January 9, 2008
Fallout 3: Brotherhood Of Steel Info & Art
My love for the Fallout series cannot be expressed in mere words. Perhaps in a lame song, or some lame poetry, or buying lots of Fallout crap - but certainly...
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Verushka Music, who works at Patricia Fields' boutique, describes herself as "the Pamela Anderson of Punk Rock." The bag and jacket are Patricia Fields.Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©01-07-08
Clemens hearing postponed
By BRIAN COSTELLOThe House Oversight Committee postponed next week's hearing that was to feature Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Brian McNamee, until Feb. 13.The Congressional hearing scheduled for Jan. 16...
CRUISES: Say ahoy to Cunard's big 3
Miss New York in action. Having an abnormal obsession with boats is so rare and so strange, there's not even an official Greek-rooted clinical label for it ("nautophilic" is our...
Leon gets All-Pro vote
A single vote given to KR Leon Washington was the only one received by a Jet in the AP All-Pro team balloting released today.SEE THE VOTING
Snee, Osi get All-Pro votes
OL Chris Snee and DE Osi Umenyiora were the only Giants to receive votes in the AP All-Pro team balloting released today.SEE THE VOTING
NFL All-Pro Voting
Redskins safety Sean Taylor, killed during a robbery at his home during this season, was named to the second team of the AP All-Pro squad that was announced today.Patriots quarterback...
Late nights for Romo
Here's some interesting numbers from the Dallas Morning News, which reports that Tony Romo is putting in extra time this week at the Cowboys' training facility, after time off with...
Looks good for O'Hara
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants listed five players who will appear later today on their injury report and none of them were expected to practice, although Tom Coughlin said center Shaun...
Maybe it will get better
By MARC BERMANCHICAGO - Nobody was in the locker room last night talking about how maybe this could be the start of something. They've said it before too many times...
SPEARS FAMILY REP BLASTS DR. PHIL
Don't expect Dr. Phil to get another call from the Spears family. Lou Taylor, a family spokeswoman, went on NBC's "Today" show this morning and blasted Dr. Phil McGraw, who...
Starr Report
And now for something completely different: Rachael Ray will tape an episode of "Rachael Ray" completely on ice - or, more accurately, on the ice skating rink at Bryant Park....
Wickedly Entertaining!
Purely enjoyable! Breathtaking! Jaw dropping! A knockout! A powerhouse! Wickedly entertaining! Spellbinding! Intelligent! Intense! Gripping! A revelation! Mind-blowing! A masterpiece! An instant classic! Pitch perfect! A feast of moviemaking! A...
Hope You've Had Your First Cup of Coffee Already
Keira Knightley gets a green dress to die for and an Oscar-caliber role in "Atonement.'' Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman get these eyeball-gougingly-ugly wallpaper outfits in "The Other Boleyn Girl,''...
'DIVINE' SECRETS
MAYA The Year of New Beginnings Ecuador native and longtime Queens resident Maya says that she has been a clairvoyant since her childhood but began divining formally to people outside...
COMEBACK KID
Boxer Felix "Tito" Trinidad has never been an underdog. In his long and illustrious career, the five-time world champ has only lost two fights. But, on the eve of his...
'CHICAGO' HOPE
From Mexico to Broadway, via "Chicago." That road less traveled has made Bianca Marroquin the first Latina actress in history to cross over from Mexico to Broadway in a leading...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The petite, young and stunning Odette Yustman isn't afraid of monsters - well maybe just the terrifying one hunting her down in the sci-fi flick "Cloverfield." The 22-year-old California native,...
LATIN OUT LOUD
Living la casa Latin Bored with the white and off-white minimalist décor of late? Then check out decorator and art collector Juan Carlos's gorgeous new coffee-table book, "Latin Style: Decorating...
'SOUND' DECISIONS
4 of 5 Stars "Algo Sucedió" El Gringo Univision Records What makes Shawn Kiehne, aka "El Gringo," special is not just that he is the first white American to write...
SPITZ BANKS ON LOTTERY 'JACKPOT'
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer is expected to propose in his State of the State Address today the unprecedented sale of future lottery revenues for as much as $40 billion, sources...
9/11 INJURY-FUND OVERSEER QUITS
The controversial head of the fund set up to pay medical expenses for 9/11 heroes - who has fought nearly every claim while collecting a $350,000-a- year salary - is...
