July 9, 2007
Michael Moore Blasts Blitzer
When Wolf Blitzer and "The Situation Room" disputed Michael Moore’s "Sicko" facts before an interview with the filmmaker, they probably knew they were just egging him on. But it turned...
Swills and Stitches
It's a bar, it's a store, it's a co-op. It's the Dressing Room, a new lower eastside spot that is attempting to be a garment district community center of sorts....
The Gambler
Glen Sather better know when to hold 'em. With only $9M of wriggle room beneath the salary cap, there's no way for him to make room for Sean Avery, Brendan...
Deal of the Day
Since Parson grads Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai teamed up for their label Vena Cava, the two have been making a splash on the fashion scene.Their vintage inspired feminine creations,...
HOW TO IMPROVE? INTERNALLY
We all want the sexy trade. We all want to hear that the Yankees have found the navigation system to pry Eric Gagne from Texas to set up Mariano Rivera...
ROUND-UP: It is Monday. There's news.
"There's so many people I'd like to thank - first and foremost, God": Christ The Redeemer in Rio, now officially a Wonder. IN THE FUTURE, ALL IMPORTANT DECISIONS WILL BE...
High kicks
A double dose for sneakerheads today. First, Raakhee Mirchandani runs down the new kicks for summer. Our favorite: Nike's back-to-school line, out Aug. 1, with shoe patterns based on Elmer's...
No, He Didn't Inhale
Kevin Costner has cast reformed counterculturist and former "WaterWorld'' co-star Dennis Hopper (pictured with Isabella Rossellini in you-know-what) as a Democratic candidate for President of the United States in "Swing...
Area 51 Blacksite E3 Trailer
More aliens and more guns.
Gimme An F
"Harrison Ford doesn't have a very commanding presence,'' says a Yale student who worked as an extra in a classroom scene filmed on the New Haven campus for the new...
DESPOT MEASURES
Ah, youth - that carefree stretch between birth and work where meals were free, innocence was rife and play was the order of the day. That's the myth, at any...
COLD WARS
FOR four years, officemates Lee DeEsso and Mark Stevens have worked together in near-perfect harmony. In fact, they and their colleagues at MSCO, a Westchester marketing and management firm, describe...
DREAM JOB: STEWART LANE
IN the industry, Stewart Lane is called Mr. Broadway - a writer, producer and director whose credits include "Legally Blonde," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "La Cage...
BULLY FOR THEM
The Post spoke to a number of people who claimed they were victims of workplace bullying. Were they? You be the judge. For "Janie" (not her real name), the abuse...
GO TO GREG
Q. I hold an important position, and as a result I get a ton of e-mail, even when I'm on vacation. The pressure to demonstrate my commitment to my job...
VITALSTATS
* Number of working moms in survey who believe working fathers struggle less with work/life balance: 50 percent * Number of fathers who believe this: 29 percent * Number of...
THE MONKEY KING
Adopted From the Classic Chinese Tale By Ji-li Jiang Illustrated by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy STORY SO FAR: Stone Monkey comes to the Monkey clan. They challenge him to go through...
GET YOUR KICKS
WHEN you ask what's new in sneakers, the answer is almost always "old." Sneakerheads get their laces in a twist every time there's wind of a relaunch, or remix, of...
PULSE SALES
NANETTE LEPORE 225 W. 35th St., 4th floor, between Seventh and Eighth avenues; (212) 594-0012 Sale: July 11, 12. 9a.m.- 6 p.m. Crepe de Chine leopard-print belted "Feline" tent dress...
IT'S NOT A DREAM
WE'VE seen operas about Richard Nixon and Mal colm X - so why not one about Martin Luther King Jr.? The enterprising downtown theater troupe Waterwell - which gave us...
MELODRAMA DOESN'T HANG TOGETHER
THE immigrant Jewish family at the heart of Sylvia Regan's rarely seen 1940 play "Morning Star" certainly goes through more than its share of tsuris. From the Triangle Shirtwaist factory...
PHILANTHOPY OF NOTE
LOUNGE on the lawn, catch the free music - feed the hungry. That's the drill this summer in the parks, when the New York Philharmonic adds a new, philanthropic edge...
'BRONX' CHEER
IF you're old enough to remember the summer of 1977, you'll love a new miniseries premiering tonight on ESPN. And if you're not old enough to remember the summer of...
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
IF poker could do it, why not videogames? Tonight marks the broadcast debut of the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), the first-ever made-for-TV pro videogaming league. Six teams will battle inside...
STARR REPORT
The 411 on 'JKL' Jimmy Kimmel re cently missed some time after undergoing an emer gency appendectomy - but he's got to be feeling a lot better after seeing his...
