February 8, 2007
Food Fight
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain hates the Food Network.This much is obvious from a guest post he filed today on a Web site belonging to his pal, author Michael Ruhlman.Bourdain's screed...
Eastwood Juvenalia
Clint Eastwood completists will be lining up Monday at Film Forum to see one of his most elusive films, "Le Streghe,'' which apparently has never been shown on TV or...
Losing Lost
???Lost??? is losing fans.The return of ABC???s increasingly confusing island drama Wednesday night drew some of the lowest ratings for a first run episode of the show, about 14.7 million...
Going for the Gold
You really must rush to your local retailer of dead trees and plunk down 25 cents (more outside New York and its immediate suburbs) to get the free Page Six...
So You Want to be a Star: Reality TV Tryouts (Part 3)
More chances for your 15 minutes of fame."How Do I Look"The Style Network's makeover show wants to find the worst-dressed New Yorkers in the publishing world.E-mail the following info to...
Cannes Confidential
The Cannes Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with what is described by Variety as a top-secret film consisting of new short sequences it commissioned from past winners of...
You, Robot
Today in the Haute List: The hoodies you have to snap up from kidrobot, including this $165 Dunny Purple, which are feature in Barneys windows this week; what NARS sees...
The Incredible Shrinking Kevin
Reviewing the romantic comedy "Catch and Release'' (which dropped an alarming 66 percent during its second weekend), Kyle Smith wrote: "One of Gray's friends is played by Kevin Smith --...
FROM BED TO WORST
'WE are all a little crazy when it comes to sex," says 28-year-old Jon Collins, one of the performers in this year's fourth annual "Worst. Sex. Ever." stage show at...
PUTTIN' ON THE GLITZ
With Donald and Melania Trump front-and-center and a long row of socialites who are, by default, the boldface names of fashion week, Michael Kors put on the jet-set ritz at...
PROENZA SCHOULER SHOW
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen should be crowned the unofficial style muses for fall 2007. No, we're not saying that the catwalks are filled with homeless-looking bag ladies, but the...
MICHAEL KORS SHOW
As the most quintessentially American designer working today, Michael Kors occupies a mantle that is enviable. By default, he leads the pack with whatever he does. And though he doesn't...
VIVIENNE TAM SHOW
Like most of the Fall '07 designers, Vivenne Tam showed mostly dark and somber fare, in blacks, navys, grays and purples, with a sprinkling of gold metallic accents and a...
JENNI KAYNE SHOW
Jenni Kayne is a designer from LA (perhaps the spelling of her first name tipped you off) with celebrity friends like the Olsen twins (who were at the show). Judging...
'MEAN GIRLS' GET CAMERA-SHY
Tinsley Mortimer and Fabiola Beracasa looked less than delighted at the Y-3 show last night. In a scene straight out of "Mean Girls," the socialites couldn't hide grimaces when photographers...
HAUTE LIST
Check out the fall colors SOME of the best fall trends in J. Mendel's show this morning at Fashion Week won't be on the models' bodies - they'll be on...
ROMANTIC ROD IS NO LONGER OFF HIS ROCKER
ROD Stewart, the raspy modfather who revitalized his career and won a Grammy singing "I'm in the Mood for Love," has returned to his rock roots. On the eve of...
POLICE BRUTALITY
THAT the Police can stand to be in the same room with one another is amazing; that the seminal punk, reggae and pop band is reuniting Sunday for the Grammys...
IT'S GROWING, FLOWING, GONE!
KAROLE Armitage might have used a more encouraging tense than Armitage Gone!, the name of the troupe that opened its season Tuesday at the Joyce Theater. Perhaps Armitage Newly Arriving!...
KING OF THE JUVES
THE new weekly documentary series, "MTV Juvies" should work like a modern, weekly version of "Scared Straight," the program in which hardened criminals take wannabe bad-ass kids into "the depths...
A 9/11 HERO'S XTREME HOME
ON Sept. 11, Jason Thomas was living on Long Island and attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice when the planes hit. He grabbed his Marine uniform, rushed down to...
RANCH-Y LANGUAGE ON IMUS
MSNBC motormouth Chris Matthews accidentally dropped the F-bomb yesterday during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning." The morning radio show is simulcast on MSNBC and while Matthews' swear word...
