May 30, 2004
THE CELEBRITY WINES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amFor some celebrities, the grapevine is more than gossip - it's a business. Three new celebrity wines - from Bob Dylan, Carole Bouquet and Gerard Depardieu - debut in the...
CAVUTO FINDS STRONG, 'WEIRDEST' WHO INSPIRE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amA decade after battling cancer, which is in remission and could return at any time, top business journalist Neil Cavuto was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. That was six years ago....
MILLIONAIRE BANKER TURNS WACKO MUSICIAN
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSir Ivan Wilzig has shed his banker's suit for good. Wilzig, the cape-wearing scion of a billion-dollar banking family, is now a full-time musician and partygoer. Wilzig, who goes by...
LITTLE-SEEN FILM GEMS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Village Voice annually asks critics from around the United States to name their favorite films of the past year. As you would expect, the list is esoteric and eclectic....
ON THE MOVE WITH MOBILE TELEPHONES
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amCORRESPONDENCE chess began in the 19th century as chess-by-letter and was popularized by the penny post card. Each advance in technology has created a new, faster and often cheaper form...
BOW-VOWS; WHEN YOUR BEST MAN IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWith more and more New Yorkers incorporating four-legged friends into their weddings, preparing the dog for the big day is a pre-nuptial priority. "Cassidy is a member of our immediate...
JUST DANDY - FAB FIVE PICK ON ONE OF THEIR OWN
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amIt Guy" is coming out of the closet. For the first had to happen. ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' is coming out of the closet. for the first time,...
HOT SLOTS - 'AMERICAN CASINO' GOES BEHIND-THE-SCENES WITH VEGAS DIEHARDS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWHO needs world-series poker when you can watch the whole casino instead? The Discovery Channel may have hit the jackpot with its newest reality show, "American Casino." The 13-episode, behind-the-scenes...
SUMMER TV: NEW DOESN'T EQUAL GOOD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN some of the big broadcast networks announced plans recently to beef up their summer slates with new series, they made it sound like it was some sort of big...
COSBY SPEAKS OUT AND GETS ATTACKED
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amJUST in case you thought that our world hadn't yet gone completely nuts, Bill Cosby, last week, was criticized by the NAACP and other African-American spokespersons for stating some significant,...
HOT LIST - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amCinema classic He would have been 100 years old this past January, and he's still the barometer by which all other leading men are measured. And even if one did...
DAVID SEDARIS: 'DENIM' VENOM FROM A MASTER OF MOCKERY
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amArguably the funniest short-story writer working today, David Sedaris - who is also an NPR commentator and, with his sister Amy, a playwriting team known as "The Talent Family" -...
SCARY 'HARRY' - UNDER A DAZZLING NEW DIRECTOR, THE LATEST POTTER CHRONICLE IS MORE THAN JUST CHILD'S PLAY
May 30, 2004 | 4:00am"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" opens this Friday, and already critics are as wound up as Hogwarts students on the first day back. The third Potter movie is...
QUICK BITES - THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amALL THE BREWHAHA: Stuck in the city? Don't let that keep you from eating holiday-style. For a feast without the fuss, head to Times Square Brewery (210 W. 42nd St.),...
HEAR THIS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT SoCal surf-punk vets the Offspring headline at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday. Pop-punks blink-182 and ska-rock stalwarts No Doubt perform at PNC Bank Arts Centeron Thursday and Friday,...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amCARL HANCOCK RUX "Apothecary RX" (four stars) Giant Step Records There's nothing safe about Carl Hancock Rux's "Apothecary RX," a stunning, style-smashing hip-hop album that fuses rock, gospel and jazz...
FROM HAIR TO ETERNITY - MY MORNING JACKET: ROOTS ROCK EVEN A NEW YORKER CAN LOVE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWhen My Morning Jacket played Brownie's four years ago, only four people showed up. "It was not a memorable night," admits the Kentucky quintet's frontman Jim James. "But we were...
BASS-KICKER: MELISSA AUF DER MAUR ON SOLO LIFE AND HER PAL, COURTNEY LOVE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSHE learned from the masters. After seven years' tenure keeping time for Courtney Love's Hole - and then Billy Corgan's Smashing Pumpkins - bassist Melissa Auf der Maur definitely knows...
