January 22, 2006
THE VAGARIES OF THE HOUSING MARKET IN 2006
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: What will happen to housing in 2006? W.D.Dear W.D.: Which city? The problem with housing is that there just isn't one market. Minneapolis is vastly different than New...
PICK AND ROLL; FRESHER FLICKS LURE EYES TO AMC
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amWhile movie geeks and television critics have taken umbrage with AMC's programming shift, the channel's brass are grinning from ear to ear. AMC, formerly known as American Movie Classics, delivered...
IGER'S APPARENT HUMILITY SEEN AS STRENGTH
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amYou can say this much for Disney CEO Bob Iger: He doesn't seem to mind sharing the limelight. This time around, however, it could end up costing the 54-year-old executive...
SLOGANS ARE AN AGENCY'S BEST FRIEND
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Absolut Vodka decided to drop its iconic bottle-inspired print campaign last week, the long-running-but-now-discarded campaign joined thousands of others that, if placed end-to-end, would have reached hundreds of millions...
VOLCOM'S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amDon't tell the folks at Volcom about a mediocre Christmas. The red-hot, California-based youth sports apparel company's T-shirts and jeans blew off stores shelves during the holiday shopping season as...
STARRING ROLE - JOBS' WELL-DONE PIXAR DEAL NEARING
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSomewhere in Seattle, Bill Gates is sitting in a Starbucks crying into his mocha latte. It must be a sad sight for the Microsoft founder to watch rival Steve Jobs...
PLAYING MUSICAL CHAIRS - MOGULS EYEING MOVES FOR DIFFERENT POWERHOUSES
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA quiet game of musical chairs is going on in Hollywood, and the result could be one entertainment mogul rejoining an old friend at Paramount and a former movie tycoon...
NO CRACKERS; PARROT'S DIET DESIGNED TO MIMIC WILD FARE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amOne busy New Yorker doesn't take the time to cook her own meals, yet spares no effort for her beloved parrot. Bella the Macaw lives with Alexis Gray, her bird's...
CATCH THE 'SPIRIT'
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amTERRENCE Malick isn't the only filmmaker who takes his time between films (four features and one short since 1973). Victor Erice, a 65-year-old Spainard, has directed just three features and...
THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL PRODIGY
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amTHE conventional wisdom says a player reaches the peak of his or her ability around age 30. The conventional wisdom also says you can't come back to your former strength...
LET'S GET IT ON - JAMIE FOXX'S TV CONCERT DEBUT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIF you thought Jamie Foxx was hot last year, forget it. "Ray" was just a warm-up act. Playing Ray Charles was the beginning of his musical career. In the film,...
DESPITE ITS FLAWS, '24'STILL DELIVERS THRILLS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT'S wrong with this picture? A lot - if you're talking about "24." The Kiefer Sutherland series, which started its fifth season, is TV's most suspenseful show. And as anyone...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amCan she commit? MEREDITH (Ellen Pompeo) and Cristina (Sandra Oh) lie to each other about the status of their relationships on "Grey's Anatomy." Cristina hasn't told her live-in boyfriend, Pre-ston...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) Monday,1: 30 a.m., AMC When a Philly detective visits rural Miss-issippi, he's picked up for the murder of a white citizen. He ends...
'20/20' HELPS MAKE AMERICA "STUPID"
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amWHILE watching ABC News's "20/20," last Friday seen something very close to this before. Where was it? When was it . . . Last Friday, after a week's worth of...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 22, 2006 | 5:00am1 24-hour party people Andrew W.K. - possibly the most life-affirming rock star ever - premieres his own documentary, which he claims to have never seen, at Two Boots on...
HOT SEAT - BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT would the good people of Mayberry say? In the new Lars von Trier film "Manderlay," Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of Ron Howard - Opie Taylor on the Mayberry-set, 1960s...
HELLO, DOLLIES! DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH BURSTS INDIE 'BUBBLE'
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIF you've ever been to the Angelika, you're familiar with indie-film staples: movie stars trying their hardest to look unbeautiful, little or no soundtrack, grainy film stock, intentionally distorted camera...
'ROSE' THAT HAS NO NAME
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amUh ... come again? That line from "Brokeback Mountain," spoken by Randy Quaid's gruff rancher in reference to Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's sheep-tending, has left a lot of moviegoers...
