August 2, 2007
Lowe Lures Penner to Edmonton
The Ducks declined to match the $21.25M offer made by the Edmonton Oilers for Dustin Penner. As compensation, the Ducks will get a first, second and third round pick in...
Katie Holmes: Mother of the Year
Tom and Katie may be the weirdest bedfellows the other side of the San Andres fault, but they sure know how to dress a child properly.The choreographed couple bring the...
Working up a hot sweat
Check out today's Haute List for the scoop on Christian Lacroix's collaboration with La Redoute, Kiehl's curbside service where they throw products at you when you drive by their stores,...
Scene
Melissa Huber, who works for Vivienne Tam, wears a cool ethnic print dress she got on eBay, a bag from Village Tannery, a cool vintage skinny belt from Red White...
Orla Kiely handbags on super-sample-sale
Here's your last chance to pick up one of Orla Kiely's adorable colorful (waterproof!!) handbags on super sample sale, August 3 & 4 (Friday and Saturday).Highlights include: - Matte laminated...
Deal of the Day
Here's your chance to buy something from Barney's for $29 that isn't lip balm.This Wrap Dress with Water Color Birds from Loomstate is cheap with a conscience.The softy cotton creation...
Knick home opener a Minnie, Garnett-free event (upd)
By MARC BERMANThe NBA delayed by two days - until today - the unveiling of their schedule. We were told Tuesday they were reworking some national TV games with the...
FIRST LOOK: Ritz-Carlton Moscow
Here's looking at Red Square: The view from the Ritz-Carlton Suite By now most wealth-watchers are well aware of Moscow’s status as the new capital of luxury...well...everything. The new rule:...
SPIDERS - EIGHT-LEGGED WONDERS
They might have scared the stuffing out of Little Miss Muffett, but there's nothing to fear - really. FIRST of all, spiders are not insects. They are predatory invertebrate animals....
HAUTE LIST
Right fit? No sweat IF you're tired of plunking down more than $100 for the perfect pair of cute and comfy sweats, we have answers. Head over to Victoria's Secret...
J.LO STYLE FOR A SONG
EVER fancy walking a mile in Jennifer Lopez's shoes? Well, hustle down to Screaming Mimi's on Lafayette Street first thing tomorrow morning, and you could be wearing Lopez's shoes, clubbing...
VOTE AGAINST SEEING IT
YOU can feel the flop sweat emanating from "Election Day," the strained farce by Josh Tobiessen that opened last night as part of the Second Stage's Uptown Series. This would-be...
'SNL' MOVIE
SATURDAY Night Live" chief Lorne Michaels is de veloping a new movie that is expected to star "SNL" vets. The film will feature Tina Fey as a single gal who...
IN GOOD 'COMPANY'
IT'S almost impossible to know whether this ambitious, three-Sunday-night miniseries, "The Company," would be as fantastically compelling if it weren't for the fantastically compelling performance of Michael Keaton, the man...
IN HERM'S WAY
GETTING inside the head of Herman Edwards' won't be too tricky. The former Jets coach who plays to win the game is just as comfortable playing to the camera. "Hard...
WHOOPI IN HOT SEAT
WHOOPI Goldberg says she used to hear about Rosie O'Donnell's battles on "The View" and think, "I'm glad it's not me." However, now that she's due to replace O'Donnell on...
NATURAL BOURNE THRILLER
IT'S hard to imagine a movie much more exciting than "The Bourne Ultimatum," which is not only far and away this summer's best three-peat, it's a pulse-pounding peak to Matt...
A LOVE STORY, ON-SCREEN & OFF
MARC Anthony says that he first laid eyes on Jennifer Lopez in 1998, when the then up-and-coming dancer and actress went backstage to congratulate him after the opening night of...
ELLEN BARKIN'S FILM COMPANY SUES EX-HUSBAND PERELMAN
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Ellen Barkin's film company is suing her ex-husband, Revlon chairman and billionaire financier Ron Perelman, saying he never delivered on a promised payment of about...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A perfect Sun-Jupiter aspect on your birthday this year means that if you think and act lucky you will enjoy the kind of success you never thought possible. Imagine where...
LUXURY-CAR GANG STALLS
A gang of auto thieves aimed to spread the luxury-car ownership experience abroad by shipping stolen high-end vehicles through New York's seaports to Greece, the Middle East and Africa, authorities...
