July 9, 2008
Carnie Wilson's diet plan
âRight now, the only fat I am getting is Olive Oil," she says. "I am not saying I will never have a bite of cheesecake again. I will probably spit...
GIAMBI AND MUSTACHE MAKE FINAL ALL-STAR PUSH
The mustache might not get Jason Giambi to the All-Star Game and it certainly won't win him any beauty contests, but it has taken on a life of its own....
Blanco ripped by opposing player? Can't be
By BRIAN LEWISApparently itâs not just a Red Bulls-Chicago thing. It seems the Fire can bring out the bile in any team, because their U.S. Open Cup loss to D.C....
Sean Young sounds off
Three decades in show business seem to be taking a toll on actress Sean Young.Just when some of us had begun to forget how she was booted from the DGA...
JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA'S 'NUTS OUT'
WASHINGTON - In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to "cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out" and he accused the...
Kelly Ripa and NYC women get pumped
More than 500 participants - including 11 men - from 40 states ran in Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa's first-ever High Heel-a-thon in Central Park this morning for a chance...
Game 91: Giants at Mets
The Mets look to make it five in a row tonight when they ride Johan Santana (pictured) against the Giants and lefty Jonathan Sanchez. A five-game winning streak would equal...
TRANSIT: I'd rather be in Singapore
Weeks like this, you can pat yourself on the back and mutter that while the subway platforms in New York may take on new and temporary duties as little portals...
Deal of the Day-Urban Outfitters
This one is for your summer travelsâa Bon Voyage Necklace complete with a working compass.The quirky piece of neck candy is only $16.99 down from $24 at Urban Outfitters which...
A real Brady story
Marcia Brady is finally coming clean.In her upcoming tell-all book âHereâs The Story,â actress Maureen McCormick promises to dish âthe real storyâ of her life â on and off television....
Bikini or Bust!
Ashley Paige is bringing her swimwear to cable television! The new reality show will follow the designer in her daily battles with business, boys, and bikinis. TLC, the network home...
IT TAKES 10 BEFORE HAIR-RAISING WIN
The pinstriped coffins ordered last weekend haven't been cancelled even though the Yankees rode a four-game winning streak out of The Bronx today. All two wins over AL East rivals...
Search for the 'Girl Next Door'
Manhattan was the last stop on the nationwide search for Playboy's 55th Anniversary Playmate. Click below to see two of Hugh Hefner's main squeezes - Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt...
Scene-NYC streets
Director and screenwriter Carolyn London wears a Kate Spade dress over leggings, a necklace from Portland, a J Crew striped cardigan, sunglasses from Loehmanns, a headband from the street and...
Casting call
NY PR agency Jack + Bill is hosting an open casting call to select one model, womenâs apparel designer, jewelry designer and fashion stylist to receive complimentary PR representation leading...
Walsh claims Marbury still a Knick
By MARC BERMANAt today's press gathering at the Garden to announce Chris Duhon's signing, Knicks president Donnie Walsh was evasive on what he'll do with Stephon Marbury. Walsh obviously wants...
Grunfeld's son gets look
By MARC BERMANDan Grunfeld, Ernie Grunfeld's Stanford son, will be on the Knicks summer league that opens practice Friday. Grunfeld's NBA career took a hit when he blew out his...
Knicks' Summer League Roster
The Knicks annoucned their roster for the NBA's Las Vegas Summer League:Renaldo BalkmanWilson ChandlerMardy CollinsDanilo GallinariDan GrunfeldAntonio GravesMarcus HallDelonte HollandBrandon HunterAntione JohnsonPaul MillerAnthony RobersonNate RobinsonVon WaferZhang Songtao
Report: Mattingly To Become Dodgers Hitting Coach
According to the L.A. Times, citing sources close to the situation, the Dodgers will promote Don Mattingly to hitting coach.Mike Easler is currently the hitting coach, but with the Dodgers...