HEAR THIS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIN CONCERT Bluegrass faves Marty Stuart and Ricky Scaggs play with neo-folkie Abigail Washburn at B.B. King's tonight. At Irving Plaza: Florida ska-punks Less Than Jake on Monday. Pop-punks Yellowcard...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amRosanne Cash "Black Cadillac" 4 STARS Capitol Records ON her new record, "Black Cadillac," Rosanne Cash has tapped into her own pain. (She lost her dad, Johnny, and stepmom, June...
MORE THAN FIDDLE-FADDLE - YELLOWCARD GROWS UP
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPOP-PUNKS Yellowcard may have roots in sunny Florida, but the band's new album was largely inspired by events taking place after dark. Last winter, lead singer Ryan Key and bassist...
REQUIRED READING
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAndrei Codrescu may be a refugee from communist Romania, but the NPR commentator has been talking and writing about New Orleans, his adopted hometown, for two decades. Now his "hometown"...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBookish beauty sks poised partner MEET Sonia, a luscious 39-year-old executive manager who describes herself as "attractive, down-to-earth, real and a bit more 'bookwise' than streetwise." Sonia can't live without...
SMOKIN' CIGARETTE PANTS - HERE'S THE SKINNY ON HOW TO WEAR SLIM-CUT TROUSERS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00am1. Cropped suede pants, $250, at Cynthia Rowley, 376 Bleecker St. Animal print ankle boots, $300, at Sacco, 94 Seventh Ave. Gustto fur-trimmed handbag, $495, at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth...
BILLY'S BIG RECORD - NOW HE'S EVEN BIGGER THAN BRUCE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAN hour into a conversation with Billy Joel, the pop star who has lately been as famous for bad driving as big hits suddenly brightened - as if he had...
MYTHOLOGY FOR DUMMIES
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amDON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MYTHOLOGY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GREATEST STORIES IN HUMAN HISTORY BUT NEVER LEARNEDBY KENNETH C. DAVIS HARPERCOLLINS, 560 PAGES, $26.95 IN 1987, Dan...
FIRE GUTS HISTORIC BLDG.; SOHO HOME TO PRADA ENGULFED
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amFirefighters last night battled to control an inferno that ripped through a historic building on SoHo's fashionable Broadway shopping strip, officials said. Smoke poured from windows as flames gutted 575...
QUINN TO TAKE ON TURN-AWAY HOSPS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amNew City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's first legislative act will be to introduce a bill requiring hospitals to inform patients that they can't be turned away because they lack insurance....
BIG HOLES IN SURVEY OF CHILD ABUSE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amChild-protective workers citywide have to answer 33 questions on each of 10,000 open child-abuse cases under a systemwide review by the Administration for Children's Services - but the document is...
BIG-MOUTH MRS. KNICK ALWAYS ON ATTACK
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amHer maiden name defies her personality. Kendra Meeks is anything but. Last week's ruckus at the United Center in Chicago is not the first time the wife of Knicks forward...
GREEK MUSLIMS; ISLAMIC SORORITY INTO KORAN, NOT KEGGERS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAmerica's newest sorority won't be hosting toga parties anytime soon. That's because the girls of Gamma Gamma Chi will allow no booze, no boys and no barely-there outfits. Membership in...
GO DOWN, MOSES: NEW TV 'COMMANDMENTS'
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - ABC plans to unveil a new version of "The Ten Commandments" just in time for Easter - with Scottish actor Dougray Scott as the new Moses. Produced...
FIGHT FOR NIXZMARY SIBS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA custody battle is brewing over Nixzmary Brown's five siblings, with two different fathers and one grandmother vying to care for the kids. Carlos Batista, a paramedic from Puerto Rico,...
SPRING FEVER AS TEMP HITS RECORD 64
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIt felt like spring break in the Hot Apple yesterday, with record-breaking temperatures enticing New Yorkers out of their winter slumps. "If today is winter in New York, I'll take...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police are searching for an elderly Alzheimer's woman who disappeared three days ago. The missing woman Esther Henry (above), is the mother of Val Henry, who serves as...
MTA BID TO BREAK IMPASSE; TALKING ARBITRATION
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amStunned by the transit union's narrow rejection of a new contract, MTA officials said yesterday they will formally request binding arbitration to settle the dispute. Meanwhile, transit-union boss Roger Toussaint...
