Nisenbaum (at left) with Foley Why did Mark Foley resign so quickly? He was finished. A Congressman simply can’t be caught baiting a 16-year-old boy, especially when the boy is a Congressional page. Foley said he let down his family, which you would assume would include the (former) Boca Raton…
Jose Lambiet reports in the Palm Beach Post today that a reality show called America’s Hottest Mom may have found a winner in Palm Beach County. Her name is Kelly Heyniger (tricky pronunciation there, I’m sure) and she lives “with her two children in a tiny WPB suburban home in…
All right, I just don’t have the time or energy for reporting this, so I’m going to spill the scuttlebutt I’m hearing from the Palm Beach Post, which I’ve been holding for a couple of weeks with hopes that I would flesh it out. But that’s not going to happen,…
Damn strong news day. Some of the better stuff: — Both the Sentinel (Jerome Burdi and Mike Clary) and the Palm Beach Post (Stephanie Slater) have the barn-burner about the arrest of a couple of thieving, high-living, Vegas-loving, skirt-chasing priests. These dudes, John Skehan and Francis Guinan, were out of…
Working on deadline right now, so here’s the news quickly: Boca Raton Congressman Mark Foley is a creep. The gay Republican, who is supposedly in a long-term committed relationship, has been sending weird e-mails from his private AOL account to a 16-year-old Congressional page, according to ABC News’ Brian Ross…
The Bitch down at MNT went after Leslie Abravanel in her column this week. She wrote that Abravanel claimed to have seen Madonna and witnessed a “cat fight” that she couldn’t possibly have seen or witnessed. The piece was pimped to Jossip — but the NY gossip blog wound up…
The brain drain at the Sun-Sentinel — apparently any news judgment among brass is being sucked up by the market-driven scheme I won’t name today — continues. Today, the top of the sparse, weakly designed Sentinel front page has this headline: “7-Eleven drops Venezuela’s Citgo; politics part of the reason.”…
Jack Nease was getting old, and he was pretty happy about it. He’d written thousands of column inches for the Sun-Sentinel’s business section, diligently untangling tales of wealth, corporate mergers, and stock fraud for the reading public. In August of 1995, Nease penned a column called “Going Strong at 62,…
The deeply tanned preacher’s daughter sits by the side of the pool in her tiny bikini on a brilliant summer day, her legs dangling in the clear blue water. To her right, boats pass slowly on the sparkling Intracoastal Waterway past multimillion-dollar mansions. At her left are two young and…
Zero tolerance is all the rage in law enforcement circles these days. Rule-breakers — even the puniest, least significant of them — get the book thrown at them. Marginally tipsy drivers? Grade-school kids with penknives? Pot-smoking grandmothers with cataracts? Cuff ’em, book ’em, and put ’em in a cell with…
There had been inexplicable magic between my co-worker’s brother and me since the night we met at Respectables last March. So when Antti returned to Florida from Finland this September, I suggested we make a trip to Dada for the Wednesday-night magic show. “I want to get a close seat…
A secret sexual relationship with his daughter was not enough. There had to be a wedding. And it had to be a grand celebration befitting a Fisher Island multimillionaire who controls billions from Wall Street to Bermuda, from London to Dubai. So on a sunny June day two years ago,…
The illustrious John DeGroot sent me another missive this morning, this one savaging Scott Wyman’s story this morning on tax cuts approved by the Broward County Commission. Whatever you might think about DeGroot’s words, that lede, man, is no doubt clunky. Do editors even care over there care anymore? Or…
I grew up reading John Ed Pearce in the Louisville Courier-Journal’s Sunday magazine. He was basically the man when it came to telling Kentucky tales. That picture there might as well be hanging on my wall, it seems so familiar to this day. I never met John Ed, but my…
Below is a letter sent out by Susan Kang Schroeder, the spokeswoman of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in California might be of interest. Seems the L.A. Times reporter slurred in the missive is doing an investigative piece on … the letter’s writer herself, Orange County D.A. spokeswoman Susan…
The American Journalism Review has an interesting and exhaustive story on the behind-the-scenes wrangling of reporters who tried to cover the Castro-to-Castro transfer of power. Authored by Lori Robertson, it starts with several newspaper f0lk — including Sun-Sentinel photographer Angel Valentin — trying to enter the country but getting turned…
Adam Hasner is one courageous politician. When the Republican state rep from Delray Beach heard Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez call George W. Bush names at the U.N., he just had to do something to support America, the president, and his brother. So he bravely penned a letter asking the state…
I don’t even want to give Spanish-speaking morning radio show hosts Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero more space on the Pulp, but dammit, I feel like somebody has to highlight what they’re trying to pass off as humor. Pictured after the jump is “Al Jackson,” a fictitious character on their…
The Miami Herald’s Nicole White introduces lazydork, a YouTube “star” who quit his job as a state prosecutor in Miami-Dade last week after his secret life was discovered. His real name is Richard Stern and his face is splashed all over today’s front page. It’s sort of embarrassing for the…
Santos y Ferrero Almost forgot this story by Tal Abbady, the protector of Jewish sensibilities everywhere. The Sun-Sentinel reporter, following his her dressing down of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as possibly the next Hitler, took a couple of Spanish-speaking Cuban radio show hosts to task this weekend. The hosts are…
Through it all, I continue to be awestruck by the absolute idiocy of the Sun-Sentinel’s Help Team. This weekend may have marked a new low for the marketing side-devised scheme that is being carried out by ten unfortunate reporters (I think it’s ten from memory anyway). This time, it’s the…
Damon Higgins Work, on this thing or otherwise, isn’t coming easy right now, as my home life is being disrupted by a man who has unfortunately lost his mind. I’m not going to go into the details, but my weekend involved a trespass notice, a restraining order, and two police…