Can Nat take your order?
were close buds. We thought the new "90210" was beginning to taste a lot like a Megaburger.Joe E. Tata, 71, is returning to the Peach Pit kitchen on the CW's...
LI TEEN FOUND IN GARAGE AFTER PARTY DIED OF HEROIN OVERDOSE
A teen found dead in a garage after a booze-filled Long Island party died from a heroin overdose, according to police who arrested her ex-boyfriend and 11 other people suspected...
Not a Reege replacement
When Regis Philbin decides to give up his daily hosting chair next to Kelly Ripa, thereâs one guy who wonât be trying to fill it â her husband Mark Consuelos.âI...
Starr Report: Radio news
Frank Vincent Frank Vincent, who played silver-haired "Sopranos" goon Phil Leotardo, is crossing over to the "other side" as an NYPD lieutenant in "The Tested," an indie movie directed by...
NO DEAL YET IN BRINKLEY DIVORCE TRIAL
Hopes of a settlement to the sensational Christie Brinkley divorce trial were stalled this afternoon as both parties returned to the courtroom before adjourning for the day. The Central Islip...
Not a video game, but...
This show was the bomb, go get a copy pronto. you should check it out anyway.What better way to finally update the blog than with a post that is entirely...
Shake Shack coming to Citi
A press release from the Mets ...The Mets and Aramark today announced a partnership with Danny Meyerâs noted Union Square Hospitality Group to open food sites at Citi Field, the...
Coverage in today's Post
Thanks in large part to Mike Pelfrey (pictured), who might be their best pitcher right now, the Mets kept rolling Tuesday night with a 7-0 blanking of All-Star Tim Lincecum...
Once-Mighty MGM Threatens to Actually Start Making Movies Again
MGM's Mary Parent has greenlit her first movie, a sci-thriller called "The Cabin in the Woods,'' from a spec script by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, with a fall start...
3 UP: Harden, Dunn and Pelfrey
1. A's GM Billy Beane has told me several times that he thinks the two most dominant starters in the AL are Seattle's Felix Hernandez and Rich Harden. His proviso...
SACRIFICING IT ALL . . .IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY
THE ISSUE: Recognizing those in the military who protect our country and preserve our rights. Thank God The Post runs Ralph Peters' articles. They remind us of what is going...
BRING ON THE FEDS
THE Port Authority's bungling at Ground Zero has already wasted billions of dollars and years, if not decades. It is, in the words of Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger,...
INTELLECTUALS LIE, THE POWERLESS DIE
THE greatest lie intellectuals tell us is that "the pen is mightier than the sword." That's what cowards claim when they want to preen as heroes. Billions of words have...
'RACE' WARRIORS
ONLY in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists.Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, who've succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate." Both...
THE NYPD WILL KEEP CRUSHING CRIME
MANY New Yorkers remember how it was fewer than 20 years ago - when criminals infested our streets and drug gangs fought pitched battles that claimed innocent lives. At the...
RUSSIA RATTLES SABER ON US MISSILE SHIELD
Russia warned yesterday it will use its military might - and not diplomacy - to prevent the United States from deploying a missile defense shield close to its borders. The...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 672; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7894; Lucky Sum: 28 / Evening Nos. Tue: 737; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
BOSS RANGEL SPREADING WEALTH TO FELLOW DEMS
WASHINGTON - Call him the House sugar daddy. Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has doled out a whopping $849,392 from his campaign...
RUBE RAGE AT RUSE BY 'GAY BORAT'
The man behind Borat is once again preying upon Deep South dimwits for make benefit glorious industry of filmmaking, it was reported yesterday. His latest victims - a bunch of...
BRITNEY SIS: MY TOT JOY
Tween TV idol Jamie Lynn Spears had the "perfect pregnancy" and can't wait to be a soccer mom, she gushes in a magazine interview featuring the first photos of her...