MTV LOOKS FOR NEXT SHOW AT B'KLYN TECH
MTV is searching for the next "Laguna Beach" - in Brooklyn. The new reality/drama show, tentatively called "Brooklyn" will aim to "paint and accurate picture for America what life is...
DEGLAMOROUS
ELLEN DeGeneres is used to being ignored on the red carpet because she is only wearing a tux. It is Ellen's girlfriend, Portia De Rossi, who gets the attention. "They're...
MICHON SCHUR SHOW
Stephanie Schur provided New York with a much needed dose of plain old prettiness at her show Wednesday night, presenting a collection with ruching, ruffling, and enough tailored contrast not...
BADGLEY MISCHKA SHOW
There is something to be said for a designer who knows what he's good at and what his customer wants. The household names in the fashion industry know they have...
DIESEL
Six-year-old Frankie, sitting on her magazine editor mom's lap, turned to me at Diesel and said the smartest thing I'd heard all week; "I don't like fashion shows, they take...
G-STAR SHOW
Denim lovers will be over the moon for G-Star's fall collection. For women, the dark denim looks which included a long, dramatic hooded coat dress, a three-quarter length trench with...
J. MENDEL SHOW
In a season when it seems every designer in town is trimming dresses, jackets and wraps in fur, there was no doubt J. Mendel, which started as a furrier, would...
PEGAH ANVARIAN
L.A. designer Pegah Anvarian's fall collection was just as awkward as soon-to-be porn star Kim Kadarshian and recent ex-boyfriend Nick Canon ignoring each other in the front row of her...
Y-3 SHOW
The Hunter College Gym never looked so good. Wednesday night, Y-3 took over the space turning the basketball court and sidelines in to a mechanical runway and packing the bleachers...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The planets will help you to see that you don't have to fight for what you believe. You don't have to go to war to protect your way of looking...
GROUND ZERO PATIENT SURGE
The number of patients enrolled at Mount Sinai's World Trade Center health clinic skyrocketed 50 percent last month following the publicity surrounding the death of retired cop Cesar Borja, The...
SCAFFOLD-SAFETY PUSH
Reacting to a sudden surge in construction-worker deaths, Mayor Bloomberg announced a $6 million initiative yesterday to upgrade training and enforcement in the high-risk suspended-scaffolding industry. "I know a lot...
CUCKOO 'COP'
A cunning con duped a Long Island neighborhood by posing as a friendly cop - while shaking down hookers, drug dealers and speeders for payoffs, authorities said yesterday. "He had...
AMMO SCARE AT JFK
A loaded ammo clip was found aboard an American Airlines jet that had just arrived at Kennedy Airport from the Dominican Republic, and now cops are trying to find its...
DAD STABS MOM, CUTS BRAVE KIDS
A knife-wielding dad critically wounded his wife and slashed two of his young kids who heroically tried to grab his weapon during a fight at their Queens home yesterday, police...
GOP HELPED DEMS WIN SHEL GAME
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver couldn't have dealt the stunning defeat to Gov. Spitzer without the help of disgruntled Republicans who crossed party lines to back a Democratic lawmaker as the...
A BULLDOZER DEMOLISHES STEAMROLLER
ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer, bragging recently that he's a "f - - - ing steamroller" who'll roll over anyone in his way, got steamrolled himself yesterday by Assembly Speaker...
GOV RIPS TRAITOR POLS
ALBANY - Minutes after state lawmakers defied him by selecting an assemblyman as the new comptroller, a fuming Gov. Spitzer yesterday ripped the decision as "a stark reminder of all...
JFK JR. KIN'S TRAGIC CALL
A relative of John F. Kennedy Jr. placed a nervous call to air traffic controllers when the Camelot heir's doomed plane didn't arrive on time, a new transcript reveals. Carole...
POLS HAVE BLOOMY IN BUS FUME
Facing intense heat over the chaotic rerouting of city school buses, Mayor Bloomberg blasted his critics in government yesterday as know-it-all politicians "who have no experience in doing anything." The...
KIDDIE THUGS MAIM STUDENT
Cops busted a trio of 10-year-old hoodlums who allegedly held down a 12-year-old classmate and slammed a door on his hand, nearly severing a finger, a source said yesterday. Officers...
WALKING AND TALKING IDIOT
A state senator wants to fine people $100 for listening to an iPod or talking on a cellphone while crossing the street - but New Yorkers are shrugging off the...
