May 8, 2006
WHO'S HOT IN NEW YORK MEDIA
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amWho's hot in the fast-paced New York media world is always open to debate, but this week New York magazine takes a stab at it with - you guessed it...
MARTS AIMING AT 12K - FED BOWS TO DOW
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amAfter Friday's rally took the Dow Jones industrial average within 150 points of its all-time high, Wall Street now expects the blue-chip index to hit 12,000 by Memorial Day regardless...
OFFICE READS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amFIRE SOMEONE TODAY By Bob Pritchett Nelson Books, $14.99 THE title certainly grabs your attention, but what of the content? "The words 'you're fired' need to be uttered in order...
FINE JAM-MING
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLIKE the words in The Beatles song "The End" say: "The love you make is equal to the love you take." In a nutshell, that's why a King Kong-sized, arena-smashing...
RAISING 'CAINE' TO A SMOOTH-SAILING SHOW
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE is nothing in the popular theatre like a good old courtroom drama to get the adrenaline flowing, the interest held, the nails bitten and the mind expectant. Well, that's...
GAYLE'S RISING STAR IN 'VIEW'
May 8, 2006 | 4:00am'THE View" is going from talk show to soap opera. Reports began circulating over the weekend that Oprah Winfrey's best friend, Gayle King, may be in line to take over...
STARR REPORT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00am'View' bookends Meredith Vieira, who'll join NBC's "Today" show this fall after leaving "The View," will help honor fellow Tufts alums tonight when she hosts the 2nd annual P.T. Barnum...
HANG IN THERE - POKEY DRAMA READY TO 'BREAK'
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S been the longest escape in the history of prisons. But tonight - finally - steel-eyed Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and his ragtag group of fellow convicts will attempt, once...
ON THE 'ROAD' AGAIN
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMTV's "Road Rules" may be heading back onto the highway. Producers at BunimMurray are trying to figure out how to re-engineer the once-popular reality show that was yanked from the...
ARG! POOCHES PICK UP SCENT OF DVD PIRATES
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTWO black Labradors in Britain have been trained as the world's first dogs to sniff out counterfeit DVDs, according to reports. The dogs, Lucky and Flo, are being used by...
'LOST' FINALE SHOCKS CREATOR
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amJ.J. Abrams, co-creator of the revitalized "Lost," is telling fans the season finale in two weeks is a killer. "The ending of this year in 'Lost' blows the ending of...
STREET WISE - 'INSIDE' HOMELESS WORLD
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S a scene all New Yorkers have witnessed at one time or another: A homeless person on the streets, begging for money. The person in this photo, however, is "Inside...
REPUBLICANS 'CONCEDE' - ON BEHALF OF DEM SUOZZI
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amSTATE Republicans have abandoned hope that Tom Suozzi can damage fellow Democrat Eliot Spitzer enough to make it possible for a GOP candidate to win the race for governor in...
WISEGUYS IN HEELS - MOB GOES GAY IN NEW PLAY
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN wiseguy Salvatore "Sally" De Vita has a problem - he's a cross-dresser. "Disastro," cries the mob. "He an embarrassment to our honor. He's gotta go!" "No! He's good for...
KELLIE'S PRISONER OF LOVE - 'IDOL' GAL EMBRACES EX-CON DAD
May 8, 2006 | 4:00am"American Idol" contestant Kellie Pickler came home to thousands of cheering admirers over the weekend, and she gave special attention to one special fan - her ex-con dad. Pickler and...
POL & 9/11 KIN PUSH IMMIG BILL
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLong Island Rep. Peter King yesterday appeared with relatives of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero to urge the passage of harsher immigration laws to help thwart terrorism. "Immigration control and...
REV. BUTTS GOES GREEN
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amAttorney-general candidate Mark Green got a key endorsement yesterday from one of Harlem's most influential pastors. From the steps of his Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the Rev. Calvin Butts...
TOM'S ANTICS MAY SPELL 'MISSION' FAILURE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTom Cruise's kooky antics before the "Mission: Impossible III" debut may have caused its subpar performance at the box office over the weekend, analysts said yesterday. The sequel took the...
TOP GOP POL RIPS CIA 'PICK'
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The powerful House Intelligence Committee chairman yesterday slammed Gen. Michael Hayden, President Bush's expected choice to head the CIA, as the wrong man for the job. Rep. Peter...
30 KILLED BY IRAQ BOMBS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amCar bombs killed 30 people in Iraq yesterday and wounded more than 70 - while eight bodies were found in a Baghdad dump - during one of the bloodiest spasms...