$PERM BANK BABIES
Two toddlers born by in vitro fertilization - using their father's frozen sperm years after his death - are entitled to a share of the family fortune, a Manhattan judge...
'ILLEGAL' AIDS DOC BUSTED
A former director of the AIDS Center at St. Vincent's Hospital was hauled from his Chelsea office in handcuffs yesterday for allegedly practicing medicine without a license and bilking Medicaid....
9/11 KIN ZERO IN ON OWN RITES
Angered that city officials have moved the annual 9/11 service, a group of victims' relatives yesterday requested a permit to hold an alternative memorial at Ground Zero. If the permit...
NO LICENSE TO TRILL
Two Manhattan hot spots are "Caught Up" in lawsuits after they "Shook All Night Long" to music they didn't have a license to play. The Hiro Ballroom and Fusion 215...
MAKE THAT DINER TO GO
New Yorkers searching for a late-night burger deluxe may have to take a trip far further west than SoHo to satisfy their craving - the venerable Moondance Diner on Sixth...
GUTSY S.I. GRANNY FENDS OFF EVIL 'RAPIST'
A Staten Island man was busted yesterday for sexually assaulting a 70-year- old woman in her home two days before, authorities said. The man, Julio Caeser Lainez, allegedly entered the...
D.A. 'SPITZ' PROBE
ALBANY - Albany District Attorney David Soares, whose investigation led to the indictment and conviction of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, has begun a criminal probe of the political dirty-tricks...
ARMLESS DRIVER CURBS SELF
Infamous triple-amputee Michael Wiley, who has led Florida police on high speed more than a dozen times, is throwing his hands up in surrender. Well, not literally. "I'm beat. The...
RAPE-RAP POL TELLS HIS SIDE TO JURY
Embattled Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher told a grand jury yesterday he's innocent of the shocking rape allegations leveled against him by a local woman, his lawyer said. Attorney Stephen...
$40M 'FIELD' DAY
A downtrodden park near Coney Island that has been underused for nearly half a century will be getting a spectacular $40 million makeover starting next year, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday....
MTA FAULTS BOSSES IN TRAGEDIES
A series of errors and lapses of judgment are to blame for the deaths of two track workers who were killed in separate incidents last April, according to an investigation...
DEADLY POP GUN
A Queens man with ties to the Albanian mob went on a bloody rampage and shot two fellow gangsters - killing one of them - when they turned up at...
MOLEST PRIEST CUTS HIS THROAT
A one-time Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to molesting a 6-year-old boy on Long Island slashed his throat the day before he was to go to jail. Barry Ryan, 59,...
NYPD BLACK & BLUE
An NYPD captain facing assault charges for allegedly attacking his cop girlfriend has been hit with a sexual-harassment suit - charging he forced her to have sex with him on...
'BLAST' STAFF STEAMED AT SLOW CLEANUP
Outraged tenants of an office building still shut down because of the massive Midtown steam-pipe blast ripped their landlord yesterday, saying they've been given the runaround about when the building...
RUDY UNDER 'UNFAIR' FIRE
A union video claiming Rudy Giuliani's actions led to the deaths of more than 100 firefighters on 9/11 is filled with misleading statements, an independent watchdog has found. But the...
'FAKE' YANK'S PAST
The con man who's been posing as former Yankees pitcher Steve Karsay has a history of trying to live the high life on the cheap, authorities said yesterday. Jonathan Henry,...
SPITZER VETOES DOLE BILL
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday vetoed a bill that would have required higher-paying-job training for welfare recipients and push women toward positions in male-dominated fields. The bill would have required...
DOWNTOWN BACK IN BIZ AS BEFORE 9/11
The demand for office space in lower Manhattan has grown so strong that the vacancy rate has plummeted to almost where it stood in the months before 9/11, a new...
SOFTIES MOURN CARVEL
Somewhere, Cookie Puss is crying. The very first Carvel ice cream store - an iconic roadside attraction in the Westchester town of Hartsdale - is closing its doors 71 years...
'CELL'PHONE 'CONFESSOR'
When Brooklyn car dealer Vitaly Ivanitsky was arrested in February 2005 for a pair of 13-year-old homicides, the news spread quickly. So quickly that within a week, his alleged accomplice...
