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 Latest All from the New York Post Online Edition, which delivers the Post's world-renowned gossip, best sports in town, and more. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:10:16 +0200 CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 SANDY, Utah - Dave van den Bergh scored in the 31st minute, the first goal ever at the brand new Rio Tinto Stadium, and Jon Conway had five saves as the Red Bulls (9-10-9) ended a three-game losing streak with a 1-1 tie with Real Salt Lake. The...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 AS the NLDS and ALDS get under way, Fox analyst Tim McCarver talked with The Post's Justin Terranova. Q: Is Manny Ramirez different from other great hitters, in that he changes the game even when he's not at the plate? A: I think you can't go...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 The fall run is in full swing with terrific action for stripers and a great start to the blackfishing season. Local wrecks and reefs are giving up sea bass, porgies and blackfish in the New York Bight. Boats out of Sheepshead Bay are scoring well...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama, flush with cash and surging in the polls, is buying up national TV airtime for a 30-minute prime-time special just days before the Nov. 4 election. Obama has purchased airtime on CBS and NBC, and is negotiating with FOX...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 FOR some strange reason, Elgin Baylor's unforeseen exodus from the Clippers after 22 years of service in their executive branch has provoked a bombardment of wonderful, inspiring and melancholy written stories about his radiant accomplishments...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:13:28 +0200 TROY, N.Y. - Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama." The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:27:56 +0200 PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies weren't afraid to throw to Manny Ramirez. After hinting they would pitch around the Dodgers' star in the NLCS, the Phillies went right at Ramirez even after he laced an RBI double in his first at-bat last night in an...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:12:03 +0200 PHILADELPHIA - Derek Lowe spent a good deal of last night's NLCS opener assembling the DVD that he would want, among others, the New York teams to view when deciding how to spend their free-agent dollars this offseason. He was a cool, efficient...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:14:08 +0200 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It has been two years now, and still the images never wander far from Cliff Floyd's memory, or his imagination. Two years since Game 7 at Shea Stadium. Two years since Game 2 at Shea Stadium - the game that really stays with...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 Unblemished, unchallenged and unstoppable is the best way to describe the elite teams of the Big 12. That comes to an end on Saturday when four of the five undefeated teams square off in showdowns with national-title implications. The main event is...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:09:16 +0200 PHILADELPHIA - It sure looked like Don Mattingly, albeit with a few strands of gray in a soul patch. It sure sounded like Don Mattingly, full of the familiar optimism and pleasantry. But that uniform? This is what Brett Favre in Jets green must...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:32:55 +0200 Hondo, riding high and feeling mighty after ringing up an 11-2 record in Week 4, crashed and burned in Week 5 with a 4-8-2 mark that left him tied for third. Luckily for Mr. Aitch, he didn't lose much ground because of the general ineptitude of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 Hondo, who struggled in the divisionals, regained his winning ways in the NLCS opener last night when he connected with the Phillies to increase the chunky wad to 525 petrocellis. Tonight, let's go to the Trop! With the one and only Jimmy Shields...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:34:08 +0200 The winner of multiple major national handicapping championshipsagainst world-class competition, The Wildcat returns. Including the1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 It's an AL East showdown, with the Rays and Red Sox meeting for a trip to the World Series. The youthful Rays are fun to watch, but they face a huge challenge against a Red Sox team with mountains of playoff experience. Tampa Bay won the season...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:36:12 +0200 SUNDAY: Jets, Raiders, Colts, Bucs, Lions, Bears, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Cards, Seahawks, Patriots MONDAY: Browns BEST BETS: Bucs, Bears, Seahawks...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:39:39 +0200 Rico went 6-8 (3-0 Best Bets) last week on the over/unders to bring the season record to 37-35-2 (11-4). The selections for Week 6: OVER: Bucs / Panthers; Vikings / Lions; Texans / Dolphins; Redskins / Rams; Cowboys / Cardinals. UNDER: Jets /...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:34:05 +0200 ASHBURN, Va. -- As the presidential race revs up, political conversations in NFL locker rooms echo those in workplaces nationwide. Taxes. Economy. McCain. Obama. War. Terrorism. White. Black. And a dilemma for these high-paid athletes...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Barack Obama, a Muslim who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, is the antichrist, just in time for the Apocalypse. John McCain, senile from having been brainwashed while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, fathered a black love child. A new...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Barack Obama's race may help his bid for the presidency more than it will hurt, a survey released yesterday suggests. The Gallup Poll found that 9 percent of voters said they're more likely to cast a ballot for Obama, the first black major-party...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 NFL: No charges against 'Pacman' Adam "Pacman" Jones is still in the lineup for the Cowboys after his latest incident involving police. Coach Wade Phillips said yesterday his troubled cornerback will play Sunday against the Cardinals. Phillips also...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:32:09 +0200 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The differences between the Red Sox and Rays are vast everywhere but where they count the most: the playing field and developing talent. When it comes to those departments the ALCS participants are even. So much so that...