May 29, 2005
BRITS TO GET A TASTE OF DAILY CANDY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amDaily Candy, the free daily tip sheet devoted to the fashionable crowd, hip eateries and anything au courant, has gained a U.S. following that stretches from coast to coast. Now...
$WEET-SMELLING CELEBS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amCelebrities are seeing dollars in scents. Famous names are cutting more deals than ever with perfume makers as consumers show an increasing appetite for star-backed fragrances. Last year, celebrity fragrance...
ACE IN THE HOLE - ADVISER TO MOGULS HAS GOT GAME
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Donald Trump unveiled his plans for Trump University,he did something that The Donald seldom does - he showered praise for the venture on a little-known advisor,Jonathan Spitalny. The low-key...
SUB-ZERO $12K FRIDGE GIVES CHILLS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amSometimes cool is cool. The latest status symbol for the well-heeled is a $12,000 fridge. The pricey icebox debuts as high-tech geekery moves from computers and flat-screen TVs to the...
WIN AT ALL COSTS - POSSESSED PARENTS RULE ON "SPORTS KIDS MOMS & DADS"
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amREALITY show contestants often receive a worthwhile prize,whether it 's a new house,a new man,a new career or a new bank account. The parents on Bravo 's "Sports Kids Moms...
'KEPT' - IN NEW REALITY SHOW, MEN WORK TO PLEASE JERRY HALL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN Jerry Hall speaks,men listen. Swim the Thames, she commands,and they dive in.Drop trou,she instructs to an art class model,and the belt buckle hits the floor. Why is ex-Mrs.Mick,as in...
SUMMER FOOD SHOWS GIVE PLENTY TO CHEW ON
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amOF the three cooking competition shows that are soon to be on the air at the same time,only one has a contestant named Dewberry. He 's a roly-poly,pink-cheeked southern boy...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMUSIC Take It To the Limit One More Time THE most successful American rock band and the ultimate California band of the 1970s,the Eagles have sold 120 million albums and...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTITANIC (1997) Sunday, 7 p.m., NBC Leonardo DiCaprio is the bad boy who loves Kate Winslet ,the good girl gone naughty aboard the doomed ocean liner. The movie won a...
'BEWITCHED' STATUE MOCKS HISTORY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amGchusetts Gov.Mitt Romney righted an archaic, 330-year-old wrong when he signed a bill repealing a 1675 statute that precluded North American Indians from setting foot in Boston. "It is our...
CRIX PICK BEST PIX
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amCINE File plans to spend a lot of June at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn watching the best films of 2004 as chosen by critics at the Village Voice. The...
THE TWO KINGSHAVE NO CLOTHES
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amONE of the last major changes in the laws of chess was the elimination of "bare king." This was a curious rule that allowed you win a game by capturing...
THE HOT SEAT: JERRY SPRINGER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amAT the height of his fame in the mid-'90s, talk-show host Jerry Springer - the force behind such compelling, unforgettable talk shows as "Invasion of the Little People" and "I...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
May 29, 2005 | 4:00am1) Waifs Once vilified as the epitome of "heroin chic," supermodel Kate Moss - whose eclectic style is faintly copied by the likes of Chloe Sevigny - will be officially...
CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE - EVEN AFTER 'CINDERELLA MAN,' JAMES BRADDOCK MADE HISTORY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amPERHAPS the most interesting story about "Cinderella Man" is the one the filmmakers left out. The Ron Howard movie, opening this Friday, charts the rise and fall and rise again...
WHEEL DEAL - TRUE Z-BOYS SAY 'DOGTOWN' IS GNARLY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S not easy coaching someone to play you on the big screen - especially when you're a legendary wild man. "At the end of every take, I had to be...
CAIN & ABLE - FAMILY TIES KEEP OASIS GOING, FIGHTING
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amOASIS' Noel Gallagher is like a bad boyfriend. He doesn't call when he says he will, and when he does show up, it's usually too early or too late. With...
