January 17, 2007
Sundancing with the devil
Through next week, Lou reports from Park City, Utah, where the lineup is the Sundance festival's most shocking ever. Included: "Black Snake Moan," where Samuel L. Jackson chains Christina Ricci...
LISTS: Why you dirty little...hotel
#10: Fort Lauderdale's Sea Club, via TripAdvisorHere's an awards ceremony you can guarantee the recipients won't show up for: Tripadvisor's readers have rated the 10 nastiest, dirtiest, filthiest hotels in...
SKI: Vermont gets snow
Finally, the Northeast ski season seems as if it might have actually begun, even if it meant having to take pleasure in other people's pain.We speak of course, of the...
STRATEGIES: Dorm life
One of the many mysteries of travel continues to be how, in the face of such astonishing exchange rates, we all still go to the United Kingdom. In fact, there's...
LIVEBLOG/BOMBAY: All about YOU
For me, the two most important things to do in Bombay are eating and shopping.And usually, I do them both simultaneously. I meticulously plan each day around comestibles and consumerism,...
LOUISIANA - THE PELICAN STATE
The state known for po boy sandwiches, Mardi Gras and jazz became our nation's 18th state on April 30, 1812. The area that would become Louisiana was settled by Native...
GREY-T!
A short two years ago, they were the glamour girls of Hollywood. On every red carpet, the "Desperate Housewives" left a wake of slack-jawed admirers. But there goes the neighborhood....
REYES OF LIGHT
A relative newcomer to the red carpet, fashion designer Brian Reyes (inset) scored the coup of the evening at the Golden Globes when "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera rocked his...
WON'T GIVE 'GREASE' A CHANCE
The TV reality show "You're the One That I Want" isn't having the wanted effect at the box office for the upcoming Broadway revival. THE only thing sliding faster in...
RACHAEL RAY'S BIG YEAR JUST GOT BIGGER
RACHAEL Ray's talk show was extended for another two years yesterday - an unusual vote of the confidence for the hot young host who has been on daytime TV for...
AMERICAN TRAGEDY
CALL it American Agony! What in hell happened to the best show on TV? If last night was any indication of what was to come, Lucy, they got some 'splainin'...
'BREAK' MEANT TO LAST ONLY 2 YRS.
WHILE the makers of "Lost" are trying to figure out how to end the show, the producers of "Prison Break" are scrambling to keep theirs going. "Prison Break" was originally...
HINTS STERN MAY MARRY
HOWARD Stern yesterday made noises like he is close to popping the question to longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky. When his pals Robin Quivers and Artie Lange brought up the subject...
GLOBES POP WITH THE PEOPLE
RATINGS for Monday's Golden Globes telecast were glowing. Just two years after the least-viewed edition of the awards show ever, the telecast drew a solid 20 million viewers. Monday's Globe...
STARR REPORT
Yes, Sree: Back at 4 Sports anchor John Disce polo has left Ch. 5 after his contract was not renewed. Discepolo, who was on the 10 p.m. newscast Monday, had...
LOOK WHO'S STALKING
ERIC Nicholas' clever "Alone With Her" makes a virtue of its microscopic budget, using consumer-quality video equipment to tell a very creepy story about a psychopathic stalker. The scary Doug...
IDOL SNARES 40 MILLION VIEWERS
"American Idol" returned with a vengeance Tuesday -- proving that TV's unstoppable franchise just keeps getting bigger. The two-hour premiere of "Idol" snared over 37 million viewers, a new "Idol"...
A TURKISH DELIGHT
TURKISH spice and Caribbean merengue on Madison Avenue, across from buttoned-down bean counters at PricewaterhouseCoopers - what multicultural miracle is this? A restaurant called Pera, the happiest culinary surprise near...
HOW TO GET A BITE ON RESTAURANT WEEK
LIKE a swallow to Capis trano, Winter Restau rant Week returns Monday. Those familiar with the biannual fest, now in its 16th year, know the $24.07 three-course prix fixe lunches...
