January 2, 2005
AVRIL’S HIDDEN MESSAGE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amSTEVE Kallas doesn't need anyone to draw him any pictures. A lawyer who grew up in Upper Manhattan and on the backstretches of harness tracks, he knows the score. So,...
HOT LIST – WHAT WE’RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amAll it really amounts to is gauzy puffs of smoke before the name "CRUISE" rolls across the screen - but it doesn't matter, because that alone inspires a Pavlovian will-totally-be-there-on-opening-night-in-summer-2005...
ON WITH THE SHOWS – ALL-NEW SEASONS OF PARIS, KIEFER AND THE DONALD TOP THE LIST OF HOT VIEWING FOR THE WINTER MONTHS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJanuary. The coldest month of the year. The holidays are over. It's way too early to even think about spring. But don't despair. January is a great time for watching...
PEAK SNEAKS – SPORTY SHOES THAT AREN’T MEANT FOR THE GYM
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amAnyone who came of consumer age in the '80s knows "It's gotta be the shoes." That 1989 Michael Jordan/Spike Lee ad for Nike started a revolution. Today sneakers are a...
HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT: ‘FAT’ CLOTHES MADE SLIM
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amWinter chill has finally hit the city. As the mercury dips to frigid temperatures, out come the fattiest, bulkiest clothes of the year. No matter what clothes you've decided to...
MEET MARKET – THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHIS week, our Meet Market challenge is to set up Heather, 25, with the man of her dreams - or someone to share a nice dinner with, at the least!...
JERSEY GIRL THROWS HEART INTO RELIEF EFFORT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA New Jersey schoolgirl heartsick over the tsunami tragedy has taken matters into her own hands - she and her fellow classmates are hitting supermarkets and shopping centers raising money...
BAGEL BOYS HELP POLARS BEAR UP
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amHundreds of hungry Polar Bears almost went without food yesterday, but some last-minute heroics by a local bagel shop saved the day. About 300 swimmers headed to Coney Island yesterday...
ENTIRE FAMILY BEATS LONG ODDS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThere was no way they should have survived. But they all did. The mother who was caught on camera running towards a tsunami that killed hundreds on a Thailand beach...
CITY’S FIRST FIRE TRAGEDIES ; IMMIGRANT FAMILY LOSES FOUR IN BROOKLYN ‘ARSON’
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTragedy rang in the New Year for a Brooklyn family yesterday when a suspicious fire killed four people - including a mother and her two children - and seriously injured...
RESCUERS SLOWED BY STAFFING CUTS: UNION
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amControversial staff cuts at engine companies delayed firefighters getting water onto the fatal New Year's blaze in Crown Heights, FDNY members and union officials charged yesterday. At the Crown Heights...
DARING DOG LOVER DIVES INTO E. RIVER TO SAVE PET
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman threw herself into the frigid East River yesterday after her precious pooch fell in - surviving the daring rescue thanks to a group of good Samaritans who...
PARENTS CAN E-RATE TEACHERS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA popular Web site that encourages kids to evaluate their teachers is now allowing parents to add their two cents. Students in middle school and high school have been posting...
EYE ON KERIK ‘GRAFT’; FBI MULLS MOB PROBE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe FBI is weighing a corruption investigation of embattled ex-top cop Bernard Kerik, The Post has learned. Probers are eyeing Kerik's close friendship with mob-linked Wall Street securities trader Lawrence...
APPLE LACKS WAVE ALERT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean could cause billions of dollars in damage and drench the Big Apple, but experts say equipment for detecting such an event is sorely lacking....
DESPERATELY NEEDED SUPPLIES SITTING AT AIRPORTS AS RAINS, AFTERSHOCKS HALT DELIVERY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe world is rushing to help victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, but the Earth is refusing to cooperate - with heavy rain and flash flooding in Sri Lanka and...
‘WOMB RAIDER’ WANTED TO BUY TOT: REPORT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe alleged evil "womb raider" who butchered a Missouri mom-to-be and stole her baby reportedly demanded $45,000 from her ex-hubby's new wife in a desperate bid to buy a child...
