April 16, 2006
IF YOU THOUGHT THE DEFICIT WAS BIG, BRACE YOURSELF
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: While the Bush administration talks about a deficit this year of about $400 billion, the U.S. debt clock has us on a $765 billion annual pace for the...
SHORT-SELLERS ARE BURNED BY NOVASTAR
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amOne Midwestern financial company, long a target of short-sellers, has deployed an infrequently used tactic to inflict pain on its naysayers: Its management has put in place a strategy that...
CONTENT CREATORS ARE GETTING 'REVVED' UP
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amHere's a novel idea that has so far been ignored by broadband video sites: paying the content creators for their work. That quaint concept forms the foundation of Revver.com's business...
APPLE & SOUR GRAPES; BRUMMEL FEELS DISSED OVER EXCHANGE WITH JOBS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amGIVE Tony Brummel, the volatile chief of indie rock label Victory Records, credit for trying. Brummel, who has resisted making his tunes available on iTunes and has rarely missed an...
ACTORS EYE HIGHER RESIDUALS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAs television content floods across new distribution platforms, actors are rising to their feet demanding higher residual payments for the additional availability of their work. In fact, two of Hollywood's...
GOING MOBILE; TV SCRAMBLES TO REACH VIEWERS AWAY FROM SETS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amConsumers want their MTV - but in this case, the acronym stands for mobile television. The ability to view content on iPods, computer screens and cellphones is revolutionizing TV in...
BIG TRIBUTE TO FATTY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amIF Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is remembered today, it's probably because of a crime he didn't commit rather than the many films he starred in and directed. The Museum of Modern...
ART MEETS ARF; CANINE-INSPIRED ARTWORK, POETRY ON DISPLAY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amDogs have more to offer than unconditional love: For creative types, they also provide inspiration. Consider "Men, Women and Dogs," an exhibition of works by the renowned conceptual artist Sherrie...
GLADIATOR CHESS GETS THUMBS UP
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Danish Championship, which ends tomorrow, will be remembered for introducing yet another new format to discourage draws. It's called "gladiator chess" and it requires the players to begin an...
'ELIZABETH 1' - ONE FIERCE QUEEN AGAINST THE WORLD
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhen you need somebody to play a queen, you can't do much better than to call Helen Mirren. The regal actress plays not one, but two queens - and they're...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amDRAMA The first family HAVING resigned his job in the West Wing, Rod (Kyle Secor) settles into family life, but the entire First Family is thrown for a loop when...
VIEIRA HARDLY AMERICA'S SWEETHEART
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWe don't hold Meredith Vieira, the newly named co-host of NBC's "Today," in very high regard. Then again, she started it. Given Vieira's extensive background in TV news, it remains...
'SOPRANOS' DEATH WATCH HEATS UP
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTONY'S thinking it's time for an unworthy member of his crew to bite the big one on "The Sopranos." The way we see it, Village People honorary member Vito Spatafore...
'COMMANDER'PALES NEXT TO 'WEST WING'
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amNow we're really in trouble - the country is being run by Ever Carradine and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. They're Very Important People, advisers to the nation's first female president, Mackenzie Allen...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
April 16, 2006 | 4:00am20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1997) Sunday, 9 a.m., Sci Fi In the 1800's a ship sent to check out a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters a furturistic submarine and...
HOT SEAT - PUSSYCAT DOLL NO. 1
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amOriginally founded 10 years ago as a lingerie-clad, burlesque-style dance troupe in Los Angeles with a revolving cast of Hollywood starlets attempting to naughty-up their images for a night, the...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
April 16, 2006 | 4:00am1 Bard birthday bonanza We're prepping for "Shakespeare in the Park" madness by celebrating the playwright's 442nd birthday at Symphony Space next Sunday. The free Shakespeare marathon features performances from...
THE TWISTED KNIFE - INSIDE 'THREEPENNY,' B'WAY'S MOST SCANDALOUS SHOW - MEET THE WACKIEST CAST ON B'WAY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00am'Threepenny Opera' players thumb their noses at rich theater fans MURDERERS, whores and thieves: "The Threepenny Opera" has 'em all, plus a scathing script and scintillating score. In 1928, it...
ANARCHY FROM THE UK - 'EMPIRE SQUARE' IS THE NEXT TOXIC 'TOON
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amBlur drummer Dave Rowntree's black plastic glasses and pleasant demeanor mask the heart of a man who's not afraid to offend, disgust or scandalize - all of which he does...
IN A JAMMY - AWARDS FOR ROCK NOODLERS COME OF AGE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Jammy Awards don't want to thank the Academy - either Recording or Motion Picture. In fact, the Jammys don't thank anybody, since there are hardly any speeches. Not because...