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 NTRA announced yesterday that pari-mutuel handle for third quarter of 2008 was down 9.85 percent from comparable period in 2007. For first nine months of this year, wagering has dropped to $10.7 billion from $11.4 billion last year, a decrease of 2...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:19 +0200 SUNDAY: Bengals, Saints, Vikings, Bears, Texans, Rams, Jaguars, Eagles, Cowboys, Chargers MONDAY: Browns BEST BETS: Colts, Buccaneers, Seahawks...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:02:51 +0200 Todd Palin testified that he unsuccessfully pushed to have his ex-brother-in-law fired as an Alaska state trooper after claiming the man was a threat to the Palin family and the public, according to court papers released yesterday. The husband of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:18:53 +0200 COLTS (-4 1/2) VS. RAVENS (1:00) In this series, the favorite has won five of seven and Baltimore has lost four straight. Indianapolis has covered six straight in October and is 4-1 when playing after allowing more than 150 yards rushing the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:01:42 +0200 Bring on the button battle. The city's teachers union plans to file a federal lawsuit against the Department of Education today over its members' right to wear political buttons in schools. The United Federation of Teachers says the DOE violated...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:16:51 +0200 PHILADELPHIA - As the Mets know all too well, never count the Phillies out in their bandbox. The Phils offered further proof here last night, all but rising from the dead in the sixth inning to rally for a 3-2 win over the Dodgers in Game 1 of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 Vitali Klitschko was once thought to be the heir apparent to Lennox Lewis, the man who would replace Lewis as the king of the heavyweight division. But a series of injuries wrecked Klitschko's reign until he was forced to retire nearly four years...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:31:25 +0200 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - For years, the Rays were thought to be a minor league operation living in a major league world. Now, after winning the AL East, beating the White Sox in the ALDS and being four wins away from a World Series invite, the Rays...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:43:35 +0200 Market experts say stocks could continue falling until they've lost half the value from their peak in last year's bubble heyday - meaning the bottom might be a Dow Jones industrial average at 7,000. A new economic report yesterday supported such...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:48:05 +0200 Operators of "How To" Web sites are betting that a downturn in the economy will translate into a spike in their traffic and advertising dollars as do-it-yourself projects become increasingly popular among cost-conscious consumers. Visits to "How...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:49:27 +0200 Two former top executives of the Duane Reade Holdings Inc. drug chain were indicted yesterday on charges of falsely reducing reported company expenses and inflating income, prosecutors said. The office of the US Attorney for the Southern District...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 IBM bonds IBM Corp. raised $4 billion yesterday in the biggest US bond sale in five weeks after the company said its profit this year will hold up against the financial crisis. The bonds, which have a range in maturities, will pay yields of 6.5...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:47:08 +0200 Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit walked away from its attempted purchase of Wachovia Corp. late last night - delivering a bitter blow to the chief executive's deal-making credentials. Citi's retreat from buying Wachovia's mortgage-saddled operations...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:35 +0200 Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox - already in the doghouse with institutional investors over a series of seemingly ineffective bans on short selling - is suffering a loss of confidence among his fellow commissioners. Sources...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:53:21 +0200 Amid a blistering day of stock losses, the Treasury Department's idea to plow capital directly into stumbling banks and other battered financials is gaining traction as the quickest way to inject much-needed capital into companies. The strategy...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 As AIG struggles to repair its bad image for blowing $440,000 on a spa junket, The Post has learned that officials spent tens of thousands a day on golf outings after collecting a huge government bailout. The latest bungle in a growing list of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Carnage among retailers continued on Wall Street, as mall-based chains reported dismal September sales for the second straight day. The grim news helped send the Standard & Poor's Retail Index tumbling 7.9 percent - its biggest one-day loss on...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Clive Davis is quietly reasserting his power at Sony Music Entertainment. Many had assumed the 76-year-old legendary producer was gently being shown the door after an executive suite shuffle in April stripped him of his chairman and CEO role at...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:45:36 +0200 Some of the legendary Wizard of Wall Street's so-called Tiger Cubs were cut down to size last month, suggesting even the best and brightest in the hedge fund industry have been unable to tame today's treacherous markets. Tiger Cubs are fund...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 THERE'S a stampede emerging at The Star-Ledger. Donald Newhouse, president of Advance Publications, avoided disaster this week by obtaining enough concessions to save the Newark paper and keep it as a viable concern inside the billionaire family's...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:19:48 +0200 SOCCER moms and Joe Sixpacks, listen up. Get your beer, mooseburgers and caribou dips ready. Sarah Palin is doing "Saturday Night Live." Not Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin doing "Saturday Night Live." But the Sarah Herself. She has already OK'd it...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:45 +0200 The Scott Gordon Era begins for the Islanders tonight in Newark, while Brent Sutter said his second season is really the time for the Devils to take major steps back toward contention. A coaching change has followed each of the Isles' two...