February 18, 2006
ROLLING STONE PUBLISHER OUT
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amRolling Stone founder Jann Wenner is looking for a new publisher for the flagship magazine of his Wenner Media empire. Steve DeLuca, publisher of Rolling Stone, resigned yesterday after not...
ICAHN OUTCLASSED; RIVAL CRUSHED, PARSONS MUST MOVE TW STOCK
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amFor Dick Parsons, the victories have been many but the spoils few. Now, after Parsons yesterday forced a settlement with corporate raider Carl Icahn, investors and media industry observers are...
PENTHOUSE WILL START UP CABLE TV CHANNEL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amPenthouse is launching a sex channel to help couples act out their wildest bedroom fantasies - with Penthouse products. After taking over the bankrupt Penthouse empire in a recent legal...
GIMME SHELTER
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amHoping for a War-haul HAMPTONS broker Tina Fredericks is getting another chance to sell one of Montauk's most famous estates - after she first sold it to Andy Warhol more...
DIVE IN ALREADY! IT'S NOW OR NEXT YEAR FOR YOUR HAMPTONS DREAM RENTAL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amSummer stock - It's time to dive in if you want your dream Hamptons house this summer YOU know what they say about the early bird? His $50,000 is going...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - BRING YOUR OWN
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amABC Carpet and Home 1055 Bronx River Ave., at Bruckner Expressway, The Bronx (718) 842-8772 Sale: through Feb. 20 Open: Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m....
'KNIGHT' FALLS ; WHERE'S BOBBY'S INFAMOUS TEMPER?
February 18, 2006 | 5:00am"Knight School" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on ESPN * (one star) BOBBY Knight's new reality show makes me so angry, I could kick a chair, or punch a co-worker, or...
'DATE' WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amDATE MOVIEZero stars Date from hell.Running time: 85 minutes. Rated PG-13 (continuous crude and sexual humor, profanity). At the 84th Street, the 34th Street, the Magic Johnson, others. 'DATE Movie"...
CHEAP TRICKS - HOW TO GET SWEET DEALS ON PRICEY HIGH CULTURE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amHow to get sweet deals on pricey high culture COST of an orchestra seat on Broadway these days? $110 (and we're not talking premium seats). Great seats at the Met?...
RIDDLED CHENEY BUDDY BIRDY HARRY SHOWS HIS FACE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The world got its first look at Vice President Dick Cheney's misfire yesterday - the birdshot-marked face of the Texas hunter who held a press conference as he...
MIKE: HOLD YER HORSES
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amHansom cabs shouldn't be banned from the streets around Central Park, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The mayor - who had earlier rejected calls to ban the horse-drawn carts entirely -...
HILL BIDS TO SINK DUBAI'S PORT BUY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and newly minted New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menen dez are mounting a congres sional blockade of a deal handing over New York's port...
UNDERCOVER GANG SWEEP DRAWS BLOOD
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amCrack-dealing Bloods had overrun two East Harlem apartment buildings - wearing their colors, flashing hand signals and selling drugs in courtyards, lobbies, stairwells, doorways and hallways. But 11 of the...
DWI GUY'S SLUR-RILOUS CLAIM
February 18, 2006 | 5:00am"I only had two beers," an allegedly drunk BMW driver told cops after an Upper East Side crash that left a young woman comatose and barely alive. The claim, by...
VEAL RACK$ HAVOC; B'KLYN BUNGLE FUROR
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Brooklyn meat company has cooked up a major beef with Japan by shipping a banned cut of veal - a recipe for disaster that could cost America...
FRANCE FOWL FEAR ; EUROPE ON BIRD-FLU 'DEATH' ALERT
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amBird flu has reached France and could soon claim its first human victims in Europe, health officials warned yesterday. Word that the deadly disease had reached as far as Lyon...
SOME DOG-GONE GOOD NEWS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe missing Westminster Dog Show whippet may be alive and well and living in a construction site, according to a tipster who says she saw the prize pooch early yes...
FOES YANK SUOZZI'S DEM-FEST INVITATION
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Thomas Suozzi, mounting an insurgent challenge to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is being shut out of a key political gathering this weekend by...
FINAL BELL TO RING OUT QNS. SCHOOL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Diocese of Brooklyn announced yesterday that a financially struggling Queens parish elementary school would not reopen next year - becoming the first of what officials expect to be a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A mystery gunman shot and killed a man on a Mount Hope street corner early yesterday, police said. Victor Baez, 23, was found around midnight on the...
FURY AT 'TALL TALE' ; MIDGET-TAUNT GAL SEEKS TO FLIP PLEA
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amAn accused midget-menace and welfare cheat walked out of court yesterday, calling the accusations against her - that she and her husband cruelly likened their neighbors to the munchkins of...
