April 3, 2007
Yankees should have dumped Pavano
By GEORGE KINGWhen the Yankees had the chance to move Carl Pavano they should have. Now, a few more dismal outings like he had on Opening Day and the market...
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME
You’ve got to be kidding me … With this weather forecast of rain, thunder and then temperatures in the 20s, highs in the 40s.To think that A-Rod will not have...
The Real Master of Grindhouse
It's too bad Quentin Tarantino is better friends (apparently) with Robert Rodriguez than with Rob Zombie.Grindhousewould have been far better if Rob Z., not Rob R., had teamed up with...
Isiah $50,000 fine is worth it
By MARC BERMANIt doesn't matter if Isiah Thomas is right about his claims that Stephon Marbury isn't getting enough calls on his dribbles to the hoop. Thomas knew what he...
Playoff Berth Awaits with a Win
Tonight can be the culmination of all the Blueshirts' hard work. With a victory over the Isles, the Rangers will guarantee their second straight playoff appearance. The Isles are a...
Quintessential chick flick in the works
First it was a line on "Sex and the City," then it was a dubious self-help bestseller, and now, inevitably, it's a romantic comedy: Variety reports that Ken Kwapis has...
Spidey's Homecoming
Sony finally sent out a press release today announcing the poorly-kept secret that "Spider-Man 3'' will have its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. We've been saying that since...
Deal of the Day
Indulge your inner Madonna and get that bodysuit that you've been eyeing in those snuff-ish looking photos at American Apparel.This Cotton Spandex Jersey Contrast V- Bodysuit comes in a slew...
PSP, going for peanuts
Okay, not really. But Sony did announce that they're reducing the price of the PSP from $199.99 to $169.99 - a whopping $30 in savings just for you! While that...
THE PERFECT DAY: Budapest
Budapest - the original Grey Lady Welcome to the second of an occasional series here on the blog. The purpose is self-explanatory - we'll ask the writer to map out...
COMING UP: Budapest
Young lovers love the baths of Budapest. Hello there and welcome to Value-Added Tuesday - it's David, and today, I'm here to talk to you about Budapest. Check back regularly...
The Passion of Bart
Nearly three weeks after Variety Editor Peter Bart nailed his condemnation of film critics for failing to appreciate the artistic subtleties of "300'' and its ilk to the cathedral door,...
The Silent Partner
The Walt Disney Co. has been moving away from the more adult-oriented movies marketed under the Touchstone Picture brand to focus on family fare that goes out under the Walt...
TRENDS: Spa 2007
Spa residences are all the rage (Pictured: Sundara Spa, Wisconsin.) Pressed for time? Get a physical between facials. Want to move in? Your favorite spa just might be building second...
MY LITTLE PONYHAWK
HAIR today - here to stay? Despite the hopes of Howard Stern fans, anarchists and crying preteen girls, "American Idol" loner Sanjaya Malakar doesn't have a future in pop music....
FOUNTAINS HOOKS 'EM
A three-minute, infectiously catchy, verse/chorus/verse song is the Holy Grail of pop music. And nobody does it better than Fountains of Wayne. You can hear it on "Stacy's Mom," the...
MPFREES
Download these songs free through Friday at nypost.comHilary Duff, "With Love" (Castillo remix) Cinematic teen queen Duff finds her dance groove on this terrific sexy slink off her "Dignity" disc....
'TWIST' BENT OUT OF SHAPE
THE stories of Charles Dickens have remained popular for more than a century and a half because they teem with life. Packed with memorable characters, raucous comedy and engrossing melodrama,...
STARR REPORT
Justin time for KCAs Nickelodeon seemed to spend more time than usual hyping this year's Justin Timberlake- hosted "Kids' Choice Awards" - and it paid off in the raw numbers....
TANGO LESSON
VH1 loves New York, but New York loves Tango. Brassy Tiffany Pollard may not have been able to land veteran rapper Flavor Flav on "Flavor of Love," but she reeled...
KILLING ADRIANA 'SO DESPICABLE' BUT . . .
THE hardest thing Steve Van Zandt ever had to do on "The Sopranos" was kill a girl. At the end of Season 5 of the famed mob opera, Silvio murdered...
BIG MAC ATTACKS
IN an upcoming episode of "The Shield," Vic Mackey blows his stack. And that's not exactly news. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) is always blowing his stack. He explodes so often that,...