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:41:19 +0200 Here's one more reason to be skeptical of the West's continuing climate-change frenzy: Russia loves it. At least that's the view from Poland, the leader of a bloc of Central European nations fighting tooth and nail to delay the European Union's...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:39:02 +0200 It was bound to happen, and so it has: Democrats and their allies are playing the race card. Big time. On the preceding page, columnist Michelle Malkin surveys the race-baiting being conducted by Democratic Party supporters. As for the party...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 COLUMBUS DAY PARADE OCTOBER 13, 2008 The 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade begins at 11:30 a.m. on Monday. It starts at Fifth Avenue at 47th Street, and ends at 79th Street. Maria Bartiromo of NBC's "Closing Bell" and comic Joe Piscopo are on board to...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 Kara DioGuardi brought the house down when she performed "New York, New York" in front of 1,000 people at the Columbus Citizens Foundation Gala Dinner when she was just 12. That night was the start of a very successful career. Come January, the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 Every year, the Columbus Citizen's Foundation organizes the Columbus Celebration, which includes several events beginning the week prior to Columbus Day, and leading right up to the annual parade on Monday. But before the celebration begins and...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 WHen Admiral Edmund Giambastiani Jr., got word that he'd been named the Grand Marshal of the 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade, the highly decorated military officer says he was humbled. But as it started sinking in that he would be the one leading...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 IT'S BEEN nearly ten years in the making , but Joseph Scelsa's dream of a museum in New York City dedicated to Italian Americans is finally a reality. Housed in the old Banca Stabile in Little Italy, the doors of the Italian-American Museum swung...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 ThE HISTORIC neighborhood of Little Italy has long served as the heart and soul of Italian culture in the Big Apple. Between 1900 and 1910 over 2 million Italian immigrants arrived in New York and over half ended up calling this slim sliver of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 Ronald K. Anguas, (left, with Warren Buffet) a two-time-recipient of the Columbus Citizen's Foundation Scholarship fund, may be a future presidential candidate in the making. The Harvard University law student has traveled the world on charitable...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:28:52 +0200 Meet the Heroes History comes alive at Grand Central Station with the "Great White Fleet" exhibit. The event is a tribute to the American and Italian servicemen who provided relief to survivors of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:27:51 +0200 The Giants have the top offense in the NFL, including the No. 1 running game, piling up 181 yards per game. At the forefront of that ground attack is 260-pound Brandon Jacobs, the one that Browns defensive tackle Corey Williams said that once...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:29:33 +0200 Plaxico Burress, set to return from his suspension on Monday, practiced yesterday and though he didn't speak with reporters afterward, his teammates said he hadn't missed a step. "He's great," Rich Seubert said. "Plaxico is Plaxico. He came in...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:23:04 +0200 NOT even a year ago, Giants fans wanted blood. Now does anyone still exist who believes their Casper Milquetoast at quarterback doesn't have guts? "When the pressure is on Eli Manning produces, and that's what you want from a quarterback,"...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Cosmic activity in and around the vocational area of your chart means you can plan your next career move with confidence. No matter how difficult getting ahead may have been in the past it will be remarkably easy over the next few days. Don't waste...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Don't be put off by those who say that what you are aiming for in life is next to impossible. It may be for them but not necessarily for you. If you want something enough you will find a way to get it, even if logic says it can't be done...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Cosmic activity in your fellow Water sign of Scorpio will see to it that most things come easy to you today. Family and financial matters are under especially good stars at the moment, so make an effort and don't be surprised when wonderful things...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 The odds are very much in your favor today and the planets suggest that if you take a risk of some kind it could pay off. They also urge you to be more sociable, to get out into the world and meet interesting new people. You can never have too many...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 If you focus on a problem to the exclusion of everything else today you will find the solution you have been searching for. That applies to all areas of your life but especially to your work or career, where you need to think lateral rather than...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Venus and Uranus team up on your birthday to promise a 12-month period of astonishing and amazing surprises. Never doubt that you deserve all the good things, and the good people, coming into your life. You've earned each and every one of them...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Follow your intuition today, even if it leads you in a direction you would not have chosen to go. You may be out of step with the majority but that means nothing. The only place following the herd is likely to get you is on the butcher's slab...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 When it comes to success, believing in yourself is half the battle. It does not matter how many times you may have failed in the past, the important thing is that you know you will succeed in the future, and the future starts right here and right...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 If you want to get the best out of yourself today you should set yourself an "impossible challenge. Even if you fail to reach your ultimate goal you will still reach levels of attainment you previously thought were beyond you. Nothing is beyond you...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Ignore what others say you should be doing and do only what feels right to you. It may put you at odds with various people but that's just too bad. Your needs must always come first, because if you are not happy how can you make others happy too?