RELIABLE RYAN SKS CONFIDENCE WOMAN
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE guy in the hot seat this week is Ryan, a 26-year-olddigital-imaging specialistwho says that when he's not working, he enjoys listening to live music, meeting new people, bowling, karaoke...
HOT FOOD, TEPID SPARKS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amLAST week at Meet Market, Kat, a 23-year-old publishing assistant who described herself as "intellectual, but not snooty" chose Sean, 27, an "easygoing, creative and gregarious" comedian for her date...
WEDDINGS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTolpa, 31, and Gordon, 28 APRIL 30 - Accountant Michael Tolpa celebrated his marriage to Stacey Gordon, a development coordinator in the same firm, at Rockefeller Center on the ice-skating...
HEAR THIS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * At Bowery Ballroom: Ska revivalists the Slackers tonight. Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain with MC Lars tomorrow. * At Irving Plaza: Electro-pop Brazilian Girls on Wednesday. Languid...
GROUND CHUCK - KEEP A BARF BAG ON THE END TABLE FOR PALAHNIUK'S LATEST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amGIVEN the hype surrounding Chuck Palahniuk's latest novel - audience members vomited and passed out at early live readings, the legend goes - you may experience a childish thrill upon...
REQUIRED READING
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMaybe "Johnny Mad Dog," the latest novel from Congo exile Emanuel Dongala, will focus some much-needed attention on the senseless wars and violence in parts of Africa. He looks at...
GUNMEN BLOW AWAY BROOKLYN FATHER OF 3
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA young father was gunned down in front of his Brooklyn apartment building yesterday, leaving his family stunned and incensed as cops search for his killers. Jesus Gonzalez, 25, was...
STONED - H'WOOD COPS BUST DIRECTOR ON DWI, DRUGS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Conspiracy-loving director Oliver Stone had only himself to blame when he got busted at a police drunk-driving checkpoint - the location had been announced to the public...
IT'S 'NUEVA' YORK ; MAYORAL HOPEFULSDO IT 'ENESPA-OL'
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amAs Spanish becomes the lingua franca of the city, politicians are dusting off their español and even cracking open an old Spanish textbook - to be able to appeal to...
BILL 'TIRES' ON AID TRIP; TSUNAMI TOUR GOES ON
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amBill Clinton, on a whirlwind trip to tsunami-ravaged countries after his September heart bypass, reportedly had to scale back the island-hopping yesterday because of exhaustion. The former president's spokesman, however,...
'CELL' ORDER HOLDS FOR BANK EXEC AFTER NUDE BUST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe JPMorgan Chase executive nabbed in the nude after exposing himself to an off-duty female cop while wearing nothing but a condom remained in a New Jersey jail cell yesterday...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amQUEENS *** A Queens man was shot dead in Laurelton yesterday after a heated dispute with a brazen gunman, police said. Jesse Robinson, 23, of 144th Avenue, was arguing with...
WE LOVE THE TROOPS- AS NEW PROGRAM SHOWS, THIS TIME THE MILITARY'S GOT SUPPORT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY'RE everywhere: Ribbons - pink, white, yellow - on cars, boats, vans, urging support for America's troops. There are bands on people's wrists. American flags posted in windows or adorning...
OPERA MAN'S GRAND FALL: FROM RAGS TO RICHES TO JAIL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced high-tech investor Alberto Vilar once joked that his Cuban family went "from riches to rags" in post-Castro Cuba. Now it's happening again to him in New York. One of...
INSULT AND INJURY IN HIT-RUN
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA man knocked to the ground by a hit-and-run driver - and then blasted with pepper spray to prevent him from getting a license-plate number - is scheduled to scour...
FISCAL FEAR FACTOR: HUGE $$ GAP LOOMS NEXT YEAR
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWHOEVER ends up in the mayor's seat next year is going to have to enact the largest budget modification in recent memory, insiders are predicting. Analysts currently project that the...
CAMPER DEAD IN L.I. CRASH
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amOne 18-year-old Hauppauge, L.I., man was killed and another was in serious condition yesterday after their car careened into a guardrail during a ride back from a camping trip, cops...