'JUNIOR' NO-NAME JURY SET; WITH MAN IN HIS 80S
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amA federal judge swore in an anonymous jury yesterday for John "Junior" Gotti's second trial on sensational racketeering charges that include the 1992 kidnapping of radio host Curtis Sliwa. The...
QUINN AXES 'SEX' VICTIM
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amSaphora Lifrak - who blew the lid off the Allan Jennings sex scandal at the City Council - was one of the 61 longtime council aides fired by Speaker Christine...
GUNNER STUNNER; BEAU KNEELS & L.I. ACE SAYS YES
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amWhen a Marine fighter pilot from Long Island touched down recently in South Carolina after a seven-month tour in Iraq, a bomb fell down on her - in the form...
KID-CHOKE PILL WAS A MONSTER
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Cooper Burkey stopped eating his vegetables, his doctor suggested he be given the food supplement that ended up killing the TriBeCa 4-year-old, police said yesterday. Cooper choked to death...
OLD MAN WINTER BLOWS BACK
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTrees toppled by fierce winds killed two upstate drivers yesterday and knocked out power to 300,000 people, officials said. A 52-year-old woman in suburban Rochester and a Department of Transportation...
YOU JUST CAN'T TALK TO SOME HEATHENS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTHE young man with the hot head calls himself Abdul lah, which he translates to mean "slave of God." This slave is revolting, in more ways than one. "If anyone...
TIED UP, TORTURED & LEFT MUTE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amAn elite team of NYPD detectives has taken over investigating the apparent abduction and torture of a mute mystery man found in Times Square Wednesday. Kidnap- and extortion-plot experts from...
BOMB THREAT A BUST; FAMILY 'WED' WAR
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amEnraged by their older sister's plan to skip out on an arranged marriage, two Queens brothers phoned in a terrorist threat to Long Island's MacArthur Airport last month, officials said...
'NIXZMARY' SUIT
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe father of child-abuse victim Nixzmary Brown's eldest sibling is set to sue the city for millions for "gross negligence," but some family members say the absentee dad is just...
'SLAY' VICTIM FOUND IN FIRE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe body of an apparent slaying victim was found yesterday inside a burning Queens building. The body of the 33-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was found by cops on...
'100' COP EYES STATE SENATE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amNYPD Capt. Eric Adams, a long-time department critic, announced yesterday he has retired to pursue a vacant state Senate seat in Brooklyn. Adams, the founder of One Hundred Blacks in...
DEVECCHIO: I'M NO 'DEATH' LEAKER
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amAttorneys for an embattled former FBI agent under investigation for allegedly leaking deadly information to the mob insisted yesterday he was innocent. "What is happening now is a disgrace and...
RAPIST IS TERRORIZING BRONX GALS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amA violent rapist has preyed on three young women in two Bronx neighborhoods this week - assaulting two of them after invading their apartments, police said yesterday. The man attacked...
BUS KILLS TRAGIC BRONX GRANNY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amAn elderly woman was struck and killed by a school bus yesterday at a Bronx intersection, police said. The private school bus hit the 80-year-old woman as she crossed the...
SKATEBOARD 'KID' IN 'OD'
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amA skateboarder who appeared in the controversial 1995 movie "Kids" was found dead in his Lower East Side apartment yesterday of an apparent cocaine overdose, cops said. Harold Hunter, 31,...
HERE'S 'LIZA' LOHAN - LINDSAY PLAYS A 'CABARET'
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amAnd the award for best impersonation of an Oscar-winning actress goes to ... Lindsay Lohan. The sizzling starlet steps into the roles of several best actresses in the March issue...
POSH A BIG $NOW-OFF - PRICEY DUDS FOR SPICY SKI BABE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amShe rose to fame as Posh Spice - but now stunning singer Victoria Beckham is living posh on ice. The former Spice Girl showed up sporting a blizzard of bling...
NICK: I'LL TAKE $50M - WANTS ALIMONY FROM JESSICA
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amSpurned hubby Nick Lachey is looking for alimony from his ex-wife Jessica Simpson, in addition to half her fortune - refuting her earlier divorce claim that she doesn't owe him...
THE 'CAST'ING COUCH - NEW BATCH OF RAPS AIMED AT GRAB-A-LOT GAL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amBroadway producer Dede Harris turned the cast and crew of "The Exonerated" into "The Flabbergasted" as they witnessed her bawdy behavior toward stars of the death-row show, especially Gabriel Byrne,...