BARRON AIDE HITS BACK BY PUNCHIN' IN
For a controversial aide to a firebrand Brooklyn councilman, the ultimate act of defiance has come down to this - showing up for work. Fireworks are expected this morning when...
SCHOOL BATTLE OVER CLASS SIZE
Advocates yesterday slammed the city Department of Education for not putting up a five-year strategy to reduce class size as part of its plans to spend $4.7 billion in additional...
RECYCLED ROADS THE NEXT ECO-LOGICAL STEP
The city's new transportation commissioner is out to paint the town green - and congestion pricing isn't the only way. Streets throughout the five boroughs will soon be paved with...
POT LUCK RUNS OUT
Store 88 pounds of marijuana in the fridge? Check. Set up a recording studio as a front for your drug-dealing business? Check. Avoid getting caught? Oops! A Manhattan pot dealer...
DARING RESCUE BY FDNY IN BROOKLYN FIRE
A Brooklyn man hung for dear life from an eighth-floor window ledge in a desperate bid to escape his burning apartment yesterday before firefighters pulled him to safety in a...
DOORMAN TACKLES 'MUGGER'
An elderly ex-nun returning home from a bus trip to the Atlantic City slots was mugged by an Upper West Side punk - who was chased and tackled by her...
MYSTERY SLAY OF BX. BIZMAN
The owner of a Bronx moving company was found mysteriously shot dead inside his warehouse early yesterday, cops said. The wife of Angel Ortega, 39, made the grisly discovery at...
CRASH CHOPPER PROBED
Investigators are zeroing in on possible mechanical failure in the frightening crash of a sightseeing helicopter in the Hudson River on Saturday, an employee of the tour company said yesterday....
SAFETY SLACKERS AT RYE PLAYLAN
Three years after brass at Rye Playland were warned that inattentive, safety-flouting employees were making rides increasingly dangerous, little has changed at the Westchester amusement park, The Post has learned....
LEAD-PAINT LINK TO DIP IN CRIME
Rudy Giuliani never misses an opportunity to remind people about his track record in fighting crime as mayor from 1994 to 2001. "I began with the city that was the...
RUDY'S PAL DIES ON S.I.
John D'Amato, a prominent Staten Island Republican who ran former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign in New York, died while jogging over the weekend. He had worked with several Republicans,...
UNEASY RIDER FINDS IT HARD TO ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES
The subway-booth clerk at Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street station didn't seem too concerned when I rolled up in my wheelchair, sweating and panicked. I told her I had to get...
A SUBWAY DE-WHEELMENT
The Justice Department has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the MTA for allegedly violating federal laws meant to help wheelchair-bound commuters get around underground, The Post has learned. The probe...
WIFE BID PUTS POL IN A BIND
A City Council race may put a Queens congressman between a rock and a hard place - or in this case, between his top aide and his own wife. Brian...
MOM BACKS MISS N.J.
The mother of Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo yesterday said her daughter did nothing to warrant becoming a blackmail target. "It's not her fault what has happened," said Jennifer Wagner...
JACK AND JILT
It was the final boot out the door by his disgusted girlfriend that triggered a furious gunman to go on a fatal carjacking rampage in Brooklyn. "He told me he...
LIGHTS OUT FOR SUFFERING CITY
This is the first part in a five-day series marking the 30th anniversary of New York City's disastrous summer of 1977. It wasn't the darkness - it was the despair....
STRANDED REVELERS MADE IT PARTY TIME
While much of the city was paralyzed by the fear of looters and arsonists during the 1977 blackout, some had not a worry in the world as they partied through...
L.I. JUNKIE STRANGLES AUNT: COPS
A crack addict choked his aunt to death in her bedroom after she awoke to find him rummaging for money to fund his drug habit, Long Island cops said yesterday....
TERROR-BANE MA
A bitter blueblood who grew up in Westchester goes on trial today - charged with the help of a cybersleuth soccer mom with conspiring to help al Qaeda and plotting...
GRIDLOCK RALLY: PRICING IS RIGHT
A handful of advocates for Mayor Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing plan rallied on 125th Street yesterday to urge Albany to quickly approve legislation for it. The proponents reminded state lawmakers that...
CHANCE TO FIRE 'DIRTY' COP BLOWN
The NYPD failed to boot a boneheaded rookie - now charged with trying to rob a New Jersey drug den - even though he broke the rules by testifying for...
QUEENS MAN KILLED IN FIRE
A Queens man died in a raging blaze early this morning, as his relatives, including a pregnant woman, jumped to safety, fire officials and family said. The victim, identified by...
SHOCKING FIND IN L.I. DOG HOUSE
A Long Island beautician was busted for animal cruelty after authorities discovered a mess of traumatized dogs - and about 200 pounds of their poop - in his home, cops...
