June 26, 2005

GLITZ AND GREASE; LOW-END AD MIX PEEVES VOGUE MAINSTAYS

There goes the neighborhood. The upper crust of fashion magazines, Conde Nast's Vogue, now has McDonald's and Bud Light ads tucked in alongside Gucci and Louis Vuitton. A growing number...

$180 JEANS, DELIVERED; THE FRESH DIRECT OF BOUTIQUES

Now you can shop 'til you drop at a curbside near you. Caravan, a new roving retail boutique, sells the latest fashions from inside a converted truck, including trendy labels...

WARNER'S SOCCER SEASON

Bugs Bunny, Batman, Superman, Scooby-Doo - and A.C. Milan? Warner Bros. is gambling it can make as much money with soccer as it does with superheroes and superstars. Warner is...

'SESAME' PRODUCTS GROW UP

Sesame Street isn't just for kids anymore. From Oscar the Grouch's funky trashionista accessory collection to skimpy Ernie and Bert babydoll tops and hipster bottoms, the legendary preschool show is...

BILLIONAIRE SNAPS UP INC. & FAST COMPANY

Chicago-based billionaire Joe Mansueto, the founder of Morningstar, reached a definitive deal with German media giant Bertlesmann to purchase Inc. and Fast Company magazines. "I look at them as powerful...

OUTDOOR 'GEEK ' - KUTCHER REALITY SHOW GOES CAMPING

GEEKS are what it 's all about over at the WB this summer.The surprise hit "Beauty and the Geek," co--produced by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg,has a series of backbreaking...

WHIZ KID - RACHEL NICHOLS SHINES IN DARK FOX DRAMA 'INSIDE'

IF the ratings for the "CSI " franchise and "Cold Case " tell you one thing,it 's that people can 't get enough of brainy,crime-solving babes.The popularity of "Veronica Mars...

COMEDY CENTRAL SHOULD CAN DAVE CHAPELLE

AND now,a few solutions to some big network problems. The problem:Comedy Central has a wayward star,Dave Chappelle,who refuses to resume production of his self-titled show,despite all the money and time...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

COMEDY MODERN-DAY MARX BROTHERS HERE 'S another show about the adventures of ordinary,immature guys. "Stella " stars the comedic trio of Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain,fomer members...

REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES

HOWARDS END (1992) Monday, 3:45 p.m., Showtime When the rich Wilcoxes (Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins)meet the artsy Schlegel sisters (Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter)on a German vacation,fireworks go...

SHIP RISKS LIVES FOR 'APPRENTICE' PLUG

WHILE product placement is one of the waves in TV 's future, the most disturbing product placement story to date - and,for our two cents,the biggest TV story of the...

SOME TOURNEYS TEST YOUR METAL

METAL detectors are coming to competitive chess. The world chess federation (FIDE) agreed last month on the need to install devices at its major events to detect personal computers, cellphones,...

VAHINA SAYS

IN her screen debut, the sexy "Marie Baie des Anges" (1997), Vahina Giocante plays a 15-year-old nymphet who seduces guys in the idyllic South of France. In "Lila Says," which...

THE HOT SEAT: COREY FELDMAN

AT 33, Corey Feldman's packed in more living than guys twice his age - nearly 70 movies, drug abuse, arrest, recovery, sobriety, "Hollywood Squares" and a reality show, "The Surreal...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

1) Hating the Hiltons With her reviled TV show, "I Want to be a Hilton," Kathy Hilton has finally achieved her goal of being just like her daughter Paris: famous...

SWEET CHARITY - ROCKERS SPEAK OUT ON COLOSSAL CONCERT LIVE 8

LIVE 8 may be the century's biggest concert - seven cities, more than 100 artists, over 24 hours of music. It features artists from Motley Crue to Paul McCartney, plus...

CINE-VILE - THE ORIGINAL, CAMPY TAKES OF TODAY'S HITS

SURE, you could spend $10.50 a ticket and the GDP of Burkina Faso on snacks to see one of this summer's big-budget movies. If you're a sucker. But for $1.99...

THE ORIGINAL: LEGENDS OF LIVE AID

To many, the Live Aid concert - which celebrates its 20th anniversary on July 13 - holds equal esteem with Woodstock as the most important rock show ever staged. It...

