May 14, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHE National Magazine Awards are definitely the big tent of the magazine circus. They bring together all the top performers from the various sideshows - that would be the niche...
BUSY RATNER CHUCKING CHELSEA SITE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDeveloper Bruce Ratner has been trying to dump his Chelsea development site, The Post has learned. Although many city builders have already run the numbers and passed, the bricks -...
BIDLAND SOFTWARE GONE OUT OF BID-NESS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amBidland has closed. The San Diego-based company, which provided auction software for such sites as the ill-fated NBCi, said it will do no more business after yesterday. Bidland survived on...
GRAYDON'S WOES PILING UP
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S been a month of downs so far for Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter - but he may end it on an up note. This month, a fire broke out...
BRACE YOURSELVES - BIG OR SMALL, RATE CUT MAY SOUR STREET
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amWall Streeters are worrying that Alan Greenspan might turn his back on them - and possibly send stocks nose-diving again. Analysts say investors are prepared to stay on the sidelines...
JUST ONE MORE LEFT! I CAN'T LIVE - ANOTHER BONE-BREAKING SEASON OF 'SOPRANOS' IS ENDING. DOES THE SERIES STILL HAVE IT?
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amSINCE I have to watch TV for a living, (days! weeks! months on end!), I've gotten to the point where watching it in my off-hours is about as enjoyable as...
THE STARR REPORT
May 14, 2001 | 4:00am'Ricki': The first 1,500 episodesRicki Lake and her syndicated talk show, "Ricki," are celebrating their 1,500th episode today (5 p.m./Ch. 9). In other words, that translates into 85 different Ricki...
EMERIL AND JILL ROLE THEIR OWN
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN NBC announces its new fall schedule today, a handful of producers will already be recovering from a weekend celebration after learning Friday that their shows had made the cut....
ABC AXES '20/20S' CHASE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amVETERAN ABC News correspondent Sylvia Chase is out at the network after her contract was not renewed. Chase, who appeared on the inaugural broadcast of "20/20" in 1978, will continue...
WHEN DATING IS A FAMILY AFFAIR
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amYOU can't spell "disaster" without the letters d-a-t-e. And last week was no exception, when my friend Julie and I planned a quiet little getaway at her parents' country house...
JOEY TAKES THE CAKE - RAMONE B'DAY BASH
May 14, 2001 | 4:00am'LIFE'S a Gas: Joey Ramone's Birthday Bash" will bring punk and rock legends to the Hammerstein Ballroom (311 W. 34th Street, at Eighth Avenue [212] 279-7740), on Saturday to honor...
SHANNON NO LONGER 'CHARMED'
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amSHANNEN Doherty has mysteriously walked away from her smash WB show "Charmed" - and nobody's saying why. It's the second time the bad-girl star has left a hit series produced...
LOOK WHO'S TALKING - SURVIVOR MAKES HERSELF CLEAR
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amQUIET Amber Brkich - who got into the final rounds of "Survivor: The Australian Outback" by staying inconspicuous - isn't so inconspicuous anymore. And suddenly she's not so quiet either....
BLAKE TV'S FLAKIEST TALK SHOW GUEST
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amYOU little rascal - say it ain't so! I sincerely hope Robert Blake didn't kill his wife. Though he's gained a reputation over the years as a man with a...
SADDLES SOAR - TOO SOON TO THINK ABOUT FALL ACCESSORIES? NAY - IT'S ALL ABOUT RODEO GEAR, BIG JEWELRY AND MODERN-VINTAGE ANYTHING
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amAccessories designers are are back in the saddle again. Ponies will ride onto everything from bracelets to hats this fall, as evidenced by the hee-haw-style wares on sale at AccessoriesTheShow,...
DRIVE-BY HOOKERS MAKING STREET-WALKING PASSÉ
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHE woman at the Midtown traffic light peered out of the sports car that was sleeker than her legs. She flashed a sweet smile and used her long nails to...
FOOLISH, BOTCHED & INEPT: THAT'S THE FBI
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amALL right, we can't squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube over the FBI's screw-up on Timothy McVeigh. But could you imagine if New York City cops dropped the ball...
RUDY CANCER RX NIXES VIAGRA
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amForget Viagra. Rudy Giuliani can't take the "love drug" for his impotence because his prostate-cancer drugs have killed his sex drive, experts say. But Rudy's got the next best thing...
REM ROCKER: YES, I'M GAY
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amFamed REM rocker Michael Stipe, who's hedged on his sexuality for years, has finally come out of the closet and admitted he's gay. Stipe, 41, tells Time magazine he's a...
TEARS FOR SON CLEARED AFTER 14 YEARS IN JAIL
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amAfter 13 cheerless Mother's Days, a woman whose son has been locked away since 1987 for a murder he didn't commit wept for joy yesterday at the prospect of his...
