January 25, 2007
Take that, Pope!
Says Stephen Friedman, GM of mtvU, "Through this challenge, we hope to inspire college students to use the power of online gaming to engage their peers, re-awaken them to the...
300: March To Glory
PRODUCT FEATURES: o In 300: March To Glory, players will unleash the full fury of the Spartan army using the unique Wrath combat system where a Spartan’s health is determined...
Curry medical update
By MARC BERMANIt appears the Eddy Curry-Shaquille O'Neal will not materialize tomorrow night at the Garden. Our Brian Lewis reports from Knicks camp today that it appears unlikely Curry will...
UPDATE: Now that's in-flight service
In these miserable times of war, disease, famine and bad reality shows, it's nice to have some sliver of hope that justice still exists in this world.Proof? Angelic flight attendants...
UPDATE: Macau is king
Wynn Macau Last June, we mentioned that Macau is nothing to muck with when it comes to gambling. Industry predictions had it surpassing Vegas in gaming revenue by 2010.Apparently, even...
MAN IN TIGHTS
JOE Namath. Bruce Lee. Superman. Cher. All superheroes. All men in tights. I count myself among them now, a true fashion trailblazer. This week in Milan, menswear designer Marni inspired...
COLLAR-BACK GIRL IS SCIENTOLOGY CHIC
SET your phasers on "stunned" - Katie Holmes looks like she's advancing on her Scientology journey to the Death Star of Fashion. Squired by her Thetan Cruise missile, the young...
TIGHT FITS
Robin HoodCirca: 1190 Stole from the rich, gave to the poor, looked dashing. Had to deal with added issues of wearing a green skirt and being called a "merry man."...
HAUTE LIST
Hot Air balloons SNEAKERHEADS have something new to obsess about - a whole year of celebrations for the 25th birthday of the Nike Air Force 1, perhaps the world's most...
BRAVE NEW WHIRLS
IT'S a class act, a classic act, and an extraordinar ily engaging act: It's the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, which Tuesday night opened a very welcome return season at the...
1960S RACIAL DRAMA STILL ON TRACK
FOR its revival of the 1964 play "Dutchman," the Cherry Lane Theatre's lobby has been converted into a facsimile of a vintage subway station, complete with an old-fashioned turnstile you...
SIZABLE HELPING OF LEWD
IT'S your typical success story: A full-figured gal from Kansas with a lovely voice and a potty mouth comes to the big city with a dream. But instead of landing...
SISTER ACT
HOW do you solve a problem like Maria? Ana Ortiz used to be typecast as "Maria the maid, Maria the nanny, Maria the home wrecker," she says. "I'm like, 'It's...
'HE'S NOT INTO YOU' AUTHOR OUT OF IT
MEMO to Greg Behrendt: We're just not that into you. "The Greg Behrendt Show," a daytime talk show starring the relationship expert, has been canned halfway through its rookie year...
SALMA SEARCHING FOR NEW 'UGLY BETTY'
SALMA Hayek is coming back to TV - apparently to find the next big Spanish crossover hit. Hayek, an executive producer of ABC's smash hit sitcom "Ugly Betty" (she also...
WARNING: THIS TV SET WILL BE NO DAMN GOOD
LAWMAKERS are proposing a bill that would force TV manufacturers to stick a label on analog TV sets that will tell consumers the unit will soon be outdated. The label...
STARR REPORT
Actors at play Former "Hill Street Blues" star Daniel J. Travanti opens Feb. 8 in "The Last Word . . . ." at Theatre at St. Clement's (423 W. 46th)....
'IDOL' BOOSTS W.
A high-rated edition of "American Idol" Tuesday night on Fox helped boost President Bush's State of the Union speech to its highest ratings in four years. Viewership on the four...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The planets will smooth your path through life over the coming 12 months, enabling you to spend less time on petty disputes and more time on the things that are...
RUDY BOOKS CLO$ED - FOR NOW
Rudy Giuliani, a GOP front-runner for president, hasn't declared himself a candidate with federal election officials - meaning he doesn't yet have to file papers showing what he's raised or...
MOB BOSS' SON BOASTED OF 'HOOK' IN ALBANY
Mob scion Chris Colobo, on trial for running a renegade crime family, was caught on tape boasting that he had " a hook in" former Attorney General Dennis Vacco that...
