December 14, 2003
NEW MAG HOPES TO BEAT THE RAP OUTTA RIVALS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA new hip-hop magazine with a youthful bent will be hitting newstands soon. Rap-Up, the brainchild of 20-year-old Californian Devin Lazerine, will launch next year and compete on newsstands with...
BULL'S EYE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amCommish-erating Beating up on the Securities and Exchange Commission has become a New York favorite. At an American Bankers Association Dinner, Diana Taylor - who is not only New York's...
THE TITLE FIGHT: NEW YORK - THE MAGAZINE, THAT IS - AWAITS NEW OWNER
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIn the weeks to come, the city's chattering classes will be consumed with handicapping who'll be editor-in-chief of New York magazine after Henry Kravis and Primedia get through selling it....
STORMY WEATHER: RIVALS PUT LOW-COST JETBLUE IN THEIR CROSSHAIRS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amJetBlue investors, fasten your seatbelts. There's more turbulence ahead. The industry darling that jolted Wall Street with a warning on profit margins may well have more bad news later. That's...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE UNION SQUARE HOLIDAY MARKET
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amThe Union Square Holiday Market makes shopping a breeze, with thousands of gifts assembled under the festive kiosks. Weekdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.;...
STARR REPORT
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amJimmy's Leiter side Jimmy Smits is a man of his word. The ex- "NYPD Blue" star, currently appearing on Broadway in "Anna in the Tropics," promised a group of students...
HORROR FILMS FROM JAPAN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIT seems that Hollywood has discovered Japanese horror films, remaking them in Tinseltown's customary heavy-handed fashion. Think "The Ring" (2002), with Naomi Watts, a so- so reworking of Hideo Nakata's...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amAndre explains all: OutKast's Andre 3000 wishes he wrote the Smiths' "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me." "It's like he had a relationship and then he woke up...
LITTLE BLACK BOOK ... YOUR GUIDE TO THE GOODS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLegwork: Want to add a little spice to the staple miniskirt-with-Uggs look that's all the rage this holiday season? Got a handbag that doesn't quite fit everything you need? Get...
'COLD' SHOULDER: SHE'S IMMENSELY FAMOUS, BUT CAN "COLD MOUNTAIN" STAR NICOLE KIDMAN PACK 'EM IN?
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNicole Kidman is one of the biggest stars in the world - but does the Oscar-winning Aussie actually have the box-office mojo to sell tickets for "Cold Mountain," a grim...
MY WAY ABOVE 'AVERAGE' DATE: HOW THIS 'AVERAGE JOE' SWEPT ME RIGHT OFF MY FEET
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amEvery sane woman in America wants to date Adam Mesh, the guy who lost to a male-model type on "Average Joe" - so I decided get there first. For those...
MESH NOTES: WHY WOMEN LOVE THIS 'LOSER"
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amAdam Mesh may have been the loser on "Average Joe," but he certainly won over New York women. Last Tuesday - the day after the heart-wrenching finale aired, in which...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER LIZ LANGE PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amWhen fashion designer Liz Lange launched her maternity line six years ago, she rescued style-conscious pregnant women from months of sartorial misery. "There were big, babyish, oversized muumuu tent dresses,"...
CUDDLY CARNIVORES: GIVE YOUR PET THE FINEST IN MEATY TREATS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amWhat is Santa bringing your pet? Catnip toys, dog biscuits, things that go squeak in the night? These make cute stocking-stuffers, but all your dog or cat really wants for...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIt was an out-of-this-world idea that never got off the ground. Florida lottery officials rejected a plan that would give lottery winners a chance to ride a Russian spacecraft to...
DEMS SCOPE OUT NO. 2 FOR DEAN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amRivals and critics would call it the height of political hubris for Howard Dean's team to mull over vice presidential running mates before a single primary vote is cast. But...
SNOW TO GIVE US SOPPING DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amCancel the Christmas shopping - it's snow time again! Just as New York has shaken off last week's icy slush, a nasty new nor'easter will hit today, pounding the city...
