January 18, 2004
WHIZ KID STARTS EBAY FOR XMAS GIFT CARDS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCameron Johnson, the 19-year-old college freshman who started CertificateSwap.com, is on the hunt for some big money to back the fledgling venture. Aimed at those looking to unload unwanted Christmas...
BLACK GETS THE BOOT ; HOLLINGER OUSTS CHIEF AFTER ACCUSING HIM OF $200M RIP-OFF
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amHollinger International's executive committee late last night ousted Conrad Black as chairman. The move came hours after the company filed suit against Black, alleging that he and others looted the...
NETS' HOOP DREAM; BUILDER HITS BIG TIME WITH BROOKLYN BID
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amBruce Ratner's bid to bring the Nets to a new Brooklyn arena (top) adds him to a list of high-profile developers.Benny Stumbo Bruce Ratner has been rich for quite a...
BULL'S EYE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amPRICE IS RIGHT Legendary investor Michael Price is not easily fazed by large salaries. But one salary seems to have caught his attention recently: that of former Big Board chairman...
STARR REPORT
January 18, 2004 | 5:00am'Hi, I'm Michael' "Access Hollywood" co- host Tony Potts had an up- close- and-personal brush with none other than Michael Jackson in a men's room last Friday - but it's...
FERRET FEVER! MEET THE ALTERNATIVE FURRY FRIEND
January 18, 2004 | 5:00am'Along Came Polly," released Friday, stars Jennifer Aniston as Polly Prince, a free-spirited waitress in boots and torn jeans. She enlivens the boringly predictable life of stuffed-shirt risk analyst Reuben...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE AMERICAN ANTIQUES SHOW
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amToday is the final day of the American Antiques Show. Sponsored by the American Folk Art Museum ([212] 977-7170), it's at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St., between Sixth...
MAY TIME IN NEW YORK
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amMORE than 40 years after her death, Anna May Wong is staging a comeback. A newly restored print of the little-seen silent "Piccadilly" (1929), in which Wong is featured, will...
SCHOOL OF ROCK; MUSIC LESSONS FROM THE CITY'S COOLEST CULT FIGURES
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amAre you an air-guitar ace who's hankering to rip up a real Fender? Do you love singing in the shower and want to find your true voice, just in case...
JUGGLING GLUTTONY, SLOTH AND LUST
January 18, 2004 | 5:00am"So d'you reckon I've put on a bit of weight since I last saw you?" I asked Kai. His lack of denial was a dead giveaway. How annoying is it...
CAN'T ESCAPE 'FRIENDS' ; ENDLESS HYPE MAY SPOIL THE FINALE OF THE NBC COMEDY
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amGET ready to be sick of "Friends." The NBC megahit about six pals living in New York City is coming to an end in May after 10 top-rated seasons. And...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCoincidence?: Jack White, the red-and-white-clad singer from the White Stripes, was accused of punching Von Bondies' Jason Stollsteimer at a Detroit club; he pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor aggravated assault...
JANUARY JILT: HERE'S YOUR GIFT, HONEY - NOW PLEASE GET OUT
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amHave you stuck to your New Year's resolutions? Quit smoking yet? Still going to the gym? Oh - and did you get around to dumping that loser you've been dating?...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER JESSICA ALPERT-GOODMAN PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amBefore Jessica Alpert-Goldman launched her funky line of accessories two years ago, she was a 27-year-old with 14 fashion jobs under her belt. She worked for such disparate fashion companies...
HOTHEAD CHIC: WHO SAYS PUFFY CHAPEAUS CAN'T BE STYLIST?
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amThough some women are loathe to abandon their tiresome newsboy caps (you know who you are, Britney), more progressive style setters are donning fur hats and earmuffs this winter. The...
LABOR OF LUST : MEET THE GIRLS BEHIND 'SWEET ACTION' - THE CITY'S FIRST PORN 'ZINE FOR CHICKS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amSamantha Jones would be so proud. Kim Cattrall's character on "Sex and the City" believes in treating men like pieces of meat. And Brooklynites Micole Taggart and Robin Adams couldn't...
BIG-SCREEN CELEBS MAKE THEIR PITCH
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - The Sundance Film Festival got into full swing yesterday with the arrival of two of the biggest celebrities on hand, Ashton Kutcher and Jane Fonda. The...
SOURED ON HOWARD FOR BEING 'LIKE BUSH'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Call them the Dean Defectors - they used to like Howard Dean, but now are so turned off that some offer the ultimate insult for a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTalk about being too hot to handle. Seventeen firefighters in Keyes, Calif., quit their jobs to protest a female colleague's other job as a porn star. The last straw came...