O JABS HIS 'FRIENDS ON THE LEFT'
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama yesterday swiped at "friends on the left" who have tagged him as a flip-flopper on key campaign issues - his most direct response yet to complaints...
MAC RIPS BILL ON POWS
John McCain yesterday slammed Bill Clinton for suggesting that POWs could explode at any moment with anger over war experiences. "I don't know where he gets his expertise," McCain, a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Tyheim Walker, 21, allegedly pulled a large kitchen knife in the shop at Varick and Charlton streets at around 6:30 p.m. on April 24 after inquiring about the price...
JOVI FANS IN 'FREE' FALL
There's nothing the city can do about the hordes of brazen scalpers cashing in on the free Bon Jovi concert in Central Park this Saturday, Mayor Bloomberg admitted yesterday. Reacting...
NY HOSPS MAKE PATIENTS SICK
Patients in surgical intensive-care units of NewYork state hospitals get infections at a higher rate than patients in the rest of the nation, according to a new report. Results of...
KILLER'S ROBBER BRO SHOT DEAD
A Staten Island ex-con whose thug brother blew away an aspiring actress in cold blood was killed yesterday by a man he was trying to rob, sources said. Bloods member...
COP-SLAY 'REMORSE'
Exactly one year after their cop son was gunned down during a traffic stop in Brooklyn, Leonid and Tatyana Timoshenko yesterday heard one of his accused killers offer a lame...
CONS GET OUT OF JAIL FREE
ALBANY - Scores of violent felons from New York City have been sprung from prison without parole supervision as the state implements a law ordering new sentencing hearings for the...
MAN & BOY IN DEATH LEAP FROM FIRE
A man and his young godson jumped six stories to their deaths after they were trapped in a burning Harlem building last night, fire officials said. "It's heartbreaking to know...
ELIOT GAL HOOKING A TV DEAL
After bringing down Gov. Eliot Spitzer and becoming the most infamous hooker in America, Ashley Dupre is about to stoop even lower than prostitution - reality television. PHOTOS: Ashley Dupre...
CONDIT SUIT OVER AND DUNNE WITH
Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne didn't slander former US Rep. Gary Condit when he publicly said he thinks the ex-California pol knows "more than he has ever told about" the...
YOUTUBER LACES INTO HUBBY OVER $HOES
YouTube yeller Tricia Walsh-Smith says it became clear that her "Cinderella" marriage to Broadway producer Philip Smith wouldn't have a happy ending when he went "ballistic" on her for spending...
STRIPPER BARES HER SUPPORT FOR CYNTHIA
A busty blond Boston stripper who claims she twice bedded Alex Rodriguez said the Yankee star's wife "did the right thing" by kicking her philandering man to the curb. "A...
SI A TOURIST ATTRACTION
The Empire State Building. The Statue of Liberty. The Staten Island Zoo? Tourists to the Big Apple rarely venture to attractions beyond Manhattan, an oversight officials hoped to rectify yesterday...
'SPIDER-MAN 3' SCALES NY TIMES BUILDING
A daredevil dressed in black early this morning attempted a night climb of the New York Times building - almost five weeks after two daytime climbers who reached the top...
DAD LEFT TO DIE IN CAR: COPS
A suburban bus driver who left his elderly parents inside a car where the heat rose above 100 degrees was hit with reckless-endangerment charges yesterday in the death of his...
THE SHRINK RAPS BOTH SIDES
A shrink labeled Christie Brinkley's two-timing hubby a childish narcissist in desperate need of therapy - but also said the supermodel needs time on the couch to deal with her...
TRANSIT BIGS' 'BLUNDER'-BUS
A surge in bus travel is leaving more riders with standing room only, a transit advocacy group charged yesterday. The rise in ridership over a decade is fast outpacing service...
MOM BACKS FIRE BOY, 5
The mother of a troubled 5-year-old boy who torched his grandmother's Brooklyn apartment - and himself in the process - defended her son yesterday and cast some of the blame...
