Dancing really is the best therapy. That goes even for an embattled politician like Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti, who, Tailpipe discovered recently, can unleash her hips to the libidinous reggae beats of a band like UB40. The ´Pipe´s talking about a party for the Hollywood Beach Community Redevelopment Agency at…
Tiki, I was told, is good times. Simple but permissively excessive, from the exotic rum drinks to the fun Polynesian prints. So Hukilau just seemed right for a reunion with my Nordic hunk, Antti, when he visited last week from Finland. That´s how we found ourselves around the pool bar…
On Crack? Stand Back Free health care for who? So let me get this straight. I am paying my taxes so an ex-con who is not from Florida can come to my hometown and demand free health care (¨Blood Work,¨ Bob Norman, June 14)? The guy has had some self-inflicted…
So Judge Larry Seidlin, of Anna Nicole Smith fame, has quit the Broward County Courthouse to go off to Hollywood to develop a TV show. South Florida should rejoice. It´s not so much that the 57-year-old Seidlin was a bad judge; it was that he wasn´t much of a judge…
New Birth Baptist Church members are noticeably excited when they get their first look at the sign resting on Marge Phelps´ right shoulder: ¨YOUR PASTOR IS A WHORE.¨ Their reactions tend toward the unsubtle. Cars pull to a stop, and Opa-lockans dressed in their Sunday best roll down their windows,…
Agami At Right Another young Broward County man was killed in Iraq. 25-year-old Daniel Agami, was an expansive guy with lots of friends and a girlfriend at home. On his MySpace page, he lists his general interest as “killing Arab extremists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and his name as “Whoes Your Baghdaddy?” Known in…
I’m off this week, so postings will be sporadic, if at all, but a few quick things while I’m online. First, the Sun-Sentinel quietly made history on Sunday: The front page had an advertisement on it. It was an orange-colored two-column AT&T ad — “fewest dropped calls” — on the…
Thought I’d post a couple of VVM specials. First, the Village Voice up in New York is up to its ears this week with the old Broward crowd. Yeah, first the newspaper got our editor, Tony Ortega, and now it’s snapping up our former reporters and stories (and yes, there…
Check out this story by Lester J. Davis in the Palm Beach Post about a developer’s son, his gigantic truck, its train horn, and the love they share together in a cold, cold world. Rick over at Stuck on the Palmetto breaks down the story of Jeff George well, sharing…
So there was an investigation by MSNBC reporter Bill Dedmaninto American reporters giving political contributions to candidates for federal office. And one reporter pops up as giving money from the Sun-Sentinel. Can you guess who? Yeah, it was Ethan Skolnick. He’s always been such a blowhard political ha– … hey,…
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is getting threats from white supremacists — and the FBI is on the case, according to Greg Gordon, of McCatchy’s Washington bureau. The owner of a supremacist website called overthrow.com has made a lot of hay over Pitts’ column of June 3 headlined “‘Oppressed’…
It was just another Wednesday evening when Jerome Hicks got word that his son was targeted for death. The news came from an old friend on the phone. ¨The Haitians are saying that your son shot someone,¨ said Wayne Adams, a classmate at Deerfield High back in the early 1980s…
Elena McMahan is disarmingly soft-spoken. She keeps her head lowered as she begins a conversation barely above a whisper. She wears a headscarf that identifies her as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and she speaks to her two unusually well-behaved children, Vladimir, 5, and Elizabeth, 3, in Russian…
Russian Attitude Adjustment Friday was making me feel foreign. What was with these women? Dressed in shimmery sequins, clingy velvets, and silk ruffles, they looked like they´d dressed for the Vegas casino or a swanky hotel lounge rather than the family restaurant we found ourselves in. I was beginning to…
Union BluesA day without students: Complacency is something that is often attributed to college students, and from the looks of the action (or nonaction) taken by the student body at Nova, this attribution is right on point (¨Nova to Workers: Drop Dead,¨ Amy Guthrie, June 14). As a college student…
Click link to view Derf’s “View of the World from West Broward County” Anna Nicole! Prince! Shaq’s birthday party! The Sopranos! Drunks and compulsive gamblers! There’s been a seismic shift out there, a sudden move from one side of the cultural fulcrum to another, a crashing alteration of the paparazzo…
If there’s hate to be had, leave it to the commenters on the Sun-Sentinel website to find it. Case in point, the story about a Deerfield man who was murdered last night. Here’s the first message on the board, from someone calling themselves Carlton Moore (the black Fort Lauderdale commissioner…
You probably remember that Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Carlton Moore recently made the news (yeah, I’m linking the Freepers — couldn’t find a full version) for intervening on his son Forrest’s behalf during a run-in with police at a bar in the Himmarshee district. What you didn’t know is that his…
This news day is slower than Miguel Cabrera’s metabolism, but there is some unconfirmed news to report: Las Olas Magazine has gone under, according to a good source. Kaput. I’m still gathering info, but the word is that the mag was losing money and the owners — an outfit called…
You want a fascinating crime story, check out Audra D.S. Burch’s piece on the eight human skeletons discovered in a wooded area in Fort Myers. Eight sets of bones, all of them from white men who were killed between 1980 and 2000. The theories on the March 23 discovery range…
North Broward Hospital District CEO Alan Levine wrote this letter to a district employee in response to this column that was published this week. The column — about the travails of a man with no money, no insurance, and plenty of health problems — details a scene where the district…
John DeGroot is looking for redemption. And I confess to having felt the same Sentinel-ments at times. When I first started the Pulp 17 months ago, it was all kicks and giggles making fun of the Sun-Sentinel. But things have changed. Dramatically. The newspaper has been sold, 20 or so…
