When Sunrise City Commissioner Sheila Alu tried to put the city’s garbage contract out to bid, things began to get very weird. And it began a four-year odyssey that came to an end yesterday, when she went public with her work for the FBI. It started with harassment. The company that had the…
When it comes to South Florida athletes of Haitian descent, Jozy Altidore gets all the accolades. Strange, because by his own admission, he plays soccer. Jason Pierre-Paul, a Deerfield Beach High School graduate now playing defensive end for the University of South Florida, is grabbing some headlines of his own,…
With Chad Pennington facing what could very well be career-ending surgery tomorrow from sports surgeon extraordinaire, Birmingham-based Dr. James Andrews, he had some thoughts for the media on what he’s going through, where he goes from here, the hit that separated his shoulder, and his time so far in South…
It started with a meeting between mega-lobbyist Ron Book and Broward School Board construction czar Michael Garretson and turned into a $765,000 fiasco. I’m talking, of course, about the Ashbritt affair, wherein the company is accused of ripping off the board during its work on schools after Hurricane Wilma. When…
That’s one scary set of clues, but that’s the bulletin from the Boynton Beach Police Department: A bloody mattress was found in a dumpster behind a Boynton Beach business this morning. A child’s blanket was found on top of the mattress. We are asking the media to help us get…
According to a sports website, ESPN.com, there is a hockey team in South Florida. Presumably, the “Panthers” are so named because they’re a rarely seen threatened species. In fact, according to ESPN, the Panthers’ biggest star — winger David Booth — is practically invisible when he drives around Broward County…
Palm Beach County Tax Collector Anne Gannon would like to charge us all with smoking. Gannon announced yesterday that she is going to stop hiring anybody who “regularly uses tobacco products” for jobs with the tax collector’s office. Juice finds itself in the itchy position of agreeing with that irrepressible…
One thing the 32-page indictment of Hollywood eye doctor and GOP bag man Alan Mendelsohn proves is that the FBI is still very adept at cloaking their investigation in darkness. It’s full of code names for campaign contributors and PACs that Mendelsohn manipulated in at least an attempt to bribe Charlie Crist and other officials to kill investigations into Mutual Benefits’ Joel…
About a year ago, Heather Kertesz of Boca Raton was the plaintiff in a suit against the operators of a website, collegewildparties.com (link NSFW), which she claimed published images of her on the night of her 21st birthday without consent. A Palm Beach Post article about the case is here.Now…
via RevolicoThis hot little number didn’t even make our list. But you could buy it from Maykel for about $7,000. In this week’s feature story, you can read all about Revolico. The website — a Craigslist for Cuba — is changing the way Cubans do business in the Caribbean communist…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cDemocratic Super Majoritywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul InterviewAnd not enough Democrats are like these — Alan Grayson, from Orlando / Ocala…
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has a small problem with political scandal. Four years ago he was scolded for missing an intelligence briefing on the Iraq war to golf with Tiger Woods. Then last fall he released an unfortunate campaign commercial in which he appeared to be groping the chest of…
Let’s see what’s newsy in Broward and Palm Beach this Thursday morning:Hollywood ophthalmologist Alan Mendelsohn, a major fundraiser for Charlie Crist, turned himself in after being charged by the FBI with fraud. The allegations against Mendelsohn first appeared on Daily Pulp this past March. [WPLG]Remember Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom? He…
News is busting out all over, so I’ll make this quick. Here’s a list of the most popular Pulp posts for the month of September, which saw a 25 percent bump up in traffic from August due mostly to the federal corruption case coverage. Still, three non-fed stories — Post layoffs, Scott Rothstein, and Mc…
Mateo might just be the best mecánico in Havana, Cuba. The cars that roll into his little garage — tucked into a crumbling building amid decrepit colonials — would make an American mechanic laugh like hell. There are ’53 Chevys, lime green and the length of a school bus. Nearby…
Cage the Cagers! I was thrilled to see your piece about the controversy over using animals as circus props (The Juice, Michael J. Mooney, September 17). There is far too much known about what really goes on to turn a blind eye anymore. Animals are beaten into submission with bull…
Picture this scenario: officials lawyering up, high-ranking personnel angry about possible news leaks, people dodging the FBI, and the top man trying to assure everyone that his agency isn’t full of crooks. No, this isn’t the Nixon White House; it’s the Broward County School Board. With one School Board member,…
Usually this time of year, when the temperature has dropped a degree or two for what Northerners call autumn, New Times gives you a glimpse of the upcoming arts season. Our Fall Arts Guide has always featured the best of everything, from sculpture to theater. And you’ll still find that…
The cover of this week’s print edition is suitable for framing. The Fall Arts Guide, masterfully curated by Erica K. Landau, will help you craft a schedule that will accommodate all the season’s most smashing artistic happenings.When it comes to painting political scenes, there’s no artist more accomplished than Bob…
This afternoon I reached Rhonda Calhoun, the North Broward Hospital District commissioner who at last week’s meeting vented her “frustration” toward fellow board members who aren’t as concerned about ethics as she is.But that wasn’t the first time that Calhoun felt like the lone wolf. She told me that roughly…
[jump] Six-foot-one, 224-pound Tyler Thigpen – not to be confused with Tecmo Bowl go-to wide out Yancy Thigpen or the perfunctory Peanuts playboy Pigpen – went to high school in South Carolina, where he was all-state as a running back. After graduating in 2002, he attended Coastal Carolina University in…
