January 29, 2007
But I Ain't One to Gossip
So you ain't heard this from me......But Barney's must have way over bought re-worked jersey dresses and tops from Zachary's Smile.Their Co-op store on 116 Wooster has a large cache...
Sooooooo Snotty
Instead of enjoying my weekend, I spent the last four days sick in bed with a disgusting case of the flu.And, besides feeling feverish, my nose was completetely stuffed and...
Crap Shoot
It's a real roll of the dice when you put the word "Luck'' or "Lucky'' in the title of your movie. You might end up with a winner like "Good...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamREBECCA & DREW 344 W. 13th St., between Eight avenue and Hudson street; (212) 647-8901Sale: Feb. 1-3. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.Women’s dress shirts will be discounted, including the woven...
Cruz Control
I loved that little yelp that Salma Hayek let out last week when she read the Oscar nominations and discovered her pal, Penelope Cruz, received a well-deserved nod for "Volver.''...
Bracket time
With football season winding down and the NBA season too dull to deal with (at least in New York) it's time to look ahead to the best event in sports...
Four New Classic Games Announced for Wii Shop Channel
Mario Kart 64, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Bonanza Bros., and Comix Zone have been added to the shop Wii channel. Sweet!Details after the jump. Today Nintendo adds four new...
COMING UP: All about the Apple
Tune in to the print edition and NYPOST.COM tomorrow for the results of our fourth annual Best NYC Hotels awards, plus loads of web-exclusive stuff, from celebs' favorite places to...
LISTS: They really (sort of) like us!
Sydney, via Visit NSWThe annual City Brands Index from Anholt is out.You are of course jumping up and down for joy. Us too.Anyway, this thing is an in-depth study that...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: January 28
PHONED IN: Round-ups are a fact of life in this penny-pinching industry, but man, is this 10 Point Caribbean Escape Plan thing a snooze. We're just saying, but Michelle Higgins...
FIELDS OF DREAMS
Jobs in the so-called "glamour" fields like music, television, fashion, sports and high-end dining certainly seem alluring - after all, who wouldn't want to be a music mogul or a...
DREAM JOB: PETRA NEMCOVA
AFTER getting her start in a local talent search, Petra Nemcova left the Czech Republic at 18 for Milan, and moved on to Paris, London and then New York, where...
GO TO GREG
Q. I recommended a former colleague for a position at my company. I never worked with her directly, but she appeared to be smart. She was hired, and now she's...
POWER POINTS
All work, no play Working long hours may be good for your bottom line, but it's murder on your sex life. That's the finding of a new study published in...
GRAD TO WORSE
YOU busted your butt for four years. You put on a cap and gown and took home a hard-earned diploma. But what do you do if it's eight months after...
BOX CHATTER
IT makes no difference if you're going up or down. When you're in an elevator, your operative condition is trapped, and that's the nice way of putting it. Chances are...
JOHN HANCOCK - MERCHANT, REVOLUTIONARY, FOUNDING FATHER
This Founding Father was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. He did so with a flourish that is world-famous. John Hancock's flamboyant signature was the first to appear...
BASIC INSTINCTS
STAPLE #1 - BLUE JEANS Dark denim skinny jeans, $79, at Levi's, 25 W. 14th St. WORK Add: Rebecca Taylor moss stretch charmeuse blouse with ruffled hem, $198, shopbop.com; Borne...
A FITTING TRIBUTE AT CITY BALLET
EVERYONE has heard of George Balanchine, but fewer have heard of New York City Ballet's great co-founder, Lincoln Kirstein, the arts arbiter, philanthropist and much more, who first brought Balanchine...
TYRA'D OF BEING CALLED FAT
TYRA Banks is taking on the tabloids and gossip columns who branded her fat and ran unflattering pictures of the former supermodel snapped over the holidays. "Kiss my fat a**,"...
E!-GADS MODEL SUES CHANNEL
FORMER supermodel Niki Taylor filed suit over the weekend against the E! Entetainment channel, claiming she'd been tricked into cooperating with a new series about celebrity crack-ups. The show, called...
