December 7, 2006
Thursday Night Lights
For all of you who made your fantasy postseason, congrats. For those who didnât, our condolences. Weâre guessing you were burnt by Shaun Alexander, Clinton Portis, LaMont Jordan, Cadillac Williams,...
TOPSHOP ships
Too good not to blog:TOPSHOP.com is, for the first time in history, shipping to the USA.For a nominal GBP10 (about $18) shipping charge, get your high-low fashion fix without hauling...
Material Girl
Madonna's got a new career; the singer/author/mom is also going to play designer. H&M announced today that they're planning a March '07 release of M by Madonna, a clothing and...
The Girl from Ipanema
And after a preview of their spring/summer line, itâs plain to see why. Their gorgeous girly togs are short, sweet, and a tad naughty with some open strappy backs, plunging...
Isiah too easy on team
By MARC BERMANThe only explanation for Isiah Thomas absolving his players from blame for their atrocious loss to Washington last night was he felt the Garden crowd had beaten them...
A few butts about it
Check out the $235 kit that instantly gives you curves, charm bracelets that double as lipgloss, Britain's fashion obsession coming to the U.S. and this new bag from Gwen Stefani's...
PICKS: San Diego
These are the five experiences I always recommend to anyone visiting the city. I hope you'll agree that they make for a far more interesting trip.Mission San Diego De AlcalaOriginally...
GET THERE: San Diego
The days of San Diego as backwater are over. There are now daily non-stop flights on American, JetBlue and Continental. The newest add is Delta, with their new transcon product...
THE MOOD: San Diego
This isn't the most cheerful time for "America's Finest City." Just check out all the sign-twirling teens enticing you to buy, buy, buy an apartment or home in one of...
HOW RETAIL THERAPY CAN HELP THE ECONOMY
HERE is the great dilemma now facing the housing market: It takes just one phone call to put a house up for sale, but it usually takes many months for...
ESPN, TRIBECA JOCK FEST
ESPN and the Tribeca Film Festival have teamed up to launch the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, giving cable sports junkies an outpost on the silver screen. Debuting at next year's...
TOP-LEVEL INSIDERS SELLING THEIR STOCK
America's corporate chiefs are unloading their own stocks at one of the boldest paces in 20 years. In cases of the very rich, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Google's...
NYBOT'S MEMBERS GET ICE BONUS: $500M
Members of the once-sleepy New York Board of Trade, where coffee, sugar, and cocoa futures change hands, are on the brink of raking in $500 million more than they expected...
POLITICAL FOOTBALL - DON'T DARKEN MY KNIGHTS: N.J. POL
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg wants his Rutgers bowl game - and he's calling on the NFL Network to let him have it. "Rutgers fans should be able to watch...
FAT CAT PARADE - MORE WALL STREET CEOS WILL JOIN $40M CLUB
As news spreads of Lehman Brothers boss Dick Fuld's $186 million, 10-year payout, Wall Street's top five chieftains are on track to rake in a combined $200 million in 2006,...
SEMEL SHUFFLE BUYS HIM SOME TIME
Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel's shuffling of the search titan's executive suite has likely bought him a one-year reprieve from Wall Street's demands for his ouster. And depending on how well...
TOWER $$$ALE ON 5TH - $1.8B RECORD AT 666
Real estate giant Tishman Speyer Properties is selling 666 Fifth Ave. to the Kushner Companies for $1.8 billion, the most ever paid for a single building in the U.S., sources...
LACROIX TO E. 57TH
Paris-based fashion house Christian LaCroix has settled on a location for its first store in New York, leasing a 2,700-square-foot space at 36 E. 57th St. The two-story location, which...
INDIANS TO BUY OUT HARD ROCK
The popular Hard Rock Café is to be sold to a Native American tribe in a deal that values the Rank Group-owned restaurant chain at about $960 million, The Financial...
DON'T CURB THEIR ENTHUSIASM
PARSONS DANCEThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through Dec. 17. THE more things change, the more they remain the same - or clever...
TAPPED BY TYRA
NICE-girl Caridee English was named "America's Next Top Model" last night, edging out her last rival, Melrose Bickerstaff. "Melrose was great competition. But if I was going to win, I...
