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  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    George LeMieux Is Loving That Connie Mack Messed Up "Campaign" Mailers So Bad

    There isn't any evidence to prove that Rep. Connie Mack intentionally used $18,000 in taxpayer money to send political postcards all over the state, but there isn't anything about the situation that makes Mack look good.If you haven't heard about it already, all the recent hullabaloo is ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Buju Banton's Attorney: "We Had Ten Really Good Issues for the Appeal"

    ​The Department of Justice should have filed a response to Buju Banton's appeal on Friday, but as has been the government's style throughout the more than two-year-long saga, it's dragging its heels. Now federal prosecutors have until February 10 to counter arguments made in the hulking, 17,000-wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Buju Banton Defense Fund Gets Money if You Buy a Very Depressing DVD

    ​Reggae star Buju Banton, who was sentenced this past June to ten years on federal drug charges, isn't in the best financial shape. A bank recently foreclosed on his Tamarac duplex, and he's got a hefty legal tab to work off after going through two trials, the first of which ended in a hung jury.R ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 8, 2011

    DIG in Delray Beach: Ambitious Food, Weird Space

    ​Reggae star Buju Banton, who was sentenced this past June to ten years on federal drug charges, isn't in the best financial shape. A bank recently foreclosed on his Tamarac duplex, and he's got a hefty legal tab to work off after going through two trials, the first of which ended in a hung jury.R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Broward Public Defender Alleges Abuse at Juvie Lockup in West Palm Beach

    The complaints echo similar allegations at Thompson Academy.​News at Florida's juvenile detention centers has not been good lately. At some state-run facilities, teenagers are allegedly being doped up on anti-psychotic drugs to control their behavior. At Thompson Academy, a privately run lockup in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Practitioners of Quack Autism Treatment in Trouble With Governor

    David Geier, (not an) MD.​Two weeks ago, the Pulp published a small item about Mark and David Geier -- a father-son team of self-proclaimed autism experts who treat the condition with a powerful chemical castration agent called Lupron. They're from Maryland, but their interests run deep in Florida ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2011

    Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

    David Geier, (not an) MD.​Two weeks ago, the Pulp published a small item about Mark and David Geier -- a father-son team of self-proclaimed autism experts who treat the condition with a powerful chemical castration agent called Lupron. They're from Maryland, but their interests run deep in Florida ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    UPDATED: Another Teenager Beaten at Thompson Academy

    Youth Services InternationalA photo from a morale-boosting event at Thompson.​The Pembroke Pine police have investigated this beating, which we first reported on January 7. Read more after the jump.Regla Cazañas holds up a picture of her 17-year-old son's swollen face. His pale skin is marred by ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Lavola's EP Release Caps a Year of Hard Work and Harder Rock

    Youth Services InternationalA photo from a morale-boosting event at Thompson.​The Pembroke Pine police have investigated this beating, which we first reported on January 7. Read more after the jump.Regla Cazañas holds up a picture of her 17-year-old son's swollen face. His pale skin is marred by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Miami Rep. Luis Garcia Tours Thompson Academy, Cites Safety Concerns

    Photo by Mark Foley, courtesy Florida House of RepresentativesGarcia was not happy with what he saw at Thompson.​Miami Beach state Rep. Luis Garcia, Jr. last week got a rare glimpse inside the Pembroke Pines juvenile detention center where teenagers allege they were physically and sexually abused. ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    Nevin Shapiro Is the Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi Empire

    Photo by Mark Foley, courtesy Florida House of RepresentativesGarcia was not happy with what he saw at Thompson.​Miami Beach state Rep. Luis Garcia, Jr. last week got a rare glimpse inside the Pembroke Pines juvenile detention center where teenagers allege they were physically and sexually abused. ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

    Photo by Mark Foley, courtesy Florida House of RepresentativesGarcia was not happy with what he saw at Thompson.​Miami Beach state Rep. Luis Garcia, Jr. last week got a rare glimpse inside the Pembroke Pines juvenile detention center where teenagers allege they were physically and sexually abused. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Expert on Ancient Spiritual Wisdom Finds It Lacking in Apocalyptic Blockbuster

    For those of us in the news business, it's a tad frustrating to see people skip past news stands so they can stand in long lines for movies like 2012. Not that you can blame them entirely. The media in the kiosk describes a complicated world. And the movie describes a world that looks like the one b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    West Palm Condo Building Plagued by Chinese Drywall

