April 27, 2003
BULL'S EYE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amOff this Case Many AOL Time Warner execs are voting on their proxy forms to ax Steve Case and his America Online cronies from the board. "We realize it doesn't...
KIDNAP ALERT!
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the weather heats up, dog-owning New Yorkers love nothing more than taking their pooches with them all over town. That means an increase in the number of dogs tied...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER BENJAMIN CHO PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amBenjamin Cho is known for paying attention to the little things - or the "OCD details," as he likes to call them. His silk-fringed and ribboned creations have been lauded...
JERSEY GIRLS : ATHLETIC GEAR GETS SOME SEX APPEAL
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amAthletes aren't the only people who wear them anymore. Basketball and football jerseys have been popping up on the most unlikely people lately - mainly, glam girls. Mariah Carey wore...
MIND BENDERS OR HEART MENDERS?
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amXanax, Ambien, Paxil, Vicodin. See the bird migration movie. Do hot yoga. Become a candidate for reality TV. There isn't much that hasn't been recommended to me this week to...
GODDESS WORSHIP : CLASSICAL FASHION IS IN VOGUE AT THE MET'S ANNUAL COSTUME INSTITUTE GALA
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTouted as "the hottest ticket in town" (albeit a $3,500 ticket), tomorrow night's Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - hosted by Nicole Kidman, Gucci and Yves...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER... GOING TO THE ARMORY ANTIQUES SHOW
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amToday is the final day of the big Wendy New York Armory Antiques Show. After browsing through the 17th- to 19th-century furniture, jewelry, maps and rare books, sample one of...
HOW NIGELLA BITES BACK, GENTLY ; BRITAIN'S MARTHA STEWART KNOWS ALL ABOUT SCANDAL - AND HOW TO HANDLE IT
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's not the only domestic goddess who's been having a hard time lately. Nigella Lawson, the glamorous 43-year-old British food expert who is best known here for her show,...
GRAFFITI ARTISTES; THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL GIVES NEW LIFE TO A TRUE NEW YORK SUBCULTURE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA shot from Tony Silver's 1983 graffiti-artist documentary "Style Wars" - "an immensely important film," says '80s rap legend Fab Five Freddy.Henry Chalfant It's vandalism to some, art to others...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWe want a refund: Four "fans" are suing the Christian pop band Creed, claiming that mealy mouthed singer Scott Stapp "was so intoxicated and/or medicated" at a December concert "that...
ROOTING FOR THE HOME TEAM: BROOKLYN'S YEAH YEAH YEAH SHRIEK THEIR WAY TO INTERNATIONAL ROCK STARDOM
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amFor the past year and a half, they've been hyped as New York's next big thing. Now, they're proving themselves worthy. Since getting together back in 2000, Brooklyn's Yeah Yeah...
BX. KID STARTS FIRE THAT KILLS GRANNY
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA 79-year-old grandmother was killed and three others injured in a Bronx fire yesterday that investigators believe started when her 7-year- old grandchild was playing with matches. The "all-hands" fire...
SLAIN MAN TOOK BULLET FOR RAPPER PAL
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA close friend of Harlem-born rapper Freaky Zeeky "went to his defense" after two men pulled out a gun when a fight over a fender bender turned into a wild...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTalk about taking a bite out of crime! Police in Paraguay have uncovered a scheme in which teeth stolen from bodies in cemeteries were being sold as new dentures. Dentists...
ARMY SEEKS NAKED TRUTH
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe U.S. Central Command said yesterday it was looking into reports that American soldiers in Baghdad had stripped four suspected Iraqi thieves, burned their clothes and forced them to walk...
2 U.S. VICTIMS CARRY HOME DEADLY VIRUS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Rhode Island professor and a 2-year-old Minnesota boy are the latest suspected SARS victims in the United States, federal health officials revealed yesterday. Both had recently returned from Toronto,...
NEW SECRETS OF WARSAW GHETTO
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amSixty years after the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, archaeologists may have found the last documented secrets of the Jewish resistance. A hidden chronicle of the ghetto's dying days...
ODDS NOW LOOK WORSE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe death rate for SARS could be considerably higher than previously known, killing up to one in seven of those who contract the pneumonia-like virus, says a leading infectious-disease expert....
MAN OF MANY FACES; HOW LACI'S HUSBAND FOOLED EVERYONE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN Scott Peterson met his future mother-in-law for the first time, he turned up with two dozen roses. Twelve red ones for his new girlfriend Laci - and a bouquet...
