The Aftermath (Not Mine, But Close Enough) Well, Turkey Weekend is winding down. For the Pulp, Thanksgiving isn’t a day, it’s a four-day binge of bird and football. Anyway, John DeGroot has sent along a Thanksgiving letter in which he celebrates the feast of life found here in South Florida…
Varela “You’re talking with the new editor of the newspaper,” said Cuban exile and freelance cartoonist Jose Varela as he holed up in the El Nuevo Herald newsroom with a machine gun, “and I am here to uncover the true conflicts of the newspaper. Here they ridicule the exiles, there…
This is just frightening: El Nuevo Herald cartoonist Jose Varela, who was brandishing what looked like a handgun, is apparently holed up on the sixth floor of the Miami Herald newsroom. David Ovalle writes in on the Miami Herald — which owns El Nuevo Herald — that Varela “appeared agitated…
The day Zak Jones died, a westerly breeze was picking up and sun glittered on the deck of the 60-foot double-decker dive vessel, Pro Diver II. It was the early morning of Thanksgiving Day 2005, and the boat was headed for Tenneco Towers, one of Florida’s most popular sites with…
Whit Van Cott is far away from the turmoil and scandal gripping the City of Hollywood. These days, the city’s former utilities director’s life is all about wahoo, Bimini twists, and mutton. In Key Largo, where Van Cott is relishing his early retirement, he spends most of his time at…
Just in case we needed further proof that the Wild West is at last defunct, the Sun-Sentinel ran a picture on November 12 of a crammed West Palm Beach landfill with a dead horse laid out amid the trash. No explanation of where the horse, freshly dumped and still wearing…
I didn’t need the faux-hawked guy with the well-muscled arms to explain the concept of Ladies’ Night to me. If he’d stopped his self-conscious posturing and hungry-eyed consumption of the babe buffet (which looked like it had already been picked over several times), he might have told me what I…
La La Land A kiss on the hand is oh so continental, but…: “Hooray for Hollywood” is a classic article that was grabbed off the stands in Hollywood (Thomas Francis, November 16). Friends have mentioned to me that they would love to have a “Hooray for Hollywood” poster, and they…
Here’s another e-mail from Tom Fiedler, which includes the editor’s note that will run in El Nuevo Herald tomorrow concerning the alleged “blood libel” committed against reporter Oscar Corral. From: Fiedler, Tom Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:59 PM To: MIA Newsroom Subject: ENH column today Importance: High All, The…
More shake-out from the Marti story, the recently published Hoyt Report , and Oscar Corral’s recent series on USAID’s Cuban missions. Miami Herald Editor Tom Fiedler informed his staff today that today’s El Nuevo Herald, which is published in the same building and owned by the same McClatchy company as…
In the state’s newspapers today, a dead baby is found in a landfill, a first-grader is found to possess cocaine, snow is found in Florida, the dad of the Williams’ tennis sisters is found to be slightly loopy (again), and the Republican Party in Tallahassee is found to be gracious…
Broward County: The only place someone can be elected mayor and it not even be mentioned that he’s suspected of having had a sexual relationship with a teenaged student — and later fathered her child — while he was teaching at a local high school. Josephus Eggelletion, the newest Broward…
Nikk Stephanie Slater did excellent workon the Florida Atlantic University drug overdose death of 18-year-old Nicole Phillips and 19-year-old Richard Cardinale. Slater definitely has the bug, man — you know, that thing that drives you to tell the whole damn story. It’s in maybe 20 percent of reporters in the…
Jake Hey I make fun of Dave Hyde too much not to point out his story on Sunday about Dolphin great Jake Scott. It was a good idea to track the guy down and a lucky stroke not only to find him at home, but that he was kind of…
I just got off the Jim DeFede Show on AM-940, re: the Hoyt Report. DeFede disagreed with my bashing of said report and had some good points that I had to agree with. For instance, the paper was definitely wrong to paint all the Marti moonlighters with the same broad…
It’s hard not to laugh. On the same weekend that the Miami Herald publishes a corporate-induced appeasement to readers and newsroom staffers still angry at the firing (and of company’s reporters who took payments from the TV and Radio Marti propaganda stations, a senior executive at Marti was indicted by…
The next chapter in the Miami Herald’s Marti saga has already been written, but we’ll have to wait until Sunday to read it. Herald Editor Tom fiedler announced to his staff via e-mail this morning that Clark Hoyt has done an “important report” on the “decisions leading up to publication…
Channel 5 Got This For Mark Foley, it’s somehow gotten worse. This guy is on one bad roll. Now, after leaving Congress amidst a scandal that’s going to land him in the history books as one of America’s most infamous and hypocritical perverts, his father has died and, on the…
About the advent of Vegas-style slots at Gulfstream Park yesterday: I’m not against them. I believe in liberty and that means if some cunning folks create a box with enough bells and whistles on it that people want to sit before it like mugwumps to throw their money inside then…
Lozman Fane Lozman was arrested at Riviera Beach City Hall last night for … speaking at a commission meeting. Lozman, the houseboat-living activist who has been fighting the city to stop their eminent domain effort for a massive redevelopment of the city’s waterfront area, was called up to the podium…
Florida’s Hollywood is the unglamorous one. Sure, the city has a lively little downtown entertainment district, where on most evenings the scent of Argentine grilled beef shares the air with pizza, where reggae jostles against blaring salsa and the rhythmic thump of electronic beats. But, though Hollywood calls itself “the…
In the exit polls from last week’s midterm elections, more American voters pointed to one issue as a significant factor in their vote than any other. It was an issue that has hurt us around the world, on the national stage, and here at home. And it caused 75 percent…