HANGING CHADS: THE MOVIE
HBO has elected to make a movie about the 2000 presidential Florida voting mess. The movie, "Recount," will be directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack. It's targeted to air next...
CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN 5 DAYS
IF you think better, you'll feel better. It may sound simple - and too good to be true - but it really helps. Your state of mind can change how...
TALL ORDER
MY height really didn't bother me much until I entered high school. In middle school, I would go to the school dances and have a lot of fun, but then...
LIMB LENGTHENING A RARE WONDER
UNDERGOING cosmetic limb lengthening is a miracle, but simple? No way. To get those 2 to 3 inches, patients submit to a surgery wherein both tibiae and fibulae - those...
'PHANTOM' DOCS $CRUBBED
Controversial funding for hundreds of phantom doctors at hospitals has been eliminated from the state budget, Gov. Spitzer said yesterday. Spitzer said a significant $68 million in combined state-federal Medicaid...
MIKE BLASTS CURBS ON CHARTER SCHOOLS
Calling provisions in the state budget that could slow the opening of more charter schools "a disgrace," an irate Mayor Bloomberg yesterday teed off on legislators he claimed were trying...
BLOOMY BALKS AT BAT BAN
After sitting on the bench for much of the debate over banning aluminum bats at high-school baseball games, Mayor Bloomberg has announced he'll veto the bill, saying city officials aren't...
SNAKE 'BYTE' FRIGHT
The computer geeks at Google have made billions making it easy to search for stuff on the Web. Now they're the ones who are searching - for a 3-foot snake...
VANISHING CITY MIDDLE CLASS
The middle class is fast becoming an endangered species in New York City, where the costs of housing and health care have soared faster than salaries over the last decade,...
'FIRE PHONY' IS ONE SMUG SICKO
The father of the man prosecutors say is the fiendish fake firefighter who sexually assaulted and tormented a woman in her Chelsea apartment for 13 hours says his son seems...
SWINDAL GONE FISHIN' AS YANKS REEL IN RAYS
George Steinbrenner's beleaguered son-in-law - his future with the Yankees in doubt now that his wife has filed for divorce - was noticeably absent as the Bombers opened their 2007...
CHEERING ON CORY'S KIN
The widow and young son of Yankee hurler Cory Lidle - who was killed last year when his plane crashed into an Upper East Side high- rise - threw out...
PAYING THE POOR WORKS
Paying the poor to do the right thing, a program that Mayor Bloomberg is going to test in New York City, has produced some dramatic results in countries that have...
FEDS SEEK DEATH FOR 'GORGEOUS'
Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano faces the fight of his life after the feds announced that they will seek the death penalty against the silver-haired reputed former boss of the murderous...
TEEN 'SHOOTS' THIEF WITH HER CELL CAM
It just goes to show that you can never have too many cellphones. A thief swiped the phone of a young woman on a Queens bus last week, but she...
LAZY 'KILLER'
A freeloader son, who constantly battled with his hardworking mom over money, coolly shot his parents dead when they tried to boot the moocher and his live-in girlfriend from her...
CITY HIGH RI$E
A bustling local economy, stabilized mortgage rates, and strong demand for New York real estate have brought the city's residential sales market out of its yearlong doldrums. The latest quarterly...
ASTROLAND MAY GET 1 MORE RIDE
It's not quite game over for Coney Island's fabled Astroland Park. Developer Joe Sitt, who bought the 3.1-acre summer amusement park to incorporate into his planned, glitzy, Vegas-style complex, told...
WIRETAP CAPTURES GARSON'S 'FEE' SPEECH
Disgraced former Brooklyn Judge Gerald Garson not only handed out improper legal advice to a shady divorce lawyer in his courtroom - he even told him how much to charge...
REV. AL RIPS RAP BATTLE
Parents and community leaders yesterday threatened to boycott two of hip-hop's biggest artists in the wake of a rapper's alleged attack of a 14-year-old boy who was wearing a T-shirt...
2 BUSTED IN DIRTY DRIVING
Two creepy motorists put on a disgusting road show for cops in broad daylight after they were pulled over in Brownsville, authorities said yesterday. Sources said the strange Brooklyn incident...
TRAGIC WAIT ENDS
Two 9/11 victims whose remains were found in the rubble of the World Trade Center more than five years ago were identified this week, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday....