CRIME STATS RIGGED - COP HONCHO RAPPED
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amA deputy inspector with the NYPD was demoted and transferred after investigators concluded that he altered important crime statistics while overseeing a Queens precinct in 2004. Thomas Manzolillo, 40, a...
BLAINE CHAIN-REACTION FEAR
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIllusionist David Blaine may have to change the way he tackles the underwater breath-holding record tonight. Trainers and Blaine's doctor have recommended that he stay in his water-filled sphere at...
'COPTER NOT SHOT DOWN BY TALIBAN
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amU.S. officials have ruled out hostile fire as a cause of the Friday helicopter crash in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of 10 soldiers from the Army's 10th Mountain Division,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A bouncer has been charged with fondling a woman outside an Upper East Side bar, police sources said yesterday. The 28-year-old woman told cops that Darron Thomas, 24,...
BOOZING LUNATIC KILLS 4-YEAR-OLD - 'HE SHOT MY BABY!' B'KLYN DAD WAILS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amA booze-swilling, gun-toting fiend went berserk during a birthday bender and opened fire in his crowded Brooklyn apartment yesterday - leaving a 4-year-old girl dead and her grandmother clinging to...
FAKE-COP HUNT - PERVS WITH 'BADGES' PROWL FOR TEENS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD is flooding Borough Park with dozens of anti-crime cops in a bid to nab a pervert who tries to lure young girls into his car by waving a...
SCANDAL TYCOON GIVES ANDY 50G
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amState Attorney General front-runner Andrew Cuomo's campaign raked in a $50,000 donation from a finance maven who was fined $200,000 in an alleged stock swindle - and who's now a...
INFLUENTIAL NYERS WHO SWAY THE WAY WE ARE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amWave goodbye to the city's power elite, and say hello to the Influentials. New York magazine today will release a list of the Big Apple's most influential people, which includes...
TORI TIES THE NOT-HER-MAN IN S. PACIFIC
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMarriage-wrecking actress Tori Spelling walked down the aisle again yesterday, wedding beau Dean McDermott on a private tropical island in Fiji. The barefoot bride wore white, despite her less-than-virtuous actions...
DOWNTOWN'S CONSTRUCTION BLITZ READY TO MOVE ONWARD - AND UPWARD
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amAs downtown braces for an onslaught of construction, The Post got a first look at the battle plan being drawn up to keep the massive building projects rolling. Within two...
CAR-SPLITTING CRASH KILLS 2
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTwo young men died in Brooklyn's Crown Heights early yesterday when their car spun out of control and hit several parked vehicles before smashing full force into a streetlight -...
PEDAL PUSHERS - 30,000 CYCLISTS TAKE TO STREETS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amHere's the wheel deal. More than 30,000 people took to the streets yesterday for the 29th annual Five Boro Bike Tour - a 42-mile, traffic-free, recreational ride throughout the city....
UPPER W. SIDE PET SHOP BURNS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amA popular pet store on the Upper West Side was damaged in an electrical blaze that killed a cat and several birds early yesterday. No one was in Petqua, at...
$UNY RECORD
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amStony Brook University is expected to announce today that it has received a $25 million donation - the largest ever to a State University of New York branch. The contribution,...
9/11 KIN JOIN ALIEN-BILL POL
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLong Island Rep. Peter King yesterday appeared with relatives of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero to urge the passage of harsher immigration laws to help thwart terrorism. "Immigration control and...
FOR THIS FOOD, HE IS TANKFUL - COOKING OIL SOLVES STUDENT'S GAS WOES
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sky-high gas prices don't bother upstate college student Greg Boyd - his old Mercedes runs entirely on vegetable oil. "The last time I bought gas was a couple...
TOWN CAR KILLING WAS A 'HIT' JOB
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amPolice believe that the Manhattan man gunned down in a livery Lincoln Town Car Saturday was the intended target of the hit because of the number of shots fired at...
FASO MISSED 1,696 VOTES
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - John Faso, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, skipped nearly 1,700 votes during his 16 years in the state Legislature, according to tallies obtained by The...
LUNATIC KILLS GIRL, 4 - BOOZE FIEND SHOOTS UP B'KLYN APARTMENT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amA booze-swilling, gun-toting fiend went berserk during a birthday bender and opened fire in his crowded Brooklyn apartment yesterday, leaving a 4-year-old girl dead and her grandmother clinging to life,...
