January 22, 2007
Checkin' in to "Hotel Dusk: Room 215"
Okay, not quite, but that's the feeling you get when playing "Hotel Dusk: Room 215," the new interactive noir mystery/detective game for the Nintendo DS. The House that Super Mario...
Putting "Teeth'' in the ratings
The Brothers Weinstein have sometimes partnered with other distributors on hot-potato properties, and the buzz in Park City is that history will repeat iself with "Teeth,'' a Troma-like gross-out horror...
It's a Deal
Every distributor has been looking for this year's "Little Miss Sunshine'' at the festival and the consensus so far is that it just isn't there. None of the deals so...
Sample Sales!
By Christina TamFEDERATION THRIFT SHOP’S 17@17 17 W. 17th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues; (212) 727-7516Sale: Jan. 24. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.The Wedding Salon of Manhasset has donated gowns and...
Knit pickings
Sweaters in all shapes, from dresses to coats to hoodies, are our obsession this week, including this belted sleeveless wrap cardigan from Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, $69. And today,...
IT'S A BARGAIN!: 2 nights free
Club Med Columbus Isle Club Med's on sale! Book a week-long (7 nights) stay at and you'll only pay for 5 nights. This means prices as low as $945/pp for...
UPDATE: Farecast launches
After a beta test last year, the Fare Guard feature's up at Farecast, the site that predicts airfares. For $3, purchase peace of mind, locking in a low fare of...
NEXT: We, the pirates
In a very Richard Bransonesque/Dubai Sheikish kind of move, an audacious online piracy "warez" group based in Sweden has decided to buy its own island.After being raided last year, creators...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Jan. 21
DADDY SAID NO BUT THE TIMES SAID YES: Walk on the wild side. Take a vacation in fabulous Kabul. Pay no mind to the government warning against it. Those guys...
THE REAL TERROR
REGULAR viewers of "24" watch for the shocking action, the frenetic pace or a little slap-and-tickle with Kiefer Sutherland. I tune in for the office politics. (Conversely, I watch "The...
WEIGHT WATCHER
AT 33, Dawn Parker is in the best physical shape of her life. She has to be, as she works as a certified fitness instructor at Gold's Gym in downtown...
MOTHER MIGHT
The world's toughest job? Being a full-time mom, natch. The world's second-toughest job? Being a full-time mom who's trying to line up some work - or trying to get back...
GO TO GREG
Q My employer has offered me a promotion, which means more money, but also more travel and responsibility. While I certainly could use the extra money, I really don't want...
HIRE LEARNING
There's a scene in "The Puruit of Happyness" where the down-and-out Will Smith asks the owner of a red Ferrari two questions: "What do you do?" These are smart questions...
EDGAR ALLAN POE - MASTER OF THE MACABRE
If you love scary stories, then Edgar Allan Poe is for you. His wonderfully creepy tales like "The Raven" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" will curl your hair....
TYPE RIGHTER
IT'S survival of the fitting. Know your body type - and what complements it - and you can't miss when it comes to fashion, says Melissa Kirsch, author of the...
POPULAR GIRL THROWS GEEK SQUAD FOR LOOP
JUST a few short blocks away from "The 25th Annual Put nam County Spelling Bee" is yet another show comically exploiting the foibles of young nerds. Similarly heartwarming in its...
LOVELY RITA
IF you're searching for the Fountain of Youth, consider drinking the water at the Café Carlyle. This swank nightspot has in recent years spotlighted many performers, Elaine Stritch and Eartha...
'JERSEY BOYS' (& GIRL) AT B.B. KING'S BENEFIT
STILL can't get into "Jersey Boys"? On Jan. 29, you can catch three of them - including Tony winner John Lloyd Young, the show's Frankie Valli - when they'll croon...
SIMON STICKS WITH PAULA
PAULA Abdul may have been a bit shaky since "American Idol" returned last week - but her job on the monster-hit show looks rock solid. Simon Cowell rode to Paula's...