READY TO FLY THE COOP TO '60 MINUTES'
ANDERSON Cooper, the face of CNN, likes the idea of being that face on "60 Minutes" some day. "Anything is possible in this business," Cooper told The Post yesterday. His...
WOMB WITH A VIEW - OH BABY, CAMERAS GO WHERE LIFE BEGINS
"In the Womb Animals" Sunday night at 9 on National Geographic (four stars) LAST year's phenomenal National Geographic special "In the Womb" took viewers on the most-phenomenal journey imaginable -...
STARR REPORT
Not just a Thierry Former CNNer Lauren Thierry Watkins' documentary, "Autism Every Day," will be screened next month at Sundance. She's married to Ch. 11's Jim Watkins; one of the...
GOLDEN GIRLS - STRONG ACTRESSES WILL RULE AWARDS FIELD
IT'S shaping up as one of the most confounding Oscar races ever, but one thing is clear: the Best Actress field is the strongest in the two decades I've been...
THE BODY BAG
WHAT nature has neglected, now a $235 bag can correct. The Premiere Line is a kit of silicone covers, pads and tape that will give you a new butt or...
OBSESSIONS OF THE WEEK
Hollaback bag: Forget the new album, and instead spend your money on Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. collection's new gorgeous black leather Venezia Bag, $725 at Henri Bendel. * Uggly boots: Thought...
WAR PANEL PLAYS 'DRILL' IN$TRUCTOR
Oil has always been a major force in the story of the Iraq war - and the Iraq Study Group has outlined a series of suggestions to help get the...
N.Y. DEMS WANT RUN OF HOUSE
WASHINGTON - Emboldened New York lawmakers are throwing their increased weight around Congress, relying on new Democratic clout to snag key committee posts and powerful chairmanships. In the latest power...
FRANKLY INCENSED: UNWISE MEN BEAR GIFTS FOR BUTCHERS
THE difference between the child-killers in the Middle East 2,000 years ago and those today is that Herod's men rode into Bethlehem to preserve a threatened political system, while the...
IRAQIS' 'BAD NEIGHBOR' POLICY
Iraqi leaders yesterday said that including their anti-American neighbors Syria and Iran in negotiations is one of the key points from the Iraq Study Group report that should be pursued....
CLUB LOOTERS' DEAL SLAMMED - FOUNDER'S SIS DEMANDS JAIL FOR $1.2M RIP-OFF
A Bronx judge yesterday postponed sentencing two former executives who sacked the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club of $1.2 million - after hearing impassioned pleas from Co-op City residents...
B'KLYN PRINCIPAL'S UGLY INSULTS DROVE ME TO TEARS - SPECIAL-ED COMPLAINT
The embattled principal of Lafayette HS is under the microscope again - this time for apparently belittling a 20-year-old special-education student for wanting to graduate with a non-Regents diploma and...
CITY HALTS 'TOXIC' SCHOOL-SITE PLAN
The city abruptly shelved a plan yesterday to build a $235 million educational complex on a South Bronx lot soaked with toxins, just hours before an unconvinced City Council was...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * An argument over a loaf of bread led to a Flatbush bakery employee smashing a co-worker in the head with a two-pound weight, authorities said yesterday. Lennard Carter,...
SUBWAY EYED FOR BRIDGE PK.
The planned Brooklyn Bridge Park could wind up with its own subway station. A team of transportation consultants is studying how best to improve access to the proposed 85-acre waterfront...
'JEW' GIBE GIVES JAZZ USHER 30G
Jazz at Lincoln Center must shell out $30,000 to a former usher who got the boot after complaining about a co-worker's anti-Semitic remark. Manhattan federal Judge George Daniels yesterday awarded...
'88-90 TRIPLE KILLER FINALLY NAILED
It took cops some 15 years to track down Jimmy Johnson for fatally stabbing three teenage girls in The Bronx - but he'll spend at least twice that time behind...
BAR-CAR BAN - CALL FOR LONG 'DRY'LAND RAIL ROAD
It may soon be last call on the Long Island Rail Road. The state has no business playing bartender to its riders, MTA Board member Mitch Pally said yesterday, calling...
BARBERSHOP KILLER JAILED
An ex-con who shot and killed a man in a Queens barbershop because he wanted to have his hair cut next was sentenced to 28 ½ years to life in...
