If you noticed that the service at the Fort Lauderdale Blue Martini was really, really slow on Sunday, that’s probably because it was amateur hour behind the bar. YouTube celebrity and congressional candidate Allen West was mixing drinks as part of the bar’s Forgotten Soldiers Outreach event.That “Ron Klein on…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday morning:An internal report concludes that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti’s agency has neglected measures meant to increase diversity. The sheriff is already being criticized for steering layoffs toward jail staff, which is dominated by minority deputies. [Miami Herald]Hurricane season has begun, and…
Here’s the language of Amendment 4, which you’ll see on the November ballot: “Establishes that before a local government may adopt a new comprehensive land use plan, or amend a comprehensive land use plan, the proposed plan or amendment shall be subject to vote of the electors of the local government…
The photo above is more evidence that there’s not a better town in the world to play that Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation game than Broward. It’s Phillip Merling, who was arrested last week on charges of hitting his pregnant girlfriend, holding a Renato watch. You remember who owned…
Guess which Florida high school has produced the most Parade All-American football players.Miami Northwestern? Nope.St. Thomas Aquinas? Wrong.It’s actually Blanche Ely in Pompano Beach.Yes, Blanche Ely has had a bad week, what with the allegations of holy water assault. But Parade magazine just came out with a list of the…
A Broward Sheriff’s Office internal investigation into special treatment given to a Miami Dolphin player charged with battering his pregnant girlfriend is focusing on a BSO commander who moonlights as a security specialist for the football team, the Pulp has learned. Sheriff Al Lamberti called a news conference yesterday to denounce the “indefensible” favors given by his…
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has added urgency to the debate about weaning ourselves from oil. That’s no small task in our car-addicted culture. As some activists have pointed out, some solutions include walking more often, riding your bike more often, riding your bike naked, or switching…
I know that Scott Rothstein’s former law partners, Stuart Rosenfeldt and Russell Adler, have a lot more to worry about right now than the Florida Bar, but a recent New York case may not bode well for their hopes to continue practicing law even if they somehow beat the odds…
Thousands of miles from the glamorous sand dunes of Abu Dhabi, in an entirely different beach town, four women clamored into their seats at the Muvico in Pompano Beach to watch the premiere of Sex and the City 2.We purchased our $11 tickets days in advance. My pals came decked…
Yesterday, a judge refused Wellington polo mogul John Goodman’s request to delay the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him for the car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.But Palm Beach Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley’s ruling is small consolation in a case that has been marked by repeated delays and eyebrow-raising…
Unsurprisingly, Sean Healy was less-than-thrilled when court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian showed up to seize his house, cars, and valuables last July. Damian brought along two more attorneys from her firm, and she recalls Healy threatening to pick up Ken Murena and throw him across the room. It would be a…
— Sure Beverly Gallagher liked to tie one on. Hell, the feds’ information for her arrest included documented visits to bars, and who could forget the infamous FBI party boat. Had the former School Board member gone to trial, you really would have heard all about her boozing (actually, she drank mostly…
Here’s what’s happening this Friday:Missing FAU student Frantzdy Cherisma was found unconscious in a Miami hospital, where he was being treated for burns on more than 50 percent of his body. Shortly after leaving FAU’s Boca Raton campus, his car broke down in Lake Worth, but he didn’t warn any…
Michael Vick, quarterback and convicted dog fighter, is coming to South Florida. He’s the official celebrity host of a party tonight at MI-VI (pronounced m-i-six), a nightclub at Gulfstream in Hallandale Beach. And with the tenacious vitriol of a fighting dog, out come the protesters. The animal rights advocates, the…
penned a letter asking a federal judge to show leniency for former Broward County Board Member Beverly Gallagher, who has pleaded guilty to bribery and other federal charges that stemmed from an undercover FBI corruption investigation. Florida Commission Ethics Chairman Roy Rogers wrote the letter for Gallagher on May 23, and…
Between her racy text messages to a secret lover and videos of her rendezvous with a supposed hit man, there’s little evidence left to scandalize followers of Dalia Dippolito’s salacious murder-for-hire tale. Yet buried in a mountain of court documents is a tidbit that once again seals the professional escort’s…
The hardest thing for Alfred Madeira to come to terms with is the broken trust: His longtime friend Sean Healy had scammed him out of up to $14 million in less than a year. Instead of investing the money, Healy financed his own lavish playboy lifestyle, Now, Madeira is left…
In remarks published yesterday here, on the website of Mother Jones magazine, spokesman for the union John Ristow appears to deny having told Juice that two Blanche Ely teachers accused of sprinkling holy water on another teacher would be “fully exonerated.” That quote appeared in this Juice post.Ristow has every reason to want to…
Scott Wilson, the 23-year-old Wellington native who died in February after multimillionaire polo mogul John Goodman crashed into his car, was an aspiring mechanical engineer and a beloved son and older brother.But he was also a typical college grad, a sort of absent-minded scientist who loved basketball and videogames and…
I’m fixing to go off on Steve “Gasbag” Geller (maybe this afternoon), but first I think we need to talk about Broward County Judge Peggy Gehl. Gehl was recently criticized for what Public Defender Howard Finkelstein in a letter called racist, demeaning, and inappropriate statements. Maybe so, but they are…
