The last time you saw Kevin Kearney, he was on Fort Lauderdale Beach, then he was… flying… across A1A… then colliding… with the side of a condo tower. The thrilling three-second ride was filmed by a local news crew and soon posted online. It was shown (for maybe the millionth…
Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe in. And yet this very cocktail of mediocrity — stirred by an early endorsement of Barack Obama — has thrust Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano into the heady midst of…
It looked bad. The 13-year-old QB clutched his right wrist, the one connected to his throwing hand. He seemed to be in more than great pain; he looked terrified. The Plantation Wildcats were already down 7-0 to the Pembroke Pines Optimist Bengals in a big semifinal game. We really couldn’t…
Old Yeller Thank you for the article about the water in Palma Nova, the trailer park formerly known as Silver Oaks (“Drink Up,” Amy Guthrie, November 20). I grew up in that park. We moved there somewhere around 1986, and I lived there until 1997. This article has scared me to death! My whole family…
So it’s official. Ellen Brodsky, Broward County’s most uncompromising voting rights activist and independent candidate for the county’s top elections post, has stepped on Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes’ last nerve. In her unrelenting drive to make sure elections officials abide by every wrinkle of every statute of Florida elections…
Christina, Janelle, and Lissandra were doing what a lot of young women do on Saturday nights in Fort Lauderdale: some casual bar-hopping on Himmarshee. They were dressed conservatively, Christina says — jeans, V-necks, sweaters: “Nothing too revealing. We weren’t all skanked out.” They had drinks at Capone’s and were on…
Well, this coming Monday marks an historic day in South Florida journalism: It will be the first day that the Sun-Sentinel will be printing and distributing one of its rivals, the Palm Beach Post. And one of the first undesirable effects of the change will be felt by Post staffers themselves. To “streamline”…
I got this song in my head today and thought I’d share. Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. Folsom Prison Blues I hear the train a comin’It’s rollin’ ’round the bend,And I ain’t seen the sunshine,Since, I don’t know when,I’m stuck in Folsom Prison,And time keeps draggin’ on,But that train keeps a-rollin’,On…
We have the latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams and it’s another doozy. I can’t begin to capture the Abrams vibe, but here are some highlights: — He proposes to “blow up” an underperforming TV station in the Tribune chain and totally “rethink” the medium. His ideas include counting…
I’m done knocking on new Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter. Why? Because I like her. I really like her. There are signs that she’s going to make county hall fun again. She possesses a huge ego — so big that she actually had staff move a wall this weekend…
Call off the election, because we already have a winner. The new mayor of Sunrise is (or will be) Roger Wishner. We were all expecting a political war for the most powerful post in Sunrise between Wishner, who is now deputy mayor, and Commissioner Joey Scuotto. Both had created campaign…
Famed Republican dirty trickster and Scott Rothstein partner Roger Stone told the Daily Beast that he has regrets for organizing a mob of GOP staffers to stage a coup at the Miami-Dade elections office in 2000 to stop the Bush-Gore vote recount. Said Stone: There have been many times I’ve…
Remember when newspapers were doing so well, that some towns had a newspaper for the morning and afternoon? Well, I’m going to relive those halcyon days here with a tilt on this morning’s Sun-Sentinel. After declaring South Florida’s lust for a GM bailout a couple days ago, the Sentinel’s front…
The first time the ‘Pipe flew in an airplane was in the 1960s, on a cut-rate, midnight, Pan American Airlines flight from New York to Puerto Rico. The airline made passengers line up at the gate an hour ahead of time, like shoppers on a 1930s breadline. Elderly women maneuvered…
Icetastic What a great article on Jay Bouwmeester (“Iced,” Thomas Francis, November 13). I haven’t seen a piece of journalism that was this in-depth and outside-the-box in ages. You said the things that others are afraid to say, and kudos for that. I’ve never heard of New Times before, but…
Allan Payan lifts a photograph from a shelf inside his singlewide trailer home. The smiling woman in the image has full cheeks and long, thick, brown hair. Caroll Payan, who sits across the couch from him, can’t bear to look at the old photo of herself. She has dropped 20…
Hauling a fishing rod and bait, Orlando Maytin and his 12-year-old son trudged through a vacant parking lot just past the 31st mile post on Alligator Alley. It was 7:45 a.m. on March 21, 1999, when they came to a quaint public fishing nook on the edge of a vast, swampy…
Just housekeeping here. The old Pulp email address is officially dead. In addition to bob.norman@browardpalmbeach, here’s a new one: dailypulp@yahoo.com That’s all…
People parody this clip all the time. This one is pretty good…
I was bored so I thought I’d compile the list of all the people at the State Attorney’s Office who make $100,000 or more. In light of the recent pay cuts and furloughs, I thought it might be interesting. In all, 27 of Michael Satz’s 487 employees have reached triple…
Hey, sorry for not keeping the pump primed on this thing. Deep into one of those cover stories we do. But I do want to share with you my holiday card (holy shiite, this year flew by, eh?). It’s from my stock broker. Happy holidays, folks. [Also, on a related…
There’s a lot of talk about Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter going to work in Washington for the Barack Obama administration. I know this is simple politics, a payback, and I have a plea for the president-elect: Take her. Please. Let’s face it, Ritter can’t do nearly as much damage…
