July 14, 2007
LA GRANDE APPLE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMAYBE it's because France's new administration has been getting Sarkozy with ours, or maybe it's just that July 14 happens to fall on a Saturday, but this year New Yorkers...
THE PLATTERS THAT MATTER
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMICHAEL HEARST "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" This CD of new songs for ice cream trucks by Brooklyn-based indie rocker Michael Hearst is less an album than a group of...
WHAT'S UP
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amTODAY MAD HOT MERENGUE: Mama loves to mambo - and the kids will, too, after today's Latin-themed Kids Day, part of the Midsummer Night Swing series at Lincoln Center. Kids...
TRIP SIPPYS IN THE CITY
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amPAUL Godwin was in his back yard south of San Francisco the other day, stuffing streamers and confetti into a cannon - and wondering whether he and his bandmates could...
CRAIG WHOLE AGAIN
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amCBS will allow "Late Late Show" host Craig Ferguson to finish his nightly monologue in peace, after all. Following The Post's story blasting the move, CBS has dropped its experiment...
E! GOES TO THE DOGG
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amHIP hop king Snoop Dogg will host his own reality show on E! The "hilarious and heartwarming new series" (E!'s words) will premiere later this year. Cameras will follow Dogg...
UNFOCUSED
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amFOR reasons I hope never to understand, two - 'count 'em two! - new series premiering tomorrow night on Lifetime start with dream sequences. Neither are necessary and both are...
MIKE FIRES ON HOUSE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMayor Bloomberg lashed out at federal lawmakers yesterday for refusing to give police departments broader powers to trace illegal guns. "You couldn't write this stuff in a book," Bloomberg said...
CITY TO DEVELOPERS: 'ROCK' THE W. SIDE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amDevelopers are being told to think big - a "Rockefeller Center for the 21st century" - if they want to build over the 26-acre West Side rail yards, city officials...
MAYOR EYES SARGE SURGE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe new contract deal the city reached with police sergeants for a pay hike topping 24 percent should help the NYPD get more people to apply for that job, Mayor...
TURKEY VS. HAWK
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe Upper East Side's beloved hawk, Pale Male, was the target of a cruel attack yesterday when a construction worker pummeled him with rocks - and now bird lovers are...
COP BARES MUSICAL COMEDY AT SLUTTY SCORES
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAs lap dances go, this was a marathon. Two lucky johns spent 90 minutes trapped in locked, private booths - hiding with their topless, stripper "dates" - while vice cops...
SHEFF STIRS UP PENNANT 'RACE'
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amFormer Yankee slugger Gary Sheffield blasted skipper Joe Torre for favoring white players and bashed former pal Barry Bonds for violating his trust and dragging him into baseball's steroid scandal....
N.J. PAGEANT BIGS WANT BLACKMAILER'S BLOOD
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amFurious Miss New Jersey pageant officials say they are determined to find the blackmailers who hatched a twisted scheme to knock a pageant queen from her throne. "This isn't over...
'7' A TWIN PEAK FOR LENOX HILL
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe stork lucked out this week - it delivered seven sets of twins at a hospital on East 77th Street. The seven moms gave birth at Lenox Hill Hospital to...
COPS JEER THUGS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amA Brooklyn court erupted in a roar yesterday as the gunmen accused of cold-bloodedly shooting two police officers - leaving one critically wounded - were led away in handcuffs after...
QUEENS OF 'CARD' SHARPE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amA day after Newark Mayor Sharpe James was indicted for treating the city treasury like his personal piggy bank, the names of the women whom he allegedly wined and dined...
'GRANNY BEATER' IN NEW RAP
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAs if he didn't have enough strikes against him in the book of life, the brute who allegedly beat and robbed two elderly Queens grandmothers is now accused of breaking...
CONEY IS. 'WHEEL' OF FORTUNE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amFor the right price, developer Joe Sitt can add the landmark Wonder Wheel to his portfolio of Coney Island real estate. The developer is now closing in on an $11...
H.S. PLOT IN DIARY OF DEATH
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amChilling words in a notebook revealed a plot by two Long Island teenagers to attack a high school with bullets and bombs on next year's anniversary of the Columbine killings,...
BODEGA GAL: CATCH KILLERS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe tearful daughter of a slain Queens bodega owner yesterday pleaded with police for arrests in the case, as cops investigated the latest store stickups in the area. "I want...
'GIRL-GRAB' FIEND GIVES HIMSELF UP
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe creepy perv who attempted to force himself upon a 7-year-old girl in Queens last week - only to be scared off by a dog - turned himself in to...
JUDGE IS DYNO-SORE AT GYNO $$ DODGER
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amIt was double disaster for the "Dyno Gyno" yesterday as federal officials lobbed another charge at him for hobnobbing with a drug dealer and a judge threatened to jail him...
