You can't hide from Miss Cleo. The self-proclaimed television psychic's grinning, beturbaned head pops up everywhere, urging viewers to call her now for free foreknowledge of romance, jobs, family matters, and health, all delivered in a vaguely Caribbean accent. Mass e-mails breathlessly urge recipients to listen to her visions and...
"Ooh," recoils the sushi waitress. "That's so ugly!"The offensive item is just a T-shirt -- albeit a very special T-shirt with a representation of a man with a swirl of worms where his eye socket should be. It's being modeled by Gory, guitarist for Death Becomes You, but the abundant...
Jen sinks low: Kavetchnik on Zagat ("Survey Says," Jen Karetnick, December 20)! What great holiday news! Not another opinion piece by Jen "Kavetchnik" Karetnick that ruins a good restaurant and includes her loud kids bothering the patrons! Instead, coverage of another fop, Tim Zagat, and his "survey" of area restaurants...
As afternoon traffic whizzes down Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, drivers steal startled glances at brothers John and Bill Storch, busy being poked, prodded, and posed near the side of the street. The two, who have cultivated a reputation as composers of electronic scores to accompany experimental dance/theater pieces, notably...
"I have to have a job by next week," Steve Rullman says matter-of-factly, slumped in front of a computer in his kitchen and flipping through the pages of a yellow notebook. The Delray Beach resident dabbles in all areas tangentially associated with music -- performing, producing, promoting, publishing, captaining various...
A nuisance of a board: Good story about the West Palm Beach Nuisance Abatement Board ("This Bad House," December 6), but Wyatt Olson stopped in the middle. He should have looked further. What happens when the nuisance is abated? Does it disappear forever? Evanesce into space? Vanish, never to reappear?...
When that old standby "creative differences" gets tired, try substituting "irreconcilable politics." A band like Delray Beach-based Pank Shovel ("Can You Dig It?," September 6, 2001) doesn't have room for vast philosophical chasms, since the majority of the seven-piece outfit falls on the liberal side of the spectrum, with four...
1. Macoute Blood Marilise was 18 years old in the fall of 1992 when she boarded a boat leaving Haiti. Her boyfriend, Franfrico, was with her. Maybe a third of the 70 passengers were heading out for reasons similar to Marilise's: The young women had left home, if they still...
"So this is odd, the painful realization that all has gone wrong/And nobody cares at all," sighs Chris Carrabba. "And nobody cares at all," answers the gentle children's choir of the crowd. What the hell? Seven hundred fans have arrived at Millenium, a dance club in Pompano Beach -- on...
When September 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta entered the United States this past January 10, federal inspectors mistakenly gave him two extra months on his visa, New Times has learned. While immigration policy dictated that Atta be allowed six months in the country after returning from a trip to Spain, inspectors...
The mysterious Jordanian flew into South Florida on December 3, 2000, armed only with some fake documents and a ludicrous claim that he was a U.S. citizen. Yet Mohammed Braish, who was 22 years old, still made it past the first obstacle: the Immigration and Naturalization Service. With his Jordanian...
Aventura-based businessman Andy Rothman, who boasts a large and impressively diverse CD collection, had an idea. In an effort to alleviate the mind-numbing ennui of hospital stays and promote healing, he thought, why not equip hospitals, especially children's hospitals, with a CD library? After all, music heals the soul, and...
Ain't Stratton's face part of his head? I have to take exception to the Bandwidth column written by Jeff Stratton about the City Link Music Festival (November 29). Regardless of his intoxicated opinion of any of the local bands, there is never an excuse to pull the plug on a...
Watch out for this one, Kai! It was interesting to read of the current exploits of Kai Thorup in Amy Roe's November 15 story, "Bittersweet Charity." Not only did I work with him at Nova but I was associated with an organization he once ran that was a personal venue...
Dr. James E. Tylke is fidgety. At 35 years old, the anesthesiologist should have his life on cruise control. Since he was in fifth grade, Tylke had dreamed of becoming a doctor. He's outgoing, easy to talk to, the kind of guy you hope to sit beside at a sports...
Jen eats: Your November 22 letter "Jen bashing, Part 3,647,986," is a sarcastic barb directed toward your readership, effectively biting the hand that feeds you. Maybe it's not working out. Maybe Jen isn't suited to be a restaurant critic. By the way, it is indisputable that there is such a...
... even when she's nice: At the risk of sending what, at this point, might be one retort too many of Jen Karetnick's restaurant reviews, please indulge me. Certainly the recent review of Rustic Inn didn't read like her harsh reviews of other establishments ("Simply Smashing," November 8). She saved...
The name Otto Reich has popped up in the press again over the past several months. But who is this controversial former Miamian who still enjoys strong ties to South Florida? You should know, if only as a way to assess the health of our humble geopolitical region's clout in...
More than two years before the September 11 attacks, a seasoned federal immigration officer named Mary Schneider vehemently complained that Islamic visitors who were possibly terrorists were moving into the Orlando area. She told Immigration and Naturalization Service officials that hundreds of aliens, some of whom she suspected were tied...
Five years ago Walter "Dan" Cadman left South Florida in disgrace. The former director of Florida operations for the Immigration and Naturalization Service had been caught deceiving a Congressional task force and then trying to cover up his actions. The Justice Department, after an investigation into what became known as...
If the Immigration and Naturalization Service had its way, we'd all just shut up about Mohamed Atta's January 10 entry into the United States through Miami International Airport. In response to last week's New Times story about Atta's questionable return to the country, the INS issued a statement on October...
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had terror ringleader Mohamed Atta in its grasp before the September 11 attacks. Then the agency, which stands on the domestic frontline in the war on terrorism, let him go. The 34-year-old Egyptian arrived at Miami International Airport earlier this year on a flight...