MIDTOWN TRUCK DELIVERS DEATH
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA woman on her way to work was killed yesterday when she was pulled under and crushed by a backing-up beer truck as she tried to cross a Midtown street...
JET-SETTER BON JOVI HITS SKIDS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amMemo to the boys of Bon Jovi: Airport runways can be slippery when wet. The hard-rockin' Jersey band got the bump of their lives yesterday when their private Boeing 707...
POLICE HATER IS CUT DOWN ; THUG HIT WITH THIRD SLAY-BID RAP AFTER B'KLYN COP GUN BATTLE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPolice gunned down an Uzi-toting thug in Brooklyn yesterday - leaving the two-time attempted-murder suspect riddled with bullets after he opened fire on officers outside an East Flatbush nightclub, police...
TELLING TALES OUT OF COURT - ATTORNEY'S BOOK DISHES ON MOVERS AND SHAKERS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amHe's New York's fixer. He's the guy magazine magnates, hip-hop moguls, entertainment attorneys - even governors - call when they want something done. Now he has a tell-all book. Edward...
SHOCK TO OFFICER SHOT IN '02
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amThe arrest of cop-hater Damian Henry came as a shock yesterday to the rookie officer whose career he is said to have tragically cut short in a hail of bullets...
2 WOUNDED IN CARJACKING
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPolice are searching for as many as eight youths involved in an Upper West Side carjacking in which a man was stabbed and a bystander was shot, police sources said....
S.I. BOY MAKES BONY DISCOVERY
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA boy made a grisly discovery on Staten Island: what appeared to be a human skull and leg bone in a vacant lot, cops said yesterday. The child uncovered the...
GANG SEES DEMOCRACY - AND COPS - IN ACTION
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amDemocracy is a beautiful thing - although it didn't turn out too well for 63 suspected members of the Latin Kings who wound up behind bars yesterday after gathering to...
ANNA BENSON BURNER ; TRADE HAS MET SPOUSE FUMING
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBrazen baseball wife Anna Benson blasted the Mets last night for tossing her pitcher hubby a curve via a trade to Baltimore. The buxom Benson feels she was "misled" by...
BAGS FOR RICH KIDS AT $450
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amRich rugrats across the city will be begging in their Burberry boots for next season's ultimate fashion accessory - a $450 alligator-trimmed lunchbox. New York designer Barry Kieselstein-Cord is set...
KID RESCUE IMPOSSIBLE, SAY DELUGED AGENTS AT ACS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx caseworker who goes knocking on the doors of parents accused of abusing or neglecting their kids says it's a losing battle to keep up with the work required...
$21M FOR GEORGE PORTRAIT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA famous painting of George Washington made history yesterday when it was sold to a mystery buyer for more than $21 million - the most ever spent on an American...
SUNDANCE OPENS WITH SWAG-ERING STARS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Celebrities began pouring into Park City yesterday for the Sundance Film Festival and the not inconsiderable amount of swag free for the taking. More and more...
POSTER BOY BLOOMY TO PAY 300G
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amMAYOR Bloomberg has decided to write a check for more than $300,000 so his re-election campaign won't have to contest the summonses it got for plastering the city with more...
POSTER BOY BLOOMY TO PAY OFF 300G FINE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amMAYOR Bloomberg has decided to write a check for more than $300,000 so his re-election campaign won't have to contest the summonses it got for plastering the city with more...
HOWDY, LIFE PARDNER - GAY COWBOYS RIDE OUT OF CLOSET
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amGay cowboys are coming out of the corral in droves since the release of the controversial film "Brokeback Mountain," People magazine reports this week. "Sure, it's hard being in a...
SWAG-ERING CELEBS - FREEBIES STAR AT FILM FEST
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Celebrities began pouring into Park City yesterday for the Sundance Film Festival and the not inconsiderable amount of swag free for the taking. More and more...
REMEMBRANCE - BLACK SUN. HERO HONORED
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIT was just about a year ago when darkness fell over us on that Black Sunday, when three firefighters were killed in moments of incredible heroism. And it was just...
HOWDY, LIFE PARDNER - 'BROKEBACK' BRINGS OUT GAY COWBOYS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amGay cowboys are coming out of the corral in droves since the release of the controversial film "Brokeback Mountain," People magazine reports this week. "Sure, it's hard being in a...