FAREWELL, 'HOPE'; MOURNERS BEG FOR MOM TO STEP UP
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amOverwhelmed by emotion pouring out of his parishioners yesterday, a Brooklyn priest stopped his funeral Mass, looked down at a tiny white coffin and begged the mother who had abandoned...
'DOUBLE LIFE' EYED IN FED'S MURDER
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - For every sign that Bronx-born federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was leading the picture-perfect life, there were hints that his world was spiraling down in despair. There was the...
PNEUMONIA SHOT URGED FOR SENIORS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amSeniors who can't find a flu shot should get a pneumonia vaccination, city health officials said yesterday. The vaccine is useful, they said, because it combats one of the flu's...
TOURIST GRAVELY HURT IN BUS HORROR
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA 61-year-old tourist was clinging to life yesterday after being struck in the head by the side-view mirror of a bus as he tried to cross a busy Midtown street...
CAMELOT OF HELP; MARIA PLAYS KEY ROLE IN ARNIE ADMINISTRATION
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - California First Lady Maria Shriver was a star of husband Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall bid for governor, and now she's taking a leading role in his administration....
THUG BASHES WOMAN WITH BAT
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA 36-year-old woman was in critical condition yesterday after she was whacked in the head with a baseball bat during a scuffle outside a Brooklyn nightclub in which her boyfriend...
RULE WOULD BOOST GOPERS' SHOT VS. MONEYBAGS MIKE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amDEMOCRATS aren't the only ones who'll be celebrating if campaign finance rules are revised to provide 8-to-1 public matching funds to candidates who run against Mayor Bloomberg. The windfall might...
PARENTS IN FUROR OVER CLASS CONS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amOutraged parent leaders and school staffers yesterday charged there are too many dangerous kids with criminal records in the city's public high schools. "We have actual convicted felons in our...
SOCIAL WORKERS AREN'T KID-DING WITH JACKO
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara County social workers, frustrated by their thwarted efforts to interview Michael Jackson's kids, are threatening him with legal action if he doesn't make them available...
TRAGIC NYPD HORSE HURT IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA police horse was critically injured when it broke free from its tether and bolted into a busy Queens intersection after a kid threw something at it and frightened it...
PENSIONS REBOUND; MARKET UPTURN BOOSTS CITY, STATE FUNDS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amThe state fund rose an eye-catching 16 percent since the end of March. The combined value of the city's five pension funds grew by an even more impressive 17.8 percent,...
CAUGHT IN A BICKLE; DE NIRO DOUBLE NAILED IN 'TAXI' BLDG. BURGLARY
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIn an eerie twist of movie fate, a Robert De Niro impersonator was jailed recently after allegedly burglarizing the same building where Jodie Foster's streetwalker character lived in "Taxi Driver."...
QUEENS MOM CRUSHED IN SUV HORROR
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens mother of five was struck and killed by an SUV yesterday as she attempted to jaywalk across a busy Queens thoroughfare teeming with holiday shopping traffic, police said....
WOMAN GETS BAT-BASHED IN BROOKLYN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA 36-year-old woman was in critical condition yesterday after she was whacked in the head with a baseball bat during a scuffle outside a Brooklyn nightclub in which her boyfriend...
PNEUMONIA SHOT URGED FOR ELDERLY
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amSeniors who can't find a flu shot should get a pneumonia vaccination, city health officials said yesterday. The vaccine is useful, they said, because it combats one of the flu's...
BROOKLYN TEEN IS SHOT DEAD
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA popular Brooklyn teen was shot dead yesterday as he walked home from a party, cops said. Jarell Haskins, 17, was shot once in the back and once in the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn A 34-year-old livery driver was shot yesterday during a stick-up in Fort Greene, cops said. The victim was in front of 390 Lafayette Ave. about 3:30 a.m. when a...
TOURIST INJURED IN BUS HORROR
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amA 61-year-old businessman from Atlanta was struck in the head by a tour bus mirror as he tried to cross a busy Midtown street against the light yesterday, leaving him...