DEATH ROAR AS BRIDGE FALLS
An eight-lane highway bridge in Minneapolis collapsed last night, hurling cars and trucks into the Mississippi River, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 60. Some vehicles were...
'CARS PLUNGED LIKE TINY TOYS'
Victims and witnesses couldn't believe their eyes as a bridge packed with cars suddenly collapsed into the Mississippi River. Gary Babineau was driving home from work in the slow crawl...
OBAMA: I'D INVADE ALLY
WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate Barack Obama warned yesterday that he would use American forces to invade U.S. ally Pakistan if its leaders weren't doing enough to catch terrorists on their...
3RD-RATE JOB OF ACTING
Attention: Britney, Lindsay and Paris. While people love you - and devour stories about you - they don't think you're in a very prestigious profession. In fact, a Harris Poll...
ADOPT MOM'S HOUSE OF PAIN
The twisted Florida woman behind New York's sick $3 million adoption scam tormented her charges with shackles she kept on display in a decorative glass candy dish, officials said yesterday....
TEACHER SET TO ORBIT
More than two decades ago, schoolteacher Barbara Morgan missed the grade for a trip into space when NASA picked colleague Christa McAuliffe to go on the ill-fated shuttle Challenger that...
HILL ROMPING BY 21 POINTS
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has opened a 21-point lead over Sen. Barack Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for president, a poll found. Clinton leads Obama, her...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A thief was arrested after he tried to sell $50,000 in rented photography equipment at a Flatiron District store, authorities said yesterday. On several occasions beginning on June 21,...
BLUSTER OF BERSERK BARACK
EARLIER in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama just sounded naive. Yesterday, he sounded frightening. In a speech long on bluster and short on common sense,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 355; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 2590; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 789; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 5339;...
SOARES STEPS UP
Albany County DA David Soares' an nouncement late yesterday that he's begun a criminal probe of the dirty- tricks plot by Gov. Spitzer's office is a potentially helpful development. All...
OBAMA BOMBS
Just days after saying he would per sonally sit down with some of the world's worst despots, Democratic presidential wannabe Barack Obama yesterday said he's up for invading Pakistan. Really,...
BARACK'S BLUNDER
IN an "I am too tougher than Hillary" speech, Sen. Barack Obama warned Pakistan yes terday that as commander-in-chief he might act unilaterally if Islamabad didn't do more against the...
THE CLASS WARRIORS GET ONE RIGHT
LIKE a stopped clock, even the class-warfare crowd can sometimes be right. Case in point: the push by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and others to raise taxes on private-equity deal-makers....
SHE'S NO BIMBO
SPEAKING at his $1,000- a-ticket fund- raiser at the J.W. Marriott hotel in downtown Washington Monday night, Fred Thompson began by introducing "my campaign manager - oh, I mean my...
WHO LET THE DOG OUT? HOW TO NIX VICK'S TRICKS
I want to see Michael Vick obliterated from the public and sports eye forever ("Vick Vows a Dogfight in Court," July 27). What kind of sick, demented and sadistic person...
MTA TAKES CITY FOR A RIDE
Are the people of New York City really going to let the government just keep lying to us and stealing our money ("Boss' Personal Pitch to Straphangers," July 27)? Doesn't...
TIES THAT BOND
The mayhem rocking the debt market claimed additional victims yesterday, as some of the biggest and most prestigious names in the hedge-fund world took some of their sharpest losses in...
CRUDE TRADERS PUMP OIL TOWARD $100 LEVEL
Wall Street's smart money is running after oil for its new riches, driving up prices to new records that could push crude past a stunning $100 a barrel in coming...
THE MAKE US RICH FUND IS COMING BACK
IT'S Make Us Rich time again. Last August Wall Street veteran Bill King of Ramsey King Securities and I created in this very column an imaginary hedge fund that we...
AOL WEAKNESS DROPS TW STOCK
Shares in Time Warner tumbled 3 percent yesterday as Wall Street reacted to slowing online advertising revenue at the media giant's AOL unit. Time Warner shares ended the day down...
CRAFTY MARTHA
Continuing its expansion in the growing crafts industry, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is joining forces with private-equity partner GTCR Golder Rauner to buy food-crafting company Wilton Industries and paint-by-number specialist...