THIS GREECE-Y KITCHEN IS OK
* Retsina115 E. 60th St., between Park and Lexington avenues;(212) 486-8826Starters: $8 to $12 Entrees: $9 to $24 (and market-priced fish) A cheerful taverna has taken over the charmingly spare...
ALONE WITH ANA
"It's a lot more difficult to bare your soul than your body," says Mexican actress Ana Claudia Talancón, who innocently exposes both in the thriller "Alone With Her," in which...
KELLY SINKS AS MIKE SOARS: POLL
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's popularity took a severe hit in the wake of the Sean Bell shooting, but Mayor Bloomberg emerged politically unscathed from the incident, according to a poll...
$1B TAX BREAK FOR BLOOMY BOOMTOWN
With revenues overflowing and the economy roaring, Mayor Bloomberg today will unveil a $1 billion tax cut, marking a stunning turnaround of the city's fortunes from the dark days of...
NET$' NAME GAME
The future Brooklyn home of the NBA's Nets will be named Barclays Center, in the most lucrative deal ever for an arena in the United States, The Post has learned....
SPITZER'S 'POTSHOT' AT BUDGET
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer and the leaders of the Legislature agreed yesterday to stop the controversial practice of funding $200 million a year in pork-barrel "member item" projects through the...
BRUNO 'STRIP TRIP' PROBED
ALBANY - The state Lobbying Commission will probe a Florida trip Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno took last year with friend and business client Jared Abbruzzese that reportedly included a...
JERSEY COPS GOT GIFT OF HOOKERS: DA
They weren't crossing the river for our doughnuts. Unnamed "members of law enforcement" from New Jersey were allegedly getting free sex from the $1,000-an-hour hookers of NY Confidential, the notorious...
BROWN-STONER'S EX: BOOT THE BUM
Entertainment guru Jennifer Rubell is desperate to get rid of a guest who just sits around her house smoking pot and won't leave - her boyfriend. In papers filed in...
MEDIC FINDS CRASH PILOT WAS HIS DAD
In a tragic twist, a medic who responded to a fiery plane crash on a suburban New Jersey street found to his horror that the pilot who died was his...
BX. DRUG DEALER GETS 87 YEARS
A Bronx drug dealer was sentenced yesterday to 87 years behind bars after being convicted of armed robbery, money laundering and other crimes, prosecutors said. Victor Lorenzano was part of...
JURY HEARS OF 3-SLAY STAB-TORTURE
A Bronx drug dealer was "the key" to the execution of his girlfriend and two others, who were tortured with knives for information about a cocaine stash and then slaughtered,...
DOLPHIN DRAMA TAKES HOPEFUL TURN AS 10 GO FREE
Amid dropping temperatures, desperate rescue workers managed to drive up to 10 stranded dolphins out of an East Hampton creek yesterday toward safer, deeper waters. Roughly 75 dolphins made their...
BILL SCAM 'TIP' OF ICEBERG
Here's a tip for Big Apple eateries - stop fleecing clueless tourists and New Yorkers who know better with illegal gratuities on their checks. A day after The Post reported...
PROPANE TANKER DERAILS IN QUEENS
A tanker car carrying propane derailed in Queens yesterday, but did not cause an explosion. The accident happened at 9 a.m. when the propane car hit a railcar carrying debris...
POLICE WIDOW'S CHILLING MEMORY
At 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 2003, Detective Rodney Andrews called his wife, Detective MaryAnn Andrews, to tell her he was working an early shift and couldn't pick up the...
PUP KILLER MAY AVOID CAGE
Puppy-killer Oleg Zhdamov will likely avoid jail time after being charged with punching and kicking his 5-month-old dog to death. Zhdamov, 35, of Manhattan, was originally facing two years in...
LAWYER SUES TOP FIRM OVER 'ANTI-GAY BIAS'
A lawyer says he was taunted, teased and tormented when his bosses at one of the city's biggest and best-known law firms started to suspect that he was gay. In...
'GAME': I DIDN'T 'PLAY' RAP PATROL
He gives them food and cigars. He knows their first names. Multiplatinum rapper The Game is game for a trial on officer-impersonation charges - and wants to argue that he's...