INVESTORS BOND WITH SUBWAY LINK
The city took its first practical step toward building a subway extension to the far West Side yesterday when investors gobbled up bonds totaling $2 billion for the project, clearing...
'TOUGH' CROWD HAS BUSH IN A SOMBER MOOD
WASHINGTON - A beleaguered-looking President Bush received what he called "a very tough assessment of the situation in Iraq" yesterday from the Washington Old Guard tapped to study the war....
SHOWCASE FOR SLAIN STAR'S FILM
The film that indie actress Adrienne Shelly directed before she was murdered in a Greenwich Village apartment has been selected to make its world premiere next month at the prestigious...
FELLOW DEM CORZINE FEARS HILL CAN'T WIN
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine veered off-message on former colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House prospects, saying she'd be a great president - but will have "have a hard time...
MEGA-FIRE SETTER IN REHAB
The homeless man who pleaded no contest to starting the largest fire in the city since 9/11 walked out of Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, enjoying a quick smoke before hopping...
JESSE 'SCHEDULED' HIS ARREST: SAFIR
Former Police Commission Howard Safir yesterday denied that he implemented a policy of arresting demonstrators after Amadou Diallo's death - saying he even refused a bizarre bid by the Rev....
'SOPRANOS' GUY GUILTY
The hunky actor who plays mobster Tony Soprano's driver - nicknamed "Muscles Marinara" on the hit HBO series - pleaded guilty to petit larceny in Manhattan yesterday. Louis Gross, 23,...
'BEAST' HAD EVEN YOUNGER PREY: DA - GIRL, 13, CLAIMS HE SEDUCED HER
Broadway "Beast" James Barbour laid his furry mitts on yet a second underage aspiring actress - this one only 13 years old - prosecutors now charge. Barbour, a highly regarded...
CITY TAKING AIM AT AIDS AND COLON CANCER
Fresh off his victory over trans fats, city Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said yesterday he'll campaign relentlessly to curb deadly illnesses that can be detected and treated - including colon...
GIS DOUBT 'OUT' - 'THERE'S NO WAY,' THEY SAY OF '08 PULLOUT
For the grunts on the business end of the War on Terror, the most pressing part of the Iraq Study Group's report was the possibility of their coming home in...
DRUGGIE GUILTY OF TRIANGLE SLAY
A Brooklyn coke dealer who killed the third wheel in a love triangle and then stuffed the man's body in a storm drain was convicted of murder-for-hire yesterday - and...
AIR-SAFETY LAWS REALLY STINK
While Gummi Bears are banned on commercial flights, and whipped cream is allowed only in minute quantities, it's OK to bring four books of flammable matches. The weird-but-true air-safety rules...
'NEW' PLATFORM FOR 'HATE' PROF
New School president Bob Kerrey, who blasted an upstate college for inviting a controversial Colorado professor to speak as "an act of weak toleration," says he won't stop the prof...
LEGAL BREAK FOR 'SPY' BANKER
A Manhattan banker accused of funneling $84 million in bribes to Kazakhstan can defend himself by claiming he was working as a U.S. spy, a federal appeals court ruled. Judges...
NIXZMARY STEPFATHER BOMBSHELL
"What do you care? You still have five more." That was how the stepfather of tragic Nixzmary Brown chose to console his wife when the couple discovered the battered 7-year-old...
DELIGHTED DEMS SEE 'COURSE CHANGE'
WASHINGTON - Newly empowered Senate Democratic leaders praised the Iraq Study Group report for offering President Bush a new path to change course in a war that even supporters say...
GUILTY PLEAS IN SCAFFOLD PLUNGE
Two businessmen brothers pleaded guilty yesterday in Brooklyn federal Court in the death of a construction worker who plummeted 60 feet to his death from a scaffold. Nasir Bhatti faces...
CHARITY EXEC GUILTY OF SCAM
A sticky-fingered former executive of a charity pleaded guilty yesterday to bilking it out of more than $156,000 meant to fight cancer. Keith DaCosta, 44, admitted in Newark federal court...
'CANDLE' FIRE KILLED 9/11 KIN
A burning candle knocked under a bed most likely sparked the deadly inferno that killed a 9/11 victim's daughter, New Jersey investigators said yesterday. Wendy Burlingame - daughter of Charles...
