Who calls me this morning, but my old friend Jason Wetherington. He’s the former GOP staffer and Broward School Board student liaison who boasted around town about having an affair with Charlie Crist. He wasn’t thrilled that I reported it and, after my article (along with the sequel ) was…
A Pulp reader has provided a partial list of Sun-Sentinelers who are taking the early retirement plan. Here they are: — Buddy Nevins. No surprise there. — John Dolen, entertainment editor. — Tim Dodson, long-time editorial page writer and columnist. — Bill Hirschman, veteran education reporter who has been covering…
The New York Daily News is reporting that Miami megadeveloper Thomas Kramer was arrested at a Big Apple party over the weekend for grabbing a 13-year-old boy’s crotch (and apparently trying to give him a simultaneous high five). Said one Ben Widdicombe’s sources, “That’s his thing — grabbing people’s crotches.”…
The venerable Nikki Finke over at the NT’s sister paper in L.A. has an interesting take on the Zell purchase of the Tribune Co., likening it to a mob takeover, with Zell as Tony Soprano and Tribune CEO Dennis J. FitzSimons playing the role of his new consigliere. She notes…
Ripoff With UF winning its second straight championship, our dailies didn’t really try to be clever with their headlines. The Palm Beach Post were the most flamboyant with “Sweet Repeat for Gators.” (See, “sweet” and “repeat” rhyme.) Sun-Sentinel settled with “Champs Again.” And the Miami Herald went with minimalistic “Gators…
I’m not going to pretend that I know what’s going in the Zell purchase of the Tribune Co. But Andy Martin will. The rabblerousing grenade-launching “internet publisher” says the purchase is the “death knell of American journalism.” And that he will simply strip the company of assets and then dump…
The Daily Business Review’s Julie Kay has a great piece in today’s Daily Business Review that gets inside the Hollywood police scandal. Foremost, she identifies the man who Hollywood Police Chief James Scarberry has ID’d as the leaker: Defense attorney (and former prosecutor and state attorney candidate) Al Milian. Milian,…
Tribune Co. and Sun-Sentinel sold! This Sam Zell dude sounds a little crazy, at least relative to the dull-ass Trib: The transaction will place Zell, the motorcycle riding, epithet slinging multibillionaire, who just two months ago closed the $39 billion sale of his sprawling real estate company, atop of one…
The front-page of the Sun-Sentinel is dominated by a story about Passover. Lois K. Solomon’s report begins: The smell of hot matzo ball soup, roast chicken, gefilte fish and freshly grated horseradish. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered around the family table. Distinctive Hebrew songs. Cup after cup of sweet Manischewitz…
So a lawyer representing Buddy Nevins sent a letter to me and New Times Friday regarding the Philip Busey article posts. Yeah, Buddy’s playing that way now, which I guess means he’s definitely retiring from the Sun-Sentinel. His lawyer, by the way, is none other than Christopher Fertig, who is…
New look. Couldn’t post earlier during the transition period. Can’t post now because I’m working my ass off. More later…
Courtesy of CNN The Mayor With Big Media That thing they call progress — or, if your prefer, ever denser sprawl and crowded city life — moves north in South Florida. And critical mass in recent years has subtly shifted from Miami to … Plantation. A sign of that: Last…
The Sentinel’s Jerome Burdi tells us about Anthony Thompson, a 26-year-old man who picked up his brand new crotch rocket, a Yamaha YZF-R1 (pictured), last evening at about 7:15 p.m. On his first ride on the motorcycle, he lost control on North Federal Highway in Boynton Beach, slammed into a…
The mingling scents of hay and horse manure creep into the consciousness even at Wellington’s outer edges. The heavy aroma defines this young, western Palm Beach County exurb conceived in the late 1970s and built for the love of horses. Like much of the Sunshine State, the Village of Wellington…
When you’re a teacher at a prestigious, high-priced private school, your life ain’t your own, savvy? You can’t go around like ordinary citizens, getting drunk at parties or goosing people in the street, because stuff like that gets back to the headmaster. So when a veteran English teacher at the…
I was riding high in the afterglow of a weeklong bacchanal as my new chum Martin and I headed down to Fort Lauderdale for one last spring-break hurrah. After a lunatic week of festivities, naturally, we were destined for the Mental Ward. When we found the place just south of…
On the Way to Bimini When a wing falls off the plane…: Great article (“Death Is My Co-pilot,” Tamara Lush, March 22). It does omit one major fact. When the families filed lawsuits, I remember newspapers reporting that the new engines weighed hundreds of pounds less than the old ones…
Jennifer Borda says she never saw that first shove coming. She was ordering drinks for herself and her girlfriend on the patio bar at the Voodoo Lounge in Fort Lauderdale’s Himmarshee District. She had barely taken her first sip, Borda says, when she found herself fighting off a plump girl…
Assistant Hollywood Police Chief Louis Granteed contacted me to rebut the post below. I told him that I’d take down what he said and print it straight from his mouth. In a nutshell, he defended both himself and the department in light of the recent FBI’s mafia sting operation that…
I’m getting new information on the smear of former Davie town council candidate Philip Busey — namely that another political player, or set of players, might have been involved in giving Buddy Nevins the now infamous porn story. While nothing is conclusive, and I doubt anyone will ever take responsibility…
I had never heard of Doris Mansour before this morning, but thanks to an excellent obituary by John Dorschner in this morning’s Miami Herald, I feel like I’ve met her. Mansour, who died Tuesday at the age of 68, was the office manager and copy editor for the Herald’s defunct…
Bennett Another Miami Herald guy is heading to the Broward County’s top black newspaper. Brad Bennett, an daytime assignment editor in Broward, has given his notice at the newspaper. His last day will be April 13, according to sources. The former Fort Lauderdale city beat reporter’s new job: Editor-in-Chief of…