BILL'S GOT A 'COURSE' OF ACTION
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amBill Clinton may finally get the chance to swing to his heart's content - a golf club, that is. A ritzy Westchester County country club says that despite Clinton's many...
MOTHER'S DAY LULL AT RACY GRACIE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amLike a pair of prizefighters, Mayor Giuliani and Donna Hanover retreated to their respective corners on Mother's Day - even as Hizzoner's divorce lawyer kept jabbing away. Yesterday's lull in...
CAR CRASH KILLS VISITING RABBI
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amA noted Michigan rabbi visiting New York was killed in a car accident yesterday, police said. Rabbi Yitschak Meir Kagan, 59, was driving when struck by a van at the...
COKE'S WATER IS 'PURE' HOGWASH
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amFROM the outside, the cinder-block walls give no indication of the pernicious science - and wholesale betrayal of nature - going on within the nondescript building on Borden Avenue. But...
'VIGILANTE' SHOOTS TWO
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amA man who may have been enraged by thieves breaking into his car shot two men in Brooklyn yesterday - killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, police...
CARNEGIE-SLAY SURVIVOR EYES MUG SHOTS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDetectives yesterday brought photos of potential suspects to the hospital bed of a survivor of the Carnegie Deli massacre - but the wounded woman didn't recognize anyone. And police said...
ASHCROFT WON'T GIVE MCVEIGH A 2ND REPRIEVE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amAttorney General John Ashcroft yesterday vowed to block any more reprieves for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in his date with death. "We feel that ample time has been provided,...
WOMAN PUT ARSENIC IN HER HUBBY'S FOOD: COPS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman tried to poison her elderly hubby by repeatedly lacing his meals with arsenic, police said. Caryll Kramer, 61, was arraigned on attempted-murder charges yesterday, following complaints by...
COLLISION KILLS 2 BIKERS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amTwo men were killed last night when their motorcycles collided on a Bronx street often used by hot-dogging bikers. The head-on accident happened around 5:45 p.m. on Hammersley and Bruner...
WIFE'S PALS: BLAKE KEPT BABY AWAY FROM HER
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake tried to freeze his girlfriend out of their baby daughter's life - and the two married only to avoid a court custody battle, friends...
N.Y. COP IN SLAY-SUICIDE - SHOOTS LOVE RIVAL, SELF
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amAn enraged New York City cop blew his brains out after wounding his estranged wife and 3-year-old son and killing her live-in lover, police said. The bloodbath was witnessed by...
DENTAL 'SPA' HAS PATIENTS SMILING
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amRobert Crossan looks forward to his dental appointments. So does Karen Mauro. In fact, she goes once a week. That's because when they visit Dr. Cary Ganz, they can relax...
LAURA'S LOOK WILL LIVEN UP - FIRST LADY SET FOR FASHION MAKEOVER
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amLaura Bush didn't make a fashion splash during her first 100 days as first lady - but that may soon change. Designer Arnold Scaasi says he has created a new...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 14, 1932
May 14, 2001 | 4:00am"Half Million Cheer Walker and 100,000 in Huge Beer Parade," was The Post's headline above a story about Mayor Jimmy Walker's march to legalize beer during Prohibition. "'Beer for Taxation,'...
ROCKER SCIENCE: EX-DOOBIE IS MISSILE DEFENSE ACE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. STUDIO musician Jeff "Skunk" Baxter started out strumming for Steely Dan, then played funky guitar solos for the classic rockers The Doobie Brothers. But now, the son of the...
COPS CRASH RODMAN BASH
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDennis Rodman celebrated his 40th birthday in true bad-boy fashion, arriving at his California home by helicopter to the beat of two rock bands - and winding up with riot...
EMS UNION BIGS BLAST RUDY
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amEmergency Medical Service union leaders slammed Mayor Giuliani and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen yesterday for not visiting an EMS worker hit by a car while on duty. Neither Giuliani...
RIOT COPS DROP IN ON RODMAN'S B'DAY BASH
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDennis Rodman celebrated his 40th birthday in true bad-boy fashion, arriving at his California home by helicopter to the beat of two rock bands - and winding up with riot...
BLACK DEMS LIVID AS HISPANIC POLS DEFECT TO PATAKI
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amPOWERFUL black lawmakers are privately expressing outrage over what one called the "excessive zeal" with which Puerto Rican Democrats are embracing Gov. Pataki. "It's clear what's going on here with...
WAR-CRIME FIENDS FLOCK TO U.S. - 'REFUGEE' THUGS DEFY JUSTICE IN HOMELANDS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe United States has become the safe haven of choice for foreign war criminals, torturers and abusers of human rights. They are the "new Nazis," who come from Latin America,...
