July 30, 2006
BEFORE STUDENT LOANS, GO AFTER FREE MONEY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: What is the best loan to get for a college student? A.A.Dear A.A.: Wait a second! Don't go talking about loans before we've discussed that other source of...
STAR ARCHITECT ROCKWELL TRIES A SMALLER SCALE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Rockwell - the man who designed Nobu, Bar Americain and a handful of other hot eateries - is becoming the latest architect to jump into the business of designing...
WEIGHING IN ON AOL; YO PARSONS, YOU'VE GOT ADVICE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amUnlike the rest of the world - not to mention Time Warner - Mark Cuban actually thinks AOL is well-positioned. And the Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner has a...
KARAN'S KIBOSH; DESIGNER DISSES 'ARROGANT' CEO CANDIDATE WEBER
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHE designer Donna Karan is said to be less than thrilled with the potential choice of Mark Weber as the new CEO of her company, Donna Karan International. Weber, who...
BREAKING OUT - M'SOFT EMBRACES WORLD BEYOND SOFTWARE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amAfter years of Microsoft thriving in a controlled environment, the Darwinian message coming out of Redmond last week was that the software company must adapt to the brave new world...
ANALYST DAY FAILS TO BOOST M'SOFT STOCK
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTry as Microsoft might to convince investors that it has a compelling story to tell - and it tried very hard at its analyst day conference last week - Wall...
HEAT WAVE - FIRE ISLAND HOTTIES HOOK UP ON 'ONE OCEAN VIEW'
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amELEVEN horny singles invade a Fire Island beach house this week on the ABC reality show "One Ocean View." The six-week series bears some similarities to MTV's "The Real World."...
GET READY FOR STORIES THAT NEVER END
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amWELCOME, my friends, to the shows that never end. They're TV's serialized dramas and they're about to multiply - a situation that threatens to wreak havoc with your life. Why?...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amBACKSTAGE 'Tween queen AFTER starring in the innocuous Disney Channel sitcom "Lizzie McGuire," Texas-born Hilary Duff shot to stardom at the age of 12 a mere six years ago. The...
'EVIDENCE' HUNT COMES UP SHORT
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTO borrow a line from "The Simpsons," Court TV's new investigative series, "Haunting Evidence," gives three-card monte a bad name. The premise of the show is somewhat appealing. Three crime...
SHE'S BAD NEWS - SHANNEN DOHERTY BREAKS UP COUPLES ON HER NEW SHOW
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amREMEMBER Shannen Doherty? The Hollywood hell-raiser from "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Charmed," is a guest host this week on "The View." Doherty is coming to New York to promote her...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amI MARRIED A WITCH (1942) Thursday,6:30 p.m.,TCM A 17th century witch (Veronica Lake) decides to return to 1940's New England to torment a politician (Fredric March) whose descendants prosecuted her...
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amSAM Peckinpah, the poet of screen violence, was a larger-than-life figure whose macho personal life - he was married four times, twice to the same woman - was as turbulent...
GARRY RESURFACES AFTER DUBIOUS MOVE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amGARRY Kasparov will return to grandmaster chess for the first time since his retirement a year and a half ago, when he plays in a speed tournament in Zurich next...
MEAN SEASON - SUMMER'S FILLED WITH PET DANGERS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amSummer days are fraught with pet hazards. Luckily, some new products help make your pet safer. Right now is the height of flea and tick season, so vets recommend topical...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTar-jay French prepster label Paul & Joe hits Target this week with a limited 90-day run of their super-cute but cool line of accessories and clothes. We especially love the...
MONSTER SMASH - JAPANESE RUBBER MUTANTS + 'PRO' WRESTLING + BROAD COMEDY = KAIJU
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amMONSTER mania is heading to New York, sweeping up any errant hipsters, skaters, art school kids and comic book nerds in its path. The Boston-based Kaiju Big Battel comedy show...
BOY TOY - 'THE NIGHT WHISPERER' UNRAVELS MYSTERY OF KID WHO DUPED THE COUNTRY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amPHANTOM BOY - BOGUS TALE OF 'AIDS' CHILD - FROM WHITE LIE TO H'WOOD FILM SHE was just a rather rotund, pleasant woman - I hugged her when I met...
