Head out to the sidewalk of Hollywood’s portion of Federal Highway in the wee hours of the morning, whip out $500, and ask one of the suggestively dressed young ladies what that gives you.You’re liable to get a response very similar to the one that Hallandale Beach Democrat Rep. Joe…
At this point, they are the two leading candidates for league MVP. They are the NBA’s top scorers, top names (with Kobe Bryant, perhaps), good friends, and oh yeah, Olympic teammates. There was no way a game in March could live up to hype like this. Except it did. In…
I caught bit of flak earlier in this local election cycle for focusing more on the background of Fort Lauderdale candidates than on the “issues.” But really! The candidates’ backgrounds are important factors in their fitness to govern, and they also happen to be the most clear-cut differences. That is,…
C. Stiles Johnson training in Hollywood for a fight last November By the time most professional boxers turn 40, the days of lacing up the gloves and dancing around the squared circle are long gone. But that’s just not the case with Miami-based former IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Glen Johnson…
The White House has anointed Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh as head of the failed political organization called the Republican Party, which is now made up of abortion protesters, religious zealots, and aging prison guards from Auschwitz. The administration’s knighthood of Limbaugh came after he said he hopes President Obama…
With his fraudulent viatical company Mutual Benefits coming under fire from state regulators, convicted felon Joel Steinger decided he needed to buy the influence of the state legislature. To do that he first purchased the people who had their ears — the lobbyists. We know that Steinger’s right-hand man in his…
The Deerfield Beach Dispatch is a thinly veiled propaganda rag allegedly “published as a public service,” assuming that what’s good for ex-mayor Al Capellini is good for the public. It is not to be confused with another thinly veiled propaganda rag called the Deerfield Beach Observer, which last week presided…
Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams continues on his jihad against “fake and jive” in local TV news. He says he talked to a “voice guy” Tribune stations were using and was given the lowdown. “The copy he receives is often horrible,” Abrams writes. “He sent me a few samples…
In news stories about the four (now three) football players missing at sea, Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close has been quoted as saying that the boat they left shore in — a 21-foot, single-engine, center-console boat made by Everglades Boats — is “billed as ‘unsinkable.’ ” True, the website for…
Deerfield Beach’s ex-mayor, aspiring future mayor, and apparent master of suspense, Al Capellini, says he is marrying some woman. Who? That’s for him to know and us to find out. Let’s cobble together the clues, shall we?For starters, we can rule out the swimming instructor that Capellini was courting in…
You know what really pisses off Mardy Fish, winner of yesterday’s Delray Beach Championship final? When his opponent takes a 20-minute break before Fish’s serve. He believes this is “bush league” and “bullshit” and if anyone tries it, Fish will “beat his fucking ass.” Or so he said in a…
There are so, so many small churches that crave publicity, “And a little child shall lead them,” sayeth Isaiah (11:1-10). Fort Lauderdale’s 11-year-old wunderkind preacher, Terry Durham, who fishes for souls using an invisible pole and a hook baited with the blood of Jesus, has had several articles in the…
South Florida is getting a nice juicy cut of Washington’s favorite dish — pork! Specifically, $183 million in funding for Everglades restoration. It’s part of a $410 billion spending bill that will also loosen travel restrictions to Cuba and pay for expansion of the Museum of Discovery and Science in…
Fort Lauderdale businessman John Nevin reveals in a new book that he’s actually a convicted felon from New York named James “The Goon” Young. In this article in the South Florida Times, Nevin explains that he used to be a counterfeiter and served time in prison a couple of times,…
Prediction: Judy Paul will win the Davie mayoral election over Tom Truex. This is an almost blind forecast based upon a single quote in Laura Figueroa’s story on the race in Sunday’s Miami Herald. The quote come from the incumbent Truex: “It’s a shame that the mayor’s race is turning into…
What’s up, homeless guy, with that suitcase you’ve been pulling? I’ve seen you hauling your worldly possessions down Andrews Avenue just about every night. It’s a black carry-on, just like the one I confuse with a thousand black carry-ons at the baggage claim. You put your backpack on top of…
I just happened on this classic written by Steve Almond in 1994 about South Florida’s hard-driven, complicated, and sometimes brutal mogul.
This is the Audi R8 V10, a car so cool it doesn’t actually exist. It’s a “spec-car.” And if you like it, too bad. It already sold for a half-mill at an auction in Boca Raton. A portion of the proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club of Broward…
The South Broward Drainage District voted yesterday to drop its blood drive and look for a new blood company. Why? Because board members were fed up with the outrageous salaries being paid to top officer at the “non-profit,” monopolistic, and heavily political Community Blood Centers of Lauderhill. “I donate my blood regularly and I…
A state bill that aims to make the tattoo industry safer is certain to have the opposite effect, according to the local tattoo artists organizing quickly to oppose it. Senate Bill 1130, sponsored by Florida Sen. Eleanor Sobel, the Hallandale Beach Democrat, would make it tougher for tattoo artists to…
When the Geary family adopted Astro, their German shepherd, they lived in Palm City, Florida. A month later, Astro ran away. That was nine years ago. Then this year, the Gearys, who live in Kentucky now, got an interesting call from an animal control officer in Tennessee. Astro had been…
You know things are bad when the people who are paid to help the folks applying for public assistance need help themselves. More than five million Americans are seeking unemployment benefits, the most since records of such things have been kept. Now Florida call centers (not pictured here) have been overwhelmed by…
