September 7, 2014
The top 4 magazines to read at Fashion Week
Joan Rivers once said, “You know you’re getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don’t know anyone who can see through it.” No matter what your fashion...
‘Sons of Anarchy’ revs up for its final wild ride
“Fashion Rocks” Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CBS Ryan Seacrest hosts this live concert celebrating the relationship between fashion and music during the heat of New York Fashion Week. Featured...
Media rivals begin to cite megamerger risks
It’s taken seven months, but the knives are finally flying toward Comcast cable colossus maker Brian Roberts. Sources close to the deal between Comcast, the nation’s No. 1 cable company,...
Box Kite Coffee to rival Aroma on Upper West Side
New York City coffee is growing up — and moving uptown. Box Kite Coffee, a cult fave at 115 St Marks Pl., is opening its second shop — on the...
Meredith Vieira to retain a touch of home with new show
Meredith Vieira says she wanted her new daytime series, “The Meredith Vieira Show,” to air from the living room of her suburban home. “I really wanted to do it in...
Jeter gets some private time before game starts
Derek Jeter ran onto the field before Sunday’s game against the Royals, just as he has to start just about every game of his career. This time, though, he ended...
Terry Crews is ready for 'Millionaire' closeup
Terry Crews and game shows would seem to make strange bedfellows. But, as he’s quick to point out, the new host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” is no...
Masahiro Tanaka going to US Open final to back Nishikori
Maybe Kei Nishikori also can magically heal Masahiro Tanaka’s elbow. As the 10th-seeded Nishikori tries to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam title when he faces...
Drug suspension to US Open finals in 1 year: Meet Marin Cilic
Goran Ivanisevic, the outspoken coach of U.S. Open finalist Marin Cilic, said one item served up in Monday’s no-name U.S. Open men’s finals is “justice.’’ One year ago, Cilic missed...
Redheaded men are hot, and here's the proof
Thomas Knights, a 31-year-old British fashion photographer — and redhead — was sick and tired of his fellow gingers’ “long history of discrimination.” “It’s so ingrained in people’s subconscious that...
Digital daters finally meet -- while locked up in the 'Love Prison'
Spending a week on an island with the person you are dating sounds like a fantasy. But the setting for a new A&E extreme reality series is no tropical oasis....
Former Laker Rick Fox hunting for Knicks job in future
Knicks coach Derek Fisher and his former Lakers teammate, Rick Fox, showed up at the U.S. Open on Sunday to watch Serena Williams win the women’s title. While Fox plans...
Jets cornerbacks get it done — for one game at least
One game into the season, the Jets have survived their maligned cornerback corps, which did not hurt them in a 19-14 win over the Raiders Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Cynics...
Yankees celebrate past glory, but present sure looks ugly
The Yankees placed No. 2 flags to ring the top of their Stadium on Sunday that will remain for the rest of the season. Really, they should have been installed...
The killer flaws of de Blasio's housing plan
Mayor de Blasio’s affordable-housing plan has two big flaws. First, it uses bad data to describe the size of the problem. Worse, his solution is unlikely to put a dent...
Wrong fat cats — feds' lunatic listing of MetLife
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew & Co. think MetLife, a company that provides fairly simple insurance products, is such a scary outfit it should be designated a “systemically important financial institution”...
Teachout freakout: NY Dems' leftward drift
When New York Democrats show up to vote in their primary tomorrow, they’ll face a choice that speaks volumes about the dangerous drift of their party. Gov. Cuomo came to...
Mayor de Blasio's school 'values' : a union label
Mayor de Blasio can’t help himself. As schools opened last week, he took yet another cheap shot at charters. It came in the course of remarks where he talked about...
Jets put rugged Chris Ivory on par with Marshawn Lynch
It was a 5-yard shovel pass from Geno Smith to Chris Johnson that put the Jets ahead on opening day, but Smith could not put these Raiders of the Lost...
If Brian Hoyer keeps this up, Manziel may be stuck on bench
PITTSBURGH — Johnny Manziel probably should have trademarked Johnny Clipboard instead. Fresh off winning the trademark claim to his more famous Johnny Football nickname, Manziel looks to be bound to...