TAKE-TWO CEO FINED
The founder and former CEO of video game design company Take-Two was sentenced to five years' probation yesterday for cooking the company's books. Ryan Brant also has until October to...
FUNDS ROCKED BY UNFIT BALLY'S FILING
Bally Total Fitness, the nation's largest health club chain, is going belly up and inflicting some serious pain on a group of vocal hedge funds that successfully ousted the company's...
PANEL OF PEERS SET IN $5.6B DJ DEAL
A noted panel - including Associated Press legend Lou Boccardi and ex-Chicago Tribune Editor Jack Fuller - was named yesterday to oversee editorial integrity at The Wall Street Journal, which...
CATALOG SALE
Two months after completing its $2 billion acquisition of BMG Music Publishing, Universal Music Group is gearing up to dispose of a subset of BMG's European publishing assets, potentially worth...
MIN SIGNS 2-YR. DEAL TO RUN US
A month after her old contract expired, Us Weekly Editor Janice Min has inked a new two-year deal to stay at the helm of the Wenner Media title. The pact,...
DEVANEY CAPSIZED BY BONDS
A Miami-based hedge fund titan with a taste for the high life is getting a harsh lesson in humility as his fund racks up losses in the bond-market rout. United...
EMI LANDS ON TERRA FIRMA
Terra Firma's Guy Hands officially wrapped his mitts around EMI Group yesterday when the last of the record label's shareholders submitted to his $4.9 billion takeover offer. More than 732...
CARD'S FAST DEALING
Wesley Card, the newly appointed chief executive of the Jones Apparel Group, wants to "spend money to make money" as the old adage goes, in a reversal of his predecessor's...
KALIKOW PASSES ON MANHATTAN HOUSE
Developer Richard Kalikow, who sent out a press release two weeks ago proclaiming that he was taking over the city's costliest condo conversion, has just thrown in the towel on...
BARACK OBAMA FUMBLES ON NUKE STATEMENT
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama had stuck his foot in his mouth once again, saying that if he were president, he would not use nuclear weapons "in any circumstance" to...
QUEENS POL INDICTED FOR RAPE
Embattled Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher was indicted today for committing first-degree rape against a married woman who works as a cook in a Catholic Church, sources said. The married father...
JUST SOLD!
ManhattanUPPER WEST SIDE $937,00044 W. 106th St. Two-bedroom, two-bath condo, 1,117 square feet, with keyed private elevator, kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and granite counters, hardwood floors and S/N/W exposures. Common...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
NoHo$1.075 millionBedrooms: 1Bathrooms: 1Square feet: 900Maintenance: $1,530Built in 1885 (and converted to residential lofts in the 1970s), Mercer Square (on Mercer Street) is where you'll find this co-op, which boasts...
LAUDER FODDER
Timing is everything for Estee Lauder President and CEO William Lauder. Lauder was told by the co-op board at prestigious 778 Park Ave. that his application to buy a 14-room...
FANTASY LAND
Michael Hirtenstein was driving down Ericsson Place in TriBeCa when two large renderings hanging in a window caught his eye. The first was of a glass-walled apartment with a terrace,...
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Summer is the season when many of us feel ambitious and get the home-improvement bug. We take a week off and think we can put in a new kitchen by...
OUT OF SERVICE
After a four-month renovation - which included reconfiguring walls; installing windows, doors, fixtures and floors; and replacing every bit of wiring and plumbing - my 1850s farmhouse was practically brand-new....
DREAM HOMES
Battery Park City$3.25 millionThe southern tip of Manhattan island might not be the first place you think of when you hear the phrase "sprawling family home," but this six-bedroom, four-bathroom...
PAGING DR. BLOOMER TO WINNER'S CIRCLE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Good thing there's a doctor in today's $70,000 novice hurdle stakes, an ultra-competitive nine-horse race. One of three horses entered by Jonathan Sheppard, Dr. Bloomer gets here...
REFUNDS ON RUMSPRINGA
SPRINGS - New trainer to watch: Several speedballs from Bob Baffert barn are shipping to Old Spa after their owner, Ahmed Zayat, had nasty spat with Del Mar management over...