IRAQ 'APPEASE' SQUEEZE ON W. - * PANEL KISSES UP TO IRAN & SYRIA * PLAN WOULD PULL TROOPS OUT IN '08
WASHINGTON - The Iraq Study Group report delivered to President Bush yesterday contains 79 separate recommendations - but not one explains how American forces can better fight and defeat the...
PATAKI AXES BENEFIT BILLS
ALBANY - At Mayor Bloomberg's urging, Gov. Pataki yesterday vetoed two bills that would have boosted retirement benefits for cops and firefighters. Under current law, each cop and firefighter accrues...
ELIOT SWEARS HE'LL TAKE IT OUTSIDE
ALBANY - Gov.-elect Spitzer is planning to brave the Albany cold for an outdoor New Year's Day inauguration in front of the historic Capitol building, The Post has learned. Weather...
RADIATION AT BRIT EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
The tell-tale trail of radiation in London's spy murder case has led to Moscow - where even the British Embassy turned out to be contaminated, officials said yesterday. An embassy...
N.J. ZINGS THE BELL - ASKS TACO CHAIN TO TOSS ITS FOOD
As the number of people infected with E. coli after eating at Taco Bell restaurants continued to grow yesterday, New Jersey health officials asked the chain's outlets in that state...
IRAQ POLS SPLIT OVER 'BAD NEIGHBOR' POLICY
Iraqi leaders were divided yesterday over one of the key suggestions of the Iraq Study Group report - negotiating with their anti-American neighbors, Syria and Iran. "If the Americans reached...
OFFICER WOUNDS B'KLYN ROBBERY SUSPECT
Police shot an armed-robbery suspect and arrested four other men in Brooklyn yesterday. The incident began after authorities got a tip that a four-man team was about to strike on...
DEATH BULLETS - 31-SHOT COP LIKELY FIRED ALL 4 IN GROOM
Cops say at least one - and probably all four - of the bullets recovered from Sean Bell's body were fired by plainclothes Detective Michael Oliver - who squeezed off...
E. COLI KID IS ACHING TO SUE
A Long Island family plans to file a multimillion-dollar negligence suit against Taco Bell today because their son developed a severe case of E. coli poisoning after eating at the...
UNION SQ. HORROR - STUDENT SLAIN IN 50-KID GREEN-MARKET BRAWL
A teenager was stabbed to death and two other students injured yesterday in an after-school rumble involving some 50 youths who rampaged through the green market by Union Square Park,...
'PARKING SPOT' MURDER ARREST
A man suspected of fatally shooting a patron in a Brooklyn restaurant in a fight over a parking spot was arrested yesterday, cops said. Neil Thompson, 28, allegedly shot Ricardo...
PARIS' PEACE PLAN - BAKER'S HOT IRAQ IDEAS
THE profound quality of the suggestions offered by the Iraq Study Group - the panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker that presented its report with such fanfare...
SUB-WEIGHING A STATION FOR BRIDGE PARK
The planned Brooklyn Bridge Park could wind up with its own subway station. A team of transportation consultants is studying how best to improve access to the proposed 85-acre waterfront...
E. COLI KID SET TO SUE - FELL ILL AFTER 3 TACOS
A Long Island family plans to file a multimilliondollar negligence suit against Taco Bell today because their son developed a severe case of E. coli poisoning after eating at the...
50-SHOT 'COKE' - VICTIM'S PAL CAUGHT WITH DRUGS: COPS
As hundreds protested near Police Headquarters yesterday against the 50-shot barrage of bullets that killed a groom before his wedding, cops said a man connected to the case was nabbed...
GET-RICH SCHEME - METS, A'S TALK ABOUT HARDEN TRADE
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Suddenly the Mets were involved with A's pitching and it had nothing to do with Barry Zito. This is the Winter Meetings. So rumors become facts,...
THORN-Y START ; NETS GM STANDING STILL - FOR NOW
Rod Thorn sat courtside for some of practice yesterday and while the Nets GM isn't pleased with the way his team has been playing, he's not ready to do anything...