COOL AS ICE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amBODY COUNT "Murder 4 Hire" (four stars) Escapi Music ICE-T'S not happy unless you're not happy. On the fourth album by his rapmetal band Body Count, Ice wants to piss...
CALEXICO SECEDES FROM BORDER
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCALEXICO is next to Mexico. It's a California town, right on the border. And until now, the band Calexico played in a style musical geographers might categorize as border music....
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amBeavis and ButtHead: The Mike Judge Collection, Vol. 3 (three stars) Paramount, $38.99 IT'S scary to think that the kids who grew up on "Beavis and Butt-Head" are now out...
CHRISTIE'S SONGBIRD KID STICKS IT TO 'SNAKES' ; BELTS ONE OUT FOR TWO-TIMED GALS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amAlexa Ray Joel - whose supermodel mom Christie Brinkley was betrayed by hubby Peter Cook - is taking a stand against philandering men. The 20-year-old songstress winked from a New...
STATE BIG SNIFFS WTC INSURE-FUND 'WASTE'
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe state's top insurance watchdog is demanding a "detailed analysis" of how the city-controlled company managing a $1 billion World Trade Center insurance fund is spending money meant to cover...
MIDTOWN 'DWI' SLAYING
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amA Connecticut man was fatally run down early yesterday in Midtown, allegedly by a drunken driver. Benjamin Brown, 22, of tony Stamford, was crossing West 57th Street when a black...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS *** A Long Island man was arrested after he a raped a Forest Hills woman at the conclusion of their first date, law-enforcement sources said. Joseph Hanley, 41, of...
PAIN IN THE ASTOR; 'GOLD DIGGER' IN-LAW STEALS HER SON, HER $5M ESTATE - AND HER DIGNITY, OUSTED STAFFER FUMES
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe daughter-in-law of society doyenne Brooke Astor is a penny-pinching "gold digger" who now controls the matron's $5 million vacation estate - and is at the heart of an ugly...
TRIPLE GUISE GAL; ON LAM IN ID-THEFT SCAM
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCall them the three faces of evil - a brazen identity thief caught on video as she dolled up in different duds and 'dos, trolled banks and withdrew money belonging...
100S MOURN 'PERKY' VICTIM
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amHundreds of sobbing mourners packed a suburban New Jersey church yesterday for the funeral of a teen who was raped and killed after a night on the town in Manhattan....
DEAD-DRUNK RISKY WORLD OF 27TH ST. PARTY HORDE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amJust 12 hours before the heartbroken family of Jennifer Moore buried their daughter, another young woman who'd been boozing it up on the same Chelsea block as the pretty teen...
HEZBO-LOUSES IN NEW ROCKET BINGE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hezbollah rained some 100 rockets on northern Israel towns yesterday, and vowed more of the same if Israel continues its offensive in southern Lebanon, where troops reduced a...
COVER GIRL KILLED IN SMASHUP; TEEN WAS RISING STAR OF RUNWAY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amA stunning 19-year-old cover girl - a ringer for Kate Moss but her polar opposite in attitude - died in a fiery auto accident on a New Jersey highway after...
THOMPSON'S POWER PLAY FOR CON ED $$
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHE city should move to recover all the money it spent during the Queens blackout - even if that means a court fight with Con Ed, Comptroller Bill Thompson says....
BOY, 13, DROWNS IN BAY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amA boy drowned while swimming in Jamaica Bay yesterday, police said. Shamel Johnson, 13, was in the waters near Flatbush Avenue and Floyd Bennett Field at about 6 p.m. when...
2ND AVE. DELI 'CHASED' OUT
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amGoodbye chopped liver, hello Chase bank. The East Village building where the famed Second Avenue Deli served matzo ball soup and pastrami for five decades is becoming a bank branch,...
BLACKOUTS FOREVER?; CITY'S ASKING FOR JUST THAT
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN the lights went out in Queens two weeks ago, a friend recalled a piece I wrote two weeks earlier, "Blackouts by Bloomy." "As the July Fourth weekend kicks off...
9/11 IS HAUNTING OUR DREAMS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe 9/11 terrorist attacks were so traumatic that it turned more of our dreams into nightmares, a new study shows. The report analyzed the dreams of 44 people, all longtime...