THE YEAR OF FEAR
WHAT'S that on the horizon? It's a mushroom cloud -something we haven't seen this often on TV since the Cold War. But this season, mushroom clouds are back as TV...
REALITY TV SCAM ENDS IN JAIL TIME
AN actress who scammed millions from investors with a phony reality show about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was sentenced to a short term over the weekend. Alison Ann...
FINDING HARRY
'HARRY Potter" is about to become a reality show on British TV. The BBC is putting children into a boarding school, where they will learn magic tricks, Latin spells and...
LIFE IS SCARY IN SUBURBS
THERE'S something oddly more compelling about a crime that takes place in a nice suburban neighborhood or small town than in the big city. It just seems more wrong. In...
FLICKS OF HOPE
PARK CITY, Utah - Distributors and audiences came looking for another "Little Miss Sunshine" at this year's Sundance Film Festival and didn't find it. But a solid lineup of indie...
KIN SUING CITY OVER 'WTC TOXIN' DEATH
The wife of a utility repairman who restored essential cellphone service at Ground Zero - and died last year of a rare lung disease - has filed a $20 million...
POLS DEMAND TRIBUTE TO ILL CLEANUP HEROES
Two state lawmakers say they'll introduce legislation tomorrow requiring the Ground Zero museum to memorialize all workers who died from illnesses after toiling in the cleanup and recovery following 9/11....
CLINIC'S 9/11 LIST ZOOMING
The number of patients treated at a city health clinic aimed at 9/11- related illnesses has skyrocketed 60 percent in just three months, The Post has learned. The Bellevue Hospital/NYU...
HOSP STARVE DEATH
The songwriter of the '50s pop hit "Lollipop" starved to death at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan - where doctors and nurses brushed off complaints that he needed his missing...
'OFFICER' SHAQ NABS DRIVER WHO FOULED HIM
A Miami hit-and-run driver got slam dunked by basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal yesterday. The 7-foot-1 Miami Heat center parked his 2007 Cadillac Escalade outside his bodyguard's Coconut Grove home at...
'EMERGENCY' BRAKE ON AGENT CUTS
After years of cutting back on the number of full-time token booths - many rendered unnecessary by the advent of MetroCards - the MTA now has to reverse the trend,...
HE'S A METROCARTISTE
Sitting in a token booth all day can be dull and draining, but station agent Luis Torres has found artistic inspiration on the job. This MetroCard Michelangelo makes sculptures out...
STATE'S OT BILL SOARS
ALBANY - State government overtime jumped almost 11 percent last year, to a record $437.5 million, with the largest increase seen by state troopers, The Post has learned. The total...
FATAL SHOOTING AT B'DAY BASH
A birthday party at a Brooklyn restaurant turned tragic yesterday when gunfire erupted, leaving one man dead and three wounded. Maxwell Rodger, 30, was struck once in the torso as...
THAT'S DYE WITH A 'D' - AS IN DUMB
Clenzo Thompson really should get a new career. The bird-brained bandit was busted for sticking up the same Brooklyn bank twice in three days - and having a dye pack...
CON ED POWER-LINE ROUTE IS A SHOCKER: FOES
Elected officials and community residents who oppose the route chosen by Con Ed for a new power line from Westchester gathered in Upper Manhattan yesterday to propose an alternate plan...
CHARLES A PRINCE CHARMING
Prince Charles sank a free-throw yesterday - and scored with students at a Harlem charter school. The prince and his wife, Camilla, visited the Promise Academy on East 125th Street,...
PETS DUMPED
Animal shelters are bracing for their post-holiday rush - when people turn over Christmas-gift puppies and kittens that they say are becoming too tough to handle. About four months after...
BID TO FINGER FRAUD
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's point man on attacking Medicaid fraud wants recipients fingerprinted to deter taxpayer rip-offs. "I think if someone is getting public money, it's perfectly appropriate to have...