DIRTY-JUDGE PLEA
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amA disgraced judge on Long Island copped a plea yesterday, admitting in federal court he laundered money for low-level mobsters. David Gross, a Nassau County District Court judge who continued...
SCHWARZEWOOFER
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amShe's the Incredible Hulk of hound dogs. Wendy, a whippet, was born with a genetic defect that caused her to be "double muscled," leaving her with a bulked-up, jacked-up body...
HERE'S THE LONG & SHORT OF IT ALL
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThey may be worlds apart in terms of height, but to meet, they didn't have to travel very far. The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun, 7-foot-9, shook hands yesterday with...
POLS ARE THE PITS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWASHINGTON - Public approval of the Democratic-controlled Congress has plummeted recently and has now sunk below even that of President Bush, according to a new poll. Hitting rock bottom, Congress...
BLOOMY'S 'JUNKET' DEFENSE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday told people to lighten up after Gov. Spitzer rapped him for skipping town for a mogul's meeting in Idaho instead of staying home with the federal deadline...
PARIS' JAIL PERKS ARE PROBED
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAfter showering Paris Hilton with perks - like her own cellphone and brief trip home - the L.A. Sheriff's Department is finally deciding to investigate whether it went too far...
CLINTON'S WALL ST. TAX SLAP
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWASHINGTON - White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called for sharply higher taxes on investment fund managers - a slap at Wall Street businesses in her own backyard....
HILL WHISPERS: DUMP THE DEBATE ALSO-RANS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and John Edwards came under fire yesterday after they were caught unaware on an open microphone conspiring to cut the lesser-known Democratic candidates out of debates....
'ILLEGAL RX' EYE ON 6 WRESTLERS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAt least six professional wrestlers, including former champ Lex Luger and current star Rey Mysterio, were implicated in a federal investigation of a Georgia doctor indicted for illegally prescribing painkillers...
'SEX DOC' GROPING FOR TRUTH
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amA psychologist accused of groping a prospective employee says the only place she was touched is in the head. "It's five years later, and I'm still flabbergasted that I'm being...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amTHE BRONX Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding a woman who kidnapped her daughter from the girl's Bronx Park South foster home five days ago. Lillian Lacart,...
WIERD BUT TRUE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amA Seattle canine has been stripped of his right to vote. Duncan M. McDonald, an Australian shepherd-terrier mix, for the past three elections had been sent absentee ballots. ***** Jane...
REMEMBER THE POWER OF TOWERS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amIF the state and city go through the trouble of invit ing bids and ideas for the West Side rail yards, and spend years negotiating and fending off inevitable lawsuits,...
LOTTERY RESULTS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 843; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 0116; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 578; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 4382;...
ACCOUNTABILITY ABCS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amIt's fashionable these days to drop the A- word, accountability, when talking about public education. But one Brooklyn charter school is getting a first-hand lesson in what the word really...
'PROTECTING' BRUNO
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amIt's a sad day, indeed, when one of New York's most powerful political figures decides he has to steer clear of the State Police because he can't trust them not...
PEACE PRETENDERS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amSo, what does a Nobel Peace Prize win ner say when she addresses an inter national peace conference? How about: "Right now, I could kill George Bush"? Believe it or...
PRINCE OF PROPAGANDA
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMICHAEL Moore set out to make a movie attacking the American insurance industry and ended up attacking the American character. By the end of his movie "SiCKO," his plaint is...
PLAME CLAIM SEEN AS LAME
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amREP. Tom Davis, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is puzzled by the House Intel ligence Committee's claim that Valerie Plame Wilson has been consistent in...
HANDS OFF THE HANDGUNS: MIKE'S SHOT AT REFORM
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amI constantly read of politicians spewing their mantra about gun control ("Pols Go 'Post'al Against Gun Lobby," July 11). Keeping predicate felons in prison without parole would certainly have kept...
FAREWELL, YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAlthough Lady Bird Johnson was understandably overshadowed by her husband during his political career, in her own unassuming way, she has left behind her own proud legacy ("Lady Bird Johnson,...
BLACK BAGGED
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amDethroned press baron Conrad Black could spend decades behind bars after a jury yesterday found him guilty of looting millions from investors in his Chicago newspaper company and of sneaking...
FALLEN MOGUL MAY HAVE TO KISS ASSETS GOODBYE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amConrad Black's planned appeal isn't the only legal battle he still has to face. With yesterday's guilty verdict, government prosecutors are seeking to seize tens of millions of dollars worth...
VIACOM BOSS SOUNDS OFF
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amSUMNER Redstone fi nally showed his face at Sun Valley yesterday, and the wait was certainly worth it. The Viacom and CBS chairman flew in specifically for a meeting at...