ISRAELI DEFENSE; IT'S AN IDEOLOGICAL WAR
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amRight To Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by Yaacov Lozowick, Doubleday, 336 pages, $26 THE entire concept of this book is strange. Yaacov Lozowick's "Right to Exist: A...
IT SURE IS KNIFE TO SEE YOU, JOE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amThe only way Joe Lieberman could get Gored any worse than he did by his old pal Al is to run with the bulls in Pamplona - instead of running...
SPEED DEMON HACKS; POST RADAR CLOCKS CITY CABS AT UP TO 71 MPH
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amSpeeding taxicabs have turned New York City streets into open highways - they race along the avenues at rates up to 30 and 40 mph over the speed limit, a...
JIGGLE ALL THE WAY ; BOOB JOBS, LIPO IN SANTA'S BAG
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amAll I want for Christmas is my two new breasts. That's the jingle many women are singing this year as breast augmentation and other cosmetic surgeries grow in popularity as...
PARADI$E LOST IN DEPRESSION: BOOK TELLS WHY LIFE'S GETTING RICHER, BUT WE JUST FEEL WORSE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTHE PROGRESS PARADOX Is the American dream dead? Despite years of rising prosperity, cases of depression have exploded, and the average American is only "slightly satisfied," says author Gregg Easterbrook...
CALIF. CHILD WELFARE MAY GO ON ATTACKO AFTER SNUB BY JACKO
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara County social workers, frustrated by their thwarted efforts to interview Michael Jackson's kids, are threatening him with legal action if he doesn't make them available...
OILERS PLAY HARDBALL ; LOWE WANTS COMRIE TO GIVE BACK $2.5M
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - Yes, Kevin Lowe has turned into one of the league's great pontificating bullies since assuming the GM's chair in Edmonton - let's not forget either the disgraceful Christmas...
FITZ TO BE KING HEISMAN OR NOT, PITT WR IS COLLEGE ROYALTY
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLarry Fitzgerald packed five suits and was accompanied by his own public relations director for his trip to Orlando, New York and possible superstardom. The breathtaking Pittsburgh wide receiver arrived...
PRIMEAU FACTOR IS HUGE ; FLYER'S SIZE GIVES DEVS BIG WORRIES
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The issue - a lack of size - was supposed to be the Devils' issue with Joe Thornton last year against the Bruins. And it became a question...
HERM IMPLORES GANG TO GET ON THE BUS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Tackle. This is the mission the Jets face today against the Steelers, who'll surely try to run Jerome "The Bus" Bettis against their last-ranked run defense until he...
IT'S LONELY AT THE TOP ; YASHIN'S LINE IN STATE OF FLUX
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNight after night, the first and generally only line Steve Stirling tinkers with is Alexei Yashin's top unit. The coach has shown that if you blow an assignment in the...
SOME DUCKY IDEAS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amWITH Christmas just a sleigh ride away, there are always last minute gifts to buy, and if you're looking for something for an angler or some outdoors type person I...
JETS' VOW: CAN'T QUIT NOW ; GANG GREEN PROMISE TO PUT PRIDE BEFORE FALL
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amFor the Jets, as they digest the distasteful reality that they won't be going to the playoffs for the first time in three years, today's game against the Steelers at...
HEAVYWEIGHT MUDDLE DIVISION PICTURE OUT OF FOCUS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY- It seems that every heavyweight fight these days is supposed to bring some clarity to a muddled division. Vitali Klitschko established himself as the WBC No. 1 contender...
KITTLES ANSWERS THE CALL
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - Byron Scott saw exactly what he wants from Kerry Kittles. He saw Kittles catching, shooting, not hesitating. And, naturally, Scott saw Kittles hitting. Actually, Scott had seen all...
WHOOP-DEE-DO! BYRON'S FEELIN' BETTER
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES MEMPHIS - Better, but not great. Not even whoop-dee-damn-doo great. That was pretty much how Byron Scott felt about his Nets after they moved to .500 by claiming...
