February 12, 2006
RADIO STARDOM CITADEL BOSS STEPS OUT OF KARMAZIN'S SHADOW
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWall Street bankers, Mel Karmazin and, presumably, his parents love Farid Suleman, the Citadel Communications CEO who last week vaulted into radio's upper echelons with a $2.7 billion deal for...
HOW THE PRESS MISSES THE BOAT ON BIG OIL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: You are the only one writing that we are being fleeced by oil companies. Has all the media just been bought off by Exxon? H.L.Dear H.L.: Look, "bought...
GETTING FREY-ED; DISGRACED SCRIBE TO GRACE PAL'S COVER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAT least one person is standing by embattled author James Frey, who has admitted to fabricating parts of his best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces." The first printing of Josh...
KIDS, STARBUCKS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL TOGETHER AT LAST
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTwo of the hottest retail phenomena in recent years - the premium-priced cup of coffee and the pint-sized consumer - are set to collide Tuesday when insurgent record label Razor...
BEST-LAID NEST EGG CRACKS UP
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amIn what some economists fear could be a grim red flag, the Retirement Planners of America Inc. has filed for bankruptcy. The company advised more than 100,000 clients on building...
BRUCE'S BATTLE; WASSERSTEIN BIDS TO SHAKE UP THE STREET
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amMaybe they should call him Bruce "Break 'em up" Wasserstein. Unfortunately for the Lazard CEO, the take on Wall Street is that helping Carl Icahn attempt to dismantle Time Warner...
FOREVER YOUR GIRL - DR. PHIL PLAYS CUPID FOR PAULA ABDUL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amApparently being a judge on Fox's "American Idol," the country's number-one show by a long shot, is not enough to satisfy Paula Abdul. On Valentine's Day, Abdul, 43, sits down...
ICE QUEENS - WINTER BABES SHOOT FOR THE GOLD AT THE OLYMPICS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amYou've heard all about Sasha Cohen and Michelle Kwan, the usual figure skating divas who get all the attention at Olympics. But they're just the tip of the iceberg when...
'VERONICA MARS' - 'LAGUNA BEACH' STAR PLAYS GAY POM-POM GIRL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amON MTV's glossy reality show "Laguna Beach," Kristin Cavallari was the ultimate boy magnet - everywhere she went, boys traveled in her wake, desperate to be her boyfriend, prom date,...
IS CHAPPELLE TOO CRAZY FOR A COMEBACK?
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amENTERTAINERS are crazy. Dave Chappelle objects to that description, but for those of us who do not labor in the entertainment field, it is a convenient way to explain away...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amFoul play IF you're sick of the Olympics by Thursday - and you might be - there's always TV's most popular drama to keep you entertained. "CSI" rebroadcasts a quirky...
REEL GOOD
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT (1965) Sunday,7 a.m., TCM Every woman wants Michael (Peter O'Toole), who is trying to be faithful to his fiancee (Romy Schneider). He goes to a shrink (Peter...
PRIME TIME - WHY I HATE THE OLYMPICS EVEN MORE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amFour reasons why the Olympics, presented in the U.S. primarily as a made-for-TV extravaganza, have lost that lovin' feelin': 1) Once presented every four years - with the Winter and...
NOSE BETTER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTOMORROW marks the start of the two-day event dog fanciers pant for all year long: the 130th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. (For tickets, visit westminsterkennelclub.org;...
WHEN BAD MOVES ARE GOOD CHOICES
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWHENEVER anyone claims that chess is being played out, that we are rapidly running out of original ideas in the opening, I take comfort in one truth: There are still...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
February 12, 2006 | 5:00am1 Self-diagnosing Tired of not getting enough sympathy for your back pain? Get specific with Dennis DiClaudio's "The Hypochondriac's Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have." Brag to friends...
BOSSA NOW - BRAZILIAN BIG BACK WITH STREET BEATS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAS he was cruising home on an L.A. freeway last week, Brazilian musician Sergio began bopping to his groundbreaking hit, "Mas Que Nada," on the radio. But rather than the...
BETH, WE HEAR YOU MOPING
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amBETH ORTON "Comfort of Strangers" 3 STARS Astralwerks/EMI British singer-songwriter Beth Orton, MIA in music for the last four years, comes out of hibernation with a bare bones, girl-and-guitar album...
A DOUBLE DOSE OF 'LIFE' - TWIN VOICES HOOK UP THE VERONICAS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThere's no time more fitting than Valentine's Day for the Veronicas to officially debut their hook-filled pop-rock album "The Secret Life Of...," and to play their record release party at...
