May 7, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amIF it's crunch time for the magazine industry, the music niche has to be tighter than one of Mariah Carey's outfits. A bunch of tried-and-trues and some upstarts all hit...
A BIG MAC ATTACK - APPLE OPENING FIRST NY RETAIL OUTLET IN SOHO
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amApple Computers is launching a new nationwide retailing strategy by taking over a Restoration Hardware space in SoHo. The computer maker is expected to open its very first brick-and-mortar store...
TEMP FIRM KEEPS RAG TRADE HUMMING
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe unemployment rate is higher than it's been in years and more people have lost their jobs in April than in the last decade. However, for 24 Seven Inc., a...
PROFIT PROVING PUD'S CATALOG OF DOT-COM DOOM
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPer head, it's probably the most profitable company in the history of Silicon Alley. Philip Kaplan is raking in $60,000 a month from subscriptions to F****d Company, a site that...
THE SILENCE OF THE DAMNED
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amFRED Drasner is back at the Daily News, and the slaughter that started this week appears to have been bloodier than first reported. There is no telling if the axings...
MISERY JUST LOVES F****D COMPANY - PUD RAKES IN $60G A MONTH
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPer head, it's probably the most profitable company in the history of Silicon Alley. Philip Kaplan is raking in $60,000 a month from subscriptions to F****d Company, his site that...
THE STARR REPORT
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amHot topic: Contract talks at 'The View' TV Guide is reporting in its May 12 issue that ABC's contract talks with "View" co-hosts Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Joy Behar...
THE LATEST STRAW: TRESSED TO THRILL
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amINSPIRED by a few plastic sipping straws, the latest hair craze (photo, right) has come from the Miano Viel salon, where 23-year-old Danielle Bonadio is making heads spin with her...
'ER' SENDS OUT ABORTION MESSAGE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amWHOEVER wasn't watching the "Survivor 2" finale Thursday night might have seen the controversial issue of abortion raised during an episode of NBC's "ER." In the show's storyline, a man...
DANCING FEATS - ABT, CITY BALLET IN BLOOM
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amAS Noel Coward used to sing: "Dance, Dance, Dance, little lady" - and now for a few months that little lady could be confused with Lady Liberty in New York...
SITTING ON THE BUBBLE - LOOK QUICK, BECAUSE SOME OF THESE WELL-LIKED SHOWS WON'T BE AROUND NEXT YEAR
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amMAY is the month when nature springs back to life and shaky TV shows await their fate. In the next few weeks the broadcast networks will announce their new fall...
IT'S GOTTA BE THE SHOES
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amCOME and get it, ladies - I am now two inches bigger. And right where I need it, too - in my feet.Thanks to the Richlee Shoe Company, I'm currently...
ESCOVEDO INFLUENCE - BLUES, PUNK, ROCK, FOLK
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amIF anything, Alejandro Escovedo is "A Man Under the Influence," the title of the new album by the Austin, Texas, native. His performances run from poignant to pounding, particularly when...
PERPLEXED BY FINAL 'SURVIVOR'? JUST ASK ADAM - 'MANY OF YOU WONDERED HOW COLBY CAME TO MAKE A BONEHEADED MOVE LIKE PICKING TINA'
May 7, 2001 | 4:00am"RAISE your hand if you're still puzzled by last week's 'Survivor 2' finale. "Uh-huh - quite a few of you, I see. "Let's start with you - yeah, you, there...
I'D UPHOLD THE DEATH PENALTY AS GOV: ANDY
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO, whose father repeatedly blocked the death penalty during his 12 years as governor, is pledging to carry out executions if he becomes governor. Cuomo, the former federal housing...
STATE WARNS OF MCVEIGH FAX '$CAM'
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - State officials are furious over a British firm's efforts to cash in on Timothy McVeigh's pending execution, and are moving to warn the public. Officials from the state...
PETS COULD BE ALLERGIC TO OWNERS
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amIf your dog or cat gets sick a lot, there may be a perfectly reasonable explanation - it may be allergic to you, veterinary scientists say. A pet's allergies can...
THERE'S NO DEFENSE FOR SHOOTING DOWN W.'S MISSILE SHIELD
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amLIBERALS who turn pale at the sight of a gun have me more confused than a fur-coat salesman in a nudist colony. Can't get it - they are rabidly against...
FBI CHIEF HAD 4-YEAR SILENT FEUD WITH BILL
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amRelations between FBI Director Louis Freeh and President Bill Clinton were so strained, the two didn't talk for four years, it was reported today. There were numerous sources of tension...
SUBWAY STATIONS A RAIL MESS, BUT NO FIXES IN SIGHT
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPeeling paint, grimy walls, cracked concrete and broken tiles are the norm in 300 aging subway stations that are waiting for renovations that may be decades away. The Post last...