RANK-O-FILE: BOOK EXPLORES NEW YORKERS' #1 HOBBY: RATING EACH OTHER
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSo what do you do for a living? Where do you live? Do you own or rent? How much do you pay? How much did those shoes cost? Are you...
ONE HOT NIGHT, ONE PERFECT KISS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amFor all the planning and plotting you put into dating in New York, every now and then you realize how little it has to do with actual chemistry. I'm still...
SPARKS ON 14TH ST. - BILLY & JEN HIT IT OFF INSTANTLY - THEY'RE GOING OUT AGAIN!
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amLast week Billy, 24, a party photographer for Patrick McMullan, chose Jen, 27, a brand strategist, over Dana, a trainee journalist, and Tangie, a beauty editor - and our readers...
MEET MARKET: THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUTIRISH LASS LONGS FOR CLEVER CONVERSATION
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amOrla, 28, mergers and acquisitions finance Orla, who lives in the West Village, isn't a fitness freak, but she likes to keep healthy. "I run a lot down the Hudson...
SCHOOL'S IN FOR MODELS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amTen supermodels shacked up in a house last week, in between darting to and from Manhattan parties. Gisele Bunchen, Karolina Kurkova and eight other lovelies gave the students of Monmouth...
CUT-RATE SECRETS: PROWLING DISCOUNT STORES FOR THE ULTIMATE BUYS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amOur city has a rep as the discount shopping capital of the world - which means bargain hunting is more of an extreme sport than a leisure activity. If you...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amA serial panty pilferer in suburban Cleveland has been pinched. "Laundry thief" Remigio Abello, 46, of Twinsburg, was busted after a couple spotted him coming out of an apartment carrying...
WORKER NEAR DEATH AFTER SHOCK FROM ILLEGAL LIGHT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amA Polish-born construction worker was fighting for his life yesterday after getting a shock from an illegally installed light at an Upper West Side apartment building and going into cardiac...
TYCOON IN THE HOU$E; MANSION THAT ATE HAMPTONS OPEN FOR BIZ
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe largest home in all the land will finally house a family this summer, The Post has learned. Billionaire Ira Rennert - who angered many an East Ender when he...
MOVING MOMENT FOR NEW YORK MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Of the thousands of aging veterans who gathered yesterday for the dedication of the World War II Memorial, no one's story was more harrowing and inspiring than that...
ONLINE TAX EFFORT COMES TO NAUGHT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers resoundingly ignored a new line on their state income-tax forms asking them to report taxes they owed for buying items online, from catalogs or from out-of-state vendors, officials...
SPECIAL-ED MONEY PIT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSOMETIMES it takes a harsh jolt to get New Yorkers' attention. Here's one: Ninety-seven out of every 100 special-ed eight-graders in the city flunked their reading test last year. And...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** Cops raided a Bushwick apartment where they arrested four Brooklyn men and seized illegal drugs and cash, police said yesterday. The incident occurred 6:10 a.m. Friday when cops...
HEROIC TRIBUTE: WWII MEMORIAL GIVES VETS A NATION'S GRATITUDE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amNearly 60 years after the guns fell silent, tens of thousands of World War II soldiers, sailors and home front heroes swarmed into Washington, D.C., yesterday for a final, sun-drenched...
FIREFIGHTER ON HOT SEAT IN COP ASSAULT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amIn the latest black eye for the FDNY, an off-duty firefighter assaulted a cop after getting into a dispute with another man outside a Staten Island bar early yesterday morning,...
POLS TURN THE CORNER IN BATTLE OF NEWS BOXES
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE city plans to water down the law strictly regulating the positioning and maintenance of street-corner news boxes following howls of protest from publishers bombarded with summonses. The law was...
HOW I LURED SIX CHEATING HUBBIES INTO MY WEB TRAP
May 30, 2004 | 4:00am"I told my wife I'm going away on business tomorrow night," said Chris, 38, "We could have drinks with friends of mine who know the deal - they'll bring their...
