington left behind hateful notes claiming that President Obama is being propped up by greedy,...
SEX CHANGE FOR CHER KID
Cher isn't losing a daughter -- she's gaining a son. Chastity Bono, 40, the only child of Sonny and Cher, plans to undergo surgery -- to become a man. "Chaz,...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Citi sale Citigroup raised $1 bil lion in a reopening of 8.5 percent notes due in 2019, a source said. Yahoo! CFO Yahoo! named former GE executive Tim Morse as...
3 TEENS CHARGED IN HATE-SLAY RIDE
Three more teens were charged yesterday in connection with the brutal slaying and robbery of a Chinese newspaperman in Queens last week. They allegedly went on a joyride in David...
DUBIOUS DENIAL
LAST August, the Albany County district attorney referred to my office allegations that the Commission on Public Integrity's executive director had unlawfully disclosed confidential information related to the Troopergate investigation....
LOCKUP CROONER'S TAL-MOOD MUSIC
He's the Jewish Johnny Cash. But instead of singing for a raucous crowd of inmates at Folsom Prison, as Cash famously did in 1968, Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey was...
3 YRS. FOR SLAY COP
A former NYPD cop convicted of shooting an unarmed man to death while off duty was sentenced yesterday to a maximum of three years behind bars. Rafael Lora had been...
TAKING A BATH AT OK!
RICHARD Desmond's American version of OK! magazine is underwater, losing money at the rate of half a million dollars per week. Numbers released by Company's House, the British clearinghouse for...
FINAL SALE AT FILENE'S
Filene's Basement is reopening an auction to sell itself to the highest bidder after prematurely declaring a Men's Wearhouse affiliate the winner. Filene's Basement, the discount retailer that is operating...
COLUMBIA SEX CLAIM
A former Columbia University employee says he went on a wild spending spree using school money as revenge for being molested by his male supervisor there. John Bzdil III claims...
THAT'S A LOT OF BREAD!
D'ough! A Manhattan baker has to pay his estranged wife almost $30,000 a month in alimony and child support, a court ruled yesterday. Joseph Ayoub contended that he doesn't have...
'KUNG FU' DOC: NO SUICIDE
The forensic sleuth hired by David Carradine's family said yesterday the actor didn't kill himself deliberately -- and didn't rule out foul play in the death of the "Kung Fu"...
DRAWING THE LINE
A heated debate is breaking out among Wall Street analysts over whether online videos should be available for free, and their advice is putting as much as $300 billion in...
OWN WORDS HAUNTING 'LIAR' COP
Erik Crespo ended a man's life by pulling the trigger, and may have ended a cop's career by pushing the record button. Veteran Detective Christopher Perino, who yesterday went on...
SPOTTED IN CENTRAL PARK
Three rare white spotted snow leopards have just become the hottest cats in town. The felines caused a stir yesterday when they were officially unveiled as the newest residents of...
LEWIS TICKS OFF CONGRESS AS HE REMAINS SILENT
Ken Lewis got hauled before Congress yesterday to testify whether bank regulators wrongly bullied him into swallowing a sinking Merrill Lynch, but instead he got bullied again -- this time...
BIG-SHOT INVESTORS EYEING TOXIC DEBT
With the Treasury's efforts to sell banks' toxic loans in shambles, well-heeled investors like Pacific Investment Management Co. and bank billionaire Gerald J. Ford are mulling the creation of publicly...
REPAY TARP NEXT WEEK
Banks will be able to start repaying federal bailout money on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the talks between the banks and the government. Morgan Stanley, and possibly...
TURNCOAT'S VOTE IS UP FOR GRABS
ALBANY -- Turncoat Democrat Hiram Monserrate yesterday cast doubt on the Republican-backed coalition's claim of control over the state Senate after he unexpectedly walked out and vowed to block any...
LAP-DANCE 'CANARIES'
A lineup of loose-lipped lap dancers from what cops call a $20,000-a-night Midtown brothel has put the screws to their husband-and-wife bosses. A Manhattan judge yesterday refused to toss the...
JAILED REF FOULED
Call it a fast break. Imprisoned NBA referee Tim Donaghy's knees were bashed by another prisoner who claimed to have mob ties, according to an advocacy group. Donaghy, 41, who...
KEEPING UP WITH THE SENATE
In yesterday's news from Bizarro World, Gov. Paterson's hand-picked chairman of the state Public Integrity Commission, Michael Cherkasky, reached out and stuck a thumb in his patron's eye. Paterson had...
DON'T WAIT FOR A PEDICAB TO KILL
It was only a matter of time. An out-of-control pedicab rammed a taxi Wednesday morning on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge, seriously injuring the pedicab driver and two...
