February 22, 2004
BULL'S EYE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amMess up in a bottle Low tech beats high tech every time. Turns out fans of Steve Jobs' Apple's iTunes music store have figured out a way to hack free...
THE STUPID STIGMA OF BEING SINGLE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00am"Jesus!" said my fed-up roommate to her lonely-hearts dinner guests. "They're only men - and most of them are pathetic. Haven't we got anything better to talk about?" 'Oh my...
PURR-FECT HEALTH ; NYC CATS GET THEIR OWN DOCTOR, FINALLY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amWhen people have a serious or uncommon health issue, doctors refer them to a specialist. But for decades, animals were treated only by general-practice veterinarians, and many serious illnesses went...
LOCAL NEWS BITES ; PRODUCERS, REPORTERS NEED TO GO BACK TO JOURNALISM 101
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amLOCAL TV news has veered so off course that I'm ready to abandon all hope of ever getting a straight story from any of their shows. The newscasts are a...
FROM INTERNET WIZ TO INTERNATIONAL STAR
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amLet's scroll ahead 15 years - when today's top players will be in retirement - and foresee who will be at the top of world chess. There will be some...
THE WELLES RUNNETH OVER
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amORSON Welles, the misunderstood genius whose career began with "Citizen Kane" and ended with TV commercials for Paul Masson wines, is getting a grand tribute at Film Forum. The fest...
PUNCHDRUNK; JACK WHITE GAVE THIS SINGER A SHINER - AND LOTS OF FREE PUBLICITY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amGetting beaten up might be the best career move Jason Stollsteimer ever (unintentionally) made. The lead singer of Detroit rock band the Von Bondies was pummeled to a pulp by...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amHot seat: The Cash family threw cold water on a proposal to use "Ring of Fire" for a Preparation H ad. Written for Johnny Cash by his wife June Carter...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN TELEVISION PERSONALITY ALI WENTWORTH PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSurprisingly, Ali Wentworth - co-host of "Living It Up! With Ali & Jack" and wife of former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos - loves few things more than a great bargain....
STRAIGHT OFF THE RUNWAY: RIP OFF LAST WEEK'S HOTTEST CATWALK LOOKS - NOW!
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amFashion Week for fall 2004 ended just over a week ago. But you can already start using the trends that appeared on the runways to spice up your wardrobe now...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amIt's anything but hog heaven for farmers in Belle Plaine, Kan. That's because a pack of wild pigs are wreaking havoc by rooting up yards, wrecking crops and driving canines...
EDWARDS IN SLAM AT BUSH
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amDespite facing a rapidly approaching do-or-die situation against Sen. John Kerry, presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards yesterday ignored the Democratic front-runner and instead took aim at President Bush. Speaking before...
QUEENS COPS: FIND THIS PERV GIRL-GROPER
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amCops say this is the sicko who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old Queens girl Friday as she took a popular shortcut through a neighbor's yard while walking to yeshiva. The girl...
KEY STEP FOR CONJOINED TWIN BOYS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA pair of conjoined twins are a step closer to separation, after 12 grueling hours of surgery left only one vein connecting them. Carl and Clarence Aguirre, the 20-month-old boys...
MORE POWER TO ARNOLD IN HIS DEBUT AS EAST COAST ACTION HERO
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amIt's the Governator's coming-out party as a major player in national politics. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger embarks today on a star-studded four-day swing through Washington and New York that includes...
'HEADACHE' DEATH WAS MURDER: COPS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA 51-year-old Brooklyn man who died three months after he was hospitalized, complaining of a severe headache, was murdered, police said yesterday. An autopsy revealed that Roy Lucas, a popular...
GOING IN $TYLE: HOW MARTHA & PAL SPENT HOLIDAYS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amAS Martha Stewart and her best buddy rang in the 2002 New Year with a $1,000 sea grill dinner party at a luxury beachfront resort in Mexico, they could not...
