January 1, 2006
NEW YEAR BLEAK FOR TEEN SHOP
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe less-than-robust holiday retail season appears close to claiming its first victim: G+G Retail Inc. The 587-store apparel chain, which operates stores under the G+G, Rave and Rave Girl nameplates,...
TAKE INFLATION LIES WITH GRAIN OF SALT
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: I'd like you to investigate, as a matter of urgency, the ongoing lies that are expressed by the U.S. government inflation figures.It is impossible that the consumer price...
GRANDMASTERS GET THEIR PROPS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGRANDMASTERS are getting extraordinary recognition these days: Veselin Topalov, who won the world chess federation (FIDE) championship in 2005, received Bulgaria's "Sportsman of the Year" award from President Georgi Purvanov....
SNAKES ALIVE; REJECTED REPTILES A GROWING PROBLEM
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNEITHER warm nor furry nor perceived as cute, snakes don't get a lot of love from the pet-loving populace. But herpetology buffs - i.e., reptile advocates, or "herpers" for short...
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN IN TWO SPECIALS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWhat is it with Egypt already? The land of pyramids and cuneiform is the focus of two documentaries this week. "The Mummy Who Would Would Be King," airing Tuesday night,...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amR E A L I T Y GUY alert: flashing, are in the rink. On the new A&E show "Roller-girls," women who have extra energy and thighs of steel compete...
WILL COURIC LEAVE NBC IN 2006?
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWhat are the shows and people who will make news in 2006? Not only do I not know, but I am too cowardly to even hazard a guess. Predictions are...
THE HOT SEAT: THE BARKERS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWE were pleased to "Meet the Barkers" last spring when MTV unveiled its latest portrait of an oddball American family - mohawked blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, actress Shanna Moakler (aka...
HOT LIST: WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 1, 2006 | 5:00am1 A million "Little Pieces" You've seen it out of the corner of your eye on the subway . . . that cute turquoise book cover with the candy sprinkle-covered...
NEW YORKERS ROCK ON THE WILD SIDE
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew York's rock revival may be hung on the Strokes, but it takes more than one band to build a scene. Here's a quick update on some of the other...
STOKED STROKES - THE REPUTATION OF CITY'S INDIE-ROCK SCENE RIDES ON BAND'S THIRD ALBUM
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amJulian Casablancas, or "Jules" to his friends, could be any New Yorker. The frontman for the perpetually hyped Strokes gets annoyed when people make deals on their cell-phones within ear...
NATIONAL TRAGEDY - LAMPOONERS HAVE LOST THEIR FAMED COMIC MOJO
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWho knew it was so hard to write a good dog-peeing-on-a-picnic-basket joke? It must be nearly impossible, because for the past two decades, just about every movie bearing the National...
SUPER 'HOSTEL' - ASIAN HORROR MASTER IS SCARED BY NEW FILM
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amYou have to take notice of any film that Takashi Miike, the Japanese master of cinema excess, says is too violent for his taste. That's why Cine File got hold...
COMING ATTRACTIONS - A PREVIEW OF 2006'S FIRST FILMS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amAS studios dump their struggling titles and indies try to shoe-horn small films into the post-Christmas void, the start of a new year is generally regarded as a cinematic low...
NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL - TODAY'S FAMILY NO WORSE THAN 100 YEARS AGO
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT better time than the holidays to release a nonfiction book about the very specific angst of dealing with one's family? In "Why Do I Love These People?" (Random House,...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amFinance funnyman sks humorous hon MEET Josh, a 31-year-old financial analyst who describes himself as "a very generous, fun person who is larger than life. I am someone who can...
CLASSIC SHLOCK - THE CRITIC'S DARLINGS THAT DON'T SELL
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amAs pop writers ply us with their year-end lists and recommendations, it's useful to remember that there's a strong inverse relationship between the artists that critics love and the musicians...
ANTI-PREDICTIONS; THINGS WE (SADLY) WON'T SEE IN 2006
January 1, 2006 | 5:00am'TIS the season to make predictions. Here are a few that surely won't be coming true in 2006: * In a rare moment of remorse for having called a painful...
