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Mayor Jim’s Tipping Point?

By Bob NormanJuly 18, 2007
You know, it really isn't fair. I have to dig up information, usually regarding extremely complicated and convoluted matters, to break big stories. Good journalism isn't easy. Sources won't talk, or they are afraid to talk, powerful people put you on their enemies' list, governments screw around with public records...
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Vintage Wailers Footage

By Jonathan CunninghamJuly 17, 2007
Came across this old video circa 1980 of an old Wailers practice session. It's short, but precious footage of Bob and the boys wailing away on "Forever Loving Jah" --Jonathan Cunningham...
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Throwback Tuesdays–Arrested Development

By Jonathan CunninghamJuly 17, 2007
It's funny how easy it is to forget about hip-hop group like Arrested Development. Since their heyday was in the early 90s, during the dog days of gangsta rap, most of their hits were lauded at the time of their release, but barely remembered in comparison to all of the...
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Last Night: The 69 Eyes at Revolution

By Arielle CastilloJuly 6, 2007
Jyrki69, frontman of the 69 Eyes Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Last night’s concert at Revolution marked the 69 Eyes’ first ever appearance in South Florida as headliners. Despite playing, and with the same lineup, for over fifteen years, the Helsinki, Finland-based quintet has remained something of a cult band in...
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Hutchins A Hit With Pod People

By Bob NormanJuly 5, 2007
Remember feature writer Chris Hutchins at the Palm Beach Post? Well, now he's J.C. Hutchins of podcast semi-fame, New Times' Amy Guthrie tells us. Hutchins has written a clone-populated sci-fi trilogy called "7th Son" and when he couldn't get it published, started with the podcasts on Podiobooks.com. The pod thing...
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Disco Diaries

By Saby Reyes-KulkarniJune 28, 2007
As pioneers of ¨trance fusion,¨ as they like to call it, electro-jam rockers the Disco Biscuits have made a name for themselves as innovators of the perpetual groove. By focusing on electronic effects, the Philadelphia-based group is known for finding creative ways to extend chords and sidestep the jam-band label...
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Another Broward Soldier Killed in Iraq

By Bob NormanJune 26, 2007
Agami At Right Another young Broward County man was killed in Iraq. 25-year-old Daniel Agami, was an expansive guy with lots of friends and a girlfriend at home. On his MySpace page, he lists his general interest as "killing Arab extremists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and his name as "Whoes Your Baghdaddy?" Known in...
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Dude, Why Do The Neighbors Hate Me?

By Bob NormanJune 22, 2007
Check out this story by Lester J. Davis in the Palm Beach Post about a developer's son, his gigantic truck, its train horn, and the love they share together in a cold, cold world. Rick over at Stuck on the Palmetto breaks down the story of Jeff George well, sharing...
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Brooke Hogan Bashing Continues

By Jonathan CunninghamJune 19, 2007
Just when it seemed like dissing Brooke Hogan was starting to get passé, the tabloids are back at it. The South Florida-based singer and daughter of the Hulkster was recently spotted out in Miami at Danny Devito's restaurant looking slightly mannish. Some would say she looked like a tranny. So...
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Geekology 101

By Scott FoundasJune 7, 2007
There is a moment early on in "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and Geeks, in which gangly, bespectacled, picked-last-in-gym-class high school freshman Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) arrives home from school, makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich, and sits down...
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Coolest Bank Robbery Pic In Years

By Bob NormanJune 6, 2007
Not that I like to glorify bank robbers (when in American history has that ever been done? oh ...) but the photo is just wild. It comes from the Miami Herald, via the Miramar Police Department, via a surveillance camera at SunTrust Bank. The Herald's Kathleen McGrory wrote this story...
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The Real Hip-Hop Is Over… Here?

By Arielle CastilloMay 31, 2007
If you missed last month’s KRS-One show at Studio A, you missed out. (When and where else would you get to catch Fat Joe as a hype man?). Still, even though the teacher born Kris Parker seems to make it down here at least once a year, this time local...
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DeGroot 101

By Bob NormanMay 14, 2007
Young reporters read this latest screed from John DeGroot carefully -- your life just might resemble it. Here's the text/outline DeGroot sent the Pulp this morning: Yesterday’s Sunday editions of the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel were textbook examples of Journalism Redux. Well done, yes. But…. In the case of the...
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Support Mike Kirsch

By Bob NormanMay 9, 2007
Remember when WFOR investigative reporter Mike Kirsch was arrested by police a while back If not here's a nice rundown of stories from FLTV to get you caught up. Anyway, I somehow missed that his contract wasn't renewed and think it's a shame, from what I know, that CBS-4 caved...
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Cenziper Wins Pulitzer

By Bob NormanApril 17, 2007
Debbie Cenziper won a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize in the local category yesterday for her series House of Lies. Behind the series, which detailed corruption and mismanagement in Miami-Dade public housing, was editor Mike Sallah, who also should be congratulated. The award gave the Miami Herald's the edge over the Sun-Sentinel...
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Herald Publishes Anonymous Hollywood Letter

By Bob NormanApril 11, 2007
This is a good example of the way that the Internet is changing the way newspapers do business. Today, the Miami Herald has posted an anonymous letter sent to Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti and City Manager Cameron Benson that makes all kinds of claims about Major James "Jimmy" Jones. The...
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CNN Rips Off Miami New Times

By Bob NormanApril 5, 2007
John, you ignorant slut. Okay, well maybe John Zarrella, the burly CNN correspondent based in Plantation, isn't a slut (but aren't all network people, really?). He's definitely a thief. Check out this story, bylined by Zarrella and abetter Patrick Oppman, that is going to hit the air tonight on the...
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Dancing the Lobster Quadrille

By Gail ShepherdApril 5, 2007
My "father-un-law" was in town, and I wanted to take him to dinner. Not that I needed to impress him. Here's a guy who drove his battered 1978 Chevy Caprice Classic station wagon — the kind with faux wood-grain siding — until it finally coughed and ground to a permanent...
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Miami Developer Nabbed For Crotch Grab

By Bob NormanApril 3, 2007
The New York Daily News is reporting that Miami megadeveloper Thomas Kramer was arrested at a Big Apple party over the weekend for grabbing a 13-year-old boy's crotch (and apparently trying to give him a simultaneous high five). Said one Ben Widdicombe's sources, "That's his thing -- grabbing people's crotches."...
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Rick Sanchez Goes Overboard

By Bob NormanMarch 27, 2007
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)...
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Hollywood’s Dirty Brotherhood Exposed

By Bob NormanMarch 25, 2007
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...
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Rose On The Carpet

By Bob NormanMarch 20, 2007
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...