NEW 'HEROES' GUY REVEALED!
WHEN "Heroes" returns to night, the newest charac ter will be difficult to see - because he'll be the invisible man. Claude, played by Christopher Eccleston, a British actor who...
'GREY'S' PUBLICITY
ISAIAH Washington - whose role on the doc opera "Grey's Anatomy" is hanging by a surgical stitch - hired a crisis PR firm over the weekend. LA publicists Allen Mayer...
NY1 STARTS 11 O'CLOCK NEWS SHOW
NEW York 1, the local all-news cable chan nel, is starting an 11 o'clock news show tonight - directly taking on the established news shows on Ch. 2, 4 and...
SPLAT-URDAY NIGHT LIVE
REMEMBER when "The E! True Hollywood Story" was the can't-miss series that told the ugly side of living big? They had stories that shocked, saddened, thrilled and gave you a...
STARR REPORT
Real stand-up guy Former "Living Single" star John Henton brings his stand-up act to Comix (353 W. 14th) this Thursday through Saturday - with for mer "Living Single" co-star Kim...
CAMPAIGN $$ BUYS POLS' POWER PERKS
ALBANY - From satellite radio and Halloween apples to paying for parking tickets and buying holiday gifts, New York's elected officials use their campaign funds for much more than just...
UNIONS 'VOICE' CONCERNS
Angry municipal unions are blasting a Bloomberg-administration proposal to record workers' voices for an electronic time-sheet system, calling it a "chilling" Big Brother tactic. Late last year, union bigs said,...
FORK IT OVER ONLINE FOR HOT RE$ERVATIONS
If you don't mind answering to someone else's name or dropping $45 before you even leave home, you, too, can get reservations at such current hot spots as Daniel or...
TAXI GPS TECH ON TARGET
New technology will soon allow businesses to target taxi passengers as they ride. Four companies are working on systems that will also let riders pay by credit card and entertain...
KIDS' HUNGRY MINDS
Lunch period is taking a back seat to Bunsen burners in city high schools. An effort to cram science lab courses into students' schedules has pushed the traditional midday meal...
MIKE'S SAVVY SHOPPERS KNOW HOW TO STRETCH A BUCK
Their boss is one of the wealthiest men in America, but the folks who run Gracie Mansion shop at warehouse clubs, just like other middle-class New Yorkers scrimping to save...
DIOCESE CATCHES HOLY HELL
Parishioners mourning the planned closing of their Lower East Side church bitterly complained yesterday that the decision would displace what has been a close-knit religious family and community anchor. Mary...
UNKINDEST CUT
A local fire department is ablaze in controversy for rejecting an athletic amputee's bid to become a firefighter - even after the man passed the grueling physical exam, The Post...
SUBWAY SUIT NETS $1.5M
A Bronx jury has awarded $1.5 million to a woman who fell in the gap between a subway train and platform and was trapped there for a half-hour, her lawyers...
MISTER FREEZE
Dozens of residents - including a 4-month-old infant - have been freezing in a hellhole Harlem apartment building, left without heat for all but eight days since Thanksgiving. For weeks,...
N.Y.: DE NIRO 'DINER' ATE WORKERS' OT
Robert De Niro reportedly pulls in $20 million a film, but the trendy restaurant the actor co-founded has stiffed workers out of hundreds of thousands in overtime pay, state officials...
OFFICER BATTLES BRAIN INJURY AFTER BEATING
The condition of a rookie cop who was brutally beaten after a fender-bender was upgraded yesterday as new details emerged about the horrendous crime. Officer Richard Lomax, 29, sustained serious...
FLOCK FLEECED OF 500G
A popular pastor in one of Connecticut's wealthiest Catholic parishes has resigned after spending more than $500,000 in church funds - without being able to document any of the expenditures,...
'PERV' COP BUST
A Bronx cop has been busted in Westchester on charges stemming from online chat-room conversations he allegedly had with a minor, police sources said yesterday. Robert Auletta, a 23-year veteran...
