January 2, 2007
UPDATE: What's what
Happy New Year, y'all - today's all about Mississippi and tomorrow's all about Alabama (with a little Florida thrown in), but last week was all about New Orleans. If you...
5 THINGS: Mississippi's Gulf Coast
While it'll be a long time before the region fully bounces back, Mississippi's Gulf Coast still a great place to tool around if you're looking for an afternoon out of...
LIVEBLOG/NOLA: The Gulf Coast
New Orleans took the water, but Mississippi's Gulf Coast took the wind - just drive down Highway 90 and marvel at the emptiness. Nearly all gone. The good (historic homes),...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - ONE INVENTIVE GUY
You've seen his face on the hundred-dollar bill. That's why they're called Benjamins. Here's a quick look at the amazing life of founding father Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was born...
GYM DANDIES
IN a way, physical fitness fads seem a little superfluous, since the point is always the same: to get leaner and fitter. But restless New Yorkers are offered a stunning...
'FRIENDS' IN NEED
IT'S a dirty shame, but "Dirt," FX's new drama about the world of gossip mags premiering tonight is just a little too, well, down and dirty to actually like very...
STARR REPORT
Change in weatherJohn Elliott is replacing Audrey Puente as the weathercaster on Ch. 2's morning and noon newscasts. Elliott, who joins Ch. 2 from sister station KCBS in L.A., will...
BEWARE PHONY NY SHOWS: COMMISH
SHOWS like "Without a Trace" and "CSI: NY" are little more than name-brand knockoffs sold by street vendors, says New York City Commissioner Katherine Oliver. The head of the Mayor's...
BYE, BYE NERDIE
AMAZING what a shave and a little hair gel can do. Those over-haired dweebs are contestants in "Beauty and the Geek," the reality show that features eight brainy nerds paired...
BEWARE THE BAD TRAINER
A good - that is, qualified - personal trainer can help you build a great body, enhance your health and build self-confidence. But a bad trainer can cause more harm...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Capricorns may be conservative by nature but with Uranus, planet of the unexpected, so strong on your birthday you will surprise a few people, and maybe yourself, by how well...
CRIME MOST FOWL
A couple of birdbrained cops taught a lifelong educator a harsh lesson: It's a crime to feed sparrows on the street. Yvette Bavier, 60, said she was innocently sprinkling bits...
MTA'S NEW TOP 'TOUR'IST
New MTA boss Elliot "Lee" Sander will max out his MetroCard and E-ZPass over the next three months, riding all the subways, buses and trains, and crossing all the bridges...
SLAYS RISE 9% AS MOST CRIMES DROP, NYPD SAYS
New York City homicides in 2006 increased by 9.2 percent from the previous year, as other major crimes saw decreases across the board. There were 590 homicides in the city...
ANDY BACKS PATAKI PROBE
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday endorsed an independent review of Gov. Spitzer's last-minute decision granting unprecedented - and costly - security to ex-Gov. George Pataki. "The people of...
SPITZ IN FACE OF CORRUPTION
ALBANY - "Day One is now," Gov. Spitzer declared yesterday as he used his inaugural address to put the state's hidebound political establishment on notice that he is serious about...
A CUOMO IS BACK AT THE CAPITOL
ALBANY - For the first time in 12 years, a Cuomo will again serve at the state Capitol. Andrew Cuomo - the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo - was...
HIGH MARKS FOR B'KLYN MODEL
Theresa Collado, 11, and her younger brothers were the sort of kids Brooklyn educators had in mind when they began phasing in elementary grades at the former Intermediate School 263....
LITTLE 'MIDDLE' LEFT IN APPLE SCHOOLS
Don't look now, but the city's middle schools are disappearing. Nearly 50 of them around the five boroughs have reverted in the last three years to the grammar schools of...
'07 'TRASHES' PAST RECORDS
It's billed as the biggest party in the world, so it should be no surprise that the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is expected to produce more than 40...
CHICKEN MAN 'BURNS DOWN' RIVAL BX. EATERY
The owner of a Bronx chicken restaurant was busted yesterday for setting fire to a doughnut shop that was plucking away his customers, fire officials said. Kabeer Ahmad, 32, the...
N.J. CRASH KILLS COP & 2 GIRLS
A Brooklyn cop and his two adorable daughters died in a horrific car crash in New Jersey yesterday morning when their SUV careened out of control and hit a tree....
RUDY FACING BIZ DILEMMA
Rudy Giuliani is weighing whether he'll change his level of involvement with his consulting company - which has clients that could present potential conflicts and provide fodder for opponents -...
