With news like this, we need Horatio.Shoes, Statue Pranks Work of Criminal Mastermind? Yeah!An investigation is underway to find out who dumped thousands of shoes all over the Palmetto Expressway this morning. But with only a CSI Miami-style unproven hunch, I’m willing to say that it’s the pranksters who stole…
The New Year is going to be much like the Old Year on the Pulp — I’ll be faithfully grousing about local newspaper content. My first beef of 2009 is with the lead story in the local section of the Sun-Sentinel today. More specifically it is with the lede of that lead story…
Is it a sign of the Apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our five often-contentious film critics put their heads together about the best movies of 2008, they managed to agree (more or less) on a dozen…
I hated the ’90s. The ’90s fuckin’ sucked,” professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson says early on in The Wrestler — and he should know. Over the hill and past his prime — his steroidal body a palimpsest of battle scars, his graying hair dyed a Nordic blond — Robinson…
You’ve made the first movie of the Obama generation!” an audience member exclaimed as he rushed up to Clint Eastwood after a recent screening of Gran Torino. “Well,” the 78-year-old actor/director replied without missing a beat, “I was actually born under Hoover.” It was an ironic juxtaposition, given that Eastwood’s…
In Defense of Stained Glass As a 40-year resident of South Florida, I took offense to the way the Stained Glass Pub review was handled (Tara Nieuwesteeg, “Praise the Whisky!,” December 18). I have been going to the pub since it opened, and it has had its good times and bad…
When the City of Deerfield Beach imploded with the arrests of two-fifths of the city’s ruling body — Mayor Al Capellini and Commissioner Steve Gonot — the city’s reigning change agent gloated. “I hereby, now and forever, proclaim the Eleventh of December as Chaz Stevens Day,” Chaz Stevens wrote on…
An art teacher shot herself in front of Largo Middle School last week, leaving a 4-page suicide note that lambasted the principal.Wage slaves are hurting everywhere, but it’s really, really bad in the schools. For every Linda Joy Taylor, there are countless teachers dealing with their depression in a less…
John de Groot supplies a quote regarding the conflict between Jews and Arabs and challenges Pulp readers to guess who uttered the words. ————————————– The Jews and the Arabs have been doing violence to each other for most of my life. Just as generations of the world’s anguished by-standers have continued to…
On that weekend in October when the Baltimore Ravens were in town to play the Dolphins, purple jerseys mobbed Fort Lauderdale Beach. I encountered about 100 fans boarding buses at the Yankee Clipper the morning of that game. There was no mistaking the ruddy faces and rowdy moods: These Ravens…
Imagine a poster like this hanging in Jim Naugle’s old office.Here at New Times, we’re porn-positive. (I mean, have you seen what lurks in our back pages?) In this Age of Tolerance, it’s high time that a big, Democratic city like Fort Lauderdale have a candidate who’s open and unashamed…
The big story today is that justice appears to have caught up to the driver of the truck that killed wheelchair-bound Kenneth Scotto Sunday night in Dania Beach. The Bad Samaritan’s name is Hugo Daniel Detteren and this is the truck model.But fate was unkind to a Good Samaritan, too…
All three major TV networks have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq, so if you want any information about what’s going on in the Middle East, you better go seek it out yourself. The New York Times still delivers compelling coverage — including blog posts from its Iraqi employees; photos…
Iconic Fort Lauderdale gift shop operator Jerry Miles (posing pugilistic above) has lost the battle to stay at 721 E. Broward Blvd. We wrote about Miles’ fight to prove the validity of his business lease in this April story. After a trial starring an elderly woman on the verge of a stroke, a doped man in a…
100,000 is one of those magic numbers. It’s the summit of a classic Eighties game show. It’s a milestone that reminds you to get that car tuned up. And if you’re a state whose prison population has just reached that number, it means you’re running out of room in the…
Outgoing Sunrise Mayor Steven Feren continues to embarrass himself and his city. On Christmas Eve, he contacted his fellow commissioners, via email from commission secretary Terry Soto, to ask them to hold a special meeting tonight to give him an extra $150 a month for the rest of his life. To…
Pro Bowl Comes to South Florida, Possibly Kindling Gay AffairSouth Florida will host the NFL’s Pro Bowl in 2010 and may also become home of the Gay Games. Somehow, inexplicably, these two stories haven’t been linked by other media outlets. But it’s clear to see that the Pro Bowl could…
It’s a good bet that whoever stole the statue next to Bernard Madoff’s Palm Beach pool won’t be able sell it for more than he’s already lost to the alleged investment fraudster. But that probably wasn’t the point. It was to give Madoff a taste of his own medicine. A…
If there was a rash of Dolphins-related suicides around 10:45 p.m. last night, one local TV station certainly won’t be reporting on it. That’s because Channel 7, WSVN, hates the Miami Dolphins and doesn’t care if the team’s fans kill themselves. Or maybe some intern just made a horrible mistake…
Poor, poor Peter Boinis. He’s the restaurateur who somehow (*cough-campaign donations-cough*) convinced a few Deerfield Beach commissioners that it was a good idea to lease him its pier for just $150,000 per year so that he could build a restaurant there. A burst of city activism derailed that plan in…
Just before the game that would decide whether the Dolphins or Jets went to the NFL Playoffs, Jets QB Brett Favre delivered this rousing pep talk to his teammates: “Hey, if it works out, it works out. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.” It didn’t. I haven’t seen so many treats…
The Miami Dolphins beat the Jets Sunday to win the division and make it to the playoffs. It’s a great achievement for a team that went 1-15 last year and a nice gift for the fans. But a miracle? That’s what a headline on the the Sun-Sentinel’s front page called it this morning…