GIRL HURT BY STRAY BULLET
A 13-year-old girl bending down to tie her shoes was grazed by a stray bullet on the Lower East Side early yesterday, police said. The unidentified girl was hit just...
PERV-RABBI BUST
A fugitive child rapist - who is an Orthodox rabbi and kiddie psychiatrist - was returned to the United States from India yesterday to face punishment for fleeing his parole...
BAD 'TOSS' BY METS SECURITY
Two brothers watching a Mets game from a corporate box claim they were assaulted by a crew of security guards. Nicholas and Telemak Kamparosyan of Queens are suing the team,...
BIG STINK OVER TRASH
A storm is brewing on the Hudson River over the city's push to create a recycling center on a pier that state law has set aside for parkland. City officials...
EX EYED IN B'KLYN COUPLE SLAY
A couple was shot to death in a Brooklyn home last night - and cops were hunting for the woman's ex-boyfriend, police said. The 35-year-old woman, who sources said is...
MIXED REVIEWS FOR RETRO RULE ON LATIN MASS
Pope Benedict XVI's decision to make it easier to celebrate the old Latin Mass got a decidedly mixed reaction at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday - with some lauding the nod...
ISLAM DEATH CULT
A camp of Pakistani children is being brainwashed into a cult of misguided martyrdom, raising fears that they're being trained as suicide bombers, officials said. Hundreds of boys and girls...
IRAN NUKE PLANT
Iran is developing a third secret nuclear facility that would serve as a fallback in case two other plants in the rogue nation's arsenal come under attack, an Israeli newspaper...
RECORD PLUNGE FOR CD SALES
Retail music sales worldwide are expected to plunge by about 11 percent this year, making 2007 the worst year for the recording industry in more than a quarter of a...
KATIE SLAPPED EDITOR: REPORT
The stress of low ratings sent Katie Couric into a slap- happy rage, a published report says. Couric allegedly became spitting mad over the word "sputum," written by "CBS Evening...
FILM FANS FLOOD THE BOTS OFFICE
"Transformers" July Fourth-week box-office haul was "more than meets the eye" of most folks in 10 lifetimes. "The 'oohs' and 'aahs' you heard were coming from theaters from California to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops nabbed a burglar who stole jewelry and clothing from a woman's Upper East Side apartment early yesterday, police sources said. A witness spotted Juan Ramirez, 34, climbing through...
GOV AIDES FISHED FOR BRUNO BUSTERS
TOP aides to Gov. Spitzer went shopping for probers in their quest to dig up dirt on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, their boss' top political rival, The Post has...
HEROES IN BLUE FOUGHT ANARCHY
IT WAS the night of the animals, as a cop from the Ralph Avenue station house in Brooklyn told me on July 14, 30 years ago. On that day and...
POOL PARADISE
STUFF the Hamptons. Don't even think about the South of France. We are sitting in the approximate center of the known universe - on a derelict patch of the fabulously...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 366; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5684; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 273; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
SOME NUCLEAR TRUTHS
For the first time in recent memory, a top Japanese official has told the truth about some of the events that brought the Pacific war to a close in 1945....
SPITZER'S SPITE
New Yorkers who view the ugly confrontation between Gov. Spitzer and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno as just another political mud-slinging match are wrong. Similarly, those who see the...
TURKEY'S ISLAMIST CROSSROADS
TALK to Turks of any political persuasion and you are sure to hear how proud they are that Turkey is "the only democracy in the Muslim world." And, yet, as...
NYC'S TRANSIT CRISIS
OVER the coming decades, we expect that New York City will add nearly a million more people. While this growth should bring tremendous benefits to our economy, it could also...
STIFLING SPEECH
THE island nation of Singapore has a reputation for zealously regulating the daily life of its citizens. It has banned chewing gum and levies stiff fines for failure to flush...
SENATE'S SUMMER SOLDIERS
NATIONAL Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley visited Capitol Hill just before Congress adjourned for July 4. Meetings with a half-dozen senior GOP senators were clearly intended to extinguish fires set...
NADLER'S EAR ON 9/11
"Let Rudy Speak" (Editorial, July 1) wrongly claims that my recent oversight hearing was, "another Bush-bashing exercise . . . short on investigation." After 9/11, former EPA Administrator Christine Todd...
THE AMNESTY MONSTER: FED BY ALIEN SYMPATHY
THE ISSUE: Immigration in the United States and the recently failed legislation to address it. "A Nation of Laws" should be required reading by all (Michelle Malkin, PostOpinion, July 2)....
