Following the lead of the Miami Herald (and, to a lesser extent, the Sun-Sentinel), the Palm Beach Post announced some major management changes this morning. Top Editor John Bartosek will move down to the investigations editor role and Managing Editor Bill Rose is retiring in the summer, giant developments both…
Around the Horn is ESPN’s fantastic game of competitive sports banter. Every day, sports columnists from large markets across the country shout at one another about men (and sometimes women) in colorful uniforms, trying to make valid arguments. Each good point gets a point. And the panelist with the most…
“He belly-flopped and falled down and lost the ball. And then he complained too much.” The sweet, simple words of an adorable girl. I couldn’t have described the end of last night’s Heat overtime loss to New Orleans any better. Well, yeah, I could have. (I type pretty sometimes.) But I…
It’s hard to be a card-carrying, foreign-car-driving, alt-weekly-newspaper-working, Cheez Whiz-loving liberal these days. The conservatives say President Obama’s corporate bailouts amount to socialism, and who knows if they’re right, because they kind of lost me at the first trillion. So that’s why I say all us liberals should go buy…
With a local legislator, Sen. Nan Rich, touting a bill that would make it a felony to have sex with an animal, I’ve recently interviewed a self-described “zoo” from the upper Midwest, “James.” Part one of that interview is here. I asked James whether zoophilia was the product of life…
Come May 1, Laffing Matterz, the upscale caberet theatre/restaurant located in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, will be shutting its doors.
There is no organized opposition to the legislation being brought by Florida Sen. Nan Rich, or Sunrise, that would make it a third-degree felony to have “sexual contact” with an animal. As Rich put it a few weeks ago, “Who thinks it’s OK to have sex with animals?”Perhaps no group…
Retired Sun-Sentinel reporter Joe Kollin sent the Pulp this serious piece of righteousness about the state grand jury. I’m going to go ahead and call for it: Grand jurors should fire State Attorney Michael Satz as their “legal advisor” and hire an attorney who wants to do the job instead. Below is Kollin’s important…
The history books will show that more than 30,000 people attended the season opener yesterday, but those of us who watched the game on TV (or saw the highlights above) saw a lot of empty seats in the background every time the Marlins scored. And they scored often. Fantasy beast…
Lighthouse Point resident Plaxico Burress is, like many of us in these in these troubled economic times, looking for a job. The young man, whose maturity has been cruelly stunted by accommodating bosses and millions of dollars, lost his job last year after he shot himself in the foot, figuratively,…
If you’re down a dark West Palm Beach alley on a Friday night, say, with your Ferrari hat and Ed Hardy shirt giving you away as either rich or a douche or most likely both, what you’re probably worried about is the tweens. You know, those skateboarders who hang around…
Often, it’s gays who are doing the protesting: Let us marry! Let us have civil rights! Let us have public toilets on the beach without the mayor characterizing us as sexual deviants! But Saturday, cowboys and cowgirls found themselves on the receiving side of the bullhorns and posterboard signs when…
Doesn’t this woman look like she’s been taken by surprise? Or perhaps that a secret has just been found out? Actually, the woman in the photo, Stacy Schultz, has been flying under the radar just fine. Schultz is the “sole proprietor” of a life settlement company called LIfe Insurance Exchange (yeah, I…
You can’t help but cringe when you see a headline like the one that appeared in the Sun-Sentinel last week — “Broward County Homicide Rate Is Slowing.” That was last Monday, when through the year’s first quarter the county had seen only 17 murders, compared to an average of 21…
The national media is piecing together the biography of Richard Andrew Poplawski, the Pittsburgh man who shot three cops dead Saturday. The incident, of course, started with an argument between Poplawski and his mother over a dog that pissed in the house. Today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has what looks like the…
Thanks to the New York Times for nudging those suddenly budget-conscious East Coast and Midwest staycationers out of their stupor and toward South Florida. This weekend, the Gray Lady recommended a trip to the less celebrated tourist nooks of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, and Hillsboro Beach, all of which…
In her capacity as a leading Democratic surrogate, West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had some tense moments while appearing on the allegedly “Fair and Balanced” news network. But two weeks after revealing that in the past year she had seven surgeries to defeat breast cancer, Fox News yesterday…
— JAABlog reports on the latest developments of the Judge Ana Gardiner saga. The evidenciary hearing to determine if Gardiner did anything wrong when she partied with then-prosecutor Howard Scheinberg during a murder trial (and allegedly spoke with him about the case) is now scheduled to happen in Judge Paul Backman’s courtroom…
This story on the underbelly of the cops-and-steroids trade can use a bit of an intro. First, Marty Hommel, the former Plantation police officer who told me about his personal use of steroids, was an open book who should be commended for his honesty. All he wanted to do was clear his…
Thanks, New York City. A few days ago, you somehow convinced part-time Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh to ditch his Big Apple digs (presumably so he can spend more time being our neighbor), a bit of news that received this homage from Jon Stewart… The Daily Show With Jon StewartM…
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This from Herald Publisher David “We Are Stable And Vital” Landsberg: From: Landsberg, David – Miami Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:49 PMTo: .MIA NewsroomCc: .MIA Executive CommitteeSubject: Job Posting for Herald Editorial Page EditorJob Posting for Herald Editorial Page EditorMarch 31, 2009We are starting work on filling the very…
