March 12, 2006
CRABTREE GETS A HIP MAKEOVER
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amCrabtree & Evelyn - the staid 36-year-old bath and body shop - is getting an injection of hipness. India Hicks, the ex-model and author who is also the daughter of...
FUNDS FOR RISK LOVERS AS WELL AS THE MORE TIMID
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: What process should someone employ in selecting mutual funds? M.K.Dear M.K.: The first thing you should do is sit in a quiet spot and ask yourself this question:...
BROKER BREAK FOR APT. HUNTERS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTired of forking over thousands of dollars to real estate brokers in exchange for their help in getting an apartment? Two New York businessmen are, and they're exacting their revenge...
PAY-PER-VERT - IN DEMANDSTARTS UPHOWARD TV
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amRob Jacobson is hoping Howard Stern can do for In Demand Networks what he has done for Sirius Satellite Radio. Namely, separate young, male fans of the radio star from...
GERRY-RIGGED; NYSE'S PUTNAM GETS EARLY RELEASE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE floor of the New York Stock Exchange is a notoriously prickly place, and it has taken new NYSE co-president Gerry Putnam all of 72 hours to trigger resentments. The...
UP CELL; AT&T DEAL PROVIDES CINGULAR LEVERAGE ON MOBILE CONTENT
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amContent operators, beware of AT&T's newfound control over Cingular Wireless. In assuming decision-making authority over the cellphone operator via its $67 billion deal for BellSouth, AT&T has put itself in...
TAKE A PIT STOP GENTLE BUT HOMELESS, PIT BULLS NEED HELP
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDespite stories of friendly pit bulls who make loving family pets, the stereotype persists: Pit bulls are bad, vicious, nasty beasts. If pit bulls are such nasty dogs, then how...
WIN QUICKLY, OR IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amIF you don't put away your opponent by move 35, you may be playing at move 125. This was the moral of the third round of the super-tournament at Morelia,...
BEWARE THE POD PEOPLE!
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDON Siegel never met a genre he didn't like. Bruce Goldstein, the Film Forum's director of repertory programming, ex plains: "For someone who considered himself a renegade, it's amazing that...
THE CONTENDER - VIN DIESEL LOOKALIKE THE EARLY 'IDOL'FAVE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amHE'S a rocker stepdad. And he might be too good for "American Idol." Chris Daughtry (pronounced Daw-try) has already proved Simon Cowell wrong, time and time again. And we're only...
IN MARCH, IT'S ALL SHATNER, ALL THE TIME
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amIS it possible to have too much William Shatner? Shatner says yes. "I think we've reached that point," says the iconic star of "Star Trek" and, more recently, "Boston Legal."...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amSimply Streisand A W A R D S RECAPTURING the electrifying early years of the Barbra Streisand sensation, "Color Me Barbra," the singer's second TV special, first broadcast in 1966,...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE WOODSMAN (2004) Sunday,8:30 p.m.,SHO An odd yet riveting movie about a pedophile (Kevin Bacon) who struggles to hide his crime and put his past behind him, especially after he...
DON'T TRUST THOSE TOOTHPASTE ADS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amALL kids are impressionable, but there's no telling which direction they'll go in. For example, when I was a kid, we were bombarded with TV ads telling us, "Nine out...
HOT SEAT - ERIC BOGOSIAN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amIF all you know of actor-writer Eric Bogosian are the wild, frothing-at-the-mouth characters that populate his monologues or the savage themes that inform his plays, you might be surprised to...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
March 12, 2006 | 5:00am1 Vee-dub in the haus Normally sinister actor Peter Stormare adopts a "Sprockets"-like German accent, urging you to "drop it like it's hot" in the hilarious trio of "Unpimp Ze...
CIG BREAK - 'SMOKING' COULD SAVE AARON ECKHART
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amAARON Eckhart may have finally escaped the shadow of "In the Company of Men." That was the infamous 1997 film that made Eckhart a face to watch. His portrayal of...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amSHE'S THE MAN Amanda Bynes heads a cast of cuties, disguising herself as her twin brother and filling in for him at his boarding school (he's left school, she thinks)...
FIXING STRINGS OF 'FIRE'
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amJIM Price and Miles Aubrey are understudies in "Ring of Fire" - with strings attached. They've got to be ready to go on for one of several different actors. But...
TO BE BLUNT - BRITISH TROUBADOR WITHOUT A HOME
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amEarly this month, British singer-songwriter James Blunt topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with his bittersweet ballad "You're Beautiful." It's a feat only one other Brit has pulled off...
CHORUS 'LINE' - JOHNNY CASH'S SONGS, NOT HIS STORY
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amNashville singer Lari White's initial reaction to "Ring of Fire," the Broadway musical based on Johnny Cash songs, was, "Ick." "When I first heard about Johnny Cash and Broadway, I...
