November 22, 2007
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Alexia Sobrado wears a vintage lace top from a client, vintage 1970's shoes, a vintage jacket, and vintage 80's Boss jeans."Usually I gravitate towards things that are beautiful, then try...
Talking turkey in fantasyland
Everyone loves a good Thanksgiving feast. The best spread has all the essential choices, just like your fantasy roster. Let's take a peek at this weekend's holiday fantasy feast. Uncle...
Thanks. Really
By FRED KERBEROkay, Carter is back. So is the offense. Everybody benefited. The Nets won in Portland. Plan the parade, acceptance speeches. Maybe they'll even get on TV twice next...
Turkey Time! Not So Saucy Aussie, Erstwhile Mork Cop Top Honors
Happy Thanksgiving! And before the traditional dinner, feast on The Post's Ninth Annual Turkey Awards. Top honors go to Nicole Kidman, who lent her immobile forehead to dramatic triumphs in...
Oscar Watch: Something To Be Grateful For
NYC living landmark Sidney Lumet may well celebrate his 50th anniversary as a feature director -- he was Oscar nominated for his first, "Twelve Angry Men'' -- with a nod...
Tokyo Story 3
From V.A. Musetto at Tokyo Filmex: Five reasons I would rather be in Tokyo than in New York --5. People don`t barge down the street screaming into their cell phones.4....
Health Warning for 'Lust, Caution'
âMost of the sexual maneouvres in Lust, Caution are abnormal body positions,â says Chinese gynecologist Yu Zaoze. âOnly women with comparatively flexible bodies that have gymastics or yoga experience are...
LETTERMAN GIVES STERN INTERVIEW
DAVID Letterman has granted a rare interview to a producer from "The Howard Stern Show" for an upcoming special about the shock jock's life. Part one of "The History of...
FIRST 'IDOL' TO DO REHAB
FORMER "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra has checked into VH1's "Celebrity Rehab." The show, slated to debut Jan. 10, is hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky and is expected to follow...
NANCY GRACE BABY HOME
NANCY Grace's infant son is home from the hospital - just in time for Thanksgiving. John David, born prematurely Nov. 4 with twin sister Lucy Elizabeth, arrived home yesterday, said...
WAYNE'S WORLD
WAIT a minute, pilgrim - is that rugged-looking John Wayne lookalike really The Duke's grandson? You bet, pardner. He's Brendan Wayne, who will guest star in an episode of "CSI"...
AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE GOES TO...
AS Jennifer Lopez said to Ben Affleck in the notorious "Gigli" - "It's turkey time. Gobble, gobble." Put on a napkin and get ready to feast on The Post's ninth...
IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
There will be a lot of changes over the next 12 months or so and most of them will be changes instigated by you. You don't care that some people...
GANG WEAR GETS PULLED
Apparel retailer Dr. Jay's said yesterday it won't be selling any items that might be associated with gang paraphernalia. On Monday, city lawmakers warned parents that their kids might be...
CITY WATER CUSTOMERS ABOUT TO GET HOSED
Property owners are about to get a nasty New Year's surprise from the city - a water rate hike of up to 18 percent. Acting at the behest of Environmental...
SCHOOL REPORT CARDS GET A PASSING GRADE
Nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers think the city's unprecedented report card-style grading of public schools deserves an F - for "fair" - according to a poll released yesterday. Despite widespread...
'GRINCH' A CINCH
Don't pinch the Grinch. That was the blunt message from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman yesterday as she ordered the reopening of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" despite the...
GOV TELLS YOU TO TAKE A HIKE
The fare hike hasn't been halted - in fact, millions of the most frequent subway and bus riders may get socked even harder than before, transit officials said yesterday. By...
BOMB BUY A SCAM: COPS
The Bronx man shot dead by a federal agent Tuesday night when he threatened to pull the pin on a grenade during a buy-and-bust operation was more likely trying to...
AMBULETTE KID'S MOM GIVES THANKS
The mother of an East Side boy critically injured by an ambulette operated by an allegedly intoxicated driver said last night she's thankful that doctors expect her son to pull...
CITY CHEERS 'INFLATION'
With a massive blast of hot air, New Yorkers geared up to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday watching the stars of today's show get ready for their annual run down Broadway....
NYERS DO THE TURKEY TROT
New Yorkers joined nearly 40 million other Americans on planes, trains, buses, cars - and in endless waits - in what was billed as the biggest-ever Thanksgiving getaway yesterday. Travelers...
HOLIDAY 'TURN-OFF' FOR BX. BLDG. WITH NO COOKING GAS
The Grinch has stolen Thanksgiving from the residents of 2499 Grand Ave. in The Bronx. The 48-family Fordham building has been without gas service for more than two months. Margarita...
MAN WITH A PAST
The man charged in the execution-style slaying of a Queens orthodontist embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with his ex-wife - a relative of the suspect - was once the...
BRU$H-OFF FOR A GOOD DEED
An Upper East Side woman who found a stolen masterpiece painting in a pile of garbage four years ago was stunned to see it sell for more than $1 million...