NAZI HUNTER IS ON THEIR TRAIL
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amRichard Krieger is waging a one-man crusade to rid the United States of modern-day war criminals who have taken refuge in the Land of the Free. Bronx-born Krieger, 67, is...
BROOKLYN THUG SOUGHT IN CARNEGIE KILLINGS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDetectives early today were searching for a Brooklyn man with a history of robbery arrests - after two tipsters identified him as one of the killers in the Carnegie Deli...
REV. AL TRICKSTER, THE 'SOURCE' OF LIES
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHE politics of pique have made Al Sharpton a pariah - again. In 35 years in the newspaper business, I have never disclosed a source. But today - and never...
CIA HARBORS HAITIAN KILLER IN QNS.
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amHe's been given a life sentence in absentia for the mass murders of political opponents in Haiti, and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service would like to see him leave...
JAGR SOAP OPERA DOGS PENGUINS
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amWhether his was a cold shoulder or a re-injured one, Jaromir Jagr has the Penguin Circus on stage again. One game into the Eastern Conference finals, the Penguins already have...
NHL MIGHT RULE TODAY ON DRAFT-SWAP DEFERRAL
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES The NHL is expected to rule today - but may wait until tomorrow - on the Devils' request to wait until after the playoffs to decide whether to...
MONARCHOS IS ALL THE FAVE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amComing off his dominating victory in the mile-and-a-quarter Kentucky Derby, which he won by 4 3/4 lengths in near-record time of 1:59.4, Monarchos will certainly be favored over a field...
RECRUIT AT OWN RISK
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amWelcome to Seton Hall. Also known as Exhibit A of how recruiting an exceptional talent who stays only one year can cripple a program - and in this case, turn...
HOPKINS IS NEXT UP FOR FELIX
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amIt took longer for Felix "Tito" Trinidad to pee in a bottle than it did to dispose of William Joppy and win the WBA middleweight championship Saturday night at the...
NIEDS MIGHT PLAY GAME 2
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amThey weren't able to win the first one for the Gipper, but they have since won three straight for Scott Niedermayer, and that may be enough. The Devil defenseman who...
MARIO'S SHOT WAS WAY OFF TARGET
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amOH, what a mess Colin Campbell would have had dropped into his lap if Mario Lemieux, who always knows what he's doing on the ice, had not broken his stick...
COUNT ON IT, DUQUE'S FINE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amIN this, the age of overprotective managers and pitch-count-crazed baseball writers, more is always less when counting pitches. Shame on a manager if a pitcher throws an unusually large number...
JETER'S HANDS OF STONE KO YANKS - DEREK'S BOBBLE OF DP BALL IN 11TH LETS BIRDS FLY
May 14, 2001 | 4:00am11 INNINGS: Orioles 10 - Yankees 5 Many times Derek Jeter has said that baseball can be a humbling game, a sport that can morph a hero to a goat...
BIRDS BASH RIVERA
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amMariano Rivera wasn't one pitch away from getting out of the 11th inning in yesterday's 10-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. He was one play away. With one out and...
BERNIE HEADS HOME TO BE WITH DAD
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amBernie Williams feared all along that he would have to return to Puerto Rico to care for his ailing father, but his worst fears were realized yesterday when Bernabe Sr....
PAULIE SUPPLIES POWER, BUT YANKEES FALL SHORT
May 14, 2001 | 4:00am'YANKEE NOTES Paul O'Neill has been spraying the ball to all fields and swinging a hot bat of late. Yesterday he added clutch, late-game power to the equation. O'Neill hit...
AMAZIN'S HIT BENITEZ WITH FINE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The frustration of his struggles on the mound cost Armando Benitez $4,000 after he trashed the Mets' dugout and clubhouse following Friday night's 3-2 10-inning loss to...
MET SHIP SINKS IN THE BAY - DROWN VS. GIANTS AGAIN, RUN SKID TO SIX STRAIGHT
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - In sports, your record defines you. After their sixth-straight loss, the Mets are 14-23 and in last place. Besides the numbers, there are words to describe the...
BENNY BITTEN BY INJURY BUG
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Not only can't the Mets win, they can't stay healthy. Benny Agbayani didn't play yesterday due to his abdominal strain suffered in Saturday's loss. Agbayani...
BON FEARLESS DRAWS AWAY
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amBon Fearless took the lead on the far turn and drew away to win the $81,950 Bouwerie Stakes for New York-bred three-year-old fillies. Look Upon had to steady in the...
KNOBBY'S NOT A HIT WITH O'S HARGROVE
May 14, 2001 | 4:00amMike Hargrove is fed up with Chuck Knoblauch crowding the plate. Yesterday the usually mild-mannered Baltimore manager let his feelings be known after the Yankees leadoff hitter was plunked twice...