KIN GRIEVE FOR QUEENS HERO GI
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSpc. Roger Ling was hoping to come home to Queens soon after a tour in Iraq. But the 20-year-old soldier from Douglaston didn't make it out alive. He was one...
NEW MOM IN ID THEFT AT HOSPITAL
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA homeless woman was busted yesterday at a Long Island motel for giving a false name when she went to a hospital to deliver a baby boy, Nassau County cops...
TAKING NOTE OF SADDAM
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein got his first visit from the Red Cross since he was captured in December, and officials said yesterday he was allowed to write a note to his family....
QUACK FOUND IN PARADISE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe quack cosmetic surgeon wanted for the death of a Manhattan banker found entombed under concrete at his New Jersey home has been spotted in Costa Rica, a law-enforcement source...
LAWYER AN N.Y. FRAUD
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA high-profile Park Avenue lawyer, who has represented some of the world's wealthiest families in New York, never took the state's bar exam and doesn't have a license to practice...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn A straphanger was stabbed numerous times and shot during a vicious attack on a subway train in Crown Heights last night, cops said. The man was riding on a...
UNBEARABLE GRIEF; MA FAINTSAT RITE FOR FOOD TEEN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe mother of a brutally murdered Chinese-food deliveryman became so overwrought with grief at her son's open-casket wake yesterday that she had to be carried out of the service just...
FDNY SMOKING OUT NONRESIDENT BRAVEST
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amALL 10,842 city firefighters are about to feel the aftershocks of that infamous New Year's Eve brawl at a Staten Island firehouse. In the wake of the fight, sources say...
UNBEARABLE GRIEF; MA FAINTS AT RITE FOR FOOD TEEN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe mother of a brutally murdered Chinese-food deliveryman became so overwrought with grief at her son's open-casket wake yesterday that she had to be carried out of the service just...
RED CROSS VISITS SADDAM
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein got his first visit from the Red Cross since he was captured in December, and officials said yesterday he was allowed to write a note to his family....
NEW MOM IN HOSP ID THEFT
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA pregnant homeless woman was busted yesterday at a Long Island motel for giving a false name when she went to a hospital to deliver a boy, Nassau County cops...
JET-SET LAWYER NEVER PASSED STATE BAR EXAM
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA high-profile Park Avenue lawyer, who has represented some of the world's wealthiest families in New York, never took the state's bar exam and doesn't have a license to practice...
TIME BLDG. SMOKIN'; BLAZE CLOSES POSH EATERY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amCall it the curse of the Time Warner Building. The latest in a long line of tribulations to plague the $1.7 billion Columbus Circle complex hit yesterday, when an electrical...
GOV. ARNOLD IS FLEXING HIS MUSCLE IN BID TO HALT GAY NUPTIALS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has pumped up his muscle on the national political stage by weighing in on the increasingly hot debate over gay marriage. On the eve of a...
THE MAN WHO WENT HOME; GEORGE WASHINGTON'S EXAMPLE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amBACK when our schools took pride in our country's history, we learned the basic details about George Washington. He led our troops during the American Revolution, surprising the Hessians at...
STRANGE FERRY-CRASH BEDFELLOWS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amAn unlikely behind-the-scenes alliance is emerging between Staten Island Ferry Capt. Michael Gansas and victims of the deadly Oct. 15 crash, The Post has learned. The victims' attorneys want Gansas...
HACK IN WACKO ATTACK
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA cab driver was beaten and left partly paralyzed yesterday when a man dressed as a woman whacked him in the head with a stiletto heel after the off-duty hack...
ROUTE OF ALL UPHEAVAL; CHANGES BRINGING CONFUSION
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe alphabet soup may be hard to swallow at first, but straphangers will be in for an easier and faster commute starting today after all four tracks on the Manhattan...
ON A KNICK KICK HOME HOOPSTERS A HOT TICKET AGAIN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe long-suffering Knicks are rebounding big time - both on and off the court. From a towering billboard in Times Square to the sky-high price of a scalped ticket, all...
