July 12, 1999
MARTHA, THE MATERIAL GIRL - STEWART'S FABRIC LINE HOMES IN ON MARKET
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amNever one to rest on her laurels (undoubtedly home-grown), Martha Stewart is ready to debut her latest homemaking project. The doyenne of domesticity launches her new line of fabrics for...
REPORTER INSTIGATES NY VS. LA ALLEY FIGHT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amA war of words is breaking out in Silicon Alley. Silicon Alley Reporter founder Jason McCabe Calacanis is feeling the heat for comments that Los Angeles will soon replace the...
LOEHMANN'S CLOSING 14 STORES, SOME HERE; EXCLUSIVE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amBankrupt Loehmann's will close 14 of its 69 stores, including the Queens clearance center, The Post has learned. "They'll announce the closings by the middle of the week," said one...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amIT seems everybody's new favorite sport, women's soccer, has captured the minds and hearts of not just fans but also of at least two weeklies we know of. Time and...
EATERIES STAKE CLAIM TO MEATPACKING DISTRICT; EXCLUSIVE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amRestaurateurs are packing into the Meatpacking District. Mark Strausman, of Campagna and Fred's at Barneys fame, will open an Italian eatery called Cinghiale at 50 Gansevoort St. "by the end...
SUMMERS DODGY ON GREENSPAN'S RETURN
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton's new Treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers, dodged the question yesterday of whether Clinton will reappoint Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan to a new term next year. But Summers did vow...
EL DIARIO/LA PRENSA PUBLISHER DIES
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amCarlos Ramirez, publisher and president of El Diario/La Prensa for the past 15 years, died yesterday after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 52-years old. Ramirez, who piloted...
'FREEDOM' LAYS IT ON TOO THICK
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amBRIAN Friel's 1973 play "The Freedom of the City" is being done by a company from Dublin's Abbey Theatre at the John Jay College Theater through July 18 as part...
TRAILER TRASH - WHY WE HATE MOVIE PREVIEWS THST GIVE AWAY THE PLOT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amREADERS complain that movie critics give too much of the plot away in their reviews. To which movie critics might reply: Have you seen movie trailers these days? More and...
SCOUTING FOR THE NEXT KATE MOSS - ARE YOU MODEL MATERIAL?
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: IT'S the modern fairy tale. Young girl wandrs down street. She gets stopped, given a business card - and six months later she's on magazine covers, catwalks - and...
JUSTICE DEPT. IS FIRING BLANKS IN ITS WAR ON GUNS - OFFICIALS ADMIT THAT IT'S RARE TO PROSECUTE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Despite President Clinton's push for new gun-control laws, his own Justice Department admits it isn't enforcing all the gun laws on the books. Two federal laws, in particular,...
LANDMARK EFFORT MAY SAVE SCHOOL
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amA century-old school slated for demolition has been given a temporary reprieve - the state has recommended that the building be designated a national landmark. PS 109 in East Harlem...
SLOBBO'S FOES POLISH PLAN TO FORCE HIM OUT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS Serbian opposition leaders are trying to organize a non-violent coup against Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic that would allow him to escape war-crimes charges and take sanctuary in another country....
WHERE HILLARY DIDN'T DARE TO GO
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am'If Albany's new charter school works,it will be extraordinarily difficult forthe anti-choice crowd to stem the spreadof charter schools - and of choicein general. (Can you say "vouchers"?)' ALBANY. HILLARY...
AXED COPS RIP 'ROUGH' JUSTICE; EXCLUSIVE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am"We did nothing wrong. We tried to effect an arrest as peaceably as possible, but he became violent." SACKED COP SOLOMON CARTER Two Bronx cops fired for using excessive force...
PATAKI'S APPROVAL RATING TAKES BIG HIT IN NEW POLL
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI'S job-approval rating has been declining all year and is down a whopping 21 points since December, a poll to be released today shows. The recently completed survey, a...
BEAME MAKING PROGRESS: HOSP
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amFormer New York City Mayor Abe Beame's heart condition has improved, officials at New York University Hospital said yesterday. Doctors upgraded the 93-year-old's condition from satisfactory to good after he...
HEARTTHROB JOHNNY EYEING ROLE AS GAY SHOWMAN LIBERACE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amJohnny Depp may shuck his hunky image to portray flamboyant entertainer Liberace. The Hollywood heartthrob is considering a big-screen bio of the glitzy piano man, who carefully hid his homosexuality...
