Beware Pompano Lawyer Randall Leshin — and His Alter Ego, “Jan Taylor” You don’t know attorney Randall Leshin, but there’s a good chance he knows you. He may have left you phone messages. Heck, if you’re unfortunate enough to be in debt, he might have taken some of your dough…
It’s Not a Freak Show The right to bare our arms: The rhetorical fireworks in Jamie Laughlin’s piece about the Gun and Knife Show at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial (“A Quick Lesson in Firearms,” Night & Day, August 16) were telegraphed from the first sentence, and as a result,…
In Florida, the old adage about a man’s home being his castle isn’t just talk. It’s the law. It’s almost Holy Writ. The state’s homestead exemption is so absolute that a Florida homestead is known in legal circles simply as “the sacred cow.” Others call it “the castle.” Added to…
The latest from unofficial Pulp correspondent John DeGroot, packed with interesting data: When it comes to whistling in the dark, Sun-Sentinel Editor Earl Maucker gave a virtuoso performance in his Op-Ed column last Sunday when he attempted to answer the question: “How has the Internet affected the newspaper business?” This,…
Miami Police Chief John Timoney improperly drives around for months in a Lexus SUV furnished as a gift by a dealership, lies about it though a spokesman, gets caught, and then, in a bid to put to the issue to rest, buys the thing with his fat public salary. What…
The following press release comes from AM-850, WTFL radio: August 21, 2007 Barack Obama to be live guest on “The Stacy Ritter Report” on WFTL. (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama will be a guest on “The Stacy Ritter Report” this Saturday, August 25, on…
The Boca Raton News is going to war with a local political consultant Barry Epstein and the latest volley involves a claim by the newspaper that Epstein has disrespected war veterans. What exactly did Epstein, who used to write a weekly column for the newspaper, do to earn the “outrage”…
Last night, the Miami Herald reported on its website that Amber White, the younger of the two teen sisters who were horribly injured during a parasailing accident on Pompano Beach, had died. Amber was — and is, from the latest reports — still alive, clinging to life in critical condition…
Don’t want a hum-drum death that lacks any semblance of production value? Call the Miami Herald’s Elinor J. Brecher, a veteran reporter who recently took over the newspaper’s obit desk. She might just make you a post-mortem star. Inspired by the recently deceased humor columnist Art Buchwald, Brecher is asking…
Sun Sentinel critic “Ellen Dalton” sent this screed a few days ago, but just now getting around to posting it. It refers to a story in the newspaper about the way property tax cuts might hurt the housing market. It doesn’t make sense to Dalton. Or to me. But our…
— Scott Wyman in the Sun-Sentinel reports that the Broward County Commission is floating an idea to take direct control of the airport from county staff. Don’t let them do it, people. The commission is already too cozy with lobbyists and such a move will turn management of the airport…
Yeah, Jim Naugle, Fort Lauderdale’s own Mayor Mouth, has made it to the New York Times, a newspaper he hates (he’s a self-proclaimed Rupert Murdoch kind of guy). Read it here. Reporter Abby “Not” Goodnough refers to the Sun-Sentinel as “a local paper” without citing it by name, which is…
Memo below was sent by management (something rather chillingly termed the “SS Administration”) to Sun-Sentinel employees yesterday about a new “authorization codes” they will get to make long distance calls. Also, the employees will have different “levels of access,” giving them all the more reason to climb that corporate ladder…
Right now, the lead story on the Sun-Sentinel’s web site is Hurricane Dean, which it blares “was still in position to easily attack the U.S. East Coast as it plowed west across the Atlantic.” Easily? Well it’s going to defy the laws of meteorology by plowing through a high-pressure area…
It’s a Freakin’ Show I like it like that: Michael Mills’ “Texting Nature” regarding the exhibit “Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford” (August 9) is a well-written explication of Ford’s pictorial intent and symbolism. My reaction to Ford’s work: an artistic freak show with grandiose verbal accompaniments. Famed psychiatrist…
Patrick Rice just high-fived the lunch lady, an unexpected bit of camaraderie that elicits a blush and a two-handed hairnet adjustment from the woman before she returns to slopping gravy over mashed potatoes. That was the part-time bartender in Rice coming out — or maybe it was the full-time scientist…
On a recent Monday night, the wannabes, the could-have-beens, and the almost-weres joined cover band Diesel at Dada for the kickoff of live band karaoke. There was Jen, the karaoke-crazed singer who’s been known to drive all the way to Port St. Lucie for a decent night of song. And…
If you happened upon a bunch of greasy men in gold chains and busty, barely clad women last weekend, those were probably the movers and shakers of the Internet porn world. They congregated at Hollywood’s Westin Diplomat for the Internext Expo, a biannual convention that usually jumps between South Florida…
In the fall of 2006, David Lee Edwards and his wife, Shawna, decorated their front door for Halloween. But if trick-or-treaters made it to the couple’s home, a storage unit in Riviera Beach, no plastic ghost was as scary as what they’d have found inside: two pale, withered junkies from…
Channel 7 aired a Carmel Cafiero special about the ongoing investigation of Judge Larry Seidlin and Robert Zack last night. Click here to read and check out the video — it’s the best parsing of a story of mine I’ve ever seen on TV. Miami-Dade SAO public corruption unit Chief…
Dahmer and Toole Lurk In This Rogues Gallery The Primetime show on the Jeffrey Dahmer-Adam Walsh theory didn’t dissapoint. If you missed it, then read about it here. My thoughts on the case are clear. A few things that stick out from the half-hour segment narrated by the Cuomo boy:…
Let’s start his by saying that when Rick Sanchez interviews Jim Naugle on national television, it’s a sure omen that the world is nearing a fiery end. But that said, the mayor went off on the Sun-Sentinel and, though not by name, reporter Brittany Wallman (who is, as all of…