GRIM REAPER'S '06 TOLL RECORD LOW FOR APPLE
Death may be going the way of crime, squeegee men and Times Square peep shows. In 2006, the death rate was the lowest of any year in history, according to...
POOR RICH BOY
Poor Anthony Marshall. The man who prosecutors charge stole millions and tried to steal millions more from his philanthropist mother, Brooke Astor, says his legal problems have him going broke....
BRAVEST MOURN A 'GO-TO GUY'
They came by the thousands to say goodbye to "Johnny Nice Guy," the fallen fire hero who always went in first. There were firefighters from Pittsburgh and West Hartford and...
'SCAM' DUO MUST HAVE MADE PAL DIE LAUGHING
It was a "Weekend at Bernie's" moment when two harebrained suspects tried to cash their dead pal's check yesterday - after wheeling his body through the crowded streets of Midtown...
SPLITTING TIME
The holidays are over, but it's still the most wonderful time of the year - for divorce lawyers. The first week of January through Valentine's Day is traditionally the busiest...
RAPPER REPRIEVE
A Manhattan judge yesterday gave G-Unit rapper Prodigy an extra month of liberty before he has to start a 31/2-year prison term for gun possession. The rapper - real name...
COP SHOOTS BX. DRIVER
A Bronx cop yesterday shot a motorist who dragged the officer's partner during a motor-vehicle stop, police said. Two plainclothes officers stopped a speeding car on Kingsbridge Road just before...
MIKE FEELS CHEM BURN
The Bloomberg administration's proposal to handle permits for detectors of biological and chemical substances came under fire yesterday. Bloomberg aides are trying to push through a bill in the City...
NO. 7 CHAOS DUE
So much for lucky 7. Straphangers on the No. 7 subway line will face major disruptions as signal work knocks out service between Main Street and Woodside for up to...
FILTHY COWARD
Two horrifying photos of the bruised and battered body of tragic tot Nixzmary Brown proved too gruesome yesterday for even her accused killer. Cesar Rodriguez, 29, the sadistic stepdad accused...
CRASH VAN KILLS GRANNY IN EATERY
A van crashed through the windows of an Arby's in Queens yesterday, killing a grandmother of six. Caroline Leung, 67, was refilling a drink in the Fresh Meadows fast-food restaurant...
MET MUSEUM BOSS HANGING IT UP
The longest-serving director in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is going to retire, museum officials said yesterday. Philippe de Montebello, 71, who has led the museum since...
ESCAPED JERSEY CON NABBED
One of two New Jersey inmates wanted in the daring jailbreak that led to the suicide of a correction officer was captured last night - just six blocks from the...
AN 'ARABIC' TOUCH OF CLASS
The newly appointed principal of an Arabic-themed school in Brooklyn left no doubt yesterday where she stands on "intifada." Holly Anne Reichert, a 42-year-old California native tapped to lead the...
THUGS SHOOT UP FITTY PAL'S HOME
Thugs unleashed a fusillade at the Staten Island home of an ex-con who works for rapper 50 Cent early yesterday, peppering the house and bulletproof SUV with more than a...
FIRM PICKED TO RAZE DEUTSCHE
A new company has finally been chosen to resume demolition of the condemned former Deutsche Bank building, five months after a blaze there killed two firefighters, officials announced yesterday. LVI...
SQUIRRELLY JUMP CASE
He hopes to become the world's first human "flying squirrel" - but a panel of appellate judges seems to think would-be Empire State Building stunt jumper Jeb Corliss is nutty....
HOT STUFF!
Lovely Stephanie Rodriguez adds to the scenery in Union Square yesterday, as hemlines rose with the mercury, sending New Yorkers scrambling to dig out their short-shorts, flip-flops and tank tops....
MADDIE FOLKS EYE MISS-&-TELL MOVIE DEAL
Here's one way to try to find your missing daughter: Sell the movie rights. That's what the British parents of missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann are considering, according to a spokesman...
IRAN'S DIPPY DINGHY
Behold, the mighty Iranian navy. Here is one of the five rinky-dink motorboats belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard that tried to take on the US Navy. In this image, released...
JESSICA WILL BE NO-SHOW
Boo-hoo, Big Blue. Jessica Simpson won't be there. The beautiful bad-luck charm and gal pal of Dallas quarterback Tony Romo will not attend Sunday's Giants-Cowboys playoff clash, her rep said....
BRIT FALLS APART AS SHE COMES UP FLAT
Britney Spears surfaced for the first time since her mental breakdown: haggard, half-dressed - and wreaking havoc on the road by abandoning her car in the middle of traffic. The...
