In a classic case of what-will-they-think-of next? a South Florida company called Aira Cosmetics has launched a line of fake eyelashes made out of mink. They are for sale at www.myminklashes.com and through high-end boutiques like Fred Segal in Beverly Hills. Previously, a company press release states, only celebrities could…
Bernard Zyscovich is the Miami-based urban designer who has the unenviable task of crafting a modern, architecturally vibrant downtown Hollywood. Thanks to the Hollywood City Commission’s habit of preempting his plan by green-lighting huge condo projects, Zyscovich must hit a moving target.I talked with Zyscovich last month in connection with…
Seriously, wouldn’t that be fun? Kendrick Meek versus Dan Gelber. Both were college athletes in another sport: Meek played linebacker at Florida A&M, while Gelber rowed for the crew team at Tufts University. And yes, I know that linebacker translates better to basketball and that at age 42 Meek is…
One of the GOP’s top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption. The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned jointly by two Tallahassee heavyweights: Lobbyist David Ericks and star Republican budgetmeister Donna Arduin. The one-time couple bought…
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Kendrick Meek, of Miami,continues to tear up the fund-raising circuit — an article in today’s Roll Call says Meek will report $1.5 million in campaign dollars in the year’s first quarter, which ended March 31. His primary competition for that nomination, Florida Sen. Dan Gelber…
Today’s edition of the Morning Juice is brought to you by our new sponsor, Greg Gumbel’s perfectly coiffed mini-afro. To be clear, Greg Gumbel himself is not the sponsor, and in no way would we imply that, because Greg Gumbel has a propensity to sue people who claim he’s falsely…
Florida Rep. Mary Brandenburg, the Democrat from Lake Worth, is what passes for a champion of tattooists. You see, in a Republican-dominated legislature, tattoos are like Satan’s graffiti on God’s aluminum siding. But, oh well. Tattooists have learned to be pragmatic in their political forays, and they are glad at…
Alvin Mitchell, the Cardinal Gibbons High School star who rode national accolades to a scholarship at the University of Cincinnati, was dismissed from his team, Ohio papers are reporting. The Bearcats coach, Mick Cronin, has not said what led him to that decision — just that Mitchell had broken team…
Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London has been on the warpath ever since he learned that City Manager Mike Good grossed $422,000 in 2008. Last week, he asked city staff to describe at what rate Good was paid. Theoretically, since Good started his employment with the city as a construction worker…
The party was also a fundraiser for New Times’ favorite philanthropist, Aaron Jackson, and his charity Planting Peace. We’ve written about his orphanages and shelters, and his efforts to rid the world (especially children) of intestinal parasites here, here, and here. It’s good to see the good folks at Reno…
The “resident” quoted as “Merle Lynn” in this week’s “The Our Town News” story about how residents and commissioners want homeless people out of Coral Springs is an employee of that community newspaper. Her name is Merle Rosenberg and she works in classified advertising. Her quote about the homeless people…
And you wondered why former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush didn’t want to run for U.S. Senate in 2010? That campaign would have taken time away from his superhero hobby, which will be on display this time next week.Bush is scheduled to appear on “special” edition Fox News’ Hannity — not…
But really, it might have been the ref who missed an important call on that final shot of the 98-96 loss, the fourth loss in five games. As Dwyane Wade set his feet for the three that would have given the Heat the win over Dallas, the defender clearly slapped…
No city in Broward County has high stakes development decisions like Hollywood. It’s why for the last decade it’s become an emotionally charged issue. For all the fine points that fill the debate, the argument comes down to whether you believe the city should accommodate the developer or if the…
State Sen. Eleanor Sobel is renting an office from the City of Hollywood. Nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is that the city is planning to spend $30,000 to renovate the office for Sobel and the lobbyists and suckers — oops, I mean constituents — who visit her. I could rant about this myself, but…
Judging by the front page story in this week’s edition of “The Our Town News”, yes. On the direct-mail community newspaper’s web site, the article about the city’s commissioners and residents disdain for the homeless men and women selling The Homeless Voice is featured next to a story about a…
Federal authorities seized Bernie Madoff’s yacht in Fort Lauderdale yesterday and then took control of the home his wife owns in Palm Beach. U.S. marshals described “using an element of surprise” to grab Madoff’s property, but if you’re a Madoff investor, you might describe it as coming, oh, like six…
Tourists stroll along the Promenade des Anglais. Tan bodies dot the beach. It’s a peaceful Sunday afternoon, August 5, 2007, and Nice’s wealthiest young partiers sip coffee at the Hotel Negresco, staring out into the sparkling blue waters of the Bay of Angels. Two blocks away, a motorcycle and a…
Former Plantation police officer Martin Hommel says there are cops who abuse steroids, but he insists he wasn’t one of them. The 54-year-old Hommel readily admits that, while working as a cop in 2007, he injected anabolic steroids, specifically a synthetic form of testosterone called nandrolone. But he says he…
South Florida cops have been looking for the rotten-toothed bandit for a month. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Frank Sousa says officers believe they found their man: a man arrested this morning, suspected of robbing the Wachovia Bank at 4875 N Federal Hwy. The suspect fits the description of the five…
For all the talk of “the crime issue” in Fort Lauderdale’s recent municipal campaign, the city’s safest, wealthiest neighborhood — on either side of Las Olas, near the Intracoastal — can lay claim to some of the region’s most loathsome criminals. Today U.S. Marshals headed to Fort Lauderdale Beach, where…
