Doing a little maintenance around here. On the Pulp's right-hand side over there, you'll see that I've finally added two new publications under the "Newspapers" heading. The first is Category305, an online newspaper started by former Miami New Timesers Rebecca Wakefield and Celeste Delgado. Go there early and often --...
Thought He Couldn't Go Lower? The Sun-Sentinel, as it so often does, is taking a dirty local public official to task, investigating the once-popular public servant with a clear-eyed efficiency that can only be described as masterful. Oh wait, the Sentinel never does that. So what gives? John Holland and...
I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me to abandon all hope. "The soil is different in Mexico from here," he says. "No offense to you. But your chilies won't taste like they do in Puebla."...
Completely against my better judgment, I've developed a grudging respect for Burt Rapoport. This is a guy I'd love to hate — he's got a headful of big restaurant concepts and perpetual oodles of startup cash. His gigantic, overwrought restaurants — plunked down in bomb-proof shelters like Boca Center and...
wtf Dogma Grill? Critical Miami wants to know. The Miami eatery has successfully sued a hot dog establishment with a similarly punny name: Hot Dogma. The location of this weiner warehouse? Pittsburgh...
Well, I wanted to post something about last night's Society of Professional Journalist panel on blogging, but since I've been hit with an unexpected wave of intense reporting, I simply don't have the time. Until I can give my nickel's worth, here's what journalist Rebecca Wakefield, who was on the...
I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me to abandon all hope. "The soil is different in Mexico from here," he says. "No offense to you. But your chilies won't taste like they do in Puebla."...
You know those missing e-mails in the Hollywood Sludge case? Well, first of all, they almost surely weren't done from Mayor Giulianti's official city e-mail. As Trevor Aaronson pointed out in his story "Mayor Mara, Annotated," the mayor for years has been using her AOL account -- mayormara@aol.com -- to...
After publishing Kelly Cramer's remarkable story "Daddy's Girl" two weeks ago, the most frequent question I've been asked about the tale of a Wall Street millionaire who married his own daughter is: How could Linda Schutt, a grown woman with a PhD in psychology, succumb to the seduction attempts of...
Dear Mexican: How can you explain the disparity between Japan and Mexico? Japan is a nation a fraction the size of Mexico, with zero natural resources, suffered a devastating war of four years that included two atom bombs, yet has reached the highest in educational achievements, technological advancements and economic...
http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=17543&category=Local%20News&PHPSESSID=87e1c30606e74392285079681d4e2e92 Barbara Bush a guest at Shaw fundraiser in Boca Published Thursday, October 5, 2006 Former First Lady Barbara Bush spoke at a private fundraising luncheon in Boca Raton Wednesday in support of the re-election of U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw. It was held at Boca Raton Country Club. The...
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 Boca Raton News followed Stephanie Slater's article about Delray Beach police officer Vincent Balestrieri, who allegedly lied about going back to Iraq so he could collect some department dough. And there were a few, um, similarities between the story Boca News city editor Dale M. King wrote and Slater's...
Thought I'd point you toward this debate/rant session about the new Miami New Times' blog on Critical Miami. Interestingly, both MNT Editor Chuck Strouse and The Bitch have chimed in, so there's a bit of back and forth. After reading it I was left with a feeling of emptiness, really,...
Guillen Janice Guillen in happier days. I'm 99 percent sure it's the Myspace page of the 18-year-old girl who was arrested along with her boyfriend and two other guys for beating the homeless man in Little Havana to death. Some of the other pictures look more like her mug shot...
In the battle of the hurricane blogs, I have to give the edge to Bob King. The Palm Beach Post storm-meister informs us in his most recent post that the National Hurricane Center gave big props to Fidel: "SPECIAL THANKS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA FOR PERMITTING THE RECON AIRCRAFT...
Or really, it's her long-suffering family's day. This second-grade teacher, John Mark Karr, has admitted to the killing, ending what has to be one of the most poorly handled murders -- by both the press and police -- in the history of the United States. The supermarket tabloids, in particular,...
My dad never called himself a journalist. He was either a reporter, or later, an editor during this career at the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Journalist" was too pretentious-sounding for him. So when asked, I always told people that my dad, who is now retired, was a reporter (or newspaperman before that...
It's a big headline on the Local front of the Sun-Sentinel: "BEATING ADVERSITY TO BE FIRST IN LINE." Bad headline (who knew that beating adversity could move up to the front of the line so quickly?) over a story written by Nicole T. Lesson, Community News diva. It's about a...
Have you ever wanted to measure the effect the Cuban dictator has on South Florida? Tried to gauge its unique impact on the three separate counties? Well, today the difference can be seen in the size of the type. We're talking, of course, about the transfer of power from Fidel...
Rep. Robert Wexler's fake admission on the Colbert Report that he loves cocaine and hookers has apparently gotten a lot of attention on both Good Morning America and Today. On those shows, former journalist Jake Tapper and other light and chirpy TV personalities basically warned politicians not to appear on...
Don't have much time this morning, but thought I'd toss a few good ones at you: -- We must start with the Florida Atlanta University newspaper. It may have a ridiculously bland name (the University Press), but today's on-line version is anything but that. Reporter Jason Parsley tells us that...