GRIM HUNT FOR SARAH SLAY CLUES
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amPolice yesterday continued to comb the puzzling crime scene at Inwood Hill Park, where the nude and decomposed body of Juilliard student Sarah Fox was discovered, in a bid to...
FOUR INJURED IN BRONX BLAZE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amFour people, including two firefighters, were injured when a 99-cent store in The Bronx burst into flames yesterday, briefly trapping four people inside. The two-alarm blaze broke out at 3:15...
BOATERS TIPPED INTO EAST RIVER
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amA strong gust of wind tipped over a sailboat in the East River yesterday, sending four people tumbling into the frigid waterway. The group put out a radio call for...
WITNESSES TELL OF BLOODY RAMPAGE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amAmid the fast-paced terror attack on the luxury compound in Khobar, some residents were able to send messages to the outside world, via cellphone and even e-mail. The BBC News...
BREAKOUT RECORD; DIDDY'S GUN PAL INKS $30M RAP DEAL IN JAIL
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amEven from his cell in a bleak upstate New York prison, Jamal Barrow is shining. Three years after going to prison for his role in a New York nightclub shooting...
MEN VS. WOMEN: WHO'S FRUGAL? CASE #1: SHE'S ALL DEBITS & CREDIT CARDS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amJaime Salpeter doesn't need anyone to remind her she's dropping big bucks on shopping sprees - she's an accountant. "I'm definitely the big spender of the family," said Jaime, 25,...
GIAMBI'S TAKING TINY STEPS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Jason Giambi issued a one-sentence update yesterday afternoon on the health of his sprained right ankle. "Tomorrow I'm doing everything," Giambi said to PR honcho...
TOP OF THE HEAP ; BROWN PITCHES YANKS TO MAJORS' BEST RECORD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 5Devil Rays 3 ST. PETERSBURG - Kevin Brown's first pitch last night was 91 MPH, which was surely not the hardest the 39-year-old has ever thrown. But it resulted...
RAGE AS LEMRICK GOES FREE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWhen he is released this week from a federal prison, still a young man with his life ahead of him, Lemrick Nelson Jr. will be the same age as the...
TINY CONNER'S 'MURDER' A PRO-CHOICE PARADOX
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amHIS name was Conner. As Scott Peterson heads to his murder trial, a parallel battle is being waged in the California courtroom by the case's littlest victim. Peterson's son, known...
WAR OVER BOY RAISED BY GAYS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amAn ugly tug of war is raging over the fate of a 6-year-old boy being raised by a gay couple who won custody of the child in a landmark decision...
SPIDEY'S BOOKWORMS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amHe's duking it out with the deadly Doctor Octopus on the silver screen on June 30, but in the meantime, Spider-Man is taking on an even tougher foe - illiteracy....
DUTIFUL DOCS PAY PRICE IN AUGUST
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMemo to all city docs: Don't plan a Hawaiian vacation or golf trip the last week of August. That's when the Republican National Convention hits town, and the city wants...
A WHOLE LOTTA LUCK AT L.I. SHOP
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amIf you play the lottery, you might want to start buying your tickets at KG Cards & Gifts. That's because the Glen Head, L.I., store sold winning tickets in separate...
BREAKOUT RECORD - DIDDY'S GUN PAL INKS $30M RAP DEAL IN JAIL
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amEven from his cell in a bleak upstate New York prison, Jamal Barrow is shining. Three years after going to prison for his role in a New York nightclub shooting...
TAKE YOUR TIME, SLATS; WHY APPOINT A COACH IF THERE'S NO SEASON?
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amCALGARY - There's no rush for Glen Sather, no rush whatsoever for the GM to hire a coach for the Rangers. Jacques Martin said no. Joel Quenneville, well-placed sources indicate,...
BOLTS POSE NO DANGER - FLAMES STIFLE LIGHTNING TO TAKE 2-1 LEAD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3 Flames 3 Lightning 0 CALGARY - Here's the thing about the "C" of Red. It does not part. In a game that featured the unlikeliest of unlikely sights...
NEW FLOUNDER LAWS HURT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amTHE worst part of the new summer flounder regulations has already begun - people are losing their jobs. The Viking Fleet, a big employer of captains and mates for their...
