December 18, 2006
The "S" Word...Sort Of
By FRED KERBERRichard Jefferson never said the "S" word. But he sure hinted at it.So it seems like surgery is in Jefferson's future, not so much a question of "if"...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamSTELLA MCCARTNEY 429 W. 14th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues; (212) 255-1556Sale: through Jan. 31. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m./Sun., 12:30 to 6 p.m.The designers fall/winter line will...
Wrap it up
Check out this adorable Juicy Couture wrapping paper.The $25 set contains four rolls printed with "Joy to Couture", "Santa Baby, I want Couture" and "Wrapped in Couture" and 8 gift...
Karl irate Isiah skates, calls him "Jackass''
By MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas skated and George Karl seethed.Karl was horrified that Stern did not suspend Thomas today, believing Mardy Collins' foul on J.R. Smith was premeditated. Reports out of...
PUNK'D
By KEVIN KERNANHowâs it feel to get Punkâd Knick fans?Especially those who wrote to say I was off base in my DREAM ON, ISIAH column that ran three days before...
SKI: It's getting warmer now
The BBC reports that all over Europe, operators are freaking out over what's shaping up to be one of the warmest Decembers on record. "Many resorts have had to postpone...
Scents and sensibility
Don't settle for a little black dress. Sunday's Post had some stylish ideas for Christmas dressing, from tuxedo pants to a mini and tights. Or this black sequined vest (right),...
UPDATE: Bigger, different, better
You've never fought pre-holiday rush like that which you'll find at Minnesota's Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the United States at 4 million square feet. (At least...
SURVEY SAYS: I hope you're happy. You made your mother cry.
According to a TripAdvisor survey, 20 percent of us are planning to ditch family and friends for the holidays.A good 36 percent are traveling for the holidays, up two percent...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Dec. 17
Give a prize for world's most inspiring headline to who ever wrote "Beautiful Country Becomes Vacation Spot" on the big Nicaragua multimedia package on the front of the Times' site....
SO ELMO-TIONAL ; CHAINS TRUMPET SHIPMENTS OF HARD-TO-FIND DOLL
Major retailers are vying to publicize last-minute shipments of TMX Elmo - the must-have holiday toy made all the more desirable by its scarcity - in the hopes of generating...
JACKPOT AT $28B ; TPG AND APOLLO RAKE IN HIGHFLYING HARRAH'S
Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management were close to sealing a deal last night to take casino giant Harrah's Entertainment private for $90 a share, or about $28 billion including...
LAST STAND FOR HARD ROCK HOLDOUT
The Morgans Hotel chain founded by ex-Studio 54 honcho Ian Schrager has hit a surprise rock in its path to take over a Las Vegas prize - the Hard Rock...
RAISING HELL; FORGET DR. SPOCK. ADVICE ON BRINGING UP BABY THESE DAYS COMES FROM THE 'NANNY' SHOWS
IT'S TV's fastest-grow ing spectator sport: Watching other people's kids run amok on "Supernanny" and "Nanny 911." "It's a show to watch and just realize how good your kid really...
HAVING A BALL
JINGLE BALL WITH an all-star lineup that brought pop radio to life, Z-100's annual holiday con cert extravaganza - the Jingle Ball - was anything but a silent night Friday...
BIRTHDAY-BOY JFK ON A BLONDE DATE
POLITICS makes strange bedfellows, but none as legendary as when an affair of state hugged Hollywood. In perhaps the most famous rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" ever performed, Marilyn...
KING AUTHOR - ROB LOWE AS A RICH WRITER, AND OTHER HOLIDAY MIRACLES
"A Perfect Day" Tonight at 8 on TNT (two and a half stars) IF you loved the book "A Per fect Day," by Richard Paul Evans you'll love this TV...
A FINE NIGHT FOR LADY DAY
ALVIN AILEYCity Center, 130 W. 55th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212. Season runs through Dec. 31. NOT all of Ailey is Ailey. The Alvin Ailey American Dance...
STARR REPORT
Mayer's 'Office' vote Last Thursday's episode of "The Office" featured a ka raoke scene in which Michael Scott (Steve Carell) natu rally butchered a rendition of John Mayer's "Your Body...
THE FLIRTY DOZEN - SEE THE SCENTS, TURN THE PAGE
FINDING the perfume that makes perfect scents isn't easy - just ask anyone trying to navigate the bewildering array of bottles at a local shop. There are hundreds of perfumes...
LAME-DUCK PATAKI GETS DEFENSIVE
ALBANY - As he prepares to leave office after 12 years, Gov. Pataki is defending his handling of the rebuilding at Ground Zero. "We are doing it right," Pataki said...
