There is an insane standoff around a bank on Miami Beach happening right now. Apparently, robbers hit the Commercial Bank of Florida on 41st Street. Then they got separated and police nabbed one man. Now the others are threatening to shoot people if they don’t release him. A SWAT team…
You’ve got to watch this Jon Stewart take on our own Rick Sanchez, the Channel 7 wonder who now works at CNN. Hey, it’s a living. (To supplement the Sanchez experience and for more laughs read this)…
Looks like ALM (American Lawyer Media) — the company that owns the Daily Business Reviews — is going up on the chopping block. The company, which caters mostly to the legal crowd and is known to produce outstanding journalism, consists of 19 magazines, including flagship The American Lawyer, and 14…
New Times staff writer and former music editor Jeff Stratton is off to unchartered territory, almost literally. He left the NT last week to move to Roatan, a small island off the coast of Honduras. Think South Florida, circa 1922, only with “jungle-covered hills.” There he will live in his…
Mr. Beatty Going To Broward The inimitable Whitey Fraud alerted us below to this news, but it certainly deserves its own post. Robert Beatty, former V.P. and general counsel for the Miami Herald, is buying the Broward Times from publisher and erstwhile political candidate Keith Clayborne, according to Herald business…
Former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt should be enjoying a semblance of vindication right now. He tried to clean up the PD during his tenure and was fired for his efforts. Now some of the officers he tried to expunge are part of a scandal involving an FBI mafia sting…
— The Sun-Sentinel had an interesting and important report by reporter Scott Wyman and database guru John Maines about the way rich people — like Dan Marino, Austin Forman, Jim Moran, Rick Case, Bill “Bag Man” Scherer, and Preston Henn — benefit mightily from the increasingly controversial Save our Homes…
Granteed: Is He The Leaker? The Sun-Sentinel’s John Holland revealed the depths of Hollywood Police Chief James Scarberry’s delusions in this morning’s newspaper. Scarberry swears the leak of the FBI investigation into his department didn’t come from his men even though he squealed about it to six members of his…
That’s Felix At Left A former CIA agent who tracked down Che in the mountains of Bolivia says he believes the supposed remains of the revolutionary behind held in Cuba are fake. Gustavo Villoldo, a Cuban exile, says he knows this because he kept buried Che himself. And he claims…
Well, the truth for one thing. But, more specifically, the community newspaper owned by big Bush family backer David Eller was akeert to print the following letter from town activist and attorney Tom Connick. The letter — and Connick’s preamble — speak for themselves. Enjoy. ————————————————– David Eller is a…
Funny Guy A lot of people wonder what it is Democratic Party Chairman Mitch Ceasar actually does with his time. The place is packed with donkeys and yet the local party produces poor candidates and is basically a sorry mess. Not good. Well, it turns out that Ceasar has been…
It’s U.S. Census time, so it’s time for the dailies to make broad prognostications in front-page stories on what the population numbers mean. This year, the numbers show slowed growth — and the Sun-Sentinel took it the farthest, with their giant hand-wringing top-o’-the-fold headline: “Has The Luster Faded?” Oh lord…
Felix Ellis is alone now. His wife, Genevieve, isn’t around to make his favorite bread pudding. She’s not there to call him in the morning or to put a blanket on his lap so he won’t catch a chill from the unseasonably cold wind that whips through the couple’s tiny,…
There’s been a lot in the newspapers, this one included, about Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti’s son, Stacey, especially after his former law partner, ex-Hollywood commissioner Keith Wasserstrom, was hit with corruption charges and kicked out of office last year. But you haven’t heard from Hollywood’s other favorite son until now…
“Why say no when it’s so much easier to say yes?” It was the perfect spring break motto. The fact that it was uttered at the Elbo Room gave it a nostalgic twist. The landmark destination still celebrates its heyday as a spring-break mecca, with vintage photographs around the bar…
The Fine Print And then you have to read the footnotes…: You are wrong about Barack Obama saying he was born during the march at Selma (“Shades of Truth,” Bob Norman, March 15). Before he actually mentions the word born, Obama says “Birmingham and Selma” together twice, then says movement…
Let’s look at the bright side of the latest scandal to rock the Hollywood Police Department: When four cops get busted, it usually means promotions for a few good cops. This would certainly be the case in a department that badly needs some tweaking of its apparent culture of corruption…
Check this from SotP. This is Rick at his best, bringing the story to you in a way that’s better than the story itself. And in case you missed it, here’s a bit in the Miami Herald about DeFede and dress codes at WFOR. His “‘mere presence is more powerful’…
Korda The NAACP doesn’t have anything better to do? What does Judge Korda’s pot arrest have to do with the advancement of colored people? Yeah, this one’s perplexing — and a bit overplayed, I think, by the Sentinel. The Miami Herald’s Nikki Waller and Kathleen McGrory hit the right tone…
Phil’s New Look Good thing music mogul and murder defendant Phil Spector got a new haircut. He was starting to look a little spooky there for a while. After the jump: The Old Look…
Joe Rose has been called into the principal’s office at NBC-6 to explain what he said on the air last week about the desirability of black women, whom he distinguished as “redbones” and “chocolates.” He is meeting today with station executives about the comments he made last Wednesday on his…
Gee, never saw this coming with newest Miami Dolphins shining hope Joey Porter, especially after Sun-Sentinel reported the linebacker’s pit bull had killed a neighbor’s pony. At least he hit somebody his own size. Maybe bigger. And, also on the Miami Herald website, we see that Judge Lawrence Korda, who…
