June 25, 2006
RISKY RETAIL - L&T BOSS CERTAIN TO FACE OBSTACLES
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amSo Richard Baker has enough wallet to buy storied retailer Lord & Taylor - but does he have the stomach to make it work? That's what retail watchers are asking...
BREWERS PLOT NY BEER TRAIL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe state's smaller beer makers, looking to lift the profile and sales of their microbrews, have created a New York State Beer Trail - a promotional campaign that will use...
UNDERLYING LIQUIDITY, DIVERSITY ARE ETFS' CHARM
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: How do I know that there's enough liquidity in an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) for it to be safe? D.C.Dear D.C.: An ETF is similar in structure to...
LETTER DETAILS PEQUOT PROBES
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amHedge fund titan Pequot Capital Management has triggered 17 separate insider-trading inquiries over the years, according to a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who detailed the charges in an...
HEY MA, WE'RE RUNNING LOW ON FRENCH TICKLERS
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amYou've heard of family stores and family farms. But a family sex-toy business? Of all the ventures mother and son could take on, selling sex toys would seem the most...
BLACK'S $$ PIT; DETAILS OF CONRAD'S MORTGAGE COME OUT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTHINK your mortgage is a bur den? You might not after seeing the details of the mortgage on fallen newspaper baron Conrad Black's Palm Beach mansion. Black, who has seen...
IT WAS IN THE STARS FOR ARMSTRONG TO BE A SHILL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amJerome Armstrong, the Internet political guru exposed in these pages as having a sketchy past as a paid stock shill, appears to have incorporated astrology into his long-running stock scam....
CHEF OF STAFF - GORDON RAMSAY BULLDOZES HIS WAY TO U.S. TV STARDOM
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amLONDON'S most celebrated chef is America's worst nightmare in the kitchen. As the contestants on Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" have all learned too painfully, one doesn't displease chef Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCULTURE LOOK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN WE are a society shaped by visual images, and in a new fivepart series called "How Art Made the World," Cambridge University lecturer Nigel Spivey...
COULTER EXCELS AT PLAYING MEDIA GAME
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCONSERVATIVE trashtalker Ann Coulter trashed four New Jersey 9/11 widows in her new book, "Godless:The Church of Liberalism" (Crown Forum); she said they were left-wing publicity hounds reveling in their...
A STAR AND HIS HORSE - ROBERT DUVALL IN HIS FIRST TV WESTERN SINCE 'LONESOME DOVE'
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFOR someone who's come to New York to promote his latest project - a western miniseries - Robert Duvall isn't much of a pitch man. For one thing, he doesn't...
PIMP YOUR ROOM, AQUARIUS-STYLE
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCAN your zodiac sign really help you design a better living space? That's the conceit behind the admittedly silly new home decorating show "What's Your Sign? Design," in which a...
SKIP WINDY 'BOFFO!' FOR RISKIER 'EDGE'
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTWO documentaries about movie-making illustrate the differences between studio blockbusters and independent films. The first one - the one about studio films that's airing this week on HBO - is...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCITIZEN KANE (1941) Sunday,12 noon,TCM When a newspaper tycoon dies uttering the word "Rosebud," a reporter researches the people in his life. Allegedly based on the life of William Randolph...
RAMBLIN' WITH RAMPLING
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amJUST because she's 60 years old doesn't mean that Charlotte Rampling is mellowing. The legendary actress - who startled audiences in movies like "The Damned," "The Night Porter," "The Verdict"...
MONEY TALKS IF YOU WANT TO BE CHAMP
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDURING the London 1922 tournament, World Champion Jose Capablanca invited his leading rivals to his hotel room and gave them a list of conditions under which he would defend his...
THE 'PRADA' DIARIES - FASHION-WORLD INSIDERS REVEAL HOW 'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA' FELL OFF THE RUNWAY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTHE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS - In fashion, the little things matter. 'Prada' misses them THE devil wears Prada and her assistant wears ... Chanel. That's just one of...
