Obviously a slow day, but there are always the small outrages. Like the fact that the Sun-Sentinel named the federal corruption probe in Broward County that nabbed Joe Eggelletion and Beverly Gallagher and has several other politicians trembling the eighth-biggest story of the year. Yes, the stories were supposedly placed…
One strange name that has popped up in this thing is Menachem “Mel” Lifshitz. He’s a former lawyer who was named in the Scherer lawsuit as having been present at the emergency meeting of investors at the Banyon headquarters in Fort Lauderdale on November 1, when it first became clear…
So it’s the day after Christmas. During the week leading up to the Big Day, you got cards, notes of gratitude, maybe a bonus from your boss, and presents from friends, family, and colleagues. Now comes the hard part. It’s the day after. You have to figure out what to…
Someone recently said that the least I could do is delve into questions about the missing Rothstein money and theorize about where it wound up. So here I go. First off, how much money is there? Bill Scherer said he was privy to the fact that about $250 million exited Scott…
On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city’s busy waterfront, the players of South Africa’s national rugby union team — the Springboks — go for a training run. Only…
Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man to name just a few — and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw…), our film critics pick their favorites of the ’00s. Who’s…
1. The Hurt Locker The decade’s strongest Iraq movie is also the year’s finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow’s personal best. Working from Mark Boal’s knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old school in its construction of suspense and character and horrifically topical in its depiction…
Two years ago, cable news footage from Parma, Ohio, began attracting the attention of ghost enthusiasts on YouTube. The videos depicted a blue something hovering above the parking lot of a gas station. The news coverage showed locals reacting with delight and terror as the something swooped around the lot…
Yes, it’s real, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Roger Stone has a hand in it. Click here for the “Roll With Rothstein” website. And somebody said this thing jumped the shark this morning. Boy, that guy must feel like an idiot now…
By now you’ve probably heard that Tiger Woods set sail on his boat Privacy from its dock in North Palm Beach, likely hoping to put all those headlines about his affairs in his wake. But two journalists who have been staking out the boat say it never happened. And People…
In 1921, Charles Ponzi began duping New Englanders with a bogus postage stamp investment scheme. He told them that by buying and selling foreign stamps — yes, stamps — they could see 40 percent returns. Instead, he simply took their money, and doled out a little cash to early investors…
In this week’s cover story, Scott Foundas tells of his conversations with Clint Eastwood and the view from behind the camera, as the iconic actor-turned-director puts the wrap on a legendary career in cinema.Restaurants and the foodies who love them weathered a miserable year, and now New Times restaurant critic…
Stephen Febonio’s parents may not feel like they have much to be thankful for this holiday season. Stephen’s 76-year-old father, Edwin, who lives in Boynton Beach with his wife, Margaret, is a retired police detective from Peabody, Massachusetts. But instead of upholding the law, Febonio’s two sons have tangled with…
Jonathan Bleiweiss is the Broward Sheriff’s deputy who in August was arrested on charges he extorted sexual favors out of illegal immigrants. But when the 29-year-old wasn’t on duty, he could often be found in gay chatrooms on AOL. Or at least, that’s where man named Juan claims to have…
During the heady days of college, all of us had to balance our budgets between pizza, rent, and textbooks. Today, university students have it a lot better than we did when I was in school. With the power of the Internet, students can find the right book from any source…
Since late last year, when Sen. Mel Martinez announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection to his seat in 2010, it was Charlie Crist’s to lose. He was one of the nation’s most popular governors, with a knack for charming his detractors that bordered on Reagan-esque.After Jeb Bush declared he…
Gawker may be a Manhattan media website, but you just knew that their Douchebag of the Decade contest would have to reach toward Florida, which (Let’s just admit it, OK?) is Douchebag Ground Zero.The poll launched (or re-launched, I suppose) last week, started auspiciously for Max, whose family is from…
On the eve of Christmas Eve, let’s have a look at what’s inside your local news stockings:Is that Jeffrey Epstein or Kris Kringle? The billionaire sex offender is handing out cash money settlements to girls who may have had an encounter with his lap. Four of them, for now. As…
Question from a commenter: Is there was a connection between Scott Rothstein and Tiger Woods. Answer from the Pulp: Of course there is. It comes in the form of Michelle Braun, a notorious “madam” who once supplied Hollywood (the one in California) and South Florida with a bevy of beautiful, high-priced prostitutes from her base in Boca Raton…
We held out for as long as we could. Property values in Florida — especially South Florida — were always so much higher than those other Southern states. We were so smug, weren’t we, in 2006?That’s the year when the housing bubble was stretched to its very limit, and from…
He pleaded guilty to running an investment scam. He skipped out on a hearing on drug -related charges in Philadelphia. He was once arrested for soliciting prostitution from an undercover Broward sheriff’s deputy. He allegedly abandoned his son and has not paid child support for 11 years.That’s Michael Dippolito’s rap…