WHAT'S WITH WU - THE WU-TANG CLAN'S BACK - BUT WHERE HAVE THEY ALL BEEN?
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amIn 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan's "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" set the hip-hop world on its ear, flossing martial-arts mythology and an aggressive sound that turned Staten Island into the...
POST-SOVIET BLOODBATH
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhen you hear the words "Russian cinema," chances are you're not picturing a high-octane, sci-fi vampire epic with a pounding rock soundtrack. But put your "Doctor Zhivago" associations aside, because...
A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAT age 71, legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer gives no sign of slowing down. If anything, his sardonic wit may be sharper than ever. For proof, there's "Lunacy," which just...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAdventurous grad student sks love MEET Annie, a cute 23-year-old grad student studying to be an elementary school teacher. When she's not learning how to shape young minds, Annie says...
DAD'S HORROR-HOUSE SUIT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe father of Nixzmary Brown's oldest brother is hitting back against child-services officials, demanding millions for the emotional distress and physical abuse his son sustained in the Brooklyn house of...
WEB TERROR SLEUTH CORRALS PIPELINE 'PLOTTER'
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amA humble country judge-turned-cyberspy who unraveled a 2004 terror plot has hit paydirt again - snagging a man who allegedly went fishing for al Qaeda funds to blow up the...
U.S.-BOUND PILOT 'DRUNK' IN COCKPIT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAn American Airlines pilot was arrested at a British airport yesterday on suspicion of being drunk - right before he was scheduled to fly a packed jet across the ocean...
TIX BLITZ A BIG YIKES FOR BIKES
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amUpper West Side bicyclist Hugh Seigel rode home from work without a front-tire reflector and paid the price - $40 to be exact - becoming one of a staggering number...
JANET WAS TOLD: COOL YOUR BETS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Wayne Gretzky's wife began wagering increasingly larger bets through an illegal gambling ring, the alleged mastermind behind it told her she was getting out of control and cautioned her...
BLIZ IS BOOMING AS SNOW SLAMS APPLE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amNew Yorkers shut themselves up at home today after a classic nor'easter began dumping an expected foot or more of snow overnight and created dangerous blizzard conditions that halted travel...
SHARON HANGS TOUGH; NEW EMERGENCY OP
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won another round in the fight for his life yesterday after emergency surgery to remove part of his damaged intestine. Sharon, who has...
BRUNO'S BEST BET
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amPOOR Joe Bruno. Everyone's mad at him. Republicans may lose the state Senate, costing him his job as majority leader. Tom Golisano won't bail him out by running for governor...
GOOD EX-ERCISE; DUMPED LOVERS KICK BACK
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhile smug, smooching couples take over the town on Tuesday for Valentine's Day, scorned singles will be kicking their ex-lovers' faces in. The Gym in the Flatiron District is offering...
BYSTANDER STABBED IN GANG BRAWL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old who just hours earlier had been hanging out with college buddies lay in critical condition in Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center last night - an innocent bystander stabbed in...
GO FIGURE: KWAN IS THE LONELIEST STUMBLER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - The United States Figure Skating Association wanted Michelle Kwan in these Olympics, never mind that groin problems prevented her from skating at the U.S. championships last month,...
ARAB BIZ MAY RUN NYC PORT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe city's ports, considered a major target of terrorists, are about to be taken over by a firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a country with financial links to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A man with an arrest record for drugs was shot and killed early yesterday in a South Bronx parking lot, police said. Rashi Campbell, 29, was found...
ICE STORM; MICHELLE'S WIPEOUTS SPARK FORFEIT FEAR
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amOlympic gold digger Michelle Kwan wiped out all over the skating rink during her first public practice in Italy yesterday. Plagued by injuries, she said that if things didn't im...
HERO COPS SAVE FAMILY
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTwo cops were being credited with saving the lives of a Brooklyn family after spotting a fire that erupted inside a three-story building early yesterday, police sources said. Police Officers...
'BRUCE IS BY HIMSELF - HE'LL NEED AN ANCHOR, A FAMILY OF SOME SORT'
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amBRUCE JACKSON spends his days writing music - rap and rock, rhythm and blues. He can't get enough. For most of Bruce's tormented life, he was denied schooling, a bath,...
SUPER 'I' POD; MEDIA COCOON
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThis isn't your father's recliner. It's a space-age pod called the Oculas - the ultimate play station, rolling music, video, computer and television entertainment into one. Starting at $42,000, the...