RIPPED OFF BY MOVING VIOLATIONS - LAX RULES LET CARRIERS TAKE US FOR A RIDE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amUnscrupulous moving companies are ripping off Americans at an alarming rate. The number of relocation horror stories reported by consumers nationwide more than doubled in the past four years, due...
COP RAID SHUTS DOWN NOTORIOUS CLUB TWILO
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amA team of cops crashed the party at Club Twilo early yesterday, shutting the alleged drug den for building violations and showing the door to more than 400 patrons, officials...
HAVANA GREAT TIME IN N.Y.
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of cheering Cuban-Americans, and some Cubanos at heart, lined Sixth Avenue yesterday to celebrate their Hispanic heritage at the 18th annual Grand Cuba Parade. Politicians cruised up the avenue...
COURT CURBING VICIOUS JAYWALKERS
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amJUDGE Maurice Brill looked more dispirited than anything else. You could see it in his brow, the way it furrowed deeper than usual, and in his shoulders, which dropped sharper...
BORED GIULIANI MAKES 'SPORT' OF DEM DEBATE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said he was so bored by yesterday's televised debate between the four Democrats who want to replace him that he flipped channels and tuned in to ESPN. "I...
CONFESSION KEY TO SLAY CASE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge today will decide whether to allow the most crucial piece of evidence in the trial of the man accused of fatally stabbing social worker Amy Watkins in...
POPE IN HISTORIC VISIT TO MOSQUE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPope John Paul II yesterday became the first pontiff ever to visit a mosque during his pilgrimage to Greece, Syria and Malta, retracing the steps of St. Paul. The 80-year-old...
'MUMMY' WRAPS UP NO. 1 - SCARES UP RECORD $70M
May 7, 2001 | 4:00am"The Mummy Returns" resurrected a slumping movie field, taking the top spot at the weekend box office with a record-breaking $70.1 million in sales. The sequel to 1999's popular "The...
RICE BOILS OVER U.S. BOOT FROM U.N. RIGHTS PANEL
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - White House aides yesterday criticized the United Nations' decision to boot the United States off a key human-rights panel, while lawmakers plotted revenge. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice...
HERO SHOT BY WOMAN'S ASSAILANT
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amA good Samaritan who rushed to the aid of a woman being assaulted on a Williamsburg street early yesterday was shot in the face by her enraged assailant, police said....
FEUDING STALLS HOLOCAUST PACT - 'MANY LAWYERS, BUT NO MONEY'
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amHolocaust survivor Wolf Steiner suffered horrible abuses and saw his brothers, sisters and parents die in concentration camps - for which Germany has agreed to pay him roughly $7,000. But...
HARLEM MAN SLAIN IN GANG CROSSFIRE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amA beloved elderly Harlem man sitting in his car in a parking lot was caught in the middle of a gunfight between rival drug gangs and shot dead, police said....
HEAT'S ON POLISH AIRLINE IN BID TO AID NAZI SURVIVORS
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amTwo state legislators yesterday urged the Port Authority to pressure the Polish government into negotiating with Holocaust survivors by evicting LOT Polish Airlines from Kennedy Airport. "We're not interested in...
THUGS SLAY BX. NUN - CARJACKED IN GUATEMALA
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amA devoted Bronx nun who spent two decades helping victims of violence in Guatemala was killed during a vicious carjacking there, her religious order said yesterday. Sister Barbara Ann Ford,...
DID CON VICTIM PUT 'HIT' ON BLAKE'S WIFE?
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amRobert Blake's wife may have been killed by a professional hit man hired by one of the love-starved men she ripped off in a lonely-hearts con game, the actor's lawyer...
SICK WORLD OF PRO-ANOREXIA INTERNET SITES
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY have names like "Dying to Be Thin," "Anorexic with Pride" and "Food Is Evil," and they're using horrific images of emaciated models to convince teens to develop eating disorders....
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 7, 1937
May 7, 2001 | 4:00am"LAKEHURST, N.J. - The bent, black heap of metal that was the Hindenburg rested on Lakehurst field today under naval guard, awaiting the autopsies that probably never will determine what...
BRICK THROWER SEEKS NEW TRIAL
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amThe crack addict convicted of a heinous Midtown brick attack is preparing to ask for a new trial - in part so his lawyers can grill the star witness on...
SHE HAS DESIGNS ON BILL'S OFFICE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amThere's a new designing woman in Bill Clinton's life - a fashionable Harlem interiors maven who's been tapped to decorate the ex-president's office. She is Sheila Bridges, 37 - Harlem's...
FURIOUS CUSTOMERS TELL OF PACK 'RATS'
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amConsumers have bombarded the state Department of Transportation and the Better Business Bureau with moving-company horror stories. Here are two typical complaints. George Varughese, 45, an investment banker and father...