BIG TEST FOR GATTI
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amATLANTIC CITY - When we last saw Arturo Gatti in the ring, he was getting pulverized by Carlos Baldomir, a hard-hitting Argentinean who pounded Gatti for nine rounds before the...
AILING RED BULLS GLAD TO BE HOME
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amRarely can a team in first place at the halfway point of the season say they're limping into their break, but that's the case with the MLS' Eastern Conference-leading Red...
'TELL' MAY SET PACE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amTell All may not be the favorite in tonight's $1 million Meadowlands Pace, but with Canada's top driver, Jody Jamieson, and the coveted rail post position, he should have something...
BOSS' 'CLASSIC' PLAYS POKER
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWide-open field of 10 older horses goes mile over Widener turf course in today's Grade 3, $100,000 Poker Handicap. George Steinbrenner's Classic Campaign, beaten favorite last two races for Bill...
FUNNY CIDE RETIRED AT 7
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amKentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide, the popular New York-bred gelding who became a national folk hero when he bid for the Triple Crown in 2003, has been retired...
HONDO: FOUR!
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWith only $1 million coming his way for the start, it was asking a little too much of Rawjah to shut down the mighty Rays last night, so Hondo ended...
SPORTS SHORTS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amMLB: Cuban wants Cubs Add Internet billionaire and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to the list of potential Cubs buyers. "I submitted an app," Cuban said in an e-mail to The...
SUMMER OF '77
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amRemember 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...
SUTTER SUITS DEVS' FUTURE
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe welcome of Brent Sutter, in so many ways, was the start of something new, something Newark, the Second Empire of Devildom. He essentially declared their first dynasty done. "I...
ISLANDERS SIGN TWO COACHES
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe Islanders yesterday hired former Blue Jackets head coach Gerard Gallant and John Chabot as assistants to Ted Nolan. Gallant scored 211 goals for Detroit and Tampa Bay, then coached...
LOOK WHO'S BACK IN TOWN - IT'S LJ!
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWhen Larry Johnson's back forced him to retire in October 2001, there was no news conference, no fanfare, no going-away party for one of the most popular Knicks in recent...
KNICKS' LUXURY TAX A WHOPPING $45M
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWhat's worse than a 33-49 record? Having to pay $45 million in luxury tax on it. The Knicks were hit yesterday with a whopping luxury-tax bill - a 100 percent...
RICKEY AN AMAZIN' STEAL
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amAmong the first Mets Rickey Henderson greeted yesterday was star pupil Jose Reyes. It didn't take long for Reyes to crack a smile. "Now we're going to be tricking the...
HENDERSON DELIGHTED BY NEW 'DREAM' JOB
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWhen there was a lull in the press conference introducing Rickey Henderson as the Mets' new first-base coach yesterday, Henderson spoke up. "Y'all speed it up," he said good-naturedly. "We've...
MINAYA, RANDOLPH DENY RIFT
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amWillie Randolph and Omar Minaya sat side by side at the press conference. The issue, though, is whether the Mets' GM and manager are really together. The Mets announced their...
SLUMPING LO DUCA COMING UP SHORT
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amPaul Lo Duca still has that short swing, it's just not very sweet these days. The Mets catcher last night endured another hitless game, running his latest slump to 0-for-17,...
METS' MAINE MAN LEFT SEEING RED
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amJohn Maine doesn't deserve a pass, and neither does Ruben Gotay. Maine as a starting pitcher and Gotay as a fielder were bad last night. as exasperating and disappointing again....
JUST VIN, BABY
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe owner said he wanted Vince Carter back. Carter said he wanted to be back. But in world where changes of mind and uniform are only an extravagant offer away,...
NETS SIGN MAGLOIRE; MOORE LOST TO KINGS
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amThe Nets said goodbye to two big men while preparing to welcome another. Free agent forward/center Jamaal Magloire last night agreed to a one-year deal with the Nets shortly after...
GLASS HALF PHIL
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amTRENTON - A few hours before Phil Hughes took the mound here last night, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman cautioned everyone not to get caught up in results. This rehab...
RAYS HIT 'EASY' PLANHARD
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amST. PETERSBURG - Remember all the talk about the Yankees not playing a team with a winning record for almost a month after the All-Star break? Recall how so many...
GIAMBI TALKS TO MITCHELL
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amJason Giambi finally had his day in front of former Sen. George Mitchell yesterday, becoming the first player known to cooperate with the investigation into steroid use in baseball. Major...
DESALVO TO GET ANOTHER SHOT
July 14, 2007 | 9:00amST. PETERSBURG - It looks like Matt DeSalvo is going to get another chance to prove to the Yankees he has what it takes to be a big league pitcher....