BUST IN '74 SLAY; GRAMPS HELD
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThirty-two years after her brother's murder, a Bronx woman helped cold-case detectives bring his alleged killer - their stepfather - to justice. Bronx grandfather Charles Montgomery, 82, is expected to...
BID TO $QUEEZE FREE JUICE FROM CON ED
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTwo furious Queens officials are demanding Con Ed grant blackout victims three months of free electricity instead of the "joke" sums the utility is offering for perishable foods. Assemblyman Michael...
SUPER SOAKS OF THE APPLE - THESE COOL POOLS WILL KEEP YOU IN THE SWIM
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amIs it sticky enough for you? As temperatures keep rising, we keep looking for hydration. Turns out the city is filled with private, personal lap pools (like violinist Itzhak Perlman's),...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - UNSUNG CHAMPIONS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amWithout fanfare, many of our greatest citizens do their part to make the lives of the less fortunate better, and now we want you to tell us who they are....
POL DEMANDS PROBE OF HERO-$NUBBING WTC FUND
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCongressman Jerrold Nadler is calling for an investigation of the company managing a $1 billion World Trade Center cleanup insurance fund, saying the city-controlled entity is spending millions in 9/11...
PARTY GAL LOHAN PUTS ON A 'SHOW' - TOES THE LINE AFTER STUDIO SLAP
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe letter-lashing that Lindsay Lohan received from a Hollywood boss - who blasted her "all night heavy partying" - seems to have done the trick. Well, sort of. Outwardly, La...
THOMPSON'S POWER PLAY FOR UTILITY'S $$
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHE city should move to recover all the money it spent during the Queens blackout - even if that means a court fight with Con Ed, Comptroller Bill Thompson says....
BID TO SQUEEZE FREE JUICE FROM CON ED
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTwo furious Queens officials are demanding Con Ed grant blackout victims three months of free electricity instead of the "joke" sums the utility is offering for perishable foods. Assemblyman Michael...
JOE SAYS YANKS MAY STAND PAT; TORRE 'NOT WAITING FOR PHONE TO RING'
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amLast season, after the Yanks' rough start, Joe Torre was hoping and praying for help in any form. The Bombers fought viciously for their eighth straight AL East division title...
ROCKET UNLIKELY TO ESCAPE 'STROS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amROGER CLEMENS, a career-long horse, bet on the wrong one. Faced with a four-team field from which to choose, The Rocket un-retired to the club looking the worst as the...
HURTIN' MARTIN ; PRACTICE BAN PAINFUL FOR VET
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCurtis Martin is hurting badly at the moment, more than he ever has in his brilliant career that has spanned 14,101 rushing yards in 11 seasons. It's not necessarily the...
KIDNEY PROBLEM COULD END BUTLER'S SEASON
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Second-year safety James Butler has been sidelined with what the Giants are calling a kidney ailment. Butler declined to get specific about the injury, other than...
DEFENSE SPENDING ; EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES HAS LEWIS WORKING HARD
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - You want to make some extra cash this summer? Come up with a slogan to stick on a T-shirt, a catchphrase for the Giants' revamped defense. It has...
PLANETS ALIGNED FOR WIN
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Track started fast, turf firm; drizzle began to fall during third race, then turned into downpour, turning track muddy, sealed, for fourth. Sun returned for fifth, which...
PROCTOR IGNORES RUMORS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amScott Proctor is no fool. The Yankee reliever hears all the trade talks swirling around him, mostly from his friends and family; he just doesn't let them bother him. If...
ONE OF THE 'BOYS ; OWENS ALL SMILES AT CAMP PARCELLS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amOXNARD, Calif. - Terrell Owens' first day of training camp with the Cowboys looked much different than his first day with the Eagles last season. Gone was the camouflage. Gone...
MCCAREINS GETS BACK ON FIELD
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Justin McCareins' stay in Eric Mangini's doghouse lasted one day. Before yesterday's Jets practice, Mangini announced that the wide receiver and CB Rayshun Reed were taken off the...
PAVANO CONVINCED HE'LL RETURN IN '06
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Carl Pavano threw a 55-pitch bullpen session with his entire repertoire on Friday, his longest to date, and he'll toss another one today. Pavano might throw batting practice...