TRAINERS HOLD KEY AT DERBY
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - If the 127th running of the Kentucky Derby proved anything, it is that America's greatest thoroughbred classic is above all a trainer's race. Novices, newcomers, the inexperienced and...
SPREE-DOM STINGS - LATRELL'S BARBS SPELL BITTER END FOR HOUSTON
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amWITH his cold, stinging diatribe the past two days, Latrell Sprewell let out of the bag what he has felt the last two months. He believes it is time for...
TOUGH DAY FOR SPEED HORSES
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amDERBY NOTES LOUISVILLE - A couple of runners in Saturday's Kentucky Derby came out of the race a bit worse for wear. Balto Star, who backed up to 14th after...
WARD HAS HIS EYES ON CROWN; CONGAREE, 'POINT' WILL TRY, TRY AGAIN
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Right idea, wrong horse. Going into Saturday's Kentucky Derby many of us, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Gary Stevens included, thought Point Given had the right stuff to...
KNICKS HAVE EYES FOR SEATTLE'S SHAMMOND
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amWhile the Knicks will attempt to add size and rebounding power during the free-agency period, they also have an eye on the guard position as either Allan Houston or Charlie...
NHL SUSPENDS JUSTICE - LEAGUE RULES GIVE THUG TEAMS ADVANTAGE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amHOW is it that right-headed sports fans see sports with greater clarity than the entitled leaders of the sports? Tie Domi, perhaps the Leafs' most expendable player - the kind...
D'BACKS' GONZALEZ IS LATE BOOMER
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amLate bloomers exist in every walk of life. Still, it sometimes seems Luis Gonzalez's career is powered by Miracle-Gro. The Arizona left fielder has set career highs in home runs...
FINALLY, IT'S 'FOREVER'
May 7, 2001 | 4:00am1st RACE - It was bombs away in the opener as Mywayforever, making his 18th career start, held off Stalking Man while drifting in the stretch to finally break his...
IT'S NO WONDER WITH STEVIE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amDURING batting practice, Bobby Valentine stood behind a protective screen and watched mighty shot after mighty shot from his hitters wilt before the fence. The Met manager noticed the center-field...
PEEPING TOM TAKES CARTER
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPeeping Tom strengthened his reputation as the best locally-based sprinter as he came off the pace to win the Grade 1 $300,000 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct yesterday. Say Florida Sandy...
SCHILL'S FOCUS SWITCHES TO PHILS
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amCurt Schilling studies the past, lives in the present and is always planning for the future. So it comes as no surprise that as soon as yesterday's game was over,...
OAK TRASHES KNICKS - CHARLES: THEY DON'T HAVE GUYS WHO CAN HANDLE THE PRESSURE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - They're not tough enough. They're pampered. They're front runners who won't play through injuries. They wilt under the pressure of New York. They point fingers. And there is...
LAYDEN: VG'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amKnicks GM Scott Layden told The Post yesterday that Jeff Van Gundy isn't going anywhere next season, but back in front of the Knick bench. Layden gave Van Gundy a...
YOU CAN GO HOME - MUSSINA SHACKLES EX-MATES AS YANKS SWEEP
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Orioles 1 BALTIMORE - Mike Mussina knew Camden Yards was going to be a familiar place to pitch. How could it not be after working there for...
DON'T COUNT OUT THESE DEVILS JUST YET
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Whatever time they have bought for themselves, it's up. The Devils will skate onto the rink here tonight as defending...
THROW WOES BUG JOE
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - They can't inhale any more practice ground balls. Nor can they change equipment. Yet they openly admit that if they don't improve defensively they will have a hard...
PETR PLAYIN' HEADS-UP
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - There was gravel in his voice, a sign of the grit these Devils will need to survive, particularly from finesse players who have been too silent too often...
NO STARTING DATE SET YET FOR LEITER
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Al Leiter, on the disabled list with an elbow injury, threw for the third straight day and reported no ill effects. After playing catch Friday and throwing in...
MARTIN MAKES THINGS WORSE - TANKS METS WITH AWFUL 7TH
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amD'backs 8 - Mets 2 Despite another so-so outing by starter Steve Trachsel, the pitching of Arizona's Curt Schilling and the power of the Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez, the Mets were...
ACHIN' POSADA PROVES HE CAN STILL NAIL 'EM
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Jorge Posada's shoulder is barking and will continue to do so all summer long unless the tendinitis problem works its way out of the joint. However,...
REIGN COULD END TONIGHT
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - This is the night for the Devils to step up, or step down. The crown has weighed heavily on their targeted heads all year, 331 days to be...
RAPS ANSWER BELL
May 7, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - In the course of two games - and in a span of fewer than 48 hours - Vince Carter and the Toronto Raptors grew up a lifetime. Here...