N.Y. 'IDOL' BOOTED FOR SLIMIN' SIMON
The wackiest episode in "American Idol's" wackiest season unspooled last night when a Bronx man who bombed on the show was escorted out of his audition by security guards. Ian...
GOOD 'FORCE' TRADER
After 10 years as a cop, Matt Forestire wasn't tired of policing - but he was tired of the NYPD. He quit in 2002 to become a New York state...
ALARM OVER COP EXODU$
Low pay is driving more and more of New York's Finest to leave the job despite Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to bolster their ranks, the city's biggest police union complained yesterday....
OUT-OF-HOSP SURVIVOR: IT WAS MURDER - BUT NOT RACISM
A man wounded inside the car in which tragic groom Sean Bell was killed by police left the hospital yesterday demanding justice for his friend - while insisting race played...
POLS' BIG GUNS BLAZE AT KELLY
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly faced furious City Council members yesterday during a tense 31/2-hour hearing at which he insisted that race was not a factor in the cop shooting of...
CHARITY FRAUDSTER IS NAILED
An admittedly coke-addled grants administrator for the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation was convicted in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday of embezzling $421,000 from the global philanthropy group. Cheryl McEwan, 51, had tried...
SOHO SCHOOL LUNCH STAB
A 16-year-old student was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old schoolmate during a lunchtime fight in SoHo yesterday, police said. The victim was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital in stable condition....
WTC KIN RIP MIKE 'DISORDER'
A coalition of 9/11 families will launch a TV ad campaign today opposing Mayor Bloomberg's decision to list most victims at the World Trade Center Memorial in random order. "It...
PA LANDS AT 4TH AIRPORT
La Guardia, Kennedy and Newark now have a fourth sibling - the Port Authority is buying Stewart Airport in upstate Newburgh. The agency will pay $78.5 million to purchase the...
SCHOOL-BUS ROUTES RESCUED
The city Department of Education will cut far less than the 250 school bus routes it had planned to eliminate by Monday in an effort to save $20 million, sources...
'FAILED BY 911'
The family of a slain off-duty officer is suing the city, charging he went into a shootout with robbers - including a drug-desperate "Sopranos" actor - thinking that 911 was...
CON MAN: I PREYED ON PRIESTS
A Lower East Side con man copped a plea to ripping off hundreds of thousand of dollars from more than 60 priests around the country by claiming he needed the...
MIA LAWYER IS STILL AT IT
Yesterday was a third day of legal limbo for the Equinox personal trainer charged in the Upper East Side throat-slash murder of a beautiful young exotic dancer - his lawyer...
'DWI' COP SLAMS INTO MOM & TOT
An off-duty New Jersey cop - with a history of boozing at the wheel - drove drunk on a dangerous highway and caused a smashup that left a mother and...
QNS. DEATH CRASH
A 95-year-old man died yesterday after he caused an accident involving another car and a school bus full of kids in Queens, police said. Montague Levy drove his Lincoln into...
'71 COP-SLAY SUSPECT'S WIFE WITH NYPD
The wife of alleged black power radical cop-killer Francisco Torres is a member of the NYPD. Carolyn Torres, 58, whose husband is accused of taking part in a raid on...
'BOOTLEG' GAS RING CHARGED
Seven Brooklyn residents and four companies were indicted yesterday on charges they bootlegged 2,900 gallons of untaxed gas and diesel fuel into the city, state officials said yesterday. The scheme,...
BIG APPLE WILL BE FROZFRUIT TONIGHT
Br-r-r-r, baby, it's cold outside. Grab the long johns and curl up with a hot chocolate, because the wind chill will make it feel like below 0 tonight, forecasters say....
CRASH KID LOSES FOOT
An 11-year-old Brooklyn boy's foot was severed yesterday morning in a three-car crash set off by a drunken driver who mowed down several pedestrians, police said. Jacky Huang, 11, a...
SLAYS PUZZLE POLICE
They scrimped and saved to buy a home on Long Island's tony North Shore so their sons could go to good schools - and she could be a stay-at-home mom...
'WEAK' SPITZ RULES RAPPED
ALBANY - While a new ethics package unveiled by Gov. Spitzer and legislative leaders yesterday was hailed as a good step toward cleaning up Albany, government-reform groups and some lawmakers...