KNEE SIDELINES DELGADO
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Carlos Delgado had to depart yesterday's game in the third inning, and the Mets first baseman is questionable for today's series finale. Delgado was hit in...
NOW, DIFFERENCE MAKER'S A MET
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amATLANTA - There was always the One Guy lurking, lying in the Georgia weeds to kneecap the Mets, loitering just long enough to deliver the inevitable slaughtering blow. The Braves...
DUQUE TURNS IN AMAZIN' DAY; HERNANDEZ HELPS HAMMER BRAVES
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 11 BRAVES 3 ATLANTA - Apparently Orlando Hernandez doesn't relax or have a lot of free time when he's at the ballpark. "He comes to work every day. And...
BERNARDINI'S FINE & DANDY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - On a star-studded afternoon at the Old Spa - Sen. Hillary Clinton watched the sixth race from a stand on the grandstand apron, and Oscar-winning composer Marvin...
BOBBY TRADE BATTY - BOMBERS NEED ARM
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Yankees may think they have enough pitching to win the AL East, the pitching that will take them deep into October. After watching yesterday's Stadium Slaughter, however, it's clear...
RAYS ROAST UNIT, YANKS - RANDY ROTTEN, 'PEN PUTRID IN MASSACRE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amDevil Rays 19Yankees 6 Even before the Devil Rays opened a six-pack of hurt on the Yankees in the seventh inning, yesterday's game was already a joke. Tampa Bay knocked...
SLAUGHTERED! RANDY ROTTEN, 'PEN PUTRID IN MASSACRE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amDevil Rays 19Yankees 6 Even before the Devil Rays opened a six-pack of hurt on the Yankees in the seventh inning, yesterday's game was already a joke. Tampa Bay knocked...
YANKS NEAR ABREU DEAL
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees worked feverishly yesterday to try to complete a trade that would bring them at least Bobby Abreu and possibly a starting pitcher, Cory Lidle or Jon Lieber, as...
FORTUNATE-LEE; WISH YOUR TEAM HAD CARLOS NOW?
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS week, we continue our fantasy analysis of all the trades, the comings and goings, the rumors and what to expect as baseball approaches tomorrow's trade deadline - one of...
ILLEGAL TO PUT THAT FISH IN THE WATER
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amSOME do it for fun, some to stock their local ponds, while others are not even aware they are doing anything wrong. But anglers who move fish from one body...
CURING A BAD 'KHOV ; DEVILS TRY TO PROP UP & SHIP OUT VLAD
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amVLADIMIR Malakhov's decision to abort his retirement - which is believed to have begun at any time between 2001 and last December, there's no way to tell for certain -...
BOMBERS STILL SEEK PENN. PAL
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amRandy Johnson's brutal outing yesterday will have no effect on the Yankees' targeting of possible pitching acquisitions, a baseball official told The Post. Although Johnson was horrendous, allowing nine runs...
HILL OF A PROBLEM NEEDS FIX
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees may think they have enough pitching to win the AL East, the pitching that will take them deep into October. After watching yesterday's Stadium Slaughter, however, it's clear...
BOMBERS SHOULDN'T MESS WITH CHEMISTRY
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amThe challenge for the Yankees front office is to not mess this up. The chemistry is good. The talent could be better, it can always be better, but don't mess...
PHILLIES AND PIRATES EYE LESSER PROSPECTS
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amOver the last day, the Yankees gained momentum with both Pennsylvania teams as they narrowed their focus. Both the Phillies and Pirates have backed off their insistence on the Yanks'...
MR. SPLITTER GOES TO COOPERSTOWN
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCOOPERSTOWN - Almost since there was a baseball and index and middle fingers to spread on opposite sides of it, there was the forkball. "It had a slow, tumbling action...
YOU CALL THAT SUFFERING? YOUNG SPORTS FANS DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amATLANTA - We keep score around here in more ways than one. It isn't just the numbers on a scoreboard that matter. It's the numbers on the birth certificate. It's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 30, 2006 | 4:00amCan you hear me now? A Missouri man was charged with first-degree assault for shoving a cellphone down his girlfriend's throat because he was angry and jealous, prosecutors said. Marlon...