GIRL POWER FUELS HER WIN
BOW, NH - Women returned to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in New Hampshire yesterday, helping her eke out a comeback victory over Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic primary. Clinton...
COMEBACK HILL SHOCKS 'EM ALL
MANCHESTER, NH - Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a surprise come-from-behind victory over Barack Obama in yesterday's New Hampshire primary, resurrecting a political campaign that was on the brink of collapse....
WAR CHAMPION DIES & LIVES BY THE SWORD
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain's dramatic win over former front-runner Mitt Romney was driven by voters who felt he was best qualified to handle the Iraq war - just six...
MCCAIN REIGNS IN GOP PRIMARY
NASHUA, NH - Mac is back! John McCain scored a stunning victory over Mitt Romney in New Hampshire's Republican primary last night to revive his once-flagging campaign for president. McCain...
O-RING OF SECURITY FOR SURPRISE DEM
WASHINGTON - The Secret Service has dramatically increased the number of agents protecting Democratic front-runner Barack Obama since his victory in the Iowa caucuses. The size of Obama's security detail...
SOMEONE GET THIS JOKER OFF THE STAGE
Larry David reminded people why uncomfortable jokes have become known as "Larry David moments" as he stumped for Barack Obama at Dartmouth College yesterday. When a female student passed out...
BARACK'S 'FAIRY TALE'
BOW, NH - With his wife's campaign in free fall before last night's victory, former President Bill Clinton erupted at Sen. Barack Obama, lashing out at his campaign as "the...
OBAMA WILL FI$H IN HILL'S STREAM
Barack Obama will venture into Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf today, coming back from his New Hampshire loss with a rally across the river in New Jersey and then a megabucks...
TIGER TO BE BILLIONAIRE IN 2 YEARS
Tiger Woods earned $122.7 million last year and is poised to become a billionaire by 2010, according to an annual study by Golf Digest magazine. The golf great earned a...
TIGER-KID FUNERAL
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The two badly scarred brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo joined mourners at yesterday's funeral for their pal, who...
TOP DISNEY EATERY CUTS KIDS' MENU
It is not, apparently, a small world after all. Tiny tykes are no longer welcome at Disney World's most prestigious restaurant, it was revealed yesterday. Victoria & Albert's, in the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A man with good taste in clothes ended up in jail after he was caught wearing a stolen Armani jacket from Barneys on the Upper East Side, authorities said...
NOW BARACK BETTER BRACE FOR BARRAGE
Hillary Rodham Clinton's stunning comeback vic tory in New Hampshire duplicates the feat of Bill Clinton who overcame the draft and Gennifer Flowers in the Granite State primary in 1992....
NO FRONT-RUNNER LEAVES ROOM FOR RUDY AWAKENING
John McCain's victory in New Hampshire last night was about the best news Rudy Giuliani could have hoped for with his wacko strategy of hiding in the dugout until the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 892; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 9185; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 011; Lucky Sum: 2; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 1151; Lucky...
THE COMEBACK KIDS
After last night, New Hampshire vot ers might want to seriously consider changing their state's nickname - from the Granite State to the Comeback State. Traditionally, New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary...
KEEP IT IN QUEENS
As expected, lawyers for the three cops charged in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell outside a Queens strip joint have formally asked that the upcoming trial be moved to...
CLEANING TURTLE BAY'S PIG STY
The United Nations may never be truly relevant, but if UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gets his way, it might at least become somewhat less corrupt. Ban met the press this...
CLINTONS IN CRISIS
DON'T let the "Comeback Gal" spin fool you. Despite the unexpectedly close fin ish in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton's campaign remains in a tailspin. And the Clintons' pre-Granite State primary...
OBAMA'S OBSCENE IRAQ FANTASY
THE punditry's focus on horse- race analysis of the '08 race has obscured a remarkable event: The debates of the last few days actually taught us something meaningful about the...
HILLARY BEATS THE MEDIA
HERE'S a tip, going for ward, for everyone in terested in politics: Take a breath and count to 20 before you are again tempted to declare that what may be...
READING NEW HAMPSHIRE:
IT'S easy to champion change, if one has no past - as the remarka ble, if perhaps unsustainable, ascendance of Sen. Barack Obama demonstrates. The very junior US senator from...
SPEARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SHOW SOME SYMPATHY
The ongoing downward spiral of Britney Spears is a real tragedy, but what is even more tragic is the ignorance of those who report on her downfall ("Suicidal Britney," Jan....