CITY $$ TROUBLE CHEERS EX-CONS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amBudget cuts at the city Department of Probation have created a powder keg where officers are struggling under massive caseloads while convicted felons are being monitored at increasingly lower levels....
GIFF IN A TIFF OVER CLOSING OF FIRE CO.
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller joined about a hundred protestors yesterday outside Engine 44 on the Upper East Side to urge Mayor Bloomberg not to dissolve their local fire company....
MODEL'S FEAR FACTOR; SICKO EX STALKED SLAIN BEAUTY
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amSince their bust-up a few months ago, tragic actress-model Lyric Benson lived every waking hour in fear of her ex-fiancé, Robert Ambrosino, her shattered friends say. Ambrosino, 33, who always...
'SCAM' HITS HOME FOR VICTIMS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amDozens of mostly working-class immigrants who say they were swindled in an investment scam marched outside the Brooklyn home of the company's founders yesterday and demanded their money back. "These...
2 DEAD IN BROOKLYN SHOOTOUT
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTwo people were killed and one critically injured yesterday when a man opened fire on a Brooklyn street in what may have been a drug-related shooting, police said. The violence...
CORPSE IS BOAT TEEN ; 3 STILL MISSING IN CITY IS. TRAGEDY
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA decomposing body pulled out of the waters off City Island was identified yesterday as one the four teens who vanished after an ill-fated rowboat trip - leaving the families...
DEADLY TERROR ATTACK ON BAGHDAD AMMO DUMP
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amUnknown attackers fired an incendiary device yesterday into an Iraqi weapons cache held by U.S. troops, killing at least 12 people and pummeling homes for miles around with a shower...
TRAGIC PARALLELS IN SENSELESS SLAYINGS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The day police found Laci Peterson's body would have been Chandra Levy's 26th birthday. While there is no connection between the two high-profile female murder victims - other...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan A teenager held up a man at knife- and gunpoint on the Upper West Side early Friday morning, but was quickly caught by cops who are still hunting for...
FOXX BUSTED IN CASINO-COP TUSSLE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amComedian Jamie Foxx and his sister brawled with cops at a New Orleans casino after they refused to show their ID at the door - and the pair were forced...
BLDG. DEBRIS HITS 2 IN TIMES SQUARE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTwo people were injured in Times Square yesterday after being hit by a piece of steel that fell from the top of the Bertlesmann Building and tumbled across both Broadway...
BX. 'ALL-HANDS' BLAZE KILLS WOMAN
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amOne person was killed and three others injured in a fire yesterday in a two-story Bronx house. "It was an all-hands fire," said Fire Department spokesman Paul Iannizzotto. "We had...
'JUSTICE COMING' FOR SLAIN COP'S KIN 15 YEARS LATER
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amAfter a 15-year wait, the family of a cop gunned down on the job in Washington Heights will get its day in court. Two Dominican men go on trial in...
BILLY GARDELL
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amNEXTBIG DEALGardell's more than 'Lucky.' BILLY Gardell has emerged as the go-to guy whenever a casting director needs a beefy character actor in the Jackie Gleason mold. In fact, one...
TOWN'S TOP COP SHOOTS WIFE, SELF
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA scandal-plagued police chief in Washington state shot his wife then blew himself away a day after a newspaper published spousal-abuse allegations against him, police said. "The victims were the...
BUSH HAILS JOURNOS WHO DIED IN WAR
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush skipped the usual jokes last night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner and instead paid warm tribute to two journalists who died in Iraq:...
MAYBE M IN MTA IS FOR 3-CARD MONTE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHE MTA, taking a page out of a mob book (or make that two sets of books), just got caught shifting more money around than a bookie on Super Bowl...
BEIJING SHUTS THEATERS IN BID TO STOP SARS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Rhode Island professor and a 2-year-old Minnesota boy are the latest suspected SARS victims in the United States, federal health officials revealed yesterday. Both had recently returned from Toronto,...
WEDDING ENDS IN SLAY-SUICIDE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA day that began with true love ended in bloodshed for a Pennsylvania couple, as a freshly minted groom gunned down his bride, then took his own life - just...
PUBLIC TO GET A PEEK AT PIER PLANS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe first of four proposals for the redevelopment of Pier 40 in the Hudson River Park will be presented to a public meeting tomorrow night. The Pier 40 Working Group...
COPS BUST BRONX FIEND
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Bronx man suspected of holding up 11 elderly people at gun- and knifepoint - as well as raping one and stabbing another - was nabbed by cops yesterday, ending...
