April 20, 2002
LUXE JEWELERY DUO ASPREY, GARRARD END ROCKY RELATIONSHIP
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe luxury jewelry world is now home to a high-profile break-up. Famed Bond Street jeweler and silversmith Asprey is splitting from more forward-thinking jeweler Garrard. On Monday, the Asprey &...
EU DISCOVERS PRICE-FIXING!
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amBetter late than never. The European Union woke up yesterday and launched a formal investigation into price-fixing at the world's top two auction houses: Sotheby's and Christie's. The move came...
ADELPHIA ON D-LIST - FALLS 12% AS NASDAQ WEIGHS BOOTING CO.
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amAdelphia Communications plunged 12 percent yesterday after the Nasdaq said the cable-television operator faces delisting. The news comes at a bad time for Adelphia, which is down 81 percent in...
IT'S GETTING MESSIER AS CALLS FOR OUSTER INCREASE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amCries grew louder yesterday for the ouster of Vivendi's embattled CEO Jean-Marie Messier over his string of gaffes. He's outraged the French public for hinting he'd turn the French cinema...
REGIS UPS REWARD FOR MISSING DOG: BRING BACK OZZY'S PUP FOR $1,000
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Pipi Osbourne saga has taken yet another turn. Yesterday, "Live with Regis & Kelly" executive producer Michael Gelman threw another $500 into the kitty for information on the Osbourne...
'WHEN I WAS CRUEL': A SEAMLESS QUILT OF CLASSIC ROCK
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amELVIS COSTELLO "When I Was Cruel" Island Records" When I Was Cruel," which comes out in three days, is Elvis Costello's latest attempt to untangle the knots of modern love...
MELLOW COSTELLO MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT STRUM
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHE older Elvis Costello gets, the wiser he gets about what makes pop music tick.Though the 47-year-old Dubliner has bristled artistically at the status quo - from his impressive '77...
HERE'S THE BEEF
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA great hamburger is a thing of beauty. And a few tips can make the difference between one that's ho-hum and a humdinger. Lose the sirloin. Most experts agree the...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amSPRINGTIME'S FOR FIRING British theater star Henry Goodman got the hook this week, getting from his Broadway stint as Max Bialystock in "The Producers" because he didn't produce enough laughs....
TAKE A DIVE: THE CITY'S BEST DOWN-AND-DIRTY DRINKERIES
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amWould Charles Bukowski drink there? If the answer's yes, you're in a Bar Belles-sanctioned dive bar. The best things about our favorite skanky dives isn't what they have but what...
DOWN-TO-EARTH ENTERTAINMENT: CELEBRATE EARTH DAY WITH HEAVENLY HAPPENINGS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amMaybe it's the stars - some lucky lineup of the planets or constellations. Or maybe because it's Earth Day. Whatever the reason, this weekend's shaping up as one of the...
AN EX-MET HITS THE BOOKS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amAs first baseman for the Mets, Keith Hernandez caught plenty of pop-ups. Now, 10 years after retiring, Hernandez has written a pop-up book for kids. "First-Base Hero" (Golden Books, $12.99)...
NO MORE BA-A-A-A-D HAIR DAYS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amFollowing a week of record-high temperatures, the Prospect Park Zoo is setting up its sheep salon. We spoke with Donald Kading - the Frederic Fekkai of the sheep world -...
MAJOR PERK CURBED IN PARKING-SPACE RACE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amPARKING was never a problem for some city workers who wheeled around town for years with two official parking placards, one in their government vehicles and another in their private...
SCHOOL BUST ENDS BENZ AS 'POT' SPOT
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTwo young Long Island men were busted selling marijuana from the trunk of a Mercedes Benz to students at their alma mater, cops said yesterday. An anonymous letter from a...
2ND HARLEM CHOIRBOY MADE SEX ALLEGATION
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA second choirboy complained about inappropriate advances by Harlem Boys Choir counseling director Frank Jones, but the accusation was deemed unsubstantiated by child-welfare officials and was never passed on to...