TROOPER KILLED IN L.I. CRASH
A New York state trooper was killed yesterday when his police SUV spun out on "black ice" and collided with another vehicle on Long Island. Joe Rosado "was a spit-and-polish...
HARLEM GETTING NEW MED SCHOOL
New York's first medical school to open in 30 years is setting up shop in Harlem - right across from the legendary Apollo Theater. The mission of Touro College of...
'MOM-IN-LAW' KILLER GUILTY
A Queens man who acted as his own lawyer was convicted yesterday of manslaughter in the Valentine's Day bludgeoning death of his 57-year-old would-be mother-in-law. "It feels great. It feels...
'KID-PERV' COP BUSTED
A rookie NYPD cop was busted yesterday for sending sexually explicit pictures of himself to a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be an undercover Long Island cop, authorities said....
ASTOR 'CON' ARTIST
Investigators are looking into possible tax-fraud charges against Anthony Marshall, the former ambassador who's been accused of mistreating his famed philanthropist mother, Brooke Astor, law-enforcement sources said. The Manhattan District...
TRANSFER BOO$T FOR GOOD SCHOOLS
High-performing city schools that accept transfer students from failing schools will be rewarded with extra cash under a new funding formula to take effect this fall. The transfer element was...
POLICE MU$EUM WOE
The Police Museum, created during the Giuliani administration, could lose most of its city funding under a new "merit-based" formula for supporting cultural groups announced yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg and...
A 'SORRY' KILLER
Convicted cop-killer Ronell Wilson offered up a stilted, scripted apology to the families of his victims yesterday before a panel of jurors who are poised to decide whether he lives...
'THREAT' BY JUDGE
A Manhattan Supreme Court justice threatened and intimidated a lawyer for bringing a legal malpractice case against another attorney who's now a judge, explosive court papers charge. The unidentified jurist...
4TH-PLACE HILL FACES 'LAST' RITES IN IOWA
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to the crucial presidential proving ground of Iowa is coming just in time - because a new poll shows her running at the back of...
'DAD DIED A HERO': BORJA
WASHINGTON - The grieving son of tragic 9/11 cop Cesar Borja said yesterday that his battle to get help for all those who became ill after working at Ground Zero...
SHAWN 'HELPED KIDNAP' 2ND BOY
The boy held in the crazed clutches of a kidnapper for 4½ years helped his tormentor snatch a second youngster earlier this month, a bombshell report said yesterday. Shawn Hornbeck,...
NAIL IN D.A. COFFIN
The prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case lied to the court and withheld evidence from the defense about the sensational rape charges, the North Carolina state bar charged yesterday. Durham...
SUBWAY SUPER-MANIA IN D.C.
Subway Superman Wesley Autrey was working on possible book and movie projects yesterday in Washington, D.C., a day after being honored by President Bush. "Definitely there may be a book,...
R&B 'SLAY' RAP
Cops likely will charge R&B singer and "Moesha" star Brandy with vehicular manslaughter for setting off a multicar crash on a Los Angeles highway that killed a mother of two,...
CONDIT'S ATTORNEY IS DUNNE
Not even former Rep. Gary Condit's lawyer is buying his slander suit against writer Dominick Dunne, citing "irreconcilable differences" with the embattled ex-politician to beg off the case. Manhattan federal...
PARIS' SECRET TRASHER CHEST
As if one night in Paris wasn't enough, you can now take an extended tour. The sex-crazed heiress is burning up the Web again - thanks to a couple of...
NYPD BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are hunting a gun-toting bandit who robbed several women of money and jewelry in their Washington Heights apartment buildings earlier this month. The thief struck at buildings on...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Wed.: 341 Midday Win-4 Wed.: 0963 Evening Numbers Wed.: 507 Evening Win-4 Wed.: 1103 Pick-10 Wed.: 1, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 28,...
LEGAL GRAFT . . .
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants to rein in one of Al bany's more odoriferous abuses: fast-track funding for groups favored by individual lawmakers. Known as "member items" (or more...
. . . AND RANDI ORDERS TAKE-OUT
Meanwhile, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingar ten spent Tuesday morning ordering take-out during a breakfast with Albany lawmakers: She'll have $1 billion to go, please - and make...
