This Palm Beach Post memo from the newspaper’s content czar Tim Burke was posted in a comment below; thought it was worth putting out here. The most interesting thing about it is the new lexicon hitting newspaper management these days. “Content Editor” and “Presentation Editor” are two fairly new ones (congrats…
If you’re grading the souls of fraudsters on a curve, Steven Green scores as the most sympathetic in a class full of flunkers. Green gave generously to charities for the developmentally disabled, as well as to those that assisted gay men with AIDS or struggling with addiction. He even made…
South Florida’s most exclusive real estate is crawling with feral cats who have — in a fashion that the children of a wealthy divorced couple might appreciate — been playing one of their benefactors against the other. It’s “PB Cats” versus “Island Cats of Palm Beach,” both of whom would…
[jump] Another bill the House passed Monday would eliminate blackjack at tribal casinos like the Hard Rock, but would increase betting limits in poker across the state (raising the maximum buy-in from $100 to $1,000), allow card rooms to operate 24 hours a day, and decrease taxes pari-mutuels pay on profits from…
Finally, justice. Or at least a taste of it. Larry Seidlin, the weeping Anna Nicole Smith judge who has chiseled more than a half million dollars from an elderly widow in his condo building, has been removed from the woman’s will. Or I should say Seidlin’s wife and daughter are off the…
Just when things had finally quieted down for uncloseted former Palm Beach Congressman Mark Foley, here comes a documentary called Outrage by notorious celluloid provocateur Kirby Dick. In advance of its debut next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, the picture is getting buzz for being controversial, if only because…
As rumors go, it was far too good to be true, and then it happened: Isiah Thomas is coming to South Florida, to coach Florida International’s basketball team. Oh, but this will make some good blog!Thomas, of course, is as brainless as a coach/GM as he was brilliant as a…
Things are tough all over at the Sun-Sentinel. Fresh off the Pulp transom (dailypulp@yahoo.com) is an email sent from the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts to Sun-Sentinel reporters. Apparently the bankrupt Tribune Co. hasn’t been paying for court records, so the clerk had enough. Until the bills are paid, reporters will have to…
That election is this June in Iran, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Religious Neanderthal Republic of Iran, against Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a “reformist” who would moderate some of the nation’s hard-line policies on human rights and in international diplomacy. That is, he’d steer it a few degrees left of the…
If you have children, and you’d like to exploit those children for your political gains, and if you have the money to rent those children prison uniforms, you should totally bring them to downtown West Palm Beach on Wednesday. That’s when people protesting government spending will bring 20-30 children dressed…
Day Two of the morning show and a thought occurs to me: Eugene Ramirez has one of the more unenviable jobs in journalism. Ramirez is sort of the roving reporter for the show and this morning at 5 a.m. he had to do a man-on-the-street segment about the lifting of…
People wonder about what kind of strange and awful mind is behind WSFL’s new morning show. Well, it’s been here all along. The Pulp has been publishing Tribune Innovation Chief Lee Abrams’ “think pieces” for months. I’m not going to expend the brain power right now to try to explain them. Don’t need to, they speak…
Bob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire’s U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he…
Today, the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pointed out that State Rep. Adam Hasner — the House Republican leader — is listed as a “coalition partner” for an upcoming coming “free speech summit” that could be seen as an anti-Muslim event. The featured speaker will be Geert Wilders, a controversial…
If you haven’t yet received this email forward, it means you don’t have enough wingnut friends.”It does not hurt to read this several times,” the note begins in bold letters. In fact, it only hurts to read it a few times. By the fourth time, the mind-numbing idiocy of it…
Hallandale Beach has a fairly quirk-tastic government. Remember the one about the city manager to whom it paid nearly a half-million last year? Good stuff. Another quirk: the commissioners habit of waiting several months, even years, to approve the minutes of past meetings. At this Wednesday’s meeting the city will…
If your Easter, Passover, Ostara (or whatever other religious holiday you may celebrate in Sspring) was filled with candy, it still wasn’t as sweet as the South Florida sports scene recently. Yesterday, Dwyane Wade dropped a career-high 55 on the Knicks en route to securing the fifth seed on the…
In an article about how Bernard Madoff beat the pants off the big spenders in Palm Beach, the story of an actual pair of pants that Madoff purchased but never picked up: that’s what we in the media biz call good metaphor.Madoff placed the order with a shop called “Trillion”…
I just watched a small portion of the launch of the new Sun-Sentinel morning show on its sister station, WSFL. Celebrating the occasion were Tribune VP Robert Gremillion and Sun-Sentinel Publisher Howard Greenberg, who are pictured at right (for the rest of the photographs, click here). And the show, South Florida.Com, was better…