VALENTINE STATS GET TO HEART OF THE MATTER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amCupid's arrow does nothing to make men and women fall in love with Valentine's Day - most people report it's their least favorite holiday and a huge waste of money....
E-VIL STALKS DATING SITES
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amConvicted sex offenders are lurking on popular online dating sites, waiting to turn you from hopeless romantic to hapless victim. The Post found two sex offenders, and learned of another...
SOCIALITE'S BOOT BUST KICKS UP A STORM
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhen high-end art dealer Yung Hee Kim was charged with smuggling wads of cash into the country last month, it shocked the New York social set who knew her only...
SCHOOL CONTRACTOR IN BILLING SCANDAL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amA COMPUTER consulting company that collected tens of millions of dollars from the city over the last decade could lose all its contracts because of questionable billing practices, The Post...
HIGH-TECH POLISH FOR MINI-APPLE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amStart spreading the news: The famed World's Fair Panorama of New York City is getting its first major electronic overhaul since its 1964 debut, complete with new lighting, sophisticated computer...
YOUR TAX $$ DOWN THE MOUSE HOLE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe taxman's going to Disney World! The top hierarchy of the city Finance Department spent three days in Orlando last week - at a cost of $127,000 - trying to...
IT'S SPANIEL BOON; OUR 'PAW'SOME HOMETOWN HERO
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amIt's a rrrruff life. The No. 2-ranked Cavalier King Charles spaniel in the country is now training in an Upper East Side penthouse, hoping to take home a top-dog prize...
INTRUDER DRUNK ON POWER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAfter Con Ed largely ignored NYPD pleas to beef up security at the city's largest power plant, a drunken holiday reveler managed to break into the massive facility and stumble...
VOTERS OVER THE HILL; CLINTON LOSING GROUND IN '08 PREZ-RACE POLL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The GOP is seeing the first signs that it's made some nicks in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political armor in a new poll that shows her support dropping...
SHARON SURVIVES SURGERY
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won another round in the fight for his life yesterday after emergency surgery to remove part of his damaged intestine. Sharon, who has...
ICE STORM - KWAN'S STUMBLES SPARK FORFEIT FEAR
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amOlympic gold digger Michelle Kwan wiped out all over the skating rink during her first public practice in Italy yesterday. Plagued by injuries, she said that if things didn't improve...
COLOR THEIR FALL BLEAK - DESIGNERS' DARK VISION
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amDo not adjust your set - the runway really has gone dark. For fall, designers have rejected the girlish gentility of recent seasons. After a week of more than 100...
NO DOUGH MEANS NO SHOW FOR BOSS, TROTS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amNOT a single former Ranger asked for payment to attend the Mark Messier festivities at the Garden on Jan. 12, but Slap Shots has learned that two of the most...
RUDY WAKENING; UCONN'S GAY GETTIN' IT DONE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amIt only takes one look at Rudy Gay to know this is what the basketball gods had in mind when they envisioned a basketball player. At 6-9, 220 pounds, his...
P.J.: RAMON STANDS TALLEST
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amP.J. Carlesimo was a head coach for 25 years, 12 at Seton Hall. He's now working on his fourth season as an NBA assistant. En route to such esteemed destinations...
CARTER, NETS CAN'T GET ANY CHARITY
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amVince Carter's formula for success in New Jersey - and in large part, the Nets' - has been fairly simple. Get in the lane, get to the line. When it...
'TROY' CAPTURES WHIRLAWAY
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amFavored Achilles Of Troy continues to make Ernie Paragallo's claim that he is the best three-year-old in the country look good as he easily handled the competition in yesterday's Whirlaway...
WINKY'S STUNT WASN'T WRIGHT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amJERMAIN Taylor and Winky Wright will finally meet in the ring on June 17, and in the end that's what really matters. But the long arduous process to finalize the...
FATHER KNOWS BEST FOR STEPHEN ELMORE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amLen Elmore travels around the country during college basketball season, doing color commentary for ESPN and providing insights he gained from being an All-American at Maryland and a 10-year NBA...
RED STORM LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAfter the worst loss in his tenure, a 64-41 embarrassment at Georgetown Thursday night, St. John's coach Norm Roberts called out his captains - juniors Daryll Hill and Lamont Hamilton....
U.S. PAIR MAKES JAWS DROP
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first throw triple axel in international skating, but it was not enough for them to put themselves in medal contention...