KNICKS ROLL WITH DYESS ; HE MAKES 1ST START & GETS 1ST N.Y. WIN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 95Denver 88 Don Chaney finally let Antonio McDyess loose, and the Knicks' six-game losing streak is over. The Knicks found victory and their starting power forward last night in...
KNICKS ROLL THE DYESS KURT'S ACHING KNEEOPENS THE DOOR FORANTONIO'S 1ST START
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amThe anticipated changing of the guard in the Knick world actually is the changing of the power forward. And it came last night, via injury. Whether coincidence or not, Kurt...
PIRATES CLIP PEACOCKS TO OPEN CRUCIAL HOMESTAND
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amSeton Hall 91St. Peter's 62 Six games into the season, Seton Hall is exactly where it was expected to be, but we still know very little about the Pirates. After...
'BLITZ' TAKES QUEENS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amThunder Blitz, a talented underachiever throughout his career whose main claim to fame was a fourth in the 2001 Kentucky Derby, yesterday scored his first stakes victory since taking the...
A-ROD FOR MANNY WILL HAPPEN UNHAPPY STARS CAN'T STAY WHERE THEY ARE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Rangers and Red Sox ownership have described the Alex Rodriguez-Manny Ramirez trade talks as a backburner issue now. But a person familiar with the negotiations still fully...
PRINCE'S 15 POWER UP BERGTRAUM
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amBergtraum 72St. Mary's 41Epiphany Prince knew what she was getting into when she arrived at Bergtraum last year. "Everybody wants us to lose," said the sophomore guard. "They want that...
IGNORE RASHEED'S SCREED
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTHE less Rasheed Weed's silly soliloquy is scrutinized, the less exposure his fraudulence is afforded. To so much as deny his drivel, fine him for such tasteless thoughtlessness, or monster-mash...
SHEFF TAKES YANK DEAL
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIf the Yankees' intent was to call Gary Sheffield's bluff, they did a masterful job. One day after the AL champions let the world know they had an interest in...
BOSS SOCKED BY ONE-TWO PUNCH FED-UP CASHMAN TELLS PALS HE'S GONE AFTER SEASON
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - After all these years of wondering when George Steinbrenner would fire Brian Cashman, Cashman is readying to fire The Boss from his life. Several of his industry...
JONES QUICKLY REVIVING COLUMBIA BASKETBALL
December 14, 2003 | 5:00am"People on campus are finally talking about us . . . they want to know what's going on and how we're going to be."MAURICE MURPHY Columbia point guard MAURICE Murphy...
ROCKET RIPS YANKS OVER PETTITTE FIASCO
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Roger Clemens isn't sure if he is coming back - although it sure sounds like he could have one last fling with his hometown Astros. But he...
QUESTIONS, BUT NO ANSWERS ; SLATS' PLAN RAISES EYEBROWS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amLeafs 3Rangers 1 TORONTO - There's something happening here, though what it is remains unclear. There just has to be some reason that Glen Sather decided to not only demote...
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIsles 4Thrashers 0 The rather painstaking journey from the bottom of the ditch the Islanders have lived in for close to a month is beginning to take shape. They are...
IT'S A MATTER OF PRIDE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 2Flyers 0 PHILADELPHIA - About all the Devils allowed was their chests to swell. They stood proud of themselves when anything else would have been false modesty. "Proud. That's...
KING FEELS MCDYESS' PAIN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTHE man Bernard King had come all this way to see was rushing past, scurrying off to the Knicks' locker room as the first quarter melted into the second last...
ANTHONY RELISHES HIS ROLE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTo appreciate Carmelo Anthony completely, it helps to remember what you felt like when you first saw the young Magic Johnson looking this way and passing that way. It helps...
CAMERON SET TO JOIN METS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - All along, the Mets insisted they had a plan. Step one was Kazuo Matsui. Now step two is complete. Continuing their offseason quest to strengthen their up-the-middle...
LAYDEN LOOKING HARD AT DENVER'S LENARD
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Still in search of a backup shooting guard, Knicks GM Scott Layden has had discussions with the Nuggets about veteran Voshon Lenard, according to sources. Tomorrow is Dec....
