The top click-getter on the Sun-Sentinel website yesterday was a headline asking: “Is Michael Jackson Still Alive at the Coroner’s Office?” Accompanying it is a video still of a figure standing outside a coroner’s van. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt for Stone to stroke the ego of the guy who puts him…
It’s Friday morning. Let’s tackle the toughest issue first.In what may be the final straw for South Florida working families, the Dolphins looked totally uninspired while playing a game that doesn’t count — even though they won (which might cheer us up, but since it doesn’t count, no). Both Dave…
The last time we talked to Bobby Rogers, the troubled founder of the Fort Lauderdale-based Future of Wrestling told us he was finished with the self-destructive sport and encouraged his fellow wrestlers to kick it, too. “Wrestling is a sickness, because we’re addicted to the attention, addicted to the adrenaline…
The day is upon us. Yes, every Simpsons fan knows Whacking Day started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish. And yes, technically Texas has had organized snake whacking for years. But now Florida’s bravest most cunning snake-hatingest citizens will descend upon the swamps of this state…
This is one of those stories that’s borderline, but it’s the buzz of the political underworld in Broward County and concerns one of the area’s more interesting political races, so I feel it should be told. Once. It’s about the District 100 Florida House of Representatives race between incumbent Evan Jenne and…
Green may be the new buzzword in political and development circles. But green is also the new black for South Florida criminals when it comes to sartorial choices this summer. Fashion-forward scammers are tossing those dowdy stocking masks and dark T-shirts in favor of emerald baseball caps, grass-green getaway cars,…
Who to blame for the sudden crisis that has gripped the baseball hat industry, whose condition is mourned in the New York Times? Could it be the performance enhancing drugs that have cut a wide swath through All-Star Game rosters, ruining the game’s glamor? Could it be this popular website,…
[jump] James Randi disagrees completely, obviously. He offers $1 million to anyone who can prove their paranormal abilities in a testable setting. While Geller makes the argument that most people in the world believe in something supernatural (“Seven billion people can’t be wrong,” he told me), Randi is the leader…
Gunmakers usually aren’t keen on giving media interviews, but then maybe it’s hard to pass up a chance to talk about the M76, the most exciting addition to the arsenal of Delray Beach-based Century International Arms.A salesman at that office told me that they’re a popular item — “Daddy of…
Members of the dragon boat team fighting to keep practicing in West Lake Park finally made their pitch to the Broward County Commission this week. But they were met with resounding… silence. The commissioners, who allowed the Blazing Paddles to make a presentation at Tuesday’s meeting, listened and smiled while…
Dominique Duval, the 23-year-old woman from Lauderhill who was allegedly abducted in Fort Lauderdale yesterday evening, was found shot late last night. She later died of a gunshot wound to the neck. From the release by Hollywood PD: On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, at approximately 11:20 p.m., detectives from Hollywood’s…
Christy Turlington turned 40 this year, and despite having spent a good portion of those years jet-setting to exotic locations, strutting down runways, and hanging with friends like Bono, the memories that have recently taken hold of her were formed 30 years ago in Palm Beach County, the last place…
Congressman Ron Klein held what I think was a somewhat disastrous “telephone town hall” on the health care issue yesterday. First it was on the telephone. Yes, your congressman literally phoned it in. This has incensed those Death Panel town hall crashers around here who wanted to scream and yell at Klein for a…
Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for the rusty Mercedes that 25-year-old Antoine Joseph allegedly used to kidnap an ex-girlfriend, Dominique Duval, 23, last night in north Fort Lauderdale. From Sgt. Frank Sousa’s news release: Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was leaving her place of employment when her ex-boyfriend,…
This morning’s news contains hope for justice and renewal.It’s traumatic just to read about the Dunbar Village trial, which Susan Spencer-Wendel is covering for the Palm Beach Post. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be at the trial and for the victims to have to relive that terrifying night…
On stage in a spacious Las Vegas banquet hall sits a nervous-looking, dark-haired Danish woman named Connie Sonne. The 46-year-old retired police officer has made a name for herself as a psychic in Europe, claiming she knows the whereabouts of famous missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. Sonne also says she…
Animal Lovers I was appalled to see an article about — and credibility given to — a tiny group of people who claim they want to legally have sex with animals (“Animal Instincts,” Thomas Francis, August 20)! Worse, they are trying to legitimize their cause by latching onto the gay…
The Broward County School Board has driven the school district into near-bankruptcy by overbuilding by tens of thousands of seats that now sit empty. Part of the reason is that every board member has had a pet project that’s added to the hundreds of millions of dollars misspent. Board Member…
Highlights from this week’s print edition:Michael J. Mooney follows world-famous skeptic James Randi from his Fort Lauderdale institute to Las Vegas, where despite faltering health Randi is galvanized by a hero’s reception. Just don’t call it magic.Bob Norman gives a gold star (for tax dollar waste) to Broward School District…
The sidewalks of Broward and Palm Beach County are a little bit less explicit now that the New Times cover story about zoophiles I wrote for last week’s issue is to be replaced by this week’s issue. But before we leave that subject, which generated robust debate on this blog,…