WEATHER IS A POLAR OPPOSITE
If these ladies look as if they're not totally enjoying their swim, it might be because Coney Island yesterday was warmer than a polar bear can bear. After the warmest...
NEW YEAR MAYHEM
The Big Apple rang in the New Year violently - at least 14 men were shot yesterday, one fatally, two were stabbed and one was beaten with a golf putter....
L.I. GAL'S AMAZIN' DOUBLE PLAY
Jennifer Lanzaro - who stared death in the eye during a risky double lung-transplant surgery - vows to travel to Florida to see her beloved Mets during spring training. "The...
FAMILY SUES CITY OVER BRONX HOSPITAL DEATH
The family of a man who died after getting hit over the head with a bottle and stabbed in the leg in a Bronx nightclub has sued the club and...
BX. GRILLING IN SALON SLAY
A Bronx man was being questioned last night in the execution-style shooting of a hair-salon owner during a robbery in Orange County, authorities said. The killer entered the Final Touch...
CITY SAVES PETS - & THEIR 'HOARDERS'
Mayor Bloomberg's health czar has launched a new crusade: saving the city's sick and dying animals, The Post has learned. City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, the man who banned smoking...
PEEPSHOW CORPSE ROB
A peepshow pickpocket was busted after robbing the body of a man who had died inside a Times Square video parlor, police sources said yesterday. It's unclear what caused 45-year-old...
'$CAM' PROBE AT F.I.T.
A top Fashion Institute of Technology accountant - who has a penchant for playing the ponies - has been placed on suspension while the school investigates claims that he's been...
POLAR BEAR CLUB DIP A PAIN IN THE NECK
A Manhattan thrill-seeker was rushed to a hospital with a neck injury after he jumped head-first into a big wave during the annual Polar Plunge at Coney Island yesterday. Mohan...
NEW YEAR'S, NEW DEARS
In a photo-finish race, a boy from Brooklyn and a girl from Chinatown tied for the title of First New Yorker of 2007. A third baby was just one second...
RAP STAR IN 'CHEAP SHOTS'
Sounds like Busta Rhymes isn't as dangerous as he says. The hip-hop star needed his bodyguards' help to beat up a limo driver who complained he hadn't been paid, the...
ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWING: ANALYSTS
The housing slump is likely to drag down the economy during much of 2007, but analysts believe the U.S. will steer clear of a recession. Economists predict lower home prices...
SADDAM TAUNTS PROBED
Iraq's government launched an investigation yesterday into how Saddam Hussein's guards taunted him on the gallows and filmed his execution. Video of the dictator's final moments is being blamed for...
'BOOZY' BRITNEY FAINTS
Hard-partying pop tart Britney Spears collapsed at a Las Vegas nightclub New Year's Day after being spied knocking back champagne cocktails - but her reps insist the exhausted star was...
NFL STAR IS BLOWN AWAY
Denver Broncos football star Darrent Williams was shot to death yesterday as he sat with friends in his Hummer limo. The New Year's day tragedy, which has shocked fans and...
NYPD BLOTTER
THE BRONX Police asked the public for help in locating Jose Antonio Ortiz, 46, who was reported missing by his family yesterday. He was last seen getting into his blue...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Mon.: 439 Midday Win-4 Mon.: 4028 Evening Numbers Mon.: 496 Evening Win-4 Mon.: 9945 Pick-10 Mon.: 2, 5, 7, 15, 16, 20, 21, 26, 32, 37,...
GOVERNOR CHANGE
New York's new governor, Eliot Spitzer, kicked off his tenure yester day with a desperately needed mes sage of hope for the state. As the rain halted just in time...
CHRIS QUINN'S CLUB TIPS
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn last week unveiled a host of recom mendations to deal with a vexing, but urgent, problem: how to make city nightlife safer for all concerned....
ELIOT'S REVOLUTION
One can only imagine what was running through George Pata ki's head yesterday afternoon as he sat in the damp and chill of an outdoors Albany afternoon in January and...
HOW SPITZER CAN HELP N.Y.C.
GOV. Spitzer resumes a New York tradition broken by upstater George Pataki: Most of the state's modern governors, from Al Smith to Thomas Dewey to Nelson Rockefeller to Mario Cuomo,...
TERROR'S SURPRISE LOSS
THE new year is off to a bad start for Muslim extremists and their admirers in the media: After only a few months in power, the Islamist regime in Mogadishu...
