Man, it’s going to be a long day for gorgeous men like us, isn’t it? Seems the Boca Raton police are searching for an ATM thief whose distinguishing feature is that he’s “handsome.”Which makes me, at least, a suspect. Suddenly I’m scared to drive my car, much less walk down…
Now former Sun-Sentinel reporter and writing coach John de Groot lays out the audacity — and outrageousness — of the severance packages paid to former Tribune executives at the time they unloaded the company to Sam Zell in a doomed, debt-laden deal. Let’s put it this way: It’s a lot better than this one-week’s-pay-for-every-year-of-service…
Theory: Someone big and powerful at Forbes magazine — maybe Steve Forbes himself? — is feuding with some other big and powerful person who has condos to sell in Palm Beach County. And that is why Forbes magazine is beating the local economy to death with its vicious lists. At…
I haven’t even been posting all the Lee Abrams think pieces lately because they’ve gotten to be so dull. But this one, which I received several days ago, well, it’s worth sharing. Why? It’s about the Tribune Co./Sun-Sentinel morning show on WSFL. I haven’t weighed in about the show for…
An investment fund chaired by longtime Republican Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp emerged last week as a potential buyer of the Florida Panthers and their handsome revenue-sharing lease at the BankAtlantic Center. Then this weekend, Kemp died of cancer.So does this mean the deal is dead too?…
You know those coin-operated claw games, where a bunch of stuffed animals are piled up behind a glass window and you try to fish one out with the mechanical claw that you operate with a joystick? Imagine that, except behind the glass window is a fish tank full of water,…
Reflecting on the long-rumored entry of Marco Rubio into the race for U.S. Senate in 2010 against the inevitable candidacy of the formidable Florida governor, one can’t help but recall that opening scene of Apocalypse Now: An underwear-wearing Martin Sheen doing drunken judo chops in some squalid hotel room in…
When I heard that there would be a lingerie football franchise in South Florida, the Miami Caliente, who would be playing their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, my first thought was of the terrifying possibility of a game marred by a wardrobe malfunction. My second thought (well, third…
Last week, I sparked a little feud after I questioned the motives and judgment of Rep. Adam Hasner, the House majority leader, for making public appearances with anti-Islam agitator Geert Wilders, a member of Dutch Parliament. At week’s end, I posted this letter to Hasner, seeking clarification on where his…
Juror No. 4, you are not alone. I know you feel like you are. I know your fellow jurors in the Liberty City Six trial have been browbeating you and cajoling you into changing your opinion, into doing something that you know isn’t right. But I’m behind you, and so are many…
Every day, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish, publishes a “View From Your Window.” A reader takes a shot from where he’s sitting, then sends it in. They come from all over the world. The best make Sullivan’s blog three-dimensional. Intimate. Almost voyeuristic. The worst make you angry that any…
We’re supposed to be happy that public officials in Broward are getting a primer on ethics. U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta will pay a visit to the Broward County Commission to stage an ethics tutorial (You had better be taking actual notes, Ritter, not doodles or love letters to a certain…
Former Fort Lauderdale “philanthropist” and Bernie Madoff money man Michael Bienes gave an interview to the PBS investigative news show Frontline, and it looks to be a doozy. Here’s a snippet: In it Bienes, who was a member of the Broward arts board and has his name on plaques all…
Xiu Ping Jiang: It’s not a household name, and it would have never been a newsworthy name except for the day when that woman’s ex-husband took two handguns to an immigration office in Binghampton, New York, where he killed 13 students before killing himself. Reporters looking to build a biography…
Count acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps among those who believe the current strategy of decimating staffs at newspapers is the wrong way to deal with the economic downturn, especially since most are still making money. “I am seriously worried about the decline of broadcast journalism and newspaper journalism,” Copps testified before the House Appropriations Committee’s…
What a wretched weekend in South Florida sports. You’ve heard about the Heat, but what’s happened to the Marlins? One month into the baseball season, this team can’t decide whether it belongs at the top of the league or at the bottom. A seven-game win streak in mid-April was followed…
Out like the fat kid in dodgeball. It was a good series, conceptually. It’s not like any of the individual games were any good or even competitive. This is only the second time in NBA history that all seven games in a series were decided by at least ten points…
You can’t get anything past that Mark Potter. To report on the booming black market for pain meds, the NBC correspondent charged fearlessly into the belly of the beast: Broward County. At the 1:25 mark in this video, the NBC reporter accuses a local bench and one familiar-looking newspaper.Visit msnbc.com…
It’s tense times at the Sun-Sentinel. A commenter posted below that the next round of layoffs at there will be announced May 19. I hit up a newspaper source who told me Sentinel editor Earl Maucker told the staff there are going to be 30 layoffs in the newsroom (after…
Miami Herald political columnist Beth Reinhard weighs in on the new documentary film Outrage this morning. Here’s her nut graph: The film is worth seeing — not because it breaks any new ground on Crist’s sexuality, because it doesn’t. It relies on hearsay from shadowy sources, clever edits and innuendo to build a…
New Times feature article about Durham and his family is here…
During this dramatic week in Tallahassee, Delray Beach Rep. Adam Hasner starred as either the House Majority Leader or an evil “robot,” depending on your perspective. It’s astonishing that during pressure-packed negotiations, an eminent statesman like Hasner found time to bolt back home to huddle with one of the Western…
