What are the good people who put the Sun-Sentinel together every night smoking? Can’t be good imported stuff, because they’d come up with something better than this. What provokes the latest Pulp assault? The top of the front page this morning. It starts with a picture of a kid who…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Doreen Hemlock did what is, overall, a decent front-page piece on the dearth of vacation time in the U.S. of A. But I had a hard time getting past the lede. The story’s downtrodden subject, the one we’re supposed to sympathize with for not taking much vacation time,…
Miami Herald investigations editor Michael Sallah is going to be at Border’s Books in Aventura tomorrow night talking about war. The Society of Professional Journalists is sponsoring the event and Sallah will be signing his book, Tiger Force, the literary version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series he and Mitch Weiss…
The governor’s office accidentally e-mailed mainstream media outlets a round-up listing “all inquiries by reporters to state agencies. You can bet the statehouse reporters consumed every word of this missive with zeal and I’m assuming (because New Times didn’t receive the e-mail) that there’s some interesting info. On the Miami…
In my own newspaper’s Tailpipe, there’s a a piece regarding Fort Lauderdale’s recent proposal to sweep the streets clean of scum. You know, like newsracks. George Gretsas wants to take all the newsracks down — including ones holding the best weekly in town — and replace them with “modulars.” The…
Proto Can Step Up Time to skip the Slim Shady connection: I read the article (“Boy to Man,” Esther Park, July 12). Fantastic. Protoman is real humble and sometimes doesn’t feel like he deserves some of the attention he is starting to get, but this is something he deserved. I’m…
On a sunny, 70-degree Saturday morning, on April 5, 2000, Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue Lt. Ray Cicero pulled into an alley behind Bond Paint Co. and smelled something unforgettable. Cicero and another investigator had been summoned by a call about a Dumpster fire. But the smell coming from the Dumpster behind…
Long before 07/07/07 sent legions to Las Vegas in search of an Elvis wedding, the Japanese knew it was the ideal date for getting lucky. For them, the seventh day of the seventh month annually celebrates two lovers who were too busy getting busy to be bothered to do their…
Fort Lauderdale City Manager George Gretsas’ latest jihad seems to Tailpipe a little more serious and disturbing than his past push to remove chewing gum from the sidewalks. Now he wants to remove from those same sidewalks the freedom of the press. Or at least to hinder it with obstructive…
Bryan Hoisington always wanted to work in law enforcement, and he knew the people who could make that happen in Hollywood — starting with his father. Larry Hoisington retired in 2005 from the Hollywood Police Department after 30 years as a model officer. He was the department’s Officer of the…
A Broward County teacher is getting disciplined — and probably will be fired — for content on his MySpace page. Jean-Paul Renaud reports in the Sun-Sentinel that 31-year-old Scott Davis, who teaches band at Pompano Beach High School is getting the business for “profanity, inappropriate photographs and depression/alcohol/drug content.” Here’s…
You know, it really isn’t fair. I have to dig up information, usually regarding extremely complicated and convoluted matters, to break big stories. Good journalism isn’t easy. Sources won’t talk, or they are afraid to talk, powerful people put you on their enemies’ list, governments screw around with public records…
Is She Ugly Or What? Ever wondered what they really do to make stars look flawless on those glossy celebrity magazine covers? Click here to see the amazing before-and-after Faith Hill photos from her Redbook shoot. It’s downright ghoulish. Redbook editor Stacy Morrison, meanwhile, defends the touch-up, saying it is…
Burt Strikes Again Remember when Palm Beach County Commissioner Burt Aaronson made national headlines for proposing a resolution to change the name of French fries to freedom fries? That was back in 2003, when the commish was outraged that the country of France opposed George W. Bush’s war in Iraq…
The Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm takes on a website that revels in cockfighting and underground human fighting. In it he takes some jabs at Miami attorney David Markus, who runs the Southern District of Florida blog and is defending the website’s ability to show roosters killing each other with citations…
Almost missed this, but Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office to investigate Judges Larry Seidlin and Robert Zack. Hopefully there will be separate investigations of each judge and prosecutors will delve deeply into Seidlin’s relationship with an elderly woman in his condo building who has bestowed…
The Sun-Sentinel’s web page redesign is … an improvement. Main thin is that it’s a whole lot easier to navigate the actual news, since they’ve put more of it out there on the page. They done good. And there’s a good news story in the paper today as well. Tonya…
… and not the kind you drive. State Rep. State Rep. Bob Allen was arrested yesterday after he police say he offered to give oral to an undercover male officer for twenty bucks in a public bathroom. After the arrest, Allen, a married father who gets an A-rating from the…
¨What´s the score?¨ is how Vincent Bell greets his cell phone on the afternoon of June 30. The Palm Beach County firefighter is mired in another 24-hour shift, to pay for the world-class tennis education of his 12-year-old daughter, Dominique Henry. He´s been waiting to hear about the match´s first…
Like President Clinton, Tailpipe never inhaled. Emissions dispensers like Tailpipe only exhale, of course. But at least two presidents (including the incumbent) and a slew of presidential aspirants and politicians of all stripes have at one time or another touched joints to their lips, an act that continues to be…
¨Call Doctor G-Spot!¨ the announcer cries out on radio station Y-100, in an ad sandwiched between uptempo songs extolling the various virtues of bumping, winding, and grinding. Doctor G-Spot, otherwise known as Tamarac gynecologist Dr. Michael Benjamin, says he can add immeasurably to the bumps and grinds in your bedroom…
I was first introduced to Bar Maniac by a promoter in a skirt shorter than her panties. The hottie handed me a flyer announcing the Hollywood flair bar´s opening and then kept sauntering down the sidewalk, cheeky as could be. Five months later, the invitation from ¨Hot Ladies of Rock¨…