COUNCIL POLS GET CASHED UP IN FUND-RAISER FREE-FOR-ALL
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe race is on. Several City Council members are holding fund-raisers next month to rake in as much cash as possible before they have to file with the Campaign Finance...
LASER MAN NO THREAT: LAWYER
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe New Jersey man dragged out of his house on New Year's Eve under suspicion of pointing a laser towards planes passing overhead is no terrorist, his lawyer said yesterday....
LET’S BE HONEST! WHO WERE THE BIGGEST LIARS OF 2004?
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThey did the Year of the Monkey proud - making headlines by monkeying with the truth. So, what better way to mark the passing of 2004 than a final swing...
FLOODS ADD TO SUFFERING: DESPERATELY NEEDED SUPPLIES SITTING AT AIRPORTS AS RAINS AND AFTERSHOCKS BLOCK DELIVERY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe world is rushing to help victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, but the earth is refusing to cooperate - with heavy rain and flash flooding in Sri Lanka and...
MARBURY SHOULD STEPH IT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE self-described best point guard in the NBA has never won a playoff round. In fact, Stephon Marbury didn't have a field goal in the second half of two games...
MARBURY REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM CLAIM
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amStephon Marbury disputes those who think Jason Kidd is his superior because he has gone to two Finals and has never been out of the first round. Hogwash. After reiterating...
LAING HEEDS HALL CALL; EX-ST. RAY’S STARHELPS PIRATES SAIL
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amSeton Hall 82Liberty 45 Brian Laing isn't used to sitting on the bench. As a senior at St. Raymond's last year, Laing led the Ravens to a city and state...
CARTER KEEPS HEALTHY OUTLOOK
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Vince Carter said better days are ahead, when the Nets are really familiar with each other. And when he really feels healthy. Carter is still being indoctrinated into...
FINAL JUDGMENTS – WE’LL LEARN A LOT ABOUT JETS, GIANTS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - They come into this last day of the NFL regular season from completely different places, having experienced completely different seasons, one with everything to lose, one with...
SERBY’S SUNDAY Q&A WITH … VINCE CARTER
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, Steve Serby talks with newest Net Vince Carter, who was traded to New Jersey from Toronto on Dec. 17. Q: Has Spike Lee ever heckled you? A: Slightly....
LOSS MAY NOT END JETS’ BID
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJET NOTES ST. LOUIS - There's been nary a mention by the Jets all week about getting into the playoffs without a win over the Rams today. For full disclosure,...
GETTING THEIR HOUSE IN ORDER – YANKEES SOUGHT JOHNSON TO PROTECT BIG INVESTMENT
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amHARDBALL IMAGINE you own a $1 million home in a community of $250,000 homes. Your foundation is sinking. You are told for $100,000 you can rectify that problem, and thus...
THE DON’T MISS LIST
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amCOMEDY Chock full o'nuts COMEDIES have taken it on the chin this season, but give NBC credit for getting back up off the canvas. This week, NBC introduces this new...
MOVIE PIX – OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN’S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amGRAND HOTEL Sunday/early Monday, 1:30a.m., TCM This star-studded, Oscar-winning masterpiece from 1932 features Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and John and Lionel Barrymore, among others, vogueing against the ritzy backdrop of...
FIGHTING SPIRITWORTH BIG BUCK$
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amDURING the boring Vladimir Kramnik vs. Peter Leko match this fall, Dutch writer Tim Krabbe asked a few pointed questions: Do Kramnik and Leko actually like chess? Do they find...
RAW TUNE – JEAN SAYS TURMOIL IN HAITI INSPIRED MUSIC OF ‘RWANDA’
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amFor a movie as powerful as "Hotel Rwanda" director Terry George felt the soundtrack required a composer of equal power and passion. He sought ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean for the job...
QUICK BITES – THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTOKEN GESTURE: Galette des Rois, an almond cream-filled cake hiding a china figurine (la feve), is a traditional French dessert served on the Epiphany (Jan. 6). The person who finds...
MEGABUCKS PUT MILLER IN MAYORAL MIX
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker and all-but-announced mayoral candidate Gifford Miller soon will have raised enough money to spend the maximum allowed in the Democratic primary - and he's done it with...
