Rarefied air. A sense of great altitude. Two higher authorities loll in cauliflower-like crannies of a cumulus cloud, talking of lesser beings. God: And what of my sons from South Florida? Saint Grassback: You have many sons in that region, Father. The ones with the big shoulders. Ah, the Miami…
One morning in March, Joyce Kaufman called Comcast, her cable TV provider. It was the sort of mundane chore most folks must endure, but for Kaufman it became a turning point that would affect not just her but thousands of listeners in South Florida. That day, Kaufman reached a customer-service…
Some occasions just require a trip to Goodwill for the perfect ensemble. The Friday-night dance party Heater at Crazy 8’s is one of them. So when the parking garage’s elevator doors opened, I stepped out in my “new” white-patent-leather Gucci loafers with “$9.99” still emblazoned on their Italian soles and…
Judge Ana Gardiner gave the Broward County Commission some dire-sounding news. “Commissioners, we have run out of courtrooms,” warned the top judge in the criminal division at a September 25 workshop. “We have not one spare courtroom in the criminal divisions, felony divisions of Broward County; we don’t even have…
Feinberg And Penrod During Proverbial Happier Times Busy day on the Pulp. Now we hear that Joel Feinberg, the 30-year-old son of big money and owner of the 790-The Ticket radio station, has been arrested for allegedly beating up his fiance during a fight in California. A Monterey newspaper broke…
This from Jack Lessenberry of Detroit’s Metro Times: I had dinner the other night with a fine reporter and writer who works in another city where I was once a consultant. She loves what she does, and is good at it; she covers community news and sports. She has done…
Boynton Beach police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater is once again showing her unorthodox approach to dealing with the press. The former Palm Beach Post crime reporter — who created controversy in June with an ill-advised attempt to “call truth to the media” — sent out an email to several area reporters…
WPLG’s Jeff Weinsier was arrested yesterday for having a gun at a Miami high school where he was doing a piece on school violence. That’s a photo from WPLG above, though I couldn’t find the video footage. From WPLG’s account: “Kindly, go across the street now,” an officer is shown…
My question: Who’s embarrassing who here? And with knuckles like that, who needs a gavel? (Thanks to Ross Shulmister of The Sentry for the heads-up)…
Here’s the latest from John DeGroot, who uncovers some interesting data in time for Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. The numbers of yacht owners have boomed during the Bush presidency. And let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to stomach the disaster in Iraq, the erosion of civil liberties, and…
WFTV’s Robert Maxwell: Absolute Tool Rogue undercover agents manhandling strippers, having sex with informants, allowing an teenaged prostitute to ply her trade on their watch. Welcome to the world of the Orlando-based Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation. The weekly newspaper in Orlando (which is edited by former New Timeser Bob Whitby…
How easy is it for law enforcement agencies to find out who makes a comment on a blog? It’s a cinch, apparently, if they make like it involves child pornography. That’s a tactic the Broward Sheriff’s Office employed in its investigation of an incendiary comment made on the Deerfield Beach…
From my daughter’s mouth to God’s ears (damn, that’s blasphemous): — Washington (-8) over Arizona — Miami over New England (-17) — Tamba Bay over Detroit (-2) — Chicago over Philadelphia (-5) — Pittsburgh (-3.5) over Denver — Jacksonville over Indianapolis (-3)…
I’m traveling this long weekend, but had a moment to check in here to get some business done. First, Michael Lacey, the fearless leader of the Village Voice Media weekly empire (which includes this newspaper), and his long-time partner in crime (literally, if you believe the bastard authorities in Phoenix),…
Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet where the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is listed. AAN papers are doing so to show solidarity with the…
“I was out with this one girl — she was really pretty, ” says Easy Rider, bending forward confidentially across the table as he relates the details of his date. He and the woman, 35 years his junior, went out to dinner, then for a walk, and then back to…
It’s got the makings of another TV crime drama, with Eric Augustus as the no-nonsense, hard-assed veteran police sergeant and Det. Michael Verdugo as the dashing, hot-shot rookie. They’ve got nothing in common except their love of catching bad guys. There’s just one catch: This is the Hollywood Police Department,…
Some are born great, others achieve greatness, still others have it thrust upon them — and then there’s the rest of us; we’re supposed to count ourselves lucky just to share a room with greatness, I guess. At least that was the idea on Sunday, October 7, when Nobles, the…
Gender Continuum A DIY prep for the transsexual life? I’m a post-operative female-to-male transsexual, and I’ve almost always known myself to be alternatively gendered, even when I attended Calvary Chapel as a child (Ashley Harrell, “Tranny Regret,” October 11). I had a pretty tumultuous and rocky life due to the…
Broward Sheriff’s Detective Jonathan Brown lets his suspect, a veteran City of Deerfield Beach employee, know that he has the goods: The detective has found out who left the comment on the blog. “We have forensics, all kinds of forensics — computer forensics, for example,” Brown tells his subject during…
First there was the infamous Keith Wasserstrom letter. Now “friends” of the convicted corrupto are throwing him a rally. In an email announcing the October 28 event, a group calling itself “Friends of Keith Wasserstrom” (you have to imagine that its president is “bobnormanisafool”) once again claimed the former Hollywood…
The latest from John DeGroot, who is now in the running for Broward sheriff. Hey, the guy has worked at BSO and the Attorney General’s Office and wrote a play about Hemingway called Papa. What else do you need? Seems he was spurred to join the wannabes by the news…