A TOUGH ROLL: MY DAYS AS A STREET PEDALER
I "pedaled" my body on the streets of Midtown for two days, and all I have to show for it are sore legs, a bunch of black-and-blues and less than...
RUDY SET FOR 'GOLDEN' GIG ; SPEECH TO CALIF. GOP
Rudy Giuliani is slated for a major political appearance in California - keynoting the annual Republican convention in a state ripe with big-walleted donors - as he mulls a 2008...
TRIBUTES ON STEEL TO FALLEN OF 9/11
WHEN you have seen more yesterdays than tomorrows, you look back at the thousands of times you put your signature on a piece of paper and realize your name does...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN *** An East Village man who claimed that "O.J. has nothing on me" attacked his live-in girlfriend and threatened to kill her, authorities said yesterday. Leopoldo Sguera, 38, slugged...
FEDS NEED BETTER COLI GUARD: CHUCK
As the Food and Drug Administration continues to search for the cause of an E. coli outbreak at Taco Bell, Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday urged the agency to do a...
IRAQ THUGS GRAB AID WORKERS
Insurgents in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped 25 Red Crescent employees in Baghdad yesterday, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair came for a surprise visit and vowed his nation's troops would...
HILL THANKS POL$ A WHOLE BRUNCH
It takes a village - to raise money to run for political office. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton thanked that village by inviting dozens of her political donors to a brunch...
CLINTON RUN AT '90%'
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton's former White House chief-of-staff, John Podesta, said yesterday that there was a "90 percent chance" that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would run for president in...
ANGER THROUGH THE TEARS; TORMENT AT FUNERAL FOR CRASH PAIR
Mourners in Queens yesterday bid a tearful goodbye to a former Ridgewood couple at a funeral set against a backdrop of bitterness over failed search-and-rescue efforts by authorities down South....
DEMS WILL BACK SHORT-TERM GIS
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Democrats won't prevent President Bush from sending tens of thousands of new troops to try to stabilize the situation in Iraq. "If the...
KIN OF SLAIN COPS HAIL GUN-LAW BUSTS
ALBANY - The families of two cops shot and killed just weeks apart during last year's holiday season said new gun legislation yielding hundreds of felony arrests means that their...
RANDY REV. IS RAPPED; SUSPENDED FOR AFFAIR
The randy reverend who fell from grace - and from his job leading a ritzy Fifth Avenue church - because of an adulterous affair with a married blond congregant has...
FUROR OVER AX-MAN SLAY
Neighbors of a hatchet-wielding Bronx man who was fatally gunned down by police described him yesterday as a harmless kook who shouldn't have been shot to death. Anatoly Dmitriev, 62,...
'50 SHOT' PROTESTS MOVING TO WALL ST.
Days after "shopping for justice" on Fifth Avenue, New Yorkers angry over last month's police shooting death of Sean Bell will march on Wall Street amid new calls for a...
PARK PC'D BY GRINCHES
A Westchester grandfather called Briarcliff Manor officials "grinches" yesterday after they not only refused to put up a Nativity scene in a village park - but took down all holiday...
TRAGIC AX MAN 'WAS CRAZY'
Neighbors of a hatchet-wielding Bronx man who was shot dead by police described him yesterday as weird. Anatoly Dmitriev, 62, was shot twice in the chest Saturday as he climbed...
PIER PRE$$URE ON NADLER
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who is fighting to keep the Red Hook Container Terminal open, has received $29,400 in campaign money from the pier's management firm, The Post has learned. American...
DIPLOS' WATER BILLS DRAIN CITY
Six diplomatic missions are drowning in debt to the city - owing nearly $320,000 in back water bills, city records show. That sum is a drop in the bucket compared...
BRISK BUSYNESS FOR SMITH & SON FILM
No matter how you spell it, Will Smith's new movie found itself on top of the box-office chart over the weekend. "The Pursuit of Happyness," starring the Oscar nominee and...
BUST IN DINER COP STABBING
Cops last night busted a 21-year-old man in the stabbing of a cop during a dispute at a Brooklyn diner hours earlier. Police said the violence erupted after the 26-year-old...
BATTLE IS MENTAL & MEDICAL, SAY DOCS
The body temperatures and chances of survival for two missing mountaineers in Oregon are falling by the minute, survival experts and doctors said last night. "There are many improbable stories...
REBUILD YOU MUST; SPITZER'S DUTY: RESTORE ALL GROUND ZERO'S LOST OFFICE SPACE
DEAR Gov.-elect Spitzer, No one can confidently predict what the World Trade Center site will look like by the end of your first term in office. Everyone expects better results...