IMAM IS CHAPLAIN AT NYPD
The NYPD appointed a new Muslim chaplain yesterday, filling a two-year void left after his predecessor resigned amid disclosures that he had a criminal record. Imam Khalid Latif, 24, who...
WE'RE THE 'TRUE JEWS,' SAY SECT MEMBERS
The anti-Zionist group whose Rockland County synagogue went up in flames is a tiny ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose activist members have embraced Israel's enemies. The Neturei Karta, or "Guardians of...
FIERY RHETORIC
Federal terror probers yesterday flocked to the site of a controversial, anti-Zionist synagogue in Rockland County that was nearly burned to the ground on the eve of Passover. The Monsey...
'TAX BEATERS' SMOKED OUT
A cigarette tax-stamp counterfeiting scam that netted thousands of dollars has been snuffed out, leaving two brothers and a third man behind bars, authorities said yesterday. Onesimo Marcelino, 24, his...
1 KILLED IN B'KLYN HIT & RUN
A Brooklyn woman was killed and her husband critically injured last night by a hit-and-run driver outside the senior citizen residence where they live, cops said. The couple, identified by...
EX-FED MISSING IN IRAN
The U.S. government is asking Iran to help find a former FBI agent who mysteriously vanished nearly a month ago from an island in the southern part of the Persian...
HOSTAGE TALK TURNS 'POSITIVE'
Iran offered the first hopeful signs in the hostage crisis yesterday, saying it wouldn't air any more "confessions" of British sailors because of "positive changes" in London. Iran's chief international...
'ANTI-CHRIST' GETS CHOP FROM TIMES
An atheist millionaire blasted The New York Times because one of the company's newspapers suspended his online username - "Anti-Christ." Charles Merrill, 72, who comes from the same family as...
ROAD TO DAMASCUS
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was an "excellent idea" for her to powwow with Syrian strongman Bashar Assad in Damascus - even as the White House slammed...
RUDY'S $TAR IS ON RISE
Republican White House front-runner Rudy Giuliani hauled in a hefty $15 million in the first three months of this year - including $10 million raised just last month, his campaign...
BLOOD-PRESSURE LINK TO FLASHES
Women who get hot flashes have higher blood pressure than those who don't, a study found. The Weill Cornell Medical College study, released yesterday, found that sufferers of high blood...
ERRLINES TRY FLIER PATIENCE
More flights arrive late, and more luggage is lost - but wary airline passengers are getting so used to it, they're not even complaining anymore, experts say a new study...
TERROR CABBY TO DO 15-YEAR JAIL STRETCH
A Washington, D.C., cabby yesterday confessed to terrorism charges and agreed to serve 15 years behind bars for attending a Pakistani training camp in 2001. Mahmud Faruq Brent al-Mutazzim, 32,...
LAST LOVE OF ANNA AGREES TO DNA TEST
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer lover, Howard K. Stern, yesterday withdrew his objection to DNA tests that could prove the paternity of the late model's baby. Stern is listed as the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * This man (pictured) robbed an East Village bank, police said. He allegedly passed a note to a teller at the Sovereign branch on Avenue A and East Fourth...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 639; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 6207; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 874; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 4427;...
NANCY'S NONSENSE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be breaking bread today with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad - after blowing off White House criticism of her trip. Pelosi says she has "great hope"...
ELIOT'S EDUCATION
A giddy Joe Bruno yesterday delivered judgment on New York's spanking new, $122-billion state budget - and his own role in shaping it. "Whatever happened?" crowed the state Senate majority...
THE END OF RUDY'S BLISS
THE Giuliani '08 juggernaut just ran head-on into Podhoretz's First and Last Law of Politics, namely: No politician seeking the nation's highest office can do as much damage to another...
WHERE'S WINSTON?
THE greatest shock from the Middle East this year hasn't been terrorist ruthlessness or the latest Iranian tantrum. It's that members of Britain's Royal Marines wimped out in a matter...
N.Y.'S BROKEN BANK
THE ink actually rubbed off the printed versions of the new budget bills handed to legislators as they were asked to vote on it. Unfortunately, it's the rest of us...
FARM PORK FOREVER
SPINACH might not seem to have anything to do with military operations. But there it is, in an emergency supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $25...
OFF THE TRACKS
LAST November, Eliot Spitzer was elected with a large mandate to change the way business is done in Albany and to reform state government. In his first 50 days, he...