ACTIVIST APPLE ON THE MARCH
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amNew Yorkers love politics, but prefer to practice them in a fighting manner, a recent poll revealed. Nearly two in every five Gothamites qualify as "high-level political participants" - well...
SHOCK DOC'S 'CLONE' CLAIM
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amA controversial fertility expert claimed yesterday he had implanted a cloned human embryo into a 35-year-old woman - and was looking for more volunteers. Launching an international search in London...
BEATEN FIREMAN SPEAKS; WALSH HAILS 'LIFESAVER' FIRE CAPT.
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amFACE-shattered firefighter Bobby Walsh talked to me yesterday for the first time since the notorious firehouse attack to tell me how worried he is. It has nothing to do with...
ISRAEL HITS SWEDES FOR BOMB 'ART'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel demanded yesterday that a Swedish art museum take down a "monstrous" art exhibit showing a Palestinian homicide bomber - a day after Israel's outraged ambassador unplugged the...
ANXIOUS WIFE: GRAY SEEMED TO BE BETTER
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bridge that connects North Haven peninsula to Sag Harbor on the outer reaches of Long Island is called Lost at Sea Memorial Pike. It's an irony not lost on...
DEAN SEEKS NOD FROM HILL-BILL
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amMASON CITY, Iowa - Gov. Howard Dean said yesterday he made separate calls to Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this past week, reaching out to the party's most...
HARRIED KERRY RAGES OVER IOWA 'SMEARS'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat John Kerry yesterday accused his presidential rivals of "a smear effort" to stop his rise - and they shot back that it's Kerry who's playing...
MIKE HOT TO LASSO LATEST 'CSI'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg wants CBS's new "CSI: New York" shot in the Big Apple, and he's aggressively lobbying Tiffany Network suits to bring the hit crime drama east, officials said yesterday....
THUGS SHOOT 8 ; HEIST TURNS INTO 'WILD WEST'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amEight people were shot and another was pistol-whipped during an early-morning robbery at a Brooklyn diner yesterday, police said. Chaos erupted at the popular Galaxy Diner on Pennsylvania Avenue in...
A FLASH OF HORROR; 'I GET WHAT THIS IS,' WALKER SAID AS JOLT KILLED HER
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe East Village woman killed in a freak electrical accident while walking her dogs was clasping one of her pets in her arms when she realized her fate and uttered...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn Cops are looking for two youths (above) in connection with a shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this month. The incident occurred at 12:10 p.m. on Jan. 6, when a 23-year-old...
THERE AUTO BE A LAW: SCHUMER
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amSen. Chuck Schumer joined forces with local prosecutors yesterday to declare war against auto insurance scam artists, saying the motorized fraudsters were costing New Yorkers a whopping $1 billion a...
2 GIRLS STRUCK BY SLIDING CAR
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTwo young cousins were injured yesterday when they were struck by a Honda Civic on the Upper East Side, police said. Clarabeth Gonzalez, 6, and Jasmine Scullark, 9, were struck...
THUGS SHOOT 8; HEIST TURNS INTO 'WILD WEST'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amEight people were shot and another pistol-whipped during an early-morning robbery at a Brooklyn diner yesterday, police said. Chaos erupted at the popular Galaxy Diner on Pennsylvania Avenue in East...
FERRY-CRASH CAPTAIN TO PROBERS: RULES? WHAT RULES?
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amFerryboat Capt. Michael Gansas wasn't at the helm of the ill-fated Andrew J. Barberi ferry when it crashed last October because he was checking the lifeboats, The Post has learned....
B'KLYN MOM THROWS TOT FROM BLAZING HOME
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amA desperate mother hurled her young daughter to safety from the second floor of a blazing Brooklyn house yesterday as firefighters fought a two-alarm blaze in a landmark neighborhood, officials...
KERRY, EDWARDS RACE TO TOP OF IOWA POLL
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - In a stunning reversal of fortune, a new poll suggests Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards are surging to the top of the presidential pack in...
2ND BUST IN 'WILLIAMS' SLAY
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDetectives have arrested a reputed Crips gangster wanted for the murder of Venus and Serena Williams' older sister, who was shot in her car in Compton last year. Robert Maxfield,...
FURNISHING AN EXCUSE FOR FLOUTING COUNCIL $$ RULES
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCITY Councilman Allan Jennings violated the council's own rules when he bought $22,558 worth of furniture last year - but no one took action because the council's $45.8 million budget...
ONE DEAD AFTER WILD SHOOT-OUT IN CHINATOWN
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amOne man was killed and another injured when a Chinatown street was riddled with bullets in a mystery gun attack late last night. The shots fired on Division Street left...
