Lake Worth Commissioner Cara Jennings apparently has some strong feelings about Israeli aggression in Palestine, because on Sunday, she headed down to the Israeli Consulate in downtown Miami, painted her face, climbed up on some stilts, and stood by the entrance, chanting and waving a sign until police hauled her…
This just in: The Sun-Sentinel has been overtaken by forces of evil intent on making society more callous and stupid. This morning our local newspaper led with the terrible story of Natasha Richardson with the headline: “Is she brain dead?” That’s just heinous. Provide coverage, sure, but don’t lead with it. And…
Compare and contrast this story, which was published two weeks ago, with this one, published today. I’m not complaining — imitation is the sincerist form of flattery after all — but should there have been a citation? Or have all the rules of etiquette and journalistic decency gone out the…
Our Florida legislators have some budget-cutting to do, but they also need to improve the state’s education system, which is fast becoming a national embarrassment. This will take some creativity. Republicans, as the majority party, you’re up.Adam Hasner, Republican from Delray Beach, called a news conference yesterday to herald his…
South Floridians have been hit as hard as any other region by this economic crisis, reminders of which creep into seemingly every aspect of our daily lives. Assuming that humor really is the last refuge of the damned and because curiosity is recession-proof and Cosmo-style tests are highly addictive, get…
The Humane Society of the United States has filed this class-action lawsuit against Petland, which has several local stores, claiming Petland buys dogs from puppy mills. This actually comes as some good news to my landlord, because now I am totally not going back to Petland to adopt that Weimaraner…
I freely admit to being a pencil-necked geek whose brain is addled by too much of the Diane Rehm show. Still, I’m rarely shocked. Yet as I was flipping through radio stations this morning, I was taken aback by the on-air pummeling that 93.1’s Bubba the Love Sponge was giving…
Sorry, folks in the South Florida convention-recruitment and -staging biz. Didn’t mean to let the secret out that people who come for these conferences don’t actually go to these conferences. For most, it’s little more than a chance to get shitfaced in a new state, on the company dime.And then…
St. Stephen Catholic School in Miramar will close at the end of the school year and the space will be taken over by a public charter school this fall, according to Sister Mary David Magee, the school’s principal. On St. Stephen’s Facebook page (Sorry, no link. You’ll have to…
According to Broward Sheriff’s Office homicide detective Luis Rivera, authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of Wilton Manors resident Larry Ellison. 27-year-old Gabriel Nock, of Delaware, was a drifter who escaped from a work release program in Delaware, Rivera said. Nock has confessed to strangling Ellison with his…
Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo, the subject of a 22-week criminal trial in Philadelphia, was convicted yesterday on 137 fraud and conspiracy charges. A jury found Fumo guilty of stealing some $4 million, a sum that may have helped him pay for the $2.5 million Fort Lauderdale home pictured above,…
Lately, there has been little news about last month’s most breathlessly covered local story — the two British tourists who were killed when a drag-racing Porsche lost control and struck them as they walked along Seabreeze Boulevard. I haven’t been able to find an article with more recent information than…
Yeah, depressing isn’t it? Today’s Houston Chronicle reports on one victim of that slightly lesser (alleged) Ponzi, the Stanford Group. A North Carolina man named William Allen couldn’t close his Stanford account before the Feds froze it. Among the last things he bought before the company went Madoff? A trip…
This weekend, I popped into the Arts Academy of Hollywood to pick up a schedule, only to be told by staff that due to declining enrollment, they were closing that very afternoon. The school normally has about 800 students in classes at any given time, but that number had dropped…
Classic Naugle: The mayor says he became aware of gay sex in his backyard. Revelers in Fort Lauderdale will be drinking rainbow-colored beer and wearing sexy Leprechaun outfits today to celebrate one thing: the day super anti-gay Mayor Jim Naugle leaves office. It’s too easy, thought, to bash the guy…
Of the 16 Broward Sheriff’s Office employees who were tested for steroids three weeks ago, nine came back with clean results and will be returning to work, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal told the Pulp today. The obvious inference is that the other seven deputies tested positive, but Leljedal would only confirm that…
It’s all the rage these days: Newspapers just need to charge people for their online content — that would solve our problems! Everybody loves talking that smack, the latest being the Miami Herald’s James Burnett. But it’s all quite silly. In fact the opposite is true — newspapers have to give more…
Early Friday morning, Wilton Manors police responded to a 70-year-old man living near the corner of NE 26th Street and Andrews. The man told them his neighbor had hit him with a hammer and robbed him. He was bleeding from the head. Yesterday, police arrested a man living two doors…
The Palm Beach Post’s Jose Lambiet has what can only be called an enviable gig. In the frenzied field of celebrity reporting, Lambiet doesn’t need to chase. The celebrities come to him.This morning’s news of Madonna’s possible move to Wellington is like a big juicy Maraschino cherry on an already…
So I’ve been following this Mutual Benefits scam pretty closely, especially the actions of mastermind Joel Steinger. Following Steinger’s divorce, I learned that there was a hearing this morning regarding alleged contempt by his ex-wife, Diana Steinger. I showed up at the hearing this morning in Judge Susan Greenhawt’s chambers with hopes of catching up Joel Steinger himself…
(Sadly, only the biggest of my fellow Star Wars dorks will catch the pun in that headline. Anyway…)On one side of this intergalactic conflict, the Florida Professional Tattoo Artists Guild. The nonprofit corporation has been active in legislative issues that affect the state’s tattoo industry since the early 1990s. More…
In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes the transformation of the company’s national cable channel, WGN, into “WGN-America.” “WHY ‘AMERICA’? Because there’s more to life than Hollywood and Manhattan,” Abrams writes. “The channel will speak to Middle America. TV for the average person living in…