BUM ANKLE SIDELINES COLLINS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES MEMPHIS - Remember when the Nets' biggest worry was too many centers and too few minutes? Times have changed. They opened training camp with four centers. But with...
IT'S ALL WHITE, NOW ; SOONER QB TAKES HEISMAN WITH CONTROVERSIAL VOTE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amJason White has nothing to apologize for. Heisman Trophy voters do. White was named the winner of the 69th Heisman last night after it was learned voting for the most...
BROWN'S PLEA TO FANS: GIVE ME A CHANCE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amJudge him by the effort he gives every five days and not against the popular arms he is replacing. That's Kevin Brown's message to Yankee fans who are in mourning...
PROPHETIC JUDAH KO'S RANGEL, AS PROMISED
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Brooklyn's Zab "Super" Judah promised he would deliver a performance that would be difficult for the other fighters on Don King's blockbuster boxing card last night at...
A GRISLY EVENING FOR NETS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amGrizzlies 110Nets 63 MEMPHIS - The worst beating of the Jason Kidd era was more than half an hour old - but the rage, frustration and anger it generated was...
A GRISLY EVENING FOR NETS: KIDD BLASTS MATES
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amGrizzlies 110 Nets 63 MEMPHIS - The worst beating of the Jason Kidd era was more than half an hour old - but the anger and frustration it generated still...
CARNAGE, BY THE NUMBERS ...
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - A few tidbits on the Nets' 110-63 loss to Memphis, their worst beating since Washington laid them out 143-94 on Nov. 17, 1978: * The 47-point spread was...
SPINKS TAKES TITLE DECISIONS FOUL-PRONE MAYORGA
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Cory Spinks said he would give Ricardo Mayorga a boxing lesson. Someone also needs to give Mayorga a lesson on the rules of boxing. In a stunning...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amBounty hunted Theismann confirmsNFL hit-men cashed in Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann backs up Lawrence Taylor's claim that there were bounty hunters in Boomer Esiason's NFL. "We knew there were...
JAMBALAYA JESSE ; PALMER'S FIRST START SPICES UP GIANTS' BITTER ENDING
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - Like a caffeine rush in the morning, like a dose of chocolate before bedtime, Jesse Palmer is an energizing jolt bursting through the malaise of the Giants...
LOSING HAS ITS REWARDS
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTHE end of the Giant season can't arrive fast enough, just like too many members of their defense at the ball or offensive linemen at the point of attack. The...
IT'S NOT O-KAY TO RIP FANS FOR BEING SMART
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amWE KNOW Bronx-native Michael Kay long enough to know that while he came from modest means, he was always able to afford to attend a bunch of Yankee games, every...
CENTER OF ATTENTION : METS CHASE CAMERON, BUT A'S CLOSE IN
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - The Red Sox's gain could turn out to be the Mets' loss. With Boston signing closer Keith Foulke yesterday, the Red Sox paved the way for Oakland...
CARMELO MAKES A DIFFERENCE
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTHE greatest thing about the sport has always been this: one guy can make all the difference, assuming he is the right guy, entering under the correct circumstances, performing at...
LAYDEN'S LOOKING AT LENARD
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The last time the Nuggets and Knicks got together on a trade, GM Scott Layden's club didn't fare so well. But Layden may be willing to try again....
ALL FOR 1; THE POST'S BLUEPRINT FOR A COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amAt the top, full disclosure: I am not one of those people who believes the BCS is the worst scam perpetrated on the American public since New Coke, mostly because...
CALL IT A CHANGE OV PLANS: MIRONOV BANNING HAS SLATS JUGGLING
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amTORONTO - For every defense pairing, for every forward-line combination Glen Sather has utilized this season, one combination has remained constant from Day One: the defense tandem of Vladimir Malakhov...
ON SECOND THOUGHT, GARY TAKES YANK DEAL
December 14, 2003 | 5:00amIf the Yankees' intent was to call Gary Sheffield's bluff, they did a masterful job. One day after the AL champions let the world know they had an interest in...