The Truth About Islam I found the content and timing of your January 8 edition interesting for several reasons, the first of which is the cover story by Deirdra Funcheon titled “The Agent From Iran.” In this story, Iranian Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her husband, Mahmoud Seif, are accused of…
Meet Orlando Rafeal Dager, 24, from Southwest Ranches. He was arrested late Tuesday night with eight bags of marijuana in his 2003 Toyota Camry. This is shocking only because Dager has been a substitute teacher at Cypress Bay High School in Weston (where the kids can afford all sorts of…
Newspaper veteran Pedro Abigantus died today from complications during heart surgery at Broward General Medical Center. Abigantus retired from his job as community news editor for the Miami Herald’s Broward edition in 2000 due to heart problems. He was 44. Abigantus began working for the now-defunct Hollywood Sun-Tattler in 1983…
I, for one, feel duped. This morning I received the itinerary for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Band’s trip to Washington DC, where they are to perform in president-elect Barack Obama’s inuguration parade. Band director Neil Jenkins had told me that the youngsters would be doing some sightseeing, but three whole…
Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven’t heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I’m just…
As you can read in the cover story of this week’s “print product,” Rainn Wilson – Dwight Schrute from The Office – threw a party last month for Aaron Jackson, a local 27-year-old rich kid living as pauper, giving everything he has to orphanages in Haiti. Aaron’s charity, Planting Peace,…
Yes, it has been a whole entire year since Feelgood’s opened on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach and bar owner/Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil came to town to hold a free concert in the street. Whattaya say, Vince? Do it again?All right! Neil’s partner in the venture, Cleve Mash,…
Personally, I blame former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan for much of our current economic stress. His decision to keep interest rates ridiculously low all those years ticked me off then and now. With all that cheap credit, it’s no wonder Wall Street worshiped him. Maybe you’re ticked…
Today Carl Weathers, who will be the 45th President of the United States, turned 61. I will celebrate this American holiday the way I do every Jan. 14: by pulling up my striped tube socks and watching the training scene from Rocky III. And no, there’s nothing wrong with a…
As the economy goes further into the tank, there’s at least one guy in Broward County whose business appears to be thriving like never before: David Bogenschutz, the go-to defense attorney for ethically challenged judges, indicted politicians, and just about anyone else with a high profile. Corruption is a growth business right…
Boca Pills Can’t Cure What Ails Most of UsBoca Raton-based South Florida Nutrition is getting into some deep shit for promising that its acai berry supplements are pretty much a magic cure-all. The company’s website promises the pills promote sound sleep, improve digestion, fights cancerous cells, create peace in Gaza,…
When I was a wee college student at FSU, my best friend and I decided to road-trip to DC for President Clinton’s inauguration. There we were, two unprepared, underdressed 18-year-olds waiting for hours upon hours in the freezing cold for little more than a nanosecond’s glance at a speeding limo. …
After eight weeks in trial, a Broward jury absolved several doctors, nurses, and Memorial Hospital West of any wrongdoing in treating Lisa Strong, who lost her forearms and lower legs in a battle to overcome complications from kidney stones. Strong, a 44-year-old mother of two, sought $75 million in damages. Lisa Strong showed…
Quit flaunting your chin, harlot. You’re in Greater Tampa.Let’s not get too demoralized over the national media ridiculing our corruption, which is rampant, pervasive, ubiquitous and all-encompassing. It could be worse. We could be in Pinellas County, where county officials are scrambling to cover the naughty bits of beachgoers, lest…
See if you can find a silver lining for South Florida in these two reports in major national news magazines about Palm Beach. Newsweek’s Daniel Gross writes about how Bernard Madoff fleeced Palm Beach high society and Time declares the county to be The New Capital of Florida Corruption. Give…
Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams begins his latest think piece, titled “Cutting Through Crisis,” this way: “When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters: On represents danger, the other opportunity. I’m not sure if that’s the literal translation, but pretty well said.” Well said,…
At the top of the hour, baby-faced U.S. Rep Kendrick Meek, the Democrat from Miami, will announce his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010 when Republican Sen. Mel Martinez steps down. Being the first from either party to declare, Meek’s given himself nearly two years to campaign.Which is a…
Robber Who Got $4 million in Jewelry Probably Got Ripped Off TooThe robber who knocked over a Palm Beach jewelry store on Sunday made off with a cool $4 million in goods. Police released a sketch of the robber, at right, and it turns out he LOOKS LIKE EVERY WHITE…
When a man calls your phone and asks you to join his clan, you may be tempted to hang up. But don’t! That caller spells “clan” with a “c” not a “k.” And if your surname is Guthrie, that caller is probably my dad. You see, the annual Southeast Florida…
In an Orlando Sentinel report published this morning, Howard Greenberg, the publisher of both that paper and the Sun-Sentinel, made an astonishing claim: That the bankruptcy and mounting corporate debt of the newspapers’ parent, Tribune Co., are “totally independent of the health” of the Orlando Sentinel (and by extension, the…
The following commercial has been getting lots of local airplay:So let me get this straight: You paid money to air a commercial informing me that you’ll change my pennies into dollars for free? Um, thanks, but now I feel guilty. How do you make a profit? Or pay your employees?…
We get it, Earl Rynerson. You would rather talk about issues facing Fort Lauderdale than be known as merely The Gay Candidate.Your predicament reminds me of this guy who didn’t want to be known as merely The Black Candidate, but when the November election rolled around, post-election polls suggested race…