HEAR THIS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amIN CONCERT At Nokia Theatre: Get ready to shout "Free Bird!" Lynard Skynyrd's playing tonight. Tomorrow: Alt-rockers Augustana at the Knitting Factory. Finnish music represents with singer-songwriter Astrid Swan, alt-country...
RAZING EIRE - THE LEGENDARY POGUES RETURN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amFor the thousands of fans who'll see the Pogues' four sold-out shows at the Nokia Theatre starting Thursday night, the legendary Irish folk-punks are the very definition of St. Patrick's...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDAVID GILMOUR "On an Island" 3 ½ STARS Columbia THE tripped-out orchestral aesthetic that is Pink Floyd's is also at the heart of guitarist David Gilmour's new solo record, "On...
WEDDINGS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amCAMBRIA, 26, and EVANS, 29 JAN.14 - "My dad was definitely the life of the party," says Joyce Cambria,,who married Russell Evans at the Sonesta Key Biscayne in the groom...
MOB-SHOOT VICTIM SLIWA IS NO ANGEL HIMSELF
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amVICTORIA GOTTI said yesterday: "This Curtis Sliwa, he stamps his foot and throws a hissy fit, and everyone listens." The mother of John "Junior" Gotti was commenting about Sliwa's attack...
BUS KILLS BROOKLYN OLD-TIMER
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amAn elderly woman who survived the Holocaust was run over and dragged to her death by an MTA bus in Brooklyn yesterday as she crossed the street in front of...
STROKE HITS FASHION MASTER OLEG
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDesigner to the stars Oleg Cassini, 93, was clinging to life yesterday after suffering a stroke on his Long Island estate. The Parisian-born, Italian-raised fashion icon collapsed at about 10...
CITY CAN'T BOOT ME, IMAM SAYS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe city has no right to fire its trash-talking imam because his inflammatory remarks didn't violate rules about what city employees can say, said his new lawyer, civil-rights activist Norm...
CLOSE-A NOSTRA; 'SOPRANOS' WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amMarisa Tomei never got jiggy with Tony Soprano - nor was Bruce Willis ever pummeled by Paulie Walnuts - but it wasn't for lack of try ing. Both are among...
MOB FANS MAKE THEIR DEMANDS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amHere's what some notable New Yorkers told The Post they want to find out in Season 6 of "The Sopranos." MORLEY SAFER,"60 Minutes" correspondent: Will Uncle Junior stand trial -...
TRAGIC BX. FIRE PARENTS SUING CITY
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx couple who lost both their children when firefighters tried to rescue them without water claims the city violated their civil rights because the FDNY was not properly equipped....
'SLAY CLUB' PATRON KILLED
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amAn argument turned deadly when a Brooklyn dad was murdered with a shot to the head early yesterday in the same nightclub where an Uzi-toting thug was killed after opening...
BUNDLE OF JOY'S JUST A CLICK AWAY
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amHE'S tall, handsome, has gray-green eyes and plays the guitar. He swims, drives a vintage Ford Capri, wears size-9½ shoes and loves orcas. He says his most memorable childhood experience...
LOVEBIRDS DIE IN FUME HORROR
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens college student and his date were accidentally killed yesterday during a romantic encounter in the front seat of his stepfather's idling car when carbon-monoxide fumes overcame them. "I...
COUNCIL DUMPS ON MTA'S TRASHY SITES
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amMTA land is so cluttered with car seats, abandoned couches and mounds of trash that the agency would be banged with hefty fines if it were a private property owner,...
IMETTE COPS IN 'COLD' WAR; BOUNCER'S ICY SILENCE THWARTS SLAY PROBE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhat's "all the fuss" about, a steely cool Darryl Littlejohn told a patron of The Falls bar in the days just after another patron, Imette St. Guillen, was found brutally...
GIDDY FOR GOTTI - LAWYER: WE'LL NIX PLEA, WIN 3RD TRIAL
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amFuhgeddaboudit! John "Junior" Gotti's confident lawyer hopes his client will whack any plea bargains that desperate prosecutors now put on the table in the wake of his second stunning mistrial...
DAD: SIS 'HOOKERS' LYIN' TEENS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe sisters who claimed their mother forced them to turn tricks as underage hookers for a high-powered lawyer are lying, their father said yesterday. "I would never have thought in...
DOWNTOWN MOMS FEAR FOR THEIR 'CANCEROUS' KIDS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDinella Ascenso agonized as her little boy, born two weeks after 9/11, repeatedly became sick with a hacking cough during his first two years of life. "It wasn't normal," said...
