Today is goodbye for numerous Miami Herald journalists who are part of the recent job cuts at the newspaper. What follows is an email announcing the departures sent to staff today from Senior Editor Mindy Marques. There’s too much here to summarize, but I want to point out that among those…
The Palm Beach Post introduced a new slogan this week, “The Home Page of Paradise.” Never mind that this phrase now appears on the Post’s web site just above the daily dose of mug shots. Or that on Sunday, it sat right above a headline that read, “What To Do…
It’s Friday, and I can’t with a clear conscience inflict the kind of stress on you that will surely come with describing the current condition of the state budget — at least not without the proper caveat. So if you have high blood pressure, or if there’s a history of…
Tom Daley, the 14-year-old Olympic diver from the UK, has been bullied at school in his native Plymouth, a city on the country’s western peninsula. As a result, his father says the family is considering moving… somewhere. Nowhere in that article does it say the bullying has been related to…
Nobody likes an injustice, especially when kids are involved. But ladies and gentlemen, that’s exactly what we have. When Playboy announced the magazine’s picks for best party school this week, this nation saw the worst kind of injustice since the Alpha Betas framed the Tri-Lambs in Revenge of the Nerds…
Gov. Charlie Crist came to South Florida yesterday to tout his plan to take a $1.1 billion loan from the Seminole tribe, a move that officially sells the state’s future to the fine folks who use slot machines to take your grandmother’s Social Security checks. The plan initially sounded confusing…
It’s been amusing to read about the feds’ work on public corruption in Broward County coming from people who know little to nothing about it. Irresponsible and idiotic rumors have been flying about for weeks now. Be patient and believe little of the noise that you hear from the chatterers and toadies. You’ll…
Normally, I try not to make fun of people in love. Even cynical, egotistical journalists have their limits, and I’m afraid there’s a special, celibate hell for those of us who ridicule the mysteries of Cupid. However, I believe there is a small exception for absurdly rich people who publicize…
So yes, Thomas Francis, I’m in the new film Outrage about hypocritical gay Republicans. And no, I offer no proof that our governor is gay. Just a lot of compelling evidence. The Academy Award-nominated documentarian Kirby Dick — who has compiled an excellent body of work — came to my house to talk about…
Imagine the hours upon hours of creative exertion that must have taken place at Spirit Airlines’ corporate headquarters in Miramar before some clever bastard realized that for this weekend’s promotion, they could dust off an old, hackneyed but effective slogan, then trim just a single, crucial letter.Voila! Behold Spirit Airlines’…
Aston Martins and dry martinis: two James Bond trademarks that — for us civilians — should never be mixed and should be enjoyed only in moderation. Or else the consumer might take his spy schtick past the limits of international law. This warning may come too late for the staff…
Cliff Berry Inc. is a Fort Lauderdale-based environmental services company that in December was convicted on two counts of grand theft and two counts of fraud for bribing folks who could help it steal jet fuel from Miami International Airport. But since a company can’t do jail time, its punishment…
Last week I joked how maybe this upcoming documentary by director Kirby Dick about closeted gay Republicans should toss a scene to Charlie Crist, and it looks like that’s exactly what happened. An article in showbiz mag Variety confirmed that Crist stars — unwittingly, I guess — in Outrage, which…
Yes, we’re all furious about the Wall Street culture of deception and cheating that has pushed this country to the brink of economic collapse, but maybe it’s time to put down our torches and pitchforks so we can think this through. Or at least that’s the impulse I got after…
If there’s one thing the Florida zoophilia movement needed, it’s a celebrity endorsement, and they got it Wednesday when Billy the Marlin came out publicly. In an ad printed Wednesday in the Sun-Sentinel, Billy is seen, well, hell, I can’t describe it, and you’ve probably stopped reading this sentence anyway…
Greed Runs Hollywood Thomas Francis, thank you so much for that great article “Selling Hollywood Sky” (April 9). Greed is the operative word, and you said exactly what we’ve been preaching to the City Commission for months. Lobbyist Alan Koslow is running this city, and he’s running it right into…
Between February and April, a rather remarkable legal drama unfolded in U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch’s courtroom in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Federal prosecutors had spent two years building their argument against doctors, pharmacists, and businessmen who were operating an internet pharmacy network. But midway through the trial, their…
Bobette Riner bought a new Prius last year to shoot the bird at oil companies. “I felt so smug for a while,” she says. She was lucky to score the car because there had been a three-month wait for nearly a year to get a Prius. The dealership couldn’t even…
You can’t miss the sprightly older black woman with the sign outside the Fort Lauderdale Police Department picketing on Broward Boulevard. One side of the sign reads “5 Police Beat Me,” and on the other side is “Governor Stop Police Violence.” The woman is 57-year-old Mary Grey, who was apparently recently charged…
So I’m finally getting settled in the press box my living room to call a fantastic evening of live basketball television watching. Our target demographic tonight: the lost souls who somehow have access to the internet, but not a television; and the very bored. A few months ago Thomas “I…
Florida Republicans celebrated Earth Day by moving the state one step closer to lifting a ban on oil-drilling off the coast. Hear that, Galt Ocean Mile residents? How loudly you cheered when the governor came to your condo to tell you that another potential environmental hazard, the Calypso natural gas…
There are some perks that come with the collapse of the world’s economy. For instance, now that Chase and Washington Mutual have merged, I figured it would be easier to find a bank branch where I could get cash–or deposit it– without paying an extra fee. Chase’s website lists a…