COMMON SENSE PAYS: MIKE'S CONDITIONAL CASH
THE ISSUE: Mayor Bloomberg's proposed cash incentives, designed to promote responsibility. I applaud Mayor Bloomberg for proposing conditional cash transfers, a potentially innovative program to help break cycles of intergenerational...
BULLIES TO EXPECT A BUMPY RIDE
THE ISSUE: A bill to protect people who report suspicious behavior on planes and public transit. As usual, Michelle Malkin has it exactly right ("Meet John Doe," PostOpinion, March 29)....
LENDING GIANT IS NOW THE ONE IN NEED
A top lender to home buyers with bad credit has gone belly up, wiping out more than $3 billion for investors and drying up a major mortgage source for low-income...
SATELLITE STATIC
The Carmel Group, the influential research firm whose analysis helped kill the 2003 merger of EchoStar and DirecTV, will release a new report today that outlines the strongest arguments yet...
HANK, WHY ARE YOU IGNORING MY FOIA REQUESTS?
I've decided to send a very public letter to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Dear Mr. Paulson: How ya doing? I think you're doing a wonderful job as Treasury Secretary. And...
LISTENING PARTY
In a move hailed by technophiles as groundbreaking and vilified by major record labels, EMI announced it will sell digital music downloads without anti-copying software through Apple's iTunes. Under the...
ZELL-ER BEWARE
Real estate tycoon Sam Zell won the auction for Tribune Co.'s newspaper and TV-station empire after trumping a bid from rival billionaires Eli Broad and Ron Burkle. The $8.2 billion...
GHURKA 'BAGS' IDEA OF SALE TO PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM
Luxury handbag maker Ghurka, which was near a deal to be sold to a private-equity firm, may not be changing hands after all, sources said. Owner Accessory Network Group, which...
VANTONE'S BACK FOR MORE
BEIJING Vantone, the Chinese real estate development company that walked away from two signed leases Downtown, says it's still serious about opening a "China Center" in Lower Manhattan. China Center...
TOY BUILDING TO SELL FOR $500M
L&L Holding Co. is buying the International Toy Center at 200 Fifth Ave. for nearly $500 million. "We will make this a very hot, chic building," said L&L Chairman and...
M&T JOINS LOAN-TROUBLED RANKS
M&T Bank yesterday became the latest lender to trigger investor skittishness about its exposure to potentially troubled home loans, announcing that earnings would suffer from "unfavorable market conditions." After a...
HONDO HITS AGAIN!
All aboard The Hondo Victory Train. Mr. Aitch rolled with the Reds yesterday to remain undefeated for the season and increase his earnings to a muscu lar 115 kluczewskis. Today,...
FOUR VIE TO CONTROL NY RACING
The race to see who will run thoroughbred racing in New York when the N.Y. Racing Association's franchise expires on Dec. 31 headed into the home stretch yesterday when four...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Jackson heads to HallPhil Jackson gave credit to his former Knicks coach, Red Holtzman, yesterday after the Lakers coach was among a class of seven named yesterday to enter...
SUMMITT REACHED
CLEVELAND - Charlene Vivian Stringer has lasted 35 years as a head basketball coach by thinking about the next practice, the next game, the next recruit before thinking about the...
MAC'S STATUE STILL IN HIDING
ST. LOUIS - Harry Weber was on the telephone, talking excitedly about his latest masterpiece, a statue of Stan Musial that was minutes away from its official unveiling outside Lester's...
LEGENDS MANIA
It's official. Post readers have voted Babe Ruth as New York's greatest sports legend. According to the final Legends Mania totals from nypost.com, the Bambino defeated Lawrence Taylor in the...
HISTORIC NIGHT FOR GATORS
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPFlorida 84 Ohio St. 75 ATLANTA - The pressure cooker known as great expectations began squeezing the Florida Gators back on April 7, 2006, when the star players on...
FROM A GREEN KID TO A STAR
ATLANTA - When Taurean Green chose to play at Florida, his father, former Knicks forward Sidney Green had a chat with Gators coach Billy Donovan. "I told him to stay...
BILLY'S GUYS EARN SPOT IN RECORD BOOK
ATLANTA - It won't get any better than this for Billy Donovan. The first coach to cut down the nets back to back since Mike Krzyzewski in 1992, only the...
CLAUDE CANNED
Since 2000, Lou Lamoriello has not been shy about making changes, in good seasons and bad, in season and out. A look at the Devils' history this decade: 1999-2000: Robbie...