MISGUIDED WAR CLICHÉS
Rich Lowry's article, "Vietnam Lesson" (PostOpinion, Dec. 26), is filled with flawed assumptions. The lesson we should have learned in Vietnam is precisely the opposite of what Lowry claims. In...
GEORGE PATAKI LOOTS AGAIN
You've got to be kidding - George Pataki receives 24/7 state police protection at taxpayer expense? This is insane ("Pataki Patrol at Great Ex-Pense," The Post, Jan. 1). Pataki spent...
BLOOMIE TUNE
Over the past four years, Michael Gould, 64, the longtime chairman and chief executive of Bloomingdale's, has presided over an ambitious repositioning of the department store chain. Once considered a...
OVERSTOCK.COM LASHES OUT AT CRITICS ON WEB
Internet retailer Overstock.com's war against its critics is taking an ugly new twist, as a Web site aided and supported by its management is leveling sharp charges against two Internet...
MY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
HERE are my predictions for 2008. I know! This is '07. But since every other columnist in the world is acting wise (and is cracking wise) about 2007 I figured...
PRIME NEIGHBORHOODS OVERRUN BY BIG BANK-LEASING MADNESS
THE apartment building at 821 Park Ave. at 75th Street, currently home to one of the oddest sights in Manhattan, is for sale for $20 million. The address is a...
MAX CAM FINALLY DOES IT
Reminder: Big A is dark today and tomorrow; racing resumes Thursday. Friday marks first start for Jazil since winning last year's Belmont Stakes. Jazil is believed to be first horse...
SCHIANO STARTING KIDS FUND
Fresh off a 37-10 win over Kansas State in the Texas Bowl, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano is in the process of establishing his own charity fund to assist in the...
AULD ACQUAINTANCE
SOME are gone and have never been forgotten. Some have drifted out of sight and need to be recognized. All are lovingly remembered as we cross the threshold into 2007....
REID'EM & WEEP
HOW far will Giants and Jets go? Follow me on The Road to Super Bowl XLI. AFC Saturday CHIEFS at COLTS The last time Herm Edwards was in the playoffs,...
THIS LEAGUE LIFELESS
ATTENDANCE is waning, interest disappearing, the great winter sport becoming trivial and still, the NHL won't set up three-rival holiday tournaments in its regular season schedule. The division-leading Devils will...
CRYING WOOF
TOM Coughlin says he has no plans to go hard and heavy with the underdog theme as the Giants at 8-8 prepare to face the white-hot Eagles, deserving NFC East...
COUGHLIN STILL SAFE, FOR NOW
The purging of NFL head coaches has already begun, as Dennis Green of the Cardinals and Jim Mora of the Falcons were fired yesterday, one day after the close of...
GANG GREEN NOT SATISFIED
Now that the Jets are in the playoffs, they insist they're not just happy to be in. "We don't want just say we made it," DE Bobby Hamilton said yesterday....
'CHICK IT OUT
Welcome to Bill Belichick's worst nightmare. When, against Belichick's wishes and advice, Eric Mangini flew the Foxborough coop for the head coaching freedom in New York last January, this was...
THIS FITS THE BILL
IT HAD to be the Patriots, of course, because we haven't had a reason to re-immerse ourselves in the greatest parochial tussle in sports in a good, long while. The...
LIGHT RAIDIN'
QUARTERBACKS (( B )) Chad Pennington (22-30, 157 yards, one TD, 96.1 rating) made the plays when he needed them, managing a con servative don't-beat-yourself plan.RUNNING BACKS (( C ))...
ISIAH'S HOOP DREAMS
SACRAMENTO - The reeling Knicks will get a different ball to shoot with tonight vs. the Kings at ARCO Arena as the NBA returns to the old leather sphere. But...
FRANCIS LIMPS TO REHAB
SACRAMENTO - In another ominous sign that Steve Francis' future is bleak, the Knicks guard has left the team and headed to Houston to rehab his tendinitis-wracked right knee. The...
MONEY DELAYS UNIT TRADE
Randy Johnson has returned home from his vacation, and now he must figure out if he is going to stay in Arizona for the rest of the year. With New...
BEHIND THE VAIL
Every year about this time, the Vail Valley is transformed into the Upper West Side as New Yorkers line up at the lifts like they were at Zabar's on a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
They can't take the "truthiness" of it all at Lake Superior State University in Michigan. "Truthiness" - coined by TV host Steven Colbert to describe ideas that seem true but...