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Venus, planet of emotional and material values, is transiting your birth sign and making a fantastic aspect to changes planet Uranus, so if you need to change your life for the better in some way all you have to do is ask. The universe cannot refuse...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 If you make the effort to talk to partners and colleagues and find out what they think and how they feel about your plans this will turn out to be an enjoyable day on every level. In a nutshell: if you are nice to other people they will be nice to...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0200 IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY Venus and Uranus team up on your birthday to promise a 12-month period of astonishing and amazing surprises. Never doubt that you deserve all the good things, and the good people, coming into your life. You've earned each...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Anyone who doubts you are a star won't be able to doubt it much longer. Do something that takes the world by surprise over the next 24 hours, something scandalous, something shocking. Right and wrong does not come into it. It's about getting noticed...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 Following a turbulent offseason in which the Islanders changed coaches and their franchise player went under the knife -- again -- they open this season hoping to stay in playoff contention. That figures to be a tough task, given the youth movement...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:43:13 +0200 Sometimes, numbers simply don't add up. Take the Jets' defense as an example. They're ranked seventh in the league in turnover ratio at plus-two. Only six teams have more takeaways than the seven turnovers the Jets have forced. They're...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:20:37 +0200 Eric Mangini, always close to the vest about his use of personnel, would not say it officially, but indications are that running back Jesse Chatman will be on the active roster Sunday and play some sort of role - most likely on special teams...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:17:25 +0200 Lock of week is Saints THE Jets described themselves as a work in progress in the early days of Brett Favre, and the progress has been quick. A late rally in garbage time in San Diego led to a six-TD coming-out party vs. the Cards, and now Favre...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:25:31 +0200 David Lee was nearly traded to Memphis in June before the draft. Zach Randolph was nearly traded to Memphis in September before training camp. Knicks president Donnie Walsh contemplated each deal in his goal of getting under the 2010 salary...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 THE ISSUE: The second 2008 presidential debate, held Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn. Tuesday night's debate between John McCain and Barack Obama featured softball questions that made it boring ("Town Brawl," Oct. 8). Sarah Palin and Joe Biden's...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:57:42 +0200 Self-proclaimed "anti-feminist lawyer" Roy Den Hollander has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against an "Opie and Anthony Show" host who, he says, defamed him on air by calling him a "whore" who had sexual designs on chickens. "The chicken crossed the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:49:01 +0200 Stock prices took another swan dive yesterday, despite the latest government effort to raise the confidence of terrified investors - whose shares have shed nearly 40 percent of their value in 12 months. "People have lost faith in everything,"...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:00:54 +0200 Cape May, with its Victorian mansions nestled along the Jersey Shore, and the breathtaking Adirondacks ski village of Lake Placid are officially among the "prettiest towns" in America. ForbesTraveler.com asked a panel of experts to compile a list...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:58:56 +0200 WASHINGTON - Infuriating New York officials, the feds pushed ahead yesterday with an experiment to reduce flight delays around the nation by auctioning off takeoff and landing times at metro-area airports. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:47:48 +0200 Being the biggest booster of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project has really paid off for Borough President Marty Markowitz. Since 2003, Nets owner Bruce Ratner and others involved in the $4 billion plan for an NBA arena and 16...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:06:48 +0200 Former President Bill Clinton's foundation has announced plans to strengthen restaurants in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. The program is a collaboration among the William J. Clinton Foundation, New York University's business school and Booz &...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:18:00 +0200 A Con Edison electrician was killed yesterday when an explosion sent flames ripping through the Brooklyn manhole where he was working. Emergency crews were met by fire belching eight feet into the air, black smoke covering the block - and a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:51:20 +0200 A Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, couple was so terrified of the repo man snatching their Mitsubishi Galant yesterday that they had three of their neighbors use their cars to block in the vehicle. "The demand to pick up vehicles has risen," said Ron the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:03:39 +0200 Mackerel is in, but octopus is out. And bluefin tuna, known as the king of sushi for its fatty belly meat, is a definite no-no. These tips and others on ocean-friendly sushi are now available in pocket guides being published this month by three...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:56:27 +0200 There's no place like home - especially if you're Giant quarterback Eli Manning. The Super Bowl MVP and his bride, Abby, have set up a new game plan for their modest Hoboken pad -retrofitting the 3,000 square-foot condo to resemble something...