American Lawyer Media, which owns The American Lawyer magazine and 12 newspapers nationwide, announced last week in a memo from CEO William L. Pollak to staff that it is laying off 42 employees nationwide, which amounts to about four percent of its workforce. Locally, the only employee that was terminated…
When you report stories, there are some facts you report and some you don’t. Sometimes they don’t add to the story, sometimes they aren’t 100 percent nailed down, sometimes you have strategic reasons to hold them back until later. Well, in this case, I just forgot to put it in…
His hulking Russian bodyguard preceded him at every turn. Next came his translator, a thin, bald man with a brown mustache and a thick accent. Then there he was in the flesh, as though he’d stepped out of a James Bond movie, not far from the degenerate gamblers who’d been…
Defense attorney John Cotrone stood before Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner in her marble-laden courtroom and dropped in what seemed like a jab at her honor. It came after Gardiner, the chief criminal judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit, asked for an amended file on Cotrone’s case. The lawyer pointed…
His lawyer, Daniel Maggio, told of how Myers was helping his girlfriend cope with cancer and how he was trying to turn his life around. He asked Gardiner to forgive him for his “technical-of-sorts violation.” It would seem that Gardiner, who is the chief criminal judge in Broward County, was…
SoFla Clothing, Natch I love Kyra Jachode’s stuff (“Dressing for a Warm Climate,” Tailpipe, April 17)! This is what I’ve been looking for all over South Florida. Finally, someone who designs fun, beautiful, eco-friendly garments! Can’t wait to start shopping at her online store! Gabriela Hernandez Miami Toujours the Redhead!…
This just came across the Pulp transom — an invitation to join CBS 4’s local web network. I kind of like the idea, though it would be weird to have CBS 4 news video on the Pulp. Sounds a little unholy. Still might do it. Good Day, My name is…
I may not be a superdelegate, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion. Since the Democratic primaries began I must confess that opinion has switched more than few times between Barack and Hillary. With Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania, the Big Mo is swinging her way. But I’ve decided…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Elizabeth Baier reports this morning on the scheme to recall Cooper City Commissioner John Sims and I think it stinks. Most recall efforts are bunk. Unless they are truly based on crimes of corruption (that perhaps a certain state attorney might have ignored), I don’t want to hear…
Cal Deal captures one of the pitfalls of newspaper online advertising — and he’s not pleased with the Sun-Sentinel’s “web weenies.” “If their goal is to annoy visitors to your web site, they are succeeding brilliantly with these annoying pop up windows. Do they understand why browsers like Safari have…
Miami Herald sports columnist and ESPN commentator Dan Le Batard is taking a year-long leave of absence from his column so, according to a memo sent out to the newspaper’s newsroom yesterday evening, he can “have more balance in his life.” Here’s the memo from Miami Herald Sports Editor Jorge…
The Miami Herald’s Dan Christensen writes about State Attorney Michael Satz choosing not to charge Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter with corruption counts — despite strong evidence that she voted on matters that enriched her husband, the lobbyist Russ Klenet. It provides further evidence that Keith Wasserstrom was basically a…
Calling All Cars I would like to say thank you for the article about Julie Perry and Suki Finnerty’s accident (“Next Stop, Hong Kong,” Tailpipe, April 10). You left out the $1,000 Broward County Crime Stoppers reward for any information leading to the arrest of the driver. I truly believe…
Tailpipe has seen enough sappy B movies to believe that the world’s knottiest problems just might be solved by amateurs tinkering in their garages. Face it, between the Apple computer duo of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and the electronic equipment inventors Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, there was probably…
Around the age of 8, a boy we’ll call Sam made a new friend. He was a man in his early 50s, the Rev. Neil Doherty, pastor at St. Vincent Catholic parish across the street from Sam’s Margate home. Sam’s family was not religious, and as the boy spent more…
For all the talk of political revolution, Hollywood’s April 2 city commission was heading in the same direction as during the glory days of deposed Mayor Mara Giulianti: toward giving a developer a boatload of incentives and zoning concessions, despite a slew of unresolved problems. The project is ArtsPark Village,…
Fat people are nothing new. When Dr. Sanford Siegal began practicing medicine in 1957, he had so many overweight patients that he started treating for obesity exclusively. Exercise is all well and good, but the most effective weapon in the battle against the bulge, Siegal found, was a punishingly low-calorie…
Well, it looks like it if this is any indication. And remember, if you want to be editor of New Times, you have to be able to edit and write. Not just one or the other. I can’t stress that enough, people. Our current chief, Robert Meyerowitz, will be departing…
In it’s story on Gov. Charlie Crist’s chances of being picked as VP candidate by John McCain, here’s how the Miami Herald and political columnist Beth Reinhard handle the whole big gay thing: “Crist’s moderate politics and bachelor lifestyle could rankle conservatives suspicious of McCain. Imagine their reaction if McCain…
Vanilla Ice was arrested last night in Wellington on battery charges after his wife complained that he’d punched and kicked her after an argument over a bedroom set. Here’s the story by Antigone Barton in the Palm Beach Post. But the Pulp has done one better: Below is footage taken…
I know postings on here have been a bit light, but there’s a good reason for it: I want to live! By that I don’t mean that I want to have a life — gave up on that a while ago (about the time I had my second kid and…
Here’s a good way to see what’s happening in the housing market via foreclosures. The website is hotpads.com and here’s a map of the Fort Lauderdale market. Getting a little crowded, eh? For comparison, here’s a map of houses for sale. My money says foreclosures got ’em beat. (UPDATED: According…
