January 15, 2007
Black and white and read all over
January 15, 2007 | 3:11pmGot Globes fever yet? (Rash, the sniffles, the urge to smack Isaac Mizrahi in the face) Luckily, the red carpet is only hours away. Get ready for Beyonce, Cate, Kate...
ON LOCATION: It's all Jam & Jerusalem
January 15, 2007 | 2:16pmGood boys and girls are not supposed to watch streaming video of film and television on the internet, but if it's on You Tube, it must be okay, no? Anyway,...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Jan. 14
January 15, 2007 | 11:28amSTILL? Another feature about Silverton, Colo. being untouched. Sort of like the one that ran in November. Sort of like the rash of Silverton stories that ran a couple of...
SEEING GREEN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amFOR almost 14 years, Angela Taormina worked in an old and dismal offi ce. The wallpaper was thick, and she thought she could see mold growing beneath it. Although the...
DREAM JOB: STACEY BENDET
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amLIKE the rest of us, Stacey Bendet, 27, puts her pants on one leg at a time. The difference is that she designs them first. It all started five years...
INK MEETS INC.
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN she fronts her rock band, the Kowalskis, Lindsey Anderson sports a large heart-shaped tattoo on her right biceps. But at her job as an account director for a Manhattan...
GO TO GREG
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amQ. Humor is a good icebreaker when meeting someone for the first time. Any tips for incorporating some into a job interview? A. Oh sure. One of the biggest jokes...
POWER POINTS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amBOSS BOSSES If your employer treats you like dirt, send a resume to Ernst & Young or Goldman Sachs. They ranked the highest among the seven N.Y.C.-based companies that made...
CARPETBAGGERS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHOSE luxe-filled gift bags are banned from tonight's Golden Globes, but just because the stars won't be walking away with sacks full of first-class travel vouchers and next-generation Palm Pilots...
STARS PUT THEIR BEST FACE FORWARD FOR THE GLOBES
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHE dress? That's the easy part - just zip up, double-tape down, and go. But before slipping on that $10,000 gown and walking the red carpet tonight, celebrities will have...
VERDI IMPRESSIVE DEBUT FOR KOREAN SOPRANO
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIF there is a more perfect ma chine for singing than Verdi's "La Traviata," I can't think of one. This unbelievably beautiful opera slid gracefully into the Metropolitan Opera on...
DANZA PLAYS IT TO THE MAX
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWHY is a nice Italian- American boy like Tony Danza doing a quintessentially Jewish turn as that lovably shady Max Bialystock in "The Producers"? He's there to perform box-office magic....
WHILE GIL IS AWAY
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHE earth neither moves nor shakes when a new investi gator comes to "CSI" this week to sub for the missing star of the show, William Petersen. Though the substitution...
ROSLYN 'HOOD
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amRACIST? Probably. Interesting? You bet. I'm talking about VH1's crazy new reality show, "ego trip's White Rapper Show,"which began last week (tonight is round two) . Essentially, it is an...
'DANCE' DUCKS 'IDOL' FACE-OFF
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHERE will be no "Happy Feet" moment for reality TV this spring when dancing takes on singing. "Dancing with the Stars" has elected to avoid a contemplated head-to-head showdown against...
IT'S OFFICIAL: 'TODAY' SHOW WILL GROW TO FOUR HOURS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amA fourth hour of the "Today" show is an official "go." NBC is expected to announce this week. The fourth hour - which The Post reported last month was a...
NETWORK BLUES
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amDESPITE the large number of awards for TV news, the duPont Awards - given out by Columbia University - are the Oscars. This year's duPont winners, announced over the weekend,...
STARR REPORT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amToday's Q&A With last night's season premiere of "24" (which con tinues tonight at 8), here are some answers to questions posed last week to "24" exec utive producer Howard...
BEHIND-SCENES PLAYER IS COMPTROLLER - FOR NOW
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - As the search begins for a new state comptroller, a longtime government worker is acting as caretaker of the state's $145 billion pension fund and managing the office's...
PATAKI'S 10G BILL FOR JET HITS TURBULENCE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - The State Comptroller's Office has blocked payment of a $10,712 bill for a luxury charter jet flight taken last month by then-Gov. George Pataki, The Post has learned....
RANGEL'S DRAFT CHILLS TRACK KIDS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amRep. Charles Rangel may have dodged the proverbial bullet yesterday, refusing to say whether he'll continue to support reinstatement of the draft, but dozens of teenagers and parents at track-and-field...