TOO LATE FOR A RECOUNT, FOLKS
"It's water over the deck. Get over it."-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, at Iona College, when asked about the court's landmark decision in December 2000 that decided the presidential election...
'08 DEMS: THE MORNING LINE
AND they're off! First out of the starting gate, with an unexpected burst of speed is the late entrant Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). Not on anybody's radar six months ago,...
HIGH-FLYING AMERICAN
"If capitalists had been present at Kitty Hawk when the Wright brothers' plane first took off, they should have shot it down." - Warren BuffettDALLAS RECENTLY, as an airliner taxied...
HILLARY'S HIGH HOPES: LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE
Thanks, New York. You knew that Hillary was going to run for president if re-elected to the Senate, yet you unleashed another Clinton on this country anyway ("Heeeeeere's Hillary," Editorial,...
STRIKING BACK
Wal-Mart's former marketing whiz is hitting back at the retailing giant after it abruptly fired her. Julie Roehm, who was ousted last month amid rumors of an illicit office romance,...
CBS NEARS AD GOAL FOR SUPER BOWL
After Super Bowl sales seemed to get off to a slow start, CBS said it's close to selling out ad time with still two weeks to go until the big...
THE TRUTH CAN SOMETIMES BE STRANGER THAN FICTION
WHEN some executives, like Home Depot's Robert Nardelli, get fired, they make their getaway with a mega-million dollar farewell. Others like Citigroup's Todd Thomson are lucky to get away with...
DUPRI IN TALKS TO JOIN ISLAND
Super-producer Jermaine Dupri is in negotiations with Universal Music Group about joining its Island Def Jam label, according to several music industry executives. These executives said that the talks between...
O'NEAL GOT $46M IN '06
The unprecedented windfall for Wall Street's top brass continued yesterday with Merrill Lynch boss E. Stanley O'Neal taking home a colossal $46 million pay package for leading the brokerage firm...
$8.9M FOR NARDELLI SUCCESSOR
The new head of Home Depot is starting out at about the same level of pay that his ousted and overpaid predecessor Bob Nardelli got for his boardroom debut four...
BOARD GAMES
Paul Pressler has taken most of the heat for Gap Inc.'s dismal performance, losing his job as chief executive in the process. But corporate-governance experts say that Gap's board, marked...
THWARTED NYT INVESTOR PLOTS
One of The New York Times' largest investors is mulling his next move after the newspaper giant blocked his effort to let shareholders vote on a proposal to toss out...
MEMO: REASSURE STAFFERS
Robert Fisher, Gap Inc.'s interim chief executive, moved yesterday to shore up flagging spirits at the struggling apparel retailer by assuring employees that the company is not for sale, sources...
TIME WARNER SELLS MAGS UNDER $300M
Time Warner is expected to announce today that it has sold 18 magazines to the Bonnier Group, a Stockholm-based publishing giant better known in Europe than the U.S. The deal...
HILLARY BEATING OBAMA 2 -1: POLL
Hillary Clinton bests Senator Barack Obama by 19% in a new poll, and is the clear front-runner to win the Democratic party's nomination for President in 2008. Despite the buzz...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Chelsea $1.65 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet:1,489 Marketed as a "Park Avenue home in the hippest downtown neighborhood," this loftlike condo (with 14-foot ceilings!) in a new prewar...
THE LONG WAY HOME
'WHY the hell are you moving there?" That, says Alan Capper, was the question posed to him by a friend last year when he announced his plans to move with...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan EAST VILLAGE $535,000 735 E. Ninth St. Prewar one-bedroom, one-bath loft co-op, 775 square feet, with exposed brick and open kitchen; building is pet-friendly. Maintenance $381. Asking price $550,000,...
GURLEY SHOW
IN Central Park, there's a tree that Helen Gurley Brown "adopted" and has watched grow from a sapling to full size. "I've named her Calliope," Brown says, "and I often...
KING OF THE WORLD
IT didn't take Jay-Z very long to find alternate living quarters after he'd gotten the word via this column that the about $40,000-a-month Time Warner Center pad he'd been renting...
RIVER RENAISSANCE
PLANS are underway to turn Kingston's blighted Hudson River waterfront in upstate New York into condo communities. Until that happens -- and the timetable varies from three to five years...