UNDER THE COVERS, VOL. 1
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS "Under the Covers, Vol. 1" 3 STARS Shout Factory Pop vets like the Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet know there's nothing like the power...
DYNAMIC DUO - LAUREL AND HARDY'S BIG DVD SETS ARE LAUGHABLE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amCONSIDERED by many the greatest comic team of all time, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are finally getting a deluxe DVD treatment. "TCM Archives: The Laurel and Hardy Collection" (Warner,...
LET IT REIGH, IN COLOR - THESE HOT LOOKS WARD OFF APRIL SHOWERS WITH STYLE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00am- ShedRain pastel argyle-print umbrella, $22 at Macy's. Candy-colored raincoat with sash belt, $395, at Cole Haan. Round-toe rubber flats, $125, at Kate Spade. - Swimming pool scene umbrella, $60,...
CITY SOCKS AWAY $1B AMID WTC WORKERS' AID BATTLE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city is locked in battle with thousands of Ground Zero workers who are demanding a piece of a $1 billion fund created to pay claims against New York City...
SICK WTC WORKERS SUING CITY FOR CUT OF $1B STASH
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city is locked in a battle with thousands of Ground Zero workers over a $1 billion fund created to pay claims against New York City and its contractors arising...
POLICE 'KILLER' IN FITS; 'LOOKS CRAZY' IN JAIL
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAs the ex-cop who allegedly gunned down a retired Port Authority police officer awaited arraignment yesterday, he appeared almost catatonic, with his hands twitching and his eyes rolling back into...
'SHELL' SHOCK AT CENTRAL PK. EASTER FEST ; EGG HUNT NIXED
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's Central Park Easter event attracted record crowds yesterday - though many were disappointed that the traditional egg hunt was eggs-terminated. Although it was dubbed the Eggstravaganza, the annual...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Detectives have arrested three men on attempted-murder charges after the victim of a February shooting in Chinatown led them to his assailants, sources said yesterday. In the early...
IT'S 0-FOR-3 FOR STADIUM LEAP LOONY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amIt was strike three yesterday for the dopey daredevil who leaped off Yankee Stadium's upper deck and landed in the netting behind home plate during a game last year. Cops...
LUCKY MOLLY'S IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAfter two weeks trapped in the wall of a Greenwich Village grocery store, Molly the cat is enjoying a pampered weekend with family. Molly, who never gave up me owing...
$3-A-GALLON MARK IS KICK IN THE GAS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amGas prices are racing higher, with service stations throughout the city raising prices to more than $3 a gallon for the first time this year. The AAA put a gallon...
HAMPTONS SWINDLER 'ISOLATED'
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe Hamptons high-society swindler is unhappily living in protective custody in a shabby Rikers Island cell and has dropped tons of weight from awful prison food, a source told The...
LOTTO POOL GETS EVEN MORE MEGA
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAnd the pot thickens. With no winner declared in Friday's Mega Millions drawing, the jackpot is now $265 million. While 20 tickets sold nailed five of the six numbers in...
BUTT STOPS HERE IN JERSEY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe refinery smokestacks on the New Jersey Turnpike still stink, but at least Garden State bars and restaurants won't. At the stroke of midnight last night, New Jersey officially banned...
A NEW SCHOOL FEAR
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amBUSING has come to Gotham. Or, at least, forced integration - along cultural, if not racial, lines. And any parent who cares about his kid has a right to be...
LATIN GRAMMY GLITCH-FIX EARNS SHELLY A SILVER MEDAL
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amIT took more than three years for the city to lure the Latin Grammy Awards, but the deal nearly fell apart because Madison Square Garden was booked on the dates...
MIND YOUR TANNERS; L.I. REP: PUT LABELS ON UV BEDS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amGet out of bed! That's the message from a Long Island congresswoman who wants to slap warning labels on tanning beds - a move the tanning industry says is no...
AXES FALL AT ACS; 3 'NIXZMARY' WORKERS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThree ACS employees accused of mishandling 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's case in January were fired by the city agency recently. The three child-welfare workers were "terminated" for their roles in the...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUIT; BIKINI CELEBRATES 60TH
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amVive le bikini. The must-have of every woman's summer wardrobe has just turned 60 - and its never looked so young and hip, or been as popular. It was not...
EASTER SUNNY DAY BRINGS KIDS TO PARK; SUMMER EGGED ON
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's Central Park Easter event attracted record crowds yesterday as families made the most of stunning 80-degree temperatures. "It's such a beautiful day," said Bronx mom Hannah Baker, 34,...