THE MAESTRO: 'THIS IS GOING TO WORK' - GELDOF SET TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE OVER AGAIN

TWENTY years ago, when Bob Geldof was still the long haired, scruffy band leader of the Boomtown Rats - most famous here for the song "I Don't Like Mondays" -...

THIS WEEK'S MOVIES

REBOUND One of the top college basketball coaches in the country, Martin Lawrence gets bounced after one too many temper tantrums. The only job he can get is coaching a...

A STALK IN THE PARK - CREEPING WACKINESS FOR MANHATTAN MISFITS

THE idea that people are most attracted to what they cannot have is hardly a revelation. But it is certainly a subject ripe for satire - especially, perhaps, for us...

MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT

Vivacious cutiemelts w/ a smile MEET Elyse, a 24-yearold business development analyst who describes herself as "vivacious, energetic and always happy." "I am the entertainer," she tells us. "Just like...

'LIGHT'-HEARTED EVENING OF FUN

LAST week we sent Jason, a 23-year-old sales executive, and Elizabeth, a 23-yearold publicist, to a new Lower East Side bistro called Light. We knew the food and service would...

SALES - THE BEST BUYS

Dolce & Gabbana 434 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets; (212) 965-8000 Sale: through July 15; Sun., 11 a.m.-7 p.m./Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Great summer items are marked down 60...

REQUIRED READING

Gravely voiced singer/poet Tom Waits is the subject of the Mac Montandon-edited anthology "Innocent When You Dream." Included are interviews with Waits over the years, articles from the New Yorker,...

CITY PAYS 175G TO JAIL-SUICIDE KIN

The city has agreed to shell out $175,000 to settle a federal negligence suit brought by the mom of a troubled Staten Island inmate who hanged himself in a Brooklyn...

COPS BLEW IT AS KIDS DIED; * SEARCHED CAR - BUT NOT TRUNK * BOYS MIGHT HAVE LIVED 20 HRS.

The three boys who suffocated in the locked trunk of a car in Camden were likely gasping for their last breaths as clueless cops searched the car interior - but...

MY SIS JEN'S A RUNAWAY THIEF

GAINESVILLE, Ga. -Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks' twin brother said he had a "gut feeling" his sister was never in danger when she disappeared four days before she was scheduled to...

SUSPECTED 'HIT-MAN' COP FACING JUDGE IN NEW BAIL BID

The lawyer for accused mobster-cop Stephen Caracappa will try to spring him from jail this week, arguing a judge should grant bail to the former NYPD detective because the feds'...

BETROTHAL AND BETRAYAL; HOW HEARTLESS 'BIGAMIST' LEFT SIX BROKENHEARTED WIVES IN HIS WAKE

Before bigamist swindler William Barber married Donna and Joyce, he married Donna and Joyce. As well as Diana - and another woman. Barber was arrested this month in Wharton, N.J.,...

'CAN'T DO' SPIRIT

SEN. Chuck Schumer last week bemoaned the loss of the city's "can do" spirit and the rise of a "culture of criticism" and inertia in its place. The senator was...

COPS BLEW IT AS KIDS DIED ; * SEARCHED CAR - BUT NOT TRUNK * BOYS MIGHT HAVE LIVED 20 HRS.

The three boys who suffocated in the locked trunk of a car in Camden were likely gasping for their last breaths as clueless cops searched the car interior - but...

SUICIDAL MAN FIRES AT COPS

A emotionally disturbed man who brandished a gun and threatened to kill himself yesterday, fired a shot as officers tried to calm him down, but ultimately surrendered peacefully, police said....

RESOLVE OF RAPE VICTIM - OVERCOMING 'SPIDER'

A victim of the "Spider-Man rapist" defiantly says she will not let the attack "control her life," the superintendent of her Upper East Side building said yesterday. The 29-year-old woman...

NEW MCQUEEN FILM A REAL 'GETAWAY'

Acting legend Steve McQueen may make a return to the silver screen - from beyond the grave. McQueen's estate is in the final stages of selling to Warner Bros. a...

U.S., INSURGENTS TALK TRUCE

U.S. officials in Iraq have recently met formally with insurgent commanders in the hopes of brokering a reduction in violence in the war-torn country, according to a news report. The...

GEM WITH A FLAW ; WILL COLUMBUS CIRCLE NAY-SAYERS BEST MAYOR MIKE?

