April 10, 2006
DOWN AT HEELS - NINE WEST SALES FALL AMID EXEC EXITS, MISSTEPS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAt a time when shoes are rivaling handbags as the next hot accessory, Nine West, the giant footwear company, whose brands include Easy Spirit and Bandolino, continues to stumble, raising...
ART & ANTIQUES SOLD TO CURTCO MEDIA
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amArt & Antiques has been sold to Curtco Media, which aims to bring a new sense of urgency to a once sleepy cultural backwater of publishing that is suddenly percolating...
BIOVAIL'S $22M PURCHASE CONFOUNDS REGULATORS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amControversial Canadian pharmaceutical company Biovail's purchase of Pharmaceutical Technologies has been included as a subject of the continuing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into Biovail, according to company filings. The...
OFFICE READS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SPARK: IGNITING THE CREATIVE FIRE THAT LIVES WITHIN US ALL By Lyn Heward and John U. Bacon Doubleday, $19.95 IN the midst of the daily grind, amid all the...
ODD DUCK FILLS THE BILL
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amDAVID Eldridge's dining-room tragedy-comedy "Festen" - that's Danish for "celebration" - is an odd duck. Carefully, indeed brilliantly, coached by the director, Rufus Norris, the production that opened last night...
LIP SERVICE - LOSE WEIGHT WITH A GLOSS, AND OTHER MIRACLE MAKEUPS; QUIT CIGS & LOOK SMOKIN'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amSAY goodbye to cigarettes, fat thighs, single life and your cupcake addiction - and make room in your medicine cabinet for the beauty products that will solve all your problems....
NICE 'VIEW-ISH' GIRL - WOULD BARBARA'S MORNING GABFEST WORK AS WELL WITH CONNIE CHUNG?
April 10, 2006 | 4:00am'THE View" will be different next fall, after the exit of Meredith Vieira for the "Today" show. The question all over TV this week is: how different? "There are just...
'STAR WARS KID' GETS REVENGE - WINS BIG $ LAWSUIT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amTHE high-school student who became an Internet phenomenon as the "Star Wars Kid" has settled a huge lawsuit with the classmates who first posted the video without his knowledge. Ghyslain...
TAKE TWO TABLETS - MOSES KNOWSES YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO REMAKE 'TEN COMMANDMENTS'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amIN his rush to get back down the mountain to his tribe, who had taken up dancing in his absence, Moses forgot to wait for God to fire up the...
THAT'S A RAP FOR NETS' OWNER RATNER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThree years ago, nebbishy real-estate developer Bruce Ratner was best known for building shopping malls. Now he's mentioned in a rap song - albeit one he commissioned. Rapper/music-exec Jay-Z -...
PATERSON BILLS AIM AT COPS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amState Sen. David Paterson is backing a bill that would give courts power to assign special prosecutors when police brutality has been alleged - taking the potentially explosive cases away...
PALM PRAYERS AT ST. PAT'S
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of Catholics packed St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning to observe Palm Sunday and commence the holiest week of the Christian faith. The Mass honored the last days of Jesus...
CHUCK TO HOST 'APPRENTICES'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amForget the fabulous four-star dinner at one of the city's best restaurants or cocktails aboard a first-rate cruise ship. The prize for the winning team on tonight's episode of "The...
HILL'S 'WA$TE' - 500G CRISIS PLAN AIDED ONLY 3,000
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amEmergency experts are questioning why a $500,000 disaster-preparedness program that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped to fund assisted only about 3,000 New Yorkers, The Post has learned. "It's a waste...
SIZZLING 'ICE AGE' SCORES COLD CASH
April 10, 2006 | 4:00am"Ice Age: The Meltdown" continued its red-hot reign as the nation's box-office king over the weekend, as it became the first flick of 2006 to top $100 million. The animated...
CHUCK BLASTS LAX AIR PASSES
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amForging a boarding pass should be a federal offense - and airport screeners should check the passes against a terrorist watch list before passengers board their flight, Sen. Charles Schumer...
DUKE JOCK'S SICK E-MAIL 'A MOVIE RIP-OFF'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amDefenders of the beleaguered Duke University lacrosse team claim a player's explosive e-mail threatening to kill a stripper may have been a goofy prank based on a movie. A lawyer...