W.'S STATE OF UNION: I'LL GIVE YOU CASH BACK
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush will urge Congress in his State of the Union speech Tuesday to make his tax cuts permanent and let workers invest some of their Social Security...
$PLASHY SPA SUIT; POSH CLUB LEAKS ON US: PRICEY SHOP
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amSoho House is seeping. And a neighbor of the members-only Meatpacking District club says the result is damaged designer decorations and creeping mold. The Vitra furniture showroom on Ninth Avenue...
STATE COURT PROBE EYES JUDGE AND 'ART OF THE STEAL'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe state court system is investigating charges that embattled Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Marylin Diamond lied about her relationship with an art heiress to loot the woman's trusts. Vickie Ma,...
WACKO JACKO LATE FOR A VERY IMPORTANT DATE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amMichael Jackson traded his tired and true moonwalk for his new and updated perp walk again on Friday when he went to court to plead not guilty to child-molestation charges....
TRUE TO HER SCHOOLGIRL MANTRA: 'I DO WHAT I PLEASE'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHE picture in Martha Stewart's high school yearbook is nearly 45 years old, but the sentiment under her photo has barely aged a day. "I do what I please and...
FURY AT H.S. IN VICIOUS BEATING
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amA student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall HS is hospitalized with a fractured jaw after getting jumped by a bunch of students for refusing to hand over a container of juice...
THEY'VE SOURED ON HOWARD FOR BEING 'LIKE BUSH'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - Call them the Dean Defectors - they used to like Howard Dean, but now are so turned off that some offer the ultimate insult for a...
THE GREAT 'RED' HOPE: NASA SEES MARS MISSION AS A LAUNCHPAD FOR NEW DISCOVERY
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amNASA's robotic rover extended its arms for the first time on the Martian surface yesterday, sending home astonishing close-ups of the Red Planet's rust-colored soil. And as the 5-foot-tall Spirit...
DEC OFFERING SOME REAL PHEASANT NEWS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCOUCH potatoes fear not, there are things going on that will warm your heart and/or get you out of the house. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is...
HEAD WOES HAVE SCOTT WORRIED
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amHe had already admitted that this could be his last season, depending on a lockout. Now the Devils must hope that post-concussion syndrome doesn't hasten Scott Stevens' retirement. Stevens said...
IT'S A CAP, BUT NOT REALLY ; NHL SAYS PROPOSAL IS BASED ON 'TARGETS'
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN is a hard cap not exactly that? When it is presented by the NHL, that's when. Through a continuing exchange of e-mails with league VP and counsel Bill Daly,...
DYSFUNCTIONAL ISLES DO A LOT OF SNIPING
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTheir erratic play on the ice is indicative that the Islanders have a long way to go in proving that they are a team that plays for each other or...
SAM'S DONE HIS PART AIDE HAS DUNHAM IN TOP FORM
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amWith Mike Dunham giving so much credit to goaltending consultant Sam St. Laurent for the dramatic improvement in his play, it's pertinent to wonder whether the Rangers would be better...
IONA SENIOR TURNS INTO GAEL FORCE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTHE CITY GAME IONA'S DeShaun Wil liams re-discovered his game when coach Jeff Ruland re-introduced him to the weight room. It turns out Williams' early-season struggles came only after the...
NEW BEST BUDDIES ; STEPH, KEITH NOW FAST KNICK FRIENDS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCHICAGO - A huge hip-hop fan, Stephon Marbury will never teach Keith Van Horn to like rap music. But there's no reason they can't have a close connection on the...
FOX ON MAC'S TRAIL ; JOHN HAS DONOVAN IN SIGHTS - AGAIN
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amCHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL PHILADELPHIA - Does John Fox' familiarity with defending against Donovan McNabb and the Eagles give the Panthers an advantage in tonight's NFC Championship Game? As the former Giants...
STAT-US WOE AT NETWORKS ; AS USUAL, USELESS GRAPHICS RUIN VIEW OF GAMES
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amHOW ridiculous - how absurdly counterproductive - have TV productions of live sports events become? We'll find out today. To borrow and bend a line of Tom Lehrer's, "Those with...
MR. OVERTIME STRIKES AGAIN
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amOVERTIMEDevils 2Capitals 1 Records are quaking, ready to fall. With 38 games left, Patrik Elias has already tied the NHL record for overtime goals in a season. With many years...
BELICHICK'S BOYS ACE CHEMISTRY CLASS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amChampionship Confidential FOXBORO - If there's one underrated factor for the Patriots' remarkable success through 17 games this season it's been team chemistry, where unselfishness is the rule not the...
