I’m sitting with my legs crossed on a bench outside of a restroom in Holiday Park, screaming for sodomy. There’s a way you’re supposed to look if you’re trying to get laid in a public park, and I’ve got it down: I’m 24, tall and gangly, blond by choice. I’m…
Drink has been called a tonic, laughter the best medicine. But they’re not covered by insurance. Between admission fees and drink prices, good health through bar comedy can get pricey. Not so at Buzz’s Bar. The no-frills, neighborhood joint in Sunrise just kicked off its free Thursday-night comedy showcase. It’s…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter couldn’t make the June 26 commission meeting, but she took the time to call in her vote on one issue: giving the county’s health insurance contract to a single company, Vista Health Plan. “Nobody wants to be perceived as taking away someone’s choice, but this…
For two years now, Tailpipe has been hearing rumors about an alleged miscarriage of justice in the arrest of Lionel Tate for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man in 2005. Tailpipe has heard the rumors and, until now, dismissed them. You remember Tate, that walking train wreck of…
“Planning” the life out of Las Olas: What really irks me about the city planning commission and the commissioners who voted on the proposal of an “isolated” condominium on the most prominent downtown Fort Lauderdale commercial/retail street (“Towering Rage,” Amy Guthrie, July 26) is that they granted permission for this…
Just thought I’d share this 2005 snippet from the Coral Gables Gazette. Check the name in bold, our own Bang Bus mogul. Gala in Gables raises $700,000 for Bay Point Schools By Rosalind Rush Moore Not only did guests at the fundraiser for Bay Point Schools have a great time…
The Miami Herald’s Joan Fleischman writes about a porn producer’s divorce woes this morning — and it provided the Pulp a portal into a parade of South Florida sleaze. The column is about Kristopher Hinson, a “reality porn” impresario who has made a fortune off his bangbus.com and other sites…
This from an American Journalism Review story on the downsizing of local film critics: In June, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reassigned movie critic Phoebe Flowers to a general entertainment and pop culture beat, with a focus on local arts, according to Editor Earl Maucker. The paper’s film reviews now come…
The Miami Herald’s Dan Christensen tells the story today of how defense attorney Hilliard Moldof was given a “break” — and not prosecuted or even so much as suspended for bribing a witness in a murder case. The case involved the torture and murder of 47-year-old Michael Sortal, the brother…
Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Who the fuck is Cinema Dave?” Well, he’s Dave Montalbano, an erstwhile film critic with a web page who contributes reviews to the Deerfield Observer, that’s who. And apparently someone has been carrying out their diabolical anti-Phoebe Flowers agenda using Cinema Dave’s good…
All Sun-Sentinel “Lifestyles” columnist Ralph De La Cruz planned to do was write another silly sentimental piece, this one on his favorite bridge, a step above his usual column, which often doesn’t get beyond his couch or kitchen table. But funny things happened on his way to bridge bliss, a…
Former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in March, died Monday. He was one of the good cops but was fired by the political machine for trying to turn around the corrupt, befouled Hollywood PD and get rid of what he privately called the “goombah”…
The project manager for URS Corp., which has the county contract to oversee all construction that goes on at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has filed a police report accusing a newspaper reporter of stealing his business journal — which happened to contain damning evidence on a county commissioner. And that…
The Pulp has been delinquent in pointing you towards the incredible story about Ken Jenne and Michael Satz putting their resources into arresting and prosecuting inmates in the Broward County Jail who commit sex acts while alone in their jail cell. Or at least that’s what the Miami Herald calls…
Just to rile things up a bit, here’s the latest from “Ellen Dalton,” a soldier on the Post side of the newspaper war sputtering along north of the border: Have you noticed that the Palm Beach Post’s Internet site has become the new “tip sheet” for the Sun-Sentinel? Case in…
From his office on the 12th floor of the Las Olas Centre, Don Hall’s view stretches across the New River to take in regal yachts, fine mansions, and open skies. Hall says he likes open spaces. He even owned a ranch in Wyoming once, which explains his office’s Western décor…
Nothing says party like a birthday bash, unless it’s a birthday gig for Truckstop Coffee’s frontman, Pete Stein. The Bamboo Room in Lake Worth hosted the shindig, and it not only sounded like more fun than most (thanks to the band and a kickin’ sound system) but probably looked like…
When Stacy Ritter was elected to the Broward County Commission in November, her lobbyist-husband, Russ Klenet, promised to cut ties to companies that contract with the county in order to avoid legal and ethical conflicts. But evidence — in the form of electronic mail and a possibly purloined notebook —…
Clint Bridges wrestles 13-foot alligators. He also builds airboats and drives them deep into the flat, featureless expanse of the Florida Everglades without ever getting lost. But to make a living through these talents, Bridges needs about 30 acres of marshy wilderness. He could count on that for the past…
In the Miami Herald version of the Jim Naugle “apology” and subsequent big gay rally at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, there is mention made of a New Times story the mayor handed out as proof that homersexuals are banging each other in every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in…
The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle is about to hold a press conference at city hall that will include an “apology.” Naugle’s 1 p.m. press conference will preempt a rally scheduled for 4 p.m. by the Flush Naugle crowd calling for his resignation for his recent…
Daily Business Review Law Editor Harris Meyer, a former NTer, goes off on judges and corruption in Broward County and comes up with one reason why it’s been able to flourish so long: Why has all this gone unchallenged for so long? Reporters who cover Broward quickly discover one answer…