DREAM HOMES
TriBeCa $4.295 million A dramatic, open living/entertaining area is hardly surprising for a loft in this neighborhood, at this size (2,914 square feet), and, frankly, at this price. It's got...
BOOTHE 'D' LIFTS ROYALS
Norm Roberts, fresh off two of the best wins of his tenure at St. John's, got a look into his future last night in the Middle Village section of Queens....
REYNA A RED BULL
Claudio Reyna has come full circle. The kid who grew up in Springfield, N.J., going to Cosmos games finally is center stage at Giants Stadium, signing with the Red Bulls...
STAR OF TRIESTE TRIUMPHS
Eibar Coa, Norberto Arroyo Jr. and Alan Garcia rode two winners each, and Gary Contessa saddled his usual pair, giving him 39 in 36 racing days over inner dirt track....
SARATOGA BASKS IN TWILIGHT
New York racing may be half way through the winter season, but the NYRA is already looking ahead to the summer by announcing the addition of an extra twilight racing...
HAND JIVE
A year ago, the Steelers won "one for the thumb" when they captured Super Bowl XL in Detroit, the fifth NFL title in team history. A year later, the Colts...
SALISBURY DENIES HE USED SLUR
ESPN NFL analyst Sean Salisbury went on his Chicago radio show yesterday and defended himself against accusations that he made an anti-Semitic comment on Monday's "NFL Live." ESPN could not...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Floyd signs with CubsCliff Floyd is coming home after agreeing yesterday to a $3 million, one-year contract with the Cubs. Floyd, a Chicago native, could split time in left...
THERE'S NO SWEATING NEW NHL UNIFORMS
ALL-STAR NOTES DALLAS - The NHL revealed its new "uniform system" last night in its All Star Game: Form fitting, lighter-weight uniforms that offer more stretch and mobility and, fortunately,...
BRODEUR, EAST GET DEEP-SIXED
DALLAS - The honor of being an NHL All-Star goalie comes with a blindfold and a cigarette. Martin Brodeur, three-time Stanley Cup winner, in the midst of an MVP-caliber season,...
JEFFRIES MUST SIT IN LIMBO
When asked about Jared Jeffries yesterday, Isiah Thomas said his struggling small forward had to try harder and bring more energy to be effective. Chances are Thomas wasn't in love...
MARBURY: I'LL PLAY AGAINST HEAT
Stephon Marbury missed his season's first game last night vs. Steve Nash's Suns, but said he will be back tomorrow vs. Miami. "I'm definitely playing against Miami," Marbury said. Marbury,...
KNICKS TAKE A STEPH BACK
And you thought it couldn't get any worse than Monday night in Miami? It did - with the Knicks' 112-107 Garden loss last night to the streaking Suns the least...
INJURIES A BLOW TO ISIAH'S FUTURE
THE thought of having to endure any significant time without Stephon Marbury became very real last night when the Knicks point guard was dressed in a suit instead of his...
METS SHOW WILLIE THE MONEY ($5.65M)
There is both financial security and an organizational commitment for Willie Randolph, as the Mets' manager has received a new contract. Randolph and the Mets agreed to terms yesterday on...
FOLDIN' STATE
OAKLAND - The Nets were coming off the type of loss that had its origins somewhere in the seventh circle of Hell. Up 20 points. Vapor and brain lock. Lose...
JASON'S ENJOYING HIS 'BEST STRETCH'
OAKLAND - When Jason Kidd arrived on the Nets landscape in 2001, he transformed a franchise. He was that good. But if you ask him, this year he has been...
RANGERS MAKE KASPAR VANISH - IN SILENCE
That the Rangers placed Darius Kasparaitis on waivers yesterday isn't at all surprising, but the way they went about the process most certainly is. For one would think that a...
CUT HIM LOOSE
I LIKE Bernie Williams a great deal. It feels proper to start there when I am about to support the Yankees' current plan not to bring back one of the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A walla-what? That's what residents of Fleetwood, Pa., were asking when they spotted a runaway wallaby hopping around town. How the animal - which resembles a mini-kangaroo and is native...
Burnout Dominator Website Goes Live
The Burnout games have always been favorites of mine, so I'm all in favor of Dominator. 1)I like driving fast.2)I like it when things explode into showers of sparks and...