Don’t Slapp Me Down The dark side of life by the sea: Your recent coverage of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea (“Baring False Witness,” and “Cuckoo for Coconuts,” December 21, Bob Norman) has been a welcome addition to those of us who just want what is fair and just. If you dare to question…
“That’s what’s missing in the world — a sense of danger,” Robbio told me just as the first punk band was taking the stage at the Brick. “There’s no danger, not even from punk bands… because you get in trouble, you get kicked off MTV, you get sued because some…
The North Broward Hospital District for years has tried to build a world-class heart surgery unit. What it never had was a heart. The district, with its budget pushing $1 billion, was corrupt and cold, playing with tax dollars like it came from a Monopoly game. It hid its actions…
Except for the throbbing death-metal music playing and a woman browsing a notebook of star designs to have needled onto her wrist, there’s not much going on at Colorfast Tattoo in the Las Olas Riverfront on a recent Thursday night. That’s fortunate, because it means hulking tattoo artist Jamie Ryscik…
It’s Black Male Mugshot Day at the Miami Herald, apparently. Dominating the web site are mugshots of two youths accused of committing armed robberies. They are immortalized in short Web article by Natalie P. McNeal. They are accused of, first, committing a “string” of robberies, then later in the article…
Who killed the Birdman? David Ovalle writes a great story in the Miami Herald this morning about a true South Florida character … who was beaten to death in the daylight on a matress he slept on behind a gas station…
In light of last night’s State of the Union speech, during which George Bush boldly trumpeted his “No Soldier Left Behind” plan, I thought I’d say a few words about the State of the Pulp. I’ve heard it said from numerous people in recent days that this blog has slowed…
E. Howard Hunt, who oddly once wrote me a letter of praise (for a story I’d done on the failures of the old INS to catch Mohammed Atta) that had me second-guessing my career choice for several weeks, has died at 88. Here’s an interesting take on the criminal Hunt…
Look, everybody’s my friend as far as I’m concerned, so I don’t have a problem with the student reporter who wrote down “friend” on the visitor card at the jail to get the interview with Michael Devlin, the newly infamous kidnapper from St. Louis. In fact when I was doing…
Mummy From Texas Kevin Deutsch’s little article in the Palm Beach Post today reminded me of the time I saw a mummified baby that had been left in a briefcase. It was at the Lee County Medical Examiner’s Office and the thing that struck me about it was how perfect…
I could start by saying this is the first week, really, that the NT is truly without music editor Jason Budjinski and that his alter ego, Fats Pompano, is dead. But that’s not the headline. The headline is that Billy Boloby has been reborn. If you’ve been missing your weekly…
What’s Graber Doing To That Bear? Former Broward Mayor and would-be congressional candidate Ben Graber weighed in on the Pulp over the weekend (see his comment at the bottom of the page). “Thanks for the advice Bob,” he wrote, apparently referring to my suggestion that he “put on the rubber…
So the Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald are all reporting that Wa-Hi went with Cam Cameron, the offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers, to be the next coach of the Miami Dolphins. All that’s left is signing the contract and putting on a show for the press…
From Miami Herald Easterling Gets Deserved Break David Ovalle and Susannah A. Nesmith report in the Herald today that sex charges have been dropped against Antwain Easterling in favor of putting the football star in a program for youthful offenders. It’s a common-sense solution to the problem of hitting young…
Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm’s has this take on sham schooling for star athletes, the sex allegations and coverup regarding high school football star Antwain Easterling, and other “lessons that lying, cheating, jock-sniffing adults impart.” Below is New Times’ editor Tony Ortega’s response. He disagrees with Grimm’s conclusion, which he…
A friend just pointed out what he called the quote of the month. I say it might be the quote of the year in local politics. It appears in Todd Wright’s story in the Miami Herald about a contentious Hollywood Commission meeting and it comes from the mouth of Commissioner…
The Miami Herald busts a huge story this morning about football superstar Michael Vick and a dastardly water bottle he tried to get through security at Miami International Airport. Turns out the apparently simple and harmless “Aquafina” bottle Vick was carrying had a secret compartment filled with the EVIL WEED!…
Amanda Alley, Sheri Mock, and John McClellan shared a two-bedroom apartment in Davie. It faced away from the busy 7600 block of Griffin Road and, save for occasional barking dogs, was quiet. Except for the morning of July 27, 1998. At 5:27 a.m., Mock and her boyfriend, McClellan, were jolted…
It’s pulling apart the already-torn town of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. The political career of Mayor Oliver Parker hangs in the balance, as does the livelihood — and possible health — of the town clerk. The Broward State Attorney’s Office has already begun an investigation. And at last week’s town hall meeting, it…
The new year swaggered in and bitch-slapped me hard — the kind of smackdown the universe delivers to tell a person to wake up or knock it off. Or something. I’m still not quite sure. All I know is it had my attention. Let me break it down: I’d just…
For nearly three years now, Tailpipe has been watching with disbelief the radical transformation of Gulfstream Park. It has been like seeing an elaborate piece of slow-motion computer-generated imagery — a futuristic tank becoming a rocket-powered flying machine, say, or Dracula turning into a bat. Since 2004, the old racetrack…
Letters From the Edge A world without Slavin: I learned the name Harvey Slavin (letters, January 11) two years ago when he attacked my letter that I sent in response to your jai alai article. Harvey had never even been to Dania Jai-Alai; he “imagined it would be great fun.”…
