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Got back from Boulder CO yesterday. Slept something like 20 hours (actually it was 16 over a 24-hour period), yet it had nothing to do with a hangover. A first for me. No, good clean family fun was had, including a ridiculously beautiful mountain hike at 13,000 feet and some...

On this Fourth of July morning, the Palm Beach Post out-jingos the other two midsize metropolitan dailies with a big package (it took up a full two-thirds of the front page) titled The Mounting Cost of Freedom. By William M. Hartnett, it begins this way: "On this 230th anniversary of...

Levine John DeGroot was taking a cigarette break at the North Broward Medical Center this morning and he was mad as hell. "The fucking Sun-Sentinel is so asleep at the switch, it's just fucking embarrassing," he told me on a cell phone call. You should know DeGroot. He's a 21-year...

Thompson Booking Shot TV writer Kevin Thompson was charged Sunday with simple domestic battery, according to today's Metro briefs. To wit: "WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach Post television critic Kevin Thompson was arrested at his home Sunday afternoon and charged with simple domestic battery. Thompson, 43, was released on...

Thanks to Chaz Stevens for pointing out the slogan of TransMedia, the firm hired by Mayor Al Capellini to combat bad press about his dubious dating and business habits: "What can we SPIN for you today?" Another TransMedia client is Walter Shaw, the famed jewel thief and cat burglar of...

Before looking at the weekend highlights from the morning papers, let's quickly address the Help Team/Sun-Sentinel Watch. You know, where the so-called Help Team tries to fix little neighborhood problems like dim streetlights, debris, and, today, missing signs on Pompano "roundabouts." What, is Prince Charles doing a fucking guest editor's...

I've been wanting to get in here that my favorite Da Vinci Code article written in the United States to date came this Sunday in the Sun-Sentinel. Chauncey Mabe did it. I like Mabe. You'd think that a book editor with a name like that would be insufferable. But Mabe...

And I'm back. That to me was the funniest thing that SNL guy who everyone is slowly forgetting about did on that show. What was his name? Jimmy Fallon. It was the bit where he played the morning DJ. The Osama-Saddam phone bit he did with the fat guy was...

Along the edges of the Florida East Coast railroad, which slices through the center of Lake Worth, dwell the poorest of the poor. Spanish-mission bungalows peel and fade in the sun, and motor oil stains the sidewalks of the auto body shops and old warehouses. Gravel streets turn to dirt...

Airstrike Victim On the front page of today's Sun-Sentinel, Robert Nolin writes of the "treat" we'll get during the Air & Sea Show this year when we say goodbye to the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. The ol' Top Gun chestnut is being retired for the F-18 Hornet. Makes the heart...

The Palm Beach Post's bloated blogosphere has apparently had a bit of a shake-up. Cops reporter Andrew Marra is no longer writing crime (he's gone to GA) and taking over his crime blog, Behind The Yellow Tape, is reporter Stephanie Slater. Her debut is fairly promising. There's a post featuring...

What Does This Man Have Against The Sentinel? For the first time since last year, the Sun-Sentinel was kept from the Pulitzer Prize winners' circle. It had to be a tough pill to swallow, since the newspaper had three finalists (a strong showing any way you look at it). I...

According to the Sentinel web site, he's a senior special sections writer for the newspaper. Or so it seems. On the right rail of the site, there's the header "SPECIAL SECTIONS." It shouldn't be confused with the nearby "NEWSPAPER ADS." Anyway, one of the items listed is the Fort-Lauderdale Airport...

Yes, God takes over WPLG-Channel 10 after the Jimmy Kimmel show goes off the air. Well, not God per se, but a facsimile by the name of Bill Keller, a convicted felon. Keller -- a middle-aged fellow with burnt orange hair, a burnt orange face, burnt orange glasses, and sometimes...

Jailbait is the first installment in "Perversion in Paradise," a New Times Series Sex has come a long way since it was about a man climbing on top of his wife once a week. For some reason, in South Florida, the physical act of love in all its forms multiplies...