BOULDER-DASH! COLORADO REINSTATING COACH IS ROCKY MOUNTAIN TRAVESTY
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amLET ME first say my cousin played for the University of Colorado's 1990 national championship team, and it was the school I wanted to attend out of high school because...
WOLVES STAY ALIVE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWEST FINALS GAME 5 T'wolves 98Lakers 96 MINNEAPOLIS - There was no Sam Cassell. Lots of desperation, but no Sam Cassell. And no second chance for the Timberwolves. So coach...
METROS' 'KING OF GOALS' STRUGGLES ROYALLY
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMetroStars forward Sergio Galvan Rey was such a prodigious scorer in Colombia, he earned the nickname "King of Goals" before finding his transition to America and the MLS more difficult...
SOME LOW-FAT WHIP TOPPING
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amRather than blaming expansion and complaining about the watered-down pitching the the major leagues, we fantasy players must deal with the fact that most teams have only two starters that...
DR. DOSAGE SEES 'SMARTY' BLOWOUT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSmarty Jones outran his Pennsylvania-bred sprinter's pedigree to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the conventional wisdom goes - but to complete the Triple Crown, his bloodlines present a major...
STARS ARE ALWAYS OUT ; LIGHTNING RELY HEAVILY ON TWO LINES
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amCALGARY - No changing on the fly to get matchups. In fact, not much attention paid to matchups at all. No, these aren't Glen Sather's Rangers. These are John Tortorella's...
BENCH BUGS CASSELL
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - It is one of the great puzzles of NBA life. To get to where they wanted to be, in the playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the...
JACKSON'S PEP TALK PROVES DUD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWEST NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Phil Jackson didn't like what he saw in his Lakers before the game started. And he told them so. Not that it did any good, as...
NETS IN TRADING HUBBUB
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWEST NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Trade talks are in the "infant stages," one league source said, but there are many ongoing discussions and the Nets are in the midst of many...
PHANTASTIC PLACE TO WATCH A GAME
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Take a ride down the Jersey Turnpike to Citizens Bank Park, Mets and Yankee fans, and you'll see what you are missing. "This place is fantastic," says Deirdre...
'MOSCOW' BEST IN SHEEPSHEAD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMoscow Burning parlayed a ridiculously easy pace into a gate-to-wire win in the Grade 2 $150,000 Sheepshead Bay Handicap at Belmont yesterday. Under Mike Smith, Moscow Burning strolled through six...
PHILLY RUBBERNECKERS BULLYING THE BULLPEN - ROWDIES LOOM OVER VISITING PITCHERS IN NEW PARK
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Home-field advantage comes in many ways. The Mets are about to experience a dose of HFA that will make their heads spin. Art Howe's pitchers will live in...
THE KOBE QUESTION - PARENTS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN RAPE CASE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amAs the image of Kobe Bryant walking into the courthouse flashed across the TV screen, Benjie Wimberly knew the question was coming. "Is he going to jail, Dad?" his 8-year-old...
SCRATCH AND SNIFF ; TAPIT, CLIFF'S EDGE KO'D FOR BELMONT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amSaturday's Belmont Stakes lost two prospective obstacles to Smarty Jones' Triple Crown bid when Tapit and The Cliff's Edge dropped out yesterday because of physical ailments. But Todd Pletcher and...
CHASING IMMORTALITY - SMARTY JONES NECK-AND-NECK WITH GREATEST HORSES OF ALL TIME - ONLY IF HE WINS BELMONT
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amFROM the excitement in the air, the electricty pulsing through the barns, the buzz in the media and the rising anticipation among millions, you know something big is about to...
'FUNNY' GOES EXTRA MILE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe 136th Belmont Stakes isn't the only major event being run at Belmont Park this week. Tomorrow, the "Big B" hosts its traditional Memorial Day feature, the Grade 1, $750,000...
BRYANT HOT FOR SUN, SPURS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amFOR those dream weavers who believe a fourth championship will entice Kobe Bryant to remain a Laker for at least the life of new seven-year contract, prepare to be disappointed....