ONLY one way will the city ever be spared the blight of Columbus Circle's "Lollipop" eyesore, the crumbling marble monstrosity the city is trying to sell to the Museum of...

A FRONT SEAT AT THE GREAT CRUSADE

It was an event of Biblical proportions. And I was there, along with 5,000 other volunteers. Here is what I saw while being trained, and then manning one of 10...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

An Illinois state trooper has been charged for a second time with forcing people to strip. Last week, Trooper Jeremy Dozier ordered a man, 22, and a woman, 18, to...

PLUNGE TOT STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE

A 2-year-old Los Angeles boy visiting his grandparents in The Bronx was clinging to life yesterday after falling out a window of their apartment - as devastated family members urged...

WACKO FAN SUES JACKO TRIAL JOURNO

Wacko Jacko's No. 1 fan is desperately trying to dig himself out of financial ruin after he racked up $24,000 in legal fees fighting a reporter who took out a...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN *** A 30-year-old man was shot in a drive-by shooting while on a Carroll Gardens street corner. The shooting occurred in front 165 Sackett Street near Hicks Avenue, late...

RAGE IN HOSP WORKER'S 'GROPE'

A Lenox Hill Hospital electrician accused of sexually abusing an elderly patient is innocent, his relatives charged yesterday - insisting all he did in the woman's room was fix a...

GIFFORD WINS GAY SUPPORT

The largest statewide gay civil-rights group is expected to announce its endorsement today of City Council Speaker Gifford Miller in the Democratic mayoral primary. This is the first time the...

X-RATED JANITOR DOES DIRTY WORK AT SCHOOL; SNAPS PERVY SELF-PORTRAIT ON DUTY

Just steps away from a lunchroom where 900 Bronx elementary kids gather for daily meals, a perverted school janitor posed for a sickening X-rated photo of himself, The Post has...

9/11 'JET' FOR SALE ON EBAY ; FURY AT WTC VULTURE

A creep posted an Internet ad claiming to be selling a piece of American Airlines Flight 11 - one of the planes that struck the Twin Towers on 9/11 -...

MIKE'S AT $1M A WEEK ; AD PACE BURIES DEMS

NOT one of his Democratic rivals has run a campaign commercial yet, but that isn't stopping Mayor Bloomberg from tearing through $1 million a week on TV and radio ads....

SPREE WIDOW'S VOW ; WTC WIFE PROMISES TO $AVE HER FAMILY

The Sept. 11 widow who revealed to The Post two weeks ago her anguish after blowing almost $5 million in compensation and donations has vowed to stop spending and start...

W'BURG BRIDGE SHOCK ; $20M PAYOUT IN SUIT

The city forked over a staggering $20 million to put to rest one of New York's biggest environmental and legal controversies - sandblasting to remove toxic lead paint from the...

WEINER GIVING MIKE 'EL' ON SUBWAY CRIME

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner claimed yesterday that subway felonies have soared by more than 12 percent - a figure that flies in the face of the mayor's stats. "Crime is...

FUROR IN HOSP-BED 'MOLEST'

A Lenox Hill Hospital electrician accused of sexually abusing an elderly patient is innocent, his relatives charged yesterday - insisting all he did in the woman's room was fix a...

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SEX - XXX-RAYS REVEAL CLIMAX IS MENTAL

The days of faking it are over. Scientists who studied the brains of 24 people during orgasm could readily determine exactly when the earth does not move for a faker....

APPLE CRISP READY TO COOL TOMORROW

The weekend heat blast has turned the city into one big baked Apple - but we're about to come out of the oven. Today's withering weather could reach the mid-90s,...

BRAVE WILL OF VICTIM - AFTER 'SPIDEY' RAPE

The victim of a vicious sexual predator dubbed the "Spider-Man rapist" defiantly said she would not let the attack "control her life," the superintendent of her Upper East Side building...

SLAY RAPS LOOMS A MONTH AFTER BRAWL

A man who had been fighting with his stepfather over who'd use the family's Hamptons home on a recent weekend could soon face murder charges. The bizarre case began on...

ISIAH, KNICKS HIGH ON FRYE

One GM calls him a "poor man's Marcus Camby," but that would diminish Arizona 6-11 center Channing Frye's offensive versatility. "To be honest, I have plenty of ways to score,"...