STEPH SAYS DON'T FEAR KG, CELTS
Stephon Marbury said late last season he would love to reunite with Kevin Garnett. But Marbury feels no remorse Garnett is headed to Beantown and believes the Knicks should not...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
NO SAWX FOR HONDO
The Royals gave it that extra effort for Hondo last night, tripping the Twins to move the deficit below the Hondoza Line at 465 mendozas. Today, he'll go back to...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Bell to quit as Royals skipperBuddy Bell resigned as the Royals' manager, effective at the end of the season. He said he will remain on for the rest of...
PEDRO START KO'D BY RAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Pedro Martinez's much-anticipated debut wearing a St. Lucie Mets uniform was a washout yesterday, so now it's back to simulated games for the right-hander. The...
ALYSSA TO BARRY: NOT IN OUR HOUSE
LOS ANGELES - Like every Dodgers fan, actress Alyssa Milano is hoping Barry Bonds' historic home runs do not come here this week. "I'm really looking forward to this whole...
STUCK AT 754
LOS ANGELES - If a fan at Dodger Stadium catches home-run ball No. 755 tonight, Barry Bonds would tell them to keep it. "I had a little kid come up...
SUMMER 0F '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...
THURMAN'S 'FAREWELL'
BOBBY Murcer watched Thurman Munson get into his plane 28 years ago and take off into the dark night. The date was Aug. 1, 1979. Murcer, Munson and Lou Piniella...
PARISE SIGNS DEVILS DEAL
His boss finally has his salary cap under control, losing Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski, so no one offered Zach Parise an offer sheet that Lou Lamoriello could simply match....
SHOCKEY'S TIME
ALBANY - The obsession about who is not here at Giants training camp was supposed to revolve around Tiki Barber. That storyline was interrupted by a summer held hostage by...
GIANTS WINE AND DINE RICE
ALBANY - Simeon Rice admits his whole deal is unusual, him coming here to meet with the Giants, possibly taking the place of Michael Strahan. After all, it wasn't long...
MARA: NO NEW DEAL FOR STRAHAN
ALBANY - Giants co-owner John Mara yesterday reiterated the team stance that there is no room for any negotiation of Michael Strahan's salary, which is $4 million for this season....
REVIS' HOLDOUT ISN'T HELPING
The contract holdout by first-round draft pick Darrelle Revis is becoming more and more of a problem for the Jets, who had big plans for the cornerback. The best-case scenario...
HAND IT TO HAMILTON
Eric Mangini was a 23-year-old gofer with the Cleveland Browns, fetching coffee and donuts for Bill Belichick and delivering pizzas to the reporters in the pressroom as Bobby Hamilton began...
LAWRENCE TO MAKE DEBUT WITH METS
MILWAUKEE - This afternoon Brian Lawrence will make his Mets debut, getting called up to replace Jorge Sosa in the starting rotation. Lawrence, a 31-year-old right-hander at Triple-A, missed last...
STERLIN' MARLON
MILWAUKEE - They acted as erasers early, two homers wiping away deficits and providing leads. Later, the third homer just helped clinch it for the Mets. It was a power...
RANGERS RE-SIGN AVERY
Sean Avery is a member in good standing of Glen Sather's 2007-08 Rangers, signed for one year at the $1.9 million the winger was awarded via salary arbitration. "We are...
DAMON NOT SURE WHAT LIES AHEAD
Johnny Damon doesn't want to be traded, but he doesn't sound convinced the Yankees want him in their lineup - or even on their team. He sat out last night's...
SOCKING THE CHISOX AGAIN
As the games dwindle, the pressure will grow. No, not the Yankees' playoff push. Everything there is A-OK. But Alex Rodriguez only has four more games on this homestand to...
ELUSIVE HOME RUN BETTER COME HERE
THOUSANDS of camera flashes turned the Yankee Stadium grandstand into 1,000 points of light each and every time Alex Rodriguez stepped to the plate in quest of career homerun 500,...
DUNCAN KEEPS GOING DEEP
The sold out crowd at Yankee Stadium pleaded with Shelley Duncan to come out and take a bow after his fourth-inning home run last night, but the rookie opted to...
YANKEES' YES NETWORK FOR SALE: REPORT
The cable network of the New York Yankees -- and possibly the team itself -- is up for sale, Fortune magazine reported. YES network, the highest-rated regional sports network in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Pity poor Harry Potter. A 78-year-old Florida man whose name is Harry Potter is beset with calls from children every time a new book in the series is released. "The...