'SLAY' MA WANTS OLDER SON BACK
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn mom charged with pummeling her year-old baby to death was fighting to get one of her older children out of foster care and into the home where the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A Melrose man found mortally injured at the foot a stairway at his home was pushed to his death, officials said. Ruben Valentin, 41, was found at...
THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ; HERE ARE A DOZEN SOLID REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTIC
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amIRAQ made impressive progress in 2005. You wouldn't have known it from the daily news coverage or the surrender-now demands of left-wing extremists, but the long-suffering nation marched forward. Here...
BACK-OFFICE BLUNDER DROVE VICTIM UP WALL
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amIn the fall of 2003, Valerie Fitts bought a new car at Toyota Bronx Auto Group in Williamsbridge. One day several months later, she got three bills in the mail...
THIEVES' WILD $$ RIDE; LIVERY DRIVER &COHORTS RAN HUGE SCAM ON BX. AUTO OWNERS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA shadowy Ecuadorean livery driver led a brazen band of Bronx-based crooks who looted a car dealer's customer financial records and spun the information into one of the most elaborate...
S.I. BLOOD PLEA FOR FIRE HERO
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amFirefighter Matthew Long needs your help. The smoke-eater who was hit by a charter bus while biking to work during the transit strike last month is in desperate need of...
CUNY SEX TALKER TO GIVE PROSTY-TUTORIAL
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amCUNY is bringing in the "dean of academic studies" from "Whore College" - a hooker who advocates legalized prostitution - to speak at an on-campus scholarly conference on sex workers'...
'EVE' A WORLD REVEL-UTION ; APPLE'S BASH IS GLOBAL SWARMING
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe champagne and the confetti flowed freely last night as the city bid goodbye to 2005 and hello to 2006 with a New Year's Eve celebration that drew revelers from...
TROUPER CLARK 'ROCKIN' AGAIN
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amDick Clark, his voice thin and wan, carried on rock 'n' roll tradition last night by returning to host his Times Square New Year's Eve show after a year away...
'DESPONDENT' HUBBY KILLS WIFE, HIMSELF
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA husband and wife were found dead in The Bronx last night in what police sources called a murder-suicide. The unidentifed couple was found in a bloody heap - with...
CITY SLAY RATE STILL FALLING
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew York City's homicide rate remained at a 40 year low through the start of the New Year even though 2005 ended with the investigation of several horrific deaths. There...
NEW YORK'S BABY NEW YEAR
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew York's Baby New Year - the first tot born in the city in 2006 - crawled in at just after midnight this morning. Vicky, a healthy little girl,was delivered...
COP CRITICAL AFTER 'DWI' CAR CLIP
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA police officer was in critical condition early this morning after being struck by an apparently drunken driver on a Queens expressway after pulling another driver over for speeding ,...
PETER'S LEGAL LOOKER; RESEMBLES HIS EX
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA stunning blonde lawyer who looks like Peter Braunstein's tormented ex-girlfriend has been tapped to help the sex-suspect scribe mount a possible insanity defense, The Post has learned. Striking legal...
SQUARE FOLK ARE ALL WET
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amRain and snow rang in the Big Apple New Year last night. "It's definitely umbrella weather," said meteorologist Ray Martin of AccuWeather. "It was colder than the last several New...
REAL BANG-UP JOB; DRIVER SURVIVES QNS. TANKER CRASH
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens man is lucky to be alive after a horrific collision with an oil tanker truck yesterday sent up plumes of smoke and thundered a terrifying bomblike bang. The...
SOUR NOTE FOR SOHO JAZZ JOINT
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe owner of a proposed SoHo restaurant and jazz lounge is singing the blues over a court's decision to deny her a liquor license - a verdict that one community...
THAT'S THE TICKET! COPS EASED PARKING BLITZ IN '05
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amTicket-blitzed drivers had a lot to be thankful for in 2005 - after revving up summonses for a year and a half, NYPD ticket-writers eased off last year, city records...
MIKE TO MINGLE AT INAUGURAL
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amIn a break with longstanding tradition, Mayor Bloomberg will walk through the massive crowd assembled at City Hall today for his inaugural ceremony before the hour-long festivities get under way...