45-YEAR LOW FOR WELFARE
Fewer New Yorkers are on the dole today than at any point over the past 45 years, figures obtained by The Post show. The city's welfare caseload had dropped to...
GOLISANO POWER PLAY
ALBANY - Billionaire Tom Golisano yesterday pledged to pour $5 million into an unprecedented political attack fund aimed at shaking the balance of power in state government. The three-time failed...
HOME STREET HOME
A homeless-by-choice man is now just plain homeless - after a state appeals court booted him from his rent-stabilized, $104-a-month Midtown apartment. Michael Tsitsires has had an apartment at The...
IT WAS ALL IN GOOD CHASTE: RANDY REV.
A pastor who fell from grace and lost his job at a ritzy Fifth Avenue church after an alleged affair with a married parishioner says they never had sex, despite...
HATE RAP IN PRIEST BEAT
Four teens face hate-crime charges for beating an Episcopal priest and a resident of a Queens shelter for homeless transgender youths, authorities said yesterday. The suspects, who range in age...
SHE FACES TOUGH PITCH ON PRENUP
Cynthia Rodriguez might have a better chance of hitting a big-league home run than voiding her prenup. In her Miami divorce filing Monday, C-Rod indicated that in order to get...
MORE HEAT ON OLMERT
A team of top Israeli investigators strengthened the case for indicting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for corruption after the probe took them to New York and other US cities in...
ALEX FIRES BACK IN BID FOR KIDS
Now it's about their kids. Alex Rodriguez is negotiating to see his two young daughters - because his estranged wife has made it difficult for the Yankee superstar to spend...
DIPLO-DOUBLE TALK ON SERB
Serbia's foreign minister said yesterday that the case of a Serb basketball player who fled the United States after being charged with a savage assault damaged relations between the two...
MAYOR SETS MERRILL STAKE PRICE
A blind trust run by Mayor Bloomberg is willing to pay between $4.5 billion and $5 billion to buy Merrill Lynch's 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP, sources tell The...
CHRYSLER BLDG. GOES ABU DHABI
AS of today, the majority of the iconic Chrysler Building should be in the - we expect - happy hands of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council. The nearly $800 million...
THIS BUD IS NOT FOR YOU
Anheuser-Busch has sued InBev accusing its Belgian suitor of making a string of false statements and violating securities laws in the latest move in the increasingly nasty cross-border beer brawl....
UN-SYMS-ATHETIC SHAREHOLDERS
Off-price clothing retailer Syms is expected to face a mob of angry shareholders at its annual meeting tomorrow, pressuring the company to come clean about its valuable real-estate holdings. Last...
CONSUMER SPENDING SLIDE KILLING MADISON AVENUE
Madison Avenue is growing increasingly pessimistic about its prospects this year. One by one the leading forecasters have been cutting their ad spending projections for 2008, citing the weakening economy...
SHAKIRA & NICKELBACK FOR LIVE NATION
Add Canadian rock group Nickelback and curvy pop star Shakira to Live Nation's growing stable of artists. The two acts became the latest to sign all-encompassing deals with the LA-based...
A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC
EDITORS are taking the hits in the latest rounds of restructuring that are shaking the magazine world. Friends said that Erik Torkells, editor at Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, has resigned...
BEN SEES TREASURY AS THE BANK CURE
Two of Wall Street's biggest figures - Ben Bernanke and Jamie Dimon - went public yesterday with their separate cures for some of the economy's deepening ills. Bernanke, the embattled...
PSST, WANNA BUY A . . .
SUN VALLEY, Idaho - In what's certain to be an unfamiliar role for him, NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker is expected to be the popular guy at the Allen &...
TIMETABLE TURNABOUT
Are American forces in Iraq starting to work themselves out of a job? That's certainly one explanation for the surprising debate that sprang up this week between the Iraqi and...