BLOOMBERG 'TEACHING' WORK ETHIC
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amSome teachers "may actually like" the work-rule changes the city is demanding before agreeing to a new contract, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The changes would require teachers to re-institute hallway...
ACTOR'S PAL: 'BONNY BROUGHT THIS ON HERSELF'
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amJOHN Solari told me yesterday that when Bonny Lee Bakley moved into Robert Blake's house, he moved out. "I told Robert I had to leave, otherwise I would stick an...
RAZOR-WITLESS GUY NAILED IN SLASHING OF CO-WORKER
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA not-so-sharp Long Island government worker tried to prove a point with a co-worker and ended up in jail - for allegedly slashing a co-worker with a razor. On Thursday...
BX. RABBI FEARS NEW WAVE OF HATRED HERE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA prominent Bronx rabbi said he is worried about the spread of pro-Palestinian violence in New York after three men were arrested for assaulting an Israeli counter-demonstrator at an April...
LINDH WANTS TO GRILL CIA AGENT
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - American Taliban John Walker Lindh yesterday moved to subpoena a CIA agent who was with fellow agent Johnny "Mike" Spann before Spann was killed in a Taliban prison...
LADY BOMB DUO NABBED: WOULD-BE KILLERS CAME FROM FAMILY OF ARAB TERRORISTS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli security yesterday arrested two would-be female homicide bombers in the West Bank and shot dead two armed Palestinian men trying to penetrate a Gaza Strip settlement disguised...
ALL'S NOT WELLS AS HALLMARK LOSES THE 'WAR'
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amIt wasn't Hallmark's moment yesterday - a Manhattan judge denied the greeting-card giant's bid to produce a television miniseries based on the H.G. Wells classic "The War of the Worlds."...
TROUBLE A'BRUIN OVER L.I. MAN'S PET BEAR CUB
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island father of two took the concept of a teddy bear for his kids to new extremes, cops said yesterday, after busting him for keeping a real, live...
SAUDI'S EVIL SERMON: KILL THE JEWS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A top Saudi Arabian religious leader yesterday used inflammatory anti-Semitic rhetoric as he prayed for Allah to "terminate Jews" and urged all Muslims to shun peace with Israel....
SCHUMER BACKING PATAKI ALLY
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday threw his support behind Roslynn Mauskopf - a close ally of Gov. Pataki - in her bid to head the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn. At...
TEEN TERROR BUSTED IN RAPE-ROB STRING
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA 16-year-old prowler - whose yearlong trail of rape and robbery on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side has been linked to last month's NYU rapist - was...
EMT FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER AMBULANCE HIT BY 'DRUNK'
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA city emergency medical technician was clinging to life and his partner seriously injured after a drunken driver rammed their ambulance as they responded to a call of a shot...
'PRINCIPALED' RICKY'S LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCAL: MARTIN MANIA TAKES OVER BX. HS FOR DAY
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx high school went loco for singer Ricky Martin and a Brooklyn kindergartner pulled a joke on mayoral daughter Emma Bloomberg yesterday when the pair went back to class...
CARDINAL RULE IN WORKS: CHURCH PRINCES HOPE TO CRAFT TOUGH PERV POLICY
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe American cardinals who have been summoned to the Vatican to discuss the mushrooming priest sex-abuse scandal will seek guidance on setting a "one strike and you're out" policy for...
FBI WARNS BANKS MAY BE TARGETS FOR ATTACK
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amBanks in New York and across the Northeast could be the next terror targets, the FBI warned yesterday after receiving information extracted from one of Osama bin Laden's top aides....
MOB RAT'S BROTHER CUTS PLEA DEAL IN ROBBERIES
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amAs Miami club king-turned-mob rat Chris Paciello hides out in the witness protection program, his big brother is set to spend a year in federal accommodations. Unmistakably his brother's kin,...