HESTON: GRANT ME ONE WISH, AND I'D BE CARY
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amCharlton Heston has confessed he always wanted to be Cary Grant - but admits it was more interesting to play tragic heroes who got the girl but died in the...
IT'S NOT THE HEAT, IT'S THE INDEX - MEASURING MISERY ONLY INCREASES IT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amIF YOU were miserable during last week's heat wave, blame Rod Becker. While not technically responsible for causing the grief associated with last week's heat wave, Becker does deserve some...
IT WON'T BE LONG, YEAH! - BEATLES TO REUNITE NEXT MONTH
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Beatles will come together once again to perform one of their biggest hits - "Yellow Submarine" - on live TV next month. Reps for living rock legends Paul McCartney,...
ROGUE TRADER: I'LL BELT WIFE-STEALER
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amRogue trader Nick Leeson has reportedly threatened to attack the man who stole his wife while Leeson cooled his heels in prison. The disgraced financial whiz - released from a...
SAME OLD STORY, BUT DIFFERENT STORYTELLER
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE cover of this week's New Yorker magazine, in its silence, screeches louder than a Concorde jet. The cartoon shows Hillary Rodham Clinton walking through a park reading a tourist's...
ELTON CAN NOW LAUGH ABOUT HEART SCARE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I can't go through metal-detecting gates at airports anymore without setting them off." ELTON JOHN A beaming Elton John laughed off his emergency heart surgery last night and joked that...
BLAIR IN DRAMATIC PLEA FOR ULSTER PEACE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday urged both sides in the Northern Ireland peace process not to throw away the best chance for peace the strife-torn region has seen in...
BRAWL MAY GET JETS GROUNDED
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amPlayers charged with alcohol-related or violent crimes can be ordered to get counseling and face fines or suspensions. Two Jet players and a former teammate charged with getting into a...
TRUMP 'TOYS' WITH PREZ RUN
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am"You think about him [Clinton] and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?" DONALD TRUMP A close friend of publicity-loving developer Donald Trump claims he is...
SMALL-SCREEN QUEENS - TV MEGA-RATINGS COULD LET SOCCER WOMEN $CORE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica's soccer heroines kicked up some big-time TV ratings during their run to the Women's World Cup victory - and now they're hoping to cash in. The women's smashing 5-4...
KOSO SNIPERS FIRE ON GIS
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. peacekeepers came under fire in Kosovo yesterday in a series of mysterious incidents that point up the war-torn province's troubles. No troops were killed in the shootings in southeastern...
SAFIR LAUNCHES NEW LOOK AT OLD 'BRUTALITY' CASES
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir has ordered an internal review of police disciplinary cases whose integrity has been questioned by a federal police-brutality probe, officials said yesterday. The review will be...
MET FANS LOWER THE BROOM AS YANKS WIN
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees avoided an embarrassing Subway Series sweep by beating the Mets yesterday at Shea Stadium - sparking a renewed war of words between fans of both teams. The Yankees...
GROUP STARTS A PROBE OF CON ED 'BIAS' IN BLACKOUT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amCiting the overwhelming numbers of minorities hit by last week's blackout, the New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a probe to determine whether Con Ed discriminates in the way...
PATAKI: HILLARY WILL NEVER BE ONE OF US
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't think there's an honest commitment here to represent the people of New York." GOV. PATAKI First Lady Hillary Clinton - preparing for Round II of her "Listening Tour"...
A PEACE 'PARTNERSHIP' - BARAK, ARAFAT MAKE PLEDGES AT GAZA TALKS
July 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I am confident . . . we can give the peace process . . . the chance it deserves." YASSER ARAFAT JERUSALEM - New Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and...
BYSTANDERS WOUNDED IN BRONX SLAY
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amA man was killed yesterday in a blast of gunfire that also struck two innocent victims - including a 15-year-old girl who was critically injured, police said. Bronx resident Tiaria...
FOX'S SPLIT-SCREEN MISSES BIG PICTURE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amI KNOW, I know. I was watching. Or trying to watch. Yankee-Met game on Fox, Saturday, top of the fifth, when all of a sudden the screen is cut into...
NO-RISK FINAL MISSES GOAL
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amFOR ALL the attractive soccer played during the Women's World Cup, what a predictable pity that Saturday's USA-China final so closely resembled the risk-free tedium of men's international soccer finals....
