When Broward Chief Judge Dale Ross told reporters last week that JAABlog is out to “undermine” the judiciary, he gave the blog he hates a wonderful plug. It has led to a torrent of news reports, first by Jordana Mishory in the Daily Business Review on Friday and followed by…
The takes on Ricky Williams’ fifth failed drug test from our Big Three daily newspapers: Dave Hyde strikes a sickly sweet tone of pity. Greg Stoda is all business. And Greg Cote is as understanding as a merciful God. I like Stoda’s column, because it’s got some things in it…
In her “Facets of the Diamond” column in the South Florida Sun-Times, Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti, who is perfect in every way, complains about uncivilized, meddling reporters who won’t leave her alone. She says that now they’re snooping into her move on up from her single family home in Emerald…
Remember the arrest of Carlos Miller? Well, it’s time to show some support for the freelance photographer who was arrested while doing his job. Everything I’ve read about this case makes me believe that the Miami P.D. abused its power and that Miller was arrested simply for defending his rights…
… according to the Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin. Damn, I actually like Maggie Rodriguez. Good for her…
I received this today under the subject line “Congrats to Bob Norman!”: CONGRATULATIONS! Gold Coast Magazine has named you “The Best of South Florida!” After a year of trying to uncover the area’s best gems, Gold Coast Magazine publicly reveals its prized list of people and places that define South…
The Miami Herald’s Hannah Sampson writes about a love-fest involving interim Supt. Jim Notter during a public meeting that occurred yesterday. The first man quoted is Dorsey Miller. ”I don’t think there’s anybody in America at this particular time who is more capable or better prepared to serve as superintendent…
Christopher J. Gambino may not be a Mafioso, but he certainly looks the part: six-foot-one, with black hair graying at the temples and a gold chain dangling around his neck. He also has the requisite qualifications: the team of bodyguards, the background in trash collection, the criminal history, the mysterious…
It used to be that, about two-thirds of the way through a European art movie, the main character would spend eight or ten minutes wandering wordlessly through a city or a landscape, trying to escape a state of miasmic alienation. Tailpipe’s friend Peter Rainer, a film critic, calls those interludes…
When I heard there was a once-monthly goth night at a pirate bar, I was intrigued. Was someone finally admitting that the goth scene had a touch of the scurvy? The fact that the event was taking place at what was once the Duke Lounge in Lantana made it an…
All told, it might hustle residents right out of 1,000 homes. It could cut through precious wetlands, level a Hilton hotel, knock out a marina, and gouge 100 acres of fill dirt, piling it in unseemly ten-foot-high heaps. And it could cost up to $3 billion. Three cities — Hollywood,…
Thunk! My Heart! Just remember to duck: I’d like to say that Ashley Harrell has written a very excellent article about the “life and environment” of dart players (“Thunk! You Lose,” May 3). I own MJ’s Sports Bar & Grill and have quite a few dart teams (18 of them)…
Remember when WFOR investigative reporter Mike Kirsch was arrested by police a while back If not here’s a nice rundown of stories from FLTV to get you caught up. Anyway, I somehow missed that his contract wasn’t renewed and think it’s a shame, from what I know, that CBS-4 caved…
It’s called the Deerfield Beach Insider and you can check it out here. The person running it is a mystery, but Mayor Al Capellini better watch his back, because DBI is charging hard into the corruption in that city, keeping daily tabs on a scandal emerging on a new Public…
Everybody in Broward’s political and journalistic circles has heard the rumor that Sheriff Ken Jenne is going down as a result of a recent federal grand jury investigation into his finances. I’ve heard from two sources that Gov. Charlie Crist has compiled a short list of who might replace him…
What a shock. Diego “Chico” Corrales, a sensational boxer involved in one of the greatest fights in the history of mankind, is dead at 29 after a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas. It was in that city that I watched him knock out Jose Luis Castillo in what was named…
Look, I’m done writing about the site for the planned high school in Weston, now known only as MMM. I’ve written about all I can on the matter and if taxpayers are willing to spend $50 million to buy and prepare a site for a school on a dead end…
We got the report from behind the Sun-Sentinel lines on Friday. On Sunday, Executive Editor Earl Maucker gave us the official line, setting the record straight on his newspaper’s falling circulation levels. But, as unofficial Pulp contributor John DeGroot mentions in his screed below, there aren’t any facts in it…
I am not going to add much to the piece of writing down below, only to say it’s an anonymous e-mail from a journalist at the Sun-Sentinel. It involves a meeting held in the building yesterday during which the reporting corps was lectured by Director of Marketing Jeff Levine and…
It was a busy week in sports, what with the NBA playoffs and NFL draft. I thought I’d while your time away this morning with a little arm-chair analysis on two key topics, beginning with: The Miami Heat There are only two players I really want to see back in…
Early one afternoon in June 2003, a bushy-haired, 28-year-old sergeant from Miami sat down on the hard floor of a steamy, furnitureless room in Ar Ramadi, one of the most dangerous locations in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The space, on the second floor of the city’s government center, had been previously…
On a recent Tuesday at Turn 3, a West Boca Raton dive bar that hosts dart league play, a representative from the Florida Dart Association is trying to persuade New Times to omit the best part of this story. “Please don’t print that,” begs Ivan Hulan, a short, spiky-haired man…