INMATE'S DATE-COM
New York's self-proclaimed "King of all Pimps" - who promised the judge at his sentencing that he'd "never run an escort service again" - is recruiting beautiful prostitutes for a...
KIN WANT DETAILS OF IRAQ DEATH
The family of a New York sailor fatally shot in the head in Iraq last week demanded yesterday to be told the circumstances of his mysterious death. "I want to...
HOT LINE HELPS COPS IN JUVENILE BUSTS
The NYPD has created a 24-hour hot line to guide cops on whether to take juveniles to jail or return them to their families, The Post has learned. It links...
MAFIA VICTIM NO RAT
Accused FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio, charged with sealing the fate of a Brooklyn teen by tipping off a Colombo crime pal that the boy was about to squeal, had...
'END RUN' SUIT VS. KATZ'S DELI
A marathoner is suing Katz's Deli, claiming a busboy at the famed Lower East Side eatery brought her running days to an end with an accidental pushcart to the knee....
CITY TO ZAP 'ELECTRIC' PEDICABS
The city plans to ban pedicabs that use electric motors, in a move that advocates contend will cripple the industry. Although "electrical assist" motors do not power the bicycle rickshaws,...
DA: SLAY CASE BLOOD SIMPLE
He left his handprint - in her blood - on her bedroom wall. He left his bootprint - in her blood - on her bedsheet and the shirt she wore....
KILLER PLANS APOLOGY TO COPS' KIN
In a desperate attempt to avoid the death penalty, the vicious killer of two Staten Island cops will publicly apologize to their families. Ronell Wilson plans to read in court...
NAME SHAME
A jet-setter descendant of George Washington is cooling his heels in an upstate jail, fighting extradition to France, where he is accused of wigging out at a swank St. Tropez...
CHRISTINA A SCARLET WOMAN
Christina Aguilera is a vision in red - or rouge - at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France. The Dirrty Girl performed at the show - France's equivalent of...
FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OTHER DISABLED HEROES
Being an amputee shouldn't stop someone from becoming a firefighter - just ask Lt. Bill Henry of Volusia County, Fla. Henry had been a firefighter for eight years when he...
'YARD' SALE DOES BRISK BUSINESS
"Stomp the Yard" barely squeaked by "Night at the Museum" over the weekend to hold on to the top box-office spot, according to studio estimates released yesterday. The dance-competition film...
GOP POLS SEE HER AS DEMS' TOP CONTENDER
WASHINGTON - Republicans are heaping praise on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton now that she is in the race for the White House, even as polls show she has the ability...
MEET BARACK'S BETTER HALF
WASHINGTON - We know everything about Hillary Clinton's spouse and next to nothing about Barack Obama's. Michelle Obama - a striking 5-foot-11, with high cheekbones and a dazzling smile -...
BOOK BARES BUBBA'S TROUBLE$ AT HOME
Bill Clinton was red-faced after taking a call on a golf course telling him a bank loan needed to buy his Chappaqua home had fallen through. Clinton got the bad...
HILLARY HAILS SELF AS 'BEST'
She's the boast of the town - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her campaign yesterday, confidently saluting her own "strengths and talents" as the reasons she's best suited for the...
W. POWER, SURGE
WASHINGTON - President Bush will use his State of the Union Address tomorrow to try to build support for his troop surge and to call for finishing the job in...
LIZA'S EX LOVES BRITS
His marriage to Liza Minnelli is over, and now David Gest says he's carrying on a new "love affair" - with the British. Gest, who reached a deal to bring...
SCREAMS IN 'KIDNAP' APARTMENT
A man who lived upstairs from suspected St. Louis kidnapper Michael Devlin said he often heard "weird sounds" - like whimpering, screaming and pleading - coming from the apartment, according...
SICK PSYCH-OUT
The slippery swindler who conned her way into Ivy League schools using false identities told people close to her that she was "a genius" who suffered from a crippling anxiety...