QUEENS WOMAN IS LATEST HIT-RUN VICTIM
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA woman was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash by an apparently drunken driver who fled the scene of the accident in Queens this morning but who was later nabbed,...
FREAK MISHAP KILLS JET SKIER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA North Babylon man was killed off Long Island yesterday when he sped his Jet Ski too close to a sailboat and was clothes-lined by the vessel's anchor line, cops...
EX-COP RELIVES TERROR; HIT IN SHOOTOUT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amRetired cop Garnold King yesterday recalled how "the whole world was coming to an end," as he recovered from the wounds he got during Friday night's wild Harlem shootout between...
POLICE SHOOTING AT DOG HIT 2 GALS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amBullet fragments left two Copiague women wounded yesterday after Suffolk County cops found themselves shooting at a pit bull while serving a warrant, police said. Officers said they entered the...
FROM NYC WITH LOVE: GEAR FOR AFGHAN FIRE HEROES
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amAfghanistan's Bravest are getting help from the Big Apple. The FDNY last week sent 15 sets of bunker gear to the Kabul Fire Department - an ill-equipped 350-member force protecting...
HITS GALORE ON 'DRUGDEAL.COM' - PUSHERS TURN WEB'S CRAIGSLIST INTO CRACKLIST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD has busted a drug dealer operating on craigslist, where they say a full menu of popular drugs are being peddled under code names like "tina." Last week, a...
COPS IN QUACKMIRE; MESSED UP DEATH-DOC SUV HUNT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amCops never looked into a key piece of evidence in the murder probe of phony doc Dean Faiello, and the flub could foul up the case against the quack, The...
SHORE ENOUGH: HOLIDAY SUN LOVERS HIT THE BEACH
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe first day of beach season went swimmingly yesterday, with cleaner waters than last year, packed boardwalks under mostly sunny skies and all 14 miles of the city's strand open...
A THOUSAND CHEERS ; FELLOW SWILLER THIRSTS FOR BAR-HOPPER HISTORY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIF life, liberty and liver prevail, Daniel Freeman by year's end will have bar-hopped like a kangaroo through more watering holes in a given time than any upright human being...
SEIZED CITY AIRPORT LOOT GETS ONE-WAY TICKET TO PA.
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThat pen knife you gave up last time you boarded an airplane is on sale to the highest bidder - in Pennsylvania. The federal Transportation Security Administration has confiscated 20...
SLAY-RAP GRANDMA FREE, BUT BRO ROTS IN PRISON
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWhile Marie La Pinta celebrates her freedom after 22 years in prison for killing her husband, her brother and protector rots in jail. And her jubilant supporters say there is...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amLondon's Big Ben clock mysteriously stopped ticking for 90 minutes, and officials are befuddled over why the giant hands of time stood still. The 147-year-old landmark - renowned for its...
WED USHER SAVES SHOT MAN'S LIFE
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA Virginia man's trip to Queens for a family wedding was interrupted by crime early yesterday when he came to the aid of a thug who had just been shot...
TERROR RAT ON RUN; WOUNDED ZARQAWI FLEES IRAQ: REPORT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIraq's most-wanted terrorist has bolted the country to have emergency surgery on a shrapnel wound he received during an American airstrike, according to a news report. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is...
SLIMY SLUSHY SELLER - HE PICKS TRASH TO GET ICES
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe iceman cometh - and maketh customers sick. A Post photographer busted a cold-hearted Italian ices vendor yesterday pulling his frozen treats out of a garbage can in Central Park...
OPERA MAN'S FALL - RAGS TO RICHES TO JAIL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced tech investor Alberto Vilar once joked his Cuban family went from "riches to rags" in post-Castro Cuba. Now it's happening to him all over again in New York. Vilar,...
CELL ORDER FOR NUDE BANK EXEC
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amThe JPMorgan Chase executive nabbed in the nude after exposing himself to an off-duty female cop while wearing nothing but a condom remained in a New Jersey jail cell yesterday...
