Getty Images This morning, right now in fact, the Miami Herald’s Photo of the Day is this pic from the International Women’s Parade in Medellin, Colombia. The women are naked with painted bodies. And the picture is much clearer at the Herald site, erect nipples and all. I thought it…
So Sports Illustrated is going environmental on us, declaring on the cover that “As the Planet Changes, So Do the Games We Play.” It’s about global warming. On the cover is our own Dontrelle Willis. He’s standing in Dolphin Stadium thigh deep in water. At first I thought he might…
Armadillo Man — In today’ s Sun-Sentinel Michael Mayo writes about a regular breakfast gathering of Hollywood cops who are mourning the recent department scandal. A couple of things I didn’t know about the ringleader cop in the scandal, Kevin Companion, who is alleged to have run a protection racket…
Mayor Lois Frankel delivers a threat the way other people deliver a kiss. She glides in close, into the personal space normally known only to lovers. Her voice assumes those same low, intimate tones, so quiet that you dare not step back, for fear of missing a word. If you…
I testified in the Palm Beach County Courthouse last week about a column I wrote. I did so voluntarily, despite the fact that I have fought hard — even risked jail time — many times to keep from taking the stand in the past. Now, do you hear that sound…
The local kayaking network is still buzzing about a near miss between a capsized kayaker and an incoming tanker in the entrance channel to Port Everglades. In what one experienced kayaker called a clear demonstration of the “jackass factor,” a group of paddlers hit the channel on a bright Saturday…
We Hear You! Just send the option check to Stratton: Your story was excellent (“Tie Me Up, Nawashi,” Jeff Stratton, March 1)! I loved it! It made me want to do a film on it. I am now working on my third Asian movie, taking place in 1750 Japan, and…
I have been labeled “The Man You Love To Hate” in this month’s issue of Las Olas Magazine. And by “you,” I think they really mean the core journalistic crew who read the Pulp. Hey it’s a fair article, mostly positive, full of nice quotes from friends and colleagues, but…
Buffy With Another Friend The Palm Beach Post busts mayoral candidate Al Zucaro for having “racy” friends on his MySpace web site. Namely a bunch of E-whores and second-rate skin models. Reporter Thomas R. Collins reports that Zucaro, a prototypical old fat guy (at least by MySpace standards) was “livid”…
So my soon-to-be-former editor, Tony Ortega, is going to New York to take over the Village Voice. I’m getting two questions regarding the move: What is Ortega, the man, like? and How long do you think he’ll last at the Voice? The answer to the first question is that Tony…
Carl Hiaasen stirred up some of that Florida-fried bile that makes him great in his Sunday column in the Miami Herald. And in so doing sums up what has got the Pulp more doomsdayish about the State of Journalism than anything else. But I’m gonna let him do the talking…
Whooaaa there So Anna Nicole Smith has finally left the building. As Erica Beras reports in the Miami Herald, she was whisked away in a black hearse — “escorted by police and trailed by a small fleet of news helicopsters” — to Miami International Airport where she’ll be flown to…
Looks Pretty Gay To Me So the Sun-Sentinel has another hilarious blog to be savaged on the Pulp. It’s called “transPARENT: true confessions of moms and dads.” When I first saw it a week or so ago, I thought, “This is gonna be a goldmine of material.” Then I read…
Michael “Corleone” Giulianti To help you get through the day I thought I’d share this with you. It’s from a bullet hole-and-firearm-adorn web site for the “Outlaw Legal Group” in Los Angeles which is run by Michael Giulianti, one of the illustrious sons of Mara Giulianti, our very own mayor…
I’m in a big hurry this morning (and was in court all day yesterday) so I’ll borrow from Stuck on the Palmetto, one of the best blogs in South Florida — and hands-down the best in terms of aggregating interesting local news. First, Rick breaks down Buddy Nevins’ kick of…
Standing barefoot in the center of the temple, Lochai uncoils a 30-foot length of rope. It’s new rope, not much thicker than his thumb, four-stranded and fibrous. All the better to bind Jolie with. Jolie, a tiny, 20-year-old redhead from Coconut Grove, has modeled for 40-year-old Lochai, a Lake Worth…
Three years after it was founded in 2000, Express Gay News and its glossy sister, 411 Magazine, were swallowed up by the largest gay-lesbian weekly newspaper chain in the country, Window Media. In Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manors, an area with one of the largest per-capita gay populations in the…
After the Anna Nicole Smith burial hearings that grabbed the nation by its nethers were over, I needed a bath. Hell, after that spectacle, the whole town needed a bath. In a tub of lye. Sadly lacking any caustic chemicals, I settled for whiskey in the place where the famous…
I was on a mission. One of my favorite local bands was playing and I was late, thanks to Hollywood’s downtown Mardi Gras street festival. The chaos outside Club M barely registered as I ducked between bead-laden drunks to get to the neighborhood bar where, through the storefront windows, I…
High School Homicidal I’ve seen this war up close: I am glad to see that someone has finally decided to expose the corruption that plagues my hometown of Pompano Beach (“Dead End,” Bob Norman, February 15). The so-called “war” you refer to has been going on since I was in…
Scarberry Another morning, another day of Hollywood fallout. First came the news last week that four veteran officers in the Hollywood P.D. had become ensnared in an FBI sting. The four believed they were protecting a mob family from New York and helping it run heroin when really the wiseguys…
Cat305 Rahming Before The Takedown A photojournalist working for the online pub Category 305 was knocked to the ground and arrested by police last week after taking he refused to leave a corner of Biscayne Boulevard in Miami where he was reporting a story. Cat305 editor Rebecca Wakefield has the…
