Maybe she’s the one who sent the economy into a tailspin: Excuse me, can we talk? I have been following the “misadventures” of Jen Karetnick, first to humor my boyfriend, then to learn more about the restaurants in the area. Recently I visited two of the restaurants that Ms. K…
Siobhan Browne adored her life as a stockbroker in Boca Raton. At 34 years old, she drove a new silver Mercedes, had a personal trainer, rented a 2000-square-foot apartment close to the beach, vacationed in Cancún and Aspen, and regularly visited her beloved beauty parlor. Such high living was a…
Cypress Bend is a bucolic setting for about 2000 condominium units. Most of the 100-or-so buildings range from five to nine stories, and a lane meanders around the giant splotch of central pond. Hardwood trees hang over the street, and flowers and hedges line many driveways. Located near the intersection…
Meet the new culture boss of Hollywood. She’s not the same as the old boss. A week ago Hollywood city commissioners turned over the keys of the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center — a 510-seat venue second only to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in the county’s cultural…
He waits alone, a small man made seemingly smaller by the restricting force of this place and the pressing weight of the crime that holds him here. Jose Enrique Melendez leans forward across a small table and extends a hand to a hand offered. His palm is damp, his shake…
You know, it was that whole pants thing that almost broke me. As I stood in the vast 8 a.m. shadow of the Stadium Formerly Known as Joe Robbie, Soon to Be Formerly Known as Pro Player two Saturdays ago, I came within a split second of chickening out of…
If it’s a great Cuban sandwich you seek, head for the Tropical Café on Andrews Avenue just south of Sunrise Boulevard. God help you if you have to park in the minuscule lot, but that’s the price you pay for perfection. Pull up a stool and you’re as likely to…
Leave ‘im behind bars: Bob Norman’s “A Single Hair” (June 28) was quite an interesting article… but Michael Rivera is still a scumbag. I can only assume that his incarceration, legally correct or not, for the past 14 years has led to many a little girl NOT being molested. Can’t…
From its exterior the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton betrays little of the playfulness of the animated characters or daring of the sinewy superheroes found inside. The 52,000-square-foot building’s clock tower over its entrance is bereft of Mickey Mouse hands. The front colonnade screams for a row…
When Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne apologized to Jerry Frank Townsend on June 7 in the county jail, it was a media event. Jenne had what he called a “warm conversation” with Townsend, who is mildly retarded and spent 22 years in prison after sheriff’s investigators cajoled him into confessing…
Add a nasty letter from the Army Corps of Engineers and the re-emergence of a lawsuit filed by the City of Hollywood to the growing roster of problems facing everybody’s favorite gambling cruise-to-nowhere company, SunCruz. The May 29 missive, addressed to the owners of Martha’s Restaurant, cites problems at the…
An expatriate gets exasperated: Today as I walked past the newsstand, my country’s flag shouted out to me. I was so excited to read what you had to say about the flight of the South African population (“Generation Exodus,” Amy Roe, June 21), but to my surprise or should I…
Broward County commissioners imagine a beautiful future for the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport: Some day soon monorails will shuttle well-heeled passengers between elegant cruise ships and a new, mammoth international-airline terminal. An artificial stream will flow from a swimming pool, along a tree-lined walkway that meanders through a garden terrace…
On the fifth floor of a squat, cream-color building just north of downtown Miami, an 8-by-11-inch color printout that reads “Fanatic” is taped to a maroon door. Inside the office Jorge Caligaris, editor of Soccer Fanatic, predicts a rosy future for his Spanish-language publication, which is printed in Miramar and…
Why didn’t you talk to more diamond moguls? It is a pity that Amy Roe did not contact the South Africa USA Chamber of Commerce to get the real picture of South Africans for her story (“Generation Exodus,” June 21). If you speak only to rednecks from any country, you…
Sitting behind steel and glass in a cramped room on Florida’s Death Row, Michael Rivera is unable to answer this question to save his life: What can he do to prove he’s innocent of killing a little girl? “If I could do that I would have done it already,” says…
The red neon of Rio Vista Plaza overpowers the radiant colors of the setting sun. A tiger lurks on a side street, but it’s just a mural on an apartment building wall. Here, among the jumbled jungle of power lines and fast-food signs along Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, the…
A police helicopter hovered over Port St. Lucie last week, and cop cars lined all the roads in a five-mile radius. Officers, both uniformed and plainclothes, combed the area for clues and witnesses. The Washington Mutual Bank had been robbed. Not long after the robbery, an African-American cop came to…
Take this, Rick, you eye of Newt! OK, I know the letters section isn’t typically intended for comment on other letters, but the one from Rick Stark in Weston leaves me speechless (June 7). Or not… He chastises and derides your publication as being “artsy” and “left-leaning” and demands that…
Listen up, good citizens of Broward County! Henceforth, should you attempt to meet with your elected county representatives or other public servants, you will be treated like oily lobbyists. It is written. Hidden deep in the Broward County Lobbyist Registration Act, which commissioners passed last month, is a requirement that…
In the early morning hours in midtown Manhattan, a half-dozen brutes make their way to the K-Rock (WXRK-FM 92.3) radio station on 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. No passerby is in the area at 6:50 this Friday morning, but if one were, he or she would likely cross…
On the night of May 6, the horrible news crackled from police scanners all along the Tamiami Trail, from Naples to the Big Cypress National Preserve, 50 miles west of Fort Lauderdale. Fatal hit and run on State Road 29 north of Everglades City. Victim: ten months old, female. Nature…