NYPD BLOTTER
The Bronx Zachary Delrosario, 17, who turned himself in yesterday for allegedly shooting and seriously wounding a man on New Year's Day, is also being questioned in a murder, two...
HER VISION LIVES
PARK CITY, Utah - There were tears mixed with cheers as "Waitress," the final film from murdered actress/director Adrienne Shelly, had its world premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival....
PATAKI TAB WON'T FLY
THE Spitzer administration has told former Gov. George Pataki that his campaign committee, or some other private entity, should pay the $10,712 bill incurred last month for a last-minute charter...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Sun.: 021 Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5586 Evening Numbers Sun.: 937 Evening Win-4 Sun.: 3516 Pick-10 Sun.: 1, 10, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30,...
QUINN'S WITCH HUNT
So how could the shooting death of Sean Bell last month have been a racist act, when three of the five cops who shot at him are black? "There were...
CHINA'S SPACE-ATTACK TEST
AFTER several attempts, the People's Republic of China has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon. The kinetic-energy "kill vehicle" destroyed its target - one of Beijing's own aging weather satellites -...
MIKE'S PENSION MISFIRE
ATTACKING Albany's complicity in "the unchecked growth of pensions" for New York employees, Mayor Bloomberg last week said it was high time the city gained more direct control of its...
WHY SLAP AT BIG OIL WILL BACKFIRE FOR US
THE new Democratic majority in Congress has taken aim at the oil and gas industry. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already rammed through part of her plan to "roll back the...
MEDICAID & N.Y. FRAUD: FINGERS POINT TO SPITZER
THE ISSUE: Gov. Spitzer's end to a policy requiring that Medicaid recipients be fingerprinted. At least Gov. Spitzer is being consistent in his plans not to fingerprint Medicaid recipients ("Fingerprint...
STICKING IT TO DUKE DISCRIMINATION
THE ISSUE: The dismissal of some charges in Duke University's rape case. I agree with John Podhoretz's article, "Senseless" (PostOpinion, Jan. 17), which is very thoughtful and insightful. However, until...
NOT WELL ST.
The gilded world of Wall Street may lose up to 60,000 jobs in just five years unless cumbersome government regulations are dumped and replaced by looser European-style ones, according to...
BIZ BUZZ FUZZ
In this day and age, business mags offer up a lot more than tips on 401(k) investments and interviews with up and coming Wall Streeters. The test, though, for these...
CUSHMAN IN $325M DEAL FOR 14 WALL ST.
The pyramid-topped former Banker's Trust building at 14 Wall St. has been contracted to be sold for $325 million as office space. Sources told The Post that Cushman & Wakefield's...
COCKTAIL IN THE MIX AT BAUER
Finally, a little good news for the embattled magazine industry. Bauer Publishing, home to InTouch Weekly and Life & Style Weekly, is getting ready to crank out a new weekly...
CORNELIA LOSES IN SPA SPAT
Spa queen Cornelia Zicu may need to relax, but it probably won't be at the spa that bears her name. Zicu has resigned from Cornelia Day Spa, where she pampered...
GOT THE BOOT
Once favorites of the trend-setting urban crowd, chunky sneaker and boot makers are finding they are out of step with today's sleeker fashions. Among the brands that are suffering the...
REPORT: INSURGENTS PLOTTED OWN 9/11
Iraqi insurgents planned to sneak into the U.S. with student visas and carry out a new round of 9/11 style attacks, it was reported today. The plot was discovered when...
BUSH LEAGUE
CHICAGO - The burst of speed Reggie Bush displayed that left safety Chris Harris dead in his tracks impressed the Bears. The outrageous cut by Bush that left Danieal Manning...
RUNNING ON EMPTY: SAINTS RBS GROUNDED
CHICAGO - New Orleans' two-headed tandem of Reggie Bush and Deuce McAllister produced the one signature moment during yesterday's 39-14 Bears victory over the Saints. Reggie Bush's incredible, 88-yard catch-and-run...