MetLife fights the feds
MetLife has come out swinging. On Thursday, an obscure but powerful federal body called the Financial Stability Oversight Council designated the New York-based insurance giant as “too big to fail,”...
Dalai Lama: Putin wants to 'rebuild' the Berlin Wall
The Dalai Lama blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “self-centered” autocrat whose invasion of Ukraine shows he wants to “rebuild” the Berlin Wall, a German newspaper reported Sunday. “His...
Rarefied Air: Michael Jordan says Jeter is his 'idol'
Add Michael Jordan to the long list of Derek Jeter admirers. His Airness was at the Stadium on Sunday afternoon, part of the Derek Jeter Day tribute before the Yankees...
Russia takes, NATO blinks — an invitation to Putin
Speaking on Aug. 29 — at a fundraiser, of course — President Obama applied to a platitude the varnish of smartphone sociology, producing this intellectual sunburst: “The truth of the...
Can Obama win the fight against ISIS?
President Obama, in the past, has demonstrated a way with written words, and he’s done so again, this time in a joint op-ed with UK Prime Minister David Cameron for...
Picasso piece exits Four Seasons restaurant after 55 years
It took 25 workers 14 painstaking hours to pack up a fragile, painted Picasso curtain from the Four Seasons restaurant lobby over the weekend. “We have it swaddled up like...
Four Irish youths look for love and sex in ‘Boys and Girls’
In this charming but slight Irish import, two men and two women talk about their night out in Dublin. They’re all college-age and looking for love, sex or all of...
What's it really like to work at a treadmill desk?
All Barbara Fedida said was that I didn’t look my best on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” But seeing as she is my boss — the head of talent and the...
Jets have no luck with Vick tricks
Backup quarterback Michael Vick got just three plays in the Jets’ season-opening 19-14 win over the Raiders on Sunday. But considering the shaky results, Gang Green were smart not to...
Tracey Reese's fashion essentials? 'Great color, pockets'
Her ladylike designs may be have been donned by First Lady Michelle Obama on many a red carpet, but designer Tracy Reese frets over dressing herself for formal soirees. “Whenever...
WNBA star Cappie Pondexter's style slam dunk
The boys of the NBA are always getting noticed at New York Fashion Week, but one WNBA star wants in on the style conversation, too — just don’t expect to...
Police keep the peace at NY's drunkest brunch spot
Boozed-up patrons of the Flatiron District hot spot Pranna appear to be on their best behavior since damning video exposed their drunken antics — and a cop was posted near...
Andy Pettitte skipped Jeter Day ... to go elk hunting
https://twitter.com/JPettitte21/status/508700314200182784 Andy Pettitte was the one notable absence Sunday at Yankee Stadium for Derek Jeter Day. Jeter’s former teammate was busy elk hunting in Colorado with family, his son Josh...
The unique stories of personal encounters with Derek Jeter
You’ll never turn a double play with Derek Jeter or be his boss, but The Post tracked down the people who had unique experiences with No. 2. What it's like...
Savor these Jeter moments -- and the emotion yet to come
Early on a perfect morning, outside Gate 4 at Yankee Stadium, Brian Gibbons is trying to buy a few extra innings of summer with his boys. They were up early...
Kendall Jenner struts her stuff at Fashion Week
The model formerly known as Kendall Jenner made her debut at this season’s Fashion Week under her new name “Kendall” on Diane von Furstenberg’s spring 2015 runway. Strutting the catwalk...
Someone at work is stealing the K-Cups -- what do I do?
We have a pantry in our department with a Keurig coffee maker, and unless each person on my staff drinks 10 cups of coffee per day, I think someone may...
Serena Williams cruises to third straight US Open title
Serena Williams dropped flat on her back after Caroline Wozniacki pounded a backhand long on match point. Williams put her hands over her face, hiding tears as she lay there...
Rangers giving Ryan Malone a chance after cocaine arrest
Ryan Malone, 34 years old and in need of a second chance, apparently will get one from big-hearted general manager Glen Sather and the Rangers. The Post has learned Malone,...
Jets report card: The weakest link was Rex
Offense The Jets dominated in every way except on the scoreboard. The team finished with 402 total yards and got strong performances from a variety of players. The downfall came...