MARCH ON! J.LO TO JOIN PRIDE'S CARNIVALE
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amAS if Fifth Avenue wasn't fabulous enough on its own, today it'll be extra bootylicious as Jennifer Lopez turns up to grace the 37th Annual LGBT Pride March. The six-hour...
CANINE COUTURE - CHIC ACCOUTREMENTS FOR YOU AND YOUR DOG
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT to wear when you're out with the dog? Clothes that are easy-on and -off, lightweight and comfortable, dog-friendly yet catwalkstylish. Here's the latest in chic dog-walking fashions and accessories....
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
June 25, 2006 | 4:00am1 Food fights Two entertaining and hilarious new memoirs, Anthony Bourdain's "The Nasty Bits" and Bill Buford's "Heat," serve up the foodie world right from the trenches. 2 Drug diaries...
FASHION'S GOLDEN RULE: DON'T SPEAK
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA fashion magazine can be a surreal place to work. It's probably the only office where what you throw on your back is an unwritten part of the job description,...
EMO GOES ARENA
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL "Dusk and Summer" (three stars) Vagrant CHRISTOPHER Carraba, the guy who practically invented mainstream emo, reaches for arena-sized anthems on his latest Dashboard Confessional collection. Despite there being...
STARRY NUPS FOR KIDMAN
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amAt long last, love. Nicole Kidman's long-awaited wedding weekend had the Aussie actress beaming as A-list pals, her two kids and close family joined the star and Grammy-winning country crooner...
ROTTEN HUBBY SOLD OUR HOME AND FLED
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn anesthesiologist callously ditched his wife and three kids, leaving them homeless after he secretly sold their house and fled the country with all their money, the wife alleges....
SALT-WATER DAFFY: IT'S BRINY, BOTTLED AND PRICEY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThink you'd shell out $3 for a swig of salt water? A Hawaiian company is betting yes, rolling out its bottled ocean water this summer in hopes it will become...
SOGGY SUNDAY AND MORE
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amKeep those galoshes handy. Showers and thunderstorms will continue to hit the city on and off for the next five days, forecasters say. Today is expected to be humid with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Detectives were investigating the sudden death yesterday morning of a 2-month-old girl found unconscious by her mother in the family's University Heights apartment. Cops were summoned to...
BOROUGH BATTLE OVER PLUM POST
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA behind-the-scenes battle is brewing over the city clerk's job, one of the top patronage appointments in city government since it comes with a $174,399-a-year salary. The term of incumbent...
HIGH LIFE (TIMES 9) AT 'KITTY CLUB MED'
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amIf there is a feline heaven on earth, a Connecticut refuge certainly fills the bill - thanks to donations large and small from all over the world. Cat lovers as...
15 HURT IN B'KLYN FIRE
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA fire raced through a Brooklyn building early yesterday, sending terrified residents scrambling to get out any way they could. Thirteen residents and two firefighters suffered minor injuries in the...
SHOPS OF DIRT HORROR; 12 GROSSEST GROCERIES
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCall them the Dirty Dozen. A Manhattan Rite Aid pharmacy leads the Top 12 dirtiest food stores in the city, a report obtained by The Post shows. The Rite Aid...
BROOKLYN DUO SHOT DEAD
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amCops responding to a report of gunshots found the bodies of two young men on a Brooklyn sidewalk early yesterday. Both had been shot in the head and were still...
GAZA GANG ATTACKS ISRAELI POST
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian and Hamas militants launched a bloody rocket and gun attack on an Israeli army post near the border with the Gaza Strip today. At least two Israeli...
PBA BLASTS HOSP'S 9/11 HEALTH MONITORING
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe nation's largest police union plans to launch its own medical registry to track cancers and other life-threatening diseases hitting 9/11 responders, saying the federally funded World Trade Center medical...
FAT NICK'S 'SORRY' PLEA TO BAT-BASH VICTIM: LET'S BE BUDDIES
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amHate-crime con Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci wants to apologize to the mom of his victim Glenn Moore - and go clubbing with Moore, the man he clubbed with a baseball...
SOHO: NO GO; FACE-OFF OVER TRUMP'S HOTEL PLAN
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDonald Trump's taking on SoHo. Some angry residents - convinced that the Donald's planned 45-story condo-hotel violates the zoning code - have launched a letter-writing campaign in an effort to...