LOOTER TUTOR 'TAUGHT' DEAD BOY: PROBERS
She said she taught dead people. That's the outrageous claim of a home-instruction schoolteacher accused of billing the city $5,864 in tutoring services for a 15-year-old Brooklyn boy who had...
IDENTITY CRISIS
During a routine mortgage preapproval, Queens school worker Parveen Khan was shocked to learn that she was being hunted by a collection agency for a credit card she knew nothing...
KID TELLS OF SEEING KIN SLAIN
A 10-year-old boy told jurors in Queens Supreme Court yesterday he saw his "Uncle Pecky" shoot his father in the head and then turn the gun on his granddad. Julien...
'SEX' TAPE IS ILLEGAL SAYS BEAST
A Broadway star who once played the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" claims an audiotape Manhattan prosecutors have of him allegedly admitting to dressing-room sex with a 15-year-old girl...
BUILDING SUPER SLAY PLOT FOILED
A bone-headed drug dealer and his wife were accused yesterday of hatching a bizarre murder-for-hire plot, offering $5,000 to have a hit man kill their building super, sources said. Francisco...
S.I. GRAND JURY WEIGHS SLAY RAP IN EX-COPS' BRAWL
A Staten Island grand jury is considering manslaughter charges against a former detective whose fight with another ex-cop left a third person dead. Retired Detective Thomas Dades, who helped crack...
SURRENDER, SON
A righteous dad convinced his drug-addict son to surrender to police yesterday after the younger man fled the scene of a fatal two-car crash in Queens, authorities said. Christopher Savini,...
TALL ORDER FOR B'KLYN MALL
The former Albee Square Mall in Brooklyn will be bulldozed for a high-rise housing, retail and office complex, city officials said yesterday. Developer Joseph Sitt, the man behind a billion-dollar...
DERANGED THUG: WHY I BEAT COP
A delusional, bat-wielding thug admitted in a jailhouse interview yesterday he brutally assaulted a cop in Queens because he was angry about parking tickets and wanted to pull off another...
IRAQ '$KIM' RAP FOR DUO
A New Jersey soldier and her civilian husband were indicted yesterday on charges of using money earmarked for reconstruction projects in Iraq to pay for improvements to their Trenton home....
'I WAS SAVING MYSELF'
The suspected ring leader in last year's fatal gang attack on a drunken off-duty cop at a Bronx White Castle says he would do it all over again because he...
POPULATION SURPRISE FOR JEWS
America's Jewish population is far larger than previous estimates, a new survey shows. There are as many as 7.4 million Jews in the United States, researchers at Brandeis University said...
HOMELAND FEDS GOT LO$T IN OWN MAZE
WASHINGTON - Federal Homeland Security officials who slashed New York City's anti-terror funding by 40 percent botched their grant analysis and barely understood how their own Byzantine methods worked, a...
SPACED INVADER 'BROKE UP' MARRIAGE OF FELLOW ASTRO
The star-crossed space cadet who allegedly made it her mission to murder the woman dating her Cape Canaveral crush helped break up his 17-year marriage, his former mother-in-law said yesterday....
NUTTY REP'S 'GAY' GAFFE
WASHINGTON - At a hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Queens Rep. Gary Ackerman yesterday slammed the Pentagon for firing Middle East translators who were gay - and cracked...
AIR-OGANT NANCY
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding regular use of the military's "Lincoln Bedroom" in the sky - a luxurious aircraft of the same type that carries Vice President...
GAY NBAER COMES OUT OF CLOSET
A former NBA player is set to throw down a monster dunk with a tell-all book in which he reveals he is gay. John Amaechi - who had a brief...
RUDY SIGN
WASHINGTON - A Rudy Giuliani fan is tormenting rival White House candidate John Edwards - with a "Go Rudy" sign on his own fence just 100 feet from the Democrat's...
NYPD BLOTTER
QUEENS The feds busted 27 owners and employees of wire-transfer stores in a money laundering crackdown, after they were allegedly caught sending more than $2 million in drug proceeds to...
SHE'S LIKE AMY FISHER, BUT OUT OF THIS WORLD
ON EARTH, Lisa Nowak masquer aded as a brilliant rocket scientist, wife and mother of three. But the diaper-wearing wacko-naut went into orbit - transforming into a scary, yet strangely...