SCUFFLE-TRAGEDY KID PLEADS OUT
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe 12-year-old girl accused of getting into a scuffle two months ago with a school safety agent who later died pleaded guilty yesterday to obstruction of governmental administration. The girl,...
JETS, CHAD AT ODDS ; AGENT TURNS DOWN CONTRACT PROPOSAL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe first round of the Chad Pennington vs. Jets contract renegotiation bout has not gone well for the Jets. Two people with knowledge of the goings on said Pennington's agent...
WILLIE WON'T WILT AT PRESSURE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The thing I like most about Mets manager Willie Randolph is that he is not afraid of pressure. Bring it on, he says. Well, here it...
DERBY OWNERS PASS AWAY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amBob Lewis and Roy "Chappy" Chapman, two larger-than-life thoroughbred owners whose Kentucky Derby winners Silver Charm and Smarty Jones, respectively, came within a heartbeat of sweeping the Triple Crown, both...
TOUPS TO MISS 2-3 WEEKS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amBug boy Randall Toups, who was sent to hospital Thursday when his mount Mombo Loco suffered fatal breakdown on far turn, has hairline fracture of lumbar vertebra and will be...
SHANI SKATING FOR GOLD
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - The best soap opera of these Olympics is not Bode Miller's drinking adventures or the Gambling Gretzkys. It is found in an unlikely area - the long...
TINO HEADING TO ESPN
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTino Martinez is on the verge of signing on with ESPN to be a "Baseball Tonight" analyst. "We are in discussions with him about a role at ESPN," network spokesman...
COMFORT ZONE; UNIT & POSADA SEEK SPARK AS BATTERY-MATES
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - John Flaherty predicts Randy Johnson and Jorge Posada won't have problems working together. Because Flaherty was Johnson's personal catcher for the final three months last year after the...
JETER: A-ROD CRITICS JEALOUS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Derek Jeter is never comfortable speaking for others, but after a workout at the minor league complex yesterday, the Yankees' shortstop shed a sliver of light...
KIL-D'OH: ANOTHER FALL FOR AMERICAN
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN 2006 NOTEBOOK TURIN, Italy - Lindsey Kildow took another spill yesterday in the slalom portion of the women's combined race. The U.S. skier lost her balance halfway through her...
CYCLONES' PILOT TAKES LONG WAY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amDozens of fresh faces will converge upon Port St. Lucie next week for the opening of Mets' spring training - the official start of their professional baseball careers. Most will...
YANKEE PRIDE ALIVE IN JORGE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - Jorge Posada's pride has been dented. You bet it has, he says. After all, pride is as much a part of his game as power and patience, and...
PLAYOFF PUSH ; RANDOLPH: METS CAN BE 'SPECIAL'
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - He didn't even have his uniform on, and only his pitchers, catchers and some position players have arrived in camp. But in talking to the media...
ZAMBRANO NO ROTATION LOCK
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets already have a battle for the fifth starting pitcher spot, but Willie Randolph said yesterday Victor Zambrano is not secure as the...
LI'L NATE'S LOOMIN' BIG
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Anyone would be hard-pressed to remember most of the winners from the previous 20 Slam-Dunk Contests held during the annual NBA All-Star Weekend, but just about everyone old...
CHAUNCEY SURPRISED BY KNICKS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Pistons All-Star Chauncey Billups warned some of the Knicks before the season began that it would be a difficult process adjusting to coach Larry Brown. But Billups never...
STORM AD MEETS WITH NCAA ON INFRACTIONS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amIn a guarded telephone conversation with The Post, St. John's athletics director Chris Monasch shed a little light on yesterday's meeting in San Antonio with the NCAA Committee on Infractions...
GOLD SCAR - SHOBOATING JACOBELLIS FALLS, SETTLES FOR SILVER
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amBARDONECCHIA, Italy - Imagine Secretariat racing down the final stretch of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, then standing up on his hind legs as he approached the final pole to wave...
SPOTLIGHT NOW FIXED ON EMILY
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - There is no pressure at all on Emily Hughes, last-minute Olympic ice skating injury substitution with no chance to medal, only an opportunity to compete with the...
NOT SO SWEDE - U.S. WOMEN 'IN SHOCK' AFTER LOSS
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amURIN, Italy - Twenty-five times the women's national hockey teams of Sweden and the United States had played, with the Americans winning 25 and on their way to a 26th...
U.S. DUO REMAINS HOPEFUL
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto were supposed to change American figure skating history. Last night, they just added to the Americans' disappointing run in Olympic ice dancing....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 18, 2006 | 5:00amYou may have heard of hall monitors, but now China has deputized a battalion of Wall Monitors. The legendary, 4,000-mile-long Great Wall of China is suffering under the impact of...