MAN SHOT GRABBING COP'S GUN
An off-duty police lieutenant shot a bottle-wielding bandit on a Queens street early yesterday as the thug struggled with him over his service gun, cops said. The officer, a 16-year...
COPS HOLD 'BLASTED' MARINE
A Marine who is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq was busted in Queens yesterday after cops found him drunk and with three grenade fuses in his car, police said....
POST'S DEBORAH ORIN DIES
Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, The Post's longtime Washington, D.C., bureau chief whose passion for politics and unrivaled integrity kept the high and mighty on their toes, died yesterday after a battle with...
PARENTS CUSS BUS FUSS
Rise and shine, kids, it's time to catch the bus to school - at 5:28 a.m. That's the early pickup time scheduled for at least one unlucky child in Brooklyn...
KILLER DEPORT FUROR
An Israeli man doing seven to 20 years in a state pen for fatally mowing down an aspiring photographer in Brooklyn has made a bid for early release and deportation...
BEEFS AGAINST POLICE SHOT UP LAST YEAR, STATS SHOW
The number of complaints against cops soared 13.5 percent last year, the latest statistics show. A total of 7,698 people filed gripes with the Civilian Complaint Review Board in 2006,...
'DEAD ZONE' RAGE
A Brooklyn man who froze to death in front of his wife after their car skidded off an icy stretch of upstate highway would still be alive if the area...
NEW ACADEMY HARD TO SWALLOW
The NYPD's plan to build a new Police Academy is giving indigestion to eatery owners near the current site on East 20th Street. Hungry recruits have kept at least half...
AQUEDUCT SLOTS ON TRACK
Plans for a giant video casino at Aqueduct racetrack are finally coming down the home stretch - six years after the Legislature approved a law allowing electronic slots at New...
DEREK'S DOMINOS
Derek Jeter's batting average was .343 last season - but when it comes to women, he's batting a thousand. His latest home-run hottie is Gabrielle Union, at least according to...
FUMES WITH A VIEW: $3,600
Just $3,600-a-month will get a luxury Brooklyn apartment with jaw-dropping, scenic views - of the truck-filled, exhaust-choked Gowanus Expressway. Developers Jack Basile and Nick Barone are building a brownstone-style 10-unit...
'SLAY' BRO FREE
A Brooklyn man jailed a year ago after telling cops he had brutally choked his own sister to death is a free man - thanks to savvy prosecutors who determined...
IRAQ, U.S. KILL 250 TERRORISTS
BAGHDAD - U.S.-backed Iraqi troops yesterday attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival, and Iraqi officials estimated some 250 militants died in the...
BUSH HITS IRAQ BOTTOM
President Bush, battered by the war in Iraq, has become one of the least-popular presidents in the country's history, new polls reveal. According to a CBS News poll, his approval...
IT'S ALL ABOUT EVA
"Desperate Housewife" Eva Longoria and her NBA superstar fiancé, Tony Parker, crank up the wattage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in L.A. last night.
BLOG STAR HOPES VOTERS ANOINT-&-CLICK CLINTON
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign Web guru, Peter Daou, has helped her connect with hundreds of thousands of people on the Web this past week through her virtual "listening tour."...
BIZZY BILL MAY FIND IT HARD TO GET PAID
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House run has hubby Bill weighing changes to his business activities, including curtailing his paid speeches and his role at a California equity firm, sources...
HILL'S 'EVIL' JOKE ON HUBBY BUBBA
DAVENPORT, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton left caucus-goers here yesterday believing that Bubba had given her a baptism by fire in how to deal with "evil and bad men." Clinton's...
CHENEY GOES HUNTING AGAIN - FOR WAR FOES
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday slammed Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), the leading Republican critic of the administration's war policy. "Lets say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th...
AN 'EPIC' $UCCESS AT BOX OFFICE
A parody of other movies had the last laugh over the weekend, capturing the top box-office spot with an impressive debut, according to studio estimates released yesterday. "Epic Movie" netted...