JUSTIN TIME AT MSG
IT MIGHT have seemed like the music played second fiddle to the klieg lights and fancy footwork at Justin Timberlake's Madison Square Garden extravaganza last night, but behind the smoke...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 385; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 8965; Lucky Sum: 28 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 139; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 2345;...
THEIR WORTHLESS WORD
Now all New Yorkers know what As sembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's word is worth: Nothing. Same for state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. The two men yesterday conspired to anoint...
NANCY PELOSI, CARBON CRIMINAL
Remember when all then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich wanted was to use the front steps of Air Force One? That didn't work out, thanks to Bill Clinton's aides - but in...
TRIAL OF THE ABSURD
LET me try to unravel the bi zarre circumstances sur rounding the Scooter Libby trial. Libby, you'll recall, was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. He resigned the day...
SELLING OFF THE WINDY CITY
CHICAGO EIGHTEEN years ago, Richard M. Daley went into the family business, which is the business of being mayor of this city. Back then, he hardly could have imagined that...
RUDY'S BID FOR PREZ: SEALED WITH A KISS
Rudy Giuliani has the ability to do what no other Republican candidate for president since Ronald Reagan has been able to do - carry the state of New York in...
UN-WARREN-TED
New York Times shares surged as much as 7 percent yesterday fueled by speculation that Warren Buffett might start snapping up shares of the beleaguered newspaper giant. Rumors of the...
ZELL PRESSING COMPLEX BID FOR TRIB
As he wraps up a frenzied bidding war for his multi-billion dollar real-estate empire, Chicagoan Sam Zell may enliven the sleepy auction for Tribune by putting in a bid for...
SINATRA HEADING TO SIRIUS
Sirius Satellite Radio scored a content coup against rival XM Satellite Radio yesterday, inking a deal that steals Frank Sinatra Enterprises away from XM. Sirius will use material from the...
OPTIONS PLAYS
Drug-benefits manager Express Scripts has enriched its senior executives by awarding them options at unusually opportune times, according to public documents reviewed by The Post. The revelation of suspicious options...
WE NEED A MANHATTAN PROJECT FOR ENERGY: EX-OFFICIAL
VINCENT DeVito is now an international energy attorney in New York with the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP. But he was once an acting assistant secretary in President Bush's...
REVENUE UP 18% AT NEWS CORP.
Boosted by box-office hits "Borat" and "The Devil Wears Prada," News Corp. yesterday reported a 24 percent gain in second-quarter operating income. Revenue at the media conglomerate - owner of...
NEW AD HOGS
Call it the Teutul Bowl. Advertisers are so in enamored of Paul Teutul Sr. and sons Paul Jr. and Mikey - the motorcycle-loving family of "American Chopper" reality show fame...
GREEN TOPS IN AIR AMERICA FIRE SALE
Real estate tycoon Steve Green has won a bankruptcy fire sale to buy liberal radio network Air America for $4.25 million, but he isn't taking on any obligation to cover...
A SCAM SEEN IN $OFTWARE
A former top salesman at BMC Software has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of firing him after he refused to participate in what he alleges was an accounting...
MUSIC CRITIC
Steve Jobs is trying to put the screws to the music industry. Again. That's the view several industry sources had yesterday after reading the Apple chairman's missive calling on record...
BLACKSTONE GETS $7B ON MACKLOWE TURNOVER
After defeating Vornado in an intense bidding war for Equity Office Properties Trust, The Blackstone Group is set to sell a huge swath of choice Manhattan properties it is acquiring...
SELLING POINTS
I'm preparing to sell my one-bedroom apartment and -- obviously -- want the highest price I can get. Besides getting rid of the clutter, is there anything else I should...
FAMILY CIRCUS
WHY would Le Cirque proprietor Sirio Maccioni and wife Egidiana downsize from their four-bedroom duplex to a two-bedroom flat in Midtown's Museum Tower? "It's convenient," says Maccioni, 74, ever dapper...
BRADY PUNTS
It didn't take long for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to run a reverse on his recent apartment purchase. The hunky hurler - who split from his long-time Manhattan-based...