CITY DOES $4.5M JOB ON WORK APPLICANTS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amDespite proposed budget cuts and layoffs, the city is still collecting millions of dollars in application and test fees for jobs that may not be filled for years. Tens of...
BRASS FROM PAST; FEWER FINEST CAN STILL HACK IT: EX-TOP COP
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The top cop who 10 years ago launched an unprecedented assault on New York City crime, says the cash-strapped Big Apple can be just as safe in...
LOWLIFE KEEPS LOW PROFILE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Two years after Chandra Levy was last seen alive, her former boyfriend and disgraced politician Gary Condit is unemployed, battling to save his marriage and trying to live...
TAXING TIMES FOR RUSSIAN FAMILY FEUDER
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA wealthy Russian businessman, who has a court date this week in a wrangle between his daughter and his third wife over a Midtown co-op apartment, now faces a headache...
TEEN-TRASHING L.A. SITE FOLDS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Los Angeles high school student who ran a now-defunct Web site that gave California teens a forum for mean-spirited gossip said he doesn't regret the emotional pain it caused...
'CANES CHASING FEDOROV AGAIN
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHE first priority in De troit following the team's shocking sweep by Anaheim - and second first-round exit within the last three years - is to keep Sergei Fedorov from...
DERBY FOR 'DISPUTE'
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Santa Catalina winner Domestic Dispute, who was withdrawn from Kentucky Derby consideration after running a lackluster third in the April 19 Lexington Stakes, is back in the picture...
BIG DREAMS FOR JETS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amDEWAYNE Robertson has a size 48 waist, his shorts size is triple-XL, and his shoulders start at the FDR Drive and end at the West Side Highway. The Jets came...
WOLVES HAVE REASON TO HOWL
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - If I'm David J. Stern, commissioner of the NBA beat, I'd give serious thought to calling one Mr. Glen Taylor, owner of the Timberwolves, and pledge to...
GONZALEZ ENJOYING LATEST BIG-LEAGUE CHANCE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amREY Sanchez was putting on his street clothes after yesterday's Mets game against the Diamondbacks had been postponed by rain when he spotted Raul Gonzalez heading for the players' room....
PICKS TACKLE NEEDS ; ON DEFENSIVE LINES ; JETS, THEIR FANS ECSTATIC ABOUT NO. 4 ROBERTSON
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amFor a change, a Jets' first-round draft pick was almost universally cheered by their discerning faithful. When the Jets made Kentucky defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson the fourth overall pick in...
RAINY DAY NO SWEAT FOR GLAVINE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tom Glavine has never experienced a day like yesterday - when he warmed up, got ready to take the mound . . . and saw the game postponed....
CLARK PINCHES IN ; SLUGGER ADJUSTS TO NEW ROLE WITH METS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amIt wasn't always like this for Tony Clark. Come to think of it, it was never even close. After all, Clark was the second overall pick in the 1990 draft....
RIVERA'S HOPING TO MAKE RETURN AGAINST SEATTLE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - The Yankees' weakest link is about to get a major upgrade if Mariano Rivera has his way. Out since March 24 when he popped a right...
CHAD LED WAY FOR LEFTWICH
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amByron Leftwich knew he would likely be selected by Jacksonville, and when he spoke with Chad Pennington before the NFL Draft, the Jets' quarterback gave him the following warning: "I...
GIANTS CHOOSE JOSEPH NO. 25
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amEveryone knew the Giants were hell-bent to take a defensive lineman in the first round of yesterday's NFL Draft. The one they selected, William Joseph of Miami, came off the...
ROOSEVELT GRAD ON A RAM-PAGE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTony DeMatteo remembers the first time he saw Jimmy Kennedy. "He just happened to be in my phys. ed. class," the legendary Roosevelt H.S. coach said. "I saw this big...
MONTY WINS RELAY RETURN
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - For Tim Montgomery and girlfriend Marion Jones - the World's Fastest Lovers - it's been a whirlwind six months, a half-year as dizzying as one of their races....
DYNAMIC DUO FINDS OLD TOUCH
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHEY have had scorers on their checking lines forever, from the years where Jacques Lemaire utilized Stephane Richer, John MacLean and Claude Lemieux on his most defense-oriented units, to the...
BRODEUR SHAKES OFF MARITAL BLUES
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amMarital turmoil is taking a toll on Martin Brodeur. Just not on his game. "I'm getting used to it," Brodeur told The Post. "When you win, it's OK. When you...