FINGERPRINT FLIP ON MEDICAID ID
Gov. Spitzer has put the brakes on a state policy requiring millions of Medicaid recipients to be fingerprinted to help deter fraud, The Post has learned. Spitzer's move comes just...
'MAD' TOWER IS TOPPLED
A city panel effectively put the kibosh on a controversial glass tower proposed for the Upper East Side Historic District yesterday, telling a world-renowned architect that his design was beautiful...
MAN SUES IN JAIL JUMBLE
A Brooklyn man who spent seven weeks at Rikers Island because of a paperwork snafu has filed lawsuits against the city and state correction departments. Bienvenido Castillo, 55, pleaded guilty...
COURT RIPS STEINBERG
Joel Steinberg still doesn't get it. A state appeals court yesterday found the infamous child killer is still "devoid of any empathy or human emotion" when it denied his bid...
'PLATE SCAN' DUO CLEARED
Charges have been dismissed against two teens who were nabbed in a stolen car in Brooklyn by cops using a new license-plate reader, sources said yesterday. Kyle Harper and Wayne...
ANGER OVER MIDDLE SCHOOLS
More than 100 parent activists, labor leaders and elected officials gathered outside city Department of Education headquarters in lower Manhattan yesterday, demanding an overhaul of public middle schools. "The system...
FINGERPRINT SMOKES OUT KILLER
A Queens ex-con nearly got away with murder - but a pack of Newports did him in. Antwan Gathers, 40, pleaded guilty yesterday to manslaughter in a botched robbery that...
COLLAR BY PBA CHIEF
A would-be robber picked the wrong door to knock on yesterday - the home of the head of the city's police union. Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch wound up...
SECRET CELEB JUROR
Talk about anonymous jurors. The state's first lady was called for jury duty in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, but almost no one noticed her - or the plainclothes cop with...
REALITY TV BECKONS EX-JUDGE
Leslie Crocker Snyder is ready for her close-up. Snyder, the tough-talking ex-justice of the New York Supreme Court who has stared down mobsters and other slimeballs, is getting into the...
ARREST IN N.J. POLICE SLAYING
A Brooklyn-born ex-con, wanted in the coldblooded shooting death of an unarmed, off-duty New Jersey cop during a robbery in a fast-food joint, was captured yesterday after an intense 10-day...
OFFICER WEEPS AT SLAY TRIAL
A veteran cop yesterday fought back tears recounting the "terrified" face of dying stabbing victim Christine Odierno when he found her - and his desperate attempt to help her. "She...
JAYONCÉ GOES GLOBAL
She may not have netted any Golden Globes, but bootylicious belter Beyoncé Knowles is still beau Jay-Z's dream girl. The sexy, sequined singer-actress put on a good face at Monday's...
HUBBY GAVE ANNA'S SON PILLS: REPORT
Anna Nicole Smith's new husband provided her tragic son with one of the drugs that killed him - then tried to cover it up by flushing the remaining pills down...
HOW WE 'DO IT'
Birds do it, bees do it, and American men and woman certainly enjoy doing it - but often in very different ways. That's the finding of a new survey of...
BRAD, ANGIE TAKE IT EASY
Brangelina is now calling the Big Easy home. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have moved with their three children to flood-ravaged New Orleans, where they are living in a mansion...
BARACK IS ON TRACK FOR '08
Soaring Democratic star Barack Obama burst into the 2008 White House race yesterday by launching a presidential exploratory committee - setting him on a collision course with front-running Hillary Rodham...
HANDICAPPING THE RACE
Hillary Rodham ClintonNew York senator Odds: 3:1 Still the front-runner, with the name, money and organization, but is checking her rearview mirror. Barack Obama Illinois senator Odds: 5:1 Red-hot candidate...
SECOND CITY TO TOP O' THE WORLD
WASHINGTON - Born of an African father and Kansan mother, Barack Obama has a background as diverse and eclectic as the modern Democratic Party he hopes to lead, with roots...
'DIRTY' DIPLO INDICTED
New York prosecutors indicted the disgraced former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program yesterday and issued an international warrant for his arrest, as the probe of history's largest financial scandal...