LOCAL WEB AD FIRMS GO DOOR-TO-DOOR
As more people turn to the Web to find a restaurant, barber shop or plumber, Internet firms big and small are vying to attract the millions of local merchants that...
TICKET TO RIDE
Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., the nation's third-largest theme-park operator, has quietly reached out to private equity firms to gauge their interest in a buyout on the condition that the company's...
E-TRADES IMPERIL THE FLOOR
The value of a partnership in one of the New York Stock Exchange's leading specialist units appears to have dropped by nearly half since the Big Board introduced electronic trading...
NEW RIDES. SWEET.
Judging from the latest crop of car magazines, the auto industry behaves just like any other industry when it comes to a hot new product. In the car world, the...
MISS N.J. CALLS BLACKMAILER 'MISERABLE PERSON'
Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo called whoever is trying to force her to drop out of the beauty pageant a "miserable person" on the Today show this morning. Polumbo, who...
PUMPING UP A DISGRACE
IT'S time Major League Baseball's specially appointed drug investigator, George Mitchell, sent a memo to team owners, demanding that they cut it out. After all, how can Mitchell conduct a...
'FUTURE' PERFECT
SAN FRANCISCO - The Fu tures Game is the one All-Star Game that is played in the afternoon sunshine. This game is all about hope, hustle and future glory. They...
JUMP FOR CHOI
BETHESDA, Md. - K.J. Choi has a checklist, and it's a rather impressive one. Five weeks ago, Choi won Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament and yesterday he captured Tiger Woods' inaugural...
APPLEBY COLLAPSES ON FRONT
BETHESDA, Md. - Stuart Appleby, the 54-hole leader of Tiger Woods' AT&T National at Congressional, had been eating up the front nine all week entering yesterday's final round. In the...
'GINGER' PUNCHES THROUGH
With Bobby Frankel entry of Sugar Swirl and Ginger Punch looming odds on, only four other fillies and mares went to post for Grade 2, $150,000 First Flight Handicap at...
NCAA'S NEW RULES MAY HURT MCMILLAN
PHILADELPHIA - Dwan McMillan plans to attend college next year. He's thinking about schools such as Clemson, Cincinnati and Memphis, as well as St. John's. Despite his plans, the Brooklyn...
HORSE PLAY FOR HONDO
Hondo wrapped up the front nine with yet another subpar peformance as he missed with the Tribe to in crease the accounts payable to 375 alstons and main tain his...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Red Bulls blank Rapids In Commerce City, Colo., John Wolyniec scored his second goal of the season and the Red Bulls survived a late scare to defeat the Colorado...
ISIAH HAS NO FEAR OF ARTEST
LAS VEGAS - Isiah Thomas yesterday admitted he and Ron Artest were often at odds during their three years together in Indiana, but noted the controversial small forward played his...
HEAT'S ON ROBINSON
LAS VEGAS - Nate Robinson realizes with 17 guys and a host of new guards, his spot on the Knicks roster is not guaranteed. Perhaps that is why he showed...
REVIVED LIBS REIGN OVER MONARCHS
Going into this weekend, the Liberty had lost four of five games, developed a reputation as a soft team that can be bullied and beaten up, and were facing the...
TEXAS TOAST
HOUSTON - It was a bad mismatch on paper, and the box score looked even uglier. In one corner, Houston's All-Star ace Roy Oswalt started the day after the home...
LEDEE IS SQUEEZED OFF ROSTER
HOUSTON - Willie Randolph likes having three catchers, so the Mets made a move elsewhere yesterday. Outfielder Ricky Ledee was designated for assignment when starter Dave Williams was activated. Ledee...
NETS SEE WILLIAMS AS MOORE INSURANCE
The comparison came almost immediately. Sean Williams, the Boston College athletic shot-blocker supreme, might be the next Kenyon Martin. Now the Nets may settle for Williams being the next Mikki...
YANKEES BLAST INTO BREAK
Joe Torre didn't bother with a sendoff message for the Yankees as they scurried to clear the clubhouse yesterday for the three-day All-Star break. No message was necessary. The Yankees...
THERE'S WANG WAY TO REACH PLAYOFFS
IF you do the math, the min imum 95 wins it has taken to secure an American League postseason berth each of the last six seasons will take a 53-24...
FIRST-HALF BLAST
The first half ended fittingly for Alex Rodriguez - another home run and little introspection. The Yankees third baseman drilled his 30th home run in the team's 12-0 victory over...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
MELKY MAY BE THE MAN
As Johnny Damon's stock continues to sink, the Yankees saw more evidence yesterday that Melky Cabrera is maybe their long-term answer in center field. A day after striking out five...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
For sale: property off the coast of Fairfield, Conn., with a commanding view of Long Island Sound. The price is only $1, but it may not be a bargain -...