SHEA IT'S SO ; METS, NOT YANKS, TAKING BIGGER BITE OF APPLE

THEY'RE far from perfect. They have holes in their lineup, holes in their thinking, but the Mets are by far the more exciting of the two Big Apple teams right...

BRIT CHAMP FACES TRUTH ; NEEDS TO LIFT U.S. PROFILE

ATLANTIC CITY - IBF 140-pound champion Ricky Hatton said he isn't opposed to defending his title in the United States. In fact, he's looking forward to it. But it will...

HEEL OF A JOB - TINO IN NO PAINSTANDING AT PLATE

His two-run homer in the ninth inning on Friday made a convincing argument. Just to make sure, though, Tino Martinez made an emphatic statement about the plantar fasciitis in his...

'TOO MUCH SPEED' ; FLOYD RAVAGES GATTI

ATLANTIC CITY - No one could have looked more impressive than Floyd Mayweather did against Arturo Gatti last night at a sold-out Boardwalk Hall. By the end of the one-sided...

FOR BERNIE, THERE'S NO TIME TO REST

Manager Joe Torre would love to get Bernie Williams out of center field for a day to give him a rest, but can't since Hideki Matsui's right ankle won't allow...

ACHY UNIT SET FOR SUBWAY FINALE

Joe Torre revealed yesterday that Randy Johnson isn't throwing bullpen sessions between starts and that the Big Unit has nagging injury issues that need to be monitored. But Torre wouldn't...

END OF THE LINE ; AMAZIN' SUPPORT FOR KRIS

The ace of the Mets' staff is Pedro Martinez. But the Mets actually have won a greater percentage of Kris Benson's starts this year than they have of Martinez' starts....

OBLIVIOUS TO OBVIOUS ; HOW FRANCESA FIGURED OUT HIDEKI'S SURGE

YOU can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can't con Edison. And Mike Francesa's megalomania has...

FIRING LINE ; UNDERACHIEVING YANKEES BRACE FOR BOSS' TRIGGER

Brian Cashman understands the lay of the uneven Yankee land better than most. The GM knows who he works for and where his offices are located. And he is in...

HAMMY PUTS MIENTKIEWICZ ON MET BENCH

SUBWAY SERIES CONFIDENTIAL The Mets won the first two games of this Subway Series, but they now have to hope that they haven't lost their first baseman for an extended...

HENN-DECKED; ROOKIE HEADING DOWN AFTER LOSS

Only one pitch separated the mound visits of Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and manager Joe Torre yesterday. It may have been the final major-league pitch for the foreseeable future...

FOR METS' LINEUP, BAT'S MORE LIKE IT

Yesterday Ramon Castro slammed two doubles, drove in a run and drew a walk. He was the Mets' ninth-place hitter. In their 10-3 romp over the Yankees in The Bronx,...

DON'T BE AFRAID TO BENCH STAR FOR AN UPSTART

BESIDES maybe in jured stars such as Kerry Wood and Barry Bonds, no one has frustrated fantasy owners more than Todd Helton. What's a Helton owner to do? Bench him?...

STEVENS MIGHT PLAY FOR DEVILS

Declaring himself healthy and recovered from post-concussion syndrome, Devils captain Scott Stevens would not rule out returning to play hockey next season. "I'm fine. Everything's good," Stevens told The Post...

SMUGGLER TAKES 'GOOSE'

Smuggler was able to withstand a stretch duel with a stubborn Spun Sugar and win the Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes for three-year-old fillies by a neck at Belmont...

FOUR-WIN AFTERNOON FOR COA

The lightly-raced Blue Sunday heads a field of six in the $100,000 Mike Lee Handicap for New York-bred three-year-olds at seven furlongs at Belmont today. It is also the first...

HARD TO DEFEND BERNIE'S PLAY

BERNIE Williams fired the last meaningful shot of the first Subway Series at Shea, lacing an eighth-inning RBI triple into the right-field corner on May 22. The blast put the...

ACHY UNIT NEEDS BIG GAME

Joe Torre revealed yesterday that Randy Johnson isn't throwing bullpen sessions between starts and that the Big Unit has nagging injury issues that need to be monitored. But Torre wouldn't...

OFT-INJURED STAR TURNS ON POWER

YANKEE STADIUM frames these blasts better than any place on earth, yet Cliff Floyd couldn't take advantage of the full vista. The ball had jumped off the sweet spot of...