FIGHT DIVERTS P.R. BOUND AIRLINER
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA plane bound for Puerto Rico from Newark Liberty Airport was diverted to JFK Airport shortly after take off, when a scuffle broke out between two passengers, officials said yesterday....
ERRANT BUS CREATES HOME 'DEPOT'
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA swerving MTA bus ran into a house in Queens yesterday - knocking an elderly widow out of bed - after a car clipped it at an intersection. Five people,...
GATOR'S L.I. HOUSE CALL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA 3-foot-long alligator with attitude waddled onto a suburban lawn yesterday - and an off-duty Nassau County detective snapped into action. "My wife told me there was an alligator on...
MIKE LAUDS GUN LAW
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday applauded the passing of tougher laws for thugs who carry illegal guns, after the state Senate passed an amendment increasing mandatory sentences "This is a major victory...
JINT IN HOME BLITZ; STRAHAN'S $3M PAD-BUY SPREE
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amBig Blue's superstar sack man has been fending off his marital blues by sinking big bucks into new digs. Michael Strahan snatched up more than $3 million worth of real...
THUGS SHOOT HERO; SLAIN TAILING GANG
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx youth who bravely tried to thwart one mugging early yesterday - and then followed four thieves as they attempted a second - was gunned down by one of...
MURDER UP - BUCKING CRIME DROP
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe latest statistics culled by the NYPD reveal that murder is on the rise in New York City - up 9 percent in the first half of this year -...
'SEX SLAP' SUIT; LAW-FIRM PORN FUROR
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA homemade sex video uncovered on a paralegal's computer at a Park Avenue law office has placed the white-shoe firm, one of the nation's biggest, on the wrong end of...
FIX IS 'IN' FOR ROOFTOP EATERY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amSushi Samba may soon say sayonara to its popular rooftop deck. The Greenwich Village restaurant - featured on "Sex and the City" and frequented by such celebs as Usher, Tyra...
'CELL' SLAY FUROR
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe drug-dealing boyfriend of slain Brooklyn beauty Tiesha Sargeant says he's helping cops try to find the thugs who burst into his apartment and shot her dead - but they...
CHEF DISHES OUT LAWSUIT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe only thing discriminating about Daniel Boulud, the celeb chef claims, is his taste. That's why he's simmering over a restaurant-worker group's charges that he's a skinflint, racist boss. Boulud...
HILL FOE 'KT' OUTED HER DYING BROTHER
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe GOP candidate seeking to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton outed her gay brother dying of AIDS to her family and blamed his sexual orientation on her father - before cutting...
EDUCRAT BOOTED IN JOB-AD SCAM
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe top lawyer for the Board of Education Retirement System has been forced to resign after investigators determined he helped place a phony job ad to try to get a...
DAUGHTER SUES OVER MOB DADDY WHACK
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA Luchese soldier told his daughter before his murder, "If I ever die mysteriously, the police had something to do with it." And Mary Ann Di Lapi, the daughter of...
DADDY WHACK FUROR - GAL SUES MOB COPS
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA Luchese soldier told his daughter before his murder, "If I ever die mysteriously, the police had something to do with it." And Mary Ann DiLapi, the daughter of slain...
BARE ESSENTIALS - SIENNA'S SEXY $3,000 OUTFIT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe world is her oyster. And last week, Little Italy was her beach. Actress Sienna Miller positively outdid - or is it undid? - herself Wednesday with a peep-show promenade...
DANIEL DISHES OUT A LAWSUIT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amThe only thing discriminating about Daniel Boulud, the celeb chef claims, is his taste. That's why he's simmering over a restaurantworker group's charges that he's a skinflint, racist boss. Boulud...
'SEX SLAP' SUIT - PARALEGAL VS. LAW FIRM
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA homemade sex video uncovered on a paralegal's computer at a Park Avenue law office has placed the white- shoe firm, one of the nation's biggest, on the wrong end...
