So, like so many others, I was feeling sorry for Alec Baldwin this morning. What, you can’t chew out your daughter without the whole world talking about it? So I contacted Baldwin’s agent, who arranged a two-minute interview. “Two minutes,” said the agent, who strangely wouldn’t provide me his name…
The Dade County Bar Association was outraged by a Daily Business Review story by Forrest Norman about insurance fraud cases. In the April 16 article, Norman quoted the general counsel of an insurance company was quoted as saying: “When we get cases in front of juries, we were like 80…
About six weeks after New Times Broward*Palm Beach editor Tony Ortega was tapped to take over the Village Voice in New York, VVM has named his successor, Robert Meyerowitz, who comes to South Florida via the Anchorage Press. Here’s the announcement from VVM Executive Associate Editor Andy Van De Voorde:…
Corrie The following comes from a Miami playwright now living in New York in regards to My Name Is Rachel Corrie, the production that was shitcanned at the Mosaic Theatre after Jewish groups complained and its sponsor, American Heritage School (also in Plantation), cowardly pulled its support. I think it…
Former Miami Herald general counsel is officially in charge as the new owner of the Broward Times. In the article announcing the change, Beatty, described by his newspaper as one of the “one of South Florida’s top legal minds,” tells us what led to the move. For the last six…
This Cho Seung-Hui had it all planned out. After he fired his guns on Virginia Tech classmates, he’d get his face and action-figure persona emblazoned in the consciousness of America via NBC News. Mission accomplished. When I first picked up the Sun-Sentinel this morning, I was confronted with three good-sized…
Dorell Wright is prone to bold announcements. The sinewy forward leapfrogged college for the NBA in 2004 to become the youngest Heat player of all time. But the announcement that shocked roommate Derrick Clark came last November, when Wright declared, “Yo, I’m going to cook Thanksgiving.” Clark knew his best…
A pay-per-view sporting event will never be my idea of a great way to spend a Saturday night, but when you have an out-of-town guest, sometimes a person has to make this sort of sacrifice. This was how I found myself at Beer Goggles for Ultimate Fighting Championship 69. “It’s…
Aaron Jackson is stepping up in the world. “I used to live over there,” he said the other day, pointing to a wall in a cluttered little room in the offices of the Homeless Voice in Hollywood. “But now I have the cot.” His old space was a spot on…
Fork-Tongued Feds A little history would be appropriate: Excellent article about the complexities of the Seminoles’ casino, the media, and liability. However, you barely mentioned the context of sovereign immunity in the first place. Sovereign immunity means that American Indians can govern themselves but only under the purview of the…
The Broward County School Board and the City of Weston are about to sell us all down the river of grass. District leaders are set to waste tens of millions of dollars on a bad land deal involving an extremely wealthy political contributor. The deal involves what appears to be…
Cenziper Just-announced Pulitzer winner Debbie Cenziper is leaving the newspaper in favor of the Washington Post, according to Post media writer Howard Kurtz. “Cenziper of the Miami Herald captured the local reporting prize for exposing the waste of millions of dollars for projects that were never built, which led to…
Enjoy the following from our favorite contributor John DeGroot, which includes a fact that slipped my mind: Pulitzer winner Debbie Cenziper used to work for the Sentinel. Call her the one that got away. There was a great gnashing of teeth and renting of garments on Las Olas Boulevard in…
Debbie Cenziper won a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize in the local category yesterday for her series House of Lies. Behind the series, which detailed corruption and mismanagement in Miami-Dade public housing, was editor Mike Sallah, who also should be congratulated. The award gave the Miami Herald’s the edge over the Sun-Sentinel…
Now Brian Williams is interviewing Matt Lauer. Our national media is a complete joke. If Walter Cronkite was dead, he’d be rolling around in his coffin. Oh, and what do we get from our president? Well, Bush was “horrified,” we’ve been told over and over again. Great. Just what we…
Look, I might be wrong. In fact, this blog might better be titled “I Might Be Wrong, But …” In the case of the V. Tech killings, I’m seeing a dysfunctional police department. Why do I say this? Well, it’s more than just the time delay between the two shootings,…
Wonder why Broward County is such a dead place when it comes to political debate and art? Obviously part of the reason is that the Sun-Sentinel is a dead newspaper. Case in point comes with the cancellation of a play about a young American peace activist who was crushed by…
Been following the Florida Atlantic University scandal? You know, the one where FAU prez Frank Brogan gave fundraiser Lawrence Davenport almost $600,000 to walk away quietly from his job. Brogan should resign now; the incident proves he’s not to be trusted with our money. It’s outrageous especially considering that he…
Gonna kick into the weekend with a small piece from the great John DeGroot, the former Sun-Sentinel writing coach. It is inspired the death of classic American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who was once DeGroot’s occasional dinner companion. It was written yesterday and, sure enough, the Vonnegut obit didn’t appear until…
Okay, that’s overstating things a bit, since he had nothing to do with the Corzine’s car crash, but then so is everything about this story. I did hear a TV report where they called Corzine, who is seriously banged up, another “casualty” of Imus. Ridiculous. The media overkill will ironically…
Both the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald finally mentioned the Sid Rosenberg connection to the Imus story this morning, albeit both, tellingly, at the very bottom of their respective articles. The Herald’s report, by Barry Jackson and Glenn Garvin, was superior in that it actually reported what Rosenberg said. The Sentinel…
That’s right, I’m a fan of the Rose man again. The guy does know his football — and let’s face it, between him and Jimmy F-ing Cefalo, who do you take? Joe all the way, no doubt. He says he’s a new man, and even if he’s being sarcastic, I’m…
