The Chub Chase You mean you just want me for my body? Amy Guthrie’s cover article (“Fat Chance,” September 27) really hit home with me. When I moved here from Maine in 2003, I weighed in at more than 280 (42-inch waist). One of my first nights out was at…
Two things the Pulp needs to address this morning. The first is gambling, specifically Charlie Crist’s compact negotiations with the Seminole Tribe over Vegas-style slots. The Sun-Sentinel came out with this non-story this morning about the Indians offering to “phase in” the slot machines, as if anybody cares. Look, right…
Before I get to Broward Health (former North Broward Health District) CEO Alan Levine’s email to the Pulp, let me share a couple of odds and ends. First, some former reporter is claiming that the Pulp is violating his copyright for the title “Notes From The Corporate Underground” for a…
The New York Post’s Dan Mangan reports today that Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is doing a plea deal that will send him to prison for 18 months for soliciting underage prostitutes recruited mainly from Palm Beach Community College. No word on whether he intends to pack his purple vibrator…
Another South Florida boat captain disappears from his vessel, this time due to bad weather rather than a pervert-fugitive. This after yesterday’s Sun-Sentinel was dominated by stories about fears running high in the charter boat industry. The disappearance of Lindsay Forde is a horrible thing, but why the hell wasn’t…
For those of you who want a good funny scoop you may not have seen yet, check out Todd Wright’s piece on the theft of the Bobermobile. Will the intrigue of Hollywood politics never cease? But that’s not what this is about. This is about football. After an abysmal performance…
Okay, everybody’s heard rumors about Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner’s alleged courthouse romantic flings, but she’s proving over and over again that she is, first and foremost, a political ho (though an honorable one, of course). That fact was confirmed yet again when she told the Sun-Sentinel: “We have run…
Well, the criticism of the Sun-Sentinel seems to come in waves. Didn’t see — or feel — it coming this time. Like the New York Times, I try hard not to make criticism the only dish I serve. It just happens. Must be an organic reaction to reading the news…
The editors at the Miami Herald went off and did it. They sent reporter Casey Woods to the backwoods of Arkansas to make sure they keep owning the ghost ship story. The Sun-Sentinel is splashing it on the front page, but the stories have consistently been full of warmed-up leftovers…
Krishna “Kris” Maharaj awoke on October 16, 1986, and donned a white guayabera and dark pants. Shortly after 7:45 a.m., he climbed behind the wheel of his wife’s blue Chevrolet Caprice and headed away from the couple’s home in western Broward County, toward Miami. The burly 47-year-old had gone from…
Over Rosh Hashanah dinner, Charlie Crist and Steve Geller prayed over a table spread with wine, bread, apples, and honey. May the new year be a sweet year for us… How very Crist-like. The Republican governor dining at a Democratic senator’s house. The Christian celebrating a Jewish holiday. The St…
Gas Station Hustler You actually believed he had a back problem? Upon reading your blurb on Michael Gurney (“Singapore, U.S.A.,” Tailpipe, September 20), I had to wonder if you are new to the city. Do you really believe his story about allegedly working 12-hour days, seven days a week, yet…
Optical scanner? Same ol’, same ol’ Tailpipe was feeling as clean and serene about next year’s election as he does after one of those high-pressure undercarriage baths down at the Rubber Ducky. Mysterious undercounts? Disappearing data? Spooky voting machines? All gone. For Election 2008, those unreliable “touchscreen” machines have been…
It’s Friday night in Wilton Manors, and Sidelines, a gay sports bar, is packed with slender boys. Carlos Lopez, 28, sits on a barstool near the door nursing a glass of whiskey. Trim and handsome, Lopez chats with Blake, a lean 29-year-old with chubby cheeks. Blake, who moved to Florida…
In case you missed it, here’s a comment from below. It’s a beautiful thing. I’d be sure it was a hoax (c’mon, transformative change and a Pulitzer prediction in the same paragraph?) if it weren’t for the earnestness. I’m 50-50 right now as to whether it came from a real…
Apparently the large gay population in Broward is doing more than just having sex in public bathrooms. They’re (gasp!) watching movies. Lots and lots of movies. The most popular rental movie in the Fort Lauderdale area right now, according to Netflix, is “Boy Culture.” The synopsis: A male prostitute with…
The Miami Herald breaks the news that one of the two men — or should I say suspects — found floating in a lifeboat by the Coast Guard yesterday is a fugitive from Arkansas. Kirby Logan Archer was a “trusted assistant manager” at Wal-Mart before he took off with 92…
Thought you could pick up the morning Herald without having to read about old people lubing it up and banging each other like two actors from a 20-year-old movie? Think again: We won’t lie and tell you that life begins at 50, but we will you this: Many people have…
Gina Marks, aka Regina Milbourne, aka “The Miami Psychic,” has squirmed her way out of trouble yet again. You remember Marks, she’s the con artist who hooked up with infamous publisher Judith Regan on a book titled “Miami Psychic.” The book was as much a fraud as Marks herself, but…
Here’s two ads that were just posted on Romenesko. One is for interns, the other for community news reporters, aka entry level folks. The hilarious thing is that they say they are looking for “aggressive and enterprising” reporters for the community positions. What, so they can break them of those…
The Miami Herald today reports on how Mayor Jim Naugle’s “anti-gay crusade” is “driving a wedge into South Florida’s black community.” Reporter Peter Bailey sets the stage: It’s black ministers vs. white gay dudes in a battle royale. Who are the black ministers? O’Neal Dozier and Mathis Guice, of course…