WTC KIN TO CUOMO: DON'T BASH OUR GOV
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amStanding outside Ground Zero, anguished relatives of victims of the World Trade Center attack yesterday denounced Andrew Cuomo for questioning Gov. Pataki's leadership after Sept. 11. "I found it offensive,...
100 M.P.H. FERRARI DEATH: SPEEDER HITS B'KLYN BYSTANDER, TAKES OFF
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA 23-year-old driver raced a blood-red Ferrari through the streets of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn at speeds of up to 100 mph before he plowed into a pedestrian and killed him...
CARDINAL EGAN'S FAINT APOLOGY
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amNew York's Catholic cardinal says he's sorry - sort of. In a letter to be read in all New York Archdiocese churches this weekend, Edward Cardinal Egan makes a qualified...
BARETTA PULLED THE TRIGGER: STAR SHOT WIFE IN CAR - COPS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amVeteran actor Robert Blake, frustrated after two hit men turned down the job of killing the wife he hated, had to shoot her himself, police revealed last night. But the...
DURST TRIED TO CONTACT VICTIM'S KIN
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amCross-dressing millionaire Robert Durst tried to contact the family of Morris Black, the man he has admitted killing, Durst's lawyer said yesterday. Attorney Dick DeGuerin made the disclosure during a...
TOP COP POPS OFF AT POL: SAYS NAME-LIST STUNT PUTS OFFICERS' LIVES AT RISK
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly unleashed an angry tirade against a City Council member yesterday for threatening the safety of hundreds of cops by releasing their names and badge numbers. "I...
PEDAL TO THE METAL: SPINMEISTER PREZ SHOWS HE'S A WHEEL DAREDEVIL
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush showed off his daredevil side yesterday, firing several guns and learning an evasive driving maneuver with a Chevy Camaro as he toured a Secret Service training...
THIS CELEB SLAY HAS NO TV JUICE: COURT CRITIC
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amCourt TV reportedly will pursue courtroom coverage of the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, but it isn't clear how many people will be watching. One media expert said he...
VILLAGE VERMIN NAILED: GANG THUG ARRESTED IN STREET SHOOTING
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA tipster led police to a teenage member of the Bloods street gang who allegedly shot a Brooklyn man during a romantic evening in Greenwich Village early last Saturday. Chan...
EX-ADDICT: MY LIES JAILED WRONG MAN
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA former crack addict came forward yesterday to say he lied during a 1990 trial that convicted Lamont Branch of a drug dealer's murder - a slaying Branch's brother now...
YES, AND HE'S OUT! MARV LEAVES HOSP
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amBasketball play-by-play man Marv Albert is out of the hospital and rebounding from a concussion and sprained ankle he suffered Thursday when his limo hit a truck in New Jersey....
MAN KILLED BY FALLING CINDERBLOCK
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amA deadly wind and rain storm barreled through the metropolitan area early last night, toppling a cinderblock wall that crushed a Brooklyn pedestrian, police said. The 40-year-old man was struck...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amAnd the award for Best Trash goes to ... Jack and Sharon Cody of Salem, Ore., who haven't had their garbage collected in 25 years. The two stuff their quilts...
DEVILS DROP OT THRILLER
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - The Devils now must do nothing less than prevent sunset. Their talent pool shrinking as they pay for Lou Lamoriello's annual Ranger-style deals of young for older stars,...
WELLS APPEALS $2G FINE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amYANK NOTES David Wells spent yesterday appealing a $2,000 fine levied by MLB for his part in a beanball war between the Yankees and Phillies on March 29 in Clearwater....
YANK HEROICS 'SAVE' MO - GERALD'S ARM, ALFONSO'S RBI KO JAYS IN 9TH
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amGerald Williams' right arm and Alfonso Soriano's bat helped Mariano Rivera avoid having a loss tacked on to the blown save he absorbed last night. However, a 6-5 Yankee victory...