LUCKY PAIR HITS PICK 6 FOR $1.1M
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amDamon Runyon was wrong. Not all horseplayers die broke; not after two bettors pulled down over $1 million each in yesterday's Pick 6 at the Big A. The lifetime scores...
DOUBLE-DEALING IN BIG D
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe buffoonish billionaire has been in routine form of late. WHILE my overworked staff is calculating how many coaches Stephon Marbury has hugged at press conferences, whether Lenny Wilkens has...
GUESS WHAT? DYESS ROLLING BACK TO INJURED LIST
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CHICAGO - So how has Antonio McDyess fared since leaving New York 13 days ago for the Valley of the Sun? Horribly. An ailing McDyess, who did not...
SCARY MOVIE GETS 'NOVA READY TO GO
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amVILLANOVA - The Villanova coaches do not have a name for this horror film. They may never have a name for it because the hope is that after today, it...
VAN HORN OF PLENTY: KEITH'S HEROICS POWER KNICKS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 101 Bulls 98 CHICAGO - Somewhere, former Knick GM Scott Layden is saying, "I told you so." Keith Van Horn's juicy January surged forward last night when he rescued...
ISIAH GETS BIG PROPS FROM INDY
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amIn less than a month in the Garden, Isiah Thomas has traded for Stephon Marbury, replaced Don Chaney with Lenny Wilkens, and restored the Knicks' relevance. Now, he's going to...
AJ'S DISS NO BIGGIE TO BYRON
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Byron Scott said it before. He will say it again. And Anthony Johnson can call him "immature" as much as he wants. "Until somebody beats us in May...
DAVIS: LENNY WAS TOO SOFT ON RAPTORS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CHICAGO - When the Bulls' Antonio Davis reviews last season with the Raptors, he wishes his former coach, Lenny Wilkens, would've realized he had to change his ways....
DESPERATE ISLES GET ONE THEY REALLY NEEDED
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amIsles 4Sabres 2 The Islanders began a stretch of crucial contests last night against teams directly behind them in the Eastern standings, and with a 4-2 win against Buffalo created...
KOVALEV STRIKES LATE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amRangers 2Canadiens 2 MONTREAL - Alexei Kovalev scored with 5:06 remaining in regulation to lift the Rangers into a 2-2 tie with the Canadiens last night. Kovalev took Eric Lindros'...
NETS FALL OFF PACE ; FINAL-QUARTER FLOP BLOWS GAME
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amPacers 90Nets 84 The Nets could not have drawn up a more favorable scenario. They were up 11. They were home - in front of an honest-to-goodness large and excited...
THE CAT'S MEOW: NO-NAME PANTHERS READY TO ROAR
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - They call themselves the Carolina Panthers, and we have seen their likes before. They are the 1990 Giants, trying to whack Joe Montana in San Francisco to get...
INDY HORSEPOWER WON'T BE ENOUGH: DEFENSE WINS TITLES, AND THAT MEANS PATS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amFOXBORO - Who's going to stop the Patriots? Not the Colts. Not Peyton Manning. Not Marvin Harrison. Not Edgerrin James. Not Dwight Freeney. Not the weather. Not even the Patriots...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amAll the King's men Bernard pushing for Nets' move to Brooklyn No one knows the City Game better than Brooklyn-born Bernard King. The former Knick great is working with Bruce...
JERSEY'S READY TO HIT ROAD
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amByron Scott has been around long enough to know that elite teams - championship teams - win on the road. It has been one of the Nets' few Achilles heels,...
A REAL K-MART STOPPER: KENYON THROWS O'NEAL OFF PACE
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amTwo words. Those words, the Nets feel, are largely responsible for transforming Indiana's Jermaine O'Neal from a rampaging NBA superstar into a mere mortal against New Jersey. Kenyon Martin. "Nah....
LUCIOUS' BACK WOES HAVE NETS CONCERNED
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amThe stats reveal a career low of .380, but there may be more troubling Lucious Harris than just weak shooting numbers. The Nets, sources insist, are growing more and more...
MASTER VS. COMMANDER: BELICHICK SCHEMING UP WAYS TO DERAIL COLTS JUGGERNAUT
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amFOXBORO -He is the biggest force left in these NFL playoffs,larger than any player,dwarfing any coach,the subject of hundreds of conversations and thousands of nightmares.And who ever could have predicted...
A FAMILIAR ENDING TO PHILADELPHIA STORY: PANTHERS POISED TO DENY MCNABB & REID THEIR TRIP TO PROMISED LAND
January 18, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - As David Akers lined up last week to attempt a potential game-winning field goal, it was not happenstance that Donovan McNabb found himself standing next to Andy Reid.And,it...