Zack Wheeler’s pitch counts raise eyebrows with Mets brass
CINCINNATI — Zack Wheeler still has to figure out how to make it easier. The Mets’ right-hander has largely performed at a high level this season, but as was the...
Derek Jeter Day deflated by sloppy Yankees loss
After presenting Derek Jeter with a river of tributes, a trip to Tuscany, a generous check for the Turn 2 Foundation and a custom made Waterford Crystal from Ireland engraved...
Giants leaning on title pedigree as they kick off 2014
It might have slipped in there or it might have been a subtle and calculated reminder. Either way, it seems Eli Manning, as he looks ahead, wants to make sure...
Rex Ryan not pleased despite Jets' opening win over Raiders
From Rex Ryan’s tone, you would have thought the Raiders blew out the Jets in the teams’ season opener. At his postgame press conference, Ryan sounded frustrated and annoyed with...
Sofia Vergara's ex would date Joe Manganiello, too
Nick Loeb fully understands who his ex-fiancée Sofía Vergara has chosen as her new man. When asked what he thought of Joe Manganiello at the Custo Barcelona show Sunday afternoon...
Mom gets prison time for helping teen get illegal abortion
DANVILLE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to prison for helping to end her teen daughter's pregnancy by giving her pills purchased online. The (Bloomsburg) Press Enterprise reports...
Schumer calls for 'aggressive overhaul' of train safety
New rail safety legislation that would require all railroads to meet a 2015 deadline for adding safety feature positive train control, as well as other improvements like new cameras and...
Panthers RB dyes dreadlocks pink to honor late mother
It was too late for DeAngelo Williams' mother, but the Panthers running back hopes it won't be for future breast cancer victims. Williams, who lost his mother, Sandra Kay Hill,...
Romney: I would have done a better job than Obama
WASHINGTON — Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says there is no question in his mind that he would have been more effective in the White House than President Barack Obama....
Derek Jeter Day a lovefest for his loyal fans
Humble as ever, Derek Jeter tipped his cap to an standing-room-only crowd of Yankee fans Sunday, as the legendary shortstop was honored at the Stadium for his historic two decades...
Don't count on seeing any nude pictures of Coco Rocha
At Christian Siriano’s show at Eyebeam Atelier, Coco Rocha shared her own personal experience with a potential hacker. “I actually got this random e-mail telling me, ‘Your iCloud account will...
Marina Toybina is the costume designer to the stars
In the world of costume design, careers don’t come more star-studded than that of Marina Toybina. The Moscow-born costumer has created custom pieces for everyone from Taylor Swift to Britney...
Even Michael Jordan is impressed: Jeter's 'an idol to me'
Add Michael Jordan to the long list of Derek Jeter admirers. His Airness was at the Stadium on Sunday afternoon, part of the Derek Jeter Day tribute before the Yankees...
Steeler channels Mortal Kombat, kicks Browns punter in face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbRHMbIP9DI Football is back, and Antonio Brown is eager to show off his karate skills. With Pittsburgh up early, 17-3 in the second quarter, the Steelers wide receiver and punt...
Bengals TE Eifert's elbow goes in totally wrong direction
The Cincinnati Bengals are saying tight end Tyler Eifert is doubtful to return to Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens. Um, you think? Eifert's elbow was disgustingly dislocated at the...
Gay-rights activists team up with miners in crowd-pleasing 'Pride'
The once-ubiquitous “Full Monty" formula is alive, well and still irresistible in “Pride," the fact-based story of an improbable alliance between gay-rights activists and striking miners in mid-1980s UK that...
Meet the five biggest Derek Jeter fans
The Post tracked down five of Derek Jeter's biggest fans to show the lengths they've gone to display their love. Tattooed with '2' Deana Huertas, 41, Mastic, N.Y. Deana Huertas...
'Busy season' for stopping terrorism begins for NYPD
It’s law enforcement’s “busy season” for thwarting terrorism as the city prepares for the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD’s anti-terrorism chief said Sunday. The NYPD also is...
Denzel Washington channels his inner 'Taken' in 'The Equalizer'
Amid all the Oscar bait and high-art offerings at the Toronto International Film Festival, there are also some star-driven popcorn movies with red-carpet ready stars. "The Equalizer" starring Denzel Washington...