DEVS STUNNED
April Fools' Day may have been Sunday, but the Devils' biggest surprise came yesterday. The players were perplexed, to say the least, at Claude Julien's firing. "We had no clue,"...
LAMORIELLO FIRES JULIEN, REHIRES HIMSELF
Lucite Lou Lamoriello has done it again. The Teflon GM is trying to transform the Devils he constructed into the team he envisions with one wave of his wand -...
SO MUCH FOR PROGRESS
FOR those who forgot to send a card, Candygram or plastic flowers, yesterday was the three-week anniversary of Isiah Thomas' multi-year contract extension, having duly impressed James Dolan with "sufficient...
AN UPHILL BATTLE
With his team barely clinging to its playoff hopes because of injuries and subpar play, Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas again complained about the treatment of Stephon Marbury - even as...
WAGNER QUICK TO SLOW DOWN
ST. LOUIS - In his season debut on Sunday night, Billy Wagner said he felt fine but also "felt a little quick." Wagner pitched the ninth inning of the Mets'...
COUNT ON BELTRAN
ST. LOUIS - In the first game of the season, Carlos Beltran nailed a runner at home, his throw gunning down the Cardinals' David Eckstein on the fly. Beltran added...
NETS: WE'RE IN CONTROL
The Nets cannot rely on help from others. But it certainly doesn't hurt when they get it. Obviously, the best help would be any the Nets give themselves in their...
RANGERS COUNT ON BERTH DAY
They have arrived at the brink of the playoffs rather than the precipice of the season by going about their business one game at a time, one opponent at a...
MURCER GETS CURTAIN CALL
Bobby Murcer's network of Yankee friends is so vast, Andy Pettitte took the likeable broadcaster to lunch in Houston this winter. Pettitte even footed the bill, which delighted Murcer. "It...
BERNIE TELLS TORRE HE STILL MAY WANT TO PLAY
Not so fast in thinking Bernie Williams is necessarily retired. During a telephone conversation with the former Yankees outfielder yesterday, Joe Torre was told that Williams is still working out...
'PEN CUSHION
EVERY eye in the house honed in on Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning yesterday and that was totally understandable. The greatest reliever in history was as great as ever....
GIAMBI HUGS, SLUGS WAY TO A MIGHTY DAY
Jason Giambi called it, quite frankly, one of the most difficult things he ever had to do. Moments before the Yankees kicked off the 2007 season, Giambi was confronted with...
DAMON'S AFTERNOON CUT SHORT DUE TO CRAMPS
Opening Day cramps Johnny Damon's style. For the second time in three years, cramps invaded Damon's calves yesterday when he was forced out of the Yankees' Opening Day win over...
PAVANO EXITS TO APPLAUSE
The biggest benefit of low expectations is the praise that often accompanies even the most minimal achievement. In Carl Pavano's case that meant hearing mostly applause - if you listened...
BATS BOOST BOMBERS
Yankees 9 Devil Rays 5Carl Pavano's long awaited return to actually earning the ocean of money the Yankees wasted on him went according to the type of pitcher the right-hander...
BOSS REMAINS MUM ON SWINDAL
Even after George Steinbrenner's Opening Day appearance at Yankee Stadium, this remained the unanswered question: What's going to happen to the Boss' son-in-law? Steve Swindal, formerly the heir apparent to...
A-ROD - SURPRISE, SURPRISE - STEALS SHOW IN BRONX
A TRANSFORMATION is taking place. Now Alex Rodriguez just has to let himself evolve into this new A-Rod before it's too late. This one is sleeker and still remains the...
BACK TO BASICS
YOU don't ask for a massage at Budapest's Rudas Baths if you're hung up on ceremony or if you value discretion, because no matter who you are, what happens after...
OLD SCHOOL
I love a good rubdown as much as the next girl. But there are reasons I studiously avoid destination spas - I'm simply not enough of a joiner to get...
GET WELL
PRESSED for time? Get a physical between facials. Want to move in? Your favorite spa just might be building second homes. Want to skip past the champagne sugar scrub and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Indian couple, distraught over the death of their dog, killed themselves after hosting a funeral feast for the pooch. The bodies of C.N. Madanraj, 67, and his wife, Tarabai,...
A Rose By Any Other Name
Is Rose McGowan ready to bloom again? She won over moviegoers, including this one, with her in-your-face portrayal of troubled teen Amy Blue in Gregg Araki's outrageous 1995 "The Doom...