FINES TARGET GUN SELLERS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA new bill would let the city fine dealers and makers who sell illegal guns $100,000 for each violation of a "code of conduct." Brooklyn Councilman David Yassky said yesterday...
EX-MARINE GENERAL RIPS IRAQ WAR
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA retired Marine Corps general blasts the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, calling it unnecessary while chastising himself for not challenging a strategy that siphoned attention from "the real threat...
SPECTER TO W.: TIME TO COME CLEAN
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush must provide a "detailed explanation" for why he authorized a leak of classified information about Iraq, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said yesterday. The powerful Pennsylvania...
AMITYVILLE HORROR - GIRL, 14, DIES IN SISTER'S ARMS AFTER PARTY SHOOT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old honors student from Long Island died in her little sister's arms after being shot by a punk who'd just been booted from her friend's birthday party, cops said...
POTS OF GOLD IN 2 LOTTERIES
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe Powerball jackpot is at $220 million this week, while Mega Millions' top prize is an estimated $189 million - and growing. The Powerball sum rose when no one matched...
A 'DISTRESSING' DISCOVERY
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAbout 750,000 New Yorkers reported experiencing frequent mental distress last year, said a study released yesterday. "This is distress that lasts for 14 or more days a month," said the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * Three men were arrested yesterday on gun charges after they opened fire on a St. Albans street, police sources said. Police responded to a call of several shots...
NUCLEAR PLAN VS. IRANIANS - U.S. COY ON REPORT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military planners are drawing up detailed plans to attack Iran - including possibly using tactical nuclear weapons to get at deeply buried Iranian targets, according to published...
DENY DROPOUTS A LICENSE: POLL
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amStay in school - your right to drive could depend on it, if the majority of Americans have their way. A new poll by Time magazine and "The Oprah Winfrey...
DEATH-CHASE KIDS WERE ON HUNT: COPS - 4 BUSTED IN NYU STUDENT'S DEATH
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA marauding band of teen thugs - including two baby-faced 13-year-olds - were sadistically stalking their Harlem neighborhood for an "easy mark" to rob when they cornered an NYU student...
KURDS REJECT SHIITE BOSS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe formation of a unified Iraqi government continued to drag yesterday after Kurdish leaders, for the final time, said they rejected Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Shiite Alliance nominee for prime minister,...
$11M 'IDOL' PLEASURE - SEACREST BUYS COSTNER ESTATE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThere goes the neighborhood! Oscar-winner Kevin Costner is selling his Hollywood Hills mansion to "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest for $11.5 million. The palatial, 10,000- square -foot Spanish hacienda lies...
MCGREEVEY NESTS WITH NEW LOVER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amHe's out of the closet, and now New Jersey's former governor is out house-hunting with his new boyfriend in a gay-friendly town. James McGreevey and his beau of several months,...
'THRAX DANCER 'BURNED' - EPA CLEANUP 'WRECKED' VILLAGE PAD
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe dancer who miraculously survived anthrax claims he can't return to his West Village apartment because overzealous federal and city workers burned everything in it except his furniture. Vado Diomande,...
NUDE PHOTO ON BOUNCER CELLPHONE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amCops have discovered a photo of the lower half of a naked woman on accused killer Darryl Littlejohn's cellphone - and are trying to find out if she is one...
IMMIGRATION-FRAUD BOOM
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMARIA Maximo - the "Bad Samaritan" charged last week with scamming illegal immigrants - highlights an ugly truth about today's immigration system: Fraud is booming. The number of such predators...
THERE'S A METHOD TO ZAC'S MADNESS - ANTICS ARE 'JIHAD': EXPERTS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA Va. - There is a coldly calculated purpose behind 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's bizarre behavior in the courtroom, experts on jihadist ideology and mindset told The Post "Moussaoui is...
CITY 'PAY DIRT' - YANK & MET FIELD SALE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amNew ballparks on the drawing boards for the Yankees and Mets could produce a multimillion-dollar windfall for the city when every conceivable part of the old facilities is put up...
STRIPPER-SLAY SHOCK - EX-BEAU SODOMY CHARGE IS DROPPED
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amHer bravery in coming forward led to an arrest in one of the city's bloodiest killings: the brutal slashing of a beautiful brunette stripper. But now, a Manhattan woman who...