RENT-TO-OWN 'RIP-OFF' RIPPED
Need a TV to watch the Super Bowl this weekend? Beware of rent-to-own deals that can have you paying as much as 300 percent more for a TV than its...
NYPD BLOTTER
ManhattanTwo New Jersey men carrying fireworks were arrested at Penn Station yesterday, cops said. Benny Neely, 52, and Wilson Medosa, 55, both of Trenton, were busted when cops found them...
BILE-FILLED BIGOTS TARNISH BELL CASE
WHAT a bucketful of bile is promised to be on display at 1 p.m. tomorrow outside the Queens courthouse. It will be a so-called "Rally for Justice" demanding murder indictments...
'SECRET' DEM PLOT TO TAKE COMPTROL
ASSEMBLY Democrats may hold their own "secret" election this week in order to unite around a single candidate to be chosen as the new state comptroller, legislative insiders said yesterday....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Sun.: 071 Midday Win-4 Sun.: 6288 Evening Numbers Sun.: 338 Evening Win-4 Sun.: 4889 Pick-10 Sun.: 2, 6, 16, 21, 31, 39, 40, 49, 50, 51,...
SILVER'S CHOICE
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver this morning finds himself held prisoner in a box of his own construction. He's angry, and he's looking for a face-saving way out - but is...
DEBORAH ORIN-EILBECK: 1947-2007
Deborah Orin-Eilbeck was a rarity among White House reporters. She had the smarts to recognize when the pack had run astray; the self-confidence to say so out loud - and...
THE PAKISTAN PROBLEM
Recent news from Pakistan is troubling: After five years, President Pervez Musharraf seems to be rethinking his role as a U.S. ally in the War on Terror. Given that he...
SINN FEIN GAINS
HAS peace finally broken out in Northern Ireland? Yesterday a conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, voted to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland...
BEAR GROWLS AT U.S. MISSILE PLAN
THE Russians are going ballistic over the possibility the United States will deploy a missile-defense system in Central Europe in the coming years. The United States insists the defense shield...
UGLY CHOICES
LIKE plenty of other Americans, I wish we could just be done with the Middle East. Unfortunately, the Middle East isn't done with us. And the situation is going to...
COURTED BY CLINTON: 9/11 TRAGEDY ON DISPLAY
THE ISSUE: A WTC relief worker's death and his son's presence at the State of the Union Address. It is with a great deal of sadness that I read in...
YANKS WIND UP TO PITCH BERNIE
THE ISSUE: Whether the Yankees should keep longtime outfielder Bernie Williams. While I love Bernie Williams and know that his Yankee career will soon be over soon, it shouldn't be...
SHOOTING FOR A VISTA EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK
Microsoft is monopolizing Times Square - and it seems just about every other available sign in the city - to mark the debut of its Windows Vista operating system. The...
HOME, SWEAT HOME
Senior Home Depot executives set targets for store-level employees to boost the amount of money they collected from vendors to cover the cost of damaged or defective merchandise, according to...
JAILHOUSE CUPIDS & THE ART OF LOVE
With Valentine's Day lurking around the corner, a young woman's thoughts turn to romance, lousy boyfriends and the horror of ending up alone. The editors of Elle seem a little...
PRO BONO? U BET!
DURING the final concert of U2's world tour on Dec. 9, Bono, the Irish rock band's lead singer, launched into "One," a song about a love affair gone sour. "Did...
ZUCKER SQ-WELCHED
If Jack Welch were still running the show at General Electric, Jeff Zucker would be shown the door. Welch let loose the stunner in a brief interview in this week's...
ORANGE CRUSH
FORT LAUDERDALE - The towers rise high out of the pristine sand beach, 25 stories apiece, featuring the kind of luxurious amenities that you know the young Joe Namath would...
BEARS' WINNING MOVE: GET TO MANNING
MIAMI - They didn't pass out videos of any Super Bowl Shuffle. There was no punky QB, primed for mayhem in the a.m. on South Beach. In fact, there was...