HARLEY HORROR KILLS ARTIST
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA well-known Brooklyn artist died after losing control of his motorcycle and plunging to the pavement early yesterday morning. Steven Parrino, 46, of Greenpoint - a cutting-edge painter and an...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** Jason Rodriguez, 17, was stabbed in the chest shortly before 4 a.m. during a fight with three men at 383 143rd St., police said. He was taken...
MIRACLE OF LIFE; BOLD TREK SAVESBABY ‘TSUNAMI’
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amMeet the gutsy baby boy named Tsunami because he was born against all odds - coming three weeks prematurely in the jungle as his terrified mom fled up a hill...
FLOODS ADD TO SUFFERING; DESPERATELY NEEDED SUPPLIES SITTING AT ; AIRPORTS AS RAINS AND AFTERSHOCKS BLOCK DELIVERY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe world is rushing to help victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, but Earth is refusing to cooperate - with heavy rain and flash flooding in Sri Lanka and massive...
BABY BONANZA ; MIDNIGHT NEWBORNS TIE FOR CITY’S FIRST OF ’05
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amIt's a tie! There were two babies born exactly at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve - and Mayor Bloomberg paid a visit to both of them yesterday...
ANTI-HUNTERS WILL MAINTAIN ATTACKS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE coming year will be no different from past years as both hunters and anglers will face an onslaught by animal rights groups who will have even deeper pockets to...
PENNY TO LENNY: I’M READY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Penny Hardaway is ready to go, but there isn't much room in the rotation, according to Knicks coach Lenny Wilkens. Hardaway, out since Dec. 4 with a partial...
ASMUSSEN, JOHNNY V WERE BEST OF 2004
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amEquibase, the racing industry's official record keeper, yesterday released its list of leaders for 2004. Among trainers, Steve Asmussen concluded his record-setting year saddling 555 winners from 2,293 starters, shattering...
KIDD PALS STAND BY THEIR MAN
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJason Kidd knew what everybody wanted: a response to Stephon Marbury proclaiming himself the best point guard in the NBA. So how does it feel to be the second-best point...
STEPH BESTED – SCORES 31 – BUT KIDD & CO. PREVAIL OVER KNICKS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amNETS 93 KNICKS 87 The only thing Stephon Marbury's New Year's Eve boast did was cause the Knicks a mighty hangover last night. Marbury's braggadocio lit a firecracker under the...
JERSEY GETS LAST WORD IN POINT WAR
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Nets heard about it, read it and filed it away. Stephon Marbury, of their most intense rival, the Atlantic Division-leading Knicks, proclaimed himself the best point guard in the...
JASON WON’T LET VINCE GET ‘BOARD’
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter learned the first commandment of playing with the Nets and Jason Kidd: Thou shalt always expect the unexpected - or at least the unlikely - pass. So with...
LAST FROM THE PAST – GIANTS READY TO END WORST RUN IN 30 YEARS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Giants tonight can match a team record for futility that they want no part of, a record 30 years in the making that no one associated with the team...
CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS – BIG EAST LOOKS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT NATIONAL TITLE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe Big East has won the last two NCAA tournaments. Can the league make it three straight? Conference play begins this week, so here's a look at why each team...
THE WRIGHT TRACK – COACH SEES BETTER DAYS FOR VILLANOVA
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amVILLANOVA, Pa. - As Jay Wright walked to Villanova basketball practice last week, a softball whizzed by his head. The ball, hit by a player practicing on an adjacent court,...
CITY’S FIRST FIRE TRAGEDIES; IMMIGRANT FAMILY LOSES FOUR IN BROOKLYN ‘ARSON’
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTragedy rang in the New Year for a Brooklyn family yesterday when a suspicious fire killed four people - including a mother and her two children - and burned three...
PARENTS CAN ‘FLUNK’ BAD TEACHERS ON WEB SITE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA popular Web site that encourages kids to evaluate their teachers is now allowing parents to add their two cents. Students in middle school and high school have been posting...