SEVEN HURT AS GAS EXPLOSION ROCKS SUNNYSIDE
A 67-year-old Queens woman was critically burned and six other people injured yesterday when a thunderous gas explosion rocked her Sunnyside home, forcing 200 people to evacuate surrounding buildings. Con...
POWDER SCARE AT REV. AL'S
The Rev. Al Sharpton's civil-rights group, as well as several media organizations, received suspicious letters in the mail containing a white powdery substance from a state prison inmate, according to...
'CABBY' KILLER
A 24-year-old man was busted in Pennsylvania yesterday in the road-rage killing of a cabby on the Upper East Side. Luis Flores ran over Mohamed El Waleed at Madison Avenue...
ARUBA 3 BUSTED AGAIN
The three major suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba were rearrested yesterday because prosecutors say new evidence has come to light. Dutch national Joran van der Sloot,...
QUAID-KID HOSPITAL IS PROBED
California state regulators yesterday launched a probe into one of Los Angeles' most prestigious hospitals after the near-fatal overdose of actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is in...
CAT HAS 9 LIVES - AND 2 FACES
Here, kitty, kitty. Lil'Bit the cat came into the world with two faces only a mother could love. He had two mouths, two noses and four eyes. Vets in Arizona...
DEBATERS COULD 'STRIKE' OUT
A potential strike by CBS News writers imperils a debate among Democratic presidential contenders in California. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced she would not cross a picket line to participate...
HUCK OF A SURGE
WASHINGTON - Mike Huckabee surged past Rudy Giuliani in a new Iowa poll - pulling to within a statistical tie for first place and establishing the former Arkansas governor as...
SEC EYE ON HILL $$ MAN
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators are probing a company run by a wheeler-dealer pal of Hillary and Bill Clinton that has already been accused by stockholders of wasting millions on the...
NEW CLUE TO MIKE'S 'PREZ RUN'
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg has been receiving secret foreign-policy briefings from a former Clinton adviser - the strongest indication yet that Hizzoner is weighing a bid for the White House,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A man was slain by a gunman who accosted him in a Crown Heights Laundromat, police said yesterday. The 40-year-old victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 337; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 7020; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 840; Lucky Sum: 12; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3969; Lucky...
FOR WHICH WE GIVE THANKS
The first Thanksgiving in the New World was celebrated in mid-October 1621, nearly one year after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Much later, George Washington...
PAUSE TO BLESS
BEFORE you blow your top about the holiday hassle at the airport - or the long lines at the grocery store, all the hours you'll spend cooking and cleaning, the...
MOTHER NATURE'S CHEMICAL BOUNTY
WE live in an intensely chemical-phobic society, one in which food labels and menus brag of being "all- natural" and "purely organic." Poultry sections offer fryers from "happy, free-range chickens."...
HOSANNAS FOR A HOTEL
Steve Cuozzo couldn't be more wrong about the Hotel Pennsylvania - it's a beautiful building and it should stay put. ("Don't 'Save' Midtown's Monster," PostOpinion, Nov. 15) . New York...
THE GOLDEN GIANT'S HARD-HITTING FOUL
Barry Bonds thought his trainer supplied him with illegal steroid cream without his knowledge, claiming it was flaxseed oil cream ("What an Asterisk!" Nov. 16). Why didn't Bonds ever suggest...
WHAT A TURKEY!
Wall Street got beaten up once again by its three worst enemies - rising oil, the weak greenback and a collapsed housing industry. Stocks and the dollar nose-dived yesterday amid...
FANTASY SPORTS DARK HORSE GOES LONG
Former National Football League new media executive Chris Russo is scoring with fans and advertisers in the big-bucks world of online fantasy sports, as his year-old company, Fantasy Sports Ventures,...
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS
THERE are a couple of times each year when columnists are obliged to write certain things. Thanksgiving is one of these. Last year I did the standard T-Day column that...
GAP: NO HOLIDAY$
Gap Inc.'s shares fell more than 6 percent yesterday after the clothing retailer reported stagnant sales and warned that the holiday sales season would be tough. The company's profit for...
BEAR BIG'S GOOD DEAL
Former Bear Stearns President Warren Spector's exit package insures that the man charged with the oversight of two internal hedge funds that spectacularly blew up this summer won't want for...
LI BRIDE TURNS INTO STRANGLER
A Long Island desperate housewife who hated the burbs and longed for Brooklyn strangled her husband in the million-dollar dream home that they had just bought and renovated for her,...
CREATURE COMFORT
Onstage, as the Monster in "Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein," Shuler Hensley gets to roar, tap dance and even win the girl. The drawback? He has to live in a creepy...
WINTER READY
With all the unseasonably warm weather we'd been having, it seemed as though we were going to skip winter entirely. But along came a cold snap, which reminded me that...