LOOK, BUT DON'T BLINK
GREAT Moments In Sports: Saturday, Oklahoma was playing Texas A&M when ESPN cut to a promo, one stirringly titled, "This is College Basketball." The featured players in the promo were...
DUNGY NOT THINKING 'NEXT YEAR'
MIAMI - If the Colts defeat the Bears and win Super Bowl XLI Sunday, will it be Tony Dungy's final game as an NFL head coach? "It's something I haven't...
A SUPER FIGHT TO THE 'FINISH'
MIAMI - Lovie Smith interrupted. Yes, one of the most patient and soft-spoken NFL coaches actually cut off a question last night. He has guided his Chicago Bears this far,...
'A BUSINESS TRIP'
MIAMI - Super Bowl XLI is a one-team town until later today. Miami, the seductive temptress that's poised to begin hyping Sunday's big game between the Bears and Colts in...
CARMINOOCH WINS PROUD APPEAL
Credit handy ride by Mike Luzzi aboard Carminooch in $65,000 Proud Appeal Stakes to get money for his paisans in Three Amigos Stable that includes Soprano's Michael Imperioli and Paulie...
TODDY BALLGAME
In what could be a frightening development for the Yankees, the Red Sox are in talks with the Rockies that could land first baseman Todd Helton in Boston by the...
MILES TO GO
Miler Alan Webb has always seemed made for the grand New York stage, from becoming the first schoolboy to break the four-minute barrier indoors to his 3:56.70 victory at the...
LESTER SPARKS CANARSIE
Nathaniel Lester's debut on his future home court at Hofstra didn't get off to an especially good start, as the Canarsie senior picked up two quick fouls and didn't score...
BARBARO SUFFERS ANOTHER SETBACK
In what possibly is a last-ditch attempt to save Barbaro's life after his right hind leg - the one he fractured in last year's Preakness - "developed a deep sub-solar...
SPORTS SHORTS
FOOTBALL: Cowboys interview TurnerNorv Turner got the best out of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin when he was the Dallas Cowboys' offensive coordinator. He said he thinks he...
JULIEN EARNS POINTS WITH DEVILS
SUNRISE, Fla. - Don't beat the boss, in golf or hockey. Still, Claude Julien came within three points of matching the Lou Lamoriello LaMiracle. As the Devils head to a...
CAN'T PASS THE BUCKS
MILWAUKEE - Their final free-throw statistics were etched on the white blackboard in the Bradley Center locker room after yesterday's 107-105 loss to the Bucks - "14 of 24." And...
JEFFRIES' STOCK PLUMMETING
MILWAUKEE - The defensive small forward addition of the summer did it all yesterday - made steals, grabbed rebounds, had offensive putbacks, flew in for a rim-ratting dunk. He scored...
CURRY LIMITED IN HIS RETURN
MILWAUKEE - After banging with Knicks assistant Mark Aguirre in the low post an hour before game time, Eddy Curry decided his strained left calf was good enough to play....
THE FRESH VINCE
SALT LAKE CITY - Vince Carter said he just felt it was time. Time to get aggressive. Time to try to take over. Time to be Vince Carter. "It does...
WRIGHT ATTAINS BENCH MARK
SALT LAKE CITY - Antoine Wright had gone 19 games where he totaled 29 minutes. Eleven times, he never left the bench. "I was just trying to stay ready," Wright...
POWER-LESS PLAY FOR BLUESHIRTS
BOSTON - The failure on the power play isn't because of philosophy. It's because of execution. It's because Tom Renney continues to send the same inefficient five-man unit onto the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A blind woman in Bethlehem, N.Y., gets around with the help of a guide horse. "I've found that horse intelligence lends itself well to guide work," said Ann Edie, 58,...
Flash Game: Pandemic
What cures boredom faster than a plague?Pandemic is a strategic infection game, so to speak.You're a virus yearning to be the new Black Death. You must evolve and do what...
The Volkswagen Picks Up Momentum
The triumph of "Little Miss Sunshine'' at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night, where it took the ensemble prize -- SAG's rough equivalent to Oscar's Best Picture -- would...