INSIDE A WARPED BRAIN
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amOnce a sex offender, always a sex offender. According to some experts, sexual predators can never be fully rehabilitated. "You have to understand, for sex offenders, this deviant sexual behavior...
LOOPHOLES IN PERV LIST – 600 WORST SICKOS LEFT OFF REGISTRY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amAre you raising your children next door to a pedophile? It's possible - but you may never know it. More than a thousand sex fiends - convicted rapists, child molesters...
DEFENSE NEEDS TURNOVER
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amWHEN the turnovers shriveled up, the Giants died. They lost their pass rush, three safeties, a mentality and eight straight games going into a finale that tonight can't come soon...
NICE START TO ’05 FOR RUSH AROUND
January 2, 2005 | 5:00am2ND RACE - Mysweethearts Gone cleared field into clubhouse turn under Aaron Gryder, dropped over to turn, set pace down backside tracks by Shots and Hot Hand, with Rush Around,...
WINNING BY A FOOT ; USC, OU KICKERS COULD BE KEY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amORANGE BOWL FORT LAUDERDALE - This isn't a tale of two kickers. It's a tale of four kickers, two anxious coaches and one national championship hanging in the balance. Certainly...
STEPH: KIDD & I ARE LOSERS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Stephon Marbury disputes that Jason Kidd should be considered superior to him, feeling Kidd is no more a winner than he is because neither has won an NBA...
KURT WANTS WIN FOR ELI
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Kurt Warner suits up tonight for the last time in a Giants uniform, and soon he will fade out of the picture, his one year with the team...
ORBACH’S NICE TOUCH – REGULAR GUY LENT FAME TO CHARITY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amFORGIVE this self-indulgence, but there are some things you feel you should share. I played a significant role in recruiting Jerry Orbach to the local charity fund-raising golf circuit. And...
HIS GIFTED LIFE ENDS TOO SOON – SGT. JUSTIN EYERLY’S REACH GOES BEYOND TRAIL BLAZERS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amLast week, The Post's Peter Vecsey began the story of Sgt. Justin Eyerly, a former employee of the Portland Trail Blazers' marketing department who was called to Iraq in April....
BLASTS FROM THE POST: A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: JAN. 2-8
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJAN.3 19 73 HELLO TO THE NEW BOSS - GROUP INCLUDING STEINBRENNER BUYS YANKEES FOR $10M THE Yankees were sold by CBS today to a group headed by Yankees president...
MIRED IN A BLOG – COMPANIES STRUGGLE WITH EMPLOYEES’ WEB DIARIES
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amAspiring writer Matthew Brown spent six years slinging Java as a Starbucks barista, but the 28-year-old was fired three weeks ago after his boss discovered his Internet diary - known...
’05 REDEMPTION STORIES
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amWALL STREET Wall Street's giants head into 2005 boosted by record profits and a revitalized merger market. Wealthier and wiser After years of relying on their own trading operations to...
’05 REDEMPTION STORIES – MARTHA, TIME WARNER AND OTHERS READY FOR COMEBACKS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amMEDIA Sometimes two steps back and the opportunity to take three steps forward is all a company and its management need to get back on top. And 2005 might very...
MODEL BEHAVIOR
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amYOU'VE probably never heard of Lin Chi-ling, but it's only a matter of time before you will. Insiders say Lin - Taiwan's highest-paid model - is poised to follow in...
GROOVIN’ – CDS TO ROCK TO IN 2005
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amWant a reason to get out of bed on New Year's Day? Here are some killer new albums to look forward to in 2005. Beck Groove-meisters are so anxious for...
REDEFINE THE MENU – NEWCOMER KOMEGASHI SERVES UP ‘RECONSTRUCTED’ JAPANESE CUISINE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amIn the South in the 1800s, Reconstruction brought people growth and peace; in New York in the 2000s, it's bringing us goat cheese breaded in hijinki. Komegashi, a new restaurant...
CITY LACKS WARNING SYSTEM FOR KILLER WAVE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean could cause billions of dollars in damage and drench the Big Apple, but experts say equipment for detecting such an event is sorely lacking....