POLS PUSH TO PUT 'WORST' SEX SICKOS IN MENTAL WARDS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amLocal lawmakers are renewing a push to get the "worst of the worst" sexual predators committed to mental institutions. Following a Post investigation that uncovered scores of released pedophiles living...
BURGER, FRIES, MOVABLE JESUS ACTION FIGURE, TOO
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amDid you hear the one about the priest and the rabbi who were sitting around watching Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"? I did. Hear all about it, I...
'CONDOM FATIGUE' SHOCK IN EPIDEMIC
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amWalter Armstrong, who edits a magazine devoted to AIDS, knows everything there is to know about catching and transmitting the HIV virus. He isn't infected, but admits he has been...
QUEENS KIN GRIEVE HER GI
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSpc. Roger Ling was hoping to come home to Queens soon after a tour in Iraq. But the 20-year-old soldier from Douglaston didn't make it out alive. He was one...
N.J. BEAR HUNT FACING BAN, ACTIVIST TAKEOVER
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTHE New Jersey black bear season made national news for weeks and now that it is over, there is still a fight to wage. There is a bill before the...
LESS QUANTITY = MORE QUALITY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amNOBODY at the Garden for Rangers-Islanders on Thursday was complaining about the trap. Nobody was complaining about goaltenders handling the puck. In fact, nobody other than Eric Cairns was complaining...
STIRLING GETTING BEST OF MARIUSZ
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThere are few certainties in life. One is death, the other is taxes, and the third is that when Mariusz Czerkawski makes a mistake, a turnover, blows an assignment that...
STORM CHASING BIG EAST TOURNEY BID
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - After St. John's had shocked Georgetown 65-58 Wednesday night to post its first Big East Conference win, you would think the locker room would be a portrait...
LEBRON'S SHADOW SHROUDS GARDEN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amHovering outside, a block away from the Garden, is an enormous billboard of LeBron James. He appears in his Cavaliers jersey with the words, "The Chosen One," sprayed next to...
SILAS MIGHT HIRE CHANEY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amCavs coach Paul Silas has not broached the subject with former Knick coach Don Chaney yet because he's been unable to reach him since his dismissal last month. But Silas...
'I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF LAST PLACE' ; DESIRE TO WIN RINGS TRUE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - His new boss un derstands. He's been there. He listens to Alex Rodriguez talk about championship rings and World Series games, sees the wonder that fills his eyes...
DAVIS NO STRANGER TO WINNING
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES This is strictly for Nets reserve Hubert Davis. Losing is when your team scores fewer points than the other guys. Forgive Davis. He really might have forgotten what...
NETS FORGET 'BOUT IT VETS STILL REMEMBER DARK DAYS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThey have been to the Finals twice. They both were part of a 10-game playoff winning streak with the Nets. Yet Kerry Kittles and Lucious Harris, the guys ranked No....
GEG LINE EXPLODES FOR DEVILS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThe coincidence, five-point Scott Gomez sought to claim, was just that. One game after being left out of both shifts of the desperation empty-net 6-on-4 in Washington, the center enjoyed...
RODRIGUEZ SKILLFULLY SIDESTEPS MET QUERY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - The slickest move Alex Rodriguez made yesterday wasn't on the field. Asked about the Mets' stance that he only had eyes for the Yankees and Red Sox, A-Rod,...
AMAZIN' THIRD-BASE STORY IN THE MAKING
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Life has become all A-Rod, all the time. New York is engulfed by A-Rod fever as the new Yankee third baseman was the toast of Tampa...
A-ROD MAKES DENT IN DEBUT ; BIG BLAST IN BP ANNOUNCES ARRIVAL AT YANKEES CAMP
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - If Alex Rodriguez handles the moves from shortstop to third base and Texas to The Bronx with the same ease he displayed yesterday when he held his second...
GIMMIE FIVE! RACE'S ON FOR LAST SPOT IN METS' ROTATION
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE- The Mets aren't the Yankees, so when there's an undecided roster spot, acquiring a superstar isn't the automatic answer. Thus when the Mets eye their No. 5...