CIG-SELLER EUD ENDS IN DEATH
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amA dispute between two cigarette sellers led to a slap and a Macing, then escalated to a stabbing that left one of the vendors, a father of a newborn, dead....
VA-VA VROOM - INDY FOX HAS HEARTS A-RACIN'
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amLike fast cars and fast women? Well, you're gonna love this woman. She's 23-year-old Danica Patrick - just 5-foot-2 and 100 pounds, but with a qualifying average in today's Indianapolis...
IF CAVS DIDN'T CALL, YOU MUST BE AWOL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT does it say about your career if the Cavaliers have failed to approach you or your parent, previous or defunct team regarding their front office and coaching vacancies? Either...
'BOOM-AH' NOT DOING VERY WELL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIn the middle of the Yankee Stadium visitors' clubhouse, Red Sox lefty David Wells looked the same. Playing cards, his rotund body slumped into his chair. His bald head and...
VAN PANS PISTON FANS ; 'ABSOLUTE NASTIEST PEOPLE'
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Richard Hamilton's pet pit bull is back in custody, found by the Piston star in an animal shelter after being loose for a day. So that's one...
RIVERA, GORDON GET SOME REST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES There was a positive development for the Yankees yesterday: Tom Gordon and Mariano Rivera weren't needed. Each pitched Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and Joe Torre said before the...
NO QUALITY FROM QUANTRILL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amPaul Quantrill may have plunked a batter last week, but yesterday against the Red Sox, the Yankee reliever was the one getting pelted. Quantrill got beat up as if he...
VICTOR-Y FOR DIAZ - BACK WITH METS AND INTENDS TO STAY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Victor Diaz Fan Club, if one existed, could rejoice yesterday. On the day Diaz arrived back in the big leagues, manager Willie Randolph provided the strongest indication...
PITCHING A-ROUND; RODRIGUEZ WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN CLEAN-UP SPOT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE are lessons to be learned from dreadful beatings. A trend developed in the Yankees' humiliating 17-1 loss to the Red Sox yesterday at Yankee Stadium, a game in which...
JETER TAKING SOME LUMPS IN BATTER'S BOX
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter got hit by another pitch yesterday and didn't finish the game. It was the fifth time this season Jeter's soaked one at the plate, second on the Yankees...
FOR SOX, HITS KEEP COMING
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amIn the 105-year history of the Red Sox, they have only played in two games when they belted more hits than they did yesterday at Yankee Stadium. In the history...
RED SOX SCORE, REPEATEDLY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE New York Fire Department doesn't have a hose as powerful as Matt Clement's right arm was yesterday in turning hot Yankees bats into soaked, rolled-up old newspapers. The streak...
CLEMENTIME - BEANTOWNHURLER STARTSYEAR RED HOT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMatt Clement had been labeled. He was one of those guys who owns great stuff, but produces just average results. Basically, the word around baseball is that the guy was...
FIRED CLERKS BARRED FROM TRACK
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTest results still not back on horses stabled in barn 60 to determine if suspected case of strangles has struck Belmont. The filly suspected of being infected, trainer Steve Kappes'...
MARLINS TRY PLAYING MIND GAMES
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - The first two games of this Mets-Marlins series have featured gamesmanship, and, apparently, some hard feelings. On Thursday night, Mets bench coach Sandy Alomar and Pedro...
BOSTON MASSACRE ; YANKEES SUFFER WORST LOSS TO RED SOX
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amRed Sox 17Yankees 1 There never has been a New York restaurant with a salad as expensive as the one tossed by the Yankees yesterday. The trio of Carl Pavano,...
STUMBLE IN THE BRONX STUMBLE IN THE BRONX
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE other day someone mentioned to Joe Torre how well Carl Pavano had adjusted to the Yankees, and my first thought was: Javier Vazquez was an All-Star last year. It...