UNFIT FOR A QUEEN ; LUXURY LINER GETS 'MOON'LIT VOYAGE TO B'KLYN
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWELCOME to Brooklyn,passengers. It seems fitting that the Queen Mary 2 - the massive snob-mover that insists on segregating first-class passengers from lowly steerage types - made its inaugural landing...
SEX-RAP 'SEX' ACTOR GIVES UP
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amVeteran actor James Barbour has gone from "Sex and the City" to sex crime in the city after he quietly surrendered to New York police on charges he seduced a...
DRIFTER IN HARLEM IS MURDERED
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amA drifter was stabbed to death after he got into a fight with a homeless woman on a Harlem street corner, police sources said. Alvin Anthony, 31, was standing on...
WEAPON RAP FOR SELF-DEFENSE PAIR
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTwo brothers who were shot defending their Brooklyn shop from a pair of stick-up men were busted for returning fire with an illegal handgun, police sources said. The gunfight erupted...
MOTORCYCLE SLAMS INTO SUV, KILLING BX. BIKER
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amA couple riding on a motorcycle crashed into a SUV in The Bronx last night, leaving the bike's driver dead and seriously injuring his female rider, police said. The accident...
MUCH ADO ABOUT MANLY MEN
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amEDITOR'S NOTE: Post movie critic Kyle Smith recently sat down for an interview with Harvard Professor Harvey C. Mansfield on his new book "Manliness" (Yale, 304 pp., $27.50). 'WOMEN are...
NYPD DISS $ERVICE; BACK-PAY 'DEBTS' STUN COPS WHO WENT OFF TO WAR
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amCity cops called into active military duty after 9/11 are being issued huge bills - some projected to reach six figures - as the NYPD tallies the back wages they...
$58B B'KLYN SUIT OVER BITTER SPILL
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMore than a dozen Greenpoint, Brooklyn, residents are taking on Big Oil with a $58 billion lawsuit, claiming a gigantic spill in the 1950s is still wreaking havoc on their...
A KILLER BOD IN THE STARS - TOP-SECRET FITNESS TIPS OF HOLLYWOOD'S BUFFEST HUNKS AND HOTTIES
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhen it's time for Demi Moore to pull off an one-armed push-up on the set of "G.I. Jane," there is only one man she can turn to to pull off...
LOOKIN' FOR BOO ON THE ISLE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The NHL's Shipwreck Franchise appears on course to collide with an iceberg (yes, another one), and if that isn't threatening enough news, it's even more ominous knowing that...
CAMPOLI A ROOKIE IN NAME ONLY
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amLooking for bright spots in an utterly disappointing season of Islanders hockey? Look no further than the play of rookie defenseman Chris Campoli. With two games left in the season,...
DOOR OPEN FOR DEVILS TO NAB TITLE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amBy losing four straight attempts at clinching the Atlantic Division title, the Rangers have left the door open a crack and the Devils have every intention of barging in on...
MOOSE: SO FAR, SO GOOD
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Mike Mussina needed to wait until yesterday to find out if throwing 116 pitches Friday took a toll on his 37-year-old right arm. "It didn't seem...
ANDERSON SECOND THOUGHT
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Since Paul Lo Duca was given yesterday off, Willie Randolph moved Anderson Hernandez into the No. 2 spot in the lineup. Hernandez entered the game batting .167 (5-for-30),...
MIRACULOUS MISS CHARGES HOME
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAqueduct closed today for Easter Sunday; racing resumes Wednesday with carryover of nearly $50G. Miraculous Miss, who charged from dead last to win Forward Gal at Gulfstream Park last out...
FLOYD IN FUNK ; 'MY GRANDMOTHER COULD GET ME OUT'
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Cliff Floyd first started talking to the media after yesterday's 8-2 Mets' loss to the Brewers yesterday, his 6-foot-4 frame was sprawled out on the black leather couch in...
RUNNING OUT OF PUCK; DIVISION IN DANGER AFTER LATEST RANGER LOSS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amFlyers 4Rangers 1 PHILADELPHIA - So now the Rangers' season has been reduced to one "maybe" after another. As in, maybe the Flyers won't win their last two and thus...
A-ROD: 'I AM ONE TO BLAME'
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMINNEAOPOLIS - Blame Alex Rodriguez for the Yankees' inconsistent ways. At least that's what A-Rod says. "I feel when I swing the bat well, the team does better. I need...
DOME COOKED ; TWINS WRECK RIVERA WITH TWO IN NINTH
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTwins 6Yankees 5 MINNEAPOLIS - Mariano Rivera on the mound in the ninth with a one run lead is about as close to a sports lock as you can get....
