Haviken Hayes unloops dozens of cords and cables as he reassembles and reconnects his turntables and one-man sound system. He and his musical partner, JG, the sole members of Over the Counter Intelligence, are still riding high this recent Wednesday evening after performing during antiwar and antiglobalization protests in Washington,…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the 2001 murder of 3-year-old Kyle Venter. The boy was killed by his mother as revenge against his father, Anthony Venter. Dunitse “Dee” Venter is currently free on bail while facing a second-degree murder charge. Anthony, after two bitter…
Respects the dead: Finally the truth about George Zirwas and his life in Cuba (“Murdered in Havana,” Kathy Glasgow and Lissette Corsa, April 17). I met George just once, about two weeks before his death, and I liked the man almost immediately. We argued for about two hours about U.S…
When Anthony Venter saw the crime-scene tape and police outside his estranged wife’s apartment, he bolted from his car toward the door. Thinking only of his son Kyle, a bright-eyed, blond-headed 3-year-old, he questioned the first policeman he came to. “I’m the kid’s father,” Venter recalls telling the officer. “Well,…
Two years ago, a 47-year-old United States citizen named George Zirwas was murdered in his apartment in Havana. The death — in a nation still legally off-limits to most Americans — made for tantalizing news, and Zirwas’ past as a Roman Catholic priest only complicated the mystery. Cuba-obsessed South Floridians…
Walking around his Riviera Beach headquarters, one can easily figure out that Warren Mosler isn’t trying to impress the buying public. The place has needed a good sweep for months. Dirt and leaves are strewn across the entrance. The white walls are streaked with greasy fingerprints. The counters look as…
Curse the Cro-Magnon: In respect to Bob Norman’s masterpiece, “An Absolute Disgrace” (April 3), I fully applaud and support this first-class journalist, who has demonstrated true patriotism in this and other recent articles like “War Pigs” (March 20). True patriotism is daring to tell the truth amid a web of…
Easing his white Ford Bronco into the lead spot of the funeral procession, red-faced, red-haired Irish Catholic priest Father Gabriel O’Reilly leaves the church on State Road 7 where he’s just officiated over the mass for Vincent “Randy” Chin. A long trail of funeral flags follows him, slowly snaking into…
As he watched the Iraq war on television, John Komyakevich had no idea he was about to become a casualty of the conflict. The 33-year-old Russian immigrant sat inside Margarita’s, a hole-in-the-wall neighborhood pub he managed on Federal Highway in Lake Worth. The clock was approaching 11 p.m. on Sunday,…
The plastering contractor, the telecommunications consultant, and the retired couple all remember that balmy evening in early March when fireworks punctured the quiet night air of their quaint Victoria Park neighborhood. Robert Barcia was walking his 10-year-old Pekinese, “Tiny Dancer,” when he heard them. Startled by the sound, the dog…
But is he awed?: Bob Norman’s article in the April 3 edition entitled “An Absolute Disgrace” was excellent, admirable, courageous — and increasingly necessary in our dangerously changing society. My family, friends, and I have been SHOCKED and OUTRAGED by EVERYTHING that Bush and his evil, lying, greedy, corporate, fascist…
“Maybe one day, the Bieler brothers will be like the Warner brothers!” Aaron Bieler says, beaming outside his new Pompano Beach headquarters. Who knows? It could happen. Maybe the goateed, fast-talking ex-tour manager will someday be another Jack Warner. But Powerline Business Park is a bizarre place to start an…
It was 10 a.m. on a steamy, sunny morning just a few days after American soldiers began dying in Iraq. Zuhrah Abdu Ahmed opened the door of her tiny Miramar house. She squinted as the aroma of curry and eggs wafted into the yard and mixed with exhaust from nearby…
The voice seethed: “You need to get a life, man. You are a sick individual. All this shit you are spewing all here all over the paper and this frickin’ front cover is an absolute disgrace,” said the man, who didn’t leave his name. “Why don’t you just move to…
… um, the Air & Sea Show? As someone who is on the nonviolent political left, I very much commend New Times for the superb cover story, “War Pigs” (March 20). Although I have had my differences with your paper previously, Bob Norman’s story was excellently written, with a perfect…
Nicholas J. Kalman sits on the edge of the high office chair and bends his slender upper body over the desk in front of him, neatly clasping his hands together. He has a caring smile, perfectly parted hair, and an honest, freckled face that’ll get him far in the affairs…
Countdown 8 p.m. EST Monday, March 17 In the lobby of the Radisson Deauville, on the eve of the Winter Music Conference, the music stops when President Buzzkill addresses the world. The face of George Bush replaces the Dirty Vegas video that had been playing on the big-screen TVs in…
When Tania Galloni joined the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project in September 2002, she faced a daunting task: to help protect Florida’s agricultural workers from the myriad of dangerous pesticides to which they are exposed every day. Galloni was fresh out of Yale Law School, had just passed the Florida Bar…
Joe McCarthy, listen up: To Bob Norman: You are not an American; please leave this country. Learn your facts first, whether you are a liberal, a Democrat, or a Republican. Being an American is an honor, and you should have none of that. Go to another country and live… please!…
Along Dixie Highway, just west of Young Circle Park, an innocuous strip mall with the usual strip-mall businesses sits quietly at the side of the road. V.I.P Hair Salon. Interactive Solutions Inc. — for all your signs, marketing, and web design needs. Stamped Concrete, featuring one-way concrete delivery. As in…
In case you hadn’t noticed, Fort Lauderdale is in a real estate frenzy not seen since the 1950s, when the Coral Ridge Development Co. unloaded $2 million worth of residential lots in nine minutes and 35 seconds. Skyscraping condo towers! Developers shoehorning apartments on top of apartments on modest downtown…
Next up, a dragon: Congratulations to Bob Norman, slayer of Griffins. New Times exposed the corrupt underbelly of Pompano Beach politics (“Don’t Drink the Water,” March 13). Enjoy your triumph. Ed Foley Pompano Beach Trouble celebrates an anniversary: The article Bob Norman wrote on the City of Pompano’s water and…