GATOR MAKES L.I. HOUSE CALL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA 3-foot-long alligator with attitude waddled onto a suburban Long Island lawn yesterday - and an off-duty Nassau County cop snapped into action. "My wife was terrified," said the homicide...
'DON' OF A NEW DAY - DEVILS' TOP PICKCALLS GOTTI HERO
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amLOCAL DRAFT SELECTIONS The Devils' first-rounder "most admires" John Gotti. Lou Lamoriello last night drafted a defenseman with attitude and edge. "I read a book about [Gotti], and the more...
HIDDEN GEM; 'SECRET' PROSPECT ON KNICKS' RADAR
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amIt's the time of year for draft deception. If there is a Knick sleeper in Wednesday's draft at the Garden's Theatre, it could be Brazilian 6-foot-9 athletic small forward Marcus...
NETS' DRAFT LIST FULL OF QUESTIONS
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTry to plot the lottery selections for Wednesday's NBA draft with relative certainty. Can't do it, huh? Now extend the picks another seven slots, through 21. And while you're at...
ABSENT SCOOTER MISSED BY ALL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amHOURS before all the old-timers stepped onto the grass of the time machine known as Yankee Stadium, I called Phil Rizzuto's home. This special day was just not the same...
AGASSI TO RETIRE AFTER U.S. OPEN
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amAndre Agassi's voice wavered and his eyes welled up yesterday. Imagine what Agassi is going to be like when he plays his final U.S. Open match in September. He's going...
STRAW KEEPS STIRRING ; DARRYL WON'T FOCUS ON CHECKERED PAST
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFew players embodied the 1986 Mets more than Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. But there was Strawberry at Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium yesterday, wearing a Yankees uniform and...
LARRY LOST IN PHONE-Y WAR; UNANSWERED CALLS FROM THOMAS WERE LAST STRAW
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Knicks coach Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas exchanged testy dialogue during Thursday's fiery meeting with owner James Dolan that led to Brown's firing. It was their first verbal exchange...
LARSEN RECALLS PERFECT DAY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Cone recalled taking the mound on July 18, 1999 after Don Larsen threw out the first pitch before the Yankees game that day. "Even all those years later, it...
NOBLE STELLA TAKES HANDICAP
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDespite the soggy condition of the inner turf course after hours of steady rain, the Grade 2, $250,000 New York Handicap at a mile and a quarter for fillies and...
ROAD KILL ON E-MAIL TRAIL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFAR BE IT from me to put a damper on Next Town Brown giving way to Clearance Thomas, but there are some problems I just can't see him overcoming. How...
WHEW! DUANER DUCKS DL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTORONTO - Duaner Sanchez's shoulder is fine, though his neck could be better. The fine set-up reliever, who underwent tests at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York yesterday,...
'TRIPPED' UP - DUQUE KO'D ON 2-VISIT RULE; MET ROAD STREAK ENDS
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amBlue Jays 7Mets 4 TORONTO - After David Wright got walked, the Mets had the bases loaded with only one out, down three runs. "We had a good chance to...
THUMB FORCES LO DUCA TO SIT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES TORONTO - Paul Lo Duca had to leave yesterday's game after the top of the third inning due to an ailing left thumb. Before the bottom of the...
SHEFF'S EAGER FOR BIG RETURN
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES In two to four weeks, Gary Sheffield will have the cast on his left arm removed. And the Yankees' fearsome slugger is still hopeful he can return by...
WASHED OUT; RAIN FORCES YANKS TO PLAY TWO TODAY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amDuring yesterday's first rain delay, Yankee Stadium announcer Bob Sheppard intoned "every effort must be made to play this game today." Although Sheppard has been nicknamed "The Voice of God,"...
TONIGHT'S GAME OFF TV
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amBecause yesterday's rainout is scheduled to be made up tonight at 8 p.m., it will not be televised. ESPN has exclusive rights to baseball coverage on Sunday night, so any...
ISLES OPEN NEW ERA; PICK OKPOSO NO. 7; RANGERS TAB N.J. GUY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amNeil Smith's initial draftee as Rangers GM was Michael Stewart. The Islanders hope Smith's first pick for them will be a bit more memorable. Smith and the Isles used their...