QUITTING TIME CAME EARLY ; DISGRACEFUL BLUESHIRTS LAY DOWN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amDevils 7 Rangers 3 Glen Sather says the Rangers haven't quit and then his team simply turns the GM and coach into a liar. Because they have quit. Maybe not...
NBA RAPPED IN RED TAPE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTHE NBA just took one giant step forward for madness. There isn't enough negligence insurance available to cover the damage done Friday night to the league's credibility, documented at prime...
STRICKLAND SEES RETURN IN MAY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - It's early, and Scott Strickland knows how fickle Tommy John surgery recovery can be. But sitting at his locker on Feb. 21, the Met...
WHO'S A HYPOCRITE? BOSOX OWNER HENRY DEFENDS CALL FOR SALARY CAP
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amFT. MYERS - Despite looking like a well-heeled hypocrite in the eyes of many - maybe even new employee Curt Schilling - Red Sox owner John Henry defended his "sour...
IF AT THIRD, HE CAN SUCCEED
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - Alex Rodriguez literally got on his hands and knees to play third base for the Yankees. This time it was out of perspiration, not desperation. Leading the majors...
'WARRIOR' TAKES BEST TURN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amRedskin Warrior has only raced four times, none beyond six furlongs, but a trip to Louisville for the May 1 Kentucky Derby could be in his future after Paraneck Stable's...
HE'S BROWN AND BLUE ; KEVIN TAKES BALL OFF ANKLE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Considering Kevin Brown's health woes across two of the previous three seasons, the sight of the right-hander with an ice pack on his right ankle after...
SETON HALL SURVIVES 'NOVA RALLY
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amSeton Hall 70 Villanova 68 Seton Hall was two defensive stands away from arguably its most crushing defeat in recent memory. After a late collapse, only a defensive recovery by...
REVITALIZED 'ZO HAS NO COMEBACK PLAN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amFriends and ex-teammates have expressed their desire that Alonzo Mourning not even think about making an NBA comeback after his kidney transplant. Mourning agrees. Last night, he insisted a comeback...
ISLANDERS MOVE INTO NO. 7 SPOT
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amIsles 4 Sabres 1 Only three times in the last 11 games have the Islanders scored the first goal of the night. The common denominator? They won all three, just...
IT'S OFFICIAL - STORM FINISHED
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amVa. Tech 54St. John's 53 BLACKSBURG, Va. - The ones who are left standing have been through hell. So what's another white-hot coal on the feet? What's another blast of...
HUBERT'S GOT STREAK OF HIS OWN
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amThis is strictly for Net reserve Hubert Davis: Losing is when your team scores fewer points than the other guys. Forgive Davis. He really might have forgotten what it is...
DOZEN GET MUCH BETTER: FRANK 12-0 AS NETS WIN 13TH STRAIGHT
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amNets 97 Hornets 84 The Nets were coming off the front part of a back-to-back. Their leading scorer and rebounder, Kenyon Martin, was two steps away from an oxygen tank...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amA-Rod kicks Astros . . . off the cover of Sports Illustrated This is the week for Everything A-Rod. Alex Rodriguez' impact has been amazing in many ways. Consider this...
ESPN KEEPS FIRING MIXED MESSAGES
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amANOTHER week in paradise. Let the record show that the first woman to play in a Division I football game accused a University of Colorado teammate of rape. Three other...
THE KING'S COURT: LEBRON READY FOR GARDEN STAGE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amNo rookie in NBA history - let alone a teenager - has faced the scrutiny that LeBron James has. At 1 p.m. today at the Garden on national television, James...
GREATS & GOATS: 8TH-ANNUAL LOOK AT THE BIG APPLE SPORTS SCENE
February 22, 2004 | 5:00amLove 'em or hate 'em, this is the way we see 'em as The Post concludes its eighth-annual two-part look at the best and worst of New York sports personalities...