IT'S NOT JUST MAD MONEY
Compare the Financial District with TriBeCa and Chelsea, and you'll see similarities. There's a distinct downtown vibe, and new condos with perks like concierges and gyms are hot. What, then,...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan GRAMERCY $421,000 235 E. 22nd St. Corner studio co-op, 450 square feet, with fireplace, N/E exposures and city views; landmark Art Deco building features doorman, landscaped garden and roof...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
TriBeCa $1.895 million Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 1,800 Common charges: $541 Who needs limestone when you can have cast iron? Like with this 1866 building on Lispenard Street,...
DREAM HOMES
Upper East Side $5.7 million High above the East River - 29 stories up, in fact - is this five-bedroom, 41/2-bath 3,200-square-foot condo, with floor-to-ceiling windows that offer "amazing" views...
'MAJESTY' REIGNS OVER 'PRINCE'
Four riders divvied up card, with Eibar Coa, Pablo Fragoso, Mike Luzzi and Alan Garcia all winning two races each. THIRD RACE: Scared away by return of Achilles of Troy,...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Pacers in bar brawl Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and teammates Marquis Daniels and Keith McLeod were involved in a fight with a bar manager after a home loss Tuesday...
OTB FIXES MACHINE THAT GAVE FREE BETS
It was Christmas in February last Monday for a handful of regulars at the Bay Parkway OTB branch in Bensonhurst when a computer glitch turned a self-service betting machine into...
JOHNSON REVS UP ANOTHER BIG YEAR
Jimmie Johnson has little doubt he is capable of putting together another impressive NASCAR season, one reminiscent of the dominating run he had last year. Johnson, who started last season...
STORM HAVE SIXTH SENSE
The magic number, in all probability, is six. If St. John's wins six Big East games, it can almost assure itself of its first trip to the league tournament since...
RU'S INTENT CLEAR
Coming off a season in which Rutgers finished 12th in the country and won the Texas Bowl - the highest ranking and first postseason victory in school history - coach...
SIZING UP THE SIGNINGS: THE RICH GET RICHER
The Post's Lenn Robbins looks at the programs that did the best on national signing day:1. USC Pete Carroll's enthusiasm and the Trojans' tradition remain an unbeaten combination. USC got...
DEVILS INTERESTED IN BRUINS' STUART
Seasons change but with the Devils, it will always be about the salary cap. According to sources, the Devils are trying to win the Brad Stuart sweepstakes. The Bruins are...
TIKI ENJOYS HAWAII TRIP
Weeks before heading to Honolulu, Tiki Barber said jokingly that he planned on attending Pro Bowl practices drinking a Mai Tai. It probably won't come to that this week, but...
MAGIC RICK
The Islanders have learned they don't have the firepower of teams like Buffalo and Ottawa, so they need to find other ways to win. Last night was a good example...
GOOD STEPH AT GARDEN
Knicks captain Stephon Marbury is transforming into the savvy floor general no one thought he'd become. He is emerging as a leader, on and off the court. He is making...
DOUBTING THOMAS NEEDS TO CEASE
MAYBE I've been covering too much boxing lately, but seeing that welt under David Lee's eye during the Knicks' 102-90 victory over the Clippers Tuesday night at the Garden was...
DOLAN LIKES WHAT HE SEES
Knicks owner James Dolan gave an extremely rare interview, to Sports Illustrated, in its long feature on the Knicks in this week's issue. Dolan, who normally talks just to beat...
DINNER WITH DUBYA
DAVID Wright knows he is living the dream, but nothing off the field can compare with this past Monday night when Wright was quietly invited to the White House to...
LITTLE 'MISS' SUNSHINE
ATLANTA - The Nets' latest adventure came down to a final shot. Again. Hey, when doesn't it? So coach Lawrence Frank proposed a measure that makes sense. "Every game, whether...
ANTOINE IN WRIGHT PLACE
ATLANTA - Everyone knew where the Hawks wanted to get the ball for the final shot, to Joe Johnson. Antoine Wright had to make sure it never arrived. And he...
AVERY LOOKS TO GIVE BLUESHIRTS A BOOST
The Rangers, 11th in the Eastern Conference, are mired in a four-game losing streak. With 28 games remaining in the regular season, time is running out on the Blueshirts. Nevertheless,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Louisiana sheriff pleaded guilty to having prisoners work at a stolen-car "chop shop" and as pit crew for his racing team. Ronald Ficklin had earlier put state inmates to...