WATCH YOUR PEP; TOM UPBEAT BEFORE CRITICAL CAROLINA CLASH
Tom Coughlin must have been so impressed with the upbeat message he delivered to the Giants yesterday that he rolled it out again a few hours later during his press...
SKI CARDS OFFER HAPPY TRAILS
THE ski season in the Northeast is just getting off the ground with the welcome turn to the cold side of the thermometer. Skiers and riders not willing to wait...
JAKE MAY BE THUMB'S DOWN
GIANT NOTES Jake Delhomme is not having the season the Panthers expected out of him, but he is better than the alternative - considering the alternative is Chris Weinke, who...
LEE MIFFED ABOUT RETURN TO BENCH
KNICK NOTES David Lee seemed bent out of shape by Isiah Thomas' statement that he will be heading to the bench shortly, when Jared Jeffries and Channing Frye make their...
GANG GREEN GOOD AT AVOIDING YELLOW FLAGS
JET NOTES One of the reasons for the Jets' recent success has been their decrease in penalties. They enter Sunday's game against the Bills with the third-fewest penalties in the...
WILLIS POWER; BILLS' MCGAHEE TORMENTS JETS, VILMA
All right, so Willis McGahee owns the Jets. If you're looking for someone to blame for the dominance of the Bills running back against the Jets, place it squarely on...
SECOND HELPING ; DEVILS' OT WIN BOOSTS BRODEUR ON LIST
OVERTIMEDevils 2Canadiens 1 Now, for right now, there's been one goalie in NHL history to win more games than Martin Brodeur. Brodeur's 461st victory last night caught Florida's Eddie Belfour...
PITCH 'EM UP - ANDY WOULD BE DANDY ADDITION
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Andy Pettitte announced yesterday he would forego retirement to play, at least, in 2007. So Step 1 in bringing the lefty back to the Yankees vanished....
PITCH 'EM UP - ANDY WOULD BE A DANDY ADDITION
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Andy Pettitte announced yesterday he will forego retirement to play, at least, in 2007. So Step 1 in bringing the lefty back to the Yankees vanished....
QUIET CASHMAN ZOOMS IN ON PETTITTE, ZITO
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Andy Pettitte is in play big-time with the Yankees and Barry Zito was on the table last night when Brian Cashman and Scott Boras spent four...
CASH CLOSES IN ON PETTITTE, CHECKS ON A-ROD
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Hours after the Yankees decided Ted Lilly wasn't worth four years at $40 million and found out Andy Pettitte's career will possibly continue in The Bronx,...
BOOOOOOOO! GARDEN FIASCO HAS FANS YELLING FOR ISIAH'S HEAD
WIZARDS 113 KNICKS 102 It took 21 games, but "Fire Thomas" and "Fire Isiah" chants rang out in the final Garden minutes last night. There was one chant of "Fire...
BOOOOOOOO! WIZARDS' TREY-FEST A KILLER
The Knicks traded twos for threes with Washington all night, and you didn't need an abacus to figure out how it was going to end. Showing little success with perimeter...
REASONABLE DOUBT: ISIAH TRYING TO WIN BACK KNICK FAITHFUL
Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas stated yesterday the fans have every right not to fill the Garden in droves until the team proves itself. Thomas said he believes the majority of...
TO .500 . . . AND BEYOND
Isiah Thomas knows it's a stretch, but he's crossing his fingers and saying his prayers. The Knicks coach and president acknowledged yesterday that his team could be back to .500...
COMING UP SHORT - DEVILS' POWER PLAY NEEDS WORK
Finally, the Devils had done what others did to them all season. That shorthanded goal scored by Brad Lukowich on Saturday in Philadelphia was their first this season, compared to...
RENNEY WIPING DUST OFF DARIUS
The odd-man out, at least for the time being, appears to be Sandis Ozolinsh. Darius Kasparaitis skated with Ozolinsh's defense partner Karel Rachunek yesterday at practice, which means they likely...
ISLES' SUCCESS IS HAB-IT FORMING
Still weathering the absence of captain Alexei Yashin, who may return to action in 7-10 days, and now without Trent Hunter for 2-4 weeks, the Islanders stand 14-7-3 since their...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - but a cell for a cell? A woman in Sterling Heights, Mich., was sentenced to 30 days in jail...