HOSP'S TOXIC FUMES - SICKENED TECH SUES
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amTwo workers got sick from noxious fumes in their office at the Metropolitan Hospital Center on the Upper East Side - where hundreds of patients receive ultrasound tests, The Post...
U.S. OPEN CLOSED TO UMPS LIKE US - LINE JUDGES SPUR 'BIAS' PROBE OF USTA
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe state Attorney General's Office is investigating allegations the United States Tennis Association has engaged in sex, race and age discrimination against its umpires, The Post has learned. The investigation,...
SUOZZI $OCKING IT TO MEDICAID MILLIONAIRES
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThe party's over for Medicaid millionaires in Nassau County who illegally stuck taxpayers with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills to care for their sick spouses, according to...
LITTLE-GIRL 'LIES' - MOM'S EX BLASTS CASE VS. 'PERV' LAWYER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA New Jersey man is stepping forward to defend a Manhattan mom accused of pimping her two underage daughters out to a white-shoe lawyer for sex - claiming that he...
ELTON PLAYING (F)ROCK CENTER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amElectric boots and a mohair suit? No, but how about a fluorescent-green Gucci fur or python jacket lined in pony skin? Those are just two of the outrageously flamboyant items...
CLASSES GETTING SMALLER - CHARTERS OFF HOOK
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amClass size has mostly declined in public schools that share space with charter schools, a Post investigation has found. Data from all 21 buildings in the city where public and...
'NEST' UNREST - PARENTS FEEL SPACED OUT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amShe aced a Regents exam at age 11, scored 1130 on the SATs in eighth grade and turned down one of the city's top public high schools to stay in...
LATEST GREEN EGG - KEY CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL EXITS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amFORMER Public Advocate Mark Green's troubled campaign for attorney general is being rocked by the unexpected - some say forced - resignation of its political director. Corey Johnson, who was...
JUDGE 'HATES' WOMEN - DIVORCEES RIP 'REF'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA Westchester special referee is being accused of rampant sexism by a group of wealthy divorcees who say he screwed them out of alimony - and threatened to take their...
TORRE TO BOSS: DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS TEAM
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - During a 90-second phone conversation with George Steinbrenner on Saturday, Joe Torre assured The Boss his high-priced talent would come out of the early-season doldrums. "He...
GLAVINE IN EARLY GROOVE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMany of the Mets' question marks surround their starting rotation, from Pedro Martinez's toe to Victor Zambrano's hamstring, from Brian Bannister's youth to Tom Glavine's age. But if his first...
MUSIC PLAYING IN QUEENS HAS A SWEET SOUND
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amSO MUCH for that silly "Enter Sandman" jinx Yankees fans were trying to shove down the throat of Billy Wagner. When the Mets walked off with a 3-2 win at...
BROTHER DEREK LEADS FROM START
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amNot since Point Given in 2001 has a colt been at the top of the "Derby Dozen" all winter and spring and kept winning, so that he'll go into the...
ANOTHER ACE FALLS VICTIM TO BOMBERS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The good news is, the Yankees own other teams' aces; they eat aces up like a bowl of Sugar Smacks; they take good pitchers and turn them all...
BONEHEAD PHOTOG DRIVES LEFTY BATTY
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - An ignorant photographer obviously unaware of the rules and golf tournament protocol enraged Phil Mickelson on the final hole of his third round yesterday when he...
WRIGHT-ING A NEW ATTITUDE - DAVID, METS 'EXPECT TO BEAT EVERYBODY'
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMets 3 - Marlins 2 Much like their budding cornerstone, the Mets are reversing field this year. In the season's first week, David Wright has shown a serious inclination to...
YANKEES' BATS BACK IN SWING - BLAST ANGELS TO END FOUR-GAME SKID
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Angels 1 ANAHEIM - Two up and four down isn't what the Yankees expected to start this season. However, considering they were facing the possibility of winning...
BROUHAHA IN D.C. WOULDN'T STUN CLIFF
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES This week in Washington, Cliff Floyd is expecting the best - but bracing for the worst. "I'm expecting good, clean baseball," said Floyd, who was 3-for-18 with six...