ORATORY BREEZES IN 200G PETER PAN
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amFans of the fresh-horse-for-the-Belmont-Stakes angle are ready to jump on the bandwagon of Oratory for the June 11 "Test of the Champion" after the 3-year-old son of Pulpit posted a...
PITCHING A-ROUND ; RODRIGUEZ WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN CLEANUP SPOT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE are lessons to be learned from dreadful beatings. A trend developed in the Yankees embarrassing 17-1 loss to the Red Sox yesterday at Yankee Stadium, a game in which...
ESPN ICES NHL, FOR NOW
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amESPN declined its $60 million option to televise the NHL when play resumes, but the network and the league still could strike a deal. ESPN confirmed yesterday it would not...
VICTOR-IOUS RETURN TO THE BIGS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - The Victor Diaz Fan Club, if one existed, could rejoice yesterday. On the day Diaz arrived back in the big leagues, manager Willie Randolph provided the...
ISHII DOES IT ; MET LEFTY HOOKS MARLINS WITH ARM, BAT
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amMets 6Marlins 1 MIAMI - Dontrelle Willis had owned the Mets entering last night, and Kaz Ishii hadn't owned a victory since last Aug. 29. So naturally, the baseball world...
LASORDA FRONTRUNNER TO MANAGE TEAM USA
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amSpring training will be disrupted next March as the best players are asked to participate in the 16-nation World Baseball Classic. The commissioner's office does not want to cause greater...
MEGADEALS CAN BE DANDIES OR DISASTERS
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWE continue our series on league-shattering trades this week. Last time, we applauded the GM who sent Vladimir Guerrero to another squad for Rich Harden, Bronson Arroyo and Erik Bedard....
PASS N.J. BASS BILL
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amABILL has been introduced on Capitol Hill that would make striped bass a federal game fish and would prohibit commercial fishermen from taking wild bass in Atlantic coastal waters and...
STARK NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS ; BIG NAY TO SECRETARIAT OVER JETER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amYOU know when you know you've picked a fairly interesting subject? When as soon as it appears in the newspaper, your e-mail address is flooded. Thanks to the hundreds of...
TITO'S RETIREMENT POPPED UP SUDDENLY
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amBOXING NOTES Felix "Tito" Trinidad doesn't want to fight without his father in his corner. That's why he announced his retirement after his father Felix Sr. did the same upon...
OWNERS, PLAYERS INCHING CLOSER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amOUR long national nightmare appears to be ending. Yes, it's true: the TV reality show, "The Contender" will no longer be on the air. And in other news, the NHL...
SELF-SERVING IT UP; KAY'S THE HOST WITH THE MOST BOAST
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amWE'RE now often left to wonder why people are so eager to host radio shows when such positions often reveal them to be magnificent, self-important blowhards. Michael Kay, for example....
CLEANSING THE CROWN - A-ROD CHASING MARIS' DRUG-FREE HR RECORD
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHE weather has yet to heat up and Alex Rodriguez still has 22 games remaining in his favorite home-run stadiums in Anaheim, Arlington, Baltimore, Minnesota and Toronto. So it is...
HEAD TO HEAD - BIRDIES OR BOSOX
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amPost columnist Kevin Kernan and baseball writer Mike Morrissey slug it out over whether the Yankees have more to fear from the Orioles or Red Sox Kevin Kernan: The truth...
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - DAD SAID I'D NEVER SEE AN AMAZIN' NO-HITTER
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS has been a small piece of personal fanaticism for a good long time, at least since June 29, 1974, the day my father took me to see my first...
WEAVER-DREW MYSTERY - BROTHERS OF BIG-LEAGUERS TOGETHER IN BASEBALL LIMBO
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - Jered Weaver and Stephen Drew have several things in common. Both are the brothers of proven major leaguers. Both possess skills on a baseball field that make...
BABE'S HIDEAWAY - POST FINDS OLD BAMBINO HAUNT WELL-PRESERVED
May 29, 2005 | 4:00amFOR more than eight decades, the Curse of the Bambino lived in the other dugout. It was Boston's job to Reverse the Curse, so much so that Babe Ruth's long...