Stars and fans embrace Jeter in Yankee Stadium ceremony
Derek Jeter has been trying to avoid saying goodbye since he announced his retirement before the season. On Sunday, he let The Bronx know what the last two decades have...
Jada Pinkett Smith on her new series 'Gotham'
The last of Christopher Nolan’s beloved “Dark Knight” films hit theaters just two years ago, but Jada Pinkett Smith says she isn’t worried about comparisons for her upcoming Batman prequel...
Jorge Posada says Jeter is greatest Yankee of all-time
Forget Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig. Derek Jeter is atop the list of all-time Yankees greats, according to longtime teammate Jorge Posada. “In my words, for...
Who's had it better than Derek Jeter?
Kids dream, right? They close their eyes and they let their imaginations run free. They allow themselves to daydream through a dull lull in a classroom lecture. They swap ridiculous...
Why it took until now to fully appreciate Derek Jeter
Guilty. Welcome to my mea culpa. I have spent so much time looking for the next Derek Jeter that, to some degree, I have missed Derek Jeter. Or at least...
These celebrities have it almost as good as Derek Jeter
So let's say swapping lives with Derek Jeter is off the table; who else would you want to trade places with? The Post has assembled six other candidates who are...
8 things to watch this week
1. The Knick (Friday, 10 p.m., Cinemax) Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) looks to pay off a debt by treating one of gangster Collier’s (Danny Hoch) wounded men at the Knick, and...
Suitors, beware of these brows on 'The Singles Project'
"The Singles Project,” Bravo’s real-time dating show, was begging for a dramatic confrontation from one of the daters’ cast-offs. It finally happened two weeks ago, when eyebrow stylist Joey Healy...
A new exhibit reveals the world’s craziest heels
It's Carrie Bradshaw’s dream come true: an entire museum exhibit dedicated to shoes. And not just any shoes, but stilettos, platforms and all kinds of sky-high, fabulous footwear. Opening Wednesday,...
In my library: Tom Perrotta
Before Tom Perrotta’s novel “Election” was even published, director Alexander Payne, who’d read a galley of it, was adapting it into a Matthew Broderick movie. Visiting the set — a...
NBA owner to sell team after racist email
Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson said Sunday he is selling his controlling interest in the team, after admitting to sending a colleague a racially inflammatory email implying that white fans...
My stylish New York: Robbie Myers
After almost 20 years of New York fashion weeks, Elle Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers could have easily become jaded. “I’ve surely spent ten thousand hours looking at fashion, and it’s still...
Obama to give speech on Islamic State
WASHINGTON – President Obama will outline to the nation Wednesday his policy to deal with the rising threat of Islamic State terrorists, who have horrified Americans with their video beheadings...
Goebbels' $20M home might have finally found a buyer
The home of Joseph Goebbels remains on the market almost 70 years after the Nazi propaganda chief died — but agents may finally have found a buyer. “Haus am Bogensee”...
Fashion's hottest everything
The hot hairstyle Bid adieu to last season’s side-swept locks and take cues from Kendall Jenner and Beyoncé. “It’s all about the deep center part right now!” says celeb hair...
Interpol's Paul Banks has pitch-perfect style
Look out, Kanye — Interpol frontman Paul Banks is coming for your style stardom. He’s got a new album (Interpol’s “El Pintor,” out Monday and their first in four years),...
Ben Stiller hilarious in 'While We're Young'
The most hilarious Woody Allen film in years debuted Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival -- Noah Baumbach's "While We're Young,'' starring Ben Stiller as basically an updated...
If it bleeds, Jake Gyllenhaal leads in satirical 'Nightcrawler'
If Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" and "Network" had a mutant baby, it would probably look like Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler," a pitch-black satire of local TV news in Los...
New York City's overheated subways
Back in 2007, Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on climate change. In his acceptance speech, the former vice president warned the polar ice cap was...
College costs 101
It’s a man-bites-dog headline: “College Gets Cheaper.” But for law students at three American universities, that’s just what’s happened to their tuition bills. The University of Iowa College of Law,...
How Atlantic City has always been full of last-chance losers
“If the people who came to town had wanted Bible readings, we’d have given ’em that. But nobody asked for Bible readings. They wanted booze, broads and gambling, so that’s...