    So far, the problems with Chinese drywall in South Florida appear to have been confined to single-family homes. Sure, some entire developments, like Heron Bay in Parkland, might turn out to have been built with the defective drywall. But the reports of Chinese drywall in South Florida have so far be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    What About Bob? Florida Senior Bids to Be Florida's Junior Senator

    Bob SmithBob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire's U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Florida's 2010 Races Taking Shape; Meek Looking Strong

    Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Kendrick Meek, of Miami,continues to tear up the fund-raising circuit -- an article in today's Roll Call says Meek will report $1.5 million in campaign dollars in the year's first quarter, which ended March 31. His primary competition for that nomination, Florida ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 2008

    Awfully Wedded Wife

    Bigamy charges and dozens of busts for sham marriages.It must be South Florida.

  • News

    March 13, 2008

    The Muscle Men

    Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Tally Against the Machine

    Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    God Hates You

    The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Letters for May 3-9, 2007

    The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Crist Denies Trysts

    GOP frontrunner: I have never had sex with a man

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    Crist Denies Trysts

    GOP frontrunner: I have never had sex with a man

  • Music

    September 21, 2006

    Six-String Preacher

    A testament to the importance of guitar lessons.

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Net Hate in Neverland

    To locals, he's a roadside institution. But to the Usenet, he's a monster.

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Sleaze! Sex! Suspense!

    South Florida writers live the life

  • Music

    June 23, 2005

    Incidentally Vocal

    The Six Parts Seven gets heavy in the interludes

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Tailpipe

    Police Pranks

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    Acid Again

    As LSD does a slow fade, a Fort Lauderdale researcher keeps the science trip going

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Suffering Together

    In Lake Worth's Growing Together, kids don't kick drugs. They're beaten and humiliated.

  • Music

    October 16, 2003

    Punk Poverty

    Anarchy and flying French fries collide in the world of Against Me!

  • News

    October 9, 2003

    Loophole? What Loophole?

    Low-profile "legal" gambling operations are slipping into Florida under the door and through the transom

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Dying to Be Thin

    Like other "super morbidly obese" people, Marc Patterson would do almost anything to slim down

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    The Show Must Go On

    Animal-rights protests and changing audience tastes beg the question: Will this generation of the Hanneford circus dynasty be the last?

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    F-A-Who?

    Florida Atlantic's multimillion-dollar investment in a legendary coach has so far been a bust

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    The Full Bernie

    Three failed marriages, his family's scorn, an ongoing battle with cancer: Bernie Barker just grins and bares it

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Gimme an A!

    Anarchists in Lake Worth have spread their subversive good cheer from Seattle to Québec City and beyond

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Smear Campaign

    Decades after the death of a great doctor, a pair of jet setters claims his legacy

  • Music

    June 8, 2000

    Struggling With Greatness

    Ed Matus' Struggle, Bolting Like Michael, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and the Rocking Horse Winner

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Frank's Plantation

    It was envisioned as a well-planned community in a rural setting. Too bad long-time mayor Frank Veltri couldn't make it happen.

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    A Natural Alliance

    Buck Island Ranch is home to the threatened caracara, and it's a laboratory where ranchers and conservationists are learning to work together

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    Ready! Wet! Go!

    Behold the swamp buggy races, South Florida's oddest racing tradition, where the engines roar, the muck flies, and the vehicles sometimes sink

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Definitely in My Back Yard

    When the residents of Mangonia Park heard that a girls' detention center might be built in their town, they put out the welcome mat

  • Calendar

    July 16, 1998

    Man From Atlantis

    When the residents of Mangonia Park heard that a girls' detention center might be built in their town, they put out the welcome mat

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    If at First You Don't Succeed, Get Hired by the City Again

    Consultants Hazen and Sawyer oversaw one the biggest utility failures in Fort Lauderdale history. So why does the city keep hiring them?

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    You Spray, You Pay

    A pilot program in Fort Lauderdale challenges the notion that the grass is always greener when treated with chemical pesticides

  • Music

    February 26, 1998

    Horn of Plenty

    A pilot program in Fort Lauderdale challenges the notion that the grass is always greener when treated with chemical pesticides

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