GIANT GOES NUTS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amGiants superstar Michael Strahan last night angrily tried to confront the ex-wife who sacked him for $15 million in a divorce settlement, as he dropped off their kids at her...
NEWARK 'SHOT' AT NET GAIN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe Newark Nets? If Mayor Cory Booker has his way, the Nets would flee the Meadowlands swamp to play in downtown Newark's spanking-new $375 million arena once it opens in...
DOLPHIN DRAMA
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amDesperate attempts to save about 20 dolphins stranded in an East Hampton creek failed yesterday, stoking fears that the ailing mammals will die from starvation and stress. The common dolphins...
DESPERATE LEAP FROM 3RD-FLOOR QNS. BLAZE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amA Queens man was seriously hurt after jumping three stories from a burning apartment yesterday. Nicholas Barnes, 21, was in a back bedroom of his 44-20 Ketcham Street apartment in...
HOSP BOSS BOTCHED BONUSES
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe head of Harlem Hospital is in hot water for violating city spending policies by handing out a total of $169,000 in bonuses to too many employees - and then...
BIG TRUCKIN' HEADACHE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTruck traffic in the city has shot up 30 percent in nearly a decade - and is expected to soar 83 percent higher by 2020 - Rep. Anthony Weiner said...
PAIR KILLED BABY FOR CRYING: COPS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amA Harlem couple shook and suffocated their 2-month-old son because they were afraid his crying would get them evicted, police sources said yesterday. Teresa Flores, 20, and Rufino Bedoya-Flores, 30...
NEW BID TO TRY 2ND MAN IN TOT SLAY
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amProsecutors this week will try to land a murder indictment against a second suspect in last year's shooting death of a 2-year-old boy on his way to Easter Sunday services,...
BROOKLYN BOOMING
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIf 2006 proved anything, it's that Brooklyn's days of taking a back seat to Manhattan in the real-estate game are over. Bruce Ratner last month received final state approval to...
MOM SLAIN TRYING TO STOP PALS' FIGHT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe mother of an infant girl was stabbed to death in The Bronx early yesterday while trying to stop a fight between friends, said police and relatives. "It was a...
CHECK, PLEASE!
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - The overtime queen of state government is a mental-hospital nurse who made almost twice her salary in extra pay last year. Olukemi Akinyemi, who works at Bronx Psychiatric...
LOTTERY LOSING TO VID SLOTS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - Video slots are hot; Mega Millions and Lotto are not. Revenue from video-slot machine parlors jumped 44.9 percent last year over 2005, according to figures compiled for The...
POLICE FARCE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amDetectives investigating the bizarre roadside murder of Bill and Hillary Clinton's Chappaqua neighbor face a major obstacle in their quest to bring a killer to justice - their own police...
DOCS FLEE SINKING HOSPS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amDoctors from the five city hospitals slated for closure are already starting to jump ship, according to a published report. "The hospitals are fighting closing, but the docs are already...
'CODE BLUE' TEAMS SAVING LIVES
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amCardiac arrests among patients admitted to the city's public hospitals plummeted by more than 50 percent last year - thanks to the formation of new emergency "rapid response" medical teams,...
SPITZER TAPS TWU-BUSTER
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amGov. Spitzer yesterday nominated to the Court of Appeals the judge who threw transit union leader Roger Toussaint in jail for his role in the 2005 transit strike. State Supreme...
TEST-TUBE TOT NOW A MOM
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amLouise Brown, who made history 28 years ago as the world's first "test-tube baby," has given birth to a child of her own - but her own dad died shortly...
'BANSHEE' NICOLE DROVE 'ME' TO MURDER
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe controversial shelved book "If I Did It" - the so-called make-believe account by O.J. Simpson of how he would have killed his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman...
$TRONGEST 'YARD' IS NO. 1 FILM
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe blockbuster "Night at the Museum" finally got the boot from its perch atop the box office - by a film that cost only $14 million to make. "Stomp the...
CHENEY: WAR CRITICS DON'T HAVE "STOMACH" FOR THE FIGHT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday that critics who want to pull back from Iraq don't have the "stomach" for a long fight, and accused opponents of the...
BLUNDER BUSH
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday admitted making mistakes in Iraq, but vowed "we're going forward" there - insisting Congress won't be able to block his plan to send 21,500 more...
CHILD PORN AT MISSOURI KIDNAP LAIR
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amKiddie porn was found on the home computer of the hulking loner accused of kidnapping two St. Louis boys, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. As a result, the feds are considering...