JINTS HIT ROOF; N.J. $TADIUM WAR
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe owners of the Jets and Giants are threatening to kill a pact with New Jersey for a new Meadowlands stadium if Gang Green and Big Blue are forced to...
9/11 BABY SCARE - AGONY OF 9/11 TOXIC TOTS - WTC BABIES HAVE HIGHER DEFECT RISK
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amBabies born to women living near the World Trade Center who were pregnant on 9/11 suffered more genetic damage than other city infants - and could be at higher risk...
IMETTE COPS IN 'COLD' WAR ; BOUNCER'S ICY SILENCE THWARTS SLAY PROBE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amWhat's "all the fuss" about, a steely cool Darryl Littlejohn told a patron of The Falls bar in the days just after another patron, Imette St. Guillen, was found brutally...
PARK UP IN SMOKE; S.I. GRASS FIRE BLAZES 5 HOURS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amA five-alarm fire scorched dozens of acres of dry brush across Great Kills Park last night, blanketing Staten Island with black clouds of smoke that could be seen for miles....
MOVIE-STAR MUSEUM WAXED
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amBUENA PARK, Calif. - Say good night, Gracie. Funnyman George Burns, his wife, Gracie Allen, John Travolta, the Olsen twins and a host of other famous figures went on the...
RESIDENTS RIP RX-$$ SNUB
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDowntown residents are fuming that they have been shut out of new funding to treat those sickened by the toxic air and dust at Ground Zero. Lower Manhattan residents were...
MOVIE STAR MUSEUM WAXED
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amBUENA PARK, Calif. - A venerable Southern California tourist attraction closed its doors for the final time yesterday, literally ahead of the game. Operators of The Movieland Wax Museum brought...
BANK EXEC SEDUCED, SWINDLED ME: WIFE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman is suing her moneybags hubby - who was also her boss at the Bank of Tokyo's Midtown office - for $15,000 in monthly support, claiming he seduced...
SLASH FROM THE PAST FOR FIEND'S VERY FIRST VICTIM
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amHe's the first victim of Darryl Littlejohn - a former Manhattan clothing-store owner slashed in the face and hand during a vicious armed robbery 25 years ago. Littlejohn was just...
RAT TALES GOT CON OUT OF JAIL EARLY
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amDarryl Littlejohn should have been in prison the night Imette St. Guillen was murdered. Instead, he ratted out fellow criminals to get himself out of prison years early, The Post...
CITY $NAPPING BACK WITH BID FOR DIET-SODA DEAL
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE snafu over Snapple isn't going to stop the city's marketing agency from pursuing new deals with soda makers - but only for diet products. "We would only do it...
TERI PERV AT RISK - JAILED UNCLE IN SOLITARY
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Jailers moved the child-molesting uncle of Teri Hatcher into isolation, for his own protection, after the famed actress went public last week with abuse claims against him....
IMAM: CAN'T FIRE ME
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThe city has no right to fire its trash-talking imam because his inflammatory remarks weren't confidential and he was speaking on his own time, said his new lawyer, civil-rights activist...
CTK, RICE WAGE CHSAA AA WAR
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amLarry Davis doesn't have too many good memories from last year. As a junior on a Christ the King team filled with seniors, the talented guard often found himself the...
OZOLINSH FITS RANGERS FINE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE RANGERS' deadline acquisition of Sandis Ozolinsh for essentially Ville Nieminen was a no-brainer for this year's squad that desperately needed to add a rushing, puck-moving defenseman to combat the...
THREE PALS BIG FORCE FOR IONA
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThey all got similar calls after the 2003-04 season, when Iona went 11-18 and the team was immersed in controversy. The three players from All Hallows who took the train...
PEDRO CAN'T ESCAPE THE MICROSCOPE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - There really is nothing like it in all of New York sports, and hasn't been for as far as the memory can stretch. Every time Pedro...
DOWN TIME FOR NETS ; FRANK WANTS MINUTES REDUCED FOR BIG 3 OF KIDD, VINCE, RJ
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amJason Kidd is averaging nearly 38 minutes a game. Vince Carter is playing 37, while Richard Jefferson is at 40. "We would like to get their minutes down," coach Lawrence...
CLANCY CARDED ; JINTS FAIL TO MATCH AS DT GOES WEST
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amOne got away yesterday as the official start of free agency kicked off. The Giants believed they had every assurance they needed from defensive tackle Kendrick Clancy that he'd re-sign...
SILENT MIGHT; WANG LETS HIS ARM DO TALKING
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amYankees 7Braves 3 TAMPA - The Legends Field mice make more noise than Chien-Ming Wang does in the Yankees' clubhouse. Quiet players in big league uniforms have been around forever....
COACHES ON THE FIRING LINE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amAs we stagger down the home stretch of the NBA's injury-punctured season, the high-definition microscope is increasingly focusing on the fragile job security of Mike Montgomery (Friday night's Warriors' upset...