BX. GUARD DEAD AFTER PUMMELING BY THUGS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA 65-year-old security guard died on New Year's Eve, the day after thugs beat him at a Bronx construction site and stole his cellphone, police said. Mohammed Uddin, of Queens,...
WHAT SHOWS TO WATCH RIGHT NOW
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amSORRY, New York magazine, I'm stealing your annual "Where to Eat Now" idea (currently on the cover of the Jan. 3 issue) and adapting it for TV. Call it: "What...
UP WAY TOO LATE – CAUTIOUS CRAIG FERGUSON TAKES OVER FOR CRANKY KILBORN
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE new host of CBS's "Late Late Show," Craig Ferguson, has a knack for finding work, but even when he's not looking, work has a way of finding him. Take...
GALAXY OF NEW STARS ARRIVE IN YEAR 2005
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhat do a Mets third baseman, a French chef at the Ritz-Carlton and a New York City party promoter have in common? They've all made The Post's list of people...
CARTER’S COOL WITH NEW JERSEY
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter insists better days are ahead. When the Nets are really familiar with each other. And when he really feels healthy. Carter is still being indoctrinated into the scheme...
HORSE OF YEAR RACING TO WIRE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE RACE of the year in 2004 wasn't the Kentucky Derby or the Breeders' Cup Classic, although it involved the winners of both those races. It was the showdown between...
MARBURY STILL HAS LOT TO PROVE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE self-described best point guard in the NBA has never won a postseason round. Stephon Marbury didn't even have a field goal in the second half of two playoff games...
HEAD TO HEAD
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, Post columnists Mike Vaccaro and Steve Serby debate who's to blame if the Jets fail to make the playoffs: head coach Herm Edwards or offensive coordinator Paul Hackett?...
ECONOMISTS CRITICIZE N.Y. WAGE HIKE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amNew York's lowest earners welcomed the New Year with a pay hike. The state's minimum wage jumped to $6 yesterday - the first increase in five years. But not everyone...
TOP CATS – ‘TWO AND A HALF MEN’ STRUTS INTO RANKS OF TV’S BEST SITCOMS; ‘TWO’S’ A CHARM
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJUST when television people were putting the sitcom six feet under, along came "Two and a Half Men." The CBS series minted laughs by taking the old "Odd Couple" formula...
HEAR THIS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amIN CONCERT * Soul-folkie Amos Lee at Joe's Pub on Wednesday. * Funkadelic George Clinton & the P-Funk Allstars at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on Friday. * Saturday: Marc...
THIS WEEK’S CDS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amJOHN LEGEND Get Lifted 4 stars Columbia JOHN Stephens used to be an office worker who satisfied his need for the spotlight by gigging at local clubs in Ohio. It...
WIENER GAL HOT TO ROLL; ‘HOOKER’: I’LL RESTART BIZ
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amAlleged "hot dog hooker" Catherine Scalia wants to take her steamy vehicle back on the streets. "I'd like to go back to work, out in the truck again. But I've...
DOC LEAPS TO DEATH FROM QUEENS BLAZE
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens doctor leaped to his death from a burning building yesterday morning as the house around him was consumed by flames. The victim, identified by neighbors as Dr. John...
KNIFE DRAMA AT U.N.; COPS GRAB ‘SUICIDAL’ PROTESTER
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amA screaming man trying to make a political statement yesterday by holding a knife to his throat outside U.N. headquarters was taken into custody after being shot in the forehead...
MIKE STALLS ON PAY HIKE FOR POLS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE city's elected officials haven't had a raise in 5½ years and Mayor Bloomberg seems in no rush to give them one. The mayor has missed the deadline - by...
NHL PLAN FULL OF MYTH PRINTS
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE CHRISTMAS season may be over but the Mythmas season never ends, not when it comes to the NHL's lockout propaganda. So, just 12 days before the Board of Governors...
AIN’T EASY BEIN’ GREEN – PRESSURE’S ON JETS IN MUST-WIN GAME
January 2, 2005 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - All of the offseason coaching and personnel maneuvering, the signing of key free agents, having a successful draft ... all the work in the conditioning program, the...