STAR BARES 9/11 ANGUISH - MAGGIE: COP & WIFE KEPT ME FROM QUITTING FILM
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, ripped after she blamed the United States for 9/11, was set to drop out of an upcoming Sept. 11 movie - until she had...
JUDGE TO WEIGH FEDS' GAMBINO BLITZ
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amA judge is set to weigh in on whether the feds abused their power by launching a sweeping probe of the Gambino crime family and delivering subpoenas to witnesses who...
WORKER SLAMS UFT FOR 'BIAS'
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amAfter complaining for years that its members endure a hostile work environment in city schools, the United Federation of Teachers is now facing the same charge from one of its...
USO IN CIVIL 'WAR' - N.Y. COURT BATTLE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIts job is to entertain the troops, but a sensational lawsuit says there's nothing amusing about what's going on behind the scenes at the USO of Metropolitan New York. Three...
TRIBES BLAST CIG-TAX SUIT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amNew York Indian tribes are fuming over a renewed push by the state's convenience stores to end the tax-free sale of cigarettes on reservation land. The New York Association of...
S.I. SCHOOL BIGS MAKE A BAD CALL - HARASS GIRL OVER PROTEST
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amRAVEN PEREZ is a hard-charging honors student from Staten Island who was raised to speak up for her beliefs. And she believes the ban on cellphones in school is wrong....
CITY SCHOOLS BLOCK KIDS' WEB CLIQUES
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amThe city Department of Education has quietly banned access to the wildly popular social-networking Internet sites Myspace.com and Sconex.com from classroom computers, citing concerns over raunchy postings and chat groups,...
ONLINE SITE OUT OF LINE: TEACHERS
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIt is loaded with sexual innuendoes, teacher spoofs and drug references - and city teens are hooked on it. Welcome to the online world of Sconex.com, a Web site for...
CIG-BAN SCOFFLAWS LIGHT UP ASH-TORIA
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amEstablishments in Queens - particularly the nightspots of Astoria - are the biggest violators blowing smoke at the city's 3-year-old smoking ban, The Post has learned. Over the past year,...
$TONY BROOK GIFT A RECORD
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amStony Brook University is expected to announce today that it has received a $25 million donation - the largest ever made to any branch of the State University of New...
SPEAKING OUT - MARY CHENEY FINALLY TELLS HER STORY
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amHOW did Vice President Dick Cheney's wife Lynne show her anger when Democrat John Edwards tried to play politics with the fact that her daughter Mary is gay? The nation's...
'DWI' DIPLO DODGES BUST
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amCops stopped a Moroccan diplomat suspected of driving drunk yesterday morning near U.N. headquarters in Turtle Bay - but for the second time in as many months, diplomatic immunity prevented...
TOWN CAR HIT PUZZLES POLICE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amPolice yesterday said they believe that the Manhattan man gunned down in a livery cab over the weekend was the intended target of the brutal hit because of the number...
KRSTIC: THE NEWEST CENTER OF ATTENTION
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - Bill Walton, former NBA Finals MVP and Hall-of-Fame center, looks at the Nets-Heat series and sees the best center in the NBA: Miami's Shaquille O'Neal. But Walton also...
BARKLEY MISSES POINT ON KOBE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTNT execs are charmed, I'm sure, that Charles Barkley has yet to utter a significant or grammatically correct statement since joining the nitwork, or mumble a complete a sentence without...
MIAMI SUFFERS 'FLOP' SWEAT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - Heat center Shaquille O'Neal and coach Pat Riley already are trying to manipulate the referees, ahead of the opening tip for Nets-Heat tonight at American Airlines Arena. O'Neal...
NO SURPRISING VINCE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK MIAMI - Vince Carter isn't certain what the Heat and coach Pat Riley will do to try to stop him in the second-round playoff series that begins tonight, but...
ONE BEHIND BABE - BARRY BLASTS NO. 713
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amPhillies 9 - Giants 5 PHILADELPHIA - With one swing of the bat, Barry Bonds quieted doubts about his bat speed, turned boos into cheers and moved one step closer...
AMAZIN'S CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE ON LIMA TIME
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Mets needed a hot start this year, and got a hot start. They needed their bullpen to flourish, and so far it's the best in baseball. They needed to...
AIN'T THAT GRAND! - TORRE RACKS UP 1,000TH VICTORY AS YANK SKIPPER
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Rangers 5 ARLINGTON - The Yankees can thank scouts Gordon Blakeley and John Cox as well as George Steinbrenner's willingness to rely on them and pay the...