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:56:51 +0200 A police officer who worked at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks has died of cancer, family and friends said. Gary Mausberg, 47, an 18-year NYPD vet who was battling kidney cancer, died Wednesday night. Mausberg, a Patrolmen's Benevolent...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 A heartless Long Island healthcare aide beat up a helpless patient and locked him in a room for hours without food, water or medicine, cops said yesterday. Kelvin Christie, 25, of Queens, was charged with endangering the welfare of an elderly...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:55:46 +0200 It may be called the "Hottest Place on Earth," but the Hawaiian Tropic Zone runs hot and cold when it comes to sexual harassment, employees say. Just weeks before a bombshell lawsuit accused top brass of looking the other way when staffers...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 A Long Island family thought the house they were renting for $1,000 a month was a pretty good deal - until the real owner showed up. The new tenants moved into the Roosevelt house in June and were living there for just two weeks before they...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 More than 300 city students were illegally arrested from 2005 to 2007, the New York Civil Liberties Union said yesterday. Under state law, kids under 16 cannot be charged with minor, noncriminal offenses, yet cops repeatedly busted them for...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:54:32 +0200 Christie Brinkley doesn't want her children anywhere near a television set tonight. The supermodel's legal team went to a Long Island court Wednesday to ensure that her two children with ex-husband Peter Cook not be exposed to his interview with...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:00:28 +0200 It won't have a coal car or a caboose, but Lionel is coming out with a new electric train to mark the 25th anniversary of Metro-North. You can pay $280 for a miniature version of a train that takes commuters in and out of Grand Central Terminal...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:58:50 +0200 NAGUA, Dominican Republic - New York Met pitcher Ambiorix Burgos will be jailed for three months while awaiting trial for a hit-and-run accident that killed two women. "I am going to come out of this fine because my conscience is clear, and I'm...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:50:51 +0200 They finally cornered the scaredy rat in a dark Bronx closet. Mob informer Kenny "The Rat" O'Donnell had been on the lam for three weeks when a judge mistakenly released him on bail, not knowing that he faced a 60-year sentence for robbery in New...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:53:58 +0200 The mighty are falling on their knees in prayer at Trinity Church on Wall Street. The number of worshipers at the midday service has jumped from about 50 to 110 on some days, said lay minister Carlos Mateo. "We're seeing more people come in...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:06:40 +0200 Chuck is working on the railroad. Sen. Charles Schumer will grill members of the US Railroad Retirement Board today over the LIRR "Gravy Train" disability-pension scam. Schumer has called board officials to his Manhattan office this morning to...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:05:39 +0200 The Department of Education is nickel-and-diming the parent councils that represent each school district in the name of system-wide budget cuts, angry council reps told The Post. Already asked to foot the bill for pay raises they give to their...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 A Dover, NJ, mother drove her 14-year-old daughter to the home of a girl she said was picking on her at school and goaded them to fight, cops say. Sharon Quintero, 29, is charged with simple assault, conspiracy to commit simple assault and using a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:51:51 +0200 A Connecticut protester has pleaded not guilty to endangering the public by scaling part of The New York Times' 52-story skyscraper in Midtown. David Malone was the third climber to scale the building's facade. The West Hartford man said his...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:07 +0200 Opponents of Mayor Bloomberg's term-limits plan yesterday accused him of violating the city's ethics code. Common Cause and the New York Public Interest Research Group ripped the mayor's promise to give a seat on an influential city board to...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 1 2 3 Downtown trains skip 96th Street. 4 No service between Utica Avenue and Brooklyn Bridge - take the 3 or J instead. 5 No trains between 149th and East 180 streets. Take the 2 instead. 7 Flushing-bound trains run on express tracks Saturday 4 a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Whoa there, pardner! A lily-livered desperado from Manhattan is ruining the good name of the Wild West's top lawman, police sources said. Wyatt Earp, 46, of East 63rd Street, wound up in the hoosegow this week after he went on a Tombstone-style...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 535; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0810; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 840; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 1013; Lucky Sum: 5 Pick-10 Thu.: 1, 6, 11, 27, 29, 31, 34, 36, 40, 42, 43, 46, 51, 57, 60, 63, 64...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 The Mets have sold out all luxury suites in their new home, despite recent economic turmoil that's battered Wall Street with grand-slam losses, a team official said yesterday. The Amazin's move to Citi Field next spring and will be playing in...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:07 +0200 WE'RE shocked - shocked! - to learn that the CIA is not to be trusted, the only and not exactly new revelation in Ridley Scott's bombastic Middle Eastern thriller "Body of Lies." As embodied by Russell Crowe - who reportedly gained 50 pounds for...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:32:14 +0200 'ON the day the world ended," goes the open ing line of "City of Ember," the fate of man kind was carried in a small metal box." I'm interested. For a kiddie adventure, the movie, based on the Jeanne DuPrau book, has a pleasingly moody, eerie...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:35:36 +0200 'THE Express" is a decent football movie, just about good enough to be the 40th best episode of "Friday Night Lights" . . . which has aired 39 episodes. Rob Brown, a likable if bland actor with an eager apple-pie face, plays Ernie Davis, who...