PERKS, PLACARDS & PARKING
"Pulling Parking Perks" (Editorial, Jan. 6) makes sense. Among the 70,000 privileged people eligible for city-issued parking permits are Comptroller Bill Thompson, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, City Council Speaker Christine...
BUMBLIN' JOHNNIES FEEL HUSKIES' BITE
STORRS, Conn. - Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun missed most of the second half of his team's 81-65 emasculation of St. John's - in the Gampel Pavilion locker room light-headed and...
FEDERER-SAMPRAS SET FOR GARDEN REMATCH
The Roger Federer-Pete Sampras exhibition tennis battle at the Garden will be formally announced today, with Sampras holding a conference call. The Post has learned Federer will net $1 million...
TILGHMAN APOLOGIZES FOR 'LYNCH TIGER' REMARK
Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman issued an on-air apology Sunday after saying today's young golfers should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley" during Friday's telecast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship...
ROBBINS: SATURDAY'S HERO
It took until the final game of the season for Lenn Robbins to wrap up the college grid handicapping title. Robbins held a one-game lead over Hondo heading into Monday...
BCS SHAKEUP IN THE WORKS
NEW ORLEANS - One university president held a press conference yesterday stating his case for an eight-team playoff to decide college football's national championship. Another university president recently said he...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: M's land Cairo The Mariners signed veteran infielder Miguel Cairo to a one-year contract yesterday, giving starting second baseman Jose Lopez more prodding to improve. Cairo, 33, played 82...
BRODEUR TABBED ALL-STAR
The Rangers' Henrik Lunqvist may be The King, but Martin Brodeur is The People's Choice. Brodeur yesterday finally beat Lundqvist this season, topping him in the popular vote for his...
ELIAS BACK IN SPOTLIGHT
There have been times when the Devils' six-time leading scorer has passed on shootouts, so Patrik Elias' first such appearance of the season was in itself a sign of improvement....
3RD TIME CAN BE CHARM FOR JINTS
WE HAVEN'T had a Dream Team around these parts in far too long. We haven't honored a championship team since the Yankees beat the Mets in the 2000 Subway Series....
WIN OR LOSE, BIG BLUE SEASON IS A SUCCESS
BARRING a collapse of historic proportions (think San Francisco, 2002) the "Successful Season" label already is affixed to the 2007 Giants, and little or nothing that goes down Sunday at...
O'HARA LIKES HIS CHANCES FOR SUNDAY
Giants center Shaun O'Hara has kept a low profile around the locker room ever since he suffered a sprained medial collateral knee ligament in the regular-season finale. O'Hara did not...
CUTTING THE BULL
CHICAGO - It seems like an eternity since Stephon Marbury tasted victory in a game he's played in - Nov. 30th vs. Milwaukee to be exact. Even longer than his...
YOUNG PLAYERS DROPPING THE BALL
CHICAGO- Renaldo Balkman is experiencing a sophomore jinx. Mardy Collins has become an afterthought. As for the quasi-rookies, Wilson Chandler plays once in a blue moon and center Randolph Morris...
METS' RADIO EYES HAGIN
The Mets still haven't filled the vacancy in their radio booth, but are targeting veteran broadcaster Wayne Hagin to sit alongside Howie Rose this season, The Post has learned. Hagin...
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
CHARLOTTE - Jason Kidd made personal history. Too bad the Nets couldn't say the same about team achievements. With the chance to go five games over .500 on the road...
NACHBAR TAKES FALL
CHARLOTTE - It looked bad. And at the time, it felt bad. Bostjan Nachbar was going to the basket late in the first quarter and he dropped to the floor.The...
A BAD DAY VS. TAMPA BAY
When it was over, when a third-period rally had fallen short and the Rangers had been beaten at The Garden by the poorest team in the East and the poorest...
AVERY MAY BE 'DONE'
For the third time this season, Sean Avery is on Injured Reserve, this time with a broken bone in his right hand after previous stays on IR necessitated by a...
GOOSE BUMPED NO MORE
Rich Gossage's tears over his previous exclusion from the Hall of Fame are gone, replaced by Goose bumps. The former Yankee reliever's dream of election into baseball's pantheon became reality...
RICH LETS LOOSE ON THE JUICE
THIS is what the drug cheats will never understand. Goose Gossage said yesterday his joy of being elected to the Hall of Fame after a nine-year wait was so pure,...
