Barbara Roberts had just pulled in front of her house when the police siren blared behind her. The still-sprightly, 67-year-old, retired schoolteacher didn’t know who the police were looking for but she didn’t dare get out of her car. Then everything fell silent and she felt like it was safe…
Not your ordinary burlesque, Thursday nights at The G in Fort Lauderdale is more than just half-dressed hotties undulating on stripper poles. It’s half-dressed hotties in fetish gear and vampire fangs undulating on stripper poles. But before I could get inside, I had to pass through an inflatable arch in…
Jaco’s Beat The ring of truth: I was very happy about the initial Jaco Pastorius article (“Jaco Incorporated,” Jeff Stratton, November 30). I know all involved for two and a half decades. Except for minor details, this story tells it like it is. Janice Heller Hollywood Were we letting our…
Strange developments at the blog for the Justice Advocacy Association of Broward. Apparently the group of defense attorneys asked the Daily Business Review for permission to post a 1996 profile on Chief Judge Dale Ross. The newspaper obliged — and then suddenly rescinded, forcing the blog to take down the…
The Boca Raton News has taken a couple of friendly poundings in the Pulp these past few months. Check here, and here. Hey, it’s all in fun. I mean, we’re all family, right? But now, adding to its shame now is today’s announcement in Regret The Error that the little…
Rubin On Rubin The Sun-Sentinel’s front-page headline on the death of lawyer Ellis Rubin was so crazy that you might have thought Rubin wrote it himself: “A defender of the poor, defenseless.” That’s rich. I’m not saying that Rubin, who died of cancer in his home at 81, was a…
Kim Before the Fall Okay, I took a commenter’s advice from the post below and looked up Kim Raffo on Google. And just the second hit is an amazing story in the Star-Ledger about all four victims of the apparent serial killer stalking Atlantic City. In it, the real story…
Well, I sort of breezed by Jennifer Mooney Piedra’s story Sunday about a mother of two from Pembroke Pines who became a drug-addicted prostitute and was found murdered in a ditch near Atlantic City around Thanksgiving time. But it’s caused a bit of a ruckus amongst some of the boys…
Oosterhoudt (Seriously) The battle between the college and the newspaper down in the Florida Keys keeps deepening. Now a former politician and monied fellow named Tom Oosterhoudt has gotten into the act with his “photographic chronicle” rag which is called Conch Color. You might remember Oosterhoudt as the guy who…
In Saturday’s Sun-Sentinel, there were two 1B stories regarding a “commissioner.” Each was about Carlton Moore, who has been in the news a little bit too much lately. In one the articles, Brittany Wallman (I don’t have to do a disclaimer anymore, do I?) and Brian Haas detail how the…
Two stories, one in the Sun-Sentinel the other in the Palm Beach Post, combine to paint a damning portrait of the way America is raising our children these days. The first, in the Sentinel, is about record levels of childhood obesity in the country. Reporter Nick C. Sortal focuses on…
The ethics committee has spoken: It was craven political discretion that kept Congressional leadership from pursuing former Congressman Mark Foley’s indiscretions with pages. The committee’s report said “Republican lawmakers and aides left male pages vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley’s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than…
Cooke Communications, the company that owns the Key West Citizen and other publications, has escalated its battle with Key West Community College, taking the institution to task in court and in print. And the precedent it is hinging its case on involves former Broward Sheriff Nick Navarro, the publicity-seeking ex-lawman…
Non-fiction crime writer Arthur Jay Harris put forth a stunning theory in the Daily Business Review earlier this week that is simply too good not to post: That it was infamous serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer who killed seven-year-old Adam Walsh in Hollywood back in 1981. And one of…
The Associated Press is reporting that the Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the entire Hard Rock empire for $965 million. I don’t know why that seems cheap to me, but they’re getting “124 Hard Rock Cafes, four Hard Rock Hotels, two Hard Rock Casino Hotels, two Hard Rock Live!…
Jaco Lives! Get back to basics, dude: Great to see someone finally print a story about Jaco’s crippling legacy (“Jaco Incorporated,” Jeff Stratton, November 30). Bob Bobbing is a total control freak who, unbeknownst to himself, was actually describing himself when talking about Rutherford and Vicen. It’s sad that Jaco’s…
Fake sperm almost sank Professor Todd Shackelford’s career. In the winter of 2001 at Florida Atlantic University, Shackelford and his graduate student Aaron Goetz were studying “sperm competition” in human beings — the notion that, just as other male animals try to spread their seed (and genes) widely in the…
If early incarnations of Art Basel Miami Beach stunned the masses via glittery lineups, high-volume sales, and veneers of exclusivity, this year’s version has left seasoned locals agog over the exponential growth rate of the ancillary events the fair has spawned. “Last year, we had the NADA, Scope, Aqua, Design,…
In the annals of Hollywood dealsmanship, the Hollywood Art District stands out as a masterpiece of financial spin. Tailpipe is talking not just about the kind of spin that talk-show blowhards employ but also the spin used by fairy tale dwarf Rumpelstiltskin to turn straw into gold. The centerpiece of…
After two autumn weeks shivering in dark, soggy Finland for the sake of romance (my most expensive booty call ever), I have renewed appreciation for South Florida. And I’m not just talking about the weather. I didn’t think that what I’d miss most was the (gasp!) culture here on our…
Let me begin this column by turning it over to a letter by Stephen M. Carlisle that was posted at the official Jaco Pastorius website and that we can only assume is in the mail to us: This office represents Jaco Pastorius Inc. I have been forwarded the article written…
Searcy The Miami Herald’s web site is led right now by Kathleen McGrory’s story about a man who confessed to three “brutal” rapes. So what is a “brutal” rape? Well, Katherine Collins, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department’s spokeswoman, didn’t waste any time telling the Pulp: He’s an anal rapist, she…