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:59:27 +0200 AN idealistic teenager (Alex D. Linz) goes to work as a youth ambassador for Congressman Connor (a miscast Steven Weber), whom he learns is not only dishonest but running a pedophile ring to boot. This overlong, obvious and indifferently acted...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:02:33 +0200 'NIGHTS and Weekends" doesn't waste time with foreplay. Within the first two minutes, Greta Gerwig and Joe Swan berg - the co-stars and co-directors - strip, tumble onto the hardwood floor and go at it with fervor. Their characters haven't seen...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:31 +0200 WONG Kar-wai, the Hong Kong cult filmmaker famous for his lust for perfection, has taken a martial-arts thriller he released in 1994, tinkered around with this and that, and released it as "Ashes of Time Redux." It has an all-star Asian cast -...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:02:32 +0200 MIKE Leigh, long the UK's master of lower-class misery in films such as "Vera Drake," quite agreeably switches gears with the beguiling comedy "Happy-Go-Lucky." Poppy, memorably played by Sally Hawkins, is one of those individuals who sees every...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:57:42 +0200 THREE cheers to the National Hockey League for reportedly becoming the first professional sports organization to endorse a gay-themed movie. Too bad Laurie Lynd's "Breakfast With Scot" is so bland and timid. TV actor Tom Cavanagh's Eric is...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:58:38 +0200 REGGAETON star Daddy Yankee holds his own in his big-screen acting debut, "Talento de Barrio." He's Edgar Dinero, a drug dealer in the Puerto Rican slum that he rules with a deadly ferocity. Too bad he's saddled with a generic script, based...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 BECK is a stylistic chameleon whose musical colors can change from the blues to country to folk, to funk or hip-hop as easily as flipping a switch. At the United Palace Theatre on Wednesday, at the first of a three-show series concluding tonight...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 The Bronx A teen killed her newborn in her Parkchester home, police said yesterday. Esther Pastrana, 17, gave birth to a boy in her fifth-floor apartment on Unionport Road near Bronx Park East shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, then panicked and...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:16:51 +0200 A hulking "Austin Powers" actor may be the real Dr. Evil. Joe Son, 37 - who played shoe-tossing villain Random Task in the 1997 Mike Myers comedy - was fingered in a gang-rape case going back 17 years in California after his DNA matched evidence...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:45:24 +0200 Outspoken actress Lauren Bacall unleashes on Scientology superstar Tom Cruise in a shocking new interview - taking him to task for dumping her pal Nicole Kidman and branding him a "maniac." "Tom Cruise is a maniac. I can't understand the way he...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:41:07 +0200 If you're wondering what was going through Britney Spears' head during her erratic era, you are not alone - so does she. "I sit there and I look back and I'm like, 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'" Spears said in an interview to...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:59:03 +0200 WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. "We can solve this crisis and we will," he said in brief remarks...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:14:28 +0200 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected arguments that a death-row inmate is too fat to die by lethal injection. The justices yesterday gave the state the go-ahead to execute Richard Cooey, 41, next Tuesday for killing two University...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Movie studios will be allowed to buy ads during Oscar telecasts for the first time after a long-standing prohibition. Since the Oscars were first televised in 1953, studios had been banned from advertising during the show to avoid any hint of...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:24 +0200 ATLANTA - About one in four teen girls last year got the groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer, federal health officials said yesterday. The figures represent the first year of vaccination-rate data for Gardasil, which came on the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:02:09 +0200 OPEC said yesterday it will hold an extraordinary meeting Nov. 18 to discuss how the widening global financial crisis is affecting oil prices, a move that could lead to a coordinated production cut. Oil prices have fallen about 40 percent since...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:07:12 +0200 WASHINGTON - Americans may like to make fun of girls who are good at math, but this attitude is robbing the country of some of its best talent, researchers said today. "The US culture that is discouraging girls is also discouraging boys," Janet...
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:05:36 +0200 Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually end with a modest...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 All eyes - and defenses - will be on Vince Carter this season. But to state the obvious, he can't do it alone. The Nets need others producing. Like yesterday. Carter strained his left hamstring in the second quarter of the Nets' 100-98 overtime...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:04:42 +0200 ST. LOUIS - That Missouri is in such play for Barack Obama this year spells deep trouble for John McCain's White House bid. Always skeptical of grand politicians with big promises, Show Me State voters usually side with the candidate they would...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:13:59 +0200 IF YOU work in a bikini, what are the chances that you'll be sexually harassed on the job? The bikini-clad waitresses at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone restaurant all must know that if their business suits are the size of a Lego block, sexual...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:43:42 +0200 'PEOPLE were satisfied," Barack Obama writes in his first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," "so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves." Such was Obama's strategy as a high-school student for dealing with white people who...