JUGGLIN' JOE PUTS JETER & BERNIE BACK HOME
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Jeter hitting cleanup turned out to be a one-day deal that Joe Torre likely won't revisit anytime soon. After Jeter went 0-for-4 with an intentional walk Saturday, Torre returned...
FORESTRY DRAWS OFF TO CAPTURE DWYER
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amTaking advantage of fast early fractions, Forestry took the lead approaching the stretch and drew off to a 21/4-length victory over Doneraile Court in yesterday's Grade 2 $150,000 Dwyer Stakes...
LEFTY PROSPECT JOINS BOMBERS' PEN
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amIn what can only be described as a curious move, the Yankees purchased lefty pitcher Ed Yarnall from Columbus (Triple-A) yesterday and dropped him into their bullpen despite Yarnall having...
JOE: SUBWAY SERIES RUNS ON OWN COURSE
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amSUBWAY NOTES Joe Torre admits the Subway Series provided wonderful theater. He admitted he would have loved to have been in the seats for Saturday's 9-8 thriller won by the...
BOBBY BO THINKS HE HAS WRITE STUFF
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Bonilla hasn't fared too well this year as a baseball player, but he is hoping to do better in the publishing business. The struggling outfielder said yesterday he plans...
RICKY STATES HIS CASE - DOESN'T WANT TO BE LEFT OUT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amRicky Ledee's three-run homer off Orel Hershiser accounted for the first three Yankee runs yesterday against the Mets and erased a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning. So right away,...
RED-HOT MIKE GLAD FOR BREAK
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amMike Piazza says he is looking forward to the All-Star break, which begins today, but it is hard to believe him. The All-Star catcher is on a tear at the...
LUCKY COIN CALLS IT QUITS
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amLucky Coin, winner of the 1997 Kelso Handicap and $120,000 supplemental entry to the Breeders' Cup Mile where he set the pace and eventually finished fourth, has been officially retired...
FOR OREL, NO. 200 WILL HAVE TO WAIT
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amOne thing the Mets have learned to expect from Orel Hershiser is not to expect anything. Although Hershiser has had a number of effective starts this season, there have been...
METS EARN THEIR STRIPES - AMAZIN'S IMPRESS YANKEES
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE METS lost the battle, but won the war. They kept getting told that talking about beating a team such as the Yankees in a series was not good enough....
IRABU, BOMBERS SAVE SOME FACE - HIDEKI PREVENTS AMAZIN' SWEEP
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amIn a surprising reversal of roles, it was the Yankees who yesterday needed to salvage the face-saving win. In three previous Subway Series the Yankees had won two of the...
2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T BAD, BUT IT'S NOT AMAZIN'
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amOK, so the Mets won the series. But they still haven't won The Series, as in World, or even Division, not to mention the National League Championship. So before you...
BRANDY SHOT KOS LIBERTY
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amHolding the ball for the last shot in a tie game, the Liberty expected a game-winning shot at best, or an overtime-forcing miss at worst. What they got was a...
UMP 'STEALS' ONE FROM CEDENO
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amWell, Roger Cedeno can't feel too badly for himself. The Met outfielder has been a fiend on the basepaths with a major-league high 46 stolen bases, but yesterday he had...
THIS 'TOAD' LOOKS PRETTY GOOD NOW; IRABU LOOKS 'TOAD-ALLY' AWESOME
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amRUNNERS ON the corners. Nobody out. A sure out had just been frittered away on a bad gamble. Top of the Mets' order up. A Shea Stadium crowd of 53,869...
CEDENO: MISSED BY THATMUCH
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amSince he didn't make either play, his performance will likely be forgotten, but Mets rightfielder Roger Cedeno came within about a foot of robbing the Yankees of a win yesterday....
RAMS GO ALL OUT FOR HILL
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amTalk about rolling out the red carpet. Fordham will introduce Bob Hill as its men's basketball coach at noon Wednesday, and don't bother going to Rose Hill Gym for the...
'99 SUBWAY SERIES IN REVIEW
July 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: *JUNE 4 at Yankee Stadium: Yankees 4, Mets 3 *June 5 at Yankee Stadium: Yankees 6, Mets 3 *June 6 at Yankee Stadium: Mets 7, Yankees 2 *July 9...