'ONLY DUST REMAINS'
Judge Alvin Hellerstein obviously wasn't happy about his decision. But he was entirely right to dismiss a 3-year-old lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court that would've forced the city to...
A PRO AT PREPOSTEROUS
Al Sharpton yesterday defiantly nixed a deal offered by prosecutors, instead pleading not guilty to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from his role in protests over the Sean Bell verdict....
PETER A GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY'S horny hubby had a secret career - which he practiced long before he learned to live off rich and trusting women. Peter Cook, then a male model, dealt...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Here's a tale involving a goat, a dog and a Mercedes. An Alabama woman in a Mercedes pulled off an Interstate when she saw the animals playing on the road....
UP IN THE AIR: THE STORY OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Written and illustrated by Brian Floca STORY SO FAR: Wilbur Wright's growing interest in flying machines has led him to write the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. A response arrives...
HEEL THYSELF
WE caught up with some well-heeled New Yorkers on their daily lunchtime dash to find out how they negotiate the city's myriad obstacles with nary a misstep.Julie, 25 Brooklyn How...
IT'S A SHOCKER
TIME was running out for Special Agent Silverman. With only a few seconds remaining until ignition, he raced through the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown, leaping over tourists and bellhops...
HEELELUJAH!
ANY well-heeled NYC girl worth her weight in YSL Tributes knows how to navigate the city streets while high. Prettily perched on high heels, that is. She can manuver the...
STARR REPORT
WRXP's Matt Pinfield, who's flown solo since his morning show premiered in May, could be joined on a regular basis by new pro gramming director Leslie Fram, who's been interacting...
'BETTY' IN THE 'HOOD
HERE'S your first look at "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera shooting her first scenes in New York City. Ferrera, and the rest of the ABC sitcom, moved from LA to...
CHRISTINA'S 'KITCHEN'
CHRISTINA Machamer bested Louis Petrozza in last night's "Hell's Kitchen" season finale - wrapping the show's most successful season to date. Machamer, 25, fresh out of culinary school, now becomes...
WAR BONDING
YOU half expect to hear Jimi Hendrix singing "All Along the Watchtower" in this Iraq War miniseries that takes pains to equate the current war with the quagmire of Vietnam....
SCREAM DREAM
IN order to like "Scare Tactics," you have to be half a moron with a sophomoric sense of humor. I mean, seriously, what's so funny about scaring people so badly...
WAR IMITATES WAR
JUST when I thought I had heard everything about the war in Iraq, along comes "Full Battle Rattle." The documentary goes inside a billion-dollar government project in the Mojave Desert...
'MAMMA MIA!' MANIA
THE inhabitants of Skopelos, a sleepy little island in the Aegean Sea, are preparing for an invasion - the "Mamma Mia!" invasion. The film version of the hit musical was...
HEROINE CHIC N TEARJERKER
BETRAYAL, death, ghosts and redemption - that heady Romantic mix has kept "Giselle" aloft in the ballet world for 167 years and counting. American Ballet Theatre offered the season premiere...
ALLORO A NEW ITALIAN WITH ALLURE
'THE baby is cute," the woman at new Alloro was saying to the man at her table. "Honey, every baby is cute." "Some babies aren't cute." And even more restaurants...
SERVING UP SUMMER
NOTHING heralds summer like a breezy meal by the beach, and nobody's more of an expert on the topic than Katie Lee Joel. In addition to being a Hamptons fixture...
MATSUI STILL MAY GET KNIFE
For the first time since before he went on the disabled list, Hideki Matsui took some swings yesterday. And he came through it pain-free. The Yankee left fielder, out with...
THAT'S THE DEREK WE KNOW
THIS time, Derek Jeter held onto the ball behind second base instead of throwing it away the way he did on Sunday against the Red Sox. This time, Jeter came...