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:56:48 +0200 AS individuals and as a nation, Americans love to spend. Yesterday, the National Debt Clock at 44th & Sixth ran out of digits to record the new figure of $10.2 trillion. According to US News & World Report, there've been only two years since...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:01:03 +0200 ON education, as on other issues, Barack Obama has talked one way and acted the opposite. The situation in his home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children - and one of the best for the unionized teachers. Fewer than...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:45:49 +0200 REPUBLICANS don't need to dress up for Halloween this year. They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!" Wink, blink or think critical...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:54 +0200 MADONNA is a demanding diva even to her peers. The Swedish pop star Robyn was psyched when the Material Mom invited her to open for a handful of her European concerts but quickly found out there are rules. Robyn told her hometown Swedish paper that...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:42:52 +0200 GOOD thing the Clash broke up years ago, because they'd probably be playing Vegas and sipping champagne had they carried on. In next month's Relix, veteran publicist Susan Blond, who did press for the bad boys of punk, recalls one night when Joe...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 NOW we know where Sarah Palin developed her talent for gutting moose. The vice presidential hopeful's big sister Heather Bruce - asked how she "tortured" Sarah when they were kids - tells next month's Glamour: "My dad tortured her the most of all!
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:45:40 +0200 LL Cool J loves buying knishes and hot dogs from street vendors but admits it can be a bit funky. "Some people think street carts are unsanitary," the rapper, who rocks Madison Square Garden with Janet Jackson next Thursday, tells Page Six Magazine...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:36:40 +0200 ONE of the "bundlers" who has raised $50,000 to $100,000 for the Barack Obama presidential campaign is Terrence Bean, who once controlled the biggest producer of gay porn in America. Bean, the first gay on Sen. Obama's National Finance Committee...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:37:57 +0200 LUCIE Arnaz was stuck in traffic the other night trying to get to Lo renzo's Cabaret at the Hilton Gar den Inn on Staten Island. So she called owner Rich Nicotra and told him to have a martini - or two - ready. Arnaz was checking the place out...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:41:18 +0200 THE media fur will be flying at "Politics 2008 - The Election of a Lifetime," a bunch of high-powered roundtables at Time Warner headquarters Monday and Tuesday. Diametrically opposed liberals and conservatives will duke it out on...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:18 +0200 THOSE who say John McCain and Barack Obama waffle on the issues should vote for gun-toting, meat-loving rocker Ted Nugent, who makes no bones about what he'd do as president. "[I'd] instruct the US military warriors to do their job - win the global...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:41:07 +0200 NYU is having supply problems. The $45,000-a-year school ran out of toilet paper and trash bags at its Palladium dorm on East 14th Street two weeks ago, leaving its young residents to fend for themselves. Red-faced university officials blame a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:39:49 +0200 HE'S plenty hot, but Tyson Beckford doesn't get every girl he wants. At the opening of Megu restaurant's club M Tuesday, Beckford was flirting with Victoria's Secret model Noémie Lenoir. "He was playing with her hair and stroking her back," said a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:39:29 +0200 JOSEPH O'Neill, author of the acclaimed novel "Nether land," needed a head-shrinker to become a writer. Turkish-born O'Neill told stu dents at the Writing Center of Marymount Manhattan College he was practicing law in London when, 10 years ago, he...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 STEVEN Spielberg and Sumner Redstone, showing there are no hard feelings, marking the split of Dreamworks from Paramount over lunch at the Milky Way kosher restaurant in West LA owned by Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:44:07 +0200 AXL Rose finally caved under pressure from Dr Pepper. In March, Page Six reported the soda brand's promise to give everyone in America a free can if Guns N' Roses would release its album "Chinese Democracy" in 2008. Rose responded he looked forward...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 THAT Beyoncé was decked out in navy-blue Carolina Herrera for the cover of The New York Observer's new glossy fashion mag, Observer Style, peering through a diamond-studded monocle . . . THAT Amy Sedaris and Jonathan Ames will toast New York...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:33:44 +0200 After the Rangers played their first two games of the season in Prague, they play host to the Blackhawks in their home opener at Madison Square Garden. The unbeaten Blueshirts take the ice with a 2-0 early-season mark, earning two consecutive 2-1...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0200 DENVER - Brian Leetch glided out to the ice in loafers, not skates. The former defenseman was wearing a blue suit and matching tie, instead of his familiar Rangers sweater. He's grown quite fond of retirement. "I'm not looking to play another...
