SpongeBob and Saint Patrick Star, Too Ever since the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, the ritzy Town of Palm Beach has been angling to pull off a $9 million project to widen a section of the beach known as Reach 8. The battered stretch starts at the town’s public golf…
A juror in former Deerfield Beach High football star Jarvis Hicks’ first-degree attempted murder trial was removed Monday after he recalled that he’d read about the case in the area’s top weekly newspaper. “I was sitting there listening to the evidence and it dawned on me that I read the…
The poor Sun-Sentinel. It hosts a big Hollywood movie based on a columnist’s dog and all it gets is scooped over and over about it. People.com broke the story of Owen Wilson’s recent visit to the newsroom. The Miami Herald broke the story about the filming going on at Nick’s…
After a few weeks of redecoration of the Sun-Sentinel newsroom to give it an 80s feel for the set of the movie Marley and Me, actual filming began today. The venerable Alan Arkin is playing the role of Sentinel Executive Editor Earl Maucker. Owen Wilson, who is playing the role…
Here’s what the owner of Tribune Co./Sun-Sentinel recently told the Baltimore Sun: “The news business is something worse than horrible. If that’s the future, we don’t have much of a future.” How far we’ve come from a few months ago, when Zell was all excited about the vast potential in…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Scott Wyman has an interesting story this morning about the black newspaper Westside Gazette supposedly excluding white candidates from its political forum. Seems white commissioner John Rodstrom is all atitter about being excluded. Oh, poor John. The troubles he’s seen! When are the discrimination laws in this country…
The Miami Hurricanes are now officially on the map, thanks to Jack McClinton, a bona fide star. You hardcore Hurricane fans already know that, but his incredible performance in today’s victory over St. Mary’s put him on the national stage. He scored 38 in brilliant fashion against the tougher-than-you-might-expect St…
The Melissa Britt Lewis murder case may still have some holes in it, but the email sent by the victim regarding the suspect in the case, Tony Villegas, pretty much seals it for me. The email, which was included in the arrest affadavit, was first reported (I believe) by NBC6…
March Madness has me looking … fair. Big loss was Kentucky, an upset pick (and my team) that played Marquette strong. I only had UK going to the 16, but Tom Crean’s team is better than I thought, which has me wishing I’d played the Big East a little stronger…
Waive the Waiver How that fresh lemon scent could turn you off: That was a great piece on Maroone and Auto Nation (“They Can’t Be Beat,” Bob Norman, March 13). I was surprised the cases made it to court. The last few cars I have purchased have been at various…
It all began with an anonymous letter from “a concerned parishioner.” There was a small matter of missing funds from St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach. Would Palm Beach County state attorney Barry Krischer care to take a look? By then the Diocese of Palm Beach had removed…
It was still dark when Patrick Neptune arrived at Fort Lauderdale Beach, just before 5 a.m. on Friday, February 22. Neptune, who had come from his home in Plantation, steered his black minivan onto A1A, parked along the sidewalk, and got out. He peered at the night sky, where the…
Step Away from the Vehicle, Sir The music was superb at Langerado Music Festival this year, and the mood was mellow — once you got in. Last week on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, 17 miles north of Alligator Alley, you had to run a gauntlet of beefy security workers…
The Melissa Britt Lewis murder investigation is about as confusing a case as I’ve seen. Start with a dearth of information from Plantation police and throw in contradictory accounts in the newspapers and you’re left with a lot more questions than answers. The evidence (a cell phone and a Google…
Sun-Sentinel Chan Lowe is posting cartoons on his blog “that never ran in the paper due to narrow thinking or lack of imagination on the part of some editor.” The sketch above is one that editorial page editor Antonio Fins vetoed. Lowe explains: In this particular case, I showed the…
So they’ve cut off free coffee at the Palm Beach Post now? That’s the word from Pulp sources. It’s only the least substantial (but perhaps most symbolic and short-sighted) cut happening at the newspaper, including about a dozen pages a week from the printed product. Call it the Other Incredible…
… And, with condolences to other leading villains like Angelo Mozillo and George W. Bush, this guy is the new poster boy for the financial disaster coming our way. His name is Alan Schwartz and he’s president and CEO of the once-giant investment bank Bear Stearns. Last week rumors spread…
The question is: Will it have the Dumbo ride? New Tribune Co. “Chief Innovation Officer” Lee Abrams will have to answer that question. His introductory e-mail to his new minions at the Sun-Sentinel, L.A. Times, and other outlets owned by the media conglomerate is one of the most extraordinary corporate…
Stars Align You can’t keep a good reggae-pop performer down: Incredible… the coincidence is just unbelievable (“Man-Child in the Promised Land,” Jonathan Cunningham, March 6)! I am in Amman, and in the past few days I found a new radio station. It played “Beautiful Girls” and “Take You There,” and…
The loan application for a Honda minivan showed that Jeannette Dorestin pulled in a salary of $2,600 a month from a company called Interealty. The problem was, there was no company called Interealty, and the pay stubs that accompanied the loan application at Maroone Honda of Hollywood were fraudulent. In…
How They Help Investors in Hollywood This was so 2003. The South Florida real estate market still churned like a deep-sea fish mosh, with investors snatching up worthwhile properties like barracuda lunging at flashes of silver. Downtown Hollywood, with some coddling from the city government, seemed to have an especially…
Grass doesn’t get any greener than on major-league baseball’s spring training fields. It’s the annual dawn of each season, when vivacious young hopefuls play catch with millionaire all-stars. That was the scene on a February morning at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals…
