Best Of Ballot Stuffing I appreciate Living Room being selected as Best New Bar. Although, as a designer who has created 13 nightclubs, the idea that Living Room is referred to as a bar is questionable. I have never designed a bar. I do, however, appreciate the editorial that followed…
Veteran Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion is well-known for his love of golf, but did he sell out his public office for the game? It’s a question state investigators are asking themselves as they look into Eggelletion’s expensive membership at the Parkland Golf & Country Club. The State Attorney’s Office…
Drive down Federal Highway or Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale or Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach and the “For Sale” signs seem inescapable. Every lonely strip-mall storefront and empty condominium complex pleads to become someone else’s problem. Consider them the artifacts of a gilded age. During the past decade,…
Somebody’s gonna label me a sympathizer of the cat killer (again), but this line in a Sun-Sentinel story on Tyler Weinman’s release from jail just leaped out at me like a kitty going after a raised piece of string (the italics are mine): Family pictures of his son depicted a smiling…
Judging by Marc Goldstone’s email inbox, the week of May 11 began like any other. That was a Monday, and the general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District exchanged emails with CEO Frank Nask about attending a health care convention the first week of June. But by Tuesday May…
Now that MC Hammer has his own reality show, you just knew the Vanilla Ice cameo was soon to follow. The Wellington white boy man makes his appearance on this Sunday’s third episode for a “huge concert” in the only state white enough to fill a stadium for the show:…
Last night the Deerfield Beach City Commission conducted a seminar on how not to deal with a buzzing gadfly. Chaz Stevens was deprived his chance to address the commission (by video), he inspired his nemesis Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier to climb down from the dais to address the commission as…
If maps with red don’t convince you global warming is bad, maybe money will do it. It’s trendy to go green these days. Fashionable to recycle, not waste water or litter, and help keep the planet what we like to call “inhabitable.” But a new study from the University of California at…
As Hallandale Beach inches closer to cutting a big check to build its own wastewater treatment plant, Commissioner Keith London asks that his objections be duly noted in the historical record. For starters, London objects to a $150,000 study that tells the commission what it already knows: that the plant…
A half-priced downtown condo on the Intracoastal. A $50,000 piece of land. More than $500,000 in cash that was was used to pay off mortgage, buy a second home in Pennsylvania, and pay tuition at an expensive private school. Family jewelry, a Dell computer, and a widescreen TV. These are just…
26-year-old Miami wunderkind Lee Cipolla called The Juice from Los Angeles, where he recently sold two of his independently made films to Grindstone Entertainment, with DVD distribution by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. One of the films, Know thy Enemy, has been a hit in Blockbusters and Best Buys from coast to…
Miami Herald Critic and Conservative Columnist Glenn Garvin wrote the following tribute for journalist Margaret Carroll on Facebook and someone passed it to me. Carroll, who worked for the Miami Herald for about 30 years before leaving the paper several years ago, recently died. I have seen no obit, but I sincerely hope the Herald is going to…
American consumers spend billions every year to learn what the American Medical Association just told the world yesterday, for free: that hormone therapy cannot halt the human aging process. Or at least that they’ve found no scientific evidence to prove it.This figures to be a setback for BodyLogicMD, the Boca…
It’s no secret that daily newspapers are getting hit hard by the New Depression. Their entire economic model relies on print advertising that is rapidly disappearing. Now, the Palm Beach Post seems to be using its news space to shill for advertisers. How else can you explain the front page…
On the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, under the heading “Written Requests,” there looms an ominous entry: Chaz Stevens will address the city’s elected leaders on “myriad topics.” Among the myriad topics posted recently on Stevens’ blog, Acts of Sedition, there’s a densely technical critique…
[jump] “He applied as Scott,” Tiffany says. “He was hired as Scott. Everything was Scott. Then as soon as he started, he wanted to go by a different name. We asked him not to introduce himself to guests as Alexis. We didn’t want guests to feel awkward.” Asked if Alexis…
Plantation Park Elementary, where my daughter goes, sends out a newsletter every month, and in the June edition, there’s a blurb titled: “Goodbye and Good Luck.” In it, seven teachers are listed as leaving due to budget cuts and ends: “We will miss their smiling faces!” One of the teachers, Mrs. Bramhall, was…
That South Florida is among the plastic surgery capitals of the world can be depressing, so it bears mentioning when our local surgeons apply their skills for more than just a patient’s narcissism. Like in this month’s edition of Glamour magazine, which has a tear-jerking cover story about 20-something triplets…
Seriously, does that not look like a room in a castle where one might expect to see a French dauphin fanning himself? And in this economy, who else but royalty can afford the $13.5 million asking price for the Dolphin legend’s Weston home?Last week, the Wall Street Journal and a…
A suburban kid gets arrested for killing and gutting cats and crushing their skulls and leaving them in their owners’ yards the next morning and you know it’s all “he seemed like such a nice kid” and “suddenly the earth doesn’t feel so firm beneath our feet” and “who could ever know such…
I hope the people behind the April 27 Free Speech Summit in Boca Raton were watching this weekend’s protests in Tehran. Being free with speech in that Iranian city means risking a police baton to the chops, or worse. These were Muslims — thousands upon thousands of them — bravely…
The State Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it has an open investigation into Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion’s membership at the Parkland Golf & Country Club. More than a year ago, a source told me that a development company called Prestige Homes paid for Eggelletion’s membership at the country club, an amount that…