SHEFF WON'T HURRY BACK
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Gary Sheffield says a trip to the disabled list is up to the Yankees, but the right fielder made it clear he will return to the...
ARMS RACE HAS METS WHEEZIN' - WITH ZAM OUT FOR YEAR, ROTATION SPINNIN' OUT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amBraves 13 - Mets 3 Judging from yesterday's outing, "Lima Time" has expired. And with Victor Zambrano out for the year, the drumbeat will likely begin on when Mike Pelfrey's...
NOAH NOT WORRIED: MONEY WILL COME
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIn his latest book, John Daly confesses to amassing $50-$60 million in gambling debts. Charles Barkley, the TNT mouthpiece, follows that by admitting to $10 million in gambling losses of...
PHILS: NO LOVE FOR WAGNER
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amBilly Wagner thinks nearly everyone in Philadelphia hates him - including most of his ex-Phillies teammates. "My teammates thought I was a big rat," Wagner said prior to the Mets'...
THE HEAT IS ON - BUT NETS REMAIN CONFIDENT IN BATTLE WITH RED-HOT MIAMI
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - Call it Diplomacy 101 or Political Correctness 2006. Either way, the Nets were not about to give the Heat any verbal fuel for their second-round playoff fire. "We...
LO DUCA SPIKE EARNS THUMB
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Willie Randolph said he thought the ball slipped out of Paul Lo Duca's hand in the second inning yesterday. Lo Duca didn't hide behind that flimsy excuse. "I...
FURYK HANGS STRONG TO GUT OUT WACHOVIA
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - The ball wasn't more than a foot off the blade of Jim Furyk's putter when he broke into the most demonstrative fist pump of his career. Furyk's right...
MILESTONE TRIUMPH FOR JOE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amARLINGTON - From George Steinbrenner to Derek Jeter, everybody in the Yankees' family celebrated Joe Torre's 1,000th win in pinstripes. "That's a lot of games," Jeter said of Torre after...
YANKEES DELIGHT IN GRAND DAY - PROCTOR HELPS TORRE EARN 1,000TH VICTORY
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Rangers 5 ARLINGTON - Scott Proctor's salary is ashtray money to most of his teammates. In the designer universe in which he lives, he is straight off...
THROW IT ALL OUT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amThe Heat swept the Nets in the playoffs last year. The Nets beat the Heat 3-of-4 in the regular season this year. "Throw that out," said Nets coach Lawrence Frank....
AIN'T THAT GRAND! - TORRE RACKS UP 1,000TH WIN WITH PROCTOR'S HELP
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Rangers 5 ARLINGTON - Scott Proctor's salary is ashtray money to most of his teammates. In the designer universe in which he lives, he is straight off...
THE BULL'S-EYE IS ON DERBY CHAMP
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Who's going to beat him? That's the question everyone in the racing world is asking in the aftermath of Barbaro's stunningly easy victory in the Kentucky Derby Saturday,...
THEY'RE LINING UP FOR A 2ND CHANCE
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Now that, for the first time in a decade, Visa is no longer offering a $5 million bonus for winning the Triple Crown, it seems inevitable that a...
THE WEEK TO FORGET
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S ALL a big put on. It has to be. This many people, ill-serving so many sports fans, can't all be serious. Last week seemed as if people lined up...
BEATING THE HEAT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amBefore this season, playing the Heat had been an exercise in futility for the Nets. Including playoff games, 10 times they went against Miami, 10 times they lost. But that...
'WINNEY' WEEKEND FOR PRADO
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amAfter winning the Kentucky Derby on Saturday with Barbaro, Edgar Prado completed a tremendous weekend by guiding favored Oprah Winney to victory in the $110,600 Bouwerie Stakes. The Richard Dutrow...
OSCAR VS. FLOYD: CAN IT HAPPEN?
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - When Oscar De La Hoya dropped Ricardo Mayorga with a left hook in the first round of their WBC super welterweight fight Saturday night, HBO boss Ross...
TOBACCO WOED - MARTY TRIES TO SHAKE SATURDAY SWOON
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amRALEIGH - The trouncing came from nowhere, as did the soft goals too numerous to write off as a flock of flukes. From wide along the goal line, the Hurricanes...
BARBARO LOOMS AS TRIPLE THREAT
May 8, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Barbaro hadn't even crossed the finish line in Saturday's 132nd Kentucky Derby when most in the near-record crowd of 157,536 at Churchill Downs, and millions more watching on...