ANDY HAS HIS WAY WITH UPSTART RAYS
Whether the Yankees gain any ground this series comes down to today's finale. Whether they ultimately catch the first-place Rays comes down to the next three months. But in facing...
THERE'S A CATCH TO POSADA
Jorge Posada insists he is healthy and that his once ailing shoulder is no longer an issue. "I'm fine," Posada said. Yet for the third straight game, Posada started as...
'CLEAN' ACT DIRTY TRICK TO BOATERS
THE federal Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft permit for recreational vessels for operational discharges that could subject boaters to potential lawsuits. The EPA draft puts all boaters (including...
ST. RAYMOND'S WILL STICK WITH ANTIGUA
Omari Lawrence and Kevin Parrom won't be back at St. Raymond's, but head coach Oliver Antigua will be. The head coach's job had been in jeopardy after he was involved...
SPORTS SHORTS
GRID: NFL hires security chief The NFL hired Pennsylvania's state police chief for a new position that will cover all aspects of stadium security from fan behavior to signal stealing....
CURLIN TRYING TURF AT BELMONT ON SAT.
Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin, unbeaten in three starts this season including the Dubai World Cup, will make his turf debut Saturday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Man o'War...
HONDO THROWS SPLITTER
Hondo treaded water last night as Duchscherer and the A's made quick work of the M's to offset the shoddy work at Shea by Lincecum and the Giants to leave...
TIGER WILL NOT COACH RYDER CUP
Tiger Woods, who's obviously going stir crazy at home while he rehabs his surgically repaired left knee, spoke again through his Web site yesterday and revealed a couple of interesting...
DUHON TO SIGN WITH KNICKS TODAY
The Knicks expect to sign Bulls free-agent backup point guard Chris Duhon today after last night inking their first-round pick, Danilo Gallinari, to the standard rookie two-year, $5 million pact...
BELTRAN READY TO BLAST OFF
The Mets might want to hold off on moving Carlos Beltran to the No. 2 spot in the batting order. Last night, he looked like every bit of a cleanup...
YA GOTTA BELIEVE THE MAGIC IS BACK
A 24-year-old right-hander with terrific stuff took over Shea Stadium last night, just as many had expected. Oh, forget Tim Lincecum. This was Mike Pelfrey's night. In his sharpest outing...
CHURCH'S SEASON MAY BE IN DANGER
Ryan Church isn't saying his season is finished, but the Mets right fielder acknowledged yesterday that sitting out the remainder of 2008 might be an option as he attempts to...
TIME'S RIGHT TO SURGE FORWARD
THEY'RE only two games over .500, yet the Mets have a message for the rest of the National League. "We're back!'' Back in a big way, not just back in...
SEAN ZAPS BEASLEY BUT HEAT BEAT NETS
ORLANDO - Sean Williams saw it. He couldn't possibly miss it. He saw what Miami's Michael Beasley did in his first game in the Orlando Pro Summer League. And Williams,...
Orlando, Day -- And Night -- Two
By FRED KERBERORLANDO -- Sean Williams went to the movies Tuesday morning.In coach Lawrence Frank's room.The film starred Miami Heat stud rookie Michael Beasley, the No. 2 overall pick in...
Kennedy struggles again with SWB
It was another so-so appearance for Ian Kennedy in Triple-A Tuesday night. After allowing a run on two hits (a double and a homer) in two innings before the rains...
Ramiro Pena added to Futures Game roster
Ramiro Pena, a middle infielder with the Yankees Double-A affiliate in Trenton, has been added to the World Team's roster for Sunday's Futures Game, part of the All-Star Festivities at...
Evans returns to Queens
With the return of Ryan Church to the disabled list, the Mets recalled 1B/OF Nick Evans from Double-A Binghamton today. After struggling in his first appearance in the majors, Evans...
Prospect Report for Monday, July 7
One of the best things Baseball America does is issue a daily prospect report, giving subscribers a daily roundup of performances by top prospects throughout the minor leagues. Considering the...