NO WAY TO AVOID THIS CAROLINA WHIRLWIND
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - The Devils were like the Hurricanes once: young, tough, hungry, always on the attack, playing with bravado, a chip on their collective shoulder and a willingness to spit...
INJURY SHELVES OFFICER LEXINGTON GOES TODAY WITHOUT HEAVY FAVORITE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amToday's Grade 2, $325,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland is the last-chance prep race for several 3-year-olds looking to earn their way into the Kentucky Derby two weeks away, but one...
LET THE DRAMA BEGIN 'SUPER SATURDAY' FILLED WITH INTRIGUE, SUBPLOTS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTHE drama and intrigue arrive early today at the meat market known as the NFL Draft, not long after Commissioner Paul Tagliabue calls out David Carr, quarterback, Fresno State, for...
BIG BLUE BUS NEEDS FIXIN'
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amWon't this be different. Starting today and continuing tomorrow, the Giants actually will add players to their roster, a novel concept during an offseason that has resembled an evacuation plan....
ISLES HUNGRY FOR MAPLE LEAF SPLIT
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Islanders came here on a mission to win two games, but after dropping the first one Thursday night, they'll be happy to achieve half their goal this...
NETS ARE ANXIOUS TO ROLL
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amFor 82 games, they fought, scratched, clawed - sometimes elbowed and some of those times flagrantly elbowed - to get where they are. Now the Nets swear they are not...
HITCHCOCK, BROOKS BOTH EMBRACE SATHER INVITES
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - First in doesn't mean first choice, but Ken Hitchcock not only met yesterday in New York with Glen Sather, but will continue his interview for the Ranger coaching...
CAMPBELL FIDDLES AS CORSON SKATES
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Alexei Yashin has been sentenced to three years of hard labor trying to shake Shayne Corson. The court of public opinion in Canada holds that the Islander star...
IT'S 'D' DAY FOR GANG GREEN
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amTerry Bradway emerged from the Jets' Weeb Ewbank Hall bunker shortly before noon yesterday, sounding refreshed and ready for battle. "We're done," the Jets' GM said. "The strategy is complete."...
BATS NOT A PART OF MET RISE
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The Mets are on a SportsCenter pace of 100 victories. Funny thing is, they're also on a pace to hit .230. With the season about one-tenth complete, the...
BENCHING PERTURBS PAYTON
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - Jay Payton was walking around the visiting clubhouse yesterday afternoon, looking for a key part of his uniform. "Has anyone seen my belt?" Payton yelled to...
IRATE METS CAN'T BEAT UMP, EXPOS
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amExpos 5 Mets 3 MONTREAL - Timo Perez was the first to protest. His teammates and his manager followed suit, arguing and complaining in vain. While the Mets rallied against...
BERNIE BACK IN GEAR: WILLIAMS RETURNS TO CF FOR YANKEES
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amBernie Williams was back in Joe Torre's lineup last night against the Blue Jays after missing three games with painful shoulders. However, nobody really knew how productive the switch-hitting center...
MARTY, JOE: GOLD'S NO MATCH FOR THE CUP
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Separate and unequal, that's the doctrine Martin Brodeur and Scott Niedermayer are applying to their quest for the Stanley Cup in the aftermath of striking gold in Salt...
ACHING DEVS ANSWER CALL
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Neither player was going to be near his best, but each promised to give the best he had. The Devils were gambling that partially-healthy Joe Nieuwendyk and Petr...
SCOTT LIKES WAY HIS CLUB'S TALKING
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES The feeling was reminiscent of how it began for the 2001-02 Nets. The scene shifted from an area hotel to a local restaurant, but as players spoke, feelings...
IONA GETS HALLOWS' SOLIVER
April 20, 2002 | 4:00amJust call it All Hallows North. Ricky Soliver became the third player from this year's All Hallows squad - which reached the CHSAA title game - to commit to Iona...