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Pearlman The New York Post has broken a story about our lovely governor, Charlie Crist, that looks fairly damning, if not indictable. The allegation is that Crist, while serving as Florida Attorney General, received $11,000 in “illegal” campaign contributions from Orlando sleazebag, boy band impresario, and all-around fat fuck Lou…

Barba (Read The Jump) Here’s a message that came in my Pulp box from a reader who doesn’t feel the love for the Sun-Sentinel. Make of it what you will. I have nothing to add, except that there’s a whole slew of people who might buy the Tribune company, so…

It’s an annual Academy Awards ritual; after watching the overhyped event that you sense is dictated by some nameless eminence grise in a backroom (perhaps an inscrutable wheelchair-bound dwarf) you get the morning coverage regurgitating it in listless fashion with nothing new or remotely interesting to add at all. And…

Michael Koretzky’s 2nd Annual Short-And-Sweet Media Job Fair went off swimmingly at the Jazziz bistro in the Seminole Hard Rock plaza Saturday. Personal highlight was knocking down screwdrivers while alternatively listening to the photographic exploits of freelancer Ralph Notaro (who purports to have shot the last known pics of Anna…

Reuniting Soon Does Anna Nicole Smith corrupt everything she touches, even in death, or is she just a magnet for sleaze? Everybody who crossed paths with the late pin-up and reality TV star seems to want to make a buck on her celebrity. Personal attorney Howard K. Stern is looking…

Jeffrey Dahmer killed Adam Walsh. That’s right. The most infamous cannibal in American history murdered one of the most publicized child abduction victims of the past half-century, the 6-year-old son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh. Sounds crazy, right? Well, I think it’s true. And I know it deserves…

New Times’ blockbuster story last September about Bruce McMahan, the New York and Fisher Island hedge-fund manager who married his own daughter (“Daddy’s Girl,” by Kelly Cramer), shook up Wall Street, got rehashed by the New York Post, inspired a (surprisingly accurate) retelling by Geraldo Rivera’s TV show, and garnered…

I was stoked to get an invitation from my rockabilly buddy Steve to join him for a Sunday afternoon of motorcycle riding and biker bars — basically a biker tradition — but a previous commitment kept me from the fun. I suggested we reschedule for a Friday night, and in…

War in Deerfield Don’t assume the worst about Deerfield High: I think Bob Norman’s article really didn’t help much (“Dead End,” February 15). Yeah, it informed people what is going on between Haitians and African-Americans, but you also have to see it from another point of view. It’s not only…

This is you: You pay a company to beam you an invisible signal from outer space or pump a stream of electrons through a wire in your wall so that crisp images show up on your television. You pay a second company, meanwhile, to beam another set of signals from…

This tribal sovereignty thing is totally out of hand. It’s obvious that the Seminole Tribe is becoming a monstrous force beyond the scope of all but the most brilliant (and devious) imaginations. Our closed society of rich and lawless Indians, as it stands now, will come to no good, of…

It looks like the Sun-Sentinel disabled the Comments under Ira Winderman’s Tim “Hate” Hardaway story. I’d seen that a lot of it — and there were 408 comments already when checked this morning — was supportive of Tim this morning and it was getting ugly, but for all I know…

Tim Chapman/Miami Herald Kathleen McGrory goes Edna in this Miami Herald story about a car crashing through a bakery. Her lede: “Cigarettes saved Betty Conley’s life this morning.” You can’t not read on. And it’s worth it, since McGrory describes a rather surreal, almost Lynchian scene: ————————————– Police and witnesses…

Any Questions? Tim Hardaway, who said “I hate gay people” on Dan Le Batard’s radio show yesterday, has since not only issued an apology but a just-issued confession in the form of a press release that has been obtained by the Pulp: “I need to say that my statements yesterday,…

Babies “R” Us is a pacifier wonderland, a crib mecca, the keeper of more blankies than anyone knows what to do with. You might call the lucrative Toys “R” Us subsidiary a “baby superstore,” of which there are seven in South Florida and 232 nationwide. In the glistening aisles of…

For a few hours last week, Hollywood, Florida, was the center of the universe. The death of Anna Nicole Smith at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino brought a big, churning scrum of reporters from national news organizations — loud, pushy people who wanted… needed… to know the story…

When I heard the Back Room was back after six dark years, I wasn’t gonna let the headache that had dogged me all day keep me away. Since it opened in 1991, the Delray Beach institution had hosted blues legends — Leon Russell, John Mayall, Junior Wells, and James Cotton,…

Paradise Lost Back in the day, you didn’t need cosmetic surgery before you hit the beach: “Heartbreak Hotel” (Thomas Francis, February 8) spelled it out so well. I have been a resident of Hollywood since 1964. Many heart-wrenching changes have occurred for the sake of development. Such may be the…

He was walking his Dalmation near Deerfield Beach High School when his war started. A car pulled beside him. Four youths with Creole lilts jumped out and came at him. Derick Strobridge had no time to think. “I tried to fight my way out of the situation,” says Strobridge, a…

Frank Frazetta Broward County Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin seems to be on something of a power trip regarding his control over the (allegedly decaying) corpse of one Anna Nicole Smith. From today’s Miami Herald article by Nikki Waller and Roberto Santiago on the court battle over the body: ——————————- “Although…

Weinberger Remember the false report regarding “illegal narcotics” being found in Anna Nicole Smith’s hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock? It was included in a first-day report from Scott Weinberger of CBS-2 in New York, who cited unnamed law enforcement sources. Here’s what he said in the report, which…