DEM: 'THREAT' BY SPITZ THE PITS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amA top Democratic operative accused state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (left) of"bad judgment" for his alleged threat against financial whiz John Whitehead after Whitehead criticized him in the Wall Street...
PACT MAKES ST. PAT'S 100G SCANDAL SECRETARY 'FIRE'PROOF
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amAn ironclad contract is keeping the Catholic church from firing the sexy secretary who was caught visiting a hot-sheets hotel with the former top priest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, The...
HIS SICK MOTIVE; RAPED TEEN BECAUSE SHE HAD ONLY $1
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe brute who raped a Bronx honor student on the roof of her building was punishing the teen because she didn't have enough money to give him when he robbed...
JFK'S AIR FORCE ONE CO-PILOT DEAD AT 81
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amLewis Hanson, a retired Air Force colonel who piloted four presidents and co-piloted John F. Kennedy's body back from Dallas aboard Air Force One, died Tuesday. He was 81. Lewis...
GOV'S MTA PACT ATTACK
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGov. Pataki will demand that MTA board members kill a secret pact reached in talks to end last month's three-day transit strike - one that would guarantee bus and subway...
SUM THING FOR EVERYONE - CITY LIVING BY THE NUMBERS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNew York is a city of numbers. What street do you live on? What floor? How much did you pay? What do you think you can you get for it?...
MUST DO! STARS MAKE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS TO BE FITTER, PHATTER AND MORE FABULOUS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWhat's in and what's out for the New Year? Resolving to make more money: In. Resolving to lose weight: Out. Mating: In. Missing the playoffs: Out. At least that's what...
ALL ABOUT 'EVE' - EARLYBIRD REVELERS FLOCK TO TIMES SQ.
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amChampagne was on ice and confetti was ready to fly yesterday as the city made final preparations for its New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square - where enthusiastic revelers...
'EVE' A WORLD REVEL-UTION - APPLE'S BASH IS GLOBAL SWARMING
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe champagne and the confetti flowed freely last night as the city bid goodbye to 2005 and hello to 2006 with a New Year's Eve celebration that drew revelers from...
DEVILS MAY TAKE CAP HIT FOR MALAKHOV PACT
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Still being tweaked, still subject to interpretation by the attorneys who drafted the document, the CBA doesn't always mean exactly what it appears to says. In at least...
QUOTA LOOKS LIKE A REAL SINKER
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amIT LOOKS as if 2006 will not be good year for those who rely on fluke fishing for a good part of their income. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission...
NAVESINK RIVER CAPTURES FOX
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amNavesink River, favored at 4-5 under Mike Luzzi, went wide most of mile-and-five-eighths trip, still drew off to win Big A's traditional New Year's Eve marathon, the Grade 3, $75,000...
SHOTS WEREN'T FIRED; BLUESHIRTS POSE NO THREAT IN OT LOSS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIMEPenguins 4Rangers 3 PITTSBURGH - They lost to the Penguins on a Sidney Crosby power-play goal with 1:29 remaining in an overtime during which they never got to skate even...
PIERCE ON BLOCK
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amReal sources reveal Boston is attempting to trade as many of its major money players as possible in an effort to get younger than young - underage, actually. I'm not...
PIRATES BATTER GAELS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amSeton Hall 73Iona 59 Seton Hall came into yesterday's New Year's Eve matinee confident, and it showed. Iona came into the tilt overconfident, and that showed too, as the Gaels...
QUIT BEEFIN', KOBE
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amONE thing's for damn sure; nobody can say they're remotely shocked that Kobe Bryant says he was shocked by his two-game suspension for treating Mike Miller's gullet to some elbow...
TALKING DEFENSE; WANT TO WIN THE ROSE BOWL? YOU GOTTA STOP THESE GUYS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amArkansas defensive coordinator Reggie Herring began recalling the events of Sept. 17 and realized he was starting to mumble. The Razorbacks had gone into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and...
STREAKING NETS BEGIN 6-DAY REST
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThere were films to watch and some minor maintenance, but yesterday was mainly devoted to shooting games, simple fun. Win eight straight games, look good on both ends, take the...