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:21:24 +0200 Ed Snider, CEO of the Flyers, is using his team, the Rangers and the NHL as stage props to advance his own political agenda, and it doesn't appear the league can or is willing to do a thing about it. Tomorrow night, when the Flyers play their...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:21:57 +0200 IT'S the most delicate subject on TV right now - is TV ready for a 14-year-old gay kid? In the first two seasons of "Ugly Betty," Justin Suarez - Betty's Broadway-loving, Martha Stewart-worshipping nephew - loses his father, gets into trouble...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 A new series about the fe male mayor of a small town has jumped from the back burner to the front, thanks to Sarah Palin. The proposed show, tentatively titled "Cadillac Ranch," comes with a big-name director attached - Adam Shankman, who...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 THE temper tantrums will look familiar to anyone who watches "Supernanny," but tonight's episode of the ABC series takes the chaos up a notch: The parents of these out-of-control kids are deaf. Supernanny Jo Frost encounters a family in which the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 'Meet' the bounce After a month of scary rat ings drops - and dire predic tions that its long run as the dominant Sunday morning news show may be ending - "Meet the Press" has bounced back. The show, now hosted by Tom Brokaw, was again the...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 THE first round of bidding has begun for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, the privately held company that controls what is probably the most valuable back catalog in the theater business. Gag orders seem to be all over the place, but word...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 LONDON - One of the pleasures for New York theater buffs abroad is in guessing whether this or that West End production will make it to Broadway. So far, the buzz here is building around the musicals "Zorro" and "Marguerite" and one semi-musical...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 "AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and funny as ever. Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 FEINSTEIN'S: Mary Cleere Haran performs at 8 and 10 p.m. today and tomorrow and 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday at 540 Park Ave.; 212-339-4095. JOE'S PUB: Michael Winther and special guests perform "Songs From an Unmade Bed" Monday at 11:30 p.m...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 AVERY FISHER HALL: Alec Baldwin narrates the story of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony No. 9, followed by a performance by the New York Philharmonic tonight at 8. Lincoln Center; 212-875-5656. CARNEGIE HALL: Pianist Yundi Li performs works by...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 HUDSON THEATER: Doug Varone and Dancers perform their original work "Rise," and Betty Buckley sings tonight at 7:30 at 145 W. 44th St.; 212-279-3344. JOYCE THEATER: Ballet Hispanico performs Carlos Sierra-Lopez's new work "Carmen Trio" and Jean...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BLOCK PARTY: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Murray Street, between Broadway and Church Street. EIGHTH AVENUE FESTIVAL: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 57th streets. AVENUE OF THE...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: The New York Turkish Film Festival winds down with 7 and 9 p.m. feature screenings today and a series of shorts from 5 to 10 p.m. tomorrow, ending with a party. For schedule information, go to newyorkturkishfilmfestival.com...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 BIRDLAND: The avant-garde bassist Dave Holland leads a quartet featuring drummer, pianist and guitarist tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30. Birdland, 315 W. 44th St.; 212-581-3080. BLUE NOTE: The Count Basie Orchestra performs Tuesday through...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 "ABSINTHE": *** ½ This thrilling blend of European-style circus and burlesque offers decadent pleasures in a wonderful summertime setting. Spiegelworld at Pier 17, South Street Seaport, South Street at Beekman Street. 212-279-4200. Closes Nov...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 BECK: The experimental singer/songwriter headlines a show tonight, also featuring MGMT, at 8 at the United Palace Theater, Broadway at 175th Street; 212-777-1224. BRAZILIAN GIRLS: This danceable techno-pop band plays tracks off its new recording...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 "ALL MY SONS": John Lithgow, Dianne Weist and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller's 1947 play. Schoenfeld, 236 W. 45th St.; 212-239-6200. Opens Oct.16. "BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL": Elton John wrote the music for this story of an English coal- miner's...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:28 +0200 WHATEVER LOLA WANTS . . . Film - October 10 The wide-screen grandeur of "Lola Montes" (1955), the swan song for famed German-born filmmaker Max Ophuls, is lost on DVD. So let us thank Film Forum (Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue) for giving a...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 Cruel and unusual punishment is clearly in the ear of the beholder. An Urbana, Ohio, man could have avoided a fine for blasting rap music out of his car when a judge gave him the option of spending 20 hours listening to classical music. But...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:47:51 +0200 Now it's stock and awe in Baghdad! As the Dow plummeted nearly 700 points yesterday to fall well below the 9,000 mark, the Iraqi stock exchange - where this broker was merrily keeping up with her booming business - was flourishing, buoyed by...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:26:30 +0200 BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Prosecutors dropped all charges yesterday against a bank employee accused of helping steal $47 million from a Belfast bank in one of the world's biggest cash heists. Chris Ward had been accused of helping to pull off...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:13 +0200 BAGHDAD - The leader of a US-backed neighborhood police unit was killed, along with his wife and two children, by a roadside bomb yesterday, authorities said. The explosion in Udhaim, 60 miles north of Baghdad, took the lives of Khdaier Abbas...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:21:18 +0200 A US missile fired by a spy-in-the-sky drone killed at least six people in a terrorist hotbed of Pakistan yesterday - the latest strike by high-tech weaponry that is changing the face of war in the region. The pilotless aircraft blasted suspected...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:25:00 +0200 MOGADISHU, Somalia - NATO will soon join the international force protecting vessels off Somalia's coast, even as pirates soften their ransom demands for an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker hijacked two weeks ago. NATO defense ministers, meeting...
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:23:56 +0200 'VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI gave World War II pontiff Pius XII a push toward possible sainthood yesterday and defended his memory from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. Benedict vigorously defended Pius as he...
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