CABLE SNAPS AS MAN FLEES BX. FIRE
A man trying to escape a fire by rapelling down a cable outside a Bronx building plunged three stories yesterday and was critically injured, police said. The 3 p.m. fire,...
FIGHTING TO WIN; ZERO TOLERANCE IS LAST HOPE FOR BAGHDAD
OUR military should come with a can't-miss-it label: Think Before Using. Faced with calls - some sincere, others politically desperate - to rush more soldiers to Baghdad, our overstretched Army...
N.Y. PURPLE HAZE DAZE OVER ; COPS KO THUGS WHO SOLD $560-PER-OZ. POT
Cops have busted a sophisticated and violent drug operation that provided high-flying Big Apple customers with the most expensive and potent marijuana in city history: a special brand called Purple...
DEAR SANTA : CHRISTMAS COPS ARE OUT TO GET YOU
DEAR Santa, I believe in you. Now, I'm not delusional (though some would disagree strongly). I'm not even Christian. Between you and me, when I hear Christmas carols, I want...
CITY HALL KEEPS 2030 PLAN 'REAL'
The official charged with crafting the bulky blueprint to guide city policies over the next quarter-century says he'll deliver "concrete" proposals only in three months. There will be no "things...
BUTTER SUITS MELT AWAY
The owners of the celebrity hot spot Butter have smoothed over their differences. Bala Associates and Alireza Ghassemi have quietly settled their sensational lawsuits charging Butter co-owner Scott Sartiano with...
PIER PRE$$URE: POL GOT 29G FROM PORT FIRM
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who is fighting to keep the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn open, has received $29,400 in campaign contributions from the company that operates the pier, The...
ARREST IN BOY'S HIT-RUN DEATH
A 46-year-old Queens mechanic surrendered to police yesterday and was charged with manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a 12-year-old boy Saturday night, authorities said. Juan Franjul gave himself up...
PRIVATE BUSES RAN BETTER: POL
Outer-borough commuters who rely on express bus service to Manhattan say they're wondering, "Dude, where's my bus?" Nearly two-thirds of the riders surveyed by the office of state Sen. Jeff...
ETHICS STORM OVER ELIOT'S HEALTH AIDE
GOV.-ELECT Eliot Spitzer, who pledged to bring higher ethical standards to state government, has picked a scandalscarred Pataki administration aide as his top healthcare adviser, records reviewed by The Post...
PUNK STABS COP IN DINER
A thug stabbed a young, off-duty cop during a dispute at a Brooklyn diner early yesterday. Police said the 26-year-old officer, assigned to the Brooklyn courts, went to Kellogg's at...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - BEETHOVEN - ODE TO JOY
A deaf composer? It sounds like a bad joke, but Ludwig van Beethoven was able to make great music even when his world went silent. NO one's really sure what...
CITY REALISTIC ON 2030 PLAN
Cops KO thugs who sold $560-per-oz. pot The official charged with crafting the bulky blueprint for guiding city policies over the next quarter-century says he'll deliver "concrete" proposals - not...
DIPLOMATS' WATER BILLS DRAINING APPLE'S TILL
Six diplomatic missions are drowning in debt to the city - owing nearly $320,000 in back water bills, city records show. That sum is a drop in the bucket compared...
'HAPPY' FEAT BY SMITH AT BOX OFFICE
No matter how you spell it, Will Smith's new movie found itself on top of the box-office chart over the weekend. "The Pursuit of Happyness" pulled in $27 million during...
RANGERS SEE DOUBLE; INJURIES FORCE JAGR TO BE TWICE AS GOOD
Injury was added to insult for the Rangers, but Tom Renney said he planned to make chicken salad out of it anyway. "We're going to try to create an advantage...
FINALLY, A CASE FOR COLES
MINNEAPOLIS - The way Laveranues Coles looks at it, he's owed a day like this every once in a while. So many weeks, Coles reports for work with a giant...
YOU DON'T REBUILD WITH OLD TIMBER
AND so it took a knee injury to Matt Cullen and a case of the flu striking Michael Nylander to force Tom Renney to insert Petr Prucha into the lineup...
MSG NETWORK SHOWS IT HAS THE FIGHT STUFF
ALTHOUGH Cablevision owner James Dolan has stripped down the MSG Network's credibility, piece by piece, a core of good people have remained. On Saturday, the good overcame the bad. In...
MIKE DELIVERS KICKIN' DELIGHT
JET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - With the Jets season becoming more pressure-packed by the week, their kicker has become quite a handy weapon for them. Mike Nugent made four field goals...
NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE 'BAD BOYS'
ISIAH THOMAS used to play on a team that could get away with this kind of thing. Knicks fans used to rabidly root for a team that could get away...