FIRE SOMEBODY, MIKE
So a convicted felon behind bars after 20 years on the lam is allowed to throw two catered parties in a city lockup -- and those responsible only lose two...
CLAIM ISSUES OVER FIAT DEAL
Chrysler LLC dealers filed an appeal of the automaker's sale to Fiat SpA, seeking to ensure that they can challenge how the deal affects their claims against the bankrupt company....
IT'S DISORDER IN THE COURT
ALBANY -- Senate Democrats capped a day of legal skirmishing yesterday with a small -- and potentially short-lived -- victory, as more courtroom wrangling looms today. Yesterday, an appeals judge...
AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANS TO CUT 1,600
DALLAS -- American Airlines said that advance bookings through late summer are down from last year, and it will cut about 1,600 jobs as it reduces flights to contend with...
US ED. BOSS BOOSTS CHARTERS, LONGER HOURS
The nation's education secretary said yesterday that kids should spend more time in class as one way to eliminate the racial achievement gap. Speaking at a five-day Midtown conference of...
PRISONER PARADISE
WASHINGTON -- In a move that infuriated America's close ally Britain, four Chinese Muslim Uighurs got the ultimate upgrade in accommodations yesterday -- ditching their Guantanamo Bay prison cells and...
'PEDRO-GATE' BURGLARY
State Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. claimed yesterday that his home office was burglarized hours after he helped Republicans orchestrate a historic power grab in Albany. Espada told reporters that the...
RABBI'S 'CLUB' KEPT 'EM WELL FED & COMFY
Move over, Goodfellas. The lower Manhattan lockup known as the Tombs was like a "private club" for a group of Orthodox Jewish jailbirds, whose politically connected prison-chaplain rabbi regularly treated...
FINK INKS BIG ONE
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is officially the king of Wall Street. Fink late last night inked a deal in principal to acquire Barclays Global Investors from UK bank Barclays, which,...
HAMPTONS BIG ME$$
A former East Hampton budget director illegally used funds meant for land preservation to shore up gaping financial shortfalls, authorities said yesterday. Ted Hults, who resigned last month amid a...
LETTERMAN THIEF STEALS SHOW
A burglar stole a $50,000 handheld camera and a $15,000 lens from an office inside the Ed Sullivan Theater, home to David Letterman's "Late Show," The Post has learned. A...
PREZ EXCUSES 'HOOKY' GIRL
An apple-cheeked 10-year-old played hooky yesterday -- but got off the hook with a presidential pardon. Kennedy Corpus, a fourth-grader from Green Bay, Wis., went to a town hall-style meeting...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Love is more powerful than a jet engine. A male hummingbird trying to impress his girlfriend achieves speeds "greater than a fighter jet with its afterburners on," University of California...
3 UP: JOBA, MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND DUQUE
Yes, I am on twitter.1. Please let's not begin another round of Joba to the eighth inning talk after the eighth-inning meltdown Thursday night by the Yanks in Fenway. Unless...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
THINKIN' RICAN More Puerto Ricans live in New York City than in any other city in the world (about 800,000), so Sunday's annual Puerto Rican Day Parade is sure to...
BROADWAY
"ACCENT ON YOUTH": * There's no accent of any kind in this flat comedy starring a badly directed David Hyde Pierce. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St.; 212-239-6200....
OFF-BROADWAY
"BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?": *** Moving musical revue of the Depression era. Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd St.; 212-352-3101. Closes Sunday. "CORALINE": ** Stephin Merritt, David Greenspan, Jayne...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
EARTH, WIND AND FIRE and CHICAGO: Two horn-heavy acts that enjoyed their heyday in the '70s perform Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Madison Square Garden, Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street; 212-465-6741....
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra performs Sunday at 9 and 11 p.m. 315 W. 44th St.; 212- 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Vocalist Sophie Milman sings from her new recording, "Take...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic through Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; 212-875-5656. SOUTH STREET SEAPORT: The Brooklyn Philharmonic...
DANCE
BAM: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates its 50th anniversary with a "best of" show tonight at 7:30 p.m., tomorrow at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Howard Gilman...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece "The Rules of the Game" screens today at 7 and 9:15 p.m. 32 Second Ave., at Second Street; 212-505-5181. FILM FORUM: Robert Kenner's...
PREVIEWS
"STUNNING": A sheltered young Syrian-Jewish newlywed has a life- changing experience in Brooklyn. The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 W. 42nd St.; 212-239-6200.Opens June 18. "THE WIZ": Ashanti, LaChanze and...
RASHAD'S ARRIVAL ADDS FIERY DEPTH TO 'AUGUST'
IT'S good to be home! A year and a half after it opened on Broadway, Tracy Letts' family epic "August: Osage County" remains thrilling, theatrical nitroglycerin. Tracked over 3½ quick...