COPS FEAR 'KIDNAPPER' TOOK OTHERS
ST. LOUIS - Investigators are looking into the possibility that Michael Devlin - accused of kidnapping two Missouri boys - abducted other children, authorities said yesterday. "In cases like these,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* A Crown Heights man was fatally hit on the head with a pipe by his son last night, police said. Assawa Ingleton, 30, had held his father, mother and...
NAOMI'S NASTY - & FREE
NEW YORKERS - duck! Displaying zero remorse and even less body fat, phone- hurl ing hottie Naomi Campbell is back on the streets in her stilettos and scowl. The towering...
WATCH 'WORM' WEASEL WAY OUT
I HATE to tell you I told you so. But I told you so. Last month, I laid out a scenario of the death-penalty phase in the case of cop-killer...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Tue.: 672 Midday Win-4 Tue.: 8231 Evening Numbers Tue.: 179 Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3843 Pick-10 Tue.: 8, 9, 14, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 35, 37,...
MIKE DOES RIGHT
Mayor Mike will give New Yorkers a break today: a $1 billion tax cut. Hizzoner plans to outline a series of proposed trims - in property taxes, the sales tax,...
BARACK TO THE FUTURE
Sen. Barack Obama yesterday took the first definitive step toward a run for the White House next year, an nouncing the formation of an official exploratory committee with a video...
TALK IS CHEAP
WASHINGTON'S elite may disdain religious believers, but its own bizarre dogma is far more irrational than faith in God: The D.C. establishment worships the imaginary power of negotiations to make...
SENSELESS
DURHAM, N.C. LOCALS - even those who are certain no sex crime was committed there - call 610 N. Buchanan St. "the rape house." It's an ugly little white bungalow...
MCGWIRE PLAYS FOUL - LANDS IN HALL OF SHAME
THE ISSUE: Mark McGwire's questionable steroid use keeps him out of the Hall of Fame. The media just don't get it when it comes to baseball and steroids ("McGwire Doesn't...
SCOPPETTA'S SCREWY SPEECH STATUTE
THE ISSUE: An FDNY regulation prohibiting even patriotic symbols from firemen's lockers. Who gives a rat's behind what the 343 great guys lost on 9/11 had on their lockers, or...
COVERAGE IS NO. 1 HANG-UP FOR CELL USERS
Poor geographic coverage, not price, is what drives most cellphone customers to switch their service to a new provider. According to a new study by ComScore Networks, 27 percent of...
DOLANS DENIED
For the second time in two years of trying to take their Cablevision empire private, the Dolan family got shot down once again last night for not offering enough to...
STAR TREATMENT: SEE YOU IN BOCA
PANIC swept through the Star magazine editorial offices in New York yesterday. It was sparked when a flurry of job listings for writers, reporters and researchers for a "national magazine...
NIKE HIP-HOPS ONTO UPDATE OF SNEAKER
NBA stars swear by them, "sneakerheads" collect them and stores still sell out of them. After 25 years, Nike will mark the anniversary of its popular Air Force 1 shoes...
REFCO PREZ STUNG
Federal prosecutors charged Tone Grant, the former president of blown-up trading firm Refco, with illegally moving hundreds of millions of dollars to polish the hot-money firm's balance sheet. Grant, who...
BUYOUT FIRMS PAY TRIBUNE AUCTION NO MIND
Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Times and Newsday, appears to have thrown a takeover party where no one showed up. With the deadline for final...
COMMERCE BANCORP PROBE TARGETS EXECS
Commerce Bancorp, the high-flying New Jersey bank whose branches have cropped up all over the city, said it was being investigated by two federal regulators over a series of business...
GRUMPS RULE ON THE JOB
Coming to work cranky is probably a good idea - because grumpy workers are the most creative and productive, says a new study. "Bad moods and negative attitudes have gotten...
SMITH & WOLLENSKY OWNER RAISES STAKES
Smith & Wollensky owner Alan Stillman isn't being that hospitable to a Texas casual-dining tycoon's bid to buy his famous steakhouse and its upscale sister eateries. Stillman's publicly traded restaurant...