KIDS CAN PLAY - YOUNGSTERS LEAD KNICKS TO 3RD STRAIGHT WIN
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amKnicks 101 - Celtics 86 BOSTON - Who needs the veterans? The Knicks officially have avoided becoming the worst team in franchise history, routing the Celtics yesterday 101-86 at Boston...
MARBURY HAS SHOT TO BE MEDIA KING
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Stephon Marbury said he has no timetable on his return or on the new book he's supposedly writing or the new television show he's supposedly going...
BOMBERS WAKE UP TO AVOID 1-5 START
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Yankees understood what lay in store for them if they'd pulled up lame again yesterday afternoon. They know how impatient the fans can be. They know how...
CURRY SITS & DOES NOT GO 4TH AGAIN
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Eddy Curry sat the fourth quarter for the second straight game and admits he's unsure why. Brown's usage of Curry, 23, has been strange, as well...
BAD BREAK AT 9 RATTLES ROCCO
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - Rocco Mediate felt the fickle finger of fate that Augusta National dishes out in the cruelest of ways. Mediate, tied for the tournament lead at 4-under,...
HOFSTRA AIDE TO CANISIUS; FAIRFIELD GRABS BC ASST.
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amA pair of MAAC schools looking for coaches have chosen the assistant route. A third could follow. Hofstra assistant Tom Parrotta will be named head basketball coach at Canisius today...
OLLIE'S EAGLE NEARLY MAGICAL
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - When Jose Maria Olazabal's five-wood from 246 yards landed on the 15th green - some 18 inches from the stick - there was a roar yesterday that signaled...
LOUGHLIN'S EBANKS SET TO TRANSFER
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amDevin Ebanks could be the top player in the city next season, but he likely won't be here. The talented 6-8 junior said last week that he was considering transferring...
BEDEVILED - LATE GOALS DOOM BLUESHIRTS
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amDevils 3 - Rangers 2 Well, well, well. Welcome to the re-emergence of the Battle of the Hudson. Welcome to what could well be a delicious first-round playoff matchup between...
LIKE OLD TIMES ON THE LOCAL ICE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amRYAN Hollweg, on the second shift, nailed the Devils' Sergei Brylin with a clean check that snapped the forward's head against the glass, drawing blood, then retaliation throughout the game....
PHIL: LET'S PRAY FOR TIGER'S DAD
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - During the winner's ceremony last night, Phil Mickelson asked everyone listening to say a prayer for Tiger Woods' father, Earl, who's in poor health in California....
JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY HIT WINGED FOOT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - As Phil Mickelson teed off on the final hole last night toward his second Green Jacket and third major championship in the last two years, I couldn't help...
THIS TIME, TIGER JUST DIDN'T HAVE IT
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Tiger Woods began the day hoping to claim his fifth Masters championship and if you believe in karma you figured another Green Jacket was Woods' destiny. Just like...
AUGUSTA HAS HAD ITS PHIL - MICKELSON MARVELOUS EN ROUTE TO JACKET
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - This time, it was different for Phil Mickelson. Oh, the second Green Jacket felt as wonderfully comfortable as it was slipped over his shoulders as the first one,...
MASTERS HAS HAD ITS PHIL - MICKELSON MARVELOUS EN ROUTE TO JACKET
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - This time, it was different for Phil Mickelson. Wonderfully different. This time, with the drama having been spread out over the course of 18 surgically-dissected holes at Augusta...
CSI: CBS - MASTERS CREW CANNOT STUMBLE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amASIDE from being a major event, the Masters makes for a special watch because of the game within the game - the TV within the television. We know, by now,...
RANGERS WANT THE JOY OF SIX
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amThere have been magic numbers for the Rangers this season, as in the 68 and 30 that adorn the uniform backs of Jaromir Jagr and Henrik Lundqvist, respectively; as in...
RANGERS, DEVILS: DÉJÀ VU AGAIN
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amNINE years have passed since the Rangers and Devils last played a playoff series. And it's amazing how time has stood still in interim. That's not just because the Rangers,...
TIGER CAN'T PUTT IT AWAY
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Tiger Woods will likely speak with his ailing father soon and the son will have some explaining to do. Certainly Earl Woods will want to know what went...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 10, 2006 | 4:00amPolitics may stink, but this is ridiculous. A West Virginia politician's house was condemned after cops found animal waste in at least three rooms, garbage throughout the residence and holes...