BEAN THERE, BUN THAT
THE latest of many documentaries from the Your Hamburger Will Kill You subgenre is "Food, Inc." Trading on now-familiar gross-out tactics (images of corporate slaughterhouses and chicken sheds), the movie...
REALITY CAUGHT IN A STICKY WEB
NO need to shut off your cellphone before "#9": The preshow announcement actually encourages you to tweet your way through the evening. "You have to have an online presence," insists...
CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
EDDIE Murphy, it's too late to save yourself from the bottomless pit of lame into which you have cast yourself. Did you have to drag The Beatles down there with...
SCRATCH A LUNAR SURFACE AND ODDITIES ABOUND
'MOON" is a drama about a lone astronaut, played by Sam Rockwell, stuck on the moon to mine rocks that supply Earth with most of its energy. His only companion...
STARR REPORT
Ashley Tisdale, Christo pher Mintz-Plasse and Mi chael Urie will join the pre viously announced Jack Black and Michael Cera as guests next week when MTV launches its new talk/...
PIROUETTES DANCER APPETITES
ONCE a year, the dancers at New York City Ballet run the show. It's called "Dancers' Choice," the second annual performance of which is Sunday. It boosts NYCB's Dancers' Emergency...
DIGITAL SWITCH
TODAY marks the of ficial switchover to an all-digital TV signal -- meaning that the old rabbit ears will no longer work. The switchover will occur at varying times on...
VAGUE? WE TOLD YOUSSOU
THE documentary "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" is a tribute to the Senegalese superstar singer Youssou N'Dour. It follows him on a world tour, which takes him from...
DC GETS 'REAL'
'THE Real World" is heading to Washing ton, DC. MTV announced that the 23rd season of its roommate reality series will be set in the Beltway. A house near historic...
STELLAR COSTELLO'S 'SECRET' SHOWCASE
IN a humdrum concert season, Elvis Costello was noth ing short of spectacular Wednesday at the Beacon The atre, where he showcased his just-released album "Se cret, Profane & Sugarcane."...
THAT'S 'EARL,' FOLKS!
STICK a fork in "My Name Is Earl" -- it's done. Really. Hopes that the former NBC sitcom would find a new life on cable's TBS were scotched yesterday by...
LINDSAY HEADED TO 'REHAB'?
'CELEBRITY Rehab" host Dr. Drew Pinsky wants Lindsay Lohan on his VH1 reality show. Pinsky and "Celebrity Rehab" producers have reached out to Lohan, 22, offer ing her a six-fig...
ITSY-BITSY BUDGET WOES
I ran into Julie Taymor, the director of "The Lion King," at last week's Fred Astaire Awards. She's hard at work on "Spider-Man: Turn Out the Dark," which appears regularly...
VAMP TRAMPS
IF you watched HBO's life-after-life vampire saga, "True Blood," last season only for the true explicit sex, rather than for the thrill of watching humans get ripped to bits, you...
SEX POSITIVE
THE documentary "Sex Positive" revis its the horror years of the AIDS outbreak -- and how gays themselves refused to face reality. Centered on a New York City prostitute named...
SCALP
SIX young people -- three of each sex -- get lost while hiking in the woods. (Right away you know what's going to happen.) One by one, they meet grisly...
BLAST!
LET "Blast!" be a warning about the perils of nepotism. In the documentary, director Paul Devlin follows his brother, Mark, as he and a team of fellow scientists try to...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
COMMUNITY DAY FESTIVAL: A fair on Lafayette Street between Walker and Leonard streets today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. SECOND AVENUE FAIR: On Second Avenue between 23rd and 34th...
RED SOX RALLY FOR EIGHTH STRAIGHT VS. YANKS IN '09
J.D. Drew hit an RBI single to spark an eighth-inning rally, then scored the go-ahead run on Mike Lowell's fly ball Thursday night to help the Boston Red Sox beat...
Mets put Maine on DL
From BRIAN LEWISThe Mets put John Maine on the 15-day disabled list tonight with right shoulder weakness. It will be retroactive to his last start, which was June 6 in...
IBANEZ LIFTS PHILLIES PAST METS IN 10
Raul Ibanez hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Mets 6-3 Thursday night, handing their NL East rivals...
Yankees draft West Virginia QB Pat White
With their pick in the 48th round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, the Yankees New York Yankees selected a name familiar to college football fans around the country, former...
Go Fourth With Willie
Willie Nelson's annual Fourth of July picnic in Texas, dating back to 1973, has become the stuff of legend. This year fans can stay in New York and still celebrate...