TWO NABBED OVER 'NET GAMBLING
Continuing their crackdown on online gambling, the feds nabbed two Canadians and charged them with running an illicit Internet operation that transferred billions of dollars in unlawful online gambling proceeds...
MAJORS BID FOR JAVITS
THREE qualified bids to develop a convention hotel opposite the Javits Center were received on Friday by the Empire State Development Corp. The hopefuls and hotel partners are The Moinian...
M&M TO STORM APPLE
Give me liberty or give me ... M&Ms? New Yorkers will see a new landmark on the Hudson later this week, when the maker of the chocolate candies plans to...
FANS SHOULD SAVOR MASKED MARVELS MARTY AND HENRIK
THEY wear masks, but that can't camouflage the fact they also are the faces of their respective franchises. And when Martin Brodeur stared at the other crease 178 feet away...
WOE, IONA!
On WFAN yesterday afternoon, Mike and Mad Dog were laughing at Iona coach Jeff Ruland because the big man with the deep, gravely voice that could scare a bear has...
MALIGNAGGI EYES COMEBACK
After losing to Miguel Cotto in June, Brooklyn's Paulie Malignaggi is ready to return to the ring and start winning again. Malignaggi, known as the Magic Man, faces Edner (Cherry...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Zambrano seeks $15.5 million Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano asked for a raise to $15.5 million while batting champions Joe Mauer and Freddy Sanchez also sought big hikes in salary...
CHECKING IT OUT
That Ted Nolan was only half-right. The Devils last night played checkers to perfection, part of their chess match. This time, Claude Julien was ready when Tom Renney multishifted Rangers...
GIVE REESE A CHANCE
The power brokers of the Giants sat shoulder-to-shoulder - the co-owners, retired general manager Ernie Accorsi and his successor, Jerry Reese. Off to the side, all dressed up, stood Tom...
HIRE NOT ABOUT BLACK OR WHITE, IT'S ABOUT BIG BLUE
IT'S safe to say the majority of Giants fans don't care whether Jerry Reese is black, blue or green as long as he figures out a way to get the...
PLENTY OF SUPPORT IN PLACE
During the interview process and again last week, the Giants' co-owners, John Mara and Jonathan Tisch, alerted newly promoted general manager Jerry Reese that in 2007 he'd be working with...
ARENAS LEAGUE
The Knicks are playing their best basketball of the season, winning eight of 13 since their Dec. 16 brawl against the Nuggets and climbing within a game of first place...
'HOMECOMING' FOR JARED
Tonight's game against the Wizards will be Jared Jeffries' first against his old club since he signed with the Knicks this summer. But the forward is far more concerned about...
METS SEEM TO BE SET ON MOUND
Despite the fact the Mets are still in contact with pitcher Tomo Ohka's agent and still speak with the A's regarding Oakland's starters, the Mets don't expect to add to...
MOORE THAN EXPECTED
Mikki Moore had given up trying to figure out the secret to succeeding in the NBA. The energetic 7-foot Net center had done everything he could think of to impress...
KIDD KEEPING HIS FOCUS
As Jason Kidd's personal life continues to be front-page news, those around him have taken note of how his play remains unaffected. "Everyone's been through situations where you go through...
STRAKA GETS ANOTHER YEAR
The pull of returning home to the Czech Republic did not prove as strong as Martin Straka's desire to continue his career on Broadway. The Post has learned that the...
'08 ALL-STAR GAME LIKELY AT STADIUM
The home stretch for Yankee Stadium figures to be the 2008 season, and part of it is likely to include the All-Star Game. The Midsummer Classic hasn't been in The...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A California man suffered severe burns when his cellphone caught on fire in his pocket and set his clothes on fire. "It was either a malfunction or some type of...
COMING OUT - IS IT GETTING EASIER?
The popularity of Ellen DeGeneres and the Fab Five on Queer Eye might make people think that it's easy being out. But has this gay-and-proud-of-it attitude rubbed off on the...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I've advertised recently on a singles dating site and met a few men. I'm older and, well, I lied about my age by about ten years. I...