Boston bombers' mosque tied to ISIS
When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions. Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ideology was not their...
Threesomes and vodka: The wild rise of Kate Moss
When John Galliano cast a very young, very unknown Kate Moss in his spring/summer 1990 show, he was struck by the poignancy of her otherness: She had come in for...
The Mac Baller Brims: NYC's most dangerous gang
They are the new Mafia, a ruthless Bronx-based cabal of drug dealers and gunrunners that officials call the most dangerous gang in the city. The Mac Baller Brims, a set...
9/11 health claims CEO quits after 10 years
The well-paid CEO of the entity that managed a $1 billion federal fund to cover claims from the Ground Zero cleanup has quit after 10 years. Christine LaSala, 63, president...
Meet the Jets' sexy cheerleaders
The Jets cheerleaders got down in Jamaica for their 2015 swimsuit calendar — sure to help the team lift off as it begins its NFL season today against the Oakland...
Pirate radio stations hijacking the airwaves in Brooklyn
Brooklyn radio fans are fighting a pirate invasion — demanding a crackdown on illicit Caribbean, Hebrew and shock-jock stations hijacking the airwaves. Dozens of unlicensed shows operate in New York...
State Senate candidate Liu in fund-raising high jinks
Scandal-scarred state Senate hopeful John Liu will take money from just about anyone. The former city comptroller and failed mayoral candidate, who faces a bruising Democratic primary battle Tuesday against...
Famed gay bar struggles to find a new home
A famed Greenwich Village gay bar is struggling to find a new home, getting shunned at every turn by neighbors of the once-liberal bastion. Rent hovering around $20,000 a month...
New park opens near 9/11 Memorial
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. last week opened a public plaza — with a Ping-Pong table, shuffleboard court, beanbag toss and other games — just one block from the 9/11...
1 Oak nightclub racks up safety and noise violations
Clubgoers may be lining up at the door of the celebrity playground 1 Oak — but they may never get out. The Chelsea club was cited 29 times by the...
Toddler found safe after car stolen with her inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQnnUcv-5Q A young mom’s trip to buy diapers in Queens early Sunday led to “the worst two hours" of her life, when her car was stolen with her toddler inside....
Teacher locks toddlers in closet to teach them 'how to survive'
A sadistic Brooklyn day-care teacher locked terrified toddlers alone in a tiny, dark storage closet — and laughingly claimed it was a lesson in “how to survive,” according to the...
City's most crowded school packs in 4 times its capacity
For hundreds of city schools, it’s crunch time. At Walton Avenue School in the South Bronx, some 257 elementary kids attend classes in space meant for 57. That’s a staggering...
The 'Catholic' girl hidden from Nazis who learned she was a Jew
To escape the Nazis, a number of Jews changed their names and pretended to be Christian. Author R. D. Rosen tells the story of three of these “hidden children” in...
Where have all the gentlemen gone?
“As the summer progressed, it was clear that they were pursuing a different direction in food service that was not in alignment with my brand.” Those were the understated words...
Chang enjoying Nishikori's U.S. Open run
Unable to get over the hump in a Grand Slam and stuck in the ATP rankings’ teens, Kei Nishikori reminded Michael Chang of someone very familiar. Himself. So when Nishikori’s...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Two men were shot on a Williamsbridge street Saturday, cops said. The victims, both 21, were squabbling with two men outside J&E Auto Repair when one of the...
Lesson of the 'Mad Mullah,' the original beheading jihadist
Is President Obama repeating the mistake of Britain’s liberal Prime Minister Anthony Asquith in dealing with jihadists a century ago? While expressing shock and grief about the beheading of two...
De Blasio is for 'transparency,' until he's not
Remember when Bill de Blasio, the People’s Mayor and not at all one of those imperious out-of-touch/out-of-town billionaires, promised a new era of transparency in city government? Now that he’s...
Obama lays an egg in battle against ISIS
In a conversation some years ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was comparing different levels of commitment to civil rights. “Think of a ham-and-egg breakfast,” he said. “The pig makes a...
Grown-up Geno Smith ready to lead Jets to greatness
The referendum on this season — which begins Sunday against a Silver & Black enemy, with white-hot passion and anticipation, both bravado and eternal hope and prayer — rests for...