Maybe spring break should have lured me down closer to the beach, but I was at Kim’s Alley Bar in Fort Lauderdale’s Gateway Plaza for a reason. My friend Jana, a college professor, just loosed the chains of her captivity in a long-term relationship, and she wanted a dive bar…
Point by Point The rent-a-cop alternative: The March 16 Tailpipe column addressed the important issues of anti-rape measures at FAU (“In the Clouds”). I suggest that nighttime campus lighting be improved; otherwise, the daytime rapes will simply shift to nighttime. Nor is a wellness program needed. Better that students seek…
The Key West Citizen has an exhaustively reported story today by Chris Tittel about a weird murder that’s got Pulp splattered all over it. Hard-luck factory worker Johnny Ray Holt in Alabama robs girlfriend’s parents’ house, drives down to Key West, kills a man in his house and steals his…
Two of the South Florida-based Pulitzer finalists — the Sentinel’s FEMA stories and the Herald’s hurricane tracking series — went head to head in the prestigious IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors) journalism contest and the winner is … The Sentinel’s FEMA submission. It won a certificate from IRE while the…
Carol Marbin Miller is moving on the Bay County boot camp death again, this time writing about FDLE director Guy Tunnell’s e-mails about the investigation. The headline on the Web: “E-mails put Florida investigator in hot seat.” Now I may be jaded, but I’m not seeing a whole lot of…
What happens when you invesigate South Florida’s finest? Well, for Channel 4’s Mike Kirsch it meant having a BOLO put out his ass. “Channel 4 News is… setting up officers and instigating confrontations, then filing complaints with the various police departments,” the Broward County Police Benevolent Association wrote about Kirsch…
UF seems to be kissed by destiny in this years NCAA tournament — but that ridiculous Corey Brewer shot didn’t kiss off the glass. Not So Lucky That Time Did it? You remember the falling-down shot Brewer hit to help seal the deal against Georgetown on Friday night? The shot…
More on the Anthony Clark saga from the Sentinel’s Paula McMahon. She reports today that Clark “isn’t proud” that he left Norris Gaynor on the ground to die without so much as an anonymous phone call to 911. “His attorney said Thursday that Clark did not realize the victim, Norris…
The Herald ran another story on the homeless beating deaths this morning — and, unlike yesterday, it named Anthony Clarke, the man who witnessed part of the beating, saw Norris Gaynor dying on the ground, and went home without so much as notifying authorities. But they added this caveat: “Broward…
Pastor Bob So what happens when a fundamentalist preacher gets an advice column in a mainstream daily newspaper? The Sun-Sentinel recently found out. Pastor Bob Coy of the Cavalry Chapel has been doing occasional columns in the Sentinel’s Saturday newspaper called “Ask Pastor Bob.” I never noticed the thing and…
Praise Jesus! At New Times, we were filled with the spirit last week when the Reclaiming America for Christ conference made its annual pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale. For a few days, anyway, the godless ways of our neighbors and friends experienced the righteous wrath of a biblical slap upside the…
It was a sweeps-month, hidden-camera exposé that made police departments look bad. In conjunction with an independent watchdog group called the Police Complaint Center, reporter Mike Kirsch of CBS affiliate WFOR-TV (Channel 4) presented remarkable footage of what happens when a civilian tries to file a complaint against a police…
Double Shaft Who’s really getting screwed by the sheriff? Just read the brilliant piece by Wyatt Olson on BSO (“The Naked Truth,” March 16). For years now, I have studied Powertrac intensely, and this is about the best breakdown of information on what was happening and who was behind it…
When you retire from your job, you’re supposed to cart away your old coffee mug and the framed pictures of your grandkids and, of course, clean out your files. For psychiatrist Dr. Joel Klass, that has meant revisiting hundreds of disturbed Floridians, combing through the misdeeds of criminals, delving into…
With spring break upon us, the beach has erupted with sunburned collegiates walking around in a daze. Naturally, vendors along A1A want a piece of them. And besides the bikinis and T-shirts with witticisms like “I Support Single Moms,” there are the skin artists. Nothing sets off a day-old tan…
Sheriff Ken Jenne’s 34-year career in public service always seemed like a steady, inexorable march upward. He climbed from hotshot assistant state attorney to a high-profile member of the Broward County Board of Commissioners before moving on to the Florida Senate, where he served for 20 years. In 1998, after…
Southwest Ranches Town Manager John Canada is officially above the law. The man who runs the Ranches, that wealthy rural “horse community” in the southwest corner of Broward County, isn’t beholden to the state’s Code of Ethics. That means a conflict of interest is no conflict at all for Pat…
Tailpipe has noticed that college campuses tend to drift into a kind of cerebral über world, where young men and women, intoxicated with the poems of Sylvia Plath or the principles of cantilevered bridges or managerial techniques in a pre-recessionary economy, suffer diminished skills at simple tasks. You’ve seen it…
It was “College Monday” at Delux, where Delray Beach gets crunk. I too wanted to get my drink on, but I was as broke as the Ten Commandments. Thankfully, the door girl at the Atlantic Avenue Art Deco club didn’t quibble about the free pass I’d cut-and-pasted from DJ Shalomar’s…
Bring Out the Goodness That down-home religion makes things worse: Nice story (“The God Fossil,” Julia Reischel, March 9). My question: If God is a result of evolution, how come so many people are murdered in his name? Seems like lately, belief in God means early death. The most rabid…
In January 2000, a young psychology graduate student named Jesse Bering moved back to South Florida to watch his mother die. Seven years earlier, Alice Bering had been diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer, and now her struggle with the aggressive disease was nearing its final phase. Jesse Bering spent as…
Last fall, when many Floridians were thinking more about hurricane debris than gubernatorial elections, a series of ads touting Tom Gallagher began airing on conservative talk radio stations around the state. After laboring faithfully for years in the shadow of Jeb Bush, the ads suggested, the chief financial officer was…