HILL JABS AT JOHN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night ripped into 2008 White House contender John Edwards - her first direct assault on any of her potential Democratic presidential rivals. Clinton's surprising broadside...
'BLACK HAWK' GENERAL IN COVERT OPS WITH WARLORD'S SON
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - A controversial U.S. general and a Somalian warlord whose father was responsible for the infamous "Black Hawk Down" violence in 1993 are now allies in the war against...
CONDI REJECTS SLUR OVER WAR
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - The simmering controversy over a senator's shocking claim that Condoleezza Rice can't understand the sacrifices of America's GI families because she doesn't have children has followed the secretary...
BEL AIRHEAD POSH IS ON THE PROWL
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amVictoria "Posh Spice" Beckham spent yesterday house-hunting for a posh L.A. pad where her soccer-star husband can hang his cleats at night. As her U.S.-bound hubby, David Beckham, watched his...
NYPD BLOTTER
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amBrooklynGunfire erupted at a Bedford-Stuyvesant house party, leaving one man wounded, police sources said yesterday. The 39-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was at a bash in an apartment...
'MOBSTER' IS ON THE MENU
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amA reputed mobster, whose uncle once ran the Gambino crime family for imprisoned godfather John Gotti, has a city contract to operate a posh restaurant in a Queens mansion that...
LIBERAL U. ONLY GIVES B.S. IN BS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIF you think college is overpriced, under tutored and overly liberal, you have a cheerleader in Jason Mattera. Mattera is a spokesman for Young America's Foundation, a conservative activist group...
LAME NAMES RILE DEMS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amGOV. Spitzer is being privately criticized by some senior Democrats for several "lackluster" and "disappointing" appointments during his first two weeks on the job, insiders have told The Post. One...
LOTTERY
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Numbers Sun.: 478 Midday Win-4 Sun.: 2045 Evening Numbers Sun.: 501 Evening Win-4 Sun.: 5231 Pick-10 Sun.: 6, 10, 20, 25, 27, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38,...
KING'S LEGACY - SO FAR
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThis year, the federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King falls on the civil-rights leader's actual birthday. It is also the first MLK holiday without his widow, Coretta Scott...
JIMMY FOR TERROR
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amHas a former president of the United States - a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less - given his blessing to wanton murder and terrorist assaults against Israel? Sure looks...
IRAQ: WHY THE MEDIA MISSTEP
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amJUST outside Um al-Qasar, a port in south east Iraq, a crowd had gathered around a British armored car with a crew of four. An argument seemed to be heating...
PERSIAN PERIL
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amALMOST nobody noticed last week's second most important speech. President Bush's address on Iraq deserved our undivided attention - but so did Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte's Senate testimony...
THE TAX CUTS NEW YORK NEEDS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amGOV. Spitzer promises to revitalize the economy and "attract cap ital and jobs back to New York." He's even said he'll cut taxes. New Yorkers certainly need tax cuts. The...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00am"Gotham's Latest Non-Crisis," (Editorial, Dec. 30) doesn't explain why 1 million New Yorkers rely on food pantries or soup kitchens. Maybe they couldn't get reservations at the Four Seasons? The...
SPITZER STEPS IN AT PATAKI'S WTC PIT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: Gov. Spitzer's inheritance of the challenges of building at Ground Zero. Steve Cuozzo writes that Gov. Spitzer shouldn't make any changes to the plans for the World Trade...
THE UPSIDE OF GLOBAL WARMING
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: New York's unseasonably warm winter and the results of global climate change. Global warming is not a conservative issue or a liberal issue - it's a people issue...
ONLINE BOOKIE MAY BET ON BUYING 'COUNTRY'
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amOne of the many online gaming companies seeking shelter from a U.S. crackdown on their business thinks it may have found a novel strategy: buying its own country. BetCRIS Sportsbook,...
2007TH HEAVEN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amOvernight, tech stocks are back on top of the world. Shares of technology companies are racing out of the gate since the new year began, pushing the Nasdaq to its...
SKINNY AND SCARY
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThe gossip mags have been full of mock concern lately for skeletal, anorexic Hollywood starlets, but some of the mags are looking pretty thin themselves. People isn't very enticing this...
SHARI TO MAKE HIGH-SOCIETY DEBUT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIn line to take over the $54 billion Viacom empire, Shari Redstone will need to score a strong coming-out at her social debut this week among New York's high society....
GE NEAR $5B DEAL
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amGeneral Electric is near a deal to buy the aerospace division of British industrial firm Smiths Group PLC for about $4.9 billion, according to people close to the deal, The...