GREEK MUSLIMS - ISLAMIC SORORITY GIRLS INTO KORAN, NOT KEGGERS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAmerica's newest sorority won't be hosting toga parties anytime soon. That's because the girls of Gamma Gamma Chi will allow no booze, no boys and no barely-there outfits. Membership in...
ANNA BENSON BURNER - TRADE ]]HAS MET SPOUSE FUMING
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBrazen baseball wife Anna Benson blasted the Mets last night for tossing her pitcher hubby a curve via a trade to Baltimore. The buxom Benson feels she was "misled" by...
NYPD MENACE IS CUT DOWN - 3RD 'SLAY' RAP FOR THUG AFTER B'KLYN POLICE SHOOTOUT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amA two-time attempted-murder suspect whose gun was used to kill a police officer last year was charged a third time with attempted murder after trying to gun down two cops...
CLEARANCE ITEMS ; TRADE WINDS SWIRL ABOUT ROSE, ARTEST
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amCOULD the Knicks really be (finally!) virtually zeroed in on acquiring Jalen Rose? Despite long-term contention over Isiah Thomas' demand for a No. 1 pick (Denver's) from Toronto in a...
ISLES SATISFIED WITH POINT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amThe Islanders were patting themselves on the back again yesterday after playing a game in which they felt they out-worked the Devils for a hard-earned 3-2 shootout loss. The Isles...
LUCAS AIMS TO MAKE HAWKS SQUAWK
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Ken Lucas said his preference was to never step foot in this city again. "I have no choice now," he said. Tonight, there's no place Lucas would rather...
STREAK HAS 9 LIVES; DEVS STAY UNBEATEN IN '06
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUTDevils 3Isles 2 The Winning Streak from Nowhere means little if it doesn't reach double digits tonight. Still perfect on their New Year's resolution, 9-0 in '06, the Devils are...
CLOSE TO BEING SURE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSEATTLE - The Sure Things are what they pay for. The Sure Thing is whatteams covet, so they don't have to try and be smart. It's tough being smart in...
'HUNTING' TAKES AQUEDUCT 'CAP
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amHappy Hunting, 5-year-old son of Seeking the Gold making belated stakes debut for Shug McGaughey after winning three straight and four of five since breaking maiden last summer at Saratoga,...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBefore St. John's rocked the college basketball world yesterday by knocking off one of the three remaining undefeated teams in the nation, some of the greatest players to ever wear...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES ; JOHNNIES SWAMP PITT AS LEGENDS CHEER
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSt. John's 55Pittsburgh 50 Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson, Dick McGuire and Lou Carnesecca sat several rows behind the St. John's bench yesterday taking a wonderfully nostalgic trip back in time....
KRIS CROSSED OUT; METS DEAL BENSON - AND ANNA - TO O'S FOR JULIO
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIn trading Kris Benson to the Orioles for set-up man Jorge Julio and right-hander John Maine yesterday, the Mets again exchanged a surplus of starting pitching for more relief help....
AGUIRRE INVOLVED IN BENCH BLOWUP
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAntonio Davis is not the only Knick whose been involved in a brouhaha recently. The Post has learned Knicks assistant coach Mark Aguirre and veteran Malik Rose got into a...
BENSON A BITTER BIRD - SMELLS RAT AS HE - AND ANNA - DEALT TO O'S
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIn trading Kris Benson to Baltimore for set-up man Jorge Julio and right-hander John Maine yesterday, the Mets again exchanged a surplus of starting pitching for more relief help. Essentially,...
PAUL MAULS ; KNICKS DISCOVER HORNETS ROOKIE IS STINGING SENSATION
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amHornets 109Knicks 98 An All-Star was born last night at the World's Most Famous Arena. Larry Brown sees a lot of Isiah Thomas in the Hornets' Rookie of the Year...
POINT IS, STEPH'S MISSED
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSTEPHON Marbury still couldn't extend his left hand yesterday, leaving Larry Brown with one tied behind his back. Option No. 1 at backup point guard, Jamal Crawford, is really a...
NETS EXACT EASY REVENGE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amNets 103Celtics 83 Players always like to say it's not about how you start, but how you finish. Well, last night it was really about how the Nets started, because...