DC NOT BUYING ROGER'S RIGMAROLE
HOUSTON - As Roger Clemens has been proclaiming his innocence this week, a few interested observers have been watching in Washington. Members of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It definitely was not Ricky Lee Jones' lucky day. Not only did the 53-year-old Iowa City man get robbed of his winnings at an illegal dice game, he got busted...
GLOBAL WARMING AND GREENHOUSE EFFECT
One is natural, the other is not NO question about it. The Earth's climate is changing. Then again, it is forever changing. For millions of years, the Earth's climate has...
GREAT WAGNER WORK HAS FAMILIAR RING TO IT
IT took him 45 years, but Lorin Maazel finally re turned to the Metropolitan Opera Monday night, conducting a magnificent performance of Wagner's "Die Walkure." That's a long intermission, even...
BARBOUR WON'T BE CUT
PRODUCERS of the Broadway-bound "A Tale of Two Cities" are sticking by leading man James Bar bour - despite the actor's admission in court last week that he engaged in...
STARR REPORT
Chilly receptionAnd now for something completely different: Rachael Ray will tape an episode of "Ra chael Ray" completely on ice - or, more accurately, on the ice skating rink at...
FAT CHANCE
ONE benefit of the writers' strike is that people seem to be turning more and more to shows and events on TV that we all know we should watch, but...
EX-POSED
COVERGIRL Niki Taylor knows exactly what it's like to want the crown in a supermodeling competition - 17 years ago, it was her big break. Taylor, 32, one of the...
'THE MOLE' TUNNELS BACK ONTO TV
'THE Mole," ABC's rocky reality competition that once featured CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper as the host, is back. ABC has ordered 10 episodes of the show, with shooting scheduled to...
TERRY SET TO RETIRE
TERRY Bradshaw's getting ready to throw in the Terrible Towel. Bradshaw said yesterday that he expects to retire from TV when his contract with Fox runs out in 2011. "I...
CALL OF THE SEA GALS
JOONG-RAE has this great pickup routine going. "I'm a movie director," he tells a woman he fancies, "and you remind me of a character in my new movie. Can we...
THE MEX BEST THING
A new restaurant, Pampano, opened a few weeks ago in Mexico City, inspired by chef/owner Richard Sandoval's place of the same name on East 49th Street. When an eatery in...
SWEAT DREAMS
YOU'VE done spinning classes (too dizzy). You've tried pole dancing (too slutty). Bikram yoga? (Too hot.) Ye olde exercise bike? (Snore.) So in the interest of getting your New Year's...
CAYNE EQUALS PAIN
Wall Street reacted to Jimmy Cayne's throwing in the towel as chief of Bear Stearns by dumping its shares to a new one-year low in a sell-off yesterday. The rout...
MOZILO, COUNTRYWIDE FEELING THE TREMORS
Countrywide Financial, the nation's biggest mortgage lender, lost $1.2 billion in value yesterday after some big institutional investors moved to stem their losses amid fears that the company needs cash...
NO MOSS ON BROWNRIDGE
FOR the second time, Kent Brownridge has raided his old stomping grounds at Wenner Media for a new top editor. Joe Levy, a 10-year veteran of Rolling Stone and currently...
PAYROLL COMPANY IS CASUALTY OF WRITERS STRIKE
The entertainment industry was jolted yesterday when a major back-office operator abruptly closed, a situation that rippled from Hollywood to New York. Axium International, an entertainment payroll and accounting company,...
BLUE CHRISTMAS
If Saks had a good Christmas, then the luxury retailer may soon attract a different kind of foreign shopper. Boosted by holiday tourists from overseas who mobbed its Saks Fifth...
CLAIBORNE TAKES TWO LABELS OFF THE RACK
Liz Claiborne is sticking to the dead-weight reduction program it began last year, scrapping the aging Sigrid Olsen clothing line and selling two other middle-market brands. The New York fashion...
A HERALD OF BIG NEW DEALS
THE first tasty sales of ferings of the year are being brought to market. The real estate investment trust SL Green Realty Corp. wants to cash out of its modern,...
COMMODITY CRAZE
With the world's stock markets all mired in the red, investors are fleeing to the hills - and corn and soybean fields - in search of profitable bets. Commodities soared...
Advantage Out
So Tom Renney told The Post's Larry Brooks yesterday that âpart of our game seems to have vanished.â Well, after tonightâs 5-3 loss to the second-to-last team in the NHL...