A BAEZ MARKET ; METS FIXED ON RELIEVER
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets will begin business in the new year where they left off in 2005, trying to conclude a trade for Tampa Bay closer Danys Baez to serve as Billy...
DEVS LIMP OUT OF '05
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amLeafs 6Devils 3 The GM with the lousy 2-5 record as interim coach has seen the light, or rather the darkness. Lou Lamoriello is taking the blame for his Devils,...
BIG BLUE BRING PLAYOFFS HOME; WIN BLOODY BATTLE TO CLINCH EAST
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGiants 30 Raiders 21 OAKLAND - The Giants experienced a power outage when they arrived at their team hotel Friday night, the result of a wind-swept rainstorm. But there was...
CHEAP SHOT CUTS STRAHAN
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES OAKLAND - Michael Strahan was forced off the field with 13:58 remaining of last night's 30-21 Giants victory over the Raiders when he was jabbed in the left...
NOW CALL COUGHLIN TOM TERRIFIC!
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amOAKLAND - His hair was wet, compliments of a Gatorade bucket shower from Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora, and he was dripping with pride. The Giants were right about Tom...
ELUSIVE 'REVENGE' ; COLLINS' 3 TDS AREN'T ENOUGH
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amOAKLAND - As the Giants hoped to beat the Raiders and clinch the NFC East title here last night, Kerry Collins was the strong-armed impediment standing in the way. Collins...
GIANTS KNOW HE KERRY'S GRUDGE; RAIDERS QB WAS IN WAY
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Seeing Kerry Collins across the field last night at McAfee Coliseum offered the Giants an opportunity to revisit a slice of their past that was sure to provoke...
ALL EYES ON MOSS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Members of the Giants' defensive backfield weren't the only ones last night expecting to keep a watchful eye on Raiders receiver Randy Moss. A prominent player in the...
WHO'S THE MANNING? PLAYOFF PRESSURE MYSTERY TO ELI
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES OAKLAND - As the Giants braced for last night's regular-season finale and what they hoped would be a New Year's Eve celebration of the NFC East title, they...
STINKING FEELING; RUDDERLESS KNICKS FLOUNDER INTO '06
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amGood riddance, 2005 - one of the most vile calendar years in Knicks history. Spanning two seasons, from a loss to the Nets last Jan. 1 up to Friday's fourth-quarter...
NO FREE LUNCH FOR EDWARDS
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN Bill Parcells was forced to coach a group of scab replacements during the brief 1987 NFL strike, someone suggested that he shrug off what became three consecutive losses and...
THE BITTER END - JETS PLAYERS FIND REASONS TO FIGHT TO FINISH
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amAs the Jets play out their final game of this wretched season of lost hope at home today against the Bills, a number of their players will have wandering minds,...
FENWAY FADEAWAY? DON'T BE SO QUICK TO WRITE OFF SOX
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amBEWARE the obituaries for the 2006 Red Sox. Before the 2003 season, they were pronounced dead after losing Jose Contreras to the Yankees and took the Yanks to extra innings...
DAMON IN THE ROUGH - HOW JOHNNY GREW FROM SHY, STUTTERING KID TO BASEBALL STAR
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amJohnny Damon learned the art of making money at an early age. When he was five years old, his parents remember Damon buying packs of baseball cards and then selling...
'05 A WINNER WONDERLAND - THE BEST PASSES MOST TESTS IN BANNER YEAR
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amSURPRISES were hard to find in all of the sustained excellence of 2005. The Patriots won the Super Bowl for the third time in four years and the Spurs the...
DREAM ON! 2006'S LOOKING GREAT - ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amLET'S be very honest: 2005 stunk. It was a tough year to be a sports fan in New York City. The Knicks were grisly. The Jets were gruesome. The Mets...
ELIAS MAY WEAR DEVIL 'C'
January 1, 2006 | 5:00amCaptain Patty? It could be coming. There have been enough unsolicited remarks from Devils players lately about Patrik Elias' leadership to suggest the decision has already been made to name...