BLUESHIRTS NEED LUNDQVIST BOOST
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Eight minutes into Peter Fors berg's first game back in five yesterday, he kicked the puck out of the reach of Tomas Pock, created a two-on-one, set up...
MILESTONE WIN FOR RICK
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amSHOOTOUTIslanders 5Penguins 4 For all the ups and downs Rick DiPietro has endured this season, his first full year as the Islanders' No. 1 goalie, the young puck stopper recorded...
SOUR GRAPES TO BLAME TURKEYS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amVINEYARD owners in California, New York and Connecticut have complained about wild turkeys eating their grapes, but a recent study shows that turkeys are actually helpful to the wine growers....
IT'S TIME TO DISTINGUISH THE FOOLS FROM THE GOLD
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWITH the season two weeks old, it's justified to look at some flukes and some real deals. There is a ton of apparently unanticipated gems out there. It seems as...
TIME TO ADDRESS THIS JULIO MESS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amJORGE Julio provoked the largest Saturday home crowd in Mets history to actually chant "Bring back Benson," though it never specified Kris, Anna or the 1980s sitcom. At this point,...
JORGE EARNING HIS BOOS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amFor relievers at Shea, it can get late early. Jorge Julio already has entered the Mel Rojas-Armando Benitez Flushing Twilight Zone. Once the black hole of negativity starts swirling at...
WINNING STREAK PUT OFF TRACH - BREWERS GET BREAKS TO STOP METS AT SEVEN
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amBREWERS 8 METS 2 Steve Trachsel said Willie Randolph's recent pronouncement that the veteran was the team's fifth starter didn't affect him yesterday. Neither did pitching on seven days rest....
WRIGHT, PAVANO HAVEN'T PAID OFF
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - When the Yankees dumped $61 million on Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright following the 2004 season,they firmly believed it was money well spent. They needed to get younger...
DIXIE DYNAMITE - CALL THE BRAVES DUDS AT YOUR OWN RISK
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Atlanta Braves are the James Bond of baseball. You know they are going to get into seemingly inescapable trouble and you know they are going to escape. The fun...
COMING TO PASS - TOP 3 QBS HAVE UNIQUE QUALITIES & QUESTIONS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThis would be easier if it were 2004 and the three stud quarterbacks in the draft were named Eli Manning, Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger. They were almost clones -...
TANGLED UP IN BOO! BELTRAN BASHERS NEED THEIR HEADS EXAMINED
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amSO I saw something the other night that I've never seen before, thanks to the magical eye of television. Carlos Beltran had just done something unforgivable - he'd popped out...
ROAD SKIP - BROWN WON'T HAVE TO STOMACH ANOTHER RETURN TO AUBURN HILLS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks arrived in Detroit for tonight's 6 p.m. game without Larry Brown, and the ailing coach may not return at all this season. But if the stress of their...
CARTER IS CLOSING IN ON NETS RECORD
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amThe Nets have locked up the Atlantic Division, as well as the third seed in the Eastern Conference, so they don't figure to have much to gain over the regular...
RADIO DAZE - STERLING'S STILL BRONX BUMBLER
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amIF YOU made the same embarrassing mistakes hundreds of times - and in public, no less - wouldn't you become inclined to cut it out? Not John Sterling. He may...
SURPRISING ROBINSON'S THE LAST FROM '89 DRAFT CLASS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN Clifford Robinson left the Huskies after four years for the NBA, Connecticut was still a colony. At 39 - still lean and astonishingly limber despite a minimal amount of...
BEAUTIES & THE BEASTS - POST'S 10TH ANNUAL BEST AND WORST OF N.Y. SPORTS
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amWhom do we love and whom do we love to hate? For the tenth consecutive year, here are the figures from New York's professional teams who both rate, and rate...
HEAD TO HEAD - PHENOM FOR ACE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amPost baseball columnist Kevin Kernan and reporter Michael Morrissey slug it out over whether the Mets should trade Lastings Milledge for Dontrelle Willis Kevin Kernan: The worst mistake the Mets...
NOT SO ROUGH - WINGED FOOT COURSE MAY PLAY NICE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amTIGER Woods and Phil Mickelson may not need to be as paranoid about the rough at the U.S. Open as they usually are. After years of growing a consistent, jungle-thick...
BOSTON RUIN - ROSIE'S MARATHON RUSE
April 16, 2006 | 4:00amAPRIL 21, 1980 BOSTON - You had to watch Rosie Ruiz pass through her post-race stages to appreciate the more bizarre aspects of yesterday 's Boston Marathon. As the sun...