BACK ON HIS GAME - RELAXED JETERENDS DRY SPELL
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Derek Jeter was joking Friday afternoon about his luck, another sign he has kept his unique brand of dry humor throughout his offensive dry spell. It wasn't...
HOW DO YOU SAY 'NO, GIRL!' IN FRENCH?
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amGetting Behind In Her Work: It's obvious by now that Nike, Fila and adidas are outfitting their contracted players to exude sex. To that end, the hot pants that Serena...
SKIDDING CAMERON IS SIMPLY STUMPED
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - There's not much Mike Cameron can do anymore. He is in a bona-fide offensive stupor, with no idea how to get out of it. "I just don't understand...
KNOCKED FOR LOOP ; METS FALL IN 10 ON LOWELL HR
May 30, 2004 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Marlins3 Mets 2 MIAMI - On Friday, Armando Benitez did the job against his former team. Last night, Braden Looper couldn't match that performance. Facing his former Marlin...
MYSTERY SOLVED; BROWN'S SOLID START BOOSTS YANKS BACK INTO FIRST
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 5Devil Rays 3 ST. PETERSBURG - Kevin Brown's first pitch last night was clocked at 91 mph, which surely was not the hardest the 39-year-old has ever thrown. But...
JAX LIGHTS A FIRE
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Phil Jackson didn't like what he saw in his Lakers. Flip Saunders wasn't really sure what he was going to see from his Timberwolves. As the two coaches...
FLOYD OK AFTER SCARY COLLISION
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - It looked like the Mets' worst nightmare. It turned out be an enormous sigh of relief. In the first inning last night, Cliff Floyd and Mike...
KNOCKED FOR LOOP ; LOWELL WALK-OFF HR IN 10TH SINKS METS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00am10 Innings Marlins 3 Mets 2 MIAMI - The pitch was supposed to be simple enough - a fastball away to Mike Lowell. That was what Braden Looper wanted to...
PICKING WRIGHT TIME, PLACE TO PROMOTE PHENOM
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets are ready to promote top prospect David Wright to Triple-A - possibly this week - as a precursor to getting him to the majors in the second half....
WE KID YOU NOT ; AMERICA'S MOST WANTED FIFTH-GRADE HOOPSTERS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWE report, you decide (if the world has gone nuts). The following appeared in the May 23 Cincinnati Enquirer as the final item in Dustin Dow's college basketball column: "[Reds'...
LIBS TAKE SHOW ON THE ROAD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amDeeper, more athletic and getting balanced scoring and solid bench play from some unlikely sources, the Liberty are enjoying some of the fruits of their offseason basketball makeover. The upstart...
LEITER SEES TUESDAY RETURN
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Barring something unforeseen, Al Leiter will take the mound against the Phillies on Tuesday. Leiter, on the DL with shoulder tendinitis, threw 25 pitches from the...
DAZED AND CONFUSED: CAMERON DESPERATE TO FIND FIX FOR SLUMP
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amMIAMI - There is nothing Mike Cameron can say and at this point, very little he can do. He is in a bona-fide offensive stupor, and he has no idea...
BELIEVERS BEWARE! NOT BUYING REDS, METS, BREWERS OR D'BACKS AS CONTENDERS
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amI DON'T believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus or the 2004 Cincinnati Reds. As one AL executive said, "Sean Casey is not a .379 hitter, Paul Wilson is not...
THE DREAM'S OVER - SHED NO TEARS OVER DEFECTIONS FROM U.S. OLYMPIC HOOPS TEAM
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amWE'VE made our point. Now it's time to move on. We have proven for once and forever that if all the countries of the world gathered all their best basketball...
REBUILDING BLOCKS - A NEW JETS STADIUM COULD BRING FORDHAM BACK TO ITS GLORIOUS PAST
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amVINCE Lombardi had already agreed to leave the Giants and come back to coach Fordham in 1954 when University President Laurence J. McGinley, facing a $200,000 deficit, dropped a football...
HEAD-TO-HEAD
May 30, 2004 | 4:00amThe Post's Mark Hale and Andrew Marchand slug it out over whether the Mets can ever take over New York from the Yankees again, as they did in 1969, 1973...