YANKS CALL UP A LITTLE RELIEF FOR WILLIAMS

SUBWAY SERIES CONFIDENTIAL The Yankees have figured out how to give Bernie Williams a day off: promote Kevin Reese from Triple-A Columbus. Reese, a 27-year-old left-hand-hitting outfielder, will arrive in...

BEARS BEWARE: N.J. HUNT RETURNING

THE old adage, what goes around comes around, certainly holds true for Bradley Campbell and New Jersey's bear hunting season. Campbell, the commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection,...

CONTRACT QUESTIONS HAVEN'T BEEN ANSWERED

MARTIN Brodeur has two years at a post-rollback $11.32 million remaining on his contract, which, as we understand it, would be charged as $5.66M per against the Devils' cap. Here's...

SOREN-SLAMMED - ANNIKA'S HOPES OF GRAND FEAT FADING AT OPEN

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. - The masses came here to witness history. Through 54 holes of the U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills Country Club, though, Annika Sorenstam hasn't cooperated....

HERE WIE GO

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. - Michelle Wie, the 15-year-old amateur wunderkind whose goals include not only playing in the Masters but competing on both the PGA and LPGA Tours, enters...

METS, CLIFF CLUB CRUMBLING YANKS - HOMERS HAMMER HENN IN AMAZIN' ROUT

Mets 10 Yankees 3 There is something appropriate about a man named Cliff pushing the wretched Yankees to the edge of oblivion in late June. Cliff Floyd, whom the Mets...

BAD BOMBERS ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH

IN THE second inning of Mets-Yankees on Friday night, Doug Mientkiewicz pushed a bunt down the third-base line. It was a superb bunt with first and second. But it also...

IN THE LINE OF FIRE - STOTTLEMYRE COULD TAKE FALL FOR YANKS

Brian Cashman understands the lay of the uneven Yankee land better than most. The GM knows who he works for and where his offices are located. And he is in...

IT'S TOM FOR A CHANGE

For 2�� years, Tom Glavine has been every Mets fan's nightmare blown up into living-hell living color. For 2½ years, whenever a Mets fan wants to explain the paranoia that...

LOOPER NOT ROCK SOLID IN DA BRONX

There was a lot of good for the Mets in their 6-4 win Friday night. Their defense was tremendous. Pedro Martinez pitched a gem. Their hitters collected sac flies like...

C.J. - THE NEXT D.J.? YANKEES' TOP PICK HENRY IDOLIZES & EMULATES JETER

QUOTE "The Yankees made a great choice. C is special. He has some unique skills and his work habits are phenomenal." Chet Lemon, 16-year major-leaguer and Henry's AAU coach HE'S...

LENN ROBBINS' MOCK DRAFT - BUCKS WARY OF MAKING 'BIG' MISTAKE

Pardon Bucks GM Larry Harris if his underwear and shoes feel a little tight these days. Not since 1984 has an NBA GM been in this predicament. Back then, Trail...

DEPTH PERCEPTION - NETS CERTAIN THEY'LL FIND BENCH HELP AT NO. 15

This isn't advanced logic here. The Nets see about 20 players in the upcoming draft they honestly feel could step in and help next season. The Nets pick 15th. The...

ROYALLY FLUSHED - IT'S NO FUN TELLING KC LOYALISTS THEY'LL NEVER BE WINNERS AGAIN

YOU think you have problems, right? You're a Mets fan and are experiencing that familiar sinking feeling that goes along with watching a team that isn't good enough to seriously...

DEREK TAKES THE CAKE - TEN MOST-MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN BIRTHDAY-BOY JETER'S CAREER

Derek Jeter turns 31 today and, yes, it is fine to feel a little older. Have 1,800-plus hits really gone by so quickly? One minute you are the Minor League...

FURYK FLURRY KEEPS HIM ON PAR AT BARCLAYS

Challengers charged as Jim Furyk chugged on, par after par. Then he turned on, and hangs on. Logging 13 pars on a 1-under round yesterday, Furyk needed two birdies in...

OPERATION OVERHAUL - KNICKS WILL BE MARBURY, CRAWFORD & ISIAH'S ARMY

REGARDLESS of whether or not you appreciate the impending swap of Kurt Thomas, the Knicks' last legit big man standing, for Quentin Richardson, the Suns' extraneous hotshot, the conclusion is...