THIS ONE REALLY HURTS ; RAFALSKI RE-INJURES RIB IN LOSS TO ISLES
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amIslanders 2Devils 1 The American goalie outshone the Canadian stalwart, but the local Sendoff to Turin wasn't all Olympic optimism for Team USA. The rib injury USA defenseman Brian Rafalski...
LARRY GIVES EDDY PEP TALKS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Larry Brown has given center Eddy Curry two pep talks the past two days, letting him know they expect more because the club deems him their franchise player....
KNICKS CAN SPARE PENNY
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amHOUSTON - While Isiah Thomas continues to shop Penny Hardaway's expiring contract up till the Feb. 23 trade deadline, the Knicks' president continues to protect rookie Channing Frye. A league...
RAMOS SCORES AGAIN FOR HALL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amOutside, as the winter's first major blizzard hit, there was heavy snow. Inside, as one of Seton Hall's greats was being honored, there were heavy hearts. Such was the scene...
NO STOPPING JAROMIR ; JAGR'S PAIR KEEPS RANGERS ROLLING
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 4Leafs 2 TORONTO - Nobody has been able to stop Jaromir Jagr this season, nothing has been able to slow his attack and there has been no defense that's...
CONN-VINCED! HUSKIES PROVE THEY'RE TOPS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amUConn 99Seton Hall 57 EAST RUTHERFORD - Let this be a warning to the rest of the college basketball world: The Connecticut Huskies now have some junkyard dawg in them....
MOST CONN-VINCING ; HUSKIES SHOW HALL WHY THEY'RE TOPS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amUConn 99Seton Hall 57 EAST RUTHERFORD - Let this be a warning to the rest of the college basketball world: The Connecticut Huskies now have some junkyard dawg in them....
METS HAVE ALL EYES ON PEDRO'S FOOT
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAcclaim and excitement are the two things that the Met offseason delivered for 2006. But that was the winter. And for the Mets, the year starts this week in Port...
SPEAK SLEAZY - BARKLEY COMMENTS SHOW HE HAS FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amWHAT'S more ludicrous, the drivel that drizzles from Charles Barkley's lips, or the people who lobotomize themselves by responding to his standardized stupidity? Or, worse yet, enable him by justifying...
THEY'VE GOT SPRING IN THEIR STEPS - HEALTH ON HILL IS YANKS' TOP CONCERN
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe lineup is going to score 900-plus runs. Mariano Rivera will post 40 saves. Close to four million will fill Yankee Stadium. And the Yankees are the pick to win...
SMALL WORLD, BIG CITY - ROOKIES MAKING APPLE THEIR OWN
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHEY'RE living the dream, three rookie Rangers and three rookie Knicks, each taking a bite out of the Big Apple. To have a six-pack of Rooks in the City -...
LET'S GET THE BALL ROLLING - HARDBALL'S FIRST TRIP AROUND THE BASES
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE guy who put the Jets into salary-cap hell earned a promotion to GM, which is kind of like the Knicks re-installing Scott Layden to make all the personnel decisions....
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART - ATTACK REMINDS THIS TRULY IS A WONDERFUL LIFE
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amSO THERE I am, stretched flat on a bed three weeks ago, tubes sticking out of my arms, oxygen gently whistling through my nostrils, a catheter tube extending from a...
SLUMPING RED STORM LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amAfter the worst loss in his tenure, a 64-41 embarrassment at Georgetown Thursday night, St. John's coach Norm Roberts called out his captains - juniors Daryll Hill and Lamont Hamilton....
WHO NEEDS A BREAK?
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - If it were up to Tom Renney and the Rangers, they would keep on playing through the Olympic break that will shut down the NHL for the next...
U.S. WOMEN CAN'T MISS AGAINST SWISS
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - There is no bank in Switzerland guarded as well as Patricia Elsmore-Sautter did the Swiss goal last night. Since she also may have been the best Swiss...
APOLO 'S CREED:WIN GOLD
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN 2006 OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK TURIN,Italy - Apolo Anton Ohno takes the ice for the first time in these Olympics tonight,as the speed skater begins his quest for four medals in...
HEDRICK SKATES TO GOLD MEDAL
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amTURIN, Italy - For 13 years, Feb. 11 had been a day of mourning for Chad Hedrick. Yesterday, it became a day of celebration. The Texan speed skater became the...
TIME FOR BODE TO BACK UP BLUSTER
February 12, 2006 | 5:00amQUOTE "I would be lying if I said I had massive regrets about the things I have said." - Bode Miller TURIN, Italy - The media frenzy has been stirring...