It’s a Monday in the summer, which means we have to learn about the crappy movie that was America’s favorite this weekend. And today that task is more grim than usual. The big winner is G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.Despite the warnings of film reviewers around the nation, we…
Boy, they’re piling on Broward Clerk of Court Howard Forman right now. Chief Judge Victor Tobin seems to be leading a charge against the clerk and former state senator that is nothing short of cage match to the death. Both the Sentinel and Miami Herald have done a story about…
After people are convicted of felonies, they have to wear orange jumpsuits. After Cliff Berry, Inc., was convicted of a felony, it also made a wardrobe change — into shirts bearing the brand new logo of Everglades Waste Removal Services.Or at least that’s the outfit en vogue at the company’s…
Noted South Florida sculptor Peter Giovenco died Tuesday after a long fight with brain cancer. Giovenco, who was 37, worked with all types of metals, creating modern industrial-inspired furniture, like the stool and aluminum high heels that graced the cover of Playboy magazine. You can see more at his website…
Behind some of the area’s biggest condo ghost towers — Tao Sawgrass in Sunrise and Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale — lies one very cash-strapped bank. Chicago-based Corus Bank has become a poster child for the condo meltdown, because it lent money to at least 16 South…
As the district staff of Congressman Ron Klein learned this week, South Florida legislators are at risk of having their town hall meetings mobbed by people who think Glenn Beck is sane. This group’s current source of hysteria is the Democrats’ health care reform plan. Or, as they might put…
What do you do when the public overwhelmingly votes down an idea to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new courthouse? If you’re the Broward County Commission, you ignore the people and ram it down their throats anyway. After voters roundly rejected a referendum to fund a $450…
In the last 24 hours, Palm Beach Post reporters Andrew Marra and Michael LaForgia have had some terrific scoops on the Dalia Dippolito murder-for-hire story: that a recent deed transfer revealed Dippolito had a financial motive to hire a hitman to kill her husband, and that it was Dippolito’s paramour…
It’s been a brutal week (year?) for Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland, but the weeks to come may bring a new rounds of bad publicity. According to a well-placed source at city hall, a city commissioner is likely to bring a motion at the August 18 meeting censuring Noland for…
What the hell is going on? A U.S. senator does not resign. It’s one of the greatest jobs in the world. I’m not going to pretend like I know why Martinez is bailing, but I can tell you two things it’s not: 1. To do a solid for Charlie Crist. 2…
Apparently, the Scots are not all thrilled that their motherland gave birth to the woman who gave birth to The Man, Donald Trump, who treated his $1 billion plan to build a golf resort in the Scot town of Aberdeenshire as a sentimental investment. That failed to win him favors…
For those who weren’t at the original Woodstock, or who were there but don’t remember being there (on account of drugs) Cinema Paradiso is putting together a 40th anniversary party that will celebrate the best of that event. (At the very least, it will be much, much more fun than…
Fab Melo, the seven-foot tall Brazilian exchange student who will make his American basketball debut this year at Sagemont High School in Weston, has made hoops fans in upstate New York awfully happy. He just committed to play his college ball at Syracuse.Known simply as “Melo,” he’s already drawing comparisons…
It’s already happened: The three large South Florida daily newspapers have morphed together. Now we just have to wonder when they’ll officially merge. I’ve received two communiques on the “content-sharing agreement” between the three newspapers run amok. And it’s starting to get a little weird, sort of like the photo…
In the video above we have Andrea, the most aggressive of the Police Women of Broward County. In this episode she strips down to a thong and gun belt, then shoots a guy just for looking at her the wrong way yells a lot and manhandles (and yells) at some…
(Thanks Ashley Harrell for the heads-up)…
Yes, we’ll call it Kleinstock: The groaning / chanting droves of patriots who monopolized yesterday’s town hall meeting that Congressman Ron Klein’s staff has each month with constituents.Of course, you can’t trust the liberal media to report accurately on that meeting. So until Fox News launches a bureau with an…
Deerfield Beach city employees who fail to greet Mayor Peggy Noland in the manner seen above will be deemed “disrespectful.” To wit, any other greeting is “unacceptable” and causes “irrevocable damage to the welfare of the department” and their fellow workers. As such, those workers will face disciplinary action, just…
As was widely expected (and dreaded, in conservative quarters) the U.S. Senate gave its approval to Barack Obama’s appointment for U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez was one of just nine Republicans to cast a vote in favor of the appointment. That’s because he fell head-over-heels in…
Males. When they’re young and brash, trying to mark their territory and impress girls, there’s no telling what they’ll do. Run off to Georgia, even, and get themselves killed.That’s apparently what happened to a Florida panther who was shot and killed by a hunter last year in the woods of…
For the second time this week, Broward Sheriff’s deputies have booked one of their own. Gladys Dauphin, a detention deputy at BSO’s main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale, is accused of striking an inmate in the head with her handheld radio. She’s also accused of filing a false report of…