MIG'S KAZOO TAKES TOBOGGAN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amJockey Rich Migliore, who returned to riding just eight days earlier after being sidelined four months with broken leg, notched his first stakes victory of year aboard Kazoo in Gr....
GIAMBI RETURN PUT OFF AGAIN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Because the Pirates refused to grant the Yankees permission to use the designated hitter during tomorrow's spring training game, Jason Giambi's return from a lingering left...
FAMILIAR FOES IN GIRLS FINAL
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amPSAL SEMIFINALBergtraum 75Kennedy 50 PSAL SEMIFINALFrancis Lewis 69Grand Street 61 It almost makes you wonder why the PSAL bothers with the rest of the girls basketball season. For the fifth...
SELLING USA'S GAME ; BASEBALL BELONGS TO WORLD NOW
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amANAHEIM - Team USA realizes that baseball isn't just America's Game anymore. "The world has caught up," Johnny Damon said. The U.S. players truly understand after just one week of...
FIGHTS OF SPRING ; POSITION BATTLES HIGHLIGHT METS' CAMP
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amMets (ss) 10Marlins 6 PORT ST. LUCIE - It has been nearly a month into spring training, with less than a month until Opening Day. So even though the Mets...
PEDRO 'AWESOME' IN SIMULATION
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - In another extensive throwing day for the Mets' ace, Pedro Martinez was able to simulate a four-inning game performance during his bullpen session yesterday....
KNICK PAYROLL: BIG DOLLARS, NO SENSE
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CHARLOTTE - Larry Brown admitted it's no picnic managing the roster of high-salaried players. The Knicks' 17-44 record proves it. The Knicks' league-high payroll never looked so out...
SINKING FEELING - DEFEAT LEAVES TEAM TITANIC BACK AT BOTTOM
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amBobcats 116Knicks 109 CHARLOTTE - Even Charlotte coach/GM Bernie Bickerstaff had fun at the Knicks' expense. Responding to Jamal Crawford's guarantee the Knicks won't finish with the NBA's worst record,...
BE-DEVILED BY BACK-TO-BACKS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amPenguins 6Devils 3 PITTSBURGH - The Devils' symptoms have now become a certified disease, a double-digit trend of trouble. By losing last night, 6-3, to the Penguins - their 10th...
ORANGE ALERT:'CUSE WINS TITLE; BECOME LOWEST SEED TO CAPTURE CROWN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amSyracuse 65Pittsburgh 61 There never has been a Big East Conference like the one this season, 16 teams in two time zones, and the chance to get sunburn and frost...
'NOVA'S RAY WILL BE OK
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amAfter one of the scariest moments in Big East Conference tournament history Friday night, Villanova coaches and players were greeted by a wonderful sight yesterday morning. Guard Allan Ray of...
SJ ORANGE ALERT - LOWEST SEED TO CAPTURE CROWN
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amSYRACUSE 65 PITTSBURGH 61 There never has been a Big East Conference like the one this season, 16 teams in two time zones and the chance to get sun burned...
MC HAMMERS - MCNAMARA GIVES ORANGE TRIFECTA OF FANTASTIC FINISHES
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amThere has never been a Big East Conference Tournament like this topsy-turvy, upset-laden, mad-dash, end-to-end, don't-bet-your-pension, free-for-all in the Garden. Never. No. 1-seed UConn? Gone. No. 2-seed 'Nova? See UConn....
PRIDE & PREJUDICE - TEAMS LIKE HOFSTRA MAKE TOURNEY GREAT
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amTHE games begin in earnest Thursday, which now more than ever has become something of a secular holy day for sports fans, 12 hours of nonstop basketball games on your...
DESPITE RECORD, KNICKS STARTING TO STICK TOGETHER
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - When the Knicks faced the Bobcats here last night, it was the NBA's highest payroll facing the league's lowest. Their records were nearly identical (Knicks, 17-43; Bobcats, 17-45),...
CLANCY LOST TO CARDS - JINTS FAIL TO MATCH AS DE GOES WEST
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amOne got away yesterday as the official start of free agency kicked off. The Giants believed they had every assurance they needed from defensive tackle Kendrick Clancy that he'd re-sign...
FATIGUE FACTOR WEIGHS ON DEVS
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The fatigue factor reared its ugly head again. It should have been an easy pair of games against the two worst teams in the Eastern Conference. Instead, the...
WHAT'S THE POINT? THERE'S NO DEFENSE FOR STRATEGY ON 3S
March 12, 2006 | 5:00amFOR all the basketball analysts and all the basketball analysis, where are they and where is it when we need it? Thursday afternoon, it was the Big East tournament on...