Subject: Pensacola

• The Maestro's Good Press

  November 13, 2006

• Short Cuts

  December 10, 1998

• Fried Food for Thought

  January 22, 1998

• Swingers Redux

  June 11, 1998

• Undercurrents

  April 29, 1999

• A Long Yard

  August 14, 2003

• Best Biker Bar

  May 13, 2004

• Hells Kitchen 5 - Chef Giovanni

  Alright culinary-reality-fanatics, meet Giovanni, one of three Hell's Kitchen 5 contestants from Florida. Giovanni is the executive chef at Creehan's Copper Grill in Destin, Florida. Destin is a Gulf Coast beach town close to Pensacola. Pensacola's about as un-Miami as you can get in Florida, but it is in the state boundaries, so Giovanni gets an honorable mention in our Florida contestants of Hell's Kitchen 5 coverage. As you well know, this is the most important race in the country right now a

  January 29, 2009

• Function Uncertain

  The best of King and Marin's ceramics are the ones that stray into purposelessness

  February 7, 2008

• Chef Giovanni of Hell's Kitchen Says "I'm Not A Showbiz Person"

  I spoke to Hell's Kitchen 5 contestant Chef Giovanni about the Redneck Riviera, gambling, and respect. Giovanni is a cool Jersey dude that keeps it real and is all about his work. He is the executive chef at Creehan's Copper Grill in Destin, Florida. Destin is up by Pensacola so it's more Alabama than it is tri-county south, but people are pretty much the same everywhere you go. We eat, we drink, we work and we live.Here is a bit of Giovanni's wisdom:"I'm from Bayonne, New Jersey. I went down

  February 9, 2009

• New Poll: Crist in Pole Position

  A "double" what? Sorry, I don't speak French. Just check out the Strategic Vision poll released yesterday on Florida's 2010 U.S. Senate race. It attaches numbers to some obvious truths, such as Gov. Charlie Crist getting 54 percent of the votes against other prospective candidates in a Republican primary. The poll, which interviewed 1,200 likely voters last week, has Crist routing all Democrat nominees, too. The surprise among the Democrats is Pam Iorio, Democrat mayor of Tampa, whose 29 percent

  February 13, 2009

• Judge Larry Under State Investigation After Elderly Abuse Complaint

  Seidlin, crying for Anna Nicole, now faces an elderly abuse investigation. In a disturbing development in the Larry Seidlin saga, the judge now faces a complaint of elderly abuse from the niece and caretaker of the elderly woman he has already been accused of financially exploiting.Corine Kasler, who is in town visiting 83-year-old Barbara Kasler, says she filed a complaint against Seidlin on the state's Elderly Abuse Hotline today, saying she is "shocked" by the treatment

  March 26, 2009

• Super Fans

  The secret life of storm troopers and other tales.

  February 19, 2009

• Dirty Type

  July 17, 2008

• Judge Seidlin's Clan Removed From Widow's Will

  Finally, justice. Or at least a taste of it. Larry Seidlin, the weeping Anna Nicole Smith judge who has chiseled more than a half million dollars from an elderly widow in his condo building, has been removed from the woman's will. Or I should say Seidlin's wife and daughter are off the will, since Seidlin was always shrewd enough to keep his name out of it as he worked to take over Barbara Kasler's multi-million dollar fortune. Kasler's family members, caregivers, 

  April 14, 2009

• Letters for September 13-19, 2007

  September 13, 2007

• Heartbreak at 45 mph

  May 21, 2009

• The God Fossil

  Most Americans who accept evolution think God created it. These scientists think they can prove the opposite.

  March 9, 2006

• Saint Aaron

  Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Broward is trying to save Haiti's children

  July 21, 2005

• Bombs for Babies

  Stephen Jordi planned to blow up abortion clinics. Does that make him a terrorist?

  July 15, 2004

• Hungary for Rock?

  July 8, 2004

• Sooo Thirsty

  Uncle Ken Wants You!

  May 27, 2004

• Feel the Sting

  Yes, Virginia, there is a women's tackle football team in Florida

  August 7, 2003

• Blackout.com

  When this kid gets going, you get got

  July 24, 2003

• Hangin' with the Church Lady

  This soldier of God is on a South Florida crusade

  July 10, 2003

• Letters for April 10, 2003

  This Column's No Disgrace

  April 10, 2003

• Searching for Brittany

  There's no resting place for a 12-year-old runaway

  February 27, 2003

• West Palm's Next Mayor Speaks

  Forget Joel Daves. Lois Frankel rules.

  August 22, 2002

• Dr. Strange Train

  Or: How I learned to start worrying and hate the bullet train

  May 30, 2002

• Their Own Osamas

  Abortion clinics and counseling centers faced terrorism long before everyone else

  December 13, 2001

• Minority Madness

  Wisecracking Democrats in Tallahassee were steamrollered during the presidential contest. But they didn't take it lying down.

  December 28, 2000

• A Most-Wanted Attorney

  The government wants his money. The judiciary wants him disbarred. So what's F. Lee Bailey's next move? Sue the bastards!

  September 28, 2000

• The Unforgiven

  Bryant Troville served out his sentence for his sexually violent acts. His prospects for freedom? Not good.

  May 4, 2000

• Raising Kane

  How Jim Kane transformed himself from a special-interest lobbyist into a lobbyist who's also Florida's best-known political pollster

  October 7, 1999

• Capitol Offenses

  The trial of former Florida House Speaker Bo Johnson reveals the unseemly roles of Broward's taxi mogul Jesse Gaddis and lobbyist Tom Panza.

  May 13, 1999

• But I Hardly Even Know ’Er

  June 11, 2009

• 30 Days and 30 Nights With Timb

  July 10, 2008

• Greyhound Racing Suspended in Rhode Island; Racing Opponents Eye Florida

  "Wouldn't you rather pet me than bet on me?"​Last weekend, greyhound racing was suspended at Twin River, the only active track in Rhode Island. The track is bankrupt, in part it says, because of the cost of dog racing. The state assembly there is trying to revive the moribund industry, but the track has let go all 27 greyhound-related employees. If the stoppage sticks, Rhode Island will join New Hampshire and Massachusetts, which both recently ended racing. (The ban in Mass goes into ef

  August 13, 2009

• Black Death All-Stars

  November 5, 2009