BIG BOARD BRASS ARE 'SEAT CHEATS': SUIT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amThree former New York Stock Exchange seatholders who argue that they were duped into selling their seats at low prices will get a chance to stare down the Big Board...
TW TOUTS CABLE'S FUTURE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amReady for an all-out clash with satellite companies and telecom outfits, Time Warner tomorrow will unveil Home to the Future, a four-story interactive exhibit to show its ability to keep...
WHEEL A DEAL DINNER
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIt is the fashion event of the year, but no one will be looking at the clothes. When the chief executives of some of the major retail and apparel companies...
BRADY STARS IN N.E.'S FAVORITE RERUN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - The mark of a great quarterback is when he can get off the deck, wipe the blood off his brow, silence the hostile crowd, get his team...
FOX CROWD SHOTS AIM FOR TROUBLE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIF you worked hard at it, you couldn't make TV as bad as it has become. Fox's Eagles-Saints Saturday almost made us long for what ESPN has done to Monday...
PATS KICKING AND BEAMING
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - This is precisely why you never count out the Patriots. You never count out Tom Brady. You never count out Bill Belichick. It's January, it's the playoffs...
PATS' SACK DANCE TICKS OFF TOMLINSON
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - LaDanian Tomlinson, usually very mild-mannered, became incensed after the Chargers' 24-21 loss to the Patriots yesterday when some New England players began mocking Shawne Merriman's sack dance...
'D'-TOUR
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amEvery question seemed to be prefaced the same way. No one can quite believe what the Colts are doing on defense, leading to the obvious query: How is this possible,...
AMAZING FEET
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Patriots' kicker Stephen Gostkowski following the footsteps of Adam Vinatieri is not a lot different from quarterbacks such as Jay Fiedler and Jake Plummer following the likes...
VINNY GETS SHOT AT RING
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Vinny Testaverde is 60 minutes away. For the second time in his 19-year career, and first time since the 1998 AFC Championship game, Testaverde is 60 minutes...
KING OF CHICAGO
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - Three hours and sixteen minutes of dread was only the tip of the iceberg pressing against the Windy City's spine while the Bears, twice one-and-out in home playoff...
WINDY END FOR KICKER
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amCHIGAGO - Was that a swirling wind Robbie Gould felt at the back of his neck as he lined up to kick the Bears into their first NFC championship game...
SEAHAWKS FALL SHORT
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amCHICAGO - The Seahawks, humiliated here 37-6 in Week 4, showed up this time, defending their NFC title to the bitterest of ends against the Bears. Had Lance Briggs not...
BIG-PLAY RECHE: CALDWELL TORCHES HIS FORMER TEAM
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSAN DIEGO - Reche Caldwell had one heck of a homecoming. The former Charger recovered a Marlon McCree fumble at the San Diego 32 after Troy Brown had stripped the...
MINUTE RICE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amChris Fouch had seen his team cough up leads earlier in the season, and yesterday's game appeared to be another one that was slipping away from Rice. "We were concerned,"...
SAGAMOON CAPTURES BUSANDA
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSagamoon and My Kitty, only NY-breds in field of eight 3-year-old fillies, ran 1-2 in $65,000 Busanda at mile-and-sixteenth. Sagamoon, making stakes debut for Tom Albertrani in first start since...
SPORTS SHORTS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amMLB: Blue Jays extend Overbay First baseman Lyle Overbay and the Blue Jays agreed to a $24 million, four-year deal, a team official said yesterday. Overbay hit .312 with 22...
DEFENSE MECHANISM
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amDays after watching the lowly Bobcats shred his Knicks for a startling 126 points Friday night, coach/president Isiah Thomas insisted he wasn't worried or upset with his team's shoddy defense....
NETS WON'T SWEAT MINNY MELTDOWN
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amSo, the Nets lost a game. But they insist they didn't lose the momentum and edge they had built over the previous two weeks. "Nah," insisted center Mikki Moore. "We...
OUT OF KAS
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amIn the seven games immediately preceding Saturday's match against the Bruins, Darius Kasparaitis had been on the ice for only one Rangers even-strength goal against while accumulating a plus-minus rating...
MATTEAU!
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amFifty-four years of wretched Rangers fate was going down hard, like the Devils, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on May 27, 1994. After rallying from a 2-0...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 15, 2007 | 10:00amA repentant German tourist mailed a check to the mayor of a small Norwegian town to pay for some items that he swiped from a local shop - 36 years...