DUKE VS. KOBE: MEDIA MISMATCH; NO KID-GLOVE TREATMENT FOR LAX TEAM
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTALE of Two Cases: In July of 2003, when Kobe Bryant was first accused of sexual assault by a 19-year-old hotel employee in Colorado, the media race was on as...
VOTING SHAM HELPED DEPRIVE JAGR OF MVP
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFLORIDA in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 have nothing on the 2006 Hart Trophy balloting in the way of voting irregularities. Which is to say you don't have to be...
ISLES OPEN NEW ERA; PICK OKPOSO NO. 7; RANGERS TAB N.J. GUY; DEVS TAKE PHYSICAL D
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amHis initial draftee as Rangers GM was Michael Stewart. The Islanders hope Neil Smith's first pick for them will be a bit more memorable. Smith and the Isles used their...
VITAL FISHERIES ACT GETS WIDE SUPPORT
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amLAST week, the U.S. Senate approved the Magnuson- Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006, which moved forward with strong bipartisan support. The Magnuson-Stevens Act, to which it...
THESE FISH ARE 'MONEY'
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amA LOT of people talk about the stellar scouting ability of the Athletics, and with good reason. But we can't help but wonder how much credit Oakland GM Billy Beane...
RINGER READY TO HIT ROAD
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amYou rarely hear this from a NASCAR driver: "I really miss Ray's Pizza." But those words of longing did come from a stock-car driver, one born in New York City...
DAMON-BASE PCT. - JOHNNY IGNITING YANKS' OFFENSE WITH HIS STREAK
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amOver the Yankees' previous three games, it seemed like the movie "Groundhog Day." Every time Johnny Damon came to bat, he was on base soon after. Friday, Damon reached base...
HAIL OR HAMMER - HISTORY SAYS PEDRO LOVEFEST AT FENWAY ISN'T GUARANTEED
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amPEDRO Martinez returns to Fenway Park in three days, and already the great question has seized the imagination of most of the baseball citizenry there: will they boo him or...
CASE REOPENED - SOX, JAYS FINALLY CAN MATCH MARIANO IN 9TH
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amIN THE end, the Yankees of this era always had an advantage. When it got late, Joe Torre had Mariano Rivera. There are many reasons the Yanks have won the...
FLOYD MAY GET REHAB START TOMORROW
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES TORONTO - Cliff Floyd will not play a rehab game this weekend, but he may get into his first one tomorrow. Floyd, who has been on the disabled...
PHONE-Y WAR - ROAD KILL ON E-MAIL TRAIL
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFAR BE IT from me to put a damper on Next Town Brown giving way to Clearance Thomas, but there are some problems I just can't see him overcoming. How...
A LYIN' SHAME - 'SECRET' PROSPECT ON KNICKS' RADAR
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Knicks coach Larry Brown worked out 62 draft candidates in Westchester across the past few weeks. But a 63rd - the player the Knicks did not announce, Brazilian 6-9...
VOTES LEAVE JAGR HART-BROKEN
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amFLORIDA in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 have nothing on the 2006 Hart Trophy balloting in the way of voting irregularities. Which is to say you don't have to be...
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! STARS OF HOOPS & MUSIC ALWAYS RAISING A RUCKER
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTHE scoreboard in Holcombe Rucker Park froze with 16:16 remaining in Monday's night opening game of the 26th annual Entertainers Basketball Classic. Almost anywhere else in the world, this would...
BLAST FROM THE POST : A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: JUNE 25 - JULY 1
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amYanks caught up in Fidrych mania DETROIT - Twenty-one-year-old Mark Fidrych had just seven-hot the Yankees, 5-1, and from the clubhouse the Tigers heard many of the 47,855 fans pleading,...
SWEATIN' SANCHEZ - AMAZIN'S WAITING FOR WORD ON KEY RELIEVER'S INJURY
June 25, 2006 | 4:00amTORONTO - Duaner Sanchez was back in New York yesterday getting tests at the Hospital for Special Surgery, with the results still unannounced before gametime. The Mets' sensational set-up reliever...