Subject: Amy Guthrie

• Hutchins A Hit With Pod People

  July 5, 2007

• Hang a Left at the Brain Coral

  A nifty GPS system for the Snorks

  December 3, 2008

• Just When Dunkin' Suspect Couldn't Get More Loathsome...

  They've been known as the Dunkin' Bandits, and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti tried to cast them as cold-blooded thugs, but maybe the Dunkin No-Nuts would be the most appropriate name for this band of spineless poseurs who got their rocks off shooting random, unarmed people.Turns out these are not even the most cowardly deeds that one of these guys have been accused of. Here's a police report I found under Tharod Bell's name. In September, police arrested Bell at his Fort Lauderdale residence for r

  December 9, 2008

• Coral Springs School Will Play Their Drums For Him (Ba-Rum-Pum-Pum-Pum)

  It's a bad week to be Jesus, but another messiah is preparing for a truly wondrous holiday season, and a local high school made the guest list. J.P. Taravella High School will be the only Florida high school to send a marching band to Barack Obama's inauguration parade on January 20th. Now, the question is, what to play? Neil Jenkins, who has directed the band at this A-rated Coral Springs school since 1990, says the Marching Trojans are contemplating a medley of different fight songs

  December 9, 2008

• The Dark Heart Of Broward

  I've always felt that Broward County land heir and powerbroker Miles Austin Forman was nothing but a menace to society. But I might be wrong -- he may only be a part-time menace to society. So I'm laying down a challenge: Somebody, anybody, give me an example of something good Forman has done for this town. Anything. Because I've never seen any indication that he cares for anything but expanding his own inherited fortune. He leeches off of government while the politicians leech off his mo

  December 9, 2008

• Are Slow Boats Bigger Threat for Grazing Sea Cows?

  Guess what, boaters? A researcher at Florida Atlantic University says that motoring slowly through designated manatee protection habitats may put the meandering sea cows at greater risk of getting hacked up by your boat's motor. Says Dr. Edmund Gerstein, the university's director of marine mammal behavioral research: "In turbid waters where there is no visibility, slow speeds actually exacerbate the risks of collisions by making these boats inaudible to manatee

  December 10, 2008

• She Remembers the Last Great Depression -- AND She Water Skis!

  In this week's New Times, Tailpipe interviews the above water-skiing octogenarian, Frances Woofenden, from West Palm Beach. Here's a 2006 appearance she made on CBS:-- Amy Guthrie

  December 10, 2008

• What Was Swiped On Black Friday in Boca Town Center?

  horny sales associate

  December 11, 2008

• Dying to be Famous

  When 19-year-old Abraham Biggs Jr. logged onto Bodybuilding.com November 19th, he typed: "ask a guy who is gonna OD(again) tonight anything." He had threatened to take his life before on the web, under the screen name CandyJunkie.  The first online attempt took place several months prior. Doreen Biggs, Abraham's mother and a registered nurse, told police that her son swallowed a bunch of Xanax on September 1st and attempted to webcast his own death. Someone stopped him and&n

  December 18, 2008

• Stop, Or I Won't Shoot!

  Looks like the Fort Lauderdale police have a case of suicide-by-cop on their hands. At around 2 a.m. this morning, officers responded to call about an attempted suicide in the northwest section of Fort Lauderdale. They arrived to find 18-year-old Jordan Christian wielding a knife. According to public information officer Frank Sousa, Christian charged the cops; the police officers tried to tase him, but the young man kept advancing -- knife in hand. They shot

  December 22, 2008

• Casinos Are a Kid's Best Friend

  If only every town in Florida had a casino. Then our little tykes in need might have some Christmas dough to spend and sports teams to join.The lucky little ones in Hallandale Beach have Gulfstream Park, the horse racetrack and casino. Although they're not yet old enough to play poker or tug on the one-armed bandit at Gulfstream, these kids can do what few of us can:reap the riches of the gambling gods.

  December 24, 2008

• The Burger King of Hollywood

  Harold Cohen handled his share of buns during his 20-plus years as a reconstructive surgeon in Hollywood. But the ones he heated for judges while taping a segment of the Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown 2 will be forever seared in his memory. "They burned to a crisp in about 10 seconds," says Cohen, who's 74. Good thing he had some extra hamburger buns handy. In cooking, as in plastic surgery, it's better to get things right the first time. And when s

  December 26, 2008

• Incredible Shrinking Schools

  I attended public schools in Coral Springs, and as long as I can remember, public schools in Broward County have been bursting at the seams. Portable classrooms have dotted fields meant for recess. Student over-enrollment was an epidemic that the county just couldn't cure. I remember then-mayor of Coral Springs, Jeanne Mills, paying a visit to my middle school classroom to gripe about the poor planning she thought was at the heart of the matter. The city was growing like a turkey on s

  January 5, 2009

• Fort Liquordale: Where You Can Get Your Slob On

  You don't have to be J-Lo to kick it in Fort Liquordale. Hell, ladies don't even need to put on make-up, heels, or a mini-dress to rub shoulders with our boozy set...and fellas can get away with flip-flops, jeans, and a ratty T-Shirt. Bookings through one of the nation's largest network of travel agents indicate that Fort Lauderdale will be a popular vacation destination in 2009. In fact, according to the Travel Leaders survey, our little port and beachfront will attract as many visitors as Mia

  January 5, 2009

• Bus Fuss

  No detail is too small to escape the unblinking eye of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin. Just before the adjournment of today's commission meeting, she spoke of something horrible that she saw recently at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while waiting for a ride from her husband, Richard. All 12,500 airport employees can exhale now. Turns out, it was Wasserman-Rubin's aesthetic sensibilities that were offended...by a courtesy shuttle bus

  January 6, 2009

• Pay To Play

  Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but wouldn't it have been great if Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade had inked a $75,000 check for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Trojans? "Absolutely," says Debbie Rabinowitz, the band president and mother of a trombone-playing sophomore named Brian.  Still, she says the $10,000 contribution is more than welcome, as is the $6,000 in autographed Heat memorabilia Wade tossed in for good measure. For the 172-member band, i

  January 8, 2009

• Letters for December 25-December 31, 2008

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• Ride 'Em, Cowboy

  Hell for Leather on Flight 48

  May 8, 2008

• Kiss Me Not

  Poetry for the Horny

  August 7, 2008

• Letters for October 23-29, 2008

  October 23, 2008

• Barack Obama wins -- and So Does South Florida

  November 6, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of February 12, 2009

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• Las Dull-as

  August 2, 2007

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