A DEAD TEAM WALKING
EAGLES 36 GIANTS 22 SOMEHOW, the Giants are still alive in the wild-card race. Somehow, despite a four-game losing streak, despite a game where they fell behind 42-3, despite another...
JETS HAVE LOT OF FIGHT LEFT; PRE-GAME MESSAGE SPARKS GANG GREEN
Jets 26Vikings 13 MINNEAPOLIS - Eric Mangini's "Saturday Night at the Fights" production proved to be eerily prophetic for his Jets yesterday. Mangini, a well-documented boxing fan who often shows...
STRUGGLING NETS LOOK TO GET UNTRACKED
The Nets can't instantly rewrite their record, but they can change their results. They can't get hung up worrying about their sorry 9-14 mark, or yet another slow start to...
GAME PLANA PERFECTFIT FOR CHAD
MINNEAPOLIS - His teammates had no doubts about Chad Pennington going into yesterday's game. Neither did offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, who in a meeting with his quarterback on Saturday night...
DEPARTING GIFT FOR PLETCHER
Reminder: Aqueduct is closed for nine-day Christmas break, reopening Wednesday, Dec. 27. * Before Todd Pletcher began 45-day suspension today for mepivicaine positive at Saratoga two years ago, he increased...
BASKET-BRAWL MAY SOCK ISIAH; LEAGUE EXPECTED TO HAND OUT PUNISHMENTS TODAY
With evidence that Isiah Thomas threatened Carmelo Anthony moments before Saturday's shameful brawl at the Garden, the Knicks and their embattled coach/president await their fate today amidst a full-scale NBA...
NUGGETS' KARL ALSO EARNED BAN
IF David Stern harbors any hope of crushing the sort of repulsiveness witnessed Saturday at Madison Square Garden, if the NBA commissioner seriously entertains grandiose visions of forever eradicating a...
BIG BLUE TAINT PLAYOFF PICTURE
GIANT NOTES Although the Giants have lost five of their last six games and certainly in danger of not making the playoffs in the weak NFC, players were chirping about...
EAGLES CAN'T HELP BUT CHIRP
The Eagles heard the chatter coming down the New Jersey Turnpike. They heard Jeremy Shockey. They heard Plaxico Burress. They heard about how great the Giants are. Yesterday, the Eagles...
PIERCE PUTS THE BLAME ON HIMSELF
Antonio Pierce pointed his finger at his Eagles counterpart, Jeremiah Trotter, last week, basically saying Trotter was not as good as he was. After the two met on the field...
BASKET-BRAWL MAY SOCK ISIAH; PUNISHMENTS COULD BE SEVERE FOR KNICKS, NUGGETS
With evidence that Isiah Thomas threatened Carmelo Anthony moments before Saturday's shameful brawl at the Garden, the Knicks and their embattled coach/president await their fate today amidst a full-scale NBA...
BROADWAY BOO-SHIRTS; RANGERS PUT ON ANOTHER SORRY SHOW
Devils 6Rangers 1 Two debacles in two nights, and it's closed-door meeting time for Tom Renney and his Atlantic Division leaders. The Rangers coach wasn't pushing the panic button, yet...
BLUEPRINT FOR 'D'-FEAT
EAGLES 36 GIANTS 22THE most talented 7-7 team that Carlos Emmons says he ever has been on gave up a 64-yard kickoff return immediately after taking a fourth-quarter lead, turned...
GIANTS ORCHESTRATE ANOTHER DISGRACE
EAGLES 36 GIANTS 22 Slice and dissect it, isolate this lousy play and that mindless player, blame the coach or the players or the damn equipment manager. It doesn't much...
DEMPS NEARLY A HERO
In his first season with the Giants, safety Will Demps has been the center of more criticism than big plays. But yesterday, Demps came through with two huge plays. The...
JACOBS' MUFF WAS COSTLY
GIANT NOTES Here's some friendly advice for anyone planning on carrying the football for the Giants: Don't lose it. Ever. Not as long as Tom Coughlin is in charge. Remember...
FIRST PLACE? FORGE IT
WHAT a pity. Until Saturday night, things had been going so well for the Knicks. It's true; heard so with my own ears, Saturday morning on 1050 ESPN, the radio...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Strict Japanese practitioners of the Shinto religion are still trying to settle the question of whether adherents should be able to worship online, as more shrines create prayer sites in...
The Steve Trachsel Song
By ANDREW MARCHANDIn the spirit of colleague Mike Vaccaro's Holiday column, which can be found at:http://www.nypost.com/seven/12172006/sports/yule_love_it__sports_mike_vaccaro.htmHere is a quick diddy I put together, while instant messaging with Vaccaro. He told...