LACAVALIER IS COMING UP EMPTY
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amIn case you haven't noticed, Vincent Lecavalier has played in both games of this series against the Devils, which is to say only that he's dressed for both. Beyond tying...
FIRST ROUND HAS SELECTION OF SURPRISES
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amThere were shockers and blunders. There were trades and fades. There were sighs of relief and shouts of joy. Yesterday's first round of the NFL Draft in the Theatre at...
DEWAYNE'S LEGEND KEEPS GROWING
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amIf Jets' top draft pick Dewayne Robertson becomes a star in the NFL, his discovery as a young football player is certain to grow into legend. It all started while...
LANGENBRUNNER AGAIN!
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 2 / OVERTIMEDevils 3Lightning 2 In 1976, it was the Legend of Leach, 19 record Reggie goals in 16 games. Now 27 years later, the Legend of Langenbrunner is...
... WHILE RIVERA SAYS HE'S READY RIGHT NOW
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - The Yankees' weakest link will get a major upgrade Tuesday, when All-Star closer Mariano Rivera comes off the DL. Out since March 24, when he popped...
MUTOMBO SITS, WAITS ON BENCH
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Dikembe Mutombo sat and waited for the call that never came. In the first half when Jason Collins went for a rest, Byron Scott turned to...
A GAME TO FORGET ; FURIOUS RALLY FALLS SHORT FOR NETS IN OT
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 4 / OVERTIMEBucks 119Nets 114 MILWAUKEE - They Nets will try to forget some utterly rancid free throw shooting down the stretch in regulation. They'll want to block out...
JINTS' NO. 2 A DISCIPLE OF STRAHAN
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amBorn in London and settled in Auburn, Ala., by way of Nigeria . . . now Osi Umenyiora will call Michael Strahan a teammate. The defensive end came a long...
IT IS TIME FOR NETS TO SHOW THEIR METTLE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - They were in no mood for comfort or consolation, which was just as well since none was forthcoming. Richard Jefferson had just completed the playoff game of his...
A GAME TO FORGET ; NETS' RALLY HITS BRICK WALL IN OT LOSS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 4/ OVERTIME Bucks 119 Nets 114 MILWAUKEE - When the Nets look back on this one, they'll remember a blistering start that brought a double-figure lead before 180 seconds...
SIMMS ANSWERS ON THIRD RING
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amAs a Ramapo (N.J.) H.S. senior, Chris Simms signed with Tennessee, but later changed his mind and went to Texas. His entry into the NFL also did not go smoothly....
ITCHY DEREK EYES MAY 13 RETURN DATE
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Derek Jeter is telling teammates he will return on May 13. According to several Yankees who have talked to Jeter, the shortstop is looking to come back from...
THE SORIANO SHOW: ALFONSO HEROICS EARLY, AND LATE, LIFT YANKS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amARLINGTON - David Wells became a best-selling author with his ability to overstate facts. Yet it was impossible to argue with him last night when he gushed over Alfonso Soriano....
CAN'T GRIN AND BEER IT ; NETS PREGAME PARTY PART OF THE PROBLEM
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHE next time a team or league official laments the increase of drunken incivility among fans of any sport, consider this: Tuesday, before Game 2 of the Bucks-Nets NBA playoff...
FRANKEL DUO ONES TO BEAT ; EMPIRE MAKER FAVORED, PEACE RULES CAN CONTEND
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amTrainer Bobby Frankel has two blue-chip prospects for Saturday's 129th running of the Kentucky Derby. Among them, Peace Rules plays Coaltown to Empire Maker's Citation, Angle Light to his Secretariat....
FOR STARTERS, THESE GUYS CAN HELP YOU
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amANYONE else in New York tired of hearing, "You can never have enough pitching?" We thought so. But as far as rotisserie baseball goes, the exhausted adage is true. Thanks...
NICK'S SEEKING HIS NICHE : RED-HOT BAT GIVES YANKEES OPTIONS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amARLINGTON - You look at Nick Johnson and wonder if he is a serious fit into the Yankees' plans or a chip to be dealt when the club looks to...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amKnowing the Scores Shockey helps McGahee relax before NFL Draft Everyone should have a teammate like Jeremy Shockey. The Giants' good-natured Blond Bomber, intent on easing the tension two days...
THE SORIANO SHOW : ALFONSO'S HEROICS EARLY, AND LATE, LIFT YANKS
April 27, 2003 | 4:00amARLINGTON - They certainly don't lack the biceps and triceps to slug with any team in baseball. You don't lead the majors in homers with spaghetti arms. However, given the...