Here’s John DeGroot’s latest, which is one of his best in terms of turns of phrase (though the time factor might take some of the steam out of its stride): That no one out there in Pulpland has rallied to my call to Save the Sun-Sentinel (SOSS) grieves me to…
I think not. There’s a debate about it at Romenesko which I find ludicrous. The argument started with this article, which apparently was based on a gripe by Sam Zell, the new Tribune Co. owner. If this is an omen of how Zell thinks, then the Sun-Sentinel and other Trib…
More on the drowning of Giankarlo Squicimari in Palm Beach, this time from Michael Mayo in the Sun-Sentinel. Mayo reports that there were no lifeguards on the the beach near the Four Seasons Hotel when the riptide took Squicimari and damn near killed a few other people. Look you don’t…
Despite what Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale Director Irvin Lippman says, it ain’t normal for a big art museum to close down during the summer. Doing so, as the MOA has done, cuts a big slice out of the cultural life of the city. Summer is when people have a little…
To borrow a phrase from one of our governor’s political heroes, here we go again. The Florida media was awash last week in reports that Charlie Crist, Florida governor and bachelor, is romancing a former beauty queen who starred on the gross-out TV program Fear Factor and will soon vye…
For an animal rights activist who once mounted the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, Nicolas Atwood is feeling awfully shy these days. A decade ago, a Miami-Dade police officer had to escort a screaming Atwood off the giant hot dog by sliding him down the fiberglass frank. “Meat is murder!” said Atwood,…
It was an unusual come-on for a place named after the Greek god of lust and fornication: free food. I guess to some, nothing says “loving” like a full belly, garlic breath, and a little chunk of something lodged between the teeth. While I wondered how such a promotion would…
Circle of Friends The news about these Bulldogs was all good: I scrolled past this story the first 2 times I came across links for it online today as I perused my home Houston Press site (“The Bad News Bulldogs,” Thomas Francis, May 24). The third time the link confronted…
Sunrise City Manager Patrick Salerno was passed over today in his attempt to become the city manager of Sarasota. Among his competitors was Susan Stanton, who was recently fired from Largo after changing her sex. At the time, she was known as Steve Stanton. The question: Why is Salerno trying…
The Palm Beach Post’s S.V. Date, who is in Israel with Charlie Crist, reports that the governor suffered a nasty spider bite in Marathon 11 days ago. These brown recluses are nothing to play with. They’re tiny little things, the picture there shows one in relation to a quarter, but…
Looks like Gremillion is actually taking over six newspapers. Here’s his farewell note to staff: May 29, 2007 TO: Sun-Sentinel Company Employees FROM: Bob Gremillion RE: Farewell By now you’ve probably seen the announcement that I am leaving Sun-Sentinel Company and that Howard Greenberg will be your next publisher. Many…
The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that Howard Greenberg has been promoted to publisher of the Sun-Sentinel while former publisher Robert Gremillion moves up the corporate ladder to oversee four Tribune newspapers. I don’t like it. Gremillion — who will now be the corporate overlord of the Sun-Sentinel, Orlando…
Remember Farris Hassan, the teen who made international news when he snuck off to Iraq last year? Well, now he wants to go to Havana and report on the “loser’s of Castro’s regime,” according to the Miami Herald’s Frances Robles on her Cuban Colada blog. Here’s part of a pitch…
Finally, a personnel move at the Sun-Sentinel to celebrate. In what can only be taken as a rare promising sign, the newspaper has moved columnist Steve Svekis off the Help Team to an unspecified assignment. Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for that experiment in journo-marketing gone…
What follows, from John DeGroot, needs no introduction. The man knows how to find interesting statistics and they tend to indicate Florida is on the highway to hell. Happy Memorial Day Weekend! ________________________________________________ We need to stop blog-flogging the Sun-Sentinel for its tragic fall into the depths of Journalism Lite…
This morning came the first Showtime mag in the Sun-Sentinel with the movie reviews from the wire rather Phoebe Flowers. It really hit home. One was from Associated Press — a right dry little thing — and the other was from Newsday. Might as well read Parade or some other…
The Sun-Sentinel reports that a “super breed” of iguana is infesting Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods. Here’s what resident Denise Fox told the city commission: “One or two in the backyard nine years ago seems kind of fun,” she said. “Now we’ve got 40 or 50 of them.” Fox said the iguanas…
Hollywood police Lt. Charles Roberts wasn’t arrested for leaking news of the FBI investigation but for making false statements to feds investigating the leak. Here’s the press release: U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney Southern District of Florida 99 N.E. 4 Street, Miami, FL 33132 (305)961-9001 May 24, 2007…
The most e-mailed story on the Sun-Sentinel site right now is a bit surprising: It’s about a rate increase on garbage pick-up in Plantation. I’m not sure how valuable these rankings are, but I think it’s safe to say that the most viewed articles are the one with the widest…
Bash ‘Em for You and Me Diners will thank you for a good slam: I greatly enjoyed your petri dish review (“Dining in the Petri Dish,” May 17, Gail Shepherd). You’re much too much of a gentlewoman, though, when you say “it saddens me to trounce this chef…” etc. Remember,…
The buses were supposed to be here by 6. It’s 8. No buses — and no one is surprised. No one is even complaining. “Welcome to the Special Olympics,” says a volunteer, grinning. Spread across this north Fort Lauderdale parking lot is a group of 150 Special Olympics athletes and…
From almost anywhere in downtown Fort Lauderdale, you can’t avoid the sight of the sleek, wavy blue façade of the tallest, chichiest building in the city — Las Olas River House. Completed in 2004, it attracted the well heeled, the powerful, the enthusiasts of fine art, the wielders of tennis…