DREAM HOMES
Centre Island, L.I. $11.25 million Buy your own island paradise, just an hour's drive from the isle of Manhattan. Custom-built in 2005, this "Southampton-style" shingle home with "European" flair measures...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Franklin Square, L.I. $430,000 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1 ½ Square feet: 1,100 This brick Cape Cod on the "desirable" north side of town has plenty of attractive new features, including...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CHELSEA $882,000 425 W. 24th St. Renovated two-bedroom, two-bath duplex co-op, 1,000 square feet, with windowed eat-in kitchen with butcher-block countertops, dishwasher and new refrigerator, 10-foot ceilings, decorative fireplace...
TALKING TURKEY IN FANTASY LAND
EVERYONE loves a good Thanksgiving feast. The best spread has all the essential choices, just like your fantasy roster. Let's take a peek at this weekend's holiday fantasy feast. Uncle...
ROBESON GETS OK FOR HOME GAMES
Robeson will be allowed to play games in its Brooklyn gym - in front of fans - this season, with some exceptions. The Department of Education announced yesterday that the...
XAVIER'S SOUPS UP FOR RIVALS
Chris Stevens had played or coached in the Turkey Bowl between Xavier and Fordham Prep since the early 1980s and knew that even though the two schools first met in...
BOWL WEEVILS
The Bowl Championship Series has one spot filled and nine to go with two weeks left in the season. Ohio State is in, though where the Buckeyes will be playing...
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL TODAY
First post today is 11:25 a.m., with last race going off 3:10 p.m. Traditional Thanksgiving Day feature, $100,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at six furlongs, drew field of seven, highweighted by...
BUCKEYES BURN SYRACUSE'S 'D'
In an ever-changing world, there are certain things have remained constant - death, taxes and Jim Boeheim playing the 2-3 zone. Make that death and taxes - unless, of course,...
A&M PUTS SQUEEZE ON WASH.
For the entire first half - and much of the second - Texas A&M couldn't buy a defensive stop. The Aggies had no answer for Washington and its big man,...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Sentencing delayed The sentencing of former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski was postponed for a third time yesterday in San Francisco at federal prosecutors' request. As Radomski's sentencing was...
ROAR RESTORED
DETROIT - Michael Vick, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning were sent to Detroit in the past on Thanksgiving in the hopes their talents would hold viewers despite the presence of...
PARISE POWER
PITTSBURGH - After one game, Colin White said he's made up his mind. The Devils defenseman said he won't be considering disability, that he's going to keep playing despite his...
BACK BREAKERS
Tiki Barber shared a backfield, a meeting room and locker room with Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward and of the many conversations they engaged in, Barber hoped one lesson sunk...
ADRIAN'S STATUS DOUBTFUL
Running back Adrian Peterson, the Vikings rookie sensation, missed last week's game against the Raiders because of a torn lateral collateral knee ligament and is an extreme longshot to be...
ON THIS NIGHT, ISLES JUST DON'T HAB IT
Fans booed at Nassau Coliseum several times last night, and the loudest cheer was reserved for a second-period fight between Brendan Witt and Montreal's Michael Komisarek. Witt won the fight,...
JETS WILL BE 'BOY BUSTERS
IRVING, Texas - The Jets will not make the playoffs this season. But even at 2-8, they believe they're much better than their record, and are on a mission to...
TWO-MINUTE DRILL IS CLEMENS TIME
IRVING, Texas - If the Jets can simulate the entire game as a two-minute drill when they're on offense today, they might have a chance to outscore the potent Cowboys...
THIS TUREKY'S GOTTA GO!
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - A day after Tuesday's "Fire Isiah!" chants rocked the Garden, Isiah Thomas arrived in Detroit and received a huge ovation from The Palace fans who remember...
THOMAS' GARDEN TENURE IS OVERCOOKED
AS YOU gather around your Thanksgiving feast today and say Grace over the blessings in your life, please take a moment to offer a little prayer that James Dolan comes...
ISIAH TAKING HEAT FOR KNICKS' LOSING STREAK
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - James Dolan did not give Isiah Thomas the pink slip late Tuesday night that the bloodthirsty Garden chanted for. Instead he gave him a soothing hug....
KIDD: I'M NOT EYING EXIT RAMP
PORTLAND - Jason Kidd said he wants to stay put. After Kidd vented his frustration Monday about the awful state of the Nets, a logical conclusion was that he wanted...
BRAKES APPLIED
PORTLAND - There was noise in the Nets locker room. Loud chatter, lots of laughter. "You hear it. Everybody is talking. It's loud," Bostjan Nachbar said. "It has been so...
HE'S 'LIGHTS' OUT
TAMPA - In the showdown between the irresistible force known as Vincent Lecavalier and the immovable object that is King Henrik Lundqvist, the goaltender stood his ground and the center's...
OH, HENRY! YANKS SIGN OUTFIELDER
While the Yankees and Alex Rodriguez inch closer to finalizing a 10-year, $275 million deal that will be announced next week and the club scours the universe for relief pitching...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Two Massachusetts teens were busted when they applied for a door-to-door sales permit - and cops smelled an odor of marijuana on them. The officers also found several cans of...