TIME IS MONEY FOR THE NFL
JUST a few years ago, NFL executives would poke fun at the NBA and MLB as slaves to TV money for allowing their biggest games to become primetime affairs, even...
HE IS NOW THE MANN!
INDIANAPOLIS - At the end of the Saturday night team meeting before the epic challenge the Colts would face last night with the three-time Super Bowl-champion Patriots standing in the...
DOMINGUEZ WINS THREE MORE
Ramon Dominguez booted home three more winners, giving him 13 from 36 races run in last four days, boosting lead in jockey standings to 61-48 over Eibar Coa. C.C. Lopez...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Cubs, Floyd near deal Former Mets left fielder Cliff Floyd and the Cubs are nearing agreement on a one-year contract, a deal that may include an option for 2008...
ONE BIG LOVIE-FEST FOR BEARS
CHICAGO - The genuine outpouring of emotion directed at Lovie Smith after his Bears whipped up on the Saints 39-14 yesterday in the NFC Championship Game was more revealing than...
PATS ONLY HALF GOOD
INDIANAPOLIS - The Colts looked dead and buried in the second quarter last night. The following was the chain of events that had the Colts' Super Bowl dreams teetering on...
STORM ADVISORY
Lou Carnesecca stood with the rest of the St. John's fans yesterday and celebrated the biggest win in the Norm Roberts era. "It brought back some old times," Carnesecca told...
BEAR BONES
CHICAGO - The snow was falling harder, white flakes filling a black night sky, meaning that even the celestial spectators were sporting Bears colors now. In the stands at Soldier...
BEARS ON SUPER ROLL
CHICAGO - The Bears will leave their frigid and snowy home soon and head to balmy Miami, where they will be installed as the underdog for Super Bowl XLI. Go...
FINALLY, A HUGE PEY OFF
INDIANAPOLIS - Battered and bloodied, Peyton Manning got off the deck with a vengeance and stood in the middle of a ring called the RCA Dome and went toe-to-toe with...
TABLES TURNED ON PATS
INDIANAPOLIS - It was like a scene from Bizarro World. Tom Brady stood at a podium, looking downtrodden and dissecting his mistakes. On a TV monitor a few feet away,...
GOAL-LINEMEN
INDIANAPOLIS - Those of you expecting touchdowns from the usual suspects in yesterday's AFC Championship Game probably were a bit disappointed. Instead of wide receivers Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne or...
AVOIDING EDDY
MIAMI - Shaquille O'Neal avoided national television yesterday and may avoid Eddy Curry tonight. Can you blame him? O'Neal, who did not talk before or after the Heat's 99-93 loss...
MARBURY TO PLAY WITH PAIN, AGAIN
MIAMI - Stephon Marbury told a Knicks official yesterday he still plans on playing tonight against the Heat, but likely will be in pain. That's nothing new. According to a...
RJ OPTS FOR ANKLE SURGERY; OUT SIX WEEKS
The Nets' worst-case scenario came true yesterday when forward Richard Jefferson decided to have arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle. Even if today's procedure is successful, it means the team...
RANGERS NEED SHOT OF YOUTH
I'M one of the guys pulling Jim Schoenfeld away from referee Don Koharski at the Meadowlands in the famous 1988 "Have Another Doughnut" incident. I'm the guy, then VP of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Angry parents in St. Paul, Minn., have launched "Birthdays Without Pressure" to combat over-the-top kids' parties. Among their examples of past crass: stretch limos for the classmates of a 7-year-old,...
My Oscar Nomination Predictions
BEST PICTUREBabelDreamgirlsThe DepartedLittle Miss SunshineThe QueenBEST DIRECTORClint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo JimaStephen Frears, The QueenPaul Greengrass, United 93Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu, BabelMartin Scorsese, The DepartedBEST ACTRESSPenelope Cruz, VolverJudi Dench, Notes on a...
At Your Service
The transportation system for the Sundance Film Festival is extensive but quirky. Take the wrong shuttle bus and you may end up traveling through half the town to get to...