NICE WAY TO WARM UP ; BLUESHIRTS WIN SHOOTOUT IN DEVIL PRELIM
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUTRangers 3Bruins 2 BOSTON - So tonight on Broadway maybe the playoffs come a little bit early for a franchise and a fan base that's been on the outside looking...
TAYLOR - MARBURY'S ABSENCE IS NO EXCUSE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amMaurice Taylor isn't interested that the Knicks are without Stephon Marbury and Antonio Davis. All he cares about is that the Knicks have now lost five straight - the last...
MUCH TO LIKE ABOUT JAX
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amUNPRECEDENTED. Pretty near impossible. Mark Jackson, the ex-Knick and St. John's floor boss, has, with only a few telecasts' prior experience, slid so comfortably into the role of Nets YES...
BROWN:PAUL HAS THOMAS QUALITIES
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Hornets rookie PG Chris Paul, the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year, went to the wrong North Carolina school, but Larry Brown still loves him. "The young...
PLAYERS CAN'T GIVE IN ON SLASHING CAP BAND
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - Six months into a six-year agreement in which the NHLPA submitted to givebacks of an unprece dented nature in the history of pro sports' collective bargaining, the union...
AFC CHAMPIONSHIP - THE MATCHUPS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSomething will have to give today when the Broncos play the Steelers in the AFC Championship game at Invesco Field at Mile High. The Steelers have become the road warriors...
HAIR AND NOW - POLAMALU, LYNCH KEY TO MILE HIGH MELEE
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER - Chances are at some point or points today while you watch the Broncos and Steelers play for the AFC Championship at Invesco Field at Mile High, you're going...
CATS PLAN TO BRING IT 'HOMME ... BUT CAROLINA QB GIVES HAWKS THEIR DUE IN TITLE TILT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Jake Delhomme loves the ponies. Horse racing, that is, which means he knows a thing or two about favorites and 100-to-1 shots. Carolina's quarterback takes a look at...
NFC CHAMPIONSHIP - THE MATCHUPS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE is no doubt that as the No. 1 seed in the NFC, the Seahawks can smell their first-ever Super Bowl, playing at home and favored to beat the No....
MARBURY MISSES HIS THIRD STRAIGHT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amStephon Marbury hadn't missed three straight games since he sat out the final nine at the end of the 2000-01 season, his last with the Nets. But at shootaround yesterday,...
GIVE 'EM YELL - AGUIRRE, ROSE HAVE SIDELINE SHOUTING MATCH
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amAntonio Davis is not the only Knick whose been involved in a brouhaha recently. The Post has learned Knicks assistant coach Mark Aguirre and veteran Malik Rose got into a...
'VEAL' NOT BIG IN BEANTOWN
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amYou add $15 million and 220 miles and everything changes. Brian Scalabrine, a fan favorite in New Jersey, is not greeted that warmly in Boston these days. "I think there...
ALL THAT JASPER -GONZALEZ KING OF MANHATTAN, NO MATTER WHEN HE MOVES UP
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBEFORE we get into it, I should make a few preliminary points aimed at whatever athletic directors and presidents should happen to stumble across this column: 1. I called Bobby...
HEAD TO HEAD - BALL OR CHAIN?
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amPost baseball writer Michael Morrissey and columnist Kevin Kernan slug it out over the merits of the upcoming World Baseball Classic: Michael Morrissey: Kevin, there are certain ideas that have...
SUPREME TEST FOR CLEAN WATER ACT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amIN little more than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases that could have a huge effect on more than half the 100 million acres of wetlands remaining...
'WORLD' OF TROUBLE - A-ROD, OTHER STARS STILL MAY BAG IT
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBELIEVE it or not, the fate of the World Baseball Classic does not hinge on Alex Rodriguez's participation. But it does not help the perception of the tournament that arguably...
NICE WAY TO WARM UP - BLUESHIRTS WIN SHOOTOUT IN DEVIL PRELIM
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUT Rangers 3 Bruins 2 BOSTON - So tonight on Broadway maybe the playoffs come a little bit early for a franchise and a fan base that's been on the...
TURN ON THE POWER - LACK OF PP PRODUCTION HURTING BLUESHIRTS
January 22, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - A conundrum all season, the Rangers' power play hasn't even come close to equaling the sum of its impressive parts. There's been too much perimeter play; too much...